From spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk Wed Jun 22 18:15:45 1994
Date: 22 Jun 1994 20:55:35 +0000 (GMT)
From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: remocal of latex209 Mainz packages

The latex209 distribution on CTAN is being cut back to the minimum, ie
just what Lamport provided. This means that NFSS1 and all the old
`Mainz' packages are being withdrawn.

Sebastian Rahtz

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Jun 23 20:13:33 1994
Date: 23 Jun 1994 17:35:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
To: gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: fig2eng

On Thu, 23 Jun 1994 18:34:46 +1000, Geoff Tobin <gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au>
provided the following new package and CTAN package description.  The three
individual files appear as noted in this description.

Thanks,   George
===========================================================================
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description
------------------------------------------------------
Name: fig2eng
Author: Geoffrey Tobin <G.Tobin@ee.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: 23.6.1994
Last changed in archive: 1994/06/23
Version: 0.3
Archive-path: graphics/fig2eng
Description: 
 This package translates files in the graphics language Fig 2.1
 into English descriptions of their contents.
 Included in the distribution are a README file, C source code, and
 unix Makefile.

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Sun Jun 26 16:01:35 1994
Date: 26 Jun 1994 13:57:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
To: vvzhy@joule.phy.ncu.edu.tw
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: cmcyralt files

On Sat, 25 Jun 1994 19:04:44 +0800, vvzhy@joule.phy.ncu.edu.tw
(V.V.Zhytnikov) posted:
> I've uploaded three directories into incoming of shsu.edu:
> 
> (1) /cmcyralt-fonts
> Russian fonts in alternative encoding: .mf .tfm .vf .vpl files
> Destination:  /fonts/cmcyralt
> 
> (2) /cmcyralt-nfss1
> LaTeX 2.09 NFSS1 style for the fonts (1)
> Destination:  /macros/latex209/contrib/cmcyralt
> 
> (3) /cmcyralt-nfss2
> LaTeX 2e style for the fonts (1)
> Destination: /macros/latex/contrib/other/cmcyralt
> 
> Yours,  Vadim Zhytnikov (vvzhy@phy.ncu.edu.tw)

Thanks for the submission.  The files have been moved into the directories
as recommended.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
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From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Sun Jun 26 16:06:38 1994
Date: 26 Jun 1994 14:03:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
To: sozueh@rpi.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: CTAN Submission

On Sat, 25 Jun 1994 05:43:26 -0400, H Sami Sozuer <sozueh@rpi.edu> posted:
> I put the file noprot.sty in the incoming directory.  This style file
> eliminates the need for \protection in \thanks, \caption and the sectioning
> commands such as \section, \chapter etc.  Since it works with Latex 2.09 I
> would recommend it to be placed in
> /tex-archives/macros/latex209/contrib/noprotect/noprot.sty
>
> Sami Sozuer

Thanks for the submission.  Consistent with the naming structure used in
the macros/latex209/ hierarchy, this file has been installed in
macros/latex209/contrib/misc/noprot.sty

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
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Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
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From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Mon Jun 27 10:19:02 1994
Date: 27 Jun 1994 08:01:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
To: gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: fig2eng 0.4

On Mon, 27 Jun 1994 21:40:46 +1000, Geoff Tobin <gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au> posted:
> Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Name: fig2eng
> Author: Geoffrey Tobin <G.Tobin@ee.latrobe.edu.au>
> Date: 27.6.1994
> Last changed in archive: 1994/06/27
> Version: 0.4
> Archive-path: graphics/fig2eng
> Description: 
>  This package translates files in the graphics language Fig 2.1
>  into English descriptions of their contents.
>  Included in the distribution are a README file, (traditional and ANSI
>  compatible) C source code, and a unix Makefile.

The files have been updated, as noted.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,    George
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Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
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From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Jun 30 14:36:54 1994
Date: 30 Jun 1994 12:31:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
To: alpert@bldr.nist.gov
Cc: info-tex@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, ctan-mir@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: latex209 directory

On Thu, 30 Jun 94 09:55:34 MDT, alpert@bldr.nist.gov (Bradley K. Alpert)
posted to <CTAN-Mgr@SHSU.edu>:
> In attempting to retrieve some files from the directory
> tex-archive/macros/latex209/distribs, I discovered that, with the sole
> exception of latex, none of the promised subdirectories was present.  I
> have subsequently retrieved files from Stuttgart, but I thought you might
> want to know.
>
> Brad Alpert

With the sole exception of the latex directory (Lamport's original
distribution) in that portion of the macros/latex209/distribs/ directory of
the CTAN, all other packages (often referred to as the "Mainz packages")
have been removed at the request of the authors of those packages.  As this
was a previously-supported set of packages for 2.09, their removal reflects
the upgrade of LaTeX from 2.09 (where these were official add-ons) to
LaTeX2e (where these are integrated and improved portions of the standard
distribution).  These files should not be included in any reliable mirror
of the CTAN collection.  Rather than add on to an existing 2.09
distribution (which I assume you are doing), it is my understanding that
the LaTeX team would strongly prefer that you upgrade your installation to
the current and supported 2e distribution.  You should find the
functionality of these distributions already included in a 2e installation
and available for immediate (and supported) use.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
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Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
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From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Jul  1 12:53:28 1994
Date: 01 Jul 1994 10:48:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
To: michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: How to know what is installed?

On Fri, 1 Jul 1994 02:10:43 -0600, michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca (Michal
Jaegermann) posted to info-tex@shsu.edu:
> It appears that there is a need for a program of that type to help navigate
> through more and more complex TeX installations.  Below is included such
> utility written in Perl.  A program banner should allow you to find out
> what it is doing.
>
> This is a Unix version, but if you have Perl on your non-Unix system, then
> necessary modifications to the program (like different PATH and directory
> separators) should be pretty obvious.

This file (found in incoming here) has been installed in support/texfind at
SHSU.  Thanks!

--George
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Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
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From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Jul  1 16:29:48 1994
Date: 01 Jul 1994 14:25:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
To: BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, beccari@polito.it, calvani@astrpd.astro.it
Subject: RE: ithyph.tex

Barbara Beeton was kind enough to do some investigation for me on a
recently submitted file for Italian hypenation patterns (thanks bnb!).  Her
outline is attached below for reference purposes.  Briefly, the changes
are:
    language/hyphenation/ithyph.tex -- removed
    language/italian/ithyph.tex -- removed and superceded by
    language/italian/lahyph.tex -- installed
The change in name from "ithyph.tex" to "lahyph.tex", as noted in the
header of the lahyph.tex file, is in accordance with the ISO name for Latin
and the convention that hypenation pattern file names are based on the two
letter ISO code followed by "hyph.tex".  As she notes below, the proper
location should migrate to language/<thelanguage>/<ISO-code>hyph.tex

Regards and my thanks to everyone involved in submitting and 
investigating this,   George
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Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
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Date: 30 Jun 1994 09:18:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: bbeeton <BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG>
Subject: ithyph.tex
To: beccari@polito.it, calvani@astrpd.astro.it
CC: bed_gdg@shsu.edu
Message-ID: <772982339.672631.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG>

claudio and max,
thanks for looking into the problem of multiple ithyph.tex files
on ctan.  i've now done some investigating myself, and think i
can give "final" instructions to george for clearing it up.

at the moment, i find these three files at shsu:

    1994/03/15 |       4659 | language/hyphenation/ithyph.tex
    1989/11/23 |      11182 | language/italian/ithyph.tex
    1989/11/23 |       3689 | macros/plain/contrib/samples/ithyphen.tex

the first, in /hyphenation, is claudio's patterns (though i believe
claudio has made some updates and loaded a new version into /incoming).

the third is anonymous -- no author is identified -- and the text
accompanying it is all in italian.  i don't know what else may be
associated with it (did not check), but presumably it's part of a
package, so it shouldn't just be deleted without checking.

the core of the second is just the same as the third -- two copies,
actually -- along with some correspondence between max and
sebastian.  since max disclaims authorship, and the patterns are
the same as in ithyphen.tex, there would be no loss by removing
it and replacing it by claudio's patterns, and this is what i
am asking george to do now.

so, george -- i believe the discussion of where hyphenation patterns
should go has been settled on  language/<thelanguage>/...
therefore, please install claudio's most up-to-date ithyph.tex
in  language/italian  and remove the file from  language/hyphenation .
leave the .../samples/ithyphen.tex  alone for now.  maybe sometime
later this can be investigated and resolved.

thanks again, one and all.
cheers.						-- bb

From J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Fri Jul  1 22:03:29 1994
Date: 01 Jul 1994 23:47:44 +0200
From: Johannes L. Braams <J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl>
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, TeX-NL@nic.surfnet.nl, TeX-Euro@vm.urz.uni-Heidelberg.de, UkTeX@ftp.TeX.Ac.Uk, TeX-D-L@vm.gmd.de
Subject: Announcing babel version 3.4 patch level 1

	Hello,

	On CTAN, in the directory macros/latex/packages/babel the
	latest version of babel, version 3.4 patch level 1 has been
	made available.
	This version of the babel system has been upgraded for use
	with LaTeX2e. Yet it can (again) also be used with plain TeX.
	Patch level 1 fixes a problem with \lefthyphenmin and
	\righthyphenmin. They didn't get their proper values in the
	earlier release. Also some incompatibilities with plain TeX
	have been removed.

	Version 3.4 patch level 1 is not compatible with T1 output
	encoding, some of the language specific files may give
	unecpected results with T1.

	The support for typesetting in russian that was available in
	versions 3.3 and earlier has (temporarily) been withdrawn in
	versino 3.4. I need someone to help me with that.

	Happy TeXing,

	Johannes Braams

PTT Research,                           P.O. box 421,
2260 AK Leidschendam,                   The Netherlands.
Phone    : +31 70 3325051               E-mail : J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl
Fax      : +31 70 3326477
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From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Jul  5 09:58:46 1994
Date: 05 Jul 1994 07:48:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
To: drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Subject: RE: minitoc package

On Tue, 5 Jul 94 14:18:35 +0200, drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr (drucbert)
posted:
> I have put two new versions of the minitoc package in
> the incoming/minitoc directory. These versions are in two
> directories (after exploding the minitoc.tar.gz file):
> --- directory 209 contains version #17 for LaTeX 2.09.
>     It will be the last version for the old version of LaTeX.
>     But that version is compatible with the new LaTeX
>     (formely nicknamed 2e patch 2). No further development
>     is intended from that version of `transition'.
>     This version should replace the version currently
>     in .../macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc.

These files have been installed at ftp.SHSU.edu and replace those
previously in macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc/.

> --- directory 2e contains version #18 for the new LaTeX
>     (or LaTeX 2e). That version is incompatible with
>     LaTeX 209. It should be installed as a supported
>     (loosely, when I have some free time) package for
>     the new LaTeX.
>
> These versions have been developped whith the precious
> help from Franz Mittelbach and Michel Goossens. Thanks to
> them!
>
> Your faithful LaTeXer,
>
> Jean-Pierre Drucbert
> drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr

These files have been installed at ftp.SHSU.edu in
macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc/.  While your intent is to have these as
supported files, the macros/latex/contrib/supported/ directory is intended
to follow a specific set of minimal rules for design.  Joachim Schrod
(cc'ed on this) is in charge of the supported area and has prepared a draft
version of the rules for inclusion in this area, which I do not believe has
been released for general consumption.  When it is ready (I assume Joachim
will have it available in the very near future), it will be installed as a
single file available for retrieval.  I believe the name of the file is to
be macros/latex/contrib/bundles.tex, although I don't recall off hand if
this is the precise location or file name. When it is prepared and
installed, it will be announced to INFO-TeX@SHSU.edu (which is ported to
comp.text.tex) and CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu (CTAN announcements list).  I will
make every effort to see that you also recieve a copy of this document and
believe that Joachim will forward it to you, as well (TIA Joachim! -- since
I just kind of committed you to something without your prior consent 8-)).

Once the file set meet the minimal stipulated requirements, Joachim will
move them (or have them moved) from the contrib/other/ area to the
contrib/supported/ hierarchy as he has volunteered to serve as the
gatekeeper to this part of the macros/latex/ CTAN directory structure.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
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Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
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From drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr Tue Jul  5 11:09:51 1994
Date: 05 Jul 1994 15:57:06 +0200
From: drucbert <drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr>
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: ANNOUNCE -- minitoc package new versionS


Dear LaTeXers,

Two new versions of the minitoc package are available
on the CTAN archives (or will be as soon as mirroring
from the SHSU archive has been done).
These versions are in two places in the tex-archive
hierarchy:
--- version #17 for LaTeX 2.09.
    It will be the last version for the old version of LaTeX.
    But that version is compatible with the new LaTeX
    (formely nicknamed 2e patch 2). No further development
    is intended from that version of `transition'.
    This version is in
    tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc

--- version #18 for the new LaTeX (or LaTeX 2e).
    That version is incompatible with LaTeX 209. It has been a
    not officially supported package (loosely supported,
    when I have some free time) package for the new LaTeX.
    This version is in
    tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc

Both versions have been developped with the precious
help from Franz Mittelbach and Michel Goossens. Thanks to
them!

Please read with attention the README file before installation
and usage.

Happy LaTeXing,

Jean-Pierre Drucbert
drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Jul  7 13:09:53 1994
Date: 07 Jul 1994 11:01:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
To: mattes@dante.de
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: CTAN Installation information message

On Thu, 7 Jul 1994 15:50:25 +0200, Eberhard Mattes <mattes@dante.de> posted:
> New item `systems/msdos/emtex/betatest/mfb3.zip' has been installed

Eberhard:

Thanks for posting this -- note that I am forwarding it to the e-mail
address CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu.  I respectfully request that you use this
address for future posts of this nature as it is intended specifically for
CTAN-related announcements.  With its present 145 (and growing)
subscribership, this represents the quickest way presently to disseminate
this type of information to the largest targeted audience.

Regards and thanks again,   George
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Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
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From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Sun Jul 10 17:26:20 1994
Date: 10 Jul 1994 15:22:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
To: michaelb@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: your article about CTAN in TUGboat 14.3 -- please can you send a copy

On Sun, 10 Jul 94 10:25:55 -0400, "Michael P. Barnett"
<michaelb@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> posted privately:
> Please could you email or tell me how to ftp a copy of this article.
>
> Sebastian Rahtz recommended it in response to question from me re material
> about CTAN for colleagues to see prior to Kevin and I putting software into
> it (academic courtesy and protocol -- we want to be sure that Chem.Dept.
> and ICGL get credited for it).

Thanks for your interest in that piece (and to Sebastian for recommending
it).  While I know that it has been published in a few places, I have been
amazed by the amount of continuing interest in it from a number of sources,
which is quite humbling.  Since I had trouble finding the source file this
time around (had to pull it from tape), I just installed it on the SHSU
CTAN host (ftp.SHSU.edu) in tex-archive/help/greenwade-tug93.tex (an
admittedly awkward name, but that was the original one so....) and it
should propagate to the other hosts in a timely fashion.  

Please be aware that a few minor changes have occurred over the past year
(renaming a few directories and having both European hosts physically
change machines mainly) so it may not be completely accurate as of the
moment, but the general information in it remains correct.  Perhaps a
running errata file should be added and maintained for this to properly
serve as a general theory introduction to the CTAN.  I will discuss this
with a few people at TUG'94 in Santa Barbara later this month.

If you have trouble getting this, please let me know.

Regards and, again, thanks,   George
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Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
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From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Mon Jul 11 17:43:58 1994
Date: 11 Jul 1994 15:38:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
To: MIMI@scri.fsu.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: CTAN Submission -- macros/latex209/contrib/xymtex

On Mon, 11 Jul 1994 11:48:33 -0400 (EDT), SCRIMING MIMI 904/644-2440
<MIMI@scri.fsu.edu> posted:
> This is a macro package for typesetting chemical structure formulae using
> LaTeX (2.09 only), is based on the picture environment of LaTeX, and
> requires the epic.sty file to use (this file is included in this set of
> files also).
>
> author's blurb:
> "Name: XyMTeX
>  Description: Macro Package including LaTeX document-style options for
>               typesetting chemical structural formulas
>  Keywords: LaTeX, chemisty, structural formula"
>
> Suggested placement:	tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/xymtex/

Thanks for the submission.  The files have been installed as suggested.

Regards,   George
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Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
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From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Jul 12 11:46:26 1994
Date: 12 Jul 1994 09:39:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
To: ghibo@galileo.polito.it
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: CTAN Submission

On Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 13:37:53 +0200, P.Lepora (7512)
<ghibo@galileo.polito.it> posted:
> The program I've submitted is 'Mma2ltx'.  It allows to include the graphics
> produced by Mathematica in a LaTeX document using own LaTeX font and
> symbols.
>
> The recommended directory is /tex-archive/graphics/mma2ltx.
>
> Regards.
>
>        Giuseppe Ghibo'
>         e-mail: <ghibo@galileo.polito.it>

Thank you for your submission.  The files have been installed at SHSU as
suggested.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Jul 12 16:21:26 1994
Date: 12 Jul 1994 14:07:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: CHANGE: macros/latex209/contrib/xymtex/aliphat.sty

In the macros/latex209/contrib/xymtex/ package installed yesterday, there
was a glitch in the aliphat.sty file (it was actually a tar file).  The
correct version of this file has replaced the bogus one.

--George

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Jul 12 16:48:53 1994
Date: 12 Jul 1994 14:37:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: info-tex@SHSU.edu, Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk, mackay@cs.washington.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, twg-tds@SHSU.edu
Subject: CTAN: macros/latex/packages/psnfss/lw35nfss/

Pierre MacKay has created a much-called-for sub-set of the PSNFSS files for
LaTeX2e which has been installed in
  /tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/psnfss/lw35nfss/lw35nfss.zip
just now installed at ftp.SHSU.edu.  Attached is the supplied README file,
which requires nominal discussion -- the "TDS" he refers to (and this
archive conforms to) is aimed at a standard TeX Directory Structure which
is evolving from a TUG Technical Working Group on that topic which Norm
Walsh has chaired in with a yeomanlike effort.  I feel confident that more
on this topic will follow in the somewhat near future, but the good news is
that this TDS is targeted at defining and creating a platform-independent
standard TeX directory hierarchy which can be implemented on every
operating system.  Thanks to Pierre, this newly installed package
represents a first effort at conforming to that standard.

--George
===========================================================================
This file is texmf/doc/lw35nfss/README

P. A. MacKay 11 July, 1994. mackay@cs.washington.edu

This is a limited selection from the much larger set of
NFSS support files developed by Sebastian Rahtz.  If you
want more than the barest functional access to the printer
resident fonts on your PostScript output device, you need to
go beyond this.  The purpose of this set of files is to
make the use of "packages" such as |times.sty| available
in the simplest and most direct way. 

The rest of this file shows the directory trees, all rooted
in $TEXMFROOT, contained in the lw35nfss package.  These
trees have been arranged to conform with the TDS (TeX
Directory Standard), and should require no rearrangement
in a TDS conformant installation.  

    INSTALL # Discard this file after use. Do not leave it in
            # the texmf/  directory

    doc/
        /lw35nfss/README
    dvips/
        config.pag config.pbk config.pcr config.phv config.pnc config.ppl 
        config.psy config.ptm config.pzc config.pzd pag.map pbk.map pcr.map 
        phv.map pnc.map ppl.map psy.map ptm.map pzc.map pzd.map 
    fonts/
        adobe/
            avantgar/
                README 
                afm/
                    pagd0.afm pagdo0.afm pagk0.afm pagko0.afm 
                tfm/
                    pagd0.tfm pagd7t.tfm pagdc7t.tfm pagdcq.tfm 
                    pagdo0.tfm pagdo7t.tfm pagdoq.tfm pagdq.tfm pagk0.tfm 
                    pagk7t.tfm pagkc7t.tfm pagkcq.tfm pagko0.tfm pagko7t.tfm 
                    pagkoq.tfm pagkq.tfm 
                vf/
                    pagd7t.vf pagdc7t.vf pagdcq.vf pagdo7t.vf 
                    pagdoq.vf pagdq.vf pagk7t.vf pagkc7t.vf pagkcq.vf 
                    pagko7t.vf pagkoq.vf pagkq.vf 
            bookman/
                README 
                afm/
                    pbkd0.afm pbkdi0.afm pbkl0.afm pbkli0.afm 
                tfm/
                    pbkd0.tfm pbkd7t.tfm pbkdc7t.tfm pbkdcq.tfm 
                    pbkdi0.tfm pbkdi7t.tfm pbkdiq.tfm pbkdo0.tfm pbkdo7t.tfm 
                    pbkdoq.tfm pbkdq.tfm pbkl0.tfm pbkl7t.tfm pbklc7t.tfm 
                    pbklcq.tfm pbkli0.tfm pbkli7t.tfm pbkliq.tfm pbklo0.tfm 
                    pbklo7t.tfm pbkloq.tfm pbklq.tfm 
                vf/
                    pbkd7t.vf pbkdc7t.vf pbkdcq.vf pbkdi7t.vf 
                    pbkdiq.vf pbkdo7t.vf pbkdoq.vf pbkdq.vf pbkl7t.vf 
                    pbklc7t.vf pbklcq.vf pbkli7t.vf pbkliq.vf pbklo7t.vf 
                    pbkloq.vf pbklq.vf 
            courier/
                README 
                afm/
                    pcrb0.afm pcrbo0.afm pcrr0.afm pcrro0.afm 
                tfm/
                    pcrb0.tfm pcrb7t.tfm pcrbc7t.tfm pcrbcq.tfm 
                    pcrbo0.tfm pcrbo7t.tfm pcrboq.tfm pcrbq.tfm pcrr0.tfm 
                    pcrr7t.tfm pcrrc7t.tfm pcrrcq.tfm pcrro0.tfm pcrro7t.tfm 
                    pcrroq.tfm pcrrq.tfm 
                vf/
                    pcrb7t.vf pcrbc7t.vf pcrbcq.vf pcrbo7t.vf 
                    pcrboq.vf pcrbq.vf pcrr7t.vf pcrrc7t.vf pcrrcq.vf 
                    pcrro7t.vf pcrroq.vf pcrrq.vf 
            helvetic/
                README 
                afm/
                    phvb0.afm phvbo0.afm phvboc0.afm phvbon0.afm 
                    phvbrc0.afm phvbrn0.afm phvbrp0.afm phvc0.afm phvco0.afm 
                    phvcoc0.afm phvcrc0.afm phvr0.afm phvro0.afm phvroc0.afm 
                    phvron0.afm phvrrc0.afm phvrrn0.afm phvrrq0.afm 
                    phvrru0.afm 
                tfm/
                    phvb0.tfm phvb7t.tfm phvbc7t.tfm phvbcn7t.tfm 
                    phvbcnq.tfm phvbcq.tfm phvbo0.tfm phvbo7t.tfm phvbon0.tfm 
                    phvbon7t.tfm phvbonq.tfm phvboq.tfm phvbq.tfm phvbrn0.tfm 
                    phvbrn7t.tfm phvbrnq.tfm phvr0.tfm phvr7t.tfm phvrc7t.tfm 
                    phvrcn7t.tfm phvrcnq.tfm phvrcq.tfm phvro0.tfm phvro7t.tfm 
                    phvron0.tfm phvron7t.tfm phvronq.tfm phvroq.tfm phvrq.tfm 
                    phvrrn0.tfm phvrrn7t.tfm phvrrnq.tfm 
                vf/
                    phvb7t.vf phvbc7t.vf phvbcn7t.vf phvbcnq.vf 
                    phvbcq.vf phvbo7t.vf phvbon7t.vf phvbonq.vf phvboq.vf 
                    phvbq.vf phvbrn7t.vf phvbrnq.vf phvr7t.vf phvrc7t.vf 
                    phvrcn7t.vf phvrcnq.vf phvrcq.vf phvro7t.vf phvron7t.vf 
                    phvronq.vf phvroq.vf phvrq.vf phvrrn7t.vf phvrrnq.vf 
            newcentu/
                README 
                afm/
                    pncb0.afm pncbi0.afm pncr0.afm pncri0.afm 
                tfm/
                    pncb0.tfm pncb7t.tfm pncbc7t.tfm pncbcq.tfm 
                    pncbi0.tfm pncbi7t.tfm pncbiq.tfm pncbo0.tfm pncbo7t.tfm 
                    pncboq.tfm pncbq.tfm pncr0.tfm pncr7t.tfm pncrc7t.tfm 
                    pncrcq.tfm pncri0.tfm pncri7t.tfm pncriq.tfm pncro0.tfm 
                    pncro7t.tfm pncroq.tfm pncrq.tfm 
                vf/
                    pncb7t.vf pncbc7t.vf pncbcq.vf pncbi7t.vf 
                    pncbiq.vf pncbo7t.vf pncboq.vf pncbq.vf pncr7t.vf 
                    pncrc7t.vf pncrcq.vf pncri7t.vf pncriq.vf pncro7t.vf 
                    pncroq.vf pncrq.vf 
            palatino/
                README 
                afm/
                    pplb0.afm pplbi0.afm pplr0.afm pplri0.afm 
                tfm/
                    pplb0.tfm pplb7t.tfm pplbc7t.tfm pplbcq.tfm 
                    pplbi0.tfm pplbi7t.tfm pplbiq.tfm pplbo0.tfm pplbo7t.tfm 
                    pplboq.tfm pplbq.tfm pplr0.tfm pplr7t.tfm pplrc7t.tfm 
                    pplrcq.tfm pplri0.tfm pplri7t.tfm pplriq.tfm pplro0.tfm 
                    pplro7t.tfm pplroq.tfm pplrq.tfm 
                vf/
                    pplb7t.vf pplbc7t.vf pplbcq.vf pplbi7t.vf 
                    pplbiq.vf pplbo7t.vf pplboq.vf pplbq.vf pplr7t.vf 
                    pplrc7t.vf pplrcq.vf pplri7t.vf pplriq.vf pplro7t.vf 
                    pplroq.vf pplrq.vf 
            symbol/
                README 
                afm/
                    psyr.afm 
                tfm/
                    psyr.tfm 
            times/
                README 
                afm/
                    ptmb0.afm ptmbi0.afm ptmr0.afm ptmri0.afm 
                tfm/
                    ptmb0.tfm ptmb7t.tfm ptmbc7t.tfm ptmbcq.tfm 
                    ptmbi0.tfm ptmbi7t.tfm ptmbiq.tfm ptmbo0.tfm ptmbo7t.tfm 
                    ptmboq.tfm ptmbq.tfm ptmr0.tfm ptmr7t.tfm ptmrc7t.tfm 
                    ptmrcq.tfm ptmri0.tfm ptmri7t.tfm ptmriq.tfm ptmro0.tfm 
                    ptmro7t.tfm ptmroq.tfm ptmrq.tfm 
                vf/
                    ptmb7t.vf ptmbc7t.vf ptmbcq.vf ptmbi7t.vf 
                    ptmbiq.vf ptmbo7t.vf ptmboq.vf ptmbq.vf ptmr7t.vf 
                    ptmrc7t.vf ptmrcq.vf ptmri7t.vf ptmriq.vf ptmro7t.vf 
                    ptmroq.vf ptmrq.vf 
            zapfchan/
                README 
                afm/
                    pzcmi0.afm 
                tfm/
                    pzcmi0.tfm pzcmi7t.tfm pzcmiq.tfm 
                vf/
                    pzcmi7t.vf pzcmiq.vf 
            zapfding/
                README 
                afm/
                    pzdr.afm 
                tfm/
                    pzdr.tfm 
    tex/
        latex/
            psnfss/
                OT1pag.fd OT1pbk.fd OT1pcr.fd OT1phv.fd OT1pnc.fd OT1ppl.fd 
                OT1ptm.fd OT1pzc.fd README T1pag.fd T1pbk.fd T1pcr.fd T1phv.fd 
                T1pnc.fd T1ppl.fd T1ptm.fd T1pzc.fd Upsy.fd Upzd.fd avant.sty 
                avantgar.sty bookman.sty chancery.sty courier.sty helvet.sty 
                helvetic.sty mathptm.sty newcent.sty newcentu.sty palatino.sty 
                pifont.sty times.sty zapfchan.sty 

From J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Tue Jul 12 18:17:58 1994
Date: 12 Jul 1994 23:08:55 +0200
From: Johannes L. Braams <J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: TeX-NL@nic.surfnet.nl, TeX-Euro@vm.urz.uni-Heidelberg.de, UkTeX@ftp.TeX.Ac.Uk, TeX-D-L@vm.gmd.de
Subject: Announcing babel version 3.4 patch level 2



	Hello,

	On CTAN, in the directory macros/latex/packages/babel the
	latest version of babel, version 3.4 patch level 2 has been
	made available.
	This version contains a few patches to make the documentation
	run again, and to change language.dat to load only hyphen.tex
	bu default.
	The most important change is that the pattern loading code now
	checks if the pattern file set the values vor \left- and
	\righthyphenmin. If not defaults are provided. The values so
	found are stored in \extras<language>.
	The error messages have been rewritten to use the new LaTeX
	error interface when that is available.

	This has been available on CTAN for a while now, I just forgot
	to announce it.

	Happy TeXing,

	Johannes Braams

PTT Research,                           P.O. box 421,
2260 AK Leidschendam,                   The Netherlands.
Phone    : +31 70 3325051               E-mail : J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl
Fax      : +31 70 3326477
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

From gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au Fri Jul 15 08:36:31 1994
Date: 15 Jul 1994 21:32:28 +1000
From: Geoff Tobin <gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: G.Tobin@shannon.ee.latrobe.edu.au
Subject: mfpic 0.2.5.1 (bug fix release).

Version 0.2.5.1 of mfpic is available at CTAN.

Here is a brief description.

Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description
------------------------------------------------------
Name: mfpic
Authors: Thomas Leathrum <leathrum@griggs.dartmouth.edu>
         Geoffrey Tobin <G.Tobin@ee.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: 12 July 1994
Last changed in archive: 12 July 1994
Version: 0.2.5.1
Archive-path: graphics/mfpic
Description: 
 A set of TeX and Metafont macros that essentially draw
 pictures in a TeX document using Metafont. Support for
 unix, MS-DOS, and 4DOS.  In MFpic, each picture comes
 out as a single Metafont character; the TeX macros
 actually write the Metafont file for you, so there's no
 need to learn Metafont (although you do have to be able
 to run Metafont); and the TeX macros are things like
 \axes, \arrow, \circle, \curve, etc., similar in nature
 (but nowhere near the scope) of PiC-TeX. The advantages
 of this technique: significantly faster than PiC-TeX
 (especially on curves), totally printer-independent
 (unlike \special's). 
Keywords: graphics, METAFONT, TeX
Patch:
 In graphbase.mf, a bug in the unxconv macro is fixed.
Updates to:
 mfpic/graphbase.mf
 misc/mfb.tex
 README
New:
 CTAN.MIRRORS

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Jul 15 14:09:40 1994
Date: 15 Jul 1994 12:05:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: metafont-for-beginners.tex

On Thu, 14 Jul 1994 14:40:58 +1000, Geoff Tobin <gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au>
updated his metafont-for-beginners.tex on the CTAN (thanks!). Attached is
the package description.

--George
===========================================================================
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description
------------------------------------------------------
Name: metafont-for-beginners.tex
Author: Geoffrey Tobin <G.Tobin@ee.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: 14 July 1994
Last changed in archive: 14 July 1994
Version: 3 W 4
Archive-path: info
Description: 
  A LaTeX 2.09 document giving an overview of what METAFONT is,
  how it fits into the TeX system, and describing how to run METAFONT
  to create TFM metric and PK font files.
  Some common mistakes and error messages are illustrated, with
  explanations.
  Examples are given for the unix and ms-dos environments.
Keywords: METAFONT

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Jul 19 10:48:47 1994
Date: 19 Jul 1994 08:37:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ghibo@galileo.polito.it
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: CTAN submission

On Tue, 19 Jul 1994 11:13:13 +0200, P.Lepora (7512)
<ghibo@galileo.polito.it> posted:
> - The program I've submitted is `mma2ltx' version 1.2 (16 July 1994).
>   This version updates the version 1.1 already installed at SHSU.
>
>   mma2ltx allows to include graphics created by Mathematica in a LaTeX
>   document using own LaTeX font and symbols.

Done.

> - The recommended directory is /tex-archive/graphics/mma2ltx (with
>   LINKS to /tex-archive/systems/msdos/ and /tex-archive/systems/amiga/
>   and /tex-archive/support, if is possible).

Done.

> Here is a brief description of the program, as I would like to appear in
> the CTAN "archive description" file `catalogue.tex'.
> 
> ---------------------------------- cut here  ---------------------------------
> \Entry{mm2ltx}{16.7.1994}{[Giuseppe Ghib\`o <ghibo@galileo.polito.it>]}{1994/07/18}{1.2}{Description:
>  a program which allows to include graphics created with {\sl Mathematica}
>  into \LaTeX{} documents using own \LaTeX{} fonts and symbols.
>  {\it Mma2ltx} takes a graphics file created by {\sl Mathematica}
>  and substitutes every label and string with equivalent
>  strings suitable for \LaTeX{}. Macros to allow the full control
>  over every label converted are also provided. Support for Unix,
>  MS/DOS and Amiga. Requires the Rokicki's {\tt dvips} {\tt dvi}
>  to Post\-Script translator.}{mma2ltx}{graphics}
> ---------------------------------- cut here  ---------------------------------
> 
> Note that translation of control sequence such as `{\sl Mathematica}'
> or `\LaTeX{}' to plain ascii text will lead to an ugly output. If control
> sequences aren't allowed within the `description' field of the command
> `\Entry', then take the following one:
> 
> ---------------------------------- cut here  ---------------------------------
> \Entry{mm2ltx}{16.7.1994}{[Giuseppe Ghibo` <ghibo@galileo.polito.it>]}{1994/07/18}{1.2}{Description:
>  a program which allows to include graphics created with MATHEMATICA
>  into LaTeX documents using own LaTeX fonts and symbols.
>  MMA2LTX takes a graphics file created by MATHEMATICA  and substitutes every
>  label and string with equivalent strings suitable for LaTeX. Macros to allow
>  the full control over every label converted are also provided. Support for
>  Unix, MS/DOS and Amiga. Required the Rokicki's DVIPS dvi to PostScript
>  translator.}{mma2ltx}{graphics}
> ---------------------------------- cut here  ---------------------------------
> 
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 	Giuseppe Ghib\`o
>         e-mail: <ghibo@galileo.polito.it>

Regards and thanks for your support of our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Jul 20 13:47:24 1994
Date: 20 Jul 1994 11:32:43 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: kb@cs.umb.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: another info file

On Tue, 19 Jul 1994 12:22:31 -0400, "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu> posted:
> You should probably have ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/write-white on the ctan's,
> in info/.  I'm not likely to ever change it, so either mirror or copy is
> ok, I guess.

Thanks for pointing this out.  I assume you intended for the file
pub/tex/write-w (it's name on your archive).  I have mirrored the file in
at SHSU and installed it here so that the automatic mirroring of it should
already be underway.

Regards,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From Denis.Roegel@loria.fr Wed Jul 20 16:45:20 1994
Date: 20 Jul 1994 21:18:53 +0200
From: Denis B. Roegel <Denis.Roegel@loria.fr>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: abrodnik@uwaterloo.ca, roegel@lorraine.loria.fr
Subject: IPA package for LaTeX2e


Andrej Brodnik and I have updated the ipa 
(International Phonetic Alphabet) package for LaTeX2e.

In CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/other/ipa, there are now four files:

-rw-rwxr--   1 14001    mirror       276 Jul 16 10:04 README
-rw-rwxr--   1 14001    mirror      1718 Jul 16 10:04 Uipa.fd
-rw-rwxr--   1 14001    mirror     10473 Jul 16 10:04 ipa.sty
-rw-rwxr--   1 14001    mirror     20110 Jul 16 10:05 ipaman.tex

This directory contained a preliminary version named ipamacs.sty,
but we renamed it in order to avoid a conflict with earlier versions
not working with NFSS.

The fonts needed are in CTAN:macros/text1/wsuipa.

Please report bugs, suggestions, ideas, etc., to Andrej or me.

Denis Roegel (roegel@loria.fr)
Andrej Brodnik (abrodnik@uwaterloo.ca)

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE Fri Jul 22 07:03:33 1994
Date: 22 Jul 1994 11:44:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE, David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>, alanje@cogs.sussex.ac.uk, c.a.rowley@open.ac.uk, mittelbach@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de, J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl
Subject: Updates in macros/latex/packages directory

The following updates have been uploaded to the LaTeX standard
packages tools and mfnfss in the LaTeX distribution on CTAN:

In macros/latex/packages/tools, the following files have been updated:

 changes.txt
 fontsmpl.dtx
 longtable.dtx
 showkeys.dtx
 varioref.dtx

In macros/latex/packages/mfnfss, the following files have been updated:

 oldgerm.dtx


For the programming team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum der Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Mon Jul 25 13:06:42 1994
Date: 25 Jul 1994 11:01:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: new CMacTeX files

On Fri, 22 Jul 1994 14:34:30 -0500 (and subsequently, with a few
modifications over the weekend), Tom Kiffe <Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu>
posted:
> I have uploaded a directory of new files for CMacTeX. 

Thanks!  Per your suggestion, the files have been installed as additions to
the directory tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex/ on ftp.shsu.edu.

Regards and thanks for yoru interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Mon Jul 25 14:04:53 1994
Date: 25 Jul 1994 12:00:03 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ramsdell@linus.mitre.org
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, litprog@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: SchemeWEB 2.1

On Mon, 25 Jul 1994 09:55:57 -0400, "John D. Ramsdell"
<ramsdell@linus.mitre.org> posted:
> I received a bug report for SchemeWEB 2.0.  I have patched the program.
> Please replace the version of SchemeWEB in the web directory with version
> 2.1 which is enclosed.

Thanks!  I have unpacked the files and installed their contents in a
revised tex-archive/web/schemeweb directory on ftp.shsu.edu.

Regards and thanks for your support of our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE Wed Jul 27 03:58:51 1994
Date: 27 Jul 1994 08:55:18 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: [Jeffrey Goldberg: CTAN Submission (lastpage package)]

------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) -------
Jeffrey Goldberg <goldberg@nytud.hu> has contributed his `lastpage'
package to the CTAN archive. The readme file is appended.

Here is the README.lastpage file:
- ------------------------------------------------------------
This is an extremely minor package (7 lines of "real code")
for LaTeX2e.  Allows for a references to something on the
last page of a document.

README.lastpage		This file (sorry not 8.3 character name)

lastpage.ins		The installation batch file. (just run
			latex on that) to get .drv and .sty files 

lastpage.dtx		The main file.

Written and
currently maintained by Jeff Goldberg (goldberg@nytud.hu)
1994/07/22
- ------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE Wed Jul 27 04:03:15 1994
Date: 27 Jul 1994 08:58:45 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Andreas Tille <e2od5@mlucom.urz.uni-halle.de>
Subject: [Andreas Tille: CTAN Submission]

------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) -------
The package circ has been installed in

macros/generic/diagrams/circ


This is CIRC version 0.9.

What is CIRC?
- -------------
With circ you can typeset circuits simply by typing
commands for wires, resistors, capacitors etc. .
There are MF-Sources of various symbols and a style
to link them with wires in an easy way.
CIRC is an open system. As an example in this package
is an optics style with lenses, mirrors and so on to
show, how to use the macros and expand the package.

It runs with both LaTeX2e and LaTeX2.09.

It is a betaversion (version 0.9).

Unfortunately most of the documentation is in German :-(.


Author:

Sebastian Tannert
Lafontainestra"se 21
06114 Halle

Questions, remarks or bug-reports by E-mail to Andreas Tille:
   e2od5@mlucom.urz.uni-halle.de

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Aug  9 19:21:31 1994
Date: 09 Aug 1994 13:09:17 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: vojta@math.berkeley.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, texhax@mail.tex.ac.uk
Subject: RE: Announcing gsftopk 1.7

On Mon, 8 Aug 1994 15:22:43 -0700, vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)
posted the following note.  These files are now mirrored into the
fonts/utilities/gsftopk/ directory on the CTAN.

--George
===========================================================================
This is to announce the availability of Version 1.7 of gsftopk.
gsftopk is a package whose purpose is to allow use of PostScript<TM> fonts
with xdvi.  It consists of:

    1.	A program called gsftopk.c which creates pk font files for the
	PostScript fonts.  The bitmaps are obtained from ghostscript.
    2.	A script called xdvimakepk which is to be used in place of
	MakeTeXPK in xdvi.

The package requires the use of a dvips-style psfonts.map file.

The package is available via anonymous ftp from math.berkeley.edu
in the file pub/Software/TeX/gsftopk.tar.Z.  To upgrade from version
1.6 you may use pub/Software/TeX/gsftopk.patch7.Z instead.

gsftopk is also released as a subpackage of xdvi.  Version 1.7 of gsftopk
(or a later version) will be part of patchlevel 19 of xdvi.  Patchlevel 18
of xdvi includes only gsftopk 1.6.

Version 1.7 adds the ability to do subdirectory searching, using the same
// semantics as the web2c release of TeX, et. al.

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Aug 10 17:38:51 1994
Date: 10 Aug 1994 15:31:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ryoung@utdallas.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: gTeX 2.1

On Wed, 10 Aug 1994 17:22:00 -0500, "Young U. Ryu" <ryoung@utdallas.edu>
posted:
> In /incoming/gtex directory, I uploaded gTeX 2.1, which will go to
> /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex and replace current files.
> 
> See 00readme for detail of gTeX 2.1
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Young
> 
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Young U. Ryu                        JO 4.4, P.O.Box 830688        |
> | Assistant Professor of MIS          2061 N. Floyd Road            |
> | School of Management                Richardson, Texas 75083-0688  |
> | University of Texas at Dallas       U.S.A.                        |
> |                                                                   |
> | Fax:   214-690-2799                 Internet: ryoung@utdallas.edu |
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------+

Thanks for the updates.  The new files have been installed to replace the
former ones in tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex/ at ftp.shsu.edu.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Aug 11 12:48:37 1994
Date: 11 Aug 1994 10:39:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: mfpic 0.2.9 alpha

With subsequent files and date fixes, on Thu, 11 Aug 1994 17:47:51 +1000,
Geoff Tobin <gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au> provided the following package which has
been installed at SHSU.  Thanks!!

--George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description
------------------------------------------------------
Name: mfpic (alpha)
Authors: Thomas Leathrum <leathrum@griggs.dartmouth.edu>
         Geoffrey Tobin <G.Tobin@ee.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: 11 August 1994
Last changed in archive: 11 August 1994
Version: 0.2.9 alpha
Archive-path: graphics/mfpic/alfatest
Description: 
 This _supplement_ to mfpic is an alpha test version for those who
 are eager to try version 0.3 before its features are finalised.
 [ MFpic is a set of TeX and Metafont macros that draw pictures
  in a TeX document using Metafont. ]
Keywords: graphics, METAFONT, TeX, alpha, test
Includes:
 Acknowl.tex   MANIFEST      README2
 graphbase.mf  graphdoc.tex  lapictures.tex  mf-revu.tex
 mfpic.tex     mfpicdoc.tex  objects.tex     pictures.tex
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Aug 11 13:06:40 1994
Date: 11 Aug 1994 11:00:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: emm@rdt.monash.edu.au
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: Latexmk 1.6 upload notification

On Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 10:58:46 +0000, emm@rdt.monash.edu.au (Evan
McLean) posted:
> This is just to let you know I've uploaded version 1.6 of latexmk to
> ftp.shsu.edu:/incoming
>
> Please update /tex-archive/support/latexmk to this new version.

Thanks for the update.  The new files have been installed at SHSU.

--George

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Aug 11 15:57:15 1994
Date: 11 Aug 1994 13:51:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ryoung@utdallas.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: CTAN Submission (gTeX 2.1 again)

On Thu, 11 Aug 1994 15:17:15 -0500, "Young U. Ryu" <ryoung@utdallas.edu>
posted:
> I got a few complaints from gTeX users, saying that gTeX 2.1's directory
> structure is very strange.  I checked them, and found I used wrong zip
> program.  So I have to upload all of them again.

Thanks for your prompt attention to this.  The files in
 /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex/
have been re-installed on ftp.shsu.edu.

--George

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Aug 12 14:18:15 1994
Date: 12 Aug 1994 12:13:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: HEFFERON@SMCVAX.SMCVT.EDU
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: macros/latex209/contrib/misc/shadethm.sty

On 11 Aug 1994 19:44:26 -0500 (EST), Jim Hefferon
<HEFFERON@SMCVAX.SMCVT.EDU> posted:
> shadethm.sty LaTeX 2.09 style that adds the command \newshadetheorem, which
> acts just like \newtheorem except the output theorem is PostScript gray
> shaded.
> It uses PSTricks.  I've asked tvz, and he said he plans no changes for
> LaTeX2e.  So I imagine it works with 2e, but I've not tested it.

Thanks for the contribution.  The file has been installed in
macros/latex209/contrib/misc/shadethm.sty at SHSU.

--George

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Mon Aug 15 17:38:07 1994
Date: 15 Aug 1994 15:33:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: new CMacTeX files

On Mon, 15 Aug 1994 15:22:46 -0500, Tom Kiffe <Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu>
posted:
> I have uploaded a new set of files for CMacTeX.  They are located in
> incoming/cmactex.
> Please delete all files in the directory
> /tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex
> before moving the new files in incoming/cmactex to that directory.

Thanks for the updates.  The systems/mac/cmactex/ directory has been
replaced with the new files just submitted.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,  George

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Aug 16 10:47:16 1994
Date: 16 Aug 1994 08:38:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: sozueh@rpi.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: CTAN upload

On Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 08:25:54 -0400, H Sami Sozuer <sozueh@rpi.edu>
posted:
> 1- noprot.sty
>    This is an improved version of the file with the same name I
>    uploaded earlier. Recommended directory: macros/latex209/misc
>
> 2- cmexb10.mf
>    This is a bold version of the cmex10.mf for use with
>    the \boldmath command in LaTeX.
>    Recommended directory: /tex-archive/fonts/cm/mf-extra/bold
>
> 3- cmttb10.mf
>    This is a bold version of the cmtt10.mf. I looked at the
>    cmbtt10.mf that's already there but found it a bit too bold
>    and some characters looked somewhat less than perfect.
>    Recommended directory: Same as 2.

Thanks for the submissions -- all have been placed as recommended.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Aug 16 15:55:55 1994
Date: 16 Aug 1994 13:51:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: minitoc.sty

On Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 10:08:08 +0200, drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr
(Jean-Pierre Drucbert) posted:
> I have put new versions of minitoc.sty (and associated files) in
> tex-archive/incoming/minitoc.  Version 17-a is for latex209 (the versions
> for latex209 will now be numbered 17-letter until I definitely switch to
> latex2e).  Version 19 is for latex2e.  Note that versions 17-letter will be
> workinf too with latex2e.^[a
>
> These versions fix some bugs (appendices in articles, centering of titles).
> A bug in mtcswedish has been fixed by Jan Michel Rynning (jmr@nada.kth.se).
> Some minor features have beean added: ability to remove/add the horizontal
> rules, ability to begin with a chapter other thar chapter number one (some
> people begin whith chapter zero!)^[a.^[kk^[.
>
> The documentation has been updated for these changes.
>
> PS. Thera are some typing errors in this messages.  Apologies.

The submitted updates have been installed on ftp.shsu.edu in
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc (for LaTeX 2e) and in
tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc (for LaTeX 2.09) as
replacements to the prior file sets there.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Aug 16 18:28:06 1994
Date: 16 Aug 1994 16:23:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: Corrupted file

On Tue, 16 Aug 1994 16:14:52 -0500 Tom Kiffe <Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu>
reported:
> One of the CMacTeX files I uploaded yesterday was truncated during
> transmission.  I have placed a new version in incoming/cmactex.  Please
> transfer it to tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex.

Thanks for noticing this.  Just re-installed
systems/mac/cmactex/pk-files.hqx as requested.

--George

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 17 06:11:57 1994
Date: 17 Aug 1994 10:05:59 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: various uploads to CTAN

I have just installed/updated
 graphics/bit2spr (new version)
 support/ghostscript (replaces support/ghostview). NOTE that this has
       the old version 2 under the GNU license, and the bew version 3 with
       its own license. please read the docs and be legal!) 
 macros/latex209/contrib/lexitex (update, plus BiBTeX support)
 graphics/{xfig,transfig} (new versions)
 support/bibdb (new version)
 language/hyphenation/norhyph.tex (Norwegian)


sorry about the terseness of the details, i am trying to clear the
backlog here!

sebastian rahtz

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Aug 17 10:23:11 1994
Date: 17 Aug 1994 14:49:39 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Kielhorn <c0031098@ws.rz.tu-bs.de>, m604@btm6x1.mat.uni-bayreuth.de, spieler@linac.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, Jochen Schuetze <Jochen_Schuetze@pe.maus.de>
Subject: New items on CTAN

The following items have been added to the CTAN archives:

macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script
    Variants of the article/book/report classes analogous to the 
	 script package for LaTeX 2.09, by Markus Kohm

systems/vms/...
    Updates for DECUS TeX, by Christian Spieler

tools/zip/info-zip/VMS/unzip511x-axp.exe
tools/zip/info-zip/VMS/unzip511x-vax.exe
    Executables of unzip 5.11 for VAX/VMS and OpenVMS/AXP, by Christian Spieler

web/c_cpp/AmigaCWEB
    New version 3.2, by Andreas Scherer

macros/latex/contrib/supported/myletter
    Configurable letter class, by Axel Kielhorn.

systems/msdos/e4t/gnuplot.hlp
    Extra helpfile for gnuplot, to be used in Eddi4TeX, by Jochen Schuetze

Many thanks to all contributors.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung
    der Universit�t Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Aug 17 14:33:01 1994
Date: 17 Aug 1994 12:28:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: mrv@unirsvl.rsvl.unisys.com
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: macros/latex209/contrib/misc/editbar.sty

Replaced at ftp.shsu.edu:
 /tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/editbar.sty
Prior version: 1.4 (January 27, 1994) 
Current version: 2.0 (August 17, 1994)
Author: Mike Van Geest <mrv@unirsvl.rsvl.unisys.com>
TeX Drivers Supported: DVIPS    
General Information:
             editbar.sty is a LaTeX style to be used to print edit bars
             (change bars) with PostScript as the final output.

             DVIPS is the only driver currently supported, but others could
             be used.

             Generation of edit bars on one page and/or spanning 
             multiple pages.

             The output routine of LaTeX is modified to include the edit
             bar commands to span multiple pages.

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Aug 18 09:46:18 1994
Date: 18 Aug 1994 07:42:14 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: emm@rdt.monash.edu.au
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: CTAN Submission

On Thu, 18 Aug 1994 09:27:24 +0000, emm@rdt.monash.edu.au (Evan McLean)
posted:
> This is notification that I have uploaded LatexMk 1.7 to ftp.shsu.edu in
> /incoming.  The file is latexmk-1.7.tar.Z.
>
> I know it's not too long since I did 1.6, but there shouldn't be another
> version for a little while unless a bug pops up.

Thanks for the update.  The file has been untar'red and its contents
installed to replace those in /tex-archive/support/latexmk/ at SHSU.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Aug 19 11:48:56 1994
Date: 19 Aug 1994 09:32:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: vvzhy@joule.phy.ncu.edu.tw
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: macros/latex/contrib/other/cmcyralt/

On Fri, 19 Aug 1994 20:27:45 +0800, vvzhy@joule.phy.ncu.edu.tw
(V.V.Zhytnikov) posted:
> I've uploaded a couple of LaTeX 2e style files into ftp.shsu.edu
> /incoming/cmcyralt
>
> This files are intended to replace those ones in
> /macros/latex/contrib/other/cmcyralt
> 
> Changes: small incompatibility with LaTeX 2e patchlevel 3 has been removed.
>
> Vadim Zhytnikov (vvzhy@phy.ncu.edu.tw)

Thanks for the updaes.  The directory has been replaced with the new files
provided.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Sat Aug 20 13:02:21 1994
Date: 20 Aug 1994 17:59:55 +0200
From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: mcite: Combining several BibTeX entries into one \bibitem

The LaTeX2e package `mcite' provides support for collapsing multiple
citations into one, as custumary in physics journals.  For example
\cite{foo1,*foo2,bar} will combine the BibTeX entries foo1 and foo2
into a single \bibitem.  Obviously, the non-trivial part is that it
works with BibTeX.  See mcite.dtx for more detailed documentation.

CTAN location:  macros/latex/contrib/supported/mcite/

Enjoy,
-Thorsten
--
/// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
//////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu
/// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 22 12:33:45 1994
Date: 22 Aug 1994 17:29:59 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: [Koaunghi Un: CTAN Submission]

Koaunghi Un (zraun01@hpserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote:

------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) -------
I have just put jhtex-0.7.tar.gz in ftp.dante.de:/incoming.
It is a upgrade version of jhtex-0.6.tar.gz, which I have uploaded some
monthes ago. The content of this package is a complete environment to
process Korean document with LaTeX version 2e.
Korean documents are written in euc-kr codes(Korean chars) and in
JISX(Chinese chars) and a preprocessor "htex" converts them to a LaTeX
macros to be processed with LaTeX2e. I have included some Korean fonts
to be used freely in this package. I know, the fonts are kept in
the directory /tex-archive/fonts but I want it to be placed in the
subdirectory of /tex-archive/language/korean/jhtex, because I want to
see the fonts first to be tested by the jhtex users. If you do not
agree with me, please tell me.

Would you like to replace all the files in /tex-archive/language/korean/jhtex
with this package.

Thank you very much.

- -- 
Koaunghi Un (zraun01@hpserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de)

Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung.
=================================================
------- end -------

I have installed the package on CTAN in

/language/korean/jhtex

Thanks a lot

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung
    der Universit�t Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From ud311aa@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de Wed Aug 24 07:20:46 1994
Date: 24 Aug 1994 10:01:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Matthias Eckermann <ud311aa@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ftpmaint@dante.de
Subject: INCOMING: Ich habe etwas abgelegt
Resent-Date: 24 Aug 1994 12:09:09 +0200
Resent-From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Resent-To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Resent-cc: ud311aa@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de (Matthias Eckermann)

ud311aa@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de (Matthias Eckermann) contributed the
following items

1. fonts/dc/tfm

//
// 00update
//
%
% TFMs for DC_Fonts                                           24.08.94
%
% Matthias Eckermann, Munich, Germany <ud311aa@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de>
%

Some weeks ago I sent the tfm's for the dc-fonts.

While computing all the fonts defined in LaTeX2e's t1*.fd for an hplj
I found, that there's one font left out by the original dcstdedt.tex:
the file dcssdc10.mf is not produced!
         ~~~~~~~~~~~
So I patched dcstdedt.tex to dclatexe.tex and produced what I needed.

There is also a file testdc.tex which I used to test if I really made
all (or) most fonts of DC for LaTeX2e.

Hope it's helpful -

Matthias Eckermann
//
// ENDE von 00update
//

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

2. systems/msdos/emtex-fonts/contrib/lj_dc...

//
// 00readme
//
%
% 300dpi DC_Fonts                                              24.08.94
%
% Matthias Eckermann, Munich, Germany <ud311aa@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de>
%

In some mailing and news lists people wanted PKs for the DC-Fonts,
because they could not install them properly.
So I produced two FLI-files for 300dpi which can be used by:
emTeX's DVIDRV, some DVIPS, XDVI-FLI (LinuX).

There is also a file testdc.tex which I used to test if I really made
all (or) most fonts of DC for LaTeX2e.

Hope it's helpful -

Matthias Eckermann

P.S.: Please check out the file dc_all.mfj, because it's a hand-made
      translation of LaTeX2e's t1*.fd-files to mfj.

** ERRARE HUMANUM EST **
//
// ENDE von 00readme
//


Many thanks to him

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung
    der Universit�t Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Aug 24 12:42:17 1994
Date: 24 Aug 1994 10:33:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, beebe@math.utah.edu, peterw@arch.su.edu.au
Subject: Update of Harvard Bibliographic Package

On Tue, 23 Aug 1994 00:20:37 GMT, peterw@arch.su.edu.au (Peter Williams)
posted to comp.text.tex:
> Joao Cachopo (jcachopo@poirot.ist.utl.pt) has uncovered a bug in Version
> 2.0.2 (and earlier) of harvard regarding the \citeyear* command.  Version
> 2.0.3 which fixes this bug is now available for ftp from ftp.arch.su.edu.au
> in the file pub/harvard/harvard-2.0.3.tar.gz or as separate files in
> pub/harvard/harvard-2.0.3 (if you already have Version 2.0.2 then you only
> need harvard.sty from this directory to fix the bug).

I have just mirrored and installed the new files at ftp.shsu.edu so they
will propagate properly in macros/latex/contrib/supported/harvard/ -- I
assume that Nelson Beebe will get the updates for his BibTeX collection at
Utah and they will be updated in biblio/bibtex/contrib/ accordingly.

--George

From neteler@laum.uni-hannover.de Wed Aug 24 11:52:11 1994
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 94 12:49:35+010
From: Markus Neteler <neteler@laum.uni-hannover.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-mgr@shsu.edu
Subject: ctan submission
Resent-Date: 24 Aug 1994 16:38:21 +0200
Resent-From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Resent-To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Resent-cc: Markus Neteler <neteler@laum.uni-hannover.de>

Markus Neteler <neteler@laum.uni-hannover.de> submitted the following
item to CTAN:


                               -*-  PS4MF -*-

                           Version: 2.2  August 1994

                 Conversion of Postscript-Type1-fonts to TeX
   (original cm-encoded metafont-files, no virtual fonts or nfss necessary)



 DESCRIPTION:

   In order to use Postscript-Type1-fonts for TeX without any special
   encoding scheme (like dc,ec,nfss) you now can convert your favourite
   Postscript-font.
   This font has to be encoded in the "AdobeStandardEncoding-scheme".

   This package is based on the ps2mf-package of the authors:
   Marcel Dings (original idea of the ps2mf-package) and Erik-Jan Vens (new
   ps2mf).


 QUALITY OF LETTERS:

   Fonts made by programs like Adobe(tm), Corel's Wfnboss(tm) and Fontographer
   (Apple(tm)) seem to be of a better quality than fonts generated by
   ghostscript's getafm. If you get free or shareware-fonts you should take
   care of that.


 WHAT TO DO:

  (0) Remove the old package ps4mf, if you have.

  (1) pkunzip -d ps4mf22
          (use pkunzip version 2.04e or above)
      A directory \ps4mf with files and subdirectories will be extracted.

  (2) Run the converting-batch with fontname as parameter (two fonts for
      trying out are included).

         Example:
                   conv_Ado garamond

  (3) Use the new font in your TeX-documents!

         (a) By using TeX-command
               e.g. \newfont{\garamond}{garamond scaled 1000}.
          or
         (b) If you want to change fonts generally from computer-modern
             fontfamily to your favourite postscriptfonts, just declare the
             new fontnames in the file "newfont.tex". Then every magnification
             (\large, \Huge etc.) will use your postscript-font.
             You should move this file into \tex\texinput.

      Look at texinput\sample1.tex (LaTeX) or texinput\testfont.tex (TeX) for
      example.
 
  (4) If you have generated some metafont-files from postscript with ps4mf12x
      please delete these <font>.pk-files and convert the <font>.pfb/afm
      again. I have corrected my conversion-program.


 ENJOY!


 WHAT'S NEW:

  April  1994  Version 1.2 of PS4MF package

  [...]

  July 1994    Version 2.1a of PS4MF package
                - added hint instead: package to create missing <font>.afm's
                      (t1utils.zip/t1tools.zip)
                - added chapter to ps4mf.doc: SOME INFORMATION ABOUT <font>.afm
                - added command line switches to \ps4mf\doc\afm2tfm.doc
                - added version 7.8 of afm2tfm

  August 1994 Version 2.2 of PS4MF package
                - corrected ps4mf.doc, added information for getafm-tool


 NEW VERSIONS OF PS4MFxx.ZIP:

   You can get the actual version 2.2 of the ps4mf - package at
      ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de
        /incoming/tex             via anonymous ftp.

   The package 2.2 is also available at CTAN-servers like
     ftp.uni-stuttgart.de /pub/tex/systems/msdos/ps4mf

   Other CTAN-servers:
     ftp.tex.ac.uk (England)               /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
     ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp (Japan)      /CTAN
     ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au  (Australia)       /tex-archive
     sunsite.unc.edu (North Carolina, USA) /pub/packages/TeX
     wuarchive.wustl.edu (Missouri, USA)   /packages/TeX

 COPYRIGHT: Please read copying.gnu.


 Please get hints and comments to

   Markus Neteler
   email: neteler@laum.uni-hannover.de



From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Aug 24 19:00:13 1994
Date: 24 Aug 1994 16:51:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: kcb@coyote.caltech.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: submission

On Wed, 24 Aug 94 12:20:38 -0700, Kim C. Border<kcb@coyote.caltech.edu>
posted:
> I have submitted a bibliogrpahy style for Econometrica.  It is in
> /incoming/econometrica/econometrica.bst
>
> It should probably go in 
>
> tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/economic

Thanks for the submission.  The file has been installed in
 tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/harvard/contrib/econometrica.bst
on ftp.shsu.edu with a link to the location you identify since the biblio
area runs a higher risk of potential problems due to mirroring error.   It
is easily available in either location.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
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George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
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From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug 25 04:17:56 1994
Date: 25 Aug 1994 09:09:27 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: randhol@alkymi.unit.no
Subject: CTAN Submission

Preben Randhol <randhol@alkymi.unit.no> submitted submitted the
nohyphen.tex file. He writes:

 > It is the same file as norhyph.tex, but I have changed it so that it is easier
 > to install it with babel on other machines (removed the norwegian special characters a > nd replaced the latex codes like \aa \ae \o etc.)
 > 
 > It should be put in /tex-archive/languages/hyphenation

Thanks a lot for this submission

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung
    der Universit�t Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Aug 25 10:03:02 1994
Date: 25 Aug 1994 07:58:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: minitoc package

On Thu, 25 Aug 94 13:33:41 +0200, drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr (drucbert)
posted:
> I have put a pair of new versions of the minitoc package in
> /tex-archive/incoming/minitoc.
> 
> These versions are:
> 
> 17b for LaTeX 209 (but works also with LaTeX 2e)
> 20  for LaTeX 2e  (incompatible with LaTeX 209)
> 
> The modifications in these versions are:
> Correction for appendices in articles.
> Correction of vertical spacing.
> Correction to accept chapters numbered in roman.
> Adds commands to have (default) or suppress
> page numbers in minitocs and siblings:
> 
> \mtcpagenumbers      \nomtcpagenumbers
> \stcpagenumbers      \nostcpagenumbers
> \ptcpagenumbers      \noptcpagenumbers
> \mlfpagenumbers      \nomlfpagenumbers
> \slfpagenumbers      \noslfpagenumbers
> \plfpagenumbers      \noplfpagenumbers
> \mltpagenumbers      \nomltpagenumbers
> \sltpagenumbers      \nosltpagenumbers
> \pltpagenumbers      \nopltpagenumbers
> 
> I thank you for installing these versions, replacing the (not very) old
> ones, but I found a very nasty bug in the processing of appendices (a
> hidden side effect, which caused problems with appendices in an article).

Thanks for your submission as well as your quick attention to the
identified problem.  The files have been installed at ftp.SHSU.edu in
macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc/ and macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc/ of
the CTAN tree (/tex-archive at SHSU) for the 2e and 2.09 versions,
respectively.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
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From peterw@arch.su.EDU.AU Wed Aug 24 19:44:08 1994
Date: 25 Aug 1994 08:39:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Peter Williams <peterw@arch.su.EDU.AU>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, beebe@math.utah.edu
Subject: Re: Update of Harvard Bibliographic Package

>On Tue, 23 Aug 1994 00:20:37 GMT, peterw@arch.su.edu.au (Peter Williams)
>posted to comp.text.tex:
>> Joao Cachopo (jcachopo@poirot.ist.utl.pt) has uncovered a bug in Version
>> 2.0.2 (and earlier) of harvard regarding the \citeyear* command.  Version
>> 2.0.3 which fixes this bug is now available for ftp from ftp.arch.su.edu.au
>> in the file pub/harvard/harvard-2.0.3.tar.gz or as separate files in
>> pub/harvard/harvard-2.0.3 (if you already have Version 2.0.2 then you only
>> need harvard.sty from this directory to fix the bug).
>
>I have just mirrored and installed the new files at ftp.shsu.edu so they
>will propagate properly in macros/latex/contrib/supported/harvard/ -- I
>assume that Nelson Beebe will get the updates for his BibTeX collection at
>Utah and they will be updated in biblio/bibtex/contrib/ accordingly.
>
>--George
>

Thanks.  While I'm here, has any thought been given to integrating the CTAN
concept into the World Wide Web?

Peter

--
Peter Williams                  |e-mail: peterw@arch.su.edu.au
Key Centre for Design Computing |phone: +61-2-692 2053 or +61-2-660 6156
University of Sydney            |http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~peterw/index.html

From beebe@math.utah.edu Thu Aug 25 14:57:46 1994
Date: 25 Aug 1994 11:52:25 -0600 (MDT)
From: Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Cc: beebe@math.utah.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, beebe@math.utah.edu, peterw@arch.su.edu.au
Subject: Re: Update of Harvard Bibliographic Package

Thanks for the pointer to the new version of the Harvard bibliography
styles; the new files have been installed at our local site, and in 
ftp.math.utah.edu:/pub/tex/bibtex.


========================================================================
Nelson H. F. Beebe                      Tel: +1 801 581 5254
Center for Scientific Computing         FAX: +1 801 581 4148
Department of Mathematics, 105 JWB      Internet: beebe@math.utah.edu
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
========================================================================

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Aug 25 17:28:24 1994
Date: 25 Aug 1994 15:20:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: new cmactex files

On Thu, 25 Aug 1994 14:54:05 -0500, Tom Kiffe <Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu>
posted:
> I hate to bother you again but I have some more files for
> tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex.
> Some of these are new and some are replacements for existing files.  They
> are located in incoming/cmactex.  Some of the files in tex-archive/
> systems/mac/cmactex will remain as they are.  I think that all you need to
> do is move these new files to their home, replacing some of the old files
> with the new ones.

Thanks for the updates and additions.  The systems/mac/cmactex/ directory
in the CTAN hierarchy at ftp.shsu.edu has been updated to reflect these.

Regards,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de Sun Aug 28 08:50:08 1994
Date: 28 Aug 1994 11:05:39 +0100
From: "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Corrupted files in systems/atari/lindner-tex

Hi there,

at least on ftp.dante.de, two files at the above location are
corrupted:

latex-plain.zoo
multidvi-3.22.zoo

I downloaded the files several times, but the results didn't change.

I just pulled clean versions from
ftp.uni-erlangen.de:/pub/atari/tex/lindner-tex

Hope someone can fix this.

Keep up the great work!

Cheers =8-} Chipsy

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Mon Aug 29 03:37:37 1994
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 94 08:29:47 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: CJK, hlatex2e, c2cweb14

I want to announce the availability of three version updates:

CJK.zip   A package to write Chinese/Japanese/Korean with LaTeX2e
          needs bmf2gf.zip for font installation

hlatex2e  to write Hangul with LaTeX2e

c2cweb14  this program converts C or C++ source code into a CWEB file


    Werner

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Sep  1 14:37:24 1994
Date: 01 Sep 1994 12:29:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: More CMacTeX stuff

On Thu, 1 Sep 1994 10:12:29 -0500, Tom Kiffe <Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu>
posted:
> I have uploaded in incoming/cmactex four replacement files for CMacTeX.
> These files are replacements for the four files of the same name in
> tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex.

Thanks -- I have just installed the new versions on ftp.shsu.edu.  For the
record, the four files involved are:
 Readme.CMacTeX2.2
 Readme.Index
 extensions22.hqx
 view-print22.hqx

--George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Sep  2 13:24:59 1994
Date: 02 Sep 1994 11:11:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ryoung@utdallas.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: CTAN Submission (gTeX updates)

On Fri, 2 Sep 1994 12:13:05 -0500, "Young U. Ryu" <ryoung@utdallas.edu>
posted:
> I uploaded the following files to /incoming/gtex:
>    00readme
>    emacs.zip
>    mf.zip
>    tex.zip
>    unzip.exe
> They should replace files in /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex.
>
> These files include minor updates of gTeX, based on users comments and
> error reports.

Thanks for the updates.  They have been installed at SHSU to replace the
files previously in that directory by those names.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Mon Sep  5 18:51:07 1994
Date: 05 Sep 1994 16:47:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: LitProg@SHSU.edu, tsl1@CORNELL.EDU
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: Impact 1.1 released

On Fri, 02 Sep 1994 20:15:09 +0500, tsl1@cornell.edu (Timothy Larkin)
posted:
> I am pleased to announce the release of Impact 1.1, a Ctangle processor for
> the Macintosh, to the CTAN archive.
>
> IMPACT is a port of Levy-Knuth CTangle 3.1 to the Macintosh.
>
> It differs from previous ports in two major ways.  First, it runs
> persistently, by which I mean that you can tangle as many files as you
> like, instead of having to restart the application for each run.  Second,
> it responds to the 'odoc' Apple Event, so you can tangle a file from any
> other application, for instance, your editor, that will send an appropriate
> Apple Event.
>
> Version 1.1 incorporates some important improvements.
>
> A.  An options menu allows control over two features.  You can specify the
> file extension used for the output file.  For instance, I change this to
> ``.cp'' when generating C++ files.  And you can instruct Tangle to omit all
> line and section references.  The line references seriously confuse the
> Symantec C++ compiler and debugger.
>
> B.  Tangle has been revised to create temporary files, rather than
> replacing the previous versions of its output.  Impact then compares the
> new versions with the previous ones to see if any changes have been made.
> Only if a file has changed is it replaced.  This feature frees a writer to
> include as many output files as he likes in one web file, without paying
> the penalty of unnecessary compilations.
>
> Messageware.

Thanks for the update.  The files submitted have been installed in
tex-archive/web/systems/mac/impact at ftp.shsu.edu and the prior version
has been removed.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Sep  6 09:52:16 1994
Date: 06 Sep 1994 07:47:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: n.poppelier@elsevier.nl
Cc: b.wage@elsevier.nl, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: Elsevier Science LaTeX package on CTAN

On Tue, 06 Sep 1994 13:19:32 +0200, "Nico A. F. M. Poppelier"
<n.poppelier@elsevier.nl> posted:
> We have renamed the document styles in the Elsevier Science LaTeX package
> to elsart.sty and elsart12.sty.  The new files are now available from
> ftp.elsevier.nl:pub/sgml.  Could you please remove the now obsolete files
> espart.sty and espart12.sty, and ask your fellow maintainers to do the
> same?

Thanks for the notification.  The files previously in
macros/latex209/contrib/elsevier/ have been removed and replaced by
installing the files in pub/styles/ on ftp.elsevier.nl (where I found the
files identified in your post).  As these are apparently files which still
rely solely on LaTeX 2.09 and do not have the more common and obvious
LaTeX2e hooks, I have retained them in the macros/latex209 hierarchy.

Regards and thanks for your interst in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Sep  6 11:21:33 1994
Date: 06 Sep 1994 09:12:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: RE: ANNOUNCING: Seminar Package for LaTeX2e

In <33t26a$ib6@rubb.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> (comp.archives, 29 Aug 1994
18:25:46 +0200), tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) posted:
> Hey netters, don't be fooled by LaTeX2e's slides class.  It is still lame,
> compared to the amazing Seminar package.
>
> V1.0 of seminar.sty works with LaTeX2e in compatibility mode, but I have
> finally added a seminar.cls that works in LaTeX2e's native mode.  This is a
> minimal modification of seminar.sty, not a new version.  The new
> distribution is called V1.0e.  If you already have v1.0, the only new files
> you need are
>
>   seminar.cls semhelv.sty semlcmss.sty
>
> from
>
>   Princeton.EDU:/pub/tvz/seminar/inputs
>  
> You can also get the entire package (which still includes seminar.sty and
> still works with LaTeX 2.09).
>
> Let me know about any problems.
>
> Thanks to Sebastian Rahtz for making the necessary changes.
>
> Tim
> ---
> Timothy Van Zandt   (609)258-4050  tvz@Princeton.EDU (NeXTMail)
> Dept. of Economics,  Princeton University,  Princeton, NJ 08544

I have mirrored and installed the new files to
  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/seminar/ 
at ftp.shsu.edu and linked these files back to their earlier location in 
  tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/seminar/

Regards,   George
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George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Sep  7 12:28:27 1994
Date: 07 Sep 1994 10:22:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc/ etc.

On Wed, 7 Sep 94 10:29:10 +0200, Jean-Pierre Drucbert
<drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr> posted:
> I have found two typos in the minitoc package (version 20, for LaTeX2e),
> one in minitoc.sty itself (using \mtc in place of mtc as name for a
> counter) and one in the documentation (a \verb in the middle of the
> argument of \emph).  So I put the corrected package (version 21) in
> /tex-archive/incoming, file minitoc21.tar.gz.

Your submission has been installed to replace the previous contents of
 tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc/
on ftp.SHSU.edu (as individual files).

> I have also noted that a antique version of minitoc.sty subsist in
> .../macros/latex209/contrib/misc and should be eradicated (I just did
> ``quote site index minitoc.sty'' and found 3 versions, as only 2 are valid
> (209 and 2e)).

Thanks for pointing this out -- the files
 tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/minitoc.sty
 tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/minitoc-test.tex
have been removed from ftp.SHSU.edu.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Wed Sep  7 07:54:43 1994
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 94 12:45:28 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Korean fonts

I uploaded a complete library of 6 Korean fonts containing the usual
TeX font sizes. This emTeX-font library is for 300dpi devices; also
included are tools to extract the fonts/rebuild the library.

    Werner

PS.: at the moment the library is at ftp.dante.de in /incoming; it
     should be available in /fonts/korean.

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Sep  7 18:54:06 1994
Date: 07 Sep 1994 16:50:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: CMacTeX files

On Wed, 7 Sep 1994 15:00:05 -0500, Tom Kiffe <Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu> posted:
> I have just uploaded in incoming/cmactex eight replacement files for
> CMacTeX.  They should replace eight of the existing files in
> tex-archive/systems/mac/ cmactex having the same names as these.

Thanks.  The affected files are:
 dvips22.hqx
 dvipsppc.hqx
 metafont22.hqx
 metafontppc.hqx
 tex22.hqx
 texppc.hqx
 texutil22.hqx
 view-print22.hqx
which have been installed to replace the prior versions of these in
 tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex
on ftp.shsu.edu.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
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From wscoas@win.tue.nl Fri Sep  9 08:17:50 1994
Date: 09 Sep 1994 13:15:01 +0200
From: Anton A. Stoorvogel <wscoas@win.tue.nl>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: xdvik installation


Dear experts,

I have installed xdvik on my SUN OS Release 4.1.3. Everything   
compiled quite easily, previewing works including the rendering
of postscript pictures but:  

it does not call MakeTeXPK when a font is missing.

I added -DMAKETEXPK in DEFS and also tried +maketexpk as a command
line option. Neither one called MakeTeXPK. The MakeTeXPK is in my
path and in the same directory as the xdvi executable.             

What stupid oversight of mine is causing this problem. 
Before I forget I am of course installing version 1.8 
straight from the  CTAN archives.    

Best regards,

Anton




Dr. A.A. Stoorvogel
Dept. of Mathematics and Computing Science
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Tel. +31-40-450266
Fax. +31-40-465995
E-mail. wscoas@win.tue.nl

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Sat Sep 10 11:57:45 1994
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 94 16:41:24 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-mgr@shsu.edu, ftpmaint@dante.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: submission of Korean mf sources


I just uploaded at ftp.dante.de a package of six Korean fonts
(hlatex_mf.tar.gz) as metafont sources. It should be soon in fonts/korean/mf
or something similar. The were originally uploaded at cair-archive.kaist.ac.kr,
the main host for Korean related software.

These fonts were reengineered from .pk fonts; nevertheless, the quality
is not too bad. The file lj_han.zip (in fonts/korean) is a standard
representation for 300dpi printers.


     Werner

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Sep 12 05:04:51 1994
Date: 12 Sep 1994 09:59:32 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@helios.edvz.univie.ac.at>
Cc: ctan-mgr@shsu.edu, ftpmaint@DANTE.DE, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: submission of Korean mf sources

Werner Lemberg writes:
 > 
 > I just uploaded at ftp.dante.de a package of six Korean fonts
 > (hlatex_mf.tar.gz) as metafont sources. It should be soon in fonts/korean/mf

Installed there.

 > These fonts were reengineered from .pk fonts; nevertheless, the quality
 > is not too bad. The file lj_han.zip (in fonts/korean) is a standard
 > representation for 300dpi printers.

These files have been moved to

fonts/korean/pk

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 13 16:41:59 1994
Date: 13 Sep 1994 18:45:00 +0100
From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Followup-To: sender
Subject: Re: UK CTAN node corruption

In article <353s0i$iq5@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, earlier today, wrote:
>We had a power cut in Cambridge last night (at around 1700 BST).  This
>caused a temporary blip in the operation of the archive, but more
>significantly has left several directories corrupt on the disc.
>
>[...]
>
>Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

At approximately 18:30 BST today, 13 September 1994, we rebooted the
archive machine with a new disc and a reconstructed archive.

We believe that all the corruption that occurred last night is now
corrected; however, any user having problems with the UK CTAN node is
urged (as usual) to report them by email to ctan_uk@tex.ac.uk, *NOT*
to comp.text.tex (which gets more than enough traffic as it is).

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Sep 14 17:24:12 1994
Date: 14 Sep 1994 13:31:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: b.wage@elsevier.nl
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: elsevier.sty

On Wed, 14 Sep 1994 11:34:34 +0000, b.wage@elsevier.nl (Bart Wage) posted:
> As the coordinator for the LaTeX project in Amterdam I would like to ask
> you a favour.  (I have recently taken over this job from Nico Poppelier,
> who is getting more and more involved in other projects.)
>
> Browsing through the CTAN directories, I encountered a file
>
> 1993/08/03 |       5903 | macros/latex209/contrib/misc/elsevier.sty
>
> that really shouldn't be there, in my view - at least not with that name.
> It is a style (for submitting book contributions to us) written by someone
> who does not work for Elsevier.  I would appreciate if you would delete
> this file from the server.

Thanks for pointing this out.  Definitely that name is in conflict and
definitely Elsevier has made publicly-available styles for this purpose
following true house design.  This file has been removed from the CTAN
collection.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
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George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
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From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Sep 14 16:38:24 1994
Date: 14 Sep 1994 13:43:25 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: orlandini@botes1.tesre.bo.cnr.it
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: New version of SHADOW.STY

On Wed, 14 Sep 1994 12:15:23 +0200, orlandini@botes1.tesre.bo.cnr.it
(M.Orlandini - TeSRE/CNR Tel:(051) 639-8667) posted:
> you will find below a new version of my SHADOW.STY.  The modification
> arrived to me from Mike Piff, who noted that the shadowed box, when
> in-lined, aligns with the baseline.  He added a \vtop command in order to
> align the text inside the box, and not the box itself.

Thanks for the update.  It has been installed to replace the prior version
in macros/latex209/contrib/misc/shadow.sty at ftp.shsu.edu.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
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From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Sep 15 13:57:46 1994
Date: 15 Sep 1994 11:52:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ryoung@utdallas.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: CTAN Submission

On Thu, 15 Sep 1994 12:49:16 -0500,
"Young U. Ryu" <ryoung@utdallas.edu> posted:

> I uploaded:
>    amspell.zip
>    00readme
> which should replace amspell.zip and 00readme in
> /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex.
> Now, new amspell.zip includes various dictionaries, such as 2 US dicts, UK
> dict, general English dict, French dict, Italian dict, German dict, and
> Dutch dict.
>
> 00readme has been improved.

Thanks for the updates.  The files have been installed to replace the
former ones at SHSU, as requested.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
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From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Sep 15 15:59:18 1994
Date: 15 Sep 1994 13:53:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ilya@math.mit.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, beebe@math.utah.edu
Subject: biblio/bibtex/utils/mathsci2bibtex and support/tex2mail

On Wed, 14 Sep 1994 18:00:21 -0400 (EDT), Ilya Zakharevich
<ilya@math.mit.edu> posted:
> The mathsci2bibtex utility makes more than advertises, it will work with
> any reference database in SilverPlatter format.

Installed in tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/mathsci2bibtex/ on
ftp.shsu.edu.

> The tex2mail utility is more tricky.  I am scared to call it tex2ascii, I
> do not like the discussion on c.l.t generated by demands like that. 
> However, this name would describe better what it does, and I find it very
> useful for posting math in mail.

Installed in tex-archive/support/tex2mail/ on the same host.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
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From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Sep 15 16:10:37 1994
Date: 15 Sep 1994 14:00:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: TJALLEN@wishep.physics.wisc.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: macros/phyzzx/phyzzx.plus

On Wed, 14 Sep 94 18:22 CDT, TED ALLEN <TJALLEN@wishep.physics.wisc.edu>
posted:
> I have put the file phyzzx.plus into the /incoming directory.  This macro
> is a supplement to the phyzzx macro from Stanford University.  It allows
> the use of a draft mode and a two-page-per-sheet output, similar to
> harvmac.tex.  It also contains some macros appended to the end of the file
> useful for making labels.  I suggest that it be put in the
> /tex-archive/macros/phyzzx/ subdirectory.  The file contains some
> documentation on how to use it at the beginning.

Thanks for the submission.  The file has been installed on ftp.shsu.edu in
 /tex-archive/macros/phyzzx/phyzzx.plus

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
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From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Tue Sep 20 10:35:25 1994
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 15:10:49 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu, linux-asia@orac.iinet.com.au, soft-authors@ifcss.org
Subject: Announcement: CJK 2.0 (Chin./Japan./Kor.) for LaTeX2e


I've just uploaded CJK.zip to ftp.shsu.edu. New in this version:
much simplified .fd-files and Hangul support without preprocessor.

Here is the readme file:


This is the LaTeX2e style package CJK.zip Version 2.0 (15-Sep-1994)
===================================================================

It contains the following files:

    CJK.txt      This file
    CJK.sty      A LaTeX2e style file to enable CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean)
                 logographs (i.e. Hanzi/Kanji/Hangul) with LaTeX2e
    CJK.enc      Master Encoding File (at the moment only for Chinese and
                 Korean)
    standard.enc
    Bg5.enc
    hangul.enc
    pmCsmall.enc
    pmCbig.enc   Encoding scheme files
    Uhangul.fd   Font definition file for standard Hangul fonts
    UBg5.fd
    UGBs.fd
    UGBt.fd      Font definition files for Chinese (examples only!)
    UpmC-Bg5.fd
    UpmC-GBs.fd
    UpmC-GBt.fd  Font definition files for (old) pmC-fonts
    vf/*.vf
    tfm/*.tfm    virtual fonts and metric files for hangul standard fonts to
                 use in combination with lj_han.zip and lj_han1.zip (available
                 at the CTAN hosts)


This is freely distributable under the GNU Public License.


                **************************************
                *  The .fd files have been changed!  *
                **************************************


Use
---

Use CJK.sty as a package, e.g.

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{CJK}            .

A new environment \begin{CJK}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK} is defined;

    encoding        the following coding schemes are currently implemented in
                    CJK.enc:
                        Bg5 (Big5)
                        GBs (GuoBiao with simplified characters)
                        GBt (GuoBiao with traditional characters)
                        hangul (only hangul syllables and elements, no hanja).

                    It's very easy to add different encoding schemes.

                    For compatibility with the pmC package three additional
                    encodings are defined: pmC-Bg5, pmC-GBs, and pmC-GBt. It's
                    not encouraged to use these encodings because of wasting
                    fonts. If possible, convert your original CJK-bitmaps with
                    bmf2gf (see below) to CJK-encodings.

    shape           It is impossible to know what fonts are available at your
                    site; look at the example .fd-files how to create
                    appropriate .fd-files suiting your needs. If you use the
                    hangul environment, this parameter is unused (see below).


This is a very realistic example:

    \begin{CJK}{GBs}{kai}
    ...
    Text in GuoBiao encoding
    ...
    \end{CJK}


How it works
------------

Asiatic logographs can't be represented with one byte per character. (At
least) two bytes are needed, and the most common encoding schemes (GB, Big5,
JIS, KS etc.) have a certain range for the first byte (usually 0xA1-OxFE or a
part of it) which signales that this and the next byte represents an Asiatic
logograph. This means that plain ASCII-text (i.e. characters between 0x00 and
0x7F) will be left undisturbed, and most characters of the extended ASCII
character set (0x80-0xFF) will be assigned to a CJK encoding.

CJK.sty will make the characters 0xA1-OxFE active (and in the file CJK.enc you
should inactivate those characters not needed to be active in a special
encoding scheme) inside of an environment and assigns the macros \CJK@char and
\CJK@charx to the active characters which select the proper font. The real
mechanism is a bit more complicated to assure robustness (it was borrowed and
modified from german.sty).


The encodings
-------------

CJK.sty defines \CJK@standardEncoding, \CJK@Bg5Encoding, \CJK@hangulEncoding,
and for compatibility with pmC, \CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding.

\CJK@standardEncoding should be used for encodings with the second byte in the
range 0xA0-0xFE (GB, JIS etc).

\CJK@Bg5Encoding should be used for Big5 encodings (e.g. ETen fonts) with the
second byte in the range 0x40-0xFE.

\CJK@hangulEncoding is a special (and slightly modified) case of
\CJK@standardEncoding, containing only values for hangul syllables and
elements.

\CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding can be activated with \pmCsmall
(this is the default) and \pmCbig inside the CJK environment. Note that the
original pmC fonts have two character sizes per font (the bigger ones with an
offset of -128); pmC-Big5 encoded fonts cannot contain big characters. The
names of the fonts in the UpmC-xxx.fd files reflect the modifications added by
Marc Leisher (mleisher@nmsu.edu) to the original poor man's Chinese (pmC)
package written by Thomas Ridgeway (ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu).


The fonts
---------

CJK.sty uses NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme) which has some advantages over
the font selection offered with pmC:

    o   TeX fonts are loaded only on demand. This is especially useful with
        Asiatic logographs. If you have e.g. three Chinese characters in your
        text, pmC must load the whole Chinese font (about 85 TeX fonts),
        whereas LaTeX2e loads three fonts normally.

    o   As long as the limit of 256 TeX fonts will not be exceeded, you can
        use as many CJK fonts as you like (e.g. simplified and traditional
        Chinese characters together with Japanese fonts in different sizes)
        --- pmC is limited to two sizes and can only have two CJK fonts at the
        same time.

        In the web2c-TeX package (for UNIX) you will find a patch which allows
        the use of more than 256 TeX fonts.

    o   You need not to care about the right size of the CJK fonts in
        footnotes etc. It will obey the NFSS (although changing the other
        attributes except font series will be done with \CJKenc and
        \CJKshape).

        For font selection in a hangul environment see below.

        Of course you must have proper sizes of your CJK fonts --- if you
        have, say, 48x48 and 64x64 bitmap fonts (or more), I recommend bmf2gf
        to convert them directly to .pk-fonts. If you have only 24x24 size (as
        most of the public domain fonts are), you can magnify them using
        bmf2gf but only with integer magnifications.

If you chose one font per active character as with the pmC macros, you would
waste character space (256 characters per font are possible with TeX 3).
Therefore CJK.sty expects the whole Asiatic font splitted in TeX fonts with
256 characters each.

An example:

    GuoBiao-encoded simplified characters in song style 12pt:
    ^               ^                        ^^         ^^

              first byte  second byte       TeX font  offset
              ----------------------------------------------
                 0xA1      0xA1-OxFE        gsso1201     0
                 0xA2      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1201    94
                 0xA3      0xA1-0xE4        gsso1201   188
                 0xA3      0xE5-0xFE        gsso1202     0
                 0xA4      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1202    26
                 0xA5      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1202   120
                                     .
                                     .
                                     .
                 0xFE      0xA1-OxFE        gsso1235    38


To create such splitted fonts you should use the package bmf2gf.zip (written
by me) which should be at the same place where you've found this package (I
upload my TeX packages to the CTAN hosts).

Big5 encoded fonts are a bit more complicated to convert because of a gap in
the range of the second byte: 0x7F-0xA0 is not used. Additionally some of the
possible code points are unused --- I've written hbf2bmf (contained in
bmf2gf.zip) which converts HBF fonts into BMF files bmf2gf can understand.

For converting to .pk-files via bmf2gf, you should get the appropriate HBF
(Hanzi Bitmap Font) header files from ifcss.org (or create if you can't find
the right one); almost all Chinese bitmap fonts in the public domain together
with their HBF headers are collected there. These HBF files document the
fonts completely.


Korean input
------------

(The status of this feature is experimental. I can't speak Korean and would
 be glad to hear comments from people who have any idea what is happening
 here :-)

There are already different packages handling Hangul: hlatex, htex etc.; there
is one package which also can handle hanja: jhtex.

The great difference of the packages just mentioned compared to CJK is the use
of a preprocessor which converts text files containing KS encoded text into a
TeX file. To do so has some advantages, but the output is completely
unreadable. Additionally the output lines become rather lengthy (a two byte
character code will be converted into a string up to 11 characters), which
some editors may confuse; and if you have a text which contains Chinese or
Japanese also, you can't use KS to TeX converters because the code ranges
overlap and the converters are not able to recognize which is Korean and which
is not.

In contrast, CJK does not need a preprocessor and the problems mentioned above
are nonexistent, but you get nothing for free: CJK uses the virtual font
mechanism to map the hangul syllables onto Hangul Elements (11 virtual fonts
map to 2 real fonts), whereas preprocessors directly use the real fonts.

CJK's hangul support is thought for users who write texts in a non CJK
language and who want to input some hangul characters, possibly mixed with
Chinese or Japanese.

If you want a complete Korean environment, I recommend jhtex. There you will
also find a hangul.sty which modifies (among others) the sectioning commands
to enable Korean chapter counting and Korean headers.

To use the hangul environment, say

    \begin{CJK}{hangul}{}
    ...
    \end{CJK}       .

These font switches are available inside the environment:

    fonts from hLaTeX:

    *   \mj  MyoungJo
        \gt  Gothic
        \gs  BootGulssi
        \gr  Graphic
        \dr  Dinaru

    fonts from jhTeX:

    *   \hgt Hangul Gothic
    *   \hmj Hangul MyoungJo (MunHwaBu fonts)
    *   \hpg Hangul Pilgi
        \hol Hangul Outline (MyoungJo)

If a font is marked with a star, bold series are available.

You will find the fonts in the lj_han.zip and lj_han1.zip packages. These are
emTeX libraries for 300 dpi resolution which can be easily converted back to
.pk fonts using the fontlib package of emTeX. If you need different
resolutions, you must obtain the original metafont sources of the
hlatex_mf.tar.gz and the jhtex packages. Note that the shapes of Hangul
elements are not satisfactory, and archaic hangul elements are still missing.


The .fd-files
-------------

It is now possible to define CJK fonts as easy as normal TeX fonts!

CJK.sty defines three new size commands:

    CJK         corresponds to `' (empty)
    CJKfixed    corresponds to fixed
    sCJKfixed   corresponds to sfixed               .

The difference between these size functions and the original commands defined
by LaTeX2e is that a CJK size function defines a class of fonts.

If you say as an example

    \DeclareFontShape{U}{Bg5}{m}{song}{<6> <7> <8> sCJKfixed * b5so07}     ,

LaTeX2e searches for fonts named b5so0701 - b5so0771 if the font size is 6, 7
or 8 pt; with other words, the CJK size functions append two digits to select
the proper subfonts. These digits are defined in the \CJK@...Encoding macros;
the macro \CJK@plane holds the current value.

See the example .fd files how to define font substitutions additionally.

To use CJK fonts as defined in older versions of CJK, you must rename all .pk
and .tfm files and exchange subfont and size values:

    old name:   b5so017     new name: b5so0701
                b5so027               b5so0702
                .                     .
                .                     .
                .                     .


Caveats
-------

    o   You can of course use CJK-environments inside of a CJK-environment,
        but it is possible that you must increase the so called save size
        (with emTeX you can adjust this with -ms=...).

        The CJK package has an optional argument which controls the scope of
        CJK environments:

            global          \lccode, \uccode, \catcode and the activation of
                            the characters 0xA1-0xFE will be globally modified
                            (\lccode and \uccode reset to 0). This is the most
                            economical mode concerning save size, but you
                            can't have CJK environments inside of CJK
                            environments or other environments which
                            manipulate the character range 0xA1-0xFE.

                            Packages which change some of the above values
                            only once (e.g. in the preamble) will also not
                            work after the first use of a CJK environment.

            local           Only \lccode and \uccode will be modified
                            globally. This is the default. You can stack
                            environments.

            encapsulated    If you want to use DC fonts outside of the CJK
                            environment with \uppercase and \lowercase working
                            correctly, you must use this option. All values
                            mentioned above will be local, so you can stack
                            environments. This option probably causes an
                            overflow of the save size.


        Say

            \usepackage[option]{CJK}

        to activate 'option'.

    o   There is an other way to overcome the above problem: CJK implements
        two low level CJK attribute switches: \CJKenc and \CJKshape, which take
        the same arguments as the CJK environment. If you need two different
        encodings/shapes at the same line, you must use these macros.
        An example:

            \begin{CJK}{GBs}{song}
            ... Text in GBs song ... \CJKenc{GBt}
            ... Text in GBt song ... \CJKshape{kai}
            ... Text in GBt kai ...
            \end{CJK}

    o   The characters \, {, and } are used as second bytes in the Big5
        encoding. If you write Big5 text, you should use the Bg5text
        environment which changes the category codes of these characters. The
        command prefix is now the forward slash /, and the grouping characters
        are ( and ) respectively.

        An example:

            \begin{CJK}{Bg5}{song}
            \begin{Bg5text}
            ....
            /begin(center)
            ....
            /end(center)
            ....
            /end(Bg5text)
            \end{CJK}

    o   Be careful not to use any commands inside the Bg5text environment
        which write something in an external file (commands like \chapter
        etc.). To get the /, (, and ) characters, write //, /(, and /) inside
        the Bg5text environment.

    o   If it's not possible to avoid Big5 character codes with \, {, or }
        outside of the Bg5text environment (e.g. having Big5-text in a
        \chapter or \section command), you can replace them with the \CJKchar
        macro manually:

            \section{This is a problematic Big5 character: \CJKchar{169}{92}}

        The parameters are the first and second byte of the Big5 character
        code. You can also use hexadecimal or octal notation.

    o   You can't use Big5 characters in any command which uses \uppercase or
        \lowercase, i.e. \chapter, \article etc. --- this affects all standard
        document classes, which convert page headers to uppercase.

        It's possible to overcome this restriction by substituting all
        affected Big5 characters with the appropriate \CJKchar, i.e. for
        \uppercase characters with the second byte in the range to a-z (and
        A-Z for \lowercase respectively).

        A quick and dirty solution to disable \uppercase is to say

            \let\uppercase\relax

        before \begin{document}, but be aware that some commands like \Roman
        will behave unexpectedly.

        The clean way would be either to use a document class which does not
        convert headers to uppercase or to write a small package modifying the
        sectioning commands to remove the \uppercase commands.

    o   The same holds for ALL CJK encoding schemes if you use DC fonts
        because these 8-bit fonts have most \lccode's and \uccode's set in the
        range 0x80-0xFF.


Possible errors
---------------

    o   If you write Chinese (or Japanese) text, don't forget to suppress the
        linefeed character with a trailing `%', otherwise you get unwanted
        spaces in the output.

    o   If you get the error message: "\CJK@min (or \CJK@max) undefined", you
        should insert a \newpage before saying \end{CJK}. This can happen if
        LaTeX writes the headers (or footers) of a page containing Chinese
        characters after closing the CJK environment.

    o   If you get overfull hboxes caused by CJK characters, try to increase
        \CJKglue. It defines the glue between CJK characters; default value is

                \hskip 0pt plus 0.8pt   .

    o   If you encounter a TeX stack overflow caused by {\CJKenc{...} ....},
        you should write

            \CJKenc{new_encoding} ... \CJKenc{old_encoding}

        instead. Or (better) increase the stack size as discussed above.


Author
------

Werner Lemberg (A7621GAC@awiuni11.bitnet)

Please report any errors or suggestions to this email-address.

From zierke@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Sep 20 18:11:29 1994
Date: 20 Sep 1994 23:00:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e-Kurzanleitung

> Die Anpassung der LaTeX-Kurzbeschreibung an LaTeX2e ist nun fertig. Das
> sch"one Werk steht zur Zeit im incoming-Verzeichnis auf ftp.dante.de und
> soll im Laufe der Woche seinen Platz auf den CTAN-Servern finden (in
> tex-archive/info/LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung).

The German document 'LaTeX2e Kurzbeschreibung' is now available on
ftp.dante.de (and tomorrow on the other CTAN servers) in the directory
tex-archive/info/LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung. The files are

	 16546 Sep 17 18:59 l2k1.tex
	 34369 Sep 17 18:40 l2k2.tex
	 14458 Sep 17 19:08 l2k3.tex
	 12901 Sep 17 18:50 l2k4.tex
	 11084 Aug 31 16:52 l2ksym.tex
	137216 Sep 19 17:51 l2kurz.dvi
	  7487 Sep 17 19:06 l2kurz.tex

Reinhard

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                   Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@uni-hamburg.de         Tel.: (040) 54715-295   Fax: -241

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Tue Sep 20 12:59:26 1994
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 17:54:02 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: A second Korean font library

I just uploaded lj_han1.zip to ftp.shsu.edu . Here is the readme file


    Werner



This is the Korean font package lj_han1.zip (15-Sept-1994)
==========================================================

lj_han1.zip contains the following files:

    lj_han1.txt this file

    lj_han1.fli emTeX font library containing the Korean fonts of the
                jhTeX package (resulution 300dpi):

                    Hangul MyoungJo (MunHwaBu fonts) (hmjmA, hmjmB)
                    Hangul MyoungJo bold (MunHwaBu fonts) (hmjbA, hmjbB)

                    Hangul Gothic (hgtmA, hgtmB)
                    Hangul Gothic bold (hgtbA, hgtbB)

                    Hangul Pilgi (hpgmA, hpgmB)
                    Hangul Pilgi bold (hpgbA, hpgbB)

                    Hangul Outline (MyoungJo) (holA, holB)

                in the sizes
                    5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
                    10.95, 12, 14.4, 17.28, 20.74, 24.88 pt

    *.tfm       Metric files for the above fonts

And for the experienced user:

    ilf_lj.bat  for DOS
    ilf_lj.cmd  for OS/2: unpack a font library using the emTeX fontlib program
    ilf_lj.rsp  response file for fli_lj.cmd


All metafont sources are in the jhTeX package.


This is freely distributable under the GNU Public License.


Installation
------------

Move the lj_han1.fli file into a directory which is found by the dvi-driver.
Edit the dvi-driver configuration file (usually lj.cnf) to include lj_han1.fli
as a font library. Move all .tfm-files into a tfm-directory found by emTeX.


Use
---

There are two ways to use these fonts:

    o   get the CJK package (Version 2.0 or higher) for LaTeX2e.
        No preprocessor needed --- virtual fonts are used instead.

    o   get jhTeX. You will need a preprocessor (included). Supports
        hanja also.


Author
------

Werner Lemberg (A7621GAC@awiuni11.bitnet)

Please report any errors or suggestions to this email-address.

N.B.: I can't speak any Korean :-)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 20 19:07:24 1994
Date: 20 Sep 1994 23:03:34 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de, zierke@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e-Kurzanleitung

Reinhard Zierke writes:

> The German document 'LaTeX2e Kurzbeschreibung' is now available on
> ftp.dante.de (and tomorrow on the other CTAN servers) [...]

Fwiw, it won't be on ftp.tex.ac.uk (and presumably not on
ftp.shsu.edu, either, though I'm not privy to that information).

CTAN archives verify the names of those submitting installation
messages; Reinhard's name doesn't appear on our list, so his
installation message was ignored, and the files weren't copied here.
--
Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Sep 20 19:31:10 1994
Date: 20 Sep 1994 17:22:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: language/[chinese][korean]/CJK

On Tue, 20 Sep 94 14:53:09 MEZ, Werner Lemberg
<A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT> posted:
> files: CJK.txt
>        CJK.zip (sent as CKJ.zip.second_try)
>
> destination: languages\chinese\CJK
>
> please make a soft link from languages\korean to these files also
>
> Please retain uppercase as file names!  CJK is the abbreviation used by
> Unicode 1.1 (and ISO 10646).
>
> I further beg you to remove the older version of CJK and, additionally,
> hlatex2e in the languages\korean directory.  It worked only with beta
> versions of LaTeX2e and is now superseded by CJK.

The files have been removed, installed, linked, as requested at
ftp.shsu.edu.  Given the ISO nature of the request, this is what I would
deem an acceptable exception to the lowercase standard otherwise employed
on the CTAN.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Sep 20 19:38:14 1994
Date: 20 Sep 1994 17:35:14 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: fonts/korean/pk/lj_han

On Tue, 20 Sep 94 17:48:13 MEZ, Werner Lemberg
<A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT> posted:
> lj_han1.zip 
> lj_han1.txt
>
> destination:
>
> languages\korean\pk

These files have been installed to replace the ones already in
fonts/korean/pk/lj_han* -- I assumed the dates and similarity in names
suggested this as the superior placement.  Should this be in error, please
contact me directly and changes can be accommodated.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Thu Sep 22 03:44:18 1994
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 08:34:05 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: soft-authors@ifcss.org, CTAN-ann@shsu.edu, linux-asia@orac.iinet.com.au
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: bmf2gf 1.1


The new version now contains hbf2bmf, a utility to convert bitmap fonts
with hbf headers into bitmaps bmf2gf can understand.


     Werner


[ bmf2gf will convert large bitmap fonts into TeX .pk fonts needed by the
  CJK LaTeX2e and pmC TeX macro packages ]

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Sep 23 07:00:24 1994
Date: 23 Sep 1994 10:53:43 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk
Subject: David Carlisle: symbols.tex

I have replaced the file

200-1992/09/21 |      17594 | info/symbols.tex

on CTAN (ftp.tex.ac.uk now, other archives RSN) with an expanded
LaTeX2e version from David Carlisle.

The file lists all math[s] symbols (easily) available within LaTeX2e.

David also said: please delete the old copy macros/latex209/contrib/
misc/symbols.tex

I've duly done that; it was the same file as that in directory info
--
Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Sep 23 17:33:03 1994
Date: 23 Sep 1994 15:29:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: fonts/tengwar/

On Thu, 22 Sep 1994 14:12:28 -0700, Michael P Urban
<urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov> posted:
> I have uploaded tengwar.tar.gz to the shsu CTAN server.  It replaces the
> 8-year-old fonts/tengwar directory contents.

Thanks.  The files in fonts/tengwar/ have been replaced with the ones
submitted.


Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Sep 29 13:53:44 1994
Date: 29 Sep 1994 17:48:54 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: LaTeX2e 1994/06/01 patchlevel 4 released

The LaTeX programming team announces the availability of patchlevel 4
of the current (1994/06/01) release of LaTeX2e.

As usual, you can get it ,from any CTAN host, in directory

/tex-archive/macros/latex/{base,unpacked}

where base contains the full distribution in packed form, whereas
unpacked contains the stripped/unpacked files.

For more information on CTAN, try

finger ctan_us@pip.shsu.edu




Changes to the kernel in LaTeX2e <1994/06/01> patch level 4
-----------------------------------------------------------
(1994/09/23)


%%% pr/884 Missing % causes extra space in picture-mode \savebox.
%%%        (from ltboxes.dtx)

%%% pr/872 Redefining the catcodes of  [ and ]  turned out to be
%%%        dangerous (surprise surprise :-)

For the LaTeX programming team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Sep 30 08:19:42 1994
Date: 30 Sep 1994 12:09:39 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Tim Love <tpl@eng.cam.ac.uk>, Terry Bohning <bohning@acc.fau.edu>
Subject: ieeetr.sty

Tim Love alerted me to the fact that there were corrupt copies of
ieeetr.sty on CTAN in directories macros/latex209/contrib/ieee and
.../contrib/misc

The files had been corrupted by wrapping the end of comment lines
without inserting extra % markers

I have installed a corrected version of the file (courtesy of Tim
Love) in .../contrib/ieee, and have deleted the duplicate in
.../contrib/misc

Robin
--
Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Oct  2 13:57:59 1994
Date: 02 Oct 1994 17:55:24 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: symbols.tex and the stmaryrd fonts

David Carlisle has submitted another version (for LaTeX2e) of the file
symbols.tex.  He says:

------- Forwarded Message

This version contains tables supplied by Alexander Holt detailing the
stmaryrd font of math symbols (if you have the latex2e package for
them installed).

could you put this in info in the main ctan tree.

------- End of Forwarded Message

I have duly installed the file in info/symbols.tex

I have also installed the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/
stmaryrd, which is now a link to fonts/stmaryrd (which has contained
LaTeX2e macros for some time).

The directory macros/latex209/contrib/stmary is hereby superseded, and
its README has been updated to reflect its change of status.

The authors (David Carlisle and Alan Jeffrey) hardly need reminding of
the continuing gratitude that the LaTeX community has for their work!

Robin
--
Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Oct  2 14:19:35 1994
Date: 02 Oct 1994 18:17:40 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Subject: Ivan A Derzhanski: TengTeX in ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming

Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:

I've just put the five files making up the TengTeX 1.00 package
on ftp.tex.ac.uk in the directory  incoming.  (The package is a
collection of macros for the (La)TeX typesetting in JRR Tolkien's
Elvish languages.)

The five files are:

Tira_ni      Description.
tengtex.tex  TeX style sheet.
tengtex.sty  LaTeX style sheet.
tengdoc.tex  User's manual in LaTeX.
vanda.tex    Quasi-copyright oath.

- --Ivan A Derzhanski

I've added this text as a README file, and installed the whole in
macros/latex209/contrib/tengtex, with a link to macros/plain/contrib/
tengtex

Thanks to Ivan for providing this material.

Robin Fairbairns
--
Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Oct  3 07:00:24 1994
Date: 03 Oct 1994 10:54:50 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: usergrps/uktug

I have created a CTAN directory to hold information about the UK TeX
Users Group, which is already available on ftp.tex.ac.uk, and will be
shortly on the other CTAN sites and mirrors.

The path is tex-archive/usergrps/uktug

As yet, it only contains a brief introduction and membership forms,
but other information may appear on it in the near future.

Robin
--
Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Mon Oct  3 11:27:03 1994
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 94 15:08:32 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ANN@shsu.edu, soft-authors@ifcss.org, linux-asia@orac.iinet.com.au, Lee Chun-Yu <d791013@ce.ntu.edu.tw>
Subject: CJK 2.1 out (Chin/Kor/Jap for LaTeX2e)



In one or two days the new CJK package is available from the CTAN hosts.

You will find the package unzipped in language/chinese/CJK. Use the CTAN
packing functions to compress it again during ftp.

new:        CJK* environment added: space after CJK characters will be
            swallowed

            Utility programs hbf2hbf and hbf2cjk added
            [hbf2cjk is a patched version of hbf2pk to support CJK encoding]

changed:    new Big5 encoded fonts needed (more compressed) - saves
            about 12 TeX subfonts per Big5 encoded font

            pmC emulation will now use compatible font names, i.e.
            wcb5a1, wcb5a2 etc.


Appended you will find the readme file.


Happy TeXing!

    Werner Lemberg



This is the LaTeX2e style package CJK.zip Version 2.1 (28-Sep-1994)
===================================================================

It contains the following files:

    CJK.txt      This file
    CJK.sty      A LaTeX2e style file to enable CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean)
                 logographs (i.e. Hanzi/Kanji/Hangul) with LaTeX2e
    CJK.enc      Master Encoding File (at the moment only for Chinese and
                 Korean)
    standard.enc
    Bg5.enc
    hangul.enc
    pmCsmall.enc
    pmCbig.enc   Encoding scheme files
    Bg5.chr
    standard.chr
    pmC.chr      Character encoding files
    Uhangul.fd   Font definition file for standard Hangul fonts
    UBg5.fd
    UGBs.fd
    UGBt.fd      Font definition files for Chinese (examples only!)
    UpmC-Bg5.fd
    UpmC-GBs.fd
    UpmC-GBt.fd  Font definition files for (old) pmC-fonts
    vf/*.vf
    tfm/*.tfm    virtual fonts and metric files for hangul standard fonts to
                 use in combination with the font libraries lj_han and lj_han1
                 (available at the CTAN hosts)

    utils/hbf2cjk.c         Source file for hbf2cjk (at the moment only for
                            UNIX)
    utils/hbf2hbf.w         CWEB source file for hbf2hbf
    utils/hbf.h
    utils/hbf.c             Ross Paterson's HBF API (with small extensions)
    utils/Makefile          Makefile for hbf2hbf
    utils/Makefile.hbf2cjk  Makefile for hbf2cjk (only for UNIX)


This is freely distributable under the GNU Public License.


                **************************************
                *  The .fd files have been changed!  *
                **************************************



Use
---

Use CJK.sty as a package, e.g.

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{CJK}            .

Two new environments \begin{CJK}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK} and
\begin{CJK*}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK*} are defined:

    encoding        the following coding schemes are currently implemented in
                    CJK.enc:

                        Bg5 (Big5)
                        GBs (GuoBiao with simplified characters)
                        GBt (GuoBiao with traditional characters)
                        hangul (only hangul syllables and elements, no hanja).

                    It's very easy to add different encoding schemes.

                    For compatibility with the pmC package three additional
                    encodings are defined: pmC-Bg5, pmC-GBs, and pmC-GBt. It's
                    not encouraged to use these encodings because of wasting
                    fonts. If possible, convert your original CJK-bitmaps with
                    bmf2gf or hbf2cjk (see below) to CJK-encodings.

    shape           It is impossible to know what fonts are available at your
                    site; look at the example .fd-files how to create
                    appropriate .fd-files suiting your needs. If you use the
                    hangul environment, this parameter is unused (see below).


    CJK* will swallow unprotected spaces and newlines after a CJK character,
    whereas CJK will not.


This is a very realistic example:

    \begin{CJK}{GBs}{kai}
    ...
    Text in GuoBiao encoding
    ...
    \end{CJK}


How it works
------------

Asiatic logographs can't be represented with one byte per character. (At
least) two bytes are needed, and the most common encoding schemes (GB, Big5,
JIS, KS etc.) have a certain range for the first byte (usually 0xA1-OxFE or a
part of it) which signales that this and the next byte represents an Asiatic
logograph. This means that plain ASCII-text (i.e. characters between 0x00 and
0x7F) will be left undisturbed, and most characters of the extended ASCII
character set (0x80-0xFF) will be assigned to a CJK encoding.

CJK.sty will make the characters 0xA1-OxFE active (and in the file CJK.enc you
should inactivate those characters not needed to be active if you add a new
encoding scheme) inside of an environment and assigns the macros \CJK@char and
\CJK@charx to the active characters which select the proper font. The real
mechanism is a bit more complicated to assure robustness (it was borrowed and
modified from german.sty).


The encodings
-------------

CJK.sty defines \CJK@standardEncoding, \CJK@Bg5Encoding, \CJK@hangulEncoding,
and for compatibility with pmC, \CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding.

\CJK@standardEncoding should be used for encodings with the second byte in the
range 0xA0-0xFE (GB, JIS etc).

\CJK@Bg5Encoding should be used for Big5 encodings (e.g. ETen fonts) with the
second byte in the range 0x40-0xFE.

\CJK@hangulEncoding is a special (and slightly modified) case of
\CJK@standardEncoding, containing only values for hangul syllables and
elements.

\CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding can be activated with \pmCsmall
(this is the default) and \pmCbig inside the CJK environment. Note that the
original pmC fonts have two character sizes per font (the bigger ones with an
offset of -128); pmC-Big5 encoded fonts cannot contain big characters. The
names of the fonts in the UpmC-xxx.fd files reflect the modifications added by
Marc Leisher (mleisher@nmsu.edu) to the original poor man's Chinese (pmC)
package written by Thomas Ridgeway (ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu).


The fonts
---------

CJK.sty uses NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme) which has some advantages over
the font selection offered with pmC:

    o   TeX fonts are loaded only on demand. This is especially useful with
        Asiatic logographs. If you have e.g. three Chinese characters in your
        text, pmC must load the whole Chinese font (about 85 TeX fonts),
        whereas LaTeX2e loads three fonts normally.

    o   As long as the limit of 256 TeX fonts will not be exceeded, you can
        use as many CJK fonts as you like (e.g. simplified and traditional
        Chinese characters together with Japanese fonts in different sizes)
        --- pmC is limited to two sizes and can only have two CJK fonts at the
        same time.

        In the web2c-TeX package (for UNIX) you will find a patch which allows
        the use of more than 256 TeX fonts.

    o   You need not to care about the right size of the CJK fonts in
        footnotes etc. It will obey the NFSS (although changing the other
        attributes except font series and size will be done with \CJKenc and
        \CJKshape).

        For font selection in a hangul environment see below.

        Of course you must have proper sizes of your CJK fonts --- if you
        have, say, 48x48 and 64x64 bitmap fonts (or more), I recommend bmf2gf
        to convert them directly to .pk-fonts. If you have only 24x24 size (as
        most of the public domain fonts are), you can magnify them using
        bmf2gf but only with integer magnifications.

If you chose one font per active character as with the pmC macros, you would
waste character space (256 characters per font are possible with TeX 3).
Therefore CJK.sty expects the whole Asiatic font splitted in TeX fonts with
256 characters each.

An example:

    GuoBiao-encoded simplified characters in song style 12pt:
    ^               ^                        ^^         ^^

              first byte  second byte       TeX font  offset
              ----------------------------------------------
                 0xA1      0xA1-OxFE        gsso1201     0
                 0xA2      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1201    94
                 0xA3      0xA1-0xE4        gsso1201   188
                 0xA3      0xE5-0xFE        gsso1202     0
                 0xA4      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1202    26
                 0xA5      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1202   120
                                     .
                                     .
                                     .
                 0xFE      0xA1-OxFE        gsso1235    38


To create such splitted fonts you can use the package bmf2gf (written by me)
which should be at the same place where you've found this package (I upload my
TeX packages to the CTAN hosts). Enclosed here in the CJK package you will
find the CWEB source code of the program hbf2hbf which you should use instead
of hbf2bmf of the bmf2gf package. The latter only supports the Big5 encoding
scheme of CJK versions before 2.1 .

hbf2hbf converts HBF fonts into BMF files (plus a HBF header file) bmf2gf can
understand. See the next section for the syntax.

To make hbf2hbf, you will need the GNU C compiler and GNU make, and the CWEB
package.

For converting to .pk-files via bmf2gf, you should get the appropriate HBF
(Hanzi Bitmap Font) header files from ifcss.org (or create if you can't find
the right one); almost all Chinese bitmap fonts in the public domain together
with their HBF headers are collected there. These HBF files document the CJK
fonts completely.


Using hbf2cjk
-------------

If bmf2gf does not satisfy you, try hbf2cjk. This program is a patched version
of HBFtoPK written by S. Simpson <simpson@math.psu.edu>. To execute hbf2cjk,
you additionally need pnmscale and pgmtopbm of the pbmplus package and
pbmtopk. Consider this as a beta version which works unmodified only under
UNIX.

hbf2cjk is much more slower than bmf2gf - it will call pnmscale and pgmtopbm
for each character. The advantage is that you can scale the fonts with any
(reasonable) value.

To make hbf2cjk, you will need the GNU C compiler and GNU make.
Say `make TARGET -fMakefile.hbf2cjk', where TARGET can be `unix' or
`unixdebug'.

You should first convert your original CJK font and HBF header with hbf2hbf
into a temporary font file and HBF header:

Syntax:

    hbf2hbf output_font_name_without_extension input_HBF_header


Then call hbf2cjk to build the needed TeX subfonts:

Syntax:

    hbf2cjk HBF_file fontname resolution family encoding

The `font' parameter corresponds to \CJKshape; `family' and `encoding' will
appear as identifiers in the .tfm files.


An example:

    input files: jfs56.a - jfs56.e, jfs56.hbf

    program calls: hbf2hbf temp jfs56.hbf
                   hbf2cjk temp.hbf gsfs13 300 "Jianti FanSong" "Big5"

    output files: gsfs1301.300pk  - gsfs1332.300pk
                  gsfs1301.tfm    - gsfs1332.tfm


[gsfs: GuoBiao simple encoded FanSong style]
       ^       ^              ^  ^

It's hard to overcome the DOS restriction of 8 characters in a file name if
you need two characters as a running number...


Korean input
------------

(The status of this feature is experimental. I can't speak Korean and would
 be glad to hear comments from people who have any idea what is happening
 here :-)

There are already different packages handling Hangul: hlatex, htex etc.; there
is one package which also can handle hanja: jhtex.

The great difference of the packages just mentioned compared to CJK is the use
of a preprocessor which converts text files containing KS encoded text into a
TeX file. To do so has some advantages, but the output is completely
unreadable. Additionally the output lines become rather lengthy (a two byte
character code will be converted into a string up to 11 characters), which
some editors may confuse; and if you have a text which contains Chinese or
Japanese also, you can't use KS to TeX converters because the code ranges
overlap and the converters are not able to recognize which is Korean and which
is not.

In contrast, CJK does not need a preprocessor and the problems mentioned above
are nonexistent, but you get nothing for free: CJK uses the virtual font
mechanism to map the hangul syllables onto Hangul Elements (11 virtual fonts
map to 2 real fonts), whereas preprocessors directly use the real fonts.

CJK's hangul support is thought for users who write texts in a non CJK
language and who want to input some hangul characters, possibly mixed with
Chinese or Japanese.

If you want a complete Korean environment, I recommend jhtex. There you will
also find a hangul.sty which modifies (among others) the sectioning commands
to enable Korean chapter counting and Korean headers.

To use the hangul environment, say

    \begin{CJK}{hangul}{}
    ...
    \end{CJK}       .

These font switches are available inside the environment:

    fonts from hLaTeX:

    *   \mj  MyoungJo   (default)
        \gt  Gothic
        \gs  BootGulssi
        \gr  Graphic
        \dr  Dinaru

    fonts from jhTeX:

    *   \hgt Hangul Gothic
    *   \hmj Hangul MyoungJo (MunHwaBu fonts)
    *   \hpg Hangul Pilgi
        \hol Hangul Outline (MyoungJo)

If a font is marked with a star, bold series are available.

You will find the fonts in the lj_han and lj_han1 packages. These are emTeX
libraries for 300 dpi resolution which can be easily converted back to .pk
fonts using the fontlib package of emTeX. If you need different resolutions,
you must obtain the original metafont sources of the hlatex_mf.tar.gz and the
jhtex packages. Note that the shapes of Hangul elements are not satisfactory,
and archaic hangul elements are still missing.


The .fd-files
-------------

It is now possible to define CJK fonts as easy as normal TeX fonts!

CJK.sty defines four new size commands:

    CJK         corresponds to `' (empty)
    sCJK        corresponds to s
    CJKfixed    corresponds to fixed
    sCJKfixed   corresponds to sfixed               .

The difference between these size functions and the original commands defined
by LaTeX2e is that a CJK size function defines a class of fonts.

If you say as an example

    \DeclareFontShape{U}{Bg5}{m}{song}{<6> <7> <8> sCJKfixed * b5so07}     ,

LaTeX2e searches for fonts named b5so0701 - b5so0758 if the font size is 6, 7
or 8 pt; with other words, the CJK size functions append two digits to select
the proper subfonts. These digits are defined in the \CJK@...Encoding macros;
the macro \CJK@plane holds the current value (for pmC emulation, \CJK@plane
holds hexadecimal numbers).

See the example .fd files how to define font substitutions additionally.

To use CJK fonts as defined in older versions of CJK, you must rename all .pk
and .tfm files and exchange subfont and size values:

    old name:   b5so017     new name: b5so0701
                b5so027               b5so0702
                .                     .
                .                     .
                .                     .


Caveats
-------

    o   You can of course use CJK-environments inside of a CJK-environment,
        but it is possible that you must increase the so called save size
        (with emTeX you can adjust this with -ms=...).

        The CJK package has an optional argument which controls the scope of
        CJK environments:

            global          \lccode, \uccode, \catcode and the activation of
                            the characters 0xA1-0xFE will be globally modified
                            (\lccode and \uccode reset to 0). This is the most
                            economical mode concerning save size, but you
                            can't have CJK environments inside of CJK
                            environments or other environments which
                            manipulate the character range 0xA1-0xFE.

                            Packages which change some of the above values
                            only once (e.g. in the preamble) will also not
                            work after the first use of a CJK environment.

            local           Only \lccode and \uccode will be modified
                            globally. This is the default. You can stack
                            environments.

            encapsulated    If you want to use DC fonts outside of the CJK
                            environment with \uppercase and \lowercase working
                            correctly, you must use this option. All values
                            mentioned above will be local, so you can stack
                            environments. This option probably causes an
                            overflow of the save size.


        Say

            \usepackage[option]{CJK}

        to activate 'option'.

    o   There is an other way to overcome the problem of stacked environments.
        CJK implements two low level CJK attribute switches: \CJKenc and
        \CJKshape, which take the same arguments as the corresponding values
        of the CJK environment. If you need two different encodings/shapes at
        the same output line, you must use these macros. An example:

            \begin{CJK}{GBs}{song}
            ... Text in GBs song ... \CJKenc{GBt}
            ... Text in GBt song ... \CJKshape{kai}
            ... Text in GBt kai ...
            \end{CJK}

        As with \begin{CJK}{...}{...}, you should start a new line after
        \CJKenc to assure that possibly new activated characters get their
        active meaning.

    o   The characters \, {, and } are used as second bytes in the Big5
        encoding. If you write Big5 text, you should use the Bg5text
        environment which changes the category codes of these characters. The
        command prefix is now the forward slash /, and the grouping characters
        are ( and ) respectively.

        An example:

            \begin{CJK}{Bg5}{song}
            \begin{Bg5text}
            ....
            /begin(center)
            ....
            /end(center)
            ....
            /end(Bg5text)
            \end{CJK}

        To get the /, (, and ) characters, write //, /(, and /) inside
        the Bg5text environment.

    o   Instead of using the Bg5text environment, you can protect the
        offending second bytes with a backslash, i.e. \{, \}, \\.
        This will not increase the readability of the Chinese text, but for
        short texts it's perhaps more comfortable. Alas, it doesn't work
        in page header commands because the macros \{ etc. will not be
        expanded.

    o   Be careful not to use any commands inside the Bg5text environment
        which write something into an external file (commands like \chapter
        etc.).

    o   If it's not possible to avoid Big5 character codes with \, {, or }
        outside of the Bg5text environment (e.g. having Big5-text in a
        \chapter or \section command), you can replace them with the \CJKchar
        macro manually:

            \section{This is a problematic Big5 character: \CJKchar{169}{92}}

        The parameters are the first and second byte of the Big5 character
        code. You can also use hexadecimal or octal notation.

    o   You can't use Big5 characters in any command which uses \uppercase or
        \lowercase, i.e. \chapter, \article etc. --- this affects all standard
        document classes, which convert page headers to uppercase.

        It's possible to overcome this restriction by substituting all
        affected Big5 characters with the appropriate \CJKchar, i.e. for
        \uppercase characters with the second byte in the range to a-z (and
        A-Z for \lowercase respectively).

        A quick and dirty solution to disable \uppercase is to say

            \let\uppercase\relax

        before \begin{document}, but be aware that some commands like \Roman
        will behave unexpectedly.

        The clean way would be either to use a document class which does not
        convert headers to uppercase or to write a small package modifying the
        sectioning commands to remove the \uppercase commands.

    o   The same holds for ALL CJK encoding schemes if you use DC fonts
        because these 8-bit fonts have most \lccode's and \uccode's set in the
        range 0x80-0xFF.

    o   You should define for each TeX font size a CJK font (as an example,
        use sCJKfixed for good sizes and CJKfixed for bad sizes, and LaTeX2e
        will complain loudly about wrong sizes on the screen).

        LaTeX2e will also do the job if some size definitions are missing
        (using defined sizes), but expect a font warning for each (!) CJK
        character affected in verbatim environments.


Possible errors
---------------

    o   If you write Chinese (or Japanese) text, don't forget to suppress the
        linefeed character with a trailing `%' in the CJK environment,
        otherwise you get unwanted spaces in the output. On the other side,
        say `\ ' or something similar inside the CJK* environment to get a
        space after a CJK character.

    o   If you get the error message: "\CJK@min (or \CJK@max) undefined", you
        should insert a \newpage before saying \end{CJK}. This can happen if
        LaTeX writes the headers (or footers) of a page containing Chinese
        characters after closing the CJK environment.

    o   If you get overfull hboxes caused by CJK characters, try to increase
        \CJKglue. It defines the glue between CJK characters; default value is

                \hskip 0pt plus 0.8pt   .

        A \discretionary will be inserted by CJK before a Chinese character,
        and none after. You should separate non-Chinese text from CJK
        characters with spaces to enable hyphenation.

    o   If you encounter a TeX stack overflow caused by {\CJKenc{...} ....},
        you should write

            \CJKenc{new_encoding} ... \CJKenc{old_encoding}

        instead. Or (better) increase the stack size as discussed above.


Author
------

Werner Lemberg (A7621GAC@awiuni11.bitnet)

Please report any errors or suggestions to this email-address.

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct  4 09:46:17 1994
Date: 04 Oct 1994 12:57:52 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: nde@dcre.leeds.ac.uk
Subject: vector package for latex2e

macros/latex/contrib/supported/vector

The vector package provides a set of macros for more convenient
representation of vectors in LaTeX2e, both symbolically and as
implicit or explicit rows/columns of elements.

To install, simply run TeX on vector.ins, then move vector.sty to
somewhere in your TEXINPUTS path. Run LaTeX on vector.drv to
produce documentation.

Note: this is my first package for LaTeX2e. There is undoubtedly
room for improvement, and suggestions emailed to nde@dcre.leeds.ac.uk
will be gratefully received...


Nick Efford
September 1994

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Oct  4 16:53:48 1994
Date: 04 Oct 1994 14:42:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: minitoc

On Tue, 4 Oct 94 09:52:27 +0100, drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr (drucbert)
posted:
> I have put a complete set of the two versions (209 and 2e) of the minitoc
> package.  These are NOT new versions, but I have corrected errors in the
> test documents minitoc-ex.tex and mini-art.tex.  The errors were a false
> title comment in mini-art.tex and, worse, the use of \documentstyle in
> place of \documentclass in mini-art.tex and minitoc-ex.tex (in the LaTeX2e
> version).
>
> Thanks for your help. Sincerely yours,
>
> Jean-Pierre Drucbert
> drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr

Thanks for the updates.  The files in macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc
and macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc have been updated accordingly at
ftp.SHSU.edu.

Regards and thanks again for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Oct  4 16:55:46 1994
Date: 04 Oct 1994 14:52:08 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: piet@cs.ruu.nl
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: fancyheadings upload

On Tue, 4 Oct 1994 17:50:33 +0100, Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
posted:
> I have uploaded a new version of fancyheadings.sty (to be placed in
> tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings) in
> incoming/fancyheadings on ftp.shsu.edu, together with a new documentation
> (fancyheadings.tex) and two extra files extramarks.sty and fixmarks.sty
> that are also described in the doc.
>
> Please remove the old fancyheadings.doc file.

The files have completely replaced the prior ones in
macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings/ on ftp.shsu.edu

> fixmarks.sty replaces the old
> tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/fixhead.sty but please keep it
> with fancyheadings (fixhead was just the wrong name, maybe a symbolic link
> is in order)

The old fixheads.sty has been removed from macros/latex209/contrib/misc and
a link to have fixmarks.sty present in that directory has been made.

> By the way, the incoming dir on ftp.dante.de is write protected.

Thanks for the information -- consider it reported.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct  7 13:27:08 1994
Date: 07 Oct 1994 17:09:59 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: norman@astro.gla.ac.uk, tobias@dmu.ac.uk
Subject: acronym, showlabels

SHOWLABELS macros/latex/contrib/showlabels

>From Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>


This class option introduces no new commands, it just helps you keep 
track of all the 
labels by putting the name of the new label into the 
margin whenever either the |\label| or the |\@eqnnum| commands is 
used.  There are therefore no usage instructions.  You invoke this 
package with the command |\usepackage{showlabels}| in the preamble, and 
you may give the options |[inner]| or |[outer]| (the default) to have the 
labels placed in the inner or outer margin of the text.


ACRONYM  macros/latex/contrib/acronym
Tobias Oetiker <tobias@dmu.ac.uk>

I'd like to announce the availability of 
my LaTeX2e acronym Package from CTAN.

When writing a paper on cellular mobile radio I started to used a 
lot of acronyms. This can be very disturbing for the reader,
as he might not know all the used acronyms. To help the reader 
I kept a list of all the acronyms at the end of my paper. 

This package makes sure, that all acronyms used in the text are
spelled out in full at least once. And it provides an
environment to keep a list of acronyms. Somewhere in the document. 

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct  7 13:28:17 1994
Date: 07 Oct 1994 17:13:42 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: GOOSSENS@cernvm.cern.ch, malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch
Subject: CM PS Type1 fonts (new)

[ i have moved the elements of the old Paradissa collection that are
*not* covered by BaKoMa to fonts/cm/ps-type1/paradissa and put the new
stuff in fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma. i hope this arrangement is
acceptable to Basil 

Sebastian
]

This is first part of the BaKoMa Fonts Collection.

 This package includes 88 basic fonts of the Computer Modern font family
 which were designed by D.E.Knuth. 
 Fonts are in the ATM compatible PostScript Type 1 font format (PFB+AFM+PFM)
 and in the TrueType font format (TTF).

 This font package have been produced from Knuth's METAFONT scripts
 by using original algorithms developed by collection author.

 I would not like to mix these fonts with Paradissa Fonts Collection (PFC)
 because there is several differences:

 1. These Fonts were produced by principally different algorithms then 
    that which used for PFC creation.
 2. This package includes only Computer Modern family with
    AMS extention of mathematical fonts (such fonts as cmbsy, cmex, cmmib,
    have more optical sizes).
 3. Characters in these fonts have other widthes then in fonts of PFC.
    These widthes are defined in fractions of adobe units which can 
    not be work with some programs.
 4. All fonts in this package have double-encoding feature.
    I.e. different software will find characters in different positions
    without additional font reencoding (see file 'BaKoMa.fonts').
 5. This package includes Type1 and TrueType versions of fonts
    while PFC includes only Type1 version.

I think that good solution is put this font package separatly in first time,
because a lot of fonts will be losted after replacing PFC by this package.
I think that the good place for this fonts 
is anywhere in /tex-archive/fonts/cm/...

I hope that this font package will be usefull for many peoples.

Bye.

Basil K. Malyshev, 27-Sep-94, Geneva, Switzerland.

 E-Mail:	malyshev@mx.ihep.su
      or	malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Oct 11 07:44:46 1994
Date: 11 Oct 1994 10:11:32 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Michael Mehlich <mehlich@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
Cc: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Michael Mehlich writes:

 > I've just put an archive file
 >   "fp.tar.gz"
 > containing one directory named "fp" containing a couple of files
 > to the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
 > 
 > It contains a package for high precision fixed point calculations
 > with big numbers within LaTeX2e.
 > For a short description of the macros defined see the file readme.fp
 > which is part of the package.
 > 
 > The package is recommended to be placed in
 >   macros/latex/contrib/other/fp

I have just moved this package to the location indicated. Thanks.

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From Denis.Roegel@loria.fr Tue Oct 11 08:49:49 1994
Date: 11 Oct 1994 12:45:59 +0100 (MET)
From: Denis B. Roegel <Denis.Roegel@loria.fr>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Denis B. Roegel <roegel@lorraine.loria.fr>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

'Rainer Schoepf'
>   
>   Michael Mehlich writes:
>   
>    > I've just put an archive file
>    >   "fp.tar.gz"
>    > containing one directory named "fp" containing a couple of files
>    > to the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
>    > 
>    > It contains a package for high precision fixed point calculations
>    > with big numbers within LaTeX2e.
>    > For a short description of the macros defined see the file readme.fp
>    > which is part of the package.
>    > 
>    > The package is recommended to be placed in
>    >   macros/latex/contrib/other/fp
>   
>   I have just moved this package to the location indicated. Thanks.
>   

It seems not yet readable on dante...

Denis.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct 11 15:57:12 1994
Date: 11 Oct 1994 19:51:57 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: "J%org Knappen, Mainz": Frequently asked questions -- 4th edition

The NTS project is investigating strategies for possible successors to
TeX.  I have installed the latest project FAQ as CTAN:/info/NTS-FAQ

------- Forwarded Message

Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 18:03:48 +0100
From: "J%org Knappen, Mainz" <KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE>
Subject: Frequently asked questions -- 4th edition

    Frequently Asked Questions of NTS-L
 
Fourth edition
Date: 10-OCT-1994
Currently maintained by: knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de (J%org Knappen)
 
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Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
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From MJD@MATH.AMS.ORG Thu Oct 13 11:41:37 1994
Date: 13 Oct 1994 10:28:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Downes <MJD@MATH.AMS.ORG>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: info-tex@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: eps-staff@MATH.AMS.ORG
Subject: AMS-LaTeX 1.2beta release, e-math.ams.org

A new release of AMS-LaTeX, 1.2beta, for use with current LaTeX
(`LaTeX2e'), is available now via anonymous FTP from e-math.ams.org in
the directory /ams/amslatex (a tar.Z file is in the parent directory).
Version 1.1 has been moved to the directory /ams/amsltx11. There is a
READ.ME file giving some general information and installation
instructions; a synopsis of changes is also provided, in the file
amslatex.chg.

Upgrading to current LaTeX is recommended for most AMS-LaTeX users, for
the following reasons:

(a) Better user support (well-organized bug-reporting and maintenance
procedures)

(b) Removal of many minor bugs and confusing aspects of LaTeX 2.09 that
often cost users valuable time

(c) More on-line documentation (for example, the files usrguide.tex,
clsguide.tex, and fntguide.tex in the base distribution).

(d) Many internal improvements in font handling. Font definition files
are more compact; procedures for dealing with math symbol fonts are
better organized; etc.

(e) Easier switching between font sets (anyone who wants to use
PostScript fonts with LaTeX is well advised to abandon LaTeX 2.09
in favor of current LaTeX)

(f) Better support for non-English languages

(g) Much better support for graphics and color

(h) Ongoing development and enhancements will be done for current LaTeX,
not 2.09 (among other reasons, current LaTeX provides a much better,
and better documented, interface for developers working on extensions)

(i) Easier installation

(j) Strong `compatibility mode' that in eight to ten months of real
world testing so far has been extremely successful in processing
existing LaTeX documents without change.

Most of the makers of commercial TeX products already provide, or will
soon provide, an up-to-date version of LaTeX with their products.

Some AMS-LaTeX 1.1 users whose TeX implementation has relatively limited
memory capacities may not be able to use AMS-LaTeX 1.2. For example,
there is an upper limit of 3500 control sequence names (hash size) in
emTeX's tex286. This was marginally sufficient for LaTeX 2.09 +
AMS-LaTeX 1.1, but is not enough for current LaTeX + AMS-LaTeX 1.2.

Michael Downes
Electronic Products and Services
American Mathematical Society
P.O. Box 6248
Providence, RI 02940
Internet: tech-support@math.ams.org
401-455-4080
800-321-4AMS extension 4080

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Oct 17 06:00:09 1994
Date: 17 Oct 1994 09:53:19 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk
Subject: program.sty

[macros/latex/contrib/supported/program]

Here's a copy of my LaTeX2e style file for typesetting programs and
algorithms in my favourite style without having to type in endless tabbing
commands. Each line is set in math mode so all the indentation and spacing
is done automatically. The notation |variable_name| can be used within
normal text, maths expressions or programs to indicate a variable name.
Use \origbar to get a normal | symbol in a program. The commands \A, \B, \R, \T
and \Z typeset the corresponding bold letter with the next object as a
substript (eg \S1 typesets {\bf S$_1$} etc). They now cope with primes as
well, (eg \S'''). The program.sty file can be
easily edited to reflect your favoured style. See the program-demo.tex file
for examples.

			Martin.

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BITNET: Martin.Ward%durham.ac.uk@UKACRL UUCP:...!uknet!durham!Martin.Ward

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Oct 17 13:44:26 1994
Date: 17 Oct 1994 17:33:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: VMS spell package

The old (VMS_SHAREd) version of VMS spell has been removed from CTAN
archives support/vmsspell

In its place we now have support/vmspell, which contains the same
package (as a .zip file), together with a set of (American English)
dictionaries.

UK English dictionaries do exist, but are not currently available via
the internet; I will attempt to get hold of them, but my last attempt
at getting stuff from my previous employers (where I developed this
release of SPELL and rewrote the dictionaries) was an extremely slow
business...

Robin

Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct 18 11:32:02 1994
Date: 18 Oct 1994 12:43:56 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: update to LaTeX2e graphics package

David Carlisle has issued a new release of the LaTeX2e standard graphics
and color packages. see CTAN:macros/latex/packages/graphics. Probably
the most noticeable change for the `traditional' user is the ability
to set a default file type. so if all your files are PostScript, but
called file.1, file.2 etc, you are now OK

Bug reports using latexbug, *not* to c.t.t. or the like, please

sebastian rahtz

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct 20 11:22:18 1994
Date: 20 Oct 1994 11:52:34 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: new release of Eddi 4 TeX

on CTAN, systems/msdos/34t has a new release of Ulrich Jahnze's
Eddi4TeX, a sophisticated DOS editor and shell for writing TeX
files. this release has fixed support for parsing LaTeX2e log files,
inter alia. see the readme or liesmich files. A translation of the
manual into English is being prepared, but much more of the help
system is already in English.

e4t is shareware. please respect this.

Sebastian

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Oct 20 14:35:59 1994
Date: 20 Oct 1994 12:28:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: obsolete files

On Thu, 20 Oct 1994 09:09:24 +0100 (MET),
zierke@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Reinhard Zierke) reported:

> the directories
>	CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/trees/tree_tex
>	CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/trees/treetex
> contain the same files with different file creation dates. Can you remove
> one of these directories?

Thanks for pointing this out.  I have removed the treetex directory and
retained the tree_tex directory (no particular reason why -- they were
indeed duplicates of one another).

Regards,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 21 14:04:29 1994
Date: 21 Oct 1994 17:50:57 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: David Carlisle: ftp.tex new submission (mylatex.ltx)

I've installed the file David uploaded in
  macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/mylatex.ltx

I didn't put it in "supported/misc" , as David had suggested, since it
doesn't really fit with my concept of what a supported package is.

Here's David's announcement message.

------- Forwarded Message

Date: Fri, 21 Oct 94 17:35:18 BST
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <9410211635.AA07080@r8d.cs.man.ac.uk>
To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Cc: volker@numsun1.mathematik.uni-halle.de
Subject: ftp.tex new submission (mylatex.ltx)


Robin,
just put mylatex.ltx on your ctan incoming directory.
This is the code I posted off the top of my head to c.t.t
a couple of weeks back for making formats with classes and packages
pre-loaded. 

Volka Kunert has made some improvements to my comments and code
so I thought you could stick it in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/mylatex.ltx
(not that anyone will find it there:-)

David

The following timings are Volker's 


below you find the statistics for three LaTeX files. For small files
that load a lot of styles the time for latexing is halved.
Normally all files that i tex are such small files, so it is worth the trouble 
of running initex, and remembering to update mylatex.fmt if necessary.


The output seems to be ok, a diff on the PS files confirmed this.

SPARCstation-10 Model 20 SunOS 4.1.3
This is TeX, Version 3.141 (C version d) (dynamically linked)

Output of "time"

One Page document: (using AMS styles)
latex test12   3.370u 5.490s 0:17.12 51.7% 0+594k 612+56io 260pf+0w
latex test12   3.020u 5.340s 0:16.46 50.7% 0+593k 261+37io 66pf+0w
mylatex test12 1.230u 3.020s 0:07.47 56.8% 0+456k 238+21io 54pf+0w
mylatex test12 1.160u 2.930s 0:07.15 57.2% 0+462k 162+57io 0pf+0w

38 Pages: AMS LaTeX 1.2beta testmath.tex
latex testmath   20.770u 7.340s 0:36.70 76.5% 0+787k 263+19io 64pf+0w
mylatex testmath 18.710u 6.070s 0:36.96 67.0% 0+791k 585+72io 279pf+0w
mylatex testmath 18.110u 5.510s 0:30.04 78.6% 0+789k 301+22io 75pf+0w

4 Pages using AMS styles, Babel, Harvard etc.

latex nebenbed   7.460u 8.680s 0:20.66 78.1% 0+719k 184+20io 2pf+0w
latex nebenbed   7.530u 9.080s 0:25.72 64.5% 0+712k 601+49io 285pf+0w
mylatex nebenbed 4.030u 4.050s 0:17.38 46.4% 0+657k 536+51io 259pf+0w
mylatex nebenbed 3.830u 3.700s 0:11.57 65.0% 0+652k 259+18io 69pf+0w

Volker                    Volker.Kunert@mail.mathematik.uni-halle.de


------- End of Forwarded Message

Thanks, David, for yet another contribution to the community...

Robin

Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Oct 21 18:11:45 1994
Date: 21 Oct 1994 16:06:11 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ichihara@rikax1.riken.go.jp
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: ftp.riken.go.jp is mirroing CTAN archives

On Sat, 22 Oct 1994 01:31:01 JST, "Takashi Ichihara"
<ichihara@rikax1.riken.go.jp> reported:
> We have started the mirroring the ftp.shsu.edu:/pub/tex-archives daily into
> our ftp server:
>
>      ftp.riken.go.jp:/pub/tex-archive
>
> The first copy will be completed within a day.  Please add our ftp server
> to the list of the mirror server of CTAN archives, CTAN.sites.  If there is
> any problem or suggestion, please let me know.  Thank you in advance.
> 
>    Takashi Ichihara 
>    RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research)
>       2-1, Hirosawa, Wako, 351-01, Japan
>       (Internet/Bitnet)   Ichihara@rikvax.riken.go.jp
>       (HEPnet/span)       RIKEN::ICHIHARA (41910::Ichihara)
>       (WWW)		  http://www.riken.go.jp/

Outstanding!  Your site has been added to the list of CTAN sites available
via finger ctan_us@SHSU.edu as well as included in the top-level CTAN.sites
file in the archive.  On behalf of the CTAN team, please allow me to
welcome you and your site to this project.  If there is anything I can do
to assist you from this end, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.

Regards and thanks for your interest in our services,   George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Sat Oct 22 12:43:58 1994
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 94 16:39:03 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: soft-authors@ifcss.org, linux-asia@orac.iinet.com.au, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 2.2 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e)


This package will be in language/chinese/CJK soon on all CTAN hosts
(ftp.shsu.edu, ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk).

Below you can find the most important new features and the readme file.


Happy TeXing


    Werner


PS: Sam Chiu <ccc11@cus.cam.ac.uk> has precompiled a set of GB and Big5 fonts
    for 600dpi resolution (about 22 MByte uncompressed!). It should be soon in
    /fonts/chinese/CJK-fonts.

==============================================================================


Version 2.2 :   new:
18-Oct-1994         CJK now supports hangul and hanja together. Two different
                      sets of subfonts are used as defined in Uhangul.fd and
                      Uhanja.fd .

                    CJK punctuation characters (fullwidth comma, colon,
                      semicolon etc.) will not start a line. CJK opening
                      braces etc. will not end a line.



This is the LaTeX2e style package CJK Version 2.2 (18-Oct-1994)
===============================================================

It contains the following files:

    history.txt  Package history
    CJK.txt      This file
    CJK.sty      A LaTeX2e style file to enable CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean)
                 logographs (i.e. Hanzi/Kanji/Hangul) with LaTeX2e
    CJK.enc      Master Encoding File (at the moment only for Chinese and
                 Korean)
    standard.enc
    Bg5.enc
    KS.enc
    pmCsmall.enc
    pmCbig.enc   Encoding scheme files
    Bg5.chr
    standard.chr
    hangul.chr
    pmC.chr      Character encoding files
    Uhangul.fd   Font definition file for standard Hangul fonts
    Uhanja.fd    Font definition file for Hanja font (example only!)
    UBg5.fd
    UGBs.fd
    UGBt.fd      Font definition files for Chinese (examples only!)
    UpmC-Bg5.fd
    UpmC-GBs.fd
    UpmC-GBt.fd  Font definition files for (old) pmC-fonts
    vf/*.vf
    tfm/*.tfm    virtual fonts and metric files for hangul standard fonts to
                 use in combination with the font libraries lj_han and lj_han1
                 (available at the CTAN hosts)

    utils/hbf2cjk.w         CWEB source file for hbf2cjk (at the moment only
                            for UNIX)
    utils/hbf2hbf.w         CWEB source file for hbf2hbf
    utils/hbf2cjk.c
    utils/hbf2hbf.c         C code files extracted from the CWEB source files
    utils/hbf2cjk.dvi
    utils/hbf2hbf.dvi       Documentation extracted from the CWEB source files
    utils/hbf.h
    utils/hbf.c             Ross Paterson's HBF API (with small extensions)
    utils/Makefile          Makefile for hbf2hbf
    utils/Makefile.hbf2cjk  Makefile for hbf2cjk (only for UNIX)


This is freely distributable under the GNU Public License.


                    *******************************
                    *  New Korean virtual fonts!  *
                    *******************************



Use
---

Use CJK.sty as a package, e.g.

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{CJK}            .

Two new environments \begin{CJK}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK} and
\begin{CJK*}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK*} are defined:

    encoding        the following coding schemes are currently implemented in
                    CJK.enc:

                        Bg5 (Big5)
                        GBs (GuoBiao with simplified characters)
                        GBt (GuoBiao with traditional characters)
                        KS  (hangul and hanja).

                    For compatibility with the pmC package three additional
                    encodings are defined: pmC-Bg5, pmC-GBs, and pmC-GBt. It's
                    not encouraged to use these encodings because of wasting
                    fonts. If possible, convert your original CJK-bitmaps with
                    bmf2gf or hbf2cjk (see below) to CJK-encodings.

    shape           It is impossible to know what fonts are available at your
                    site; look at the example .fd-files how to create
                    appropriate .fd-files suiting your needs. If you use the
                    KS environment, this parameter is unused (see below).


    CJK* will swallow unprotected spaces and newlines after a CJK character,
    whereas CJK will not.


This is a very realistic example:

    \begin{CJK*}{GBs}{kai}
    ...
    Text in GuoBiao encoding
    ...
    \end{CJK*}


How it works
------------

Asiatic logographs can't be represented with one byte per character. (At
least) two bytes are needed, and the most common encoding schemes (GB, Big5,
JIS, KS etc.) have a certain range for the first byte (usually 0xA1-OxFE or a
part of it) which signales that this and the next byte represents an Asiatic
logograph. This means that plain ASCII-text (i.e. characters between 0x00 and
0x7F) will be left undisturbed, and most characters of the extended ASCII
character set (0x80-0xFF) will be assigned to a CJK encoding.

CJK.sty will make the characters 0xA1-OxFE active (and in the file CJK.enc you
should inactivate those characters not needed to be active if you add a new
encoding scheme) inside of an environment and assigns the macros \CJK@char and
\CJK@charx to the active characters which select the proper font. The real
mechanism is a bit more complicated to assure robustness (it was borrowed and
modified from german.sty) and correct handling of punctuation characters.


The encodings
-------------

CJK.sty defines internally \CJK@standardEncoding, \CJK@Bg5Encoding,
\CJK@KSEncoding, and for compatibility with pmC, \CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and
\CJK@pmCbigEncoding.

\CJK@standardEncoding will be used for encodings with the second byte in the
range 0xA0-0xFE (GB etc).

\CJK@Bg5Encoding will be used for Big5 encoding (e.g. NTU fonts) with the
second byte in the range 0x40-0xFE.

\CJK@KSEncoding will be used for KS encoding. Two sets of subfonts are
defined, one for Hangul syllables and elements, and a second for Hanja. For
more details see below.

\CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding can be activated with \pmCsmall
(this is the default) and \pmCbig inside the CJK environment. Note that the
original pmC fonts have two character sizes per font (the bigger ones with an
offset of -128); pmC-Big5 encoded fonts cannot contain big characters. The
names of the fonts in the UpmC-xxx.fd files reflect the modifications added by
Marc Leisher (mleisher@nmsu.edu) to the original poor man's Chinese (pmC)
package written by Thomas Ridgeway (ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu).


The fonts
---------

CJK.sty uses NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme) which has some advantages over
the font selection offered with pmC:

    o   TeX fonts are loaded only on demand. This is especially useful with
        Asiatic logographs. If you have e.g. three Chinese characters in your
        text, pmC must load the whole Chinese font (about 85 TeX fonts),
        whereas LaTeX2e loads only three fonts normally.

    o   As long as the limit of 256 TeX fonts will not be exceeded, you can
        use as many CJK fonts as you like (e.g. simplified and traditional
        Chinese characters together with Japanese fonts in different sizes)
        --- pmC is limited to two sizes and can only have two CJK fonts at the
        same time.

        In the web2c-TeX package (for UNIX) you will find a patch which allows
        the use of more than 256 TeX fonts.

    o   You need not to care about the right size of CJK fonts in footnotes
        etc. They will obey the NFSS (although changing the other attributes
        except font series and size will be done with \CJKenc and \CJKshape).

        For font selection in a hangul environment see below.

        Of course you must have proper sizes of your CJK fonts --- if you
        have, say, 48x48 and 64x64 bitmap fonts (or greater), I recommend
        bmf2gf to convert them directly to .pk-fonts. If you have only 24x24
        size (as most of the public domain fonts are), you can magnify them
        using bmf2gf with integer magnifications or hbf2cjk with arbitrary
        magnifications. See the last section for availability of precompiled
        fonts.

If you chose one font per active character as with the pmC macros, you would
waste character space (256 characters per font are possible with TeX 3).
Therefore CJK.sty expects the whole Asiatic font splitted in TeX subfonts with
256 characters each.

An example:

    GuoBiao-encoded simplified characters in song style 12pt:
    ^               ^                        ^^         ^^

              first byte  second byte       TeX font  offset
              ----------------------------------------------
                 0xA1      0xA1-OxFE        gsso1201     0
                 0xA2      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1201    94
                 0xA3      0xA1-0xE4        gsso1201   188
                 0xA3      0xE5-0xFE        gsso1202     0
                 0xA4      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1202    26
                 0xA5      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1202   120
                                     .
                                     .
                                     .
                 0xFE      0xA1-OxFE        gsso1235    38


To create such splitted fonts you can use the package bmf2gf (written by me)
which should be at the same place where you've found this package (I upload my
TeX packages to the CTAN hosts). Enclosed here in the CJK package you will
find the source code of the program hbf2hbf which you should use instead of
hbf2bmf of the bmf2gf package. The latter only supports the Big5 encoding
scheme of CJK versions before 2.1 .

hbf2hbf converts HBF fonts into BMF files (plus a HBF header file) bmf2gf can
understand. See the next section for the syntax.

To make hbf2hbf, you will need the GNU C compiler and GNU make, and optionally
the CWEB package.

For converting to .pk-files via bmf2gf, you should get the appropriate HBF
(Hanzi Bitmap Font) header files from ifcss.org (or create if you can't find
the right one); almost all Chinese bitmap fonts in the public domain together
with their HBF headers are collected there. These HBF files document CJK fonts
completely.


Using hbf2cjk
-------------

If bmf2gf does not satisfy you, try hbf2cjk. This program is a patched version
of HBFtoPK written by S. Simpson <simpson@math.psu.edu>. To execute hbf2cjk,
you additionally need pnmscale and pgmtopbm of the pbmplus package and
pbmtopk. Consider this as a beta version which works unmodified only under
UNIX.

hbf2cjk is much more slower than bmf2gf - it will call pnmscale and pgmtopbm
for each character. The advantage is that you can scale the fonts with any
(reasonable) value.

To compile hbf2cjk, you will need the GNU C compiler and GNU make, and
optionally CWEB. Say `make TARGET -fMakefile.hbf2cjk', where TARGET can be
`unix' or `unixdebug'.

You should first convert your original CJK font and HBF header with hbf2hbf
into a temporary font file and HBF header:

Syntax:

    hbf2hbf output_font_name_without_extension input_HBF_header


Then call hbf2cjk to build the needed TeX subfonts:

Syntax:

    hbf2cjk HBF_file fontname resolution family encoding

Two decimal digits will be appended to the `fontname' parameter to construct
the output file names; `family' and `encoding' will appear as identifiers in
the .tfm files.


An example:

    input files: jfs56.a - jfs56.e, jfs56.hbf

    program calls: hbf2hbf temp jfs56.hbf
                   hbf2cjk temp.hbf gsfs13 300 "Jianti FanSong" "Big5"

    output files: gsfs1301.300pk  - gsfs1332.300pk
                  gsfs1301.tfm    - gsfs1332.tfm


[gsfs: GuoBiao simple encoded FanSong style]
       ^       ^              ^  ^

It's hard to overcome the DOS restriction of 8 characters in a file name if
you need two characters as a running number...


Korean input
------------

(The status of this feature is experimental. I can't speak Korean and would
 be glad to hear comments from people who have any idea what is happening
 here :-)

There are already different packages handling Hangul: hlatex, htex etc.; there
is one package which also can handle hanja: jhtex.

The great difference of the packages just mentioned compared to CJK is the use
of a preprocessor which converts text files containing KS encoded text into a
TeX file. To do so has some advantages, but the output is completely
unreadable. Additionally the output lines become rather lengthy (a two byte
character code will be converted into a string up to 11 characters long),
which may confuse some editors; and if you have a text which contains Chinese
or Japanese also, you can't use KS to TeX converters because the code ranges
overlap and the converters are not able to recognize which is Korean and which
is not.

In contrast, CJK does not need a preprocessor and the problems mentioned above
are nonexistent, but you get nothing for free: CJK uses the virtual font
mechanism to map the hangul syllables onto Hangul Elements (11 virtual fonts
map to 2 real fonts), whereas preprocessors directly use the real fonts.

CJK's hangul support is thought for users who write texts in a non CJK
language and who want to input some hangul characters, possibly mixed with
Chinese or Japanese.

If you want a complete Korean environment, I recommend jhtex. There you will
also find a hangul.sty which modifies (among others) the sectioning commands
to enable Korean chapter counting and Korean headers.

To use the KS environment, say

    \begin{CJK}{KS}{}
    ...
    \end{CJK}       .

These font switches are available inside the environment:

    fonts from hLaTeX:

    *   \mj  MyoungJo   (default)
        \gt  Gothic
        \gs  BootGulssi
        \gr  Graphic
        \dr  Dinaru

    fonts from jhTeX:

    *   \hgt Hangul Gothic
    *   \hmj Hangul MyoungJo (MunHwaBu fonts)
    *   \hpg Hangul Pilgi
        \hol Hangul Outline (MyoungJo)

If a font is marked with a star, bold series are available.

You will find the hangul fonts in the lj_han and lj_han1 packages. These are
emTeX libraries for 300 dpi resolution which can be easily converted back to
.pk fonts using the fontlib package of emTeX. If you need different
resolutions, you must obtain the original metafont sources of the
hlatex_mf.tar.gz and the jhtex packages. Note that the shapes of Hangul
elements are not satisfactory.

You find the needed virtual fonts and virtual metric files in the vf and tfm
directories. Move the .tfm files into a directory TeX will scan. You need a
dvi driver which understands virtual fonts - move the .vf files into a
directory your dvi driver will scan.

For non-hangul characters inside the KS environment (i.e. the first byte in
the ranges 0xA1-0xAF except 0xA4 and 0xC9-0xFD), fonts are taken from
Uhanja.fd . This enables the use of many hangul fonts and perhaps only one or
two different hanja fonts. If you don't want the overlay of hangul fonts from
Uhangul.fd, say \CJKhanja. The opposite command is \CJKhangul.

Archaic hangul elements (KS 0xA4D5-0xA4FE) and the character KS 0xA4D4 are
only accessible if \CJKhanja is active.

You should convert your KS hanja fonts using bmf2gf or hbf2cjk as described
above.


The .fd-files
-------------

CJK fonts can be installed as easy as normal TeX fonts!

CJK.sty defines four new size commands:

    CJK         corresponds to `' (empty)
    sCJK        corresponds to s
    CJKfixed    corresponds to fixed
    sCJKfixed   corresponds to sfixed               .

The difference between these size functions and the original commands defined
by LaTeX2e is that a CJK size function defines a class of fonts.

If you say as an example

    \DeclareFontShape{U}{Bg5}{m}{song}{<6> <7> <8> sCJKfixed * b5so07}{}   ,

LaTeX2e searches for fonts named b5so0701 - b5so0758 if the font size is 6, 7
or 8 pt; with other words, the CJK size functions append two digits to select
the proper subfonts. These digits are defined in the \CJK@...Encoding macros;
the macro \CJK@plane holds the current value (for pmC compatibility,
\CJK@plane holds hexadecimal numbers).

See the example .fd files how to define font substitutions additionally.


Caveats
-------

    o   You can of course use CJK-environments inside of a CJK-environment,
        but it is possible that you must increase the so called save size
        (with emTeX you can adjust this with -ms=...).

        The CJK package has optional arguments which controls the scope of CJK
        environments:

            lowercase       If you want to use \lowercase with non-Big5
                            encodings inside CJK environments. You need less
                            save size using the `encapsulated' option if
                            `lowercase' is not set.

            global          \lccode (if `lowercase' set), \uccode, \catcode
                            and the activation of the characters 0xA1-0xFE
                            will be globally modified (\lccode and \uccode
                            reset to 0). This is the most economical mode
                            concerning save size, but you can't have CJK
                            environments inside of CJK environments or other
                            environments which manipulate the character range
                            0xA1-0xFE.

                            Packages which change some of the above values
                            only once (e.g. in the preamble) will also not
                            work after the first use of a CJK environment.

            local           Only \lccode (if `lowercase' set) and \uccode will
                            be modified globally. This is the default. You can
                            stack environments.

            encapsulated    If you want to use DC fonts outside of the CJK
                            environment with \uppercase and \lowercase working
                            correctly, you must use this option. All values
                            mentioned above will be local, so you can stack
                            environments. This option probably causes an
                            overflow of the save size.


        Say

            \usepackage[option]{CJK}

        to activate `option'.

    o   There is an other way to overcome the problem of stacked environments.
        CJK implements two low level CJK attribute switches: \CJKenc and
        \CJKshape, which take the same arguments as the corresponding values
        of the CJK environment. If you need two different encodings/shapes at
        the same output line, you must use these macros. An example:

            \begin{CJK}{GBs}{song}
            ... Text in GBs song ... \CJKenc{GBt}
            ... Text in GBt song ... \CJKshape{kai}
            ... Text in GBt kai ...
            \end{CJK}

        As with \begin{CJK}{...}{...}, you should start a new line after
        \CJKenc to assure that possibly new activated characters get their
        active meaning.

    o   The characters \, {, and } are used as second bytes in the Big5
        encoding. If you write Big5 text, you should use the Bg5text
        environment which changes the category codes of these characters. The
        command prefix is now the forward slash /, and the grouping characters
        are ( and ) respectively.

        An example:

            \begin{CJK}{Bg5}{song}
            \begin{Bg5text}
            ....
            /begin(center)
            ....
            /end(center)
            ....
            /end(Bg5text)
            \end{CJK}

        To get the /, (, and ) characters, write //, /(, and /) inside
        the Bg5text environment.

        This environment is ugly, and some commands like \newcommand will not
        work in it, but I know no other solution to retain all CJK characters
        readable with a Big5 editor.

    o   Instead of using the Bg5text environment you can protect the
        offending second bytes with a backslash, i.e. \{, \}, \\ (using a non-
        Chinese editor). This will not increase the readability of the Chinese
        text, but for short texts it's perhaps more comfortable. Alas, it
        doesn't work in page header commands because the macros \{ etc. will
        not be expanded.

    o   Be careful not to use any commands inside the Bg5text environment
        which write something into an external file (commands like \chapter
        etc.).

    o   If it's not possible to avoid Big5 character codes with \, {, or }
        outside of the Bg5text environment (e.g. having Big5-text in a
        \chapter or \section command), you can replace them with the \CJKchar
        macro manually:

            \section{This is a problematic Big5 character: \CJKchar{169}{92}}

        The parameters are the first and second byte of the Big5 character
        code. You can also use hexadecimal or octal notation.

    o   CJK will disable \uppercase and \lowercase (preserving the commands
        within \CJKuppercase and \CJKlowercase) if you select a Big5 encoding.
        This affects the headers of the standard classes and \Roman only in
        standard LaTeX2e.

    o   \uppercase and \lowercase will work with NONE of the CJK encoding
        schemes if you use DC fonts because these 8-bit fonts have most
        \lccode's and \uccode's set in the range 0x80-0xFF.

    o   You should define for each TeX font size a CJK font (as an example,
        use sCJKfixed for good sizes and CJKfixed for bad sizes, and LaTeX2e
        will complain loudly about wrong sizes on the screen).

        LaTeX2e will also do the job if some size definitions are missing
        (using defined sizes), but expect a font warning for each (!) CJK
        character affected under certain circumstances.


Possible errors
---------------

    o   If you write Chinese (or Japanese) text, don't forget to suppress the
        linefeed character with a trailing `%' in the CJK environment,
        otherwise you get unwanted spaces in the output. On the other side,
        say `\ ' or something similar inside the CJK* environment to get a
        space after a CJK character.

    o   To prevent a line break before a CJK character (e.g. between an
        opening (non-CJK) parenthesis and a CJK character), say \CJKkern. This
        command prevents the insertion of \CJKglue before the CJK character.

        You may wonder about the curious name: a small kern (1 sp) between CJK
        characters signales that the first is a punctuation character.

    o   If you get the error message: "\CJK@min (or \CJK@max) undefined", you
        should insert \newpage before saying \end{CJK}. This can happen if
        LaTeX writes the headers (or footers) of a page containing Chinese
        characters after closing the CJK environment.

    o   If you get overfull hboxes caused by CJK characters, try to increase
        \CJKglue. It defines the glue between CJK characters; the default
        definition is

            \newcommand{\CJKglue}{\hskip 0pt plus 0.08\baselineskip}  .

        \CJKglue will be inserted by CJK before each Chinese character (except
        punctuation characters as defined in the punctuation tables; see
        CJK.enc), and none after. You should separate non-Chinese text from
        CJK characters with spaces to enable hyphenation.

    o   If you get overfull hboxes caused by Hangul syllables, try to increase
        \CJKtolerance. The default definition is

            \newcommand{\CJKtolerance}{400}  .

    o   If you encounter a TeX stack overflow caused by
        {\CJKenc{new_encoding} ....}, you should write

            \CJKenc{new_encoding} ... \CJKenc{old_encoding}

        instead. Or (better) increase the stack size as discussed above.


How to get CJK and related software
-----------------------------------

    o   You will find CJK and software related to TeX at the CTAN hosts
        (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network). These completely identical ftp
        servers (concerning TeX software) are

            ftp.shsu.edu    Sam Houston University
                            Texas (USA)
            ftp.dante.de    DANTE (Deutsche Anwendervereinigung fuer TeX)
                            Heidelberg (Germany)
            ftp.tex.ac.uk   Cambridge University
                            Cambridge (England)

        You should use the nearest one, or even better, a local mirror of
        a CTAN host.

        CJK will be found unpacked. To receive the complete package, go to the
        parent directory of CJK and say

            get CJK.zip
          or                (whichever is appropriate for your system)
            get CJK.tar.gz

        The CJK directory and all subdirectories will be sent to you in
        compressed form. Be aware that not all mirrors of CTAN sites support
        compression of directories.

    o   The main site for Chinese related software is ifcss.org (USA). Mirrors
        are ftp.edu.tw (Taiwan) and kth.se (Sweden). Here you find free
        Chinese fonts, Text editors etc.

    o   The main site for Korean related software is cair-archive.kaist.ac.kr
        (Korea). I don't know any mirror sites of this host. At ifcss.org you
        will find a 24x24 hanja font with HBF header in
        /software/fonts/misc/hbf.

    o   Sam Chiu <ccc11@cus.cam.ac.uk> compiled the fonts jfs56 (GBs encoded)
        and ntu_kai48 (Big5 encoded) for various sizes with 600dpi resolution.
        You will find them (about 22 MByte uncompressed!) at the CTAN hosts
        in /tex-archive/fonts/chinese


Author
------

Werner Lemberg <a7621gac@awiuni11.bitnet>

Goldschlagstr. 52/14
A-1150 Vienna
Austria/Europe

Please report any errors or suggestions to this email-address.

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Oct 25 13:53:18 1994
Date: 25 Oct 1994 11:42:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: kris@diku.dk
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: XY-pic version 2.12 released...

On Tue, 25 Oct 1994 13:20:51 +0100, kris@diku.dk posted:
> This is to announce yet another BUG FIX release of my DIAGRAM DRAWING
> PACKAGE, XY-pic: version 2.12.  It fixes the following user visible bugs in
> version 2.11:
>.....
>       ** PLEASE UPDATE TO VERSION 2.12 IF YOU USE AMS-LaTeX ***

Thanks for the notofication!  I have just completed the mirror to SHSU of
these files (to /tex-archive/macros/generic/diagrams/xypic) so they are
available the other CTAN sites and mirrors.

--George
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George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct 27 09:11:58 1994
Date: 27 Oct 1994 12:06:37 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Sam Chiu <ccc11@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Sam Chiu: CTAN Submission (CJK-fonts)

I have installed the files, as Sam suggests, at ftp.tex.ac.uk.  They
also appear in fonts/chinese/CJK

The files installed match the latest release (2.2) of the CJK package,
announced earlier this week.

Propagation to other CTAN sites is in hand, but may take some time...
------- Forwarded Message

From: ccc11@cus.cam.ac.uk (Sam Chiu)
Subject: CTAN Submission (CJK-fonts)
To: ctan-uk@tex.ac.uk, ctan-mgr@shsu.edu
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 01:17:13 +0100 (BST)

I have uploaded a set of Chinese fonts for LaTeX2e to ftp.tex.ac.uk as
one big .tar file (about 22MB total).  These fonts are intended to be
used with the CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) package written by Werner
Lemberg <a7621gac@univie.ac.at>.  The CJK package is located under
tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK in the CTAN directory tree.

The following is a part of the documentation file that will accompany
the fonts.

I suggest putting these fonts under tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK-fonts
so that they remain a self-contained set but closely related to the
CJK package.

I am in communication with Werner Lemberg (author of CJK) as well as
Robin Fairbairns so they are aware of my fonts and the upload.


Thank you for your attention.

---
Sam Chiu <ccc11@cus.cam.ac.uk>


========================================================================
File: CJK-fonts.txt


Using the gsfs and b5ka fonts with LaTeX2e + CJK Package (version 2.1)
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Written by:     Sam Chiu <ccc11@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Release date:   16 Oct 1994


Introduction
-------------

This document describes the use of two Chinese fonts with LaTeX2e and
the CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) package written by Werner Lemberg 
<a7621gac@univie.ac.at>.  The two fonts are:

--  gsfs10  GB-encoded Simplified FangSong style at 10pt design size
           ^          ^          ^   ^
           (based on the 56x56 bitmap font jfs56 found at ifcss.org)

--  b5ka10  Big5-encoded Traditional Kai style at 10pt design size
           ^  ^                     ^^
           (based on the 48x48 bitmap font ntu_kai48 found at ifcss.org)


At present, four sizes are available for 600dpi printers,
corresponding to size-changing commands \normalsize, \large, \Large
and \LARGE in 10pt document class.  See below for info on generating
other fonts, or fonts at other sizes/resolutions.

The following instructions are geared towards unix platforms.  EmTeX
users will need to modify some of the commands/filenames.



Files contained in this directory
- ---------------------------------

CJK-fonts.txt                           this file

UBg5.fd                                 font definition files
UGBs.fd

samp-GB.tex				sample files
samp-GB.ps.gz
samp-B5.tex
samp-B5.ps.gz

b5ka10.tfm.tar.gz                       font metric files for b5ka10

b5ka10.600a.tar.gz      3598184         600pk files, \normalsize (10 pt)
b5ka10.600b.tar.gz
b5ka10.600c.tar.gz
b5ka10.600d.tar.gz

b5ka10.720a.tar.gz      3723980         720pk files, \large (12 pt)
b5ka10.720b.tar.gz
b5ka10.720c.tar.gz
b5ka10.720d.tar.gz

b5ka10.864a.tar.gz      4019404         864pk files, \Large (14.4 pt)
b5ka10.864b.tar.gz
b5ka10.864c.tar.gz
b5ka10.864d.tar.gz

b5ka10.1037a.tar.gz     4353700         1037pk files, \LARGE (17.28 pt)
b5ka10.1037b.tar.gz
b5ka10.1037c.tar.gz
b5ka10.1037d.tar.gz

gsfs10.tfm.tar.gz                       font metric files for gsfs10

gsfs10.600a.tar.gz      2071104         600pk files, \normalsize (10 pt)
gsfs10.600b.tar.gz

gsfs10.720a.tar.gz      2280020         720pk files, \large (12 pt)
gsfs10.720b.tar.gz

gsfs10.864a.tar.gz      2440352         864pk files, \Large (14.4 pt)
gsfs10.864b.tar.gz

gsfs10.1037a.tar.gz     2694164         1037pk files, \LARGE (17.28 pt)
gsfs10.1037b.tar.gz


[The figures are uncompressed and untar'ed sizes in bytes.  Pick the
ones you need and can afford to store!]

[... snip ...]

------- End of Forwarded Message

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct 27 11:27:02 1994
Date: 27 Oct 1994 14:21:18 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: C.Walshaw@gre.ac.uk, settels@amc.uva.nl, Werner.Icking@gmd.de
Subject: midi2tex and abc2mtex uploaded to CTAN

I have uploaded midi2tex to support/midi2tex.  MIDI2TeX translates
MIDI data files into MusicTeX source code (so I'm told).

I have also uploaded abc2mtex to support/abc2mtex, which translates
its own `abc' format to MusicTeX.  It was designed primarily for folk
and traditional tunes of Western European origin (such as Irish,
English and Scottish) which can be written on one stave in standard
classical notation.

These are applications that have been available for some time; they
are being placed on CTAN as part of a consolidation exercise.

Robin Fairbairns

Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Oct 28 19:59:39 1994
Date: 28 Oct 1994 13:32:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: minitoc package

On Fri, 28 Oct 94 09:32:11 +0100, Jean-Pierre Drucbert
<drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr> posted:
> In /incoming/minitoc, you will find a new version of the minitoc package
> (only the LaTeX2e version has changed, from 21 to 22, but I put the whole
> stuff) to correct a typo in minitoc.sty: at line 1157 (approx.), I
> corrected
>     -1-\baselineskip
> to
>     -1.0\baselineskip
>
> Thanks to Blair McMaster who has found that bug.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Jean-Pierre Drucbert
> drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr

Thanks for the updates.  The new files have been installed to replace the
ones in both directries.

Regards and thansk for your interest in our services,   George
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George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
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From POPPE@SWOV.NL Wed Nov  2 06:10:15 1994
Date: 02 Nov 1994 12:09:00 +0100
From: Frank Poppe <POPPE@SWOV.NL>
Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX2e Betatest <LATEX-2E%DHDURZ1.BITNET@vm.gmd.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-2E <LATEX-2E%DHDURZ1.BITNET@vm.gmd.de>
Subject: Re: new release of graphics package - problem?

Thanks for the information.

I did indeed get an answer from this person (I deleted his mail already and
forgot his name) pointing this out. I have send already a message to the list
saying that my problem can be solved.

I did not send out a bug report immediately because I wasn't sure where the
problem was - perhaps it was just some foolishness of my part...

I had already downloaded a new version of CLASSES.DTX but did not yet install
it. I thought that would solve the problem. It appears LTXGUIDE.CLS is not in
CLASSES.DTX, so I've asked the archive-mailer for a new version of that too.

I had ordered CLASSES.DTX because the latest PATCHES.TXT (which was announced
through the CTAN-ANN list) mentioned that CLASSES.DTX had been modified.
But LTXGUIDE wasn't mentioned. How should one know which files have been
changed? If I look at the filedates in the /unpacked directory all have a date
of Sep 26 or Sep 30. That doesn't mean all have changed I suppose?

And perhaps GRFGUIDE.TEX should have specified it needed a LTXGUIDE.CLS of
94/09/23? (Please, this is not meant as serious critique - but why not use these

nice new options of LaTeX2e?)

Frank Poppe

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov  2 09:50:30 1994
Date: 02 Nov 1994 14:41:00 +0000 (GMT)
From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: Doublespace & askinclude.sty for Latex2e

In article <392tsp$dg9@newstand.syr.edu>,
Thomas R. Scavo <trscavo@syr.edu> wrote:
>In article <391boa$iao@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
>Robin Fairbairns <rf@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>In article <1994Oct30.160924.19999@leeds.ac.uk>,
>>Zhou J <cen5jz@sun.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>   (2) There is askinclude.sty for old Latex, which makes it
>>>       easy to include multi-input tex files in one document;
>>>       and I was wondering if there is one version of askinclude.sty
>>>       for latex2e, and where I may get it?
>>
>>I'ld be very surprised if it needed upgrading; given the nature of
>>things, it's not likely to appear as a puckah 2e package for some time
>>yet -- just try using the old version.
>
>Wasn't there some discussion of packages that modify
>\begin{document} some time ago?  askinclude.sty modifies
>\begin{document} and so that may be a problem.

(Since I produced the list of such packages, I ought to have
remembered ;-)

I had in fact been discussing the askinclude problem with M. Zhou off
line, and have produced an apparently working version of askinclude.

I have now uploaded my version to ftp.tex.ac.uk in
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/askinclude.sty; it will
presumably propagate to the other CTAN sites in pretty short order.

Robin

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov  2 10:42:13 1994
Date: 02 Nov 1994 15:31:46 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Linda Wilson <lwilson@icase.edu>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX MATH REF SHEET.

Linda Wilson asked about a copy of symbols.tex:

> Yes, please put the PostScript version where others can get it.
> I don't have LaTeX2e (and please don't tell me I should upgrade :-).

Symbols.tex requires rather more than basic LaTeX2e even.  I've
installed tex-archive/info/symbols.ps on ftp.tex.ac.uk; it'll no doubt
propagate to the other CTAN sites and mirrors soon.

The .ps was generated for a Xerox4030 (the only 300dpi printer I have
even marginal access to...).

Robin

Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Nov  3 09:30:59 1994
Date: 03 Nov 1994 14:24:37 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: New version of symbols

I have installed new copies of symbols.tex (from David Carlisle) and
symbols.ps (which I generated, for a 300dpi printer) in directory info

The change is simply to make the file compile without warning when
using the latest release of AMSLaTeX packages.

Robin

Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov  4 11:54:48 1994
Date: 04 Nov 1994 16:49:23 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk
Subject: new release of latex2e graphics packge

The LaTeX graphics packages have been updated to fix some small
errors reported in the versions released on 18th October.
The four affected files are:
 graphics.dtx pstcol.dtx drivers.dtx changes.txt
The changes since the last release are recorded below (as listed in
changes.txt)

David Carlisle

+ Wed Nov  2 13:12:34 1994  David Carlisle  <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+       * graphics.dtx: fix catcodes of ctrl-D and \endlinechar
+           when reading eps files.
+
+ Thu Oct 27 17:25:18 1994  David Carlisle  <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+       * pstcol.dtx: add gradbegin and gradend colours.
+
+ Mon Oct 24 14:19:23 1994  David Carlisle  <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
+
+       * graphics.dtx: Modify support for ! in \resizebox
+           (Old code added to support active ! broke \width etc)
+         \DeclareGraphicsRule Check #3 (not #2) is * (Reported by
+         Arthur Ogawa).
+         Missing \expandafter in \Gin@setfile (Reported by Arthur
+         Ogawa).
+
+       * drivers.dtx: Missing \the in dvitops \special. Reported by
+         Arthur Ogawa.
+

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Nov  7 12:45:37 1994
Date: 07 Nov 1994 17:39:33 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Draft of typeset version of the FAQ

The UKTUG committee is working on a new version of the TeX FAQ, for
publication in the UKTUG magazine Baskerville.

I have just installed the current state of the work on ftp.tex.ac.uk
in tex-archive/usergrps/uktug/faq/ -- it should propagate to the other
CTAN sites soon.

We would welcome any comments that interested parties may have to
make.  In particular, additions to the list of `required questions'
(preferably with ready-supplied answers...) are solicited.

There are one or two queries (the footnotes typeset in typewriter),
which remain to be answered.

Interesting files are:

*.tex,*.sty should enable you to typeset the document, if that's what
turns you on...  Typesetting requires a current production LaTeX2e

newfaq.dvi    typeset to require current psnfss2e-style times and
              helvetica fonts
newfaq-cm.dvi typeset in computer modern
newfaq.ps     set for a 300dpi printer (the only remaining one I have
              access to...)
required-questions questions that _I_ know remain to be answered
ChangeLog     Well, you might find it interesting (I don't
              particularly)

A WWW version of the thing is available at URL
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

We intend to make a plain text version to be fed back to Bobby
Bodenheimer; the effort proceeds with his blessing...

Robin Fairbairns

Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov  8 07:34:01 1994
Date: 08 Nov 1994 11:54:20 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: zaccone@sol.cs.bucknell.edu
Subject: Excalibur dictionaries on CTAN

In addition to the dictionaries that were already present in
systems/mac/support/excalibur, I've added

  British-Dictionary-sea.hqx
  Dico-Francais-sea.hqx
  Dutch-Dictionary-sea.hqx
  Italian-Dictionary-sea.hqx

This was at the suggestion of Rick Zaccone, who was affronted that the
new typeset version of the FAQ didn't mention Excalibur.

I'm willing to attempt to address any grievances of the sort that Rick
expressed, but I can't do so unless people express them...

Robin

Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Nov  8 17:37:50 1994
Date: 08 Nov 1994 16:32:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: RE: minitoc again.

On Tue, 8 Nov 94 14:36:56 +0100, drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr (drucbert)
posted:
> I have uploaded in the incoming directory the new versions 17c (LaTeX209)
> and 23 (LaTeX2e) of the minitoc package.  These versions fix a bug (a
> missing line in \sectlof@).  And more: thes versions work with document
> classes resetting chapter (or section) number at each part (as does the
> package french.sty, I do not know why) (Thanks to Denis Roegel who reported
> the problem and helped me in the tests).  The numbering scheme of the
> auxiliary files (.mtc<N> and co.) has been simplified, so the commands
> \firstchapteris and siblings are now obsolete (they just give warnings) and
> all the appendix related stuff has been eliminated.

Thanks.  The 2e files have been installed in
macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc/ and the 2.09 files are in
macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc/ for access.

--George
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Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA
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From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Nov 10 10:12:08 1994
Date: 10 Nov 1994 16:01:57 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: GOMULINSKI MICHAL ANDRZEJ <S146028@ia.pw.edu.pl>
Subject: ChiWriter to LaTeX converter

The following package by Michal Gomulinski has been installed in
support/chi2ltx:


Chi2ltx 0.9 Description

This program is designed to help you with converting your documents
written using Chi Writer 4.x editor into LaTeX format. 

It does his job quite well --- translates nearly all standard fonts
plus all Polish fonts as Chi Writer was popular in Polish academic
society. It also translates all mathematic formulas and tables except
for the long tables that run through multiple pages. It also doesn't
convert header, footer and footnote information.

The package includes DOS executable, all the sources, example files
and documentation --- both only in Polish.

Michal Gomulinski
(e-mail: mgomulin@proton.elka.pw.edu.pl)

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Nov 10 11:27:20 1994
Date: 10 Nov 1994 16:16:52 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Wolfgang.Christen@ipp-garching.mpg.de, GOOSSENS@cernvm.cern.ch, MITTELBACH@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de
Subject: rotating package upgrade

I am updating the rotating package in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/rotating to
 a) not copy the latex float macros, but just sit on top of them
 b) obey [twoside] in the rotated figures and tables
 c) added clockwise and counterclockwise options; clockwise is the
default as per the Companion

b) will not work unless the table or figure has a caption....

expect this to propagte to CTAN hosts later tonight

Wolfgang owes me a beer

Sebastian

From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Mon Nov 14 15:14:15 1994
Date: 14 Nov 1994 19:46:26 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: lscape.sty and  preload.tex on ctan


lscape.sty (for making landscape pages) has been available in the
LaTeX graphics package
macros/latex/packages/graphics/lscape.dtx
for some weeks The obsolete version in

macros/latex209/contrib/misc/lscape.sty

has now been deleted.

Similarly the file

macros/latex209/contrib/misc/preload.tex

for making customised LaTeX formats has been deleted, replaced
(more or less) by 
macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/mylatex.ltx

David

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 15 10:51:20 1994
Date: 15 Nov 1994 15:05:48 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: Typeset version of the FAQ upgraded

I've just installed the latest version (1.5) of the UK TUG typeset FAQ
on CTAN /tex-archive/usergrps/uktug/faq

There's lots more questions in the FAQ now (many of which need
proofreading ;-), and even a 00readme file.

Comments on the document to me, please.

Robin

Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 16 05:30:24 1994
Date: 16 Nov 1994 10:27:12 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: Tobias Oetiker <oetiker@dmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Tobias Oetiker: lshort2e.tex Uploaded

I have installed Tobias' stuff as announced below

------- Forwarded Message

Subject: lshort2e.tex Uploaded

Announcement:

========================================================================
    Now available for CTAN:/pub/tex/info/lshort2e

    A not very Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e (58 Pages)
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    by Tobias Oetiker 16/11/1994 <oetiker@dmu.ac.uk>

    If you want to learn how to write your documents with LaTeX,
    this introduction is for you. It is not about setting up a
    LaTeX system. While it is not as comprehensive as Lamport's book,
    it should be sufficient in most cases.
 
    The document is provided in PS DVI and source form ...

    Enjoy!

    All the best 
    Tobi
=========================================================================

___  ______   __   __             .___       __ __ _  ___________
__  /_  __/  / /  /_/__,_ .___   / __ \.__ _/ / _/ /_.__  _,_  __
___  / / _ \/ _ \/ / _  /(  _/  | /_/ / -_)  _/ /   / -_)/ ._) __
__  /_/\___/____/_/\__._|/___)  \____/\___\./__/_/\_\ __\ / _____   
_____________________________ finger oetiker@helios.dmu.ac.uk____

------- End of Forwarded Message

English-speaking LaTeX users of the world have good reason to be
grateful to Tobias for the work he's done (as should users whose
German speech is as dubious as mine ;-)

Thanks, Tobi

Robin Fairbairns

Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 16 05:51:24 1994
Date: 16 Nov 1994 10:47:04 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: Tobias Oetiker <oetiker@dmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Tobias Oetiker: lshort2e.tex Uploaded

I failed to update Tobi's original message:

------- Forwarded Message

>    Now available for CTAN:/pub/tex/info/lshort2e

It should have been CTAN:/pub/tex/info/lshort

(I put it in lshort, by analogy with the location of the German
version, which is in directory lkurz)

------- End of Forwarded Message

Robin

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Nov 21 05:17:27 1994
Date: 21 Nov 1994 10:13:03 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Vassili Malychev <malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch>, 71172.524@CompuServe.COM
Subject: Re: New version of the CM Type1 and TT fontts

Vassili Malyshev has updated his BaKoMa  collection of Type1 versions
of Computer Modern fonts. I append his notes. Many thanks to him for
this excellent resource

sebastian

>  Differences of this version with previous are:
>    1. Space character is added.
>    2. Encoding is changed to be compatible with some products
>       (This is resonable for TrueType version)
>    3. Character shape outlines have more optimal encoding
>       and TrueType outlines have simplified encoding with respect 
>       to PostScript version.
> 
> 
> I hope that this font package will be usefull for many peoples.
> 
> Bye.
> 
> Basil K. Malyshev, 11/17/94 22:53:02, Geneve, Switzerland.
> E-Mail: malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch or malyshev@mx.ihep.su

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Nov 21 07:26:55 1994
Date: 21 Nov 1994 12:19:09 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: cgl@rc.service.rug.nl
Subject: update to Blu format

Kees van der Laan has updated his `Blu' format (macros/blu). we have
also started a subdirectory macros/blu/documents for Kee's articles
about his Blue work. The first one there is an article on one-pass
indexing. the others will be added in due course

sebastian

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Nov 21 07:49:24 1994
Date: 21 Nov 1994 12:42:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: vanroose@esat.kuleuven.ac.be, Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Rnototex installed on CTAN

I've just installed a rnototex distribution on ftp.tex.ac.uk in
tex-archive/support/rnototex; it should propagate to the other CTAN
sites in the next day or so.

Rnototex is a translator from [Digital Standard] Runoff files to LaTeX
2.09 report style files.  It doesn't (in my experience) produce
exactly what one wants, but it's a useful basis for starting
translation.

This distribution has been variously available for a very long time,
but has for some reason never made it to archives.  The author (Peter
Vanroose) is no longer supporting it, but I have his permission to
install it on the archive.

Robin
--
Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 22 07:17:49 1994
Date: 22 Nov 1994 12:03:29 +0000 (GMT)
From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: Where to find some stuff mentioned in "LaTeX Companion"?

In article <3ask7u$s0e@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Robin Fairbairns <rf@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <3ar6f0$ip3@bigblue.oit.unc.edu>,
>Sergei Naumov <serge@envy.astro.unc.edu> wrote:
>>I was browsing around on CTAN sites but I didn't find several things
>>that are mentioned in "LaTeX Companion". [...]

What I omitted to say was that there's a file which originated with
Sebastian Rahtz on CTAN:/tex-archive/info/companion.ctan, which
indicates where you should look.

I've updated Sebastian's original, and have now posted the update to
ftp.tex.ac.uk (it'll propagate to the other CTAN sites some time
soon).

This is not my final say on the matter; I'll try and keep it up to
date, and to sort out (and even document) the notation in it, but it's
a start...

Robin

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 22 07:27:08 1994
Date: 22 Nov 1994 12:18:48 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Tobias Oetiker <tobias@dmu.ac.uk>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Version 1.1 of lshort uploaded

Tobi writes:

> I have just uploaded Version 1.1 of lshort 2e. Could You
> please replace Version 1.0.

I have done that; as before, it's gone to
   ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/info/lshort
and will propagate to the other CTAN sites some time soon.

For those that missed the original announcement, lshort2e is a (not-
so-short) summary of the facilities of LaTeX2e (an English relation of
LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung)

The directory includes lshort2e.300.ps, .600.ps and .dvi files for
those who don't have LaTeX2e to format it.

Robin

Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 25 05:19:08 1994
Date: 25 Nov 1994 09:50:22 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch, 71172.524@CompuServe.COM, rokicki@neon.stanford.edu
Subject: partial PS font downloader

Basil Malyshev has produced a tool for partial downloading of
PostScript fonts; i append his note. Its installed in
fonts/utilities/fontload. 

Many thanks to Basil for his ongoing work!

> 
> I have upload into CTAN host ftp.tex.ac.uk file FontLoad.tar.Z
> which contains small tool to download only required characters 
> from ATM compatible Type 1 fonts.
> This is analog of the Partial font downloading facility of the DVIPSONE
> program but works with PS file (not DVI).
> Of cource, this works slowly then DVIPSONE, but this way have no 
> problems with fonts used in inserted EPS pictures.
> So, I think, this can be usefull in some cases.
> 
sebastian

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Wed Nov 30 16:45:03 1994
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 22:16:21 MEZ
From: A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu, soft-authors@ifcss.org
Subject: Announcing CJK 2.3 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e)



Here is the readme and a part of the history file of the latest version of
the CJK package supporting Chinese/Japanese/Korean under LaTeX2e.

        Happy TeXing


            Werner




Version 2.3:    new:
15-Nov-1994         JIS coding scheme/environment added.

                    pmC-KS and pmC-JIS environments added.

                    CNS coding scheme added.

                    hbf2gf added.
                      This program merges bmf2gf, hbf2cjk, and hbf2hbf; it
                      will be about 10 times faster than hbf2cjk.
                      Consequently, hbf2cjk and hbf2hbf were removed.
                changed:
                    only \uppercase disabled (see error).

                    \CJK@char etc. simplified.
                errors:
                    verbatim environments didn't work in Big5 encoding
                      (Lee Chun-Yu <d791013@ce.ntu.edu.tw>).




This is the LaTeX2e style package CJK Version 2.3 (15-Nov-1994)
===============================================================

It contains the following files:

    history.txt  Package history
    CJK.txt      This file
    CJK.sty      A LaTeX2e style file to enable CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean)
                 logographs (i.e. Hanzi/Kanji/Hangul) with LaTeX2e
    CJK.enc      Master Encoding File (at the moment only for Chinese and
                 Korean)
    standard.enc
    Bg5.enc
    KS.enc
    pmCsmall.enc
    pmCbig.enc   Encoding scheme files
    Bg5.chr
    standard.chr
    hangul.chr
    pmC.chr      Character encoding files
    CNS.sty
    CNS.enc
    CNS.chr      CNS encoding to be used together with a different CJK
                 encoding following Christian Wittern's CEF (Chinese Encoding
                 Framework)
    UBg5.fd
    UGBs.fd
    UGBt.fd      Font definition files for Chinese (examples only!)
    UJIS.fd      Font definition file for Japanese (example only!)
    Uhangul.fd   Font definition file for standard Hangul fonts
    Uhanja.fd    Font definition file for Hanja font (example only!)
    UpmC-Bg5.fd
    UpmC-GBs.fd
    UpmC-GBt.fd
    UpmC-JIS.fd
    UpmC-KS.fd   Font definition files for (old) pmC-fonts
    UCNS-1.fd
    UCNS-2.fd
    UCNS-3.fd
    UCNS-4.fd
    UCNS-5.fd
    UCNS-6.fd
    UCNS-7.fd    Font definition files for CNS fonts (examples only!)
    vf/*.vf
    tfm/*.tfm    virtual fonts and metric files for hangul standard fonts to
                 use in combination with the font libraries lj_han and lj_han1
                 (available at the CTAN hosts)

    utils/hbf2gf.w          CWEB source file for hbf2gf
    utils/hbf2gf.c          C code file extracted from the CWEB source files
    utils/hbf2gf.dvi        Documentation extracted from the CWEB source files
    utils/hbf2gf.cfg        Configuration file example
    utils/hbf2gf.exe        Bounded executable for DOS and OS/2
    utils/hbf.h
    utils/hbf.c             Ross Paterson's HBF API (with small extensions)
    utils/Makefile          Makefile for hbf2gf
    utils/emx.exe
    utils/emx.dll
    utils/rsx.exe           Runtime binaries for DOS and OS/2 (must be in
                            the path)


This is freely distributable under the GNU Public License.



Use
---

Use CJK.sty as a package, e.g.

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{CJK}            .

Two new environments \begin{CJK}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK} and
\begin{CJK*}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK*} are defined:

    encoding        the following encodings are currently implemented in
                    CJK.enc (for CNS encoding see below):

                        Bg5 (Big5)
                        GBs (GuoBiao with simplified characters,
                             G1 = GB 2312-80)
                        GBt (GuoBiao with traditional characters,
                             G1 = GB 12345-90)
                        JIS (Japanese Industry Standard,
                             G1 = JIS X0208-1990)
                        KS  (hangul and hanja,
                             G1 = KSC 5601-1987).

                    The encodings (except Big5) are simplified EUC (Extended
                    UNIX Code) character sets without single shifts. The
                    character set slot G1 stands for two byte encodings with
                    byte values taken from the GR (Graphic Right) character
                    range 0xA1-0xFE (as defined in ISO 2022).

                    For compatibility with the pmC package these additional
                    encodings are defined: pmC-Bg5, pmC-GBs, pmC-GBt, pmC-JIS,
                    and pmC-KS. It's not encouraged to use these encodings
                    because of wasting fonts. If possible, convert your
                    original CJK-bitmaps with hbf2gf (see below) to
                    CJK-encodings.

    shape           It is impossible to know what fonts are available at your
                    site; look at the example .fd-files how to create
                    appropriate .fd-files suiting your needs. If you use the
                    KS environment, this parameter is unused (see below).


    The CJK* environment will swallow unprotected spaces and newlines after a
    CJK character, whereas CJK will not.


This is a very realistic example:

    \begin{CJK*}{GBs}{kai}
    ...
    Text in GuoBiao encoding
    ...
    \end{CJK*}


How it works
------------

Asiatic logographs can't be represented with one byte per character. (At
least) two bytes are needed, and the most common encoding schemes (GB, Big5,
JIS, KS etc.) have a certain range for the first byte (usually 0xA1-OxFE or a
part of it) which signales that this and the next byte represents an Asiatic
logograph. This means that plain ASCII-text (i.e. characters between 0x00 and
0x7F) will be left undisturbed, and most characters of the extended ASCII
character set (0x80-0xFF) will be assigned to a CJK encoding.

Due to the internal architecture of TeX it is impossible to support ISO 2022
escape sequences as used with MULE (Multi Language Emacs). MULE is a common
extension of GNU-Emacs to support CJK scripts.

CJK.sty will make the characters 0xA1-OxFE active inside of an environment and
assigns the macros \CJK@char and \CJK@charx to the active characters which
select the proper font. The real mechanism is a bit more complicated to assure
robustness (it was borrowed and modified from german.sty) and correct handling
of punctuation characters.


The encodings
-------------

CJK.sty defines internally \CJK@standardEncoding, \CJK@Bg5Encoding,
\CJK@KSEncoding, and for compatibility with pmC, \CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and
\CJK@pmCbigEncoding.

\CJK@standardEncoding will be used for encodings with the second byte in the
range 0xA0-0xFE (GB, JIS).

\CJK@Bg5Encoding will be used for Big5 encoding (e.g. NTU fonts) with the
second byte in the range 0x40-0xFE.

\CJK@KSEncoding will be used for KS encoding. Two sets of subfonts are
defined, one for Hangul syllables and elements, and a second for Hanja. For
more details see below.

\CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding can be activated with \pmCsmall
(this is the default) and \pmCbig inside the CJK environment. Note that the
original pmC fonts have two character sizes per font (the bigger ones with an
offset of -128); pmC-Big5 encoded fonts cannot contain big characters. The
names of the fonts in the UpmC-xxx.fd files reflect the modifications added by
Marc Leisher <mleisher@nmsu.edu> to the original poor man's Chinese (pmC)
package written by Thomas Ridgeway <ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu>.


The fonts
---------

CJK.sty uses NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme) which has some advantages over
the font selection offered with pmC (for plain TeX and LaTeX 2.09):

    o   TeX fonts are loaded only on demand. This is especially useful with
        Asiatic logographs. If you have e.g. three Chinese characters in your
        text, pmC must load the whole Chinese font (about 85 TeX fonts),
        whereas LaTeX2e loads only three fonts normally.

    o   As long as the limit of 256 TeX fonts will not be exceeded, you can
        use as many CJK fonts as you like (e.g. simplified and traditional
        Chinese characters together with Japanese fonts in different sizes)
        --- pmC is limited to two sizes and can only have two CJK fonts at the
        same time.

        In the web2c-TeX package (for UNIX) you will find a patch which allows
        the use of more than 256 TeX fonts.

    o   You need not to care about the right size of CJK fonts in footnotes
        etc. They will obey the NFSS (although changing the other attributes
        except font series and size will be done with \CJKenc and \CJKshape).

        For font selection in a hangul environment see below.

        Of course you must have access to bitmap CJK fonts --- use hbf2gf to
        convert them to .pk-fonts. See the last section for availability of
        precompiled fonts.

If you chose one font per active character as with the pmC macros, you would
waste character space (256 characters per font are possible with TeX 3).
Therefore CJK.sty expects the whole Asiatic font splitted in TeX subfonts with
256 characters each.

An example:

    GuoBiao-encoded simplified characters in song style 12pt:
    ^               ^                        ^^         ^^

              first byte  second byte       TeX font  offset
              ----------------------------------------------
                 0xA1      0xA1-OxFE        gsso1201     0
                 0xA2      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1201    94
                 0xA3      0xA1-0xE4        gsso1201   188
                 0xA3      0xE5-0xFE        gsso1202     0
                 0xA4      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1202    26
                 0xA5      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1202   120
                                     .
                                     .
                                     .
                 0xFE      0xA1-OxFE        gsso1235    38


For converting to .pk-files with hbf2gf, you must get the appropriate HBF
(Hanzi Bitmap Font) header files from ifcss.org (or create if you can't find
the right one); almost all Chinese bitmap fonts in the public domain together
with their HBF headers are collected there. These HBF files document CJK fonts
completely.


Using hbf2gf
-------------

hbf2gf converts CJK bitmaps with an HBF header file into .gf-files (and
consequently into .pk fonts).


Syntax:

    hbf2gf configuration_file

Keywords in the configuration file must start a line, the appropriate values
being on the same line separated with one or more blanks or tabs.


Here is an example configuration (please refer to hbf2gf.dvi for a description
of the keywords):

    hbf_header          jfs56.hbf
    mag_x               1.482
    x_offset            3
    y_offset            -8
    comment             jianti fansongti 56x56 pixel font magnified and adapted
for 10pt

    nmb_files           -1

    output_name         gsfs10

    checksum            123456789

    dpi_x               600
    dpi_y               600

    coding              codingscheme GB 2312-80 encoded TeX text

    pk_directory        d:\china\pixel.ljh\600dpi\
    tfm_directory       d:\china\tfm\

    rm_command          del
    cp_command          copy
    long_extension      off
    job_extension       .cmd


And here the results:

    input files: jfs56.a - jfs56.e, jfs56.hbf

    program call: hbf2gf jfs56.cfg

    intermediate files: jfs56.cmd, gsfs1001.gf - gsfs1032.gf, gsfs1001.pl

    batch file call: jfs56.cmd

    output files: d:\china\pixel.ljh\600dpi\gsfs1001.pk - gsfs1032.pk,
                  d:\china\tfm\gsfs1001.tfm - gsfs1032.tfm


[gsfs: GuoBiao simple encoded FanSong style
       ^       ^              ^  ^
It's hard to overcome the DOS restriction of 8 characters in a file name if
you need two characters as a running number...]


This would be a correct entry in UGBs.fd:

      \DeclareFontShape{U}{GBs}{m}{fansong}{
                    <-10>                      CJKfixed *        gsfs10
                    <10>                      sCJKfixed *        gsfs10
                    <10.95>                   sCJKfixed *        gsfs12
                    <12>                      sCJKfixed *        gsfs12
                    <14.4>                    sCJKfixed *        gsfs14
                    <17.28>  CJK              sCJKfixed *        gsfs17
                    <20.74->                   CJKfixed *        gsfs17}{}

assuming that you have created fonts for 10, 12, 14.4, and 17.28pt.


Korean input
------------

(The status of this feature is experimental. I can't speak Korean and would
 be glad to hear comments from people who have any idea what is happening
 here :-)

There are already different packages handling Hangul: hlatex, htex etc.; there
is one package which also can handle hanja: jhtex.

The great difference of the packages just mentioned compared to CJK is the use
of a preprocessor which converts text files containing KS encoded text into a
TeX file. To do so has some advantages, but the output is completely
unreadable. Additionally the output lines become rather lengthy (a two byte
character code will be converted into a string up to 11 characters long),
which may confuse some editors; and if you have a text which contains Chinese
or Japanese also, you can't use KS to TeX converters because the code ranges
overlap and the converters are not able to recognize which is Korean and which
is not.

In contrast, CJK does not need a preprocessor and the problems mentioned above
are nonexistent, but you get nothing for free: CJK uses the virtual font
mechanism to map the hangul syllables onto Hangul Elements (11 virtual fonts
map to 2 real fonts), whereas preprocessors directly use the real fonts.

CJK's hangul support is thought for users who write texts in a non CJK
language and who want to input some hangul characters, possibly mixed with
Chinese or Japanese.

If you want a complete Korean environment, I recommend jhtex. There you will
also find a hangul.sty which modifies (among others) the sectioning commands
to enable Korean chapter counting and Korean headers.

To use the KS environment, say

    \begin{CJK}{KS}{}
    ...
    \end{CJK}       .

These font switches are available inside the environment:

    fonts from hLaTeX:

    *   \mj  MyoungJo   (default)
        \gt  Gothic
        \gs  BootGulssi
        \gr  Graphic
        \dr  Dinaru

    fonts from jhTeX:

    *   \hgt Hangul Gothic
    *   \hmj Hangul MyoungJo (MunHwaBu fonts)
    *   \hpg Hangul Pilgi
        \hol Hangul Outline (MyoungJo)

If a font is marked with a star, bold series are available.

You will find the hangul fonts in the lj_han and lj_han1 packages. These are
emTeX libraries for 300 dpi resolution which can be easily converted back to
.pk fonts using the fontlib package of emTeX. If you need different
resolutions, you must obtain the original metafont sources of the
hlatex_mf.tar.gz and the jhtex packages. Note that the shapes of Hangul
elements are not satisfactory.

You find the needed virtual fonts and virtual metric files in the vf and tfm
directories. Move the .tfm files into a directory TeX will scan. You need a
dvi driver which understands virtual fonts -- move the .vf files into a
directory your dvi driver will scan.

For non-hangul characters inside the KS environment (i.e. the first byte in
the ranges 0xA1-0xAF except 0xA4 and 0xC9-0xFD), fonts are taken from
Uhanja.fd . This enables the use of many hangul fonts and perhaps only one or
two different hanja fonts. If you don't want the overlay of hangul fonts from
Uhangul.fd, say \CJKhanja. The opposite command is \CJKhangul.

Archaic hangul elements (KS 0xA4D5-0xA4FE) and the character KS 0xA4D4 are
only accessible if \CJKhanja is active.

You should convert your KS hanja fonts using hbf2gf as described above.


CNS.sty
-------

(The status of this feature is experimental.)

Christian Wittern <g53150@sakura.kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp> develops CEF, the
Chinese Encoding Framework. This will enable the use of Big5 as the primary
encoding with CNS 11643-1992 as a secondary character set for characters not
included in Big5. Inputting CNS characters into a text will be done with a
data base. To facilitate this, the first bytes of the three byte CNS encoding
are mapped onto the characters 0x81-0x87.

Say

    \usepackage[options]{CNS}

to use CNS (CJK.sty will be loaded automatically). If you need to
specify options for CJK, say

    \usepackage[options]{CJK}
    \usepackage[options]{CNS}

The possible options for CNS.sty are `compressed' and `uncompressed' to
indicate the use of compressed (256 characters per font a la CJK.sty) or
uncompressed fonts (94 characters per plane as in pmC). Default is compressed.

CNS encoding is available only in CJK environments; the commands \CNSchar
(of course with three parameters for byte 1 to 3) and \CNSshape are similar
to their CJK counterparts. Default value of \CNSshape is `song'.

Uncompressed fonts should be named equal to pmC fonts (font names ending with
hex numbers).


The .fd-files
-------------

CJK fonts can be installed as easy as normal TeX fonts!

CJK.sty defines four new size commands:

    CJK         corresponds to `' (empty)
    sCJK        corresponds to `s'
    CJKfixed    corresponds to `fixed'
    sCJKfixed   corresponds to `sfixed'             .

The difference between these size functions and the original commands defined
by LaTeX2e is that a CJK size function defines a class of fonts.

If you say as an example

    \DeclareFontShape{U}{Bg5}{m}{song}{<6> <7> <8> sCJKfixed * b5so07}{}   ,

LaTeX2e searches for fonts named b5so0701 - b5so0758 if the font size is 6, 7
or 8 pt; with other words, the CJK size functions append two digits to select
the proper subfonts. These digits are defined in the \CJK@...Encoding macros;
the macro \CJK@plane holds the current value (in pmC compatibility mode,
\CJK@plane holds hexadecimal numbers).

See the example .fd files how to define font substitutions additionally.


Caveats
-------

    o   You can of course use CJK-environments inside of a CJK-environment,
        but it is possible that you must increase the so called save size
        (with emTeX you can adjust this with -ms=...).

        The CJK package has optional arguments which controls the scope of CJK
        environments:

            lowercase       If you want to use \lowercase with non-Big5
                            encodings inside CJK environments. You need less
                            save size using the `encapsulated' option if
                            `lowercase' is not set.

            global          \lccode (if `lowercase' set), \uccode, \catcode
                            and the activation of the characters 0xA1-0xFE
                            will be globally modified (\lccode and \uccode
                            reset to 0). This is the most economical mode
                            concerning save size, but you can't have CJK
                            environments inside of CJK environments or other
                            environments which manipulate the character range
                            0xA1-0xFE.

                            Packages which change some of the above values
                            only once (e.g. in the preamble) will also not
                            work after the first use of a CJK environment.

            local           Only \lccode (if `lowercase' set) and \uccode will
                            be modified globally. This is the default. You can
                            stack environments.

            encapsulated    If you want to use DC fonts outside of the CJK
                            environment with \uppercase and \lowercase working
                            correctly, you must use this option. All values
                            mentioned above will be local, so you can stack
                            environments. This option probably causes an
                            overflow of the save size.


        Say

            \usepackage[option]{CJK}

        to activate `option'.

    o   There is an other way to overcome the problem of stacked environments.
        CJK implements two low level CJK attribute switches: \CJKenc and
        \CJKshape, which take the same arguments as the corresponding values
        of the CJK environment. If you need two different encodings/shapes at
        the same output line, you must use these macros. An example:

            \begin{CJK}{GBs}{song}
            ... Text in GBs song ... \CJKenc{GBt}
            ... Text in GBt song ... \CJKshape{kai}
            ... Text in GBt kai ...
            \end{CJK}

        As with \begin{CJK}{...}{...}, you should start a new line after
        \CJKenc to assure that possibly new activated characters get their
        active meaning.

    o   The characters \, {, and } are used as second bytes in the Big5
        encoding. If you write Big5 text, you should use the Bg5text
        environment which changes the category codes of these characters. The
        command prefix is now the forward slash /, and the grouping characters
        are ( and ) respectively.

        An example:

            \begin{CJK}{Bg5}{song}
            \begin{Bg5text}
            ....
            /begin(center)
            ....
            /end(center)
            ....
            /end(Bg5text)
            \end{CJK}

        To get the /, (, and ) characters, write //, /(, and /) inside
        the Bg5text environment.

        This environment is ugly, and some commands like \newcommand will not
        work in it, but I know no other solution to retain all CJK characters
        readable with a Big5 editor.

    o   Instead of using the Bg5text environment you can protect the
        offending second bytes with a backslash, i.e. \{, \}, \\ (using a non-
        Chinese editor). This will not increase the readability of the Chinese
        text, but for short texts it's perhaps more comfortable. Alas, it
        doesn't work in page header commands because the macros \{ etc. will
        not be expanded.

    o   Be careful not to use any commands inside the Bg5text environment
        which write something into an external file (commands like \chapter
        etc.).

    o   If it's not possible to avoid Big5 character codes with \, {, or }
        outside of the Bg5text environment (e.g. having Big5-text in a
        \chapter or \section command), you can replace them with the \CJKchar
        macro manually:

            \section{This is a problematic Big5 character: \CJKchar{169}{92}}

        The parameters are the first and second byte of the Big5 character
        code. You can also use hexadecimal or octal notation.

    o   CJK will disable \uppercase (preserving the command within
        \CJKuppercase) if you select a Big5 encoding. This affects the headers
        of the standard classes and \Roman only in standard LaTeX2e. Be aware
        that some packages and style files may use \uppercase for dirty tricks
        (e.g. to define macros for active characters).

        The clean way would be either to use a document class which does not
        convert headers to uppercase or to write a small package modifying the
        sectioning commands to remove the \uppercase commands.

    o   \uppercase and \lowercase will work with NONE of the CJK encoding
        schemes if you use DC fonts because these 8-bit fonts have most
        \lccode's and \uccode's set in the range 0x80-0xFF.

    o   You should define for each TeX font size a CJK font (as an example,
        use sCJKfixed for good sizes and CJKfixed for bad sizes, and LaTeX2e
        will complain loudly about wrong sizes on the screen).

        LaTeX2e will also do the job if some size definitions are missing
        (using defined sizes), but expect a font warning for each (!) CJK
        character affected under certain circumstances.


Possible errors
---------------

    o   If you write Chinese (or Japanese) text, don't forget to suppress the
        linefeed character with a trailing `%' in the CJK environment,
        otherwise you get unwanted spaces in the output. On the other side,
        say `\ ' or something similar inside the CJK* environment to get a
        space after a CJK character.

    o   To prevent a line break before a CJK character (e.g. between an
        opening (non-CJK) parenthesis and a CJK character), say \CJKkern. This
        command prevents the insertion of \CJKglue before the CJK character.

        You may wonder about the curious name: a small kern (1 sp) between CJK
        characters signales that the first is a punctuation character.

    o   If you get the error message: "\CJK@min (or \CJK@max) undefined", you
        should insert \newpage before saying \end{CJK}. This can happen if
        LaTeX writes the headers (or footers) of a page containing Chinese
        characters after closing the CJK environment.

    o   If you get overfull hboxes caused by CJK characters, try to increase
        \CJKglue. It defines the glue between CJK characters; the default
        definition is

            \newcommand{\CJKglue}{\hskip 0pt plus 0.08\baselineskip}  .

        \CJKglue will be inserted by CJK before each Chinese character (except
        punctuation characters as defined in the punctuation tables; see
        CJK.enc), and none after. You should separate non-Chinese text from
        CJK characters with spaces to enable hyphenation.

    o   If you get overfull hboxes caused by Hangul syllables, try to increase
        \CJKtolerance. The default definition is

            \newcommand{\CJKtolerance}{400}  .

    o   If you encounter a TeX stack overflow caused by
        {\CJKenc{new_encoding} ....}, you should write

            \CJKenc{new_encoding} ... \CJKenc{old_encoding}

        instead. Or (better) increase the stack size as discussed above.


How to get CJK and related software
-----------------------------------

    o   You will find CJK and software related to TeX at the CTAN hosts
        (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network). These completely identical ftp
        servers (concerning TeX software) are

            ftp.shsu.edu    Sam Houston University
                            Texas (USA)
            ftp.dante.de    DANTE (Deutsche Anwendervereinigung fuer TeX)
                            Heidelberg (Germany)
            ftp.tex.ac.uk   Cambridge University
                            Cambridge (England)

        You should use the nearest one, or even better, a local mirror of
        a CTAN host.

        CJK will be found unpacked. To receive the complete package, go to the
        parent directory of CJK and say

            get CJK.zip
          or                (whichever is appropriate for your system)
            get CJK.tar.gz

        The CJK directory and all subdirectories will be sent to you in
        compressed form. Be aware that not all mirrors of CTAN sites support
        compression of directories.

    o   The main site for Chinese related software is ifcss.org (USA). Mirrors
        are ftp.edu.tw (Taiwan), cnd.org (USA) and kth.se (Sweden). Here you
        find free Chinese fonts, Text editors etc.

        Note that while updating this text (15-Nov-1994) ifcss.org has stopped
        ftp access temporarily due to network problems.

    o   The main site for Korean related software is cair-archive.kaist.ac.kr
        (Korea). I don't know any mirror sites of this host. At ifcss.org you
        will find a 24x24 hanja font with HBF header in
        /software/fonts/misc/hbf.

    o   Sam Chiu <ccc11@cus.cam.ac.uk> compiled the fonts jfs56 (GBs encoded)
        and ntu_kai48 (Big5 encoded) for various sizes with 600dpi resolution.
        You will find them (about 22 MByte uncompressed!) at the CTAN hosts
        in /tex-archive/fonts/chinese


Author
------

Werner Lemberg <a7621gac@awiuni11.bitnet>

Goldschlagstr. 52/14
A-1150 Vienna
Austria/Europe

Please report any errors or suggestions to this email-address.

From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Mon Dec  5 21:35:19 1994
Date: 05 Dec 1994 10:48:52 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Release of LaTeX: 17th/18th December



Release of LaTeX: December 1994
===============================

LaTeX is planned to be re-issued on a regular 6-monthly basis.
The first full LaTeX2e release was dated 1st June 1994, and the 
second full release will have a nominal date of 1994/12/01 (1st
December).

Since June we have made many improvements, fixing problems
reported, and also integrating support for (8-bit) input
encodings, such as the `latin1' encoding.

In order to allow a full testing phase we have decided to slightly
delay the public release.

We now expect to place the next release of LaTeX on ctan sites
during the weekend  17th/18th December.

Thank you for your patience,

David Carlisle
For the LaTeX3 Project.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Dec  8 08:17:02 1994
Date: 08 Dec 1994 12:20:37 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: LaTeX2e documentation, fragments, directories at CTAN

I have installed the following small contributions at ftp.tex.ac.uk;
they should propagate to the other CTANs soon.

LaTeX2e documentation directory:

		     tex-archive/macros/latex/doc

 This contains links to *guide.tex in tex-archive/macros/latex/base,
 and .dvi and (300dpi) .ps for them.  The reasoning behind providing
 this stuff is that it enables people who haven't yet installed
 LaTeX2e to read the documentation to find out what it might offer
 them (processing *guide.tex requires LaTeX2e).

 I've also installed links in the directory to tex-archive/macros/
 latex/packages/graphics/grfguide.*, at David Carlisle's suggestion.
 (There's little point in providing a .dvi of this file, since the
 package in effect requires a PostScript printer before it's any use;
 however, I could install the .dvi as well if people consider it
 useful.)

LaTeX2e class/package fragments directory:

	   tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/fragments

 This I discussed some very long time ago with Donald Arseneau, in the
 context of the one fragment I've put in the directory:

 tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/fragments/removefr.tex, which
 implements a function \@removefromreset, which performs the inverse
 of the LaTeX internal command \@addtoreset.  Useful for classes/
 packages that build on an existing class, but want a revamped counter
 reset structure (for example, in the faq.sty I wrote for the UKTUG
 FAQ, the questions are in effect subsections, but the number's not
 reset between the sections).

Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Dec 10 17:25:41 1994
Date: 09 Dec 1994 13:14:04 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: pslatex deleted

Given that pslatex pslatex on CTAN was a 2.09/NFSS1 package, and given
that neither of those packages are available from CTAN, I have deleted
pslatex from ftp.tex.ac.uk (and it'll go from other sites in the near
future, too).

This action was taken following (indirect) mail from Mario Wolczko,
the author of the package.

obin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Dec 13 12:11:28 1994
Date: 13 Dec 1994 15:50:00 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Baskerville in CTAN

I have placed issues of Baskerville, the UKTUG journal, on CTAN in
usergrps/uktug/baskervi. These are only those numbers older than 1
year. I have put the source files, and Acrobat PDF files.

Sebastian Rahtz

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Dec 14 11:05:01 1994
Date: 14 Dec 1994 10:47:19 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: moreverb.sty for 2e

I've installed a slightly revised version of moreverb.sty on CTAN in
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc

The difference from the previous (2.09) version is that it sets the
\fileversion and \filedate, instead of accepting the value that's left
it by LaTeX2e (the upcoming version of 2e doesn't leave any such
thing...)

Robin

Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Dec 19 11:05:09 1994
Date: 19 Dec 1994 15:57:46 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, a7621gac <@cunyvm.cuny.edu:a7621gac@awiuni11.bitnet>, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: CJK version 2.3 (finally) installed

Some long time ago, Werner Lemberg (a7621gac@awiuni11.bitnet)
announced availability of version 2.3 of his CJK package for
manipulating oriental languages under LaTeX2e.

Due to an hiatus in the workings of CTAN, the copy that he announced
didn't get installed; however, he made a further copy for me and I
have today installed it, at ftp.tex.ac.uk

It will take some time to propagate to the other CTAN sites, on
account of its great size, but it is at least available for anonymous
ftp now.

Thank you Werner for the package, and sorry about the delay.

Robin

Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Dec 19 11:44:58 1994
Date: 19 Dec 1994 16:38:38 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, texhax@tex.ac.uk, uktex@tex.ac.uk, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: CTAN management problems (uploads)

In the recent past, it has become apparent that the canonical address
for notifying uploads (ctan-mgr@shsu.edu) is not working.

For the time being, therefore, the CTAN management request that you
notify ctan@shsu.edu of any uploads.  If you have made an upload in
the recent past and it hasn't appeared on the archives, please re-send
notification of your upload to ctan@shsu.edu

I have changed the README.uploads file on ftp.tex.ac.uk to reflect
this change, and have agreed with Rainer Shoepf that he will do the
same for ftp.dante.de and ftp.shsu.edu.

We hope that the problem will not persist, and we will change the
READMEs back again and will announce again in these forums when
service is restored to its usual state.

R

Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 22 13:17:10 1994
Date: 22 Dec 1994 17:20:43 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: [ry46@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de: CTAN Submission]

The package macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief has been
installed on CTAN.


% @stylefile{Ltall
% abstract         = {This document serves as User's Guide
%                    and as documentation of the new \LaTeX-Style
%                    or a \LaTeXe-Class.  This class/style implements
%                    a new document layout for writing letters,
%                    according to the rules of DIN (Deutsches
%                    Institut f\"ur Normung, German standardization
%                    institute). The User's Guide is written in
%                    German, since we assume the class/style is of
%                    minor interest outside Germany.  Of course,
%                    most of the macros are explained in English.},
% shortpackagename = {dinbrief},
% longpackagename  = {dinbrief},
% baseformats      = {\LaTeX\ 2.09 and \LaTeXe},
% version          = {1.19},
% date             = {21.12.1994},
% author           = {K.D. Braune, R. Gussmann,
%                    rz32@dkauni2.bitnet
%                    braune@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
%                    ry46@dkauni2.bitnet
%                    ry46@ibm3090.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
%                    Universit\"at Karlsruhe
%                    Rechenzentrum
%                    Postfach 6980
%                    76128 Karlsruhe
%                    +49 721 608-40 31},
% support          = {yes},
% comments         = {},
% requirements     = {},
% incompatibilities = {}}
%

From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Thu Dec 22 13:47:36 1994
Date: 22 Dec 1994 18:44:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk, LATEX-2E@VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE
Subject: Winter LaTeX Release



The second full release of LaTeX2e was placed on the ctan archives on
December 17th. This release fixes problems reported since June and
incorporates the new `inputenc' package as a standard method of
supporting 8bit input.

The document ltnews02.tex contains more details of the new features.
See also the www page:

   http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/latex/

LaTeX is available from ctan hosts in the directory

  tex-archive/macros/latex/base

A ready `unpacked' version is available in

  tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked

Note that this includes all the files in `base' so you do not need
both directories.

Unfortunately a couple of small bugs are present in that release.
These are fixed in the file
  tex-archive/macros/latex/base/ltpatch.ltx
that was placed on ftp.dante.de on 22nd December (and will arrive on
other ctan hosts overnight).

If you have already installed LaTeX2e <1994/12/01>, simply obtain the
patch file and re-run initex on latex.ltx; this will update the
format to LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 1. If you have not
previously installed the December release, just follow the usual
installation procedure outlined in install.txt, and the patch will be
automatically applied.

Two other files in the LaTeX distribution have been updated since
the initial December release.

tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/tools/xspace.dtx
  (% missing from two comment lines...)

tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/amslatex/amstex.dtx
  (Fix to AmsLaTeX's \dots )


Merry Christmas

David Carlisle

    LaTeX3 Project

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 29 03:40:43 1994
Date: 29 Dec 1994 09:38:13 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: ctan@shsu.edu, mjd@MATH.AMS.ORG
Subject: New package dialogl

The following collection has been installed on CTAN, in

macros/latex/contrib/supported/dialogl


Announcement text:
----cut here--------------------cut here--------------------cut here-----
The `dialogl' collection                     Michael Downes, 20-Dec-1994
                                             mjd@math.ams.org (Internet)

The purpose of the `dialogl' collection is to gather together in one
place a lot of information and examples---probably more than you really
wanted---about how to write TeX macros to carry on dialog with the user.
The centerpiece is a LaTeX package dialog.sty, which makes it
easy to add bits of dialog to a LaTeX document; it can also be used with
non-LaTeX macro packages, if they are plain.tex compatible.

The total size of the dialogl collection is approximately 580K.
Files of interest:

---dialog.sty

This is a LaTeX package that defines some useful commands like

  \readChar{D}\reply

that reads an arbitrary line of input from the user, takes the first
character, uppercases it, and leaves it in the macro \reply for further
use. Furthermore, the first argument (in this example `D') will be used
as a default value if the user response was empty. Unlike \typein,
\readChar is nearly bulletproof under all circumstances, handling even
things like \, %, control-L, \newif, or unmatched { or } that might be
entered by the user. Or consider the two statements

  \readline{0pt}\reply
  \checkdimen\reply\testdimen

These check whether the user response was a valid TeX dimen and leave
the result in the dimen register \testdimen for further use.

---menus.sty

This is a superset of the `dialog' package that provides menu
construction tools to make the job of presenting menus on screen
relatively easy.

---listout.tex

This is a utility for printing out text files. Mainly it is a testbed
for the `menus' package, and thus has (I suspect) the most extensive and
most bulletproof menu system ever programmed in TeX. It was originally
written to work with plain TeX; my later attempts to retrofit LaTeX
compatibility may have some gaps, but it seems to work in the simple
tests that I have done.

---dia-driv.tex

This is the driver file for printing out the documentation of
dialog.sty, menus.sty, and grabhedr.sty. Run it through standard LaTeX.
It is expected to appear as an article in TUGboat Real Soon Now.

---codialog.tex

This is a substantially revised and augmented version of the paper
`Dialog with TeX' that appeared in the Proceedings of the 1991 TUG
Conference at Dedham, Massachusetts (TUGboat vol 12 no 3, December
1991, Part 2). Some nice added examples.

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jan  2 05:20:37 1995
Date: 02 Jan 1995 09:24:00 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: MATSD@decnet.sunet.se
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

matsd@physchem.kth.se writes:
 > 
 > Dear friends,
 > 
 > A few moments ago I submitted the following files to ftp.dante.de:
 > 
 > In /incoming/deleq:
 >    00readme.dlq
 >    deleq.dtx
 >    deleq.ins
 > which together make up an updated version of my package `deleq'.  It is 
 > my intension that these three should replace the four files
 >    .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/deleq/00readme.deleq
 >                                   .../deleq/deleq.sty
 >                                   .../deleq/deleq.txt
 >                                   .../deleq/delex.tex
 > The major difference is that the files submitted today are compatible 
 > with the doc/docstrip system.  Also, minor changes in the documentation 
 > (corrections) have been made, and the inclusion of two new commands.  
 > The file `deleq.ins' is the installation file.
 > 
 > In /incoming/floatflt:
 >    00readme.flt
 >    floatflt.dtx
 >    floatflt.ins
 >    floatfig.txt
 > which together make up an updated version of the package `floatflt' 
 > supplied by me last October.  My intension is that these four files 
 > should replace the five files
 >    .../macros/latex/contrib/other/floatflt/00readme.flt
 >                               .../floatflt/floatflt.sty
 >                               .../floatflt/floatflt.tex
 >                               .../floatflt/floatexm.tex
 >                               .../floatflt/floatfge.tex
 > Again, the major difference is compatibility with the doc/docstrip 
 > system.  The file `floatfig.txt' has been added to guide users of the 
 > LaTeX 2.09 package `floatfig.sty' to the `floatflt' package, since the 
 > latter is built on the former.  Also, corrections in the documentation 
 > have been made.  The istallation dirver is the file `floatflt.ins'.
 > 
 > In /incoming/version
 >    00readme.vrs
 >    version.dtx
 >    version.ins
 > which together make up a new package `version' which enables the user to 
 > get version numbers printed and automatically updated (if desired) in 
 > LaTeX documents. There is a slight problem at the moment in the use of 
 > this package, but this is warned for in the documentation, as well as 
 > there is a pointer to a way around this problem. I suggest that this 
 > package is placed in a directory:
 >    .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/version
 > Again, the installation driver is the .ins-file.
 > 
 > yours,
 >       mats d.
 > 
 > mats dahlgren                       * "..skillnaden var bara den, att hennes  *
 > Lab. for Chemical Surface Science   *  kunskaper var nyttiga och oordnade,    *
 > The Royal Institute of Technology   *  medan professorns var onyttiga och     *
 > S-100 44  Stockholm, Sweden         *  ordnade."  - Karin Boye i _Kris_       *
 > 
 >         <matsd@physchem.kth.se>  Ph: +46-8-790 9945  Fx: +46-8-790 8207
 > 

These files have just been installed in the placed indicated.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jan  3 03:10:49 1995
Date: 03 Jan 1995 09:06:29 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: AUBORD@uni2a.unige.ch
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

A.Aubord <AUBORD@uni2a.unige.ch> has submitted the following set of
files which has been installed in

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/codepage

 > Dear Sir,
 >        I have putted on the "ftp.dante.de" site under the directory
 > name "codepage" a set of file to manipulate multiple codes page
 > in the same TeX document.
 > 
 > The style's file works with every flavour of TeX (plain,Latex 2.09, Latex2e)
 > and with codes pages from PC (CP850,CP437), ISO-Latin-set One (Windows,Unix),
 > and Mac-Intosh,
 > and with the both main TeX encoding scheme (T1, OT1).
 > 
 > As it is stated in the "read.me" file the different files should
 > be unpacked and the documentation should be printed with LaTeX2e. 
 > I have then added a subdirectory named "installe" where all the
 > files are unpacked and the documentation is in DVI format (using
 > cmr font family).
 > 
 > The different files from the "codepage" directory are:
 > codepage.dtx     The code for documentation and package (in the LaTeX2e doc
 >                  format);
 > codepage.drv     The driver to print all the documentation (in english);
 > codepage.ins     The driver to unpack all the code files;
 > frintro.drv      The driver to print the text of the introduction (french
 >                  version);
 > demo.zip         An archive containing two files which can be used to 
 >                  test installation;
 > lisez.moi        A french readme (without 8-bits characters)
 > read.me          the first read.me
 > 
 > None of these files (except the two files in archive) contain 8-bits
 > characters.
 > 
 > Yours sincerly,
 > 
 > A.Aubord
 > 
 > My address:
 >   e-mail:aubord@uni2a.unige.ch
 >   Surface Mail:
 >     A.Aubord
 >     9 rue Charles Giron
 >     1203 Geneva
 >     Switzerland.
 > 
 > 
 >  

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jan  4 09:08:32 1995
Date: 04 Jan 1995 14:57:40 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Torsten Hilbrich <hilbrich@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Torsten Hilbrich writes:
 > I put the files in the subdirectory /incoming/bbm there.
 > They create font definition files and a .sty for accessing
 > the bbm fonts (maybe known as bbold) which are located at
 > CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/bbold
 > 
 > This is a updated version of bbm.sty (using docstrip/doc.sty)
 > which is located at /tex-archive/macro/latex/contrib/others/bbm_supp
 > These files are now obsolete and can be removed.
 > 
 > I propose the directory /tex-archive/macro/latex/contrib/supported/bbm
 > as the final location of the new files.

I've just installed the files as indicated.

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan  5 10:26:03 1995
Date: 05 Jan 1995 15:13:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, knuutila@cs.utu.fi, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN

I have installed Timo Knuutila's tpcmfont package in tex-archive/
macros/latex/contrib/other/tpcmfont here; it'll propagate to the other
CTAN sites soon.

The readme says:

TPCMFONT: Font Definition files for "True Point Computer Modern"
(and actually, for Computer Concrete in T1 encoding, too).
For example, cmr11 is declared as cmr11, not as cmr10 at 10.95pt.

This package is meant to replace (most of) the .fd -files distributed
with the standard LaTeX.

To install tpcmfont:

	1) move to an empty directory or create one
	2) copy tpcmfont.fdd and tpcmfont.ins therein
	3) run latex on tpcmfonts.ins
	4) (optional) copy the .fd -files distributed with
	   LaTeX to some backup directory
	5) replace the old .fd -files (in som LaTeX input directory)
	   with the ones just created.
	6) (optional) run latex on tpcmfonts.fdd and admire the missing
	   documentation.

Timo Knuutila
knuutila@utu.fi

From hobby@research.att.com Fri Jan  6 09:22:35 1995
Date: 06 Jan 1995 09:08 -0500 (EST)
From: hobby@research.att.com
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: MetaPost is publicly available

The MetaPost language is based on METAFONT, but it outputs PostScript
and it has facilities for including TeX output and manipulating the
resulting picture.  The user's manual and auxiliary documentation have
been available for some time
as        ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/att/cs/cstr/162.ps.Z
and       ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/att/cs/cstr/164.ps.Z

The MetaPost interpreter was previously available only on a limited
basis under non-disclosure agreement.  AT&T has now placed it in the
public domain.  The source distribution is available as
        ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/research/metapost.tar.Z
and it is mirrored in the CTAN archives as
       /tex-archive/graphics/metapost/metapost.tar.gz

It requires the Unix Web2c version of TeX and Rokicki's dvips.
Rokicki's dvips is needed because it has special support for using
downloaded TeX fonts in included figures.

There is also a DOS version of MetaPost, but its author wants to
update it before putting it in the archives.  It will not be available
until at least mid January.

I am interested in receiving bug reports but I probably will not be
able to answer questions about the installation process.

- John Hobby  hobby@research.att.com

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jan  6 10:48:12 1995
Date: 06 Jan 1995 16:14:28 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Holger Debelts <Debelts@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Holger Debelts writes about his SIAM package(s):

 > 	[...]
 > 	To accommodate authors who electronically typeset their manuscripts,
 > 	SIAM supports the use of \TeX. To ensure quality typesetting according
 > 	to SIAM style standards, SIAM provides a \TeX\ macro style file.
 > 	Using \TeX\ to format a manuscript should simplify the editorial process
 > 	and lessen the author's proofreading burden. It is still necessary to
 > 	proofread with care.
 > 	[...]

The LaTeX version has been installed in

  macros/latex/contrib/other/siam

the plain TeX version in

  macros/plain/contrib/siam

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jan  7 08:56:58 1995
Date: 07 Jan 1995 13:38:16 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: k.lockyear@soton.ac.uk, MITTELBACH@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de
Subject: rotating package new release

I have updated my LaTeX rotating package on CTAN
(macros/latex/contrib/supported/rotating). This fixes the problems I
am aware of, and adds two new options:
 figuresleft
 figuresright
which force the direction of rotation of sideways floats regardless of
whether or not the main class has twoside turned on.

If anyone finds remaining problems in the logic, please let me know!

I have tested this with the December 94 LaTeX2e, but it is slightly
dodgy because it does some redefines of internal float macros. So keep
an eye on it if you use it

Sebastian

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jan  7 17:27:26 1995
Date: 07 Jan 1995 22:22:11 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: kb@cs.umb.edu
Subject: new unixkit binaries

I have updated systems/unix/unixkit. This contains gzipped tar files
for 7 different Unix architectures, each with binaries for all of the
web2c TeX and MF stuff, xdvik and dvipsk. There is a share.tar.gz with
man pages, pool files, and configuration files. This is not a TeX kit
- it has no macros, fonts, nothing. Its for people who are having
problems getting the basic compiles done.

This lot is built with kpathsea 2.5 for everything; this means that
you get a single runtime  config file which controls all the paths
used by the programs. I for one am most grateful for Karl for giving
us this excellent new tool. 

Please thank CERN, whose 7 reference Unix architectures are covered
here, for ensuring that this got done

Sebastian Rahtz

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jan  9 07:40:39 1995
Date: 09 Jan 1995 13:33:25 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Martin Schroeder <ms@dream.hb.north.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission on 94/12/09: count1to and everyshi

Martin Schroeder writes:

 > >I have uploaded the following files into
 > >ftp.dante.de//incoming:
 > >
 > >count1to/count1to.dtx
 > >count1to/count1to.ins
 > >everyshi/everyshi.dtx
 > >everyshi/everyshi.ins
 > >
 > >These are packages for LaTeX2e; they are supported.
 > >
 > >from count1to.dtx:
 > >%%     docstring       = "LaTeX package which sets count1 to count9,
 > >%%                        which can be used to select certain pages
 > >%%                        with a driver.
 > >%%                        Uses the everyshi package."
 > >
 > >from everyshi.dtx:
 > >%%     docstring       = "LaTeX package which defines a new hook
 > >%%                        \EveryShipout".
 > >
 > >they should be put into macros/latex/contrib/supported.
 > >
 > >Greetings
 > >        Martin
 > 
 > It seems my mail got lost somewhere, since the files are _still_ in
 > ftp.dante.de//incoming (there are some more files, by the way).
 > 
 > Any chance of my uploads being moved to the right places? :-)
 > 
 > Greetings
 > 	Martin
 > 
 > -- 
 >              Martin Schr"oder, MS@Dream.HB.North.DE
 > \bye % This is the way the file ends, not with a bang but with a bye
 >                Donald E. Knuth, The TeXbook, p340

These packages have been installed on CTAN in 

macros/latex/contrib/supported/everyshi
macros/latex/contrib/supported/count1to

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 10 08:10:24 1995
Date: 10 Jan 1995 13:04:22 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Myself <zhuhan@neumann.une.edu.au>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission of formlett.sty (upgrade)

Zhuhan Jiang writes:

> I have uploaded an upgrade of formlett.sty ( currently the
> file in CTAN is named formlett.tex ) to /incoming of ftp.tex.ac.uk.
> 
> formlett.sty is a comprehensive package for form letters or mail merge.
> The upgrade now supports LaTeX2e, with a few minor new features.
> 
> Recommended place: macros/generic
> 
> Zhuhan Jiang
> University of New England
> Armidale NSW 2351, Australia

I have installed the file in its recommended place, and have deleted
formlett.tex

Robin (Dark fibre to every home) Fairbairns      rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jan 10 09:11:34 1995
Date: 10 Jan 1995 15:07:07 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: weibezahn@lrw.uni-bremen.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Roland Weibezahn submitted xtem to CTAN. It has been installed in

support/xtem_texmenu

The announcement follows:

 > 5 files:
 > 
 > --rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server  1271300 Jan  6 12:02 xtem_texmenu.3.12.1.tar.gz
 > --rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server    50564 Jan  6 12:02 xtem_texmenu.README
 > --rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server     1858 Jan  6 12:03 xtem_texmenu.README_3.12.1
 > --rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server   129080 Jan  6 12:03 xtem_texmenu_eng.ps.gz
 > --rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server   137351 Jan  6 12:03 xtem_texmenu_ger.ps.gz
 > 
 > 
 > xtem is an X11 TeX-menu which allows to prepare documents using TeX/LaTeX/...
 > very comfortable (the user can edit and format at the same time,
 > use a spell checker, previewer, select a printer comfortably,
 > get help information including (Hypertext) LaTeX-Syntax etc. etc.)
 > 
 > xtem is mutlilingual (english or german by the user's choice).
 > 
 > xtem is written in Tcl/Tk/TclX and runs with many Unix and similar systems
 > 
 > 
 > we (the authors: G. Lamprecht, W. Lotz, R. Weibezahn) support xtem
 > and recommend palcing xtem to
 > 
 >     tex-archive/support/xtem_texmenu
 > 
 > Sincerely yours,
 > 
 > Roland Weibezahn
 > 
 > -------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Dr. Roland Weibezahn           Phone  :  +49-421-218-3532
 > LRW Bremen                     Telefax:  +49-421-218-4112
 > c/o University Bremen
 > Bibliothekstr. 1               Postbox:  330440
 > 28359 Bremen                   28334 Bremen
 > Germany                        email:  weibezahn@lrw.uni-bremen.de

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jan 11 11:17:14 1995
Date: 11 Jan 1995 16:06:36 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: asnd@erich.triumf.ca
Subject: relsize.sty

I have installed Donald Arseneau's relsize.sty on CTAN as
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/relsize.sty

It's on ftp.tex.ac.uk now, and will propagate to the other sites soon.

This is a LaTeX2e package; its principal command is \relsize{step}
which takes you <step> sizes from your present size.  Thus if you
start at \normalsize, \relsize{-2} will take you to \footnotesize and
\relsize{2} will take you to \Large.

Thanks, Donald, once again, for a useful piece of work...

Robin

Robin (Dark fibre to every home) Fairbairns      rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jan 12 05:27:06 1995
Date: 12 Jan 1995 11:14:36 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Roland Winkler t2012 <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, CTAN@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Roland Winkler writes:

 > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a subdirectory
 > eqnarray with the two files eqnarray.drv and eqnarray.dtx. They
 > contain a LaTeX style file and its documentation for a LaTeX2e
 > equationarray environment (I hope everything is okay). This
 > environment combines the LaTeX array (FM) and equation environment
 > in that each line of the array has an equation number. Thus it is a
 > generalization of eqnarray. I recommend to put it in the directory
 > 
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported
 > 

I have installed these files as indicated. Thanks a lot

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 12 05:29:11 1995
Date: 12 Jan 1995 10:22:47 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Basil K. Malyshev <malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch>
Subject: Re: TrueType/Macintosh version of the CM fonts

many thanks to Basil for the following 

sebastian

> I have uploaded TrueType/Macintosh version of the CM fonts
....
> /tex-archive/fonts/cm/type1/bakoma.
> It will creates file README.mrf and subdirectory 'mrf' with fonts.
> 
> The reason of this upload is that 
> several mens have attempted to do such fonts via conversion 
> from TrueType/MS-Windows version by different freely available and/or
> shareware programs but without success because of encoding problems.
> 
> This fonts was made simply, by  recoding Type1 version with subsequent 
> convertion by FontMonger.
> However, not all users have FontMonger and time to do this.
> 
> Basil K. Malyshev, 01/12/95 00:33:27, Geneve, Switzerland.
> E-Mail: malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch or malyshev@mx.ihep.su

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jan 13 07:48:27 1995
Date: 13 Jan 1995 13:38:47 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ry46@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

ry46@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de writes:

 > a)
 > We have put the following files:
 > 	Server: ftp.dante.de
 > 	Directory: /incoming/dinbrief
 > 	Files:	dinbrief.dtx
 > 		dinbrief.ins
 > 		readme
 > 
 > b)
 > Whats this?
 > 
 > This class/style implements
 > a new document layout for writing letters,
 > according to the rules of DIN (Deutsches
 > Institut f\"ur Normung, German standardization
 > institute). 
 > 
 > Updated version to work correctly with PSNFSS.
 > 
 > c)
 > Location:
 > - Replace the old version 12.94 in
 > 	/pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief
 > 

Thanks for the submission. The files have been installed in the palces
indicated.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jan 13 07:50:36 1995
Date: 13 Jan 1995 13:44:03 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: sawade@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Guido Sawade writes:

 > I have uploaded 
 >         dps558b.zip, dps558s.zip, dvipslib.zip and readme.1st 
 > onto
 >         ftp.dante.de:/incoming/dvips558pc.new/
 > 
 > These are updated versions of dvips5.58 for emTeX for
 > 386/486 computers (32Bit!).
 > 
 > The files should replace the former in
 >    /pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips558.pc/        (and      
 >    /pub/tex/systems/os2/drivers/dvips558.pc/            respectively)
 > 
 > Main features:
 >    Whith respect for emx/gcc-0.9a dvips32.exe runs under
 >    DOS computers without coprocessor as well.
 > 
 >    Configuration file config.ps and completly rewritten
 >    readme.1st have been prepared for supporting other 
 >    implementations than emTeX (PCTeX for instance)
 > 
 >    The required 32bit extender (emx, rsx) are included as
 >    additional zip files, preventing unwanted overwriting
 >    of existing newer versions when unpacking the dps558b.zip
 > 
 > 
 > ---
 > Gruss / Regards
 >        Guido Sawade   <sawade@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de>
 >        TU Berlin,  Opt.Inst. PN 0-1,  10623 Berlin,  FRG

These files have been installed. Thanks for the submission.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 13 09:49:43 1995
Date: 13 Jan 1995 14:43:24 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Peter.Vanroose@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
Subject: Re: Calligraphic font on ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming

Quoth Peter Vanroose:

Below is a slightly extended README-file, including the three file names.
I have also put these three files, together with the readme file,
in the script.zip archive on ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming
The other four files script.* and README.script can just be removed.

Suggested place for installation:  <CTAN>/fonts/script/
or some other name that you would suggest (instead of script).

	Peter.

- ----------------------- script/README -------------------------
Organization:   ESAT, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Date sent:      Fri, 13 Jan 95 09:32:21 +0100
From:           Peter.Vanroose@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
To:             metafont@ens.fr
Subject:        Re: Calligra
Send reply to:  METAFONT Distribution List <metafont@ens.fr>

One of my first (and I must admit, the only successful) tries with metafont,
several years ago, (1987 ?) resulted in a calligraphic font.  It worked for our
matrix printer at that time (180 dpi?)  However, I never succeeded in really
having it produce 300 dpi or whatever.  Maybe someone wants to give it a try?

MJP>> Seems OK at 300dpi

It was said at that time that the output resembles my own hand writing.
Of course, I shaped the letters after my writing, but apart from giving it
reference points, I let Metafont do the big work of doing the roundings.
All letters `match' each other in that they end where the next one begins.
(There are some minor exceptions to this, but that also applies to my own
handwriting.)

The relevant files are:
script.mf	--	contains all the essential METAFONT code (460 lines)
script10.mf	--	for producing the 10pt font (4 lines)
scriptb10.mf	--	for producing the bold 10pt font (4 lines)

----------------------- script/README ends --------------------

I've installed the things as suggested; if someone else has programmed
_their_ handwriting, we would probably make subdirectories of
fonts/script

Thanks for those, Peter

For the CTAN team

Robin (Dark fibre to every home) Fairbairns      rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jan 16 09:28:51 1995
Date: 16 Jan 1995 13:59:35 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Stan Devitt <jsdevitt@maplesoft.on.ca>
Subject: Re: Submission to Tex-Archives

Stan Devitt has uploaded latex2e macros for working with Maple's
Export to Latex facility. The files have been installed in

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/maple

The description is appended.

For the CTAN team

Rainer Schoepf

 > Subject:	
 > ========
 > 
 > 	latex2e macros for working with Maple's Export to Latex
 > 	facility.
 > 
 > Overview
 > =========
 > With Maple V Release 3, entire Maple worksheets can be exported in
 > a format which can be processed by LaTeX.
 > 
 > These styles are the LaTeX2e versions of corresponding styles found on
 > the distribution tape and are designed for use with Maple V Release 3's
 > "Export to LaTeX" facility.  
 > 
 > Files and Directories
 > =====================
 > 
 > mapleenv.sty - A latex2e package defining the basic maple environments 
 > 		and commands:
 > 
 > 		\begin{mapleinput}..\end{mapleinput}
 > 		\begin{maplelatex}..\end{maplelatex}
 > 		\begin{maplettyout}..\end{maplettyout}
 > 		\mapleplot{...}
 > 
 > maplems.sty - A sample package that uses the above with specific page
 > 	sizes and headings suitable for a Maple Worksheet.
 > 
 > mtn.cls - A sample document class suitable for submissions to the Maple
 > 	Technical Newsletter  
 > 
 > They are all based on Maple's Export to LaTeX Facilities.
 > 
 > maplems.tex
 > maplems.ps
 > 
 > 	The document maplems.tex provides limited documentation on
 > 	how to use the styles.  
 > 
 > Features
 > ========
 > Special Maple environments have been parameterized to allow
 > suppression of the environment at the time it is processed by latex.
 > 
 > e.g.  You can use  
 > 
 > 	\begin{mapleinput}
 > 	...
 > 	\end{mapleinput}
 > 
 > or
 > 	\begin{mapleinput}[q]
 > 	...
 > 	\end{mapleinput}
 > 
 > The latter will not appear in your tex document.  This
 > feature is used to hide commands, and in effect, turns a Maple
 > worksheet into a meta formatter (i.e., format this series in latex).
 > 
 > maplems.sty
 > -----------
 > 
 > To use the sample style  maplems.sty to define an overall page layout
 > and to define the special maple environments used by "Export to LaTeX"
 > do
 > 
 > 	\documentclass[11pt]{article}
 > 	\usepackage{maplems}
 > 	\begin{document}
 > 	...
 > 	\end{document}
 > 
 > This style makes use of the environments defined in mapleenv.sty To
 > suppress the processing of special characters in the regular text, use
 > the option "ignorespecials" as in
 > 
 > 	\usepackage[ignorespecials]{maplems}
 > 
 > This option is most useful for quickly previewing the results of
 > "export to latex" from Maple V Release 3.  However, beware that the
 > suppression of these special characters such as ^ and _ disables much of
 > the real power of latex in the body of the textual paragraphs.
 > 
 > mapleenv.sty
 > ------------
 > 
 > To use the environments found in mapleenv.sty directly as part of your 
 > own style do:
 > 
 > 	\documentclass[11pt]{article}
 > 	\usepackage{mapleenv}
 > 	\begin{document}
 > 	...
 > 	\end{document}
 > 
 > The macros in mapleenv.sty do NOT affect the overall page dimensions
 > or the general page layout of the document.
 > 
 > mtn.cls
 > --------------
 > 
 > To use this document class, construct your document as:
 > 
 > 	\documentclass[11pt]{mtn}
 > 	\usepackage{palatino}
 > 	\begin{document}
 > 	...
 > 	\end{document}
 > 
 > For a sample, see the newsletter article, MTNarticle.tex
 > 	
 > For additional information, contact doc@maplesoft.on.ca .
 > 
 > January, 1995
 > 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 19 13:13:16 1995
Date: 19 Jan 1995 18:06:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: N.F.Drakos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk
Subject: New version of LaTeX2HTML installed

Nikos Drakos has submitted, and I have installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk, a
new version of LaTeX2HTML, replacing that found on CTAN under
tex-archive/support/latex2html

Thanks, Nikos

(for the CTAN team)

Robin Fairbairns

Robin (Dark fibre to every home) Fairbairns      rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 19 20:19:33 1995
Date: 20 Jan 1995 01:16:36 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

I have installed CJK v2.4 from Werner Lemberg on ftp.tex.ac.uk, and
have removed the previous version (2.3).

This is a large installation, and it may take some time to propagate
to the other CTAN sites.

The package is available via

  tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK/2_4
                       japanese/CJK/2_4
                       korean/CJK/2_4

This version also includes Unicode support, and Werner wants a pointer
to the package reflecting that fact; however, we don't as yet have an
obvious location for such a pointer.  The CTAN team will decide on
what to do about such things, and will announce the decision when it
has been arrived at...

Thanks, Werner, yet again.

(for the CTAN team)

Robin Fairbairns

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Thu Jan 19 18:57:06 1995
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 95 00:32:40 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: unicode@unicode.org, soft-authors@ifcss.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, linux-asia@orac.iinet.com.au, sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Announcing CJK 2.5 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e)



This is the LaTeX2e style package CJK Version 2.4 (3-Jan-1995)
===============================================================

It contains the following files:

    history.txt  Package history
    CJK.txt      This file
    CJK.sty      A LaTeX2e style file to enable CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean)
                 logographs (i.e. Hanzi/Kanji/Hangul) with LaTeX2e
    CJK.enc      Master Encoding File
    standard.enc
    Bg5.enc
    Bg5pp.enc
    KS.enc
    utf8.enc
    pmCsmall.enc
    pmCsmpp.enc
    pmCbig.enc   Encoding scheme files
    Bg5.chr
    standard.chr
    hangul.chr
    utf8.chr
    pmC.chr      Character encoding files
    Bg5conv.tex  preprocessor for Big 5 encoded text files
    bg5latex.bat a batch file (for DOS) to demonstrate use of Bg5conv.tex
    CNS.sty
    CNS.enc
    CNS.chr      CNS encoding to be used together with a different CJK
                 encoding following Christian Wittern's CEF (Chinese Encoding
                 Framework)
    UBg5.fd
    UGBs.fd
    UGBt.fd      Font definition files for Chinese (examples only!)
    UJIS.fd      Font definition file for Japanese (example only!)
    Uhangul.fd   Font definition file for standard Hangul fonts
    Uhanja.fd    Font definition file for Hanja font (example only!)
    Uutf8.fd     Font definition file for Unicode font (example only!)
    UpmC-Bg5.fd
    UpmC-GBs.fd
    UpmC-GBt.fd
    UpmC-JIS.fd
    UpmC-KS.fd   Font definition files for (old) pmC-fonts
    UCNS-1.fd
    UCNS-2.fd
    UCNS-3.fd
    UCNS-4.fd
    UCNS-5.fd
    UCNS-6.fd
    UCNS-7.fd    Font definition files for CNS fonts (examples only!)
    vf/*.vf
    tfm/*.tfm    virtual fonts and metric files for hangul standard fonts to
                 use in combination with the font libraries lj_han and lj_han1
                 (available at the CTAN hosts)

    utils/hbf2gf.w          CWEB source file for hbf2gf
    utils/hbf2gf.c          C code file extracted from the CWEB source files
    utils/hbf2gf.dvi        Documentation extracted from the CWEB source files
    utils/hbf2gf.cfg        Configuration file example
    utils/hbf2gf.exe        Bound executable for DOS and OS/2
    utils/hbf.h
    utils/hbf.c             Ross Paterson's HBF API (with small extensions)
    utils/Makefile          Makefile for hbf2gf
    utils/emx.exe
    utils/emx.dll
    utils/rsx.exe           Runtime binaries for DOS and OS/2 (must be in
                            the path)


This is freely distributable under the GNU Public License.



Use
---

Use CJK.sty as a package, e.g.

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{CJK}            .

Two new environments \begin{CJK}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK} and
\begin{CJK*}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK*} are defined:

    encoding        the following encodings are currently implemented in
                    CJK.enc (for CNS encoding see below):

                        Bg5  (Big 5)
                        GBs  (GuoBiao with simplified characters,
                          G1 = GB 2312-80)
                        GBt  (GuoBiao with traditional characters,
                          G1 = GB 12345-90)
                        JIS  (Japanese Industry Standard,
                          G1 = JIS X0208-1990)
                        KS   (hangul and hanja,
                          G1 = KSC 5601-1987)
                        utf8 (UTF 8 (Unicode Transformation format 8), also
                              called UTF 2 or FSS-UTF)

                    The encodings (except Big 5 and UTF 8) are simplified EUC
                    (Extended UNIX Code) character sets without single shifts.
                    The character set slot G1 stands for two byte encodings
                    with byte values taken from the GR (Graphic Right)
                    character range 0xA1-0xFE (as defined in ISO 2022).

                    For compatibility with the pmC package these additional
                    encodings are defined: pmC-Bg5, pmC-GBs, pmC-GBt, pmC-JIS,
                    and pmC-KS. It's not encouraged to use these encodings
                    because of wasting fonts. If possible, convert your
                    original CJK-bitmaps with hbf2gf (see below) to
                    CJK-encodings.

    shape           It is impossible to know what fonts are available at your
                    site; look at the example .fd-files how to create
                    appropriate .fd-files suiting your needs. If you use the
                    KS environment, this parameter is unused (see below).


    The CJK* environment will swallow unprotected spaces and newlines after a
    CJK character, whereas CJK will not.


This is a very realistic example:

    \begin{CJK*}{GBs}{kai}
    ...
    Text in GuoBiao encoding
    ...
    \end{CJK*}


How it works
------------

Asiatic logographs can't be represented with one byte per character. (At
least) two bytes are needed, and the most common encoding schemes (GB, Big 5,
JIS, KS etc.) have a certain range for the first byte (usually 0xA1-OxFE or a
part of it) which signales that this and the next byte represents an Asiatic
logograph. This means that plain ASCII-text (i.e. characters between 0x00 and
0x7F) will be left undisturbed, and most characters of the extended ASCII
character set (0x80-0xFF) will be assigned to a CJK encoding.

Due to the internal architecture of TeX it is impossible to support ISO 2022
escape sequences as used with MULE (Multi Language Emacs). MULE is a common
extension of GNU-Emacs to support many non-English scripts, including Chinese,
Japanese, Korean, Hebrew etc.

CJK.sty will make the characters 0xA1-OxFE active inside of an environment and
assigns the macros \CJK@char and \CJK@charx to the active characters which
select the proper font. The real mechanism is a bit more complicated to assure
robustness (it was borrowed and modified from german.sty) and correct handling
of punctuation characters.


The encodings
-------------

CJK.sty defines internally \CJK@standardEncoding, \CJK@Bg5Encoding,
\CJK@KSEncoding, \CJK@utf8Encoding, and for compatibility with pmC,
\CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding.

\CJK@standardEncoding will be used for encodings with the second byte in the
range 0xA0-0xFE (GB, JIS).

\CJK@Bg5Encoding will be used for Big 5 encoding (e.g. NTU fonts) with the
second byte in the range 0x40-0xFE.

\CJK@KSEncoding will be used for KS encoding. Two sets of subfonts are
defined, one for Hangul syllables and elements, and a second for Hanja. For
more details see below.

\CJK@utf8Encoding will be used for Unicode in UTF 8. The first byte is in the
range 0xC0-0xDF for two byte values and in the range 0xE0-0xEF for three byte
values. The other bytes are in the range 0x80-0xBF. Note that CJK expects two
hexadecimal digits as a running number in the font name instead of two decimal
digits. Use the option `unicode on' if you use hbf2gf to transform bitmap
fonts in HBF format to .pk fonts as used by CJK.sty .

\CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding can be activated with \pmCsmall
(this is the default) and \pmCbig inside the CJK environment. Note that the
original pmC fonts have two character sizes per font (the bigger ones with an
offset of -128); pmC-Big 5 encoded fonts cannot contain big characters. The
names of the fonts in the UpmC-xxx.fd files reflect the modifications added by
Marc Leisher <mleisher@nmsu.edu> to the original poor man's Chinese (pmC)
package written by Thomas Ridgeway <ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu>.


The fonts
---------

CJK.sty uses NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme, now part of LaTeX2e) which has
some advantages over the font selection offered with pmC (for plain TeX and
LaTeX 2.09):

    o   TeX fonts are loaded only on demand. This is especially useful with
        Asiatic logographs. If you have e.g. three Chinese characters in your
        text, pmC must load the whole Chinese font (about 85 TeX fonts),
        whereas LaTeX2e loads only three fonts normally.

    o   As long as the limit of 256 TeX fonts will not be exceeded, you can
        use as many CJK fonts as you like (e.g. simplified and traditional
        Chinese characters together with Japanese fonts in different sizes)
        --- pmC is limited to two sizes and can only have two CJK fonts at the
        same time.

        In the web2c-TeX package (for UNIX) you will find a patch which allows
        the use of more than 256 TeX fonts.

    o   You need not to care about the right size of CJK fonts in footnotes
        etc. They will obey the NFSS (although changing other attributes
        except font series and size will be done with \CJKenc and \CJKshape).

        For Hangul font selection see below.

        Of course you must have access to bitmap CJK fonts --- use hbf2gf to
        convert them to .pk-fonts. See the last section for availability of
        precompiled fonts.

If you chose one font per active character as with the pmC macros, you would
waste character space (256 characters per font are possible with TeX 3).
Therefore CJK.sty expects the whole Asiatic font splitted in TeX subfonts with
256 characters each.

An example:

    GuoBiao-encoded simplified characters in song style at 12pt:
    ^               ^                        ^^         ^^

              first byte  second byte       TeX font  offset
              ----------------------------------------------
                 0xA1      0xA1-OxFE        gsso1201     0
                 0xA2      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1201    94
                 0xA3      0xA1-0xE4        gsso1201   188
                 0xA3      0xE5-0xFE        gsso1202     0
                 0xA4      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1202    26
                 0xA5      0xA1-0xFE        gsso1202   120
                                     .
                                     .
                                     .
                 0xFE      0xA1-OxFE        gsso1235    38


For converting to .pk-files with hbf2gf, you must get the appropriate HBF
(Hanzi Bitmap Font) header files from ifcss.org (or create if you can't find
the right one); almost all Chinese bitmap fonts in the public domain together
with their HBF headers are collected there. These HBF files document CJK fonts
completely.


Using hbf2gf
-------------

hbf2gf converts CJK bitmaps with an HBF header file into .gf-files (and
consequently into .pk fonts).


Syntax:

    hbf2gf configuration_file

Keywords in the configuration file must start a line, the appropriate values
being on the same line separated with one or more blanks or tabs.


Here is an example configuration file jfs56.cfg (please refer to hbf2gf.dvi
for a description of the keywords):

hbf_header     jfs56.hbf
mag_x          1.482
x_offset       3
y_offset       -8
comment        jianti fansongti 56x56 pixel font magnified and adapted for 10pt

nmb_files      -1

output_name    gsfs10

checksum       123456789

dpi_x          600
dpi_y          600

coding         codingscheme GB 2312-80 encoded TeX text

pk_directory   d:\china\pixel.ljh\600dpi\
tfm_directory  d:\china\tfm\

rm_command     del
cp_command     copy
long_extension off
job_extension  .cmd


And here the results:

    input files: jfs56.a - jfs56.e, jfs56.hbf

    program call: hbf2gf jfs56.cfg

    intermediate files: gsfs10.cmd, gsfs1001.gf - gsfs1032.gf, gsfs10.pl

    batch file call: gsfs10.cmd

    output files: d:\china\pixel.ljh\600dpi\gsfs1001.pk - gsfs1032.pk,
                  d:\china\tfm\gsfs1001.tfm - gsfs1032.tfm


[gsfs: GuoBiao simple encoded FanSong style
       ^       ^              ^  ^
It's hard to overcome the DOS restriction of 8 characters in a file name if
you need two characters as a running number...]


This would be a correct entry in UGBs.fd:

      \DeclareFontShape{U}{GBs}{m}{fansong}{
                    <-10>                      CJKfixed *        gsfs10
                    <10>                      sCJKfixed *        gsfs10
                    <10.95>                   sCJKfixed *        gsfs12
                    <12>                      sCJKfixed *        gsfs12
                    <14.4>                    sCJKfixed *        gsfs14
                    <17.28>                   sCJKfixed *        gsfs17
                    <20.74->                   CJKfixed *        gsfs17}{}

assuming that you have created fonts for 10, 12, 14.4, and 17.28pt.


Korean input
------------

(The status of this feature is experimental. I can't speak Korean and would
 be glad to hear comments from people who have any idea what is happening
 here :-)

There are already different packages handling Hangul: hlatex, htex etc.; there
is one package which also can handle hanja: jhtex.

The great difference of the packages just mentioned compared to CJK is the use
of a preprocessor which converts text files containing KS encoded text into a
TeX file. To do so has some advantages, but the output is completely
unreadable. Additionally the output lines become rather lengthy (a two byte
character code will be converted into a string up to 11 characters long),
which may confuse some editors; and if you have a text which contains Chinese
or Japanese also, you can't use KS to TeX converters because the code ranges
overlap and converters are not able to recognize which is Korean and which is
not.

In contrast, CJK does not need a preprocessor and the problems mentioned above
are nonexistent, but you get nothing for free: CJK uses the virtual font
mechanism to map the hangul syllables onto Hangul Elements (11 virtual fonts
map to 2 real fonts), whereas preprocessors directly use the real fonts.

If you want a complete Korean environment, I recommend jhtex. There you will
also find a hangul.sty which modifies (among others) the sectioning commands
to enable Korean chapter counting and Korean headers.

To use KS encoding, say

    \begin{CJK}{KS}{}
    ...
    \end{CJK}       .

These font switches are available inside the environment:

    fonts from hLaTeX:

    *   \mj  MyoungJo   (default)
        \gt  Gothic
        \gs  BootGulssi
        \gr  Graphic
        \dr  Dinaru

    fonts from jhTeX:

    *   \hgt Hangul Gothic
    *   \hmj Hangul MyoungJo (MunHwaBu fonts)
    *   \hpg Hangul Pilgi
        \hol Hangul Outline (MyoungJo)

If a font is marked with a star, bold series are available.

You will find the hangul fonts in the lj_han and lj_han1 packages. These are
emTeX libraries for 300 dpi resolution which can be easily converted back to
.pk fonts using the fontlib package of emTeX. If you need different
resolutions, you must obtain the original metafont sources of the
hlatex_mf.tar.gz and the jhtex packages. Note that the shapes of Hangul
elements are not satisfactory.

You find the needed virtual fonts and virtual metric files in the vf and tfm
directories. Move the .tfm files into a directory TeX will scan. You need a
dvi driver which understands virtual fonts -- move the .vf files into a
directory your dvi driver will scan.

For non-hangul characters inside the KS environment (i.e. the first byte in
the ranges 0xA1-0xAF except 0xA4 and 0xC9-0xFD), fonts are taken from
Uhanja.fd . This enables the use of many hangul fonts and perhaps only one or
two different hanja fonts. If you don't want the overlay of hangul fonts from
Uhangul.fd, say \CJKhanja. The opposite command is \CJKhangul.

Archaic hangul elements (KS 0xA4D5-0xA4FE) and the character KS 0xA4D4 are
only accessible if \CJKhanja is active.

You should convert your KS hanja fonts using hbf2gf as described above.


Bg5conv.tex
-----------

Using the Bg5text environment is a mess. Having an external preprocessor needs
access to a compiler, which is not always the case. Thus I wrote Bg5conv.tex,
a preprocessor for Big 5 characters to overcome the restrictions of the
Bg5text environment.

Each Big 5 character `XY' will be converted into the form `XZZZ.'; ZZZ is a
decimal number followed by a dot. The use of Bg5conv.tex is completely
transparent, no changes to your document are necessary.

The use is simple: before calling Bg5text you must define \CJKin (and
optionally \CJKout); after conversion the output file will be processed like a
normal input file. Bg5conv.tex inserts additionally the (empty) macro
\CJKpreproc as the first line of the output.

Here is an example batch file (bg5latex.bat) for DOS which demonstrates the
use of Bg5conv.tex . Note that you must not use an extension for the input
file here (I am too lazy to write a sophisticated shell program - any
volunteers are welcome) (default names for \CJKin and \CJKout are
`Bg5input.tex' and `Bg5input.cjk' respectively):


    call latex \def\CJKin{%1} \def\CJKout{%1.cjk} \input Bg5conv.tex
    call latex %1.cjk


You say

    bg5latex mytext

to get mytext.tex processed.

It's not possible to mix Big 5 encoding with different encodings (except CNS)
if Bg5conv.tex is used (and I doubt whether this should be ever necessary).


CNS.sty
-------

(The status of this feature is experimental.)

Christian Wittern <g53150@sakura.kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp> develops CEF, the
Chinese Encoding Framework. This will enable the use of Big 5 as the primary
encoding with CNS 11643-1992 as a secondary character set for characters not
included in Big 5. Inputting CNS characters into a text will be done with a
data base. To facilitate this, the first bytes of the three byte CNS encoding
are mapped onto the characters 0x81-0x87.

Say

    \usepackage[options]{CNS}

to use CNS (CJK.sty will be loaded automatically). If you need to
specify options for CJK, say

    \usepackage[options]{CJK}
    \usepackage[options]{CNS}

The possible options for CNS.sty are `compressed' and `uncompressed' to
indicate the use of compressed (256 characters per font a la CJK.sty) or
uncompressed fonts (94 characters per plane as in pmC). Default is compressed.

CNS encoding is available only in CJK environments; the commands \CNSchar
(of course with three parameters for byte 1 to 3) and \CNSshape are similar
to their CJK counterparts. Default value of \CNSshape is `song'.

Uncompressed fonts should be named equal to pmC fonts (font names ending with
hex numbers).


The .fd-files
-------------

CJK fonts can be installed as easy as normal TeX fonts!

CJK.sty defines four new size commands:

    CJK         corresponds to `' (empty)
    sCJK        corresponds to `s'
    CJKfixed    corresponds to `fixed'
    sCJKfixed   corresponds to `sfixed'             .

The difference between these size functions and the original commands defined
by LaTeX2e is that a CJK size function defines a class of fonts.

If you say as an example

    \DeclareFontShape{U}{Bg5}{m}{song}{<6> <7> <8> sCJKfixed * b5so07}{}   ,

LaTeX2e searches for fonts named b5so0701 - b5so0758 if the font size is 6, 7
or 8 pt; with other words, the CJK size functions append two digits to select
the proper subfonts. These digits are defined in the \CJK@...Encoding macros;
the macro \CJK@plane holds the current value (in pmC compatibility mode,
\CJK@plane holds hexadecimal numbers).

See the example .fd files how to define font substitutions additionally.


Caveats
-------

    o   You can of course use CJK-environments inside of a CJK-environment,
        but it is possible that you must increase the so called save size
        (with emTeX you can adjust this with -ms=...).

        The CJK package has optional arguments which controls the scope of CJK
        environments:

            lowercase       If you want to use \lowercase with encodings
                            inside CJK environments. You need less save size
                            using the `encapsulated' option if `lowercase' is
                            not set. You must use Bg5conv.tex to use Big 5
                            characters with this option.

            global          \lccode (if `lowercase' set), \uccode, \catcode
                            and the activation of the characters 0xA1-0xFE
                            will be globally modified (\lccode and \uccode
                            reset to 0). This is the most economical mode
                            concerning save size, but you can't have CJK
                            environments inside of CJK environments or other
                            environments which manipulate the character range
                            0xA1-0xFE.

                            Packages which change some of the above values
                            only once (e.g. in the preamble) will also not
                            work after the first use of a CJK environment.

            local           Only \lccode (if `lowercase' set) and \uccode will
                            be modified globally. This is the default. You can
                            stack environments.

            encapsulated    If you want to use DC fonts outside of the CJK
                            environment with \uppercase and \lowercase working
                            correctly, you must use this option. All values
                            mentioned above will be local, so you can stack
                            environments. This option probably causes an
                            overflow of the save size.


        Say

            \usepackage[option]{CJK}

        to activate `option'.

    o   There is an other way to overcome the problem of stacked environments.
        CJK implements two low level CJK attribute switches: \CJKenc and
        \CJKshape, which take the same arguments as the corresponding values
        of the CJK environment. If you need two different encodings/shapes at
        the same output line, you must use these macros. An example:

            \begin{CJK}{GBs}{song}
            ... Text in GBs song ... \CJKenc{GBt}
            ... Text in GBt song ... \CJKshape{kai}
            ... Text in GBt kai ...
            \end{CJK}

        Contrary to \begin{CJK}{...}{...} it's not necessary to start a new
        line after \CJKenc.

    o   The characters \, {, and } are used as second bytes in the Big 5
        encoding. If you write Big 5 text mixed with other encodings, you
        should use the Bg5text environment which changes the category codes of
        these characters. The command prefix is now the forward slash `/', and
        the grouping characters are `(' and `)' respectively.

        An example:

            \begin{CJK}{Bg5}{song}
            \begin{Bg5text}
            ....
            /begin(center)
            ....
            /end(center)
            ....
            /end(Bg5text)
            \end{CJK}

        To get the `/', `(', and `)' characters, write `//', `/(', and `/)'
        inside the Bg5text environment.

        This environment is ugly, and some commands like \newcommand will not
        work in it.

    o   Instead of using the Bg5text environment you can protect the
        offending second bytes with a backslash, i.e. \{, \}, \\ (using a non-
        Chinese editor). This will not increase the readability of the Chinese
        text, but for short texts it's perhaps more comfortable. Alas, it
        doesn't work in page header commands because the macros \{ etc. will
        not be expanded.

    o   Be careful not to use any commands inside the Bg5text environment
        which write something into an external file (commands like \chapter
        etc.).

    o   If it's not possible to avoid Big 5 character codes with \, {, or }
        outside of the Bg5text environment (e.g. having Big 5-text in a
        \chapter or \section command), you can replace them with the \CJKchar
        macro manually:

            \section{This is a problematic Big 5 character: \CJKchar{169}{92}}

        The parameters are the first and second byte of the Big 5 character
        code. You can also use hexadecimal or octal notation.

    o   A similar command is \Unicode{byte1}{byte2} to access Unicode
        characters (not in UTF 8) directly; the parameters are the first and
        second byte of the Unicode.

    o   CJK will disable \uppercase (preserving the command as \CJKuppercase)
        if you select Big 5 encoding without using Bg5conv.tex . This affects
        the headers of the standard classes and \Roman only in standard
        LaTeX2e. Be aware that some packages and style files may use
        \uppercase for dirty tricks (e.g. to define macros for active
        characters).

    o   \uppercase and \lowercase will work with NONE of the CJK encoding
        schemes if you use DC fonts because these 8-bit fonts have most
        \lccode's and \uccode's set in the range 0x80-0xFF.

    o   You should define for each TeX font size a CJK font (as an example,
        use sCJKfixed for good sizes and CJKfixed for bad sizes, and LaTeX2e
        will complain loudly about wrong sizes on the screen).

        LaTeX2e will also do the job if some size definitions are missing
        (using defined sizes), but expect a font warning for each (!) CJK
        character affected under certain circumstances.


Possible errors
---------------

    o   If you write Chinese (or Japanese) text, don't forget to suppress the
        linefeed character with a trailing `%' in the CJK environment,
        otherwise you get unwanted spaces in the output. On the other side,
        say `\ ' or something similar inside the CJK* environment to get a
        space after a CJK character.

    o   To prevent a line break before a CJK character (e.g. between an
        opening (non-CJK) parenthesis and a CJK character), say \CJKkern. This
        command prevents the insertion of \CJKglue before the CJK character.

        You may wonder about the curious name: a small kern (1 sp) between two
        CJK characters signales that the first one is a punctuation character.

    o   If you get the error message: "\CJK@min (or \CJK@max) undefined", you
        should insert \newpage before saying \end{CJK}. This can happen if
        LaTeX writes the headers (or footers) of a page containing CJK
        characters after closing the CJK environment.

    o   If you get overfull hboxes caused by CJK characters, try to increase
        \CJKglue. It defines the glue between CJK characters; the default
        definition is

            \newcommand{\CJKglue}{\hskip 0pt plus 0.08\baselineskip}  .

        \CJKglue will be inserted by CJK before each Chinese character (except
        punctuation characters as defined in the punctuation tables; see
        CJK.enc), and none after. You should separate non-Chinese text from
        CJK characters with spaces to enable hyphenation.

    o   If you get overfull hboxes caused by Hangul syllables, try to increase
        \CJKtolerance. The default definition is

            \newcommand{\CJKtolerance}{400}  .

    o   If you encounter a TeX stack overflow caused by
        {\CJKenc{new_encoding} ....}, you should write

            \CJKenc{new_encoding} ... \CJKenc{old_encoding}

        instead. Or (better) increase the stack size as discussed above.


How to get CJK and related software
-----------------------------------

    o   You will find CJK and software related to TeX at the CTAN hosts
        (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network). These completely identical ftp
        servers (concerning TeX software) are

            ftp.shsu.edu    Sam Houston University
                            Texas (USA)
            ftp.dante.de    DANTE (Deutsche Anwendervereinigung fuer TeX)
                            Heidelberg (Germany)
            ftp.tex.ac.uk   Cambridge University
                            Cambridge (England)

        You should use the nearest one, or even better, a local mirror of
        a CTAN host.

        CJK will be found unpacked. To receive the complete package, go to the
        parent directory of CJK and say

            get CJK.zip
          or                (whichever is appropriate for your system)
            get CJK.tar.gz

        The CJK directory and all subdirectories will be sent to you in
        compressed form. Be aware that not all mirrors of CTAN sites support
        compression of directories.

    o   The main site for Chinese related software is ifcss.org (USA). Mirrors
        are ftp.edu.tw (Taiwan), cnd.org (USA) and kth.se (Sweden). Here you
        find free Chinese fonts, Text editors etc.

        Note that while updating this text (3-Jan-1994) ifcss.org has still
        stopped ftp access due to networking problems.

    o   The main site for Korean related software is cair-archive.kaist.ac.kr
        (Korea). I don't know any mirror sites of this host. At ifcss.org you
        will find a 24x24 hanja font with HBF header in
        /software/fonts/misc/hbf.

    o   Sam Chiu <ccc11@cus.cam.ac.uk> compiled the fonts jfs56 (GBs encoded)
        and ntu_kai48 (Big 5 encoded) for various sizes with 600dpi
        resolution. You will find them (about 22 MByte uncompressed!) at the
        CTAN hosts in /tex-archive/fonts/chinese


Author
------

Werner Lemberg <a7621gac@awiuni11.bitnet>

Goldschlagstr. 52/14
A-1150 Vienna
Austria/Europe

Please report any errors or suggestions to this email-address.

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Thu Jan 19 19:02:41 1995
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 95 00:53:59 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: unicode@ifcss.org, linux-asia@orac.iinet.com.au, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Addendum to CJK 2.4 (!)


I just have uploaded the newest version of CJK to ftp.tex.ac.uk .
It should be available soon in tex-archive/languages/chinese/CJK on all
CTAN hosts (ftp.dante.de, pip.shsu.edu, ftp.tex.ac.uk) and its mirrors.

In a separate posting you will find a complete description of CJK.


Happy TeXing!

    Werner


==============================================================================


Version 2.4:    new:
3-Jan-1995          UTF 8 (Unicode) scheme added.

                    option `unicode' to hbf2gf added: if `on', a two-digit
                      hexadecimal number will be used as a running number
                      starting with the value of the first byte of the first
                      code range.

                    Bg5conv.tex added: this is a small preprocessor which
                      converts Big 5 encoded characters `XY' into the form
                      `XZZZ.' . Now you can use Big 5 encoding without the
                      annoying Bg5text environment.
                      Auxiliary files: Bg5pp.enc, pmCsmpp.enc, and
                      bg5latex.bat .

                changed:
                    new versions of emx.exe, emx.dll (ver. 0.9a) and rsx.exe
                      (rel. 5)

                errors:
                    hbf2gf sometimes drew one pixel too much
                      (You Rey-Jer <you@gi4.bauingenieure.uni-stuttgart.de>).

                    pmC encodings didn't work
                      (Zhang Zhengyou <Zhengyou.Zhang@sophia.inria.fr>).

                    \CJK@charToHex and \CJK@numbToHex could erroneously change
                      page counter (Li Yu-Ray <r82111@ew.ee.ntu.edu.tw>).

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jan 20 04:11:14 1995
Date: 20 Jan 1995 09:48:48 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu, Michael Mehlich <mehlich@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Michael Mehlich writes:

 > I've just submitted a package for LaTeX2e to
 > CTAN:ftp.dante.de/incoming
 > 
 > NAME OF FILE: hyper.tar.gz
 >         this archive file contains a complete 
 > 
 >         directory called hyper
 > FUNCTIONALITY:
 >         adds html-markups to the dvi-file
 >         no changes to the original document are
 >         necessary
 > RECOMMENDED PLACE:
 > 	macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper
 > 
 > Ciao
 >   Michael Mehlich

The package has been installed in the place indicated. Thanks.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 20 08:24:13 1995
Date: 20 Jan 1995 13:18:45 +0000 (GMT)
From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: List of TeX and plain TeX commands?

In article <3fm8mm$uu9@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>,
Joachim Schrod <schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> wrote:
>In article <3flrhe$m8b@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>, SMOYE@brownvm.brown.edu () writes:
>> Is there a plain-text listing of all of the TeX and plain
>> TeX* commands?
>
>Yes, it's in a file named csname.txt.
>
>This file is not on CTAN, but somewhere on labrea.stanford.edu (don't
>ask me where). You can fetch
>ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/tex/plain/plain.tar.gz which has
>this file, too.

Joachim has provided me a copy of this file, and I have installed it
on CTAN as tex-archive/macros/plain/doc/csname.txt (with a link to it
from tex-archive/info/plain.csname.txt).

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 20 17:08:26 1995
Date: 20 Jan 1995 18:04:16 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: New version of UKTUG formatted FAQ on CTAN

I've just updated the archive copy of the formatted version of the TeX
and Metafont FAQ that the UK TUG committee prepared as v4n6 of the UK
TUG magazine Baskerville.

I'm not sure that this is in any sense `perfect' layout, but it's
something of an improvement on what I did immediately after
publication, and a vast improvement on what was previously on CTAN

In particular, there's a version formatted for letter paper, as well
as the default one for A4

The directory's 00readme tries to discourage you from attempting to
format the thing yourself, and gives something of a guide to files,
etc.

The UK TUG committee is most grateful to all those who commented on
the FAQ while it was being prepared.  Some day, when the pigs are
roosting in the trees, perhaps, I'll be able to convert it to plain
text for Bobby Bodenheimer's benefit.

For the UK TUG committee

Robin Fairbairns

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jan 22 16:55:34 1995
Date: 22 Jan 1995 21:53:14 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: kempson@snowyowl.com
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Niel Kempson writes:

> I've uploaded a complete kit for my 8 bit version of BibTeX for DOS and
> OS/2 to the /incoming directory on ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
> The versions aren't really new, just complete so that others can get 
> hold of the source code and make changes.
> 
> There are four files:
> 
>     bt301dos.zip    - binary + documentation kit for MS-DOS users:
>     bt301os2.zip    - binary + documentation kit for 32 bit OS/2 users:
>     bt301src.zip    - complete source code kit
>     bt301.txt       - this file
>     
> The previous versions of these files were put in the directory
> 
>     tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/ms-dos/kempson/8bit-beta
>     
> I'm happy that these go there, replacing the previous versions.  
> There's also an (identical) 00readme.txt file in each of the ZIP 
> files - it would very useful if you could extract it into the
> destination directory.
> 
> Niel Kempson [Once a member of the Aston TeX Archive Group :-)]
> -- 
> Dr C Niel Kempson
> Snowy Owl Systems Limited
> E-mail: kempson@snowyowl.com (Internet)

I've installed the stuff as Niel suggested... at the Cambridge archive

It will propagate to the other CTAN sites from ftp.tex.ac.uk in due
course.

Robin (Dark fibre to every home) Fairbairns      rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 23 08:14:01 1995
Date: 23 Jan 1995 12:55:25 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch
Subject: BaKoMa AMS fonts

Basil Malyshev has put up part 2 of his wonderful BaKoMa fonts,
covering the AMS collection. I append his notes.

I have installed thse on CTAN by adding to cm/ps-type1/bakmoa, rather
than starting a new directory under fonts/ams. It isnt ideal, but i
dont want to get mixed up with AMS offical distribution.

I have removed the Paradissa fonts which are replaced by the newer
BaKaMa ones.

Many many thanks to Basil for his ongoing work

sebastian


 This font software package is the second part of the BaKoMa Font Collection.
 The package includes the most usefull AMS fonts: Euler family and symbols.
 Totally, 52 fonts are included into BaKoMa/AMS font software package.

 The fonts are in a ATM compatible PostScript Type 1 font format (PFB+AFM+PFM)
 as well as in a TrueType font format (TTF).

 In comparison with previous package (BaKoMa/CM, issued 12-Nov-94)
 these fonts created by using more improved autohinting algorithms,
 that is most important for exotic shapes of the Euler fonts.
 So, most noticeable difference is that in this fonts hint replacement 
 facility is used.

 About placement in the archive:
   One resonable directory is adding to 
      '/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma' directory.
   In other side, this package includes AMS fonts and can be placed
     '/tex-archive/fonts/ams/ps-type1'.

 Absolute fonts:
   In context of this font package files 'eu*' and 'ms*' 
   in the '/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/paradissa' directory is obsolete.


I hope that this font package will be usefull for many peoples.

Bye.

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jan 23 08:37:20 1995
Date: 23 Jan 1995 14:26:02 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Matthias Eckermann <ud311aa@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: dvips16.zip (MSDOS) uploaded to ftp.dante.de

Matthias Eckermann submitted dvips for 80x86 computers. The readme
follows. The program has been installed on CTAN in

  systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips558.pc zu legen.

---------------- README.DOS --------------------------------------

This is "dvips16.zip", the DVIPS-Tool(s) compiled for 80x86-Computers.

- To run dvips properly you also need (install in order):
    1. (this dir) dvipslib.zip
    2. (this dir) dps558b.zip
    3. dvips16.zip
- To recompile you need (install in order):
    1. CTAN /pub/tex/dviware/dvips/dvips558.tar.gz
    2. (this dir) dps558s.zip
    3. dvips16.zip
    [C-compiler]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

- I used G.Sawades patches and hope that this dvips16.exe
  (compiled with TurboC++ 1.01) is compatible with his dvips32.exe.
- afm2tfm.exe is included now.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Archive:  DVIPS16.ZIP
      0  18-01-95  01:00   dvips/
      0  18-01-95  01:00   dvips/pc/
   8777  18-01-95  01:00   dvips/pc/makefile.tcc
   1719  18-01-95  01:00   dvips/pc/config.ps
      0  18-01-95  01:00   emtex/
      0  18-01-95  01:00   emtex/ps/
   1719  18-01-95  01:00   emtex/ps/config.ps
  51592  18-01-95  01:00   emtex/afm2tfm.exe
 156502  18-01-95  01:00   emtex/dvips16.exe
   1385  18-01-95  01:00   readme.dos

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Matthias Eckermann                        <ud311aa@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de>
MUNICH / GERMANY                                                 18-01-1995

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 23 16:00:07 1995
Date: 23 Jan 1995 20:50:27 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Bebe Bondoc <bebe@nazgul.Physics.McGill.CA>
Cc: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>, info-tex@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: New version of UKTUG formatted FAQ on CTAN

Bebe Bondoc wrote (in private mail):

> On Fri, 20 Jan 1995, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> 
> > I've just updated the archive copy of the formatted version of the TeX
> > and Metafont FAQ that the UK TUG committee prepared as v4n6 of the UK
> > TUG magazine Baskerville.
> 
> May I point out that pointers to the location of this amazing piece of 
> work were not given;  not even the name of the file.  It is rather hard 
> to request a `quote site index' with `aa...ahmmm...yeah...'

This is what comes of installing things after working hours, eager to
get home.  My apology to new readers: the complete set is in CTAN
tex-archive/usergrps/uktug/faq (overwriting the previous version
there).

Robin

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 24 04:59:23 1995
Date: 24 Jan 1995 09:51:31 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Myself <zhuhan@neumann.une.edu.au>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: formlett.sty

Zhuhan Jiang writes:

> This is to inform you that formlett.sty version 2.2 has been uploaded
> to ftp.tex.ac.uk at /incoming.
> 
> formlett.sty is a style file for plain TeX and LaTeX(2.09 or 2e)
> for mail merge or sending form letters. Current version just 
> renames several internal commands of a former version so that the 
> command names now wil not be in conflict with those of LaTeX.
> 
> Suggested place: macros/generic

I have replaced tex-archive/macros/generic/formlett.sty on
ftp.tex.ac.uk; it will propagate to the other CTANs sometime soon.

Robin
(for the CTAN team)

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 24 06:20:45 1995
Date: 24 Jan 1995 11:00:34 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Eric.Picheral@univ-rennes1.fr
Subject: Re: new version of the xlatex utility

Installed as Eric requests

sebastian
> 
> Version 3.3c as of 3 october 1994
> Should be placed at the same place as before:
>   support/xlatex
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Eric Picheral                  Fax :  99 84 71 11
> CRI/CICB Campus de Beaulieu    Tel :  99 84 71 23
> 35042 Rennes Cedex  France     E-mail : Eric.Picheral@univ-rennes1.fr


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 24 13:09:04 1995
Date: 24 Jan 1995 17:38:46 +0000 (GMT)
From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: jrtex12a.zip - Install info: new EMTEX, HPLJ, & PstScpt on PC

In article <9501210615.kp29088@simtel.coast.net>,
John Refling <jrefling@ece.uci.edu> wrote:
>I have uploaded to SimTel, the Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm),
>(available by anonymous ftp from the primary mirror site OAK.Oakland.Edu
>and its mirrors):
>
>ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/tex/jrtex12a.zip
>
>SimTel/msdos/tex/
>jrtex12a.zip    Install info: new EMTEX, HPLJ, & PstScpt on PC
>
>JRTEX v12a is a short (NOT) account of my experiences installing emtex
>on a few different computers, [...]
>
>Text file.  Copyrighted and uploaded by the author.

With John's permission I have installed this stuff on CTAN as
tex-archive/info/jrtex12a (his previous effort is the same directory
as jrhelp11).  Jrtex12a will propagate to the other CTAN sites in due
course.

Thanks for that, John -- it's the sort of thing it's nice to point
bewildered beginners at...

For the CTAN team,

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jan 24 13:07:28 1995
Date: 24 Jan 1995 18:44:01 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, Andrej Brodnik <abrodnik@daisy.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Andrej Brodnik (Andy) writes:

 > I submitted files:
 > 
 >   -r--r--r--   1 abrodnik none         457 Jan 19 18:48 00Content
 >   -r--r--r--   1 abrodnik none        2139 Jan 19 18:41 READ.ME
 >   -r--r--r--   1 abrodnik none        2408 Jan 19 18:44 Uclgr.fd
 >   -r--r--r--   1 abrodnik none        1601 Jan 19 18:43 Uclgrss.fd
 >   -r--r--r--   1 abrodnik none        1681 Jan 19 18:45 Uclgrtt.fd
 > 
 > in the directory GreekTeX-fd. These are font definition files for
 > GreekTeX under NFSS-2. For more, see file READ.ME. I recomend to put
 > them somewhere close to ``greektex'' package. However, greektex is
 > intended for LaTeX2.0, while these files are for LaTeX2e.

Thank you for your submission. I installed the files in directory

fonts/greek/greektex-fd

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jan 26 13:34:34 1995
Date: 26 Jan 1995 19:23:47 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Andreas Krebs <krebs@edvz.sbg.ac.at>, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: ctan@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Andreas Krebs writes:

 > I have put some Files to /incoming/TeXtelmExtel/
 > cmdialog.vbx
 > emedit.txt
 > emedit.vbx
 > grid.vbx
 > read_1st.txt
 > spin.vbx
 > texmex.exe
 > texmex.hlp
 > threed.vbx
 > vbrun300.dll
 > 
 > The purpose of these files is a Shell for emTeX under MS Windows 3.1.
 > "texmex.exe" is the program, the .vbx and the .dll are runtime libraries
 > for it. "read_1st.txt" is a brief description of it.
 > 
 > 
 > It would be optimal if the files were placed under /systems/msdos/
 > in a directory named TeXtelmExtel.

Thank you for your submissions. The files have been installed in
directory

/systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/TeXtelmExtel

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jan 28 18:35:13 1995
Date: 28 Jan 1995 23:32:08 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Basil K. Malyshev <malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch>
Subject: fontload package updated

Basil Malyshev has released a new version of his fontload
tool. Details below.

As usual, many thanks to Basil for this excellent work

sebastian
> ... upgrade of the 'Partial font downloading utility' which 
> is in directory '/tex-aarchive/fonts/utilities/fontload'.
> 
>  Differences with previous version which was issued 28-Nov-94.
> 
>   1. It generates more compact code to download font into printer,
>      that reduces resulted file size and printer downloading time.
>   2. Printer memory requirements is also slightly reduced.
>   3. Ported to other platforms, such that it works now on
>        UNIX, MS-DOS, VMS.
>   4. Improved control of the error situations.
>   5. Added option '-p' that selects font set which is built in printer.
>   6. Solved disadvantage with those fonts which have common 
>      CharStrings (for example Univers fonts). 
>   7. Made the same font map for GhostScript and SubFont program.
>   8. Tested with GhostScript 3.12, 
>      that is able to apply partial font downloading to document
>      used Multiple Master fonts.
>      HOWEVER, gs 3.12 have a bugs, in this reason gs 2.6.1 using
>      is recomended.
>   9. Man pages for 'fload' and 'subfont' are added.
> 
> Basil K. Malyshev, 27-Jan-95, Geneve, Switzerland.
> 

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jan 31 00:59:30 1995
Date: 30 Jan 1995 10:03:02 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Martin Schroeder <ms@dream.hb.north.de>, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: New packages on ftp.dante.de

Martin Schroeder writes:

 > I have uploaded the following packages into /incoming on ftp.dante.de:
 > ------
 > - everyshi/everyshi.dtx
 > - everyshi/everyshi.ins
 > New version 2.00 of everyshi.
 > Should be moved to macros/latex/contrib/supported/everyshi
 > >From everyshi.dtx:
 > %%  @LaTeX-package-file{
 > %%     author          = {Martin Schr\"oder},
 > %%     version         = "2.00",
 > %%     date            = "25 January 1995",
 > %%     filename        = "everyshi.sty",
 > %%     address         = {Martin Schr\"oder
 > %%                        Friedrich-Humbert-Stra\ss{}e 124
 > %%                        D-28759 Bremen
 > %%     telephone       = "+49-421-628813",
 > %%     email           = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (INTERNET)",
 > %%     codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
 > %%     keywords        = "LaTeX2e, \shipout",
 > %%     supported       = "yes",
 > %%     docstring       = "LaTeX package which defines a new hook
 > %%                        \EveryShipout".
 > ------
 > - prelim2e/prelim2e.dtx
 > - prelim2e/prelim2e.ins
 > Should be moved to macros/latex/contrib/supported/prelim2e
 > >From prelim2e.dtx:
 > %%  @LaTeX-package-file{
 > %%    author         = {Martin Schr\"oder},
 > %%    version        = "1.00",
 > %%    date           = "26 January 1995",
 > %%    filename       = "prelim2e.sty",
 > %%    address        = {Martin Schr\"oder
 > %%                      Friedrich-Humbert-Stra\ss{}e 124
 > %%                      D-28759 Bremen},
 > %%    telephone      = "++49-421-628813",
 > %%    email          = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (INTERNET)",
 > %%    codetable      = "ISO/ASCII",
 > %%    keywords       = "LaTeX2e, preliminary versions, versions",
 > %%    dependences    = "everyshi, printtim",
 > %%    supported      = "yes",
 > %%    docstring      = "LaTeX package which allows the marking of
 > %%                      preliminary versions of a document"
 > ------
 > - printtim/printtim.dtx
 > - printtim/printtim.ins
 > Should be moved to macros/latex/contrib/supported/printtim
 > >From printtim.dtx:
 > %%  @LaTeX-package-file{
 > %%     author          = {Martin Schr\"oder},
 > %%     version         = "1.00",
 > %%     date            = "24 January 1995",
 > %%     filename        = "printtim.sty",
 > %%     address         = {Martin Schr\"oder
 > %%                        Friedrich-Humbert-Stra\ss{}e 124
 > %%                        D-28759 Bremen
 > %%     telephone       = "+49-421-628813",
 > %%     email           = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (INTERNET)",
 > %%     codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
 > %%     keywords        = "LaTeX2e, \time",
 > %%     supported       = "yes",
 > %%     docstring       = "LaTeX package which defines a command
 > %%                        \PrintTime which prints the current time".

These packages have been installed in the places indicated.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jan 31 12:24:40 1995
Date: 31 Jan 1995 18:02:16 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Guido Sawade <sawa0432@mailszrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>, CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: dvips558.pc(2.0)

Guido Sawade writes:

 > I have uploaded 
 >         dps558b.zip, dps558s.zip, dvipslib.zip
 >         and dvips16.zip
 > onto
 >         ftp.dante.de:/incoming/dvips558pc/
 > 
 > These are updated versions of dvips5.58 for emTeX for
 > 386/486 computers (32Bit!), now Version 2.0.
 > 
 > The files should replace the former in
 >    /pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips558.pc/        (and      
 >    /pub/tex/systems/os2/drivers/dvips558.pc/            respectively)
 > 
 > Please remove the little bug report 'dps558.bug'.
 > 
 > 
 > Main features:
 > 
 >    * -p/-l bug fixed (new sscanf function)
 > 
 >    * the magnification is now again submitted to maketexpk (bug fix)
 > 
 >    dvips supports now the first time
 >      *  expansion of environment variables in configuring        
 >         entries (variables and config.ps)     
 > 
 >      *  searching of files in subdirectories if requested
 >         like emTeX do (only one level).
 >        
 >      *  The 16Bit executables in dvips16.zip (compiled and 
 >         tested by Matthias Eckermann (who asked me for submission
 >         in one task)) base on excactly the same patched dvips        
 >         sources.
 > 

The files have been installed in the places indicated. Many thanks.

For the CTAN team,

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From drw@umassmed.UMMED.EDU Tue Jan 31 16:40:40 1995
Date: 31 Jan 1995 16:37:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Doug Waud <drw@umassmed.UMMED.EDU>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Acrobat?


I suspect that I may be getting in over my head here, but here goes!

Robin Fairbairns posted a note announcing the availability of a
``formatted version of the TeX and Metafont FAQ''.

This document struck me as a useful thing to have so I hopped onto
CTAN and downloaded a copy. I ended up with a file with a .pdf
extension. The readme said this was associated with ``Acrobat''. I
rooted around in catalogs and finally discovered Acrobat.

Now my question is this. Why, when .dvi is the lingua franca for TeX
people, or, perhaps, .ps if one wants to include figures, does one
set up the file in a propietary format? Now I realize that Acrobat
is touted as being the cat's meow when it comes to distributing
stuff to read, but the price paid is buried in that ``proprietary''
--- the file is unreadable for the great unwashed masses.

In the ads for Acrobat, it says the product includes ``free
Macintosh, Windows, DOS, and UNIX versions of the Acrobat reader''
so anyone can view the file(s) you send. Is that reader available
anywhere on the Internet? (I am rather disinclined to buy the whole
package just to read one file!)

Any suggestions/comments?

Doug Waud

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From heill@phys.unit.no Tue Jan 31 18:15:43 1995
Date: 01 Feb 1995 00:17:19 +0100
From: Lars Ketil Heill <heill@phys.unit.no>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: drw@ummed.edu
Subject: Re: Acrobat?



Doug Waud wrote:
>
>I suspect that I may be getting in over my head here, but here goes!
>
>Robin Fairbairns posted a note announcing the availability of a
>``formatted version of the TeX and Metafont FAQ''.
>
>This document struck me as a useful thing to have so I hopped onto
>CTAN and downloaded a copy. I ended up with a file with a .pdf
>extension. The readme said this was associated with ``Acrobat''. I
>rooted around in catalogs and finally discovered Acrobat.
>
>Now my question is this. Why, when .dvi is the lingua franca for TeX
>people, or, perhaps, .ps if one wants to include figures, does one
>set up the file in a propietary format? Now I realize that Acrobat

Good question.

>is touted as being the cat's meow when it comes to distributing
>stuff to read, but the price paid is buried in that ``proprietary''
>--- the file is unreadable for the great unwashed masses.
>
>In the ads for Acrobat, it says the product includes ``free
>Macintosh, Windows, DOS, and UNIX versions of the Acrobat reader''
>so anyone can view the file(s) you send. Is that reader available
>anywhere on the Internet? (I am rather disinclined to buy the whole
>package just to read one file!)
>
>Any suggestions/comments?

Yep, ftp to 

   ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/Applications/Acrobat/XXX

where XXX is UNIX, Windows, DOS or Macintosh.  There you'll find Acroread, 
the free Acrobat reader.  You can download sample .pdf files if you want 
(huge things).


Best regards,
Lars Ketil


Lars Ketil Heill             heill@phys.unit.no (or heill@fm.unit.no)
Dept of physics, The Norwegian Inst of Tech, N-7034 Trondheim, Norway 
Tel +47 73 59 36 36, Fax +47 73 59 36 95

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 31 19:51:45 1995
Date: 01 Feb 1995 00:47:36 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: info-tex@SHSU.edu, CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: drw@umassmed.UMMED.EDU, Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Acrobat?

(I'm moving this discussion info-tex, and hence to comp.text.tex,
since the point made is more general than simply the one
announcement.)

drw@umassmed.UMMED.EDU (Doug Waud) writes (originally on
ctan-ann@shsu.edu):

> I suspect that I may be getting in over my head here, but here goes!

I was in the same state myself not too long ago, but I know at least
something now, so I'll try and justify what I did.

> Robin Fairbairns posted a note announcing the availability of a
> ``formatted version of the TeX and Metafont FAQ''.
> 
> This document struck me as a useful thing to have so I hopped onto
> CTAN and downloaded a copy. I ended up with a file with a .pdf
> extension. The readme said this was associated with ``Acrobat''. I
> rooted around in catalogs and finally discovered Acrobat.

.pdf is an Adobe extension of PostScript; the acronym means "portable
document format".  It's as portable (and as non-portable) as Adobe's
previous attempt -- PostScript.

> Now my question is this. Why, when .dvi is the lingua franca for TeX
> people, or, perhaps, .ps if one wants to include figures, does one
> set up the file in a propietary format?

Exactly the same things could have been (and were) said about
PostScript when it first appeared on the scene.

>                                         Now I realize that Acrobat
> is touted as being the cat's meow when it comes to distributing
> stuff to read, but the price paid is buried in that ``proprietary''
> --- the file is unreadable for the great unwashed masses.

I don't particularly care what Acrobat's touted as doing.  I agreed to
include this file in the directory I prepared because of what I _know_
it does do.  (Note that I didn't prepare the .pdf file myself; I work
in UK academia, which means no funds for tangential work, such as my
work in and for TeX.  The .pdf was prepared from the PostScript I
wrote for v4n6 of Baskerville, the UK TUG magazine, by Sebastian Rahtz
of Elsevier.  Elsevier are serious about Acrobat, since they seem to
believe it shows promise for future electronic publication mechanisms.
Since it results in something that can be of use to the TeX community,
I'm happy to make use of their resources (such as applications you pay
Adobe good money for) to prepare this file.)

> In the ads for Acrobat, it says the product includes ``free
> Macintosh, Windows, DOS, and UNIX versions of the Acrobat reader''
> so anyone can view the file(s) you send. Is that reader available
> anywhere on the Internet? (I am rather disinclined to buy the whole
> package just to read one file!)

The reader is available on CTAN (see tex-archive/fonts/postscript/
adobe/Applications/Acrobat, which has the versions of the reader in
separate sub-directories) as well as from ftp.adobe.com

I have succeeded in loading the DOS version to my own machine, but
have failed (despite a lot of support from our systems people here) to
mount the Unix version, which requires a specified version of SunOS
(which we have) running either Motif or Openwindows (which we don't).
However, since everyone's best estimate is that the majority of TeX
users are PC-based, I'm not too concerned.  (Who really wants Unix,
anyway?  It's just another of these proprietary systems...  ;-)

What the .pdf of that document offers, which you can't get any other
way, is hypertext scanning mechanisms.  You _can_ read an html version
of the file, at URL
    http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
though it's at a rather poorly-connected site, since it's still under
development.

However, my preparation of the directory was based on the hypothesis
that, of people who aren't members of UK TUG, and therefore didn't get
that issue of Baskerville, the majority would print one of the
PostScript files.  It _is_ possible to print it from one of the .dvi
files, though it involves some work in installing at least one
non-standard font.  Come to that, you can even go the whole hog and
process the .tex files from the ground up (and you're welcome to it
;-)

I hope this little contribution has set at least some minds at
(greater) ease.  If there are any further problems, please let me
know.

Robin (Dark fibre to every home) Fairbairns      rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

PS -- I was about to post this message when I thought to check the
state of the UK TUG directory on SHSU ... at which point things become
somewhat clearer to me than they were.  My elaborate defence of myself
was conducted against a criticism of CTAN's internal mirroring
mechanisms.  I have now therefore hand-mirrored the faq directory to
SHSU (it's just as well I have an account there).  Doug will
presumably find things somewhat more to his liking, now...

From MASCHLER@vms.huji.ac.il Tue Jan 31 22:20:27 1995
Date: 01 Feb 1995 05:14 +0200
From: MASCHLER@vms.huji.ac.il
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Problems retrieving the new version of dvips.


I tried to retrieve DVIPSLIB.ZIP both from ftp.dante.de and ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
I tried to do it several times and each time connection was lost exactly after
160000 bytes being retrieved.

It seems to me that the zip file contains a control command that throws you out
of the node.

Cna that be fixed? Anybody else had this problem?

Michael Maschler


From sawa0432@mailszrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE Wed Feb  1 03:50:30 1995
Date: 01 Feb 1995 09:38:17 +0100
From: Guido Sawade <sawa0432@mailszrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: dvips558.pc(2.0)

On Tue, 31 Jan 1995 18:02:16 +0100, 
Rainer Schoepf  <schoepf@uni-mainz.de> wrote:

>The files have been installed in the places indicated. Many thanks.

Sorry. I forgot to mention, that the file 'readme.dos'
of .../dvips558.pc should become replaced by the one which
is in 'dvips16.zip'.

---
Gruss / Regards
       Guido Sawade   <sawade@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de>
       TU Berlin,  Opt.Inst. PN 0-1,  10623 Berlin,  FRG

From sawa0432@mailszrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE Wed Feb  1 03:48:49 1995
Date: 01 Feb 1995 09:39:19 +0100
From: Guido Sawade <sawa0432@mailszrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: Problems retrieving the new version of dvips.

On Wed, 1 Feb 95 5:14 +0200, 
MASCHLER  <MASCHLER@vms.huji.ac.il> wrote:

>
>I tried to retrieve DVIPSLIB.ZIP both from ftp.dante.de and ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
>I tried to do it several times and each time connection was lost exactly after
>160000 bytes being retrieved.
>
>It seems to me that the zip file contains a control command that throws you out
>of the node.

For me all was going well (09:30 CET).

---
Gruss / Regards
       Guido Sawade   <sawade@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de>
       TU Berlin,  Opt.Inst. PN 0-1,  10623 Berlin,  FRG

From rogerj@lps.cornell.edu Wed Feb  1 13:23:38 1995
Date: 01 Feb 1995 13:18:41 -0500
From: Roger Jagoda <rogerj@lps.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: info-tex@SHSU.edu, CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Acrobat, XTeXShell, PS Fonts


Folks,
 

Reading these threads lately, has ANYONE successfully
insatlled the UNIX Acrobat reader? I have failed on DEC-MIPS,
SunOS-SPARC and SGI-MIPS so far...three out of three is pretty poor.

Secondly, does anoyone know anything about a package called "XTexShell"?
I've seen it in passing in related groups. Sounds like it could be a GREAT
help in our environment!

Lastly, probably an FAQ (although I couldn't solve it), suppose
someone wants to use fonts OTHER than CMR...like Helvetica for instance.
Yes, his/her documents become very less portable, but that's the need
here. Is there a way to specify PS fonts instead of CMR AND have xdvi
or other previewers display them?


Thanks a bunch in advance!

--Roger Jagoda
Cornell University
rogerj@lps.cornell.edu



From roger@isy.liu.se Thu Feb  2 02:51:42 1995
Date: 02 Feb 1995 07:48:48 +0100
From: Roger Germundsson <roger@isy.liu.se>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: Acrobat, XTeXShell, PS Fonts

> 
> Reading these threads lately, has ANYONE successfully
> insatlled the UNIX Acrobat reader? I have failed on DEC-MIPS,
> SunOS-SPARC and SGI-MIPS so far...three out of three is pretty poor.

I ``installed'' it on Sun SPARCS, Sun OS 4.1.x. Works like a sharm
... there was not really anything to ``install'' was there. 

> 
> Secondly, does anoyone know anything about a package called "XTexShell"?
> I've seen it in passing in related groups. Sounds like it could be a GREAT
> help in our environment!

I looked it up ... it seems like a very simple version of what you 
get with GnuEmacs/AucTeX. 

> 
> Lastly, probably an FAQ (although I couldn't solve it), suppose
> someone wants to use fonts OTHER than CMR...like Helvetica for instance.
> Yes, his/her documents become very less portable, but that's the need
> here. Is there a way to specify PS fonts instead of CMR AND have xdvi
> or other previewers display them?

Sure, xdvi and xdvik can display PS fonts. See the LaTeX Comapanion 
for details on how to specify fonts (in particula PS  ones). 

> 
> 
> Thanks a bunch in advance!

You are welcome, BUT you should direct these questions to the 
news group: 	comp.text.tex

--Roger <roger@isy.liu.se>

Roger Germundsson, Automatic Control, Linkoping University, Sweden

From sm@peachum.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Thu Feb  2 03:39:40 1995
Date: 02 Feb 1995 09:35:07 +0100
From: Stefan Mintert <sm@peachum.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Cc: info-tex@shsu.edu, sm@peachum.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Subject: Re: Acrobat, XTeXShell, PS Fonts



Hi Rodger!

---------
 > 
 > Folks,
 >  
 > 
 > Reading these threads lately, has ANYONE successfully
 > insatlled the UNIX Acrobat reader? I have failed on DEC-MIPS,
 > SunOS-SPARC and SGI-MIPS so far...three out of three is pretty poor.

If you're talking about Acroread from Adobe the answer is "yes".
I "installed" it on a Sun 4 (SunOS 4.1.3) without any problems. I just
unpacked the archive and started the program.


 > 
 > Secondly, does anoyone know anything about a package called "XTexShell"?
 > I've seen it in passing in related groups. Sounds like it could be a GREAT
 > help in our environment!

Yes, I tested XTeXShell. It's easy to install (if you already have tcl, tk,
tclX), easy to use, includes a hypertext help system (with the most LaTeX
commands). 
BUT I just saw it running on Linux. It does not run on SunOS (I asked the 
author, it wasn't my failure; probably a problem with tclX on some systems).

If you're looking for a texshell on SunOS take a look at XTEM (TeXmenu for
X). It runs on the most systems and offers more features than "XTeXShell". It
need tcl, tk, tclX too and the installation is a bit more difficult.

 > 
 > Lastly, probably an FAQ (although I couldn't solve it), suppose
 > someone wants to use fonts OTHER than CMR...like Helvetica for instance.
 > Yes, his/her documents become very less portable, but that's the need
 > here. Is there a way to specify PS fonts instead of CMR AND have xdvi
 > or other previewers display them?

Of course any PS-previewer can display PS-fonts. I don't think that PS-files
are less portable. Within the TeX community DVI is surely a better choice,
but outside...
xdvi can't display PS-fonts. The latest version of xdvi only displays 
PS-graphics (as far as I know). For this it calls Ghostscript. 

For using PS-fonts: use the PSNFSS, a DVI2PS converter (i.e. dvips by Tomas
Rokicki) and view it with any PS-viewer (i.e. ghostview).


 > 
 > 
 > Thanks a bunch in advance!
 > 
 > --Roger Jagoda
 > Cornell University
 > rogerj@lps.cornell.edu
 > 
 > 
 > 
---------



 Stefan.

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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  Computer Science Department - IRB   software@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
  University of Dortmund              PGP Key fingerprint = 
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        "let the music keep our spirits high..."

                                (Jackson Browne)

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Feb  3 04:00:01 1995
Date: 03 Feb 1995 09:52:16 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, CTAN@shsu.edu
Cc: os2@dante.de, thomas@gandalf.rhein.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

thomas@gandalf.rhein.de writes:

 > i have uploaded a file to ftp.dante.de:/incoming
 > 
 > (a) filename: makeindex-os2.zip
 > 
 > (b) purpose:
 > 
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > README Makeindex for OS/2                                 02.02.1995
 > 
 > This is omly a makeindex-binary for os/2. It is based on the sources
 > to be found on CTAN-servers in:
 >         tex-archive/indexing/makeindex.
 > 
 > On the same place, you will find all documentation you need.
 > This makeindex-version is: portable version 2.12 [26-May-1993]
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > (c) desired location: tex-archive/systems/os2/binaries

The file has been installed in the desired location.

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung
    der Universitaet Mainz
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12   
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Feb 14 10:11:47 1995
Date: 14 Feb 1995 14:56:22 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: mutex@stolaf.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Musixtex preprocessor (for musictex)

I have installed Musixtex on ftp.tex.ac.uk.  It will propagate to the
other CTAN sites as and when they can get network bandwidth to get it
from us.

Daniel Taupin announced the package a little while ago:

  MusiXTeX is a new - completely new - version of music typesetting using TeX.
  It is due to Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler, with a big part of the TeX
  macros borrowed from Daniel Taupin's MusiCTeX.
  
  The main difference is that it is a three pass system: 
   1. Texing roughly
   2. Computing the slurs accurate sizes (by a C program, musixflx)
   3. Re-Texing beautifully.
  
  It is a free copy software (their posting in CTANs is wished), but you
  are not allowed to spread modified versions of it without the consents
  of the three authors (of course changing font resolution is not a
  "modification").

Robin Fairbairns

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 15 12:59:52 1995
Date: 15 Feb 1995 17:45:42 +0000 (GMT)
From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Power failure at ftp.tex.ac.uk

There was a power failure of 2 or so hours at ftp.tex.ac.uk this
afternoon.

As far as I am able to determine, there have been no files lost (this
time), but of course, service was unavailable when the systems were
down.

Apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced ... it's for times like
these we have a replicated archive   ;-)

Robin Fairbairns
(for the CTAN team, but
 NOT for Eastern Electricity, whose only communication with us appears
 to have been "yes, we're aware there's a problem")

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 16 13:42:26 1995
Date: 16 Feb 1995 17:44:39 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: SUBSCRIBE CTAN-Ann "Martin Wiesenfeldt"

I've corrected the notice I sent to comp.text.tex in a later post
about mailing lists in general.  You should have sent your message

  SUBSCRIBE CTAN-Ann "Martin Wiesenfeldt"

to listserv@shsu.edu

I'm sorry my original posting was unclear (you're not the first to
have been confused by it).

R

Robin (Campaign for Radio 3) Fairbairns          rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Martin.Wiesenfeldt@physik.th-darmstadt.de Fri Feb 17 10:42:36 1995
Date: 17 Feb 1995 16:30:12 +0100
From: Martin Wiesenfeldt <Martin.Wiesenfeldt@physik.th-darmstadt.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: SUBSCRIBE CTAN-Ann "Martin Wiesenfeldt"

Ja, isch bin de Maatin, ne...

Aber danke fuer den Hinweis, ich hab's schon mehrfach 
gehoert 8-)) und es inzwischen auch brav befolgt. Da
hab' ich wohl was durcheinandergebracht.

Tschuess Martin

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Feb 18 06:56:16 1995
Date: 18 Feb 1995 11:49:06 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: placeins (plain tex floats)

> From:    Donald Arseneau <asnd@erich.triumf.ca>
> Subject: New file placeins.tex
> 
> Hi.  I just uploaded placeins.tex to the incoming directory.
> It keeps plain TeX floating insertions in their proper place.
> I think it should go into /tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib.
> 
installed as requested

Sebastian Rahtz

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Feb 18 06:56:20 1995
Date: 18 Feb 1995 11:51:52 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca
Subject: MakeTeXPK notes

I have installed this in systems/unix/safemtpk. I am not sure
whether to make links or not to other systems or places. I am also
not convinced the name or place is right! any ideas welcomed

sebastian rahtz
> 
> 
> This is an archive which contains an article, with an accompanying
> program, which describes in detail how to set up MakeTeXPK script
> without opening assorted directories "write to the world".
> 
> There is also a set of sample scripts which illustrate modifications
> which are needed with this approach.  They are taken directly from
> teTeX distribution for Linux, but similar changes,  modulo site
> details, are needed on other systems as well.
> 
> I would suggest putting all of this with other auxilary material
> for Unix systems with a link to teTeX directories.  I am not so
> sure if a name is descriptive enough.  If you can come up with
> something better, go ahead and change it.  Maybe safeMakeTeXPK,
> like a name of LaTeX file inside?  But please tell me what you
> decided after all.
> 
>    Thanks,
>    Michal
>    michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca

From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Mon Feb 20 08:33:30 1995
Date: 20 Feb 1995 14:05:25 +0100
From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: FeynMF 0.8: Feynman diagrams for LaTeX and Metafont/MetaPost

This is to announce a new version of FeynMF, which can be found (soon) in

        {ftp.shsu.edu,ftp.tex.ac.uk,ftp.dante.de}:
          ... macros/latex/contrib/supported/feynmf

soon.  This is a mirror of

        crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/ohl/feynmf

FeynMF 0.8 is a bug fix release, with some new features.  The most
important changes are: LaTeX 2.09 compatibility (some asked for it),
plugged Metafont string memory hole, new and streamlined line styles.

Enjoy,
-Thorsten

/// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
//////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu
/// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Feb 21 05:47:15 1995
Date: 21 Feb 1995 11:42:03 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Michael Mehlich <mehlich@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
Cc: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission, fp-package

Michael Mehlich writes:

 > Denis Girou has sent me today a new macro for the fp-package
 > enabling the generation of random numbers.
 > I've inserted it in the package and supported it at the appropriate
 > places of the fp-package.

I installed your update at ftp.daqnte.de from where it will eventually
propagate to the other CTAN hosts.

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 22 12:59:41 1995
Date: 22 Feb 1995 17:54:38 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: nde@dcre.leeds.ac.uk
Subject: Nick Efford: artex, support for portable LaTeX 2e documents

I have installed artex as requested on ftp.tex.ac.uk; it will
propagate to the other CTANs as and when the deities that control the
network allow.

Thanks, Nick, for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

------- Forwarded Message

From: nde@dcre.leeds.ac.uk (Nick Efford)
Reply-To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Message-ID: <9502221726.ZM12954@dcre>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:26:27 +0000
To: CTAN@shsu.edu
Subject: CTAN submission

The file artex.tar.gz has been uploaded to /incoming at ftp.tex.ac.uk.
This file contains beta release 1.00 of ArTeX, a tool for generating
portable LaTeX 2e documents. The README file is reproduced below.

I suggest that this be installed in the directory

   /tex-archive/support/artex


Nick Efford

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

ArTeX version 1.00b
- -------------------

ArTeX is a Perl script which simplifies the exchange of LaTeX documents
between collaborating authors or between author and publisher.

ArTeX analyzes a LaTeX 2e document to determine whether it loads any
non-standard files. If non-standard files are identified, ArTeX creates
filecontents or filecontents* environments for them and adds these
environments to the input document. The new document can be processed
successfully on any system with a standard installation of LaTeX 2e.

ArTeX has been tested in the following environments:

    (1) Irix 5.2, Perl 4.036 and 5.000
    (2) MS-DOS 6.2, Perl 4.036 (bigperl), emTeX

The ArTeX distribution contains the following files:

    README.artex   -  this file
    artex          -  Perl script
    artexman.html  -  HTML version of manual
    artexman.tex   -  LaTeX 2e version of manual

Note: this is a beta release. Bug reports, comments and suggestions for
impovements should be directed to:

    Nick Efford
    nde@dcre.leeds.ac.uk


- -- 
Nick Efford                | email: nde@dcre.leeds.ac.uk
School of Computer Studies | voice: +44 113 233 6809 (direct line)
Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK  | http://agora.leeds.ac.uk/comir/people/nick.html

------- End of Forwarded Message

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 22 13:16:19 1995
Date: 22 Feb 1995 18:07:44 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, mutex@stolaf.edu
Cc: dsimons@logicon.com, veittes@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE, maray@fsz.bme.hu, Olivier.CLARY@meteo.fr, HOUSER@bms.com, ehlerabk@rubc.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, Peter.Vanroose@esat.kuleuven.ac.be, mig@ncc.up.pt, hjbortol@Medusa.mat.puc-rio.br, mst@mhcnet.att.com, dag.lohse@Mathematik.TU-Chemnitz.DE, crath@bnr.ca
Subject: The pmtex musictex pre-processor

DON SIMONS (dsimons@logicon.com) has submitted to CTAN the pmtex
program that he talked about some time ago in the mutex mailing list.
I installed it as directory support/pmtex on SHSU, and it's propagated
here at least.

The program is available as two fortran files and various support
stuff (I have unzipped Don's original file; those who want a .zip file
of the entire directory should say

  ftp> cd tex-archive/support
  ftp> get pmtex.zip

the archive will zip it up for you).

pmtex.txt says:

				 PMTeX
		      A Preprocessor for MusicTeX
		  by Don Simons (dsimons@logicon.com)
  
  INTRODUCTION       
       PMTeX will generate MusicTeX code for multi-staff scores with up to 
  five staves (or voices) per system.  Once it makes a .tex file for you, 
  you will probably want or need to change a few things manually.  This is 
  because (a) PMTeX only has a small subset of the capabilities of 
  MusicTeX, and (b) PMTeX is not perfect.  But it can save a LOT of time 
  with the grunge work involved in setting up notes...enotes groupings, 
  defining beams, justifying lines, and spreading the entire piece evenly 
  over a specified number of systems.

Thanks, Don, for the contribution

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 23 05:24:23 1995
Date: 23 Feb 1995 10:19:00 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: G.Tobin@ee.latrobe.edu.au
Subject: DTL (DVI Text Language) uploaded

Geoff Tobin has provided us with a copy of the DVI text language that
he's talked about for some time.  The 00Description says:

 DTL (DVI Text Language) files are equivalent to TeX's DVI files,
 but are humanly readable, instead of binary.  Two programs are
 provided to translate between DVI and DTL:  dv2dt, dt2dv.

The programs are in C and there's a Makefile

I've installed the stuff at SHSU in tex-archive/dviware/dtl
It will propagate to the other CTANs in due course

Robin
(For the CTAN team)

Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns     rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 23 08:04:41 1995
Date: 23 Feb 1995 12:57:19 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: kevin@rodin.wustl.edu
Subject: Prettyref installed

I have installed Kevin Ruland's prettyref package at SHSU.  It will
propagate to the other CTANs in due course (provided that the trade
winds are in the right quarter).

The package redefines LaTeX's referencing mechanism so that it can
carry the _type_ (e.g., equation, table, figure) of the reference
around.

Thank you, Kevin, for the contribution.

Robin Fairbairns
(for the CTAN team)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 23 08:20:27 1995
Date: 23 Feb 1995 13:13:06 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Wilfried.Pfister@imag.fr
Subject: French thesis class lifia-th

I have installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk Wilfried Pfister's lifia-th package

His description says:

  lifia-th is a documented class to produce a french thesis.  It may be
  customized for any laboratory. It contains french sectioning, date,
  and names. It allow user to have lists of figures, tables and
  examples. It automatically makes a title page, headings, etc.

The package contains a Makefile (good stuff, Wilfried) documented
source and an example file.  All the documentation and the example are
in French (of course).

Thank you, Wilfried, for the submission

Robin Fairbairns
(for the CTAN team)

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 27 15:33:47 1995
Date: 27 Feb 1995 20:24:43 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@shSU.edu
Cc: mcgrant@rascals.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: PSfrag 2.0beta for LaTeX2e uploaded

installed, with gratitude, as Michael requests. should the 209 version
be deleted?

sebastian rahtz
> 
> I've uploaded PSfrag 2.0beta, a beta version of PSfrag for LaTeX2e, to
> the incoming directory of ftp.shsu.edu:
> 
> ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/incoming/psfrag.tar.gz
> 
> PSfrag is a system by which LaTeX text can be overlayed upon EPS
> figures. A version for LaTeX209 has been on CTAN for quite awhile;
> I recommend that this version be placed in the
> 
> macros/latex/contrib/supported
> 
> subdirectory.
> 
> Extensive documentation can be found in psfrag.dtx.

> 
> From:    "Michael C. Grant" <mcgrant@rascals.Stanford.EDU>

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 27 15:35:23 1995
Date: 27 Feb 1995 20:28:38 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: makefonts

thanks, Volker.

this has been installed in fonts/utilities/makefonts as suggested

sebastian rahtz

> I have put makefonts.tar.gz into CTAN(shsu):/incoming.
> 
> This is a set of shell scripts which run metafont to generate the basic
> TeX/LaTeX fonts. There are scripts for generating AMS and other fonts
> as well.  There was demand for this on the TeX-k list.
> I suggest to put it into CTAN:fonts/utilities/makefonts (please unpack
> at your end).
> 
> Please announce on CTAN-announce where/when you have put it.

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 27 15:48:37 1995
Date: 27 Feb 1995 20:33:25 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: jsdevitt@maplesoft.com
Subject: Re: Updates to Maple files

installed as requested, with thanks

sebastian rahtz

> 
> I have just uploaded three files
> to incoming/maple.  They are:
> 
> 	incoming/maple/MTNarticle.tex
> 	incoming/maple/README
> 	incoming/maple/mtn.cls
> 
> These updates "replace" the corresponding files
> found in
> 
> 	tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/maple
> 
> They are backwards compatible in that all the macros
> supported before still work in the same fashion.
> 
> 
> Stan Devitt
> Waterloo Maple.

From mcgrant@rascals.Stanford.EDU Mon Feb 27 17:00:26 1995
Date: 27 Feb 1995 13:52:10 -0800
From: Michael C. Grant <mcgrant@rascals.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: CTAN-ann@shSU.edu
Subject: Re: PSfrag 2.0beta for LaTeX2e uploaded

Sebastian Rahtz writes:
   installed, with gratitude, as Michael requests. should the 209 version
   be deleted?

I don't know what your policy is about latex209 stuff, but I'd leave
it in macros/latex209/contrib/supported, perhaps with an addendum
saying to refer questions to me. I can support it somewhat; after all,
the ps2frag script and ps2frag.ps are compatible with the 209 version.

Thanks for installing it; I'll announce it to comp.text.tex then!

Miek


From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Mar  1 10:06:03 1995
Date: 01 Mar 1995 15:01:47 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
Subject: winw2ltx update

Allin Cottrell has asked for changes to support/winw2ltx. There are
now separate german and english subdirectories, each with a  ww2 and a
ww6 directory. the original english is unchanged since the last
release.

This is for converting Word for Windows to LaTeX, in case you havent
seen it

Sebastian Rahtz
for CTAN

From noack@theo.physik.uni-bremen.de Wed Mar  1 12:54:25 1995
Date: 01 Mar 1995 18:37:31 +0100 (NFT)
From: Cornelius C. Noack <noack@theo.physik.uni-bremen.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: winw2ltx update

==============================================================================
      _|_
     / | \
     \_|_/      Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack    Phones:
      _|_ ___   Inst. f. Theoret. Physik FB 1   office   : +49 (421) 218-2427
 |   |   |   \  Universit"at Bremen             secretary: -2965
 |___|   |___/  Kufsteiner Strasse              Fax      : -4869
 |   |   |   \  D - 28334  Bremen               home     : +49 (421) 34 22 36
 |   |   |___/
     PhyHB
==============================================================================
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Length: 454       

Sebastian writes:
> 
> Allin Cottrell has asked for changes to support/winw2ltx. There are
> now separate german and english subdirectories, each with a  ww2 and a
> ww6 directory. the original english is unchanged since the last
> release.
> 
> This is for converting Word for Windows to LaTeX, in case you havent
> seen it
> 
> Sebastian Rahtz
> for CTAN
> 
What exactly is the subdirectory (in tex-archive/) for these files ? I
couldn't find it.  ccn

From cottrell@wfu.edu Wed Mar  1 15:44:30 1995
Date: 01 Mar 1995 15:33:37 -0500
From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: winw2ltx update

>==============================================================================
>      _|_
>     / | \
>     \_|_/      Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack    Phones:
>      _|_ ___   Inst. f. Theoret. Physik FB 1   office   : +49 (421) 218-2427
> |   |   |   \  Universit"at Bremen             secretary: -2965
> |___|   |___/  Kufsteiner Strasse              Fax      : -4869
> |   |   |   \  D - 28334  Bremen               home     : +49 (421) 34 22 36
> |   |   |___/
>     PhyHB
>==============================================================================
>X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>Content-Length: 454       
>
>Sebastian writes:
>> 
>> Allin Cottrell has asked for changes to support/winw2ltx. There are
>> now separate german and english subdirectories, each with a  ww2 and a
>> ww6 directory. the original english is unchanged since the last
>> release.
>> 
>> This is for converting Word for Windows to LaTeX, in case you havent
>> seen it
>> 
>> Sebastian Rahtz
>> for CTAN
>> 
>What exactly is the subdirectory (in tex-archive/) for these files ? I
>couldn't find it.  ccn
>
It's in tex-archive/support/winw2ltx.

=======================
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
(910) 759-5762
=======================

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar  2 04:40:33 1995
Date: 02 Mar 1995 09:27:58 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Cornelius C. Noack <noack@theo.physik.uni-bremen.de>
Subject: Re: winw2ltx update

Cornelius writes:

> What exactly is the subdirectory (in tex-archive/) for these files ? I
> couldn't find it.  ccn

If you were using quote site index on the day of installation, you
wouldn't find it: the index files are created in overnight runs.

When a ctan maintainer gives an address like Seb did
(support/winw2ltx), you should always assume that's relative to the
tex-archive root unless otherwise stated.

That directory is essentially the same on all 3 CTANs.

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Mar  7 09:09:25 1995
Date: 07 Mar 1995 14:58:00 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Axel Sommerfeldt <axel@hp1.ang-physik.uni-kiel.d400.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission (fwd)

Axel Sommerfeldt writes:

 > I've just put the following files on ftp.dante.de//imcoming/caption.new:
 > (NOTE: There is a `.new' at the end of the path!)
 > 
 > Makefile     (unix makefile to build caption.sty and caption.dvi)
 > caption.ins  (docstrip installation file)
 > caption.dtx  (source + english documentation in the docstrip format)

 > Additionaly I put the following files on ftp.dante.de//imcoming/umlaute.new:
 > (NOTE: There is a `.new' at the end of the path, too!)
 > Makefile      (unix makefile to build umlaute.sty and umlaute.dvi)
 > umlaute.ins   (docstrip installation file)
 > umlaute.dtx   (source + english documentation in the docstrip format)
 > cs_patch.uue  (Patch program for CS-TeX (on Atari computers))
 > anleitung.tex (german documentation, the english one is in umlaute.dtx as usual)
 > 
 > It's the version 2.0a of the german `umlaute' package for LaTeX2e, it replaces
 > the version 1.2 in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/umlaute/.

Thanks, all installed.

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Mar  7 09:36:56 1995
Date: 07 Mar 1995 15:29:11 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Corey Minyard writes:

 > I have place tw-0.1.tgz on ftp.dante.de in the /incoming directory.
 > This is a new literate programming tool I have written, it is simple
 > like noweb but it is written completely in C and doesn't use pipes.  I
 > would recommend putting this in /tex-archive/web/tw/tw-0.1.tgz.

Thanks, I unpacked the file into

web/tango-weevil

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Mar  7 09:40:16 1995
Date: 07 Mar 1995 15:33:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: concmath package/fonts uploaded on ftp.dante.de

vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de writes:

 > I've just uploaded a couple of files on ftp.dante.de and put them into 
 > the directory incoming/concmath. There you will find the following files:
 > 	
 > 	./README		- package description
 > 	./HISTORY		- background information
 > 	./concmath.sty		- LaTeX package for Concrete math fonts
 > 	./concmath.tar.gz	- archive containing .mf and .tfm files
 > 
 > Unpacking the .tar.gz file will produce the following additional files:
 > 
 > 	./fonts/src/xccmi{5,6,7,8,9,10}.mf	- Concrete version of cmmi
 > 	./fonts/src/xccsy{5,6,7,8,9,10}.mf	- Concrete version of cmsy
 > 	./fonts/src/xccex10.mf			- Concrete version of cmex
 > 	./fonts/src/xccam10.mf			- Concrete version of msam
 > 	./fonts/src/xccbm10.mf			- Concrete version of msbm
 > 	./fonts/tfm/xccmi{5,6,7,8,9,10}.tfm
 > 	./fonts/tfm/xccsy{5,6,7,8,9,10}.tfm
 > 	./fonts/tfm/xccex10.tfm
 > 	./fonts/tfm/xccam10.tfm
 > 	./fonts/tfm/xccbm10.tfm
 > 
 > These files provide a Concrete version of the standard CM math fonts
 > and the AMS symbol fonts. concmath.sty is a LaTeX package containing
 > the necessary font declarations to make use of these fonts. 
 > 
 > I suggest installing the font files in CTAN:fonts/concmath at the 
 > same level as CTAN:fonts/concrete and putting the other files (README, 
 > HISTORY, concmath.sty) into CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/other/concmath.
 > It would be useful to add a symbolic link ./fonts pointing to the 
 > actual location of the font files, so that they will automatically 
 > be included as a subdirectory when generating an archive on the fly. 
 > For some users it might also be useful to include the .tar.gz file
 > containing only the font files as uploaded for easier installation
 > at their site.
 > 
 > Further information about this package can be found in the files
 > README and HISTORY, the latter describing the recipe how I created
 > the font files. METAFONT gurus are invited to improve on this if
 > anyone wants to do some fine tuning.  
 > 
 > 
 > Share and enjoy,
 > 
 > Ulrik Vieth  (not really an experienced METAFONTologist)


Thanks a lot, the files have been installed as suggested.

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Mar  7 13:26:57 1995
Date: 07 Mar 1995 18:20:18 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: ftp.tex.ac.uk downtime

We had a few minutes' downtime at 1805 GMT today 1995/03/07, in order
that we could reconfigure the discs.  (CTAN has grown by approx
0.5Gbyte since I started being involved...)

The reconfiguration enables us to set up a permanent solution, and
there will need to be a little down time to switch over to the
permanent solution.  Permanence would appear to be approx. 8 months...

Robin Fairbairns
for CTAN-UK management

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Mar  8 05:27:05 1995
Date: 08 Mar 1995 10:10:29 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: alan@sx.ac.uk
Subject: dancers font in CTAN

CTAN:fonts/dancers contains Alan Stanier's Metafont version of the
Dancing Men from the Sherlock Homes story. thanks, Alan

sebastian

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Mar  8 06:51:31 1995
Date: 08 Mar 1995 10:18:50 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: beebe@science.utah.edu
Subject: psposter

> 
> In December and January, I developed a small but rather useful utility
> named psposter, for `PostScript poster'.
> 
> This program is capable of producing simple one-page posters with
> automatic (or manual, if requested) font scaling, for any resident or
> downloadable PostScript font.
> 
> It can also produce tables of fonts, and supplemental material
> distributed with psposter allows you to produce a sorted table of all
> PostScript fonts resident in any PostScript output device.
> 
> The software has been stable now for about two months, so it is time
> to release it to a wider audience, and you are invited to help
> yourselves from ftp.math.utah.edu:/pub/misc:

installed in fonts/utilities/psposter on CTAN sites

many thanks to Nelson

sebastian rahtz

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Mar  9 09:42:59 1995
Date: 09 Mar 1995 14:38:37 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Frank Jensen <fj@iesd.auc.dk>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Frank Jensen writes:

 > I have uploaded new versions of the `beton' and `euler' packages to
 > ftp.dante.de (as `beton.tar.gz' and `euler.tar.gz').
 > 
 > As described in The LaTeX Companion, the `beton' package replaces the
 > text fonts of a LaTeX document with the Concrete fonts (by D. Knuth),
 > and the `euler' package replaces the math fonts of a LaTeX document
 > with the AMS Euler fonts.
 > 
 > The packages should replace the old versions stored in the
 > latex/contrib/supported directory.
 > 
 > ---
 > Frank Jensen,   fj@iesd.auc.dk
 > Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
 > Aalborg University
 > DENMARK

Installed in the places indicated.

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Mar  9 12:29:59 1995
Date: 09 Mar 1995 16:50:29 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: spieler@linac.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
Subject: Re: Upload of new revision of DECUS TeX for Open VMS

Christian Spieler, Institut fuer Kernphysik, Schlossgartenstr. 9,
      D-64289 Darmstadt writes:

 > I have just uploaded the Mar95 revision of DECUS TeX for OpenVMS to
 > the German CTAN cite FTP.DANTE.DE.
 > The upload is packed in a single UNIX Zip archive and is found in
 >        "/incoming/decustex_mar95.zip"
 > The contents of the release is
 > ========= begin contents =====================
 > 000read.me
 > 00changes
 > 00readme.ctan
 > 00readme.saveset
 > 00todo
 > 0ltxinst.txt
 > 0texinstall.txt
 > Alpha/
 > Alpha/bibtex_axp_exe.zip
 > Alpha/dvips558_axp_exe.zip
 > Alpha/indexing_axp_exe.zip
 > Alpha/misc_axp.zip
 > Alpha/mfware_axp_exe.zip
 > Alpha/mf_axp_exe.zip
 > Alpha/texware_axp_exe.zip
 > Alpha/tex_axp_exe.zip
 > Alpha/vfware_axp_exe.zip
 > Alpha/web_axp_exe.zip
 > Alpha/xdvi_axp_exe.zip
 > Alpha/texmf_utils_axp_obj.zip
 > Alpha/tex_mf_bib_axp_obj.zip
 > Alpha/web_axp_obj.zip
 > Alpha/dvips558_axp_obj.zip
 > Alpha/xdvi18_axp_obj.zip
 > Alpha/axp_vms15_pasrtlshr.zip
 > VAX/
 > VAX/bibtex_vax_exe.zip
 > VAX/dvips558_vax_exe.zip
 > VAX/indexing_vax_exe.zip
 > VAX/mfware_vax_exe.zip
 > VAX/mf_vax_exe.zip
 > VAX/texware_vax_exe.zip
 > VAX/tex_vax_exe.zip
 > VAX/vfware_vax_exe.zip
 > VAX/web_vax_exe.zip
 > VAX/xdvi_vax_exe.zip
 > VAX/texmf_utils_vax_obj.zip
 > VAX/tex_mf_bib_vax_obj.zip
 > VAX/web_vax_obj.zip
 > VAX/dvips558_vax_obj.zip
 > VAX/xdvi18_vax_obj.zip
 > dvips558_support.zip
 > dvips_fontsupport.zip
 > misc_common.zip
 > src/
 > src/bibtex.zip
 > src/texindex.zip
 > src/tex31415.zip
 > src/mf271.zip
 > src/texware.zip
 > src/mfware.zip
 > src/vfware.zip
 > src/web.zip
 > src/dvips558_vmssrc.zip
 > src/vms558.zip
 > src/xdvi-18-vmspatch.zip
 > src/xdvi-18-vmssource.zip
 > texmf_general.zip
 > ========= end contents =====================
 > 
 > The intended destination is
 > "tex-archive/systems/vms/"
 > 
 > Before you install the new revision, please remove the old contents of
 >  tex-archive/systems/vms/Alpha/
 >                         /VAX/
 >                         /src/
 > and the file
 >  dvips555_support.zip
 > 
 > Some highlights of the new release:
 > * Now, all programs of the Knuth core distribution are supported:
 >   - added patgen
 >   - added mft
 >   - added pktogf, gftopxl, pktopx, pxtopk, vftovp, vptovf
 > 
 > * Bugfixes in
 >   - tangle (important, use new release to recompile other TeX/MF sources)
 >   - vfware programs
 >   - TeX and MF command line interface
 > 
 > * Updated DVIPS to version 5.58
 > 
 > * Now, MF is BigMF (262142 word main memory)
 > 
 > * All `core programs' (Web, TeX, MF, BibTeX, TeX/MF/VFware) support
 >   wildcards in input file name specifications. This allows:
 >   ===>> automatic single/multilevel subdirectory searching !!!
 > 
 > * The "large" programs (TeX, MF, BibTeX) that use the VMS CLI system utility
 >   for command line parsing have now a default command table included
 >   in the executable. This allows installing these programs as
 >   `foreign commands'.
 > 
 > * The command line interface of the utility programs has been enhanced:
 >   - They use more useful defaults when (parts of the) arguments are missing.
 >   - The command line supports multiple arguments for those programs
 >     where this makes sence, to allow specification of input and output
 >     files on the command line.
 > 
 > For more information, please see the 0* files.
 > 
 > Best regards
 > 
 > Christian Spieler

The latest versions of the files have been installed on ftp.dante.de,
from where they will eventually propagate to the other CTAN hosts.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From sawade@marie.physik.TU-Berlin.DE Mon Mar 13 21:38:04 1995
Date: 13 Mar 1995 09:26:59 +0100
From: Guido Sawade <sawade@marie.physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: sawade@marie.physik.TU-Berlin.DE
Subject: To: Guido Sawade <sawa0432@mailszrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>, CTAN@SHSU.edu,

Dear Rainer Schoepf.

I have uploaded 
        dps558b.zip, dps558s.zip, 
        and dvips16.zip (by Matthias Eckermann)
onto
        ftp.dante.de:/incoming/dvips558pc.new/

These are updated versions of dvips5.58 for DOS/OS2/Windows,
now Version 2.10 (March 10 1995).

The files should replace as usual the former versions in
   /pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips558.pc/        (and      
   /pub/tex/systems/os2/drivers/dvips558.pc/            respectively)


What's new (or why should one update):

   Only two little changes are gone into this version:

   - The default setting for the P (PK Fonts path/name) value of 
     config.ps (if this is not set) is now correct.

   - dvips32.exe have had sometimes problems with option 
     -pv= (set by emTeX's dvidrv.exe) which works now properly.

The changes affect the files
        dps558b.zip: emtex/doc/dvips.doc
                     emtex/dvips32.exe
        dps558s.zip: dvips/dvips.c
                     dvips/pc/makefile.saw
        dvips16.zip: *

---
Gruss / Regards
       Guido Sawade   <sawade@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de>
       TU Berlin,  Opt.Inst. PN 0-1,  10623 Berlin,  FRG

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Mar 14 05:37:23 1995
Date: 14 Mar 1995 10:30:36 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: svensson@math.ubc.ca
Subject: kuvio and arrsy packages

.....
> The latter directory contains TeX macros (kuvio.tex) and documentation
> (tdwk-1.5.ps) for typesetting mathematical diagrams using TeX and dvips.
> The former directory contains a metafont containing arrowheads that can
> (optionally) be used with kuvio.tex.
> 
> I doubt that my font will interest anyone not using kuvio.tex, so I suggest
> that the whole svensson directory be placed in macros/generic/diagrams (rather
> than placing the font somewhere else).
> 
I have placed Anders Svensson's packages in
 macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio
and the fonts in macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio/arrsy

slightly different fromw hat was sugegsted. hope thats OK

sebastian rahtz

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Mar 14 06:56:07 1995
Date: 14 Mar 1995 12:51:38 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, sawade@marie.physik.TU-Berlin.DE
Subject: Re: To: Guido Sawade <sawa0432@mailszrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>, CTAN@SHSU.edu,

Guido Sawade writes:

 > I have uploaded 
 >         dps558b.zip, dps558s.zip, 
 >         and dvips16.zip (by Matthias Eckermann)
 > onto
 >         ftp.dante.de:/incoming/dvips558pc.new/

Thanks, I installed the files.

Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Mar 14 07:00:02 1995
Date: 14 Mar 1995 12:54:15 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Rainer Doerntge <Doerntge@tu-harburg.d400.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Rainer Doerntge writes:

 > I uploaded the file magic.tar.gz to /incoming at
 > ftp.dante.de. It contains two METAFONT-files magic.mf
 > and magic12.mf. These files are intended to be used
 > to create a font for the symbols on the Deckmaster(TM)
 > trading-card-game Magic(TM) from Wizards of the Coast,
 > Inc. The font contains 18 symbols which are described
 > in the header of magic.mf.
 > I recommend placing the .mf files into /fonts/magic.

Installed as proposed

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Mar 14 11:10:34 1995
Date: 14 Mar 1995 15:38:48 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: E.H.M.Frambach@eco.rug.nl, cgl@rc.service.rug.nl
Subject: Kees van der Laan's Publishing with TeX on CTAN

It is a real pleasure to announce that Kees van der Laan's
long-awaited "BLU bible", Publishing with TeX, has been made available
in the CTAN archives. This is, at fisrt sight, simply the manual for
Kees's BLU complete macro package, but it is in fact much more - a
philosophical treatise on TeX macro programming and using TeX. What is
more, Kees makes it available to anyone who wants to pick it up and
read it. Let us  salute his generosity and talents. 

the 130 page PWT is on CTAN in info/pwt. Its in both PostScript and
PDF form; the PS file uses Type1 CM fonts, so it should print on any
printer. Kees will be making the sources available in due course.

Sebastian Rahtz
for CTAN

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar 18 10:27:33 1995
Date: 18 Mar 1995 15:24:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: avinash@acm.org
Subject: Re: itrans40.zip - Indian script: Devanagari/Tamil/Telugu/Bengali

In article <9503180549.kp10810@simtel.coast.net> avinash@acm.org writes:
>I have uploaded to SimTel, the Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm),
>(available by anonymous ftp from the primary mirror site OAK.Oakland.Edu
>and its mirrors):
>
>ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/tex/itrans40.zip
>ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/tex/itransps.zip
>
>SimTel/msdos/tex/
>itrans40.zip    Indian script: Devanagari/Tamil/Telugu/Bengali
>itransps.zip    PostScript printer ready manuals for ITRANS40
>
>ITRANS is a pre-processor for use with TeX.  It provides an ASCII
>encoding for Indian Language Scripts, currently Devanagari, Tamil,
>Telugu, and Bengali are supported.  Documents written in the ITRANS
>encoding can be printed out in the native scripts.  Not all language
>fonts are included with ITRANS, but fonts required are all freeware
>and available at various FTP sites, see documentation for more
>details.
>
>For Devanagari, TeX is not absolutely necessary, a direct PostScript
>interface can be used, but that requires the user to know PostScript.
>
>Special requirements: PostScript printer, TeX.
>
>Changes: Support for CS/CSX encoding, inclusion of a TeX macro package
>that eases use.
>
>itrans40.zip replaces itrans32.zip and all earlier versions.
>
>Copyrighted, FreeWare application.  Uploaded by the author.
>
>Avinash Chopde

Following a brief correspondance with Avinash, I have installed the
same things as .tar.gz files on CTAN, as

 tex-archive/language/indian/itrans40.tar.gz
 tex-archive/language/indian/itransps.tar.gz

(I deleted the old itrans32.tar.gz, since itrans40 supersedes it.)
The installation was to ftp.tex.ac.uk; the files should propagate to
the other sites overnight.

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)
-- 
Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns     rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar 18 12:47:11 1995
Date: 18 Mar 1995 17:37:04 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: J.Goldberg@cranfield.ac.uk
Subject: Re: uploaded endfloat.tar.gz to uk incoming

Jeffrey Gold berg writes:

> I have placed endfloat.tar.gz in /incoming on ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>[...]
> It should \emph{replace} the material in
> 
>     /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/endfloat/
> 
> as it is an updated version (2.3) replacing 2.2.
> 
> The primary reason for this update is a bug fix regarding
> endfloats handling of the |figure*| environment.

I have replaced the original; the new version will make its way to
the other CTANs in due course (probably overnight).

Thanks for the contribution (it's good to see things in `supported'
being supported...)

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 23 05:35:56 1995
Date: 23 Mar 1995 10:30:01 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: asnd@erich.triumf.ca
Subject: Re: misc. uploads/updates

In his inimitable way, Donald Arseneau writes:

> I just uploaded some files to /incoming/asnd.  There are a few version
> updates, and some new tidbits that were originally responses on c.t.t.
> 
> chapterbib.sty Do multiple bibliographies; one per \included file.
>                1.4 (11-MAR-1995)     LaTeX2e, 2.09
>    (update)    macros/latex/contrib/other/misc
> 
> dotseqn.dtx    Format equations with leaders to the equation number.
>                1.0   1995            LaTeX2e
>    NEW!        ...contrib/... wherever

Installed in macros/latex/contrib/other/dotseqn, together with a
readme by me explaining that dotseqn.dtx both extracts its own
contents and documents itself.

> fwlw.sty       First Word / Last Word of page printed in header/footer.
>                1995                  LaTeX2e, LaTeX2.09
>    "New"       macros/latex/contrib/other/misc
> 
> relsize.sty    Setting font size realtive to the current size
>                2.0  Mar 15, 1995     LaTeX2e
>    (update)    macros/latex/contrib/other/misc
> 
> placeins.tex   prevent insertions from intruding into the following section
>                ver 2.0   Mar 3, 1995 Plain TeX
> (fix, update)  macros/plain/contrib
> 
> random.tex     Generating "random" numbers in TeX
>                1.0                   Plain TeX, LaTeX2.09, LaTeX2e
>   NEW          perhaps "/generic"  Wherever.

Installed in macros/generic

----------

I have installed the files for which Donald indicated a location in
the places he suggested, or where I have indicated in cases where he
didn't make an explicit suggestion.  This was all done at
ftp.tex.ac.uk; the stuff will propagate to the other CTAN sites and to
the mirrors in due course.

Yet again, thank you Donald, for your continuing services to the whole
TeX community.

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 23 11:02:41 1995
Date: 23 Mar 1995 15:47:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: pictures without setting \unitlength

In article <3kmmrk$al4@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
 <bshawyer@fermat.math.mun.ca> (Bruce Shawyer) wrote:
>Since I use the picture environment a lot, and teach \LaTeX in a course
>for second year university students, I have had a lot of experience in
>setting \unitlength.  Sometimes, when one changes a picture, \unitlength
>must be re-set (if one remembers in advance).
>
>Thus, I have written a macro  fullpict.sty  with explanation
>fullpict.doc [It defines] three new picture environments [in which]
>\unitlength is set automatically using `a' to give a picture [at some
>given proportion] of \textwidth.

I have installed Bruce's stuff in CTAN directory
                       macros/latex209/contrib/fullpict
at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it will propagate to the other CTAN sites soon.

He intends to perform qualification tests so that he can move it to
macros/latex/contrib/supported some time soon.

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From swift@acs.bu.edu Fri Mar 24 20:56:10 1995
Date: 24 Mar 1995 18:13:55 -0500
From: swift@acs.bu.edu
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: new LaTeX packages available -- general interest


A new LaTeX 2e package called Frankenstein is now on CTAN in the directory:

  pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/frankenstein

Frankenstein consists of a main body and a number of peripheral parts. 

The main body must be considered in alpha stage until June.  In other words, it
barely works, and even then hardly does what it should and could do. 

Frankenstein is on CTAN now, however, because five of its parts are useful,
robust, and available as separate packages.  They are of general interest to
LaTeX users, and are described briefly below.  One of them is of particular
interest to package and class writers; another implements a Chicago Manual
bibliography style in a way that will be of interest to bibstyle writers.  The
bibstyle will eventually be ported to the new LaTeX 3 Camel citator engine.

By robust I mean they are well-tested, and stable with respect to user syntax;
further improvements will be extensions or internal improvements.  A sixth
part, includex.sty, is not stable in this respect, but is available anyway.

The main body of Frankenstein is described more fully in the documentation
(120+ pages of self-documented code), and in a separate file.  A brief
description is given at the end of this note. 

Everything is released under the conditions of the GNU General Public License.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ lips.sty     \lips is a better macro for ellipses in text than \ldots, by the
               standard of the _Chicago Manual of Style_.  Works for 2.09.
        
+ tmacros.sty  _Text macros_ expand to a piece of text, and insert the proper
               space following, depending on context.  What is proper is
               determined by the kernel's variable \nocorrlist and an analogous
               variable \nospacelist.

               _Abbreviation macros_ are text macros that expand to something
               different the first time they are used.  It is expected that the
               second be an abbreviation of the first, but that need not be the
               case.

               Examples:

               \newname{ww}{William Wordsworth}{Wordsworth}
               \newbook{prelude}{The Prelude}       % in italic
               \newname{jekyll}{Dr.~Henry Jekyll}{Jekyll}
               \newname{ama}{American Medical Association (AMA)}{AMA}

               The manuscripts of \ww's \prelude differ. . . .
               Before beginning \prelude, \ww wrote. . . .

+ includex.sty This package defines \include* to be an \include with no
               \clearpage's.  With \includedoc, you can include only the
               document environment from a file.  (This will later be extended
               to arbitrary environments, that is, bits.  The present syntax,
               moreover, is not stable.)
  
               This package introduces some exciting possibilities for
               modularity among LaTeX files.  The biggest difficulty at present
               is how to handle the scoping of definitions and commands,
               especially in the preamble.

               Presently, control is achieved through the somewhat primitive
               method of disabling certain commands.  Further development of
               code and the establishment of coding protocols will eventually
               solve these difficulties.

+ achicago.sty 
+ achicago.bst You need to load this package in order to use the bibstyle,
               which is compliant with the Chicago Manual's A style, but with B
               style author-date citations. It has some neat features like
               automatic placement of punctuation inside quotation marks, and
               handling of titles within titles, that bibstyle programmers may
               wish to examine.  An option for annotations is available.  The
               style file is written with an almost totally redone library of
               nice clean routines in the stack language.  Compliance is high
               for book, article, inbook, incollection, manual; other entry
               types not guaranteed yet. 

+ autoload.sty Provides a simple macro that lets you make a command load a
               package.  Use this (carefully) to avoid loading big parts of a
               package that are infrequently used.  Internals will likely
               change. 

+ safedefs.sty Used by several of the others, this package defines some new
               defining commands that carefully avoid conflicts with command
               sequences, counters, token variables, booleans, and
               lengths. Writing these macros seemed necessary in order to
               maintain a large package which would offer some of its parts
               independently.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Very briefly, Frankenstein's main body treats documents and pieces of documents
as abstract, independent modules.  A bare minimum of markup will be necessary
to make existing files work with Frankenstein, and the whole package alters
(almost?)  nothing of the normal syntax of the standard styles.  The canonical
problem is putting together a book of poems and stories which each exist in
separate compilable source files.  Hence the name Frankenstein.  It could just
as well be a cookbook, or a collection of letters.  And it is also an excellent
way to control the presentation of individual documents.  One has a widget, and
wants to present it by itself, or combine it with other widgets and possibly
wodgets, at different times in different ways.  I have an essay, and I want to
send it in for a contest, send it to an editor, print it out for a friend,
include it in a newsletter, a letter, a book, And so on.  Frankenstein handles
this sort of thing.  In a small way it implements some of the object-oriented
principles described by the 2 authors in the 1994 TUGboat proceedings.  It is a
poor man's OOP processor.  The package will initially be oriented towards
humanities typesetting, but this is an artifact of its history.


Matt Swift
<swift@bu.edu>

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Mar 26 23:47:44 1995
Date: 26 Mar 1995 16:10:09 +0100
From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: An experimental gTeX version of TeX--XeT was uploaded to CTAN

In article <ryoung.148.0018B33D@utdallas.edu>,
Young U . Ryu <ryoung@utdallas.edu> wrote:
>
>>An experimental gTeX version of TeX--XeT was uploaded to CTAN
>
>It is right now available as:
>
>	ftp.shsu.edu:/incoming/gtex/tex--xet.zip
>	                            tex--xet.txt
>
>They will go to the:
>
>	/tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex
>
>directory.

I have installed them in the directory suggested by Young.  I (and the
whole TeX community) have reason to grateful to Young for his hard
work.

Robin Fairbairns
(for the CTAN team)

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Mar 28 16:44:49 1995
Date: 28 Mar 1995 15:57:34 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: New Patchlevel for LaTeX2e released

The LaTeX Programming Team wishes to announce the availability of
Patchlevel 2 of the December 94 release of LaTeX2e. 

For a list of changes please consult the file patches.txt in the
LaTeX2e distribution. A copy of the file is appended to this mail.

For the LaTeX Programming Team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy



----------------patches.txt

                        LaTeX Patches Guide
                      
                         22 March 1995

                           
This document describes the procedure by which changes to the LaTeX
distribution in between the six-monthly releases will be made.

Such changes will be made only when major problems are discovered and
fixed.  Other changes will only be made twice a year, in June and
December.

Changes which affect the file latex.ltx, and hence the format, are
called `patches to the LaTeX kernel': this concept is described in
detail below.  The changes of this type are described briefly at the
end of this file, in chronological order.

All changes to all files should be listed, in reverse-time order, in
the files called changes.txt: there is one in each distribution
subdirectory.

Some reports are marked with a number such as latex/1487. This means
that the original report, and any related correspondence, is available
in the public bugs report database, available on the World Wide Web:

   http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/latex/bugs.html



Patches to the LaTeX kernel dated <1994/12/01>
==============================================

New releases of LaTeX will occur at six-monthly intervals, in June and
December.  Between these releases it may be necessary to make small
updates to fix major problems.

We have made it relatively easy to install updates that affect only
the format---by placing all these changes in one file, called
ltpatch.ltx.

In order to update your LaTeX format you should put 
ltpatch.ltx where it can be read by iniTeX and then run iniTeX on
latex.ltx.  You do not need to unpack the latex sources again.

In this run of iniTeX, the file ltpatch.ltx (if it exists) will be
read just before the format file is `dumped'.  This will correct any
bugs and it will modify the opening banner of LaTeX: for example,
from:

LaTeX2e <1994/12/01>

to:

LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 2


Other changes
=============

Note that ltpatch.ltx fixes only bugs that are present in the LaTeX
format.  Problems in packages, classes and other files will be fixed
by re-issuing the appropriate files, some of which may need to be
unpacked.


Changes to the kernel in LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 1
-----------------------------------------------------------
(1994/12/19)

%%% latex/1275  \it \bf fix for first use in math mode.

%%% latex/1274: \k{} doesn't produce an ogonek accent

%%% (internal) Tracing code accidently left in production format.


Changes to the kernel in LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 2
-----------------------------------------------------------
(1995/03/13)

%%% latex/1239:  Bug report on ltbibl (base

%%% 1240 (internal) Saving more memory

%%% tools/1296: fontsmpl.tex gives TeX capacity exceeded

%%% 1317 (internal) \@for expanding its argument incorectly

%%% latex/1322: Again a problem with \^\i in headings ...

%%% latex/1329 + 1332: 
%%%         the primitive \abovewithdelims does not work in LaTeX

%%% latex/1344 + 1463  emergencystretch

%%% latex/1346: \@check@c needs to be \long

%%% 1388 (internal) Saving space

%%% latex/1392: AtBeginDvi broken

%%% 1405 (internal) Make allocations non-outer

%%% latex/1407 + 1420  Missing character if ams packages are used

%%% 1440 (internal) Please use the math alphabet \@mathbfinstead

%%% latex/1451: newline command \\ in eqnarray and output routine

%%% latex/1487: filecontents ruins \typein

%%% 1498 (internal, orig. from Donald Arseneau) \DeclareOption not \long

%%% 1507 (internal) \newenvironment argument parsing.


Changes to non-kernel files in LaTeX <1994/12/01>
--------------------------------------------------

This section details files that have changed in the
`base', `tools' and `mfnfss' distributions.
Updates to the `babel' `psnfss', `amslatex' and `graphics' 
distributions will be announced separately, if necessary.

To activate the non-kernel updates you have to retrieve the
.dtx files and unpack them with their corresponding .ins files
or alternatively (for the files in `base') you may obtain the unpacked
files from ctan archives.

base/compan.err     More corrections to "The LaTeX Companion"
base/slides.dtx     Fix for graphics/1335 (colour support)
base/classes.dtx    Improve colour support.
base/letter.dtx     Fix for latex/1375 (address label positioning)
base/alltt.dtx      Modify so \verb?\? works. (latex/1369)
base/latex209.dtx   Fix latex/1424 (\newcommand{\r}{}), and latex/1460

base/latexbug.tex   Improve interactive messages.
base/latexbug.el    Make more robust for emacs customisation.

tools/multicol.dtx  Colour support
tools/tabularx.dtx  Allow \tabularx to be used in \newenvironment defns
tools/showkeys.dtx  Assorted improvements: tools/1181/1434/1496


--- Copyright 1994-1995 the LaTeX3 project.  All rights reserved ---

From galko@trix.genie.uottawa.ca Thu Mar 30 15:08:20 1995
Date: 30 Mar 1995 09:01:06 -0500
From: Peter Galko <galko@trix.genie.uottawa.ca>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: New Patchlevel for LaTeX2e released

At 1:38 PM 3/30/95, F.E.Burstall@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote:
...
>
>rainer> tools/multicol.dtx  Colour support
>rainer> tools/tabularx.dtx  Allow \tabularx to be used in \newenvironment defns
>rainer> tools/showkeys.dtx  Assorted improvements: tools/1181/1434/1496
>
>However, at least at the UK CTAN, the updated versions of the files
>under tools do not seem to have arrived (as of 30 Mar 1995):
>
>  -rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     TeX       112421 Dec 17 18:03 multicol.dtx
>  -rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     TeX        13812 Dec 17 18:03 showkeys.dtx
>  -rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     TeX        28827 Dec 17 18:03 tabularx.dtx
>
>---Fran


Everyone should also note that one other file was updated:

tools/layout.dtx

Rainer acknowledged this was an oversight in preparing the list of changed
files.  The tools/ updates were on the dante CTAN site when I looked on the
27th, but had only just been put there that day.  At that moment the files
hadn't made it to the SHSU CTAN site, but they are there now.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peter Galko                                 Tel: (613)-562-5800 ext. 6204
Room A509, Colonel By Hall                  FAX: (613)-562-5175
770 King Edward Avenue                   e-mail: galko@elg.uottawa.ca
Department of Electrical Engineering         or  galko@trix.genie.uottawa.ca
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA  K1N 6N5
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 30 15:09:13 1995
Date: 30 Mar 1995 16:12:43 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: F.E.Burstall@maths.bath.ac.uk
Subject: Re: New Patchlevel for LaTeX2e released

Fran Burstall writes:

> rainer> tools/multicol.dtx  Colour support
> rainer> tools/tabularx.dtx  Allow \tabularx to be used in \newenvironment defns
> rainer> tools/showkeys.dtx  Assorted improvements: tools/1181/1434/1496
> 
> However, at least at the UK CTAN, the updated versions of the files
> under tools do not seem to have arrived (as of 30 Mar 1995):
> 
>   -rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     TeX       112421 Dec 17 18:03 multicol.dtx
>   -rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     TeX        13812 Dec 17 18:03 showkeys.dtx
>   -rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     TeX        28827 Dec 17 18:03 tabularx.dtx

We never got any installation commands to mirror the stuff in tools/,
and I didn't notice that he'd announced changes to tools and so didn't
chase it up.

In fact, on dante, layout.dtx changed at the same time.  Curiouser and
curiouser, and he didn't even announce that.

Robin

From F.E.Burstall@maths.bath.ac.uk Thu Mar 30 08:36:07 1995
Date: 30 Mar 1995 13:38:18 -0300 (BST)
From: F.E.Burstall@maths.bath.ac.uk
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: New Patchlevel for LaTeX2e released


In his announcement of patch 2, Rainer says:

rainer> To activate the non-kernel updates you have to retrieve the
rainer> .dtx files and unpack them with their corresponding .ins files
rainer> or alternatively (for the files in `base') you may obtain the unpacked
rainer> files from ctan archives.

rainer> base/compan.err     More corrections to "The LaTeX Companion"
rainer> base/slides.dtx     Fix for graphics/1335 (colour support)
rainer> base/classes.dtx    Improve colour support.
rainer> base/letter.dtx     Fix for latex/1375 (address label positioning)
rainer> base/alltt.dtx      Modify so \verb?\? works. (latex/1369)
rainer> base/latex209.dtx   Fix latex/1424 (\newcommand{\r}{}), and latex/1460

rainer> base/latexbug.tex   Improve interactive messages.
rainer> base/latexbug.el    Make more robust for emacs customisation.

rainer> tools/multicol.dtx  Colour support
rainer> tools/tabularx.dtx  Allow \tabularx to be used in \newenvironment defns
rainer> tools/showkeys.dtx  Assorted improvements: tools/1181/1434/1496

However, at least at the UK CTAN, the updated versions of the files
under tools do not seem to have arrived (as of 30 Mar 1995):

  -rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     TeX       112421 Dec 17 18:03 multicol.dtx
  -rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     TeX        13812 Dec 17 18:03 showkeys.dtx
  -rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     TeX        28827 Dec 17 18:03 tabularx.dtx

---Fran

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Apr  1 00:06:32 1995
Date: 31 Mar 1995 17:34:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Damian.Cugley@comlab.oxford.ac.uk
Subject: Damian Cugley: CTAN Submission

Damian Cugley writes:

------- Forwarded Message

Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 18:46:54 BST
From: Damian Cugley <Damian.Cugley@comlab.oxford.ac.uk>
To: ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: CTAN Submission

> Your message should (a) [state] which site you have uploaded to (b)
> state what file(s) you have uploaded, (c) include a brief overview of
> what the file(s) is/are intended to do, and (d) where you recommend
> placing your submission within the CTAN directory hierarchy.

(a) ftp.tex.ac.uk

(b)
- -rw-rw-r--   1 ftp      ctan        2239 Mar 30 17:33 pdcmac-1.0.README
- -rw-rw-r--   1 ftp      ctan      154470 Mar 30 17:32 pdcmac-1.0.tar.gz
- -rw-rw-r--   1 ftp      ctan      179434 Mar 30 17:33 pdcmac-1.0.zip
(The ZIP and tar.gz files contain the same files.)

(c) A collection of plain TeX macros, including a font selection scheme,
an output routine, formatting macros and some sample style files.  These
are new & improved versions of macro files from my Malvern distribution
that have been absorbed by some distributions of Unix TeX.  Has
GNU-style auto-configuration and makefile for Unix systems.

(d) tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac/*


Here's a copy of "pdcmac-1.0.README".  It has a copy of my signature
file at the end.  If you want to keep a copy of this file in the
installed directory, I suggest renaming it "announce.txt".  (This file
is *NOT* the same as the 00readme.txt inside the tarfile.)

Thanks

- -- Damian

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
announce.txt  -*-text-*-  Time-stamp: <pdc 1995-03-30>


PDCMAC 1.0: Macros for plain TeX documents

What?

	PDCMAC is a collection of *non-LaTeX* macro files with (I hope)
	a reasonable division into mechanism files and policy files
	(which I call "style files").  There are sample style files
	included.  Because the macros are designed to work within the
	conventions of plain TeX, editing them should be reasonably
	straightforward for anyone familiar with plain TeX. :-)

Why?

	I use plain TeX to typeset magazines, and when it came to
	writing the Malvern Handbook I found it easier to generalize my
	zine macros than to work out how to do what I wanted to do with
	LaTeX 2.09.  And so the Malvern distribution includes a lot of
	quirky TeX macro files.  To my surprise these files have been
	absorbed into the UnixTeX distribution, despite idiosyncracies
	and many bugs that I never bothered to fix.

	Since distribution was now a _fait acompli_, I wanted to get the
	files debugged, rationalized, and documented, but every effort
	of documentation lead to my revising the macros so much the
	documentation was soon useless!  In the end I stole the idea of
	DTX files from LaTeX 2e.  My system is simpler than Docstrip +
	Doc-option, but uses the same idea of keeping documentation and
	code together in one file.

Where?

	The package is available as a compressed tarfile (compressed
	with GNU zip) called pdcmac-1.0.tar.gz or pdcmac10.tgz (when
	short file names are mandatory).  There are installation
	instructions and also a GNU-style configure script for use on
	Unix systems.

	It is currently available on the Oxford University Computing
	Laboratory FTP server:

	    ftp://ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk/tmp/Damian.Cugley/pdcmac-1.0.tar.gz
	    ftp://ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk/tmp/Damian.Cugley/pdcmac-1.0.zip

	On CTAN I expect the unpacked files it would go in:

	    macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac/

Who?

	P. Damian Cugley
- -- 
P. Damian Cugley * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * <damian.cugley@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford  OX1 3QD, UK
Alleged Literature, c/o Damian Cugley, 255B Banbury Road, Oxford  OX2 7HN, UK
http://boothp1.ecs.ox.ac.uk:5705/people/pdc.html * My other computer is a Linux

------- End of Forwarded Message

I have installed pdcmac, as suggested, on ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should
propagate to the other CTAN sites `soon'.

Thanks, Damian, for the contribution

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From hafner@almaden.ibm.com Sat Apr  1 00:10:11 1995
Date: 31 Mar 1995 10:02:41 -0800 (PST)
From: hafner@almaden.ibm.com
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: FoilTeX 2.0 for LaTeX2e installed on CTAN

******************************************************************
****** ANNOUNCING the release of FoilTeX 2.0 for LaTeX2e *********
******************************************************************

I have recently uploaded the latest (actually second) release of the
FoilTeX system for generating foils (transparencies, slides) using
TeX.  You should find it on your nearest CTAN in
    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex
(Thanks to the maintainers for installing this!)

*******************  About the package ***************************

  Its features include simplicity of use, compatibility with LaTeX,
  large sans serif font as default, extra macros to start foils with
  bold headings and special mechanisms to control footer and header.

The new version has a number of enhancements:

 1) This version is completely integrated as a LaTeX2e class package
    and so does not require it's own format file.
 2) For users of Rokicki's dvips, I have added simple mechanisms for
    rotating individual foils or the entire document.
 3) It now supports even larger fonts (up to about 51pt) using
    the standard relative font changing mechanisms (like \Huge).
 4) Old FoilTeX files *should* run through with little problem
    in compatibility mode.
 5) There are class options for adding a line below the header
    and/or above the footer (sort of like fancyheadings.sty).
 6) Because it is integrated into LaTeX2e, there is no need
    for many of the additional files that came with the original
    version (e.g., the modified psfonts stuff, stuff for ams fonts,
    colordvi.sty or system specific files).
 7) It has been packaged using the docstrip utilities for ease
    of distribution and maintenance.
 8) It fully supports the usual float environments (like table
    and figure) but the actual floating has been disabled.  In
    this way they appear exactly where you place them, but the
    interface is standard LaTeX2e.
 9) I added a 35mmSlide class option to get a page size that
    can easily convert to film.

Note:  this package has certain use restrictions so please read the
       user agreement in the foiltex.ins file.   It is copyright
       1995 by IBM.

The package consists of three files:  readme.flt, foiltex.ins and
foiltex.dtx.  The last of these is the self-documented source files.
You can run latex on foiltex.ins to unpack the files.  Running latex
on foiltex.dtx will generate the user guide.

As usual, comments, suggestions, bug reports and fixes are welcome.

*********************** Acknowledgements **************************

I would be remiss if I failed to acknowledge all the help I got in
putting this together.  First of course is IBM.  Next is all the users
of the first release for their words of encouragement, suggestions and
bug reports.  Third is the entire LaTeX3 team.  These guys deserve a
tremendous cheer of support for what they have done to enhance LaTeX's
functionality as well as manageability both at the system level and the
class design level.  This new FoilTeX was incredibly easy to integrate
into LaTeX because of the wonderful code design.  They also deserve my
personal thanks for answering so many of my dumb and not-so-dumb
questions during the design, conversion and implementation.

Special thanks to David Carlisle, Frank Mittelbach, Allan Jeffrey and
Sebastian Rahtz.  They never let a question go unanswered and always
had good suggestions.


Jim Hafner
......................................................................
IBM Research Division                Phone: (408) 927-1892
Almaden Research Center K53/802      FAX: (408) 927-3030
650 Harry Road                       Bitnet:  hafner@almaden
San Jose, CA  95120-6099             Internet:  hafner@almaden.ibm.com
......................................................................
"The history of science rewrites itself each day.  We're living in days
of wonder, Simon says."   Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe
......................................................................

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Apr  1 10:04:09 1995
Date: 01 Apr 1995 15:53:11 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Mangling of ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/macros/latex

I contrived to have the nightly mirror process delete (almost) all of
the LaTeX tree here.

I have restored the files (as best I can) by re-mirroring from
ftp.dante.de and from ftp.shsu.edu

My humble apologies are offered to anyone inconvenienced by my cack-
handedness.

Robin Fairbairns
(Not presuming, for once, to speak for the CTAN team.)

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Sat Apr  1 05:10:19 1995
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 95 12:00:44 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ccnet-l <@cunyvm.cuny.edu:ccnet-l@uga.BITNET>, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, linux-asia@li.org, soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp
Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 2.5 beta 1


I've just uploaded a beta version of CJK 2.5 to ftp.dante.de .
It should be available soon on all CTAN servers and its mirror sites.

[CJK is a macro package for LaTeX2e to enable Chinese/Japanese/Korean
 in various encodings (including Unicode)]


    Werner

From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Mon Apr  3 12:02:00 1995
Date: 03 Apr 1995 12:58:40 -0300 (BST)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: New Patchlevel for LaTeX2e released


On 28th March, Rainer posted to this list to announce `Patch level 2'
of the current LaTeX release.

* There were unfortunately some problems with the mirroring between ctan
  sites, and so the `unpacked' distribution was not correctly updated at
  all ctan sites at that time. This has now been rectified.

* Also, that release introduced a slight problem with the \sqrt command,
  so ltpatch.ltx has been updated again to bring LaTeX to 

  LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 3

  (If you have already installed patch level 2, you just need to obtain
  ltpatch.ltx, and re-run initex on latex.ltx)

* Lastly the patch level 2 announcement omitted to mention that
  `layout.tex' in the tools bundle has also been updated.

Apologies for any confusion caused by these problems.

David Carlisle
  For the LaTeX Programming Team


Here is the announcement of `patch level 2' again:

==================================================================

The LaTeX Programming Team wishes to announce the availability of
Patchlevel 2 of the December 94 release of LaTeX2e. 

For a list of changes please consult the file patches.txt in the
LaTeX2e distribution. A copy of the file is appended to this mail.

For the LaTeX Programming Team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy



----------------patches.txt

                        LaTeX Patches Guide
                      
                         22 March 1995

                           
This document describes the procedure by which changes to the LaTeX
distribution in between the six-monthly releases will be made.

Such changes will be made only when major problems are discovered and
fixed.  Other changes will only be made twice a year, in June and
December.

Changes which affect the file latex.ltx, and hence the format, are
called `patches to the LaTeX kernel': this concept is described in
detail below.  The changes of this type are described briefly at the
end of this file, in chronological order.

All changes to all files should be listed, in reverse-time order, in
the files called changes.txt: there is one in each distribution
subdirectory.

Some reports are marked with a number such as latex/1487. This means
that the original report, and any related correspondence, is available
in the public bugs report database, available on the World Wide Web:

   http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/latex/bugs.html



Patches to the LaTeX kernel dated <1994/12/01>
==============================================

New releases of LaTeX will occur at six-monthly intervals, in June and
December.  Between these releases it may be necessary to make small
updates to fix major problems.

We have made it relatively easy to install updates that affect only
the format---by placing all these changes in one file, called
ltpatch.ltx.

In order to update your LaTeX format you should put 
ltpatch.ltx where it can be read by iniTeX and then run iniTeX on
latex.ltx.  You do not need to unpack the latex sources again.

In this run of iniTeX, the file ltpatch.ltx (if it exists) will be
read just before the format file is `dumped'.  This will correct any
bugs and it will modify the opening banner of LaTeX: for example,
from:

LaTeX2e <1994/12/01>

to:

LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 2


Other changes
=============

Note that ltpatch.ltx fixes only bugs that are present in the LaTeX
format.  Problems in packages, classes and other files will be fixed
by re-issuing the appropriate files, some of which may need to be
unpacked.


Changes to the kernel in LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 1
-----------------------------------------------------------
(1994/12/19)

%%% latex/1275  \it \bf fix for first use in math mode.

%%% latex/1274: \k{} doesn't produce an ogonek accent

%%% (internal) Tracing code accidently left in production format.


Changes to the kernel in LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 2
-----------------------------------------------------------
(1995/03/13)

%%% latex/1239:  Bug report on ltbibl (base

%%% 1240 (internal) Saving more memory

%%% tools/1296: fontsmpl.tex gives TeX capacity exceeded

%%% 1317 (internal) \@for expanding its argument incorectly

%%% latex/1322: Again a problem with \^\i in headings ...

%%% latex/1329 + 1332: 
%%%         the primitive \abovewithdelims does not work in LaTeX

%%% latex/1344 + 1463  emergencystretch

%%% latex/1346: \@check@c needs to be \long

%%% 1388 (internal) Saving space

%%% latex/1392: AtBeginDvi broken

%%% 1405 (internal) Make allocations non-outer

%%% latex/1407 + 1420  Missing character if ams packages are used

%%% 1440 (internal) Please use the math alphabet \@mathbfinstead

%%% latex/1451: newline command \\ in eqnarray and output routine

%%% latex/1487: filecontents ruins \typein

%%% 1498 (internal, orig. from Donald Arseneau) \DeclareOption not \long

%%% 1507 (internal) \newenvironment argument parsing.


Changes to non-kernel files in LaTeX <1994/12/01>
--------------------------------------------------

This section details files that have changed in the
`base', `tools' and `mfnfss' distributions.
Updates to the `babel' `psnfss', `amslatex' and `graphics' 
distributions will be announced separately, if necessary.

To activate the non-kernel updates you have to retrieve the
.dtx files and unpack them with their corresponding .ins files
or alternatively (for the files in `base') you may obtain the unpacked
files from ctan archives.

base/compan.err     More corrections to "The LaTeX Companion"
base/slides.dtx     Fix for graphics/1335 (colour support)
base/classes.dtx    Improve colour support.
base/letter.dtx     Fix for latex/1375 (address label positioning)
base/alltt.dtx      Modify so \verb?\? works. (latex/1369)
base/latex209.dtx   Fix latex/1424 (\newcommand{\r}{}), and latex/1460

base/latexbug.tex   Improve interactive messages.
base/latexbug.el    Make more robust for emacs customisation.

tools/multicol.dtx  Colour support
tools/tabularx.dtx  Allow \tabularx to be used in \newenvironment defns
tools/showkeys.dtx  Assorted improvements: tools/1181/1434/1496


--- Copyright 1994-1995 the LaTeX3 project.  All rights reserved ---


From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Apr  4 05:54:35 1995
Date: 04 Apr 1995 09:36:33 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: zaccone@bucknell.edu
Subject: Re: Excalibur 2.1

Installed on CTAN (UK) as requested. should propagate to the other
sites within the next 24 hours

Thanks, Rick

sebastian rahtz

> I have uploaded Excalibur 2.1 into you incoming directory.  You should
> replace
> 
> tex-archive/systems/mac/support/excalibur/Excalibur-20-sea.hqx
> 
> with this file.  Attached is a brief description.
> 
> Rick Zaccone
> -- 
> zaccone@bucknell.edu
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is release 2.1 of Excalibur (3/28/95).  It fixes all known bugs.
> If you know about a bug that I haven't fixed, please let me know.
> 
> Excalibur is a Macintosh spelling checker for LaTeX documents. You can
> optionally turn off LaTeX parsing, so Excalibur is a good plain text
> spelling checker too.
> 
> Features include:
> 
> - Excalibur will offer suggestions for how to correct a word.
> 
> - Excalibur can spell check the clipboard. This makes it a good
> spelling checker for any text based application such as Alpha, BBEdit,
> or Eudora.
> 
> - You can teach it about new LaTeX commands and environments that you
> define.
> 
> - Optionally spell checks text in the typewriter (\tt) font.
> 
> - You can create your own dictionaries.
> 
> - Works with Textures and OzTeX documents. It should work on any TEXT
> file.
> 
> - You will need System 6.0.5 or higher to run Excalibur.
> 
> - If you are running System 7 or greater, there is balloon help.
> 
> - Excalibur is free.
> 
> - British, Dutch, French, German, and Italian dictionaries are also
> available.
> 
> - It runs in native mode on a PowerPC.  This is a fat binary.
> 
> Version 2.1 changes:
> 
> - Excalibur now has a new look!
> 
> - There are better error message when Excalibur detects a syntax error.
> 
> - There are better error messages when doing conversions.
> 
> Rick Zaccone
> zaccone@bucknell.edu
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From tiedtke@vnwz00.uni-muenster.de Wed Apr  5 12:04:02 1995
Date: 05 Apr 1995 11:03:31 -0500 (EST)
From: tiedtke@vnwz00.uni-muenster.de
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: CTAN Submission: MetaPost for OS/2

On behalf of the original OS/2 implementor Peter Miller
(miller@hac2arpa.hac.com) I'm pleased to announce the availabilitry of
MetaPost 0.62 for OS/2 (and DOS?).

>From John D. Hobby's original announcement of the public release of
MetaPost: "The MetaPost language is based on METAFONT, but it outputs
PostScript and it has the facilities for including TeX output and
manipulating the resuling picture."

It's now in the incoming/MetaPost4OS2 directory at ftp.dante.de. It will
soon propagate to the other mirrors. It should be found in
/tex-archive/systems/os2/metapost.


The package consists of:

  0. INSTALL      -   Installation instructions
  1. mp_exe.zip   -   mp.exe
  2. config.mp    -   text file containing Peter's metapost setup for CONFIG.SYS
  3. mp_lib1.zip  -   containing the contents of the mp/bin library
  4. mp_lib2.zip  -   containing the remaining contents of the mp/ library:
  5. mp_test.zip  -   contains a little test file to test the installation.

MP uses an Unix shell-script during runtime, so you have to install

  6. mh_sh23.zip  -   DataLogic Shell Version 2.3

If you do not have at least emtex beta12 you also have to install the latest
emx-runtime

  7. emxrt.zip    -   emx runtime package

To compile the original sources, which can be found on CTAN at
tex-archive/graphics/metapost, you need

  8. tftopl.zip   -   containing tftopl.exe
  9. pltotf.zip   -   containing pltotf.exe
 10. tangle.zip   -   containing tangle.exe
 11. web2c.zip    -   containing web2c.exe
 12. patches.zip  -   containing the patches Peter applied to the original
                      sources


For a running version you need at least 0.-6. and propably 7. For recompiling
you need the emx 0.9a package, files 8.-12. and the original WEB sources for
MetaPost (CTAN:tex-archive/graphics/metapost).

To unpack the archives you need OS/2 ports of Info-ZIPs UNZIP and ports of the
UNIX tools GNUzip and tar if you want to recompile the packages. All can be
found on CTAN in the tools-subdirectory.

Happy MetaPosting,

Uwe Baumert (baumert@uni-muenster.de)

********************************************************************************
* Institute for General Zoology and Genetics                                   *
* University of Muenster                                                       *
* Schlossplatz 5                                          Tel.: +49 251 834675 *
* D-48149 Muenster, Germany                                Fax: +49 251 834723 *
********************************************************************************


From Damian.Cugley@comlab.oxford.ac.uk Fri Apr  7 15:46:51 1995
Date: 07 Apr 1995 19:02:13 -0300 (BST)
From: Damian Cugley <Damian.Cugley@comlab.oxford.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: malvern@comlab.oxford.ac.uk
Subject: PDCMAC 1.0: Macros for plain TeX documents

PDCMAC 1.0: Macros for plain TeX documents

What?

	PDCMAC is a collection of plain TeX macros, including a font
	selection scheme, an output routine, formatting macros and some
	sample style files.  These are new & improved versions of macro
	files from my Malvern distribution that have apparantly been
	absorbed by some distributions of Unix TeX.  Because the
	macros are designed to work within the conventions of plain TeX,
	editing them should be reasonably straightforward for anyone
	familiar with plain TeX. :-)

	It has GNU-style auto-configuration and makefile for Unix
	systems.

Why?

	I use plain TeX to typeset magazines, and when it came to
	writing the Malvern Handbook I found it easier to generalize my
	zine macros than to work out how to do what I wanted to do with
	LaTeX 2.09.  And so the Malvern distribution includes a lot of
	quirky TeX macro files.  To my surprise these files have been
	absorbed into the Unix TeX distribution, despite idiosyncracies
	and many bugs that I never bothered to fix.

	Since distribution was now a _fait acompli_, I wanted to get the
	files debugged, rationalized, and documented, but every effort
	of documentation lead to my revising the macros so much the
	documentation was soon useless!  In the end I stole the idea of
	DTX files from LaTeX 2e.  My system is simpler than Docstrip +
	Doc-option, but uses the same idea of keeping documentation and
	code together in one file.

Where?

	On CTAN the unpacked files are in macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac/ ,
	and the tarfile is macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac.tar.gz .

Who?

	P. Damian Cugley
-- 
P. Damian Cugley * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * <damian.cugley@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford  OX1 3QD, UK
Alleged Literature, c/o Damian Cugley, 255B Banbury Road, Oxford  OX2 7HN, UK
http://boothp1.ecs.ox.ac.uk:5705/people/pdc.html * My other computer is a Linux
	

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Apr 10 15:15:11 1995
Date: 10 Apr 1995 11:55:22 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: LaTeX 94-12-01 pl 3 released

On behalf of the LaTeX programming team I'd like to announce the
availability of patchlevel 3 of the December 94 release of LaTeX. It
fixes one problem introduced in pl2, namely \sqrt not working
properly.

The LaTeX sources are, as usual, in

CTAN:macros/latex/base

or

CTAN:macros/latex/unpacked

If you have already grabbed pl2, the only file to update is
ltpatch.ltx.


On behalf of the LaTeX team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Apr 10 15:14:44 1995
Date: 10 Apr 1995 11:58:11 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: CTAN Submission: biblio/tib

kolb@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de (hans-peter kolb) uploaded a
replacement for biblio/tib to CTAN.

------------------------------------------------------------------


                           TiB

                    James Alexander's
               bibliographic preprocessor 
                       for (La)TeX           

in an easy-to-install distribution (at least under UNIX)
             put together by hans-peter kolb
            (kolb@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de).

It includes:

     - JA's original TiB-sources in a reasonable
       directory structure;
     - Sebastian Kremer's TiB-extensions (cf. sk/README);
     - a small EMACS-utility for using TiB with your
       favorite EMACS-(La)TeX-mode (also by S. Kremer---
       cf. elisp/tib.el);
     - a Makefile making installation (with or without
       SK's extensions) and testing of TiB a lot
       more comfortable.

Basically, if you have a standard setup with the TeX-tree
rooted in /usr/local/lib/texmf, all you have to do is

      make ja        for the original TiB,
   or
      make sk        for TiB with SK's extensions
plus
      make install.all

and you're set. A different setup requires just a few
variables at the top of the Makefile to be changed.

But please, do read the file INSTALL anyway...

To make this absolutely clear: All the interesting stuff
in this distribution is by James Alexander and Sebastian
Kremer. All I take credit (and blame) for is the
repackaging and the Makefiles...


-- 

------------------------------------------------------------------------
 hans-peter kolb                        kolb@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
 Universit"at T"ubingen/SfS                             +49-7071-297315
 Kleine Wilhelmstrasse 113                       +49-7071-72465 (priv.)
 D-72074 T"ubingen (Germany)                       FAX: +49-7071-550520
------------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Apr 11 11:22:22 1995
Date: 11 Apr 1995 13:39:13 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Frank Jensen <fj@iesd.auc.dk>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Frank Jensen writes:

 > I have uploaded a new version of the `calc' package (described in The
 > LaTeX Companion) to ftp.dante.de (incoming/calc.tar.gz).
 > 
 > Change from previous version: A one-level expansion of the expression
 > argument is now performed prior to evaluation.

Thanks a lot, the update has been installed on ftp.dante.de from where
it will propagate to the other CTAN hosts.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Apr 12 10:02:46 1995
Date: 12 Apr 1995 12:34:35 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: R A Bailey <r.a.bailey@qmw.ac.uk>
Subject: LMS package installed

Following a suggestion from an UK mathematician, I've installed the
London Mathematical Society's package as

 /public/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/lms/lms.sty
                                                /lmsguide.tex
                                                /lmssampl.tex
                                                /readme.txt

on ftp.tex.ac.uk

It'll propagate to the other CTANs in due course...

(It's rumoured that a LaTeX2e version is under wraps.)

R

From BENES@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz Wed Apr 12 08:19:48 1995
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 12:21:19 MET-0100
From: Miroslav Benes <BENES@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Hi, folks
   these informations about new versions of software are very good 
thing, but I (and, I'm sure, all of us) would be very happy if the 
announcements always contain any short information (3 lines?) about 
the purpose of the uploaded package. For users of previous versions of 
a package it's not necessary, but the message "QadxWrd version 6.2831 
has been uploaded...." is of no use for me, if I do not know what the 
QadxWrd is.

Thanks in advance
   Mirek Benes
   

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Miroslav Benes                     
Dept. of Computer Science & Eng.    voice:  +42-5-7275/238     
Technical University of Brno        fax:    +42-5-41211141
Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno
Czech Republic                      e-mail: benes@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Apr 13 06:12:32 1995
Date: 13 Apr 1995 09:55:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: BENES@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Miroslav Benes writes:

>    these informations about new versions of software are very good 
> thing, but I (and, I'm sure, all of us) would be very happy if the 
> announcements always contain any short information (3 lines?) about 
> the purpose of the uploaded package. For users of previous versions of 
> a package it's not necessary, but the message "QadxWrd version 6.2831 
> has been uploaded...." is of no use for me, if I do not know what the 
> QadxWrd is.

Indeed.  We do ask those who wish to submit to provide us with
something to fill this bill, and if they supply it, we post it.

However, none of the archivists has the time to work out what someone
else's package does; therefore, if nothing is supplied, nothing gets
posted.

Sorry about that...

Robin Fairbairns

From sanders@umich.edu Thu Apr 13 18:47:58 1995
Date: 13 Apr 1995 10:17:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Sanders <sanders@umich.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX 94-12-01 pl 3 released

On Mon, 10 Apr 1995, Rainer Schoepf wrote:

> On behalf of the LaTeX programming team I'd like to announce the
> availability of patchlevel 3 of the December 94 release of LaTeX. It
> fixes one problem introduced in pl2, namely \sqrt not working
> properly.
> 
I installed the patch successfully, but... What, exactly, was the \sqrt 
problem? Both pl2 and pl3 seem to pass the tests I tried. 

(T.) Michael Sanders				internet: sanders@umich.edu
Physics Department				bitnet: sanders@umiphys
University of Michigan				phone: 313/936-0799
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120			FAX:  313/764-6843

From tim@maths.tcd.ie Thu Apr 13 20:15:41 1995
Date: 13 Apr 1995 14:48:30 +0000 (BST)
From: Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

> 
> 
> >    these informations about new versions of software are very good 
> > thing, but I (and, I'm sure, all of us) would be very happy if the 
> > announcements always contain any short information (3 lines?) about 
> > the purpose of the uploaded package. For users of previous versions of 
> > a package it's not necessary, but the message "QadxWrd version 6.2831 
> > has been uploaded...." is of no use for me, if I do not know what the 
> > QadxWrd is.
> 
> Indeed.  We do ask those who wish to submit to provide us with
> something to fill this bill, and if they supply it, we post it.

Might I suggest, very tentatively, that the Linux system might be followed,
where each piece of software is accompanied by a short .lsm file 
which describes the software.

Here for example is eps.lsm which accompanies the DVI-to-Epson driver "eps":

=========================================================

Begin2
Title        = eps-0.6.2 - dvi driver for epson-like printers
Version      = 0.6.2
Desc1        = This is a driver to print dvi files on epson-like printers.
Desc2        = This version is highly configurable and should be able to handle
Desc3        = many kinds of printers.  You must get version 0.6.2 to compile with
Desc4        = gcc-2.5.8.
Author       = Neal Becker
AuthorEmail  = neal@ctd.comsat.com
Maintainer   = Neal Becker
MaintEmail   = neal@ctd.comsat.com
Site1        = sunsite.unc.edu
Path1        = pub/Linux/apps/tex
File1        = eps-0.6.2.tar.gz
FileSize1    = 104647
Site2        = ftp.ctd.comsat.com
Path2        = pub
Required1    = c++, TeX
CopyPolicy1  = see source
Keywords     = TeX, dvi
EnteredBy    = Neal Becker
End
=========================================================



From drw@umassmed.UMMED.EDU Sat Apr 15 04:40:27 1995
Date: 14 Apr 1995 12:35:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Doug Waud <drw@umassmed.UMMED.EDU>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN submission


When I first read that message about accompanying CTAN submissions
with some background on the specific files being offered, my heart
raced because here was a chance to help out. Although I tend not to
know very much about TeX, here, for once, was something I could deal
with. But, I assumed that, if the issue were that simple, others would
respond. So I did not. Now, however, I note that no help was offered
so let me try to be helpful.

The issue was simply that the message

>>QadxWrd version 6.2831 has been uploaded

was of no use to the individual posting the query. Let me explain.

First note that DOS requires that file names be no longer than 8
characters. Therefore one has to abbreviate. However one can usually
read between the lines and decipher what the name is short for.

In the present example, one can break the name down into three parts
--- Qa dx and Wrd. Now Qa obviously means ``Quality assurance'';
that part is easy. The dx may not be immediately obvious but let me
call on my medical background to clarify. You are probably familiar
with Rx, actually written as an R with a slash across the righthand
foot. This is used in prescriptions and, from there, is used by
physicians to denote ``therapy'' more generally. It is then as small
step from there to using ``dx'' as a abbreviation for ``diagnosis''.

Finally we come to the Wrd. Now here we have vintage TeX. Indeed, I
spend a lot of time ``Looking up weird error in the index'' to the
TeXbook.

So now you can see how it all comes together. That program QadxWrd
was obviously developed to put some quality into diagnosis of
``weird errors''.

One final note: are you sure it is version 6.2831 and not 6.2731?
Might there be a typo in there?

doug
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Department of Pharmacology    		(Internet: drw@ummed.edu)
U. Massachusetts Med. Sch.    		(aka 146.189.16.2)
55 Lake Avenue North          		(FAX: 508-856 5080)
Worcester, MA, 01655-0216     		(Voice: 508 856 3339)
******************************************************************************

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Apr 19 06:47:08 1995
Date: 19 Apr 1995 10:37:37 +0100
From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Version 2.0.6 of Harvard Bibliographic Package

In article <D75nLH.9n0@ucc.su.oz.au>,
Peter Williams <peterw@arch.su.edu.au> wrote:
>A new version of the harvard bibliographic package is available for ftp at
>
>ftp://ftp.arch.su.edu.au/pub/harvard/harvard-2.0.6.tar.gz
>
>This version contains modifications to prevent the expansion of macros that
>appear in citations and is due to Kristoffer H. Rose <kris@diku.dk>
>
>For those unfamiliar with the harvard bibliographic package a description
>is available via the WWW at
>
>http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~peterw/latex/harvard

I have replaced the old version on CTAN at tex-archive/macros/
latex/contrib/supported/harvard with Peter's new version.  It's
available now on ftp.tex.ac.uk, and will propagate to the other CTANs
in due course.

From smoliar@iss.nus.sg Thu Apr 20 10:05:33 1995
Date: 20 Apr 1995 12:37:08 +0800
From: Stephen Smoliar <smoliar@iss.nus.sg>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Version 2.0.6 of Harvard Bibliographic Package

>>
>>For those unfamiliar with the harvard bibliographic package a description
>>is available via the WWW at
>>
>>http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~peterw/latex/harvard
>
I just tried to check this, and archsci:80 is either off the air or out to
lunch.  Can anyone tell me if LaTeX 2.09 has been restored, or is this still
only for LaTeX2e?  (I still have to work with papers sent to me in 2.09.)

Stephen W. Smoliar (smoliar@iss.nus.sg); Institute of Systems Science
National University of Singapore; Heng Mui Keng Terrace; Kent Ridge
SINGAPORE 0511;  Tel:  +65-772-3350;  FAX:  +65-473-9897

From swift@acs.bu.edu Thu Apr 20 23:55:17 1995
Date: 20 Apr 1995 14:22:12 -0400
From: swift@acs.bu.edu
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: swift@acs.bu.edu
Subject: GNU Emacs major modes for LateX and LaTeX doc.sty documents


Now at your local CTAN:

  $CTAN:pub/tex/support/emacs-modes/swiftex.el

>From the internal documentation:

;;;; INTRODUCTION
;;;
;;; This file defines major modes swifTeX and docTeX.  
;;;
;;; swifTeX mode is for editing buffers containing normal LaTeX files, and
;;; provides an alternative to the LateX modes in the standard Emacs
;;; distribution and the AUC TeX package.
;;;
;;; docTeX mode is for editing buffers containing self-documenting LaTeX code
;;; that uses the package "doc.sty", including the document class "ltxdoc".
;;; For these buffers, docTeX mode is significantly more useful than the
;;; alternatives provided by standard Emacs and AUC TeX.
;;;
;;; These modes are derived from the LaTeX mode in "tex-mode.el" (distributed
;;; with GNU Emacs) using the autoloaded function `define-derived-mode' in
;;; "derived.el" (also part of the standard distribution).
;;;
;;; The principal additions allow convenient, precise control over filling and
;;; outlining.  There are also a few improvements to help save typing.  In
;;; docTeX mode, functions are provided to help manage LaTeX file versions and
;;; dates.  These major modes are fully documented and well-tested.
;;;

Regards, 

  Matt Swift 
  member of the League for Programming Freedom

From sanders@umich.edu Thu Apr 20 22:21:25 1995
Date: 20 Apr 1995 14:37:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Sanders <sanders@umich.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Stephen Smoliar <smoliar@iss.nus.sg>
Cc: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu, peterw@archsci.arch.su.edu.au
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Version 2.0.6 of Harvard Bibliographic Package

>>http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~peterw/latex/harvard
>

> I just tried to check this, and archsci:80 is either off the air or out
> to lunch.  Can anyone tell me if LaTeX 2.09 has been restored, or is 
> this still only for LaTeX2e?  (I still have to work with papers sent to me
> in 2.09.)

I had the same experience with the http:// address, but the ftp worked 
just fine. I don't know about LaTeX 2.09, but harvard.sty contains the 
lines: 

%% harvard.sty - harvard bibliography style Version 2.0.5
%% Author: Peter Williams peterw@archsci.arch.su.edu.au
%% Copyright: Peter Williams 1994
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{harvard}

(In spite of the first line, this came from harvard-2.0.6.tar.gz)

(T.) Michael Sanders				internet: sanders@umich.edu
Physics Department				bitnet: sanders@umiphys
University of Michigan				phone: 313/936-0799
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120			FAX:  313/764-6843


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Apr 22 03:21:52 1995
Date: 20 Apr 1995 21:10:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Version 2.0.6 of Harvard Bibliographic Package

Stephen Smoliar writes:
> >>For those unfamiliar with the harvard bibliographic package a description
> >>is available via the WWW at
> >>
> >>http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~peterw/latex/harvard
> >
> I just tried to check this, and archsci:80 is either off the air or out to
> lunch.  Can anyone tell me if LaTeX 2.09 has been restored, or is this still
> only for LaTeX2e?  (I still have to work with papers sent to me in 2.09.)

You could look at it on CTAN by now.  It didn't seem very different to
the previous version to me, as I scanned it before installation.

R

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Apr 28 05:42:28 1995
Date: 28 Apr 1995 09:26:29 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (update, German node)

Mats Dahlgren (matsd@physchem.kth.se) has submiited an update for his
achemso package which has been installed on CTAN in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/achemso

The readme file follows:

The `achemso' package formats BibTeX output in 
accordance with the requirements of most journals of The American 
Chemical Society.  It also provides a convenient LaTeX interface to 
be used with the BibTeX style file(s).  

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri May  5 08:16:16 1995
Date: 28 Apr 1995 18:04:14 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Ricard Torres <torres@upf.es>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Ricard Torres writes:

 > (1) I have uploaded the file "tx.zip" to ftp.dante.de:/incoming
 > 
 > (2) The program is a very simple menu for TeX users on msdos systems.
 > It allows up to 10 interrelated menus, completely configurable by
 > the user. Both an executable file and the source are included. 
 > The program is free, and licensed to users under the terms of the 
 > GNU general public license.
 > 
 > (3) It can be placed in either of two directories of the CTAN 
 > archives (the first one seems more natural, as "tx" is usable with
 > distributions other than emtex).
 > 
 >   (a) /tex-archive/systems/msdos
 >   (b) /tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex-contrib
 > 
 > The zip file contains its own directory hierarchy, starting with
 > "./tx". According to the way most packages are distributed in CTAN, it
 > seems that the most appropriate thing to do is to unzip the file
 > (becoming, for instance, /tex-archive/systems/msdos/tx if the
 > alternative (a) is chosen).

I decided to install it under path a). THanks for your submission.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Sat Apr 29 12:02:25 1995
Date: 28 Apr 1995 18:22:22 +0200
From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
Subject: [Feynman diagrams for LaTeX] FEYNMF v0.9 released

This announces a new version of feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont
package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman diagrams.
This version features a new ``immediate'' mode, which allows to access
Metafont's wonderful expressiveness much more conveniently.

I plan to release this version as version 1.0 after revising the
manual.  If you're desperate for a feature or have suggestions for the
manual, this is the time to speak up.  I will be very reluctant about
adding features, but hints for the manual are welcome.

This software will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN
host near you.  Below is the README file.

Enjoy,
-Thorsten

/// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
//////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu
/// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421

# $Id: README,v 1.15 1995/04/28 01:20:45 ohl Exp $
########################################################################

    This is feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont package for easy drawing
    of professional quality Feynman diagrams.  feynmf lays out most
    diagrams satisfactorily from the structure of the graph without
    any need for manual intervention.  Nevertheless all the power of
    Metafont is available for the most obscure cases.  See the
    documentation for appetizers, examples and more details.

    Anyway, you are invited to share, use, abuse, and improve it, see
    the file COPYING for details.

    Enjoy,
    -Thorsten

########################################################################

   Installation:

   You need a recent LaTeX (LaTeX2e, as of June 1994 is sufficient) to
   use feynmf,  docstrip.tex to install it and doc.sty to typeset the
   documentation.  If it is not already on your system, you can get
   all this (and much more) from your nearest CTAN host.

   To install, either use the Makefile or use the installation file
   feynmf.ins:

     $ latex feynmf.ins

   then you can typeset the documentation by

     $ latex fmfman.drv
     $ mf '\mode:=laserjet; input fmfsampl'
     $ latex fmfman.drv
     $ makeindex -s gind.ist -o fmfman.ind fmfman.idx
     $ makeindex -s gglo.ist -o fmfman.gls fmfman.glo
     $ latex fmfman.drv

   or by using the Makefile (`make man').  That's it.

   There is another installation file for LaTeX 2.09 compatible
   versions: feynmf209.ins.  This file has to be processed _in addition_
   to feynmf.ins!

########################################################################

    Comments, bug reports and improvements are welcome at:

        Thorsten.Ohl@Physik.TH-Darmstadt.de
        (aka: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de)

    New versions can be found in:

        crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/ohl/feynmf

    or at CTAN:

        {ftp.shsu.edu,ftp.tex.ac.uk,ftp.dante.de}:
          ... macros/latex/contrib/supported/feynmf

    There are two mailing lists

        feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
        feynmf-bugs@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de

    both are open for subscription.  The former should be very low
    volume and carry only important announcements.  The latter can
    serve as a more general discussion forum.

    To subscribe, send mail to

        majordomo@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de

    and NOT to the lists itself.  The following commands (on a line in
    the body of the mail, not in the subject) are useful: `subscribe
    feynmf-announce', `unsubscribe feynmf-bugs', `help', etc.

########################################################################

NEWS for Version 0.9beta (Id:)

   o  implemented immediate mode commands

   o  tadpoles (i.e. arcs coming from and going to the same vertex)

   o  zig-zag lines

   o  optional straight galleries for external vertices

   o  prettier MetaPost pictures in the introduction.

NEWS for Version 0.8beta (Id:feynmf.dtx,v 1.10 1995/02/18 16:42:18)

   o  provide compatibility hacks for LaTeX 2.09

   o  plugged string memory hole.

   o  streamline line styles and provide some more.

   o  fix compatibility with AMS-LaTeX

   o  \fmffixed: specify fixed distances between vertices.

NEWS for Version 0.7beta (Id: feynmf.dtx,v 1.9 1994/10/23 20:27:58)

   o  generalized decorations.

   o  incompatible change in line and vertex options: dist ->
      label.dist, angle -> label.angle, etc.

   o  interfaces are stabilizing, we're moving towards beta now.

NEWS for Version 0.6alpha (Id: feynmf.dtx,v 1.7 1994/10/22 19:35:00)

   o  export a more consistent set of looping commands to LaTeX.

   o  fix a stupid bug in the new arrow code.

NEWS for Version 0.5alpha (Id: feynmf.dtx,v 1.6 1994/10/21 00:41:00):

   o  shrinking dimensions.

   o  prettier (?) arrows on curved arcs.

   o  optional argument to the left and right options for pulling in
      and pushing out detours.

NEWS for Version 0.4alpha (Id: feynmf.dtx,v 1.5 1994/05/28 12:10:04):

   o  MetaPost support.

NEWS for Version 0.3alpha (Id: feynmf.dtx,v 1.4 1994/05/26 18:36:01):

   o  ensure that a METAFONT output stream is open.

NEWS for Version 0.2alpha (Id: feynmf.dtx,v 1.3 1994/05/20 22:59:38):

   o  fixed compatibility bugs (closing wrong output stream, using
      \fileversion when already invalid).

   o  better RCS version control support.

########################################################################
# Local Variables:
# mode:indented-text
# End:

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu May  4 23:19:02 1995
Date: 04 May 1995 13:11:55 +0100
From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: How to use oldstyle numbers in LaTeX2e?

In article <3ngeu6$9oa@news-rocq.inria.fr>,
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout@fantomas.inria.fr> wrote:
>I'd like to use oldstyle numbers for page numbers, equations numbers, etc.
>
>Is this possible? Does it work well with PostScript fonts (do PS
>fonts have these numbers, anyway). And what about theorems
>environments? I guess that bold oldstyle nums, if they exist, look
>rather ugly.

As a small exercise, I've produced an oldstyle package and have just
installed it on CTAN in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/oldstyle

It defines three commands, \oldstyle (an old-style selector for
oldstyle numbers), \textos and \mathos.  To do this, you need two
files, oldstyle.sty and Ucmm.fd (both generated from oldstyle.dtx by
oldstyle.ins).

I haven't addressed the issue of switching from the cm font sets,
since fontinst doesn't yet generate the `7d' stuff (which is today's
latest greatest fontname marker for the oldstyle numerals).  The
numerals are available in Adobe Expert encoded fonts, but I've never
seen them used in TeX.

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Thu May  4 23:40:12 1995
Date: Fri, 05 May 95 03:43:38 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, linux-asia@li.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ccnet-l <@cunyvm.cuny.edu:ccnet-l@uga.BITNET>
Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 2.5 beta 4


I just uploaded the new beta version at ftp.dante.de; it will be soon
available at all CTAN hosts and its mirrors.

~MCJK is a LaTeX2e macro package for writing Chinese/Japanese/Korean�


most important changes beta 3 -> beta 4:


    bug fixes in MakeTeXPK

    pinyin.sty added for writing Pinyin syllables

    caption files for various encodings added

    koma-script style files added (only temporary). These replacements
      for the standard style files understand the above CJK caption files.

From J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Mon May  8 10:04:53 1995
Date: 05 May 1995 23:15:15 +0200
From: Johannes L. Braams <J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: How to use oldstyle numbers in LaTeX2e?


On Thursday, May 4 Robin.Fairbairns wrote:

> I haven't addressed the issue of switching from the cm font sets,
> since fontinst doesn't yet generate the `7d' stuff (which is today's
> latest greatest fontname marker for the oldstyle numerals).  The
> numerals are available in Adobe Expert encoded fonts, but I've never
> seen them used in TeX.
I have, I do it myself. (created my mf's before fontinst came around
and put the oldstyle numerals in with the small caps font...

	Johannes Braams

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From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Tue May  9 18:38:06 1995
Date: 06 May 1995 17:39:34 +0200
From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, metafont@ens.fr
Subject: [LaTeX,Metafont,Graphics,Feynman diagrams] FEYNMF v1.0 released

This announces version 1.0 of feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont
package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and maybe
other) diagrams.  It supersedes all preliminary 0.x versions.

If you don't know if feynmf is useful for you, have a look at the
preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz').  It is provided to wet your
appetite with numerous examples.

If there are other areas of science and engineering that could use a
generalized version of feynmf, I would be glad to help with such
generalizations.  But I don't plan to turn feynmf into a general
purpose drawing package, this base is covered by mfpic.

It should be simple to port feynmf to other TeX macro packages.  I
would be glad to fold contributed ports into the main source tree.

This software will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN
host near you.  Below are some notes for users of the preliminary
versions and the README file.

Enjoy,
-Thorsten

/// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
//////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu
/// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421

NOTES:

  * There is one incompatible change w.r.t. version 0.9 if you're
    using the |vloc| and |vpath| functions:  the arguments have to
    be prepended with two underscores now:

	Old (0.x):        =>  New (1.x):
     
	\fmf{plain}{u,v}  =>  \fmf{plain}{u,v}     % unchanged
	vloc (v)          =>  vloc (__v)
	vpath (u,v)       =>  vpath (__u,__v)

    I hope that this change is not too disturbing.  It will save you
    from some hairy errors when you accidentally hit upon a reserved
    word in Metafont.

  * `fmfchar' is called `fmfgraph' now.  This should be more intuitive
    (don't panic: the old names continue to work as aliases).


# $Id: README,v 1.16 1995/05/06 11:38:05 ohl Exp $
########################################################################

    This is feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont package for easy drawing
    of professional quality Feynman diagrams.  feynmf lays out most
    diagrams satisfactorily from the structure of the graph without
    any need for manual intervention.  Nevertheless all the power of
    Metafont is available for more obscure cases.  See the
    documentation for appetizers, examples and more details.

    A preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz') is provided to wet your
    appetite with numerous examples.

    Anyway, you are invited to share, use, abuse, and improve it, see
    the file COPYING for details.

    Enjoy,
    -Thorsten

########################################################################

   Installation:

   You need a recent LaTeX (LaTeX2e, as of December 1994 is
   sufficient) to use feynmf,  docstrip.tex to install it and doc.sty
   to typeset the documentation.  If it is not already on your system,
   you can get all this (and much more) from your nearest CTAN host.

   To install, either use the Makefile or use the installation file
   feynmf.ins:

     $ latex feynmf.ins

   then you can typeset the documentation by

     $ latex fmfman.drv
     $ mf '\mode:=laserjet; input fmfsamp1'
     $ mf '\mode:=laserjet; input fmfsamp2'
     $ latex fmfman.drv
     $ makeindex -s gind.ist -o fmfman.ind fmfman.idx
     $ makeindex -s gglo.ist -o fmfman.gls fmfman.glo
     $ latex fmfman.drv

   or by using the Makefile (`make man').  That's it.

   There is another installation file for LaTeX 2.09 compatible
   versions: feynmf209.ins.  This file has to be processed _in addition_
   to feynmf.ins!

########################################################################

WARNING:

    If LaTeX fails with `Unknown graphics extension: 3', you have a
    slightly out-of-date graphics.sty file (LaTeX will have issued a
    warning in this case).  There has been a change to the user
    interface, which makes it very hard to support both versions.
    Sorry.  I have chosen to support the current one, which will
    hopefully be stable.

    You can work around this by either getting a more recent graphics
    package from CTAN (macros/latex/packages/graphics) or by using
    epsf.sty instead (`\let\includegraphics\epsffile\input epsf.sty').
    [You can also ignore it and get the preformatted manual.  But you
    will not be able to use the MetaPost version in this case.]

########################################################################

    Comments, bug reports and improvements are welcome at:

        Thorsten.Ohl@Physik.TH-Darmstadt.de
        (aka: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de)

    New versions can be found in:

        crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/ohl/feynmf

    or at CTAN:

        {ftp.shsu.edu,ftp.tex.ac.uk,ftp.dante.de}:
          ... macros/latex/contrib/supported/feynmf

    There are two mailing lists

        feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
        feynmf-bugs@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de

    both are open for subscription.  The former should be very low
    volume and carry only important announcements.  The latter can
    serve as a more general discussion forum.

    To subscribe, send mail to

        majordomo@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de

    and NOT to the lists itself.  The following commands (on a line in
    the body of the mail, not in the subject) are useful: `subscribe
    feynmf-announce', `unsubscribe feynmf-bugs', `help', etc.

########################################################################

NEWS for Version 1.0

   o  separate namespace for vertices: prepending double underscores.
      (This is an incompatible change, because arguments of vloc and
      vpath have to be changed in applications.  Sorry!)

   o  color! (for MetaPost only)

   o  `width' option for arcs.

   o  \fmfkeep and \fmfreuse

   o  adapt to up-to-date graphics.sty

   o  find camouflaged .log files on VMS (thanks, Scott!)

   o  fmfchar(*) -> fmfgraph(*) (old names still work as aliases)

   o  fmfsubgraph environment for graphs in graphs

From fqgouvea@COLBY.EDU Mon May  8 10:19:01 1995
Date: 06 May 1995 09:18:03 -0700
From: Fernando Q. Gouvea <fqgouvea@COLBY.EDU>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: How to use oldstyle numbers in LaTeX2e?

**** On Thu, 4 May 1995 13:11:55 +0100, Robin Fairbarns said:

> As a small exercise, I've produced an oldstyle package and have just
> installed it on CTAN in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/oldstyle

> It defines three commands, \oldstyle (an old-style selector for oldstyle
> numbers), \textos and \mathos.  To do this, you need two files,
> oldstyle.sty and Ucmm.fd (both generated from oldstyle.dtx by
> oldstyle.ins).

Does it provide an easy way to change all numerals in text (not math) to
oldstyle? That's usually what I want to do, and typing \oldstyle all the
time gets, um, old.

> I haven't addressed the issue of switching from the cm font sets, since
> fontinst doesn't yet generate the `7d' stuff (which is today's latest
> greatest fontname marker for the oldstyle numerals).  The numerals are
> available in Adobe Expert encoded fonts, but I've never seen them used in
> TeX.

I've done it several times, using fontinst to build virtual fonts which
include the oldstyle numerals as the "normal" numerals for certain
fonts. (Of course, this makes lining figures accessible only in math mode,
which is fine with me.) One could also put the lining figures into the
small caps font for the cases when they're needed.

-- 
==========================================================
Fernando Q. Gouvea			fqgouvea@colby.edu
Dept. of Math & CS
Colby College

"Trying to understand Newton without calculus is not like trying to
understand Sophocles without Greek, it is like trying to understand
Sophocles without words."--James Bullock

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May  9 21:26:55 1995
Date: 09 May 1995 23:11:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: wrapfig.sty update

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I recently uploaded a new version of wrapfig.sty.
> 
> Could it be moved to:
>   macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/wrapfig.sty
> and the current:
>   macros/latex209/contrib/misc/wrapfig.sty
> converted to a link (or deleted if that is your policy).

I've done the necessary (this is, of course, at SHSU).  The link will
appear in due course, and the file will propagate ditto.

Note that we don't delete things in latex209 except at the explicit
request of the author.

Robin Fairbairns
(for the CTAN team)

From mlpiotro@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de Thu May 11 14:08:35 1995
Date: 11 May 1995 10:37:42 +0200 (MESZ)
From: Michael Piotrowski <mlpiotro@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: ANNOUNCING mapcodes 1.04

I just uploaded the new version of mapcodes (1.04) to ftp.dante.de;
hopefully it will be available soon at all CTAN hosts and their mirrors in
/pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/mapcodes, where it will replace
the old version (1.01).

mapcodes is a LaTeX2e macro package for the input of 8bit-characters in
various encoding, similar to the inputenc package included in the LaTeX2e
distribution.

However, mapcodes also works in the tabbing environment and offers more
translation tables. It's also older than inputenc and so perhaps somewhat
more mature ;-)

mapcodes 1.04 is also available via anonymous ftp from
sol.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de.

-- 
Eat your cereal with a fork       | Michael Piotrowski
and do your homework in the dark. | mlpiotro@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de
           ---Happy Harry Hardon  | mlpiotro@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon May 15 13:56:16 1995
Date: 15 May 1995 17:18:46 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk
Subject: Martin Ward: CTAN Submission (`program')

Martin Ward writes:

  I have uploaded an update of my program.sty file (for typesetting programs
  and algorithms) to /incoming/program.tar.gz on ftp.tex.ac.uk.
  The latest version is 3.3.3.  It should replace the files in directory: 
  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/program
  
  
  Original README:
  
  Here's a copy of my LaTeX2e style file for typesetting programs and
  algorithms in my favourite style without having to type in endless tabbing
  commands. Each line is set in math mode so all the indentation and spacing
  is done automatically. The notation |variable_name| can be used within
  normal text, maths expressions or programs to indicate a variable name.
  Use \origbar to get a normal | symbol in a program. The commands \A, \B, \R, \T
  and \Z typeset the corresponding bold letter with the next object as a
  substript (eg \S1 typesets {\bf S$_1$} etc). They now cope with primes as
  well, (eg \S'''). The program.sty file can be
  easily edited to reflect your favoured style. See the program-demo.tex file 
  for examples.
  
  The file should work with or without AMSLaTeX and the new font selection
  scheme.

I have duly installed the stuff as requested; it should propagate to
the other CTAN sites soon.

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed May 17 04:42:30 1995
Date: 17 May 1995 09:30:27 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Lohaus <hn348lo@unidui.uni-duisburg.de>, Holger Horst <holger.horst@syscon.uu.se>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Lohaus writes:
 > 
 > I have uploaded "texed16a.zip" to ftp.dante.de.
 > It includes Version 1.6a of TeX-Eddi, a development
 > environment for TeX on PC's.
 > 
 > It's in german and you will find a list with the update history
 > and the features of the programm at the and of that message.
 > 
 > I'm Sorry, but i don't know the CTAN directory structure, so
 > i can't tell you were exactly to put the file.
 > I suggest a directory somewhere after something like
 >  /tex/systems/pc or
 >  systems/pc/tex ...

I installed it in 

systems/msdos/tex-eddi

where version 1.5 is already sitting

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed May 17 20:46:22 1995
Date: 17 May 1995 13:36:23 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: misc. MetaPost macros

vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de writes:
 > [ I'm not sure if this announcement ever made it to ctan@shsu.edu, but 
 >   I've realized that I mixed up the upload anyhow. Contrary to what 
 >   is stated below, the files are scattered in the /incoming directory 
 >   at ftp.dante.de.  The directory /incoming/mp-misc remained empty. ]
 > 
 > As far as I know this CTAN upload constitutes a ``first'' in that 
 > it is the first upload of contributed MetaPost macros.  It would 
 > be nice if this might turn out to be the start of a collection of
 > general-purpose MetaPost and Metafont macros.
 > 
 > Below is a list of files and a short description of their purpose.
 > Each of these files contains a standardized file header including 
 > an abstract that describes the macros in more detail.  Since most
 > of these files are just small hacks, I didn't bother to write more
 > extensive documentation.
 > 
 > closefrm.mp  - This file defines a ``closefrom'' macro that operates by 
 >                repeatedly reading from a previoulsly opened ``readfrom''
 >                file until reaching EOF, which has the side effect of 
 >                closing the file, as far as I understand the WEB code.  
 >                Using this macro will be very inefficient, but it might
 >                help to avoid running out of files in small MetaPost
 >                implementations.
 > 
 > testeq.mp    - This file defines a general equality test macro based 
 >                on code from Appendix D of The METAFONTbook, but adapted
 >                slightly for MetaPost.  Unfortunately, it is no longer
 >                fully general since MetaPost lacks some bitmap operations
 >                that are available only in METAFONT.  However, these 
 >                macros might still be useful if you want to test for
 >                the equality of paths.
 > 
 > gpdata.mp    - This file modifies the scanning routines of the MetaPost 
 >                graph.mp package to allow comment lines starting with 
 >                `#' in data files similar to the conventions of Gnuplot.
 >                Users should be careful about not leaving extra blank
 >                lines before or after comment lines since blank lines
 >                will still be interpreted as the end of a data set.
 >                
 > interpol.mp  - This file modifies the path constructing routines of the
 >                MetaPost graph.mp package to produce smooth curves instead
 >                of polygons when the numeric quantity ``interpolating''
 >                is set to a postive value.  Users should be aware that
 >                using this feature may lead to distortions if their data
 >                isn't suitable for this purpose.
 > 
 > 
 > I've uploaded all these files to ftp.dante.de into /incoming/mp-misc.
 > I suggest to install them on CTAN in the directory
 > 
 >    /tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/misc,
 > 
 > thereby allowing for other contributed MetaPost macro packages that
 > might be installed elsewhere below .../metapost/contrib/macros.
 > 
 > 
 > Happy MetaPosting!
 > 
 > Ulrik Vieth <vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de>	-- 1995/05/08

Installed as suggested. Thanks

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed May 17 16:59:24 1995
Date: 17 May 1995 13:37:59 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, kb@cs.umb.edu, te@informatik.uni-hannover.de, vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: MetaPost for web2c/kpathsea

vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de writes:

 > I've uploaded a modified and reorganized distribution of MetaPost 0.63,
 > adapted to work with web2c-6.1 and kpathsea-2.6.  It is actually based 
 > on teTeX-0.3 (which is basically nothing else than web2c-6.1 with patches
 > for kpathsea-2.6 and other minor bug-fixes already included). It should 
 > also work with native web2c-6.1 installations using kpathsea-2.6.
 > 
 > It is hoped that this distribution will serve as an intermediate solution
 > until MetaPost can be fully integrated into the next version of web2c.
 > This distribution has been successfully tested on several platforms 
 > including Linux, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX (reportedly) and possibly others. 
 > 
 > 
 > This distribution consists of the the following files:
 > 
 > README.web2c-mp         - installation instructions and addtional
 >                           information about this distribution.
 > 
 > web2c-mp-lib.tar.gz     - the MetaPost input files and documentation,
 >                           reorganized to fit into the texmf tree,
 > 
 > web2c-mp-src.tar.gz     - the modified MetaPost sources, reorganized
 >                           to fit into the web2c source tree,
 > 
 > web2c-mp-web2c.patch    - patches to web2c and kpathsea routines
 >                           for installations based on web2c-6.1
 >                           patched for kpathsea-2.6.
 > 
 > web2c-mp-teTeX.patch    - patches to web2c and kpathsea routines
 >                           for installations based on teTeX-0.3.
 > 
 > To compile MetaPost and its utility programs, you'll need the modified
 > MetaPost sources, the web2c and kpathsea sources, and one of the two 
 > patch files listed above, depending on which installation you're using.
 > Detailed instructions can be found in the file README.web2c-mp.
 > 
 > 
 > I've uploaded all these files to ftp.dante.de into /incoming/web2c-mp. 
 > I suggest to install them on CTAN in the directory
 > 
 >    /tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/systems/web2c.
 > 
 > Alternatively, they might also be placed in /tex-archive/systems/web2c,
 > but this will probably cause complications with the automatic mirroring
 > from the original web2c distribution site.  Maintainers of web2c-based
 > TeX distributions are welcome to include this MetaPost implementation
 > in their distribution if they like.
 > 
 > 
 > Happy MetaPosting!
 > 
 > Ulrik Vieth <vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de>	-- 1995/05/08
 > 

Installed as suggested. Thanks.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed May 17 09:17:59 1995
Date: 17 May 1995 13:49:31 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu, Andreas Scherer <SCHERER@genesis.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Andreas Scherer writes:

 > I've uploaded a new contribution to the CTAN collection at
 > 
 >    ftp.dante.de:/incoming/AmiWeb2C/AmiWeb2C.lha
 >    ftp.dante.de:/incoming/AmiWeb2C/AmiWeb2C.readme
 > 
 > containing a complete set of binaries for TeX 3.14159, MetaFont 2.718,
 > MetaPost 0.63, and BibTeX 0.99c, as well as the associated utilities,
 > suitable for the Commodore Amiga (both 68000 and 68020 processors are
 > specifically supported).  The Amiga port is based on Karl Berry's Web2C
 > system (version 6.1) and works with KPathSea 1.6.
 > 
 > Also included are the system-dependent changes to the Web2C system and
 > some other text files with scripts and configurations.  Expressly excluded
 > are commonly available files like MetaFont sources, TeX macros, and BibTeX
 > styles, to keep the archive as small as possible.  The installation is
 > intended to work according to the new `TeX Directory Structure' proposed
 > in draft 0.71 by the TUG-TWG.
 > 
 > To make AmiWeb2C available to the Amiga TeX users, I'd suggest installation
 > of both the archive and the introductory readme file in the directory
 > 
 >    CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/amiga/AmiWeb2C
 > 
 > Although a similar archive has been release to the so-called `AmiNet' in
 > April, availability on the canonical TeX server(s) would be appreciated.

Thanks, I installed the files in 

systems/amiga/amiweb2c

For the CTAN team

From KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Wed May 17 14:31:35 1995
Date: 17 May 1995 18:03:48 +0100
From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Announcement: wnri fonts by T. Ridgeway now on CTAN

The Washington Romanised Indic (wnri) fonts by Thomas Ridgeway are now 
available form the CTAN archives in 
tex-archive/fonts/wnri.

They contain all the special latin letters needed in transliteration of 
Sanskrit, Hindi, and other indic languages.

Bundled with the wnri fonts are wnps (Puget Salish) with many special 
letters for Salishan and other native american languages, and wngb
(Gerald Barnett) with special letters for old english.

The fonts used to be available form blackbox.hacc.u.washinton.edu, which 
was unfortunately shut down some month ago.

--J"org Knappen.

From matsd@omega.physchem.kth.se Mon May 22 16:01:43 1995
Date: 22 May 1995 20:37:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: "matsd@physchem.kth.se" <matsd@omega.physchem.kth.se>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: matsd@physchem.kth.se
Subject: ANNOUNCE:  A new version of `deleq' at CTAN


Friends,

A new version (4.2) of the LaTeX package `deleq' is now avaliable 
at CTAN.  This package helps in using partially numbered 
equations (3a, 3b, ...) and also provides commands and 
environments for repeated use of equation numbers.  The new 
version differs from the previous version in that it is now 
possible to "recycle" equation numbers also in 
`eqnarray'-like environments, and that reference to an 
`eqnarray'-like environment with partially numbered equations (3a, 
3b, 3c...) can be referenced to as a whole with its main equation 
number (`3' in this case).  (Also, some `clean up' of the 
code has been done.)  The package consists of two files:
 /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/deleq/deleq.dtx
 /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/deleq/deleq.ins
There is also a short read-me-file in
 /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/deleq/00readme.dlq

mats d.

mats dahlgren                      * "..skillnaden var bara den, att hennes *
The Royal Institute of Technology  *  kunskaper var nyttiga och oordnade,   *
Lab. for Chemical Surface Science  *  medan professorns var onyttiga och    *
S-100 44  Stockholm, Sweden        *  ordnade."  - Karin Boye i _Kris_      *

     <matsd@physchem.kth.se>  Ph: +46-8-790 8596  Fx: +46-8-790 8207

From matsd@omega.physchem.kth.se Mon May 22 16:14:16 1995
Date: 22 May 1995 20:38:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: "matsd@physchem.kth.se" <matsd@omega.physchem.kth.se>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: matsd@physchem.kth.se
Subject: ANNOUNCE:  A new version of `vrsion' at CTAN


Friends,

There is now a new version of my LaTeX 2e package "vrsion" avaliable 
at CTAN.  The package consists of two files:  
  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/vrsion/vrsion.dtx
  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/vrsion/vrsion.ins
and there is also a short read-me file in 
  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/vrsion/00readme.vrs

The "vrsion" package provides commands for giving your document a 
version number automatically.  (It is the .dvi file which is 
numbered.)  To find out more about the package, see the 
documentation in "vrsion.dtx".  In this new version of "vrsion", 
0.2, a bug inserting un-wanted spaces has been removed. 

This package was called "version" in the previous release.  The 
reason for changing names is to minimize the risk for confusion with 
the LaTeX 2.09 package "version" by Stephen Bellatoni.  I apologize for 
any inconvenience this change of names may have caused the LaTeX 
community.  No command names within the package have been changed.  

mats d.


mats dahlgren                      * "..skillnaden var bara den, att hennes *
The Royal Institute of Technology  *  kunskaper var nyttiga och oordnade,   *
Lab. for Chemical Surface Science  *  medan professorns var onyttiga och    *
S-100 44  Stockholm, Sweden        *  ordnade."  - Karin Boye i _Kris_      *

     <matsd@physchem.kth.se>  Ph: +46-8-790 8596  Fx: +46-8-790 8207

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 23 12:00:34 1995
Date: 23 May 1995 11:28:42 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: ctan@shsu.edu
Subject: calling authors of packages on CTAN

The issue arises sometimes of whether everything on CTAN is freely
distributable, and whether it is "legal" to sell (for instance) a CD
with all the material on. It is quite clear that some authors *do*
have objections to their stuff appearing on  a CD (at least without
their permission). Therefore, I'd like to compile a register of those
packages whose authors put any restrictions on distribution or use.

If you have something which is on CTAN, and have any conditions at all
attached to your work, can you mail me with a  brief paragraph
explaining the conditions of use? The simple reference to (eg) the GNU
conditions, or shareware conditions, will do for many people.

Yes, I know we should have been recording this all along, but flesh is
weak

Sebastian Rahtz
UK CTAN

From kris@diku.dk Tue May 23 21:04:04 1995
Date: 23 May 1995 22:33:41 +0200
From: Kristoffer H. Rose <kris@diku.dk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Ross_Moore <ross@mpce.mq.edu.au>
Subject: calling authors of packages on CTAN

Dear Sebastian Rahtz,

Xy-pic (macros/generic/diagrams/xypic) is under GNU CopyLeft (GPL).

Cheers,
-- 
	       Kristoffer H�gsbro ROSE  <kris@diku.dk>
	DIKU, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 K�benhavn �, DANMARK
    Phones: +45 35321400, direct: +45 35321420, fax: +45 35321401
	   World Wide Web <URL: http://www.diku.dk/~kris/>

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed May 24 05:25:29 1995
Date: 24 May 1995 09:09:02 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: calling authors of packages on CTAN

thanks, recorded

s

From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Wed May 24 16:53:50 1995
Date: 24 May 1995 14:24:56 +0200
From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: calling authors of packages on CTAN

Sebastian> Therefore, I'd like to compile a register of those packages
Sebastian> whose authors put any restrictions on distribution or use.

feynmf and mcite (both in macros/latex/contrib/supported) are under
the GNU General Public License.

Sebastian> Yes, I know we should have been recording this all along,
Sebastian> but flesh is weak

While we're at it: how about a little descriptive record for all
packages.   If there is no file in the package with a verbose name,
`quote site index' will be useless.  [I'm cheating in the case of
feynmf by adding a bogus file `Feynman.Diagrams' ...]

I know that such records are hard to keep upto date.  But maybe asking
the authors to include a small description from which the records can
be generated automatically would help.  The Linux Software Map (LSM)
would be starting point.

Cheers,
-Thorsten

/// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
//////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu
/// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri May 26 06:30:45 1995
Date: 26 May 1995 10:15:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: New TeX distribution from Knuth

I have just installed here (at ftp.tex.ac.uk) Knuth's 1995 TeX
distribution (tex version 3.14159, mf version 2.718, and any related
programs).

This covers all of the directory tree from tex-archive/systems/knuth,
with the exception of the new cm distributions.  Knuth has made some
changes to cm that necessitate me rebuilding all of the .pk files that
CTAN holds.  This may not be complete today (I do have other work to
do ;-)

The CTAN archives no longer mirror from labrea, since the new version
of TeX is only so far present in the tex alpha directory there (there
is no current schedule for installing the new distribution in its
`proper' place in labrea's directory structure).

Robin Fairbairns (for the CTAN team)

Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns     rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
<a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html">Private page</a>

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat May 27 23:20:08 1995
Date: 28 May 1995 01:17:51 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk, info-tex@shsu.edu, tex-archive@math.utah.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: MITTELBACH@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de
Subject: test release of new PostScript font metrics

Over the last 9 months, a group of people have been working on a
revamp of TeX font metrics for PostScript fonts. We are now ready
(finally!) to release this, together with a new release of the
PSNFSS package for LaTeX2e, and a new version of the Berry fontnaming
scheme. The maintainers of PSNFSS, fontinst, web2c, and dvips all urge
you to start using this new setup, so that all the bothersome variants
can be abolished by the end of the year.

The entire distribution is on the CTAN hosts in
fonts/psfonts.beta. Its big - don't pull all the files on spec!
Get what you need. Prepackaged sets for Textures users will be made
available very shortly.

These files will replace both the LaTeX PSNFSS (currently on CTAN in
fonts/metrics) and the font metrics distributed with dvips.  Both of
these packages contained virtual fonts which more or less mimicked the
original TeX text encoding, and (in the case of PSNFSS) the Cork
encoding.  However, the two packages used different base fonts, thus
making previewing painful (and wasting disk space).  Now, everything
uses a single base font in a new encoding named 8r (see tools/8r.enc or
tools/8r.etx).

This new base encoding is *not* Adobe Standard Encoding, because that
does not provide access to all of the 228 characters normally supplied
with a Type 1 font.  Therefore, you must use a DVI-to-PostScript driver
which can perform reencoding, such as dvips(k), Y&Y's drivers, OzTeX,
Textures etc.

We are still contemplating whether the base encoding should be the
current one (mostly compatible with Windows), the texnansi encoding
promulgated by Y&Y (see tools/texnansi.vec), or something else.
Comments are welcome.

Aside from the base font, there are other small changes in the new
fonts.  For the Cork-encoded fonts, the stretch and shrink of the
interword spacing has been changed.  For the dvips fonts, the positions
of the preaccented characters have been fixed (e.g., Aring is at the
same position in every font).  Therefore, the font checksums are
different.  The actual character dimensions, however, remain unchanged.

The new fonts (mostly) have new names!  You can get the new fontname
distribution from ftp.cs.umb.edu:private/tex/fontname-*.tar.gz or in the
tools/ subdirectory of this distribution.

This distribution includes support the standard 35 fonts, various freely
available fonts (with type1's), and many commercial-only fonts (no
type1's).  Smallcaps and obliqued versions are available in bold and
normal variants, where applicable.  All fonts have ligatures and
kerning (no ``raw'' fonts); therefore, even the *8r base fonts can be
used for real typesetting. An experimental support is provided in
PSNFSS for this.

We built these fonts using both fontinst and afm2tfm (and other
utilities).  Both required changes, which will be merged into the next
releases.  See the tools/ directory if you want to reconstruct the
work. The changes to fontinst are extensive, and if you are not
confident you understand them, please wait until the author finds time
to merge them into a complete new release later this year.

*****************************************
Primary perpetrators: Sebastian Rahtz, Alan Jeffrey, Karl Berry.
Chief Tester and Bugfinder: Constantin Kahn.
Aiders and abettors: Tom Rokicki, Ciar\'an \'O Duibh\'{\i}n, Pierre MacKay,
  Rob Hutchings, Berthold Horn, Damian Cugley.

Please send any questions, comments, or suggestions
to tex-fonts@math.utah.edu.  (Email tex-fonts-request@math.utah.edu to
join the list.)

Sebastian Rahtz
May 1995

From gaulle@idris.fr Tue May 30 06:09:38 1995
Date: 29 May 1995 09:51:09 +0200
From: Bernard GAULLE <gaulle@idris.fr>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: calling authors of packages on CTAN

  Here is my copyright for the french package. The second part is in
English.
  
  --bg

% Copyright Gaulle-GUTenberg 1992-1993-1994-1995
% ==============================================
%    Ceci est une distribution logicielle de l'association GUTenberg.
%    Elle regroupe le travail de plusieurs << auteurs >>. L'association
%    doit elle-meme etre consideree ici comme auteur.
%    - Vous n'etes AUCUNEMENT autorise a modifier les fichiers marques du
%       mot  << Copyright >>.
%    - Vous n'etes AUCUNEMENT autorise a faire payer cette distribution ou
%       l'utilisation de ses fichiers si ce n'est pour un cout reduit de copie.
%    - La redistribution des fichiers de cette distribution est autorise
%      sous reserve de fournir a chaque fois des renseignements a jour 
%      concernant l'association GUTenberg dont son adresse exacte.
%    - Vous n'etes PAS AUTORISE a inclure cette distribution dans un progiciel
%      qui en reduirait ses possibilites intrinseques ; vous n'avez donc pas
%      le droit, par exemple, de ne redistribuer qu'une partie des fichiers
%      d'origine.
%    - Tous les fichiers de cette distribution sont du domaine publique.
%    - Aucun virus n'a ete detecte au moment ou ces fichiers furent termines
%      et prets a la distribution.
%    - Le code informatique est offert ici dans l'espoir qu'il soit utile et
%      avec la volonte qu'il soit correct mais aucune garantie ne peut etre
%      fournie, de quelque ordre que ce soit. Les utilisateurs l'utilisent
%      entierement a leur propre risque. L'auteur n'admetra et n'acceptera
%      d'etre lie par un quelconque engagement en cas de manque a gagner,
%      direct, indirect, immediat, consecutif ou autre, resultant de son
%      utilisation.
%    - Vous n'etes PAS AUTORISE a vous substituer a l'autorite de l'auteur
%      en appliquent des modifications, meme si de votre point de vue, elles
%      corrigent des deficiences.
%    Les lois internationales, europeennes (91-255) et francaises (94-361)
%    sont applicables.
%
% Copyright Gaulle-GUTenberg 1992-1993-1994-1995:
% ==============================================
%    This is a distribution of software by the GUTenberg  association.
%    It collects works of different "authors". The association must be
%    considered here as an author.
%    - You are NOT ALLOWED to change anyway all files marked 
%      with  "Copyright".
%    - You are NOT ALLOWED to take money for the distribution or use of
%    these files except for a nominal charge for copying etc.
%    - Redistribution of these unchanged files is allowed provided that 
%    up to date informations about the GUTenberg association including
%    addresses are distributed in the same package.
%    - You are NOT ALLOWED to include these files in a package/software in
%    a way that will reduce its capabilities or features; this doesn't allow
%    you, for example, to redistribute only few parts of the whole original
%    files.
%    - All the files included in the distribution are in public domain 
%    and available for free.
%    - There was no virus at the time these files were completed for 
%    distribution.
%    - This computer code is offered in hopes that it will be found useful, 
%    and in the belief that it is correct, but it is offered without any
%    warranty of any kind, including warranty of fitness for any purpose.
%    Users of this code do so entirely at their own risk. The author neither
%    admits nor accepts any liability for any loss, direct, indirect,
%    consequential, incidental, or otherwise, resulting from the use of this
%    computer code.
%    - You are NOT ALLOWED to substitute author's authority by applying
%      modifications even, in your point of view, they correct deficiences.
%    International, European (91-255) and French (94-361) laws apply.
%..........................................................................V1.5
%%
%%      checksum        = "21902 67 600 3978"
%%
%..............................................................................

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed May 31 06:45:31 1995
Date: 31 May 1995 11:18:37 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Herman Haverkort <herman@fgbbs.iaf.nl>
Cc: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Herman Haverkort writes:

 > A file hh.zip has been uploaded to the incoming directory of
 > ftp.dante.de. The file contains a set of LaTeX2e macro package files,
 > which I presented in the last week MAPS (the NTG (Dutch LUG) magazine).
 > In the MAPS articles I promised my readers that I would try to submit
 > the package files and manuals to CTAN. I suggest placing my submission in
 > the /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported directory.

Done, in a subdirectory called hh.

Thanks.

For the CTAN team

Rainer Sch�pf

--------------------

 > The following is an abstract from the README file enclosed in hh.zip:
 > 
 > =========================================================================
 > This file provides information about:
 > - Contents
 > - Conditions of use - `Registration'
 > - Support, Bug-Reports
 > 
 > Contents
 > --------
 > 
 > HHCOUNT.STY
 > 
 > hhcount provides some macros to display numbers in various ways.
 > For example: numbers could be formatted as roman numbers, dice or
 > scores. Some of the display macros act context dependent: in headings
 > they yield other results than in the midst of a paragraph or in an
 > index. On top of these `simple' formatting macros, hhcount
 > provides macros which combine several `simple' formatting macros
 > to format the values of composite counters. Besides hhcount
 > offers the possibility to have composite counters of arbitrary
 > structure appear in the index.
 > 
 > The hhcount package is not stable yet: it is too young. The simple
 > counter formatting macros will probably not change much anymore,
 > although their output may be smoothed a little. However,
 > the more complex macros may still be reorganized a lot.
 > 
 > A manual is provided in HHCOUNT.TEX
 > 
 > 
 > HHFLXBOX.STY
 > 
 > hhflxbox contains a number of boxing macros. The kernel consists of
 > \iframe, which boxes things and sets self-scaling frames around, and
 > \sframe, which sets more complex self-scaling and -stretching frames.
 > Besides hhflxbox provides the encircling macros \ringbox, \bellybox
 > and \outringbox (which use \iframe), the macros \sepbox and
 > \separbox, which set empty space around boxes, and \broadbox, which
 > boxes its argument in a \vbox of which the width is the line width
 > minus some specified value. Thus \broadbox facilitates the construction
 > of frames which stretch to line width.
 > 
 > A manual is provided in HHFLXBOX.TEX
 > 
 > 
 > HHMUF.STY
 > 
 > The hhmuf package contains the multinote system, which provides
 > an alternative to the usual footnote system. hhmuf's multinotes can be
 > used in forbidden modes and can be repeated easily. When repeating
 > multinotes, the hhmuf macros make sure the same marker is used throughout,
 > while preventing repeated notes from being typeset twice on the same
 > page. A manual is provided in HHMUF.TEX
 > 
 > 
 > HHPARMRK.STY
 > 
 > hhparmrk contains macros to mark paragraphs by putting signs next to
 > them. The signs can be mathematical delimiter symbols, or three-part signs
 > built of boxes. A manual is provided in HHPARMRK.TEX
 > 
 > 
 > Conditions of Use - `Registration'
 > ----------------------------------
 > 
 > If you use all or some of the hh packages and find them useful, please
 > report it to me. I will not charge you anything; I just would like to
 > get some idea of the use of my packages. Are they used heavily or hardly
 > at all?
 > 
 > You are not allowed to take money for the distribution or use of either
 > this file or a changed version, except for a nominal charge for copying
 > etc.
 > 
 > 
 > History and Future, Support, Bug-Reports
 > ----------------------------------------
 > 
 > I do not actively look for bugs and deficiencies to be fixed
 > anymore; I pay attention to them only when I encounter them in practice or
 > when they are reported to me. So if you encounter failures, deficiencies or
 > difficulties when using my packages, do not wait for them to be fixed,
 > but report your problems to me and I will pay attention to them, if I have
 > got the time to do so. Suggestions for improvements or extensions are
 > also welcome.
 > 
 > ==========================================================================

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jun  1 16:53:54 1995
Date: 31 May 1995 17:33:00 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: os2@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

thomas koch <os2@dante.de> uploaded a port of web2c-6.1 for OS/2, which was done by 
Ralp Schleicher (rs@purple.in-ulm.de) to ftp.dante.de. It's now in

 /tex-archive/systems/os2/web2c-6.1

 > -------------------------some of the README follows-------------------
 > 
 > 
 > 1  Copying conditions
 > =====================
 > 
 > WEB2C/2 is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 > the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
 > Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
 > any later version.
 > 
 > WEB2C/2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 > ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
 > FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
 > for more details.
 > 
 > You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
 > with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 > 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
 > 
 > 
 > 2  System requirements
 > ======================
 > 
 > The binary release of WEB2C/2 (see the `binary' subdirectory) requires
 > OS/2 2.0 or any later version.  The release was compiled with emx 0.9a
 > under OS/2 2.1 with optimization enabled for an i486 CPU.  Thus, you
 > have to install the emx runtime environment if you don't have it
 > already.
 > 
 > WEB2C/2 contains only the programs for TeX, METAFONT and friends.  There
 > are no fonts, TeX macros or pre-compiled format and base files.  WEB2C/2
 > is intended as a drop-in replacement for your current binaries.
 > 
 > Have a look at `/ctan/systems/web2c/lib-<version>.tar.gz' if you have no
 > TeX infrastructure on your disk.
 > 
 > 
 > 3  User requirements
 > ====================
 > 
 > WEB2C/2 is no ready-to-run distribution for the reasons pointed out in
 > the previous section.  I think that this is the right way.  The only
 > non-portable files of a TeX system are the executables, the pool, format
 > and base files.  WEB2C/2 offers you pre-compiled executables, pool files
 > and `Makefile' files for building formats and bases.  Thus, you have all
 > you need for making TeX work.
 > 
 > So, get the packages *you* want to use, read the documentation coming
 > along with them, configure and install them, learn for what all these
 > files are good for and keep your system up-to-date yourself.  Don't wait
 > for someone else doing it for you.
 > 
 > You should also read the manual pages before you ask `how'.  That's why
 > they were written.  There is the German phrase `Lesen bildet' which
 > means `reading trains' in English -- 'nough said.
 > 
 > 
 > 4  Additional features
 > ======================
 > 
 > WEB2C/2 is as close to the original as possible (including support for
 > symbolic links -- you read right) but there are some enhancements due to
 > the differences between UN*X and OS/2:
 > 
 > * Backslashes as well as normal slashes may be used as directory
 >   separators in environment variables.
 > 
 > * Environment variables may be referenced as `%FOO%' beside the two
 >   UN*X styles `$FOO' and `${FOO}'.
 > 
 > * TeX and BibTeX can load a character translation table at runtime.
 >   See `$TEXMFROOT/keymaps/README' for details.
 > 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed May 31 23:27:24 1995
Date: 01 Jun 1995 00:07:49 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: kcb@hss.caltech.edu
Subject: Re: Upload of fn2end.sty

Kim C. Border writes:

> I have uploaded the LaTeX 2e package
> 
> fn2end.sty
> 
> It is yet another style that converts footnotes to endnotes, but  
> has some twists. Blame Neal Beck <nbeck@weber.ucsd.edu>, who  
> suggested posting it.
> 
> LaTeXable  documentation is at the end after \endinput
> 
> It should move to macros/latex/contrib/other/misc

I have installed the package as requested.

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun  2 01:34:30 1995
Date: 01 Jun 1995 17:30:43 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: Installation of Knuth's 1995 release

I have now completed the installation of Knuth's 1995 release on CTAN
(I announced the interim installation of all but the fonts a while
back).  The installation has been done at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should
propagate to the other CTANs in fairly short order (though I have
little evidence that propagation to ftp.shsu.edu is reliable just
now).

Barbara Beeton has supplied the following announcement text:

===========================================================================
  Date: 08 Mar 1995 18:22:30 -0800
  
  --------- ANNOUNCING THE 1995 UPDATE TO TeX, METAFONT, and FRIENDS --------
  I've just gone through all accumulated correspondence and made appropriate
  changes to the master TeX sources on my home computer. (I plan to do this
  again in February of 1998, 2002, 2007, etc.!) My files are grouped in two
  main subdirectories, "dist" and "local"; the former consists of the master
  WEB, TeX, METAFONT, Computer Modern, TeXware, and MFware sources, while
  the latter consists of my own change files and supplementary macros
  and fonts that other people might like to look at. These files fit into
  similarly named parts of the big TeX archive tree; they should replace
  their former counterparts. I don't know how to do this myself, not even
  at labrea, so I am hoping that all current maintainers of TeXnicalities
  will be alerted to the existence of this new material.  I've checked
  everything pretty carefully, so I don't think there's any need to wait
  until independent vetting has been done.
  
  TeX Version 3.14159 has four bug fixes, two of which are significant:
   1) fontmemsize can vary between formats dumped by INITEX and loaded by
      VIRTEX --- this problem had already been fixed by all the major
      implementations
   2) math kerns disappear again at line breaks, as they should --- this
      problem arose by mistake in version 3.1415.
   3) overflow won't occur when converting huge stretch/shrink amounts from
      real to integer --- again, implementors had fixed this
   4) you can have more than 32K font parameters without crashing TeX
      (nobody ever wanted so many, but a crash is a crash)
  
  METAFONT Version 2.718 has only one bug fix, but it corrects a problem
  in the linear-equation-solving engine that lost significant figures and
  caused spurious overflows; the bug had been present since version 0.1.
  I've written a letter to Barbara Beeton about this, and she can send you
  a copy if you need more information. The bug had only microscopic effect on
  Computer Modern fonts.
  
  Ten changes were made to the Computer Modern fonts, affecting nine of the
  master source files, but the changes are rather minor and nearly invisible
  to the eye. (Again they help reduce the chance of overflow.) I have been
  unhappy to see so many people still using the pre-1992 CM fonts, because
  I made MAJOR important improvements in that year, and I hate to run across
  the obsolete symbols in preprints that people send me! Anybody who hasn't
  installed CM fonts since 1991 should surely change now; and please help
  stamp out all copies of the old fonts that you see installed anywhere.
  (The lowercase delta is the main giveaway --- the new shape is vastly
  better than the old. Also arrows are now darker, and several calligraphic
  caps are improved, etc etc; the TFM files did not change, but the images
  got lots better.) On the other hand, if you do have the 1993-or-later
  version of the fonts, there's no need to replace old bitmaps. Just replace
  the old source files, and regenerate fonts from them at your leisure.
  
  There are new versions of DVItype (3.5), PLtoTF (3.5), and VPtoVF (1.4).
  DVItype now checks the DVI file more carefully in material that is
  skipped over (e.g., between pages).
  
  Plain TeX format, version 3.14159, has eight changes, but only the
  change to \bmod has a substantial probability of affecting existing
  .tex files. Accents \b and \d have gotten better in four ways.
  
  Barbara Beeton will be distributing reward checks to 20 people who were
  first to report significant errors in Volumes A--E. The big "sweepstakes"
  winners this year were Chris Thompson (Cambridge) and Bogus{\l}aw
  Jackowski (Gdansk), who received the maximum $327.68 reward for
  pointing out longstanding bugs in TeX and METAFONT, respectively.
  
  All sources are frozen and no future changes will be made unless a new,
  serious and easily fixable error is reported. The threshold for calling
  something a feature rather than a bug is rising exponentially and may
  be almost infinitely high when I do this exercise again in 1998! However,
  I do still promise to maintain these programs as long as I am able.
  
  Where can you find the new sources? At labrea.stanford.edu, in file
  ~ftp/alpha/tex95.tar.gz (slightly less than 3MB).
  
  Thanks to all of you for continued high quality support. -- Don Knuth 3/8/95
=============================================================================

The update I have performed started from the file Knuth mentions,
labrea.stanford.edu:ftp/alpha/tex95.tar.gz; I have only re-installed
things that have changed (as far as possible).

Of particular import is what I have done with the CM font changes.  We
have on the archive two directories which purport to hold CM sources
-- systems/knuth/cm and fonts/cm/mf

systems/knuth/cm has almost nothing in it here, and what it does hold
is identical to the sources in fonts/cm/mf

I have therefore updated fonts/cm/mf, and not touched systems/knuth/lib

All other directories in Knuth's tar file are mapped to those on CTAN
by the transformations ./dist/* -> systems/knuth/*, ./local/* ->
systems/knuth/local/*

I have also rebuilt all of the files in fonts/cm/pk; I've included a
small README in that directory (not least to ensure that the next
person who has to do this job doesn't have to run around in such small
circles ;-).  I haven't regenerated the contents of fonts/cm/gf, and
have deleted the files that were there; that directory contained a
README saying that the files weren't there, and this seemed an
appropriate moment to align that statement with reality.

The README in fonts/cm/pk says:

========================================================================
  I have included in this directory what I believe to be the right sort
  of thing to match what was there already.  This is not to say that I'm
  terribly proud of it, but it seems about right.
  
  The pk300 fonts were generated using CanonCX mode from Karl Berry's
  modes.mf
  
  The pk300w fonts were generated using RicohFortyEighty mode from Karl
  Berry's modes.mf
  
  The pk240 fonts were generated using CanonLBPTen mode from Karl
  Berry's modes.mf (this differs from the "CanonLBP" used in the
  previous version in name only).
  
  The pk120 fonts were generated with the same parameters as were used
  in the previous version, though nothing with those parameters exists
  in Karl Berry's modes.mf; by analogy with the previous version, I've
  called this mode OneTwoZero.  I was not terribly surprised that
  several files gave me metafont errors with this mode; the most
  (apparently) serious were cmss12 and cmssi12, though several of the
  smaller-sized fonts had strange paths of one sort or another.
  
  I've included a slightly hacked copy of a Makefile which used to be in
  the directory ../gf300; I had to hack it because the original neither
  reflected the current `best' thinking about the way TeX systems should
  be organised, nor the way they're organised on our discs (which is
  different for hysterical raisins).
========================================================================

I believe that I've completed the job I undertook, but if anyone spots
problems with my work, they are welcome to get in touch with me by
mail (there's little point in taxing the newsgroups with it unless
there are problems with my work that are serious enough to constitute
major pitfalls that might bother other people).

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun  4 05:45:06 1995
Date: 02 Jun 1995 12:44:42 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Christina Thiele <cthiele@ccs.carleton.ca>
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, Martyn.Johnson@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Re: The evening's highlights .. ;-)

Christina Thiele writes (in her ineffable way ;-):

> I think I'm done. I have cold fingers -- they always get this way when
> I keyboard a lot ... and it's time to find some supper around here...
> 
> I've sent you (or hope I've sent you!) the following:
> 
> a. TTN 3,2: ttn3n2.tex, ttn3n2.sty
> 
> b. TTN 3,3: ttn3n3.tex, ttn3n3.sty
> 
> c. TTN 3,4: ttn3n4.tex, ttn3n4.sty

The above three (six?) are now in tex-archive/usergrps/tug/ttn.  They
all compile, here, either with current LaTeX2e (1994/12/01 pl3) or
with LaTeX2.09.  ttn3n2 requires DC fonts, but includes isntructions
about how to avoid the requirement: I haven't tried out the said
instructions.

> d. usergrps.tex
> 
> e. readme.asc for /tug
> 
> f. tug95-readme.asc for /tug95
> 
> I've now prepared the scene for mayhem and chaos in your life ... so
> I'll just sort of saunter off into the distance (= the back of the
> house) and see if there's anything interesting to eat ;-)

I've duly installed that lot and done various other minor tidies of
the tex-archive/usergrps/tug subtree.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun  4 05:42:17 1995
Date: 02 Jun 1995 13:04:57 +0100
From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: Is the Tibetan language available for LaTeX?

In article <1995Jun1.110712.74669@ucl.ac.uk>,
Dominik Wujastyk <ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>George.Warr@anu.edu.au (George Warr) writes:
>>Is the Tibetan language available for LaTeX?
>
>Yes.  See ftp.bcc.ac.uk:/pub/users/ucgadkw/indology where it can be found
>as a zip file with some name like latex-tibetan.zip.

I've discussed this stuff with Dominik, and he has agreed that we may
install it on CTAN.  I have therefore expanded the .zip file and
installed its contents as tex-archive/language/tibetan (at
ftp.tex.ac.uk -- it'll propagate to the other sites when the winds
blow in the right direction).

Dominik remarks:

> It is in fact a work in progress which got stuck a couple of years
> ago.  Attempts to contact the developers result in failure.  But the
> system does work, and one can produce Tibetan text, even in its
> present form.

Robin

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun  4 06:20:15 1995
Date: 02 Jun 1995 14:02:08 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Christina Thiele <cthiele@ccs.carleton.ca>
Cc: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: The evening's highlights .. ;-)

Further to my post about copies of TTN vol 3, Christina writes:

> Robin Fairbairns writes:
> > 
> > Christina Thiele writes (in her ineffable way ;-):
> > 
> > > I think I'm done. I have cold fingers -- they always get this way when
> > > I keyboard a lot ... and it's time to find some supper around here...
> > > 
> > > I've sent you (or hope I've sent you!) the following:
> > > 
> > > a. TTN 3,2: ttn3n2.tex, ttn3n2.sty
> > > 
> > > b. TTN 3,3: ttn3n3.tex, ttn3n3.sty
> > > 
> > > c. TTN 3,4: ttn3n4.tex, ttn3n4.sty
> > 
> > The above three (six?) are now in tex-archive/usergrps/tug/ttn.  They
> 
> Sorry -- my oversight. TTN issues don't go into /tug; they go into 
> 
>    tex-archive/digests/ttn
> 
> They're linked with the /tug subdirectory, but properly reside over
> under /digests. I didn't think to make that clear -- sorry ... ;-(
> 
> > all compile, here, either with current LaTeX2e (1994/12/01 pl3) or
> > with LaTeX2.09.  ttn3n2 requires DC fonts, but includes isntructions
> 
> Well, this is good news! I really haven't had anyone test them under
> the 2e regime. Glad to hear it's ok. 
> 
> What I'd wanted with TTN 3,2 was that at least the .ps file should
> have been compiled with the DC fonts, so that anyone who just picks up
> the PostScript file will in fact get the `right' (= optimal) output.
> The people who don't have them would then have to use the .tex file
> .. which I guess means that putting up a .dvi file of TTN 3,2 is not
> terribly useful ... is it?
> 
> > about how to avoid the requirement: I haven't tried out the said
> > instructions.
> > 
> > > d. usergrps.tex
> > > 
> > > e. readme.asc for /tug
> > > 
> > > f. tug95-readme.asc for /tug95
> > > 
> > > I've now prepared the scene for mayhem and chaos in your life ... so
> > > I'll just sort of saunter off into the distance (= the back of the
> > > house) and see if there's anything interesting to eat ;-)
> > 
> > I've duly installed that lot and done various other minor tidies of
> > the tex-archive/usergrps/tug subtree.
> > 
> > Robin Fairbairns
> > 
> > For the CTAN team
> > 
> 
> And thank *you*!
> 
> Ch.
> 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun  4 05:45:03 1995
Date: 02 Jun 1995 14:08:30 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Christina Thiele <cthiele@ccs.carleton.ca>
Cc: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: The evening's highlights .. ;-)

Further to my post about copies of TTN vol 3 and other things,
Christina writes:

> What I'd wanted with TTN 3,2 was that at least the .ps file should
> have been compiled with the DC fonts, so that anyone who just picks up
> the PostScript file will in fact get the `right' (= optimal) output.
> The people who don't have them would then have to use the .tex file
> .. which I guess means that putting up a .dvi file of TTN 3,2 is not
> terribly useful ... is it?

I have processed the said file and installed

  ttn3n2.300.ps         Processed for a printer with CanonCX engine
  ttn3n2.600.ps         Processed for a Laserjet 4

These files are in tex-archive/digests/ttn (as well as in tex-archive/
usergrps/tug/ttn, which is linked to it -- sorry for any confusion on
this matter in my earlier post).

Robin Fairbairns

(For the CTAN team)

PS - my further apologies for yet another posting from me to this
list: these things seem to happen when my arthritis flares ... perhaps
I should have stayed at home after all.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun  4 06:22:41 1995
Date: 02 Jun 1995 17:02:57 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, mutex@stolaf.edu
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: MusiXTeX installation

I have (at last) installed Andreas Egler's latest version of (his path
of) MusiXTeX.  As I noted in the small hours of this morning in a post
to the <mutex> mailing list, a problem arises because both Andreas and
Daniel Taupin are (independently) developing MusiXTeX; I have no wish
publicly to step into this situation.

I have therefore installed a new README file in the directory, whose
content is:

=====================================================================
  Please note, two of the original authors are working independently on
  MusiXTeX at present.
  
  Daniel Taupin, the originator of MusicTeX, is developing the versions
  in the series musixtex-T* and musixpk-T* (the latest of which are
  always also present as musixtex.zip and musixpk.zip).
  
  Andreas Egler, who first put MusiXTeX together, is developing the
  versions in the series musix0* and {600,300}pk0* (these files are only
  present as .zip archives).
  
  I apologise for any confusion this situation may cause some users, but
  I am not qualified (or willing) to step into any arguments that may
  exist between the (three or more) earliest workers on MusiXTeX.
  
  If users so demand, I could modify the directory structure so that
  Egler's and Taupin's versions exist on different directories of the
  archive.  Personally I would prefer that the developers restart
  working together, as my life would become easier, but while we're in
  the present situation, I will do my best to ensure that everything
  that may be useful to anyone is available.
=====================================================================

The installation was done at ftp.tex.ac.uk; since Andreas Egler's
announcement of his version 0.42, he has put a further version (0.43)
into my incoming directory, so the files I have installed are:

  -rw-r--r--   1 ctan     TeX         1064 Jun 02 16:57 README
  -rw-r--r--   1 ctan     TeX       334522 May 30 17:31 musix043.zip
  -rw-r--r--   1 ctan     TeX       246928 May 26 09:32 300pk042.zip
  -rw-r--r--   1 ctan     TeX       541733 May 30 17:29 600pk042.zip

The installation is in the same directory
  tex-archive/macros/musixtex
as are all other musixtex releases at present.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun  4 06:12:46 1995
Date: 02 Jun 1995 17:33:35 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, olsak@math.feld.cvut.cz
Subject: Petr Olsak: the EAN macro to CTAN

Petr Olsak wrote to me as follows:

------- Forwarded Message

Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 12:44:01 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Petr Olsak <olsak@math.feld.cvut.cz>
To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: the EAN macro to CTAN

[...] I want to offer my "little macro" to CTAN archive. The macro
converts the EAN (13 digit or 8 digit) code to the barcode using TeX
primitive \vrule.  I have sent an article about the macro to TUGboat
(to Barbara Beeton) and the article was accepted.

The macro files, README, 00Description and mf-sources for OCR-b fonts
are available on our computer math.feld.cvut.cz in directory
pub/olsak/EAN by ftp anonymous. I have copied the mf-sources of OCR-b fonts
from CTAN:/fonts/ocr-b (by N. Schwarz) and I have added a little
corrections to these mf-sources. I suggest to place the mf-sources to
the same directory as ean macros. Therefore, the mf-sources will be twice on
CTAN (one original by N. Schwarz and one in ean directory with my
corrections). I hope it will do no problems.

My idea is to place my macros to directory CTAN:/macros/generic/ean but you
can find a better solution.

Petr Olsak

Department of Mathematics,
Czech Technical University in Prague
Czech Republic.

------- End of Forwarded Message

I have indeed installed Petr's macros in tex-archive/macros/generic

The CTAN system depends to some extent on unsolicited contributions of
this nature: thanks to Petr for his offer

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jun  7 15:10:06 1995
Date: 06 Jun 1995 11:47:06 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Tobias Oetiker: lshort2e Version 2.0


------- Forwarded Message

From: Tobias Oetiker <oetiker@dmu.ac.uk>
Subject: lshort2e Version 2.0
To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 17:01:38 +0100 (BST)

I have just packaged Version 2.0 of:

"The not so Short Introduction to LaTeX2e"

[...]

- -- 
___  ________  __   _  _____                                     _
__  /__  ___/ / /  (_) ____  Phone: +44 116 257-7156 Fax: -7169 __
____  / / _ \/ _ \/ / ____  Email: oetiker@dmu.ac.uk           ___
___  / / // / // / / ____  Web: http://engelberg.dmu.ac.uk    ____
__  /_/\___/|___/_/ ____  SysAdmin @ DMU Leicester, UK       _____



------- End of Forwarded Message

I have installed the new version as tex-archive/info/lshort on the
archive here.  It will propagate to the other CTANs in due course.

Robin Fairbairns
UK CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 20 21:21:30 1995
Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:19:23 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, Johannes Heinecke <johannes@compling.hu-berlin.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: New Version of my Georgian Font (mxedruli)

Johannes Heinecke writes:

 > I have just uploaded a new version of my Georgian Font,
 > written in METAFONT. It is now on 
 >  ftp.dante.de:/incoming/mxed-2.0.tar.gz
 > 
 > Please would you be so kind as to put it where the current
 > version is (tex-archive/fonts/georgian/mxedruli) which becomes
 > obsolete now. 
 > 
 > The new version has some additional letters used in other
 > languages but georgian which use the mxedruli alphabet
 > (ossetic, svan etc), some letters have been redesigned.
 > further I included a font for headings, (`capitals') as
 > this alphabet normally does not know capital letters,
 > the so called `capitals' I included are just letters
 > with all ascenders and descenders on a same letters.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jun 23 09:51:24 1995
Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:19:23 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, Johannes Heinecke <johannes@compling.hu-berlin.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: New Version of my Georgian Font (mxedruli)

Johannes Heinecke writes:

 > I have just uploaded a new version of my Georgian Font,
 > written in METAFONT. It is now on 
 >  ftp.dante.de:/incoming/mxed-2.0.tar.gz
 > 
 > Please would you be so kind as to put it where the current
 > version is (tex-archive/fonts/georgian/mxedruli) which becomes
 > obsolete now. 
 > 
 > The new version has some additional letters used in other
 > languages but georgian which use the mxedruli alphabet
 > (ossetic, svan etc), some letters have been redesigned.
 > further I included a font for headings, (`capitals') as
 > this alphabet normally does not know capital letters,
 > the so called `capitals' I included are just letters
 > with all ascenders and descenders on a same letters.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jun 20 20:37:55 1995
Date: 20 Jun 1995 16:13:26 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: fbennett@rumple.soas.ac.uk
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Frank Bennet writes:

> I have just uploaded a gzipped .tar archive, camel.tar.z, to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk.  This is a replacement for the `lexitex'
> bibliography package (also by me) that currently resides on
> /ctan/tex-archive/latex/macros/contrib/supported/lexitex.
> 
> This is an entirely new package, with a new name and new
> features.  It should be placed in a new subdirectory, and the
> `lexitex' subdirectory should be moved to the `other' branch
> of the LaTeX macro tree.
> 
> Please unpack this archive in:
> 
>   /ctan/tex-archive/latex/macros/contrib/supported/camel
> 
> This will create one new subdirectory, camel/styles, with one
> file in it (law.doc).  If anyone comes up with new styles for
> this bibliography package, the style code should be placed in the
> camel/styles subdirectory.

I've installed the package as suggested at ftp.tex.ac.uk, and it
should propagate to the other CTANs in due course (it's the big ones
that cause the problems...).  I've moved lexitex as suggested, too;
how long do you (Frank) intend it to last?

Robin
(For the CTAN team)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jun 21 06:33:27 1995
Date: 21 Jun 1995 09:53:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: CHAA006@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Phil Taylor writes:

> I have up-loaded ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/cropmrks.tex (version 1.5);
> this replaces files called `cropmarks.tex' which pre-exist in the CTAN
> hierarchy, and which are at version 1.3.  The name has been shortened
> to allow use within an MS/DOS environment whilst avoiding confusion with
> files called `cropmark.tex/.sty' of which I am not the author.

I have installed the files as Phil (seems to have) suggested (i.e., I
removed all the capitalisation in his original: the file he submitted
had a lower-case title).

There was a (somewhat gratuitous) copy of cropmarks.tex in
macros/latex209/contrib/cropmarks, which I have deleted and replaced
with a link to macros/plain/contrib/cropmrks.tex, where it replaces
cropmarks.tex

Robin Fairbairns


From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jun 21 21:12:04 1995
Date: 21 Jun 1995 13:23:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: LaTeX2e June 95 release available

I've just put the June 95 release of LaTeX2e on the server 

ftp.dante.de

in directories

macros/latex/base
macros/latex/unpacked
macros/latex/packages/tools
macros/latex/packages/mfnfss
macros/latex/packages/graphics

from where it will propagate to the other CTAN hosts in due course.

The LaTeX2e apologizes for the three week delay. We thought it better
to release a fully documented and tested release than a timely one.

For the LaTeX team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Denis.Roegel@loria.fr Wed Jun 21 21:36:58 1995
Date: 22 Jun 1995 02:17:15 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Denis B. Roegel <Denis.Roegel@loria.fr>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e June 95 release available

'Rainer Schoepf'
>   
>   I've just put the June 95 release of LaTeX2e on the server 
>   
>   ftp.dante.de
>   
>   in directories
>   
>   macros/latex/base

Thanks Rainer.

I just noticed that a few files don't have the good protections
in the base directory at least. Would you mind changing them ?

Thanks,

Denis

From Denis.Roegel@loria.fr Wed Jun 21 21:25:41 1995
Date: 22 Jun 1995 02:20:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Denis B. Roegel <Denis.Roegel@loria.fr>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: schoepf@uni-mainz.de, Denis B. Roegel <roegel@lorraine.loria.fr>
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e June 95 release available

'Rainer Schoepf'
>   
>   I've just put the June 95 release of LaTeX2e on the server 
>   
>   ftp.dante.de
>   
>   in directories
>   
>   macros/latex/base

Thanks Rainer,

I have just noticed that some protections are wrong at least
in the base directory. Would you mind changing them ?

Thanks in advance,

Denis

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jun 22 09:27:17 1995
Date: 22 Jun 1995 09:46:04 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Denis B. Roegel <roegel@lorraine.loria.fr>
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e June 95 release available

Denis B. Roegel writes:
 > 'Rainer Schoepf'
 > >   
 > >   I've just put the June 95 release of LaTeX2e on the server 
 > >   
 > >   ftp.dante.de
 > >   
 > >   in directories
 > >   
 > >   macros/latex/base
 > 
 > Thanks Rainer,
 > 
 > I have just noticed that some protections are wrong at least
 > in the base directory. Would you mind changing them ?

Ah sorry. I thought I had checked them all. Anyway, by now the nightly
check should has already set them correctly.

Rainer

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 23 09:49:05 1995
Date: 22 Jun 1995 12:55:11 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: tobias@dmu.ac.uk
Subject: LaTeX doc, new version of a package, for the 1995/06/01 release

I have updated the .dvi and .ps files of the LaTeX2e *guide series
(including the new modguide) at ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/macros/latex/doc.  
I've replaced previous real file of grfguide.ps with a link to the
file of that name in macros/latex/packages/grahics

The purpose of the doc directory is to enable people who don't (yet)
have LaTeX2e to read about its facilities before installing it.

A change to the specification of the \DeclareOption command means that
a few packages need to be updated.  Tobias Oetiker is the first I know
of to get around to that (all authors have been notified), and I have
installed a new copy of his acronym.dtx in tex-archive/macros/latex/
contrib/supported/acronym here, too.  Note that this new version has
the statement

  \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1995/06/01]

since the facilities it employs are new with the new release.

These installations should propagate to the other CTANs in due course.

Robin Fairbairns

Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns     rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
<a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html">Private page</a>

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun 25 11:08:38 1995
Date: 25 Jun 1995 14:58:08 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX doc, new version of a package, for the 1995/06/01 release

the "hyperref" package has also been updated to the June 95 LaTeX
standard, since it too was affected by the changes. for those who
havent come acros it, this redefines many LaTeX commands to make
hypertext references (to the HyperTeX standard).

the "labels" package is also updated. this makes typesetting
sheets of sticky labels easy

both in macros/latex/contrib/supported

Sebastian Rahtz

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun 25 11:15:09 1995
Date: 25 Jun 1995 15:06:05 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: olsak@math.feld.cvut.cz
Subject: afm to afm plus composites

> 
> The program a2ac (Afm To Afm plus Composites) enables to typeset texts by
> PostScript fonts in languages where accented letters are used. The font
> needn't to include completelly full alphabet of given language; the
> presence of self accents (no whole accented characters) is sufficient. The
> description files for the {\tt a2ac} program are independent on the
> PostScript font encoding and on the typesetting system encoding. The
> program may be used for font preparing for any typesetting system, but only
> \TeX{} was tested. Program was compiled on operation systems SUN OS, Linux
> and on DOS. May be, the program will work in others systems with C
> compiler. The C source of program, documentation and UNIX script for easier
> font preparation are included. An article about the a2ac program was sent
> to TUGboat editor now.

This has been installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk and should propagate to other
hosts tonight. Its in fonts/utilities/a2ac

with thanks to Petr

Sebastian Rahtz
for CTAN

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jun 26 06:56:24 1995
Date: 26 Jun 1995 10:45:06 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: svensson@math.ubc.ca
Subject: replacement for kuvio diagrams macros

Anders Svensson writes:
> 
> This contains an update to my diagram package residing in
> macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio. It'll unpack into a directory kuvio and
> contains a complete replacement for the files currently residing on CTAN.
> The old files can be blown away.
> 

this has duly been done. thanks, Anders

Sebastian Rahtz
for CTAN

From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Mon Jun 26 10:56:49 1995
Date: 26 Jun 1995 15:00:45 +0200
From: Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: New emTeX available now

The new emTeX release is now available for anonymous ftp on
ftp.dante.de in directory /tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex.
It will be available soon from the other CTAN servers and mirrors.

Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>

From john@gagme.wwa.com Mon Jun 26 20:07:39 1995
Date: 26 Jun 1995 09:55:11 -0500 (CDT)
From: john@gagme.wwa.com
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX doc, new version of a package, for the 1995/06/01 release

> the "hyperref" package has also been updated to the June 95 LaTeX
> 
> the "labels" package is also updated. this makes typesetting
> sheets of sticky labels easy
> 
Hello,

	I use the "labels" package. Is the updated "labels" package
	still compatible with the June 1994 LaTeX? Like, can I install
	it and assume it'll work with the June 1994 LaTeX? Thanks!

John

From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jun 27 07:12:58 1995
Date: 27 Jun 1995 09:50:50 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: john@gagme.wwa.com
Cc: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: labels compatibility

>  -- using template mhl.form> 
> 	I use the "labels" package. Is the updated "labels" package
> 	still compatible with the June 1994 LaTeX? Like, can I install
> 	it and assume it'll work with the June 1994 LaTeX? Thanks!
> 
i didnt test it per se, but i have no reason to think it wont work;
just to reassure people, the change in LaTeX June 95 that needed a few
styles to change in an incompatible way was quite obscure.

labels *is* much revised, by Grant Gustafson, so check the results
before you print out a box of labels

sebastian

From anne007@cs.vu.nl Sat Jul  1 02:30:28 1995
Date: 28 Jun 1995 11:29:55 +0100 (MET)
From: Anne Steegstra <anne007@cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> problems?

L.S.

I've updated to (for myself and not the users...):
	 LaTeX2e <1995/06/01>

Now I found (for the time being...) two problems:

a. I cannot typeset the amsldoc.tex. I.e. the documentation
   coming with the AMS package: "packages/amslatex/math".
   Below follows the output of both the previous
   version of latex (LaTeX2e <1994/12/01>) and the new one.

   Maybe someone could try to format amsldoc and see if she/he
   succeeds (and I fouled up...).

b. The format of my index has changed....
   With the previous version I got an empty line when going
   from one chracter entry to the other:
	jackson, 14
	johnson, 12

	kleenex, 10
   Now I get:
	jackson, 14 johnson, 12

	kleenex, 10

   In general it looks quite differently.
   Am I doing something wrong or did I miss something?
   Can anyone check the look of her/his layout
   of the index of an existing document?



Greetings and thanks for your attention,

	Anne Steegstra
	email: anne007@cs.vu.nl

----
Outputs for "latex2e amsldoc.tex":

   latex2e amsldoc
   This is TeX, C Version 3.1t2
   (amsldoc.tex
   LaTeX2e <1995/06/01>
   (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/amsldoc.cls
   Document Class: amsldoc 1995/02/23 v1.2b
   (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/book.cls
   Document Class: book 1995/06/19 v1.3e Standard LaTeX document class
   (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/leqno.clo)
   (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/bk10.clo)))
   (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/amsmath.sty
   (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/amstext.sty
   (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/amsgen.sty))
   (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/amsbsy.sty)
   (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/amsopn.sty))
   (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/amscd.sty)
   Writing index file amsldoc.idx
   (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/OT1cmtt.fd
    
   ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
    
   See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
   Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
   ! .
    ...                                              
                                                     
   l.18 \providecommand*{\tp@family}
                                    [5]{%
   ?
   
   
And this is the output for the previous version:

   /usr/local/bin/latex2e amsldoc
   This is TeX, C Version 3.1t2
   (amsldoc.tex
   LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 1
   (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/amsldoc.cls
   Document Class: amsldoc 1995/02/23 v1.2b
   (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/book.cls
   Document Class: book 1994/12/09 v1.2x Standard LaTeX document class
   (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/leqno.clo)
   (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/bk10.clo)))
   (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/amsmath.sty
   (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/amstext.sty
   (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/amsgen.sty))
   (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/amsbsy.sty)
   (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/amsopn.sty))
   (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/amscd.sty)
   Writing index file amsldoc.idx
   (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/OT1cmtt.fd) (amsldoc.aux) [1] (amsldoc.toc
   [2] [3]) [4] [5]
   
(interrupted because it just is ok....).

From vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de Sat Jul  1 01:01:11 1995
Date: 29 Jun 1995 10:19:07 +0200
From: vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Q re: LaTeX2e June 95 release on CTAN

I have just had a look at the latest FILES.last07days from ftp.dante.de.  
I was surprised to find that a couple of files of the LaTeX2e distribution
seem to have newer file dates than the rest of the release.  Specifcally,
I find the following files in today's FILES.last07days:

1995/06/23 |     146406 | macros/latex/base/classes.dtx
1995/06/23 |      41810 | macros/latex/base/ltpictur.dtx
1995/06/27 |       3936 | macros/latex/packages/graphics/epsfig.dtx
1995/06/27 |      19215 | macros/latex/packages/graphics/graphicx.dtx
1995/06/23 |      21102 | macros/latex/unpacked/article.cls
1995/06/23 |      23871 | macros/latex/unpacked/book.cls
1995/06/23 |      23898 | macros/latex/unpacked/report.cls

Does this indicate that there have been some updates/fixes/patches after
the officially announced release dated 1995/06/21 without telling anyone
or have these files been touched (perhaps accidentily) for some other 
reasons?   Anyone care to explain?

Cheers,
Ulrik.

P.S. In case that there have been updates without announcing them I would
want to protest against this practice.  It's simply not fair on the people
who have already installed immediately when it was announced (on 1995/06/22).

From ashv@Sigma.ICMP.Lviv.UA Sat Jul  1 07:02:24 1995
Date: 01 Jul 1995 10:06:59 +0000 (GMT)
From: Andrij Shvaika <ashv@Sigma.ICMP.Lviv.UA>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> problems?

Msg from Anne Steegstra
> 
> L.S.
> 
> I've updated to (for myself and not the users...):
> 	 LaTeX2e <1995/06/01>
> 
> Now I found (for the time being...) two problems:
> 
[...]
> b. The format of my index has changed....
>    With the previous version I got an empty line when going
>    from one chracter entry to the other:
> 	jackson, 14
> 	johnson, 12
> 
> 	kleenex, 10
>    Now I get:
> 	jackson, 14 johnson, 12
> 
> 	kleenex, 10
> 
>    In general it looks quite differently.
>    Am I doing something wrong or did I miss something?
>    Can anyone check the look of her/his layout
>    of the index of an existing document?
> 
I had the same problem befor I correct the path for index style 
files (*.ist). For EmTeX, which I use, it is IDXSTYLE directory, 
not TEXINPUT. 

Andrij

==================================================================
Dr. Andrij M. Shvaika                    | ashv@icmp.lviv.ua
Institute for Condensed Matter Physics   | Phone:   380-322-761161
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine  | Fax:     380-322-761978
1 Svientsitsky St.,                      =========================
UA-290011 Lviv, Ukraine                    


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jul  1 11:39:19 1995
Date: 01 Jul 1995 11:09:15 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de, David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Q re: LaTeX2e June 95 release on CTAN

> I have just had a look at the latest FILES.last07days from ftp.dante.de.  
> I was surprised to find that a couple of files of the LaTeX2e distribution
> seem to have newer file dates than the rest of the release.  Specifcally,
> I find the following files in today's FILES.last07days:
> 
> 1995/06/23 |     146406 | macros/latex/base/classes.dtx
> 1995/06/23 |      41810 | macros/latex/base/ltpictur.dtx
> 1995/06/27 |       3936 | macros/latex/packages/graphics/epsfig.dtx
> 1995/06/27 |      19215 | macros/latex/packages/graphics/graphicx.dtx
> 1995/06/23 |      21102 | macros/latex/unpacked/article.cls
> 1995/06/23 |      23871 | macros/latex/unpacked/book.cls
> 1995/06/23 |      23898 | macros/latex/unpacked/report.cls
> 
> Does this indicate that there have been some updates/fixes/patches after
> the officially announced release dated 1995/06/21 without telling anyone
> or have these files been touched (perhaps accidentily) for some other 
> reasons?   Anyone care to explain?

I know there have been updates to the files you noticed, apart from
ltpictur.dtx (about which I know nothing).

David Carlisle has an announcement in the pipeline for the classes and
the graphics stuff (I know this because he told me), but I haven't
seen it yet.

I don't understand the situation about ltpictur.dtx -- I didn't notice
an installation announcement about it changing (any installation
appears in our mailboxes so we can tell what's going on...)

Robin


From tim@maths.tcd.ie Sat Jul  1 08:47:00 1995
Date: 01 Jul 1995 11:53:00 +0100 (BST)
From: tim@maths.tcd.ie
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> problems?

> 
> a. I cannot typeset the amsldoc.tex.

I have no problem with this: "latex amsldoc" seems to work ok.
Perhaps you have to update your amslatex package ?

From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Sat Jul  1 10:06:43 1995
Date: 01 Jul 1995 11:19:17 -0300 (BST)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: Q re: LaTeX2e June 95 release on CTAN

> I have just had a look at the latest FILES.last07days from ftp.dante.de.  
> I was surprised to find that a couple of files of the LaTeX2e distribution
> seem to have newer file dates than the rest of the release.  Specifcally,
> I find the following files in today's FILES.last07days:

Yes these are bug fix updates.

It is true that they were not announced which is perhaps unfortunate,
but the first priority is to get the fixes on to ctan so that at least
no more people get the problems reported. Idealy an anouncement should
be made at the same time but a) most of the development team are away
on other duties at present and b) just after a release we always
get a lot of mail, and so just keeping up has taken up all our
time....

In fact I have just prepared a fix for the one remaining bug that has
been reported and there will be a fully announced `patch level one'
issue beginning of next week. The announcement of that will mention
all the other files that have been updated, and the bugs the updates
fixed.

Normally one can check recent bug reports on the public bugs database
on the www, as described in bugs.txt. Someone mentioned yesterday that
the public database is not being updated, I can nt check from here
but if that is the case it will be a temporary problem with the mirror
and corrected as soon as possible.

David

From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Sat Jul  1 07:26:12 1995
Date: 01 Jul 1995 11:21:19 -0300 (BST)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> problems?


please do not send bug reports to the ctan-ann address, use
latexbug.tex as described in bbugs.txt

Your problem b) is fixed in the recent update of the classes files on
ctan. See my previous message to this list.

David

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul  9 19:24:40 1995
Date: 02 Jul 1995 16:09:17 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: David Carlisle: LaTeX2e Patch level One

LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 1 Release
==========================================

Following the June LaTeX release, some bugs have been reported.

These have now been corrected by updating the following files on ctan.
The file patches.txt contains more information about the particular
bugs fixed.

unpacked/article.cls
unpacked/report.cls
unpacked/book.cls
unpacked/latex209.def

base/classes.dtx
base/latex209.dtx
base/ltpictur.dtx
base/patches.txt
base/ltpatch.ltx


If you have already obtained the June release of LaTeX you just need
to obtain the above files, and re-make the format by running initex on
latex.ltx. This should modify the startup banner from

LaTeX2e <1995/06/01>
to
LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 1

======================================================================
Since the June release three files in the graphics and tools bundles
have also been updated: 

tools/layout.dtx

graphics/epsfig.dtx
graphics/graphicx.dtx

======================================================================

David Carlisle
LaTeX3 project

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul  9 22:29:42 1995
Date: 03 Jul 1995 16:34:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, mutex@stolaf.edu
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, Daniel Taupin <taupin@rsovax.lps.u-psud.fr>, Werner Icking <Werner.Icking@gmd.de>
Subject: Musixtex directory split

For some time, CTAN has carried two copies of MusiXTeX, one
originating from Daniel Taupin and the other from Andreas Egler.

Two weeks ago, following a mirroring error here, Andreas Egler's copy
got deleted from CTAN; since I was ill at the time, nothing happened
for several days; fortunately, when I got back to work, Andreas had
supplied me with a new version...

I have therefore decided that the only safe way to proceed is to move
the two parts into separate directories -- 

  macros/musixtex/taupin  which is mirrored (indirectly) into CTAN
                          from Daniel's site
  macros/musixtex/egler   which is installed on CTAN by me as and when
                          Andreas sends me a new version

(The directories continue to be accessible as support/musictex/<whatever>,
for historical reasons.)

If either of the two active authors have any direct comment on the
present CTAN layout, they are welcome to mail me; I can (for example)
cross-link such things as examples files if necessary.

For safety's sake, however, I will not revert to the previous
situation of having both versions in the same directory, whatever the
authors think; losing files in this way tends to lead to
disproportionate amounts of work from the CTAN team and the systems
staff of the machines on which the archives are hosted, and I am
unwilling to leave us exposed in this way.

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk Mon Jul 10 05:17:50 1995
Date: 03 Jul 1995 16:34:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, mutex@stolaf.edu
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk, Daniel Taupin <taupin@rsovax.lps.u-psud.fr>, Werner Icking <Werner.Icking@gmd.de>
Subject: Musixtex directory split
Resent-Date: 10 Jul 1995 09:11:50 +0100 (BST)
Resent-From: "R. Allan Reese" <R.A.Reese@computer-centre.hull.ac.uk>
Resent-To: Alex Sharaz <a.sharaz@computer-centre.hull.ac.uk>

For some time, CTAN has carried two copies of MusiXTeX, one
originating from Daniel Taupin and the other from Andreas Egler.

Two weeks ago, following a mirroring error here, Andreas Egler's copy
got deleted from CTAN; since I was ill at the time, nothing happened
for several days; fortunately, when I got back to work, Andreas had
supplied me with a new version...

I have therefore decided that the only safe way to proceed is to move
the two parts into separate directories -- 

  macros/musixtex/taupin  which is mirrored (indirectly) into CTAN
                          from Daniel's site
  macros/musixtex/egler   which is installed on CTAN by me as and when
                          Andreas sends me a new version

(The directories continue to be accessible as support/musictex/<whatever>,
for historical reasons.)

If either of the two active authors have any direct comment on the
present CTAN layout, they are welcome to mail me; I can (for example)
cross-link such things as examples files if necessary.

For safety's sake, however, I will not revert to the previous
situation of having both versions in the same directory, whatever the
authors think; losing files in this way tends to lead to
disproportionate amounts of work from the CTAN team and the systems
staff of the machines on which the archives are hosted, and I am
unwilling to leave us exposed in this way.

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From anne007@cs.vu.nl Fri Jul  7 19:22:27 1995
Date: 04 Jul 1995 08:15:58 +0100 (MET)
From: Anne Steegstra <anne007@cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re:  LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> problems?

L.S.

The problems I had:

a. I cannot typeset the amsldoc.tex
b. The format of my index has changed.

are solved thanks to Reinhard Zierke:

> There was a mistake in classes.dtx which has been corrected.  Get the
> not-yet-announced updates from ftp.dante.de:
>  
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/base/classes.dtx                (Jun 28 14:32)
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/base/ltpictur.dtx               (Jun 23 10:48)
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/graphics/epsfig.dtx    (Jun 27 16:03)
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/graphics/graphicx.dtx  (Jun 27 16:03)
> 


Greetings all and thanks,

	Anne Steegstra
	email: anne007@cs.vu.nl


From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Thu Jul  6 19:14:34 1995
Date: 04 Jul 1995 15:57:58 +0200
From: Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de
Subject: Small emTeX update

I've updated emTeX on ftp.dante.de:

- first.zip: updated

- dvid16a?.zip: replaced with dvid16b?.zip: bug in dviscr removed,
  dvipm improved

- l2input.zip, l2base.zip, and l2tools.zip: patch level 1 of LaTeX2e.
  Please create new format files for LaTeX2e!

Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sun Jul  9 19:17:18 1995
Date: 05 Jul 1995 11:57:53 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se
Subject: Re: CTAN submission (dante; upgrading)

matsd@physchem.kth.se has updated his packages in

 > .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/chemsym.  the new version 
 > differs from the previous in that it is compatible with the
 > AMS-LaTeX package and that the commands for chemical symbols
 > are more robust.
 > 
 > The package defines
 > commands for the chemical symbols of the elements, which
 > always are type-set in upright font, as they should.  If not
 > followed by a stoichiometric number, a small space is
 > inserted.  

and


 > Recently I uploaded a new version of `vrsion' to 
 > ftp.dante.de in /incoming/vrsion.  The new version differs 
 > from the previous in that it is compatible with the `babel' 
 > package.  The uploaded files are meant to replace the files 
 > currntly in .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/vrsion.
 > 
 > The `vrsion' package enables version numbering of LaTeX 
 > files -- in either integers, one-decimal or two-decimal 
 > numbers.

For the CTAN team
Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul  9 22:59:48 1995
Date: 05 Jul 1995 16:24:38 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Wilfried Pfister <Wilfried.Pfister@imag.fr>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: lifia-th on ftp.tex.ac.uk /incoming

Wilfried Pfister writes:

> NOTE : this is an update. This version corrects minor bugs and gives a better
> documentation. It can be considered as a stable one. Thanks.
> 
> *Site : ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
> *File : lifia-th-2.0.tar.gz
> 
> *Size : 129756
> 
> *Short description : lifia-th is a documented class to produce a french thesis.
> 
> *Long description : lifia-th is a documented class to produce a french thesis.
> It may be customized for any laboratory. It contains french sectionning, date,
> and names. It allow user to have lists of figures, tables and exemples. It
> automatically makes a title page, headings, etc.
> The tar-file contains the following files :
>         LISEZ.MOI : a short description in french ;
>         Makefile : the installation/customization Makefile for GNU Make ;
>         lifia-th.dtx lifia-th.ins : the class and its installation file ;
>         lifia-th.dvi : the dvi version of the documentation ;
> 	lifia-th.ist : an index style file ;
> 	makeindex-2.12wp.patch.tar : an UNOFFICIAL patch to makeindex.
> 		It allows to consider french TeX and ISO accents when sorting
> 		(new option -f).
>         test-draft.ps test-draft.texf : an exemple of the draft option ;
>         test-lifia-th.ps test-lifia-th.texf : an exemple of the final version.
> 
> *Suggested directory : macros/latex/other/lifia-th

I expanded the .tar and installed the results in
macros/latex/contrib/other/lifia-th (where it was before -- almost as
requested...)

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sun Jul  9 22:17:52 1995
Date: 07 Jul 1995 10:00:22 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: SPIELER@linac.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission, VMS TeX (DECUS TeX) July 1995

Christian Spieler writes:

 > I have submitted
 > 
 > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/decustex_07_jul_95.zip
 > 
 > This is a complete new release of DECUS TeX, as found in
 > /tex-archive/systems/vms/ ; to simplify installation, the untouched
 > files of the previous release have been included as well.
 > 
 > [...]
 > 
 > The new release has the following features:
 > 
 > * Update of the TeX/METAFONT/XXware sources to Knuth's revision of march 1995:
 >   TeX 3.14159, MF 2.718, and some updates in the XXware utilities.
 > * Upgrade of Patgen to version 2.1
 > * XDVI upgraded to Patchlevel 20.
 > * Bugfix in MAKETEXPK_xxxx.COM procedures.
 > * Directory layout (more or less) conforming to the upcoming TDS standard.
 >   (with the exception of the PK font tree, where the splitting of
 >   the directory tree according to <vendor>/<typeface> is not yet available
 >   because of the still missing path searching code in the supplied DVI
 >   converters.
 > * Some small bug fixes in the VMS adaption code of the Web-based programs.

Thanks, the new version has been installed in

systems/vms/...

For the CTAN team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sun Jul  9 22:17:52 1995
Date: 07 Jul 1995 10:00:22 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: SPIELER@linac.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission, VMS TeX (DECUS TeX) July 1995

Christian Spieler writes:

 > I have submitted
 > 
 > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/decustex_07_jul_95.zip
 > 
 > This is a complete new release of DECUS TeX, as found in
 > /tex-archive/systems/vms/ ; to simplify installation, the untouched
 > files of the previous release have been included as well.
 > 
 > [...]
 > 
 > The new release has the following features:
 > 
 > * Update of the TeX/METAFONT/XXware sources to Knuth's revision of march 1995:
 >   TeX 3.14159, MF 2.718, and some updates in the XXware utilities.
 > * Upgrade of Patgen to version 2.1
 > * XDVI upgraded to Patchlevel 20.
 > * Bugfix in MAKETEXPK_xxxx.COM procedures.
 > * Directory layout (more or less) conforming to the upcoming TDS standard.
 >   (with the exception of the PK font tree, where the splitting of
 >   the directory tree according to <vendor>/<typeface> is not yet available
 >   because of the still missing path searching code in the supplied DVI
 >   converters.
 > * Some small bug fixes in the VMS adaption code of the Web-based programs.

Thanks, the new version has been installed in

systems/vms/...

For the CTAN team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jul  7 06:25:50 1995
Date: 07 Jul 1995 10:05:12 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: spieler@linac.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission, VMS specific BibTeX sources

Christian Spieler writes:

 > I have just uploaded:
 > 
 > ftp.dante.de::/incoming/bibtex_vms.zip
 > 
 > This Zip Archive contains VMS adaptation files for porting BibTeX to
 > OpenVMS (VAX and Alpha).
 > 
 > Please enter them into
 >    /tex_archive/biblio/bibtex/vms/   ,
 > where they replace the old outdated Web Changefile.

Thanks, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team
Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jul  7 16:57:57 1995
Date: 07 Jul 1995 16:07:04 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Bhaskar Manda <bhaskar@orion.me.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Bhaskar Manda writes:
 > a) I've uploaded a file called envbig.sty to /incoming of ftp.dante.de
 > c) The file is intended to print addresses on 4.5 x 9.125 envelopes
 >    on HP printers. The existing file envelope.sty prints for a smaller
 >    envelope and further prints on trailing side of the nevelope which
 >    is frequently mangled by the printer.
 > d) The file should be in macros/latex/contrib/other
 > Thanks
 > Bhaskar@orion.me.uiuc.edu

I installed the file in directory

  macros/latex/contrib/other/envbig

For the CTAN team
Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul  7 15:52:06 1995
Date: 07 Jul 1995 18:15:26 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, mutex@stolaf.edu
Cc: ehlerabk@rubc.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Subject: Andreas Egler's MusiXTeX v0.45

Andreas has supplied me with v0.45 of his version of MusiXTeX

I have installed it as tex-archive/macros/musixtex/egler/musix045.zip
here at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should propagate to the other CTANs soon.

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jul 10 00:01:26 1995
Date: 07 Jul 1995 18:23:27 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: malyshev@desert.ihep.su
Subject: "Basil K. Malyshev": DC BaKoMa fonts

Basil Malyshev writes:

------- Forwarded Message

Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 18:34:31 +0400
From: "Basil K. Malyshev" <malyshev@desert.ihep.su>
Reply-To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Message-ID: <199507061434.malyshev@desert.ihep.su>
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu

Dear archivarius,

I have uploaded in CTAN host 'ftp.tex.ac.uk' file '/incoming/BKM-DCx.tar.gz'.

 This font software package continues BaKoMa Font Collection.
 The package includes the most usefull European Computer Modern fonts 
 that were borrowed from the Computer Modern family of fonts by D. E. Knuth.
 Totally, 109 fonts are included into BaKoMa/DC font software package.
 Original METAFONT codes are located in ftp.tex.ac.uk:tex-archive/fonts/dc.

 The fonts are in a ATM compatible PostScript Type 1 font format (PFB+AFM).

  About placement in the archive:
   One resonable directory is adding to 
      '/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma' directory.
   In other side, this package includes DC fonts and can be placed to
     '/tex-archive/fonts/dc/ps-type1'.

I hope that this font package will be usefull for many peoples.

Bye.

Basil K. Malyshev, 05-Jul-95 17:02:44, Protvino, Moscow region, Russie.
E-Mail: malyshev@mx.ihep.su or malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch

------- End of Forwarded Message

This is great news, Basil!  I have installed the fonts as a subtree at
tex-archive/fonts/dc/ps-type1/bakoma here on ftp.tex.ac.uk (this is by
analogy with the directory structure that is used for the CM BaKoMa
fonts; I hope it will be acceptable).

There's an awful lot of this stuff, so those in the USA and points
onward in particular may suffer from some delay in its propagation to
SHSU.  (Note, however, that there are rumours of better bandwidth
between the UK and the USA, so things may get better some time
soon...)

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
(Member of an extinct species of archivarii? ;-)

From TEX@DKPTHA.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Fri Jul  7 15:56:09 1995
Date: 07 Jul 1995 18:24:44 +0100
From: TEX@DKPTHA.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Sauter font update

I have placed a minor update to the sauter fonts on the german CTAN site
in the incoming directory, it will be available soon from the archives
in directory tex-archive/fonts/cm/sauter23.

The main news is support for the June 1995 LaTeX release, there are also 
some minor cosmetic changes in the arrangement of files and the 
documentation. I have also provided on popular request ready-made mf
files for the standard LaTeX font set.

--J"org Knappen.

P.S. Version is still 2.3, since no changes to the mf files were done.

From gdearc@econ.lsa.umich.edu Sun Jul  9 18:54:38 1995
Date: 07 Jul 1995 20:12:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Giuseppe De Arcangelis <gdearc@econ.lsa.umich.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Faxing TeX-Dvi documents from DOS-Windows


I have a general question regarding the existence of a dvi driver able to 
print from DOS-Windows on a com port where a modem-fax is linked. Is there 
any such dvi driver? 
DviWin is a great program to use any printer that is under Window. 
However, although my fax board is configured as the "printer" on which 
all the Windows based programs can print, DviWin fails.
Is there any other way to fax directly dvi files even from DOS?

Thanks,    Giuseppe


*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
Giuseppe De Arcangelis                 ph. (313) 764 2368
The University of Michigan             fax (313) 764 2769
Dept. of Economics                     e-mail: gdearc@umich.edu
Ann Arbor,  MI 48109-1220

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul  9 14:25:28 1995
Date: 09 Jul 1995 17:08:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: fbennett@rumple.soas.ac.uk
Subject: A new release of the Camel system

I have installed Frank Bennett's latest version of the `Camel citator'
(as he calls it) in directory tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/camel
here at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should propagate to the other CTAN sites
fairly soon (bandwidth from here to SHSU, for example, has just
doubled!).

Camel is a LaTeX2e prototype of the citation commands we might expect
to appear in LaTeX3 -- it has various features that set it above what
BibTeX and related styles have to date achieved.

Since Frank is a lawyer, Camel is presented with no more than one
`citation style', appropriate for legal citations.  A challenge is
issued to hardy souls who may care to generate citation styles
appropriate for other fields.

The new version mends a few bugs and infelicities beyond that which I
installed a short while ago; however, the big change is that the
source is now presented in the more normal .ins/.dtx form (previously,
one had to extract a .ins file from a .doc file by `manually' running
docstrip: this was doable -- in the sense that I at least managed it
-- but wasn't a terribly exciting experience).

There are two sets of .ins/.dtx files in the directory; both
installations need to run before the documentation can be generated
from the .dtx files.

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul  9 18:48:02 1995
Date: 09 Jul 1995 22:17:55 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Piet van Oostrum writes:

> It appears that the eepic manual is missing from the CTAN archives. I
> uploaded my copy (eepic.tex) to ftp.tex.ac.uk, to be placed in
> macros/latex209/contrib/eepic/ 

I've installed it here.  It'll propagate in due time.

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul  9 18:48:02 1995
Date: 09 Jul 1995 22:17:55 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Piet van Oostrum writes:

> It appears that the eepic manual is missing from the CTAN archives. I
> uploaded my copy (eepic.tex) to ftp.tex.ac.uk, to be placed in
> macros/latex209/contrib/eepic/ 

I've installed it here.  It'll propagate in due time.

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul  9 19:38:42 1995
Date: 09 Jul 1995 23:29:12 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: plain.sty for LaTeX2e 1995/06/01

I have installed a copy of David Carlisle's (rather old) plain.sty
modified (at David's suggestion) for the June release of LaTeX2e on
CTAN in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/plain.sty

plain.sty provides an environment that enables LaTeX users to typeset
plain TeX documents.  Aspiring users should note that this is not a
foolproof means of proceeding: plain documents have a way of defining
macros that are incompatible with LaTeX's way of doing things...

The file's preamble says:

 Defines a new environment plain, in which plain TeX files should be 
 LaTeX'able.  
 Defines \magnification and \bye to be no-op.
 Re-enables some plain commands (\line, \eqalign ...)
 Fakes some other plain commands (\footnote, \topinsert, ... )
 Keeps LaTeX's font definitions, and output routine.

     Example use:

     \begin{plain}
     \input{Somebodys_plain_file.tex}
     \end{plain}

  You do not have to \input the plain commands, they can  be entered directly
  inside the plain environment.

  Note that this style file is designed to make plain TeX files do something
  sensible inside LaTeX. The page breaks, widths of lines, fonts used etc
  may not be the same as obtained from plain TeX.

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From tiedtke@vnwz00.uni-muenster.de Sun Jul  9 23:06:06 1995
Date: 09 Jul 1995 22:05:44 -0500 (EST)
From: tiedtke@vnwz00.uni-muenster.de
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: metapost 0.63 for OS/2

I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de META4OS2.ZIP and META4OS2.readme. They are
currently in the incoming directory but should propagate to
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/os2/metapost. The archive contains the
executables and assorted files for metapost 0.63 for OS/2. They are based
on Piet van Oostrum's port of metapost 0.63 for MS-DOS. He did the port
with E. Matthes' emx/gcc. So you need a current installation of emTeX or
you must get the latest emx runtime package (emx 0.9a FIX05 or later).

I rebound the executables he made with emxbind. The port uses an unix
shellscript instead of the batch files Piet provided, since I didn't got
them run and I'm not familiar with REXX. The unix shell is the same Peter
Miller and I used for P.M. port of metapost 0.62 for OS/2. This shell can
be found in CTAN:/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/MetaPost4OS2/ms_sh23b.zip.

Piet's port can be found on CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/msdos/metapost and
contains the source code and documentation (postscript).

META4OS2.ZIP contains installation instructions in the file README.OS2.

Uwe Baumert

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From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jul 10 06:14:00 1995
Date: 10 Jul 1995 11:07:04 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@ba.unex.es>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Santiago Vila Doncel writes:

 > I have uploaded the following files to ftp.dante.de/incoming/makeinst
 > 
 > readme.1st
 > makeinst.zip
 > 
 > MAKEINST is a program to generate .BAT files to install emTeX. 
 > It may be useful for everybody who wants to do this in more than 
 > one computer.
 > 
 > Suggested CTAN place where I think it may be:
 > 
 > systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/makeinst

Thanks, the package has been installed in the indicated location.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jul 11 12:58:14 1995
Date: 11 Jul 1995 17:35:47 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ULI WORTMANN <ULI12@homer.geol.chemie.tu-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: upload notification

ULI WORTMANN writes:

 > I uploaded the ispell-3.1.18 port to os2 (beta3), onto
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming. It's a straightforward port of the unix-ispell.
 > Archive Name: isp31b3.zip
 > 
 > suggested description:
 > os2 port of ispell-3.1.18, a multilingual spell checker -- beta3 
 > 
 > suggested location:
 > support/ispell/os2/ and a link to systems/os2/ispell
 > 
 > Needs: os2/2.x  -- is supposed to work with emacs & auctex and
 > plain terminals, will still not work on DOS, maybe it works on FAT-drives.
 > 
 > comes with german and english dictionarys, all binaries a
 > working munchlist script, complete sources and the emx runtime libs.
 > 
 > Contact: Uli Wortmann uli@homer.geol.chemie.tu-muenchen.de

Thanks, it has been installed in the indicated places.

For the CTAN Team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jul 12 05:44:59 1995
Date: 12 Jul 1995 09:38:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu
Subject: Re: UPLOAD: pb-diagram LaTeX package

Paul Burchard writes:

> I have submitted the archive file
> 
> 	/incoming/pb-diagram/pb-diagram-4.0.tar.Z
> 
> to the ftp.shsu.edu FTP site.  This archive contains version 4.0 of  
> my "pb-diagram" LaTeX/LaTeX2e package for commutative diagrams,  
> along with documentation and examples.
> 
> Assuming "supported" means supported by the author of the package,  
> my suggested location for the files is:
> 
> 	tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pb-diagram/

I have installed it (at SHSU) as suggested.  However, I removed the
lams?.mf files (which are duplicates of the corresponding files in
macros/lamstex/mf, and installed a link to that directory in their
place.

The installation should propagate to the other CTANs overnight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From cesar@eup.udl.es Wed Jul 12 15:02:36 1995
Date: 12 Jul 1995 19:38:34 +0100
From: Cesar Fernandez <cesar@eup.udl.es>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: UPLOAD: pb-diagram LaTeX package protection

ftp.shsu.edu FTP site has no read permission for the world in pb-diagram-4.0.tar.Z file.
I've had no chance to retrieve-it

Cesar.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 13 05:28:26 1995
Date: 13 Jul 1995 09:21:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: cesar@eup.udl.es
Cc: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: UPLOAD: pb-diagram LaTeX package protection

> ftp.shsu.edu FTP site has no read permission for the world in
> pb-diagram-4.0.tar.Z file.

When I announced its installation, I reported that the files contained
in it had been uploaded to

  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pb-diagram

In fact it's made it here (ftp.tex.ac.uk), so you don't even have to
make a trans-atlantic connection to get it.

None of the CTANs offer read access to uploaded files in /incoming,
which is why you need to monitor CTAN-Ann for announcement of where
the files have been installed.

> I've had no chance to retrieve-it

I beg to differ

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jul 14 18:29:14 1995
Date: 14 Jul 1995 17:48:48 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: eMail CTAN <ctan@SHSU.edu>, Markus Porto <Markus.Porto@physik.uni-giessen.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Markus Porto writes:

 > I upload the folder TeX-Service to ftp.dante.de. This folder contains a
 > package for a local installation of the TeX-Service of the computer center
 > of the University of Giessen (URL: http://www.uni-giessen.de/hrz/tex/) and a
 > special version of the Cookbook for LaTeX (both in German). I suggest a
 > final location like pub/tex/tools/www/TeX-Service.

Thanks, I installed the package under

info/TeX-Service

Rainer Sch�pf

 > I include here the READMEs for both packages:
 > 
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > README for the TeX-Service-Paket
 > 
 > The TeX-Service-Paket is a special version of the TeX-Service of the
 > computer center of the University of Giessen, Germany
 > (URL http://www.uni-giessen.de/hrz/tex/tex.html). This package is
 > intended to be installed on other WWW servers. If you have questions
 > or problems with the installation do not hesitate to contact me via
 > email (address below).
 > 
 > Note: The text in the package is written in German. If somebody likes to
 > translate the text and the examples to English contact me via email.
 > 
 > Markus Porto
 > Markus.Porto@physik.uni-giessen.de
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > README for the Kochbuch Standalone Paket
 > 
 > First of all the most important things
 > 
 >   Copy me, I want to travel.
 > 
 > and
 > 
 >   This software comes to you without any money
 >   and it is well worth its price!
 > 
 > The Kochbuch Standalone Paket is a special version of the cookbook within
 > the TeX-Service of the computer center of the University of Giessen, Germany,
 > which can be used without a WWW server. To use this package on your private
 > computer (DOS/Unix etc.), you only need a WWW client (Mosaic or NetScape e.g.)
 > to view the pages. The pages do not contain links to pages outside the package.
 > 
 > To install the package you need to get one version of the Kochbuch Standalone
 > Paket and unpack it on your private computer.
 > 
 > Example: FTP transfer:
 > 
 >          ftp> bin
 >          ftp> get Kochbuch-Standalone-Paket.pkz cookbook.pkz
 > 
 >          unpack:
 >          pkunzip -d cookbook.pkz
 > 
 >          ATTENTION: For pkunzip the option -d is important!
 > 
 >          start your favorite WWW client and `Open Local' the file
 >          cookbook.htm, that's all!
 > 
 > Note: The text in the package is written in German. If somebody likes to
 > translate the text and the examples to English contact me via email.
 > 
 > Markus Porto
 > Markus.Porto@physik.uni-giessen.de
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > Sincerly,
 > Markus Porto                                                /'^'\
 >                                                            ( o o )
 > -------------------------------------------------------oOOO--(_)--OOOo---------
 > Markus Porto
 > Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Giessen
 > 
 > email:   Markus.Porto@physik.uni-giessen.de (PGP public key available!)
 > address: Markus Porto
 >          Institute for Theoretical Physics
 >          University of Giessen
 >          Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16
 >          35392 Giessen
 >          Germany
 > tel:     +49 641 702 2810 (secreteriate)                .oooO
 > fax:     +49 641 702 2813                               (   )   Oooo.
 > ---------------------------------------------------------\ (----(   )----------
 >                                                           \_)    ) /
 >                                                                 (_/

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jul 17 17:58:00 1995
Date: 17 Jul 1995 16:31:57 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: LaTeX 1.6.95 pl 2 released

I've just put patchlevel 2 of the June 95 release onto the CTAN host
ftp.dante.de from where it will propagate to the other hosts in due
course.

The files affected are:

base/ltpictur.dtx
base/syntonly.dtx
base/patches.txt
base/ltpatch.ltx

For the LaTeX team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From peterk@wfw.wtb.tue.nl Tue Jul 18 03:35:34 1995
Date: 18 Jul 1995 06:28:19 +0000 (MDT)
From: peterk@wfw.wtb.tue.nl
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX 1.6.95 pl 2 released

Dear Mr Schoepf,

On the mailng list you wrote that following files were  updated on ftp.dante.de:
> base/ltpictur.dtx
> base/syntonly.dtx
> base/patches.txt
> base/ltpatch.ltx
The timestamp of these files however is Jan 19 ! Is there something wrong with
the server, or is the problem on my side of the line? If it's on youur side,
won't it affect propagation to the other CTAN's?

Regards,
-- 
Peter Kruijt                                   | e-mail: peterk@wfw.wtb.tue.nl
Department of Mechanical Engineering           | WH 0.132 PO Box 513
Eindhoven University of Technology             | NL 5600 MB Eindhoven

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jul 18 04:30:14 1995
Date: 18 Jul 1995 09:10:39 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se
Subject: Re: CTAN upload (dante)

matsd@physchem.kth.se writes:

 > I have recently uploaded a new version of the `deleq' 
 > package to ftp.dante.de/incoming/deleq.  The files are to 
 > replace the current version in 
 >   .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/deleq/
 > 
 > The new version is compatible with the `fleqn' class option 
 > as well as the `leqno' option.  `deleq' provides commands 
 > and environments for pratially numbered equations, recycled 
 > equation numbers, and flexible referecing to partially 
 > numbered equations.  (A partially numbered equation in 
 > `deleq' terminology is e.g. 3a.)

Thanks, the update has just been installed.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jul 18 04:30:17 1995
Date: 18 Jul 1995 09:13:08 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@ba.unex.es>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Santiago Vila Doncel writes:

 > I have uploaded the following file to ftp.dante.de/incoming/makeinst
 > 
 > makeinst.zip
 > 
 > MAKEINST is a program to generate .BAT files to install emTeX. 
 > It may be useful for everybody who wants to do this in more than 
 > one computer.
 > 
 > This is an upgrade (version 0.2).
 > It should replace the file
 > 
 > systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/makeinst/makeinst.zip

Your update has been installed. Thanks.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jul 18 06:18:37 1995
Date: 18 Jul 1995 09:22:58 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: mcgrant@wheezer.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: PSfrag maintenance release

> I've uploaded psfrag.tar.gz to ftp.shsu.edu:/incoming.
> It should replace the contents of 
>    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag
> This is a maintenance release to take care of incompatibilites
> introduced by the new version of the graphics package...

I have installed the replacement version (at SHSU) in macros/latex/
contrib/supported/psfrag

It should propagate to the other CTANs overnight

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jul 18 06:51:32 1995
Date: 18 Jul 1995 09:45:34 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: peterk@wfw.wtb.tue.nl
Subject: Re: LaTeX 1.6.95 pl 2 released

Peter Kruit writes:

> On the mailng list you wrote that following files were  updated on ftp.dante.de:
> > base/ltpictur.dtx
> > base/syntonly.dtx
> > base/patches.txt
> > base/ltpatch.ltx
> The timestamp of these files however is Jan 19 ! Is there something wrong with
> the server, or is the problem on my side of the line? If it's on youur side,
> won't it affect propagation to the other CTAN's?

I find this confusing.  Rainer installed the files yesterday, and they
duly propagated here yesterday evening; thus the dates were plainly
right yesterday.

I've just looked at them here, at SHSU and on dante, and they're
marked as having the correct dates in all three places (though the
times on SHSU are odd).

Presumably there was a glitch of some sort that caused the problem you
saw.

Robin Fairbairns

From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Fri Jul 21 02:08:28 1995
Date: 20 Jul 1995 13:06:00 +0100
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 3


The third patch to the June release of LaTeX has just been placed on
ftp.dante.de, and will reach other ctan archives in due course.

This patch is essentially just to include a couple of small updates
omitted from patch level 2. The files that have changed are

latex/base
-rw-r--r--  1 Mr.Ftp       1873 Jul 20 11:56 patches.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 Mr.Ftp       1761 Jul 20 11:55 ltpatch.ltx
-rw-r--r--  1 Mr.Ftp      14569 Jul 20 11:55 proc.dtx
-rw-r--r--  1 Mr.Ftp      33999 Jul 20 11:54 latex209.dtx

latex/unpacked
-rw-r--r--  1 Mr.Ftp      14085 Jul 20 11:57 latex209.def
-rw-r--r--  1 Mr.Ftp       6007 Jul 20 11:57 proc.cls
-rw-r--r--  1 Mr.Ftp       5823 Jul 20 11:57 proc.sty

Please see the file patches.txt for details of the problems fixed in
this release. That file also details the full list of files that were
updated in the previous two patch releases.

David Carlisle
LaTeX3 project

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Jul 22 06:41:32 1995
Date: 20 Jul 1995 17:02:30 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu, kolb@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: gb4e

hans-peter kolb writes:

 > after this packages has been favourably reported on in the LINGUIST
 > list, there is, I'm afraid, no way around installation on CTAN,
 > although I'd have preferred to finalize a cleaner 2e-Version
 > first...
 > 
 > I have uploaded to      ftp.dante.de
 > the file                gb4e.tar.gz.THE.REAL.ONE
 > 
 > which untars to         gb4e/
 >                         gb4e/gb4e-doc.tex
 >                         gb4e/cgloss4e.sty
 >                         gb4e/gb4e.sty
 > 
 >  ==> (Please trash file gb4e.tar.gz---its a 209-only version   <==
 >  ==> I uploaded accidentally and wasn't able to overwrite with <==
 >  ==> The Real Thing...)                                        <==
 > 
 > I would suggest the installation of its contents in the
 >         macros/latex/contrib/supported
 > directory, maybe with a link to 
 >         macros/latex209/contrib/supported
 > 
 > 
 > Short Description:
 > 
 > gb4e and cgloss4e are yet another aid for typesetting linguistic texts
 > written by C. Thiersch and myself, drawing in parts on related work of
 > several other people (cf. the documentation for proper credit).
 > 
 > Its components are 
 >    - a very flexible environment for formatting linguistic examples,
 >    - robust commands for handling glosses (they even work in footnotes!)
 >    - miscellaneous macros to make the life of The Typing Linguist easier.
 > 
 > Though originally developed under LaTeX 2.09 (and still showing it in
 > the code), the package runs without difficulties in native LaTeX2e.
 > 
 > -- 
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >  hans-peter kolb                        kolb@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
 >  Universit"at T"ubingen/SfS                             +49-7071-297315
 >  Kleine Wilhelmstrasse 113                       +49-7071-72465 (priv.)
 >  D-72074 T"ubingen (Germany)                       FAX: +49-7071-550520
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot for your submission. The package has been installed in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/gb4e

with a link from

  macros/latex209/contrib/gb4e

to that directory as well.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Schoepf
   Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung          A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitaet Mainz                 luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@uni-mainz.de>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From wscoas@win.tue.nl Fri Jul 21 06:05:57 1995
Date: 21 Jul 1995 10:11:47 +0200
From: Anton A. Stoorvogel <wscoas@win.tue.nl>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re:  LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 3

I am wondering whether you made a mistake. I got the latest
patchlevel but the file ltpatch.ltx contains 

\def\fmtversion@topatch{1995/06/01} % This patch will not work with
                                    % any other release.

\def\patch@level{0}


It seems it is a file corresponding to patchlevel 0. Can you enlighten
me ?

Best regards,

Anton Stoorvogel

From tex@itap.physik.uni-stuttgart.de Fri Jul 21 07:26:22 1995
Date: 21 Jul 1995 11:07:36 +0200
From: TeX Manager <tex@itap.physik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Where isCTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu patchlevel 3 ?

I've just copied ltpatch.ltx from CTAN 

   1761 Jul 20 11:55 ltpatch.ltx

It contains the line

   \def\patch@level{0}

I think there is something wrong.

Juergen Bachteler

P.S.: It's the same on all CTANs.

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jul 21 08:29:19 1995
Date: 21 Jul 1995 11:27:45 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk, Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>, te@informatik.uni-hannover.de, hans-peter kolb <kolb@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 3

David Carlisle writes:
 > 
 > The third patch to the June release of LaTeX has just been placed on
 > ftp.dante.de, and will reach other ctan archives in due course.
 > 
 > This patch is essentially just to include a couple of small updates
 > omitted from patch level 2. The files that have changed are
 > 
 > latex/base
 > -rw-r--r--  1 Mr.Ftp       1873 Jul 20 11:56 patches.txt
 > -rw-r--r--  1 Mr.Ftp       1761 Jul 20 11:55 ltpatch.ltx

Due to an unfortuante error on my part (it's simply too hot here!)
wrong versions of some of the files were put on the servers. I've just
corrected it.

Thanks to all who noticed the mistake and mailed me about it.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Rainer Sch�pf

From walker@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de Fri Jul 21 10:27:51 1995
Date: 21 Jul 1995 14:21:45 +0200
From: Richard Walker <walker@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 3

Rainer Schoepf writes:
 > Due to an unfortuante error on my part (it's simply too hot here!)

Damit stimme ich zu!!!

Richard, in Karlsruhe.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jul 22 16:59:13 1995
Date: 22 Jul 1995 15:35:50 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: roegel@lorraine.loria.fr, Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Denis Roegel writes:

--
From: "Denis B. Roegel" <Denis.Roegel@loria.fr>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 19:09:03 +0200
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Subject: CTAN Submission

I have uploaded the file truchet.tar.gz in Aston's incoming directory.
Here is the beginning of the README:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Truchet tiling
--------------

This directory contains what I wrote for the contest proposed by
Denis Girou and Philippe Esperet at the GUTenberg congress on 
June 1 & 2, 1995. The problem is known as `Truchet tiling'. There were
two parts: coloration of lines, and colorations of surfaces.
Initially, the problem would have to be solved using pure PostScript
or PSTricks. I prefered to use METAPOST. A survey of all the solutions
will appear in a forthcoming issue of ``Les Cahiers GUTenberg''.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

The file truchet.tar.gz expands in a directory `truchet'. I recommend
this directory to be

     graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/truchet


Denis Roegel
(roegel@loria.fr)
--

I have installed the stuff as Denis suggests; it should propagate to
the other CTANs fairly soon

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From robin@scri.fsu.edu Sun Jul 23 11:38:40 1995
Date: 23 Jul 1995 10:29:18 -0500
From: robin@scri.fsu.edu
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Paul A. Thompson <pat@po.CWRU.Edu>, robin@mailer.scri.fsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Paul Thompson writes:

>I have uploaded a file to ftp.shsu.edu. The file is entitled
>acromake.sty.  The file creates acronyms, as described in Tex and
>Tug news, v.4 #3.  I would recommend placing this at:
>
>tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other

I have duly installed the file (at SHSU, for once).  It should
propagate to the other CTANs overnight.

The path is in fact macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/acromake.sty

Robin Fairbairns
(for the CTAN team)

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jul 24 04:31:59 1995
Date: 24 Jul 1995 09:26:48 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: Ulrich Jahnz <y0001033@ws.rz.tu-bs.de>, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Ulrich Jahnz writes:

 > today I uploaded a couple of files onto German CTAN-node
 > 'ftp.dante.de'. All files are stored in '/incoming/e4t'.
 > 
 > Please move all files to "my" directory '/pub/tex/systems/msdos/e4t'.
 > Any files already stored in '/pub/tex/systems/msdos/e4t' have to be
 > deleted.
 > 
 > May be you could create a subdir '/pub/tex/systems/os2/e4t' which has
 > a link to "my" directory.

Thank you for your submission, I installed the files as requested and
made in link in the systems/os2 subdirectory.

For the CTAN team

Rainer Sch�pf

From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Mon Jul 24 05:15:28 1995
Date: 24 Jul 1995 09:56:41 +0200
From: Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: emTeX update: LaTeX2e patch level 3

I've updated the following files in /tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex
on ftp.dante.de:

  first.zip
  l2input.zip
  l2base.zip
  README.ENG
  README.GER
  CHANGES.ENG
  CHANGES.GER

Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jul 27 06:09:09 1995
Date: 24 Jul 1995 16:36:50 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Janusz S. Bie/n <JSBIEN%PLEARN.BITNET@listserv.gmd.de>
Cc: ctan@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN submission:ogonek

Janusz S. Bie/n writes:

 > Following the upload instruction on ftp.dante.de, on 10th July I
 > notified CTAN-Mgr about my upload, but it still is not placed on
 > CTAN. Is the upload instruction correct and up-to-date? Anyway,
 > please process my upload as soon as possible, as it is an important
 > upgrade of the package wich no longer works with the recent LaTeX2e.

Unfortunately, George Greenwade is away at the moment, so that mails
to the ctan-mgr address do not reach us. Please send to ctan@shsu.edu
instead.

 > (a) I  have put the following files into the /incoming/ogonek
 > directory on ftp.dante.de:
 >              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >   readme
 >   ogonek.dtx
 >   ogonek.ins
 >   togonek1.ltx
 >   togonek2.ltx
 > 
 > (b) This is the updated version of the ogonek package. Below please
 > find its short description:
 > 
 > This LaTeX2e package provides a command to typeset letters with the
 > ogonek diacritic mark; they are used in Polish and Lithuanian. The
 > command is named \k in accordance with the \k command available in
 > LaTeX2e for T1 encoding and DC fonts; however, it can be used also
 > with other font encodings, especially OT1 and CM fonts. For Polish
 > the best results are obtained with the special Polish PL fonts.
 > 
 > (c) This version replaces an earlier version present in
 > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/ogonek with a link to it from
 > tex-archive/languages/polish.

I've just made teh update on ftp.dante.de, from where it will
propagate to the other CTAN hosts in due course.

For the CTAN team

Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 27 21:14:31 1995
Date: 28 Jul 1995 01:04:40 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: oetiker@dmu.ac.uk
Subject: "A `short' introduction to LaTeX2e" version 2.1

Tobi Oetiker has provided me with a new version of his short
introduction, and I've installed it on the CTAN here.  It should
propagate to the other CTANs soon.

Thanks, Tobi -- I believe this document provides a great service to
(english-speaking) beginners in LaTeX.

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 28 22:41:37 1995
Date: 29 Jul 1995 02:28:32 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Jim Hefferon <HEFFERON@SMCVAX.SMCVT.EDU>
Subject: Re: shadethm.sty upload

Jim Hefferon writes:

> Notes for shadethm.sty        24July95    from:  hefferon@smcvax.smcvt.edu
> 
> This is a LaTeX2e package that allows declarations like:
>   \newshadetheorem{thm}{Theorem}
> to cause \begin{thm} .. \end{thm} to produce a LaTeX theorem inside a shaded
> box.  It is an upgrade of my 2.09 style file that did roughly the same thing.
> 
> I will support it.  [...]

I have installed the package (at SHSU); it will propagate to the other
CTANs in due course.

I put it in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/shadethm (four
files in the directory).

Thanks, Jim.

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jul 29 11:58:56 1995
Date: 29 Jul 1995 15:55:34 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Eric.Picheral@univ-rennes1.fr, Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Yves Arrouye writes:

> I have uploaded mkpkfontdir.tar.gz on ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming.
> 
> Here is a short description of the aim of the tool contained in the archive:
> 
>     mkpkfontdir is a tool for manipulating TeX pk fonts directories
>     and reorganizing them in various ways mimicking (after some
>     transformations) the organization of your tfm files tree.
> 
>     mkpkfontdir can generate TDS trees, or mirror and flatten them for
>     efficient recursive subdirectories searching (by making a pool of
>     symbolic links that will be searched, for example). It has been
>     successfully used in  a modified MakeTeXPK, for instance, to put
>     generated pk files at their "right" place in a structure hierarchy.
> 
>     It is also a great help for keeping consistency between the tfm and
>     the pk trees, or simply for putting newly got pk files at their right
>     place.
> 
> The archive contains the following files, under mkpkfontdir/:
> 
>     00Contents
>     00Description
>     INSTALL
>     Makefile
>     README
>     lnggetopt.pl
> 
>     misc:
>     MakeTeXPK.in
>     README
>     texmf.cnf.in
> 
>     tmpl:
>     mkpkfontdir
>     mkpkfontdir.1
>
> I think it could be moved under fonts/utilities.

Thanks, Yves.

I have installed the package under fonts/utilities/mkpkfontdir at
ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should propagate to the other CTANs soon.

I removed the 00* files, since they are generated automatically by the
CTAN mechanisms; I arranged that 00Description would be regenerated
pretty much the same as Yves' submission

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From matbad@luxor.latrobe.edu.au Sat Jul 29 12:56:25 1995
Date: 30 Jul 1995 01:51:29 +1000 (EST)
From: Brian Davey <matbad@luxor.latrobe.edu.au>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: "A `short' introduction to LaTeX2e" version 2.1

On Fri, 28 Jul 1995, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> Tobi Oetiker has provided me with a new version of his short
> introduction, and I've installed it on the CTAN here.  It should
> propagate to the other CTANs soon.
>

What is the file name and path?

Brian

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jul 29 13:52:14 1995
Date: 29 Jul 1995 17:39:46 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: matbad@luxor.latrobe.edu.au
Subject: Re: "A `short' introduction to LaTeX2e" version 2.1

Brian Davey writes (quoting me):

> > Tobi Oetiker has provided me with a new version of his short
> > introduction, and I've installed it on the CTAN here.  It should
> > propagate to the other CTANs soon.
> 
> What is the file name and path?

Sorry folks.  This is what comes of installing things at 3000 miles
remove from one's home base...

The _directory_ that I reinstalled was tex-archive/info/lshort

There are various PostScript files and the complete sources in that
directory

Robin Fairbairns

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug  2 00:59:00 1995
Date: 02 Aug 1995 04:53:15 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Erica Harris writes (neatly filling in the set of questions we want
answered):
 
> 1. Uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
> 2. Uploaded: subtabfg.sty
> 
> 3. The file is for the subnumbering of figures and/or tables in the form 1a, 
> 1b, etc. It was designed for LaTeX 2.09 in 1990. I have no idea whether it 
> will work with LaTeX2e.
> 
> 4. Would suggest that the file be placed in 
> /ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib.

I have installed the file as macros/latex209/contrib/misc/subtabfg.sty

It may propagate to the other CTANs before start of work tomorrow, but
I wouldn't count on it (it being rather early in Cambridge's day...).

FWIW, it looks as if it would work with 2e, but I haven't tested it,
and things may appear after more than cursory examination.

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Aug  2 16:54:40 1995
Date: 02 Aug 1995 18:25:05 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu, kummer@rzcspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Olaf Kummer <kummer@rzcspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> writes:

 > I have uploaded the following files to
 > ftp.dante.de into the directory /incoming/dsrom .
 > 
 > -rw-r--r--  1 kummer       2427 Aug  2 12:05 ReadMe
 > -rw-r--r--  2 kummer        194 Aug  2 11:39 Udsrom.fd
 > -rw-r--r--  2 kummer        127 Aug  2 11:40 dsfont.sty
 > -rw-r--r--  2 kummer       1194 Aug  1 17:46 dsrom.mf
 > -rw-r--r--  2 kummer       4852 Aug  1 17:47 dsrom10.300gf
 > -rw-r--r--  2 kummer       3692 Aug  1 17:11 dsrom10.mf
 > -rw-r--r--  2 kummer        300 Aug  1 17:47 dsrom10.tfm
 > -rw-r--r--  2 kummer       5800 Aug  1 17:39 dsrom12.300gf
 > -rw-r--r--  2 kummer       3712 Aug  1 17:37 dsrom12.mf
 > -rw-r--r--  2 kummer        300 Aug  1 17:39 dsrom12.tfm
 > -rw-r--r--  2 kummer      46086 Aug  1 18:10 dsromu.mf
 > 
 > The package provides fonts for typesetting
 > double stroke characters that are commonly used
 > to typeset the sign for the natural numbers,
 > the complex numbers etc. The font fulfill the same
 > purpose as the "Blackboard Bold" font from the
 > AMS, but they are based on the original Computer
 > Modern Fonts by D.E.Knuth.
 > 
 > The package includes two pregenerated fonts at 300 dpi
 > and a style file for incorporating them into LaTeX2e
 > with NFSS.
 > 
 > I suggest that you place the fonts in a directory
 > like /pub/tex/fonts/dblstroke or /pub/tex/fonts/dsrom .

Thanks a lot. I installed the files in directory

fonts/doublestroke

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug  3 11:34:51 1995
Date: 03 Aug 1995 13:53:46 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: auhl@ppp-auhl.fzi.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

auhl@ppp-auhl.fzi.de writes:

 > I just uploaded the file texit.cmd onto ftp.dante.de together with the 
 > description file texit.txt. It's a kind of make for TeX under OS/2 for use with
 > the emtex package, but may be adjusted to run with other packages than emtex.
 > 
 > A good place might be systems/os2/emtex-contrib.
 > 
 > Axel.
 > 
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Axel Uhl                                        Tel. (voice) +49 721 555 114
 > Weinbrennerstra�e 108                           Fax.         +49 721 550 470
 > 76185 Karlsruhe                        
 > 
 > WWW: http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ub1q/axelindex.html

Thanks a lot. Your files are now installed in 

systems/os2/emtex-contrib/texit

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug  3 09:18:34 1995
Date: 03 Aug 1995 13:58:52 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Anders Svensson <svensson@math.ubc.ca>, ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Anders Svensson writes:

 > I've uploaded the bundle kuvio-p189.tar.gz to the /incoming directory of
 > ftp.shsu.edu.
 > 
 > This contains an update to my diagram package residing in
 > macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio. It'll unpack into a directory named "kuvio" 
 > and contains a complete replacement for the files currently residing on CTAN.
 > The old files can (once again!) be blown away.

Thanks a lot. I've just installed the new files on SHSU, from where
they will propagate to the other CTAN hosts.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug  3 13:07:49 1995
Date: 03 Aug 1995 17:17:22 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, tnnvjn@urc.tue.nl
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes:

 > i have uploaded a new release, 0.44,
 > of the pre-processor package for MusiXTeX
 > 
 > site: ftp.dante.de
 > file: mpp-0.44.tar.gz
 >       mpp-0x44.zip    (msdos)
 > use:  the package is a pre-processor for MusiXTeX,
 >       much like abc2musictex, but much more powerfull
 >       it defines a simple musical language that
 >       can be pre-processed into valid MusiXTeX input
 >       some examples and doc are included
 >       it is still in the test phase
 > dir:  suggested is of course /pub/tex/support/music2tex
 > 
 > greetings,
 > -- 
 > Jan Nieuwenhuizen
 > tnnvjn@asterix.urc.tue.nl

Thank you for your submission. I've just installed the new files.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Aug  5 12:47:27 1995
Date: 05 Aug 1995 16:30:32 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Young U. Ryu <ryoung@utdallas.edu>
Subject: Re: gTeX upload

Young U. Ryu writes:

> In the /incoming/gtex directory, I uploaded gTeX Distribution 2.2.
> Uploaded files should go to /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex.
> First, remove all files in /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex.
> And then copy those in /incoming/gtex to /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex.
> 
> GTeX is an implementation of TeX typesetting system for
> MSDOS and Windows.

I have duly installed the new version at SHSU; it will probably
propagate fairly quickly, this being a week-end.

Our thanks for another of your great contributions.

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team.

From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Mon Aug  7 05:05:31 1995
Date: 07 Aug 1995 09:54:44 +0200
From: Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de
Subject: emTeX update

I've updated emTeX on ftp.dante.de (the update will appear on the
other CTAN hosts soon):

- dvid16c?.zip, replacing dvid16b?.zip: various bug fixes and
  improvements

- mfjob12b.zip, replacing mfjob12a.zip: use MFjob macros in templates

- bibtex4b.zip, replacing bibtex4a.zip: wizard function space increased.
  IMPORTANT: New directory structure, use `emremove' to remove package
  `bibtex4a' before installing package `bibtex4b'!

- dvisp10b.zip, replacing dvisp10a.zip: various improvements

Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>

From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Sun Sep 24 17:39:30 1995
Date: 07 Aug 1995 09:54:44 +0200
From: Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Hayo & Maartje <hrbaan@knoware.nl>
Subject: emTeX update

I've updated emTeX on ftp.dante.de (the update will appear on the
other CTAN hosts soon):

- dvid16c?.zip, replacing dvid16b?.zip: various bug fixes and
  improvements

- mfjob12b.zip, replacing mfjob12a.zip: use MFjob macros in templates

- bibtex4b.zip, replacing bibtex4a.zip: wizard function space increased.
  IMPORTANT: New directory structure, use `emremove' to remove package
  `bibtex4a' before installing package `bibtex4b'!

- dvisp10b.zip, replacing dvisp10a.zip: various improvements

Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
(---> emtex-user listserver: Majordomo@physik.tu-berlin.de)
(     emtex-user archives:   ftp.physik.tu-berlin.de:/pub/digests/emtex-user)

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug  7 15:25:36 1995
Date: 07 Aug 1995 16:11:04 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Ulrich Jahnz <y0001033@ws.rz.tu-bs.de>, ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Ulrich Jahnz writes:

 > today I uploaded a couple of files onto German CTAN-node ftp.dante.de
 > into /incomings/e4t. Please move all files to /pub/tex/systems/msdos
 > /e4t thereby replacing all files already in that directory.

I installed the new files as requested.

Thanks,

the CTAN team

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Tue Aug  8 19:41:55 1995
Date: 08 Aug 1995 10:22:57 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: cottrell@wfu.edu
Subject: Re: emtexgi

Allin Cottrell writes:
 > 
 > I have uploaded the files emtexgi.zip, emtexgi.tex, and readme.txt
 > to /incoming/emtexgi at SHSU.  Emtexgi is an MS Windows front-end
 > for emTeX, which includes some font-creation utilities.  I suggest
 > that it might be placed in a suitable sub-directory of .../emtex-contrib.
 > 
Allin's contribution has been installed as suggested in
systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/emtexgi

with many thanks from CTAN

sebastian rahtz

From niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De Tue Aug  8 05:08:24 1995
Date: 08 Aug 1995 09:59:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De
Subject: CTAN Submission


I have uploaded the following 2 files to 
ftp.dante.de into the directory /incoming

-rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server      99763 Aug  8 09:28 latex2e.INF
-rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server        277 Aug  8 09:54 ltx_inf.rme

latex2e.INF is a LaTeX description in the format for the hypertext
OS/2 view program. latex2e.INF is converted from the texinfo-file 
latex2e.texi in /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo.
ltx_inf.rme is a short README file.

I suggest that you place latex2e.INF and ltx_inf.rme also in the 
directory /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo.


Rolf Niepraschk



From SEITZ@bzs.tu-graz.ac.at Thu Aug 10 14:53:17 1995
Date: 10 Aug 1995 19:02:19 +0100
From: Peter Seitz <SEITZ@bzs.tu-graz.ac.at>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Subjects of postings

Dear coordinators of the CTAN,

I wonder if it might be possible for you to change the subjects for 
postings to this list.

I think there should be at least the name of the package which was 
uploaded on CTAN.

I have a lot of messages im my mail folder with the subject

    CTAN submission
    
and so, it is difficult if you're locking through old mails for some 
packages and you don't know the exaxt name any more.
If I upload a file to CTAN, the subject CTAN Submission might be a 
good subject to tell you what this mail is about, but for this list, 
it is not (I think).

I know, that you folks have a lot of work to do, but this little 
change of the subject might not cost you a lot of time, isn't it?

Thanks a lot in advance

With best compliments

                Peter Seitz
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From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Fri Aug 11 05:10:22 1995
Date: 11 Aug 1995 08:54:36 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: seitz@bzs.tu-graz.ac.at
Cc: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: Subjects of postings

Peter Seitz writes:
 > 
 > I wonder if it might be possible for you to change the subjects for 
 > postings to this list.
 > 
 > I think there should be at least the name of the package which was 
 > uploaded on CTAN.
 > 
rest assured that we have no policy on this, and are more than happy
to try and and be as helpful as possible in the Subject line. but
other people post to ctan-ann too, so everyone should bear you advice
in mind.

i for one will try and put the package name in the Subject

sebastian

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Fri Aug 11 06:29:08 1995
Date: 11 Aug 1995 10:12:10 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: fonts/psfonts and macros/latex/packages/psnfss

I have just kicked off a CTAN install of the real versions of the
above packages, replacing the beta versions that have been there for a
few months. fonts/psfonts replaces the old fonts/metrics, and has
important changes if you havent looked at it before.

given the state of the link, i wont be surprised if SHSU doesnt get
this big collection normally. i'll check  on MOnday and install by hand
if need be

sebastian

From lcs@topo.math.u-psud.fr Sat Aug 12 08:37:24 1995
Date: 12 Aug 1995 13:19:01 +0200
From: Laurent Siebenmann <lcs@topo.math.u-psud.fr>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Occam95 update



Dear TeXers

     This note is to announce an update of my TeX
macro management utility Occam whose home
posting is 

     ftp://matups.math.u-psud.fr//pub/TeX/Occam.dir

I have just noticed that it is *not* on CTAN. It would 
belong with generic macros.

          Laurent Siebenmann

             lcs@topo.math.u-psud.fr

     

 ====== Short description:

     The TeX utility Occam is a tool to eliminate from a
collection of supporting TeX macros (composite commands)
those that are unnecessary in a given typescript. Hopefully,
it will serve to  (i) let Plain TeX users produce
typescripts which can be electronically posted  in a compact
form that is nevertheless autonomous and perfectly archival,
and   (ii) to simplify a macro package before making
modifications for a special purpose.

      Occam has two halves: Auditor and DefStrip. It  will
ultimately be programmed entirely in TeX language to assure
that it is universally available. The DefStrip half is still
an evolving prototype implemented with a help from an editor
(on Macintosh) that has a programmable control language
based on grep.

      To achieve reasonably  automatic  functioning of
Occam, not requiring surveillance by a TeX programmer,
it is necessary to  maintain a carefully structured master
version of each macro package involved; this ``.occ''
version can double as the documented source version of the
package.

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Sat Aug 12 08:53:16 1995
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 95 13:38:07 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, ccnet <@cunyvm.cuny.edu:ccnet@uga.BITNET>, linux-asia@li.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: beta 6 of CJK (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e)


I've just uploaded the latest beta of my CJK package to ftp.dante.de
and it will soon propagate to the other CTAN hosts.

CJK is a macro package for LaTeX2e to enable the use of CHinese, Japanese
and Korean in various encodings. There is special support for MULE.

New:

    \CJKencshape{enc}{shape} to define shapes on a per-encoding base
    hbf2gf: now integrated in MakeTeXPK; can make .pk fonts on the fly
    latin-3 and latin-4 added to mule2cjk
    various bug fixes

Happy TeXing

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Aug 15 13:40:52 1995
Date: 15 Aug 1995 18:30:28 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Richard Gussmann writes:
 > 
 > a) I have put on /incoming/dinbrief the following files
 >      dinbrief.dtx
 >      dinbrief.ins
 >      readme
 >      announce
 > b) dinbrief is a LaTeX209/LaTeX2e style/class for writing
 >    letters following the rules of the din (german institude
 >    of standardisation).
 > c) The files should be placed in
 >    /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief
 >    and they should replace the old ones.

Thanks, I updated the server.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Aug 15 17:24:12 1995
Date: 15 Aug 1995 18:57:07 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: TeXSatz@zfn.uni-bremen.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: german OzTeX /LML

Lothar Meyer-Lerbs writes:

 > There is some new stuff for the
 > tex-archive/systems/mac
 > directory, but first delete Alpha.5.81.sea.hqx
 > and the hole
 > /pub/tex/systems/mac/support/alpha directory since it is
 > definitely outdated.

It's now mirrored regularly from ftp.tex.ac.uk. Thanks for pointing
this out.

 > If you prefer the whole Alpha (Editor) directory with all
 > kinds of contributed and development files, get the
 > new version now (from ftp://www.cs.umd.edu/pub/faculty/keleher/Alpha/*).
 > Otherwise just keep the Alpha.6.01.sea.hqx
 > from the oztex-german incoming directory in a visible place.
 > 
 > After that you should place the
 > type-it-for-me-441.hqx
 > utility close to the Alpha editor in a visible place.

I put it into the alpha directory now.

 > Finally replace the existing oztex-german directory
 > with the remaining contents of the incoming/oztex-german
 > directory.

Done. Thanks.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Aug 15 14:29:16 1995
Date: 15 Aug 1995 18:59:46 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Juergen Vollmer writes:

 > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de' two files
 > 	draftcopy.doc
 > 	draftcopy.ins
 > 
 > It's a LaTeX2e replacement for the original LaTeX209 style file `draftcopy.sty'.
 > New additional functionality:
 >  - The word DRAFT is replaced by a language dependend one,
 >  - One can choose on which pages (first, first2, first-n, all) this word should
 >    be printed, etc.
 >  - If no options are passed, this new version behaves as the old one (except
 >    that the language dependent word is choosen).
 > 
 > These files should be placed in the `latex2e/packages/contrib' hierarchy.

I moved the files into the directory

macros/latex/contrib/supported/draftcopy

Thanks for the submission

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr Thu Aug 17 05:44:41 1995
Date: 17 Aug 1995 01:37:06 +0200
From: Yves Arrouye <Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: mkpkfontdir 1.1 uploaded on CTAN archives


I did upload version 1.1 of mkpkfontdir on ftp.tex.ac.uk, as the gzipped tar 
archive mkpkfontdir.tar.gz.

Changes from the previous version are 1/ that only *gf files are moved (so 
that one can now prevent a directory from being removed by putting a dummy 
.dontrmme file in it, for example), and 2/ the choice of defaults directories 
has been enhanced.

The archive should replace the previous one in fonts/utilities.

The original README for the package follows just in case you need it in the 
announcement.

Sincerely,
Yves Arrouye.

mkpkfontdir is a tool for manipulating TeX directories and
reorganizing them in various ways mimicking (after some
transformations) the organization of your tfm files tree.

mkpkfontdir can generate TDS trees, or mirror and flatten them for
efficient recursive subdirectories searching (by making a pool of
symbolic links that will be searched, for example). It has been
successfully used in  a modified MakeTeXPK, for instance, to put
generated pk files at their "right" place in a structure hierarchy.

It is also a great help for keeping consistency between the tfm and
the pk trees, or simply for putting newly got pk files at their right
place.

Yves Arrouye <Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr>, August 1995.




From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 17 08:16:39 1995
Date: 17 Aug 1995 11:23:48 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr
Subject: Re: mkpkfontdir 1.1 uploaded on CTAN archives

Yves Arroye writes:

> I did upload version 1.1 of mkpkfontdir on ftp.tex.ac.uk, as the gzipped tar 
> archive mkpkfontdir.tar.gz.
> 
> Changes from the previous version are 1/ that only *gf files are moved (so 
> that one can now prevent a directory from being removed by putting a dummy 
> .dontrmme file in it, for example), and 2/ the choice of defaults directories 
> has been enhanced.
> 
> The archive should replace the previous one in fonts/utilities.
> 
> The original README for the package follows just in case you need it in the 
> announcement.

I have replaced the old version in fonts/utilities/mkpkfontdir

The new stuff should propagate to the other CTANs over night (with a
following wind).

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

> mkpkfontdir is a tool for manipulating TeX directories and
> reorganizing them in various ways mimicking (after some
> transformations) the organization of your tfm files tree.
> 
> mkpkfontdir can generate TDS trees, or mirror and flatten them for
> efficient recursive subdirectories searching (by making a pool of
> symbolic links that will be searched, for example). It has been
> successfully used in  a modified MakeTeXPK, for instance, to put
> generated pk files at their "right" place in a structure hierarchy.
> 
> It is also a great help for keeping consistency between the tfm and
> the pk trees, or simply for putting newly got pk files at their right
> place.
> 
> Yves Arrouye <Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr>, August 1995.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 17 18:56:13 1995
Date: 17 Aug 1995 12:48:39 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Egler's MusixTeX v0.48

Following a long hiatus arising from me having attended TUG'95 and then
immediately moved house, I noticed that Andreas Egler had left a new
release of MusixTeX in the /incoming directory here (he doesn't
currently have access to email, apparently, so I hadn't been prompted
in the normal way).

I have installed this new version on CTAN in macros/musixtex/egler --
the files should propagate to the other sites overnight.

Andreas says:

  This time inclusive PS and executables, namely musixflx and l2d. 
  The latter may be used to simplify the renamings
  (for those, who haven't read the preface). 
  Further changes and enhancements are reported in history.txt

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug 17 21:16:49 1995
Date: 17 Aug 1995 14:38:36 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De>
Subject: Re: latex2e.INF in /incoming

Rolf Niepraschk writes:

 > I have uploaded the following 2 files to 
 > ftp.dante.de into the directory /incoming
 > 
 > -rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server      99763 Aug  8 09:28 latex2e.INF
 > -rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server        277 Aug  8 09:54 ltx_inf.rme
 > 
 > latex2e.INF is a LaTeX description in the format for the hypertext
 > OS/2 view program. latex2e.INF is converted from the texinfo-file 
 > latex2e.texi in /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo.
 > ltx_inf.rme is a short README file.
 > 
 > I suggest that you place latex2e.INF and ltx_inf.rme also in the 
 > directory /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo.

I did this.

Thanks

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From matbad@luxor.latrobe.edu.au Thu Aug 17 22:22:44 1995
Date: 18 Aug 1995 11:04:34 +1000 (EST)
From: Brian Davey <matbad@luxor.latrobe.edu.au>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De>
Subject: Re: latex2e.INF in /incoming

On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Rainer Schoepf wrote:

> Rolf Niepraschk writes:
> 
>  > I have uploaded the following 2 files to 
>  > ftp.dante.de into the directory /incoming
>  > 
>  > -rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server      99763 Aug  8 09:28 latex2e.INF
>  > -rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server        277 Aug  8 09:54 ltx_inf.rme
>  > 
>  > I suggest that you place latex2e.INF and ltx_inf.rme also in the 
>  > directory /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo.
> 
> I did this.
> 
>    Rainer Schvpf

I have just downloaded these two files.  Please note that by mistake they 
have been put into the latex-help-texinfo directory instead of the 
latex2e-help-texinfo directory.

Brian

P.S. Thanks for a great service to the TeX community.


______________________________________________________________________________
 Dr Brian A. Davey                  Email:    B.Davey@latrobe.edu.au
 Reader and Associate Professor       FAX:  +61 3 9479 3670                 
 School of Mathematics        .             +61 3 9479 3650
 La Trobe University       _-_|\    Phone:  +61 3 9479 2599  (Office)
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______________________________________________________________________________

From matbad@luxor.latrobe.edu.au Thu Aug 17 23:13:30 1995
Date: 18 Aug 1995 11:04:34 +1000 (EST)
From: Brian Davey <matbad@luxor.latrobe.edu.au>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De>
Subject: Re: latex2e.INF in /incoming

On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Rainer Schoepf wrote:

> Rolf Niepraschk writes:
> 
>  > I have uploaded the following 2 files to 
>  > ftp.dante.de into the directory /incoming
>  > 
>  > -rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server      99763 Aug  8 09:28 latex2e.INF
>  > -rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server        277 Aug  8 09:54 ltx_inf.rme
>  > 
>  > I suggest that you place latex2e.INF and ltx_inf.rme also in the 
>  > directory /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo.
> 
> I did this.
> 
>    Rainer Schvpf

I have just downloaded these two files.  Please note that by mistake they 
have been put into the latex-help-texinfo directory instead of the 
latex2e-help-texinfo directory.

Brian

P.S. Thanks for a great service to the TeX community.


______________________________________________________________________________
 Dr Brian A. Davey                  Email:    B.Davey@latrobe.edu.au
 Reader and Associate Professor       FAX:  +61 3 9479 3670                 
 School of Mathematics        .             +61 3 9479 3650
 La Trobe University       _-_|\    Phone:  +61 3 9479 2599  (Office)
 Bundoora                 /     \           +61 3 9479 2600  (Messages)
 Victoria                 \_.-_*/           +61 3 9432 8160  (Home)
 Australia 3083                v            +61 3 9432 8663  (Home/Computer)
                                        WWW: http://www.maths.latrobe.edu.au
______________________________________________________________________________

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Aug 18 08:43:51 1995
Date: 18 Aug 1995 08:50:13 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: B.Davey@latrobe.edu.au, CTAN@SHSU.edu, CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De>
Subject: Re: latex2e.INF in /incoming

Brian Davey writes:
 > On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Rainer Schoepf wrote:
 > 
 > > Rolf Niepraschk writes:
 > > 
 > >  > I have uploaded the following 2 files to 
 > >  > ftp.dante.de into the directory /incoming
 > >  > 
 > >  > -rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server      99763 Aug  8 09:28 latex2e.INF
 > >  > -rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server        277 Aug  8 09:54 ltx_inf.rme
 > >  > 
 > >  > I suggest that you place latex2e.INF and ltx_inf.rme also in the 
 > >  > directory /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo.
 > > 
 > > I did this.
 > > 
 > >    Rainer Schvpf
 > 
 > I have just downloaded these two files.  Please note that by mistake they 
 > have been put into the latex-help-texinfo directory instead of the 
 > latex2e-help-texinfo directory.

Thanks for pointing out my mistake. I corrected it.

Kind regards,

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Aug 18 08:20:38 1995
Date: 18 Aug 1995 10:38:53 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Johannes L. Braams <J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl>
Subject: Re: update of ntgclass bundle

Johannes L. Braams writes:

 > 	I have uploaded a new version of the ntgclass bundle to
 > 	ftp.tex.ac.uk. The file ntgclass.zip in the /incoming
 > 	directory contains a replacement for the contents of the
 > 	directory /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntgclass
 > 	Could you see to it that the contents of ntgclass.zip end up
 > 	in the right place on CTAN?

I've made this installation.

The "right place" is macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntgclass

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From Axel.Schwarz@post.rwth-aachen.de Fri Aug 18 08:37:44 1995
Date: 18 Aug 1995 12:51:39 +0100
From: Axel Schwarz <Axel.Schwarz@post.rwth-aachen.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu, CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De>
Subject: Re: latex2e.INF in /incoming

On Fri, 17 Aug Brian Davey wrote
> 
> On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Rainer Schoepf wrote:
> 
> > Rolf Niepraschk writes:
> > 
> >  > I have uploaded the following 2 files to 
> >  > ftp.dante.de into the directory /incoming
> >  > 
> >  > -rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server      99763 Aug  8 09:28 latex2e.INF
> >  > -rw-r-----  1 Mr.Ftp   server        277 Aug  8 09:54 ltx_inf.rme
> >  > 
> >  > I suggest that you place latex2e.INF and ltx_inf.rme also in the 
> >  > directory /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo.
> > 
> > I did this.
> > 
> >    Rainer Schvpf
> 
> I have just downloaded these two files.  Please note that by mistake they 
> have been put into the latex-help-texinfo directory instead of the 
> latex2e-help-texinfo directory.
> 
> Brian
> 
This is not right. Thy are correctly installed in latex2e-help-texinfo.

Axel

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-  Axel Schwarz                        -
-                                      -
-  Axel.Schwarz@post.rwth-aachen.de    -
-  Schwarz@rwth-aachen.de              -
----------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Aug 19 09:01:59 1995
Date: 19 Aug 1995 12:43:44 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: svensson@math.ubc.ca
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Anders Svensson writes:

> I've uploaded the bundle kuvio-p204.tar.gz to the /incoming directory of
> ftp.shsu.edu.
> 
> This contains an update to my diagram package residing in
> macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio. It'll unpack into a directory named "kuvio" 
> and contains a complete replacement for the files currently residing on CTAN.
> The old files can (yet again!) be blown away.
> 
> Hopefully this will be the last update for a while: The documentation is
> complete and there are no remaining bugs of which I'm aware. (We'll see how
> long this state of affairs lasts. :^)

I've transferred it back to Cambridge and installed it here (we're no
longer allowed to install at SHSU, so we've no other option).  It'll
propagate.

Thanks, Anders, for your continuing maintenance of the package.

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Wed Aug 23 11:59:13 1995
Date: 23 Aug 1995 16:18:03 +0200
From: Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de
Subject: emTeX update

I've replaced dvid16c?.zip with dvid16d1?.zip on ftp.dante.de.
dvipm has been improved, some bugs have been removed, and prtfaxwk
now should really work.

first.zip and web.zip have also been replaced.

Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>

From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Sun Sep 24 17:35:07 1995
Date: 23 Aug 1995 16:18:03 +0200
From: Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Hayo & Maartje <hrbaan@knoware.nl>
Subject: emTeX update

I've replaced dvid16c?.zip with dvid16d1?.zip on ftp.dante.de.
dvipm has been improved, some bugs have been removed, and prtfaxwk
now should really work.

first.zip and web.zip have also been replaced.

Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
(---> emtex-user listserver: Majordomo@physik.tu-berlin.de)
(     emtex-user archives:   ftp.physik.tu-berlin.de:/pub/digests/emtex-user)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 24 20:41:21 1995
Date: 24 Aug 1995 18:25:11 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Ian Maclaine-cross <ian@ilm.mech.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: LaTeX CURVES Version 1.41 Upload

Ian Maclaine-cross writes:

>                     Last night I FTPed the files CURVES.TEX,
> CURVES.STY and CURVESLS.STY into the directory incoming/curves/ at
> ftp.shsu.edu.  In my previous message, I requested they replace the
> three files of the same name in directory:
> 
>         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/curves/
>                                          ^^^^^
> David Carlisle wrote to me yesterday and explained that the `supported' tree
> was more appropriate since these files are annually updated, have a
> manual and I answer email queries from users.
> 
> When the files have been updated as previously requested, please would you 
> move the directory /curves/ to the directory tree:
>        tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/
> so that the new files will be in directory
>        tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/curves/
> and the old files and directory will be deleted.

I have installed the files as David suggested (i.e., in the
`supported' sub-tree), and I have deleted the files in the `other'
sub-tree.

The installation has happened twice -- once at SHSU (which didn't
propagate here) and once at Cambridge.  I trust that propagation to
other sites will happen ... we can but hope.  (Oh! for admin support
at SHSU...)

Thanks, Ian, for your continued support of the package.

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Aug 25 06:53:11 1995
Date: 25 Aug 1995 10:32:12 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Sam Chiu <ccc11@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: Withdrawal of CJK-fonts

Sam Chiu writes:

> Last year I submitted to your archive two sets of TeX fonts for use
> with the CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) LaTeX2e package.
> 
> The CJK package is now in its version 2.5 beta6 release, and a new
> mechanism is available to generate pk fonts from HBF bitmaps on
> demand.  I have communicated with the author of CJK, Werner Lemberg,
> and we see little purpose in archiving the pre-compiled fonts any
> more; especially since their documentation and definition files are
> very much out-of-date (based on CJK 2.4).  Pointers are now given in
> the CJK 2.5 package to the alternative font files to use.
> 
> I therefore request withdrawal of all files under:
> 
>    /ctan/tex-archive/fonts/chinese/CJK/*

I've duly deleted these files, as requested.

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Aug 25 07:13:17 1995
Date: 25 Aug 1995 10:44:19 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: new tango/weevil literate programming tool

minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com (Corey Minyard) writes:

> I am releasing a new version of tango/weevil.  This is version 1.0.
> Changes are mainly bug fixes and small LaTeX extensions.  I have
> placed it on pip.shsu.edu; it is named tw-1.0.tgz and is tarred and
> gzipped.
> 
> If you don't know, tango/weevil (tw) is a literate programming tool.
> What makes tw different?  I'm glad you asked.  tw is written in C and
> only in C, no less-used languages.  tw also supports inter-file cross
> references in an easy way, allowing large system with many modules to
> be built and cross-referenced.  Only the C language is supported as a
> language type under under tw, but other languages can be easily added.
> Currently only LaTeX is supported for output, but other output
> formatters can be easily added, too.  Someone has done a Lout output,
> but they have not finished it yet.  Actually, they may be done but I
> haven't bugged them about it in a while.
> 
> As most stuff like this, tw is free software under the GPL.

I have installed the stuff here (given the ... ummm ... exciting time
I had yesterday trying to install things at SHSU).  Given a following
wind, it should propagate back withing 24 hours, but with SHSU in its
present mood, one never knows.

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Aug 27 16:02:46 1995
Date: 27 Aug 1995 19:57:06 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, ryoung@utdallas.edu, George Greenwade <bed_gdg@shsu.edu>
Subject: Mangling of gtex at SHSU

For some time now, SHSU has not been a full participant in the CTAN
network.  CTAN managers based in Europe (including me) have tried hard
to maintain the archive there, over ridiculously slow transatlantic
lines, but we've been frustrated by all sorts of problems.

Something bad was bound to happen eventually, and it turned out that
it was me it happened to.

Last Thursday, I was attempting (yet again) to install the latest
updates to Young Ryu's gtex package.  I had failed several times to do
this at SHSU, and had therefore installed the changes here in
Cambridge some time back.  The changes had not propagated to SHSU
(despite repeated attempts to encourage SHSU to take them).

I got a window of unusually good bandwidth to SHSU, and tried again:
the installation failed half-way through.  The end product is that
there are now *two* gtex directories at SHSU, neither of which are
correct, current, and up-to-date

Users will therefore see the following directories in
tex-archive/systems/msdos:

drwxrwxr-x   2 ftp      pub         1024 Aug 24 14:39 gtex
drwxrwxr-x   2 ftp      pub         1024 Aug  7 11:29 gtex.old...

gtex/ contains the files that were supposed to be being
replaced/installed anew, but they're protected against access to the
general public; gtex.old.../ contains the files that were in place
beforehand.

If you need a current distribution of gtex, you should acquire it from
ftp.tex.ac.uk or from ftp.dante.de; the slightly out of date version
is available from ftp.shsu.edu, from gtex.old.../, but even some of
its files have been protected.

If (when) I can make contact with some systems people at SHSU, I shall
attempt to get this situation sorted out: we Europeans do not
currently have direct access to SHSU's archive space.

If any reader of this note has direct contact with any of the systems
staff at SHSU, I would be most grateful to be put into direct contact
with them.

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN Team, but reporting his own mistakes...)

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 28 21:01:18 1995
Date: 28 Aug 1995 15:36:47 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: I have uploaded TeXEd10.zip

hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de writes:

 > I've uploaded TeXEd10.zip. It should replace the file TeXEd099.zip
 > in the system/os2 directory.
 > 
 > TeXEd is an OS/2 TeX-editor written in german.
 > 
 > This programm is written by myself.

I installed the new file as

 systems/os2/texed10.zip

and removed the old one.

Thanks

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 28 22:58:05 1995
Date: 28 Aug 1995 15:38:29 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Uwe Muench <Muench@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, CTAN@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: bfsymb.tex

Uwe Muench writes:

 > I uploaded the file 'bfsymb.tex' at 'ftp.dante.de'. 
 > 
 > This macro package provides the command
 >       \boldsymbol{...} 
 > to typeset parts of a math formula (e.g. a greek sign (\alpha)) in the 
 > bold cmmib10-font for the plain tex format. For latex, the amstex-package
 > does a much better job... 
 > 
 > I think, it should go  into the directory 'macros/plain/contrib'...

Thanks, I installed the file in the indicated place.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 28 21:03:18 1995
Date: 28 Aug 1995 15:44:53 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Oliver Schnetz <schnetz@theorie3.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, CTAN@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Oliver Schnetz writes:

 > I (Oliver Schnetz) have uploaded the file ergotex.zip in the incoming
 > directory of the ftp.dante.de server. This file is an update (Version 1.1)
 > of the already existing file ergotex.zip at pub/tex/systems/msdos/ergotex.
 > I would be grateful if you could replace this file by the newer one.

Thanks, I installed the new version

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 28 23:00:35 1995
Date: 28 Aug 1995 15:50:09 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN upload

Timo Knuutila writes:

 > Location:	ftp.dante.de
 > File(s):	tpcmfont.tar.gz
 > Overview:	A new version (1.1) of tpcmfont package
 > Placement:	Currently /macros/latex/contrib/other/tpcmfont, 
 > 		Hopefully /macros/latex/contrib/supported/tpcmfont some day
 > 		(or even /macros/latex/base :-]).
 > Uploader:	Timo Knuutila
 > 		knuutila@cs.utu.fi

The new versions of the files are now in 

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/tpcmfont

The old location has been removed.

Thanks,

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Aug 29 02:19:05 1995
Date: 28 Aug 1995 15:53:20 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Peter Gerwinski <pege@rs1.Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE>, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, CTAN@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Peter Gerwinski writes:

 > I have uploaded a directory tree EDIT-4.33 into the /incoming directory of
 > ftp.dante.de.  I suggest to place it in the emtex-contrib directory of /pub/tex.
 > In particular, I have uploaded the following files:
 > 
 >   README           short description of EDIT, 
 >                    placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33
 >   install.exe      MS-DOS installation utility, 
 >                    placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/edit
 >   pkz102.exe       the PKZIP data compression utility, called by install.exe,
 >                    placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/edit
 >   edit.zip         the EDIT program itself,
 >                    placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/edit
 >   pk300.zip        pk-fonts for EDIT, 300 dpi,
 >                    placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/pkfonts1
 >   pk180.zip        pk-fonts for EDIT, 180 dpi,
 >                    placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/pkfonts2
 >   pk120.zip        pk-fonts for EDIT, 120 dpi,
 >                    placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/pkfonts2
 > 
 > When you copy all three subdirectories onto one floppy, each, and you also 
 > have the six emTeX distribution disks, there should be no problem to install
 > EDIT on a MS-DOS computer.

Thanks, I installed everything in the palces indicated, with the
exception that I called the directory edit-4.333 rather than
EDIT-4.33.


Rainer Sch�pf

 > 
 > For a short description of EDIT, a copy of the file README is included below.
 > 
 > Many thanks for providing your service.
 > 
 > Yours,
 > 
 >     Peter Gerwinski
 > 
 > 
 > ---------
 > EDIT 4.33
 > ---------
 > 
 > (c) 1984-95  Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany
 > 
 > EDIT is a ShareWare program for the PC running MS-DOS or 
 > any compatible operating system.  EDIT is an easy-to-use
 > text processor written to act as a comfortable user 
 > interface for TeX, preferably emTeX.  The current version 
 > (4.33) is only available in German; an English translation 
 > is provided but will take some time.
 > 
 > EDIT consists of a text editor with integrated TeX (DVI-)
 > previewer and printing utility.  It has the special ability 
 > to display a text editor window and a TeX preview window 
 > simultaneously on the screen.  The program is equipped with 
 > help screens (in German) about EDIT itself and about the 
 > most important LaTeX commands. 
 > 
 > The distribution consists of 3 floppy disks (3.5") to be
 > labeled "EDIT", "PKfonts 1/2" and "PKfonts 2/2".  (EDIT
 > uses its own tree of TeX character sets.)  For a complete 
 > installation (together with TeX) you also need the six
 > emTeX distribution disks, refered as disk "emTeX 1/6" 
 > through "emTeX 6/6" during the EDIT installation.
 > 
 > To install EDIT on a MS-DOS computer just insert the disk
 > labeled "EDIT".  Switch to that disk, start the program
 > INSTALL.EXE and follow the instructions of that program.
 > It will install the EDIT system and all necessary parts of
 > the emTeX distribution.
 > 
 >         18. August 1995
 >         Peter Gerwinski
 > 
 > 
 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Dipl. Phys. Peter Gerwinski
 > Fachbereich Physik
 > Universitaet-GH Essen                   Phone:  +49-201-183-2763
 > D-45117 Essen                           Fax:    +49-201-183-2120
 > Germany                                 e-mail: pege@mail.theo-phys.uni-essen.de
 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

From lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Tue Aug 29 04:32:42 1995
Date: 29 Aug 1995 09:28:31 +0200
From: Anselm Lingnau <lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Description of uploaded stuff

I know this has been asked before, but can people *please* give some
indication of what it is that they are uploading? Of the four messages
I've seen today, only one gave any description of the contents at all.

Normally what seems to happen is that the CTAN maintainers, pressed for
time as they are, just forward the message that they've got from the
original submitters -- and of course to them (the submitters) it is
obvious that xyz.sty is the one that puts checkered borders around
subsection headings. We out here have to try and glean this from the
filename, while a short (two-line) description would go a long way
in making the purpose of packages a lot clearer.

Thank you,
Anselm
-- 
Anselm Lingnau ......................... lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de
There are 100 people out there in the world who think that science is magic for
every one of us that happens to know how a toaster works.
                                                       --- John Stevens-Schlick

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Aug 30 23:49:32 1995
Date: 30 Aug 1995 13:50:34 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: rcsinfo LaTeX2e package

Juergen Vollmer writes:

 > I submitted to ftp.dante.de:/incomming/rcsinfo the following files
 >    rcsinfo.doc
 >    rcsinfo.ins
 >    Makefile
 >    README.rcsinfo
 > 
 > This package is used to extract the revision and file information provided by 
 > the RCS revision control system.
 > 
 > It should be placed in the latex2e/packages/contrib hierarchy.

Thanks, they have been installed in

macros/latex/contrib/supported/rcsinfo

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From kgs@maths.uq.oz.au Tue Aug 29 21:27:24 1995
Date: 30 Aug 1995 08:59:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Ken Smith <kgs@maths.uq.oz.au>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

I know this isn't a discussion list but there seems to be something a
bit odd about the following.

Peter Gerwinski writes:

 > I have uploaded a directory tree EDIT-4.33 into the /incoming directory of
 > ftp.dante.de.  I suggest to place it in the emtex-contrib directory of /pub/tex.
 > In particular, I have uploaded the following files:
 > 
 >   README           short description of EDIT, 
 >                    placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33
 >   install.exe      MS-DOS installation utility, 
 >                    placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/edit
 >   pkz102.exe       the PKZIP data compression utility, called by install.exe,
 >                    placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/edit
 >   edit.zip         the EDIT program itself,
 >                    placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/edit
 >   pk300.zip        pk-fonts for EDIT, 300 dpi,
 >                    placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/pkfonts1
 >   pk180.zip        pk-fonts for EDIT, 180 dpi,
 >                    placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/pkfonts2
 >   pk120.zip        pk-fonts for EDIT, 120 dpi,
 >                    placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/pkfonts2
 > 
 > When you copy all three subdirectories onto one floppy, each, and you also 
 > have the six emTeX distribution disks, there should be no problem to install
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > EDIT on a MS-DOS computer.

This seems to be referring to the ancient (1992 ?) distribution of emTeX
which has not been available on CTAN for some time now.  This hypothesis
is strengthened by the inclusion of pkz102.exe which, if my memory is
correct, was the version of PKZIP which came with these six disks.
The current emTeX distribution occupies *seven* disks.

Could we have a bit of clarification, please.

Ken Smith

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug 31 04:22:41 1995
Date: 31 Aug 1995 09:11:33 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Markus Neteler <neteler@geog.uni-hannover.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Markus Neteler writes:

 > 
 >   ftp.dante.de
 > 
 >  /incoming/ps4mf/ps4mf28.zip 
 >  /incoming/ps4mf/ps4mf28.txt
 > 
 >  It is an update of my >postscriptfonts to metafont conversion program< which
 >  is placed at
 >  
 >  /pub/text/systems/msdos/ps4mf

Thanks, I updated the version on CTAN

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 31 13:08:56 1995
Date: 31 Aug 1995 12:16:10 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, ryoung@utdallas.edu, George Greenwade <bed_gdg@shsu.edu>
Subject: Mangling of gtex at SHSU

On 27th Auguest (in message
<"swan.cl.cam.:072130:950827185712"@cl.cam.ac.uk>), I wrote:

  I got a window of unusually good bandwidth to SHSU, and tried again:
  the installation failed half-way through.  The end product is that
  there are now *two* gtex directories at SHSU, neither of which are
  correct, current, and up-to-date

[...]

Since I posted my message, someone (not me, for sure) has corrected
the situation.  gtex at SHSU is now all present and correct; I don't
know to what extent the rest of the archive there is up to date, but
gtex is.

Therefore, users should ignore the following advice which I added to
my earlier post:

  If you need a current distribution of gtex, you should acquire it from
  ftp.tex.ac.uk or from ftp.dante.de; the slightly out of date version
  is available from ftp.shsu.edu, from gtex.old.../, but even some of
  its files have been protected.

If the person who corrected the situation would care to get in touch,
I would love to hear from him/her...                             ;-)

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN Team)

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Sep  1 11:30:46 1995
Date: 01 Sep 1995 16:02:28 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - update of mflogo

Ulrik Vieth has uploaded an update of his `mflogo' package for LaTeX(2e).
It has been installed in macros/latex/contrib/supported/mflogo/.

 > This is the file `README' that accompanies version 1.5 of `mflogo'.
 > ===================================================================
 > 
 > DESCRIPTION:
 > 
 > The `mflogo' package provides access to the METAFONT and METAPOST 
 > `logo' fonts in LaTeX(2e).  It consists of the font definition file
 > `Ulogo.fd' and an example package file `mflogo.sty' which are both
 > generated from `mflogo.dtx'.
 > 
 > The `mflogo' package defines the font commands |\logofamily| and
 > |\textlogo| to access the `logo' fonts directly.  It also defines 
 > the macros |\MF| and |\MP| for the METAFONT and METAPOST logos 
 > in terms of these font commands, which ensures that the logos will 
 > honour font changes just as the |\TeX| logo does and always did. 
 > 
 > The present release of `mflogo' (v1.5) also fixes the space factor 
 > after the |\MF| and |\MP| logos, just as it is done for the |\TeX| 
 > and |\LaTeX| logos in the LaTeX2e kernel or in the TUGboat macros.
 > 
 > More details about internal changes can be found in the file `NEWS'.
 > [...]
 > 
 > More details about where to get the required fonts and how to install 
 > them can be found in the file `INSTALL'.
 > 
 > 
 > -- Ulrik Vieth (vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de) -- 1995/09/01

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Fri Sep  8 05:04:24 1995
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 95 09:52:27 MEZ
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, linux-asia@li.org, ccnet-l <@cunyvm.cuny.edu:ccnet-l@uga.BITNET>, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 2.5 beta 7 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e)


I've just uploaded CJK.2_5.beta7.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de; it will soon
propagate to the other CTAN hosts and its mirrors (note that the incoming
dir of ftp.dante.de is read only).


[CJK is a LaTeX2e macro package which enables the use of CJK scripts
 (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) in various encodings.]


Changes beta 6 -> beta 7:
    according to the newest LaTeX2e release, \MakeUppercase will be disabled
      instead of \uppercase in some cases
    a severe bug disabled Korean encoding
    the encoding switching mechanism was broken; again many \CJK@global's
      added
    some commands which should be active only in certain encodings redefined
      to work with the `global' option (Bg5text environment, \mj etc.)
    to use the Japanese DNP fonts, an encoding `JISdnp' and two size
      functions (`DNP' and `DNPgen') are added
*   a new unifying fontencoding scheme has been introduced:
*       max. 4 characters encoding + max. 3 characters fontencoding
*     examples:
*       JISdnp, JISpmC etc.
*     this change causes many files to be renamed (e.g. Uhanja.fd->Uhanj.fd);
*     there is also a bunch of new/redefined functions to support this:
*       \CJKenc
*       \CJKfontenc
*       \CJKshape
*       \CJKencshape
*       CJK and CJK* environment
*     SOME OF THE ABOVE CHANGES ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH PREVIOUS VERSIONS!
    CJK characters in verbatim environments will now be treated correctly
      by mule2cjk. Latin-encodings will still not work there
    hbf2gf: the collection of configuration files has been harmonized in
            size

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Sep  9 15:05:18 1995
Date: 09 Sep 1995 18:58:36 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Anders Svensson <svensson@math.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- kuvio diagram package

Anders Svensson writes:

> I've uploaded the bundle kuvio-p209.tar.gz to the /incoming
> directory of ftp.shsu.edu.
> 
> This contains an update to my diagram package residing in
> macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio. It'll unpack into a directory
> named "kuvio" and contains a complete replacement for the files
> currently residing on CTAN. The old files can (one more time)
> be blown away.
> 
> The documentation now has a table of contents and I've included its
> source as well as a PostScript files for A4 paper. Otherwise, the changes
> to code and documentation are fairly minor.

I've installed the new version at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should propagate
to the other CTANs in due course.

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Sep 11 11:14:59 1995
Date: 11 Sep 1995 11:01:47 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: "LINPWD::DALY" <daly@linpwd.dnet.gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: custom-bib update

LINPWD::DALY writes:

 > I wish to submit an update to my package custom-bib.
 > 
 > I have put the following files into the /incoming/custom-bib directory
 > on the dante server. 
 > 
 > english.mbs 
 > esperant.mbs
 > finnish.mbs
 > french.mbs
 > german.mbs
 > makebst.dtx
 > makebst.ins
 > merlin.mbs
 > norsk.mbs
 > physjour.mbs
 > README.v33
 > spanish.mbs
 > 
 > Please copy these into the directory
 >       latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib
 > removing ALL the older files to be found there.

Done. Thanks for your submission.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Sep 11 11:14:57 1995
Date: 11 Sep 1995 11:05:55 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: apostolo@platon.ee.duth.gr, ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: gsftopk for DOS

apostolo@platon.ee.duth.gr writes:

 > I have uploaded the archive "gsftopk.zip" to the site ftp.dante.de. 
 > The archive contains a port of gsftopk Unix utility to MS-DOS. I suggest that
 > you place the archive ins the /systems/msdos subdirectory.

Thanks. Your file has been installed as

systems/msdos/gsftopk/psftopk.zip

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Mon Sep 11 19:31:17 1995
Date: 11 Sep 1995 16:14:20 +0200
From: Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de
Subject: emTeX update

I've updated emTeX on ftp.dante.de.  The new files should appear on
the other CTAN hosts and mirrors soon.

- dvid16e?.zip, replacing dvid16d?.zip: various bug fixes

- tex4b.zip, replacing tex4a.zip: Bug fixed (Ctrl-Break), makefmt
  now sets the /o option if the `8bit' keyword is used

- mf4b.zip, replacing mf4a.zip: Bug fixed (Ctrl-Break)

- texware.zip: VFtoVP and VPtoVF enlarged

Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>

From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Sun Sep 24 22:16:32 1995
Date: 11 Sep 1995 16:14:20 +0200
From: Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Hayo & Maartje <hrbaan@knoware.nl>
Subject: emTeX update

I've updated emTeX on ftp.dante.de.  The new files should appear on
the other CTAN hosts and mirrors soon.

- dvid16e?.zip, replacing dvid16d?.zip: various bug fixes

- tex4b.zip, replacing tex4a.zip: Bug fixed (Ctrl-Break), makefmt
  now sets the /o option if the `8bit' keyword is used

- mf4b.zip, replacing mf4a.zip: Bug fixed (Ctrl-Break)

- texware.zip: VFtoVP and VPtoVF enlarged

Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
(---> emtex-user listserver: Majordomo@physik.tu-berlin.de)
(     emtex-user archives:   ftp.physik.tu-berlin.de:/pub/digests/emtex-user)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Sep 11 20:16:12 1995
Date: 11 Sep 1995 16:30:30 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk
Subject: Mike Piff: Re: CTAN Archive Contributions: answers.zip

I installed Mike's stuff at ftp.tex.ac.uk today; it should propagate
without too much trouble (since it's not too large).

Robin Fairbairns

------- Forwarded Message

From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Sheffield
To: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 16:23:17 +0100
Subject: Re: CTAN Archive Contributions: answers.zip

Version 2.05 of LaTeX package answers is now available on CTAN in
/macros/latex/contrib/supported/answers.

This package allows the keeping of solutions to problems
adjacent to the relevant problems, but allows them to be
moved to a remote location in the formatted output.
(The text that is moved need not, of course, be a solution
to a problem; that is just the commonest case.)

The effect is similar to that in the TeXbook, but is
much more flexible, as different user-defined classes
of solution can be produced, eg, solutions, hints, etc,
and several files used to contain them.

New features include:

- -- unlimited numbers of similar files
for each file handle, allowing each chapter in a book to have its
own solution file, say

- -- production of a demonstrator's version in
which solutions remain adjacent to the problems, by use of a single
package option.

Mike Piff

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 12 05:52:25 1995
Date: 12 Sep 1995 09:30:42 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Signing off the list

I've had two "unsubscribe" messages in my mail this morning -- such
messages should *not* be sent to the list, but rather to the list
control software.

Send a message with the following content to listserv@shsu.edu

  SIGNOFF CTAN-Ann

The content of the subject line of the message is ignored (it says
here).  For further details of what you can do with listserv, send a
message with the content (just) 

  HELP

to listserv@shsu.edu

Robin Fairbairns

From KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Wed Sep 13 02:54:49 1995
Date: 12 Sep 1995 21:09:27 +0100
From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, metafont@ens.fr, info-tex@shsu.edu, tex-euro@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de, tex-d-l <@mvs.gsi.de:tex-d-l@dearn.bitnet>
Subject: CTAN upload: dc-fonts 1.2

The version 1.2 of the Cork encoded dc fonts is now available from the CTAN 
sites and will propagate to its mirrors soon.

The release includes the following:

* Many bugfixes, including ?` and !`
* The polish special letters from plfonts by Jackowsky and Rycko
* Overall improved accents
* A text companion font containing 105 extra symbols

The sources and some documentation are placed in 

tex-archive/fonts/dc/mf

fd-Files for LaTeX can be found in

tex-archive/fonts/dc/fd

There are also starter files for mf in directory ready-mf/ and tfm files in 
directory tfm/. You need to rebuild your LaTeX2e format with the new 
fd-files included to use the new version of the dcfonts, since all font 
names have changed.

--J"org Knappen

P.S. dc-fonts v 1.1 are withdrawn, except for the PostScript versions.

P.P.S. You can find some documentation of the new release in the EuroTeX95
proceedings.

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Sep 13 06:24:37 1995
Date: 13 Sep 1995 09:11:03 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, hafner@almaden.ibm.com
Subject: Re: New FoilTeX version 2.0.1 on shsu/incoming/foiltex

Jim Hafner <hafner@almaden.ibm.com writes>:

 > I have just uploaded to CTAN (shsu/incoming/foiltex) a new version
 > of FoilTeX -- this one works with LaTeX2e 1995/06/01 patchlevel 3.
 > Below is a short announcement.  Could you please propogate the new
 > files (foiltex.ins, foiltex.dtx and readme.flt) to
 >   tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex

The update has just been installed at SHSU from where it will
propagate to the other CTAN hosts in due course.

Thanks,

Rainer Sch�pf


 > ******************************************************************
 > ****** ANNOUNCING the release of FoilTeX 2.0.1 for LaTeX2e *******
 > ******************************************************************
 > 
 > I have recently uploaded the latest release of the FoilTeX system for
 > generating foils (transparencies, slides) using TeX.  You should find
 > it on your nearest CTAN in
 >     /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex
 > 
 > *******************  About the package ***************************
 > 
 >   Its features include simplicity of use, compatibility with LaTeX,
 >   large sans serif font as default, extra macros to start foils with
 >   bold headings and special mechanisms to control footer and header.
 > 
 > This new version (from 2.0 to 2.0.1) fixes two bugs that crept in
 > when the LaTeX kernel was changed in version 1995/06/01 patchlevel 3.
 > 
 > Jim Hafner
 > ......................................................................
 > IBM Research Division                Phone: (408) 927-1892
 > Almaden Research Center K53/802      FAX: (408) 927-3030
 > 650 Harry Road                       e-mail:  hafner@almaden.ibm.com
 > San Jose, CA  95120-6099
 > ......................................................................
 > "The history of science rewrites itself each day.  We're living in days
 > of wonder, Simon says."   Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe
 > ......................................................................

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Thu Sep 14 00:02:29 1995
Date: 13 Sep 1995 11:05:13 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: [A] hyperref -> Acrobat

I have just put on CTAN a new copy of my hyperref package
(macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyperref). This implements, for
LaTeX2e, the requirements of the HyperTeX project. If you haven't seen
that, poke http://xxx.lanl.gov/hypertex/. You can use the results of
hyperref with xhdvi, dvihps, hacked GhostView, and the NeXT viewer.

This package aims to redefine all cross-referencing commands
(including indexing) to make them into hypertext links, and to provide
ad-hoc hypertext functionality. It also provides bibliographic
back-referencing. Totally robust it is not, but it's not bad.

Since my particular aim was creating Acrobat files, I have also added
a complete facility for access to pdfmarks for Acrobat Distiller
(assuming dvips conventions for passing literal PostScript).  This is
a single macro with the syntax

  \pdfmark[optional text for anchor]{keyword=value list}

where the parameter is a comma-separated list of keyword=value pairs,
and the possible keys are those listed in the pdfmark manual. brackets
are added as needed, but not /. so
 Page=/Next
 Page=3
 Title=Title of my paper
 Color=.1 .2 .3
are all legal. the last two have () and [] added silently.

The optional first parameter is used to create a Rect of the right
size, which is made available automatically to the pdfmark. so

 \pdfmark[Next Page $\rightarrow$]{pdfmark=/LNK,Page=/Next,Color=0 0 1}

will expand to a pdfmark which sets up a Rect around the text and
makes it a link to the next page, with a blue border.

For those who *know* they want Acrobat, and are not concerned about
portable dvi hypertext specials, I have provided a mode (use option
"nativepdf") which redefines the basic HyperTeX macro system in terms of
pure pdfmarks rather than the standard \special commands, which makes for
some more flexibility. I maintain the list of links as named
destinations, and Distiller just sorts it out in a pleasing sort of
way. It all assumes PDF 1.1, by the way, and doesn't need dvihps (just
the original dvips).

So if you'd like to grab this and tell me of any major flaws, I'd be
very happy. Yes it is supported, but I am not guarenteeing any
behaviour. 

I commend anyone who is looking at this area to consider sticking to
the simple HyperTeX conventions. Your documents will be more portable.

Sebastian Rahtz

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Sep 13 20:26:53 1995
Date: 13 Sep 1995 14:57:21 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, reckdahl@elaine9.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: Uploaded documentation

Keith Reckdahl <reckdahl@leland.stanford.edu> uploaded a ps file that
documents how to include EPS graphics in LaTeX2e. It has been
installed as

 info/epslatex.ps

The documentation explains the macros in the graphics
and graphicx packages, the figure and subfigure macros,
the psfrag system, and other graphics-related topics.

Thanks a lot

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From cevens@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu Thu Sep 14 00:17:28 1995
Date: 13 Sep 1995 13:08:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: Anthony Venson <cevens@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: New FoilTeX version 2.0.1 on shsu/incoming/foiltex

 On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, Rainer Schoepf wrote:

> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 09:11:03 +0200
> From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
> To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
> Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, hafner@almaden.ibm.com
> Subject: Re: New FoilTeX version 2.0.1 on shsu/incoming/foiltex
> 
> Jim Hafner <hafner@almaden.ibm.com writes>:
> 
>  > I have just uploaded to CTAN (shsu/incoming/foiltex) a new version
>  > of FoilTeX -- this one works with LaTeX2e 1995/06/01 patchlevel 3.
>  > Below is a short announcement.  Could you please propogate the new
>  > files (foiltex.ins, foiltex.dtx and readme.flt) to
>  >   tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex
> 
> The update has just been installed at SHSU from where it will
> propagate to the other CTAN hosts in due course.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rainer Sch�pf
> 
> 
>  > ******************************************************************
>  > ****** ANNOUNCING the release of FoilTeX 2.0.1 for LaTeX2e *******
>  > ******************************************************************
>  > 
>  > I have recently uploaded the latest release of the FoilTeX system for
>  > generating foils (transparencies, slides) using TeX.  You should find
>  > it on your nearest CTAN in
>  >     /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex
>  > 
>  > *******************  About the package ***************************
>  > 
>  >   Its features include simplicity of use, compatibility with LaTeX,
>  >   large sans serif font as default, extra macros to start foils with
>  >   bold headings and special mechanisms to control footer and header.
>  > 
>  > This new version (from 2.0 to 2.0.1) fixes two bugs that crept in
>  > when the LaTeX kernel was changed in version 1995/06/01 patchlevel 3.
>  > 
>  > Jim Hafner
>  > ......................................................................
>  > IBM Research Division                Phone: (408) 927-1892
>  > Almaden Research Center K53/802      FAX: (408) 927-3030
>  > 650 Harry Road                       e-mail:  hafner@almaden.ibm.com
>  > San Jose, CA  95120-6099
>  > ......................................................................
>  > "The history of science rewrites itself each day.  We're living in days
>  > of wonder, Simon says."   Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe
>  > ......................................................................
> 
the permission codes on the above package files needs to be changed at
shsu.
-Anthony
E-mail: cevens@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu
        cevens@csm01.eng.lsu.edu

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep 14 07:00:25 1995
Date: 14 Sep 1995 10:22:33 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Anthony Venson <cevens@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu>
Subject: Re: New FoilTeX version 2.0.1 on shsu/incoming/foiltex

Anthony Venson writes:

> the permission codes on the above package files needs to be changed at
> shsu.

I've done this, for this instance.

We plainly need to check why this has happened and whether it's
happened elsewhere (and to put it right if it has).

This will happen "in due course" (i.e., when one of us gets the time).

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Sep 18 16:16:35 1995
Date: 18 Sep 1995 15:23:41 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Jens Kloecker <Jens.Kloecker@zfe.siemens.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Jens Kloecker writes:

 > Robin Fairbairns encouraged me to submit my Caml Light program for
 > the generation of syntax diagrams for LaTeX. I have uploaded it 
 > at >>ftp.dante.de<< in >>/incoming/syngen<<

I installed the files in unpacked form in

  support/syngen

Thanks a lot

Rainer Sch�pf

 > Here is a description (same as in README):
 > 
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 >   This is version 0.3 of SYNGEN 
 > 
 > 
 > OVERVIEW:
 > 
 >   SYNGEN is a tool for the generation of syntax diagrams in LaTeX
 >   format from an input language similar to BNF.
 > 
 > 
 > REQUIREMENTS:
 > 
 >   You will need Caml Light, version 0.7 to compile the program.
 >   Caml Light ca be accessed by anonymous FTP:
 > 
 >         host:       ftp.inria.fr (192.93.2.54)
 >         directory:  lang/caml-light
 > 
 > 
 > CONTENTS:
 > 
 >   src/                  the sources for SYNGEN
 >   doc/                  user's manuals
 >   INSTALL               instructions for installation
 >   README                this file
 > 
 > 
 > INSTALLATION:
 > 
 >   See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
 > 
 > 
 > DOCUMENTATION:
 > 
 >   SYNGEN is described in:
 > 
 >   "Generierung von Syntaxdiagrammen mit SYNGEN", von Jens Kloecker
 >   "Generating syntax diagrams with SYNGEN", by Jens Kloecker (english version)
 > 
 >   These documents are distributed in Postscript as a part of the SYNGEN
 >   distribution.
 > 
 > 
 > COPYRIGHT:
 > 
 >   This program was written under the GNU Gneral Public Licence. For a copy
 >   of this document write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, 
 >   Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
 > 
 > 
 > AVAILABILITY:
 > 
 >   The SYNGEN distribution resides on sunshine.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de, 
 >   and can be accessed by anonymous FTP:
 > 
 >         host:       sunshine.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (132.187.10.1)
 >         directory:  pub/kloecker/syngen
 > 
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > I actually dont know where to place SYNGEN within the CTAN directory hierarchy.
 > 
 > Best regards,
 > 
 > Jens Kloecker.

From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Mon Sep 18 20:57:57 1995
Date: 18 Sep 1995 19:12:15 -0300 (BST)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: LaTeX graphics bundle update


I have updated the latex graphics bundle on the ctan hosts.

* There was one major bug in the graphicx package. The viewport key
  added in June was incorrectly coded.

* The Y&Y driver support (dvipsone and dviwindo) has been largely
  re-written. Thanks to Berthold Horn it has now also been tested
  using Y&YTeX, so it might work now...

* Some minor improvements to the documentation here and there.

Note: 
 As a result of the changes to the Y&Y support, the file dviwindo.def
 is no longer produced. (The dviwindo option is still supported but it
 uses dvipsone.def)

 If you are installing this release over an older release of these
 files, please delete dviwindo.def. 

David

From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Tue Sep 19 07:14:15 1995
Date: 19 Sep 1995 10:47:34 -0300 (BST)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX graphics bundle update


Me> I have updated the latex graphics bundle on the ctan hosts.

*** Please do not fetch those files!

Unfortunately it appears that some old files have been updated.
graphicx.dtx was supposed to have been updated to 0.6c
but it has reverted to 0.6a.
Probably the other files have had a similar fate.

Sorry for the confusion I will mail again when it is sorted out.

David

From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Tue Sep 19 08:29:54 1995
Date: 19 Sep 1995 11:30:08 -0300 (BST)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX graphics bundle update (2nd attempt)


Corrected files have now been placed on ftp.dante.de.
These which reach other ctan hosts and mirrors in due course.

The correct graphics files are dated 19th September on ftp.dante.de
and contain the following file dates and versions:

color.dtx:     [1995/09/07 v0.3k Standard LaTeX Color (DPC)]
drivers.dtx:   [1995/09/18 v2.11 Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)]
epsfig.dtx:    [1995/06/23 v1.5 (e)psfig emulation (SPQR)]
graphics.dtx:  [1995/09/07 v0.7c Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)]
graphicx.dtx:  [1995/09/07 v0.6c Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)]


Once again, apologies for the corrupted release yesterday.

David

Here is my announcement again.


I have updated the latex graphics bundle on the ctan hosts.

* There was one major bug in the graphicx package. The viewport key
  added in June was incorrectly coded.

* The Y&Y driver support (dvipsone and dviwindo) has been largely
  re-written. Thanks to Berthold Horn it has now also been tested
  using Y&YTeX, so it might work now...

* Some minor improvements to the documentation here and there.

Note: 
 As a result of the changes to the Y&Y support, the file dviwindo.def
 is no longer produced. (The dviwindo option is still supported but it
 uses dvipsone.def)

 If you are installing this release over an older release of these
 files, please delete dviwindo.def. 

David


From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Tue Sep 19 18:35:05 1995
Date: 19 Sep 1995 18:23:33 +0200
From: Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de
Subject: Announcing MFjob 1.2c (emTeX)

MFjob 1.2c is now available on ftp.dante.de and should be available on
the other CTAN hosts and their mirrors soon.

MFjob 1.2c fixes a bug which caused problems when generating DC fonts
1.2 at certain sizes.

New files:     mfjob12c.zip
Deleted files: mfjob12b.zip
Updated files: first.zip *.ENG *.GER DISKETTE.DOC

-- 
  Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>

From rajeev@netcom.com Tue Sep 19 14:12:22 1995
Date: 19 Sep 1995 09:54:01 -0700
From: Rajeev Karunakaran <rajeev@netcom.com>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: PageDraw 1.7 uploaded

Hello,

I have uploaded an update for PageDraw in the directory
  ftp.shsu.edu:/incoming/pagedraw
This is a replacement for the files in
  tex-archive/graphics/pagedraw

Regards,

Rajeev

rajeev@netcom.com

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Sep 20 07:15:20 1995
Date: 20 Sep 1995 10:50:46 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Stefan Schulz <sschulz@chemie.uni-hamburg.de>
Subject: Re: Upload of chemcono.sty

Stefan Schulz writes:

 > I have
 >  1. uploaded to ftp.dante.de
 >  
 >  2. Uploaded: chemcono.sty and example.tex in subdirectory chemcono
 >  
 >  3. Description:  LaTeX2e style file for using compound numbers 
 >    in chemistry documents. It works like  
 >    \cite and the \thebibliography, using \fcite 
 >    and \theffbibliography instead. It allows compound
 >    names in documents to be numbered and does not
 >    affect the normal citation routines.
 >    Very helpful for writing chemistry papers.	
 >      This style does:
 >           - Compound-numbering. Any compound gets a number
 >            using \fcite, bold face as default. This number
 >            is printed every time you type \fcite.
 >            - The compounds are numbered according to the 
 >             entries in the \theffbibliography. 
 >           - The \ffbibliography generates an chapter with
 >                  the heading 'Compound numbers'. 
 > 
 >  4. Would suggest that the file be placed in 
 > somewhere  in   /latex2e/contrib

Thanks, your files have been installed in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/chemcono

 > Another suggestion: Why not create a subdirectory chemistry in which 
 > all chemistry related packages could be found?

This is certainly a possibility. Our problem at the moment is that
none of the archive maintainers can spend the time to look through the
packages to decide what is to go where. If you can supply us with
a specific list of what to do, we will look into it.

Regards,

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep 21 06:55:28 1995
Date: 21 Sep 1995 10:37:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: WSULIVAN@IRLEARN.UCD.IE
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- new sbtex, sbmf

Wayne Sullivan writes:

> I have just ftp'ed to ftp.tex.ac.uk:incoming the files sb40tex.zip and
> sbmf14.zip. These files are updates for sb39tex.zip and sbmf13a.zip,
> which currently reside in tex-archive/systems/msdos/sbtex. This main
> purpose of the upgrades is to bring the versions of the contained
> TeX and METAFONT programs up to date (Knuth's files as of 30 March 1995).
> 
> A few changes have been made. The array bounds in iniTeX have been
> modified so that a format for the new LaTeX can be generated (note:
> these programs use the original "small" main memory, so capacity is
> limited, but they will work without dos extenders). Also the file
> input mechanism has been modified so that directory search of primary
> subdirectories of input and tfm directories can be used (higher order
> subdirectories are not searched). Additional graphics capabilities
> have been added to MF for those with VESA hardware. 800x600, 1024x768
> and 1280x1024 vesa graphics at 16 and 256 colors can be used by MF.

I have moved these two files to the place suggested and removed the
old versions.  These changes should propagate to the other CTAN sites
soon(ish).

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Sep 22 08:35:07 1995
Date: 22 Sep 1995 13:15:19 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Claudio Beccari <BECCARI@polito.it>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Claudio Beccari writes:

 > I just submitted the file 
 >                    rohyph.tex
 > that contains the hyphenation patterns for the romanian language.
 >  I suggest that is s moved to /languages/romanian

The file has been installed at ftp.dante.de from where it will
propagate to the other CTAN hosts.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From KRM@busieco.ou.dk Mon Sep 25 05:02:07 1995
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 08:55:34 GMT-1
From: "Kristian R. Miltersen, Odense University" <KRM@busieco.ou.dk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu

This is a computer generated E-mail.

I am attending a symposium at Hindsgavl, Middelfart, September 25-26, 1995.

I will be back at the office on Wednesday September 27 after noon.

Your E-mail, subject:

emTeX update: LaTeX2e patch level 3

will be answered when I return.

If you have a short urgent message, then E-mail it to me
with SUBJECT 'Mobile'.  Your message (up to 160 characters)
will then be transmitted as a text message to my cellular phone.

Best regards,
Kristian R Miltersen

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Sep 25 20:13:21 1995
Date: 25 Sep 1995 16:05:45 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ULI WORTMANN <ULI12@homer.geol.chemie.tu-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: upload notification

ULI WORTMANN writes:

 > I uploaded the archive dvidvi.zip which is th os2-port of dvidvi.
 > 
 > Archive Name: dvidvi.zip
 > 
 > suggested description:
 > port of dvidvi, a tool to manipulate dvi-files (layout, paginating etc) 
 > 
 > suggested location:
 > /dviware/dvidvi/os2
 > 
 > Needs: os2/2.x  and the emx extender --  should work on dos, but this is
 > not tested
 > 
 > Contact: Uli Wortmann uli@homer.geol.chemie.tu-muenchen.de

Thanks a lot, the files have been installed in the places indicated.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Sep 25 21:33:52 1995
Date: 25 Sep 1995 17:07:06 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: greg@relgyro.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: upload - lalaunch

Gregory M. Gutt writes:

 > I have made a recent upload to ftp.shsu.edu \incoming\upload:
 > 
 >     lalaunch.exe
 >     lalaunch.cfg
 >     readme.txt
 >     vbrun300.dll
 > 
 >     lalaunch.zip (zipped version of the above 4 files).
 > 
 > The file readme.txt gives a pretty good description of lalaunch, please
 > read it if you would like more detail.  However, here is a brief overview.
 > 
 > lalaunch.zip -> LaTeX Launcher
 > 
 > LaTeX Launcher is a nice simple shell utility for (Windows 3.1 or 95)
 > designed for use with various LaTeX packages and utilities.  I have
 > tested it a great deal with EmTeX.
 > 
 > Basically LaLaunch manages your LaTeX session, it can pass variables
 > to programs such as: file names, page numbers and paths.  These variables
 > are set at run time via pop-up menus and or dialog boxes.
 > 
 > The basic idea is to give an integrated feel to a latex session when
 > using software written at the four corners of the earth.
 > 
 > Its function is similar (in function) to the DOS program TeXShell.
 > 
 > If possible I would like it to be distributed with the 4alltex disk set.
 > If not that it should go with other LaTeX windows utilities.

Thank you for your submission.

I installed lalaunch as

systems/msdos/lalaunch

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Sep 26 05:20:37 1995
Date: 26 Sep 1995 09:12:25 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission, Update

Michael Mehlich writes:

 > I've just uploaded a new version of my hyper-package for
 > inserting hypertext-markups into latex2e documents on
 >   CTAN://ftp.dante.de/incoming/hyper.tar.gz
 > It replaces the old version at
 >   macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper
 > 
 > Changes with respect to the old version:
 >   Support of the class cweb.cls added.

Thanks, the update has been installed.

For the CTAN team
Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 26 07:56:13 1995
Date: 26 Sep 1995 11:02:59 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: <bouncing messages>

Volker Kuhlmann writes (not the first to do so, but...):

> Hi there - I got 3 of these msgs. Please be a bit more careful with
> your mail forwarding and not waste so much bandwidth. Never mind :-)

Please, people, don't clutter up the list with moans about these
things.  If nothing else, if messages are still bouncing, they'll
bounce back to the list themselves, which has the potential to cause
`meltdown'...

In fact, I mailed the man's postmaster (since the messages said the
author was away), and he seems to have sorted the problem.

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Sep 26 08:00:57 1995
Date: 26 Sep 1995 11:32:13 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Horst Wassenberg <wassen@iam.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Horst Wassenberg writes:

 > a) I uploaded four files to ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
 > b) these are:
 >      beta-v20.doc   old, to be deleted
 >      beta-v20.zip   old, to be deleted
 >      beta-v21.doc   readme-file
 >      beta-v21.zip   program archive
 > d) files (the latter two) should be placed in
 >      /tex-archive/systems/msdos/utilities
 > 
 > Sincerely yours,
 >   Horst Wassenberg
 >   wassen@iam.rwth-aachen.de
 > 
 > c) overview of intension:
 > 
 >                   ----------------------------------
 >                   BETA - Converter Version 2.1 (DOS)
 >                   ----------------------------------
 > 
 > About this program:
 >    TeX is often used as the typesetting system at universities and other
 >    scientific organisations. The present boom of the world wide web (WWW)
 >    makes people convert existing dokuments into HTML, the language of the
 >    WWW. This coexistence of two layout formats increases the efford of
 >    keeping the contents correct and up to date in both formats. The new
 >    set of commands (which is very close to HTML indeed) is a source that
 >    can be converted into TeX and HTML.
 > 
 >    The introduced format is no simplification but an integration of
 >    essential features of the two programming languages LaTeX and HTML.
 > 
 > Installation:
 >    Change to the directory where the converter shall be installed:
 >         C:\UTIL
 > 
 >    Call PKUNZIP as follows:
 >         PKUNZIP -d A:\BETA-V21
 > 
 >    Further instructions can be found in:
 >         C:\UTIL\BETA\DEMO.ENG\TEX\BETA.DVI
 > 
 >    or at the following web page:
 >         http://www.iam.rwth-aachen.de/Beta/mainman.html
 > 
 > license:
 >    This program may only be distributed unchanged and complete. After
 >    a trial period you are expected to register by sending 10
 >    Deutschmark or a note of your currency with similar value to
 > 
 >                 Horst Wassenberg
 >                 Institut fuer Allgemeine Mechanik
 >                 RWTH Aachen
 >                 52056 Aachen
 >                 GERMANY
 > 
 >                 E-Mail: wassen@iam.rwth-aachen.de
 > 
 >    You will get a copy with the pascal source and without a delay of
 >    5 seconds. There are no fees within the University of Aachen.
 > 
 >  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 >  Horst Wassenberg                    Tel:    +49 241 806238
 >  Institut fuer Allgemeine Mechanik   Fax:    +49 241 8888231
 >  52056 Aachen                        eMail:  wassen@iam.rwth-aachen.de
 >  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 

I installed the files in

  systems/msdos/utilities/beta

Thank you for your submission.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From sawade@physik.TU-Berlin.DE Tue Sep 26 09:44:19 1995
Date: 26 Sep 1995 12:32:05 +0100 (MET)
From: Guido Sawade <sawade@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: help identify owner

On Mon, 25 Sep 1995, Dean Alvis wrote:

> Can someone please help me identify a human in charge
> of this list - I would like to SIGNOFF, but the
> software won't recognize my message because of a 
> domain change.  Thanks.

Me too. !

---
       Guido Sawade     <sawade@physik.tu-berlin.de>
       TU Berlin, Opt.Inst. PN0-1, 10623 Berlin, FRG

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 26 11:16:33 1995
Date: 26 Sep 1995 14:55:17 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: help identify owner

Dean Alvis writes:

> > Can someone please help me identify a human in charge
> > of this list - I would like to SIGNOFF, but the
> > software won't recognize my message because of a 
> > domain change.

There is none.  George Greenwade is the manager, but (as everyone on
this list must know by now) he's inactive (and has been for around a
year).

If you can get a message through to him, do, but he's ignored every
message I've sent for months.

Robin Fairbairns

From alhy@SLAC.Stanford.EDU Wed Sep 27 00:16:04 1995
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 13:35:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: J Scott Berg <alhy@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: help identify owner

Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes: 
> Dean Alvis writes:
> 
> > > Can someone please help me identify a human in charge
> > > of this list - I would like to SIGNOFF, but the
> > > software won't recognize my message because of a 
> > > domain change.
> 
> There is none.  George Greenwade is the manager, but (as everyone on
> this list must know by now) he's inactive (and has been for around a
> year).
> 
> If you can get a message through to him, do, but he's ignored every
> message I've sent for months.

You can take a shot at bamboozling the listserv into thinking you are
who you used to be.

Here's how it's done:  Here, I send myself some mail that appears to
come from Elvis:

> telnet courant smtp
Trying...
Connected to courant.SLAC.Stanford.EDU.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 courant.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Sendmail AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/SLAC 920508 ready at Tue, 26 Sep 1995 13:27:26 -0700
helo Elvis Presley <king@graceland.com>
250 courant.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Hello Elvis Presley <king@graceland.com> (COURANT.SLAC.Stanford.EDU)
mail from: Elvis Presley <king@graceland.com>
250 Elvis Presley <king@graceland.com>... Sender is valid.
rcpt to: alhy@slac.stanford.edu
250 alhy@slac.stanford.edu... Recipient is valid.
data
354 Enter mail. End with the . character on a line by itself.
The King Lives.
.
250 Ok
quit
221 courant.SLAC.Stanford.EDU: closing the connection.
Connection closed.

The same trick should work for CTAN; just send the signoff message to
the listserv, and use the helo and from commands to give your old
address.  Telnet to the smtp port of a local machine (in my case,
courant).

Good luck...

					-Scott Berg

--
J. Scott Berg          Real mail: SLAC MS 26; Stanford University
email: ALHY@slac.stanford.edu     PO Box 4349; Stanford, CA  94309
phone:	(415) 926-4732 (w)  (415) 854-2713 (h)

From aphalo@cc.joensuu.fi Wed Sep 27 04:38:06 1995
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 09:01:14 +0300
From: Pedro J. Aphalo <aphalo@cc.joensuu.fi>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: help identify owner

On 27 Sep 95 at 2:32, root wrote:

> > 
> > On Mon, 25 Sep 1995, Dean Alvis wrote:
> > 
> > > Can someone please help me identify a human in charge
> > > of this list - I would like to SIGNOFF, but the
> > > software won't recognize my message because of a 
> > > domain change.  Thanks.
> > 
> > Me too. !
> > 
> 
> Me too. !!!!!
> 
> 
I have answered the original message by mail, but after this 2 "me 
too!" messages I will repeat my answer to the list. As the list seems to be 
running without a maintainer at the moment, your best bet is to 
try to remove yourself from the list:

It may be possible to UNSUBSCRIBE to the list from a different 
address than the one from which one has subscribed. I have used this 
trick before successfully, but I am not sure whether it works or not 
with CTAN-Announce: Just include your old address in the "Reply to:" 
header of your messages with commands to the list-server.

I hope this helps,

Pedro.

.

 

===============================================================
 Pedro J. Aphalo
 University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry
 P.O. Box 111, FIN-80101 Joensuu, FINLAND
 e-mail: aphalo@cc.joensuu.fi
 http://www.joensuu.fi/~aphalo/
 fax: +358 73 151 4444 (or +358 73 151 3590)
 tel: +358 73 151 4406                         ,,,^..^,,,
================================================================

From Thomas.Herter@mch.sni.de Wed Sep 27 05:46:38 1995
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:25:15 +0200
From: Thomas Herter <Thomas.Herter@mch.sni.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: help identify owner

l> > Errors-To: owner-ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
l> > X-Listname: Comprehensive TeX Archive Network announcements <CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu>
l> > Warnings-To: <>
l> > Errors-To: owner-ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
l> > Sender: owner-ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
l> > Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 12:32:05 +0100 (MET)
l> > From: Guido Sawade <sawade@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
l> > Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
l> > Mime-Version: 1.0
l> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
l> > 
l> > On Mon, 25 Sep 1995, Dean Alvis wrote:
l> > 
l> > > Can someone please help me identify a human in charge
l> > > of this list - I would like to SIGNOFF, but the
l> > > software won't recognize my message because of a 
l> > > domain change.  Thanks.
l> > 
l> > Me too. !
l> 
l> I'll third this.  I've been trying to get off for months.
l> 
l> -- 
l> Kevin K. Lewis               | My opinions may be unreasonable
l> lewikk@aud.alcatel.com       | but such is the voice of inspiration

Hallo to all with the unable-to-remove-problem,

This is the signature of the list maintainer and his remark to 
contact him in case of troubles. I hope this helps:

	If you have any questions or comments about this list, or need assistance,
	please do not hesitate to contact me directly.
	%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
	George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                       Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
	Department of Economics and Business Analysis      THEnet:    SHSU::BED_GDG
	College of Business Administration                  Voice:   (409) 294-1266
	Sam Houston State University                          FAX:   (409) 294-3612
	Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA


Enjoy,

Thomas.
--
Thomas Herter       email: thomas.herter@mch.sni.de
+89 636-49973              100275.541@compuserve.com

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Sep 27 06:09:35 1995
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 09:53:38 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: qelis@aol.com
Subject: Re: submitting 'tmv1095.tgz'

QElis@aol.com uploaded a new dvi previewer for Linux and OS/2, which
has been installed in 

 dviware/tmview

Part of the README file follows:

========================================================================

****this is readme for dview v95.10  (C)opyright 1995 Thomas Moor**************

what is dview ?
dview is a screen-previewer for .dvi-files compiled by TeX. it lets you see 
what your printed output will look like, especially where your printer will
resist to print any further. You can choose between a black-and-white 
representation and greyscaling. You don't need a mouse or even X-windows as
dview supports neither of 'em. dview does not support pxl-files since I think 
they are prehistoric. dview ignores all 'special'-commands and has no 
font-replacing mechanism, sorry lads. 
there are two versions dview. one called dvipm which goes with OS/2 and
uses the presentation-manager, and one called dvisvga going with linux,
using svgalib v1.25 or higher.

========================================================================


Thanks a lot,

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From qasar@econ.muni.cz Wed Sep 27 07:10:04 1995
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:04:05 +0100 (MET)
From: Michal Kvasnicka <qasar@econ.muni.cz>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: PageDraw 1.7 uploaded

> I have uploaded an update for PageDraw in the directory
>   ftp.shsu.edu:/incoming/pagedraw

What's that? How can I use it? For what purpose?

						Qasar

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Sep 27 07:28:08 1995
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 11:10:58 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, zaccone@bucknell.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: MakeIndex Fat Submission

Rick Zaccone uploaded a Macintosh port of MakeIndex 2.13b. It has been
installed in

  systems/mac/MakeIndex-Fat-1.0-sit.hqx

 >     MakeIndex Fat
 > 
 >     This is a Macintosh port of MakeIndex 2.13b.
 > 
 >     Features include:
 > 
 >     - The program supports all of the major features of MakeIndex.
 > 
 >     - This is a fat binary.  That is, it runs in native mode on a Power
 >     Macintosh.  It works well on a 680x0 Macintosh too.
 > 
 >     - It requires System 7 or greater.
 > 
 >     - The program is high level event aware.  You can drop your .idx file
 >     onto the application icon.  If you have the "Go After Opening" option
 >     set, the program will immediately process the file.
 > 
 >     - It handles large index files with ease.  You just need enough memory
 >     on your machine.  It uses temporary memory, so you don't need to
 >     increase the application size to process a large file.  It should
 >     handle low memory situations gracefully.
 > 
 >     - If you have the "Go After Opening" option set and you drop several
 >     .idx files on MakeIndex, it will process each file sequentially,
 >     producing an .ind file for each one.  (If you don't have the "Go After
 >     Opening" option set, it will open each file, and then close it when it
 >     receives the next open request.  This seems like a fairly useless mode
 >     of operation IMHO.)
 > 
 >     - MakeIndex will automatically open a style file (.ist file) if one
 >     exists.  If you are processing a file called foo.idx, then MakeIndex
 >     will automatically open a file called foo.ist if it exists in the same
 >     folder.
 > 
 >     - MakeIndex knows about Apple's extended character set.  It will sort
 >     correctly even if you use accented characters and ligatures in Apple's
 >     extended character set.
 > 
 >     I have tried to maintain as many functions of the Unix version as
 >     possible.  Here are a few minor limitations:
 > 
 >     - This program will process one input file at a time.  That is, it
 >     won't process an .idx file that is spread out over several files.  You
 >     will have to concatenate the files first.
 > 
 >     - When sorting, only the first 255 characters of the sort key are
 >     significant.  This should be more than enough.  If this is a problem,
 >     please let me know.
 > 
 >     - The MakeIndex style file (the .ist file) must be in the same folder
 >     as the .idx file.  There is no notion of a style path that points to a
 >     folder of style files.
 > 
 >     - If you use the Page Number: Even, Odd, or Any option (see the LaTeX
 >     Companion page 355), MakeIndex expects to find a .log file (produced
 >     by LaTeX) in the same folder as the .idx file.  Note that Textures
 >     doesn't automatically create this file.  If you are using Textures you
 >     will have to save the contents of your log window and remember to call
 >     the file foo.log if your .idx file is called foo.idx.
 > 
 >     Rick Zaccone
 >     Computer Science Department
 >     Bucknell University
 >     Lewisburg, PA 17837
 > 
 >     zaccone@bucknell.edu
 >     August 10, 1995
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From kuben@scova.vabo.cz Wed Sep 27 16:23:05 1995
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 15:24:15 +0100 (MEZ)
From: Jaromir Kuben <kuben@scova.vabo.cz>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann%SHSU.edu@earn.cvut.cz
Subject: Re: PageDraw 1.7 uploaded

> 
> > I have uploaded an update for PageDraw in the directory
> >   ftp.shsu.edu:/incoming/pagedraw
> 
> What's that? How can I use it? For what purpose?
> 
>                                                 Qasar

The program is for MS Windows and allows you to draw pictures using the mouse.
The output is in postscript. Text can be contained too. It is also possible
to edit an arbitrary postscript file after a preprocessing with ghostscript.
       
                                            Jaromir Kuben

From korte@sabine.acs.psu.edu Wed Sep 27 20:20:58 1995
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 15:16:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rodney R. Korte <korte@sabine.acs.psu.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.TU-Berlin.DE
Subject: EPMTeX 3.1 now available

EPMTeX 3.1 (Standard and Pro versions), a TeX macro package for 
EPM 5.51a and EPM 6 (OS/2 enhanced editor), is now available!  
It can be retrieved from:

   http://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/EPMTeX/
   gopher://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/  (in the OS!2 subdirectory)
   ftp://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/     (in the OS!2 subdirectory)
   ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/unix/tex/     ( currently in /incoming,
   ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/os2/unix/tex/     to be moved to /unix/tex )
   On CTAN sites in  tex-archive/systems/os2/epmtex (currently in /incoming)

EPMTeX is a sophisticated *free* macro package that integrates the TeX
typesetting system with the IBM enhanced editor EPM for OS/2.  The
EPMTeX macro suite adds a TeX pull down menu to the EPM menu bar, and
includes a PM style notebook program for configuration of the package.

Menu items in the TeX pull down menu allow the user to TeX (with any
format, e.g.  LaTeX), jump to errors in the TeX source, preview
(portrait and landscape), and print (portrait and landscape) the TeX
file currently active in EPM.  Custom 'user' modes may also be defined
for special needs unique to the user.

Due to popular demand, the standard edition of EPMTeX now comes
precompiled.  The version of EPM shipped with OS/2 is all that is
required to run EPMTeX.  It is no longer necessary to obtain the EPM
macro compiler from IBM to add the core EPMTeX features.  Consequently,
installation is now greatly simplified.

A Pro version is also included, which offers a few minor features
not included in the Standard version, but which requires compiling
the macros for EPM.

9/95
Jon Hacker
INTERNET: hacker@patagonia.bellcore.com

Rodney Korte
Penn State, State College, PA
INTERNET: korte@sabine.psu.edu

From luecking@comp.uark.edu Wed Sep 27 18:15:05 1995
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 14:18:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: Daniel H. Luecking <luecking@comp.uark.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: submitting 'tmv1095.tgz'

On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Rainer Schoepf wrote:

> QElis@aol.com uploaded a new dvi previewer for Linux and OS/2, which
> has been installed in 
> 
>  dviware/tmview
> 
> Part of the README file follows:
> ...
> what is dview ?
> dview is a screen-previewer for .dvi-files compiled by TeX. it lets you see 
> ...
> there are two versions dview. one called dvipm which goes with OS/2 and
                                           ^^^^^!

    I don't think it is a good idea use the name "dvipm". That name 
    already belongs to one of the programs in emTeX for OS/2. 

> uses the presentation-manager, and one called dvisvga going with linux,
> ...

Dan Luecking
--
luecking@comp.uark.edu              |  "Give a man an answer, and he's
Department of Mathematical Sciences |   satisfied today. Teach him to
University of Arkansas              |   program, and he will be frustrated
Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA          |   for the rest of his life."

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Sep 28 23:20:55 1995
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 15:17:41 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, daly@linax1.mpae.gwdg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN update to custom-bib

LINPWD::DALY writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I wish to submit an update to my package custom-bib.
 > 
 > I have put the following files into the /incoming/custom-bib directory
 > on the dante server. 
 > 
 > merlin.mbs    --->  to replace file of same name
 > README.V34    --->  to replace file README.V33
 > italian.mbs   --->  new file
 > 
 > Please place these into the directory
 >       latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib
 > removing the file README.V33
 > 
 > Thanks,   Patrick W. Daly
 > 1995 Sep 28
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >    Dr. Patrick W. Daly                    Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279
 >    Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie     Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240
 >    Postfach 20                            SPAN: NSP::LINMPI::DALY
 >    D-37189 Katlenburg-Lindau              Internet: daly@linax1.mpae.gwdg.de
 >    Germany
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >           

The update has been installed.

Thank you

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Sep 30 13:26:31 1995
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 10:04:24 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, raichle@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Bernd Raichle writes:

 > b) Files:
 > 	localloc.dtx
 > 	localloc.README
 > 
 > c) Brief Overview:
 > 	Reimplementation of plain-TeX's \newcount, \newdimen, etc.
 > 	macros which adds a set of macros called \lnewcount,
 > 	\lnewdimen, etc. to allow allocation of registers local to a
 > 	group.
 > 
 > 	Can be used with plain-TeX _and_ LaTeX.
 > 
 > 	Self-extracting docstrip archive (needs `docstrip.sty'),
 > 	LaTeX2e is needed to format the documentation.
 > 
 > d) Recommended place in CTAN directory hierarchy:
 > 	tex-archive/macros/generic/
 >    or
 > 	tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ because
 > 	LaTeX2e is needed to format the package documentation!

I've installed it in the latter place, with a link from the former.

Thanks

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Sep 30 20:21:45 1995
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 16:12:18 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Tilmann Boess <tilmann@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ftpmaint@dante.de
Subject: Re: Uploaded EPMTeX 3.1 (epmtex31.zip)

Tilmann Boess writes:

 > I've just uploaded EPMTeX 3.1 on ftp.dante.de:/incoming, because it was
 > not yet uploaded from ftp.shsu.edu. I had a mail exchange with Rodney R. 
 > Korte asking him if I should upload it to ftp.dante.de and he suggested I
 > should do it. I also send you the announcement for this package given on
 > the emTeX mailing list (see below): 

I installed the package at ftp.dante.de from where it will eventually
propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.shsu.edu.

Thanks a lot.

 > 
 > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 > Date: Wed, 27 Sep 95 15:16:52 EDT
 > From: Rodney R. Korte <korte@sabine.acs.psu.edu>
 > To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de
 > Subject: EPMTeX 3.1 now available
 > 
 > EPMTeX 3.1 (Standard and Pro versions), a TeX macro package for 
 > EPM 5.51a and EPM 6 (OS/2 enhanced editor), is now available!  
 > It can be retrieved from:
 > 
 >    http://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/EPMTeX/
 >    gopher://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/  (in the OS!2 subdirectory)
 >    ftp://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/     (in the OS!2 subdirectory)
 >    ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/unix/tex/     ( currently in /incoming,
 >    ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/os2/unix/tex/     to be moved to /unix/tex )
 >    On CTAN sites in  tex-archive/systems/os2/epmtex (currently in /incoming)
 > 
 > EPMTeX is a sophisticated *free* macro package that integrates the TeX
 > typesetting system with the IBM enhanced editor EPM for OS/2.  The
 > EPMTeX macro suite adds a TeX pull down menu to the EPM menu bar, and
 > includes a PM style notebook program for configuration of the package.
 > 
 > Menu items in the TeX pull down menu allow the user to TeX (with any
 > format, e.g.  LaTeX), jump to errors in the TeX source, preview
 > (portrait and landscape), and print (portrait and landscape) the TeX
 > file currently active in EPM.  Custom 'user' modes may also be defined
 > for special needs unique to the user.
 > 
 > Due to popular demand, the standard edition of EPMTeX now comes
 > precompiled.  The version of EPM shipped with OS/2 is all that is
 > required to run EPMTeX.  It is no longer necessary to obtain the EPM
 > macro compiler from IBM to add the core EPMTeX features.  Consequently,
 > installation is now greatly simplified.
 > 
 > A Pro version is also included, which offers a few minor features
 > not included in the Standard version, but which requires compiling
 > the macros for EPM.
 > 
 > 9/95
 > Jon Hacker
 > INTERNET: hacker@patagonia.bellcore.com
 > 
 > Rodney Korte
 > Penn State, State College, PA
 > INTERNET: korte@sabine.psu.edu
 > (---> emtex-user listserver: Majordomo@physik.tu-berlin.de)
 > (     emtex-user archives:   ftp.physik.tu-berlin.de:/pub/digests/emtex-user)
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > _________________________________________________________________________
 >    Tilmann Boess               Internet:
 >    Experimentelle Physik 1       tilmann@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de
 >    Am Hubland
 >    D-97074 Wuerzburg           Tel.: (++49)/(0)931-888 4904 
 >    - Germany -                 Fax : (++49)/(0)931-888 4906
 > _________________________________________________________________________
 > 

From l44@lrw.uni-bremen.de Mon Oct  2 15:18:03 1995
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 14:04:32 +0100
From: Roland Weibezahn <l44@lrw.uni-bremen.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: ANNOUNCE: xtem X11-TeX-menu, release v. 4.16

Dear xtem users,

after the tests of the beta-version of xtem version_4 this is now 
the final release as version 4.16 of

       "xtem",   an  X11-TeX-menu  

which runs with the new Tcl/Tk/TclX (Tcl 7.4/Tk4.0) as well as with the 
old version (Tcl7.3/Tk3.6) (yet we highly encourage you to switch to the 
new Tcl/Tk/TclX release because of some desirable user interface
refinements introduced in this Tcl/Tk version).


Besides adapting xtem to the new Tcl/Tk we have done error corrections,
optimizations and new features, some of them are:
  - file and directory selection in one menu, directory creation possible now,
  - radiobuttons where possible,
  - double mouse clicks in select boxes replaced by simple mouse clicks,
  - improved error messages if errors are done in the setting file
    printing.vst,
  - creation of the TeXtool buttons in the main menu optional by choice of
    the local administrator,
  - last used size and position of the xtem windows can be saved,
  - printer driver dvilj is added to the setting files.

The setting files from older versions of xtem may be kept unchanged
(mkcommand.vst excepted), thus switching from the older version (3.12) to the
new release will be done easily.


You will find all files on our file server:

      http://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html 
or
      ftp://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem/xtem_texmenu.README
      ftp://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem/xtem_texmenu.4.16.tar.gz
      ftp://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem/xtem_texmenu_eng.ps.gz
      ftp://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem/xtem_texmenu_ger.ps.gz

Here you may also find the sources  Tcl (version7.4), Tk (4.0), TclX: 
  
      ftp://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tcl7.4p2.tar.gz
      ftp://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tk4.0p2.tar.g
      ftp://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tclX7.4a-p1.tar.gz

As the CTAN server ftp.dante.de mirrors our xtem-directory,
you may also get all xtem-files from 
      ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/xtem_texmenu/*
and the other CTAN servers.

We have uploaded the new xtem version to the ALCATEL server
into "incoming", so you also may get all the material from
      ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/code/xtem_*
soon.


For those who don't know xtem_TeXMenu up to now, we give a short overview:

xtem provides for a simple and comfortable graphical user interface to control
the following facilities:

  - file and directory selection, directory creation,
  - editor (vi, emacs, ...)  including additional windows for the
    LaTeX-syntax (using hypertext) and examples,
  - TeX, LaTeX, ...,
  - previewer (ghostview, xdvi, TkDvi, ...),
  - printing (including comfortable printer selection, ...),
  - syntax and spelling check,
  - makeindex,
  - bibtex,
  - additional programs as required,
    .
    .
    .
Online help is available for all the buttons and windows by simple mouse click.
xtem is written for Unix platforms and has been tested on many systems.


Roland Weibezahn


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LRW Bremen                     Telefax:  +49-421-218-4112
c/o University Bremen
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email: weibezahn@lrw.uni-bremen.de
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                                                      (the xtem_TeXMenu project)

From gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au Mon Oct  2 21:38:58 1995
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 10:27:11 +1000
From: Geoff Tobin <gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: tmview update.

Thomas Moor (for the moment, QElis@aol.com) has updated his tmview
DVI viewer programs for OS/2 and Linux.  Note that the OS/2 viewer has
been renamed, to avoid confusion with Eberhard Mattes's product.

Location:

    CTAN:  dviware/tmview

Geoffrey Tobin
Email:  G.Tobin@latrobe.edu.au
WWW:    http://www.ee.latrobe.edu.au/~gt

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct  6 09:25:22 1995
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 12:01:33 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Ole Michael Selberg <o.m.selberg@easteur-orient.uio.no>
Subject: Re: The other way around - from Roman to Arabic

Ole Michael Selberg writes (in private correspondence):

> Talking of Roman numbers, I have the feeling that what some LaTeX-users
> need is rather a set of macros that yield the Arabic equivalent of a given
> Roman number. It's amazing how many people feel uncertain and confused when
> they encounter Roman numbers like mcdxlix etc. The macros below, which I
> wrote a couple of years ago, are supposed to solve this annoying problem
> :-):

I've installed these macros as CTAN tex-archive/macros/generic/arabic.tex

They're not a big deal -- just a bit of innocent amusement ... but I
liked them and asked if OMS minded if I installed them.

R

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Oct  7 00:15:53 1995
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 18:27:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Serge.Rosmorduc@lifac.ens-cachan.fr
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- hieroglyphics and coptic

Serge Rosmorduc writes:

> I have uploaded a new version of hierotex on ftp.tex.ac.uk 
> the files are HieroTeX.tar and Copte.tar.gz.
> 
> HieroTeX.tar is a new version of HieroTeX.

HieroTeX.tar has been unpacked and its contents have now replaced the
directory fonts/hieroglyph

The previous contents of fonts/hieroglyph were a series of source
files, whereas the new release is a series of .tar.gz files.  I have
discussed this with Serge: he has taken some care with packaging the
stuff, and I have installed the new version in the form he submitted
it.

Note that users who don't have access to gzip and/or tar can request a
.zip file of the CTANs themselves -- the archives implement a dynamic
.tar.gz->.zip translator.

I have also installed a link from language/hieroglyph to fonts/hieroglyph

> Copte.tar.gz is a new package, quite basic, intended for typesetting Coptic
> texts.

I've installed this, unpacked, as language/coptic

> http://weblifac.ens-cachan.fr/Portraits/S.ROSMORDUC

I followed this link, and found some delightful Egyptology pages...

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN Team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Oct  9 06:33:07 1995
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 10:26:44 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Michael Piefel <piefel@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Michael Piefel writes:

 > (a)  I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de
 > 
 > (b)/(c)  the files are in the directory lgrind, which should now contain:
 > lgrind.ins	DocStrip driver
 > lgrind.dtx	Documented package
 > lgrindefs	The language definition file
 > lgrind.c	The source code for the LGrind executable
 > vgrindefs.c
 > regexp.c
 > v2lg.c		Source code for verbatim to embedded source converter
 > retest.c	Test program for the regular expression routines
 > lgrind.exe	The executable in MS-DOS format
 > lgrind.1	Man-pages for the LGrind program
 > lgrindefs.5		  and the language definition file (not tested)
 > doc-lgrind.lg	An example file with embedded source
 > makefile	Makefile for MS-DOS (Borland C++)
 > makefile.emx	Makefiles for use with DMAKE (not tested)
 > makefile.exx
 > Makefile.unx	Makefile for UN*X
 > README
 > 
 > (c) The lgrind program is a pretty printer for source code files.
 >     The package contains a style file for the necessary macros.
 >     This package is already CTAN, but only for LaTeX2.09.
 >     The new version is for LaTeX2e, it contains proper documentation.
 >     The formerly included fancyheadings-package has been removed
 >     for this is not the right place for it.
 > 
 > (d) The proposed place is /support/lgrind, where it resides today.

Thanks, the update has been installed.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Oct  9 07:17:40 1995
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 10:48:49 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: W.Matiaske@ww.TU-Berlin.d
Subject: Re: uploads

Wenzel Matiaske writes:

 > I have upload two LaTeX2e packages on ftp.dante.de:/incoming.
 > The packages are:
 > 
 > o paper1e.zip     58548   4.10.95  16.20 LaTeX packages papers and journals
 > o thesis1a.zip    63879   4.10.95  16.44 LaTeX single and multiple author books
 >                                        and reports
 > 
 > Would you please store them und \macros\LaTeX2e\contrib\supported\..
 > Thanks a lot. 
 > 
 > Best regards
 > 
 > //wenzel 
 > 
 > -- 
 >                              ___      
 > wenzel matiaske  |           / /_/-Berlin
 >                  |
 >                  |  mail:   Technical University Berlin
 >                  |          Dept. of Economics & Management, WW6
 >                  |          Uhlandstr. 4-5, D-10623 Berlin
 >                  |  phone:  +49 30 314-22574
 >                  |  email:  W.Matiaske@ww.TU-Berlin.de


Thanks the update to the paper package and the tthesis package have
been installed.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

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To: ctan-ann@SHSU.EDU
Subject: Output of your job "ctan-ann"

> review mutex
File "MUTEX LIST" has been mailed to you under separate cover.

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Oct  9 18:09:32 1995
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 20:29:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: info-tex@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ctan@shsu.edu
Subject: Downtime of ftp.tex.ac.uk

Yesterday (Sunday 8 October 1995), ftp.tex.ac.uk went down at approx
1615 BST.  It was at least partly up by 1830 (but I was otherwise
engaged at the time and so can't say how much of it was working).  At
the very least, activity was hampered until some time this morning
(Monday 9 October), when it sent me its last message to say it had
failed to do some routine task.  The archive was working when I logged
in from Amsterdam at about 1130.

The problem was with the power supplies: the maintenance people had
been working on cooling equipment, and as a result the temperature in
the machine room where the archive machine sites went out of range and
the power switched itself off automatically.  We lost a disc as a
result of this, which holds the scripts, etc., that the archive uses
in operation.

Our apologies to those inconvenienced by the problems.

Robin Fairbairns

For the UK CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 13 20:02:11 1995
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 18:23:34 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- endfloat update

Jeffrey Goldberg writes:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
> I have upload to /incoming on
> 
>  ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
> The file
> 
>  endfloat.tar.gz
> 
> This is version 2.4 (an upgrade, adding substantial flexibility) to
> the LaTeX 2e endfloat package which I maintain.  Details are in the
> readme file.
> 
> The contents of the gzip'ed tar file should REPLACE the material
> in
> 
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/endfloat/
> 
> The tar file contains four files:
> 
> - -rw-r--r-- cc047/cc40      329 Oct 13 17:33 1995 endfloat.asc
> - -rw-r--r-- cc047/cc40    81330 Oct 13 17:33 1995 endfloat.dtx
> - -rw-r--r-- cc047/cc40     1065 Oct 13 17:33 1995 endfloat.ins
> - -rw------- cc047/cc40     4193 Oct 13 17:37 1995 readme.enf
> 
> If you have any questions please feel free to ask.  The readme file
> (readme.enf) describes what all of the other files are.
> 
> And thanks all for running CTAN.  It really has made things so
> much easier for so many people.
> 
> - -jeff
> Jeffrey Goldberg
>     Email:	J.Goldberg@Cranfield.ac.uk
>     WWW:	<http://WWW.Cranfield.ac.uk/public/cc/cc047/>
> 
> 
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> 9aZRy6QKHUXp5V2tBIstC+8F1d3FkWmVdWJQuCG/b3+Gd+jpUMj5SQs9X19cR+f2
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I have duly installed the upgrade as requested (the signature's good
;-)

BTW, please, people, don't put files into submissions with strange
protections (as readme.enf in this case).  The way installation
happens, I don't get to notice the problem until after the failure
(_this_ time I noticed: last time I installed a broken version, had to
be prompted by someone else and needed to retrieve a copy from
Australia).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Oct 22 03:33:09 1995
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 09:19:02 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: George Gratzer <George_Gratzer@umanitoba.ca>
Subject: New version of Gratzer's mil.pdf, etc.

I've installed a new version of George's mil.pdf (and associated
material) in CTAN directory info/mil.  The installation was done at
SHSU (and the results have propagated here, at least).

George writes, about his stuff:

-----------------------------
The file mil.pdf provides an introduction to LaTeX, based on the book

Math into LaTeX
An Introduction to LaTeX and AMS-LaTeX

by George Gratzer, published by Birkhauser Boston, ISBN 0-8176-3805-9.

The following parts are reproduced from the book:

1. Short contents
2. Contents
3. List of tables
4. List of figures
5. Preface
6. Introduction
7. Part I, A short course
8. Appendix A, Math symbol tables
9. Appendix B, Text symbol tables
10. Afterword

mil.pdf is a portable document format (pdf) file.  To view and
print a pdf file, you need the Acrobat Reader.
-----------------------------

Robin Fairbairns

(UK) CTAN team

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Wed Oct 18 08:59:18 1995
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 08:42:50 +0000 (MEZ)
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ccnet-l <@cunyvm.cuny.edu:ccnet-l@uga.BITNET>, soft-author@ifcss.org, linux-asia@li.org, mule@etl.go.jp
Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 3.0 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e)


I've just uploaded CJK ver 3.0 to ftp.dante.de (note that the incoming
directory of this host is not readable) and it will soon propagate to the
other CTAN hosts and its mirrors. Below you will find the major changes
2.4 -> 3.0 and 2.5 beta 7 -> 3.0 .

Happy TeXing


    Werner



2.5 beta 7 -> 3.0
=================

    the protection mechanism has been completely rewritten. Encoding changes
      will now work in sectioning commands too.

    the pseudo-\if's has been replaced with real if's to avoid problems with
      nested \if...\else...\fi constructions.

    CNS directory renamed to CEF.

    CEF macros CX, CY and U implemented. Font definition files for CX and CY
      encodings added.

    CEF will now work with SJIS encoding too. CEFSconv added.

    CNS.sty removed. Has been integrated into CJK.sty .

    there are now three internally used active characters:
            ^^80, ^^A0: used by mule2cjk
            ^^ff      : used by CEFconv and mule2cjk.
        we need those characters for verbatim environments.

    a new internal level introduced:
        we now have

            active characters
                |
                +--------------> bindings (normal, preprocessed) <- new
                |
            active character macros
                |
                +--------------> encodings (GB, Bg 5, ...) +
                |                font encodings (none, dnp, pmC)
                |
            subfont selecting macros
                |
                +--------------> character macro sets (standard, Big 5, ...)
                |
            character selecting macros

    all encodings except UTF 8 will now work in preprocessed mode too.

    some additional checks whether a loading of a certain binding/encoding/
      character set is neccessary.

    a new style option has been added: `active'. If activated, bindings will
      be local. Default is still `local' (with global bindings). You will
      need this option if you want to mix preprocessed text with
      non-preprocessed text in nested CJK environments. This can happen if
      you merge texts in various encodings.

    the offset for the roma subfont of dnp font encoding was incorrect.

    watanabe (a PD replacement of dnp fonts) font encoding for JIS added.

    \CJKchar has now an optional parameter to select the encoding. You can
      also use this command with Unicode encoding; additionally you can
      enter characters with or without the 8th bit set (GL or GR form)
      except for SJIS, Bg5 and UTF8 encoding.

    two new size functions: `CJKsub' and `CJKssub'. They are similar to
      `sub' and `ssub' except that the font substitution warnings appear
      only once per CJK fontset. All .fd files updated.

    MULEenc.sty added. Will be loaded automatically after a file has been
      processed with mule2cjk.

    Latin encodings will now work in verbatim environments also.

    switch -g from mule2cjk has been removed. It was never necessary since
      `"' and `\"' in german.sty select the same macro.

    mule2cjk now inserts LaTeX2e macros (\textexclamdown, \textcent etc.)
      analogously to the latin[12].def files of the LaTeX2e distribution
      (where applicable) for Latin encoded characters.

    the batch file muclatex processes mule encoded files which contain
      CEF macros.

    Stephen Simpson <simpson@math.psu.edu> contributed a Bg 5 .fd file for
      NTU TT fonts (ntu2cjk and ttf2pk).

    pinyin.sty didn't work in tabbing environments; the syllable \me was
      missing; the syllables \Na and \na were wrongly defined (Michael E.
      Deisher <deisher@enws261.eas.asu.edu>).

    pinyin.sty now accepts DC fonts too.

    all .bat and .cmd files now have CR/LF pairs as newlines.

    .bat and .cmd batch files added for all equivalent script files in the
      utils directory. It might be useful to replace the TeX-coded
      preprocessors with these filters since they are faster.

    all .bat and .cmd files will call f_name.bat (f_name.cmd) to replace
      the extension (usually .tex) with .cjk .

    hbf2gf always used 300dpi resolution if used in mf-like mode (Zhang
      Zhengyou <ZhengYou.Zhang@sophia.inria.fr>).


2.4 -> 3.0
==========

Version 2.5:    never released; 7 beta versions published. See file
                history.2_5.

Version 3.0     there are too many changes to be described here in full
10-Oct-1995     detail. Please reread the various documentation files and
                check the file history.2_5 too.

                new:
                    two contributed packages: ntu2cjk and ttf2pk.

                    SJIS coding scheme added.

*                   a new unifying fontencoding scheme has been introduced:
*                     max. 4 characters encoding + max. 3 characters
*                     fontencoding
*
*                       examples:
*                         JISdnp, JISpmC etc.
*
*                     this change causes many files to be renamed (e.g.
*                     Uhanja.fd->Uhanj.fd); there is also a bunch of new/
*                     redefined functions to support this:
*                       \CJKenc
*                       \CJKfontenc
*                       \CJKshape
*                       \CJKencshape
*                       CJK and CJK* environment
*
*                     SOME OF THE ABOVE CHANGES ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH
*                     PREVIOUS VERSIONS!

                    two fontencodings added: `dnp' for DNP fonts and `wn'
                      for Watanabe fonts.

                    four new size functions: `CJKsub', `CJKssub', `DNP', and
                      `DNPgen'.

                    \CJKchar has now an optional parameter to select the
                      encoding. You can also use this command with Unicode
                      encoding; additionally you can enter characters with
                      or without the 8th bit set (GL or GR form) except for
                      SJIS, Bg5 and UTF8 encoding.

                    a new internal level introduced:
                      we now have

                            active characters
                                |
                                +--------------> bindings (normal,
                                |                preprocessed) <- new
                                |
                            active character macros
                                |
                                +--------------> encodings (GB, Bg 5, ...) +
                                |                font encodings (none, dnp,
                                |                pmC)
                                |
                            subfont selecting macros
                                |
                                +--------------> character macro sets
                                |                (standard, Big 5, ...)
                                |
                            character selecting macros

                    a new style option has been added: `active'. If
                      activated, bindings will be local. Default is still
                      `local' (with global bindings). You will need this
                      option if you want to mix preprocessed text with
                      non-preprocessed text in nested CJK environments. This
                      can happen if you merge texts in various encodings.

                    options `dos' and `dosdebug' to makefiles added for
                      compiling with djgpp.

                    new keywords `design_size', `target_size', `tfm_files',
                      and `pk_files' added to hbf2gf. If `tfm_files'
                      (`pk_files') is `no', creation of .tfm-files
                      (.pk-files) will be suppressed.

                    new calling mode for hbf2gf for use with MakeTeXPK:
                      hbf2gf configuration_file [subfont_number resolution]

                    a modified MakeTeXPK (and maketexp.btm) added to process
                      Chinese TrueType fonts (with ttf2pk) and CJK bitmap
                      fonts (with hbf2gf).

                    pinyin.sty for writing pinyin syllables with tones.

                    \CJKtilde and \standardtilde for embedding ordinary words
                      in CJK text.

                    new command \CJKcaption to load a caption file.

                    new commands \CJKCJKchar, \CJKhangulchar and
                      \CJKlatinchar added to specify character handling
                      (glue, discretionary). Only for UTF8 encoding needed.
                      Default is \CJKCJKchar.

                    various caption files (.cap) added to be used in
                      conjunction with the KOMA-script document classes.

                    MULE to CJK converter added.

                changed:
                    the protection scheme has been completely rewritten.
                      Encoding changes will now work in sectioning commands
                      too.

                    reorganization of source tree.

                    all occurrences of utf8 changed to UTF8 including
                      filenames.

                    all occurrences of GBs changed to GB including filenames.

*                   handling of intercharacter glue enhanced. Now there will
*                     be no \CJKglue before and after a block of CJK
*                     characters. Note that this is a visually incompatible
*                     change to the previous versions of CJK! (See the
*                     command \CJKtilde also.)

                    the definition of the CEF encoding has changed; it uses
                      now HTML-macros to identify CNS codes. Various
                      preprocessors has been added to handle these macros.

                    CNS.sty removed. Has been integrated into CJK.sty .

                    if only one of the keywords `dpi_x' or `dpi_y' is given in
                      the hbf2gf config file the other printer resolution will
                      be set equal to the given one.

                    the key values `on' and `off' in the hbf2gf config file
                      are replaced with `yes' and `no'.

                errors:
                    if two Big 5 environments were stacked, the Bg5text
                      environment was defined twice causing an error
                      (Yang Jinn S. <v30yjs@v0sun11.ccl.itri.org.tw>).

                    \CJK@punctEnc was undefined in pmC-Bg5 environment
                      (Yang Jinn S. <v30yjs@v0sun11.ccl.itri.org.tw>).

                    pmC-Bg5 encoding did not work in preprocessed mode
                      (Yang Jinn S. <v30yjs@v0sun11.ccl.itri.org.tw>).

                    Bg5conv.tex and CEFconv.tex/CEF5conv.tex will fail under
                      the web2c-TeX implementation because \write commands
                      will not output 8bit characters. C programs which do the
                      same were added.

                    wrong \CJK@min and \CJK@max values for some encodings.

                    some punctuation characters with Big 5 encoding had wrong
                      offsets (Li Yu-Ray <r82111@ew.ee.ntu.edu.tw>).

                    `global' option didn't work correctly.

                    \CJKchar didn't work in preprocessed mode
                      (Rob Lahaye <lahaye@amolf.amolf.nl>).

                    all .bat and .cmd files will call f_name.bat
                      (f_name.cmd) to replace the extension (usually .tex)
                      with .cjk .

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Oct 22 03:33:31 1995
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 09:57:07 +0100 (MET)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK 3.0 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e)

Werner,

> I've just uploaded CJK ver 3.0 to ftp.dante.de (note that the incoming
> directory of this host is not readable) and it will soon propagate to the
> other CTAN hosts and its mirrors. Below you will find the major changes
> 2.4 -> 3.0 and 2.5 beta 7 -> 3.0 .

CJK 3.0 ist installiert. Die alten Versionen 2.4 und 2.5 beta 7 habe ich
geloescht.

Danke fuer die neue Version,
  Reinhard

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sun Oct 22 03:38:11 1995
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 11:14:45 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: TeXEdit 1.0c

hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de writes:

 > now I've uploaded TeXEd10c.zip so you don't have to install any of
 > the uploaded 1.0b versions. (I have uploaded the english version at
 > hobbes).
 > 
 > Whould you please be so kindly to install TeXEd10c in the directory
 > systems/os2 and to remove TeXEd10a.zip and TeXEde10.zip.

Thanks, I've done the installation.

For the CTAN team
Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Oct 21 17:49:00 1995
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 11:32:02 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, Richard Verhoeven <rcb5@win.tue.nl>
Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Richard Verhoeven writes:

 > Summary info:
 > Submission:          ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/MathSpad/
 > Recommended place:   /tex-archive/support/MathSpad/
 > IMPORTANT:           replaces /tex-archive/support/mathpad/

I removed the old directory and installed the files in

  /tex-archive/support/mathspad

 > It has recently come to our attention that the CTAN archive contains a copy
 > of the "mathpad" program that we are developing (in the support directory).
 > The version that you have is out of date and no longer supported by us.  In
 > addition, you did not receive the software from us.  
 > 
 > Until now we ourselves have not wished to publicise the existence of the 
 > system (which, by the way, we now call MathSpad in order to avoid confusion 
 > with other systems of the same name) but have nevertheless made it freely 
 > available from our ftp site.  
 > 
 > We now feel that the system has reached a sufficient level of maturity that it
 > can be made widely available and we would appreciate your help in doing so.
 > 
 > We have created the directory "ftp.dante.de/incoming/MathSpad" in which we have
 > deposited a README file describing the system and the system itself.  For your 
 > convenience we have copied the README file below.  We would
 > be very grateful if you could make this directory available to CTAN 
 > subscribers.  The support directory seems to be an appropriate place so it 
 > would be sufficient to replace the existing "mathpad" subdirectory.
 > 
 > Should you decide not to include the software in the archive we would ask you
 > to kindly remove the "mathpad" directory in any case.
 > 
 > With many thanks for your cooperation,
 > 
 > Richard Verhoeven and Roland Backhouse

Many thanks for your submission. We apologize that we held a software
that you did not intend for distribution. It is sometimes difficult to
decide what to do with uploads.

For the CTAN team

Rainer Sch�pf


------------------------------------------------------------
 > README FILE  MathSpad
 > ---------------------
 > 
 > 
 > Introduction
 > ------------
 > 
 > This directory contains the distribution of MathSpad version 0.50.
 > MathSpad is an experimental program and this is the beta release.
 > If you install it and encounter problems with the program,
 > we can't guarantee immediate help (although we'll try). A mailing
 > list is available to ask questions or make suggestions.
 > 
 > MathSpad is a document preparation system particularly oriented to the 
 > production of articles involving large amounts of (non-standard)
 > mathematical material.  It is an interactive system designed to make
 > on-screen mathematical calculation a pleasure rather than a chore.
 > MathSpad generates LaTeX output. Existing LaTeX documents can be
 > incorporated directly into a MathSpad document, no special conversion
 > being required (or performed).
 > 
 > The fundamental idea introduced by MathSpad is that individual users
 > can compose their own ``stencils'' specifying mathematical and
 > non-mathematical notational conventions, in particular the screen
 > layout and how to convert the MathSpad document to LaTeX. Fractions,
 > superscripts, subscripts, different fonts, different sizes, displayed
 > equations and lots of other mathematical (and non-mathematical)
 > structures can be used (and defined).
 > 
 > Version 0.31 was first released in January 1994 but is no longer supported.
 > Version 0.31 files can be easily converted to 0.50 format, but not the other 
 > way around.  At the time of writing (June 1995) the on-line manual has been
 > rewritten to be completely compatible with version 0.50. This is not however
 > the definitive version of the manual, which should be available in the
 > autumn.
 > 
 > 
 > Installation
 > ------------
 > 
 > To install MathSpad, you need a UNIX operating system, the X window
 > environment, an ANSI C compiler and a C++ compiler. If you don't have them
 > all, you should not try to install it.
 > 
 > The distribution is available in the file mathpad0.50.tar.gz . This file can 
 > be unpacked with the command:
 > 
 >         gunzip -c mathpad0.50.tar.gz | tar xf -
 > 
 > Having unpacked the system, the installation should be simple. The
 > command
 > 
 > 	./Install
 > 
 > will check out your system, compile everything and install it in the proper
 > place. Afterwards, the installation problems are reported to me automatically,
 > so you don't have to report anything yourself and I will help you if I can.
 > (You can also install it without sending the message.)
 > 
 > After successfully installing the program, you can test it easily with
 > the command
 > 
 >        mathpad manual
 > 
 > which causes a welcome document to appear on your screen. This document
 > explains more about the system and how to get started.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Documentation
 > -------------
 > 
 > The distribution contains a copy of the system manual as a MathSpad
 > document. It is hoped to publish the manual in book form in which form screen
 > dumps will be included. 
 > 
 > The system manual is also available for online help. You can use the 'Help'
 > key to get context sensitive help. If you don't have a 'Help' key, either
 > use xmodmap to define one or edit the file `emacs.mpk' in the lib directory.
 > 
 > It is possible to produce a hard copy of the manual using the standard system
 > features.  In order to respect our copyright you should however NOT do so.
 > If you would like a hard copy of the manual before its official publication 
 > please write to us stating the purpose for which the manual will be used.
 > We will supply academic users and non-profit organisations with a postscript
 > version of the manual provided that guarantees are given that it will not be
 > used for commercial gain and the number of copies to be made is agreed in 
 > writing beforehand.
 > 
 > Feedback
 > --------
 > 
 > There is a mailing list which can be used to ask questions and to make
 > suggestions. To subscribe to this list, mail a message to
 > majordomo@win.tue.nl with the body (not the subject):
 > 
 >         subscribe mathpad-users
 >         end
 > 
 > You can mail the messages to
 > 
 >         mathpad-users@win.tue.nl 
 > 
 > to reach the complete group (even if you're not subscribed).
 > 
 > 
 > If you have any problems installing the program, or with its use please
 > report them to
 > 
 >         mathpad@win.tue.nl
 > 
 > We will try to react as soon as possible.
 > 
 > 
 > Richard Verhoeven.
 > 
 > 
 > 

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Oct 21 07:08:20 1995
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:33:36 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, J.B.Rhebergen <rheberg@elektron.et.tudelft.nl>
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

J.B.Rhebergen writes:
 > I have uploaded to:
 > 
 >   ftp.dante.de
 > 
 > the file:
 > 
 >   faxcls.zip 
 > 
 > in the directory:
 > 
 >   /icoming/fax
 > 
 > the zip file contains:
 > 
 > total 130
 > drwxr-xr-x   2 rheberg  users       1024 Oct 11 22:01 ./
 > drwxr-xr-x  10 rheberg  users       1024 Oct 11 21:58 ../
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users       2518 Jul 20 15:20 dviscr.dlg
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users       4411 Jul 19 11:28 fax.cls
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users       4250 Oct 11 21:31 fax.unx
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users       8696 Jul 20 14:55 faxdoc.dvi
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users       7341 Jul 20 14:55 faxdoc.tex
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users        176 Jul 19 11:23 from.fax
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users       2208 Jul  1 13:36 lastpage.sty
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users        333 Jul 19 11:26 nb.fax
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users        305 Jul  5 12:02 note.fax
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users       1269 Oct 11 21:38 read.me
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users       1074 Jul 19 11:28 sig.sty
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users       2972 Jul 18 00:59 sigdoc.dvi
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users       2429 Jul 18 00:53 sigdoc.tex
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users       2452 Jul 20 14:59 test.dvi
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users       2785 Jul 20 14:59 test.log
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users        819 Jul 20 14:59 test.tex
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users        160 Jul 19 11:23 van.fax
 > -rw-r--r--   1 rheberg  users       8537 Jul  1 12:11 wasysym.sty
 > 
 > The file fax.cls is a LaTeX2e fax documentclass. The other files are 
 > documentation, examples and support files needed to use the fax.cls
 > 
 > I suggest putting the faxcls.zip file or the unzipped files listed above 
 > in the directory:
 > 
 > /pub/tex/macros/contrib/latex2e/supported/fax/
 > 
 > 
 > Any question can be directed to:
 > 
 > Jan Rhebergen
 > 
 > e-mail:
 > 
 > jbrhebergen@et.tudelft.nl

Thank you for your submission; I installed the unpacked archive in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/fax

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Oct 21 05:43:52 1995
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:37:58 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, seb@balu.afp.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Subject: Re: my most useless manic texhack

Sebastian Brosig writes:

 > here I am, contributing my first file to the great big NET. Serious
 > buisiness. I have uploaded the file 
 >   mandel.tex 
 > to the server
 >   ftp.dante.de
 > 
 > This could be some sort of a README file:
 > 
 > ------- cut here --------
 > README for mandel.tex, October 1995
 > 
 > This program isn't of much use to anyone, except the kind who like to 
 > torture their machine, or who are interested in TeX programming (possibly 
 > both).
 > 
 > To compute an image of the Mandelbrot set isn't really what TeX was 
 > designed for. I contribute this mainly to find whether anyone can 
 > greatly improve on its performance by using a trick that is as yet 
 > unknown to me. 
 > 
 > As a warning i shall add to all addicted programmers: I wrote this when I 
 > really should have been studying for an exam I ended up doing really badly 
 > in, but I found it too hard to keep my hands off it at the time. 
 > 
 > You need a version of TeX that is big enough to run this, it failed (for 
 > me) on a popular PC version. It is possible to reduce the sizes
 > \mandeldepth, \xzize, and \ysize, to save memory.
 > 
 > Have fun, and write me lots of replies, suggestions and your pre-release 
 > version of a music sequencer written in TeX, using a daisywheel printer 
 > as the sound output device.
 > 
 > Sebastian Brosig
 > Applied Solid State Physics Institute
 > Ruhr-Uni
 > Bochum / Germany
 > 
 > (seb@balu.afp.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)


It has been installed in macros/generic/mandel.tex, thank you.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From tex@esiee.fr Wed Oct 18 09:30:09 1995
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 14:50:40 +0100 (MET)
From: Administrateur TeX <tex@esiee.fr>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK 3.0 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e)

> 
> Werner,
> 
> > I've just uploaded CJK ver 3.0 to ftp.dante.de (note that the incoming
> > directory of this host is not readable) and it will soon propagate to the
> > other CTAN hosts and its mirrors. Below you will find the major changes
> > 2.4 -> 3.0 and 2.5 beta 7 -> 3.0 .
> 
> CJK 3.0 ist installiert. Die alten Versionen 2.4 und 2.5 beta 7 habe ich
> geloescht.
> 
> Danke fuer die neue Version,
>   Reinhard
> 
My german is not really fluent... but I understood this: both version 2.4
and 2.5 beta 7 have been removed, and version 3.0 was installed.


--
Benjamin BAYART                 A French student on an English network
TeX Administrator at ESIEE
Administrateur TeX a l'ESIEE
tex@esiee.fr
bayartb@esiee.fr
GEUT (Groupe des Esieeens Utilisateurs de TeX) alias
TUGE (TeX User Group of ESIEE).

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Oct 21 07:34:08 1995
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:01:33 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: draftcopy-2.3

Juergen Vollmer writes:

 > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de' incomming/draftcopy-2.3
 > the following files
 > 	THIS-IS-draftcopy-2.3  
 > 	draftcopy.doc
 >  	draftcopy.ins
 > 	Makefile               
 > 	README.draftcopy      
 > 
 > which replace my former package (revision 2.0).
 > 
 > Changes since 2.0:
 > I added now all languages supported by the babel package, even not for all 
 > language a traslation of the DRAFT is given (the english DRAFT is used 
 > instead) ((STill I'm locking for volunteres)). Added Makefile, fixed docu.
 > 
 > Here's a short description:
 > 
 > It's a LaTeX2e replacement for the original LaTeX209 style file 
 > `draftcopy.sty'.
 > New additional functionality:
 >  - The word DRAFT is replaced by a language dependend one,
 >  - One can choose on which pages (first, first2, first-n, all) this word should
 >    be printed, etc.
 >  - If no options are passed, this new version behaves as the old one (except
 >    that the language dependent word is choosen).
 > 
 > These files should be placed in the `latex2e/contrib/supported' hierarchy.

In installed the update.

Just for the record: the real name of that hierarchy is

  macros/latex/contrib/supported

macros/latex2e is a link.

 > in my last email I announced the draftcopy 2.3 package, I realized that the 
 > permissions of the files are not correct: "other" can't read it.

This is correct. The files in the incoming directory are not supposed
to be read by anonymous users.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Oct 21 12:32:18 1995
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:07:39 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: " (v.bruhn)" <bruhn@math.uni-kiel.de>, ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

 (v.bruhn) writes:

 > >Your message should (a) state which site you have uploaded to (b)
 > >state what file(s) you have uploaded, (c) include a brief overview of
 > >what the file(s) is/are intended to do, and (d) [optionally, but
 > >urgently requested] where you recommend placing your submission within
 > >the CTAN directory hierarchy.
 > >
 > 
 > 
 > (a) ftp.dante.de/incoming
 > 
 > (b) texed.zip
 > 
 > (c) texedit is a texshell for win31 especially for german users.
 > 
 > the following text is included in "texed.zip" as "readme.txt":
 > der folgende text ist als "readme.txt" in "texed.zip" enthalten:
 > 
 > =================
 > Was ist Texedit ?
 > =================
 > 
 > 
 > Texedit ist eine PD-Texshell fuer Windows 3.1 mit dem Grundkonzept:
 > -------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > "So einfach wie m�glich": 
 > 
 > 	ein "notepad", dass Umlaute in ASCII speichert und
 > 	Tex und Dviwin aufruft. 
 > 
 > 	Das Menue ist auf das notwendigste beschraenkt. 
 > 	Tex - und Dviwin - Aufruf sind direkt erreichbar.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Weitere Features sind:
 > ----------------------
 > 
 > "Fehlersuche":
 > 
 > 	Fehlersuche in der Log - Datei mit einem Zusatzprogramm. 	
 > 
 > 
 > "Geteilter Bildschirm": 
 > 
 > 	Texedit belegt standardmaessig die untere 
 > 	Bildschirmhaelfte. Die obere Bildschirmhaelfte ist fuer Dviwin, 
 > 	Dateimanager usw frei. Auf Toolbar und untere Bildlaufleiste wurde
 > 	verzichtet, um das Fenster nicht unnoetig zu verkleinern.
 > 
 > 
 > "Fester Umbruch": 
 > 
 > 	wenn automatischer Umbruch gewaehlt ist, wird unabhaengig von der 
 > 	Fenstergroesse eine einstellbare Zeilenlaenge umgebrochen. 
 > 	Textformeln werden nicht umgebrochen.
 > 
 > 
 > "Inverse Search": 
 > 	
 > 	die inverse Suche von Dviwin wird unterstuetzt: doppelklickt man im
 > 	Previewer an eine beliebige Stelle, so springt man an die 
 > 	zugehoergie Stelle im Quelltext. 
 > 
 > 	
 > 
 > 
 > (d)     \pub\tex\systems\msdos\emtex-contrib
 > 
 > (noch besser wuerde ich die Einrichtung eines Pfades
 > 
 >         \pub\tex\systems\msdos\windows
 > 
 > finden)
 > -----
 > Volker Bruhn   
 > bruhn@math.uni-kiel.de
 > Mathematisches Seminar der Universitaet Kiel
 > 

Thank you for your submission. Your zip file and readme.txt have been
installed in

    systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/texed

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Oct 19 00:38:36 1995
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 16:58:42 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@helios.edvz.univie.ac.at>, CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Werner Lemberg writes:

 > I've just uploaded a set of 300 and 600 dpi .pk fonts for Korean Hangul
 > in the hangul_fonts subdirectory on ftp.dante.de . Since they are intended
 > for use with the CJK package I suggest to install them in the fonts/korean
 > dir with a soft link from language/chinese/CJK.
 > 
 > The 300dpi tar files are equivalents to the han and han1 zipped emTeX
 > font libraries (but adjusted to the web2c dir structure); the 600dpi
 > are new.

Installed in

 fonts/korean/hangul_fonts

with a link from 

 language/chinese/CJK/hangul_fonts

 > I suggest to unpack the tarred archive as with the previous version.

Done.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From sawade@physik.TU-Berlin.DE Fri Oct 20 05:01:35 1995
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 08:40:51 +0100 (MET)
From: Guido Sawade <sawade@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: help identify owner

On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Hynek Mlcousek wrote:

Some weeks ago I got a tip to set the 'Reply-To' field to the old address
for the 'unsubscribe' mail. It worked perfectly.

---
       Guido Sawade     <sawade@physik.tu-berlin.de>
       TU Berlin, Opt.Inst. PN0-1, 10623 Berlin, FRG

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct 26 03:53:39 1995
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 12:36:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: "SIMONS, DON" <dsimons@cclink-in.logicon.com>
Cc: mutex@stolaf.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Re: PMX: A preprocessor for MusiXTeX

Don Simons writes:

>      I have just made available a new preprocessor for MusiXTeX.  It 
> is rather limited in scope: it can process scores with 1 to 5 voices, 
> one voice per staff (so it will make single-line parts).  It has a 
> very simple input language, and can save lots of time by doing ALL the 
> work involved in setting up notes/enotes groupings, selecting groups 
> of notes to be beamed, defining beam heights and slopes, inserting 
> extra spaces where needed to make room for accidentals, justifying 
> lines, and spreading the entire piece evenly over a specified number 
> of systems.  
> 
>      The program is written in FORTRAN.  It requires two passes.  I 
> have uploaded all the necessary files to ftp.shsu.edu (the CTAN 
> archive).  I don't know how long it will take for the files to be set 
> up there.  I have suggested they be put in directory 
> tex-archive/support/pmx.  I also will ask Werner Icking to put them on 
> his server at ftp.gmd.de, under music/musixtex/software.  If you are 
> using a DOS system, then all you need to download is pmx.zip; it 
> contains all the files including executables.  If you are on a 
> different platform, you will have to download all the other individual 
> files (ASCII) and compile the two FORTRAN source files.
> 
>      I've tailored PMX to suit my own particular interest, Baroque 
> chamber music.  I've used it to typeset several hundred pages of 
> music.  I hope anyone who tries it out will let me know what they 
> think.
> 
> --Don Simons (dsimons@logicon.com)

I have installed the latest version of pmx on CTAN at support/pmx, as
Don requested.  The installation was done at ftp.tex.ac.uk (this is
easiest thing for me to do, since it doesn't involve transatlantic
telnet, which is even more troublesome than is transatlantic ftp);
however, there is a finite possibility that the installation won't
make it to SHSU.  I'll try and keep an eye on it, and if necessary
will try again after the week end.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 27 14:05:13 1995
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 15:59:07 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: o.pretzel@ma.ic.ac.uk
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- section.sty

Oliver Pretzel writes:

> I have just uploaded a LaTeX style file
> SECTION.STY
> to ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
> This file modifies the standard style files article, book, report so
> that sectioning commands contain a number of hooks enabling a user to
> set consistent styles in the preamble of a document.
> 
> For instance it is possible to place a full stop after section
> numbers if so desired, or to change the font and position of section
> headings.
> 
> The file is (almost) transparent to the standard files, and does not
> itself change the layout of section headings.
> 
> However,
> 1. The preskips, postskips and indents of sections are held in
> registers and so do not react to size changes (consistent with the
> treatment of fonts and layout) --- This can be changed by the user.
> 
> 2. For negative indents the heading itself starts flush with the
> margin while the number is outdented. This behaviour can be changed
> by changing one macro (explained in documentation)
> 
> 3. If \thesection=\empty then the section counter is not incremented,
> but table of contents is enanabled and for positive indents the
> heading starts where the section number would occur (not 1 \quad
> further in)
> 
> The file is extensively documented after \indinput.
> 
> It appears to work with LaTeX of all flavours including LaTeX2e, but
> it is not written in LaTeX2e style.
> 
> If accepted it should be placed in the /contrib subdirectory of
> /latex, /latex209, and /latex2e.
> 
> I have used versions of the file for several years and have found it
> stable and useful. I hope others do so also.
> 
> PS Of course `section' means everything from part down to
> subparagraph.

I have installed section.sty in macros/latex/contrib/other/misc (and
installed a link to it from latex209/contrib/misc).  Oliver is willing
to support the package, but marking it as `supported' would have
required a new contrib/supported/misc directory, which I was loath to
create.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov  1 06:37:42 1995
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 12:16:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: rjl@eng.monash.edu.au
Subject: Re: Uploaded afm2pfm.zip

Russell Lang writes:

> I have uploaded ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/incoming/afm2pfm.zip
> 
> This is to replace
>    ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/pfm2afm/afm2pfm.zip
> 
> The following file should be removed since it is incorporated in the 
> new afm2pfm.zip
>    ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/pfm2afm/unix.patches

I have installed the new version at ftp.tex.ac.uk; being a modest sort
of file, it ought to propagate back to SHSU pretty happily.  (I've
also deleted the patches file, but not README.html)

Robin Fairbairns
(For the CTAN team)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov  3 20:01:09 1995
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 12:22:03 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: zaccone@bucknell.edu
Subject: Re: Spanish Dictionary

Rick Zaccone writes:

> I've just placed a Spanish Dictionary in your incoming directory.

This turned out to be ftp.shsu.edu's incoming directory.  Please
note, folks, that the mailing address ctan@shsu.edu reaches *all* the
CTAN admins, not just George Greenwade (which is just as well, in the
present circumstances).

> It's for the Macintosh speling checker Excalibur.  The file is called
> Spanish_Dictionary.sit.hqx.  Here's a copy of the README file that
> comes with it.  I suggest that you put this file in the following
> directory:
> 
> 	      tex-archive/systems/mac/support/excalibur

I have installed the file as requested.  I presume this readme file is
in the .sit.hqx?

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team.

>     L\'EEME: Acerca del diccionario en espa\~nol.
> 
> El archivo que acompa\~na a este documento es un diccionario en espa\~nol
> para TeX dise\~nado para ser usado en Macintosh con Excalibur (ver *).
> 
> La recopilaci\'on de 247049 palabras que constituyen este diccionario
> est\'a en formato de "7 bits" con notaci\'on de TeX. Esto es, se utilizan
> las siguientes combinaciones de caracteres para las letras no inglesas:
> 
> (1)    \'a    para    a acentuada
> (2)    \'e    para    e acentuada
> (3)    \'{\i}    para    i acentuada
> (4)    \'o    para    o acentuada
> (5)    \'u    para    u acentuada
> (6)    \"u    para    u con di\'eresis
> (7)    \~n    para    n con tilde
> 
> Estas son las \'unicas letras que se usan en espa\~nol pero no en
> ingl\'es. Puede modificarse f\'acilmente el diccionario para
> transformarlo en uno de "8 bits", cualesquiera que sean los c\'odigos
> ASCII de las letras no inglesas, seg\'un la m\'aquina usada. Asimismo,
> se puede cambiar si se desea la combinaci\'on de s\'{\i}mbolos usada en
> TeX para la i acentuada.
> 
> El diccionario en espa\~nol ha sido elaborado por
>     Juan L. Varona
>     Dpto. de Matem\'aticas y Computaci\'on
>     Universidad de La Rioja
>     Edificio J. L. Vives
>     Calle Luis de Ulloa s/n
>     26004 Logro\~no, SPAIN
>     e-mail: jvarona@siur.unirioja.es
> 
> Este diccionario y la colecci\'on de palabras que contiene pueden
> distribuirse, modificados o no, sin ninguna restricci\'on, siempre que
> no se omita una referencia al autor y esta rese\~na (modificada, si es
> necesario, indicando los cambios efectuados en el diccionario). Asimismo,
> puede usarse como base para cualquier otro programa, comercial o no, con
> dos \'unicas condiciones:
>     (1) Que en el citado programa se reconozca, en un lugar visible del
> programa o del manual, la procedencia del diccionario.
>     (2) Que se env\'{\i}e al autor por correo ordinario un certificado
> indicando que esta colecci\'on de palabras ha sido usada para la
> construcci\'on del nuevo programa.
> 
> Estas condiciones s\'olo tienen objetivos curriculares y de
> reconocimiento al trabajo realizado, as\'{\i} como poder seguir si
> ha sido de utilidad para otros desarrollos. He empleado un mont\'on de
> horas en recopilar este diccionario y me gustar\'{\i}a saber que no ha
> sido un tiempo malgastado.
> 
> Por lo que conozco, no hay ning\'un otro diccionario en espa\~nol para
> ordenador que no sea comercial y que sea lo suficientemente amplio,
> al menos con formato ASCII de lista de palabras. As\'{\i} que espero que
> este diccionario resulte \'util a la mayor cantidad de gente posible, y
> que pueda servir como base para futuras mejoras.
> 
> Por favor, si alguien detecta alguna errata, que me lo comunique a la
> direcci\'on jvarona@siur.unirioja.es. Estoy seguro de que hay montones de
> palabras reconocidas por la Real Academia Espa\~nola de la Lengua, o no
> reconocidas pero usuales, que no aparecen en el diccionario. Parece
> imposible elaborar uno lo suficientemente completo pero, si alguien
> descubre alguna palabra muy usual no recogida en el diccionario y me lo
> comunica, la aa\~nadir\'e en futuras mejoras.
> 
> Si alguien desea el diccionario en un formato distinto al de Excalibur,
> que se ponga en contacto conmigo. Los genios que mandan en el
> Servicio Inform\'atico de mi universidad no permiten el acceso a
> nuestras m\'aquinas desde fuera de la propia universidad (por motivos
> de seguridad, seg\'un dicen), as\'{\i} que yo no puedo hacerlo
> disponible por ftp "anonymous" o m\'etodo similar.
> 
> * Excalibur es una aplicaci\'on de Macintosh para chequear textos en
> LaTeX (y plain TeX) programada por Robert Gottsall y Rick Zaccone (para
> contactar con \'el, usar zaccone@bucknell.edu). Puede conseguirse por
> ftp "anonymous" en el directorio /pub/mac de sol.eg.bucknell.edu.
> All\'{\i} mismo, en el directorio Excalibur-dictionaries, se encuentran
> disponibles diccionarios en otros idiomas.
> 
> 
> ==================================================================
> 
> 
>     README: About the Spanish dictionary.
> 
> 
> The file that accompanies this document is a Spanish dictionary for
> TeX which has been designed to be used in a Macintosh with Excalibur
> (see *).
> 
> The collection of 247049 words which constitute this dictionary is
> in a 7 bit format with TeX notation. That is, the following character
> combinations are used for the non English letters:
> 
> (1)    \'a       for    accented a
> (2)    \'e       for    accented e
> (3)    \'{\i}    for    accented i
> (4)    \'o       for    accented o
> (5)    \'u       for    accented u
> (6)    \"u       for    u with a dieresis
> (7)    \~n       for    n with a tilde
> 
> These are the only letters which are used in Spanish and not in
> English. The dictionary can be easily transformed into an 8 bit
> dictionary, no matter which are the ASCII codes of the non English
> letters in the machine to be used. Also, the TeX sequence for
> the accented i can be changed if desired.
> 
> The Spanish dictionary has been elaborated by
>     Juan L. Varona
>     Dpto. de Matem\'aticas y Computaci\'on
>     Universidad de La Rioja
>     Calle Luis de Ulloa s/n
>     26004 Logro\~no, SPAIN
>     e-mail: jvarona@siur.unirioja.es
> 
> This dictionary and the collection of words that it contains can be
> distributed, modified or not, with no restriction, provided a
> reference is made to the author and also to this description
> (modified is necessary to point the changes made in the dictionary).
> Also, it can be used as a basis for any other program, either
> commercial or not, with just two conditions:
>     (1) The origin of the dictionary should be recognized in a
> visible place of the program itself or the manual.
>     (2) A certificate should be submitted to the author by ordinary
> mail indicating that this collection of words has been used to
> construct the new program.
> 
> These conditions have only curricular purposes and of acknowledgment
> to the author's work. They will also allow him to find out if it has
> been useful elsewhere. I have spent quite a lot of time in compiling
> this dictionary and would be pleased to know that it has not been a
> wasted time.
> 
> As far as I know, no other large enough, non commercial Spanish
> dictionary is available for a computer, at least in the format of a
> list of words in ASCII. So I hope this dictionary will be
> useful to as many people as possible and will serve as a basis for
> eventual improvements.
> 
> If you detect any mistake, please tell me at the e-mail address
> jvarona@siur.unirioja.es. I am sure that lots of words which have
> been admitted by the Real Academia Espa\~nola de la Lengua do not
> figure in the dictionary. It looks impossible to elaborate a complete
> enough one, but if you find that some usual word is not present in
> the dictionary, please tell me and I will add it in future
> improvements.
> 
> If you want this dictionary in a format different to the Excalibur
> format, please contact me. Those good-for-nothing people who rule the
> Computer Center in my university do not allow the access to our
> machines from out of this university (for security reasons, they say),
> so I can not make the dictionary available by "anonymous" ftp or
> something like that.
> 
> * Excalibur is an application for Macintosh to check texts in LaTeX
> (or plain TeX) programmed by Robert Gottsall and Rick Zaccone (to
> contact him, use zaccone@bucknell.edu). It is available through
> "anonymous" ftp in the directory /pub/mac of sol.eg.bucknell.edu.
> Also there, in the directory Excalibur-dictionaries, some
> dictionaries for other languages can be found.

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Wed Nov  1 09:03:24 1995
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 14:56:36 +0000 (GMT)
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: hull@cs.uiuc.edu, kahn@math.toronto.edu, mackay@cs.washington.edu, dlaser@sable.ox.ac.uk, 71172.524@CompuServe.COM, karl@cs.umb.edu, alanje@cogs.susx.ac.uk, karl@cs.umb.edu, fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Subject: updates on CTAN to psnfss

I have just reinstalled the fonts/psfonts/tools directory on CTAN;
this comprises the fontinst etc sources used to create the metric
files on CTAN, and the PSNFSS package.

changes:
 a) (thanks to David Hull) Lucida small caps now works properly
 b) the Lucida setup now deals with Greek in a consistent, if not
    correct, way. $\mathbf{\Sigma}$ now produces a Sigma, but isnt
    bold! (this is explained in lucida.dtx)
 c) the Monotype Times/Lucida package is changed so that it *does*
    get the above right

these may sound small changes, but they make me happy. shortly i will
add a rather major change, viz generation of text companion fonts all
over the shop.

Sebastian Rahtz

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Wed Nov  1 10:16:28 1995
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 15:03:07 +0000 (GMT)
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: tanmoy@mmm.lanl.gov, doyle@mmm.lanl.gov, m.GOOSSENS@CERN.ch
Subject: update of hyperref package, PDF etc

I have installed a new release of my hyperref package on CTAN. This
provides LaTeX2e support for the HyperTeX project conventions. That
part is unchanged, but I have enhanced the Acrobat "nativepdf" support
part of the package, which avoids the need for dvihps and provides
facilities not yet available by that route.

The pdfmark support is now up to what Acrobat 2.1 can provide;
specifically, URLs in links are now translated to web links correctly
(if you aint got 2.1, dont use it!). links to other PDF files work
too. it does what you expect (I hope).

For those who care, I now understand how to make landscape PDF
documents (ie slides) properly. if you want to know, contact me

Sebastian Rahtz

From doyle@mmm.lanl.gov Thu Nov  2 18:54:13 1995
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:38:57 -0700
From: Mark Doyle <doyle@mmm.lanl.gov>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk
Cc: doyle@mmm.lanl.gov, m.GOOSSENS@CERN.ch, tanmoy@mmm.lanl.gov
Subject: Re: update of hyperref package, PDF etc

Hi,

>I have installed a new release of my hyperref package on CTAN. This
>provides LaTeX2e support for the HyperTeX project conventions. That
>part is unchanged, but I have enhanced the Acrobat "nativepdf" support
>part of the package, which avoids the need for dvihps and provides
>facilities not yet available by that route.

Sounds good Sebastian. dvihps has been upgraded though (well, a few
small bug fixes and a new hps.pro by Tanmoy), so it now does all of
the web links and links to other files. It won't offer as fine control
as you package I'm sure, but it will automate a lot of stuff... It is
on our server at ftp://gita.lanl.gov/people/doyle/ or
http://nqcd.lanl.gov/people/doyle .

>The pdfmark support is now up to what Acrobat 2.1 can provide;
>specifically, URLs in links are now translated to web links correctly
>(if you aint got 2.1, dont use it!). links to other PDF files work
>too. it does what you expect (I hope).

Same for the lastest version of dvihps and hsp.lpro. But the
intelligent hps.lpro will try to do the right thing for however one is
using the PS file (specifically, on a printer it will be treated as
regular PS, on a version of the distiller less than 2.1 it won't try
and use the new pdfmarks and will compensate for the deficiencies of
the 1.0 distillers as well, and will work in Tanmoy's hacked ghostview
correctly). But dvihps doesn't offer the same flexibility...

Cheers,
Mark

From tim@maths.tcd.ie Wed Nov  1 18:53:09 1995
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 16:45:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: update of hyperref package, PDF etc

> 
> For those who care, I now understand how to make landscape PDF
> documents (ie slides) properly. if you want to know, contact me

I'd be interested to learn about this.

Tim

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Nov  2 17:37:29 1995
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 14:34:42 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: ctan@shsu.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se
Subject: Re: CTAN sumission of achemso (update)

matsd@physchem.kth.se writes:

 > a minute ago i uploaded to ftp.dante.de in /incoming/achemso  the two
 > files  achemso.dtx  and achemso.ins  .  these files make up an update 
 > of my LaTeX(/BibTeX) package achemso and are to replace the *files* 
 >    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/achemso/achemso.dtx
 >    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/achemso/achemso.ins
 > leaving the other files in the directory intact.
 > 
 > the achemso package is a LaTeX/BibTeX package for formatting 
 > references according to the standards of most journals of The American 
 > Chemical Society.  today's update includes a call for the 'overcite' 
 > package by Donald Arsenau which makes handeling of multiple references 
 > very easy.  the user interface and the .bst files in the package have 
 > not changed since the previous version.

I installed the updated version as requested. Thanks.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Nov  2 16:10:18 1995
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 14:41:35 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@shsu.edu, raichle@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Bernd Raichle writes:
 > I have uploaded the following file to
 > 
 >  (a) ftp.dante.de
 > 
 >  (b) hypht1.tex
 > 
 >  (c) Generic hyphenation patterns for T1 encoded fonts to be loaded in
 >      addition to the set of hyphenation patterns for each language.
 >      It consists of patterns for the character `-' which is different
 >      from \hyphenchar\font in V1.2 of the DC fonts.  To allow the
 >      correct hyphenation _at_ `-' for these fonts it's necessary to
 >      make `-' a word constituent and include appropriate patterns.
 > 
 >  (d) tex-archive/language/hyphenation/

Installed as requested. Thanks.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Nov  2 20:31:28 1995
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 14:44:59 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: TUGboat biblio

Nelson Beebe writes:

======

It has been next to impossible to contact George Greenwade at Sam
Houston State to deal with the out-of-date bibliographies, and
bibliography tools.  Perhaps instead of Cambridge and Stuttgart
mirroring FROM Huntsville, they should mirror TO.

I've just sent Barbara Beeton a note asking for an updated
table-of-contents file for TUGboat; the last data I have is for Sep
1994 (v15 n3).

In the meantime, I've just deposited on ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming two
files:

- -rw-rw-r-- 1 beebe staff 1233330 Oct 27 09:26 tugboat-bibliography.tar.gz
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 beebe staff  730783 Oct 27 16:08 tugboat-kwic.tar.gz

The files in the second are named (somewhat unhelpfully) kwic.*;
tugboat-kwic.* would be better, so that is what I called the tar file.
Just go ahead an rename them for the CTAN archive.

I don't know what the CTAN policies are regarding compression (.gz
vs. .Z) and PostScript are, so I've just provided everything that I
think might be useful:

% tar tvfz tugboat-bibliography.tar.gz
- -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff  344122 May 22 13:28 1995 tugboat.bib
- -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff    4858 May 22 13:33 1995 tugboat.def
- -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff  471124 Sep  1 08:51 1995 tugboat.dvi
- -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff    2395 May 22 13:36 1995 tugboat.ltx
- -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff  442869 Sep  9 22:25 1995 tugboat.pdf.gz
- -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff  551238 Sep  1 09:05 1995 tugboat.ps.gz
- -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff    8871 May 22 13:13 1995 tugboat.sok
- -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff  158156 Sep  1 08:49 1995 tugboat.twx


% tar tvfz tugboat-kwic.tar.gz
- -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff  540720 Oct 27 09:27 1995 kwic.dvi
- -r--r--r-- beebe/staff    1309 Nov 14 14:59 1988 kwic.ltx
- -rwx------ beebe/staff  985231 Oct 27 15:54 1995 kwic.pdf
- -rwx------ beebe/staff  716709 Oct 27 09:37 1995 kwic.ps

The .ps files use the BaKoMa Type 1 outline Computer Modern fonts, and
the .pdf files were produced on an Apple Power Macintosh by Adobe
Acrobat Distiller 2.0 from the .ps files.

I tried to make a version of the .pdf files using Times-Roman fonts,
since that would avoid the need to embed fonts, but we've not yet had
time to get our large collection of .pfa / .pfb moved over the
Macintosh where Distiller runs, in a form that the Mac can find them
(the old resource/data fork nonsense), so Distiller croaked when it
could not find the needed files.  I can get around this by modifying
psfonts.map to force downloading of the fonts into the .ps file by the
DVI drivers, but for now, I have other things that are more important.

We are promoting PDF files here as a good way to view PostScript
output, and I've converted all of our public PostScript files to PDF
form (both those in local documentation directories, and also in the
ftp.math.utah.edu tree), and we routinely use hypertext links in WWW
documents that point to PDF files, with the browser mailcap files
augmented with a line

application/pdf;        /usr/local/bin/acroread %s

and the mime.types file with a line

application/pdf                pdf

so that acroread is automatically launched to view the files.

Publicly-available readers are available now for DOS, Windows,
Macintosh, Sun SunOS, Sun Solaris, HP HP-UX, SGI IRIX, and other
platforms will follow over the next few months.  For the missing
platforms, we just use a script that launches acroread on another
public UNIX system where a native binary exists.

The latest Aladdin ghostscript program can convert PDF to PostScript,
and view PDF files; I anticipate that a future release will support
going from PostScript to PDF, thereby giving us an alternate to
Adobe's Distiller product, which is quite expensive on UNIX platforms.

======

I have installed the contents of both savesets to replace directory
digests/tugboat/biblio; as Nelson suggested, I renamed the kwic.*
files to tugboat-kwic.*

The installation happened at ftp.tex.ac.uk, of course, and I've
switched off mirroring from SHSU.  We still have work to do in that
area to keep CTAN going...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From dak@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Thu Nov  2 14:28:17 1995
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 20:00:16 +0100 (MET)
From: David Kastrup <dak@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: update of hyperref package, PDF etc

> 
> > 
> > For those who care, I now understand how to make landscape PDF
> > documents (ie slides) properly. if you want to know, contact me
> 
> I'd be interested to learn about this.

Too bad, I'm afraid it was not me who wrote the quoted stuff above.
As first guess, I'd try using the standard package lscape.sty.

Good luck!

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Fri Nov  3 10:33:12 1995
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 09:15:42 +0000 (GMT)
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: update of hyperref package, PDF etc

David Kastrup writes:
 > Too bad, I'm afraid it was not me who wrote the quoted stuff above.
 > As first guess, I'd try using the standard package lscape.sty.
 > 
we are getting mixed up here. people shouldnt reply to CTAN-ANN about things
people say in messages. *I* know about landscape PDF, and people
should email me direct. (for the record, its all to do with
using setpagedevice to kick Distiller)

sebastian

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov  3 13:33:18 1995
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 16:47:27 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Pierre MacKay <mackay@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: New version of ibygrk

Pierre MacKay writes:

> I have just put ibygrk.tar.gz on ftp.shsu.edu in the /incoming
> directory.  
> 
> This package should completely replace all parts of ibygrk that
> are now on the CTAN archives.

I have duly installed it as such at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it may take some
time to propagate back to SHSU.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Nov  3 14:01:16 1995
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 18:36:11 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: supertabular update

An update to the supertabular package has been installed on CTAN, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/supertabular

The README file is appended.

---

This is the supertabular bundle. It defines the supertabular and
supertabular* environments. They make it possible to have a tabular
that spans multiple pages. Each page is its own tabular environment,
thus the various parts may have different widths. If that is not what
you want you should check out longtable.sty, written by David
Carlisle. It is part of the array bundle.

For a more elaborate description of supertabular and a comparison with
longtable, see The LaTeX Companion, by Goossens, Mittelbach and
Samarin, ISBN 0-201-54199-8.

This files contain in this bundle are listed in the file MANIFEST

The file supertabular.doc is not yet in good shape to be processed
with FMi's doc option. 

Supertabular can be used with LaTeX2e us a package.

From mackay@cs.washington.edu Sat Nov  4 16:06:34 1995
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 11:49:58 -0800
From: Pierre MacKay <mackay@cs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: New version of ibygrk

Many thanks.

Incidentally, would it be possible to pursue the elusive
"Porson Greek Superfont" with Monotype? The North American
versions of Porson are simply not usable, which leaves only
Linotype Times Ten Greek (dull) and the new Greek Font Society
fonts (not really finished yet, and only in Didot and Bodoni
styles).

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From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Nov  6 03:58:52 1995
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 09:52:18 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Guido Sawade <sawade@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: dvips558.pc (V2.5)

Guido Sawade writes:
 > 
 > I have just uploaded onto ftp.dante.de:
 > /incoming/dvips558.pc: dvips.doc dvipssrc.zip dvipsfnt.zip dvipsini.zip
 > 
 > The files should replace the old versions in 
 >     /pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips558.pc/
 > 
 > Please remove the 'backup'
 >     /pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips558.pc.old
 > which is really obsolete.
 > 
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 >                   Brief description
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 > This is version 5.58 of dvips in a port for pc compatible
 > computers under DOS, Windows or OS/2 (my version count 2.5).
 > 
 > It matches emTeX's directory structure but is easily adopted
 > for other TeX distributions as well.
 > 
 > The main features of this port are
 > 
 > - creates HyperPostscript (dvihps by Mark Doyle)
 > 
 > - Supports recursive file search like emTeX do (real '!!' for the first time)
 > 
 > - configuration is more easy ('unzip and run' with emtex)
 > 
 > - PSNFSS hints and fontmap added.
 > 
 > - Debugging option improved (Missing fonts message more clear, detailed
 >   file search report, replacing of values by environment variables
 >   mentioned, redirection of stderr to a file for DOS people)
 > 
 > - 32bit and 16bit executables included
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > ---
 >        Guido Sawade     <sawade@physik.tu-berlin.de>
 >        TU Berlin, Opt.Inst. PN0-1, 10623 Berlin, FRG
 > 

The files have been installed ass requested. Thanks.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov  7 10:23:06 1995
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 09:49:45 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Donald Arseneau <asnd@triumf.ca>
Subject: Re: wrapfig.sty

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I finally got around to fixing wrapfig, and uploaded a new version.
> This replaces the one in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc.

I have replaced the version in macros/latex/contrib/other/misc with
this new version (since you've not said anything about it, the 2.09
version still hangs around).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Nov  8 00:48:24 1995
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 18:51:45 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, john leis <leis@zeus.usq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

john leis writes:

 > I have submitted a file latexcad.zip to ftp.dante.de, directory /incoming.
 > The details are as follows:
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Package:        LaTeX-CAD
 > Author:         John W Leis, email leis@usq.edu.au
 > File:           latexcad.zip , 440 104 bytes, pkzip 2.04g
 > Platform:       Microsoft Windows 3.1, 3.11
 > Documentation:  Readme file + more extensive Postscript and DVI 
 >                 documentation on installation and use.
 > Purpose:        Allows complicated line drawings to be constructed and 
 >                 edited visually, and the resulting output is easily 
 >                 incorporated into LaTeX. Can also edit 
 >                 GnuPlot graphs. 
 > Placement:      Suggest systems/msdos or graphics/picture directories.
 > 		in the tex archive (ctan)
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------          
 > 
 > john
 > -- 
 > -------------------------------------------------------------------
 > John Leis                                 Phone: 076 312 551                   
 > Faculty of Engineering & Surveying        Fax:   076 312 526 
 > University of Southern Queensland         email: leis@usq.edu.au 
 > -------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 

Thanks a lot. I put the zip file into the directory

   systems/msdos/latexcad

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov  8 05:36:33 1995
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 09:57:18 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Cc: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: longtable/tabularx merger

David Carlisle writes:

> Finally decided it was easier to write a merged version of
> tabularx/longtable than to explain again that there was not such a
> thing.
> 
> on ftp.tex.ac.uk incoming/ltxtable.tex
> 
> What to do with it: I suggest 
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/ltxtable.tex
> 
> I may have one or two other bits and pieces to put on ctan but not
> into the LaTeX distribution, so it might end up having more than one
> file in the directory eventually.
> 
> It must be OK to distribute as it has not produced a TeX error now for
> over half an hour....

I have duly installed the thing as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Nov 11 00:40:23 1995
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 09:29:57 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Keith Reckdahl <reckdahl@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: latest epslatex.ps

Keith Reckdahl writes:

> I`ve copied epslatex.ps to the /incoming directory.  This
> replaces the current epslatex.ps in the /tex-archive/info 
> directory.

Please, people, read and pay attention to README.uploads

It's important that we're told _which_ /incoming directory that
epslatex.ps has been uploaded to -- there are three of them, and some
North Americans _do_ upload to European sites to make life easier for
those of us who do (almost all of) the work.

> This file is version 1.5 of "Using EPS Graphics in LaTeX2e Documents".
> This is a basically a typo-fix from version 1.4, although a section
> on inserting non-EPS graphics (TIFF, GIF, etc.) has also been added.
> Below is the document abstract:
> 
>     This document explains how to use Encapsulated PostScript 
>     (EPS) files in LaTeX2e documents.  The graphics and graphicx
>     packages provide commands which insert, scale, and rotate
>     EPS graphics.  In addition to graphic-insertion commands,
>     commands which are commonly used in conjunction with 
>     EPS graphics are covered.
> 
>     Inserting graphics in figure environments allows graphics 
>     to be referenced.  Inserting graphics in minipage environments 
>     provides better control over their positioning.  The subfigure
>     package allows multiple graphics to be included in a single 
>     figure while still allowing the referencing of the individual 
>     graphics.  Since most applications which produce EPS files 
>     support only ASCII text, the PSfrag system allows text in 
>     EPS files to be replaced with LaTeX symbols or equations.
> 
>     Compressed EPS files and non-EPS graphic formats (TIFF, GIF, 
>     JPEG, PICT, etc.) can also be inserted when dvips is used.
>     Since LaTeX and dvips do not have any built-in decompression 
>     or graphics-conversion capabilities, that software must be 
>     provided by the user.

I've installed the replacement file at ftp.tex.ac.uk, whence it will
wend its way to the other sites in due course.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Fri Nov 10 06:52:44 1995
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 09:48:26 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: nopageno package for LaTeX: No page numbers...


Robin has installed 
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/nopageno.sty
at the UK archive, it will reach other sites in due course.

\usepackage{nopageno}

is equivlalent to 

\pagestyle{empty} and placing \thispagestyle{empty} after every
\begin{theindex} \maketitle \part and \chapter command

David

This announcement is a lot larger that the package code itself:
 \let\ps@plain\ps@empty
 \ps@empty

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Nov 11 01:03:05 1995
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 16:45:54 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Klaus Braune writes:

 > (a) I have just uploaded the new DANTE TeX distribution for UNIX
 >     workstations to the server
 >         ftp.dante.de
 >     into the directory
 >         incoming/dante-src
 > 
 > (b) The distribution consists of 5 files, 4 of which I had to reload
 >     due to transmission errors (sorry).  The files replace the contents
 >     of the current directory
 >         pub/tex/systems/unix/dante-src
 >     (approximately the same size).  Due to the neccessity to reload
 >     most of the files the current names in 'incoming/dante-src' are
 >     different from the names to be distributed.  The files and their
 >     final names are:
 >         current name               final name
 >         -----------------------    -----------------
 >         LIES.MICH.ok               LIES.MICH
 >         READ.ME.ok                 READ.ME
 >         dante-tex.tar.Z.retry      dante-tex.tar.Z
 >         dante-dvilj.tar.Z.retry    dante-dvilj.tar.Z
 >         dante-dvips.tar.Z          dante-dvips.tar.Z
 > 
 >     The remaining files within the directory 'incoming/dante-src' are
 >     broken and are to be discarded (LIES.MICH, READ.ME, dante-dvilj.tar.Z,
 >     dante-dvilj.tar.Z.ok and dante-tex.tar.Z).
 > 
 > (c) The files make up a source code distribution of a TeX system which
 >     can be generated and installed on UNIX workstations.  Starting from
 >     the sources only few commands are needed to create a ready to use
 >     TeX system including the most essential input files, fonts and
 >     MakeIndex.
 > 
 > (d) The files replace the currently distributed files within the
 >     directory
 >         pub/tex/systems/unix/dante-src
 > 
 > Thanks for putting the files onto the server.
 > 
 > Sincerly yours
 >     Klaus Braune
 > 
 > 
 > ********************************************************************************
 > 
 > Klaus Braune                           DANTE Site Coordinator for UNIX
 > 
 > Universitaet Karlsruhe                 Zirkel 2   *    D-76128 Karlsruhe
 > Rechenzentrum                          Phone: +49 721 608-4031
 >                                        EMAIL: Braune@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
 >                                               unix@dante.de

The files have been put on the server.

Thanks

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 14 18:09:57 1995
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 12:36:51 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: C.Walshaw@greenwich.ac.uk
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Chris Walshaw writes:

> I have just uploaded version 1.5 of abc2mtex to ftp.tex.ac.uk in
> /incoming/abc2mtex. The files are:
> 	README
> 	README.MAC
> 	MacABC.cpt.hqx
> 	README.PC
> 	abc2mtex.zip
> 	README.UNIX
> 	abc2mtex1.5.tar.gz
> 	INTRO.html
> 	INTRO.txt
> 	PaddyORafferty.gif
> 	usrguide.ps
> 	abc.txt
> 	Changes
> 
> and I think they should live in /tex-archive/support/abc2mtex of CTAN.
> The tar, hqx and zip files duplicate each other to a certain extent
> and do not need unpacking.

I have installed them as suggested, replacing the 1.4 distribution.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Nov 14 23:55:07 1995
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 17:00:38 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: TeXEd11.zip

hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de writes:

 > now I've uploaded TeXEd11.zip and TeXEd.txt.
 > Whould you please be so kindly to install TeXEd11.zip and TeXEd.txt
 > in the directory systems/os2 and to remove TeXEd10c.zip and TeXEd.txt.

I installed the new version i

 systems/os2/texed

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Nov 18 02:05:54 1995
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 17:04:30 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu, Michael Piefel <piefel@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Michael Piefel writes:

 > (a) I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de.
 > 
 > (b) The files are in the directory 'lgrind'
 > 
 > (c) This is the new update of the LGrind pretty-printer
 > 
 > (d) The proposed place is /support/lgrind, where it resides today.

Thanks, I installed the new version.

 > BTW: The (very) old version of this program, tgrind, which does
 > all the same for TeX, not LaTeX, should _not_ reside under 
 > /systems/msdos/tgrind, for it is (a) in no way a special MS-DOS
 > version and it (b) is also available under /support/tgrind.

Thanks for the hint, I removed the subtree systems/msdos/tgrind.

 > 
 > Bye, MPi
 > 
 > |=|  Michael Piefel                                     |
 > |=|  Technische Universitaet Berlin (Germany)           |
 > |=|                                                     |
 > |=|  e-Mail: piefel@cs.tu-berlin.de                     |
 > |=|  URL:    http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~piefel |
 > 

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Nov 14 14:06:41 1995
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 17:06:08 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: 00bugs.txt

KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE writes:

 > I have uploaded the file 00bugs.txt to the german ctan site ftp.dante.de.
 > It contains the list of known bugs to the dc-fonts (1.2) and should be 
 > placed in directory
 > 
 > tex-archive/fonts/dc/mf/
 > 
 > No other files need to be changed or deleted.

Thanks, I installed the file.

Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 15 11:00:53 1995
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:30:09 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: scf@liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: booktabs -- table macros for production quality typesetting

I have installed Simon Fear's booktabs macros at ftp.tex.ac.uk in

  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/booktabs

They should propagate to the other CTANs overnight (they're not
terribly large).

The readme file says (inter alia):

  Package provides publication quality tables for LaTeX
  (can be used in 2.09 with a minor change to booktabs.sty
  documented therein).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 15 11:04:15 1995
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:41:43 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: basmith@prometheus.chem.umn.edu
Subject: Re: Updated fnpara.sty

Bradley A. Smith writes:

> I have updated the fnpara package to make it compatible with new LaTeX 
> base files, and to add paragraph footnotes in minipages.  The updated 
> fnpara.sty file has been uploaded to /incoming.
> 
> Please consider adding this to the archives.

I have considered ... and acted.

I have installed fnpara.sty at ftp.tex.ac.uk as

  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/fnpara.sty

It should propagate to the other archives over night.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Nov 20 04:13:26 1995
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 09:59:14 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@ba.unex.es>
Subject: Re: Submission: DPInnn for emTeX

Santiago Vila Doncel writes:
 > Dear CTAN mantainers:
 > 
 > I have put in ftp.dante.de/incoming/DPInnn the following two files:
 > 
 > dpinnn.zip
 > README
 > 
 > Extract from the README file:
 > @----------------------------------------------------------------------------@
 > This is just a set of configuration files to make emTeX look for PK fonts
 > in DPInnn directories instead of the traditional nnnDPI.
 > You might have several reasons to want this behaviour:
 > 
 > * It is what the TDS standard propose.
 > * First character of a directory name in a CD-ROM must be a letter.
 > * It will be easier to share your PK fonts with other TeX installations
 > (for example, teTeX).
 > @----------------------------------------------------------------------------@
 > 
 > I would like this to be moved from incoming/DPInnn to a new directory
 > called  systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/DPInnn

It is already installed in

   systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/dpinnn

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 21 08:50:09 1995
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 13:31:45 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: holin@mathp7.jussieu.fr
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Hubert Holin writes:

> le 20/11/1995
> 
>    I have uploaded this day to the site
> 
>            ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
> the (tar-gziped) file
> 
>            holin.tar.gz
> 
>     This is a collection of parameter files for the bbm and rsfs fonts, designeg
> to work within the sauter distribution, as well as a README file.
> 
>     These files should be placed (with the agreement of the Mr J"org Knappen,
> which I have) in the directory
> 
>            tex-archive/fonts/sauter23/holin

I have duly installed the directory obtained by expanding the .tar.gz
file as fonts/cm/sauter23/holin -- I presume that was what Hubert
             ^^^
really meant...

The files should propagate overnight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 24 14:11:01 1995
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 18:04:47 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Ramon Garcia Fernandez <ramon@ceporro.quim.ucm.es>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Some time ago, Ramon Garcia Fernandez wrote:

> I have uploaded Spanish hyphenation tables for TeX.
> The uploaded files are spanish.c and hyphen.spanish 
> 
> The first file is the source code that generates
> the second file.
> 
> Acording to someone who knows more that me about CTAN,
> this files should be in /tex-archive/language

I apologise for the delay in installing these files -- something had
caused me to miss your announcement of them.

I have installed both in language/spanish (a directory that didn't
previously exist).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Nov 29 03:02:29 1995
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:51:06 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Volker Kuhlmann writes:

 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming the file
 > ieeepes.tar.gz. It contains a package, including documentation, for
 > writing papers for the IEEE Power Engineering Society.
 > 
 > Please unpack into 
 > 	macros/latex/contrib/supported/
 > I have not used the docstrip format (things are faster for me without
 > for the time being), but there is a complete documentation, and I am
 > willing to suppor the package.

Thanks, I installed the package in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/ieeepes

Sorry for the delay, but with only a few people working on the archive
at the moment a delay of one week is not surprising.

 > Thanks for CTAN!!!!!!

You're most welcome.

For the CTAN team
  Rainer Sch�pf


 > 
 > Following is the README file:
 > 
 > ---- snip ----
 > Package ieeepes for LaTeX2e
 > ===========================
 > 
 > This package allows typesetting of transactions, as well as discussions
 > and closures, for the IEEE Power Engineering Society:
 > 	IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
 > 	IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
 > 	IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
 > 
 > 
 > List of Files
 > -------------
 > 
 > README			this file
 > ieeepes.sty		macro definiton file
 > ieeepes.bst		style file for bibtex
 > ieeepes_doc.tex         documentation
 > ieeepes_check.tex	test for the ieeepes package (expect 4 errors!)
 > ieeepes_check.bib	needed for ieeepes_check.tex, ieeepes_doc.tex
 > ieeepes_skel.tex	skeleton for a paper
 > volker.eps		sample author image
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Installation
 > ------------
 > 
 > Copy *.sty to a directory which is searched by TeX.
 > 
 > Copy *.bst to a directory where bibtex looks for bibtex style files.
 > 
 > 
 > Documentation
 > -------------
 > 
 > To obtain a printed version, process ieeepes_doc.tex with LaTeX:
 > 	latex ieeepes_doc
 > 	bibtex ieeepes_doc
 > 	latex ieeepes_doc
 > 	latex ieeepes_doc
 > 
 > A printed version of the test file can be generated with:
 > 	latex ieeepes_check
 > 	latex ieeepes_check
 > 	latex ieeepes_check
 > 
 > The resulting dvi files can then be converted to the format your
 > printer understands.
 > 
 > I know this does not use the docstrip system - I might use it later,
 > but at the moment I find it more important to get finished at all.
 > 
 > 
 > Copyright
 > ---------
 > 
 > This package is copyright (C) Volker Kuhlmann. Permission is granted to
 > use this software free of charge, and to distribute it freely provided
 > no charge is made for distribution.
 > 
 > Volker Kuhlmann
 > EEE Dept
 > University of Canterbury
 > Private Bag 4800
 > Christchurch, New Zealand
 > 
 > kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz
 > ---- snip ----
 > 
 > Volker

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Dec  2 10:58:17 1995
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 12:58:02 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Donald Arseneau <asnd@triumf.ca>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Donald Arseneau writes:

> SHSU isn't answering...
> 
> I uploaded the new style "placeins.sty" on tex.ac.uk:incoming.
> I suppose it should go in macros/latex/contrib/other/misc.
> 
> It keeps floats in their own sections (and solves the stuck-
> floats problem in many cases.)

I've installed it as suggested; it should propagate to the other CTAN
sites fairly soon (always assuming SHSU wakes up...).  (I shall be
adding it to the UK TUG FAQ, as well, being as how I'm in the middle
of an update cycle.)

Thanks, Donald.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From k3079e3@cxmeta.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Mon Dec  4 03:50:50 1995
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 09:19:26 -0300 (MET)
From: Lemberg Werner <k3079e3@cxmeta.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, linux-asia@li.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ccnet-l%uga.BITNET@email.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at
Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 3.0.1 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e)

I've uploaded version 3.0.1 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts
(i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk, ftp.shsu.edu and its mirrors).

It is located in the following directory:

    tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK

Below you find the release notes of this version.


    Happy TeXing


        Werner


[CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean
with LaTeX2e.  It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS,
Unicode.]


=========================================================================

Version 3.0.1   new:
20-Nov-1995         hbf2gf config files for CNS added.

                changed:
                    .vf and .tfm files for Hangul have been removed; will
                      now be part of the Hangul font packages.

                    CNS font definition files modified.

                    `~' if \CJKtilde has been executed will now suppress
                      spaces afterwards.

                    (hopefully) better installation documentation.

                    ttf2pk: improved scripts.

                    the font directories (for web2c) in the various
                      script/config files have been standardized:

                      the source bitmap fonts and its HBF header files are
                      now assumed to be in

/usr/local/lib/font/{china,japan,korea,...}/font_name/

                      the hbf2gf configuration files in

/usr/local/lib/hbf2gf/

                      the TeX font files in

/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/{chinese,japanese,korean,...}/font_name/pk/CJK/
/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/{chinese,japanese,korean,...}/font_name/{tfm,vf}/

                      the NTU TrueType fonts in

/usr/local/lib/font/china/truetype          .


                errors:
                    standard.chr redefined the altchar macros erroneously
                      (Patrick Tuttle <n8442161@toad.lake.cs.wwu.edu>).

                    MULEenc.sty failed with german.sty in sectioning
                      commands.

                    mule2cjk didn't work with CNS planes 3-7.

From k3079e3@cxmeta.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Mon Dec  4 03:49:15 1995
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 09:24:13 -0300 (MET)
From: Lemberg Werner <k3079e3@cxmeta.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, linux-asia@li.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ccnet-l%uga.BITNET@email.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at
Subject: ANNOUNCING Font Packages for LaTeX2e CJK Package

I've uploaded font bundles for the CJK package for LaTeX2e to the CTAN
hosts (i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk, ftp.shsu.edu and its mirrors).
The CNS fonts mentioned in the README should follow soon.

They are located in the following directory:

    tex-archive/fonts/CJK

Below you find the README.


    Happy TeXing


        Werner

==========================================================================

In this directory you find font bundles for the CJK package for LaTeX2e.

Installation details can be found in the CJK documentation files and (after
unpacking) in /usr/local/lib/doc/package_name/README

Here a table of the packages:

    han         Hangul syllables (in KS order) in various fonts taken from
                the former HLaTeX.

    han1        Hangul syllables (in KS order) in various fonts taken from
                the former jhTeX.

    hanja65     A KS font (taken from the new HLateX package) starting with
                character 0x4a21.

    jfs56       GB encoded font. Fangsong style.

    kanji48     JIS encoded font. Normal style.

    ntukai48    Big 5 encoded font. Kai style.

    cns40p1
    ...
    cns40p7     CNS encoded font planes 1-7. Song style.

    cns40b5     Big 5 encoded CNS font. This package needs cns40p1-cns40p3
                for the bitmaps.

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec  7 05:58:32 1995
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 09:38:03 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: I've uploaded TeXEd12.zip

hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de writes:

 > I'he uploaded
 > 
 >    TeXEd12.zip
 >    ReadMe.txt and
 >    LiesMich.txt
 > 
 > (TeXEd is written by myself and the archive contain an english and a
 > german version)
 > 
 > Please install these file into the 'pub/tex/systems/os2/texed'
 > directory.
 > 
 > Thanks
 > Frank Stippich

Thanks, I installed the updates in the directory (with all-lowercase
names)

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec  7 22:23:09 1995
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 09:39:17 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Ulrik Vieth <vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: mflogo update

Ulrik Vieth writes:
 > 
 > I have uploaded a new version of my `mflogo' package to the /incoming
 > directory at ftp.dante.de.  Simply unpack the file mflogo.tar.gz 
 > into the directory latex/macros/contrib/supported/mflogo.
 > 
 > Version 1.5c of the `mflogo' package contains a minor bug fix repairing 
 > an incompatibility of the |\MF| and |\MP| logos in the LaTeX tabbing 
 > enviroment that was reported by Joerg Knappen.  There should be no 
 > user-visible changes otherwise compared to the previous version (1.5b)
 > that was released in early September 1995.
 > 
 > Happy TeXing,
 > 
 > Ulrik Vieth (vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de) -- 1995/12/04
 > 
 > 
 > P.S. I've added an installation Makefile this time, which is however
 > heavily Unix-centristic and totally unsupported.  Comments concerning
 > the Makefile are nevertheless welcome.

Thanks, I installed the update.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec  7 06:47:46 1995
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 09:42:19 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, john leis <leis@zeus.usq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

john leis writes:

 > I have just uploaded a submission for the CTAN network, to site
 > "ftp.dante.de", file "latexcad11a.zip" .
 > It is an update for my latex drawing program latexcad.sty, currently
 > in systems\msdos\latexcad.zip
 > 
 > This version (1.1) supercedes version 1.0, which is on CTAN 
 > directory systems\msdos. Version 1.0 (file latexcad.zip) may now
 > be removed, with latexcad11.zip in place.

Thanks, I put the new file into the archive.

 > It may be useful to put the file README.TXT from the distribution
 > in the same directory, if you wish. 

I have done this.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec  7 05:56:52 1995
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 09:44:13 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload: dc12pl1.zip

KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE writes:

 > I have just uploaded patch level one of dcfonts 1.2 to the german CTAN 
 > site. Please unpack the zip archive in 
 > tex-archive/fonts/dc/mf
 > it doesn't contain subdirectories.
 > 
 > The patchlevel 1 contains mainly a fix to the missing <hyphen><hyphenchar>
 > ligature, some more easy-to-fix bugs were also done.

Thanks, I updated the archive.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Dec  8 00:18:19 1995
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 14:25:42 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Gregory Gutt <greg@relgyro.stanford.edu>
Cc: ctan@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: Upgrade of LaTeX Launcher

Hello Gregory

 > I have made a recent upgrade of the program LaTeX Launcher to:
 > ftp.shsu.edu \incoming\llnch131a
 > 
 > The files are:
 > 
 >      lalaunch.exe
 >      lalaunch.cfg
 >      readme.txt
 >      vbrun300.dll
 >  
 > This is version 1.3.1 (The current version on CTAN is ver 1.2)
 > it is installed in: systems/msdos/lalaunch.
 > 
 > Please delete the old files in systems/msdos/lalaunch and replace them 
 > with my upload.  During a failed ftp session I created another directory
 > /incoming/llnch131... please delete it.

I cannot delete anything from /incoming at ftp.shsu.edu, as I've got
only normal user rights there. The manager there is not normally
reachable. I've copied your files over to the german CTAN site
ftp.dante.de and installed them there, from where they will propagate
to all CTAN hosts. If it is a possibility for you, I'd like to ask you
to do further uploads to one of

ftp.tex.ac.uk
ftp.dante.de

It's very sad that ftp.shsu.edu is running on autopilot.

I appended your info to this message which I copy to the CTAN and CTAN
announce mailing lists. 

Thanks a lot

Rainer Schoepf
 > 
 > ************** Below is for historical reference ************************* 
 > The file readme.txt gives a pretty good description of lalaunch, please
 > read it if you would like more detail.  However, here is a brief overview.
 > 
 > LaTeX Launcher is a nice simple shell utility for (Windows 3.1 or 95)
 > designed for use with various LaTeX packages and utilities.  I have
 > tested it a great deal with EmTeX.
 >  
 > Basically LaLaunch manages your LaTeX session, it can pass variables
 > to programs such as: file names, page numbers and paths.  These variables
 > are set at run time via pop-up menus and or dialog boxes.
 >  
 > The basic idea is to give an integrated feel to a latex session when
 > using software written at the four corners of the earth.
 >  
 > Its function is similar (in function) to the DOS program TeXShell.
 > **********************************************************************
 > 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Dec 14 05:32:41 1995
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 10:17:16 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: kfkleem@c36.uni-hannover.de, James Fortune <jafortun@oakland.edu>, Michal Jaegermann <michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca>, ahg@eng.cam.ac.uk, Susanne Kaufmann <kaufmann@ira.uka.de>, Paul Covell <covell@stripe.Colorado.EDU>, Stephan Boettcher <stephan@alzt.tau.ac.il>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission lineno.sty v2.00

Stephan Boettcher writes:

> Shalom all of you,
> 
> `lineno.sty'  Version v2.00  is ready for release,  I just put it on CTAN
> 
>        ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/lineno-v2.00.tar.gz
>  
> and it should replace the older version in 
> 
>        /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/lineno
> 
> The included README file is appended below.
> 
> Stephan
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Stephan B"ottcher                       FAX: +972-3-640-7932
> School of Physics and Astronomy         Tel: +972-3-640-7722
> High Energy Physics Department            or           -8240
> Tel Aviv University                   Email: stephan@alzt.tau.ac.il
> 69978 Tel Aviv                            or boettcher@desy.de
> Israel                   WWW:  http://zow00.desy.de:8000/~stephan/home.html
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> lineno.sty
> 
> This package provides line numbers on paragraphs.  After \TeX\ has
> broken a paragraph into lines there will be line numbers attached to
> them, with the possibility to make references through the LaTeX \ref,
> \pageref cross reference mechanism.
> 
> Take the style-file `lineno.sty', and feed it to a unix shell, this will
> produce the documentation.  If you have neither UNIX nor AWK, you may need
> to download the extracted documentation source as well `lineno.tex'
> 
>     csh> source ./lineo.sty
> 
> please ignore the error message at the beginning about the iffalse.
> After LaTeX run the document four times,  print the resulting
> `lineno.dvi'.  You will need LaTeX2e.  
> 
> The new version v2.00 supports numbering only one in five lines and
> switching the linenumbers from left to right side of the page in twoside
> mode.
> 
> Please have a look at a similar work of Michal Jaegermann and James
> Fortune:
>   CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/numline/

I have installed the new release as suggested in macros/latex/contrib/
supported/lineno -- it should propagate to the other CTANs by
tomorrow.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Thu Dec 14 15:35:01 1995
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 20:00:38 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: LATEX-L@VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE, LATEX-2E@VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: December LaTeX Release


December 1995 LaTeX Release
============================

The LaTeX3 Project is pleased to announce that the December Release is
now available from the ctan hosts and will reach mirrors in due course.

The following ctan directories are updated

tex-archive/macros/latex/base             %  The core LaTeX sources
tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked         %  The core LaTeX sources, `unpacked'

tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/tools   %  The `tools' `graphics' and
tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/graphics%  `mfnfss' collections of
tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/mfnfss  %  Standard LaTeX packages.

As usual the main features of the new release are documented in the
newsletter ltnews04.tex.

Two points deserve special mention here:

* Unpacking this release should take significantly less time than has
  been the case for previous LaTeX releases.
  This is due to a new implementation of the docstrip utility that has
  been contributed by Marcin Woli\'nski.

* When using Computer Modern Fonts in the `T1' (`Cork') encoding,
  LaTeX will now assume the font names of release 1.2 of the dc fonts
  which occurred earlier this year.

  If you still have the old dc fonts then you must unpack the file
  olddc.ins
  to produce suitable fd files using the old font names.
  This is documented in the installation guide, install.txt, but is
  mentioned here as it differs from previous releases.
  The test document ltxcheck.tex will report any problems with dc
  fonts if the LaTeX format does not appear to match the fonts you
  have installed at your site.


David Carlisle
For the LaTeX3 Project

From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Fri Dec 15 19:11:15 1995
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 18:54:54 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: LATEX-L@VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE, LATEX-2E@VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE
Subject: Re: December LaTeX Release


I said

>  As usual the main features of the new release are documented in the
>  newsletter ltnews04.tex.

If you were very quick to pick up the release then unfortunately the
file ltnews04.tex was missing.

It was added `this morning' to all the main ctan hosts.

(That is `this morning' here: The first two people to report this file
 missing were in Australia....)

Sorry for any confusion that this caused.

David

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Dec 17 13:53:17 1995
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 18:48:40 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Alan Hoenig <AJHJJ@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: poetica at last

Alan Hoenig writes:

> I have placed poet.tar.gz in the tex-archive/incoming directory of shsu.
> 
> The file poet.tar.gz should be unpacked and placed in a directory like
> fonts/poetica.  It contains the vf's, tfm's, and necessary input files
> for using the Poetica environment in latex as described in the article
> by me on Poetica which will appear in the TUGboat (16)3, the proceedings
> of the TUG mmeting held in St Petersburg, FL during the summer of 1995.
> Although I believe it is legal to distribute the vf files and the associated
> metric files, I know it is illegal to distribute the font files themselves.
> Users will need to acquire these fonts from an Adobe distributor, and then
> follow the directions in the install file for using these fonts with tex and
> latex using this material.
> 
> For those who don't know, the Poetica family of fonts are a series of fonts
> modelled after the Chancery letterforms (cursive and italic-like) which first
> arose in the Renaissance.  The fonts include very many special ligatures,
> and glyphs appropriate for word endings and word beginnings.  My macros and
> virtual fonts present one way of using this material in a semi-automatic
> way with tex and latex.

I have installed Alan's stuff at ftp.tex.ac.uk, as fonts/poetica; it
should propagate to the other CTANs soon.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 21 20:31:03 1995
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:17:40 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, Bernd@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Bernd Raichle writes:
 > 
 > (a) site:	ftp.dante.de
 > 
 > (b) file(s):	mltex22.tar
 > 
 > (c) overview:
 > 
 > 	This is version 2.2 of the MLTeX changes for TeX.web.
 > 	It is the official update of Michael J. Ferguson's
 > 	multilingual TeX.web changes called MLTeX.  Version 2.2 will
 > 	fix some serious bugs in the current version 2.01.
 > 	Included is a small test file "mltextst.tex" for MLTeX and
 > 	M.J. Ferguson's original set of macros.
 > 
 > (d) place:
 > 		tex-archive/systems/generic/mltex/
 > 
 > 	Please make a new directory "generic" (or choose another name
 > 	for it) under the "systems" subdirectory where all system
 > 	independent TeX and MF changes can be put in.
 > 	This directory is also needed for e-TeX.
 > 
 > 	Note: The tar file "mltex22.tar" will create the "mltex/"
 > 	      subdirectory, therefore unpack this file in
 > 	      ".../systems/generic/".

Thanks a lot installed as requested.

Thanks
  Rainer

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 21 12:17:20 1995
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:21:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE
Subject: Re: Upload: New configuration files for the Sauter fonts

TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE writes:
 > The file cfg.zip contains the configuration files for the December 1995 
 > release of LaTeX2e in conection with the Sauter font setup.
 > 
 > Pleas unpack the archive in directory
 > 
 > tex-archive/fonts/cm/sauter23/latex
 > 
 > >From the same directory, please move dcstdedt.tex to the obsolete directory,
 > since it is superseded by dcfonts 1.2.

Done as requested.

Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 21 16:59:39 1995
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:24:02 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, daly@linmpi.mpae.gwdg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN update for natbib

LINPWD::DALY writes:
 > Greetings,
 > 
 > I have just placed the following files in  incoming/natbib  on the DANTE
 > CTAN server.
 > 
 > README.v61a    to replace  README.v61
 > natbib.dtx     to replace  itself
 > 
 > Could you please place these files in
 >       macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib
 > removing the old README.v61
 > 
 > It is not that I was too quick with my earlier update for Release 4 of LaTeX,
 > but I failed to test it adequately under the new release. It works fine with
 > the older ones.
 > 
 > In spite of the accommodations made to keep \G@undefinedreftrue, I have decided
 > to be as independent of the kernel as possible.

Thanks a lot, installed as requested.

Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 21 18:17:45 1995
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:28:19 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: CTAN@SHSU.edu, Richard Gussmann <RY46@IBM3090.RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Richard Gussmann writes:
 > 
 > 
 > Hallo,
 > 
 > I've put on Thu, 14 Dec 95, the following files in the directory
 >   /incoming/dinbrief
 >   dinbrief.dtx
 >   dinbrief.ins
 >   readme
 >   announce
 > I resent this mail since I have received a mail that the
 > package is not yet online.
 > 
 > This is a LaTeX209 and LaTeX2e class for writing letters
 > following the rules of the german DIN institute. This version
 > now should run with the new LaTeX2e release from December 1995
 > (not available yet).
 > This files should replace the old ones in
 >   /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief

Thanks a lot, installed as requested.

 > Thanks a lot. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

The same to you.

Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 21 13:23:11 1995
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:30:36 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, daly@linmpi.mpae.gwdg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN update for aguplus

LINPWD::DALY writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I have put the following files into the DANTE CTAN server under
 >  /incoming/aguplus
 > 
 > agu.bst
 > aguplus.cls
 > aguplus.sty
 > aguplus.tex
 > changes.v13
 > keylist.bst
 > keylist.tex
 > readme.pwd
 > sample.bib
 > samplus.tex
 > 
 > Could you please copy them to   contrib/supported/aguplus
 > replacing all files already in that directory.

Thanks a lot, installed as requested.

For the CTAN team

Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 21 15:58:34 1995
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:45:32 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Guido Sawade <sawade@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>, CTAN@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: psutils for OS2

Guido Sawade writes:

 > I have just uploaded the psutilities (executables,
 > manpages and a short README.1ST) for OS2, the exe
 > files work under 32Bit DOS / Windows PCs as well.
 > 
 > Please copy the psutils.zip from
 > 	incoming/psutils.os2
 > whereever you find it usefull. (I personally
 > would prefer an additional link into
 > 	../msdos/emtex/dvips

I installed them as

systems/os2/psutils.zip

with an additional link from

systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/psutils.zip

Is this OK?

Seasons Greetings

Rainer

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 21 15:30:14 1995
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 21:22:19 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, John Leis <leis@usq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

John Leis writes:

 > 
 > I have once again updated the LaTeX-CAD package to version 1.4
 > I have put the files 
 > 	latexcad14.txt	(2676 bytes)
 > 	latexcad14.zip	(446,226 bytes) 
 > on the site pip.shsu.edu
 > 
 > Could you copy them to systems/msdos/latexcad and delete the old files.

Installed as requested, thanks alot

Rainer Sch�pf

From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Tue Jan  2 13:06:20 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 22:20:34 +0000 (MEZ)
From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, ccnet-l <@cunyvm.cuny.edu:ccnet-l@uga.BITNET>, linux-asia@li.org
Subject: ANNOUNCING CNS font packages for LaTeX2e's CJK package

The ready-to-run font packages for my CJK package for LaTeX2e are now
available at CTAN and its mirrors in tex-archive/fonts/CJK. I recently
completed the set with CNS fonts (plane 1-7 and plane 1-3 in Big 5 encoding).

Happy TeXing!

    Werner Lemberg

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan  5 15:45:34 1996
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 19:55:19 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: Disruption of ftp.tex.ac.uk, next Thursday 1996/01/11

The whole of the central computing facilities in the University of
Cambridge Computer Laboratory will be switched off between 0600 and
0700 GMT next Thursday, for various power supply work, including
connection of an UPS.  Since the CTAN node is part of those central
facilities, it will be unavailable from then.

The power will probably be off until 1700, and we hope to have the
equipment all running again by 1800.

We apologise for this disruption; with a modicum of luck it will
enable us to offer a service that is less frequently interrupted by
power outages than was the case in 1995...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN/UK team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jan  8 13:21:24 1996
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 15:45:07 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Martin Schroeder <ms@dream.hb.north.de>
Subject: Re: Please remove PrintTim from CTAN

Martin Schroeder writes:

 > please remove the package PrintTim from CTAN.
 > It can be found in macros/latex/contrib/supported/PrintTim
 > 
 > It has become obsolete; its users should use scrtime from the 
 > koma-script bundle.

I've just deleted the package.

Regards
  Rainer

From kb@cs.umb.edu Mon Jan  8 15:23:26 1996
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 14:55:22 -0500
From: K. Berry <kb@cs.umb.edu>
To: tex-folks@cs.umb.edu
Subject: modes.mf 3.0 available

I have released version 3.0 of modes.mf.  You can get it by anonymous ftp from

	ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/modes.mf

and shortly from ftp.cdrom.com:pub/tex/modes.mf and the ctan sites in
/tex-archive/fonts/modes/modes-3.0.mf.  finger ctan@ftp.shsu.edu for a
list of all the CTAN sites and mirrors.  The mailing list
tex-archive@math.utah.edu receives most TeX-related announcements; email
tex-archive-request@math.utah.edu to join.

You can also get it by email from if you cannot ftp: email
fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of `sendme modes'.

News:
- most importantly, a new and much cleaner way of doing write/white
  changes, compatible with the DC fonts as well as CM, etc. This *does*
  affect the rasterization to some extent, but in the cases I tried, it
  was no worse, and sometimes better.
- a small test file, modetest.tex, included.
- new modes for the Amiga ShowDVI previewer, PC previewing,
  high-resolution fax, LJ 5, Canon BJC, Lexmark Optra 4049 R, Agfa 3400PS.
- default localfont now ljfour.
- screen_rows, screen_cols interchanged to match plain.mf.
- TeX formatting improved, but still not completely working.

As always, thanks to the contributors, and further additions and
improvements are welcome.  Please send bug reports or suggestions to
tex-fonts@math.utah.edu (email tex-fonts-request to join the mailing list).


General information:

modes.mf is a collection of Metafont mode_def's.  It also makes common
definitions for write/white printers, `special' information, and
landscape mode.  It uses up too much memory for the table sizes in the
original mf.web, so you either have to increase the sizes (as in Web2c)
or rename the file and remove unneeded modes.  I can't decipher mf.web
well enough to understand how to make the modes use less memory; if some
Metafont hacker can tell me, I'd very much like to hear it.

If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the
existing ones, please send them to me.  Improvements to the exposition,
particularly in how to create a new mode_def, are also welcome.

kb@cs.umb.edu

mode_def agfafzz =                      % AGFA 400PS
mode_def agfatfzz =                     % AGFA P3400PS
mode_def amiga =                        % Commodore Amiga
mode_def aps =                          % Autologic APS-Micro5
mode_def apssixhi =                     % Autologic APS-Micro6
mode_def atariezf =                     % Atari ST SLM 804 printer
mode_def atarinf =                      % Atari 95dpi previewer
mode_def atarins =                      % Atari 96x96 previewer
mode_def atariotf =                     % Atari ST SM 124 screen
mode_def bitgraph =                     % BBN Bitgraph at 118dpi
mode_def bjtenex =                      % Canon BubbleJet 10ex
mode_def boise =                        % HP 2680A
mode_def canonbjc =                     % Canon BJC-600, 360x360dpi
mode_def canonex =                      % CanonEX in LaserWriter Pro 630
mode_def canonlbp =                     % e.g., Symbolics LGP-10
mode_def cg =                           % Compugraphic 8600
mode_def cgl =                          % Compugraphic 8600 landscape
mode_def cgnszz =                       % Compugraphic 9600
mode_def crs =                          % Alphatype CRS
mode_def cx =                           % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX
mode_def datadisc =                     % DataDisc
mode_def newdd =                        % DataDisc with special aspect ratio
mode_def declarge =                     % DEC 19-inch, 1280 x 1024
mode_def decsmall =                     % DEC 17-inch, 1024 x 768
mode_def deskjet =                      % HP DeskJet 500
mode_def docutech =                     % Xerox 8790 or 4045
mode_def dover =                        % Xerox Dover
mode_def eighthre =                     % EightThree (83x83)
mode_def epsdrft =                      % Epson at 120x72dpi
mode_def epsdrftl =                     % Epson at 120x72dpi landscape
mode_def epsfast =                      % Epson at 60x72dpi
mode_def epsfastl =                     % Epson at 60x72dpi landscape
mode_def epson =                        % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family
mode_def epsonl =                       % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family landscape
mode_def epsonact =                     % Epson Action Laser 1500
mode_def epsonlo =                      % Epson at 120x216dpi
mode_def epsonlol =                     % Epson at 120x216dpi landscape
mode_def epstylus =                     % Epson Stylus
mode_def fourfour =                     % FourFour (44x44) (really low-res)
mode_def gtfax =                        % 204 x 196dpi G3fax
mode_def gtfaxl =                       % 204 x 196dpi G3fax landscape
mode_def gtfaxlo =                      % 204 x 98dpi G3fax
mode_def gtfaxlol =                     % 204 x 98dpi G3fax landscape
mode_def highfax =                      % 200 x 200dpi G3fax
mode_def hprugged =                     % HP RuggedWriter 480
mode_def ibm_a =                        % IBM 38xx (\#1)
mode_def ibmd =                         % IBM 38xx (\#2)
mode_def ibmega =                       % IBM EGA monitor
mode_def ibmegal =                      % IBM EGA monitor landscape
mode_def ibmfzon =                      % IBM 4019
mode_def ibmfztn =                      % IBM 4029-30, 4250
mode_def ibmpp =                        % IBM ProPrinter
mode_def ibmppl =                       % IBM ProPrinter landscape
mode_def ibmsoff =                      % IBM 6154 display
mode_def sherpa =                       % IBM 6670 (Sherpa)
mode_def ibmteot =                      % IBM 3812
mode_def ibmtetz =                      % IBM 3820
mode_def ibmtont =                      % IBM 3193 screen
mode_def ibmtosn =                      % IBM 3179 screen
mode_def ibmtosnl =                     % IBM 3179 screen landscape
mode_def ibmvga =                       % IBM VGA monitor
mode_def ibx =                          % Chelgraph IBX
mode_def itoh =                         % CItoh 8510A
mode_def itohl =                        % CItoh 8510A landscape
mode_def itohtoz =                      % CItoh 310
mode_def itohtozl =                     % CItoh 310 landscape
mode_def iw =                           % Apple ImageWriter
mode_def jetiiisi =                     % HP Laser Jet IIISi
mode_def lasf =                         % DEC LA75
mode_def lexmarkr =                     % IBM (Lexmark) Optra R (4049)
mode_def linolo =                       % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 635dpi
mode_def linolttz =                     % Linotype Linotronic L-300 with RIP-50
mode_def linoone =                      % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 1270dpi
mode_def linotzzh =                     % Linotype Linotronic 300 at 2540dpi
mode_def ljfive =                       % HP LaserJet 5
mode_def ljfour =                       % 600dpi HP LaserJet 4
mode_def ljlo =                         % HP LaserJet at 150dpi
mode_def lmaster =                      % 1000dpi LaserMaster
mode_def lnzo =                         % DEC LN01
mode_def lpstz =                        % DEC lps20
mode_def lqlores =                      % Epson LQ-500, 180x180dpi
mode_def lqmed =                        % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi
mode_def lqmedl =                       % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi landscape
mode_def lview =                        % Sigma L-View monitor
mode_def lwpro =                        % Apple LaserWriterPro 810
mode_def macmag =                       % Mac screens at magstep 1
mode_def mactrue =                      % Mac screens at 72dpi
mode_def ncd =                          % NCD 19-inch
mode_def nec =                          % NEC 180dpi
mode_def nechi =                        % NEC-P6 at 360x360dpi
mode_def neclm =                        % NEC PC-PR406LM 320dpi
mode_def nectzo =                       % NEC PC-PR201 series 160dpi
mode_def nexthi =                       % NeXT 400dpi, Newgen
mode_def nextscrn =                     % 100dpi NeXT monitor
mode_def nineone =                      % NineOne (91x91)
mode_def nullmode =                     % TFM files only
mode_def onetz =                        % OneTwoZero (120/120)
mode_def onezz =                        % OneZeroZero (100x100)
mode_def ocessfz =                      % OCE 6750-PS
mode_def okidata =                      % Okidata
mode_def okidatal =                     % Okidata landscape
mode_def okifte =                       % Okidata 410e in 600 DPI mode
mode_def pcscreen =                     % also, e.g., high-resolution Suns
mode_def pcprevw =                      % preview on pc screen
mode_def phaser =                       % Tektronix Phaser PXi
mode_def prntware =                     % Printware 720IQ
mode_def qms =                          % QMS (Xerox engine)
mode_def qmsostf =                      % QMS 1725
mode_def qmsoszz =                      % QMS 1700
mode_def ricoh =                        % e.g., TI Omnilaser
mode_def ricoha =                       % e.g., IBM 4216
mode_def ricohlp =                      % e.g., DEC LN03
mode_def sparcptr =                     % Sun SPARCprinter
mode_def starnlt =                      % Star NL-10
mode_def starnltl =                     % Star NL-10 landscape
mode_def sun =                          % Sun and BBN Bitgraph at 85dpi
mode_def supre =                        % Ultre*setter at 2400dpi
mode_def toshiba =                      % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ
mode_def ultre =                        % Ultre*setter at 1200dpi
mode_def vs =                           % VAXstation monitor
mode_def vtftzz =                       % Varityper 4200 B-P
mode_def vtftzzhi =                     % Varityper 4300P at 2400dpi
mode_def vtftzzlo =                     % Varityper 4300P at 1200dpi
mode_def vtfzszw =                      % Varitype 5060W, APS 6
mode_def vtszz =                        % Varityper Laser 600
mode_def xrxesnz =                      % Xerox 8790 or 4045
mode_def xrxfzfz =                      % Xerox 4050/4075/4090/4700
mode_def xrxnszz =                      % Xerox 9700
mode_def xrxtszz =                      % Xerox 3700

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jan 10 18:29:45 1996
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 18:16:33 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: braune@RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Richard Gussmann writes:
 > 
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I've put the following files in the directory
 >   /incoming/dinbrief
 >   dinbrief.dtx
 >   dinbrief.ins
 >   readme
 >   announce
 > This is a LaTeX209 and LaTeX2e class for writing letters
 > following the rules of the german DIN institute. This version
 > now should run with the new LaTeX2e release from December 1995.
 > This files should replace the old ones in
 >   /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief

Thanks, I made the update.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jan 10 19:36:50 1996
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 18:19:44 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Leon.Zlajpah@ijs.si
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Leon @lajpah writes:
 > CTAN Submission
 > 
 > I have uploaded the following file
 > 
 >     sihyph22.tex
 > 
 > to the site
 > 
 >     ftp.dante.de/incoming
 > 
 > THe file sihyph22.tex contains hyphenation patterns for the slovene 
 > language. It should be placed to the directory
 > 
 >    /pub/tex/languages/slovene
 > 
 > 
 > Best regards,
 > 
 > Leon Zlajpah
 > 
 > .......................................................................
 > dr. Leon Zlajpah
 > Jozef Stefan Institute    tel: +386 61 1773 565
 > Jamova 39                 fax: +386 61 219 385
 > 61000 Ljubljana         email: leon.zlajpah@ijs.si
 > Slovenia                  URL: http://cathy.ijs.si/~leon/index.html
 > .......................................................................

Thanks a lot, I installed the file as requested.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jan 10 14:20:11 1996
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 17:20:25 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk
Subject: Re: CTAN Submissions (onepagem and time)

Mike Piff has submitted one further package that I have added to his
directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/piff; it manifests itself as
ams.dtx and ams.ins there

He says of it:

> This package is a minimal one that allows access to the three
> common AMS symbol font families.  To use it, you will need the
> |amsfonts| package.  It defines the common symbols such as Bbb
> R (reals) as \R, etc, and allows the user to easily define 
> any others in a similar fashion.  
> 
> The package has largely been superceded by amsfonts, and is
> provided for compatibility reasons only.  (The original 
> did the same job in LaTeX2.09, before the AMS supported
> LaTeX.)  Certainly, the LaTeX2e version is much simpler 
> than the original LaTeX2.09 one!

It, too, should propagate fairly soon.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN UK team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jan 10 20:54:21 1996
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 09:51:24 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Umeki Hideo writes:

 > I have uploaded a LaTeX(209/2e) package `pagesize.sty' (ver.2.50)
 > to ftp.SHSU.edu/incoming/.
 > 
 > Brief overview:
 > When you want to change page size and layout, you need to change many
 > dimensions concerning width, height, and margins, or need to know
 > several macro packages (style files) that suit you. But it is not easy
 > task to set these dimensions correctly, for example, when you want to
 > center the text region in the paper.  Of course, there are several
 > solutions to this, such as Vpage.sty and Vmargin.sty and some other
 > packages for specifying paper size, but I think user interface of them
 > is not good.
 > Thus I have generated pagesize.sty for simple setting of page size.
 > One of advantages of pagesize.sty is automatic centering of the text
 > region in any paper size under your specified condition.
 > 
 > I recommend placing this package in
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/.

I installed the package in the proposed location.

 > I think it's OK to place it in /tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/
 > too, because it works both with LaTeX209 and with LaTeX2e.

No, the subtree

  macros/latex209


Many thanks,

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jan 10 19:27:19 1996
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:35:42 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Koaunghi Un <koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Koaunghi Un writes:
 > 
 > It was a month ago, when I sent this mail to you, describing
 > submission of package HLaTeX-0.93 in ftp.dante.de:/incoming/HLaTeX.
 > 
 > At that time, I could not upload all my package because of the lack of
 > hard space in ftp.dante.de. Today I've tried to finish uploading
 > missing parts of HLaTeX, with success.
 > 
 > For the remembrance, HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz will be unpacked in the
 > directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX and all other files
 > go to the directory of /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX/wansung.

Thanks a lot, your update has been installed in

   fonts/korean/HLaTeX

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jan 10 20:52:50 1996
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 18:57:25 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Boris Veytsman <boris@plmsc.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: nomenclature package

Boris Veytsman writes:
 > Dear friends:
 > 
 > I put the file nomencl.tar to the incoming directory
 > of CTAN at shsu. It contains the nomenclature package
 > (the readme file is appended).
 > 
 > I suggest installing the untarred files at
 > 
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/nomencl
 > 
 > Good luck
 > 
 > -Boris

Thanks a lot, I installed the package as proposed.

For the CTAN team

Rainer Sch�pf

 > 
 > ---------readme file for the package-----------------
 > 
 > Some journals (e. g. AIChE Journal) require the authors to
 > include lists of the used symbols in their articles. It seems that some
 > universities require such lists in the theses.
 > 
 > Of course one can make such lists by hand. However it is tedious and
 > error-prone. The package nomencl uses the powerful capabilities of the
 > MakeIndex program to create these lists automatically.  It provides 
 > versatile and easily customizable tools for creating nomenclatures in
 > LaTeX2e documents.
 > 
 > While the package was written mainly for creating nomenclatures, it can
 > be also used for creating and customizing glossaries.
 > 
 > 
 > Before you install... You need TeX, LaTeX2e (June 1995
 > release or later) and MakeIndex to use the package nomencl.
 > 
 > The installation is very simple. Put the file nomencl.sty where
 > your store TeX-inputs files, and the file nomencl.ist where you
 > store MakeIndex style files (.ist files). The files nomencl.tex
 > and nomencl.ps provides the documentation.
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jan 10 20:59:22 1996
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 19:07:49 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: Upload: jknappen.zip

TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE writes:
 > To improve maintanace of the package files supported by me, I decided to 
 > collect them into one directory and update them.
 > 
 > Please unpack the zip archive jknappen.zip in 
 > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported
 > it will create a subdirectory jknappen there. Please rename all files 
 > beginning with the letter `u' (lowercase) to begin with a capital `U'
 > (have I told you before that I hate LaTeX's case sensitiveness at that 
 > place?).
 > 
 > Please delete the following files and/or directories:
 > 
 > macros/latex209/contrib/misc/greekctr.sty
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/mathbbol/*
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/mathrsfs/*
 > macros/latex209/contrib/nfss-addons/scr.sty
 > macros/latex209/contrib/nfss-addons/bbold.sty
 > macros/latex209/contrib/nfss-addons/sans.sty
 > macros/latex209/contrib/misc/young.sty
 > 
 > Short description of the packages:
 > 
 > greekctr      New counterstyles \greek and \Greek
 > holtpolt      Non-commutative fractions
 > latin1jk      Special variant of latin1 to be used with the inputenc 
 >               package which allows verbatim setting of latin1 files.
 > latin3jk      Latin3 input encoding (esperanto) to be used with the 
 >               inputenc package
 > mathbbol      `Mengensymbole' (Blackboard bold, using Alan Jeffrey's 
 >               bbold fonts)
 > mathrsfs      Mathematical `Script' letters (as traditionally used in
 >               physics for Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, path integral 
 >               measures...)
 > sans          Interchanges the roles of sans serif and roman fonts 
 >               throughout the document (\sf produces roman)
 > young         Young tableaus
 > 
 > Yours, J"org Knappen.


Thanks a lot, I installed/deleted as proposed

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jan 11 14:41:49 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 20:30:08 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: ctan@shsu.edu
Subject: LaTeX2e 95/12/01 PL 1 released

I have just released 

  LaTeX2e 95/12/01 patch level 1

It's already on

ftp.dante.de
ftp.shsu.edu

and should travel to ftp.tex.ac.uk over night.

For the LaTeX Team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jan 11 14:42:19 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 20:34:49 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ryoung@utdallas.edu
Subject: Re: gTeX partial improvement upload

Young U. Ryu writes:
 > Dear CTAN Manager(s):
 > 
 > Uploaded to /incoming/gtex in ftp.shsu.edu (US CTAN Site) are
 > 4 files:
 > 
 > 	latex2e.zip
 > 	winbin.zip
 > 	winbin.txt
 > 	96jan.txt
 > 
 > which all should go to /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex.
 > (latex2e.zip replaces the previous one with the same file name.)
 > 
 > They include (1) LaTeX2e 95/12/01 release for gTeX and (2) some
 > binaries that run TeX as a Windows application.

Thanks, I installed the update.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From galko@trix.genie.uottawa.ca Thu Jan 11 16:25:17 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 15:19:34 -0500
From: Peter Galko <galko@trix.genie.uottawa.ca>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e 95/12/01 PL 1 released

At 8:30 PM 1/11/96, Rainer Schoepf wrote:
>I have just released
>
>  LaTeX2e 95/12/01 patch level 1
>
>It's already on
>
>ftp.dante.de
>ftp.shsu.edu
>
>and should travel to ftp.tex.ac.uk over night.
>
>For the LaTeX Team
>
>--
>   Rainer Schvpf

Hmm.  I just tried an anonymous FTP to shsu and found that all anonymous
ftp to it is denied.  Anyone know if this is temporary?

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From swift@bu.edu Thu Jan 11 21:29:43 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:23:08 -0500
From: Matthew Swift <swift@bu.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Peter Galko <galko@trix.genie.uottawa.ca>
Cc: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e 95/12/01 PL 1 released


> Hmm.  I just tried an anonymous FTP to shsu and found that all
> anonymous ftp to it is denied.  Anyone know if this is temporary?

Happens all the time nowadays.  6 months ago I used to be able to get
wide connections almost any time of week.  Now I use North American
mirrors and the UK for timely stuff.

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jan 12 04:37:45 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:05:12 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Ken Smith <kgs@maths.uq.oz.au>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: Patch level 1 to LaTeX

Ken Smith writes:

 > I've just downloaded ltpatch.ltx from dante.de - the file is dated
 > 11 January but includes the line
 > \def\patch@level{0}
 > and refers to fixing the June 1995 release.
 > Is there something odd about this file?

The link structure at ftp.dante.de was incorrect, so that only the
files in macros/latex/base were updated, not their copies in
macros/latex/unpacked. I corrected the error.

Rainer

From swift@bu.edu Fri Jan 12 21:39:18 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 11:17:44 -0500
From: Matthew Swift <swift@bu.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: latex-l@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: ALaTeX for the New Year


Dear LaTeX folks,

Now at your corner CTAN archive is ALaTeX, a new TeX format which is a
small but significant modification of the latest release of LaTeX.  It
is functionally similar to the format fsfTeX that David Carlisle wrote
and included at the end of the most recent cfgguide.tex in the LaTeX
distribution, but ALaTeX is more general than fsfTeX.

The issues which motivated the creation of ALaTeX have been discussed
in detail on the LaTeX3 list in the past, so I am posting only the
abstract here and referring the interested reader to the full 3-page
paper "A Discussion of ALaTeX and its Standard Metaclass" in the file
metaclas.tex in the ALaTeX distribution.

\begin{abstract}
  \ALaTeX{} is a document preparation system that provides the user with all
  the functionality of \LaTeX{} and a general, legal way to override standard
  \LaTeX{} behavior without altering source files.  An important consequence is
  that \ALaTeX{} can interpret official \LaTeX{} markup in an abstract way.

  This discussion builds on the author's paper ``Modularity in \LaTeX''
  in the forthcoming TUGboat \textbf{16} (3).
\end{abstract}

I might add that a second important consequence is that it is easier
to keep formatting directives such as font and paper sizes out of
sources.

Versions of ALaTeX are keyed to versions of LaTeX by adding R1, R2,
etc. to the LaTeX release date.  The current release is therefore
named 95-12-01-R1 and is on CTAN in the directory 
	
	tex-archive/macros/alatex/alatex-95-12-01-R1 

If you happened to have downloaded ALaTeX before today, 12 Jan, the
distribution on CTAN was missing a file "amanifst.txt", so you'll need
that and should replace "Makefile" also.

Regards,

Matt Swift


From koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de Fri Jan 12 21:37:11 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 17:34:37 +0100 (MEZ)
From: Koaunghi Un <koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Cc: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Koaunghi Un <koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Rainer Schoepf wrote:

>  > 
>  > For the remembrance, HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz will be unpacked in the
>  > directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX and all other files
>  > go to the directory of /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX/wansung.
> 
> Thanks a lot, your update has been installed in
> 
>    fonts/korean/HLaTeX
> 
> For the CTAN team
> 

Thank you very much, I've seen today, that 2 files are missing there.

	Hangul-Myoungjo-mf.tar.gz
	Hangul-Gothic-mf.tar.gz

Hangul means Korean native characters and Hanja Korean Chinese
characters.
The Hanja part are all there but Hangul part for these shapes are
missing. Do you have the missing two files still there? If not, I can
upload them again.

And as previously said, the file HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz is to be unpacked
in the directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX.

I thank you in advance.

Sincerely yours,

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From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jan 12 20:55:23 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 17:56:54 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Koaunghi Un <koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Koaunghi Un writes:
 > On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Rainer Schoepf wrote:
 > 
 > >  > 
 > >  > For the remembrance, HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz will be unpacked in the
 > >  > directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX and all other files
 > >  > go to the directory of /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX/wansung.
 > > 
 > > Thanks a lot, your update has been installed in
 > > 
 > >    fonts/korean/HLaTeX
 > > 
 > > For the CTAN team
 > > 
 > 
 > Thank you very much, I've seen today, that 2 files are missing there.
 > 
 > 	Hangul-Myoungjo-mf.tar.gz
 > 	Hangul-Gothic-mf.tar.gz

I don't understand. The files are there.

 > And as previously said, the file HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz is to be unpacked
 > in the directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX.

I di this in the meantime, but the other two main CTAN hosts have not
yet mirrored the change.

Thanks

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jan 12 15:46:40 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 18:34:24 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, sanvila@unex.es
Subject: Re: makeinst update

Santiago Vila Doncel writes:

 > I have uploaded makeinst.zip to ftp.dante.de/incoming/makeinst directory.
 > It should replace the old systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/makeinst/makeinst.zip
 > file. There is no need to announce it in ctan-announce.
 > It's only a minor update.

Thanks, I installed the file.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 16 00:55:21 1996
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 17:02:26 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: galko@trix.genie.uottawa.ca
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e 95/12/01 PL 1 released

Peter Galko writes:

> Hmm.  I just tried an anonymous FTP to shsu and found that all anonymous
> ftp to it is denied.  Anyone know if this is temporary?

This has occasionally happened to me, too (and I hardly ever try SHSU,
what with bandwidth problems and the fact that I have a CTAN on site
here).

It does go away eventually.  Unfortunately, since we have no access to
the management of SHSU, there's little we can do to help.  We continue
to seek a new CTAN site in North America, and have one or two
potential takers, but nothing firm yet.

Sorry you've been inconvenienced.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de Sun Jan 21 12:15:03 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:36:06 +0100 (MEZ)
From: Koaunghi Un <koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Cc: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Koaunghi Un <koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Rainer Schoepf wrote:

> Koaunghi Un writes:
>  > On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Rainer Schoepf wrote:
>  > 
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > For the remembrance, HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz will be unpacked in the
>  > >  > directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX and all other files
>  > >  > go to the directory of /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX/wansung.
>  > > 
>  > > Thanks a lot, your update has been installed in
>  > > 
>  > >    fonts/korean/HLaTeX
>  > > 
>  > > For the CTAN team
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > Thank you very much, I've seen today, that 2 files are missing there.
>  > 
>  > 	Hangul-Myoungjo-mf.tar.gz
>  > 	Hangul-Gothic-mf.tar.gz
> 
> I don't understand. The files are there.

Sorry, there must be a missunderstanding. I see following files in the
directory of ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX.
                                       ^^^^^

drwxrwxr-x   5 Mr.Ftp   server      1024 Jan 12 16:55 .
drwxrwxr-x   5 Mr.Ftp   server       512 Jan 10 16:24 ..
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server       813 Jan 10 15:48 .cache
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server      2782 Jan 10 15:48 .cache+
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server      5061 Dec  6 15:03 ChangeLog.ks
drwxrw-r-x   2 Mr.Ftp   server       512 Nov 24 09:57 Fonts
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server    129738 Dec  6 13:34 HLaTeX-tfms.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server    855227 Dec  6 13:34 Hangul-Graphic-mf.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server   3024379 Dec  6 13:35 Hangul-Gungseo-mf.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server   4746504 Dec  6 13:37 Hangul-Mokgak-mf.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server    308922 Dec  6 13:37 Hangul-Symbol-mf.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server   2319055 Dec  6 13:38 Hangul-Yetgul-mf.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server   4499535 Dec  7 12:14 Hanja-Gothic-mf.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server   7868594 Jan  4 09:33 Hanja-Myoungjo-mf.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server       129 Dec  7 12:13 README
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server      4278 Dec 22 12:51 README.eng
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server      4214 Dec 22 12:56 README.ks
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server         0 Jan  4 09:30 THIS_IS_HLaTeX-0.93
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server     11808 Dec  3 13:53 Uhangul.fd
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server      9141 Oct  4 21:37 Uhanja.fd
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server      1285 Nov 23 09:56 Uhsymbol.fd
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server     11465 Dec  7 12:13 bzrbase.mf
drwxrw-r-x   3 Mr.Ftp   server       512 Jan  4 09:26 contrib
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server     15779 Sep 25 19:19 hangul.sty
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server      1026 Mar  3  1995 hfont.sty
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server      9983 Dec  6 15:12 hfont.tex
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server       896 Dec  6 17:19 hlatex-guide.ind
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server    936501 Dec 21 17:44 hlatex-guide.ps
-rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server     50395 Dec  6 16:29 hlatex-guide.tex
drwxrwxr-x   2 Mr.Ftp   server       512 Jan 12 16:54 sample

There are also the old version of HLaTeX in the directory of
/tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX.
             ^^^^^^^^
What I mean is:

1. All the files except *-mf.tar.gz in the directory of
   /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX go to the directory of
   /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX.

2. There must be following files in /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX:

	HLaTeX-tfms.tar.gz		--- font metric
	Hangul-Gothic-mf.tar.gz		--                  <--- missing
	Hangul-Myoungjo-mf.tar.gz	 |                  <--- missing
	Hangul-Graphic-mf.tar.gz	 |
	Hangul-Gungseo-mf.tar.gz	 |- Hangul fonts
	Hangul-Mokgak-mf.tar.gz		 |
	Hangul-Symbol-mf.tar.gz		 |
	Hangul-Yetgul-mf.tar.gz		--
	Hanja-Gothic-mf.tar.gz		--  Hanja font
	Hanja-Myoungjo-mf.tar.gz	--  Hanja font

   The first two of Hangul fonts are missing:
	Hangul-Gothic-mf.tar.gz
	Hangul-Graphic-mf.tar.gz

I thought, the labels for the language of far east country are not easy
to distinguish among them for European people. So I've tried to
emphasize the difference between Hangul and Hanja in the previous
mail. But you can forget it, I can upload the missing two files again.

>  > And as previously said, the file HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz is to be unpacked
>  > in the directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX.
> 
> I di this in the meantime, but the other two main CTAN hosts have not
> yet mirrored the change.

I see the unpacked files in the directory of
/tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX. Not in the directory of
/tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX. Could you please try to go into
the /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX directory per ftp to see the
files there?

With regards,

=========================================================================
 Koaunghi Un
 Zentrum f"ur Datenverarbeitung
 Universit"at T"ubingen | E-mail:
 Morgenstelle           | Internet (zraun01@sunaps.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de)
                        | Alternative (koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de)
 D-72074 T"ubingen      | Telefon: +49-7071-296937
 Fed. Rep. of Germany   | Fax: +49-7071-296936
=========================================================================

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 18 07:29:28 1996
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 11:09:21 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: Donald Arseneau <asnd@triumf.ca>
Subject: CTAN upload: citation macros

Donald Arseneau has provided us with updated versions of his citation
macros, and I have installed them as he requested at
macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite

The old versions (which were, in contradictory fashion, in macros/
latex/contrib/other/misc) have all been deleted.

> Here is the readme file
> 
> This directory contains four .sty files that are mutually compatible, 
> but actually independent:
> 
> cite.sty       Compressed, sorted lists of numerical citations: [8,11-16]
> 
> overcite.sty   Compressed, sorted lists of superscript numerical citations: 
>                "word [12,16,11,13,14,15]."  -->  "word.$^{11-16}$"
> 
> drftcite.sty   Print the tags instead of the numbers for \cite and \bibitem.
> 
> chapterbib.sty Do multiple bibliographies--one for each \include file.
> 
> Each package works with LaTeX2e and LaTeX2.09.  The documentation is in
> plain text in each of the files after all the definitions and \endinput.
> It can be read online or printed directly, but don't try to typeset it
> with LaTeX!  
> 
> Since the instructions follow \endinput, they are not read by TeX and 
> should not slow down the file loading.  If, however, you see that the
> instructions slow down the loading on your system, you may split the
> file into, for example, cite.sty and cite.doc.  Just do not redistribute
> these split files.

These changes should propagate to the other CTANs within 24 hours.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN UK team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 18 18:17:49 1996
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 22:34:47 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: tim@maths.tcd.ie
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Timothy Murphy writes:

> (a) I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
> 
> (b) the file lgreek.tar.gz
> 
> (c) This package implements Silvio Levy's LaTeX209 greek package
> as a LaTeX2e package "lgreek".
> It uses (and requires) the fonts in Levy's package
> (/tex-archive/fonts/greek/levy/mf).
> 
> Usage of the package is described in "lgreekuse.tex".
> Basically, if you \usepackage{lgreek} then you can say
> 
> \begin{greek}
> ...
> \end{greek}
> 
> In addition, if you \usepackage[delims]{greek}
> then you can include greek inside $...$.
> 
> For further details see "lgreekuse.tex".
> 
> Please send any bug-reports, suggestions or complaints to
> tim@maths.tcd.ie <Timothy Murphy>
> 
> 18 Jan 1996
> 
> (d) I suggest that this package should be placed
> in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/lgreek .

I have installed the files here as Timothy suggested.  They should
propagate before the night is out.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN UK team

From koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de Sun Jan 21 04:50:06 1996
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 15:06:45 +0100 (MEZ)
From: Koaunghi Un <koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Cc: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Koaunghi Un <koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Rainer Schoepf wrote:

> Koaunghi Un writes:
>  > 
>  > It was a month ago, when I sent this mail to you, describing
>  > submission of package HLaTeX-0.93 in ftp.dante.de:/incoming/HLaTeX.
>  > 
>  > At that time, I could not upload all my package because of the lack of
>  > hard space in ftp.dante.de. Today I've tried to finish uploading
>  > missing parts of HLaTeX, with success.
>  > 
>  > For the remembrance, HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz will be unpacked in the
>  > directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX and all other files
>  > go to the directory of /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX/wansung.
> 
> Thanks a lot, your update has been installed in
> 
>    fonts/korean/HLaTeX
> 
> For the CTAN team
> 

In the previous mail, I've informed you about two missing files in the
directory of /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX,
Hangul-Myoungjo-mf.tar.gz and Hangul-Gothic-mf.tar.gz.
Meanwhile, I'm getting mails from the users to inform me about the
same content as said above. But I've got no reply from you, so that I
couldn't say any answer to the HLaTeX users.
I'd like to try, that you remember this problem again, if you probably
forgot it.

With regards,

=========================================================================
 Koaunghi Un
 Zentrum f"ur Datenverarbeitung
 Universit"at T"ubingen | E-mail:
 Morgenstelle           | Internet (zraun01@sunaps.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de)
                        | Alternative (koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de)
 D-72074 T"ubingen      | Telefon: +49-7071-296937
 Fed. Rep. of Germany   | Fax: +49-7071-296936
=========================================================================

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 23 18:10:09 1996
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 16:02:13 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: reckdahl@leland.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: epslatex.ps Version 1.6

Keith Reckdahl writes:

> I've uploaded version 1.6 of epslatex.ps into the shsu /incoming
> directory.  This replaces version 1.5 which is currently in 
> the /tex-archive/info directory.
> 
> Version 1.6 fixes a few typos from version 1.5, adds the new 
> /includegraphics options from the 12/95 LaTeX release, and
> also adds a section on boxed figures.

Thanks for that; I've installed it here, so it'll no doubt wend its
way back to SHSU in the fullness of time (and will be at dante as soon
as their mirroring starts up for this evening).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Fri Jan 26 02:26:14 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:08:09 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Anders Svensson <svensson@math.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Anders Svensson writes:

 > I've just uploaded the file kuvio-p213.tar.gz, containing an update to
 > my diagram package residing in macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio, to the
 > /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. It'll unpack into a directory
 > named kuvio and contains a complete replacement for the files
 > currently residing on CTAN: The old kuvio directory should be blown
 > away.
 > 
 > This update fixes a few LaTeX related problems and introduces a
 > kuvio.sty.  I've also removed the PostScript versions of the
 > documentation in favour of a pointer to a local site where these can
 > be obtained if necessary. (It seems unnecessary to take up extra space
 > on CTAN when the source for the documentation is included in my
 > distribution.)

Thanks. I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Thu Jan 25 07:24:41 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:45:48 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Frank_Busse@AC3.Maus.De
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: ftp.dante.de:/incoming/epmtx31a.zip

Frank Busse writes:

 > I just uploaded the file 'epmtx31a.zip' to the '/incoming'-directory of
 > 'ftp.dante.de'. Please *add* the file to the directory
 > '/pub/tex/systems/os2/epmtex' as well as the following five lines
 > ('epmtx31a.readme')
 > 
 >   *PATCH UPDATE* EPMTeX Standard Version 3.1a and EPMTeX Pro Version  3.1a
 >   - November 1995 - This is an update for the EPMTeX v3.1 package to correct
 >   two minor defects in the original release.
 >   upload: Frank_Busse@AC3.Maus.De, Jan 22, 1996
 >   origin: IBM BBS Ehningen (Germany) +49-7034-63250

Thanks, I made the changes.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Fri Jan 26 01:18:10 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:59:35 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, kloecker@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Jens Kloecker writes:

 > I uploaded the new version of the syntax diagram generator SYNGEN on
 > 
 >   host: ftp.dante.de
 >   directory: /incoming
 >   files: syngen.tar.gz syngen.readme
 > 
 > The new files should completely replace the old version in
 > 
 >   tex-archive/support/syngen
 > 
 > Thanks.
 > 
 > - Jens
 > 
 > -------------------------- _/_/_/_/    _/ ------------------------------------
 > Jens Kloecker                   _/   _/   
 > Grombuehlstrasse 24             _/_/_/    kloecker@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de 
 > 97080 Wuerzburg         _/    _/  _/
 > ----------------------- _/   _/    _/ ----------------------------------------
 >                          _/_/       _/

Thanks, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Fri Jan 26 21:31:51 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 15:20:34 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, QElis@aol.com
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

QElis@aol.com writes:

 > (a):
 > 
 > I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de
 > 
 > (b):
 > 
 > I've uploaded the file tmv9601.tgz, which is a tar-ed and gnuzip-ed
 > archive.
 > 
 > (c): 
 > 
 > tmv9601.tgz contains the source and precompiled binaries of the
 > dvipreviewer tmview, version v96.01. 
 > It is ment as an update of version v95.10, which I've uploaded last
 > year. 
 > 
 > In detail:
 > ./tmview/README   Manual
 > ./tmview/INSTALL    Installation-guide
 > ./tmview/CHANGES  History of Changes
 > ./tmview/MAILME     my e-mail adress
 > ./tmview/VER9601   empty file, make people see the current version
 > ./tmview/Make*      Makefiles for linux and OS2
 > ./tmview/dvisvga    binary for linux/svgalib
 > ./tmview/dvilbfpm.exe    binary for OS2/PM
 > ./tmview/src        common sourcefiles
 > ./tmview/linux       linux only sources
 > ./tmview/OS2      os2 only sources
 > 
 > 
 > (d):
 > 
 > I suggest to remove the old dviware/tmview/* (including subdirectories),
 > and place the new tmview v96.01 again in dviware/tmview.
 > (It should need less disk-space now, since all the svgalib-workarounds
 > became obsolete)

I have installed the update in

  dviware/tmview

as proposed

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Fri Jan 26 04:27:15 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:05:07 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Jens Kloecker writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I uploaded a debugged manual and manpage for SYNGEN on
 > 
 >   host:  ftp.dante.de
 >   dir:   incoming/syngen
 > 
 > The files are 
 > 
 >   manual.(ps|dvi) 
 > 
 > and 
 > 
 >   syngen.m 
 > 
 > and should be installed in
 > 
 >   tex-archive/support/syngen/doc 
 > 
 > and 
 > 
 >   tex-archive/support/syngen/src, 
 > 
 > respectively.
 > 
 > - Jens Kloecker

Thanks, I installed the update

Rainer Sch�pf

From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Fri Jan 26 20:41:34 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 12:50:06 +0100
From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
Subject: [LaTeX, Metafont, Graphics, Feynman diagrams] FEYNMF v1.02 released

This announces version 1.02 of feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont
package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and maybe
other) diagrams.  If you don't know if feynmf is useful for you, have
a look at the preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz').

This software will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN
host near you.

Enjoy,
-Thorsten

NEWS for Version 1.02

    *  Read the .tfm file before writing the .mf file destructively.
    This should allow a transparent two pass processing if MakeTeXTFM
    is enabled.  Thanks to Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de> 
    for the suggestion.

NEWS for Version 1.01

    * new decoration shapes for vertices by popular demand: `cross'
    (also `triacross', `pentacross' and `hexacross').

    * fixed a rounding bug in cut-off ends (noticeable as a spurious
    thin diagonal line at the left end of double lines).

    * The maximum size for shaded and hatched areas has been doubled
    by removing an obsolete speedup hack that was not used anymore.

    * In an unrelated move, shading and hatching has been
    reimplemented in a much more general fashion.  Now arbitray
    tilings can be specified as argument to `decoration.filled='.  The
    old style numerical arguments continue to work, but should be
    replaced by `empty', `full', `shaded', and `hatched' in new
    documents.

-- 
Thorsten Ohl, Physics Department, TH Darmstadt --- PGP: AF 38 FF CE 03 8A 2E A7
http://crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de/~ohl/ -------- 8F 2A C1 86 8C 06 32 6B

From noack@theo.physik.uni-bremen.de Fri Jan 26 16:56:46 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:46:39 +0100 (NFT)
From: Cornelius C. Noack <noack@theo.physik.uni-bremen.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN upload

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I noticed that /pbu/tex/info contains a fully antiquitated and misleading
file (dating from 1993!)

       installing-emtex.txt

There is now a new completely reorganized new version of EmTeX, with new
installation procedures.

   So please have the above file deleted.         ccn.

From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Sat Jan 27 06:29:53 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 17:26:37 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: `mylatex.ltx'


mylatex.ltx on ctan has been updated and moved.
It is now in macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle
This has been installed at UK ctan, will reach others in due course.

Here are the comments from the file

%%%
%%% mylatex.ltx
%%%
%%% Use this file to make a format based on the preamble of the
%%% LaTeX file abc.tex
%%%
%%% Use initex as follows:
%%%
%%% initex &latex  mylatex.ltx abc      (Generic TeX)
%%% initex \&latex mylatex.ltx abc      (unix and other TeX's)
%%% tex /i &latex  mylatex.ltx abc      (emtex)
%%%
%%% This should make a format file mylatex.fmt which you can then use
%%% as follows
%%%
%%% tex  &mylatex abc          (generic TeX)
%%% virtex \&mylatex abc       (Unix TeX)
%%%
%%% This will process your document, abc.tex, just as LaTeX does, but
%%% quicker as the contents of the preamble will be stored in the
%%% format file and will not need to be run each time.
%%%
%%% If (vir)tex fails to find your mylatex.fmt then it is not searching
%%% in the current directory, either modify your TEXFORMATS (or equivalent)
%%% path to search `.' or (on unix/dos) use   ./  as in:
%%% virtex \&./mylatex abc
%%%
%%%
%%% The file abc.tex must contain a line *just* with
%%% \begin{document}
%%% (In particular no comments on that line.)
%%% Everything up to (but not including) the \begin{document} will
%%% be saved in the format and not executed in subsequent runs.
%%%
%%% David Carlisle
%%%        1994/09/27
%%%
%%%  Modified 1994/10/21 after comments by
%%%  Volker Kunert <volker@numsun1.mathematik.uni-halle.de>
%%%  Modified 1996/01/26 To fix printout of preloaded files (which
%%%  hasnt worked since December 94 release, and to fix
%%%  incompatibility with \makeindex command.
%%%

From michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca Sat Jan 27 14:57:54 1996
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 11:48:32 -0700 (MST)
From: Michal Jaegermann <michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: `mylatex.ltx'

> %%% This should make a format file mylatex.fmt which you can then use
> %%% as follows
> %%%
> %%% tex  &mylatex abc          (generic TeX)
> %%% virtex \&mylatex abc       (Unix TeX)

I have to see yet a Unix installation on which 'mylatex abc' would not
work after you did (once):
    ln -s `which virtex` mylatex
and 'mylatex' link is in your PATH.  'mylatex.fmt' has to be in some
directory listed in TEXFORMATS, which most likely does NOT include
your current directory (but can be modified that way if you **really**
want to).

   --mj

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Mon Jan 29 03:42:45 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:32:07 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: fss@eworld.com, ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: TeXEd121.zip

fss@eworld.com writes:

 > I've uploaded TeXEd121.zip last week into the incoming directory of
 > ftp.dante.de
 > 
 > Until now it is still there. (Perhaps you didn't got my mail, that's
 > the reason
 > why I write this one)

No, I did not see any mail from you.

 > Please install (move) TeXEd121.zip into the systems/os2/texed
 > directory.
 > 
 > This programm is written by myself and I have uploaded the almost
 > newest version
 > to dante since half a year.

I installed the program in the indicated location. Thanks,

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 30 00:48:16 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:12:45 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: LaTeX graphics for plain users: upload to Cambridge

David Carlisle writes:

> Graphics code for non-LaTeX users.
> ==================================
> 
> This directory provides a small wrapper file such that users of
> formats based on plain TeX may make use of some of the parts of the
> standard LaTeX distribution.
> 
> These files are *NOT* supported by the LaTeX3 project, and any
> problems with them should *NOT* be reported to the LaTeX bugs system.
> 
> Currently problems may be reported to me, carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk
> although as I only ever use LaTeX for documents, these files have not
> been extensively tested. If some plain TeX user wants to `adopt' them
> and take over their support then they are welcome to it:-)

I have installed the directory as macros/plain/graphics, with a link
to macros/generic/graphics

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 29 21:10:06 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:16:45 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: "Wagner, Zdenek" <WAGNER@icpf.cas.cz>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- wetex

Zdenek Wagner writes:

> I have just uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk to /incoming `wetex.zip' --
> WPS and EPM
> support for emTeX under OS/2. I suggest to put it into directory
> CTAN:/systems/os2/wetex -- do not put there wetex.zip but unpack it.
> (It was compressed with Info-zip.) You get three files which should
> be distributed:
> 
> 00readme.txt
> install.txt
> wetex10a.txt
> 
> Please let me know the exact location where you put it.

I have installed the files in systems/os2/wetex, as suggested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 29 21:11:52 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:59:03 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: drucbert@onecert.fr, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: minitoc package: confusing versions deleted

There has recently been some discussion on comp.text.tex of duplicate
copies of the minitoc package.  I have now had some correspondence
with Jean-Pierre Drucbert, who maintains the package, and at his
request have deleted both

  macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc          and
  macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc

Please note that we do not currently delete the 2.09 versions of
packages except at the author's explicit request; however, authors are
welcome at any time to request that an old version be deleted...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Wed Jan 31 06:40:20 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:23:42 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, daly@linax1.mpae.gwdg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN update: custom-bib

LINPWD::DALY writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I wish to submit an update to my package custom-bib.
 > 
 > I have put the following files into the /incoming/custom-bib directory
 > on the dante server. 
 > 
 > german.mbs
 > merlin.mbs
 > README.v36
 > 
 > Please copy these into the directory
 >       latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib
 > removing README.v35 and replacing the existing merlin.mbs and german.mbs
 > 
 > Thanks,   Patrick W. Daly
 > 1996 Jan 30
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >    Dr. Patrick W. Daly                    Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279
 >    Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie     Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240
 >    Postfach 20                            SPAN: NSP::LINMPI::DALY
 >    D-37189 Katlenburg-Lindau              Internet: daly@linax1.mpae.gwdg.de
 >    Germany
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >           

Thanks, I installed the update.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 30 08:02:11 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:42:27 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Umeki Hideo writes:

> I have uploaded a new version of LaTeX package PAGESIZE (ver.2.51)
> to ftp.SHSU.edu/incoming/ as `pagesize.sty-2.51'.
>
> Several bugs concerning paper size specification have been fixed.
> Please replace /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/pagesize.sty
> with the new one.

I have installed the new version at the requested place, at
ftp.tex.ac.uk

It should propagate to other CTANs soon enough.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb  1 04:13:26 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 15:58:25 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: achemso update

matsd@physchem.kth.se writes:
 > Friends,
 > 
 > a moment ago I uploaded to the DANTE CTAN node in 
 >   /incoming/achemso
 > the files 
 >   00readme.acs
 >   achemso.dtx
 >   achemso.ins
 > which are to replace the files currently in the 
 >   .../latex/contrib/supported/achemso/
 > directory.  These files are an update of my `achemso' package for 
 > LaTeX 2e which makes the package work with the December 1995 
 > release of LaTeX 2e.  Also, the *.bst files have been incorporated 
 > into the file achemso.dtx.
 > 
 > >From the file 00readme.acs:
 > 
 > >This is the file `00readme.acs', which accompanies the `achemso'
 > >package distribution.  The package formats BibTeX output in 
 > >accordance with the requirements of most journals of The American 
 > >Chemical Society.  It also provides a convenient LaTeX interface to 
 > >be used with the BibTeX style file(s).  To use the package, run LaTeX on 
 > >`achemso.ins', this produces the files `achemso.sty', which contains 
 > >the LaTeX macro definitions, the file `acslist.tex', which is a 
 > >template file to produce a complete listing of a BibTeX data base, 
 > >`achemso.bst' which is the main BibTeX style file of the package, 
 > >and `achemsol.bst' which is a BibTeX style file to be used when 
 > >producing complete BibTeX data base listings.   To obtain the userguide 
 > >and documentation, run LaTeX on `achemso.dtx' twice.
 > >
 > >The 'achemso' package consists of two files:
 > >    achemso.ins   -  the installation driver
 > >    achemso.dtx   -  the macro code, instructions on how to use 
 > >                     the package, the listing template, and the 
 > >                     BibTeX style files `achemso.bst' and 
 > >                     `achemsol.bst' in `docstrip'-able format.
 > 
 > Please feel free to re-distribute this message as you find 
 > convenient.
 > 
 > yours,
 >       mats d.
 > 
 > mats dahlgren                  * "..skillnaden var bara den, att hennes *
 > Royal Institute of Technology  *  kunskaper var nyttiga och oordnade,   *
 > Lab. for Chem. Surface Science *  medan professorns var onyttiga och    *
 > S-100 44  Stockholm, Sweden    *  ordnade."  - Karin Boye i _Kris_      *
 > 
 >     <matsd@physchem.kth.se>  Ph: +46-8-790 8596  Fx: +46-8-790 8207
 >                     http://lupus.physchem.kth.se/~matsd  


Thanks, I installed the files as proposed.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb  1 09:16:19 1996
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 13:34:17 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, daly@linmpi.mpae.gwdg.de
Subject: Re: Bug in custom-bib; another update

LINPWD::DALY writes:
 > The updated version of merlin.mbs that was put onto CTAN 2 days ago 
 > contains a bug, immediately reported by avid users.
 > 
 > I have therefore put the corrected version onto /incoming/custom-bib
 > along with an updated README.v36a file.
 > 
 > Please copy these two files to  /latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib
 > removing the file README.v36.
 > 
 > Sorry about that.
 > 
 > Patrick W Daly
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >    Dr. Patrick W. Daly                    Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279
 >    Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie     Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240
 >    Postfach 20                            SPAN: NSP::LINMPI::DALY
 >    D-37189 Katlenburg-Lindau              Internet: daly@linmpi.mpae.gwdg.de
 >    Germany
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 

Thanks, I Installed the files.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb  1 23:50:27 1996
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 13:36:40 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, turtle@diku.dk
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Peter M|ller Neergaard writes:
 > Five minutes ago I uploaded a new package in the file semantic.zip for LaTeX2e 
 > at ftp.dante.de. The zip-file quite ordinary contains a packagefile 
 > (semantic.dtx) and a installation file (semantic.ins).
 > 
 > The package should help typesetting notation used when describing the semantics
 > of programming Language.  This includes macros for describing denotational
 > semantics, drawing inference rules and making translation charts.
 > 
 > My suggestion would be to place it in macros/latex/contrib/supported/semantic.
 > 
 > Hope this qualifies.
 > 
 > Regards
 > 
 > Peter
 > -- 
 > 		  		  __   _
 > Peter M�ller Neergaard		 /  \-' )      ,,,  No sin
 > Dept. of Computer Science	| |  ()|||||||[:::) No salvation
 > University of Copenhagen	 \__,-._)      '''       - Calvin
 > E-mail: turtle@diku.dk		WWW: http://www.diku.dk/students/turtle/


Thanks, I installed the files in the indicated location
For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Feb  2 01:54:25 1996
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 13:45:29 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Koaunghi Un writes:
 > Dear CTAN manager,
 > 
 > After I've released Korean LaTeX package, I had to make new version as
 > many users request. Korean language is not simple one as English, we
 > need some more free storage places for our programme. Main problem was
 > the free spaces the user has. I've made old fonts available in this
 > version, which require small amount free space. I've made also
 > PostScript fonts available.
 > Following files are in ftp.dante.de:/incoming/HLaTeX
 > 
 > 	HLaTeX-0.94.tar.gz
 > 	Johab-Hangul-pk300.tar.gz
 > 	Johab-Hangul-pk600.tar.gz
 > 	Johab-Hangul-tfm.tar.gz
 > 	PS-HLaTeX-afm.tar.gz
 > 	PS-HLaTeX-pfb.tar.gz
 > 	PS-HLaTeX-tfm.tar.gz
 > 	PS-HLaTeX-vf.tar.gz
 > 
 > I want the file HLaTeX-0.94.tar.gz to be unpacked in the directory of
 > 
 > 	/tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX
 > 
 > and the other files to be moved to the directory of
 > 
 > 	/tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX
 > 
 > I thank you very much.
 > 
 > With regards,
 > 
 > =========================================================================
 >  Koaunghi Un
 >  Zentrum f"ur Datenverarbeitung
 >  Universit"at T"ubingen | E-mail:
 >  Morgenstelle           | Internet (zraun01@sunaps.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de)
 >                         | Alternative (koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de)
 >  D-72074 T"ubingen      | Telefon: +49-7071-296937
 >  Fed. Rep. of Germany   | Fax: +49-7071-296936
 > =========================================================================
 > 

Thanks, I installed the files.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Feb  2 02:41:30 1996
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 13:50:08 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: mpt, mp2.mft

Ulrik Vieth writes:
 > 
 > I've uploaded the file "mp2mft.tar" to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > This file unpacks into three files:
 > 
 > * "mp2.mft" -- a MFT style file suitable for pretty-printing
 >   MetaPost sources.  It knows about the syntactic properties
 >   of MetaPost primitives and the macros defined in "plain.mp"
 >   and standard MetaPost packages like "graph.mp" or "boxes.mp".
 > 
 >   Since it also knows about the macros defined in "mfplain.mp",
 >   the Metafont-compatible base file, it should be suitable
 >   for pretty-printing plain METAFONT sources as well, perhaps
 >   even better than the standard MFT style file "plain.mft".
 > 
 >   As an extra bonus, this style file also includes some TeX code
 >   to modify the formatting of comment lines in MFT listings.
 >   Comments are now formatted flush left/ragged right by default
 >   unless a special character follows the comment sign to change
 >   this behaviour.  This seems to be a more suitable default for
 >   block comments than the standard setup in MFT, but it is still
 >   possible to produce flush right comments as well.
 > 
 >   This file is partly based on an earlier "mp.mft" written by
 >   Andreas Scherer <scherer@genesis.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>,
 >   but largely rewritten and reorganized.
 > 
 > * "mp2mft.sed" -- a script for "sed", the Unix stream editor,
 >   to pre-process MetaPost sources containing verbatim TeX code
 >   embedded between |btex ... etex| or |verbatimtex ... etex|.
 >   In the MFT listing, TeX code will be presented as comments
 >   at the end of lines containing |btex ... etex| since it might
 >   otherwise mess up the MFT formatting of the MetaPost code.
 >   
 >   This file is based on an idea proposed by Andreas Scherer
 >   <scherer@genesis.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, incorporating
 >   minor corrections and improvements.
 > 
 > * "mpt" -- a Unix shell script that may serve as a front end to
 >   the standard "mft" program.  It automatically checks whether
 >   preprocessing with "sed" may be needed and does the conversion
 >   using "mp2mft.sed" before invoking "mft".  This shell script
 >   isn't bullet-proof and doesn't try to catch all possible
 >   problems.  For the normal case, however, it should be more
 >   convenient than doing it by hand.
 >   
 >   Since this script only requires "sed" and "grep" besides MFT,
 >   it should be possible to come up with equivalent solutions
 >   for other platforms, provided "sed" and "grep" are available.
 >   However, I have no interest in working on that.
 > 
 > On CTAN, all these files should be installed in the directory
 > graphics/metapost/contrib/misc, where "mp.mft" already resides.
 > 
 > In a TDS-compatible installation, the file "mp2.mft" should be
 > installed in the directory $TEXMF/mft/, where the "mft" program
 > should be able to find it, if properly installed.
 > 
 > The shell script "mpt" can be installed anywhere in your search
 > path, but you'll have to edit the file to specify the location
 > where you're going to install the file "mp2mft.sed".  Due to
 > lack of any more suitable location, I'd recommend to put that
 > file in the $TEXMF/mft/ directory as well.
 > 
 > Happy MetaPost'ing!
 > 
 > Ulrik Vieth <vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de> -- 1995/01/29

Thanks, I installed the files.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
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From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb  1 09:22:20 1996
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 13:52:48 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Jens Toivo Berger Thielemann <jensthi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Jens Toivo Berger Thielemann writes:

 > Hi! I just uploaded ChkTeX to the CTAN network - here's the info you need:
 > 
 > Site: ftp.dante.de
 > Files: chktex.tar.gz chktex.readme
 > Description: Finds typographic errors in LaTeX files. See also included=20
 > readme.
 > Position: tex-archive/support/chktex
 > 
 > Thanks.
 > 
 > }\ /{ Troppsleder Ulven Speidergruppe/NSF     // Amiga  1200/2MB/120MB
 > {o~o} Rover 2vr & 1r/V=E5lerenga Sp.gr./NSF   \X/  PGP: 889FEE5F4481AE55
 >  (")  ICBM address: N59=B056.25'. E10=B043.37'            418685BD14C02604
 >   U   Phone: +47 22720333 BBS: +47 22733385    #include <disclaimer.h>

Thanks, I installed the file as proposed

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From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Feb  2 03:36:08 1996
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 09:24:21 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, turtle@diku.dk
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Peter M|ller Neergaard writes:

 > Som minutes ago I uploaded a LaTeX2e-package "bbding.zip" (consisting of a
 > ".dtx"-file and a ".ins"-file) to the "\incoming" directory at fpt.dante.de.  
 > It is addition to bbding-symbolfont set, which is already found at CTAN. By 
 > naming all the symbols in the font it provides an easier interface.
 > 
 > It is my impression, that style files for using a specific font is normally
 > placed together with the font, so my suggestion would be to place it in
 >   tex-archive/fonts/bbding

Thansk, I added the files to

  fonts/bbding

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From Sysmgr@banyan.rmc.ca Sat Feb  3 06:30:38 1996
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 10:19:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Sysmgr <Sysmgr@banyan.rmc.ca>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: schoepf@uni-mainz.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: mpt, mp2.mft

We are getting a lot of undelivered mail from you, but cannot identify the 
intended recipients.
We have recently made changes to our account/addressing scheme, explaining 
why mail is intercepted by our gateway.
Could you please send me a list of addresses, in your Mailing List, that 
belong to the rmc.ca domain and I will return the list of proper addresses.
Thank you.

Sgt Dan LaMalice
Banyan Network Administrator
Royal Military College of Canada
E-Mail: lamalice-d@rmc.ca
Ext. 6215
-------------
Original Text
>From Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>, on 2/1/96 1:50 PM:
ERROR: iSMTP COULD NOT FIND ANY RECIPIENT! PLEASE FORWARD THE FOLLOWING 
MESSAGE.

----------------------  Original Message Follows  ----------------------

Ulrik Vieth writes:
 > 
 > I've uploaded the file "mp2mft.tar" to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > This file unpacks into three files:
 > 
 > * "mp2.mft" -- a MFT style file suitable for pretty-printing
 >   MetaPost sources.  It knows about the syntactic properties
 >   of MetaPost primitives and the macros defined in "plain.mp"
 >   and standard MetaPost packages like "graph.mp" or "boxes.mp".
 > 
 >   Since it also knows about the macros defined in "mfplain.mp",
 >   the Metafont-compatible base file, it should be suitable
 >   for pretty-printing plain METAFONT sources as well, perhaps
 >   even better than the standard MFT style file "plain.mft".
 > 
 >   As an extra bonus, this style file also includes some TeX code
 >   to modify the formatting of comment lines in MFT listings.
 >   Comments are now formatted flush left/ragged right by default
 >   unless a special character follows the comment sign to change
 >   this behaviour.  This seems to be a more suitable default for
 >   block comments than the standard setup in MFT, but it is still
 >   possible to produce flush right comments as well.
 > 
 >   This file is partly based on an earlier "mp.mft" written by
 >   Andreas Scherer <scherer@genesis.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>,
 >   but largely rewritten and reorganized.
 > 
 > * "mp2mft.sed" -- a script for "sed", the Unix stream editor,
 >   to pre-process MetaPost sources containing verbatim TeX code
 >   embedded between |btex ... etex| or |verbatimtex ... etex|.
 >   In the MFT listing, TeX code will be presented as comments
 >   at the end of lines containing |btex ... etex| since it might
 >   otherwise mess up the MFT formatting of the MetaPost code.
 >   
 >   This file is based on an idea proposed by Andreas Scherer
 >   <scherer@genesis.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, incorporating
 >   minor corrections and improvements.
 > 
 > * "mpt" -- a Unix shell script that may serve as a front end to
 >   the standard "mft" program.  It automatically checks whether
 >   preprocessing with "sed" may be needed and does the conversion
 >   using "mp2mft.sed" before invoking "mft".  This shell script
 >   isn't bullet-proof and doesn't try to catch all possible
 >   problems.  For the normal case, however, it should be more
 >   convenient than doing it by hand.
 >   
 >   Since this script only requires "sed" and "grep" besides MFT,
 >   it should be possible to come up with equivalent solutions
 >   for other platforms, provided "sed" and "grep" are available.
 >   However, I have no interest in working on that.
 > 
 > On CTAN, all these files should be installed in the directory
 > graphics/metapost/contrib/misc, where "mp.mft" already resides.
 > 
 > In a TDS-compatible installation, the file "mp2.mft" should be
 > installed in the directory $TEXMF/mft/, where the "mft" program
 > should be able to find it, if properly installed.
 > 
 > The shell script "mpt" can be installed anywhere in your search
 > path, but you'll have to edit the file to specify the location
 > where you're going to install the file "mp2mft.sed".  Due to
 > lack of any more suitable location, I'd recommend to put that
 > file in the $TEXMF/mft/ directory as well.
 > 
 > Happy MetaPost'ing!
 > 
 > Ulrik Vieth <vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de> -- 1995/01/29

Thanks, I installed the files.

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From g.tobin@ee.latrobe.edu.au Fri Feb  9 02:14:37 1996
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 17:39:54 +1100 (EST)
From: Geoff Tobin <g.tobin@ee.latrobe.edu.au>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: G.Tobin@ee.latrobe.edu.au
Subject: setspace package (update) for LaTeX (2e)

Dear fellow members of the LaTeX users' community,

CTAN has received a LaTeX (2e) version of setspace.sty, a package file
for setting the line spacing for the whole or portions of a document.

In this release, the global line spacing does not affect text in floats
(tables and figures) or footnotes; these are normally single-spaced,
as good typography usually requires.  However, line spacing can be set
locally, inside a float or a footnote, or in containers (localising
groups and environments) such as captions, parboxes or minipages.

CTAN location:

         macros/latex/contrib/supported/setspace/setspace.sty

NOTE:  This version deliberately does _NOT_ work in LaTeX 2.09.

This version is intended to make obsolete (for users of the official
LaTeX) all older setspace versions, and similar styles such as
doublespace.  Users of LaTeX 2.09 are urged to upgrade to the official
LaTeX (2e).

CAVEAT:  setspace.sty hacks internals of LaTeX so it conceivably may
break in future LaTeX releases.  (Hint:  This is due to lack of
appropriate hooks in LaTeX's low-level float, footnote and mp-footnote
code).

REASON for update:  The previous setspace had incompatibilities with
the float and footnote code in LaTeX since at least the January 1992
release of LaTeX 2.09.

The previous setspace was usable for _main body text only_ (not in
documents containing tables, figures or footnotes) in LaTeX 2.09,
LaTeX 2.09 plus NFSS1, and LaTeX (2e).  Those who still wish to use
and/or hack the previous setspace may find it renamed at CTAN as:

         macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/gdgspace.sty

The `gdg' prefix is in honour of contributions to setspace by George
Greenwade (former maintainer of the USA's CTAN site).

Best wishes!
Geoffrey Tobin

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Feb 12 21:19:55 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:43:52 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE
Subject: Re: ftp.dante.de//incoming/jknappen

TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE writes:

 > I have corrected a minor bug in the two files 
 > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen/latin1jk.def
 >                                                     latin3jk.def
 > concerning the handling of the cedilla. The new versions supercede
 > the old ones.

I've just installed the files

Rainer

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Feb 14 09:04:04 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:46:29 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se
Subject: Re: CTAN submission:  vrsion package update at dante node

matsd@physchem.kth.se writes:
 > Friends,
 > 
 > I just uploaded to  ftp.dante.de/incoming/vrsion  an updated 
 > version of my LaTeX package `vrsion'.  The package (and upload) 
 > consists of three files:  00readme.vrs (a "readme file")
 >                           vrsion.dtx   (the package etc.)
 >                           vrsion.ins   (installation driver)
 > The files submitted today are meant to replace the files 
 > currently in 
 >   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/vrsion
 > 
 > The update fixes two bugs:  Issuing of extra blank pages when the 
 > `vrsion' package and the command `\maketitle' are used is 
 > eliminated for article, report and book classes (at least);  the 
 > package is (again) compatible with the `babel' package.
 > 
 > The `vrsion' package defines a command which produces 
 > a version number in the .dvi-file when LaTeX is run.  The version 
 > number can be incremented at the unit, the tenths and the 
 > hundredth level, and also kept constant when desired.  
 > 
 > happy TeXing!
 >              mats d.
 > 
 > 
 > mats dahlgren                  * "..skillnaden var bara den, att hennes *
 > Royal Institute of Technology  *  kunskaper var nyttiga och oordnade,   *
 > Lab. for Chem. Surface Science *  medan professorns var onyttiga och    *
 > S-100 44  Stockholm, Sweden    *  ordnade."  - Karin Boye i _Kris_      *
 > 
 >     <matsd@physchem.kth.se>  Ph: +46-8-790 8596  Fx: +46-8-790 8207
 >                     http://lupus.physchem.kth.se/~matsd  

Thanks, I installed the update.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
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    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
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   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Feb 14 03:59:29 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:46:45 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se
Subject: Re: CTAN submission:  update of `chemsym' package

matsd@physchem.kth.se writes:
 > 
 > Friends,
 > 
 > Just a minute ago, I uploaded to   ftp.dante.de/incoming/chemsym  
 > an update of the `chemsym' package.  The upload and package 
 > consistes of the files:   00readme.chs      (a "read me" file)
 >                           chemsym.dtx       (the package file)
 >                           chemsym.ins       (installation driver)
 > These are meant to replace the files currently in
 >   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/chemsym
 > 
 > The `chemsym' package facilitates writing chemical formulas 
 > (consisting of chemical symbols) in LaTeX in a way the user never 
 > need to worry about being in math mode or not -- the symbols are 
 > always set upright.
 > 
 > Todays upload contains a few extensions of the package and the 
 > inclusion of a few warnings in the documentation.
 > 
 > yours,
 >       mats d.
 > 
 > 
 > mats dahlgren                  * "..skillnaden var bara den, att hennes *
 > Royal Institute of Technology  *  kunskaper var nyttiga och oordnade,   *
 > Lab. for Chem. Surface Science *  medan professorns var onyttiga och    *
 > S-100 44  Stockholm, Sweden    *  ordnade."  - Karin Boye i _Kris_      *
 > 
 >     <matsd@physchem.kth.se>  Ph: +46-8-790 8596  Fx: +46-8-790 8207
 >                     http://lupus.physchem.kth.se/~matsd  

Thanks, I installed the update.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Feb 13 05:50:08 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:49:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, leis@usq.edu.au
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

John W Leis writes:
 > 
 > Hi (Rainer I think),
 > 
 > I have submitted to site  ftp.dante.de the following files:
 > 
 >      latexcad.txt - 2913 bytes, MS-DOS text
 >      latexcad15.zip - 449,050 bytes, pkzip format archive
 > 
 > These are replacements for the LATEXCAD package (LaTeX drawing),
 > currently on CTAN sites in directory /tex-archive/systems/msdos/latexcad
 > All files currently in that directory should be deleted.
 > 
 > Thanks & regards,
 > john leis
 > 
 > leis@usq.edu.au
 > 
Thanks, I installed the new files.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
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   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Feb 24 03:28:33 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:49:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, leis@usq.edu.au
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

John W Leis writes:
 > 
 > Hi (Rainer I think),
 > 
 > I have submitted to site  ftp.dante.de the following files:
 > 
 >      latexcad.txt - 2913 bytes, MS-DOS text
 >      latexcad15.zip - 449,050 bytes, pkzip format archive
 > 
 > These are replacements for the LATEXCAD package (LaTeX drawing),
 > currently on CTAN sites in directory /tex-archive/systems/msdos/latexcad
 > All files currently in that directory should be deleted.
 > 
 > Thanks & regards,
 > john leis
 > 
 > leis@usq.edu.au
 > 
Thanks, I installed the new files.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Feb 14 02:11:15 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:47:55 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Tobias.Spribille@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Tobias Spribille writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I've just uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file adrlist.tar.
 > It contains two files representing a macro package for use with LaTeX.
 > The Makro helps you in using address lists with LaTeX, e.g. in letters to 
 > several recipients. It could be placed under 
 > tex/macros/latex/contrib/other, either in a directory of its own, or into
 > the subdirectory misc.
 > 
 > Greetings,
 > 
 > 		Tobias
 > 
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > |                 Tobias.Spribille@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de                  |
 > |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 > |  In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added  |
 > |  to it, there was trouble - for with it came syntax.         (John Simon)  | 
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 

Thanks, I installed the package in

  macros/latex/contrib/other/adrlist

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Feb 13 02:34:44 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:50:10 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Michael Mehlich <mehlich@helios.pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Michael Mehlich writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I just uploaded a new version of my hyper-package to
 >   ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/hyper.tar.gz
 > It replaces the old version at
 >   macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper
 > The new version is an adaption to the current versions
 > of latex and cweb.
 > 
 > Greetings from Munich
 >   Michael Mehlich
 > 
 > 

Thanks, I installed the update

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Feb 17 14:54:25 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:50:10 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Michael Mehlich <mehlich@helios.pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Michael Mehlich writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I just uploaded a new version of my hyper-package to
 >   ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/hyper.tar.gz
 > It replaces the old version at
 >   macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper
 > The new version is an adaption to the current versions
 > of latex and cweb.
 > 
 > Greetings from Munich
 >   Michael Mehlich
 > 
 > 

Thanks, I installed the update

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb 15 01:25:31 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:56:51 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: aux-renum.el

Ulrik Vieth writes:
 > 
 > I've uploaded the file "aux-renum.el" on ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > 
 > This file provides some GNU Emacs macros for renumbering equation
 > labels and references in (multi-file) LaTeX documents, so that
 > they match their representation in the printed document.
 > 
 > In the CTAN directory structure, this file probably belongs into
 > support/emacs-modes, but as that directory isn't particularly well
 > organized, I wouldn't mind if it were placed in a package-level
 > subdirectory somewhere below support/emacs-modes.

I put the file into

   support/emacs-modes/aux-renum.el

I agree with your sentiments about the contents of this directory, but
I don't have the time right now to do a proper reorganization.

Rainer Sch�pf


 > Appended below is a descripition taken from the file itself.
 > This is all the documentation there is about it.
 > 
 > Since this is my first attempt at programming in Emacs lisp, 
 > I would appreciate bug-reports, comments and other feedback.
 > However, I don't really promise to support it.  Be careful,
 > when using it!  It could mess up your document sources when
 > something goes really wrong!
 > 
 > Ulrik Vieth <vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de> -- 1995/01/29 
 > 
 > 
 > ;;; aux-renum.el --- renumber labels in LaTeX documents
 > 
 > ;; Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Ulrik Vieth.
 > 
 > ;; Author: Ulrik Vieth <vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de>
 > ;; Keywords: tex, maint
 > ;; Version: 0.5
 > 
 > ;;; Commentary:
 > 
 > ;; Description:
 > ;;
 > ;; This package provides two functions `aux-renumber-single' and
 > ;; `aux-renumber-multi' to renumber equation labels and references
 > ;; in LaTeX documents so that they match their representation in
 > ;; the ".aux" file(s) and the formatted document.
 > ;;
 > ;; Why would you want to do that?  Well, consider a manuscript of
 > ;; a book containing several hundreds of equations spread across
 > ;; a dozen or more files.  Since it is impossible to give reasonable
 > ;; names to so many equations, they may have been given some ad-hoc
 > ;; labels when the manuscript was typed.  After completing some
 > ;; intermediate or final version that will be printed and possibly
 > ;; distributed, it may be convenient to renumber the labels so that
 > ;; you can directly refer to the equation numbers in the printed
 > ;; version without having to figure out what cryptic label to type
 > ;; to produce the desired equation number in subsequent edits.
 > ;;
 > ;; Another appilcation might be a manuscript of a paper that will
 > ;; be submitted electronically to a journal.  To avoid confusion
 > ;; in subsequent correspondence with the journal editor, it might
 > ;; be advantageous if the labels match their representation in the
 > ;; paper copy submitted to the publisher.
 > ;;
 > 
 > ;; Usage:
 > ;;
 > ;; 1. Load or autoload this file:
 > ;;
 > ;;    (load-library "aux-renum")
 > ;;
 > ;; or
 > ;;    (autoload 'aux-renumber-single "aux-renum"
 > ;;      "Renumber labels in a single-file LaTeX document." t)
 > ;;    (autoload 'aux-renumber-multi "aux-renum"
 > ;;      "Renumber labels in a multi-file LaTeX document." t)
 > ;;
 > ;; 2. Run it interactively:
 > ;;
 > ;;   M-x aux-renumber-single
 > ;;   M-x aux-renumber-multi
 > ;;
 > 
 > ;; Known Problems:
 > ;;
 > ;; - Operation is restricted to files in the current directory.
 > ;;   This isn't easy to fix because the list of include files is
 > ;;   constructed from the information in the master ".aux" file
 > ;;   which doesn't include any directory information.
 > ;;
 > ;; - There are no checks to ensure that the replacement strings
 > ;;   are unique.  This shouldn't be a problem if the ".aux" files
 > ;;   are correct and up-to-date, but it could mess up your files
 > ;;   if several (presumably incorrectly placed) labels have the
 > ;;   same representation, e.g. if they refer to a section number
 > ;;   instead of an equation number.  Check your ".aux" files or
 > ;;   take your chances!
 > ;;
 > ;; - It is silently assumed that the labels in your ".aux" file
 > ;;   follow certain conventions.  This means that every label is
 > ;;   considered an equation label unless it starts with a known
 > ;;   prefix.  The list of prefixes of labels that should be left
 > ;;   unchaged is specified by the regexp `aux-exclude-regexp'.
 > ;;
 > ;; - The replacement function in `aux-process-tex-file' uses the
 > ;;   high-level functions `find-file-noselect' and `save-buffer'
 > ;;   to load and save ".tex" files, which perform all sorts of
 > ;;   checks.  This might lead to some unexpected user interaction
 > ;;   if some safety checks need to be answered.  This might be
 > ;;   somewhat irritating, but it's only to be on the safe side.
 > ;;

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Feb 14 23:54:53 1996
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 16:49:07 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: MS@Dream.HB.North.DE
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: prelim2e 1.10

Martin Schroeder writes:

 > I have uploaded (read: have told a friend of mine to upload it -- I only have
 > Usenet access) to the incoming of 
 > 	ftp.dante.de 
 > the file 
 > 	prelim2e.zip
 > containing the version 1.10 of prelim2e.
 > 
 >  Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name 
 >  ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----
 >       0  Stored       0   0%  13-02-96  20:57  00000000   prelim2e/
 >   16631  Defl:X    4981  70%  13-02-96  20:53  5cb41bf9   prelim2e/prelim2e.dtx
 >   23724  Defl:X    7381  69%  13-02-96  20:55  ae3cbfe6   prelim2e/prelim2e.dvi
 >    2843  Defl:X    1086  62%  13-02-96  20:54  afc69af0   prelim2e/prelim2e.ins
 >  ------          ------  ---                              -------
 >   43198           13448  69%                              4
 > 
 > It's contents should be stored in macros\latex\contrib\supported\prelim2e
 > 
 > >From prelim2e.dtx:
 > %% ===================================================================
 > %%  @LaTeX-package-file{
 > %%    author         = {Martin Schr\"oder},
 > %%    version        = "1.10",
 > %%    date           = "1 January 1996",
 > %%    filename       = "prelim2e.sty",
 > %%    address        = {Martin Schr\"oder
 > %%                      Friedrich-Humbert-Stra\ss{}e 124
 > %%                      D-28759 Bremen},
 > %%    telephone      = "++49-421-628813",
 > %%    email          = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (INTERNET)",
 > %%    codetable      = "ISO/ASCII",
 > %%    keywords       = "LaTeX2e, preliminary versions, versions",
 > %%    dependences    = "everyshi, scrtime",
 > %%    supported      = "yes",
 > %%    docstring      = "LaTeX package which allows the marking of
 > %%                      preliminary versions of a document"
 > %%                     .
 > %%  }
 > %% ===================================================================
 > 
 > Is there any way to send submission to CTAN via E-Mail?
 > 
 > Thanks in advance
 > 	Martin
 > 
 > -- 
 >                Martin Schr"oder, MS@Dream.HB.North.DE
 > Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. (Oscar Wilde)

Thanks, the update has been installed as proposed.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Feb 14 22:39:32 1996
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 16:51:14 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Andreas Tille <e2od5@mlucom.urz.Uni-Halle.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Andreas Tille writes:
 > NEW VERSION OF  CIRC
 > 
 > I have upload in
 > 
 >        ftp.dante.de:/incoming/circ/  circ.dtx, circ.ins, readme
 > 
 > the package CIRC.
 > 
 > NEW VERSION OF  CIRC
 > 
 > This is CIRC version 1.0[b].
 > 
 > The package \CIRC is a tool for typesetting circuit diagrams. It
 > defines several electrical symbols such as resistors, capacitors,
 > transistors etc. These symbols can be connected with wires in a
 > very easy way.
 > 
 > For using \CIRC you only need \METAFONT and \LaTeX{}. You do not
 > need PostScript or any drawing tool. You can expand \CIRC easily
 > with your own symbols, written in \METAFONT.
 > 
 > CIRC is an open system. As an example in this package is an
 > optics style with lenses, mirrors and so on to show, how to use
 > the macros and expand the package.
 > 
 > It runs with LaTeX2e.
 > 
 > To install \CIRC first run TeX on "circ.ins".
 > 
 > Changes to CIRC 1.0[a]
 > ----------------------
 > 1. circ.ins corrected to avoid errormessages while unpacking circ.dtx
 > 2. slightly improved documentation
 > 3. nothing else

The update has been installed, thanks.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Feb 16 19:10:40 1996
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 14:45:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: sojka@daeron.fi.muni.cz
Subject: cp852.def

Petr Sojka has submitted a file cp852.def, for use with the inputenc
package (it relates to his bug report latex/2081).  Speaking from pure
ignorance, I presume that it deals with typing using a Czech-oriented
keyboard...

At David Carlisle's suggestion, I have installed it in a new directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/inputenc on ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should
propagate to the other CTANs shortly.

Robin Fairbairns

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Feb 16 19:22:31 1996
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 17:58:07 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: reckdahl@leland.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: CTAN upload

Keith Reckdahl writes:

> I've loaded a new version of epslatex.ps into the
> shsu \incoming directory.  This should replace
> the current version in the /tex-archive/info directory.
> 
> The new version now documents the caption2 package.

I've now (finally) installed this new version at ftp.tex.ac.uk: my
apologies for the delay (which I've already explained to Keith).

The updated version should propagate to the other CTANs soon.

Robin Fairbairns

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb 22 07:04:21 1996
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 11:20:53 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, John W Leis <leis@foes.usq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

John W Leis writes:

 > I have just placed the files latexcad.txt (3 242 bytes) and latexcad16.zip 
 > (449 266 bytes) on the CTAN mirror ftp.dante.de, directory /incoming
 > 
 > These files are for the latex-cad package, version 1.6. They replace all 
 > files currently in /systems/msdos/latexcad on CTAN mirrors.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

Rainer Sch�pf

From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Thu Feb 22 23:23:59 1996
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 12:47:50 +0100
From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: feynmf-announce@MATH.AMS.ORG, feynmf-bugs@MATH.AMS.ORG, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, metafont@ens.fr
Subject: [LaTeX, Metafont, Graphics, Feynman diagrams] FEYNMF v1.04 released

This announces version 1.04 of feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont
package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and maybe
other) diagrams.  If you don't know if feynmf is useful for you, have
a look at the preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz').  It is provided to
wet your appetite with numerous examples.  For WWW junkies, there are
the first two parts of a three part tutorial available from CERN:

   http://wwwcn1.cern.ch/cnls/220/node57.html
   http://wwwcn1.cern.ch/cnls/221/node63.html

This software will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN
host near you.

Enjoy,
-Thorsten

NEWS for Version 1.04

    *  Finally, \fmffixed{(dx,whatever)}{v1,v2} and
    \fmffixed{(whatever,dy)}{v1,v2} do what you would expect them
    to.  \fmffixedx and \fmffixedy are new synonyms for those.

NEWS for Version 1.03

    *  It is no longer necessary to protect TeX command sequences with
    \noexpand.  Old files using \noexpand will continue to work.
-- 
Thorsten Ohl, Physics Department, TH Darmstadt --- PGP: AF 38 FF CE 03 8A 2E A7
http://crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de/~ohl/ -------- 8F 2A C1 86 8C 06 32 6B

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 28 05:50:07 1996
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 10:25:28 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: akgoel@uwaterloo.ca
Subject: CTAN upload: ltablex.sty

Some very long time ago, Anil K Goel uploaded a file ltablex.sty to
SHSU, and asked that it be installed.

In the general chaos that has surrounded the operation of SHSU for
some time, the request got lost, and then the file disappeared.  Anil
has now supplied us with a new copy, and I have installed it at
ftp.tex.ac.uk as macros/latex/contrib/supported/ltablex/ltablex.sty
(It's a pretty small file, so ought to propagate without too many
problems.)

My apologies on behalf of the whole team that it's taken this long;
and thanks to Anil for the file, and for his patience...

The file says of itself:

%% The file modifies the tabularx environment to
%% combine the features of the tabularx package
%% (auto-sized columns in a fixed width table) 
%% with those of the longtable package 
%% (multi-page tables).
%% 
%% The tables are typeset using the tabularx environment
%% and the longtable environment is used internally to
%% handle multi-page tables. The \setlongtables feature
%% is used, and, therefore, the document should be
%% run through latex twice.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar  2 21:23:28 1996
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 10:38:37 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Miguel.Alabau@labri.u-bordeaux.fr
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- progkeys

Miguel Alabau writes:

> I have updated a set of LaTeX style files that I submitted last
> year. Robin Fairbairns indicated some enhancements that I have
> included.
> 
> The submitted files are contained in an archive called
> 'progkeys.tar.gz'. Its contents are given below:
> 
> 	progkeys/
> 	progkeys/demo/				--------- demo program
> 	progkeys/demo/prog2.tex
> 	progkeys/demo/prog3.tex
> 	progkeys/demo/demo.tex
> 	progkeys/demo/prog1.tex
> 	progkeys/latex2e/			--------- LaTeX2e files
> 	progkeys/latex2e/keywords.dtx
> 	progkeys/latex2e/keywords.ins
> 	progkeys/latex2e/programs.dtx
> 	progkeys/latex2e/programs.ins
> 	progkeys/README				--------- ASCII documentation
> 	progkeys/latex/				--------- LaTeX2.09 files
> 	progkeys/latex/keywords.doc
> 	progkeys/latex/keywords.ins
> 	progkeys/latex/programs.doc
> 	progkeys/latex/programs.ins
> 
> The files are intended for typesetting programs (programs.sty) and
> keywords (keywords.sty) in a very easy and convenient manner. The
> files are self-documented; however I have included a README file for a
> fast use.

I have rearranged the files somewhat, since Miguel's layout doesn't
match that of the archive, and installed them all at ftp.tex.ac.uk

The version for LaTeX is on macros/latex/contrib/supported/progkeys,
and the demo directory is a subdirectory of it.

The version for LaTeX 2.09 is on macros/latex209/contrib/progkeys,
which also has a demo subdirectory.

I also edited the README file somewhat to make a version for each of
the directories.

Thanks, Miguel, for taking on my suggestions; I hope the rearrangement
is satisfactory for you!

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar  2 06:21:51 1996
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:55:59 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Philip Hirschhorn <psh@math.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: exam.sty

In _November_ (we, or more likely SHSU's mailer, lost his mail) Philip
Hirschhorn wrote:

>    I've just uploaded the files exam.sty, examdoc.tex, and examdoc.dvi to
>    ftp.shsu.edu, intending this as a contribution to CTAN.  I created the
>    directory /incoming/exam, and placed the files into this new
>    directory.

Incidentally, Philip had noticed that his /incoming/exam had become
/incoming/.exam, without anything else happening to it.

This is because (a) we can't delete directories on /incoming, due to a
witty part of SHSU's configuration, and (b) it helps us, when
telnetted to SHSU, not to see directories we don't understand (or have
already dealt with...

If the same has happened to one of *your* directories, with no
intervening installation, feel free to let the CTAN team know, via
ctan@shsu.edu; sooner or later the message will get through to one of
us, and your stuff will get installed (SHSU's /incoming is mirrored in
Europe).

>    exam.sty is the documentstyle that I wrote for creating exams, and
>    examdoc.tex is the documentation for it.  exam.sty was written as a
>    documentstyle for LaTeX 2.09, but it also works well under LaTeX2e.
>    I would recommend creating the directory
>    /tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/exam and placing the files into
>    that directory.
> 
>    exam.sty is a documentstyle that makes it easy to prepare exams.  It
>    provides for easy customization of headers, footers, text width and
>    height, different treatment for the first page and for the last page,
>    and a number of other features.  Most of what this style provides can
>    be obtained using other style files, but what distinguishes this one
>    is that it was written specifically to be easy to use for
>    non-technically oriented LaTeX users.  (It also provides a few
>    features that I haven't seen anywhere else.)  It comes with a
>    documentation file (examdoc.tex) that (I hope) clearly explains to the
>    novice how to use the features of exam.sty.
> 
>    Among its features:
> 
>      The style will automatically format and number the questions,
>      parts of questions, and subparts of questions, while making it easy
>      to refer to specific questions by number in any special directions
>      you need to print on the exam.
> 
>      You can include the point value of each question (or part, or
>      subpart), with your choice of having the point values either at the
>      beginning of the text of the question or in the left margin.
> 
>      You can specify the header in three parts: The left head, the
>      center head, and the right head.  The left head is left justified,
>      the center head is centered, and the right head is right justified,
>      and one or all of these can be omitted.
> 
>      The footer is also specified in three parts: Left justified,
>      centered, and right justified.
> 
>      The header and footer for the first page can be different from
>      the ones used on other pages.
> 
>      Both headers and footers can contain more than one line.  To
>      accommodate headers and footers with many lines, simple commands are
>      provided to increase the parts of the page devoted to the header
>      and/or the footer, and these commands can give one amount of space
>      on the first page and a different amount of space on all other
>      pages.
> 
>      You can have a horizontal rule at the base of the header and/or
>      at the top of the footer.
> 
>      Macros are defined to allow you to state the total number of
>      pages in the exam and to change the header and/or footer that
>      appears on the last page of the exam.

Now, many moons later, I've finally installed the stuff here at
ftp.tex.ac.uk, in the place suggested.  Paul has already had profuse
apologies from me...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 29 13:01:41 1996
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 14:04:01 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Philip Hirschhorn <psh@math.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: exam.sty

I wrote:

> Paul has already had profuse apologies from me...

Whereas I (of course) meant Philip.

My brain is plainly not entirely in working order just now.

Robin Fairbairns

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb 29 23:50:50 1996
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:37:15 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se
Subject: Re: CTAN upload at Dante:  floatflt update

matsd@physchem.kth.se writes:
 > 
 > Friends,
 > 
 > a short while ago, i uploaded to the dante node in 
 >   /incoming/floatflt
 > a few files which are an update of the `floatflt' package.  the 
 > files submitted are to replace the files currently in the directory 
 >   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/floatflt
 > 
 > >This is the file `00readme.flt', which accompanies the `floatflt'
 > >package distribution.  The package defines environments for figures 
 > >and tables which do not span the full width of a page.  The 'floatflt'
 > >package is is an extension of Thomas Kneser's style option 'floatfig.sty'
 > >for LaTeX 2.09, on which it is based.  To use the package, run LaTeX on 
 > >`floatflt.ins', this produces the files `floatflt.sty', which contains 
 > >the macro definitions, and the file `delex.tex', which is an example 
 > >of the use of the package.  To obtain the userguide and documentation, 
 > >run LaTeX on `floatflt.dtx' twice.  To obtain the example, run LaTeX 
 > >on `floatexm.tex' twice.  
 > 
 > mats d.
 > 
 > mats dahlgren                  * "..skillnaden var bara den, att hennes *
 > Royal Institute of Technology  *  kunskaper var nyttiga och oordnade,   *
 > Lab. for Chem. Surface Science *  medan professorns var onyttiga och    *
 > S-100 44  Stockholm, Sweden    *  ordnade."  - Karin Boye i _Kris_      *
 > 
 >     <matsd@physchem.kth.se>  Ph: +46-8-790 8596  Fx: +46-8-790 8207
 >                     http://lupus.physchem.kth.se/~matsd  


Thanks a lot, I installed the upgrade.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Mar  1 00:26:09 1996
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:41:40 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: draftcopy-2.5

Juergen Vollmer writes:

 > Dear CTAN maintainers,
 > 
 > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de' incomming/draftcopy-2.5
 > the following files
 > 	THIS-IS-draftcopy-2.5
 > 	draftcopy.doc
 >  	draftcopy.ins
 > 	Makefile
 > 	README.draftcopy
 > 
 > which replace former revisions of this package.
 > 
 > Here's a short description:
 > 
 > It's a LaTeX2e replacement for the original LaTeX209 style file 
 > `draftcopy.sty'.
 > New additional functionality:
 >  - The word DRAFT is replaced by a language dependend one,
 >  - One can choose on which pages (first, first2, first-n, all) this word should
 >    be printed, etc.
 >  - works for both: dvips and dvipsone graphics drivers.
 >  - If no options are passed, this new version behaves as the old one (except
 >    that the language dependent word is choosen).
 > 
 > Changes since 2.3:
 > - - Thanks to a volunteers, I got many new translations of the word DRAFT, but 
 > still 
 >   not all languages have correct translations. 
 > 
 > - - The package should now work also with the `dvipsone' graphics driver. Here I 
 > also
 >   need volunteeres to test other drivers. (dvips worked before)
 > 
 > These files should be placed in the `latex2e/contrib/supported' hierarchy.
 > 
 > With best regards
 > 
 > Juergen Vollmer
 > 
 > 
 > 
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Thanks a lot, I installed the update

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb 29 21:52:11 1996
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:53:31 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: asnd@reg.triumf.ca
Subject: Re: CTAN submissions: titleref.sty (new) url.sty (bug fix)

Donald Arseneau writes:
 > I just uploaded files to the Dante:incoming directory.
 > 
 > There is an erroneous "url.sty", the correct "URL.sty", and "titleref.sty".
 > 
 > url.sty:  error--old version-- please delete
 > URL.sty:  new version, please move to macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/url.sty
 >           (note lowercase of destination name)
 > titleref.sty   New sty file, please move to 
 >           macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/titleref.sty
 > 
 > What they do:
 > 
 > === url.sty: ===
 > 
 > % url.sty  ver 1.1    6-Feb-1996   Donald Arseneau   asnd@triumf.ca
 > % A form of \verb that allows linebreaks at certain characters ...
 > changed:
 > % Fix hyphens that wouldn't break and ligatures that weren't suppressed.
 > 
 > 
 > === titleref.sty: ===    
 > 
 > %  TITLEREF.STY  ver 1.0  1996-02-16   Donald Arseneau   <asnd@triumf.ca>
 > %  Define a "\titleref" command to cross-reference the titles of sections.
 > %  Use "\titleref" just like "\ref" and "\pageref".
 > 

I installed the files.

 > I notice some pre-release copies of url.sty in the tds directories.
 > They could probably be replaced with links to the official version,
 > or just left alone.

Hmm, the tds directories are mirror copies of the stuff at
ftp.th-darmstadt.de.

 > Hey, I get as fast response to Dante as I get to SHSU!

Glad to hear it.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb 29 15:51:56 1996
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:58:21 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: cschenk@berlin.snafu.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Christian Schenk writes:
 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming/miktex:
 > 
 >   cx103.zip       Packed font files for 300dpi laser printers
 >   dvips103.zip    dvips input files
 >   fonts1For the CTAN team
04.zip    Font source files (CM & DC)
 >   latex104.zip    LaTeX2e base distribution and format file
 >   mfin103.zip     METAFONT input files
 >   mkind103.zip    MakeIndex input files
 >   mktx103b.zip    METAFONT base file
 >   mktx104f.zip    TeX plain format file
 >   mktx104i.zip    Executable files (intel)
 >   mktx104s.zip    Sources
 >   texin103.zip    TeX input files
 >   tfm103.zip      Font metric files
 >   vf103.zip       Virtual font files
 > 
 > MiKTeX 1.04 is an implementation of TeX, METAFONT and DVIPS for
 > Windows NT and Windows 95.
 > 
 > I recommend placing the files in /tex-archive/systems/win32.
 > 
 > Regard,
 > Christian
 > 
 > -- 
 > Christian Schenk <cschenk@berlin.snafu.de>
 > 

I installed the package as 
  
    systems/win32/miktex

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar  2 02:39:37 1996
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 11:16:40 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: masroor@human.ai.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- bengali

Muhammad Masroor Ali writes:

> [...]
>         (c) Overview: Sgaon font was developed by Anisur
>                 Rahman for Bengali language and perhaps
>                 it was the first and only Bengali
>                 font in public domain. This font has
>                 found application in various packages
>                 including itrans. But the sgaon font lacks
>                 some essential characters. The submitted arosgn
>                 package contains tfm and pk font files
>                 for the missing characters, one style
>                 file for LaTeX interface, an
>                 introductory document and last but
>                 not the least the README file.
> 
>         (d) Placement: In the directory /language under the
>                 tex-archive. Creation of a new directory
>                 tex-archive/language/bengali is requested.
> 

and

>         (b) File: bngtoday.sty. This file is of zero size.
>      	        As a matter of fact, while transferring this
> 	        file, the connection broke, and later on
> 	        I failed to remove zero size one. Now
> 	        the actual contents can be found in
> 		REALbngtoday.sty. I am sorry for this
> 		unwanted trouble.
> 
>         (c) Overview: Style file for printing western dates in
>                 Bangla/Bengali in LaTeX.

I've installed both of these in language/bengali, as suggested, at
ftp.tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Mar  1 22:57:52 1996
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 12:51:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: dr. H. van der Meer <hansm@fwi.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Hans van der Meer writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk in the /incoming directory two files:
> 
> 1. exams.tar.gz = an update on the exams package currently residing in
> macros/latex/..supported; for maintaining and production of student's
> exams.
> 2. slidenotes.tar.gz = a cls intended for placement in the same directory;
> for production of amply annotated slides.

I have installed the files from both archives (after renaming the
readmes as exam.readme and slidenotes.readme) at ftp.tex.ac.uk in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/exams

(which is what I understood Hans wanted).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Mar  2 03:02:52 1996
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 14:46:53 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Jens T. Berger Thielemann <jensthi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- ChkTeX

Jens T. Berger Thielemann writes:
 > 
 > Site: ftp.dante.de
 > Files uploaded: chktex.tar.gz chktex.readme
 > Short: v1.3. Finds typographic errors in LaTeX
 > Long: 
 >     This program was written in frustration of that some constructs in
 > LaTeX  are sometimes non-intuitive, and easy to forget.  It is *not* a
 > replacement  for  the  built-in  checker in LaTeX; however, it catches
 > some  typographic  errors  LaTeX oversees.  In other words, it is Lint
 > for  LaTeX.  Filters are also provided for checking the LaTeX parts of
 > CWEB documents.
 > 
 > Directory: support/chktex
 > 
 > Please also rename the old files in that directory to chktex12.tar.gz and 
 > chktex12.readme. This way, chktex.tar.gz and chktex.readme will always 
 > contain the latest version.
 > 
 > }\ /{ Troppsleder Ulven Speidergruppe/NSF     // Amiga  1200/2MB/120MB
 > {o~o} Rover 2vr & 1r/V�lerenga Sp.gr./NSF   \X/  PGP: 889FEE5F4481AE55
 >  (")  ICBM address: N59�56.25'. E10�43.37'            418685BD14C02604
 >   U   Phone: +47 22720333 BBS: +47 22733385    #include <disclaimer.h>
 > 

I replaced the whole directory with the new version. Thanks a lot

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Mar  2 02:58:35 1996
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 14:56:36 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Tomas Bautista <bautista@cma.ulpgc.es>
Subject: Re: Una Descripci'on de LaTeX2e

Tomas Bautista writes:
 > Dear Sirs,
 > 
 >   In <ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ldesc2e> I have uploaded the source 
 > files of the document "Una Descripcion de LaTeX2e", which is a tutorial 
 > of LaTeX2e in Spanish language, originally translated from Mr. Tobias 
 > Oetiker, Dr. Hubert Partl, Ms. Irene Hyna and Ms. Elizabeth Schlegel's 
 > "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e."
 > 
 >   I would suggest to install it under </tex-archive/info/ldesc2e>.
 > 
 >   Thank you very much in advance.
 > 
 >   Greetings from the Canaries,
 > 
 >       Tomas.
 > 
 >  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 >   Tomas Bautista  E-mail: bautista@cma.ulpgc.es
 >                   Phone: +34 28 451275 -- Fax: +34 28 451243 
 >                   WWW Home Page: <http://www.cma.ulpgc.es/~bautista>
 >          Division de CAD del Centro de Microelectronica Aplicada
 >    Campus Univ. de Tafira, pab. A. E-35017 Las Palmas, Canary Islands
 >  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Thanks a lot, I installed your contribution as proposed

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Mar  2 02:57:49 1996
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 14:59:46 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de, Roland Schmehl <schmehl@itsnova.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: draftcopy-2.6

Juergen Vollmer writes:

 > Dear CTAN maintainers,
 > 
 > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de' incomming/draftcopy-2.6
 > the following files
 > 	THIS-IS-draftcopy-2.6
 > 	draftcopy.doc
 >  	draftcopy.ins
 > 	Makefile
 > 	README.draftcopy
 > 
 > which replace former revisions of this package.
 > 
 > Here's a short description:
 > 
 > It's a LaTeX2e replacement for the original LaTeX209 style file
 > `draftcopy.sty'.
 > New additional functionality:
 >  - The word DRAFT is replaced by a language dependend one,
 >  - One can choose on which pages (first, first2, first-n, all) this word should
 >    be printed, etc.
 >  - works for both: dvips and dvipsone graphics drivers.
 >  - If no options are passed, this new version behaves as the old one (except
 >    that the language dependent word is choosen).
 > 
 > Changes since 2.5
 > - - now it works also for the old release 5.472 of dvips.
 > 
 > I'm looking for volunteers who translate the word DRAFT into the various 
 > languages. Simply send me an email with translations.
 > 
 > With best regards
 > 
 > Juergen Vollmer

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Sat Mar  2 04:27:10 1996
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 14:46:29 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: LaTeX2e <1995/12/01> patch level 2


A very small update to LaTeX has been placed on the dante server and
will reach other ctan hosts and mirrors in due course.

This updates some files in the base tools and mfnfss distributions
as described in below, and in patches.txt in the distribution.

At the same time the graphics files have had some updates, primarily
to fix some problems in the Textures support, and also to fix the
preformated documentation, grfguide.ps, which had unfortunately been
produced with a badly configured dvips that `forced' A4 paper size and
made the file unprintable in North America.

The main details from patches.txt are reproduced here:
=======================================================================
Changes to the kernel in LaTeX2e <1995/12/01> patch level 2
-----------------------------------------------------------
(1996/02/29)

%%%
%%% None
%%%


Changes to non-kernel files in LaTeX <1995/12/01>
--------------------------------------------------

This section details files that have changed in the
`base', `tools' and `mfnfss' distributions.
Updates to the `babel' `psnfss', `amslatex' and `graphics' 
distributions will be announced separately, if necessary.


Patch Level 2
==============
base/slides.dtx      Fix \cline in slides class latex/2067
base/inputenc.dtx    Fixes to \c{}, cp850, latin2  latex/2077/2079/2080
base/yandytex.txt    Updated instructions supplied by Y & Y
base/multitex.txt    Updated supplied by  Markus Kohm, latex/2051

unpacked/slides.def
unpacked/ansinew.def
unpacked/applemac.def
unpacked/cp437.def
unpacked/cp437de.def
unpacked/cp850.def
unpacked/latin1.def
unpacked/latin2.def
unpacked/next.def

tools/longtable.dtx  Fix \hline in tabular inside longtable. tools/2068
mfnfss/oldgerm.dtx   Added <10.95> size for mfnfss/2076


=======================================================================

David Carlisle
LaTeX3 project







From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar  2 06:57:21 1996
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 11:47:08 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: dr. H. van der Meer <hansm@fwi.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

> Hans van der Meer writes:
> 
> > I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk in the /incoming directory two files:
> > 
> > 1. exams.tar.gz = an update on the exams package currently residing in
> > macros/latex/..supported; for maintaining and production of student's
> > exams.
> > 2. slidenotes.tar.gz = a cls intended for placement in the same directory;
> > for production of amply annotated slides.
> 
> I have installed the files from both archives (after renaming the
> readmes as exam.readme and slidenotes.readme) at ftp.tex.ac.uk in
> 
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/exams
> 
> (which is what I understood Hans wanted).

But it turned out that it wasn't what Hans wanted...

I've moved the slidenotes stuff into

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/slidenotes

(which is a new directory)

Sorry for the confusion

Robin Fairbairns

From k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Sun Mar 10 03:00:11 1996
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 23:48:02 -0300 (MET)
From: Lemberg Werner <k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, linux-asia@li.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ccnet-l%uga.BITNET@email.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at
Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.0 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e]

I've uploaded version 3.1.0 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts
(i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk, ftp.shsu.edu and its mirrors).

It will be soon available in the following directory:

    tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK

Below you find the release notes of this version.

Additionally a JIS X 0212 bitmap font (jisksp40.tar.gz) is now available
in the directory tex-archive/fonts/CJK-fonts .


    Happy TeXing


        Werner


[CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean
with LaTeX2e.  It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS,
Unicode.]


========================================================================


Version 3.1.0:  new:
20-Feb-1996         MakeTeXPK now supports DC (and TC) 1.2 fonts.

                    JIS supplement character set (JIS X 0212-1990)
                      implemented.

                    hbf2gf config file j2so12.cfg (for a JIS X 0212 font)
                      added.

                    New parameter for hbf2gf: slant. Note that slanted
                      fonts are not common for CJK languages and should
                      be used only in special situations.

                    Documentation about Japanese TeX systems and how to
                      handle Japanese with CJK contributed by TANAKA
                      Shinichiro <tanaka3@ifos.se.fujitsu.co.jp>.

                    An introduction into the CJK package in Chinese
                      contributed by Lee Chun-Yu <d791013@ce.ntu.edu.tw>.
                      Consequently the outdated README.bg5 together with
                      bg5_test.tex has been removed.

                    ntu2cjk version 1.3 .

                    CEF example added.

                changed:
                    MULEenc.sty, mule2cjk:
                      \textcdot dropped; replaced with \textperiodcentered.

                    MULEenc.sty:
                      definition of \textregistered dropped since it is
                      defined for all encodings in the latest LaTeX2e
                      release.

                    CJK.sty:
                      \nbs is now defined as a shorthand for \nobreakspace.

                      \space's added to font size functions analogously to
                      the latest LaTeX release.

                    mule2cjk:
                      \nbs replaced with \nobreakspace.

                    maketexp.btm:
                      small enhancements.

                    f_name.bat:
                      slightly modified to make it run under 4DOS too.

                    hbf2gf:
                      hbf.c updated to latest hbf version (17-Oct-1995).
                errors:
                    maketexp.btm:
                      the ttfdir environment variable in the created
                      fonts.btm file was not set.

                      Oh, oh, font creation with hbf2gf also didn't work...

                      at one place two `%%' used instead of one.

                    UJISwn.fd should now search for the right fonts.

                    *.cap:
                      erroneously contained \@undefined instead of
                      \undefined.

                    JIS.cap:
                      completely broken (sigh). Unbalanced \if... statements
                      caused unrecoverable errors.

From masroor@human.ai.kyushu-u.ac.jp Sat Mar  9 03:00:58 1996
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 12:28:04 +0900
From: Muhammad Masroor Ali <masroor@human.ai.kyushu-u.ac.jp>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Cc: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: CTAN Submission -- bengali



> >         (d) Placement: In the directory /language under the
> >                 tex-archive. Creation of a new directory
> >                 tex-archive/language/bengali is requested.
> > 
>

> and
> 
> >         (b) File: bngtoday.sty. This file is of zero size.
> >      	As a matter of fact, while transferring this
> > 
> >         (c) Overview: Style file for printing western dates in
> >                 Bangla/Bengali in LaTeX.
> 
> I've installed both of these in language/bengali, as suggested, at
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
> Robin Fairbairns
> 
> For the CTAN team


Thanks a lot for your effort and time.

I am sorry to bother you but I think that there was
a slight misunderstanding. I wanted arosgn package
to be installed under tex-archive/language/bengali.
What I failed to mention was, if the tar file,  arosgn2.0.tar.gz is
uploaded as it is, it is okay to keep it under tex-archive/language/bengali.
But if the tar file is unpacked, a subdirectory called
arosgn2.0 under tex-archive/language/bengali should be created and
the untarred files should be placed under this directory.
(May be it was a mistake in my part not to explicitly mention it.
I was under the impression that arosgn2.0.tar.gz will be uploaded
as it is. If it is okay with you, please
upload arosgn2.0.tar.gz as it is.)

Placement of bngtoday.sty is okay.


Thanks a lot for your earliest attention,

Regards,

Masroor


From k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Sat Mar  9 05:24:46 1996
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 07:31:29 -0300 (MET)
From: Lemberg Werner <k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, linux-asia@li.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ccnet-l@omega.fr
Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 3.1.0 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e]

I've uploaded version 3.1.0 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts
(i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk, ftp.shsu.edu and its mirrors).

It will be soon available in the following directory:

    tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK

Below you find the release notes of this version.

Additionally a JIS X 0212 bitmap font (jisksp40.tar.gz) is now available
in the directory tex-archive/fonts/CJK-fonts .


    Happy TeXing


        Werner


[CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean
with LaTeX2e.  It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS,
Unicode.]


========================================================================


Version 3.1.0:  new:
20-Feb-1996         MakeTeXPK now supports DC (and TC) 1.2 fonts.

                    JIS supplement character set (JIS X 0212-1990)
                      implemented.

                    hbf2gf config file j2so12.cfg (for a JIS X 0212 font)
                      added.

                    New parameter for hbf2gf: slant. Note that slanted
                      fonts are not common for CJK languages and should
                      be used only in special situations.

                    Documentation about Japanese TeX systems and how to
                      handle Japanese with CJK contributed by TANAKA
                      Shinichiro <tanaka3@ifos.se.fujitsu.co.jp>.

                    An introduction into the CJK package in Chinese
                      contributed by Lee Chun-Yu <d791013@ce.ntu.edu.tw>.
                      Consequently the outdated README.bg5 together with
                      bg5_test.tex has been removed.

                    ntu2cjk version 1.3 .

                    CEF example added.

                changed:
                    MULEenc.sty, mule2cjk:
                      \textcdot dropped; replaced with \textperiodcentered.

                    MULEenc.sty:
                      definition of \textregistered dropped since it is
                      defined for all encodings in the latest LaTeX2e
                      release.

                    CJK.sty:
                      \nbs is now defined as a shorthand for \nobreakspace.

                      \space's added to font size functions analogously to
                      the latest LaTeX release.

                    mule2cjk:
                      \nbs replaced with \nobreakspace.

                    maketexp.btm:
                      small enhancements.

                    f_name.bat:
                      slightly modified to make it run under 4DOS too.

                    hbf2gf:
                      hbf.c updated to latest hbf version (17-Oct-1995).
                errors:
                    maketexp.btm:
                      the ttfdir environment variable in the created
                      fonts.btm file was not set.

                      Oh, oh, font creation with hbf2gf also didn't work...

                      at one place two `%%' used instead of one.

                    UJISwn.fd should now search for the right fonts.

                    *.cap:
                      erroneously contained \@undefined instead of
                      \undefined.

                    JIS.cap:
                      completely broken (sigh). Unbalanced \if... statements
                      caused unrecoverable errors.

From berwin@alphasun.anu.edu.au Mon Mar  4 19:36:48 1996
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 10:36:21 +1100
From: Berwin A. Turlach <berwin@alphasun.anu.edu.au>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK 3.1.0 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e]

>>>>> "Lemberg" == Lemberg Werner <k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> writes:

  Lemberg> I've uploaded version 3.1.0 of my CJK package to the CTAN
  Lemberg> hosts (i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk, ftp.shsu.edu and
  Lemberg> its mirrors).
Your bloody mail-tool :) inserts a wrong Content-Length line into your
mail.  This can screw up other mail-tools as for example mine.  All
messages in my mailbox following yours were merged together into one
single big mail and I had a hell of a time to sort them out again.
Please fix your mail-tool.

Best wishes,

        Berwin

=============================== Full address ================================

Berwin A. Turlach
Statistics                                   Tel.: +61 (6) 249 0706 (Secr.) 
Centre for Mathematics and its Applications        +61 (6) 249 0731 (direct)
The Australian National University           FAX : +61 (6) 249 5549
Canberra ACT 0200                          e-mail: berwin@alphasun.anu.edu.au
Australia



From k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Tue Mar  5 09:14:17 1996
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 14:26:44 -0300 (MET)
From: Lemberg Werner <k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK 3.1.0 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e]

Sorry for any inconvenience!


I've no idea about the inner workings of elm on the Convex 210 here in Linz,
but it seems that only you have this problem - from which mailing list
did you receive the message?

    Werner

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Mar  6 23:11:57 1996
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 16:47:07 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: dave@dogwood.com
Subject: Dave Cornejo: Announcing a North American CTAN mirror

This is very good news indeed for North American users of CTAN, and
those who rely on CTAN further afield.  We are most grateful to Dave
for the effort he has put in to get this mirror running, and to Walnut
Creek for offering the resources.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team.

------- Forwarded Message

Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:26:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Dave Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com>
Message-Id: <199603061526.HAA09332@white.dogwood.com>
To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Announcing a North American CTAN mirror
Organization: Dogwood Media

The CTAN mirror at Walnut Creek CDROM is now in sync with the CTAN UK
site.  WC CDROMs ftp site is located in the San Francisco Bay Area and
has excellent connectivity throughout North America (via multiple T3s)
and currently allows 1250 FTP connections (no waiting!).

You can get to the mirror at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/tex/ctan/ or
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/tex/ctan/

All sites outside the UK and Germany are invited (and encouraged) to
use this mirror.

Please feel free to redistribute this announcement.
- -- 
Dave Cornejo                                There is nothing so subtle
Dogwood Media                                           as the obvious
Fremont, California

------- End of Forwarded Message

From hkennedy@ncat.edu Thu Mar  7 17:10:12 1996
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 09:32:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Helen A. Kennedy <hkennedy@ncat.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: Dave Cornejo: Announcing a North American CTAN mirror

I don't know if this is good news. I can never get on this site. Looks like
europe is still my closest connection. 

Helen
hkennedy@ncat.edu
 
> 
> This is very good news indeed for North American users of CTAN, and
> those who rely on CTAN further afield.  We are most grateful to Dave
> for the effort he has put in to get this mirror running, and to Walnut
> Creek for offering the resources.
> 
> Robin Fairbairns

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar  9 07:11:02 1996
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 12:04:12 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: fbennett@rumple.soas.ac.uk, dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

>  have just sent Version 1.0q of the Camel citation manager to
> CTAN.  This is an experimental set of LaTeX style files and a
> BibTeX style which enhance bibliography handling in various
> ways.  It includes a helpful user guide.  This is a bugfix
> upgrade in which ... a few bugs have been fixed.
> 
> The release has been copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming,
> to the file camel.tar.gz.  This file also contains the index.dtx
> and index.ins files for a prerelease version of David M. Jones'
> LaTeX2e-ified index.sty, which is necessary for Camel to run.
> It is included because I can't find the release version of
> David's package anywhere public.

I've included it in the installation.  David, would you like to make a
disclaimer announcement, or would you like to submit your present
state?

> The files in the camel.tar.gz archive should be copied to
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/camel.

Installed as suggested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rajeev@netcom.com Sun Mar 10 23:13:38 1996
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 20:10:10 -0800
From: Rajeev Karunakaran <rajeev@netcom.com>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ctan@shsu.edu
Subject: PageDraw 2.0 uploaded

I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk the following files --
   incoming/pagedraw/pgdraw20.zip
   incoming/pagedraw/pgdraw20.txt
This is the latest version of PageDraw drawing program.
This should replace PageDraw 1.7 (pgdraw17.zip and pgdraw17.txt).

Please e-mail me if there are any questions.

Rajeev

Rajeev Karunakaran
e-mail: rajeev@netcom.com

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar 11 04:53:07 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 09:33:40 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: tex-archive@math.utah.edu, schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de, piet@cs.ruu.nl
Subject: Re: New release of filehdr package

Nelson H. F. Beebe writes:

> I've just installed these new files on ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib:
> 
> -rw-rw-r--   2 beebe        793 Mar  6 13:39 filehdr-1.28.tar-lst
> -rw-rw-r--   2 beebe     150067 Mar  6 13:39 filehdr-1.28.tar.z
> -rw-rw-r--   2 beebe     113394 Mar  6 13:39 filehdr-1.28.zip
> -rw-rw-r--   2 beebe        975 Mar  6 13:39 filehdr-1.28.zip-lst
> -rw-rw-r--   2 beebe     166351 Jan 29 07:40 filehdr-1.28.zoo
> -rw-rw-r--   2 beebe        767 Mar  6 13:39 filehdr-1.28.zoo-lst
> -rw-r--r--   1 beebe      68969 Mar  5 19:04 filehdr.el
> 
> This is a major update of the file header package, the first
> released outside my local site since October 1993.  It includes
> support for several dozen new file classes and extensions, and
> adds a URL field in the file header.
> 
> Thanks to Ulrik Vieth for the gentle prodding that an update was
> due.

I've installed a copy of this stuff on CTAN at tools/filehdr; that
directory contains an expanded copy of the .tar.z archive, with one
exception (see below).  Users who want one of the archive formats can
obtain it using the usual CTAN auto-archiving facilities (which will
offer .tar, .tar.Z, .tar.gz, .zip or .zoo).

Nelson's archives offered an rcs.sty, which prompted me to find that
there were _three_ (supposedly distinct) rcs.sty files on CTAN.  After
consultation with the owners (Nelson, Piet van Oostrum and Joachim
Schrod), the following changes have occurred:

  tools/filehdr has a link to Joachim's macros/latex/contrib/supported/rcs,
                rather than the rcs.sty file it originally had
  macros/latex209/contrib/misc/rcs.sty has been deleted

Joachim's rcs.sty offers a superset of what the other two .sty files
offered.

My thanks to all concerned for a speedy resolution to that issue, and
everyone's thanks are owed to Nelson for the update to his stuff.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar 11 06:02:51 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:51:50 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: fbennett@rumple.soas.ac.uk
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Frank Bennet writes:

> I have placed the file "camelNEW.tar.gz" on CTAN.  This is a
> fresh, bugfixed copy of the Camel citation management package,
> at version 1.0r.  This is a bugfix release that ... fixes a
> couple of nasty bugs.  This release is also the first to
> call on David Carlisle's "keyval" package --- note that the
> size of the Camel archive has dropped just a little; that is
> the result of ditching the built-in parsing code.
> 
> The archive generates no subdirectories.  It should be unpacked
> in:
> 
>   tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/camel
> 
> Unless I find other problems, the only changes that will be
> made to Camel between now and the release of BibTeX 1.0 will
> be code-cleanup releases in which commentary is improved
> and further savings on space are made.

I have installed this new version to replace the installation I made
on Friday (just before I had to leave work early).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Mon Mar 11 06:35:53 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:22:52 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: LaTeX package to typeset HTML


Robin has just installed my html package at the UK ctan.
macros/latex/contrib/supported/html.ins
macros/latex/contrib/supported/html.dtx

the 00readme.txt file in that directory says ...


html.dtx
html.ins
  Typeset HTML (ie World Wide web documents) directly from LaTeX.
  Process the file html.ins to produce the html.sty package file.
  Process the file html.dtx to produce examples, documentation and
  code listings. Currently this package can handle almost all of
  HTML2, and most of the math fragment of the draft HTML3.


I just wrote this in the last few days in answer to a comp.text.tex
question, but it seems to work so I thought I may as well let it out.

David

From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Mon Mar 11 13:33:11 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:54:24 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: typehtml package (was html package)


The html package that I announced this morning has just undergone a
name change to avoid a clash with the existing package in the
latex2html distribution (which I knew about but managed to forget:-)

So it is now `typehtml' for typesetting  html, to be found at
ctan:macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/*

David

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Mar 13 08:19:19 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:09:47 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: G.Tobin@latrobe.edu.au, David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>, Donald Arseneau <asnd@triumf.ca>
Subject: LaTeX 2.09 files removed/corrected

At David Carlisle's request, I have removed from CTAN the files:

  info/elm.tex
  macros/latex209/contrib/misc/elm.tex
                               here.sty
                               numdef.sty

In the course of doing this, I noticed that the links from that
directory for Donald Arseneau's cite.sty, drftcite.sty, overcite.sty
and chapterbib.sty were incorrect: I've corrected them.

Furthermore, the link for setspace.sty pointed to the old
(unsupported) version, which has been deleted.  The new version (by
Geoffrey Tobin) requires current LaTeX, and the link has therefore
been removed.  The file companion.ctan was also still pointing to the
wrong version, so I've installed a new version of that too.

Note that none of the links would have turned up in quote site index.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 14 09:45:16 1996
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:36:49 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: heilmayr@math.berkeley.edu, mprogers@math.ilstu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Some long time ago, Stepha Heilmayr wrote:

> Hi.  I've just uploaded a bunch of files to the directory
> bakoma_mac_bitmap_fonts in the Incoming directory.  There's a README file
> that explains what's in there.  What it is is bitmap fonts that allow the
> BaKoMa postscript versions of the AMS fonts to be used on a Macintosh.  The
> suggested location for these files is:

 ... Something not `current' (due to the strange state of SHSU)

In response to me, he later wrote:

> Well, I looked around the UK archive, and the bakoma fonts (both CM and
> AMS) are at:
> 
>   fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma
> 
> so my suggestion would be:
> 
>   fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/mac/bitmap
> 
> All the files in the tar archive I uploaded (except for the text files) are
> stuffed and binhexed (the standard macintosh archiving format).

I've duly installed the stuff as now requested.  It will no doubt take
ages to get to SHSU -- if nothing happens in a reasonable time, mail
me and I'll try to be more dynamic in respect of it.  The stuff should
make it to ftp.cdrom.com tonight, though.

I didn't get the README you mentioned in your first message.  If you'd
care to resend it (direct to me would be best), I'll stick it in the
directory.

My apologies for the delay,

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Fri Mar 15 03:27:19 1996
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:11:55 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: draftcopy-2.7

Juergen Vollmer writes:

 > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de' incomming/draftcopy-2.7
 > the following files
 > 	THIS-IS-draftcopy-2.7
 > 	draftcopy.doc
 >  	draftcopy.ins
 > 	Makefile
 > 	README.draftcopy
 > 
 > which replace former revisions of this package.

Thanks, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

Rainer Sch�pf

 > Here's a short description:
 > 
 > It's a LaTeX2e replacement for the original LaTeX209 style file
 > `draftcopy.sty'.
 > New additional functionality:
 >  - The word DRAFT is replaced by a language dependend one,
 >  - One can choose on which pages (first, first2, first-n, all) this word should
 >    be printed, etc.
 >  - works for both: dvips and dvipsone graphics drivers.
 >  - If no options are passed, this new version behaves as the old one (except
 >    that the language dependent word is choosen).
 > 
 > Changes since 2.6
 > - - added textures graphics driver
 > - - The get the right graphics driver, reads the file `graphics.cfg' 
 > automatically
 > 
 > I'm looking for volunteers who translate the word DRAFT into the various
 > languages. Simply send me an email with translations.
 > 
 > I'm looking for people using different graphic drivers to check the package.
 > 
 > With best regards
 > 
 > Juergen Vollmer
 > 
 > 
 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
 > Version: 2.6.2i
 > Comment: Requires PGP version 2.6 or later.
 > 
 > iQCVAwUBMUhRtYh48drK23N9AQH0VAP/Q+5JQR8mAtUWaL0cUfX3Y5mIYQ9oZk0E
 > KZDJrKYvezCNK6FqePhDXF7tDsp/cLYreE06jFhFn+AEUWPWlD+Ou/gFXOc300LB
 > ilI58rAa5XiKSKwwLGwSGNiCSJzMXzFxY1aeqONMl8zkbGVYcSkZdeQ2cYsO7Ucc
 > FNljzhWg2cQ=
 > =m5Na
 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar 16 13:54:54 1996
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 18:14:27 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: sad@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
Subject: Re: Upload of nuweb087.zip (OS/2 port)

Stefan A Deutscher writes:

> I have uploaded nuweb087.zip including sources by Preson Briggs and
> the os/2 binary to :
> 
> hobbes (ftp-os2.nmsu.edu), 
> now: /incoming
> suggested: /os2/unix/tex
> 
> cdrom (ftp-os2.cdrom.com), 
> now: /os2/incoming
> suggested: /os2/tex
> 
> and CTAN (ftp.shsu.edu):
> now: /incoming
> suggested: tex-archive/web/nuweb/os2/  (needs to be created).
> 
> Replaces: Nothing really, except hopefully DOS versions of nuweb,
>           running on some OS/2 machines.
> 
> Brief description:
> 
> I was looking in news groups for a tool for literate programming (web)
> that'd allow me to use Fortran. (Extended) Pascal, and C and was portable
> to or available for OS/2. I came accross an interesting FAQ for the
> comp.literate.programming, and I got his personal reply:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Preston Briggs (preston@cs.rice.edu) wrote:
> : >Also, my desire to have a version that (i) runs on OS/2 and (ii)
> : >possibly incorporates Extended ANSI Pasal, while (iii) being based on
> : >fweb to allow also g77 and gcc codes, made me think the -- for me very
> : >unusual -- cross posting would enlarge my cross section and hence the
> : >chance for an event ...
> 
> : Lots of us have given up on the idea of pretty printing all our code,
> : and use language-independent tools.  For OS/2, you might check out
> : nuweb and funnelweb.  I wrote nuweb and unsurprisingly prefer it.  I
> : use it with C, C++, Fortran, Scheme, and Makefiles.  Others have used
> : it with Perl and such, but since it's language independent, you won't
> : have any trouble with any flavor of Pascal, etc.
> 
> : You can grab a copy via anonymous ftp from cs.rice.edu, in the
> : directory public/preston.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> To make it short: here is the working OS/2 version, with executable,
> sources, and docs.
> 
> All you need to use it is:
> a) LaTeX installed on your system (2.09 or 2e are fine)
> b) print the nuwebman.dvi or nuwebman.ps files, read them
> c) an editor
> d) the emx runtime system (emxrt.zip, from ftp-os2.cdrom.com, or
>    ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, for instance), version 0.9a fix pack 06 or 
>    later installed. If you don't have it already installed
>    fetch the index of one of these sites, and search (grep) for
>    the pattern "emxrt.zip", or, if you can use regular expressions,
>    "^emxrt.zip". Then download and istall it. It contains the runtime
>    system in a dynamic link library which is shared by many other 
>    programmes (say, gnu file utils, vi, emacs, less, probably even
>    emTeX programmes). This allows the executables to stay small and lean
>    but they won't run without it.
> e) put nuweb.exe in your path.
> 
> It seems that this is the right tool for cs people who don't crave nice,
> mathematical pretty print stuff (like some physicists prefer), and for
> projects that involve mixing of languages, or involve languages that
> other webs don't know about. (I like fweb, too, but fweb can't do
> Extended Pascal, as an example, and so nuweb seems to be it for that
> case.)

I have duly installed the files at ftp.tex.ac.uk, in web/nuweb/os2 as
Stefan suggested.

Stefan has also recently uploaded an fweb for os/2, but it's not
reached Cambridge through my backdoor mirror, yet.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Fri Mar 22 06:39:46 1996
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:34:36 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: typehtml package update


The typehtml package that typesets HTML files has just been updated at
the UK ctan, and so will reach other sites before long.

As before, it is in macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle

Main changes, typehtml package now supports :

*  html3 math array element.
*  Anchor links converted to hypertext specials of the hypertex group
   (eg xhdvi) or Y&Y's dviwindo \specials, or (via hyperref package)
   pdfmark operators for adobe acrobat/distiller.
*  Netscape option added to support some of the tags such as center
   that have an effect in that application, even though they are not
   part of HTML. Grumble.

David

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Mon Mar 25 05:11:27 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:51:11 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, dan@graphics.cornell.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Daniel Kartch writes:
 > 
 > I have placed in dante/incoming the file siggraph.tar.gz.
 > This package provides a document class for typesetting
 > papers for the annual ACM Siggraph conference.
 > It should be installed as macros/latex/contrib/supported/siggraph/.

Thanks for your submission. I installed it as proposed.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Mon Mar 25 10:20:19 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 15:04:21 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Lothar Meyer-Lerbs <g07m@zfn.uni-bremen.de>, George Craig <G.C.Craig@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Lothar Meyer-Lerbs writes:

 > I just put a directory full of new OzTeX (for the Mac) for
 > german users into the incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.
 > The directory "oztex-german" is supposed to replace the
 > existing pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german directory in its
 > entirety.

I've just installed the new files at ftp.dante.de, from where they
will eventually propagte to the other CTAN hosts.

Thanks,

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Mon Mar 25 12:59:48 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 15:04:21 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Lothar Meyer-Lerbs <g07m@zfn.uni-bremen.de>, George Craig <G.C.Craig@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Lothar Meyer-Lerbs writes:

 > I just put a directory full of new OzTeX (for the Mac) for
 > german users into the incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.
 > The directory "oztex-german" is supposed to replace the
 > existing pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german directory in its
 > entirety.

I've just installed the new files at ftp.dante.de, from where they
will eventually propagte to the other CTAN hosts.

Thanks,

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar 25 15:01:11 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:23:47 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: New organisation of TUGboat macros, new (current) LaTeX macros

I have reorganised the TUGboat macros on CTAN, so that they reside
where they're needed, rather than all dotted about in directory
digests/tugboat; thus there are new directories

  macros/latex209/contrib/tugboat
  macros/plain/contrib/tugboat

In addition I have installed new TUGboat macros for use with current
LaTeX in directory

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/tugboat

A new subdirectory digests/tugboat/macros has links to these three new
directories.

The README file in the LaTeX directory says:

  LaTeX macros for use in TUGboat
  ===============================
  
  This is the first public distribution of a set of macros I have been
  working on for some time.  The macros are still `work in progress',
  and I hope to deliver new versions fairly regularly.
  
  These macros *are* supported; please do *not* bother the TUGboat
  editor with queries about the macros (or the TUGboat proceedings
  editor, if you're preparing an article for submission to a TUG
  conference).  Bother me, instead (the editors do, in any case, so you
  might as well short-circuit them ;-)

These macros represent work in progress.  Contributions are gratefully
received; as I say, I should be the one to clear up misunderstandings
and/or problems.

The packages are still short of documentation; I am engaged in writing
that...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN and TUGboat teams

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Mar 26 11:09:48 1996
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:53:35 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: weissert@sju.edu, rtollert@mail.coin.missouri.edu
Subject: mla.{bst,sty}

Tom Weissert has provided these files, which do citations according to
the "MLA style sheet".  I've installed them on CTAN in directory

  biblio/bibtex/contrib/mla

which seems the most appropriate in the circumstances.

There's no knowing if they'll ever get to SHSU, but they're at
ftp.tex.ac.uk now, and will be at ftp.dante.de soon.

Also, ftp.cdrom.com mirrors ftp.tex.ac.uk directly, so they should
arrive there fairly soon.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Thu Mar 28 11:21:40 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:07:06 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, JLBraams@cistron.nl
Subject: Re: Update of ntgclass bundle

Johannes L. Braams writes:

 > I have just transferred ntgclass.zip to ftp.dante.de:/incoming.
 > The contents of that zip file can replace the contents of the directory
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntgclass.
 > 
 > Please not that the ntgclass bundle also contains a4.dtx which was
 > distributed seperately some time ago.
 > 
 > Could you please so to it that this update propagates to the proper
 > places?

Thanks, Johannes, I installed it in the proper place.

Rainer

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 28 12:54:57 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:06:03 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: rcb5@win.tue.nl
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Richard Verhoeven writes:

> I have sent this message 2 weeks ago and since the files are not installed
> yet, I suppose the previous message got lost (I'm sorry for this extra message
> if it didn't).

Don't know what happened.  I've been overloaded, and Sebastian's
always overloaded, but I _thought_ I hadn't got much of a backlog of
what's uploaded here...   Sorry.

> I have uploaded the following package:
> 
> Uploaded on:
> 	ftp.tex.ac.uk
> Files:
> 	/incoming/mathspad/README
> 	/incoming/mathspad/mathpad-0.60.tar.gz
> Description:
>     README:
> 	A description of the program and how to install it
>     mathpad-0.60.tar.gz:
> 	The source distribution of the program (for Unix/X11):
> 
> 	MathSpad is a document preparation system particularly oriented to the 
> 	production of articles involving large amounts of (non-standard)
> 	mathematical material.  It is an interactive system designed to make
> 	on-screen mathematical calculation a pleasure rather than a chore.
> 	MathSpad generates LaTeX output. Existing LaTeX documents can be
> 	incorporated directly into a MathSpad document, no special conversion
> 	being required (or performed).
> 	The distribution includes online help for the system itself and a
> 	``stencil'' file for LaTeX2e editing which is fully documented.
> 
> Preferred location:
> 	/tex-archive/support/mathspad
> 
> 	the files in /incoming/mathspad replace those in
> 	/tex-archive/support/mathspad

I've now done that installation.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Fri Mar 29 07:02:08 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 10:57:23 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: typehtml package


The typehtml (HTML formatter) package in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle was updated yeterday so should
have reached most mirrors by now.

Mainly just small changes (like running the documentation through a
spell checker:-) One or two small fixes and creaping features added.

David

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Mar 29 13:53:08 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 16:22:40 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: guoniu@math.u-strasbg.fr
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

`Han' (guoniu@math.u-strasbg.fr) writes:

> (a) state which site you have uploaded to:
> "ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/"
> 
> (b) state what file(s) you have uploaded:
> (1) Tex2Html.sit.hqx
> (2) Tex8to7.sit.hqx
> 
> (c) include a brief overview of what the file(s) is/are intended to do:
> (1) TeX8->TeX7 SelfReplace:
> This text conversion utility converts TeX 8 bits file to TeX 7 bits file.
> To use it for conversion, just drag and drop your text files onto the
> application icon.
> 
> (2) TeX->Html SelfReplace
> This text conversion utility converts TeX 7 bits file to Html format for
> accented letters. To use it for conversion, just drag and drop your text
> files onto the application icon.
> 
> 
> (d) where you recommend placing your submission within the CTAN directory
> hierarchy.
> ctan/tex-archive/systems/mac/textures/utilities/

I've corresponded about with Han about this, explaining the reason for
delay -- I was attempting to establish a mirror of Bluesky's own
archive site, at their request.  I have still not succeeded in that
attempt, so I have installed Han's submissions anyway, but not where
he suggested.

The two files are in a new directory systems/mac/textures/contrib

(It should not be too difficult to avoid clashes between that
directory name and the stuff on Bluesky's site.)

The files should propagate to other CTANs and mirrors (except possibly
for SHSU and its mirrors) in the fullness of time.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Apr  1 05:06:33 1996
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 10:59:32 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: ragged.sty for CTAN

Laurent Siebenmann writes:

>  ***  ragged.sty for CTAN
> 
> 
>  --- brief overview :  ragged.sty  is a new package that provides any TeX
> format including LaTeX with "raggedleft" and "raggedcenter" formatting of
> paragraphs while maintaining FULL CONTROL OF HYPHENATION AND DEGREE OF
> RAGGEDNESS.

I have installed this file at ftp.tex.ac.uk in macros/generic, as
Larry requests.  It should propagate to the other CTANs in due course.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Tue Apr  2 02:07:46 1996
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 08:53:38 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, JLBraams@cistron.nl
Subject: Re: Update to NTG classes

Johannes L. Braams writes:

 > After I sent the update to Ctan i found yet another mistake in the ntg 
 > classes. So I uploaded a second file, this time called ntgupdat.zip.
 > It replaces ntgupdate.zip.

Thanks, I've just installed the new files on ftp.dante.de. Propagation
should proceed during the day.

Rainer

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Apr  2 05:44:00 1996
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 10:42:59 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: tex@fys.ku.dk
Subject: Re: unsubscribe

To find about unsubscribing from CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu, you should mail to
listserv@shsu.edu with a message body containing (only) help; this
will return you the information that you received when you subscribed
to CTAN-ann and have obviously forgotten to retain.

PLEASE, people, DO NOT send messages to the list about subscription.
It doesn't gain you anything, and it annoys those of us who will
remain on the list.

We hope to do away with this mailing list at SHSU soon, since there's
no-one there to manage it, or to pick up messages about unsubscribing,
etc.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From sawade@physik.tu-berlin.de Wed Apr  3 04:11:06 1996
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 10:42:25 +0000
From: Guido Sawade <sawade@physik.tu-berlin.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: ragged.sty for CTAN

> Coudl you please remove me from the mailing list ?!
> I have changed jobs and now can not sign off from 
> the old address .
> 
> Old address : smiley@ecrc.de

Unsubscribe yourself with a 'trick': You have to set the reply-to field
to your address you'd like to unsubscribe.
---
    Guido Sawade <sawade@physik.tu-berlin.de>

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Thu Apr  4 09:13:33 1996
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 16:07:56 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: Package ieeepes update

Volker Kuhlmann writes:

 > This is an update to my ieeepes package. There is one more option to the
 > package, noieeebox, which suppresses the empty space at the bottom of the
 > left column on the title page. Minor improvements to the documentation.
 > 
 > Please unpack over the existing version in macros/latex/contrib/supported.

Thansk a lot, I installed the update.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Thu Apr  4 10:37:49 1996
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 16:20:49 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: CTAN@SHSU.edu, Koaunghi Un <koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Koaunghi Un writes:

 > I've just uploaded my HLaTeX package to ftp.dante.de.
 > In the directory of /incoming/HLaTeX, there are 4 files:
 > 
 > 	HLaTeX-0.95.tar.gz
 > 	HLaTeX-tfms.tar.gz
 > 	PS-HLaTeX-vf.tar.gz
 > 	PS-HLaTeX-tfm.tar.gz
 > 
 > With this package, Korean documents written in Korean standard KSC
 > codes can be processed by latex2e. My previous packages are in
 > /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX and
 > /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX.
 > 
 > I want HLaTeX-0.95.tar.gz to be unpacked in the directory of
 > /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX, after the contents of target
 > directory are cleaned. All other 3 files HLaTeX-tfms.tar.gz,
 > PS-HLaTeX-vf.tar.gz and PS-HLaTeX-tfm.tar.gz can be moved to
 > /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX.

Thank you very much, the update has been installed as you specified.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Apr  4 11:53:01 1996
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 17:48:16 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: rajeev@netcom.com
Subject: Re: PageDraw 2.0 uploaded

rajeev@netcom.com writes:

> I have uploaded PageDraw 2.0 to ftp.shsu.edu in the
> directory incoming/pagedraw
> 
> PageDraw is a free vector-graphics program capable of
> creating EPS files suitable for inclusion in TeX documents.
> 
> The new version replaces Version 1.7, which is currently
> in the graphics/pagedraw subdirectory of the CTAN archives.
> 
> -- Rajeev

I have (finally) installed pagedraw as requested in graphics/pagedraw

Sorry about the delay...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Apr  5 10:08:13 1996
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 15:40:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Matthew Swift <swift@bu.edu>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (UK) `monster'

Matt Swift writes:

> I recently uploaded monster.tgz to the UK site.
> 
> The files unpack into "./monster/*". 
> 
> Please do this in "macros/latex/contrib/supported".
> 
> Please delete the entire contents of the directory
> "macros/latex/contrib/supported/frankenstein".  I want to use the
> directory "monster" now because it is TDS-compliant whereas
> "frankenstein" was not.
> 
> In the archive I uploaded were three symlinks to other files in the
> "contrib/other/misc" directory.  I want a CTAN user to get these files
> when they request the entire monster directory.  Since I am not sure
> whether the links will work without your intervention, could you check
> them for me?  The links are:
> 
>   relsize.sty    --> ../../other/misc/relsize.sty
>   moreverb.sty   --> ../../other/misc/moreverb.sty
>   url.sty        --> ../../other/misc/url.sty

I have installed the stuff as requested, and deleted poor ol'
Frankenstein (a victim of standardisation, itself a victim of Bill
Gates, I suppose ;-).

The links, needless to say, _did_ need attention.

> The text below is the README; please go ahead with the customary
> forward to ctan-ann.
> 
> Thanks!
>   Matt
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 			     FRANKENSTEIN
> 
> 		  A Collection of Packages for LaTeX
> 
> 			     available at
> 
>       $CTAN/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster/*
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 			       abbrevs
> 			 abbreviation macros
> 		       (Frankenstein's briefs)
> 
> "Abbreviation macros" expand to text and insert the proper following
> space depending on context.  These macros can be abbreviations in a
> second sense also, expanding to one thing the first time they are used
> and another thing on subsequent invocations.  This facilitates the
> automatic spelling-out of abbreviations or acronyms at their first
> use.  The initial and subsequent expansions of an abbreviation macro
> are available at any time via explicit commands.  Abbreviation macros
> are grouped into categories; there are hooks applicable to each
> category.  Categories can be reset so that subsequent abbreviation
> macros in that category behave as if used for the first time again.
> 
> A generic facility is also provided for suffixes like 1900\BC and
> 6:00\PM, which correctly handles following periods.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 			       compsci
> 		   macros for writing about macros
> 		     (Frankenstein's conscience)
> 
>    Most often this package will be used to supplement the "ltxdoc"
> 	    class, but it can be used with other classes.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 				titles
> 			     title macros
> 		     (Frankenstein's references)
> 
>    Various macros for handling the titles of books, journals, etc. that
>   handle following spacing and punctuation intelligently.  Especially useful
> 			  for bibliographic databases.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 				 lips
> 			    text ellipses
> 			(Frankenstein's lips)
> 
>     \lips is better for text ellipses than \dots, by the standard
> 		  of the _Chicago Manual of Style_.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 			       moredefs
> 			more defining commands
> 			(Frankenstein's brain)
> 
> A delightful collection of defining, expansion, and debugging commands
> 	 that make elegant programming in LaTeX fun and easy.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 				slemph
> 			   slanted emphasis
> 			(Frankenstein's gait)
> 
>        This package provides the commands \itswitch, \slswitch,
> 		  \textitswitch, and \textslswitch.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 			     DISTRIBUTION
> 
> All files are released under the conditions of the GNU General Public
>  License.  I am willing to specially license this code; please simply
> 		    contact me with your proposal.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 			      Matt Swift
> 			    <swift@bu.edu>

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Apr  9 04:46:04 1996
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 09:39:48 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, bullestock@dk-online.dk
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Torsten Martinsen writes:

 > I have just uploaded an update of the LaTeX2e Texinfo files to ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > The files are
 >
 > 		README
 > 		latex2e.texi
 > 		ltx-help.el
 >
 > and are intended to replace the old files in
 > tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/ (ltx-help.el is a new file).

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Apr  9 04:48:32 1996
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 09:42:47 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu, "Williams, Peter" <Williams@modsyd.mrl.dsto.defence.gov.au>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Williams, Peter writes:
 >
 > I have just uploaded a set of files to /incoming on ftp.dante.edu
 > I have created a subdirectory /incoming/algorithms and placed the files
 >
 > algorithmic.sty
 > algorithm.sty
 > algorithms.tex
 > algorithms.ps
 >
 > in that directory.
 > The first two files are updated versions of the files of the same name that
 > appear
 > in the directory macros/latex/contrib/other/williams on CTAN sites.
 > The second two are the source and a postscript version of documentation for
 > the
 > use of the other two.
 >
 > I suggest that the files that I have just uploaded be moved to a directory
 >
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/algorithms on CTAN sites
 >
 > The new versions just uploaded include hooks for customizing them for
 > use with languages other than english and I suggest that a subdirectory be
 > created
 > under macros/latex/contrib/supported/algorithms where files customizing this
 > package can be placed if (when) people contribute them.
 >
 > The package algorithmic has a minor incompatibility with the previous
 > version
 > which was introduced during the addition of a feature for (optionally)
 > numbering
 > the lines of an algorithm. The incompatibility is explained in the
 > documentation.
 >
 > I would appreciate it if you could announce the availibility of these files
 > once they
 > have been moved to a place accessible to users.
 >
 > I suggest that the older versions of the first two files be deleted from
 > CTAN once
 > the new ones are available
 >
 > Yours sincerely
 > Peter Williams
 >
 > Reply-To: Peter.Williams@dsto.defence.gov.au

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as proposed,

For the CTAN team

   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Apr 10 06:32:19 1996
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:28:18 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: CTAN@SHSU.edu, migor@student.math.hr
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Igor Marinovic writes:
 > site:   ftp.dante.de
 > 
 > filename: hrhyph.tex
 > 
 > Short description:
 > 
 > % Hyphenation patterns for Croatian language words for use with 
 > % T1 encoding, which is supported in DC fonts. 
 > % These can also be used with OT1 encoding.
 > %
 > % The first version was realized in late 1994. 
 > % Second, much more improved version was realized in the beginning of 1996.
 > % Date of the last change: 19.03.1996.
 > 
 > Recommended directory:  language/hyphenation
 > 
 > %                                             Marinovi\'c Igor
 > %                                           migor@student.math.hr

Thanks a lot for your submission. I installed it at ftp.dante.de from
where it will eventually propagate to the other CTAN hosts.

For the CTAN team

   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Apr 12 08:51:07 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:37:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, piefel@cs.tu-berlin.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Michael Piefel writes:

 > (a) I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de
 > (b) everything is in incoming/LGrind
 > (c) It is the current update for the LGrind-program 
 > (d) where it was before: support/lgrind (since I do support it)

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Apr 15 21:46:43 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 19:11:30 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, "LINPWD::DALY" <daly@linpwd.dnet.gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: Update of natbib package

LINPWD::DALY writes:

 > I have just placed the following files in  incoming/natbib  on the DANTE
 > CTAN server.
 > 
 > readme.v62    
 > natbib.dtx    
 > 
 > Could you please place these files in
 >       macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib
 > 
 > removing the file README.v61,
 > renaming the readme.v62 to README.v62
 > replacing natbib.dtx with its update

I did the update, thanks a lot.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Apr 18 10:56:25 1996
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:49:33 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, boercher@theo.physik.uni-bremen.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Volker Boerchers writes:

 > We have written a package for typesetting Young-Tableaux, mathematical
 > symbols for the representations of groups. There exists already one
 > package for Young-Tableaux on CTAN: `young.sty' 
 > (exactly: /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen/young.sty)
 > 
 > Our package `youngtab.dtx' provides two TeX macros, `\yng(#1)' and
 > `\young(#1)' to generate whole Young-Tableaux instead of using a LaTeX
 > environment as with `young.sty'. Our macros should be easier to use.
 > 
 > The package was originally written for LaTeX2e but works also with
 > plain TeX (tested) and hopefully with LaTeX 2.09 (not tested).
 > For plain TeX one has to `\input' the file `youngtab.tex' instead of
 > using the `.sty'.
 > 
 > Now the information on the uploaded file (following `README.uploads'):
 > (a) uploaded at ftp-site:  ftp.dante.de 
 > (b) file: youngtab.tar.gz
 > (c) for a brief overview of the files submitted see the copy of README
 >     below. 
 > (d) We recommend the following path(es):
 >     directory: /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/youngtab
 >     a link: /pub/tex/macros/plain/contrib/youngtab -> 
 >                /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/youngtab
 > 
 > Best wishes, 
 > 	Volker B"orchers & Stefan Gieseke
 > 	Institut f"ur Theoretische Physik, 
 > 	University of Bremen, Germany
 > 
 > e-mail: boercher@physik.uni-bremen.de
 > 	gieseke@physik.uni-bremen.de

Thanks a lot, the package has been installed in the indicated
locations.

For the CTAN team
 Rainer Sch�pf


 > 
 > vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
 > The following is a copy of the README file which is included in
 > `youngtab.tar.gz':
 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > 
 > YOUNGTAB-Package
 > ================
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Authors: 
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > Volker B"orchers (email: boercher@physik.uni-bremen.de)
 > and Stefan Gieseke (email: gieseke@physik.uni-bremen.de)
 > 
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > FILES:
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > README
 > ---------------- the file you're reading now
 > 
 > youngtab.dtx
 > ---------------- a documentated version of the package. From it you can
 > generate both a documentation and the .sty file without most comments
 > using the docstrip utility.
 > 
 > youngtab.ins
 > ---------------- run TeX on it to generate the youngtab.sty in your
 > actual directory (from the .dtx file)
 > 
 > makeydoc
 > ---------------- this (unix-) script generates youngtab.dvi, the
 > documentation for the package.
 > 
 > makeydoc.bat
 > ---------------- same as makeydoc but for MSDOS. (We are not sure that
 > it works.)
 > 
 > gind.ist
 > ---------------- You need it to generate the index for the
 > documentation. (gind.ist is a official part of doc/docstrip package)
 > 
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > INSTALL:
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 1) `tex youngtab.ins' (alternatively: `latex youngtab.ins')
 > 2) `makeydoc'
 >    * if you don't want any macrocode listings, uncomment the line
 >      containing ``\OnlyDescription'' (remove the `#')
 > 3) put `youngtab.sty' to a path where LaTeX can find it.
 > 
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > For TeX-users:
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > follow the instructions in the documentation. (You must have
 > LaTeX2e to produce a .dvi file from youngtab.dtx -- Try to read the
 > .dtx file instead if you don't have!)
 > However there is a file already prepared for use with TeX:
 > `youngtab.tex' - try this.
 > 
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Date:
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 25/3/96
 > 
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Version:
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 1.0
 > 
 > 

From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Wed Apr 17 09:21:01 1996
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:20:54 +0100
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: dak@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Subject: longtable package test release


On the UK ctan site (and other ctan sites in due course) there is a
**test** version of the LaTeX longtable package for multi page tables.

tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/longtable.txt
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/longtable.ins
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/longtable.dtx

This is a pre-release of version 4.02.

The current supported version is still version 3.17 which is part of
the Standard LaTeX tools distribution

tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/tools/longtable.dtx


The most notable feature of the new version is that it uses a new
algorithm, due to David Kastrup, that aligns the parts of the table
without having to use \setlongtables command to distinguish between
`draft' and `final' runs.

It also obtains better table widths in certain cases of overlapping
\multicolumn entries.

It can require more `passes' ie LaTeX runs before all the table is
aligned correctly, although our tests show that on `normal' files
this does not usually happen.

Any problems with the test release should be sent to me at
carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk not to the LaTeX bugs address. Of particular
interest are any documents that process correctly with longtable
version 3 but have problems with this version 4.

If all goes well this version will be moved from the 
/contrib/supported/carlisle/ directory into the Standard LaTeX tools
distribution in the June LaTeX release.

David

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Apr 18 14:16:47 1996
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 18:13:39 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>, Angus Duggan <angus@harlequin.co.uk>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote (ages ago, and I misfiled his message):

> I have uploaded to ftp.shsu.edu in the /incoming directory one
> file:
> 
>   psutils.tar.gz
> 
> This is the latest version, release 1 patchlevel 16, of Angus
> Duggan's PostScript utilities.  Here is a short description from
> the README file:
> 
>   This archive contains some utilities for manipulating
>   PostScript documents.  Page selection and rearrangement are
>   supported, including arrangement into signatures for booklet
>   printing, and page merging for n-up printing.
> 
>   psbook          rearranges pages into signatures
>   psselect        selects pages and page ranges
>   pstops          performs general page rearrangement and selection
>   psnup           put multiple pages per physical sheet of paper
>   psresize        alter document paper size
>   epsffit         fits an EPSF file to a given bounding box
> 
> This file should replace the current file in the /support
> subdirectory.

I have (now, finally) done this.  I'm sorry about the delay -- the
fact that the uploads happen where I can't easily get at them (they
get mirrored back here, at SHSU's leisure) is a mild excuse-generator,
but not really powerful enough a one for this situation...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

>   ____  __  __    ____/\_\    ____       Quoin Inc
>  / __ \/\ \/\ \  / __ \/\ \  / _  \      124 Mount Auburn Street
> /\ \_\ \ \ \_\ \/\ \_\ \ \ \/\ \/\ \     Cambridge, MA 02138-5700
> \ \___  \ \____/\ \____/\ \_\ \_\ \_\    USA
>  \/___/\ \/___/  \/___/  \/_/\/_/\/_/
>       \ \_\                              voice:  +1.617.576.5885
>        \/_/    OBJECT CONSULTANTS        fax:    +1.617.576.5876
> 

Whew.

From aasmundo@math.uio.no Thu Apr 18 18:48:36 1996
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 23:43:25 +0200
From: aasmundo@math.uio.no
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: longtable package test release


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Apr 22 17:44:18 1996
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:32:25 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: New version of UK TUG FAQ installed on CTAN

I've just installed, on ftp.tex.ac.uk, the latest state of the UK TUG
FAQ.

This FAQ is *not* the official one for comp.text.tex, but as far as I
can tell it's the only one in English that's regularly updated.
(I believe there's a German one, maintained by Dante, but it doesn't
make it to the archives, that I'm aware of.)

Our FAQ is produced as a service to the members of UK TUG, and is made
available to the world as a whole in a spirit of openness.

The sources, macros, and supporting stuff are all to be found on CTAN
in  usergrps/uktug/faq

Included in that directory are files

  newfaq.ps       Generated for a Laserjet 4, Times for body text
  newfaq.300ps    Generated for a CanonCX engine
  newfaq.dvi      Using cm fonts throughout
  letterfaq.ps    As for N American paper
  letterfaq.300ps ditto
  letterfaq.dvi   ditto

The brave are welcome to try and compile it for themselves.  Read
00readme, which tries hard to dissuade such rash action ... this stuff
is not intended for readers of the source ;-)  No support is likely to
be forthcoming for people who get in a mess.

An `animated' version of the FAQ may be seen at

  http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

(which is admittedly not the world's fastest Web site...)

Robin Fairbairns

Chair, UK TUG

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Apr 24 06:25:45 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:08:22 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, ctan@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: DPInnn for emTeX

Santiago Vila Doncel writes:

 > I have uploaded the following file:
 > 
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/dpinnn/dpinnn.zip
 > 
 > It should be moved to 
 > 
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/dpinnn
 > 
 > and mirrors, overwriting the old dpinnn.zip.
 > README file has no changes.
 > 
 > DPInnn.zip is a tiny package containing everything needed to make emTeX to
 > look for PK files in DPInnn directories (as TDS standard says), instead of
 > nnnDPI directories (as emTeX normally do). 
 > 
 > Now there is an updated set of patches (matching dvidrv 1.6 f) for
 > the documentation files.
 > 
 > [ I would like to see this package to be "embedded" into emTeX itself, but
 > this is another story ]. 
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > 
 > @bye (regards)
 > 
 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
 > Version: 2.6.3i
 > Charset: latin1
 > Comment: Firmado con PGP y PineSign 2.2 es
 > 
 > iQCVAgUBMX0kTSqK7IlOjMLFAQHHnAQAhaiXzfxae4gSIxZz2fYSh8CdwIQuesV6
 > fOKm6UUhOqIorwzKe+kc916NyLmpj5vdGKfk/YoUJjBJKH40DmkPRVWZHz9FYhq3
 > 6zHXwj/0Y/wQy+d7BQL9xrgaO8UHDD6WuBxEfuHQ4196RnFE1GTrMoGIXpX9ItQ1
 > Z9LYjNr6Kqo=
 > =yAUX
 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
 > 
 > Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>

Thanks a lot, I installed your update.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Wed Apr 24 08:01:33 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:46:15 +0100
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, mjd@MATH.AMS.ORG
Subject: plain.sty update



I have just uploaded a new plain.sty to the UK ctan. It will reach
other ctan archives in due course.

plain.sty allows plain TeX commands in LaTeX, between 
\begin{plain} \end{plain}

The new version ensures that commands such as \over and \matrix that
are disabled or changed by the AMS LaTeX packages *may* be used with
their original plain TeX (or TeX primitive) definition within the
plain environment.

The package is in

tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle

two old versions of the package that were in 


 macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/plain.sty
 macros/latex209/contrib/misc/plain.sty

have been deleted.

David

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Apr 25 21:12:03 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:51:33 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Torsten Martinsen <torsten@dk-online.dk>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Torsten Martinsen writes:

 > I have uploaded version 1.6 of the LaTeX2e Texinfo files to ftp.dante.de.
 > 
 > The files are
 > 
 > 	latex2e.texi
 > 	ltx-help.el
 > 	README
 > 
 > TThey are now in incoming/latex2e-help-texinfo, and should be moved to
 > tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/.
 > 
 > (I hope this will be the last update for a while :-)

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Apr 26 09:49:08 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 11:57:04 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Andreas Tille <e2od5@mlucom.urz.uni-halle.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Andreas Tille writes:

 > NEW VERSION OF Wp2LaTeX
 > 
 > I have upload in
 > 
 >        ftp.dante.de:/incoming/wp2latex-5_1
 > 
 > the package Wp2LaTeX.
 > 
 > This version includes some additions and bugfixes to the earlier
 > version of M. Covington in
 > 
 >      /pup/tex/support/wp2latex-5_1.
 > 
 > I've told him, that I suppose to override his version and he accepted it.
 > Please put the package at this destination. In 
 > 
 >     /pub/tex/support/wp2latex
 > 
 > is another version of wp2latex. Please don't mix them. The executable in
 > this directory is based on sources, which are completely new written from
 > scratch, but they aren't available by ftp. I tried hardly to contact the
 > author but failed. He wanted to support the program but I'm not sure if
 > he do. The sources in the subdirectories of /pub/tex/support/wp2latex
 > are very old. My version is based on them including of improvements of
 > other authors (see readme).
 > 
 > I've included some remarks about this bad (in my opinion) situation, because
 > I don't want to mix-up somebody with several versions.
 > 
 > Andreas Tille

Thanks a lot, I installed the update. The readme is appended.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy


---------------------

/******************************************************************************
 * program:     wp2latex                                                      *
 * function:    convert WordPerfect 5.0 or 5.1 files into LaTeX               *
 * modul:       readme                                                        *
 ******************************************************************************/

Attention:
----------
There is another version of Wp2LaTeX written from scratch
by the original author R. C. Houtepen at TUE-Eindhoven. This version
differs completely from the pakage in your hand. Please check it on
your nearest CTAN host at
    tex-archive/support/wp2latex/*    .
The version there has the disadvantage, that there isn't any source code
available. The source code in the subdirectories is very old. I tried
hardly to contact the author but failed. So I took the latest available
sources (which based on these in the subdirectories mentioned above)
and corrected some errors. I never checked the other version. I apologize
everybody to compare both versions and tell me the conclusion.

The program:
------------
Wp2LaTeX was originally designed to translate WordPerfect 5.0 documents
into LaTeX 2.09. Later some code was added to translate also WordPerfect 5.1
documents. Now the preambel is designed for LaTeX 2e (by changing the
preambel by hand it runs also under LaTeX 2.09 of course).

This version was compiled with EMX 0.9b (gcc 2.7.1) to run under both
DOS and OS/2 on 386 or higher.

Some general remarks:
---------------------
1. Don't expect a better looking result only caused by converting text
   from WordPerfect to LaTeX. You HAVE TO edit the resulting LaTeX files.
   The reason is, that wordprocessors didn't give the structur
   of the text (sections, itemizations, labels, ...) but only
   the formatting (boldface, underline (uurgh), italic, ...).

2. Tables are not converted. Only the text in tables is inserted
   line by line.
   Hint for tables: Call WordPerfect. Mark table as block. Save the
   block as DOS file. Now manual editing is easier.

3. In this version formulas are translated.
   The code for translating formulas was done by Dirk Lellinger (see below):
   I detected that there are problems when translating anything
   containig "over". So: CHECK ALL FORMULAS CAREFULLY!

4. Don't expect any miracles from this program.


In which case is Wp2LaTeX really useful?
----------------------------------------

   I have translated a huge WP file (about 1MB text) with a lot of
   footnotes but no tables and formulas.
   To get a nice LaTeX format I wrote about 5 C-programs and about
   40 sed-lines to convert some ugly formattings.
   After this I spend some time with manual editing.
   At last I wrote a LaTeX-style for a nice looking document.
   The whole procedure took me three days.


How to handle bugs?
-------------------

1. Correct the bug, send it to CTAN and send the latest author a remark
   about your bugfix.
   If the bug is only a "unknown character" (special WordPerfect character)
   look at the ent of the file wp2linit.c. It is very simple to add
   further special charcters.
2. If you are not able to correct the bug ask the latest author, whether
   he can do anything for you.
3. Remember that the reason of all the bugs is, that anybody wrote a
   text in WordPerfect. So the mistake was to use WordPerfect not
   to use Wp2LaTeX. Bugfix: Delete all WordPerfect stuff and enforce
   all people to use LaTeX.


Compiling the source
--------------------
There is a makefile for use with dmake 3.8 and EMX 0.9b (gcc 2.7.1) to run
under both DOS and OS/2 on 386 or higher.
There are no special dmake statements and I think, every make could handle
it.
The C source contains some #pragma-statements for Borland-C compiler.
I think it should also be possible to compile the source with Borland-C
(I beleave, the #pragma statements in wp2latex.c are necessary in all
files if needed at all. The changes according to the string sizes could
make them unneccessary.)
Perhaps there are memory problems caused by allocating space for reading
one whole paragraph of the strip file. If this is the case decrease
MaxParLength in wp2latex.h. In former releases it was 256 but it is NOT
enought. A more save choice may be 4096.
Also the code was compiled in former versions using gcc v. 2.6.3 in a
SunOS environment. I tried to ensure, that it wouldn't fail in this case.
Try the makefile or type
   gcc -o wp2latex *.c
When compiling in Linux environment you have to link the math libraries
as well (uncomment the appropriate line in the makefile) or try
   gcc -o wp2latex -lm *.c

I splitted the source, which originally was only one file, to make it
easier to correct bugs. I hope that it was a good decison.


Authorship history:
-------------------

  wp2latex was written in Turbo Pascal by R. C. Houtepen at TUE-Eindhoven.
  It was converted into C using p2c, and modified, by Glenn Geers (Sydney U).
  It was further modified by Michael Covington (U of Georgia).
  Modified to be used in unix/linux environment by Claudio Porfiri.
  The parsing of formulas was added by Dirk Lellinger (U Halle/Germany).
  The splitting of code into several files and the documentation
  was done by Andreas Tille.


Remarks of the authors:
-----------------------

Michael Covington:
  MC  KNOWN BUGS:
        Needs to put \hfill before \\ when in justified mode,
          so user doesn't get "underfull hbox" messages.

   Modifications by
   Michael A. Covington 1992, 1993, mostly marked "MC".
   This is Borland C, but should be fairly portable.

Claudio Porfiri:
  Notes on the Unix version:
    the code was compiled using gcc v. 2.6.3 in a SunOS environment
    without any problem, simply type "gcc wp2latex.c -o wp2latex", when
    compiling in Linux environment you have to link the math libraries
    as well, so give the command "gcc wp2latex.c -lm -o wp2latex"
    instead.

   1995-12-13  patch 2.3.1      Claudio Porfiri <porfiri@nism.tei.ericsson.se>
                                Since the SEEK_SET etc. constants are not
				defined into stdio.h but in unistd.h, and since
				I want the code to be portable, I added the
				defines into the source code.

Dirk Lellinger:
   Equation-parsing for WordPerfect 5.1
   (C) by Dirk Lellinger (Germany), May 1994,
   currently available under: dirk@sunny.dki.th-darmstadt.de

   known bugs and incompabilities
   ******************************

   HORZ n, VERT n, SCALESYM n c    are not implemented.

   WordPerfect allows "lazy" bracketing, for instance
   1 over 2 over 3 is interpreted in WordPerfect as {1 over 2} over 3
   this is not allowed in WP2LATEX and results in a bad translation

   the title of WP-equations is not translated

   currently only the charset 6 is supported for special characters
   all other chars are implemented by
   their full names, for instance alpha, bigsqcap  ...


   differences to WordPerfect and implementation details
   *****************************************************

   the author commonly writes equation arrays in WordPerfect using
   stackalign{...&...#...&...}
   therefore I interpreted this structure, which must be at the very beginning
   of the formula, as equation array.
   I decided not to use the eqnarray-environment in LATEX, because I entered
   problems with the numbering of formulas
   I rather use \displaystyle in connection with the array environment
   to get the right style of the formulas

   I have to make a decision wheter a formula is displayed using
   begin{equation} or using $ (text style).
   This is realized as follows
   if there are chars before the formula in the current line or
   the previous line is ended by a soft return and the WP-option
   "formula is treated as char" (this translation may be wrong)
   is on, then the text style mode is used, in the other cases the
   equation-environment is used.

   Note: Lazy bracketing causes error messages. Check the formula
         with the number given in the message carefully!


Andreas Tille <e2od5@mlucom.urz.uni-halle.de>:
  1) some rudiments of p2c substituted (Static -> static, Local -> static,
     Void -> void, Char -> char)
  2) simplification of the mechanism to add further special WP-charcters
     (#define WP_CHAR ...)
  3) some special WP-charcters added (Marked with AT)
  4) included unistd.h if not __BORLANDC__
  5) LaTeX2e - preambel: \documentclass{...} \usepackage{...}
  6) auxillary files (*.str and *.tbl) are really deleted (fclose() is
     necessary before unlink())
  7) If a '-' in the WP-text occured at the end of a line (the character
     in this case is represented as 0xaa instead of 0xa9) Wp2LaTeX leaved
     it out. Now 0xa9 and 0xaa both are handled correct.
  8) Some code-optimizations
     a) file opening
     b) Rd_word, Wr_word substituted for EMX (runs on all machines with
        Intel-byte order
     c) substitute some Pascal-fashioned string[256] stuff by allocating
        the really needed memory (sometimes more than 256!!!)
     d) substitute some constant strings, which only store other
        constant strings, to pointers, which point to constant
        strings (open_com, close_com, LOC_Convert_first_pass.lat,
        LOC_Convert_first_pass.ext_lat)
     e) substitute Jump_in_file by fseek(..., SEEK_CUR)
     f) reading of the split-file in second pass changed
  9) Split the code into several files to have a better overview when
     looking for bugs.
 10) Substitute some (only some, because I'm lazy ;-() functions from
        a(i, s)
        int i;
        char *s;
        {
        }
     to
        a(int i, char *s)
        {
        }
     style. Give the compiler a chance to detect wrong arguments!
 11) Prevent the formula parser from crashing with SIGSEGV
     (Note: These chrashes were caused by an internal error
     in formpars.c. I didn't correct the error but only check
     whether it occured and don't do anything which could cause
     a SIGSEGV. The resulting LaTeX file is the same in any case.
     Dirk Lellinger told me, that lazy bracketing causes the error.)
 12) Wrote this documentation.
 13) Warning if the file to convert seems to be a WordPerfect 6.0 document

 If somebody needs any sed scripts or little C-programs to do
 some further modifications automatically ask me. If there are a lot
 of users who need conversions like \"{a} -> ~D, "..." -> "`..."' and
 other stuff I will include some little utilities into the Wp2LaTeX
 package.

TODO LIST:
----------
  - Improve the translation quality
  - Add various makefiles to allow an easier compilation under various
    environment, like VMS, Win and so on.
  - Write a log-file of the ignored sequences
  - Add command-line options
     . use german.sty (\"{a} -> "a, ...)
     . use EmTeX (\"{a} -> ~D, ...)
     . include further packages (\usepackage{t1enc,...})
     . leave out optional arguments of \footnote
  - Optional LaTeX filename given in commandline (I hate so much questions
    while running a program).
  - Complete part 10) from Andreas Tilles changes
  - Handling of tables could be done so far, that columns are
    separated by '&' and lines separated by "\\\n". This would
    simplify manual editing
  - Correct errors within formula parser
    . "over" are not translated correctly
    . See the error messages while running
  - Handling of WordPerfect 6.0 documents.
  - Prevent anybody from using WordPerfect to decrease the probability
    of failures of this program ;-).

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Apr 28 15:13:44 1996
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 19:10:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Richard W.D.Nickalls <100115.1010@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- year planner

I have now (finally) installed Dick Nickalls' small bit of year
planner macro code.

The stuff is installed as macros/latex/contrib/other/yplan96 (3 files)

The .doc file says:

  These files will print a vertical-type daily planner
  (ie months along the top, days downwards), with each
  6-month period fitting onto a single A4 sheet.
  They will also fit onto USA standard size paper.

Thanks, Dick, and sorry for the delay...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Apr 29 10:28:03 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:08:37 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Frank Jensen <fj@iesd.auc.dk>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (Hyphenation patterns for Danish)

Frank Jensen writes:
 > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de' a set of hyphenation patterns for
 > Danish to be used with LaTeX (2e) and Babel.  It has direct support
 > for T1 and OT1 encodings.
 > 
 > The name of the file is `dkhyphen.tar.gz', and it should be unpacked
 > in the `languages/hyphenation' directory.

Thanks a lot, I installed your files.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Apr 30 07:45:21 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:09:14 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: kempson@snowyowl.co.uk
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: new 8-bit implementation of BibTeX 0.99

Niel Kempson writes:

> I've uploaded a complete kit for a new fully 8-bit adaptation of BibTeX
> 0.99 to the /incoming directory on ftp.tex.ac.uk.  There are five files:
> 
>     bt370.doc       - `README' file describing the implementation
>                       *** PLEASE rename this to 00readme.txt ***
> 
>     bt370csf.zip    - example code page and sorting order definition files
>     bt370dos.zip    - binary + documentation kit for MS-DOS users
>     bt370os2.zip    - binary + documentation kit for 32 bit OS/2 users
>     bt370src.zip    - complete source code kit for all supported platforms
> 
> I propose creating a new directory 
> 
>     tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/8-bit
> 
> for these files because this new implementation is not tied to a
> particular platform.
> 
> I also suggest deleting "tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/ms-dos/kempson/8bit-beta" 
> because that version is now thoroughly out of date.


I have installed the stuff at ftp.tex.ac.uk, as requested, and deleted
the beta-release version.

It will propagate to ftp.dante.de and to mirrors of ftp.tex.ac.uk
overnight.  When/if it will make it to ftp.shsu.edu and sites that
mirror it is anyone's guess.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team


> The key features of this implementation are summarised below.
> 
> Large (32-bit) capacity, selectable at run time
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
>     - rewritten to use 32-bit data types wherever possible
> 
>     - capacity of key internal arrays can be set on the command line
>       (specifically hash_prime, hash_size, max_cites, max_ent_ints,
>       max_ent_strs, max_fields, max_strings, pool_size, wiz_fn_space)
> 
>     - predefined capacities of "default", "big" and "huge" for convenience
> 
> 
> Full 8-bit support for non-English languages
> --------------------------------------------
> 
>     - accepts 8-bit characters in its input files and writes 8-bit
>       characters to its output files.  
> 
>     - works with LaTeX2e and its "inputenc" package to provide a robust
>       means of handling 8-bit character sets
> 
>     - an external file used to define the code page *and* sorting order
>       to be used by BibTeX ("CS" file)
>       
>     - a number of example CS files are provided with the initial kit:
>     
>             character set               sorting order
>             -----------------------------------------
>             US ASCII                    English
>             IBM codepage 437            Latin
>             IBM codepage 850            Latin
>             IBM codepage 850            Scandinavean
>             ISO 8859-1                  Latin
>             ISO 8859-1                  Scandinavean
>     
>       plus instructions for creating and testing new CS files.
> 
> 
> Other Features
> --------------
> 
>     - backwards compatible with the official BibTeX 0.99 (--traditional option)
> 
>     - translation of the original Web source to portable C
> 
>     - source should compile on just about any system supporting a 32-bit
>       ANSI C compiler
> 
>     - executable versions provided for OS/2 and MS-DOS, courtesy of
>       Eberhard Mattes' wonderful emx development environment
> 
>     - plenty of command line options for flexibility
> 
>     - free with source under GNU / original BibTeX conditions
> 
> 
> Authors
> -------
> 
>         Niel Kempson
>         Snowy Owl Systems Limited, Cheltenham, England
>         E-mail: kempson@snowyowl.co.uk
> 
>     and 
> 
>     	Alejandro Aguilar-Sierra
>     	Centro de Ciencias de la Atm\'osfera, 
>     	Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico, M\'exico
>     	E-mail: asierra@servidor.unam.mx
> 
>     The original BibTeX was written by Oren Patashnik using Donald
>     Knuth's WEB system.  This format produces a PASCAL program for
>     execution and a TeX documented version of the source code.
> 
>     Niel Kempson did the original manual translation from WEB to C,
>     conversion to "big" (32-bit) capacity, addition of run-time selectable
>     capacity and part of the 8-bit support extensions.  He intermittently
>     maintains the master version of the C source code.
>     
>     Alejandro Aguilar-Sierra should take the credit for most of the 8-bit
>     function provided by this version of BibTeX.
> 
> Note
> ----
> 
>     Oren Patashnik, the creator of BibTeX, is working on a new BibTeX 1.0
>     that will be a modern implementation supporting large capacities and
>     non-English languages (see TUGboat, pages 269--274, volume 15, number
>     3, September 1994).  He is content for this version to be released,
>     but hopes that people will eventually migrate to BibTeX 1.0 when it
>     is released.  Its release date is uncertain at the moment.

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed May  1 04:36:59 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 15:01:18 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: german@dante.de
Subject: german.sty 2.5c installed

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Bernd Raichle wrote:

> I have put the following file(s) in CTAN's incoming directory
> 
>  a) site:	ftp.dante.de
> 
>  b) files:	incoming/german-25c.tar
> 
>  c) description:
> 		tar file includes the newest version 2.5c of
> 		"german.sty" and its documentation
> 
>  d) place:
> 		language/german/

I have installed the files at ftp.dante.de as requested and deleted the
old diff files.

The new version will propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and to mirrors of
ftp.dante.de overnight and with a lot of luck to ftp.shsu.edu too.

Reinhard Zierke

For the CTAN team

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
== Weisst Du, UNIX ist fuer normale Menschen praktisch unbedienbar == F. Gers

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed May  1 04:18:05 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 15:05:21 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Gerhard Frech: I have uploaded texed122.zip

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> I've uploaded TeXEd122.zip into the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de
> 
> Please install (move) TeXEd122.zip into the systems/os2/texed
> directory.
> 
> This programm is written by myself and I have uploaded the almost
> newest version to ftp.dante.de since half a year.

The file has been installed as requested (systems/os2/texed/texed122.zip)
and will propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the mirrors of ftp.dante.de in
due time.

Reinhard Zierke

For the CTAN team

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
== Weisst Du, UNIX ist fuer normale Menschen praktisch unbedienbar == F. Gers

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed May  1 05:48:58 1996
Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 09:47:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: Niel Kempson <kempson@snowyowl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: new 8-bit implementation of BibTeX 0.99

Niel Kempson writes:

> [...] I've already had a couple
> of messages pointing out that I forgot to include a vital source file :-(
> 
> I've just uploaded a new bt370src.zip file to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming so
> I'd be grateful if you'd replace the existing one-day old version in
> tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/8-bit.

That's now done.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May  3 12:27:13 1996
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 16:22:08 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: DVI previewer tmview 96.05 installed

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I have installed the new version 96.05 of the DVI previewer tmview 
(replacing 96.01) on ftp.dante.de in tex-archive/dviware/tmview.

It will propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and to mirrors of ftp.dante.de
overnight and maybe to ftp.shsu.edu too.

A short description from the package (file IAFA-PACKAGE):

Title:          tmview
Version:        96.05
Description:    SVGA-lib based DVI-previewer. Fast, offers xdvi-like
                anti-aliasing, text-string searching, arbitrary-zooming,
                bookmarks, some of the hypertex features.
Author:         Thomas Moor, qelis@aol.com
Maintained-by:  Thomas Moor, qelis@aol.com
Maintained-at:  sunsite.unc.edu, ftp.dante.de
Platforms:      linux, gcc, SVGA-lib 1.28 or up,
                programming language C
Copying-Policy: "Freely Redistributable"
Keywords:       dvi previewer tex svgalib

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
== Weisst Du, UNIX ist fuer normale Menschen praktisch unbedienbar == F. Gers

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From piet@cs.ruu.nl Fri May  3 12:25:45 1996
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 17:16:40 +0200
From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: CTAN upload

I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming a new version of
fancyheadings.sty.

To be moved to tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings/

This is the last release of version 1.

I have version 2 almost ready, but I will give it another name. It will
still be backwards compatible, but it also has a new user interface, that
is much easier to use. The new name will be fancyhdr.sty (8+3), but I want
the file under the old name to be as much up to date as possible.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May  3 19:36:54 1996
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 23:34:21 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: makefonts 1.2

Volker Kuhlmann  (kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz) wrote:

> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming
>   makefonts1.2.tar.gz
> please replace with it fonts/utilities/makefonts.
> 
> This is a bundle of UNIX shell scripts which generate various fonts
> calling metafont. It is useful for people who prefer not to use automatic
> font generation. Some minor problems have been fixed, and running metafont
> is a little more flexible.

I have installed the files as requested. They should soon propagate to
ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Cheers,
  Reinhard

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
ftpmaint@dante.de

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat May  4 08:30:32 1996
Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 13:28:17 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: Dvips, HP/LJ4, two sided printing -- how?

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Volker,

In message <199604302137.JAA10076@andromeda.elec.canterbury.ac.nz>, 
	kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Volker Kuhlmann) writes:
> > Our HP lasterjet 4 printer has been upgraded and can now print double sided.
> > What do I need to put in the dvips config file to turn two sided printing on
> > (or off)?
> 
> I have put together some config files which control two/one-sided printing, and
> a few other things as well. It sounded like Karl Berry wanted to include them
> with dvips (what has happened to that?), but in the mean time I could put them
> on CTAN (and send you a copy if you are desperate, 3240 bytes gzipped tar).

These files are now on ftp.dante.de in tex-archive/dviware/dvipsconfig and
will soon propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Cheers,
  Reinhard

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
ftpmaint@dante.de

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat May  4 12:37:52 1996
Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 16:35:25 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: protopap@bekas.cog.brown.edu
Subject: Re: APA format package for LaTeX2e

Thanassi Protopapaswrites:

> I have uploaded to ftp.shsu.edu/incoming/apa the files apa.cls, apa.bst,
> apa.doc, and theapa.doc. They can be used to format text according to 
> the American Psychological Association Publication Manual (4th ed.) 
> specifications for manuscripts or, with an option to the package,
> in an APA journal style format or as a regular document.
> 
> I suppose they should be installed at
> /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/apa
> 
> Let me know if there are any problems or if more information is needed.
> 
> Thanassi Protopapas
> Dept. of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences
> Brown University

I have installed his apa directory here at ftp.tex.ac.uk

It should make it back to SHSU some day; a copy should be on
ftp.cdrom.com fairly soon

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May  7 01:14:57 1996
Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 21:38:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Peter Schmitt <A8131DAL@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT>
Subject: Re: Submission : backgrnd.tex & shade.sty

Peter Schmitt writes (ages ago):

> I have just put to small files into the /incoming directory at SHSU.
> 
> shade.sty is the union of several small files including
>           grey.mf to produce a small font used to shade rectangles,
>           a file with macros for using it
> backgrnd.tex provides a possibility to vertically mark material
>              by changebars (using TeX's \rule command only),
>              or - alternatively - putting it on grey background
>              (using the font of shade.sty)
> (therefore: both tools do not require PostScript or driver specials)
> 
> Both files should be considered as test versions.
> 
> If you would like to rename the files to more appropriate names
> I would, of course, not object.

I finally got around to installing these packages at ftp.tex.ac.uk

They will propagate to dante in due course, and thence (eventually) to
SHSU.

After a certain amount of discussion with Peter, I went away to think
about where they should go, forgot about them, noticed a posting of
his mentioning them, printed them out, and finally (on a public
holiday, today) had time to evaluate them.

In the event, I've decided to install them both in macros/generic,
rather than to create a new macros/generic/test.  There's no
distinction in the macros/generic tree as to the status of the macros,
and a separate directory didn't seem appropriate.  Peter was not able
to recommend a place, but I have to admit that I don't really have the
structure of that part of the tree at my fingertips either...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May  7 01:06:21 1996
Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 21:44:07 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Frank Bennett <fbennett@rumple.soas.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission `printmagic'

Nearly a month ago, Frank Bennett wrote:

> I've just put two files, printmagic.tar and CONTACT,
> on  ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming.
> 
> The tar file contains a terse README and three other files (printcap,
> a magic filter script, and a bash script.  Together with other
> utilities, mentioned in comments to the printcap, these show
> how to set up a Linux print queue to which vanilla PC users
> on a Novell LAN can submit print jobs to LaTeX without having
> any access to LaTeX itself.  Log files for failed jobs are returned
> to the user via email.  Almost as good as being there...
> 
> The CONTACT file is an afterthought; I forgot to include my
> email address in the tar file.
> 
> Although this is a fairly trivial set of stuff, perhaps it
> should be announced to the list --- even if the programming
> is more or less trivial, this particular combination of
> utilities might not have occurred to folks.

The tar file turned out not to contain all it claimed to contain, and
(as is my wont with things that aren't entirely trivial) the upload
fell off the back of my mind.

The stuff is now installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk as support/printmagic

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May  7 01:05:54 1996
Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 22:03:26 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: bts@unx.sas.com
Subject: Portmanteau footnote package

I have just installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk a new package which offers a
variety of footnote facilities

 - paragraph footnotes (i.e., all the footnotes on a page are run
   together as a single paragraph
 - footnotes numbered `per page' (using code by Brian Schellenberger,
   not as far as I know related to the footnpag package)
 - footnotes forced to the bottom of the page when the page otherwise
   ends short (though `bottom' floats still appear below the
   footnotes)

plus one or two other related minor facilities.

The package requires David Kastrup's patch package, available as
macros/generic/patch.doc

Though it is supported, the package is only tested under current LaTeX
(1994/12/01); I've been working (on and off) on this package since
that halcyon Christmas holiday in 1993 when the first Alpha release of
LaTeX2e kept us all busy...  When I came to need it for a private
project recently, it didn't work; substantial changes were necessary,
and I can't say for sure which version necessitated those changes.

The installation took place (of course) at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Who knows when it will make its way across the pond...?

Robin Fairbairns

From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Tue May  7 21:29:15 1996
Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 13:03:04 +0200
From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
Subject: [LaTeX, Metafont, Graphics, Feynman diagrams] FEYNMF v1.05 released

This announces version 1.05 of feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont
package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and maybe
other) diagrams.

If you don't know if feynmf is useful for you, have a look at the
preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz') or at the tutorial:

	  HTML: http://wwwcn1.cern.ch/cnls/220/node57.html      [Part 1]
		http://wwwcn1.cern.ch/cnls/221/node63.html      [Part 2]
		http://wwwcn1.cern.ch/cnls/222/node38.html      [Part 3]
    PostScript: ftp://asisftp.cern.ch/cnl/220/textproc.ps.gz    [Part 1]
		ftp://asisftp.cern.ch/cnl/221/textproc.ps.gz    [Part 2]
		ftp://asisftp.cern.ch/cnl/222/textproc.ps.gz    [Part 3]

The software will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN
host near you.

Enjoy,
-Thorsten

NEWS for Version 1.05

    *  FeynMF now coexists with french.sty and other packages that
    change the \catcode of ``:''.

    *  Fixed a bug introduced in version 1.03, which could cause
    problems with font loading.  Unfortunately, the fix has to give up
    some compatibility with earlier versions.  Sources for version
    1.02 and earlier which used \noexpand in labels have to upgraded
    or the option `pre-1.03' has to be used.  Sorry.
-- 
Thorsten Ohl, Physics Department, TH Darmstadt --- PGP: AF 38 FF CE 03 8A 2E A7
http://crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de/~ohl/ -------- 8F 2A C1 86 8C 06 32 6B

From piet@cs.ruu.nl Tue May  7 08:18:55 1996
Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 13:07:12 +0200
From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: New fancyheadings.sty

Sorry about that, but there was a % missing in the fancyheadings.sty that I
uploaded. I have uploaded the new version on ftp.dante.de:/incoming/. And
the file should be moved to tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May  7 15:01:21 1996
Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 14:20:19 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Mailing list CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu

I have taken control of this mailing list, thanks to help from the
Postmaster at SHSU.

I was somewhat depressed to come to work on my first day of `ownership'
to find that there were 9 addresses on the list that bounce.

I have decided to behave in a gross fashion: any address for which I
get two bounce messages will be deleted from the list.  I won't (for
obvious reasons) mail the said addresses to report my action.

If you leave your present address, it is common courtesy to sign off
all the mailing lists you're using.  You can sign off ctan-ann by
sending a message saying nothing but "signoff" to
ctan-ann-request@shsu.edu

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue May  7 22:37:13 1996
Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 17:58:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: uploaded: Ukrainian hyphenation patterns

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

> From: Yannis Haralambous <Yannis.Haralambous@univ-lille1.fr>

> I have just placed two files (test_ukr_hyphenation.mac
> and test_ukr_hyphenation.win) on the /incoming directory
> of ftp.loria.fr
> 
> There are the same files, in Macintosh Cyrillic and Windows Cyrillic
> encodings. They contain about 11,700 hyphenated Ukrainian words, and
> I would like people speaking Ukrainian to read them and send me
> feedback, so that I can rectify my Ukrainian hyphenation patterns.
> 
> I will make the necssary publicity, please just put these files
> in languages/ukrainian. Later on, when I'll have rectified the patterns
> and the results are satisfactory I'll replace them by the real patterns.

I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de in tex-archive/languages/ukrainian
as requested.  They will be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors
in due time.

NOTE: Please upload files in the /incoming directories of ftp.tex.ac.uk
or ftp.dante.de.  Don't do it anywhere else.  We do *not* have access to
other server's /incoming directories and it is a major hassle to bother
the FTP admins of this servers to copy the files onto a CTAN host.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241

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From gdearc@econ.lsa.umich.edu Tue May  7 19:48:26 1996
Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 16:21:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Giuseppe De Arcangelis <gdearc@econ.lsa.umich.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: Mailing list CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu

On Tue, 7 May 1996, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> I have taken control of this mailing list, thanks to help from the
> Postmaster at SHSU.
> 
> I was somewhat depressed to come to work on my first day of `ownership'
> to find that there were 9 addresses on the list that bounce.
> 
> I have decided to behave in a gross fashion: any address for which I
> get two bounce messages will be deleted from the list.  I won't (for
> obvious reasons) mail the said addresses to report my action.
> 
> If you leave your present address, it is common courtesy to sign off
> all the mailing lists you're using.  You can sign off ctan-ann by
> sending a message saying nothing but "signoff" to
> ctan-ann-request@shsu.edu
> 

Robin,

I think that this policy is a little too strict. Just two weeks ago our 
cluster had a hacker attack and mail account in Rome have been bouncing 
back messages for about a week.

Maybe 4/5 bounces would be a more proper policy.

Giuseppe


*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
Giuseppe De Arcangelis                      fax (313) 764 2769
The University of Michigan               e-mail: gdearc@umich.edu     
Dept. of Economics                               gdearc@serifos.caspur.it      
Ann Arbor,  MI 48109-1220	   URL: http://www.econ.lsa.umich.edu/~gdearc/

From R.A.Reese@ucc.hull.ac.uk Wed May  8 05:18:58 1996
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 09:13:07 +0100 (BST)
From: R. Allan Reese <R.A.Reese@ucc.hull.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: Mailing list CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu

On Tue, 7 May 1996, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> If you leave your present address, it is common courtesy to sign off
> all the mailing lists you're using. 

If only life were so simple.  I have "left my current address" several
times thanks to our "policy of continuous improvement" among email
providers.  It's not lack of courtesy, Robin, it's those s.o.b. programs
that don't have the nous to recognise "fred, now at xyz but previously at
abc."

Yours, the artist formerly known as,

R. Allan Reese                         Email: r.a.reese@ucc.hull.ac.uk
Head of Applications, Computer Centre  Direct voice:    +44 1482 465296 
Hull University                        Voice messages:  +44 1482 465685
Hull HU6 7RX,  U.K.                    Fax:             +44 1482 466441

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed May  8 06:30:01 1996
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 10:12:13 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: James.Ashton@keating.anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

James Ashton writes:

> I've just uploaded two files for the CTAN archive to pip.shsu.edu.

It's not safe to rely on the machine name ... the advertised name is
ftp.shsu.edu...

Anyway, by the magic of mirroring, the files appeared here.

> I've placed them in /incoming/indxcite and the files names are:
> 
> 	indxcite.dtx.gz
> 	indxcite.ins.gz
> 
> The files comprise a LaTeX2e package which allows the authors of papers
> cited via BibTeX to be automatically indexed.  I think the files should
> go in an indxcite directory within either of:
> 
> 	/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other
> 	/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported
> 
> I'm not sure if `supported' means, `supported by the LaTeX3 group' or
> just `supported in some sense by someone'.  I am willing to provide a
> limited level of support for the software within the restrictions of my
> time.

It means `supported in some sense by someone'.  The stuff in
latex/packages is what's `supported by the LaTeX3 group'.

I've gunzipped the files, and duly installed them as

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/indxcite

You should note that it doesn't unpack cleanly with current LaTeX (though it
does with LaTeX of 1995/06/01, and presumably with earlier
versions...).

Thanks for the contribution (it's one of those things people are
*always* asking for!).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed May  8 07:05:40 1996
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 11:43:37 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: New fancyheadings.sty (fwd)

> From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
> 
> Sorry about that, but there was a % missing in the fancyheadings.sty that I
> uploaded. I have uploaded the new version on ftp.dante.de:/incoming/. And
> the file should be moved to tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings

The corrected file has been installed on ftp.dante.de yesterday and should
be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors by now.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard zierke

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
== Weisst Du, UNIX ist fuer normale Menschen praktisch unbedienbar == F. Gers

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed May  8 07:29:18 1996
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 11:58:11 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: CTAN Submission: mybrief

> From: "Alexander Fries" <BP016@smail.fh-koeln.de>
> Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 09:46:40 MEZ
> 
> I've upload a new german letter-class for LaTeX2e on the CTAN-server at
> DANTE.DE. There are three files named
> 
>  mybrief.cls  (the LaTeX2e-class)
>  mybrief.sty  (the LaTeX2e-package of mybrief.cls)
>  mybrief.tex  (a small test-letter which gives an example of the options)
> 
> in the directory MYBRIEF.

[ 'brief' is the German word for 'letter'  -rz ]
 
> The class is based on letter.cls. I've designed it for german users. There is a
> new letter-head with a lot of usefull options like a line for references. The
> to-adress is placed for german envelopes with a window for the to-adress.
> The option Calli requires the callig15-font. It writes the Name from the
> from-adress in calligraphic letters.
>
> Please put the files into a directory like .../package/german/mybrief

I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de in macros/latex/contrib/other/mybrief
for the macros/latex/packages directory is for packages from the LaTeX team
only.  The files will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241

From Axel.Schwarz@post.rwth-aachen.de Wed May  8 22:46:23 1996
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 13:00:01 +0100
From: Axel Schwarz <Axel.Schwarz@post.rwth-aachen.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: "CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu" <CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu>
Subject: Re: Mailing list CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu

On Tue, 07 May 1996 14:20:19 +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

>I have decided to behave in a gross fashion: any address for which I
>get two bounce messages will be deleted from the list.  I won't (for
>obvious reasons) mail the said addresses to report my action.

Perhaps a less strict idea could be waiting one or two weeks, as
the number of bounces depends on the number of posted 
announcements and sometimes there are two or three a day,
sometimes none for 2 weeks.

Axel


____________________________________________________

  Axel Schwarz 

  Axel.Schwarz@post.RWTH-Aachen.de
  Schwarz@RWTH-Aachen.de

  Mitglied im TeamOs/2 Deutschland & International

  Based on 100 recycled and unbleached electrons
____________________________________________________

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May  9 21:32:08 1996
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 15:12:37 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: ChkTeX re-submitted. (fwd)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

> From: "Jens T. Berger Thielemann" <jensthi@ifi.uio.no>
> 
> Hi! I'm resending the ChkTeX archive; as I have to change the dir
> structure in order to support multiple architectures.
> 
> Please unarchive the .tar.gz archive as usual
> (ftp.dante.de:/incoming/chktex/chktex.tar.gz), and put it in support/chktex.

The new version of the package is installed on ftp.dante.de in support/chktex
and will be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk overnight and to the CTAN mirrors in
due time.  Watch out for the creation date 'May 8' of the directory to be
sure that the new version is available.

The file ChkTeX.readme is appended below.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241

- -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Short:    v1.4. Finds typographic errors in LaTeX
Author:   <jensthi@ifi.uio.no> (Jens T. Berger Thielemann)
          <bjort@ifi.uio.no> (Bj\o rn Ove Thue) [MSDOS port]
Uploader: <jensthi@ifi.uio.no> (Jens T. Berger Thielemann)
Type:     text/tex
Replaces: text/tex/ChkTeX.lha
Version:  1.4

             #####  ###       ###    ########     ###     ##
           ###   ##  ##        ##       ##          ##   #
          @@         @@ @@@    @@  @@   @@  #######  @@ @
          @@         @@@  @@   @@ @@    @@   ##   #   @@
          &&         &&   &&   &&&&     &&   @@      & &&
           &&&   &&  &&   &&   && &&    &&   @@@@   &   &&
             %%%%%  %%%   %%% %%%  %%%  %%   &&   %%%    %%% v1.4
                                             &&   &
                                            %%%%%%%

    This program was written in frustration of that some constructs in
LaTeX  are sometimes non-intuitive, and easy to forget.  It is *not* a
replacement  for  the  built-in  checker in LaTeX; however, it catches
some  typographic  errors  LaTeX oversees.  In other words, it is Lint
for  LaTeX.  Filters are also provided for checking the LaTeX parts of
CWEB documents.

    While written on an Amiga, it is written in ANSI C, so you can use
this at your UN*X/MSDOS/whatever site also.  Full source included.

    The  program  also  supports  output  formats suitable for further
processing  by editors or other programs, making errors easy to catch.
These  are  also  fully customizable.  An ARexx script for interfacing
with  SCMSG  (and  via  that,  other  editors) is included.  A special
script for CygnusED and an experimental script for GoldED is included.
The program can also produce output suitable for Emacs.

    The program itself does not  have any machine requirements; Amiga,
MSDOS and OS/2 binaries  are available.  Of course, you'll  need ARexx
and SCMSG to benefit from the ARexx scripts.


                             Feature list
                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  o Supports over 30 warnings. Warnings include:
      - Commands terminated with space.  Ignores \tt, etc.
      - Space in front of references instead of ~.
      - Forgetting    to    group    parenthesis    characters    when
        sub-/superscripting.
      - Italic    correction   ("\/")   mistakes   (double,   missing,
        unnecessary).
      - Parenthesis and environment matching.
      - Ellipsis  detection;  also checks whether to use \dots, \cdots
        or \ldots.
      - Enforcement  of  normal space after abbreviation.  Detect most
        abbreviations automagically.
      - Enforcement  of  end-of-sentence  space when the last sentence
        ended with capital letter.
      - Mathmode on/off detection.
      - Quote checking, both wrong types (") and wrong direction.
      - Recommends splitting three quotes in a row.
      - Searching for user patterns.
      - Displays comments.
      - Space in front of \label and similar commands.
      - Use of "x" instead of $\times$ between numbers.
      - Multiple spaces in input.
      - Text which may be ignored.
      - Mathematical operators typeset as variables.
  o Fully customizable.  Intelligent resource format makes it possible
    to  make  ChkTeX  respect  your  LaTeX  setup.   Even command-line
    options may be specified globally in the ".chktexrc" file.
  o Supports  \input  command;  both  TeX and LaTeX version.  Actually
    includes the files.  TEXINPUTS-equivalent search path.
  o Intelligent  warning/error  handling.   The  user may promote/mute
    warnings  to  suit his preferences.  You may also mute warnings in
    the header of a file; thus killing much unwanted garbage.
  o Scripts  included  for  checking  CWEB  files  written  in  LaTeX.
    (Requires perl v5).
  o Supports both LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX2e.
  o Flexible  output  handling.   Has some predefined format, but lets
    the  user  specify  his  own  format.   Uses  a "printf()" similar
    syntax.   "lacheck"  compatible mode included for interfacing with
    the AUC TeX Emacs mode.
  o An  ARexx  script  for  interfacing  with SCMSG, the SAS/C message
    browser,    is    included.     Special    script   included   for
    CygnusED/GoldED, for binding to hotkey.
  o Amiga   Workbench   support.    Parameters   may   be   passed  by
    shift-clicking  the  LaTeX files and setting the remaining options
    in the tooltypes.
  o Wildcard matching (Amiga only).  Matches file patterns internally,
    thus  saving  a  lot of work.  This is, however, platform-specific
    code - on UNIX boxes this is done by the shell.
  o Written  in  ANSI C.  configure script included for easy setup and
    installation on UNIX systems.

    Still,  it  is important to realize that the output from ChkTeX is
only  intended  as  a  *guide* to fixing faults.  However, it is by no
means  always correct.  This means that correct LaTeX code may produce
errors  in  ChkTeX,  and  vice  versa:   Incorrect LaTeX code may pass
silently through.

                             New features
                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~
Modifications and additions since v1.3:
  o The  whole subpart containing the error-checking routines has been
    restructured.  This added the following benefits:
      - We  are  now  *much* more context-sensitive; warnings are to a
        much  larger degree muted/promoted according to whether we are
        in math-mode or not.
      - Detects math and verbatim environment (you may configure which
        are which), and acts accordingly.
  o Yet  more  flexible  resource format.  UNIX systems may now have a
    *global*  resource file; thus saving the individual users a lot of
    work installing the program.
  o You  may  now  customize  which dashlengths you allow in different
    contexts.
  o Removed that silly twirling baton which no-one used anyway.
  o A few more warnings:
      - Checks that quotes are used the right way.
      - Checks  for  use  of  "sin"  instead of "\sin" in mathmode and
        similar.
  o Compiles happily on MSDOS computers; binary included.
  o Configure script.
  o Output  formats  may  now be specified globally in the ".chktexrc"
    file now, for easy access.
  o Most other suggestions incorporated.

                             Legal stuff
                             ~~~~~~~~~~~
    ChkTeX,  documentation,  installations  scripts,  CWEB filters and
other     materials     provided    are    copyright    (c)    1995-96
Jens T. Berger Thielemann, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

    This  program  is  free  software;  you can redistribute it and/or
modify  it  under  the  terms  of  the  GNU  General Public License as
published  by  the  Free  Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

    This  program  is  distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but  WITHOUT  ANY  WARRANTY;  without  even  the  implied  warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY  or  FITNESS  FOR  A  PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

    You  should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along   with  this  program;  if  not,  write  to  the  Free  Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.


                             Installation
                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    A few words on installation on various platforms:

Amiga 
=====
    Use the supplied Installer script.    

MS-DOS & OS/2
=============
    Copy  the  binary  ("ChkTeX.exe")  to  somewhere in your path, and
    place the "chktexrc" file in the same directory.

UNIX
====
    Type "configure", "make" and  finally "make install". If you don't
    have  superuser  privileges and access to system areas, you should
    type "configure --help" to help you set up correct paths.

Other platforms
===============
    First  of  all,  you have to copy the "config.h.in" file to a file
    named  "config.h".   Then, edit it to reflect your system.  Do the
    same  with  "ChkTeX.h" (this file has been reduced significantly).
    If  you  wish,  you  may define "DATADIR" to the path you want the
    global resource file to be put.

    Now,  I  would  suggest that you also take a peak at the "OpSys.c"
    file  first,  and  edit  it  appropiately, for more comfort.  This
    should not be necessary, though, at least not the first time.

    Finally,  you  may  now  compile  and  link  all .c files.  Define
    "HAVE_CONFIG_H"  to 1 (on the command-line, for instance).  If the
    "config.h"   you   wish   to   use   has   another   name,  define
    "CONFIG_H_NAME"    to   that   (in   that   case,   don't   define
    "HAVE_CONFIG_H").

    Put  the  directory  path  of the "chktexrc" file in a environment
    variable  named  "CHKTEXRC".  The files "deweb.in" and "chkweb.in"
    should be moved to a directory in your path.  These files may need
    further  setup,  as  they haven't got the location of perl and csh
    initialized.


Note:  You *must* install the new "chktexrc" file; ChkTeX will fail to
function unless!

    After  doing  this,   you  may    enhance  ChkTeX'  behaviour  by
reading/editing the ".chktexrc" file.


                             Availability
                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~
    This  program  will be uploaded to AmiNet and CTAN; thus it can be
found at any mirrors of those.

    Please  note that earlier versions of ChkTeX have been uploaded to
Aminet  under  the same archive name, to keep consistent with Aminet's
policy  of  keeping  versions  out of filenames.  Please read the file
"ChkTeX.readme"  (which  is  in  the same directory as the archive) to
find out the version number.

    I'm  now uploading the archive uncompressed to CTAN; however, most
of  the  ftpservers  in that network allow you to retrieve a directory
compressed in whatever way you prefer.  Aminet will as usual receive a
LhArc archive.

    Mirrors  of  both  networks  include  (I've  tried  to  list  only
one/country):

                        Amiga Network (Aminet)
                        ======================
               Directory:  text/tex/, Name:  chktex.lha

          Site                                  Directory
          ftp.wustl.edu (USA (MO))              /pub/aminet
          ftp.livewire.com.au (Australia)       /pub/aminet
          ftp.luth.se (Scandinavia)             /pub/aminet
          ftp.eunet.ch (Switzerland)            /pub/aminet
          ftp.germany.aminet.org (Germany)      /pub/aminet
          aminet.grolier.fr (France)            /pub/aminet
          ftp.giga.or.at (Austria)              /pub/aminet
          ftp.unina.it (Italy)                  /pub/aminet
          ftp.ua.pt (Portugal)                  /pub/aminet
          ftp.gui.uva.es (Spain)                /pub/aminet
          ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk (UK)                 /pub/aminet

               Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)
               ========================================
                     Directory:  support/chktex/

      Site                                  Directory
      ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au  (Australia)       /tex-archive
      ftp.dante.de (Germany)                /pub/tex
      src.doc.ic.ac.uk (England)            /packages/tex/uk-tex
      kadri.ut.ee (Estonia)                 /pub/tex
      ftp.funet.fi (Finland)                /pub/TeX/CTAN
      ftp.loria.fr (France)                 /pub/unix/tex/ctan
      ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp (Japan)      /CTAN
      sunsite.icm.edu.pl (Poland)           /pub/CTAN
      ftpserver.nus.sg (Singapore)          /pub/zi/TeX
      ftp.ee.up.ac.za (South Africa)        /tex-archive
      ftp.muni.cz (The Czech Republic)      /pub/tex/CTAN
      wuarchive.wustl.edu (Missouri, USA)   /packages/TeX
      ftp.univie.ac.at (�sterreich)         /packages/tex
      dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw (Taiwan)       /tex-archive


                        Contacting the author
                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    If  you  wish  to  contact  me  for any reason (scout-badges, more
tests,  bug  reports,  suggestions,  hellos, smiley's, etc.), or would
like to participate in the development of ChkTeX, write to:

  Jens Berger
  Spektrumvn. 4
  N-0666 Oslo
  Norway

  E-mail: <jensthi@ifi.uio.no>

Any signs of intelligent life is welcomed; that should exclude piracy.

Have fun.

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May  9 03:48:17 1996
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 08:35:38 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: ragged.sty (fwd)

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> From: Laurent Siebenmann <lcs@topo.math.u-psud.fr>
> 
> Uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de
> 
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     25920 May  9 07:03 ragged.sty
> 
>  --- brief overview :  ragged.sty  is a new package (beta version)
> that provides any TeX format including LaTeX with "raggedleft" and
> "raggedcenter" formatting of paragraphs while maintaining FULL CONTROL
> OF HYPHENATION AND DEGREE OF RAGGEDNESS.
> 
>  --- proposed destination in the CTAN directory hierarchy.
> 
>       ctan/tex-archive/macros/generic/
> 
> Barbara Beeton has indicated to be that shee did something like this
> by another method many years back; see her Plain TeX "Tugboat" style.

The file has been installed on ftp.dante.de as requested, replacing the
beta version of 01-Apr-96.  It will soon be propagated to ftp.tex.ac.uk
and the CTAN mirrors.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May  9 17:46:48 1996
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 08:35:38 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: ragged.sty (fwd)

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> From: Laurent Siebenmann <lcs@topo.math.u-psud.fr>
> 
> Uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de
> 
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     25920 May  9 07:03 ragged.sty
> 
>  --- brief overview :  ragged.sty  is a new package (beta version)
> that provides any TeX format including LaTeX with "raggedleft" and
> "raggedcenter" formatting of paragraphs while maintaining FULL CONTROL
> OF HYPHENATION AND DEGREE OF RAGGEDNESS.
> 
>  --- proposed destination in the CTAN directory hierarchy.
> 
>       ctan/tex-archive/macros/generic/
> 
> Barbara Beeton has indicated to be that shee did something like this
> by another method many years back; see her Plain TeX "Tugboat" style.

The file has been installed on ftp.dante.de as requested, replacing the
beta version of 01-Apr-96.  It will soon be propagated to ftp.tex.ac.uk
and the CTAN mirrors.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu May  9 05:28:39 1996
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 08:57:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: Mailing list CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu

Axel Schwarz writes:

> >I have decided to behave in a gross fashion: any address for which I
> >get two bounce messages will be deleted from the list.  I won't (for
> >obvious reasons) mail the said addresses to report my action.
> 
> Perhaps a less strict idea could be waiting one or two weeks, as
> the number of bounces depends on the number of posted 
> announcements and sometimes there are two or three a day,
> sometimes none for 2 weeks.

He wasn't the only one to think I was being excessive.

People presumably think I have nothing better to do with my time than
to perform analyses of bounce messages; there are masses of them.

In fact, I consider that management of the archive has a higher
priority, and doing the work I'm paid for has higher priority even
than that.

If the world at large would like to get a subscription together to pay
the University of Cambridge for my time, I would be happy to work out
a more `sensitive' scheme.  In the mean time, consider my decision
`final'.

Robin Fairbairns

(Not intending to represent the CTAN team in this outburst)

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May  9 18:47:47 1996
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 15:01:48 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: ChkTeX & CTAN - yet again. :) (fwd)

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> From: "Jens T. Berger Thielemann" <jensthi@ifi.uio.no>
> 
> Sorry for being a total bother; but the distribution I released yesterday
> was somewhat flawed; the Makefile wasn't 100% correct (one has to type
> "make all" instead of just "make"). This is partly due to that IRIX make
> doesn't emit error messages when the Makefile isn't correct.
> 
> Anyway, just put the Makefile.in file included in this mail into the
> directory as "support/chktex/unix/Makefile.in". This should make me shut
> up for a while. :-)

The file has been installed on ftp.dante.de as support/chktex/unix/Makefile.in
as requested and will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

But please, please don't send files per e-mail; put them on ftp.dante.de or
ftp.tex.ac.uk into the /incoming directory.  It's a lot more work to decode
the base64-encoded mail, transfer the extracte files from my office in
Hamburg to the DANTE server in Heidelberg and finally install it there!
 
> Thanks for your work; it's really nice to have such quick and good FTP
> admins! :-)

Good to hear such encouragement :-)

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241

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From grath@math.duke.edu Thu May  9 11:02:05 1996
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 08:22:36 -0500
From: Steve Grathwohl <grath@math.duke.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: Mailing list CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu

At 8:57 AM 5/9/96, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> People presumably think I have nothing better to do with my time than
> to perform analyses of bounce messages; there are masses of them.
>
> In fact, I consider that management of the archive has a higher
> priority, and doing the work I'm paid for has higher priority even
> than that.
>
> If the world at large would like to get a subscription together to pay
> the University of Cambridge for my time, I would be happy to work out
> a more `sensitive' scheme.  In the mean time, consider my decision
> `final'.
>
> Robin Fairbairns
>
> (Not intending to represent the CTAN team in this outburst)

Robin,

Another way to put it would be that if someone thinks he/she is subscribed
to the list, but receives no messages from it, then he/she should
resubscribe to the list. Otherwise, try the decaf; these folks who
responded to your post were not trying to give you a hard time. I and many
others find CTAN-Ann useful, but we don't want to ruin anyone's health over
it.


--
Steve Grathwohl
Duke Mathematical Journal * International Mathematics Research Notices
grath@math.duke.edu * 919-687-3634 * fax: 919-688-5595


From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 10 05:34:05 1996
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 09:39:46 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: CTAN Submission: fix for texed122.zip (fwd)

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> From: hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Frank Stippich)
> 
> I`ve uploaded fix122a.zip into the incoming directory. This file
> contains a fix for texed122.zip. Please move this file into the
> systems/os2/texed directory.

[ Note: texed122.zip is version 1.22 of a TeX shell for OS/2 which has
  been installed on CTAN on 30-Apr-96  -rz ]
 
> Thanks
> Frank Stippich

I have installed the file on ftp.dante.de in systems/os2/texed as requested.
It will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

for the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 10 05:21:29 1996
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 10:09:00 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd)

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> From: bertolaz@ing.unitn.it (Enrico Bertolazzi)
> 
> I have submitted two packages in one tar file easy.tar.gz
> in the site ftp.dante.de/incoming. 
> This two packages simplify a bit the typing of equations and vectors
> or matrices in article. The packages easyeqn introduce some equation
> environment that permits to write equations on mutiple line with a
> single number. It use a sintax like the array environment to define
> column alignment. A package option permits to number only the
> equation that have labelled. The easyvector package is a simple
> macro package that permit to write vector or matrices with a C-like
> sintax.
> I suggest to put the packages in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib
> in the CTAN directory hierarchy.

The files are now on ftp.dante.de in macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
and will soon be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241

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From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Fri May 10 07:12:31 1996
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 11:09:04 +0100
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: `graphics package in plain TeX' update


The file miniltx.tex, part of the 

tex-archive/macros/plain/graphics/

collection which allows the use of LaTeX's graphics, colour, and
picture mode commands in plain TeX based formats has just been
updated. (At Cambridge, at other ctan sites in due course)

Principally this is to add the \setlength command which may be used
internally by some arguments to \includegraphics, eg
 \includegraphics[height=2cm]{file.ps} 
should now work in plain TeX.

See the file 00readme.txt in that directory for more details of these
files. 

David

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun May 12 10:41:34 1996
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 15:39:08 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: Upload: MiKTeX 1.05 (fwd)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

> From: Christian Schenk <cschenk@berlin.snafu.de>
> Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 00:10:26 +0200
> 
> I have uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex
>   ...
> Please remove all existing files from the directory
> 
> 	/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex
> 
> and then move the above files to that directory thus replacing
> MiKTeX 1.04 with MiKTeX 1.05.

Thanks for the contribution.

I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de in systems/win32/miktex as requested.
They will soon be mirrored to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirror.

Oh, and I should better supply part of the MiKTeX readme:

- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
What is it?
***********

MiKTeX 1.05 is an implementation of TeX, METAFONT, dvips and other TeX
related utilities for Windows NT 3.5 and Windows 95. The whole
package includes the following programs:

  * TeX 3.14159
  * LaTeX2e (November 1995)
  * METAFONT 2.718
  * dvips 5.58
  * MakeIndex 2.12
  * BibTeX 0.99c
  * YAP (Yet Another Previewer) 0.90
  * TeXware (dvitype, ...)
  * METFONTware (gftopk, ...)

MiKTeX features
- ---------------

  * Support of long filenames.
  * On the fly generation of TFM files (via TeX).
  * On the fly generation of PK files (via dvips and/or YAP).
  * Free software. Source code included.

What is it not?
***************

Most of the programs that come with MiKTeX are command line oriented,
i.e., you will miss a graphical user interface.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 13 05:49:27 1996
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:29:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: CTAN Submission: language/hebrew

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

The directory language/hebrew has been replaced by a new version compiled
by Rama Porrat (rama@cc.huji.ac.il) on ftp.dante.de.  The new files will
soon propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

The readme file for this directory is:

- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
readme.1 -- Contents of the directory  hebrew  
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
The currect directory holds a collection of files pertaining to usage 
of Hebrew and other right-to-left languages in TeX.
Included are modified versions of TeX which make it possible
to typeset right-to-left as well as left-to-right text.

More details re the Hebrew TeX and LaTeX are available in readme.2.
A readme file is available in most subdirectories.

Directory contents:

./              editors/        macros/         readme.1
../             fonts/          msdos/          readme.2
Xhebrew/        guides/         pc_tex--xet/    unix_tex--xet/
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
readme.1   This file
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
readme.2   An explanation re Hebrew TeX and Hebrew LaTeX
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Xhebrew:
Files pertaining to installing Hebrew on X11.

./            fonts.alias   heb10x20.snf  readme
../           fonts.dir     heb6x13.snf
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
editors:  

Editors for pc and for unix, which use Hebrew + English.
For pc: hed        For unix:  hemacs,  vi.iv,  vim.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
fonts:
This directory contains Hebrew fonts.  

./              doc/            newcode/        pccode/         readme
../             for_all_codes/  oldcode/        ps/
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
guides:       

./                  heblatex_guide.ps   readme
../                 hebrew_cs_guide.ps
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
macros:       
This directory contains Hebrew inputs and guides. Read  readme .

./                      hebcal.sty              hebrew_newcode.sty
../                     hebcal_newcode.sty      hebrew_p.sty
heb_macros.tex          hebcal_p.sty            readme
heb_macros_newcode.tex  hebletter.sty
heb_pc.tex              hebrew.sty
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
msdos:
Use the COM files to install Hebrew support on
your DOS PC.
Use  hebvga.com  and  keybhe.com   for a VGA screen.
./          editor.zip  hebvga.com  readme
../         hebega.com  keybhe.com
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
pc_tex--xet: 
tex--xet for PC.  Read  readme .

./            initex.exe    plain.tcp     pubtex.doc    tex.poo
../           lplain.fmt    pubmf.doc     pubtex.zip    virtex.exe
addition.zip  plain.fmt     pubmf.zip     readme
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
unix_tex--xet:
Files for modifying the official TeX to include right-to-left typesetting.
Read readme.

./               README.1         hebpk300.tar.gz  tex--xet.ch
../              README.2         readme           tex--xet.web
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

		      ^^^\  \/^\ ^^^\                                   
rama@cc.huji.ac.il     \  \ /___\    \   The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 13 09:02:55 1996
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:29:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: CTAN Submission: language/hebrew

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

The directory language/hebrew has been replaced by a new version compiled
by Rama Porrat (rama@cc.huji.ac.il) on ftp.dante.de.  The new files will
soon propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

The readme file for this directory is:

- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
readme.1 -- Contents of the directory  hebrew  
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
The currect directory holds a collection of files pertaining to usage 
of Hebrew and other right-to-left languages in TeX.
Included are modified versions of TeX which make it possible
to typeset right-to-left as well as left-to-right text.

More details re the Hebrew TeX and LaTeX are available in readme.2.
A readme file is available in most subdirectories.

Directory contents:

./              editors/        macros/         readme.1
../             fonts/          msdos/          readme.2
Xhebrew/        guides/         pc_tex--xet/    unix_tex--xet/
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
readme.1   This file
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
readme.2   An explanation re Hebrew TeX and Hebrew LaTeX
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Xhebrew:
Files pertaining to installing Hebrew on X11.

./            fonts.alias   heb10x20.snf  readme
../           fonts.dir     heb6x13.snf
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
editors:  

Editors for pc and for unix, which use Hebrew + English.
For pc: hed        For unix:  hemacs,  vi.iv,  vim.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
fonts:
This directory contains Hebrew fonts.  

./              doc/            newcode/        pccode/         readme
../             for_all_codes/  oldcode/        ps/
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
guides:       

./                  heblatex_guide.ps   readme
../                 hebrew_cs_guide.ps
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
macros:       
This directory contains Hebrew inputs and guides. Read  readme .

./                      hebcal.sty              hebrew_newcode.sty
../                     hebcal_newcode.sty      hebrew_p.sty
heb_macros.tex          hebcal_p.sty            readme
heb_macros_newcode.tex  hebletter.sty
heb_pc.tex              hebrew.sty
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
msdos:
Use the COM files to install Hebrew support on
your DOS PC.
Use  hebvga.com  and  keybhe.com   for a VGA screen.
./          editor.zip  hebvga.com  readme
../         hebega.com  keybhe.com
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pc_tex--xet: 
tex--xet for PC.  Read  readme .

./            initex.exe    plain.tcp     pubtex.doc    tex.poo
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addition.zip  plain.fmt     pubmf.zip     readme
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unix_tex--xet:
Files for modifying the official TeX to include right-to-left typesetting.
Read readme.

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		      ^^^\  \/^\ ^^^\                                   
rama@cc.huji.ac.il     \  \ /___\    \   The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Thanks a lot for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 13 09:46:30 1996
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 14:17:06 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: CTAN Submission, Update

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> From: Michael Mehlich <mehlich@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
> Date: Mon, 13 May 96 11:58:48 +0200
> 
> I just uploaded a new version of my fp-package to
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/fp.tgz that corrects
> some bugs of the old version.
> It is a tared, gzipped directory that replaces the
> old version at
> macros/latex/contrib/other/fp
> 
> About the package:
>   The package fp provides a huge amount of arithmetic
>   operations for fixed point real numbers of high precision.

The package has been installed on ftp.dante.de in macros/latex/contrib/other/fp
as requested, replacing the old version.

Thanks for the contribution.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 14 00:59:36 1996
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 15:45:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: Stats from ftp.tex.ac.uk, April 1996

TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Sun Mar 31 1996 TO Tue Apr 30 1996

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Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period   25055126367
Systems Using Archives                              0

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 14 11:02:08 1996
Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 14:54:11 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: csuov@csv.warwick.ac.uk
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Mark Wooding writes:

> OK.  Second time lucky.  I've uploaded mdwtools-1.02.tar.gz to /incoming
> at ftp.tex.ac.uk.  The archive contains a number of LaTeX packages which
> are described fairly fully in the enclosed README file.  The archive
> contains a complete upgrade to the previous release, which is in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/mdwtools.  It includes a couple of new
> packages, and lots of bug fixes and new bells and whistles for the old
> ones.
> 
> In summary:
> 
> at.sty		-- Provide `@' commands (which work like the `\' ones).
> 
> doafter.sty	-- Insert a token after a group (with all its \aftergroup
> 		   tokens) has finished.
> 
> footnote.sty	-- Various footnote related things.  Save footnotes
> 		   around environments.  `footnote' environment for
> 		   handling verbatim text.
> 
> mathenv.sty	-- Various aligning environments for maths.  Demo of
> 		   table handling things from mdwtab.sty.
> 
> mdwlist.sty	-- Some odd bits to do with list handling.  Customisable
> 		   description list.  Creation of `compacted' lists with
> 		   less vertical space between items.
> 
> mdwmath.sty	-- Miscellaneous trivial maths things.
> 
> mdwtab.sty	-- Rewrite of LaTeX's `tabular' and `array' environment.
> 		   Extra features for nicer looking tables.  More reusable
> 		   preamble parser.
> 
> sverb.sty	-- Various verbatim text handling things.
> 
> syntax.sty	-- Various syntax typesetting things.  Syntax diagrams.

I've installed these as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 17 05:05:53 1996
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 09:59:19 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: bertolaz@ing.unitn.it
Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd)

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> From: bertolaz@ing.unitn.it
> Date: Thu, 16 May 96 12:26:02 +0200
> 
> I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
> tar file easy_new1.tar.gz. It
> contain version 0.1 of the easyeqn style, version 0.2 of the easyvet style
> and version 0.1 of the easymat style. This file should replace
> the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy wich
> contain the old versions.
> Easyeqn is a simple package for writing equations, in version 0.2 I have
> improved the cross reference support.
> Easyvet is a simple package for writing vectors in a C-like fashion,
> in version 0.2 I have added a new vector declaration and 
> the possibility to have pre-defined vectors.
> Easymat 0.1 is a new package style that can be useful in writing block
> matrices. It can be viewed as an ``array'' enviroment with more kinds
> of lines and reentrant.

The files are now on ftp.dante.de in macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
as requested.  They will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN
mirrors.

Thanks for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 17 06:26:33 1996
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 11:20:05 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: thesis and paper for LaTeX2e (fwd)

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> From: Wenzel Matiaske <mati1831@perform.ww.tu-berlin.de>
> Date: Fri, 17 May 96 10:18:09 -0400
> 
> I have put an update of supported LaTeX2e classes thesis
> (thesis1f.zip) and paper (paper1g.zip) on the CTAN into the directory
> incoming. Please delete the elder files and put the new files into the
> existing directories (thesis and paper) under the LaTeX2e tree.

The packages have been installed on ftp.dante.de in the directories
macros/latex/contrib/supported/paper and macros/latex/contrib/supported/thesis
as requested.

- From the 'paper' documentation:

  The style files \verb|paper| and \verb|journal| are derived from the
  standard class \verb|article|. In difference to the standard document
  class the layout can be changed via layout options (\verb|slanted|,
  \verb|bold|, \verb|sfbold|) and font commands
  (\verb|\partfont{|{\em font\/}\verb|}|,
  \verb|\sectionfont{|{\em font\/}\verb|}| etc.).
  
  The class \texttt{paper} defines a new environment called
  \texttt{keywords} and the commands
  \verb|\subtitle{|\emph{text}\verb|}| and
  \verb|\institution{|\emph{text}\verb|}| for the title section. Three
  commands allow a small table of contents
  (\verb|\smalltableofcontents|), a small lists of figures
  (\verb|\smalllistoffigures|) or a small lists of tables
  (\verb|\smalllistoftables|). These commands are obsolete when using the
  \texttt{journal} style file.
  
  The format \texttt{journal} typically uses a master file which \verb|\include|
  the articles. The command \verb|\journalofcontents| produces a table of
  articles, revisions and parts of a journal. The new commands
  \verb|\shortauthor{|\emph{text}\verb|}| and
  \verb|\shorttitle{|\emph{text}\verb|}| are defined for head titles
  containing authors and titles. Head titles for the whole journal may be
  produced with the commands
  \verb|\oddrunhead{|\emph{text}\verb|}| and
  \verb|\evenrunhead{|\emph{text}\verb|}|.
   
  If you want to declare parts between the papers, you may use the command
  \verb|\journalpart[|\emph{option}\verb|]{|\emph{text}\verb|}| or
  \verb|\journalpart*{|\emph{text}\verb|}|.
   
  Two new commands are especially designed for revisions. The command
  \verb|\revison[|\emph{option}\verb|]{|\emph{author}\verb|}{|\emph{title}\verb|}|
  takes the author and the title of the revisited book.  It produces a
  subsection like headline and an entry for the table of contents. The
  optional argument is used to put also the author of the revision into
  the table of contents. This command is also defined in the form
  \verb|\revision*|. The command \verb|\revauthor{|\emph{text}\verb|}|
  may be useful to sign a revision. It allows the commands \verb|\and|
  and \verb|\thanks|.


- From the 'thesis' documentation:
 
  The style files \verb|thesis| and \verb|thema| base on the standard
  layout \verb|report|. In contrast to this standard document style the
  outlook of these styles is more European and more flexible. The
  layout may easily be changed via options like (defaults are underlined):
   
  \begin{description}
  \item[\underline{\texttt{indent}} or \texttt{noindent}] (no) indent of
    paragraphs and footnotes,
  
  \item[\texttt{itemization} or \underline{\texttt{noitemization}}] (no)
    bullets, stars etc. in the \texttt{itemize} environ\-ment,
   
  \item[\underline{\texttt{enumeration}} or \texttt{noenumeration}]
    alphanumeric or numeric \texttt{enumerate} environ\-ment,
   
  \item[\underline{\texttt{headline}} or \texttt{noheadline},
    \texttt{headcount} or \underline{\texttt{noheadcount}}] change the
    layout of the headings,
   
  \item[\underline{\texttt{center}} or \texttt{nocenter},
    \underline{\texttt{upper}} or \texttt{noupper}] change the style of the
    sectioning,
   
  \item[\underline{\texttt{slanted}} or \texttt{bold} or
    \texttt{sfbold}] change the fonts used in chapters, titles or
    headings,
  
  \item[\texttt{crosshair}] marks empty pages with a crosshair, which is
    useful for camera reproducing of the output, and
  
  \item[\texttt{chapterbib}] for chapter bibliographies with \BibTeX.
  
  \end{description}


Thanks for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri May 17 15:52:21 1996
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 14:03:00 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Peter@pwyz.rhein.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: Uploading to CTAN (was Tibetan Fonts)

In article <68$rOLChkoB@pwyz.rhein.de>,
Peter Wyzlic <Peter@pwyz.rhein.de> wrote:
>I've got a message from the USA where I am asked:
>
>>How do I upload to CTAN? shsu seemed kind of a morass.

SHSU does indeed seem to be sinking into some sort of quagmire, but
never fear.  For uploads (only) feel free to wander across the
atlantic to ftp.tex.ac.uk or ftp.dante.de /incoming.  If you're doing
it late enough in the (N American) day you'll probably find that the
bandwidth (which the UK and German academic funding bodies pay for) is
just about adequate.

Please don't try to use European sites on a regular basis -- there are
mirrors in the USA which are still working, notably ftp.cdrom.com,
which mirrors ftp.tex.ac.uk

We regret the problems N Americans (and those who mirrored N American
sites) are suffering, but the matter is entirely out of the control of
those of us who continue to (try to) run CTAN.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat May 18 12:28:03 1996
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 16:25:45 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: drowell@mit.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: MikTeX 1.5 on CTAN

In article <319D8E76.2A3@mit.edu>, Derek Rowell  <drowell@mit.edu> wrote:
>It seems as though the new MikTeX distribution on CTAN is all messed up. 
> There are many zero-length files and the only valid ones seem to be the 
>REAME types.

When you say "CTAN", I presume you mean the USAn node ftp.shsu.edu?

As I keep saying, SHSU is a crock, and there's no apparent prospect of
it being got to rights.

>The distribution is ok on ftp.tex.ac.uk.

And hence, presumably, also on ftp.cdrom.com, which is the only CTAN
mirror in the USA which mirrors a working CTAN.  Please use
ftp.cdrom.com in preference to us -- we can't afford to buy
transatlantic bandwidth for all you Americans to use our sites in this
small island.

The MikTeX distribution is installed on CTAN at ftp.dante.de; one
presumes it's OK there as well (since we got it from there).

From pciccone@borland.com Fri May 17 17:44:16 1996
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 10:22:39 -0700
From: Paolo Ciccone <pciccone@borland.com>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: Uploading to CTAN (was Tibetan Fonts)

Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> We regret the problems N Americans (and those who mirrored N American
> sites) are suffering, but the matter is entirely out of the control of
> those of us who continue to (try to) run CTAN.

Excuse me, can somebody explain what's happening to SHSU. Is SHSU dying ? 
Is there any other CTAN server in N America ? ftp.cdrom.com is quite loaded 
and difficult to access.

Thanks,


                                               Paolo
-- 
The opinions expressed here are exclusively my own

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 20 08:09:47 1996
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 13:01:52 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: Paolo.Ienne@di.epfl.ch, vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: CTAN Submission: draftcopy-2.8 (fwd)

From: Juergen Vollmer <vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 12:06:50 +0200

> I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de' incoming/draftcopy
> the following files
> 	THIS-IS-draftcopy-2.8
> 	draftcopy.doc
>  	draftcopy.ins
> 	Makefile
> 	README.draftcopy
> 
> which replace former revisions of this package.
> 
> Here's a short description:
> 
> It's a LaTeX2e replacement for the original LaTeX209 style file
> `draftcopy.sty'.
> New additional functionality:
>  - The word DRAFT is replaced by a language dependend one,
>  - One can choose on which pages (first, first2, first-n, all) this word should
>    be printed, etc.
>  - DRAFT may be printed at the bootom of each page
>  - works for both: dvips and dvipsone graphics drivers.
>  - If no options are passed, this new version behaves as the old one (except
>    that the language dependent word is choosen).
> 
> Changes since 2.7
> - - DRAFT may be printed at the bootom of each page
> 
> I'm looking for volunteers who translate the word DRAFT into the various
> languages. Simply send me an email with translations.
> 
> I'm looking for people using different graphic drivers to check the package.

Thanks for the contribution.

The files have been installed on ftp.dante.de in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/draftcopy as requested.
The old version 2.7 has been deleted.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 20 19:46:09 1996
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 22:58:00 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: CTAN submission: spanish files

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From: Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 21:13:20 +0200 (MET DST)

> Dear CTAN mantainers:
> 
> I have placed at
> 
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/spanish
> 
> a file named spanish.zip.
> 
> This is a small set of files about TeX and spanish.
> They once were at ftp.eunet.es, but they were deleted.
> They belong to Julio S�nchez, but he is always very busy...
> 
> I would suggest first to move current files in spanish directory to a new
> subdirectory called `ramon' (i.e. spanish/ramon) (Ram=F3n told me that
> he did not know about Julio's patterns when he wrote his sphyph.tex).
> 
> spanish.zip already contains spanish/ in the path, so it should be unzipped
> in `language' directory.

The files have been installed as requested on ftp.dante.de in language/spanish
and will soon be available on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

A (spanish) README was included, which I dutifully add here.  The people who
might need it will be able to read it ;-)

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Contenido:

- - hyphen/shyphen.sh  es el `script' de Julio S�nchez (versi�n 1.2) que
crea sphyph.tex

- - hyphen/sphyph.tex  es el archivo con los patrones de enguionado de
Julio S�nchez creados mediante el `script' anterior escribiendo:

sphyphen.sh isolatin1 ugly > sphyph.tex

(puede ser necesario hacer primero "chmod +x shyphen.sh")

- - old/FAQ  la vieja lista de preguntas frecuentes sobre el uso de TeX/LaTeX
en castellano. Existe una versi�n algo m�s actualizada en

ftp://ftp.unex.es/pub/tex/faq

pero est� en fase preliminar.

- - old/silaba.tex  Los patrones de enguionado de Aurion Tecnolog�a, M�xico.

- - ispell/*  La versi�n preliminar del soporte para castellano de ispell
(tambi�n de Julio S�nchez).

Nota: Todo lo anterior estaba originalmente en ftp://ftp.eunet.es pero
fue borrado. Me he limitado a `rescatarlo' para que est� en el CTAN.

- - ramon/*  Lo que hab�a originalmente en el directorio spanish de CTAN.

Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 21 13:12:31 1996
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 17:03:02 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: TeX Ruler

In article <EIJKHOUT.96May20161407@jacobi.math.ucla.edu>,
Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu> wrote:
>A long time ago I wrote the following piece of horrendous TeX coding.
>At the time I released only dvi and postscript files. Since then,
>several people have asked me about it, and to prevent any further
>hassle I've decided to post the source.
>
>Could someone put this on the usual archives?
>
>I retain the copyright, but you can do distribute this, if you
>don't ask money for it.
>
>Share and enjoy!

To optimise people's chances of sharing and enjoying, I've installed
the file on CTAN (ftp.tex.ac.uk) in macros/generic/ruler.tex

It should propagate to the other CTANs (though as like as not, not
SHSU, in the nature of things), and thence to our mirrors.  It'll make
its way back into N America via ftp.cdrom.com at least.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue May 21 21:22:51 1996
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 02:20:05 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: cb8@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: CTAN Submission: fix for texed122.zip

> From: cb8@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Gerhard Frech)
> Date: Tue, 21 May 96 14:27:16 EDT
> 
> I have uploaded fix122b.zip and fix122c.zip. Please delete fix122b.zip
> (Iforegot to use binary transfer) and install fix122c.zip in the
> systems/os2/texed directory.
> 
> Please do not delete any file out og the texed directory.
 
[ Note: texed122.zip is version 1.22 of a TeX shell for OS/2 which has
  been installed on CTAN on 30-Apr-96  -rz ]
   
> Thanks
> Frank Stippich

I have installed the file on ftp.dante.de in systems/os2/texed as requested.
It will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed May 22 12:12:01 1996
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 14:33:41 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: turtle@diku.dk, swift@bu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: How to \input\verb at the same time?

In article <4npjj0$l2s@vidar.diku.dk>,
Peter M�ller Neergaard <turtle@diku.dk> wrote:
>You can use the moreverb.sty, which can be found at CTAN. 
>  /macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/moreverb.sty
>
>It includes both a \verbatiminput and a \listinginput for program listings.
>It even handles tabs correct.  The package is documented in the file.

FWIW, that package has *today* been replaced by a `supported' moreverb
-- see macros/latex/contrib/supported/moreverb/

There's a README file explaining what I've done to the thing; the work
is part of another TeX project I'm involved in.

I believe I've updated the various links that were hanging around
pointing to the old one (I've also updated info/companion.ctan)...

(This one installation took me 7 commands -- getting the directory on
the archive is only one command ;-)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon May 27 10:10:23 1996
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 14:08:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Re: PostScript font installer package

Alan Hoenig writes:

> I have placed the file vfinst.tar.gz in the /incoming directory of
> ftp.tex.ac.uk.  This file should be placed and unpacked in a directory
> fonts/utilities/vfinst.  This utility aims to make installation of
> PostScript fonts and creation of necessary virtual fonts using
> fontinst as painless as possible.  [Apologies of CTAN maintainers:
> SHSU appears always to deny me access.]

SHSU's like that.  No-one involved with CTAN is able to do anything
about it.

Anyway, thanks for getting it to us (through all those problems).
I've installed it at ftp.tex.ac.uk as suggested.

> From the README file:
> 
>   A set of scripts and Perl files comprise vfinst, which aims
>   to make the installation of families of PostScript outline
>   fonts `virtually' automatic.  When the script is run, the only
>   thing that the virtual font freak has to supply is a
>   three-character font family designation.  In addition to these modules
>   and TeX, you'll need fontinst (available on ctan in the area
>   fonts/utilities) and Perl (not on ctan, but widely available from
>   other archives and collections of public domain software for every
>   possible computer platform).
> 
>   PLEASE READ THE FILE vfinst.tex BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY FONT
>   INSTALLATIONS.
> 
>   Place all the vfinst modules in a special directory.  Below this,
>   create a special work directory.  In this special directory, you copy
>   all the .pfb, .pfa, and .afm files for the fonts you want to install.
>   Next, run vfinst with a command like `../vfinst' (Unix) or `..\vfinst'
>   (DOS).  Here's what vfinst produces:
> 
>     * all .vf and .tfm files in their proper directories;
> 
>     * the font files renamed and placed in proper places;
> 
>     * automatic update of the psfonts.map file;
> 
>     * two test files, for plain TeX and NFSS (LaTeX),
>       showing how to use the new fonts.
> 
>   Here are the fonts you get:
> 
>     * for each upright font, the font itself, matching small
>       caps (mock or real), and a slanted (oblique) font.
> 
>     * for each italic font, the font itself, matching small
>       caps, and an unslanted italic.
> 
>   If you have included expert or small caps fonts among your
>   fonts for installation, vfinst automatically takes them into
>   account when building the virtual fonts.  The oblique and
>   unslanted italic fonts use the true italic angle for that
>   font.  These fonts follow the 8r TeXBase1Encoding, for those who know
>   what that means.
> 
>   I have provided versions of vfinst both for Unix C-shell and
>   DOS.  Fuller documentation and explanations appear in the
>   file vfinst.tex.
> 
> Please contact me with any questions, queries, bugs, etc.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 27 13:47:20 1996
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 18:45:07 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: BECCARI@polito.it
Subject: CTAN submission (fwd)

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> From: "prof. Claudio Beccari" <BECCARI@polito.it>
> Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 18:55:16 GMT+1
>   
>   I just uploaded on dante.de the new version of ithyph.tex
>   
>   This is version 4.2 and it should replace version 4.1 in /languages/italian
>   
>   Thank you very much		Claudio Beccari

The file has been installed on ftp.dante.de in /languages/italian/ithyph.tex
as requested.

Thanks for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- ---
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 27 14:03:50 1996
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 19:02:11 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: taupin@lps.u-psud.fr
Subject: Using small caps & bold & slanted (fwd)

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> From: taupin@lps.u-psud.fr
> Subject: Using small caps & bold & slanted
> To: metafont@ens.fr (liste metafont), gut@ens.fr (gut@ens.fr)
> Date: Fri, 24 May 96 18:00:23 METDST
> 
>  In prevision of the future release of DC1.3 fonts I have built an option
> file and a definition file to have all 4 shapes of Small caps.
>  This is "smallcap.sty" (none exists in the archies)
>  and     "T1cmsc.fd"    (none exists in the archies)
> 
> \scshape => \undefined and replaced by \scfamily (SC becomes a family,
> rather than a shape). Thus you can write:
> 
> \bf\scfamily\slshape
> 
> to get small caps bold slanted...
> 
> Available at ftp://ftp.lps.u-psud.fr/pub/latex/*.*
> 
> D. Taupin

I have installed the files T1cmsc.fd and smallcap.sty on ftp.dante.de in
macros/latex/contrib/other/smallcap.  They will be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk
and the CTAN mirrors in due time.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

- -- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

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From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Tue May 28 13:44:36 1996
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 17:34:50 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: loek@math.ncsu.edu.if.there.are.any.problems
Subject: Re: mathtime metrics

Aloysius Helminck writes:
 > 
 > I have placed the files mathtime96.tar.gz and metrics.tar.gz
 > in the /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk.  
 > I would recommend that the first file should be placed and unpacked 
 > in a directory fonts/metrics/adobe/mathtime.
 > I would recommend that the second files should be placed and unpacked 
 > in the directory fonts/metrics.
 > These files update the virtual mathtime metrics for 8 adobe font
 > families and includes style files for latex2e and plain tex.  
 > It also includes Palatino Math metrics similar to the mathptm for
 > the Times family. 

Done! many thanks.

sebastian rahtz
for CTAN

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Wed May 29 09:26:04 1996
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:19:48 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, tugbd-l@irlearn.bitnet, gut@ens.fr, info-tex@shsu.edu, italic-l@irlearn.bitnet, ivritex@taunivm.bitnet, latex-l@dhdurz1.bitnet, metafont@ens.fr, nordictex@kth.se, tex-d-l@vm.gmd.de, tex-euro@dhdurz1.bitnet, tex-l@ubvm.bitnet, tex-nl@nic.surfnet.nl, texhax@tex.ac.uk, texmag-l@uicvm.bitnet, texrox-l@tamvm1.bitnet
Subject: [ANNOUNCE]  TeX  Live CDROM

I am very glad to announce the launch today in Paris of TeX Live, a
new CD published by the TeX Users Group, the UK TeX Users Group and
GUIenberg (French TeX Users), with help from NTG (Dutch TeX Users) and
many individuals from other groups.

TeX Live's 649 megabytes contains:

 - a ready to run Unix TeX setup, Thomas Esser's teTeX (based on Karl
   Berry's Web2c). It has binaries for:
    Linux on Intel and m68k platforms;
    Irix 5.2, 5.3 on MIPS (SGI Indy/Indigo)
    SunOS 4.1.3 on Sun 
    Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 on SPARC
    HPUX 9.01, 10.01 for HP workstations
    Digital Unix (OSF/1) 2.0 and 3.2 for DEC Alpha machines
    FreeBSD and NetBSD on Intel platforms
    Ultrix 4.3, for DEC Decstation machines
    AIX 3.2, 4.1.1, for IBM RS6000 machines
    NeXTStep on Intel platforms
 - a very large support tree of macros, fonts and documentation
    arranged according to the TeX Directory Structure layout
 - the GUTenberg Mac, DOS and Windows distributions (archived)

You can use the TeX system by running directly from the CD, installing
on your hard disk, or by adding packages to your existing system.

This is not a dump of CTAN full of compressed archives. This is a
*working* system. To make it useable under Unix, it uses the Rock
Ridge extensions to the ISO9660 file system. Ordinary systems can
still read it, but will not see the long file names or symbolic links.

If you are on any flavour of Unix, BUY this CD! There is no
complicated compilation or moving of installed files around, it will
just *WORK*.

More details, and ordering information, can be found at
http://www.tug.org/texlive.html. If you dont have WWW access, mail me
or tug@tug.org for details. Cost is around $20 for members of any TeX
users group, or $40 for others (the prices vary, depending on
postage). All profits from sales go back to fund new versions of the
CD, and to TeX-related development projects.

Sebastian Rahtz
Secretary, TeX Users Group

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed May 29 09:52:28 1996
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:21:46 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: daly@linpwd.dnet.gwdg.de
Subject: CTAN submission: custom-bib update (fwd)

> From: "LINPWD::DALY" <daly@linpwd.dnet.gwdg.de>
> Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:57:18 +0200
>
> Hello,
> 
> I wish to submit an update to my package custom-bib.
> 
> I have put the following files into the /incoming/custom-bib directory
> on the dante server. 
> 
> merlin.mbs
> README.v38
> 
> Please copy these into the directory
>       latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib
> removing README.v37 and replacing the existing merlin.mbs
> 
> Thanks,   Patrick W. Daly

The files have been installed on ftp.dante.de as requested and will soon
be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Just to let you know what is is (from the custom-bib README file):

: This is the custom-bib package for generating customized BibTeX bibliography
: styles from a generic file by means of Frank Mittelbach's docstrip program.

Thanks for the contribution.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
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From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Wed May 29 10:59:07 1996
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:42:58 +0200
From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, metafont@ens.fr, feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
Subject: [LaTeX, Metafont, Graphics, Feynman diagrams] FEYNMF v1.06 released

This announces version 1.06 of feynmf, a LaTeX/Metafont/MetaPost
package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and other)
diagrams.  It will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN
host near you.

If you don't know if feynmf is useful for you, have a look at the
preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz') or at the tutorial at CERN:

    * http://wwwcn1.cern.ch/cnls/220/node57.html

Version 1.06 offers new functionality:

    * Polygon primitives for complex shaped vertices (a special gift
    to the solid state community :-)

    * A `rubout' option for nicer propagator crossings in non-planar
    graphs.

I hope not to have broken any legacy applications.  Please report any
problems.

Enjoy,
-Thorsten

NEWS for Version 1.06

    *  New abstraction: polygons.  Useful for complex vertices in
    non-perturbative diagrams.

    *  New commands: \fmfpoly, \fmfpolyn and \fmfrpolyn, implementing
    polygons.

    *  New option `rubout' for crossing propagators.

    *  Some common typos are detected are appropriate warning messages
    are issued.

    *  New options `errorstop', `scroll', `nonstop' and `batch' for
    specifying the desired interactionmode.

    *  Work around an obscure babel/german/feynmf three way
    destructive interference.

Here is an example using the new features:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{feynmf}%%%{feynmp}
\unitlength=1mm
\begin{document}
\begin{fmffile}{newfig}
Polygons:
\begin{center}
  \begin{fmfgraph*}(50,30)
    \fmfpen{thick}\fmfleftn{l}{2}\fmfrightn{r}{2}
    \fmfrpolyn{shaded,label=$\Gamma$}{G}{4}
    \fmfpolyn{empty,label=$K$}{K}{4}
    \fmf{fermion}{l1,G1}\fmf{fermion}{l2,G2}
    \fmf{fermion}{K1,r1}\fmf{fermion}{K2,r2}
    \fmf{fermion,left=.5,tension=.5}{G3,K3}
    \fmf{fermion,right=.5,tension=.5}{G4,K4}
  \end{fmfgraph*}
\end{center}
rubout:
\begin{center}
  \begin{fmfgraph}(50,30)
    \fmfpen{thick}\fmfleft{l}\fmfrightn{r}{2}
    \fmf{fermion}{r1,g12,g11,v,g21,g22,r2}
    \fmf{photon}{l,v}\fmfdot{v}\fmffreeze % freeze layout w/o gluons
    \fmf{gluon,rubout}{g12,g21}           % gluon #1, drawn `above'
    \fmf{gluon}{g11,g22}                  % gluon #2, drawn normal
  \end{fmfgraph}
\end{center}
\end{fmffile}
\end{document}


/// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
//////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu
/// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421

From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Thu May 30 02:22:45 1996
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:42:58 +0200
From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, metafont@ens.fr, feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
Subject: [LaTeX, Metafont, Graphics, Feynman diagrams] FEYNMF v1.06 released

This announces version 1.06 of feynmf, a LaTeX/Metafont/MetaPost
package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and other)
diagrams.  It will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN
host near you.

If you don't know if feynmf is useful for you, have a look at the
preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz') or at the tutorial at CERN:

    * http://wwwcn1.cern.ch/cnls/220/node57.html

Version 1.06 offers new functionality:

    * Polygon primitives for complex shaped vertices (a special gift
    to the solid state community :-)

    * A `rubout' option for nicer propagator crossings in non-planar
    graphs.

I hope not to have broken any legacy applications.  Please report any
problems.

Enjoy,
-Thorsten

NEWS for Version 1.06

    *  New abstraction: polygons.  Useful for complex vertices in
    non-perturbative diagrams.

    *  New commands: \fmfpoly, \fmfpolyn and \fmfrpolyn, implementing
    polygons.

    *  New option `rubout' for crossing propagators.

    *  Some common typos are detected are appropriate warning messages
    are issued.

    *  New options `errorstop', `scroll', `nonstop' and `batch' for
    specifying the desired interactionmode.

    *  Work around an obscure babel/german/feynmf three way
    destructive interference.

Here is an example using the new features:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{feynmf}%%%{feynmp}
\unitlength=1mm
\begin{document}
\begin{fmffile}{newfig}
Polygons:
\begin{center}
  \begin{fmfgraph*}(50,30)
    \fmfpen{thick}\fmfleftn{l}{2}\fmfrightn{r}{2}
    \fmfrpolyn{shaded,label=$\Gamma$}{G}{4}
    \fmfpolyn{empty,label=$K$}{K}{4}
    \fmf{fermion}{l1,G1}\fmf{fermion}{l2,G2}
    \fmf{fermion}{K1,r1}\fmf{fermion}{K2,r2}
    \fmf{fermion,left=.5,tension=.5}{G3,K3}
    \fmf{fermion,right=.5,tension=.5}{G4,K4}
  \end{fmfgraph*}
\end{center}
rubout:
\begin{center}
  \begin{fmfgraph}(50,30)
    \fmfpen{thick}\fmfleft{l}\fmfrightn{r}{2}
    \fmf{fermion}{r1,g12,g11,v,g21,g22,r2}
    \fmf{photon}{l,v}\fmfdot{v}\fmffreeze % freeze layout w/o gluons
    \fmf{gluon,rubout}{g12,g21}           % gluon #1, drawn `above'
    \fmf{gluon}{g11,g22}                  % gluon #2, drawn normal
  \end{fmfgraph}
\end{center}
\end{fmffile}
\end{document}


/// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
//////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu
/// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421

From flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.DE Wed May 29 23:18:44 1996
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 18:43:22 +0200
From: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.DE>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]  TeX  Live CDROM

You wrote:
> - a ready to run Unix TeX setup, Thomas Esser's teTeX (based on
> Karl Berry's Web2c). It has binaries for:
> Linux on Intel and m68k platforms;
> Irix 5.2, 5.3 on MIPS (SGI Indy/Indigo)
> SunOS 4.1.3 on Sun
> Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 on SPARC
> HPUX 9.01, 10.01 for HP workstations
> Digital Unix (OSF/1) 2.0 and 3.2 for DEC Alpha machines
> FreeBSD and NetBSD on Intel platforms
> Ultrix 4.3, for DEC Decstation machines
> AIX 3.2, 4.1.1, for IBM RS6000 machines
> NeXTStep on Intel platforms

Well, even for NEXTSTEP on Intel, Motorola, SPARC and HP-PA  
platforms! ;-)

Thanks for you efforts!

	Gregor

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From te@informatik.uni-hannover.de Thu May 30 16:48:00 1996
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 17:43:00 +0200
From: Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]  TeX  Live CDROM

> Well, even for NEXTSTEP on Intel, Motorola, SPARC and HP-PA  
> platforms! ;-)

 te.users(gauss)510: pwd
 /cdrom/bin

 te.users(gauss)511: ls 
 README             i386-freebsd2.0.5  m68k-linuxoldld    rs6000-aix4.1.1
 TRANS.TBL          i386-freebsd2.1.0  m68k-nextstep3     share
 alpha-osf2.0       i386-netbsd1.0     mab-nextstep3      sparc-solaris2.4
 alpha-osf3.2       i386-netbsd1.1     mips-irix5.2       sparc-solaris2.5
 hppa1.1-hpux10.01  i486-linux         mips-irix5.3       sparc-sunos4.1.3
 hppa1.1-hpux9.01   i486-linuxaout     mips-ultrix4.4
 i386-bsdi2.0       m68k-linux         rs6000-aix3.2

Hm... Da haben wir doch nur: m68k-nextstep3 und mab-nextstep3, oder
trifft da noch etwas auf NEXTSTEP zu? Fehlt da was auf der CD?

Tschuess,

	Thomas

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May 30 22:23:19 1996
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 22:34:08 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: roegel@lorraine.loria.fr
Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd)

> From: "Denis B. Roegel" <Denis.Roegel@loria.fr>
> Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 18:40:43 +0200 (MET DST)
> 
> I have just uploaded on ftp.dante.de the file genealogy.tar.gz.
> Here is the README:
> 
> --------
> Genealogy symbols in METAFONT
> -----------------------------
> 
> Files in this distribution:
> 
>   drgen10.mf  % the mf driver file
>   drgen10.tfm % tfm file for TeX
>   drgen.mf    % the mf character definitions
>   testgen.tex % a test file
>   README      % this file
> 
> The MF files are a simple compilation of the genealogical symbols
> found in the `wasy' and `gen' font. Actually, all I have done was to
> add the male and female symbols to Knuth's `gen' font.
> Thus, it avoids loading two fonts when you need only genealogical
> symbols.
> 
> Hope this is helpful to somebody.

The files have been installed on ftp.dante.de in macros/genealogy.
They will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Thanks for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 31 00:10:56 1996
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 22:34:08 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: roegel@lorraine.loria.fr
Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd)

> From: "Denis B. Roegel" <Denis.Roegel@loria.fr>
> Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 18:40:43 +0200 (MET DST)
> 
> I have just uploaded on ftp.dante.de the file genealogy.tar.gz.
> Here is the README:
> 
> --------
> Genealogy symbols in METAFONT
> -----------------------------
> 
> Files in this distribution:
> 
>   drgen10.mf  % the mf driver file
>   drgen10.tfm % tfm file for TeX
>   drgen.mf    % the mf character definitions
>   testgen.tex % a test file
>   README      % this file
> 
> The MF files are a simple compilation of the genealogical symbols
> found in the `wasy' and `gen' font. Actually, all I have done was to
> add the male and female symbols to Knuth's `gen' font.
> Thus, it avoids loading two fonts when you need only genealogical
> symbols.
> 
> Hope this is helpful to somebody.

The files have been installed on ftp.dante.de in macros/genealogy.
They will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Thanks for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May 30 18:41:49 1996
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 22:55:32 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Denis B. Roegel <Denis.Roegel@loria.fr>
Cc: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (fwd

Denis,

> >   The files have been installed on ftp.dante.de in macros/genealogy.
> 
>                                                      ^^^^^^
>Do you really mean `macros' ? I suggested `fonts' which is more appropriate ...

Of course they are in fonts/genealogy.  It's tool late for me to type
correct announcements :-(

Sorry,
  Reinhard

-- 
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 31 03:59:54 1996
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 08:27:13 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp
Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd)

> Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 12:34:57 +0900
> From: Umeki Hideo <umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp>
> 
> I have uploaded a LaTeX2e package `geometry' to a directory
> ftp.dante.de:/incoming/geometry/.
> This package allows \LaTeXe\ users to customize page layout 
> by an easy and flexible user interface.
> For instance,
>  \usepackage{geometry}
>  \geometry{body={6.5in,8.75in}, top=1.2in, left=2cm, nohead}.
> The previous version of the geometry package was called
> pagesize, which can be found in CTAN, but was renamed because 
> the package is totally rewritten to use the \LaTeXe\ keyval
> interface by David Carlisle and to introduce a new algorithm
> for determining layout parameters. As a result, the package
> provides more flexible user interface and new specification 
> for page layout while it does not work in \LaTeX209 environment.
> 
> I recommend placing this package in
> /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/.

The package has been installed on ftp.dante.de in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry as requested.  The old version
macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/pagesize.sty has been deleted.  The files
will be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk overnight and to the CTAN mirrors in due time.
 
Thanks for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri May 31 20:00:40 1996
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 18:45:06 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Mr M D Wooding <csuov@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Mark Wooding writes:

> Yet another release of mdwtools (mdwtools-1.03.tar.gz in /incoming at
> ftp.tex.ac.uk) has appeared.  It ought to replace the current version
> which resides in macros/latex/contrib/supported/mdwtools.
> 
> New bits (from the change history):
> 
> 1.03            * (mdwtab.sty) Completely redone the paragraph-cell handling:
>                   list environments now work properly inside tables (without
>                   funny extra space appearing at the top and bottom).  Also
>                   fixed a bug in the newline handling, which ignored negative
>                   interrow space in the \\ command.
> 
>                 * (syntax.sty) Changed the underscore handling, and some
>                   other bits, to fit in rather better with LaTeX's output
>                   encoding system.  It's nastier and hackier inside, but it
>                   works better with things like the DC fonts.  Also stopped
>                   re-lowercasing of `~' from escaping and messing everything
>                   up for everyone.  Improved underscore appearance by
>                   lowering it some more.
> 
>                 * (syntax.sty) Replaced some `2's with `\tw@'s.  Added a
>                   comment about dvips's inaccurate positioning of rules.
> 
>                 * (sverb.sty) Made non-* environments build end text from
>                   the name of the current environment, rather than having it
>                   hardcoded.  Also stopped `unignore' environments being
>                   a group.
> 
>                 * (sverb.dtx) Removed some porkies from the documentation.
> 
>                 * (mdwtab.sty) Fixed some miscellaneous typos.  Removed
>                   `\rulefudge' from the table of tweakables, because it
>                   was withdrawn in release 1.02.
> 
>                 * (cmtt.dtx) New package, for handling the `cmtt' font
>                   better.  It introduces a special encoding for the font,
>                   and provides a command which allows you to use all the
>                   characters without the disadvantages of verbatim text.
> 
>                 * (other changes) Improved distribution building and
>                   testing stuff which you can't see because I'm not
>                   releasing it.
> 
> I'm sort of confident that there won't be an emergency new version this
> time.

I've installed this stuff as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 31 19:11:39 1996
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 23:54:55 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: ms@dream.hb.north.de
Subject: CTAN submission: EverySel 1.00 (fwd)

> From: ms@dream.hb.north.de (Martin Schroeder)
> Date: Thu, 30 May 96 22:07:55 +0200
> 
> I have uploaded (read: have told a friend of mine to upload it -- I only have
> Usenet access) to the /incoming of
>         ftp.dante.de
> the file
>         everyselectfont.zip
> containing the version 1.00 of EverySel.
> 
>  Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name ("^" ==> case
>  ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----   conversion)
>       0  Stored       0   0%  30-05-96  21:52  00000000   EverySelectfont/
>   12719  Defl:X    4053  68%  30-05-96  21:44  47b2b00f   EverySelectfont/everysel.dtx
>    2376  Defl:X     927  61%  19-05-96  19:06  556ff131   EverySelectfont/everysel.ins
>  ------          ------  ---                              -------
>   15095            4980  67%                              3      
> 
> It's contents should be stored in macros/latex/contrib/supported/EverySel
> 
> >From EverySel.dtx:
> % ====================================================================
> %  @LaTeX-style-file{
> %     author          = {Martin Schr\"oder},
> %     version         = "1.00",
> %     date            = "30 May 1996",
> %     filename        = "everysel.sty",
> %     address         = {Martin Schr\"oder
> %                        Friedrich-Humbert-Stra\ss{}e 124
> %                        D-28759 Bremen},
> %     telephone       = "+49-421-628813",
> %     email           = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (INTERNET)",
> %     codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
> %     keywords        = "LaTeX, NFSS",
> %     supported       = "yes",
> %     docstring       = "LaTeX package which provides hooks into
> %                        \cs{selectfont})."
> %  }
> % ====================================================================

The files have been installed on ftp.dante.de in the directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/everysel.  They will soon be copied
to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Thanks for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 31 20:12:23 1996
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 23:58:24 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: ms@dream.hb.north.de
Subject: CTAN submission: Ragged2e 1.00 (fwd)

> From: ms@dream.hb.north.de (Martin Schroeder)
> Date: Thu, 30 May 96 22:11:17 +0200
> 
> I have uploaded (read: have told a friend of mine to upload it -- I only have
> Usenet access) to the /incoming of
>         ftp.dante.de
> the file
>         ragged2e.zip
> containing the version 1.00 of Ragged2e.
> 
>  Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name ("^" ==> case
>  ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----   conversion)
>       0  Stored       0   0%  30-05-96  21:52  00000000   Ragged2e/
>   36196  Defl:X    8761  76%  30-05-96  21:33  b2dc984f   Ragged2e/ragged2e.dtx
>    2835  Defl:X    1072  62%  27-05-96  14:40  2ba6782e   Ragged2e/ragged2e.ins
>  ------          ------  ---                              -------
>   39031            9833  75%                              3      
> 
> It's contents should be stored in macros/latex/contrib/supported/Ragged2e
> 
> >From Ragged2e.dtx:
> %% ===================================================================
> %%  @LaTeX-style-file{
> %%     author          = {Martin Schr\"oder},
> %%     version         = "1.00",
> %%     date            = "1996-05-30",
> %%     filename        = "ragged2e.sty",
> %%     address         = {Martin Schr\"oder
> %%                        Friedrich-Humbert-Stra\ss{}e 124
> %%                        D-28759 Bremen
> %%     telephone       = "+49-421-628813",
> %%     email           = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (Internet)",
> %%     codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
> %%     keywords        = "Raggedright",
> %%     dependences     = "everysel",
> %%     supported       = "yes",
> %%     docstring       = "LaTeX package which defines new commands
> %%                        \Centering, \RaggedLeft, and \RaggedRight
> %%                        and new environments Center, FlushLeft, and
> %%                        FlushRight, which set ragged text and are
> %%                        easily configurable to allow hyphenation."
> %%  }
> %% ===================================================================
> 
> The package raggedright in latex209/contrib should be removed; this package
> supersedes it.
 
The files have been installed on ftp.dante.de in the directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/ragged2e.  They will soon be copied
to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

macros/latex209/contrib/raggedright has been deleted as requested.

Thanks for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Jun  1 19:43:11 1996
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 20:35:16 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE
Subject: Upload: dc-fonts 1.3 (fwd)

> From: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE
> Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 19:32:03 +0100
> 
> I have uploaded the zip-archive dc13i.zip to the CTAN site ftp.dante.de.
> It unpacks into three subdirectories [.src], [.ready-mf] and [.tfm].
> 
> Please remove all the files related to release 1.2 from the archive, this
> includes those contained in the fd directory; I don't provide own fd files
> any longer.
> 
> Yours, J"org Knappen

Done as requested.  The version 1.3 of the dc fonts is now on ftp.dante.de
in /tex-archive/fonts/dc replacing version 1.2 and will soon be copied to
ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

[ Note: The obsolete version 1.1 is still there in a parallel directory and
will be removed without further notice if the author agrees. ]

Thanks for the contribution.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
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From KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Mon Jun  3 07:25:02 1996
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 20:06:57 +0100
From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: Upload: dc-fonts 1.3 (fwd)

Reinhard schrieb:

>[ Note: The obsolete version 1.1 is still there in a parallel directory and
>will be removed without further notice if the author agrees. ]

Note, that this parallel directory contains only tfm files and ps-type1 
files, but no longer METAFONT sources, nor are the 1.1 pk files available 
any longer. 

--J"org Knappen

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jun  7 03:39:50 1996
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 23:05:29 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: rra@cs.stanford.edu
Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd)

> From: Russ Allbery <rra@cs.stanford.edu>
> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 12:07:28 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> I have just uploaded the following files to /incoming on ftp.dante.de:
> 
> s2latex.patch
> 
> 	A patch against s2latex to port it to ANSI C and clean up the
> 	Makefile.
> 
> dvi2tty.patch
> 
> 	A patch against dvi2tty to fix a string termination bug which
> 	affects some systems (most notably Linux) and clean up the
> 	Makefile.
> 
> I recommend that these files be installed as:
> 
> 	/tex-archive/support/s2latex/s2latex.patch
> 	/tex-archive/dviware/dvi2tty/dvi2tty.patch
> 
> respectively.

I have installed the files as requested on ftp.dante.de.  They will soon
be mirrored to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirror sites.

Thanks for the contribution.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun  7 00:12:27 1996
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 10:52:41 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Petr Olsak <olsak@math.feld.cvut.cz>
Subject: Re: the Code128 macro (barcodes)

Petr Olsak has submitted another set of barcode macros, this time for
the Code 128 standard.  I have installed them in macros/generic/code128

The README file says:

  This directory contains the TeX macro code128 for making barcodes in Code
  128 standard. (ASCII text on input and kern-rule queue on output).

  The usage of the macro is commented in the file test128.tex.
  The simple test is presented in this file too (for plain).
  Macro works in plain and LateX and other standard macro packages.

  Files:
  code128.tex .... The macro, programmer documentation and standard description. 
  test128.tex .... test and user documentation.
  springer.tex ... Another test.

  See also the ean directory for implementation of EAN 13 and EAN 8 standard
  in TeX.

Thank you, Petr.

The installation will propagate to ftp.dante.de and to CTAN mirrors in
due course.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jun  6 01:47:00 1996
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 11:57:07 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE
Subject: Re: Upload: dc-fonts 1.3 (fwd)

> [ Note: The obsolete version 1.1 is still there in a parallel directory and
> will be removed without further notice if the author agrees. ]

The 1.1 directories will *not* be deleted until an upgraded version of
the Bakoma fonts (which they contain) is available.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jun  7 06:45:42 1996
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 14:41:36 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp
Subject: CTAN Submission (geometry package revised) (fwd)

> From: Umeki Hideo <umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp>
> Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 21:14:22 +0900
> 
> I have uploaded the *revised* version of the `geometry' package (ver.1.01)
> to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry/.
> 
> I've fixed bugs around paper setting and added a couple of improvements.
> Please replace the package 
> /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry
> with the new one.

Done.  The files are on DANTE and will soon be copied to Cambridge and 
the CTAN mirrors.
 
> PS.  I had tried to upload the package to
> ftp.SHSU.edu/incoming/geometry-1.01, but ftp connection was cut again
> while putting files. X-< 
> Some of files in the geometry-1.01 directory are incomplete (with 0 byte).
> So please delete them.

Please, please, don't put files on SHSU.  It's such a lot of extra work for
us!  Put them on ftp.tex.ac.uk or ftp.dante.de.

But anyway, thanks for the subsription.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jun  6 05:23:20 1996
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 15:38:36 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk
Subject: Re: CTAN contributions

Mike Piff writes:

> I have contributed macros/latex/contrib/supported/piff/tensor.sty,
> a package which allows the user to set tensor-style super and
> subscripts with offsets between successive indices, like
> 
>  i kl
> X
>   j

I have duly installed the file as Mike requested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk

It will propagate to ftp.dante.de soon, and to various mirrors
overnight

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jun  7 10:41:46 1996
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 13:50:15 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: CTAN submission (fwd)

> From: neteler@geog.uni-hannover.de (Markus Neteler)
> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 96 12:13:02 BST
> 
> Dear TeXnicians,
> 
>  today I put my new version of the ps4mf-package onto ftp.dante.de in
>  /incoming/ps4mf-unix-11.tgz
> 
>  Please put it into CTAN at  /pub/tex/systems/unix/ps4mf
>  and remove the old version.
> 
>  It is a package for using ps-fonts in a very simple way,
>  I have added information for Latex2e.
> 
>  Thank you very much
>   Markus Neteler
>   email: neteler@geog.uni-hannover.de

I have installed the file on ftp.dante.de as requested.  It will soon be
copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Some more information from the file ps4mf.doc:

 I. DESCRIPTION

   In order to use Postscript-Type1-fonts for TeX without any special
   encoding scheme (like dc,ec,nfss) you now can convert your favourite
   Postscript-font.
   This font has to be encoded in the "AdobeStandardEncoding-scheme".
   After conversion into the standard-cm-encoding of TeX you can use
   the fonts in LaTeX 2.09.
   If you use LaTeX 2.e you need dc-encoding: this is also possible.

   This package is based on the ps2mf-package of the authors:
   Marcel Dings (original idea of the ps2mf-package) and Erik-Jan Vens (new
   ps2mf).

Thanks for the contribution.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jun  7 23:50:29 1996
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 10:54:41 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: CTAN Submission: WinEdit 1.4-a

> From: Aleksander Simonic <alex@cs.dal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 19:55:08 -0300
> 
> I uploaded the files which are to be contributed to the CTAN archive to:
> 
>       ftp.dante.de  /incoming/winedt
> 
> This is a new release of WinEdit and these files should replace all the
> files in tex-archive/support/winedt. WinEdit 1.4-a is to replace the
> obsolete version of WINEDT 1.c (in the same directory).
> 
> 
> * What is WinEdit?
>   ================
> 
> 
> WinEdit is a state of the art text editor and Shell for Windows 95
>    (Windows NT or Windows 3.x).
> 
> WinEdit can be used to edit HUGE text files. The user can open many
>    files at once and can switch between them using the Window Menu or
>    "Ctrl+Tab" switch. Opened Documents can be Tiled, Cascaded or arranged
>    inside the client window in a custom manner (by the mouse). WinEdit
>    uses a Multiple Documents Interface (MDI) and follows or extends
>    Windows' Standards in every respect. WinEdit supports (LaTeX) Syntax
>    Highlighting and Input/Output ASCII Code Translation Tables. WinEdit
>    comes with a comprehensive, Context-Sensitive Help.
> 
> WinEdit Shell can be customized to run with different utilities and is
>    particularly suitable for writing TeX documents. WinEdit allows the
>    user to install DOS and Windows Applications and activate them by
>    using a Menu Command or a Tool Bar Button. Furthermore, WinEdit can
>    pass currently opened files as parameters, making sure that changes
>    are automatically saved before the files are compiled. After defining
>    utilities (such as TeX, LaTeX, BibTeX, DVI Driver, Spell Checker),
>    most of the common tasks while writing a TeX document or a project are
>    reduced to clicking a Tool Bar Button or selecting a Menu Command.
>    WinEdit is suitable for writing papers, theses or books, using a
>    simple but efficient strategy to manage projects.

I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de in tex-archive/support/winedt
as requested.  They will soon be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Thanks for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

From piet@cs.ruu.nl Thu Jun  6 06:34:10 1996
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 11:15:32 +0200
From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: upload fancyhdr beta

I have uploaded the beta version of fancyhdr to
ftp.dante.de:/incoming/fancyhdr. Please move it to
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr and remove the symbolic
link tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/fancyheadings.

The /latex209/contrib/fancyheadings should remain for the time being.

Thanks.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jun  7 11:13:29 1996
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 11:51:56 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: piet@cs.ruu.nl
Subject: upload fancyhdr beta (fwd)

> From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:15:32 +0200
> 
> I have uploaded the beta version of fancyhdr to
> ftp.dante.de:/incoming/fancyhdr. Please move it to
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr and remove the symbolic
> link tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/fancyheadings.
> 
> The /latex209/contrib/fancyheadings should remain for the time being.

>From the fancyhdr README file:

   This is the beta version of fancyhdr, a replacement for fancyheadings. 
 
   There are no known bugs, and the only reason that this is not a real
   release is that I want to make a real .dtx of it, including the minimal
   documentation. The current documentation is in fancyhdr.tex, but this
   contains much more material than the fancyhdr doc. When the fancyhdr.dtx is
   ready, I will rename fancyhdr.tex into something like pagelay.tex to get it
   more in line with the title (Page Layout in LaTeX).

   fancyhdr is 99% compatible with fancyheadings. The only incompatibility is
   that \headrulewidth and \footrulewidth and their \plain.. versions are no
   longer length parameters, but normal macros (to be changed with
   \renewcommand rather than \setlength).

   Although all the other old fancyheadings commands continue to work you are
   advised to use the new syntax as described in fancyhdr.tex, because this is
   much easier to use in complicated cases. The old way of doing is no longer
   described in the manual, except for the simplest use of \lhead etc.

I have installed it on ftp.dante.de as requested.  It will be copied soon
to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Thanks for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jun  6 22:54:54 1996
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 22:43:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: alex@cs.dal.ca
Subject: CTAN (Re-)Submission: winedt

> From: Aleksander Simonic <alex@cs.dal.ca>
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:13:31 -0300
> 
> yesterday (Jun 5) I uploaded the new version of WinEdit to CTAN.
> Unfortunately, a transmission error occurred while I was sending the file
> from my PC to the host via Kermit. I did not notice the error until today
> when one of my users pointed out a problem with the file
> 
>   "/tex-archive/support/winedt/winedit.zip".
> 
> The problem is now fixed and I have just uploaded the new version in
> "/incoming/winedt" directory. Please replace yesterday's upload with the
> new files. I hope the new files will get mirrored on CTAN.

The corrected files ar on ftp.dante.de now and will soon be on the other
CTAN hosts and mirrors.
 
> p.s. A compliment on your expedient processing of new uploads:)
 
Thanks,
  Reinhard Zierke

  for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jun  6 22:54:54 1996
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 22:43:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: alex@cs.dal.ca
Subject: CTAN (Re-)Submission: winedt

> From: Aleksander Simonic <alex@cs.dal.ca>
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:13:31 -0300
> 
> yesterday (Jun 5) I uploaded the new version of WinEdit to CTAN.
> Unfortunately, a transmission error occurred while I was sending the file
> from my PC to the host via Kermit. I did not notice the error until today
> when one of my users pointed out a problem with the file
> 
>   "/tex-archive/support/winedt/winedit.zip".
> 
> The problem is now fixed and I have just uploaded the new version in
> "/incoming/winedt" directory. Please replace yesterday's upload with the
> new files. I hope the new files will get mirrored on CTAN.

The corrected files ar on ftp.dante.de now and will soon be on the other
CTAN hosts and mirrors.
 
> p.s. A compliment on your expedient processing of new uploads:)
 
Thanks,
  Reinhard Zierke

  for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jun  6 19:15:55 1996
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 23:02:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE
Subject: addition to dc 1.3 fonts

> From: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (Joerg Knappen)
> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 17:24:24 +0100
> 
> Due to an error, I have not submitted the tfm files for the
> dc*1095 fonts. The file 1095tfm.zip contains the missing files, to be 
> unpacked in fonts/dc/tfm

On ftp.dante.de, the files have been added to tex-archive/fonts/dc/tfm as
requested.  They will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Thanks for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jun  7 06:53:00 1996
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 10:42:54 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded again)

Umeki Hideo writes:

 > I have uploaded the new version of the `geometry' package (v1.02).
 > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry-1.02.tar.gz.
 > 
 > Changes from 1.01:
 > 	o bugs in resetting parameters and flags are fixed.
 > 	o package documentation is revised.
 > 	
 > Please replace the package 
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry
 > with the new one.
 > 
 > I'm sorry to trouble you for my frequent upgrading.
 > Hopefully, this version will be stable one... 
 > 
 > Thank you for your work for CTAN maintenance.
 > ---
 > Hideo Umeki	[TUG member]
 > 		(umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp)
 > 		(Temporal: umeki@toshiba-ssel.rwcp.or.jp) 
 > Systems and Software Engineering Laboratory
 > Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation
 > tel: +81-44-548-5472
 > fax: +81-44-520-5973
 > 

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From graham@cs.man.ac.uk Fri Jun  7 10:36:48 1996
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 11:51:19 -0300 (BST)
From: Graham Gough <graham@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded again)

Can anyone comment on the comparive features/merits of this package v
the new fancyhdr from Piet van Oostrum?

Graham

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Jun  8 19:16:12 1996
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 21:59:01 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: unlf@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: KOMA-Script-Update

> From: unlf@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Markus Kohm)
> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 19:17:47 +0200 (CES)
> 
> ich habe gerade eine neue Version von KOMA-Script nach incoming gelegt.
> Bitte umkopieren (das war irgendwas mit: /macros/supported/komascript oder
> so aehnlich.

I have installed the new version of the koma-script package on ftp.dante.de
in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script, replacing the
old version.  BTW, koma-script is a replacement for the article/report/book
classes with emphasis on European rules of typography and paper formats
as laid down by Jan Tschichold.

Thanks for the contribution, Markus!

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Jun  9 17:36:22 1996
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 22:24:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: boris@plmsc.psu.edu
Subject: EnvLab Package (fwd)

> From: Boris Veytsman <boris@plmsc.psu.edu>
> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:41:21 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> Dear fiends:

I hope it's a typo and you meant 'friends' ;-)
 
> I've just uploaded envlab.tar.gz to dante. It contains a new package 
> EnvLab intended for typesetting Envelopes and Labels with LaTeX2e.
> The readme file is appended to this message. I suggest installing the 
> file at macros/latex/contrib/supported/envlab

Thanks for the contribution. I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de
as suggested.

> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This package provides a comprehensive and easily customizable system
> for creating mailing envelopes and labels in LaTeXe. Includes printing
> barcodes and address formatting according to the US Postal Service
> rules.
> 
> The standard makelabels command in the LaTeXe letter.cls
> documentclass typesets labels on Avery 5332 sheets. A typical user
> may want more. EnvLab redefines makelabels in (hopefully})
> a more useful and customizable way. EnvLab:
>  - Typesets mailing labels or envelopes on a number of pre-defined
> label sheets emph{or} envelopes.
>  - Can be easily configured for any customized label or envelope
> sizes. The rule of thumb is: if you printer can print this, EnvLab can
> typeset this.
>  - Can optionally print barcodes and/or process addresses according to
> the United States Postal Service Rules.
>  - Allows you to include your logo in the return address.
>  - Painlessly interacts with mail merging packages such as mailing.
>  - Does not require special fonts for address and barcodes printing.
> The typesetting is implemented with standard fonts and LaTeX rule
> commands.
> 
> This package was written with US mailing standards in mind. This is
> not a reflection of the author's americanocentrism: US standard was
> only one I had official documents about. If you want to add your
> national standards, please contact me with pointers to the
> corresponding documents.
> 
> The distribution of this package includes the following files:
>  - envlab.dtx---fully documented program
>  - envlab.ins---textsl{DocStrip} instruction module
>  - elguide.tex (this file)---User Guide
>  - readme.emph{version_number}---ReadMe file
> 
> To install the package
>  - LaTeX the file envlab.ins. It will produce three files: envlab.drv,
> envlab.sty and envlab.cfg.
>  - (Optional) Look at the file envlab.cfg and change it accordingly to
> your taste.
>  - Move the files envlab.sty and envlab.cfg to the LaTeX search path
>  - Produce the documentation by LaTeX ing the files elguide.tex and
> (optional) envlab.dtx.
>  - Enjoy!
> 
> Boris Veytsman, 1996 (boris@plmsc.psu.edu, 
> home page http://planck.psu.edu/~boris)

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Jun  9 17:36:22 1996
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 22:24:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: boris@plmsc.psu.edu
Subject: EnvLab Package (fwd)

> From: Boris Veytsman <boris@plmsc.psu.edu>
> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:41:21 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> Dear fiends:

I hope it's a typo and you meant 'friends' ;-)
 
> I've just uploaded envlab.tar.gz to dante. It contains a new package 
> EnvLab intended for typesetting Envelopes and Labels with LaTeX2e.
> The readme file is appended to this message. I suggest installing the 
> file at macros/latex/contrib/supported/envlab

Thanks for the contribution. I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de
as suggested.

> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This package provides a comprehensive and easily customizable system
> for creating mailing envelopes and labels in LaTeXe. Includes printing
> barcodes and address formatting according to the US Postal Service
> rules.
> 
> The standard makelabels command in the LaTeXe letter.cls
> documentclass typesets labels on Avery 5332 sheets. A typical user
> may want more. EnvLab redefines makelabels in (hopefully})
> a more useful and customizable way. EnvLab:
>  - Typesets mailing labels or envelopes on a number of pre-defined
> label sheets emph{or} envelopes.
>  - Can be easily configured for any customized label or envelope
> sizes. The rule of thumb is: if you printer can print this, EnvLab can
> typeset this.
>  - Can optionally print barcodes and/or process addresses according to
> the United States Postal Service Rules.
>  - Allows you to include your logo in the return address.
>  - Painlessly interacts with mail merging packages such as mailing.
>  - Does not require special fonts for address and barcodes printing.
> The typesetting is implemented with standard fonts and LaTeX rule
> commands.
> 
> This package was written with US mailing standards in mind. This is
> not a reflection of the author's americanocentrism: US standard was
> only one I had official documents about. If you want to add your
> national standards, please contact me with pointers to the
> corresponding documents.
> 
> The distribution of this package includes the following files:
>  - envlab.dtx---fully documented program
>  - envlab.ins---textsl{DocStrip} instruction module
>  - elguide.tex (this file)---User Guide
>  - readme.emph{version_number}---ReadMe file
> 
> To install the package
>  - LaTeX the file envlab.ins. It will produce three files: envlab.drv,
> envlab.sty and envlab.cfg.
>  - (Optional) Look at the file envlab.cfg and change it accordingly to
> your taste.
>  - Move the files envlab.sty and envlab.cfg to the LaTeX search path
>  - Produce the documentation by LaTeX ing the files elguide.tex and
> (optional) envlab.dtx.
>  - Enjoy!
> 
> Boris Veytsman, 1996 (boris@plmsc.psu.edu, 
> home page http://planck.psu.edu/~boris)

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

From boris@plmsc.psu.edu Sun Jun  9 19:03:35 1996
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 17:55:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Boris Veytsman <boris@plmsc.psu.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: EnvLab Package (fwd)

On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Reinhard Zierke wrote:

> > From: Boris Veytsman <boris@plmsc.psu.edu>
> > Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:41:21 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> > Dear fiends:
> 
> I hope it's a typo and you meant 'friends' ;-)
> 

Mea culpa


With apologies

-Boris

<a href="http://planck.psu.edu/~boris/">Home page</a>

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jun 10 06:26:09 1996
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 11:22:35 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: Scherer@physik.rwth-aachen.de
Subject: CTAN Submission: CWEB for Amiga, DOS and Unix

> From: Scherer@physik.rwth-aachen.de
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:55:33 +0200 (MET DST)
> 
> Now that the final bug in Silvio Levy's CWEB is fixed, development
> of my CWEBBIN extension has also come to an end.  To provide the
> final and up-to-date version, which is patch level 13, I've
> uploaded all source files to
> 
>    ftp.dante.de:/incoming/cwebbin
> 
> in pre-installed form.  There are separate subdirectories 'arexx',
> 'bin', 'cwebinputs', 'examples', and 'texinputs', some of them
> containing deeper levels 'catalogs' and language-specific
> subdirectories.  The complete package is also available in the
> form of an tar-gzipped archive 'cwebbin.tar.gz' in the main
> directory.
> 
> The purpose of CWEBBIN 3.4 [p13] is to provide the availability
> of Levy/Knuth CWEB on the Commodore Amiga with SAS/C++ 6.56, on
> MS/DOS with Borland C++ 3.1, and on UNIX with CC or GCC.  In
> addition to that, TeX macros and CWEB macros are provided for
> German, French, and Italian program documentation on any machine.
> Several additional example programs are provided in the 'examples'
> subdirectory.
> 
> Several system-dependent extensions are provided with CWEBBIN,
> most of them for the Amiga, e.g., automatic localization of the
> programs CTANGLE and CWEAVE and an ARexx interface to the SAS/C++
> development system.  Of general use is the feature of 'temporary
> output files', i.e., CTANGLE, CWEAVE, and WMERGE won't write
> directly to the final output file but to intermediate files,
> so a user-abort won't destroy prior results.  Translated header
> files for German and Italian are provided so that CTANGLE and
> CWEAVE can be localizated at least 'statically' on non-Amiga
> systems.  Change files are provided for full ANSI-C compliance
> of all programs in the CWEB distribution.
> 
> CWEBBIN 3.4 [p13] replaces my former submissions in
> 
>    CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cwb32p10
>    CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cweb34p12
> 
> These should be deleted.  CWEBBIN 3.4 [p13] itself should be
> installed at
> 
>    CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cwebbin

Thanks for the submission.  I have deleted the old versions cwb32p10
and cweb34p12 on ftp.dante.de and installed the README file and the
compressed tar archive of the new version in web/c_cpp/cwebbin.
The changes will soon propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
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From piet@cs.ruu.nl Mon Jun 10 09:54:39 1996
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:28:20 +0200
From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded again)

>>>>> Graham Gough <graham@cs.man.ac.uk> (GG) writes:

GG> Can anyone comment on the comparive features/merits of this package v
GG> the new fancyhdr from Piet van Oostrum?

They complement each other, or better they address completely different
issues. By the way, I will update the fancyhdr doc (called "Page Layout in
LaTeX", the title of the course I gave at EuroTeX'95), to recommend the
geometry package for page-size related issues.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet

From piet@cs.ruu.nl Mon Jun 10 10:51:44 1996
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:28:20 +0200
From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded again)

>>>>> Graham Gough <graham@cs.man.ac.uk> (GG) writes:

GG> Can anyone comment on the comparive features/merits of this package v
GG> the new fancyhdr from Piet van Oostrum?

They complement each other, or better they address completely different
issues. By the way, I will update the fancyhdr doc (called "Page Layout in
LaTeX", the title of the course I gave at EuroTeX'95), to recommend the
geometry package for page-size related issues.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 11 22:53:16 1996
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:31:54 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Boris Veytsman <boris@plmsc.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Envelopes and Labels update

Boris Veytsman writes:

 > Sorry for an update so soon. I received a letter from a user who could 
 > not extract files from envlab.dtx because he had an older version of 
 > DocStrip.
 > 
 > I uploaded to dante the file envlab.update.tar.gz. It contains the file 
 > elold.ins that works with DocStrip older than 2.3 and updated versions of 
 > readme.v10 & elguide.tex. Please install them in 
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/envlab. Please do not delete envlab.ins: 
 > it is intended to be the primary DocStrip module, and elold.ins is just a 
 > substitute for those who cannot update their LaTeX. 
 > 
 > Since no code changes were made, I decided to keep the version number 
 > (v1.0). 
 > 
 > Good luck
 > 
 > -Boris
 > 
 > <a href="http://planck.psu.edu/~boris/">Home page</a>

Thanks, I installed the update

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From graham@cs.man.ac.uk Tue Jun 11 05:29:05 1996
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 15:47:33 -0300 (BST)
From: Graham Gough <graham@cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded again)

 Piet van Oostrum writes:

 >>>>>> Graham Gough <graham@cs.man.ac.uk> (GG) writes:
 GG> Can anyone comment on the comparive features/merits of this
 GG> package v the new fancyhdr from Piet van Oostrum?

 pvo> They complement each other, or better they address completely different
 pvo> issues.

Yes, I can see that now. My posting was prompted by reading the opening
sentence of your abstract

  This article describes how to customize the page layout of your LaTeX
  documents, i.e how to change page margings and sizes, 

This led me to think that there was an overlap which doesn't actually
exist. I think other people are likely to be misled by it.

Thanks again for fancyheadings

Graham

From raichle@isle.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Tue Jun 11 23:12:35 1996
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 08:45:24 +0200
From: Bernd Raichle <raichle@isle.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded again)

Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl> writes:
: >>>>> Graham Gough <graham@cs.man.ac.uk> (GG) writes:
: GG> Can anyone comment on the comparive features/merits of this package v
: GG> the new fancyhdr from Piet van Oostrum?
: 
: They complement each other, or better they address completely different
: issues. By the way, I will update the fancyhdr doc (called "Page Layout in
: LaTeX", the title of the course I gave at EuroTeX'95), to recommend the
: geometry package for page-size related issues.

`geometry' is a YAPL (*) package!!
There are a lots of them and the number is still increasing :-(

In the moment I'm using

  - vmargin	if I want a simple YAPL package
and
  - typearea	(which is part of the koma-script package)
		if I want a more powerful YAPL package supporting
		e.g. the page layout designs covered by Tschichold's
		article ``Willk\"urfreie Ma\ss{}verh\"altnisse der
		Buchseite und des Satzspiegels'' (a short english
		description is in Joachim Schrod's `a4-9.doc', the
		documentation of a special YAPL package for A4 paper)

-bernd

(*) YAPL = `yet another page layout'

vmargin:  CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/vmargin.sty
koma:     CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script/
a4-9:	  CTAN: macros/latex209/contrib/chbars/
____________________________________________________________________
Bernd Raichle                                 "Le langage est source
DANTE e.V., Koordinator `german.sty'           de malentendus"
email: german@dante.de                         (A. de Saint-Exupery)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jun 11 06:19:05 1996
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 09:49:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: Antonio Carlos Marques da Silva <acarlos@fapeal.br>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: ftp

Antonio Carlos Marques da Silva writes:

> I would like to know the procedures to tfp from your
>         *pip.shsu.edu/tex-archive*
> (it seems that an anonymous login doesn't work).

the advertised address wasn't pip.shsu.edu at any stage that I've had
access to ftp...

For a long time, the advertised address (ftp.shsu.edu) translated to
pip.shsu.edu, and many people thought it fun to use the translated
name.  Ho ho ho ... the translation's changed.

The moral is: use the advertised name.

Of course, as we keep saying, there are problems (due to almost
complete absence of management effort there) with SHSU's archive.

finger ctan_us@ftp.shsu.edu for a current list of mirrors.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 11 15:18:58 1996
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:05:05 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, piet@cs.ruu.nl
Subject: Re: upload

Piet van Oostrum writes:
 > I have uploaded 2 files to ftp.dante.de:/incoming/fancyheadings:
 > 
 >   /anonymous@ftp.dante.de:/incoming/fancyheadings:
 >   total 4
 >   drwxrwxr-x   2 ftp      ftp          512 Jun 11 16:38 .
 >   drwxrwxrwx   7 Mr.Ftp   server       512 Jun 11 16:38 ..
 >   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server       499 Jun 11 16:43 README
 >   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server       125 Jun 11 16:44 fancyheadings.new
 > 
 > Please move the README file to
 > tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings 
 > and fancyheadings.new to tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr

Done. Thanks.

Rainer

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 11 17:38:04 1996
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:05:05 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, piet@cs.ruu.nl
Subject: Re: upload

Piet van Oostrum writes:
 > I have uploaded 2 files to ftp.dante.de:/incoming/fancyheadings:
 > 
 >   /anonymous@ftp.dante.de:/incoming/fancyheadings:
 >   total 4
 >   drwxrwxr-x   2 ftp      ftp          512 Jun 11 16:38 .
 >   drwxrwxrwx   7 Mr.Ftp   server       512 Jun 11 16:38 ..
 >   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server       499 Jun 11 16:43 README
 >   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server       125 Jun 11 16:44 fancyheadings.new
 > 
 > Please move the README file to
 > tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings 
 > and fancyheadings.new to tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr

Done. Thanks.

Rainer

From peta@cim.mcgill.ca Tue Jun 11 20:09:46 1996
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 15:59:24 -0400
From: Peter Whaite <peta@cim.mcgill.ca>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, info-tex@SHSU.edu
Cc: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: ftp


Robin Fairbairns said:
> 
> Of course, as we keep saying, there are problems (due to almost
> complete absence of management effort there) with SHSU's archive.

Would you care to be more specific?  I haven't noticed any problems with
my limited mirroring of latex, but I would appreciate knowing where to expect
them.

I really would prefer not to go to Europe for CTAN.  The connections are
often painfully slow.

> finger ctan_us@ftp.shsu.edu for a current list of mirrors.

I wish this list told me which site was being mirrored.  Are any of the US
sites mirroring directly from Europe?

From michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca Tue Jun 11 22:43:17 1996
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 19:23:52 -0600 (MDT)
From: Michal Jaegermann <michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: ftp

> 
> I wish this list told me which site was being mirrored.  Are any of the US
> sites mirroring directly from Europe?
> 

ftp.cdrom.com mirrors UK node of CTAN.  They do not have 'site index'
CTAN style and they will not make zip of a directory (but .tar.gz is ok).

  Michal

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jun 12 04:40:27 1996
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 09:09:29 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: info-tex@SHSU.edu, Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>, schoepf@uni-mainz.de
Subject: Re: ftp

Peter Whaite writes:
 > 
 > Robin Fairbairns said:
 > > 
 > > Of course, as we keep saying, there are problems (due to almost
 > > complete absence of management effort there) with SHSU's archive.
 > 
 > Would you care to be more specific?  I haven't noticed any problems with
 > my limited mirroring of latex, but I would appreciate knowing where to expect
 > them.

SHSU is currently unmanaged, so that there is no person to turn to for
problems. Robin and myself can log in to ftp.shsu.edu, but neither of
us has the spare time to manage yet another archive site, and
sometimes we would need more rights to correct things. For example,
some time ago the ftp disk was full, so that no updates could be done.
In addition, the ftp server doesn't work if the disk is full, since
its wants to write status information.

As a stopgap solution, I set up mirrors from ftp.dante.de to
ftp.shsu.de for everything except the "tools" tree. Occasionally the
disk is filled up again....

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Wed Jun 12 04:42:53 1996
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:13:42 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: reckdahl@leland.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: upload

The useful info/epslatex.ps file has been updated on CTAN; for a
description see below

sebastian rahtz

 > 
 > I have uploaded Version 1.8 of epslatex.ps. This replaces
 > Version 1.7 (Feb 96) in the /tex-archive/info directory.
 > 
 > New topics covered by Version 1.8 include
 >   1) Methods for constructing figures with landscape 
 >      orientation in portrait documents
 >   2) Methods for including the same EPS file multiple
 >      times.  This often happens when graphics are
 >      placed in a document's header or footer.
 >   3) For compressed graphics, using kpsewhich 
 >      avoids DVIPS path-searching problems
 > 
 > Keith
 > reckdahl@leland.stanford.edu
 > 
 > 
 > Summary
 > -------
 > epslatex.ps explains how to use Encapsulated PostScript 
 > (EPS) files in LaTeXe documents.  
 > 
 > The graphics and graphicx packages provide commands which 
 > insert, scale, and rotate EPS graphics.  The following 
 > EPS-inclusion topics are covered
 >  1) Compressed EPS files and non-EPS graphic formats 
 >     (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PICT, etc.) can also be inserted when 
 >     DVIPS is used.  Since neither LaTeX nor DVIPS has any 
 >     built-in decompression or graphics-conversion 
 >     capabilities, that software must be provided by the user.
 >  2) Since many applications which produce EPS files support only 
 >     ASCII text, the PSfrag system allows text in EPS files to be 
 >     replaced with LaTeX symbols or mathematical expressions.
 >  3) When an EPS graphic is inserted multiple times, the final 
 >     PostScript includes multiple copies of the graphics, making 
 >     the file large.  A smaller final PostScript file results from 
 >     defining a PostScript command for the graphics.  An example of 
 >     inserting an EPS graphic in the page header with the 
 >     fancyheadings package is provided.
 > 
 > Various commands are often used in conjunction with EPS 
 > graphics.  The following topics are covered in epslatex.ps
 >  1) the insertion of graphics in figure environments 
 >     allows the graphics to float for better formatting and 
 >     allows graphics to be referenced
 >  2) the lscape and rotating packages provide methods for 
 >     producing figures with landscape orientation in a portrait 
 >     document
 >  3) methods for arranging side-by-side graphics.  The graphics 
 >     can be placed in a single figure, in multiple figures 
 >     contained in a single float, or in subfigures.
 >  4) boxed figures can be created with \fbox or the commands 
 >     from the fancybox package.
 >  5) the figure captions can be placed next to the figure or table,
 >     instead of the conventional above or below placement,
 >  6) the caption2 package adds flexibility to the caption formatting, 
 >     allowing users to modify the style, width, and font of captions.
 > 

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Wed Jun 12 06:43:15 1996
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 09:16:50 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: forwarded message from Andrew Trevorrow re OzTeX


These changedversions are on CTAN

sebastian

------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) -------
A number of people have reported that Fix VFs is dramatically slower
in OzTeX 2.0.  It turned out to be quite a nasty little problem to
track down and fix.  All the gory details can be found in the "changes"
file 

Please get the following files:

vf.hqx      - a new VF-files folder
oztex.hqx   - OzTeX 2.0.1
ozdvips.hqx - OzDVIPS 1.0.1

I've also fixed a few other minor problems.  I haven't bothered doing
a new version of the User Guide yet in case more bugs are found.
I think I'll wait a couple of months and then release a version 2.1.

------- end -------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jun 12 16:20:46 1996
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 15:25:18 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Werner Lemberg writes:

> I've just uploaded a Vietnamese extension of the cmr fonts to 
> ftp.tex.ac.uk .
> 
> The package is called vncmr-2.0 and contains METAFONT source files,
> .tfm files, and various LaTeX2e and plain TeX files for VISCII encoding.
> It's an update of the vncmr package developed by Cuong Nguyen
> (cuong@haydn.stanford.edu).
> 
> It should be placed (preferably unpacked) into fonts/vietnamese (or
> fonts/vmr ?), perhaps with a link to languages/vietnamese.

There has been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing about this package, and
Werner finally uploaded a new version 2.1; I have now installed it
(unpacked, as requested):

 The package itself is at fonts/vietnamese/vncmr
 There's a link to it from language/vietnamese/vncmr

(language/vietnamese was plainly never intended to recognise any other
way of dealing with vietnamese, so I've not attempted anything
`clever' with the link.)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Fri Jun 14 07:02:47 1996
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 10:39:18 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: hyperref

It has been a while since I announced a release of the hyperref
package for preserving LaTeX cross-references in hypertext systems, 
though I have been updating it occasionally. However, I have
now decided to clear out my problems directory, and I would like as
many users of hyperref as possible to try a new version, and report errors
to me.

Under pressure from Tanmoy Bhattacharya, I spent some time tracking
down problems with RevTeX. and some bibliographical packages, and I
hope the whole thing is slightly more robust. The only packages which
I suspect will cause problems are those which play with bibliographical
citations, including possibly the following:

 achemso.sty aguplus.cls aguplus.sty chapterbib.sty drftcite.sty
 natbib.sty prabib.sty

I have explicitly supported harvard.sty, and will do natbib when I
have time. The rest may languish until/if I have a personal need for them.

I expect my next step will be checking everything against Acrobat 3
when I get a copy, and adding support for any new features of that.

Sebastian Rahtz

********************************
Hyperref is used to emend cross-referencing commands in LaTeX
to produce either \special commands which can be parsed by HyperTeX
dvi processors, or embedded pdfmark commands for processing by Acrobat
Distiller.

Included are:

  a) (backref) a package by David Carlisle to provide links back from 
     bibliography to the main text; these are hypertext links after using
     hyperref.
 b)  (nameref) a package to allow reference to the *names* of sections rather
     than their numbers.


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 14 09:57:17 1996
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 12:42:08 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (flatten, ltx2x, isostds)

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded a set of files to ftp.tex.ac.uk which I would like
> placing in the CTAN.
> 
>     The files are:
> 
> 1) flatten.tar.gz  --- a program to flatten a LaTeX root file by copying
>                        \input and \include files into the root file.
>                        Documentation, C code, man page etc. are provided.
> 
>    I suggest move this to /support and unpacking will create /flatten

Done as suggested.
 
> 2) ltx2x.tar.gz    --- a program to replace LaTeX commands by user-defined
>                        characters. Typical uses are for deTeXing and
>                        pretty-printing, or for replacing LaTeX commands
>                        by SGML tags, or ...
>                        Documentation, C code, man page etc. are provided.
>                        The system can be extended simply, but this requires 
>                        access to flex and bison (or equivalent).
> 
>     I suggest move this to /support and unpacking will create /ltx2x

Done as suggested.

>     Somehow earlier versions of these programs appeared on CTAN in directory
> /support/nistl2x. This directory should be deleted.

Done as suggested.  (I was relieved to note that nistl2x had you as
author...  We were mirroring nistl2x from some NIST machine; ISTR we
had been having problems with the mirror, which got swept under the
carpet with all the torrents of other failed mirrors we experience.)
 
> 3) isostds.tar.gz  --- Class and package files for typesetting ISO International
>                        Standard documents. Several standard documents have
>                        been printed by ISO from camera-ready copy prepared
>                        using LaTeX and these files.
> 
>                        One set of files is for generic ISO typesetting and the
>                        other is an extension set of packages for typesetting 
>                        ISO 10303 standards.
> 
>                        Full documentation on usage is provided.
> 
>     I suggest moving this to /macros/latex/contrib/supported. Unpacking
> will create /isostds with subdirectories /iso and /iso10303.

Done as suggested.

All this stuff has been done at ftp.tex.ac.uk, of course.  It will
propagate to those things that are listening sooner or later.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 14 21:00:18 1996
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 12:42:08 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (flatten, ltx2x, isostds)

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded a set of files to ftp.tex.ac.uk which I would like
> placing in the CTAN.
> 
>     The files are:
> 
> 1) flatten.tar.gz  --- a program to flatten a LaTeX root file by copying
>                        \input and \include files into the root file.
>                        Documentation, C code, man page etc. are provided.
> 
>    I suggest move this to /support and unpacking will create /flatten

Done as suggested.
 
> 2) ltx2x.tar.gz    --- a program to replace LaTeX commands by user-defined
>                        characters. Typical uses are for deTeXing and
>                        pretty-printing, or for replacing LaTeX commands
>                        by SGML tags, or ...
>                        Documentation, C code, man page etc. are provided.
>                        The system can be extended simply, but this requires 
>                        access to flex and bison (or equivalent).
> 
>     I suggest move this to /support and unpacking will create /ltx2x

Done as suggested.

>     Somehow earlier versions of these programs appeared on CTAN in directory
> /support/nistl2x. This directory should be deleted.

Done as suggested.  (I was relieved to note that nistl2x had you as
author...  We were mirroring nistl2x from some NIST machine; ISTR we
had been having problems with the mirror, which got swept under the
carpet with all the torrents of other failed mirrors we experience.)
 
> 3) isostds.tar.gz  --- Class and package files for typesetting ISO International
>                        Standard documents. Several standard documents have
>                        been printed by ISO from camera-ready copy prepared
>                        using LaTeX and these files.
> 
>                        One set of files is for generic ISO typesetting and the
>                        other is an extension set of packages for typesetting 
>                        ISO 10303 standards.
> 
>                        Full documentation on usage is provided.
> 
>     I suggest moving this to /macros/latex/contrib/supported. Unpacking
> will create /isostds with subdirectories /iso and /iso10303.

Done as suggested.

All this stuff has been done at ftp.tex.ac.uk, of course.  It will
propagate to those things that are listening sooner or later.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 14 22:47:23 1996
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 14:08:06 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: ftp.tex.ac.uk transfer statistics, May 1996

TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Tue Apr 30 1996 TO Fri May 31 1996

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Systems Using Archives                              0

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 14 20:55:54 1996
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 18:04:16 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: mikulik@polycnrs-gre.fr
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Petr Mikulik writes:

> Archive Name: pmcstex.zip
> Program Description: macros and functions for (em){La}TeXing in EPM editor
> Author: Petr Mikulik
> Email address: mikulik@physics.muni.cz
> Operating System/Version: os/2
> Proposed directory for placement: CTAN/systems/os2/pmcstex
> Uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk, /incoming directory
> 
> RELEASE NOTES:
> 
> I have released the new version of pmCSTeX for EPM:
> 
> This is a macro package that implements many (em)TeX related features into 
> the powerful EPM editor. The package "pmCSTeX for EPM"
> is now available 
> - on my WWW page:
>   http://www.sci.muni.cz/~mikulik/os2.html
> - on the usual OS/2 ftp sites (hobbes.nmsu.edu, ftp.leo.org)
> - on CTAN mirrors (directory CTAN/systems/os2)
> 
> Description:
> "CS~TeX" menu item is added to the EPM menu in order to provide many  
> actions for {em}(La)TeXing from within the EPM (texing the document, 
> texing one paragraph, previewing, searching for errors, bibtexing, 
> postscript preview etc.). New toolbar is provided as well. Hotkeys 
> for some (La)TeX commands, including (AMS)LaTeX environments list and 
> a Greek keyboard. LaTeX2e.ndx file for hypertext link to LaTeX2e commands 
> is included. I tried to implement the best features of those packages: 
> CSTeX MNU for DOS, TeXshell, EPMTeX, pmgraf, emacs. 
> 
> New features since the last international beta release: 
> 
> - meaning of Alt-Q changed, added Ctrl-Q hot key (quick \begin equations)
> - spell-checker discussion
> - syntax highlighting discussion
> - TeXing works when you ask for it from within .log file
> - next_error: oval drawing for ...long line with an error works now better
> - sampactn.e replaced according to new EPM 6.03b
> - EMTEXOPT keyword added so there is no need to change .cmd files when 
>   working on AMS-LaTeX or memory consuming documents. Usage of \batchmode
>   command in the Master file not more required. Document being (La)TeXed 
>   on background is iconified
> - some minor changes by new users taken into account
> - DVIPS keywoard for the Master's first line included

I have duly installed a directory systems/os2/pmcstex at ftp.tex.ac.uk

It will propagate to other sites that are `listening' some time soon.

Thank you, Petr...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 14 18:47:04 1996
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 18:16:08 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: TeXdraw: fixes for LaTeX2e

In article <4prreo$7u3@aldebaran.ee.mcgill.ca>,
Peter Kabal <kabal@aldebaran.ee.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>I have had a number of reports of TeXdraw not working with LaTeX2e.  These
>problems were fixed some time ago.  I suggest that users of TeXdraw notify the
>site from which they obtained TeXdraw that an update is available.
>
>The latest version of TeXdraw (version V2R0) is available for anonymous ftp:
>  ftp.TSP.EE.McGill.CA in directory pub/texdraw

With a little help from my friends, I've installed that version in
place of the old one on CTAN.  It's at ftp.tex.ac.uk now, and will no
doubt pop up in all sorts of places not dependent on SHSU really soon.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jun 15 08:48:37 1996
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 12:31:27 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: svensson@math.ubc.ca
Subject: Anders Svensson: Re: CTAN Submission - kuvio update

I have installed this stuff as requested at ftp.tex.ac.uk; by now
it'll be well on its way around the known universe.

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

------- Forwarded Message

Anders Svensson writes:

> I've just uploaded the file kuvio-p216.tar.gz to the /incoming
> directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk.
> 
> This file contains an update to my diagram package residing in
> macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio. It'll unpack into a directory named
> kuvio and contains a complete replacement for the files currently
> residing on CTAN.  The old files can be blown away.

------- End of Forwarded Message

From k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Sat Jun 15 10:34:31 1996
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 15:07:08 -0200 (MET DST)
From: Lemberg Werner <k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, linux-asia@li.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ccnet-l%uga.BITNET@email.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at, trichlor@haydn.stanford.edu
Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.1 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e]

I've uploaded version 3.1.1 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts
(i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk and its mirrors, e.g. ftp.cdrom.com).

It will be soon available in the following directory:

    tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK

Below you find the release notes of this version.


    Happy TeXing


        Werner


[CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean
with LaTeX2e. It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS,
Unicode.]


========================================================================


Version 3.1.1:  new:
20-Jun-1996         \CJKspace switches (inside of a CJK or CJK* environment)
                      from CJK* to CJK mode.
                    \CJKnospace switches from CJK to CJK* mode.

                    support for Vietnamese in Mule. You will need the
                    vncmr-2.1 package for fonts and LaTeX2e support.

                    Latin 5 (ISO 8859-9) for Mule implemented.

                changed:
                    mule2cjk removed and replaced with cjk-enc.el which
                    defines a new output encoding scheme for Mule
                    (*cjk-coding*). See cjk-enc.doc for details.

                    new protection scheme and changed macro definitions in
                    MULEenc.sty enables kerning for non-CJK languages. This
                    also makes most of the CJK macros significantly smaller.

                    f_name.bat replaced with the latest version.

                    some documentation improvements.

                    \CJKhanja and \CJKhangul now also make sense outside of
                    KS encoding (useful in connection with mule2cjk).

                errors:
                    f_name.cmd doesn't work. All *.cmd removed. I have first
                      to learn REXX to write such batch files for OS/2.

                    ttf2pk failed if the PK package size of a character was
                      1024 (the same error is also in the pbm2pk program).

                    hbf2gf didn't initialize mag_x/mag_y and dpi_x/dpi_y
                      correctly (Zhang Zhengyou
                      <Zhengyou.Zhang@sophia.inria.fr>).

                    after closing a CJK environment not all characters above
                      0x80 had been made non-active (a typo).

                    pinyin.sty did not preserve the \a macro (used in
                      tabbing environments).

                    single byte characters didn't work in SJIS encoding (a
                      typo).

                    `:' and `.' do not work as parameter delimiters if these
                      characters are active (Daniel Flipo <?@?>). Now ^^ff
                      is used; the old macro ^^ff is now ^^a0; ^^a0 has
                      become ^^80. The old ^^80 macro has been removed since
                      the new version of mule2cjk always use the `global'
                      option of CJK which allows the use of (the new) ^^80
                      instead.
                      
                    \CJKenc{SJIS} didn't work (Thomas Piekenbrock
                      <piekenbro@msmzid.frankfurt.hoechst-ag.d400.de>).

                    SJISconv.tex didn't run (a senseless line called the
                      nonexistent macro \CJK@other) (Thomas Piekenbrock
                      <piekenbro@msmzid.frankfurt.hoechst-ag.d400.de>).

                    JIS.cap didn't work (a typo).

                    SJIS.cap didn't work either (forgot to edit).

From wkim+@pitt.edu Sun Jun 16 06:08:07 1996
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 02:33:56 -0400
From: Wonkoo Kim <wkim+@pitt.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.1 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e]

> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 96 15:07:08 -0200
> From: k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at
> Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.1 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e]
> 
> I've uploaded version 3.1.1 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts
> (i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk and its mirrors, e.g. ftp.cdrom.com).
[snip]
> 
>                     f_name.bat replaced with the latest version.

Thanks.  ;-)

>                     f_name.cmd doesn't work. All *.cmd removed. I have first
>                       to learn REXX to write such batch files for OS/2.

Dear Werner,

I remember that a while ago you asked me for an OS/2 version 
that emulates f_name.bat.  Though I don't use an OS/2 equivalent 
of f_name.bat when LaTeXing on my OS/2 system, I can give you a 
short REXX script that may help you.

Attached is fnsplit.cmd (named after a C function name ;-) ) that 
is supposed to be called from some other REXX .cmd.  Parsing a file 
spec can be simply done by OS/2 REXX built-in function filespec(),
but the follwing script fnsplit.cmd just adds some extra parsing 
like body, extension, etc. that built-in filespec() doesn't provide.  
The usage of fnsplit() is described in the .cmd file. 

If I recall that the original poster in emTeX list had the
problem with '\' when texing under Windows GUI, I think 
runfor12.zip that I uploaded in the famous OS/2 ftp sites of

  hobbes.mnsu.edu and ftp-os2.cdrom.com 
  (os2/incoming/ now, os2/unix/ or os2/diskutil/ in future)

may help such OS/2 or DOS users.  The zip archive contains 
executables that can run under DOS or OS/2.

Even if Windows or OS/2 WPS GUI plugged a full file path when
passing file arguments to programs, runfor can run a program 
after parsing given input file specs.

For example, (suppose g:\tmp\text.tex was supplied by Windows)

  runfor -w g:\tmp\text.tex : latex %f

will run 'latex text.tex' after changing working dir to g:\tmp\.

  runfor g:\tmp\text.tex : latex %uF

will run 'latex g:/tmp/text.tex' (without changing dir).

I guess these two examples may be enough to solve '\' problem.
However, fnsplit.cmd (and f_name.bat) has its own niche.

Best wishes,

//--------------------------------------------------------------------
// Wonkoo Kim (wkim+@pitt.edu)


========== fnsplit.cmd ===============
/*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
fnsplit: /* procedure */
/*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* Split full or partial path name into drive, path, bodyname, extension.
 *
 * Syntax: fnsplit(pathname[, partname])
 *
 * Examples:
 *      fnsplit('d:\a\b\c\file.name.ext') == 'd:,\a\b\c\,file.name,.ext'
 *
 *    With 2nd optional arg,
 *      fnsplit('d:\a\b\c\file.name.ext', 'drive') == 'd:'
 *      fnsplit('d:\a\b\c\file.name.ext', 'path')  == '\a\b\c\'
 *      fnsplit('d:\a\b\c\file.name.ext', 'name')  == 'file.name.ext'
 *      fnsplit('d:\a\b\c\file.name.ext', 'base')  == 'd:\a\b\c\file.name'
 *      fnsplit('d:\a\b\c\file.name.ext', 'body')  == 'file.name'
 *      fnsplit('d:\a\b\c\file.name.ext', 'ext')   == '.ext'
 *
 * Author: Wonkoo Kim (wkim+@pitt.edu), May 9, 1996
 */
    file = arg(1)
    part = translate(arg(2))
    if file = '' then
        return ''
    drive = filespec('drive', file)
    path = filespec('path', file)
    fname = filespec('name', file)
    m = lastpos('.', fname)
    if (m = 0) then m = length(fname) + 1
    fbody = delstr(fname, m)
    fext = substr(fname, m)
    select
        when part = 'DRIVE' then return drive
        when part = 'PATH'  then return path
        when part = 'NAME'  then return fname
        when part = 'BODY'  then return fbody
        when part = 'EXT'   then return fext
        when part = 'BASE'  then return drive||path||fbody
        otherwise
            return drive||','||path||','||fbody||','||fext
    end

/* End of fnsplit.cmd */

From wkim+@pitt.edu Sun Jun 16 15:50:32 1996
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 14:39:20 -0400
From: Wonkoo Kim <wkim+@pitt.edu>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at
Cc: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.1 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e]

> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 96 02:33:56 -0400
> From: "Wonkoo Kim" <wkim+@pitt.edu>
> To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
> Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.1 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e]

> 
> > Date: Sat, 15 Jun 96 15:07:08 -0200
> > From: k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at
> > Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.1 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e]

Oops, I'm sorry.
The message was intended to send directly to Werner.  I didn't 
notice "Reply-To:" field was set to CTAN-Ann when replied. :-(

Regards,

//--------------------------------------------------------------------
// Wonkoo Kim (wkim+@pitt.edu)

From k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Mon Jun 17 02:54:48 1996
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 07:09:54 -0200 (MET DST)
From: Lemberg Werner <k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.1 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e]

Won-Koo,

Thank you _very_ much for your contribution!

May I include (possibly adapted) your REXX script in future versions?

FYI, I plan to support new HLaTeX fonts in the next release -- perhaps
you will give CJK another try :-)


    Werner

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jun 17 16:25:13 1996
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:35:18 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: csuov@csv.warwick.ac.uk
Subject: (my) footnote package

I've just installed (at ftp.tex.ac.uk) a new version of my
footnote.dtx -- it'll propagate soon.

This deals with numbering the \footnotemark `per page', like
\footnote;  fortunately this omission seems to have bitten me first...

Some keen-eyed TeX people have noticed that Mark Wooding and I both
have 2e packages called `footnote' on the archive.  Mark has agreed
that I might incorporate his work into my package (subject to some
spin-doctoring of the GPL his code is subject to), but I've not got
around to doing it yet.  I apologise for the inconvenience...

Robin Fairbairns

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 18 05:49:58 1996
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:39:01 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: "LINPWD::DALY" <daly@linpwd.dnet.gwdg.de>, ctan@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: natbib update

LINPWD::DALY writes:

 > I have just placed the following files in  incoming/natbib  on the DANTE
 > CTAN server.
 > 
 > README.1st
 > README.v63
 > natbib.dtx    
 > natbib.ins
 > plainnat.bst
 > unsrtnat.bst
 > abbrvnat.bst
 > 
 > Could you please place these files in
 >       macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib
 > removing all the existing files there.
 > 
 > Thank you
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >    Dr. Patrick W. Daly                    Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279
 >    Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie     Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240
 >    Postfach 20                            
 >    D-37189 Katlenburg-Lindau              Internet: daly@linmpi.mpae.gwdg.de
 >    Germany
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------


Thanks a lot, I made the update on ftp.dante.de, from where it will
propagate to the other CTAN hosts (except ftp.shsu.edu, the status of
which is unclear).

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 18 11:13:27 1996
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:39:01 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: "LINPWD::DALY" <daly@linpwd.dnet.gwdg.de>, ctan@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: natbib update

LINPWD::DALY writes:

 > I have just placed the following files in  incoming/natbib  on the DANTE
 > CTAN server.
 > 
 > README.1st
 > README.v63
 > natbib.dtx    
 > natbib.ins
 > plainnat.bst
 > unsrtnat.bst
 > abbrvnat.bst
 > 
 > Could you please place these files in
 >       macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib
 > removing all the existing files there.
 > 
 > Thank you
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >    Dr. Patrick W. Daly                    Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279
 >    Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie     Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240
 >    Postfach 20                            
 >    D-37189 Katlenburg-Lindau              Internet: daly@linmpi.mpae.gwdg.de
 >    Germany
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------


Thanks a lot, I made the update on ftp.dante.de, from where it will
propagate to the other CTAN hosts (except ftp.shsu.edu, the status of
which is unclear).

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 18 06:17:45 1996
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:04:48 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: ctan@shsu.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se, schoepf@uni-mainz.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission (dante):  several packages

matsd@physchem.kth.se writes:
 > 
 > Friends,
 > 
 > I just uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/matsd the following 
 > files 
 >     00readme.acs
 >     00readme.chs
 >     00readme.dlq
 >     00readme.drp
 >     00readme.flt
 >     00readme.vrs
 >     achemso.dtx
 >     achemso.ins
 >     chemsym.dtx
 >     chemsym.ins
 >     deleq.dtx
 >     deleq.ins
 >     dropping.dtx
 >     dropping.ins
 >     floatfig.txt
 >     floatflt.dtx
 >     floatflt.ins
 >     vrsion.dtx
 >     vrsion.ins
 > which are updates of my LaTeX2e packages 'achemso', 'chemsym', 
 > 'deleq', 'floatflt', and 'vrsion' and a new LaTeX2e package 
 > 'dropping', respectively.  The today submitted files are intended 
 > to be placed in the /macros/latex/contrib/other tree as follows:
 >   .../achemso/00readme.acs  
 >   .../achemso/achemso.dtx
 >   .../achemso/achemso.ins
 >   .../chemsym/00readme.chs
 >   .../chemsym/chemsym.dtx
 >   .../chemsym/chemsym.ins 
 >   .../deleq/00readme.dlq
 >   .../deleq/deleq.dtx
 >   .../deleq/deleq.ins
 >   .../dropping/00readme.drp
 >   .../dropping/dropping.dtx 
 >   .../dropping/dropping.ins 
 >   .../floatflt/00readme.flt
 >   .../floatflt/floatfig.txt
 >   .../floatflt/floatflt.dtx
 >   .../floatflt/floatflt.ins
 >   .../vrsion/00readme.vrs
 >   .../vrsion/vrsion.dtx 
 >   .../vrsion/vrsion.ins
 > 
 > Please delete(/overwrite) all current files in .../macros/latex/contrib
 >   .../supported/achemso
 >   .../supported/chemsym
 >   .../supported/deleq
 >   .../other/floatflt
 >   .../supported/vrsion
 > The reason I'd like a move from the `supported' to the `other' 
 > subtree is I'm about to change jobs, and I don't know yet how much 
 > `support' I can provide for my packages.  
 > 
 > Express description of the packages and today's upload:
 >   achemso  -  LaTeX/BibTeX package to format bibliographies according 
 >               to The American Chemical Society's standard.  
 >               Today's upload only affects the documentation.  
 >   chemsym  -  LaTeX package for easier typing of chemical symbols 
 >               without worrying about math/nonmath mode.
 >               Today's upload provides a new feature for avoiding 
 >               problems when used together with certain other 
 >               pacakges, such as `longtable'. 
 >   deleq    -  LaTeX package for flexible numbering of equations, 
 >               subequations, and `recycled' equations.  Also 
 >               provides macros for flexible labelling of `equation-
 >               array-like' environments.
 >               Today's upload only affects the documentation.  
 >   dropping -  An extension of Fred Lauwers's LaTeX 2.09 package 
 >               `dropcaps.sty'.  dropping automatically takes care
 >               of finding the font name.  
 >               This is an entirely new package (at least in this format).  
 >   floatflt -  LaTeX package for floating text around not-so-wide 
 >               figures and tables.  
 >               Today's upload only affects the documentation.  
 >   vrsion   -  LaTeX package which sets version numbers on .dvi 
 >               files without using the .aux file (which may be 
 >               corrupted if the LaTeX run fails).
 >               Today's upload only affects the documentation.  
 > 
 > (please feel free to include whatever you like of this mail in any 
 > announcements you'd like.)  
 > 
 > Thank you all in the CTAN and LaTeX3 teams for a wonderful work!
 > 
 > mats d.
 > 
 > 
 > mats dahlgren                  * "Den tid n{r tiden var {r nu f|rliden" *
 > Royal Institute of Technology  *                          Persephone i  *
 > Lab. for Chem. Surface Science *               _Skuggor och speglingar_ *
 > S-100 44  Stockholm, Sweden    *                       av Lotta Olsson  *
 > 
 >     <matsd@physchem.kth.se>  Ph: +46-8-790 8596  Fx: +46-8-790 8207
 >                     http://lupus.physchem.kth.se/~matsd/  


Many thanks for your updates, I installed everything as proposed on
ftp.dante.de, from where it will eventually propagate to the other
archive hosts (except ftp.shsu.edu, of course, over which we do not
have any control).

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 18 11:19:02 1996
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:04:48 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: ctan@shsu.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se, schoepf@uni-mainz.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission (dante):  several packages

matsd@physchem.kth.se writes:
 > 
 > Friends,
 > 
 > I just uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/matsd the following 
 > files 
 >     00readme.acs
 >     00readme.chs
 >     00readme.dlq
 >     00readme.drp
 >     00readme.flt
 >     00readme.vrs
 >     achemso.dtx
 >     achemso.ins
 >     chemsym.dtx
 >     chemsym.ins
 >     deleq.dtx
 >     deleq.ins
 >     dropping.dtx
 >     dropping.ins
 >     floatfig.txt
 >     floatflt.dtx
 >     floatflt.ins
 >     vrsion.dtx
 >     vrsion.ins
 > which are updates of my LaTeX2e packages 'achemso', 'chemsym', 
 > 'deleq', 'floatflt', and 'vrsion' and a new LaTeX2e package 
 > 'dropping', respectively.  The today submitted files are intended 
 > to be placed in the /macros/latex/contrib/other tree as follows:
 >   .../achemso/00readme.acs  
 >   .../achemso/achemso.dtx
 >   .../achemso/achemso.ins
 >   .../chemsym/00readme.chs
 >   .../chemsym/chemsym.dtx
 >   .../chemsym/chemsym.ins 
 >   .../deleq/00readme.dlq
 >   .../deleq/deleq.dtx
 >   .../deleq/deleq.ins
 >   .../dropping/00readme.drp
 >   .../dropping/dropping.dtx 
 >   .../dropping/dropping.ins 
 >   .../floatflt/00readme.flt
 >   .../floatflt/floatfig.txt
 >   .../floatflt/floatflt.dtx
 >   .../floatflt/floatflt.ins
 >   .../vrsion/00readme.vrs
 >   .../vrsion/vrsion.dtx 
 >   .../vrsion/vrsion.ins
 > 
 > Please delete(/overwrite) all current files in .../macros/latex/contrib
 >   .../supported/achemso
 >   .../supported/chemsym
 >   .../supported/deleq
 >   .../other/floatflt
 >   .../supported/vrsion
 > The reason I'd like a move from the `supported' to the `other' 
 > subtree is I'm about to change jobs, and I don't know yet how much 
 > `support' I can provide for my packages.  
 > 
 > Express description of the packages and today's upload:
 >   achemso  -  LaTeX/BibTeX package to format bibliographies according 
 >               to The American Chemical Society's standard.  
 >               Today's upload only affects the documentation.  
 >   chemsym  -  LaTeX package for easier typing of chemical symbols 
 >               without worrying about math/nonmath mode.
 >               Today's upload provides a new feature for avoiding 
 >               problems when used together with certain other 
 >               pacakges, such as `longtable'. 
 >   deleq    -  LaTeX package for flexible numbering of equations, 
 >               subequations, and `recycled' equations.  Also 
 >               provides macros for flexible labelling of `equation-
 >               array-like' environments.
 >               Today's upload only affects the documentation.  
 >   dropping -  An extension of Fred Lauwers's LaTeX 2.09 package 
 >               `dropcaps.sty'.  dropping automatically takes care
 >               of finding the font name.  
 >               This is an entirely new package (at least in this format).  
 >   floatflt -  LaTeX package for floating text around not-so-wide 
 >               figures and tables.  
 >               Today's upload only affects the documentation.  
 >   vrsion   -  LaTeX package which sets version numbers on .dvi 
 >               files without using the .aux file (which may be 
 >               corrupted if the LaTeX run fails).
 >               Today's upload only affects the documentation.  
 > 
 > (please feel free to include whatever you like of this mail in any 
 > announcements you'd like.)  
 > 
 > Thank you all in the CTAN and LaTeX3 teams for a wonderful work!
 > 
 > mats d.
 > 
 > 
 > mats dahlgren                  * "Den tid n{r tiden var {r nu f|rliden" *
 > Royal Institute of Technology  *                          Persephone i  *
 > Lab. for Chem. Surface Science *               _Skuggor och speglingar_ *
 > S-100 44  Stockholm, Sweden    *                       av Lotta Olsson  *
 > 
 >     <matsd@physchem.kth.se>  Ph: +46-8-790 8596  Fx: +46-8-790 8207
 >                     http://lupus.physchem.kth.se/~matsd/  


Many thanks for your updates, I installed everything as proposed on
ftp.dante.de, from where it will eventually propagate to the other
archive hosts (except ftp.shsu.edu, of course, over which we do not
have any control).

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Thu Jun 20 06:11:44 1996
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:04:10 +0100
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk>
To: latex-l@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de, latex-2e@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu
Subject: June LaTeX release.



The LaTeX3 project is pleased to announce the June 1996 LaTeX release.
The `base' `tools' `graphics' and `mfnfss' distributions have all been
updated.

The files were updated at yesterday (19th June) at ftp.dante.de and
overnight at ftp.tex.ac.uk. It may take a day or so for the update to
propagate to all the ctan mirrors.

As usual a one page `newsletter', ltnews05.tex, accompanies the release
and describes the main updates.

David

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jun 20 06:32:10 1996
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:20:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Keith Reckdahl <reckdahl@am-sun2.stanford.edu>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: epslatex.ps upload

Keith Reckdahl writes:

> I have uploaded Version 1.8b of epslatex.ps into the
> /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk.  This replaces
> Version 1.8 (which I released last week) in the /info 
> directory.  This version fixes some typos and uses 
> the new fancyhdr package instead of the old 
> fancyheadings package.

I have installed the new version here at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jun 20 07:59:37 1996
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:49:10 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
Cc: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: test longtable release withdrawn

David Carlisle writes:

> The test release 4.02 of the longtable package for multi-page tables
> has been removed from macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle
> as it is superseded by the official release of longtable 4.04
> which was made as part of the June 1996 LaTeX `tools' distribution.
> 
> longtable version 4.x incorporates an improved algorithm contributed
> by David Kastrup.

I have performed the appropriate manipulations of the CTAN directory
at ftp.tex.ac.uk; those changes should propagate overnight.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jun 20 09:08:36 1996
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 12:13:01 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Demise of SHSU as a CTAN node

As most people will be aware, what remains of the CTAN team (in the UK
and Germany) has been struggling for some time to maintain
ftp.shsu.edu as a CTAN node.

In the last few weeks, the machine on which the archive operates has
run out of disc space, has increasingly been unable to accept ftp
connections or to perform simple commands such as `dir' on established
connections, and finally, now, has ceased to accept the CTAN
management commands that we send it.

We have reluctantly, therefore, concluded that we can no longer
continue to claim that ftp.shsu.edu is part of the Comprehensive TeX
Archive Network (CTAN).

The CTAN mailing lists (ctan@shsu.edu and ctan-ann@shsu.edu) will
continue to be supported by SHSU, at least for the time being.

We are painfully aware that the demise of SHSU leaves the North
American continent without a CTAN node.  We are urgently seeking
potential CTAN sites in North America, and have had a some responses
but no firm offers to start an archive immediately.  Offers to host a
new North American CTAN node, or suggestions for corporate support for
machines for some of our existing offers are extremely welcome: please
either reply to this message, or mail to the list ctan@shsu.edu

At present, there is only one CTAN mirror in North America that we
know to be a copy of one of the remaining CTANs (ftp.cdrom.com).
Mirror managers whose site mirrors ftp.shsu.edu are invited to contact
the mailing list ctan@shsu.edu as soon as possible, so that
alternative arrangements can be made.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jun 20 16:58:16 1996
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 17:20:46 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Kees van der Laan <cgl@rc.service.rug.nl>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: BLUe files refreshed

Kees van der Laan writes:

> I have uploaded to tex.ac.uk a renewal of BLUe's format system:
> blue.tex, tools.dat, pic.dat, fmt.dat, lit.dat.
> 
> Later this week I'll submit the paradigm series of 10 articles,
> explaining paradigms especially what has been used in BLUe's format.
> 
> I also intend to submit before leaving for Dubna the new files for
> Publishing with TeX user's guide.
> 
> The directory now is blue.version96.

I have installed these files to replace those in macros/blu at
ftp.tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From cgl@rc.service.rug.nl Thu Jun 20 15:32:12 1996
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:28:04 +0200
From: Kees van der Laan <cgl@rc.service.rug.nl>
To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, cgl@rc.service.rug.nl
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: BLUe files refreshed

Thank you, professional to feedback, Best wishes, ---Kees---

From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Fri Jun 21 10:21:46 1996
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 15:11:22 +0200
From: Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de
Subject: emTeX update

I've refreshed emTeX with the June 1996 version of LaTeX.  Moreover,
I've updated the DC fonts (10.95pt TFM files and dxbase.mf), mf4b.zip
(mf4b.rem had a small error), and tex4b.zip (new version of
plain.tex).  The following files have been replaced on ftp.dante.de:

/tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex:

  CHANGES.ENG CHANGES.GER DISKETTE.DOC INSTALL.ENG INSTALL.GER
  QUICK.ENG QUICK.GER README.ENG README.GER
  first.zip fontdc.zip l2base.zip l2input.zip l2tools.zip mf4b.zip tex4b.zip

/tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex/betatest:

  README.INS install.dat install.exe install.ovl

The update should be available on ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.cdrom.com
soon.

Eberhard Mattes <mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Jun 22 03:42:26 1996
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 08:16:36 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: turtle@diku.dk
Subject: CTAN Submission: bbding

> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 17:02:44 +0200
> From: Peter M�ller Neergaard <turtle@diku.dk>
> 
> I have just uploaded bbding.zip to ftp.dante.de.  It is a update of the
> bbding-package, where the author of the metafont source is given full
> credit.  The package is already placed in tex-archive/fonts/bbding

I have installed the update as requested.  It will soon spread to 
ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Thanks for the contribution.
  
For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276  Fax: -241
===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni:  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jun 25 16:20:18 1996
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 18:21:06 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: Demise of SHSU as a CTAN node

In article <E0uWhS2-0001hD-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk>, I wrote:
>[...]
>We have reluctantly, therefore, concluded that we can no longer
>continue to claim that ftp.shsu.edu is part of the Comprehensive TeX
>Archive Network (CTAN).

Among other things that SHSU can no longer be called on to do reliably
is finger ctan_us for the current set of CTAN mirrors.  The file that
lists mirrors is maintained here; we have therefore set up the
alternative arrangement:

  finger ctan@ftp.tex.ac.uk

now returns (pretty much up-to-date) information about mirrors.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jun 26 05:14:10 1996
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 09:47:47 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu
Cc: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>, schoepf@uni-mainz.de
Subject: Re: Demise of SHSU as a CTAN node

Robin Fairbairns writes:

 > Among other things that SHSU can no longer be called on to do reliably
 > is finger ctan_us for the current set of CTAN mirrors.  The file that
 > lists mirrors is maintained here; we have therefore set up the
 > alternative arrangement:
 > 
 >   finger ctan@ftp.tex.ac.uk
 > 
 > now returns (pretty much up-to-date) information about mirrors.

The same is now true for

     finger ctan@ftp.dante.de

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jun 27 05:26:44 1996
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 09:20:13 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: "LINPWD::DALY" <daly@linpwd.dnet.gwdg.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: Update to some natbib support files

LINPWD::DALY writes:

 > I have just placed the following files in /incoming/natbib  on ftp.dante.de
 > 
 >    abbrvnat.bst
 >    plainnat.bst
 >    unsrtnat.bst
 > 
 > These are updates to files of the same name in  contrib/supported/natbib
 > 
 > Could you please copy them to that directory? Thank you.

Thanks, I made the update.

For the CTAN team

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jul  1 04:27:51 1996
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 09:17:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Subject: CTAN Submission: altfont, psfont (fwd)

> From: Sebastian_Kirsch@kl.maus.de (Sebastian Kirsch)
> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 96 20:47:00 +0200
> 
> I have uploaded the files altfont.dtx, altfont.ins, psfont.dtx and 
> psfont.ins to the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
> 
> psfont.dtx is intended as a replacement for psfonts.dtx of psnfss. It uses
> one file for redefining the all default fonts instead of one file for each
> font. It also contains all parts of psfonts.dtx which are not covered by
> this general concept, ie. the pifonts, mathptm and two .fd-files for Adobe
> Symbol and Adobe Zapf Dingbats. This file is specific to PostScript fonts.
> The package works with a style file psfont.sty and a configuration file
> psfont.cfg. 
> 
> allfont.dtx uses the same concepts as psfont.dtx, but is written in a more
> general way. It can be used with any fonts which are to be used as default
> fonts. It is more powerful than psfont.dtx, but does not contain anything
> PostScript specific. It can be used as a replacement for some parts of
> both psnfss and mfnfss. 
> 
> Both files require LaTeX2e.

I have installed both packages in macros/latex/contrib/supported/altfont

Thanks for the submission.

For the CTAN team,
  Reinhard Zierke

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jul  2 08:53:26 1996
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 08:44:41 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De, bullestock@dk-online.dk
Subject: CTAN Submission: latex2e_info.zip (fwd)

> From: Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De>
> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 12:00:42 EDT
> 
> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming the file latex2e_info.zip.
> It contains the following files 
> 
>   LATEX2E.INF
>   README_INF.txt
>   README_html.txt
>   latex2e.html
>   latex2e_toc.html
> 
> README_INF.txt:
> The file LATEX2E.INF is a LaTeX reference in the OS/2 hypertext format 
> based on the version 1.6 of latex2e.texi 
> (/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo) and is created with the program
> texi2ipf (Marcus Groeber '93).
> 
> README_html.txt
> The files latex2e.html and latex2e_toc.html based on the version 1.6 of 
> latex2e.texi (/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo)
> created with texi2html (version 1.44 11/20/95   Written by Lionel Cons).
> 
> The files should be moved to tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo (the
> place of the original source).
> 
>                                                   Rolf Niepraschk

I have added the files to tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo on ftp.dante.de.
They will soon be mirrored to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Thanks for the submission.

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jul  3 20:18:33 1996
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 18:46:09 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE
Cc: ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: Upload: dcfonts 1.3 Patchlevel 2

TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE writes:

 > I have just uploaded dc fonts 1.3, Patchlevel 2.
 > 
 > The updated files are:
 > 
 > dxbase.mf, dc-chg.txt, 
 > 
 > and there is a new file 00bugs.txt with `known' bugs.
 > 
 > The major bug fix contained in this patchlevel is the handling of modes
 > like nechi, which are in part defined by using other modes. Thanks to 
 > Andreas Schwab for providing the necessary code.
 > 
 > --J"org Knappen.

Thanks, I installed the update.

-- 
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jul  5 04:12:42 1996
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 08:48:32 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: matsd@omega.physchem.kth.se
Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: CTAN upload at Dante node (chemsym & vrsion updates)

> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 21:46:25 EDT
> From: "matsd@physchem.kth.se" <matsd@omega.physchem.kth.se>
> 
> A short while ago, I placed on the Dante CTAN server the files
>   /incoming/matsd/chemsym.dtx 
>   /incoming/matsd/chemsym.ins 
>   /incoming/matsd/vrsion.dtx 
> which are to replace the current files 
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/chemsym/chemsym.dtx 
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/chemsym/chemsym.ins 
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/vrsion/vrsion.dtx 
> respectively.  

I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested.
 
> Files' features:
> *  chemsym.<dtx/ins> is an upgrade of the chemsym package for 
>    typing chemical symbols in LaTeX.  The upgrade consists of 
>     - addition of -OH, -COOH, and -CH groups; 
>     - inclusion of code for type-setting the Periodic Table (with 
>       atomic masses).
> *  vrsion.dtx is a bug fix.  Previous versions of the vrsion 
>    package (which assigns version numbers to .dvi files) were not 
>    compatible with the Koma-Script package, which this version seems 
>    to be.
 
Thanks for the submission.

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Jul  7 06:13:23 1996
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 11:11:35 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Cc: fbraun@rz.uni-potsdam.de
Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd)

> From: Felix Braun <fbraun@rz.uni-potsdam.de>
> Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 23:10:36 +0200 (MET DST)
>
> I just uploaded following files to ftp.dante.de:
> 
> incoming/jura/jura.dtx
> incoming/jura/jura.ins
> 
> It is a documentclass for german law-students. These files are the updated
> version for the class which is already on the CTAN. They should replace
> these in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/jura/

I have installed the files as requested.

Thanks for the submission.

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Jul  7 09:14:20 1996
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 14:11:21 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: hahn@geographie.uni-kiel.de
Subject: CTAN submission (fwd)

> From: hahn@geographie.uni-kiel.de
> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 96 12:09:07 +0100
> 
> I just uploaded a file "TeX-Math.zip" to ftp://ftp.dante.incoming.
> 
> The file contains a summary of TeX-commands used to create mathematical
> formulae (and certain other special characters). It can be viewed on any
> machine that runs OS/2.
> 
> IMO the best place to put such a file is somewhere below
> /pub/tex/systems/os2, though I don't find anything that is appropriate for
> such a general documentation file. Maybe a new doc/ directory would help.

I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de in systems/os2/doc/TeX-Math
as proposed.

Thanks for the submission.

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jul  8 12:22:16 1996
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 17:18:06 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: CTAN announcements <ctan-ann@shsu.edu>
Cc: niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De
Subject: CTAN Submission: latex2e.html (update)

> From: Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De>
> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 14:45:39 EDT
> 
> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming the file latex2e_html.zip.
> It contains the following files 
> 
>   README_html.txt
>   latex2e.html
>   
> README_html.txt:
> The files latex2e.html and latex2e_toc.html based on the version 1.6 of 
> latex2e.texi (/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo)
> created with texi2html (version 1.50 05/20/96   Written by Lionel Cons).
> 
> latex2e.html is converted with an updated version of texi2html and has (I hope)
> less bugs.  The files should be moved to tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo 
> (the place of the original source). Please remove the file 
> /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/latex2e_toc.html
> The information from latex2e_toc.html is now included in latex2e.html.

I have replaced the files on ftp.dante.de with the new versions.  By the way,
your files are really brand new - they came straight from the future :-)

-rw-rw-r--   1 ftpmaint server       341 Jul  9  1996 README_html.txt
-rw-rw-r--   1 ftpmaint server    162741 Jul  9  1996 latex2e.html

Cheers,
 Reinhard

-- 
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 12 02:53:38 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 15:36:18 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, Benjamin Bayart <bayart@leia.lep-philips.fr>
Subject: Re: multilingual TeX for Linux

Benjamin Bayart writes:

> This <<Joli Manuel Pour LaTeX2e>> is a French manual describing a lot
> of packages for LaTeX. This release of the manual (december 1995) is,
> from now, available at ESIEE since the end of january is now on any
> CTAN hosts.
> 
> The LaTeX sources of this document (particularly the preamble of the
> document, which show *how* to include all those packages in the
> same document) will also be released soon.
> 
> This PostScript document is compiled for A4 paper at 300dpi, since this is the
> most common paper format in France. An letter-size version will be released
> at the same time as the sources.
> 
> In French:
> 
> Le <<Joli Manuel Pour LaTeX2e>> que certains utilisateurs francophones
> connaissent deja fait enfin son apparition sur les sites CTAN; ce manuel
> decrit un grand nombre de packages pour LaTeX. La version actuelle (celle
> de decembre 95) est la meme que celle qui a ete disponible sur le site
> ESIEE depuis fin janvier.
> 
> Les sources LaTeX du document seront mis au meme endroit que la version
> PostScript des que possible, tout particulierement le preambule du
> document qui montre comment on peut fair tenir autant de packages
> dans un seul document.
> 
> Le fichiers PostScript est un document A4 a 300dpi, puisque c'est le plus
> frequent en France. Une version en format 11 pouces sera disponible en
> meme temps que les sources.

I have installed this file (pending the publication of the sources) as
info/JoliManuelPourLaTeX.ps.gz, with an alternative name JMPL.ps.gz
for ordinary human beings with ordinary fingers.  The `long name' will
show up in quote site index

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jul 11 16:06:43 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 20:48:01 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission /pub/tex/biblio/bibtex/contrib/

Patrick Groenen writes:
 >
 > On behalf of Erik Meijer I submit the APACITE style files to CTAN, that
 > follow closely the APA style citation. The files are uploaded to
 > ftp.dante.de in the incoming directory under subdirectory 'apacite'. I
 > recommend to place this directory in
 >
 > /pub/tex/biblio/bibtex/contrib/
 >
 > (a link to this directory could be placed in
 > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/other )

Thanks, I installed the files as proposed.

For the CTAN team

Rainer Sch�pf

 > Below you'll find a description of the files that were uploaded.
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Patrick Groenen
 > Department of Data Theory, Leiden University,
 > P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands
 > phone : (~31) 71 5273826
 > fax   : (~31) 71 5273865
 > e-mail: groenen@ruls30.fsw.leidenuniv.nl
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 >
 >
 > README.APA: short description of the APACITE distribution
 >
 > author: Erik Meijer (Meijer@rulfsw.LeidenUniv.nl)
 >
 > contents of the APACITE distribution:
 >
 > apacite.bst     -> BibTeX style file for apa citations and
 >                    reference list
 > apacite.sty     -> LaTeX2e package for apa citation and
 >                    reference list. To be used in conjunction
 >                    with apacite.bst
 > apacite.tex     -> documentation of the apacite.bst/apacite.sty
 >                    bibstyle and package
 > readme.apa      -> this file, short description of the
 >                    apacite bibstyle/package
 > testapa.bib     -> BibTeX database with APA manual example
 >                    references
 > testapa.tex     -> LaTeX2e document that cites all the examples
 >                    from the testapa.bib database
 >
 >
 >
 > The apacite package and bibstyle are the zillionth attempt
 > at capturing the requirements of the American Psychological
 > Association concerning citations and reference list. It was
 > written because the theapa package and bibstyle I was using,
 > which seemed to me the best available, turned out to be
 > far from good enough to me. The apacite package and bibstyle
 > will not handle every possible citation correctly, but more
 > usual ones are all handled correctly (I hope...). To support
 > this claim (and to show that a lot of "tricky" references
 > can also be handled correctly), and to show how some problematic
 > references can be entered in a .bib file, two test documents
 > are provided: testapa.tex and testapa.bib. Just LaTeX the
 > former, BibTeX the latter, and LaTeX the former twice to test
 > the apacite package and bibstyle.
 >
 > The documentation of the apacite bibstyle/package can be obtained
 > by LaTeXing the file apacite.tex.
 >
 >
 > If you have a problem with the package/bibstyle that is not
 > described in the documentation, please locate it as
 > specifically as possible and E-Mail me a short but comprehensive
 > description of the problem and the pieces of the .tex and .bib
 > files that seem to be invoking the problem. If I have time,
 > I will have a look and answer (and, I hope, solve the problem).
 >
 > Good luck with it!
 >
 > Erik Meijer (Meijer@rulfsw.LeidenUniv.nl)
 >

From protopap@BEKAS.COG.BROWN.EDU Thu Jul 11 17:45:58 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:32:41 -0400
From: Thanassi Protopapas <protopap@BEKAS.COG.BROWN.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission /pub/tex/biblio/bibtex/contrib/

Dear Erik:

I have recently submitted to CTAN my apa.cls package wich is
based on the theapa.sty and theapa.bst and can be used to create
APA-style manuscripts ready for submission, APA journal-like
proofs for distribution, and regular LaTeX-like documents for
draft word etc.  Although my TeX knowledgde can be described
as severely deficient I have been using this package for quite
a while and still think it is a very useful combination.
However, my BiBTeX knowledge is about zero, so the alterations
to theapa.bst that I have made are minor and most likely will
misformat some kinds of references.  If you think it is a
worthy endeavour, perhaps we could combine the two packages,
yours being particularly strong in the referencing aspect and
mine, I believe, versatile and useful in the document-look
aspect.  I would be willing to put some work into tidying up
the code and perhaps working some extra features into the apa.cls
class.

It is about time there was a definitive apa format class to be
distributed and supported for all the poor researchers who still
have to conform to requirements prescribed by people who haven't
heard of computers yet (not to mention their aesthetics).
If you could get a couple more people interested, that
would be even better.

Sincerely,

Thanassi Protopapas
Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences
Brown University

protopap@cog.brown.edu


PS. My package is at /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/apa
    and also at my own site, ftp://bekas.cog.brown.edu/pub/latex/

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Jul 13 14:09:15 1996
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:03:40 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk

Christopher Rath has provided a new release of his songbook macros,
and I have installed them at ftp.tex.ac.uk; they'll migrate to Dante
and to the mirrors soon.

The new macros are now to be found in the directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/songbook; the old (2.09) version at
macros/latex209/contrib/songbook has been deleted.

Here's a brief extract from the release notes:

    * this package is now distributed under the terms of the Artistic license;
      the same license PERL is distributed under

    * style now works properly with LaTeX2e---and is no longer usable with
      earlier versions of LaTeX---although the style has not been completely
      migrated to LaTeX2e

    * new \SBSection environment, to be used to divide songs into pieces other
      than verses and choruses

    * automatic generation of an index of songs, by key

    * new \CBPageBrk macro

    * new \ChordBk & \WordBk status variables

    * user contributed code now distributed with this package

    * new SongBook Style home page (see below for URL)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 16 04:56:14 1996
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:32:15 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Envelopes & Labels, version 1.1

Boris Veytsman writes:
 > Dear friends:
 >
 > I've just uploaded the file envlab.tar to dante. It contains the package
 > envlab, version 1.1. Please delete the old version installed at
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/envlab and install the new one.
 >
 > I append the readme file to this msg.
 >
 > Many thanks.
 >
 > Good luck
 >
 > -Boris
 >
 > <a href="http://planck.psu.edu/~boris/">Home page</a>

Thanks, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

Rainer Sch�pf

---description follows ---

 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------
 >                         Envelopes and Labels
 >                            LaTeX2e package
 >                              Version 1.1
 >
 >                             Boris Veytsman
 >                          boris@plmsc.psu.edu
 >                  home page http://planck.psu.edu/~boris
 >
 >                              July 15, 1996
 >
 >
 > This package provides a comprehensive and easily customizable
 > system for creating mailing envelopes and labels in LaTeXe.  It
 > includes printing of barcodes and address formatting according to
 > the US Postal Service rules.
 >
 > The standard makelabels command in the LaTeXe letter.cls
 > document class typesets labels on Avery 5352 sheets. A typical user
 > may want more. EnvLab redefines makelabels in (hopefully})
 > a more useful and customizable way. EnvLab:
 >  - Typesets mailing labels or envelopes on a number of pre-defined
 > label sheets or envelopes.
 >  - Can be easily configured for any customized label or envelope
 > sizes. The rule of thumb is: if you printer can print this, EnvLab can
 > typeset this.
 >  - Can optionally print barcodes and/or process addresses according to
 > the United States Postal Service Rules.
 >  - Allows you to include your logo in the return address.
 >  - Painlessly interacts with mail merging packages such as mailing.
 >  - Does not require special fonts for address and barcodes printing.
 > The typesetting is implemented with standard fonts and LaTeX \rule
 > commands.
 >
 > This package was written with US mailing standards in mind. This is
 > not a reflection of the author's americanocentrism: US standard was
 > only one I had official documents about. If you want to add your
 > national standards, please contact me with pointers to the
 > corresponding documents.
 >
 > The distribution of this package includes the following files:
 >  - envlab.dtx---fully documented program
 >  - envlab.ins---DocStrip instruction module
 >  - elold.ins---DocStrip instruction module for older versions of
 > DocStrip
 >  - elguide.tex---User Guide
 >  - readme.version_number---Read Me file
 >
 > To install the package
 >  - LaTeX the file envlab.ins. It will produce three files: envlab.drv,
 > envlab.sty and envlab.cfg. NOTE: If your version of DocStrip is older
 > than 2.3, use elold.ins instead of envlab.ins.
 >  - (Optional) Look at the file envlab.cfg and change it accordingly to
 > your taste.
 >  - Move the files envlab.sty and envlab.cfg to the LaTeX search path
 >  - Produce the documentation by LaTeX ing the files elguide.tex and
 > (optional) envlab.drv.
 >  - Enjoy!
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > What's new in version 1.1
 >
 >  - Bug fixes, including correcting the nasty typos in default options &
 > elold.ins.
 >  - New options controlling the printing of return addresses.
 >  - \AtBeginLabels now behaves like \AtBeginDocument and \AtBeginDvi: the
 > changes are cumulative.
 >  - New hook \AtBeginLabelPage.
 >  - New command and options controlling switching the printer to manual feed
 > mode while printing envelopes and labels (thanks to William Slough, Eastern
 > Illinois University).
 >  - New command \FirstLabels controlling offsets for the labels.

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 16 05:19:49 1996
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:35:59 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New Version of Mxedruli (Georgian Font)

Johannes Heinecke writes:
 > Dear CTAN Administrators,
 >
 > I have just uploaded a new version of my Mxedruli (Georgian) font
 > to
 >   ftp.dante.de:/incoming/mxed-2.4.tar.gz
 > Please use this package to replace the old one in
 >   /pub/tex/fonts/georgian/mxedruli
 > which becomes obsolete now. Apart from some minor changes
 > I added a italics version of the fonts. The stylefile
 > for LaTeX (including NFSS2) and the documentation has
 > also been updated.
 >
 > Best Wishes
 >
 > Johannes Heinecke
 > Computerlinguistik
 > Humboldt-Universit"at zu Berlin
 > heinecke@compling.hu-berlin.de

Thanks, I installed the upgrade.

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul 17 05:38:11 1996
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 10:23:22 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Vasantha Saparamadu writes:
 > I have made the following submission to CTAN:
 >
 > (a) Site uploaded to:
 >
 >     ftp.dante.de    in the directory /incoming/sinhala_tex
 >
 > (b) File names:
 >
 >     README.sinhala_tex
 >     sinhala_tex.2.1.tar.gz
 >
 > (c) Overview:
 >
 >     sinhala_tex is a package of Metafont fonts and a preprocessor
 >     suitable for writing Sinhala script using TeX or LaTeX.
 >
 > (d) Where files should be placed:
 >
 >     In a directory  tex-archive/language/sinhala  (which does not
 >     exist currently)

Thanks, I installed the files as requested. I did *not* unpack the
archive.


For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul 17 10:15:28 1996
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:06:37 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded)

Hideo Umeki writes:
 > I have uploaded the new version of the `geometry' package (v1.03)
 > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry-1.03.tar.gz.
 >
 > Changes from 1.02:
 >         o the calc package supported
 >           (Piet van Oostrum pointed out the bug. Thanks.)
 >         o package documentation revised.
 >
 > Please replace the package
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry
 > with the new one.
 >
 > Thank you for your work for CTAN maintenance.
 >
 > ---
 > Hideo Umeki     [TUG member]
 >                 (umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp)
 >                 (Temporal: umeki@toshiba-ssel.rwcp.or.jp)
 > Systems and Software Engineering Laboratory
 > Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation
 > tel: +81-44-548-5472
 > fax: +81-44-520-5973

Thank you, I installed the update as requested

For the CTAN team
Rainer Sch�pf

From a7971428@unet.univie.ac.at Thu Jul 18 04:41:08 1996
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 07:55:58 +0200 (MSZ)
From: Werner LEMBERG <a7971428@unet.univie.ac.at>
To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu
Subject: vncmr-2.2 (Vietnamese)


I've uploaded a new version of vncmr fonts. This package will be soon 
available at the CTAN hosts in language/vietnamese/vncmr.


    Werner



Here the changes:

vncmr 2.2: released 15-Jul-1996

    Changes:    All fonts are now real, i.e. vncmr10.mf et al. do exist.
                    This greatly simplifies the handling of vncmr fonts
                    since a special treatment is no longer necessary in
                    MakeTeXPK etc.

                Directory structure changed to be TDS compliant.

    Bug fixes:  ET5enc.def:
                    due to a bug in LaTeX2e
                    \DeclareTextComposite{...}{...}{...}{0} always fails.
                    The problematic definition has been replaced with a
                    workaround. (Van Hanh Nguyen <nguyen@rhrk.uni-kl.de>)

                Driver files roman.mf etc. renamed to vnroman.mf etc. to
                    preserve Knuth's copyright.

                capital O and U characters (with all sorts of accents) had a
                    height of vnx_height# instead of vncap_height#. (Joerg
                    Knappen)


=== end of CHANGES ===

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 19 11:25:29 1996
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:13:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: problems with cm fonts -- action requested by knuth

> Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> > I made a comment yesterday (possibly in private mail to Barbara) about
> > Art's cmttss stuff.

This was in the context of a complaint from Don (of which there has
been discussion in many forums) about the existence of illegal
versions (i.e., ones contravening Don's copyright) of the cm fonts in
some places.

> In accordance with a suggestion of Don Knuth, I would like to please
> retract the cmttss distribution from CTAN. (I will prepare it in a
> different form for later distribution.)

FWIW, I believe that Art's version was so distributed as to avoid
falling foul of the copyright.  However, as has become clear, it
has nevertheless caused hassle, and Art's action is appreciated.

I have deleted the fonts/cm/cmttss directory here, and it will
disappear from dante and the mirrors in due course.

Robin Fairbairns

From te@informatik.uni-hannover.de Fri Jul 19 10:58:03 1996
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:33:35 +0200
From: Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: teTeX-0.3.4

Some notes before you read the announce below:
  - this release is not yet based on the new web2c-7 which is still in
    pretest state
  - an update for teTeX-0.3.3 to 0.3.4 will a available in about one
    week
  - before you download from a mirror, make sure to get the latest
    release:
    There should be a file called RELEASE-0.3.4 which dates from
    19.07.1996.

===========================================================================
  This is the announce of the teTeX-0.3.4, a TeX distribution for UNIX
  compatible systems.
===========================================================================

The distribution is available from
        sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
        /pub/comp/tex/teTeX/distrib

Direct mirrors are:
  ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/tex/teTeX/distrib

The first site is a CTAN site which is mirrored on many other sites
in the world. Try
  finger ctan@ftp.dante.de
to find a mirror site near to you.

The second site is a well known Linux site which is regularly dumped
onto CD-ROMs. So, you might get teTeX on a Linux CD that way (although
teTeX origins from Linux, it can be used on other UNIX systems as well).

===========================================================================
  The most important changes with respect to the 0.3.3 version:
===========================================================================
- New items in this release:
  * support for more common UNIX platforms: Solaris 2.5, AIX 4.X,
    HP-UX 10.01, NEXTSTEP (NeXT,Intel,HP-PA,SPARC)
  * sauter fonts
  * documentation (FAQs, epslatex.ps, catalogue.html)
  * some LaTeX packages
- Updated items:
  * DC fonts 1.3 patchlevel 2
  * LaTeX2e <1996/06/01> with many extra packages
  * TeXdraw macros
  * PostScript fonts: now backward compatible to the
    old dvips setup (virtual fonts for ptmr, phvr, ... added)
- Removed items:
  * stand-alone info reader
  * myletter LaTeX package (permission withdrawn by author)
  * xtexsh (needs old Tcl/Tk)
  * some urw PostScript fonts: antiqua grotesq nimbus

===========================================================================
  I do not know teTeX yet...
===========================================================================
For those who do not know what teTeX is: teTeX is a complete TeX
distribution for UNIX compatible systems. My main aims when putting
things together have been:

        - create something simple to install, use and maintain
        - include as much useful documentation as possible
        - test as much as possible and try to avoid bugs

===========================================================================
 Here - in short - the main features of teTeX, as listed in the file
 FEATURES:
===========================================================================

Main features of the teTeX distribution:

- file organisation TDS (TeX Directory Structure) Standard compliant
- very easy to install and customize (install.sh and texconfig utility)
- LaTeX2e (June 1996) together with lots of
  extra LaTeX packages (most packages mentioned in the LaTeX Companion)
- a lot of documentation: more than 130 dvi/ps-files, teTeX manual, FAQs
- support for read-only inputs tree (i.e. possibility to use alternate
  destination for newly created fonts)
- ready for a multi platform setup
- fast file searching. web2c patched to work with kpathsea-2.6. The
  search paths are chosen to give high performance.
- run-time configuration files for dvi-drivers and tex+friends.
- a nice set of fonts to play with: PostScript fonts, ams, pandora, cm,
  dc, oldgerman. All easily accessible by LaTeX.
- the whole distribution can be installed anywhere in the
  filesystem (e.g. /usr/TeX or /usr/local/tex). You do not
  need to set any environment variable as long as you keep
  the original structure of the package.
- mailing list for discussion: tetex@informatik.uni-hannover.de
- mailing list for announcemants: tetex-announce@informatik.uni-hannover.de

===========================================================================
 Included packages:
===========================================================================

Programs:
  web2c:       tex, mf, bibtex, gftopk, ...
  dvi drivers: xdvi, dvips, dvilj, dvilj2p, dvilj4, dvilj4l
  texinfo:     info, makeinfo, texindex, ...
  scripts:     dvi2fax, dvihp, ps2frag (perl), fontimport, fontexport,
               texconfig, allneeded, allcm, alldc, ...
  others:      makeindex, kpsetool, gsftopk, ps2pk, afm2tfm, ...

Macro packages (La)TeX:
  algorithm amsfonts amslatex anysize apalike arrow babel beton bibgerm
  blkarray boxedminipage btxmac calc caption cite comment custom-bib
  dinbrief doublespace dvips eepic endfloat eplain euler example fancyhdr
  fancyheadings float floatflt foiltex fullpage g-brief geometry german
  gletter graphics greekctr here hyphen idxmac index initials isolatin1
  koma-script labels landscape lastpage ltxtable mathrsfs mflogo mfnfss
  minitoc moreverb natbib nopageno ntgclass null parskip path picinpar
  pictex plain program psfig psfrag psnfss relsize rotating rotfloat
  scrload seminar setspace shadow shapepar showtags subfigure supertabular
  sz testfont texdraw texinfo texnames textcomp textfit textmerg tools
  typehtml ulem umlaute url version vmargin wasyfont wasysym wrapfig xepsf


Supported fonts:
  avantgar bookman courier helvetic mathptm mathppl ncntrsbk palatino
  symbol times utopia zapfchan zapfding cyrillic euler extracm symbols
  charter cm concrete dc gothic latex mflogo misc pandora wasy

===========================================================================
 Supported platforms:
===========================================================================

Binaries are available for:
  alpha-osf2.0          Digital UNIX V2.0 Alpha
  alpha-osf3.2          Digital UNIX V3.2 Alpha-AXP
  hppa1.1-hpux10.01     HP-UX 10.01 9000/710
  hppa1.1-hpux9.01      HP-UX  9.01 9000/710
  i386-bsdi2.0          BSDI 2.0 Intel
  i386-freebsd2.0.5     FreeBSD 2.0.5 Intel
  i386-freebsd2.1.0     FreeBSD 2.1.0 Intel
  i386-netbsd1.0        NetBSD 1.0 Intel
  i386-netbsd1.1        NetBSD 1.1 Intel
  i486-linux            Linux (ELF) Intel
  i486-linuxaout        Linux (a.out) Intel
  m68k-linux            Linux (ELF) Motorola
  m68k-linuxoldld       Linux (a.out) Motorola
  mab-nextstep3         NEXTSTEP (NeXT,Intel,HP-PA,SPARC)
  mips-irix5.2          SGI Irix 5.2
  mips-irix5.3          SGI Irix 5.3
  mips-ultrix4.4        DEC Ultrix 4.4
  rs6000-aix3.2         IBM AIX 3.2   RS6000
  rs6000-aix4.1.1       IBM AIX 4.1.1 RS6000
  sparc-solaris2.4      SUN Solaris 2.4 Sparc
  sparc-solaris2.5      SUN Solaris 2.4 Sparc
  sparc-sunos4.1.3      SUN SunOS 4.1.3 Sparc

Binaries for some other platforms are planned to be added in the future.

The sources may compile on other UNIX compatible platforms, too. You
need GNU make and gcc. I am not sure if lex does work on all systems, but
at least flex did alway work.

===========================================================================
 Documentation
===========================================================================

There is the teTeX manual (TETEXDOC.dvi) a teTeX FAQ (FAQ-teTeX) and
lots of documentation for the included programs and macros.

===========================================================================
 Getting the files + Installation
===========================================================================

To install teTeX follow the instructions in
  INSTALL.src: if you want to compile the binaries yourself
  INSTALL.bin: if you want to use precompiled binaries.

===========================================================================
 mailing list:
===========================================================================

There are two mailing-lists for teTeX:

Get help from the list server with:
  echo help | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de

To subscribe the teTeX discussion list, do:
  echo subscribe tetex | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de

To subscribe the teTeX announce list, do:
  echo subscribe tetex-announce | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de

Get an archive of the list:
  echo get tetex archive | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de

===========================================================================
 Copyright License: GNU GPL Version 2 (or later)
===========================================================================

Please send feedback to the autor:

        Thomas Esser
        Email: te@informatik.uni-hannover.de

        19.07.1996

--
Dipl.-Math. Thomas Esser                   te@informatik.uni-hannover.de
University of Hanover, Germany
Institute for Informatics (Databases and Information Systems Group)

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jul 23 09:38:05 1996
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 13:19:07 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New: Crossword macros for current LaTeX

I have just installed a port of the `old' macros on CTAN at
macros/latex/contrib/other/crosswrd

The file 00readme in the directory says:

  This is a port to LaTeX(2e) of Brian {Hamilton Kelly}'s crossword
  macros for LaTeX 2.09 (Brian is aware that I've done this work; he's
  not in a position to support the macros nowadays, any more than I am).

  I have made changes necessary to run the macros under current LaTeX,
  and I have corrected the test programs that have been buggy on the
  archive for some rather long time.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 23 09:50:16 1996
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 14:22:57 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <diskette.bat for emTeX Distribution>

Peter Seitz writes:
 > Dear CTAN team,
 >
 > I've uploaded on ftp.dante.de the following file:
 >
 >         diskette.bat
 >
 > It's a batch file formerly written by Roger de Reus, which produces
 > diskettes for the emtex distribution from the emtex directory on
 > CTAN according to Eberhard Mattes diskette.doc. It can be used for
 > dos or os/2.
 >
 > I've adapted the file for the latest emtex distribution (21-Jun-96)
 > and it now can also produce diskettes for the fli libraries.
 >
 > A good place to install it might be
 >
 > /tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/contrib
 >
 >
 > BTW, the file b-11-fmt.zip in this directory, which i've uploaded a
 > long while ago is obsolete (emtex beta11) and should be removed.
 >
 > Thanks for your support.

You're welcome. Thanks for your update. I installed diskette.bat in
the directory indicated and removed the old file b-11-fmt.zip.

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 23 10:27:06 1996
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:14:14 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: teTeX and LaTeX2e removed from ftp.shsu.edu

Since ftp.shsu.edu is unmanaged and the mirror software stopped
running a while ago, we decide to remove LaTeX(2e) and teTeX from
ftp.shsu.edu, to stop the out-of-date versions from being propagated
further.

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jul 24 11:24:23 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 15:14:07 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: pslatex

David Carlisle has provided a new macros/latex/contrib/supported/pslatex
and I've isntalled it here at ftp.tex.ac.uk

David's readme says:

> pslatex (Times/Helvetica/Courier with LaTeX2e)
>
>        David Carlisle
>            1994/02/07
>            1996/07/22
>            1996/07/24
>
> This is a small package that makes LaTeX default to `standard'
> PostScript fonts. It is basically a hacked merger of times.sty and
> mathptm.sty, from the psnfss suite of packages. You must have
> installed standard LaTeX (LaTeX2e) and psnfss PostScript fonts
> to use this package.
>
> The main novel feature is that the pslatex package (unlike times.sty)
> tries to compensate for the visual differences between the Adobe fonts
> by scaling Helvetica by 90%, and `condensing' Courier (ie scaling
> horizontally) by 85%.
>
> The second novel feature is that it is supplied with a (unix) shell
> file that produces a `pslatex' command that allows standard LaTeX
> documents to be processed, without needing to edit the file to add
> \usepackage{pslatex}
> The same command is supplied as a .bat file for DOS, and could be easily
> edited to the command language for any other OS.
>
> I have not used this much myself, I prefer Computer Modern Fonts, as a
> rule, but it has had reasonably extensive testing as it has been used
> as a replacement for the old LaTeX2.09 pslatex by Mario Wolczko, which
> had a large user base at Manchester.
>
> To use this package: either add the line \usepackage{pslatex} to your
> preamble, or if you do not want to edit the file, use the supplied
> `pslatex' command instead of `latex' which will cause LaTeX to
> automatically include the pslatex package at \begin{document}.
>
>
> Files
> =====
>
> 00readme.txt              This file
>
> dvips/pcrr8rn.map         If you are using dvips, copy the one line from
>                           this file to your psfonts.map file.
>
> fontinst/courier.tex      The source file for the courier vf fonts.
>                           You do not need this file unless you need to
>                         recreate the supplied files using fontinst.
>
> latex/pslatex.sty         The pslatex package, place this in your
>                           TEXINPUTS tree.
>
>
> shell/pslatex             A unix (Bourne shell) script to supply a
>                           `pslatex' command that implicitly adds
>                           \usepackage{pslatex}
>       pslatex.bat         Same for DOS
>
>
> tfm/pcrr8rn.tfm            tfm font, for condensed courier. (Raw)
>     pcrr7tn.tfm                                             (OT1)
>     pcrr8tn.tfm                                             (T1)
>                            Place these in your tfm area
>
>
>
> vf/pcrr7tn.vf              vf font, for condensed courier. (OT1)
>    pcrr8tn.vf                                              (T1)
>                            Place these in your vf area
>
>
> afm/pcrr8a.afm             Courier
>     psyr.afm               Symbol
>                            afm files. You don't need these unless using
>                            fontinst to rebuild the supplied fonts.

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jul 24 12:37:03 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:26:20 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New: uniqleaf -- find duplicate names in a tree

I have installed this small utility program on CTAN in
support/uniqleaf

The header comments of the file say:

  # Check filesystem tree (or union of several trees) for unique
  # leaf names; useful for spotting  ambiguities that path-searching
  # programs could trip over.

  # For each non-unique leaf name found, it prints out "ls" and "md5"
  # information for each candidate file.

  # Martyn Johnson      maj@cl.cam.ac.uk
  # University of Cambridge Computer Lab
  # Cambridge UK

  $mdprog = "md5"; # Set to command name of "md5" program, or
                   # null string if you don't have it.

In the circumstance of the present kerfuffle about multiple instances
of the same file, I requested Martyn's permission to make his small
script more widely available.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jul 24 23:21:09 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 04:17:57 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: winedt

> From: Aleksander Simonic <alex@cs.dal.ca>
> Date:         Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:29:25 -0300
>
> I uploaded the files which are to be contributed to the CTAN archive to:
>
>       ftp.dante.de  /incoming/winedt
>
> This is a new shareware release of WinEdit and these files should replace
> all the files in tex-archive/support/winedt. WinEdit 1.4-b is to replace
> the old version of WinEdit 1.4-a (in the same directory).

I replaced the old version 1.4-a with the new one.  It will soon be mirrored
to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Thanks for the contribution.

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

PS: Aleksander, please send your upload notification to
    ctan@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de the next time.  The old address
    ctan@shsu.edu is considered obsolete and we don't know how long
    it will be operational.

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Jul 31 01:57:49 1996
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 06:52:42 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update to aguplus

> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@linpwd.mpae.gwdg.de>
> Date:         Tue, 30 Jul 1996 08:25:30 +0200

> I have just placed the following files in the incoming/aguplus directory
> on Dante CTAN server:
>
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     33950 Jul 30 08:19 aguplus.cls
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     33350 Jul 30 08:19 aguplus.sty
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     42459 Jul 30 08:20 aguplus.tex
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      3932 Jul 30 08:20 changes.v14a
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     10813 Jul 30 08:20 samplus.tex
>
> Could you please copy them to   contrib/supported/aguplus
> replacing the files of the same name and removing   changes.v14

I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested.

Thanks for the contribution.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Jul 31 02:03:19 1996
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 07:00:01 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <TeXEd13.zip>

> From: hr2@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Frank Stippich)
> Date:         Tue, 30 Jul 1996 23:01:46 -0400

> I have uploaded TeXEd13.zip. Please install this file into
> the pub/tex/systems/os2/texed directory and delete all *.zip
> files.

I installed the file on ftp.dante.de in tex-archive/systems/os2/texed
as requested and removed the old version and patches.

Thanks for the contribution.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jul 31 10:11:25 1996
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 14:55:03 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Tracking

Glazkov D. A. writes:

 > I have uploaded package to the:
 >
 > ftp.dante.de
 >
 > The file is "tracking.sty"
 >
 > This style invoke the commands for tracking, i.e. automatical adjust
 > spaces between symbols in a words or phrases to fit them into needed
 > length. Any chain of symbols (including spaces) in current font may
 > be treated. The result of macros is placed onto one line of text, because
 > it is inserted into \hbox{...}.
 >
 > I think it may be placed in:
 > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/tracking/

 > [...]

 > I have upload package to the:
 >
 > ftp.dante.de
 >
 > The file is "shadbox.zip"
 >
 >
 > The goal of this command is to darken the background of any box -
 > text, figure, table etc. In the contrast to PostScript drivers,
 > DVIWIN etc. there is not used any driver-specific properties, but
 > standard Plain(La) TeX. Small black squares is places in the area
 > of the box. The degree of darkness is regulated by means of change the
 > distance between small black squares.
 >
 > The retribution for driver-independence is: the less squares and
 > nearer to each other, the greater the size of output DVI-file (and
 > grows quickly). One must experiment to find balance between quality
 > of shadow and size of output file.
 >
 >
 > I think it may be placed in:
 > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/shadbox/
 >
 > --------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Dmitry A. Glazkov                     E-mail: glazkov@sci.lpi.msk.su
 > P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute        Phone : 7-095-132-6017
 > Russian Academy of Sciencies
 > Moscow, Leninsky prosp. 53
 > 117924 Russia
 > --------------------------------------------------------------------



I installed the packages into

   macros/latex/contrib/other/tracking

and

   macros/latex/contrib/other/shadbox

respectively.

If you plan to support the packages, please tell me, so that I can
move them from the "other"into the "supported" area.

Thanks a lot

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Aug  2 09:35:42 1996
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 14:16:14 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinTeX 95 1.01

MMuecke@t-online.de writes:

 > I have written a very nice TeX-editor for Windows 95, which I have submitted
 > to your archive at ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > You will find a directory /incoming/wtex95 which I have submitted first, but
 > because I found some Bugs afterwards I submitted version 1.01 of my
 > program to /incoming/WinTeX95-1.01.

Thanks a lot, I installed the files in

   systems/win32/wtex95

I append the README

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is version 1.01 of WinTeX 95!

WinTeX 95 is a very flexible, 32-bit Windows-TeX-editor with the fantastic,
Highlight-O-Matic syntax-highlighting-feature.

In this version I have fixed some minor problems with the installation and
highlighting of comments works fine now.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

--
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug  5 09:02:04 1996
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 13:38:09 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded)

Hideo Umeki writes:
 > I have uploaded the new version of the `geometry' package (v1.04)
 > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry-1.04.tar.gz.
 >
 > Change from 1.03:
 >
 >         Bug fixed: Setting papersize={w,h} had no effect when papertype
 >         (ex. a4paper) was given in geometry.cfg file or as a package option.
 >
 > Please replace the directory
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry
 > with the new one.
 >
 > Thank you in advance.
 >
 > Hideo
 >
 > ---
 > Hideo Umeki     [TUG member]
 >                 (umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp)
 >                 (Temporal: umeki@toshiba-ssel.rwcp.or.jp)
 > Systems and Software Engineering Laboratory
 > Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation
 > tel: +81-44-548-5472
 > fax: +81-44-520-5973

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Aug  6 06:24:08 1996
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 10:16:18 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New version of my portmanteau footnote macros

I have just installed, on ftp.tex.ac.uk a new version of my
portmanteau footnote macros.  The new version should propagate to
ftp.dante.de and to our various mirrors pretty soon.

At the same time, I've taken the opportunity of installing a link to
patch.doc, which is required by footnote.sty; the README file gave the
location of patch.doc, but I have nevertheless had several enquiries
about its location.

The new version fixes a bug in the stability of per-page numbering
(this bug appeared in a >400-page document I've been working on).

There is one outstanding issue that I've yet to solve -- the name
clash with Mark Wooding's macros.  Since the two packages are dealing
with orthogonal issues, there's no objection in principle to merging
them, but there are a number of problems with proceeding in that way.

Robin Fairbairns

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug  8 08:39:08 1996
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 13:18:39 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinTeX 95 1.02

MMuecke@t-online.de writes:
 > Hi there!
 >
 > I have uploaded version 1.02 of my TeX-Editor to /incoming/wtex95_1.02 at
 > ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > Because I have fixed a major problem with the registration-routine, it is
 > quite important for me, that you update the version on your archive. ;-)
 >
 >
 > Thanks a lot!
 >
 > Michael M|cke
 >
 > P.S.: The readme-file is a new one, too --- did I have to mention? :-]

Thanks, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug  8 08:41:15 1996
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 13:24:21 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- TeXEd13a.zip

hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I've uploaded TeXEd13a.zip. Please install this file into
 > the systems/os2/texed directory and *delete* TeXEd13.zip.
 >
 > Thank you
 > Frank Stippich
 > -----------------------------------------------------------
 > hr2@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
 > -----------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Aug  9 12:29:05 1996
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 15:46:27 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- D-OzTeX2.0.1 /LML

Lothar Meyer-Lerbs writes:

 > finally time to update /pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german

Done. Thanks a lot.

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Aug  9 12:37:29 1996
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 16:28:35 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- texperf.zip

John Forkosh writes:

> I've submitted the following:
>   (a) upload site: ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
>   (b) file uploaded: texperf.zip
>   (c) brief overview: yet another WordPerfect->LaTeX conversion
>       program.
>   (d) where to put it: tex-archive/support  (similarly to where
>       all the other WordPerfect->LaTeX programs reside).
> Thanks for your help,
> John (forkosh@panix.com)

Thanks for that.  I've pulled the 00README out of the .zip file, and
have installed the .zip and the 00README in the directory
support/texperf here at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Aug 10 11:45:22 1996
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 15:38:24 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Sam Sirlin wrote (some time ago ...):

> I've uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk the file textib3.2.tar.Z. This is a set
> of files for typing the Tibetan language in TeX or LaTeX. It includes
> some c source code (a filter), some .mf files, and some examples.
>
> Here's the tar list:
>
> x src/table.c, 8091 bytes, 16 tape blocks
> x src/table.h, 693 bytes, 2 tape blocks
> x src/tfilt.c, 1260 bytes, 3 tape blocks
> x src/token.h, 918 bytes, 2 tape blocks
> x src/tparse.c, 20139 bytes, 40 tape blocks
> x src/util.c, 2246 bytes, 5 tape blocks
> x README, 2372 bytes, 5 tape blocks
> x WARNING, 384 bytes, 1 tape blocks
> x src/Makefile, 301 bytes, 1 tape blocks
> x fonts/mf/bzrsetup.mf, 7414 bytes, 15 tape blocks
> x fonts/mf/gtib.mf, 496121 bytes, 969 tape blocks
> x fonts/mf/gtibsp.mf, 57214 bytes, 112 tape blocks
> x tib/doc.tib, 7059 bytes, 14 tape blocks
> x tib/mani.tib, 220 bytes, 1 tape blocks
> x tib/p31p33.tib, 2693 bytes, 6 tape blocks
> x tib/p32p34.tib, 3103 bytes, 7 tape blocks
> x tib/sample.tib, 2391 bytes, 5 tape blocks
> x tib/doc.ps, 146685 bytes, 287 tape blocks
> x doc/examples.doc, 349 bytes, 1 tape blocks
> x inputs/boxes.tex, 1280 bytes, 3 tape blocks
> x inputs/tibdef.tex, 3341 bytes, 7 tape blocks
> x bin/ttex, 1071 bytes, 3 tape blocks
>
> This stuff certainly belongs in the languages/tibetan section of the
> archives, along with the older stuff there (which this is based on).

After some thought (and a long delay) I've re-arranged the
language/tibetan area of CTAN.  The old stuff I've moved to
language/tibetan/original, and I've put Sam's stuff in
language/tibetan/sirlin

I believe this is consonant with the way other languages are treated
(for example, greek), but it could of course confuse anyone looking
for the previous Tibetan stuff.  Let's hope scholars of Tibetan aren't
terribly easily confused.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 12 06:08:28 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:04:03 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LaTeX-CAD Version 1.7

John Leis writes:
 > Good Evening,
 >
 > I've just uploaded latexcad17.zip, size 468 704 bytes, to /incoming of
 > ftp.dante.de . This is version 1.7 of the latexcad drawing package, and
 > replaces all files in the current CTAN hierarchy under
 > /systems/msdos/latexcad
 >
 > Thanks,
 > John
 >
 >  -------------------------------------------------------------------
 >  John Leis                                 Phone: 076 312 551
 >  Faculty of Engineering & Surveying        Fax:   076 312 526
 >  University of Southern Queensland         email: leis@usq.edu.au
 >
 >   "Lifetime Warranty" ??
 >   Isn't that like "100% certified" (which some of my friends are).
 >  -------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 12 06:06:39 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:06:08 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- jura

Felix Braun writes:

 > I just uploaded the newest version of my jura-documentclass for latex2e
 > into ftp.dante.de/incoming/jura/*
 >
 > Could you please place it into
 > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/jura/
 >
 > Please note that all the older files should be deleted.
 > Thanx and Bye ... Felix
 > --
 > Felix Braun                                           Fax+Tel: ++49-30-3414958
 > Kaiser-Friedrich-Str.7                          EMail:fbraun@rz.uni-potsdam.de
 > D-10585 Berlin                                         hcl@lbcmbx.in-berlin.de
 > GERMANY
 >         Member of the ELCOM-Team of ELSA-Germany and ELSA-International

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 12 06:13:12 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:11:49 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Sebastian Kirsch writes:

 > I uploaded ftp.dante.de:/incoming/dco/dco-1.3pl2.tar.gz
 >
 > There is also a part of this file in /incoming, resulting from my first,
 > failed attempt. Sorry for that.
 >
 > dco-1.3pl2.tar.gz contains a set of .vf and .tfm-file for using the
 > dc-fonts with so-called "Gemeine" or oldstyle numerals. It also contains
 > a Bourne shell script which I used to create this set of virtual fonts.
 >
 > I recommend placing this package under /tex-archive/fonts/dco.

I installed the files as requested. Thanks.
For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Aug 13 13:53:18 1996
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 18:43:10 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Enrico Bertolazzi writes:

 > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
 > tar file easy_new.tar.gz. It
 > contain:
 >
 > version 0.3 of the `easyeqn' package
 > version 0.3 of the `easyvector' package
 > version 0.1 of the `easybmat' package
 > version 0.1 of the `easymat' package
 > version 0.1 of the `easytable' package
 > and version 0.1 of the easymat style.
 >
 > This file should replace
 > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
 > wich contain the old versions.
 >
 > The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation
 > environments that simplify writing of equations.
 > It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define
 > the column alignment. A package option cases only those
 > equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered.
 >
 > The \package{easyvector} package is a simple
 > macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices.
 >
 > The \package{easybmat} package is
 > a macro package for writing block matrices, with equal column widths
 > or equal rows heights or both, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 >
 > The \package{easytable} package is
 > a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths
 > or equal rows heights or both, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 >
 > The \package{easymat} package is
 > a macro package for writing block matrices, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows or columns, and
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 >
 > Thanks a lot for the attention,
 >
 > ____________________________________________________________________________
 > Enrico Bertolazzi
 > Laboratorio di Matematica Applicata   tel: +39-461-882629
 > Universita` degli studi di Trento     fax: +39-461-882672
 > Via Mesiano 77
 > I-38050 Trento, Italy                 email: enrico.bertolazzi@ing.unitn.it
 > ____________________________________________________________________________

Thanks a lot, I made the update.

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Aug 13 14:02:16 1996
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 18:46:46 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- biblos.zip

Anders Mvller writes:
 > I have uploaded the file  biblos.zip  to  ftp.dante.de/incoming
 >
 > The file includes the program 'Biblos', a BibTeX database manager for
 > Windows95/Windows NT. Biblos uses the CGI (common gateway interface)
 > protocol so that BibTeX files can be managed remotely using an
 > HTTP-server on the server side and a Web-browser such as Netscape on the
 > client side.
 >
 > I recomend that biblos.zip is placed at
 >
 >     /tex-archive/bibliography/bibtex/utils

I installed the file in

   systems/msdos/biblos075.zip

with a symbolic link in

   bibliography/bibtex/utils/biblos075.zip

Thanks a lot.

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Aug 14 05:38:07 1996
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 09:32:39 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- acronym

Tobias Oetiker writes:

> I have uploaded version 1.2 of my acronym package to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk:  acronym.tar.gz
>
> this new version features a new command: \acl to print
> the expanded acronym with out even mentioning that there
> is an acronym for this word.

Thanks, I've installed the replacement here.

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 15 05:36:33 1996
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:24:12 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- dc bitmap fonts for Textures

Uwe Schmock writes:

> I just uploaded the directory dc1.3 (containing 16 files) to ftp.tex.ac.uk.
> Please place the directory inside /tex-archive/systems/mac/textures/fonts.
> Please make sure that the permissions are set correctly, I currently cannot
> get the files back.
>
> Inside the directory dc1.3 you find the dc fonts, version 1.3, and the
> corresponding metrics for use with Textures on a Macintosh. The Macintosh
> fonts are in a preliminary bitmap form until someone else provides them in
> a better form (PostScript Type 1, for example). An 8k Read-Me file is
> included.

I've installed the contribution in systems/mac/textures/contrib/fonts/dc1.3
                                                        ^^^^^^^


The reason I've not done exactly as you ask is that all of the other
systems/mac/textures directories are mirrored directly from Blue Sky
-- if your directory had gone into fonts/, it would have disappeared
again when we next mirrored from Oregon.

Thanks for the contribution

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sun Aug 18 18:17:18 1996
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 22:16:14 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- 8-bit BibTeX update (v3.71)

Niel Kempson writes:

> I've uploaded an updated release of the fully 8-bit adaptation of BibTeX
> 0.99 to the /incoming directory on ftp.tex.ac.uk.  There are five files:
>
>     bt371.readme    - `README' file describing the implementation
>     bt371csf.zip    - example code page and sorting order definition files
>     bt371dos.zip    - binary + documentation kit for MS-DOS users
>     bt371os2.zip    - binary + documentation kit for 32 bit OS/2 users
>     bt371src.zip    - complete source code kit for all supported platforms
>
> Please transfer them to directory tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/8-bit - the
> existing bt370* file may be deleted.
>
> This release fixes a number of bugs reported for the first public release
> (3.70).
>
> I propose to send an announcement to comp.text.tex when the files are in
> place.

I've installed the files as requested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Thanks for the contribution.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ohl@CRUNCH.IKP.PHYSIK.TH-DARMSTADT.DE Wed Aug 21 10:31:56 1996
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 16:04:15 +0200
From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@CRUNCH.IKP.PHYSIK.TH-DARMSTADT.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: [LaTeX, Metafont, Graphics, Feynman diagrams] FEYNMF v1.07 released

This announces version 1.07 of feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont
package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and maybe
other) diagrams.  If you don't know if feynmf is useful for you, have
a look at the preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz').  It is provided to
wet your appetite with numerous examples.

Version 1.07 is a bug fix release and offers no new features.

This software will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN
host near you.

Enjoy,
-Thorsten

NEWS for Version 1.07

    *  Switch off I/O during the first pass in AMS-LaTeX equation
    environments.  This avoids a nasty race condition (thanks to Axel
    Thimm for reporting this bug).  A beneficial side effect is that
    it saves us 50% processing time in these cases.

Thorsten Ohl, Physics Department, TH Darmstadt --- PGP: AF 38 FF CE 03 8A 2E A7
http://crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de/~ohl/ -------- 8F 2A C1 86 8C 06 32 6B

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Aug 21 03:59:03 1996
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 08:54:32 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinTeX 95 1.1 (fwd)

> From: Michael Muecke <MMuecke@T-ONLINE.DE>
> Date:         Wed, 21 Aug 1996 07:45:33 +-200

> I have uploaded version 1.1 of my program to /incoming/wtex95_1.1_good. You
> will find a ZIP-file and the README-file.

I have replaced the old version (1.02) in systems/win32/wtex95 on ftp.dante.de.

>From the wtex95.txt file:

: This is version 1.1 of WinTeX 95!
:
: WinTeX 95 is a very flexible, 32-bit Windows-TeX-editor with the fantastic,
: Highlight-O-Matic syntax-highlighting-feature.
:
: Version 1.1:
:
: + Highlighting now (theoretically) works for files up to 2GB (instead of 32KB)!
: + Unlimited number of user menus for TeX-commands.
: + Added a button bar for the TeX-commands.
: + Added option to auto save TeX-file before executing user command.
: + Some ASCII-characters like (v, d, |, _, 4) that have different
:   ANSI-codes are now loaded and saved correctly. (optional)
: + Shortcuts for frequently used commands
: + superfast Spellchecking
: + superfast Find + Replace
: + Search for LaTeX-errors and -warnings.

Thanks for the contribution.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Aug 21 05:44:29 1996
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:37:13 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Update to CTAN bundle aguplus (fwd)

> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@linpwd.mpae.gwdg.de>
> Date:         Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:09:11 +0200
>
> I have just put some update files for the aguplus bundle onto the DANTE CTAN
> server under  /incoming/aguplus
>
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      3882 Aug 21 10:04 README.pwd
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     38254 Aug 21 10:03 aguplus.cls
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     37565 Aug 21 10:03 aguplus.sty
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     42987 Aug 21 10:03 aguplus.tex
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      4005 Aug 21 10:03 changes.v15
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     10791 Aug 21 10:04 samplus.tex
>
> Can you please copy them to    latex/contrib/supported/aguplus
>
> removing the existing  changes.v14a   and   readme.pwd.
>
> The other, unchanged files, should stay.

I have installed the new files on ftp.dante.de as requested.  They will
soon be mirrored to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

Thanks for the contribution.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 21 13:50:16 1996
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 17:42:49 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: `stable' footnotes in section titles, captions, etc

A while back I described, on comp.text.tex, a technique for ensuring
that footnotes in section titles and the like didn't migrate into the
table of contents, etc.

In a moment when I needed to take my mind off other things, I've
worked that post up into a mini-package, and have installed it at
ftp.tex.ac.uk, whence it'll make its way (eventually) to dante and the
CTAN mirrors.

The file is macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/stblftnt.sty

Its first few lines are:

  \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1995/12/01]
  %
  % a jiffy to ensure that footnotes don't migrate to the table of
  % contents, list of tables/figures, headlines, etc.

Which are the limit of the documentation you'll get.

If nobody spots a ghastly flaw in it, I'll probably, eventually,
incorporate it into one or other of the portmanteau footnote packages.

Robin Fairbairns

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Aug 25 10:24:24 1996
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 14:57:14 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd)

> From: Aleksander Simonic <alex@CS.DAL.CA>
> Date:         Fri, 23 Aug 1996 20:35:30 -0300
>
> I uploaded the files which are to be contributed to the CTAN archive to:
>
>       ftp.dante.de  /incoming/winedt
>
> This is a new shareware release of WinEDT and these files should replace
> all the files in tex-archive/support/winedt. WinEDT 1.4-c is to replace
> the old version of WinEDT 1.4-b (in the same directory).
>
> ps. I had to change the name of the program from WinEdit to WinEDT because
> WinEdit (an obvious choice for an application of this kind) happens to be
> a (registered?) trademark of the WindowWare company.

I have installed the new version on ftp.dante.de as requested.

>From the WinEDT.txt file:

1. What is WinEDT?
   ===============

WinEDT(TM) is a state of the art text editor and Shell for Windows 95
   (Windows NT or Windows 3.x).

WinEDT can be used to edit HUGE text files. The user can open many
   files at once and can switch between them using the Window Menu or
   "Ctrl+Tab" switch. Opened Documents can be Tiled, Cascaded or arranged
   inside the client window in a custom manner (by the mouse). WinEDT
   uses a Multiple Documents Interface (MDI) and follows or extends
   Windows' Standards in every respect. WinEDT supports (LaTeX) Syntax
   Highlighting and Input/Output ASCII Code Translation Tables. WinEDT
   comes with a comprehensive, Context-Sensitive Help. WinEDT supports
   long file names (when running under a 32-bit OS).

WinEDT Shell can be customized to run with different utilities and is
   particularly suitable for writing TeX documents. WinEDT allows the
   user to install DOS and Windows Applications and activate them by
   using a Menu Command or a Tool Bar Button. Furthermore, WinEDT can
   pass currently opened files as parameters, making sure that changes
   are automatically saved before the files are compiled. After defining
   utilities (such as TeX, LaTeX, BibTeX, DVI Driver, Spell Checker),
   most of the common tasks while writing a TeX document or a project are
   reduced to clicking a Tool Bar Button or selecting a Menu Command.
   WinEDT is suitable for writing papers, theses or books, using a
   simple but efficient strategy to manage projects.


Thanks for the submission.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Aug 25 11:08:58 1996
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 16:07:43 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- lgrind (lgrindef) (fwd)

> From: Michael Piefel <piefel@HP832.INFORMATIK.HU-BERLIN.DE>
> Date:         Thu, 22 Aug 1996 11:51:04 +0200
>
> (a) DANTE
> (b) one file - lgrindef (24290 Bytes)
> (c) replacement for the old lgrindef in the LGrind package
> (d) support/lgrind/

I have replaced the file support/lgrind/lgrindef on ftp.dante.de.

Thanks for the submission.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE Sun Aug 25 10:53:21 1996
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 15:54:03 +0100
From: J%org Knappen Mainz <KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: dc fonts 1.3 Patchlevel 4

The CTAN crew has now installed dc fonts 1.3 patchlevel 4.

This patchlevel fixes a serious bug, which was present in the dc fonts from
the very beginning: The zero width character |compound word mark| used to
have a non-zero horizontal escapement, which causes an ugly gap with a
proper dvi driver. Non-proper dvi drivers (using only tfm widths) didn't
exhibit the bug in the fonts.

I also applied fixes to the sans serif lowercase hacheks, in order to
reduce the number of fonts which give METAFONT errors.

If you install the new patchlevel, the following actions are required:

* Re-compute *all* pk files (the horizontal escapement is recorded there)

* Re-install the tfm files for the sans serif family (including *ss*, *si*,
  *sx*, *so*, *sq*, *qi*, *lq*, *li*, *lb*, *lo*)

Yours, J"org Knappen.

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug 27 05:59:22 1996
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 09:47:09 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- flatex

Har-Peled Sariel writes:

> Uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk
> Files      : flatex.C
> Overview   :
>   *    Flatten a latex file into a single file, by explicitly including
>  *  the files inclued by \include and \input commands. Also, if bibtex is
>  *  beeing used, then includes the .bbl file into the resulting file. Thus,
>  *  creating a stand alone latex file that can be emailed to someone else.
>
> placement: /ctan/tex-archive/support/flatex/

I've installed the file as suggested, _except_ that I've made the file
title uniform case (flatex.c) -- I also edited the self-references
within the file.

This is to conform with the policy of creating TDS-compliant file and
directory names wherever possible.

Thanks for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team

From piet@CS.RUU.NL Tue Aug 27 06:40:02 1996
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 11:33:42 +0200
From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@CS.RUU.NL>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: upload

I have put shading.sty on ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming.
For some reason the version in
tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/shading.sty is broken. It uses
\linewidth as a private parameter, which of course clashes with LaTeX's
length parameter of the same name (that's what you get by not using
\newcommand).

It appeared that the version that I have, has the name changed to
\outlineboxwidth. Apart from the comments, that's the only difference. I
don't know how I got this file.

There is also an accompanying doc file shading.tex

By the way, it appears to work with LaTeX2e. It lacks the modularity of
graphics, however (it is dvips specific). I think that the color package
essentially delivers its functionality with a different syntax.
--
Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet [PGP]

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug 27 06:45:14 1996
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 10:42:38 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload -- shading

Piet van Oostrum writes:

> I have put shading.sty on ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming.
> For some reason the version in
> macros/latex209/contrib/misc/shading.sty is broken.
>[...]
> There is also an accompanying doc file shading.tex

Since there are now _two_ shading files, I've moved them to a
directory of their own:

bash$ ls -l macros/latex209/contrib/shading/
total 18
-rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     TeX         9082 Aug 27 10:20 shading.sty
-rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     TeX         8613 Aug 27 10:29 shading.tex

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 27 13:39:29 1996
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 18:34:48 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: UPLOAD: dctfm.zip

J�rg Knappen writes:

 > I have just uploaded the tfm files for dc fonts patchlevel 4.
 >
 > Please unpack the zip archive in directory
 >
 > .../fonts/dc/tfm

Done.

For the CTAN team

Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Aug 28 12:13:16 1996
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:04:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: update to pslatex

David Carlisle writes:

> Update to pslatex.
>
> There has been a serious bug reported in the `pslatex' package to
> typeset documents in times/helvetica/courier. Many symbols such as ^
> and ~ will not work in \tt fonts (eg in verbatim) as currently
> distributed.
>
> The fix is simple:
>
> The line in the file  pcrr8rn.map should be changed from
> pcrr8rn Courier ".85 ExtendFont" <8r.enc <pcrr8a.pfb
>
> to
> pcrr8rn Courier ".85 ExtendFont TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc <pcrr8a.pfb
>
> A new copy of pcrr8rn.map has been placed on ctan in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/pslatex/dvips
>
> If you have installed pslatex already, you may have copied the above
> line into your dvips configuration file psfonts.map, in which case the
> same change (adding TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont) should be made in
> psfonts.map.
>
> Sorry for this inconvenience
>
> David Carlisle

The placement on CTAN is at ftp.tex.ac.uk in the first instance.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Sep  2 06:29:29 1996
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 10:14:01 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- OzTeX 2.1

Andrew Trevorrow writes:

> I've just uploaded the following set of files for OzTeX 2.1
> to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/oztex/:
>
> Read-Me
> alphalite.hqx
> bibtex.hqx
> configs.hqx
> dvips.hqx
> formats.hqx
> help.hqx
> inputs.hqx
> latexdocs.hqx
> metafont.hqx
> ozdvips.hqx
> ozmf.hqx
> oztex.hqx
> xwords.hqx

Thanks, Andrew.  The files are now installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Sep  2 08:37:27 1996
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 12:25:53 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Transfer statistics for ftp.tex.ac.uk, August 1996

TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Wed Jul 31 1996 TO Sat Aug 31 1996

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Systems Using Archives                              0

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From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Sep  3 05:15:00 1996
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 09:07:07 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- jura.cls

Felix Braun writes:
 > Hi guys,
 > ~~~~~~~~
 > yes here it is, yet another update for my document-class for german law
 > student's papers. I suggest you place the new jura.dtx-File I just
 > uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming into the directory
 >
 > CTAN:macros/latex/supported/jura/
 >
 > Bye ... Felix
 >
 > --
 > Felix Braun                                           Fax+Tel: ++49-30-3414958
 > Kaiser-Friedrich-Str.7                          EMail:fbraun@rz.uni-potsdam.de
 > D-10585 Berlin                                         hcl@lbcmbx.in-berlin.de
 > GERMANY
 >         Member of the ELCOM-Team of ELSA-Germany and ELSA-International

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Sep  4 05:47:51 1996
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 09:23:40 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN update -- circuit_macros

Dwight Aplevich writes:

> The file Circuit_macros4.tar.gz has been put in /incoming on
> ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>
> When expanded, this is version 4 of the contents of CTAN directory
> tex-archive/graphics/circuit_macros, of which I am the author, and
> supersedes the previous version in its entirety.
>
> Extracts from the README file:
>
> Circuit_macros
>
>   This is a set of macros for drawing electric circuits containing
>   fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors, and basic logic gates
>   to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents.  Some tools for block
>   diagrams are also included.  The advantages and disadvantages of such
>   a system are similar to those of TeX itself, which is macro-based,
>   non-wysiwyg, and which uses ordinary character input.
>
>   These macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic language, which
>   is very easy to learn and has a good power/complexity ratio.  Because
>   pic contains elements of a simple programming language, it is
>   well-suited to drawings that contain parametric or conditional
>   components, that require fine tuning, significant geometric
>   calculations or repetition, or that are naturally block structured or
>   tree structured.  Pic is not wysiwyg.  Interpreters for the language
>   are readily available, and some are free.
> ...
>
> MINIMUM REQUIRED SOFTWARE:
>   m4, gpic or equivalent, TeX, a driver recognizing tpic specials
> ...

I've installed the new release as requested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Thanks for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Sep  4 05:38:57 1996
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 10:26:38 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Enrico Bertolazzi writes:
 > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
 > tar file easy_new.tar.gz. It contains:
 >
 > version 0.4 of the `easyeqn' package
 > version 0.4 of the `easyvector' package
 > version 0.3 of the `easybmat' package
 > version 0.3 of the `easymat' package
 > version 0.3 of the `easytable' package
 > version 0.1 of the `easybib' package.
 >
 > This file should replace
 > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
 > wich contain the old versions.
 >
 > The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation
 > environments that simplify writing of equations.
 > It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define
 > the column alignment. A package option cases only those
 > equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered.
 >
 > The \package{easyvector} package is a simple
 > macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices.
 >
 > The \package{easybmat} package is
 > a macro package for writing block matrices, with equal column widths
 > or equal rows heights or both, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 >
 > The \package{easytable} package is
 > a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths
 > or equal rows heights or both, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 >
 > The \package{easymat} package is
 > a macro package for writing block matrices, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows or columns, and
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 >
 > The \package{easybib} package is
 > a macro package for writing custom bibliography
 > with a simple sintax.
 >
 > Thanks a lot for the attention,
 >
 >
 > ____________________________________________________________________________
 > Enrico Bertolazzi
 > Laboratorio di Matematica Applicata   tel: +39-461-882629
 > Universita` degli studi di Trento     fax: +39-461-882672
 > Via Mesiano 77
 > I-38050 Trento, Italy                 email: enrico.bertolazzi@ing.unitn.it
 > ____________________________________________________________________________

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Sep  4 05:34:08 1996
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 09:27:53 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- Improved LTX2X program -- a LaTeX to X autotagger

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have sent the file ltx2x.tar.gz to directory /incoming at ftp.tex.ac.uk.
> This is a new release of the LTX2X program, and I suggest that it replace
> the contents of the current /support/ltx2x directory.
>
>     Below is a version of the README file.
>
> file: README for August 1996 release of ltx2x LaTeX to X Autotagger
>
>     New improved ltx2x with all sorts of print capabilities.
>
> FUNCTION
>
>     The ltx2x program will replace LaTeX commands in a LaTeX
> document by user-defined strings. In essence, LaTeX tags can
> be replaced by other kinds of document tags (e.g. HTML/SGML or RTF tags),
> or can be removed altogether. The program also has an unsophisticated
> pretty-print capability.
>
>     The replacement strings for the LaTeX commands are specified
> in a command table file, which can be created simply via any text
> editor.
>
>     The 90 page user manual is provided in LaTeX and Postscript formats.
> It is also provided in plain ASCII and HTML formats, automatically generated
> by ltx2x from the original LaTeX file.
>
> FILES
>
>     Files in this distribution are:
> o README                     (this file)
> o l2xlib.c and l2xlib.h      main program and library functions
> o l2xcom.h                   typedefs
> o l2x.l                      lexer source to be processed by flex
> o l2xlexyy.c                 lexer code after flex processing
> o l2x.y                      parser source to be processed by bison
> o l2xytab.c and l2xytab.h    parser code after bison processing
> o l2xacts.c and l2xacts.h    standard action functions
> o l2xusrlb.c and l2xusrlb.h  user-defined action functions
> o srchenv.c and srchenv.h    C code for directory searching
> o getopt.c and getpopt.h     C code for command line options
> o strtypes.h                 header file for string proccessing
> o printct.c                  C program for command table printing and update
> o man                        manpage
> o makefile                   makefile for ltx2x
> o ltx2html.sty               Package file for ltx2x LaTeX to HTML
> o ltx2x.tex                  User manual in LaTeX format
> o ltx2x.ps                   User manual in PostScript format
> o ltx2x.ct                   Dummy command table file
> o bye.ct                     Example "Goodbye document" command table file
> o remcom.ct                  Example decommenter command table file
> o detex.ct                   Example deTeXing command table file
> o ltx2x.txt                  deTeXed version of ltx2x.tex
> o l2h.ct                     Example command table for LaTeX to HTML conversion
> o ltx2x.html                 HTMLed version of ltx2x.tex
> and possibly
> o ltx2x.tar.gz               Tared and Zipped archive of all the above
>
> INSTALLATION
>
>     ltx2x is written as a parser for LaTeX. The main source is
> in l2xlib.c. Source for the lexer is in l2x.l which has to be
> processed by flex (or equivalent) and the parser is in l2x.y
> which is intended to be processed by bison (or equivalent).
> Support functions are in files l2xacts.c, l2xusrlb.c, srchenv.c
> and getopt.c. After the lexer and parser files are processed,
> all the code files must be compiled and linked to form the executable.
>
>     The syntax of the command table has been extended and modified.
> The printct program will convert a command table in the original
> syntax to the new syntax.
>
> Via Make
> --------
>
> 0. Read the manual
>
> 1. Edit the first part of makefile to match your system's configuration.
>    If you are feeling brave, do `make all'. Otherwise continue as below.
>
> 2. Do `make' (processes lexer and parser and compiles and links the program)
>
> 3. (Optional) Set the environment variable LTX2XTABLES to the
>    directories where command table files might be located
>
> 4. Test the program
>
> 5. Do `make install' (moves the binary into its final location)
>
> 6. Do `make manpage' (edits the manpage and copies it to its working location)
>
> 7. Do `make ctables' (copies the command tables to their working location)
>
> 8. Do `make doc' (copies the user manual sources to their final location)
>
> 9. Do `make clean' (deletes the object code, yacc output, and edited
>    manpage files)
>
> 10. Do `make printct' to compile printct.c, then move the binary to
>     its final destination.
>
[.sig and NIST disclaimer omitted]

I have installed the files at ftp.tex.ac.uk as suggested.

Thanks for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep  5 05:13:00 1996
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 09:05:42 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lips.sty

Matt Swift writes:

> I uploaded lips.sty to ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>
> It should replace
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster/lips.sty
>
> \begin{abstract}
>   The \cs\lips command generates text ellipses that are closer to what
>   \booktitle{The Chicago Manual} suggests than what \cs\dots produces.
> \end{abstract}
>
> Version 1.2 fixes 2 bugs that caused \lips to fail in certain
> situations.

I've done the necessary -- the file will propagate when the machinery
swings into action later today.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep  5 11:01:31 1996
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 14:50:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- arosgn2.1.tar.gz

Muhammad Masroor Ali writes:

> Below please find the particulars of a TeX related package
> I have recently uploaded to a CTAN site.
>
>         (a) Site: ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
>         (b) File: /incoming/masroor_arosonargaon/arosgn2.1.tar.gz
>
>         (c) Overview: Revised version of arosgn2.0 now available
>                 at the CTAN sites. Changes from the previous
>                 version are,
>
>                         * arosgn.sty can now be used on a stand-alone
>                         basis without much pain.
>
>                         * .mf files made available for optional .pk file
>                         generation to suit personal usage.
>
>                         * Sample test files incorporated.
>
>         (d) Placement: In the directory tex-archive/language/bengali.
>                 You can leave the tar file as it is. Or if you decide
>                 to untar it, please place it under a directory
>                 tex-archive/language/bengali/arosgn2.1.
>
> Thanks a lot for your earliest attention.

I've taken the liberty of installing this new release at ftp.tex.ac.uk
as language/bengali/arosgn -- having version numbers in the directory
names is a pain for us, and we avoid it if we can...

Anyway, it's now installed; thank you for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep  5 12:35:35 1996
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 16:27:30 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>

David Carlisle has submitted comma.sty (which answered a question on
comp.text.tex today) to CTAN

He says:

> comma.sty has just been added to
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle
> it enables the printing of counter values with a separator every three
> digits, ``12,345'' or ``12 345''.

I've done the installation here at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From masroor@HUMAN.IS.KYUSHU-U.AC.JP Thu Sep  5 21:44:59 1996
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 09:42:40 +0900
From: Muhammad Masroor Ali <masroor@HUMAN.IS.KYUSHU-U.AC.JP>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- arosgn2.1.tar.gz

> I've taken the liberty of installing this new release at ftp.tex.ac.uk
> as language/bengali/arosgn -- having version numbers in the directory
> names is a pain for us, and we avoid it if we can...

Thanks a lot. Could you please delete the old
/ctan/tex-archive/language/bengali/arosgn2.0/ directory?
The newer version, arosgn2.1/ supersedes the old one,
and the new one is now placed under
/ctan/tex-archive/language/bengali/arosgn/

In future revisions I am going to request placement
under /ctan/tex-archive/language/bengali/arosgn/.
Hope this will eradicate the trouble of having version
numbers in directory names.

> Anyway, it's now installed; thank you for the submission.

My pleasure.


> Robin Fairbairns

Muhammad Masroor Ali

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Sep  6 06:19:56 1996
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 10:05:24 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- arosgn2.1.tar.gz

> Thanks a lot. Could you please delete the old
> /ctan/tex-archive/language/bengali/arosgn2.0/ directory?
> The newer version, arosgn2.1/ supersedes the old one,
> and the new one is now placed under
> /ctan/tex-archive/language/bengali/arosgn/

This is quite crazy -- I thought I _had_ delete arosgn2.0/, but it was
definitely still there.

It's gone now, though...

Sorry about that,

Robin

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Sep  6 06:17:07 1996
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 11:11:13 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Enrico Bertolazzi writes:
 > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
 > tar file easy_new.tar.gz. It contains:
 >
 > version 0.4 of the `easyeqn' package
 > version 0.5 of the `easyvector' package (fixed an error on ; command)
 > version 0.4 of the `easybmat' package
 > version 0.1 of the `easymat' package
 > version 0.4 of the `easytable' package
 > version 0.1 of the `easybib' package.
 >
 > This file should replace
 > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
 > wich contain the old versions.
 >
 > The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation
 > environments that simplify writing of equations.
 > It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define
 > the column alignment. A package option cases only those
 > equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered.
 >
 > The \package{easyvector} package is a simple
 > macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices.
 >
 > The \package{easybmat} package is
 > a macro package for writing block matrices, with equal column widths
 > or equal rows heights or both, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 >
 > The \package{easytable} package is
 > a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths
 > or equal rows heights or both, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 >
 > The \package{easymat} package is
 > a macro package for writing block matrices, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows or columns, and
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 >
 > The \package{easybib} package is
 > a macro package for writing custom bibliography
 > with a simple sintax.
 >
 > Thanks a lot for the attention,
 >
 >
 > ____________________________________________________________________________
 > Enrico Bertolazzi
 > Laboratorio di Matematica Applicata   tel: +39-461-882629
 > Universita` degli studi di Trento     fax: +39-461-882672
 > Via Mesiano 77
 > I-38050 Trento, Italy                 email: enrico.bertolazzi@ing.unitn.it
 > ____________________________________________________________________________

I installed the update as requested. Many thanks

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From masroor@HUMAN.IS.KYUSHU-U.AC.JP Fri Sep  6 21:08:25 1996
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 09:03:01 +0900
From: Muhammad Masroor Ali <masroor@HUMAN.IS.KYUSHU-U.AC.JP>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- arosgn2.1.tar.gz

> This is quite crazy -- I thought I _had_ delete arosgn2.0/, but it was
> definitely still there.
> It's gone now, though...

Thanks.

> Sorry about that,

It is okay.

> Robin

Masroor

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Sep 10 19:43:50 1996
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 16:19:14 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload -- ukhyph.tex

Dominik Wujastyk writes:

> a) I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk /incoming
>
> b) the file is ukhyph.tex
>
> c) hyphenation patterns for British English, version 2.0.  This
>    replaces the earlier version of 1992, by adding a short list of
>    hyphenation exceptions.  The actual patterns themselves are unchanged.
>
> d) Recommended place:
>         /language/hyphenation
>
>    to replace existing files:
>         /language/hyphenation/ukhyphen.tex

I've taken your (revised) upload and installed it as language/
hyphenation/ukhyphen.tex

It's silly to maintain two identical copies of the file, so I've made
language/english/ukhyph.tex a link to the new file.

Incidentally,

>         /language/hyphenation/ukhyph/ukhyph.tex

doesn't exist; the name /language/hyphenation/ukhyph.tex was already a
link to ukhyphen.tex in the same directory.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Sep 13 18:38:58 1996
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:33:06 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- minitoc

Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes:

> I have sent a new version of my minitoc package in /incoming/minitoc.
> This is version #25, who updates the support of the norwegian
> language (norsk and nynorsk dialects) as suggested by Dag Langmyhr
> (a lot of thanks to him). This new version replace the #24 version
> in .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/minitoc. If some users have
> suggestions to add or update the language specific files in the
> minitoc package, they are welcome.

I have installed the package at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Thanks for the submission

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Sep 16 12:27:06 1996
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:19:45 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New version of SHADOW.STY

Mauro Orlandini writes:

>         I put a new, improved, version of my style file shadow.sty in the
> incoming directory at ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>   This new version eliminates tedious overfull messages due to CRs that have
> been left in the macro. Ralf Nitsch spotted the error and sent me this new
> version, that now I send you.

I have replaced the version on the archive in macros/latex209/contrib/
misc/shadow.sty

Thanks for the submission

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Sep 17 17:56:03 1996
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:51:48 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission: custom-bib update (fwd)

> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@linpwd.mpae.gwdg.de>
> Date:         Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:05:24 +0200
>
> I wish to submit an update to my package custom-bib.
>
> I have put the following files into the /incoming/custom-bib directory
> on the dante server.
>
> README.v381
> geojour.mbs
> merlin.mbs
> photjour.mbs
> physjour.mbs
> shorthnd.ins
>
> Please copy these into the directory
>       latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib
> removing README.v38
>
> Thanks,   Patrick W. Daly

I installed the update on ftp.dante.de as requested.

Thanks for the submission.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Sep 17 18:03:27 1996
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 23:00:55 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- <easy> (fwd)

> From: Enrico Bertolazzi <enrico.bertolazzi@ING.UNITN.IT>
> Date:         Mon, 16 Sep 1996 17:10:35 +0100
>
> I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
> tar file easy.tar.gz. It contains:
>
> version 0.5 of the `easyeqn' package
> version 0.6 of the `easyvector' package
> version 0.4 of the `easybmat' package
> version 0.1 of the `easymat' package
> version 0.4 of the `easytable' package
> version 0.2 of the `easybib' package.
>
> This file should replace
> the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
> wich contain the old versions.

I replaced the old version on ftp.dante.de with the update as requested.
Thanks for the contribution.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

> The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation
> environments that simplify writing of equations.
> It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define
> the column alignment. A package option cases only those
> equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered.
>
> The \package{easyvector} package is a simple
> macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices.
>
> The \package{easybmat} package is
> a macro package for writing block matrices, with equal column widths
> or equal rows heights or both, with various
> kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
> uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
>
> The \package{easytable} package is
> a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths
> or equal rows heights or both, with various
> kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
> uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
>
> The \package{easymat} package is
> a macro package for writing block matrices, with various
> kinds of rules~(lines) between rows or columns, and
> uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
>
> The \package{easybib} package is
> a macro package for writing custom bibliography
> with a simple AmSTeX-like sintax.

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Sep 19 02:25:52 1996
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 14:57:06 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- pcfonts.zip

Rama Porrat writes:

> Dear Sir,
> I have uploaded that file (pcfonts.zip) onto ftp.tex.ac.uk
> This file should replace a file by the same name, located in
> tex-archive/languages/hebrew/fonts/pccode

I have replaced the file.

> I hope this will propagate to other CTAN host, even though it
> is not a new file but a replacement.

It will do (even though there's only one other CTAN just now).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Sep 19 05:18:43 1996
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:13:47 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission: custom-bib update incorrect (fwd)

> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@linpwd.mpae.gwdg.de>
> Date:         Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:51:55 +0200
>
> Yesterday's update to my package custom-bib contained a small glich in it
> that causes it to crash. The mistake is mine.
>
> I have now put the corrected file into the /incoming/custom-bib directory
> on the dante server.

I have installed the new version in macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib.

> PS: It has always occurred to me that this bundle really belongs in the bibtex
> contributions. Perhaps a pointer could be put there directed to the real
> location.

Done.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Sep 20 13:56:24 1996
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 17:50:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: fullpict.sty

Bruce Shawyer writes:

> I have just seen TUGboat, 17, Number 2 (our departmental copy
> ``disappeared'' for a while) and I have discovered the articel by
> Berdnikov, Grineve and Turtia, with their comments on my macro
> fullpict.sty. I have corrected their first two mentioned ``bugs''
> so that there is only one counter in use no matter how many
> pictures are used, and so that it works as I want it to in
> minipage, twocolumn and list environments. However, I do want it
> to centre automatically.

I have installed the new version at ftp.tex.ac.uk -- it'll propagate
in due course to ftp.dante.de and the rest of the TeX-world.

Thanks for the update.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Sep 22 06:35:40 1996
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 11:32:53 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- LGrind (fwd)

> From: Michael Piefel <piefel@HP832.INFORMATIK.HU-BERLIN.DE>
> Date:         Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:58:18 +0200
>
> (a) I uploaded to DANTE
> (b) the file LGrind.zip
> (c) which contains the newest version of the LGrind-package and
> (d) should go to support/lgrind replacing the old one completely.

I installed the update as requested.

Thanks for the submission.

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
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From xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE Mon Sep 23 09:15:43 1996
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:04:33 +0200
From: Werner LEMBERG <xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE>
Reply-To: Werner Lemberg <a7971428@unet.univie.ac.at>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: CJK 4.0.0 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e)

I've just uploaded the latest CJK version to ftp.dante.de . It will be
soon available also on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the other CTAN mirrors in the
following directory:

    tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK


Below you find the release notes of this version


    Happy TeXing


        Werner


[CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean
with LaTeX2e. It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS,
Unicode.]

=========================================================================


Version 4.0.0:  new:
20-Sep-1996         I did the final step. All CJK encodings now have all
                      NFSS attributes, namely family, series, and shape
                      (represented by \CJK@family, \CJK@series, and
                      \CJK@shape). \CJK@family will be set by entering a CJK
                      environment in the same way as it was done in former
                      versions of this package. \CJK@series and \CJK@shape
                      will (usually) be controlled by the standard NFSS
                      commands (e.g. \slshape, \textbf etc.)

                      To achieve this it was necessary to define (NFSS)
                      font encodings for the CJK package. All CJK font
                      encodings map to NFSS font encodings which start with
                      the letter `C', followed by two digits. Here is a
                      table:

                        Chinese:      Bg5     C00
                                      Bg5pmC  C01

                                      GB      C10
                                      GBpmC   C11

                                      GBt     C20
                                      GBtpmC  C21

                                      CNS1-7  C31-37

                        Japanese:     JIS     C40
                                      JISpmC  C41
                                      JISdnp  C42
                                      JISwn   C43

                                      JIS2    C50

                                      SJIS    ->  kana        C49
                                                  (additionally)

                        Korean:       KS      ->  hanja       C60
                                              ->  hangul      C61
                                      KSpmC   C62
                                      KSHL    ->  hanjaHL     C63
                                              ->  hangulHL    C64
                                              ->  HLsymbolJ   C65
                                              ->  HLsymbolK   C66

                        Unicode:      UTF8    C70

                        CEF:          CEFX    C80
                                      CEFY    C81

                      The first digit corresponds to a CJK (input) encoding
                      like Bg5 or JIS, the second digit represents either a
                      CJK font encoding or internal encodings necessary to
                      cover the selected CJK encoding.

                      One consequence of this step is that you have to adapt
                      all .fd files to the new scheme. Look at the example
                      font definition files of the CJK package how to do it.

                      You can't use e.g. `C01' directly! Use the CJK
                      interface (in this example \CJKfontenc[pmC]{Bg5}).

                      Another consequence is that you are now limited to
                      five characters for the family name since it is part
                      of the .fd name (together with the NFSS font
                      encoding): e.g. `fangsong' is not longer allowed. I've
                      renamed this to `fs'.

                    the new font encoding scheme of the HLaTeX package is
                      supported. You can select it with \CJKfontenc[HL]{KS}
                      or \begin{CJK}[HL]{KS}{...} . This is _not_ an
                      emulation of HLaTeX! See CJK.doc for details.

                    poor-man's bold font has been introduced. To do this all
                      occurrences of \symbol has been replaced with the new
                      command \CJKsymbol which honours the \ifCJK@bold@
                      flag. If set, a character will be printed three times
                      with a small horizontal shift. You can modify this
                      flag with \CJKnormal and \CJKbold. These commands are
                      intended for use with \DeclareFontShape:

            \DeclareFontShape{C00}{CNS}{m}{n}{<-> CJK * csso12}{}
            \DeclareFontShape{C00}{CNS}{bx}{n}{<-> CJKb * csso12}{\CJKbold}

                      Additionally four size functions (CJKb, sCJKb,
                      CJKfixedb, sCJKfixedb) has been introduced which are
                      completely identical to its counterparts without the
                      final `b'. The only reason to use them is, as shown in
                      the above example, to make the fifth parameter of
                      \DeclareFontShape for bold series different from the
                      one for medium series (LaTeX2e uses this parameter as
                      a macro name to execute loading-settings, thus they
                      must not be equal). Redefine \CJKboldshift if the
                      default shift value of 0.015em is not optimal for the
                      specific font.

                    support for rubi (= furigana) added. See rubi.doc for
                      details.

                    ttf2pk:
                      TTF specific error handling enabled.

                      Big 5 encoded TTF in format 4 can now be handled.

                    hbf2gf: you can now use environment variables ($FOO or
                      ${FOO}) in the configuration file. Use $$ to get a
                      dollar sign.

                    man pages added.

                    more examples added.

                    REXX scripts bg5latex.cmd etc. (for OS/2) added
                      (contributed by Wonkoo Kim <wkim+@pitt.edu>).

                    teTeX.doc added.

                changed:
*                   The CJK distribution has been divided into three
*                     packages:
*                       src     The sources. Needed for all platforms
*                       bin     Binaries compiled with emx for DOS and OS/2.
*                       rest    Preformatted documentation (.dvi, .ps,
*                               output from cjk-enc.el)
*
*                   ALL FONT DEFINITION FILES HAVE BEEN CHANGED AND RENAMED!
*
                    \CJKshape and \CJKencshape renamed to \CJKfamily and
                      \CJKencfamily respectively. For backward compatibility
                      you can still use the old names. Nevertheless, they
                      now modify the font family parameter and no longer the
                      font shape parameter.

                    all *conv.tex and its batch files removed.

                    all converter programs now do not change the number of
                      lines in the output file.
*
*                   the UN*X converter batch files now replace the extension
*                     with .cjk instead of appending it. E.g.
*                     test.tex -> test.cjk (instead of test.tex.cjk)
*
                    f_name.bat provides a new environment variable %fu%
                      for a UNIX-like path (using `/' instead of `\'). Now
                      you can run bg5latex.bat and the other DOS batch files
                      having a file name with a path as an argument. Please
                      replace all these batch files with the new ones.

                    starting with this version ttf2pk is a direct part of
                      the CJK package. I will maintain it. As a consequence
                      the ttf2pk directory tree has been moved into the
                      utils subdirectory.

                    MakeTeXPK, MakeTTFPK: environment variable ttfdir and
                      hbf2gfdir renamed to TTFDIR and HBF2GFDIR
                      respectively.

                    hbf2gf: sample configuration files now contain TDS
                      compliant directories.

                    ttf2pk:
                      -c option removed which never worked.

                      some redundant code removed.

                      heavily reformatted.

                errors:
*                   PLEASE RECREATE ALL .TFM AND .PK FILES PRODUCED BY
*                   TTF2PK!
*                     Reason: the width values were resolution dependent.
*                     You should use the InstallFont script or instfont.btm
*                     for this job since the very bug in ttf2pk has not yet
*                     been fixed. Additionally you must install the new
*                     MakeTTFPK script.

                    ttf2pk:
                      endchar didn't work correctly.

                    punctuation characters in KS were not handled correctly.

                    \CJKchar failed sometimes (Jinn S. Yang
                      <v30yjs@v0sun11.ccl.itri.org.tw>).

                    Big 5/SJIS characters failed in headers etc. if used
                      without preprocessor (Jinn S. Yang
                      <v30yjs@v0sun11.ccl.itri.org.tw>).


---End of history.txt---

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Sep 23 10:48:48 1996
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 15:37:06 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- knst

Jordi Saludes writes:

 > (a)+(b)
 > i've just uploaded the file knst.tar.gz in the incoming directory
 > of ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > (c) README in the package follows:
 > ---------------
 >   This is the package supporting generation and correction of
 >   multiple option tests, as will appear in TUGBoat 17#3:
 >   "Fast and secure multiple option tests".
 >
 >   The package includes:
 >    - knst.tex: Macro TeX package and style to typeset the tests;
 >    - knd.c:    C code for an utility which grades these tests as described in
 >                the paper;
 >    - README:   this file;
 >    - foo.tex:  Example test file. Uncomment \plainversion to run the
 >              plain version, then run again with the comments in place
 >              to get a test.
 > ----------------
 >
 > (d) Suggested location: /tex-archive/macros/generic/
 >
 > Yours
 >
 >   --Jordi Saludes
 >     saludes@grec.upc.es

Thanks a lot, I installed the files in

   macros/generic/knst

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From peb@MPPMU.MPG.DE Wed Sep 25 10:22:11 1996
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:53:47 +0200
From: Peter Breitenlohner <peb@MPPMU.MPG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: pub-tex & co, Version 2.1

CTAN now contains the latest version 2.1 of
PubliC TeX/METAFONT/MetaPost and the Dos-TP versions of the
utilities:
  assumes TDS (TeX directory structure), functionality similar to
    that of web2c/kpathsea
  run-time support (some basic tex, tfm, ... files, doc files)
  source (requires TP compiler) with unix make like utilities
    to generate and install programms
  executables
  NO formats etc., those have to be generated

CTAN location:
     systems/msdos/dos-tp/README
     systems/msdos/dos-tp/run/run*.zip   run-time support
     systems/msdos/dos-tp/run/src*.zip   sources
     systems/msdos/dos-tp/run/exe*.zip   precompiled executables

changes against previous version 2.0
  new includes BibTeX, MetaPost, mpware,
     and a (still somewhat incomlete) beta test version of eTeX
  many programs can now read files in unix format (e.g. mounted
     as network drives via nfs, or ...)
  small executables named tex, plaintex, latex,
     that invoke virtex with a fixed default format (plain, latex)
     or a default format read from the first line of the top-level
     input file; same for MF and MP.

Peter Breitenlohner   ****  new e-mail:  peb@mppmu.mpg.de  ****

From xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE Thu Sep 26 06:21:42 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:03:04 +0200
From: Werner LEMBERG <xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE>
Reply-To: Werner Lemberg <a7971428@unet.univie.ac.at>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CJK 4.0.0 patch

Please apply this patch to the CJK source tree and recompile ttf2pk,
otherwise you will not be able to process format 4 Big 5 encoded TrueType
fonts (NTU TrueType fonts are _not_ affected).


    Werner


[CJK is a macro package for LaTeX2e to enable processing of
Chinese/Korean/Japanese in various encodings]

=======================================================================

diff -ur CJK/4_0.0/utils/ttf2pk/src/findex.c CJK/4_0.0pl1/utils/ttf2pk/src/findex.c
--- CJK/4_0.0/utils/ttf2pk/src/findex.c Fri Sep 20 04:00:00 1996
+++ CJK/4_0.0pl1/utils/ttf2pk/src/findex.c      Wed Sep 25 04:00:01 1996
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
     return -1;

   if (cm->map.cmap4->idRangeOffset[i] == 0)
-    index1 = cm->map.cmap4->idDelta[i] + ch;
+    index = cm->map.cmap4->idDelta[i] + ch;
   else
   {
     index1 = cm->map.cmap4->idRangeOffset[i] / 2 +

From randhol@stud.ntnu.no Fri Sep 27 03:20:06 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:33:16 +0200
From: Preben Randhol <randhol@stud.ntnu.no>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: suggestion

I just wondered if it was possible to make a database system of the
different packages that people upload. If they also upload a file
describing their package and if this file was copied to a
description-directory, it would be easier to catalogize the different
packages.

--
Preben Randhol                    | If a lie is repeated often enough all
Tlf:   73940929 (kontor 73593995) | dumb jackasses in the world not only g
Epost: randhol@stud.ntnu.no       | to believe it, they even swear by it.
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~randhol/ |

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Sep 27 06:09:48 1996
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 11:04:01 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: koi8

Boris Veytsman writes:

 > I've just uploaded koi8.tar to dante. It contains the files koi8.sty
 > (written mostly by Uri Blumenthal and uploaded with his permission),
 > rawprint.sty and readme. Please install them in the directory
 > latex/macros/contrib/supported/koi8 with a symlink from the latex209 tree
 > (the files work both with LaTeX2e and LaTeX2.09). The readme file is
 > appended.

In installed the package

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/koi8

with a link from

   macros/latex209/contrib/koi8

Thanks.

I append the README file.

Rainer Schoepf

 >
 > Thanks
 >
 > Good luck
 >
 > -Boris
 >
 > <a href="http://planck.plmsc.psu.edu/~boris/">Home page</a>
 >
 >                     PACKAGES KOI8 AND RAWPRINT
 >
 >                         September 24, 1996
 >
 > These packages are intended for typesetting Russian texts.
 >
 > 1. Package koi8 (written by Uri Blumenthal <uri@watson.ibm.com> with
 > minor modifications by Boris Veytsman <boris@plmsc.psu.edu>).
 >
 > It performs internal translation from the KOI-8 encoding (de-facto
 > standard of the UNIX world) to the so called ``alternative encoding''
 > used by most Cyrillic packages. You still need one of these packages
 > for the actual Russian typesetting. The style works with all major
 > Cyrillic packages: cmcyr, cmcyralt, LH. The usage is very simple:
 >
 > In LaTeX2e
 > \documentclass{article}
 > \usepackage{lh,koi8}
 > \begin{document}
 >   SOME TEXT IN KOI-8
 > \end{document}
 >
 > In LaTeX2.09
 > \documentstyle{lh,koi8,article}
 > \begin{document}
 >   SOME TEXT IN KOI-8
 > \end{document}
 >
 >
 > Substitute cmcyr or cmcyralt for lh if you use these packages.
 >
 >
 > 2. Package rawprint
 >
 > This package is intended for ``quick and dirty'' printing of raw
 > (i.e. non-TeX) Russian texts by persons who (like me) do not have
 > Russian printer fonts (but have Cyrillic TeX). It makes #, $, % and &
 > ``normal'' letters and converts the ``unisex'' quote character " into
 > Russian-style << and >> quotes. The usage (in LaTeX2e) is:
 >
 > \documentclass{article}
 > \usepackage{lh,rawprint}
 > \begin{document}
 > \input{document_in_alt_encoding.txt}
 > \end{document}
 >
 > \documentclass{article}
 > \usepackage{lh,koi8,rawprint}
 > \begin{document}
 > \input{document_in_koi8_encoding.txt}
 > \end{document}
 >
 > and the LaTeX2.09 usage should be quite obvious.
 >
 > Please note that making % a letter is a rather drastic solution. Since
 > most LaTeX style files have some comments delimited by the percent
 > signs, the package rawprint must be invoked as the LAST one. The line
 > \usepackage{rawprint,lh} will cause you lots of grief.
 >
 > Happy LaTeXing in Russian!
 >
 >                 Boris Veytsman <boris@plmsc.psu.edu>

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Oct  2 04:51:55 1996
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 09:35:23 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ChkTeX

Jens T. Berger Thielemann writes:

 > a) ftp.dante.de
 > b) ChkTeX.tar.gz (*not* chktex.tar.gz)
 > c) Finds typographic/syntax errors in LaTeX. Interfaces with
 >    AUC-TeX.
 > d) support/chktex
 >
 > As usual, please let the main README file auto-display when entering the
 > directory. Thanks.

Installed as requested. Thanks.

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Oct  2 08:43:06 1996
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 12:36:07 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: BIDS -> BibTeX

Anthony Stone writes:

> David Carlisle suggested that I should submit my bids.to.bibtex perl script to
> the CTAN, since requests for such a thing come up quite often.

The documentation of the script is...

> #!/usr/bin/perl
> #
> #  Usage: bids.to.bibtex <file>
> #
> #  will take input from a BIDS email message in <file> in the source directory
> #  $sourcedir and produce a BibTeX bibfile <file>.bib in the output directory
> #  $bibdir. The BIDS message should have been generated using one of the
> #  downloading formats.
> #  If both files are to be in the current directory, replace the definitions
> #  below by
> #  $sourcedir = "";
> #  $bibdir = "";
> #  If the output file exists, the new references are appended to it. Otherwise
> #  a new file is created.
> #
> #  Some work will be needed to deal with capitalization and accents in the
> #  BibTeX file.
> #
> #  This version assumes perl 5, and it might not work under perl 4.

I have installed the file on CTAN as biblio/bibtex/contrib/bids/bids.to.bibtex

It'll propagate to ftp.dante.de and to CTAN mirrors in due course.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Oct  2 12:31:07 1996
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 17:22:59 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- doublestroke

Olaf Kummer writes:

 > I have uploaded to the incoming directory of
 >   ftp.dante.de
 > the file
 >   ds2.tar.gz
 > (A file ds.tar.gz was uploaded, too, but might have been
 > corrupted during transmission. Delete that file.)
 > The file contains
 >   version 1.0
 > of my package
 >   doublestroke
 > of which version 0.1 is currently found on CTAN at
 >   /pub/tex/fonts/doublestroke
 > The old files are obsolete and should be removed,
 > especially
 >   dsrom10.300gf and
 >   dsrom12.300gf
 > The other files can be replaced by the new files contained
 > in the gziped tar-file.

Thanks, I installed the update.

For the CTAN team

Rainer Schoepf


 > >From the readme:
 > This font is based on the Computer Modern Roman family of fonts
 > by D. E. Knuth. It is useful for typesetting the mathematical
 > symbols for the natural numbers (N), whole numbers (Z),
 > rational numbers (Q), real numbers (R) and complex numbers (C).
 >
 > Thanks for your effords.
 > Olaf
 > --
 > Olaf Kummer, Rotdornstieg 24, 25469 Halstenbek, Germany
 > Tel: 04101-43178 / 040-5494-2245    Fax: 040-5494-2246
 > mailto:kummer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
 > http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/wimis/kummer.html

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Oct  4 06:21:48 1996
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 11:05:47 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Soyombo for LaTeX

Oliver Corff writes:

 > Being suggested by Robin Fairbairns to do so, I uploaded the Soyombo for LaTeX
 > package to ftp.dante.de:/incoming in the form of a zipped archive soyombo.zip.
 >
 > The package consists of five or six files providing the Soyombo script for
 > LaTeX users. There are one style file, one user documentation, two metafont
 > sources and two font metrics files.
 >
 > The URL http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/im/Soyombo/overview.Soyombo.html
 > will give you a detailed overview.
 >
 > A suggested directory would be language/mongolian/soyombo.
 >
 > Thank you very much for your attention,
 >
 > Sincerely yours,
 >
 > Oliver Corff.
 > --
 > Dr. Oliver Corff              e-mail:    corff@zedat.fu-berlin.de
 > c/o Wuertz    Wielandstr. 20  telephone:   ++ 49 - 30 - 852 93 75

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as proposed. Would you care to
supply a short README file that we could add to that directory?

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Oct  5 09:08:54 1996
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 13:04:50 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: MikTeX 1.05 for Win32-PowerPC

Andreas Berz writes:

> I uploaded a MikTeX-Package for Windows-NT on the PowerPC-hardware-platform.
> The author of the package, Christan Schenk <cschenk@berlin.snafu.de>,
> suggested me to distribute the whole package (not only the PowerPC-binaries)
> if i cannot follow his version steps.
>
> -I uploaded the package at ftp.tex.ac.uk in the directory /incoming/miktexppc
>
> -I uploaded the following files in the directory 'miktexppc':
>
>   install.exe       MiKTeX Installation Utility
>   unzip.exe         UnZip Utility
>   bibtx105.zip      BibTeX input files
>   doc105.zip        Documentation
>   dvips105.zip      dvips input files
>   exe105p.zip       PowerPC-based executable files
>   fonts105.zip      Font source files (CM & DC)
>   latex105.zip      LaTeX2e base distribution and format file
>   mf105.zip         METAFONT input files
>   mkind105.zip      MakeIndex input files
>   tex105.zip        Plain TeX input files and format file
>   tfm105.zip        Font metric files
>   vf105.zip         Virtual font files
>   vga105.zip        Packed raster font files for the screen
>   cx105.zip         Packed raster font files for 300dpi laser printers
>   src105.zip        Source code
>   Readme.1st        Readme from the author (guide to install)
>   News              Version History
>   Readme.ppc        Readme for PowerPC-Version of MikTeX
>
> -I suggest to place the file at the following place in the CTAN directory
> hierarchy:
>  /tex-archive/systems/win32ppc/miktex      or ...
>  /tex-archive/systems/win32/powerpc/miktex

After a little thought about this (in the context of the structure of
other parts of the systems/ tree), I decided to upload the directory
as
    systems/win32/miktexppc

It should make its way from here pretty soon.

> Viele Gruesse aus dem Schwarzwald, Andreas Berz.

Thanks, from the rather less tree-covered county of Cambridgeshire,
for the upload!

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Oct  5 10:21:59 1996
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 14:19:24 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- compsci package

Matt Swift writes:

> I have uploaded
>
>   ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/compsci.sty
>
> which should replace
>
>   ctan://macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster/compsci.sty
>
> ====
>
> Version 0.92 (beta) replaces version 0.91 (beta).
>
> The compsci package now works with the latest moreverb package.
> (Compsci depends on moreverb and redefines one of moreverb's internal
> commands.)
>
> % \begin{abstract}
> %   The \package{compsci} package provides \LaTeX{} macros for writing about
> %   \LaTeX{} macros.  Most often this package will be used to supplement the
> %   \class{ltxdoc} class, but it can be used with other classes.
> %
> %   In this initial version, there are a few cosmetic bugs, some minor bugs,
> %   and some features break if you are not using the \class{ltxdoc} class.
> % \end{abstract}

I have installed the revised version as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Oct  8 06:48:33 1996
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 11:09:54 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Submission of a WinNT/95 WMF -> EPS converter

Wolfgang Schulter writes:

 > I've uploaded the arj-compressed archive WMF2EP03.ARJ to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > Purpose of the program is to simplify Windows Metafile Graphics (WMF)
 > containing either vector-images or bitmaps into Encapsulated PostScript
 > format having tight bounding-boxes (WinNT and Win95) at exactly the same
 > size as the WMF-originals.

Thanks for your upload. I installed the files

  wmf2ep03.zip
  readme.txt

in directory

  support/wmf2eps

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Oct  8 09:20:06 1996
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 13:10:15 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Putting StarTeX on CTAN

Dag Langmyhr has submitted the StarTeX macros, that he presented at
TUG'96 in Dubna, to CTAN.

The README says (among other things):

  This is the StarTeX package, a TeX format designed to help students
  write short reports and essays. It provides the user with a suitable
  set of commands for such a task. It is also more robust than plain TeX
  and LaTeX.

  For more information, see the documentation files [...]

Thanks for the submission; I have installed the macro set in a single
directory as macros/startex

This was at ftp.tex.ac.uk; they should propagate in modertely short
order.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Oct  8 12:59:01 1996
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 16:47:18 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Statistics of operation, ftp.tex.ac.uk, September 1996

TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Sat Aug 31 1996 TO Mon Sep 30 1996

Files Transmitted During Summary Period        316090
Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period   34681838134
Systems Using Archives                              0

Average Files Transmitted Daily                  9878
Average Bytes Transmitted Daily            1083807442

Daily Transmission Statistics

                 Number Of    Number of    Average    Percent Of  Percent Of
     Date        Files Sent  Bytes  Sent  Xmit  Rate  Files Sent  Bytes Sent
---------------  ----------  -----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
                          1          199    0.2 KB/s      0.00        0.00
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Sun Sep  1 1996        6304    873653690    7.1 KB/s      1.99        2.52
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Tue Sep  3 1996        7239   1389216134    6.8 KB/s      2.29        4.01
Wed Sep  4 1996       13324   1764159540    6.4 KB/s      4.22        5.09
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Wed Sep 25 1996       15369   1671530474    5.5 KB/s      4.86        4.82
Thu Sep 26 1996       11476   1190557649    4.2 KB/s      3.63        3.43
Fri Sep 27 1996        9900   1189759274    3.6 KB/s      3.13        3.43
Sat Sep 28 1996        8101    837154864    4.0 KB/s      2.56        2.41
Sun Sep 29 1996       13378   1296274386    7.3 KB/s      4.23        3.74
Mon Sep 30 1996        2828    155980086    2.7 KB/s      0.89        0.45

Total Transfers from each Archive Section

                                                 ---- Percent  Of ----
     Archive Section      Files Sent Bytes Sent  Files Sent Bytes Sent
------------------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ----------
Informational Files              142   114329703     0.04       0.33
TeX Informational Files         4233  6208845265     1.34      17.90
biblio                          3888    96154896     1.23       0.28
digests                         4775    57073865     1.51       0.16
dviware                         9744   278735249     3.08       0.80
fonts                          91428  2180884319    28.92       6.29
graphics                        6449   115216601     2.04       0.33
help                            1968    72877304     0.62       0.21
indexing                         536     6266398     0.17       0.02
info                            9100  1945913853     2.88       5.61
language                       10272   115488046     3.25       0.33
macros                         69615  2692614361    22.02       7.76
non-TeX                          301    50634865     0.10       0.15
support                        24448  1641417161     7.73       4.73
systems                        62276 18665911016    19.70      53.82
tds                              680     3875682     0.22       0.01
tools                           7880   318380603     2.49       0.92
usergrps                         506    19219524     0.16       0.06
web                             7849    97999423     2.48       0.28

Total Transfer Amount By Domain

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at                   58      23855770    1.2 KB/s      0.02        0.07
au                 2928     511411468    2.8 KB/s      0.93        1.47
be                 2912     394944619    3.3 KB/s      0.92        1.14
bg                    1           460    0.2 KB/s      0.00        0.00
br                  271      59015466    1.0 KB/s      0.09        0.17
by                    6        100525    0.1 KB/s      0.00        0.00
ca                 2667     501079518    4.2 KB/s      0.84        1.44
ch                 3480     482236446   16.4 KB/s      1.10        1.39
cl                 2119      48463471    4.0 KB/s      0.67        0.14
cn                   39       7683047    2.4 KB/s      0.01        0.02
co                    2        292000    0.6 KB/s      0.00        0.00
cy                    3         19138    1.6 KB/s      0.00        0.00
cz                 5802     344189497    3.4 KB/s      1.84        0.99
de                 2827     422348277    5.1 KB/s      0.89        1.22
dk                 5262     799552404   17.1 KB/s      1.66        2.31
ee                   16        640807    0.6 KB/s      0.01        0.00
es                 1806     296197571    1.5 KB/s      0.57        0.85
fi                 2939     443234648   40.9 KB/s      0.93        1.28
fr                13019    1546586238    3.4 KB/s      4.12        4.46
gb                  200     161402400  101.9 KB/s      0.06        0.47
gr                  498     100599755    1.3 KB/s      0.16        0.29
hk                34334    1124589220    1.3 KB/s     10.86        3.24
hr                    4         79407   11.3 KB/s      0.00        0.00
hu                  451      26121257    1.8 KB/s      0.14        0.08
id                    1         43000    3.9 KB/s      0.00        0.00
ie                 1620     420936553   25.6 KB/s      0.51        1.21
il                 1987      53933075    1.2 KB/s      0.63        0.16
in                   14       2048890   10.4 KB/s      0.00        0.01
is                   69      12188843    5.7 KB/s      0.02        0.04
it                25228    2136392351    8.0 KB/s      7.98        6.16
jo                    2           599    0.3 KB/s      0.00        0.00
jp                24429    1578722820    6.4 KB/s      7.73        4.55
kr                  625     108884977    1.1 KB/s      0.20        0.31
kw                    8       1611546    0.2 KB/s      0.00        0.00
lk                    2         44655    0.8 KB/s      0.00        0.00
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lu                   18       4054983    3.1 KB/s      0.01        0.01
lv                   18       2525049    1.0 KB/s      0.01        0.01
mx                  659     117844263    2.2 KB/s      0.21        0.34
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nl                16115    1225560633   11.9 KB/s      5.10        3.53
no                 2179     455242917    6.7 KB/s      0.69        1.31
nz                  330      53022161    1.6 KB/s      0.10        0.15
pk                    1           664    0.7 KB/s      0.00        0.00
pl                 9811     959624849    5.6 KB/s      3.10        2.77
pt                  377      79498944    0.6 KB/s      0.12        0.23
ro                   61      11094429    0.4 KB/s      0.02        0.03
ru                  580      71250633    0.9 KB/s      0.18        0.21
se                 8742    1297450871   17.3 KB/s      2.77        3.74
sg                   65      15732850    0.9 KB/s      0.02        0.05
si                  226     152896865    9.8 KB/s      0.07        0.44
sk                   13        385471    0.2 KB/s      0.00        0.00
su                   73       7661893    0.2 KB/s      0.02        0.02

Total Transfer Amount By Domain

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th                  165       3994552    1.0 KB/s      0.05        0.01
tr                  101      45136403    1.8 KB/s      0.03        0.13
tw                10481     456084505    1.7 KB/s      3.32        1.32
ua                   52      18485506    0.3 KB/s      0.02        0.05
uk                66545    7826147202   12.3 KB/s     21.05       22.57
us                  151       4032723   21.7 KB/s      0.05        0.01
ve                   93      41944720    1.2 KB/s      0.03        0.12
za                 9602     424673539    5.3 KB/s      3.04        1.22
com                9864    2031722923    5.2 KB/s      3.12        5.86
edu               24317    4600087613    6.6 KB/s      7.69       13.26
gov                1513     239910913    6.0 KB/s      0.48        0.69
int                  17      20082902    1.3 KB/s      0.01        0.06
mil                 880     483430712   10.4 KB/s      0.28        1.39
net                1870     324369444    1.5 KB/s      0.59        0.94
org                 456      48150802    7.7 KB/s      0.14        0.14
unresolved        14777    2010338822    2.4 KB/s      4.67        5.80

These figures only reflect ANONYMOUS FTP transfers.  There are many
sites which mount the archives via NFS, and those transfers are not
logged and reported by this program.



Top 15 Most Popular Archive Sections By Bytes Transferred

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     Archive Section      Files Sent Bytes  Sent Files Sent Bytes Sent
------------------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ----------
systems                        62276 18665911016    19.70      53.82
TeX Informational Files         4233  6208845265     1.34      17.90
macros                         69615  2692614361    22.02       7.76
fonts                          91428  2180884319    28.92       6.29
info                            9100  1945913853     2.88       5.61
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dviware                         9744   278735249     3.08       0.80
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web                             7849    97999423     2.48       0.28
biblio                          3888    96154896     1.23       0.28
help                            1968    72877304     0.62       0.21
digests                         4775    57073865     1.51       0.16

From KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Tue Oct  8 15:43:51 1996
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 18:57:14 +0100
From: J%org Knappen Mainz <KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: fc (aFrican Computer Modern) fonts version 1.3

The fc fonts (LaTeX T4 encoding) version 1.3 are now installed on
ftp.dante.de in tex-archive/fonts/jknappen/fc and will propagate to the
mirror sites soon.

The new release contains:

o Bug fixes to most bugs reported in the last two years
o A more complete distribution, including ready-mf files and tfm files

If you already have the fc fonts, please recompute them completely.
There are minor differences affecting the tfm files, however, if you don't
try hard they'll leave your line and page breaks intact.

The old version (which was located in tex-archive/fonts/fc) has been
deleted.

--J"org Knappen

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Oct  9 04:04:15 1996
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 08:52:03 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Update to aguplus on CTAN (fwd)

> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@linpwd.mpae.gwdg.de>
> Subject:      Update to aguplus on CTAN
> Date:         Wed, 9 Oct 1996 08:43:28 +0200
>
> Greetings,
>
> I have just placed update files for the aguplus bundle in the Dante CTAN
> server, under   incoming/aguplus
>
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      4098 Oct  9 07:38 README.pwd
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     39621 Oct  9 07:37 aguplus.cls
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     39019 Oct  9 07:37 aguplus.sty
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     44106 Oct  9 07:37 aguplus.tex
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      4235 Oct  9 07:37 changes.v15a
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     11311 Oct  9 07:39 samplus.tex
>
> Please copy these to   contrib/supported/aguplus, replacing the files of the
> same name, and removing   changes.v15

Installed as requested.

Thanks for the contribution,
  Reinhard Zierke
  For the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Oct 10 05:38:23 1996
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:15:27 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- chemcono (fwd)

> From: Stefan Schulz <sschulz@chemie.uni-hamburg.de>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- chemcono
> Date:         Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:30:10 +0100
>
> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de the files
> chemcono.sty
> drftcono.sty
> example.sty
> in the incoming/chemcononew directory. Due to an error of mine, an
> probably wrong version has been uploaded to incoming/chemcono.
> Please delete incoming/chemcono.
> It replaces the old version of chemcono in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported
>
> Description:
> LaTeX style file for using compound numbers
>    in chemistry documents. It works like
>    \cite and the \thebibliography, using \fcite
>    and \theffbibliography instead. It allows compound
>    names in documents to be numbered and does not
>    affect the normal citation routines.
>    Very helpful for writing chemistry papers.
>     This style does:
> - Compound-numbering. Any compound gets a
> number  using \fcite, bold face as
> default. This number is printed every time you type \fcite.
> - The compounds are numbered according to
> the entries in the \theffbibliography.
> - The \ffbibliography generates an chapter with
>   the heading 'Compound numbers'.
> Dr. Stefan Schulz

Thanks for the submission; I installed the upgrade as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Oct 11 05:05:58 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:53:42 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN update to natbib (fwd)

> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@linpwd.mpae.gwdg.de>
> Subject:      CTAN update to natbib
> Date:         Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:33:36 +0200
>
> I have uploaded some update files for my package natbib to the Dante CTAN
> server, in the incoming directory:
>
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     11548 Oct 11 08:28 README.v64
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    142997 Oct 11 08:28 natbib.dtx
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      1596 Oct 11 08:28 natbib.ins
>
> Could you please copy them to the proper directory:
>    macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib
>
> replacing the files of the same name and removing   README.v63.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as
requested.

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Oct 11 05:34:07 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:21:13 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- mathcomp (fwd)

> From: Tilmann Boess <tilmann@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- mathcomp
> Date:         Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:48:18 +0200
>
> I've uploaded a small LaTeX2e package on CTAN.
>
> (a) site:  ftp.dante.de:/incoming
>
> (b) file:  mathcomp.zip
>
> (c) intention:  The package provides access to some interesting chars
>     of the Text Companion fonts (TS1 encoding) in math mode.
>
> (d) recommendated placing:  I suggest to put the unpacked files (that
>     are `mathcomp.dtx' and `mathcomp.ins') to the same directory that
>     holds the textcomp package: `fonts/psfonts/ts1'.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/mathcomp with a symbolic link from
fonts/psfonts/mathcomp to this directory.

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 11 05:57:19 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:44:08 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ConcProg

> a) ftp.tex.ac.uk
> b) ConcProg.tar.gz
> c)
>                           < ConcProg class >
>
> This class provides necessary macros to prepare a (classical) concert
> programme. The files provided (so far) are:
>
>   o ConcProg.cls:  class definition file,
>   o Programme.tex: a sample of programme
>
> d) tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/

I have duly installed this as macros/latex/contrib/supported/concprog
at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Thanks for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Oct 11 08:45:21 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:21:05 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN update to natbib (fwd)

> From: daly@linpwd.mpae.gwdg.de (P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany)
> Subject: Re: CTAN update to natbib (fwd)
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:02:44 +0200
>
> I overlooked some additional files in my natbib update this morning. They are
>   plainnat.bst
>   unsrtnat.bst
>   abbrvnat.bst
> which I have put in incoming/natbib. Could you please copy them to the natbib
> directory too.

Done as requested

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 11 12:19:01 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 16:07:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: new table colour package

David Carlisle has submitted the following:

> colortbl.dtx
> colortbl.ins
>   Add colour to LaTeX tables. Requires array and color packages.
>   Process colortbl.ins to produce the package file colortbl.sty.
>   Process colortbl.dtx to get the documentation (this requires
>   longtable hhline and dcolumn from the standard `tools'
>   distribution.)

I have installed them on CTAN (at ftp.tex.ac.uk in the first instance)
in directory macros/contrib/supported/carlisle

Thanks, David

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Oct 14 13:42:20 1996
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 18:32:29 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission (fwd)

> From: Axel Kielhorn <i0080108@ws.rz.tu-bs.de>
> Subject:      CTAN submission
> Date:         Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:45:40 +0100
>
> I have uploaded a new version of my wasysym package to ftp.dante.de.
>
> It corrects some problems with T1 encoding and math mode.
>
> Please move it to macros/latex/contrib/supported/wasysym

Done as requested.

Thanks for the submission,

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

From l44@IWD.UNI-BREMEN.DE Tue Oct 15 04:27:41 1996
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 09:23:58 +0200
From: Roland Weibezahn <l44@IWD.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Announce: xtem X11-TeX-Menu 5.23

Dear xtem users,

We have finished the new version (xtem_TeXMenu.5.23) of

        "xtem",   an  X11-TeX-menu

which runs with the new Tcl/Tk/TclX (Tcl7.5/ and Tcl7.6-beta1)
as well as with the old version (Tcl7.4).

In addition to adapting xtem to the new Tcl/Tk, we have done
errror corrections and added new features, such as:

  - installation (and maintenance of the logfiles) is much easier with
    the (new) installation procedure,

  - (optional) logfile analyze after TeX run, you can then click at each
    error message (incl. overfull/underfull boxes) in order to edit
    the texfile at the corresponding position,

  - "quick&dirty" button for quick TeXing and previewing of a small text
    fragment (including preamble),

  - the edit file can be selected from other directories than the main file,

  - (optional) vertical scrollbars for the text widgets,

  - revision of all bindings (conforming behaviour: actions are done
    at button release),

  - LaTeX syntax got it's own button now.

Most setting files from older versions of xtem may be kept unchanged:

 - mkcommand.vst   must be updated
 - texfmt.vst      should be updated to enable "quick&dirty"
 - logform.vst     one line concerning logfile analyze can/should be added



You will find all files on our file server:

      http://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html
or
      ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem.v5/xtem_texmenu.5.23.tar.gz
      ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem.v5/xtem_texmenu_5eng.ps.gz
      ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem.v5/xtem_texmenu_5ger.ps.gz

Here you may also find the sources: Tcl7.5, Tk4.1, TclX7.5.2

      ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tcl7.4p2.tar.gz
      ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tk4.0p2.tar.g
      ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tclX7.4a-p1.tar.gz

We have uploaded the new xtem version to the
neosoft server into "/pub/tcl/incoming/",
and it's already mirrored to the CTAN servers,
so you also may get all the material from
      ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/NEW/xtem_*
and   ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/xtem_texmenu/xtem.v5/*
and the other CTAN servers.


For those who don't know xtem_TeXMenu up to now, we give a short overview:

xtem provides for a simple and comfortable graphical user interface to control
the following facilities:

  - file and directory selection, directory creation,
  - editor (vi, emacs, ...)  including additional windows for the
    LaTeX-syntax (using hypertext) and examples,
  - TeX, LaTeX, ...,
  - previewer (ghostview, xdvi, TkDvi, ...),
  - printing (including comfortable printer selection, ...),
  - syntax and spelling check,
  - makeindex,
  - bibtex,
  - additional programs as required,
    .
    .
    .
Online help is available for all the buttons and windows by simple mouse click.
xtem is written for Unix platforms and has been tested on many systems.



Thanks,
                Roland Weibezahn
---
Dr. Roland Weibezahn
weibezahn@iwd.uni-bremen.de    phone: +49-421-218-3532
University Bremen, IWD, postbox: 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany
http://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html (the xtem_TeXMenu project)

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Oct 16 08:26:53 1996
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:08:49 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <TED.ZIP>

Dierk Walter writes:

 > im Verzeichnis INCOMING des DANTE-Servers liegt das File TED.ZIP.
 > Ich bitte darum, diese Datei aufzunehmen.
 >
 > TED.ZIP ist die mit PKZIP gepackte neue Version des TED, dassen alte Version
 >  zu finden ist unter
 >                         pub/tex/systems/msdos/ted
 >
 > Die neue Version enth"alt Vorbereitungen f"ur WINDOWS 3.1 und WINDOWS 95.
 > M"oglicherweise ist deswegen ein anderer Pfad sinnvoll.
 >
 > Abgesehen von den neu hinzugekommenen Dateien sind die Dateinamen gleich
 > geblieben. "Anderungen gegen"uber der alten Version sind der Datei README
 > zu entnehmen. README.TED enth"alt wieder eine grunds"atzliche Einf"uhrung in
 > das Programm.
 >
 > Bisher war im oben genannten Verzeichnis MSDOS/TED das File TED.ZIP und
 > (aus diesem entnommen) das File README.TED.
 >
 >                                                                            V
 > ielen Dank f"ur Ihre M"uhe,
 >                                                                            T
 > imo Baumann
 > Dierk Walter
 > Assistent
 > Universitaet Bern
 > Historisches Institut, Abteilung Neueste allgemeine Geschichte
 > Unitobler, Laenggassstr. 49, CH-3000 Bern 9
 > Tel. 0041 (CH) 31 631 8095
 > Tel. 0041 (CH) 31 631 4882
 > Fax 0041 (CH) 31 631 4410

Please note that CTAN is an english language list.

I installed your package as requested. Thanks a lot.

For the CTAN team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Oct 16 08:38:49 1996
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:12:12 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- koma.zip -- latexhlp.zip -- lathlp_k.zip

Oliver Stenzel writes:

 > ich habe heute die im Betreff genannten Archive nach
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming upgeloaded. Es handelt sich um drei Hypertexte
 > fuer ST-Guide -- lauffaehig unter AtariOS und MagiCMac --, die
 > Online-Hilfen fuer LaTeX und das KoMa-Script Paket darstellen. Sie sind
 > am besten unter /tex-archive/systems/atari/latexhlp/ aufgehoben. Bitte
 > loescht vor dem Verschieben alle dort meine alten vorhandenen Versionen
 > (lat*.*)! Nuetzlich koennte vielleicht ein link auf
 > /tex-archive/help/latexhlp sein.

Note that CTAN is an english language list.

I installed your update as requested, except for the link. I'm not
sure that the link is a good idea, as latexhlp is a system specific
package.

Thanks a lot

For the CTAN team
Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Oct 20 12:01:15 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 16:55:59 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission: akletter (fwd)

> From: Axel Kielhorn <i0080108@ws.rz.tu-bs.de>
> Subject:      CTAN submission
> Date:         Sat, 19 Oct 1996 11:33:38 +0100
>
> I have uploaded a new version of my letter-class for LaTeX2e to
> ftp.dante.de/incoming/akletter.
>
> This *replaces* myletter.cls.
>
> Please remove the myletter directory and add an akletter directory
> instead.

Done as requested.

Thanks for the submission,
  Reinhard Zierke
  For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct 22 07:15:08 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:00:49 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: PMGRAPH.STY, etc.

Sasha Berdnikov has submitted to CTAN the three things he talked about
at TUG'96 in Dubna.  I have now installed all three, and they should
make their way to dante and the CTAN mirrors some time soon.

The packages are:

systems/msdos/utilities/vfcomb A system to support the writers of
  virtual fonts; this is written in Turbo Pascal, and sources are
  included -- Sasha invites people to port the package to other
  platforms than DOS...

macros/latex/contrib/supported/mff A package to provide something
  similar to `multiple master' fonts, but using Metafont; you specify
  a font by a set of Metafont parameters, and TeX makes up a .mf file
  to generate the required font; this package is not integrated with
  NFSS (or MakeTeXTFM) yet, but it's a lot of fun.

macros/latex/contrib/supported/pmgraph A set of extensions to LaTeX
  picture environment, including a wider range of vectors, and a lot
  more box frame styles

Thanks to all the St Petersburg team that created that lot...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From piet@cs.ruu.nl Tue Oct 22 08:08:40 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:01:15 +0200
From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: $$$ Cash - Money

Cc: postmaster@teleline.teleline.es,
        postmaster@tsai3.teleline.es
Subject: Abuse of email facility

The following message appeared on the mailing list CTAN-ANN (Multiple
recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>)

I consider this to be an abuse of that mailing list, as the mailing list is
a closed one.

Moreover this is a pyramid scheme which is illegal in some countries, e.g.
in the USA where some of the addresses mentioned in the message are
located.

May I suggest you to take appropriate action to the abusers?

Regards and thanks.

--
Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet [PGP]

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct 22 09:04:20 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:57:57 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- vruler.sty

Zhuhan Jiang writes:

> I have uploaded an upgrade of vruler.sty
> to /incoming of ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>
> vruler.sty is a package for adding a vertical numbering to the
> general text so that the text can be properly referenced. The
> vertical ruler can be scaled and moved freely. vruler.sty supports
> LaTeX and plain TeX.

I have done the following:

1) Installed the package as macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/vruler.sty

2) Deleted the old version macros/latex209/contrib/misc/vruler.sty

3) Installed a link to the new version from macros/generic/vruler.sty

(All this at ftp.tex.ac.uk, to propagate to dante and the mirrors
`some time soon').

Thanks for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct 22 09:07:23 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:02:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN update: circuit_macros 4.1

Dwight Aplevich writes:

> The file Circuit_macros4.1.tar.gz has been uploaded into
> ftp.tex.ac.uk:incoming.  Its expanded contents completely replace the
> contents of CTAN directory graphics/circuit_macros.
>
> This sooner-than-normal update contains prototype xfig compatibility,
> which might interest a number of people.

I have installed the package, overwriting the old release of
graphics/circuit_macros

Thanks for the submission

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Oct 24 03:33:07 1996
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:18:59 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- afthesis.tgz (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:55:50 -0400
> From: "Joel D. Young" <jdyoung@AFIT.AF.MIL>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- afthesis.tgz
>
> uploaded to :
>
>    ftp.dante.de/incoming
>
> uploaded
>
>    afthesis.tgz
>
> What?
>
>    LaTeX2e thesis/dissertation class for
> US Air Force Institute Of Technology
>
> Suggested Location:
>
> /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/afthesis

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files as as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Oct 30 09:15:06 1996
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:38:14 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission - the package `scale' (fwd)

> From: Soren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@DAIMI.AAU.DK>
> Subject:      CTAN submission - the package `scale'
> Date:         Wed, 9 Oct 1996 15:31:12 +0200
>
> Hello CTAN maintainers,
>
> I have uploaded a file `scale.zip' to /incoming/ at ftp.dante.de.
>
> The package scales a document by \sqrt{2}.
> This is useful if you are preparing a document on e.g. A5 paper and
> want to print on A4 paper to achieve a better resolution.
>
> I suggest that the package is placed in
>
>             /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/scale/

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as
requested.

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

PS - Yesterday, ftp.dante.de wasn't available due to network problems.
     AFAIK, a German Telecom digger damaged the cable connecting the
     University of Heidelberg to the German WIN backbone.
     Sorry for any inconveniences
     -rz

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Oct 30 09:18:58 1996
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:50:54 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission: new oztex-german /LML (fwd)

> From: Lothar Meyer-Lerbs <g07m@ZFN.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission: new oztex-german /LML
> Date:         Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:59:16 +0100
>
> finally the updated
> /pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german
> directory. It's in Heidelbergs /incoming/oztex-german
> and should just replace the old one.
>
> \thanks Lothar     (DANTE Mac-Coordinator)

I replaced the old version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Oct 30 09:18:18 1996
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:09:10 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:29:55 +1100
> From: Vasantha Saparamadu <vsaparam@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission
>
> I have made the following CTAN submission
>
> (a) site uploaded to:  ftp.dante.de
> (b) file            :  /incoming/sinhala_tex.2.1.1.tar.gz
> (c) overview        :
>          Replacement for the older version sinhala_tex.2.1.tar.gz in
>          tex-archive/languages/sinhala

Thanks for the submission. I replaced the old version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From mmehlich@SEMDESIGNS.COM Thu Oct 31 17:42:37 1996
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:19:48 -0600
From: Michael Mehlich <mmehlich@SEMDESIGNS.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Update of Packages hyper, fp

Hello,

New versions of my packages
   fp    for fixed point computations in TeX and LaTeX
   hyper for generating HyperTeX documents with LaTeX2e
have been uploaded (a short time ago) to CTAN.

The packages can be found under
  latex/contrib/other/fp
  latex/contrib/supported/hyper

Changes to previous version:
  fp     * increased debug messages for expression evaluation
         * new email address to report bugs
  hyper  * corrected problem with no hyperanchor occurring on
           pages with pagestyle empty
         * added additional option to allow references to pages
           to go to the top of a page when the pagenumber is at
           the bottom
         * added support for HyperTex-references with the package
           natbib
         * added perl script to create pdf-files from dvi-files
           using dvi(h)ps and ghostscripts pdfwriter
         * new email address to report bugs

--
Michael Mehlich                    email: mmehlich@semdesigns.com
Semantic Designs, Inc.             voice: 512-250-1018
12636 Research Blvd. #C-214        fax:   512-250-1191
Austin, Texas 78759                www:   http://www.semdesigns.com

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Nov  1 04:51:21 1996
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 10:42:37 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission: dinbrief (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:04:17 +0100
> From: ry46@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
> Subject:      dinbrief
>
> I have put at ftp.dante.de in /incoming/dinbrief
> the following files:
>   dinbrief.dtx dinbrief.ins announce and readme
>
> dinbrief is a package to write german letters
> following the rules of DIN.
>
> I recommend to replace the old version in
>   /macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief.
>
> Greetings Richard

Thanks, I installed the new version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov  1 12:41:50 1996
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 17:35:17 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Usage, ftp.tex.ac.uk, Oct 1996

TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Mon Sep 30 1996 TO Thu Oct 31 1996

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Systems Using Archives                              0

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Nov  4 08:52:25 1996
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 10:32:52 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission-vfinst virtual font installer

Alan Hoenig writes:

> This is version 0.8 of a set of scripts to facilitate
> installation of virtual fonts from PostScript outline fonts.
> Thanks for your assistance and cooperation!

Here is an extract from the file README:

> A set of scripts and Perl files comprise vfinst, which aims to make
> the installation of families of PostScript outline fonts `virtually'
> automatic.  When the script is run, the only thing that the virtual
> font freak has to supply is a three-character font family designation.
> This utility installs fonts either for traditional implementations or
> for TDS-compliant systems.  (TDS=TeX Directory Structure) In addition
> to these modules and TeX, you'll need fontinst and Perl.
>
> PLEASE READ THE FILE vfinst.tex BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY FONT
> INSTALLATIONS.

I have installed the package as requested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Thanks, Alan, for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov  4 07:15:48 1996
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 13:10:14 +0100
From: J%org Knappen Mainz <KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New package smartmn in macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen

I have uploaded a new package smartmn to

tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen

This package  activates the minus sign such that it guesses whether to
print as a hyphen or as minus sign in text mode (which is one of the most
common typografical errors in LaTeX texts).

There is a small drawback of it: the em dash (---) must be entered as
\emdash.

--J"org Knappen.

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov  4 09:15:51 1996
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 15:09:52 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: mlbib10 for LaTeX2e

Wenzel Matiaske writes:

 > I have put a style package called mlbib for LaTeX2e on the the CTAN
 > into the directory incoming (mlbib10.zip). The package supports
 > multilingual bibliographies.  Please put the package into a directory
 > under the LaTeX2e tree. Thanks a lot.

Thanks a lot, I installed the package in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/mlbib

For the CTAN team

 Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Nov  4 11:45:24 1996
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 16:40:26 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Signing off the CTAN-Ann list

The CTAN-Ann list is no longer maintained at SHSU (which has withdrawn
from CTAN operations).  To sign off from the list, you should send
mail saying

  signoff ctan-ann

to listserv@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Sending mail to SHSU (as several subscribers have done recently)
merely deposits a mail message in my inbox.  Every so often I
translate those mails into commands to remove people from the list at
Heidelberg.  However, I'm a busy man, and I give that work rather low
priority.  If you want to be removed from the Heidelberg list, *don't*
mail me (directly or indirectly [via SHSU]), mail the listserv!

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov  8 08:13:32 1996
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 12:52:06 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- PSfrag 3.0, major release

Michael Grant writes:

> I've uploaded a brand spankin' new version of PSfrag into
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/psfrag.zip to replace the version now found in
> /pub/archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag.
>
> PSfrag is a set of macros and a PostScript header which allows LaTeX
> constructions (equations, picture environments, etc.) to be precisely
> superimposed over Encapsulated PostScript figures. The user can use his/her
> favorite drawing tool to create an EPS figure, placing simple text "tags"
> where each replacement is to be placed. PSfrag will automatically remove
> those tags from the figure and replace them with the LaTeX construction
> that the user specifies, properly aligned, scaled, and/or rotated.
>
> This version marks a major reimplementation of PSfrag, with the most
> notable change being the elimination of the ps2frag script. All scanning
> and replacement functions have been fully integrated into LaTeX and/or
> PostScript, so a preprocessing step is no longer necessary.
>
> It has been confirmed to work with Tomas Rokicki's dvips and Y&Y's
> dvipsone; however, we hope (!) that it will work with any driver that is
> fully supported by the LaTeX2e graphics package. We hope that people with
> other drivers will try it out and suggest changes, if necessary (or at
> least submit effective bug reports). It is also designed to interact well
> with PS-aware DVI previewers, such as xdvi.
>
> A 10-page user's guide, with examples, is supplied with the package.

Thanks, Michael.

I've installed the update here at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should propagate
fairly soon.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG Fri Nov  8 10:46:37 1996
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 08:24:45 -0500
From: bbeeton <BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New version of AMS-LaTeX released

An interim release of the AMS-LaTeX version 1.2 macro collection has
been posted.

This release fixes a number of bugs, and documents others that have
not yet been fixed, but are known and are on the list for attention
when time becomes available.  The documentation has been extensively
revised and users are requested to pay careful attention to the
READ.ME file.  In particular, AMS-LaTeX 1.2 now requires a version
of LaTeX2e no earlier than December 1994.

The canonical home site for this collection is e-math.ams.org for ftp,
or at http://www.ams.org/tex for those who prefer a Web connection.
The collection has also been mirrored onto CTAN (locations shown are
relative to the root of the tex archive at the particular site):

  location on e-math:       location on CTAN:

  /pub/tex/amslatex  under  macros/latex/packages/amslatex

The other AMS collections are available from the same AMS servers
and have now been installed on CTAN in these new locations:

  location on e-math:       location on CTAN:

  /pub/tex/amsfonts  under  fonts/amsfonts
  /pub/tex/amsltx11  under  macros/latex209/contrib/amslatex
  /pub/tex/amstex    under  macros/amstex

At CTAN, the changes have been made at ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.dante.de;
they will propagate to the mirrors in due course.

Only the AMS-LaTeX collection has been updated; some minor changes
are under construction in the AMSFonts and AMS-TeX collections, and
a separate announcement will be made when these are posted.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 12 10:51:45 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:38:06 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Yplan97

Dick Nickalls writes (an embarrassingly long time ago):

> Enclosed are the three Yplan files for CTAN. Thanks for
> taking them. If you could manage to mention it on your
> CTAN update newsletter then I would be grateful (? copy
> part of the .doc file?).
>
> The three files are
> Yplan97.doc
> Yplan97A.tex
> Yplan97B.tex

These files (which continue the service Dick started to offer last for
calendar year 1996) are now installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk in
macros/latex/contrib/other/yplan97

Thanks again, Dick, for the submission.  I'll try and remember to
delete the yplan96 directory around the end of this year...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 12 11:27:44 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 16:17:50 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- advdate.sty

Zdenek Wagner writes:

> I have just uploaded the following file:
>
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/advdate.sty
>
> Description:
> This package contains macros which can add specified number of days
> to the current date (as specified in \today) and print it. Some other
> macros are also provided. It is intended for use e.g. in invoices
> payable within 14 days from today etc.
>
> Suggested location:
> CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/other

I've installed it as macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/advdate.sty

Thanks for the contribution.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

PS -- please address upload mail to ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
(ctan-mgr@shsu was never the right place for it, and we're not using
SHSU at any time when we can avoid it just now).

From ressler@COUGAR.JPL.NASA.GOV Tue Nov 12 14:45:00 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:56:20 -0800
From: Mike Ressler <ressler@COUGAR.JPL.NASA.GOV>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Confusion in yinit font directory

Hello,

        I believe this query is most appropriate for the ctan-ann list:
I am wondering if there are a mixed up set of files running around in
the yinit font directory. Specifically I am worried about the following:

on ftp.tex.ac.uk in .../fonts/gothic/yinit, these files appear to be
from Andreas Schrell's patched version yinitas. There is no yinit.mf
file.

In the teTeX 0.4 distribution, these patched files also appear, but
there is also a yinit.mf file from Yannis Haralambous' original set and
this old file seems to be used in the current mfnfss package.

Back in the old days, I knew what the differences between the original
and patched versions were; I thought it was more than just the yinit.mf
file. Can anyone set me straight on just what "yinit" should be? I ask
because 1) I just installed teTeX, 2) a simple macro for drop caps with
yinit(as) doesn't work anymore, and 3) I got hopelessly confused trying
to fix things up when I noticed the inconsistency. Any clarification
will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Mike Ressler
ressler@cougar.jpl.nasa.gov

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Nov 14 04:37:59 1996
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:14:57 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: file upload (Cambridge)

David Carlisle writes:

> The macros/plain/graphics files which give users of plain TeX access
> to the LaTeX graphics and related packages have been extended to
> provide  psfrag.tex, a plain TeX interface to the recently released
> psfrag version 3.0.

I have installed the update at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Nov 14 16:18:33 1996
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:13:41 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission --- RomanianTeX 1.3R (fwd)

> From: Adrian Rezus <adriaan@CS.KUN.NL>
> Subject:      CTAN submission --- RomanianTeX 1.3R
> Date:         Tue, 12 Nov 1996 20:21:54 +0100
>
> 1. A few moments ago I have uploaded the file
>
>                         RomanianTeX.zip
>
> in directory /incoming at site `ftp.dante.de'. The zip-archive
> contains the Romanian TeX package, version 1.3R.
>
> 2. This is a public release of RomanianTeX v 1.3R <29.10.1996>:
> a LaTeX2e package for type-setting Romanian in a multi-lingual
> TeX environment. RomanianTeX 1.3R supports LaTeX2e and the NFSS,
> version 2.
>
> 3. The archive bundles together the following files:
>
>         readme.txt   :  General end-user information
>         manifest.txt :  Table of contents
>         hyphen-x.cfg :  LaTeX2e hyphen configuration [eXample]
>         rohyphen.tex :  Romanian hyphen patterns [version 1.1]
>         romanian.dtx :  LaTeX2e archive [contains .sty and .drv]
>         romanian.ins :  LaTeX2e installation file
>
> (Missing from this distribution, so far, is the file:
>
>         romanian.doc:   End-user documentation.
>
> This file will be available at a later date, likely before the
> end of the year. Anyway, the basic end-user documentation can
> be retrieved from file `readme.doc'. The document `germdoc.tex'
> [CTAN ref.: /pub/tex/languages/german] might be also useful.)
>
> 4. The package should be very likely located on CTAN in directory
>
>         /pub/tex/languages/romanian
>
> possibly in a sub-directory `RomanianTeX' (since there are also
> other contributions in the sub-directory `romanian').

Thanks for the contribution.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in
languages/romanian/RomanianTeX as suggested.  They will soon be copied
to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Nov 15 03:06:11 1996
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 08:53:29 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submision - LaTeX-CAD (fwd)

> From: John Leis <leis@HELIOS.USQ.EDU.AU>
> Subject:      CTAN Submision - LaTeX-CAD
> Date:         Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:44:58 +1000
>
> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de, directory /incoming a file called
> latexcad18.zip. It contains a small update on the latexcad package. Please
> replace the existing files under systems/msdos/latexcad with this new file
> (size 457 853 bytes).

Thanks for the contribution.  I replaced the old file as requested;
the new version will soon be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Ha!  I'm working really fast - some of the files have a change date
of 15-Nov, 11:25  while I installed the archive on 15-Nov, 08:45  ;-)
Such are the wonders of time zones ...

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Nov 15 05:19:19 1996
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:03:01 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- Update for pIq.mf (fwd)

> From: Olaf Kummer <kummer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- Update for pIq.mf
> Date:         Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:55:35 +0100
>
> I have uploaded a new version of pIq.mf (metafont for
> the Klingon language with okuda orthography) currently
> located in /tex-archive/fonts/okuda to the ftp.dante.de
> incoming directory. Additionally a small sample file
> pIq.tex is provided.
>
> Only the ligtable of the font has changed. It is now possible to
> enter all Klingon words with the original Okrand spelling. The
> ligtable will convert the inputs tlh, ng etc. correctly to one
> glyph.
>
> I am not the original creator of this font. He (Mark Shoulson)
> has been informed and has given permission for the upload.
> I suggest that new version is placed in the directory
>   /tex-archive/fonts/okuda/modified
> in order to emphasize its tentative status. It will move to
> the directory fonts/okuda after some testing and after the final
> approval by Mark Shoulson.

I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested. They will soon
propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Nov 15 07:25:06 1996
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:10:40 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission fromGUST.tar.gz

Staszek,

> Finally I decided to upload the stuff concerning Polish language to CTAN,
> as well as some works prepared by the members of the Polish TeX Users Group
> GUST. It's the first time I'm doing it. I'm doing my best but I'm sorry if
> it is not done as expected. ;-)
>
> I would like to let you know that I maintain the GUST ftp server which is
> a selected subset of CTAN archives:
>      ftp.gust.org.pl:/pub/TeX/
>  or  ftp.pg.gda.pl:/pub/TeX/
>
> In order to set up the new archive the following actions are expected
> from your side.

Thanks for your huge contribution.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de
as requested except when noted (i.e. when I decided to use choose a
different directory structure):

> 1) First of all, please remove obsolete contents of the following directories,
>   yes ALL contents:
>
> language/polish/

removed with the exception of the symbolic link to
macros/latex/contrib/other/ogonek

> support/psview/
>
> and the file:
>
> language/hyphenation/pohyph.tex
>
> 2) Here is the list of files I have uploaded to DANTE with recomended placing:
>
>    language/polish/*
>         The Polish formats for Plain, LaTeX2.09, LateX2e, hyphenation patterns,
>         sources of Polish fonts and TFM files.
>
>    language/hyphenation/plhyph.tex
>         The `official' and _proper_ Polish patterns

installed as a symolic link to language/polish/plhyph.tex

>    macros/TeX-PS/bop-hax.tex
>         macros for landscape, mirror etc. of TeX documents
>
>    macros/TeX-PS/epsfx.tex
>         epsf.tex/sty extension, e.g. draft printing of bounding boxes
>
>    macros/TeX-PS/trans.tex
>         easy transformations of PS objects, scaling, rotation, etc.
>
>    macros/TeX-PS/cmyk-hax/*
>        TeX-PS macros for color separation and substitution
>
>    macros/TeX-PS/poligraf*
>        page preparation for prepress, color separation,
>        crop-marks, color and gray scale bars, booklet preparation, etc.
>
>  IMHO, the macros/TeX-PS block is the right new place for the stuff
>  concerning  TeX and PS
>
>    macros/generic/tap070.zip
>    macros/generic/tap070.readme
>        a TeX package for typesetting tables; it exploits some
>        possibilities offered by PostScript. Easy and powerfull!

installed in  macros/generic/tap/

>    support/ps_conv/*
>        a PostScript program for converting one-page PostScript files
>        into EPS (encapsulated PostScript) files acceptable by
>        CorelDRAW!(R), Adobe Illustrator(TM) and Fontographer(R).
>
>    support/ghostscript/ps_view/*
>        Fast and easy previewing of PS documents!
>        a PostScript preamble providing an interactive environement
>        for previewing PostScript documents. The current version
>        can drive Ghostscript 4.03 interpreter and assumes conformance
>        of the document to the Adobe PostScript structuring conventions.
>        Batch files provided for DOS, however ps_view can be adapted
>        to any operating system.

installed as support/ps_view/ because support/ghostscript is mirrored
from another site

> I prefer such a placement because of close relationship to GhostScript.
>
>    graphics/MF-PS/epstomf/
>    graphics/MF-PS/mftoeps/
>        MFTOEPS: a METAFONT package for generating (encapsulated PostScript) files
>          readable by CorelDRAW!(R), Adobe Illustrator(TM) and Fontographer(R).
>          METAFONT writes PostScript code to a LOG-file, and from the LOG-file
>          the code can be extracted by either TeX or AWK. DOS batch files,
>          TeX source, and AWK source are placed in the subdirectory PROGS.
>
>        EPSTOMF: a tiny AWK script for converting EPS files into MF lingo.
>                 EPS files should conform the conventions of the MFTOEPS package.
>                 Such files are generated, e.g., by a Ghostscript utility which
>                 can be found in a directory ../PS/PS_CONV.
>
>        ROEX:    a set of METAFONT macros for accomplishing operations known
>                 as `removing overlaps' and `expanding stroke.' It can work
>                 with ``normal'' METAFONT programs, but is meant mainly for
>                 using with MFTOEPS; in this context it seems most natural.
>
>        PROGS:   a directory containing DOS batch files, AWK and TeX programs
>                 used by the packages listed above.
>
> Thank you for your excelent work on maintaining CTAN archives.
>
> On behalf of GUST Management,
> Chears,
>
> Staszek Wawrykiewicz
> <staw@eti.pg.gda.pl>
> <staszek@ipipan.gda.pl>

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From staw@eti.pg.gda.pl Sat Nov 16 04:07:56 1996
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 03:24:54 +0100
From: Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz <staw@eti.pg.gda.pl>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission fromGUST.tar.gz

> Thanks for your huge contribution.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de
> as requested except when noted (i.e. when I decided to use choose a
> different directory structure):

Great, thank you.

> removed with the exception of the symbolic link to
> macros/latex/contrib/other/ogonek

OK.

> installed as a symolic link to language/polish/plhyph.tex

OK.

> installed in  macros/generic/tap/

OK. However it is a problem, only same people knows what's `tap' and since
this package is really important for TeXers (it is not my personal opinion),
it's work ``blessed'' by prof. Fergusson, Phil Taylor, Kees van der Laan,
so I would suggest
   macros/generic/tables/
as a main work concerning tables in (plain)TeX.

> installed as support/ps_view/ because support/ghostscript is mirrored
> from another site

OK. I will try to include ps_view in standard GhostScript distribution.

Another contribution is in my plans. Thanks for cooperation.

Chears,
Staszek Wawrykiewicz
<staw@eti.pg.gda.pl>

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Nov 18 11:56:02 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:36:26 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- syngen (fwd)

> From: Jens Kloecker <kloecker@springer.de>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- syngen
> Date:         Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:19:17 +0000
>
> I uploaded at ftp.dante.de the file syngen.tar.gz.
>
> The files of this gzipped tar archive should completely replace
> the contents of tex-archive/contrib/syngen.
>
> +----------------------------------+------------------------------+
> | Jens Kl"ocker                    | Tel.:   +49 6221-487-904     |
> | Springer-Verlag Heidelberg       | Fax:    +49 6221-487-967     |
> | Journal Production Department II | e-mail: kloecker@springer.de |
> +----------------------------------+------------------------------+

Thanks, I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de.  It will soon
spread to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

>From the README file:

: Syngen: is a tool for generating syntax diagrams from BNF. The diagrams
:         are using the LaTeX picture mode and can therefore be integrated
:         in every LaTeX2e document.
:
: Version: 0.4, but fairly stable

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Nov 22 08:50:31 1996
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:34:20 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- recipe.cls

Maurizio Moreti has submitted some macros for setting recipes.  The
readme says:

> The file "recipe.cls" is a LaTeX-2e class file to typeset recipes;
> an example is included, in form of an input file "sample.tex" and
> of the final PostScript file "sample.ps".  I am sorry, but the
> example is in Italian; but, what the general user may be interested
> in, is the page layout and not real recipes :-)   .
>
> The PostScript file requires Bookman (in the printer, or in
> GhostScript) and BrushScript-Italic (included as a .pfa font in
> sample.ps); this last font, that I have contributed a few years
> ago, is available on CTANs in /tex-archive/fonts/brushscr with
> all its .tfm, .fd and .vf files.
>
> All of these files are public domain; but the author will gladly
> receive comments and all your modifications.

I have installed all of this stuff at ftp.tex.ac.uk in directory
macros/latex/contrib/other/recipe

Propagation to other places as and when the net sees fit...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Nov 22 13:03:33 1996
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:46:15 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Ltxinput.zip

Jim Green writes:

> Description: Ltxinput is an MSDOS utility which may add a little extra
> functionality to your favourite LaTeX shell. Ltxinput recursively
> searches a file for input (and include) statements, writing a list of
> files which are input  to STDOUT and to a batch file which sets an
> environmental variable LTXINPUT to point to this filelist.
> The C source, MSDOS binary, documentation and test files are
> included in the distribution.

I have put the zip file of this contribution into a new directory
support/ltxinput/ on ftp.tex.ac.uk

I took the liberty of extracting the readme.txt from the zip file and
putting that separately into the same directory.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Nov 26 10:03:51 1996
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:49:21 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: concrete.sty

Jim Hefferon submitted this quickie a little while back, and I find I
hadn't installed it.

The code's commentary on itself is:

%    It is an FAQ on comp.text.tex that people look on CTAN for a style
%    with this name.  Seems reasonable.  They are always advised to
%    \usepackage the two packages below.  So here is a wrapper style
%    to do that.

I have installed the file as
macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/concrete.sty

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Nov 26 08:53:08 1996
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:10:25 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Chris Walshaw writes:

> I have just uploaded version 1.6 of abc2mtex to ftp.tex.ac.uk in
> /incoming/abc2mtex. The files are:
>       README
>       Install.mac
>       MacABC1.6.hqx
>       Install.pc
>       abc2mtex.zip
>       Install.unix
>       abc2mtex1.6.tar.gz
>       INTRO.html
>       INTRO.txt
>       usrguide.ps
>       abc.txt
>       Changes
>
> and I think they should live in /tex-archive/support/abc2mtex of CTAN.
> The tar, hqx and zip files duplicate each other to a certain extent
> and do not need unpacking.

I have replaced the existing version on CTAN with this new upload.

Thanks for the submission

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Nov 26 09:27:40 1996
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:08:00 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Neue TSCONFIG Version (fwd)

> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:28:15 +0100 (MET)
> From: Dirk Nitschke <ms3a512@math.uni-hamburg.de>
> Subject: Re: Neue TSCONFIG Version
>
> TSconfig kann auch auf CTAN abgelegt werden!

Thanks, I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in support/TeXshell/tsconfig.
>From the readme file:

: This directory contains the zip-archive  TSCONFIG.ZIP  which stores
: the program  TSCONFIG.EXE  and friends. The tsconfig programm tries to
: make the confguration of the TeXShell by J. Schlegelmilch easier,
: especially if you have a lot of computers with different processors.
: The program reads a definition file which is a modified version of a
: configuration file for the TeXShell. The definition file contains
: conditions which tell  TSCONFIG.EXE  whether to transfer the following
: data into the TeXShell configuration file or not. This means that the
: definition file is a generic configuration file and  TSCONFIG.EXE  decides
: which parts are needed for your system depending on your processor,
: coprocessor, existing and non-existing files, defined and undefined
: variables. In addition  TSCONFIG.EXE  supports templates as part of the
: definition file. Their expansion is written to the resulting
: configuration file.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Nov 27 07:12:23 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:59:41 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Psfrag 3.01 installed

David Carlisle has installed a revised psfrag and I have installed it
at ftp.tex.ac.uk in macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag

>From the Announce file in the distribution:

> A brand-spankin' new version of PSfrag, version 3.01, for LaTeX2e can be found
> at CTAN sites in the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag.
>
> PSfrag 3.01 This is a bug fix release, and should be installed over any copy of
> PSfrag 3.0 that is out there. In addition, I recommend that you re-typeset any
> files on which you have already used PSfrag 3.0.
>
> For those of you that are slow, and haven't downloaded PSfrag 3.0 yet: PSfrag
> 3.x constitutes a near-complete reimplementation of the internals of PSfrag.
> Veteran PSfrag users will note the absence of the ps2frag script; that is
> because _it is no longer necessary_.
>
> What is PSfrag?
> ---------------
>
> Many drawing and graphing packages produce output in the Encapsulated
> PostScript (EPS) format, but few can easily produce the equations and other
> scientific text of which LaTeX is capable. On the other hand, many LaTeX-based
> drawing packages are not as expressive or easy-to-use as the many advanced
> drawing packages that produce EPS output.
>
> PSfrag provides the best of both worlds by allowing the user to precisely
> overlay Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files with arbitrary LaTeX constructions.
> In order to accomplish this, the user places a simple text ``tag'' in the
> graphics file, as a ``position marker'' of sorts. Then, using simple LaTeX
> commands, the user instructs PSfrag to remove that tag from the figure, and
> replace it with a properly sized, aligned, and rotated LaTeX equation.
>
> The full documentation for PSfrag found in the release contains examples and
> usage instructions.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Nov 27 07:51:23 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 13:43:54 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- eiad.tar.gz

Uwe Muench writes:

 > I uploaded to
 >
 > a) ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > b) the file 'eiad.tar.gz' containing the files
 >         eiad/Fbf10.mf
 >         eiad/Fr10.mf
 >         eiad/README
 >         eiad/eiad.dtx
 >         eiad/eiad.ins
 >
 > c) From the README:
 >
 > ---------------------
 > This directory contains a LaTeX2e package for an easy and NFSS2-compliant
 > use of the eiad font family created by Ivan A Derzhanski under
 > LaTeX2e.
 >
 > [...]
 > The fonts themselves are NOT in this directory. You can find them on
 > CTAN in the directory tex-archive/fonts/eiad/, so for example in
 >         ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/eiad
 > or      ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/eiad
 > and mirrors of CTAN...
 > [...]
 > -----------------------
 >
 > More explanation (What are these files?, Installation,...) in the
 > README...
 >
 > d) I recommend putting my submission to the directory
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/eiad
 >
 > Thank you very much,
 > bye,
 >         Uwe
 >
 > --
 > Uwe M\"unch, RRZK-RII, Raum 11, Tel: +49-221-478-3391
 > http://www.uni-koeln.de/themen/texmf/           WWW-Seite zu TeX
 > http://www.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de/~muench/         private WWW-Seite
 >  "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public
 >  relations, for nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Thanks a lot, I installed the files.

For the CTAN team
Rainer Schoepf

From gerd@MAILHOST.UNI-KOBLENZ.DE Wed Nov 27 09:48:08 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:37:37 +0100
From: Gerd Neugebauer <gerd@MAILHOST.UNI-KOBLENZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Announce: cwpuzzle.sty

                             cwpuzzle.sty
                                  -
          A LaTeX package for typesetting crossword puzzles

                           Gerd Neugebauer


Since I know  only of one additional package  for this purpose on CTAN
-- named  crosswrd.sty -- I  will compare it  against this  package to
show the advantages and disadvantages of both packages.

I  have developed  cwpuzzle.sty because I  needed to  typeset a puzzle
which required   more features than  those  provided by crosswrd.  The
feature I was missing was the inclusion of  rectangular regions in the
puzzles  containing  ads or  other  texts not  directly related to the
characters to be filled in.

I have generalized this  requirement by allowing  arbitrary rectangles
to be left free. Thus it is possible to typeset  puzzles which have no
rectangular border (See the documentation for examples).

Another idea was to have different types of puzzles generated from the
same source:

- The  classical puzzle contains numbers for  the  words and clues for
  the words to be filled in.

- The numbered  puzzle contains numbers  in each  cell where identical
  numbers represent  identical letters. The goal is  to find out which
  number corresponds to which letter.

- The fill-in type of  puzzle consists of a grid  and a list of words.
  The goal is to place all words in the grid.

crosswrd supports the first type of puzzle only. cwpuzzle supports all
of them.

The input for both packages is  completely different. crosswrd assumes
that a user uses this package to develop a puzzle. Thus it is tailored
towards a human   user.    It checks  for  consistency and    requires
non-redundant input.  (As a unpleasant side effect fragile macros used
in clues have to be protected)

cwpuzzle   needs  some  redundancy  in  the   input  for the   sake of
flexibility. But  it seems quite natural to  specify  the frame of the
puzzle  and the clues separately. Especially  for those types where no
clues are needed at all.

cwpuzzle currently assumes that words  are terminated by a black block
(or the border of the puzzle). crosswrd also supports also the variant
where words are terminated  by a thicker   border. This might also  be
incorporated into a future release of cwpuzzle.

In  cwpuzzle it  is also  possible  to  specify whether the  crossword
puzzle     or it's   solution should   be   produced   (from the  same
source). Thus it  is possible to include the  puzzle in one issue of a
journal  and  the solution  into another,  or to  typeset the solution
several pages after the puzzle.

cwpuzzle provides a larger  number of options and  hooks which  can be
used to customize the result. E.g it is possible to modify the size of
the boxes or the  fonts used as  well  as the appearance of  graphical
elements like the black blocks.


cwpuzzle is located in the CTAN directory

        tex-archive/macros/latex/other/gene/crossword

run  tex    on cwpuzzle.ins  to  produce the    package   and latex on
cwpuzzle.dtx to get the documentation (or the Makefile to do both).

From xlwy01@uxp1.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE Thu Nov 28 17:10:55 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 08:23:48 +0100
From: Werner Lemberg <xlwy01@uxp1.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 4.1.0 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e)

Dear LaTeX2e users,


I've uploaded version 4.1.0 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts
(i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk and its mirrors, e.g. ftp.cdrom.com).

It will be soon available in the following directory:

    tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK

Below you find the release notes of this version.


    Happy TeXing


        Werner


PS: The source part will be found unpacked!


[CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean
with LaTeX2e. It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS,
Unicode.]


========================================================================


Version 4.1.0:  new:
20-Nov-1996         ttf2pk:
                      a new parameter -e has been introduced for selecting
                      the font encoding; possible values are `Big5' (the
                      default), `EUC' for extended Unix codes (JIS, GB, KS,
                      etc.), `SJIS', and `X'. The last value will treat the
                      TTF file as SJIS encoded but expects start_char in
                      JIS encoding (routines are in coding.{c,h}).

                      a new parameter -r has been introduced for rotating
                      the glyphs 90 degrees counter-clockwise if its value
                      is non-zero. See ttf2pk.1 for details.

                      Some preliminary support for composite glyphs has been
                      included. Since hinting instructions are not supported
                      yet this is only of some academic interest. You can
                      watch the funny results with the mingli system font of
                      the traditional Chinese Windows 3.1 .

                      Support for different horizontal and vertical
                      resolutions has been added. Now you have one more
                      parameter to call ttf2pk:

                        ttf2pk pkname tfmname xres yscale startch nmbch ...

                      Currently you have to change yscale by hand in
                      MakeTTFPK (or makettfp.btm). [yres = xres * scale]

                      The source code has been prepared for pretty-printing
                      with c2cweb. Say `make documentation OS=<SYSTEM>' to
                      produce it (of course after installing the c2cweb
                      package). You will find precomputed .dvi files in the
                      `rest' part of the CJK package.

                    HSIEH Tung-Han <thhsieh@twclx.phys.ntu.edu.tw>
                      contributed NTeXb5.doc for installing the CJK package
                      under NTeX.

                    hbf2gf:
                      if called in METAFONT-like mode, one additional
                      parameter has been added to allow printers with
                      different horizontal and vertical resolutions:

                        hbf2gf config_file subfont_nmb x_resolution y_scale

                      (y_resolution = x_resolution * y_scale; y_scale must
                      be a real number > 0; currently you must change y_scale
                      by hand in MakeTeXPK/maketexp.btm)

                      hbf2gf will now produce a .pl file even if in
                      METAFONT-like mode.

                      a new config file option `rotation' will rotate the
                      glyphs 90 degrees counter-clockwise if set to `yes'.

                    vertical presentation forms of Big5 punctuation
                      characters added to punctuation tables in CJK.enc .

                    CJKvert.sty for vertical typesetting added. This is an
                      experimental feature! Please read vertical.doc for
                      further details.

*                   MakeTeXPK and friends:
*                     it's no longer necessary to rename TTF files to avoid
*                     underline characters. A configuration file will now be
*                     used (ttf2pk.cfg) which resides in $TTF2PKDIR (usually
*                     $TEXMF/ttf2pk) to describe the various TTF files.
*                     Please rename e.g. ntukai.ttf back to ntu_kai.ttf .
*                     The environment variable $TTFDIR has become obsolete.

                      The teTeX variants of the scripts can now produce tfm
                      files on demand---it's sufficient to simply install
                      the source files of a new font.

                changed:
*                   rubi.sty has been renamed to ruby.sty; the same is
*                     true for all commands in it: \ruby, \rubyoverlap etc.

                    new version (1.5) of ntu2cjk.

                    hbf2gf:
                      the option `target_size' has been removed. It will
                      be ignored now.

                      under DOS and OS/2 both `\' and `/' will be now
                      recognized as a path separator.

                    ttf2pk:
                      the -s parameter (to select a design size) has been
                      removed. The program now always assume a design size
                      of 10pt.

                      the parameter end_char has been replaced with
                      nmb_of_char (max. 256).

                      begin_char can now be either decimal, hexadecimal
                      (prefix `0x'), or octal (prefix `0').

                      x_offset and y_offset behave now similar to hbf2gf
                      (and most people would expect it that way): a positive
                      x (y) value shifts right (up); default is zero for
                      both parameters using the default placement as given
                      in the TTF file. The values are no longer integers but
                      real numbers and should be multiples of design size.

                      horz_esc and vert_esc are now real numbers too and
                      should be multiples of design size.

                      you no longer need to use -W, -H, and -D for getting
                      resolution independent .tfm files. ttf2pk now
                      correctly uses the values of the TTF file.

*                     PLEASE RECREATE ALL .TFM (AND .PK) FILES! Sorry for
*                     this inconvenience. I hope it will be the last time.
*                     Due to some optimizations the .pk files are about 5%
*                     smaller now.

                      The TTF part of the source code has been transformed
                      into a library (ttflib); the makefile has been
                      rewritten with a new syntax. Say `make' for details.

                    utils/ttf2pk/README.b5 and INSTALL.bg5 removed. They
                      were out of date.

                    modified MakeTTFPK/MakeTeXPK/InstallFont and
                      makettfp.btm/maketexp.btm/instfont.btm scripts.

From xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE Thu Nov 28 17:14:15 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 08:30:33 +0100
From: Werner Lemberg <xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ANNOUNCING c2cweb 1.5

If have uploaded a new version of c2cweb.

It will be soon available in tex-archive/web/c_cpp/c2cweb

Below you'll find the release notes.


    Werner


[c2cweb is a utility to prettyprint C and C++ source files using cweb]


========================================================================

Version 1.5:
10-Nov-1996:    new:
                    now based on CWEB 3.4g (June 1996)

                    option -f (to include a format file) added

                    new command /*{}*/ added

                    Makefiles enhanced (a compiling run under djgpp is
                      likely to fail since it's untested. Additionally
                      wildcard expansion is missing---any volunteers to add
                      it are welcome)

                    c2cweb.w more structured

                    new email address
                changed:
                    runtime binaries has been removed. You should get the
                      emxrsx.zip package of the emTeX distribution instead.

                    minor optical corrections.


--- end of history.txt ---

From carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK Fri Nov 29 05:49:26 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:35:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: LaTeX 1996/12/01 release: Important announcement

LaTeX 1996/12/01 release: Important announcement
================================================

As you may know, a LaTeX release with a nominal date of 1996/12/01
is due for release shortly.

This release will now be *delayed* until January 1997, to allow more
time for testing the following proposed change.

The LaTeX system currently uses some files with `mixed case' names.
The `Font Descriptor' files such as T1cmr.fd
and the  `Output Encoding Definition' files such as T1enc.def

These files cause problems on certain common systems.
In particular, mixed-case filenames are not allowed in the
ISO 9660 CDROM format and do not work correctly if a mono-case
file system (such as MSDOS) is mounted onto a case sensitive UNIX file
system. This latter example is very common in linux, where the MSDOS
and UNIX file systems are often available within the same machine.

In the forthcoming release, all these file names will be made lowercase.
Thus the two files mentioned above will be named t1cmr.fd and t1enc.def.

This change should not affect any LaTeX documents, as they do not refer
to these files explicitly; however, it may affect some local
configuration files, such as fonttext.cfg, which may be used when
making the LaTeX format. Further documentation concerning any required
changes will be distributed with the release.

The LaTeX system will look for `fd' files first with the new lower
case name, and then with the old mixed case name; thus existing
collections of fd files should work unchanged with the new system.


David Carlisle
LaTeX3 project

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Nov 30 10:06:58 1996
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 15:00:44 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: MathKit math fonts

Alan Hoenig (ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu) writes:

> I placed the file mathkit.tar.gz in ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming.  Please
> place it in a place like fonts/utilities/mathkit.  Here is the
> expalantory README:
>
> The _MathKit_ package creates math fonts that match
> Type1 outline fonts (Times, Palatino, and others) for
> typesetting math with TeX.  It constructs these fonts by
> combining letters and numerals from the outline
> fonts with other symbols drawn by Metafont using
> parameters that match the outline fonts.  Detailed
> instructions are found in the file `mathkit.tex', part of
> the package.  You don't need to know anything about
> Metafont or virtual fonts to use this package.
>
> The package includes parameter templates for building
> font families for Times Roman (regular and bold),
> Palatino (regular only), and Monotype Baskerville
> (regular and semibold).  If you choose to make fonts
> using the bold templates, you will be able to typeset
> bold mathematics as well.  MathKit produces style files
> for plain TeX and NFSS so you can use your new fonts.

Thanks, I've installed the stuff as requested

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Dec  2 02:23:43 1996
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 08:14:19 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission --- supertabular 4.0a (fwd)

> From: "Johannes L. Braams" <jlbraams@CISTRON.NL>
> Subject:      CTAN submission --- supertabular 4.0a
> Date:         Sun, 1 Dec 1996 22:54:00 +0100
>
> I have uploaded supertabular.zip to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
> It contains version 4.0a of the supertabular package.
> The source and documentation are now in the same file, supertabular.dtx.
> This version requires LaTeX2e.
> The contents of the .zip archive should replace the contents of the directory
> macros/latex/supported/supertablar

Thanks for the contribution.  I replaced the old version on ftp.dante.de
as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Dec  2 04:01:53 1996
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 09:48:09 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Submission to TeX archive: wtex95v2 (fwd)

> From: Michael Muecke <MMuecke@T-ONLINE.DE>
> Subject:      Submission to TeX archive
> Date:         Sat, 30 Nov 1996 07:16:57 +0100
>
> I have just uploaded version 2.0 of WinTeX 95 to ftp.dante.de into
> /incoming/wtex95v2

Thanks for the submission.  I replaced the old version
systems/win32/wtex95/wtex95.{txt,zip} with the new files
systems/win32/wtex95/wtex95v2.{txt,zip}.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Mon Dec  2 08:42:56 1996
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 14:23:46 +0100
From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: [LaTeX/Metafont] Feynman diagrams: FeynMF v1.08 released

This announces version 1.08 of FeynMF, a combined LaTeX and Metafont
(or Metapost) package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman
(and maybe other) diagrams.

Version 1.08 is mainly a bug fix release and offers a driver script as
the only new feature.  The driver script is still experimental and I
will be grateful for portability suggestions (it has been developed with
teTeX under Linux).

This software will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN
host near you.

Enjoy,
-Thorsten

NEWS for Version 1.08

    *  Improved very short gluon and photon propagators by relaxing
    overly aggressive rounding.

    *  New (still experimental) `feynmf' script automating the
    invocation of Metafont (requires perl(1)).

/// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
//////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu
/// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421

From xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE Tue Dec  3 11:14:47 1996
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 16:39:00 +0100
From: Werner Lemberg <xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission on ftp.dante.de

I've just uploaded the file CJK-4.1.0-4.1.1.diff.gz .

Please move it into tex-archive/language/chinese (unpacked).


Thank you in advance



    Werner

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec  4 05:45:16 1996
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 10:06:19 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- TeX Converter FAQ

Wilfried Hennings writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk my FAQ lists of converters
> between (PC Wordproc) <-> (LaTeX)
>
> The first file is named "texcnven.txt.04dec96"
[English FAQ]

> The second file is "texcnvde.txt"
[German FAQ]

> Both files should finally reside in .../tex-archive/help

I have installed the two files in directory help/wp-conv (feeling that
the directory name would at least give hints for the troubled
searcher).

I also installed links, as follows:

  RTF,Word,WordPerfect<->TeX_Konvertern_FAQ_[Deutsch] -> texcnvde.txt
  RTF,Word,WordPerfect<->TeX_convertors_FAQ_[English] -> texcnven.txt

(making gratuitous use of the way Unix allows silly file names... ;-)

Thanks for the upload.  I had been thinking (as you know) that we
ought to have the English file on the archive, but hadn't even
realised that there was a German version as well.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec  4 10:11:52 1996
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 15:00:58 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Fix for Bakoma fonts

Some long time ago, Scott Berg <Scott.Berg@CERN.CH> wrote:

> I have uploaded a file newbakoma.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming.
>
> It contains the files
>
> cmbsy10.pfb   cmbsy8.pfb    cmsy5.pfb     cmsy8.pfb
> cmbsy6.pfb    cmbsy9.pfb    cmsy6.pfb     cmsy9.pfb
> cmbsy7.pfb    cmsy10.pfb    cmsy7.pfb
>
> It's purpose is to provide a simple solution to a known
> problem--square roots when using the Bakoma fonts get chopped off at
> the knees.  I did nothing particularly original--I just followed the
> advice from the following news article (found using Deja News):
>
> > Subject:      Re: Square root with Bakoma fonts
> > From:         jhertzli@ix.netcom.com(Joseph Hertzlinger)
> > Date:         1996/05/12
> > Message-Id:   <4n3gj5$g55@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>
> > References:   <Dr74pJ.KA9@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
> > Organization: Netcom
> > X-Netcom-Date: Sat May 11  8:57:57 PM CDT 1996
> > Newsgroups:   comp.text.tex
> >
> > In <Dr74pJ.KA9@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> lk3a@cars.mech.Virginia.EDU
> > (Count Dracula) writes:
> >
> > >The square root symbol in Bakoma fonts comes out chopped.
> > >Has anyone devised a workaround to this?
> >
> > The square roots in the symbol fonts (cmsy* and cmbsy*) in
> > /fonts/postscript/bakoma/pfb in some TeX archives has a bounding box
> > which is too small
> >
> > The square roots in the symbol fonts in /fonts/postscript/cm (at least
> > at SHSU and also the Walnut Creek CDROM) will not be chopped.
> >
> > Alternatively you can try editing the BBox array in each font using a
> > hex editor. (The second value should be about -999.)
>
> The unchopped fonts referred to seem to have fallen off the face of
> CTAN, so I figured I'd provide corrected ones.
>
> I took the -999 literally; somebody who actually knows what they're
> doing could probably make a tighter bounding box.  Note that you don't
> even need a hex editor to do this--I just edited the 'FontBBox'
> comment, which is in plaintext.  Maybe I should have changed something
> else, but this seemed to be sufficient to get things working.  Let me
> reiterate I have no clue what I'm doing--I just applied a simple fix
> which seems to work.  I'd welcome anyone who knows what's going on to
> provide a better solution.
>
> I would suggest replacing Basil's version of these fonts in
> fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/pfb with the corrected files, and renaming
> his to <file>.orig.
>
> Note I've only fixed the pfb files; the other formats should probably
> be updated as well (?), but I lack the facilities and knowledge to do
> so.
>
> A big thanks to Basil for making these things in the first place, Deja
> News for preventing information from falling off the end of the net,
> and the CTAN folks for organizing all the TeX stuff...

I spent some time establishing whether Basil Malyshev is contactable
-- it turns out that he isn't, so my ambition of suggesting to him
that these become part of the `official' BaKoMa distribution falls at
the first hurdle.

I have therefore installed the set (with a README by me, and a copy of
Scott's mailing as NOTICE) in directory fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/patched-pfb

Thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Dec  5 00:58:28 1996
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 06:55:04 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- g-brief 2.0 (fwd)

> From: Michael Lenzen <michael@CS.UNI-BONN.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- g-brief 2.0
> Date:         Wed, 4 Dec 1996 22:24:02 +0100
>
> CTAN Submission
>
> update 'g-brief' rel. 1.4b to rel. 2.0
>
> (a) uploaded to ftp.dante.de
>
> (b) 'g-brief-2.0.tar.gz' to /incoming
>
> (c) g-brief is a document class for LaTeX 2e and serves for
>     formatting formless letters in german or english language
>
> (d) macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief-2.0/
>     (please replace and remove the old and obsolete files in
>      macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief)

Thanks for the update.  I replaced version 1.4 with version 2.0 in the
same directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief.  Usually, the
directory names in macros/latex don't include the version number.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec  5 08:44:43 1996
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 13:27:04 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: CTAN Submission -- mpfnmark]

Wolfgang Kowarschick <kowa@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:

> The mpfnmark package provides the command \mpfootnotemark,
> which can be used in the same way as \footnotemark. The difference
> betwee these two macros is that within minipage environments the latter
> uses the standard footnote marker style (defined by \thefootnote),
> while the new command uses the minipage footnote marker style (defined
> by \thempfootnote).
>
> (d) macros/latex2e/contrib/other

Thanks.  I've installed the package in
macros/latex/contrib/other/mpfnmark

It will propagate to the rest of the network in due course.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Dec  9 12:04:53 1996
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 16:53:50 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- uaclasses

Marcel Oliver writes:

> I uploaded the following file for submission to CTAN
> to ftp.tex.ac.uk:
>
>   uaclasses.tar.gz
>
> I suggest placing the files into
>
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported
>
> Enclosed the README file for this package:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Readme file for the package "ua-classes".  Date: 1996/12/05
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> This package provides a LaTeX2e document class named 'ua-thesis' for
> typesetting theses and dissertations in the official format required by the
> University of Arizona.  Moreover, there is a fully compatible alternative
> document class 'my-thesis' for private "nice" copies of the dissertation,
> and the respective title pages are available as separate packages to work
> with "any" document class.
>
>
> The distribution contains the following files:
>
> README          This file.
>
> ua-classes.dtx  User guide and documented source code.
>                 Run 'latex ua-classes.dtx' to obtain user documentation.
>
> ua-classes.ins  Installation file.
>                 Run 'latex ua-classes.ins' to install the package.
>                 Generates the following files:
>                 ua-thesis.cls, my-thesis.cls, ua-title.sty, my-title.sty
>
> ua-example.tex  An example dissertation generated from the University
>                 of Arizona Manual for Theses and Dissertations.
>
> ua-example.dvi  Example output formatted with ua-thesis.cls
>                 and the draft option (from 'ua-example.tex')
>
> my-example.dvi  Example output formatted with my-thesis.cls
>
>
> The following software needs to be installed on the user's system:
>
> LaTeX           version 2e, December 1994 or later
> AMS-LaTeX       version 1.2, October 1996 or later
> AMSFonts        version 2.0, January 1995 or later

Thanks for the upload: I've installed it as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Dec  9 12:26:34 1996
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 17:19:38 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LGrind (lgrindef)

Micahel Grant writes (I'm told ... the mailer hasn't deigned to send
me a copy):

> I've uploaded PSfrag 3.02, a bug-fix release, to
>
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/psfrag.tar.gz
>
> it needs to be replace the files that are currently found in
>
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag

I've done that.

His announcement text says:
========================
A brand-spankin' new version of PSfrag, version 3.02, for LaTeX2e can be
found at CTAN sites in the directory

macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag.

PSfrag 3.02 is a bug fix release, and should be installed over any copy
of PSfrag 3.01 that is out there. In addition, I recommend that you
re-typeset any files on which you have already used PSfrag 3.0 or 3.01.

For those of you that have been diligently installing these interim
releases, beating on them with your favorite documents, and sending us
angry bug reports: thanks a lot (and sorry!) This new PSfrag system
_will_ prove worthwhile, but you have uncovered bugs that we never would
have anticipated otherwise.

For those of you that are slow, and haven't downloaded PSfrag 3.0 yet:
PSfrag 3.x constitutes a near-complete reimplementation of the internals
of PSfrag. Veteran PSfrag users will note the absence of the ps2frag
script; that is because _it is no longer necessary_.

What is PSfrag?
---------------

Many drawing and graphing packages produce output in the Encapsulated
PostScript (EPS) format, but few can easily produce the equations and
other scientific text of which LaTeX is capable. On the other hand, many
LaTeX-based drawing packages are not as expressive or easy-to-use as the
many advanced drawing packages that produce EPS output.

PSfrag provides the best of both worlds by allowing the user to
precisely overlay Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files with arbitrary
LaTeX constructions. In order to accomplish this, the user places a
simple text ``tag'' in the graphics file, as a ``position marker'' of
sorts. Then, using simple LaTeX commands, the user instructs PSfrag to
remove that tag from the figure, and replace it with a properly sized,
aligned, and rotated LaTeX equation.

The full documentation for PSfrag found in the release contains examples
and usage instructions.

To use PSfrag...
----------------

...you will need:

* LaTeX2e and the "graphics" package. (You can use the old epsf.sty
  macros with PSfrag, but you still need the graphics package.) Please
  make sure to get the newest versions of these packages from CTAN
  before submitting bug reports.

* Any DVI-to-PostScript program that is well-supported by the "graphics"
  package. This author uses Tom Rokicki's "dvips"; I recommend it.
  PSfrag has also been verified for DVIPSone from Y&Y (using Level 2
  PostScript printers). PSfrag is intended to work with any driver that
  is fully supported by the "graphics" package, however.

Changes from PSfrag 2.x
-----------------------

PSfrag 3.0 has eliminated the pre-processing step required in the past.
As a result, the ps2frag script is now obsolete. However, as a
consequence, the PSfrag replacements don't show up in their proper
places until the PostScript file is generated. If you look at the .dvi
file with a viewer like XDvi, you will see the replacements lined up to
the left of your figure in a vertical list. This is NOT a bug, but a
necessary consequence of the elimination of the preprocessing step.

PSfrag now fully supports compressed EPS files, as long as they do not
contain embedded \tex commands. The \tex macro, therefore, has been
deprecated; support for the \tex macro must be explicitly requested by
passing an option to the package. (It still works rather well, though.)

Bugs? What Bugs?
----------------

PSfrag 3.01 is bug-free. Of course, we're kidding. That's what we said
about PSfrag 3.0, in fact, and look where it got us.

If you have problems, bug reports, or improvement suggestions, please
send them to the PSfrag maintainer's mailing list,

psfrag@rascals.stanford.edu

Please supply an example .tex file and .eps figure to demonstrate the
behavior you wish to have corrected or improved.

This is a majordomo mailing list; feel free to join if you would like to
actively participate in PSfrag development.

Thanks for using PSfrag!
========================
Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec 10 05:33:30 1996
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:20:31 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Frank Bennett writes:

> I have just uploaded a package called "overword" to CTAN.
> Please put it into the macros/latex/contrib/supported
> subdirectory, in a directory called "overword".
>
> A couple of chunks of the Calendar package will be issued
> as sub-packages.  This is the first.

I've installed the directory as requested.

Thanks for the contribution.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Dec 10 10:22:07 1996
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:52:41 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- rail2e (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 9 Dec 1996 11:02:00 MEZ
> From: Klaus Georg Barthelmann <barthel@INFORMATIK.UNI-MAINZ.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- rail2e
>
> I have uploaded the file rail2e.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de:/incoming.
>
> Rail2e is an update of the rail package written by L.W.J. Rooijakkers. Its main
> new feature is compatibility to LaTeX2e.
> Rail is able to typeset syntax diagrams. It is similar to the package syngen in
> this respect. Included is a style file and a small compiler. The latter needs
> C/Lex/Yacc instead of CAML Special Light.
>
> I suggest to put rail2e into either
> - macros/latex/contrib/other (in correspondence to its current place
>                               macros/latex209/contrib) or
> - support (side by side with syngen).

Thanks for the contribution.

I removed the old version macros/latex209/contrib/rail and installed the
new version in macros/latex/contrib/other/rail2e.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec 11 11:32:00 1996
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 12:44:26 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <fancychapters>

Ulf Lindgren writes:

> I have submitted a zip file named fch.zip containing
>
> fancychapter.ps    - User documentation
> fancychapter.sty   - macro defs.
> readme.txt         - Installation help
>
> The file was submitted to ftp.tex.ac.uk
> I suggest thatthis file is placed under
>
> macros/latex2e/contrib/other/fancychapter
>
> In short this package will provide six predefiend
> chapter headings. Each such can modified using a
> set of simple commands. Optionally one can modify the
> formatting routines in order to create additional
> chapter headings.

Thanks.  I have installed the files as requested here (i.e.,
ftp.tex.ac.uk).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Dec 13 02:47:58 1996
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 08:29:06 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- g-brief 2.1 (fwd)

> From: Michael Lenzen <lenzen@VIVIENNE.SHW.COM>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- g-brief 2.1
> Date:         Fri, 13 Dec 1996 02:42:53 +0100
>
> CTAN Submission
>
> update 'g-brief' rel. 2.0 to rel. 2.1 bugfixed
>
> (a) uploaded to ftp.dante.de
>
> (b) 'g-brief-2.0.tar.gz' to /incoming
>
> (c) g-brief is a document class for LaTeX 2e and serves for
>     formatting formless letters in german or english language
>
> (d) macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief/
>     (please replace and remove the old and obsolete files in
>      macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief)

Thanks, I installed the upgrade as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Dec 13 06:57:06 1996
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:44:10 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: A few jiffy packages

I have just done a mini-refresh of my packages on CTAN in
macros/latex/contrib/other/misc; I don't know whether any of them have
ever been properly announced, so here goes:

The set of packages of mine in that directory is now:

capt-of.sty  Defines a command \captionof for putting a caption to
             something that's _not_ a float
stblftnt.sty Makes footnotes stable, in the sense that they disappear
             if the argument that they're in is moving (useful for
             footnotes in section headings)
topcapt.sty  Defines a command \topcapt, which does the same as
             caption, except that it places itself correctly when put
             _above_ the figure/table that it's a caption of

I've also deleted faqverbs.sty, whose job is so much better done by
Donald Arseneau's url.sty that I'm embarrassed to have it sitting in
the same directory...

Robin Fairbairns

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sat Dec 14 09:17:12 1996
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 15:05:45 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- afthesis (fwd)

From: "Joel D. Young" <jdyoung@AFIT.AF.MIL>
Subject:      CTAN Submission -- afthesis
Date:         Fri, 13 Dec 1996 12:21:46 -0500

  I am submitting an new revision of the
afthesis latex document class.  The new revision
is in

(a,b)*** /incoming/afthesis2.tgz on ftp.dante.de.

(d)**** The files in afthesis2.tgz should replace all
        files in the macros/latex/contrib/supported/afthesis/
        directory on CTAN.

(c)*** These files are a LaTeX2e document class for the
       (US) Air Force Institute of Technology
       thesis/dissertation format.

Thanks for the update.  I replaced the old version on ftp.dante.de.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Dec 14 12:42:50 1996
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 17:36:20 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Bibliography - I need help

Donald Arseneay has submitted a bunch of updates to his many packages
on CTAN.  Here are brief notes on them all.

> cite.sty       Compressed, sorted lists of numerical citations: [8,11-16]
>                3.6  (May 1996)      LaTeX2e, 2.09
>                macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite/cite.sty
>    3.6: Include \G@refundefinedtrue and nosort option
>
>
> overcite.sty   Compressed, sorted lists of superscript numerical citations:
>                " [12,16,11,13,14,15]."  -->  ".$^{11-16}$"
>                3.6  (May 1996)      LaTeX2e, 2.09
>                macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite/overcite.sty
>    3.6: Add nosort option.
>
>
> chapterbib.sty Do multiple bibliographies; one per \included file.
>                1.6 (26-SEP-1996)     LaTeX2e, 2.09
>                macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite/chapterbib.sty
>    % Changes with ver 1.6: change the \sectionbib command to take arguments.

That lot have replaced the earlier versions in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite

> cases.sty      Multi-case equations with big brace, and a number for each case.
>                ver 2.2  Oct 1995     LaTeX2e only
>                macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/cases.sty

Old version deleted from latex209 area

> 3parttable.sty Tables with captions and notes all the same width.
>                Dec 9, 1996           LaTeX2e, LaTeX2.09
>                macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/3parttable.sty
>    (centering fixed)
>
> tabls.sty      Better vertical spacing in tables and arrays (tabular lineskip)
>                3.5  1996             LaTeX2e, LaTeX2.09
>                macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/tabls.sty
>    %  (3.5) Fix several (non-crashing) bugs introduced in 3.4
>
> titleref.sty   "\titleref" to cross-reference the titles of sections
>                2.0  1996-09-26       LaTeX2e,
>                macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/titleref.sty
>    (mainly, \section* etc. are handled better.)
>
> url.sty        Breakable verb; good for email/path/html.
>                1.2   19-Oct-1996      LaTeX2e, LaTeX2.09
>                macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/url.sty
>    % Package option for T1 encoding; Hooks: "\UrlLeft" and "\UrlRight".
>
> shapepar.sty   typeset paragraphs in specific complex shapes
>                Version 1.01  (March 1993)  LaTeX2e, LaTeX2.09, Plain TeX
>                macros/latex209/contrib/misc/shapepar.sty
>    Version 1.01 (March 1993)  Small changes from initial release.

Old version deleted from latex209 area

> truncate.sty   Truncate text to a specified width
>                2.0                   Any LaTeX
>                (macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/truncate.sty)

Which replace earlier versions either in latex209/contrib/misc or in
latex/contrib/other/misc; they're all installed in latex/contrib/other/misc

Thanks, Oonald, for the contribution.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Dec 14 14:38:50 1996
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:36:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Further changes in Donald Arseneau's macro contributions

Following the upload I announced earlier today, I have made a few
further changes, at Donald's suggestion:

-- I have reinstalled 3parttable.sty as threeparttable.sty (which is
the name used when describing the package in the companion;
I've created a link from 3parttable.sty to threeparttable.sty

-- I have moved macros/latex209/contrib/tabto.tex to
macros/generic/tabto.tex

-- I have deleted macros/latex209/contrib/diamondpar.sty

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec 19 11:57:06 1996
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 16:32:32 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Statistics for usage of ftp.tex.ac.uk during November 1996

TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Thu Oct 31 1996 TO Sat Nov 30 1996

Files Transmitted During Summary Period        461463
Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period   39228577637
Systems Using Archives                              0

Average Files Transmitted Daily                 14886
Average Bytes Transmitted Daily            1265437988

Daily Transmission Statistics

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Tue Nov  5 1996       32074   1959106911    5.2 KB/s      6.95        4.99
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sites which mount the archives via NFS, and those transfers are not
logged and reported by this program.



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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Dec 20 04:52:57 1996
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:39:27 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- minitoc

Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes:

> I have uploaded in /incoming a file minitoc-v27.tar.gz.uu
> which is a new release (#27) of my minitoc package.
>
> This release fixes some problems with ``starred'' chapters
> (commands \chapter*, \section* ... ).
>
> The minitocoff.sty package is renamed mtcoff.sty to have
> a short name (the 8+3 limitations on some systems...).
>
> The language specific files (like mtcenglish.sty and
> mtcfrench.sty) are renamed with shorter names and the
> .mld suffix (mld = minitoc language definition), e.g.
> english.mld and french.mld.
>
> Some languages have been added: arabic (arab), breton,
> estonian, germanb, greek, irish, russianb, scottish,
> lower and upper sorbian, vietnamese (vietnam); renamed
> esperanto into esperant like in Babel.
>
> This version replace \emph{completely} the #25 version
> in macros/latex/contrib/supported/minitoc/ .
> The version #26 was an intermediate version and is not
> public.

I have duly installed it as such.

> Best regards, merry Chrismas and have a Happy New Year
> to the LaTeX team,

Thank you -- and the same to you!

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sat Dec 21 02:45:05 1996
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 08:36:26 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Upload - rail2e (fwd)

Forwarded message:
> From owner-ctan@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE  Sat Dec 21 05:04:25 1996
> Date:         Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:59:11 +0100
> From: "Klaus Georg Barthelmann70-iso885@"
>               <barthel@INFORMATIK.UNI-MAINZ.DE>
> Subject:      Upload - rail2e
>
> I just uploaded the files
>         rail.{ps,sty,tex}
> to ftp.dante.de:/incoming. Please move them to
>         macros/latex/contrib/other/rail2e
>
> The main reason for this upgrade is a very short-sighted mistake on my
> side: The placement on CTAN broke the availability information in the
> documentation. And when I'm at it, I already cleaned the style file a
> little bit. I am sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks for the update.  I installed it on ftp.dante.de yesterday.
By now, it should be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Sorry for the delay, but your mail took nearly five days to pass from
relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de to listserv.gmd.de.  Quite a little bit of
constipation in the remains of the bitnet world ;-)

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sat Dec 21 02:53:49 1996
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 08:49:11 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Update to custom-bib (fwd)

> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@linpwd.mpae.gwdg.de>
> Subject:      Update to custom-bib
> Date:         Mon, 16 Dec 1996 13:14:50 +0200
> Comments: To: ctan@SHSU.edu
> To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN <CTAN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
>
> I wish to submit an update to my package custom-bib.
>
> I have put the following files into the /incoming/custom-bib directory
> on the dante server.
>
> README.v382, merlin.mbs, physjour.mbs
>
> Please copy these into the directory
>       latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib
> replacing those of the same name and removing README.v381.

Thanks for the update.  I installed it on ftp.dante.de yesterday.
It should be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors now.

By the way, please don't send announcements to ctan@SHSU.edu.  This
address merely forwards your mail to ctan@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de,
where it will be distributed to the CTAN staff.  We don't know when
even this last (?) remnant of CTAN on SHSU will stop working, so you'd
better get accustomed to the Heidelberg address.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Dec 24 16:27:37 1996
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 22:24:39 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Babel release 3.6 (fwd)

> From: "Johannes L. Braams" <jlbraams@CISTRON.NL>
> Subject:      Babel release 3.6 in ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming
> Date:         Tue, 24 Dec 1996 20:16:59 +0100
>
> I have just put the file babel-3.6.zip in /incoming on ftp.dante.de.
> It's contents replaces the contents of the .../packages/babel directory.
> Also the file babel-3.6beta.zip in the .../packages directory is now
> obsolete, so needs to be removed.

Thanks for your update.  I replaced the old version
in /tex-archive/macros/latex/packags/babel as requested.
It will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

> Below I include the file announce.txt/.
>
> Merry Xmas and a happy new year,
>
> Johannes Braams

Best wishes to all (La)TeX fans,
Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

>         Hi,
>
>         I am relieved to finally be able to tell you that I have
>         finalized Babel release 3.6.
>
>         What's new in release 3.6?
>         In Babel version 3.6 a number of bugs that were found in
>         version~3.5 are fixed. Also a number of changes and additions
>         have occured:
>         - A new environment `otherlanguage*' is introduced. it only
>           switches the `specials', but leaves the `captions'
>           untouched.
>         - The shorthands are no longer fully expandable. Some
>           problems could only be solved by peeking at the token
>           following an active character. The advantage is that '{}a
>           works as expected for languages that have the ' active.
>         - Support for typesetting french texts is much enhanced; the
>           file francais.ldf is now replaced by frenchb.ldf which is
>           maintained by Daniel Flipo.
>         - Support for typesetting the russian language is again
>           available. The languange definition file was originally
>           developped by Olga Lapko from cyrtug. The fonts needed to
>           typeset the russian language are now part of the babel
>           distribution. The support is not yet up to the level which is
>           needed according to Olga, but this is a start.
>         - Support for typesetting greek texts is now also
>           available. What is offered in this release is a first attempt;
>           it will be enhanced later on by Yannis Haralambous.
>         - Support for typesetting Welsh texts has been added.
>         - A new command \aliasshorthand is introduced. It seems that
>           in Poland various conventions are used to type the necessary
>           polish letters. It is now possible to use the character /
>           as a shorthand character instead of the character~" by
>           issuing the command \aliasshorthand{"}{/}.
>         - The shorthand mechanism now deals correctly with characters
>           that are already active.
>         - Shorthand characters are made active at \begin{document},
>           not earlier. This is to prevent problems with other packages.
>         - A \emph{preambleonly} command |\substitutefontfamily| has
>           been added to create \file{.fd} files on the fly when the
>           font families of the latin text differ from the families
>           used for the cyrillic or greek parts of the text.
>
>         The last remark: where can you get babel 3.6?
>         It is available in the directory
>         /tex-archive/macros/latex/packags/babel on CTAN.
>         For those who want to test the new support for Russian: you'll
>         need the LH fonts (see CyrillcFonts.txt in the distribution)
>
>         Happy LaTeXing!
>
>         Johannes Braams

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Dec 29 10:04:35 1996
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:59:02 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: babel fix again

> From: "Johannes L. Braams" <jlbraams@CISTRON.NL>
> Subject: babel fix again
> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:43:22 +0100

> I am uploading bbl-updates.zip to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming right now.
> it contains a few fixes for typos found.

Thanks, I installed the updates for babel 3.6 in
tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/babel.

> I intend to keep on quickliy fixing these kind of errors over the upcoming
> couple of weeks.

Fine with me ;-)

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec 31 07:56:22 1996
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 12:40:00 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LatexMk

Evan McLean writes:

> I have uploaded version 2.0 of LatexMk to ftp.tex.ac.uk in the /incoming
> directory, filename of latexmk-2.0.tar.gz
>
> This replaces the contents of /tex-archive/support/latexmk
> and will be the final release of this utility.
>
> Evan McLean
>
> --
> emm@rdt.monash.edu.au | The more people I meet,
> (Occasionaly thought  |      the more I like my cat.
>  of as Evan McLean)   |

I've installed the new version here; it'll propagate to ftp.dante.de
and to the mirrors in due course (whatever that means).

For LaTeX users who aren't acquainted with LatexMk (and who use a Un*x
system): I strongly recommend you investigate this excellent
utility...

(I don't normally recommend things in this way, but I feel rather
strongly about LatexMk ;-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec 31 11:07:15 1996
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 15:53:51 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- emtexgi

Allin Cottrell writes:

> I have just uploaded emtexgi.zip, emtexgi.tex, readme.txt
> and timestex.zip to /incoming/emtexgi on ftp.tex.ac.uk.
> These files compose the latest version of EMTEXGI, a Windows
> interface to emTeX.  Please delete the files currently in
>
> systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/emtexgi
>
> and replace them with those mentioned above.

I'm afraid I've only just installed these (they arrived the day my
project deliverable was due ...).  Anyhow, they're on ftp.tex.ac.uk
now, and will propagate soon.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jan  8 07:12:45 1997
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 12:44:06 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Summission: fribrief (fwd)

> From: Alexander Fries <BP016@FS1-DVZ-FHKOELN.DVZ.FH-Koeln.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Summission: fribrief
> Date:         Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:11:55 MEZ

> I've upload a update for my letterclass mybrief.cls for LaTeX2e on the
> CTAN-server at FTP.DANTE.DE. There are three files named
>
>  fribrief.cls  (the LaTeX2e-class)
>  fribrief.sty  (the LaTeX2e-package of mybrief.cls)
>  fribrief.ger  (german documentation of fribrief.cls)
>
> in the directory /incoming/FRIBRIEF.
>
> It is a update for mybrief.cls in directory
> /pup/tex/macros/latex/contrib/other/mybrief
> Please delete mybrief.* or replace it with the new files.

Thanks for the update.  I installed the new version - as David Carlisle
suggested on ftp.dante.de in /macros/latex/contrib/supported/fribrief
and removed the old version macros/latex/contrib/other/mybrief.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jan  8 08:22:34 1997
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 14:03:18 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission - WinTeX 95 v2.01 (fwd)

> From: Michael Muecke <muecke@I5.INFORMATIK.RWTH-AACHEN.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission - WinTeX 95 v2.01
> Date:         Wed, 8 Jan 1997 13:14:33 +0100
>
> Ich habe gerade Version 2.01 meines TeX-Editors nach
>
> /incoming/wtex95v2
>
> geladen. Er ersetzt Version 2.0 in /pub/tex/systems/win32/wtex95v2 und
> behebt ein paar kleinere Bugs. Bitte aktualisiert das Archiv.

Thanks for the submission.  I replaced the old version in
/tex-archive/systems/win32/wtex95 on ftp.dante.de.  The new version
will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Jan  9 04:35:56 1997
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 10:15:24 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN update to aguplus (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:33:20 +0200
> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@LINPWD.MPAE.GWDG.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN update to aguplus
>
> I have put some update files to my bundle AGUPLUS into the Dante server
> under /incoming/aguplus
>
> aguplus.cls
> aguplus.sty
> samplus.tex
> changes.v15b
> README.pwd
>
> Please put these into  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/aguplus
> replacing the files of the same name and removing  changes.v15a.

Done as requested.  The new files will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and
the CTAN mirrors

-rz

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 10 05:28:37 1997
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:04:07 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- fncychap

Ulf Lindgren writes:

> I have submitted a zip file named fch.zip containing
>
> fncychap.ps    - User documentation
> fncychap.sty   - macro defs.
> readme.txt     - Installation help
>
> The file was submitted to ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> This is a revised version of FancyChapter,
> with minor changes, name change (for DOS)
> and latex-base requierment (1995/12/01).
>
> I suggest that this file is placed under
>
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/fncychap
>
> This means that the old package can be deleted located
> under macros/latex/contrib/other/fancychapter.
>
> In short this package will provide six predefined
> chapter headings. Each such can modified using a
> set of simple commands. Optionally one can modify the
> formatting routines in order to create additional
> chapter headings.

I have installed the new version as suggested, and deleted the old
version

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 10 11:26:56 1997
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 16:17:03 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: How to combine 2 independent LaTeX files...

Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes:

> Finally, I have put export.tar.gz.uu in /incoming on the
> ftp.tex.ac.uk CTAN server. I should know that mail servers
> are indomptable beasts. I repeat below the description of
> the export package.

Of course, I managed to lose this message over Christmas.  Mail
servers aren't half as indomitable as absent-minded archivists...

> This package allows the user to export/import the values of
> LaTeX registers (counters, rigid and rubber lengths only).
> It is definitely NOT for faint-hearted users.
>
> There are 3 files:
>
>  - export.dtx the self-contained package file, with the doc;
>  - export.ins (to unpack the package, like a Xmas gift...);
>  - dvipaste.sty an auxiliary package, derived from the
>    dvipaste tool, available on CTAN sites. This package is
>    useful for some interesting manipulations; the dvipaste
>    tool (program dvipaste.c and dvipaste.tex macros) is
>    copywrighted by ``The TeXplorators Corporation''.
>    dvipaste.sty is just dvipaste.tex corrected to work under
>    LaTeX.
>
> It should be installed in macros/latex/contrib/supported/export/
>
> Thanks again, and best regards.
>
> PS. this package is my little Xmas gift to the LaTeX users.

At least I managed installation here (ftp.tex.ac.uk) before November
30+25, 1997...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From jlbraams@CISTRON.NL Fri Jan 10 14:56:10 1997
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 20:46:04 +0100
From: Johannes L. Braams <jlbraams@CISTRON.NL>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: babel update(s)

Hello,

Over the last couple of days I have sent several fixes of babel 3.6 to CTAN.
The most recent one will be installed tonight.
Below you'll find a list of all the fixes that I've sent in so far. This list
is in the file fixes.txt which is now part of the distribution.

Kind regards,

Johannes Braams

                          Fixes since last release

                              10 Januari 1997

1996/12/27  Replaced babel.ins, added a missing definition
1996/12/29  Replaced italian.dtx,russian.dtx to fix missing braces
1996/12/30  Replaced babel.dtx, changed definition of \addto slightly.
1996/12/31  Replaced babel.ins, added a missing \fi
1997/01/02  Replaced bbplain.dtx to repair a problem with AMSTeX
            Replaced install.txt to fix a typo
1997/01/05  Replaced babel.dtx to enable the use of babel with a
            standard format (without hyphen.cfg preloaded) (PR 2354)
            This always worked, but a bug prevented it from working;
            see changes.txt
1997/01/09  Replaced babel.ins to add instruction about .fd files to
            the end;
            Replaced babel.dtx to make the language switch commands
            switch off language shorthands, and to add the options
            french, UKenglish, USenglish;
            Replaced bbplain.dtx to add \@begindocumenthook to the
            LaTeX2.09 format;
            Replaced catalan.dtx because it produced unwanted spaces in
            the output;
            Replaced dutch.dtx to fix a typo;
            Replaced esperant.dtx to fix a typo;
            Replaced frenchb.dtx, update from Daniel Flippo;
            Replaced galician.dtx because it produced unwanted spaces
            in the output and to make "a and "o work in vertical mode;
            Replaced spanish.dtx because it produced unwanted spaces
            in the output and to make "a and "o work in vertical mode;
            Replaced greek.fdd because some of the font substitutions
            were wrong and to make \TeX, \LaTeX, \copyright,
            \textcircled, \textregistered \texttrademark and \ss
            produce something expected;
            Replaced cyrillic.fdd to make \TeX, \LaTeX, \copyright,
            \textcircled, \textregistered \texttrademark and \ss
            produce something expected;
            Replaced tb1202.tex and tb1401.tex to fix a couple of typos.
1997/01/10  Replaced babel.dtx, adding two missing braces.

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jan 13 07:15:06 1997
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 11:46:38 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: termcal.tar.gz

Bill Mitchell writes:

> %          The package "termcal.sty"
> %
> % This package is intended to print a term calendar for use in
> % planning a class.  It has a flexible mechanism for specifying
> % which days of the week are to be included and for inserting text
> % either regularly on the same day each week, or on selected days,
> % or for a series of consecutive days.  It also has a flexible
> % mechinism for specifing class and nonclass days.  Text may be
> % inserted into consecutive days so that it automatically flows
> % around nonclass days.
>
>
> The tar file includes the following:
>
> Contents        -- this file
> termcal.dtx     -- source file
> termcal.ins
>
> termcal.sty     -- style file, derived from termcal.dtx
> termcal.ind     -- index, derived from termcal.dtx
>
> As usual the command "latex termcal.dtx" will print the
> documentation. Since the documentation includes an example of the
> use of the package, the style file "termcal.sty" is needed to print
> the documentation.

At his suggestion, I have installed this stuff at ftp.tex.ac.uk in
directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/termcal

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jan 14 10:15:05 1997
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:46:58 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: new version of ppchtex

Hans Hagen writes:

> I've downloaded a new version of PPCHTEX to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming (it
> should have been the german address I suppose).

As a general rule, continue using the site you first used.  You may be
surprised, anyway: physical nearness doesn't always mean
net-nearness...

> The update concerns a
> in-line math font problem (thanks to Frank Mittelbach for mentioning
> this) and a ommision of <eof> at the end of the file (better for unix
> users).

I have installed the update at ftp.tex.ac.uk, and it'll make its way
off around the world in due course...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Jan 16 09:28:48 1997
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 15:22:01 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: trip test for MLTeX v2.2 (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 16 Jan 1997 14:32:22 +0100
> From: Bernd Raichle <raichle@INFORMATIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE>
> Subject:      trip test for MLTeX v2.2
>
> (a) site:       ftp.dante.de
>
> (b) file(s):    mltrip.tar
>
> (c) overview:
>         MLTeX was missing a test similar to Knuth's trip test for
>         TeX.  I have created one for MLTeX v2.2 which performs basic
>         tests of the ML extensions and MLTeX's current behaviour.
>         For older MLTeX versions the test complains with warning
>         messages.
>         There is no manual included; there is a short description of
>         the necessary steps at the beginning of the file "mltrip.tex".
>
> (d) place within CTAN: systems/generic/mltex/mltrip/
>                 (unpack the tar file in .../mltex/, it will create the
>                 subdirectory "mltrip")

Thanks for the contribution.  I installed it on ftp.dante.de as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 17 09:41:14 1997
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 14:09:33 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- VDC free DEMO

Bernard Gaulle writes:

>   For IDEAL FONTS i just uploaded in /incoming on ftp.tex.ac.uk
> the following:
>   /anonymous@ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/texturesVDC:
>   total 818
>   drwxr-xr-x   2 ftp      ctan        8192 Jan 10 09:12 .
>   drwxrwx---  12 ftp      ctan        8192 Jan 10 08:34 ..
>   --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan        1333 Jan 10 09:12 README.IF
>   --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan      816551 Jan 10 08:46 VDC1.1DEMO.sea.hqx
>
> I suggest that directory (/texturesVDC) be moved to /systems/mac, asis.
> It contains a free demo of the Virtual DC fonts for Textures by IDEAL FONTS.

Thanks for the submission.

Bernard and I have had some discussion about this, and I have decided
(on behalf of the CTAN team) to install the directory as

  systems/mac/textures/contrib/VDC

Note that the contrib directory is not part of the bluesky mirror
which makes up most of systems/mac/textures

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jan 21 05:17:23 1997
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:00:17 +0100
From: J%org Knappen Mainz <KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Release: ec fonts version 1.0

Announcement: Stable ec fonts available now

There are now the stable ec fonts Version 1.0 available from the CTAN
archives in directory

tex-archive/fonts/jknappen/ec

The ec fonts support the complete LaTeX T1 encoding, as defined at the 1990
TUG conference hold at Cork/Ireland. They are intended to be as stable as
the cm fonts are, i. e. there shall be no more changes to the tfm files.

The ec fonts also contain a Text Companion Symbol font, called tc,
featuring many usefull characters needed in typesetting, for example
oldstyle digits, currency symbols (including the newly created Euro
symbol), the permille sign, copyright, trade mark and servicemark as well
as a copyleft sign, and many others.

The upcoming release of LaTeX2e will support the ec fonts.

The dc fonts, which were termed as preliminary versions, will dissappear
from the archives soon. It is suggested, that you replace them entirely by
the ec fonts.

Let me thank to all the people who have contributed to the success of the
ec font project. They are too numerous to mention all of them, but some
of them should have a place here:

Donald E. Knuth and Richard Southall for designing and coding the cm fonts,
     which are the base of the ec fonts
Babrbara Beeton, Michael Ferguson, and Jan-Michael Rynning for pushing the
     project into existence
Norbert Schwarz for the first two releases of the dc fonts
Yannis Haralambous for numerous contributions to the METAFONT code
Boguslaw Jackowsky and Marek Rycko for designing and programming the polish
     letters
Andreas Schwab for finding and fixing some very bad bugs
Daniel Taupin and Denis Roegel for fine-tuning of the accented letters
      needed in french

The remaining errors and bugs in the distribution are all mine, no one of
the persons credited above and the other unnamed contributors should be
blamed for them.

--J"org Knappen.

From oneill@CS.SFU.CA Tue Jan 21 13:24:38 1997
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:17:39 -0800
From: Melissa O'Neill <oneill@CS.SFU.CA>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Release: ec fonts version 1.0

J"org Knappen writes:
> There are now the stable ec fonts Version 1.0 available from the CTAN
> archives in directory

This is very nice to see, thank you J"org.

One issue for me, however, is that I'm not likely to switch over to the
ec fonts until they're freely available as PostScript Type 1 fonts rather
than having to use metafont generated bitmaps. Is Basil K. Malyshev still
participating in TeX font issues and prepared to run his miracle
conversion software on the ec fonts as he did for the cm and ams fonts
(and an earlier version of the dc fonts)?  It would be certainly be
excellent if this could happen.

Hoping someone knows...

    Melissa.

From s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK Wed Jan 22 04:41:59 1997
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:28:34 +0000 (GMT)
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Release: ec fonts version 1.0

Melissa O'Neill writes:
 > than having to use metafont generated bitmaps. Is Basil K. Malyshev still
 > participating in TeX font issues and prepared to run his miracle
 > conversion software on the ec fonts as he did for the cm and ams fonts
 > (and an earlier version of the dc fonts)?  It would be certainly be
 > excellent if this could happen.
Basil at last news was ill, recovering from an accident, and isn't
actively working on the conversion. Maybe he will return to it, but i
would not hold your breath

Sebastian

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jan 22 11:57:56 1997
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:54:21 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- latexn

John Collins writes:

 > I have uploaded the file latexn to ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > It is a csh script to run latex as many times as needed on a given
 > file to resolve cross references, and to ensure that the table of
 > contents and index (if any) are up-to-date.  It tries to avoid running
 > latex more times than needed.  Documentation is in the form of
 > comments and help text in the file.
 >
 > I suggest placing it in /tex-archive/support/
 >
 > John Collins
 > CERN and Penn State University
 > john.collins@cern.ch and collins@phys.psu.edu (preferred)

Thanks a lot. Following your suggestion, I placed the file into

  support/latexn

For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK Wed Jan 22 13:33:29 1997
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:29:00 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: LaTeX Release

LaTeX 1996/12/01 release
========================

The LaTeX3 project is pleased to announce a new release of
LaTeX (with a nominal date of 1996/12/01).


The following directories have been updated at
the ctan sites, ftp.dante.de and ftp.tex.ac.uk.
(Updates will happen at mirrors overnight, finger ctan@ftp.dante.de
for a list of mirror sites.)

tex-archive/macros/latex/base
  or
tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked

  and

tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/tools
tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/graphics
tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/mfnfss


As was announced last November, this `December' released was delayed
to allow more testing of a change to the fd file names to make the
system more portable. They are now all lowercase (t1cmr.fd, rather
than the old T1cmr.fd). This change should not affect any LaTeX
document, but should make it much easier to share LaTeX files
between case sensitive file systems (such as unix) and case
insensitive ones (such as MSDOS, or CDROM formats).

The delay has also allowed support for the new `ec' fonts that were
released earlier this week to be incorporated into this LaTeX
release.

As always, a copy of ltnews (ltnews06.tex) has more details of the
new features. (In particular details of how to enable support for the
ec fonts.)

David Carlisle
LaTeX3 project

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jan 24 02:33:36 1997
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:26:18 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- newthm.tgz (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 23 Jan 1997 07:52:08 +0100
> From: Andreas Schlechte <inas@MIB.HARZ.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- newthm.tgz
>
>  i've uploaded the package newthm.tgz to ftp.dante.de. The archive
>  contains a modified version of the theorem-style, which provides
>  generation of lists of theorems. Sorry, there isn't yet a documentation,
>  but it will added as soon as possible. In fact it's released in one
>  of the next "Die TeXnischer Kom"odie". I will add it to the archive
>  at this time.
>
>  I recommend installing the unpacked files in
>
>    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/newthm/

Thanks for the contribution.  I installed the files as requested yesterday
and they should be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors by now.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 24 07:16:01 1997
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 12:03:54 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LTX2X, updated LaTeX to X translator

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have sent the file ltx2x.tar.gz to directory /incoming at ftp.tex.ac.uk.
> This is a new release of the LTX2X program, and I suggest that it replace
> the contents of the current /support/ltx2x directory.
>
>     Below is part of the README file.
>
> Regards
> Peter W.
>
>
> file: README for January 1997 release of LTX2X LaTeX to X Autotagger
>
>     New improved LTX2X with all sorts of print capabilities and an
> embedded interpreter for the EXPRESS-A programming language, based
> on the ISO standard ISO 10303-11:1994 "Industrial automation systems
> and integration -- Product data representation and exchange --
> Part11: Description methods: The EXPRESS language reference manual".
>
> FUNCTION
>
>     The LTX2X program, which is written in C, will replace LaTeX commands
> in a LaTeX document by user-defined strings. In essence, LaTeX tags can
> be replaced by other kinds of document tags (e.g. HTML/SGML or RTF tags),
> or can be removed altogether. The program also has an unsophisticated
> pretty-print capability.
>
>     The replacement strings for the LaTeX commands are specified
> in a command table file, which can be created simply via any text
> editor. For more advanced users an interpreter for the EXPRESS-A
> programming language is also included. EXPRESS-A includes STRING, LIST
> and ENTITY types as as primitives of the language, as well as the
> usual REAL, INTEGER and LOGICAL types. Regular expressions are also
> an integral part of EXPRESS-A. The interpreter also includes an
> interactive source level debugger for EXPRESS-A.
>
>     The supplied command tables include facilities for, among others:
> o deTeXing and pretty-printing
> o Conversion from LaTeX tagging to HTML tagging
>
>     The 100+ page user manual is supplied as LaTeX source, Postscript,
> and in deTeXed and HTML forms, the latter two being automatically
> generated by running LTX2X on the LaTeX source.
>
>
> AUTHOR
>
>     Comments and suggestions should be sent to Peter Wilson (The Catholic
> University of America and NIST) pwilson@cme.nist.gov

I've installed the new version as requested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Thanks for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK Fri Jan 24 12:18:05 1997
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 17:14:12 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: LaTeX package for type1 (or truetype) cm fonts.

\fontsize{2cm}{2.5cm}\selectfont

If you are using scalable versions of the cm fonts (Type1 Bakoma, or
versions from BSR/Y&Y, or True Type versions from
Kinch, PCTeX etc) then you may sometimes not want LaTeX to restrict
the cm fonts to discrete sizes as it does by default.

I have just uploaded a package that has been installed as
ctan:macros/latex/contrib/supported/type1cm
that removes this restriction (for the cm and AMS font sets).

It can be used as a package (recommended way) or installed as an
alternative set of fd files (which would change the default LaTeX
behaviour at your site)

\fontsize{4in}{5in}\selectfont

David

From mcgrant@RASCALS.STANFORD.EDU Sun Jan 26 17:35:08 1997
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:33:23 -0800
From: Michael C. Grant <mcgrant@RASCALS.STANFORD.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: OOPS! Corrected version of PSfrag 3.03 uploaded

I sheepishly confess that there was a typographical error in the version of
psfrag.dtx I uploaded just a few days ago. For that reason, please install
the new version of psfrag.tar.gz that I have uploaded to
ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming. It should go into

/macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag

The bug won't rear its head for but a few people, so I've kept the version
number 3.03.

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jan 29 15:20:42 1997
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 15:07:46 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: statistics, ftp.tex.ac.uk, December 1996

If these were produced by a daemon, they wouldn't have been delayed by
influenza.  Some other virus, maybe, but not influenza ;-)

TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Sat Nov 30 1996 TO Tue Dec 31 1996

Files Transmitted During Summary Period        513387
Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period   39293467557
Systems Using Archives                              0

Average Files Transmitted Daily                 16043
Average Bytes Transmitted Daily            1227920861

Daily Transmission Statistics

                 Number Of    Number of    Average    Percent Of  Percent Of
     Date        Files Sent  Bytes  Sent  Xmit  Rate  Files Sent  Bytes Sent
---------------  ----------  -----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
Sat Nov 30 1996       10506    743038724    6.0 KB/s      2.05        1.89
Sun Dec  1 1996        8552    664202824    3.6 KB/s      1.67        1.69
Mon Dec  2 1996        9015   1067133682    3.0 KB/s      1.76        2.72
Tue Dec  3 1996       14196   1458640979    4.5 KB/s      2.77        3.71
Wed Dec  4 1996       14316   1203742552    4.2 KB/s      2.79        3.06
Thu Dec  5 1996       13338   1315119351    4.0 KB/s      2.60        3.35
Fri Dec  6 1996        7941    985149682    4.3 KB/s      1.55        2.51
Sat Dec  7 1996        9590    911773059    4.1 KB/s      1.87        2.32
Sun Dec  8 1996        8452    810216929    4.0 KB/s      1.65        2.06
Mon Dec  9 1996       10717    888523291    3.2 KB/s      2.09        2.26
Tue Dec 10 1996       12095   1003010039    3.8 KB/s      2.36        2.55
Wed Dec 11 1996       11623    920057904    2.9 KB/s      2.26        2.34
Thu Dec 12 1996       10421   1185963554    3.9 KB/s      2.03        3.02
Fri Dec 13 1996       20317   1645116982    5.2 KB/s      3.96        4.19
Sat Dec 14 1996      114862   4269994606   10.7 KB/s     22.37       10.87
Sun Dec 15 1996       12430    824259349    4.0 KB/s      2.42        2.10
Mon Dec 16 1996       24604   2556730595    7.7 KB/s      4.79        6.51
Tue Dec 17 1996       19376   2191237141    4.6 KB/s      3.77        5.58
Wed Dec 18 1996       13778   1386201356    3.8 KB/s      2.68        3.53
Thu Dec 19 1996       12298   1371618693    5.6 KB/s      2.40        3.49
Fri Dec 20 1996       19976   1843220509    5.3 KB/s      3.89        4.69
Sat Dec 21 1996       20773   1706635705    6.0 KB/s      4.05        4.34
Sun Dec 22 1996       10294    871575873    6.2 KB/s      2.01        2.22
Mon Dec 23 1996       10430   1146785006    5.2 KB/s      2.03        2.92
Tue Dec 24 1996       11330    884310329    5.0 KB/s      2.21        2.25
Wed Dec 25 1996       22701    601315373    5.5 KB/s      4.42        1.53
Thu Dec 26 1996       10555   1161149702    6.1 KB/s      2.06        2.96
Fri Dec 27 1996        7713    691205238    4.6 KB/s      1.50        1.76
Sat Dec 28 1996        7414    665766229    5.9 KB/s      1.44        1.69
Sun Dec 29 1996       16317    815289375    6.0 KB/s      3.18        2.07
Mon Dec 30 1996       14472    987417367    4.1 KB/s      2.82        2.51
Tue Dec 31 1996        2985    517065559    5.7 KB/s      0.58        1.32

Total Transfers from each Archive Section

                                                 ---- Percent  Of ----
     Archive Section      Files Sent Bytes Sent  Files Sent Bytes Sent
------------------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ----------
Informational Files              122    98262788     0.02       0.25
TeX Informational Files         4536  5874212590     0.88      14.95
biblio                          4225   147238132     0.82       0.37
digests                         5192    83286716     1.01       0.21
dviware                        11531   412318106     2.25       1.05
fonts                         202097  4951648422    39.37      12.60
graphics                       10888   198682407     2.12       0.51
help                            2278   118083901     0.44       0.30
indexing                         712     9268891     0.14       0.02
info                           13877  2675618565     2.70       6.81
language                       20165   327181471     3.93       0.83
macros                        118113  2908393434    23.01       7.40
non-TeX                          345    74701414     0.07       0.19
support                        25317  2205113500     4.93       5.61
systems                        75843 18626519180    14.77      47.40
tds                              492    18903479     0.10       0.05
tools                           5903   192516083     1.15       0.49
usergrps                        3075   205384298     0.60       0.52
web                             8676   166134180     1.69       0.42

Total Transfer Amount By Domain

             Number Of    Number of     Average    Percent Of  Percent Of
Domain Name  Files Sent   Bytes Sent   Xmit  Rate  Files Sent  Bytes Sent
-----------  ----------  ------------  ----------  ----------  ----------
ae                    4         37607    9.4 KB/s      0.00        0.00
ar                   21       4895132    1.0 KB/s      0.00        0.01
at                  128      60894888    2.3 KB/s      0.02        0.15
au                 4986     512475187    4.3 KB/s      0.97        1.30
be                 1444     509321473    5.9 KB/s      0.28        1.30
bg                    8         32386    4.0 KB/s      0.00        0.00
bh                    1          1871    1.9 KB/s      0.00        0.00
br                  398      28908841    1.8 KB/s      0.08        0.07
by                    2          3467    0.5 KB/s      0.00        0.00
ca                 2528     346602216    3.0 KB/s      0.49        0.88
ch                 4441     448125411   24.9 KB/s      0.87        1.14
cl                 1571      38347692    2.0 KB/s      0.31        0.10
cn                   62       4382751    0.7 KB/s      0.01        0.01
co                    2        430208    0.6 KB/s      0.00        0.00
cy                    6         21122    3.5 KB/s      0.00        0.00
cz                 4233     326488852    6.5 KB/s      0.82        0.83
de                 2881     349531775    5.9 KB/s      0.56        0.89
dk                 2770     243132847    3.6 KB/s      0.54        0.62
do                    1        470673    0.6 KB/s      0.00        0.00
ee                   18        570070    1.8 KB/s      0.00        0.00
eg                    6        802393    2.6 KB/s      0.00        0.00
es                 1836     265585537    3.9 KB/s      0.36        0.68
fi                 3290     430041702   12.4 KB/s      0.64        1.09
fr                19410    1702105296    3.1 KB/s      3.78        4.33
gb                   34      11161301   82.1 KB/s      0.01        0.03
gr                  408     146139577    2.3 KB/s      0.08        0.37
gt                    1        127914    0.9 KB/s      0.00        0.00
hk                31969    1406902645    1.3 KB/s      6.23        3.58
hr                   63       4306387    3.1 KB/s      0.01        0.01
hu                 1234     136736660    3.4 KB/s      0.24        0.35
id                    1          3372    3.4 KB/s      0.00        0.00
ie                 1170     509249296   15.8 KB/s      0.23        1.30
il                  284      36058092    0.5 KB/s      0.06        0.09
in                   71       8344798    0.8 KB/s      0.01        0.02
is                    7         31708    3.5 KB/s      0.00        0.00
it                26222    1793401762    7.7 KB/s      5.11        4.56
jp                54156    4136516384    7.9 KB/s     10.55       10.53
kr                51379    1660980749    6.0 KB/s     10.01        4.23
kz                    3       2840900    3.1 KB/s      0.00        0.01
lt                   41        836851    0.7 KB/s      0.01        0.00
lv                    2          9939    3.3 KB/s      0.00        0.00
mo                    5         51858    8.6 KB/s      0.00        0.00
mx                  254      27396526    0.8 KB/s      0.05        0.07
my                   32       4473441    0.3 KB/s      0.01        0.01
nl                 8955     741427373    7.8 KB/s      1.74        1.89
no                 1542     217437897    2.9 KB/s      0.30        0.55
nz                  198      30381603    3.7 KB/s      0.04        0.08
pa                   33       7394696    4.9 KB/s      0.01        0.02
pf                    6        850488    0.6 KB/s      0.00        0.00
pl                 3124     423757778    2.1 KB/s      0.61        1.08
pt                 2924     130327279    3.2 KB/s      0.57        0.33
ro                   96      32179688    0.9 KB/s      0.02        0.08
ru                  587     101417629    0.6 KB/s      0.11        0.26
sa                   46      26310210   20.0 KB/s      0.01        0.07

Total Transfer Amount By Domain

             Number Of    Number of     Average    Percent Of  Percent Of
Domain Name  Files Sent   Bytes Sent   Xmit  Rate  Files Sent  Bytes Sent
-----------  ----------  ------------  ----------  ----------  ----------
se                 7427     726346760    6.3 KB/s      1.45        1.85
sg                  119      16103399    1.8 KB/s      0.02        0.04
si                  325      36261561    2.9 KB/s      0.06        0.09
sk                    5         95157    1.0 KB/s      0.00        0.00
su                  381      35434398    0.7 KB/s      0.07        0.09
th                   10        610599    1.2 KB/s      0.00        0.00
tr                 1892      28314507    1.4 KB/s      0.37        0.07
tt                    2           575    0.0 KB/s      0.00        0.00
tw                12053     686714783    1.0 KB/s      2.35        1.75
ua                  102       9743034    0.4 KB/s      0.02        0.02
uk                53304    7018693070   17.2 KB/s     10.38       17.86
us                  123      28637909    5.9 KB/s      0.02        0.07
uy                    1          5046    5.0 KB/s      0.00        0.00
ve                   13      48464025    1.6 KB/s      0.00        0.12
yu                    9       2846011    0.1 KB/s      0.00        0.01
za                  313     106233966    1.5 KB/s      0.06        0.27
com               11501    1959667957    4.9 KB/s      2.24        4.99
edu               99342    6350866104    9.2 KB/s     19.35       16.16
gov               53481    2160964458   19.2 KB/s     10.42        5.50
int                  16       1561426   71.0 KB/s      0.00        0.00
mil                 157      83823992    7.6 KB/s      0.03        0.21
net                2226     402408178    2.2 KB/s      0.43        1.02
org                 240      29449760    2.0 KB/s      0.05        0.07
unresolved        35451    2689956684    3.2 KB/s      6.91        6.85

These figures only reflect ANONYMOUS FTP transfers.  There are many
sites which mount the archives via NFS, and those transfers are not
logged and reported by this program.



Top 15 Most Popular Archive Sections By Bytes Transferred

                                                 ---- Percent  of ----
     Archive Section      Files Sent Bytes  Sent Files Sent Bytes Sent
------------------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ----------
systems                        75843 18626519180    14.77      47.40
TeX Informational Files         4536  5874212590     0.88      14.95
fonts                         202097  4951648422    39.37      12.60
macros                        118113  2908393434    23.01       7.40
info                           13877  2675618565     2.70       6.81
support                        25317  2205113500     4.93       5.61
dviware                        11531   412318106     2.25       1.05
language                       20165   327181471     3.93       0.83
usergrps                        3075   205384298     0.60       0.52
graphics                       10888   198682407     2.12       0.51
tools                           5903   192516083     1.15       0.49
web                             8676   166134180     1.69       0.42
biblio                          4225   147238132     0.82       0.37
help                            2278   118083901     0.44       0.30
Informational Files              122    98262788     0.02       0.25

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Jan 30 08:11:48 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:01:10 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- oztex-german update (fwd)

> From: Lothar Meyer-Lerbs <g07m@ZFN.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- oztex-german update
> Date:         Thu, 30 Jan 1997 13:52:01 +0100
>
> (a) on ftp.dante.de
> (b) there is a new incoming/oztex-german directory
> (c) which is to replace the old
> (d) /pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german directory.
>
> thanks
> Lothar              (DANTE Mac-Coordinator)

Thanks for the update, Lothar!  I installed the new version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb  3 04:56:26 1997
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 09:48:36 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: saferef available

James Ashton writes:

> Since I received a number of requests from you all, I've tidied up my
> saferef package and uploaded it to CTAN.  I imagine it will be
> available there within a day or two although, if you're desperate, it
> can also be found at
>
>       ftp://syseng.anu.edu.au/pub/jaa/saferef.tar.gz
>
> I've requested that the unpacked files be located in the CTAN directory
>
>       /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/saferef
>
> I'm sorry it took a couple of weeks to set up but it took me a while to
> find time to do a reasonable job of the documentation and make a proper
> package for use with docstrip.  Enjoy.

Saferef provides a means of expressing `typed' references (as it were)
within a document.

I've now installed the package as requested at ftp.tex.ac.uk: it'll
propagate to the rest of the CTAN/mirror system shortly.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb  3 05:02:02 1997
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 09:59:52 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Expiry notices

The listserv at Heidelberg expires subscriptions to this list that are
not confirmed.  When it's decided to expire a subscription, it sends
the subscriber a message with the title

  Expiration of your subscription to the CTAN-ANN

The message explains that if you *forward* the message itself to

  listserv@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

your subscription will be automatically renewed.

Some people (two already in today's mail) are _replying_ to the mail
with a request to be subscribed to the list.  CTAN-Ann is handled by a
listserv nowadays, not by the MX software at SHSU: a reply turns up on
the list managers' e-doormat.  The list managers have better things to
do (like running CTAN) than to answer all these mails individually.

I have replied to *one* of the mails I've received today.  I shall
delete all future ones without further comment.

So: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read the renewal request message
    PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't `answer' it
    PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE only bother ctan-ann-request@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
                         if you've got a real problem with the list

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Feb  4 02:23:52 1997
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 08:20:39 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.06 (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 3 Feb 1997 23:56:35 +0100
> From: Christian Schenk <cschenk@BERLIN.SNAFU.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.06
>
> I have uploaded MiKTeX 1.06. MiKTeX is an implementation of TeX&Friends
> for Windows NT/95.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it on ftp.dante.de in
systems/win32/miktex replacing the old version 1.05.  It will soon
be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Feb  4 08:31:49 1997
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 13:21:04 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Statistics, ftp.tex.ac.uk, Jan 1997

TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Wed Jan  1 1997 TO Tue Dec 31 1996

Files Transmitted During Summary Period        497181
Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period   43419439031
Systems Using Archives                              0

Average Files Transmitted Daily                 15537
Average Bytes Transmitted Daily            1356857470

Daily Transmission Statistics

                 Number Of    Number of    Average    Percent Of  Percent Of
     Date        Files Sent  Bytes  Sent  Xmit  Rate  Files Sent  Bytes Sent
---------------  ----------  -----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
Wed Jan  1 1997        4347    745223591    6.3 KB/s      0.87        1.72
Thu Jan  2 1997       14769   1088629907    6.0 KB/s      2.97        2.51
Fri Jan  3 1997       12403   1513641610    7.5 KB/s      2.49        3.49
Sat Jan  4 1997        8244    765524028    6.2 KB/s      1.66        1.76
Sun Jan  5 1997        7708    940716720    5.8 KB/s      1.55        2.17
Mon Jan  6 1997        5114    572481394    5.8 KB/s      1.03        1.32
Tue Jan  7 1997        6779   1063354378    3.9 KB/s      1.36        2.45
Wed Jan  8 1997        9534   1207228627    4.5 KB/s      1.92        2.78
Thu Jan  9 1997        6279    890870132    3.5 KB/s      1.26        2.05
Fri Jan 10 1997        6846   1158053513    4.7 KB/s      1.38        2.67
Sat Jan 11 1997        9459    769219576    4.6 KB/s      1.90        1.77
Sun Jan 12 1997       50894   1649587084   11.2 KB/s     10.24        3.80
Mon Jan 13 1997       23627   2297343956    9.8 KB/s      4.75        5.29
Tue Jan 14 1997       16936   1195308731    8.2 KB/s      3.41        2.75
Wed Jan 15 1997        8896   1196509777    4.9 KB/s      1.79        2.76
Thu Jan 16 1997       10145    943326986    4.1 KB/s      2.04        2.17
Fri Jan 17 1997       11756   1536575579    5.0 KB/s      2.36        3.54
Sat Jan 18 1997        6878    703783704    5.0 KB/s      1.38        1.62
Sun Jan 19 1997        7360    649050828    3.8 KB/s      1.48        1.49
Mon Jan 20 1997       13442   1236243403    4.1 KB/s      2.70        2.85
Tue Jan 21 1997       15922   1686912296    5.2 KB/s      3.20        3.89
Wed Jan 22 1997       21745   3028280674    9.8 KB/s      4.37        6.97
Thu Jan 23 1997       42040   2380580499    6.1 KB/s      8.46        5.48
Fri Jan 24 1997       27947   2144832619    5.0 KB/s      5.62        4.94
Sat Jan 25 1997       24778   1370260293    5.3 KB/s      4.98        3.16
Sun Jan 26 1997       13018   1146050229    4.0 KB/s      2.62        2.64
Mon Jan 27 1997       14608   1653479860    5.3 KB/s      2.94        3.81
Tue Jan 28 1997       28190   2045452466    5.8 KB/s      5.67        4.71
Wed Jan 29 1997       32744   2386089011    5.6 KB/s      6.59        5.50
Thu Jan 30 1997       13505   1798877624    3.9 KB/s      2.72        4.14
Fri Jan 31 1997        7836    637933145    5.9 KB/s      1.58        1.47
Tue Dec 31 1996       13432   1018016791    7.3 KB/s      2.70        2.34

Total Transfers from each Archive Section

                                                 ---- Percent  Of ----
     Archive Section      Files Sent Bytes Sent  Files Sent Bytes Sent
------------------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ----------
Informational Files              159   126301354     0.03       0.29
TeX Informational Files         4188  5627143767     0.84      12.96
biblio                          6627   282908001     1.33       0.65
digests                         6083   113683106     1.22       0.26
dviware                        13846   528001856     2.78       1.22
fonts                         203244  3559686588    40.88       8.20
graphics                        7152   216205358     1.44       0.50
help                            2019   107352164     0.41       0.25
indexing                         695    10304567     0.14       0.02
info                            9977  2491531630     2.01       5.74
language                       14253   454669001     2.87       1.05
macros                        120222  4246584272    24.18       9.78
non-TeX                          470    54053504     0.09       0.12
obsolete                          63    15880860     0.01       0.04
support                        30890  4318080309     6.21       9.95
systems                        59025 20545944486    11.87      47.32
tds                              248    13686745     0.05       0.03
tools                           7369   305531986     1.48       0.70
usergrps                        2255   146209536     0.45       0.34
web                             8396   255679941     1.69       0.59

Total Transfer Amount By Domain

             Number Of    Number of     Average    Percent Of  Percent Of
Domain Name  Files Sent   Bytes Sent   Xmit  Rate  Files Sent  Bytes Sent
-----------  ----------  ------------  ----------  ----------  ----------
ae                    1          2064    2.1 KB/s      0.00        0.00
ag                    1        119296    3.1 KB/s      0.00        0.00
ar                  218      39206700    1.6 KB/s      0.04        0.09
at                  132      20856254    2.2 KB/s      0.03        0.05
au                14203     870569236    6.4 KB/s      2.86        2.01
be                 1629     522245097    9.5 KB/s      0.33        1.20
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de                 7908     677092175    7.4 KB/s      1.59        1.56
dk                81066    3477867707   22.8 KB/s     16.31        8.01
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ee                   63       3456696    0.8 KB/s      0.01        0.01
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fi                 4104     554566335   22.3 KB/s      0.83        1.28
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gb                  186      65775034   50.7 KB/s      0.04        0.15
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hk                20272    1048324674    1.7 KB/s      4.08        2.41
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is                 2645      29380966    2.8 KB/s      0.53        0.07
it                36911    2229433726    6.1 KB/s      7.42        5.13
jp                35046    3490389067   10.2 KB/s      7.05        8.04
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nz                  337      45374182    3.1 KB/s      0.07        0.10
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ro                    2        887262    0.2 KB/s      0.00        0.00
ru                  675      90592907    1.0 KB/s      0.14        0.21
se                17576    1129683794   11.6 KB/s      3.54        2.60
sg                  129      16327833    0.9 KB/s      0.03        0.04

Total Transfer Amount By Domain

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Domain Name  Files Sent   Bytes Sent   Xmit  Rate  Files Sent  Bytes Sent
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sk                   11        263864    0.7 KB/s      0.00        0.00
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th                  169       4474186    1.6 KB/s      0.03        0.01
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tr                  146      31800471    1.4 KB/s      0.03        0.07
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ua                  104       8185048    0.9 KB/s      0.02        0.02
uk                58280    8089022443   20.3 KB/s     11.72       18.63
us                    1          3578    3.6 KB/s      0.00        0.00
uy                   66      10303349    2.1 KB/s      0.01        0.02
ve                  169      14163218    0.1 KB/s      0.03        0.03
yu                    2          2481    1.2 KB/s      0.00        0.00
za                   77       4435717    0.4 KB/s      0.02        0.01
com               16059    2156275358    3.2 KB/s      3.23        4.97
edu               37944    4310418931    5.7 KB/s      7.63        9.93
gov                2023     506441151   26.5 KB/s      0.41        1.17
int                  30      11909109  186.1 KB/s      0.01        0.03
mil                2052     107819869    4.7 KB/s      0.41        0.25
net                2583     411366764    1.8 KB/s      0.52        0.95
org                 287      85766992    5.6 KB/s      0.06        0.20
unresolved        47520    3686324837    3.4 KB/s      9.56        8.49

These figures only reflect ANONYMOUS FTP transfers.  There are many
sites which mount the archives via NFS, and those transfers are not
logged and reported by this program.



Top 15 Most Popular Archive Sections By Bytes Transferred

                                                 ---- Percent  of ----
     Archive Section      Files Sent Bytes  Sent Files Sent Bytes Sent
------------------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ----------
systems                        59025 20545944486    11.87      47.32
TeX Informational Files         4188  5627143767     0.84      12.96
support                        30890  4318080309     6.21       9.95
macros                        120222  4246584272    24.18       9.78
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info                            9977  2491531630     2.01       5.74
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language                       14253   454669001     2.87       1.05
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graphics                        7152   216205358     1.44       0.50
usergrps                        2255   146209536     0.45       0.34
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digests                         6083   113683106     1.22       0.26

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Feb  4 08:48:17 1997
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 14:43:24 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Update to natbib (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 4 Feb 1997 14:01:18 +0200
> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@LINPWD.MPAE.GWDG.DE>
> Subject:      Update to natbib
>
> I have updated my natbib package and put the new files into /incoming
> on the Dante server.
>
> These are:   natbib.dtx
>              README.v65
>
> Please copy them to latex/contrib/supported/natbib
> removing the old README.v64.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de
as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Feb  5 11:42:02 1997
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 15:34:53 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Another update to natbib (fwd)

> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:24:31 +0200
> From: daly@linpwd.mpae.gwdg.de (P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany)
> Subject: Another update to natbib
>
> Following my update to natbib yesterday, someone has pointed out a problem in
> it. I have now corrected this and uploaded   natbib.dtx   once again to the
> incoming directory of dante. Could you please transfer this to
>    latex/contrib/supported/natbib

Done on ftp.dante.de.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Feb  5 11:19:51 1997
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 17:16:53 +0100
From: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ecfonts minor update

I have installed a minor update to the ec fonts on the german CTAN site,
from where it will propagate to the mirror sites soon.

It contains:

* a few tfm files for the fixed size fonts, which I had forgotten in the
original bundle
* minor corrections to the readme files

For the end users of the ec fonts, no action is required.

--J"org Knappen

Please note that my e-mail adress is migrating to
joerg.knappen@uni-mainz.de

The old one will be available for some time, but the new one is preferred now.

From TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Feb  5 11:19:51 1997
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 17:16:53 +0100
From: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ecfonts minor update

I have installed a minor update to the ec fonts on the german CTAN site,
from where it will propagate to the mirror sites soon.

It contains:

* a few tfm files for the fixed size fonts, which I had forgotten in the
original bundle
* minor corrections to the readme files

For the end users of the ec fonts, no action is required.

--J"org Knappen

Please note that my e-mail adress is migrating to
joerg.knappen@uni-mainz.de

The old one will be available for some time, but the new one is preferred now.

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Feb  5 12:15:24 1997
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 17:13:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Checksum 1.2 for Macintosh

Fr�d�ric Boulanger writes:

>   I am sorry to inform you that version 1.1 of Checksum for Macintosh is
> not compatible with the Unix version of checksum. This is due to the
> different codes used for the end-of-line character on the two platforms. I
> fixed this problem in version 1.2 which I uploaded on ftp.tex.ac.uk in the
> directory Checksum_for_Macintosh_1.2.
>
>   Since the MPW tool which is distributed as
>        archive-tools/checksum/v1-04/applemac/chksum1.hqx
> is plagued with the same problem, I uploaded a fixed MPW checksum tool as
> checksum-MPW-1.0.4.sea.bin in the /incoming directory.
>
> To summarize, I uploaded:
> the MPW tool:
> <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk//incoming/checksum-MPW-1.04.sea.bin>
>
> the french version of the Checksum 1.2 application:
> <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk//incoming/Checksum_for_Macintosh_1.2/Checksum-Fr-1.2.sea.bi
> n>
>
> the source files of the Checksum 1.2 application:
> <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk//incoming/Checksum_for_Macintosh_1.2/Checksum-src-1.2.sea.b
> in>
>
> the US version of the Checksum 1.2 application:
> <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk//incoming/Checksum_for_Macintosh_1.2/Checksum-US-1.2.sea.bi
> n>

Thanks for the upload: I apologise for being rather slow to install
the stuff...

I've installed a directory tools/checksum/Checksum_for_Macintosh_1.2
with your new version in it.

I've also installed tools/checksum/v1-04/applemac/checksum-MPW-1.04.sea.bin
-- your amended version of the original.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From burchard@pobox.com Thu Feb  6 03:35:59 1997
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 03:36:56 +0000
From: Paul Burchard <burchard@pobox.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: pb-diagram 4.1

Version 4.1 of the "pb-diagram.sty" commutative-diagram LaTeX macro
package is now available from the CTAN directory:
/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pb-diagram/
The package comes with full documentation and examples.

The main change is a much-requested fix for the LAMS arrow fonts (thanks
to Ingo Hadan <hadan@mathematik.hu-berlin.de>).

PB

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Feb  6 04:14:15 1997
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 10:11:46 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- CIRC.DTX

> NEW VERSION OF  CIRC
>
> I have upload in
>
>        ftp.dante.de:/incoming/circ/  circ.dtx, circ.ins, circ.txt, readme
>
> the package CIRC.
>
> Please change it to: macros/generic/diagrams/circ

Done, i.e. the old version 1.0[b] has been replaced.

> Would you be so kind to inlucde CIRC in the quote site index.

The index is built automagically, so it's already there

> Is it possible that the keyword "circuit" points to CIRC?

No. The index is built automagically, manual additions are not possible
without reprogramming the index script.

> This is CIRC version 1.0[c].
>
> The package \CIRC is a tool for typesetting circuit diagrams. It
> defines several electrical symbols like resistor, capacitor,
> transistors etc. This symbols can be connected with wires in a
> very easy manner.
>
> For using \CIRC you only need \METAFONT and \LaTeX{}. You do not
> need postscript or any drawing tool. You can expand \CIRC easily
> with your own symbols, written in \METAFONT.
>
> CIRC is an open system. As an example in this package is an
> optics style with lenses, mirrors and so on to show, how to use
> the macros and expand the package.
>
> It runs with LaTeX2e.
>
> To install \CIRC first run TeX on "circ.ins".

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Feb  6 18:53:49 1997
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 23:47:33 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Submission -- Qfig version 1.1

William Ofosu-Amaah writes:

> Qfig version 1.1 upload.
>
> a) Uploaded to "/incoming/qfig" directory at ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> b) Two files were uploaded:
>    qfg11exe.zip
>    qfg11src.zip
>
> c) BRIEF OVERVIEW
> QFIG Ver.1.1 is an update to Qfig Ver 1.0.
> QFIG is a DOS graphics program for LaTeX  for use on IBM Compatible PCs.
> It generates output for PicTeX and EPIC for LaTeX 2.09. It can also be
> very easily configured for LaTeX2e output. Qfig requires a VGA or EGA
> screen to work.
>
> qfg11exe.zip - contains the program file and documentation
> qfg11src.zip - contains the source code
>
>
> d) I recommend placing the file in:
> /ctan/tex-archive/support/qfig

Thanks for the submission.

I have installed the new release as suggested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Feb  9 14:19:56 1997
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 20:17:08 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- AmiWeb2c 2.0 (fwd)

> Date:         Sun, 9 Feb 1997 12:52:24 +0100
> From: Andreas Scherer <Scherer@PHYSIK.RWTH-AACHEN.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- AmiWeb2c 2.0
>
> After the announcement of Karl Berry's Web2c 7.0 package I'm also glad
> to announce the availability of AmiWeb2c 2.0, the Amiga port of the
> complete UNIX-TeX system.
>
> I've just now uploaded the archive file "amiweb2c-2.lha" together with
> an introductory "amiweb2c-2.readme" file to
>    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/amiweb2c

Thanks for your submission.  As you requested, I replaced the old
version in ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/amiga/amiweb2c

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 10 06:41:25 1997
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 11:38:48 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Michael Mehlich writes:

> I've just uploaded a new version of my hyper-package to
>   ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/hyper.zip
> It replaces the old version at
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper
>
> Package description:
>   When loaded the package produces a hypertext document
>   with latex2e by including special marks into the
>   dvi-file.
>
> Differences to earlier version:
>   * Bug fixes.

Thanks.  I've installed the update.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Feb 10 09:23:35 1997
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 15:16:33 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: dc fonts 1.3 replaced by virtual fonts

On ftp.dante.de, I have replaced the obsolete DC fonts in tex-archive/fonts/dc
by virtual fonts from Bernd Raichle which map them into the EC fonts v1.0.
They will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

from the file tex-archive/fonts/dc/README.vf-dc13-ec10 :

Virtual fonts for DC v1.3pl4 using EC v1.0:
===========================================

This is a set of virtual font (vf) files with their associated
tfm files which

 (a) maps the obsolete DC fonts v1.3pl4
     to use the EC fonts v1.0
     (additionally the renamed TC fonts, which are part of the DC/EC
     fonts are mapped, too),

 (b) thus replaces all DC 1.2 and 1.3 pk files,

 (c) is generated automatically from the tfm files of DC 1.3pl4
     and EC 1.0.

The included 371 tfm files are equal to the ones which will be
generated by MF and the original DC 1.3pl4 sources.


Installation:
-------------

On a TDS-compliant installation

 + move directory "tfm" to .../texmf/fonts/tfm/jknappen/dc13
 + move directory "vf"  to .../texmf/fonts/vf/jknappen/dc13

 - you can remove all tfm files of dc v1.3
   (they should match the ones in "tfm", for the complete set of tfm
   files for the TC fonts, see the EC font family in fonts/ec)
 - you can remove all pk files of dc v1.3
   in .../texmf/fonts/pk/*/jknappen/dc...


Changes:
--------

  v0.3 97/02/10 Added idcl*, dcl*, dcssdc10, dcqi8, dcsq8.
  v0.2 97/01/31 Corrected position of `german opening comma', added tc*.
  v0.1 97/01/22 First test version for a subset of dc v1.3pl4.


-v0.3 97/02/10 Bernd Raichle <raichle@Informatik.Uni-Stuttgart.de>

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 10 12:48:25 1997
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 17:45:34 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- mt11p

Drahoslav Lim writes:

> I've uploaded to  ftp.tex.ac.uk  the file incoming/mt11p.tar.gz
> (in the obvious format), which is a package for the support
> of MathTime (``complete'') in LaTeX. Ascii files have
> LF (unix) line endings. It untars into a `mt11p' directory,
> and places everything under that directory.
>
> This package was developed independently of the `mathtime'
> package available from Y&Y and the operative parts were
> in fact written before Y&Y posted its announcement.
> It looks like the aims of mt11p and mathtime are not
> exactly the same, so thought I would post my file in
> spite of Y&Y's commision.
>
> Suggested location: fonts/mt11p
>
> Status: ``supported'', my e-mail address is mentioned in various places.
>
> From the 0readme file:
>
> >ABSTRACT: mt11p is a package to use the MathTime and MathTimePLUS
> >(``MathTime complete'') fonts in LaTeX2e. Everything is included,
> >incl. (patched) font metrics, except, of course,
> >the Type1 fonts themselves.
> >
> >The package cooperates with the AMS packages (amsmath, amssymb, etc.)
> >T1 and OT1 encodings (as operators fonts!) are fully supported.
> >It does not assume you own any other commercial (non-resident) fonts.
> >
> >This package has no connection with the ``mathtime'' package
> >by Frank Mittelbach & David Carlisle, commissioned by Y&Y.

This stuff has taken an age in installation, for various reasons.  I
believe all problems are now sorted out, but users should be aware
that the .tfm and .vf files in this package are different from the
`standard' ones supplied by Y&Y.

Thanks for the upload, and sorry about the delays...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Feb 11 11:02:21 1997
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 15:57:19 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- FoilTeX 2.1

Jim Hafner writes:

> ******************************************************************
> ****** ANNOUNCING the release of FoilTeX 2.1 for LaTeX2e *********
> ******************************************************************
>
> I have recently uploaded the latest release of the FoilTeX system for
> generating foils (transparencies, slides) using TeX.  You should find
> it on your nearest CTAN in
>     /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex
>
> *******************  About the package ***************************
>
>   Its features include simplicity of use, compatibility with LaTeX,
>   large sans serif font as default, extra macros to start foils with
>   bold headings and special mechanisms to control footer and header.
>
> This new version (from 2.0.1 to 2.1) fixes some small bugs and added
> support for the official EC fonts of LaTeX 1996/12/01 (as well as some
> backlevel support for the previous release of the DC fonts).
>
>      James (Jim) Hafner
>      IBM Research Division
>      Almaden Research Center, K53-B2
>      650 Harry Road
>      San Jose, CA 95120-6099
>      email: hafner@almaden.ibm.com
> .......................................................................
> "The history of science rewrites itself each day.  We're living in days
> of wonder, Simon says."   Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe
> .......................................................................

The new version is now installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk, and will propagate
in due time.

Thanks for the upload, Jim

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From popineau@ESEMETZ.ESE-METZ.FR Wed Feb 12 02:14:27 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:08:28 +0100
From: Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@ESEMETZ.ESE-METZ.FR>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- Web2c-7.0 for win32

Hi,
I uploaded binary and source packages of web2-7.0 for win32 to

/ftp@ftp.dante.de:/incoming/winweb2c

There are 3 files:
        6224 Feb 12 07:47 README.win32
     5285081 Feb 12 07:52 web2c-7.0-win32-src.tar.gz
     4311229 Feb 12 07:58 web2c-7.0-win32.tar.gz

The source    package contains all  sources   and makefiles  needed to
recompile all the stuff. The binary  package is (briefly) described in
README.win32, which is appended to this message.

This is intended to go into:
CTAN:systems/win32/web2c

Fabrice POPINEAU
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What's in this distribution:
----------------------------

 Directory of j:\TeX\bin\win32

[.]                 [..]                afm2tfm.exe         bibtex.exe
dmp.exe             dvicopy.exe         dvihp               dvilj.exe
dvilj2p.exe         dvilj4.exe          dvilj4l.exe         dvips.exe
dvitomp.exe         dvitype.exe         etex.exe            gftodvi.exe
gftopk.exe          gftype.exe          gsftopk.exe         inimf.exe
inimpost.exe        initex.exe          kpathsea.dll        kpsewhich.exe
latex.exe           makeindex.exe       makempx.exe         MakeTeXls-R.exe
MakeTeXmkdir.exe    MakeTeXnames.exe    MakeTeXpk.exe       MakeTeXupdate.exe
mf.exe              mft.exe             mltex.exe           mpost.exe
mpto.exe            msvcirt.dll         msvcrt.dll          MSVCRT10.DLL
msvcrt20.dll        msvcrt40.dll        newer.exe           patgen.exe
pktogf.exe          pktype.exe          pltotf.exe          pooltype.exe
tangle.exe          tex.exe             tftopl.exe          vftovp.exe
virmf.exe           virmpost.exe        virtex.exe          vptovf.exe
weave.exe
              57 File(s)      4�934�204 bytes

pool files, plain.base, tex.fmt, latex.fmt, mpost.mem.

Kpathsea, web2c and win32 docs in dvi and ps (600dpi) format.

dvips and  fontname  directories, web2c config files ...

What's left to do:
------------------

MakeTeXtfm.exe, MakeTeXmf.exe and xdvi.exe.

There  are   substantial  differences   between MakeTeXpk.exe and  the
original one. The most important one is that MakeTeXpk.exe will try to
install the pk  file in the  same tree as the  tfm file that generated
it. Unless lots of things like:
- this tree is on a CD-ROM, in which case TEXMFMAIN is choosen;
- the varfonts feature is on, in which case VARTEXFONTS is choosen.
The  db file updated  by MakeTeXpk.exe  is the one  on  the texmf tree
choosen for the pk file, unless TEXMFLS_R is set.

Under   Win95, the MakeTeX*.exe  programs  can be  renamed without the
"TeX" part into  their names in  order to  get 8.3  filenames. But for
dvips calling   makepk.exe insted of  MakeTeXpk.exe,  you have  to set
DVIPSMAKEPK to makepk.

There are some difficulties to overcome wrt filesystems supported by
Win95 and NT, but that do not support long filenames.
  1 - if you are running on ntfs or protected mode fat (the one you get
  with win95), no problem.

  2 - if you are running on a true fat or alike, kpathsea.dll has been
  made case insensitive, and you can define aliases for long filenames
  in the file 'texmf/aliases'. See the example in the distrib.

In  fact, even if  ntfs is case sensitive,  win32 calls do not respect
this. So, at best, case is preserved, which  is enough to get kpathsea
running with  no differences from  Unix.  You  can  ask for 'kpsewhich
cmr10.tfm' or 'kpsewhich CMR10.tfm' or  'kpsewhich CMR10.TFM' and  you
will find the same file.

But Fat do not preserve case and It  truncates long filenames when you
create them. So you can define aliases  in 'texmf/aliases' to map long
filenames to short ones.

In fact there should  be very little  problems with fat as MakeTeXls-R
is writing the database  in lower case when it  detects the fs  is not
able to cope with mixed cases.

However, if you are   working on a  case  preserving fs, tex  will not
recognize   that FOO.TEX   has   a  .tex  extension  :   you  will get
FOO.TEX.dvi.  You   must use lower  case names,   even  if FOO.TEX and
foo.tex reference the same file. I have no simple solution to overcome
this. And on true case sensitive fs, you get the same result.

MakeTeX.site is      supported,  but  without     any   options  about
permissions.  Some testing   has  been done and    it seems to  enable
compatibility with dviwin for example.

Gsftopk  can  generate   bitmaps  for  psfonts,  providing  you  have
ghostscript.

Metapost  is working. The   bug preventing makempx.exe  to call  latex
instead of tex has been corrected.

Makeindex is provided, as is e-TeX.

I began to port xdvi. The source is something ugly to look at. All the
.c  files    compile   but  events.c.   It   needs  complete
rewriting.

What's needed to install the distribution:
------------------------------------------

A TDS conformant texmf  tree, ie: i:/TeX/texmf.   You can get the  one
called  texmflib-7.0.tar.gz .  There  is plain tex,  latex, metafont,
fonts, and so on. Enough to get a running LaTeX, or e-TeX.

Assuming you have: i:/TeX/bin
                             /win32
                         /doc
                         /info
                         /share/texmf/bibtex
                          ...
                         /share/texmf/web2c

Unzip texk-win32  in i:/TeX/.  Get  tar.exe and gzip.exe  if you don't
have them. These are the ones by Geoff Voelker for ntemacs.

Add i:/TeX/bin to your PATH.

Kpathsea is self hosting now. It should work out of  the box. If it is
not the case, try to trace what's  wrong with kpsewhich. Two variables
(SELFAUTODIR  and SELFAUTOPARENT) point to  the directories that could
be  the  root of the   installation (ie: i:/TeX   in  my example). All
texmf.cnf is parametrized with these two variables.

Alternatively:
        - Edit web2c/texmf.cnf .  I  assume you are  allright with the
        syntax of this file. You can read the texi doc.

        - Set  TEXMFCNF  to point  to the  directory  where  texmf.cnf
        lies, ie: i:/TeX/share/texmf/web2c in our case.

MakeTeXls-R

to  create the filename database.

For gsftopk, set  GS_PATH to the  absolute path for gswin32c.exe if it
not already in your PATH (otherwise, it should  find it) and GS_LIB to
the adequate path :

set GS_PATH=i:/gstools/gs4.03/gswin32c.exe
set GS_LIB=i:/gstools/gs4.03;i:/gstools/fonts

Recompiling the distrib is not  so easy.  I need  some Unix tools like
tr, sed, etc... These tools exist under win32,  but some are flawed. I
had to  recompile myself  some of them.  When the  test period will be
over, I will  made public all the makefiles   and other source code  I
needed.

Feel free to use this, ask for any information and report any bug.

popineau@ese-metz.fr <Fabrice POPINEAU>

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Feb 12 02:21:50 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:20:37 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-a (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 11 Feb 1997 18:29:24 -0400
> From: Aleksander Simonic <alex@CS.DAL.CA>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-a
>
> I uploaded the files which are to be contributed to the CTAN
> archive to:
>
>       ftp.dante.de  /incoming/winedt
>
> This is a new shareware release of WinEdt TeX Shell (1.41-a) for
> Win32. The Shell is by default configured as a GUI for MiKTeX (but
> can be customized for any other TeX System as well). The suggested
> placement is:
>
>              "tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt"
>
> (many users remark that this is the logical location).
>
> I would also like to have the old version (WinEdt 1.4-c) removed
> from the archive, because I am withdrawing the support for a
> 16-bit platform. The old version is in:
> "tex-archive/support/winedt".

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it and removed the old version
as requested.

> The new release of WinEdt has a built-in spell-checker. With the
> permission of Erik Frambach (amSpell Dictionaries creator and
> maintainer) I converted amSpell Dictionaries for use with WinEdt.
> The dictionaries together with the appropriate disclaimer and
> copyright notice are in the subdirectory ".../dict".
>
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Aleksander Simonic
>
> ps. Please let me know when the upload is processed so that I can
> notify the registered users about their free upgrade. This release
> took me over 6 months (much more than anticipated) and I am
> receiving many enquiries from impatient users about the status of
> the (promised) new release... Thank you in advance.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Feb 12 02:36:52 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:35:20 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- Web2c-7.0 for win32 (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:08:28 +0100
> From: Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@ESEMETZ.ESE-METZ.FR>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- Web2c-7.0 for win32
>
> I uploaded binary and source packages of web2-7.0 for win32 to
>
> /ftp@ftp.dante.de:/incoming/winweb2c
>
> There are 3 files:
>         6224 Feb 12 07:47 README.win32
>      5285081 Feb 12 07:52 web2c-7.0-win32-src.tar.gz
>      4311229 Feb 12 07:58 web2c-7.0-win32.tar.gz
>
> The source    package contains all  sources   and makefiles  needed to
> recompile all the stuff. The binary  package is (briefly) described in
> README.win32, which is appended to this message.
>
> This is intended to go into:
> CTAN:systems/win32/web2c

Thanks for the contribution.  I installed the three files plus gzip.exe
and tar.exe (which I got from Fabrice after complaining ;-)) as requested.

> Fabrice POPINEAU
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> What's in this distribution:
> ----------------------------
>
>  Directory of j:\TeX\bin\win32
>
> [.]                 [..]                afm2tfm.exe         bibtex.exe
> dmp.exe             dvicopy.exe         dvihp               dvilj.exe
> dvilj2p.exe         dvilj4.exe          dvilj4l.exe         dvips.exe
> dvitomp.exe         dvitype.exe         etex.exe            gftodvi.exe
> gftopk.exe          gftype.exe          gsftopk.exe         inimf.exe
> inimpost.exe        initex.exe          kpathsea.dll        kpsewhich.exe
> latex.exe           makeindex.exe       makempx.exe         MakeTeXls-R.exe
> MakeTeXmkdir.exe    MakeTeXnames.exe    MakeTeXpk.exe       MakeTeXupdate.exe
> mf.exe              mft.exe             mltex.exe           mpost.exe
> mpto.exe            msvcirt.dll         msvcrt.dll          MSVCRT10.DLL
> msvcrt20.dll        msvcrt40.dll        newer.exe           patgen.exe
> pktogf.exe          pktype.exe          pltotf.exe          pooltype.exe
> tangle.exe          tex.exe             tftopl.exe          vftovp.exe
> virmf.exe           virmpost.exe        virtex.exe          vptovf.exe
> weave.exe
>               57 File(s)      4�934�204 bytes
>
> pool files, plain.base, tex.fmt, latex.fmt, mpost.mem.
>
> Kpathsea, web2c and win32 docs in dvi and ps (600dpi) format.
>
> dvips and  fontname  directories, web2c config files ...
>
> What's left to do:
> ------------------
>
> MakeTeXtfm.exe, MakeTeXmf.exe and xdvi.exe.
>
> There  are   substantial  differences   between MakeTeXpk.exe and  the
> original one. The most important one is that MakeTeXpk.exe will try to
> install the pk  file in the  same tree as the  tfm file that generated
> it. Unless lots of things like:
> - this tree is on a CD-ROM, in which case TEXMFMAIN is choosen;
> - the varfonts feature is on, in which case VARTEXFONTS is choosen.
> The  db file updated  by MakeTeXpk.exe  is the one  on  the texmf tree
> choosen for the pk file, unless TEXMFLS_R is set.
>
> Under   Win95, the MakeTeX*.exe  programs  can be  renamed without the
> "TeX" part into  their names in  order to  get 8.3  filenames. But for
> dvips calling   makepk.exe insted of  MakeTeXpk.exe,  you have  to set
> DVIPSMAKEPK to makepk.
>
> There are some difficulties to overcome wrt filesystems supported by
> Win95 and NT, but that do not support long filenames.
>   1 - if you are running on ntfs or protected mode fat (the one you get
>   with win95), no problem.
>
>   2 - if you are running on a true fat or alike, kpathsea.dll has been
>   made case insensitive, and you can define aliases for long filenames
>   in the file 'texmf/aliases'. See the example in the distrib.
>
> In  fact, even if  ntfs is case sensitive,  win32 calls do not respect
> this. So, at best, case is preserved, which  is enough to get kpathsea
> running with  no differences from  Unix.  You  can  ask for 'kpsewhich
> cmr10.tfm' or 'kpsewhich CMR10.tfm' or  'kpsewhich CMR10.TFM' and  you
> will find the same file.
>
> But Fat do not preserve case and It  truncates long filenames when you
> create them. So you can define aliases  in 'texmf/aliases' to map long
> filenames to short ones.
>
> In fact there should  be very little  problems with fat as MakeTeXls-R
> is writing the database  in lower case when it  detects the fs  is not
> able to cope with mixed cases.
>
> However, if you are   working on a  case  preserving fs, tex  will not
> recognize   that FOO.TEX   has   a  .tex  extension  :   you  will get
> FOO.TEX.dvi.  You   must use lower  case names,   even  if FOO.TEX and
> foo.tex reference the same file. I have no simple solution to overcome
> this. And on true case sensitive fs, you get the same result.
>
> MakeTeX.site is      supported,  but  without     any   options  about
> permissions.  Some testing   has  been done and    it seems to  enable
> compatibility with dviwin for example.
>
> Gsftopk  can  generate   bitmaps  for  psfonts,  providing  you  have
> ghostscript.
>
> Metapost  is working. The   bug preventing makempx.exe  to call  latex
> instead of tex has been corrected.
>
> Makeindex is provided, as is e-TeX.
>
> I began to port xdvi. The source is something ugly to look at. All the
> .c  files    compile   but  events.c.   It   needs  complete
> rewriting.
>
> What's needed to install the distribution:
> ------------------------------------------
>
> A TDS conformant texmf  tree, ie: i:/TeX/texmf.   You can get the  one
> called  texmflib-7.0.tar.gz .  There  is plain tex,  latex, metafont,
> fonts, and so on. Enough to get a running LaTeX, or e-TeX.
>
> Assuming you have: i:/TeX/bin
>                              /win32
>                          /doc
>                          /info
>                          /share/texmf/bibtex
>                           ...
>                          /share/texmf/web2c
>
> Unzip texk-win32  in i:/TeX/.  Get  tar.exe and gzip.exe  if you don't
> have them. These are the ones by Geoff Voelker for ntemacs.
>
> Add i:/TeX/bin to your PATH.
>
> Kpathsea is self hosting now. It should work out of  the box. If it is
> not the case, try to trace what's  wrong with kpsewhich. Two variables
> (SELFAUTODIR  and SELFAUTOPARENT) point to  the directories that could
> be  the  root of the   installation (ie: i:/TeX   in  my example). All
> texmf.cnf is parametrized with these two variables.
>
> Alternatively:
>         - Edit web2c/texmf.cnf .  I  assume you are  allright with the
>         syntax of this file. You can read the texi doc.
>
>         - Set  TEXMFCNF  to point  to the  directory  where  texmf.cnf
>         lies, ie: i:/TeX/share/texmf/web2c in our case.
>
> MakeTeXls-R
>
> to  create the filename database.
>
> For gsftopk, set  GS_PATH to the  absolute path for gswin32c.exe if it
> not already in your PATH (otherwise, it should  find it) and GS_LIB to
> the adequate path :
>
> set GS_PATH=i:/gstools/gs4.03/gswin32c.exe
> set GS_LIB=i:/gstools/gs4.03;i:/gstools/fonts
>
> Recompiling the distrib is not  so easy.  I need  some Unix tools like
> tr, sed, etc... These tools exist under win32,  but some are flawed. I
> had to  recompile myself  some of them.  When the  test period will be
> over, I will  made public all the makefiles   and other source code  I
> needed.
>
> Feel free to use this, ask for any information and report any bug.
>
> popineau@ese-metz.fr <Fabrice POPINEAU>
>

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Feb 12 13:10:19 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 19:05:27 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- dante-src (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 12 Feb 1997 16:16:31 +0100
> From: rz32@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- dante-src
>
> (a) I have uploaded the DANTE UNIX TeX distribution to the server
>         ftp.dante.de
>     to the directory
>         /incoming/dante-src
>
> (b) The package consists of the files
>         LIES.MICH
>         READ.ME
>         dante-dvilj.tar.gz
>         dante-dvips.tar.gz
>         dante-latex.tar.gz
>         dante-tex.tar.gz
>
> (c) The package contains the source code for a TeX installation under UNIX
>     (TeX, current release of LateX2e, METAFONT, BibTeX, MakeIndex, drivers for
>     X11, HP LaserJet and PostScript).
>
> (d) The files replace the files at the directory
>         tex-archive/systems/unix/dante-src
>     (the old files have been compressed using 'compress', whereas the new ones
>     are compressed using 'gzip').  The contents of dante-dvilj.tar and
>     dante-dvips.tar have not changed, but there are changes at the other files.

Very many thanks for the submission.  I replaced the old version on ftp.dante.de
as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From inas@MIB.HARZ.DE Thu Feb 13 04:33:50 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:18:45 +0100
From: Andreas Schlechte <inas@MIB.HARZ.DE>
Reply-To: Andreas.Schlechte@tu-clausthal.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- newthm.sty

Hi,

 i've uploaded a new version of newthm.sty. Please
 overwrite the corresponding file in

  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/newthm/

 The other files didn't change

Thanks, Andi

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Feb 13 07:50:14 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:06:24 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: request removal of obsolete web2c-mp patches

Hi Ulrik

 > given the recent official release of web2c-7.0 which now also includes
 > MetaPost as part of the standard distribution, I'd like to request the
 > removal of the obsolete MetaPost patches for web2c-6.1 located in
 >
 >   CTAN:graphics/metapost/contrib/systems/web2c
 >
 > which I contributed in May 1995.  Users interested in MetaPost should
 > better be redirected to CTAN:systems/unix/web2c (for the latest sources)
 > and/or CTAN:systems/unix/teTeX (for a pre-packaged binary distribution).
 >
 > Cheers, Ulrik.

I removed

  graphics/metapost/contrib/systems

as web2c was the only item in it.

Thanks

Rainer

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Feb 14 03:31:14 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:27:43 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-a [Patch 1] (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 13 Feb 1997 20:07:49 -0400
> From: Aleksander Simonic <alex@CS.DAL.CA>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-a [Patch 1]
>
> I uploaded the files "winedt.zip" and "patches.txt" which are to
> be contributed to the CTAN archive to:
>
>       ftp.dante.de  /incoming
>
> This files should be placed in:
>
>       "tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt"
>
> I uploaded WinEdt 1.41-a three days ago but a major problem with
> display "flickering" on WinNT platform was reported shortly after
> the upload was processed. The problem is now fixed (as well as an
> OEM translation problem with German Keyboard Drivers). I also
> included some answers to the questions that were frequently asked
> the last two days... Please, place these two files in the
> specified directory (replacing "winedt.zip" with the new file).

Done as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Feb 14 03:41:35 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:35:46 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- absbook class file (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:39:52 +0100
> From: Havlik Denis <havlik@MERLIN.PAP.UNIVIE.AC.AT>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- absbook class file
>
> I have uploaded abstbook.cls file to ftp.dante.de

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the file on ftp.dante.de in
/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/abstbook.cls

> It is a latex2e class file for making "BOOKS OF ABSTRACTS", commonly
> used on conferences. It is based on report class, however \chapter has
> been redefined and shouldn't be used.
>
> This is first public version (let's say beta1). It doesn't have much
> functionality, but it works.
>
> It produces a4 formatted booklet, with two abstracts pro page, and table of
> contents for each conference day. Abstracts are labeled ON THE MARGIN,
> and day/sessionname appear in headings.
>
> USAGE:
>
> \documentclass[]{abstbook}
> \begin{document}
> \conferenceday{some day}
> \sessionname{shrt1}{long session name 1}
> \loadabstr[opt]{toc entry 1}{file1.tex}
> \loadabstr{toc entry 2}{file2.tex}
>
> \sessionname{shrt2}{long session name 2}
> \loadabstr[opt]{toc entry 3}{file3.tex}
> \loadabstr[opt]{toc entry 4}{file4.tex}
>
> etc...
>
> \end{document}
>
> files file1.tex should be in the same directory, and have following
> format:
>
> \index{author1}
> \index{author2}
> ...
> \titl{titl text}
> \name{name list}
> \adr{adress}
> \begin{abstr}
> text
> \end{abstr}

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb 14 10:56:08 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 15:53:35 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: bold symbol package `bm' upload

David Carlisle writes:

> Cambridge's incoming/bm has
>
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan       48072 Feb 14 15:34 bm.dtx
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan         268 Feb 14 15:35 bm.ins
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan        1218 Feb 14 15:35 bm.txt
>
> Could you move that to
>
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/bm
>
> This is version 1.0a of the `bm' package for accessing bold
> symbols in math mode. (Similar to the AMS \boldsymbol command,
> but taking more care over spacing, delimiters etc)
>
> Apart from the version number and date it is identical to version
> 0.99b that has been available on beta test from http://www.yandy.com
> for some time.

I've installed the package as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 17 06:01:53 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:56:32 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- camel.dtx

Frank Bennett writes:

> I have put the file camel1.0t.tgz into the
> ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming directory.  Please move this into the
> existing .../camel subdirectory in the supported hierarchy, and
> unpack.  It contains replacements for all ten files that ship
> with the Camel package.  It's just a bugfix release, but it was a
> fatal bug for some :-)

Thanks, Frank.

I've installed the update at ftp.tex.ac.uk, as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 17 06:02:10 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:58:39 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- geometry

UMEKI Hideo writes:

> I have uploaded the new version of the `geometry' package (v1.05)
> to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/geometry-1.05.tar.gz.
>    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  Change from 1.04:
>         dvips option definition modified to make \special shipped out
>         properly in the dvi file using \AtBeginDvi.
>
> Please replace the directory
> /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry
> with the new one.

I've installed the update as requested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 17 06:06:59 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:05:16 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- dates-v1.3.tgz

Frank Bennett

> I have placed the above-captioned file in the /incoming
> subdirectory on ftp.tex.ac.uk.  Please move it to the
> "dates" subdirectory and unpack it.  It will replace all
> four of the files in the "dates" package.
>
> This upgrade offers a minor enhancement in the handling of
> recursive dates --- you can now concisely indicate the dates of
> standing orders against your bank account.  Saves time by
> automating the process of being irritated and dismayed.

I've installed the update as requested at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 17 06:39:26 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:37:02 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: new package: ftp.tex.ac.uk

Alan Hoenig writes:

> I have placed the file vfinst.tar.gz in the /incoming directory
> of ftp.tex.ac.uk.  It should go in the fonts/utilities/vfinst area,
> but FIRST please delete all the files pertaining to the earlier,
> cruftier version.  This package installs families of outline, text
> fonts.  The readme follows:
>
>
> This package called `VFinst' will make it easy to install
> families of outline PostScript text fonts for use by TeX.
>
> Here are the fonts you get at the end of the process.
>
>   * For every upright font: you get this font, the small caps
>     font, and an oblique font.
>   * For every italic font, you get this font, a small caps
>     italic, and an unslanted italic.
>   * Additional fonts: You will also get titling (display)
>     fonts, both upright and italic, and a swash italic font,
>     if the appropriate raw fonts were present.
>
> VFinst takes care to use expert fonts to build the small caps fonts,
> if these raw fonts were originally present.  You also get test files
> for plain TeX and NFSS (LaTeX), to both test the fonts and to provide
> examples of how to declare and use each of the fonts in a TeX
> document.
>
> Some Technical Notes: At the end of the VFinst process, you get all
> .vf and .tfm files for all fonts, which have been renamed for you
> according to the fontname2.1 conventions.  All oblique and italic
> fonts use the true italic angle for the font.  The dvips map file
> psfonts.map will have been updated for you.  All fonts will have been
> placed in the proper area on your hard disk.  You may choose original
> TeX (ot1) or Cork (t1) encodings for your fonts, which can be
> installed according to the TDS (TeX Directory Structure) or
> `traditional' standard.  All raw fonts follow the 8r TeXBase1Encoding.
>
> VFinst is a set of Perl scripts.  In addition, this package relies on
> the fontinst package of Alan Jeffrey.
>
> All this and more is expanded upon in the documentation file
> vfinst.tex.  PLEASE READ THE FILE vfinst.tex BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY
> FONT INSTALLATIONS.
>
> Please feel free to get in touch with me; my email is
> ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu. All comments, bugs, suggestions for
> improvement, and criticism cheerfully accepted.

Thanks, Alan.  I've installed the upload as requested, replacing the
old directory in its entirety.  However, before doing so I deleted the
empty `work' subdirectory (the daily CTAN tidying mechanisms would
have done that at 0600 GMT tomorrow anway),

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb 17 10:47:36 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:39:57 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- MiKTeX 1.07

Christian Schenk writes:

 > I have uploaded MiKTeX 1.07 to the directory
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex :
 >
 >         README.TXT
 >         bugs.txt
 >         ec107.zip
 >         exe107i.zip
 >         install.exe
 >         miktex.html
 >         misc107.zip
 >         news.txt
 >         src107.zip
 >
 > 1) Please install the files in the CTAN directory
 >
 >         systems/win32/miktex
 >
 > 2) Please remove the files
 >
 >         ec106.zip
 >         exe106i.zip
 >         misc106.zip
 >         src106.zip
 >
 >    from systems/win32/miktex

Thanks, I installed the update

Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 17 11:57:52 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:54:27 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: UPDATE: circuit_macros

Dwight Aplevich writes:

> The file Circuit_macros4.2.tar.gz has been deposited in
> ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming.  Its contents are to replace the directory
> ctan/tex-archive/graphics/circuit_macros.
>
> This version contains refined macros and improved documentation.
> Extracts from the README file follow:
>
> Circuit_macros
>
>   This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality electric circuit
>   diagrams containing fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors,
>   and basic logic gates to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar
>   documents.  Some tools for block diagrams are also included.  The
>   advantages and disadvantages of such a system are similar to those of
>   TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg, and which uses
>   ordinary character input.
>
>   These macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic language, which
>   is very easy to understand and has a good power/complexity ratio.
>   Because pic contains elements of a simple programming language, it is
>   well-suited to line drawings requiring parametric or conditional
>   components, fine tuning, significant geometric calculations or
>   repetition, or that are naturally block structured or tree
>   structured.  Pic is not wysiwyg.  Interpreters for the language are
>   readily available, and some are free.
> ...
> REQUIRED SOFTWARE:
>   m4, gpic or equivalent, TeX, a driver recognizing tpic specials
> My preferred setup:
>   m4, dpic (see below), LaTeX, PStricks, dvips, sometimes xfig
> ...
> CHANGES:
> Version 4.2: Friendlier manual.  New Xfig prototype file to allow correct
>   scaling.  Cleaned up b_current, added line_leng.  Changes and additions
>   to logic gates.

Thanks for the submission; I've installed the package as requested,
here at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK Mon Feb 17 12:02:56 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:55:44 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: type1cm package update.

My type1cm package for using scalable versions of the CM and AMS
fonts has just had a slight update (at Cambridge, other sites when
the mirror reaches them) to fix a few typos.

The main problem being that it accessed slanted rather than italic
and normal weight rather than bold for computer modern Roman
as I managed to mistype the font file names.

If you have the old version of the package, please update.
I am sorry for the inconvenience.

David

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb 21 05:12:05 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:06:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- epslatex.ps

Keith Reckdahl writes:

> I have uploaded Version 1.9 of epslatex.ps into the /incoming
> directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk.  This replaces Version 1.8b from
> June 96 which is currently in the /tex-archive/info directory.
>
> The section on PSfrag has been re-written to account for
> the release of the PSfrag 3.0.  Additionally, there were
> a significant number of small spring-cleaning changes,
> corrections, and clarifications.
>
> Feel free to send me comments/suggestions/complaints,
>
> Keith
> reckdahl@am-sun2.stanford.edu
>
> P.S.
> The new version also lists my am-sun2 email address, as
> my leland address is going the way of the dinosaurs...
>
>
> ==========
>
> Summary
> -------
> epslatex.ps explains how to use Encapsulated PostScript
> (EPS) files in LaTeXe documents.
>
> The graphics and graphicx packages provide commands which
> insert, scale, and rotate EPS graphics.  The following
> EPS-inclusion topics are covered
>  1) Compressed EPS files and non-EPS graphic formats
>     (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PICT, etc.) can also be inserted when
>     DVIPS is used.  Since neither LaTeX nor DVIPS has any
>     built-in decompression or graphics-conversion
>     capabilities, that software must be provided by the user.
>  2) Since many applications which produce EPS files support only
>     ASCII text, the PSfrag system allows text in EPS files to be
>     replaced with LaTeX symbols or mathematical expressions.
>  3) When an EPS graphic is inserted multiple times, the final
>     PostScript includes multiple copies of the graphics, making
>     the file large.  A smaller final PostScript file results from
>     defining a PostScript command for the graphics.  An example of
>     inserting an EPS graphic in the page header with the
>     fancyheadings package is provided.
>
> Various commands are often used in conjunction with EPS
> graphics.  The following topics are covered in epslatex.ps
>  1) the insertion of graphics in figure environments
>     allows the graphics to float for better formatting and
>     allows graphics to be referenced
>  2) the lscape and rotating packages provide methods for
>     producing figures with landscape orientation in a portrait
>     document
>  3) methods for arranging side-by-side graphics.  The graphics
>     can be placed in a single figure, in multiple figures
>     contained in a single float, or in subfigures.
>  4) boxed figures can be created with \fbox or the commands
>     from the fancybox package.
>  5) the figure captions can be placed next to the figure or table,
>     instead of the conventional above or below placement,
>  6) the caption2 package adds flexibility to the caption formatting,
>     allowing users to modify the style, width, and font of captions.
>
> ==========

I've installed the file as requested.  Thanks, Keith, for the
submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb 21 06:41:09 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:36:46 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- texsk103.zip

Tim Bahnes writes:
 > Site: ftp.dante.de
 >
 > Archive: texsk103.zip
 >
 > Description: Simple LaTeX drawing program for OS/2 PM. Uses
 > begin{picture} environment. Short (german) description is included
 > (file_id.diz).
 >
 > Directory: Please place the archive to
 > /tex-archive/graphics/texsketch/texsk103.zip
 >
 >
 >   Tim Bahnes

Done. For the CTAN team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb 21 06:36:23 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:38:16 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LGrind 3.4

Michael Piefel writes:

 > (a)  I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de
 > (b)  the file LGrind34.zip, whose contents should go into
 > (d)  support/lgrind
 > (c)  This is the update for LGrind, it completely replaces all old files.
 >      LGrind is a pretty printer to include source code (eg C++ or FORTRAN,
 >      more than 30 languages at the moment) in LaTeX documents.
 >
 > Cheers, MPi
 >
 > |=| Michael Piefel                                                     \
 > |=| Technische Universitaet                                            |
 > |=| Berlin                                      piefel@cs.tu-berlin.de |
 > \=\                                     http://www.brad.ac.uk/~mpiefel |

Thanks, I installed the update
For the CTAN Team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From xlwy01@uxp1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de Sun Feb 23 16:25:22 1997
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:26:49 +0100
From: Werner Lemberg <xlwy01@uxp1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 4.1.2 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX 2e]

I've just uploaded version 4.1.2 of my CJK package to ftp.dante.de .
It will be soon available (unpacked) in the directory

    tex-archive/languages/chinese/CJK

on the CTAN hosts (ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk) and its mirrors
(e.g. ftp.cdrom.com).

Please note that the `bin' and `rest' part of the package has not been
updated; latest version is still 4.1.0 for these two archive files.

Below you'll find the release notes of this version.


Happy TeXing


    Werner


[CJK is a macro package for LaTeX 2e to enable typesetting Chinese,
 Japanese, and Korean. It supports (even simultaneously) various CJK
 encodings, e.g. Big 5, GB, JIS, KS, CNS.]


============================================================================

Version 4.1.2:  new:
20-Feb-1997         ntu2cjk ver. 1.6 now supports the Jackson font (a Big 5
                      encoded PostScript font).

                    cjkspace.el: similar to cjktilde.el for cooperation with
                      AUCTeX.

                    support files for NDOS contributed by KUO Yi-Liang
                      <c300711@ms5.hinet.net> .

                    emTeX support documentation also contributed by
                      KUO Yi-Liang <c300711@ms5.hinet.net> .

                changed:
                    ttf2pk/src/Makefile: uses -C switch of GNU make now for
                      entering subdirectories.

                    adaptation to LaTeX release 1996/12/01:
                      all .fd files now start with e.g. c00 instead of C00
                      (nevertheless, the encoding is still called `C00').

                    all executables are now finished with exit() to avoid
                      additional security holes.

                    Bg5rot.tex renamed to Bg5vert.tex .

                errors:
                    MakeTTFPK:
                      some sed programs can't understand the `\w' special
                      character (indicating a word constituent character);
                      has been replaced with `.'.

                    it was not possible to open a CJK environment with
                      SJIS encoding a second time (Thomas Piekenbrock
                      <piekenbro@smzid.frankfurt.hoechst-ag.d400.de>).

                    the same problem existed with UTF 8 encoding;
                      additionally the macros failed for protected
                      arguments.

                    cjktilde.el:
                      if you assigned the minor mode to a key, the status
                      line was not updated.

                    ttf2pk:
                      problems with empty glyphs fixed.

                      problems with invalid index tables will now lead to a
                      warning instead of a fatal error.

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Feb 25 04:37:07 1997
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 10:30:10 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- <easy> (fwd)

> Date:         Fri, 14 Feb 1997 15:41:46 +0100
> From: Enrico Bertolazzi <enrico.bertolazzi@ING.UNITN.IT>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- <easy>
>
> I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
> tar file easy.tar.gz1 (easy.tar.gz was not trasmitted correctly due
> to a broken on the connection). It contains:
>
> version 0.5 of the `easyeqn' package
> version 0.6 of the `easyvector' package
> version 0.4 of the `easybmat' package
> version 0.1 of the `easymat' package
> version 0.4 of the `easytable' package
> version 0.3 of the `easybib' package.
>
> This file should replace
> the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
> wich contain the old versions.

Thanks, I replaced the old version on ftp.dante.de.   Sorry for the delay,
but somehow I didn't notice your mail during my holidays :-(

> The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation
> environments that simplify writing of equations.
> It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define
> the column alignment. A package option cases only those
> equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered.
>
> The \package{easyvector} package is a simple
> macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices.
>
> The \package{easybmat} package is
> a macro package for writing block matrices, with equal column widths
> or equal rows heights or both, with various
> kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
> uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
>
> The \package{easytable} package is
> a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths
> or equal rows heights or both, with various
> kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
> uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
>
> The \package{easymat} package is
> a macro package for writing block matrices, with various
> kinds of rules~(lines) between rows or columns, and
> uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
>
> The \package{easybib} package is
> a macro package for writing custom bibliography
> with a simple AmSTeX-like sintax.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Feb 26 05:14:28 1997
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:06:26 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- aiaa

bil kleb writes:

> attempting to adhere to the instructions in README.uploads:

good man...

>      site uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk
>      file uploaded as: incoming/aiaa.tar.gz
>        brief overview: a bundle of LaTeX/BibTeX macros and
>                        sample documents to aid those producing
>                        papers and journal articles according
>                        to the guidelines of the American Institute
>                        of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
>    suggested location: macros/latex/contrib/supported
>
> the gnu-zipped tar file unpacks into its own directory, named `aiaa'
> with one subdirectory `demo'.

I've installed the stuff as suggested.  Thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Feb 26 06:14:31 1997
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:10:02 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- calendar.tgz

Frank Bennett writes:

> I am making an interim release of a further upgrade to the
> Calendar package.  A number of major and minor bugs have been
> fixed in this release, and a new style, "timetabl", has been
> added, following a suggestion from Miroslav Novak.  The file
> timetabl.dtx contains the best user level documentation for the
> Calendar package that I have come up with so far, and I highly
> recommend that you start here if you are interested in using the
> package.  It's also a really amazing style!  8-)
>
> In a move to make the package easier to fetch and easier to
> maintain, everything you need is now located in subdirectories of
> the "calendar" directory in latex/contrib/supported.  Numerous
> bugfixes and enhancements have been applied to the style files
> that make up the core Calendar engine, but have not yet been
> merged into the *.dtx files.  So to use the new stuff, you should
> fetch the style files from the "modules" subdirectory, and leave
> the *.dtx files behind.
>
> The *.dtx files in the "styles" subdirectory should all be okay,
> but I note that the timesheets package is broken under the new
> system, and needs serious attention that I cannot provide just
> now.  If you need the timesheets package ... please fix it!
>
> If you pick up the package and find it useful, I would appreciate
> a note.  A massive amount of time and effort went into putting
> this stuff together, and I would like to know that it is being
> used.
>
> With best regards to all,
> Frank G Bennett, Jr       @@
> Nagoya Univ School of Law () fbennett@rumple.soas.ac.uk
> Tel: (0171)323-6351       () http://rumple.soas.ac.uk/~fbennett/

I have installed the package at ftp.tex.ac.uk in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar (and several subdirectories).

Thanks, Frank, for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Mar  3 05:27:30 1997
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 11:22:07 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-b (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 3 Mar 1997 06:12:59 -0400
> From: Aleksander Simonic <alex@CS.DAL.CA>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-b
>
> I uploaded the files which are to be contributed to the CTAN
> archive to:
>
>       ftp.dante.de  /incoming/winedt
>
> The files should be placed in:
>
>
>       "tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt"
>
> This is the new release of WinEdt TeX Shell. All bugs in the
> previous release have been fixed...

Thanks, I replaced the old version on ftp.dante.de.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Mar  4 09:03:44 1997
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 13:57:42 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAM Submission --- TTT1.TAZ

Beat.Steiner@gseved.admin.ch writes:

> Following the README.uploads v 1.4 file, I recently uploaded
> the file /incoming/TTT1.TAZ file created by tar cfvz on Linux
> and transferred from a Macintosh using Fetch's raw data format
> to the site ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>
> This is yet another Tibetan Transcript Transliterator for LaTeX
> which is intended to be uploaded to
> /tex-archive/language/tibetan/ttt
> or
> /tex-archive/language/tibetan/steiner
> or whatever you like.
>
> It consists only of few files not distributed into a directory
> hierarchy. It is based on the sirlin package and could therefore
> be kept short.

I chose language/tibetan/steiner, and have now installed the files.

Thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Mar  4 10:54:35 1997
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 15:47:00 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: Y&Y Inc <help@YandY.com>, Gabrielle_Rice@bluesky.com
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- CM fonts Type 1 format PC version

Berthold K.P. Horn writes:

> I uploaded two zip files containing the IBM PC version of the 75 CM fonts,
> 14 extra LaTeX + SliTeX fonts and 5 LOGO fonts, ready for ATM.
> The fonts are in PFB and PFM form, and have the AMS copyright notices.
> 
> I uploaded them to ftp.tex.ac.uk.  The files are CMPSA.zip
> and CMPSB.zip. The first contains the 40 most commonly used CM
> fonts, the latter the other 35 and the LaTeX and LOGO fonts.

I have installed these files (in a uniquely CTAN-ish sort of way)
under

  fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky

That directory contains

  -rw-rw-r--   1 85       TeX         8580 Mar  1 20:40 Manifest.txt
  drwxrwxr-x   2 85       TeX         8192 Mar  3 14:31 pfb
  drwxrwxr-x   2 85       TeX         8192 Mar  3 14:31 pfm
  -rw-rw-r--   1 85       TeX         3206 Mar  1 21:19 readme

Each of the files in the directories pfb/ and pfm/ has a lowercase
name: this is significant on Unix systems (such as the CTANs) but not
(I trust) on Microsoft systems, such as those Y&Y ships for.

The whole TeX community is indebted to Bluesky and Y&Y for their
generosity in making these fonts available.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From help@YandY.com Tue Mar  4 20:09:26 1997
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 20:09:45 -0500
From: Y&Y Inc <help@YandY.com>
To: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>, CTAN@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de, info-tex@shsu.edu
Cc: Gabrielle_Rice@bluesky.com
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- CM fonts Type 1 format PC version

At 03:47 PM 3/4/97 +0000, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

>I have installed these files (in a uniquely CTAN-ish sort of way)
>under

>  fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky

>That directory contains

>  -rw-rw-r--   1 85       TeX         8580 Mar  1 20:40 Manifest.txt
>  drwxrwxr-x   2 85       TeX         8192 Mar  3 14:31 pfb
>  drwxrwxr-x   2 85       TeX         8192 Mar  3 14:31 pfm
>  -rw-rw-r--   1 85       TeX         3206 Mar  1 21:19 readme

>Robin Fairbairns

>For the CTAN team

Thanks a lot.  

But.  I hate it when people do this, but :=):

In `incoming you will find a file called logo.zip which contains
PFB files for the 45 LOGO fonts. Someone pointed out that
these 5 fonts for some reason did not have (i) version information,
(ii) /Notice copyright string and (iii) FamilyName.

Since these `revisions' just affect `comments' there is no significant
change. If you could just replace the files that are there now please
with these.  Sorry about that. Thanks.

Regards, Berthold.

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar  5 05:43:26 1997
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 10:40:23 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: files uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming

Charles Wikner <WIKNER@ariel.nac.ac.za> writes:

> Greetings,

Happy New Year.

>            CTAN SUBMISSION
>
> CTAN Site: ftp.tex.ac.uk
> Filename:  skt1.zip
> Overview:  Major upgrade to SKT-series Sanskrit font
> Directory: /pub/archive/language/sanskrit/
>
> Please delete all files currently in that subdirectory,
> and replace with the new versions.

Done.

> Last time you sighed
> at having to case convert the file names: I am running
> under VMS and cannot do anything about that, so you will
> just have to sigh again. Sorry about that!

But the world has moved on since last time, and I *don't* any longer
have to muck around with ot1skt.fd -- LaTeX has given up on demanding
mixed-case file names.

Thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar  6 14:15:30 1997
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 15:25:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN-Submission -- hyper (update)

Michael Mehlich writes:

> I've just uploaded a new version of my hyper-package:
>
> (a) Site: ftp.tex.ac.uk
> (b) File: /incoming/hyper.zip
> (c) Description:
>       The package inserts hypertext-markups for LaTeX2e
>       documents into the dvi-file.
>     Differences to earlier versions:
>       * minor bug fixes
>       * now handles nested markups
>       * now checks for anchor-existance and -changes
> (d) Location:
>       The new version replaces the old one at
>         /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper

Thanks: I've installed the update as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Mar 10 07:25:35 1997
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 12:20:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- uaclasses

Marcel Oliver writes:

> I have uploaded the file uaclasses.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk.
> The file contains minor bug fixes and should replace
>
>   tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/uaclasses/
>
> Below the copy of the README file:
> ====================================================================
>
> Readme file for the package "ua-classes".  Date: 1997/03/08
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> This package provides a LaTeX2e document class named 'ua-thesis' for
> typesetting theses and dissertations in the official format required by the
> University of Arizona.  Moreover, there is a fully compatible alternative
> document class 'my-thesis' for private "nice" copies of the dissertation,
> and the respective title pages are available as separate packages to work
> with "any" document class.
>
>
> The distribution contains the following files:
>
> README          This file.
>
> ua-classes.dtx  User guide and documented source code.
>                 Run 'latex ua-classes.dtx' to obtain user documentation.
>
> ua-classes.ins  Installation file.
>                 Run 'latex ua-classes.ins' to install the package.
>                 Generates the following files:
>                 ua-thesis.cls, my-thesis.cls, ua-title.sty, my-title.sty
>
> ua-example.tex  An example dissertation generated from the University
>                 of Arizona Manual for Theses and Dissertations.
>
> ua-example.dvi  Example output formatted with ua-thesis.cls
>                 and the draft option (from 'ua-example.tex')
>
> my-example.dvi  Example output formatted with my-thesis.cls
>
>
> The following software needs to be installed on the user's system:
>
> LaTeX           version 2e, December 1994 or later
> AMS-LaTeX       version 1.2, October 1996 or later
> AMSFonts        version 2.0, January 1995 or later
>
>
> Changes from release 1996/12/05:
>
>                 Fixed placement and fonts of captions in my-thesis.cls
>                 Fixed required release date of AMS macros
>
>
> Send comments to:
>
> Marcel Oliver   moliver@math.uci.edu

Thanks for the upload.

I have installed the files as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Mar 11 11:28:37 1997
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:21:38 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- ethiop package (fwd)

Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:02:27 +0100
From: Olaf Kummer <kummer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Subject: CTAN Submission -- ethiop package

> I have uploaded to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de the file
> ethiop.tar.  The tar-file should be untared, the resulting files
> should be placed in the directory
>   /tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/
> and a symbolic link at
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ethiop
> should point to that directory, since the package
> contains both fonts and TeX macros.

Thanks for the contribution.  I installed the files as requested plus
a symbolic link from macros/latex/contrib/supported/ethiop to
language/ethiopia/ethiop/latex.

> >From the README:
>
> Ethiopian Language Support for the Babel Package
>
> This is a collection of fonts and TeX macros that
> enable you to typeset the characters of the languages
> of Ethiopia.
>
> The fonts are based on EthTeX which was originally distributed
> by Abass B. Alamnehe.
>
> The TeX macros use the Babel package by Johannes L. Braams.
>
> Prerequisites for this package:
>   - TeX and Metafont
>   - LaTeX2e with a release date of 1996/12/01
>   - Babel with a release date of 1997/01/23
>
> The package is supported. Queries go to
> ethiop@informatik.uni-hamburg.de by email.

But please send further upload announcements not to me but to
ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de !

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Mar 12 03:49:15 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:44:20 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission - deleq, vrsion, achemso, and dropping packages (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 12 Mar 1997 07:08:03 +0100
> From: Mats Dahlgren <matsd@sssk.se>
> Subject:      CATN submission - deleq, vrsion, achemso, and dropping packages
> To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN <CTAN@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
>
> A moment ago, I submitted to the DANTE CTAN node a couple of files to
> the /incoming/matsd directory.  Please place the files on CTAN in
> directories as follows:
> /latex/contrib/supported/deleq    00readme.dlq
>                                   deleq.dtx
>                                   deleq.ins
> /latex/contrib/supported/achemso  00readme.acs
>                                   achemso.dtx
>                                   achemso.ins
> /latex/contrib/supported/vrsion   00readme.vrs
>                                   vrsion.dtx
>                                   vrsion.ins
> /latex/contrib/other/dropping     00readme.drp
>                                   dropping.dtx
>                                   dropping.ins
> Also, please delete the directories /latex/contrib/other/deleq,
> /latex/contrib/other/achemso, and /latex/contrib/other/vrsion.  The
> submitted files all are updates of my packages 'deleq', 'achemso',
> 'vrsion', and 'dropping', respectively.  Brief description of the
> packages:
>
> deleq    Provides a flexible partial numbering of equations (3a, 3b,
>          ...) as well as repeating equation numbers when equations
>          are repeated.
> achemso  Provides a LaTeX & BibTeX combined package for bibliographies
>          according to the standard of The American Chemical Society.
> vrsion   Is a package which puts version numbers on (successfully
>          compiled) .dvi files.
> dropping Is a LaTeX2e version of the 'dropcaps' package; 'dropping' is
>          also slightly more "automatic" in the choice of sizes and
>          typefaces for the "dropped" text.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as
requested.  They will soon spread to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

> Thanks to the LaTeX3 and CTAN teams for an excellent service to us plain
> LaTeX users!

You're welcome!

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Mar 12 03:52:55 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:51:33 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN-submission (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 11 Mar 1997 20:31:51 +0100
> From: Axel Kielhorn <i0080108@ws.rz.tu-bs.de>
> Subject:      CTAN-submission
>
> I'm a little late with my update, but here it is:
>
> I put refman.tar and akletter.tar into the incoming directory of
> ftp.dante.de.
>
> They contain the most recent version of my packages, synced with LaTeX
> 1996/12/01.
>
> No new features.
>
> Both packages are supported.

Thanks fur the contribution.  I replaced the old versions in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/{akletter,refman}

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From robert@SUMMA.PHYSIK.HU-BERLIN.DE Wed Mar 12 05:35:27 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:32:41 +0100
From: Robert Lieske <robert@SUMMA.PHYSIK.HU-BERLIN.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: /incoming/winedt.support/

Hi,

I have sent you a mail yesterday regarding the upload
of the files tools.zip, de2.txt and de09.zip in directory
/income/winedt.support/

I have sent the mail to
CTAN@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de
as described in Readme.uploads

Someone told me, that this file is mirrored from the server in UK.
Is it possible that noone feels responsible for placing the files
from /incoming/winedt.support/ at ftp.dante.de
to their destination
/tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/support/dict/
?

I got several mails that the upload is not there.
Please tell me, what has gone wrong. If I have to contact
someone else, please let me know.
(don't worry, its just a question)


Regards,

Robert
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Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin   phone:  +49 (030) 2093-7896
Institut fuer Physik              fax:    +49 (030) 2093-7638
Invalidenstrasse 110
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==================================================================

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar 12 05:38:54 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:37:12 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- aiaa

Bil Kleb writes:

>     site uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk
>     file uploaded as: incoming/aiaa.tar.gz
>       brief overview: a bundle of LaTeX/BibTeX files and sample
>                       documents to aid those producing papers
>                       and journal articles according to the
>                       guidelines of the American Institute
>                       of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
>   suggested location: macros/latex/contrib/supported
>             [version: 1.0 (3 mar 97)]
>
> the gnu-zipped tar file unpacks into its own directory, named `aiaa'
> with one subdirectory `demo' and a README.aia file.

I have installed the files as requested, replacing the old v0.9 ones.
Thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Mar 12 16:39:24 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:35:39 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- TeXEd131.zip (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 12 Mar 1997 21:34:54 +0100
> From: Frank Stippich <hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- TeXEd131.zip
>
> I have uploaded TeXEd131.zip.
>
> Please install this file into the pub/tex/systems/os2/texed directory

Thanks for the submission. I installed the file as requested.
>From the ReadMe.txt file:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        FSS - TeX Editor V1.3
                                (8/96)



FSS-TeXEdit provide an easy interface for LaTeX2e, dvips, Ghostscript
and ispell. Most actions can be done like in common writing programmes
but you will have all features of LaTeX2e.

Read this overview, try TeXEdit and you will not live without it any more.

TeXEdit was written and developed in german. After some people asked me
for an english version I have started a first translation. It took more
time as I thought, but now I have a first result. Of course you will find
some errors (particularly in the INF file) but feel free to send me a bug
report. I try to complete the help file soon.

I am sure that it takes some time to finish the INF file, but I want to
place TeXEdit at your disposal now.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Some features:

  - 32bit multi-threaded design which is able to handle long file names.

  - Easiest way to build TeX source files with
    'pull-down' and 'click-up' menus, or with drag and drop.

  - Address data base included.

  - Shortcuts for macros

  - Text modules

  - The way of formating is the same as in common programmes: Select text
    and choose the formating command (bold, center, rotate etc.).

  - The menu bar provides access to more than 150 LaTeX-commands.

  - Input of (mathematic or special) characters with preview.

  - Supports dvips and LaTeX2e.

  - One shell as console for all programmes

  - Templates

  - Quick access window with all captions, which is able to move the text to
    the selected caption.

  - Comfortable editing of several files

  - ReXX interface

  - Automatic insertion of EPS, PCX and HPGL files by drag and drop.

  - Drag and drop
      - for import commands (EPS, PCX, HPGL, TeX)
      - for deleting the window
      - for (formated) printing

  - Help for LaTeX commands (F1) and access to all with emTeX distributed
    INF files.

  - Support of extern speller.

  - Preload option for a quick startup.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Systemrequirements:

   - OS/2 2.1 or higher

   - 1,8 MB disk space

   - VGA minimum
     800x600 recommended

   - 12 MB RAM recommended
     (for simultaneous use of TeXEdit, Previewer and TeX)

   - Installed emTeX distribution

   - dvips, Ghostscript and hp2xx recommended

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Installation:

     The installation procedure is described in TeXEdit.INF.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Misc:

   FSS-TeXEdit is shareware. You may use this programme (which provides
   nearly all features of the registered version) for a testing period.
   If you find FSS-TeXEdit useful, please register. After adding your
   registration code to TexEdit the following features will be available:

   - The status bar can be closed

   - The macro interface will be available. You can write your own
     macros and you've access to some useful macros provided with
     TeXEdit

   - You're allowed to open as many files as you want at one time.

   - The data base will save more than 5 addresses.

   - The text module option will be available.

   - The 'printing with options' will work

   - The 'next error' Button will work


   The registration of TeXEdit will cost $50. It is a live time
   registration. You don't have to pay for any newer version.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Mar 13 02:23:21 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:21:05 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New version of COVINGTON.STY

> From: Michael Covington <mcovingt@aisun1.ai.uga.edu>
> To: ling-tex@ifi.uio.no (ling-tex), linguist@tamvm.tamu.edu
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:21:57 -0500 (EST)
>
> I've just released a new version of COVINGTON.STY, my LaTeX macro package
> for linguistics.  This one supports a convenient way of putting multiple
> accents on a single letter.  You will need the two files 'covington.sty'
> and 'covington.tex', which are available by FTP from ai.uga.edu,
> directory /pub/tex, or by following links on my web page.  Enjoy!

I installed the new files on CTAN in the directory
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/covington.
The obsolete version in tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/covington
has been removed.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Mar 13 02:35:29 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:33:55 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- <winedt.support> (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 11 Mar 1997 13:03:24 +0100
> From: Robert Lieske <robert@SUMMA.PHYSIK.HU-BERLIN.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- <winedt.support>
>
> I have uploaded some files to /income/winedt.support/
>
> (a) the file is uploaded at ftp.dante.de
> (b) the files are: de09.zip, de2.txt and tools.zip
> (c) the file de09.zip contains a german dictionary, intended for use
>     with WinEdt. the file tools.zip contains some tools (a word-makro
>     and a pascal program) that are useful for WinEdt-users (creating
>     future dictionaries). The pascal program can also be used for
>     maintaining future uploads and is not dependend on german
>     dictionary only.
> (d) the suggested directory is
>     /tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/support/dict/
>     You can also use
>     /tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict/support/

Thanks for the contribution.  After some discussion, I installed the files
on ftp.dante.de as
/tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict/de2.{txt,zip}
/tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict/support/tools.zip

They will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From luzia.dietsche@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Fri Mar 14 05:14:35 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 11:09:38 +0100
From: Luzia Dietsche <luzia.dietsche@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: /incoming/winedt.support/

Robert Lieske schrieb am 12.3.1997, 11:32:41

 > I have sent you a mail yesterday regarding the upload
                          ^^^^^^^^^
 > of the files tools.zip, de2.txt and de09.zip in directory
 > /income/winedt.support/
 >
 > Someone told me, that this file is mirrored from the server in UK.

and this person hopefully told you also, that the work at ctan
ist done by volunteers in their spare time? one day ist really
not too much time...

 > Please tell me, what has gone wrong. If I have to contact
 > someone else, please let me know.

you have to do what is descriped in the readme file in the
incoming directory. that's enough.

-- luzia dietsche

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Mar 14 06:50:46 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 12:44:05 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update to aguplus bundle on CTAN

P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany writes:

 > I have uploaded the following files to dante  /incoming/aguplus
 > as an update to my bundle in
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/aguplus
 >
 >
 > -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      4387 Mar 14 12:12 README.pwd
 > -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     34409 Mar 14 12:12 agu.bst
 > -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     40207 Mar 14 12:08 aguplus.cls
 > -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     39444 Mar 14 12:08 aguplus.sty
 > -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     44281 Mar 14 12:10 aguplus.tex
 > -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      4849 Mar 14 12:12 changes.v15c
 > -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     11636 Mar 14 12:11 samplus.tex
 > -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     13109 Mar 14 12:12 shorthnd.tex
 >
 > Please copy them to that directory, and remove   changes.v15b

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN team

   Rainer Sch�pf

From jschrod@acm.org Fri Mar 14 13:31:13 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 18:59:53 +0100
From: Joachim Schrod <jschrod@acm.org>
To: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: metafont@ens.fr, tex-fonts@math.utah.edu
Subject: Re: Malyshev's work

>>>>> "RF" == Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:

RF> Hence his original restrictions on use by commercial
RF> organisations.

RF> ISTR that someone's given him some money somehow, and the restrictions
RF> have been lifted.

Have they? The README on CTAN doesn't tell so. BaKoMa Fonts ``cannot
be sold or distributed with any commercial product or used in any
commercial organization without additional agreement with author.''
IMO they even cannot be distributed on CDs without checks, as ``If you
want to charge a small fee via distribution these fonts or any
derivations from this fonts, you should contact the author.''

	Joachim

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From ms@DREAM.HB.NORTH.DE Fri Mar 14 15:22:08 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 20:13:13 +0100
From: Martin Schroeder <ms@DREAM.HB.NORTH.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Shutdown of CTAN server ftp.dante.de

>From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
>Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,de.comp.text.tex
>Subject: Shutdown of CTAN server ftp.dante.de
>Message-ID: <76hgiedesh.fsf@stinki.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
>Date: 14 Mar 1997 10:05:34 +0100


Tomorrow (Sat 14 Mar 1997) ftp.dante.de will be shut down at 8:30 GMT
until about 14:00 GMT.

--
   Rainer Sch�pf

End of forwarded message.

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das Kinn verwandelte sich in einen kr"aftigen Bart, an die Stelle der
leuchtenden Augen traten zwei matte Punkte, der Taillenumfang nahm
zu, das Haar begann sich unbarmherzig zu lichten, es schlug drei"sig
-- und er war auf keinem einzigen Gebiet auch nur einen Schritt
vorw"artsgekommen und stand noch immer an der Schwelle seiner
Lebensarena: genau dort, wo er vor zehn Jahren gestanden hatte.
        -- Iwan A. Gontscharow, Oblomow ("Ubers: J. Hahn)

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Mar 16 04:01:26 1997
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 09:57:48 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- grnumalt (fwd)

> Date:         Sat, 15 Mar 1997 20:21:59 +0200
> From: Apostolos Syropoulos <apostolo@OBELIX.EE.DUTH.GR>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- grnumalt
>
> I have uploaded the small package grnumalt to ftp.dante.de as
> grnumalt.tar.gz
> The bundle contains two files: grnumalt.dtx and grnumalt.ins
> The package implements a numbering system used in ancient Athens, so
> it produces the "Athenian" numeral for a any positive arabic numeral.
> The package can be used as a means to provide alternative counters.
> Please, note that we have incorporated the normal greek numbering system
> in the latest version of the greek option files of the babel package.
> I think the package should be placed at either
> macros/latex/contrib/other or languages/greek

Thanks for the contribution.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de
suggested in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK Mon Mar 17 11:08:49 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:00:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: LaTeX Lucida Bright and MathTime packages updated (psnfss)

The LaTeX support for Lucida Bright and MathTime in
ctan:macros/latex/packages/psnfss

has just been updated, as outlined below.

David



Changes to lucidabr package (thanks to Jean-Pierre Vial)

* Extra code to compensate for the AMS LaTeX redefinitions of the
  arrowfill and overarrow commands if the amsmath package is also
  loaded.

* Typo fix in \Longrightarrow.

* Add options to control font tracing information, copied from
  mathtime package.

Changes to mathtime package (thanks to James Ashton)

* Define \fnsymbol in a manner that works with the alternative math
  encodings as used by this package.

* Fix the encoding used for the mh2 script font (Previous version had
  A repeated twice)

* Add missing \ProvidesFile command to umh2scr.fd

From AJHJJ@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Mon Mar 17 14:45:07 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 14:41:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Hoenig <AJHJJ@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Setting up math fonts

I have had placed a package called MathInst in the fonts/utilities/mathinst
area of CTAN.  The `readme' file follows...



If you've ever wanted to typeset proper mathematics using Caslon or
Garamond or Baskerville or whatever types, MathInst may be of use to
you.  It allows you to create proper math fonts for use by TeX and
LaTeX.  You need to tell it the family of Roman types you want to use
and the raw math fonts---MathTime, Euler, or Lucida New Math---you can
supply, and this script does the rest.  All of MathInst's fonts are
properly scaled for compatibility with the Roman fonts.

If you supply the name of a typewriter and sans serif font as well,
MathInst will not only create fonts that respond to the NFSS commands
\mathsf and \mathtt, it will also scale these fonts properly to match
the Roman math fonts.

If you supply the name of a calligraphic, fraktur, blackboard bold,
and Greek bold font, MathInst will create matching fonts and commands
for their use.  In particular, if a Greek bold is present, MathInst
will create bold math fonts.

MathInst also creates two style files---one for use by NFSS (LaTeX)
and one for plain TeX.  There are also two matching test files, so you
can not only test the fonts, but see how to access these fonts in a
TeX document.

At the end, MathInst places all your new fonts in their proper places,
whether you use a traditional or a TDS TeX system.

For many additional details, please read the (LaTeX) file
`mathinst.tex' which accompanies this material, all of which can be
found in the fonts/utilities/mathinst area of CTAN.  Please forward
comments and bug reports to me (Alan Hoenig) at ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu.

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Mar 18 14:43:03 1997
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:39:28 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- web2c-7.0 for win32, update (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:54:58 +0100
> From: Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@ESEMETZ.ESE-METZ.FR>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- web2c-7.0 for win32, update
>
> I have uploaded an update of web2c for win32 in the following
> directory:
>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/web2c-win32
>
> There are 3 files:
>
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server   6537550 Mar 18 16:38 7.0.1-win32-src.tar.gz
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server   4243699 Mar 18 16:28 7.0.1-win32.tar.gz
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      6476 Mar 18 16:38 README.win32
>
> They should replace the corresponding files in
> CTAN:systems/win32/web2c
> (ie: do not delete tar.exe and gzip.exe from the directory)
>
> The reasons for the update are:
>
> - pdftex.exe included
> - MakeTeXtfm.exe and MakeTeXmf.exe included
> - numerous bug fixes to MakeTeX*.exe
> - printable chars for tex.exe (locale dependent)
> - lots of optimizations for tex.exe, mf.exe, mpost.exe and others too
>
> README.win32 has been updated.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in
CTAN:systems/win32/web2c, renaming the archives to
web2c-7.0.1-win32-src.tar.gz and web2c-7.0.1-win32.tar.gz
(corresponding to the old files web2c-7.0-...)

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Mar 19 05:30:43 1997
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 11:26:04 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Natbib update

> I have just uploaded three files to  dante /incoming/natbib
>   plainnat.bst
>   abbrvnat.bst
>   unsrtnat.bst
>
>
> which should be put into the macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib
> directory replacing the files of the same names there.

Done.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From AJHJJ@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Wed Mar 19 09:23:47 1997
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:18:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Hoenig <AJHJJ@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: setting up text fonts for (La)TeX

My vfinst package for making scalable text fonts work with TeX and
LaTeX has been updated; it is in the fonts/utilities/vfinst area of
CTAN.  Among the most substantive changes:

  1. All fonts now include the dotlessj (for better conformity with
     the original tex fonts); and

  2. VFinst now provides underline variants of upright and italic fonts.

Here's the complete readme file:


If you've ever wanted to set up outline fonts for use by \TeX\ or
\LaTeX, VFinst may be of use to you.  At the end of the VFinst
process, you'll be able to typeset with your new fonts, confident that
accents, ligatures, and the like will appear in your document with the
usual \TeX\ conventions.  Here are the fonts you get at the end of the
process.

  * For every upright font: you get the upright font, the small
    caps font, an oblique font, and an underline font.
  * For every italic font, you get the italic font, a small caps
    italic, an unslanted italic, and an underline font.
  * Additional fonts: You will also get titling (display)
    fonts, both upright and italic, and a swash italic font,
    if the appropriate raw fonts were present.

VFinst takes care to use expert fonts to build the small caps fonts,
if these raw fonts were originally present.  You also get test files
for plain TeX and NFSS (LaTeX), to both test the fonts and to provide
examples of how to declare and use each of the fonts in a TeX
document.

Some Technical Notes: At the end of the VFinst process, you get all
.vf and .tfm files for all fonts, which have been renamed for you
according to the fontname2.1 conventions.  All oblique and italic
fonts use the true italic angle for the font.  The dvips map file
psfonts.map will have been updated for you.  All fonts will have been
placed in the proper area on your hard disk.  You may choose original
TeX (ot1) or Cork (t1) encodings for your fonts, which can be
installed according to the TDS (TeX Directory Structure) or
`traditional' standard.  All raw fonts follow the 8r TeXBase1Encoding.

All this and more is expanded upon in the documentation file
vfinst.tex.  PLEASE READ THE FILE vfinst.tex BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY
FONT INSTALLATIONS.

Please feel free to get in touch with me; my email is
ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu. All comments, bugs, suggestions for
improvement, and criticism cheerfully accepted.

     Alan Hoenig
     ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu

     March 1997

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sat Mar 22 10:05:31 1997
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 16:02:07 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- HLaTeX (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 18 Mar 1997 12:34:21 +0100
> From: Koaunghi Un <koaunghi.un@ZDV.UNI-TUEBINGEN.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- HLaTeX
>
> I've just uploaded HLaTeX-0.96 in /incoming/HLaTeX
>    ...
> HLaTeX-0.96.tar.gz is a LaTeX macro package, to process Korean LaTeX
> documents written in Korean Standard Coding System.
> README is a file with a short hints about the distributed fonts files.
> All other files are fonts to be used in HLaTeX.
>
> All fonts files starting with initial "p", are PostScript fonts.
> Johab-Hangul-*.tar.gz are pre-made pk/tfm files used in old HLaTeX.
> All other files are source/vf/tfm files for MetaFont.
>
> I wish, HLaTeX-0.96.tar.gz is unpacked in the directory of
> /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX after cleaning up the previous
> contents of that directory.
>
> All fonts files including README can be moved to the directory of
> /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX
> after cleaning the previous contents of that directory.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as
requested replacing the old version.  They will soon be copied to
ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Mar 24 02:00:08 1997
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:56:03 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission --- Mla.zip (fwd)

> Date:         Sun, 23 Mar 1997 17:38:20 -0500
> From: Thomas Weissert <weissert@SJUPHIL.SJU.EDU>
> Subject:      CTAN submission --- Mla.zip
>
> Uploaded to Dante
> mla.zip
>
> This archive contains the updated version of:
> mla.sty
> mlaa.bst
> mla.bst
>
> This is the bibliography style I created to match the Modern Language
> Association's manual of style.
> This updated version correst a few bugs and in addition,
> I have added an annotated version: mlaa.bst

Thanks for the submission.  On ftp.dante.de, I replaced the old version in
tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/mla.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From wschmi@ibm.net Mon Mar 24 15:58:01 1997
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:49:19 +0100 (MET)
From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: EC Concrete fonts and LaTeX support

Now available on the CTAN:

fonts/ecc

   contains the METAFONT sources and tfm files of the

       ***   EUROPEAN CONCRETE FONTS (v0.9)   ***

   This is the EC implementation of Knuth's Concrete fonts,
   including also the corresponding text companion fonts.


macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts

   contains LaTeX font definition files for the Concrete
   fonts and a LaTeX package for typesetting documents using
   Concrete as the default font family.  The files support
   OT1, T1, TS1, and Concrete math incl. AMS fonts (Ulrik
   Vieth's concmath).

Both packages are still `beta' versions;
changes are to be expected!

Comments and bug reports are welcome;
please, send them to the author:

Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
Schornbaustr. 2,  91052 Erlangen,  Germany

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Mar 26 08:18:19 1997
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:15:47 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- oztex-german

Lothar Meyer-Lerbs writes:
 > Hi,
 > Uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming/oztex-german
 > you'll find the replacement for
 > /pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german
 >
 > All German OzTeX users should upgrade :)
 >
 > \bye Lothar    (DANTE Mac-Coordinator)

Thanks, I installed the new version. It will propagate to other CTAN
hosts in due course.

For the CTAN team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Apr  3 02:52:34 1997
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 09:46:38 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- HLaTeX-0.961 (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:28:20 +0200
> From: Koaunghi Un <koaunghi.un@ZDV.UNI-TUEBINGEN.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- HLaTeX-0.961
>
> I've just uploaded HLaTeX-0.961 in /incoming
>
> HLaTeX-0.961.tar.gz is a LaTeX macro package, to process Korean LaTeX
> documents written in Korean Standard Coding System. This version is a
> bug-fix version for HLaTeX-0.96, which I've uploaded ca. 2 weeks before.
>
> I wish, HLaTeX-0.961.tar.gz is unpacked in the directory of
> /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX after cleaning up the previous
> contents of that directory.

Thanks for your contribution, I installed the new files as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Apr  3 04:14:05 1997
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 11:10:05 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- OzTeX-german update (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:01:08 +0100
> From: Lothar Meyer-Lerbs <g07m@DIANA.PHYSIK.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- OzTeX-german update
>
> I just put a little update to the
> /pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german
> directory on ftp.dante.de at /incoming/oztex-german
> please
> mv /incoming/oztex-german/* /pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german
> \thanks Lothar Meyer-Lerbs   (DANTE Mac-Coordinator)

Done as requested

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr  3 06:26:36 1997
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 12:21:15 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ltoh

Russell Quong writes:

> (a) tried to upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>   [Ftp crashed after it had said it sent all the bytes.]

The file passes gzip integrity tests, so I presume it's OK

> (b) 1 File uploaded:    ltoh.tgz
> (c) Customizable Latex -> HTML converter.  It's a big Perl script.
>    See the ltoh web page:  www.best.com/~quong/ltoh
> (d) Suggest placing in:
>         ctan/support/ltoh/

I have installed the contents of the .tgz file in support/ltoh as
requested.  Thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr  3 06:27:45 1997
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 12:25:31 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission ccfonts.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:

> Description
> ===========
>
> Updated version (0.95) of the LaTeX support for the Concrete
> fonts:
>
> Bug fixes:
>
> -- names of fd files changed to lowercase
> -- added missing support for text companion fonts in the
>    installation script
>
> Major changes:
>
> -- changed font substitutions for the missing boldface font
>    series in the fd files

I have installed the files Walter is talking about to
macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts, as requested (replacing the
earlier version).

Thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Apr  5 09:57:57 1997
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 15:54:00 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- dvgtk-0.2.tar.gz

Tomasz J. Cholewo wrote:

> I uploaded dvgtk-0.2.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk /incoming directory.  It
> should be unpacked in the CTAN/dviware directory.  A short description
> of the package follows:
>
> dvgtk-0.2 is a beta release of a DVI file previewer for Tektronix 4010
> terminal emulators like Kermit, CONEX, or NCSA Telnet.  It is derived
> from the dvgt-3.51 package.  The original authors were Andrew Trevorrow,
> Ian Dall, and Geoffrey Tobin.
>
> New features in this release:
>
> 1. Uses Kpathsea library: finds fonts according to the texmf.cnf
>    settings, MakeTeXPK/gsftopk is called as needed.
>
> 2. Installation integrated with web2c-7.0 source tree structure.
>
> 3. Uses configure to simplify installation process.
>
> 4. Now works with dvicopy output what enables previewing documents with
>    virtual fonts.
>
> 5. Shows bounding boxes of included Postscript figures.
>
> 6. Uses getopt library for option processing what allows for greater
>    flexibility in command line syntax.
>
> 7. General code cleanup.
>
> Terminal support is now limited to Tektronix 4010 emulations only.

I missed the upload announcement in the 2.9Mbytes of mail that awaited
me when I got back on 2nd April -- sorry.

Thanks for the upload; I've installed it in dviware/dvgtk at
ftp.tex.ac.uk -- it'll propagate soon-ish.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Apr  7 05:38:18 1997
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 09:29:44 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission word2x.tar.gz

Duncan Simpson writes:

> I have uploaded my word 6 to <anything? converter to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk. It probably lives in the tools directory besides
> rtf2latex and such, The currently supported output formats are text
> and LaTeX (with limited equation support, due to a lack of samples).
> Pictures are not supported and it is supplied under the GPL in the
> hope that it will be useful to some people.  word2x.tar.gz contains
> C++ source code and complies cleanly on my Linux 2.1.30, libc 5.4.27
> (ELF) system. It uses GNU getopt_long to parse the arguments which
> causes problems on some systems.
>
> Finally it understands a lot less than you might think. Most of the
> sustructure of a` document is guesswork based on context, which
> seems it seems to be quite good at.  Omprovements and information
> about word 6 format should be emailed to dps@duncan.telstar.net
> (information and a patch to make use of the said information and
> especially welcome).

I have installed the code as tools/word2x, as Duncan suggests.  The
installation was at ftp.tex.ac.uk -- it'll migrate to the rest of the
CTAN system soon-ish.

Thanks for the upload (I'm copying this explicitly to Wilfried
Hennings, so that he can incorporate the information in his word
processor convertor FAQ).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr  8 05:04:48 1997
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:53:54 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Andreas Scherer writes:

 > I have uploaded the archive file
 >
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin-p14.tar.gz
 >
 > containing the latest results of my work on CWEB 3.4g.  In addition
 > to the original CWEB functionality I added a large collection of
 > change files (to be applied with TIE) to make the original sources
 > usable with ANSI-C/C++ compilers.  Extra functionality is introduced
 > and documented in the archive.
 >
 > As indicated by the name, CWEBBIN comes with precompiled binaries
 > of CTANGLE, CWEAVE, and WMERGE for various systems, currently AmigaOS
 > and Win32 (tested with WinNT).
 >
 > I would appreciate if you could replace "patch level 13" at
 >
 >    CTAN:web/c_cpp/cwebbin/cwebbin-p13.tar.gz
 >
 > by the new archive file.
 >
 > Oops, as I see from the cwebbin directory, there is the file
 > README.p13 for the last version.  This should be replaced by the
 > updated documentation README.p14.  I'm writing this e-mail _after_
 > submitting the TGZ file to /incoming, so I choose to add the
 > README.p14 file, too.  I'm sorry not to follow the recommended
 > use of a subdirectory this time.  I commit to do better next time.
 > Please, install the file
 >
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/README.p14
 >
 > together with the archive file.
 >
 > Kind regards,
 >
 > -- Andreas@Ono-Sendai-VII.Chiba_City
 >    http://www.or.rwth-aachen.de/zor/martadr.htm

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested and made
cwebbin.tar.gz a symbolic link to cwebbin-p14.tar.gz

For the CTAN Team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr  8 08:18:17 1997
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 13:14:51 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- meta-mode.el

Ulrik Vieth writes:

 > I have just uploaded version 1.0 of "meta-mode.el" to ftp.dante.de.
 > I suggest installing it in the /support/emacs-modes directory.
 >
 > meta-mode.el is a GNU Emacs Lisp package that implements a major mode
 > for editing Metafont or MetaPost sources.  It provides many features
 > commonly found in Emacs editing modes for programming languages,
 > such as automatic indenting of source code, syntactic highlighting
 > (a.k.a. fontification), symbol completion, as well as miscellaneous
 > other basic editing functions adapted to the mode-specific semantics
 > such as motion commands or commands to mark, reindent, or comment-out
 > environments or regions.
 >
 > meta-mode.el has been developed over the last two months, during which
 > time some preliminary versions have been made available by postings to
 > the Usenet newsgroup gnu.emacs.sources and the Metafont mailing list.
 > Version 1.0 released now is intended to become a stable release that
 > will also be submitted for integration into the GNU Emacs distribution
 > as requested by Richard Stallman.  Further development will be confined
 > to writing add-on packages that may be merged back into meta-mode.el
 > from time to time.
 >
 > Emacsen compatibility: meta-mode.el has been developed primarily under
 > GNU Emacs 19.34 and has only been briefly tested under XEmacs 19.14.
 > I am not aware of any serious compatibility problems, except perhaps
 > for the need of some of the more arcane features of Font Lock mode.
 >
 > Comments and suggestions as well as feedback in case of any problems
 > is welcome.
 >
 >
 > Happy Metafont'ing or MetaPost'ing,
 >
 > Cheers, Ulrik.

Thanks a lot, Ulrik, I installed the file as requested.

For the CTAN Team

Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Apr  8 11:01:55 1997
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 14:57:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Cmd Line Shell

Juan M. Aguirregabiria writes:

> a) Site: ftp.tex.ac.uk
> b) File: cmdsh100.exe and cmdsh100.txt
> c) Description:
>
> If you are a power user you probably use old DOS or new Win32 programs
> designed to be run from the command line where the corresponding options
> are indicated. To start with, many file maintenance jobs are far easier
> when using command line utilities and batch files. The "user-friendly"
> way to do many simple tasks (comparing two directories or copying to the
> disk the relevant modified files of you current programming task, for
> instance) is boring and error prone. Unix-like filters also are still
> very useful.
>
> Any advanced user has a lot of command line programs in her system, but
> if you do not use them very often it is not always easy to remember the
> right option to do something.
>
> Cmd Line Shell is designed to be a shell for any command line program.
> *     It provides a common, easily configurable, GUI look to any
> program which takes its options from the command line.
> *     It will help you to prepare the command line and launch the
> external program. (You may also copy the command line to use it, say,
> form a batch file.)
> *     You do not have to remember the syntax: the available options
> and their use are displayed.
> *     You may easily search through your system for the input and
> output files.
> *     Your favorite options may be set as new default.
>
> This program is designed to be used, for instance, with
> *     the Console utilities by the same author,
> *     the PostScript utilities included, for instance, in the
> excellent free implementation of TeX by Christian Schenk: MiKTeX 1.07,
> which is available from CTAN mirrors
> (ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/ and
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex),
> *     the epstool which comes with the last release of Ghostscript and
> GSview ( http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/),
> *     many GNU utilities.
>
> The Definition Files (where the interface is defined) for many of these
> programs are provided (though you might need to change a line to specify
> the directory where your copy of each program is located).
>
> d) Suggeted directory: systems/win32/util

I've installed the files as suggested.  They'll propagate to the rest
of the CTAN system shortly.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Apr  9 11:16:08 1997
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 16:10:54 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- new-tfms

Koaunghi Un writes:

 > First of all, I thank you for your work in maintaining CTAN.

Thanks, you're most welcome.

 > I've uploaded two files in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de.
 >
 >         new-tfms.eng
 >         new-tfms.tar.gz
 >
 > These files belong to the Korean LaTeX package, HLaTeX.
 >
 > Some tfm files distributed with HLaTeX-0.96 were wrong in checksum.
 > I've corrected this problem.
 >
 > I want these two files to be placed in
 >
 >         /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX/fonts

Thanks, I installed the files as requested.

For the CTAN Team

Rainer Schoepf

From jlbraams@CISTRON.NL Wed Apr  9 18:34:40 1997
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 23:32:46 +0200
From: Johannes L. Braams <jlbraams@CISTRON.NL>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: supertabular version 4.0e

Hi,

Yesterday I made version 4.0e of the package supertabular avaliable on CTAN.
Since the last announced release a number of things have happened:

- The source is now .dtx file
- The process that decides when to break the tabular and move on to the
  next page has been rethought and enhanced.
- the internal macro \tableformat has become \ST@tableformat
- Made a normal tabular in a cell of a supertabular work.
- fixed some bugs.

Kind regards,

Johannes Braams

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Apr 10 05:23:20 1997
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 10:19:43 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission help/wp-conv/texcnv*

Wilfried Hennings writes:

 > I uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming
 > the following file (binary mode, from isr016.isr.kfa-juelich.de):
 >
 > wp-conv.zip
 >
 > containing updates of the files
 >  texcnven.txt
 >  texcnvde.txt
 > and the new file
 >  texcnven.html
 > to be replaced/added
 > in .../tex-archive/help/wp-conv/
 >
 >
 > Dipl.-Ing. Wilfried Hennings c./o.
 > Forschungszentrum (Research Center) Juelich GmbH, ISR
 > D-52425 Juelich, Germany
 > Tel. (+49) 2461 61 5570 ; Fax (G3+G4) (+49) 2461 61 8254
 > my pgp public key: ftp://isr016.isr.kfa-juelich.de/wh.asc
 > FZJ home: http://www.kfa-juelich.de/
 > ISR home: http://www.kfa-juelich.de/isr/
 > All opinions mentioned are strictly my own.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update at ftp.dante.de from where it
will propagate to the other CTAN hosts in due course.

For the CTAN Team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Apr 14 03:10:05 1997
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 08:07:27 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-c (fwd)

> Date:         Sun, 13 Apr 1997 02:10:44 -0300
> From: Aleksander Simonic <alex@CS.DAL.CA>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-c
>
> I uploaded the files which are to be contributed to the CTAN
> archive to:
>
>       ftp.dante.de  /incoming/winedt
>                     /incoming/winedt/dict
>
> The files should be placed in:
>
>       "tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt"
>       "tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict" (respectively)
>
> The new files should overwrite the old ones when they already
> exist.

Thanks for the contribution.  I installed the new version of your
text editor and shell for Win32 as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From gerd@MAILHOST.UNI-KOBLENZ.DE Mon Apr 14 05:45:36 1997
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:37:51 +0200
From: Gerd Neugebauer <gerd@MAILHOST.UNI-KOBLENZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: BibTool 2.40

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.


BibTool 2.40 is on the CTAN since the end of last week in the
following directory:

        /tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/


Recent changes:

        The distribution contains a pre-alpha release of BibTcl. This
        is a library of Tcl commands to manipulate BibTeX files.
        COMMENTS ARE WELCOME.

- Version 2.40
        Sorting uses the new key instead of the old one as before. This has
        not been specified, but the new behaviour might be more intuitive.

        key.format=empty fixed. key.format short.need and long.need are
        aliases for new.short and new.long resp.

        Some error messages slightly improved.

        Minor print bug fixed: additional commas appeared when the last field
        was deleted.

        Typo in documentation: I had typed preserve.key instead of
        preserve.keys.
        Some additional examples in the documentation.

        Field deletetion completely covered by the rewriting mechanism.
        delete.field is kept for backward compatibility as an alias.

A web page is available under the URL

        http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~gerd/ftp/BibTool/


I append the README file of BibTool below.


======================================================================

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        ##    ##  ##  ##   ##  ##  ##    ##  ##    ##  ##
        #######   ##  ######   ##   ######    ######   #######
        ######    ##  #####    ##    ####      ####    #######

======================================================================

          BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases


BibTeX provides    an easy to  use means   to integrate  citations and
bibliographies into LaTeX documents.  But the user  is left alone with
the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to
fill  this gap. BibTool allows the  manipulation of BibTeX files which
goes  beyond the possibilities --- and  intentions  --- of BibTeX. The
possibilities of BibTool include

* Pretty-printing BibTeX data bases adjustable by lots of parameters.

* Syntactic checks with error recovery superior to BibTeX and helpful
  error messages.

* Semantic checks can be specified by the user.

* Sorting  and  merging of  BibTeX  data  bases according   to a  free
  definable sort key.

* Generation  of uniform reference keys  according to predefined rules
  or according to an own specification.

* Selecting references  used in  one  publication which are found   by
  analyzing an .aux file.

* Selecting references by a set of criteria (regular expressions).

* Controlled rewriting    of fields utilizing  regular expressions  to
  specify the rewriting rules.

* Macro  (String)  expansion to  eliminate the  need  of  extra string
  definitions.

* Collecting statistics about one or more BibTeX data bases.


BibTool contains   a documentation written  in LaTeX  of more  than 40
pages (and still growing)

BibTool is written  in C and  has  been compiled on  various operating
systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOG machines.  It is distributed in
source code.   No compiled  versions  are  available from  the  author
(Useless to ask!)

BibTool can be obtained from the CTAN archives:

* ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/
* ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/

or directly from the home site.

* ftphost.uni-koblenz.de:/outgoing/gene/BibTool

Get  the  file BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz  where  x.xx is the version number.
Unpack it with the command (on UN*X)

        gunzip < BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

It will create  a  directory  named  BibTool-x.xx which contains   the
installation instructions in the file INSTALL.


A WWW page is available under the URL

* http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~gerd/ftp/BibTool/BibTool.html


----------------------------------------------------------------------
Enjoy it!

Gerd Neugebauer
gerd@informatik.uni-koblenz.de

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Apr 14 11:32:24 1997
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:26:46 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- hypht1.tex

Bernd Raichle writes:

 > I have uploaded an update of `hypht1.tex', the additional hyphenation
 > patterns needed to use T1 encoded fonts with \hyphenchar\font != `-.
 >
 >
 > (a) site:       ftp.dante.de
 >
 > (b) file(s):    hypht1.tex
 >
 > (c) brief overview:
 >         hypht1.tex contains additional hyphenation patterns which have
 >         to be loaded in conjunction with each "normal" set of
 >         patterns.  It contains patterns to allow hyphenation after an
 >         explicit - letter, which are needed if you want to use
 >         e.g. the second hyphen character (\char127) of the EC fonts or
 >         any other T1 encoded font as \hyphenchar\font.
 >         hypht1.tex v0.2 fixes some bugs of v0.1 (look for \changes),
 >         additionally it _disallows_ hyphenation after -- and --- for
 >         the sake of the missing ligatures of --/--- with \char127 of
 >         EC fonts v1.0.
 >
 > (d) recommended place:
 >         language/hyphenation/hypht1.tex  (replacing v0.1)

Thanks a lot, I installed your update at ftp.dante.de from where it
will eventually propagate to the other CTAN hosts.

For the CTAN Team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Apr 16 03:05:17 1997
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 08:00:56 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission --- geometry (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:43:46 +0900
> From: UMEKI Hideo <hideo.umeki@TOSHIBA.CO.JP>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission --- geometry
>
> I have uploaded the new version of the `geometry' package (v1.06)
> to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry-1.06.tar.gz.
>
>  Change from 1.05:
>         reversemarginpar supported
>
> Please replace the directory
> /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry
> with the new one.

Thanks for the contribution.  I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de
as requested, it will soon spread the the other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

For the uninitiated (copied from the geometry.dtx file):

% This package allows \LaTeXe\ users to customize the page layout
%  (page size) by an easy and flexible user interface |\geometry|.
% One can realize the above page layout by putting, for example,
% \begin{quote}
%  |\usepackge{geometry}|\\
%  |\geometry{body={6.5in,8.75in}, top=1.2in, left=2cm, nohead}|
% \end{quote}
% in the preamble.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 17 08:42:53 1997
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:37:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- mf2tex

Robert Spalek writes:

> i submitted package mf2tex.tgz to ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> this package contains macros in TeX and METAFONT, which allow user
> to add easily labels to METAFONT sources (text or mathematics)
> normally you can only draw in METAFONT and all labels you must write
> into the TeX source before (or after) inserting the picture.
> now you can write TeX labels straight into the METAFONT source and
> my macros will generate corresponding TeX source, which you will only
> insert into the text.
> it could be used for drawing graphs, geometric constructions...
> there is an example too
>
> you could place it into:
> /CTAN/graphics/mf2tex
> or into
> /CTAN/macros/mf2tex

I've installed the package (which includes C and Pascal sources of a
Metafont log preprocessor as well as what I take to be a DOS
executable of that program) as graphics/mf2tex

It will propagate through the CTAN system in due course.

Thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr 22 05:58:19 1997
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:50:37 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- neufont.tex

Bjoern Lorenz writes:
 > I uploaded on
 >
 >    ftp.dante.de
 >
 > the updated file
 >
 >    neufont.tex
 >
 > It should replace the older version CTAN/documentation/neufont.tex

Thanks a lot I installed the update.

For the CTAN Team

Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr 22 06:48:43 1997
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:46:45 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- GlossTeX

Volkan Yavuz writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I uploaded the file "glosstex.tar.gz" to ftp.dante.de:/incoming. I
 > would recommend the directory /support/glosstex. The files in the
 > archive are:
 >
 > $Id: MAIL,v 1.1 1997/04/21 15:09:12 yavuzv Exp $
 >
 > * misc files
 > COPYING         the GNU General Public License
 > LIESMICH        basic documentation in german
 > MANIFEST        this file
 > Makefile        file for Make
 > README          basic documentation in english
 >
 > * sources
 > database.c
 > database.h
 > error.c
 > error.h
 > glosstex.h
 > labels.c
 > labels.h
 > list.c
 > list.h
 > main.c
 > version.c
 > version.h
 >
 > * documentation
 > glosstex.gdf    GlossTeX glossary definition file for the documentation
 > glosstex.gst    GlossTeX style file for MakeIndex
 > glosstex.sty    GlossTeX style file for LaTeX
 > glosstex.tex    GlossTeX source for LaTeX
 >
 > Thank you,
 >
 > --
 >                               Volkan Yavuz, 94wi032@ba-mannheim.de
 >                                            "Use the source, Luke!"

Thanks a lot for your submission, I installed the files under
support/glosstex, as requested.

For the CTAN Team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr 22 06:53:23 1997
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:52:03 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- listings.dtx

Carsten Heinz writes:
 > Hello there,
 >
 > here the things you want to know about uploads:
 >
 > (a)  ftp.dante.de/incoming
 >
 > (b)  listings.zip (including listings.dtx, listings.ins and listings.dvi)
 >
 > (c)  The listings-package is intend to typeset listings using LaTeX2e.
 >      It is not a cross compiler, the source code is read directly by TeX!
 >      Keywords, comments and strings can be typeset using different styles,
 >      e.g. default is bold for keywords, italic for comments and no special
 >      style for strings (but blank spaces are printed as with verbatim*,
 >      but there is a command to change this, ...).
 >
 >      See listings.dvi for more information (the first eight of fourty pages
 >      include the user's guide).
 >
 > (d)  You might place this package in a directory
 >         /tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/listings

Thank you for your submission. I installed your package in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/listings

The hierarchy

  macros/latex/packages

is reserved for the LaTeX developers.

For the CTAN Team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 24 07:22:49 1997
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:17:55 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- TeX4ht

> > (a) state which site you have uploaded to
>
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> > (b) state what file(s) you have uploaded,
>
> The directory
>
>    ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/TeX4ht
>
> > (c) include a brief overview of
> > what the file(s) is/are intended to do,
>
>   Provide a configurable (La)TeX-based authoring system for
>   hypertext.
>
> > (d) [optionally, but
> > urgently requested] where you recommend placing your submission within
> > the CTAN directory hierarchy.
>
>    ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/

I have installed support/TeX4ht as suggested.

Thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Apr 29 03:51:32 1997
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 08:47:26 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Update to aguplus (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 29 Apr 1997 08:26:39 +0200
> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@LINPWD.MPAE.GWDG.DE>
> Subject:      Update to aguplus
>
> I have placed the following files into incoming on the Dante CTAN server:
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      4790 Apr 29 06:22 README.pwd
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     34705 Apr 29 06:21 agu.bst
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     40812 Apr 29 06:21 aguplus.cls
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     40008 Apr 29 06:21 aguplus.sty
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     44281 Apr 29 06:21 aguplus.tex
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      5086 Apr 29 06:22 changes.v15d
>
> These are updates to my bundle  aguplus
> Please copy them to macros/latex/contrib/supported/aguplus
> replacing the files of the same name and
> replacing  changes.v15c by changes.v15d

Done as requested.  To recap, the aguplus files are LaTeX styles for the
American Geophyical Union.  According to the changes.v15d file, the new
version includes:

> Version 1.5d 1997 April 28
>   Revise agu.bst (version 2.1) so notes added in mid-sentence with lowercase
>     first word, and journal `number' no longer printed.
>   May be used with amsmath; previously there was a conflict if \sublab used.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Apr 29 12:46:43 1997
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:42:45 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Submission: VFinst font installer software

> I have placed the file vfinst.tgz [...] untar it into the area
> fonts/utilities/fontinst.  The version improves some user interface
                  ^^^^^^^^ !
> details and includes a DOS version (tested on Windows NT) as well as
> original Unix version.

I've installed the contents into fonts/utilities/vfinst, which is what
I {presume|hope} you meant ;-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

> Here is the README for this package:
>
> If you've ever wanted to set up outline fonts for use by \TeX\ or
> \LaTeX, VFinst may be of use to you.  At the end of the VFinst
> process, you'll be able to typeset with your new fonts, confident that
> accents, ligatures, and the like will appear in your document with the
> usual \TeX\ conventions.  Here are the fonts you get at the end of the
> process.
>
>   * For every upright font: you get the upright font, the small
>     caps font, an oblique font, and an underline font.
>   * For every italic font, you get the italic font, a small caps
>     italic, an unslanted italic, and an underline font.
>   * Additional fonts: You will also get titling (display)
>     fonts, both upright and italic, and a swash italic font,
>     if the appropriate raw fonts were present.
>
> VFinst takes care to use expert fonts to build the small caps fonts,
> if these raw fonts were originally present.  You also get test files
> for plain TeX and NFSS (LaTeX), to both test the fonts and to provide
> examples of how to declare and use each of the fonts in a TeX
> document.
>
> Some Technical Notes: At the end of the VFinst process, you get all
> .vf and .tfm files for all fonts, which have been renamed for you
> according to the fontname2.1 conventions.  All oblique and italic
> fonts use the true italic angle for the font.  The dvips map file
> psfonts.map will have been updated for you.  All fonts will have been
> placed in the proper area on your hard disk.  You may choose original
> TeX (ot1) or Cork (t1) encodings for your fonts, which can be
> installed according to the TDS (TeX Directory Structure) or
> `traditional' standard.  All raw fonts follow the 8r TeXBase1Encoding.
>
> All this and more is expanded upon in the documentation file
> vfinst.tex.  PLEASE READ THE FILE vfinst.tex BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY
> FONT INSTALLATIONS.

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon May  5 06:25:24 1997
Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 11:18:33 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission ttgfdemo.zip

Vasilev Konstantin writes:

 >                 Dear Sirs!
 >
 >         My submission: ttgfdemo.zip
 >         CTAN server: ftp.dante.de
 >         Possible placement: TEX-ARCHIEVE/SUPPORT/TTFTOGF
 >
 >         The ttgfdemo.zip archieve contains a fully functional demo
 >   version of TTFtoGF utility.
 >         It is 16-bit windows aplication that allows to convert
 >   True Type fonts into TeX pk fonts.
 >
 >         Regards.
 >         Konstantin Vasil'ev.

Thank you for your submission. I added a README file containing the
description you gave in your mail message and installed the files in

   support/ttftogf

as you suggested.

For the CTAN Team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri May  9 03:27:09 1997
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 08:20:12 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission - RefCheck (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 5 May 1997 16:15:47 +0400
> From: "Oleg V. Motygin" <mov@SNARK.IPME.RU>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission - RefCheck
>
> I uploaded to  ftp.dante.de  two files collected in directory REFCHECK
> These are:
>   REFCHECK.STY
>   REFDEMO.TEX
> RefCheck.sty is intended to check references in document. It looks
> for numbered but unlabelled equations, for labels, which are not
> used in the text, for unused bibliography references. Besides, it
> can display label names in text near corresponding numbers of
> equations and/or bibliography references.
> The package was written to work under LaTeX 2.09, but it is known
> to be working right under LaTeX 2e as well.
>
> RefDemo.tex is a short description of usage of RefCheck.sty.

Thanks for the contribution.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in
the directory tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/refcheck

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri May  9 03:28:47 1997
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 08:25:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- gentl-gr (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 8 May 1997 11:57:59 EST5EDT
> From: Dimitrios Filippou <FILIPPOU@MINMET.LAN.MCGILL.CA>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- gentl-gr
>
> I just uploaded two files in "ftp.dante.de"
> The names of these files are:
>
>    1) gentl-gr.tex
>    2) gentl-gr.ps
>
> Essentially these files are the translation
> of M. Doob's Gentle Introduction to TeX
> (file: gentle.tex) into Modern Greek.  The
> TeX source code (gentl-gr.tex) is a complete
> TeX file, but if the user does not have the
> Dryllerakis KD* fonts, then he/she cannot
> use it.  For that reason, I have included a
> PostScript(TM) file as well.
>
> The files should be best archived under the
> directory tex-archive/help/greek/gentl-gr
  ...
> Dimitrios Filippou
>
> e-mail: dfilipp@danaos.ntua.gr
>             filippou@minmet.lan.mcgill.ca

Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri May  9 05:09:34 1997
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 10:00:28 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Upload from GUST: cep.zip, cmyk-hax.zip, toil.zip, mirr.hd, (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 8 May 1997 20:32:51 +0200
> From: Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz <staw@ETI.PG.GDA.PL>
> Subject:      Upload from GUST: cep.zip, cmyk-hax.zip, toil.zip, mirr.hd,
>               qfonts.zip
>
> After GUST meeting BachoTeX'97 we have a pleasure to announce some
> interesting packages--contribution from GUST members.
>
> I've just uploaded do DANTE:/incoming/
> All ZIP files contain full directory structure, just unzip from
> /tex-archive/
>
> -- cep.zip  (support/pstools/cep/*) it contains:
>               cep  -- compression utilities for PS files; written
>               in AWK+PostScript, well documented, you can even find a
>               glossary (B. Jackowski, P. Strzelczyk)
> May I propose to add support/pstools directory? I should be a good place
> for supporting programs to manipulate PS and EPS files, not just fonts.
> Please also move support/ps-conv/ to support/pstools/ps-conv/
>
> -- toil.zip  (fonts/utilities/t1install/toil/*)
>                toil -- Type One Install utiLity, facilitates installation
>                of Adobe Type 1 fonts for TeX; significantly enhances
>                the capabilities of the obsolete AFMTOMF program
>                (B. Jackowski)
> Once again I propose to add t1install directory to gather here other
> installers.
>
> -- cmyk-hax.zip (macros/generic/TeX-PS/cmyk-hax/*)
> Please remove old contents.
>                cmyk-hax -- a new version of macros for making color
>                separation (new: separation of bitmaps) with examples
>                (P. Pianowski)
>
> -- qfonts.zip  (fonts/psfonts/qfonts/*)
>                qfonts -- public domain Adobe Type 1 fonts; so far only
>                Quasi-Palladio (regular, italic, bold and bold italic),
>                based on URW's Palladio, is available; the design of
>                Palladio, alike the design of the obsolete Platan,
>                resembles the design of Hermann Zapf's Palatino.
>                (PFB, AFM, PFM, TFM and ENC files for TeX-ers, DOC)
>                (B. Jackowski)
> -- mirr.hd     just move to macros/generic/TeX-PS/
>                 a small header for making mirror of DVIPSed files.
>                 The small is beautifull! so please remove bop-hax.tex
>                 and put self-documented mirr.hd
>
> Thanks and greetings,
> **StaW
> <staw@eti.pg.gda.pl>

Thanks for all the fine contributions.  I installed them on ftp.dante.de
as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri May  9 06:05:55 1997
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 10:55:45 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Trennmuster f"ur Obersorbisch (fwd)

Forwarded message:
> Date:         Wed, 7 May 1997 07:30:27 +0000
> From: "Eduard Werner (Edward Wornar)" <edi@SERBSKI-INSTITUT.LUSATIA.DE>
> Subject:      Trennmuster f"ur Obersorbisch
>
> ich habe grade die neuen Trennmuster f"ur Obersorbisch
> auf ftp.dante.de geladen.
>
> Status: BETA
>
> Zweck: Trennung f"ur Obersorbisch mit TeX
>
> File: hyphen.sorbian
>
> Vorgeschlagener Ort: tex-archive/language/hyphenation

Thanks, I installed the upper sorbian hyphenations patterns in
tex-archive/language/hyphenation/sorhyph.tex.  I renamed the file because
all files in this directory have names like <language>hyph.tex

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun May 11 10:55:22 1997
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 15:52:45 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: macros/latex/contrib/supported/{polyglot,accents}

> Date:         Sun, 11 May 1997 15:00:26 +0200
> From: "DANTE e.V." <dante@DANTE.DE>
> Subject:      New files in incoming
>
> I've just transfered the follwing files to the CTAN incoming directory:
>
>   accents.dtx, accents.ins, polyglot/*
>
> The files came from a DANTE e.V. member without email access, his name is
> Javier Bezos-L\'opez from Spain.
>
> Here comes his own letter:
>
> ---
> Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
>
> In the enclosed MS-DOS disc is the version 1.0 of the \texttt{polyglot}
> package for LaTeX2e multilingual support, which you are interered in
> including in your CTAN/3 server. As well I include a package for multiple
> accents with nice features concerning creation of accents and placement
> of scripts; as before I enclose printed copies of the manuals.
>
> Of course, I will very pleased to put the package at the LaTeX user's
> disposal (and the \texttt{accents} one, if you find it interesting).
>
> Mit freundlichen Gruessen
> Javier Bezos-L\'opez
> ----
>
> Best wishes
>
> Marion Neubauer
> (Vicepresident DANTE e.V.)

Thanks for the contribution.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/{polyglot,accents}.  They will be copied
to the other CTAN servers and mirrors in due time.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon May 12 06:18:46 1997
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 10:13:09 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- glosstex.exe for os/2

Stefan A. Deutscher writes:

>  I have uploaded the os/2 binary for glosstex version 2.0 (which also is
> somewhere in /incoming according to the author Volkan Yavuz). Here is
> the brief writeup .
>
> This file, glosstex.exe, is the compiled os/2 executable for glosstex
> version 2.0, as described in its readme. Since os/2 is by now a target
> of the original distribution I just put the executable here. Please put
> in CTAN:/support/os2/binaries, together with the README.os2. Since in
> /incoming README.os2 may not be unique I have renamed it to
> glosstex.os2.

Thanks for the upload.  I have in fact installed your stuff in
support/glosstex/binaries/os2 (which offers the remote possibility of
someone creating some other set of binaries...)

It will propagate to the other CTAN sites and mirrors in due course.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon May 12 06:18:11 1997
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 11:15:13 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- dvips 5.72 for emTeX and OS/2+DOS (fwd)

> Date:         Sun, 11 May 1997 18:38:47 -0400
> From: Wonkoo Kim <wkim+@pitt.edu>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- dvips 5.72 for emTeX and OS/2+DOS
>
> I have uploaded ftp.dante.de/incoming/dvips572.zip.
>
> This is dvips 5.72 (dvi to postscript converter) compiled with emx/gcc
> 0.9c under OS/2 Warp, after patching (for emTeX) the original dvips
> 5.72 sources of /pub/tex/dviware/dvips/dvips572.tar.gz of CTAN site.
> The patches were based on Guido Sawade's patches to dvips 5.58, which
> can be replaced by this update.
>
> The archive includes OS/2+DOS bound executables, patched sources/diffs
> (but not unpatched sources), tfm files, virtual fonts, and some docs.
>
> I suggest you to place it in
>         pub/tex/systems/os2/dviware/dvips/dvips572.zip
>
> Since this should work for MSDOS as well, establish a link for
>         pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips572.zip

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new file as suggested and
removed the old dvips versions in /tex-archive/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips
and /tex-archive/systems/os2/drivers.

[ For the sake of consistency, /tex-archive/systems/os2/drivers/hp-deskjet
has been moved to /tex-archive/systems/os2/dviware/hp-deskjet too and
the old directory /tex-archive/systems/os2/drivers will soon be deleted. ]

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon May 12 08:59:15 1997
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:54:36 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- Prelim2e v1.20 (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 12 May 1997 11:39:59 +0200
> From: Martin Schroeder <ms@DREAM.HB.NORTH.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- Prelim2e v1.20
>
> I have uploaded to the incoming dir of
>         ftp.dante.de
> the file
>         prelim2e.zip
> containing Version 1.20 of the prelim2e LaTeX package.
>
> ------------ snipp ------------
>  Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name ("^" ==> case
>  ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----   conversion)
>   19164  Defl:X    5509  71%  12-05-97  11:27  3d22d3fb   prelim2e.dtx
>   26200  Defl:X    8234  69%  12-05-97  11:28  156b32c1   prelim2e.dvi
>    2831  Defl:X    1072  62%  12-05-97  11:12  f6d0bbce   prelim2e.ins
>  ------          ------  ---                              -------
>   48195           14815  69%                              3 files
> ------------ snapp ------------
>
> >From the documentation:
> ------------ snipp ------------
> %% ===================================================================
> %%  @LaTeX-package-file{
> %%    author         = {Martin Schr\"oder},
> %%    version        = "1.20",
> %%    date           = "12 May 1997",
> %%    filename       = "prelim2e.sty",
> %%    address        = {Martin Schr\"oder
> %%                      Cr\"usemannallee 3
> %%                      D-28213 Bremen},
> %%    telephone      = "++49-421-2239425",
> %%    email          = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (INTERNET)",
> %%    codetable      = "ISO/ASCII",
> %%    keywords       = "LaTeX2e, preliminary versions, versions",
> %%    dependences    = "everyshi, scrtime",
> %%    supported      = "yes",
> %%    docstring      = "LaTeX package which allows the marking of
> %%                      preliminary versions of a document"
> %%                     .
> %%  }
> %% ===================================================================
> ------------ snapp ------------
>
> Changes from version 1.10:
> - new option french
> - new option scrtime; controls the loading of the scrtime package
> - the time option doesn't load the scrtime package automatically
>
> The files should replace all files in
>         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/prelim2e/

Thanks, I replaced the old version with your new contribution on ftp.dante.de.
It will soon spread to the other CTAN sites and mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed May 21 08:03:26 1997
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 11:53:38 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Upload to ftp.dante.de: ntheorem

> Date:         Thu, 15 May 1997 17:40:55 +0200
> From: Wolfgang May <may@INFORMATIK.UNI-FREIBURG.DE>
> Subject:      Upload to ftp.dante.de
>
> I have uploaded ntheorem.zip to ftp.dante.de.
>
> The file contains ntheorem.dtx and ntheorem.ins.
> ntheorem. dtx includes the style-file, a standard configuration,
> and the documentation. Additional information is available
> at
>  http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~may/Ntheorem/ntheorem.html
> (including a test-file).
>
> We recommend placing the unpacked files  (+this message) in an extra directory
>  macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntheorem/ .
>
> With this, newthm.sty (macros/latex/contrib/other/newthm/)
> becomes obsolete, so please put this information into
> the corresponding path (macros/latex/contrib/other/newthm/),
> too.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntheorem as suggested and removed the
obsolete files in macros/latex/contrib/other/newthm.  The changes will
soon spread to the other CTAN servers and mirrors.

> Wolfgang May & Andreas Schlechte
>
> --------------------
>
> Abstract:
>
> ntheorem.sty for LaTeX
>
> by Wolfgang May and Andreas Schlechte
>
> ntheorem.sty is a package for handling theorem-like environments.
> Aditionally to several features for defining the layout of theorem-like
> environments which can be regarded to be standard requirements for a
> theorem-package, it provides solutions for two related problems:
> placement of endmarks and generation of lists of theorem-like
> environments. In contrast to former approaches, it solves the problem
> of setting endmarks of theorem-like environments (theorems, definitions,
> examples, and proofs) automatically at the right positions, even if the
> environment ends with a displaymath or (even nested) list environments;
> it also copes with the amsmath package. This is done in the same manner
> as the handling of labels by using the .aux file. It also introduces the
> generation of lists of theorem-like environments in the same manner as
> listoffigures.
> After running LaTeX several times (depending on the complexity of
> references, in general, three runs are sufficient), the endmarks are set
> correctly, and theoremlists are generated. Since ntheorem.sty uses the
> standard LaTeX \newtheorem command, existing documents can be switched to
> ntheorem.sty without having to change the .tex file. Also, it is
> compatible with LaTeX files using theorem.sty written by Frank Mittelbach.
>
> Features:
>
>  * General Layout of Theorems:
>    different predefined theoremstyles, according to theorem.sty,
>    defining own theoremstyles by \newtheoremstyle,
>  * Placement of End Marks:
>    automatically setting end marks for theorem-like environments
>    in text, math environments, lists etc.,
>  * Generation of Theorem Lists:
>    Generation of list-of-theorem similar to list-of-figures
>    different predefined liststyles, according to theorem.sty,
>    defining own liststyles by \newliststyle.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu May 22 06:20:12 1997
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 10:56:25 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- dvips 5.72 for emTeX and OS/2+DOS

Wonkoo Kim writes:

 > I have uploaded ftp.dante.de/incoming/dvips572.zip.
 >
 > This is dvips 5.72 (dvi to postscript converter) for emTeX and OS/2
 > or DOS(/Win/Win95/NT).
 >
 > This package was compiled with emx/gcc 0.9c fix02 under OS/2 Warp,
 > after patching (for emTeX) the original dvips 5.72 sources of
 > /pub/tex/dviware/dvips/dvips572.tar.gz of CTAN site.  The patches were
 > based on Guido Sawade's patches to dvips 5.58 and other additional
 > fixes are applied.
 >
 > Fixed bugs: (since the previous dvips572.zip, May 11, 1997)
 >  - SIGTRAP on RSX -RO (on Win95/NT).
 >  - Long file name support on Win95/NT.
 >  - Partial ps fonts download.
 >  - other minor things.
 >
 > The archive includes OS/2+DOS bound executables, patched sources/diffs
 > (but not unpatched sources), tfm files, virtual fonts, and some docs.
 >
 > The executables should also work on DOS/Win3.1, Win95, or NT with
 > RSX/RSXWIN/RSXNT runtime modules.
 >
 > Please replace the old version of
 >         pub/tex/systems/os2/dviware/dvips/dvips572.zip
 >
 > Since this should work for MSDOS as well, please keep the link for
 >         pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips572.zip
 >
 > Thanks.
 >
 > //--------------------------------------------------------------------
 > // Wonkoo Kim (wkim+@pitt.edu)

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

Rainer

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu May 22 10:55:10 1997
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 15:23:13 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- fixfloats.sty

bil kleb writes:
 > hello,
 >
 > attempting to adhere to the instructions in README.uploads:
 >
 >      site uploaded to: ftp.dante.de
 >      file uploaded as: incoming/fixfloats.sty
 >        brief overview: modifies latex's float handling mechanism so
 >                        that double-column floats stay in sequence
 >                        with single-column floats of the same type.
 >    suggested location: macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/fixfloats.sty
 >              [version: 1.0 (22 may 97)]
 >
 > thanks
 > --
 > bil <mailto:w.l.kleb@larc.nasa.gov>

Thanks a lot, I installed the file in the indicated location.

For the CTAN Team
Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri May 23 04:18:41 1997
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 08:53:30 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- cmbright.zip (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 22 May 1997 18:10:03 +0200
> From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
> Subject:      CTAN submission -- cmbright.zip
>
> I have just uploaded the archive file
>
>         cmbright.zip
>
> to the directory /incoming at ftp.dante.de.
>
> Please, put its contents into the CTAN directory
>
>         fonts/cmbright,
>
> preserving the internal directory structure.  *All* the
> files existing there will be replaced and new ones will be
> added.  Text files in my archive have unix-style line
> endings, i.e.  lf only.
>
> Description (to be used for the announcement):
>
> This archive updates the
>
>         COMPUTER MODERN BRIGHT FONT FAMILY
>            ftp://<ctan>/fonts/cmbright
>
> What's new?
>
>         EC Bright fonts (T1 encoding)
>         text companion fonts (TS1 encoding)
>         additional semibold font shape
>         LaTeX interface supporting the above features
>         enhanced documentation
>         bug fixes etc.
>
> Here is an excerpt from the `readme' file:
>
> `Computer Modern Bright' is a family of sans serif fonts for
> TeX and LaTeX, based on Donald Knuth's CM fonts.  It
> comprises OT1, T1 and TS1 encoded text fonts of various
> shapes as well as all the fonts necessary for mathematical
> typesetting, incl.  AMS symbols.
>
> CM Bright has been designed as a well legible standalone
> font.  It is `lighter' and less obtrusive than CMSS, which,
> in contrast, is more appropriate for markup purposes within
> a CM Roman environment.
>
> Together with CM Bright there comes a family of typewriter
> fonts, `CM Typwewriter Light', which look better in
> combination with CM Bright than the CMTT fonts would do.
>
> Additionally this collection provides all the necessary
> files for using the fonts with LaTeX.

Thanks for your submission.  I replaced the old version on ftp.dante.de;
the new files will soon be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and hopefully tomorrow on the
CTAN mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri May 23 04:25:45 1997
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 08:54:54 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- cancel.sty (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 22 May 1997 17:10:30 PST
> From: Donald Arseneau <asnd@TRIUMF.CA>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- cancel.sty
>
> I have uploaded "cancel.sty" to ftp.dante.de.
>
> cancel.sty     draw diagonal lines and arrows with limits through math formulas
>                1.0  21-Apr-1997.     LaTeX2e
>                (macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/cancel.sty)
>
> This one is definately "other" as in "other than supported".
>
> "Never in the course of LaTeX endeavor have such large macros done so little"
>
> Donald Arseneau                         asnd@reg.triumf.ca

Thanks, I installed the file on ftp.dante.de as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue May 27 06:55:46 1997
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 11:50:57 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- HLaTeX-0.97 (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 27 May 1997 10:06:21 +0200
> From: Koaunghi Un <koaunghi.un@ZDV.UNI-TUEBINGEN.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- HLaTeX-0.97
>
> I've just uploaded HLaTeX-0.97 in the directory of /incoming/HLaTeX on
> ftp.dante.de. The following files are now in this directory:
>
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    996845 May 27 07:40 HLaTeX-0.97.tar.gz
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    190622 May 26 10:24 jamo.tar.gz
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    199508 May 26 10:24 pjamo.tar.gz
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    898984 May 26 10:24 wsgr.tar.gz
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server   3103071 May 26 10:25 wsgs.tar.gz
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     48964 May 26 10:25 wsgt.tar.gz
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server   5040040 May 26 10:25 wsmg.tar.gz
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server   1697367 May 26 10:25 wsmj.tar.gz
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     11590 May 26 10:25 wsol.tar.gz
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server   2391611 May 26 10:25 wsyt.tar.gz
>
> HLaTeX-0.97.tar.gz is the main part of HLaTeX, which enables
> processing Korean document written in KSC 5601 (Korean Standard Coding
> system) with LaTeX2e.
> Other files are updated versions of Korean fonts, which are needed for
> Korean documents written by HLaTeX.
>
> I'd like HLaTeX-0.97 to be unpacked in the directory of
> /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX, after deleting the previous
> version. The other font files can be moved to the directory of
> /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX by overwriting the existing files
> with same names.
>
> While the main macro files in /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX are
> completely updated by HLaTeX-0.97.tar.gz, the font files are
> partially updated. So the other fonts files will be remain untouched.

Thanks for your submission.  I installed the new version of your files
on ftp.dante.de as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue May 27 12:30:54 1997
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 17:25:05 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ctan submission - cmbr10c.zip (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 27 May 1997 12:47:12 +0200
> Reply-To: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
> From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
>
> I have just uploaded the archive file
>
>         cmbr10c.zip
>
> to the directory /incoming at ftp.dante.de.
>
> Please, put its contents into the CTAN directory
>
>         fonts/cmbright,
>
> preserving the internal directory structure.  This will
> replace some files and add a new one.  Text files in my
> archive have unix-style line endings, i.e.  lf only.
>
> Description:
> ------------
> This submission will update the
>
>         COMPUTER MODERN BRIGHT FONT FAMILY
>            ftp://<ctan>/fonts/cmbright/
>
> to
>                   version 1.0c.
>
> This is a BUG FIX, affecting only the EC (i.e. T1 and TS1)
> fonts.  The traditional fonts and the LaTeX interface
> remain unchanged.

Thanks for the update.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri May 30 09:48:12 1997
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 14:44:26 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- kluwer.cls (fwd)

> Date:         Fri, 30 May 1997 13:43:56 +0200
> From: Taco Hoekwater <Taco.Hoekwater@wkap.nl>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- kluwer.cls
>
> I just uploaded to dante.de the file /incoming/kluwer.zip.
>
> The included files provide a LaTeX2e class file and
> accompagnying user manual for submissions of journal
> articles to Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht, the
> Netherlands.
>
> Suggested location:
>
>         macros/latex/contrib/supported/kluwer

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jun  2 07:00:14 1997
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 10:52:27 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: submission to ftp.tex.ac.uk -- mathinst

Alan Hoenig writes:

> I have placed the file mathinst.tar.gz in ftp.tex.ac.uk's /incoming
> directory.  Please unpack this in the fonts/utilities/mathinst area,
> replacing all files and subdirectories currently there with this
> new material.  This update contains some bug fixes and interface
> improvements.  Here's the readme:
>
>
> If you've ever wanted to typeset proper mathematics using Caslon or
> Garamond or Baskerville or whatever types, MathInst may be of use to
> you.  It allows you to create proper math fonts for use by TeX and
> LaTeX.  You need to tell it the family of Roman types you want to use
> and the raw math fonts---MathTime, Euler, or Lucida New Math---you can
> supply, and this script does the rest.  All of MathInst's fonts are
> properly scaled for compatibility with the Roman fonts.
>
> If you supply the name of a typewriter and sans serif font as well,
> MathInst will not only create fonts that respond to the NFSS commands
> \mathsf and \mathtt, it will also scale these fonts properly to match
> the Roman math fonts.
>
> If you supply the name of a calligraphic, fraktur, blackboard bold,
> and Greek bold font, MathInst will create matching fonts and commands
> for their use.  In particular, if a Greek bold is present, MathInst
> will create bold math fonts.
>
> MathInst also creates two style files---one for use by NFSS (LaTeX)
> and one for plain TeX.  There are also two matching test files, so you
> can not only test the fonts, but see how to access these fonts in a
> TeX document.
>
> At the end, MathInst places all your new fonts in their proper places,
> whether you use a traditional or a TDS TeX system.
>
> For many additional details, please read the (LaTeX) file
> `mathinst.tex' which accompanies this material, all of which can be
> found in the fonts/utilities/mathinst area of CTAN.  Please forward
> comments and bug reports to me (Alan Hoenig) at ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu.

I have installed the files as requested.  Alan's uploads seem to be
jinxed: his mail goes astray on its way to me, and in this case, I was
away before I could act when the mail finally arrived...  My
apologies: let's hope I can do better in the future.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jun  2 11:53:01 1997
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 16:48:00 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- SideCap (fwd)

> From: Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@CHBRB.BERLIN.PTB.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- SideCap
> Date:         Mon, 2 Jun 1997 15:04:42 -0200

Ha!  I installed the files two and a half hours (16:42 +0200) before Rolf
put them into CTAN's incoming.  Never worked *so* fast ;)

> I have uplooad the new package SideCap to /incoming on ftp.dante.de .
> The filename is sidecap.zip . This archive contains the following
> files:
>
> - sidecap.dtx
> - sidecap.ins
> - README
>
> The SideCap LaTeX package defines the new environments SCfigure and
> SCtable, analogous to figure and table, which make it easy to typeset
> captions sideways. The package knows the options outercaption,
> innercaption, leftcaption and rightcaption.
>
> Please put the files in a new directory
>
> /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/sidecap/

Thanks for the contribution, I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jun  2 17:35:22 1997
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 22:32:34 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- TeXEd132.zip (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:17:44 +0000
> From: hr2@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- TeXEd132.zip
>
> I have uploaded TeXEd132.zip. Please put this file into the
> /pub/tex/systems/os2/texed directory and delete texed131.zip.

Done as requested on ftp.dante.de.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jun  4 04:13:26 1997
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 09:05:36 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission - cmbr10d.zip (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:25:07 +0200
> From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
> Subject:      CTAN submission - cmbr10d.zip
>
> I have just uploaded the archive file
>
>    cmbr10d.zip
>
> to ftp.dante.de/incoming.  Please, put its contents into
>
>    fonts/cmbright,
>
> preserving the internal directory structure.  This will
> replace various existant files.  Text files in my archive
> have unix-style line endings, i.e.  lf only.
>
> This submission updates the CM BRIGHT FONTS, ctan directory
> fonts/cmbright, to version 1.0d, fixing the following bugs:
>
> 1) The fonts being installed on Unix with a LaTeX release
>    prior to 1996/12/01, LaTeX would not find the fd files.
>
> 2) wrong size of various mathematical symbols in the T1/TS1
>    fonts.
>
> The traditional (OT1 and math) fonts and the LaTeX package remain
> *unchanged*.

Thanks, I installed the update as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jun  4 04:14:46 1997
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 09:06:52 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission - cc095a.zip (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:24:29 +0200
> From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
> Subject:      CTAN submission - cc095a.zip
>
> I have just uploaded the archive file
>
>    cc095a.zip
>
> to ftp.dante.de/incoming.  Please, put its contents into
>
>    macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts,
>
> This will replace two existant files.  Text files in my
> archive have unix-style line endings, i.e.  lf only.
>
> This submission updates the ccfonts package (LaTeX support
> for the Concrete Fonts), fixing the following bug:
>
> * The package being installed on Unix with a LaTeX release
>   prior to 1996/12/01, LaTeX would not find the fd files.
>
> This patch affects the installation script only; the LaTeX
> files remain unchanged.

Thanks, I installed the update as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jun  6 09:43:08 1997
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 14:25:33 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- listings.dtx update (fwd)

> Date:         Fri, 6 Jun 1997 13:44:42 +0200
> From: Carsten Heinz <cheinz@WMPI14.MATH.UNI-WUPPERTAL.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- listings.dtx update
>
> I've put an update of my listings package at
>
>  (a)  ftp.dante.de/incoming
>
>  (b)  listings.zip (including listings.dtx, listings.ins and listings.dvi)
>
>  (c)  The listings-package is intend to typeset listings using LaTeX2e.
>       It is not a cross compiler, the source code is read directly by TeX!
>       Keywords, comments and strings can be typeset using different styles,
>       e.g. default is bold for keywords, italic for comments and no special
>       style for strings (but blank spaces are printed as with verbatim*,
>       but there is a command to change this, ...).
>
>       See listings.dvi for more information (the first eight of fourty pages
>       include the user's guide).
>
>  (d)  Placement of the package
>        /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/listings

Thanks for the update, I installed it on ftp.dante.de as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jun  6 16:02:49 1997
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 20:58:42 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- web2c for win32 update (fwd)

> From: Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@esemetz.ese-metz.fr>
> Date: 06 Jun 1997 18:27:52 +0200
>
> I have uploaded the following files
> in ftp.dante.de:/incoming/web2c-win32
>
> web2c-7.0.5-win32.tar.gz
> web2c-7.0.5-win32-src.tar.gz
> texmflib-base.tar.gz
> README
> README.web2c-win32
> README.l2h-win32
> tar.exe
> gzip.exe
>
> It is an update of my previous build of web2c for Win95/NT. I have
> appended the README file. It describes what these files contain.
> I have not uploaded all these files, because they are quite big. And L2H
> is still in beta.
>
> Thanks to put this stuff into: CTAN:systems/win32/web2c and remove the
> old stuff.

Thanks for the update, I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de as
suggested.  The files will soon be on the other CTAN sites and mirrors.

But PLEASE, PLEASE don't send announcements to the personal accounts of
the CTAN maintainers, *always* send them to ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de.
Otherwise the stuff might lie around in CTANs /incoming for weeks if
e.g. I should be ill or on vacation ...

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> TeX for Win32 related programs
>
> Contents of this directory with intended destination:
>
> Web2c / TeX files:  (c:/TeX)
> ==================
> web2c-7.0.x-win32.tar.gz : 7.0 release of web2c precompiled for Win95/NT
>
> web2c-7.0.x-win32-src.tar.gz : sources for the previous files,
>                              do not get it unless you want to
>                              debug/build this stuff.
>
> pdftex-win32.tar.gz : PDFTeX statically linked and pool file.
>                     Should be standalone. Unfortunately, due to the
>                     numerous support files needed, I doubt you can
>                     use this without web2c. So better
>                     get web2c-7.0.x-win32.tar.gz
>
> Support files for TeX: (c:/TeX/share)
> ======================
>
> texmflib-base.tar.gz : Karl Berry's minimal texmf tree
>                       + some latex packages
>                       + pdftex support files
>
> texmflib-fr.tar.gz   : Bernard Gaulle's french package + EC fonts
>
> texmflib-ps.tar.gz   : a bunch of ps fonts files
>
> texmflib-misc.tar.gz : a bunch of latex packages
>
> texmflib-sauter.tar.gz : Sauter system fonts
>
> Other support files: (c:/)
> ====================
> psutils-win32.tar.gz : Angus Duggan ps utils programs (may need perl)
>
> LaTeX2HTML: (c:/TeX)
> ===========
> l2h-win32.tar.gz : latex2html 97.1 beta adapted for web2c/win32
>
> Support files for L2H: (c:/)
> ======================
>
> These files are to be unpacked in c:/
>
> perl-win32.tar.gz   : perl5.004 + all CPAN win32 modules + GDBM
>
> gs-win32.tar.gz     : ghostscript 4.03 with p?m devices for win32
>
> netpbm-win32.tar.gz : netpbm for win32
>
> Installation:
> =============
>
> Depending  on  what packages you get,   and assuming you have unpacked
> web2c in c:/TeX, you need to modify your PATH:
>
> set PATH=c:\TeX\bin\win32;%PATH%
> set PATH=c:\netpbm\bin;%PATH%
> set PATH=c:\gs\bin;%PATH%
> set PATH=c:\perl\bin;%PATH%
> set PATH=c:\psutils;%PATH%
>
> If you have  unpacked any xxx of  the texmflib packages, xxx not being
> the base one, also set:
>
> set TEXMF=c:/TeX/share/{xxx,yyy,...,texmf}
>
> Also, do not forget to remove any TeX related environment variable !
>
> Now, you can check that your installation is running with:
>
> kpsewhich --expand-path $SELFAUTOPARENT  => c:/
> kpsewhich --expand-path $TEXMFCNF        => c:/TeX/share/texmf/web2c
> kpsewhich --expand-var  $TEXMF           => c:/TeX/share/texmf//
> kpsewhich --expand-var $TEXINPUTS      => c:/TeX/share/texmf/tex//
> kpsewhich texmf.cnf   =>      c:/TeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> kpsewhich latex.fmt   =>      c:/TeX/share/texmf_fr/web2c/latex.fmt


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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sat Jun  7 16:46:01 1997
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 21:35:52 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: KOMAScript-update (fwd)

> Subject: KOMAScript-update
> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 20:48:49 +0200 (CES)
> Reply-To: Markus_Kohm@hd.maus.de
> From: unlf@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Markus Kohm)
>
> inzwischen kennt Ihr das Spielchen ja. Ich habe in incoming/KOMAScript eine
> neue Version von KOMA-Script abgelegt. Die Dateien ersetzen das alte
> komascript-Verzeichnis im support-Zweig.

Thanks for the update.  On ftp.dante.de, I installed the new version of the
KOMA-Script classes in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/support/koma-script
replacing the old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jun  9 05:21:43 1997
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 10:14:08 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Update to custom-bib bundle (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 9 Jun 1997 09:23:09 +0200
> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@LINPWD.MPAE.GWDG.DE>
> Subject:      Update to custom-bib bundle
>
> I have just put the following update files to my custom-bib bundle into
> /incoming/custom-bib  on the Dante CTAN server.
>
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     16452 Jun  9 07:18 README.v383
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     14303 Jun  9 07:18 geojour.mbs
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     41400 Jun  9 07:18 makebst.dtx
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      2032 Jun  9 07:18 makebst.ins
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    194544 Jun  9 07:16 merlin.mbs
>
> Can you please copy them to
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib
> replacing README.v382  by  README.v383

Thanks for the update.  I installed the new files on ftp.dante.de as
requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Jun 10 02:14:24 1997
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 07:10:00 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: gentl-gr (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 9 Jun 1997 18:38:25 EST5EDT
> From: Dimitrios Filippou <FILIPPOU@MINMET.LAN.MCGILL.CA>
> Subject:      gentl-gr
>
> I have just uploaded a newer version of M. Doob's
> "Gentle Intro. to TeX" translation into Modern Greek
> at ftp.dante.de
>
> directory: incoming/gentl-gr
>
> files: gentl-gr.tex
>          gentl-gr.dvi
>          gentl-gr.ps
>
> These files contain my translation of M. Doob's
> manual into Modern Greek, after the correction
> of several typos (more than 200 :-().  These files
> should move eventually into the directory:
>
> tex-archive/help/greek/gentl-gr
>
> The old files GENTL-GR.TEX and GENTL-GR.PS
> in that directory must be replaced by the new
> files which I have just submitted.  With the files
> which I have just submitted, I've also included a
> DVI file of the translation at the request of several
> readers!

Thanks fur the update.  I dutifully replaced the old files as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jun 11 09:31:59 1997
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 14:23:07 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- glosstex update (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:11:02 +0200
> From: Volkan Yavuz <yavuzv@RUMMS.UNI-MANNHEIM.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- glosstex update
>
> I just uploaded `glosstex.tgz' to `ftp.dante.de:/incoming' which contains
> GlossTeX 0.3 and a binary for Linux. Please remove all files in
> `tex-archive/support/glosstex' (except for the subdirectory `binaries')
> and replace them with the new ones. New binaries for OS/2 may come later.
>
> * Introduction
>
> GlossTeX is a tool for the automatic preparation of glossaries, lists
> of acronyms and sorted lists in general for use with LaTeX and
> MakeIndex. In order to build GlossTeX, you need an ANSI C
> compiler.
>
> * 0.2 to 0.3
>
> - GlossTeX now supports $n$ independent lists. Default is a glossary
>   and a list of acronyms. \glosstex{*} and \acronym{*} insert all
>   terms from the given .gdf-files into the according list, just like
>   BibTeX's \nocite{*}. Cross references are really usable now, use
>   \glxref and \glxref* instead of \glosstexxref. GlossTeX is much more
>   configurable.
>
> - .gdf-file syntax slightly changed: `%' at BEGINNING OF LINE is
>   recognized as comment character. A term consists of label, item,
>   long-form and text which can be accessed within the document in
>   several ways, just like acronym.sty.
>
> - now the .aux-file is used instead of the .glo-file. Also, no
>   \makeglossary is necessary any more. Also works with \include'd
>   .aux-files caused by \include{foo.tex}
>
> - package is documented using the `docstrip' utility, LaTeX-source
>   cleaned up and documentation updated
>
> - Makefile is now more standard and should also work with non-GNU make

Thanks for the update.  I installed the new files on ftp.dante.de as
requested.  They will soon spread to the other CTAN sites and mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jun 12 08:16:51 1997
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:13:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- calendar.tgz

Frank Bennett writes:

> I've put a file, "calendar.tgz" on ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming.
>
> This archive contains a copy of everything that should go in and
> below the tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar
> directory.

And I have duly installed it as suggested.

> The file "monthly.dtx" is now really and truly frozen.  We're
> talking permafrost now.  Men from outer space will puzzle over
> chunks of this code when Old Sol has become red and bloated, and
> they'll wonder how something so insubstantial could have gotten
> so cold.  Folks running mainframes will be downloading this file
> to cut down on their cooling bills.  And AT LAST banker mommies
> will have suitable bedtime reading for their fledging little
> banker kiddies.

Wow.  What do lawyer mommies read to their fledgling lawyer kiddies,
then?  (This is a significant problem in high echelons of both USAn
and UK life ;-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

[For those who didn't already know, Frank is an academic lawyer...]

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jun 13 03:05:39 1997
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:00:50 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission: dropping.dtx update/bug fix (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 12 Jun 1997 17:48:19 +0200
> From: Mats Dahlgren <matsd@sssk.se>
> Subject:      CTAN submission: dropping.dtx update/bug fix
>
> a few seconds ago, i put in
>   ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/dropping
> the file
>   dropping.dtx
> which is an update of
>   CTAN/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/dropping/dropping.dtx
> which it is to replace.  this submission is only a bug fix, no other
> changes have been made to the file.  the remaining files in the
> ..../dropping  directroy remain unchanged.  please install the update at
> your earliest convenience.

Thanks for the update. I installed it on ftp.dante.de as requested.

> "dropping" is a LaTeX 2e pckage which enables the use of dropped
> characters at the beginning of a paragraph, giving the proper indention
> of the lines following the first.  for further details, please see the
> package files.
>
> best regards to the CTAN team,
> who does a wonderful job!

You're welcome!

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jun 13 15:40:51 1997
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 20:38:41 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- ethiop (fwd)

> Reply-To: kummer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
> From: Olaf Kummer <kummer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- ethiop
>
> I have uploaded to the incoming directory of
>   ftp.dante.de
> the file
>   ethiop.tar.gz
> The file contains the package
>   ethiop (Ethiopian language support for the babel package)
> currently located at CTAN in
>   ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/
>
> Please replace to old version 0.3 by the submitted
> version 0.4. This release adds 5 new characters.

Thanks, Olaf, for your fine contribution.  I installed the new version
on ftp.dante.de as requested;  it will soon spread to the other CTAN
hosts and mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jun 13 15:42:27 1997
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 20:41:42 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- glosstex 0.3 binaries (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:36:53 +0200
> From: Volkan Yavuz <yavuzv@RUMMS.UNI-MANNHEIM.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- glosstex 0.3 binaries
>
> As promised, I just uploaded `glosstex-bin.tgz' to
> `ftp.dante.de:/incoming' containing binaries built with gcc/emx, so they
> run on OS/2, M$-DOS and DOS-Boxes, using emxrt and/or rsx.
>
> -rw-r--r-- yavuzv/users   2635 Jun 12 14:12 1997 README.emx
> -rw-r--r-- yavuzv/users  65540 Jun 11 20:36 1997 glossteu.exe
> -rw-r--r-- yavuzv/users  43800 Jun 11 20:36 1997 glosstex.exe
>
> The 2nd binary is compressed using LXLite 1.14.
>
> Please put the 2 Binaries and README.emx in
> /support/glosstex/binaries/os2, or directly in /support/glosstex (since
> they're only 3 files and os/2 may be misleading since they also run under
> DOS), deleting binaries, just as you like.

Thanks for the addition to your glosstex package.  I installed the files
on ftp.dante.de in support/glosstex/binaries/os2 replacing the old binaries,
because I did it some hours before I got your mail ;)

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Jun 17 04:30:02 1997
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:25:46 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- moresize (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 16 Jun 1997 19:05:36 +0200
> From: Christian Cornelssen <cornsub1@BARNEY.UKBF.FU-BERLIN.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- moresize
>
> Dear DANTE members, supporters and users,
>
> I have uploaded the files
>
>         moresize.{dtx,ins,upl}

> The `moresize.{dtx,ins}' files constitute a LaTeX2e package `moresize'
> for using font sizes up to 35.88pt, for example with the new EC fonts.
> `moresize.upl' is this message.
>
> Two new author commands \HUGE and \ssmall for selecting font sizes
> are provided, together with some options working around current LaTeX2e
> shortcomings in using big font sizes.
> The package also provides options for improving the typesetting of paragraphs
> (or headlines) with embedded math expressions at font sizes above 17.28pt.
>
> I suggest that the files `moresize.dtx', `moresize.ins', and `moresize.upl'
> be made available in a new subdirectory `moresize' in the path
>
>         /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other.
>
> Installation is done as usual:
>
> Run TeX on `moresize.ins' for extracting the ready-to-use package file
> (moresize.sty) and a test file (msizetst.tex) from `moresize.dtx'.
>
> Documentation can be obtained by running LaTeX on `moresize.dtx'.
>
> For general use, move `moresize.sty' into the LaTeX input files area
> and 'moresize.dtx' and `moresize.ins' to the LaTeX documentation input files
> area (which might be the same as the LaTeX input files area).

Thanks for the contribution.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as
requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jun 18 06:52:36 1997
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:47:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- footbib

Eric Domenjoud writes:

> I downloaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk the file footbib.tar.gz which contains
> the two files
>
>         footbib.dtx   the documented source of the `footbib' package
>         footbib.ins   the installation driver
>
> The footbib package allows to put bibliography as footnotes in a LaTeX
> document.
>
> I suggest to put footbib in
>
>         macros/latex/contrib/supported/

I've installed the files as you suggest (macros/latex/contrib/
supported/footbib)

Thanks for the upload, which will, I hope, prove useful for those who
regularly ask for this feature on comp.text.tex ...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jun 18 07:53:44 1997
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:48:18 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- <mathcomp> (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:24:39 +0200
> From: Tilmann Boess <tilmann@PHYSIK.UNI-WUERZBURG.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- <mathcomp>
>
> I've updated my LaTeX2e package `mathcomp' and uploaded the new version
> on CTAN.  Now a font family name can be specified as a package option so
> that other font families than cmr can be used (e.g. concrete fonts with
> the ccfonts package).
>
> (a) site:  ftp.dante.de:/incoming
>
> (b) file:  mathcomp.dtx
>
> (c) intention:  The package provides access to some interesting
>     chars of the Text Companion fonts (TS1 encoding) in math mode.
>
> (d) recommendated placing:  The file should replace the old version
>     in `macros/latex/contrib/supported/mathcomp'.

Thanks, I installed the update on ftp.dante.de.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jun 20 08:25:10 1997
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:15:50 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- htmllist.tgz

Frank Bennett writes:

> I've put another file in incoming.  This time it's called:
>
>   htmllist.tgz
>
> It contains the following directory and files:
>
>  html_list/
>  html_list/README
>  html_list/test.tex
>  html_list/test.cld
>  html_list/test.htm
>  html_list/htmllist.sty
>
> This new directory should be placed under:
>
>  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/styles
>
> This extension generates a simple chronological list of events
> in HTML format.  It could be used as a cron job on a Unix
> system to consolidate a distributed set of LaTeX Calendar
> event lists.

I've installed the files as

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/styles/htmllist

omitting the underscore in the directory name to keep within 8
characters (for the benefit of systems that find more than that taxes
their ingenuity ;-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jun 20 10:58:14 1997
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:53:11 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- lettrine (fwd)

> Date:         Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:46:31 +0200
> From: Daniel FLIPO <Daniel.Flipo@UNIV-LILLE1.FR>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- lettrine
>
> I have put on ftp.dante.de/incoming a file lettrine.tar.gz containing
>    lettrine/00README
>    lettrine/lettrine.dtx
>    lettrine/lettrine.ins
>    lettrine/lettrine.cfg
>    lettrine/demo.tex
>
> The purpose of this bundle is to typeset dropped capitals in various
> ways, typically those described in the French typographic books.
>
> I would suggest to install the bundle in
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as
requested.

-rz
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Jun 24 07:54:23 1997
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:41:20 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: cbgreek fonts

> Date:         Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:57:20 GMT+1
> From: "prof. Claudio Beccari" <BECCARI@POLITO.IT>
> Subject:      cbgreek fonts
>
>   last friday I uploaded in a directory /incoming/cbgreek the METAFONT source
>   files for a complete set of Greek fonts.
>
>   Meanwhile dr. Apostolos Syropoulos, the President of the Ellenic TUG, whith
>   whom I am in strict contact and of whom I spoke to you in my previous
>   message, sent me an e-mail, of which I forward to you the relevant parts
>   since they have to do with my fonts and the babel package about the Greek
>   language.
>
>   Please follow dr. Syropoulos' indications concerning the font directories
>   and the related subdirectories that will be filled up by dr. Syropoulos
>   himself, or by Johannes Braams.
>
> ----- Begin message from IN%"apostolo@platon.ee.duth.gr"  20-Jun-97
>
> On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, prof. Claudio Beccari wrote:
>
> >   I'd suggest that this new directory is under ..../fonts/greek and is named
> >   /cbgreek or /cbfonts.
>
> Let me tell you this: You have worked to create the fonts, you deserve
> the right to call them whatever you like. But I prefer cbfonts, because it
> will be under fonts/languages/greek.
>
> >
> > >  You can upload the basic METAFONT files, and I can upoload all
> > > the TFM and the derived MF files.
> >
> >   You mean you are going to upload all the .tfm files and all the .pk files?
> >   In that case may be it should be better to have other sub-sub-directories.
>
> Yes, all the .tfm and all the gXXX????.mf files. As far it regards
> subdirectories we can have tree: tfm, basic-mf, drivers or something like
> that.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the Metafont files on ftp.dante.de
in /tex-archive/fonts/greek/cb/mf, since from the pathname it is clear that
fonts/greek/cb contains fonts for greek characters.  So there is no need
to put 'greek' or 'fonts' in the directory name.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Jun 24 08:04:47 1997
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:00:52 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- r_und_s.tar.gz (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 17 Jun 1997 21:50:46 +0200
> From: Thiemo Nordenholz <nordenholz@RZ.TU-CLAUSTHAL.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- r_und_s.tar.gz
>
> As announced in my last mail, I've uploaded a LaTeX-Stylefile and a
> TeX-Macro to the CTAN at ftp.dante.de called r_und_s.
>
> This package decodes the german 'R- und S-S"atze', which are numerically
> coded security advices for chemical substances into plain text. This is e.g.
> used to compose security sheets or lab protocols and especially useful for
> students of chemistry.
>
> As I do not know that much about CTAN's directory structure, I'd like to ask
> you for putting the file in the right place if you decide to distribute it.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in
/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/r_und_s.  They will soon be copied
to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jun 24 10:02:55 1997
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:00:48 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Troubles with ftp.tex.ac.uk

The machine that provides service at ftp.tex.ac.uk hasn't worked since
some time in the small hours of Sunday morning, local (Cambridge)
time.  This follows a power failure which presumably arose from the
wonderful summer weather we're currently experiencing.

Web users are advised that access to the archive via the URL
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/ produces a silly message that claims
you don't have permission to acccess the archive: this is a reflection
of the failure of the archive to service NFS requests.

Please use a neighbourhood CTAN mirror rather than ftp.tex.ac.uk --
finger ctan@ftp.dante.de for details of mirrors.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jun 24 12:31:48 1997
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:24:50 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: LaTeX release June97 available from CTAN

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.


      LaTeX release June97 available


The LaTeX Programming Team is pleased to announce (somewhat late) the
availability of the June97 release. As usual, it is available from
CTAN in the directories

   macros/latex/base
   macros/latex/unpacked
   macros/latex/doc

For information about this release, see the file ltnews07.tex in the
distribution. Most notably, this release is the first ot support the
ec fonts out of the box.

In addition, the tools, graphics and mfnfss bundles have been updated and are available from CTAN in

   macros/latex/packages/tools
   macros/latex/packages/graphics
   macros/latex/packages/mfnfss

For the LaTeX Team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jun 25 06:41:37 1997
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:35:28 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: natbib update (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:11:37 +0200
> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@LINPWD.MPAE.GWDG.DE>
> Subject:      natbib update
>
> I have uploaded an update to my natbib package to the dante CTAN server,
>
> Files are in /incoming/natbib:
>    natbib.dtx
>    README.v66
>
> Please copy them to   contrib/supported/natbib   removing the README.v65 file.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the update on ftp.dante.de as
requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
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postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Jun 26 05:17:23 1997
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:11:39 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- FriBrief (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 26 Jun 1997 08:33:47 +0200
> From: Alexander Fries <bp016@DVZ.FH-KOELN.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- FriBrief
>
> I've upload an update for my FriBrief-package on Dante.de in the
> directory /incoming/FriBrief.
>
> Please replace the three files in
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fribrief
> with the new version. Thank you.

Thanks for the update.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested.
BTW - FriBrief is a derivate on the letter and the dinbrief classes.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Jun 26 05:24:57 1997
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:22:44 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 26 Jun 1997 00:47:32 +0200
> From: Werner Lemberg <xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN submission
>
> I've just uploaded the file ruhyph.tex(.gz) to ftp.dante.de; this file is
> a new version of Russian hyphenation patterns set up for T2 encoding (yes,
> T2 encoding :-) Additionally it contains some patterns with the letter
> `yo'.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the file on ftp.dante.de as
/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/ruhyph.tex

> I don't know a good location for this; maybe it would be best to rename
> the old suhyph to suhyph.old (the name suhyph is obsolete anyway), and
> providing ruhyph as the default. It is easy to change the font encoding if
> necessary.

As I don't know how much other stuff depends on the old suhyph.tex file,
I'm rather unwilling to rename it.  I'll leave it as it is for the time
being unless the other CTAN maintainers urge me to rename or delete it.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Jun 26 05:32:38 1997
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:29:48 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- <linguex> (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 25 Jun 1997 18:15:11 +0200
> From: Wolfgang.Sternefeld@UNI-TUEBINGEN.DE
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- <linguex>
>
> (a) dante.de
> (b) linguex.tar.gz which unpacks to the directory linguex containing:
> linguex.sty, linguex-doc.tex, and linguho.sty
> (c) A tool to facilitate the formatting of linguist examples.
> Automatically takes
> care of example numbering, indentations,
> indexed brackets, and the ``*'' in grammaticality judgments. linguho.sty
> allows for automatic extraction of a handout from a file generated with
> linguex.sty.
> (d) macros/latex/contrib/supported

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as
suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jun 26 10:12:52 1997
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 14:10:16 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Troubles with ftp.tex.ac.uk

In article <E0wgVDJ-00000D-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk>, I wrote:
>The machine that provides service at ftp.tex.ac.uk hasn't worked since
>some time in the small hours of Sunday morning, local (Cambridge)
>time.  This follows a power failure which presumably arose from the
>wonderful summer weather we're currently experiencing.

>From around 1000 BST today (Thursday 26 June) we appear to have a
working processor again.  The machine was working for odd half-hours
yesterday, using a (not very good) stop-gap processor board ... they
don't hold spares of our one in this country (it's only 275MHz, so too
old to be "every-day" spares ;-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jun 30 03:29:19 1997
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:24:28 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission: fonts/CJK

> Date:         Sat, 28 Jun 1997 21:41:40 +0200
> From: Werner Lemberg <xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN submission
>
> I've just uploaded to ftp.dante.de in the directory CJK-fonts a complete
> replacement of the directory <CTAN>/fonts/CJK. Please install it.
>
> The packages aren't really new; I've only corrected the known bugs and
> transformed the archives into a TDS compliant structure.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the update on ftp.dante.de in
/tex-archive/fonts/CJK as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jun 30 03:31:13 1997
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:27:48 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission: web/c_cpp/c2cweb

> Date:         Sat, 28 Jun 1997 21:51:59 +0200
> From: Werner Lemberg <xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN submission
>
> I've just uploaded to ftp.dante.de in the directory c2cweb two replacement
> files for <CTAN>/web/c_cpp/c2cweb. Please install them, overwriting the
> old ones.

Thanke for the submission.  I replaced the old versions on ftp.dante.de
with your update.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jun 30 03:37:28 1997
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:34:28 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MikTeX-Win32-AXP.tar

> Date:         Fri, 27 Jun 1997 22:27:02 +0200
> From: Alexander Dong <qiwen@HRZPUB.TH-DARMSTADT.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- MikTeX-Win32-AXP.tar
>
> I have uploaded the file MikTeX-Win32-AXP.tar to /incoming in ftp.dante.de.
>
> The files inside this TAR file are:
>
>  README.TXT
>  Readme.AXP
>  UNZIP.EXE
>  exe107a.zip
>  install.exe
>
> Please untar the file MikTeX-Win32-AXP.tar and copy them to the
> directory:
>
>      ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex-AXP
>
> This is a port von MikTeX to "Windows NT AXP (Alpha)" on a DEC machine.
> The user who want to use it should read the Readme.AXP first.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Cheers
> Alexander Dong
> qiwen@hrzpub.th-darmstadt.de

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as
suggested.  They will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Jul  1 03:07:51 1997
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 08:03:21 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN update: circuit_macros 4.3 (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:37:31 -0400
> From: Dwight Aplevich <aplevich@KINGCONG.UWATERLOO.CA>
> Subject:      CTAN update: circuit_macros 4.3
>
> The file Circuit_macros4.3.tar.gz has been placed in the incoming
> directory of ftp.dante.de.  The contents of this file replace the
> CTAN directory graphics/circuit_macros.
>
> This version contains minor changes, but also explicit instructions for
> installation on (some) non-unix PCs.  A method is also given for
> obtaining the dimensions of formatted text for diagram calculations.
>
> >From the README:
>   This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality electric circuit
>   diagrams containing fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors,
>   and basic logic gates to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar
>   documents.  Some tools for block diagrams are also included.  The
>   advantages and disadvantages of such a system are similar to those of
>   TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg, and which uses
>   ordinary character input.
>
>   These macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic language, which
>   is very easy to understand and has a good power/complexity ratio.
>   Because pic contains elements of a simple programming language, it is
>   well-suited to line drawings requiring parametric or conditional
>   components, fine tuning, significant geometric calculations or
>   repetition, or that are naturally block structured or tree structured.
>   Interpreters for the language are readily available, and some are free.

Thanks for the update. I installed it on ftp.dante.de as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jul  2 07:36:11 1997
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 11:29:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ArmTeX (Version 1.0)

Serguei Dachian writes:

> We have recently uploaded our ArmTeX package to the ftp site
>
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incomming
>
> The package consist of only one zipped file "ArmTeX10.zip".
>
> After long serching on the Net we haven't found any METAFONT-s for Armenian
> language. Though CTAN's tex-archives do contain a directory
>
> http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/tex-archive/fonts/armenian/
>
> there are no metafont files there. There are just some ".tfm" files and some
> pre-generated at some fixed sizes ".pk" files. Even this ".pk" files where not
> produced by METAFONT (as we can guess from their contents).
>
> So we have developed this package "ArmTeX". It's a package which
> lets one to write in Armenian with TeX. It can be used with standard Latin
> keyboard without any special encoding and/or support for Armenian letters.
> It can also be used with any keyboard which uses encoding having Armenian
> letters in the second half (characters 128-255) of extended ASCII table.
> The package is a freeware by S. Dachian and V. Hakobian.
>
> We whould like to put this package on the CTAN-ftp site(s),
> because Armenian scientific society needs a good tool to type scientific text.
> [Most people whom I know use "MS Word" with "MS Equation" or completely
> outdated "ChiWriter" !!! That's horrible :-(.]
>
> We suggest to put the package in the directory "tex-archive/language/armenian"
> or (as the package consist essentially of metafont files) in the directory
> "tex-archive/fonts/armenian". The "armenian" can be replaced by "ArmTeX" or by
> "ArmTeX10" or even by "ArmTeX1.0" if you like it more.

I have (finally) installed the package as per your preferred location,
fonts/armenian (the old version, which does seem distinctly peculiar,
has moved to a semi-secret place).

Thanks very much for the submission...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

PS, ArmTeX would have been rather a _bad_ name, since there is a port
of TeX for ARM computers, called ... armtex ;-)

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jul  4 08:34:16 1997
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 13:27:46 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- dvips 5.74 for emTeX and OS/2+DOS/Win (fwd)

> Date:         Fri, 4 Jul 1997 06:21:23 -0400
> From: Wonkoo Kim <wkim+@pitt.edu>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- dvips 5.74 for emTeX and OS/2+DOS/Win
>
> I have uploaded ftp.dante.de/incoming/dvips574.zip.
>
> This is dvips 5.74 (dvi to postscript converter) for emTeX and OS/2
> or DOS(/Win/Win95/NT).
>
> This package was compiled with emx/gcc 0.9c fix02 under OS/2 Warp,
> after patching (for emTeX) the original dvips 5.74 sources of
> /pub/tex/dviware/dvips/dvips574.tar.gz of CTAN site.
>
> The archive includes OS/2+DOS bound executables, patched sources/diffs
> (but not unpatched sources), tfm files, virtual fonts, and some docs.
>
> The executables should also work on DOS, Win3.1, Win95, or NT with
> EMX/RSX/RSXWIN/RSXNT runtime modules.
>
> Please replace the old version of
>         pub/tex/systems/os2/dviware/dvips/dvips572.zip
>
> Since this should work for MSDOS as well, please make the link for
>         pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips574.zip

Thanks for the news version. I installed it on ftp.dante.de as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jul  4 11:28:42 1997
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 16:25:45 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: natbib 6.6 updated again

P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany writes:

 > In an effort to get a bugless version 6.6 of natbib on line, I have
 > put natbib.dtx once more into the dante /incoming directory.
 >
 > Can you please copy it to  /contrib/supported/natbib

Thanks. I installed the file as requested.

Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Jul  8 03:36:52 1997
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 08:30:57 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- FoilHTML (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 7 Jul 1997 13:19:20 -0400
> From: Boris Veytsman <boris@PLMSC.PSU.EDU>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- FoilHTML
>
> I have uploaded to dante the file foilhtml.tar.gz. I would suggest
> installing it under macros/latex/contrib/supported/foilhtml.

Thanks for the submission, I duly installed it on ftp.dante.de as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

> The readme file is included
>
> Good luck
>
> -Boris
>
> <a href="http://planck.plmsc.psu.edu/~boris/">Home page</a>
>
>         SECTIONING COMMANDS IN FOILTEX AND CONVERSION TO HTML FORMAT:
>                              FOILHTML PACKAGE
>
>                         Version 1.0, July 7, 1997
>
>                               Boris Veytsman
>                       E-mail: boris@plmsc.psu.edu
>                Home page: http://planck.psu.edu/~boris
>
>
>    The standard FoilTeX system is based on a visual rather than
>    logical formatting. Thus automatic conversion of FoilTeX
>    documents to HTML format is difficult. In particular, the
>    well-known LaTeX2HTML converter gives unsatisfactory results
>    when used on FoilTeX documents.
>
>    This package provides integration between FoilTeX and
>    LaTeX2HTML. It adds sectioning commands and elements of logical
>    formatting to FoilTeX and provides support for FoilTeX commands
>    in LaTeX2HTML. It also supports automatic creation of
>    LaTeX2HTML images with proper font sizes and shapes when
>    converting FoilTeX documents.
>
>
>
> Installation
>
> Since FoilHTML is an add-on to FoilTeX and LaTeX2HTML, you need both
> these programs installed and working prior to installation of
> FoilHTML. This package is intended for LaTeX2e only; I don't have
> enough time to port and test it under LaTeX2.09. It is tested under
> FoilTeX v2.1 and LaTeX2HTML v96-1 (of February 5, 1996).
>
> The FoilHTML distribution consists of the following files:
>
>  - readme.v10---Read Me file
>  - foilhtml.dtx---the fully documented code
>  - foilhtml.ins---the LaTeX program extracting the code from the .dtx file.
>
> To install the package:
>
>  - Run LaTeX on foilhtml.ins. This will create the following files:
>      o foilhtml.perl---Perl script,
>      o foilhtml.sty and foilhtml.cfg---LaTeX style file and the
>          configuration file for user-customization,
>      o foilhtml.drv---documentation driver.
>
>  - Put foilhtml.perl to the directory where your LaTeX2HTML styles
>      scripts reside (usually it is styles subdirectory of the main
>      LaTeX2HTML directory, e. g. /usr/local/lib/latex2html/styles).
>  - Tune the configuration file foilhtml.cfg according to your
>      taste and put it together with the file foilhtml.sty to the
>      directory read by LaTeX.
>  - Run LaTeX on  foilhtml.drv to produce the documentation (the
>      documentation driver foilhtml.drv reads the contents of the file
>      foilhtml.dtx, so do not delete the latter until you produced the
>      documentation).
>  - (Optional) to produce the documentation \emph{and} the code run
>      LaTeX through the file foilhtml.dtx
>

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Jul  8 03:40:33 1997
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 08:32:45 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- rcsinfo (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 7 Jul 1997 23:01:35 +0200
> From: Juergen Vollmer <vollmer@POP-KARLSRUHE.COM>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- rcsinfo
>
> I put a new version of my  rcsinfo  package to ftp.dante.de
>
> The rcsinfo package is used to extract information of the RCS (Revision
> Control System) and use it in a LaTeX document.
> For users of LaTeX2HTML, a perl-package translating LaTeX documents to HTML,
> rcsinfo.perl is added, which adds the functionality to that tool.
>
> The following files are contained in rcsinfo-1.3.tar.gz
>    rcsinfo-1.3/rcsinfo.doc
>    rcsinfo-1.3/rcsinfo.ins
>    rcsinfo-1.3/Makefile
>    rcsinfo-1.3/README-1.3
>
> Please put it into tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/rcsinfo

Thanks for the update, I installed it on ftp.dante.de as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From yotam@BLUENEPTUNE.COM Fri Jul 11 03:51:54 1997
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:49:24 -0700
From: Yotam Medini <yotam@BLUENEPTUNE.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: tfmpk-0.31

Subject: tfmpk - (TFM+PK) font viewer using Tcl/Tk.

Hello TeX community:

TeX's .tfm+.pk viewer is available.
It is called 'tfmpk' (currently version 0.31).
It uses and rhymes with Tcl/Tk.
Grab the source from:
  /anonymous@ftp.blueneptune.com:/pub/users/yotam/
See more at:
  http://www.blueneptune.com/~yotam/tfmpk.html

Latest changes: 0.30 -> 0.31:
* Alow .tfm files to have extra byte(s).
* Add <sys/types.h> #inclusions before <sys/stat.h>.
* Remove erroneous extern "C" wrappers.
* No istrstream since it leaks memory for libg++ before 2.7.2.
* Fix memory leaks in matchFonts.
* newdel.c for memory check. Better and released.
* Makefile: clean targets, more platforms specific support.
* Link against Tcl/Tk 8.0b2.

Enjoy it! -- yotam

  -   -   -

Nelson Beebe,
I merged all of your additions to the Makefile.
But I could not check the
ifeq ($(PLATFORM)....)
I'll be happy to get fixes.

Allin Cottrell,
I hope 'your' tfm files can now be loaded.
But the major problem, that is the seg-fault I could not
reproduce, so it is still open.
Could it be releated to 'string' implementation.
What libg++ version are you using?

-- yotam

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jul 14 07:32:09 1997
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:24:02 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- moresize (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:14:23 +0200
> From: Christian Cornelssen <cornsub1@BARNEY.UKBF.FU-BERLIN.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- moresize
>
> I have uploaded version 1.8 [1997/07/14] of the LaTeX2e `moresize' package.
>
>         moresize.dtx    documented LaTeX2e source file.
>         moresize.ins    TeX installation script
>         moresize.upl    this info (can serve as README file, too)
>
> The moresize.* files are intended for replacing the corresponding files
> in the directory  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other.
>
> The `moresize' package allows using font sizes up to 35.88pt,
> for example with the new EC fonts.
>
> Two new author commands \HUGE and \ssmall for selecting font sizes
> are provided, together with some options working around current LaTeX2e
> shortcomings in using big font sizes.
> The package also provides options for improving the typesetting of paragraphs
> (or headlines) with embedded math expressions at font sizes above 17.28pt.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested
renaming moresize.upl to 00README as in the previous version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Jul 17 04:23:31 1997
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 09:18:51 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission: EnvLab v1.2 (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 16 Jul 1997 12:42:11 -0400
> From: Boris Veytsman <boris@PLMSC.PSU.EDU>
> Subject:      CTAN submission: EnvLab v1.2
>
> I uploaded to dante the new version of my Envelopes & Labels package
> (envlab.tgz). Please install it in macros/latex/contrib/supported/envlab
> over the previous version (1.1). I append the readme file below.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de
as suggested;  it will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

> --------------------------readme v1.2 -------------------
>                         Envelopes and Labels
>                            LaTeX2e package
>                              Version 1.2
>
>                             Boris Veytsman
>                          boris@plmsc.psu.edu
>                  home page http://planck.psu.edu/~boris
>
>                              July 16, 1997
>
>
> This package provides a comprehensive and easily customizable
> system for creating mailing envelopes and labels in LaTeXe.  It
> includes printing of barcodes and address formatting according to
> the US Postal Service rules.
>
> The standard makelabels command in the LaTeXe letter.cls
> document class typesets labels on Avery 5352 sheets. A typical user
> may want more. EnvLab redefines makelabels in (hopefully})
> a more useful and customizable way. EnvLab:
>  - Typesets mailing labels or envelopes on a number of pre-defined
> label sheets or envelopes.
>  - Can be easily configured for any customized label or envelope
> sizes. The rule of thumb is: if you printer can print this, EnvLab can
> typeset this.
>  - Can optionally print barcodes and/or process addresses according to
> the United States Postal Service Rules.
>  - Allows you to include your logo in the return address.
>  - Painlessly interacts with mail merging packages such as mailing.
>  - Does not require special fonts for address and barcodes printing.
> The typesetting is implemented with standard fonts and LaTeX \rule
> commands.
>
> This package was written with US mailing standards in mind. This is
> not a reflection of the author's americanocentrism: US standard was
> only one I had official documents about. If you want to add your
> national standards, please contact me with pointers to the
> corresponding documents.
>
> The distribution of this package includes the following files:
>  - envlab.dtx---fully documented program
>  - envlab.ins---DocStrip instruction module
>  - elold.ins---DocStrip instruction module for older versions of
> DocStrip
>  - elguide.tex---User Guide
>  - readme.version_number---Read Me file
>
> To install the package
>  - LaTeX the file envlab.ins. It will produce three files: envlab.drv,
> envlab.sty and envlab.cfg. NOTE: If your version of DocStrip is older
> than 2.3, use elold.ins instead of envlab.ins.
>  - (Optional) Look at the file envlab.cfg and change it accordingly to
> your taste.
>  - Move the files envlab.sty and envlab.cfg to the LaTeX search
> path. NOTE: users of kpathsea based TeX (like teTeX) should also issue
> texhash to update the search database.
>  - Produce the documentation by LaTeX ing the files elguide.tex and
> (optional) envlab.drv.
>  - Enjoy!
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> What's new in version 1.2
>
>  - Bug fixes. The package is now compatible with amsmath.
>  - New media type: big labels. They are typeset like labels, but carry
> both shipping and return addresses.
>  - New commands to control the automatic generation of mailing labels.
>  - New commands to change the media type for mailing labels in the
> middle of the document.
>  - New PostScript code for selecting the paper trays (thanks to EnvLab
> users).
>  - Enhancements to the letter environment for typesetting the subject
> information.
>  - Documentation update.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> What's new in version 1.1
>
>  - Bug fixes, including correcting the nasty typos in default options &
> elold.ins.
>  - New options controlling the printing of return addresses.
>  - \AtBeginLabels now behaves like \AtBeginDocument and \AtBeginDvi: the
> changes are cumulative.
>  - New hook \AtBeginLabelPage.
>  - New command and options controlling switching the printer to manual feed
> mode while printing envelopes and labels (thanks to William Slough, Eastern
> Illinois University).
>  - New command \FirstLabels controlling offsets for the labels.

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jul 18 04:39:41 1997
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 09:35:04 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- flabels (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 17 Jul 1997 15:28:52 +0200
> From: Volker Boerchers <boercher@PHYSIK.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- flabels
>
> I have written a (LaTeX2e) package `flabels.dtx' providing LaTeX
> macros for typesetting pretty labels (optionally colored) for the back
> of files or binders. So far they are only applicable for the special
> format of the (for a4 paper) widely used ``Leitz-Ordner'' (ring
> binder).
>
> The first of the 2 main macros creates a number of empty labels (for
> handwriting) while the second also prints a text field.
>
> I hope that further versions of the |flabels| package will support
> more than one binder format (depending on contributions from other
> users).
>
> Now the information on the uploaded file (following `README.uploads'):
> (a) uploaded at ftp-site:  ftp.dante.de
> (b) file: flabels.tgz (tar'ed and gzip'ed)
> (c) for a brief overview of the files submitted see the copy of README
>     below.
> (d) I recommend the following path:
>     directory: /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/flabels

Thanks for your submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as
suggested.  They will soon be available on the other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jul 21 09:32:16 1997
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:23:14 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- <overpic> (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:32:16 -0200
> From: Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@CHBRB.BERLIN.PTB.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- <overpic>
>
> I have upload my new LaTeX package overpic to /incoming on ftp.dante.de .
> The filename is overpic.zip . This archive contains the following
> files:
>
> README
> overpic.sty
> opictest.tex
>
> Please put the files in a new directory
>
> /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/overpic/
>
> >From README:
> --------------------
> This small LaTeX package defines the overpic environment which is
> a combination between the usual picture environment and the includegraphics
> command defined in graphicx. The resulting new picture environment has
> automatically the same dimension as the included eps graphic. Now it is
> easily possible to put any LaTeX output on the graphic at defined position.
> A grid for orientation is also available.
>
> This directory contains the following files:
>
> README       - This file.
> overpic.sty  - The definition of overpic. Required are graphicx.sty and
>                epic.sty.
> opictest.tex - A demo that shows all the features. This file loads the eps
>                graphic file golfer.ps which is part of ghostscript's
>                examples directory.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as
suggested; they will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jul 22 14:24:18 1997
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 18:09:36 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: UNIX tools for multiple master fonts

A couple of days ago, Eddie Kohler made the following announcement on
comp.text.tex (and comp.fonts)

  Two free UNIX command-line tools for working with multiple master fonts
  are available in preliminary versions.

  mmafm creates an AFM by interpolating at a given point in a multiple master's
  design space. (You can pass the resulting AFM off to afm2tfm, etc...)

  mminstance creates a "normal" PFB font by interpolating at a given point
  in a multiple master's design space. (You can pass the resulting PFB off to
  ps2pk, etc...)

  Both require a C++ compiler -- g++-2.7.2 is what I have -- but not C++
  libraries. Both can handle fonts with intermediate masters (e.g. Adobe
  Jenson).

  Source:
          http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~eddietwo/type/mmafm-0.1.tar.gz
          http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~eddietwo/type/mminstance-0.1.tar.gz

I have now installed both of these utilities on CTAN in directory
fonts/utilities/mmtools, after consulting with Eddie.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From yotam@BLUENEPTUNE.COM Fri Jul 25 04:26:13 1997
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:26:46 -0700
From: Yotam Medini <yotam@BLUENEPTUNE.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: tfmpk-0.32 - (TFM+PK) font viewer using Tcl/Tk.

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.



Hello TeX community:

TeX's .tfm+.pk viewer is available.
It is called 'tfmpk' (currently version 0.32).
It uses and rhymes with Tcl/Tk.
Grab the source from:
  /anonymous@ftp.blueneptune.com:/pub/users/yotam/
See more at:
  http://www.blueneptune.com/~yotam/tfmpk.html

Latest changes: 0.31 -> 0.32:
* Fix bug in Kern-window scrollbar.
* Provide bitmap icon alternative.
* Fix bug in Load Font menu. Down-Arrow when type-to-seek
  loses position.
* Fix bugs considering negative height, depth in Focus Char
  (ptmr0.tfm ptmr0.300pk)
* Enhance 'lspath' to simple basename search.
* '-load <tfmfile> <pkfile>' to look in tfmpath & pkpath.
* Fix bug that seg-faults on SGI.
  While at it, simplify and improve color-configuration code.
* Fix typos in "Usage" help message.


Enjoy it! -- yotam

--
 .--------------------------------------------------------------------------,
<  Yotam Medini   yotam@blueneptune.com  http://www.blueneptune.com/~yotam/  >
 `--------------------------------------------------------------------------'

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Aug  1 08:53:26 1997
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 13:48:04 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- lilypond (fwd)

> Date:         Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:30:56 +0200
> From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@STACK.NL>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- lilypond
>
> I uploaded
>
>         lilypond-0.1.0.tar.gz
> to
>         ftp.dante.de
>
> Description:
>
> GNU LilyPond is a program which converts music definition
> files into visual or auditive output: it can typeset formatted sheet
> music to a TeX file and (mechanical) performances to MIDI files.
>
> suggested location
>
>         support/lilypond/lilypond-0.1.0.tar.gz
>
> Han-Wen Nienhuys, hanwen@stack.nl | LilyPond - The GNU Project music typesetter
> http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen       | http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the archive on ftp.dante.de as
suggested.  It will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
  for the CTAN team

--
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug  5 10:10:12 1997
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 14:03:39 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Sbumission DVI_economic.ZIP

Yves Verhoeven writes:

> I have uploaded DVI_Economic.ZIP at ftp.tex.ac.uk
> This set of programs allows you to save some paper and some ink by
> printing 8 pages on a single A4 paper sheet.
> I suggest putting this file in /ctan/tex-archive/dviware

Thanks for the upload.  I have installed the (expanded) .zip file as
you suggest.

Note for users: this is a pair DOS programs, only, though there is
some ambition to make it more widely available in the future.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 12 04:13:33 1997
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 09:08:02 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- FoilHTML v1.1

Boris Veytsman writes:

 > I've just uploaded to dante the file foilhtml.tgz. It contains the
 > package FoilHTML, version 1.1. Please install it in
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/foilhtml.

Thanks a lot, I installed the upgrade.

For the CTAN Team
Rainer Sch�pf

 > --------------------------- readme.v11 ------------------------------
 >         SECTIONING COMMANDS IN FOILTEX AND CONVERSION TO HTML FORMAT:
 >                              FOILHTML PACKAGE
 >
 >                         Version 1.1, August 11, 1997
 >
 >                               Boris Veytsman
 >                       E-mail: boris@plmsc.psu.edu
 >                Home page: http://planck.psu.edu/~boris
 >
 >
 >    The standard FoilTeX system is based on a visual rather than
 >    logical formatting. Thus automatic conversion of FoilTeX
 >    documents to HTML format is difficult. In particular, the
 >    well-known LaTeX2HTML converter gives unsatisfactory results
 >    when used on FoilTeX documents.
 >
 >    This package provides integration between FoilTeX and
 >    LaTeX2HTML. It adds sectioning commands and elements of logical
 >    formatting to FoilTeX and provides support for FoilTeX commands
 >    in LaTeX2HTML. It also supports automatic creation of
 >    LaTeX2HTML images with proper font sizes and shapes when
 >    converting FoilTeX documents.
 >
 >
 >
 > Installation
 >
 > Since FoilHTML is an add-on to FoilTeX and LaTeX2HTML, you need both
 > these programs installed and working prior to installation of
 > FoilHTML. This package is intended for LaTeX2e only; I don't have
 > enough time to port and test it under LaTeX2.09. It is tested under
 > FoilTeX v2.1 and both LaTeX2HTML v96-1 and LaTeX2HTML v97-1.
 >
 > The FoilHTML distribution consists of the following files:
 >
 >  - readme.v11---Read Me file
 >  - foilhtml.dtx---the fully documented code
 >  - foilhtml.ins---the LaTeX program extracting the code from the .dtx file.
 >
 > To install the package:
 >
 >  - Run LaTeX on foilhtml.ins. This will create the following files:
 >      o foilhtml.perl---Perl script for LaTeX2HTML96-1,
 >      o foils.perl---Perl script for LaTeX2HTML97-1,
 >      o foilhtml.sty and foilhtml.cfg---LaTeX style file and the
 >          configuration file for user-customization,
 >      o foilhtml.drv---documentation driver.
 >
 >  - Choose the Perl script you need:
 >      o if you have LaTeX2HTML97-1, use foils.perl,
 >      o if you have LaTeX2HTML96-1, use foilhtml.perl.
 >
 >  - Put foilhtml.perl to the directory where your LaTeX2HTML
 >      scripts reside (usually it is styles subdirectory of the main
 >      LaTeX2HTML directory, e. g. /usr/local/lib/latex2html/styles).
 >  - Tune the configuration file foilhtml.cfg according to your
 >      taste and put it together with the file foilhtml.sty to the
 >      directory read by LaTeX.
 >  - Run LaTeX on  foilhtml.drv to produce the documentation (the
 >      documentation driver foilhtml.drv reads the contents of the file
 >      foilhtml.dtx, so do not delete the latter until you produced the
 >      documentation).
 >  - (Optional) to produce the documentation and the code run
 >      LaTeX through the file foilhtml.dtx
 >
 >
 > What's New in Version 1.1:
 >  - Added support for LaTeX2HTML97-1.

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Aug 18 06:15:28 1997
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:10:44 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN SUBMISSION -- m-pictex

Tobias Burnus writes:

 > m-pictex solves the 'out of dimen' problem that somethimes occoures
 > when using PiCTeX (especially together with LaTeX).
 >
 > The unpacked m-pictex.zip (in ftp.dante.de/incoming/) should be placed
 > into CTAN/macros/context/pictex/ and a symbolic link subdirectoy should
 > be created in CTAN/graphics/pictex/ (named for instance /dimen/).

Thanks for your submission. I installed the package in

   macros/context/pictex

with a symbolic link in

   graphics/pictex/addon/m-pictex

For the CTAN Team

Rainer Sch�pf


 > Excerpt from readme.en:
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > When I run PiCTeX in LaTeX, TeX runs out of dimension registers.
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > There are 256 <dimensions> avialable in TeX. LaTeX and its style files however
 > allocate quite some of them. This means that PiCTeX, which uses over 100
 > <dimensions> itself, can hardly be run along many style files.
 >
 > The solution is simple: use the generic CONTeXT module m-pictex. This small
 > module loads PiCTeX in a more effient way, using <skips> instead of
 > <dimensions> when possible.
 >
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Tobias Burnus
 > ________________________________________________________________________
 >
 > Tobias Burnus            email: Tobias Burnus <burnus@berlin.netsurf.de>
 > Troppauer Str. 15                         Accepting/Akzeptiere HTML mail
 > D-12205 Berlin                              Verwende auch/Supporting PGP
 > Germany/Deutschland/Allemagne                 Tel+Fax: +49-(0)30-8118029
 > ________________________________________________________________________

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Aug 20 10:19:59 1997
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 15:08:12 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: China2e package

Marion Neubauer wrote:

 > I've uploaded the CHINA2E package into the subdirectory china on
 > ftp.dante.de. The software is from a guy from germany with no email
 > connection. A description can be found in README.TXT.

Thanks a lot. I installed the package in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/china2e

(and took the liberty to change Dante's Email address in readme.txt
from <german@dante.de> to <dante@dante.de>.)

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

--------------------readme.txt follows------------------

================================================
#######  China2e -- a short font report  #######
================================================

(Chinese calendar symbols - by UDO HEYL, July 14th, 1997

Error Reports in case of UNCHANGED versions to
   Udo Heyl,
   Stregdaer Allee 7,
   99817 Eisenach,
   Federal Republic of Germany
or
   DANTE, Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V.,
   Postfach 10 18 40,
   69008 Heidelberg,
   Federal Republic of Germany,
   Email: dante@dante.de

What is China2e ?
_________________

It is a LaTeX2e - package to produce Chinese calendar symbols
of the old Chinese lunisolar calendar. In addition you can use
a new fontshape {\BLOCK}, symbolic letters
\symA ... \symZ , the phases of the Moon
\MoonPha{1}\MoonPha{2}\MoonPha{3}\MoonPha{4}
and some special symbols (\Greenpoint\Telephone...).

How to use the China2e package?
_______________________________

First and foremost you've got to copy the following files

--- china10.mf, chinasym.add, chinasym.alf, chinasym.ele,
      chinasym.num, chinasym.sbl and chinasym.sta
      into your Metafont-directory  (\EMTEX\MFINPUT\CHINA)

--- china2e.sty into your Style-directory  (\EMTEX\TEXINPUT\CHINA)

--- china10.tfm into your Tfm-directory  (\EMTEX\TFM\CHINA

Note, however, that the paths may be different in your
         LaTeX2e implementation
         (EmTeX for MS-DOS, web2c for UNIX etc.).

LaTeX2e is absolutely required, if you want to use China2e,
which doesn't run with the ANCIENT LaTeX209.

Now you can call this package like seen in the example:

   \documentclass[12pt]{article}
   \usepackage{china2e} %%% to include china2e.sty
   \begin{document} ... \end{document}

Chinese characters and symbols will appear now in the current size
and won't change the current shape. Of course you can input

   {\Huge Chinese symbol}

to manage a greater Chinese calendar symbol.

!!!!! Please consult CHINADOC.TEX or CHINADOC.PS for further infos !!!!!

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Aug 22 05:32:54 1997
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 09:46:55 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- neufont.tex

Bjoern Lorenz writes:
 > I uploaded on
 >
 >    ftp.dante.de
 >
 > the updated file
 >
 >    neufont.tex
 >
 > It should replace the older version CTAN/documentation/neufont.tex

Done.

For the CTAN Team
Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Aug 22 05:45:43 1997
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:07:09 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ftetx v0.04

Thanks for you Upload, I installed the package as requested.

-Rainer Sch�pf

Oliver John von Zydowitz writes:
 > August 21th, 1997.      CTAN upload information.
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > I've uploaded the package 'ftetx' version 0.04 to:
 >
 > CTAN-site:   ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ftetx004/
 >
 > Files:   /incoming/ftetx004/ftetx004.zip
 >          /incoming/ftetx004/file_id.diz
 >
 > Description:
 >
 >   Package name:  FTETX
 >   Version:       0.04
 >   Author:        Oliver John von Zydowitz
 >                  <Oliver.J.vonZydowitz@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
 >   Purpose:       TeX package for FTE
 >                  (FTE == Folding Text Editor by Marko Macek)
 >                  - TeX menu system for FTE
 >                  - Changed syntax highlighting for FTE's TeX-Mode
 >                  - Running TeX, dvi-drivers, ispell... from FTE
 >                  - Calling LaTeX help files from FTE
 >                  - preconfigured for emTeX
 >   Systems:       OS/2, DOS, LINUX (Linux not really tested)
 >   Requirements:  - FTE text editor (v0.46 beta 3 or above)
 >                  - emxrt (for OS/2, and maybe DOS)
 >   License:       Distribution:  Artistic License
 >                  Usage:         unrestricted
 >
 > Suggested location for CTAN:
 >
 >    zip-file:      systems/os2/ftetx/ftetx004.zip
 >    and links at:  systems/msdos/ftetx/         -> systems/os2/ftetx/
 >                   systems/unix/linux/ftetx/    -> systems/os2/ftetx/
 >
 >    If you want to put the files unzipped onto CTAN it might be better to
 >    remove the outer directory (./contrib/) from the resulting tree.
 >    Ftetx.zip is intended to be unzipped into a FTE installation (there-
 >    fore the ./contrib/-directory); but placing files in a directory named
 >    ftetx/contrib/ftetx004 might confuse CTAN vistors.
 >
 > For your information (when interested):
 >    FTE is the Folding Text Editor by Marko Macek.
 >    Available at:  http://ixtas.fri.uni-lj.si/~markom/fte
 >    Systems:       OS/2, NT, DOS, LINUX.
 >    Configurable (and pre-configured) for several modes
 >    (C, HTML, TEXINFO, TEX, ...).
 >    Unfortunatly it is not very popular. But I like it because:
 >    a) it's available for all platforms I use (although the DOS und
 >    Windows versions are at an early state);
 >    b) unlike emacs I can use it on (today) small machines like
 >    my 386SX40/8MB.
 >
 > It would be nice if you could put my package on the CTAN servers.
 > I don't assume that there are many people using fte as TeX editor, but
 > maybe my work is useful for some of them.
 >
 > Thanks a lot!  And thanks for the CTAN project, too!
 >
 > Oliver John von Zydowitz       <Oliver.J.vonZydowitz@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Aug 22 09:53:02 1997
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 14:48:44 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- neufont.tex

Bjoern Lorenz writes:
 > Hi again,

 > a user told me that neufont.tex would contain CR/LF's, so my ftp-client seems
 > to have uploaded it in binary mode. Now I repeated uploading in ASCII mode and
 > the file size indicates the correct format now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks, I replaced the file.

Rainer Sch�pf

From xlwy01@uxp1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de Fri Aug 22 13:02:06 1997
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 18:00:34 +0200
From: Werner Lemberg <xlwy01@uxp1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: announcing T2 mailing list

Daer friends,


Vladimir Volovich has set up a mailing list for the (Cyrillic) T2 encoding
and related stuff as fonts etc.

In case of interest please subscribe to the list sending the message
`subscribe cyrtug-t2' to majordomo@vvv.vsu.ru .


    Werner Lemberg

From vvv@VVV.VSU.RU Fri Aug 22 13:28:29 1997
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 20:17:38 +0400
From: Vladimir Volovich <vvv@VVV.VSU.RU>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: announcing T2 mailing list

Hello,

Werner Lemberg wrote:

> Vladimir Volovich has set up a mailing list for the (Cyrillic) T2 encoding
> and related stuff as fonts etc.
>
> In case of interest please subscribe to the list sending the message
> `subscribe cyrtug-t2' to majordomo@vvv.vsu.ru .

A little correction: the name of the list is CyrTeX-T2, so the command
should be `subscribe cyrtex-t2'.

With best regards,
                   Vladimir.

From eijkhout@MATH.UCLA.EDU Tue Aug 26 14:18:01 1997
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:13:00 -0700
From: Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout@MATH.UCLA.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: comment.sty replaced on archive

Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> has replaced
an old version of my comment.sty
with a new one: macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/comment.sty
Version 3.2 to be precise.

Main difference: in LaTeX writing
\includecomment{thisone}
\begin{thisone}
...
\end{thisone}

had the effect of
\bgroup
...
\egroup

and I didn't want the grouping (in plain TeX, the \beginthisone
and \endthisone commands were basically \relax.)
This grouping has now disappeared.

Unfortunately, for this to work, I now scoop up the whole sequence
between \begin and \end, write it to a file, then read that in again.

Some minor repair on the \specialcomment.

Victor Eijkhout
Department of Mathematics; UCLA; Los Angeles CA 90095
phone: +1 310 825 2173 / 9036; home +1 310 839 7853
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~eijkhout/
Support the League for Programming Freedom! lpf@uunet.uu.net

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Aug 27 04:30:29 1997
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:28:47 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ET

John Collins writes:
 > I have uploaded the file et.tar to ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > It contains readme files and a self-extracting zip file for ET (Edit
 > TeX), a program to edit TeX files in a semi-WYSIWYG fashion on IBM-type
 > PC's.  This is an update to a previous version on CTAN.
 >
 > I suggest unpacking the uploaded tar file to a directory
 > tex-archive/support/et.  The old version tex-archive/support/etzip.exe
 > should be deleted.  An appropriate description for the index in CTAN
 > is
 >
 >     ET is a semi-WYSIWYG editor for (La)TeX files on IBM-type PCs.
 >
 > John Collins
 > Penn State University
 > collins@phys.psu.edu

Thanks a lot, I installed the update as requested.

For the CTAN Team

Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Aug 27 04:31:38 1997
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:31:06 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- accents

Javier Bezos-Lpez writes:

 > I have uploaded the accents package, which is *not* a new version, but a new
 > documentation.
 >
 > Site: ftp.dante.de/incoming
 > Files: accents.dtx, accents.ins in the accents directory
 > Description: With this package multiple math accents are allowed
 >   and new ones can be created. Slant of letters is taken care of,
 >   and sub/superscripts placement is right.
 > Placement: the current one
 > Format: cleartext
 >
 > Mit freunlichen Gruessen.
 >
 > Javier Bezos-L�pez

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.

For the CTAN Team
Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Aug 27 04:33:35 1997
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:32:57 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- catdoc-0.32

Victor VAGNER writes:

 > Catdoc version 0.32
 > is uploaded to ftp.dante.de
 > file: /incoming/catdoc-0.32.tar.gz
 >
 > catdoc is a filter which converts binary MS-Word file into ascii text,
 > optionally with
 > some TeX control sequences (for those characters, which have special
 > meaning
 > for TeX).
 >
 > Works on any UNIX platform and also have been tested on MS-DOS.
 >
 > This version is first official release of catdoc. All prevois was just
 > newsgroup
 > postings.
 >
 > --
 >                                                            Victor Wagner
 >
 > <vitus@agropc.msk.su>

Thank you for your submission. I installed the files under

   support/catdoc

For the CTAN Team
Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Aug 27 09:24:28 1997
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 13:21:37 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- hyper (update)

Michael Mehlich writes:

> I've just uploaded a new version of my hyper package to
>   ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/hyper.zip
> It contains some problem/bug fixes.
>
> The new directory contained in the zip-file replaces the old one at
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper

Thanks.  I've installed the update.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Aug 29 04:20:33 1997
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:15:49 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- findbib

Fabrizio Nesti writes:

 > (a) uploaded to ftp.dante.de:
 > (b) findbib.tar.gz
 >     findbib.README
 > (c) This is a shell script using awk, sed, lynx which builds a BIBTEX
 >     database starting from just the source file. The bibtex records
 >     are taken from the electronic physics archive at SPIRES-SLAC.
 > (d) Preferred directory of placement:
 >     /tex-archive/bibliography/bibtex/utils/
 >
 > Thanks for the attention and
 > best regards,
 > Fabrizio Nesti.

Thank you for your submission. I installed the files in the proposed
location at ftp.dante.de from where they will propagate to the other
CTAN hosts.

For the CTAN Team

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
   Zentrum f�r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sat Aug 30 17:09:44 1997
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 22:07:14 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- MiKTeX 1.08

> Date:         Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:00:32 +0200
> From: Christian Schenk <christian.schenk@DETEWE.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN submission -- MiKTeX 1.08
>
> I have uploaded to directory ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex/
> version 1.08 of the MiKTeX distribution. MiKTeX is an implementation
> of TeX & Friends for the win32/intel platform.
>
> Please clean up systems/win32/miktex/ and then install the new version
> there.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de
as requested.  It will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and
mirrors.

-rz

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Sep  4 10:56:10 1997
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 15:49:07 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- polyglot 1.1 (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 4 Sep 1997 00:14:48 +0100
> From: Javier Bezos-Lpez <jbezos@MX3.REDESTB.ES>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- polyglot 1.1
> I have uploaded a new version of the polyglot package.
>
> Site: ftp.dante.de
> Files:
>   In /polyglot: polyglot.dtx, polyglot.ins, sample.tex
>   In /polyglot/langs:
>     english.ld, german.ld, german.ot1,
>     french.ld, french.ot1, spanish.ld, spanish.ot1, r_hebrew.ld
>
> Description: LaTeX multilingual support, with tools for ligatures,
>   syncronized wrinting to files and marks,
>   font encoding specific commands, translations, date, layout,
>   communication with classes, and more. Not many languages are
>   provided yet, but they can be created quite easily.
>   Future releases will include more features.
>   (Current version: 1.1.)
> Current CTAN location: /macros/latex/contrib/supported/
> Suggested CTAN location: /language/

Thanks for your new version but: please upload text files in text mode
next time, not in binary mode.  It's quite boring to convert carriage
returns to line feed chars.

All available CTAN maintainers have voted to put the new version
in the old place because it's mainly a LaTeX package with coincidally
supports languages, just like the Babel system.  So I installed the
files in macros/latex/contrib/supported/polyglot.

Regards,
 Reinhard Zierke
 for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From gerd@MAILHOST.UNI-KOBLENZ.DE Fri Sep  5 09:20:52 1997
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 14:18:24 +0200
From: Gerd Neugebauer <gerd@MAILHOST.UNI-KOBLENZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: BibTool 2.41

BibTool 2.41 has been mirrored yesterday from my ftp-Server to the CTAN. It
can be found there in the directory:

        /tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/


Recent changes:

- Version 2.41
        New boolean  resource print.equal.right which controls whether
        the = in normal entries is aligned right or left.

        New  boolean resource print.wide.equal which controlls whether
        the equal sign is  surrounded by spaces  even if the alignment
        forces a narrower layout.

        New boolean   resource  print.comma.at.end  which    controlls
        whether the comma between fields  is printed at  the end or at
        the beginning of a fiel/value pair.

        New boolean resource  print.deleted.entries which controls the
        treatment of deleted  entries.  If this  resource is true then
        delete  entries are put as comments  into the output.  This is
        the old behavior and thus it is the default.

        Pseudo field `sortkey' added.

        Pseudo field  `source' added which  contains the  filename the
        record has been read from or the  empty string if this can not
        be determined.

        Strings  can be either  local  to  a  database or global.  The
        output  of macro does  include local macros   only.  This is a
        point of incompatibility with previous versions.

        Massive extensions to BibTcl.

        Cleaning   of    the   sources  and   massive   addition    of
        documentation. Now  the  documentation of  the  C functions is
        present.  Thus it becomes possible to use the BibTool routines
        to write C  programs.  BibTcl is a  first application  of this
        technique.   Nevertheless a  few  changes seem possible before
        things are cut in stone.

        Some additions have been made  to support new features in  the
        forthcoming BibTeX 1.0. They do not  really work right now but
        just restrict the accepted input files.

        Flag --with-kpathsea added to configure.

        Some minor bugs fixed.


A web page is available under the URL

        http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~gerd/ftp/BibTool/


I append the README file of BibTool below.


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======================================================================

          BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases


BibTeX provides    an easy to  use means   to integrate  citations and
bibliographies into LaTeX documents.  But the user  is left alone with
the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to
fill  this gap. BibTool allows the  manipulation of BibTeX files which
goes  beyond the possibilities --- and  intentions  --- of BibTeX. The
possibilities of BibTool include

* Pretty-printing BibTeX data bases adjustable by lots of parameters.

* Syntactic checks with error recovery superior to BibTeX and helpful
  error messages.

* Semantic checks can be specified by the user.

* Sorting  and  merging of  BibTeX  data  bases according   to a  free
  definable sort key.

* Generation  of uniform reference keys  according to predefined rules
  or according to an own specification.

* Selecting references  used in  one  publication which are found   by
  analyzing an .aux file.

* Selecting references by a set of criteria (regular expressions).

* Controlled rewriting    of fields utilizing  regular expressions  to
  specify the rewriting rules.

* Macro  (String)  expansion to  eliminate the  need  of  extra string
  definitions.

* Collecting statistics about one or more BibTeX data bases.


BibTool contains   a documentation written  in LaTeX  of more  than 40
pages (and still growing)

BibTool is written  in C and  has  been compiled on  various operating
systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOG machines.  It is distributed in
source code.   No compiled  versions  are  available from  the  author
(Useless to ask!)

BibTool can be obtained from the CTAN archives:

* ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/
* ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/

or directly from the home site.

* ftphost.uni-koblenz.de:/outgoing/gene/BibTool

Get  the  file BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz  where  x.xx is the version number.
Unpack it with the command (on UN*X)

        gunzip < BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

It will create  a  directory  named  BibTool-x.xx which contains   the
installation instructions in the file INSTALL.


A WWW page is available under the URL

* http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~gerd/ftp/BibTool/BibTool.html


----------------------------------------------------------------------
Enjoy it!

Gerd Neugebauer
gerd@informatik.uni-koblenz.de

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Sep 11 04:22:41 1997
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:20:33 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission --- geometry (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:46:25 +0900
> From: Hideo Umeki <hideo.umeki@TOSHIBA.CO.JP>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission --- geometry
>
> I have uploaded the new version of Geometry package (v1.08)
> to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry.tar.gz.
>
> Changes from 1.07:
>     o A bug fixed
>       (Changed the catcode of `!' explicitly within the package)
>     o Some package files renamed and revised.
>
> This version would work well in the emTeX system.
>
> Please replace
> /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry
> with the new one.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From david@DCARLISLE.DEMON.CO.UK Fri Sep 12 11:35:39 1997
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:18:17 +0100
From: David Carlisle <david@DCARLISLE.DEMON.CO.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: dotless j package

Following on from a continuing thread on comp,text.tex about providing
dotless j (\j, \jmath) for those fonts that do not contain the
character, I have placed a dotlessj.sty package for LaTeX in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle

This package will define a \j by removing the dot from a j by covering
it with a white rule. It requires the standard LaTeX color package.

Using a coloured rule (as opposed to alternatives such as applying a
PostScript clip path) has some disadvantages, but it seems to be the
most portable solution as it does not require any explicit PostScript
support. This package should work with the OzTeX previewer, and has
been tested with the Y&Y dviwindo previewer, and pdftex/acrobat,
in addition to the normal PostScript route via dvips.

David

If you pick up the file too quickly you will find that I left the rule
as yellow rather than white for debugging purposes.
If your copy has the line
  {\color{yellow}%
please change it to
  {\color{white}%

From david@DCARLISLE.DEMON.CO.UK Fri Sep 12 12:21:26 1997
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:22:17 +0100
From: David Carlisle <david@DCARLISLE.DEMON.CO.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: etex support

I have just placed an `etex' package on ctan in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/etex.sty

The extended TeX variant, etex 1.1, comes with some macro files to
provide some slightly higher level interfaces and allocation commands
to access the extended primitives of etex. These files, etex.src and
etexdefs.lib, are designed for plain TeX based formats. This package
makes similar facilities available for LaTeX.

David

From wschmi@ibm.net Fri Sep 12 13:55:23 1997
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:54:59 +0200
From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: LaTeX support for old german fonts

A new and enhanced

    LaTeX support package for the old german fonts

is now available in the CTAN directory

    macros/latex/contrib/supported/yfonts .

The package yfonts.sty supports the old german fonts `Gotisch',
`Fraktur', `Schwabacher' and `Initialen' designed by Yannis
Haralambous.

In contrast to oldgerm.sty the package provides a full *NFSS
interface*, and it may be used in conjunction with
*german.sty*.  The package comes as a documented LaTeX source
with an installation script and an example document.

This software replaces my now obsolete package fraktur.sty,
which has been removed.  Major changes are:

  * support for the gothic font, too
  * various bug fixes
  * better documentation

Greetings

Walter Schmidt

*********************************************************************
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Schornbaumstrasse 2,  91052 Erlangen,  Germany
pgp key (1024 bits, keyID 69D36B8D): see <html://www.trustcenter.de>
pgp key fingerprint: 1C E5 A5 D8 B8 F7 E2 EF  36 55 69 EC D8 26 94 A9
*********************************************************************


*********************************************************************
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Schornbaumstrasse 2,  91052 Erlangen,  Germany
pgp key (1024 bits, keyID 69D36B8D): see <html://www.trustcenter.de>
pgp key fingerprint: 1C E5 A5 D8 B8 F7 E2 EF  36 55 69 EC D8 26 94 A9
*********************************************************************

From kb@CS.UMB.EDU Sun Sep 14 13:08:28 1997
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 12:05:59 -0400
From: K. Berry <kb@CS.UMB.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new backbone ctan host at tug2.cs.umb.edu

The TeX Users Group is pleased to announce the availability of a new
CTAN host at:
  ftp://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/

We gratefully acknowledge Dante for donating the machine (a Sparc 10)
and the Computer Science department at the University of Massachusetts
at Boston for providing the network connection.

Thanks to Norm Walsh, a search engine for CTAN holdings is available at:
  http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/

tug2 is a full CTAN site and therefore holds the same data as the other
backbone CTAN nodes: ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive, run by the
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory; and
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive, run by DANTE e.V.  It replaces the old
host ftp.shsu.edu (which has not been operational for some time).  It
does not, however, currently support submissions.  Please continue to
use the incoming directories at ftp.tex.ac.uk or ftp.dante.de for that.

Users should, as always, use the CTAN site closest to them; there are
mirrors throughout the world.  A list is appended to this message; you
can get a current list via  finger ctan@www.tug.org  or the file
CTAN.sites at any CTAN host.

North American mirror sites should consider using this new host instead
of the European hosts.  Doing so should improve performance for
everyone.  There is no special account for mirroring at present, so it
should be done via normal anonymous ftp.

We hope to make the system available via the name ctan.tug.org eventually;
unfortunately, we cannot do so right now.  The name tug2.cs.umb.edu will
be maintained indefinitely.

For more information about TUG, please see http://www.tug.org. We
encourage all TeX users to support CTAN by joining, as appropriate,
UKTUG, Dante, TUG, or their local user group.

Please send problems with the CTAN system to ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de.

--kb@cs.umb.edu, for the TUG board and the CTAN group.


Known mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically):
  cis.utovrm.it (Italia)                /TeX
  ctan.unsw.edu.au (NSW, Australia)     /tex-archive
  dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw (Taiwan)       /tex-archive
  ftp.belnet.be (Belgium)               /packages/TeX
  ftp.ccu.edu.tw (Taiwan)               /pub/tex
  ftp.cdrom.com (West coast, USA)       /pub/tex/ctan
  ftp.comp.hkbu.edu.hk (Hong Kong)      /pub/TeX/CTAN
  ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au  (Australia)       /tex-archive
  ftp.cs.ruu.nl (The Netherlands)       /pub/tex-archive
  ftp.cstug.cz (The Czech Republic)     /pub/tex/CTAN
  ftp.duke.edu (North Carolina, USA)    /tex-archive
  ftp.funet.fi (Finland)                /pub/TeX/CTAN
  ftp.gwdg.de (Deutschland)             /pub/dante
  ftp.jussieu.fr (France)               /pub4/TeX/CTAN
  ftp.kreonet.re.kr (Korea)             /pub/CTAN
  ftp.loria.fr (France)                 /pub/unix/tex/ctan
  ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de (Deutschland)       /pub/tex/mirror/ftp.dante.de
  ftp.nada.kth.se (Sweden)              /pub/tex/ctan-mirror
  ftp.oleane.net (France)               /pub/mirrors/CTAN/
  ftp.rediris.es (Espa\~na)             /mirror/tex-archive
  ftp.rge.com (New York, USA)           /pub/tex
  ftp.riken.go.jp (Japan)               /pub/tex-archive
  ftp.tu-chemnitz.de (Deutschland)      /pub/tex
  ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp (Japan)              /pub/tex/CTAN
  ftp.uni-augsburg.de (Deutschland)     /tex-archive
  ftp.uni-bielefeld.de (Deutschland)    /pub/tex
  ftp.unina.it (Italia)                 /pub/TeX
  ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (Deutschland)    /tex-archive (/pub/tex)
  ftp.univie.ac.at (\"Osterreich)       /packages/tex
  ftp.ut.ee (Estonia)                   /tex-archive
  ftpserver.nus.sg (Singapore)          /pub/zi/TeX
  joshua.smcvt.edu (Vermont, USA)       /pub/tex
  src.doc.ic.ac.uk (England)            /packages/tex/uk-tex
  sunsite.auc.dk (Denmark)              /pub/tex/ctan
  sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch (Switzerland) /mirror/tex
  sunsite.icm.edu.pl (Poland)           /pub/CTAN
  sunsite.unc.edu (North Carolina, USA) /pub/packages/TeX
  wuarchive.wustl.edu (Missouri, USA)   /packages/TeX

Known partial mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically):
  ftp.adfa.oz.au (Australia)            /pub/tex/ctan
  ftp.fcu.edu.tw (Taiwan)               /pub2/tex
  ftp.germany.eu.net (Deutschland)      /pub/packages/TeX
  ftp.gust.org.pl (Poland)              /pub/TeX
  ftp.jaist.ac.jp (Japan)               /pub/TeX/tex-archive
  ftp.uu.net (Virginia, USA)            /pub/text-processing/TeX
  nic.switch.ch (Switzerland)           /mirror/tex
  sunsite.dsi.unimi.it (Italia)         /pub/TeX
  sunsite.snu.ac.kr (Korea)             /shortcut/CTAN

Please send updates to this list to <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.

The participating hosts in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network are:
  ftp.dante.de  (Deutschland)
       -- anonymous ftp                 /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
       -- gopher on node gopher.dante.de
       -- email via ftpmail@dante.de
       -- World Wide Web access on http://www.dante.de/
       -- Administrator: <ftpmaint@dante.de>

  ftp.tex.ac.uk (England)
       -- anonymous ftp                 /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
       -- gopher on node gopher.tex.ac.uk
       -- NFS mountable from nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive
       -- World Wide Web access on http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive
       -- Administrator: <ctan-uk@tex.ac.uk>

  tug2.cs.umb.edu (Massachusetts, USA)
       -- anonymous ftp                 /tex-archive (/pub/archive /ctan)
       -- World Wide Web access on http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/
       -- Administrator: <ftpmaint@mail.tug.org>

From pflynn@IMBOLC.UCC.IE Mon Sep 15 18:39:16 1997
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:35:09 +0100
From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@IMBOLC.UCC.IE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: new backbone ctan host at tug2.cs.umb.edu

At 12:05 14/09/97 -0400, Karl wrote:
>The TeX Users Group is pleased to announce the availability of a new
>CTAN host at:
>  ftp://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/

This is now reflected in the index at http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/ctan

///Peter

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Sep 16 11:03:45 1997
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 15:00:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Accented-font utilities mkt1font and vpl2vpl

John Smith (of this university's faculty of oriental studies)

> Both programs do the same task - they read in a font file and a definition
> file specifying a character set containing arbitrarily complex accented
> characters, and they output a new font file implementing that character
> set for that font. One of them works with TeX virtual fonts, the other
> with Type 1 PostScript. (It may seem slightly odd to suggest putting the
> latter on CTAN, but (a) the two programs do very much belong together, (b)
> CTAN already contains a number of Type 1 manipulation tools.) CTAN does
> contain programs claiming to do related tasks: qdtexvpl by Eberhard Mattes
> describes itself as doing "quick and dirty conversion of TeX code to VPL",
> and there is also Jiri Zlatuska's accents.web (which I cannot successfully
> tangle). But I am not aware of any program that employs a clean,
> comprehensible definition file using PostScript character-names, that
> permits multiple accents and dropped accents, that generalises kerning
> information ... and I am certainly not aware of any program that can
> recode Type 1 fonts.

I have installed these two programs on CTAN in directory
fonts/utilities/accfonts

Thanks, John, for the submission

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Sep 20 11:55:24 1997
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 15:51:39 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- pdftex-DJGPP.zip

Weiqi Gao <weiqigao@a.crl.com> writes:

> (a-b) I have uploaded the file pdftex-DJGPP.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk.
> (c)   PDFTeX executable compiled with DJGPP v.2.01, to be used with
>       the DJGPP v.2.01 port of web2c for DOS and Windows 95.
> (d)   ${CTAN}/systems/pdftex/bin/DJGPP/pdftex-DJGPP.zip

I have installed the pacakge as suggested.  Thanks for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Sep 21 08:42:56 1997
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 13:42:06 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- grnumalt

> I have uploaded on ftp.dante.de/incoming the archive grnumalt.tar.gz
> which contains the version 1.1 of the package grnumalt. Please
> replace existing files with the new ones.
> The old reside at:
> /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/other/grnumalt

Thanks for the new version, I installed it on ftp.dante.de as suggested.
It will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

A short extract from the .dtx file:

% This little \LaTeX\ package implements the macro
% \DescribeMacro{\athnum}
% |\athnum|. The macro transforms an Arabic numeral, i.e., the kind
% of numerals we all use (e.g., 1, 5, 789 etc), to the corresponding
% {\itshape Athenian} numeral. Athenian numerals were in use only in
% ancient Athens.
% The special multiples, which the system employs, are drawn
% \DescribeMacro{\PiIt} with the special macro |\PiIt|. The macro
% produces a more or less $\Pi$-like shape above a letter.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Sep 21 08:46:36 1997
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 13:46:07 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN-Submission: jura.cls update

> I uploaded the current version of my jura-documentclass to the DANTE
> ftp-server. The files in the incoming directory should replace those
> actually in CTAN:tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jura/

Thanks for the update; I installed it on ftp.dante.de as suggested.
It will soon spread to thue other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

jura.cls is a document class for "juristische Hausarbeiten". The
documentation is in German.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Sep 22 05:50:05 1997
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:47:27 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- btparse-0.2 and Text::BibTex 0.2

Greg Ward writes:

> I have just uploaded two libraries for parsing and basic processing of
> BibTeX files to ftp.ctan.ac.uk.  The files are:
>
>   btparse-0.2.tar.gz       C library for parsing BibTeX files
>   Text-BibTeX-0.2.tar.gz   Perl library for parsing BibTeX files
>                            (requires btparse-0.2.tar.gz)
>
> It looks to me like the most sensible place for these would be
> /biblio/bibtex/utils.

I've stuck the two files in a directory biblio/bibtex/utils here at
ftp.tex.ac.uk

Thanks for the submission

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Sep 22 10:27:06 1997
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:32:39 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: upload of version 2.0 of cbpunct.mf and cbdigits.mf (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 22 Sep 1997 11:29:51 GMT+1
> From: "prof. Claudio Beccari" <BECCARI@POLITO.IT>
> Subject:      upload of version 2.0 of cbpunct.mf and cbdigits.mf
>
> I have just uploaded in the \incoming diectory version 2.0 of the
> following files:
>
> cbdigits.mf
> cbpunct.mf
>
> Please  upgrade with the above version 2.0 files the corresponding
> files with the same name that I uploaded three months ago; they should be
> in a directory named .../greek/cb.

Thanks, I installed the new files on ft.dante.de in fonts/greek/cb/mf.
They will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Sep 25 03:07:44 1997
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 08:03:24 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MikTeX for NT AXP (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:32:05 +0200
> From: Alexander Dong <qiwen@HRZPUB.TH-DARMSTADT.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- MikTeX for NT AXP
>
> I have uploaded the files for MikTeX-Win32-AXP. This MikTeX version is
> for Windows NT Dec ALPHA. Please copy all the files from
> /incoming/MikTex.axp to :
>    ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex-AXP.

Thanks for the subscription.  I installed the new version of your files
on ftp.dante.de as suggested;  they will soon be copied to the other CTAN
hosts and mirrors

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From sbury@SLARTI.UCD.IE Thu Sep 25 06:56:04 1997
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:53:20 +0000
From: Sophie Bury <sbury@SLARTI.UCD.IE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Mirror

To whom it may concern :

I have been in contact with Robin Fairbairns who is involved in the
administration of CTAN at ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk. We have arranged that
the Irish National Information Server will now host a mirror of this
archive in the ftp space on this server.

This mirror is now up and running and Robin asked me to inform you
that this mirror is now in place and can be found at
ftp://ftp.hea.ie/pub/ctan/tex/

Best regards,

Sophie Bury


Sophie Bury
Information Manager
National Information Server Project
UCD Computer Centre, Belfield, Dublin 4
Phone : 7062032
E-mail : sbury@slarti.ucd.ie

From jlbraams@CISTRON.NL Sun Sep 28 15:21:23 1997
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:18:36 +0200
From: Johannes L. Braams <jlbraams@CISTRON.NL>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New releases of changebar and supertabular

Hello,

As of tomorrow 29th september both the packages supertabular and changebar
will be available from CTAN in new versions, as described below.

Supertabular version 4.1a:
Two new environments have been added, mpsupertabular and mpsupertabular*.
They were provided by Axel Kielhorn <A.Kielhorn@tu-bs.de>. These environemnts
are variants of the old supertabular environments that put each tabular
segment in its own minipage. This easses the addition of footnotes to
a multipage tabular.
Fixed a few bugs, one with \\[...] inside \tablehead and \tabletail, the
other in the calculation of the available height on the first page of the
supertabular. This one affected it's use in twocolumn mode only.

Changebar version 3.3c
Finally fixed the bug that produced diagonal bars when a changebar was
started near the end of a page. Also made changebar work in LaTeX's
twocolumn mode, in twocolumn the bars appear on the `outside' of each
column (which means to the left of the left column and to the right of
the right column).
Also fixed a bug in the calculation of the positioning of the bars.

If you encounter any problems with these packages please report them
to me, using the latexbug.tex mechanism

Kind regards,

Johannes Braams

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Sep 29 12:55:38 1997
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:52:31 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Miscellaneous `carlisle' packages

David Carlisle has submitted the following:

> textcase.sty
>    \MakeTextUppercase and \MakeTextLowercase are similar to the standard
>    \MakeUppercase and \MakeLowercase, but they do not change the case of
>    any sections of mathematics within the argument.
>
> remreset.sty
>    \@removefromreset: a companion to the standard \@addtoreset command
>    allows counters to be removed from the reset list of a controlling
>    counter. For example, a class file based on book class may say
>    \@removefromreset{footnote}{chapter}
>    so that footnotes are no longer reset every chapter (the book class
>    default).
>
> scalefnt.sty
>    \scalefont{2} selects the current font in twice the current size.
>    \scalefont{.75} reduces the current font size by three quarters.

I've installed them here at ftp.tex.ac.uk

(I discussed with David the fact that remreset.sty duplicates the
facilities of macros/latex/contrib/other/fragments/removefr.tex, and
we agreed that it should nevertheless be installed; the implementation
is slightly different.)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Sep 30 13:16:16 1997
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 18:11:51 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ftp.dante.de down on Thu 2 Oct

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.

The CTAN host

   ftp.dante.de (a.k.a. www.dante.de)

will be down for network maintenance sometime during next thursday 2 Oct.

--
   Rainer Sch�pf

From KNAPPEN@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Sep 30 14:31:00 1997
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:30:10 +0100
From: "J%org Knappen, Mainz" <KNAPPEN@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Ann: Hyphenation patterns for bahasa indonesia, latin2jk.def

Herewith I announce two new files on CTAN:

languages/hyphenation/inhyph.tex

contains hyphenation patterns for bahasa indonesia, co-authored by Terry Mart.


macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen/latin2jk.def

contains a definition file for the inputenc package, where all characters
from IS=-8859-2 (Latin-2) are loaded as text characters. This allows
verbatim setting of Latin-2 encoded files.

--J"org Knappen

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Oct  1 09:17:02 1997
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 14:09:58 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt New Dictionaries (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 1 Oct 1997 00:29:03 -0300
> From: Aleksander Simonic <alex@CS.DAL.CA>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- WinEdt New Dictionaries
>
> I have just uploaded the latest user-contributed dictionaries
> (Russian and Spanish) to
>
>      ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt/*.*
>
> Please move these files to
>
>      tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict
>
> The file "00readme.txt" in the same directory should also be
> replaced with the updated one.

Thanks for the update!  I installed the new files on ftp.dante.de as
suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Oct  6 19:29:20 1997
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 18:12:39 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: grfpaste package upload to Cambridge

David Carlisle writes:

> I put a grfpaste.zip in incoming.
> With a bit of luck it will expand to
>
> -rw-rw-r--   1 david    david        9656 Oct  6 09:37 dvipaste.txt
> -rw-rw-r--   1 david    david         239 Oct  5 23:36 grfp1.tex
> -rw-rw-r--   1 david    david         573 Oct  5 23:36 grfp2.tex
> -rw-rw-r--   1 david    david         567 Oct  5 23:36 grfp3.tex
> -rw-r--r--   1 david    david        6820 Oct  5 23:36 grfpaste.sty

(it did)

> (one package, three example files and some documentation) could you
> move that to a new directory contrib/supported/grfpaste
> thanks.
>
> This provides an mechanism to include fragments of dvi files
> with the graphicx package. \includegraphics{file.dvi} etc.
> It requires the dvipaste program (the C source for which is available
> on ctan already).
>
> (The documentation is called dvipaste.txt so it shows up with
> quote site index dvipaste. The package is called grfpaste to
> avoid clashes with an existing package)

I have installed the package as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From xlwy01@uxp1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de Mon Oct  6 15:29:11 1997
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 20:24:25 +0200
From: Werner Lemberg <xlwy01@uxp1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 4.1.3 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e]

I've uploaded version 4.1.3 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts
(i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk, tug2.cs.umb.edu,
 and its mirrors, e.g. ftp.cdrom.com).

It will be soon available in the following directory:

    tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK

Below you find the release notes of this version.


    Happy TeXing


        Werner


[CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean
together with Latin (including Vietnamese) and Cyrillic based scripts with
LaTeX2e. It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS, Unicode.]


========================================================================


Version 4.1.3:  new:
20-Jun-1997         hbf2gf can now create virtual Omega (.ofm) files.

                    ttf2pk (and its scripts) now supports Unicode encoded
                      fonts.

                    cjk-enc.el for emacs 20.

                    Russian support (in T2 encoding) for Mule/emacs 20.
                      Please contact me for fonts, hyphenation patterns, and
                      macro packages since the new LH font package has not
                      appeared yet.

                    JIS X 0201 support for Mule/emacs 20.

                    experimental support for Thai (only emacs 20). This is
                      basically C-TTeX version 1.51 adapted to CJK. Anybody
                      who is interested in this stuff (and has some
                      knowledge on Thai, contrary to me :-) please contact
                      me so I can improve it. Please read cjk-enc.doc for
                      more details.

                    ntu2cjk version 1.8:
                      now supports partial downloading of NTU fonts with
                      dvips.

                    installation checklist added to INSTALL.

                    installation instructions written in Chinese GB
                      contributed by YAO Fude <yao@everest.micro.umass.edu>.

                    UTF8.tex example added.

                changed:
                    MULEenc.sty:
                      \hbar and \HBAR replaced with \textmalteseh and
                      \textmalteseH respectively according to the LaTeX2e
                      release June 1997.

                      further simplifications.

                    external CJK font packages, script and documentation
                      files updated to TDS standard.

                    c70song.fd:
                      now uses cyberbit.ttf as default font.

                errors:
                    make*.btm scripts now really work :-) (thanks to
                    <rshuang@ms11.hinet.net>).

                    c00cns.fd was incorrectly stored as c00CNS.fd .

                    MULEenc.sty:
                      expansion macro improved (the old version prevented
                      kerning if used with e.g. \MakeUppercase).

                    hbf2gf:
                      support for Unicode encoded HBF files was totally
                      broken.

                      always used non-rotated x and y input sizes.

                      the HBF interface will now use only one file handle
                      per opened font---previously it used one file handle
                      per HBF_CODE_RANGE line (Mark Leisher
                      <mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu>).

                    ttf2pk:
                      can now handle fonts like avkv.ttf which have a
                      non-standard way to handle the end of the glyph index.

                      a nasty allocation bug removed due to missing modulo
                      65536 operations (thanks to YANG Ching-Hsiang
                      <jsyang@vlsi.ccl.itri.org.tw>).

                      this is the last version based on the current TrueType
                      rasterizer. A future version will use the FreeType
                      library.

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Oct  7 05:44:24 1997
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 10:41:24 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission to dante --- CJK

Werner Lemberg writes:

 > I've just uploaded CJK-4.1.3.{bin,src,rest}.{zip,tar.gz} to dante.
 >
 > Please unpack the src package into language/chinese/CJK, removing any
 > older version. The other two archives, src and rest, should stay
 > compressed.
 >
 > Additionally I ask to update CJK-4.1.2.src.README accordingly.

Thanks, installed as requested.

For the CTAN Team

Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Oct  7 08:51:03 1997
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 13:38:57 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- listings update

Carsten Heinz writes:
 > I've put an update of my listings package at ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > The location of the package is
 >         /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/listings
 >
 > Thanks in advance
 > Carsten Heinz

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Oct  9 13:59:28 1997
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 18:55:51 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- dvips 5.76 for emTeX and OS/2+DOS/Win

Wonkoo Kim writes:
 > I have uploaded ftp.dante.de/incoming/dvips576.zip.
 >
 > This is dvips 5.76 (dvi to postscript converter) for emTeX and OS/2
 > or DOS(/Win/Win95/NT).
 >
 > This package was compiled with emx/gcc 0.9c fix04 under OS/2 Warp,
 > after patching (for emTeX) the original dvips 5.76 sources of
 > /pub/tex/dviware/dvips/dvips576.tar.gz on CTAN site.
 >
 > The archive includes OS/2+DOS bound executables, patched sources/diffs
 > (but not unpatched sources), tfm files, virtual fonts, and some docs.
 >
 > The executables should also work on DOS, Win3.1, Win95, or NT with
 > EMX/RSX/RSXWIN/RSXNT runtime modules.
 >
 > Please replace the old version of
 >         pub/tex/systems/os2/dviware/dvips/dvips574.zip
 >
 > Since this should work for MSDOS as well, please make the link for
 >         pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips576.zip
 >
 > Thank you.
 >
 > //--------------------------------------------------------------------
 > // Wonkoo Kim (wkim+@pitt.edu)

Thanks a lot, I made the update as requested.
For the CTAN Team

Rainer Schoepf

From rey@ams.org Fri Oct 10 00:14:45 1997
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 23:12:58 -0400
From: Ralph Youngen <rey@ams.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: release of AMSFonts in PostScript format

The American Math Society is pleased to announce the release, for free
and unrestricted use, the Type-1 (PostScript) versions of the AMSFonts.
This collection includes the Euler, ``extra symbol'' and cyrillic fonts
in selected sizes.

These fonts, produced by Blue Sky Research, of Portland, Oregon, and
Y&Y Inc., of Concord, Massachusetts, and previously distributed by them,
are made available through the cooperation of a consortium of scientific
publishers along with Blue Sky and Y&Y.  Members of this consortium include:

    Elsevier Science
    IBM Corporation
    Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
    Springer-Verlag
    American Mathematical Society (AMS)

In order to assure the authenticity of these fonts, copyright will be
held by the AMS.  This is not meant to restrict in any way the legitimate
use of the fonts.  However, the AMS does require that the AMS copyright
notice be removed from any derivative versions of the fonts which have
been altered in any way.  A more detailed statement of these requirements
can be found at the AMS Web site, http://www.ams.org/tex/ .

The canonical versions of these fonts are located on the AMS FTP server
and are also accessible via the Web:

    ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/psfonts/ams

Four system-specific packages are available from the AMS site:

    for use on Macintosh, containing the fonts in standard Macintosh
    Type 1 format

     - packaged as required for use by Textures
     - packaged for use by OzTeX, CMacTeX, or other Mac TeX implementations

    for use on a Windows or DOS system, containing fonts in PFB format with
    PFM metrics files;

    for use on a Unix system, containing fonts in PFB format with AFM
    metrics files.

Each system-specific package is accompanied by a READ.ME file which contains
instructions for downloading and installing the fonts.  Please review the
appropriate READ.ME file in its entirety before undertaking to install the
fonts on your system.

The fonts in Macintosh and PFB (binary Type 1 outline) formats, along with
metrics in appropriate form, will be mirrored on the Comprehensive TeX
Archive Network (CTAN) in the area

    fonts/amsfonts/ps-type1

Users requiring the fonts in PFA (ASCII Type 1) form should convert them
with the aid of one of the tools available for that purpose from CTAN.

The AMS does not provide installation assistance or technical support
beyond any installation instructions included with the collection.
Installation and use of these fonts may require some technical expertise.

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 13 04:41:41 1997
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:37:04 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload from GUST: polish.tar.gz

Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz writes:

 > I've just uploaded do DANTE:/incoming/polish.tar.gz
 > Please remove old language/polish/ and then unpack new upload from
 > main TeX directory (it contains already language/polish/ )
 > New:
 > 00README
 > popolsku.zip
 > pl-mf.zip    (MF sources)
 > plpsfonts  directory with PL fonts in T1
 > mex105.zip (the version is not changed, only small adds and slightly
 >             modified documentations)
 > czytaj.mex
 > readme.mex
 >
 > Other files are not changed.
 > Please make also link:
 > cd /tex-archive/fonts/psfonts
 > ln -s ../../language/polish/plpsfont
 >
 > Thanks and cheers,
 > **StaW
 > <staw@eti.pg.gda.pl>
 > <staszek@ipipan.gda.pl>

Thanks a lot, I made the changes as requested.

For the CTAN Team

Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Oct 13 06:35:20 1997
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:32:17 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- rmpage

> Uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> Files uploaded: rmpage.sty
>                 rmpage.tex
>                 rmpgen.cfg
>                 rmplocal.gfc
>                 readme
>
> In directory incoming/rmpage
>
> Suggested destination: macros/latex/contrib/supported/
>
> Brief description:
>
> The rmpage package lets you change page layout parameters in small
> steps over a range of values using options.  It can set \textwidth
> appropriately for the main fount, and ensure that the text fits inside
> the printable area of a printer.
>
> An rmpage-formatted document can be typeset identically without
> rmpage after a single cut and paste operation.  Local configuration
> can set defaults: for all documents; or by class, by printer, and by
> paper size.
>
> The geometry package is better if you want to set layout parameters to
> particular measurements.

Thanks for the upload -- I've installed it here, and it should
propagate fairly soon.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de Mon Oct 13 11:02:35 1997
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:59:24 +0200
From: Ulrik Vieth <vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de>
To: ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- concmath fonts


I have uploaded two files to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming:

(1) concmath-fonts.tar.gz

This file unpacks into fonts/concmath and includes a new release of
the Concrete Math fonts that were derived from the Concrete Roman
fonts designed by Don Knuth.  It is intended to replace the original
contents of CTAN:fonts/concmath.

Changes compared to the original release of the `concmath' fonts
as of February 1995 include:

 - new font shapes added: xccex[7-9], xccam[5-9], xccbm[5-9]

 - bug fixes: `math_fitting:=true' for all sizes of xccmi, xccsy

 - updates: parameters of xccmi, xccsy, xccex, etc. corrected 
   to reflect the latest official version of Knuth's ccr fonts

Warning: The bug fix regarding `math_fitting:=true' unfortunately
implies a change of font metrics for xccmi[5-8] and xccsy[5-8].
Hopefully, after this bug fix there should no need to change these
font metrics ever again.


(2) concmath-latex.tar.gz

This file unpacks into macros/latex/contrib/supported/concmath and
includes a new release of the `concmath' LaTeX package and the
corresponding font definition files.  This is now a fully documented
LaTeX package that replaces the original version of the unsupported
`concmath.sty' in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/other/concmath.

It was tried to ensure that the `concmath' package remains compatible
with Walter Schmidt's `ccfonts' package that also provides access to
the T1-encoded version of the Concrete fonts known as `ecc' fonts
while the `concmath' only supports the original OT1-encoded version of
Don Knuth's Concrete fonts.  Even if you prefer to use the `ccfonts'
package instead of `concmath', you may still be interested to read the
documentation of the `concmath' package for background information
about how the Concrete Math fonts were derived from Concrete Roman.


Both packages include a `README' file containing further descriptions
of the packages and detailed installation instructions.  Both packages
also include a `Makefile' for easy installation in a TDS-compatible
TEXMF directory tree.


Happy TeXing!

Ulrik Vieth.

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 13 11:35:49 1997
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:32:08 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- g-brief 2.3

Michael Lenzen writes:
 > CTAN Submission
 >
 > update 'g-brief' rel. 2.2 to rel. 2.3
 >
 > (a) uploaded to ftp.dante.de
 >
 > (b) 'g-brief.tar.gz' to /incoming
 >
 > (c) g-brief is a document class for LaTeX 2e and serves for
 >     formatting formless letters in german or english language
 >
 > (d) macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/g-brief/
 >     (please replace and remove old and obsolete files)
 >
 > Regards.
 >
 > Michael Lenzen

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Oct 13 11:42:43 1997
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:40:43 +0200 (MEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Ulrik Vieth <vieth@THPHY.UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE>
Cc: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>, math-font-discuss@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- concmath fonts

Ulrik Vieth writes:
 > I have uploaded two files to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming:
 > 
 > (1) concmath-fonts.tar.gz
 > 
 > This file unpacks into fonts/concmath and includes a new release of
 > the Concrete Math fonts that were derived from the Concrete Roman
 > fonts designed by Don Knuth.  It is intended to replace the original
 > contents of CTAN:fonts/concmath.
 > 
 > Changes compared to the original release of the `concmath' fonts
 > as of February 1995 include:
 > 
 >  - new font shapes added: xccex[7-9], xccam[5-9], xccbm[5-9]
 > 
 >  - bug fixes: `math_fitting:=true' for all sizes of xccmi, xccsy
 > 
 >  - updates: parameters of xccmi, xccsy, xccex, etc. corrected
 >    to reflect the latest official version of Knuth's ccr fonts
 > 
 > Warning: The bug fix regarding `math_fitting:=true' unfortunately
 > implies a change of font metrics for xccmi[5-8] and xccsy[5-8].
 > Hopefully, after this bug fix there should no need to change these
 > font metrics ever again.
 > 
 > 
 > (2) concmath-latex.tar.gz
 > 
 > This file unpacks into macros/latex/contrib/supported/concmath and
 > includes a new release of the `concmath' LaTeX package and the
 > corresponding font definition files.  This is now a fully documented
 > LaTeX package that replaces the original version of the unsupported
 > `concmath.sty' in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/other/concmath.
 > 
 > It was tried to ensure that the `concmath' package remains compatible
 > with Walter Schmidt's `ccfonts' package that also provides access to
 > the T1-encoded version of the Concrete fonts known as `ecc' fonts
 > while the `concmath' only supports the original OT1-encoded version of
 > Don Knuth's Concrete fonts.  Even if you prefer to use the `ccfonts'
 > package instead of `concmath', you may still be interested to read the
 > documentation of the `concmath' package for background information
 > about how the Concrete Math fonts were derived from Concrete Roman.
 > 
 > 
 > Both packages include a `README' file containing further descriptions
 > of the packages and detailed installation instructions.  Both packages
 > also include a `Makefile' for easy installation in a TDS-compatible
 > TEXMF directory tree.
 > 
 > 
 > Happy TeXing!
 > 
 > Ulrik Vieth.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team

Raienr Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Oct 15 07:18:26 1997
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:13:16 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <easy>

Enrico Bertolazzi writes:

 > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
 > tar file easy.tar.gz. It contains:
 >
 > version 0.7 of the `easyeqn' package
 > version 0.6 of the `easyvector' package
 > version 0.4 of the `easybmat' package
 > version 0.1 of the `easymat' package
 > version 0.5 of the `easytable' package
 > version 0.4 of the `easybib' package.
 >
 > This file should replace
 > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
 > wich contain the old versions.
 >
 > The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation
 > environments that simplify writing of equations.
 > It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define
 > the column alignment. A package option cases only those
 > equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered.
 >
 > The \package{easyvector} package is a simple
 > macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices.
 >
 > The \package{easybmat} package is
 > a macro package for writing block matrices, with equal column widths
 > or equal rows heights or both, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 >
 > The \package{easytable} package is
 > a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths
 > or equal rows heights or both, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 >
 > The \package{easymat} package is
 > a macro package for writing block matrices, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows or columns, and
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 >
 > The \package{easybib} package is
 > a macro package for writing custom bibliography
 > with a simple AmSTeX-like sintax.
 >
 > Thanks a lot for the attention,
 >
 >
 > ____________________________________________________________________________
 > Enrico Bertolazzi
 > Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Strutturale
 > Universit� degli Studi di Trento
 > Via Mesiano 77                        Tel: +39-461-882590
 > I-38050 Trento                        Fax: +39-461-882599
 > Italy                                 mailto:enrico.bertolazzi@ing.unitn.it
 > ____________________________________________________________________________

Thanks a lot for the update, which I installed as requested.

For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Oct 15 07:23:09 1997
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:16:58 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt Contributions

Aleksander Simonic writes:
 > I have just uploaded the latest contributions to
 >
 >      ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt/*.*
 >
 > Please move these files to
 >
 >      tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/contrib
 >
 >
 > Thanks you.
 >
 > Sincerely yours,
 >
 > Aleksander Simonic

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.

For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Oct 15 10:46:46 1997
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 14:29:40 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- from Ideal Fonts

Bernard Gaulle writes:

>   I've uploaded in /incoming/IdealFonts 2 files that might help Textures users:
>
> - "LW35 T1 installer.hqx" for people willing to use easily the basic 35
>   Adobe fonts with the T1 font encoding, with LaTeX as well as with
>   "Plain  (VDC).tex". This is an automatic installer which prompt the
>   user for his Textures folder and do the job. Two tests files are provided,
>   one for LaTeX (automatically launched) and one for Plain (assuming you
>   are running with a T1 like format). Check these files for comments.
>
> - "LaTeX R7 installer.hqx" for people willing to automatically install
>   that last LaTeX version under Textures. The user is prompted for his
>   Textures folder and last version of LaTeX is then replaced by the new.
>   The LaTeX format is not provided and it is the user job to recreate
>   it at his own wish. Notice that VDC users have to reinstall the package
>   and recreate the format too.
>
> These files may obviously be used separately from any other product and
> were prepared by Ideal Fonts, just for the pleasure of Textures users.
>
> Unfortunately, comments used along the installation are in French, but
> the previous comments here are really enough, so i hope it will be ok
> for everybody.

I have:
  (1) renamed the files to LW35_T1_installer.hqx and
      LaTeX_R7_installer.hqx (for the CTAN admins' convenience) and
  (2) installed them in a new directory
      systems/mac/textures/contrib/IdealFonts
  (3) made the IdealFonts demo directory VDC a subdirectory of
      IdealFonts

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Oct 16 10:02:04 1997
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:52:25 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: greek font bundle

Apostolos Syropoulos writes:
 >     Dear Sirs,
 >
 >     I have uploaded in the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de
 > the file bundle greek.tar.gz which contains several files which
 > must replace existing files in thr languages/greek/cb directory.
 > Please, note that you *must* remove the directory
 > languages/greek/misc, as the files contained work only for the cb
 > fonts.
 >
 >     Yours Sincerely,
 >
 >     Apostolos Syropoulos
 >
 > ****************************************************************
 > *Apostolos Syropoulos                                          *
 > *snail mail: 366, 28th October Str., GR-671 00  Xanthi, HELLAS *
 > *email     : apostolo@obelix.ee.duth.gr                        *
 > *phone num.: +30-(0)541-28704                                  *
 > *home page : http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo                *
 > ****************************************************************

Thanks a lot for the update. I installed the files as requested.

For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Oct 16 10:05:35 1997
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:53:48 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <IMAC>

> I've just uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk the file imac.tar.Z.

(In fact I've used a replacement set)

> It is a set of
> files for producing correctly formated documents for the International
> Modal Analysis Conference.  It includes a style file, bst file, an example
> (with supporting files) and the expected resulting ps file.  I'd suggest
> placing the files in
> macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/ and/or biblio/bibtex/contrib/
>
> Since there are two separate places for style files and bst files, I don't
> know which would be best, but I would think they should be kept together.
> Perhaps a new directory should be added to CTAN for simple formats,
> including style and bst files, instead of putting them with more general
> tools?

I've installed the lot in macros/latex/contrib/other/imac: there's
precedent for doing that sort of thing.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Oct 16 13:28:39 1997
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:25:08 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan upload mistake

Robert Bernecky writes:

> I have uploaded a LaTeX2e thesis class definition and example .tex
> file to go with it to  /incoming/utorontothesis/.

I have installed these files on CTAN in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/utorontothesis

Thanks for the submission

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 20 08:05:40 1997
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:48:32 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <slashbox.tar.gz>

Toru SATO writes:
 > Dear Sir/Madam,
 >
 > I uploaded a small macro with its document to CTAN as follows:
 > a) site:  ftp.dante.de.
 > b) file:  slashbox.tar.gz
 > c) function: draw an oblique (slash) line in a 'tabular' column of LaTeX
 > d) location: maybe /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other
 >
 > Thank you.
 >
 >         Toru Sato (tsato@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
 >         Associate Professor
 >         Department of Electronics and Communication
 >         Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-01, Japan
 >         http://www-lab26.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tsato

Thanks a lot, I installed the files in

  macros/latex/contrib/other/slashbox

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 20 08:00:25 1997
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:51:42 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload - exam.zip

Jason Alexander writes:
 > Hello.
 >
 >   This is in response to an earlier email message I sent.
 >   I apologize for giving my class file the same name as a previously
 > existing package.  I failed to look closely enough in the CTAN directory to
 > see the other one.
 >
 >   Once I found the other "exam" package, I read the description and saw that
 > some of the same feature were described.  However, the type of output
 > generated by the exams are rather different.  And my package, if I may say
 > so, allows for a wider variety of test types.
 >
 >   I hope that my new class file may be of some use and is judged to merit
 > inclusion in the CTAN archive.  I believe it may be more accessible to the
 > novice user than the other package.
 >
 >   Since another location is needed for my class file, how about:
 >
 >         CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/examdesign
 >
 > That is, if you decide to post it.
 >
 > Jason Alexander

Thanks a lot, I installed the package as proposed.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From greg@BIC.MNI.MCGILL.CA Tue Oct 21 18:56:23 1997
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:48:55 -0400
From: Greg Ward <greg@BIC.MNI.MCGILL.CA>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Perl module for parsing BibTeX files

                              Text::BibTeX
                              version 0.21
                   Greg Ward (greg@bic.mni.mcgill.ca)

Text::BibTeX is a Perl module (with a couple of helper modules) for
reading, parsing, and writing BibTeX files.  The distribution includes
the Text::BibTeX, Text::BibTeX::File, and Text::BibTeX::Entry modules;
most of the hard work is done by a C library called btparse (which must
be downloaded separately from the Text::BibTeX modules).

The C library, btparse, is also a fully functional (and partially
documented) interface to BibTeX files.  If you demand the utmost in
efficiency, or want to write an interface to BibTeX for some other
high-level language, btparse might be for you.

Features provided by the modules include:

   * robust, efficient lexical scanning and parsing of BibTeX files
   * excellent error detection, reporting, and recovery in the parser
   * full processing of BibTeX strings (macros expanded, whitespace
     collapsed, strings concatenated)
   * handles all common entry types (@comment, @preamble, @string,
     and "everything else) with ease, and gives you full access to
     the contents of all entry types
   * support for processing author names identically to BibTeX
   * preliminary support for imposing/enforcing a particular database
     structure

btparse provides all of the above features, plus it is much more
flexible with regards to the amount of processing done to strings.  You
can turn off macro expansion, whitespace collapsing, and token pasting
at will.  (Eventually, these features will migrate to the Perl code.)
But you have to program in C to use it, which isn't nearly as much fun
as Perl.  ;-)


Changes to both btparse and Text::BibTeX with release 0.21:
  * several bugs (mostly in the btparse library and the C<->Perl interface
    code) have been fixed
  * portability of btparse library has been greatly enhanced, mainly
    due to the addition of an Autoconf-generated `configure' script
  * fixed some documentation bugs


The home ftp site for Text::BibTeX and btparse is

   ftp://ftp.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pub/users/greg/

They're also both available from CTAN (the Comprehensive TeX Archive
Network) in
   /biblio/bibtex/utils/btparse

and from CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) in
   /modules/by-authors/Greg_Ward
--
Greg Ward - Research Assistant                     greg@bic.mni.mcgill.ca
Brain Imaging Centre (WB201)           http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/~greg
Montreal Neurological Institute           voice: (514) 398-4965 (or 1996)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada  H3A 2B4           fax: (514) 398-8948

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Oct 23 05:44:37 1997
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 10:39:20 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- examdesign.zip

Jason Alexander writes:

 >   I've just uploaded a newer version of the 'exam' LaTeX class file (stored
 > in the directory:
 >                 CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/examdesign
 >
 > This version basically patches bugs that slipped by me for the v1.0 release.
 > It also includes two example files (instead of just one).

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Oct 23 05:45:40 1997
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 10:40:49 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- installing_psnfss_on_emtex.pdf

Chris Inacio writes:
 > a) site uploaded to: ftp.dante.de
 > b) files uploaded: installing_psnfss_on_emtex.pdf
 > c) brief overview: this file is a quick step-by-step procedure  on how
 > to install PSNFSS into EmTeX
 > d) recommended placement: /tex-archive/info
 >
 > --
 > Chris Inacio
 > Carnegie Mellon University
 > Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
 > (412) 268 - 4268
 > mailto:inacio@ece.cmu.edu
 > finger inacio@ece.cmu.edu for pgp key

Thanks a lot, I installed the file as proposed.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Oct 24 04:25:32 1997
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:23:02 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- g-brief 2.4

Michael Lenzen writes:

 > update 'g-brief' rel. 2.3 to rel. 2.4
 >
 > (a) uploaded to ftp.dante.de
 >
 > (b) 'g-brief.tar.gz' to /incoming
 >
 > (c) g-brief is a document class for LaTeX 2e and serves for
 >     formatting formless letters in german or english language
 >
 > (d) macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/g-brief/
 >     (please replace and remove old and obsolete files)

Thanks a lot, installed in

    macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 27 03:33:12 1997
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:27:16 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan submission (EC Concrete Fonts and LaTeX interface)

Walter Schmidt writes:

 > I have just uploaded the following archives to the \incoming
 > directory at ftp.dante.de:
 >
 >         (1)  ecc09.zip
 >         (2)  ccfon98.zip
 >
 > Please move their contents to
 >
 >         (1) fonts/ecc
 >         (2) macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts
 >
 > This will replace various existent files and add some new
 > ones.  (Text files in the archives have Unix-style line
 > endings, i.e. <lf> only.)
 >
 > Description:
 >
 > (1) This updates the EC Concrete fonts, adding some further
 > design sizes.
 >
 > (2) This updates the LaTeX package `ccfonts' with respect to
 > the updated EC Concrete fonts (see above) and the recently
 > improved Concmath fonts.  Additionally, scaling of the math
 > extension font is provided via a new `exscale' option.
 >
 > Greetings
 >
 > Walter
 >
 >
 > *********************************************************************
 > Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
 > Schornbaumstrasse 2,  91052 Erlangen,  Germany
 > pgp key (1024 bits, keyID 69D36B8D): see <html://www.trustcenter.de>
 > pgp key fingerprint: 1C E5 A5 D8 B8 F7 E2 EF  36 55 69 EC D8 26 94 A9
 > *********************************************************************

Thanks a lot, I installed the updates as requested.

  For the CTAN Team

    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 27 03:35:35 1997
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:29:33 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan upload (LaTeX package cmsd)

Walter Schmidt writes:

 > I have just uploaded the archive file cmsd.zip to the
 > \incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please move its
 > contents to the directory (to be created):
 >
 >          macros/latex/supported/cmsd
 >
 > Description:
 > -----------
 > This is the LaTeX package `cmsd.sty' incl.  additional .fd
 > files.  Its purpose is to provide an altermative interface
 > to the CM Sans Serif boldface fonts.
 >
 > The EC (T1, Cork) encoded versions of the `CM Sans Serif
 > boldface extended' fonts differ considerably from the
 > traditionally (OT1) encoded ones:
 >
 > At large sizes, > 10pt, they have thinner strokes and are
 > much wider.  At 25pt they are hardly to be recognized as
 > being `boldface'.
 >
 > The LaTeX package `cmsd' can solve this problem:  Using this
 > package will---as much as possible---make these T1 fonts
 > look like the traditional ones did.
 >
 > You do *not* need any new fonts; the package just changes
 > the way LaTeX makes use of the current ones.
 >
 > Greetings
 >
 > Walter
 > *********************************************************************
 > Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
 > Schornbaumstrasse 2,  91052 Erlangen,  Germany
 > pgp key (1024 bits, keyID 69D36B8D): see <html://www.trustcenter.de>
 > pgp key fingerprint: 1C E5 A5 D8 B8 F7 E2 EF  36 55 69 EC D8 26 94 A9
 > *********************************************************************

Thanks a lot, I installed the package in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/cmsd

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Oct 28 10:22:53 1997
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:16:47 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- adfathesis

Stephen Harker wrote:

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk a file called adfathesis.zip which is
> a zip archive of a thesis package for the Australian Defence Force
> Academy.
>
> This class is a modification of the standard report class.  The main
> changes in this class are firstly to use space and a half interline
> spacing, except in footnote, figure and table environments where
> normal spacing is used.  Secondly the chapter and section headings are
> changed to be less `shouting' than the standard LaTeX designs.
> Thirdly less profligate use was made of vertical spacing.
>
>
> I suggest the package be placed in:
>
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/adfathesis

I've installed the package as suggested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Oct 28 12:59:47 1997
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 18:58:15 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <easy>

Enrico Bertolazzi writes:
 > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
 > tar file easy.tar.gz. It contains:
 >
 > version 0.8 of the `easyeqn' package
 > version 0.8 of the `easyvector' package
 > version 0.5 of the `easybmat' package
 > version 0.1 of the `easymat' package
 > version 0.6 of the `easytable' package
 > version 0.4 of the `easybib' package.
 >
 > This file should replace
 > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
 > wich contain the old versions.
 >
 > The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation
 > environments that simplify writing of equations.
 > It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define
 > the column alignment. A package option cases only those
 > equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered.
 > A set of macros for typesetting is also added.
 >
 > The \package{easyvector} package is a simple
 > macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices.
 >
 > The \package{easybmat} package is
 > a macro package for writing block matrices, with equal column widths
 > or equal rows heights or both, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 > Now it is possible to specify minimal size of boxes in a matrix.
 >
 > The \package{easytable} package is
 > a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths
 > or equal rows heights or both, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 > Now it is possible to specify minimal size of boxes in a table.
 >
 > The \package{easymat} package is
 > a macro package for writing block matrices, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows or columns, and
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 >
 > The \package{easybib} package is
 > a macro package for writing custom bibliography
 > with a simple AmSTeX-like sintax.
 >
 > Thanks a lot for the attention,
 >
 > ____________________________________________________________________________
 > Enrico Bertolazzi
 > Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Strutturale
 > Universit� degli Studi di Trento
 > Via Mesiano 77                        Tel: +39-461-882590
 > I-38050 Trento                        Fax: +39-461-882599
 > Italy                                 mailto:enrico.bertolazzi@ing.unitn.it
 > ____________________________________________________________________________

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.

  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Oct 29 05:13:32 1997
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:05:38 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan submission -- texed30

Wolfgang Heller writes:
 > TeX f�r Windows 3.0
 > ===================
 >
 > ist ein MDI-Editor zur Erstellung von LaTeX-Dokumenten
 > f�r Windows (win31, win95)
 >
 > Er sollte unter /tex/systems/win32 stehen
 >
 > Features:
 > =========
 > - Include Dateien werden automatisch in verschiedene Fenster geladen.
 >   Man kann zwischen Ihnen hin- und herbl�ttern.
 > - Einfache Einbindung von Bildern
 > - Formeleditor
 > - Einfache Eingabe von Literaturverzeichnis eintr�gen
 > - Zitieren per Mausklick
 > - Aufruf von Latex, Dvipreviewer, Dvips, Ghostview,...
 > - und vieles mehr
 >
 > Das Programm ist Freeware.
 >
 > Installation:
 > =============
 > 1.) Setup Programm ausf�hren
 > 2.) Die drei mitgelieferten .sty-Dateien ins Texinput-Verzeichnis verschieben.
 >
 >
 >
 > Autor: Wolfgang Heller
 > email: heller@wsi.tu-muenchen.de
 >
 >                               \\ //
 >                               (o o)
 > --------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo--------------------
 > Wolfgang Heller, Dipl. Phys.
 > Walter Schottky Institut, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
 > Am Coulombwall, 85748 Garching, Germany
 > E-mail: heller@wsi.tu-muenchen.de
 > www: http://maitai.wsi.tu-muenchen.de/wheller
 > Phone: +49 89 289 12736
 > Fax:   +49 89 3206 620
 > -----------------------------------------------------------

Thanks, I installed the files as requested

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Oct 30 05:34:08 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:29:41 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- schedule.zip

Jason Alexander writes:

 >   On 29 October, I submitted the file schedule.zip for inclusion in the CTAN
 > archive.  I suggest that it be store in the directory:
 >
 >                CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/schedule
 >
 > The file contains eight files:
 >
 >         schedule.dtx
 >         schedule.ins
 >         schedule.dvi
 >         schedule.sty
 >         schedule.ps
 >         example.dvi
 >         example.ps
 >         example.tex
 >
 > 'schedule.dtx' defines a new package named 'schedule', intended to
 > automatically format weekly schedules using LaTeX's picture environment.  It
 > requires the packages 'calc' and 'color'.  Its main feature is the accuracy
 > with which appointments are represented: boxes drawn to represent a
 > particular appointment are accurate to the minute -- i.e., a 31 minute
 > appointment will have a box 1/60th longer than a 30 minute appointment.  A
 > number of features are included to allow the user to customize the output.
 >
 > Jason

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as proposed.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Oct 30 09:10:45 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:08:17 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- calendar-2.0.tgz

Frank Bennett has submitted a new version of his calendar stuff, and
I've installed it on CTAN in macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar

Here's the announcement he submitted with the new version.

  The LaTeX Calendar bundle
  -------------------------
  The files in this bundle provide an interface for the creation of calendars
  using LaTeX.  Each calendar "style" provides an environment which will read
  its contents as a date or range of dates, and produce a corresponding
  calendar in a particular format.  For example, a calendar for the first two
  weeks in August 1997 in the "weekly" style would be expressed as follows:

    \begin{weekly}{}{}
     1 Aug 1997 to 8 Aug 1997
    \end{weekly}

  The syntax for expressing dates is human-friendly: case is ignored,
  abbreviations will be recognized, and within ordinary dates word order is
  irrelevant (i.e. both 1 aug 1997 and August 1 1997 mean the same thing).

  Calendars may incorporate lists of events and appointments from external
  files.  The syntax for such files permits the use of recursive dates limited
  by a range or ranges of dates ("every second saturday" during school
  session, that sort of thing), with a stop-list of holidays.  Entries
  may also be color-coded if you have a color printer.  You can also manage
  complex data sets by building large lists from smaller files in an
  object-oriented fashion.

  The distribution includes styles for monthly, yearly and weekly
  calendars (the latter in filofax(tm) form) as well as a
  conference/itinerary/timetable planner and a timesheet generator.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From mjd@MATH.AMS.ORG Thu Oct 30 18:16:14 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 18:10:51 -0500
From: Michael John Downes <mjd@MATH.AMS.ORG>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Announce: alpha release of breqn package

This to announce that an alpha release of the `breqn' package, which was
the subject of a talk I gave at the 1997 TUG conference in San
Francisco, is now available from e-math.ams.org. (Although it is not
being submitted to CTAN at this time because it is only an alpha
release, the fact that it is available may be of interest to the
CTAN-ANN list subscribers.)

>From the READ.ME file:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
READ.ME for breqn.sty [Michael Downes, 1997/10/30]
------------------------------------------------------------------------

The alpha release of the `breqn' package for LaTeX is available from the
American Mathematical Society:

  ftp://e-math.ams.org/pub/tex/breqn.tar.gz

The following files comprise the alpha release of the package:

  breqn.sty          READ.ME           breqn.txt
  flexisym.sty       breqndoc.tex      flexisym.txt
  ltxbase.sym        breqn.bug

The files in the first column are what you need to use the package.

The files in the middle column are documentation: The READ.ME is this
file. The file breqn.bug is a list of known deficiencies that need
fixing in the alpha release. The file breqndoc.tex explains the usage of
the LaTeX commands and environments provided by the breqn package.

The files in the last column are source code and technical commentary;
these are likely to make dull reading except for TeXnicians. (They would
normally be in .dtx format but I was experimenting with an alternative
format whose macros are, as luck would have it, in a nonfunctional
transitional stage just now; the .txt files are an ASCII version
generated from the real sources.)

Some of the principal features of the breqn package are:

---Displayed equations are broken automatically to the available width,
without explicit line break commands.

---Line breaks within paired \left-\right delimiters work in a
natural way (splitting with null delimiters and awkward size adjustments
are unnecessary). You can specify a delimiter nesting depth beyond which
automatic line breaks must not occur.

---Punctuation at the end of a displayed equation can be written in its
logical place and will be assimilated into the display as necessary.

---Applying a background color or a frame to an equation is easily done.

For information on additional features consult the user's guide,
breqndoc.tex.

The amsmath package and the breqn package can be used together, but
then the amsmath package should be loaded first.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
PLEASE BEAR IN MIND:
------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is an alpha release of the software; there are many gaps and
shortcomings in what is implemented and what is not. However, it is
working well enough that we think potential users will welcome the
chance at this time to try it out and to offer feedback.

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Nov  1 10:58:39 1997
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 15:54:53 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Omega

Yannis Haralambous writes:

> On this cold and cloudy day of November 1st 1997, we have placed in
> the /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk the latest version of the
> omega package. It is a directory called omega-1.47. Please replace
> the CTAN/systems/omega directory by this one.

I've done that.  It should be making its way around the world even as
I write...

> Here is the INSTALL file (also included in the directory):
>
> >Omega, version 1.47, 1 November 1997.
> >
> >You should install in your TDS-compliant texmf
> >the files contained in omega_texmf.tar.gz
> >
> >WARNING: web2c/texmf.cnf and dvips/psfonts.map will be overwritten.
> >If you want to do something special, then do NOT tar extract them directly.
> >
> >You should then tar extract omega.tar.gz,
> >which is a complete web2c-7.0 tree, with
> >two extra directories, omega and odvipsk.
> >
> >If you want to only compile omega and odvipsk,
> >then modify the main Makefile.in in the home directory.
> >
> >The next release will be in about one month.
> >
> >Have fun,
> >
> >Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Nov  3 04:50:29 1997
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 09:42:52 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submisson -- AE fonts

Lars Engebretsen writes:

> I have uploaded to
>
>   ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/ae.tar.gz
>
> a set of virtual fonts which emulates T1 coded fonts using the
> standard CM fonts. The package is called AE fonts (for Allmost
> European). My main idea for the use of the package is to produce
> PDF files using Type1 versions of the CM fonts instead of the
> bitmapped EC fonts. The tar file should unpack into the directories
>
>   ae
>   ae/vf
>   ae/tfm
>   ae/fd
>   ae/src
>
> and I suggest that the ae directory is placed in the CTAN tree as
> /tex-archive/fonts/ae

Thanks for the upload.  I've installed the files as suggested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov  3 10:54:38 1997
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 16:50:14 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Updating cbfonts- submission

prof. Claudio Beccari writes:
 > Dear Manager,
 > I just uploaded the following files:
 >          cbpunct.mf   version 2.1
 >          cblig.mf             1.1
 >          cbligtt.mf           1.1
 >          cbligsc.mf           1.1
 >
 > in the /incoming/cbfonts directory.
 >
 > Please move them to fonts/greek/cb/mf in order to update the existing ones
 > (which on turn may be deleted).
 >
 > Thank you and best regards
 >
 > Claudio Beccari

Thanks a lot I made the updates
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Nov  4 03:26:30 1997
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 09:23:13 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- margbib

Karsten Tinnefeld writes:
 > I have today uploaded the file margbib.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > This archive contains a LaTeX2e document style for typesetting
 > bibliographies with book label tags in the margins.
 >
 > The archive consists of two files that are meant to generate the
 > |.sty| file and its documentation:
 > -rw-r--r-- tinne/irb      2080 Nov  2 15:07 1997 margbib/margbib.ins
 > -rw-r--r-- tinne/irb      7130 Nov  2 13:27 1997 margbib/margbib.dtx
 >
 > I recommend placing the archive under
 >         /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/.
 >
 >
 > ciao, Karsten.
 >
 > Karsten Tinnefeld    <tinnefeld@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
 > Anwendungssoftware    <software@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
 >
 > Computer Science Dept.    Informatik Rechnerbetriebsgruppe
 > University of Dortmund    D-44221 Dortmund / Germany
 > Phone +49 231 755 4700    PGP Key? Bitte anfingern.
 >
 > ,,Habe Vertrauen, das bis zum Morgen geht. Die Sonne geht alleine auf.``

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/margbib

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Nov  4 03:30:48 1997
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 09:28:17 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt Patch and Contributions

Aleksander Simonic writes:
 > I have just uploaded the latest Patch and Contributions to
 >
 >      ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt/*.*
 >                                   winedt.zip
 >                                   de2.txt
 >                                   de2.zip
 >                                   rtools.txt
 >                                   rtools.zip
 >
 > The file winedt.zip should replace the file in
 >
 >      tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt
 >
 > The files de2.* should be placed in
 >
 >      tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict
 >
 > (replacing the existing de2.* files).
 >
 > Finally, the files rtools.* should be placed in
 >
 >      tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/contrib
 >
 > and the files tools.* in this directory should be removed.
 >
 >
 > Since these contribution consists of patches to the existing files
 > there is no need to announce it on CTAN (I'll make a short
 > announcement on WinEdt's Mailing List...).
 >
 >
 > Thanks you.
 >
 > Sincerely yours,
 >
 > Aleksander Simonic

Thanks, I installed the update.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Nov  4 03:32:41 1997
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 09:29:34 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- apa

Athanassios Protopapas writes:
 > I have just uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file apa.tar.gz
 > which contains version 1.1 of the American Psychological
 > Association (APA) document class, an upgrade of the currently
 > existing directory macros/latex/contrib/other/apa found at CTAN.
 >
 > The gzipped-tar file contains and "apa" directory, intended
 > to replace the above, in which the files apa.cls, apa.doc,
 > README, and apaenum.doc can be found.  The first file defines
 > the necessary macros and parameters for typesetting according
 > to APA requirements for manuscripts, APA journals, or regular
 > LaTeX documents, depending on a class option.  The remaining
 > files contain instructions on using this class, including
 > which other style files, not found in most standard LaTeX
 > distributions, are required.
 >
 > Please install over the current macros/latex/contrib/other/apa
 > without retaining any of the existing files.
 >
 > Thank you,
 >
 > Thanassi Protoapas
 > protopap@scilearn.com

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Nov  5 03:37:16 1997
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 09:32:25 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan submission (ccfonts.zip)

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Hello,
 > I have just uploaded the archive ccfonts.zip to the
 > \incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please, move the
 > contents of this archive to the directory
 >
 >         macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts .
 >
 > This will overwrite three existent files.  Text files in my
 > archive have Unix-style line endings, i.e. <lf> only.
 >
 > This contribution fixes a bug in the LaTeX package ccfonts.
 >
 > Greetings
 >
 > Walter
 >
 > *********************************************************************
 > Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
 > Schornbaumstrasse 2,  91052 Erlangen,  Germany
 > pgp key (1024 bits, keyID 69D36B8D):  see <html://www.trustcenter.de>
 > pgp key fingerprint: 1C E5 A5 D8 B8 F7 E2 EF  36 55 69 EC D8 26 94 A9
 > *********************************************************************

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Nov  5 03:41:54 1997
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 09:41:05 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Count1to9 v1.10

Martin Schroeder writes:
 > I have uploaded to the incoming dir of
 >         ftp.dante.de
 > the file
 >         count1to.zip
 > containing Version 1.10 of the count1to LaTeX package.
 >
 > ------------ snipp ------------
 >  Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name ("^" ==> case
 >  ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----   conversion)
 >     471  Defl:X     387  18%  04-11-97  14:45  75e9ea5e   count1to.asc
 >   19581  Defl:X    6426  67%  04-11-97  14:44  229a64ab   count1to.dtx
 >  ------          ------  ---                              -------
 >   20052            6813  66%                              2 files
 > ------------ snapp ------------
 > From the documentation:
 > ------------ snipp ------------
 > %% \iffalse meta-comment
 > %% ===================================================================
 > %%  @LaTeX-style-file{
 > %%     author          = {Martin Schr\"oder},
 > %%     version         = "1.10",
 > %%     date            = "4 November 1997",
 > %%     filename        = "count1to.sty",
 > %%     address         = {Martin Schr\"oder
 > %%                        Cr\"usemannallee 3
 > %%                        D-28213 Bremen
 > %%     telephone       = "+49-421-2239425",
 > %%     email           = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (INTERNET)",
 > %%     codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
 > %%     keywords        = "LaTeX, pages",
 > %%     supported       = "yes",
 > %%     docstring       = "LaTeX package which sets count1 to count9,
 > %%                        which can be used to select certain pages
 > %%                        with a driver.
 > %%                        Also provides access to the number of pages
 > %%                        of the document.
 > %%                        Uses the everyshi package."
 > %%  }
 > %% ===================================================================
 > %% \fi
 > ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The main change from version 1.03 is the addition of the TotalPages label
 > which contains the absolute number of pages in a document; also the
 > implementation has been revamped and now uses the ifthen package.
 >
 > ------------ snipp ------------
 >   \item v1.10\efill
 >  \subitem \verb*+\@countItoIX@bugfix+:\ \cs  {ifthenelse}\pfill 4
 >     \subitem \verb*+\@countItoIX@ifs+:\ \cs  {setboolean}\pfill 3
 >     \subitem \verb*+\@countItoIX@shipout+:\ \cs  {ifthenelse}\pfill 4
 >     \subitem General:\ \cs  {newboolean}\pfill 3
 >       \subsubitem require \textsf  {ifthen}\pfill 3
 >     \subitem \verb*+TotalPages+:\ new\pfill 5
 > ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The files should be placed in
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/count1to
 > and the .dtx should replace the .dtx there.
 >
 > Best regards
 >         Martin
 >
 > --
 >                Martin Schr"oder, MS@Dream.HB.North.DE
 > It is in vain to hope to please all alike.  Let a man stand with his
 > face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on
 > one half of the world.                    (George Dennison Prentice)

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Nov  6 03:44:53 1997
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 09:38:30 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.09 (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 5 Nov 1997 20:24:17 +0100
> From: Christian Schenk <christian.schenk@DETEWE.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.09
>
> I have uploaded to
>
>   ftp.dante.de:/incoming/miktex
>
> an updated version of MiKTeX. MiKTeX is a port of TeX & Friends for
> Windows 95/NT.
>
> Please move these uploaded files into the CTAN directory
> systems/win32/miktex:
>
>   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     11919 Oct 31 13:14 README.TXT
>   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    820733 Oct 31 13:17 amsps109.zip
>   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server   1368507 Oct 31 13:19 cmps109a.zip
>   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    505335 Oct 31 13:36 cmps109b.zip
>   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    208698 Oct 31 13:42 epln109.zip
>   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    624397 Oct 31 13:44 exe109ia.zip
>   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    792636 Oct 31 13:45 exe109ib.zip
>   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    478492 Oct 31 13:46 exe109ic.zip
>   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     67072 Oct 31 13:46 install.exe
>   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server   1245952 Oct 31 13:48 mik109.zip
>   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      4292 Oct 31 13:48 news.txt
>   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    528402 Oct 31 13:50 pdftx109.zip
>   -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server   5912030 Oct 31 13:59 src109.zip
>
> Then remove these obsolete files in systems/win32/miktex:
>
>   -rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server       542 Aug 29 13:54 bugs.txt
>   -rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server    627012 Aug 29 14:02 exe108ia.zip
>   -rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server    952116 Aug 29 14:05 exe108ib.zip
>   -rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server    709359 Aug 29 14:10 mik108.zip
>   -rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server   5615712 Aug 29 14:28 src108.zip

Thanks for the submission!  I installed the update of ftp.dante.de as
requested.  It will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Nov  6 03:57:37 1997
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 09:42:23 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- TeXEd133.zip (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 5 Nov 1997 20:02:59 +0000
> From: hr2@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- TeXEd133.zip
>
> I have uploaded texed133.zip
>
> Please move this file into the systems/os2/texed directory and
> delete texed132.zip

Thanks for the update, I installed the new version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Nov  6 03:56:25 1997
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 09:49:13 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- rail (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 6 Nov 1997 09:35:35 +0100
> From: Klaus Georg Barthelmann <barthel@INFORMATIK.UNI-MAINZ.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- rail
>
> I uploaded the file rail.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> The rail package is a C program and LaTeX package to draw syntax diagrams,
> which are specified in EBNF. This version provides no new functionality. It
> only cleans the C sources a little bit. This is a reaction to some problems
> reported by Ralf Boroschewski (boro@ukrv.de) concerning installation on a SGI.
> Moreover, the documentation now reflects the correct place an CTAN (if it does
> not change again ;-) ).
>
> I suggest to unpack the file in /pub/tex/support. It overwrites the contents
> of the subdirectory rail. No files have been added or removed.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Nov 10 02:49:29 1997
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 08:45:22 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ctan submission - epmtfe (fwd)

> Date:         Sun, 9 Nov 1997 21:32:36 +0100
> From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
> Subject:      ctan submission - epmtfe
>
> I have just uploaded to the \incoming directory at ftp.dante.de the
> files epmtfe.zip and epmtfe.txt.
>
> Please, move them to the directory systems\os2\epmtfe, which is to be
> created.  Do _not_ unpack the archive!
>
> This submission provides the first public release (v0.92 beta) of the
>
>                 EPM TeX Front End
>                 =================
>
> Description:
>
> The EPM TeX Front End is an additional module for the OS/2 `Enhanced
> Editor' (EPM), v6.03, turning the editor into a powerful integrated TeX
> environment.  The EPM TeX Front End can be used in conjunction with
> emTeX or another OS/2 TeX system.
>
> With the TeX Front End the following actions can be performed via the
> EPM toolbar:
>
>    * Running LaTeX (or any other TeX format)
>    * Starting the DVI and Postscript previewing programs
>    * Printing TeX documents
>    * Executing tools like dvips and Bibtex
>    * Viewing and managing the folder of the current document.
>
> Additional features are:
>
>    * Syntax assist (optional)
>    * Syntax highlighting (optional)
>    * Errors are marked in the source code and the corresponding error
>      messages are shown in the EPM message window.
>    * When using Postscript you can request the TeX Front End to
>      automatically convert your document to Postscript after TeXing it.
>    * Special support is provided for processing documents which are
>      spread over several files.
>    * An OS/2 shell, which will start up in the appropriate environment,
>      is provided for running text mode tools.
>
> The EPM TeX Front End comes as a .ex module, ready to be added to an
> existing EPM, and as E language source code.  Documentation is provided
> in English and in German.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as
suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Nov 12 06:30:09 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:22:30 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Update to natbib (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 12 Nov 1997 09:30:42 +0200
> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@LINPWD.MPAE.GWDG.DE>
> Subject:      Update to natbib
>
> I have placed an update to natbib on the Dante CTAN server
> under   /incoming/natbib
>
> Please copy the files   natbib.dtx   and README.v67 to
>  macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib
> and delete the file  README.v66

Thanks, I installed the new files as requested

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Nov 12 06:34:26 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:27:18 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- <easy> (fwd)

> Date:         Tue, 11 Nov 1997 07:45:43 +0100
> From: Enrico Bertolazzi <enrico.bertolazzi@ING.UNITN.IT>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- <easy>
>
> I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
> tar file easy.tar.gz. It contains:
>
> version 0.9 of the `easyeqn' package
> version 0.9 of the `easyvector' package
> version 0.6 of the `easybmat' package
> version 0.1 of the `easymat' package
> version 0.7 of the `easytable' package
> version 0.5 of the `easybib' package.
>
> This file should replace
> the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
> wich contain the old versions.
>
> The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation
> environments that simplify writing of equations.
> It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define
> the column alignment. A package option cases only those
> equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered.
> A set of macros for typesetting is also added.
>
> The \package{easyvector} package is a simple
> macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices.
>
> The \package{easybmat} package is
> a macro package for writing block matrices, with equal column widths
> or equal rows heights or both, with various
> kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
> uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
> Now it is possible to specify minimal size of boxes in a matrix.
> Now it is possible to specify paths in a matrix.
>
> The \package{easytable} package is
> a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths
> or equal rows heights or both, with various
> kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
> uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
> Now it is possible to specify minimal size of boxes in a table.
> Now it is possible to specify paths in a table.
>
> The \package{easymat} package is
> a macro package for writing block matrices, with various
> kinds of rules~(lines) between rows or columns, and
> uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
>
> The \package{easybib} package is
> a macro package for writing custom bibliography
> with a simple AmSTeX-like sintax.

Thanks for the update, I installed it on ftp.dante.de as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From infovore@XS4ALL.NL Wed Nov 12 12:59:42 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 17:06:17 +0100
From: Olaf Weber <infovore@XS4ALL.NL>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Web2c 7.1

At long last web2c-7.1 is available.  This release contains a port of the
basic TeX project programs (TeX, Metafont, MetaPost, GFtoPK, etc.)  to
Unix.  It also contains a new version of the kpathsea library.  It does not
contain any of the dvi drivers (dviljk, dvipsk, xdvik) or other support
programs (makeindexk, ps2pkk): these will become available later.

The release can be obtained by retrieving

        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/web2c.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/web.tar.gz

(the latter is only needed if you do not have the web files, otherwise
you can just link/copy those in the web2c-7.1/web2c directory).  You
will also need a a library tree to compile and use these programs.
The file

        ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/texmflib.tar.gz

provides a bare-bones tree.  Soon these files will be available on
CTAN sites and their mirrors.

  (Germany) ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/web2c
  (England) ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/web2c
  (USA)     ftp://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/systems/web2c

Finger ctan@ftp.dante.de to obtain a list of mirrors.  An up-to-date list
is also appended to this message.


This release fixes virtually all known bugs in web2c-7.0 and kpathsea-3.0,
and adds a few new features, especially to kpathsea.  Many thanks to all
the people who reported bugs, made suggestions, and provided patches.

Instructions for sending bug reports (and joining the mailing list) are in
the distribution file kpathsea/BUGS.

A summary of the changes follows; read them carefully.  Please read
the manuals as well.

kpathsea changes: 3.1 (10 november 1997)
* The support for multiple texmf trees is much improved.
* New MakeTeX* scripts, based on teTeX's.  These scripts now use
  heuristics to decide where generated files are placed and which
  permissions they should have.
* The varfonts feature is enabled by default.
* Some MSDOS/Win32 support added to the sources.
* Change in searching algorithm: if a name doesn't have the default suffix
  we append it for the first search.  Then we search for the bare name.
  Thus if you have foo.bar and foo.bar.tex, the latter will now be found
  first.  Under the old system, you had to specify boo.bar.tex.tex to get
  foo.bar.tex instead of foo.bar.
* Prepend the value of KPSE_DOT to relative paths from texmf.cnf if it
  defined in the environment.  This means we can use . instead of
  $KPSE_DOT in paths.
* Define brace expansion so that {a,b}{1,2} expands to a1:b1:a2:b2.  This
  is different from how shells do it, and exploited in texmf.in.
* Renamed texmf.cnf.in to texmf.in.
* New value for debugging: DEBUG_VARS, equal to 64.
* If a file format has no suffix, allow its long name as the argument to
  kpsewhich --format.


web2c changes: 7.1 (10 november 1997)
* Some MSDOS/Win32 support added to the sources.
* VPtoVF: Increased capacity.
* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost:
  - File foo.bar.tex results in \jobname foo.bar, hence foo.bar.{log,dvi,...}.
    This as opposed to foo and foo.{log,dvi,...} which it how it used to be in
    version 6.  In 7.0 situation was confusing, as the heuristics used would
    sometimes result in the extension being stripped, sometimes not.
* TeX:
  - The -extend-jobname option has been removed.
  - Printing of non-ASCII characters in diagnostics, code by Bernd Raichle.
* web2c:
  - Some support for e-TeX added to convert.


$ finger ctan@ftp.dante.de
[sun.dante.de]
Login name: ctan
Directory: /home/server/ctan            Shell: /bin/sync
Never logged in.
No unread mail
Plan:
In order to reduce network load, it is recommended that you use the
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) host which is located in the
closest network proximity to your site.  Alternatively, you may wish to
obtain a copy of the CTAN via CD-ROM (see help/CTAN.cdrom for details).

Known mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically):
  cis.utovrm.it (Italia)                  /TeX
  ctan.math.mun.ca (Newfoundland, Canada) /tex-archive
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  dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw (Taiwan)         /tex-archive
  ftp.belnet.be (Belgium)                 /packages/TeX
  ftp.ccu.edu.tw (Taiwan)                 /pub/tex
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  ftp.funet.fi (Finland)                  /pub/TeX/CTAN
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  ftp.hea.ie (Ireland)                    /pub/ctan/tex
  ftp.jussieu.fr (France)                 /pub4/TeX/CTAN
  ftp.kreonet.re.kr (Korea)               /pub/CTAN
  ftp.loria.fr (France)                   /pub/unix/tex/ctan
  ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de (Deutschland)         /pub/tex/mirror/ftp.dante.de
  ftp.nada.kth.se (Sweden)                /pub/tex/ctan-mirror
  ftp.oleane.net (France)                 /pub/mirrors/CTAN/
  ftp.rediris.es (Espa\~na)               /mirror/tex-archive
  ftp.rge.com (New York, USA)             /pub/tex
  ftp.riken.go.jp (Japan)                 /pub/tex-archive
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  ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp (Japan)                /pub/tex/CTAN
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  ftp.univie.ac.at (\"Osterreich)         /packages/tex
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Known partial mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically):
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Please send updates to this list to <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.

The participating hosts in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network are:
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--
Olaf Weber

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Nov 13 10:49:38 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 16:42:52 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MonTeX (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:24:14 +0100
> From: Oliver Corff <corff@ZEDAT.FU-BERLIN.DE>
>
> I uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming/montex/ the following files:
>
>         1) montex.zip, the archive file for Mongolian support, and
>         2) README.montex, the README file which can be placed in
>                 the top level montex directory. It is not contained
>                 in the archive itself.
>
> MonTeX provides Mongolian support for LaTeX2e (now Cyrillic, but soon
> also Classical Mongolian) very much like german.sty provides German
> support. The file README.montex contains a detailed overview of the
> implementation levels.
>
> I suggest the location /language/mongolian/montex since
> the directory /language/mongolian also contains the Soyombo
> package.

Thanks for your submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as
suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From wz@IWD.UNI-BREMEN.DE Tue Nov 18 04:25:11 1997
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:18:58 +0100
From: Roland Weibezahn <wz@IWD.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: xtem version 6

Dear xtem users,


We have finished the new version (xtem_TeXMenu 6.12) of

        "xtem",   an  X11-TeX-menu

which runs with the new Tcl/Tk/TclX (Tcl8.0)
as well as with the old versions (Tcl7.4, Tcl7.5 and Tcl7.6).

In addition to adapting xtem to the new Tcl/Tk, we have done
error corrections and added new features, such as:

- the hyphenations found in the .dvi-file can be displayed after a
  TeX run (for this we have written a program hyphen_show.c);

- we also realized key bindings,

- and we modified the print menu (page selection is now controlled
  for the existence of the selected page numbers in the document).


As usual you can get all material (including the source code of
Tcl/Tk/TclX we used) from our ftp server:

   ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem/xtem_texmenu.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/*.tar.gz
or
   http://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html


The final release took a little bit more time than intended by
us originally (vacancies, installation, and -- last but not least --
we had hard to work to program around some incompatibilities between
Tcl8.0 and Tcl7.6).

We have plans for more features, we will discuss them in a few days
in our xtem discussion list, for which you can subscribe with an
e-mail to
                majordomo@iwd.uni-bremen.de
with "body"
                subscribe xtem-list
                end


Regards, Roland Weibezahn
--
Dr. Roland Weibezahn
weibezahn@iwd.uni-bremen.de    phone: +49-421-218-3532
University Bremen, IWD, post-box: 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany
http://www.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html (the xtem_TeXMenu project)

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Nov 18 17:31:23 1997
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 22:28:14 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: unproccessed CTAN Submission --- pmCSTeX for EPM (update, version 11.11.1997)

Petr Mikulik has submitted:

> This is pmCSTeX for EPM, version 11. 11. 1997
>
> Updated version, CTAN location: systems/os2/pmcstex
>
> pmCSTeX is a macro package for the OS/2 editor EPM (Enhanced Programmers
> Editor, version 6.03b or higher required).
>
> It installs the CSTeX menu, hotkeys and optionally a toolbar into EPM,
> which
> access comfortably many useful actions for {em}(La)TeXing from within the
> EPM:
>   -- (La)TeXing the document, LaTeXing a paragraph;
>   -- locate next error;
>   -- previewing (dviPM version, full-screen, and printer previewing);
>   -- printing (several printers configurable or print to a file);
>   -- producing PostScript output (dvips-ing, GhostView or psview preview);
>   -- access to other TeX tools like BibTeX, MakeIndex, vlnka, cstocs;
>   -- Master: (and many other first-line keywords) support;
>   -- new editor actions added (the list of the LaTeX/AMS-math environments
>      and fonts; a keyboard of the names of Greek letters,
> generalized
>      version of the "Include file under cursor" (Alt-1) action, easy
>      manipulation with dictionary of several languages, syntax
> highlighting;
>   -- hypertext help for the LaTeX2e commands.
>
> pmCSTeX for EPM tries to implement the best features of these packages:
> CSTeX MNU for DOS, TeXshell, EPMTeX, pmgraf, emacs.
>
> Author:
>         Petr Mikulik
>         Laboratory of Thin Films and Nanostructures
>           (Department of Solid State Physics)
>         Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
>         Brno
>         Czech Republic
>
>         mikulik@physics.muni.cz
>         http://www.sci.muni.cz/~mikulik/

I've installed the package at ftp.tex.ac.uk, and it will propagate to
the other CTANs and their mirrors soon.

Thanks for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Nov 19 02:41:44 1997
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 08:39:29 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Update to custom-bib on CTAN

Patrick Daly wrote:

> I have put updated files for my custom-bib system on to the dante CTAN
> server under  /incoming/makebst
>
> Please transfer these to   macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib
> removing all the files that are presently there.

> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     17227 Nov 18 12:55 README.384
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      7163 Nov 18 13:37 dutch.mbs
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      7984 Nov 18 12:55 english.mbs
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      7169 Nov 18 13:37 esperant.mbs
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      7421 Nov 18 13:37 finnish.mbs
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      7370 Nov 18 13:37 french.mbs
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     14458 Nov 18 13:40 geojour.mbs
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      8191 Nov 18 13:37 german.mbs
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      7361 Nov 18 13:37 italian.mbs
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     41400 Nov 18 12:54 makebst.dtx
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      2032 Nov 18 12:55 makebst.ins
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    199918 Nov 18 12:54 merlin.mbs
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      7594 Nov 18 13:37 norsk.mbs
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      8249 Nov 18 13:40 photjour.mbs
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     13697 Nov 18 13:40 physjour.mbs
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      7752 Nov 18 13:37 portuges.mbs
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      5529 Nov 18 13:40 shorthnd.ins
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      7686 Nov 18 13:37 spanish.mbs

and

> I have updated my package  aguplus   on dante CTAN in
> incoming/aguplus
>
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      4790 Nov 18 15:17 README.pwd
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     35874 Nov 18 15:16 agu.bst
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     42074 Nov 18 15:15 aguplus.cls
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     39548 Nov 18 15:15 aguplus.sty
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     44281 Nov 18 15:15 aguplus.tex
> -rw-r-----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      5442 Nov 18 15:17 changes.v15e
>
> Please copy these files to  macros/latex/contrib/supported/aguplus
> deleting the file changes.v15d.

I installed the new versions on ftp.dante.de as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Nov 21 02:45:08 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 08:38:51 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Upload to DANTE from GUST: polish.tar.gz, antyktor.tar.gz (fwd)

New or new versions on ftp.dante.de and soon on the other CTAN hosts:
  language/polish
  fonts/psfonts/polish
Moved:
  fonts/psfonts/qfonts -> fonts/psfonts/polish/qfonts

For details, see the mail from Staszek Wawrykiewicz below.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

> Date:         Fri, 21 Nov 1997 01:48:17 +0100
> From: Staszek Wawrykiewicz <S.Wawrykiewicz@GUST.ORG.PL>
> Subject:      Upload to DANTE from GUST: polish.tar.gz, antyktor.tar.gz

> I've just uploaded to DANTE:/incoming/polish.tar.gz
>                                       antyktor.tar.gz
> Please remove:
>      language/polish/popolsku.zip
> and then unpack polish.tar.gz from the main TeX directory
> (it already contains language/polish/ ).
>
> New in polish.tar.gz:
> platex-1.0.zip
>     Bundle `PLaTeX' provides tools to typeset documents in Polish using
>     LaTeX2e.  Documented source codes are in *.dtx and *.fdd files.
>
> The version of other packages is not changed. Since platex-1.0.zip replaced
> popolsku.zip, I had to modify slightly documentations and READMEs:
> 00README
> czytaj.mex
> pl-mf.zip
> mex105.zip
>
> Would you please making a subdirectory
>   fonts/psfonts/polish/
> and move there fonts/psfonts/qfonts/
>
> Finally, please unpack antyktor.tar.gz from the main directory
>      Antykwa Toru\'nska is a serif font designed by the Polish typographer
>      Zygfryd Gardzielewski from Toru\'n.
>      The adaptation of the font for digital typography was made by
>      Janusz Marian Nowacki from GUST. The package contains .pfm, .pfb, .afm
>      and .tfm files, moreover psfonts.map end antt.enc for DVIPS are provided.
>
> Please remake also link:
> cd /tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/polish/
> ln -s ../../../language/polish/plpsfont

From popineau@ESEMETZ.ESE-METZ.FR Fri Nov 21 09:42:47 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 15:38:46 +0100
From: Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@ESEMETZ.ESE-METZ.FR>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Web2c 7.1 for Win32

This is to announce the availability of web2c-7.1.2 for Win32 systems.

You can already get the files from our server:

ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32/web2c-7.1.2-win32.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32/web2c-7.1.2-win32-src.tar.gz

This is an Intel binary release together with its sources.
A basic texmf TDS compliant tree is also available:

ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32/texmflib-base.tar.gz

It contains plain TeX, LaTeX and PDFTeX support files.

These files will be mirrored on CTAN archives from tomorrow morning.

The major new things are:

- updated to the 7.1 release of Web2C
- dvips(k) 5.76
- graphical output for MF
- ps2pkm upgraded to 1.5
- various utilities: dtl, t1utils, dvidvi, dviconcat, dvicopy,
                     makeinfo

The minor new things are too numerous to be listed.

The file README.win32 is a somewhat more complete description and can
be found in the same directory as above.

Fabrice Popineau

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Nov 22 11:43:02 1997
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 16:39:27 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: typehtml package update

David Carlisle writes:

> Update to macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/typehtml
>
> This mainly has changes to not fight with Bernard Gaulle's french
> package over active character definitions.
>
> It also has one small change so that line break <br> commands don't
> generate an error if used in vertical mode.
>
> Note that typehtml.sty still supports
>   html2 +
>   Math component of html3.0 +
>   a few at the time non standard netscapisms.
>
> It could probably do with being updated for html3.2.
> If someone wants to volunteer....

This was installed on CTAN yesterday, but I omitted to announce it.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Sergei.Ivanov@POBOX.SPBU.RU Sun Nov 23 16:16:17 1997
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:00:24 +0300
From: Sergei A. Ivanov <Sergei.Ivanov@POBOX.SPBU.RU>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: AMS rusification

Hi, everyone,
I have a problem for AMS TeX rusifications.
The easiest way to help me is to inform me about sites
containing "standard AMS-TeX font names" including cyrrilic.

In detail:
In my old small Tex-version I used ViteX. In this TeX
I did not insert any commands like \russian, \cyr etc.
As I understand, fonts cmr and other have russian characters after
latin ones. I had little number of fonts, so preview and
printing pages were not to good.

Recently I have installed EMTEX  (installation program 0.2b)
and then have used rusification (Samarin-Glonti fonts). Latex
is work with cyrrilic not bad, I have installed AMS-TeX,
but could not make rusification. I prefer a variant in which
I can uses old name of fonts: cmr.., cmti etc.
Can someone to help me?

St. Petersburg State University, RUSSIA         Sergei Ivanov

From popineau@ESEMETZ.ESE-METZ.FR Mon Nov 24 03:22:43 1997
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 09:20:29 +0100
From: Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@ESEMETZ.ESE-METZ.FR>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Web2C-7.1 for Win32

Web2c-7.1 for Win32 is now on the CTAN in the following files:

<CTAN>/systems/win32/web2c/web2c-7.1.2-win32.tar.gz
<CTAN>/systems/win32/web2c/web2c-7.1.2-win32-src.tar.gz
<CTAN>/systems/win32/web2c/texmflib-base.tar.gz

Major changes are:

- up to date with web2c-7.1
- dvipsk 5.76
- ps2pk 1.5
- graphical output support for MF
- many new support tools

Minor changes are too numerous to be listed.

Things that still lack:
- xdvi, but progress has been made

Fabrice Popineau

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Nov 24 04:19:43 1997
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 09:08:07 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: AMS rusification

> Hi, everyone,

CTAN is an archive, not a help mechanism.  Please do not overburden
the archive administrators with support tasks: there are mailing lists
(for example, info-tex@shsu.edu) and a Usenet group (comp.text.tex)
for such support.  Be sure to say which operating system you're using,
and to give other relevant details.

> I have a problem for AMS TeX rusifications.
> The easiest way to help me is to inform me about sites
> containing "standard AMS-TeX font names" including cyrrilic.

If you're after AMS information, try the AMS help line
(tech-support@math.ams.org or some such thing)

> In my old small Tex-version I used ViteX. In this TeX
> I did not insert any commands like \russian, \cyr etc.
> As I understand, fonts cmr and other have russian characters after
> latin ones. I had little number of fonts, so preview and
> printing pages were not to good.

cm fonts are for american english, with a small number of concessions
to w european languages.

> Recently I have installed EMTEX  (installation program 0.2b)
> and then have used rusification (Samarin-Glonti fonts). Latex
> is work with cyrrilic not bad, I have installed AMS-TeX,
> but could not make rusification. I prefer a variant in which
> I can uses old name of fonts: cmr.., cmti etc.

most (but not all) modern tex work is based on latex, which has
techniques for seamlessly switching between languages.

we as an archive can never distribute files cmr ... with other
characters in them than knuth's, since knuth complains vigorously
about people who do such things.  find out from your local support
people what to do, perhaps?  there are a lot of tex-aware people in
spbu

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Nov 24 06:18:14 1997
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:07:26 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- emulateapj (fwd)

> Date:         Sun, 23 Nov 1997 21:27:14 -0500
> From: Maxim Markevitch <maxim@HEAD-CFA.HARVARD.EDU>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- emulateapj
>
> Hi, I have uploaded the file emulateapj.tar.gz at ftp.dante.de. This tar
> file containts 3 files (README, emulateapj.sty and apjfonts.sty). The two
> LaTeX style files produce preprints with the page layout similar to that of
> the Astrophysical Journal. The files work with both latex209 and 2e. The
> style has been used for some time, and is now sufficiently debugged to put
> it in the archive. Probably the most appropriate directory for this package
> is /macros/latex/contrib/supported/emulateapj/

Thanks for the subscription, I installed the files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Nov 25 02:38:04 1997
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 08:35:01 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- latexn (fwd)

> Date:         Mon, 24 Nov 1997 18:02:45 -0500
> From: John Collins <collins@phys.psu.edu>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- latexn
>
> I have uploaded a new version of latexn to ftp.dante.de.  It consists
> of a single file of that name.  The file should replace the previous
> version in /tex-archive/support/.
>
> latexn is a csh script to run latex as many times as needed on a given
> file to resolve cross references, and to ensure that the table of
> contents, bibliography, and index (if any) are up-to-date.  It tries
> to avoid running latex more times than needed.  Documentation is in
> the form of comments and help text in the file.
>
> The new version adds the following:
>
> 1. It runs bibtex if needed, and ensures that the bibliography is
> up-to-date.
>
> 2. It cleans up after itself by deleting the extra files it generates.

Thanks for the new version.  I installed it on ftp.dante.de as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Nov 25 04:28:47 1997
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:19:40 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- adfathesis

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk a file called adfathesis2.zip (a
> first attempt a couple of days ago failed leaving a file
> adfathesis.zip of zero size).

Sorry, I noticed that but not that it was of zero length: I could have
deleted it for you...

> This contains a class which modifies the standard report class to meet
> the thesis requirements of the Australian Defence Force Academy (a
> college of the University of New South Wales).  This is an updated
> version which fixes some problems with the front matter in double
> sided theses.
>
> The suggested placement is in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/adfathesis where it should replace the
> previous version.

Thanks, I've installed it as suggested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Nov 26 03:25:05 1997
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:17:34 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- overpic

Rolf Niepraschk writes:
 > I have upload an update of my LaTeX package overpic to /incoming on
 > ftp.dante.de .
 > The filename is overpic.tar.gz . This archive contains the following
 > files:
 >
 > opic-abs.tex
 > opic-rel.tex
 > overpic.sty
 > README
 > README.de
 >
 > Please put the files in the directory
 >
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/overpic/
 >
 > Now a bug with the tics option is corrected and the description is
 > a bit clearer.

Thanks, I installed the update.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf



 > >From README:
 > --------------------
 > This small LaTeX package defines the overpic environment which is
 > a combination between a picture environment and an includegraphics
 > command (defined in graphicx). The resulting picture environment has
 > the same dimension as the included eps graphic. Now it is easy possible
 > to put any LaTeX output above the graphic on defined positions. A grid
 > to aid is also possible.
 >
 > This directory contains the following files:
 >
 > README       - This file.
 > README.de    - The same in german.
 > overpic.sty  - The definition of overpic. Required graphicx.sty and epic.sty.
 > opic-rel.tex
 > and
 > opic-abs.tex - Two demos that shows all the features. You need the eps graphic
 >                file golfer.ps. This file is part of ghostscript's  examples
 >                directory.
 >
 > Please send comments and suggestions to niepraschk@ptb.de
 >
 > Happy TeXing...
 >
 >                                   Rolf Niepraschk, 11/97

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Nov 27 06:09:09 1997
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 12:03:14 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- bibweb (fwd)

> Date:         Wed, 26 Nov 1997 11:50:58 -0500
> From: John H Palmieri <John.H.Palmieri.2@ND.EDU>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- bibweb
>
> I just uploaded the file bibweb.tar.gz to the incoming directory of
> ftp.dante.de, as a submission to CTAN.  This tar file contains the
> Bibweb package; Bibweb is a utility for automatically retrieving
> mathematical bibliographical information, in BibTeX format, from the
> American Mathematical Society's MathSciNet database.  More precisely,
> it acts as a front-end to BibTeX; it converts any citations that
> BibTeX can't find into queries to the MathSciNet database, it carries
> out those queries, and returns the answers in BibTeX format.  Included
> in the package are: the perl script bibweb, documentation (in various
> formats), and a test file.  I suppose I would put this package in the
> directory CTAN:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Nov 27 07:47:52 1997
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 13:43:42 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: KOMA-Script Update (fwd)

> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 13:20:46 +0100 (CET)
> Cc: Markus_Kohm@HD.maus.de
> From: unlf@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Markus Kohm)
>
> ich habe gerade eine neue Version von KOMA-Script nach
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/komascript/ geschoben. Diese neue Version
> ersetzt wie immer den Inhalt von tex-archive/macros/supported/koma-script

Thanks a lot.  I installed the new version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec  9 06:34:10 1997
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 11:28:02 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload to Cambridge

David Carlisle writes:

> incoming/carlisle has
>
> total 31
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan        4305 Dec  9 11:13 00readme.txt
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan       17817 Dec  9 11:13 fix2col.dtx
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan         149 Dec  9 11:13 fix2col.ins
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan        6168 Dec  9 11:13 mylatex.ltx
>
> Could you put those in supported/carlisle thanks.
> mylatex is just a minor update, fix2col is:
>
> fix2col.dtx
> fix2col.ins
>    Two column fixes.
>    a) Fix mark handling so \firstmark is taken from the first column
>       if that column has marks at all.
>       (A copy of Piet van Oostrum's fixmarks package, more or less.)
>    b) Keep two column floats like figure* in sequence with single
>       column floats like figure.
>       (Modelled on  Ed Sznyter's 2.09 package, fixfloats.)

I have installed the files as suggested; thanks for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Dec 15 09:03:18 1997
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 14:55:23 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- dante-src (update)

Klaus Braune writes:
 > (a) I have uploaded updated files of the DANTE UNIX TeX distribution to the
 >     server
 >         ftp.dante.de
 >     to the directory
 >         /incoming/dante-src
 >
 > (b) The package update consists of the files
 >         LIES.MICH
 >         READ.ME
 >         dante-latex.tar.gz
 >         dante-update.tar.gz
 >
 > (c) The files are part of the DANTE UNIX TeX distribution (TeX, LateX2e,
 >     METAFONT, BibTeX, MakeIndex, drivers for X11, HP LaserJet and PostScript).
 >     The package update contains an updated version of the LaTeX part of the
 >     distribution (June 97 - teh december version is not yet available),
 >     updated files LIES.MICH and READ.ME and the new file dante-update.tar.gz
 >     containing bug fixes to other files being part of the distribution.
 >
 > (d) The files
 >         LIES.MICH
 >         READ.ME
 >         dante-latex.tar.gz
 >     replace the files at the directory
 >         pub/tex/systems/unix/dante-src
 >     (the files dante-dvilj.tar.gz, dante-dvips.tar and dante-tex.tar.gz have
 >     not changed).  The file
 >         dante-update.tar.gz
 >     is new and contains some bug fixes to the unchanged files.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Dec 17 03:56:26 1997
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 09:43:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <easy>

Enrico Bertolazzi writes:
 > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
 > tar file easy.tar.gz. It contains:
 >
 > version 1.0 of the `easyeqn' package
 > version 0.9 of the `easyvector' package
 > version 0.7 of the `easybmat' package
 > version 0.2 of the `easymat' package
 > version 0.8 of the `easytable' package
 > version 0.5 of the `easybib' package.
 >
 > This file should replace
 > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
 > wich contain the old versions.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf





 >
 > The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation
 > environments that simplify writing of equations.
 > It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define
 > the column alignment. A package option cases only those
 > equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered.
 > A set of macros for typesetting is also added.
 >
 > The \package{easyvector} package is a simple
 > macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices.
 >
 > The \package{easybmat} and \package{easymat} packages are
 > macro packages for writing block matrices, with equal column widths
 > or equal rows heights or both, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 > Now it is possible to specify minimal size of boxes in a matrix.
 > Now it is possible to specify paths in a matrix.
 >
 > The \package{easytable} package is
 > a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths
 > or equal rows heights or both, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 > Now it is possible to specify minimal size of boxes in a table.
 > Now it is possible to specify paths in a table.
 >
 > The \package{easybib} package is
 > a macro package for writing custom bibliography
 > with a simple AmSTeX-like sintax.
 >
 > Thanks a lot for the attention,
 > ____________________________________________________________________________
 >
 > ____________________________________________________________________________
 > Enrico Bertolazzi
 > Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Strutturale
 > Universit� degli Studi di Trento
 > Via Mesiano 77                        Tel: +39-461-882590
 > I-38050 Trento                        Fax: +39-461-882599
 > Italy                                 mailto:enrico.bertolazzi@ing.unitn.it
 > ____________________________________________________________________________

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec 17 04:11:12 1997
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 09:00:52 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- epslatex version 2.0

Keith Reckdahl writes:

> I have uploaded two files to the ftp.tex.ac.uk \incoming directory
>
>     epslatex.ps
>     epslatex.pdf
>
> Please move these to the tex-archive/info directory.
> These are a 300-dpi PostScript file and a PDF file made
> using type-1 fonts (latex-dvips-distiller).  The 300dpi
> PS file was uploaded because it was much smaller than the
> type-1 PS file (767 Kb vs 2308 Kb).
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
> reckdahl@am-sun2.stanford.edu
>
>
> Changes to Version 2.0
> -----------------------
>
>     New title: "Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e"
>     How to include EPS files which are stored in subdirectories
>     How to conserve pool space
>     A listing of graphics-conversion software
>     Marginal figures
>     Wide figures
>     Non-floating figures
>     Placing a figure beside table
>     Placing horizontal rule lines before/after figures.
>     How to change \figurename
>     Float lengths and counters
>     Spacing before/after figures, between text/floats, etc.
>     flafter package
>     endfloat package
>     placeins package (\FloatBarrier)
>     Continued Figures and Subfigures
>     Watermark graphics in the page background

I have installed the files as Keith suggests.  Thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec 17 05:15:15 1997
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:13:50 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: update to Cambridge

David Carlisle writes:

> incoming has carlisle.zip which should unpack to
>
> bash$ ls -l carlisle/
> total 27
> -r--r--r--   1 david    david        4576 Dec 17 09:35 00readme.txt
> -r--r--r--   1 david    david        2776 Dec 17 09:35 comma.sty
> -r--r--r--   1 david    david        5200 Dec 17 09:34 slashed.sty
> -r--r--r--   1 david    david       11933 Dec 17 09:34 textcase.dtx
> -r--r--r--   1 david    david         151 Dec 17 09:34 textcase.ins
>
> Please unpack into contrib/supported/carlisle, and *delete* the existing
> textcase.sty (textcase now in dtx format).
>
> comma.sty is an update:
> % v1.2 add \@comma@ux for very long digit strings (requested on c.t.t)
> This package formats a number by inserting a comma (or anything else)
> every three digits, as in 1,234.
>
> slashed.sty was an answer to a c.t.t question a year ago, which I
> forgot about until a similar question got asked again this week.
> It puts / through characters, for the Physicist's `Feynman slashed
> character' notation.
>
> textcase.dtx is an update, it is now in documented `dtx' form.
> The package defines \MakeTextUppercase, a version of \MakeUppercase
> that skips over math mode. This update incorporates some improvements
> by Donald Arseneau, so that it now also copes with \ref, \label and
> \cite, avoiding uppercasing their symbolic `key' arguments.

Duly installed.

Thanks for the stuff ...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Dec 17 11:04:41 1997
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:54:43 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- OzTeX-german

Lothar Meyer-Lerbs writes:

 > I've uploaded the new OzTeX-german version to ftp.dante.de/incoming/oztex-german
 > this directory should replace the old
 > /pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german
 > directory.

Thanks, I installed the new version.

For the CTAN-Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Dec 18 03:54:56 1997
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 09:50:43 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt Patch

Aleksander Simonic writes:
 > I have just uploaded the latest WinEdt Patch (hopefully the last
 > one for this release) to
 >
 >      ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt.zip
 >
 > Please move the file to
 >
 >      tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt
 >
 > The patch fixes a few problems related to files with no extensions
 > and yet another GPF that was discovered by an adventurous user...

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

Seasons greetings to you

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Dec 18 03:59:46 1997
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 09:52:42 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- dvips 5.76 for emTeX and OS/2+DOS/Win

Wonkoo Kim writes:

 > I have uploaded ftp.dante.de/incoming/dvips576.zip.
 >
 > This is dvips 5.76 (dvi to postscript converter) for emTeX and OS/2
 > or DOS(/Win/Win95/NT).
 >
 > This package was compiled with emx/gcc 0.9c fix04 under OS/2 Warp,
 > after patching (for emTeX) the original dvips 5.76 sources of
 > /pub/tex/dviware/dvips/dvips576.tar.gz on CTAN site.  This includes
 > a few bug fixes and some enhancements.
 >
 > The archive includes OS/2+DOS bound executables, patched sources/diffs
 > (but not unpatched sources), tfm files, virtual fonts, and some docs.
 >
 > The executables should also work on DOS, Win3.1, Win95, or NT with
 > EMX/RSX/RSXWIN/RSXNT runtime modules.
 >
 > Please replace the old version of
 >         pub/tex/systems/os2/dviware/dvips/dvips576.zip
 >         (The new archive has the same name, as it's dvips 5.76 with bug fix.)
 >
 > Since this should work for MSDOS as well, please make the link for
 >         pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips576.zip

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

 > P.S. Here are some history of changes:
 >     October 9, 1997
 >                 - dvips 5.76 for OS2/DOS/emTeX
 >
 >     October 18, 1997 (not released)
 >                 - DVIPS_STDERR env to redirect stderr to a file.
 >                 - Removed path info of dvips program in %DVIPSCommandLine:.
 >                 - Fixed ':' problem in output device names. (':' may be added.)
 >                 - New option 'F' (add Control-D) for configuration file.
 >                 - Modified maketexp.{bat,cmd} for automatic font generation
 >
 >     December 6, 1997 (not released)
 >                 - fixed bug with binary sections (%%BeginBinary) of EPS files.
 >                   (new CR-LF codes)
 >
 >     December 17, 1997
 >                 - faster (> 10x) processing speed for DOS EPSF binary files.
 >
 >
 > //--------------------------------------------------------------------
 > // Wonkoo Kim (wkim+@pitt.edu)

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Dec 19 04:13:07 1997
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:08:00 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LaTeD, an editor for LaTeX pictures and MSDOS.

resslere writes:

 > (a)  I uploaded to ftp.dante.de .
 > (b)  One file:  lated11.zip
 >       An eariler attempt to upload LATED11.ZIP (all caps) failed,
 >       also an attempt to make a directory called lated.
 > (c)  Here is part of the file README.TXT:
 >
 > ------ start
 > LaTeD Version 1.1
 > (c) Gene Ressler 1993, 94, 97
 >   de8827@trotter.usma.edu
 >
 > LaTeD is a graphical editor for drawings in the LaTeX "picture"
 > environment.  It runs under MSDOS or in a Windows DOS box.  The
 > distribution includes full sources, including LaTeX source for
 > its documentation.
 >
 > No warranty of this software is expressed or implied by the author.
 >
 > Copy and use this program freely for any purpose except for sale
 > of the program (including the source code) itself.  That is,
 > no one can copy this program for the purpose of providing it to
 > another person in exchange for money or other compensation, even
 > if this program is only part of the exchange.
 >
 > All copies of computer source code in this distribution, whether
 > copies in whole or in part, must have this notice attached.
 > ------ end
 >
 > (d)  I believe the system would fit under systems\msdos\lated .  Indeed, I
 > am trying to contact  Eberhard Mattes to see if he's interested in
 > distributing LaTeD with EMTeX, which is already there.

Thanks a lot, I installed your software as proposed.

 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Dec 22 06:13:15 1997
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:07:04 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN host ftp.dante.de unavailable

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.

Due to a disk failure this morning (Dec 22) the CTAN server
ftp.dante.de is out of service. Joachim Lammarsch is trying to get a
replacement before Xmas.

--
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec 23 08:13:09 1997
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 13:05:55 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Tabbing

Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes:

> I put the package Tabbing in /incoming on ftp.tex.ac.uk (file Tabbing.tar.gz.uu)
>
> I had done that on ftp.dante.de last week, but this machine is broken now.
>
> The ``Tabbing'' package offers a variant of the tabbing environment which
> allow accented letters (much mail about that in comp.text.tex these days).
> The Tabbing package has been exposed un the french FAQ since month without any
> problem. So I think it is time to put in on CTAN (please). Location:
>
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/Tabbing
>
> There are three files: 00readme, Tabbing.ins and Tabbing.dtx. Installation
> is done the usual way.

I've installed the package as suggested.

> It is my tiny Xmas gift.

Thanks for the upload.

> Merry Xmas and happy new year.

And to you, and all our readers, too ;-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec 24 07:30:32 1997
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 12:26:53 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- packages mathenv, mathcmd, sobolev, graphfig, dblfont, quotes

Francesco Bosisio writes:

> I've just uploaded some packages to the CTAN site "ftp.tex.ac.uk".
>
> The required informations follow:
>
> (a)     I've placed my packages in "/incoming/bosisio/"
>         (I made a directory only for clarity, each package is
>         stand-alone).
>
> (b)     The packages are:
>                 mathenv.dtx
>                 mathcmd.dtx
>                 sobolev.dtx
>                 graphfig.dtx
>                 dblfont.dtx
>                 quotes.dtx
>         They are all documented with DOC conventions:
>         simply run them through LeTeX to get the corresponding
>         ".sty" file and the documentation driver ".drv".
>         You can then LaTeX the driver to obtain the documentation.
>         I've also uploaded a file       "makedoc"       that is
>         a UNIX shell script which will do the job.
>
> (c)     Here is a brief description of each package.
>                         mathenv.sty
>         This package defines some math-mode environment which occours very
>         often in writing mathematics.
>         The "Equation" environment is defined as having an optional argument,
>         used as a label.
>         In other words      "\begin{Equation}[<name>] ... \end{Equation}"
>         is equivalent to    "\begin{equation}\label{<name>} ... \end{equation}".
>         The "MultiLine" environment is used for long formulas that don't fit
>         on a single line, but no "&" mark is needed, since all lines but the
>         first are authomatically indented by a predefined amount of space.
>         The "System" environment is for grouping a set of equations with one
>         only number and with an enclosing left brace.
>         Also these two environments have an optional argument used as a label.
>         All the above environments have a *-form, which does not generate a
>         number.
>                         mathcmd.dtx
>         It provides a slightly modified version of the commands for
>         making integrals and sums.
>         Moreover, it provides commands to deal with derivatives
>         an vector operators.
>         (I'm aware this package may not be so useful to other people)
>                         sobolev.dtx
>         This package provides commands which are useful when dealing
>         with Hilbert and Sobolev spaces (which occours very often, for
>         example, in numerical analisys).
>         It also provides the "\Norm", "\SemiNorm", "\Scalar" and "Crochet"
>         commands which are also involved in the same context.
>                         graphfig.dtx
>         This package combines the tools of the "graphic", "subfigure" and
>         "float" packages in a way that makes their use simpler and more
>         robust.
>         The "Figure" environment (capitalized!) differs from the standard
>         LaTeX "figure" environment in some details. First, besides the
>         optional argument to specify the float placement ("[<htbpH>]")
>         it has a mandatory argument to specify the caption and another
>         optional argument which is used as a label.
>         These features makes you sure that the "\label" command appears after
>         the "\caption" command, making it referencing the right thing (and
>         thus avoiding possible errors, which are indeed difficult to find).
>         The commands "\graphfile[<width>]{<figure>}[<sub-caption>]"
>         and "\graphfile*[<heigth>]{<figure>}[<sub-caption>]"
>         have the additional advavntage that the picture will
>         be automatically centered along the horizontal direction.
>                         dblfont.dtx
>         This package is intended for generating commands that prints
>         letters in the blackboard-bold font (which is often used for
>         the numerical sets, for example).
>                         quotes.dtx
>         It allows for the character <"> authomatically produce
>         <``> or <''> so that opening and closing quotes are
>         produced without warrying about it.
>
> (d)     I suggest to place my packages in the CTAN directory
>         "macros/latex/contrib/supported/" (as suggested me by
>         Rainer Schoepf).
>         You can also think of making a subdirectory for all
>         these packages.
>
> If you have other questions, I will try to answer as possible.
>
> Thanks,
>
>         Francesco Bosisio.
>
>         Department of Mathematics,
>         Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
>         E-mail: bosisio@mate.polimi.it

I have installed the files as requested.  Thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec 24 07:56:19 1997
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 12:54:26 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: '98 year planner

Dick Nickalls has submitted his 1998 year planner, and I have
(finally) installed it ... I've been a bit busy this month.

The documentation says:

  The Yplan98 YearPlanner consists of two files
  Yplan98A.tex & Yplan98B.tex which cover 6 months each
  as follows:-

  Yplan98A.tex  (January to June 1998)
  Yplan98B.tex  (July to December 1998)

  These files will print a vertical-type daily planner
  (ie months along the top, days downwards), with each
  6-month period fitting onto a single A4 sheet.
  They will also fit onto USA standard size paper.

(there's more to it than that, but...)

I have installed the files in macros/latex/contrib/other/yplan98 (and
I've also deleted last year's planner from the archive).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Dec 29 08:00:14 1997
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 13:58:42 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: LaTeX Dec 97 delayed

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.

Due to the breakdown of the CTAN server ftp.dante.de on Dec 22, 1997,
the LaTeX Team decided to delay the December 97 release of LaTeX until
January. Otherwise, only part of CTAN would be able to pick up the new
release, the others would still have offered the old (June 97)
release.

For the LaTeX Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From wschmi@ibm.net Sat Jan  3 16:27:01 1998
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 22:24:49 +0100
From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ctan submission: epmtfe11.*

Hello,
I have uploaded the files epmtfe11.zip and epmtfe11.txt to the
directory /incoming at ftp.dante.de.  Please, move them to

        systems/os2/epmtfe/

and delete the files currently existing there.

This is the release 1.1 of the "EPM TeX Front End", an additional
module for the OS/2 editor EPM providing an integrated (em)TeX
environment.

Compared with release 1.0 a German version is now provided beside the
English one, many features have been enhanced and sample configuration
files for the EPM have been added.

Thank you,
best wishes for the new year,

Walter

*********************************************************************
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Schornbaumstrasse 2,  91052 Erlangen,  Germany
pgp key (1024 bits, keyID 69D36B8D):  see <html://www.trustcenter.de>
pgp key fingerprint: 1C E5 A5 D8 B8 F7 E2 EF  36 55 69 EC D8 26 94 A9
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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Jan  4 16:48:02 1998
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 22:44:09 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- urwvf.tar.gz

> I've just uploaded the file urwvf.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de/incoming
>
> It contains a collection of virtual fonts generated with fontinst 1.6,
> that provide the fonts which URW has made available under the GNU
> License: Antiqua, Grotesk, Nimbus and Nimbus Sans, (and which are available
> as raw fonts from CTAN/fonts/urw/) in OT1, T1, 8r and OT4 encodings, to
> be used with LaTeX2e. The afm and pfa files, taken from CTAN/fonts/urw/,
> are included in the bundle.
>
> I suggest to put the bundle to CTAN/fonts/urwvf

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as
suggested.  They will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Jan  4 16:49:33 1998
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 22:46:19 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- anttvf.tar.gz

> From: ToMasz Wierzbicki <tomasz@TCS.UNI.WROC.PL>
>
> I've just uploaded the file anttvf.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de/incoming
>
> It contains a collection of virtual fonts generated with fontinst 1.6,
> that provide a Postscript font `Antykwa Toru\'nska' (available form CTAN at
> CTAN/fonts/psfonts/polish/antyktor/) in OT1, T1, TS1 and OT4 encodings,
> to be used with LaTeX2e. The original font is not included in the bundle.
>
> I suggest to put the bundle to CTAN/fonts/anttvf

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as
suggested.  They will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jan  5 07:32:37 1998
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 13:22:12 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.10 beta 1

Christian Schenk writes:
 > I have uploaded MiKTeX 1.10 beta 1 to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex:
 >
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     12695 Jan  5 11:49 README.TXT
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    696644 Jan  5 10:23 amsf108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    273054 Jan  5 10:24 amsl108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    820733 Jan  5 10:27 amsps109.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    250668 Jan  5 10:29 babl108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    148692 Jan  5 10:30 bib108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    349558 Jan  5 10:36 cm108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server   1368507 Jan  5 10:40 cmps109a.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    505335 Jan  5 10:42 cmps109b.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    158181 Jan  5 10:43 dvips110.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server   1292720 Jan  5 10:50 ec108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    208698 Jan  5 10:50 epln109.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    261422 Jan  5 10:53 exe110ia.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server   1390081 Jan  5 10:58 exe110ib.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    234349 Jan  5 11:00 exe110ic.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     68608 Jan  5 11:35 install.exe
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    742475 Jan  5 11:39 latex108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     57793 Jan  5 11:40 mf108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    405313 Jan  5 11:43 mik110.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     85554 Jan  5 11:43 misc108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     30239 Jan  5 11:44 mkind108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    434794 Jan  5 11:45 mp108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      6736 Jan  5 11:47 news.txt
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server   1150581 Jan  5 11:52 om110.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    374809 Jan  5 11:55 pdftx110.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    872468 Jan  5 12:00 ps108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    552063 Jan  5 12:02 sty108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    332382 Jan  5 12:04 tex108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    587888 Jan  5 12:06 txi108.zip
 >   -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    138240 Jan  5 12:06 unzip.exe
 >
 > MiKTeX is an implementation of TeX & Friends for Win32. Here are the news:
 >
 >   * YAP displays gray-scaled character bitmaps (=> better output quality)
 >   * TeX memory parameters can be changed at run-time
 >   * TeX invokes editor on error
 >   * Omega 1.47 (experimental version)
 >
 > Please install the files in dircectory
 >
 >         /tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/beta

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jan  7 11:49:41 1998
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 17:43:07 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinTeXShell32

Dirk Struve writes:

 > I have uploaded 2 files to ftp.dante.de. The files are:
 >
 > WinTeXShell32.zip
 > WinTeXShell32.txt
 >
 > They include a free TeXShell for Windows 95 and NT and
 > some explanation. The texshell has some nice features like:
 >
 > 1. It keeps all its files is its own directory (even the
 >    ini file). No extra DLLs that mess up your system
 >    directory.
 > 2. Syntax highlighting for TeX commands.
 > 3. External programs freely definable.
 > 4. Support for dviwins line specials.
 > 5. Predefined templates and dialogs that assist you in editing
 >    text or create new documents.
 > 6. User defined templates that can even embrace an existing text.
 > 7. Dialog for inserting images (works with dviwin only).
 > 8. Images can be opened directly from the texshell.
 > 9. It is small.
 >
 > I suggest you put it into:
 >
 > /pup/tex/systems/win32/texshell32

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.

 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jan  7 11:54:23 1998
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 17:46:33 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- os2tex

Juergen Kleinboehl writes:

 > (a) state which site you have uploaded to
 >
 >     ftp.dante.de/incoming/os2tex/
 >
 > (b) state what file(s) you have uploaded
 >
 >     disk1.zip
 >     disk2.zip
 >     disk3.zip
 >     disk4.zip
 >     disk5.zip
 >     disk6.zip
 >     os2tex.eng
 >     os2tex.ger
 >
 > (c) brief overview
 >
 >     OS2TeX is a distribution of D.E. Knuth's typesetting system TeX
 >     for the IBM operating system OS/2 Warp.
 >
 > (d) recommend placing
 >
 >     pub/tex/systems/os2/os2tex/


Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.

 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jan  8 08:18:45 1998
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 14:10:54 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- examdesign.zip

Jason Alexander writes:

 >   The newest release of 'examdesign' has been uploaded to the ftp.dante.de
 > server for some time.  I sent an email a while ago requesting that the file
 > (examdesign.zip) be unzipped to the directory
 >
 >         CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/supported/examdesign
 >
 > *completely* replacing the previous contents of that directory.  I would
 > greatly appreciate it if you could do this.

Thanks, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jan  8 09:10:54 1998
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 14:59:29 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- mma3fnt.zip mma3fnt.tar.gz

jpk@MAX.MPAE.GWDG.DE writes:

 > (a) upload to sun.dante.de:/incoming/MathematicaFonts
 > (b) TDS conform *.zip and *.tar.gz archives
 > (c) Virtual TeX fonts that can be used with the PostScript fonts
 >     distributed with Mathematica 3.0. The archives use a TDS conform
 >     directory structure. A style file for LaTeX2e is included, that
 >     enables the usage of the fonts and the new symbols form LaTeX2e.
 >     The manual describes how the fonts mcan be installed and how to
 >     use the style file and its symbol definitions.
 > (d) tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/Mathematica3.0
 >     and/or
 >     tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/Mathematica3.0

Sorry for the delay, your message got lost in a heap of others.

Thanks for your submission, I installed the files in

   fonts/psfonts/Mathematica3.0

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Jan 10 08:32:42 1998
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:27:26 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- directory-0.96.tar.gz

Christophe Geuzaine writes:

> I wrote a little macro package for LaTeX and BIBTeX that facilitates the
> construction, the maintenance and the exploitation of an address book
> like database.
>
> The package (directory-0.96.tar.gz and directory-0.96.zip) was uploaded
> on 'ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming' on Jan 9 (16:26). It contains the styles
> files as well as the documentation. I think it would best fit in a
> 'bibliography/bibtex/contrib/directory' directory...

I have unpacked the files you submitted (their content seems identical
-- I hope I'm right) and installed the contents in the bibtex/contrib
subdirectory as you suggest.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Jan 10 08:51:39 1998
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:49:05 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: `Oxford' bibliography style

Following an exchange late last year (arising from a posting on
comp.text.tex) I have installed Peter Antman's oxford bibliography
style on CTAN in directory bibliography/bibtex/contrib/oxford

Oxford is a bibtex style geared at citations for the humanities, and
the README says:

  The oxford style implements the oxford style interpreted through the eye of
  a swede working in the fields of the history of ideas.

  The style is based on Harvard.sty and a heavily hacked bst-file generated with
  custom-bib. It currently only supports

  \cite[]{}

  and

  \cite{}

  and only in abrevation mode.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jan 12 04:06:31 1998
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 09:52:30 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Alex Fries writes:

 > I've upload an update for FriBrief on ftp.dante.de. I've put the
 > files into /incoming/fribrief. There are 4 Files:
 >   fribrief.cls   LaTeX-class
 >   fribrief.ger   documentation
 >   k_fribri.cls   LaTeX-class
 >   k_fribri.ger   documentation
 >
 > This files replace the files in
 > .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/fribief.

Thanks a lot, I installed the upgrade.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jan 12 04:14:27 1998
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 10:07:06 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- latex2man

Juergen Vollmer writes:
 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de the following file
 >         latex2man-1.0.tar.gz
 > The following files are contained in latex2man-1.0.tar.gz
 > latex2man/latex2man             PERL script
 > latex2man/latex2man.tex         Documentation and example
 > latex2man/latex2man.trans       Example of user customization
 > latex2man/latex2man.1           Generated Man-Page
 > latex2man/latex2man.html        Generated HTML
 > latex2man/latex2man.texi        Generated TexInfo
 > latex2man/latex2man.info        Generated Info-file
 > latex2man/Makefile
 > latex2man/README
 > latex2man/INSTALL
 > latex2man/THIS-IS-VERSION-1.0
 >
 > >From the README:
 > Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a
 > format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command.
 > Alternatively HTML or TexInfo code can be produced too.
 >
 > There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the Man-page
 > and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual tranlation.
 >
 > With best regards
 >
 > Juergen
 >
 >
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Dr. Juergen Vollmer, Viktoriastrasse 15, D-76133 Karlsruhe
 > office:          vollmer@cocolab.de  Tel: +49(721) 9204871 Fax: +49(721) 24874
 > private: Juergen.Vollmer@acm.org     Tel: +49(721) 24874   Fax: +49(721) 24874
 > WWW:     www.cocolab.de/vollmer
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot, I installed the package in

   support/latex2man

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jan 12 04:18:01 1998
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 10:10:32 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: LaTeD update.

resslere writes:
 > Hello!
 >
 > (a)  I uploaded to ftp.dante.de an update to earlier upload lated11.zip .
 > (b)  One file:  lated11a3.zip. PLEASE RENAME THIS FILE to its correct name:
 >  lated11a.zip
 >       Earlier attempts to upload lated11a.zip and lated11a2.zip failed due
 > to slow connection.
 > (c)  A README.TXT is in the ZIP file.  It is different than the one
 > currently in systems\msdos\lated\readme.txt.  Please update.
 > (d)  This file replaces systems\msdos\lated\lated11.zip !
 >
 > Thank you very much!
 > Gene Ressler

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jan 13 04:34:35 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:14:30 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - DANTE:/gust4ctan.zip

Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz writes:
 > Dear CTANmaster
 >
 > I've just uploaded to DANTE://incoming/gust4ctan.zip
 > It contains updated:
 >  cep.zip
 >  qfonts.zip
 >  toil.zip
 > and the new `package':
 >  pf2afm.zip
 >    This is a PostScript program for making an AFM file from
 >    PFB / PFA and (optionally) PFM files. I will be contained in the next
 >    distribution of Ghostscript, but It can work with versions from 4.xx.
 >    IMHO the best place in CTAN would be
 >    /tex-archive/fonts/utilities/t1tools/
 >    but since it is (parhaps) maintained by somebody I can suggest
 >    a new directory
 >    /tex-archive/fonts/utilities/pf2afm/
 >
 > Please unpack gust4ctan.zip, then
 > 1.
 > cd /tex-archive/support/pstools/
 > rm -r cep
 > cp -p /incoming/cep.zip .
 > unzip cep.zip
 >
 > 2.
 > cd /tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/polish
 > rm -r qfonts
 > cp -p /incoming/qfonts.zip .
 > unzip qfonts.zip
 >
 > 3.
 > cd /tex-archive/fonts/utilities/t1install/
 > rm -r toil
 > cp -p /incoming/toil.zip .
 > unzip toil.zip
 >
 > 4.
 > cd /tex-archive/fonts/utilities
 > mkdir pf2afm
 > cd pf2afm
 > cp -p /incoming/pf2afm.zip
 > unzip pf2afm.zip
 > rm pf2afm.zip
 >
 > Thanks and greetings,
 > **StaW
 > staw@gust.org.pl
 > staw@eti.pg.gda.pl

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as suggested.

 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jan 15 06:38:01 1998
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:27:47 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - tex2bib

Michael Friendly writes:

> tex2bib is a perl script which converts bibitems embedded in a document
> to bib format.  It should be added as support/tex2ib
>
> Here's the included tex2bib.readme:
>
>   tex2bib
>     Input a TeX document containing \bibitems, translate these
>     to BibTeX format
>
>
>   Usage:
>                 tex2bib [-k][-i infile] [-o outfile]
>                 -k:  regenerate keys
>                 if infile not given, reads from stdin
>                 if outfile not given, prints to stdout
>
>   The entire tex document is scanned for \bibitems, ending when
>   the string '\end{thebibliography}' is read.
>
>   Assumes that bibitems are formatted as follows:
>    -- {key}author(s), (date) at the beginning
>    -- titles of books or names of journals: {\em title}
>    -- article titles:   after date, `` '' quotes optional
>    -- volume, pages:    {\it vol}, nnn-nnn.
>    -- publisher/address:    address:publisher
>
>
>    All text in the bibitem which cannot be parsed is included
>    in a note = { } field
>
>   Examples of a book, article, inproceedings:
>
>  \bibitem{Bertin83}Bertin, J. (1983),
>          {\em Semiology of Graphics} (trans. W. Berg).  Madison, WI:
>          University of Wisconsin Press.
>
>
>  \bibitem{Bickel75}Bickel, P. J., Hammel, J. W. and O'Connell, J. W.
>          (1975).
>          Sex bias in graduate admissions: data from Berkeley.  {\em
>          Science}, {\it 187}, 398-403.
>
>
>  \bibitem{Farebrother87}Farebrother, R. W. (1987),
>          ``Mechanical representations of the ${L}_1$ and ${L}_2$ estimation
>          problems'', In Y. Dodge (ed.)  {\em Statistical data analysis
>          based on the L1 norm and related methods}, Amsterdam:
>          North-Holland., 455-464.
>
>
>   These are output as:
>
>  @Book{  Bertin:83,
>      author      = {J. Bertin},
>      year        = 1983,
>      title       = {Semiology of Graphics},
>      publisher   = {University of Wisconsin Press},
>      address     = {Madison, WI},
>      note        = {(trans. W. Berg).}
>  }
>  @Article{       Bickel:75,
>      author      = {Bickel, P. J. and Hammel, J. W. and O'Connell, J. W.},
>      year        = 1975,
>      title       = {Sex Bias in Graduate Admissions: Data from Berkeley},
>      journal     = {Science},
>      volume      = 187,
>      pages       = {398-403}
>  }
>  @InCollection{  Farebrother:87,
>      author      = {R. W. Farebrother},
>      year        = 1987,
>      title       = {Mechanical Representations of the ${L}_1$ and ${L}_2$
> Estimation Problems},
>      booktitle   = {Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L1 Norm and
> Related Methods},
>      editor      = {Y. Dodge},
>      publisher   = {North-Holland},
>      address     = {Amsterdam},
>      pages       = {455-464}
> }
>
>   Text in a bibitem is removed from the bibitem as it is assigned to
>   bibtex fields.  Any text remaining is assigned to a note={  } field
>   at the end.  Since the parsing is heuristic, some manual fixup work
>   can be expected at the end.

After a bit of thought, I decided that support/ wasn't a good place
for this package, and I've installed it in biblio/bibtex/contrib/tex2bib

(I'm impressed -- it looks like something people actually really need
;-)

Thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jan 16 03:59:02 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:49:45 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt Patch and contributions

Aleksander Simonic writes:
 > I have just uploaded the latest WinEdt Patch and the latest
 > contributed German dictionary to
 >
 >      ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt
 >                      winedt.zip
 >                      00readme.txt
 >                      de3.zip
 >                      de3.txt
 >
 > Please move the file winedt.zip to
 >
 >      tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt
 >
 > replacing the existing file and place the files de3.* and
 > 00readme.txt to
 >
 >      tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict
 >
 > Also, the files de.zip and de2.* should be deleted in
 >
 >      tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict
 >
 > as the are now obsolete...
 >
 > Thanks in advance.
 >
 > Sincerely yours,
 >
 > Aleksander Simonic

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jan 16 04:07:31 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:51:48 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- latex2man

Juergen Vollmer writes:
 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de the following file
 >         latex2man-1.1.tar.gz
 > Please put it to
 >         support/latex2man
 > and remove the version 1.0 of the package.
 >
 > The following files are contained in latex2man-1.1.tar.gz
 > latex2man/latex2man             PERL script
 > latex2man/latex2man.tex         Documentation and example
 > latex2man/latex2man.trans       Example of user customization
 > latex2man/latex2man.1           Generated Man-Page
 > latex2man/latex2man.html        Generated HTML
 > latex2man/latex2man.texi        Generated TexInfo
 > latex2man/latex2man.info        Generated Info-file
 > latex2man/latex2man.sty         The LaTeX package
 > latex2man/Makefile
 > latex2man/README
 > latex2man/INSTALL
 > latex2man/THIS-IS-VERSION-1.1
 >
 > >From the README:
 > Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a
 > format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command.
 > Alternatively HTML or TexInfo code can be produced too.
 >
 > There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the Man-page
 > and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual tranlation.
 >
 > With best regards
 >
 > Juergen
 >
 >
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Dr. Juergen Vollmer, Viktoriastrasse 15, D-76133 Karlsruhe
 > office:          vollmer@cocolab.de  Tel: +49(721) 9204871 Fax: +49(721) 24874
 > private: Juergen.Vollmer@acm.org     Tel: +49(721) 24874   Fax: +49(721) 24874
 > WWW:     www.cocolab.de/vollmer
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From kb@CS.UMB.EDU Sat Jan 17 15:45:28 1998
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 15:40:59 -0500
From: K. Berry <kb@CS.UMB.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: modes 3.3 available

I have released version 3.3 of modes.mf.  You can get it by anonymous ftp from

        ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/modes.mf
        ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/modes.mf

and shortly from any CTAN site in /tex-archive/fonts/modes/modes-3.3.mf.
finger ctan@tug.org for a list of all the CTAN sites and mirrors.

News:

New mode for the LaserJet 5, various alias name and dpi corrections.

As always, thanks to the many contributors, and further additions and
improvements are welcome.  Please send bug reports or suggestions to
tex-fonts@math.utah.edu (email tex-fonts-request to join).


General information:

modes.mf is a collection of Metafont mode_def's.  It also makes common
definitions for write/white printers, `special' information, and
landscape mode.  It uses up too much memory for the table sizes in the
original mf.web, so you either have to increase the sizes (as in Web2c)
or rename the file and remove unneeded modes.  I don't understand mf.web
well enough to understand how to make the modes use less memory; if some
Metafont hacker can tell me, I'd very much like to hear it.

If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the
existing ones, please send them to me.  Improvements to the exposition,
particularly in how to create a new mode_def, are also welcome.

kb@cs.umb.edu

mode_def agfafzz =                  % AGFA 400PS (406dpi)
mode_def agfatfzz =                 % AGFA P3400PS (400dpi)
mode_def amiga =                    % Commodore Amiga (100dpi)
mode_def aps =                      % Autologic APS-Micro5 (723dpi)
mode_def apssixhi =                 % Autologic APS-Micro6 (1016dpi)
mode_def atariezf =                 % Atari ST SLM 804 printer (300dpi)
mode_def atarinf =                  % Atari previewer (95dpi)
mode_def atarins =                  % Atari previewer (96dpi)
mode_def atariotf =                 % Atari ST SM 124 screen (101dpi)
mode_def bitgraph =                 % BBN Bitgraph (118dpi)
mode_def bjtenex =                  % Canon BubbleJet 10ex (360dpi)
mode_def boise =                    % HP 2680A (180dpi)
mode_def canonbjc =                 % Canon BJC-600 (360dpi)
mode_def canonex =                  % LaserWriter Pro 630 (600dpi)
mode_def canonlbp =                 % Symbolics LGP-10 (240dpi)
mode_def cg =                       % Compugraphic 8600 (1301x1569dpi)
mode_def cgl =                      % Compugraphic 8600 landscape (1569x1302dpi)
mode_def cgnszz =                   % Compugraphic 9600 (1200dpi)
mode_def crs =                      % Alphatype CRS (5333dpi)
mode_def cx =                       % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX (300dpi)
mode_def datadisc =                 % DataDisc (70dpi)
mode_def newdd =                    % DataDisc (70x93dpi)
mode_def declarge =                 % DEC 19-inch, 1280 x 1024 (100dpi)
mode_def decsmall =                 % DEC 17-inch, 1024 x 768 (82dpi)
mode_def deskjet =                  % HP DeskJet 500 (300dpi)
mode_def docutech =                 % Xerox 8790 or 4045 (600dpi)
mode_def dover =                    % Xerox Dover (384dpi)
mode_def eighthre =                 % EightThree (83dpi)
mode_def epsdrft =                  % Epson (120x72dpi)
mode_def epsdrftl =                 % Epson (72x120dpi)
mode_def epsfast =                  % Epson (60x72dpi)
mode_def epsfastl =                 % Epson (72x60dpi)
mode_def epson =                    % 9-pin Epson MX/FX (240x216dpi)
mode_def epsonl =                   % 9-pin Epson MX/FX landscape (216x240dpi)
mode_def epsonact =                 % Epson Action Laser 1500 (300dpi)
mode_def epsonlo =                  % Epson (120x216dpi)
mode_def epsonlol =                 % Epson landscape (216x120dpi)
mode_def epsonsq =                  % Epson SQ 870 (360dpi)
mode_def epstypro =                 % Epson Stylus Pro (360dpi)
mode_def epstyplo =                 % Epson Stylus Pro (180dpi)
mode_def epstypmd =                 % Epson Stylus Pro (720x360dpi)
mode_def esphi =                    % Epson Stylus Pro (720dpi)
mode_def epstylus =                 % Epson Stylus (360dpi)
mode_def fourfour =                 % FourFour (44dpi)
mode_def gtfax =                    % G3fax (204x196dpi)
mode_def gtfaxl =                   % G3fax landscape (196x204dpi)
mode_def gtfaxlo =                  % G3fax (204x98dpi)
mode_def gtfaxlol =                 % G3fax landscape (98x204dpi)
mode_def highfax =                  % G3fax (200dpi)
mode_def hprugged =                 % HP RuggedWriter 480 (180dpi)
mode_def ibm_a =                    % IBM 38xx (240dpi)
mode_def ibmd =                     % IBM 38xx (240dpi)
mode_def ibmega =                   % IBM EGA monitor (96x81dpi)
mode_def ibmegal =                  % IBM EGA monitor landscape (81x96dpi)
mode_def ibmfzon =                  % IBM 4019 (300dpi)
mode_def ibmfztn =                  % IBM 4029-30, 4250 (600dpi)
mode_def ibmpp =                    % IBM ProPrinter (240x216dpi)
mode_def ibmppl =                   % IBM ProPrinter (216x240dpi)
mode_def ibmsoff =                  % IBM 6154 display (118dpi)
mode_def sherpa =                   % IBM 6670 (Sherpa) (240dpi)
mode_def ibmteot =                  % IBM 3812 (240dpi)
mode_def ibmtetz =                  % IBM 3820 (240dpi)
mode_def ibmtont =                  % IBM 3193 screen (100dpi)
mode_def ibmtosn =                  % IBM 3179 screen (87x65dpi)
mode_def ibmtosnl =                 % IBM 3179 screen landscape (65x87dpi)
mode_def ibmvga =                   % IBM VGA monitor (110dpi)
mode_def ibx =                      % Chelgraph IBX (9600dpi)
mode_def itoh =                     % CItoh 8510A (160x144dpi)
mode_def itohl =                    % CItoh 8510A landscape (144x160dpi)
mode_def itohtoz =                  % CItoh 310 (240x144dpi)
mode_def itohtozl =                 % CItoh 310 landscape (144x240dpi)
mode_def iw =                       % Apple ImageWriter (144dpi)
mode_def jetiiisi =                 % HP Laser Jet IIISi (300dpi)
mode_def lasf =                     % DEC LA75 (144dpi)
mode_def lexmarkr =                 % IBM Lexmark Optra R 4049 (1200dpi)
mode_def linolo =                   % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 (635dpi)
mode_def linolttz =                 % Linotronic L-300 with RIP-50 (3386dpi)
mode_def linoone =                  % Linotronic [13]00 (1270dpi)
mode_def linotzzh =                 % Linotype Linotronic 300 (2540dpi)
mode_def ljfive =                   % HP LaserJet 5 (600dpi)
mode_def ljfivemp =                 % HP LaserJet 5MP (600 dpi)
mode_def ljfour =                   % HP LaserJet 4 (600dpi)
mode_def ljlo =                     % HP LaserJet (150dpi)
mode_def lmaster =                  % LaserMaster (1000dpi)
mode_def lnotr =                    % DEC LN03R Scriptprinter (300dpi)
mode_def lnzo =                     % DEC LN01 (300dpi)
mode_def lpstz =                    % DEC lps20 (300dpi)
mode_def lqlores =                  % Epson LQ-500 (180dpi)
mode_def lqmed =                    % Epson LQ-500 (360x180dpi)
mode_def lqmedl =                   % Epson LQ-500 landscape (180x360dpi)
mode_def lview =                    % Sigma L-View monitor (118x109dpi)
mode_def lwpro =                    % Apple LaserWriterPro 810 (800dpi)
mode_def macmag =                   % Mac screens at magstep 1 (86dpi)
mode_def mactrue =                  % Mac screen (72dpi)
mode_def ncd =                      % NCD 19-inch (95dpi)
mode_def nec =                      % NEC (180dpi)
mode_def nechi =                    % NEC-P6 (360dpi)
mode_def neclm =                    % NEC PC-PR406LM (320dpi)
mode_def nectzo =                   % NEC PC-PR201 series (160dpi)
mode_def nexthi =                   % NeXT Newgen (400dpi)
mode_def nextscrn =                 % NeXT monitor (100dpi)
mode_def nineone =                  % NineOne (91x91) (91dpi)
mode_def nullmode =                 % TFM files only (101dpi)
mode_def onetz =                    % OneTwoZero (120/120) (120dpi)
mode_def ocessfz =                  % OCE 6750-PS (508dpi)
mode_def okidata =                  % Okidata (240x288dpi)
mode_def okidatal =                 % Okidata landscape (288x240dpi)
mode_def okifte =                   % Okidata 410e in 600DPI mode (600dpi)
mode_def pcscreen =                 % also, e.g., high-resolution Suns (118dpi)
mode_def pcprevw =                  % PC screen preview (118dpi)
mode_def phaser =                   % Tektronix Phaser PXi (300dpi)
mode_def prntware =                 % Printware 720IQ (1200dpi)
mode_def qms =                      % QMS (Xerox engine) (300dpi)
mode_def qmsostf =                  % QMS 1725 (600dpi)
mode_def qmsoszz =                  % QMS 1700 (600dpi)
mode_def qmstftf =                  % QMS 2425 (1200dpi)
mode_def ricoh =                    % e.g., TI Omnilaser (300dpi)
mode_def ricoha =                   % e.g., IBM 4216 (300dpi)
mode_def ricohlp =                  % e.g., DEC LN03 (300dpi)
mode_def ricohsp =                  %% Ricoh sp10ps/lp7200-ux (600dpi)
mode_def sparcptr =                 % Sun SPARCprinter (400dpi)
mode_def starnlt =                  % Star NL-10 (240x216dpi)
mode_def starnltl =                 % Star NL-10 landscape (216x240dpi)
mode_def stylewr =                  % Apple StyleWriter (360dpi)
mode_def sun =                      % Sun and BBN Bitgraph (85dpi)
mode_def supre =                    % Ultre*setter (2400dpi)
mode_def toshiba =                  % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ (180dpi)
mode_def ultre =                    % Ultre*setter (1200dpi)
mode_def vs =                       % VAXstation monitor (78dpi)
mode_def vtftzz =                   % Varityper 4200 B-P (1800dpi)
mode_def vtftzzhi =                 % Varityper 4300P (2400dpi)
mode_def vtftzzlo =                 % Varityper 4300P (1200dpi)
mode_def vtfzszw =                  % Varitype 5060W, APS 6 (600dpi)
mode_def vtszz =                    % Varityper Laser 600 (600dpi)
mode_def xrxesnz =                  % Xerox 8790 or 4045 (300dpi)
mode_def xrxfzfz =                  % Xerox 4050/4075/4090/4700 (300dpi)
mode_def xrxnszz =                  % Xerox 9700 (300dpi)
mode_def xrxtszz =                  % Xerox 3700 (300dpi)

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jan 19 04:07:13 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:00:04 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- GlossTeX 0.4

Volkan Yavuz writes:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I just uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file glosstex-0.4.tar.gz. Please
 > remove all files from /support/glosstex and unpack the archive. The
 > archive contains in the bin directory four binaries.
 >
 > This replaces the old version 0.3 which is still found on CTAN.
 >
 > * Introduction
 >
 >   GlossTeX is a tool for the automatic preparation of glossaries,
 >   lists of acronyms and sorted lists in general for use with LaTeX and
 >   MakeIndex. In order to build GlossTeX, you need an ANSI C compiler.
 >
 > Documentation is included in README, LIESMICH and glosstex.dvi.
 >
 > These are the changes made since version 0.3:
 >
 > * 0.3 to 0.4
 >
 > - glosstex.mst is now called glosstex.ist.
 >
 > - The .glx-file is automatically included \AtBeginDocument to make it
 >   possible to use all commands without actually producing a list.
 >
 > - GlossTeX now uses 2 passes to process the .gdf-files. Cross
 >   references should work now properly.
 >
 > - Fixed some minor layout problems in the typeset lists.
 >
 > - These commands have extended functionality:
 >
 >       \ac,lparen,rparen,<form>(list)[pageref-mode]{item}
 >       \acf,lparen,rparen,<form>(list)[pageref-mode]{item}
 >
 > - new options itemfirst, longfirst, text, footnote, roundparen and
 >   squareparen
 >
 > - \AtEndOfDocument, the user is told wether there were undefined terms.
 >
 > - There is a new sh-wrapper around glosstex.bin which provides some
 >   kpathsea functionlity
 >
 > - The output files .gxg and .gxs are removed if the .gdf-files are
 >   missing.
 >
 > - Documentation updated, moving most of the information out of the
 >   READMEs into the .dvi-file.
 >
 > - Removed various harmless bugs.
 >
 >
 > Thank you very much and best regards.
 >
 > --
 > Volkan Yavuz
 > mailto:yavuzv(at)rumms.uni-mannheim.de
 > http://webrum.uni-mannheim.de/ba/yavuzv/          "Use the source, Luke!"

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jan 19 09:16:04 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 15:07:37 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.10 beta 2

Christian Schenk writes:
 > I have uploaded to
 >
 >   ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex
 >
 > the second beta version of MiKTeX 1.10.  MiKTeX is an implementation
 > of TeX & Friends for Win32/intel.
 >
 > Please install the seven files in directory
 >
 >   /tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/beta.
 >
 >
 > What's the news?
 > ================
 >
 > Resolved Problems
 > -----------------
 >
 >     * Dvips reads .pfb files in ASCII mode
 >
 >     * Odvips (Omega-Dvips) consumes a lot of virtual memory
 >
 >     * LaTeX cannot be used in conjunction with MetaPost
 >
 > YAP
 > ---
 >
 >     * Display page numbers in status bar
 >
 >     * Display page boundaries
 >
 >
 > --
 > Christian Schenk                           <cschenk@berlin.snafu.de>
 >                                  http://www.snafu.de/~cschenk/miktex

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jan 20 09:16:41 1998
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 14:08:02 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- calendar-3.1.tar.gz

Frank Bennett writes:

> Greetings again.  The latest, the greatest, and of course we all
> hope the LAST release of the LaTeX Calendar bundle is here.  The
> archive will unpack into a subdirectory "calendar".  Like the
> last submission, it is mercifully free of further subdirectories.
> Please announce this one on CTAN-ANN.  Here's a blurb:

this is `last' as opposed to the previous release, which was (iirc)
frozen so solid that archaeologists from future millennia were going
to find it and marvel?

> LaTeX Calendar version 3.1 is now available.
>
> For those of you who have not yet tried it, this bundle offers a
> ludicrously comprehensive set of calendaring facilities.  Nine
> calendaring styles are offered in this release: a timesheet;
> weekly, monthly and yearly calendars; an itinerary/conference
> planner; an event list; and (new in this release) an HTML monthly
> calendar, an HTML event list, and a hot-linked HTML monthly
> calendar and event list.
>
> The weekly calendar prints in Filofax(tm)/Day Runner(tm) format.
> The style package that performs this magic can be used as a base
> for printing other documents for insertion into a Filofax(tm) or
> Day Runner(tm) as well.
>
> Calendars can include notes of holidays and other events, and of
> appointments.  Recursive events can be recorded in a shorthand
> form, and limited by one or more ranges of time (such as a series
> of school term dates), and such recursive events can be
> controlled by a holiday stop-list.  To round things off, entries
> can be shared between different calendars, and entries can be
> freely color-coded to reflect the category to which they belong
> in a given calendar.
>
> With this release, language support also becomes ludicrously
> comprehensive.  Any language that can be printed using LaTeX can
> be set as the default language.  If multiple languages are
> required (to print institutional timetables for students or
> visitors from different countries, for example), the entries for
> all needed languages can be maintained in a single data file; the
> language of entries for a given calendar can then be selected at
> run time.
>
> And the way it all works is now explained in ONE short manual.
>
> Comments on this package are always welcome (partly because the
> comments so far have been so positive!).  For those of you who
> have tried to contact me without success, I've noted a friendlier
> email address in this distribution.
>
> The data interface to this package is now quite stable, and it
> might be worth considering it as a printing back-end to a
> Java-based network calendaring system, if anyone out there has a
> need for one.

i have duly installed the package on ctan in the usual place,
macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar

thanks, frank, for the upload (and the light entertainment ;-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From bennett@RUMPLE.SOAS.AC.UK Tue Jan 20 09:51:28 1998
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 15:47:10 +0100
From: Frank Bennett <bennett@RUMPLE.SOAS.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- calendar-3.1.tar.gz

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Dear Robin,

    Robin> this is `last' as opposed to the previous release,
    Robin> which was (iirc) frozen so solid that archaeologists
    Robin> from future millennia were going to find it and
    Robin> marvel?

That was the _last_ ice age.  I'm talking about _this_ ice age.
Geez, some people!

Cheers,
- ---
Frank G Bennett, Jr    @@
Law Dept, SOAS, London () email: fbennett@rumple.soas.ac.uk
Tel: (0171)323-6351    () WWW:
http://rumple.soas.ac.uk/~fbennett/

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jan 20 10:02:04 1998
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 14:51:51 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: endnotes.sty

Bernard GAULLE writes:

>   I discover that people is still using an obsolate version of endnotes.sty
> and that the version i corrected in 94 and 95 is not yet on ctan. Thus i
> suggest you put it in the archives. It's not supported and is running under
> 2.09 and 2e. As i'm unsure about the deletion of the old endnotes.sty still
> on ctan the other location you will propose will be surely fine. Thanks.

So as to avoid conflict with the old version (and taking account that
it's not supported) I've installed the file as

  CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/endnotes.sty

thanks for the submission

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jan 21 11:08:01 1998
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:51:16 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: LaTeX (Dec 97 PL1) released

The December 97 release of LaTeX (already patchlevel 1) is now
available from CTAN, as usually in

   macros/latex/{base,unpacked,doc}

and

   macros/latex/packages/{tools,mfnfss,graphics}

The LaTeX Programming Team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jan 22 09:55:01 1998
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:38:40 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ntu2cjk 1.8 fixes

Chun-Yu Lee writes:
 > Dear Sir,
 >
 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file
 > /incoming/ntu2cjk-1.8-fixes.tar.gz. Please
 > ungzip and untar it into the directory
 >
 > language/chinese/CJK/contrib/ntu2cjk
 >
 > to replace the old ntu2cjk.c and mkmap.c.
 > The new files fixed some bugs.
 >
 > Thanks very much!
 >
 > Chun-Yu Lee
 > Computer-Aided Engineering Division |    Tel:+886(2)362-7372 ext 14
 > Department of Civil Engineering     |        +886(2)363-0231 ext 2166-339
 > National Taiwan University          |    Fax:+886(2)392-5290
 > 1, Sect. 4, Roosevelt Rd.           |   http://www.ce.ntu.edu.tw/~d791013
 > Taipei, Taiwan 10617, R.O.C.        | mailto:d791013@ce.ntu.edu.tw

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jan 22 09:52:15 1998
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:43:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan sub. ccfix.zip + cmbrfix.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I just have uploaded the files cmbrfix.zip and ccfix.zip to the
 > /incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unzip the files as
 > follows:
 >
 > cmbrfix.zip -> fonts/cmbright
 > ccfix.zip   -> macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts
 >
 > thus replacing various existent files and adding new ones.
 >
 > This will (at last!) fix the installation scripts of the packages
 > ccfonts and cmbright, which had some problems with older LaTeX
 > releases running under Unix (teTeX).
 >
 > Thank you
 >
 > Walter
 >
 > *********************************************************************
 > Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
 > Schornbaumstrasse 2,  91052 Erlangen,  Germany
 > pgp key (1024 bits, keyID 69D36B8D):  see <html://www.trustcenter.de>
 > pgp key fingerprint: 1C E5 A5 D8 B8 F7 E2 EF  36 55 69 EC D8 26 94 A9
 > *********************************************************************

Thanks a lot, I installed the updates.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 23 06:48:23 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:34:14 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: footmisc package (replaces `my' footnote)

confusion about the *two* latex2e footnote packages on ctan continues
to rear its ugly head.  despite the fact that my package appeared
earlier on the archive, i have decided to rename mine and to withdraw
the original.

i have now, therefore, installed

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/footmisc

and deleted

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/footnote

footmisc started life as a bug-fix release of footnote, and does
indeed mend all bugs (presently known to me) in the older package.

in addition, i have

 - removed its dependency on the fascinating patch.tex (on account of
   the confusion that dependency caused)
 - added new facilities (package options symbol*, stable, multiple,
   splitrule and the ability to enable debugging traces

since the multiple and stable options implement the code contained in
other older packages of mine, i have also deleted

  macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/multfoot.sty
  macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/stblftnt.sty

i would very much appreciate the removal of the old packages from tex
distributions and catalogue information as soon as possible.  i
apologise for any confusion that this may cause, but the name change
had to be made to one package or the other

robin fairbairns

university of cambridge computer laboratory

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jan 26 03:46:25 1998
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:42:00 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinShell

Ingo de Boer writes:

 > Ich habe ins incoming-verzeichnis/winshell ein selbst-
 > extrahierendes File - WinShell.exe - kopiert. Wem ein
 > ZIP-File lieber ist: WinShell.zip ist auch noch da. Beide
 > enhalten dasselbe. Des weiteren befindet sich eine kleine
 > readme-Datei im Verzeichnis.
 >
 > Das Programm ist eine FREEWARE-TeXShell f|r
 > Windows95 /NT4.0 mit den Features:
 > - Einstellungen fuer LaTeX, BibTeX, DVIPS, DVIWIN, GhostView
 > - mehrere Dokumente gleichzeitig bearbeiten
 > - Toolbars fuer Symbole, Relationen, gr. Buchstaben...
 > - Benutzung ueber Hotkeys, Menue oder anklicken
 > - InstallShield uebernimmt das installieren/deinstallieren
 >
 > Ich schlage vor das Programm in
 >
 > pub/tex/systems/win32/ bzw.
 > pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell
 >
 > zu kopieren.
 >
 >
 > grusz
 >   ingo de boer
 >
 > _____________________________________________
 > Ingo de Boer
 >
 > email:     idb@ibt.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de
 > internet:  http://www-ibt.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de/~idb/

Please note that CTAN is an english language mailing list.

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as suggested
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jan 27 10:41:29 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:28:24 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- wbarcode (update)

Peter Willadt writes:

 > I have uploaded a changed version of the barcode package to
 > ftp.dante.de.
 > It should go into the FONTS/BARCODES/WILLADT directory on CTAN.
 >
 > The most important changes are the addition of support for code 128
 > and the possibility to code ean numbers without an external
 > preprocessor.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jan 27 10:40:25 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:30:48 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lucold

Maurizio Loreti writes:
 > Hello -
 >
 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming a file lucold.tar.gz; that
 > contains:
 >
 > 1) A LaTeX-2e style file, "lucold.sty", together with all the .fd, .tfm
 >    and .vf files required; \usepackage{lucold} switches the rendering of
 >    ALL the digits to the so-called "old-style" numbers, when using
 >    Lucida fonts.
 >
 >    The switch affects all digits in text mode, or all digits in text AND
 >    math mode.  It works both for normal weight and boldface text and
 >    math; since the boldface old-style digits are in the "Lucida Expert"
 >    font set, you need it for the boldface digits.
 >
 > 2) A file "test.tex", to test lucold.sty;
 >
 > 3) A set of AWK programs used to automatically build .fd, .tfm and .vf
 >    files from the existing Lucida PSNFSS distribution, and that may
 >    easily changed for the generation of different virtual files for
 >    whatever font;
 >
 > 4) A file "note.tex", with the description of the package and of the use
 >    of these AWK programs in the framework of an Unix TeX installation.
 >
 > The suggested location is:
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/lucold.
 >
 >                 Thank you in advance,    Maurizio
 >
 > --
 > Maurizio Loreti                      http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html
 > Un. of Padova, Dept. of Physics - Padova, Italy          loreti@padova.infn.it

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as suggested
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Jan 31 09:50:02 1998
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 14:47:54 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: submissions: 3font packages

Alan Hoenig writes:

> I have placed the three files
>   vfinst.tar.gz
>   mathinst.tar.gz
>   mathkit.tar.gz
> in the /incoming area of ftp.tex.ac.uk.  Please gunzip and untar them
> into /fonts/utilities/{vfinst,mathinst,mathkit} respectively (please
> obliterate the prior contents first!).  These updates contain miscellaneious
> bug fixes for the most part.  Here is a brief explanation of this software:
>
>
> 1. The VFinst package automates the process of making Type1 scalable
> fonts usable by TeX.  The fonts it creates---upright, italic, oblique,
> unslanted italic, smallcaps, underline, and a few others---display
> accents, ligatures, small caps, and so on as you would expect in any
> proper TeX font.
>
> 2. MathInst helps use non-Computer Modern math fonts with TeX.  If you
> have MathTime, Euler, Lucida New Math, or Mathematica math fonts, and
> if you specify a text font family, MathInst manufactures compatible
> fonts that allow you to typeset math (using the usual TeX input
> conventions) that looks great with the text fonts.
>
> 3. MathKit also creates math fonts, but is for people who don't want
> to spend extra money for the proprietary math fonts that MathInst uses
> or who want a closer match between their math and text fonts.  If you
> specify a text font family, MathKit creates math fonts using
> characters from the text fonts for letters and numerals and Computer
> Modern characters---whose parameters have been tweaked to match the
> text fonts---for all other special math symbols.
>
> In all cases, you don't have to know anything about virtual fonts, Perl
> Metafont, fontinst, Berry fontnaming (these concepts are all integral
> to these packages) to use these packages.  In all cases, style files
> for both plain TeX and LaTeX are automatically produced.  Test files
> are also produced, so you can both test your fonts and see how to use
> them.  Comments and feedback are welcome.
>
> ---Alan Hoenig (ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu)

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb  2 10:07:42 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 15:47:30 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- rail

Klaus Georg Barthelmann writes:
 > Dear CTAN maintainer,
 > I uploaded
 >   b) rail.sty
 > to
 >   a) ftp.dante.de:/incoming.
 > It should be moved to
 >   d) /pub/tex/support/rail
 > and replace an older version, leaving the other files alone.
 >
 > c) This version restores the command \railtoken as an abbreviation, in order to
 >    help users of the old package. It also takes care to set the \catcodes of all
 >    special characters to avoid problems with other packages like `french' and
 >    `german'. (Problems were reported by Mamoun Filali-Amine <filali@irit.fr>.)
 >
 > Rail is a C program and style file to produce syntax diagrams from EBNF.
 > Best regards,
 >   Klaus
 >
 > --
 > Klaus Barthelmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\"at, Institut f\"ur Informatik,
 > D-55099 Mainz, Germany
 > barthel@informatik.uni-mainz.de

Thanks for the update, I installed the file
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb  2 10:09:24 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 15:50:24 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: submission to DANTE: mf-ps.zip

Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz writes:
 > Dear CTANmaster,
 >
 > I've just uploaded to DANTE://incoming/mf-ps.zip
 > It contains updated MF-PS package from the directory:
 >   graphics/MF-PS/
 >
 > Please rm -r graphics/MF-PS/*
 > and then unzip here mf-ps.zip
 >
 > Please remove also
 >    fonts/utilities/mftoeps
 > as I askeded some weeks ago. It contains very old fragment of the MF-PS
 > package.
 >
 > Thanks and greetings,
 >
 > **StaW
 > Staszek Wawrykiewicz
 > Email: staw@gust.org.pl
 >        staw@eti.pg.gda.pl

Thanks for the update, I installed the files
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Feb  3 07:07:04 1998
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 12:57:24 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- leftidx.sty

Harald Harders writes:
 > a) site: ftp.dante.de
 > b) file: leftidx.zip
 >    containing: leftidx.dvi
 >                leftidx.ps
 >                leftidx.sty
 >                leftidx.tex
 >                readme
 >
 > c)
 > This package enables left subscripts and superscripts in math mode. These
 > subscripts and superscripts are automatically raised for better fitting to
 > the symbol they belong to.
 >
 > e.g. you get
 >
 >   1     3
 >     /1\
 >     |-|
 >     \2/
 >   2     4
 >
 > instead of
 >
 >   1 /1\ 3
 >     |-|
 >     \2/
 >
 > In this version documentation is only available in german.
 >
 > d) suggested directory: /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/other/leftidx
 >
 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >   Harald Harders
 >   Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Deutschland
 >   E-Mail: h.harders@tu-bs.de
 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks, I installed the files as suggested
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Feb  4 04:33:36 1998
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 09:26:41 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- flshort.tar.gz

Matthieu Herrb writes:

> I've uploaded flshort.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/.
>
> This is the french translation of "The not so short
> introduction to LaTeX2e" by Tobias Oetiker.
>
> The tarfile contains:
>
> flshort2e.dvi           The DVI file
> flshort2e.ps            A PostScript file (using BlueSky Research's
>                         Type 1 fonts)
> flshort2e.tar           The LaTeX 2e document sources
> flshort2e.pdf           A (not perfect) PDF version built by pdflatex
>
> This was done by myself <matthieu@laas.fr> with the help of many
> fr.comp.text.tex readers.
>
> I suggest to store it in the info directory. (where the original
> lshort resides).

Good work -- thanks (I've copied this to comp.text.tex -- I hope
you will announce on fr.comp.text.tex -- my written French isn't
terribly good...).

I've installed the files as you suggest in CTAN info/lshort (but I
gzipped the file flshort2e.tar -- I hope that's acceptable).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Feb  5 07:47:57 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 12:37:08 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- bayer, cd-cover, thumb, pawpict

Christian Holm Christensen writes:

> I have prepared a number of packages for LaTeX and MetaFont, so I
> thought I'd upload them, to see if they were of general interrest.
>
> All files is uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> bayer (bayer.tar.gz): Herbert Bayers Universal Font For Metafont
> ===============================================================
> This is a distribution of my implementation of the universal font
> by Herbert Bayer of the bauhaus school for METAFONT. It is supported
> in LaTeX with a package and font definition file.
> <should be placed under "fonts">
>
> cd-cover (cd-cover.tar.gz):  cd-cover package for LaTeX2e
> =========================================================
> This is a distribution of my cd-cover package for typesetting
> CD covers.
> <should be placed under "macros/latex2e/contrib/other">
>
> pawpict (pawpict.tar.gz):  pawpict package for LaTeX2e
> ======================================================
> This is a distribution of my pawpict package for easy inclusion
> of graphics made by PAW (Physics Analysis Workstation). You need
> to have PAW installed on yor system to bennefiet from this package.
> <should be placed under "macros/latex2e/contrib/other">
>
> thumb (thumb.tar.gz):  thumb package for LaTeX2e
> ================================================
> This is a distribution of my thumb package for making runing
> thumb marks in documents.
> <should be placed under "macros/latex2e/contrib/other">
>
> I hope the packages are of some use. Happy typesetting :-)
>
> Christian Holm
> <cholm@fys.ku.dk>

after a bit of an exchange with Christian, i have now (finally)
installed all of these packages as suggested in
macros/latex/contrib/other

thanks for the uploads...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb  6 03:45:33 1998
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 09:40:20 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- gentl-gr

Apostolos Syropoulos writes:
 >    Dear Sirs,
 >
 >    I have uploaded on ftp.dante.de the file gentl-gr.tar.gz which
 > contains the latest version of "A Gentle Introduction to TeX" (greek
 > translation by Demetrios Filippou). You should install the files
 > in help/greek/gentl-gr
 >
 > apostolos...
 > ****************************************************************
 > *Apostolos Syropoulos                                          *
 > *snail mail: 366, 28th October Str., GR-671 00  Xanthi, HELLAS *
 > *email     : apostolo@obelix.ee.duth.gr                        *
 > *phone num.: +30-(0)541-28704                                  *
 > *home page : http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo                *
 > ****************************************************************

Thanks a lot, I replaced the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb 13 11:51:30 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:39:55 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- authorindex

> (a) uploaded to: ftp.dante.de
> (b) filename: authorindex.tar.gz
> (c) purpose: The Package is intended to generate a list of all authors cited
>              in a work along with a list of pages where these citations occur.
> (d) suggested placement in CTAN directory hierachy: /tex-archive/indexing/
>
> Andreas Wettstein

i've pulled this package to cambridge and installed it here, as you
suggested.  it should make it back to dante soon.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From yotam@BLUENEPTUNE.COM Sat Feb 14 07:06:41 1998
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:08:33 -0800
From: Yotam Medini <yotam@BLUENEPTUNE.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: tfmpk-0.34 with  [lib]g++ 2.8.0

I have released tfmpk version 0.34 under
 /anonymous@ftp.blueneptune.com:/pub/users/yotam .
It now compiles with g++/libg++ 2.8.0.
Note that on Linux, you may want to add
  -D_PTHREADS
C++ compilation flag. I think it is actually a libg++/libstdc++
installation problem.

Have a nice weekend -- yotam

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb 16 05:53:16 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:40:36 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Timo Baumann writes:
 > Dear ladies and gentlemen,
 >
 > in FTP.DANTE.DE's INCOMING directory, there is an archive file named
 > BIBARTS.ZIP.
 >
 > BIBARTS helps making bibliographical lists. This lists are common in the
 > arts. The zip file contains a file BIBARTS.TEX, which is an extensive
 > german manual. There is also a commentary at the beginnung of BIBARTS.TEX,
 > which is in a kind of english.
 >
 > This Version is 1.2. There is an older version (1.1) on DANTE server.
 > It is in directory CONTRIB\LATEX209.
 >
 > BIBARTS 1.2 is tested under Dos and UNIX, LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX 2e.
 > The manual BIBARTS.TEX is prepared to be worked under LaTeX 2e,
 > but will, if comments before command \documentstyle and commands
 > \documentclass+\usepackage are exchanged, will also be workable
 > under LaTeX 2.09.
 >
 > All in all, I think its best to delete the old BIBARTS files in directory
 > LATEX209 and copy BIBARTS.ZIP to a directory, where users may search
 > LaTeX2e contributions.

Thanks for yopur update, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/bibarts

and deleted the old version in

  macros/latex209/contrib/bibarts

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb 16 07:14:04 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:06:19 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- sfheaders.sty

Maurizio Loreti writes:
 > I have uploaded today to ftp.dante.de:/incoming a file sfheaders.sty;
 > its purpose is to have part/chapter/section/... headers printed with the
 > sans-serif font of the current family.  It works correctly with the
 > standard book/report/article document classes, and has been posted to
 > comp.text.tex a couple of times.
 >
 > The suggested location is
 > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/sfheaders.
 >
 > --
 > Maurizio Loreti                      http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html
 > Un. of Padova, Dept. of Physics - Padova, Italy          loreti@padova.infn.it

Thanks, I installed the file as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb 16 07:30:19 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:22:58 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan submission gnhyph01.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I have just uploaded the zip archive gnhyph01.zip to the
 > /incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unpack the
 > file gnhyph01.tex from this archive and move it to the ctan
 > directory language/hyphenation/ .
 >
 > gnhyph01.tex is a preliminary (!), experimental (!)  set of
 > hyphenation patterns for the new German orthography ("neue
 > deutsche Rechtschreibung") currently being introduced.
 >
 > Documentation (in German only) is provided within the file.
 >
 > Greetings
 >
 > Walter
 >
 > *********************************************************************
 > Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
 > Schornbaumstrasse 2,  91052 Erlangen,  Germany
 > pgp key (1024 bits, keyID 69D36B8D):  see <html://www.trustcenter.de>
 > pgp key fingerprint: 1C E5 A5 D8 B8 F7 E2 EF  36 55 69 EC D8 26 94 A9
 > *********************************************************************

Thanks, I installed the file as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb 16 07:37:43 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:25:07 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: brushscr_add

Rolf Niepraschk writes:
 > I have upload brushscr_add.zip to /incoming on ftp.dante.de . The archive
 > contains the small LaTeX package pbsi.sty and a demo file sample2.tex .
 > "pbsi.sty" makes the usage of the brushscr font easier.
 >
 > Please put the two files to /tex-archive/fonts/brushscr and change the following
 >
 >   OT1pbs.fd  ==> ot1pbs.fd
 >   T1pbs.fd  ==> t1pbs.fd
 >
 > Thanks in advance,
 >
 >                          ...Rolf
 >
 >   .----------------------------------------------------------.
 >   | Rolf Niepraschk -- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt |
 >   | Abbestr. 2-12; D-10587 Berlin, Germany                   |
 >   | Tel/Fax: ++49-30-3481-316/490, email: niepraschk@ptb.de  |
 >   `----------------------------------------------------------'

Thanks a lot, I installed the files and changed the filenames.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From maurizio.loreti@PD.INFN.IT Mon Feb 16 08:13:35 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:03:37 +0100
From: Maurizio Loreti <maurizio.loreti@PD.INFN.IT>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- sfheaders.sty

>Maurizio Loreti writes:
> > I have uploaded today to ftp.dante.de:/incoming a file sfheaders.sty;
> > its purpose is to have part/chapter/section/... headers printed with the
> > sans-serif font of the current family.  It works correctly with the
> > standard book/report/article document classes, and has been posted to
> > comp.text.tex a couple of times.
> >
> > The suggested location is
> > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/sfheaders.
> >
> > --
> > Maurizio Loreti                      http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html
> > Un. of Padova, Dept. of Physics - Padova, Italy          loreti@padova.infn.it
>
>Thanks, I installed the file as suggested.
>  For the CTAN Team
>   Rainer Schoepf
>

I realized just now that this file did not come with a README.
You could maybe insert the following short note as sfheaders.README in
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/sfheaders.

Sorry :-(

--
Maurizio Loreti                      http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html
Un. of Padova, Dept. of Physics - Padova, Italy          loreti@padova.infn.it

-----------Begin file: sfheaders.README
This style file  (for LaTeX-2e)  borrows some definitions  from the
standard article/report/book classes; and modifies them in order to
print the part(*), chapter(*), section, subsection ... headers with
the Sans-Serif variant of the current font.

(*) Some standard classes do not have these headers

--
Maurizio Loreti                      http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html
Un. of Padova, Dept. of Physics - Padova, Italy          loreti@padova.infn.it

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb 16 08:56:27 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:45:12 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- sfheaders.sty

Maurizio Loreti writes:

 > I realized just now that this file did not come with a README.
 > You could maybe insert the following short note as sfheaders.README in
 > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/sfheaders.

Done.

Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb 16 09:19:02 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 15:09:21 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- gleitobjekte.tar.gz

Axel Reichert writes:
 > a) Uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming
 >
 > b) Uploaded file: gleitobjekte.tar.gz
 >    Includes gleitobjekte.tex
 >             gleitobjekte.dvi
 >             gleitobjekte.ps
 >
 > c) These file are the script of my tutorial held at DANTE meeting,
 >    November 1997. Floats and their placement, captions, inclusion of
 >    graphics, lettering of graphics, layout of tables and large amounts of
 >    numerical data are covered within.
 >
 > d) I recommend placing gleitobjekte.tar.gz in the "info" directory.
 >
 > Happy TeXing!
 >
 > --
 > Axel Reichert -- http://mt.mpie-duesseldorf.mpg.de/people/reich/

Thanks a lot, I installed the files in info/gleitobjekte.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Feb 18 03:41:18 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 09:32:19 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- FoilHTML v 1.2

Boris Veytsman writes:

 > I've just submitted the new version of FoilHTML to dante (foilhtml.tgz).
 > Please install it in macros/latex/contrib/supported/foilhtml.
 >
 > This is just a patched release to work with the new LaTeX2HTML (98-1)
 > version. The readme file is enclosed.
 >
 > Good luck
 >
 > -Boris
 > http://www.plmsc.psu.edu/~boris/
 >
 > --------------------------readme.v12--------------------------------------
 >
 >         SECTIONING COMMANDS IN FOILTEX AND CONVERSION TO HTML FORMAT:
 >                              FOILHTML PACKAGE
 >
 >                         Version 1.2, February 17, 1998
 >
 >                               Boris Veytsman
 >                       E-mail: boris@plmsc.psu.edu
 >                Home page: http://www.plmsc.psu.edu/~boris
 >
 >
 >    The standard FoilTeX system is based on a visual rather than
 >    logical formatting. Thus automatic conversion of FoilTeX
 >    documents to HTML format is difficult. In particular, the
 >    well-known LaTeX2HTML converter gives unsatisfactory results
 >    when used on FoilTeX documents.
 >
 >    This package provides integration between FoilTeX and
 >    LaTeX2HTML. It adds sectioning commands and elements of logical
 >    formatting to FoilTeX and provides support for FoilTeX commands
 >    in LaTeX2HTML. It also supports automatic creation of
 >    LaTeX2HTML images with proper font sizes and shapes when
 >    converting FoilTeX documents.
 >
 >
 >
 > Installation
 >
 > Since FoilHTML is an add-on to FoilTeX and LaTeX2HTML, you need both
 > these programs installed and working prior to installation of
 > FoilHTML. This package is intended for LaTeX2e only; I don't have
 > enough time to port and test it under LaTeX2.09. It is tested under
 > FoilTeX v2.1 and LaTeX2HTML v96, 97, 98.
 >
 > The FoilHTML distribution consists of the following files:
 >
 >  - readme.v12---Read Me file
 >  - foilhtml.dtx---the fully documented code
 >  - foilhtml.ins---the LaTeX program extracting the code from the .dtx file.
 >
 > To install the package:
 >
 >  - Run LaTeX on foilhtml.ins. This will create the following files:
 >      o foilhtml.perl---Perl script for LaTeX2HTML96-1,
 >      o foils.perl---Perl script for LaTeX2HTML97-1,
 >      o foilhtml.sty and foilhtml.cfg---LaTeX style file and the
 >          configuration file for user-customization,
 >      o foilhtml.drv---documentation driver.
 >      o foilhtml-96.perl and foils-97.perl---obsolete versions of
 >          Perl scripts required only if you have an obsolete installation
 >          of LaTeX2HTML.
 >
 >  - Put foils.perl to the directory where your LaTeX2HTML
 >      scripts reside (usually it is styles subdirectory of the main
 >      LaTeX2HTML directory, e. g. /usr/local/lib/latex2html/styles).
 >  - Tune the configuration file foilhtml.cfg according to your
 >      taste and put it together with the file foilhtml.sty to the
 >      directory read by LaTeX.
 >  - Run LaTeX on  foilhtml.drv to produce the documentation (the
 >      documentation driver foilhtml.drv reads the contents of the file
 >      foilhtml.dtx, so do not delete the latter until you produced the
 >      documentation).
 >  - (Optional) to produce the documentation and the code run
 >      LaTeX through the file foilhtml.dtx
 >
 > If you have older versions of LaTeX2HTML, your best options is to upgrade.
 > However, if you cannot do this by some reason, you can use the previous
 > versions of the perl scripts. Just rename the files foilhtml-96.perl
 > or foils-97.perl to foilhtml.perl or foils.perl correspondingly
 > and install them in the styles subdirectory.
 >
 >
 >
 > What's New in Version 1.2:
 >  - Added support for LaTeX2HTML98-1.
 >
 >
 > What's New in Version 1.1:
 >  - Added support for LaTeX2HTML97-1.

Thansk a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Feb 18 17:38:27 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 09:32:19 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- FoilHTML v 1.2

Boris Veytsman writes:

 > I've just submitted the new version of FoilHTML to dante (foilhtml.tgz).
 > Please install it in macros/latex/contrib/supported/foilhtml.
 >
 > This is just a patched release to work with the new LaTeX2HTML (98-1)
 > version. The readme file is enclosed.
 >
 > Good luck
 >
 > -Boris
 > http://www.plmsc.psu.edu/~boris/
 >
 > --------------------------readme.v12--------------------------------------
 >
 >         SECTIONING COMMANDS IN FOILTEX AND CONVERSION TO HTML FORMAT:
 >                              FOILHTML PACKAGE
 >
 >                         Version 1.2, February 17, 1998
 >
 >                               Boris Veytsman
 >                       E-mail: boris@plmsc.psu.edu
 >                Home page: http://www.plmsc.psu.edu/~boris
 >
 >
 >    The standard FoilTeX system is based on a visual rather than
 >    logical formatting. Thus automatic conversion of FoilTeX
 >    documents to HTML format is difficult. In particular, the
 >    well-known LaTeX2HTML converter gives unsatisfactory results
 >    when used on FoilTeX documents.
 >
 >    This package provides integration between FoilTeX and
 >    LaTeX2HTML. It adds sectioning commands and elements of logical
 >    formatting to FoilTeX and provides support for FoilTeX commands
 >    in LaTeX2HTML. It also supports automatic creation of
 >    LaTeX2HTML images with proper font sizes and shapes when
 >    converting FoilTeX documents.
 >
 >
 >
 > Installation
 >
 > Since FoilHTML is an add-on to FoilTeX and LaTeX2HTML, you need both
 > these programs installed and working prior to installation of
 > FoilHTML. This package is intended for LaTeX2e only; I don't have
 > enough time to port and test it under LaTeX2.09. It is tested under
 > FoilTeX v2.1 and LaTeX2HTML v96, 97, 98.
 >
 > The FoilHTML distribution consists of the following files:
 >
 >  - readme.v12---Read Me file
 >  - foilhtml.dtx---the fully documented code
 >  - foilhtml.ins---the LaTeX program extracting the code from the .dtx file.
 >
 > To install the package:
 >
 >  - Run LaTeX on foilhtml.ins. This will create the following files:
 >      o foilhtml.perl---Perl script for LaTeX2HTML96-1,
 >      o foils.perl---Perl script for LaTeX2HTML97-1,
 >      o foilhtml.sty and foilhtml.cfg---LaTeX style file and the
 >          configuration file for user-customization,
 >      o foilhtml.drv---documentation driver.
 >      o foilhtml-96.perl and foils-97.perl---obsolete versions of
 >          Perl scripts required only if you have an obsolete installation
 >          of LaTeX2HTML.
 >
 >  - Put foils.perl to the directory where your LaTeX2HTML
 >      scripts reside (usually it is styles subdirectory of the main
 >      LaTeX2HTML directory, e. g. /usr/local/lib/latex2html/styles).
 >  - Tune the configuration file foilhtml.cfg according to your
 >      taste and put it together with the file foilhtml.sty to the
 >      directory read by LaTeX.
 >  - Run LaTeX on  foilhtml.drv to produce the documentation (the
 >      documentation driver foilhtml.drv reads the contents of the file
 >      foilhtml.dtx, so do not delete the latter until you produced the
 >      documentation).
 >  - (Optional) to produce the documentation and the code run
 >      LaTeX through the file foilhtml.dtx
 >
 > If you have older versions of LaTeX2HTML, your best options is to upgrade.
 > However, if you cannot do this by some reason, you can use the previous
 > versions of the perl scripts. Just rename the files foilhtml-96.perl
 > or foils-97.perl to foilhtml.perl or foils.perl correspondingly
 > and install them in the styles subdirectory.
 >
 >
 >
 > What's New in Version 1.2:
 >  - Added support for LaTeX2HTML98-1.
 >
 >
 > What's New in Version 1.1:
 >  - Added support for LaTeX2HTML97-1.

Thansk a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Feb 18 07:39:22 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:30:58 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submision -- titlesec 1.0 (beta)

Javier Bezos writes:
 > Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren:
 >
 > I have uploaded my titlesec package.
 >
 > Site: ftp.dante.de
 > Files:
 >   In /titlesec/: titlesec.dtx, titlesec.ins
 > Description: This package provides a friendly interface to
 >    sectioning commands. You can select among various title styles
 >    or change the font of all headings with a single
 >    command. It provides simple one-step page styles, too.
 > Current version: 1.0 (beta)
 > Suggested CTAN location: /macros/latex/contrib/supported/
 > Format: cleartext
 >
 > Mit freunlichen Gruessen.

Thanks a lot for your upload. I installed the files in

    macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec

as you suggested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Feb 18 07:57:24 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:51:50 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- morehelp

Olaf Kummer writes:
 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de the morehelp package
 > in the file morehelp.tar .
 >
 > >From the README:
 >
 >   This package enhances the error messages of LaTeX2e
 >   by providing descriptions of the possible causes
 >   including those that may not be obvious.
 >
 >   This style is effectively an online substitute for
 >   error lists found LaTeX books, although it cannot
 >   completely replace them. Only true LaTeX errors are
 >   included, TeX errors are beyond the reach of ordinary
 >   macros.
 >
 > This is a new package, currently in an early alpha
 > stage, but it can only advance by actual field testing
 > now. It should be placed at
 >   macros/latex/contrib/supported/morehelp
 > after extraction from the archive.
 >
 > Yours, Olaf Kummer
 > --
 > Olaf Kummer, Luruper Weg 21, 25469 Halstenbek, Germany
 > Tel: 04101-473957 / 040-5494-2245    Fax: 040-5494-2246
 > mailto:kummer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
 > http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/wimis/kummer.html

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files as suggested.

  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Feb 19 04:39:27 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:33:34 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Timo Baumann writes:

 > BIBARTS.ZIP, version 1.2a, is in your INCOMING directory.
 >
 > Sorry, I had to modify BIBARTS again. Not all characteristics, which
 > were guaranteed, are served in last weeks' version 1.2. Now, they are.
 >
 > Exept the repaired bugs, the files within the archiv file BIBARTS.ZIP
 > are the same again. They have the same purpose: Making bibliographical lists.
 >
 > Timo Baumann

Thanks for yopur update, I installed the it in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/bibarts

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb 20 04:32:38 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:28:59 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- kluwer class

Taco Hoekwater writes:

 > I just uploaded kluwer.zip to ftp.dante.de. This zip contains an update
 > of Kluwer Academic's class file for latex2e (00readme included).
 > Its contents should replace the files that are already present in
 >
 >         macros/latex/contrib/supported/kluwer
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > Taco
 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Taco Hoekwater                                        texhelp@wkap.nl
 > Kluwer Academic Publishers                            -- Pre Press --
 > Achterom 119, 3311 KB Dordrecht, The Netherlands  tel.  31-78-6392550
 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb 20 07:50:00 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:44:45 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update to natbib (v 6.8)

P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I have put an update to my natbib package onto the Dante CTAN server
 > under /incoming/natbib.
 >
 > I have also included an additional package, bibentry, that I have distributed
 > only privately so far, but which seems to be in demand. So I add it here.
 > It complements natbib.
 >
 > drwxrwxr-x   2 ftp      ftp          512 Feb 20 11:19 .
 > drwxrwxrwt   7 Mr.Ftp   server      1024 Feb 20 11:18 ..
 > -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      1488 Feb 20 11:19 README.1st
 > -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     14897 Feb 20 11:19 README.v68
 > -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     17905 Feb 20 11:19 bibentry.dtx
 > -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      1897 Feb 20 11:19 bibentry.ins
 > -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    176755 Feb 20 11:18 natbib.dtx
 > -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      3151 Feb 20 11:18 natbib.ins
 >
 > Please move these files to
 >    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib
 >
 > and delete the existing README.v67 file. The .bst files there can (must)
 > remain.
 >
 > Thank you.
 >
 > Patrick
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >    Dr. Patrick W. Daly                    Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279
 >    Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie     Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240
 >    Max-Planck-Str. 2
 >    D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau              Internet: daly@linmpi.mpg.de
 >    Germany
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot for the update
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Feb 24 04:34:03 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:26:46 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- GlossTeX 0.4 OS/2 binaries

Volkan Yavuz writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > somehow my first message didn't make it to you.
 >
 > I again uploaded
 >
 >        glosstex-i386-os2-4.0.exe
 >        glossteu-i386-os2-4.0.exe
 >        README.emx
 >
 > to ftp.dante.de:/incoming/glosstex. Those are binaries for OS/2, which
 > Stefan A. Deutscher kindly provided. Please put 'em to
 > /support/glosstex/bin where the other binaries live.
 >
 > Thank you very much.
 >
 > Best regards, Volkan
 >
 > --
 > Volkan Yavuz
 > mailto:yavuzv(at)rumms.uni-mannheim.de
 > http://webrum.uni-mannheim.de/ba/yavuzv/      "May the source be with you!"

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Feb 24 04:34:40 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:29:44 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - twg-list.tar.gz

Kaja P. Christiansen writes:
 > Uploaded to ftp.dante.de
 >     twg-list.tar.gz
 > containing temporary updates of twg-list.tex, twg-list.dvi, twg-list.ps.
 > Should replace the current CTAN files in the tex-archive/usergrps/tug.
 >
 > Kaja P. Christiansen
 > kaja@tug.org

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Feb 24 04:36:50 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:30:57 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- rail.sty

Klaus Georg Barthelmann writes:
 > Dear CTAN maintainer,
 > helau!   (Probably only Germans will understand that.)
 > I uploaded
 >   /incoming/rail.sty
 > to
 >   ftp.dante.de .
 > Please move it to the directory
 >   /pub/tex/support/rail .
 > In this version the \catcode handling was rewritten to make it more elegant
 > (i.e. harder to understand ;-) ) and to fix a bug introduced in the previous
 > version. My apologies for bothering you again.
 > Best regards,
 >   Klaus

Thanks a lot, I installed the file as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Feb 24 04:44:02 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:39:31 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload to DANTE:/incoming/gust.zip

Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz writes:
 > Dear CTANmaster(s),
 >
 > I've just uploaded to CTAN:/incoming/gust.zip
 > It contains 3 files:
 >
 > I.
 > 2 small packages by Micha{\l} Gulczy\'nski, rather simple but handy and
 > instructive in my opinion:
 >
 > 1. cap.zip  -- macro package for typesetting programs in C and Pascal,
 >                the program sources in C and Pascal can also be input.
 >
 > suggested location for unziping:
 > macros/generic/c&pascal/

& is a bad character for directory names, I use

   macros/generic/c+pascal

 > 2. insbox.zip -- macros for inserting pictures/boxes into paragraphs
 >
 > suggested location for unziping:
 > macros/generic/insbox/
 >
 > Both packages are documented and contain examples.
 >
 > II.
 > cop.bat  -- a cosmetic change of the same file from
 >   support/pstools/cep/
 > please overwrite quietly the old one.
 >
 > Thanks.
 > Cheers,
 > **StaW

Thanks a lot.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Feb 24 05:25:07 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:17:42 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.10a

Christian Schenk writes:
 > I have uploaded four MiKTeX 1.10a upgrade files (namely NEWS.TXT,
 > README.TXT, fp110ai.zip and install.exe) to
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex.  Please install the files in
 > systems/win32/miktex/1.10.
 >
 > MiKTeX is an implementation of TeX & Friends for Win95/NT.  1.10a is a
 > bug fix release which resolves the following problems:
 >
 >   * On some Win95 boxes: YAP displays text lines upside down.
 >
 >   * YAP reports "MF mode / printer resolution mismatch" if printer
 >     resoultion is different from 600 dpi.
 >
 >   * YAP forgets the paper size info (i.e. always starts with A4).
 >
 >   * YAP consumes to much GDI resources during a run.
 >
 > --
 > Christian Schenk <cschenk@snafu.de>

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Feb 25 04:15:53 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:13:52 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: LaTeX Companion Chapter 8 now available from CTAN

With Addison-Wesley's permission, Michel Goossens has prepared a copy
of the revised chapter 8 (about AMSLaTeX) of the LaTeX Companion.
This revised version covers current AMSLaTeX, a welcome advance over
the published chapter 8, which has been out of date for some time.

Michel notes

> (BTW, the first recto/verso page states clearly the AW copyright, etc).

Please respect A-W's copyright in this matter -- this chapter is not
for publication as it stands -- it is merely a correction of existing
published material.

The files are

  companion-rev/ch8.pdf and ch8.ps

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Feb 25 04:58:28 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:52:37 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: LaTeX Companion Chapter 8 now available from CTAN

In article <E0y7cuZ-000443-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk> I wrote:
>The files are
>
>  companion-rev/ch8.pdf and ch8.ps

As Reinhard Zierke has pointed out, that should have been

  info/companion-rev/ch8.pdf and ch8.ps

my apologies for the misinformation

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From staw@ETI.PG.GDA.PL Wed Feb 25 17:20:46 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:16:02 +0100
From: Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz <staw@ETI.PG.GDA.PL>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload to DANTE:/incoming/gust.zip

Rainer Schoepf writes:
> > suggested location for unziping:
> > macros/generic/c&pascal/

>& is a bad character for directory names, I use
>  macros/generic/c+pascal

Yes. Only files for MACs use names with &.
But DOS users should have problem with `+' :-(
also when packing on the fly into c+pascal.zip
For example on CTAN CD direct+ories cannot be accessed, e.g.
indexing/glo+idxt/
So it would be better something like
  macros/generic/c-and-pascal/
or just
  macros/generic/c-pas/
up to Your preference. The location would be enought descriptive.

**StaW

From plugge@AXP3.SR.FH-MANNHEIM.DE Thu Feb 26 02:39:31 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:37:33 +0100
From: michel <plugge@AXP3.SR.FH-MANNHEIM.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload to DANTE:/incoming/gust.zip

> Rainer Schoepf writes:
> > > suggested location for unziping:
> > > macros/generic/c&pascal/
>
> >& is a bad character for directory names, I use
> >  macros/generic/c+pascal
>
> Yes. Only files for MACs use names with &.
> But DOS users should have problem with `+' :-(
> also when packing on the fly into c+pascal.zip
> For example on CTAN CD direct+ories cannot be accessed, e.g.
> indexing/glo+idxt/
> So it would be better something like
>   macros/generic/c-and-pascal/
> or just
>   macros/generic/c-pas/
> up to Your preference. The location would be enought descriptive.

The same problem arises for VMS users. When using ftp, the ftp client
handles the directory names; but when I try to read the CTAN CDROM, I
can't access some directories because of these names. The following
files/directories are a problem (extracted using a small perl script):

indexing/glo+idxtex/
indexing/makeindex/src/RCS/README,v
support/C++2LaTeX-1_1pl1/
support/vortex/vortex/source/bitmaps/gray50%
systems/mac/textures/information/Textures_&_PostScript_Printers
systems/unix/linux/!INDEX
systems/unix/linux/dvi/!INDEX
systems/unix/linux/texmin/!INDEX
tools/gopher/gopher_protocol/Gopher+/00README
tools/zoo/RCS/makefile,v
web/noweb/contrib/kostas/C++_translation_table
web/spiderweb/src/c++/make
web/spiderweb/src/turing+/make

It would be fine, if the names could be changed (at least for the
CDROM). I reported the problem already last year to cdrom@dante.de,
but the new CDROMS (Jan 1998 release) contain these names too.

Best regards

Michel

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb 27 12:07:26 1998
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 17:03:18 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- isov2 Class, bez123, isorot, layouts, uschyp and xtab packages

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded iso.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Please
> use this as a complete replacement for the current
> latex/contrib/supported/isostds/iso directory.
>
>     This is a new distribution of my class and package files related to
> the typesetting of ISO standards. It includes:
>
> o isov2.cls --- Class file for typesetting ISO standards according to
> ISO/IEC Directives Part 3, third edition, 1997.
>
> o iso.ist --- MakeIndex style file for ISO documents.
>
> o bez123.sty --- Package for drawing linear, quadratic, rational
> quadratic and cubic Bezier curves.
>
> o isorot.sty --- An extension of the rotation package.
>
> o layouts.sty --- A package to assist document designers in
> experimenting with the page, floats, headings, footnotes, etc., layout
> in a LaTeX class/package.
>
> o uschyp.sty --- Package to enable the automatic hyphenation of words
> with analphabetic characters like "self/the_supertype.an_identifier"
>
> o xtab.sty --- An extension of the supertabular package reducing some of
> its weaknesses.
>
>     Full documentation is provided.

i have installed the package as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Feb 28 08:19:46 1998
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 13:17:55 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Washington Romanized Indic for LaTeXe

Anshuman Pandey writes:

> I've submitted to ftp.tex.ac.uk in the incoming directory a file called
> wnri.zip.
>
> This file contains the updated fonts and style files which adapt the
> Washington Romanized Indic METAFONTs for use with LaTeXe. This release of
> the WNRI files supercedes the previous distribution.
>
> It is suggested that these files be placed in CTAN:/fonts/wnri/. Numerous
> files have changed and some have been removed from the package, it is
> therefore important that the previous distribution be deleted. The
> previous files reside in the same /fonts/wnri directory.

thanks for the upload.  i've installed the files in place of the old
fonts/wnri directory, as suggested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar  2 04:39:43 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 10:31:10 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan upload: gnhyph01.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I have just uploaded the zip archive gnhyph01.zip to the
 > /incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unpack the file
 > gnhyph01.tex from this archive and replace the existent file
 > language/hyphenation/gnhyph01.tex with it.
 >
 > gnhyph01.tex is a preliminary set of hyphenation patterns for
 > the new German orthography ("neue deutsche Rechtschreibung").
 >
 > This submission will fix a bug of the previous release.
 > The version number of gnhyph01.tex is now "beta 20".
 >
 > Documentation (in German only) is provided within the file.
 >
 > Greetings
 >
 > Walter
 >
 > *********************************************************************
 > Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
 > Schornbaumstrasse 2,  91052 Erlangen,  Germany
 > pgp key (1024 bits, keyID 69D36B8D):  see <html://www.trustcenter.de>
 > pgp key fingerprint: 1C E5 A5 D8 B8 F7 E2 EF  36 55 69 EC D8 26 94 A9
 > *********************************************************************

Thanks a lot, I installed the update
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar  2 04:49:49 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 10:38:11 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- pkfind 1.00

Paul Vojta writes:
 > Dear maintaners:
 >
 >     I have uploaded the file:   pkfind-1.00.tar.gz
 >                  to the site:   ftp.dante.de
 >    and suggest you put it in:   tex-archive/systems/unix
 >
 > I would also like to suggest that you set up your software to automatically
 > mirror the files ~ftp/pub/Software/TeX/pkfind* from math.berkeley.edu
 > (as is currently done with gsftopk).  That will save us both some work when
 > new versions come out.
 >
 > The TDS standard specifies that pk and gf files contain \special strings
 > to identify the contents of pk and gf files.  Pkfind is a variant of the
 > GNU find utility, modified to understand those specials, and to act on them
 > in some cases.  For example, it can be used to delete all pk files created
 > by gsftopk from a subdirectory tree.
 >
 > Sincerely,
 >
 >
 > Paul Vojta
 > vojta@math.berkeley.edu

I set up the mirror, the files will be found in

    systems/unix/pkfind

Thanks a lot
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar  2 04:43:03 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 10:40:07 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update to merlin.mbs in custom-bib

P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > on the DANTE server I have just placed an update to my  custom-bib  bundle.
 >
 > It is   incoming/custom-bib/merlin.mbs
 >
 > Please copy it to macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib/
 >
 > Thanks
 >
 > Patrick
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >    Dr. Patrick W. Daly                    Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279
 >    Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie     Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240
 >    Max-Planck-Str. 2
 >    D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau              Internet: daly@linmpi.mpg.de
 >    Germany
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot, I installed the update
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar  2 04:47:20 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 10:43:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lgrind for Win32

Michael Piefel writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > (a) I uploaded to ftp.dante.de
 > (b) the file lgrind.exe
 > (d) which should probably go to support/lgrind/win32.
 > (c) LGrind is a program to produce nicely formatted output from program source
 >     code. It is a preprocessor and requires an executable. Since many
 >         Intel/Microsoft etc. users do not have a C-compiler, I provided a binary for
 >         DOS (and OS/2). This uses rsx, which is fine if you use emTeX. Recently I have
 >         been asked (and the question arose in comp.text.tex as well) for a Windows 95
 >         executable. This is it. I believe it should run under Windows NT, too, which
 >         is why I prefer to call it `for win32.'
 >
 > My aim is to please ;-)
 > Mike
 >
 > --
 > |=| Michael Piefel                                                     \
 > |=| Technische Universit�t                                             |
 > |=| Berlin                                      piefel@cs.tu-berlin.de |
 > \=\                              http://www.student.brad.ac.uk/mpiefel |

Thanks a lot, I installed the file as suggested in

  support/lgrind/win32/lgrind.exe

 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar  2 05:25:21 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 11:22:09 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update to bibentry.dtx on CTAN

P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I have just put an update to my recently released bibentry.dtx file onto
 > the Dante CTAN server, under   /incoming/natbib
 >
 > Please copy this to macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib
 > replacing the file of the same name.
 >
 > Thanks
 >
 > Patrick
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >    Dr. Patrick W. Daly                    Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279
 >    Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie     Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240
 >    Max-Planck-Str. 2
 >    D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau              Internet: daly@linmpi.mpg.de
 >    Germany
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot, I installed the update
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar  2 05:29:24 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 11:25:28 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- revnum

Joern Wilms writes:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I've uploaded the file revnum.tar.gz to incoming on ftp.dante.de.
 > revnum provides a reverse-enumerate environment, where all \item's
 > are numbered backwards. It automagically counts the number of
 > \items in the revnum style. Except for issuing a warning message
 > that the file needs to be latex'ed again it should be ready to
 > use by now.
 >
 > I suggest putting revnum into
 >
 > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/revnum
 >
 > Thanks a lot,
 >
 > Joern
 > wilms@astro.uni-tuebingen.de

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested. I took the liberty
to delete the file readme.txt~.

 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar  2 09:31:48 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 15:17:19 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload to DANTE: cap.zip

Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz writes:
 > Dear CTANmaster(s),
 >
 > I've just uploaded to CTAN:/incoming/cap.zip
 > It contains corrected macro package for typesetting programs in C and Pascal
 > by Micha{\l} Gulczy\'nski.
 >
 > I do not know what will be the final directory to unpack it
 >  macros/generic/c+pascal/  (as older one)
 >  macros/generic/c-pas/     (as I suggested last time)

OK, I think that the word pascal should be written out, so, if you
don't object, I stick to

    macros/generic/c_pascal

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar  3 03:43:50 1998
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 09:34:43 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- spanishb

Javier Bezos writes:

 > Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren:
 >
 > I have uploaded the files
 >   spanishb.dtx, spanishb.ins and 00readme
 > to the incoming/spanishb/ directory of ftp.dante.de.
 > (Cleartext.)
 >
 > These files (version 1.0) are a spanish style using babel, but it's
 > not part of the official babel system.
 >
 > Mit freunlichen Gruessen.
 >
 > Javier Bezos

Thank you for your submission.

Following the suggestion by Johannes Braams, I installed the files in

   macros/latex/packages/babel/contrib/spanishb

 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar  3 04:44:37 1998
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 10:33:55 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- aiaa latex package (v2.0, patch level 1)

bil kleb writes:

 > apparently i wasn't thorough enough before i released the
 > latest version to ftp.tex.ac.uk as incoming/aiaa.tar.gz.
 >
 > please install aiaa-2.0p1.tar.gz instead, removing all traces
 > of the previous version beforehand.
 >
 > the gnu-zipped tar file unpacks into its own directory, named
 > `aiaa' with a supplemental subdirectory tree named `demos'.
 >
 >      site uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk
 >      file uploaded as: incoming/aiaa-2.0p1.tar.gz
 >        brief overview: a package of LaTeX/BibTeX files and sample documents
 >                        to aid those producing papers and journal articles
 >                        according to the guidelines of the American Institute
 >                        of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) (feb 1998)
 >    suggested location: macros/latex/contrib/supported
 >              [version: 2.0 patch level 1 (28 feb 98)]
 >
 > thanks,
 > --
 > bil <mailto:w.l.kleb@larc.nasa.gov>

Thanks a lot, I installed the update at ftp.dante.de from where it
will propagate to the other CTAN hosts.

 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Mar  4 03:34:17 1998
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 09:30:36 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- keywords.sty

Brett Presnell writes:

 > I have uploaded the file keywords.sty to the incoming directory of
 > ftp.dante.de.  This provides certain enhancements to the titlepage of
 > the article class, as explained below.  If you feel that this will be
 > useful to others, I suggest that it be placed in
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/keywords.
 >
 > Brett Presnell
 >
 > %%%  keywords.sty (title page enhancements)
 > %%%
 > %%%  Gives the capability of adding keywords, a running title, AMS
 > %%%  subject classifications, and an ``authors footnote'' as footnotes
 > %%%  to the title or first page of a document.  I use it with the
 > %%%  article class, but I hope it will work with any class for which
 > %%%  the ``\thanks'' macro works.  Suggestions are welcome.
 > %%%
 > %%%  Keywords are set by, e.g., \keywords{Smoothing, bootstrap.}.
 > %%%
 > %%%  The running title is set by, e.g., \runningtitle{A few words.}.
 > %%%
 > %%%  AMS subject classifications are set by, e.g.,
 > %%%    \amssubj{Primary 62G07, Secondary 62G09.}

Thanks a lot, I installed the file as suggested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Mar  4 08:12:00 1998
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 13:57:16 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.10b

Christian Schenk writes:
 > I have uploaded four MiKTeX 1.10b upgrade files (namely NEWS.TXT,
 > README.TXT, fp110bi.zip and install.exe) to
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex.  Please
 >
 >   a) install the files in systems/win32/miktex/1.10
 >   b) remove these obsolete files from systems/win32/miktex/1.10:
 >        news.txt (all lower-case!)
 >        fp110ai.zip
 >
 > MiKTeX is an implementation of TeX & Friends for Win95/NT.  1.10b is a
 > bug fix release which resolves the following problem:
 >
 >   * `yap --single-instance' causes a protection fault


Thanks a lot, I installed the update
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar  5 03:43:26 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 09:40:49 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: fc-src.zip

TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE writes:
 > Dear archivists,
 >
 > I have produced a minor update to the fc fonts. It consists mainly in
 > renaming coding.fc into fccoding.mf and subsequent changes.
 >
 > Please remove all files from
 >
 > fonts/jknappen/fc/src
 >
 > and unpack fc-src.zip in that directory afterwards (it does not contain
 > subdirectories).
 >
 > The ready-mf and tfm files remain unchanged.
 >
 > Yours, J"org Knappen

Thanks a lot, I installed the update
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar  5 05:04:09 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 10:01:12 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- DVIPS shell

> a) Site: ftp.tex.ac.uk
> b) Files: The following files REPLACE previous versions in the
> systems/win32/util directory:
>
> dvpsh103.exe replaces dvpsh102.exe
> dvpsh103.txt replaces dvpsh102.txt

i have installed the files as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Mar  6 03:27:57 1998
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 09:19:39 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: jknappen.zip

J%org Knappen, Mainz writes:

 > I have uploaded an update of the jknappen latex packages to ftp.dante.de.

 > News include:
 >
 > -- a renovated version of the smartmn package which now really works.
 >    A hyphen/minus is rendered as \textminus if it precedes a digit
 >
 > -- the semtrans package, containing new command for the latin
 >    transliteration of semitic languages, including \Alif, \Ayn,
 >    \U (breve below), \D (diaeresis below), and \T (turn 180 degrees)
 >
 > -- the tccompat package providing compatibility with the text symbol names
 >    of the old (pre-1997/12/01) textcomp package
 >
 > -- Some updates in the documentation
 >
 > Yours, J"org Knappen

Thanks a lot, I installed the update
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Mar  6 05:27:52 1998
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 11:22:31 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinShell-english version

Ingo de Boer writes:
 > hi ...
 >
 > i uploaded an english beta version of my
 > WinShell to the /incoming diretory...
 >
 > i already submitted the german version
 > and it is located in the
 >
 >  /pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell
 >
 > directory, so the english beta version
 > can be placed in the same diretory.
 >
 > thanks
 >
 >  ingo de boer
 >
 > ____________________
 > Ingo de Boer
 >
 > email: idb@ibt.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de

Thanks a lot, I installed the fiel as suggested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Mar  9 04:18:05 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 09:11:15 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- directory-1.00.tar.gz

> The new version of the 'directory' package (directory-1.00.tar.gz) was
> uploaded on 'ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming' on Mar 8 09:11.
>
> The content of 'directory-1.00.tar.gz' is intended to replace all the
> existing files in the 'bibliography/bibtex/contrib/directory' directory.

thanks for the update -- i have installed it as suggested

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar  9 04:49:42 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 10:46:54 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lgrind

Michael Piefel writes:
 > I uploaded lgrind.zip to ftp.dante.de, the contents are meant to go in
 > support/lgrind/win32. They are a supplement to what I uploaded earlier
 > this week as there have been unforeseen problems.
 >
 > Bye, Mike
 >
 > --
 > |=| Michael Piefel                                                     \
 > |=| Technische Universit�t                                             |
 > |=| Berlin                                      piefel@cs.tu-berlin.de |
 > \=\                         http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~piefel |

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar  9 04:53:10 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 10:48:31 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- jura.cls/alphanum.sty

Felix Braun writes:
 > Hi CTAN People,
 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 > upload to:      ftp.dante.de/incoming/
 > file:           jura.dtx
 > description:    v4.2 of my documentclass for german law students includes
 >                 alphanum.sty that permits alphanumeric section numbering
 >                 (e.g.: A. Introduction; III. International Law) which
 >                 could be of more general use. Documentation only in
 >                 german.
 > destination:    CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jura/jura.dtx should
 >                 be updated. All other files in the directory should remain
 >                 as they are.
 >
 > Thanks in advance ... Felix

Thanks a lot, I installed the update
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar  9 04:56:09 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 10:50:21 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- titlesec

Javier Bezos writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I just uploaded   titlesec.tex, titlesec.sty
 >              to   ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > These files should replace the dtx/ins files in
 >
 >              macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec
 >
 > This package provides a friendly interface to redefine sectioning
 > commands, which may be formatted with several predefined styles, such
 > as marginal titles. Spacing and format are independently controlled.
 > There are some tools for one-step headlines too, which allow the
 > traditional scheme \topmark/\botmark described in The TeXbook, p.257.
 >
 > This is the first release, which fixes some bugs of the
 > beta release:
 >
 > * Both TOC and TOC entries seem work now.
 > * By means of a package option, conflict with fancyhdr can be avoided.
 > * There are some additional minor adjustments.
 > * Tidied up documentation.
 >
 > Thanks
 > Javier

Thanks a lot, I installed the update
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar  9 04:57:00 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 10:54:22 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- hellas.bst

Apostolos Syropoulos writes:
 >    Dear Sirs,
 >
 >    I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming the file Gr-BibTeX.tar.gz
 > which provides a new BibTeX style file for use with among others the
 > Greek option of the babel package. Therefore I suggest you decompress
 > and ``de-tar'' the file in the directory languages/greek/cb.
 > apostolos...
 >
 > ****************************************************************
 > *Apostolos Syropoulos                                          *
 > *snail mail: 366, 28th October Str., GR-671 00  Xanthi, HELLAS *
 > *email     : apostolo@obelix.ee.duth.gr                        *
 > *phone num.: +30-(0)541-28704                                  *
 > *home page : http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo                *
 > ****************************************************************

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as suggested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar 12 05:16:26 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:11:16 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- keywords.sty

Brett Presnell writes:

 > In message <199803061415.PAA15720@perdita.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de> you write:
 > >
 > >  > a keywords.sty file already existed in the progkeys package (by Miguel=
 > >  Alabau),
 > >  > so we have a name clash. On CTAN, you have=20
 > >  >  macros/latex/contrib/supported/progkeys/keywords.(dtx ins)
 > >  > which will produce keywords.sty.
 > >
 > > May I propose that you choose another name for your package?
 >
 > Very sorry about that.  After thinking about it for a while, the most
 > appropriate name I can think of is titlefoot.sty, since all this
 > package actually does is add informative footnotes to the title.
 > Unfortunately titlefoot has one more character than we would like for
 > some operating systems, but perhaps this doesn't matter too much
 > anymore.
 >
 > I have uploaded a new version of the package under this name to the
 > incoming directory at dante.  Please remove the keywords package, and
 > instead place titlefoot.sty under
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlefoot.
 >
 > Brett Presnell
 > presnell@maths.anu.edu.au

Thanks a lot, I installed the new file and deleted

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/keywords

 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar 12 05:22:08 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:15:46 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WMF2E10.ZIP

Wolfgang Schulter writes:
 > I've just uploaded the ZIP-archive WMF2E10.ZIP to ftp.dante.de/incoming,
 > which is an update for the existing package
 >
 > support/wmf2eps/wmf2ep03.zip
 >
 > Thus, the existing version 0.3 should be replaced by the current version 1.0.
 >
 > WMF2EPS 1.0 simplifies the production of EPS graphics under Windows95/NT,
 > further details can be found in README.TXT and WMF2EPS.HLP inside the archive.
 >
 > Sincerely,
 >
 > Wolfgang.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar 12 05:39:34 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:31:39 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- dn2.zip

Klaus-J. Wolf writes:
 > Dear Sirs,
 >
 > I have uploaded a file named ``dn2.zip'' in the incoming directory of
 > ftp.dante.de. This file contains in main part a small program ``dn2.c''
 > which is intended for use with the devanagari font package. I had serious
 > problems in using the devanagari font together with German language
 > extensions, and this pre-processor seems to fix that problems.
 >
 > Ciao
 >   jay

Thanks a lot for your submission. I installed your package in

  language/devanagari/contrib/dn2

 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar 16 04:35:42 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:23:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload to DANTE: pf2afm2.zip, cc-pl.zip

Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz writes:
 > Dear CTANmaster
 >
 > I've just uploaded to DANTE://incoming/pf2afm1.zip
 >                                        cc-pl.zip
 >
 > pf2afm1.zip contains updated pf2afm and should be unpacked to
 >    /tex-archive/fonts/utilities/pf2afm/
 >
 > Please remove pf2afm.zip (0 bytes) from incoming. Failed transfer.
 >
 > cc-pl.zip contains Polish MF sources---variants of Computer Cocrete and
 > should be copied as is to
 >    /tex-archive/language/polish/
 >
 > Thank you,
 >
 > **StaW
 > staw@gust.org.pl
 > staw@eti.pg.gda.pl

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.

 For the  CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar 16 04:42:50 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:24:44 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- russian_izhitsa

Oleg V. Motygin writes:
 > Dear CTAN team,
 >
 > I uploaded to  ftp.dante.de  two files collected in a directory
 > Russian_Izhitsa. These are:
 >       izhitsa.mf
 >       izhitsa.sty
 > First of the files is a mf code of the old russian font Izhitsa
 > and the second is a style file to use the font in Plain TeX and
 > LaTeX. I would like the directory to be placed in the directory
 > Fonts of the CTAN archive.
 >
 > Yours respectfully,
 > Oleg Motygin
 > ---
 > Dr Oleg Motygin,  Inst of Problems of Mech Engrng
 > V O, Bol'shoy pr 61, St Petersburg 199178, Russia
 > Phone: (812) 217-8185,  E-mail: mov@snark.ipme.ru
 > http://www.ipme.ru/ipme/labs/mv/oleg.htm

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files in

   fonts/russian_izhitsa

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Mar 16 04:32:47 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:29:47 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- TypeSpec

Stephen Moye writes:

> Upload site: ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> Uploaded materials: Directory <TypeSpec> containing two files:
> TypeSpc1.tex and TypeSpc1.doc
>
> Upload state: Text
>
> Overview: TypeSpc1.tex creates a type specimen page with useful information
> about the typeface. TypeSpc1.doc explains some aspects of the
> specimen page.
>
> Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/
> I will upload other specimen pages which can be placed in the
> same location.

thanks for the upload -- i've installed the upload in the directory
macros/plain/contrib/TypeSpec, as suggested

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar 17 03:56:16 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 09:39:50 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- titlefoot.sty (bugfix)

Brett Presnell writes:

 > I have uploaded a new version of titlefoot.sty to the incoming
 > directory of ftp.dante.de.  The only change is a simple bugfix.
 > Please replace macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlefoot/titlefoot.sty
 > with this newer version.
 >
 > Thanks again.
 >
 > Brett Presnell
 > presnell@maths.anu.edu.au

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar 17 04:29:06 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:13:51 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Andreas Tille writes:
 > NEW VERSION OF  CIRC
 >
 > I have upload in
 >
 >        ftp.dante.de:/incoming/circ/  circ.dtx, circ.ins, circ.txt, readme Makefile
 >
 > the package CIRC.
 >
 > Please change it to: macros/generic/diagram/circ
 >
 > Would you be so kind to inlucde CIRC in the quote site index.
 > Is it possible that the keyword "circuit" points to CIRC?
 >
 > This is CIRC version 1.0[epsilon]
 >
 > The package CIRC is a tool for typesetting circuit diagrams. It
 > defines several electrical symbols like resistor, capacitor,
 > transistors etc. This symbols can be connected with wires in a
 > very easy manner.
 >
 > For using CIRC you only need METAFONT and LaTeXe2e. You do not
 > need postscript or any drawing tool. You can expand CIRC easily
 > with your own symbols, written in METAFONT.
 >
 > CIRC is an open system. As an example in this package is an
 > optics style with lenses, mirrors and so on to show, how to use
 > the macros and expand the package.
 >
 > It runs with LaTeX2e.
 >
 > To install CIRC first run TeX on "circ.dtx" or LaTeX on "circ.ins" !

Thanks a lot for your upload, I replaced the files in

  macros/generic/diagrams/circ

and added a link

  macros/generic/diagrams/circuit

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar 19 03:07:39 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:50:05 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ethiop

Olaf Kummer writes:

 > I have uploaded to the incoming directory of
 >   ftp.dante.de
 > the file
 >   ethiop.tar.gz
 > The file contains version 0.6 of the package
 >   ethiop (Ethiopian language support for the babel package)
 > currently located at CTAN in
 >   ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/
 >
 > The tar-file should uncompress neatly into the
 > existing directory structure.
 >
 > This update adds compatibility with ArabTeX by means
 > of an additional etharab.sty. This feature is experimental,
 > it will only work with the latest versions of babel and
 > ArabTeX. Thanks to Klaus Lagally and Johannes Brahms for
 > their help.
 >
 > Furthermore, the documentation has been extended.
 > Now it includes copyright and liability statements as
 > kindly suggested by Paul Seelig from the Deban team.
 >
 > Yours texnically,
 > Olaf Kummer
 > --
 > Olaf Kummer, Luruper Weg 21, 25469 Halstenbek, Germany
 > Tel: 04101-473957 / 040-5494-2245    Fax: 040-5494-2246
 > mailto:kummer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
 > http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/wimis/kummer.html

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar 19 03:12:01 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:50:36 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - latexcad

John Leis writes:

 > I've uploaded a new version of LaTeX-CAD to CTAN. The file is
 > latexcad.zip, sent to ftp.dante.de, directory /incoming. It should
 > replace the existing latexcad.zip in the CTAN hierarchy
 > systems/msdos/latexcad.
 >
 > Thanks & Regards,
 > John
 > --
 >
 > ________________________________________________________________________
 >
 >  John Leis                             Phone: +61 (0)7 4631 2551
 >  Faculty of Engineering & Surveying    Fax:   +61 (0)7 4631 2526
 >  University of Southern Queensland     email: leis@usq.edu.au
 >                                        http://www.usq.edu.au/users/leis/
 >
 > ________________________________________________________________________

Thansk for the upload. I installed the file as

  systems/msdos/latexcad/latexcad.zip

and removed

  systems/msdos/latexcad/latexcad18.zip

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar 19 03:10:58 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:52:20 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- AmiWeb2c 2.1

Andreas Scherer writes:
 > Dear CTAN manager,
 >
 > It is with great pleasure that I announce the availability of the
 > latest, last, and final update of the Amiga port of Web2c 7.2. It is
 > currently residing at
 >
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/amiweb2c/amiweb2c-new.tar.gz
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/amiweb2c/amiweb2c.readme
 >
 > Unfortunately, the first submission was aborted. Please ignore the
 > corrupt file "amiweb2c.tar.gz" and rename "amiweb2c-new.tar.gz" to
 > "amiweb2c.tar.gz" for the installation.
 >
 > With the exception of (o)xdvi and a reduced functionality compared to
 > the Unix mktex* scripts, this is the complete installation of Web2c 7.2
 > and associated texk drivers for the Amiga.
 >
 > May I kindly ask you to move both the archive file and the introductory
 > text file to their final residence at
 >
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/amiga/amiweb2c/
 >
 > where they should replace their outdated predecessors, "amiweb2c-2.lha"
 > and "amiweb2c-2.readme".
 >
 > Thank you in advance for your service,
 >
 > -- Andreas Scherer

Thanks a lot for your update, I installed the files as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar 19 05:31:27 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:22:01 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - epmtfe20.zip/txt

Walter Schmidt writes:

> I have uploaded the files epmtfe20.zip and epmtfe20.txt to the
> directory /incoming at ftp.tex.ac.uk  Please, move them to
>
>         systems/os2/epmtfe/
>
> and delete epmtfe11.* .
>
> This is release 2.0 of the EPM TeX Front End, an integrated
> TeX environment for OS/2 based on the EPM editor.
>
> The main new features of this release are:
>
> * The TeX menu is no longer restricted to the `Pro' version;
> it is now provided with the precompiled module, too.
>
> * The source code provides `hooks' for including either Juan
> J. G. Ripoll's LaTeX auto-indentation and reflowing package
> (see http://www.arrakis.es/~worm) or simple EPM-style
> indentation.

i've installed the new version as requested.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From olaf@INFOVORE.XS4ALL.NL Thu Mar 19 14:09:56 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:55:10 +0100
From: Olaf Weber <olaf@INFOVORE.XS4ALL.NL>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Web2C 7.2

Web2C 7.2 is available.  This release contains a port of the basic TeX
project programs (TeX, Metafont, MetaPost, GFtoPK, etc.) to Unix.  It
also contains a new version of the kpathsea library.

The release can be obtained by retrieving

        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/web2c.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/web.tar.gz

You will also need a a library tree to compile and use these programs.
The file

        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/texmflib.tar.gz

provides a bare-bones tree.

Those of you who want to use e-TeX, pdfTeX, or Omega can obtain the
necessary sources in
        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/web2c-etex.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/etexlib.tar.gz

        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/web2c-pdftex.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/pdftexlib.tar.gz

        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/web2c-omega.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/omegalib.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/omegadoc.tar.gz
respectively.  Be warned though, the the software in the packages may be
less portable than the core web2c sources, and that the web2c maintainers
will supply only a limited amount of support.  pdfTeX in particular is
beta software.

If you install the sources, the programs will automatically be built.
The configure scripts have options that allow you disable this.

The dvi drivers will be made available as separate packages.  However,
an all-in-one file containing all the sources mentioned above as well
as sources for dvi drivers and supporting programs is already
available as
        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/texk.tar.gz
There is no corresponding combined file for the texmf library; you
need to get all the *lib.tar.gz files mentioned above to compile all
the sources.


Soon these files will be available on CTAN sites and their mirrors.

  (Germany) ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/web2c
  (England) ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/web2c
  (USA)     ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/systems/web2c

Finger ctan@ftp.dante.de to obtain a list of mirrors.  An up-to-date list
is also appended to this message.



This release fixes virtually all known bugs in web2c-7.1 and
kpathsea-3.1, and adds a few new features.  Many thanks to all the
people who reported bugs, made suggestions, and provided patches.

Instructions for sending bug reports (and joining the mailing list) are in
the distribution file kpathsea/BUGS.

A summary of the most important changes follows; read them carefully.
Please read the manuals as well.

For kpathsea:

3.2 (14 March 1998)
* Brace expansion will accept the path separator as well as the comma,
  e.g., {foo:bar}.
* For TeX, we only recognize one suffix, because there is no such thing
  as a canonical list of TeX suffixes.
* We distinguish between two kinds of suffixes in the code: the standard
  suffixes which may be appended to filenames when searching; and the
  alternative suffixes which are never appended, but when found this
  prevents a search with one of the standard suffixes.
* kpse_reset_program_name: change assumed program name, resets the search
  paths, so that searches will work as expected for the new name.
* kpse_set_program_name: new function, replaces kpse_set_progname.
* The MakeTeX* scripts have been renamed to mktex* forms.

For Web2C:

7.2 (14 March 1998)
* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost:
  New option --interaction, which can be used to set batchmode, nonstopmode,
  scrollmode, or errorstopmode.  Thus we can replace a construct like
    tex '\batchmode \input foo'
  with
    tex --interaction=batchmode foo
  and have a %&format line select the correct format.
* When %&format selects a format, the search paths are changed to conform
  to that format.
* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost:
  During an "ini" run, the name of the format to be dumped can be set with
  the --fmt/--efmt/--base/--mem options.
* web2c: Extensive support for building e-TeX, Omega, a PDFTeX.
* web2c: The manual pages are back.



$ finger ctan@ftp.dante.de
[sun.dante.de]
Login name: ctan
Directory: /home/server/ctan            Shell: /bin/sync
Never logged in.
No unread mail
Plan:
In order to reduce network load, it is recommended that you use the
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) host which is located in the
closest network proximity to your site.  Alternatively, you may wish to
obtain a copy of the CTAN via CD-ROM (see help/CTAN.cdrom for details).

Known mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically):
  cis.utovrm.it (Italia)                  /TeX
  ctan.math.mun.ca (Newfoundland, Canada) /tex-archive
  ctan.unsw.edu.au (NSW, Australia)       /tex-archive
  dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw (Taiwan)         /tex-archive
  ftp.belnet.be (Belgium)                 /packages/TeX
  ftp.ccu.edu.tw (Taiwan)                 /pub/tex
  ftp.cdrom.com (West coast, USA)         /pub/tex/ctan
  ftp.comp.hkbu.edu.hk (Hong Kong)        /pub/TeX/CTAN
  ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au  (Australia)         /tex-archive
  ftp.cs.ruu.nl (The Netherlands)         /pub/tex-archive
  ftp.cstug.cz (The Czech Republic)       /pub/tex/CTAN
  ftp.duke.edu (North Carolina, USA)      /tex-archive
  ftp.funet.fi (Finland)                  /pub/TeX/CTAN
  ftp.gwdg.de (Deutschland)               /pub/dante
  ftp.heanet.ie (Ireland)                 /pub/ctan/tex
  ftp.jussieu.fr (France)                 /pub4/TeX/CTAN
  ftp.kreonet.re.kr (Korea)               /pub/CTAN
  ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp (Japan)               /CTAN
  ftp.loria.fr (France)                   /pub/ctan
  ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de (Deutschland)         /pub/tex/mirror/ftp.dante.de
  ftp.nada.kth.se (Sweden)                /pub/tex/ctan-mirror
  ftp.net.uni-c.dk (Denmark)              /mirror/ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive
  ftp.ntua.gr (Greece)                    /mirror/ctan
  ftp.oleane.net (France)                 /pub/mirrors/CTAN/
  ftp.rediris.es (Espa\~na)               /mirror/tex-archive
  ftp.rge.com (New York, USA)             /pub/tex
  ftp.riken.go.jp (Japan)                 /pub/tex-archive
  ftp.tu-chemnitz.de (Deutschland)        /pub/tex
  ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp (Japan)                /pub/tex/CTAN
  ftp.uni-augsburg.de (Deutschland)       /pub/tex/ctan
  ftp.uni-bielefeld.de (Deutschland)      /pub/tex
  ftp.unina.it (Italia)                   /pub/TeX
  ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (Deutschland)      /tex-archive (/pub/tex)
  ftp.univie.ac.at (\"Osterreich)         /packages/tex
  ftp.ut.ee (Estonia)                     /tex-archive
  ftpserver.nus.sg (Singapore)            /pub/zi/TeX
  joshua.smcvt.edu (Vermont, USA)         /pub/tex
  src.doc.ic.ac.uk (England)              /packages/tex/uk-tex
  sunsite.auc.dk (Denmark)                /pub/tex/ctan
  sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch (Switzerland)   /mirror/tex
  sunsite.icm.edu.pl (Poland)             /pub/CTAN
  sunsite.unc.edu (North Carolina, USA)   /pub/packages/TeX
  tex.ihep.su (Russia)                    /pub/TeX/CTAN
  wuarchive.wustl.edu (Missouri, USA)     /packages/TeX

Known partial mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically):
  ftp.adfa.oz.au (Australia)              /pub/tex/ctan
  ftp.dcc.uchile.cl (Chile)               /pub/Mirror/ctan
  ftp.fcu.edu.tw (Taiwan)                 /pub2/tex
  ftp.germany.eu.net (Deutschland)        /pub/packages/TeX
  ftp.gust.org.pl (Poland)                /pub/TeX
  ftp.jaist.ac.jp (Japan)                 /pub/TeX/tex-archive
  ftp.uu.net (Virginia, USA)              /pub/text-processing/TeX
  sunsite.dsi.unimi.it (Italia)           /pub/TeX
  sunsite.snu.ac.kr (Korea)               /shortcut/CTAN

Please send updates to this list to <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.

The participating hosts in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network are:
  ftp.dante.de  (Deutschland)
       -- anonymous ftp                 /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
       -- gopher on node gopher.dante.de
       -- email via ftpmail@dante.de
       -- World Wide Web access on http://www.dante.de/
       -- Administrator: <ftpmaint@dante.de>

  ftp.tex.ac.uk (England)
       -- anonymous ftp                 /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
       -- gopher on node gopher.tex.ac.uk
       -- NFS mountable from nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive
       -- World Wide Web access on http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive
       -- Administrator: <ctan-uk@tex.ac.uk>

  ctan.tug.org (Massachusetts, USA)
       -- anonymous ftp                 /tex-archive (/pub/archive)
       -- World Wide Web access on http://ctan.tug.org/ctan/
       -- Administrator: <ftpmaint@mail.tug.org>

--
Olaf Weber


--
Olaf Weber

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar 23 08:42:50 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:05:39 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lgrind

Michael Piefel writes:
 > Dear CTAN team,
 >
 > I uploaded lgrind.exe to ftp.dante.de, it is meant to replace the contents of
 > support/lgrind/win32 (i. e. please remove lgrind16.exe and README).
 >
 > Regards,
 >         M. Piefel
 >
 > --
 > |=| Michael Piefel                                                     \
 > |=| Technische Universit�t                                             |
 > |=| Berlin                                      piefel@cs.tu-berlin.de |
 > \=\                         http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~piefel |

Thanks, I installed the upgrade.

 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Mar 23 11:01:39 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:38:08 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: 00Contents files and .-files on ctan

we have decided to discontinue support of 00Contents files on ctan.
their actual value has never been large, and since they are creating
confusion in proposed new procedures for ctan mirrors, their time has
come.

the 00Contents files at ftp.tex.ac.uk have already been deleted; those
at the other sites will go soon, and the files will not be re-created.

in the same exercise, we have noted that there are several files whose
names begin with `.' in what seem to be directories submitted to ctan,
or directories ctan regularly mirrors.  people who submit information
to ctan, in whatever way, should not expect .-files to propagate to
ctan mirrors.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar 24 02:26:11 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 09:18:23 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- AmiWeb2c patches

Andreas Scherer writes:
 > Dear CTAN Manager,
 >
 > in less than one week after the release of the latest version of
 > (Ami)Web2c, bugs in not less than three major parts of the system were
 > located.  In order to make (Ami)Web2c a better product I have uploaded
 > the patch archive
 >
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/amiweb2c/amiweb2c-patch.tar.gz
 >
 > together with a small note
 >
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/amiweb2c/README.patch
 >
 > informing users of AmiWeb2c about three new binaries and an associated
 > pool file.
 >
 > Please move these two files next to the main distribution of AmiWeb2c at
 >
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/amiga/amiweb2c/
 >
 > Thank you for your service,
 >
 > -- Andreas Scherer

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar 24 04:04:25 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 10:49:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lettrine

Daniel FLIPO writes:

 > I have just uploaded into ftp.dante.de/incoming a file lettrine.tar.gz
 >
 > It is an update (v.0.9) to replace the previous version (0.8).
 > lettrine is is a package to typeset dropped capitals.
 >
 > What's new:
 > -- computation of the size of the dropped capital has been
 >    changed completely.
 > -- it is now possible to use a .eps PostScript file to draw
 >    a dropped capital.
 >
 > Please delete the previous version and replace it with the present one
 > unpacked in macros/latex/supported/lettrine.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/lettrine

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar 24 06:34:58 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 13:14:21 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- oztex-german (3.11) /LML

Lothar Meyer-Lerbs writes:

 > I've just uploaded a new directory oztex-german to ftp.dante.de.
 > This time please don't replace the old /pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german
 > directory, but create a new subdir oz3.11 and move all 3 files to this
 > new destination.
 >   It's the latest OzTeX v3.11 with LaTeX2e 1997/12/01 p2 packed as one
 > big Mac image that can be mounted via Apples (free) Disk Copy 6.2 which
 > is also included.
 >   If noone complains we'll keep this format once v3.12 is out.

I installed the files in

   systems/mac/oztex-german/oz3.11

as you requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar 26 04:07:14 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:52:59 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinShell-update

Ingo de Boer writes:
 > hi...
 >
 > i submitted an update for my WinShell.
 > could you please replace all the files
 > in the
 >
 > pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell
 >
 > directory by the files i put in the
 >
 > /incoming/winshell
 >
 > directory.
 >
 >
 > best regards...
 >
 >  ingo de boer

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar 26 04:22:21 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:08:38 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- ghostview.hqx

Tom Kiffe writes:

> I have have placed a new version of ghostview for CMacTeX in the
> incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk. The file is ghostview.hqx and
> it should be placed in the cmactex subdirectory of /tex-archive/systems/mac.

installed -- thanks

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar 26 04:21:51 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:16:06 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: dante: mathrsfs_update.zip

J%org Knappen, Mainz writes:
 > Dear archivists,
 >
 > there is a small, but important update to the mathrsfs package:
 >
 > In ursfs.fd the skewchar is now set.
 >
 > Thanks to Ralph Smith for reporting this one.
 >
 > The archive mathrsfs_update.zip should be unpacked in
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen/
 >
 > it will supersede the two files ursfs.fd and mathrsfs.rme.
 >
 > --J"org Knappen

Thanks, I installed the files as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar 26 06:18:57 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 13:05:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: (alt)-NEU: kalender.sty (fwd)

DANTE e.V. writes:
 >
 > Hello,
 >
 > a new calender style file for CTAN in the incomming directory.
 >
 > Thanks for putting it into the server
 >
 > Kind regards
 > Marion
 >
 > Original Message:
 > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 > Subject: (alt)-NEU: kalender.sty
 >
 > Hallo Kollegen,
 >
 > ich habe bereits 1995 einen Style geschrieben mit dem man einen Kalender setzen kann,
 > bin aber bisher nicht auf die Idee gekommen, ihn zu ver�ffentlichen. Es waren auch noch
 > ein paar Ungenauigkeiten drin, die nicht aufgefallen sind. Er hat z.B. nicht ber�cksichtigt,
 > dass Jahrhundertjahre keine Schaltjahre sind, aber Jahre, die durch 400 teilbar sind
 > (ohne Rest) wiederum doch Schaltjahre sind (z.B. 2000) (Wissen die wenigsten ;-))
 >
 > Dies ist nun auch bereinigt und nun moechte ich ihn der Allgemeinheit zur Verfuegung
 > stellen. Ihr kennt die Bedingungen, die in der (La)TeX-Gemeinde herrschen:
 > Uebernehmen und Aendern ist erlaubt, aber nur mit Nennung des Orignalautors (ich
 > habe ja schliesslich auch meinen Stolz ;-))
 >
 > Im Kalender.sty befindet sich eine kleine Anleitung. Fuer eine richtige Doku hatte ich
 > keine Zeit, ist aber auch nicht noetig. Mit ein wenig Verstaendnis kann man sich ohne
 > weiteres da hineindenken.
 >
 > Die Idee entstand, als meine Freundin mich fragte, ob ich ihr einen Kalender machen
 > koenne, der das Jahr in 4 Wochen horizontal aufteilt. Ihr koennt Euch sicher denken,
 > wozu das gut ist (vor allem die weiblichen TeX-User hier ;-))
 > Aus diesem Grund ist der Kalender.sty so aufgeteilt. Dies laesst sich mit Sicherheit
 > leicht aendern und mit ein paar Parametern variabel programmieren.
 >
 > So, das war's, waere nett, wenn Ihr den kalender.sty (haengt als MIME an der e-mail) an
 > geeigneter Stelle auf Euren FTP-Server platzieren koenntet.
 > Ich denke, das ist ein schoenes Beispiel, wie man mit (La)TeX programmieren kann. Als
 > naechstes moechte ich mit (La)TeX meinen Kaffee kochen ;-))

Thanks, I installed the file in

  macros/latex/contrib/other/kalender/kalender.sty

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar 27 08:44:19 1998
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:31:08 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: LShort2e-3.0 is available

Tobi Oetiker writes:

> I have just finished my 6 monthly revision of the 'Not so short
> Introduction to LaTeX2e'. This time it grew by 15 pages.
>
> I have altered the visual aperance of the document, with the examples
> are now always sticking 'OUT' of the page. (quite tricky that one ...)
>
> The real change though is, that I have moved all the 'dangerous' commands
> into a new chapter. So while the first 4 chapters only explain commands used
> for logical markup, I go into the details of writing your own commands and
> environments in the last chapter. I tried hard to explain the reason why you
> would rather want to use
>
> \newcommand{\petanimal}[1]{\textbf{#1}}
> \petanimal{Horse}
>
> than
>
> \textbf{Horse}
>
> feedback welcome ... If you send me comments or even text, I will issue 3.1
> quite soon ...

thanks, tobi -- a nice piece of work.

i've replaced the info/lshort directory on ctan with the new release.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar 30 08:54:17 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:24:32 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: ec-plain.zip

J%org Knappen, Mainz writes:
 > Dear archivists, Daniel,
 >
 > I have now put the ec-plain package together and sent it to the dante
 > server. It contains a plain-like format using the ec fonts. There is an
 > extended math italic font (exmi) providing upright greek letters included.
 >
 > It should be installed in macros/ec-plain.
 >
 > The zip-archive produces a subdirectory ec-plain/ while unpacking.
 >
 > The older format dc-plain (to be found in languages/hyphen-accent) shall be
 > removed from the server.
 >
 > --J"org Knappen

Thanks, I installed the files as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar 30 08:36:18 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:27:06 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinTeXShell32

Dirk Struve writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I have uploaded 2 files to ftp.dante.de. The files are:
 >
 > WinTeXShell32.zip
 > WinTeXShell32.txt
 >
 > They contain a new release of WinTeXShell32.
 >
 > Please put the files into:
 >
 > /pup/tex/systems/win32/texshell32
 >
 > Have fun
 > Dirk Struve

Thanks a lot, I installed the upgrade.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar 30 08:38:07 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:29:12 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission help/wp-conv/texcnv*

Wilfried Hennings writes:
 > I uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming
 > the following file (binary mode, from isr016.isr.kfa-juelich.de):
 >
 > wp-conv.zip
 >
 > containing updates of the files
 >  texcnven.txt
 >  texcnvde.txt
 >  texcnven.html
 > to be replaced
 > in .../tex-archive/help/wp-conv/
 >
 > Best regards,
 >
 > Dipl.-Ing. Wilfried Hennings c./o.

Thanks a lot, I installed the upgrade.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar 30 09:03:36 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:44:44 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- Type 1 versions of stmaryrd/wasy/rsfs

Taco Hoekwater writes:
 > Hello all,
 >
 > I just uploaded 3 zipfiles to dante.de:
 >
 >         wasy.zip
 >         rsfs.zip
 >         stmaryrd.zip
 >
 > The zips contain converted Type 1 (PostScript) versions of the
 > respective fonts (pfb,afm,pfm).
 >
 > Included are: rsfs{5,7,10} wasy{5,7,10,b10} stmary{5,7,10}
 >
 > Suggested locations: in subfolders "ps-type1/hoekwater" of the
 > respective metafont fonts (the zip files are set up this way).
 >
 > These files are intended to be used with the original TFM files,
 > _don't_ run fontinst or afmtotfm or you will be sorry! The fonts
 > should give the same output results as the .mf originals. Included
 > pfb files are herewith donated to the public domain.
 >
 > Conversion process:
 >         .mf   -> metapost (c) Hobby -> .eps
 >         .eps  -> metafog  (c) Kinch -> .pfb
 >         .pfb  -> hinted & touched up with FontLab v3.0
 >
 > More fonts should follow in the next few months. I can be reached for
 > propositions/bugs at: taco.hoekwater@wkap.nl
 >
 > Greetings,
 >
 > Taco Hoekwater

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files as suggested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar 31 01:52:21 1998
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 08:46:33 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: akletter and lexikon

Axel Kielhorn writes:
 > Hi CTAN admin,
 >
 > I have uploaded a new version of akletter.sty to ftp.dante.de last friday.
 > Please put it into the supported hierarchy.
 >
 > I have uploaded a first version of lexikon.sty (former dictionary.sty) to
 > ftp.dante.de. It is a small style file that implements some commands to
 > generate a two language dictionary. This package is not supported, pleasse
 > move it to the ohers hierarchy.

Thanks a lot for your uploads, I installed the files (as requested)
into

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/akletter
  macros/latex/contrib/other/lexikon

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Mar 31 08:21:04 1998
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:59:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: fancyvrb -- verbatim facilities you never knew you needed

the long-awaited[*] fancyvrb package is now available from ctan, in
directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyvrb

fancyvrb, written by timothy van zandt but now maintained by denis
girou and sebastian rahtz, does pretty much everything you ever
thought you might want by way of verbatim typesetting.  by comparison
with the standard verbatim commands, extensions are:

* verbatim commands can be used in footnotes,
* several verbatim commands are enhanced,
* a variety of verbatim environments are provided, with many
  parameters to change the way the contents are printed; it is also
  possible to define new customized verbatim environments,
* a way is provided to save and restore verbatim text and
  environments,
* there are macros to write and read files in verbatim mode, with the
  usual versatility, and
* you can build _example_ environments (showing both result and
  verbatim text), with the same versatility as normal verbatim.

the package was described in public for the first time this morning,
at eurotex'98.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

[*] long awaited, that is, by the writer of this announcement

From eijkhout@CS.UTK.EDU Tue Mar 31 10:58:13 1998
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:41:32 -0500
From: Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout@CS.UTK.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: comment.sty uploaded

I have just ftp'ed comment.sty and comm_test_l.tex (a LaTeX test
file for comment.sty) to ftp.dante.de. I take it that in due time
it will propagate to all mirrors?

This latest version is a minor update (little bug fix here, some
added functionality there), but it now has a GNU Public License
header. Apparently this file is on the teTeX distribution, and
someone asked me about the copyright status of it. That's why.

--
Victor Eijkhout

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Apr  1 02:49:43 1998
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 10:32:17 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: comment.sty uploaded

Victor Eijkhout writes:

 > I have just ftp'ed comment.sty and comm_test_l.tex (a LaTeX test
 > file for comment.sty) to ftp.dante.de. I take it that in due time
 > it will propagate to all mirrors?
 >
 > This latest version is a minor update (little bug fix here, some
 > added functionality there), but it now has a GNU Public License
 > header. Apparently this file is on the teTeX distribution, and
 > someone asked me about the copyright status of it. That's why.

I removed

   macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/comment.sty

and installed the two files in

      macros/latex/contrib/other/comment

Thanks for the upload.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Apr  2 01:37:24 1998
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 09:30:20 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- iso-8859-7.def

Apostolos Syropoulos writes:

 > I have uploaded on ftp.dante.de the file iso-8859-7.tar which
 > contains the file iso-8859-7.def. This file can be used by
 > users of the greek option of the babel package who want to enter
 > directly greek text instead of a transliteration. I guess this
 > option can be part of the stantart LaTeX distribution. You
 > should extract the two file from the bundle and install it in
 > tex/languages/greek/cb/misc. Moreover, please delete the
 > file tfm.tar.gz from the directory tex/languages/greek/cb/misc,
 > as the tfm's have their own directory.

Thanks for your upload, I installed/deleted the files as suggested.

 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From popineau@esemetz.ese-metz.fr Thu Apr  2 08:53:50 1998
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 16:34:14 +0200
From: Fabrice.Popineau <popineau@esemetz.ese-metz.fr>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>

tex-win32@esemetz.ese-metz.fr, texk@tug.org
Subject: [ANN] Web2c 7.2 for Windows
From: Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@ese-metz.fr>
Date: 02 Apr 1998 16:36:26 +0200
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The final version of web2c win32 binaries are available on:

ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32/web2c-7.2.0-win32-bin1.zip
ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32/web2c-7.2.0-win32-bin2.zip
ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32/web2c-7.2.0-win32-bin3.zip
ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32/web2c-7.2.0-win32-base.zip

web2c-7.2.0-win32-bin1.zip: base, tex, latex, pdftex, dvips, windvi
web2c-7.2.0-win32-bin2.zip: etex, omega
web2c-7.2.0-win32-bin3.zip: tex4ht, dvilj, misc utils
web2c-7.2.0-win32-base.zip: basic texmf tree containing latex, ams,
hyperref, some macros and fonts for tex, latex, omega, pdftex.

Everything should be mirrored on CTAN very soon in the
CTAN:systems/win32/web2c directory.

Web2c comes now with the windvi previewer and some interesting
features (magnifying glass, type1 fonts, omega ).

Things to expect in the future :
- integration into teTeX
- texconfig feature
- install program (but it is actually very simple to install)
- web page

Windvi and pdftex are available as static binaries in
ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32/

Will follow e-tex and omega as separate packages.

Fabrice Popineau

From olaf@INFOVORE.XS4ALL.NL Fri Apr  3 02:06:39 1998
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 09:59:35 +0200
From: Olaf Weber <olaf@INFOVORE.XS4ALL.NL>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Drivers & updates for Web2C 7.2

Dvi drivers and other utilities that match Web2C 7.2 are now available
as separate packages on ftp.tug.org and CTAN.

The dvi previewer xdvik, based on Paul Vojta's xdvi 20:
        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/xdvik.tar.gz
        CTAN:tex-archive/dviware/xdvi/xdvi.tar.gz

Tom Rockicki's dvi to PostScript translator dvipsk 5.78:
        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/dvipsk.tar.gz
        CTAN:tex-archive/dviware/dvipsk/dvipsk.tar.gz

The dvi to pcl translator dviljk 2.8, based on Gustav Neumann's
dvi2xx 2.6:
        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/dviljk.tar.gz
        CTAN:tex-archive/dviware/dviljk/dviljk.tar.gz

For Omega, oxdvik and odvipsk, which are variants of xdvik and dvipsk
that can handle Omega's extensions to the dvi format.  This bundle
contains the xdvik and dvipsk sources as well
        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/dvik-omega.tar.gz
        CTAN:tex-archive/systems/web2c/dvik-omega.tar.gz

A number of other related programs, like makeindexk, lacheck, dtl, and
others:
        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/dvik-misc.tar.gz
        CTAN:tex-archive/systems/web2c/dvik-misc.tar.gz


In the course of preparing the TeXlive 3 CD, some updates were made
to various parts of the sources.  In particular there were new
upstream releases of MetaPost (0.641) and pdfTeX (0.12h), some fixes
for Omega, e-TeX, and Web2C.  And a package of documentation has been
added for e-TeX.

The upshot is that the following files have been updated:
        omegalib.tar.gz
        pdftexlib.tar.gz
        texk.tar.gz
        web.tar.gz
        web2c.tar.gz
        web2c-omega.tar.gz
        web2c-pdftex.tar.gz
and that
        etexdoc.tar.gz
has been added.  All these files can be found in
        ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/
        CTAN:tex-archive/systems/web2c/

--
Olaf Weber

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Apr  4 07:05:41 1998
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 11:13:00 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- mdwtools-1.05.tar.gz

> New version, fixes some bugs.  Goes in
> .../macros/latex/contrib/supported.

now installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Apr  6 09:58:43 1998
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 15:25:18 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- geometry 2.0

Hideo Umeki writes:

 > I have uploaded the new version of Geometry package (v2.0)
 > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry20.tgz (tar + gzip).
 >
 > -------------------------------------------------
 > This new release contains three major changes:
 >
 > o The geometry options using the keyval scheme can be set
 >   in the optional argument to the \usepackage command as well as
 >   in the argument of the \geometry macro.
 >   Therefore, you can go
 >      \usepackage[scale={0.7,0.8},nohead]{geometry}
 >   instead of
 >      \usepackage{geometry}
 >      \geometry{scale={0.7,0.8}, nohead}.
 >
 > o Multiple use of \geometry macro is allowed. In the previous
 >   version, \geometry initialized layout dimensions before
 >   reading its options. In this release, however, \geometry just
 >   appends its options to the previously specified ones. Therefore,
 >      \usepackage[width=10cm, left=3cm]{geometry}
 >      \geometry{left=5cm}
 >      \geometry{vscale=0.8,nohead}
 >   is equivalent to
 >      \usepackage[width=10cm, left=5cm, vscale=0.8, nohead]{geometry}.
 >   If you want to reset layout dimensions and modes, you can use
 >   `reset' option.
 >
 > o The shortened control sequences for \paperwidth and \paperheight,
 >   \w and \h respectively, were removed.
 > -------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Please replace the contents of
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry.
 >
 > Thank you in advance.
 >
 > Hideo Umeki

Thanks a lot for you update, I installed it as requested

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Apr  6 10:15:46 1998
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 16:07:48 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- kalender.sty

Joerg Soehner writes:
 > Hallo,
 >
 > ich habe eine neue Version des kalender.sty in /ftp/incoming/ abgelegt. Die alte Version
 > liegt in macros/latex/contrib/other/kalender/
 >
 > Gruss Joerg

Thanks for the update, I installed the file as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Apr  8 06:30:35 1998
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 11:16:53 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- setspace.sty 6.3

Geoffrey Tobin writes:

> I have just sent setspace.sty version 6.3 to CTAN.
>
> (a)  Uploaded to:  ftp.tex.ac.uk
> (b)  File:  setspace.sty
> (c)  Overview:
>
> This is a LaTeX package for changing line spacings in whole documents or
> portions thereof.
>
> Version 6.3 contains several bug fixes, code simplifications, and new
> features.  These are documented in comments within setspace.sty .
>
> PS:  The usage instruction doesn't describe how to specify an option;
> they assume that LaTeX users know this.  However, according to
> Leslie Lamport's LaTeX User's Guide and Reference Manual, page 178:
>
>     \usepackage[nodisplayskipstretch]{setspace}
>
> when you want that option, and:
>
>     \usepackage{setspace}
>
> when you don't.
>
> (d)  CTAN directory:
>
>     macros/latex/contrib/supported/setspace

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Apr  8 10:55:48 1998
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 16:46:53 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- geometry 2.0a

Hideo Umeki writes:

 > Our mail server had some trouble today, so I'm sending it again.
 > If you have already recieved the same mail, please ignore this.
 >
 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 > I have uploaded the new version of Geometry package (v2.0a)
 > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry20a.tgz.                ~
 >
 > I forgot to include showframe.sty in the archive I had uploaded
 > as version 2.0. The style file is used for test print (gtest.tex).
 > In this release, I also revised the document for the package and removed
 > glayout.ps because I contained an illustration in the document instead.
 >
 > Please replace the contents of
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry.
 >
 > Thank you in advance.

Thanks a lot, installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Apr  8 10:54:44 1998
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 16:49:36 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Andreas Tille writes:
 > Initial public alpha release of formula
 >
 > I have upload in
 >
 >        ftp.dante.de:/incoming/formula/
 >                                      Makefile
 >                                      README.1ST
 >                                      formula.dtx
 >                                      formula.ins
 >                                      install.eng
 >                                      install.ger
 >
 > the package formula.
 >
 > In my opinion a reasonable location would be
 >
 >           macros/latex/contrib/other  .
 >
 > README.1ST says:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Formula is intended to help you while putting physical symbols
 > into your text in a comfortable manner. It ensures the same
 > shape of the symbols which can be freely defined by you in text
 > *and* math mode.  There are some (only some!! -- it needs
 > extension) predefined physical units.
 >
 > This is the first public available release of formula.
 > Initially it was written only to do some support in our
 > working group and was not intended to be made public.
 > It is provided *as is*.
 > Formula is under the GNU copying license.
 >
 > Because of the needs of some people I decided to make it
 > available in this form.
 >
 > Sorry for the language mixing of German and English.  I will
 > translate the documentation into English sooner or later
 > (I think later :-(, because of a lack of time).
 >
 > The main reason for making public this alpha state software is
 > to get opinions an critics as well as additions of personal
 > needs.
 >
 > The more feedback I will get, the faster formula will come to
 > a more useful state.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Thank you for maintaining CTAN

Thank you for your submission
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr  9 15:47:10 1998
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 20:37:41 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- 3d metapost package

Denis B. Roegel writes:

> I have uploaded the metapost 3d package on ftp.dante.de/incoming.
> There is one file, 3d.tar.gz, and this file should be unarchived
> under graphics/metapost/macros/. This will create a directory `3d'.
> This location is consistent with the one given in the TUGboat paper:
>
>   Denis Roegel: Creating 3D animations with METAPOST
>   TUGboat volume 18, number 4 (december 1997), pages 274-283.
>
> Below is an excerpt of the README file:
>
> =============
>                   3D animations in METAPOST
>                   =========================
>
> This directory contains a set of files allowing the creation
> of animations in metapost, and especially animations of 3-dimensional
> objects, such as polyhedra.
>
> The files contained in this distribution are:
>
> Changes      History of the macros
>
> inputs:
>              3d.mp        3D macros
>              poly.mp      Polyhedra definitions
>              animpoly.mp  Example of animation driver
>
> contrib      Contributions (currently only by Denis Barbier)
>
> doc          Subdirectory containing the formatted metapost files
>              as well as the code for the figures
>              It uses Ulrik Vieth's formatting macros for mft.
>              There is also a paper describing
>              how an animation can be created.
>
> examples     Some animations produced with the 3d package
>              (other examples are in the contrib directory)
>
> tugboat      Files used for the production of the TUGboat paper.
>              (Courtesy of Mimi Burbank.)
>
> README       This file
>
> README.bin   Explains where to find the binaries.
>
>
> HOW TO CREATE AN ANIMATION
> --------------------------
>
> Details are given to produce the standard animation
> under UNIX, with the binaries listed in README.bin.
> For other architectures, you may have to adapt the
> write_script macro in the 3d.mp file.
>
>   1) create a directory and copy the three .mp files from the
>      inputs directory to it.
>   2) apply metapost to animpoly.mp ; this will create 100 files
>      named animpoly.101, animpoly.102, ..., animpoly.200.
>      It will also have created a script file named
>      create_animation.sh
>   3) copy the gifmerge utility (as well as programs such as pnmcut,...)
>      in this directory or let it be reachable through PATH.
>   4) apply sh to create_animation.sh; this will create the animation;
>      first the metapost outputs are converted to gif, then
>      they are collated with gifmerge.
>   5) the result is animpoly.gif which is a GIF89A animation file;
>      it can be viewed under netscape or simply with a program like xanim.
>
> ====================

since ftp.tex.ac.uk is the master ctan site for metapost, and since
the upload requires changing mirroring parameters, i have pulled the
upload over here and installed it.  this has created a new
sub-hierarchy graphics/metapost/macros

thank you, denis, for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From afj@GAP.BAYNET.DE Fri Apr 10 08:13:36 1998
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 14:06:25 +0200
From: Andreas Hirsch <afj@GAP.BAYNET.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Info-Link for TeX on Windows95

Dear Maintainer,

I've just uploaded

        win95_guide.html

which links to a Installation-Guide for a complete
TeX-System consisting of MiKTeX, WinEdt and GhostView.

As manny new users who want to install tex on a w95-platform
ask for such hints, i think a good place for it could be

        ../systems/win32/

Andreas
--
Studienrat Andreas Hirsch
Werdenfels-Gymnasium
Postfach 19 64
D-82459 Garmisch-Partenkirchen

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Apr 14 04:48:52 1998
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:36:13 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- xtab package revision

Peter Wilson writes

>     I have just put xtab.dtx into the incoming area.

of ftp.tex.ac.uk, it seems: please remember to mention which site
you've uploaded to.

> Could you please
> put this into ..../latex/contrib/supported/isostds/iso to replace the
> existing xtab.dtx.
>
>     This is a minor fix to the xtab package (an extended version of
> supertabular). The fix provides for a default initialisation of the
> \tablelasttail command just in case the user hasn't used it.

i've installed the package as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr 14 05:22:22 1998
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:12:00 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission epmtfe21.zip/txt

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Dear CTAN team,
 >
 > I have uploaded the files epmtfe21.zip and epmtfe21.txt to the
 > directory /incoming at ftp.dante.de  Please, move them to
 >
 >          systems/os2/epmtfe/
 >
 > and delete epmtfe20.* .
 >
 > This is the latest release 2.1 of the EPM TeX Front End, a TeX
 > plugin for the OS/2 editor EPM.
 >
 > Greetings
 >
 > Walter

Thanks a lot, I installed the update as requested.

 For the CTAN Team,
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr 14 05:28:36 1998
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:20:25 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- a5.sty, a5comb.sty, boxedminipage.sty, romanneg.sty

Mario Wolczko writes:

 > As per Richard Kaszeta's request, I have uploaded modified versions of
 > the style files mentioned above (kept in latex209/misc/contrib), with
 > an updated contact email address and statement that the files are in
 > the public domain.
 >
 > Mario Wolczko

Thanks a lot for your update. I removed the files from

   macros/latex209/contrib/misc

and installed the new versions in

   macros/latex/contrib/other/misc

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr 14 07:51:15 1998
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 13:36:07 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan submission -- texed

Wolfgang Heller writes:

 > Ich habe meine TeX - Editor -TeX for Windows- weiterentwickelt.
 > Ich habe auf dem Dante FTP-Server ein Verzeichnis texed unter incoming
 > erzeugt und die files  hineinkopiert.
 > Die bisherige Version steht unter /tex/systems/win32/texed.
 > Die beiden alten Versionen english.zip und german.zip werden nicht
 > mehr benoetigt.

Please write in english when you write to this list.

Thanks for your update, I installed it as requested in

   systems/win32/texed

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Apr 16 09:05:47 1998
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:59:43 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: sktbug00.txt thru sktbug10.txt

Charles Wikner writes:
 > Greetings,
 >
 > Submission to CTAN:
 >
 > SITE:       ftp.dante.de
 >
 > FILES:      sktbug01.txt thru sktbug10.txt (ten ASII text files)
 >
 > OVERVIEW:   Bug reports and fixes for SKT fonts.
 >
 > PLACEMENT:  Add to sub-directory /language/sanskrit.
 >
 > Regards,
 > Charles Wikner
 > wikner@nacdh4.nac.ac.za

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Apr 16 09:12:14 1998
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:03:09 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- BIBARTS

Timo Baumann writes:
 > In your INCOMING directory is a file BIBARTS.ZIP.
 > An older version is in your directory LATEX2E/SUPPORTED.
 >
 > The archive contains a LaTeX style file, which helps to make
 > a bibliography, and a DOS executable programme to sort the entries.
 > I've made a successful test to be shure, that the ANSI C source
 > of the sorting programme can be compiled using UNIX (GCC).
 >
 > I think, the new version is better than the old one,
 > so you may install the new one.

Thanks a lot for th upload, I installed the update in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/bibarts

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Apr 16 10:15:21 1998
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:07:04 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: New upload to ftp.dante.de

Jose Luis Diaz de Arriba. writes:

 > I have uploaded a file called gloss.zip to /pub/incoming
 > Enclosed in the zip are the following files:
 >
 >  00readme   - A brief introduction in english (the rest of the documentation
 >               is in spanish, sorry for the inconvenience)
 >  00leeme    - A brief introduction in spanish
 >  gloss.dtx  - Documentation (in spanish) and packaged files
 >  gloss.ins  - Driver for extracting the files
 >  texto8.awk - Little utility for fixing the sample files generated by
 >               docstrip.
 >
 > Suggested destination directory:
 > CTAN/macros/latex/supported/gloss

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files as suggested.

  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 > What follows is a little description of the Gloss package (from the
 > 00readme file)
 >
 > Gloss, (yet) another way of making glossaries
 > =============================================
 > (c) 1998 Jose Luis Diaz
 >
 > Gloss is a package which allows the creation of glossaries using BibTeX.
 >
 > Several approaches have been tried for automating the creation of
 > glossaries. Some of these approaches developped its own tool for the
 > sorting and formatting of the glossary (glotex, glosstex), some other
 > tried to use an existing tool (typically Makeindex).
 >
 > This new approach uses BibTeX for the sorting and formatting of the
 > glossary. That is, the user writes a database of terms and definitions
 > using a file format much like the bibliographic databases. Then he
 > inserts in the latex document a command (\gloss{key}) for selecting
 > which entries he wants to appear in the glossary. These keys are
 > written in an auxiliar file when latex is run on the document. Then,
 > running bibtex these entries are extracted from the database and
 > collected in alphabetical order in a file. The next run of latex read
 > this file and inserts it in the appropiate point of the document,
 > typesetting the desired glossary.
 >
 > The process is much like the mechanism for including the bibliographic
 > references. This approach has several advantages but also some
 > disadvantages. The obvious advantages are:
 >
 >  * There are a lot of tools for managing bibtex databases.
 >  * It is possible to write different .bst (bibliographic styles) for
 > generating differents styles of glossaries.
 >  * There exists a version of BibTeX (called bibtex-8) which is able to
 > manage alphabets with 8-bit encoding. This is the main raison for
 > which I developped the package, since the other approaches I tried did
 > not manage properly the latin1 encoding.
 >
 > The main disadvantage is that BibTeX assumes some extensions for the
 > file names, and don't allows to specify different ones. For example,
 > the file with the citations has to be named '*.aux', the file with the
 > database has to be named '*.bib' and the file which itself writes
 > always is named '*.bbl'. In order to use in the same document a
 > glossary and a bibliography, the solution adopted for Gloss was to
 > generate the glossary citations in a file named '*.glo.aux', store the
 > definitions in a database named '*.gdf.bib' and use for the formatted
 > glossary file the name '*.glo.bbl'. The use of the 'double extension'
 > in the file names disallows the use of this package to MS-DOS users.

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 16 08:52:24 1998
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:21:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: new footmisc package

i have just installed a new version of my footmisc package on ctan

the changes are:

- the stable and multiple options apply equally to \footnotemark as to
  \footnote (they should have done this all along, of course...)

- a *very* long-standing bug in the symbol* option has been squashed
  (am i the only person who uses this option?)

i am working on yet another iteration of my per-page footnote
numbering code in footmisc.  i would welcome guinea pigs who would
test this code for me, using _their_ documents (it already mostly
works for mine ;-).  please contact me direct, not via this mailing
list or comp.text.tex

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 16 13:16:28 1998
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:10:11 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: support/wp2latex reorganisation

jaroslav fojtik has submitted a new version of wp2latex, and i have
therefore reorganised support/wp2latex as follows

wp2latex/fojtik           the new release
        /old/glenn        old glenn subdir
        /old/oliver       old oliver subdir
        /old/houtepen     normal files from old support/wp2latex

suggestions, from the authors or their associates, that we should
delete any of the old/* subdirectories will be greatly welcomed.

jaroslav's new version's readme says:

  This program converts WordPerfect 5.1 document files to LaTeX
  input files. Please read the manual for the basic conditions
  under which a satisfying conversion is made. Currently, there is only
  a MS-DOS version of the program available.

  This new version of WP2LaTeX is based on the translation rules
  used in version 1.0. For this reason, a modificated version of the user
  manual of version 1.0 is supplied.

  New to this version are:
   - Formula converting
   - Better layout of the LaTeX text (I hope).
   - Centered+Right+Left text
   - WP Tables
   - Table Boxes
   - Hunderds of extended characters

  The things have to be done:
   - Decrease amount of TeX Errors
   - Add new foreigner characters
   - Add the possibility of convert WP6.0 files

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Apr 17 05:03:04 1998
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:59:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: support/wp2latex reorganisation (correction)

i wrote (among other things):

  This program converts WordPerfect 5.1 document files to LaTeX
  input files. Please read the manual for the basic conditions
  under which a satisfying conversion is made. Currently, there is only
  a MS-DOS version of the program available.

it transpires that this isn't actually true (it's a small error in the
readme, which will soon be corrected).  the upload also includes
windows and linux executables.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Apr 20 04:59:25 1998
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:50:05 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- ec-plain

taupin writes:
 > According to Ulrik Vieth's comments, revised posting of ec-plain format
 > is is
 >
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ec-plain.zip
 > --
 >  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Apr 20 05:05:23 1998
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:52:14 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- TeXEd140.zip

Frank Stippich writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > please put the texed140.zip file into the pub/systems/os2/texed -
 > directory.
 >
 > The old texedXXX.zip file may be deleted.
 >
 > Thank you
 >
 > Frank Stippich

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Apr 20 05:32:56 1998
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:28:52 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- rail

Klaus Georg Barthelmann writes:
 > Dear CTAN maintainer,
 > I uploaded rail.tar to ftp.dante.de:/incoming. It contains the directory rail.
 > So please unpack it in /pub/tex/support to replace the contents of rail.
 > However, I was not able to create a new DOS binary - is someone willing to
 > contribute one? I can provide the output of flex and bison/byacc.
 >
 > Rail is a style file and program to generate syntax diagrams from EBNF.
 > John Olsson provided a patch to split the long lines that rail used to
 > produce (thanks!). I thought this would be a good opportunity to update
 > the other files as well and proceed to patchlevel 1.
 > Best regards,
 >   Klaus

Thanks a lot for your update, I installed it in

   support/rail

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Apr 20 07:51:22 1998
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 13:41:55 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission on ftp.dante.de

Werner Lemberg writes:

 > I've just uploaded the file uwpatch.tar.bz2.  I don't know whether you
 > (already?) accept bzip2 output -- please transform it to .gz if necessary
 > or more convenient.
 >
 > Please move the compressed archive to <CTAN>/fonts/CJK.
 >
 > Thank you in advance
 >
 >
 >     Werner
 >
 >
 > [This package provides mapping tables for the uw*.ttf CJK fonts to make
 >  them (again) usable with the CJK package.]

Thanks a lot, I installed the file in .gz form in

   fonts/CJK/uwpatch.tar.gz

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Apr 22 11:32:02 1998
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:03:56 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: new version of /fonts/barcodes/willadt

Peter Willadt writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > due to a bug in the barcode package, I had to release a new version.
 > I have uploaded the files in an archive under the name of wbarcode.zip
 > to ftp.dante.de.
 > Besides the bug fix, there is now also support for code 11.
 >
 > The files in the archive are to replace all the files in the directory
 > ctan:fonts/barcodes/willadt
 >
 > Thank you for your help.
 > Peter
 >
 > P.S. This time ftp seems to have worked; if not, I would appreciate if
 > anybody could volunteer to receive the package attached to an email.

Thanks a lot for your update, I installed the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Apr 22 11:37:09 1998
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:06:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

prof. Claudio Beccari writes:
 > Dear Manager,
 > I just submitted the file bundle ar.zip in the /incoming directory.
 >
 > It contains several METAFONT files and a LaTeXe package style (plus a
 > necessary text file for explanations and instructions) that are intended
 > for producing and using the capital A and capital R ligature, used for the
 > symbol of the "aspect ratio" by scientists ans engineers in the field of
 > aeronautics.
 >
 > I suggest to place the bundle in the unsupported contribution directory
 > containing macros for LaTeXe. Unsupported in the sense that the bundel is
 > self contained and I wuld not put my hands again on these simple files,
 > unless real heavy errors shouls show up; otherwise, as with my other
 > contributions, I always update and submit the updated files to the CTAN,
 > inasmuch this does not bother you, the Manager, too much.
 >
 > I am planning to submit a short paper to TUGboat on this ar.zip bundle.
 >
 > Thank you for your attention.
 >
 > Claudio Beccari

Thanks a lot for your submission, I installed the files in
   macros/latex/contrib/other/ar

  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 23 05:18:05 1998
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:04:53 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: shhyphl.tex: update

Dejan Muhamedagic has submitted a new copy of his shhyphl.tex, which
are patterns for serbocroat (as expressed in latin script).

i have duly installed them here in language/hyphenation/shhyphl.tex

the file has also been submitted for consideration for use in
conjunction with babel.

thanks, Dejan, for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Apr 24 08:44:34 1998
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 14:32:04 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- updated Type 1 versions of fonts

Taco Hoekwater writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I just uploaded 4 zipfiles to dante.de:
 >
 >         wasy2.zip
 >         rsfs.zip
 >         stmaryrd.zip
 >         logo.zip
 >
 > The zips contain updates of the converted Type 1 (PostScript) outlines
 > of the respective fonts (version 1.001, various bugfixes)
 >
 > Included are: rsfs{5,7,10}
 >               wasy{5,7,10,b10}
 >               stmary{5,7,10}
 >               logo{8,9,10,bf10,sl10}  /* with P and S */
 >
 > Suggested locations: in subfolders "ps-type1/hoekwater" of the
 > respective metafont fonts (the zip files are set up this way).
 > And would you please delete the ones that are under
 >         wasy/ps-type1/hoekwater  ?
 > Turns out it was wasy2 all along.
 >
 > Thanks & keep up the good work,
 >
 > Taco Hoekwater

Thanks a lot, I made the updates as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Apr 29 07:25:37 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 11:45:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- accfonts v. 0.2

John Smith writes:

> I have uploaded v. 0.2 of my "accfonts" package to ftp.tex.ac.uk. The
> archive file /incoming/accfonts.tgz contains six files: (1) v. 0.2 of the
> program mkt1font, (2) v. 0.2 of the program vpl2vpl, (3) an updated README
> file, (4) an updated CHANGES file, (5) an updated definition file CSX.def,
> (6) an updated definition file Norman.def.
>
> The current version (v. 0.1) of the package is stored in
> /ctan/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/accfonts: files for which I have *not*
> supplied new versions can be left unchanged.

i have installed the files replacing the 0.1 versions, as requested.
thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Apr 29 07:39:40 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 11:50:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission SECTION.STY

Oliver Pretzel writes

> I am submitting an updated version of my file SECTION.STY which is in
> the directory
> /macros/latex/contrib/other/misc
>
> The file contains two small modifications to the previous version,
> the first is in response to a user request.

i have installed the file (oliver -- that's the second version you
uploaded) as requested.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Apr 29 07:51:25 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 11:59:37 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: mylatex.ltx update (cambridge)

david carlisle writes:

> Could you move mylatex.ltx from incoming to supported/carlisle.
> It is an update so that comments at the start of the file don't
> break the system which was an `unwanted feature' that I managed to add
> last year some time.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Apr 29 07:54:25 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:07:57 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- textpos

Norman Gray writes

> I've uploaded a file textpos.tar.gz to the /incoming directory of
> ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>
> I have copied the readme below.  I suggest this goes in
>
>     /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/textpos
>
> All the best,
>
> Textpos: absolute positioning of text on the LaTeX page
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> This package facilitates placing boxes at absolute positions on the
> LaTeX page.  There are several reasons why this might be useful, but
> the main one (or at least my motivating one) is to help produce a
> large-format conference poster.
>
> This package provides a single environment, which contains the text
> (or graphics, or table, or whatever) which is to be placed on the
> page, and which specifies where it is to be placed.
>
>
> Installation
> ------------
>
> Download the files textpos.dtx and textpos.ins.  Run LaTeX on the file
> textpos.ins -- this will create the files
>
>     textpos.sty
>     textpos.drv
>     textpos-example.tex
>
> Install textpos.sty somewhere TeX will find it.  Run LaTeX on file
> textpos.drv to produce instructions and documentation, and look at
> file textpos-example.tex for a simple example of use.

i've installed the files as suggested.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 30 04:51:19 1998
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:32:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- mdwtools-1.05.2.tar.gz

mark wooding writes:

> Another day, another bug.  Hopefully this will be the last one for a
> while.

installed in macros/latex/contrib/supported/mdwtools

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 30 04:56:22 1998
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:37:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submissiom - Omega for the Macintosh

tom kiffe writes:

> I have uploaded the first update to CMacOmega to the incoming directory
> on ftp.tex.ac.uk. The file is omega.hqx and it should be moved to
> systems/mac/cmactex/cmacomega.
>
> The update contains a new omega.cnf file and a minor update to the
> omega program itself.

installed

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May  1 14:07:51 1998
Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 18:53:36 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Submission -- bosisio's LaTeX packages

Francesco Bosisio writes:

> I have uploaded an updated version of my packages.
> (a) The site I have uploaded to is ftp.tex.ac.uk
> (b) the files are in the incoming/bosisio directory
>     and are:
>         dblfont.dtx
>         graphfig.dtx
>         mathcmd.dtx
>         mathenv.dtx
>         quotes.dtx
>         sobolev.dtx
>     For each package a corresponding ".html" version which describes
>     the package itself is also provided.
>     Finally there is a file "index.html" whch is a general overview.
>     I am not sure if you like these HTML files, but feel free to
>     ignore them.
>     Unfortunately, I have uploaded also a file "accenti.dtx", which
>     I don't think very useful: please remove it (I hadn't the right
>     to remove it myself).
> (c) dblfont.dtx is for blackboard-bold symbols
>     graphfig.dtx is for including graphics in a simple way
>     mathcmd.dtx & mathenv.dtx are some math-mode commands and environments
>     quotes.dtx changes the way you use double quotes
>     sobolev.dtx is for the Sobolev spaces symbols
> (d) the CTAN location of the present version of the packages is
>     macros/latex/contrib/supported/bosisio
>     and the new version should replace the old one

i have duly installed all these files as requested (yesterday).  they
should be well on their way to world-wide propagation by now.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat May  2 09:47:29 1998
Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 14:38:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ctan installation: textpos package

i have installed norman grey's textpos package on ctan, as directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/textpos

here's an extract from the readme file:

  Textpos: absolute positioning of text on the LaTeX page
  -------------------------------------------------------

  Version 1.0b

  This package facilitates placing boxes at absolute positions on the
  LaTeX page.  There are several reasons why this might be useful, but
  the main one (or at least my motivating one) is to help produce a
  large-format conference poster.

  This package provides a single environment, which contains the text
  (or graphics, or table, or whatever) which is to be placed on the
  page, and which specifies where it is to be placed.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat May  2 14:31:56 1998
Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 19:17:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- TypeSpec

Stephen Moye writes:

> (a) Upload site: ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
>
> (b) Uploaded are 10 type specimens, an introduction, and PDF document
> showing the specimens and introduction typeset.
>
> (c) Type specimens are interesting and useful tools for showing off type.
> These are intended as templates for those who need to create their own type
> specimens.
>
> (d) These twelve (12) files should _replace_ the two files currently found
> in the tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/TypeSpec directory.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon May  4 05:21:21 1998
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 11:00:32 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lilypond

Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:
 > I have uploaded
 >
 >         LilyPond 0.1.61
 >
 > as
 >
 >         lilypond-0.1.61.tar.gz
 >
 > to
 >
 >         ftp.dante.de
 >
 > suggested location:
 >
 >         support/lilypond
 >
 >
 > LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. It generates visual or
 > auditive output from a music definition file: it can typeset formatted
 > sheet music to a TeX file and play (mechanical) performances to a MIDI
 > file.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue May  5 06:50:31 1998
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 11:23:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: uk tug faq: significant change

i have just installed a new version (2.2) of the uk tug faq on ctan

while the information in the file is only marginally changed, i have
made some changes to the presentation:

- there is now only one `.ps' file: these files use partially-
downloaded cm-family fonts (from the `ams' set) and are supposedly now
therefore resolution independent

- there is a file newfaq.pdf: this represents an experiment on my
part, and it exhibits a number of wrinkles which i hope to resolve in
the fullness of time -- its utility is limited by not having its links
to the archive (and so on) made active.  i shall be continuing to
experiment with the setup and would welcome any comments.

i expect to publish a complete revision of the faq some time this
year.  comments on accuracy of the present version, and suggestions
for new questions that could usefully be answered, would be very
welcome.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team and the UK TUG Committee

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue May  5 07:03:40 1998
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 11:30:11 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Oriya TeX

Piet van Oostrum writes:

> This was sent to me by Jeroen Hellingman
>
> Oriya-TeX, for typesetting the Oriya script using TeX (beta version).
>
> features:
>
> * new calligraphic designed Oriya METAFONT
> * easy to type ASCII input, compatible with Velthuis' transcription scheme
> * CSX, ISCII and Unicode input and output
> * large number of conjuncts and ligatures
> * runs on any machine that has TeX and C++ available,
>   including PC's from IBM-AT upwards, MacOS, and Unix boxes.
> * cheapest system available to typeset in Oriya.
>
> Oriya is the language spoken by approx.  30 million people in the state
> Orissa in East India.
>
> uploaded in ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming.
> To be placed in a suitable place in the fonts directory.

i have, in fact, installed the submission in language/oriya -- there
are several other single-indic-language directories, with similar
contents, under language/ so this placement seemed appropriate to me.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May  6 03:30:34 1998
Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 09:10:25 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- mf2pt3

Apostolos Syropoulos writes:
 >   Dear Sirs,
 >
 >   I have uploaded on ftp.dante.de /incoming/mf2pt3
 > two files: mf2pt3.pl and mf2pt3.nw The first one is
 > a Perl script that generates PostScript Type 3 fonts from
 > METAFONT sources by processing METAPOST output. The second
 > one is the noweb source code of the utility. A suitable
 > location for these files is tex/fonts/utilities/mf2pt3.
 >
 > Yours Sincerely
 >
 > A. Syropoulos

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed May  6 05:02:47 1998
Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 09:43:17 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- songbook.sty

Christopher Rath writes:

> I have placed a new version of my Songbook style in the incoming
> directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk.  The file is called songbook3.0.tar.gz.
> There is a version of the style already on CTAN hosts, in the
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/songbook directory, and this new
> release should replace that old one.

i have installed the new version as requested

> P.S. The release notes for the package are as follows:
> [...]
> Changes In This Release:
>
>     * new user contributed code distributed with this package; see the contrib
>       directory
>
>     * the song, SBVerse, SBChorus, and SBSection environments, and the \STitle
>       macro, all set either \leftmark or \rightmark.  I've also added a macro
>       to make it easy to place a ``<Some title> cont...'' string in the page
>       header.
>
>     * the song environment now handles empty copyright and W\&M parameters in a
>       special fashion
>
>     * the \Ch macro has been completely re-written.  The significant change is
>       that a new command automatically draws a rule when the chord is bigger
>       than the syllable.
>
>     * the new \Ch maros now raise the chord a specified height above the text;
>       rather than relying upon a \strut to determine the height
>
>     * all the \if constructs that had been defined (and used) within the
>       Songbook style are now superceded with properly defined elements (created
>       using \newif)
>
>     * the font used for chords (as defined by \ChFont) has been
>       changed to a bold, compressed, sans serif font, cmssbc12.
>
> chordbk.sty, wordbk.sty, overhead.sty:
>
>     These styles have been used to produce the songbooks for our church.  We
>     needed to produce books that our song-leaders could use, as well as books
>     for use in the congregation.  So, these styles were written.
>
>     The `chordbk.sty' is used to print a songbook with words and chords.  The
>     `wordbk.sty' is used to print a words-only songbook.  The `overhead.sty' is
>     used to print overhead transparencies.  They all use the same LaTeX input
>     file.  `wordbk.sty' and `overhead.sty' simply ignore all of the chord
>     information.
>
>
> sb-manpg.tex:
>
>     This is the formal documentation for the songbook styles.  A .dvi file is
>     provided, as well as the .tex file.
>
>
> sample-sb.tex:
>
>     This is a sample songbook.  This file is used to produce the sample???.dvi
>     files included with this package.  To regenerate the .dvi files, simply
>     uncomment the appropriate \document line and re-LaTeX the file.
>
>
> Manifest:
>
>     Artistic            Terms & conditions under which the style is distributed.
>     chordbk.sty         Words and chords sub-style.
>     conditionals.sty    Donald Arseneau's conditional tests.
>     contrib/            Directory containing user contributed utilities.
>     mksbkdx             A shell script to make the index by song key.
>     mksbtdx             A shell script to make the index by song title.
>     overhead.sty        Overhead transparency sub-style.
>     relnotes.txt        The songbook package release notes (this file).
>     sample-sb.tex       A sample songbook.
>     sampleCBK.dvi       Sample-sb.tex formatted using chordbk.sty.
>     sampleKdx.dvi       The sample key index run through LaTeX.
>     sampleKdx.tex       Key index for the sample songbook.
>     sampleOH.dvi        Sample-sb.tex formatted using overhead.sty.
>     sampleTdx.dvi       The sample title index run through LaTeX.
>     sampleTdx.tex       Title index for the sample songbook.
>     sampleToc.dvi       The sample TOC run through LaTeX.
>     sampleToc.tex       TOC for the sample songbook.
>     sampleWBK.dvi       Sample-sb.tex formatted using wordbk.sty.
>     sb-manpg.dvi        The manual page run through LaTeX.
>     sb-manpg.tex        The songbook style manual page.
>     songbook.ist        The songbook package makeindex .ist file.
>     songbook.sty        The base style file.
>     wordbk.sty          Words only sub-style.
>[...]
>     There is a SongBook Style home page.  Its URL is:
>
>         http://www.cyberus.ca/~crath/Misc/Songbook/

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May  6 08:05:52 1998
Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 13:11:49 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- youngtab

Volker Boerchers writes:

 > I have uploaded version 1.1 of package `youngtab' to the directory
 > /incoming on ftp.dante.de. This version replaces the old version 1.0
 > (dated 4/96).

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf


 > Description of `youngtab':
 > --------------------------
 > `youngtab' is a (the!) package for typesetting Young-Tableaux,
 > mathematical symbols for the representations of groups. The first
 > version, 1.0, is in the CTAN archive since 4/96.
 >
 > Our package `youngtab.dtx' provides two TeX macros, `\yng(#1)' and
 > `\young(#1)', the first for empty boxes, and the second for labelled
 > boxes. The syntax of the macros is intuitive and simple to avoid
 > spelling-mistakes.
 >
 > The package was originally written for LaTeX2e but works also with
 > plain TeX (tested) and hopefully with LaTeX 2.09 (not tested).
 > For plain TeX one has to `\input' the file `youngtab.tex' instead of
 > using the `.sty'.
 >
 >
 > Changes since version 1.0:
 > --------------------------
 > * Now the tableaux do not have to be left-aligned anymore. This `skew'
 >   tableaux may look something like this:   x x x
 >                                              x x
 >                                                x
 > * Added youngtab support for AUC-TeX, the Emacs-TeX-shell.
 > * some minor changes and bugfixes.
 >
 >
 > Information on the uploaded file
 > ---------------------------------
 > (a) uploaded at ftp-site:  ftp.dante.de
 > (b) file: youngtab.tar.gz
 > (c) for a brief overview of the files submitted see the copy of README
 >     below.
 > (d) We recommend the same path(es) as for the last version:
 >     directory: /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/youngtab
 >     a link: /pub/tex/macros/plain/contrib/youngtab ->
 >                /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/youngtab
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 > vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
 > The following is a copy of the README file which is included in
 > `youngtab.tar.gz':
 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >
 >
 > YOUNGTAB-Package
 > ================
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Authors:
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Volker B"orchers (email: boercher@physik.uni-bremen.de)
 > and Stefan Gieseke (email: gieseke@physik.uni-bremen.de)
 >
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > FILES:
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > README
 > ---------------- the file you're reading now
 >
 > youngtab.dtx
 > ---------------- a documentated version of the package. From it you can
 > generate both a documentation and the .sty file without most comments
 > using the docstrip utility.
 >
 > youngtab.ins
 > ---------------- run TeX on it to generate the youngtab.sty in your
 > current working directory (from the .dtx file)
 >
 > makeydoc
 > ---------------- this (unix-) script generates youngtab.dvi, the
 > documentation for the package.
 >
 > makeydoc.bat
 > ---------------- same as makeydoc but for MSDOS (may need some editing).
 >
 > gind.ist
 > ---------------- You need it to generate the index for the
 > documentation. (gind.ist is a official part of doc/docstrip
 > package. Just in the case this is not installed...)
 >
 > youngtab.tex
 > ---------------- For thoose who don't use LaTeX but TeX.
 >
 > youngtab.el
 > ---------------- Only for thoose who use Emacs in connection with
 > AUC-TeX, the best TeX-shell i can imagine.. Makes life with
 > Young-Tableaux even easier (autocompletion, syntax help).
 >
 >
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > INSTALL:
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 1) `tex youngtab.ins' (alternatively: `latex youngtab.ins')
 > 2) `makeydoc'
 >    * if you don't want any macrocode listings, uncomment the line
 >      containing ``\OnlyDescription'' (remove the `#')
 > 3) put `youngtab.sty' to a path where LaTeX can find it.
 >
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > For TeX-users:
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > follow the instructions in the documentation. (You must have
 > LaTeX2e to produce a .dvi file from youngtab.dtx -- Try to read the
 > .dtx file instead if you don't have!)
 > However, there is a file already prepared for use with TeX:
 > `youngtab.tex' - try this and install in a directory where TeX will
 > find it.
 >
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > For AUC-TeX-users:
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > . to install it once and for all, copy `youngtab.el' to the AUC-TeX
 > style-directory, e.g. /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/style/.
 > . to install it locally: do `mkdir style; cp youngtab.el style' in the
 > directory where your .tex files, using youngtab, reside (or in each if
 > you have more).
 > . Provides autocompletion and syntax checks for the switches and
 > dimensions "Y.*" and \young and \yng if you type `C-c RET' in emacs.
 >
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Date:
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 05/05/98
 >
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Version:
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 1.1

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May  6 07:47:20 1998
Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 13:26:04 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - titlesec 1.1

Javier Bezos writes:
 > Hallo:
 >
 > I have uploaded a new version (1.1) of the titlesec package.
 >
 > Site: ftp.dante.de
 >
 > Files in incoming/titlesec/: titlesec.dtx, titlesec.ins
 > These files should replace the current ones in
 >  /macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec
 >
 > This version fixes a few bugs and adds functionality with further
 >    title styles and some new commands.
 >
 > Format: cleartext
 >
 > Danke
 > Mit freunlichen Gruessen.
 >
 > Javier

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed May  6 13:16:08 1998
Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 17:33:39 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: colortbl `effect'

david carlisle writes:

> ftp> dir
> 200 PORT command successful.
> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
> total 43
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan        4366 May  6 16:22 00readme.txt
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan       38822 May  6 16:22 colortbl.dtx
> 226 Transfer complete.
> ftp> pwd
> 257 "/incoming/carlisle" is current directory.
>
> The readme is updated as I deleted mention of etex.sty. Could you delete
> etex.sty from the archive. (That was for etex version 1 and is outdated,
> I understand that the etex team now (or will soon) keep that file up to date
> in their own area.)

i've done all of that.  thanks for the uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu May  7 05:10:20 1998
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 09:50:46 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- devnag.zip

Anshuman Pandey writes:

> I have uploaded to directory /incoming/ the file devnag.zip. This file
> contains the most recent release of the Devanagari for TeX package by
> Frans Velthuis, version 1.5, which supports the hyphenation of Devanagari
> text and which is now also LaTeX2e compliant. The package has been
> revised and updated with the permission of Velthuis. [Please contact
> Velthuis at <velthuis@rc.rug.nl> if there are questions.]
>
> The directory <language/devanagari/> currently contains release version
> 1.2, along with subdirectories <contrib/> and <latex2e/>. All of the
> files, minus <contrib/>, need to be removed.
>
> The subdirectory <contrib/> is to be retained. Subdirectory <latex2e/>
> and its contents need to be removed. This subdirectory contains the files
> OT1dn.fd, dev2e.sty, and README. These files have been revised and are
> now packaged with the new release.
>
> Also, the directory <fonts/sanskrit/> contains the file dvpn10.mf. This
> file is now packaged with the new release. This directory and its contents
> should also be removed.

thanks, anshuman -- i've now installed this stuff as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu May  7 05:28:26 1998
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 10:12:35 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- psfrag

Michael C. Grant writes:

> I just uploaded psfrag.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming.
>
> It contains version 3.04 of PSfrag, a bug-fix release for the package, and
> should replace the files currently found in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag.
>
> Here's the contents of the announce.txt file found inside.
>
> -------------
> A brand-spankin' new version of PSfrag, version 3.04, for LaTeX2e can be
> found at CTAN sites in the directory
>
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag.
>
> PSfrag 3.04 fixes some bugs discovered in PSfrag 3.03.
>
> What is PSfrag?
> ---------------
>
> Many drawing and graphing packages produce output in the Encapsulated
> PostScript (EPS) format, but few can easily produce the equations and
> other scientific text of which LaTeX is capable. On the other hand, many
> LaTeX-based drawing packages are not as expressive or easy-to-use as the
> many advanced drawing packages that produce EPS output.
>
> PSfrag provides the best of both worlds by allowing the user to
> precisely overlay Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files with arbitrary
> LaTeX constructions. In order to accomplish this, the user places a
> simple text ``tag'' in the graphics file, as a ``position marker'' of
> sorts. Then, using simple LaTeX commands, the user instructs PSfrag to
> remove that tag from the figure, and replace it with a properly sized,
> aligned, and rotated LaTeX equation.
>
> The full documentation for PSfrag found in the release contains examples
> and usage instructions.
>
> To use PSfrag...
> ----------------
>
> ...you will need:
>
> * LaTeX2e and the "graphics" package. (You can use the old epsf.sty
>   macros with PSfrag, but you still need the graphics package.) Please
>   make sure to get the newest versions of these packages from CTAN
>   before submitting bug reports.
>
> * If you plan to use PSfrag with the Seminar package, make sure you
>   get the 10/97 release of this package.
>
> * Any DVI-to-PostScript program that is well-supported by the "graphics"
>   package. This author uses Tom Rokicki's "dvips"; I recommend it.
>   PSfrag has also been verified for DVIPSone from Y&Y (using Level 2
>   PostScript printers).
>
> Bugs? What Bugs?
> ----------------
>
> PSfrag 3.04 is bug-free. Of course, we're kidding. That's what we said
> about PSfrag 3.0, in fact, and look where it got us.
>
> If you have problems, bug reports, or improvement suggestions, please
> send them to the PSfrag maintainer's mailing list,
>
> psfrag@rascals.stanford.edu
>
> Please supply an example .tex file and .eps figure to demonstrate the
> behavior you wish to have corrected or improved.
>
> This is a majordomo mailing list; feel free to join if you would like to
> actively participate in PSfrag development.
>
> Thanks for using PSfrag!

thanks for the upload, michael.  we've now (at last) got it installed
properly.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May  8 05:48:27 1998
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 10:25:26 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- pbsi.pfa,pbsi.afm

Maurizio Loreti writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/incoming/ the archive
> file pbsi.tar.gz; it contains the two files "pbsi.pfa" and "pbsi.afm",
> that are intended to replace the .pfa and the .afm files living in the
> directory /tex-archive/fonts/brushscr/ .
>
> "pbsi" is a Type-1 PostScript font containing "BrushScript Italic"
> characters, intended to simulate hand-written text.
>
> The short history is:
>
> - I have found the original font in a repository of public domain
>   fonts for the NeXT computers, without any copyright notice in the file
>   itself and with an accompanying README file stating that the font was
>   public domain;
> - I have redesigned, in 1995, every single character using a font
>   generation tool called "TypeSmith" running on my Amiga computer;
> - After that dvips 5.78 found an error in the font, Louis Vosloo from
>   Y&Y has kindly used his spare time and his font design tools to
>   correct (in May 7, 1998) not only the above error but some other small
>   defects in the original font (I do not have an Amiga now, nor any font
>   tool to use).  Many thanks to him!
> - The font itself is released under the GNU license: essentially, you
>   can use, modify and distribute the font freely as long as you do not
>   make any profit from it (including it in distributions like the TeX
>   CD's, charged with nominal fee, is explicitely allowed).

thanks for the upload

i've installed pbsi.{pfa,afm} and deleted the old pbsi0.afm

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May  8 09:42:11 1998
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 15:23:19 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission gnhyph01.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I've just uploaded the archive gnhyph01.zip to the
 > /incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unzip
 > the file
 >
 >     gnhyph01.tex
 >
 > from the archive and move it to language/hyphenation,
 > thus replacing the previous version.  (The line endings
 > of the text file are Unix style.)
 >
 > This is the latest version (Rev. 21) of the
 >
 >   * Preliminary hyphenation patterns *
 >   * for the new German orthography.  *
 >
 > Thank you
 >
 > Walter

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May  8 09:46:41 1998
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 15:25:10 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- psfixbb

Rolf Niepraschk writes:
 > I have upload psfixbb.zip to ftp.dante.de/incoming. The archive contains
 >
 >   psfixbb
 >   psfixbb.html
 >
 > The files comes from
 >
 >   http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~dominik/Tools/
 >
 > psfixbb is from Carsten Dominik and is covered by the GNU public
 > license.

support/psfixbb

Thanks a lot, I installed the files in

   support/psfixbb

  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

 > From the man page:
 >
 > -----------------------------------------
 > NAME
 >
 > psfixbb - fix the BoundingBox in a Postscript file.
 >
 >
 > SYNOPSIS
 >
 > psfixbb [-cefl] [-x N] [-o outfile] filename [filename...]
 >
 >
 > DESCRIPTION
 >
 > psfixbb is a tool to create a BoundingBox in Postscript(R) files which
 > do not have one, or to fix an incorrect existing BoundingBox.
 >
 > Many applications write Postscript(R) files or Encapsulated
 > Postscript(R) files
 > with incorrect BoundingBox information. I.e. the box which contains the
 > image or
 > text on the page is often smaller than specified in the %%BoundingBox
 > comment
 > in the file. This can be annoying when importing the file into other
 > documents. psfixbb computes the real size of the used part of a page
 > and sets the BoundingBox correctly. Normally the file itself is changed,
 > but it is also possible to just compute the BoundingBox.
 >
 > psfixbb uses ghostscript (gs) to transform the page into a portable bit
 > map (pbm), then the pnmfile and pnmcrop utilities to determine the real
 > size of the BoundingBox. These three programs need to be installed for
 > psfixbb to work.
 > -----------------------------------------
 >
 > I think the files should be installed to
 >
 >   tex-archive/support/psfixbb
 >
 > Thanks for installing the software...
 >
 >                                    ...Rolf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May  8 10:56:44 1998
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 16:14:45 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission ccfonts.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I've just uploaded the zip archive ccfonts.zip to the
 > /incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unzip all
 > the files from this archive to the directory
 >
 >   macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts/
 >
 > thus replacing the current ones. (Text files in this
 > archive have Unix-style line endings, i.e lf only.)
 >
 > This is v0.991 of the
 >
 >   LaTeX support package for the CM and EC Concrete Fonts.
 >
 > I have fixed a fatal bug affecting options processing
 > in ccfonts.sty.  Many apologies to all users who ran
 > into this!
 >
 > TIA
 >
 > Walter

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon May 11 05:07:13 1998
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 09:49:57 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Malayalam TeX

Jeroen Hellingman writes:

> Please find attached Malayalam TeX 1.6 for inclusion in the
> CTAN archive. New with the previous version is:
>
> - changed encoding scheme
> - metafont sources included
> - several minor corrections/updates
> - software is now freeware (although I retain the copyright)
>
> please replace existing copies of the package in CTAN with
> this version, thanks in advance.

i have installed the package as requested.  thanks for the submission

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon May 11 05:11:50 1998
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:54:08 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: cb Greek fonts updated

prof. Claudio Beccari writes:

 > I just uploaded in /incoming the zipped bundle cbgreek.zip
 > thet contains an updated and enriched version of my Greek font Metafont
 > sources.
 > I suggest to unzip the contents and store it in fonts/greek/cb/mf replacing
 > the files with identical names and adding the new files.
 >
 > Thank You
 >
 > Claudio Beccari

Thanks a lot for the update. I installed it as requested.

 For the CTAN Team

   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue May 12 08:00:02 1998
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 12:35:37 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <wp2latex 2.26>

Jaroslav Fojtik writes:

> a, ftp.tex.ac.uk
> b, wp2latex.zip
> c, It is program for conversion WordPerfect 5.x documents to LaTeX.
> (new release after several bugfixes)
> In current version is possible to convert a lot of features
> for example: Headers, Tables, Equations, Centered+Right+Left text,
>     a lot of extended characters (greek, math, cyrilic)
>     and of course a normal text.
> d,tex/support/wp2latex

i have installed your new file in support/wp2latex/fojtik

in addition, to reduce confusion, i have moved the old directory
support/wp2latex-5_1 to support/wp2latex/old/tille (andreas tille gets
to have his name in the directory because he is said to have written
the documentation).

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May 13 03:42:00 1998
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 09:26:15 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- iso-8859-7.def (bug fix)

Apostolos Syropoulos writes:
 >   Dear Sirs,
 >
 >   I have uploaded teh latest version of the iso-8859-7.def file
 > under the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de This release solves
 > an incompatibility problem between the Greek encoding of Linux and
 > Win95/NT: the letter "accented Alpha" appears in different slots.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the upload in

  fonts/greek/cb/misc/iso-8859-7.def

Note: please follow *always* the instructions in README.uploads. It
would have avoided my searching for the correct place to install the
file to.

  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May 13 03:41:33 1998
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 09:28:09 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload german98.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I have just uploaded the file german98.zip to the /incoming
 > directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please, create a new directory
 >
 >      language/german/betatest
 >
 > and unpack the zip file there.  (Text files in the archive
 > have got Unix-style line endings, i.e.  <lf> only.)
 >
 > This is a test version (2.5e beta 2) of the packages
 >
 >      german.sty and ngerman.sty
 >
 > for writing german texts.  ngerman.sty supports the
 >
 >     new German orthography
 >     ( "neue deutsche Rechtschreibung").
 >
 > The style files come with a common dtx source and German
 > documentation.
 >
 > Greetings
 >
 > Walter

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed May 13 10:48:38 1998
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 14:46:09 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: macros/latex/contrib/supported/footmisc.dtx -- minor upgrade

i have obviously been asleep since the beginning of the year, since
i've only just noticed that a (very small) bug in one of the latex
internal macros was mended in 1997/12/01, which caused untoward
warnings with my footmisc.

i've therefore installed a new version of the file.  it's *not* the
advertised version with a new per-page algorithm: i'm still working on
that.

robin fairbairns

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu May 14 04:20:32 1998
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 09:50:40 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Andreas Tille writes:
 > Upload of formula version 0.2
 >
 > I have upload in
 >
 >    ftp.dante.de:/incoming/formula/
 >                                   formula.dtx
 >                                   formula.ins
 >                                   README.1ST
 >                                   Bugs
 >                                   Changes
 >                                   Todo
 >                                   install.ger
 >                                   install.eng
 >                                   newformula
 >                                   newform.bat
 >                                   Makefile
 >
 > the package formula.
 >
 >    macros/latex/contrib/other  .
 >
 > README.1ST says:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Formula is intended to help you while putting physical symbols
 > into your text in a comfortable manner. It ensures the same
 > shape of the symbols which can be freely defined by you in text
 > *and* math mode.  There are some (only some!! -- it needs
 > extension) predefined physical units.
 >
 > This is the first public available release of formula.
 > Initially it was written only to do some support in our
 > working group and was not intended to be made public.
 > It is provided *as is*.
 > Formula is under the GNU copying license.
 >
 > Because of the needs of some people I decided to make it
 > available in this form.
 >
 > Sorry for the language mixing of German and English.  I will
 > translate the documentation into English sooner or later
 > (I think later :-(, because of a lack of time).
 >
 > The main reason for making public this alpha state software is
 > to get opinions an critics as well as additions of personal
 > needs.
 >
 > The more feedback I will get, the faster formula will come to
 > a more useful state.
 >
 > Andreas Tille

Thanks for your update, I installed it as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu May 14 04:32:40 1998
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 10:04:34 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload to DANTE from GUST

Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz writes:
 > Hello,
 > Finally I prepared some stuff released during GUST conference BachoTeX'98
 > (very interesting as usual) and uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/.
 >
 > pf2afm.zip
 > a tool for fixing PS fonts: generates missing AFM file out of PFB and (if
 > available) PFM files---ver. 1.00
 > (uses Ghostscript)
 > unziped should replace the contents of
 > fonts/utilities/pf2afm/
 >
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------
 > ps_view.zip
 > a PostScript program---an interactive environement for previewing PostScript
 > documents using Ghostscript; enables scaling, rotating, restart, on-line
 > help, printing the screen, etc.
 > Ver. 2.0 significantly enhanced.
 > unziped should replace the contents of
 > support/ps_view/
 >
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------
 > qfonts.zip
 > PostScript Type1 fonts for TeX and Windows environement
 > The package contains:
 > 1. Improved QuasiPalladio ver. 1.03
 > 2. QuasiTimes family ver. 1.00
 > unziped should replace the contents of
 > fonts/psfonts/polish/qfonts/
 >
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------
 > tiff2ps.zip
 > TIFF2PS is a PostScript program for the conversion of TIFF files (ver. 6.0)
 > to EPS ones. Compression (LZW, RLE, Flate) and ASCII85 encoding is available.
 > The package may be used for generating colour-separated EPSes, ``EPS
 > thumbnails,'' and, moreover, little header EPSes, containing only a pointer
 > to a source TIFF file. Employing Ghostscript guarantees efficient processing.
 > VERSION BETA.
 >
 > unziped should go to a new directory:
 > support/pstools/tiff2ps/
 >
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------
 > platex-1.01.zip
 > New version of PLaTeX. The package provides tools to typeset documents
 > in Polish using LaTeX2e.
 > should replace
 > language/polish/platex-1.0.zip
 >
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------
 > antt.map
 > small corrections to
 > fonts/psfonts/polish/antyktor/map/antt.map
 > [unfortunately on TeXlive3 and on CTAN antt.map contains uppercased
 >  names of fonts]
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu May 14 08:48:03 1998
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 14:13:20 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update to natbib

P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I have just uploaded an update to natbib in the dante incoming/natbib
 > directory.
 >
 >    natbib.dtx
 >    README.v68a
 >
 > Can you please transfer them to macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib
 > and erase  README.v68?
 >
 > Thanks,   Patrick

Thanks for you upload, I installed the files as requested.

  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May 15 08:17:19 1998
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 13:56:25 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - tensind 1.0

Javier Bezos writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I just uploaded   tensind.tex and tensind.sty
 >              to   ftp.dante.de/incoming/bezos.
 >
 > Please, create a new directory in macros/latex/contrib/supported
 > named /bezos where these files should be placed. Also, move the
 > files currently in .../contrib/supported/accents (accents.dtx and
 > accents.ins) to this new directory. The accents directory should
 > be removed. (I will group several of my packages into a single
 > directory.)
 >
 > The tensind package is intended for nice tensorial typesetting, with dots
 > filling gaps and fine tuning of index placement. Shortcuts may be defined
 > to easy typing of complicated tensors with, say, Greek letters.
 >
 > Thank you very much
 > Javier

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the package as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May 20 04:27:54 1998
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 10:04:27 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: X2, T2A, T2B, T2C Cyrillic encodings

Werner Lemberg writes in response to my announcement:

 > In article <13663.64472.388048.35053@perdita.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de> you wrote:
 >
 > > I installed it in
 >
 > >     macros/latex/contrib/supported/T2
 >
 > Hmmm, on dante it's in `t2' and not in `T2'.

Sorry, yes. It's now being mirrored on a daily basis to

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/t2

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May 20 05:54:23 1998
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 11:31:50 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: LaTeX3 experimental programming conventions released

As announced at the TeX Users Group meeting (Summer 1997), a group of
highly experimental packages will has (somewhat belated) been released
to allow experienced TeX programmers to experiment with, and comment
on, a proposed set of syntax conventions and basic data-types that
might form the basis for programming large scale projects in TeX. They
are located in this CTAN directory:

  CTAN:macros/latex/packages/expl3

The documentation of this material is as follows: individual package
files provide outline, draft documentation; there is an article that
gives an overview of the syntax and related concepts; there is a
readme.txt file containing a brief description of the collection.

All aspects of these packages are liable, indeed likely, to change.
They should not be used at this stage for anything that requires a
stable system. However, we do encourage people to experiment with
these packages, and to send comments on them to the LaTeX-L mailing
list.

To subscribe to this list, mail to:

  listserv@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

the following one line message:

  subscribe LATEX-L <<first-name>> <<second-name>>


We are sorry that it has taken so long to prepare this for
distribution.

The LaTeX Team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May 20 07:38:48 1998
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 13:09:23 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN update

P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I have placed an update to my custom-bib / makebst bundle on Dante incoming
 > under   custom-bib
 >
 >   README.385a    to replace   README.385 (includes catalan.mbs)
 >   makebst.dtx    to replace   makebst.dtx   (only my email has changed)
 >   catalan.mbs    new file
 >
 > Please place these in   macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib.
 >
 >
 > Thanks,  Patrick

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed the files.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu May 21 10:39:25 1998
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:07:25 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- adfathesis

Stephen Harker writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk a file called adfathesis.zip.  This
> contains a class which modifies the standard report class to meet the
> thesis requirements of the Australian Defence Force Academy (a college
> of the University of New South Wales).  This is an updated version
> which fixes some minor problems in the previous version.
>
> The suggested placement is in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/adfathesis where it should replace the
> previous version.

thanks for the upload: i have installed the new version as you
suggested

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May 22 06:05:00 1998
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 11:42:20 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAM submission: refman.tar

Axel Kielhorn writes:

 > I have uploaded a new version of the refman class family.
 > It contains some correction to the footnote command and, more important
 > an english description. (This is a translation of H. Partls article from
 > 1998)
 >
 > Please put it into the supported directory.
 >
 > Axel

Thanks a lot for the upgrade, I installed the files in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/refman

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May 22 06:13:13 1998
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 11:43:53 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN-submission: akletter

Axel Kielhorn writes:

 > I have uploaded a new version of akletter.
 > This version does not contain code changes but now finally an english
 > documentations.
 >
 > Please put it into the supported directory.
 >
 > Axel

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/akletter

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May 22 06:09:12 1998
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 10:49:59 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- csx-stuff.zip

Anshuman Pandey writes:

> I've uploaded a file called csx-stuff.zip to the incoming directory. The
> files contained in the archive file are documentation for the CS/CSX 8-bit
> transliteration scheme, LaTeX2e input encoding definition file, and screen
> drivers for viewing CS/CSX documentation on DOS boxes.
>
> I would suggest that these files be placed in a directory "csx" to be
> created in fonts/. This will enable the various fonts encoded in the
> CS/CSX encoding to be submitted to CTAN and placed in its subdirectory.

i have installed the contents of the zip file as you suggested.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon May 25 16:13:18 1998
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 20:54:01 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- prv-0.4 (like LatexMk)

> This message should replace the previous one concerning `prv', which
> contained an error (sorry, I'm deeply ashamed! Please do a mv prv-0.4 prv)

(noted)

> I have uploaded a single file named `prv-0.4' to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
>
> prv is a Perl script for compilation, previewing and printing of
> Latex-sources, derived from LatexMk version 2.0, which I revised as follows:
> - Options renamed to long names using the Getops::Long module.
> - Manpage converted to pod
> - Works now also under MSDOS/Windows-95/NT + MikTeX
> - Facilities for printing reduced size booklets built in
> - Allows for interactive page selection in the printing phase
> - the -quiet option was added for silencing both prv and latex
>
> I suggest placing it next to LatexMk in /tex-archive/support/prv

i have placed prv in a directory of its own, so that your file is now
to be found in support/prv/prv

thanks for the upload -- looks interesting...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon May 25 16:29:49 1998
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 21:19:41 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.11 beta 1

Christian Schenk writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex/ a new version
> of MiKTeX (TeX & Friends for Win32).  Please copy the files as
> follows:
>
>    README                      => systems/win32/miktex/
>    README.beta                 => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>    beta1.exe                   => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>    miktex-1.11-beta-1.tar.gz   => systems/win32/miktex/source/
>    news.txt                    => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>
> Thanks!

in rainer's absence, i have installed these files as requested.  this
ought to work, but it _is_ the first time i've installed at dante.
whatever, these files will appear on the archive in the not-to-far-
distant future.

> --
> Here are the highlights of MiKTeX 1.11 beta 1:
>
>   * New setup utility
>   * Uninstall support
>   * YAP improvements:
>     - faster zooming
>     - virtual fonts
>     - makes use of Type 1 outline fonts (via ps2pk)
>     - can process Omega-generated DVI files
>     - dvips interface (for printing purposes)
>   * Omega 1.5
>   * pdfTeX 0.12

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue May 26 05:31:46 1998
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 10:06:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- rail 1.2

Klaus Georg Barthelmann writes:

> I uploaded rail.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de:/incoming. It contains the directory
> rail. Please unpack it in /pub/tex/support.
>
> Rail is a package to draw syntax diagrams. Version 1.2 was enhanced by
> John Olsson to allow the optional drawing of arrow-heads.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue May 26 08:54:39 1998
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 13:32:31 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- sphack.sty

oliver pretzel writes:

> (a) Uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
> (b) File name sphack.sty
> (c) Purpose: change \@bsphack...\@esphack so that (nearly always)
> command is invisible in vertical mode.
> (It is impossible to do this perfectly, but the versions in the file
> remove the worst anomalies)
> (d) I suppose the best place for this is
> /macros/latex/contrib/other/misc
>
> (e) I have sent a copy in an e-mail to Chris Rowley for information.

i've installed the file as you suggested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue May 26 08:56:43 1998
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 13:34:26 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- sectsty

`Rowland' writes:

> I've uploaded (I hope) to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/secsty two files:
>
> sectsty.dtx
> sectsty.ins
>
> They should be moved to:
>
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/sectsty
>
> The sectsty package is a LaTeX2e package meant to help change the style of
> any or all of LaTeX's sectional headers in the article, book, or report
> classes.

i've installed the files as you suggested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue May 26 11:58:58 1998
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 16:41:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: crop package

i have just installed Melchior Franz's crop marks package (and
introductory text, in german) in ctan
macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop.

the  .dtx file says

% \begin{abstract}
% This article describes the \texttt{crop} package that provides corner
% marks for camera alignment as well as for trimming paper stacks, and
% additionally puts some page info on every page.
% Most macros are easily adaptable to personal preferences.
% However, you are welcome to suggest any improvements and special wishes.
%
% The package was originally developed for needs of the
% Austrian Red Cross\slash Federal Province of Vienna\slash
% Department of Radiation Protection.
% \end{abstract}

(which saves me translating roughly the same thing from the .txt file
;-)

thanks, Melchior, for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May 29 10:36:30 1998
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 15:20:50 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <linguex>

Wolfgang Sternefeld writes:

> Please, find in your incoming box an update of the linguex packages.
> Your query:
> (a) dante.de
> (b) linguex.tar.gz which unpacks to the directory linguex containing:
> linguex.sty, linguex-doc.tex,  linguho.sty, ps-trees.sty, ps-trees-doc.tex,
> ps-trees-doc.dvi.
> (c) A tool to facilitate the formatting of linguist examples.
> Automatically takes
> care of example numbering, indentations,
> indexed brackets, prefixing of grammaticality judgments. linguho.sty allows
> for automatic extraction of a handout from a file generated with
> linguex.sty. ps-trees.sty supports tree-dvips.sty
> (d) macros/latex/contrib/supported
>
> Could you, please, link the \RequiredPackage
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/gb4e/cgloss4e.sty
> into the linguex directory? Thanx.

i've done all that.  thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jun  5 04:08:42 1998
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 09:50:36 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: gnhyph01.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I have uploaded the archive gnhyph01.zip to the
 > /incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unzip
 > the file
 >
 >    gnhyph01.tex
 >
 > from the archive and move it to language/hyphenation,
 > thus replacing the previous version.  (The line endings
 > of the text file are Unix style.)
 >
 > This is the latest version (Rev. 22) of the hyphenation
 > patterns for the new German orthography.  I have completed
 > the "ck" patterns, so there should be no more major
 > deficiencies now.  (Well, I hope so ...)
 >
 > Greetings
 >
 > Walter

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed teh file as requested.

  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jun  5 04:23:03 1998
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 09:52:44 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LGrind 3.5

Michael Piefel writes:

 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file lgrind.zip; its contents are supposed to
 > go into support/lgrind, replacing all the files residing there at the moment.
 >
 > LGrind is a pretty printer which formats your source code into LaTeX. It includes
 > keyword recognition for a plethora of languages. This is the new version 3.5,
 > mainly fixing bugs, but also adding a couple of features.
 >
 > Regards
 >
 > --
 > |=| Michael Piefel                                                     \

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the update as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jun  5 04:16:37 1998
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 09:55:26 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- latex2man version 1.3

Juergen Vollmer writes:
 >
 > I uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file latex2man-1.3.tar.gz.
 > Please install it under the supported directory hierarchy under "latex2man".
 > From the README:
 >
 > Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a
 > format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command.
 > Alternatively HTML or TexInfo code can be produced too.
 > Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the conditional text
 > feature.
 >
 > There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the Man-page
 > and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual tranlation.
 >
 > Changes from version 1.2:  added a conditional text feature.
 >
 > With best regards
 >
 > Juergen

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files as requested.

 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Jun  6 12:14:44 1998
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 16:56:53 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LH fonts v3.18-unoff-pl2 (was: t2 (lh) fonts)

the ctan team has been able to acquire a copy of the current test
version of the lh cyrillic fonts.  this is *not* an official
distribution, but we are grateful to those who supplied the patch
files as a service to the cyrillic-tex-using community at large.

i have installed the fonts in directory fonts/cyrillic/lh-test
(for details of the contents of the directory, see below)

these fonts were designed alongside the macros in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/t2, and (with the macros) implement
(new-style) latex standard cyrillic encodings.

the directory contains

> lhfnt318.zip
>   is the original official distribution of LH fonts v3.18
> lhfnt-3.18-unoff-pl2.diff.gz
>   is an unofficial patch which adds the support for T2* encodings
> lh318pl2.zip
>   is the same patch but prepared for DOS users
> lhfnt-README
>   are instructions on patching the LH fonts (for both UNIX and
>   DOS users)
>
> The instructions on installation of LH fonts and the installation
> script are included into the patch (will be created after patching).

the fonts/cyrillic directory also has subdirectories with other,
older, cyrillic font sets:

  lh       (presently a link to fonts/LH)
  ot2cyr   (moved from being a fonts/ directory)
  cmcyr
  cmcyralt
  cyrit

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Jun  6 13:41:13 1998
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 18:24:39 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- catdoc-0.35

victor wagner writes:

> New version of catdoc program
> is uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk
> File name: catdoc-0.35.tar.gz
>
> Catdoc is simple program to read MS-Word files up to version 7.0
> and extract their content as readable ASCII text. Catdoc is able
> to replace characters which are special to TeX with corresponding
> TeX commands, although it doesn't attempt to convert all MS-Word
> formatting (except tables) to TeX.
>
> This package is intended to replace current catdoc package
> in /support/catdoc directory which has serious bugs, preventing them
> to run on  Linux, MS-DOS and some other systems.
>
> See http://www.ice.ru/~vitus/works/works_unix.html
> for revision history.

i have installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jun  8 05:31:36 1998
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 11:14:41 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- eco fonts 1.1

Sebastian Marius Kirsch writes:
 > Hi!
 >
 > You'll find a file ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/eco-1.1.tar.gz. Please move
 > the uncompressed files to CTAN:fonts/eco; you can delete the old version.

Thanks a lot for your update, I installed the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jun  8 05:36:52 1998
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 11:22:25 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan submission -- texed

Wolfgang Heller writes:

 > I have created a directory texed on ftp.dante.de
 > Please replace the file english32.zip in /tex/systems/win32/texed
 > by the new zip file.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jun 11 12:25:11 1998
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 17:07:32 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - german98.zip

walter schmidt writes:

> I have uploaded the file german98.zip to the \incoming directory at
> ftp.dante.de.  Please, move the contents of this file to the CTAN
> directory language/german/betatest/, thus replacing the existent
> files.  (Please, remove neu0505.dvi and neu0505.tex, too; the name of
> these files is now neu0528.* .)
>
> This submission will update the test version of the german language
> support files (german.sty, ngerman.sty etc.) to v2.5e beta 3.
>
> What's new?
>
> * With ngerman.sty the name of the command \germanTeX has been
>   changed to \ngermanTeX, because the former is defined in
>   german.sty, too, but has a different meaning there.
>
> * The documentation has been improved and will now describe
>   the (limited) facilities for language switching provided
>   with german.sty and ngerman.sty.

i've installed the new files as requested.  thanks for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jun 12 05:03:30 1998
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:48:11 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- devnag-update.zip and devanagari reorganisation

Anshuman Pandey has submitted another new version of the
language/devanagari package, and (as we had earlier agreed) i have
rearranged the ctan distribution of the package.

the directory now contains just

  drwxrwxr-x   3   85      34         8192 Mar 23 15:22 contrib
  drwxrwxr-x   2   85      34         8192 Jun 12 09:34 distrib

and the distrib subdirectory contains the files that are the current
output of anshuman's project.  (previously, these files were kept in
language/devanagari itself, which wasn't really `correct' as far as
ctan structure is concerned.)

thanks, anshuman, for the update

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jun 15 06:10:52 1998
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:32:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- marvosym

Thomas Henlich writes:
 > Hello CTAN team,
 >
 > a) package uploaded to:
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming
 >
 > b) file uploaded:
 > marvosym.tar.gz
 >
 > c) overview:
 >
 > The Martin Vogels Symbole (marvosym) font is a Type 1 font.
 > The marvosym style file lets you use this font in LaTeX2e documents.
 >
 > The font contains
 > - the Euro currency symbol as defined by the European commission
 > - Euro currency symbols in typefaces Times, Helvetica and Courier
 > - Symbols fur structural engineering
 > - Symbols for steel cross-sections
 > - Astronomy signs (Sun, Moon, planets)
 > - The 12 signs of the zodiac
 > - Scissor symbols
 > - a CE sign
 > and others.
 >
 > Font design: Martin Vogel
 > Macros and documentation: Thomas Henlich
 >
 > File list:
 > README.1st      overview of what this package is
 > astro.README    symbolic link to README.1st (for searching purposes)
 > euro.README     symbolic link to README.1st (for searching purposes)
 > fmvr8x.tfm      TeX font metric file for the marvosym font
 > marvodoc.ps     The documentation for the marvosym package
 > marvodoc.tex    The source of the documentation
 > marvosym.afm    Type 1 font metric file for the marvosym font
 > marvosym.pfa    Type 1 font
 > marvosym.sty    The marvosym style file for LaTeX2e
 > zodiac.README   symbolic link to README.1st (for searching purposes)
 >
 > d) recommend placing in:
 > /pub/tex/fonts/psfonts/
 >
 > --
 > Thomas Henlich

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the package in

  fonts/psfonts/marvosym

as requested.
  For the CTAN Team

    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jun 15 05:58:01 1998
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:34:16 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- fepslatex.ps

Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes:
 > I have put in /incoming of ftp.dante.de the file
 >
 >   fepslatex.ps
 >
 > which is a translation into FRENCH of the document epslatex.ps
 > written by Keith Reckdahl. Could you put it in the same
 > directory (info) that the original. Thanks for the installation.
 >
 > Best regards,
 >
 > Jean-Pierre Drucbert

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the file as

  info/fepslatex.ps

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jun 15 06:05:35 1998
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:39:28 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lintex

Maurizio Loreti writes:
 > Hello - I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file lintex.tar.gz,
 > containing the source file lintex.c recently posted to comp.text.tex,
 > with a man page (new!) and a Makefile (new!).  The README is included at
 > the end of that message for further explanation.
 >
 > I am not sure where C source should go in the CTAN tree; maybe under
 > /tex-archive/support , in /tex-archive/support/lintex?
 >
 > ----------------------Begin included file: README----------------------
 > "lintex" is a C program that removes auxilliary (La)TeX files that are
 > usually not needed after a (La)TeX run (log, aux, dvi, ... files);
 > they are however actually removed only if their modification time is
 > more recent that the one of the related TeX source.  emacs backup
 > files are unconditionally deleted.
 >
 > lintex has been developed in an Unix environment, specifically under
 > Solaris 2; but should run on every Unix system supporting opendir,
 > readdir, closedir and lstat (which one does not?).
 >
 > A man file (NEW) and a Makefile (NEW) are now included!  Examine the
 > Makefile (10 lines), modify it if needed, then type "make" and (with
 > root privileges if needed) "make install".
 >
 > lintex is released under the GNU Public License agreement; enjoy!
 >

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the package in

  support/lintex

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jun 15 08:09:41 1998
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:39:25 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Neuste Registrierhinweise (Juni 98).txt and ReadMe.txt

Frank Stippich writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I have uploaded two files:
 >
 >   - NeusteRegistrierhinweise.txt
 >   - ReadMe.txt
 >
 > Please put them into the pub/tex/systems/os2/texed directory. They
 > contain important informations how about to contact me.
 >
 >
 > Thanks
 > Frank Stippich

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jun 16 09:39:24 1998
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 14:08:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Euro font defs upload

Bernard Gaulle writes:

> I've uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk in /incoming a directory /IdealFonts
> with the following contents:
>
>   --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan      172420 Jun 15 07:50 EuroDefs.sit.hqx
>   --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan        1327 Jun 15 07:42 README.IF
>
> The first file is a free automatic installer for Textures users
> providing the "euro" package and all necessary *.fd files and metrics
> to be able to use the free Adobe EuroFonts via the so simple \texteuro
> cs in usual families and shapes.
>
> The readme file explains the contents of the IdealFonts directory.
>
> We suggest to move that stuff to the usual directory:
> systems/mac/textures/contrib/IdealFonts
>
> (by the way, the obsolate LaTeX R7 stuff in that directory will be replaced
>  by shortly by the incoming R9 version, when available)
>
> Appropriate generic files will also be available soon for all other
> (La)TeX users but i'm afraid we were not allowed to generate *.pfb
> files.

i've installed the new files in systems/mac/textures/contrib/IdealFonts
as suggested.

thanks, bernard, for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jun 17 09:58:57 1998
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:30:21 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- huhyph.tex Hung hyph patterns

Gyula Mayer writes:
 > Dear Archivist!
 >
 > You will find in
 >  ftp.dante.de/incoming/huhyph.zip
 > one single file, containing the hyphenation patterns for the
 > Hungarian language.
 > I have zipped it only to preserve the modification date.
 > Please unzip and place huhyph.tex into
 >
 > .../tex/language/hyphenation/
 >
 > This version supersedes all previous ones,
 > circulating not absolutely officially around.
 >
 > The maintainer's address and other information is contained
 > in the comments at the beginning of the file.
 >
 > Sincerely yours,
 >
 >                              Gyula Mayer

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the file as requested.

  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jun 17 10:11:24 1998
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:32:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - emtextds.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I've just uploaded the file emtextds.zip to the /incoming
 > directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unpack it and move its
 > contents to the new directory
 >
 >         systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS
 >
 > (Do not unpack the files tex.zip, emtex.zip and CDFS.ZIP.)
 >
 > This is an installation script and a set of configuration
 > files, drivers, local patches etc. which help to install a
 >
 >         TDS-compliant emTeX system for OS/2
 >
 > from a TeXLive3-CDROM.
 >
 > The installation script is still somewhat primitive, the
 > documentation is far from being complete and many details
 > of the configuration are still to be improved; yet I hope
 > that the package is useful for the OS/2 community.
 >
 > Documentation is provided in English and partially in
 > German, too.
 >
 > Thank you
 >
 > Walter

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed it as suggested.

  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jun 17 10:04:35 1998
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:34:52 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- eurotex.zip

Y&Y, Inc. writes:
 > Hi:
 >
 > I just uploaded the ZIP file eurotex.zip to ftp.dante.de.
 > The ZIP archive contains TFM support for the 12 Adobe fonts
 > with Euro symbols, available for download from their site.
 > Included are the files
 >
 > readme.txt              % details
 > psfonts.eur             % for DVIPS
 >
 > _1.tfm, _1b.tfm, _1bi.tfm, _1i.tfm,
 > _2.tfm, _2b.tfm, _2bi.tfm, _2i.tfm
 > _3.tfm, _3b.tfm, _3bi.tfm, _3i.tfm
 >
 > eurosamp.tex            % plain TeX sample
 > eurosamp.dvi
 > eurosamp.log
 > eurosamp.pdf
 >
 > I guess it could go somewhere like /tex-archive/fonts/euro
 >
 > Louis Vosloo,
 > Y&Y, Inc.

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jun 19 04:01:27 1998
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:40:32 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- egplot

Probst, Axel writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I've uploaded to
 >
 >         ftp.dante.de in the directory /incoming
 >
 > the file
 >
 >         egplot.tgz
 >
 > which contains
 >
 > egplot.dtx
 > egplot.ins
 > manual.ps.gz
 >
 > egplot is allows to encapsulate gnuplot commands in the LaTeX
 > source and the inclusion of the figures that are generated with
 > gnuplot.
 >
 > I recommend placing the files in
 >
 > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/egplot


Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the package as suggested.

  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jun 22 05:56:48 1998
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 10:41:31 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Suggestion (?)

anshuman pandey writes:

> The directory systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/devnag/ contains a distribution
> of the "Devanagari for TeX" which is obsolete. The file itself is called
> devnag-emtex.zip and is accompanied by devnag-emtex.readme. These files
> should be removed to prevent conflicts with the newer package residing in
> the directory language/devanagari/distrib/.
>
> The devnag-emtex.zip file aims to make installation of the devnag package
> easier for emTeX users by having the directories and pathnames saved
> within the .zip file. There is no need for this. Installation of the
> package is easy enough. :->

i've deleted the directory.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jun 23 04:34:59 1998
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:18:39 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- marvosym (update)

Thomas Henlich writes:
 > Hello CTAN team,
 >
 > a) package uploaded to:
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming
 >
 > b) file uploaded:
 > marvosym.tar.gz
 >
 > c) overview:
 > update / bug fixes to original version
 > Please delete /pub/tex/fonts/psfonts/marvosym/* first.
 >
 > The Martin Vogels Symbole (marvosym) font is a Type 1 font.
 > The marvosym style file lets you use this font in LaTeX2e documents.
 >
 > The font contains
 > - the Euro currency symbol as defined by the European commission
 > - Euro currency symbols in typefaces Times, Helvetica and Courier
 > - Symbols fur structural engineering
 > - Symbols for steel cross-sections
 > - Astronomy signs (Sun, Moon, planets)
 > - The 12 signs of the zodiac
 > - Scissor symbols
 > - a CE sign
 > and others.
 >
 > File list:
 > README.1st      overview of what this package is
 > astro.README    symbolic link to README.1st (for searching purposes)
 > euro.README     symbolic link to README.1st (for searching purposes)
 > fmvr8x.tfm      TeX font metric file for the marvosym font
 > marvodoc.ps     The documentation for the marvosym package
 > marvodoc.tex    The source of the documentation
 > marvosym.afm    Type 1 font metric file for the marvosym font
 > marvosym.pfb    Type 1 font
 > marvosym.sty    The marvosym style file for LaTeX2e
 > zodiac.README   symbolic link to README.1st (for searching purposes)
 > PROBLEMS        describes some problems and their solutions
 >
 > d) to be placed in:
 > /pub/tex/fonts/psfonts/marvosym
 >
 > Regards
 > --
 > Thomas Henlich

Thanks a lot for your update, I replaced the contents of directory

   fonts/psfonts/marvosym

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jun 24 08:13:19 1998
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:57:59 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: adobe material on ctan

for some time now, ctan has carried a mirror of some parts of the
adobe ftp site.  we now realise that this was a mistake, since the
licensing conditions on adobe material appear to mean that it's
unwise for us to redistribute any matter from the site.

i have therefore deleted the sub-hierarchies

  fonts/psfonts/adobeafm
  support/acrobatreader

from the archive.  the ctan team apologises for any inconvenience
caused.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jun 25 11:38:32 1998
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:25:53 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- finplain.bst

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho writes:

> I just uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk the file finplain.bst.  It is the
> standard BibTeX style 'plain.bst' translated into Finnish.  If I
> understand the CTAN directory structure correctly, the file belongs in
> <CTAN:biblio/bibtex/contrib/>.

i've installed the file as you suggest.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jun 25 15:19:22 1998
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 18:29:12 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- units

Axel Reichert writes:
 > Dear CTAN team,
 >
 > I have uploaded
 >
 >   units.tar.gz
 >
 > to
 >
 >   ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > It contains two packages for typesetting nice fractions and physical
 > units.
 >
 > I recommend installing the files into
 >
 >   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/units
 >
 > Happy TeXing!

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files as suggested.

   For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jun 25 16:28:24 1998
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 18:31:32 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- tmview (file:tmv9806.tgz)

Thomas Moor writes:
 > Dear archive maintainers:
 >
 > I try to follow the advisement in README.uploads.
 > The "/incoming"-directory looks prety crowded, seems
 > you're quite busy. So: THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK !!
 >
 > Sincerely,
 > Thomas Moor.
 >
 >
 > (a) I have uploaded to "/incoming" on "ftp.dante.de".
 > (b) The file I've uploaded is named "tmv9806.tgz"
 > (c) The file is in gnu-zipped-tar format. It contains sources and binaries
 >     of the actual version V98.06 of the dvi-previewer "tmview".
 >     It will expand to
 >
 >     ./tmview/IAFA-PACKAGE        IAFA-like discription of the package
 >     ./tmview/VER9806             empty file indicating the current version
 >     ./tmview/CHANGES             list of changes from preceeding versions
 >     ./tmview/INSTALL             how to install tmview
 >     ./tmview/MAILME              my mail-address
 >     ./tmview/README              manual for tmview as plain text
 >     ./tmview/dvisvga.linux       binary for linux/svgalib
 >     ./tmview/dvilx.linux         binary for linux/X
 >     ./tmview/dvilx.solaris       binary for solaris/X
 >     ./tmview/doc/*               manuals in  groff and dvi fromat
 >     ./tmview/src/*               common sources
 >     ./tmview/svga/*              sources related to svgalib
 >     ./tmview/lX/*                sources related to Xlib
 >     ./tmview/MakeSVGA            Makefile for linux/svga
 >     ./tmview/MakeLX              Makefile for linux/X
 >     ./tmview/MakeSolaris         Makefile for solaris/X
 >     ./tmview/obj                 empty directory for compiling
 >
 > (d) Since the previous version of "tmview" can be found on CTAN at
 >     "CTAN/dviware/tmview/*", I suggest to replace the old version by the
 >     new one. If you do so, please be sure to remove all files belonging
 >     to the old version first. (The new version uses a slightly different
 >     directory structure, so simply copying it onto the old version will
 >     result in some funny mixture, not of any use at all)

Thanks a lot four your update, I installed it as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jun 25 12:49:19 1998
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 18:34:37 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lintex 1.04

Maurizio Loreti writes:
 > Hello - I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de a file called lintex.tar.gz,
 > containing a new version (1.04) of the program "lintex".
 >
 > lintex is a C program (intended for a Unix environment) that deletes TeX
 > auxilliary files and editor backup files from a set of directories, but
 > only if the TeX source file modification time is older.
 >
 > The changes from the previous version were suggested by Email from two
 > comp.text.tex readers, and are:
 >
 > - a new option, -r, to recursively scan all a directory tree;
 > - a new option, -b, to specify the trailing characters that identify an
 >   editor backup file, e.g. `` -b .bak '' (the default is `` -b "~" '',
 >   i.e. the emacs convention);
 > - some new extensions of TeX auxilliary files have been added;
 > - the code has been extensively cleaned up.
 >
 > In addition, a command file LINTEX.COM that does (more or less) the same
 > thing in a VMS environment has been added.
 >
 > The archive files (Makefile, README, lintex.1, lintex.c, LINTEX.COM)
 > should replace the ones in tex-archive/support/lintex.

Thanks a lot four your update, I installed it as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jun 26 06:20:11 1998
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:58:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload from GUST to dante/incoming

Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz writes:

 > I've just uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/
 >
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------
 > ps_view.zip
 > a PostScript program---an interactive environement for previewing PostScript
 > documents using Ghostscript; enables scaling, rotating, restart, on-line
 > help, printing the screen, etc.
 > Ver. 2.01 enhanced again.
 > unziped should replace the contents of
 > support/ps_view/
 >
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------
 > pl-tfm.zip
 > should replace
 > language/polish/pl-tfm.zip
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Thanks and cheers,
 > **StaW

Thanks a lot, I unstalled the new versions.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jun 29 04:12:29 1998
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:51:08 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload from GUST to DANTE://incoming

Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz writes:
 > Hello again,
 >
 > I've just uploaded to dante://incoming forgotten contribution from GUST.
 > gust.zip contains:
 >
 > cc-pl.zip  should replace language/polish/cc-pl.zip
 >
 > 00README   should replace language/polish/00README
 >
 > epsfx.tex  should replace macros/generic/TeX-PS/epsfx.tex
 >
 > Thanks and greetings,
 >
 > **StaW

Thanks a lot for the updates, I installed them as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jun 29 10:41:11 1998
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 16:25:03 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.11 beta 3

Christian Schenk writes:
 > I have uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex/ a new version
 > of MiKTeX (TeX & Friends for Win32).  Please copy the files as
 > follows:
 >
 >    README                      => systems/win32/miktex/
 >    README.TXT                  => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
 >    bare.exe                    => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
 >    complete.exe                => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
 >    news.html                   => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
 >    news.txt                    => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
 >    readme.html                 => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
 >    miktex-1.11-beta-3.tar.gz   => systems/win32/miktex/source/
 >
 > Then delete the following files:
 >
 >    systems/win32/miktex/1.11/README.beta
 >    systems/win32/miktex/1.11/beta1.exe
 >    systems/win32/miktex/source/miktex-1.11-beta-1.tar.gz
 >
 > Thanks!
 >
 > --
 > MiKTeX 1.11 Highlights
 > ----------------------
 >
 >    * New setup utility (InstallShield)
 >    * Several distribution types
 >    * Uninstall support
 >    * Supports a user TEXMF tree
 >    * YAP improvements:
 >         - BMP/EPS graphics
 >         - Basic dvips (PostScript) specials are understood
 >         - Virtual fonts
 >         - Type 1 outline fonts (via `ps2pk')
 >         - Omega-DVI files are understood
 >         - Dvips interface (for printing purposes)
 >         - Command keys accept a numerical prefix argument (for example,
 >           `9g' opens TeX page 9).
 >    * Omega 1.5
 >    * pdfTeX 0.12

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the update as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jun 30 05:08:07 1998
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:30:54 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- egplot

Probst, Axel writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I've uploaded to
 >
 >         ftp.dante.de in the directory /incoming
 >
 > the file
 >
 >         egplot.tgz
 >
 > which contains
 >
 > egplot.dtx
 > egplot.ins
 > manual.ps.gz
 >
 > egplot allows to encapsulate gnuplot commands in the LaTeX
 > source and the inclusion of the figures that are generated with
 > gnuplot.
 >
 > I recommend placing the files in
 >
 > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/egplot
 >
 > This revision of egplot.sty fixes a bug with the german option
 > and negative tic mark values in gnuplot diagrams.
 >
 >
 > Thanx
 > Axel

Thanks a lot for your update, I installed it in the indicated
location.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul  1 05:29:11 1998
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 11:08:34 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt New Release

Aleksander Simonic writes:
 > I have just uploaded a new release of WinEdt to
 >
 >     ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt/...
 >
 > Please delete the entire existing directory (including
 > sub-directories):
 >
 >     tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt
 >
 > and replace it with the newly uploaded one.
 >
 > =========================================
 >
 > After four months of beta testing and 15 beta versions, a brand
 > new release, WinEdt32, compiled with Borland's Delphi 3, is now
 > ready for general release. WinEdt32 has been written based on its
 > popular predecessor WinEdt 1.41-d. Dictionaries and documentation
 > have been updated for this release...
 >
 > WinEdt32 (shareware) is a powerful, extremely flexible and
 > versatile native Win32 editor and shell with a strong
 > predisposition towards the creation of [La]TeX documents.
 >
 >     DO NOT, however, mistake WinEdt itself for a TeX system! Users
 >     have to download and install their choice of TeX system (e.g.,
 >     MiKTeX, web2c, emTeX) from CTAN.
 >
 > WinEdt provides a customizable graphic user interface for
 > compilers, TeX systems and other non-GUI oriented applications.
 > The editor supports Syntax Highlighting and Spell Checking with
 > the ability to highlight misspelled words as they are being typed.
 > WinEdt's Menu, as well as its Graphic and Keyboard interfaces, are
 > completely user-customizable through an intuitive GUI. Macro
 > language provides additional functionality, intended for more
 > demanding users.
 >
 > By default WinEdt's Menu is configured to run as a front end for
 > MiKTeX (freeware) distribution. However, it is straightforward to
 > make any modifications (Options| Menu Setup Dialog) and configure
 > WinEdt for a different TeX package (eg. web2c or emTeX) or even
 > define a completely different set of accessories.
 >
 > Important information on installing (or upgrading to) WinEdt32 can
 > be found at our home page at:
 >
 >     http://home.istar.ca/~winedt
 >
 >
 > Thank you for your attention.
 >
 > Aleksander Simonic

Thanks a lot for the new version, I installed it.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul  1 05:44:44 1998
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 11:27:27 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: LaTeX Release June 98

The LaTeX Programming Team has just released the June 98 release to
the general public.

As usual, this consists of the following directories on CTAN, the
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network:

 Base LaTeX:

   macros/latex/base
   macros/latex/unpacked
   macros/latex/doc


 Tools bundle:

   macros/latex/packages/tools


 LaTeX Graphics bundle:

   macros/latex/packages/graphics


 MFNFSS bundle (for using Old German and Pandora fonts):

   macros/latex/packages/mfnfss


For news see the document ltnews09.tex.

Problems should be reported following the instructions in the file
bugs.txt.

Happy LaTeXing!

The LaTeX Programming Team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jul  1 05:44:37 1998
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 10:32:45 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: Norwegian BibTeX styles

Dag Langmyhr writes:

> I have uploaded the folowing four files to ftp.tex.ac.uk in
> /incoming/nplain:
>
>         nabbrv.bst  nalpha.bst  nplain.bst  nunsrt.bst
>
> They are Norwegian adaptions of the four standard BibTeX style files.
> Suggested place at CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/.

thanks for the upload.

> PS. If you think that norabbrv.bst, etc, are better names, please use
> that instead.

i have done so.  by analogy with the similar german effort, i have
installed the files in a new directory biblio/bibtex/contrib/norbib

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jul  2 05:26:19 1998
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 10:09:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Brian Smith writes:

> I have put the following files in the /incoming directory on
> ftp.tex.ac.uk:
>
> xfig.3.2.1.tar.gz
> xfig.README.3.2.1
> transfig.3.2.1.tar.gz
> transfig.README.3.2.1
>
> These are for the xfig/transfig drawing system that many people use for
> drawing figures for their LaTeX documents.
>
> They should go in /pub/archive/graphics in place of the older versions.
> Thanks for your help.

thanks for the upload -- i have installed the files as requested.

> Here is the blurb about xfig and transfig:
>
> Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects
> interactively in an X window.  The resulting pictures can be saved, printed
> on postscript printers or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g. to
> allow inclusion in LaTeX documents).
>
> You also need to get TransFig version 3.2.1.  TransFig contains the post-
> processor needed by xfig to convert fig files to one of several output formats,
> such as PostScript, pic, LaTeX etc.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jul  2 05:59:59 1998
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 11:38:29 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinShell-New Release

Ingo de Boer writes:
 > hi...
 >
 > i uploaded a new release of my WinShell
 > to the incoming/winshell directory.
 > please replace all the files in the
 >
 > /pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell/
 >
 > directory by the new stuff.
 >
 > thanks
 >   ingo
 >
 > ==============================
 > WinShell for Windows 95 / NT 4.0
 >
 > Version 1.2 - 07/01/1998
 >
 > A front-end for TeX-Users
 >
 > (c) Ingo de Boer, 1998
 >
 > this software is for free!
 > be free to copy and distribute!
 >
 > contact me for credits or bugs:
 > idb@ibt.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de
 >
 > ===============================
 >
 > ____________________
 > Ingo de Boer

Thanks a lot for your update, I installed it as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Jul  4 07:19:38 1998
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 12:08:02 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- viiptart

moshe zadka writes:

> (a) I uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk
> (b) The file viiptart.tar.gz
> (c) An article-like document class which is 7pt rather then 10pt
> (d) reccommended placement -
> CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/viiptart.tar.gz

i have installed the package in macros/latex/contrib/supported/viiptart
(i.e., i expanded the .tar.gz file).  we don't keep archive files in
contrib's two subdirectories.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

(ps, moshe -- this _is_ the second upload i've installed)

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jul  6 04:34:46 1998
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 10:17:57 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Correction of macros/latex/base/ltnews09.tex

The file

  macros/latex/base/ltnews09.tex

has been corrected by removingthe need for PostScript and/or T1 fonts.

The LaTeX Team wished to apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Rainer

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jul  6 09:48:46 1998
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 15:29:37 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- leaflet

Juergen Schlegelmilch writes:
 > Dear CTAN maintainers,
 > I have uploaded the package leaflet (in the form of the files
 > leaflet.dtx and leaflet.ins) into the /incoming directory of
 > ftp.dante.de. These files should be moved to a new directory
 > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/leaflet.
 >
 > The package leaflet offers a document class and a script. The
 > class allows to set leaflets, i.e. small hand-outs that fit on
 > a single sheet of paper which is then folded twice. While the
 > class cares for page layout and dimensions, the script rearranges
 > the pages so that they print correctly (on a Postscript printer)
 > on a single sheet.
 >
 > Thank you for your time,
 >   J�rgen Schlegelmilch

Thanks a lot for your upload. As requested, I installed the package in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/leaflet

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jul  6 09:49:58 1998
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 15:31:04 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- sfg.sty

Hanspeter Schmid writes:
 > (a) Upload to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/
 >
 > (b) Uploaded: sfg.sty (contains some documentation and an example
 >     after \endinput)
 >
 > (c) This style file defines some commands to draw signal flow graphs
 >     using LaTeX2e.  Signal flow graphs (sfg) are used by electrical
 >     and electronics engineers and graph theorists.  If you haven't
 >     heard of sfgs before, then sfg.sty is probably not useful for you.
 >
 > (d) I recommend placing sfg.sty in the directory
 >
 >     macros/latex/contrib/supported/sfg
 >
 > Cheerio, Hanspeter

Thanks a lot, I installed the file as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul  7 03:35:01 1998
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 09:24:56 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update to natbib package

P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I have just uploaded an update to natbib to the Dante incoming/natbib directory
 >
 > Can you please copy the files to macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib
 >
 > -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     14986 Jul  7 06:09 README.v68b
 > -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    179337 Jul  7 06:08 natbib.dtx
 >
 > The existing file README.v68a should be deleted.
 >
 > Thanks, Patrick

Thanks for the update, I installed it.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul  7 09:30:47 1998
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 15:00:53 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- fepslatex.ps

Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes:
 > I just put in /incoming (on ftp.dante.de) a new version of
 > fepslatex.ps, the translation in french of epslatex.ps (of Keith Reckdahl).
 > This new version fixes some typos and bad page breaks.
 >
 > This paper describes inclusion of graphics and placement of floats
 > (figures and tables) in LaTeX documents.
 >
 > Please replace the file in tex-info/info/fepslatex.ps
 >
 > Thanks and best regards,
 >
 > Jean-Pierre Drucbert

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul  8 04:19:19 1998
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 10:06:29 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - README.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I've just uploaded the file README.zip to the /incoming directory
 > at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unpack the file README.ghyphen from it
 > and move it to the directory language/hyphenation/, thus replacing
 > the existent file.  This file describes the different versions
 > of German hyphenation support.
 >
 > TIA
 >
 > Walter

Thanks a lot, I installed the upgrade.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul  8 04:34:27 1998
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 10:18:43 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN uploads: achemso, chemsym, deleq, dropping, floatflt and vrsion

Mats Dahlgren writes:
 > friends,
 >
 > a few minutes ago i uploaded to the Dante CTAN server in /incoming/matsd
 > the following zip files intended at these unpacked destinations:
 >   achemso.zip      /macros/latex/contrib/supported/achemso
 >   chemsym.zip      /macros/latex/contrib/supported/chemsym
 >   deleq.zip        /macros/latex/contrib/supported/deleq
 >   dropping.zip     /macros/latex/contrib/other/dropping
 >   floatflt.zip     /macros/latex/contrib/other/floatflt
 >   vrsion.zip       /macros/latex/contrib/supported/vrsion
 > all current files in these directories are to be replaced.
 >
 > short summary of the packages' features:
 >   achemso    a LaTeX/BibTeX package for typesetting references in
 >              accordance with the American Chemical Society's
 >              guidelines.  added in this version are some new
 >              journals and updated documentation
 >   chemsym    a package for typesetting chemical symbols correctly
 >              both in math mode and in text mode.  this version is
 >              up to date with the IUPAC recommendations on names and
 >              symbols for the transfermium elements (104 - 109)
 >   deleq      package for sub-numbering of equations as well as
 >              possibility to re-use equation numbers just like the
 >              '\label' - '\ref' -construct.  mainly updated
 >              documentation.
 >   dropping   sets the first character(s) of a paragraph dropped.
 >              based on the LaTeX2.09 package 'dropcaps'. updated
 >              documentation and minor code fix.
 >   floatflt   for setting tables and figures which do not span the
 >              entire paper width.  based on the LaTeX2.09 package
 >              'floatfig'.  updated documentation.
 >   vrsion     version numbering of .dvi files.  updated documentation.
 >
 > groetjes,
 >          mats d.
 > --

Thanks a lot, I installed the upgrade.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul  8 04:31:28 1998
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 10:20:06 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- blackboard.ps

Olaf Kummer writes:
 > Dear CTAN maintainers,
 >
 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de the files
 > blackboard.ps and blackboard.tex .
 >
 > These files are a demo for the various blackboard bold
 > typeface available for TeX, namely bbm, bbold, doublestroke,
 > and the ASM msbm. The postscript file is intended as a
 > preview so that people need not install all the fonts to
 > make a choice.
 >
 > The files are public domain and unsupported.
 >
 > I suggest placing the files in the /documentation/
 > hierarchy. (They do not quite fit there, but
 > do not I know a better place.)
 >
 > Yours, Olaf Kummer

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files in

  documentation/blackboard

  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jul  8 05:41:36 1998
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 10:30:02 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: change of ip address for nfs.tex.ac.uk

we have decided to move nfs access to the uk ctan to a different
system, and therefore the ip address has changed.

this will not of course affect people who mount the archive using the
correct cname.  people who attempt to mount the archive using an old
numeric ip address, or a cname other than nfs.tex.ac.uk will
experience rejections.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From davidc@NAG.CO.UK Thu Jul  9 05:23:06 1998
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 10:05:30 +0100
From: David Carlisle <davidc@NAG.CO.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: calc.dtx in 1998/06/01 latex tools release

Unfortunately a small error crept into this file in the release last
week. calc.dtx has been updated on ftp.tex.ac.uk. Other ctan sites and
mirrors will update in due course.

If you have this version of calc:

          [1998/06/07 v4.1a Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)]

Please obtain a new calc.dtx from
tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/tools/calc.dtx
which should have the following version info:

  [1998/07/07 v4.1b Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)]

and then regenerate calc.sty by running tex on tools.ins.

Sorry for this inconvenience and special apologies to
Kresten Krab Thorup and Frank Jensen who were responsible for this
package, but not responsible for introducing this bug.

David Carlisle
LaTeX3 Project

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jul  9 07:58:50 1998
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 13:35:51 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- egplot

Probst, Axel writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I've uploaded to
 >
 >         ftp.dante.de in the directory /incoming
 >
 > the file
 >
 >         egplot.tgz
 >
 > which contains
 >
 > egplot.dtx
 > egplot.ins
 > manual.ps.gz
 >
 > egplot allows to encapsulate gnuplot commands in the LaTeX
 > source and the inclusion of the figures that are generated with
 > gnuplot.
 >
 > I recommend placing the files in
 >
 > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/egplot
 >
 > This revision of egplot allows the specification of the gnuplot
 > version that will be used to process the generated files. This is
 > necessary to make the package work with the official version of
 > gnuplot.
 >
 >
 > Thanx
 > Axel

Thanks, I installed the upgrade
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Jul 11 11:15:59 1998
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 15:53:58 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- csx.zip

anshuman pandey wrote (some time ago):

> I've uploaded a file csx.zip into the incoming directory on the Aston
> server. The file contains various fonts and documentation for the CS/CSX
> 8-bit input encoding. The contents of this file are to replace the
> all existing files in the directory fonts/csx/. The file has stored
> pathnames.

anshuman's original upload contained the free adobe utopia stuff.  in
the light of the warnings on adobe's site (see my witterings passim on
ctan-ann and comp.text.tex), i have (with anshuman's agreement)
removed that part of his upload.  i have not removed the stuff he
included for bitstream charter, since i can find no comparable threat
to convert me to an alien issued by bitstream.  (this failure to
frighten myself may, of course, merely be due to my inferior net-
surfing capabilities.)

otherwise, i have installed the replacement csx material as ansuman
suggested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jul 13 08:35:45 1998
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:17:58 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- jura.cls

Felix Braun writes:
 > Hi all,
 > ~~~~~~~
 > I just uploaded the latest update of my jura.cls to
 >
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/jura/
 >
 > the files in that directory should replace those that are already in
 > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/jura/
 >
 > The class is basically intended for papers at German law schools, however
 > it also includes the package alphanum.sty that allows alphanumeric section
 > numbering which may be useful for other people. The main documentation is
 > in German, however this release also includes some documentation in
 > English. Any coments would be greatly appreciated.
 >
 > Bye ... Felix

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jul 17 12:30:52 1998
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 17:16:46 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- default.sty

Zhuhan Jiang writes:

> This is to let you know that I have uploaded a TeX style file
> "default.sty" at
>   ftp.tex.ac.uk  /incoming/default.sty
> "default.sty" is a style file that can help provide default parameters
> to TeX macros. It has also a built-in general purpose stack facility.
> An example is made for placing a box at arbitrary position.
>
> A most suitable place for default.sty would be /macros/general.

i installed the file as macros/generic/default.sty

thank you very much for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 21 08:39:02 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:12:14 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- shorttoc

Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes:

 > I have uploaded in /incoming (on ftp.dante.de) a new
 > package ``shorttoc'' (file shorttoc.tar). Please could you
 > install it in:
 >     tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/shorttoc
 >
 > There are 2 files: shorttoc.ins and shorttoc.dtx. Package installation
 > and documentation by LaTeX'ing these two files respectively.
 >
 > Abstract:
 > The ``shorttoc'' package allows to create another table of contents,
 > with a different depth. This could be useful in large documents where a
 > detailed table of contents should be accompanied by a shorter one, giving
 > only a general overview of the main topics in the document.

Thanks, I installed it as suggested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 21 08:40:23 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:18:40 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- marvosym (update)

Thomas Henlich writes:
 > Hello CTAN team,
 >
 > a) package uploaded to:
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming
 >
 > b) file uploaded:
 > marvosym.tar.gz
 >
 > c) overview:
 > update / bug fixes to original version
 > Please delete /pub/tex/fonts/psfonts/marvosym/* first.
 >
 > The Martin Vogels Symbole (marvosym) font is a Type 1 font.
 > The marvosym style file lets you use this font in LaTeX2e documents.
 >
 > The font contains
 > - the Euro currency symbol as defined by the European commission
 > - Euro currency symbols in typefaces Times, Helvetica and Courier
 > - Symbols fur structural engineering
 > - Symbols for steel cross-sections
 > - Astronomy signs (Sun, Moon, planets)
 > - The 12 signs of the zodiac
 > - Scissor symbols
 > - a CE sign
 > and others.
 >
 > File list:
 > README.1st      overview of what this package is
 > astro.README    symbolic link to README.1st (for searching purposes)
 > euro.README     symbolic link to README.1st (for searching purposes)
 > fmvr8x.tfm      TeX font metric file for the marvosym font
 > marvodoc.ps     The documentation for the marvosym package
 > marvodoc.tex    The source of the documentation
 > marvosym.afm    Type 1 font metric file for the marvosym font
 > marvosym.pfb    Type 1 font
 > marvosym.sty    The marvosym style file for LaTeX2e
 > zodiac.README   symbolic link to README.1st (for searching purposes)
 > PROBLEMS        describes some problems and their solutions
 >
 > d) to be placed in:
 > /pub/tex/fonts/psfonts/marvosym
 >
 > Regards
 > --
 > Thomas Henlich

Thanks a lot, I installed the upgrade.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 21 08:39:02 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:22:11 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update to natbib and aguplus

P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I have updated my packages natbib and aguplus, putting the new files
 > in the incoming directory of the Dante CTAN server.
 >
 > /incoming/natbib
 > drwxrwxr-x   2 Mr.Ftp   server       512 Jul 14 13:04 .
 > drwxrwxrwt   9 Mr.Ftp   server      1024 Jul 17 05:38 ..
 > -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     15183 Jul 14 13:04 README.v68c
 > -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server    180483 Jul 14 13:04 natbib.dtx
 >
 > /incoming/aguplus
 > drwxrwxr-x   2 ftp      ftp          512 Jul 17 05:39 .
 > drwxrwxrwt   9 Mr.Ftp   server      1024 Jul 17 05:38 ..
 > -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     42868 Jul 17 05:39 aguplus.cls
 > -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     40369 Jul 17 05:39 aguplus.sty
 > -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     44466 Jul 17 05:39 aguplus.tex
 > -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      5647 Jul 17 05:38 changes.v15f
 >
 > Could you please transfer them to the corresponding directories
 > under /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported
 >
 > The old files README.v68b and changes.v15e should be deleted.

Thanks a lot, I installed the updates.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 21 08:51:35 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:36:03 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- underscore.sty

Donald Arseneau writes:
 > I've uploaded underscore.sty to /incoming on ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > I guess it goes in macros/latex/contrib/other/misc.
 >
 > % underscore.sty     02-Jan-1998   Donald Arseneau   asnd@triumf.ca
 > % Make the "_" character print as "\textunderscore" in text.
 >
 > Features:
 > ~~~~~~~~~
 > \_ prints an underscore so that the hyphenation of constituent words
 > is not affected and hyphenation is permitted after the underscore.
 > For example, "compound\_fracture" hyphenates as com-pound_-frac-ture.
 >
 > _  acts just like \_ in text mode, but makes a subscript in math mode:
 > activation_energy $E_a$
 >
 > Donald Arseneau

Thanks a lot, I installed the file as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 21 08:54:02 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:39:00 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Submission -- eso-pic

Rolf Niepraschk writes:
 > I upload the archive eso-pic.zip to ftp.dante.de:/incoming.
 > The archive contains
 >
 > eso-pic.dtx
 > eso-pic.ins
 > README
 >
 > Please put all the including files in a new directory
 >
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/everyshi/contrib
 >
 > >From README:
 >
 > * eso-pic package
 > *
 > * This package makes it easy to add some picture commands to every page.
 > * A run of `tex eso-pic.ins' produces the files
 > *
 > *   eso-pic.sty    -- the LaTeX package file
 > *   eso-p-t.tex    -- a LaTeX example
 > *
 > * To produce the documentation run eso-pic.dtx through LaTeX.
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 >                Rolf Niepraschk

Thanks, I installed the files as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 21 09:03:35 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:40:45 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - german.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:

 > I've just uploaded the file german.zip to the /incoming directory
 > at ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > Please, unpack this archive to the directory
 >
 >         language/german,
 >
 > after removing all existing files from the directories
 > language/german and language/german/betatest. (Some file names
 > have been changed; other files have disppeared now.)
 >
 > This is the (new) version 2.5e of the packages
 >
 >         german.sty and ngerman.sty
 >
 > providing German language suppport for (La)TeX.  This version
 > supports the new German orthography (neue deutsche Rechtschreibung),
 > too.
 >
 > The macro packages come with comprehensive documentation in German
 > language (see the file gerdoc.dvi) and a sample configuration file
 > for the hyphenation patterns.
 >
 > Thank you
 >
 > Walter


Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jul 21 18:06:54 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 22:47:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Update -- fonts/eco

Sebastian Marius Kirsch has submitted an update to bring the fonts/eco
package to v1.2

eco fonts v1.2 -- README
========================

This is a set of font metric files and virtual fonts for using the ec fonts
with oldstyle numerals. This font family is called eco fonts. (No pun
intended.)

It can only be used together with the standard ec fonts. (European Computer
Modern fonts by J"org Knappen <knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de>,
CTAN:/fonts/ec)

It consists of:
 - .tfm files for use by TeX in new Cork encoding
 - .vf (virtual font) files for dvi drivers
 - .fd (font definition) files for use with LaTeX2e
 - eco.sty style file which loads the T1 encoding and sets the family defaults
   for eco fonts.
 - create.sh (Bourne shell script) which reproduces the whole font family.
   *DO NOT RUN THIS SCRIPT* if you don't know exactly what you're doing! It
   is only provided as a sample of how to produce such a font family and it
   *NOT* needed for normal operation.

The .tfm files of the eco fonts were produced using the original .tfm files of
the ec fonts from CTAN.

eco.sty is sufficient to use the eco fonts, but if you intend to use other
font families as well, eg. PostScript fonts, I recommend that you try the
altfont package, from CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/altfont.

Because some of the filenames have more than 8 characters, I am afraid that
the package is unusable with MS-DOG.

Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 Sebastian Marius Kirsch <skirsch@t-online.de>

=====

eco fonts v1.2 -- CHANGES
=========================

v1.1 (1998/06/04):
-       Fixed a fairly nasty spacing error:
        fontinst doesn't use the \fontdimens from the .pl files it reads in,
        but uses its own standard values instead; this can lead to inferior
        typesetting quality in some cases.
        dostretch.mtx fixes this problem.
        Thanks to Rowland <rebecca@astrid.u-net.com> for spotting this
        problem and to Alan Jeffrey <ajeffrey@cs.depaul.edu> for providing
        a fix.
v1.2 (1998/07/19):
-       Added INSTALL. Funny, I never really thought of writing an
        installation guide.
-       New command \newstylenums{} in eco.sty (analogous to \oldstylenums{}.)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jul 24 08:20:59 1998
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:03:20 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- New Version of Georgian Fonts

Johannes Heinecke writes:

 > I have just uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/mxed-3.2.tar.gz a new
 > version of the Georgian fonts `Mxedruli'.  This new version contains
 > the .mf sources of the unchanged mxedruli Alphabet and additionaly
 > both variants Xucuri-Alphabet.
 >
 > There is also an updated version of the documentation,
 > some examples of the usage of these fonts, style files and .fd files
 > to use the fonts together with NFSS2.
 >
 > I have not included .tfm and .pk files since most TeX-distributions
 > are able to generate these on the fly.
 >
 > I suggest that you delete everything in the directory
 >    /pub/tex/fonts/georgian/mxedruli
 >
 > before installing the package there.

Thanks I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jul 27 04:38:30 1998
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:21:11 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lw35nfsx.zip

Y&Y, Inc. writes:
 > Hi:
 >
 > I just uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file lw35nfsx.zip
 >
 > This is LaTeX PSNFSS support for the 35 printer resident font
 > using LY1 (TeX 'n ANSI) text font encoding.  It uses Berry names.
 >
 > This is similar to the existing lw35nfss.zip support using T1/TS1.
 > It is just much simpler, lw35nfsx.zip is about 150k bytes, while
 > lw35nfss.zip is about 800 kbytes.
 > It includes needed additions to DVIPS's psfonts.map, TFM metric
 > files for TeX, FD font definition files and STY files for LaTeX.
 > For convenience the  PSNFSS LY1 support files are also included.
 >
 > I think this could go where lw35nfss.zip lives not, namely /fonts/psfonts.
 >
 > Thank you,
 >
 > Berthold K.P. Horn

Thanks a lot, I installed the file as suggested.

  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jul 27 13:46:42 1998
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:34:48 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- eurosymbol-1.0.tar.gz

Henrik Theiling writes:

> I just submitted my new Euro symbol package to ftp.tex.ac.uk into the
> incoming directory.  The file name is eurosymbol-1.0.tar.gz.
>
> The package is indented to be used with LaTeX to access the new
> European currency symbol for the `Euro'.  It is implemented in
> Metafont, thus needing no additional PostScript fonts, using the
> official European Commission dimensions and provides several shapes
> (normal, slanted, bold, outline).
>
> The package also includes a LaTeX style file which defines the macro
> \euro{}, pre-compiled .tfm files and documentation.
>
> I suggest the installation in the path fonts/eurosymbol-1.0.

i've installed the package in fonts/eurosymbol

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul 29 05:50:38 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:25:17 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- apa.cls v1.2

Athanassios Protopapas writes:
 > I have just uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file apa.tar.gz
 > which contains the following:
 >
 > apa/README
 > apa/apa.cls
 > apa/apacls.txt
 > apa/apaenum.txt
 > apa/examples.tex
 >
 > This is an upgrade for apa.cls, the LaTeX2e class for typesetting
 > documents according to the APA manual (4th ed) recommendations
 > for manuscript submission, or in an APA-journal look, or as regular
 > LaTeX documents, with the switch of a class parameter.  The current
 > version is 1.2 and is datestamped as 1998/08/01.  It replaces
 > version 1.1 of apa.cls (and accompanying documentation) currently
 > found at CTAN under
 >
 > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/apa
 >
 > Please remove all files in that directory before installing the
 > new ones because documentation files have been renamed.

Thanks, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul 29 05:51:33 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:26:38 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- updated prettyref.dtx

Kevin Ruland writes:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I've just uploaded prettyref.dtx for version 3.0.  Please replace
 > the existing file in /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/prettyref.
 >
 > The package is now compatible with hyperref and other packages.
 >
 > Kevin

Thanks, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul 29 10:55:57 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:38:31 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- winshell 1.21

Ingo de Boer writes:
 > hi...
 >
 > i uploaded a revised version of winshell into the
 >
 > incoming/winshell
 >
 > directory. please replace the files in the
 >
 > pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell
 >
 > directory.
 >
 > thanks
 >   ingo
 >
 >
 > -------------------------------------------------------------
 > WinShell for Windows 95 / NT 4.0
 >
 > Version 1.21 - 07/29/1998
 >
 > (c) Ingo de Boer, 1998
 >
 > this software is for free!
 > be free to copy and distribute!
 >
 > contact me for credits or bugs:
 > idb@ibt.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de
 >
 >
 > What is WinShell:
 > =================
 >
 > WinShell ist a graphical user interface for easy working
 > with TeX. It is NOT a TeX-System. You need an additional
 > TeX-package for DOS/Windows:
 >
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/msdos/ or
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/ (recommended)
 >
 > To make it even better you may use the ghostviewer:
 >
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/support/ghostscript/aladdin/ and
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/support/ghostscript/rjl/
 >
 > If you don't like the DVI-Viewer from the packages:
 >
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/dviware/dviwin/
 >
 >
 > What is new:
 > ============
 >
 > - Command-Line-Argument: You may open Winshell with
 >
 >     winshell -m main_tex_file -c current_tex_file -l current_line
 >
 > - Unix-files can be read. The are saved as ASCII-PC files
 >
 >
 > Features:
 > =========
 >
 > - MDI Application: multiple documents
 > - a window to show the log-file
 > - userdefined Programs
 > - configure ToolBars (Symbols, userdef. Programs, Macros)
 > - define Macros
 > - Syntax-Highlightning
 > - choose font
 > - Command-Line-Arguments
 > - Unix-files can be read.
 >
 > If i forgot to mention any features and someone finds them
 > in my program: please send a mail ;)
 >
 >
 > Installation:
 > =============
 >
 > When you read this file the program should be already
 > installed. Otherwise just run the setup.exe-file...
 >
 >
 > Your first start:
 > =================
 >
 > shouldn't make any problems. The toolbars for the little
 > helpers are tied to the menubar. They can be moved around
 > and you can show or hide them. This condition will be saved
 > when regularly leaving the program and be restored at the
 > next program start.
 >
 > The rest you'll find in 'Help index - Getting started'.
 >
 >
 > What else:
 > ==========
 >
 > There is an english Latex2e-help included taken from
 > the mikTeX-package.
 >
 >
 > happy teXing...
 >
 > ____________________
 > Ingo de Boer

Thanks a lot I installed the files.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul 29 10:55:06 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:39:11 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lw35nfsx.zip

Y&Y, Inc. writes:
 > Hi:
 >
 > Sebastian Rahtz requested changes in some file names in this package
 > in order to avoid conflict with names used in his lw35nfss.zip.
 >
 > So please replace /fonts/psfonts/lw35nfsx.zip with this revised version.
 >
 > Thanks.  Berthold.

Thanks, I installed the file.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jul 29 12:50:37 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 17:40:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- showdim.sty

Michael J Downes writes:

> I have uploaded showdim.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk. It should go into a
> directory
>
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/showdim
>
> The "showdim" package for LaTeX provides a number of commands for
> printing the value of a TeX dimension. For example,
> \tenthpt{\baselineskip} yields the current value of \baselineskip
> rounded to the nearest tenth of a point.

i've installed the package as requested

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jul 31 04:10:02 1998
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 09:57:07 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - emtextds.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Dear CTAN team,
 >
 > I have just uploaded the file emtextds.zip to the /incoming
 > directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unpack it and move its
 > contents to the directory
 >
 >         systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS
 >
 > thus overwriting the existent files.  Do not unpack the
 > files tex.zip and emtex.zip.  The file CDFS.ZIP is no
 > longer required and is to be deleted.
 >
 > This is the latest version 0.2 of an installation script and
 > a set of configuration files, drivers, local patches etc.
 > which help to install a
 >
 >         TDS-compliant emTeX system for OS/2
 >
 > from a TeXLive3-CDROM.
 >
 > Main news & changes:
 >
 > * I have fixed various bugs of the installation program.
 >
 > * The Joliet CD-ROM file system driver is no longer required.
 >
 > * More LaTeX styles (incl. AMSLaTeX and the latest
 >   n/german.sty) will be installed now.
 >
 > * Better documentation:  Both the "Installation Guide" and
 >   the "Technical Manual" have been enhanced very much and
 >   are now provided in German as well as in English.
 >
 >
 > TIA
 >
 > Walter

Thanks a lot, I installed the upgrade.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jul 31 08:12:32 1998
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:54:57 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission help/wp-conv/wp-conv.zip

Wilfried Hennings writes:
 > I uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming
 > the following file (binary mode, from isr016.isr.kfa-juelich.de):
 >
 > wp-conv.zip
 >
 > This file is intended to _replace_ my FAQ list on
 > converters between LaTeX and PC textprocessors,
 > which consisted of the files
 >   texcnven.txt
 >   texcnvde.txt
 >   texcnven.html
 > in .../tex-archive/help/wp-conv/
 >
 > As a result of my working load, from now on
 > I can supply the list ONLY IN HTML FORMAT (a copy of my www pages)
 > and ONLY IN ENGLISH (no German, sorry!)
 >
 > As the list got too long, I divided it into
 > three main pages and a lot of detailed descriptions,
 > so it now consists of 34 files.
 > I therefore recommend you just store the one zip file
 > and not put all those individual files there.
 > Anyone who wants to look at the files just needs to
 > unzip it in a directory of her/his choice.
 >
 > If necessary (let me know), I could also supply a .tar.gz file.

Thanks for your new version, I installed it in

   help/wp-conv/wp-conv.zip

For the CTAN Team
  Raienr Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jul 31 10:35:43 1998
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:11:55 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LilyPond

Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:
 > I uploaded LilyPond 1.0 to ftp.dante.de.  Suggested location:
 > /tex/support/lilypond.  Older versions of LilyPond may be deleted.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Aug  3 06:52:11 1998
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 11:35:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: russian translation of short introduction to latex2e

Boris Tobotras has translated Tobias Oetiker's `not so short
introduction to latex2e' into russian.

he suggested that it would be good to make this russian version
available via ctan, and i agreed.  i have installed it in
info/rulshort; there are .tar.gz and .zip files of the sources, and
two compressed postscript files of the processed document.

this is merely a preliminary installation of the directory, but boris
and i hope that it will be useful to the latex-using, russian-
speaking, population.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug  4 04:05:14 1998
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 09:51:48 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ithyph.tex update

Claudio Beccari writes:
 > I just uploaded in /incoming an update of the file ithyph.tex containing
 > the hyphenation patterns for the italian language. It should replace the
 > existing one in  /tex-archive/languages/italian.
 >
 > Thank you
 >
 > Claudio Beccari

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug  4 04:09:26 1998
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 09:57:34 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- Type 1 versions of manfnt and xipaXX

Taco Hoekwater writes:
 > Hello Rainer, everybody else,
 >
 > I have just uploaded three new zip files to Dante's incoming
 > directory. All three will unzip into the directory structure
 > ps-type1/hoekwater/{afm;pfm}.
 >
 > Contents of the files and desired base locations:
 >
 > wasy.zip (unzip in fonts/wasy2)
 >         Contains updated wasy10.pfb: double note character fixed.
 >
 > xipa.zip (unzip in fonts/tipa/beta0624)
 >         Contains pfb versions of the
 >         five xipaXXXX fonts (10, b10, bx10, sl10, ss10).
 >
 > manfnt.zip (unzip in fonts/cm/utilityfonts/manualfonts)
 >         Contains manfnt.pfb.
 >
 > Thanks to Rainer (beforehand) for installing the files, and the rest
 > of you have fun using the fonts.
 >
 > Greetings,
 >
 > Taco

Thanks a lot, I installed the files.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug  4 08:24:52 1998
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 13:03:41 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ISO-Latin patch to dvi2tty

Simo Nikula writes:

> I have uploaded file dvi2tty-latin1.patch to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming
>
> Purpose of this patch is to allow full latin1 charcter-set to be output.
>
> File should be added to dvi2tty directory dviware/dvi2tty.

i have installed the file as you suggest.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug  4 10:14:17 1998
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 15:57:48 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LGrind 3.51 bugfix

Michael Piefel writes:

 > I uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file lg.zip containing
 >  lgrindef
 >  source/Makefile
 >  source/lgrind.c
 >  source/lgutil.c
 > which should replace the files of the same name in support/lgrind.
 > This is a mere bugfix without added functionality.
 > Regards,
 > --
 > |=| Michael Piefel                                                     \

Thanks, I installed the upgrade.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug  4 10:47:58 1998
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 15:39:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ruhyphen package (collection of Russian hyphenation files)

Vladimir Volovich writes:

> we prepared a ruhyphen package, which contains a collection of Russian
> hyphenation files. The package contains all Russian patterns we know
> of, and supports a number of Cyrillic font encodings, -- T2, UCY
> (Omega Unicode Cyrillic), LCY, LWN (OT2), koi8-r. Support for other
> encodings can be added easily. :-)
>
> The package was uploaded to
>
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/ruhyphen-980804.tar.gz
>
> MD5 sum:
>
> 84d9b5ffb20932aa6c105283e99dd1f6  ruhyphen-980804.tar.gz
>
> The README file containing installation and usage instructions is
> included into the tarball.
>
> The idea of this package was to create a unified support of all
> Cyrillic font encodings, and also have various Russian patterns in one
> place. So, it is meant to replace the current Russian hyphenation
> stuff on CTAN.
>
> The following stuff is definitely obsoleted by the ruhyphen package:
>
> CTAN:language/hyphenation/ruhyph.tex (symlink)
> CTAN:language/russian/ --- the whole directory, which contains:
>   ruhyph.tex
>   suhyph.tex
>   ashyphen/ directory with ashyphen patterns.
>
> I.e., the directory CTAN:language/russian/ can be removed, as well as
> the symlink CTAN:language/hyphenation/ruhyph.tex.
>
> There are also some other Russian hyphenation files lying here and
> there on CTAN, --- namely, search for rhyphen.tex. I'll write about
> these files soon in a separate letter (whether they can be removed :-).
>
> The suggested location of the ruhyphen package is
> CTAN:language/hyphenation/ruhyphen/ (by analogy with
> CTAN:language/hyphenation/dkhyphen/).

i've done all you suggested:

 new directory    language/hyphenation/ruhyphen
 delete directory language/russian
 delete           language/hyphenation/ruhyph.tex

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug  4 10:56:28 1998
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 15:41:48 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- aiaa latex package v2.1 update

bil kleb writes:

> according to the instructions in README.uploads:
>
>      site uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk
>      file uploaded as: incoming/aiaa.tar.gz
>        brief overview: a package of LaTeX/BibTeX files and sample documents
>                        to aid those producing papers and journal articles
>                        according to the guidelines of the American Institute
>                        of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) (aug 1998)
>    suggested location: macros/latex/contrib/supported
>              [version: 2.1 (04 aug 98)]
>
> the gnu-zipped tar file unpacks into its own directory, named `aiaa'
> with a supplemental subdirectory tree named `demos'.  you should remove
> all trace of the previous version before installing.

all done ... a new aiaa package is released on an unsuspecting world.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug  4 11:33:46 1998
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 17:23:06 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- karnaugh.tar.gz

Andreas W. Wieland writes:
 > Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
 >
 > ich habe Ihnen soeben das Paket karnaugh.tar.gz auf Ihren FTP-Server
 > �berspielt.
 >
 > also (siehe README.uploads):
 >
 > (a) ftp.dante.de
 >
 > (b) karnaugh.tar.gz
 >
 > (c) diese Datei enthaelt die Dateien
 >         kvmacros.tex, ein Makropaket, und
 >         kvdoc.dvi, eine kleine Anleitung in englischer Sprache dazu.
 >
 > Diese makros dienen dazu, Karnaugh-Veitch-Diagramme in sehr einfacher
 > Weise zu setzen, was aeusserst arbeitserleichternd wirken kann.
 > KV-Diagramme werden u.a. benutzt, um logische Funktionen "von Hand" zu
 > minimieren. Diese Diagramme koennen bis zu neun BOOLEsche Variable
 > enthalten. Fuer Details lesen Sie bitte kvdoc.dvi.
 >
 > (d) Ich bin mir nicht sicher, wo die Makros genau untergebracht werden
 > sollten. Ich habe mir vorhin einen kurzen Ueberblick ueber Ihren
 > FTP-Server verschafft und denke, dass sie vielleicht unter
 > /makros/latex/contrib/other/karnaugh.tar.gz
 > untergebracht werden sollten. Stoeren Sie sich aber bitte nicht an
 > meiner Meinung, ich denke, dass Sie sich auf Ihrem Server weitaus besser
 > auskennen.
 >
 > Falls Sie Fragen, Anmerkungen oder Verbesserungsvorschlaege haben,
 > schicken Sie mir bitte eine eMail oder rufen Sie einfach an.
 >
 > Mit freundlichem Gruss,
 >
 > Andreas Wolfgang Wieland

Thanks a lot for your submission, I installed the files in

   macros/latex/contrib/other/karnaugh

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Aug  5 04:31:15 1998
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 09:18:25 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- sectsty v1.4

R&R writes:

> Uploaded to:
> <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/sectsty-this_one/>
>
> Files:
> sectsty.dtx
> sectsty.ins
>
> Description:
> Sectsty is a LaTeX2e package to help you change the style of any or all of
> LaTeX's  sectional headers in the article, book, or report classes.  The
> titlesec package offers an alternative approach.  The current version (1.4)
> of sectsty adds the ability to underline sectional headers.
>
> Destination:
> This new version of sectsty should replace the version currently on CTAN at:
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/sectsty/sectsty.dtx
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/sectsty/sectsty.ins

i've installed the files as suggested

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Aug  5 04:49:53 1998
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 09:42:00 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- devnag.zip

anshuman pandey writes:

> I've uploaded the file devnag.zip to the incoming directory on
> ftp.tex.ac.uk. Please place the contents of this file into the
> directory language/devanagari/distrib/ after having first removed
> the older files.

i've installed the files as requested.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Aug  6 11:16:06 1998
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 16:55:24 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lw35nfsx.zip

Y&Y, Inc. writes:

 > revised (again) lw35nfsx.zip
 >
 > Ulrik Vieth pointed out that some of the *.fd files have inapprorpiate
 > references to fontinst.  These have been removed in this `revision'.
 > The rest (other than the readme file) is the same.
 >
 > > as I have seen from lw35nfsx.zip, your ly1<fam>.fd files start
 > > with a header claiming that they were generated using fontinst,
 > > although I strongly suspect that they were actually generated
 > > by editing t1<fam>.fd files and forgetting to do some clean up.
 >
 > Correct suspicion :-)
 > The whole point was not to need to use that complex machinery.
 >
 > Thanks.

Thanks, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Aug  6 11:14:50 1998
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 16:58:59 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Update -- units

Axel Reichert writes:

 > I have uploaded
 >
 >   units.tar.gz
 >
 > to
 >
 >   ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > It contains two packages for typesetting nice fractions and physical
 > units. This new version fixes a serious bug. I am sorry for the
 > inconvenience and recommend all users to upgrade.
 >
 > Please supersede the files in
 >
 >   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/units
 >
 > Happy TeXing!

Thanks, I installed the update.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Aug  8 06:37:07 1998
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 11:27:26 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - CMacTeX

Tom Kiffe writes:

> I have uploaded version 3.1 of CMacTeX to the /incoming/cmactex directory
> on ftp.tex.ac.uk. These files should be placed in the directory
> /tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex. All files and folders currently in that
> directory should be deleted. Omega and pdftex now are an integral part of
> CMacTeX and do not need a separate directory.

i've installed this new version as suggested.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Aug 10 09:14:58 1998
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:23:50 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- Prelim2e v1.21

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf


Martin Schroeder writes:

 > I have uploaded to the incoming dir of
 >         ftp.dante.de
 > the file
 >         prelim2e.zip
 > containing Version 1.21 of the prelim2e LaTeX package.
 >
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 >  Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name ("^" ==> case
 >  ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----   conversion)
 >     505  Defl:X     410  19%  09-08-98  20:45  a09d0ede   prelim2e.asc
 >     418  Defl:X     258  38%  09-08-98  20:44  461379aa   prelim2e.bug
 >   20559  Defl:X    5799  72%  09-08-98  20:44  598a47b2   prelim2e.dtx
 >   27380  Defl:X    8616  69%  09-08-98  20:44  0ea89033   prelim2e.dvi
 >    3990  Defl:X    1396  65%  09-08-98  20:44  91fa966b   prelim2e.ins
 >  ------          ------  ---                              -------
 >   52852           16479  69%                              5 files
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > - From the documentation:
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 > %% \iffalse meta-comment
 > %% ===================================================================
 > %%  @LaTeX-package-file{
 > %%    author            = {Martin Schr\"oder},
 > %%    version           = "1.21",
 > %%    date              = "9 August 1998",
 > %%    filename          = "prelim2e.sty",
 > %%    address           = {Martin Schr\"oder
 > %%                         Cr\"usemannallee 3
 > %%                         D-28213 Bremen},
 > %%    telephone         = "+49-421-2239425",
 > %%    email             = "Martin.Schroeder@ACM.org",
 > %%    pgp-Key           = "2048 bit / KeyID 292814E5",
 > %%    pgp-fingerprint   = "7E86 6EC8 97FA 2995 82C3  FEA5 2719 090E",
 > %     checksum          = "40530 606 2275 19953",
 > %     codetable         = "ISO/ASCII",
 > %     keywords          = "LaTeX2e, preliminary versions, versions",
 > %     dependences       = "everyshi, scrtime",
 > %     supported         = "yes",
 > %%    docstring         = "LaTeX package which allows the marking of
 > %%                         preliminary versions of a document.
 > %
 > %                          The checksum field above contains a CRC-16
 > %                          checksum as the first value, followed by
 > %                          the equivalent of the standard UNIX wc
 > %                          (word count) utility output of lines,
 > %                          words, and characters.  This is produced
 > %                          by Robert Solovay's checksum utility."
 > %%  }
 > %% ===================================================================
 > %% \fi
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The only change from version 1.20 are some documentation
 > enhancements.
 >
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 >   \item v1.21\efill
 >  \subitem General:\ Documentation improved\pfill 1
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The files should be placed in
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms
 > and the directory
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/prelim2e
 > should be deleted.

 > I have uploaded to the incoming dir of
 >         ftp.dante.de
 > the file
 >         multitoc.zip
 > containing Version 1.00 of the multitoc LaTeX package.
 >
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 >  Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name ("^" ==> case
 >  ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----   conversion)
 >     505  Defl:X     410  19%  09-08-98  21:35  a76c4285   multitoc.asc
 >     410  Defl:X     253  38%  09-08-98  01:59  2e4e5de3   multitoc.bug
 >   16665  Defl:X    5203  69%  09-08-98  21:33  4aa7c7ec   multitoc.dtx
 >   19412  Defl:X    6685  66%  09-08-98  21:34  371262aa   multitoc.dvi
 >    3936  Defl:X    1379  65%  09-08-98  21:33  6aa026f5   multitoc.ins
 >  ------          ------  ---                              -------
 >   40928           13930  66%                              5 files
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > - From the documentation:
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 > %% \iffalse meta-comment
 > %% ===================================================================
 > %%  @LaTeX-style-file{
 > %%     author          = {Martin Schr\"oder},
 > %%     version         = "1.00",
 > %%     date            = "9 August 1998",
 > %%     filename        = "multitoc.sty",
 > %%     address         = {Martin Schr\"oder
 > %%                        Cr\"usemannallee 3
 > %%                        D-28213 Bremen
 > %%     telephone       = "+49-421-2239425",
 > %%     email           = "Martin.Schroeder@ACM.org",
 > %%     pgp-Key         = "2048 bit / KeyID 292814E5",
 > %%     pgp-fingerprint = "7E86 6EC8 97FA 2995 82C3  FEA5 2719 090E",
 > %      checksum        = "56272 474 1878 16191",
 > %      codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
 > %      keywords        = "LaTeX, multicol, toc, lof, lot",
 > %      dependences     = "multicol",
 > %      supported       = "yes",
 > %%     docstring       = "LaTeX package which automatically sets only
 > %%                        the table of contents, list of figures and list
 > %%                        of tables in two or more columns.
 > %%                        The number of columns can be configured.
 > %%                        Uses the multicol package.
 > %
 > %                         The checksum field above contains a CRC-16
 > %                         checksum as the first value, followed by
 > %                         the equivalent of the standard UNIX wc
 > %                         (word count) utility output of lines,
 > %                         words, and characters.  This is produced
 > %                         by Robert Solovay's checksum utility."
 > %%  }
 > %% ===================================================================
 > %% \fi
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The files should be placed in
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms

 > I have uploaded to the incoming dir of
 >         ftp.dante.de
 > the file
 >         ragged2e.zip
 > containing Version 1.01 of the Ragged2e LaTeX package.
 >
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 >  Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name ("^" ==> case
 >  ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----   conversion)
 >     413  Defl:X     255  38%  09-08-98  21:59  8a6c02a4   ragged2e.bug
 >   36711  Defl:X    8966  76%  09-08-98  22:05  7c6544da   ragged2e.dtx
 >   48552  Defl:X   14813  70%  09-08-98  22:07  bc332bdd   ragged2e.dvi
 >    3966  Defl:X    1376  65%  09-08-98  22:05  a6ba799e   ragged2e.ins
 >     505  Defl:X     411  19%  09-08-98  22:07  d8acc960   ragged2e.asc
 >  ------          ------  ---                              -------
 >   90147           25821  71%                              5 files
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > - From the documentation:
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 > %% \iffalse meta-comment
 > %% ===================================================================
 > %%  @LaTeX-style-file{
 > %%     author          = {Martin Schr\"oder},
 > %%     version         = "1.01",
 > %%     date            = "9 August 1998",
 > %%     filename        = "ragged2e.sty",
 > %%     address         = {Martin Schr\"oder
 > %%                        Cr\"usemannallee 3
 > %%                        D-28213 Bremen
 > %%     telephone       = "+49-421-2239425",
 > %%     email           = "Martin.Schroeder@ACM.org",
 > %%     pgp-Key         = "2048 bit / KeyID 292814E5",
 > %%     pgp-fingerprint = "7E86 6EC8 97FA 2995 82C3  FEA5 2719 090E",
 > %      checksum        = "39427 1023 3827 35688",
 > %      codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
 > %      keywords        = "Raggedright",
 > %      dependences     = "everysel",
 > %      supported       = "yes",
 > %%     docstring       = "LaTeX package which defines new commands
 > %%                        \Centering, \RaggedLeft, and \RaggedRight
 > %%                        and new environments Center, FlushLeft, and
 > %%                        FlushRight, which set ragged text and are
 > %%                        easily configurable to allow hyphenation.
 > %%                        Uses the everysel package.
 > %
 > %                         The checksum field above contains a CRC-16
 > %                         checksum as the first value, followed by
 > %                         the equivalent of the standard UNIX wc
 > %                         (word count) utility output of lines,
 > %                         words, and characters.  This is produced
 > %                         by Robert Solovay's checksum utility.
 > %%                       "
 > %%  }
 > %% ===================================================================
 > %% \fi
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The only change from version 1.00 are some documentation
 > enhancements.
 >
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 >   \item v1.01\efill
 >  \subitem General:\ Documentation improved\pfill 1
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The files should be placed in
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms
 > and the directory
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ragged2e
 > should be deleted.

 > I have uploaded to the incoming dir of
 >         ftp.dante.de
 > the file
 >         count1to.zip
 > containing Version 1.20 of the count1to LaTeX package.
 >
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 >  Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name ("^" ==> case
 >  ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----   conversion)
 >     505  Defl:X     413  18%  09-08-98  21:09  6080554d   count1to.asc
 >     642  Defl:X     379  41%  09-08-98  21:08  8d5fab56   count1to.bug
 >   20596  Defl:X    6785  67%  09-08-98  21:08  dec5fcd8   count1to.dtx
 >   25896  Defl:X    8941  66%  09-08-98  21:09  664e7a8c   count1to.dvi
 >    3916  Defl:X    1380  65%  09-08-98  21:08  93480f12   count1to.ins
 >  ------          ------  ---                              -------
 >   51555           17898  65%                              5 files
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 > - From the documentation:
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 > %% \iffalse meta-comment
 > %% ===================================================================
 > %%  @LaTeX-style-file{
 > %%     author          = {Martin Schr\"oder},
 > %%     version         = "1.20",
 > %%     date            = "9 August 1998",
 > %%     filename        = "count1to.sty",
 > %%     address         = {Martin Schr\"oder
 > %%                        Cr\"usemannallee 3
 > %%                        D-28213 Bremen
 > %%     telephone       = "+49-421-2239425",
 > %%     email           = "Martin.Schroeder@ACM.org",
 > %%     pgp-Key         = "2048 bit / KeyID 292814E5",
 > %%     pgp-fingerprint = "7E86 6EC8 97FA 2995 82C3  FEA5 2719 090E",
 > %      checksum        = "03327 519 2436 20077",
 > %      codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
 > %      keywords        = "LaTeX, pages",
 > %      supported       = "yes",
 > %%     docstring       = "LaTeX package which sets count1 to count9,
 > %%                        which can be used to select certain pages
 > %%                        with a driver.
 > %%                        Also provides access to the number of pages
 > %%                        of the document.
 > %%                        Uses the everyshi package.
 > %
 > %                         The checksum field above contains a CRC-16
 > %                         checksum as the first value, followed by
 > %                         the equivalent of the standard UNIX wc
 > %                         (word count) utility output of lines,
 > %                         words, and characters.  This is produced
 > %                         by Robert Solovay's checksum utility."
 > %%  }
 > %% ===================================================================
 > %% \fi
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The main change from version 1.20 is the correction of a small bug
 > which came from the use of the ifthen package.
 >
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 >   \item v1.20\efill
 >  \subitem \verb*+\@countItoIX@bugfix+:\ don't use \textsf  {ifthen}\pfill 4
 >     \subitem \verb*+\@countItoIX@ifs+:\ don't use \textsf  {ifthen}\pfill 3
 >     \subitem \verb*+\@countItoIX@shipout+:\ don't use \textsf  {ifthen}\pfill 4
 >     \subitem General:\ \cs  {newif} again\pfill 3
 >       \subsubitem Documentation improved\pfill 1
 >       \subsubitem don't require \textsf  {ifthen}\pfill 3
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The files should be placed in
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms
 > and the directory
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/count1to
 > should be deleted.

 > I have uploaded to the incoming dir of
 >         ftp.dante.de
 > the file
 >         everysel.zip
 > containing Version 1.02 of the everysel LaTeX package.
 >
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 >  Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name ("^" ==> case
 >  ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----   conversion)
 >     471  Defl:X     384  19%  09-08-98  21:17  b3c6ae7d   everysel.asc
 >   14131  Defl:X    4512  68%  09-08-98  21:17  42c67ada   everysel.dtx
 >   15820  Defl:X    5636  64%  09-08-98  21:17  4e57617c   everysel.dvi
 >    3975  Defl:X    1407  65%  09-08-98  21:17  25fb443e   everysel.ins
 >     418  Defl:X     258  38%  09-08-98  21:17  58a41dbb   everysel.bug
 >  ------          ------  ---                              -------
 >   34815           12197  65%                              5 files
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > - From the documentation:
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 > % \iffalse meta-comment
 > %% ====================================================================
 > %%  @LaTeX-style-file{
 > %%     author          = {Martin Schr\"oder},
 > %%     version         = "1.02",
 > %%     date            = "9 August 1998",
 > %%     filename        = "everysel.sty",
 > %%     address         = {Martin Schr\"oder
 > %%                        Cr\"usemannallee 3
 > %%                        D-28213 Bremen},
 > %%     telephone       = "+49-421-2239425",
 > %%     email           = "Martin.Schroeder@ACM.org",
 > %%     pgp-Key         = "2048 bit / KeyID 292814E5",
 > %%     pgp-fingerprint = "7E86 6EC8 97FA 2995 82C3  FEA5 2719 090E",
 > %      checksum        = "06457 414 1509 13717",
 > %      codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
 > %      keywords        = "LaTeX, NFSS",
 > %      supported       = "yes",
 > %%     docstring       = "LaTeX package which provides hooks into
 > %%                        \cs{selectfont}.
 > %
 > %                         The checksum field above contains a CRC-16
 > %                         checksum as the first value, followed by
 > %                         the equivalent of the standard UNIX wc
 > %                         (word count) utility output of lines,
 > %                         words, and characters.  This is produced
 > %                         by Robert Solovay's checksum utility."
 > %%  }
 > %% ====================================================================
 > %% \fi
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The only change from version 1.01 are some small documentation
 > enhancements.
 >
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 >   \item v1.02\efill
 >  \subitem General:\ Minor documentation enhancements\pfill 1
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The files should be placed in
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms
 > and the directory
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/everysel
 > should be deleted.

 > I have uploaded to the incoming dir of
 >         ftp.dante.de
 > the file
 >         everyshi.zip
 > containing Version 2.02 of the everyshi LaTeX package.
 >
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 >  Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name ("^" ==> case
 >  ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----   conversion)
 >     505  Defl:X     412  18%  09-08-98  21:27  87e1b075   everyshi.asc
 >     418  Defl:X     258  38%  09-08-98  16:56  461379aa   everyshi.bug
 >   12774  Defl:X    4346  66%  09-08-98  21:25  4da8150d   everyshi.dtx
 >   14400  Defl:X    5244  64%  09-08-98  21:26  af4a05d6   everyshi.dvi
 >    3925  Defl:X    1392  65%  09-08-98  21:25  7f133e3d   everyshi.ins
 >  ------          ------  ---                              -------
 >   32022           11652  64%                              5 files
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > - From the documentation:
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 > %% \iffalse meta-comment
 > %% ===================================================================
 > %%  @LaTeX-package-file{
 > %%     author          = {Martin Schr\"oder},
 > %%     version         = "2.02",
 > %%     date            = "9 August 1998",
 > %%     filename        = "everyshi.sty",
 > %%     address         = {Martin Schr\"oder
 > %%                        Cr\"usemannallee 3
 > %%                        D-28213 Bremen
 > %%     telephone       = "+49-421-2239425",
 > %%     email           = "Martin.Schroeder@ACM.org",
 > %%     pgp-Key         = "2048 bit / KeyID 292814E5",
 > %%     pgp-fingerprint = "7E86 6EC8 97FA 2995 82C3  FEA5 2719 090E",
 > %      checksum        = "51832 357 1434 12417",
 > %      codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
 > %      keywords        = "LaTeX2e, \shipout",
 > %      supported       = "yes",
 > %%     docstring       = "LaTeX package which defines a new hook
 > %%                        \EveryShipout.
 > %
 > %                         The checksum field above contains a CRC-16
 > %                         checksum as the first value, followed by
 > %                         the equivalent of the standard UNIX wc
 > %                         (word count) utility output of lines,
 > %                         words, and characters.  This is produced
 > %                         by Robert Solovay's checksum utility."
 > %%  }
 > %% ===================================================================
 > %% \fi
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The only change from version 2.01 are some small documentation
 > enhancements.
 >
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 >   \item v2.02\efill
 >  \subitem General:\ Documentation improved\pfill 1
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The files should be placed in
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms
 > and the directory
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/everyshi
 > should be deleted.
 >
 > The directory
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/everyshi/contrib
 > should be moved to
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms/contrib

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug 11 01:26:53 1998
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:06:03 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- tkbibtex

> ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> /incoming/tkbibtex      tcl/tk script
> /incoming/tkbibtex.1    man page
>
> biblio/bibtex/utils
>
> tkbibtex is a portable editor and browser for BibTeX format files. It is
> written in Tcl/Tk (v8) and runs under Unix or Windows based wish interpreters.
>  It supports browsing, editing, searching, and annotations.  More details are
> available at
> http://www.cat.csiro.au/dmt/programs/autom/pic/tkbibtex.html

i've installed the package, as suggested, in a directory
biblio/bibtex/utils/tkbibtex

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug 11 01:26:58 1998
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:12:44 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- eurosym-1.1.tar.gz

Henrik Theiling wrote:
> I just put eurosym-1.1.tar.gz into ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming.
>
> Eurosym is a package for typesetting the European currency symbol with
> LaTeX.  In uses Metafont to define the symbol.  Version 1.1 obsoletes
> the `eurosymbol-1.0' package I submitted last week.
>
> Version 1.1 now has a Euro symbol that conforms very closely to the
> standard and it has fixes to create a nice symbol in various sizes and
> resolutions.  Especially 300dpi and 600dpi are tested and higher
> resolutions are likely to create no problems.  Furthermore, the two
> horizontal bars are available seperately now to be able to overlay
> them with other font's C characters in case they don't provide an own
> Euro symbol.  The documentation was enhanced and the file names now
> work with DOS, too, and conform to the standard naming conventions.
>
> I suggest the installation in the fonts/eurosym directory and request
> deletion of the fonts/eurosymbol tree because that's obsolete now.

i've done all that (new fonts/eurosym directory, deleted
fonts/eurosymbol)

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From karl@CS.UMB.EDU Mon Aug 10 14:51:01 1998
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:40:03 -0400
From: Karl Berry <karl@CS.UMB.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: modes.mf 3.4 available

I have released version 3.4 of modes.mf. You can get it by anonymous ftp from

        ftp://tug.org/tex/modes.mf

and shortly from any CTAN site in /tex-archive/fonts/modes/modes-3.4.mf.
finger ctan@ctan.org for a list of all the CTAN sites and mirrors.

News:

New modes for the Phaser 560, Lexmark Optra S 1250/1650/2450,
LaserJet 4000 FastRes, and one pixel/pt output.

Various formatting glitches fixed.


As always, thanks to the many contributors, and further additions and
improvements are welcome.  Please send bug reports or suggestions to
tex-fonts@math.utah.edu (email tex-fonts-request to join).


General information:

modes.mf is a collection of Metafont mode_def's.  It also makes common
definitions for write/white printers, `special' information, and
landscape mode.  It uses up too much memory for the table sizes in the
original mf.web, so you either have to increase the sizes (as in Web2c)
or rename the file and remove unneeded modes.  I don't understand mf.web
well enough to understand how to make the modes use less memory; if some
Metafont hacker can tell me, I'd like to hear it.

If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the
existing ones, please send them to me.  Improvements to the exposition,
particularly in how to create a new mode_def, are also welcome.

kb@tug.org

mode_def agfafzz =                  % AGFA 400PS (406dpi)
mode_def agfatfzz =                 % AGFA P3400PS (400dpi)
mode_def amiga =                    % Commodore Amiga (100dpi)
mode_def aps =                      % Autologic APS-Micro5 (723dpi)
mode_def apssixhi =                 % Autologic APS-Micro6 (1016dpi)
mode_def atariezf =                 % Atari ST SLM 804 printer (300dpi)
mode_def atarinf =                  % Atari previewer (95dpi)
mode_def atarins =                  % Atari previewer (96dpi)
mode_def atariotf =                 % Atari ST SM 124 screen (101dpi)
mode_def bitgraph =                 % BBN Bitgraph (118dpi)
mode_def bjtenex =                  % Canon BubbleJet 10ex (360dpi)
mode_def bjtzzex =                  % Canon BubbleJet 200ex (360 dpi)
mode_def bjtzzs =                   % Canon BubbleJet 200 (720x360dpi)
mode_def bjtzzl =                   % BubbleJet 200 landscape (360x720 dpi)
mode_def boise =                    % HP 2680A (180dpi)
mode_def canonbjc =                 % Canon BJC-600 (360dpi)
mode_def canonex =                  % LaserWriter Pro 630 (600dpi)
mode_def canonlbp =                 % Symbolics LGP-10 (240dpi)
mode_def cg =                       % Compugraphic 8600 (1301x1569dpi)
mode_def cgl =                      % Compugraphic 8600 landscape (1569x1302dpi)
mode_def cgnszz =                   % Compugraphic 9600 (1200dpi)
mode_def crs =                      % Alphatype CRS (5333dpi)
mode_def cx =                       % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX (300dpi)
mode_def datadisc =                 % DataDisc (70dpi)
mode_def newdd =                    % DataDisc (70x93dpi)
mode_def declarge =                 % DEC 19-inch, 1280 x 1024 (100dpi)
mode_def decsmall =                 % DEC 17-inch, 1024 x 768 (82dpi)
mode_def deskjet =                  % HP DeskJet 500 (300dpi)
mode_def docutech =                 % Xerox 8790 or 4045 (600dpi)
mode_def dover =                    % Xerox Dover (384dpi)
mode_def eighthre =                 % EightThree (83dpi)
mode_def epscszz =                  % Epson Stylus Color 600 (720 dpi)
mode_def epsdrft =                  % Epson (120x72dpi)
mode_def epsdrftl =                 % Epson (72x120dpi)
mode_def epsfast =                  % Epson (60x72dpi)
mode_def epsfastl =                 % Epson (72x60dpi)
mode_def epson =                    % 9-pin Epson MX/FX (240x216dpi)
mode_def epsonl =                   % 9-pin Epson MX/FX landscape (216x240dpi)
mode_def epsonact =                 % Epson Action Laser 1500 (300dpi)
mode_def epsonlo =                  % Epson (120x216dpi)
mode_def epsonlol =                 % Epson landscape (216x120dpi)
mode_def epsonsq =                  % Epson SQ 870 (360dpi)
mode_def epstypro =                 % Epson Stylus Pro (360dpi)
mode_def epstyplo =                 % Epson Stylus Pro (180dpi)
mode_def epstypmd =                 % Epson Stylus Pro (720x360dpi)
mode_def esphi =                    % Epson Stylus Pro (720dpi)
mode_def epstylus =                 % Epson Stylus (360dpi)
mode_def fourfour =                 % FourFour (44dpi)
mode_def gtfax =                    % G3fax (204x196dpi)
mode_def gtfaxl =                   % G3fax landscape (196x204dpi)
mode_def gtfaxlo =                  % G3fax (204x98dpi)
mode_def gtfaxlol =                 % G3fax landscape (98x204dpi)
mode_def highfax =                  % G3fax (200dpi)
mode_def hprugged =                 % HP RuggedWriter 480 (180dpi)
mode_def ibm_a =                    % IBM 38xx (240dpi)
mode_def ibmd =                     % IBM 38xx (240dpi)
mode_def ibmega =                   % IBM EGA monitor (96x81dpi)
mode_def ibmegal =                  % IBM EGA monitor landscape (81x96dpi)
mode_def ibmfzon =                  % IBM 4019 (300dpi)
mode_def ibmfztn =                  % IBM 4029-30-39, 4250 (600dpi)
mode_def ibmpp =                    % IBM ProPrinter (240x216dpi)
mode_def ibmppl =                   % IBM ProPrinter (216x240dpi)
mode_def ibmsoff =                  % IBM 6154 display (118dpi)
mode_def sherpa =                   % IBM 6670 (Sherpa) (240dpi)
mode_def ibmteot =                  % IBM 3812 (240dpi)
mode_def ibmtetz =                  % IBM 3820 (240dpi)
mode_def ibmtont =                  % IBM 3193 screen (100dpi)
mode_def ibmtosn =                  % IBM 3179 screen (87x65dpi)
mode_def ibmtosnl =                 % IBM 3179 screen landscape (65x87dpi)
mode_def ibmvga =                   % IBM VGA monitor (110dpi)
mode_def ibx =                      % Chelgraph IBX (9600dpi)
mode_def itoh =                     % CItoh 8510A (160x144dpi)
mode_def itohl =                    % CItoh 8510A landscape (144x160dpi)
mode_def itohtoz =                  % CItoh 310 (240x144dpi)
mode_def itohtozl =                 % CItoh 310 landscape (144x240dpi)
mode_def iw =                       % Apple ImageWriter (144dpi)
mode_def jetiiisi =                 % HP Laser Jet IIISi (300dpi)
mode_def lasf =                     % DEC LA75 (144dpi)
mode_def lexmarkr =                 % Lexmark Optra R 4049 (1200dpi)
mode_def lexmarks =                 % Lexmark Optra S 1250/1650/2450 (1200dpi)
mode_def lexmarku =                 % Lexmark Optra R+ 4049 (600dpi)
mode_def linolo =                   % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 (635dpi)
mode_def linolttz =                 % Linotronic L-300 with RIP-50 (3386dpi)
mode_def linoone =                  % Linotronic [13]00 (1270dpi)
mode_def linotzzh =                 % Linotype Linotronic 300 (2540dpi)
mode_def ljfive =                   % HP LaserJet 5 (600dpi)
mode_def ljfivemp =                 % HP LaserJet 5MP (600 dpi)
mode_def ljfour =                   % HP LaserJet 4 (600dpi)
mode_def ljfzzz =                   % LaserJet 4000N, ProRes mode (1200dpi)
mode_def ljfzzzfr =                 % HP LaserJet 4000 FastRes (600dpi)
mode_def ljlo =                     % HP LaserJet (150dpi)
mode_def lmaster =                  % LaserMaster (1000dpi)
mode_def lnotr =                    % DEC LN03R Scriptprinter (300dpi)
mode_def lnzo =                     % DEC LN01 (300dpi)
mode_def lpstz =                    % DEC lps20 (300dpi)
mode_def lqlores =                  % Epson LQ-500 (180dpi)
mode_def lqmed =                    % Epson LQ-500 (360x180dpi)
mode_def lqmedl =                   % Epson LQ-500 landscape (180x360dpi)
mode_def lview =                    % Sigma L-View monitor (118x109dpi)
mode_def lwpro =                    % Apple LaserWriterPro 810 (800dpi)
mode_def macmag =                   % Mac screens at magstep 1 (86dpi)
mode_def mactrue =                  % Mac screen (72dpi)
mode_def ncd =                      % NCD 19-inch (95dpi)
mode_def nec =                      % NEC (180dpi)
mode_def nechi =                    % NEC-P6 (360dpi)
mode_def neclm =                    % NEC PC-PR406LM (320dpi)
mode_def nectzo =                   % NEC PC-PR201 series (160dpi)
mode_def nexthi =                   % NeXT Newgen (400dpi)
mode_def nextscrn =                 % NeXT monitor (100dpi)
mode_def nineone =                  % NineOne (91x91) (91dpi)
mode_def nullmode =                 % TFM files only (101dpi)
mode_def onetz =                    % OneTwoZero (120/120) (120dpi)
mode_def ocessfz =                  % OCE 6750-PS (508dpi)
mode_def okidata =                  % Okidata (240x288dpi)
mode_def okidatal =                 % Okidata landscape (288x240dpi)
mode_def okifte =                   % Okidata 410e in 600DPI mode (600dpi)
mode_def pcscreen =                 % also, e.g., high-resolution Suns (118dpi)
mode_def pcprevw =                  % PC screen preview (118dpi)
mode_def phaser =                   % Tektronix Phaser PXi (300dpi)
mode_def phaserfs =                 % Tektronix Phaser 560 (1200dpi)
mode_def phasertf =                 % Tektronix Phaser 350 (600x300dpi)
mode_def pixpt =                    % one pixel per point (72.27dpi)
mode_def prntware =                 % Printware 720IQ (1200dpi)
mode_def qms =                      % QMS (Xerox engine) (300dpi)
mode_def qmsostf =                  % QMS 1725 (600dpi)
mode_def qmsoszz =                  % QMS 1700 (600dpi)
mode_def qmstftf =                  % QMS 2425 (1200dpi)
mode_def ricoh =                    % e.g., TI Omnilaser (300dpi)
mode_def ricoha =                   % e.g., IBM 4216 (300dpi)
mode_def ricohlp =                  % e.g., DEC LN03 (300dpi)
mode_def ricohsp =                  % Ricoh sp10ps/lp7200-ux (600dpi)
mode_def sparcptr =                 % Sun SPARCprinter (400dpi)
mode_def starnlt =                  % Star NL-10 (240x216dpi)
mode_def starnltl =                 % Star NL-10 landscape (216x240dpi)
mode_def stylewri =                 % Apple StyleWriter (360dpi)
mode_def sun =                      % Sun and BBN Bitgraph (85dpi)
mode_def supre =                    % Ultre*setter (2400dpi)
mode_def toshiba =                  % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ (180dpi)
mode_def ultre =                    % Ultre*setter (1200dpi)
mode_def vs =                       % VAXstation monitor (78dpi)
mode_def vtftzz =                   % Varityper 4200 B-P (1800dpi)
mode_def vtftzzhi =                 % Varityper 4300P (2400dpi)
mode_def vtftzzlo =                 % Varityper 4300P (1200dpi)
mode_def vtfzszw =                  % Varitype 5060W, APS 6 (600dpi)
mode_def vtszz =                    % Varityper Laser 600 (600dpi)
mode_def xrxesnz =                  % Xerox 8790 or 4045 (300dpi)
mode_def xrxfzfz =                  % Xerox 4050/4075/4090/4700 (300dpi)
mode_def xrxnszz =                  % Xerox 9700 (300dpi)
mode_def xrxtszz =                  % Xerox 3700 (300dpi)

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 11 11:48:27 1998
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:35:07 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- A Gentle Intro. to TeX (in Greek)

dimitris filippou writes:
 > I have just uploaded in CTAN the latest version (0.998)
 > of the Greek translation of M. Doob's manual "A Gentle
 > Introduction to TeX".
 >
 > The only changes made in this version are the corrections
 > of a few minor typo mistakes.
 >
 > The new file is called "gentl-gr.zip" and should be put in
 > the directory
 >
 >   tex-archive/help/greek
 >
 > The old directory "tex-archive/help/greek/gentl-gr" and its
 > contents should be then removed from CTAN.
 >
 > Any comments on the manual and its translation will be
 > appreciated.

Thanks a lot for the update, I replaced the files in

   help/greek/gentl-gr

by the new ones.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 11 11:51:55 1998
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:37:03 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- synttree

Matijs van Zuijlen writes:
 > I have uploaded the file synttree.zip to ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > The SyntTree package contained in it is intended for LaTeX.
 > It typesets syntactic trees, such as those used in Chomsky's Generative
 > grammar,
 > based on a description of the structure of the tree.
 >
 > I recommend placing the files in
 > /macros/latex/contrib/supported/synttree/


Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files as suggested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Aug 14 03:57:47 1998
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:41:07 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of winedt support files

P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany writes:

 > I have just uploaded to Dante incoming directory the files
 >   english.txt
 >   english.zip
 >
 > These are to be added to the directory
 > tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict
 >
 > These are support files for Alex Simonic's winedt program. He is aware of this
 > contribution and asked me to upload them directly to CTAN in this way.

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Aug 14 04:05:17 1998
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:43:40 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- rcsinfo

Juergen Vollmer writes:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I put a new version (1.4) of my  rcsinfo  package to ftp.dante.de
 >
 > The rcsinfo package is used to extract information of the RCS (Revision
 > Control System) and use it in a LaTeX document.
 > For users of LaTeX2HTML, a perl-package translating LaTeX documents to HTML,
 > rcsinfo.perl is added, which adds the functionality to that tool.
 >
 > The following files are contained in rcsinfo-1.4.tar.gz
 >    rcsinfo-1.4/rcsinfo.doc
 >    rcsinfo-1.4/rcsinfo.ins
 >    rcsinfo-1.4/Makefile
 >    rcsinfo-1.4/README-1.4
 >
 > Please put it into tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/rcsinfo
 >
 > HISTORY
 > 1.4     : Support fancyhdr-package, added rcsinfo.cfg configuration file.
 > 1.3     : Fixed documentation, new address, reimplemeted parts, added
 >           rcsinfo.perl.
 > 1.2     : New Makefile.
 > 1.1     : (internal changes).
 > 1.0     : Initial Version, submitted to CTAN.
 >
 > With best regards
 > J�rgen Vollmer


Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Aug 14 05:09:17 1998
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:33:17 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- cwebbin-p15

Andreas Scherer writes:
 > Dear CTAN manager,
 >
 > After the recent update of CWEB 3.42 by Knuth/Levy I have also revised
 > the package CWEBBIN based on it.  To make the latest version available
 > to the general public I have uploaded the two files
 >
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin-p15/README.p15
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin-p15/cwebbin-p15.tar.gz
 >
 > CWEBBIN is intended to be a highly portable and slightly extended
 > version of CWEB 3.42 for Unix, Win32, and Amiga (and possibly other
 > operating systems).  Details are listed in README.p15.  The .tar.gz
 > archive comes with the full source needed to intall and use CWEBBIN (but
 > not with the contents of the standard CWEB distribution) as well as
 > three binary executables "ctangle.exe", "cweave.exe", and "wmerge.exe"
 > for Win32 (console applications compiled with Visual C++ 4.1).
 >
 > Please install these two files in CTAN at
 >
 >    CTAN:web/c_cpp/cwebbin/
 >
 > You may keep "cwebbin-p14.tar.gz", because it contains Amiga binaries of
 > ctangle/cweave/wmerge that are no longer coming with CWEBBIN (p15).  But
 > "pdfcweb.tar.gz" should be deleted, the macros it contains are coming
 > with CWEBBIN.
 >
 > Thank you,
 >
 > -- Andreas Scherer

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Aug 14 11:19:53 1998
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 16:55:34 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN node ftp.dante.de unavailable on August 26/27/28

The CTAN node ftp.dante.de will be moved to another (physical)
location on Thursday, August 27, 1998. It will be shut down the day
before and probably be up again on Friday. The numerical IP address
will change.

Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Aug 14 13:19:47 1998
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 17:58:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- SIunits

Marcel Heldoorn writes:

>   I have uploaded the file SIunits.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
>   The SIunits package contained in it is intended for LaTeX.
>   It typesets physical units following the ruses of the International
> System of Units (SI).
>
>  It is version 0.00 beta 4 the final beta before submitting version 0.01
>
>   I recommend placing the files in
>   /macros/latex/contrib/supported/SIunits/

i've done that

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Aug 14 13:28:16 1998
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 18:07:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Summission -- FoilTeX 2.1.3

Jim Hafner writes:

>******************************************************************
>****** ANNOUNCING the release of FoilTeX 2.1.3 for LaTeX2e *******
>******************************************************************
>
>I have recently uploaded the latest release of the FoilTeX system for
>generating foils (transparencies, slides) using TeX.  You should find
>it on your nearest CTAN in
>    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex
>
>*******************  About the package ***************************
>
>  Its features include simplicity of use, compatibility with LaTeX,
>  large sans serif font as default, extra macros to start foils with
>  bold headings and special mechanisms to control footer and header.
>
>This new version (from 2.1.1 to 2.1.3) fixes a handful of bugs, adds
>support for larger paper sizes, adds support for Y&Y's DVIPSONE driver
>and includes a new option to generate small print versions of the
>foils for paper (or other) redistribution.  It also includes a slightly
>reworded USER AGREEMENT.

i've installed the files as requested, in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Aug 15 10:28:33 1998
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 15:12:07 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- wsuipa-update.zip

Anshuman Pandey writes:

> I uploaded the file wsuipa-update.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk in the incoming
> directory. The file contains a reorganization of the WSU IPA font package.
> The biggest modification to the package is the addition of the LaTeX2e
> style and font definition files. Nothing has been removed from the
> package.
>
> These LaTeX2e files are currently sitting on CTAN in the directory
> macros/latex/contrib/other/ipa/. I think they should be placed together
> with the package to which they belong. It makes things easier for new
> users, etc.
>
> The reorganization entailed creating new directories and placing the
> respective files into them:
>
> ../changes      for change logs
> ../doc          documentation ...
> ../doc/latex209 ...using LaTeX 209
> ../doc/latex2e  ...using LaTeX 2e
> ../doc/plain    ...using Plain TeX
> ../doc/text1    ...using TEXT1 macros
> ../macros       style, fd, and plain macro files
> ../mf           METAFONT files
> ../pk           printer files
> ../tfm          TeX font metric files
>
> I noticed that the file 00Description states that the files in the
> fonts/wsuipa directory are mirrored from ftp.wsu.edu. This might be a
> hinderance to implementing the update.
>
> I suggest that the files in wsuipa-update replace the files in
> fonts/wsuipa. I also suggest that the files in the directory
> macros/latex/contrib/other/ipa/ be removed.

after dithering a bit (where to put macros that support a specific set
of fonts is always a bit perplexing) i've done as you suggest,
including deleting the contrib/other/ipa directory.

i've also suppressed the mirroring from wsu -- since cambridge was the
mirroring source for ctan, your update will remain stable ... i think.

anyway, thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 18 11:49:41 1998
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:37:46 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- HLaTeX-0.98

Koaunghi Un writes:
 > Hello, CTAN manager!
 >
 > Recently I�ve had a problem to upload HLaTeX to ftp.dante.de.  Today, I
 > saw, that this problem is corrected.  Thank you for the efforts.
 >
 > I�ve uploaded HLaTeX version 0.98 to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/HLaTeX.
 > In this directory, there are lots of files.  The file HLaTeX-0.98.tar.gz
 > is the main package for typesetting Korean language with LaTeX or Lambda.
 > The other packages are all fonts files.
 >
 > Because the old version of this package exists on CTAN, I suggest that you
 > delete all the files in the directories and subdirectories of
 >
 >         /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX
 > and
 >         /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX
 >
 > And then the file HLaTeX-0.98.tar.gz can be unpacked in the directory
 >
 >         /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX
 >
 > and the other fonts files can be put as tar�d and bzip2�d files in the
 > directory
 >
 >          /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX
 >
 > Here is the list of all the fonts files, I�ve uploaded:
 >
 > common.tar.bz2            hanja-gothic.tar.bz2
 > hanja-gungseo.tar.bz2      hanja-myoungjo.tar.bz2
 > hsym.tar.bz2               jamo.tar.bz2
 > phsym.tar.bz2              pjamo.tar.bz2
 > pkbm.tar.bz2               pkgr.tar.bz2
 > pkgs.tar.bz2               pkgt.tar.bz2
 > pkmg.tar.bz2               pkmj.tar.bz2
 > pkol.tar.bz2               pkpg.tar.bz2
 > pkpn.tar.bz2               pksm.tar.bz2
 > pkyt.tar.bz2               pshanja-gothic.tar.bz2
 > pshanja-gungseo.tar.bz2    pshanja-myoungjo.tar.bz2
 > ptaza.tar.bz2              taza.tar.bz2
 > uhc-gothic-omega.tar.bz2   uhc-gothic.tar.bz2
 > uhc-graphic-omega.tar.bz2  uhc-graphic.tar.bz2
 > uhc-gungseo-omega.tar.bz2  uhc-gungseo.tar.bz2
 > uhc-myoungjo-omega.tar.bz2 uhc-myoungjo.tar.bz2
 > uhc-shinmun-omega.tar.bz2  uhc-shinmun.tar.bz2
 > uhc-taza-omega.tar.bz2     uhc-taza.tar.bz2
 > wsbm.tar.bz2               wsgr.tar.bz2
 > wsgs.tar.bz2               wsgt.tar.bz2
 > wsmg.tar.bz2               wsmj.tar.bz2
 > wsol.tar.bz2               wspg.tar.bz2
 > wspn.tar.bz2               wssm.tar.bz2
 > wsyt.tar.bz2
 >
 > Thanks a lot.
 >
 > --
 >
 > Koaunghi Un (koaunghi.un@student.uni-tuebingen.de)

I would have preferred to have the files in .gz rather than in .bz2
format, but the author seems to have disappeared after uploading 75MB....

Installed as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 18 11:55:37 1998
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:39:22 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <easy>

Enrico Bertolazzi writes:
 > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
 > tar file easy.tar.gz. It contains:
 >
 > version 1.1 of the `easyeqn' package
 > version 0.9 of the `easyvector' package
 > version 0.7 of the `easybmat' package
 > version 0.2 of the `easymat' package
 > version 0.8 of the `easytable' package
 > version 0.5 of the `easybib' package.
 > version 0.8 of the `easy' macros
 >
 > This file should replace
 > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
 > wich contain the old versions.
 >
 > The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation
 > environments that simplify writing of equations.
 > It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define
 > the column alignment. A package option cases only those
 > equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered.
 > A set of macros for typesetting is also added.
 >
 > The \package{easyvector} package is a simple
 > macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices.
 >
 > The \package{easybmat} and \package{easymat} packages are
 > macro packages for writing block matrices, with equal column widths
 > or equal rows heights or both, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 > Now it is possible to specify minimal size of boxes in a matrix.
 > Now it is possible to specify paths in a matrix.
 >
 > The \package{easytable} package is
 > a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths
 > or equal rows heights or both, with various
 > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
 > uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
 > Now it is possible to specify minimal size of boxes in a table.
 > Now it is possible to specify paths in a table.
 >
 > The \package{easybib} package is
 > a macro package for writing custom bibliography
 > with a simple AmSTeX-like sintax.

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 18 11:56:39 1998
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:40:54 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update of custom-bib

Daly Dr., Patrick writes:
 > Hallo,
 >
 > I have updated my custom-bib bundle to version 3.87. It has been
 > uploaded to the Dante server in the incoming directory, as a zip file
 > (custom-bib.zip)
 >
 > Can you please place the unzipped contents in the directory
 >   tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib
 > removing ALL the old files in that directory.
 >
 > Thanks
 >
 > Archive:  custom-bib.zip
 >  Length    Date    Time    Name
 >  ------    ----    ----    ----
 >    8403  08-17-98  12:41   english.mbs
 >    7551  08-17-98  12:41   esperant.mbs
 >    7791  08-17-98  12:41   finnish.mbs
 >    7751  08-17-98  12:41   french.mbs
 >   14836  10-30-97  14:34   geojour.mbs
 >    8597  08-17-98  12:41   german.mbs
 >    7705  08-17-98  12:41   italian.mbs
 >    2094  04-30-97  11:06   makebst.ins
 >  230918  08-17-98  15:43   merlin.mbs
 >    7992  08-17-98  12:41   norsk.mbs
 >    8475  10-30-97  14:35   photjour.mbs
 >   14228  07-23-98  13:38   physjour.mbs
 >    8143  08-17-98  12:41   portuges.mbs
 >    8074  08-17-98  12:41   spanish.mbs
 >    7745  08-17-98  14:03   dutch.mbs
 >    5753  08-18-98  07:52   shorthnd.ins
 >   18767  08-18-98  07:44   README.387
 >    9261  08-18-98  07:42   suppjour.mbs
 >   42420  07-06-98  09:04   makebst.dtx
 >  ------                    -------
 >  426504                    19 files

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Aug 19 04:20:46 1998
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:09:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - MiKTeX 1.11 (complete distribution)

Christian Schenk writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/miktex-complete/ the
> 'complete' MiKTeX 1.11 distribution (complete.exe).
>
> MiKTeX 1.11 is an implementation of TeX & Friends for Microsoft
> Windows (9x/NT).
>
> Please copy the files as follows:
>
>    README                      => systems/win32/miktex/
>
>    INSTALL.TXT                 => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>    README.TXT                  => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>    complete.exe                => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>    news.html                   => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>    news.txt                    => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>    readme.html                 => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>
>    miktex-1.11.tar.gz          => systems/win32/miktex/source/miktex/
>
> Then delete the following files:
>
>    systems/win32/miktex/miktex/1.11/bare.exe
>    systems/win32/miktex/source/miktex-1.11-beta-3.tar.gz

i've done that lot -- there are rather a lot of bits here, so it may
take some time for the files to propagate across the atlantic, but
it's in the system...

> Thanks!

and to you, too, for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Aug 19 04:22:26 1998
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:14:26 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: fix2fix2col

David Carlisle writes:

> Once I next go on line I plan to upload fix2col.dtx to Cambridge ctan.

this appears to have happened by the time i got the message ... how
terribly surprising.

> Could you update the copy in contrib/carlisle thanks.
>
> The new release incorporates a patch by Frank Mittelbach who objected
> to the package's previous unadvertised behaviour of occasionally
> silently dropping floats from a document and not printing them at
> all.

update completed.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Aug 24 10:28:12 1998
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:14:54 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- latex2man version 1.5

Juergen Vollmer writes:
 >
 > Hi dear CTAN people,
 >
 > I uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file latex2man-1.5.tar.gz.
 > Please install it under the supported directory hierarchy under "latex2man".
 > From the README:
 >
 > Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a
 > format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command.
 > Alternatively HTML or TexInfo code can be produced too.
 > Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the conditional text
 > feature.
 >
 > There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the Man-page
 > and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual translation.
 >
 > Changes from version 1.4:
 >         - Support for the fanyhdr package, added latex2man.cfg
 >         - Now \% and \- work.
 >
 > With best regards
 >
 > Juergen

Thanks for the upload. I installed the upgrade in

   support/latex2man

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Aug 26 04:01:07 1998
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:44:59 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Bug in icmcsc10.mf fixed

Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> reported that the LaTeX font
icmcsc10 (the invisible variant of cmcsc10) wasn't invisible.

I have just corrected the file

  fonts/latex/mf/icmcsc10.mf

on CTAN.

Please update this file in all TeX distributions.

Thank you
 Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Aug 28 04:41:11 1998
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 09:17:38 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- comment.sty

> I have just deposited two files 'comment.sty' and 'comm_latest.tex'
> in /incoming/eijkhout. This is a bug fix of my comment.sty, and
> a test file for it.

wow.  should this really be in contrib/other? -- most contrib/
supported packages' bugs take more than a day before they're publicly
known to the time a bug-fix is on the archive!

macros/latex/contrib/other/comment replaced, but won't propagate to
all of ctan until dante comes back on line.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Aug 28 04:49:24 1998
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 09:22:13 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload to tex.ac.uk: new TAP package

Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz writes:

> I can't connect to DANTE, as usual. What's wrong? I tried last night
> and this night, without success.

it's moving sites.  should be back again soon.

> I've just uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/tap072.zip
>                                              README.TAP
> This is corrected tap (tables, awk postscript) package and should
> replace
> macros/generic/tables/tap071.zip
>  and
> macros/generic/tables/tap070.README
>
> Now it works perfectly with LaTeX2e

installed as requested.  propagation to the rest of the world must
wait until dante's back, i'm afraid.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Aug 31 12:46:20 1998
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:20:57 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- netpbm & TtH for Win32

Christian Schenk writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/util:
>
>   netpbm.zip            Windows port of the netpbm graphics suite
>                         (tools to convert
>                         between various graphics formats)
>
>   tth.zip               TeX-to-HTML converter (Windows binary plus doc)
>
> Please install the zip files and the accompanying README in
>
>   systems/win32/miktex/util

i've done that.  thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Aug 31 12:57:31 1998
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:42:01 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan submission: titlesec 2.0

Javier Bezos writes:

> I've uploaded the latest distribution (v2.0) of my titlesec
> package for latex to ftp.tex.ac.uk. The titlesec20 directory contains
> the following files:
>  - titlesec.sty, titlesec.tex
>  - hang.tss, display.tss, leftmargin.tss, rightmargin.tss,
>    margin.tss, drop.tss, runin.tss, block.tss
>  - hang.tsc, display.tsc, block.tsc, frame.tsc
>  - page.tsk
> All these files should replace the files currently at
> .../supported/titlesec. The format is ASCII text with Unix
> linefeeds.
>
> This is a major release which provides the following new features:
> -- New package options nobottomtitles, which avoids titles close to
>    the bottom margin ragging it if necessary, and
>    largestsep, which makes to use the largest skip between consecutive
>    titles.
> -- Additional code may follow the title (to follow displayed titles
>    with a rule, or runin ones with a dot or an old-fashioned ".---",
>    for instance)
> -- Different formats are allowed in left and right pages (eg, if you want
>    margin titles in the outer margins) and in unnumbered versions as well.
> -- There is a new frame shape.
> -- Rules and "leaders" can be inserted easily (spanning the whole title).
> -- Penalties are optionally different for every level.
> -- Color is now supported.
> -- Graphic environments are allowed, for fancy formatting.
>
> The following major bugs have been fixed:
> -- margin shapes broke pages in unexpected places when there was
>    a float in the same page. The code has been fully rewritten.
> -- marks sent by \@mkboth were killed by rigidchapters.
> -- outermarks in article sometimes produced errors.
>
> And a silly, silly mistake :-( :
> -- flushright and flushleft were reversed!
>
> [...and no doubt there are new bugs...]

i've installed this update (including the fix of one of those new bugs
;-).  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Sep  1 14:19:56 1998
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 09:21:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission--vfinst font installer

Alan Hoenig writes:

> I have placed the file vfinst.tar.gz in ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming.  Please
> unarchive it, and replace the files in fonts/utilities/vfinst with these
> new files.
>
> vfinst is my effort to create a series of Perl scripts that automatically
> install type 1 (Adobe, Monotype, etc) fonts for TeX users, plain or LaTeX,
> and to make the installation as painless as possible.  If expert fonts
> are present, they are automatically included in the installation to
> make true small caps fonts.  Several font variatns are created (such
> as underline and italic small caps) that usually don't appear in
> TeX font families.  The current release fixes some embarassing bugs
> that only recently reared their heads.

i've installed the files as requested.

thanks for the upload --

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Sep  2 03:58:15 1998
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 09:34:27 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- mathcomp

Tilmann Boess writes:
 > Dear CTAN-maintainers,
 >
 > I've just uploaded a corrected version of the LaTeX package `mathcomp'.
 >
 > (a) Site:  ftp.dante.de/incoming
 >
 > (b) mathcomp.zip, containing mathcomp/mathcomp.dtx & mathcomp/mathcomp.ins
 >
 > (c) The package provides some useful letters of the TS1-encoding in
 >    mathematical mode.
 >
 > (d) Suggested place: /pub/tex/latex/macros/contrib/supported/mathcomp

Thanks for your update, I installed the files in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/mathcomp

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Sep  3 06:56:25 1998
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 11:27:44 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- uni

Christian Holm writes:

> I have uploaded the package `uni' to `ftp.tex.ac.uk'.
>
> The files are `uni.tar.gz=B4 and `README.uni' (this file was intended to
> be in the tar archive, put I forgot to put it in --- :-( ).
>
> The `uni' package is an implemnatation of Herbert Bayers `universal'
> font, with LaTeX(2e) support. It is supposed to replace the package
> `universal' (in /pub/tex/fonts/bayer/ on CTAN). The package is renamed
> for a number of different reasons.
>
> I suggest placing the package in `fonts/universa' optionally with a
> link to `macroes/latex/contrib/supported/universa' and a temporary
> link to `fonts/bayer'.

i've installed the package as requested, and replaced the old
directory with a link to the new one.  i haven't created a link to a
contrib/supported directory.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Sep  4 07:36:12 1998
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 13:12:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.11 Update One

Christian Schenk writes:
 > I have uploaded a MiKTeX 1.11 update package to
 >
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de:/incoming/miktex/
 >
 > 1) Please install the files as follows:
 >
 >    INSTALL.TXT       ->  systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
 >    README            ->  systems/win32/miktex/
 >    README.TXT        ->  systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
 >    UPDATE.TXT        ->  systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
 >    readme.html       ->  systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
 >    update.html       ->  systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
 >    update.exe        ->  systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
 >
 > 2) Please remove the directory
 >
 >    systems/win32/miktex/1.10/
 >
 > from the CTAN, as MiKTeX 1.10 is now obsolete.
 >
 >
 > MiKTeX 1.11 is a TeX distribution for the Win32 platform. The latest
 > update package fixes the following problems:
 >
 >    * The previewer displays smeared characters under certain conditions.
 >    * The previewer doesn't print rules under certain conditions.
 >    * The previewer freezes when GhostScript signals an error.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Sep  4 10:02:06 1998
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 14:40:25 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- beng.zip

> I've uploaded beng.zip onto the Aston server.

the server hasn't been in aston for *years* -- it's currently in
cambridge.

> This archive contains the
> new "Bengali for TeX" package. I recommend that this package be placed
> under language/bengali/ in a new directory called "pandey".

installed as requested -- thanks for the upload.

> (This follows
> the recommendation that Dominik Wujastyk and I presented to Robin to
> restructure the Indic language/script packages.)

yes, well, i _will_ get around to doing something about that some
day, honest...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Sep  5 07:12:24 1998
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 11:34:18 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN update -- Circuit_macros4.5.tar.gz

Dwight Aplevich writes:

> The file Circuit_macros4.5.tar.gz has been deposited in the incoming
> directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk.  The expanded contents are to replace the
> CTAN directory graphics/circuit_macros in its entirety.
>
> From the feedback I receive, these macros continue to be used by a
> modest number of people who are complementary (mostly) about the
> quality of the diagrams obtained using the package.  This update adds
> some fixes and improvements, more documentation, and explicit instructions
> for installation on Windows PCs.
>
> From the readme:
>
> Circuit_macros
>
>   This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality electric circuit
>   diagrams containing fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors,
>   and basic logic gates to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar
>   documents.  Some tools for other types of diagrams are also
>   included.  The advantages and disadvantages of such a system are
>   similar to those of TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg,
>   and which uses ordinary character input.
>
>   These macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic language, which
>   is very easy to understand and has a good power/complexity ratio.
>   Because pic contains elements of a simple programming language, it is
>   well-suited to line drawings requiring parametric or conditional
>   components, fine tuning, significant geometric calculations or
>   repetition, or that are naturally block structured or tree structured.
>   Interpreters for the language are readily available, and some are free.
>
>   ...
>
> REQUIRED SOFTWARE:
>   m4, gpic or equivalent, TeX, a driver recognizing tpic specials
> My preferred setup:
>   m4, dpic (see below), LaTeX, PSTricks, dvips, sometimes xfig
> Also possible:
>   m4, dpic, LaTeX, mfpic or LaTeX eepicemu graphics
>
> ...
>
> Version 4.5: Options for several 2-terminal macros.  Minor bug fixes and
>   better robustness.  Documents edited for friendlier PC installation and use.

thanks for the upload; i have installed the updated package as
requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Sep  7 05:01:22 1998
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 10:39:22 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: MultiToc 2.00

Martin Schroeder writes:

 > I have uploaded to the incoming dir of
 >         ftp.dante.de
 > the file
 >         multitoc.zip
 > containing Version 2.00 of the count1to LaTeX package.
 >
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 >  Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name ("^" ==> case
 >  ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----   conversion)
 >     505  Defl:X     410  19%  06-09-98  15:21  b5d6e7e7   multitoc.asc
 >     410  Defl:X     253  38%  09-08-98  01:59  2e4e5de3   multitoc.bug
 >   19612  Defl:X    6106  69%  06-09-98  15:18  432d3a5e   multitoc.dtx
 >   24012  Defl:X    7936  67%  06-09-98  15:20  d44a45d3   multitoc.dvi
 >    3915  Defl:X    1366  65%  06-09-98  15:18  16c59ca2   multitoc.ins
 >  ------          ------  ---                              -------
 >   48454           16071  67%                              5 files
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > - From the documentation:
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 > %%  @LaTeX-style-file{
 > %%     author          = {Martin Schr\"oder},
 > %%     version         = "2.00",
 > %%     date            = "6 September 1998",
 > %%     filename        = "multitoc.sty",
 > %%     address         = {Martin Schr\"oder
 > %%                        Cr\"usemannallee 3
 > %%                        D-28213 Bremen
 > %%     telephone       = "+49-421-2239425",
 > %%     email           = "Martin.Schroeder@ACM.org",
 > %%     pgp-Key         = "2048 bit / KeyID 292814E5",
 > %%     pgp-fingerprint = "7E86 6EC8 97FA 2995 82C3  FEA5 2719 090E",
 > %      checksum        = "62732 556 2216 19056",
 > %      codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
 > %      keywords        = "LaTeX, multicol, toc, lof, lot",
 > %      dependences     = "multicol",
 > %      supported       = "yes",
 > %%     docstring       = "LaTeX package which automatically sets only
 > %%                        the table of contents, list of figures and list
 > %%                        of tables in two or more columns.
 > %%                        The number of columns can be configured.
 > %%                        Uses the multicol package.
 > %
 > %                         The checksum field above contains a CRC-16
 > %                         checksum as the first value, followed by
 > %                         the equivalent of the standard UNIX wc
 > %                         (word count) utility output of lines,
 > %                         words, and characters.  This is produced
 > %                         by Robert Solovay's checksum utility."
 > %%  }
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The main change from version 1.00 is a redesign of the package; the
 > commands from version 1.00 have been retained for compatibilty reasons.
 >
 > - ------------ snipp ------------
 >   \item v2.00\efill
 >  \subitem General:\ Redesign\pfill 1, 3
 >     \subitem \verb*+\immediateaddtocontents+:\ retained\pfill 5
 >     \subitem \verb*+@multitoc@lof+:\ new\pfill 3
 >     \subitem \verb*+@multitoc@lot+:\ new\pfill 3
 >     \subitem \verb*+@multitoc@toc+:\ new\pfill 3
 >     \subitem \verb*+\protected@write@immediate+:\ retained\pfill 5
 > - ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The files should be placed in
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms
 >
 > Best regards
 >         Martin

Thanks a lot, I installed the new version in the indicated location.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Sep  8 03:53:20 1998
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 09:31:58 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- latex2man version 1.6

Juergen Vollmer writes:

 > I uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file latex2man-1.6.tar.gz.
 > Please install it under the supported directory hierarchy under "latex2man".
 > From the README:
 >
 > Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a
 > format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command.
 > Alternatively HTML or TexInfo code can be produced too.
 > Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the conditional text
 > feature (for this feature, LaTeX can be produced too).
 >
 > There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the Man-page
 > and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual translation.
 >
 > Changes from version 1.5:
 >         - Added \SP macro.
 >         - Hyphenation \- is tarnslated for TexInfo into @-.
 >         - Runs now under older Versions of Perl (e.g. 5.03).
 >
 > With best regards
 >
 > Juergen

Thanks a lot, I installed the update in

  support/latex2man

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Sep  8 03:54:57 1998
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 09:34:24 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- EPM TeX Front End v2.2 for OS/2

Walter Schmidt writes:

 > I have uploaded the files epmtfe22.txt and epmtfe22.zip to
 > the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > Please, move them to the directory
 >
 >         systems/os2/epmtfe
 >
 > and delete the existing files epmtfe21.* .
 >
 > This is version 2.2 of the EPM TeX Front End, an integrated
 > (La)TeX environment for OS/2, based on the OS/2 editor EPM.
 >
 > Main news with this version is the enhanced syntax assist
 > facility, which I have (hopefully) improved with respect to
 > the processing of LaTeX environments.
 >
 > Thank you
 >
 > Walter

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Sep 10 04:57:44 1998
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:27:58 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: mathinst

Alan Hoenig writes:

> Please unpack the file mathinst.tar.gz in ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming so that
> it replaces all the existing material in fonts/utilities/mathinst.
> Thanks!
>
> The current version of mathinst fixes some serious bugs which were never
> quashed owing to never having being throughly tested in a TDS environment.
> That has now been rectified.  Mathinst is one software package for creating
> proper non-COmputer Modern math fonts for use by TeX and LaTeX.  Mathinst
> crafts its fonts by properly scaling any of the Lucida New Math, MathTime,
> Euler, or mathematica fonts to match your fontname-installed text fonts.
> Style files are automatically created so you can use these fonts easily
> with either LaTeX or plain TeX.  Test files are also provided so you can
> not only test the fonts, but see how to invoke themin a document.  If you
> indicate the presence of Fraktur, sans serif, or blackboard bold fonts,
> they too will be part of the style.

i've installed that lot (after some finger trouble ...).

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Sep 10 09:59:31 1998
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:28:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- SIunits update v 0.01

> I have uploaded the file SIunits.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk

actually, you uploaded Siunits.zip -- these things are different on
un*x machines, you know...  ;-)

> The SIunits package contained in it is intended for LaTeX.
> It typesets physical units following the rules of the International System
> of Units (SI).
>
> It is the updated version 0.01.
>
> I recommend replacing the files in
> /macros/latex/contrib/supported/SIunits/

done.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Sep 11 11:40:10 1998
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:16:25 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- accfonts upgrade

John Smith writes:

> I have uploaded an upgraded version of my "accfonts" package to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk. The archive file /incoming/accfonts.tar.gz contains
> three files: (1) v. 0.21 of the program mkt1font, (2) v. 0.21 of the
> program vpl2vpl, (3) a CHANGES file specifying what is new since
> release 0.2. The current version of the package is stored in
> "/ctan/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/accfonts": files for which I have
> *not* supplied new versions can be left unchanged.
>
> This is intended as a "terminal" release: I am no longer working on
> the programs, and I do not anticipate making any further changes to
> them unless I am asked to fix hitherto unnoticed bugs or to
> implement new (and reasonable) features.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Sep 12 08:14:16 1998
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 12:41:09 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- warpcol

Wayne A. Rochester writes:

> I have uploaded the warpcol package to ftp.tex.ac.uk as the file
> /incoming/warpcol.tar.gz. This is a new, small LaTeX2e package, which I
> guess would go somewhere like macros/latex2e/contrib/other/warpcol.
>
> The warpcol package defines a tabular column type for formatting
> numerical columns in LaTeX. The column type enables numerical items to
> be right justified relative to each other, while centred beneath the
> column label. In addition, macros are provided to enable variations on
> this column type to be defined. Usage of the package is superficially
> similar to that of dcolumn; however, the alignment scheme is different,
> and the packages have different, though overlapping, applications.

thanks for the upload.  i've installed the package as suggested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Sep 14 14:01:56 1998
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:44:40 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: new-bibtex-style

Bernd Porr writes:

> I programmed a new apa-like style for bibtex.
> It is based upon the apalike.bst. I changed it
> because I was critcised by a psychologist (!):
> The citatios were not correct. It is
> still compatible with the TeX-style-files: bibgerm, etc...
>
> state:               beta, but in use (master-thesis)
> filename:            apasoft.sty
> server:              ftp.dante.de
> dir:                 /incoming
> preferred directory: /tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/
>
> %   CHANGES:
> %   12-sep-98   (BP)    - Editors in braces: Dolittle, D. (Edit.)
> %                       - Change of the position of country and publisher=
> :
> %                             e.g.:      New York: McGraw-Hill.
> %                             the publisher has always the last position.
> %                       - All authors are in inverse order:
> %                             e.g.:      Yussen, S.R., and Kane, P.
> %                       - Volume with ",":
> %                             e.g.:      J.exp.psych, 18, 451-460.

i've installed the file as you suggest.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Sep 15 03:28:24 1998
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:08:41 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: update to aguplus

Patrick Daly wrote:
> I have uploaded the following update to my aguplus bundle
>  to the Dante  incoming/aguplus directory
>
> -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      4936 Sep 15 06:11 README.pwd
> -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     37500 Sep 15 06:09 agu.bst
> -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     36929 Sep 15 06:10 agufull.bst
> -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     44089 Sep 15 06:10 aguplus.cls
> -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     40368 Sep 15 06:10 aguplus.sty
> -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server     44810 Sep 15 06:10 aguplus.tex
> -rw-rw----   1 Mr.Ftp   server      6158 Sep 15 06:10 changes.v15g
>
> Please copy to macros/latex/contrib/supported/aguplus
> removing the changes.v15f file.

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Sep 16 06:27:01 1998
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:01:02 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.11 'bare' distribution

Christian Schenk wrote:
> I have uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ the 'bare' MiKTeX 1.11
> distribution.  MiKTeX 1.11 is an implementation of TeX & Friends for
> Microsoft Windows (9x/NT).  The 'bare' distribution contains
> executables (but no TEXMF tree).

Thanks for the upload.  I copied the file to systems/win32/miktex/1.11/bare.exe
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Sep 16 06:30:44 1998
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:04:54 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- gnhyph01-26.zip

Walter Schmidt wrote:
> I have uploaded the archive gnhyph01-26.zip to the
> /incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unzip
> the files
>
>    gnhyph01.tex
>    README.ghyphen
>
> from the archive and move them to language/hyphenation,
> thus replacing the previous versions.  (The line endings
> of the text files are Unix style.)
>
> This is the latest version (rev. 26) of the hyphenation
> patterns for the new German orthography.  I have fixed
> various bugs concerning "s-t".  (Thanks to Torsten
> Fliessbach for his bug report, which pointed me to the
> right direction ;-)

Thanks, I installed the new version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Sep 17 06:53:51 1998
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 12:25:04 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission - TTF2MF

"Oleg V. Motygin" <mov@SNARK.IPME.RU> wrote:

> I uploaded to  ftp.dante.de  two files collected in directory
> TTF2MF. These are:
>       readme.txt
>       ttf2mf.zip
> ttf2mf.zip contains the same readme.txt, 1251_866.enc and ttf2mf.exe.
> The latter is a Windows program which is intended to convert Windows
> True Type fonts to Meta Font format.
> I would like the directory to be placed in the directory
> Support of the CTAN archive.

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the files in tex-archive/support/ttf2mf
as suggested.  Please note that there is a similar tool in
tex-archive/support/ttftogf already.

Reinhard Zierke

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Sep 17 13:13:13 1998
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:50:09 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- kix.sty

Sander Stoks writes:

> I uploaded kix.sty to ftp.tex.ac.uk:
>
> % This is kix.sty
> % By Sander R.M. Stoks
> % (c) 1998   17 SEP 1998
> % Implements KIX codes as used by the Dutch PTT for bulk mail
> % addressing. ("Royal Mail 4 State Code")
> % "KIX" is a registered trade mark of PTT Post Holdings B.V.
> %
> % Usage: {\kix 1234AB123}.
> % Note: Only caps please.
> %
> % Example:
> %
> %   Sander Stoks\\
> %   Heyendaalseweg 127 E2-08\\
> %   6525 AJ \textsc{Nijmegen}\\[2mm]
> %   {\kix 6525AJ127XE2X08}

since you didn't suggest where i might put the file, i've installed it
as macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/kix.sty

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Sep 19 11:15:46 1998
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 15:57:27 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- update for mitpress.sty

George Pearson writes:

> I have uploaded mitpress.sty to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
> This is a suggested replacement for the existing file
> /tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/mitpress.sty.
>
> The current version of mitpress.sty generates an error if the document
> contains an \eqnarray.
>
> There are three changes to the uploaded file:
>
> 1) Added a \typeout macro near the beginning.
>
> 2) Commented out \renewcommand{\arraycolsep}{1pt} and replaced it with
> \setlength{\arraycolsep}{1pt}.
>
> 3) Added \endinput, just for because.

after checking with george, i have installed the file as
macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/mitpress.sty

thanks for the upload, george.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Sep 21 10:56:58 1998
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:22:43 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.11 'basic' distribution

Christian Schenk <christian.schenk@DETEWE.DE> wrote:
> I have uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ the 'basic' MiKTeX
> 1.11 distribution (basic.exe).  MiKTeX 1.11 is an implementation of
> TeX & Friends for Microsoft Windows (9x/NT). The basic distribution is
> a sub-set of the complete distribution, i.e. the following packages
> are not included: pdfTeX, Computer Modern PostScript Fonts, AMS-Fonts
> PostScript Fonts, MetaPost, Texinfo macros and Makeinfo, Web System
> (Tangle, Weave, Tie).
>
> Please copy the file as follows:
>    basic.exe                => systems/win32/miktex/1.11/basic.exe

Thanks, I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Sep 23 11:03:46 1998
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:30:17 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- pageno package

rowland of r&r writes:

> I've uploaded a new (supported) package:
>
> a) Uploaded to:
>          ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> b) Files uploaded:
>      pageno.dtx
>      pageno.ins
>    put in directory:
>      incoming/pageno/
>
> c) Brief overview of file purpose
>
>     pageno is a LaTeX2e package that can re-define the plain page style under
>     the control of options, so you can have page numbers at: the top or bottom
>     of the page; in the inside corner, outside corner, or in the middle.  It
>     was inspired by Axel Sommerfeldt's rplain.sty package.
>
> d) Suggested destination for files:
>          macros/latex/contrib/supported/pageno/pageno.dtx
>          macros/latex/contrib/supported/pageno/pageno.ins

i've installed the files as suggested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Sep 24 02:15:23 1998
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 07:39:31 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- karnaugh.tgz

Andreas W. Wieland" <wieland@TI.ET-INF.UNI-SIEGEN.DE> wrote:
> I have just uploaded an improved version of my package "karnaugh". So
> according to README.uploads:
>
> a) ftp.dante.de
> b) karnaugh.tgz
> c) This archive contains the files:
>
> kvmacros.tex: the macro package itself
> kvdoc.dvi: A little documentation in english language.
> kvdoc.ps: The same documentation as a Postscript file
>
> The macros are intended to typeset Karnaugh-Veitch Maps (KV-maps) in a
> simple and user-friendly way, which has already proved to ease
> typesetting these maps significantly. KV-Maps are used to simplify logic
> functions "manually". These macros can typeset KV-maps with up to nine
> variables (=512 entries). For Details please have a look at "kvdoc.dvi"
> or "kvdoc.ps".
>
> d) I would suggest that you replace the old version of my package in:
> /makros/latex/contrib/other/karnaugh

Thanks for the upload. I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Sep 25 11:48:59 1998
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:11:37 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- <zefonts> (update)

Robert Fuster <rfuster@mat.upv.es> wrote:
> I've uploaded to 'ftp.dante.de/incoming' a new version of my package
> 'zefonts'.
>
> Overview:
> The main change from the old version is the use in the virtual fonts
> of the current 'nfss' names for Adobe fonts (for example, 'ptmr8r'
> instead of 'ptmr0').
> Other changes:
>      - Changed the file names dvips/config.ze and dvips/ze.map
>               to the more apropiate dvips/slantcm.cfg and
> dvips/slantcm.map
>      - Corrected in slantcm.map the errors detected in ze.map.
>      - vf/cm*.vf files removed.
>      - Various file names changed to lowercase.
>      - Created the file 'CHANGES'.
>
> This package is intended for replacing the 'old' zefonts in
> 'CTAN/fonts/zefonts'

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Sep 25 13:13:43 1998
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:50:49 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- IMAC

Joe Slater writes:

> To whom it concerns:
> Please update the current archive
> macros/latex/contrib/other/imac
>
> to the one uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk named imac.tar.Z
>
> The new files provide additional macros for conforming to the SEM/IMAC
> mathematical convention.
>
> All files currently in the directory macros/latex/contrib/other/imac
> should be replaced with the new single archived file.

i've done that, after some alarums and excursions.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Sep 27 05:49:37 1998
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:09:59 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- mpattern

From: Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz <staw@ETI.PG.GDA.PL>
> I've just uploded to DANTE/incoming/ a new nice package, presented on
> TUG'98: mpattern.zip
> It should go into the new directory:
> graphics/metapost/macros/bolek/
> and then be unpacked. mpattern.zip should be than removed.
>
> Very short description (for Graham):
>
> Package MPATTERN gives ability to define and use patterns in
> MetaPost. It uses Pattern Color Space available in PostScript Level 2.
> Author: Piotr Bolek; e-mail: P.Bolek@ia.pw.edu.pl

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the files in the directory
CTAN:/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/macros/mpattern/,
preferring the name of the package as directory name.

Reinhard Zierke

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Sep 27 05:55:45 1998
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:19:20 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- l2kurz.zip

From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
> I have uploaded the file l2kurz.zip to the /incoming directory
> at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unzip this file to the directory
>
>         info/LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung/
>
> thus replacing the existent files and adding some new ones.
>
> This is version 2 of the
>
>         "LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung",
>
> the well known short introduction to LaTeX2e in German language.
> This release covers a lot of current topics, e.g. the `inputenc'
> package, graphics inclusion, PostScript fonts and the EC fonts.
> An appendix contains an up-to-date list of the text companion
> symbols.

Thanks for continuing the excellent work of J�rg Knappen!
I installed the new version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Sep 27 05:59:53 1998
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:24:19 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- emtextds04.zip

From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
> I have (successfully :-) uploaded the file emtextds04.zip to the
> /incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unzip this archive to
> the directory
>
>              systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS
>
> after removing all files currently existing there. (The file names
> of the distribution have changed.)   Please, do _not_ unpack the
> resulting archives texmf.zip and config.zip.
>
> This is
>                    emTeX/TDS, version 0.4,
>
> an emtex-based TeX system for OS/2 Warp with a TDS-compliant
> directory structure.
>
> In contrast to the previous versions, installing this one does
> _not_ require the TeXLive3 CDROM; the distribution now contains
> a full texmf directory tree.  Installing emTeX/TDS does, however,
> require the original emtex collection and the dvips archive
> dvips576.zip.
>
> LaTeX now comes with much more languages installed and with full
> PostScript support, i.e. the psnfss collection.
>
> A new installation script is provided which can also apply all
> necessary changes to the system configuration file config.sys.
> It is, however, possible to perform this step manually, too.
>
> All documentation is available in German and in English.

Thanks for the new version; I installed it on the DANTE server as requested.

Reinhard Zierke

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From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Sep 28 11:43:41 1998
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:07:43 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of 32 bit html2LaTeX for Dos, Windows, Os/2

Roland Reimers writes:

 > I have uploaded the following file to ftp.dante.de:
 >
 > Filename: html2latex.zip
 >
 > Function: Creates LateX 2.09 files from html-files.
 >
 > Comments: Compiled from Unix sources version 0.9c with emx 0.9c fix 2.
 >           Runs on DOS, Windows (3.x, 9x, NT), OS/2 Warp
 >
 > Recompiled by Roland Reimers (reimers@muffin.physik.uni-bremen.de)
 >
 > Placement: /pub/tex/support/html2latex
 >            replaces html2ltx.zip for all PCs with Intel 386 or higher
 >            processor.

Thanks a lot, I installed the file as sugessted.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Sep 29 02:38:57 1998
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:07:11 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt32 - New Release

Aleksander Simonic <winedt@ISTAR.CA> wrote:

> I have just uploaded a new release of WinEdt32 to
>
>     ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt32/*.*
>
> Please move the files in this upload directory to
>
>     tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt
>
> replacing the existing files of the same name with the new ones.
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Release WinEdt32 1.414 (19-8) (September 1998)
> ==============================================
>
>   This version of WinEdt32 (shareware) is compiled with (the brand
>   new) Borland's Delphi 4. Below is a brief description of the
>   main enhancements over the previous release of WinEdt32:
>
>     - Decreased startup time (up to 50%)
>     - Improved appearance of menus and controls
>     - Extended Documentation and Help (Answers to FAQs)
>     - New import/ export functionality
>           easy exchange of configuration components
>     - Minor bug fixes from the previous release
>
>
>     - WinEdt's Home Page has been extended with (illustrated)
>       Features Overview and Quick Tutorial. The Download page
>       contains links to currently available self-installing
>       alternative setups and plug-ins for WinEdt. Check it out at:
>
>           http://home.istar.ca/~winedt/

Thanks for your submission.  I installed the new files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke

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From jsbien@MIMUW.EDU.PL Wed Sep 30 02:42:07 1998
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:09:22 +0100
From: Janusz S. Bien <jsbien@MIMUW.EDU.PL>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN directory structure

I have somewhat contradictiory proposals to the CTAN maintainers:

1. to split info according to the language of the text
2. to gather together various translations of the same document,
especially "Not so short introduction to LaTeX2e".

If I want a student to read "Not so short ..." in the language of his
preference, one of us have to dig through the whole info directory,
what becomes more and more cumbersome.

Best regards and thanks for your work

Janusz S. Bien

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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Sep 29 07:31:40 1998
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:08:50 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- leaflet

Juergen Schlegelmilch <schlegel@INFORMATIK.UNI-ROSTOCK.DE> wrote:
> today I uploaded the new version of the leaflet package into
> the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. It consists of the
> two files leaflet.ins and leaflet.dtx which should replace
> their counterparts in
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/leaflet/
>
> Here is the abstract from the documentation:
>   The leaflet package provides a document class to typeset leaflets,
>   i.e. small publications to be printed on both sides of a single
>   sheet which is then folded twice. The text is therefore set on six
>   pages which are reordered by a script to make them continuously
>   readable after folding the sheet. The document class redefines the
>   standard list environments to use less space (both horizontal and
>   vertical), and also the sectioning macros.

Thanks for the new version.  I installed it as requested.

Reinhard Zierke

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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Oct  1 07:10:19 1998
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 12:19:34 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.11 Update Two

Forwarded message:
> From owner-ctan@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE  Thu Oct  1 09:29:48 1998
> Lines: 31
> X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3
> Message-ID:  <uiui4eoa4.fsf@ctb.detewe.de>
> Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:26:11 +0200
> Reply-To: Christian Schenk <christian.schenk@DETEWE.DE>
> Sender: Mailing list for Comprehensive TeX Archive Network coordinators
>               <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
> From: Christian Schenk <christian.schenk@DETEWE.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.11 Update Two
> X-To:         CTAN@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de
> To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN
>               <CTAN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
>
> I have uploaded a MiKTeX 1.11 update package to
>
>    ftp://ftp.dante.de:/incoming/miktex/
>
> Please install the files as follows:
>
>    UPDATE.TXT        ->  systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>    update.exe        ->  systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>    update.html       ->  systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>
> MiKTeX 1.11 is a TeX distribution for the Win32 platform. The latest
> update package fixes the following problems:
>
> Resolved Problems:
>
>    * YAP: The LaTeX2e construct `\includegraphics{foo.eps.gz}' does
>      not work (YAP does not execute embedded shell commands).
>    * YAP cannot display DOS EPS files (YAP cannot cope with
>      binary preview sections).
>    * YAP Cannot be used in conjunction with Lilypond (YAP does
>      not support PostScript bang specials).
>    * YAP: Extra long `ps:' specials may cause a GPF.
>
> New Features:
>
>    * YAP: New graphics formats: Windows Metafiles, TIFF, PCX, PNG, GIF and
>      TGA.
>    * YAP: EPS graphics are now anti-aliased. This feature can be turned off.
>    * YAP now pays attention to GhostView configuration settings. As a
>      result, it's no longer necessary to specify the location of the
>      GhostScript DLL if GhostView is installed.
>


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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Oct  1 13:26:01 1998
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 17:39:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: public release of the lh fonts

Vladimir Volovich has uploaded the long-awaited public release of the
lh fonts for the `T2'/X2 encodings (for cyrillic languages).

At his recommendation, I have therefore deleted the old directories
fonts/LH and fonts/cyrillic/lh-test

The new fonts are available from fonts/cyrillic/lh

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct  5 08:48:33 1998
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 14:10:50 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- spanishb 1.1 for babel

Javier Bezos writes:

 > I've just uploaded the files spanishb.dtx, spanishb.ins and 00readme to
 > dante.ctan.org/incoming/spanishb. This version 1.1 is an update of
 > the spanishb style for babel, which fixes some bugs and adds a couple of
 > new features. These files should replace the files currently under
 > macros/latex/packages/babel/contrib/spanishb/.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Oct  5 12:25:38 1998
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 16:59:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CyrTUG distribution of emTeX

I have just installed this distribution in systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/cyrtug

I wrote a README, which goes:

  These files, which were submitted to CTAN by Michel Goossens of CERN,
  constitute the CyrTUG distribution for emTeX.

  Fonts for use with this distribution may be found at
    fonts/cyrillic/lh

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Oct  5 13:03:27 1998
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 17:38:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lshort version 3.2

Tobias Oetiker writes:

> I have upladed version 3.2 of my Not so Short Introduction to LaTeX
> to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/lshort-3.2
>
> This one has several new paragraphs about philosophical aspects of
> writing with LaTeX as well a whole lot of bug fixes ...
>
> I suggest you put it in the usual directory ...

oh, goodie, i just _love_ philosophy.  thanks very much for the
upload.

i've installed the stuff as a replacement of what was in info/lshort

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Oct  6 03:00:13 1998
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 08:35:04 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt32 Update and Swedish Dictionary

From: Aleksander Simonic <winedt@ISTAR.CA>
> I have just uploaded a new update of WinEdt and a Swedish
> Dictionary to
>
>     ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt/winedt32.exe
>     ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt/dict/se.*
>
> Please move the files in this directory to
>
>     tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt
> and
>     [tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict/se.*]
>
> (respectively).

Thanks for you upload.  I installed the news files on ftp.dante.de as
suggested.

Reinhard Zierke

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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Oct  6 05:14:14 1998
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 09:44:46 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Tex2ltx.zip

Pedro Fortuny writes:

>         This is to inform you that I have uploaded
>
> a) at ftp.tex.ac.uk/income
>
> b) a package named tex2ltx.zip
>
> c) whichi is useful for converting plain TeX (AMS) files into
> AMS-LaTeX, ablo also to convert plain AMS-TeX bibliographic references
> into BiB-TeX ones.
>
> d) whose proper place in the archive may be
>         pub/tex/support
>
> It contains:
>
>         tex2ltx.exe -> the executable for MS-DOS 6.20
>         readme.t2l
>         manual.t2l  -> manual, etc...
>         copying     -> GNU license, terms...
>         replace.t2l -> needed file (some kind of "res")
>         src/ t2l.c
>         src/ readword.c
>         src/ change.c
>         src/ difficul.c
>         src/ refs.c
>         src/ compare.c
>
>         these last 6 files are the source. (plain standard ANSI C).

i've installed the package in directory support/tex2ltx (i've also put
an earlier file of yours, tex2ltx.txt, in there).

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Oct  6 07:11:42 1998
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 11:32:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- update to the ruhyphen package

vladimir volovich writes:

> i've uploaded an update to our `ruhyphen' package (collection of
> russian hyphenation patterns) to
>
>   ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/ruhyphen-980930.tar.gz
>
> please, replace the directory CTAN:language/hyphenation/ruhyphen with
> this new version (i.e. please first remove the old directory, and then
> unpack the new tarball in language/hyphenation, which will unpack into
> a `ruhyphen' subdir).
>
> Changes are:
>
>   * LWN encoding renamed to OT2 throughout the package
>   * README file made more complete
>   * encoding and pattern were made configurable from outside the
>     ruhyphen.tex (to avoid hand-editing in some situations).

thanks.

i've installed the stuff as requested

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Oct  7 05:42:21 1998
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 10:11:27 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: javaTeX upload

tim murphy writes:

> javaTeX -- a Java implementation of TeX
>
> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
> the file javaTeX.tar.gz .
>
> This contains 4 files:
> README.javaTeX, jtex.jar, jtex-java.tar.gz, jtex-src.tar.gz .
>
> From README.javaTeX:
>
> There are three ways of running javaTeX.
> In increasing order of difficulty these are:
>
>         (A) You can just run the classes in jtex.jar .
>
>         (B) You can compile the Java files in jtex-java.tar.gz .
>
>         (C) You can create the Java files from tex.web
>             with the material in jtex.tar.gz .
>
> These options are described more fully below.
> ...
>
> I suggest that this material should go either in .../systems/Java/javaTeX
> or in .../systems/javaTeX , as you prefer.

thanks for the upload.

we (i.e., not just me, for once) have decided to institute
systems/java/javatex (i.e., one of your options, lowercased).  so your
.tar.gz has been expanded in that directory.

interested .tar.gz-challenged people should note that ctan sites
(though not all mirrors) will convert .tar.gz to .zip `on the fly'

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 12 05:32:56 1998
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:07:12 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- paralist v1.0

Bernd Schandl writes:

 > I have uploaded the file
 >
 >         paralist.zip
 >
 > to the /incoming directory of
 >
 >         ftp.dante.de
 >
 > >From the abstract:
 >
 >         This style file provides enumerate and itemize environments that can
 >         be used within paragraphs and format the items either as running
 >         text or as separate paragraphs with a preceding number or symbol.
 >
 > I recommend placing the unpacked files paralist.ins and paralist.dtx in
 >
 >         macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist/
 >

Thanks a lot for your upload. I installed the files as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team

   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Oct 12 10:37:56 1998
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:15:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- SIunits update 0.02

Marcel Heldoorn writesL

> I have uploaded the file SIunits.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> The SIunits package contained in it is intended for LaTeX.
> It typesets physical units following the rules of the International System
> of Units (SI).
>
> It is the updated version 0.02.
>
> I recommend replacing the files in
> /macros/latex/contrib/supported/SIunits/

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Oct 12 10:54:25 1998
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:17:15 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Russian translation of short introduction to latex2e

Boris Tobotras writes:

>       I'm currently uploading my Russian translation of "Not so short
> introduction to LaTeX2e" to dante. Four files are:
>
>       lshortru.zip : source
>       lshrtdvi.zip : DVI
>       lshortps.zip : PostScript, 600dpi
>       lshortbk.zip : the same, for printing a brochure 4 pages per
>                       sheet.
>
>       Changes from previous version:
>
>       - typos and bug fixes, thanks to all who reported them;
>       - only one copy of files now (not two, for unix and dos, as
>               before);
>       - updated to Tobias' september version 3.2.
>
>       Please replace current CTAN copy with those files. Thank you.

i've replaced all the old files in info/rulshort

thanks for the upload (you moved *very* quickly after the new english
version was publised!).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Oct 13 03:03:04 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 08:42:31 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- New dictionary for WinEdt

Aleksander Simonic <winedt@ISTAR.CA> wrote:
> I have just uploaded a new a Polish Dictionary (word list) for use
> with WinEdt to
>
>     ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt.dict/pl.*
>
> Please move the files in this directory to
>
>     tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict/pl.*
>
> WinEdt's Downloads Page has been upgraded to provide links to this
> as well as all other available WinEdt dictionaries on CTAN. For
> more information visit:
>
>         http://home.istar.ca/~winedt/

Thanks for the new files, I added them to tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke

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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Oct 13 03:04:22 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 08:44:09 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- circle.sty

Klaus Georg Barthelmann <barthel@INFORMATIK.UNI-MAINZ.DE> wrote:
> I uploaded circle.sty to ftp.dante.de/incoming and suggest to move it to
>
>     /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/ .
>
> Circle.sty provides circles in math mode. They can be used for the
> nextstep operator of temporal logic, in
> conjunction with \Box and \Diamond (latexsym) or \square and \lozenge
> (amssymb). LaTeX's circles \circ and \bigcirc
> are not of the right size. (L. Lamport did not like the nextstep
> operator, so he obviously did not provide it.)
>
> The circles are taken from the font lcircle10. The package contains some
> hacks to approximate the right size. This
> solution is definitely not sufficient to give a high quality output.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/circle.sty
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke

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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Oct 13 03:04:23 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 08:45:32 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- sauterfonts

Klaus Georg Barthelmann <barthel@INFORMATIK.UNI-MAINZ.DE> wrote:
> last week I uploaded sauterfonts.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de/incoming. Our
> mailer appears to have lost the accompanying
> message (like all other messages of last week), so I try again. Please
> excuse me if you received a similar message before.
>
> The archive unpacks to a directory sauterfonts containing the four files
> README, sauterfonts.fdd, sauterfonts.ins and
> sbbm.sty. (By the way, are long filenames still problematic?) I suggest
> to move it to
>     /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/sauterfonts .
> Another good place would be
>     /pub/tex/fonts/cm/sauter24/latex/contrib ,
> but I haven't asked J\"org Knappen for permission.
>
> The package provides font definition files (plus a replacement for the
> package exscale) to access many of the fonts in
> Sauter's (Knappen's, Holin's) collection. These fonts are available in
> all point sizes and look nicer for such
> ``intermediate'' document sizes as 11pt. I expected something similar to
> exist already, but could not find it. Besides
> that, the package sbbm is an alternative to access the bbm fonts, a nice
> collection of blackboard bold symbols.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/sauterfonts

Reinhard Zierke

--
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Oct 14 05:15:17 1998
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 09:36:45 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- yfonts.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:

> I have uploaded the file yfonts.zip to the /incoming directory
> at ftp.tex.ac.uk.  Please, unpack it to the directory
>
>         macros/latex/contrib/supported/yfonts
>
> thus replacing its current contents.
>
> This is the latest version (1.2) of my LaTeX package "yfonts"
> for typesetting with Y. Haralambous' old german fonts.
> I have provided an improved macro for creating paragraphs with
> embedded initials.  (Special thanks to Bernd Raichle for having
> suggested this.)

i've installed the package as requested,  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From a8603365@UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT Wed Oct 14 12:10:24 1998
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:28:28 +0200
From: Melchior FRANZ <a8603365@UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN-submission: `soul'

Dear CTAN maintainers,

I've just uploaded `soul.tar.gz' to `ftp.dante.de/incoming'.
The archive unpacks to a directory `soul' and provides
hyphenateable spacing out (letterspacing), underlining,
striking out, etc., where the excellent TeX hyphenation
algorithm is used to find the proper hyphens automatically.
The writer's help is not needed in most cases.
The package also provides a mechanism that can be used to
implement similar tasks, that have to treat text syllable by
syllable. This is shown in two examples.

The package is optimized for use with LaTeX2e and I think
it would be best to put it to
      /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul.
      --------------------------------------------
(The package, however, works with plain TeX and with other
packages, too, so it would be nice to have a link to it
from
      /put/tex/macros/plain/conrtrib/supported,
but that's impossible, isn't it?)

Thanks in advance,
however

============================================================
Melchior FRANZ                 Goldschlagstrasse 45/3/37
a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at     A-1150 WIEN
+43.1.7897365                  Austria
============================================================

From R.A.Reese@GRI.HULL.AC.UK Wed Oct 14 13:14:55 1998
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 17:41:56 +0100
From: R. Allan Reese <R.A.Reese@GRI.HULL.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN-submission: `soul'

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Melchior FRANZ wrote:

> ... where the excellent TeX hyphenation
> algorithm is used to find the proper hyphens automatically.

You may have read recently about a young French woman jailed for her
part in several murders, under the influence of her man.  She was
described in my newspaper as "loves-truck".

R. Allan Reese                       Email: r.a.reese@gri.hull.ac.uk

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Oct 15 05:34:34 1998
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:02:09 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- jspell

Joohee Jeong <jhjeong@KYUNGPOOK.AC.KR> wrote:
>
> I have uploaded jspel210.zip to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> This package, consisting of 9 files, should replace the files in the directory
>
>    ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/jspell
>
> Currently, in the dirctory above there is jspell version 2.05.  I would like
> to replace this package with the newer version 2.10.
>
> There are esstentially two changes in this package from the old version.
>
> 1. This version is freeware.  (No feature has been deleted.)
>
> 2. Added a feature that can omit lines starting with > or any other
>     string specified by the user in the configuration file jspell.cfg.
>     This feature is useful in spell-checking a reply to an email message.
 ...
> P.S.  Following is part of the 00readme.txt file in the package.
>
>   -------------------------------------------------------------------
>               JSPELL 2.1 (Release date: Oct.20, 1998)
>
>                 Copyright 1993-1998 by Joohee Jeong
>
>                    Email: jhjeong@bigfoot.com
>
>   -------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Contents
>
>   o  Introduction
>   o  Features
>   o  Installation and configuration
>   o  Licensing and distribution
>   o  Recent changes
>   o  Disclaimer
>
>   -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   Introduction
>
>   JSPELL is an ASCII file spelling checker.
>
>   JSPELL used be a shareware.  But it is now a freeware.
>
>   I may write and release JSPELL for Windows as shareware
>   some time in the future.  But I do not know when.  For the paid
>   registered users of DOS versions of JSPELL, the registration key
>   for the Windows version will be freely sent by email.
>
>   I have added a feature which may be quite useful in replying
>   email messages.  Please refer to the end of this file.
>
>   On-line help file jspell.hlp has not been updated.  I could not
>   update this file because I have lost the source code for generating
>   it.  But the only place that needs updating in the on-line help is
>   the contact information of the author, which is given above.
>
>   I am not going to add any feature to DOS version of JSPELL, but
>   I am willing to fix any (serious) existing bug.  Please report
>   any bug to jhjeong@bigfoot.com.  (Well, I have not received any
>   bug report for several years.  So perhaps there is not a bug
>   in JSPELL anymore.)
>
>   -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   Features
>
>     o Ease of use: Mouse support and on-line help.
>     o Speed: Fast in loading dictionary, spotting misspelled words,
>          and finding suggestions for nearly misspelled words.
>     o Dictionary: Multiple user dictionaries, file specific
>          dictionary, and an accompanying dictionary manager.
>     o Undo: Up to 400 steps
>     o Network support: Each user can have his/her own configuration
>          and personal dictionary while sharing the executables and
>          the base dictionary with other users.
>     o TeX support: Versatile and user configurable.
>     o Ignoring specific lines (e.g., starting with ">"): This feature
>          is useful in spell-checking replies to email messages.
>     o Foreign character support: extended ASCII character or
>          TeX commands (e.g., G\"odel, Erd\H{o}s)
>

Thanks, I replaced the old version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Oct 15 06:03:59 1998
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:11:22 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN-submission: `soul'

you write:

> You may have read recently about a young French woman jailed for her
> part in several murders, under the influence of her man.  She was
> described in my newspaper as "loves-truck".

i didn't notice that -- does that mean it _wasn't_ (shock horror) the
grauniad, or that i wasn't reading carefully enough?

:-)

robin

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Oct 15 05:43:56 1998
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:13:47 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN-submission -- soul

Melchior FRANZ <a8603365@UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT> wrote:
> I've just uploaded `soul.tar.gz' to `ftp.dante.de/incoming'.
> The archive unpacks to a directory `soul' and provides
> hyphenateable spacing out (letterspacing), underlining,
> striking out, etc., where the excellent TeX hyphenation
> algorithm is used to find the proper hyphens automatically.
> The writer's help is not needed in most cases.
> The package also provides a mechanism that can be used to
> implement similar tasks, that have to treat text syllable by
> syllable. This is shown in two examples.
>
> The package is optimized for use with LaTeX2e and I think
> it would be best to put it to
>       /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul.
>       --------------------------------------------
> (The package, however, works with plain TeX and with other
> packages, too, so it would be nice to have a link to it
> from
>       /put/tex/macros/plain/conrtrib/supported,
> but that's impossible, isn't it?)

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the packaged in

        tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul

with a symbolic link to it from

        tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/soul

Reinhard Zierke

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Oct 16 13:37:41 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:13:11 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- multirow.sty

Piet van Oostrum writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming:
> multirow.sty
>
> I would like this to be placed in a new directory
>
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/multirow,
>
> together with the file
> macros/latex209/contrib/misc/bigstrut.sty
> and this file and macros/latex209/contrib/misc/multirow.sty
> replaced by symbolic links.
>
> This is multirow.sty version 1.4
> It has a new option for specifying multirows with a "natural"
> column width.

installed as requested.  to recap:

  bash$ ls -l macros/latex/contrib/supported/multirow/
  total 8
  -rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     TeX         1823 Oct 16 17:52 bigstrut.sty
  -rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     TeX         5650 Oct 16 17:40 multirow.sty

with links from macros/latex209/contrib/misc

i've also updated the pointer to multirow in info/companion.ctan

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Oct 21 09:53:34 1998
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:45:36 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- lilypond 1.0.17

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
> I uploaded LilyPond 1.0.17 (lilypond-1.0.17.tar.gz) to ftp.dante.de,
> to replace tex/support/lilypond/lilypond-1.0.0.tar.gz
>
> The description and location have not changed:
>
> LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter.  This program can print
> beautiful sheet music from a music definition file.  It can also play
> mechanical performances to a MIDI file.  Features include multiple
> staffs, meters, clefs, keys, lyrics, versatile input language, cadenzas,
> beams, slurs, triplets, formatting scores, part extraction.  It includes
> a nice font of musical symbols.

Thanks for the new version.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/lilypond/
as requested

Reinhard Zierke

--
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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Oct 21 11:33:53 1998
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:52:30 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- cwebbin-p16

> From: Andreas Scherer <andreas.scherer@POBOX.COM>
> After the recent update of CWEB 3.43 by Knuth/Levy I have also revised
> the package CWEBBIN based on it.  To make the latest version available
> to the general public I have uploaded the two files
>
>    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin-p16/README.p16
>    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin-p16/cwebbin-p16.tar.gz
>
> CWEBBIN is intended to be a highly portable and slightly extended
> version of CWEB 3.43 for Unix, Win32, and Amiga (and possibly other
> operating systems).  Details are listed in README.p16.
>
> The .tar.gz archive comes with the full source needed to intall and use
> CWEBBIN (but not with the contents of the standard CWEB distribution) as
> well as three binary executables "ctangle.exe", "cweave.exe", and
> "wmerge.exe" for Win32 (console applications compiled with Visual C++
> 4.1).  This time all TeX macros for multiple language support (English,
> French, German, and Italian) and for support of "HyperCWEB" with pdfTeX
> were updated too.
>
> Please install these two files in CTAN at
>
>    CTAN:/tex-archive/web/c_cpp/cwebbin/
>
> You may keep "cwebbin-p14.tar.gz", because it contains Amiga binaries of
> ctangle/cweave/wmerge that are no longer coming with CWEBBIN (p16).  But
> the "p15" files are superseeded by the current distribution.

Done as requested.

Thanks for the submission,
  Reinhard Zierke

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From a8603365@UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT Wed Oct 21 16:59:36 1998
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:36:18 +0200
From: Melchior FRANZ <a8603365@UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission: `crop' update

Dear CTAN maintainers,

I've just uploaded `crop.tar.gz' (v1.1a)
to `ftp.dante.de/incoming'. A little bug in the
amsmath.sty package (, which is already known and will be
fixed in the next release, ) caused a displacement of
the cropmarks, if both packages were used. Apart from this,
some minor changes, such as removing typing errors, were made.

Please unpack the archive in
/macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop.

Thanks, in advance
M.

============================================================
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Goldschlagstrasse 45/3/37         a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at
A-1150 Vienna/Austria                   voice: +43.1.7897365

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Oct 26 01:36:31 1998
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:00:23 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- WinEdt dictionaries

From: Aleksander Simonic <winedt@ISTAR.CA>
> I have just uploaded 3 new WinEdt Dictionaries (Danish, extended
> Polish, South African) to
>
>     ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt-dict/*.*
>
> Please move the files in this directory to
>
>     tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict/
>
> Links (and new material related to multi-lingual setups, etc.) are
> available from the "Downloads" section of WinEdt's Home page:
>
>     http://home.istar.ca/~winedt/

Thanks, I installed the new files as requested.
( By the way, the Pl.* files *are* a replacement for the pl.* files? )

Reinhard Zierke

--
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From s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK Tue Oct 27 10:52:34 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:00:03 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Wilson packages on CTAN


        [ Part 1: "forwarded message" ]


Sebastian Rahtz

----------------------------------------

o The hyphenat package can be used either to disable all hyphenation or to
enable hyphenation within `words' that contain analphabetic characters
(e.g., underscores).

o The xtab package automatically breals long tables so that they can span
multiple pages. It is an extension of the supertabular package.

o The ccaption package provides commands for `continuation' headings and
also a non-specific legend for floats.

o The layouts package enables the display of various elements of a document,
including text positioning on a page, disposition of floats, layout of
lists, footnotes and sectional headings. Facilities are provided for a
document designer to experiment with the layout parameters.

o The bez123 package provides additional facilities for drawing linear,
cubic, and rational quadratic Bezier curves. The multiply package provides a
command for multiplication of a length without numerical overflow.


    Most of the packages are updates of packages currently under
macros/latex/contrib/supported/isostds/iso. I will shortly (tomorrow?) be
uploading a new README and other stuff for the iso directory and asking you
to delete various files so as not to waste CTAN space.

Thank you
Peter W.

Dr. Peter R. Wilson
Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
PO Box 3707, MS 6H-AF, Seattle, WA 98124-2207
(Package delivery: 1600 Lind Ave. SW, Renton, WA 98055)
Tel: (425) 237-3506, Fax: (425) 237-3428
Email: peter.r.wilson@boeing.com

From s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK Tue Oct 27 08:49:18 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:02:18 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: tex4ht on CTAN

I have installed the following on CTAN

 > A converter from (la)tex to hypertext (html, xml, etc)

... to

 >     /tex-archive/support/TeX4ht/

see  http://www.tug.org/applications/tex4ht/index.html for details

Sebastian Rahtz

From s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK Tue Oct 27 08:54:04 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:03:41 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lineno.sty

installed as requested

Sebastian Rahtz


 > (c,d) This is intended as a replacemet for the files in
 >   CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/lineno/
 >
 > The new version fixes some bugs, brings some new features, some new
 > extension styles, and a new fix for the display math problem.  And a
 > manual.
 >
 > Best regards
 > Stephan
 >
 >
 > Appendix:  From the README file
 >
 > The LaTeX package lineno.sty provides line numbers on paragraphs.
 > After TeX has broken a paragraph into lines there will be line numbers
 > attached to them, with the possibility to make references through the
 > LaTeX \ref, \pageref cross reference mechanism.
 >
 > NEW: I wrote a users manual `ulineno.tex'.
 >
 > Since version v2.00, numbering only one in five lines and switching
 > the linenumbers from left to right side of the page in twoside mode is
 > supported.
 >
 > Since version 2.04, lineno.sty defines a wrapper environment for
 > display math.
 >
 >    \begin{linenomath}
 >       $$ any kind of display math $$
 >    \end{linenomath}
 >
 > which should solve the problem to get linenumbers before displays.
 > Line numbers on he display itself are optional.
 >
 > There are some additions to lineno.sty:
 >
 >   ilineno.sty:   Line numbers in internal vertical mode, like in a \parbox
 >                  or \table.
 >
 >   mlineno.sty:   Line numbers with display math: Redefine
 >                  display math environments, to automatically wrap
 >                  the standard display math environments into
 >                  {linenomath}.
 >
 >   numquote.sty:  Defines quote and quotation environments with
 >                  linenumbers, with the numbers indented together with
 >                  the quoted text.
 >
 >   bframe.sty:    Draw a frame around some text, even across page
 >                  breaks. Does not close the frame at page breaks, yet.
 >
 >   itemrule.sty:  Draw a rule down from the bullet next to an itemized
 >                  item.
 >
 >
 > To print the documented soure:
 >
 > Take the style-file `lineno.sty', and feed it to a unix shell, this
 > will produce the source documentation.  (If you have neither UNIX nor
 > AWK, you may need to download the extracted documentation source
 > `lineno.tex' instead.)
 >
 > --
 >
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Stephan Bvttcher                                    FAX: +1-914-591-4540
 > Columbia University, Nevis Labs                     Tel: +1-914-591-2863
 > P.O. Box 137, 136 South Broadway      mailto:stephan@nevis1.columbia.edu
 > Irvington, NY 10533, USA          http://www.nevis.columbia.edu/~stephan
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >

From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Oct 29 02:04:50 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:43:42 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- Count1to v1.21

> From: Martin Schroeder <ms@DREAM.KN-BREMEN.DE>
>
> I have uploaded to the incoming dir of
>         ftp.dante.de
> the file
>         count1to.zip
> containing Version 1.21 of the count1to LaTeX package.
>
> - - From the documentation:
> %%     docstring       = "LaTeX package which sets count1 to count9,
> %%                        which can be used to select certain pages
> %%                        with a driver.
> %%                        Also provides access to the number of pages
> %%                        of the document.
> %%                        Uses the everyshi package.
>
> The only change from version 1.21 is the correction of a small error
> in the TotalPages macro.
>
> - ------------ snipp ------------
>   \item v1.21\efill
>  \subitem \verb*+TotalPages+:\ write to \cs  {@mainaux} instead of \cs  {@auxout}\pfill 5
> - ------------ snapp ------------
>
> The files should be placed in
>         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as requested.

Reinhard Zierke

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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
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From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Oct 29 02:51:28 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:35:20 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- catdoc-0.90

From: Victor B Wagner <vitus@ice.ru>
>
> I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de
> catdoc.tar
>
> which contains distributions of catdoc-0.90 for unix and DOS.
>
> catdoc is program which reads MS-Word files and prints its content
> to stdout as readable ASCII text, optionally escaping characters
> special to TeX and replacing characters, missing from current charset
> by appropriate TeX command.
>
> This version features support for Word 8.0 files, which have UNICODE
> inside and full runtime configurability. Accompaniing GUI viewer
> was also updated to allow users pick charset used in Word file
> by trial and error method.
>
> This files should go to support/catdoc directory, replacing
> its current contents (which is catdoc-0.35, now obsolete)

Thanks for the new version, I installed it as requested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/catdoc

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241
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From a8603365@UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT Thu Oct 29 04:26:52 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:05:13 +0100
From: Melchior FRANZ <a8603365@UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: [Fwd: CTAN submission: `crop' update]

Dear CTAN maintainers,

I guess that the forwarded message has been lost somewhere
(gone to \dev\nul?), so here it is again.

By the way, how can I announce the upload of a new/updated
package without having the *request* (instead of the answer)
shown in comp.text.tex?

TIA
M.

============================================================
Melchior FRANZ            http://unet.univie.ac.at/~a8603365
Goldschlagstrasse 45/3/37         a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at
A-1150 Vienna/Austria                   voice: +43.1.7897365
        [ Part 2: "Included Message" ]

Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:36:18 +0200
From: Melchior FRANZ <a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at>
To: ctan-ann <ctan-ann@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: CTAN submission: `crop' update

Dear CTAN maintainers,

I've just uploaded `crop.tar.gz' (v1.1a)
to `ftp.dante.de/incoming'. A little bug in the
amsmath.sty package (, which is already known and will be
fixed in the next release, ) caused a displacement of
the cropmarks, if both packages were used. Apart from this,
some minor changes, such as removing typing errors, were made.

Please unpack the archive in
/macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop.

Thanks, in advance
M.

============================================================
Melchior FRANZ            http://unet.univie.ac.at/~a8603365
Goldschlagstrasse 45/3/37         a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at
A-1150 Vienna/Austria                   voice: +43.1.7897365


From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Oct 29 06:21:14 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:53:43 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: CTAN submission: `crop' update]

Melchior FRANZ writes:
 > Dear CTAN maintainers,
 >
 > I guess that the forwarded message has been lost somewhere
 > (gone to \dev\nul?), so here it is again.

No the package crop was installed last thursday.

 > By the way, how can I announce the upload of a new/updated
 > package without having the *request* (instead of the answer)
 > shown in comp.text.tex?

By posting it to the proper list

 ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

instead of to this announcement list.

In future, this will happen automatically, as I've just changed this
list (CTAN-ANN) to a moderated list.

--
   Rainer Sch�pf
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    der Universit�t Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct 29 18:58:22 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:11:10 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: FW: CTAN Submission --- tocbibind

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded tocbibind.tar to /incoming at
> tex.ac.uk. Could you please install the package under
> latex/contrib/supported?
>
>     From the README:
>     The tocbibind package can be used to automatically add the
> bibliography and/or the index and/or the contents, etc., to the Table of
> Contents listing.

i've installed the package as requested.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From mgelderman@BIK.ECON.VU.NL Mon Nov  2 14:42:32 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 09:53:35 +0100
From: Maarten Gelderman <mgelderman@BIK.ECON.VU.NL>
Reply-To: TEX-NL <TEX-NL@NIC.SURFNET.NL>
To: TEX-NL@NIC.SURFNET.NL
Subject: CTAN Submission -- catdoc-0.90

From: Victor B Wagner <vitus@ice.ru>
>
> I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de
> catdoc.tar
>
> which contains distributions of catdoc-0.90 for unix and DOS.
>
> catdoc is program which reads MS-Word files and prints its content
> to stdout as readable ASCII text, optionally escaping characters
> special to TeX and replacing characters, missing from current charset
> by appropriate TeX command.
>
> This version features support for Word 8.0 files, which have UNICODE
> inside and full runtime configurability. Accompaniing GUI viewer
> was also updated to allow users pick charset used in Word file
> by trial and error method.
>
> This files should go to support/catdoc directory, replacing
> its current contents (which is catdoc-0.35, now obsolete)

Thanks for the new version, I installed it as requested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/catdoc

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241
                        ab 1.1.1999:  Tel.: (040) 42883-2295/2276 Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Nov  2 07:11:01 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 12:45:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Mac version of Marvosym (correction)

Rebecca and Rowland write:

> Anyway, assuming nothing else has gone wrong, I've now uploaded
> marvosym.zip to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/ again.  This time, it
> contains:
>
>         mac
>           docs
>             obsolete
>               tex-me.tex
>             textures
>           oztex
>             configs
>               addmarvo
>             dvips
>               inputs
>                 config.fmv
>                 fmv.map
>             ps-files
>               marvosym.afm
>               marvosym.pfa
>               readme.txt
>             tex-font
>               misc
>                 fmvr8x.tfm
>           readme.txt
>           the_font.bin  <----  Ha!  Gotcha!
>
>
> As before:
>
> c)  This is a Mac version of the Marvosym fount, already on CTAN.  The
> files include both a PS Type 1 and TrueType version, as well as
> configuration files to use the fount with OzTeX.  You still need the
> marvosym package separately.
>
> d) Suggested location (after discussing the matter with Thomas Henlich
> <thenlich@Rcs1.urz.tu-dresden.de>):
>
> fonts/psfonts/marvosym/mac/
>
> (using a bit of common sense and getting rid of my marvosym directory
> entirely, if you see what I mean)
>
> The difference this time is that the fount files are compressed and encoded
> using Mac tools that understand all about resource forks and how to ensure
> that they're not killed by foreign file systems - the file `the_font.bin'
> should be placed `as is' on CTAN with no decoding or anything done to it.
> Any Mac user with 'net access also has (I assume - can't see how it's
> possible to avoid having them) tools for dealing with the encoding and
> compression, so that's alright then.

i've installed the stuff as a sub-tree as r&r suggests.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Nov  2 07:29:10 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 13:05:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - plari

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho writes:

> I just uploaded plari.tar.gz into ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming.  I suggest
> you untar it in macros/latex/contrib/supported; it will create its own
> directory called plari with all the relevant files in it.
>
> Plari is a LaTeX2e document class for typesetting stageplay scripts.
> For now it is not very fancy, but it will grow.  As the class is work
> in progress, the visual appearance of the typeset result and the class
> user interface will probably change over time, as the document class
> is updated.
>
> The name `plari' is - at least where I've been associating with
> theatre people - Finnish theatre jargon for the physical pile of paper
> that contains a stageplay script.

as good a name as any, i would say.

> This upload is the first public release (19981102) of plari.

thanks for the upload (it's something a lot of people ask for ;-)

i've installed the package as you suggest, in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/plari

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Nov  2 07:36:54 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 13:07:44 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- scale

S�ren Sandmann writes:

> (a) I have uploaded a new version (1.1) of the scale package to
>     ftp.tex.ac.uk
> (b) It is bundled in the file /incoming/scale.tgz
> (c) The package scale is able to scale an entire document by \sqrt{2}
>     og by \magstep{2}.
>     The new thing in this version is the magstep2 option
> (d) I would recommend placing the submission in
>     /macros/latex/contrib/supported/scale, thereby replacing the old
>     version of scale.

i've installed the update as you request.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov  2 07:50:29 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 14:29:11 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- europs

 > I have just uploaded the file "europs.tar.gz" to ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > europs provides some files to use Adobe's Euro currency symbol fonts from
 > LaTeX. The file differs from the available solutions in some ways:
 >
 >  - The fonts are named using Karl Berry's naming scheme
 >
 >  - fd files and a style file are included to use the fonts directly from
 >    LaTeX
 >
 >  - The style provides four macros: \EURtm, \EURhv, \EURcr and \EUR (stolen
 >    from marvosym). The actual symbol they produce depends on the currently
 >    active font, i.e. they follow font changes caused by \text..{} and other
 >    NFSS commands.
 >
 > The actual Type 1 fonts are of course not included, they have to be fetched
 > from Adobe's web- or ftp-server.
 >
 > A good place for the (unpacked) archive would probably be
 >
 >    CTAN:fonts/europs
 >
 > right next to euro and eurosym.
 >
 > --
 >      Joern Clausen

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files as suggested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov  2 08:03:34 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 14:31:53 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- `ut-thesis' files

Francois Pitt writes:
 > I have just uploaded the following three files to `ftp.dante.de',
 > in the directory "/incoming/fpitt/":
 >
 >     README.ut-thesis
 >     ut-thesis.cls
 >     ut-thesis.tex
 >
 > These files should probably go in the directory
 > "/tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/ut-thesis/".

Thanks a lot I installed the latest files as suggested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf


 >
 > Here is the contents of the README file:
 >
 > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 > %%
 > %%  `UT-THESIS' README file
 > %%  Copyright (c) 1998 by Francois Pitt
 > %%  Last Update: 1998 October 31
 > %%
 > %%  This directory contains the two files described below,
 > %%  together with this README file.  For more information, please
 > %%  read the comments at the beginning of each file.
 > %%
 > %%  Send all bugs, questions, comments, suggestions, etc. to the
 > %%  author, at <fpitt@cs.utoronto.ca>.
 > %%
 > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 > %%
 > %%  UT-THESIS.CLS (v1.3)
 > %%  Copyright (c) 1998 by Francois Pitt
 > %%  Last Update: 1998 October 31
 > %%
 > %%  LaTeX2e class file for formatting documents according to the
 > %%  School of Graduate Studies' guidelines for theses at the
 > %%  University of Toronto (conforms to SGS guidelines of 07/97).
 > %%
 > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 > %%
 > %%  UT-THESIS.TEX
 > %%  Copyright (c) 1998 by Francois Pitt
 > %%  Last Update: 1998 October 31
 > %%
 > %%  Skeleton LaTeX2e file for the preparation of theses at UofT;
 > %%  conforms to the School of Graduate Studies' guidelines of 07/97.
 > %%  To be used in conjunction with class file `ut-thesis.cls'.
 > %%
 > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 >
 > Thank you!
 >
 >  (= Francois =)

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov  2 08:10:53 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 14:50:24 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <paper1k.zip>

Wenzel Matiaske writes:
 > Dear CTAN team,
 >
 > I uploaded paper1k.zip, an update of my LaTeX2e package paper. Please store
 > the package under the supported section of LaTeX2e macros and delete the
 > elder ones.
 >
 > Thanks a lot and best regards
 >
 > //wenzel

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/paper

Could you please in future always follow the instructions detailed in
README.upload and list all necessary information about your package?
Thank you.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov  2 08:24:22 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 15:04:06 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- fi8hyph.tex

Timo Hellgren writes:
 > I have uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/
 > the file fi8hyph.tex.
 >
 > It contains the hyphenation patterns for Finnish language.
 > This file is modified from fihyph.tex to make the
 > Finnish accented letters to work with LaTeX2e.
 > Basically, I just added some \catcode \uccode and \lccode commands after
 > the model used in the hyphenation files for the other European
 > languages.
 >
 > Please add this file in CTAN/language/hyphenation/
 >
 > --
 > Timo Hellgren

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the file as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Nov  2 10:55:48 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 16:25:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- shortlst

Mogens Lemvig Hansen writes:

> I have uploaded  shortlst.dtx  to  /incoming  on  ftp.tex.ac.uk
> I suggest placing it in CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported
>
> The shortlst Package provides four environments for typesetting
> lists of short items.
>         1. Alpha        2. This item is too long        3. Gamma
>         4. Delta        5. Epsilon      6. Zeta         7. Eta
>         8 Theta
> The input is very similar to the that of the regular itemize and
> enumerate environments.
> \begin{shortenumerate}
> \item Alpha
> \item This item is too long
> \item \label{here}Gamma
> \item Delta
> \item Epsilon
> \item Zeta
> \item Eta
> \iem Theta
> \end{shortenumerate}

thanks for the upload.

we don't put single files at the supported/ level, so i've installed

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/shortlst/shortlst.dtx

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Nov  4 14:06:36 1998
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 20:42:46 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- huhyph.tex Hung hyph patterns new version

Gyula Mayer writes:

 > You will find in
 >  ftp.dante.de/incoming/huhyph.zip
 > one single file, containing
 > a new version
 > the hyphenation patterns for the
 > Hungarian language.
 > I have zipped it only to preserve the modification date.
 > Please unzip and place huhyph.tex into
 >
 > .../tex/language/hyphenation/

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the file as requested and
will in future mirror from the location you mention.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Nov  4 14:05:29 1998
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 20:44:39 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ntheorem.dtx

Andreas Schlechte writes:

 >  i've just uploaded a new version of ntheorem.dtx. Please
 >  replace the one in /macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/ntheorem/
 >
 >  All other Information in the Directory is still up to date.

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the file in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntheorem/ntheorem.dtx

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Nov  5 08:45:05 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 14:12:37 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- eurofont LaTeX package (re-sent)

> (a) Uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/
>
> (b) Uploaded file eurofont.zip which should be decompressed before putting
> it on CTAN.
>
> (c) The eurofont package does not have a fount containing euro symbols.
> Instead, it provides a command, \euro, that prints a euro symbol; the
> particular symbol printed will in general change depending on the fount
> family, weight, and shape in use at the time. This symbol can come from any
> source, and the package user can have complete control over which euro
> symbol is used in any given situation. The package is pre-configured to
> behave sensibly with many common text founts and available euro symbols. I
> have tried to make configuring the package fairly easy.
>
> The \euro command can print `faked' euro symbols from a C with two lines
> across it when no suitable real euro symbol is available; the package also
> includes code for printing fake bold euro symbols for use when no real bold
> symbol exists, as well as pre-configured support for a faked italic version
> of the Marvosym fount.
>
> Eurofont comes set up to use euro symbols from Adobe's Eurofonts, the
> Marvosym fount, the Eurosym fount, and any available Text Companion founts.
> The selection between these can be done using options passed to the
> package. The eurofont package knows about the China2e fount's euro symbol,
> and can be configured to use it.
>
> (d) I suggest that this package be installed in this directory:
>
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/eurofont/

i have installed the package, etc., as requested

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Nov  5 09:03:35 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 15:31:47 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- `ut-thesis' files: UPDATE

Francois Pitt writes:
 > On `ftp.dante.de', in the directory "/incoming/fpitt/", I have just
 > uploaded the following three files:
 >
 >     README.ut-thesis
 >     ut-thesis.tex
 >     ut-thesis.cls
 >
 > which contain corrections and updates of the files in the directory
 > "/tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/ut-thesis/".  Please
 > update these files.
 >
 > Thank you!
 >
 >  (= Francois =)

Thanks a lot, I installed the update in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/ut-thesis

For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Nov  5 09:06:21 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 15:32:49 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- fepslatex.ps

Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes:

 > I just uploaded fepslatex.ps in /incoming (ftp.dante.de).
 > It is a corrected version of the french version of
 > the paper epslatex.(ps pdf) by Keith Reckdahl about the
 > inclusion of graphics and management of floats in a
 > LaTeX document. These are mainly corrections of typos
 > and other rather small errors.
 >
 > Please replace the curret version in tex-archive/info by
 > the new one.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov  9 06:28:36 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 13:00:03 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- sidecap

Rolf Niepraschk writes:
 > We have upload a new version of sidecap to the /incoming
 > directory of ftp.dante.de. The archive name is sidecap.zip.
 > Please remove the contents of
 >
 >    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/sidecap
 >
 > and install the new files at the same place.
 >
 > >From the README:
 >
 > =============================
 > The sidecap package.
 >
 > This package defines the new environments SCfigure and SCtable,
 > analogous to figure and table, which make it easy to typeset
 > captions sideways. The package knows the options outercaption,
 > innercaption, leftcaption and rightcaption.
 > =============================
 >
 > The version corrects some alignment problems and supports two
 > column layout (SCfigure*, SCtable*).
 >
 >
 >                          Rolf Niepraschk, Hubert Gaesslein

Thanks a lot for your update, I installed it in the indicated
location.
  For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov  9 06:26:45 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 13:02:09 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ut-backref.sty

Sven Utcke writes:
 > Dear CTAN team,
 >
 > I have uploaded ut-backref.sty to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming
 >
 > this is a hacked version of backref.sty, which adds to bibliography
 > entries an entry saying where this particular reference was cited.
 >
 > Improvements:
 > * compressed output, each page is only mentioned once (provided they
 >   are in order, i.e. no \cite in floats)
 > * The style of the back-reference is easier customisable.
 >
 > Problems:
 > * \cite in float might lead to double pagenumbers.
 > * Doesn't work for citations that follow the bibliography, say an
 >   appendix.
 > * I didn't really know what I was doing, so the TeX used is extremely
 >   ugly.  I would really appreciate comments on that.
 > * I've probably broken several other things without noticing (see
 >   above).  Although of course it works for me :-)
 >
 > TODO:
 > * Compression of page ranges, e.g. 18,20,21,22,24 -> 18,20--22,24
 > * Maybe this should use LaTeX's reference mechanism?
 > * Code should be cleaned up by someone more knowledgeable than I am.
 >
 > I suggest you move this to macros/latex/contrib/other/fragments, as
 > suggested in comp.text.tex
 >
 > Sven

Thanks a lot for your upload. I installed the file in

  macros/latex/contrib/other/fragments/ut-backref.sty

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Nov 10 07:29:59 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:40:11 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- eurosans.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:

 > I have uploaded the file eurosans.zip to the /incoming directory
 > at ftp.dante.de.  This archive contains the LaTeX package
 > `eurosans'.  Here's an excerpt from the enclosed `readme' file:
 >
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------
 > The LaTeX package eurosans provides a convenient interface
 > for using the free Adobe Euro fonts in Type 1 (PostScript)
 > format.  Loading the package defines a new command
 >
 >   \euro
 >
 > which typesets an Euro symbol.  The symbol is always taken
 > from the `EuroSans' family, with the weight (medium or
 > boldface) and shape (normal or oblique) varying according to
 > the font currently selected.
 >
 > This Euro symbol meets the official design and matches
 > almost any font family very well, except for typewriter
 > fonts.
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > The proposed directory for placing the archive contents is:
 >
 >         macros/latex/contrib/supported/eurosans
 >
 > Thank you
 >
 > Walter

Thank you for your upload, I installed it as suggested.

  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Nov 10 07:19:51 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:42:43 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: ctan submission -- esindex.sty

Javier Bezos writes:

 > I have just uploaded to dante.ctan.org/incoming the files esindex.sty, and
 > esindex.tex. These files should be added to the files currently under
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/bezos. The files in this directory should
 > be: accents.dtx, accents.ins, tensind.tex, tensind.sty, esindex.sty, and
 > esindex.tex.
 >
 > This package is intended to easy typing of index entries in Spanish
 > documents. The command \esindex{ca'n'on} is equivalent to
 > \index{can^^ffon@ca'n'on}. It accepts the optional arguments of the
 > index package by D. Jones, too.

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Nov 11 04:25:57 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:39:48 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- Listings.dtx

From: Carsten Heinz <cheinz@WMPI14.MATH.UNI-WUPPERTAL.DE>
> I've put a new release of my listings package at ftp.dante.de/incoming
> (file name is listings.zip). The location of the package is
>
>         /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/listings
>
> Please move the old version to a subdirectory (for example v017).
>
> Some notes for the TeX news group:
>
>  1) The listings package is a pretty source code printer, which
>     interfaces with the  fancyvrb  package now.
>
>  2) The new release *needs* the  keyval  package from the graphics
>     bundle by David Carlisle. Thus download graphics from CTAN
>
>         macros/latex/packages/graphics/
>
>     if it's not available on your platform.
>
>  3) The used LaTeX format must not be too old. 1996/12/01 should be
>     sufficient, I think.
>
>  4) Listings v0.19 is *incompatible* to version 0.17: All (adjustable)
>     parameters use the "key=value" interface from keyval.sty and the
>     remaining user commands use the prefix "lst".
>
>  5) The development of the user interface seems to be finished, so there
>     will be no changes in future. This does not apply to the two 'language
>     defining' commands, where changes are already planned.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241
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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Nov 11 04:20:28 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:42:59 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- apa.cls v1.22

From: Athanassios Protopapas <protopap@scilearn.com>
>
> I have just uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file apa.tar.gz
> which contains the following:
>
> apa/README
> apa/apa.cls
> apa/apacls.txt
> apa/apaenum.txt
> apa/examples.tex
>
> This is a minor upgrade for apa.cls, the LaTeX2e class for typesetting
> documents according to the APA manual (4th ed) recommendations
> for manuscript submission, or in an APA-journal look, or as regular
> LaTeX documents, with the switch of a class parameter.  The current
> version is 1.22 and is datestamped as 1998/09/02.  It replaces
> version 1.2 of apa.cls (and accompanying documentation) currently
> found at CTAN under
>
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/apa
>
> Unless any bugs are reported, this will be the final version of apa.cls
> as far as I am concerned, and this is why I am uploading a minor upgrade.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241
                        ab 1.1.1999:  Tel.: (040) 42883-2295/2276 Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Nov 11 04:18:22 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:46:00 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- getrefs.zip

Stefan A. Deutscher writes:
[he has submitted]
> getrefs.zip:                                              29. July 1998
>
> This package contains a BibTeX style file and a LaTeX2e document
> template to facilitate the retrieval of references from a library.
> Here is the idea, posted as a question to comp.text.tex in July 1998:
>
>   When I read a paper I normally find a few references interesting, but
>   can't retrieve them immediately, be it because my desk is not in the
>   library, or because the library doesn't carry the stuff, anyway, and I
>   have to pile up a few references before travelling to another library
>   (or ordering copies). So, I put all these references in my BibTeX data
>   base with a distinctive tag ('get ref'), and once in a while I output
>   only those in a separate file, type set them and go wild in the
>   library.
>
>   Now, I'd love to have a BibTeX style that allows me to obtain the type
>   set version of this BibTeX input file sorted first according to source
>   (say, 'J. Phys. B' before 'Phys. Rev.' before 'Phys. Rev. B' before
>   'Zeitschrift f\"ur Physik' etc.), and within each group ordered
>   according to year, and within this according to volume, possibly down
>   to issue and page number.
>
>   This would make life a lot easier for me or for who ever I ask to
>   retrieve the papers for me, especially when some stuff is on micro
>   film, other journals on display, others in storage etc.
>
>   Is there anything like this out there, or is it easy to cook up
>   something like this?
>
>
> With the help of Nicolas Holzschuch and the BibTeX author, Oren
> Patashnik, the problem was easily solved. Nicolas emailed me the
> suggestion for a modification of an existing BibTeX style file, Oren
> made a few suggestions to make the sorting and handling of page ranges a
> bit more robust, and there it was. I don't think I would have been able
> to cook this up in a reasonable amount of time w/o reading the 'LaTeX
> companion' again, so the credit really ought to go to those two people.
> I just want to make the result available to avoid doubling of efforts,
> since I think I am not the only one who could benefit from such a
> solution.
>
> I have chosen to modify the 'abbrv' style file and rename it to
> 'getrefs.bst', which together with the included 'getrefs.tex'
> accomplishes the desired result.
>
> Once you have put the BibTeX style file 'getrefs.bst' in a directory
> searched by  (e.g. the one where your other *.bst files reside)
> and a copy of 'getrefs.tex' in your tex input path, only the following
> steps are needed:
>
> 1. Extract from your BibTeX data base file(s) all entries for which you
>    want to retrieve the papers from the library, and copy them into a
>    separate file, say, getrefs.bib.
>
>    (I label the title field as 'no idea yet -- get ref!', so it is easy
>    to extract the entries with tools such as bibtool (from CTAN) or even
>    sed.)
>
> 2. Run LaTeX and BibTeX on the file getrefs.tex:
>
>    latex getrefs
>    bibtex getrefs
>    latex getrefs
>    latex getrefs
>
> 3. Print the resulting getrefs.dvi file.
>
> 4. Find someone to go to the library for you ...

the contents of that .zip file are now in biblio/bibtex/contrib/getrefs/

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Nov 11 04:28:21 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:50:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- eurofont LaTeX package

Rebecca and Rowland write(s):

> (a) Uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/
>
> (b) Uploaded file eurofont.zip which should be decompressed before putting
> it on CTAN.
>
> (c) The eurofont package does not have a fount containing euro symbols.
> Instead, it provides a command, \euro, that prints a euro symbol; the
> particular symbol printed will in general change depending on the fount
> family, weight, and shape in use at the time. This symbol can come from any
> source, and the package user can have complete control over which euro
> symbol is used in any given situation. The package is pre-configured to
> behave sensibly with many common text founts and available euro symbols. I
> have tried to make configuring the package fairly easy.
>
> The \euro command can print `faked' euro symbols from a C with two lines
> across it when no suitable real euro symbol is available; the package also
> includes code for printing fake bold euro symbols for use when no real bold
> symbol exists, as well as pre-configured support for a faked italic version
> of the Marvosym fount.
>
> Eurofont comes set up to use euro symbols from Adobe's Eurofonts, the
> Marvosym fount, the Eurosym fount, and any available Text Companion founts.
> The selection between these can be done using options passed to the
> package. The eurofont package knows about the China2e fount's euro symbol,
> and can be configured to use it.
>
> (d) I suggest that this package be installed in this directory:
>
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/eurofont/
>
> replacing the earlier version.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This is version 1.1 of Eurofont, which fixes a problem with the suggested
> psfonts.map file entries for the Y&Y `ATM compatible' re-worked Marvosym
> fount; these should read:
>
> Mac:
>
> fmvr8x   Marvosym                    <Marvo
> fmvri8x  Marvosym " .167 SlantFont"  <Marvo
>
> Everyone(?) else:
>
> fmvr8x   Marvosym                    <marvosym.pfb
> fmvri8x  Marvosym " .167 SlantFont"  <marvosym.pfb
>
> (thanks to "Walter Schmidt" <wschmi@ibm.net> for the report and fix)
>
> There are no changes to the package code itself.

i have installed this .zip file as requested (there, was that fast
enough?)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Nov 11 08:17:44 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:39:11 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- WMF2E11.ZIP

From: Wolfgang Schulter <schulter@TEHP01.DOFN.DE>
>
> I've just uploaded the ZIP-archive WMF2E11.ZIP to ftp.dante.de/incoming,
> which is an update for the existing package
>
> support/wmf2eps/wmf2e10.zip
>
> Thus, the existing version 1.0 should be replaced by the current version 1.1.
>
> WMF2EPS 1.1 simplifies the production of EPS graphics under Windows95/NT,
> further details can be found in README.TXT and WMF2EPS.HLP inside the archive.

Thanks for the update;  I installed it in tex-archive/support/wmf2eps
as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Nov 12 02:40:31 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:08:06 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- sauterfonts

From: Klaus Georg Barthelmann <barthel@INFORMATIK.UNI-MAINZ.DE>
>
> I just uploaded sauterfonts.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de:/incoming. The file unpacks
> to a directory sauterfonts. It is meant to replace
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/sauterfonts.
>
> This a slightly corrected version of a bundle whose purpose is to make the
> fonts in Sauter's (Knappen's, Holin's) collection accessible to LaTeX. There
> was a bug in conjunction with the StMaryRoad symbol fonts; the .fd file had
> to be renamed from stmaryrd.fd to stmryrd.fd.

Thanks for the upload; I installed the new version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Nov 16 02:22:41 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 08:59:57 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- latex2rtf version 1.8

From: Wilfried Hennings <W.Hennings@FZ-JUELICH.DE>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission /latex2rtf version 1.8
> X-To:         CTAN@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de
> To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN
>               <CTAN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
>
> I uploaded from isr016.isr.kfa-juelich.de
> to ftp.dante.de/incoming
> into the subdirectory /latex2rtf
> the following files :
>   latex2rtf-1.8.tar.gz
>   l2r18dos.zip
>   l2r18w32.zip
>   readme.txt
> these files should be put into /pub/tex/support/latex2rtf

Thanks for submitting the new version.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/latex2rtf replacing the old version 1.1

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Nov 17 11:08:52 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:45:36 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submissions -- manyfoot

From: "A. I. Rozhenko" <rozhenko@OAPMG.SSCC.RU>
> (a) I have uploaded new package for LaTeX-2e to ftp.dante.de/incoming site.
>
> (b) The package files are zipped in MANYFOOT.ZIP
>
> (c) The package implements a command, |\newfootnote|, that adds footnote
> levels to the standard \LaTeX's footnote mechanism. Footnotes of every
> additional level are automatically grouped together on a \LaTeXe{}
> output page and are separated from another levels by the special
> vertical spaces. The command |\newfootnote| allows customisation of the
> way foonotes of additional level be represented in \LaTeXe{} documents.
> Two customisation styles are available now: the |plain| style is the
> ordinary \LaTeX's style of footnote representation; the |para| style
> causes footnotes to be typeset as a run-in paragraph (derived from
> Donald Knuth's \TeX book and from anouther sources such as the package
> |fnpara| by Dominik Wujastyk and Chris Rowley and the package |footmisc|
> by Robin Fairbairns).
>
> (d) I want to place the submission to
>     /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
  for the CTAN team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Nov 18 04:06:50 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:35:57 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- sectsty v1.5.3 LaTeX2e package

r&r write[s]:

> a) Uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/sectsty/
>
> b) Files sectsty.dtx and sectsty.ins
>
> c)
>
> Sectsty is a LaTeX2e package to help you change the style of any or all of
> LaTeX's sectional headers in the article, book, or report classes. The
> titlesec package offers an alternative approach. The current version
> (1.5.3) of sectsty fixes two bugs in the code to underline sectional
> headers.
>
> (18th November 1998)
>
> d) I suggest that these files replace the old version of sectsty at:
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/sectsty/
>
> Rowland.

i've installed as requested.  thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Nov 19 04:02:33 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 09:34:59 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- the epigraph package

peter r wilson writes:
>     I have just uploaded epigraph.tar to the incoming directory at
> ftp.tex.ac.uk. Could you please install this in ...latex/contrib/supported.
>
> From the README
>     The epigraph package is designed for typesetting epigraphs --- the pithy
> quotations often found at the start (or end) of a chapter. Both single
> epigraphs and lists of epigraphs are catered for. Various aspects are easily
> configurable.

i've installed macros/latex/contrib/supported/epigraph as requested.
thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Nov 19 05:00:27 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:35:03 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- fltpage

Sebastian Gross writes:

 > > Your message should state
 > > (a) which site you have uploaded to
 >
 > I just uploaded to /incoming
 >
 > > (b) state what file(s) you have uploaded,
 >
 > the compressed zip file fltpage,
 >
 > > (c) include a brief overview of what the file(s) is/are intended to do,
 >
 > which contains the LaTeX documented style fltpage.dtx and the installation script fltpage.ins.  The following information in BibTeX format, might help you
 > to classify my contribution...
 >
 > @LaTeX-package-file{
 >  author     = {Sebastian Gross},
 >  version    = {0.3},
 >  date       = {13 Nov 1998},
 >  filename   = {fltpage.dtx},
 >  email      = {seppel@zedat.fu-berlin.de},
 >  codetable  = {ISO/ASCII},
 >  keywords   = {LaTeX2e, float, table, figure, caption, FPfigure, FPtable},
 >  supported  = {yes},
 >  docstring  = {LaTeX package which defines new environments placing captions
 >               of tables and figures on the facing/following page.}
 > }
 >
 > > (d) [optionally, but urgently requested] where you recommend placing your > submission within the CTAN directory hierarchy.
 >
 > My wish for the place would be a new directory:
 >  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fltpage
 >
 > Finaly i want to express my great pleasure about the clear systematics of your archive.  Thank your for your continuing efforts to administrate CTAN...
 >
 > Sincerly,
 >
 > Sebastian Gross

Thanks for your upload, I installed the files as suggested.
For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Nov 19 05:00:49 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:35:06 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- fullblck.sty

James H. Cloos Jr. writes:
 > I've uploaded fullblck.sty to <ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/fullblck.sty>.
 >
 > This file, when \usepackage{}ed in a \documentclass{letter} document
 > sets the letter in a fullblock style (everything at the left margin).
 >
 > I'd suggest putting it someplace under macros/latex/contrib/supported/.
 >
 > A copy will also always be found at <http://www.jhcloos.com/ftp/tex/>.
 >
 > -JimC

Thanks for your upload, I installed the file in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/fullblck/fullblck.sty

As for the URL: we do not have a method for auomatic update via http,
only via ftp.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Nov 22 06:38:20 1998
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 13:01:47 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- WinShell 1.3

From: Ingo de Boer <idb@IBT.ETEC.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE>
>
> i uploaded a new version of winshell in the
> incoming/winshell directory
>
> please replace all the files in the
> tex/pub/systems/win32/winshell directory
>
> -----------------------------
> WinShell for Windows 95 / NT 4.0
>
> Version 1.3 - 11/20/1998
>
> (c) Ingo de Boer, 1998
>
> this software is for free!
> be free to copy and distribute!
>
> contact me for credits or bugs:
> idb@ibt.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de
>
>
> What is WinShell:
> =================
>
> WinShell ist a graphical user interface for easy working
> with TeX. It is NOT a TeX-System. You need an additional
> TeX-package for DOS/Windows:
>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/msdos/ or
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/ (recommended)
>
> To make it even better you may use the ghostviewer:
>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/support/ghostscript/aladdin/ and
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/support/ghostscript/rjl/
>
> If you don't like the DVI-Viewer from the packages:
>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/dviware/dviwin/
>
>
> What is new:
> ============
>
> - userdata - storage:
>     Windows NT4.0 in the Profiles-directory
>     Windows 95    in the WinShell-directory
>
>   existing userdata should be moved to the appropriate directory
>   and renamed as followed:
>
>     WinShell.ini
>     WinShell.macros
>     UserTools.bmp     ->  WinShellTools.bmp
>     UserMacros.bmp    ->  WinShellMacros.bmp
>     Commands.txt      ->  WinShell.commands
>     Environments.txt  ->  WinShell.environments
>
> - better Syntax-Highlightning
>
>   Commands and Environments can be definied in
>
>     WinShell.commands
>     WinShell.environments
>
> - differentiation between Main-TeX-Document and current TeX-Document
>
> - toggle wrap mode
>
>
> Features:
> =========
>
> - MDI Application: multiple documents
> - a window to show the log-file
> - userdefined Programs
> - configure ToolBars (Symbols, userdef. Programs, Macros)
> - define Macros
> - Syntax-Highlightning
> - choose font
> - Unix-files can be read.
> - Command-Line-Arguments: You may open Winshell with
>
>     winshell -m main_tex_file -c current_tex_file -l current_line
>
> If i forgot to mention any features and someone finds them
> in my program: please send a mail ;)
>
>
> Installation:
> =============
>
> Copy the files from the zip-archive to any directory
>
>
> Your first start:
> =================
>
> shouldn't make any problems. The toolbars for the little
> helpers are tied to the menubar. They can be moved around
> and you can show or hide them. This condition will be saved
> when regularly leaving the program and be restored at the
> next program start.
>
> The rest you'll find in 'Help index - Getting started'.
>
>
> What else:
> ==========
>
> There is an english Latex2e-help included taken from
> the mikTeX-package.
>
> ____________________
> Ingo de Boer
> email: idb@ibt.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de

Thanks for the new version.  I installed it on ftp.dante.de as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Nov 22 06:40:29 1998
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 13:08:57 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- 4TeX 5.0 beta 4

From: Erik Frambach <E.H.M.Frambach@eco.rug.nl>
>
> I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de:
> 4tex50b4.zip
> It contains the first official beta release of 4TeX version 5.0 for
> Windows 95/98/NT.
> I suggest you install it in systems/win32/4tex/. You can unzip everything,
> or just leave it zipped. In the latter case you should extract the file
> 0-README! from the zip file. That should suffice. It contains all the
> relevant information.
> Please delete everything in systems/msdos/4alltex/: it's obsolete and not
> supported anymore.
>
> Now a few of the highlights of 4TeX 5.0:
> - Multilingual interface: 4TeX "speaks" English, Dutch, Polish, French,
>   Czech, Slovak, German and Russian. You can change language on-the-fly.
> - A brand new spell-checker: 4Spell. It understands TeX, HTML and RTF.
>   Highly configurable, so it will work with any flavor of TeX/LaTeX/
>   ConTeXt/TeXinfo or whatever. It uses the same "engine" as WinEdt and
>   the same dictionaries.
> - A brand new project viewer: 4Project. It analyses your input files,
>   lists headings, labels, references, citations and more. From each item
>   you are only one "click" away from editing the file at that point, or
>   spell-checking the file.
> - Partial compilation: mark a block of text in your editor and 4TeX will
>   intelligently compile just that small part and display it.
> - 4TeX can run as a tiny "speed bar" with no more than the essential
>   buttons visible. Very handy to lay on top of your editor.
> - Extensive online help is available.
> - Designed to work with Popineau's Web2c Win32 TeX implementation,
>   but it will work just as well with any other, such as MikTeX or emTeX.

Thanks for the upload!  I installed the zip archive and the 0-README! file
in tex-archive/systems/win32/4tex as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Nov 23 09:17:36 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:42:48 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission - TTF2MF

From: "Oleg V. Motygin" <mov@SNARK.IPME.RU>
>
> I uploaded to  ftp.dante.de  two files collected in directory
> TTF2MF. These are:
>       readme
>       ttf2mf.zip
> Please put these files to the directory support/ttf2mf
> instead of existing files ttf2mf.zip+notes.txt.

Thanks for you update, I installed the new files as requested.

> I am not sure that the uploading was successful. The size
> of ttf2mf.zip should be 28011 bytes. Please check this.

Done. Your archive is complete.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Nov 26 05:13:36 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:33:39 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- setspace.sty version 6.4 (bugfix)

Geoffrey Tobin wrtes:
> I have just uploaded to the
>
> (a)  UK CTAN's /incoming directory
>
> (b)  setspace.sty
>
> (c)  Version 6.4 is a bugfix for the onehalfspace and doublespace
> environments, which now include \begingroup as required to match
> \restore@spacing which contains an \endgroup.
>
> (d)  Recommended location on CTAN:  To replace the earlier version
> in:
>
>     macros/latex/contrib/supported/setspace/

i've installed the package as suggested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Nov 26 08:47:53 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 15:14:43 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: KOMA Script

I installed a new version of the KOMA script classes in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Nov 28 06:04:33 1998
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:52:04 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- shortlst

Mogens Lemvig Hansen writes:

> I have uploaded  shortlst.dtx  to  /incoming  on  ftp.tex.ac.uk
> It is a bug-fix of
> CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/shortlst/shortlst.dtx
> which it should replace.
>
> The shortlst Package provides four environments for typesetting
> lists of short items.
>         1. Alpha        2. This item is too long        3. Gamma
>         4. Delta        5. Epsilon      6. Zeta         7. Eta
>         8 Theta
> The input is very similar to that of the regular itemize and
> enumerate environments.
> \begin{shortenumerate}
> \item Alpha
> \item This item is too long
> \item \label{here}Gamma
> \item Delta
> \item Epsilon
> \item Zeta
> \item Eta
> \iem Theta
> \end{shortenumerate}

i've installed the new copy as requested.  thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Nov 30 04:08:43 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:24:05 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- pb-diagram 5.0

Paul Burchard wrote:

> This submission spec'd below is the most recent version of my pb-diagram
> package.  It now supports the use of either Xy-pic fonts or lams fonts
> for fancy arrows, and is distributed under the terms of the GPL (except
> for the optional code and fonts derived from LAMS-TeX).
>
> Uploaded Files:
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/pb-diagram-5.0.tar.gz
>
> Desired CTAN Destination:
> /macros/latex/contrib/supported/pb-diagram/

i've done that.  thanks for the upload.

> (Note: for some reason the "mf" subdirectory has never shown up on TUG's
> CTAN mirror.)

that's because it had disappeared from here, where (iirc) it was
originally uploaded.  i'm sorry about that -- i didn't notice it
going, so could possible do anything about it.  mended now, of course.

(incidentally, ctan.tug.org is a ctan `proper', and updates via the
ctan weak consistency mechanism as well as by a nightly mirror...)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec  1 03:58:22 1998
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 09:41:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submissions -- layouts v2.2 and epigraph v1.1 packages

Peter R. Wilson wrotes:

>     I have uploaded layouts.tar to the incoming directory at ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>
> From the README
>
>     The layouts package enables the display of various elements of a
> document's layout, including text positioning on a page, disposition of
> floats, layouts of lists, footnotes and sectional headings. Facilities are
> provided for a document designer to experiment with the layout parameters.
>
> Changes in version 2.2
> o Added drawing of font boxes
> o Added paragraph layout (but forgot to add this to the README I just sent).
>
>     Could you please replace the current layouts package in
> ...latex/contrib/supported with the new version.

and

>     I have uploaded epigraph.tar to the incoming directory at ftp.tex.ac.uk.
> Could you please replace the current epigraph package in
> .../latex/contrib/supported with the new version.
>
> Note on the changes:
> o By popular demand I have added a facility to typeset epigraphs before
> chapter titles. This works by defining a new page style for chapter pages
> which will override any page style called out by a chapter command.

i have installed both packages as suggested.  thanks for the uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec  2 04:43:34 1998
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 10:16:39 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Dvipdfm (DVI to PDF translator) update (fwd)

Mark Wicks writes (in comp.text.tex)
   I am releasing version 0.7.3 of dvipdfm.  It's
changed a bit from my initial release last week.

   You can get it at

   http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/

   Here is a summary of the changes:
    - Font mapping and re-encoding support (uses same .enc
      files as dvips).  This allows you to use standard
      PostScript fonts.
    - Now supports 8 bit character sets.
    - Support for LaTeX graphics bundle and hyperref
      (My .def files are included, now, but Sebastian Rahtz is
      working on an official version to be distributed with hyperref.
    - Source tree has been reorganized to be consistent with
      texk. (You need a standard texk source tree to compile it.)
    - Many bug fixes and portability fixes have been included.

i've established a mirror of this software into ctan, and the software
is therefore now available from ctan dviware/dvipdf

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Dec  2 04:55:27 1998
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 11:30:40 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- winshell 1.3

> From: Ingo de Boer <idb@IBT.ETEC.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE>
>
> i uploaded a new version of winshell in the incoming/winshell directory
>
> please replace all the files in the tex/systems/win32/winshell directory
> with these....

Done.  Thanks for sending the new version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec  8 04:17:00 1998
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 09:44:59 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- crop.sty

Melchior FRANZ writes:

> I've just uploaded version 1.2 of `crop.sty' to
> ## ftp://ftp.tex.uk.ac/incoming/.
>
>
> As before, it provides different forms of cropmarks for
> trimming paper stacks, for camera alignment, and
> for visualizing the page dimensions.
> In addition to the options for centering the page with
> respect to some physical paper size, for marking
> the vertical and horizontal middle axis, for
> mounting pages on a physical sheet, there are
>
>   - a mirror and
>   - an invert option
>
> for reflecting and inverting the whole document, when
> processed by a PS-capable output device.
>
> Please replace the contents of
> ## /macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop/
> by the new files.

i have installed the files as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec 10 05:17:12 1998
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:56:11 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- prv version 0.5

Wybo Dekker writes:

> I have uploaded a single file named `prv' to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
>
> prv is a Perl script for compilation, previewing and printing of
> Latex-sources.
>
> This version should replace version 0.4: /tex-archive/support/prv/prv.
> Differences with version 0.4:
>
> - revised testing of included files, removing tests on
>   \blackandwhite, \colorslides, \psfig, \epsfig, \epsfbox, \epsffile, but
>   adding \includegraphics
> - if TEXINPUTS path ends in ::, the last dir is now searched with find
> - Environment variable TMP *must* have been set now and must not end
>   in a / (MSDOS: \) any more
> - new option e introduced in print menu: can be used to edit the source file
>   and rerun prv.
> - lines beginning with exactly %\input can now be used to make prv recognise
>   dependency files that it would not find otherwise. For example, the moreverb
>   package has a command \listinginput{file}, or a user can create his own
>   commands for file inclusion.
> - bibtex warnings are not seen as an error anymore

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec 10 05:20:07 1998
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:04:20 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - Packages appendix, hanging & tocvsec

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded 3 new LaTeX packages to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
> as files appendix.tar, hanging.tar and tocvsec.tar. Could you please
> install these under the ...contrib/supported directory?
>
> From the READMEs:
>
>     The appendix package provides various ways of formatting the
> titles of appendices.
> o 'Appendix' or similar can be prepended to the appendix number for
>   article class documents.
> o 'Appendices' or similar can be added to the ToC before the
>   appendices are listed.
> o 'Appendices' or similar can be typeset as a \part-like heading
>   (page) in the body.
> o An appendices environment is provided which can be used instead of
>   the \appendix command.
>
>     The hanging package facilitates the typesetting of hanging
> paragraphs. It also enables typesetting with hanging punctuation;
> this is probably best regarded as a curiosity.
>
>     The tocvsec package provides control over sectional numbering
> (without recourse to starred sectional commands)and/or the entries
> in the Table of Contents on a section by section basis.

thanks for the uploads; i've installed the packages as you suggested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec 10 05:35:14 1998
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:18:24 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- sectsty v1.8.2 (LaTeX2e package)

Rebecca and Rowland write(s):

> (a) Uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/sectsty/
>
> (b) Uploaded files sectsty.ins and sectsty.dtx
>
> (c) Sectsty is a LaTeX2e package to help you change the style of any or all
> of LaTeX's sectional headers in the article, book, or report classes. The
> titlesec package offers an alternative approach to the job.
>
> This release, v1.8.2, adds the ability to place rules above and below
> sectional headers. Bug fixes and documentation improvements have also
> happened.
>
> d) I suggest that these files replace the old version of sectsty at:
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/sectsty/

i've installed the files as suggested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec 10 09:36:25 1998
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 15:20:14 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Yplan99 package for CTAN

Dick Nickalls (the texing anaesthetist) writes:

> Just a note to send you next years Yplan99 package for CTAN.
>
> I have included it in this message below (quite small), so it
> needs to be cut up into its 3 component parts, if thats OK.
> The parts are: Yplan99.doc; Yplan99A.tex, Yplan99B.tex.
> They run nicely on LaTeX2e (and also on 2.09 if one alters the
> \document... environment accordingly).

i've installed a macros/latex/contrib/other/yplan99 and deleted the
corresponding yplan98 directory.

thanks for the submission

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec 10 11:04:19 1998
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:51:52 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- eiad (updated version)

Ivan A Derzhanski writes:

> I am the author of the  eiad  family of Computer Modern Irish founts
> which was made available for use via CTAN five years ago.  During this
> period I received a number of comments and suggestions from users and
> MetaFont experts, and in response to those and using my better knowledge
> with both Irish and MetaFont I have now updated the package.  The new
> version (1) is a better rendering of the traditional Irish letter forms,
> (2) blends better with Computer Modern (its prototype), (3) is larger
> (26 styles of letters are available), (4) is better documented (with
> four demo texts) and (5) is, I believe, better MF code.
>
> The new version has been uploaded to  ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/eiad;
> I suggest that it should replace the old version in the sites that
> carry it.  I would also recommend that the files be divided into three
> subdirectories: one for the 35 *.mf files, one for the 4 *.fd files
> and one for Leigh_me.txt, the 4 *.tex files and the 4 *.ps files.

i've installed the files into fonts/eiad, in new subdirectories
source, fd and doc

thanks for the upload.

since the upload, the author of macros/latex/contrib/other/eiad, which
is now in need of an update, has been contacted.  an update of the
macros will not immediately be forthcoming, as the author is busy with
other things at present.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec 10 11:05:02 1998
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:54:26 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Submission -- mkpic

Wybo H. Dekker writes:

> I uploaded mkpic.tar.gz to ftp.cs.ruu.nl/users/mirror/tex-archive/incoming.

ftp.cs.uu.nl isn't a ctan site, but we eventually got it here...

> I suggest to place the files in support/mkpic.
>
> mkpic is a perl interface to mfpic, making it possible to enter simple
> commands with tab separated arguments, and without {}, [] or () pairs to
> design figures. The script produces a style file, mkpic.sty, containing
> one latex command for each picture.
>
> mkpic.tar.gz contains the following files:
>
> README:         this message
> mkpic:          the perl script, containing a __DATA__ section with
>                 to produce the figures in:
> mkpicdoc.tex:   an article, to appear in MAPS #22 of the NTG, about mkpic
> mkpicdoc.ps:    the PostScript version of mkpicdoc.tex
> clean:          bash script removing all unneeded files after producing
>                 mkpicdoc.ps
>
> The PostScript documentation can be produced as follows:
>
> mkpic
> latex mkpicdoc
> latex mkpicdoc
> dvips -o mkpicdoc.ps mkpicdoc.dvi

i have installed the files as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec 10 11:59:29 1998
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 17:47:52 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- soul.sty

Melchior Franz writes:

> I've just uploaded version 1.1a of `soul.sty' as archive
> ## soul.tar.gz
> to
> ## ftp://ftp.tex.uk.ac/incoming/.
>
> It provides hyphenateable spacing out (letterspacing), underlining,
> and some derivatives. All features are based upon a common mechanism
> that allows to typeset text syllable by syllable, where TeX's excellent
> hyphenation algorithm is used to find the proper hyphens.
>
> The new release now
> - provides a \caps command that might be needed for high quality typesetting,
> - has many, many (if not all ;-) bugs fixed (Especially PS fonts and the EC
>   fonts didn't work properly before),
> - has an improved documentation.
>
>
> Please replace the contents of
> ## /macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul/
> by the new files.

i've done that.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Dec 10 15:19:58 1998
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:03:58 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- ecc-zip

> From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
>
> I have uploaded the file ecc.zip to the /incoming directory at
> ftp.dante.de.  Please, unzip the contents of this archive to the
> directory.
>            fonts/ecc ,
>
> thus replacing the existent files and adding some new ones.
>
> This is version 1.0 of the "European Concrete Fonts", i.e. DEK's
> "Concrete Roman" fonts in T1 (Cork) and TS1 (text companion)
> encoding.
>
> I have fixed various bugs in the design parameters, which are
> now identical to those of the OT1 and mathematical Concrete fonts.
> Unfortunately this caused some changes to the font metrics, too.
> Many apologies for the resulting inconvenience!

Thanks for the new version, Walter.  I installed it in tex-archive/fonts/ecc
as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Dec 10 15:24:31 1998
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:08:40 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- ntheorem.dtx

> From: Wolfgang May <may@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
>
> I have uploaded a new version of ntheorem.dtx to ftp.dante.de.
>
> It should replace the old version
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntheorem/ntheorem.dtx

Thanks for the new version.  I installed it as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Dec 11 05:58:54 1998
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:44:01 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: challenge to tex word-counters

i have installed (with the author's permission) a challenge that david
carlisle submitted to comp.text.tex

the file's location is macros/plain/contrib/xii.tex

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Dec 12 05:00:47 1998
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 10:50:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- sectsty v1.8.4 (LaTeX2e package) [bugfix]

Rebecca and Rowland write:

> (a) Uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/sectsty184/
>
> (b) Uploaded files sectsty.ins and sectsty.dtx
>
> (c) Sectsty is a LaTeX2e package to help you change the style of any or all
> of LaTeX's sectional headers in the article, book, or report classes. The
> titlesec package offers an alternative approach to the job.
>
> This release, v1.8.4, fixes an obvious but inexplicable bug that stopped
> the \nohang command working.  The documentation's been changed a bit too.
>
> d) I suggest that these files replace the old version of sectsty at:
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/sectsty/
>
> P.S. This appears to be the fix for the obligatory `stupid bug in the new
> release' so I shouldn't be pestering you again for a while.  Maybe...

i installed the update as requested; r&r feels that an announcement
(even of such a minor bug fix) is a _good thing_

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Dec 13 04:33:23 1998
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 11:25:02 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- ethiop

> From: Olaf Kummer <kummer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
>
> I have uploaded to the incoming directory of
>   ftp.dante.de
> the file
>   ethiop.tar.gz
> The file contains the package
>   ethiop (Ethiopian language support for the babel package)
> currently located at CTAN in
>   ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/
>
> The tar-file should uncompress neatly into the
> existing directory structure.
>
> Please replace to old version 0.6 by the submitted
> version 0.7. This release adds some experimental Omega
> support. It makes minor changes to the font files.

Thanks, Olaf, for the new version.  I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
  for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec 15 06:56:12 1998
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:26:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload CTAN -- exams and slidenotes

Hans van der Meer writes:

> I have uploaded new versions of:
> 1. exam.dtx (version 3.30) and exam.ins for replacement of the copies in
> directory macros/latex/contribs/supported/exams.
> 2. slidenotes.dtx (version 2.27) and slidenotes.ins for replacement of the
> copies in directory macros/latex/contribs/supported/slidenotes.
> The uploades are placed respectively in directories incoming/EXAMS and
> incoming/SLIDENOTES.
> These files have been available for some time through one of my internet
> pages, which gives me the impression that these versions are probably
> fairly stable.
> I hope they will serve the TeX community.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Dec 19 03:27:00 1998
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 10:19:24 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- cmbrupd.zip

> From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
>
> I have uploaded the file cmbrupd.zip to the /incoming directory
> at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unpack it in the CTAN directory
> fonts/cmbright, thus replacing the following files:
>
> readme
> latex/cmbr.fdd
> latex/cmbright.dtx
> mf/tbsymbol.mf
>
> This submission updates the CM Bright fonts and the related
> LaTeX interface files.  Main news are:
>
> * improved Euro symbol (the font metrics are unchanged!)
> * the .fd files will support larger font sizes
> * improved support for bold math symbols

Thanks for the update.  I installed the news files on the DANTE server
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Dec 19 06:36:58 1998
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:25:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- eepic.sty

piet van oostrum writes:

> Uploaded to /ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/eepic.sty
> Please move to
> macros/latex/contrib/other/eepic
> This is a small correction (% added), please announce so that it will
> propagate to the distributions.

i've installed the package as requested.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Dec 21 05:02:27 1998
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:50:42 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- ncctools

> From: "A. I. Rozhenko" <rozhenko@OAPMG.SSCC.RU>
>
> (a) I have uploaded new bundle of packages for LaTeX-2e to
>     ftp.dante.de/incoming site.
>
> (b) This bundle is zipped in ncctools.zip
>
> (c) The `ncctools' bundle consists of a number of packages extracted
>     from NCC style (developed by A. Rozhenko in 1992-1996 for
>     LaTeX-2.09) while reimplementation it for LaTeX-2e. This job is not
>     completed now. So, some packages will be added to the bundle later.
>     The bundle consists of 4 packages now:
>
> dcounter.dtx
>    Dynamic counters concept. The counter declared as dynamic is really
>    created at the first use and recieves at that moment the count style
>    which was established by the \countstyle command. The special use of
>    \counstyle command with optional parameter allows the modification of
>    the subordination of existing counters.
>
> extdash.dtx
>    The package implements the commands, \Hyphdash, \Endash, \Emdash, and
>    their *-forms, to control hyphenation of compound words and ordinary
>    words dashed by em-dash. You can also use the shortcuts
>               \-/   \=/   \--   \==   \---   \===
>    instead.
>
> manyfoot.dtx
>    The package implements a command, \newfootnote, that adds footnote
>    levels to the standard LaTeX's footnote mechanism. Footnotes of every
>    additional level are automatically grouped together on a LaTeX-2e
>    output page and are separated from another levels by the special
>    vertical space and (maybe) rule. You can customize the typesetting
>    style of additional footnotes choosing between ordinary footnotes and
>    run-in paragraph footnotes (useful for critical editions).
>
> nccfoots.dtx
>    The package implements commands for generating footnotes marked by
>    hands. For example, to mark footnote by star you can write
>    \Footnote{*}{Footnote text}.
>
>
> (d) I want to place the submission to
>
>     /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ncctools
>
> Please also delete my previous submission
>
>     /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/manyfoot
>
> containing the old version of manyfoot package. The updated version of
> this package is now included into `ncctools' bundle. It contains new
> options for
> customisation of footnotes:
>
> \usepackage[ruled]{manyfoot}
>      additional footnotes will be separeted by \extrafootnoterule
>
> \usepackage[para*]{manyfoot}
>      run-in paragraph footnotes without indentation

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on dante.ctan.org (aka
ftp.dante.de) in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ncctools
as suggested and removed the manyfoot directory.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Dec 21 03:22:04 1998
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:02:40 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan submission -- tugboat tables of contents

barbara beeton writes:

> i have just posted to /incoming at ftp.tex.ac.uk a collection of
> files that comprises the complete accumulation of tugboat tables
> of contents:
>
>     tbcv05.tex through tbcv20.tex (4 files, each producing the contents
>           for volumes n-4 through n for a file named tbcvn.tex)
>     tb0180.cnt through tb1998.cnt (19 files, each containing the data
>           for one volume v, for the year y, for a file named tbvy.cnt)
>     tbcont.def (1 file, the macros to process the tugboat t-of-c's)
>
> please install these in the area
>
>     digests/tugboat/t-of-c
>
> replacing everything that's there now.
>
> most, if not all, of these files have had glitches repaired since the
> last posting to ctan.  the contents are complete through volume 19 #3,
> the issue most recently sent to the printer.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Dec 21 09:53:45 1998
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:38:00 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- mltex latex support

> From Bernd Raichle <raichle@Informatik.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>:
>
> description:
>       This is a set of files containing LaTeX(2e) support of MLTeX,
>       the multilingual TeX extension of Michael J. Ferguson.
>       In consists of
>
>        - a LaTeX font encoding definition file ``lo1enc.def''
>          declaring the font encoding ``LO1'' which is a
>          MLTeX-extended superset of ``OT1'' (LO1 = mLtex's Ot1),
>
>        - a file ``mlltxchg.def'' containing some redefinitions of
>          LaTeX2e's NFSS kernel macros to invent the new declaration
>          \DeclareFontDefinitionEncodingAlias{<alias-fontenc>}{<fontenc>}
>          (it is used to declare that LO1 uses the same .fd files as
>          OT1, i.e., LO1 is an alias of OT1 w.r.t. .fd files),
>
>        - a package ``mltex'' to be used by the author, which makes
>          LO1 the default encoding.
>
>       Additionally there is a short documentation and two test
>       files.
>
>       All TeX systems based on Web2c v7.x (e.g. teTeX 0.9, TeX Live 3)
>       include a TeX binary where the MLTeX extensions can be enabled
>       by the option ``-mltex'' in the IniTeX run, i.e., use ``tex
>       -ini -mltex'' when generating a new TeX format file.
>
> CTAN place:   macros/latex/contrib/supported/mltex/
>
>               (and probably a symbolic link from
>               systems/generic/mltex/latex to this directory?)

Thanks for the subscription.  I installed the files on dante.ctan.org
(aka ftp.dante.de) as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec 22 06:56:37 1998
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:31:55 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

ahem ... tidying my old mail, i found a message from daniel taupin
suggesting we install his ltx2rtf on ctan.  the message arrived at the
end of september...

i have now installed the package in the directory support/ltx2rtf

daniel described it at tug'98 in torun, poland.

i apologise for taking so long to install the package: the
notification wasn't sent to the normal ctan address, and fell through
my normal sorting mail-sorting mechanisms.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Dec 22 07:01:17 1998
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:45:30 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- permute.dtx

Carsten Heinz writes:

 > I have uploaded the file permute.zip (containing permute.dtx/ins/dvi)
 > to ftp.dante.de/incoming. It's the first public release of the
 > package, so I propose to put it in
 >
 >         macros/latex/contrib/supported/permute
 >
 > The package ``covers'' the symmetric groups $S_1,\ldots,S_9$, but is not
 > limited to these cases. ``Covers'' means input, output and calculate with.
 > An easy application is
 >         $(123)\circ(321)=\pmt{(123)(321)}$.
 > The documentation gives a short introduction to this cycle based notation.
 > You can permute (nearly) arbitrary strings, e.g.
 >         $(a\ldots z)\circ(z\ldots a)=\pmt{(a\ldots z)(z\ldots a)}$
 > (which also gives the identity map).
 > Two commands create tables by composing two lists of permutations.
 >
 > The permute package is a fun package to me, but possibly helpful for
 > other people.

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the packlage as requested.
For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec 23 04:36:02 1998
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:23:13 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ccaption package

peter wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded ccaption.tar.gz to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you please use this to replace the
> current ccaption package in latex/contrib/supported?
>
> From the README:
>     The ccaption package provides commands for `continuation
> captions' and also non-specific legend heading for floats. Also
> provided are methods to define captions for use outside float (e.g.,
> figure and table) environments, and to define new float
> environments.
>
> Changes in this version:
> o Added fixed caption making commands
> o Added float making commands

i've installed this package [revised version] as requested.  thanks
for the upload.

> Thank you, and best wishes for 1999.

and to you, too.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Dec 25 03:18:42 1998
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 10:07:06 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- BaKoMa TeX 2.0

> From: "V.Malyshev" <malyshev@SIRIUS.IHEP.SU>
>
> I have been uploaded into ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma
> several ZIP-files, that contain distribution of
> new TeX system for MS-Windows 3.1(1)/9x/NT.
> The short review of the system is attached at end of this mail.
> I suppouse that good location for this system is in
> systems/win32/bakoma/dst directory.
> In nearest future I will upload additional modules (for contrib directory),
> and some useful and required sources (for src directory).
>
> ----------------------- Short review of the system ------------------
>
>                            BaKoMa TeX  2.0
>                            ===============
>                            (December 1998)
>
> 1) What is BaKoMa TeX?
> ----------------------
>
> BaKoMa-TeX is TeX package intended for preparing Electronic Publications.
> The system works under MS-Windows 3.1/9X/NT (with ATM installed).
> The system includes complete extendable GUI (Text editor, DVI Viewer,
> Help system), an updated version of the BaKoMa Fonts Collection,
> TeX processor with friends (BibTeX, MakeIndex, MetaPost, DVIPS, DVICopy),
> standard compliant TDS, and installation program.
> The system supports using scalable fonts (PostScript Type 1 and Type 3
> font formats) and importing PostScript graphics into documents.
> The system supports generation of PDF and printing on any printer
> supported by a driver under MS Windows.
> The system efficiently supports multiple TEXMF trees.
>
> 2) A Details of Important Features
> ----------------------------------
>
>    * DVI Viewer included into the system is high compatible
>      with well known DVIPS driver by Tomas Rokicki.
>      Compatibility isn't limited by special syntax,
>      because the viewer includes PostScript Level 1 interpreter.
>      It shares several PostScript prologs with DVIPS, so that
>      even PostScrpt hacks work with the Viewer.
>    * The Viewer displays, prints (on non PostScript printers)
>      and converts into PDF imported PostScript pictures
>      and PostScript code embedded into DVI files.
>    * The Viewer supports HyperTeX specials.
>      Farthermore, calculation of hyperanchor rectangles is integrated
>      with PostScript engine. So, that hyper rectangles are calculated
>      according to current PostScript transformation.
>      In other words, hyperlinks inside rotated or scaled boxes
>      and hyperlinks typeseted along some path (for example by PSTricks package)
>      generate correct rectangles.
>    * The Viewer supports of using following font formats:
>       + ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 fonts;
>       + PostScript Type 3 fonts;
>       + TeX PK fonts
>         (via on-the-fly conversion to PostScript Type 3 bitmapped fonts);
>       + TeX Virtual Fonts;
>       + TrueType fonts (for view and print, but not for PDF generation).
>   * The Viewer imports graphics:
>       + Any graphical formats supported by MS Windows Graphical Import Filters.
>         (Filters for BMP, PCX, MSP, GIF, XBM are included in distribution)
>         (This insertion is supported by \special{em:graph ...})
>       + PostScript (level 1)
>         (This insertion supported by \special{PSFile=...}
>         and \special{plotfile ...})
>       + Supports inclusion of MetaPost output.
>         (To handle references into fonts the Viewer automatically uses
>          MetaPost import filter, that is activated for files
>          that has a numerical extension.)
>   * special set of Viewer can be extended by using PostScript language.
>     For example, EM and TPIC specials are defined by such way.
>   * Text Editor supports: syntax highlighting, control bars to insert
>     TeX math symbols, searhcing of TeX errors, project management,
>     processing selected part of document (optionally, to accelerate
>     processing, document prolog can be precompiled), spell checking, etc.
>   * User interface of DVI Viewer and Text Editor can be extended by using
>     PostScript like (PostScript without graphical operators) language.
>   * The system includes universal command line utility (PostLine)
>     that includes PostScript like interpreter extended by operators
>     for manipulations under DVI files. This utility is used to invoke
>     another command line programs and to prepare DVI files (rearrange pages
>     encapsulate color stacks, filter specials, and etc.)
>   * The system includes TeX Name Server (TNS), that caches information
>     about files in TEXMF tree(s).
>     This approach saves RAM, because of large TEXMF trees require a lot
>     of memory, but TNS keeps single copy of such structure.
>     So, TEXMF tree distributed with TeX Live CD requires about 1.5 MB of RAM.
>     This approach, also, accelerates starting the TeX and other programs.
>     TNS efficiently works with several TEXMF trees.
>     To accelerate working with CD-ROM's and NETWORK based TEXMF trees
>     it implements file cache on local disk.
>   * So, searching of files is controlled by TNS. However, the system
>     automatically converts TNS configuration file into TEXMF.CNF file,
>     that configures KPATHSEA programs. In this reason, you can easily integrate
>     into the system any KPATHSEA programs that are missed in the distribution.
>     (There are two locations with compiled KPATHSEA based programs:
>         1. 'CTAN:systems/win32/web2c' (or TeX Live 3 CD)
>         2. 'CTAN:systems/msdos/djgpp')
>   * The system includes incremental installation program.
>     In other words, you needn't to install all available components at first
>     installation, beacause you can run SETUP program at any time and add
>     components that are yet not installed.
>   * The system includes tool to install PostScript fonts supported by
>     CTAN:fonts/psfonts. So, that such fonts as Times, Helvetica, Courier, etc.
>     can be easiely added to the system.
>   * The system includes simple tool to convert line-drawing MetaFont fonts
>     into compact PostScript Type 3 fonts, that can be used by the system.
>
> 3) Hardware and Software Requirements.
> --------------------------------------
>
>   - An IBM PC 386/486/Pentium or compatible computer;
>   - 4 MB RAM minimum, however 8 MB RAM recomended;
>   - MS-DOS 5.0 or higher, MS Windows 3.1(1), ATM 3.0 or higher
>     or MS Windows 95/98, ATM 3.0 or higher
>     or MS Windows NT (V 4.0), ATM 4.0
>   - At least 20 MB available hard disk space
>             (50 MB for complete installation);
>   - Any Windows supported monitor and graphics card
>     (At least, resolution 800 x 600 dots recomended);
>   - Printer with PostScript engine or one supported by
>     a MS Windows driver.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files as requested in
tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/dst

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan  1 09:04:46 1999
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 14:54:54 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

werner lemberg writes:

  Announcing ttf2pk
  -----------------

  I've just uploaded the FreeType package version 1.2 to ftp.dante.de which
  contains, among other contributions, a TrueType font to PK resp. TFM
  converter. It fully supports ordinary and CJK TrueType fonts.

  Binaries for DOS resp. OS/2 are available also.

  The final destination directory on CTAN is fonts/utilities/ttf2pk

  It will be available soon on the other CTAN hosts (ftp.tex.ac.uk and
  ctan.tug.org) and its mirrors -- to get a list of mirrors use the command
  `finger ctan@ftp.dante.de'.

  Below is the documentation file -- the latest version of FreeType (a daily
  snapshot of our CVS repository) can be found in
  ftp://ftp.freetype.org/pub/freetype/devel/freetype-current.tar.gz


  Happy TeXing!


      Werner


  ======================================================================


  ttf2tfm -- TrueType to TFM converter
  ttf2pk  -- TrueType to PK converter
  ====================================

  These  two auxiliary  programs make  TrueType fonts  usable  with TeX.
  ttf2tfm extracts the metric and kerning information of a TrueType font
  and  converts it into  metric files  usable by  TeX (quite  similar to
  afm2tfm which  is part of  the dvips package).  ttf2pk  rasterizes the
  glyph outlines of a TrueType font into a bitmap font in PK format.

  [most of this very long file omitted -- rf]

the actual installation was of

  fonts/utilities/ttf2pk   (as described)
  fonts/utilities/ttf2pfb  (which makes .pfb files)
  fonts/utilities/freetype (the underlying free truetype rasteriser,
                            and the sources of the two programs)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

[note, due to the holiday period, the installation actually took place
at ftp.tex.ac.uk.  this should not make any long-term difference...]

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan  1 09:42:14 1999
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 15:36:21 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: DB_process & CD_labeler

Victor Eijkhout writes:

> I've uploaded two macro files to dante.
>
> DB_process -- parse database output, either tab- or comma-delimited,
>               and apply a user-defined macro to each line.
> CD_labeler -- take user text and typeset it to fit a CD label.
>
> No readme's or test files.
>
> You can consider both macro sets to be supported, as is my comment.sty
> btw.

i've installed both these files in a new directory,
macros/generic/eijkhout

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan  1 10:50:32 1999
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 16:44:21 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - mkpic.tar.gz replacement

wybo dekker writes:

> I uploaded mkpic.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de:/incoming
>
> Its contents should replace all files in support/mkpic.
> The script itself did not change, but I made the
> documentation (mkpicdoc.tex) independent of other packages and
> provided a dvi file instead of the PostScript version.
>
> mkpic is a perl interface to mfpic, making it possible to enter simple
> commands with tab separated arguments, and without {}, [] or () pairs to
> design figures. The script produces a style file, mkpic.sty, containing
> one latex command for each picture.
>
> mkpic.tar.gz contains the following files:
>
> README:         this message
> mkpic:          the perl script, containing a __DATA__ section with
>                 to produce the figures in:
> mkpicdoc.tex:   an article about mkpic
> mkpicdoc.dvi:   the dvi version of mkpicdoc.tex
> pictures.mf:    the figures for mkpidoc.dvi; can be generated by mkpic
> clean:          a script to remove intermediate files
>
> Under Linux, mkpicdoc.dvi can be reproduced from mkpicdoc.tex and mkpic
> as follows:
>
> mkpic           # generate the pictures
> latex mkpicdoc  # create the dvi file
> clean           # remove the intermediate files

i've installed the files from the package in support/mfpic

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Jan  2 10:49:46 1999
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 16:37:13 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- mf2pt3

Apostolos Syropoulos writes:

>     I have upoloaded on ftp.dante.de/inocoming the file mf2pt3.zip
> which consists of three files. These files should replace the ones
> at the directory pub/tex/fonts/utilities/mf2pt3.

i've installed the files as you suggest.  (the package is a perl
script for converting metafont to type 3 postscript).

>     With my best wishes for a Happy New Year,

and to you to...

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jan  4 01:57:50 1999
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 08:43:18 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- repeat.tex

> From: Victor Eijkhout <victor@EIJKHOUT.NET>

> I have just uploaded "repeat.tex" to dante. This is a *really* general
> loop macro, which can be nested to arbitrary depth without any grouping
> or such. Documentation and some tests are in the file itself.
> Comments appreciated.

Thanks for your submission.  I installed it on dante.ctan.org in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/generic/eijkhout/repeat.tex

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jan  4 02:03:28 1999
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 08:52:13 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission - wasysym

> From: Axel Kielhorn <A.Kielhorn@TU-BS.DE>
>
> Hello and best wishes for the new year!

Thanks and the same to you and to all (La)TeX enthusiasts!

> I just uploaded a new version of the wasysym package to ftp.dante.de which
> fixes some longstanding bugs. Please replace the old version found in the
> contrib/supported tree.

I installed the new version as suggested on dante.ctan.org in
CTAN:tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/wasysym
replacing the old files.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jan  4 03:29:03 1999
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 09:18:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - mkpic.tar.gz replacement

Peter Willadt writes:

> Robin Fairbairns schrieb:
> >
> > wybo dekker writes:
> >
> > > I uploaded mkpic.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de:/incoming
> > >
> > > Its contents should replace all files in support/mkpic.
> [...]
> > > mkpic is a perl interface to mfpic,
> > i've installed the files from the package in support/mfpic
> -------------------------------------------------------^^^^^
>
> I hope you only made a typo and did not install mkpic into mfpic.
> (Did not check it, just read the announcement).

it was indeed a typo.  my apologies -- the files were installed in
support/mkpic, as they should have been...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jan  5 03:19:43 1999
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 09:03:54 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Eurosym 1.2 (bug free version :-))

Henrik Theiling writes:

> I just put eurosym-1.2.tar.gz, the updated version of eurosym-1.1 onto
> the CTAN server ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>
> Eurosym 1.2 corrects all known bugs of versions 1.1 and 1.0.  I didn't
> add any features because I wanted a stable package in the first place.
>
> The purpose of this package is to define the European Currency Symbol
> in Metafont in order to use it directly and in best quality from within
> LaTeX.  The package comes with the Metafont source file, a LaTeX
> style file and full documentation about usage.
>
> I suggest installation in the fonts/eurosym directory of the CTAN
> tree.

i've installed v1.2 as requested.

<politics>
> Have fun with the \euro!

you're just `rubbing it in', aren't you?  _you_ have fun with the
euro: i'll just sit here and wait until our politicians can bring
themselves to do something ever so slightly out of the ordinary ;-)
</politics>

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jan  6 04:48:11 1999
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 10:34:20 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- sectsty v1.8.7 (LaTeX2e package)

rowland writes:

> (a) Uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/sectsty/
>
> (b) Uploaded files sectsty.ins and sectsty.dtx
>
> (c) Sectsty is a LaTeX2e package to help you change the style of any or all
> of LaTeX's sectional headers in the article, book, or report classes. The
> titlesec package offers an alternative approach to the job.
>
> This release, v1.8.7, adds a little documentation and an error message if
> sectsty is used with any classes other than article, book, or report.
>
> d) I suggest that these files replace the old version of sectsty at:
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/sectsty/

i've installed that lot as suggested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jan  6 10:49:20 1999
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 16:36:10 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (an update) -- shhyphl.tex

Dejan Muhamedagic writes:

> I've uploaded an update for shhyphl.tex.

(this is for serbo-croat, written in the latin alphabet ... as croats
would do.)

> Thanks for your time.

i've installed it in place of your previous language/hyphenation/shhyphl.tex

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jan  7 04:43:30 1999
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 11:29:30 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinTeXShell32

> From: Dirk Struve <struve@PHYSIK.UNI-BIELEFELD.DE>
>
> I have uploaded the directory wintexshell32 to ftp.dante.de.
> It contains 3 files:
>
> WinTeXShell32.zip       The program
> WinTeXShell32src.zip    Source code
> WinTeXShell32.txt       Short description
>
> They contain a new release of WinTeXShell32.
>
> Please put the files into:
>
> tex-archive/systems/win32/texshell32
>
> For details about the program take a look at:
> http://www.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/experi/d3/persons/struve/texshell/index.html

Thanks for the submission. I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jan  7 06:40:39 1999
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 13:08:45 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- CJK

> From: Werner LEMBERG <sx0005@SX2.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE>
>
> Announcing CJK Version 4.2.0
> ----------------------------
>
> [The CJK package for LaTeX provides support for Chinese/Japanese/Korean in
>  various encodings.
>
>  Additionally, a special interface to the Emacs editor is available which
>  directly supports many encodings of Emacs simultaneously: all Latin-based
>  scripts (including Vietnamese), various CJK encodings, Thai, and Russian.
>
>  Finally, it provides the program hbf2gf to convert CJK fonts in HBF format
>  to TFM and PK files.]
>
> I've just uploaded to ftp.dante.de the three files
>
>   CJK-4.2.0.src.tar.gz
>   CJK-4.2.0.bin.zip
>   CJK-4.2.0.rest.tar.gz  ;
>
> the first one will be found unpacked in
> <CTAN>/tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK, the other two files are in
> <CTAN>/tex-archive/language/chinese.
>
> It will be available soon on the other CTAN hosts (ftp.tex.ac.uk and
> ctan.tug.org) and its mirrors -- to get a list of mirrors use the command
> `finger ctan@ftp.dante.de'.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files as suggested replacing
the old version.  Additionaly I installed a new version of the CJK fonts
in <CTAN>/tex-archive/fonts/CJK.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

> Below you can find the history of version 4.2.0.
>
>
> ==========================================================================
>
> Version 4.2.0:  new:
> 13-Dez-1998         pinyin.sty:
>                       support for EC fonts: the macron bar has been lowered
>                       considerably.
>
>                       kerning in pinyin syllables will now be identical to
>                       unaccented syllables.
>
>                     teTeXb5.doc:
>                       How to set up CJK with teTeX 0.9 (in Chinese).
>                       Contributed by HSIEH Tung-Han
>                       <thhsieh@twcpro.phys.ntu.edu.tw>.
>
>                     CJKnumb.sty:
>                       new package for converting a number into a CJK
>                       representation. It provides just one command,
>                       \CJKnumber.
>
>                     CJK.sty:
>                       new command \CJKaddEncHook for adding code which is
>                       executed each time a certain encoding is selected.
>
>                     contrib/wadalab:
>                       how to use Wadalab Japanese PostScript fonts with CJK.
>                       Contributed by LEUNG Hin-Tak <htl10@cus.cam.ac.uk>.
>
>                     CJK.enc:
>                       added C52 encoding (JIS2 in dnp font encoding).
>
>                 changed:
>                     MULEenc.sty, cjk-enc.el:
>                       updated to latest LaTeX 2e changes (1997/12/01 and
>                       1998/06/01):
>                       \DH, \dh renamed to \DJ, \dj; LaTeX2e now provides
>                       \textdegree, \textordfeminine, and \textordmasculine.
>
>                       updated to latest T2 changes: \CYRUKRI, \CYRUKRE and
>                       its lowercase forms are renamed to \CYRII and \CYRIE
>                       respectively.
>
>                       there is now a version of cjk-enc.el for emacs 20.3
>                       too.
>
>                     muletest.tex:
>                       new translations; Russian now standard.
>
>                     thaiconv:
>                       updated to include cttex 1.15 changes.
>
>                     a revised TDS structure for storing CJK fonts and
>                       configuration files (see TDS.doc for details).
>
>                     compile.doc has been removed.
>
>                     NTeXb5.doc has been removed.
>
>                     ttf2pk.doc has been removed (it is now in the ttf2pk-old
>                       package).
>
>                     the whole ttf2pk subdirectory has been removed. Get the
>                       new ttf2pk program of the FreeType project (available
>                       from ftp.freetype.org in the directory
>                       pub/freetype/devel as the package
>                       freetype-current.tar.gz) -- the new ttf2pk can work
>                       with composite fonts too and supports hinting. The old
>                       ttf2pk is still available as ttf2pk-old.tar.gz .
>
>                     the whole ntu2cjk subdirectory has been removed. Get the
>                       new ttf2pfb program of the FreeType project (see just
>                       above for the location). ntu2cjk is still available as
>                       ntu2cjk.tar.gz .
>
>                     the whole NDOS subdirectory has been removed because it
>                       is completely out of date.
>
>                     CJK.sty:
>                       caption files for preprocessed mode have now the
>                       extension `.cpx' to simplify editing of cap files.
>
> *                   hbf2gf:
> *                     completely redesigned to make calls in scripts for
> *                     creating PK fonts easier. Please refer to hbf2gf.1
> *                     resp. hbf2gf.dvi for details.
> *
> *                   maketexp.btm etc.:
> *                     replaced with dvidrv.btm, a replacement for emTeX's
> *                     dvidrv.exe; it is documented in dvidrv.doc .
>
>                     fonts from HLaTeX >= 0.97 are now supported. As a
>                       consequence, support for older HLaTeX versions has
>                       been withdrawn. The internal encoding C66 no longer
>                       exists.
>
>                     cjk-enc.el:
>                       function write-cjk-file added (thanks to David Fox
>                       <fox@cat.nyu.edu>).
>
>                 errors:
>                     pinyin.sty:
>                       \O wasn't handled specially.
>
>                     CJK.sty will now coexist with ArabTeX.
>
>                     possible save size overflow fixed (\CJK@temp was
>                     assigned locally and globally at the same time).

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jan 11 02:34:53 1999
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:16:15 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- paralist v1.2

> From: Bernd Schandl <bschand@MATH.CLEMSON.EDU>
>
> I have uploaded the file paralist.zip to ftp.dante.de.
>
> >From the abstract:
>
>         This style file provides some new list environments. Itemized and
>         enumerated lists can be typesetted within paragraphs, as
>         paragraphs and in a compact version. Most environments have
>         optional arguments to format the labels.
>         Additionally, the \LaTeX\ environments |itemize| and |enumerate|
>         can be extended to use a similar optional argument.
>
> Since the package is totally rewritten, there may be some small
> inconsistencies with older versions.
>
> I recommend placing the unpacked files paralist.ins and paralist.dtx in
>
>         macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist/
>
> replacing the old versions.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on dante.ctan.org
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jan 11 02:38:49 1999
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:19:37 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- lhcyr

> From: "Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <vvzhy@td.lpi.ac.ru>
>
> I've uploaded into ftp.dante.de the file
>   lhcyr.tar.gz
> The package lhcyr is a collection of three LeTeX 2e styles
> intended for typesetting Russian and bilingual English-Russian
> documents.
>
> The package ought to be installed into the CTAN directory
>   /macros/latex/packages/supported/lhcyr/
> The directory lhcyr should contain one file README and
> three subdirectories
>   /lhcyralt
>   /lhcyrkoi
>   /lhcyrwin

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on dante.ctan.org in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/lhcyr.  In the four README files, I changed
the path from 'packages' to 'contrib' accordingly.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jan 11 02:38:40 1999
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:30:13 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: wasysym on CTAN

Some days ago, I installed the current version of the wasysym package on
CTAN without noticing that the creation date of the files uploaded by
the author was still November 14, 1997.  As there were some mails to
me concerning this version, I'd like to post Axel's reply to my inquiry:

> No, it's allright.
> I really fixed the bugs one year ago, but somehow the upload didn't make it.
> The November 1997 version is still the current one.
>
> The previous version on CTAN must have been [1996/08/01 v1.0g] because I
> received bug reports for that version during the last months.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jan 11 03:22:08 1999
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:05:01 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- plpsfont

> From: Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz <staw@ETI.PG.GDA.PL>
>
> I've just uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/plpsf8.zip (~1.9MB)
> It contains slighly corrected type1 of Polish fonts (ver. 1.02).
> Please remove language/polish/plpsfont/ and uzip the new plpsfont.zip
> in language/polish/
> Please remove also many other plps* files from /incoming/ (broken
> connections :-<<
>
> The link from fonts/psfonts/polish/ should remain.
>
> Thanks and best wishes for this year for all the CTAN team.
>
> **StaW

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Mon Jan 11 04:35:06 1999
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:28:02 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN: hyphenat package

Wilson, Peter R writes:

 >     The hyphenat package can be used to disable all hyphenation in
 >     a document or in selected text within the document. It also
 >     enables hyphenation within `words' that contain analphabetic
 >     characters (e.g., that include underscores), and hyphenation of
 >     text that is typeset in TT fonts.
 >
 > Thank you
 > Peter W.
 > peter.r.wilson@boeing.com

installed in macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyphenat, as requested

sebastian rahtz

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Mon Jan 11 04:56:26 1999
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:21:14 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- hilowres

Johann Gerell writes:
 > From `readme.txt':
 >
 >   hilowres is a package that can be used to simplify a global
 >   inclusion of low resolution versions of high resolution images, if
 >   each pair of files have the same basename (e.g. bird_low.eps and
 >   bird.eps). The package is a totally uncomplicated wrapper around the
 >   \includegraphics command of the graphicx package.
 >
 >   Example usage: \hilowfig[width=3in]{bird}. If the option `low' is
 >   specified when loading the package, then the low resolution version
 >   (i.e. bird_low.eps) is used, otherwise the high resolution version
 >   (i.e. bird.eps) is used.

installed as requested in macros/latex/contrib/supported/hilowres

Sebastian Rahtz

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Mon Jan 11 04:50:20 1999
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:22:25 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- mathpple.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > ============================================================
 >                       mathpple  v0.97
 >       Mathematical typesetting with the Palatino fonts
 > ============================================================
 >
 > The LaTeX macro package `mathpple' defines the PostScript
 > font family `Palatino' (ppl) as the default roman font and
 > will use the `mathpple' fonts for typesetting math.  These
 > virtual fonts have been created for typesetting math in a
 > style that suits the Palatino text fonts.  The AMS fonts,
 > when used additionally, will be scaled to fit Palatino.
 >
 > The current distribution comprises the package mathpple.sty,
 > the mathpple virtual fonts, and .fd files for scaling
 > the font family Helvetica to suit Palatino, too.
 >
installed as requested in fonts/mathpple

Sebastian Rahtz

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Mon Jan 11 05:51:41 1999
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:17:48 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lshort-3.3

Tobias Oetiker writes:
 >
 > LShort is The free introduction to LaTeX.
 >
 > This version contains a substantial amount of spelling
 > corrections, and it is properly packaged. So that it can
 > be compiled in one go.
 >
 > The pdf version of the introduction has been compiled with
 > a much newer verion of pdftex than the previous edition.
 >
installed in info/lshort

many thanks

Sebastian Rahtz

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jan 11 10:07:21 1999
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:39:51 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- consdiag

> From: Manuel Gutierrez Algaba <irmina@ctv.es>
>
> I've uploaded consdiag, a utility very useful for doing OO programming
> documentation.
> It's written in python, and it generates latex code.  Please,
> consider including it in your archives.

Thanks for your submission.  I installed the files on dante.ctan.org in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/consdiag/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jan 12 03:15:29 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:45:52 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.11 Update Three

> From: Christian Schenk <christian.schenk@DETEWE.DE>
>
> I have uploaded the third MiKTeX 1.11 update package to
>
>    ftp://ftp.dante.de:/incoming/miktex/
>
> Please install the files as follows:
>
>    UPDATE.TXT        ->  systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>    update.exe        ->  systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>    update.html       ->  systems/win32/miktex/1.11/
>
> MiKTeX 1.11 is a free TeX distribution for the Win32 platform.
>
> Updated Programs
> ****************
>
>    * dvips 5.83
>
>    * pdfTeX 0.12r
>
> New Programs
> ************
>
>    * dvipdfm 0.9.4, a DVI-to-PDF converter developed by Mark A. Wicks.
>
>    * ttf2pk, ttf2tfm: these programs make TrueType fonts  usable  with
>      TeX.  Developed by Frederic Loyer and Werner Lemberg.
>
> New TeX Features
> ****************
>
>    * New option `--src-specials' causes TeX to insert source file
>      information (a.k.a. source specials) into the DVI file. Source file
>      information improves Editor/Previewer interaction.
>
>    * TeX can read compressed input files, i.e. it's now possible to say
>      `\input foo.tex.gz'.
>
>    * New option `--try-gz' causes TeX to try `file.tex.gz' if
>      `file.tex' cannot be found.
>
>    * New option `--term=oem' causes TeX to use the DOS code page for
>      console output.
>
> New Previewer Features
> **********************
>
>    * Yap records events in a logbook (`View|Logbook...').
>
>    * A double-click now initiates inverse DVI search:
>
>        1. The TeX source file will be opened with an editor (e.g.
>           Emacs, WinEdt).
>
>        2. Inside the editor window, the caret is positioned at the
>           corresponding text location.
>
>      The DVI file must contain source file information, which can be
>      inserted with the new TeX option `--src-specials'.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the updated files on dante.ctan.org
in tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/1.11/ as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jan 12 03:12:50 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:49:22 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- soul.sty

> From: Melchior FRANZ <a8603365@UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT>

> I've just uploaded version 1.2 of the `soul' package as archive
> ### new-soul.tar.gz
> to
> ### ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/.
>
> It provides hyphenateable spacing out (letterspacing), underlining,
> and some derivatives. All features are based upon a common mechanism
> that allows to typeset text syllable by syllable, where TeX's excellent
> hyphenation algorithm is used to find the proper hyphens.
>
> The new release now
> - has the newline bug fixed
> - has some minor changes in the documentation such as an additional
>   explanation of how to handle ligature problems
>   (like those, which occur with the ygoth font)
>
> Please replace the contents of
> ### /macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul/
> by the new files.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version on dante.ctan.org
in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jan 12 03:12:13 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:56:30 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- TCVN encoding fonts for Vietnamese

> From: Nguyen-Dai Quy <DaiQuy.nguyen@ULG.AC.BE>
>
> I've just uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/tcvn/ (3 files) :
>
> install-vn.txt
> readme-en.txt
> tcvn-tex.tar.gz
>
> This is a package for vietnamese TCVN encoding which is
> widely used in Windows's applications but not yet for TeX/LaTeX.
>
> Please copy these files to /tex-archive/language/vietnamese/tcvn/

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on dante.ctan.org
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From KNAPPEN@ALPHA.NTP.SPRINGER.DE Tue Jan 12 07:51:11 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:33:20 +0100
From: Joerg Knappen <KNAPPEN@ALPHA.NTP.SPRINGER.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Announcing the new maintainer of the Sauter fonts

It is a pleasure to me to announce

Jeroen Nijhof (e-mail: J.H.B.Nijhof@aston.ac.uk)

as the new maintainer of the Sauter font distribution. Please direct all
suggestions, bug reports etc. to him.

--J"org Knappen

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jan 12 08:40:24 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:23:19 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- lyhyt2e

> From: Timo Hellgren <timo.hellgren@Helsinki.FI>
>
> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/ a zipped archive
> of files, lyhyt2e.zip.
>
> It is a Finnish version of Tobias Oetiker's document
> "The Not Short Introduction to LaTeX2e" with an emphasis
> on Finnish typesetting rules.
> Included in the archive are the source files, and also for printing
> a dvi, ps and PDF file.
>
> Please, place them in CTAN/info/lyhyt/
>
> BTW, "lyhyt" means short in Finnish.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lyhyt/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Jan 13 01:46:43 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:36:48 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- dvips 5.83 for emTeX and OS/2,DOS/Win9x/NT

> From: Wonkoo Kim <wkim+@pitt.edu>
>
> I have uploaded ftp.dante.de/incoming/dvips583.zip.
>
> This is dvips 5.83 (dvi to postscript converter) for emTeX and OS/2
> or DOS/Win3x/Win95/NT.
>
> This package was compiled with emx/gcc 0.9c fix04 under OS/2 Warp,
> after patching (for emTeX) the original dvips 5.83 sources from
> http://www.radicaleye.com.  This includes many bug fixes and
> enhancements.
>
> The archive includes OS/2+DOS bound executables, patched sources/diffs
> (but not unpatched sources), tfm files, virtual fonts, and some docs.
>
> The executables should also work on DOS, Win3.1, Win95, or NT with
> EMX/RSX/RSXWIN/RSXNT runtime modules.
>
> Please replace the old version of
>         pub/tex/systems/os2/dviware/dvips/dvips576.zip
>
> Since this should work for MSDOS as well, please make a link for
>         pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips583.zip

Thanks for the submission!  I installed it on dante.ctan.org as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

> dvips 5.83 notes: (since 5.76)
>
>    Minor improvements to epsf style file.
>    Another patch to t1part.c to make it more liberal in accepting pfb/pfa
>       font files.
>    Added PS reencoding reimplementation by Rob Hutchings.
>    Added 'F' in config file to send controlD.
>    Added quick exit if -? or -v.
>    Improved tex.lpro to fix a bug that showed up in distiller.
>    Improved tex.lpro to work around a problem in certain Windows
>       environments.
>    Made dvips complain if it had to section a document.
>    Eliminated use-after-free bug in hps.c.
>    Fixed a problem in t1part for the Euro fonts with partial font downloading.
>    Fixed a big problem in t1part for some font downloading due to
>       uninitialized allocations.
>    Added `unknown' paper size back to config.ps.
>    Made t1part munge the UniqueID to prevent cache problems in Acrobat and
>       other programs.
>    Fixed parsing error when whitespace following '<' in psfonts.map.
>    Made '<<' work correctly (disable partial font downloading for that
>       particular font) in psfonts.map.

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Jan 13 01:56:57 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:46:44 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Una Descripcion de LaTeX2e

> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tom=E1s_Bautista?= <bautista@CMA.ULPGC.ES>
>
> In <ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming> I have laid a file named
> `ldesc2e.tar.gz'. These is a compressed package of the sources files of
> `Una Descripcion de LaTeX2e', which is the Spanish translation (plus some
> little things more) of Tobias Oetiker's `An Introduction to LaTeX2e'.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it on dante.ctan.org replacing
the old version in tex-archive/info/ldesc2e

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Jan 13 02:07:03 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:52:45 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- corelpak contrib

> From: Karsten Tinnefeld <karsten@tinnefeld.com>
>
> I have uploaded the file corelpak-contrib1998-01-12.tar.gz to /incoming
> on ftp.dante.de.
>
> It contains a contribution to the corelpak font support files.
> Therefore I like it to be installed as CTAN:fonts/psfonts/corelpak/contrib/.
> I have agreed on this with Jens Woch, the corelpak maintainer (CC:).
>
> The archive contains a small perl script to install the .pfb and .afm
> files that Corel sells with their products but had to be inserted and renamed
> by hand - a very uncomfortable job. This is work in progress which
> contains only the very beginning of a textual database with the proper aliases
> - there are seven of 95 fonts translated, so contributions to this list
> are very welcome. You have to have a perl interpreter installed, of
> course, and to make to script run under DOS some modifications seem to
> be not yet done.
>
> See the README included for further details.

Thanks, I installed the files on dante.ctan.org in
CTAN:tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/corelpak/contrib as suggested

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 15 03:12:44 1999
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:59:35 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN SUBMISSION --- tocloft package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded tocloft.tar to
>     ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you please install this in the
>     macros/latex/contrib/supported directory?

i've done that.

> From the README:
>     The tocloft package provides control over the typography of the
>     Table of Contents, List of Figures, and List of Tables.
>
>     This is the first alpha release. Please send me any suggestions
>     for improvements

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jan 15 03:58:16 1999
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:47:35 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- WinEdt dictionaries

> From: Aleksander Simonic <winedt@ISTAR.CA>
>
> I have uploaded 4 new WinEdt Dictionaries (Czech, French, revised
> Polish, revised Dutch) to
>
>     ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt-dict/*.*
>
> Please move the files in this directory to
>
>     tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict/
>
> replacing the existing files of the same name and introducing
> the new (Czech) one.
>
> Links are available from the "Downloads" section of WinEdt's Home
> page:
>
>     http://home.istar.ca/~winedt/

Thanks, I installed the new files on dante.ctan.org as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jan 15 06:06:42 1999
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:34:08 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- SIunits update v0.03

> From: Marcel Heldoorn <M.Heldoorn@PHYSIOLOGY.MEDFAC.LEIDENUNIV.NL>
>
> I have uploaded the file SIunits.zip to ftp.dante.de/incoming
>
> The SIunits package contained in it is intended for LaTeX.
> It typesets physical units following the rules of the International System
> of Units (SI).
>
> It is the updated version 0.03.
>
> CHANGES:
>         lux unit corrected: lx
>         \NoAMS command added  (use this if no AMS fonts were installed)
>         \unit command added  (to typeset quantities and units)
>         \qsk command added
>         \quantityskip command added
>         documentation update
>         Support for configuration file added, stable (SIunits.cfg)

Thanks for the submission.  I replaced the old version at
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/SIunits as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 15 06:20:34 1999
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:59:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new latex fragment: checklab.tex

tidying up an experimental package for release, i found a fragment i'd
written for checking labels.  i've packaged it up separately and
installed it on ctan in macros/latex/contrib/other/fragments/checklab.tex

from the begin-file comments (which constitute all of the
documentation:

% This is a jiffy patch to the kernel so that it produces a
% (\cs{typeout}) message for each label \emph{it} thinks has changed.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jan 15 12:21:23 1999
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 19:09:47 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Abstyles modifications uploaded

Tom�s Bautista writes:

 >   I've placed the package abs-babel.tar.gz into
 > <ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming> which corresponds to some modifications I
 > made long ago to make the Hans-Hermann Bode's Adaptable Family to work
 > with Johannes Braam's Babel system. It only has the files which have to be
 > replaced.
 >
 >   As far as I haven't been able to get in contact with Mr. Bode at the
 > e-mail address given in the documentation, I would suggest to install
 > those files into /tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/abstyles/abs-babel or
 > whatever you consider suitable.

I have just installed the files in directory

   biblio/bibtex/contrib/abstyles/abstyles-babel

Thank you very much for your upload.
For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jan 18 04:18:35 1999
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:58:35 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- europs update

Joern Clausen writes:

 > I have uploaded a slightly modified version of europs, a package to
 > typeset the Euro currency symbol using Adobe's fonts. The archive can
 > be found as europs.tar.gz on ftp.dante.de. Please replace CTAN/fonts/europs/
 > with these files.
 >
 > The changes to the style are very small, I have mainly added a command
 > \EURofc to always get the official shape. The main reason for this version
 > are some remarks about problems with older versions of dvips, as several
 > people reported problems of this kind.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed the package as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jan 18 04:27:29 1999
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:01:47 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Relative sectioning , more boxes for computer scientist, all that in : textoolspro.zip

Manuel Gutierrez Algaba writes:
 > I've just uploaded textoolspro.zip.
 > This is :
 >
 > TeXtoolspro This is a small set of utility very useful for doing
 > documenation  in LaTeX . It's intended mainly for programmers.
 > It's composed of :
 >
 > boxerer.py: - It creates structured boxes, one inside another
 > so the structure of data and functions can be easily shown
 > -It creates black boxes ( diagrams who show the inputs,outputs
 > and functions of a module or a function).
 >
 > sectioner.py : - This is a front-end filter of LaTeX-modified ( very
 > little ) code, so you can write sections in a relative way ( not
 > \section, but \+, \-4 , \n , and so on ). This is in fact a really
 > new thing in LaTeX(AFAIK) and quite worthy.
 >
 > miarticle.cls: This is a LaTeX class that allows up to 14 levels
 >  of nesting, needed for doing documentations ( usually 7 levels
 > are not enough).

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files in

   support/textoolspro

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jan 19 11:38:31 1999
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:29:41 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- cursor

Piet van Oostrum writes:

> /ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/cursor.zip
>
> cursor.sty. A style file to create a simple L-shaped 'cursor' in a
> math environment to mimic what one might see on a computer screen.
>
> Please put it in macros/latex/contrib/supported/cursor.
>
> Uploaded on behalf of Werenfried Spit

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Jan 20 10:08:25 1999
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:47:50 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- titletoc

> From: Javier Bezos <jbezos@MX3.REDESTB.ES>
>
> I've just uploaded to the DANTE server titletoc.zip with the files
> readme, titletoc.sty, and display.tss. If there is some problem
> to uncompress the file, I will send them again in cleartext format.
>
> readme and display.tss replace the files with the same name
> under macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec. titletoc.sty should
> be add to the files under that directory.
>
> titletoc is a companion for titlesec handling toc/lof/lot entries,
> as explained in the readme file. This is an
> experimental alpha release and a few of the intended features
> are not implemented yet, but most of them are included. The
> philosophy is the same than titlesec -- instead of hooking
> the current commands, a new one named \titlecontents is provided.
> You can format entries with it in a generic way following both the
> standard layout provided by LaTeX or grouping the entries in a
> single paragraph as, for example:
>
> Chapter 1. The first chapter  . . . . . . . .     1
>    1.1. The first section, 1; 1.2. The second
>    one, 3; 1.3. The third one, 5.

Thanks for the submission.  As you suggested, I updated the directory
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec with the new files.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Jan 20 11:23:50 1999
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:10:02 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- method

> From: Thomas Leineweber <leineweb@SACHMET.INFORMATIK.UNI-DORTMUND.DE>
>
> I have just uploaded on ftp.dante.de the file method.tar.gz. It includes
> the first public version of a LaTeX-package for typesetting method and
> variable declarations.
>
> Unfortunately, the documentation for it is at the moment only available
> in german.
>
> If the package method is inserted in a LaTeX-document, it is possible to
> typeset declarations for methods (or functions) and variables. This is
> especially useful to document the design of programming projects.
>
> If you consider it worth for CTAN, I would suggest to put it in
> CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/method.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the relevant files (i.e. the .dtx and
.ins files, not the reproduceable .log and .sty files) in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/method as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jan 21 04:23:00 1999
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:06:35 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submissions --- tocloft, tocbibind, tocvsec2, stdclsv packages

Peter Wilson writes:

>     From the README:
> The tocloft package provides control over the typography of the
> Table of Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables. The package
> requires the stdclsdv package to be available.
>
> Changes in v0.2:
> o Now works with the tocbibind package
> o Improved documentation

and

>     From the README:
> The tocbibind package can be used to add the bibliography and/or
> index and/or the contents, etc., to the Table of Contents
> listing. It requires the stdclsdv package.
>
> Changes in version 1.2
> o Operates with the tocloft package
> o Supports numbered bibliography (and index) headings

and

>     From the README:
> The tocvsec2 package provides control over sectional numbering
> and/or the entries in the Table of Contents on a section by section
> basis. It requires the stdclsdv and ifthen packages. It is a
> replacement for the tocvsec package.
>
> -----------
>     Regarding the tocvsec package. Can you please delete this from
> latex/contrib/supported as tocvsec2 is much better (and simpler). If
> you feel it is appropriate, you might want to install tocvsec.tar
> into the latex/contrib/other branch. This holds the original package
> but with warnings that it has been replaced by tocvsec2.

and, finally ...

> (This is the one you've been waiting for) [...]
>
>     From the README:
> The stdclsdv package is designed for package writers who need to
> know what sectioning divsions are provided by the document's
> class. It also provides a version of \CheckCommand that sets a flag
> rather than printing a warning.

i have updated the tocbibind and tocloft directories in
macros/latex/contrib/supported

i have installed the tocvsec2 and and stdclsdv package directories
there.

i have _deleted_ macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocvsec (and chosen
not to install a contrib/other version, since peter seems to be
offering me the choice ;-)

thanks for this bumper bundle of stuff, peter...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 22 05:35:09 1999
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:15:53 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- SIunits update

Marcel Heldoorn writes:

> I have uploaded the file SIunits004.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> The SIunits package contained in it is intended for LaTeX.
> It typesets physical units following the rules of the International System
> of Units (SI).
>
> It is the updated version 0.04.
>
> I changed the definition of \ohm, because it caused an error when uses in
> math mode: solved with \ensuremath.
>
> I recommend replacing the files in
> /macros/latex/contrib/supported/SIunits/

i've replaced the old version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jan 26 04:08:32 1999
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:20:14 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- eurosans.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:

> I have uploaded the file eurosans.zip to the /incoming directory
> at ftp.tex.ac.uk.  Please, unpack this archive to the directory
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/eurosans, thus replacing the
> existent files.
>
> This will update my package eurosans.sty (LaTeX interface for the
> Adobe Euro fonts) from beta status to version 1.0.
>
> The command \euro is robust now, and the documentation has been
> updated with respect to dvips 5.83, which handles the Adobe Euro
> fonts flawlessly.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jan 26 06:34:57 1999
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:16:54 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- rcsinfo

> From: Juergen Vollmer <vollmer@COCOLAB.DE>
>
> I put a new version (1.5) of my  rcsinfo  package to ftp.dante.de
>
> The rcsinfo package is used to extract information of the RCS (Revision
> Control System) and use it in a LaTeX document.
> For users of LaTeX2HTML, a perl-package translating LaTeX documents to HT=
> ML,
> rcsinfo.perl is added, which adds the functionality to that tool.
>
> The following files are contained in rcsinfo-1.5.tar.gz
>    rcsinfo-1.5/rcsinfo.doc
>    rcsinfo-1.5/rcsinfo.ins
>    rcsinfo-1.5/Makefile
>    rcsinfo-1.5/README-1.5
>
> Please put it into tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/rcsinfo
>
> HISTORY
> 1.5     : - The Babel-package is not loaded automagically anymore.
>             This avoids problems within the `babel'-package when other
>             packages (like `ifthen' or `varioref') are loaded _and_ no
>             language was given in the
>             `documentclass'.
>           - Fixed the `notoday' option.
> 1.4     : Support fancyhdr-package, added rcsinfo.cfg configuration file.=
>
> 1.3     : Fixed documentation, new address, reimplemeted parts, added
>           rcsinfo.perl.
> 1.2     : New Makefile.
> 1.1     : (internal changes).
> 1.0     : Initial Version, submitted to CTAN.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as suggested on dante.ctan.org in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/rcsinfo replacing the
old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From jbezos@MX3.REDESTB.ES Tue Jan 26 07:47:18 1999
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:23:47 +0000
From: Javier Bezos <jbezos@MX3.REDESTB.ES>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- titletoc

Reinhard Zierke wrote:

>> From: Javier Bezos <jbezos@MX3.REDESTB.ES>
>>
>> I've just uploaded to the DANTE server titletoc.zip with the files
>> readme, titletoc.sty, and display.tss.
>> [snip]
>
>Thanks for the submission.  As you suggested, I updated the directory
>CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec with the new files.

Due to a bad transmission the files titletoc.sty and readme were
truncated.
They have been uploaded again and the copies currently available are
complete. I'm sorry for the inconveniences.

Regards
Javier Bezos

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Wed Jan 27 08:33:49 1999
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:07:11 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- ccaption package

Wilson, Peter R writes:

 > From the README: The ccaption package provides commands for
 > `continuation captions', unnumbered captions, and a non-specific
 > legend heading for any environment. Methods are also provided to
 > define captions for use outside float (e.g., figure) environments,
 > and to define new float environments.
 >
 > Changes in version 2.3
 > o Added unnumbered captions
 > o Much improved documentation
 >
installed in macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccaption

sebastian rahtz

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Wed Jan 27 08:35:52 1999
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:07:51 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- accfonts upgrade

John Smith writes:
 > I have uploaded an upgraded version of my "accfonts" package to
 > ftp.tex.ac.uk. The archive file /incoming/accfonts.tgz contains two files:
 > (1) v. 0.211 of the program program vpl2vpl, (2) a CHANGES file specifying
 > what is new since release 0.21. The current version of the package is
 > stored in "/ctan/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/accfonts": files for which I
 > have *not* supplied new versions can be left unchanged.
 >
 > I previously stated that release 0.21 was intended to be "terminal";
 > unfortunately the latest version of afm2tfm has introduced a change in the
 > form of output .vpl files which breaks my program. Vpl2vpl 0.211 differs
 > from 0.21 in containing a one-line fix for this.
 >

installed as requested

Sebastian Rahtz

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Jan 27 15:37:27 1999
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:26:05 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN reorganization -- lshort and derivates

After the submission of the seventh national version of the famous
(Not Always) Short Introduction To LaTeX 2e,  I took the opportunity to
reorganize them into a common directory.  You can now find the files in
the directories

  CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/english
  CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/finnish
  CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/french
  CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/german
  CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/mongolian
  CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/russian
  CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/spanish

At the same time, I removed the old German and Spanish versions for
LaTeX 2.09 from CTAN:/tex-archive/info/

> From: Oliver Corff <corff@ZEDAT.FU-BERLIN.DE>
>
> I just put (...) files into your /incoming directory:
>
>         1. bogino.zip
>         2. README.bogino
>
> bogino.zip contains the famous l2kurz LaTeX documentation translated
> into Mongolian; please locate this package at an appropriate position.

[ The not yet mentioned stuff Oliver uploaded yesterday will be dealt with
tomorrow ]

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jan 28 04:41:10 1999
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:26:59 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission --- MonTeX and bogino

> From: Oliver Corff <corff@ZEDAT.FU-BERLIN.DE>
>
> Dear CTAN maintainers,
>
> I just put four files into your /incoming directory:
>
>         1. ...
>         3. montex02.zip
>         3. README.montex
>
> montex02.zip is the updated version of my Mongolian Language Support for
> LaTeX and *replaces* the existing montex and /languages/mongolian/montex/.

Thanks for the update, I replaced the old version at
CTAN:/tex-archive/languages/mongolian/montex accordingly.

>From the README.montex:

Package name:           MonTeX (Mongolian for LaTeX2e)
Package authors:        Oliver Corff and Dorjpalam Dorj
Version/Release:        Implementation Level IIa, 02.02

Features:

MonTeX provides an environment for writing Mongolian, Buryat
and Russian documents on computer systems with or without
Cyrillic codepages.

New in this Version:

 - Completely overhauled Cyrillic font setup (the old one
   was more or less broken)

 - The Mongolian currency symbol tugrig (double-barred t)

 - Mongolian classical script in horizontal and vertical capsules

 - built-in retransliteration engine for typing classica Mongolian

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jan 28 05:09:08 1999
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:39:54 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- paralist v1.4

> From: Bernd Schandl <bschand@MATH.CLEMSON.EDU>
>
> I have uploaded the file paralist.zip
> to the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de
>
> >From the abstract:
>
>         This style file provides some new list environments. Itemized and
>         enumerated lists can be typesetted within paragraphs, as
>         paragraphs and in a compact version. Most environments have
>         optional arguments to format the labels.
>         Additionally, the \LaTeX\ environments |itemize| and |enumerate|
>         can be extended to use a similar optional argument.
>
> The new version fixes a bug in the itemize environment, has a new option
> to prevent the left margin from shrinking in environments with
> self-defined label formats and adds macros to change the default labels
> for all itemized and enumerated environments.

Thanks for the update, I replaced the old files in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist
as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 29 03:34:42 1999
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:21:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ctan upload -- gentl-gr (gentle.tex in greek)

dimitris filippou writes:

> I have just uploaded the following files at "ftp.tex.ac.uk"
> in the directory "/incoming/gentl-gr":
>
>  1) gentl-gr.tex
>  2) gentl-gr_a4.ps
>  3) gentl-gr_letter.ps
>
> These files include the most recent update of the Greek
> translation of M. Doob's manual "A Gentle Introduction to TeX".
>
> These file should be placed in the directory
>
> tex-archive/help/greek/gentl-gr
>
> and all other old files in that directory should be erased.

i've done that.  thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jan 29 03:46:14 1999
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:26:55 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - Russian_Izhitsa

Oleg V. Motygin writes:

 > I uploaded to  ftp.dante.de  seven files collected in directory
 > Russian_Izhitsa. These are:
 >       readme
 >       attention.txt
 >       izhitsa.mf
 >       izh1251.mf
 >       lbcoding.mf
 >       wbcoding.mf
 >       izhitsa.sty
 > Please put the files to /fonts/russian_izhitsa with replacement
 > of the old files izhitsa.mf, izhitsa.sty.
 >
 > Yours respectfully,
 > Oleg Motygin

Thanks a lot. I installed the files in

  fonts/cyrillic/old_slavonic/izhitsa

and added a link at the former location

  fonts/russian_izhitsa

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Fri Jan 29 10:21:29 1999
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:47:03 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: hyperref 6.46 release

I have just installed hyperref 6.46 on CTAN in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyperref. The purpose of this release
is

 - to fix serious errors in the dvipdfm driver (colorlinks did not
   work)
 - to advertise a new release on CTAN, since its been some time since
   I did so
 - to ask all existing users, including TeX packagers, that they
   should please upgrade to the latest version, and report errors to
   me.

hyperref is for making hyperlinks in PDF or hypertex output, using the
implicit links in LaTeX \ref and \label. Plus many more PDF niceties.

to install, run latex on the file hyperref.ins, and move the .def and
.sty files to where TeX will find them

Sebastian Rahtz

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jan 30 11:46:28 1999
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 13:23:41 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission texlist.zip

John Forkosh writes:

>      I've uploaded texlist.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming,
> and recommend it be installed in tex-archive/support.
>      It's yet another utility using LaTeX2e to facilitate
> the generation of program listings (or listings of any ascii
> text files).  Implementation is via a C program that generates
> a LaTeX document comprising the text files selected by
> the user.
>      Please see the 00README file in the gnu-zipped texlist.zip
> archive for further details.  (Also, please read the bottom
> of the 00README file -- is this kind of "advertising" okay???)

i've installed the files as suggested.   thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jan 30 11:53:13 1999
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 13:29:02 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- layouts and hyphenat packages

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded layouts.tar to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you please install this in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported as a replacement for the current
> layouts package.
>
> From the README:
>     The layouts package enables the display of various elements of a
> document's layout including: text positioning on a page; disposition
> of floats; layout of paragraphs, lists, footnotes, table of
> contents, and sectional headings; font boxes.
>     Facilities are provided for a document designer to experiment
> with the layout parameters.
>
> Changes in version v2.3
> o Added tabulation of actual layout values.
> o Corrected the ToC layout.
> o Reduced the number of counters used.

i've installed that lot as requested...

>     I have also uploaded hyphenat.dtx to the same place. Could you
> replace the present
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyphenat/hyphenat.dtx by the new
> file.
>
> From the README:
>     The hyphenat package can be used to disable all hyphnation in a
> document or in selected text. It also enables hyphenation within
> `words' that contain analphabetic characters (e.g., that include
> underscores), and hyphenation of text typeset in monospaced (e.g.,
> cmtt) fonts.
>
>    The only change is the addition of a warning message to expect
> `Font Warning' messages.

... and that one.

thanks for the uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jan 31 06:38:05 1999
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 12:25:43 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- eurofont v1.1.3 (LaTeX2e package)

Rowland (of R&R fame) writes:

> (a) Uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/
>
> (b) Uploaded file eurofont.zip which should be decompressed before putting
> it on CTAN.
>
> (c) The eurofont package does not have a fount containing euro symbols.
> Instead, it provides a command, \euro, that prints a euro symbol; the
> particular symbol printed will in general change depending on the fount
> family, weight, and shape in use at the time. This symbol can come from any
> source, and the package user can have complete control over which euro
> symbol is used in any given situation. The package is pre-configured to
> behave sensibly with many common text founts and available euro symbols. I
> have tried to make configuring the package fairly easy.
>
> The \euro command can print `faked' euro symbols from a C with two lines
> across it when no suitable real euro symbol is available; the package also
> includes code for printing fake bold euro symbols for use when no real bold
> symbol exists, as well as pre-configured support for a faked italic version
> of the Marvosym fount.
>
> Eurofont comes set up to use euro symbols from Adobe's Eurofonts, the
> Marvosym fount, the Eurosym fount, and any available Text Companion founts.
> The selection between these can be done using options passed to the
> package. The eurofont package knows about the China2e fount's euro symbol,
> and can be configured to use it.
>
> (d) I suggest that this package replaces the old version of eurofont in
> this directory:
>
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/eurofont/
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This is version 1.1.3 of the eurofont package.  The \EFeuro (and therefore
> \euro) command has been made robust, and a note about dvips v5.83 being
> able to do partial fount downloading of Adobe's Eurofonts has been added
> to the documentation.

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Mon Feb  1 06:26:40 1999
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 11:39:52 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: hyperref 6.46 -> 6.47

There was a bad error in the dvipdfm driver of hyperref 6.46. Please
get a new version from CTAN if

 - you use dvipdfm
or
 - you distribute the package

sebastian

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Feb  1 08:50:42 1999
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 15:37:52 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MonTeX update

> From: Oliver Corff <corff@ZEDAT.FU-BERLIN.DE>
>
> Less than a week after the original release of MonTeX IIa.02.02
> I come forth with version IIa.02.03 which has significantly
> improved handling of Mongolian transliteration (handles now
> native umlaut symbols if available), allows pretty displays
> of Mongolian transliteration symbols, and has, last but not least,
> a greatly enhanced user manual with alphabetic command reference.

Thanks for the update - I installed it on dante.ctan.org replacing the
previous version in CTAN:tex-archive/language/mongolian/montex

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Feb  2 02:14:34 1999
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 08:51:37 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- fancyref

> From: Axel Reichert <reich@MPIE-DUESSELDORF.MPG.DE>
>
> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file fancyref.tar.gz
> containing fancyref.sty, a LaTeX package for fancy cross-referencing.
>
> I recommend installing the files in the directory
>
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyref

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it on dante.ctan.org aka ftp.dante.de
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Feb  2 05:24:08 1999
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:01:04 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Sauter

Jeroen Nijhof writes:

> I have uploaded sauter.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk. It is an update of the
> Sauter package.  It shoud replace CTAN:fonts/cm/sauter. Currently,
> sauter is a link to sauter24; please delete sauter24 and the link and
> install the files under sauter.
> As J\"org Knappen announced a while ago, there's a new maintainer now (me).
>
> From doc/description:
>
>   John Sauter has prepared a bunch of ``alternate parameter files''
>   that make it possible to generate the Computer Modern fonts at any
>   point size.  I have looked at some of them and think they are pretty
>   good (better than the magnified versions). With the Sauter fonts you
>   also get things like {\Huge $\longrightarrow$} right. The Sauter
>   parameters are usefull in the range from 4 to approximately 40 pt,
>   but become unreliable at larger sizes.
>
>
> From doc/relase2.5:
>
>   The release 2.5 of the Sauter tools to generate true sized fonts
>   contains the following news:
>
>   * Support for LaTeX2e up to at least 1998/06/01. fontmath.cfg
>     now reads fontmath.ltx, so it should be in sync with whatever
>     version of LaTeX is used. fonttext.cfg can handle both lower case
>     and mixed case names of the encoding definition files.
>
>   * A new directory make-mf with tex files for generating metafont
>     files, replacing the msdos and unix batch files.
>
>   * Use rounded \magstep sizes everywhere now, both in make-mf
>     and for the AMS symbol fonts, bbm fonts and rsfs fonts
>     contributed by Hubert Holin; recomputed holin/ready-mf/*
>     with the new sizes.
>
>   * A new maintainer
>
>   * No change in the fonts themselves.

i've installed the new version (as requested) as fonts/cm/sauter

fonts/cm/sauter24 is no more...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Wed Feb  3 09:44:13 1999
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 15:27:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: another competion - identify this description of style sheets

Is this:

 The use of style sheets in an electronic publishing system is
 described. A style sheet is a collection of formatting information,
 such as font and tabs in a textual document. The style sheets
 described herein are applied to individual display regions (controls)
 on a page. Unlike previous systems, the display regions in this system
 do not contain any text at the time the style sheet is
 applied. Rather, the text, or other media such as graphics, is poured
 into the display region when the title is rendered on the customer's
 computer.

a) a legalese description of LaTeX
b) a jotting by Brian Reid from the 1970s
c) a hitherto undiscovered manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci
d) the summary of a patent recently given  to corporation *******
e) a research proposal from the University of Laputa

Sebastian Rahtz

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb  5 05:01:47 1999
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 11:47:45 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- First Steps sample files

George Gratzer writes:

 > (a) I have uploaded to
 >
 > ftp.dante.de
 >
 > into the
 >
 > /incoming/FirstSteps
 >
 > directory 18 small text files.
 >
 > (b) The list of files I uploaded is in the file named Contents.
 >
 > (c) These are sample text files for my forthcoming book: First Steps
 > in LaTeX (Birkhauser/Springer).
 >
 > (d) I request that you create a directory
 >
 > /info/FirstSteps
 >
 > and move the files there.
 >
 > I would like to thank you for the service you provide.
 >
 > Greetings,
 >
 > George
 >
 > George Gratzer

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as suggested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Fri Feb  5 09:51:51 1999
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 15:35:38 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
Reply-To: tug-board@tug.org
To: ctan-ann@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Volunteers to document TeX Live 4?

I would like to ask for a volunteer to take over the entire
documentation aspect of TeX Live 4. I think it is important that the
next release of this CDROM not be delayed beyond mid April (ie
delivery of master disk at the end of March), and I really don't think
I can manage some of the work.

The task is:

 - to review the current documentation and rewrite it as needed
 - to generate new documentation as needed
 - to get others to help as needed
 - to contact all the LUGs and liaise with them to get material
   translated as needed
 - to get the documentation ready in .tex, .html, .dvi and .pdf
 - to liaise with me over what is actually on the CD :-}

this is not a fun job, and needs someone who is both pretty familiar
with the setup, but who is also able to write for beginners (or can
find someone to do that)

Volunteers?

I apologize in advance for the wide broadcast of this message!

Sebastian Rahtz


From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Fri Feb  5 10:04:52 1999
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 15:35:38 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Volunteers to document TeX Live 4?

I would like to ask for a volunteer to take over the entire
documentation aspect of TeX Live 4. I think it is important that the
next release of this CDROM not be delayed beyond mid April (ie
delivery of master disk at the end of March), and I really don't think
I can manage some of the work.

The task is:

 - to review the current documentation and rewrite it as needed
 - to generate new documentation as needed
 - to get others to help as needed
 - to contact all the LUGs and liaise with them to get material
   translated as needed
 - to get the documentation ready in .tex, .html, .dvi and .pdf
 - to liaise with me over what is actually on the CD :-}

this is not a fun job, and needs someone who is both pretty familiar
with the setup, but who is also able to write for beginners (or can
find someone to do that)

Volunteers?

I apologize in advance for the wide broadcast of this message!

Sebastian Rahtz

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb  5 11:27:32 1999
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 17:14:55 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- relenc

lars hellstr�m writes:

> (a) My upload was to ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>
> (b) I have uploaded into the relenc subdirectory of /incoming. It should
> contain the files:
> >2sidedoc.sty
> >README
> >reldemo.tex
> >relenc.dtx
> >relenc.ins
> >relenc.tex
> >t1renc.dtx
> >t1rzcm.fdd
> >zcmr8d.tfm
> >zcmr8d.vf
> >zcmr8d.vf2
> >zcmr8d.vf3
> >zcmra.tfm
> >zcmra.vf
> >zcmra.vf2
> >zcmra.vf3
>
> (c) Extract from README:
> >What in my opinion is one of the most irritating limitations with the
> >standard encodings used with LaTeX today is that they either have very
> >few slots available for ligatures or offer no way in which LaTeX can make
> >use all those accented character glyphs that fonts usually come equipped
> >with. The relenc package makes it possible to get around this by
> >introducing the concept of a relaxed encoding. Unlike normal encodings,
> >relaxed encodings give the font designer (or whoever is setting up the
> >font for use with LaTeX) a saying on what the author commands setting text
> >from the fonts should really do to get their work done. This can be used
> >to make more slots available for ligatures without more than marginally
> >changing the visible result of any command.
> >
> >One such relaxed encoding is included with the relenc package: the T1R
> >encoding. It behaves like T1 to the author, but allows the font designer to
> >include some 60 ligatures in the font (T1 only allows seven). Note however
> >that it is up to the font designer to decide how those 60 slots should be
> >used, so any subset of them can just as well be used for accented letters.
> >
> >The package also comes with a font family called zcm, which exists only to
> >provide an example of what can be done with the relenc package.
>
> (d) Where to put it in CTAN: It seems to me that
>     macros/latex/contrib/supported/relenc
> would be the most suitable place to put them in.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Mon Feb  8 03:54:35 1999
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 15:02:36 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: hyperref 6.48 - `naturalnames' option

I am releasing a new version of the hyperref package on CTAN today;
this adds a new option "naturalnames", which may solve some problems
that have been reported.

hyperref output has to assign a unique name to each `anchor', and
these names are constrained in HTML and/or PDF (eg no spaces or
brackets allowed). It is tempting to simply use eg \thesection, but
some styles redefine this to put spaces in, and so on.  The package
therefore normally makes up its own names for document elements like
sections or figures, based on their simple arabic number. But
sometimes people deliberately restart numbering sequences, and ensure
uniqueness by assigning their own prefix, eg

 \setcounter{section}{0}
 \renewcommand\thesection{A\arabic{section}}

The new `naturalnames' option has been introduced to allow such people
enough rope to hang themselves. It simply uses eg \thesection and
\thefigure, and it is up to the author to ensure these generate
unique, and legal, names.

Perhaps not all hyperref users realise that you can *turn off* all
redefinition of LaTeX internals, and reply on explicit links you put
in yourself, with the option "implicit=false".

Another long-standing problem has also been fixed. You can now
redefine \maketitle to put out PDF document info commands, and they'll
work (I changed them to happen \AtEndDocument). Thus this:

\let\article@maketitle\maketitle
\def\maketitle{%
  \hypersetup{ pdftitle={\@title},pdfauthor={\@author}}%
  \article@maketitle
}

will probably do as you expect.... interested parties can experiment.

***********
hyperref, in case you have not come across it, redefines LaTeX's
internal cross-reference system so that they produce \special
commands, or native hypertext commands in some TeX variants. The
effect is that HyperTeX dvi, or PDF output, has live links. There are
drivers for hypertex, dvips, dviwindo, vtex, pdftex and dvipdfm.

Sebastian Rahtz

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Feb  6 16:38:02 1999
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 22:37:51 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: ctan submission -- tugboat tables of contents

------- Blind-Carbon-Copy

To: ctan-ann@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: ctan submission -- tugboat tables of contents 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 Feb 1999 15:25:20 EST."
             <Pine.SOL.3.96.990206152014.22650C-100000@sun06.ams.org> 
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 22:37:51 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <rf@cl.cam.ac.uk>

barbara beeton writes:

> i have just posted to /incoming at ftp.tex.ac.uk two files that
> should be part of the tugboat tables of contents:
> 
>     tbcv20.tex, which produces the contents for volumes 16-20
>           (volume 20 does not yet exist)
>     tb1998.cnt, which contains the data for volume 19, 1998
> 
> please install these in the area
> 
>     digests/tugboat/t-of-c
> 
> replacing the files with the same names that are there now.
> 
> the change to the old files is the addition of issue 19#4, which has
> just been sent to the printer.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Feb  6 16:48:13 1999
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 22:37:51 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan submission -- tugboat tables of contents

barbara beeton writes:

> i have just posted to /incoming at ftp.tex.ac.uk two files that
> should be part of the tugboat tables of contents:
>
>     tbcv20.tex, which produces the contents for volumes 16-20
>           (volume 20 does not yet exist)
>     tb1998.cnt, which contains the data for volume 19, 1998
>
> please install these in the area
>
>     digests/tugboat/t-of-c
>
> replacing the files with the same names that are there now.
>
> the change to the old files is the addition of issue 19#4, which has
> just been sent to the printer.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb  8 03:41:14 1999
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 10:27:04 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ConTeXt files

Tobias Burnus writes:

 > I uploaded the ConTeXt tex files (cont-tex.zip) and the ConTeXt modules
 > files to the dante-CTAN server. These files contain the ConTeXt general
 > macro package, which was previously only available via WWW on the NTG
 > server, the documentation is still only available via WWW at
 > http://www.ntg.nl/context/
 >
 > Please untar the file cont-tex.tar.gz in CTAN/macros/context/base and
 > cont-mod.tar.gz in CTAN/macros/context/modules
 > (finally copy the README.context file to the file
 > CTAN/macros/context/README)

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed it as requested.
For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Feb  8 04:31:28 1999
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 11:12:49 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- rcsinfo

> From: Juergen Vollmer <vollmer@COCOLAB.DE>
>
> I put a new version (1.6) of my  rcsinfo  package to ftp.dante.de
>
> The rcsinfo package is used to extract information of the RCS (Revision
> Control System) and use it in a LaTeX document.
> For users of LaTeX2HTML, a perl-package translating LaTeX documents to HTML,
> rcsinfo.perl is added, which adds the functionality to that tool.
>
> The following files are contained in rcsinfo-1.6.tar.gz
>    rcsinfo-1.6/rcsinfo.doc
>    rcsinfo-1.6/rcsinfo.ins
>    rcsinfo-1.6/Makefile
>    rcsinfo-1.6/README-1.6
>
> Please put it into tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/rcsinfo
>
> HISTORY
> 1.6     : Fixed problems with the french-option of `babel'.
>           (The `:' is made active when using the french language.
>            Now rcsinfo can handle this situation).
> 1.5     : - The Babel-package is not loaded automagically anymore.
>             This avoids problems within the `babel'-package when other
>             packages (like `ifthen' or `varioref') are loaded _and_ no
>             language was given in the `documentclass'.
>           - Fixed the `notoday' option.
> 1.4     : Support fancyhdr-package, added rcsinfo.cfg configuration file.
> 1.3     : Fixed documentation, new address, reimplemeted parts, added
>           rcsinfo.perl.
> 1.2     : New Makefile.
> 1.1     : (internal changes).
> 1.0     : Initial Version, submitted to CTAN.
>
> With best regards
> J�rgen Vollmer

Thanks for the update, I installed it on dante.ctan.org as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Feb  9 03:04:42 1999
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 09:54:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- euro.sty

Melchior FRANZ writes:
 > Dear CTAN Maintainers,
 >
 > I've just uploaded version 0.1 of the `euro' package
 > (the name seemed to be still free!?) as archive
 >
 > ### euro.tar.gz
 > to
 > ### ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/.
 >
 >
 > The euro package typesets national currency values and their
 > corrensponding Euro values automatically and in costumizable format.
 > Write e.g. \ATS{17.6} to get something like `17,60 "oS  (1,28 Euro)'
 > automatically. The package is able to do 3-digit grouping.
 > It's of course possible to format other (non-Euro) currencies and values.
 > The euro package needs the `fp' package to be installed!
 >
 > I'm not sure if this package deserves its own folder---it's tiny.
 > The archive, however, unpacks to a directory `euro'. I'm suggesting,
 > though, to put it to
 >
 > ### /macros/latex/contrib/supported/euro/
 >
 > Yours
 > Melchior

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Feb 10 02:42:52 1999
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:19:57 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- cmcyr

> From: "V.Malyshev" <malyshev@SIRIUS.IHEP.SU>
>
> I have been uploaded into ftp.dante.de/incoming/cmcyr.tar.gz
> the CMCYR font package. This package is replacement for 'fonts/cyrillic/cmcyr'.
> Also, contents of directory 'fonts/cm/ps-type1/paradissa' is obsolete,
> because Type1 fonts included into this package is much better.
>
> Few details:
>
> CMCYR fonts is extension for Computer Modern Knuth's fonts by russian letters
> (66 letters, <<, >>, and russian numbersign). These fonts are in MetaFont
> sources and in ATM Compatible Type 1 font format. In this reason using these
> fonts is direct way to produce PDF from russian mathematical compuscripts.
>
> These fonts are in KOI-7 encoding. However, there are virtual fonts
> that merge CMCYR fonts together with CM fonts according to four
> russian eight-bit encodings:
>         xcm...  - CP866 (MS-DOS Alternative)
>         wcm...  - CP1251 (Windows Encoding)
>         kcm...  - KOI-8
>         ycm...  - ISO 8859-5

Thanks for the submission! (I know of at least one person who is eagerly
waiting for the Type 1 files :-))  I installed the new version on
dante.ctan.org in tex-archive/fonts/cyrillic/cmcyr as suggested.
And I removed tex-archive/fonts/cyrillic/cyrit/ as the only file that
used to be in this directory is already lurking in cmcyr/

Also, I removed the directory tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/paradissa/
as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Feb 10 02:46:44 1999
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:27:02 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- barcode package

> From: Peter Willadt <Willadt@T-ONLINE.DE>
>
> I have just uploaded a slightly revised version of the wbarcodes package
> to
>
> (a) ftp.dante.de/incoming
> (b) Its filename is wbarcode.zip.
> (d) It should replace all the files in fonts/barcodes/willadt.
> (c) The wbarcode package supports typesetting of barcodes by TeX and/or
> Metafont in various ways. Installing and using it requires some TeXnical
> skills.
>
> This version mainly adds a bug fix to the documentation and still
> experimental support for code 93 barcode. Hope I will find the time to
> polish the user interface.
>
> Thanks in advance for installing.
>
> Peter Willadt

Thanks for the update, I installed it on dante.ctan.org as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Feb 10 06:13:35 1999
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:58:09 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- LaTeX Wizard

> From: Peter Willadt <Willadt@T-ONLINE.DE>
>
> (a) I have just uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming
> (b) ltxwizrd.zip.
> (d) Please create a directory systems/win32/texhelpers/latexwizard
> and unzip the archive to there. This should leave ltxwza.zip and README.
> As I am hopeful to produce other TeX helpers in the near future, this
> seems appropriate to me (but of course you may think and act different).
> ltxwza.zip has to be used in complete form, it also includes binaries,
> so I think it is quite useful not to unpack it further.
> (c) Excerpt from readme file:
>
> The LaTeX Wizard is a tool to create the header of a LaTeX document.
> It guides you within a few steps through the more or less important
> options and packages.
>
> It requires Windows 9x or Windows NT. It speaks english or german.
>
> It can be adopted to your set of installed packages,
> but this has to be done by hand.

Thanks for the submission (and the promise of further ones)
I installed the files as suggested on dante.ctan.org in
tex-archive/systems/win32/texhelpers/latexwizard

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Feb 10 07:36:14 1999
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:19:55 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: grapher 1.0

Manuel Gutierrez Algaba writes:

 > I've just uploaded grapher 1.0
 > This is a small python program that generates graphs like state machine
 > diagrams. It uses gpic to convert it to TeX, extremely easy to
 > use, and it produces nice graphs.
 >
 > It can be adapted to ordinograms and data flow diagrams ( this is
 > to be implemented).
 >
 > Regards/Saludos
 > Manolo

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the package in

  support/grapher

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Feb 11 02:04:19 1999
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 08:50:41 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX update

> From: "V.Malyshev" <malyshev@SIRIUS.IHEP.SU>
>
> I have uploaded to CTAN (ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma)
> update for BaKoMa TeX 2.02.
>
> This update includes changed D1.ZIP, D2.ZIP and new T1.ZIP archives.
>
> These files must be placed into CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/dst directory.
>
> Users who wants to update the system needs to copy only these three files.
>
> Please send information about update to CTAN-ANN mailing list.

Thanks for the update, I installed it on dante.ctan.org as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

> ------------------- Information about BaKoMa TeX 2.02 update ----------------
>
> The update includes following important improvements:
>
> 1. Added T1 encoded fonts, that include ALL GLYPHS for T1 encoding.
>    In following, these fonts are called `T1-fonts'.
>    These fonts are virtual fonts composed from CM fonts and additional
>    CX fonts, that have design and optical sizes compatible with CM fonts.
>    CX Fonts are in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
>    In this reason, T1-fonts are suitable to generate PDF
>    from articles prepared with T1 encoding.
>    Metrics of T1-fonts are well matched with EC fonts,
>    because both font sets are derived from single source (CM fonts).
>    In this reason, the system includes substitution table for EC-fonts,
>    that replaces EC fonts by these T1-fonts in a shadow.
>    All documents typesetted anywhere with EC fonts
>    can be viewed/printed/converted to PDF/PS by using the T1-fonts
>    almost without a distortion. Anyway, any user can recompile (by TeX)
>    any document to produce precisely formatted document.
>
> 2. Added partially T2 encoded fonts, that include Russian and Ukrainian glyphs.
>    In following, these fonts are called `T2-fonts'.
>    These fonts are virtual fonts composed from CM, CX, and CMCYR fonts.
>    All letters are positioned according to T2A encoding.
>    In this reason, you can use standard LaTeX 2e russification
>    distributed by CyrTUG team to typeset russian compuscripts.
>    Using these fonts, is direct way to generate PDF from russian mathematical
>    compuscripts, because they are consistent with Computer Modern math fonts
>    and they are completly available in Type 1 font format.
>
> 3. Added LCY encoded fonts.
>    This encoding inlcudes only English and Russian glyphs according to CP866.
>    These fonts are virtual fonts composed from CM and CMCYR fonts.
>    It is complete analog (in encoding and ligatures) of the LH fonts,
>    that is used in OLD LaTeX 2e russification distributed by CyrTUG.
>    It is probably, that these fonts are obsolete. However, some users
>    can found documents that are hardwired for CP866 encoding. So, that
>    simplest solution of such situation is using of these fonts.
>
> 4. Added support for font replacement.
>    Font replacements can be specified in 'FontSubs.INI' file.
>    The system writes aliases for TFM and VF files according to this file.
>    Installing the T1-fonts and/or T2-fonts adds font replacement records
>    to 'FontSubs.INI' file.
>
> ---------------- End of Information about BaKoMa TeX 2.02 update -------------

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Feb 11 08:14:55 1999
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:59:49 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- method (update)

> From: Thomas Leineweber <leineweb@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
>
> I have just uploaded on ftp.dante.de the file method.tgz. It is a new
> version of the method-package for typesetting method/function- and
> data/variable-declarations. It should replace the old version in
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/method
>
> As a nice new feature, the language of the package can be set with
> the two package-optios "german" and "english". Any help in adding
> further languages is welcome.

Thanks for the update; i installed it on dante.ctan.org as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb 12 07:44:10 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:32:42 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- tth-2.0-1.i386.rpm

Michael Sanders writes:

> I have just uploaded on ftp.dante.de the file tth-2.0-1.i386.rpm. It is an
> intel-rpm version of Ian Hutchinson's TeX/LaTeX to html converter (v 2.0). I
> suggest that it be put in the support/tth directory.
>
> This is the first such package I have prepared for general distribution. I
> would appreciate hearing any suggestions/problems.

i've rearranged the tth holdings so as (safely) to accommodate this
new contribution in the presence of mirroring...  we now hold:

  support/tth/dist/tth_C.tgz
  support/tth/rpm/tth-2.0-1.i386.rpm

the first being the distribution we mirror from Ian Hutchinson's site.

thanks, Michael and Ian, for help with the behind-the-scenes
arrangement for this package.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Feb 13 03:00:41 1999
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 08:52:42 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- adfathesis

Stephen Harker writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk a file called adfathesis.zip.  This
> contains an updated version of a class which modifies the standard
> report class to meet the thesis requirements of th Australian Defence
> Force Academy (a college of the University of New South Wales).
>
> The suggested placement is in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/adfathesis where it should replace the
> previous version.
>
> The main change in the new version (2.4) is the addition of an extra
> option `honours' which modifies the titlepage to a form appropriate
> for an honours report.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Feb 16 03:06:56 1999
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:49:29 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf

> From: Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@RUF.UNI-FREIBURG.DE>
>
> I have uploaded 'thumbpdf.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> !!! Please remove 'thumb.zip', I had to rename it, because I found
> !!! another package with the same name thumb.sty!
>
> 'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with pdfTeX, plain/latex formats.
> It consists of four files:
> * readme.txt:    documentation.
> * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
> * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
> * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
>
> Requirements: Perl5, ghostscript, pdfTeX
>
> Because I don't found an appropiate support of thumbnails in pdfTeX,
> I have written this project:
> Function in short:
> 1.) The perl script first invokes ghostscript to generate the thumbnails.
> 2.) Then pdftex is called to produce a pdf file with the thumbnails
>     included with the \pdfimage command.
> 3.) This pdf file is parsed to get the object representation of the
>     thumbnails. This is written to a TeX readable file.
> 4.) This file is now read by the package thumbpdf.sty and the
>     thumbnails are automatically included.
>
> The package 'thumbpdf.sty' supports plain and latex formats and
> needs pdfTeX. So I propose as location for installing
>   '/macros/pdftex/generic/thumbpdf/'.

Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in
the directory /tex-archive/macros/pdftex/thumbpdf as I don't see the
need for another directory level nesting.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Feb 16 08:04:03 1999
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:34:58 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (update) -- package CWEBx

Marc van Leeuwen writes:

 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file cwebx.tar.gz, containing the most
 > recent version (3.04) of the CWEBx package. An older version is present in the
 > directory /tex-archive/web/c_cpp/cwebx/, the contents of the uploaded file
 > replaces the subdirectory /tex-archive/web/c_cpp/cwebx/cwebx/ (the other files
 > in the containing directory are no longer relevant nor accurate, so you might
 > as well pull things up one level, and have the uploaded version replace
 > /tex-archive/web/c_cpp/cwebx/ altogether). Introductory information concerning
 > the package (and the package itself) can now be found on the WWW at
 > http://wwwmathlabo.univ-poitiers.fr/~maavl/CWEBx/, and if you have some
 > mechanism, you might place a pointer there from CTAN. As a matter of principle
 > I would be interested to know if it is possible to make CTAN automatically
 > follow the most recent version of a package; in any case the latest version
 > can always be found at
 > http://wwwmathlabo.univ-poitiers.fr/~maavl/CWEBx/cwebx.tar.gz

Thanks a lot for your update, I installed the new files as

  web/c_cpp/cwebx

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Tue Feb 16 14:24:03 1999
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:05:52 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: hyperref 6.50 release

Those of you who use my hyperref package, and tried to use the
"pdfpagescrop" key, may want to upgrade. It was broken.

Files that end in \clearpage will now generate document info, in
addition.

Sebastian Rahtz

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Feb 17 08:10:57 1999
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:51:25 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- magaz.sty

Donald Arseneau writes:

> i have uploaded onto ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming a preliminary, partial,
> but functioning sty file:
> % magaz.sty  Ver 0.1   16-Feb-1999  "Magazine style"
>
> It is intended to provide several functions that are used in many
> magazines' layout, but for now it only does one thing: special
> formatting for the first line of text in a paragraph.
>
> It should go to macros/latex/contrib/other/misc   (This is truly an
> "other/misc" since it is a prerelease [of something that may never
> get done, but no matter].)

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Feb 17 08:05:17 1999
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:24:25 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update

Bruce Shawyer writes:

> Please find attached an improved version of  fullpict.sty  and the
> updated documentation file  fullpict.doc
>
> I have been using these in this form for six months and believe that
> there are no bugs left.
>
> I would appreciate these being updated on CTAN.

since these files work with current latex, i have installed them in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/fullpict

i have deleted the outdated macros/latex209/contrib/fullpict

thanks for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Feb 18 12:42:43 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 18:24:09 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: FW: CTAN submission --- hyphenat package v2.3

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded hyphenat.tar to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Can
> you please use this to replace the current
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyphenat?
>
> From the README:
>     The hyphenat package can be used to disable all hyphenation in a
> document or in selected text within the document. It also enables
> hyphenation within `words' that contain analphabetic characters
> (e.g., that include underscores), and hyphenation of text typeset in
> monospaced fonts (e.g., Computer Modern Typewriter or Courier).
>
> Changes in version 2.3
> o Added \hyp command for hyphenation of compound hyphenated words

i've installed the package as requested: thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb 19 09:20:34 1999
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:07:17 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- cmdtrack package for LaTeX

Michael Downes writes:

> The cmdtrack package aids in the task of checking whether a
> command defined in a document preamble is actually used somewhere
> in the document. If you add a statement
>
>   \usepackage{cmdtrack}
>
> in the preamble of your document, all \newcommand and similar
> statements between that point and \begin{document} will be
> marked for logging. At the end of the document a report of the
> command usage will be printed in the \TeX{} log, for example:
>
> "mdash" was used on line 25
> "ndash" was never used
> "math character ?" was used on line 26
>
> Limitations of the package are discussed in the .dtx file.

thanks for the upload; i've installed it as suggested in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/cmdtrack

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Feb 22 02:37:50 1999
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 09:26:52 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- `ut-thesis' files: UPDATE

> From: Francois Pitt <fpitt@CS.TORONTO.EDU>
>
> On `ftp.dante.de', in the directory "/incoming/fpitt/", I have just
> uploaded the following three files:
>
>     README.ut-thesis
>     ut-thesis.tex
>     ut-thesis.cls
>
> which contain corrections and updates of the files in the directory
> "/tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/ut-thesis/".  Please
> update these files.

Thanks for the update. I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Feb 22 02:46:47 1999
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 09:38:30 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- epmtfe24.zip+readme

> From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
>
> I have uploaded the files "epmtfe24.zip" and "readme" to the
> directory /incoming at ftp.dante.de.  Please, move them to the
> CTAN directory systems/os2/epmtfe/ and delete the existent files
> epmtfe22.zip and epmtfe22.txt.
>
> This is release 2.4 of the "EPM TeX Front End", an integrated
> TeX environment for OS/2 based on the text editor EPM.  I have
> fixed several bugs and deficiencies of the previous version.

Thanks for the update.  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Feb 22 09:08:37 1999
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:43:55 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- titlesec and titletoc

> From: Javier Bezos <jbezos@MX3.REDESTB.ES>
>
> I've uploaded to the DANTE server the new releases of the titlesec (2.1)
> and titletoc (1.0) packages. The files are:
> readme, titlesec.sty, titlesec.tex, titletoc.sty, drop.tss, frame.tss,
> block.tss, leftmargin.tss, margin.tss, rightmargin.tss, wrap.tss and
> page.tsk.
> These files should replace the whole content of the latex/macros/
> contrib/supported/titlesec directory.
>
> titlesec 2.1 fixes some bugs of the previous version (and no doubt it
> introduces new bugs) and add some new features, amongst them:
> - \titlerule for rules and filler in titles,
> - \part is handled (at last!),
> - a new shape named wrap,
> - enlarged documentation,
> - the number of auxiliary files (tss) has been reduced
>
> titletoc 1.0 is the first official release of the package and it allows
> to change the format of toc entries. Some of its features are:
> - entries are pretty free-form,
> - the format can be changed in the middle of the document,
> - a series of entries of the same level can be grouped in a single
>   paragraph
> - quite differents formats can be applied to labeled and unlabeled
>   entries.

Thanks for the update, I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 22 12:45:30 1999
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 18:36:36 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- textpos and showlabels

Norman Gray writes:

> I've uploaded two packages, new versions of my packages textpos and
> showlabels, to /incoming on ftp.tex.ac.uk.  I suggest they replace the
> current versions at macros/latex/contrib/supported/{textpos,showlabels}

changes to showlabels:

 * The package now formats labels correctly when the \label command
   appears outside either an equation or a \caption (silly of me).

 * A couple of people reported problems in the interaction with the
   amsmath package.  Either these were confined to that package's
   earlier incarnations as AMS-LaTeX or the amstex package, or else
   there's some arcane circumstance I can't reproduce, so I haven't
   found anything to fix on this matter.  Note that the
   \usepackage{showlabels} command must come _after_ the
   \usepackage{amsmath} command.  Bug-sightings here will be warmly
   appreciated.

 * I haven't worried too much about the precise formatting of the
   labels -- this is, after all, supposed to be a draft-only package.

for textpos, the readme says:

  The package now clearly distinguishes between a `relative' and an
  `absolute' mode of positioning text (the distinction was largely
  present before, but neither as clear nor as robust).  It also now
  distinguishes the horizontal and vertical units used for positioning.

thanks for the upload -- i've installed the packages as suggested

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Feb 23 06:34:35 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:01:38 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf

> From: Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@RUF.UNI-FREIBURG.DE>
>
> I have uploaded 'thumbpdf.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
> This updates and replaces the files in
>   macros/pdftex/thumbpdf/
>
> Changes in Version 1.1:
> * one bug removed (pdfplain users only).
> * new feature:
>   Option --resolution to specify the resolution for
>   ghostscript's generating the thumbnails.
>   Without the option the resolution is calculated
>   automatically by getting the MediaBox values.
>
> 'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with pdfTeX, plain/latex formats.
> It consists of four files:
> * readme.txt:    documentation.
> * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
> * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
> * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
> Requirements: Perl5, ghostscript, pdfTeX

Thanks for the update, I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Feb 23 07:32:31 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:12:29 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- CASylTeX

> From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@math.bas.bg>
>
> Now in  ftp.dante.de/incoming/casyltex:
>
> a four-file package for the typesetting of Cree/Inuktitut in
> Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.  (Support for other languages
> to be added in later versions.)
>
> The files are:
>
>   casyll10.mf    MetaFont source.
>   casyltex.sty   Style sheet.
>   casyldoc.tex   User's manual, LaTeX2e source.
>   casyldoc.ps    Ditto, PostScript.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it in CTAN:/tex-archive/language/casyl

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Feb 25 01:28:24 1999
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 07:17:43 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- aiaa latex package (v2.4 update)

bil kleb writes:

>    site uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk
>    file uploaded as: incoming/aiaa.tar.gz
>      brief overview: a package of LaTeX/BibTeX files and sample documents
>                      to aid those producing papers and journal articles
>                      according to the guidelines of the American Institute
>                      of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
>  suggested location: macros/latex/contrib/supported
>            [version: 2.4 (22 feb 99)]

thanks for the upload -- i've installed it (last night, in fact) as
you request.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Feb 25 02:04:11 1999
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:55:54 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- New Dictionary for WinEdt

> From: Aleksander Simonic <winedt@ISTAR.CA>
>
> I have just uploaded a Slovenian Dictionary (word list), newly
> available for use with WinEdt, to
>
>     ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt-dict/si.*
>
> Please move the files in this directory to
>
>     tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict/
>
> WinEdt's Downloads Page has been upgraded to provide links to this
> as well as all other available WinEdt dictionaries on CTAN. For
> more information visit:
>
>         http://home.istar.ca/~winedt/

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

By the way, do you know the Web address http://www.winedt.com/ ?
An obscure Kairo based TeX consultant who has grabbed some other
"interesting" domains too...

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Feb 25 02:07:43 1999
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:59:37 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- accents 1.1

> From: Javier Bezos <jbezos@MX3.REDESTB.ES>
>
> I've uploaded to the DANTE server the following files:
>  accents.tex
>  accents.sty
> which should replace the files accents.dtx and accents.ins
> under the directory ...latex/contrib/supported/bezos/
>
> This new release provides a much improved \underaccent command
> and a new documentation. The \accentset command for building
> accents from non accent chars remains practically untouched.

Thanks for the new version. I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Feb 25 08:39:48 1999
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:23:08 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN update: custom-bib, natbib, aguplus

> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@LINPWD.MPAE.GWDG.DE>
>
> I have just uploaded the following zip files to the Dante CTAN server
> in the incoming directory
>
> custom-bib.zip
> natbib.zip
> aguplus.zip
>
> These are all updates to my package collections; the contents are to replace
> those in the directories of the same names under
>    macros/latex/contrib/supported
>
> The old contents are to be removed entirely and replaced by these new ones.
> This means that some files will be removed without replacements.
>
> Apart from other changes, all now conform to the LaTeX Project Public Licence
> text.

Thanks for the update.  I installed the three new versions as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb 26 04:58:33 1999
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 10:36:31 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- subfigmat.sty (v1.0)

bil kleb writes:

>    site uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk
>    file uploaded as: incoming/subfigmat.sty
>      brief overview: defines an array/matrix-type environment
>                      for placing subfigures and subtables
>  suggested location: macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/
>            [version: 1.0 (25 feb 99)]

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Feb 26 12:31:09 1999
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 19:19:32 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.20 beta 1

> From: Christian Schenk <christian.schenk@DETEWE.DE>
>
> I have uploaded MiKTeX 1.20 beta 1 to
>
>    ftp://ftp.dante.de:/incoming/miktex/
>
> Please install all files (49) in
>
>    systems/win32/miktex/1.20
>
>
> MiKTeX is a free TeX distribution for the Win32 platform. The news are:
>
>    New Installation Method
>    -----------------------
>
>    MiKTeX is now (again) distributed as set of Zip files.  The new Setup
>    Wizard replaces the InstallSHIELD(R) setup program.
>
>    Updated Apps
>    ------------
>
>    - MetaPost 0.641
>    - Dvipdfm 0.10.3
>
>    New Apps
>    --------
>
>    - e-TeX 2.1
>
>    New Features
>    ------------
>
>    - Trace output can be redirected to a file.
>    - TeX: filenames are now logged in their absolute form.
>    - TeX: new option --tcx causes TeX to read the
>      input encoding from a .tcx file.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the beta version as suggested in
/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/1.20 parallel to the existing
/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/1.11.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Feb 26 12:35:55 1999
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 19:24:51 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- CD_labeler, repeat.tex

> From: Victor Eijkhout <victor@EIJKHOUT.NET>
>
> I've uploaded new versions of CD_labeler.tex and repeat.tex to Dante.
> Also a test file for CD_labeler. There has been a bug fix in CD_labeler;
> repeat.tex is just a maintainance update.

Thansk for the submission.  I installed the three files on dante.ctan.org
in /tex-archive/macros/generic/eijkhout/ replacing the old versions.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb 26 19:39:03 1999
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 01:26:59 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- incoming/gurari

eitan gurari writes:

> The following files are submitted, modified to comply with the new
> LaTeX Project Public License copyright notice.
>
>    AlDraTex.sty    DraTex.sty      LitProg         README
>    AlProTex.sty    Examples.tex    ProTex.sty      TeXProject.sty
>
> I don't recall where they were stored in ctan, and I couldn't
> locate them there today.  If they are still welcomed in ctan,
> I recommend they be stored in the following addresses.
>
>     /tex-archive/graphics/dratex
>
>       AlDraTex.sty
>       DraTex.sty
>       Examples.tex
>       README
>       TeXProject.sty
>
>     /tex-archive/web/protex
>
>       AlProTex.sty
>       LitProg
>       ProTex.sty
>       README
>
> The next distribution of tex4ht will also include the LaTeX Project
> Public License copyright notice.  The current distribution can
> implicitly assume such a notice.

i've installed the new files as you suggest, and have deleted them all
from their old home under macros/generic/dratex

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb 26 19:39:03 1999
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 01:26:59 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- incoming/gurari

eitan gurari writes:

> The following files are submitted, modified to comply with the new
> LaTeX Project Public License copyright notice.
>
>    AlDraTex.sty    DraTex.sty      LitProg         README
>    AlProTex.sty    Examples.tex    ProTex.sty      TeXProject.sty
>
> I don't recall where they were stored in ctan, and I couldn't
> locate them there today.  If they are still welcomed in ctan,
> I recommend they be stored in the following addresses.
>
>     /tex-archive/graphics/dratex
>
>       AlDraTex.sty
>       DraTex.sty
>       Examples.tex
>       README
>       TeXProject.sty
>
>     /tex-archive/web/protex
>
>       AlProTex.sty
>       LitProg
>       ProTex.sty
>       README
>
> The next distribution of tex4ht will also include the LaTeX Project
> Public License copyright notice.  The current distribution can
> implicitly assume such a notice.

i've installed the new files as you suggest, and have deleted them all
from their old home under macros/generic/dratex

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Mar  1 02:51:19 1999
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 09:34:16 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- updating package "emulateapj"

> From: Maxim Markevitch <maxim@HEAD-CFA.HARVARD.EDU>
>
> Hi, I have uploaded the file emulateapj.tar.gz at ftp.dante.de. This is an
> update to the package that is already in the archive in the directory
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/emulateapj/. The tar file contains 3 files:
> README, emulateapj.sty and apjfonts.sty. The updates are made to the file
> emulateapj.sty.

> `emulateapj' is a LaTeX (209 or 2e) style to approximate the Astrophysical
> Journal (ApJ) page look.  The page length of the document is close to that
> in ApJ if postscript Times fonts are used instead of the standard CM fonts
> (see below). `emulateapj' requires the `multicol' package available from
> CTAN archives.

Thanks for the update;  I installed it on ftp.dante.de as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Mar  1 03:23:47 1999
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 10:04:55 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- montex again

> From: Oliver Corff <corff@ZEDAT.FU-BERLIN.DE>
>
> I hope that after a period of hectical activity, demonstrations,
> communications, user tests and different OS platforms montex is now
> sufficiently stable to survive for at least a month or so.
>
> I added hyphenation rules but did not put them separately; mnhyphen.tex is
> in the texinput directory and I wonder whether it will also be placed in
> ../language/hyphenation/ or will be kept with montex at CTAN?

Thanks for the new version. I installed the it on dante.ctan.org in
tex-archive/language/mongolian/montex replacing the old version.
And I created a symbolic link
from    tex-archive/language/hyphenation/mnhyphen.tex
to      tex-archive/language/mongolian/montex/texinput/mnhyphen.tex

> I reformatted the LaTeX short description in Mongolian with the new
> hyphenation rules so all ugly examples of junk hyphenation magically
> disappeared... and I corrected a few typos here and there.

I gather you mean bogino.zip in DANTE's incoming directory.  Can you please
be a bit more explicit in your next mail?  Anyway, I now replaced the old
version in tex-archive/info/lshort/mongolian with it.

> As far as montex is concerned, all font switching problems that were
> discussed with Werner and Vladimir should now be fixed, and the only major
> to do item left is the incorporation of T2 which will be needed for
> Kazakh, a language also spoken, written and printed in Mongolia.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Mar  1 06:16:49 1999
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 12:57:07 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- tabsatz.tgz

> From: Axel Reichert <reich@MPIE-DUESSELDORF.MPG.DE>
>
> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file tabsatz.tgz
> which is my (german) tutorial about typesetting tables held at the
> DANTE '99 conference in Dortmund.
>
> I recommend installing the files in the directory
>
>   info/tabsatz/

Thanks for the submission.  As there are a lot of german documents under
/tex-archive/info/, I created a subdirectory /tex-archive/info/german/
and installed the new files in /tex-archive/info/german/tabsatz/.

Additionally, I moved the files and directories Neue-Fonts-fuer-LaTeX.tex,
dvips-german/, gleitobjekte/, neufont.tex, ogfuda/, stammtisch/ and tex-kurs/
from /tex-archive/info/ to /tex-archive/info/german/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Mar  2 02:56:40 1999
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 09:43:00 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- typografie.tgz

> From: Axel Reichert <reich@MPIE-DUESSELDORF.MPG.DE>
>
> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file typografie.tgz
>
> which is my (german) tutorial about typography and design of a sample
> document class held at the DANTE '99 conference in Dortmund.
>
> I recommend installing the files in the directory
>
>   info/german/typografie/

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it on ftp.dante.de as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Mar  2 15:05:58 1999
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 21:57:59 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- draftcopy

> From: Juergen Vollmer <vollmer@COCOLAB.DE>
>
> I put a new version (2.12) of my  draftcopy  package to ftp.dante.de
>
> This package is used to print on some pages the word `DRAFT'
> (or the language dependent analogon) ``behind'' the intended stuff.
>
> The following files are contained in draftcopy.tar.gz
>     draftcopy/draftcopy.ins
>     draftcopy/draftcopy.doc
>     draftcopy/Makefile
>     draftcopy/README
>     draftcopy/THIS-IS-VERSION-2.12
>
> Please put it into tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/draftcopy

Thanks for the update.  I installed it on dante.ctan.org in
/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/draftcopy replacing the
old version 2.08.

> I'm looking still for translations for the word DRAFT.
> Have a look into draftcopy.sty, which are missing and send me some...
>
> HISTORY
> 2.12 Added macros: \draftcopySetScale} and \draftcopyFirstPage.
>      Put draftcopy under the same license as \LaTeX.
> 2.11 Added the file draftcopy.cfg, save and execute previous defined bop-=
> hook.
> 2.10 New address.
> 2.09 Added outline option.
> 2.08 Added none, bottom and bottomafter options.
> 2.07 Support for the textures graphics driver, use gracpics.cfg
>      configuration file.
> 2.06 Added fix for old dvips.
> 2.05 Added dvips and dvipsone options.
> 2.04 More translations of the word DRAFT.
> 2.03 Use all BABEL languages, and use DRAFT for them.
> 2.02 Added README and Makefile.
> 2.01 Changed translation position, lower left corner.
> 2.00 Upgrade to LaTeX2e added all the new functionality.
> 1.00 The initial sty was written by somebody.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Mar  2 15:17:19 1999
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 22:10:48 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submissions -- bibweb and ultratex (new versions)

> From: John H Palmieri <John.H.Palmieri.2@ND.EDU>
>
> BIBWEB:
>
> I have just put the file bibweb.tar.gz in the /incoming directory at
> ftp.dante.de.  This is a new version of the bibweb package (version
> 0.42, updated from 0.33); one recent change is to clarify the
> copyright/licensing situation for the package.
>
> The new package should replace the old one in
>
>    biblio/bibtex/utils/bibweb
>
> >From the README file:
>
>   Bibweb is a utility for automatically retrieving mathematical
>   bibliographical information, in BibTeX format, from the
>   American Mathematical Society's MathSciNet database. More
>   precisely, it acts as a front-end to BibTeX; it converts
>   any citations that BibTeX can't find into queries to
>   the MathSciNet database, it carries out those queries,
>   and returns the answers in BibTeX format. Included in
>   the package are: the perl script bibweb, documentation
>   (in various formats), and a test file.
>
> =========================
>
> ULTRATEX:
>
> I have just put the file ultra.tar.gz in the /incoming directory at
> ftp.dante.de.  This is a new version of the ultratex package (version
> 0.54, updated from 0.33).  The new package should replace the old one
> in
>
>   support/ultratex
>
> >From the README file:
>
>   Ultra-TeX is an Emacs mode for editing LaTeX files (well, for editing
>   TeX files in general, but it has been written very much with LaTeX in
>   mind).  It features dynamic completion on TeX commands (i.e., you hit
>   "\" and Emacs starts trying to complete), as well as a few other
>   things.  For instance, it has an intelligent math mode; by looking at
>   the cursor position, it decides whether you are in a math environment
>   or not, and reacts accordingly (e.g., if you hit the key sequence to
>   start boldface type, it inserts either "\mathbf" or "\textbf"
>   depending on whether you're in math mode).  It has other features;
>   read the documentation for a full description.

Thanks for the update, I replaced the resp. old versions as suggested.

> A question: how frequently should I give CTAN updated copies?  If I do
> it every time I tinker with one of these packages, that might make too
> much work for you and for me.  Should I just do it every 6 months, or
> something like that?

Well, I *will* loudly complain if you send updates on a daily basis
unless you have really good reasons, i.e. fixes for severe bugs.
Otherwise do it whenever you think it's sensible.  And, if you change
the stuff quite often and have write access to another FTP server, we
could mirror it from there.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Mar  3 01:55:23 1999
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 08:42:15 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- ccfonts.zip (update)

> From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
>
> I have uploaded the file ccfonts.zip to the /incoming directory
> at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unpack it to the directory
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts.
>
> This submission will update my LaTeX package "ccfonts" which
> supports use of the Concrete text and math fonts with LaTeX.
>
> I have added an option to produce italic uppercase Greek letters
> in math mode, and the package is now distributed under the
> (coming) LaTeX Project Public License.

Thanks for the submission, I installed the new version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar  3 07:51:42 1999
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 13:35:11 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Letterspacing.tex

philip taylor writes:

> Dear CTAN : Sebastian Rahtz and David Carlisle have kindly
> pointed out that the copy of "letterspacing.tex" currently
> on CTAN (macros/latex209/contrib/misc/letterspace.sty) bears
> no indication of its author.  Having checked, I see it is
> a bastardized version of my code, originally written for
> Kaveh Bazargan.  I have just sent a corrected copy, which
> I would be most grateful if you would include in the Archive
> and delete the previous version.  Since it was never intended
> to be LaTeX-209 specific, I would also be grateful if it could
> be catalogued somewhere more generic than "macros/latex209";
> "macros/generic" would seem the ideal home to me, since it was
> written for Plain users but should be useable by LaTeX users
> and others.

i've installed your file as requested, and removed the old version.

thanks for clearing this matter up.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar  3 10:41:48 1999
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:23:41 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- cmdtrack package for LaTeX

michael downes writes:

> I have posted a new version of the "cmdtrack" package to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. It should go into the same place as before:
>
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/cmdtrack
>
> In the new version a problem affecting \providecommand is fixed; an
> \untrack command is added; and a reference to the LPPL is added.
>
> Regards, Michael Downes
>
> Package description:
>
>   With the cmdtrack package, all commands and environments defined
>   between \usepackage{cmdtrack} and \begin{document} will be marked
>   for logging. A report on the usage of the marked commands will be
>   printed in the LaTeX log file. Standard LaTeX methods must be used
>   for defining the commands (things defined with \def, for example,
>   won't be logged). Use \untrack{\cmd,\othercmd,...} just before
>   \begin{document} to turn off tracking for selected commands.
>
>   Package options:
>
>   ?       Causes this information to be shown on-screen.
>
>   morose  Opposite of verbose: causes the brief message about the ?
>           option to be suppressed.
>
>   simple  Command usage is reported immediately during processing
>           instead of being delayed until \end{document}. This reduces
>           slightly the amount of `main memory' required by LaTeX.
>
>   Support for the following is not [yet] provided:
>   \DeclareTextSymbol, \DeclareMathRadical, \DeclareMathAlphabet, and
>   some others.

thanks for the upload; i've installed the files as suggested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar  5 07:01:50 1999
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 12:33:38 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- textpos 1.1a

norman gray writes:

> I've put in ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/textpos.tar.gz-correct an updated
> (to v1.1a) version of my textpos package.
>
> The file contains textpos.dtx, textpos.ins and textpos.readme.
> The new version should overwrite the current version in
> .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/textpos
>
> This fixes a bug in the previous version, which meant that nothing
> was output if there was no text on the page other than text in
> {textblock} environments.  To my mortification, this bug was exposed
> by the example code distributed with the package (blush!).
>
> Thanks to Bjoern Pedersen for diagnosing the problem, and to Wolfgang
> Erdmann <earthmen@mail1.cityweb.de> for reporting it so promptly.

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Mon Mar  8 09:31:18 1999
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 13:29:34 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: (CTAN) pdfscreen package

I have  installed, on behalf of C V Radhakrishan, his "pdfscreen"
package. This builds on the hyperref package, and provides a page
layout suitable for PDF documents designed to be read on screen. It
provides for on-screen menus/tocs (not bookmarks), logos etc

pdfscreen was commissioned by John Hillas for the University of Otaga,
who have agreed that it may be released under the normal LaTeX license

Sebastian

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Mon Mar  8 09:42:48 1999
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 13:32:29 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: (CTAN) arvdashln

I have installed

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/arvdashln:

         Definitions of horizontal and vertical dashed lines for
         the array and tabular environment.  Horizontal lines
         are drawn by \hdashline and \cdashline while
         vertical ones can be specified as a part of preamble
         using `:'.  The shape of dashed lines may be
         controlled through style parameters or optional arguments.


and updated  CTAN:macros/latex209/misc/hvdashln.sty


Sebastian Rahtz

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar  8 08:10:06 1999
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 14:55:55 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinShell 2.0beta

Ingo de Boer writes:

 > i uploaded a beta-version to
 >
 > /incoming/winshell/beta
 >
 > could you please move these files to
 >
 > tex/systems/win32/winshell/beta
 >
 > thanks...
 >
 > greets
 >  ingo

Thanks, I installed it as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf


 >
 >
 > #################################################################
 > WinShell for Windows 95 / NT 4.0
 > Version 2.0beta - 02/16/1999
 >
 > What is WinShell:
 > =================
 > WinShell ist a graphical user interface for easy working
 > with TeX. It is NOT a TeX-System. You need an additional
 > TeX-package for DOS/Windows.
 >
 > What is new:
 > ============
 > - Project-File
 >    Actually it is quite simple. Just use the project like in
 >    other applications: add, remove etc.
 >
 >    # By double-clicking on a file it will open.
 >
 >    # By double-clicking on an entry of the 'Table of Contents'
 >      the file will open at that specific position. But one has
 >      to write the text 'correct':
 >
 >      Type the brace directly after the chapter,section, etc., e.g.
 >      \section{this is my section}
 >                 NOT
 >      \section {this is my section}
 >
 >    The 'Table of Contents' contains
 >    \chapter \section \subsection \subsubsection
 >
 > #################################################################

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Mar  8 09:09:42 1999
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 15:39:24 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- crop.sty (update)

> From: Melchior FRANZ <a8603365@UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT>
>
> I've just uploaded version 1.3 of `crop.sty' as archive
>    ## crop.tar.gz
> to
>    ## ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/
>
> As before, it provides different forms of cropmarks for
> trimming paper stacks, for camera alignment, and
> for visualizing the page dimensions, as well as options
> for reflecting and inverting the whole document.
>
> Changes:
>   - The center options are processed \AtBeginDocument
>     instead of immediately. The old behaviour caused
>     some undesirable effects.
>   - The \jobname is now no longer converted to uppercase
>     letters. (This was a remnant of the first version
>     which I started on my 8MHz ATARI machine -- not really
>     a good idea on UNIX/LINUX machines...   ;-)
>
> Please replace the contents of
>    ## /macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop/
> by the new files.

Thanks for the new version, I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Mar  8 09:41:41 1999
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 16:05:27 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- latex2rtf-1.8a

> From: Wilfried Hennings <W.Hennings@FZ-JUELICH.DE>
>
> I just uploaded to ftp.dante.de the following files
> to be put into /pub/tex/support/latex2rtf:
> latex2rtf-1.8a.tar.gz   - complete source
> latex2rtf-1.8a_w32.zip  - executable for win32
>
> (this is a small patch to the existing version 1.8)

Thanks for the update.  As this is a test version, I added both files
to /tex-archive/support/latex2rtf leaving the old version intact.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Mar  8 10:15:37 1999
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 16:51:02 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- update of german hyphenation patterns

> From: Bernd Raichle <raichle@INFORMATIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE>
>
> (a) CTAN site: ftp.dante.de
>
> (b) files:
>
>         dehypht.tex     german hyphenation patterns
>                         for _t_raditional orthography,
>                         replaces `ghyph31.tex'
>
>         dehyphn.tex     german hyphenation patterns
>                         for `_n_ew' orthography,
>                         replaces `gnhyph01.tex'
>
>         ghyphen.README
>         ghyph31.README
>         gnhyph01.README
>                         readme files for people still using and
>                         searching the out-of-date versions of the
>                         hyphenation patterns
>
> (c) brief description:
>
>         The included files ``dehyph?.tex'' contain the current two
>         versions of the german hyphenation patterns according to the
>         orthography in current use.
>           The main reason for this hyphenation pattern update is a
>         change of the license condition to the LaTeX Project Public
>         License.  We have used this update to also change the file
>         names of the patterns from ``ghyph31''/``gnhyph01'' to
>         ``dehypht''/``dehyphn'' to be more consistent with the
>         nomenclature used for the other pattern files.  Additionally
>         there are some minor changes in the macro code and additions
>         in ``dehyphn''.
>
> (d) place in CTAN hierarchy:
>
>         language/hyphenation/
>
>     Please remove
>         language/hyphenation/ghyph31.tex
>         language/hyphenation/gnhyph01.tex
>         language/hyphenation/README.ghyphen

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as suggested
and removed the obsolete files.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar  8 10:50:40 1999
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 17:43:53 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: JHEP.cls submission

Fabrizio Nesti writes:

 > I'd like to notify an upload  of a LaTeX2e class file on
 >
 > (a-b) ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/JHEP.cls .
 >
 >
 > (c) This file is used as the style for the Journal of High Energy Physics,
 >     and also by authors preparing preprints on the net.
 >
 >
 > (d) Being a latex2e macro, I'd likely see it in
 >
 >     ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/other/
 >
 >     but you may want to place it somewhere else.

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the file as

  macros/latex2e/contrib/other/jhep/jhep.cls

Please note that we do not encourage mixed-case filenames, as they do
not properly work on all operating system platforms.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Mar  9 06:53:23 1999
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 12:25:09 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- beng.zip and grmk.zip

Anshuman Pandey writes:

> I've uploaded two files (beng.zip and grmk.zip) to the CTAN server at
> Cambridge.
>
> 1. beng.zip
>
>    This file contains the Bengali for TeX package. It is to be placed in
>    the language/bengali directory. Please remove the pre-existing packages
>    from the directory. The directory current contains the arosgn package
>    and the old version of the Bengali for TeX package.
>
>    The arosgn "Aro Sgaon" package is not obsolete. It was released to
>    provide extra characters which were missing from the "Sonar Gaon" HP
>    Softfont. It also contains a few files which enable it to be used with
>    ITRANS. The "Sonar Gaon" font is no longer supported by ITRANS. Thus,
>    the arosgn package has no practical value.
>
>    Please remove the old version of Bengali for TeX from the "pandey"
>    subdirectory. Please install the contents of beng.zip in this
>    subdirectory, or in the "bengali" directory.
>
>    The "Bengali" font bundled with the Bengali for TeX package contains
>    all characters needed for the typesetting of Bengali.

for the time being, i suggest we leave the arosgn stuff there.  i've
installed the contents of beng.zip in place of what was previously in
language/bengali/pandey

> 2. The file grmk.zip contains the Gurmukhi for TeX package. Please install
>    it in the language/gurmukhi directory. This directory already contains
>    a Gurmukhi package by Amarjit Singh. Please move the contents of
>    Singh's package into a subdirectory called "singh". My Gurmukhi package
>    may be placed into a directory called "pandey".

i've moved Amarjit's stuff (i trust this will be acceptable to him)
and installed yours as you suggested.  there are now

  language/gurmukhi/singh
  language/gurmukhi/pandey

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Mar  9 10:40:29 1999
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:12:38 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- mltex latex support, bug fix

> From: Bernd Raichle <raichle@INFORMATIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE>
>
> (a) CTAN site: danta.ctan.org aka ftp.dante.de
>
> (b) files: mltex.tar.gz
>
> (c) description:
>
>         The LaTeX package `mltex' is a set of containing LaTeX(2e)
>         support of MLTeX, the multilingual TeX extension of Michael
>         J. Ferguson.  It includes
>
>         - a LaTeX font encoding definition file for the new font
>           encoding LO1 (= mLtex's Ot1) to be used with the `fontenc'
>           package,
>
>         - a package file `mltex' to be used by the author, which makes
>           LO1 the default encoding,
>
>         - a file including LaTeX2e NFSS kernel redefinitions,
>
>         - documentation and test files.
>
>         The current release fixes a bug in the old December version
>         where a necessary definition for the accent macros \d and \b
>         was missing in file `lo1enc.def'.
>
>         Note: All TeX systems based on Web2c v7.x (e.g. teTeX 0.9, TeX
>         Live 3) include a TeX binary where the MLTeX extensions can be
>         enabled by the option ``-mltex'' in the IniTeX run, i.e., use
>         ``tex -ini -mltex'' when generating a new TeX format file (or
>         add a line with this option in .../texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf).
>
> (d) CTAN place:
>
>         macros/latex/contrib/supported/mltex/
>
>     Please replace all existing files with the new ones.

Thanks for the submission, I installed the new version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Mar  9 15:37:52 1999
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 20:27:33 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- tocloft package

peter wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded tocloft.tar to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could yo please use it to replace the
> current version of tocloft in macros/latex/contrib/supported?
>
> From the README:
>     The tocloft package provides control over the typography of the
> Table of Contents, List of Figures, and List of Tables. It requires
> the stdclsdv package.
>
>     This release fixes a bug that occured when the package was used
> with packages like float.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Mar 10 02:18:19 1999
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:06:25 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- {ithyph,lahyph7,lahyph8}.tex

> From: Claudio Beccari <beccari@POLITO.IT>
>
> Sebastian Ratz wrote me an e-mail asking me to add the copyright notice to
> ithyph.tex and suggested me several forms of copyright and licence notices.
>
> So I did add the notice to the file ithyph.tex that is the main and
> official set of hyphenation patterns for italian.
>
> Meanwhile, due to the many requests I had on the Internet asking for an
> update of the (modern) latin hyphenation patterns I upgraded the lahyph.tex
> file, splitting it into lahyph7.tex and lahyph8.tex with the suffixes 7 and
> 8 denoting the 7 or 8 bit encoding of characters according to the OT1 or
> the T1 LaTeX encodings. I added the suggested copyright and licence notice
> to both files.
>
> Please, then, substitute ithyph.tex with the "new" version and substitute
> lahyph.tex with lahyph7.tex AND lahyph8.tex; the three files are zipped
> together in ithyph.zip, although ithyph.tex has been uploaded also as a
> stand alone file in the directory /incoming.

Thanks for the updated version.  I installed the three new files
Ithyph.tex, LAHYPH7.TEX and LAHYPH8.TEX on ftp.dante.de in the directory
/tex-archive/language/hyphenation as ithyph.tex, lahyph7.tex and lahyph8.tex.

Please note that we do not encourage mixed-case filenames, as they do
not work properly on all operating system platforms.

And I removed the directory /tex-archive/language/italian as it held
(besides the old hyphenation patterns) merely a 7 year old vocabulary
trainer with no TeX relation at all.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Mar 10 02:23:08 1999
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:12:44 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- hyper

> From: Michael Mehlich <mmehlich@semdesigns.com>
>
> I just uploaded a new version of the hyper package to
>   ftp.dante.de/incoming/hyper.zip
>
> It replaces the old version at
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper.
>
> The new version contains some small bug fixes.

Thanks for the update,  I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar 10 07:47:30 1999
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:16:48 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- achicago.README, frankenbundle.tgz, frankenstein.tgz, swiftex.tgz

matt swift writes:

> Newly in ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming are three .tgz archives, none
> containing a symlink, and one text file:
>
> achicago.README belongs in tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/ and
>   should replace the symlink "achicago" in that directory.
>
> frankenbundle.tgz unpacks into ./support/frankenbundle/* and should
>   replace the existing directory tex-archive/support/frankenbundle.
>
> frankenstein.tgz unpacks into
>   ./macros/latex/contrib/supported/frankenstein/* and should replace
>   the existing directory
>   tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/frankenstein.
>
> swiftex.tgz unpacks into ./support/emacs-modes/swiftex/* and should
>   replace the existing directory
>   tex-archive/support/emacs-modes/swiftex.
>
> These replacements remove all symlinks on CTAN related to software I
> maintain except one; and that remaining symlink,
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster, is unnecessary and
> may also be removed.
>
> With the exception of achicago.README, which is a new file, the other
> files do not represent an upgrade of my uploads on 1 Mar 99.  There
> are only changes in the documentation to reflect the absence of
> symlinks on CTAN, plus some trivial changes.

i have installed the files as suggested.  thanks for the uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

> Three suitable announcements describing this software are below as
> text/plain MIME attachments.  These announcements do not differ at all
> from the ones I sent on 1 Mar 99: I resubmit them with this mail in
> case it is convenient.

unfortunately, my simple-minded mailer has destroyed the mime-effects,
but here they all are in all their wagnerian glory...

> --Multipart_Mon_Mar__8_06:15:45_1999-1
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                             FRANKENBUNDLE
>
>   a system for maintaining and distributing LaTeX and BibTeX macros
>
>                              available at
>
>                     CTAN:/support/frankenbundle/*
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                OVERVIEW
>
>   Frankenbundle allows an author to maintain and distribute a bundle
>   of one or more LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX bibliography
>   styles, their documentation, and any support files with a high
>   degree of sophistication, consistency, and convenience both for the
>   author and their ultimate end users, who will receive the bundle in
>   a form easy to understand and use.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                              REQUIREMENTS
>
>   You, the author of the bundle, need a Unix-like environment and GNU
>   Make (ftp://gnu.mit.edu/pub/gnu).  The end user does not need GNU
>   Make; installation is even easier with it, however.  I developed
>   with Debian GNU/Linux and GNU Make v3.77.  If your setup requires
>   changes, please send me advice on how to make Frankenbundle work
>   better with your system.
>
>   You need a rudimentary understanding of Make and Makefiles.  I think
>   you could know almost nothing and do fine just imitating the
>   included example file.
>
>   You need the Frankenstein bundle installed in your TeX installation.
>   See CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/frankenstein.  You might
>   already have it in TDS:/texmf/tex/latex/frankenstein.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --Multipart_Mon_Mar__8_06:15:45_1999-1
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                              FRANKENSTEIN
>
>              A Collection of Macros for LaTeX and BibTeX
>
>                              available at
>
>          CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/frankenstein/*
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                             CONTENTS BELOW
>
>                     OVERVIEW
>                     PACKAGE DESCRIPTIONS
>                     OVERVIEW OF UNSUPPORTED PARTS
>                     UNSUPPORTED PACKAGE DESCRIPTIONS
>                     CHANGELOG EXCERPTS
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                OVERVIEW
>
>   "Frankenstein" is the whimsical name for a collection of 14 LaTeX
>   packages and a BibTeX bibliography style that I have written.
>   Frankenstein helps you do a variety of things with LaTeX.  You can
>   use just a part of Frankenstein if you want, or you can use all the
>   parts together.  You should download this whole directory, however,
>   to make sure you will have all the parts you might need.  The
>   package descriptions below will tell you briefly what they can help
>   you do.  Happy TeXing!
>
>   This release of Frankenstein offers many new packages, a new
>   bibstyle-package combination, and several significant improvements
>   in existing packages.  The ChangeLog and the documentation of
>   individual packages for further details.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                          PACKAGE DESCRIPTIONS
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                abbrevs
>                          abbreviation macros
>                        (Frankenstein's briefs)
>
>   "Abbreviation macros" expand to defined text and insert following
>   space intelligently, based on context.  They can also expand to one
>   thing the first time they are used and another thing on subsequent
>   invocations.  Thus they can be abbreviations in two senses, in the
>   source and in the document.  Useful applications include the
>   abstraction of textual elements such as names without fussing over
>   spacing and the automatic expansion of abbreviations and acronyms at
>   their first use.  The initial and subsequent expansions of an
>   abbreviation macro are available at any time via explicit commands.
>   Abbreviation macros are grouped into categories; there are hooks
>   applicable to each category.  Categories can be reset so that
>   subsequent abbreviation macros in that category behave as if used
>   for the first time again.
>
>   A generic facility is also provided for suffixes like 1900 B.C. and
>   6:00 P.M., which correctly handles following periods.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                compsci
>                    macros for writing about macros
>                      (Frankenstein's conscience)
>
>   Compsci is useful whenever writing about programming, but especially
>   when writing about TeX and especially when used as a supplement to
>   the ltxdoc class to document LaTeX macros in a literate programming
>   style with .dtx files.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                dialogue
>                          dialogue environment
>                          (Frankenstein's mouth)
>
>   The dialogue environment is for citing short passages of scripted
>   dialogue.  It is not for typsetting a long script.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                achicago
>           Chicago Manual A-style (but author-date) citations
>                      (Frankenstein's references)
>
>   A bibliography style based on _The Chicago Manual of Style_.  The
>   style is mostly style A, but borrows the author-date reference
>   system from style B.  Requires accompanying BibTeX bibliography
>   style "achicago".
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                 titles
>                             titling macros
>                       (Frankenstein's pedigree)
>
>   Macros that typeset the titles of books, journals, etc. and handle
>   following spacing and punctuation intelligently, based on context.
>   Useful for bibliographic databases.  Also includes other markup like
>   \word, \defn, \phrase, etc.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                 attrib
>                     attribution of block elements
>                          (Frankenstein's hat)
>
>   \attrib attributes block elements, for example when citing a
>   reference after a block quotation.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                  lips
>                             text ellipses
>                         (Frankenstein's lips)
>
>   The \lips command generates text ellipses that are closer to what
>   _The Chicago Manual_ suggests than what \dots produces.  It does the
>   right thing in most circumstances, and so is easy to use.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                moredefs
>                         more defining commands
>                         (Frankenstein's brain)
>
>   A collection of defining, expansion, and debugging commands for
>   programming in LaTeX and writing LaTeX packages and classes.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                 slemph
>                            slanted emphasis
>                         (Frankenstein's gait)
>
>   Defines \itswitch, \slswitch, \textitswitch, and \textslswitch,
>   which switch between slanted or italic type and upright type.  Can
>   be used to represent emphasis with slanted type.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                blkcntrl
>                          block element hooks
>
>   Inserts hooks into certain block elements and footnotes.  Also
>   provides a command to set block quotations one size smaller than the
>   main text.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                     OVERVIEW OF UNSUPPORTED PARTS
>
>   Four LaTeX packages are part of the Frankenstein bundle but are
>   unsupported.  They are distributed on CTAN in a subdirectory of the
>   directory containing the supported Frankenstein filesets (i.e.,
>   CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/frankenstein/unsupported/).
>
>                              non-support
>
>   The package filesets in this directory are UNSUPPORTED.  They are
>   furthermore possibly INCOMPLETE and NOT fully DOCUMENTED.
>
>   These packages are indeed valuable in certain ways, such as
>   sometimes working as advertised, but of course I offer no
>   guarantees.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                    UNSUPPORTED PACKAGE DESCRIPTIONS
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                  bits
>                         (Frankenstein's guts)
>
>   Bits provides a programmer's interface for a new idea called a
>   "bit", which is like an environment but has a title, author, and
>   other attributes usually only associated with the "document"
>   environment.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                 drama
>                     production-format stage script
>                         (Frankenstein's heart)
>
>   Drama defines macros for typesetting a basic production-style stage
>   script.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                includex
>                      extra ways to include files
>
>   Includex allows you to include just the contents of one source file
>   into another, ignoring the text outside the \begin{document}
>   ... \end{document} in the included file.  See also the "newclude"
>   package.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                newclude
>                    a new system for including files
>                       (Frankenstein's backbone)
>
>   Newclude is a backwards-compatible reimplementation of \include and
>   \includeonly.  The restriction that \clearpage's must surround an
>   included file are removed, as is the restriction that \include's
>   cannot be nested.  An optional argument to \include is executed
>   before the included file, whenever it is processed.
>
>   Newclude and includex are both attempts to provide similar features.
>   Newclude is more ambitious, but includex is still more successful in
>   certain ways.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --Multipart_Mon_Mar__8_06:15:45_1999-1
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                               SWIFTEX.EL
>
>                    GNU Emacs major modes for LaTeX
>
>                              available at
>
>                  CTAN:/support/emacs-modes/swiftex/*
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   docTeX mode is for editing buffers containing self-documenting LaTeX
>   code that uses the package "doc.sty", including the document class
>   "ltxdoc".  For these buffers, docTeX mode is significantly more
>   useful than the alternatives provided by standard Emacs and AUC TeX.
>
>   swifTeX mode is for editing buffers containing normal LaTeX files,
>   and provides an alternative to the LateX modes in the standard Emacs
>   distribution and the AUC TeX package.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar 11 09:01:52 1999
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:11:54 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- StarTeX (update)

Dag Langmyhr writes:

> I have uploaded startex.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk. It contains the
> updated version of the StarTeX distribution; a few bugs fixed and a
> few features added. It should replace the older version in
> macros/startex/.
>
> StarTeX is a TeX format for students writing their first report and
> other novice users. Its aim is to provide a simpler and more robust
> tool for users with no previous knowledge of TeX and LaTeX.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar 12 02:27:53 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:10:07 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: [non] disappearance of address ctan.org

barbara beeton writes:

> i just discovered that ctan.org apparently doesn't exist any more.
> did you guys know this?

ctan.org is the top-level domain for a set of named sites.  we do not
have the technology yet to make it respond differently according to
where you're requesting from, so we have removed the (unadvertised)
adddresses ftp.ctan.org and ctan.org (which had been aliased to
tug.ctan.org)

the name ctan.org remains as an MX record only, and the registrations
for the sites
  tug.ctan.org   dante-donated machine, university of boston, mass, usa
  cam.ctan.org   university of cambridge machine, uk
  dante.ctan.org dante machine, university of mainz, germany
remain as registrations in the domain.

the ctan team are keen to deploy variable-location techniques
(possibly similar to those employed by the CPAN); work in that
direction is in progress, and we hope to make an announcement in the
near future.

we had not intended to announce the removal of these unadvertised
names, but given that barbara noticed the withdrawal of the names so
soon after it happened (they are still in my name service cache here
in cambridge!), i am taking this opportunity of making this slightly
negative announcement.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Mar 13 08:20:08 1999
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:07:13 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- btOOL 0.30

Greg Ward writes:

> I have just uploaded two closely-related packages to CTAN
> (ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming): btparse 0.30 and Text-BibTeX 0.30.  The files
> uploaded are:
>
>    btparse-0.30.tar.gz
>    Text-BibTeX-0.30.tar.gz
>
> Together they comprise btOOL, my C/Perl programmer's library for
> complete access to BibTeX database files.  As such, they should go in
>
>    /tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/btOOL
>
> Please note that there is already a directory btOOl (note lowercase
> 'l'), which has the previous version of btOOL.  This was recently
> renamed from 'btparse' to 'btOOl' by Sebastian Rahtz for me; I have
> asked him to re-rename it to my preferred form of 'btOOL'.  I don't care
> who does the renaming, as long as there's no confusion about it!
>
> Thanks, and sorry about being picky about the directory name --

i've installed the stuff as you requested, and have deleted the old
version

thanks for the upgrade.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar 15 03:13:23 1999
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:00:10 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf

Heiko Oberdiek writes:

 > I have uploaded 'thumbpdf.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > This updates and replaces the files in
 >   macros/pdftex/thumbpdf/
 >
 > Changes in Version 1.3:
 > * optimizing pdf thumbnail code.
 > * Copyright: LPPL (LaTeX Project Public License)
 >
 > 'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with pdfTeX, plain/latex formats.
 > It consists of four files:
 > * readme.txt:    documentation.
 > * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
 > * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
 > * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
 > Requirements: Perl5, ghostscript, pdfTeX

Thansk a lot for the update, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Mar 16 11:51:07 1999
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:40:13 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.20 beta 2

> From: Christian Schenk <christian.schenk@detewe.de>
>
> I have uploaded MiKTeX 1.20 beta 2 to
>
>    ftp://ftp.dante.de:/incoming/miktex/
>
> Please copy all files to
>
>    systems/win32/miktex/1.20
>
> MiKTeX is a free TeX distribution for the Win32 platform. The news are:
>
>    New Installation Method
>    -----------------------
>
>    MiKTeX is now (again) distributed as set of Zip files.  The new Setup
>    Wizard replaces the InstallSHIELD(R) setup program.
>
>    Updated Apps
>    ------------
>
>    - MetaPost 0.641
>    - Dvipdfm 0.10.3
>    - pdfTeX 0.13b
>
>    New Apps
>    --------
>
>    - e-TeX 2.1
>    - LH fonts 3.20
>
>    New Features
>    ------------
>
>    - Trace output can be redirected to a file.
>    - TeX & friends:
>         - filenames are now logged in their absolute form
>         - new option `--tcx' causes TeX to read the input encoding from
>           a `.tcx' file
>         - the first input line is now checked for a dump/tcx
>           specification; i.e. TeX loads the dump file `foo.fmt' and
>           processes the TCX `bar.tcx', if the first input line is
>           `%&foo -translate-file=bar'
>         - new option `--undump' causes TeX to load a specific dump file
>         - the exe name now determines the default dump file that is to
>           be loaded by TeX; i.e., you can copy `tex.exe' to
>           `texinfo.exe'; TeX will then load `texinfo.fmt', if no other
>           dump was specified
>    - Yap: customizable DVI search path

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Mar 16 11:54:49 1999
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:43:45 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- paralist v1.5

> From: Bernd Schandl <bschand@MATH.CLEMSON.EDU>
>
> I have uploaded the file paralist.again.zip to the /incoming directory of
>       ftp.dante.de
>
> >From the abstract:
>
>         This style file provides some new list environments. Itemized and
>         enumerated lists can be typesetted within paragraphs, as
>         paragraphs and in a compact version. Most environments have
>         optional arguments to format the labels.
>         Additionally, the \LaTeX\ environments |itemize| and |enumerate|
>         can be extended to use a similar optional argument.
>
> There are no changes in the code, but the package is now released under
> the LaTeX Project Public License.
>
> I recommend placing the unpacked files README, license.txt, paralist.ins
> and paralist.dtx in
>
>         macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist/
>
> replacing the old versions.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as recommended.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Mar 18 03:29:29 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:03:44 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Bug fix in custom-bib/merlin.mbs

> From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@LINPWD.MPAE.GWDG.DE>
>
> A bug in custom-bib/merlin.mbs (version 3.88 1999/02/26) which produced
> doubled commas before "and" in an editor list has been fixed.
> Version 3.88 1999/03/18.

Thanks for the update, I installed it on CTAN in
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib/merlin.mbs
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Mar 18 03:39:55 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:18:37 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- corelpak contrib (update)

> From: Karsten Tinnefeld <karsten@tinnefeld.com>
>
> Regarding my fonts/corelpak contribution,
> I have provided a new transtabl as ctan.dante.org:/incoming/transtabl.gz .
>
> It translates another font and corrects some errors / increases its
> fontinst compatibility. If you use it, I'd strongly urge you to upgrade.
> All other files remain unchanged.
>
> Please add a note for our lawyers that corelpak-contrib does not, will
> not and never has included any third hand copyrighted material, be it
> names, strokes, measurements or whatever.
>
> Please replace the existing file in
> CTAN:tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/corelpak/contrib and refer to the
> README there
> for further details.

Thanks, I replaced the updated file as suggested and added a not to
the README file in the same directory

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar 18 10:58:06 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:44:55 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Circuit_macros 4.6

Dwight Aplevich writes:

> Today I copied into /incoming of ftp.tex.ac.uk the file
> Circuit_macros4.6.tar.gz, the expanded contents of which
> are to replace the CTAN directory graphics/circuit_macros
> in its entirety.  This version contains minor updates and
> a new copyright notice.  From the readme file:
>
>   This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality electric circuit
>   diagrams containing fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors,
>   and basic logic gates to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents.
>   Some tools and examples for other types of diagrams are also included.
>   The advantages and disadvantages of such a system are similar to those
>   of TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg, and which uses ordinary
>   character input.
>
>   The macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic language, which is
>   very easy to understand and which has a good power/complexity ratio.
>   Pic contains elements of a simple programming language, and is
>   well-suited to line drawings requiring parametric or conditional
>   components, fine tuning, significant geometric calculations or
>   repetition, or that are naturally block structured or tree
>   structured.  TeX- and LaTeX-compatible Interpreters for m4 and
>   pic are readily available for Unix and PC machines.
>   ...

thanks; i've installed the stuff as you requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar 18 11:07:06 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:58:42 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>

vasili malyshev writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory BaKoMa TeX 2.03.
>
> Information about this version is attached to end of mail.
>
> Basil K. Malyshev
> 10-Feb-1999
>
> ------------------- Information about BaKoMa TeX 2.03 update ----------------
>
> Users who wants to update the system needs to copy entire distribution.
> However, it is 25 % smaller then previous versions (9 MB instead of 12 MB).
> It is result of using the new compression method for PFB files.
> New compression method for PFB files is two times more efficient then ZIP.
>
> The update includes following important improvements:
>
> 1. Improved support for editing text in different encodings.
>    Now, user can edit text (in addition to standard Windows encodings)
>    in old OEM encodings: CP437, CP850, CP852, CP855, CP866, ...
>    This feature is supported by character translation before displaying,
>    and by encoding independent keyboard definition.
>    Character translation is automatically calculated by using
>    current Script (Input Encoding) and display font encoding.
>    The command 'Convert between Encodings' now can convert text
>    between any input encodings registered in the system.
>
> 2. Added support for TCX table to TeX processor.
>    Using the TCX tables is controlled by 'Internal TeX Encoding'
>    parameter, available to change in 'Project Parameters' dialog.
>    By default it is '(Don't care)', that means don't use any table.
>    When user choose some 'Internal TeX Encoding' (currently, they are:
>    T1, T2A), Editor will automatically generate TCX table that will
>    convert current Script (Input Encoding) to Internal TeX Encoding.
>
> 3. TeX processor can embed source information into DVI files.
>    This information is used by text editor and DVI viewer for
>    DVI Forward/Reverse search. Embedding this information by TeX processor
>    is much better then using an additional macroses (SRCINFO.STY).
>    This feature can be switched ON/OFF by using menu command:
>    'TeX|Include Source Information|Line numbers and File names into DVI-file'
>    Icon for identifying source information in DVI-file is changed.
>    New icon is transparent and has diamond like form, to reduce
>    overlapping with text.
>
> 4. A numerous commands have been added to text editor.
>    Windows menu: 'Close/Minimize/Restore All'.
>    Edit menu:    'Select Paragraph/Line/Word' and 'Comment/Uncomment region'.
>    Also, 'Covert between Encodings' command is moved to 'Edit' menu.
>
> 5. Now package includes complete support for russian language.
>    Russian users must read 'Russification Notes', that will be accesible
>    from MetaHelp, after adding the Russian language in 'Language Preferences'.
>
> 6. Hints of few letters in CMR* and CMBX* fonts has been improved.
>
> Fixed Problems:
>
> 7. Fixed problem with appearing control bars under Windows NT 4.0
>    with installed Service Pack and Russian regional setting.
>
> 8. Some problems with running system under Windows 3.1(1)
>
> ---------------- End of Information about BaKoMa TeX 2.03 update -------------

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar 18 11:14:20 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:03:12 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- wintex2000.zip

Michael Muecke writes:

> I have just uploaded the new version of my editor to
>
> ftp.dante.de/incoming
>
> The name of the file is
>
> wintex2000.zip
>
> The Suggested location is
>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/wintex2000
>
> This file replaces the old version named WinTeX 95 which is in the CTAN
> under
>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/wtex95
>
> Description:
>
> WinTeX 2000 is a 32bit Windows TeX editor with a modern MDI-Interface and
> the Office 98 look and feel. WinTeX 2000 offers powerful editing functions
> in a comfortable and easy to use environment.
>
> Key features:
>
> * Office 98 look & feel
> * Syntax highlighting
> * Auto spell automatically underlines misspelled words in your text
> * Thesaurus finds synonyms
> * Super fast editing of large files
> * Projects
> * BiBTeX editor
> * Code templates
> * Log browser for Errors & Warnings
>
> Michael Muecke
>
> P.S.: Current version of WinTeX is WinTeX 2000 V1.0.0.22:
> http://www.tex-tools.de

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar 22 05:23:40 1999
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:41:39 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- update to the ruhyphen package (v1.1)

Vladimir Volovich writes:
 > Dear CTAN Team,
 >
 > i've uploaded the new version (v1.1) of our `ruhyphen' package (a
 > collection of Russian hyphenation patterns) to
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ruhyphen-990321.tar.gz
 >
 > Please replace the old version located at
 > CTAN:language/hyphenation/ruhyphen/ with the new version; please
 > remove the old version prior to installation of new version, because
 > one file was removed from the distribution.
 >
 > some differences from the previous version are:
 >
 > * added new pattern file (ruhyphal.tex) created by Alexander Lebedev
 >   (so, now there are six different russian hyphenation pattern files
 >   available). This patterns are based on Dimitry Vulis' patterns and
 >   fix a number of cases of bad hyphenation, as well as add rules for
 >   word not covered by original patterns; Alexander tested his patterns
 >   with the help of his comprehensive russian dictionary for ispell.
 >
 > * added patterns for words containing explicit hyphen signs (see
 >   hypht2.tex and README), --- this is similar to the hypht1.tex.
 >
 > * added rules which disallow breaking off the `ne' from a word (where
 >   `n' and `e' are corresponding russian letters; `ne' in russian means
 >   `not' and breaking it can confuse the reader). This was suggested by
 >   Alexander Lebedev.
 >
 >   this is all configurable via ruhyphen.tex
 >
 > * README corrected/extended; added a copyright and distribution
 >   notice. Ruhyphen package is distributed under the LaTeX Public
 >   License (LPPL).
 >
 > The README file contains other details.
 >
 >         Werner, Vladimir

Thanks a lot, I installed the new version.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar 22 09:48:48 1999
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:34:31 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.20 beta 3

Christian Schenk writes:
 > I have uploaded MiKTeX 1.20 beta 3 to
 >
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de:/incoming/miktex/
 >
 > Please copy all files to
 >
 >    systems/win32/miktex/1.20
 >
 > MiKTeX is a free TeX distribution for the Win32 platform.  The beta 3
 > news are:
 >
 >    * The previewer Yap now supports basic HyperTeX specials. See
 >      `doc\miktex\hyperdemo.dvi' for an example.
 >
 >    * New command-line option --goto-hyper-label causes Yap to go to a specific
 >      hyper label.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar 23 07:17:48 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:50:59 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- First Steps sample files/revised

George Gratzer writes:
 > (a) I have uploaded to
 >
 > ftp.dante.de
 >
 > into the
 >
 > /incoming/FirstSteps_rev
 >
 > directory 18 small text files.
 >
 > (b) The list of files I uploaded is in the file named Contents.
 >
 > (c) These are revised sample text files for my forthcoming book: First Steps
 > in LaTeX (Birkhauser/Springer). You already have the unrevised version in
 >
 > /info/FirstSteps
 >
 > (d) I request that you update the files in the directory
 >
 > /info/FirstSteps
 >
 > Since this is a very minor revision, I think there is no need for an
 > announcement.
 >
 > I would like to thank you for the service you provide.

You're most welcome.

I installed the update as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar 23 07:22:32 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:51:59 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- nomencl v2.5a

Bernd Schandl writes:
 > I have uploaded the file nomencl.zip to the /incoming directory of
 > ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > The package should help formatting a nomenclature using the MakeIndex
 > program.
 > I took over the package from Boris Veytsman a while ago and reimplemented
 > parts of it. It should be a little more robust and has few more bells and
 > whistles.
 > I am still looking for people to translate "see equation", "page" and
 > "Nomenclature" to any other language than Danish, English and German.
 >
 > Please remove the current contents of
 >         /macros/latex/contrib/supported/nomencl/
 > and put the four files README, license.txt, nomencl.dtx and nomencl.ins in
 > the directory instead.
 >
 > Thanks
 >         Bernd

Thanks a lot for your update, I installed it as requested.

  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From davidc@NAG.CO.UK Tue Mar 23 10:19:50 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:08:02 +0100
From: David Carlisle <davidc@NAG.CO.UK>
Reply-To: david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: 1998/12/01 LaTeX release


We are pleased to announce that the `1998/12/01' LaTeX release
has just been made available from the ctan archives.

We apologise for the late arrival of this release.

Of particular interest in this release may be the new directory
supporting Cyrillic typesetting (principally contributed by Vladimir
Volovich and Werner Lemberg), and a new version of the LaTeX
distribution conditions rephrased as a general licence that you may wish
to use on your own software. As usual there is  newsletter
(ltnews10.tex) which has more details of this release.

the files are available from ctan in a slightly modified directory
structure, as explained in ltnews10:

tex-archive/macros/latex/base
tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked
tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools
tex-archive/macros/latex/required/cyrillic
...



David Carlisle
LaTeX3 Project

From jlbraams@CISTRON.NL Tue Mar 23 10:22:35 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:11:26 +0100
From: Johannes L. Braams <jlbraams@CISTRON.NL>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: babel release 3.6k

Hello,

Tonight babel release 3.6k will be mirrored onto CTAN.

This release was needed because of the upcoming LaTeX release and
the accompanying cyrillic support package.
The babel support for typesetting russian texts has been changed to
work with this new cyrillic package. To use that LaTeX2e <1998/12/01>
will be necessary. Support for typesetting Ukrainian texts (which are
also typeset using the cyrillic alphabet) has been added to babel.

This release contains a number of bug fixes I have been promising for
release 3.7. One of the things that I've changed is the fact that shorthand
characters are now expandable again. Also two user level commands,
\shorthandon and \shorthandoff have been added.

A number of other things that I have available in babel 3.7 are not yet
part of this release. Babel 3.7 will introduce the concept of
'language attributes' and will also add support for typesetting a number
of asian languages.

Kind regards,

Johannes Braams

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar 23 12:10:14 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 18:57:29 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <grtimes>

Apostolos Syropoulos writes:
 >    Dear Sirs,
 >
 >    I have upoloaded at ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming the
 > file grtimes.tar.gz. It contains a package that enables
 > users who use the Greek option of the babel package
 > to typeset monotonic Greek text with the Times New Roman
 > Greek, Arial Greek and Courier Greek fonts. The boundle does
 > not include the fonts. The ungziped and untared boundle should be
 > installed at langauges/greek.
 >
 >   yours sincerely
 >
 >   A.S.

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the package as requested in

   language/greek/grtimes

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar 24 10:43:22 1999
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:18:18 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Spamming with "from" pointing to Cambridge CTAN

A number of spam messages have been sent out in the last 24 hours or
so, that appear to have come from the Cambridge CTAN site
(specifically an address wwwsendbot at our site).

Please be assured that

 a) the spam did _not_ come from a user of this site; there is no such
    thing as a `wwwsendbot' here

 b) the spam was _not_ relayed via this site

 c) the spam is under active investigation by experts in Cambridge

We have very scarce information about the true source of the spam; if
anyone has received a copy of it with its `Received' header lines
intact, we would be interested to see it, as it may confirm our
current suspicions.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar 25 08:26:40 1999
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:13:13 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- method (update)

Thomas Leineweber writes:

 > I have just uploaded on ftp.dante.de the file method.tgz. It includes a
 > new version of the method-package. It's license has been changed to the
 > new lppl. The package has now an option to typeset in french (thanks to
 > Jean-Pierre Drucbert).
 > These files are intendend to replace the files in
 >     macros/latex/contrib/supported/method
 >
 > Thanks
 >
 > Thomas Leineweber

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed the files as requested.

 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Mar 26 04:07:01 1999
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:51:48 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Small error corrected in LaTeX 98/12

There was a small error in the doc package in the recent LaTeX
release. THnaks to all who reported it.

doc.dtx, doc.sty and shortvrb.sty have been updated on CTAN.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar 26 12:42:08 1999
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:33:21 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- play

> I've uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk a new version of my play package in the
> file play.tar.gz
>
> This version can make a class as well as a package, and can do line
> numbering. The documentation is also somewhat improved.
>
> These files should be put in macros/latex/contrib/supported/play.
> The old version play.sty found there should be removed.
>
>         James Kilfiger

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar 26 13:13:10 1999
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:08:00 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: my upload newlfm.zip

Paul Thompson writes:

> I have sent a package to CTAN, at ftp.tex.ac.uk.  [...]
>
> This package is newlfm, or NEW Letter, Fax Memo class.  This is a reworking
> of the letter class.  It does the following things:
>
> This class does several things better than the letter class.
> a) It sets up an address book using "wrapper" macros.  You put all the info
> for a person into a wrapper, and then put the
>    wrapper in a document.  VOILA!  No more copying addresses around.
> b) It handles letterheads automatically.  You must place the object for the
> letterhead (picture, info, etc) in a box, then all sizing is set
>    automatically.
> c) It builds faxes, memos and letters from the same database.
>
> Specifically, it does the following:
> 1) It is integrated with fancyhdr (and includes a copy to make sure that
> everyone using it has the correct up-to-date version).
>     This allows the package to do letterhead stationary clearly and quickly.
> 2) Page dimensions are automatically set for the addition of special
> letterheads in the header and footer.  You merely need to put your special
>    item in a box, and then submit those to newlfm.
> 3) Multiple languages are supported with switches.
> 4) Fax output is supported.
> 5) Memos are supported.
>
> If you want to try it, please follow the directions after unpacking it.  If
> there are problems, let me know.  I use it all the time, and
> have eliminated the problems I know about.  Development is ongoing, so
> enjoy....

i have installed the package in macros/latex/contrib/supported/newlfm

thanks for the upload (and sorry about the delay, which i explained
last night...)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Mar 27 17:01:55 1999
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 22:53:07 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- paralist v1.6

Bernd Schandl writes:

> I have uploaded the file paralist.zip to the /incoming directory of
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> From the abstract:
>
>         This style file provides some new list environments. Itemized and
>         enumerated lists can be typesetted within paragraphs, as
>         paragraphs and in a compact version. Most environments have
>         optional arguments to format the labels.
>         Additionally, the \LaTeX\ environments |itemize| and |enumerate|
>         can be extended to use a similar optional argument.
>
> The new version corrects a few typos, adds an extension hook for the label
> tokens similar to the one in the new enumerate package and adds the
> possibility to read a configuration file.
>
> I recommend placing the unpacked files README, license.txt, paralist.ins
> and paralist.dtx in
>
>         macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist/
>
> replacing the old versions.

i've installed the package as you suggest.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sun Mar 28 11:48:44 1999
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 18:39:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission ccupd99.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:

> I have uploaded the file ccupd99.zip to the /incoming
> directory at ftp.tex.ac.uk.  Please, unpack it to the directory
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts, thus replacing the
> existent files "cc.fdd", "readme" and "liesmich".
>
> This submission will fix the .fd files for the font family
> "Concrete", which contain a few references to non-existent
> tfm's.  (Special thanks to Werner Struckmannn for his problem
> report!)
>
> BTW:  The coming teTeX and TeXLive distributions do *not*
> require the bug fix -- te and spqr have already been told so!

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Mar 30 03:46:04 1999
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:27:50 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- SIunits update 0.05 (lppl)

> From: Marcel Heldoorn <M.Heldoorn@PHYSIOLOGY.MEDFAC.LEIDENUNIV.NL>
>
> I have uploaded the file SIunits.zip to ftp.dante.de
>
> The SIunits package contained in it is intended for LaTeX.
> It typesets physical units following the rules of the International System
> of Units (SI).
>
> It is the updated version 0.05.
>
> SIunits is released under terms of the LaTeX Project Public License now.
>
> Please delete all files in
> /macros/latex/contrib/supported/SIunits/
> before placing the new files in there.

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Mar 30 05:21:12 1999
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:09:01 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- tmmath / hvmath

> From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
>
> I have uploaded the ZIP archives tmmaths.zip and hvmaths.zip
> to the /incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.  They contain two
> LaTeX packages for using the TM-Math and HV-Math Type1 fonts
> provided by Micropress, Inc <www.micropress-inc.com> .
>
> These packages serve for typesetting math in a style that suits
> the Adobe Times or Adobe Helvetica text fonts.  Math fonts
> for use with Helvetica were not available at all so far,
> and a free, bitmapped version of HV-Math can be downloaded via
> the above URL.
>
> I suggest to unpack the archives as follows:
>
> tmmaths.zip  ->  macros/latex/contrib/supported/tmmath
> hvmaths.zip  ->  macros/latex/contrib/supported/hvmath

Thanks for the submission, I installed the files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Mar 30 08:11:50 1999
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:43:17 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- easy (update)

From: Enrico Bertolazzi <enrico.bertolazzi@ing.unitn.it>
> I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
> tar file easy.tar.gz. It contains:
>
> version 1.3 of the `easyeqn' package
> version 0.9 of the `easyvector' package
> version 0.8 of the `easybmat' package
> version 0.3 of the `easymat' package
> version 0.9 of the `easytable' package
> version 0.7 of the `easybib' package.
> version 0.9 of the `easy' macros
>
> This file should replace
> the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
> wich contain the old versions.
>
> The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation
> environments that simplify writing of equations.
> It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define
> the column alignment. A package option cases only those
> equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered.
> A set of macros for typesetting is also added.
>
> The \package{easyvector} package is a simple
> macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices.
>
> The \package{easybmat} and \package{easymat} packages are
> macro packages for writing block matrices, with equal column widths
> or equal rows heights or both, with various
> kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
> uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
> Now it is possible to specify minimal size of boxes in a matrix.
> Now it is possible to specify paths in a matrix.
>
> The \package{easytable} package is
> a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths
> or equal rows heights or both, with various
> kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It
> uses an array/tabular-like syntax.
> Now it is possible to specify minimal size of boxes in a table.
> Now it is possible to specify paths in a table.
>
> The \package{easybib} package is
> a macro package for writing custom bibliography
> with a simple AmSTeX-like sintax.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it on dante.ctan.org in
/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy as suggested.
However, I removed the subdirectory old, as these files haven't
changed since the last submission half a year ago.  I don't think
they are of any importance now.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Mar 30 08:25:59 1999
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:17:00 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.20 beta 4

> From: Christian Schenk <christian.schenk@detewe.de>
>
> I have uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex the fourth beta
> version of MiKTeX 1.20. Please copy all files to
> system/win32/miktex/1.20, thanks.
>
> MiKTeX is a free implementation of TeX & Friends for Windows.
>
> beta 4 news: - updates: pdfTeX 0.13c, Omega 1.7, latest LaTeX2e
>              - font metric files for Lucida Bright & MathTime

Thanks for the submission.  I copied all files as suggested.  And I removed
an old file 1.20.zip with a size of 0 byte.

[What about the file zip.txt? It seems to belong to Aladdin GhostScript...]

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar 31 03:38:08 1999
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:24:48 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- Pacioli font and package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded pacioli.tar to tex.ac.uk/incoming.
> Could you please install this in the font area?
>
> From the README:
>     The pacioli package provides (Metafont) fonts designed by Fra
> Luca de Pacioli in 1497. The font is uppercase letters together with
> punctuation and some analphabetics; no lowercase or digits.

i've installed the package in fonts/pacioli (sorry about the delay)

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar 31 07:04:30 1999
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 13:49:08 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- Ancient fonts

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded phoenician.tar, greek6cbc.tar,
> etruscan.tar, and runic.tar to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you
> please put them in the font area, perhaps all in a directory called
> "ancient" or "archaic".
>
>     The upload consists of a set of fonts and packages for the following scripts:
> o Phoenician (approx 1000 BC)
> o Greek (approx 6th century BC)
> o Etruscan (approx 700 BC)
> o Runic (futharc). The Anglo-Saxon abecedary.
>
>     The Phoenician and Etruscan fonts have mirrored forms to support
> both left-to-right and right-to-left writing.
>
>     The fonts in this upload are part of a series under development
> intended to show the progression of the Latin alphabet from its
> Phoenician origins.

i've installed the files in fonts/archaic (sorry about the delay).

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Apr  1 11:14:01 1999
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 19:07:52 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.20 (final)

> From: Christian Schenk <christian.schenk@detewe.de>
>
> I have uploaded MiKTeX 1.20 (final) to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex.
> Please copy all files to system/win32/miktex/1.20. Thanks!
>
> MiKTeX is a free TeX distribution for Windows 9x/NT. See
>
>   http://www.snafu.de/~cschenk/miktex/news.html#SEC1
>
> for recent changes.

Thanks for the submission, I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in
/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/1.20 as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr  1 11:18:39 1999
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 18:11:34 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- delimtxt.dtx

Bjoern Pedersen writes:

> I have uploaded the package delimtxt.dtx to /incoming. It contains an
> experimental package for read and parsing text tables delimited by
> userdefined tokens (e.g. <tab>). It can be used for serial letters and the
> like, making it easier to export the data file from Excel/Word ...
>
> The error treatment is not yet fully functional, but it works for
> error-free data files quite.
>
> A place for installation could be:
>  /pub/tex/macros/latex/exptl/delimtxt

i have installed the package as suggested in macros/latex/exptl/delimtxt

this is the first submission (as such) to the exptl hierarchy ...

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr  1 16:26:44 1999
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 23:21:45 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- paralist v1.7

> I have uploaded the file paralist.zip to the /incoming directory of
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> From the abstract:
>
>         This style file provides some new list environments. Itemized and
>         enumerated lists can be typesetted within paragraphs, as
>         paragraphs and in a compact version. Most environments have
>         optional arguments to format the labels.
>         Additionally, the \LaTeX\ environments |itemize| and |enumerate|
>         can be extended to use a similar optional argument.
>
> The new version fixes a bug if the package is loaded together with
> [spanish]{babel} and includes some minor code changes.
>
> I recommend placing the unpacked files README, license.txt, paralist.ins
> and paralist.dtx in
>
>         macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist/
>
> replacing the old versions.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Apr  2 11:02:09 1999
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 17:56:36 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- nomencl v2.6

Bernd Schandl writes:

> I have uploaded the file nomencl.zip to the /incoming directory of
> ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>
> The package should help formatting a nomenclature using the MakeIndex
> program.
>
> The new version adds French translations for the reference text and minor
> code and documentation changes.
>
> I am still looking for people to translate "see equation", "page" and
> "Nomenclature" to any other language than Danish, English, French and
> German.
>
> Please put the four files README, license.txt, nomencl.dtx and nomencl.ins
> in the directory
>         /macros/latex/contrib/supported/nomencl/
> overwriting the old files.

i've installed the files as requested

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Apr  2 13:56:29 1999
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 20:50:43 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- Trajan font

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded trajan.tar to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could
> you please put this in the fonts directory? (but please not in the
> archaic subdirectory)
>
> From the README:
>     The trajan package provides fonts based on the capitals carved
> on the Trajan column in Rome in 114 AD. Many typographers think
> these rank first among the Roman's artistic legacy. The font is
> uppercase letters together with some punctuation and analphabetics;
> no lowercase or digits.

i've installed them in fonts/trajan; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Apr  3 08:28:14 1999
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 15:21:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission refman 2.0c

Axel Kielhorn writes:

> I have uploaded a new version of refman to ftp.dante.de.
> Filename: refman2.0c.tar
> Please replace the old version of refman with the contents of this archive.
>
> Refman is a class-family useful for manual like documents. It leaves a
> large left margin for section headers, description labels or notes. The
> layout is similar to the layout Adobe uses for the PostScript manuals.
>
> Refman comes with a german and english manual.
>
> Most important change:
>
> % This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
> % of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
> % archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
> % version 1 of the License, or any later version.
>
> Minor change:
> You can now change the symbol used for the attention command.
> It includes a package to access the manfnt symbols like dangerous bend and
> double dangerous bend. (Which may be used for the attention command.)

i've installed the new version in macros/latex/contrib/supported/refman

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Apr  5 04:27:58 1999
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 09:21:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- /incoming/tex4ht/tex4ht.zip

Eitan Gurari writes:

> (a) state which site you have uploaded to
>
>      ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> (b) state what file(s) you have uploaded,
>
>      /incoming/text4ht/tex4ht.zip
>
>    (Please ignore the file at  /incoming/tex4ht.zip)
>
> (c) include a brief overview of
> what the file(s) is/are intended to do, and
>
>    Convert (la)tex-based files to html and other sgml languages.
>
> (d) [optionally, but
> urgently requested] where you recommend placing your submission within
> the CTAN directory hierarchy.
>
>    Replace the file     /support/TeX4ht/tex4ht.zip

i've installed the file as requested

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Apr  5 10:04:02 1999
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 14:56:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- updated concmath, mflogo

Ulrik Vieth wrote (some time ago):

> I've uploaded the following packages to
>   ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/vieth:
>
> latex-concmath.tgz
>
>  - unpacks into macros/latex/contrib/supported/concmath
>  - contains update of `concmath' LaTeX package
>  - includes a symbolic link `fonts' pointing to fonts/concmath
>
> fonts-concmath.tgz
>
>  - unpacks into fonts/concmath/{mf,tfm}  (existing directory)
>  - contains Metafont sources and TFMs of Concrete Math fonts
>
> fonts-concrete.tgz
>
>  - unpacks into fonts/concrete/{mf,tfm}  (new subdirectories)
>  - contains links to Metafont sources of Concrete Roman fonts,
>    which are located in systems/knuth/local/cm
>
> latex-mflogo.tgz
>
>  - unpacks into macros/latex/contrib/supported/mflogo
>  - contains update of `mflogo' LaTeX package
>  - includes a symbolic link `fonts' pointing to fonts/mflogo
>
> fonts-mflogo.tgz
>
>  - unpacks into fonts/mflogo/{mf,tfm}  (new directory tree)
>  - contains links to Metafont sources of Knuthian `logo' fonts
>    as well as Metafont sources and TFM of unoffical additions,
>    which are part of the `mflogo' package
>
>  - may be used to supersede fonts/cm/utilityfonts/logo
>    (if you move ps-type1/hoekwater to fonts/mflogo)
>
> fonts-manual.tgz
>
>  - unpacks into fonts/manual/{mf,tfm}  (new directory tree)
>  - contains links to Metafont sources of miscellaneous
>    Knuthian fonts used in The TeXbook and/or The METAFONTbook
>
>  - may be used to supersede fonts/cm/utilityfonts/manualfonts
>    (if you move ps-type1/hoekwater to fonts/manual)
>
> fonts-unsuported.tgz
>
>  - unpacks into fonts/unsupported/{committee,halftone,logo,mfbook}
>  - contains remaining historic files from fonts/cm/utilityfonts/,
>    which are not represented anywhere else (see systems/knuth/lib
>    or systems/knuth/local/lib for black, gray and slant fonts)
>
>
> NOTES:
>
>  - There are no signifcant changes to the `concmath' and `mflogo'
>    other than licensing issues (now under LPPL) and changes to
>    the structure of the distribution (READMEs, Makefiles, etc.).
>
>  - Each package contains an updated entry for the CTAN catalogue
>    in the files CATALOGUE.
>
>  - Each package  contains a Makefile for easy installation
>    assuming a TDS-compatible Unix TeX distributions.
>    (Hope it'll work for you!)
>
>  - The repackaged versions of fonts-concrete, fonts-mflogo,
>    and fonts-manual avoid making unnecessary extra copies of
>    original nuthian files.  Instead they rely on symbolic
>    links pointing to the master sources in CTAN:systems/knuth/.
>    Whenever a package is downloaded as a .zip or .tar.gz file,
>    actual copies of the files should be included, so as to
>    allow fetching all relevant files at once.

i've installed these packages as requested.  in addition, i've moved
the relevant ps-type1 stuff of taco hoekwater's into fonts/manual and
fonts/mflogo as appropriate, and deleted fonts/cm/utilityfonts/manualfonts
and fonts/cm/utilityfonts/logo

my apologies for the delay in installing these files: i took the
opportunity of being here (mostly undistracted ;-) on a public holiday
to complete the rather complicated installation.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Apr  6 06:44:43 1999
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:34:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- ithyph.tex v.4.8b

> From: Claudio Beccari <beccari@POLITO.IT>
>
> Dear CTAN manager, I just uploade in /incoming version 4.8b of ithyph.tex,
> the hyphenation pattern files for Italian; it should replace my previous
> ithyph.tex file corresponding to version 4.8.

Thanks for the submission, I installed it as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr  6 11:18:56 1999
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 17:05:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- TeXemplar.cls

Javier Bezos writes:
 >
 > I've uploaded to the DANTE server the TeXemplar.cls class for the
 > journal of CervanTeX, the Spanish TeX User's Group which is going
 > to be formally registered in a few days. It is with a readme file
 > in the /incoming/TeXemplar/ directory.
 >
 > I don't know if there is a place in the CTAN structure for the
 > User's Groups stuff. If not, put the files under
 > ... /latex/contrib/other/TeXemplar/
 >
 > It is far from finished and, as many other classes, has
 > nothing new to TeXperts. However, it includes a new implementation
 > of verbatim which overcomes the problems of the standard verbatim and
 > the verbatim package. That's explained in the readme file.
 >
 > Regards
 > Javier bezos

Thanks a lot, I installed the files in

   macros/latex/contrib/other/TeXemplar

as you requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Apr  7 03:22:03 1999
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:09:24 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ctan submision -- mathpple.zip

> From: Walter Schmidt <wschmi@ibm.net>
>
> I have uploaded the file mathpple.zip to the /incoming directory
> at ftp.dante.de.
>
> Please, unpack it to the directory fonts/mathpple, after deleting
> its present contents (a few filenames have been changed!)
>
> This is version 1.0 of the `mathpple' fonts and the related
> LaTeX package mathpple.sty for mathematical typesetting with the
> Palatino PostScript fonts.
>
> I have (hopefully) fixed various minor bugs of the preliminary
> version 0.97, and the bundle is now released under the
> LaTeX Project Public License.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it on dante.ctan.org in
/tex-archive/fonts/mathpple as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Apr  7 04:29:50 1999
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:17:48 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- sectsty v2.0 (LaTeX2e package)

rowland (of r&r fame) writes:

> (a) Uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/sectsty/
>
> (b) Uploaded files sectsty.ins and sectsty.dtx
>
> (c) Sectsty is a LaTeX2e package to help you change the style of any or all
> of LaTeX's sectional headers in the article, book, or report classes. The
> titlesec package offers an alternative approach to the job.
>
> This release, v2.0, fixes a bug (to do with showkeys), and adds support
> for the KOMA-script classes.
>
> d) I suggest that these files replace the old version of sectsty at:
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/sectsty/

i've installed the new version as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Apr  8 05:39:02 1999
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:28:07 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinShell2.0beta

Ingo de Boer writes:

 > i uploaded a new beta to /pub/incoming/winshell.
 > please move these files to /pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell/beta

Thanks for the upload.

However, your copying conditions say:

 > this software is for free!
 > be free to copy and distribute for NO commercial purposes!

Therefore, I installed it in

   nonfree/systems/win32/winshell/beta

with a link in

   systems/win32/winshell/beta

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Apr  9 05:34:17 1999
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 11:17:22 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- files for the Greek option of the babel package

Apostolos Syropoulos writes:

 >    Since the latest version of the babel package has been officially
 > released, there are a few things that must be done in order to delete
 > old and unnecessary files.
 >
 > In tex/language/greek/cb delete the following directories:
 >
 > drwxrwxr-x   2 Mr.Ftp   server       512 Mar 23  1998 BibTeX
 > drwxrwxr-x   2 Mr.Ftp   server       512 Nov 25 12:19 babel-greek-option
 > drwxrwxr-x   2 Mr.Ftp   server       512 Nov 25 12:19 babel-usage
 > drwxrwxr-x   2 Mr.Ftp   server       512 Mar 23  1998 hyphenation
 > drwxrwxr-x   2 Mr.Ftp   server       512 Nov 25 11:53 index
 > drwxrwxr-x   2 Mr.Ftp   server       512 May 19  1998 misc
 >
 >
 > In tex/fonts/greek delete directory
 >
 > drwxrwxr-x   2 Mr.Ftp   server       512 Mar 23  1998 babel-package
 >
 > In /tex/fonts/greek create a directory package-babel which will
 > contain all the files of the archive package-babel.tar.gz which
 > resides at ftp.dante.de/incoming

Thanks a lot for your info and upload, I removed the old files and
installed the new ones as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Apr  9 05:36:08 1999
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 11:18:24 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- SIunits update

Marcel Heldoorn writes:
 > I have uploaded the file SIunits.zip to ftp.dante.de
 >
 > The SIunits package contained in it is intended for LaTeX.
 > It typesets physical units following the rules of the International System
 > of Units (SI).
 >
 > It is the updated version 0.06.
 >
 > This version handles conflicts that are caused by the amssymb package
 > (The command \square is also defined in the amssymb package)
 >
 > I recommend replacing the files in
 > /macros/latex/contrib/supported/SIunits/
 >
 > Bye,
 >
 >
 >
 >                 Marcel Heldoorn

Thanks a lot for your update, I replaced the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From david@DCARLISLE.DEMON.CO.UK Tue Apr 13 03:52:43 1999
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:27:06 +0200
From: David Carlisle <david@DCARLISLE.DEMON.CO.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Update of David Carlisle's files: LaTeX Project Public Licence


Over the weekend I updated most of the files that I distribute via the
ctan archives to be distributed under the LaTeX Project Public Licence
(LPPL). That is, the same conditions as LaTeX itself is now
distributed.

This affects all of the files in macros/latex/contrib/carlisle with
the exception of mylatex.ltx, that is the following latex packages.

nopageno
ltxtable
blkarray
typehtml
plain
comma
colortbl
dotlessj
textcase
remreset
scalefnt
fix2col
slashed
pspicture

(pspicture is a new addition to this directory, it was previously
distributed from the old latex2.09 directory, as it had never been
updated).

In addition to this directory, the packages

pslatex    (macros/latex/contrib/supported/pslatex)
grfpaste   (macros/latex/contrib/supported/grfpaste)

have similarly been updated to be distributed under the LPPL.

Apart from minor documentation improvements, and the addition of
explicit copyright and/or distribution notices, the packages have not
been changed by these updates.

The text of the LPPL may be found in the base LaTeX distribution on
ctan archives in macros/latex/base/lppl.txt.

David Carlisle

PS

If you are the maintainer of a file distributed from CTAN, please do
consider adding exlicit copyright notices and licence notices.
It may seem unduly legalistic, especially for small packages, but it
makes life a lot easier for maintainers of TeX distributions such as
TeXLive or tetex (and the commercial TeX distributions) as without
such notices there may be legal problems in making CD and other forms
of TeX distributions, without the hassle of contacting each package
author individually asking for clarification of the distribution
conditions on his or her work.

From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Tue Apr 13 07:07:44 1999
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:27:46 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: hyperref 6.56

I have just put hyperref 6.56 on CTAN. This fixes *important* features
which were broken in 6.53-6.55 (index links stopped working), and some
other smaller things. Support for "seminar" is improved.

Many apologies for the broken release.

Sebastian Rahtz

Note:

The hyperref package is used to emend cross-referencing commands in
LaTeX to produce some sort of hypertext command; there are backends
for the \special set defined for HyperTeX dvi processors, for embedded
pdfmark commands for processing by Acrobat Distiller (dvips and
dvipsone), for dviwindo, for pdfTeX, for TeX4ht, and for VTEX's pdf
and HTML backends.

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Apr 14 03:34:53 1999
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 09:20:45 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.20a

> From: Christian Schenk <christian.schenk@detewe.de>
>
> I have uploaded MiKTeX 1.20a to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex.
>
> MiKTeX is a free TeX distribution for Windows. The 1.20a news are:
>
> * Babel 3.6m
> * URW PostScript fonts
> * pdfTeX 0.13d
> * dvipdfm 0.10.5

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in
/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex partially replacing the old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Apr 14 03:39:44 1999
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 09:31:28 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission: cb-tfm.tar.gz

> From: Apostolos Syropoulos <apostolo@OBELIX.EE.DUTH.GR>
>
>      I have uploaded at ftp.dante.de/incoming the
> file cb-tfm.tar.gz which contains the TFM files. All
> these files should replace those at tex/languages/greek/cb/tfm.

Thanks for the upload, I installed it as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Apr 14 03:50:51 1999
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 09:39:41 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- changes of license statements for german.sty

Bernd Raichle writes:
 > (a) site: ftp.dante.de
 >
 > (b) file: german.tar.gz
 >
 > (c) description:
 >         This file contains a new ``german.ins'' with a change license
 >         statement for (n)german.sty which is now according to the
 >         LPPL.  In addition it contains the already unpacked files
 >         `german.sty', `ngerman.sty' and `hyphxmpl.cfg'.
 >
 > (d) place:
 >         Unpack in language/german/
 >
 > Thanks,
 >   -bernd

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Apr 14 04:32:40 1999
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:10:26 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- hypbmsec,pagesel,alphalph,twoopt

> From: Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@RUF.UNI-FREIBURG.DE>
>
> I have uploaded 'oberdiek.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
> It contains the four packages:
> * hypbmsec 1999/04/12 v2.0 Bookmarks in sectioning commands.
> * pagesel  1999/04/13 v1.1 Selecting shipout pages.
> * alphalph 1999/04/13 v1.1 Converting numbers to letters.
> * twoopt   1999/04/12 v1.3 Definitions with two optional arguments.
>
> Please install all the files of the zip file in the directory
>   CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/
> and make a link from
>   CTAN:macros/tex/generic/misc/alphalph.sty
> to
>   CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/alphalph.sty,
> because this file can be used by both LaTeX and plain-TeX.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the filed in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/
as suggested. And I installed the link to alphalph.sty in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/generic/alphalph.sty

> The pdf files contain the documentation with support of
>  * hyperlinks
>  * thumbnails
>  * article threads
> But they aren't linearized/optimized, because I don't have
> Acrobat Exchange.
> 'holtxdoc.zip' is needed for building the documentation.
> 'readme.txt' describes all packages and files in the directory.
>
> >From the readme.txt:
>
> * With package hypbmsec bookmark entries can be given in another
>   argument of the sectioning commands, e.g.:
>     out = outline string, toc = string in table of contents
>     \section{toc, out, txt}
>     \section[toc, out]{txt}
>     \section[toc][out]{txt}
>     \section[toc](out){txt}
>     \section(out)[toc]{txt}
>     \section(out){toc, txt}
>   hyperref is required to get the bookmarks, but the syntax work
>   without hyperref, too.
>
> * pagesel selects single pages, page areas, odd, or even pages
>   for output.
>
> * alphalph provides the new expandable commands \alphalph
>   \AlphAlph. They are like \number, but the expansion consists of
>   lowercase and uppercase letters respectively:
>      1..26 = a..z
>     27..52 = aa..az
>     53..78 = ba..bz
>    702,703 = zz, aaa
>   So the commands can be used as an replacement for LaTeX's \@alph
>   and \@Alph macros.
>
> * twoopt provides commands to define macros with two optional
>   arguments:
>   \newcommandtwoopt{\Cmd}[3][DefaultA][DefaultB]{Args: #1, #2, #3}
>   \renewcommandtwoopt, \providecommandtwoopt

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 15 05:15:44 1999
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:58:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- greek4cbc package and fonts

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded greek4cbc.tar to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you please install this under the
> fonts/archaic directory?
>
> From the README:
>     The greek4cbc package provides a Greek monumental font as used
> on a stele in Athens in 394BC. The font consists of majuscules only
> and is one of a series of archaic fonts.

i've duly installed the fonts in fonts/archaic/greek4cbc

thanks for the upload (i'm enjoying this little serial story ;-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 15 05:29:00 1999
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:13:43 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- docmfp package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded docmfp.tar to tex.ac.uk/incoming. Can you
> please install this where you think best; I will support it.
>
> From the README:
>     The docmfp package extends the doc package to cater for
> documenting non-Latex code, such as Metafont or Metapost, or even C
> code.

i've installed the package as macros/latex/contrib/supported/docmfp

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 15 08:25:59 1999
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:55:46 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - BibDB for DOS and Windows

Eyal Doron writes:

> I've just uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/bibdb the files
> bibdb20.zip - DOS program
> wbibdb22.zip - WIndows program
> bibdbsrc.zip - sources for the above
>
> The program is BibDB and wBibDB, a BibTeX bibliography manager. I
> believe an earlier version exists on tex-archive/support/bibdb.

i've installed the new version in support/bibdb

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 15 19:12:27 1999
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:07:08 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lshort-3.6

> I have uploaded lshort-3.6.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
>
> This is the "Not so short Introduction to LaTeX2e"
>
> The package contains dvi, ps and pdf versions of the booklet.
>
> This upload brings your copy in sync with the current version.
>
> RECENT CHANGES
>
> 3.7
> ---
> * re-release to for some even better spelling :-)
>
> 3.6
> ---
> * released on CTAN ...
>
> 3.5
> ---
> * even smaller factual errors corrected ...
>
> 3.4
> ---
> * minor spelling fixes
>
> 3.3
> ---
> * lots of small patches from Prof Rippley ...
> * fixed compile problem on first run ...
> * properly packaged the whole thing ....

i've installed the new version in info/lshort/english

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Apr 17 13:01:23 1999
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 17:54:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: www.tex.ac.uk woes

In the early morning yesterday (16th April 1999) the machine which
serves www.tex.ac.uk crashed.

A chapter of accidents (compounded by me being in a meeting for a lot
of the day) meant that the problem was not finally rectified until
late afternoon.

I apologise to users for the inconvenience caused.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Apr 19 05:46:46 1999
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:22:03 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- bbding

> From: Peter M�ller Neergaard <turtle@DIKU.DK>
>
> I have just uploaded the file bbding.zip.
>
> a) It is uploaded to ftp.dante.de
>
> b) I have uploaded the file bbding.zip containing five files: bbding.ins,
>    bbding.dtx, bbding10.mf, bbding10.org (the file name uploaded as
>    fonts/bbding/bbding.org), and README.
>
> c) The file contains the bbding fontset with a package for using it under
>    LaTeX 2e.
>
> d) It is recommended that the files overwrites the existing files in
>       fonts/bbding
>    where I have already provided the bbding.dtx and bbding.ins files.
>    Furthermore it is suggested that the files are duplicated or link to
>    contrib/supported/bbding as the uploaded files contains both a
>    LaTeX-package and a font set.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files in tex-archive/fonts/bbding/
as suggested with links from
macros/latex/contrib/supported/bbding to fonts/bbding
and
macros/latex/contrib/supported/niceframe/bbding10.mf to fonts/bbding/bbding10.mf

Additionally, I changed the file bbding.dtx to include a reference to the
LPPL licence as discussed in private mail.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Apr 19 05:59:09 1999
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:41:11 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- nomencl v2.6b

> From: Bernd Schandl <bschand@MATH.CLEMSON.EDU>
>
> I have uploaded the file nomencl.zip to the /incoming directory of
> ftp.dante.de.
>
> The package should help formatting a nomenclature using the MakeIndex
> program.
>
> Since version 2.6 I have added Polish, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian
> translations and added two notes to the documentation, one concerning the
> use of line breaks and %'s in \nomenclature and one concerning the
> docstrip version (>=2.4).
>
> Please put the four files README, license.txt, nomencl.dtx and nomencl.ins
> in the directory
>         /macros/latex/contrib/supported/nomencl/
> overwriting the old files.

Thanks for the submission, I installed the files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Apr 21 05:15:22 1999
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:32:42 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- braille.tar.gz

William Park writes:

> I don't mind supporting it, so
>     macros/latex/contrib/supported/braille/
>
> > Second -- there's the licensing issue: we need to know what the
> > distribution conditions on your new software are.  If you would peruse
> > the list of recognised licence classifications on
> >
> >   http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.html
> >
> > and let us know which you apply, that will help the cataloguing
> > effort, and (if you specify a free licence) permit future CD
> > distributions to hold the software.
>
> I kind of like "LaTeX Project Public License".  Basically, you can do
> whatever you want with it; just don't use same name.
>
> > Also, we (as CTAN) need to make a decision about the future of the old
> > braille package.  It relies on fonts that we only now hold in a rather
> > cryptic form -- systems/msdos/4alltex/diskm3/m_braill.zip
>
> I looked at it, and realized after awhile that I can't read German :)
> The old packages, namely
>     macros/latex209/contrib/misc/braille.sty
>     systems/msdos/4alltex/diskm3/m_braill.zip
> are difficult to understand and modify.  Even though they are designed
> for 8-dot braille pattern and mine for 6-dot, my package can be
> changed because the basic braille "font" is just a LaTeX picture box
> with 6 solid circles.  And, all macros are defined within LaTeX using
> \@namedef and \@nameuse.
>
> I also get the feeling that they only do grade 1 braille which is
> letter-by-letter translation, whereas my package does grade 1 and 2.
> Moreover, they are for old DOS and LaTeX 2.09, and mine is for
> LaTeX2e.  I believe my package supercede the old ones in all areas
> of braille typesetting.
>
> Of course, paper printout is not too useful if you are blind.  The
> only problem is that the braille output must be printed on special
> (and expensive) resin paper, and then heated to make the dot "rise".
> This is how drawings, graphs, and some simple pictures are done.  In
> fact, I wrote this package because I needed to insert few braille
> labels in graphs when I was helping out as volunteer.

i have installed your package as suggested, and moved the old
braille.sty to the obsolete tree.  thanks for the upload(s) and the
earlier responses.

i'm not sure what to do about the old braille fonts, which would
appear also to be obsolete, but which only appear in a tree which we
mirror and don't therefore directly control.  for the time being, i've
not touched them.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Apr 21 05:22:28 1999
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:53:46 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: natbib update

P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany writes:

 > I have upgraded natbib to work with the latest babel (3.6t) version. Johannes
 > has already made some modifications to babel to allow natbib to work most of
 > the time, but I discovered some more subtle problems, such as with \nocite and
 > with bibliography keys containing active characters. This natbib upgrade,
 > together with the current babel, should see that most problems vanish. It is
 > also no longer necessary to load natbib before babel.
 >
 > I have placed
 >   natbib.dtx
 >   README.v69a
 > in the dante /incoming/natbib  directory. Plus move them to
 >   macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib.

Thanks a lot, I installed the files.

Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Apr 21 07:46:21 1999
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:21:12 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- t2l.zip (tex2ltx)

Pedro Fortuny writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming a new version
> (fixing a bug) of my package "tex2ltx" (file
> which I have uploaded: t2l.zip). The directory in which it is
> located is /tex-archive/support/tex2ltx.
>
> I would appreciate very much your replacing the old file with the
> new one.

i have installed the file as a replacement for support/tex2ltx/tex2ltx.zip

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Apr 21 09:40:49 1999
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:14:20 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- jura/jurabib

> From: Felix Braun <fbraun@ERESSEA.IN-BERLIN.DE>
>
> I've just uploaded the file jura.tar.gz to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.
> The archive contains an updated version of my jura documentclass which is
> intended for German law students as it implements the typical layout of
> legal term papers at German universities. The archive also includes a
> package for alphanumerical section numbering which might be useful beyond
> this rather limited scope.
>
> Also included is a package by Jens Berger that allows the use of BibTeX
> databases for German legal texts. His package can be used both together
> with or independently from the jura documentclass.
>
> The files should replace the contents of the directory
> CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jura/

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Apr 21 10:25:50 1999
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:59:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- txt2tex

Kalvis M. Jansons writes:

> I have just upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk the file txt2tex, which is a perl
> script to convert raw plain text into LaTeX.  It will deal with a wide
> range of heading styles, list and itemize, and can escape latex
> control characters. This ought to be added to a utilities section of
> CTAN.
>
> To see what it can do, run
>
> txt2tex --demo
>
> on a unix machine.  The readme file for txt2tex is given below.

i have installed the perl script, and the readme you mailed, in
support/txt2tex; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 22 11:57:30 1999
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:37:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- emTeX/TDS v0.51 for OS/2

Walter Schmidt writes:

> I have downloaded the file Emtextd2.zip to the /incoming
> directory at ftp.tex.ac.uk.  This is
>
>         Version 0.51 of emTeX/TDS for OS/2,
>
> an emtex-based TeX system for OS/2 Warp with a TDS-compliant
> directory structure.  Please, unzip it to the CTAN directory
>
>         systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS/
>
> after removing all files currently existing there. (Some file
> names of the distribution have changed.)
>
> This will also provide a fixpack for the version 0.5 in a
> directory named fix001/, see the file README.fixes.  Future
> fixes and additions will be announced in this file.
>
> See the file NEWS for a list of what's new; see the files
> readme.eng (English) or readme.ger (German) for a general
> description.  All documentation is provided in English as
> well as in German.

i've installed the files as requested.

thanks for the upload (download?)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Apr 23 07:55:59 1999
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:44:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lyhyt2e

Timo Hellgren writes:
 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming
 > the file lyhyt2e.zip.
 >
 > The archive contains an updated version of the Finnish edition
 > of Tobias Oetiker's 'The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e'.
 > I have corrected some minor errors and now the PDF
 > version has hyperlinks similarly to the English original.
 >
 > Please place the updated files into the directory
 > CTAN:info/lshort/finnish (the old files should be removed)

Thanks a lot for your upgrade, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Apr 26 14:53:50 1999
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:43:02 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submssion -- mathpple v1.1 update

Walter Schmidt writes:

> I have uploaded the file mathpple.zip to the /incoming directory
> at ftp.tex.ac.uk.  Please, unzip it to the directory fonts/mathpple,
> thus replacing the following files only:
>
> readme
> liesmich
> copyrite
> latex/mathpple.sty
>
> This is version 1.1 of the package mathpple.sty and the related
> documentation.  The Palatino math fonts remain unchanged.
>
> As to the package, \mathbf has been fixed in order to work properly
> with uppercase Greek.  The installation instructions cover also
> Xdvi and pdftex now.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Apr 28 07:32:30 1999
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:03:58 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: optional.sty

donald arseneau writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk:
>
> optional.sty   facilitate optional printing of parts of a document
>
> It is miscellaneous, so I guess it goes to macros/latex/contrib/other/misc.

done (macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/optional.sty)

> Also, could you move selectp.sty from the 209 area to
> /macros/latex/contrib/other/misc, perhaps with a link to it
> in macros/plain.

done; so we now have macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/selectp.sty, and
macros/plain/contrib/selectp.tex pointing to it

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Apr 28 07:31:50 1999
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:09:47 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- jurabib

> From: Jens Berger <jberger@GMX.NET>
>
> I've just uploaded the file jurabib_2.zip to
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.
> The jurabib package allows the use of BibTeX databases for German legal
> texts. It can be used both together with or independently from the jura
> documentclass. The package allows the dynamic citation of an abbreviated
> title, depending on a multiply citation of an author with different
> books.
> It is easy to modify the layout of the citations and the entries in the
> bibliography.
>
> The files should be placed in the directory
> CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jura/

Thanks for the submission.  I added the two files to the .../jura/ directory
as requested.

> P.S. Please post a reply to d.c.t.t., because it is a package for german
> law students.

Sorry, can't do this (postings to c.t.t. are done automagically, everything
else must be done manually).

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 29 04:36:05 1999
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:23:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- the uncial package

Peter R. Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded uncial.tar to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. It is
> the first in a new series of manuscript fonts I hope to
> produce. Perhaps you would be willing to create a new font
> subdirectory (like the archaic one you did) in which this could be
> put. I don't know what you might want to call the subdirectory,
> perhaps "manuscript", or "mss" or, more technically "bookhands".
>
>     The distribution is released under the LPPL (LaTeX Project
> Public License).
>
> From the README:
>
>     The uncial package provides METAFONT fonts based on the Uncial
> manuscript bookhand used between the 3rd and 6th centuy AD. The font
> consists of minuscules only, with some appropriate period
> punctuation marks. Both normal and bold versions are provided. This
> is one in a planned series of manuscipt fonts.
>
>     For typesetting the .dtx file the docmfp package will be useful
> but not essential.

i've installed the stuff in a new sub-hierarchy, as bookhands/uncial

> PS I tried searching CTAN for "uncial" but came up blank. Some
> employers ago I found both Uncial and Half Uncial fonts on CTAN. Any
> idea where they might have got to (not that I want them, just
> curious)?

i have a vague recollection of such things, but i've no idea where
they might be.  as you say, they seem definitely not to be there just
now (unless they exist under a name that doesn't obviously relate them
to the word `uncial'...).

perhaps one of ctan-ann's or comp.text.tex's readers, with a longer
memory than i, would care to comment?

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Apr 30 04:59:53 1999
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:47:25 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission

Volodymyr Lyubashenko writes:

> I would like to submit to CTAN a LaTeX2e style.
>
> (a) I have uploaded it to ftp.tex.ac.uk  ( /incoming directory).
> (b) The file is called t-angles.zip . It includes the following files:
> readme , t-angles.sty , t-manual.tex .
> (c) t-angles.sty
> is a LaTeX2e style for drawing tangles, trees,
> Hopf algebra operations and other pictures.
> It is based on emTeX or TPIC \special's.
> Therefore, it can be used with the most popular drivers:
>         emTeX drivers, dviwin, xdvi and dvips.
> (d) The files are intended for CTAN directory
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/t-angles

i have installed the new package as requested.

thank you for the upload,

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Apr 30 05:08:00 1999
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:50:08 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- hanging package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded hanging.tar to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you please use this as a replacement
> for the current hanging package in macros/latex/contrib/supported?
>
>     This is distributed under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>
>     The hanging package facilitates the typesetting of hanging
> paragraphs. It also enables typesetting with hanging punctuation.
>
> Changes in version 1.1
> o Is now compatible with the ltugboat class.
> o Takes options to exclude punctuation characters from being hung.

installed as requested.  thanks for the upload,

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Apr 30 05:15:04 1999
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 11:06:05 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- akletter.cls 1.5f

> From: Axel Kielhorn <A.Kielhorn@TU-BS.DE>
>
> \begin{letter}
> I have released a new version of akletter.cls
> This release fixes a bug when using multiple letters with footnotes in one
> document. Since this bug was reported about 5 years after the initial
> release, I think it is an important bug-fix:-)
>
> With this release I change the licen[cs]e to LPPL.
>
> Please replace the akletter folder with the contents of the archive found in
> ftp.dante.de/incoming/akletter

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/akletter
as requested.

> --
> "Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy?"
> "Because we use LaTeX, son. They use Word."

;-)

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May  3 09:40:26 1999
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 15:13:26 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- delimtxt 1.1

> From: Bjoern Pedersen <bjoern@POSEIDON.ORG.CHEMIE.TU-MUENCHEN.DE>
>
> I have just uploaded delimtxt.tgz to ftp.dante.de.
> This archive contains a bugfix/ update version for the delimtxt
> package. The package is now under lppl.
> Please replace the files under
>  latex/exptl/delimtxt
> with the new versions.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/delimtxt as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue May  4 04:09:34 1999
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 09:44:53 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN upload -- serial.dtx

> From: Bjoern Pedersen <bjoern@POSEIDON.ORG.CHEMIE.TU-MUENCHEN.DE>
>
> I have just uploaded the file serial.tgz to ftp.dante.de.
>
> Its contains a wrapper class for KOMA scrletter to do serial letters.
>
> I suggest installation under tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/serial

Thanks for the upload, I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed May  5 09:42:30 1999
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 14:28:42 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- galois

Patrick Cousot writes:

> I would like to submit a LaTeX2e style to CTAN.
> (a) I have uploaded galois.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
> (b) The file galois.zip includes the following files:
>        galois.ins  galois.dtx  README
> (c) galois.sty is a LaTeX2e style for writing Galois
>     connections in two-dimensional style
> (d) The files are intended for CTAN directory
>        macros/latex/contrib/supported/galois

i've installed the package as requested.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May  5 12:21:35 1999
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:09:55 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf 1.4

Heiko Oberdiek writes:

 > I have uploaded 'thumbpdf.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > This updates and replaces the files in
 >   macros/pdftex/thumbpdf/
 >
 > Changes in Version 1.4:
 > * Reducing size by sharing of pdf objects with the same
 >   "RGB-index-tables" (ghostscript devices: png16, png256).
 > * Detecting of cygwin-perl.
 > * Correction of cosmetic minibugs.
 >
 > 'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with pdfTeX, plain/latex formats.
 > It consists of four files:
 > * readme.txt:    documentation.
 > * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
 > * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
 > * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
 > Requirements: Perl5, ghostscript, pdfTeX

Thanks a lot, I installed the upgrade.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May  6 18:34:34 1999
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 00:25:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- emtdsfix.zip

> From: Walter Schmidt <walter.schmidt@arcormail.de>
>
> I have uploaded the file emtdsfix.zip to the /incoming
> directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unzip this in the
> CTAN directory systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS/, thus
> replacing and adding a few files and a new subdirectory
> fix002/.
>
> This is a set of updates and patches fo my OS/2 TeX
> distribution "emTeX/TDS".
> See the updated file README.fixes for an overview.

Thanks for the submission;  I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May  7 02:41:44 1999
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 07:26:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- cite (update)

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk the bundle cite.targz containing
>
> cite.sty
> overcite.sty
> chapterbib.sty
> README
>
> which should replace the existing versions in macros/latex/contrib/
> supported/cite.  Drftcite.sty has not changed so the old version
> should remain (sorry for not including it).
>
> They do:
>
> cite.sty       Compressed, sorted lists of numerical citations: [8,11-16]
> overcite.sty   Compressed, sorted lists of superscript numerical citations
> chapterbib.sty Do multiple bibliographies; one per \included file.
>
> Changes:
>
> All are made compatible with recent babel.
>
> New in cite.sty (3.8)
>    \citedash hook, noadjust option, hack for babel
>
> New in overcite.sty (3.8)
>    \citedash hook, fix token look-ahead (Heiko Selber), noadjust, babel.
>
> New in chapterbib.sty (1.8)
>    Package options gather and duplicate for grouping bibliographies
>    outside their chapters.
>    \cite commands that get into a table of contents (toc,lof,lot)
>    now know which chapter they came from.
>    Babel.
>
> These packages, especially chapterbib, are now overflowing with \@ifundefined
> tests, so these will be the last versions to be backwards-compatible with
> LaTeX 2.09.

i've installed the files as requested.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May  7 03:03:29 1999
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 08:51:22 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- ieeepes

> From: Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@ELEC.CANTERBURY.AC.NZ>
>
> I have uploaded
>
>         ftp.dante.de:/incoming/ieeepes-4.0.tar.gz
>
> Please unpack over the existing one.

Thanks, I did it in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ieeepes/
However, I removed the old file volker.eps as it's the same as the new file
vk.eps.  And I didn't install the file vmargin.sty but a symbolic link to
the existing file /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/vmargin.sty
No need to have to keep several versions in sync...

> This is an update of my package for typesetting papers for the IEEE
> power engineering society. The major fix is that it now works with a
> current LaTeX version (and that it is required to use \maketitle).
> The documentation is a little extended.
>
> No doubt there are still some more problems re the requirements of
> IEEE PES for papers. If someone notices any errors please let me know -
> I am still hunting for some current specs.
>
> (Btw what's all this about this new LaTeX license? Can someone post
> where it is? I can't find it)

See
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/base/lppl.txt
CTAN:/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.html

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May  7 09:05:28 1999
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 13:43:43 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- directory-1.11.tar.gz

Christophe Geuzaine writes:

> 'directory' is a macro package for LaTeX2e and BibTeX that facilitates
> the construction, the maintenance and the exploitation of an address
> book like database.
>
> The new version (1.11) is available on the CTAN in the
> 'bibliography/bibtex/contrib/directory/' subdirectory or at
> http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine/directory.html.
>
> This new version should be far better at line and page breaking, and
> allows greater flexibility in customization.

i've installed version 1.11 on ctan in biblio/bibtex/contrib/directory

since christophe wrote the above, this latest version has been
modified to record that it's released under the lppl.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May  7 09:50:27 1999
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 14:33:33 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ANN: The `final' location of the UK TUG FAQ

Not long after the UK TUG FAQ was first published on paper, in the UK
TUG Journal Baskerville (vol 4 no 6, December 1994), the group
established a `temporary' Web address for interactive access to the
FAQ.  The group is very grateful to the School of Cognitive and Computing
Sciences of the University of Sussex at Brighton, for hosting this
`temporary' service for around four years!

Now, at last, the group is pleased to announce that a `final' home for
the FAQ has been established, in association with the CTAN node at the
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory:

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

The sources, and readily-printable copies, of the FAQ remain on CTAN
in directory usergrps/uktug/faq

At present the interactive FAQ offers exactly the same facilities as it
always has, but there are plans to develop new facilities to further
enhance the FAQ's utility.

The FAQ is under constant development, and in particular a new printed
version is in preparation.  The UK TeX Users' Group would very much
welcome contributions at this time.

Comments, suggestions and error reports concerning the FAQ should be
addressed to the current maintainer, via uktug-faq@tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May  7 17:39:13 1999
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 23:33:33 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission - Type One Install utiLity (TOIL)

> From: Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz <staw@ETI.PG.GDA.PL>
>
> I've just uploaded to DANTE:/incoming/toil105.zip
> Unpacked should replace the contents of
>  fonts/utilities/t1install/toil/

Thanks for uploading the new version; I installed it on CTAN as suggested.

A short quote from the README files:

This file belongs to the TOIL package | Ten plik nale/zy do pakietu TOIL
This package is public domain         | Pakiet stanowi dobro powszechne
For more info see `0TOILENG.LIC'      | Wi/ecej informacji w ,,0TOILPOL.LIC''
============================================================================

The package TOIL was created in order to facilitate the tedious task of
installing Type 1 Adobe fonts for T. Rokicki's DVIPS driver. The main engine
of the package is the MS DOS script, A2T.BAT, which invokes (GNU) AWK and
METAFONT (see section ``REMARKS CONCERNING CONFIGURATION'' below),
and, as a result, creates and places appropriately files needed for
the proper functioning of a DVIPS driver.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 10 04:01:54 1999
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 09:51:05 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- New German dictionary for WinEdt

> From: Aleksander Simonic <winedt@ISTAR.CA>
>
> I have just uploaded a new German Dictionary (word list), newly
> available for use with WinEdt, to
>
>     ftp.dante.de/incoming/german.zip
> and
>     ftp.dante.de/incoming/german.txt
>
> The file, german.txt, explains how german.zip differs from the
> already available de.zip...
>
> Please move these files to:
>
>     tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict/

Thanks for the upload, I installed the new files as requested.

> WinEdt's Downloads Page has been updated to provide links to this
> as well as all other available WinEdt dictionaries on CTAN. For
> more information visit:
>
>         http://home.istar.ca/~winedt/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 10 04:49:32 1999
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 10:21:07 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinShell2.0beta

> From: Ingo de Boer <idb@IBT.ETEC.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE>
>
> i uploaded a new beta-version of winshell to
>
> ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell/beta
>
> please replace the files in
>
> /pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell/beta

Thanks for the upload.  On ftp.dante.de, I
- removed /tex-archive/nonfree/systems/win32/winshell/beta
- removed the symlink /tex-archive/systems/win32/winshell/beta
- installed the new files in /tex-archive/systems/win32/winshell/beta
as the 'for NO commercial purposes' license notice went away.

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> What is WinShell:
> =================
>
> WinShell ist a graphical user interface for easy working
> with TeX. It is NOT a TeX-System. You need an additional
> TeX-package for DOS/Windows...
>
> What is new:
> ============
>
> - Project-File
>    Actually it is quite simple. Just use the project like in
>    other applications: add, remove etc.
>
>    # By double-clicking on a file it will open.
>
>    # By double-clicking on an entry of the 'Table of Contents'
>      the file will open at that specific position. But one has
>      to write the text 'correct':
>
>      Type the brace directly after the chapter,section, etc., e.g.
>      \section{this is my section}
>                 NOT
>      \section {this is my section}
>
>    The 'Table of Contents' contains
>    \chapter \section \subsection \subsubsection
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon May 10 09:31:12 1999
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 14:09:06 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- pictex2.sty

William Park writes:

> I uploaded 'pictex2.sty' which adds 2 user commands to standard PiCTeX
> found in CTAN/graphics/pictex/.  One command uses relative coordinate,
> thus eliminating the need to calculate the coordinate of every points
> manually as in standard PiCTeX.  The other command modifies \plot to
> use rule instead of dots if line segment is horizontal or vertical.
>
> This file should be moved to
>     macros/latex/contrib/supported/pictex2/
> and distributed with "LaTeX Project Public License".

i've installed the package as you suggest

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue May 11 10:11:44 1999
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:39:42 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New nonfree/ hierarchy on CTAN

The CTAN team have been concerned, for some time, about the copyright
status of the material held on the CTAN archives.  In the course of
preparation of the latest TeX Live disc, Sebastian Rahtz compiled a
list of the licence status of many available packages, and it is the
CTAN team's intention to extend that list to as full coverage of the
archive holdings as is possible.

In parallel with this work, we have instituted a new hierarchy on
CTAN, called nonfree/; it is our intention to move all items, for
which there are significant distribution restrictions, to that
hierarchy.

STRUCTURE

The nonfree hierarchy mimics the structure of the main part of CTAN;
there are (or may in the future be) sub-hierarchies nonfree/biblio,
/fonts, /graphics, /indexing, /language, /support, /systems and /web

For each entry in the non-free hierarchy, there is a corresponding
entry in the main part of CTAN, which is a symbolic link to the
nonfree/ hierarchy.  Since CTAN does not index symbolic links, the
only appearance that a non-free item makes in the FILES.* files is its
instance on the nonfree/ hierarchy.  The `quote site index' command
uses FILES.byname, so that it will always tell you if the item you're
seeking is not free.

CRITERIA

Licensing conditions that CTAN currently recognises are listed in

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.html

In the terms defined therein, the nonfree/ tree will hold items whose
licensing is unknown, nocommercial, nosell, shareware, or other.

Notes:

1. CTAN cannot hold matter whose distribution is restricted, anyway:
the archive has no control over what its mirrors might do.  This is
why there is no category `nodistribute'.

2. The `nonfree' licensing category nosource _does_ stay in the main
CTAN tree; there are usable items on CTAN whose source is not publicly
available, but which are nevertheless freely usable and distributable
by all and sundry.

3. We need to treat unknown licenses as nonfree, because of the legal
situation in many countries that one is obliged to assume that an
author would not wish his/her propertty to be treated as if it were in
the public domain.  We have, as yet, moved nothing of category unknown
to the nonfree/ hierarchy; we will be doing that job later in the
year.

THE FUTURE

The CTAN team are slowly moving items to the nonfree/ hierarchy.  This
process may be expected to accelerate during the course of this year;
in particular, one may expect items of category unknown to be moved
starting next month (June 1999).

If *you* are an author who has not responded to an enquiry about the
status of your stuff on CTAN, we urge you to release a new version
which makes its licensing status clear, and to upload that version to
CTAN in the usual way (see README.uploads on any CTAN site).  Don't
forget to mail ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de -- uploads don't get acted
upon without such a message.

If you don't do this, and we don't otherwise deduce the status of your
stuff, it is liable to be moved to the nonfree/ hierarchy, and to
disappear from future CD distirbutions of TeX.

OTHER INFORMATION

While CTAN is _not_ enforcing an open-source policy, we recommend
sites such as

  http://www.opensource.org/osd.html

for discussion of the issues behind software licensing.

From gaulle@IDRIS.FR Wed May 12 09:58:57 1999
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:40:05 +0200
From: Bernard GAULLE <gaulle@IDRIS.FR>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New nonfree/ hierarchy on CTAN

>>>>> On Tue, 11 May 1999 14:39:42 +0100,
>>>>>    Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> write about "New nonfree/ hierarchy on CTAN":
RF> The CTAN team have been concerned, for some time, about the copyright
RF> status of the material held on the CTAN archives.

please explain the exact reasons.

RF> In the course of
RF> preparation of the latest TeX Live disc, Sebastian Rahtz compiled a
RF> list of the licence status of many available packages, and it is the
RF> CTAN team's intention to extend that list to as full coverage of the
RF> archive holdings as is possible.

I do understand why SR was searching licence status when preparing a CD.
But i'm wondering why the CTAN team do follow the same track. Doing
a _comprehensive_ archive is not doing a CD. I want to know which legal
stuff is in the background of such spirit. Which states in the world do
force archives maintainers to split archives in various pieces?

RF> In parallel with this work, we have instituted a new hierarchy on
RF> CTAN, called nonfree/; it is our intention to move all items, for
RF> which there are significant distribution restrictions, to that
RF> hierarchy.

thus, when a stuff is not belonging to "politicaly correct" free
license (dfsg, gpl, lgpl, lppl, pd) it will be moved in the nonfree
hierachy. Thus this is a binary choice: be free or not. Thus when
a licence says that it is free for educational purposes and
otherwise nonfree, it will be moved to nonfree. Defintely this scheme
is reducing authors rights and i fully disagree with it.

RF> Notes:
RF> 1. CTAN cannot hold matter whose distribution is restricted, anyway:
RF> the archive has no control over what its mirrors might do.  This is
RF> why there is no category `nodistribute'.

there are a lot of commercial and non-commercial organisations in that
situation and the only way used to establish restrictions is to put
a licence file stating exactly what is wanted.

RF> 2. [...]
RF> 3. We need to treat unknown licenses as nonfree,

NO! An unkown license is not a nonfree. Give such stuff a default
"unknown" archiver's licence. And refuse new stuff coming with
no licence at all, if you want... BUT you are wrong a software
which has no licence at all is in most cases free otherwise author
would not have accepted to put it on public archives. If you have
legal reasons please give your pointers.

RF> THE FUTURE
RF> The CTAN team are slowly moving items to the nonfree/ hierarchy.

what a democratic process!

RF> If *you* are an author who has not responded to an enquiry about the
RF> status of your stuff on CTAN, we urge you to release a new version
RF> which makes its licensing status clear, [...]
RF> If you don't do this, and we don't otherwise deduce the status of your
RF> stuff, it is liable to be moved to the nonfree/ hierarchy, and to
RF> disappear from future CD distirbutions of TeX.

You are reducing CTAN to CD! I fully disagree with that idea, even
i agree that each author should state the stautus of his software.

Authors' freedom is a great right that nobody can't minimize in democratic
states. What you are starting to organise is not freedom but discrimination.
OK, authors have still the freedom do leave CTAN...

  --bg

From KNAPPEN@ALPHA.NTP.SPRINGER.DE Wed May 12 11:04:13 1999
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:41:38 +0200
From: Joerg Knappen <KNAPPEN@ALPHA.NTP.SPRINGER.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New nonfree/ hierarchy on CTAN

Bernard Gaulle schrieb:

> thus, when a stuff is not belonging to "politicaly correct" free
> license (dfsg, gpl, lgpl, lppl, pd) it will be moved in the nonfree
> hierachy. Thus this is a binary choice: be free or not. Thus when
> a licence says that it is free for educational purposes and
> otherwise nonfree, it will be moved to nonfree. Defintely this scheme
> is reducing authors rights and i fully disagree with it.

I don't see a restriction to the author's rights here. Even with the partition
free/nonfree any serious CD manufacturer has to read the licences per package
and they have to ask the authors in case of doubt. Unfortunately, many CD
manufacturers in the past didn't do this. If the new CTAN architecture helps
in this point, it is a good thing.

The other side is:

Licence type is not a primary search key for most users of CTAN (except
CTAN manufacturers). If a user looks for fonts for a special purpose (say
sanskrit), why should they search both free and nonfree trees of CTAN?
CTAN will become less user friendly, if the file system is organised along
the free/nonfree line.

IMHO, the licence information is better kept in a database and not in the
CTAN file system. Authors can submit a small form filled with some meta data
together with their package to fill this database. CTAN can provide a
template of this form.

--J"org Knappen

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed May 12 12:07:23 1999
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:58:10 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New nonfree/ hierarchy on CTAN

sorry about the previous mail/post, folks ... the arthritic old
fingers do that to me sometimes...

J"org Knappen ecrit:

> Bernard Gaulle schrieb:
>
> > thus, when a stuff is not belonging to "politicaly correct" free
> > license (dfsg, gpl, lgpl, lppl, pd) it will be moved in the nonfree
> > hierachy. Thus this is a binary choice: be free or not. [...]

in our discussions about managing ctan, i was initially dubious of the
value of a non-free tree.  however, i can now see positive value, _to
users_, of the tree.  we ought to make users aware that there are
potential problems with packages they wish to use; we're trying to
make pointers that by their very nature provide a simple alarm bell.

>[big snip]
>
> IMHO, the licence information is better kept in a database and not in the
> CTAN file system. Authors can submit a small form filled with some meta data
> together with their package to fill this database. CTAN can provide a
> template of this form.

the master source of licence licence information _is_ kept in a
database, viz., catalogue.xml; users will see this information if they
examine the full catalogue entry for a package.

the suggestion of a proforma catalogue entry has been made before.
it's been well-accepted within the ctan management group.

please don't expect ctan to move fast on these matters -- i was
working on the announcement that caused this thread for two months
... and announcements are the easy part of the job.

Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge CTAN management

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed May 12 13:40:50 1999
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:31:18 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.20b

> From: Christian Schenk <christian.schenk@detewe.de>
>
> I have uploaded MiKTeX 1.20b to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex. Please
> install it as follows:
>
>    Copy the contents of incoming/miktex to ctan:systems/win32/miktex.
>    Please be careful to preserve the directory structure
>    (incoming/miktex contains sub-directories).
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> MiKTeX is a free TeX distribution for Windows. The 1.20b news are:
>
>    * The MiKTeX TEXMF tree is a subset of the teTeX TEXMF tree as per
>      05/10/99.
>    * It is now possible to run the Setup Wizard in unattended mode
>      (command-line option -unattended). Setup options can be specified
>      on the command-line or in a text file. See the Local Guide for
>      more information.
>    * Yap checks to see whether it is the default DVI viewer.
>    * Some apps didn't run under Windows 2000.

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version on dante.ctan.org
(aka ftp.dante.de) as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed May 12 18:29:31 1999
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:22:15 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- the romannum package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded romannum.tar to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you please put this under
> macros/latex/contrib/supported?
>
>     The distribution is supplied under the terms of the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>
>     The romannum package changes LaTeX generated numbers to be
> printed with roman numerals instead of arabic digits. It requires
> the stdclsv package.
>
> As an aside: Users of the bookhands fonts may find this package useful.

i've installed the package, as suggested, in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/romannum

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed May 12 18:38:25 1999
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:32:45 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- the rustic packages and fonts

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded rustic.tar to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could
> you please put this under the fonts/bookhands directory.
>
>     The distribution is provided under the terms of the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>
>     The rustic and allrust packages provide METAFONT fonts based on
> the Roman Rustic manuscript book-hand used between the 1st and 6th
> century AD. This is one in a series of manuscript fonts.

i've installed fonts/bookhands/rustic

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat May 15 16:04:52 1999
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 21:59:20 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- <texshade>

> From: Eric Beitz <eric.beitz@UNI-TUEBINGEN.DE>
>
> I uploaded the texshade macro a second time to /incoming--this time
> unpacked as three individual files, see (b).
>
>  (a) Uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming
>
>  (b) LaTeX macro package <texshade>
>     (includes texshade.dtx; texshade.ins; texshade.txt)
>
>  (c)>> A LaTeX package for setting nucleotide and peptide alignments.
>     >>
>     >> TeXshade is  an alignment shading software  completely written
>     >> in TeX/LaTeX which can process multiple sequence alignments in
>     >> the .MSF and the .ALN file format.  It provides in addition to
>     >> common  shading  algorithms  special  shading  modes featuring
>     >> functional aspects, e.g. charge or hydropathy, and a plenitude
>     >> of commands for handling shading colors,  text styles, labels,
>     >> legends and even allows the user to define completely new sha-
>     >> ding modes.  TeXshade  combines  highest  flexibility  and the
>     >> habitual TeX output quality--with reasonable time expenditure.
>
>  (d) Placing recommendation: /tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/

Thanks for the submission, I installed the files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat May 15 16:15:04 1999
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 22:13:12 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- nomencl v2.7

> From: Bernd Schandl <bschand@MATH.CLEMSON.EDU>
>
> I have uploaded the file nomencl2.zip to the /incoming directory of
> ftp.dante.de. It contains version v2.7 of the nomencl package.
>
> At my first attempt, the connection broke down, so please delete the empty
> file nomencl.zip in the /incoming directory.
>
> The package should help formatting a nomenclature using the MakeIndex
> program.
>
> In the new version the \nomenclature macro should be a little more robust
> and shouldn't make problems when used in other macros. I also added a note
> in the documentation about changing the MakeIndex quote character " for
> German documents.
>
> Please put the four files README, license.txt, nomencl.dtx and nomencl.ins
> in the directory
>         macros/latex/contrib/supported/nomencl/
> overwriting the old files.

Thanks for the upload. I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue May 18 04:18:53 1999
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 10:04:55 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- l2kurz.zip

> From: Walter Schmidt <walter.schmidt@arcormail.de>
>
> I have uploaded the file l2kurz.zip to the /incoming directory
> at ftp.dante.de.  This is version 2.1 of the
>
>         LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung,
>
> the well know German short introduction to LaTeX2e.
>
> Please, unpack it to the directory /tex-archive/info/lshort/german/,
> thus replacing the previous version.
>
> I have fixed a lot of small bugs and omissions, and the document
> is now provided also in PostScript format, with almost all fonts
> coming as embedded Type1.

Thanks for the new version of this fine booklet which I consider
basic reading for LaTeX newcomers at my university.  I installed
it on CTAN as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue May 18 07:06:13 1999
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 11:49:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- The uncial font and packages

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded uncial.tar to tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you
> please use this to replace the current uncial subdirectory under
> fonts/bookhands?
>
>     The distribution is provided under the terms of the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>
>     The uncial and alluncl packages provide Metafont fonts based on
> the Uncial manuscript book-hand used between the 3rd and 6th century
> AD. The font consists of minuscules and digits, with some
> appropriate period punctuation marks. Both normal and bold versions
> are provided. This is one in a series of manuscript fonts.
>
>     Access to the docmfp package is desireable but not essential.
>
> Changes in version 1.1:
> o Improved bold font.
> o Added arabic digits.
> o New alluncl package to make the Uncial font the main document font.
> o Extended and corrected documentation.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed May 19 04:22:21 1999
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:11:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Uploaded some files into dantex.ctan.org

Adam Lewenberg writes:

> Uploaded: 2 files, dvii.c and README into incoming/dvii on dante.ctan.org
>
> Location: please place the files dvii.c and README in tex-archive/dviware/dvii
>
> License: these files are licensed under the LPPL (Latex Project Public
>          License)
>
> Here is a portion of the README file:
>
>   (For more complete information see
>    http://www.cs.uakron.edu/~adam/dvii.html)
>
>   dvii is a utility written in C that extracts information from a TeX
>   dvi file. Information displayed can include a summary:
>
>     File comment (usually the date file was compiled)
>     File size
>     Number of (physical) pages
>     Number of fonts
>
>   as well as more detailed information:
>
>     font names for all fonts used
>     list of physical page number/TeX page number pairs
>     list of all \specials and the page on which they appear
>
>
>   Currently, executables are not available, only the C source is
>   provided. To compile, you need to have a C compiler along with the
>   standard C libraries. For example, if you have gcc, type
>
>       gcc dvii.c -o dvii.exe  (assuming DOS platform)

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed May 19 04:23:06 1999
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:19:03 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Outliner style

Victor Eijkhout writes:

> I've uploaded 'outliner.sty' and a test file 'outline_test.tex' to Dante.
> These are macros that allow you to write "\Level 2 {Some heading}"
> instead of the usual \section stuff; the definitions of the levels
> can then easily be changed. There is a mechanism for shifting all levels,
> this makes it easy to bundle existing articles into a compilation.

thanks for the upload; i've installed the files in a new directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/outliner -- i trust the implication of
support isn't too onerous ;-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu May 20 12:48:51 1999
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 17:42:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: subscript.sty fragment

i've just installed macros/latex/contrib/other/fragments/subscript.sty

% this fragment provides a command \textsubscript, which is
% shamelessly copied from the command \textsuperscript that's part of
% LaTeX
%
% the fragment may be used as a package in its own right, if so
% needed.

distributed under the conditions of the lppl

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May 21 07:21:16 1999
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:01:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>

Basil K. Malyshev writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incomming/bakoma directory
>         `announce.210' file, that has been missed in uploading
>         of update for BaKoMa TeX 2.10.
> This file must be placed at 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/dst' directory.

this installation has now (that the dante server is back on line) been
done.

he further wrote:

> I have uploaded to `ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/bakoma' directory
> update for BaKoMa TeX 2.10(patch 1),
> that fixes one crutial problem rised under Windows 98.
>
> Update includes several files:
> Files: Change.Log, README, announce.210, d1.zip
> must be placed into directory `systems/win32/bakoma/dst'
>
> Files: patch210.txt, patch210.zip
> must be placed into `systems/win32/bakoma' directory,
>
> The reason of placing files into different directories is:
>         first group includes already fixed distribution modules;
>         second group includes patch to update already installed system.

i've done that task, too

here's the announced details of bakoma-tex 2.10

> Users who wants to update the system needs to copy only
>         D1.ZIP, D2.ZIP and L1.ZIP files (D3.ZIP is obsolete).
>
> The update includes following important improvements:
>
> 1.  All programs have been compiled for Win32.
>     This version works only under MS Windows 95/98/NT.
> 2.  Last release of LaTeX 2e <1998/12/01> is included into the system.
> 3.  16 bit DVI files produced by Omega is now supported.
> 4.  Support for POSTSCRIPT COLOR IMAGES.
>     New Viewer option 'Options|PostScript|Enable Color Images' controls
>     an appearing of 'colorimage' operator in PostScript systemdict.
>     It ables to show some kind of PostScript images in color or gray layout.
> 5.  Support for POSTSCRIPT DECOMPRESSION FILTERS.
>     They include /LZWDecode, /ASCII85Decode, etc;
> 6.  Support for inclusion of gzipped PostScript files (DVIEW and DVIPS).
> 7.  Complite support for clipping in PostScript graphics.
>     It can be controlled by 'Options|PostScript|Clipping On/Off' option.
> 8.  Support for import document outlines from different sources.
>     There are several Outline Import Filters:
>         OUT (HyperRef Outline file),
>         TOC (LaTeX's Table of Contents file),
>         REP (Old HyperRef Outline file).
>     Choosing a filter is supported by 'Project Parameters' editor dialog.
> 9.  Common LaTeX documents are in HyperDVI format with Outlines.
> 10. Added PLUG_INS directory for automatically loaded headers.
>     I.e. To use XyPic xy35dict.pro file must be placed into this directory.
> 11. Added DVICAT script that is functional equivalent of DVISelect+DVIConcat.
>     Command `PostLine dvicat' display complete usage of the script.
>     DVIBook script, that is available from `DVIEW:File/Arrange pages',
>     now displays usage that simplifies using it from command line.
> 12. Minor Reconstructions:
>     - New dialog to enter Document Info, that is embedded into PDF.
>     - PostScript generation dialog has been reached by new options.
>     - Support for compressing PDF file is built-in into DVIEW.
>     - Support for TeX PK fonts is built-in into DVIEW.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May 21 09:26:57 1999
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:17:03 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Updates for natbib, aguplus, custom-bib

patrick daly writes:

> I have made some updates to 3 of my packages/collections, all somewhat related
> changes. I have uploaded to Dante in the /incoming directory:
>   natbib.zip
>   aguplus.zip
>   custom-bib.zip
>
> The contents of these should go into the corresponding
> macros/latex/contrib/supported directories whereby
>   aguplus: is a total replace, remove all existing files
>   custom-bib: remove existing README.388 (replaced by README.389)
>   natbib:  remove README.v69a, replaced by README.v70
>
> Another point, it was brought to my attention that
>   latex209/newagu/
> still exists. Please remove this entirely. It is not only out-of-date, being
> 2.09 stuff, but it is also obsolete since it was intended for journals whose
> format has been radically changed in the meantime. Aguplus is the replacement
> today.

i've done that lot.  thanks for the upload (and for the excuse to get
rid of something out of date ;-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May 21 12:18:58 1999
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 17:14:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN:Upload

Bjoern Pedersen writes:

> I have uploaded serial.tgz to ftp.dante.de/incoming
>
> It contains a revised version of serial.dtx
>
> Please replace the contents of latex/contrib/supported/serial
> with the contents of this archive.
>
> Main changes:
> draft option added
>
> Documentation now mostly english.

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

please could you supply a brief outline suitable for use in graham
williams' catalogue.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 24 15:49:10 1999
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:41:19 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- bibunits

> From: hansen@neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de
>
> I have just uploaded version 2.0 of bibunits.
>
> --  uploaded file: bibunits.tar.gz
> --  uploaded to CTAN node: dante.ctan.org (ftp.dante.de)
> --  recommended place: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/bibunits
> --  licensing condition: lppl
> --  brief summary: multiple references in one document
>     changes to the first version by Jose Alberto Fernandez include:
>     . multiple citations of the same reference in different bibliography
>       units are now handled correctly
>
>     . file names of the auxiliary files which are created by bibunits
>       are changed so that the package can be used by DOS, CMS or VMS users
>       without modification
>
>     . auxiliary files are created only for bibunits which contain
>       cite commands
>
>     . upgrade to LaTeX2e

Thanks for the submission; I installed it as suggested and removed the
old version /tex-archive/macros/latex209/misc/bibunits.sty

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue May 25 10:44:09 1999
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 15:23:38 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- auncial: Artificial Uncial fonts

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded auncial.tar to tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you
> please install the auncial directory under fonts/bookhands?
>
>     The distribution is supplied under the terms of the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>     The auncial and allauncl packages provide Metafont fonts based
> on the Artificial Uncial manuscript book-hand used between the 6th &
> 10th century AD. The font consists of minuscules and digits, with
> some appropriate period punctuation marks. Both normal and bold
> versions are provided. This is one in a series of manuscript fonts.
>
>     Access to the docmfp package is desireable but not essential.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu May 27 08:52:36 1999
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:35:04 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <texshade v1.1>

Eric Beitz writes:

 > this is an update of the texshade package I submitted just a fortnight ago.
 > Please replace the old files which are located in (d), see below, with this
 > new release.
 >
 > Thank you!
 > Eric Beitz
 >
 > (a) Uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming
 >
 > (b) texshade.dtx; texshade.ins; texshade.txt
 >
 > (c) >> A LaTeX package for setting nucleotide and peptide alignments.
 >     >>
 >     >> TeXshade is  an alignment shading software  completely written
 >     >> in TeX/LaTeX which can process multiple sequence alignments in
 >     >> the .MSF and the .ALN file format.  It provides in addition to
 >     >> common  shading  algorithms  special  shading  modes featuring
 >     >> functional aspects, e.g. charge or hydropathy, and a plenitude
 >     >> of commands for handling shading colors,  text styles, labels,
 >     >> legends and even allows the user to define completely new sha-
 >     >> ding modes.  TeXshade  combines  highest  flexibility  and the
 >     >> habitual TeX output quality--with reasonable time expenditure.
 >
 > (d) Placing recommendation: /tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/
 >
Thanks a lot for the update, which I installed as requested.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu May 27 08:59:19 1999
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:36:41 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: braket.sty

donald arseneau writes:

> Uploaded to ...uk braket.sty:
>
> braket.sty     Dirac bra-ket < | > and set { | } notation
>
> for (macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/braket.sty)
>
> I tidied the comments in February and thought I uploaded it then
> but I guess not.
>
> It is totally free...
> license: pd

installed as requested -- thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu May 27 10:20:56 1999
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 16:04:31 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of "karnaugh.tar.gz"

Andreas W. Wieland writes:

 > I have just uploaded an improved version of my package "karnaugh". So
 > according to README.uploads:
 >
 > a) karnaugh.tar.gz
 >
 > b) ftp.dante.de
 >
 > c) macros/latex/contrib/other/karnaugh (This is the directory in which
 > the files previously resided)
 >
 > d) These files are distributed under the terms and conditions of the
 > "LaTeX Project Public Licence"
 >
 > e) The macros are intended to typeset Karnaugh-Maps and Veitch-Charts in
 > a
 > simple and user-friendly way, which has already proved to ease
 > typesetting these maps significantly. Karnaugh-Maps and Veitch-Charts
 > are used to display and simplify logic functions "manually". These
 > macros can typeset Karnaugh-Maps and Veitch-Charts with up to ten
 > variables (=1024 entries). For details please have a look at "kvdoc.*"
 > The new version is fully compatible with previous versions but provides
 > extended functionality and improved performance.
 >
 > The archive file "karnaugh.tar.gz" contains the following files:
 >
 > "kvmacros.tex" The macro file itself
 > "kvdoc.tex"    The accompanying documentation as LaTeX-Source
 > "kvdoc.dvi"    The same documentation in .dvi-format
 > "kvdoc.ps"     The same documentation in PostScript-Format
 >
 > Yours sincerely,
 >
 > Andreas Wieland

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the update as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May 28 06:05:52 1999
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 11:45:04 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: minor updates to natbib and custom-bib

P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany writes:
 > Two minor fixes to my major updates last week are to be found in the
 > Dante incoming directory:
 > natbib.dtx   ==>> macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib
 > merlin.mbs   ==>> macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib
 >
 > The natbib change is only in the documentation, a missing \\ is added.
 >
 > The merlin change is a real bug fix for people who generate harvard style
 >   bst's with it.
 >
 > Patrick

Thanks a lot, I installed the updates.
 Rainer, on behalf of the CTAN Team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May 28 08:36:36 1999
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:12:43 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: french package status

Bernard Gaulle has requested that

   nonfree/languages/french

no longer be mirrored from his FTP server to CTAN. I have therefore
removed it from CTAN.

I append Bernard's message to the CTAN Team.

Rainer Schoepf

Bernard Gaulle writes:
 >     The CTAN team recently changed his minds regarding
 > (La)TeX stuffs which are not "free" compliant (in the
 > spirit of the Free Software and all variations) in order
 > to allow CD providers and more generally CTAN redistributors
 > to have all known free stuff at hand, and thus sorted out
 > those which are not "free" (moving them to a "nonfree" tree).
 > This is a choice which seems to be generally appreciated.
 >     As author of the _french_ package i don't appreciate
 > to find, as of April 27, my package in the "nonfree" tree.
 > I deeply feel that the most important thing is that
 > _french_ can be run for free by every body in the world
 > regardless the media on which it is provided or the company
 > or LUG providing it. Thus moving _french_ to the "nonfree"
 > tree is insulting.
 >     I did discuss with the most envolved people who administrate
 > CTAN and found lot of variations among explanations, even
 > on the side of Copyright law. I could discuss again and again
 > about the pros and cons but it's clear enough that the wind
 > is not blowing in the way i walked for years. No pb, just
 > don't forget the weather is changing :=)
 >     As of April 27, the _french_ directory is no more mirorred
 > from the GUTenberg archives to CTAN, so the _french_ package
 > is not up to date and thus this is one more reason to ask
 > the CTAN team to remove /nonfree/languages/french
 >
 > Thanks for reading.
 >
 >   --bg
 >

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May 28 09:11:30 1999
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:49:47 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- expdlist

Wolfgang Kaspar writes:

 > I have uploaded the expdlist package (with only minor changes) to
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming/expdlist.
 >
 > Please delete all files in macros/latex/contrib/supported/expdlist and
 > install the new files in this directory.

I installed the new files as requested.

 > The distribution is supplied under the terms of the LPPL.
 >
 > >From the README:
 > The expanded description environment will not replace the LaTeX
 > description environment, but on request you will have some additional
 > features. It supports an easy possibility of changing the left margin.
 > Also there is with \listpart a new command available which is valid in
 > all list environments. It gives the possibility to break a list for a
 > comment without touching any counters.
 >
 > Thanks a lot for managing CTAN!

You're most welcome.

 > With best wishes
 > Wolfgang Kaspar

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From Karl.Tombre@LORIA.FR Fri May 28 09:16:55 1999
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:56:33 +0200
From: Karl Tombre <Karl.Tombre@LORIA.FR>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: french package status

Sorry, I haven't followed all the details here, but if the result of a
policy is that a wonderful package like french disappears from CTAN, isn't
it time to change one's policy? I checked the Copyright notice for french
and I cannot see what the problem is -- why can't it be in the free
directory? If the problem is that the authors don't allow other people to
change the code, isn't this a guarantee of quality when speaking of
software which is supposed to ensure that French typographical rules are
correctly followed?

[Feel free to copy this msg to the mailing list if you feel it is useful to
do it]

--
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From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May 28 09:21:49 1999
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 15:08:33 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: french package status

Karl Tombre writes:

 > Sorry, I haven't followed all the details here, but if the result of a
 > policy is that a wonderful package like french disappears from CTAN, isn't
 > it time to change one's policy? I checked the Copyright notice for french
 > and I cannot see what the problem is -- why can't it be in the free
 > directory?

Redistribution of the french package is restricted to noncommercial.
See

  ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/help/Catalogue/licenses.html

for details.

Please note that it is Bernard Gaulle's own decision to not have it on
CTAN. Our policy states *only* that it has to live in the nonfree
subhierarchy. As far as CTAN is concerned, there is no other
restriction whatsoever. This distinction in the CTAN structure makes
is clear to users that they have to read the copyright and licensing
terms before using it.

On behalf of the CTAN Team,
Rainer Schoepf

From gaulle@idris.fr Fri May 28 10:30:00 1999
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 16:12:36 +0200
From: Bernard GAULLE <gaulle@idris.fr>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: french package status

>>>>> On Fri, 28 May 1999 15:08:33 +0200,
>>>>>    Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de> write about "Re: french package status":
RS> Redistribution of the french package is restricted to noncommercial.

wrong, see _my_ Copyright.

RS> Please note that it is Bernard Gaulle's own decision to not have it on
RS> CTAN.

Not exactly. As said in my message, the _french_ package was no more
mirrored since, at least April 27th, and thus the CTAN archives were wrong.
Obviously if it was the only reason it would have find a solution.

  --bg

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May 28 10:43:30 1999
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 16:26:00 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: french package status

Bernard GAULLE writes:

 > RS> Redistribution of the french package is restricted to noncommercial.
 >
 > wrong, see _my_ Copyright.

Sorry, I don't believe I'm wrong in saying that your copyright did
restrict redistribution, that's the whole point of moving it into the
nonfree hierarchy.

 > RS> Please note that it is Bernard Gaulle's own decision to not have it on
 > RS> CTAN.
 >
 > Not exactly. As said in my message, the _french_ package was no more
 > mirrored since, at least April 27th, and thus the CTAN archives were wrong.

That was a mistake. With the CTAN maintainers doing the work in their
spare time, mistakes happen.

The package was removed on your explicit request.

Rainer

From boris@PLMSC.PSU.EDU Fri May 28 11:25:29 1999
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 17:13:46 +0200
From: Boris Veytsman <boris@PLMSC.PSU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: french package status

I wonder whether a simple renaming of the directory "nonfree" to the
directory "restricted" would ameliorate the situation? The word
"nonfree" seems to carry a negative connotation, and the word
"restricted" might be better.

I do not use french package myself, but I think its removal from CTAN
is a very sad precedent for the TeX culture. I hope some compromise
might be found.

--
Good luck

-Boris
http://www.plmsc.psu.edu/~boris/

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sun May 30 03:56:07 1999
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 08:47:00 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan submission -- tugboat tables of contents

barbara beeton writes:

> i have just posted several files to /incoming at ftp.tex.ac.uk :
>
>  -  the latest files for the tugboat tables of contents:
>
>       tbcv20.tex (the driver file for volumes 16-20)
>       tb2099.cnt (contains the t-of-c for the first issue of vol. 20)
>
>     please post these in
>
>       digests/tugboat/t-of-c
>
>  - the complete tugboat hyphenation exceptions list; a partial list
>    appeared in tugboat 20#1, including all new items since the previous
>    iteration (tugboat 16#1, 1995):
>
>       tb0hyf.tex
>
>    please install this in
>
>       digests/tugboat
>
> the two .tex files replace others by the same name; the .cnt file
> is new.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From te@INFORMATIK.UNI-HANNOVER.DE Mon May 31 03:17:32 1999
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 09:03:42 +0200
From: Thomas Esser <te@INFORMATIK.UNI-HANNOVER.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: french package status

> RS> Redistribution of the french package is restricted to noncommercial.
>
> wrong, see _my_ Copyright.

Rainer was not precise and that's why he is wrong.

Still, your software misses two of the four points that
the free software foundation considers essential (see
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html):
  - the freedom to modify the software and to give it (with modifications)
    to your neighbour
  - the freedom to redistribute the software

You do allow redistribution, but if someone wants to get money for that,
he has to get in touch with you, first. This is an essential restiction
of commercial redistribution and that's why the CTAN maintainers have put
your software into the "nonfree" area.

Before too many people get upset by the first "freedom" that I have
mentioned above, let me explain a few things. The freedom to modify
software means that you are allowed to do the modifications to fix bugs,
add functionality etc. There migth be resrictions, such as: "you must
not touch the copyright notice" or "you have to rename the files that
you change" or "you have to mark all changes". Let me consider Knuth's
files (e.g. the computer modern fonts or the web sources of TeX): Knuth
does not allow people to distribute modified versions of his files,
but still people have the freedom to create fonts that are variants of
computer modern and people can do variants of TeX for special purposes
(e-TeX, Omega, pdfTeX).

Thomas

From jabri@SCIENCES.UNIV-OUJDA.AC.MA Mon May 31 03:20:16 1999
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 09:06:41 +0200
From: Youssef Jabri <jabri@SCIENCES.UNIV-OUJDA.AC.MA>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: french package status

I join my voice to that of Boris and hope that a compromise will be
found.
The _TeX community_  needs everyone and everyone's contribution.

Youssef JABRI.


Boris Veytsman a �crit :

> I wonder whether a simple renaming of the directory "nonfree" to the
> directory "restricted" would ameliorate the situation? The word
> "nonfree" seems to carry a negative connotation, and the word
> "restricted" might be better.
>
> I do not use french package myself, but I think its removal from CTAN
> is a very sad precedent for the TeX culture. I hope some compromise
> might be found.
>
> --
> Good luck
>
> -Boris
> http://www.plmsc.psu.edu/~boris/

--
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From cvr@MD2.VSNL.NET.IN Mon May 31 03:32:46 1999
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 09:12:33 +0200
From: Radhakrishnan <cvr@MD2.VSNL.NET.IN>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: french package status



On Fri, 28 May 1999, Boris Veytsman wrote:

> I wonder whether a simple renaming of the directory "nonfree" to the
> directory "restricted" would ameliorate the situation? The word
> "nonfree" seems to carry a negative connotation, and the word
> "restricted" might be better.

CTAN is just like a library. what they are doing is something similar to
classification in a library. if a book is classified as "adults only", it
is meant that minors are not allowed to access the book, that doesn't put
a bad connotation nor the quality of the book is diminished in any way. if
the author of french package is agitated over the word "nonfree", it is
because his package is nonfree. he can very well make it free and get rid
of his agitation. if he thinks that whatever appear in nonfree is inferior
and whatever appear in free is superior, he is at loss, we can only
sympathise with him.

> I do not use french package myself, but I think its removal from CTAN
> is a very sad precedent for the TeX culture. I hope some compromise
> might be found.

TeX culture will perpetuate and will remain so, even if a package is
removed from CTAN. also, even if a package is removed from CTAN, people
will continue using it if they find it valuable.

we need not have unnecessary apprehensions. if the CTAN managers are
turning dictatorial or unilateral, which i don't imagine they will, the
world will see to it.

radhakrishnan

From jsbien@MIMUW.EDU.PL Mon May 31 03:35:50 1999
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 09:20:52 +0200
From: Janusz S. Bien <jsbien@MIMUW.EDU.PL>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New nonfree/ hierarchy on CTAN

Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote on Wed, 12 May 1999 16:58:10 +0100:
>sorry about the previous mail/post, folks ... the arthritic old
>fingers do that to me sometimes...
>
>J"org Knappen ecrit:
>
>> Bernard Gaulle schrieb:
>>
>> > thus, when a stuff is not belonging to "politicaly correct" free
>> > license (dfsg, gpl, lgpl, lppl, pd) it will be moved in the nonfree
>> > hierachy. Thus this is a binary choice: be free or not. [...]
>
>in our discussions about managing ctan, i was initially dubious of the
>value of a non-free tree.  however, i can now see positive value, _to
>users_, of the tree.  we ought to make users aware that there are
>potential problems with packages they wish to use; we're trying to
>make pointers that by their very nature provide a simple alarm bell.

I appreciate very much the work of CTAN maintainers and I agree that
users should be warned about ,,potential problems''. However,
assigning to Bernard Gaulle's `french' style the non-free status (as
happened not only on CTAN, but also on TeX Live 4) is evidently
misleading and I fully understand his fealings. Why not use e.g
"nosell" tag/directory from TeX Live packet list?

Best regards

Janusz S. Bien

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From sebastian.rahtz@COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC.UK Mon May 31 05:52:17 1999
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 10:21:27 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New nonfree/ hierarchy on CTAN

Janusz S. Bien writes:
 > users should be warned about ,,potential problems''. However,
 > assigning to Bernard Gaulle's `french' style the non-free status (as
 > happened not only on CTAN, but also on TeX Live 4) is evidently

but its not misleading. i have a request from O'Reilly to include
TL4 in the back of a book. They cannot, amongst other things, because of
Bernard's conditions. The CD is not "free". Yes, O'Reilly could start
a round of negotiations with people like Bernard, but sorry life is
too short for all these _ad hoc_ deals. Knuth didn't impose these
conditions, why do his successors make it so complicated?

Sebastian

PS yes, I will do my best to make sure O'Reilly *do* get a CD for
their book!

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon May 31 08:48:37 1999
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 14:31:36 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: LGrind 3.6

Michael Piefel writes:

 > I have uploaded to Dante the file lgrind-3.6.tar.gz. Its contents are meant
 > to completely replace support/lgrind (in particular, please remove support/
 > lgrind/binary). The licence is BSD style, which is accepted under the Debian
 > Free Software Guidelines (as such the licence is 'dfsg' for this purpose).
 >
 >
 > From the README:
 >
 > LGrind version 3.6 is a descendant of the Unix utility vgrind. It is
 > used to produce a beautified version of your source code using LaTeX. Unlike
 > other packages this is not pure TeX but an external preprocessor. You run e.g.
 >     lgrind example.c > example.tex
 >     latex example.tex
 > to get a complete listing. Options for producing includable files and pro-
 > cessing embedded listings in LaTeX texts are provided.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jun  1 04:24:44 1999
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 10:02:48 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- vmargin (update)

> From: Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@ELEC.CANTERBURY.AC.NZ>
>
> I have uploaded:
>         ftp.dante.de:/incoming/vmargin.tar.gz
>
> This is version 2.2 of my vmargin package for setting paper sizes and
> margins. While still operational under LaTeX 2.09, it works with LaTeX
> 2e with and without compatibility mode. Under LaTeX2e I have introduced a
> few package options which allow to set the paper size, paper orientation,
> and to disable headers and footers.
>
> vmargin does not rely on other packages and was designed with speed and
> size in mind. Its user interface might not be very fancy, but it's fast,
> small, and gets the job done. If you are looking for something more
> elaborate try the geometry package.
>
> vmargin replaces the earlier vpage which is mentioned in (at least in
> earlier editions of) the LaTeX Companion.
>
> This package was supported and will remain supported - please install
> it under ../contrib/supported if possible and delete the version under
> contrib/other.

Thanks for the new version.  I installed it in
CTAN:tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/vmargin/
replacing the old version in
CTAN:tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/vmargin.sty

At the same time, I moved
CTAN:tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/vpage.sty
to
CTAN:tex-archive/obsolete/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/vpage.sty

> Thanks for your effort on CTAN (btw what's the policy on the CTAN announce
> mailing list? I have refrained from posting because the CTAN maintainers
> seem to forward upload notices to it, but my last 2 uploads didn't make
> it to the list.)

Because of the excessive amount of spam mailings on the CTAN and CTAN-ANN
lists, we decided some months ago to close CTAN-ANN for public write access.
i.e. all mails from non-CTAN-maintainers must be approved by the maintainers.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jun  1 17:04:27 1999
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 21:53:35 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- Half Uncial fonts and packages

peter wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded huncial.tar to tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you
> please install this under the fonts/bookhands directory?
>
>     The distribution is released under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>
>     The huncial and allhuncl packages provide Metafont fonts based
> on the Half Uncial manuscript book-hand used between the 3rd & 9th
> centuries. The font consists of minuscules and digits, with some
> appropriate period punctuation marks and ligatures. Both normal and
> bold versions are provided. This is one in a series of manuscript
> fonts.
>
>     Access to the docmfp package is desireable but not essential.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jun  2 07:43:19 1999
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 12:32:26 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Fw: Scientific Notebook viewer -- free TeX software

george pearson writes:

> Barry MacKichan has agreed that making the viewer available on CTAN
> would be a good thing.
>
> I have uploaded to /incoming on ftp.dante.de the file
> ScientificNotebookViewer.exe.  This is the self-extracting installer for
> the Scientific Notebook Viewer.  The best location is probably
> /tex-archive/nonfree/systems/win32/ScientificNotebookViewer, or maybe
> SNViewer or snviewer depending on how you feel about the length and case
> of directory names.  If you have a different preference for the file
> location, that's fine.

i've installed the file in nonfree/systems/win32/snviewer

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Jun  2 07:49:59 1999
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 13:42:14 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- chemistry package

From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ingo_Kl=F6ckl?= <Ingo_Kloeckl@EXCHANGE.DE>

> I've yesterday uploaded a chemistry setting package at
> ftp.dante.de/incoming/ochem. It consists of a perl script to translate
> chemical formulas and reaction schemes in a postscript- or latex
> graphical environment and a latex2e package to include the
> chemical reaction description into a latex document. the [german] manual
> (unfortunately not yet translated to english :-( ) is manual.ps/.tex
> i think it should go to /macros/latex ? the licensing conditions are
> the same as LPPL. there is a readme included describing the files
> in the directory.

Thanks for the upload.  As you describe it for use with LaTeX or PostScript
and as it is consists of a Perl program plus some added LaTeX macros, I
decided to put it not in macros/latex but in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/ochem/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jun  3 05:03:17 1999
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 09:44:18 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: yet another bibtex file

David Forrest writes:

> I uploaded a file to ftp://cam.ctan.org/incoming/jqt1999.bst
> which I think should go:
>  ftp://www.ctan.org/ctan/biblio/bibtex/contrib/jqt1999.bst
>
> It is a derivative work of Oren Patashnik's apalike.bst and it can have
> the most lenient licensing structure that allows.
>
> It is a bibtex file for the Journal of Quality Technology, that I use with
> natbib.sty   It puts semicolons between authors, quotes around titles, and
> 'pp.' before page numbers.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Fri Jun  4 14:41:56 1999
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 19:33:45 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: index.html -- an experiment in making ctan more accessible

i have written (in spare moments in the last two days) a small
index.html for ctan archives.  you should get to this (which is
largely based on README.structure) if your browser lands at the root
of a CTAN archive (e.g., http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive)

this is not a sophisticated bit of html, merely something thrown
together in a hurry; what's more, it fails to use frames or tables,
has no image maps (indeed images of any sort), no silly animations,
colour twiddling or anything.  as such, please restrain your
complaints about it (ha! -- some hope); but i would very much welcome
constructive comments.  (but don't bother to suggest it needs a link
to the license category descriptions, i've remembered that...)

the ctan team have other ideas in the works.  this is not the only
thing we have in the pipeline.  but everything to do with ctan takes
time -- we all have real jobs to do; please bear with us.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Fri Jun  4 20:43:33 1999
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 01:38:22 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: texdepend

Michael Friendly wrote:

> I uploaded to /incoming at ftp.tex.ac.uk a perl script, texdepend, most
> likely for /tex-archive/support/texdepend/ (in it's own directory)
>
> This will have to do for a README:
>
> ########################################################################
> # texdepend: a Perl script for finding dependencies in a LaTeX file
>
> # Reads a .tex file, and all \input{} and \include{} files referenced
> therein,
> # and creates the following lists:
> #   @includes -- from \input{} and \include{}
> #   @packages -- from \usepackage{}
> #   @figs -- from \includegraphics{}
>
> # If the .log and .aux file for the same basename.tex file exist,
> # texdepend also reads these and parses names of included dependent
> # files:
> #   @styles   -- the full path names of *all* style files used directly
> #               or indirectly (except those config'd in @ignore)
>
> # These files are found via kpsewhich (if an executable exists) or via
> # the various $TEXINPUTS, $BIBINPUTS, etc paths.
>
> # Output, to the terminal, or a file, is produced in the form of any one of:
> #   make, perl (LatexMK), 1 (one per line)
> # Documentation: nil, but try
> #   texdepend -h

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

please could you indicate what license terms you wish to apply to the
package -- see ctan help/Catalogue/licenses.html

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Sat Jun  5 08:07:15 1999
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 13:00:14 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: teTeX 0.4 distribution; FAQ update; CTAN index.html

last night, the old teTeX 0.4 distribution moved from
systems/unix/teTeX to systems/unix/teTeX/0.4; this occasioned a change
in the uk tug faq, which is rereleased on ctan (usergrps/uktug/faq)
and on the web

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

note that, with this release, the old distribution at
www.cogs.susx.ac.uk, is no longer supported, and will slowly drift out
of date as the faq changes.

i have also, today, tidied the ctan index.html i announced yesterday,
and addded references to the licence categories page that comes with
the catalogue.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Sat Jun  5 11:52:21 1999
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 16:46:34 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload of beletter.cls

James Kilfiger writes:

> I've uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk a small class for typesetting Belgium
> letters, called beletter.cls  It was written by myself and Frank
> Lenaerts. It is public domain.  It is unsupported and should go in the
> macros/latex/other/misc directory.

i've installed the class as suggested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Jun  6 05:34:36 1999
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 11:27:27 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- tmview

> From: Thomas Moor <QElis@AOL.COM>
>
> this is a message about a CTAN submission,
> as recommended in your README.uploads.
>
> (1)
> I have uploaded the file tmv9906.tgz, holding version v99.06 of tmview.
>
> (2):
> I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de
>
> (3):
> I suggest to remove the old dviware/tmview/* (including subdirectories),
> and place the new tmview v99.06 again in dviware/tmview.
>
> (4)
> Licensing: tmview is freely redistributable.
>
> (5)
> tmv9906.tgz contains the sources of the dvipreviewer tmview, version v99.06.
> It is ment as an update of version v98.08, which I've uploaded last year.
> The new version supports rendering eps-graphics by invoking ghostscript.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the tar ball tmv9906.tgz plus
the README file from that in CTAN:/tex-archive/dviware/tmview/, thus
replacing the old version.  I did *not* unpack the tar archive as before
as this make not a lot of sense.  Additionally, I added your name to the
end of the README file, for I'd like to have a reference to the package
owner in there and you mail address doesn't give your name.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Sun Jun  6 13:47:12 1999
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 18:41:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: "special" CTAN submission

Serguei DACHIAN writes:

> I have uploaded "calligra.mf" file to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incomming
>
> This METAFONT file can be found in CTAN archives in the directory
> "tex-archive/fonts/calligra/" (a LaTeX package for using this font is in the
> directory "tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/other/gene/fundus/").
> Unfortunately the version of the font present at CTAN contains a bug
> preventing METAFONT to compile this font.  I found out a solution of the
> problem, but the font contains no references to the author (even no
> references at all). So, not being able to send the bug report to the author,
> I uploaded the new version (including my correction) of the font directly to
> CTAN.
>
> Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> > considering the extreme age of these fonts, and the fact that the
> > author neither admits identity in the source, nor appears in any lists
> > i have access to, i suggest you simply upload a new version in the
> > usual way.  when you mail to ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de to announce
> > your upload, mention the situation again.  we'll preserve the old
> > version, install the new one, and announce it with an appeal for
> > information about the original author.
>
> The cahanges I have made to the font are the followings:
>
> 1. Correction of the METAFONT bug in the "W" letter.
> 2. Hyphenation character added to the font.
> 3. The folowing comments added at the beginig of the file:
>
> %% Changes made by S. Dachian ( Serguei.Dachian@univ-lemans.fr ) at 05/99
> %% to correct a bug in "W" letter, preventing the font from being correctly
> %% compiled by METAFONT.  Also a hyphenation character added to the font.
> %%
> %% Original author of the font is unknown.
> %%

i've preserved the old, buggy, version (as i said i would), and
installed the new calligra.mf; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Sun Jun  6 14:00:55 1999
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 18:55:25 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- update for ruhyphen package (v1.2)

Vladimir Volovich writes:

> i've uploaded an update to our ruhyphen package (a collection of
> Russian hyphenation patterns) to:
>
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/ruhyphen-990606.tar.gz
>
> Please replace the old version (located at language/hyphenation/ruhyphen/)
> with the new verson.
>
> Some changes (see README for more info):
>
> * updated version of `ruhyphal.tex'
>
> * koi2*.tex re-encoding files were extended with 5 cyrillic letters to
>   accept koi8-ru
>
> * hypht2.tex optimized yet more
>
> * added some optional patterns for `old orthography': do not break a
>   consonant and a hard sign from a word.

i've installed that lot -- thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jun  7 03:44:19 1999
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 09:34:21 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: teTeX 1.0 released

Forwarded message:
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 08:35:56 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>
Subject: teTeX 1.0 released

Well, I thought that you might be interested in the following announce.
I have just made the upload, so none of the mirrors will have teTeX-1.0
now (but that will change in the following days).

[ it's on CTAN now - Reinhard Zierke ]

Only sources at the moment; no binaries and install procedure. That will
be added at a later time (but soon).

Thomas

===========================================================================
                           teTeX 1.0
===========================================================================
This is the announce of teTeX-1.0, a TeX distribution for UNIX systems
(support for win32 systems will be added, too).

This release is now called 1.0, because all extensions of previous
versions (e.g. make TeX use ls-R etc.) have become official part of the
web2c and kpathsea distribution and no longer require special patches.
Additionally, temporary hacks which required GNU utils (GNU make, gcc,
flex) could be removed and replaced by portable solutions.

Compared to previous versions, this release has many advantages for
perparing documents for the web, due to improved/added programs. pdf
files with hyperlinks and thumbnails can be created either by using
dvips and ps2pdf/distiller or more directly by using pdftex. Postscript
with resolution-independant fonts can be generated due to the included
postscript type 1 fonts.

At the moment, only the sources are available. At a later time, I
will add:
  - an install program which allows to select sub-packages
  - binaries for various UNIX platforms

If you prefer the simple script driven installation, just wait until
this is released.

===========================================================================
  News in release 1.0:
===========================================================================
- updated programs: web2c 7.3.1, xdvik 22.05-k, dvips(k) 5.86, dviljk 2.6p2,
  texinfo 3.12. xdvik and dvipsk are now hypertex aware. The new
  kpathsea library allows to have a ls-R file in each texmf tree. TeX
  and friends now support true 8bit reading/writing by means of the
  TCX extension.  Some arrays which had a fixed size in TeX+friends now
  increase dynamically, others can read their size from a config file
  (which means that they can be enlarged without recompilation).
- added programs: pdftex 0.13d, e-TeX 2.1, Omega 1.8
- ConTeXt added
- Postscript type 1 font versions: Computer Modern, AMS fonts, 35 base
  laserwriter fonts, Polish and Cyrillic variants of CM and others
- much improved index file for the documentation tree (newhelpindex.html)
- metrics for Y&Y's commercial mathtime and lucida bright fonts are
  included, which greatly simplifies using these fonts

===========================================================================
  Main features of teTeX:
===========================================================================
- Main program packages: web2c, pdfTeX, e-TeX, Omega, xdvi, dvips, dvilj,
  ps2pk, makeinfo, texinfo, texconfig
- TDS (TeX Directory Structure) compliant large support tree
  with fonts / macros
- run-time configuration files for dvi-drivers and tex+friends
- very easy to install and customize (install.sh and texconfig utility)
- documentation for all packages included
- automatic font generation with support for read-only inputs tree
  (i.e. possibility to use alternate destination for newly created fonts)
- ready for a multi-platform setup
- fast file searching
- ready for producing resolution independent (bitmap free) postscript or
  pdf documents
- the whole distribution can be installed anywhere in the
  filesystem (e.g. /usr/TeX or /usr/local/tex). You do not
  need to set any environment variable as long as you keep
  the original structure of the package.
- mailing lists
    for discussion:    tetex@informatik.uni-hannover.de
    for announcements: tetex-announce@informatik.uni-hannover.de

===========================================================================
  Getting teTeX-1.0:
===========================================================================
  The primary site is in Germany:
    ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/comp/tex/teTeX/1.0

  Mirror sites:
    ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib
    ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib
    ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib
    ftp://lh116.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/teTeX/1.0/distrib
    ftp://ftp.duke.edu/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib
    ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/tex/ctan/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib

===========================================================================
  The files:
===========================================================================
  sources of the programs (required):
    ==> sources/teTeX-src-1.0.tar.gz

  support tree with fonts / macros (required):
    ==> sources/teTeX-texmf-1.0.tar.gz

  sources for parts of the texmf tarball (optional):
    ==> sources/teTeX-texmfsrc-1.0.tar.gz

  The installation instructions are included in the teTeX-src-1.0.tar.gz
  archive as files INSTALL (complete instructions) and QuickInstall
  (short version).

===========================================================================
  Documentation:
===========================================================================
  The teTeX-texmf-1.0.tar.gz archive contains a large directory tree
  which contains a lot of documentation about teTeX and the packages
  it includes.  For a start, please look at
    doc/tetex/TETEXDOC.{ps,pdf,dvi}
  and
    doc/index.html

Have fun!

June, 1999. Thomas Esser

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jun  7 08:59:06 1999
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 14:42:04 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- subfloat

> From: Harald Harders <Harald.Harders@dlr.de>
>
> here comes the information of my uploaded package:
>
> (a) site:     ftp.dante.de
> (b) file:     subfloat.tar.gz
> (c) overview: 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.
> (d) place:    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/subfloat/
>
> Copyright:    lppl

Thanks for the submission, I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Wed Jun  9 12:49:39 1999
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 17:39:27 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: texdepend 0.9

michael friendly writes:

> I uploaded a revised version of texdepend, as texdepend.tar.gz to incoming
> at ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/.  The expanded contents should replace the single
> file texdepend in /tex-archive/support/texdepend/.  texdepend is a Perl
> script, licensed under the LPPL.
>
> From the README file:
>
> NAME
>     texdepend - Find dependencies for a LaTeX file
>
> SYNOPSIS
>     texdepend [-help] [-expand] [-format *format-spec*] [-ignore *list*] [-
>     out *outfile*] [-print *flags*] [-verbose] *file*[.tex]
>
> DESCRIPTION
>     texdepend reads a .tex file, and (recursively) all \input{} and
>     \include{} files referenced therein, collecting the names of .tex, .sty,
>     .bib, .eps files as it goes. If the .log and .aux file for the same
>     file.tex file exist in the current directory, texdepend also reads
>     these, and parses names of included dependent files.
>
>     It creates the following lists. Only files which actually exist are
>     included.
>
>     @includes
>         from \input{} and \include{} commands in the .tex file.
>
>     @packages
>         the names of all style files from \usepackage{} commands in the .tex
>         file.
>
>     @figs
>         the names of all graphics files from \includegraphics{} commands in
>         the .tex file.
>
>     @styles
>         the full path names of *all* style/tex/cfg files used directly or
>         indirectly, found in the .log file (except those config'd in @ignore
>         or specifed with the -ignore option).
>
>     @bibfiles
>         the full path names of .bib files found in the .aux file as
>         \bibdata{} files
>
>     @depends
>         the full path names of all files found in the .log and .aux files
>         (which includes everything in all lists except @figs).
>
>     By default, the program uses kpsewhich (if an executable exists) from
>     the teTeX/kpathsea distribution to locate tex/bst/sty files before
>     trying the various $TEXINPUTS, $BIBINPUTS, and $TEXFMTS paths, to
>     determine the full path names of input files. You may need to change the
>     $KPSEWHICH path in the configuration section of texdepend
>
> LICENSE
>     texdepend is distributed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public
>     License (LPPL). This means that you may freely copy or distribute this
>     software, but if you modify it and distribute it (even locally) you must
>     change the name to avoid confusion. See: CTAN::
>     help/Catalog/Licenses.html.

i've installed the new version as support/texdepend; thanks for the
upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Thu Jun 10 02:49:31 1999
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 07:42:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Maurizio Loreti writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk in tex-archive/incoming/ the file
> lucold.tar.gz .  It is a resubmission, with a more clear statement for
> the License terms (GNU GPL).  The intended location is
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/lucold/ , and the files in
> tex-archive/nonfree/macros/latex/contrib/supported/lucold/ should be
> deleted.
>
> From the README file:
>
>    This is a package to automatically use old-style digits with the
>    Lucida fonts; process the file "note.tex" to obtain the
>    documentation.  Included are:
>
>    - a style file;
>    - shell command procedures and awk programs to automatically generate
>      .fd, .tfm and .vf files from the original ones;
>    - the generated .fd, .tfm and .vf files;
>    - a small test program, "test.tex", and a description ("note.tex").

i've re-installed this package as requested.

i apologise for the confusion about the licence status of the previous
version.  thank you for taking the trouble to sort out our
misunderstanding of your original intentions.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jun 11 03:54:55 1999
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:39:12 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- wp2latex

> From: Fojtik Jaroslav <FOJTIK@VISION.FELK.CVUT.CZ>
>
> I uploaded a new version of wp2latex convertor. It converts documents
> from wp to LaTeX.
>
> a,My upload is stored in "ftp.dante.de"
> b,Store all contents of directory WP2LATEX to support/wp2latex/
>
> Please erase a directory fojtik. I hate such advertisiment of my name.
> Nobody is currently developping wp2latex so this splitting is not
> necesary.
>     The contenttss of this directory can be:
> ./wp2latex/old/       ;these files will remain intact (I guess that
>                       they are useless.)
> ./wp2latex/fojtik/    ;please erase this directory
> ./wp2latex/wp2latex-2.63.zip    ;newly uploaded file
>
>     If you have doubts, please reply to this letter.
>
> c,GPL

Thanks for the new version, I installed it in /tex-archive/support/wp2latex
as suggested and moved the 'old' subdirectory to the shadow structure
/tex-archive/obsolete/support/wp2latex

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr Fri Jun 11 07:05:05 1999
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:17:56 +0200
From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr>
Reply-To: GUT Distribution List <gut@ens.fr>
To: ctan-ann@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de, fptex@tug.org, tetex@informatik.uni-hannover.de, GUT Distribution List <gut@ens.fr>
Subject: [ANN] fptex-0.3

fpTeX 0.3 will be mirrored by CTAN starting tomorrow.
This is a teTeX-1.0 based distribution of TeX for Win9x/NT.

For more details of what is in this distribution, you can either :

- retrieve :
ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/tex/win32/fptex.pdf

- browse :
http://www.ese-metz.fr/~popineau/fptex/
(updated pages)

- subscribe :
send 'subscribe fptex' to 'majordomo@tug.org'
and ask there.

Fabrice Popineau
-------------------------
http://www.ese-metz.fr/~popineau/




From ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Fri Jun 11 07:05:18 1999
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:48:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: fpTeX-0.3 announce

Fabrice Popineau writes:

> fpTeX 0.3 will be mirrored by CTAN starting tomorrow.
> This is a teTeX-1.0 based distribution of TeX for Win9x/NT.
>
> For more details of what is in this distribution, you can either :
>
> - retrieve :
> ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/tex/win32/fptex.pdf
>
> - browse :
> http://www.ese-metz.fr/~popineau/fptex/
> (updated pages)
>
> - subscribe :
> send 'subscribe fptex' to 'majordomo@tug.org'
> and ask there.
>
> Fabrice Popineau
> -------------------------
> http://www.ese-metz.fr/~popineau/

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Mon Jun 14 12:31:23 1999
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:21:55 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: michael doob's `gentle introduction' -- new location

i have installed a new directory info/gentle on ctan

the purpose of this directory is to hold gentle.ps.gz and gentle.pdf
(which i've generated today); i've moved the source (which was
info/gentle.tex) to the new directory too.

this change arose when i was considering a question for the uk tug faq

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

about tutorials.  as far as i know, the gentle introduction to tex is
the best generally available tutorial for plain tex.  anyone who knows
a better offering is welcome to put me right  :-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jun 15 10:23:53 1999
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:06:10 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- bibtopic package

> From: Stefan Ulrich <ulrich@CIS.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE>
>
> I've just uploaded to ftp.dante.de /incoming the file bibtopic.tar.gz;
> this archive contains a directory `bibtopic' with these files:
>    README
>    bibtopic.dtx
>    bibtopic.ins
>
> An appropriate place for the files might be a new directory `bibtopic'
> under:
>    CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/
>
> The package is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
>
> >From the README:
>
>    [bibtopic is] a LaTeX package for including several bibliographies
>    in a document.  These bibliographies might be considered to cover
>    different topics (hence the name) or bibliographic material (e.g.,
>    primary and secondary literature) and the like.
>
>    You'll have to create a separate .bib file for each of these
>    bibliographies.
>
>    If you want to have per-chapter bibliographies in a document,
>    have a look at the packages `bibunits' or `chapterbib' instead.

Thanks for the upload;  I installed the file as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/bibtopic/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jun 17 03:57:00 1999
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:32:52 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- jurabib package

> From: Jens Berger <jberger@GMX.NET>
>
> I've just uploaded the file jurabib.zip to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.
> This archive contains an updated version of the jurabib package.
>
> It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
>
> The following files are included:
>
> README
> jurabib.ins
> jurabib.dtx
>
> >From the README:
>
>         This package allows the use of BibTeX databases for
>         German legal texts. It can be used both together
>         with or independently from the jura documentclass.
>         The package allows the dynamic citation of an
>         abbreviated title, depending on a multiple
>         citation of an author with different cited
>         titles (The dynamic citation can be suppressed).
>         It is very easy to modify the layout of the
>         citations and the entries in the bibliography.
>
> Please replace the current files in the directory
> CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jura/

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jun 17 03:53:01 1999
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:37:45 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- contour

> From: Harald Harders <Harald.Harders@dlr.de>
>
> here comes the information of my uploaded package:
>
> (a) site:     ftp.dante.de
> (b) file:     contour.tar.gz
> (c) overview: contour.sty -- printing a contour for a text
>               This package generates a colored contour around a given text
>               in order to enable printing text over a background without
>               the need of a color box around the text.
> (d) place:    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/contour/

  (e) license:  LPPL

Thanks for the submission!  I installed the package as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jun 17 04:24:52 1999
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:09:01 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- acmconf

> From: Juergen Vollmer <vollmer@COCOLAB.DE>
>
> I put the first release (1.1) of my acmconf class to ftp.dante.de.
>
> This class may be used to typeset articles to be published in the proceed=
> ings
> of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) conferences and workshops.
>
> The layout produced by the `acmconf' class is based on the description
> contained in www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/pubform.doc.
>
> License:
>   This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
>   of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
>   archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
>   version 1 of the License, or any later version.
>
> The following files are contained in acmconf-1.1.tar.gz
>                     acmconf/acmconf.ins
>                     acmconf/acmconf.dtx
>                     acmconf/Makefile
>                     acmconf/README
>                     acmconf/THIS-IS-VERSION-1.1

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on dante.ctan.org in
CTAN:/tex-archive/ macros/latex/contrib/supported/acmconf

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jun 21 02:46:58 1999
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:32:29 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- <texshade v1.2>

> From: Eric Beitz <eric.beitz@UNI-TUEBINGEN.DE>
>
> this is the second update of the texshade package. Please replace the old
> files which are located in (d), see below, with this new release.
>
> Thank you!
> Eric Beitz
>
> (a) Uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming
>
> (b) texshade.dtx; texshade.ins; texshade.txt
>
> (c) >> A LaTeX package for setting nucleotide and peptide alignments.
>     >>
>     >> TeXshade is  an alignment shading software  completely written
>     >> in TeX/LaTeX which can process multiple sequence alignments in
>     >> the .MSF and the .ALN file format.  It provides in addition to
>     >> common  shading  algorithms  special  shading  modes featuring
>     >> functional aspects, e.g. charge or hydropathy, and a plenitude
>     >> of commands for handling shading colors,  text styles, labels,
>     >> legends and even allows the user to define completely new sha-
>     >> ding modes.  TeXshade  combines  highest  flexibility  and the
>     >> habitual TeX output quality--with reasonable time expenditure.
>
> (d) Placing recommendation: /tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/

  (e) The license is GPL

Thanks for the upload, I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jun 21 07:46:28 1999
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:22:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - bibgerm.sty

> After updating our network installation of "TeX and friends" (dating
> back from March 1997) from the recent edition of the "TeX Live CD", I
> found that together with our local TDS tree also a slightly patched
> version of the "bibgerm.sty" LaTeX package was gone.  Of course, there
> was a backup of this file on a different machine (ten kilometers from
> here, without electronic connection!), but in order to avoid the loss of
> this particular macro file in the future, I have submitted our version
> of "bibgerm.sty" to
>
>    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/bibgerm.sty.
>
> According to the single version of "bibgerm.sty" on CTAN there seems to
> be no "official" maintainer of this LaTeX package, and over the past six
> years no user has come forward with any complaints.  However, from our
> more than casual use of "bibgerm.sty" it has long been clear that an
> update would be in order.  Several obvious fixes to the German (and
> Austrian) items were necessary and the compatibility with version 2.5 of
> "german.sty" and, moreover, with LaTeX(2e) could be improved.  Having
> done this quite some time ago, I would now like to submit the updated
> version of "bibgerm.sty" to the general public.
>
> "bibgerm.sty" is (or at least seems to be) associated with the "germbib"
> collection of BibTeX style files, so the new version of this LaTeX
> package should replace the file
>
>    CTAN:/biblio/bibtex/contrib/germbib/style/bibgerm.sty
>
> I have tried my best to retain the functionality of the 1993 version of
> "bibgerm.sty", while fixing some errors and extending the usability for
> more recent distributions of LaTeX(2e).  Changes to the bst files were
> not necessary.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as suggested
and removed the files bibgerm1.sty and german.sty as the first had the
same problems as bibgerm.sty and german.sty doesn't belong here.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jun 28 06:18:35 1999
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:05:48 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload report

Maksym Polyakov writes:

 > I have uploaded ukrhyph package which contains hyphenation patterns
 > for Ukrainian language.
 >
 > I've uploaded it to
 >   ftp.dante.de/incoming/ukrhyph/
 >
 > I want these files to be put to
 >   language/hyphenation/ukrhyph/
 >
 > I apply lppl licensing conditions to this software.
 >
 > The package allow to use different hyphenation patterns for Ukrainian
 > language for various Cyrillic font encodings. Currently package
 > contains two patterns.
 >
 > Maksym Polyakov.

Thank you very much for your upload. I installed the files as
requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From sebastian.rahtz@COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC.UK Mon Jun 28 06:23:57 1999
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:07:45 +0200
From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ArmTeX

I have just installed language/armtex on CTAN. This is

  ArmTeX,      Version 2.0,      1st June 1999


  1. Description

  ArmTeX is an Armenian system for TeX/LaTeX(2e)/METAFONT.  It can
  be used with standard Latin keyboard without any special encoding
  and/or support for Armenian letters.  It can also be used with
  any keyboard which uses encoding having Armenian letters in
  the second half (characters 128-255) of extended ASCII table
  (for example ArmSCII8 Armenian standard).

  This is a freeware system by S. Dachian, A. Dalalyan
  and V. Hakobian.

  Feel free to give copies of this system to your friends, and be
  sure to include ALL the files, including this and other text files.
  But don't ever change and/or alter the ArmTeX system without our
  special permission.


Sebastian Rahtz

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jun 28 06:23:51 1999
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:10:51 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: cooking.tar.gz

Axel Reichert writes:
 > Hello!
 >
 > I just have uploaded
 >
 >   cooking.tar.gz
 >
 > to
 >
 >   ftp.dante.de
 >
 > The files should be installed in
 >
 >   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/cooking
 >
 > and are copylefted under the
 >
 >   GPL
 >
 > The archive provides a
 >
 >   package for typesetting recipes
 >
 > including an example file.
 >
 > Happy TeXing!
 >
 > P. S.: Carbon copy to TeX-D-L mailing list and newsgroup
 >        de.comp.text.tex

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jun 29 07:56:49 1999
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:23:40 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: rtf2latex2e upload

Ujwal Sathyam writes:

 > I have uploaded rtf2latex2e version 0.26 onto CTAN, node ftp.dante.de/
 >
 > I created a directory "Untitled_Directory" in the incoming folder and
 > started my upload, but my ftp client barfed, and the upload aborted
 > in the middle. Please delete the folder "Untitled_Directory" and the
 > one file it contains (partial of rtf2latex2eMac-0.26.sit.hqx).
 >
 > I tried again by creating a new directory "Untitled_Directory_1" and
 > was successful in uploading rtf2latex2e.
 >
 > rtf2latex2e consists of three disttributions:
 >
 > rtf2latex2eMac-0.26.sit.hqx (Mac version)
 > rtf2latex2eUnix-0.26.tar.gz (Unix version)
 > rtf2latex2eWin-0.26.zip (Windows version)
 >
 > Please install them under /tex-archive/support/rtf2latex2e (or
 > anywhere else if more appropriate).
 >
 > License is GPL.
 >
 >
 > Summary:
 > ========
 >
 > Uploaded items:
 > --------------
 > /incoming/Untitled_Directory_1/rtf2latex2eMac-0.26.sit.hqx,
 > /incoming/Untitled_Directory_1/rtf2latex2eUnix-0.26.tar.gz,
 > /incoming/Untitled_Directory_1/rtf2latex2eWin-0.26.zip
 >
 > Node:
 > -----
 > ftp.dante.de
 >
 > Install location:
 > --------------
 > /tex-archive/support/rtf2latex2e (or anywhere else if more appropriate)
 >
 > License:
 > --------
 > GPL
 >
 > Description:
 > -----------
 > rtf2latex2e converts Rich Text Format (RTF) files to LaTeX2e. It has
 > support for figures and tables. Equations are read as figures.
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > Ujwal

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files in

  support/rtf2latex2e

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jun 30 13:17:05 1999
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:06:57 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload auf ftp.dante.de

Christopher Creutzig writes:
 > sgduh,
 >
 >  ich habe gerade auf ftp.dante.de:/incoming die Datei Mwrite.sty
 > abgelegt.  Der Style bietet eine M�glichkeit, mit einer einzigen
 > ge�ffneten Datei beliebig viele Dateien \jobname.Endung zeilenweise zu
 > beschreiben, daf�r wird der Befehl \Mwrite{Endung}{Text} verwendet.
 > Die Sammeldatei wird am Ende des LaTeX-Durchlaufs gesplittet.  Die
 > Dokumentation ist recht l�ckenhaft und momentan nur in Deutsch.  Die
 > Datei darf beliebig eingesetzt werden, �nderungen d�rfen nur an einer
 > unbenannten Kopie vorgenommen werden (mW ist das die lppl, oder?).
 >
 >  Als passenden Platz im CTAN-Baum stelle ich mir
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc vor.  (Das Verzeichnis ist
 > momentan leer?)

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the file as

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/mwrite/mwrite.sty

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jun 30 13:20:56 1999
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:07:59 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- frhyph.tex

Daniel FLIPO writes:

 > Bernd Raichle just pointed out to me that the French hyphenation patterns
 > (file frhyph.tex) were no longer available from CTAN, due to the move of
 > the _french_ distribution to the nonfree tree, followed by
 > Bernard's request to remove it completely from CTAN.
 >
 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming the latest version of
 > frhyph.tex ((V2.5) <99/03/08>).
 >
 > As you can see, looking at the first five lines of the file,
 > the status of the copyright should allow to put it back into
 > /tex-archive/language/hyphenation/.
 >
 > Thanks in advance and best regards to the CTAN team,

Thanks a lot, Daniel, I installed the file as

  language/hyphenation/frhyph.tex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jun 30 17:43:02 1999
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:35:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- The linearb font and package

Peter R Wilson  writes:

>     I have just uploaded linearb.tar to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you please install the contents under
> the fonts/archaic directory.
>
>     The distribution is provided under the terms of the LPPL
>
> From the README
>
>     The linearb package provides a Metafont version of the Linear B
> script which was a syllabary used in the Bronze Age for writing
> Mycenaean Greek. It is one of a series of archaic fonts.

(it's also the script, the account of whose decoding moved me to
interest in linguistics; i was wondering if you would be doing it in
this series...)

i've installed the font as suggested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jul  1 03:45:42 1999
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 09:37:34 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submision -- l2kurz.pdf

> From: Walter Schmidt <walter.schmidt@arcormail.de>
>
> I have uploaded the file l2kurz.pdf to the /incoming directory
> at ftp.dante.de.  Please, put this file into the directory
> info/lshort/german/.
>
> This is the current release of the German
>
>        "LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung" in pdf format.
>
> Special thanks to Michael Vulis from Micropress Inc for his
> help and for providing the necessary fonts!

Thanks for the submission, I installed the new version of LaTeX
introduction as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jul  5 06:32:41 1999
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 12:18:08 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: rtf2latex2e update 0.261

Ujwal Sathyam writes:

 > I have uploaded update 0.261 of rtf2latex2e. Please install under
 > /tex-archive/support/rtf2latex2e. Please remove the previous distributions
 > (Mac, Unix, Win).
 >
 > Uploaded files (onto ftp.dante.de)
 > ------------------------------
 > /incoming/rtf2latex2e/rtf2latex2eMac-0.261.sit.hqx
 > /incoming/rtf2latex2e/rtf2latex2eUnix-0.261.tar.gz
 > /incoming/rtf2latex2e/rtf2latex2eWin-0.261.zip
 > /incoming/rtf2latex2e/README
 > /incoming/rtf2latex2e/Release-notes.txt
 >
 > Node:
 > -----
 > ftp.dante.de
 >
 > Install location:
 > --------------
 > /tex-archive/support/rtf2latex2e (remove previous distributions)
 >
 > License:
 > -------
 > GPL
 >
 > Description:
 > -----------
 > rtf2latex2e converts Rich Text Format (RTF) files to LaTeX2e format. It has
 > support for figures and tables, and readds out equations as figures.
 >
 > Thank you,
 >
 > Ujwal
 >
Thanks a lot for your update, I installed it as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul  7 04:01:38 1999
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 09:46:41 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <easy>

Enrico Bertolazzi writes:
 > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
 > tar file easy.tar.gz. It contains:
 >
 > version 1.4 of the `easyeqn' package
 >
 > The files contained in easy.tar.gz should replace
 > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
 > wich contain the old versions.

Thanks a lot for your update, I installed the files as requested.

  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jul  8 03:25:17 1999
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 09:12:11 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- ccfonts.zip

> Reply-To: Walter Schmidt <walter.schmidt@arcormail.de>
>
> I have uploaded the file ccfonts.zip to the /incoming directory
> at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unpack its contents to the directory
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts/, thus replacing the
> existent files.   (Line endings are Unix-style already.)
>
> Please, remove the file oinst.ins;  it's an obsolete remnant
> from aprevious version.
>
> This is v1.0 of the package `ccfonts', providing support for
> using the `Concrete' typeface family with LaTeX.  Main news is,
> that my distribution does no longer include those .fd files,
> which are already provided in conjunction with U.Vieth's
> `concmath' bundle.

Thanks for the submission. I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jul  8 05:03:23 1999
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 10:49:34 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- nomencl v2.7a

Bernd Schandl writes:
 > I have uploaded the file nomencl.zip to the /incoming directory of
 > ftp.tex.ac.uk. It contains version v2.7a of the nomencl package.
 >
 > The package should help formatting a nomenclature using the MakeIndex
 > program.
 >
 > I have added an "italian" option and I have merged the file license.txt
 > into README.
 >
 > Please put the three files README, nomencl.dtx and nomencl.ins in the
 > directory
 >         macros/latex/contrib/supported/nomencl/
 > overwriting the old files and remove the obsolete file license.txt.
 >
 > Thanks
 >         Bernd

Thanks a lot for your upload. I pulled the zip archive over to the
dante.ctan.org and installed it here. It will propagate to the other
CTAN servers during the day.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jul  8 05:12:09 1999
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 10:55:02 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN SUBMISSION --- cypriot font and package

Wilson, Peter R writes:

 >     I have just uploaded cypriot.tar to tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you please install this under the fonts/archaic directory.
 >
 >     The distribution is supplied under the LPPL.
 >
 > >From the README:
 >     The cypriot package provides a Metafont version of a syllabic script which was used on Cyprus for writing Greek. The script was in use between approximately the tenth and third centuries BC. It is one in a series of archaic fonts.

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files at the CTAN node
dante.ctan.org. They will propagate to the other host in due time.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jul  8 09:30:17 1999
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 15:16:45 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: UPLOAD jknappen.zip

Joerg Knappen writes:
 > I have just uploaded a new collection of my miscellaneous supported
 > LaTeX packages to the DANTE server. The file jknappen.zip contains a
 > complete replacement of the contents of
 >
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen
 >
 > The zip archive is flat, containing no subdirectory structure.
 >
 > Major new features:
 >
 > -- All packages are now under the GPL (Gnu public licence)
 > -- Some minor bug fixes
 > -- Updated comments and documentation
 > -- New package sgmlcmpt: Containing replacement control sequences for
 >    the characters '>', '<', and '&' (including '\&'). Those replacements
 >    make it possible to enter LaTeX formulae as SGML #PCDATA.
 >
 > --J"org Knappen

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jul  8 09:34:18 1999
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 15:18:13 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload of nonfloat 1.0

Kai Rascher writes:

 > I have just uploaded the files nonfloat.ins and
 > nonfloat.dtx to ftp.dante.de/incoming/nonfloat.
 >
 > I would appreciate if the files would go to
 > /CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/nonfloat
 >
 > Licensing conditions: public domain, see
 > nonfloat.dtx.
 >
 > Summary:
 > The package contains new definitions for non-
 > floating table and figure captions.
 >
 > The package adjusts the figure and table
 > environment to get centered objects as one line
 > captions are centered as well. Also the vertical
 > spaces for table captions above the table are
 > changed.
 >
 > Best regards,
 >               Kai Rascher

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jul  9 04:05:50 1999
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 09:48:47 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Sumission---pmbtogf

> From: "Dr. Wai Wong" <wwong@COMP.HKBU.EDU.HK>
>
> a) I uploaded a package to ftp.dante.de
>
> b) The name of the file is pbmtogf.tgz
>
> c) The package pbmtogf is a utility to convert a pbm (portable bitmat)
> to a gf and a pl file. In effect, it creates a font from the bitmap. The
> font can then be used in any TeX/LaTeX files. More information can be
> found in the included README file or the following URL:
>
>         http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wwong/typeset/pbmtogf/index.html
>
> d) The package is released under GPL.
>
> e) The package should be put in fonts/utilities/pbmtogf

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the file in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/pbmtogf/pbmtogf.tgz afet removing
unneeded .o object files.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jul  9 05:18:48 1999
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 11:08:54 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: Manfnt.sty

Axel Kielhorn writes:

 > as I already promised on de.comp.text.tex, I'm uploading manfnt.sty to
 > ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > Manfnt is a packages that gives you easy access to the symbols of the
 > manfnt. (Like dangerous Bend or Man-errata Arrow.) This used to be part of
 > my refman package but has been extended and documented and deserves a
 > package of it's own now.
 >
 > The package is released under the LPPL 1 and is supported.
 >
 > Many thanks to Denis Kosygin for improving manfnt and correcting the
 > documentation.

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the package in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/manfnt

The old file

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/refman/manfnt.sty

has been removed and a link to the new package added to the

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/refman

directory.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From ashv@ICMP.Lviv.UA Fri Jul  9 13:33:03 1999
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 15:51:40 +0300 (EEST)
From: Andrij Shvaika <ashv@ICMP.Lviv.UA>
Reply-To: CyrTeX-T2@vvv.vsu.ru
To: CyrTeX-T2@vvv.vsu.ru
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: Ukrainian hyphenation patterns


Dear friends,

I have finished my work on Ukrainian hyphenation patterns. The result is
two files:

ukrhypst.tex    TeX hyphenation patterns for Ukrainian (traditional 
                rules). These patterns are based on a file of more 
                than 84000 Ukrainian words hyphenated closer to the 
                traditional (old, before 1990) rules.

ukrhypsm.tex    TeX hyphenation patterns for Ukrainian (modern rules).
                These patterns are based on a file of more than 84000
                Ukrainian words hyphenated according to the modern
                (liberal) rules. May be too liberal :). These patterns are
                experimental because new rules are contradictive in some
                points and I recommend to use them only for narrow texts.

I have uploaded them in the incoming directory of CTAN (ftp.dante.de) on
July 6 as an add to the ukrhyph package, but they still are not installed
on CTAN because ukrhyph directory is copyrighted to Maksym Polyakov:

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Rainer Schoepf wrote:

> Andrij Shvaika writes:
> 
>  > I can not understand the delay with the uploading of my hyphenation
>  > patterns for Ukrainian language on CTAN. Please explaine me what is the
>  > problem.
> 
> I thought we were both waiting for an answer from Maksym Polyakov.
> 
> Regards,
>  Rainer Sch�pf
> 

I do not like to install them as a separate package and multiply
distributions, so, if somebody knows where he is and how I can contact him,
please let me know.

Sincerely yours,
Andrij Shvaika

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From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jul 12 03:03:20 1999
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 08:45:21 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.20c

> From: Christian Schenk <cs@MIKTEX.DE>
>
> I have uploaded MiKTeX 1.20c to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/1.20. Please
> copy all files to
>
>    systems/win32/miktex/1.20
>
> MiKTeX 1.20c is freely redistributable (gpl,lgpl,lppl,pd).  Source
> code will be uploaded in the next few days.
>
> - - -
> MiKTeX is a free TeX distribution for Windows. The 1.20c news are:
>
>    * The TEXMF tree is a subset of the teTeX 1.0 TEXMF tree
>    * updated: TtH 2.25
>    * updated: Yap 0.96
>    * Yap now supports color (a la Dvips) with the exception of
>      background colors for whole pages. Say `yap colordemo' to view a
>      demo.

Thanks for the submission, I installed the new files in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/1.20 as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jul 13 20:04:40 1999
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:09:18 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: Ukrainian hyphenation patterns

Andrij Shvaika writes:
 > I have uploaded files with new hyphenation patterns for Ukrainian
 > language for ukrhyph package. Please install under
 > /tex-archive/language/hyphenation/ukrhyph.
 >
 > Uploaded files (onto ftp.dante.de)
 > ------------------------------
 > /incoming/ukrhyph/readme.new
 > /incoming/ukrhyph/rules.ps
 > /incoming/ukrhyph/rules.tex
 > /incoming/ukrhyph/ukrenhyp.tex
 > /incoming/ukrhyph/ukrhypsm.tex
 > /incoming/ukrhyph/ukrhypst.tex
 >
 > Node:
 > -----
 > ftp.dante.de
 >
 > Install location:
 > --------------
 > /tex-archive/language/hyphenation/ukrhyph
 >
 > License:
 > -------
 > LPPL
 >
 > Description:
 > -----------
 >
 > ukrhypst.tex    TeX hyphenation patterns for Ukrainian (traditional
 >                 rules). These patterns are based on a file of more
 >                 than 84000 Ukrainian words hyphenated closer to the
 >                 traditional (old) rules.
 >
 > ukrhypsm.tex    TeX hyphenation patterns for Ukrainian (modern rules).
 >                 These patterns are based on a file of more than 84000
 >                 Ukrainian words hyphenated according to the modern
 >                 (liberal) rules. May be too liberal :)
 >
 > ukrenhyp.tex    Combined English-Ukrainian hyphenation (does not work
 >                 with Maksym Polyakov hyphenation pattern).
 >
 >
 > Thank you,
 > Andrij Shvaika

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files as suggested.

 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jul 13 18:21:18 1999
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:42:50 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: LaTeX 1999/06/01 released

For those of you who have been waiting (im)atiently....

LaTeX (1999/06/01) is finally released, as usual in

  CTAN:macros/latex/{base,unpacked,doc}

for LaTeX proper, and

  CTAN:macros/latex/required/{tools,graphics,cyrillic}

for the tools, grphics and cyrillic bundles.

For the news, see the document ltnews.{tex,dvi,ps} in the doc
subdirectory.

For the LaTeX and CTAN Teams
  Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jul 13 19:39:55 1999
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:55:48 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- inlinebib

> From: "Rene' Seindal" <rene@SEINDAL.DK>
>
> I have uploaded my LaTeX macros for making inlined \cites.
>
> It is on ftp.dante.de:/incoming/inlinebib.tgz (gzipped tar archive)
> I think it belongs in biblio/bibtex/contrib/inlinebib/
> (this is my first CTAN submission, so move it if appropriate).
>
> It is copyrighted by the LPPL.
>
> The macros implements bibliographical citations inlined in the running
> text.  It is meant for use in footnotes. The final bibliography is also
> produced.  Repeated and consecutive references are abbreviate
> appropriately.
>
> The archive uploaded unpacks into a inlinebib/ sub-directory.
> It contains these files:
>
> inlinebib/inlinebib.bst         BiBTeX style file
> inlinebib/inlinebib.sty         LaTeX style file
> inlinebib/inlinebib.htm         Rudimentary documentation (HTML)
> inlinebib/inlinebib.txt         same, passed through lynx
> inlinebib/inlinebib1.gif        ill. for HTML docs.
> inlinebib/inlinebib2.gif        same
> inlinebib/pageranges.sty        aux file, referenced in the docs.

Thanks for the submission, I installed the files as requested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/inlinebib/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From latex-team@latex-project.org Tue Jul 13 18:49:21 1999
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:00:00 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <latex-team@latex-project.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: [announcement] LaTeX 1999/06/01 now released

The LaTeX team is pleased to announce the 1999/06/01 release of LaTeX;
the release was placed on CTAN yesterday (Monday 12 July 1999), and
should by now be well on its way propagating to mirror sites.

Rather little code has changed in the short time since the much-
delayed 1998/12/01 release, but much work has been undertaken in
clarifying the LaTeX Project Public License (lppl), which is now
released as version 1.1.  For details of all changes, please see LaTeX
news issue 11 (CTAN macros/latex/doc/ltnews11.ps).  Other news and
information is available via the project web site,
www.latex-project.org

Robin Fairbairns

For the LaTeX team

From latex-team@latex-project.org Tue Jul 13 23:28:26 1999
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:38:53 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <latex-team@latex-project.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: [announcement] LaTeX 1999/06/01 now released

The more eagle-eyed readers of the ctan-ann mailing list, and of
comp.text.tex, will have noticed that we announced the release twice.

My post (the second one) was made because an extensive delay in the
CTAN-ANN mailing list processor had led us to suspect that Rainer
Sch�pf's original had been lost.

I have this afternoon (Tuesday 13 July 1999) installed patch 1 to the
release; again, I know it's at the Cambridge and Dante CTANs, but not
yet whether it's reached the TUG box in Boston.

Robin Fairbairns

For the LaTeX Team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jul 14 00:06:23 1999
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:08:15 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: texdepend-0.92.tar.gz

Michael Friendly writes:

> I uploaded texdepend-0.92.tar.gz to /incoming at ftp.tex.ac.uk.  This is a
> minor improvement of the perl script texdepend and related files whose
> contents should replace the files in /tex-archive/support/texdepend.
>
> From the README:
>
> NAME
>     texdepend - Find dependencies for a LaTeX file
>
> SYNOPSIS
>     texdepend [-help] [-expand] [-format *format-spec*] [-ignore *list*] [-
>     out *outfile*] [-print *flags*] [-styles *list*] [-verbose] *file*[.tex]
>
> DESCRIPTION
>     texdepend reads a .tex file, and (recursively) all \input{} and
>     \include{} files referenced therein, collecting the names of .tex, .sty,
>     .bib, .eps files as it goes. If the .log and .aux file for the same
>     file.tex file exist in the current directory, texdepend also reads
>     these, and parses names of included dependent files.

i've installed the files as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Jul 14 07:27:25 1999
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 13:11:06 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission - totpages

> From: Wilhelm Mueller <muewi@BAUMANAGEMENT.BREMEN.DE>
>
> I just uploaded the files
>
>   totpages.dtx
>   totpages.ins
>   readme.txt
>
> to <tp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/totpages>.
>
> These files should go into the directory
>  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/totpages/
>
> They are supplied under LPPL 1.1
>
> The package totpages may be used as a replacement for most uses
> of the packages lastpage and count1to.
>
> It differs from lastpage insofar as it allows to refer to both the
> total number of pages and the page mark of the last page
>
> It differs from count1to since it does not shipout chapter, section,
> etc. counters.
>
> totpages works with hyperref, which count1to does not (yet).

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it on dante.ctan.org as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jul 19 08:40:10 1999
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:23:02 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- multibib

hansen@neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de writes:

 > I have just uploaded version 1.0 of multibib.
 >
 > --  uploaded file: multibib.tar.gz
 > --  uploaded to CTAN node: dante.ctan.org (ftp.dante.de)
 > --  recommended place: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/multibib
 > --  licensing condition: lppl
 > --  brief summary:
 >     The `multibib' package allows to create references to multiple
 >     bibliographies within one document. It thus provides a complementary
 >     functionality to packages like `bibunits' or `chapterbib', which allow
 >     to create one bibliography for multiple, but different parts of the
 >     document.
 >
 > It would be fine if you can sent a short note to comp.text.tex when
 > the new style has been installed.
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > Thorsten

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files as requested.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jul 21 05:49:48 1999
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:13:02 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: Circuit_macros4.7

Dwight Aplevich writes:

> Circuit_macros4.7.tar.gz has been uploaded into the incoming directory
> of ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>
> The contents of this file replace graphics/circuit_macros entirely.
>
> From the readme file:
>
>   This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality electric circuit
>   diagrams containing fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors,
>   and basic logic gates to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents.
>   Some tools and examples for other types of diagrams are also included.
>   The advantages and disadvantages of such a system are similar to those
>   of TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg, and which uses ordinary
>   character input.
>
>   The macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic language, which is
>   very easy to understand and which has a good power/complexity ratio.
>   Pic contains elements of a simple programming language, and is
>   well-suited to line drawings requiring parametric or conditional
>   components, fine tuning, significant geometric calculations or
>   repetition, or that are naturally block structured or tree
>   structured.  TeX- and LaTeX-compatible interpreters for m4 and
>   pic are readily available for Unix and PC machines.
>
> ...
>
> Version 4.7: Fixed an excess-space bug in boxdims.sty.  Added Macros s_box,
>   s_init, scale changes to make the package more metric-friendly.  Reworked
>   amp, integrator, opamp, diode, battery and a few other macros for robustness
>   and clarity.  Minor document changes.
>
> A free, almost-public domain copyright notice is included in the package.

i've installed the package as requested -- thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jul 22 07:11:35 1999
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:41:50 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: block.sty

#Chua Eng Huang, Cecil# writes:

 > I submitted a new style file for use with the letter.cls class file called
 > block.sty. It was submitted to ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > It overwrites the \opening and \closing macros so that letters can be styled
 > with the block letter style instead of the default style. Thus, the return
 > address, the closing, and the signature appear flushed on the left margin.
 >
 > I uploaded it on comp.text.tex a couple of days back. Since no one has
 > commented on it, I am assuming people consider it to be a working style file
 > (it works for me anyway).
 >
 > To use it, just install it in the tex tree, and put \usepackage{block} after
 > \documentclass{letter}.
 >
 > I hope this is an appropriate submission. It should be considered public
 > domain (anyone can do whatever they want with it), and should be put in
 > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc. I know it's quite trivial, but
 > I couldn't find anything else on CTAN that did the equivalent.
 >
 > If there are any problems (and advice!) please email me.
 >
 > Cecil Chua

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed it in the indicated
location.
For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jul 23 19:42:01 1999
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 00:32:16 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: removal of adobe acrobat reader from the archive

some time ago, the ctan team noticed that the distribution conditions
of acrobat reader (and some other adobe products) made our holding of
copies on the archive dubious.

at that time, we asked adobe whether there was any validity in
continuing to hold copies on ctan.  (at the same time, we ceased
mirroring from adobe's ftp site.)

we received no answer from adobe, and since a new version of acrobat
reader has now been released, i have removed the outdated version from
ctan.  no-charge distributions remain available (subject to adobe's
licensing conditions) via adobe's ftp site (ftp://ftp.adobe.com/) and
no doubt via adobe web sites too.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jul 26 04:36:05 1999
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:23:39 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- latex2man version 1.7

> From: Juergen Vollmer <vollmer@cocolab.de>
>
> I uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file latex2man-1.7.tar.gz.
> Please install it under the supported directory hierarchy under "latex2man".
> From the README:
>
> Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a
> format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command.
> Alternatively HTML or TexInfo code can be produced too.
> Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the conditional text
> feature (for this feature, LaTeX can be produced too).
>
> There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the Man-page
> and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual translation.
>
> Changes from version 1.6:
>   - Allow german Umlaute to be written as \"a, etc.
>   - Added \,  Math stuff is matched now after macro arguments
>   - Added \LBr / \RBr, added \setlength{}{} and \itemsep
>           \Dollar $\ge$, $\le$, $\leftarrow$, $\Leftarrow$,
>           $\rightarrow$, $\Rightarrow$.
>   - Added $<=$, $>=$, $=$ $<>$.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/latex2man/ as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jul 26 22:14:44 1999
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 04:08:22 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- moresize 1.9

> From: Christian Cornelssen <cornsub1@FLINTSTONE.UKBF.FU-BERLIN.DE>
>
> I have uploaded version 1.9 [1999/07/26] of the LaTeX2e `moresize' package
> to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/moresize/.
>
> FILES
>         moresize.dtx    documented LaTeX2e source file.
>         moresize.ins    TeX installation script
>         moresize.upl    this info (can serve as README file, too)
>
> The moresize.* files are intended for replacing the corresponding files
> in the directory
>
>         /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other.

Thanks for the new version,  I installed it on dante.ctan.org as suggested.

> DESCRIPTION
>
> The `moresize' package allows using font sizes up to 35.83pt,
> for example with the new EC fonts.
>
> Two new author commands \HUGE and \ssmall for selecting font sizes
> are provided, together with some options working around current LaTeX2e
> shortcomings in using big font sizes.
> The package also provides options for improving the typesetting of paragraphs
> (or headlines) with embedded math expressions at font sizes above 17.28pt.
>
> COPYRIGHT is given by the LPPL:
>
>  Version: v1.9 [1999/07/26]
>  Author : Christian Cornelssen <cornsub1@flintstone.ukbf.fu-berlin.de>
>
>  Copyright 1997,1998,1999 Christian Cornelssen
>  This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
>  of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
>  archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
>  version 1 of the License, or any later version.
>
> Would you please update the corresponding version and copyright entries
> in your TeX-Macros Catalogue?

Graham? ;-)

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jul 26 22:18:15 1999
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 04:12:23 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- newlfm, version 1.5

> From: Paul Thompson <paul@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU>
>
> I have posted newlfm.zip 1.5 to ftp.dante.de/incoming.  This replaced
> version 1.4 of newlfm.
>
> Announcing newlfm.cls
> newlfm stands for NEW Letter Fax Memo
>
> Available at CTAN
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/newlfm

Thanks for the submission, I installed the new version as suggested.

> newlfm integrates the letter class with fancyhdr and geometry to
> o automatically make letterhead stationary
> o includes support for a database for addresses; instead of putting all
>   the information for different letters into different letters, you put
>   it in the database, and pull it into the letter with a single command
> o includes support for other languages, including pig Latin
> o easily allows the printing of form letters to multiple authors
> o includes a number of excluded article.cls features (table, figure)
> o integrates support for memos and faxes within the same package
> o supports 3 different types of letters (standard, business) and includes
>   full control for positioning of letter elements
> o has a full manual, for ease of use
>
> Try it out!!! You may never use the letter class again!!

[ I won't anyway, dinbrief is quite good for us Germans ... :-) ]

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jul 27 02:56:17 1999
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:50:13 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- photo

> From: Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@ELEC.CANTERBURY.AC.NZ>
>
> I have uploaded ftp.dante.de:/incoming/photo.tar.gz
>
> It contains the first public release of my photo package. This is also
> the first time I have used the docstrip format. The abstract:
>
> % This package introduces a new float type called photo which works
> % similar to the float types table and figure. Various options exist for
> % placing photos, captions, and a ``photographer'' line. In twocolumn
> % documents, a possibility exists to generate double-column floats
> % automatically if the photo does not fit into one column. Photos do not
> % have to be placed as floats, they can also be placed as boxes, with
> % captions and photographer line still being available.
>
> Hopefully it will be useful, I have not seen anything similar. I use
> it to put photos of equipment into technical documents, and also for a
> photo album. Under LPPL.
>
> Please put it under:   macros/latex/contrib/supported

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the package on dante.ctan.org
in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/photo as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jul 27 03:01:25 1999
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:51:34 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf 1.6

> Reply-To: Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@RUF.UNI-FREIBURG.DE>
>
> I have uploaded 'thumbpdf.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
> This updates and replaces the files in
>   macros/pdftex/thumbpdf/
>
> Changes in Version 1.6:
>   * Bug in thumbpdf.sty fixed (handling of \pdfpageattr).
>   * Warning if there are missing thumbs (thumbpdf.sty).
>   * Added section 'Known Problems' in 'readme.txt'.
>
> 'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with pdfTeX, plain/latex formats.
> It consists of four files:
>   * readme.txt:    documentation.
>   * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
>   * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
>   * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
> Requirements: Perl5, ghostscript, pdfTeX
>
> For the Catalogue entry: the license remains LPPL.

Thanks for the submission, I installed the new version replacing the old one
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jul 27 08:16:13 1999
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:04:18 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan upload: 4Spell

erik frambach writes:

> I've uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/4spell/ the package "4Spell", a
> Win32 spell-checker for (La)TeX, RTF, HTML, BibTeX documents, or any
> other ASCII format, with or without tags. Highly configurable. Supports
> multiple codepages (can spell-check e.g. Russian), uses colors to display
> document and tag structures. Dictionaries are compatible with WinEdt.
>
> The package consists of:
> 00-readme.txt
> 4spell.zip
> cz.zip
> de.zip
> dk.zip
> es.zip
> fr.zip
> htmlhelp.zip
> it.zip
> LICENSE.GNU
> nl.zip
> pl.zip
> ru.zip
> se.zip
> setup.exe
> si.zip
> sk.zip
> sl.zip
> uk.zip
> unzip.exe
> us.zip
> za.zip
>
> The GPL applies to this software.
> I suggest you install the files as they are in /support/4spell/

i've installed the files as you suggest.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 27 08:26:35 1999
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:08:20 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan upload: 4Project

Erik Frambach writes:

 > I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/4project/ the package "4Project", a
 > Win32 program that analyses and displays the structure of a TeX document,
 > its chapters, sections, labels, references, captions, graphics, etc.
 > The package consists of:
 > 00-readme.txt
 > 4project.zip
 > htmlhelp.zip
 > LICENSE.GNU
 > setup.exe
 > unzip.exe
 >
 > The GPL applies to this software.
 > I suggest you install the files as they are in /support/4project/

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jul 30 02:55:23 1999
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:48:19 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- lilypond 1.2

> From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
>
> I've uploaded lilypond 1.2 to ftp.dante.de
>
> desc:
>         LilyPond is a music typesetter.  It produces beautiful sheet music
>         using a high level description file as input.  LilyPond is part of
>         the GNU Project.
>
> license: GPL
>
> location:
>         support/lilypond/

Thanks for the submission. I installed lilypond-1.2.0.tar.gz as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Fri Jul 30 06:39:12 1999
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:28:07 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>

Yuri Lubenets writes:

> I placed on your server help files (Winhelp 32) on LaTeX in Russian in
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/Latex Help Russian directory. The files are
> freely distributed
> without any limitations without the source code. Offered path is
> Systems/Win32/Latex Help Russian or on your discretion.

thanks for the upload.

i've not tried reading the files on my windows box, but from what
you've said (in this mail and earlier) i assumed that the help
_wasn't_ system specific (though the format is specific to windows).

accordingly, i've installed the files in info/win-help/latex/russian
(in case we get more windows help files, in different languages or on
different topics).  i hope this is acceptable.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Sat Jul 31 10:46:23 1999
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 15:36:16 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New search script available at www.tex.ac.uk

I have (slightly) adapted Jim Hefferon's excellent search script, and
it is now available for use at

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTANfind.html

as well as at

  http://www.ctan.org/ctan/CTANfind.html
  http://joshua.smcvt.edu/ctan/CTANfind.html

The script allows you to choose which CTAN site or mirror you are
going to download from; it remembers your chosen site by means of a
cookie.

It is the CTAN team's aim to make this script (and its supporting
mechanisms) available to any site that wants it.  The present
deployment is the first outside of Jim's direct control, and has
ironed out some problems; more work is still needed...

Please let the CTAN team if any problems arise.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team (ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de)

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Jul 31 17:12:20 1999
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 23:07:31 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- protocol

> From: Thomas Leineweber <leineweb@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
>
> I have just uploaded on ftp.dante.de the file protocol.tgz. It includes
> the first public version of a LaTeX-class for typesetting protocols of
> meetings or something like that.
>
> Unfortunately, the documentation for it is at the moment only available
> in german and the package is useful only for german users (no
> internationalization yet).
>
> I would suggest to put it in
> CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/protocol

Thanks for the upload, I installed it on CTAN as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug  3 10:11:58 1999
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 15:46:38 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: new package regcount

Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes:

 > I have put a new package ``regcount'' (regcount.tar) in the
 > /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
 > This tiny package does not produce anything in the document,
 > but add a macro \rgcount which display the allocation status
 > of the \TeX\ registers. The display is written into the .log
 > file as it is a bit verbose. An automatic call to \rgcount is
 > done at \begin{document} and \end{document}.
 >
 > I hope this package will be useful, first to the package
 > writers.
 >
 > The regcount package shoud be installed in
 >
 > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/regcount/
 >
 > It is under LPPL license (yes, I will soon put also my other
 > package under LPPL, sorry, I changed my mind). A new minitoc
 > version should be ready in few weeks.

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the package as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Aug  6 07:04:03 1999
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 12:54:24 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: update of packages export, minitoc, regcount, shorttoc, Tabbing

Jean-Pierre Drucbert <drucbert@onecert.fr> wrote:

> I have uploaded in /incomig fo ftp.dante.de the following files:
>
> export.tar.gz
> minitoc.tar.gz
> regcount.tar.gz
> shorttoc.tar.gz
> Tabbing.tar.gz
>
> These are new versions of the corresponding packages,
> to be installed in
>  tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/...
>
> For all this packages I have added a comment for LPPL license.
>
> regcount: some minor typos corrected since yesterday (sorry).
>
> minitoc: version #29. Some big fixes; added the tight/loose and
> dotted/undotted options, and some new languages; added the
> shortext option and an autoconfiguration mechanism (I must
> thanks the many people who made tests on various operating
> systems; this feature simplifies the installation: don't
> worry about long suffixes).

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new versions on dante.ctan.org
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Aug  6 07:41:02 1999
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 13:31:01 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- currvita

> From: Axel Reichert <reich@MPIE-DUESSELDORF.MPG.DE>
>
> I just have uploaded  currvita.tar.gz  to ftp.dante.de
>
> The files should be installed in
>
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/currvita
>
> and are copylefted under the GPL
>
> The archive provides a
>
>   package for typesetting a curriculum vitae
>
> including an example file.

Thanks for the submission, I installed the files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Aug  6 07:43:25 1999
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 13:35:34 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- brclc

I installed the package and prepocessor brclc by Bernd Radgen
<Radgen@PHYSIK.UNI-FRANKFURT.DE> on dante.ctan.org
in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/brclc
The copyright is GPL.

>From the README file:

Description
-----------
The program brclc and the package brclc.sty implements a possibility
for doing 16-bit(double) calculations within a LaTeX file. The
following calculations are implemented:

+, -, *, /, ^, exp, log, ln, sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan.

The output can be formated and rounded.

Usage:
------
The program brclc is a preprocessor so it must be run before you
run LaTeX! So it is recommended using a shellscript like 'testclc'
which does this for you.

In the LaTeX-File you must load the package brclc.sty:

\usepackage{brclc}

now the new command \clc{arg} is implemented.

The program brclc outputs a file called *.clc. In this file LaTeX finds
the definitions needed to completed the \clc{arg}-command. It is
automatically loaded by the brclc.sty package.

The program brclc also outputs a log-file named *.clg.

The LaTeX-commands:

\verb, \begin/end{verbatim}, \includeonly, \include, \input

are also interpreted by brclc.

For more Information read the brclc_ge.dvi file. Maybe someone will
translate this File in english? Contact me.


Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Aug  6 17:43:02 1999
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 22:35:22 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- ccaption package

>     I have just uploaded ccaption.dtx to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Can
> you please use this to replace the current ccaption.dtx in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccaption? It fixes a bug when used
> with the book class.
>
>     It remains an LPPL release.
>
> From the README
>
>     The ccaption package provides commands for `continuation
> captions', unnumbered captions, and a non-specific legnd heading for
> any environment. Methods are also provided to define captions for
> use outside float (e.g., figure and table) environments, and to
> define new float environments and List of Float.

i've installed the new version as requested.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Aug  9 08:19:01 1999
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 14:06:10 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- tipos.pdf (and titlesec update)

> From: Javier Bezos <jbezos@ARRAKIS.ES>
>
> I've uploaded to the Dante server the following file:
>
> tipos.pdf
>
> which describes in Spanish the large amount of types
> of files for fonts (`tipo' means `font' in Spanish), a nightmarish
> subject. It's freeware and it should be placed in the /info/
> directory.

Thanks for the submission, I installed the file in
/tex-archive/info/spanish/tipos.pdf

> In addition I've uploaded the files:
>
> /titlesec/titlesec.sty
> /titlesec/readme
>
> which fixes a minor but annoying bug of the \widenhead command.
> These should replace the corresponding files under
> /macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec/

Thanks again,  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Aug  9 08:30:51 1999
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 14:09:18 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf 1.7

> From: Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@RUF.UNI-FREIBURG.DE>
>
> I have uploaded 'thumbpdf.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
> This updates and replaces the files in
>   macros/pdftex/thumbpdf/
>
> Changes in Version 1.7:
>   * pdfTeX 0.14a is now supported.
>   * Fix of a bad bug in the previous version: Do not use version 1.6,
>     because it can result in wrong thumb object references with
>     invalid thumbnails.
>   * LPPL 1.1
>
> 'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with pdfTeX, plain/latex formats.
> It consists of four files:
>   * readme.txt:    documentation.
>   * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
>   * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
>   * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
> Requirements: Perl5, ghostscript, pdfTeX
>
> For the Catalogue entry: the license remains LPPL.

Thanks for the submission, I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Tue Aug 10 06:58:25 1999
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:49:01 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>

Yuri Lubenets writes:
> I placed on your server help files (Winhelp 32) on LaTeX in English in
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/English(Symbolos only) directory. The files
> are freely distributed
> without any limitations without the source code. Offered path is
> info/win-help/latex/English(Symbolos only) or on your discretion.
> Please, check my files.

i've installed your help file as info/win-help/english/LaTeX_Symbols_Help.zip
(having replaced <space> with <underscore> to make life easier for us
administrators).

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 10 07:49:55 1999
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:28:42 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload of trfsigns.tar.gz

Kai Rascher writes:

 > I just have uploaded  trfsigns.tar.gz  to
 > ftp.dante.de
 >
 > The files should be installed in
 >
 > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/trfsigns
 >
 > and are copylefted under the GPL.
 >
 > The archive provides a package for typesetting
 > transformation signs for Laplace transformation,
 > Fourier transformation and others. An example
 > file is also included.

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/trfsigns

as you suggested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug 10 17:23:59 1999
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:18:03 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- emTeX/TDS v0.52

Walter Schmidt writes:

> I have uploaded emTeX/TDS v0.52, i.e, the files
>
> NEWS
> readme.eng
> readme.ger
> tdsinst.cmd
> config.zip
> texmf.zip
> tfe.cfg
>
> to the directory /incoming/emtexTDS/ of ftp.dante.de.
> Please, move them to systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS/.
> (Files, which are not replaced, remain unchanged.)
>
>
> emTeX/TDS is a TeX distribution for OS/2, which is based
> on emTeX.  It comes with an installation script that
> sets up a comprehensive, ready-to-run (La)TeX system,
> including full PostScript support.
>
> Main news with this version:
>
> * latest LaTeX (June 1999), Tools etc.
> * Babel updated to 3.6x
> * new packages:  wasysym, mathrsfs
> * "wasy" fonts in both Metafont and PostScript format added
> * new (fixed) makeindex.exe
> * some internal changes to comply with the future VTeX/2
>
> See also the file "NEWS"!

i've installed the files as requested.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Thu Aug 12 09:35:28 1999
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:21:27 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload

Dr.Matthew Kuhn writes:

> I just uploaded some latex files onto the cam.ctan.org site.
>
> The upload is:
>   the directory:
>     ascelike/
>   containing the files:
>     ascelike.cls
>     ascelike.bst
>     ascexmpl.tex
>     ascexmpl.bib
>     ascexmpl.dvi
>     ascexmpl.ps
>
> These were uploaded to cam.ctan.org, in its /incoming directory.
>
> I would like the directory ascelike/ and its contents to go into
> /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported
>
> I prefer the "lppl" licencing conditions and have refered to them within
> the files.
>
> The file is a document class and bibliographic style that prepares
> documents in the style required by the American Society of Civil
> Engineers (these are unofficial files, not sanctioned by that
> organization, and the files specifically give this caveat).  Also included
> is a short documentation/example of how to use the class.

i've installed the files as you suggest. thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Aug 13 04:33:06 1999
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:22:13 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <pstoedit-3.14>

Rolf Niepraschk writes:

> I have upload the new version of the program `pstoedit' written by Wolfgang
> Glunz to `/incoming' on ftp.dante.de. The names of archives are
>
>   pstoedit_3_14.zip
>
> and
>
>   pstoedit_win.zip
>
> [these are to replace] the directory
>
>   /tex-archive/support/pstoedit
>
> From `readme.txt':
>
> --------------------------------------
> Copyright (C) 1993 - 1999 Wolfgang Glunz, wglunz@geocities.com
>
> pstoedit converts Postscript(TM) and PDF files to other vector graphic
> formats so that they can be edited graphically. See pstoedit.htm or
> index.htm for more details on which formats are supported by pstoedit.
> ...
> License:
> --------
>
>     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>     (at your option) any later version.
> --------------------------------------

i have installed the files; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Aug 13 05:41:35 1999
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 10:32:24 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <easy>

Enrico Bertolazzi writes:

> I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
> tar file easy.tar.gz. It contains:
>
> version 0.99 of the `easy.sty' file in the easy package
>
> The files contained in easy.tar.gz should replace
> the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
> wich contain the old versions.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Aug 14 07:37:25 1999
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:21:24 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: new Yplan files for CTAN

Dick Nickalls writes:

> attached Yplan files (Yplan.zip) to the Yplan directory on CTAN.
> They would replace the Yplan00A.tex and Yplan00B.tex
>  and Yplan00.doc files (for Y2000), and add an extra
> file (Yplan.sty) which allows a language capability for English,
> French, German, Spanish and Portuguese (written by Harald Harders).
> If Yplan files are used without the Yplan.sty then
> the output is as before (ie in english).

i've installed the files in macros/latex/contrib/other

thanks for the submission

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Aug 14 18:05:13 1999
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 22:51:34 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- latex postcards class (v0.1)

bil kleb writes:

>     what: gzipped tar file containing a directory named `postcards'
>           and associated files (4) underneath
>
>    where: cam.ctan.org/incoming
>
> location: macros/latex/contrib/other/ [suggested]
>
>  license: lppl
>
>  summary: a modification of the standard latex letter class
>           which prints multiple, pre-stamped, 5.5" by 3.5" postcards
>           (a us standard size) via the envlab and mailing packages.
>           an address database is employed to address the front side
>           of each postcard and a message is printed on the back side
>           of all. an illustrative example is provided.
>
>    brief: facilitates mass-mailing of postcards (tex goes junkmail ;)

i've installed the files as suggested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Aug 16 11:40:35 1999
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:28:45 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - BaKoMa TeX 2.11

Basil K. Malyshev writes:

> [...] BaKoMa TeX 2.11 update
>
> Entire distribution has been changed.
>
> The update includes following important improvements:
>
> 1.  Distribution has been splitted into several installation modules:
>      1. KERNEL
>      2. CYRFONTS (CMCYR fonts)
>      3. LaTeX 2e
>      4. METAFONT (MetaFont and Font Tools)
>      5. T3FONTS  (Line Drawing Fonts in PS Type 3 font format)
>
> 2. Added several CONTRIB modules
>      1. LATEX209 (repackaged from ZIP to selfinstallable module)
>      2. GRAPHICS (includes Xy-Pic, PSTRicks, Seminar, FeynMF, Axodraw)
>      3. OMEGA    (Omega 1.5 with fonts and support files)
>      4. PSFONTS  (URW Fonts that emulates 35 standard PS Fonts)
>
> 3. Added support for Graphics import Filters compatible with DVIPS
>    (\special{PSfile-"`jpeg2ps <filename>"...})
>    There are following new filters: JPEG, PNG, GIF, HPGL, DXY.
>
> 4  Added support for DCTDecode PostScript filter.
>    Embedding of JPEG and DCT encoded data into PDF is realized
>    via DCYDecode filter.
>
> 5. Add options for printing via Bitmap, as negative image, as mirrored image.
>
> 6. Bug fixing and several minor improvements.

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Aug 18 12:51:28 1999
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:42:38 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lettrine

Daniel FLIPO writes:

> I have just uploaded into ftp.dante.de/incoming a file lettrine.tar.gz,
> which contains an upgrade (V 1.1) of the lettrine package designed to
> typeset various sorts of dropped capitals.
>
> It should replace the old version in 'macros/latex/supported/lettrine'.
>
> This new version corrects a bug which occured when the command
> \lettrine was used inside quote, quotation, abstarct etc. environments.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Aug 20 04:39:29 1999
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:20:26 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.20d

Christian Schenk writes:

> I have uploaded MiKTeX 1.20d to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex. Please
> copy all files to
>
>    systems/win32/miktex/1.20
>
> MiKTeX 1.20d is freely redistributable (gpl,lgpl,lppl,pd).  Source
> code will be uploaded in the next few days.
>
> - - -
>
> MiKTeX is a free TeX distribution for Windows. The 1.20d news are:
>
>    * New utility: `texify' is a new command-line utility that
>      simplifies the production of DVI (PDF) documents.  `texify'
>      automatically runs LaTeX (pdfLaTeX), Makeindex and BibTeX as many
>      times as necessary to produce a DVI (PDF) file with sorted
>      indices and all cross-references resolved.
>      `texify' imitates the shell script `texi2dvi' (written by Noah
>      Friedman), which is a part of the GNU Texinfo distribution.
>
>    * `hbf2gf' (by Werner Lemberg) is intended to convert Hanzi Bitmap
>      Fonts (HBF) into TeX generic font files (`GF' files).  MakePK has
>      been updated to make use of `hbf2gf'.
>
>    * Dvips 5.86 (now includes a Windows help file)
>
>    * Texinfo 3.12r (now includes the `texi2dvi' utility)
>
>    * bug fixes (see http://miktex.de/problems.html for details)

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Aug 20 08:37:30 1999
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:25:58 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: package update -- shorttoc

Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes:

> I have uploaded in /incoming of ftp.dante.de the
> file shorttoc.tar.gz; it is a new version of the
> shorttoc (short table of contents) package.
> New: the tight/loose package options. `tight'
> reduces the amount of vertical space between the
> lines of the short TOC.
> The documentation has been updated.
> A `00readme' file has been added.

i've installed the files, replacing the old version in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/shorttoc

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sun Aug 22 03:53:23 1999
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 08:46:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New CTAN submission

Lars Engebretsen writes:

> I've uploaded the file NEW-swebib.tar.gz to /incoming on ftp.tex.ac.uk.
> The contents in the archive should be placed in the direcory
>
>   biblio/bibtex/contrib/swebib
>
> The upload is a translation of the standard BibTeX styles into Swedish.

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

> Copying of the files are permitted if either
> 1. No changes are made to the files, including the names,
> or
> 2. The name of the file is changed.
>
> I hope this means that the files are "free".

classification of the files can wait until the rest of the team are
back in harness.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Aug 23 05:54:04 1999
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:38:51 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Thesis class for Univ. of Pittsburgh

Wonkoo Kim writes:
 > I have uploaded ftp.dante.de/incoming/pitthesis.zip.
 >
 > This is a LaTeX2e document class package for writing theses at
 > the University of Pittsburgh, PA.
 >
 > This package is new, and so please create a new subdirectory
 > named ``pitthesis'' under macros/latex/contrib/supported/.

 > P.S.  Thanks to Robin Fairbairns for his suggestion and help.

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the package as suggested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Aug 23 05:55:33 1999
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:41:06 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Package citeref uploaded

Olaf Maibaum writes:
 > I�ve uploaded the package citeref to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/citeref
 >
 > Please copy the file to
 > macros/latex/contrib/other/misc
 >
 > The package is licensed by the LPPL.
 >
 > citeref put backward references in the bibliography.
 >
 > Happy LaTeXing
 > Olaf

Thanks a lot for your upload. I installed the file in

  macros/latex/contrib/other/citeref

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Aug 23 13:13:11 1999
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 18:04:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- cmolddig v1.6 (LaTeX2e package)

Rowland McDonnell writes:

> (a) Uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/
>
> (b) Uploaded file cmolddig.zip which should be decompressed before putting
> it on CTAN.
>
> (c) The lppl applies to this package.
>
> (d) The cmolddig package is a virtual fount setup for using old style
> digits by default with the OT1 encoded Computer Modern Roman upright
> founts.  The eco package does the same job for the T1 encoded EC founts and
> is generally much better because the EC founts are like that; but then
> again, OT1 encoded cmr is available for free in TrueType and PS Type 1
> formats and has its uses in pdf files as a result.
>
> (e) I suggest that this package be installed in this directory:
>
> fonts/cmolddig/
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This is version 1.6 of the cmolddig package.  This is the first public
> release.

i've installed the files as you suggested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 24 09:39:21 1999
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:21:47 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - BaKoMa TeX, Malvern Fonts in Type 1

Basil K. Malyshev writes:

 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma
 > extension module for BaKoMa TeX.
 > To install it on CTAN all files must be copied to CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma.
 >
 > This module includes Malvern font family in ATM Compatible Type 1 font format.
 >
 > Running `malvern.exe' will install these fonts under already installed
 > BaKoMa TeX 2.11 and later.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed the files in the

  nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma

tree.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug 24 12:15:10 1999
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 17:08:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload -- A Simplified Introduction to Latex

Harvey Greenberg writes:

> I have uploaded latex.zip to cam.ctan.org/incoming, which I would like to
> go into info.  The zip file contains README (short text) and latex.ps,
> which is a book entitled "A Simplified Introduction to Latex".  It can be
> freely distributed.

i've installed the contents of your .zip file in info/simplified-latex
(since it's not the only such introductory text, i thought an explicit
directory name would be valuable).

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Aug 25 11:26:57 1999
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:15:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload mflogo Type 1 update

Taco Hoekwater writes:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I've just uploaded a new version of the converted mflogo font(s) to
 > dante's ctan. The file is /incoming/mflogo.zip, and it should replace
 > everything in the directory
 >
 >   fonts/mflogo/ps-type1/hoekwater
 >
 > and below.
 >
 > There is only one change in this version: the font now uses uppercase
 > names so that they can be used more easily to replace the BSR
 > versions. This is the same version of the fonts as on TeXlive 4b, the
 > version number is now 1.002. License is Public Domain.
 >
 >
 > Greetings, Taco

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.

 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Aug 25 19:17:46 1999
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 00:09:57 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- tocbibind package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded tocbibind.dtx to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could
> you please use this to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocbibind/tocbibind.dtx?
>
>     This release removes some of the package features, making it
> more likely to do what it is advertised to do. As before, its under
> the LPPL.
>
> From the README
>     The tocbibind package can be used to add the bibliography and/or
> the index and/or the contents, etc., to the Table of Contents
> listing. It requires the stdclsdv package.

i've installed the replacement as requested.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Aug 27 19:10:29 1999
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:51:01 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- tocloft package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded tocloft.dtx and README.tocloft to
> tex.ac.uk/incoming. Please use the *.dtx to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocloft/tocloft.dtx and similarly for
> the README (after stripping the extension).
>
>     The release is under the terms of the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>     The tocloft package provides control over the typography of the
> Table of Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables. The package
> requires the stdclsdv package to be available.
>
> Changes in version 0.3
> o Added an option to use default headings, so that packages like
>   fncychap can be used for ToC, etc., headings.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Aug 30 04:14:47 1999
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:59:26 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- macgreek.def

Apostolos Syropoulos writes:
 >     I have uploaded at ftp.dante.de/incoming the file macgreek.def
 > You must rename the directory language/greek/package-babel/iso8859-7
 > to language/greek/package-babel/encodings and install there this new file.
 >
 >     Yours Sincerely
 >      A.S.

Thanks, I did what you suggested.

 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Aug 30 08:49:52 1999
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:26:10 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- update for ruhyphen (v1.3)

Vladimir Volovich writes:

> I've uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/ruhyphen-990825.tar.gz,
> MD5 sum:
>
> 5042341ad4c4b26d36f76b36fb290ad3  ruhyphen-990825.tar.gz
>
> a new version (update) for our ruhyphen package (collection of Russian
> hyphenation patterns). Please replace the directory
> language/hyphenation/ruhyphen/ with contents of this tarball (removing
> the old version first, because some file was renamed).
>
> Changes from previous version:
>
> * additional patterns for letter cyryo are now verified against
>   Alexander Lebedev's Russian ispell dictionary; as a result, the
>   number of additional patterns was significantly reduced, saving TeX
>   hash memory.
>
> * updated version of pattern `ruhyphal.tex'
>
> * changed License from LPPL 1.0 to LPPL 1.1.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Aug 31 02:51:58 1999
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:44:19 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- bizcard 1.0

> From: Sebastian Marius Kirsch <skirsch@T-ONLINE.DE>
>
> I uploaded bizcard.dtx and bizcard.ins to ftp.dante.de; it is a LaTeX2e
> package for typesetting business cards, adapted from
> CTAN:macros/latex209/contrib/misc/card.sty by Silvano Balemi. It is
> licensed under the GPL and is supported. (Sort of. :-) )

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files on CTAN in
/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/bizcard/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Sep  7 18:22:56 1999
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 23:14:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload -- PSNFSS-8.1(beta)

Walter Schmidt writes:

> I have uploaded the following files to the directory
> /incoming/walter-for-sebastian/ at ftp.tex.ac.uk:
>
> 00readme.txt
> changes.txt
> lw35nfss.zip
> mathtest.tex
> pitest.tex
> psfonts.dtx
> psfonts.ins
> psnfss2e.tex
> test0.tex
> test1.tex
>
> This is a preliminary (betatest) version of PSNFSS 8.1
> (support for using the standard PostScript fonts with LaTeX).
> In accordance with a suggestion from Sebastian Rahtz,
> I propose to put the files into the CTAN directory
>
>         macros/latex/required/psnfss-beta
>
> so as to make them available for public testing.
>
> Main news are:
>
> * Important bug fixes, affecting mathptm.sty, mathptmx.sty
> and the virtual fonts.
>
> * Virtual math fonts for use with Palatino and the
> related package mathpple.sty are part of PSNFSS 8.1
>
> * PSNFSS 8.1 comes with REAL DOCUMENTATION:  There is a
> description of all the packages and all the font families
> and how to make use of them, including tips and tricks.
>
> See the file changes.txt for more!

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Sep  8 04:20:32 1999
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 10:10:33 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload -- tiny_c2l 1.2.0

Michael Plugge writes:
 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/ the file tiny_c2l.zip.
 >
 > This is an update for the tiny_c2l package and should replace the
 > old files in /pub/tex/support/tiny_c2l/. It fixes most known bugs
 > of the old version (_very_ many) and gives some new features too.
 >
 > License is GNU GPL.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf


 > About tiny_c2l: tiny_c2l is a small converter for prettyprinting
 > C/C++/Java source code using LaTeX.
 >
 > The main development goals were:
 >
 >  - ease of use
 >
 >  - use the roman font for standard output for better legibility of
 >    the generated text.
 >
 >  - use direct positioning of TeX boxes to preserve vertical
 >    structures in the source text.
 >
 >  - context-sensitive linebreaking: linebreaking is not done by TeX,
 >    only by the supported macros; so the language structure is
 >    considered when breaking a line. For example, if a C++ comment is
 >    broken, the continuation line starts also with //; if a string or
 >    preprocessor line is broken, it gets an \ at the end of the line.
 >    If you would convert the  generated dvi file back to ASCII, you
 >    would get an valid source text again ;-))).
 >
 >  - some special comment styles (fill comments, block comments,
 >    embedded LaTeX comments.
 >
 >  - insert LaTeX text into comments.
 >
 >  - special support for multiple file projects: The generated files
 >    can be used as standalone files or as include file in a larger
 >    project without modification (if they are used as include file,
 >    the wrapper file must only include the position package in the
 >    package list; everything else is done automagically).
 >
 >  - lines may be omitted from output.
 >
 > The archive contains a file testfile.l (source) and testfile.dvi
 > (generated) to show the supplied conversions.
 >
 > Best regards
 >
 > Michael Plugge

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Sep  9 07:49:53 1999
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 13:37:33 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload brclc03.tgz

Bernd Radgen writes:

 > I have uploaded the File brclc03.tgz to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > The archive contains an update of my package �brclc�.
 >
 > The package �brclc� can be found under
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/brclc on CTAN. It is
 > provided under GPL.
 >
 > Please substitude the old files by the new ones.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Sep  9 19:40:50 1999
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:36:06 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- nomencl v2.8

Bernd Schandl writes:

> I have uploaded the file nomencl.zip to the /incoming directory of
> ftp.tex.ac.uk. It contains version v2.8 of the nomencl package.
>
> The package should help formatting a nomenclature using the MakeIndex
> program.
>
> I have changed my email address and added a new skip to control the
> skip between entries in the nomenclature.
>
> Please put the three files README, nomencl.dtx and nomencl.ins in the
> directory
>         macros/latex/contrib/supported/nomencl/
> overwriting the old files.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Sep 10 05:30:08 1999
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:21:10 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: chemcono package

Stefan Schulz writes:

 > I have uploaded the 4 files chemcono.sty, drftcono.sty,
 > showkeysff.sty, and example.tex  in incoming/chemcono at
 > ftp.dante.de
 >
 > The files should go into
 > pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/chemcono and replace the
 > existing ones.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

 >
 >
 > Version 1.3 of chemcono, introducing tight output options and lppl
 > license
 >
 > "LaTeX style file for using compound numbers
 >   in chemistry documents. It works like
 >   \cite and the \thebibliography, using \fcite
 >   and \theffbibliography instead. It allows compound
 >   names in documents to be numbered and does not
 >   affect the normal citation routines.
 >   Very helpful for writing chemistry papers.
 >               This style does:
 >               - Compound-numbering. Any compound gets a number
 >                 using \fcite, bold face as default. This number
 >     is printed every time you type \fcite.
 >               - The compounds are numbered according to the
 >     entries in the \theffbibliography.
 >               - The \ffbibliography generates an chapter with
 >                 the heading 'Compound numbers'.
 >

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Sep 14 05:01:25 1999
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:45:33 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: currvita.tar.gz

Axel Reichert writes:
 > Hello!
 >
 > I just have uploaded
 >
 >   currvita.tar.gz
 >
 > to
 >
 >   ftp.dante.de
 >
 > The files should replace the corresponding files installed in
 >
 >   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/currvita
 >
 > and are copylefted under the
 >
 >   GPL
 >
 > The archive provides a
 >
 >   package for typesetting a curriculum vitae
 >
 > including an example file. The new release fixes some bugs, enhances
 > customization and includes support for bibliographies/publication
 > lists.
 >
 > Happy TeXing!
 > --
 > Axel Reichert

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the update as requested.

 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Sep 14 10:01:49 1999
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:49:12 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: uploaded OzTeX 4.0

Andrew Trevorrow writes:

> I've just uploaded all the files for OzTeX 4.0 to
> cam.ctan.org/incoming/oztex/.
>
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan        7508 Sep 14 03:57 Correct.sit
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan     4449494 Sep 14 03:59 Extras.sit
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan        3292 Sep 14 03:59 Local.sit
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan     1455680 Sep 14 04:00 MF.sit
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan      335204 Sep 14 04:00 MP.sit
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan      548768 Sep 14 04:00 OzMF.sit
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan      351016 Sep 14 04:00 OzMP.sit
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan      737204 Sep 14 04:00 OzTeX.sit
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan      210972 Sep 14 04:00 OzTtH.sit
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan       10530 Sep 14 03:57 Read-Me
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan       52613 Sep 14 04:01 Register.sit
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan     5883591 Sep 14 04:03 TeX.sit
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan       41048 Sep 14 04:03 TtH.sit
>
> Please delete all the current files in tex-archive/systems/mac/oztex/
> and move in the above files.
>
> OzTeX is a shareware TeX system for the Macintosh.
> (See www.kagi.com/akt/oztex.html if you want more details.)

i've installed the new version.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Sep 15 11:52:59 1999
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:40:42 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: mathspic for CTAN mpic17

Dick Nickalls writes:

> Just a note to ask whether you could please upload
> this first CTAN version of mathsPIC (version 1.7u) which I am
> sending as a .zip file (mpic17u.zip)  = 600K.
> Could I suggest a directory as CTAN/graphics/pictex/mathspic ??
> It needs to be with pictex as it can only work with PiCTeX.
>
> By way of description, mathsPIC is a MS-DOS filter program
> for use with PiCTeX. It parses a plain text input file and
> generates a plain text output-file containing PiCTeX and TeX
> commands, which can then be TeX/LaTeXed in the usual way.
> It also outputs a comprehensive log-file.
> MathsPIC facilitates creating figures using PiCTeX by providing
> an environment for manipulating named points and also allows the
> use of variables and maths (advance, multiply, and divide) -
> in short - it takes the pain out of PiCTeX.

i've installed mathspic as suggested in graphics/pictex/mathspic

i've also added a patch to pictex itself, that dick had, to
graphics/pictex/addon/piccorr.sty -- all users of pictex are advised to
acquire themselves a new copy of piccorr.sty

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Sep 16 12:08:12 1999
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:45:06 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: newlfm

Paul Thompson writes:
 > I have placed newlfm.zip v 1.7 on to ftp.dante.de.  Please replace the
 > current version.
 >
 > Announcing newlfm.cls V 1.7
 > newlfm stands for NEW Letter Fax Memo
 > Available at CTAN
 > macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/newlfm
 > newlfm integrates the letter class with fancyhdr and geometry to
 > o automatically make letterhead stationary
 > o includes support for a database for addresses; instead of putting all
 >   the information for different letters into different letters, you put
 >   it in the database, and pull it into the letter with a single command
 > o includes support for other languages, including pig Latin
 > o includes a number of excluded article.cls features (table, figure)
 > o integrates support for memos and faxes within the same package
 > o full support for positioning of items (moving the date up or down; putting
 >   the date between from and to blocks; etc.)
 > o supports mass mailings and form letters easily and simply
 > o supports 3 different types of letters (standard, business) and includes
 >   full control for positioning of letter elements
 > o has a full manual, for ease of use, as well as a
 >
 > Try it out!!! You may never use the letter class again!!

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the update.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Sep 23 11:57:10 1999
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:37:59 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Neue TeX-Fonts CRYST

mueller@FKC-WS1.CHEMIE.UNI-KASSEL.DE writes:

 > in der Kristallographie sind bestimmte Symbole gebraeuchlich, um
 > Symmetrieeigenschaften von Kristallen zu bezeichnen. Obwohl ich
 > annahm, dass laengst jemand einen TeX-Font-Zeichensatz dazu
 > entworfen hat, konnte ich einen solchen nirgends finden.
 > Ich habe daraufhin selbst eine METAFONT-Datei dafuer erstellt.
 >
 > Diese Datei, CRYST.MF, stelle ich Ihnen zur Verfuegung. Dazu habe ich
 > an Ihre Adresse ftp.dante.de, Directory /incoming, folgende
 > Dateien gesendet:
 >
 > CRYST.MF   METAFONT-Eingabedatei
 > CRYST.TEX  LaTeX-Datei mit Beschreibung des Zeichnsatzes
 > CRYST.DVI  DVI-Datei zu CRYST.TEX
 > CRYST.GER  Beschreibung zur Installation der CRYST-Dateien
 > CRYST.TFM  TeX Font Metrics Datei
 > UCRYS.FD   Font Definition Datei
 >
 > Zur LaTex-Bearbeitung von CRYST.TEX ist CRYST.TFM notwendig.
 > CRYST.DVI kann nur ausgedruckt werden, wenn der Zeichensatz bereits geladen
 > ist.
 >
 > Ich stelle die Dateien der Allgemeinheit zur Verfuegung.
 >
 > LIZENZBEDINGUNGEN:
 > CRYST ist Public-Domain.
 > Die Datein sind fuer jedermann frei erhaeltlich. Wer Aenderungen
 > darin vornehmen will, muss den geaenderten Dateien neue Namen geben.
 > Niemand darf die Dateien verkaufen oder gegen Gebuehren
 > weitergeben. Das gilt auch fuer bearbeitete Versionen oder wenn sie in
 > andere Dateien miteingebunden werden.
 >
 > Die Beschreibung existiert bis jetzt nur in deutscher Sprache. Wer sie
 > in anderen Sprachen haben will, moege sie sich selbst uebersetzen.
 >
 > Ich bitte Sie, den Zeichensatz und seine Beschreibung unter dem Namen
 > CRYST im Directory der TeX-Fonts bereitzustellen.
 >
 > Die gleichen Dateien habe ich auch der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer
 > Kristallographie zur Verfuegung gestellt. Ich gehe davon aus, dass
 > diese sie auch allgemein zugaenglich machen wird
 > (unter ftp.kristall.ethz.ch/dgk).
 >
 > Mit bestem Dank fuer Ihre Bemuehungen und
 > mit freundlichen Gruessen,
 >
 >
 > Prof.Dr. Ulrich Mueller

Thanks a lot for your upload, due to the restrictions in your license
I installed the files in the

  nonfree/fonts/cryst

directory, with a symbolic link from fonts/cryst.

Please note that your copyright conditions are somewhat inconsistent,
as "public domain" is in conflict with the restrictions specified
further down in your upload mail. Please see

   ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.html

for further information.


[ For the non-german speaking readers:

  cryst is a font for displaying symmetry elements in crystallography.

]


For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Sep 23 12:27:45 1999
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:08:19 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - Update of Malvern fonts in Type 1 font format

Basil K. Malyshev writes:

 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma update for for BaKoMa TeX.
 > To install it on CTAN all files must be copied to CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma.

 > This update includes OT1 encoded Malvern (MA??S*) fonts with cedilla glyph,
 > that is missed in original fonts.
 >
 > Running `malvern.exe' will install/update these fonts under already installed
 > BaKoMa TeX 2.11 and later.

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Sep 23 19:32:00 1999
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:26:14 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: uploaded TexPict

Ramon Rib� writes:

>    I've uploaded the program TexPict in ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/
>
>    This program should go to the graphics area.
>
>    It is distributed as free software.
>
>    TexPict is a graphical program developed with Tcl-Tk (it must be
>    installed on the system), that permits to create drawings and later
>    paste them on a latex file as picture environments. It can work in
>    both UNIX and Windows with SWP.
>
>    Official web page is: http://gatxan.cimne.upc.es/texpict/
>
>    Hope it can be useful.

I've installed the files in graphics/texpict; so that the catalogue
entry can be completed, we would like information about your licensing
conditions on the package.  Please could you mail the ctan list with
details (take a look at
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.html
for the classifications we use).

Thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Sep 24 17:10:31 1999
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 22:03:00 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: new versio of bibweb submitted to CTAN

John Palmieri writes:

> I just uploaded a new version of the bibweb package to CTAN, as the
> file bibweb.tgz in the directory
>
>   ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming
>
> This should replace
>
>   tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibweb
>
> As with the previous version, this is distributed under the GNU GPL.
>
> Bibweb is a utility for automatically retrieving mathematical
> bibliographical information, in BibTeX format, from the American
> Mathematical Society's MathSciNet database.  The AMS just released a
> new version of MathSciNet, which broke bibweb; this release of bibweb
> is supposed to fix the problems.

i've installed the package as suggested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sun Sep 26 18:49:30 1999
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 23:42:48 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Vicentino fonts upload

James Kilfiger writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk, in the file vicent.tar.gz the
> vicentino fonts created by Willibald Kraml, and a couple of support
> files for Latex, written by myself.  I have obtained Willibald Kraml's
> permission to do this.
>
> The files should be installed in fonts/vicentino/.
>
> The licence is `nocommercial' (This is my interpretation of Willibald
> Kraml's wishes, expressed in his readme file.)

i've installed the files in nonfree/fonts/vicentino (in recognition of
the licensing conditions) and established a link from fonts/vicentino
(as usual).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Sep 27 04:34:14 1999
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:25:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: submission: WinShell20

Ingo de Boer writes:
 > hi...
 >
 > i have uploaded a new version of WinShell to
 >
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell
 >
 >
 > please delete all the files in
 >
 > ./pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell
 >
 > and put in the new ones...
 >
 > the licence is : nosource
 >
 > thanks
 >   ingo

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Sep 28 03:53:37 1999
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:42:27 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- geometry 2.1

Hideo Umeki writes:
 > I have uploaded the new version of `geometry' package (v2.1)
 > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry21.tar.gz. (tar + gzip)
 >
 > -------------------------------------------------
 > This new release contains the following changes:
 >
 > o A bug fixed: twosideshift with reversemarginpar produced
 >                wrong margins.
 >
 > o A new option `mag' added.
 >
 >   `mag' sets magnification value '\mag' and automatically modifies
 >    \hoffset and \voffset according to the magnification.
 >    Syntax: mag=<magnification>. Note that <magnification> should
 >    be an integer value with 1000 as a normal size. For example,
 >    mag=1414 with a4paper provides an enlarged print fitting in a3paper,
 >    which is 1.414(=sqrt(2)) times larger than a4paper.
 >    However, font enlargement needs extra disk space.
 >    (special thanks: James Kilfiger)
 >
 > o New paper size options a6paper and b6paper added.
 >   (suggested by Peter Riocreux)
 >
 > o License changed to LPPL.
 > -------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Please replace the contents of
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Sep 29 17:06:16 1999
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:47:07 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: tocloft, tocbibind, epigraph and ccaption packag es

Peter R. Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded the following files to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming:
> o tocloft.dtx and README.tocloft
> o tocbibind.dtx and README.tocbibind
> o epigraph.dtx and README.epigraph
> o ccaption.dtx and README.capption
> Could you please use the X.dtx and README.X to replace the current
> X.dtx and README in directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/X ?
>
>     These files are all released under the LPPL.
>
> From the READMEs:
>
> o The tocloft package provides control over the typography of the
> Table of Contents, List of Figures, and List of Tables. It requires
> the stdclsdv package. (Changes in version 1.0: Improved warning
> reporting and first production release).
>
> o The tocbibind package can be used to add the bibliography and/or
> the index and/or the contents, etc., to the Table of Contents
> listing. It requires the stdclsdv package. (Changes in version 1.3a:
> Fixed small problems with index numbering and options, improved
> warning reporting).
>
> o The epigraph package is designed for typesetting epigraphs --- the
> pithy quotations often found at the start (or end) of a
> chapter. Both single and lists of epigraphs are catered for. Various
> aspects are easily configurable. (Changes in vesrsion 1.2: Added
> \cleartoevenpage command and improved documentation).
>
> o The ccaption package provides commands for `continuation
> captions', unnumbered captions, and a non-specific legend heading
> for any environment. Methods are also provided to define captions
> for use outside float environments, and to define new float
> environments. (Changes in version 2.4: Added support for the
> subfigure v2.0 package).

i've installed the new files as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Oct  1 04:50:35 1999
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 10:36:45 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: [ANN]: rtf2latex2e 0.263

Ujwal Sathyam writes:

 > I have uploaded rtf2latex2e 0.263. Here are the change notes:
 >
 > Release 0.263 beta (26. Sept. 1999)
 > ===================================
 > - added support for hyperlinks using the hyperref package. Translation of
 >   hyperlinks can be turned off in the r2l-pref file or from the Preferences
 >   menu in the Mac application.
 > - fixed bugs in the translation of subscripts and superscripts.
 >
 >
 > CTAN upload info:
 >
 > Node:
 > -----
 > ftp.dante.de
 >
 > Files:
 > -----
 > rtf2latex2e/rtf2latex2eMac-0.263.sit
 > rtf2latex2e/rtf2latex2eUnix-0.263.tar.gz
 > rtf2latex2e/rtf2latex2eWin-0.263.zip
 > rtf2latex2e/Release-notes.txt
 > rtf2latex2e/README
 >
 > Installation:
 > -----------
 > tex-archive/support/rtf2latex2e
 > Please replace previous release with this release.
 >
 > Licence:
 > --------
 > GPL
 >
 > Description:
 > -----------
 > rtf2latex2e converts Rich Text Format files to LaTeX2e. It runs on Mac,
 > Unix, Linux, and Win.
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > Ujwal

Thanks a lot for your update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Oct  1 05:02:08 1999
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 10:38:33 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- epmtfe25.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:

 > I have uploaded the file epmtfe25.zip to the /incoming
 > directory at ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > This is version 2.5 of the EPM TeX Front End, an integrated
 > TeX environment for OS/2, based on the EPM editor.
 >
 > Please, move the file to the directory systems/os2/epmtfe/
 > and delete the old epmtfe24.zip.
 >
 > Apart from fixing a few minor bugs (noone has ever complained
 > about them!), I have added some support for using the
 > TeX Front End with VTeX/2 and for viewing PDF files.
 >
 >
 > Best wishes
 >
 > Walter

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct  4 05:41:38 1999
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 11:14:00 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- pitthesis v1.2

Wonkoo Kim writes:

 > I have uploaded ftp.dante.de/incoming/pitthesis.zip.
 > This is a LaTeX2e document class package for writing theses
 > at the University of Pittsburgh, PA.
 > Please replace macros/latex/contrib/supported/pitthesis/* tree
 > with this new package.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Oct  6 07:47:13 1999
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 13:25:32 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: LGrind update (version 3.62)

Michael Piefel writes:

 > I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file lgrind.tar.gz containing
 > the new version 3.62 of LGrind. Please replace the files in
 > support/lgrind with the contents of the archive.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Oct  7 13:00:19 1999
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 18:46:13 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of ctib4tex

Oliver Corff writes:

 > I uploaded ``ctib4tex.zip'' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > ctib4tex contains ``Tibetan for TeX and LATeX2e'', a package
 > using a modified version of Sirlin's Tibetan font. The great
 > advantage of this Tibetan implementation is that all consonant
 > clusters are formed by TeX and Metafont. No external preprocessor
 > is needed.
 >
 > Please install the files under tex-archive/language/tibetan/ctib.
 >
 > The GNU Public Licence is applied to this package.
 >
 > This upload provides a new package rather than replacing some
 > previous version.
 >
 > Thank you very much for your ongoing support,
 >
 > Oliver Corff,
 >
 > 1999-10-08

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the file as suggested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Oct  7 13:05:34 1999
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 18:50:53 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload request for TOPFLOAT package

Angelo Macchia writes:

 > I'm a LaTeX user and I have developed a LaTeX package (named "topfloat") to
 > move any type of float's material to top of the page.
 > The package flanks 2 floats and move them as a single box using the
 > "figure" environment.
 > My package modifies the standard layout of "\caption" by 2 command named:
 >         \figcap[width]{text}
 >         \tabcap[width]{text}
 > and 2 fonts (in TeX style):
 >         \@toptipo
 >         \@topdidascalia
 > I have uploaded this files: topfloat.sty and topfloat.tex (the documentation)
 >
 > ---> Which CTAN node I have uploaded to <---
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de
 >
 > ---> Where I want the files to go <---
 > /pub/tex/macros/latex/support/contrib/supported/topfloat
 >
 > ---> What licensing conditions I apply to my package <---
 > the same of LaTeX (I think gnu)
 >
 >
 > thanks for your attention:     A. Macchia

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/topfloat

as you suggested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 11 04:57:43 1999
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:35:59 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- geometry 2.2

Hideo Umeki writes:

 > I have uploaded the new version of `geometry' package (v2.2)
 > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry22.tar.gz. (tar + gzip)
 >
 > -------------------------------------------------
 > This new release contains the following change:
 >
 > o A bug fixed: an explicit `twoside' option was needed for even
 >                the standard book documentclass.
 >
 >   Now geometry can also recognize `twoside' given inside a documentclass.
 >   For example,
 >       \documentclass{book}
 >       \usepackage{geometry}
 >   is equivalent to
 >       \documentclass{book}
 >       \usepackage[twoside]{geometry}.
 >
 > -------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Please replace the contents of
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed the update as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Oct 11 12:15:56 1999
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:57:27 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload mathsPIC18f

Dick Nickalls writes:

> Could you please delete *all* the current directory and
> replace it with the expanded version of mpic18f.zip.
>
> -------general info ------
> MathsPIC is a DOS filter program for use with PiCTeX.
> MathsPIC 1.8f fixes an occasional problem relating to
> TeX's inability to handle scientific notation,
> and some other miscellaneous bugs.
> It also includes a utility (clean.exe) to `clean-out'
> all double commented lines (prefixed by %%) inserted
> by mathsPIC during development.
> It also includes some new commands as follows:
>
> variable(){area(ABC)}
> variable(){angle(ABC)}
> variable(){Xpoint(P)}   % gets x-coordinate of a point
> variable(){Ypoint(P)}   % gets y-coordinate of a point
> inputFile*()   % inputs files verbatim; useful for curve data
> setPointSymbol(default) % resets symbol to $\bullet$
> There is a 37 page manual in .tex/dvi/ps =
>
>
> Although mathsPIC runs nicely in a DOS box in Windoz.*,
> at least two people are currently looking at it with a view
> to porting it to UNIX/PERL.
> ---------------

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the
submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Oct 11 21:08:38 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 02:57:18 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- gloss 1.4

> From: Javier Bezos <jbezos@ARRAKIS.ES>
>
> I've uploaded to the Dante server a new version of the gloss
> package (LPPL). The files are:
>
>   gloss.sty, gloss.tex, glsplain.bst, glsbase.bib,
>   sample.tex, sample.bib, readme
>
> and should replace the whole contents of the
> .../latex/contrib/support/gloss directory.
>
> Gloss is a package which allows the creation of glossaries
> using bibTeX. This approach has several advantages:
> - bibTeX is available in every platform where TeX is.
> - Glossary entries can be stored in databases, and you needn't
>   rewrite the definitions.
> - There are a lot of tools for managing bibTeX databases.
> - bibTeX is a programable tool and you can define your own
>   styles for acronyms, symbols, and so on.
>
> This release (1.4) has many new features:
> - Multiple glossaries.
> - Entries grouped by their initials (and the possibility of
>   defining new groups for symbols, signs, numbers, and so on).
> - Reference to the page where the term is first cited.
> - A `short' field.
> - (Re)definable styles for the printed form of entries.
> - Translation of "Glossary" to several languages.
> The code has been rewritten in full.

Thanks for the new version, I installed it on CTAN as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Oct 12 10:47:59 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:25:10 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <pstoedit-3.15>

Rolf Niepraschk writes:

 > I have upload the new version of the program `pstoedit' written by
 > Wolfgang Glunz to `/incoming' on ftp.dante.de. The names of the archives
 > are
 >
 >   `pstoedit_3_15.zip' and `pstoedit_win.zip'
 >
 > Please remove the old directory `/tex-archive/support/pstoedit' and unpack
 > the archive `pstoedit_3_15.zip' with
 >
 >   unzip -a pstoedit_3_15.zip
 >
 > Then move the resulting directory `pstoedit_3.15' to
 >
 >   /tex-archive/support/pstoedit
 >
 > Next step: Create a directory `/tex-archive/support/pstoedit/win-binaries'
 > and copy `pstoedit_win.zip' to this new directory.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf


 >
 > >From `readme.txt':
 >
 > --------------------------------------
 > Copyright (C) 1993 - 1999 Wolfgang Glunz, wglunz@geocities.com
 >
 > pstoedit converts Postscript(TM) and PDF files to other vector graphic
 > formats so that they can be edited graphically. See pstoedit.htm or
 > index.htm for more details on which formats are supported by pstoedit.
 > ...
 > License:
 > --------
 >
 >     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 >     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 >     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 >     (at your option) any later version.
 > --------------------------------------
 >
 >
 > Thanks in advance,
 >
 >                                 ...Rolf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Oct 13 02:18:28 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 07:09:53 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - CMacTeX

Tom Kiffe writes:

> I have uploaded three files to the cmactex directory in /incoming on
> ftp.tex.ac.uk. The files should be moved to
> /tex-archive/nonfree/systems/mac/cmactex. Two files, doc.sit.bin and
> texmflib.sit.bin, are replacements and contain minor corrections to
> existing archives. Pdftex14c.sit.bin is the Macintosh port of
> version 0.14c of pdftex.

i've installed teh files as requested.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From sebastian.rahtz@COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC.UK Wed Oct 13 08:50:34 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:27:20 +0100
From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new package: pdfslide

I have just installed

 macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfslide

from

%% File: pdfslide.dtx Copyright (c) 1999, C. V. Radhakrishnan
%% <cvr@river-valley.com>
%%
%% This package may be distributed under the terms of the LaTeX Project
%% Public License, as described in lppl.txt in the base LaTeX distribution.
%% Either version 1.0 or, at your option, any later version.

This is a package for use with pdftex, to make nice presentation
slides. Its aims are:

* to devise a method for easier technical presentation.

* to help the mix of mathematical formulae with text and graphics
which the present day \textsc{wysiwyg} tools fail to accomplish.

* to exploit the platform independence of \TeX{} so that
presentation documents become portable.

* to offer the freedom and possibilities of using various
backgrounds and other embellishments that a user can imagine to have in
his presentation.

Sebastian Rahtz

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Oct 13 10:10:29 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:00:22 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: pdfscreen -- revision

Radhakrishnan C V writes:
 >  >
 >
 >  > one more help. i have uploaded the revised version of pdfscreen.sty (ver.
 >  > 1.0) to the directory ftp.dante.de/incoming/pdfscreen of CTAN server. the
 >  > archive name is pdfscreen-1.0.tgz.
 >  >
 >  > could you please install the same at the appropriate location? i have
 >  > forgotten the mail-id of CTAN managers.
 >  >
 >  > current revisions: foreign languages support, color schemes, user
 >  > definable configuration file, lot of bug fixes.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfscreen

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Oct 13 10:19:42 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:03:53 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Uploaded new version of dvii to ftp.dante.de

Adam Lewenberg writes:

 > * Uploaded: dvii.c and README into ftp.dante.de
 >
 > * Location: please place the files dvii.c and README in
 >             tex-archive/dviware/dvii
 >
 > * License: these files are licensed under the LPPL (Latex Project Public
 >            License)
 >
 > * What this upload does:
 >
 >   Updates dvii (dvi file information utility) to version 0.21 fixing a
 >   few small bugs. More information on dvii can be found at
 >
 >                 http://www.cs.uakron.edu/~adam/dvii.html
 >
 >
 >   From the README file:
 >
 >   dvii is a utility written in C that extracts information from a TeX
 >   dvi file. Information displayed can include a summary:
 >
 >     File comment (usually the date file was compiled)
 >     File size
 >     Number of (physical) pages
 >     Number of fonts
 >
 >   as well as more detailed information:
 >
 >     font names for all fonts used
 >     list of physical page number/TeX page number pairs
 >     list of all \specials and the page on which they appear
 >
 >
 >   Currently, I have only a few pre-compiled executables (Win 9X/NT and
 >   Solaris), so you will probably need to compile the C source.  To
 >   compile, you need to have a C compiler along with the standard C
 >   libraries. For example, if you have gcc, type
 >
 >      gcc dvii.c -o dvii.exe  (assuming DOS/Windows platform)
 >      gcc dvii.c -o dvii      (assuming Unix platform)
 >

Thanks a lot, I installed the update in

  dviware/dvii

as you requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Oct 16 11:35:11 1999
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 16:28:39 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ftp dante

Victor Eijkhout writes:

> I've uploaded version 3.6 of comment.sty to dante. Major 'feature' fix: it
> now handles ISO latin 1 correctly.

i've installed the new version in macros/latex/contrib/other/comment/comment.sty

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From sebastian.rahtz@COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC.UK Mon Oct 18 11:11:25 1999
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 17:01:43 +0200
From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@COMPUTING-SERVICES.OXFORD.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: hyperref 6.67 release

I have updated macros/latex/contrib/suppported/hyperref on CTAN to
version 6.67. This includes a good many fixes and enhancements which
have been in a series of test releases over the last few
months. Regular users _should_ see no changes!

dvipdfm users must upgrade to a recent release of that program, as
hyperref assumes use of new features added in version 0.12 (which
allow breaking of links).

Maintenance and development of hyperref is now largely in the hands of
Heiko Oberdiek (oberdiek@ruf.uni-freiburg.de), to whom many thanks are
due!

Sebastian Rahtz

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Oct 22 03:20:16 1999
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:10:33 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: jbezos@ARRAKIS.ES
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- tipos.pdf, fonteinf.pdf, dotlessi.sty

> From: Javier Bezos <jbezos@ARRAKIS.ES>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- tipos.pdf, fonteinf.pdf, dotlessi.sty
>
> 1)
>
> I've uploaded to the Dante server the following files:
>   - tipos.pdf
>   - fonteinf.pdf
>
> tipos.pdf describes (in Spanish) the large amount of types
> of files for fonts (`tipo' means `font' in Spanish).
> It's freeware (LPPL) and it should replace the current
> file in the /info/spanish/ directory. This version is basically
> a "reprint" with a few typos corrected and the main font changed
> to Times (less space, fewer troubles in some viewers).
>
> fonteinf.pdf is a translation to German of tipos.pdf kindly
> made by Thomas Ruedas.
>
> 2)
>
> The subdirectory dotlessi contains two files:
>   - readme
>   - dotlessi.sty
>
> Add dotlessi.sty to the files currently under
> .../latex/contrib/supported/bezos directory, and replace the old
> readme.
>
> Dotlessi provides dotless i's and j's for use in any math font
> (\mathrm, \mathsf, etc.). Distributed under the LPPL and documented
> in the .sty file itself.

Thanks for the submission, I installed the files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 42883-2295/2276 Fax: -2241

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Oct 22 06:00:12 1999
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:40:18 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- <easy>

> From: Enrico Bertolazzi <enrico.bertolazzi@ING.UNITN.IT>
> Subject:      CTAN Submission -- <easy>
>
> I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
> tar file easy.tar.gz. It contains the new version of easy macros
> family
>
> This file should replace
> the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
> wich contain the old versions.

Thanks a lot, I installed the new version as suggested.
>From the README file:

# the easy family macros
# Copyright 1999 - Enrico Bertolazzi

The following files are enclosed.

  README           - This file
  *.sty            - the style files
  doc.html.tar.gz  - doumentation in html format
  doc.dvi/         - doumentation in dvi format
  perl/            - support for latex2html

The style file files are the following:

easy.sty
easyeqn.sty
easybmat.sty
easymat.sty
easytable.sty
easyvector.sty
easybib.sty

* easy.sty is a file which contains common definitions for all the packages.
  It is included from the others style files.

* easyeqn.sty introduces some equation environments that simplify writing
  of equations.  It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to
  define the column alignment.  The label field is fully customizable.  A
  package option permits to number only those equations that were ``labeled
  and referenced''.  Some additional macros are also included to facilitate
  typing of formulae.

* easymat.sty and easybmat.sty are useful for writing block matrices, with
  equal column widths or equal rows heights or both, with various kinds of
  rules~(lines) between rows and columns.  It uses an array/tabular-like
  syntax.

* easytable.sty is a macro package for writing tables, with equal column
  widths or equal rows heights or both, with various kinds of rules~(lines)
  between rows and columns.  It uses an array/tabular-like syntax.

* easyvector.sty is a simple macro package that provides a C-like syntax
  for writing vectors or matrices.

* easybib.sty introduces some new items for easy customization of the
  bibliography.

The support for latex2html contained in the perl/ directory is in an early
stage and is quite complete only for easyeqn package.

____________________________________________________________________________
Enrico Bertolazzi
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Strutturale
Universit� degli Studi di Trento
Via Mesiano 77                        Tel: +39-461-882589/90
I-38050 Trento                        Fax: +39-461-882599
Italy                                 mailto:enrico.bertolazzi@ing.unitn.it
____________________________________________________________________________

P.S. if you are an happy user of one of these macros I will appreciate
a postcard with a photo of your city.

The license is LPPL.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
Reinhard Zierke                       Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik
zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 42883-2295/2276 Fax: -2241

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Oct 26 11:59:02 1999
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 17:40:36 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- bibunits v2.1

 > I have just uploaded version 2.1 of bibunits.
 >
 > --  uploaded file: bibunits.tar.gz
 > --  uploaded to CTAN node: dante.ctan.org (ftp.dante.de)
 > --  recommended place: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/bibunits
 > --  licensing condition: lppl
 > --  brief summary: multiple references in one document
 >     changes to version 2.0
 >     . overcite compatibility
 >     . natbib compatibility
 >     . cite made robust

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Oct 28 08:42:02 1999
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:31:27 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload -- BaKoMa TeX 2.20

Basil K. Malyshev writes:

 >
 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
 > upgrade for BaKoMa TeX 2.20.
 > Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
 >
 > Bye.
 > Basil K. Malyshev
 > 27-Oct-1999

Thanks a lot, I installed the update in

   nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf



 >
 > ------------------- Information about BaKoMa TeX 2.20 update ----------------
 >
 > New version of BaKoMa TeX has following important features:
 >
 >   1. It can work without ATM (Adobe Type Manager).
 >
 >   2. It supports using Unicoded TrueType fonts.
 >
 >   3. Kernel includes metrics and configuration records for TrueType
 >      fonts distributed with any Windows systems. These fonts are:
 >      Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New, Symbol,
 >      Lucida Sans Unicode, and Lucida Console.
 >
 >   4. Kernel includes aliases to use mentioned Windows fonts instead
 >      of Standard PostScript Fonts (Times, Helvetica, Courier, Symbol).
 >
 >   5. Encoding of Outlines embedded into PDF file can be controlled.
 >
 >
 > NOTE: new version can use both Type 1 and TrueType font formats.
 >
 > For more information about changes look at:
 >         CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/dst/changes.html
 >
 > ---------------- End of Information about BaKoMa TeX 2.20 update -------------

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Nov  2 02:13:22 1999
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 09:07:05 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- rmligs 0.80

> From: Bjoern Jacke <bjoern.jacke@GMX.DE>
>
> ich lade gerade ein Paket namens rmligs-0.80.tar.gz auf dante.ctan.org.
> Es dient dazu, in Deutschen LaTeX Dokumenten fehlerhafte Ligaturen (wie bei
> auffinden -> auf"|finden) zu korrigieren. Es ist in Perl geschrieben und steht
> unter der GPL 2.
> Ich denke es sollte unter /support/rmligs gestellt werden, korrekt?

Thanks for the submission, I installed it in tex-archive/support/rmligs
as suggested.

For not-german readers, i.e. most of the world, this is a program for removing
incorrectly used ligatures from LaTeX documents. This version is intended for
German language texts only.

The license is GPL 2.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Nov  2 03:39:01 1999
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:23:30 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Test for new version of custom-bib

> From: "Daly Dr., Patrick" <daly@LINMPI.MPG.DE>
>
> I have uploaded a beta version of the next release of my custom-bib
> collection, also known as makebst or merlin.
>
> There are two files in the dante incoming directory:
>
> merlin4b1.zip
> README.4b1
>
> Please move both to    contrib/supported/custom-bib
>
> Regards, Patrick Daly
>
> Here is an excerpt from the README.4b1 file:
>
> MERLIN version 4.00  Beta 1
>
> This is a pre-release version of the revised merlin.mbs.
>
> David Carlisle and Arthur Ogawa have added new features and overhauled
> the code considerably in order to provide the American Physical Society
> with a special variant of merlin.mbs. I have been asked to incorporated
> these changes into the regular issue. I consider the changes to be
> important enough to justify this update.
>
> However, the code rewrite did add a number of bugs which my own testing
> discovered. I now want to release it for further testing by interested
> users before I replace the existing official version (3.89) with this
> 4.00.
>
> Merlin 4.00 also requires the updated makebst driver program (also v
> 4.0). The protocols written by this program are more extensive than the
> older ones.

Thanks for the submission, I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Nov  4 02:08:40 1999
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 08:58:26 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- TeEncontreX

> From: Manuel Gutierrez Algaba <irmina@CTV.ES>
>
> What's TeEncontreX ?
> --------------------
> It's an attempt to collect and centralize all the available data
> about TeX, so that:
> - Anyone will be able to find information in one place. No need for
> books, FAQ's...
> - Any newbie can learn TeX very fast, just reading the articles.
> - People can add new articles (very easily) to the database.
> - A data base of examples and tips can be used.
> - The model it's very simple and it's somehow related to XML, because
> it's basically a mark-up document, and a (trivial ) parsing system.
> - All its contents may be found at
>  http://www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina/TeEncontreX.html, where it'll
> be updated frequently.
>
> What's TeEncontreX made of?
> ---------------------------
> It's made of three parts:
> - The database ( Too.tex). It seems LaTeX, but it won't compile,
> because it needs some \begin{verbatim}. Anyway it's a good idea
> to have it in that form.
> - The parser that creates the set of html. (AnalizaToo.py)
> - The help files ( the result). All of them are thus: TeEncontreX*html
> and the main files is called TeEncontreX.html  .
>
> What's the license of it?
> -------------------------
> It's GPL, but that's the license of the compilation as a whole.
> I usually take the articles from USENET or mailing lists, so each
> article 'has' an author. If any author wants his article to be
> removed from the database, obviously it will be removed or the
> article will be 'adapted' :).
>
> How to submit new articles/add articles/create my own database ?
> Take a look at Too.tex and you'd realise the way the database is
> constructed. Then email me at irmina@ctv.es
>
> As this software is GPL you can build your own database system,
> but if you do so, i'd like at least to know it :) , that my work
> has been useful and good.
>
> Enjoy it!
>
> I'd like it to go in the general doc directory.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed your documentation system on CTAN
in /tex-archive/documentation/spanish/TeEncontreX

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Nov  5 11:05:15 1999
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 16:59:04 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload -- multirow and bigdelim

Piet van Oostrum writes:

> in /ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/multirow/
> bigdelim.sty
> multirow.sty
>
> To be placed in macros/latex/contrib/supported/multirow
>
> multirow has a couple of bugs fixed and an enhancement, bigdelim is an
> application of multirow for delimiters inside arrays and tabulars.
>
> These files are freely distributable.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Nov  7 05:08:54 1999
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 11:01:53 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission  - makefonts

> From: Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@ELEC.CANTERBURY.AC.NZ>
>
> I have uploaded   ftp.dante.de:incoming/makefonts-2.0.tar.gz
>
> to completely replace the existing fonts/utilities/makefonts
>
> License: none (or pd, if you prefer)
>
> The package contains shells scripts which cause pk files to be
> generated. I still prefer to generate a basic set of pk files, leaving
> the automatic font generation mechanism for more esoteric fonts. Not too
> many people might agree with me, but I still find it useful so I upload
> it. Based on the script allcm from an unknown source (teTeX?).

Thanks for the upload, I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex/-archive/fonts/utilities/makefonts as requested

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Nov  7 05:24:23 1999
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 11:12:12 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submisson -- scrnger 1.1

> From: Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@RUF.UNI-FREIBURG.DE>
>
> I have uploaded 'scrnger.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
> This contains the package 'scrnger.sty'.
>   It adds support for the language 'ngerman' to the
> current versions of class 'scrlettr.cls' and the
> package 'scrdate.sty, both are part of 'koma-script'.
>
> As location I suggest:
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script/contrib/scrnger.sty
>
> The licence is LPPL 1.1.

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the file on CTAN in
/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script/contrib/scrnger.sty
as suggested.  It will be removed when the forthcoming next KOMA-Script
release find its way to CTAN as it will have ngerman support.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Nov  7 06:17:41 1999
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 12:11:47 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- qbibman

> From: Ralf Goertz <Ralf.Goertz@uni-jena.de>
>
> ich habe gerade die Datei "qbibman-1.0.tar.gz" auf "ftp.dante.de/incoming"
> kopiert.
> Dabei handelt es sich um ein grafisches Frontend zu BibTool von Gerd Neugebauer
> auf Basis von Qt. Die Lizenz ist GPL. Am besten aufgehoben w�re das Programm
> unter "/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils".

Thanks fo the submission, I installed it on CTAN in
/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/qbibman.

qbibman is a graphical frontend to BibTool based on the Qt library.
To compile it you need the BibTool sources from
CTAN:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/BibTool-2.43.tar.gz
and the Qt class library from http://www.troll.no/ (Linux KDE users should
already have this ;-))

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Nov  9 05:16:35 1999
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 11:14:36 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: latex2rtf_1.8aa upload

Wilfried Hennings writes:

 > I just uploaded to  ftp.dante.de
 > into  incoming/latex2rtf
 > the following files
 > to be put into /pub/tex/support/latex2rtf:
 > latex2rtf-1.8aa.tar.gz   - complete source
 > latex2rtf-1.8aa_w32.zip  - executable for win32
 > readme.txt               - short description
 >
 > (this is a small patch to the existing version 1.8a)

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Nov 10 07:07:15 1999
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:05:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: snapshot package for LaTeX

Michael Downes writes:

> I have uploaded snapshot.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. It should go
> into macros/latex/contrib/supported/snapshot. License is lppl.
> Description is below (adapted from the .dtx file).
>
> ========================================================================
>
> This is to announce the release of a LaTeX package "snapshot" that helps
> the owner of a LaTeX document obtain a list of the external dependencies
> of the document, in a form that can be embedded at the top of the
> document. To put it another way, it provides a snapshot of the current
> processing context of the document, insofar as it can be determined from
> inside LaTeX.
>
> The home site of the package is ftp.ams.org:
>
>   ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/snapshot.zip [.tgz, .tar.Z]
>
> If a document contains such a dependency list, then it becomes possible
> to arrange that the document be processed always with the same versions
> of everything, in order to ensure the same output. This could be useful
> for someone wanting to keep a LaTeX document on hand and consistently
> reproduce an identical DVI file from it, on the fly; or for someone
> wanting to shield a document during the final stages of its production
> cycle from unexpected side effects of routine upgrades to the TeX
> system.
>
> Normal usage involves the following steps:
>
> 1. Add a \RequirePackage statement at the top of the document:
>
>   \RequirePackage{snapshot}
>   \documentclass{article}
>     ...
>
> 2. Run LaTeX on the document. This will produce a dependency list in
> a file \jobname.dep.
>
> 3. Insert the .dep file at the top of the document, before
> \documentclass. The following example shows what you would typically end
> up with for a document that used the article documentclass and the
> graphicx package:
>
>   \RequirePackage{snapshot}
>   \RequireVersions{
>     *{application}{TeX}     {1990/03/25 3.x}
>     *{format} {LaTeX2e}     {1999/06/01 v2.e}
>     *{package}{snapshot}    {1999/11/03 v1.02}
>     *{class}  {article}     {1999/01/07 v1.4a}
>     *{file}   {size10.clo}  {1999/01/07 v1.4a}
>     *{package}{graphicx}    {1999/02/16 v1.0f}
>     *{package}{keyval}      {1999/03/16 v1.13}
>     *{package}{graphics}    {1999/02/16 v1.0l}
>     *{package}{trig}        {1999/03/16 v1.09}
>     *{file}   {graphics.cfg}{0000/00/00 v0.0}
>     *{file}   {dvips.def}   {1999/02/16 v3.0i}
>   }
>   \documentclass{article}
>   \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
>     ...
>
> Making the necessary arrangements to ensure that future LaTeX runs of
> the document actually call in the specified versions is a separate
> problem. The snapshot package only provides a way to generate the
> dependency list. However, the \RequireVersions statement does record the
> given information in a form that can be accessed from within LaTeX. (It
> is for this purpose that it is not simply a comment.) In principle a
> package could be set up so that a later version would automatically
> attempt to emulate an earlier version if an earlier version was
> specified---much as LaTeX currently switches to 2.09 compatibility mode
> if it sees \documentstyle instead of \documentclass.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Nov 11 04:25:33 1999
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:24:33 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: permute

Carsten Heinz writes:
 > I've uploaded `permute.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > The three zipped files should replace the files in
 >
 >     /macros/latex/contrib/supported/permute
 >
 > The new version of permute provides some new and enhanced
 > commands. It is now distributed under lppl.
 >
 > Many thanks in advance
 > Carsten

Thanks a lot, I installed the update

 For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Nov 12 20:14:04 1999
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 01:11:23 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- expressg package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded expressg.tar to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Can you
> please install this in what you consider to be the proper place on
> CTAN, somewhere under graphics/metapost/contrib I would guess. The
> tar file will untar into the expressg directory which will have four
> files: README, expressg.dtx and .ins, and expeg.ps.
>
>      The distribution is released under the LPPL. I intend to keep
> supporting the package.
>
> From the README
>
>     The expressg MetaPost package provides facilities to assist in
> drawing diagrams that consist of boxes, lines, and
> annotations. Particular support is provided for creating EXPRESS-G
> diagrams.

i've installed the package in graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/expressg,
which seems more or less appropriate.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov 15 06:47:01 1999
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:45:03 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- bizcard-1.1

Sebastian Marius Kirsch writes:

 > I uploaded an update for the bizcard package to ftp.dante.de; please
 > replace the files in macros/latex/contrib/supported/bizcard by the new
 > files in /incoming/bizcard.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov 15 06:52:43 1999
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:49:23 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Re-notification of submission of TeEncontreX

Manuel Gutierrez Algaba writes:
 > Submission of TeEncontreX
 > _________________________
 >    + what you've uploaded
 > These are the files:
 > - AllTeEncontreX.1.1.tar  : Tar unix file comprising, Too.tex
 > (database ), AnalizaToo.py, TeEncontreX*html....( everything)
 > - TeEncontreX.zip : Zip file(windows compatible), comprising
 > the same that AllTeEncontreX.1.1.tar ( I wonder why it's double
 > its size!!)
 > - AnalizaToo.py : It's the python script than produces all
 > TeEncontreX.html
 > - Too.tex.gz : It's the gziped (Unix ) database
 >
 > And in the directory /incoming/TeEncontreX_more_sorry
 >
 > - Too.zip: It's the zipped( Unix ) database
 > - CHANGES: file describing the changes
 > - translations.py : python script for translating AnalizaToo.py
 >
 >    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
 > - ftp.dante.de
 >    + where you want the files to go
 > /tex-archive/documentation/spanish/TeEncontreX
 >    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
 >      below).
 > GPL
 >    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
 > It's a HTML-based help for (La)TeX. You browse items and concepts
 > instead of searching for them. In fact, it's an exact mirror of
 > http://www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina/TeEncontreX.html .

I unpacked AllTeEncontreX.1.1.tar and installed its contents into

  documentation/spanish/TeEncontreX

as requested. Thanks for the update.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Nov 16 06:20:44 1999
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 11:19:24 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Submission: new version of Songbook.sty

Christopher Rath writes:

> I have placed a new version of my Songbook style in the incoming
> directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk.  The file is called
> SongbookRelease-3.1.tar.gz.  There is a version of the style already
> on the CTAN hosts, in the macros/latex/contrib/supported/songbook
> directory, and this new release should replace that old one.
>
> P.S. The release notes for the package are as follows:
> --8><---8><---8><---8><---8><---8><---8><---8><---8><---8><-
> @(#)$Id: relnotes.txt,v 1.10 1999/11/14 23:42:13 crath Exp $
>
>                                - - - - - - - - -
>
>                            R E L E A S E   N O T E S
>
>                        - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
>                LaTeX Songbook Style, Version 3.1, 13 November'99
>
>               - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
>                    Copyright (c) 1992--1999 Christopher Rath
>                              All rights reserved.
>
>               - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
>                        Christopher Rath <crath@cyberus.ca>
>
>               - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> Legal Stuff:
>
>     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
>     under the terms of the "Artistic License" which comes with this package.
>
>     This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
>     ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
>     FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the Artistic License for more
>     details.
>
>     You should have received a copy of the Artistic License with this package,
>     in the file named "Artistic".  If not, I'll be glad to provide one.
>
>
> Changes In Release 3.1:
>
>     * removed dependance upon twocolumn.sty; this isn't required in LaTeX2e
>
>     * added an optional first parameter to \SBEnd and \SBIntro which causes the
>       introduction or the ending to be printed in words only mode as well as in
>       chord mode
>
>     * added the three environments that had been documented on the man page
>       didn't appear in the songbook.sty file (I ran out of time when
>       implementing the changes for version 3.0, and then forgot to remove the
>       descriptions from the man page): SBSection*, SBVerse* and SBChorus*.  The
>       definition for the SBVerse* environment was supplied by Herbert Martin
>       Dietze <herbert@fh-wedel.de>; and this formed a model for the other two
>
>     * corrected definition of \SBBracketTagFont in overhead.sty
>
>     * added a sample songbook containing 23 traditional Christmas Carols to
>       the contrib section
>
>
> Changes In Release 3.0:
>
>     * new user contributed code distributed with this package; see the contrib
>       directory
>
>     * the song, SBVerse, SBChorus, and SBSection environments, and the \STitle
>       macro, all set either \leftmark or \rightmark.  I've also added a macro
>       to make it easy to place a ``<Some title> cont...'' string in the page
>       header.
>
>     * the song environment now handles empty copyright and W\&M parameters in a
>       special fashion
>
>     * the \Ch macro has been completely re-written.  The significant change is
>       that a new command automatically draws a rule when the chord is bigger
>       than the syllable.
>
>     * the new \Ch maros now raise the chord a specified height above the text;
>       rather than relying upon a \strut to determine the height
>
>     * all the \if constructs that had been defined (and used) within the
>       Songbook style are now superceded with properly defined elements (created
>       using \newif)
>
>     * the font used for chords (as defined by \ChFont) has been
>       changed to a bold, compressed, sans serif font, cmssbc12.
>
>
> chordbk.sty, wordbk.sty, overhead.sty:
>
>     These styles have been used to produce the songbooks for our church.  We
>     needed to produce books that our song-leaders could use, as well as books
>     for use in the congregation.  So, these styles were written.
>
>     The `chordbk.sty' is used to print a songbook with words and chords.  The
>     `wordbk.sty' is used to print a words-only songbook.  The `overhead.sty' is
>     used to print overhead transparencies.  They all use the same LaTeX input
>     file.  `wordbk.sty' and `overhead.sty' simply ignore all of the chord
>     information.
>
>
> sb-manpg.tex:
>
>     This is the formal documentation for the songbook styles.  A .dvi file is
>     provided, as well as the .tex file.
>
>
> sample-sb.tex:
>
>     This is a sample songbook.  This file is used to produce the sample???.dvi
>     files included with this package.  To regenerate the .dvi files, simply
>     uncomment the appropriate \document line and re-LaTeX the file.
>
>
> Manifest:
>
>     Artistic            Terms & conditions under which the style is distributed.
>     chordbk.sty         Words and chords sub-style.
>     conditionals.sty    Donald Arseneau's conditional tests.
>     contrib/            Directory containing user contributed utilities.
>     mksbkdx             A shell script to make the index by song key.
>     mksbtdx             A shell script to make the index by song title.
>     overhead.sty        Overhead transparency sub-style.
>     relnotes.txt        The songbook package release notes (this file).
>     sample-sb.tex       A sample songbook.
>     sampleCBK.dvi       Sample-sb.tex formatted using chordbk.sty.
>     sampleKdx.dvi       The sample key index run through LaTeX.
>     sampleKdx.tex       Key index for the sample songbook.
>     sampleOH.dvi        Sample-sb.tex formatted using overhead.sty.
>     sampleTdx.dvi       The sample title index run through LaTeX.
>     sampleTdx.tex       Title index for the sample songbook.
>     sampleToc.dvi       The sample TOC run through LaTeX.
>     sampleToc.tex       TOC for the sample songbook.
>     sampleWBK.dvi       Sample-sb.tex formatted using wordbk.sty.
>     sb-manpg.dvi        The manual page run through LaTeX.
>     sb-manpg.tex        The songbook style manual page.
>     songbook.ist        The songbook package makeindex .ist file.
>     songbook.sty        The base style file.
>     wordbk.sty          Words only sub-style.
>
>
> Support:
>
>     Please email me for help using the files.  Please let me know about any
>     bugs and problems.
>
>     There is a SongBook Style home page.  Its URL is:
>
>         http://www.cyberus.ca/~crath/Misc/Songbook/
>
>     I will make bug fixes, other user's contributed macros and scripts, and the
>     latest release of the software available on this web server.

thanks for the upload.  i've installed it on ctan as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Nov 16 06:44:33 1999
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 11:44:02 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: parskip.sty -- zero \parindent, nonzero \parskip, adjustments

i have marginally edited H. Partl's (it says here) parskip.sty of
1989, (a) to add the missing setting of \partopskip that i recently
mentioned on comp.text.tex, and (b) to insert a \ProvidesPackage
command so the package's purpose is recorded in .log files.

the new version is to be found at

  macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/parskip.sty

i have deleted the old version

  macros/latex209/contrib/misc/parskip.sty

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Nov 23 12:13:45 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:11:33 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- ccfonts1.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Dear CTAN team,
 >
 > I have uploaded the archive file ccfonts1.zip to the
 > /incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > This archive contains the files
 >
 >   cc.fdd
 >   readme
 >
 > They are part of the LaTeX interface for the
 > Computer Concrete Fonts; please, put them into the
 > CTAN directory
 >
 >   macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts/
 >
 > thus replacing two of the existing files.  (The other files,
 > ccfonts.dtx and liesmich, remain unchanged).  Notice, that
 > the files in my archive have got Unix-style line endings.
 >
 > This submission will fix a bug in the font definitions
 > of the Concrete text companion fonts, which has recently
 > been reported by Vladimir Volovich.

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Nov 23 17:45:51 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:45:06 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- expressg package and metafp info

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded expressg.tar and metafp.ps to tex/ac/uk/incoming.
>
>     Please use expressg.tar to replace the current
> graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/expressg. This is an update (more
> boxes, linestyles and examples) of my MetaPost package for drawing
> BLA (box, line, annotation) diagrams. The release is still under the
> LPPL.

done.

>     Metafp.ps is a PostScript article entitled "Some Experiences in
> Running METAFONT and MetaPost", and may help those having difficulty
> in running METAFONT or MetaPost. Unless you have another place you
> would like to put it, how about in the tex-archive/info directory?

users should note that this is `metafp.ps' (i.e., an all-lower-case
file name).  i've installed it as suggested in the info directory.

thanks, peter, for the uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Nov 29 17:12:47 1999
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:11:00 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- ltx2x

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded 4 files to tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you
> please delete the 2 files l2xlib.c and README.ltx2x. For the other 2
> files, please use l2xlib.c2 (suitably renamed) to replace the file
> tex-archive/support/ltx2x/l2xlib.c and similarly use README2.ltx2x
> (renamed) to replace the ltx2x/README file.
>
>     The LTX2X program upto and including version 0.7 (November 1996)
> was funded by the United States Government and is not subject to
> copyright. This version (0.91) is released under the LPPL.
>
> From the README
>     The LTX2X program, which is written in C, replaces LaTeX
> commands in a document by user-defined strings. In essence, LaTeX
> tags can be replaced by other kinds of document tags (e.g.,
> HTML/SGML or RTF) or can be removed altogether (deTeXed). The
> program also has an unsophisticated pretty-print capability.
>
>     Version 0.91 fixes the bug whereby a CHAR_COMMAND did not
> recognise command arguments.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Nov 30 03:17:16 1999
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 08:16:04 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN - submission

Oleg Motygin writes:

> I uploaded to CTAN the following files:
>    REFCHECK.STY
>    REFDEMO.TEX
>    README

actually, the file names are all lower case (like the existing files
on the archive).

> They are collected in the directory ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/refcheck
> Here is the contents of readme:
> *  RefCheck.sty is intended to check references. It looks for
> *  numbered but unlabelled equations, for labels, which are not
> *  used in the text, for unused bibliography references. Besides,
> *  it displays label and bibitem `keys' in text margins.
> *
> *  RefDemo.tex is a short description of usage of RefCheck.sty.
>
> This is a new version of refcheck for LaTeX2e.
>
> I would like you to move the files of previous version of refcheck
> (written for LaTeX2.09) from
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/refcheck
> to
> macros/latex209/contrib/refcheck

we don't any longer create new latex209 directories; i've moved the
directory to obsolete/macros/latex209/contrib/refcheck instead

> and place the new files to
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/refcheck

i've done this as requested.

> The licensing conditions I apply to the software is gpl.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec  1 04:24:43 1999
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 09:23:32 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ltx2x

>     It's the bad penny again.

there's pennies and pennies, y'know.

> I've uploaded the files README, makefile, l2xlib.c, l2xiscan.c and
> l2xirexp.c to tex.ac.uk/incoming/ltx2x. Could you please use these
> to replace the files of the same names in support/ltx2x?

done

>     This update is kindly due to Thomas Ruedas who discovered some
> shortcomings and suggested some improvements. Changes include:
> o An h option to ltx2x to print brief usage instructions
> o Changes to make the makefile more robust and useful
> o Elimination of whines from gcc

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec  1 18:53:59 1999
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 23:52:39 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- epigraph package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I've uploaded epigraph.dtx to tex.ac.uk/incoming. Please use
> this as a replacement for the current version in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/epigraph.
>
>     It's still LPPL and the change is to add commands to move
> chapter titles vertically to avoid collisions with long epigraphs
> (documentation improved as well).

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Dec  3 02:48:48 1999
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 07:47:44 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: uploaded rcs.patch

Jeffrey Goldberg writes:

> By popular request, I've uploaded my patch for
> macros/latex/supported/rcs/rcs.sty to
>
>  /incoming/rcs.patch
>
> on ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> However I am NOT the maintainer of that package, so am not sure that it is
> appropriate for my patch to go into the same directory.  However, I can't
> think of where else it should go.
>
> Presumably the patch should disappear once the maintainer or rcs.sty
> incorporates my changes into rcs.  So it might be premature for me to
> upload this at all.
>
> It's GPL'ed.
>
> The purpose of the patch is to allow the \RCSDate command to pick up a
> babel redefinition of \today.

i've installed the file in a new directory, as

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/rcs/contrib/rcs.patch

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Dec  6 06:56:34 1999
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 11:54:17 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: braket.sty update

Donald Arseneau writes:

> Uploaded to cambridge:  updated braket.sty to replace existing version.
> (in ..latex/contrib/other/misc, although the macros are generic
> and could really be in macros/generic)
>
> Public domain:
> % This is free, unencumbered, unsupported software.
>
> Oops, I forgot to add "public domain" to that line to avoid all possibility
> of confusion... Lord deliver me from "The author contributes this software

:-)

> This minor revision will use eTeX's \middle primitive if it is available.

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Dec  6 11:01:27 1999
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 16:52:22 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinTeXShell32

Dirk Struve writes:

 > I have uploaded the directory texshell32
 > to ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > It contains three files:
 >
 > WinTeXShell32.zip     The program
 > WinTeXShell32src.zip  Sourcecode
 > WinTeXShell32.txt     Short description
 >
 > It is a new release of the Windows TeXShell
 > WinTeXShell32.
 >
 > License: GPL
 >
 > Please put the files into:
 >
 > /pup/tex/systems/win32/texshell32/

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it in

  systems/win32/texshell3

as requested.

 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Dec  7 05:37:20 1999
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 11:34:37 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 2.21

Basil K. Malyshev writes:

 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
 > upgrade for BaKoMa TeX 2.21.
 > Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
 >
 > Bye.
 > Basil K. Malyshev
 > 6-Dec--1999
 >
 > ------------------- Information about BaKoMa TeX 2.21 update ----------------
 >
 > New version of BaKoMa TeX has following important features:
 >
 >   1. Support for generating collection of PDF files that share the same
 >      font files.
 >   2. Metrics for fonts distributed together with Windows 98 are included.
 >      These metric files are distributed in separated installation module (Win98)
 >   3. Moderation of inheritance of system environment variables.
 >   4. Anti-Virus checking.
 >      Basic programs from BaKoMa TeX IDE check own integrity at startup time.
 >   5. Bug fixing and refinments for: spell checker dictionary loader,
 >      using TrueType fonts, using Type 1 fonts in ATM-less mode, DVIPS.
 >
 > For more information about changes look at:
 >         CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/dst/changes.html
 >
 > ---------------- End of Information about BaKoMa TeX 2.21 update -------------
 >

Thanks a lot for the upgrade, I installed it in

  nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Dec  7 05:41:34 1999
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 11:39:38 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- grverb

Apostolos Syropoulos writes:

 >   I have uploaded at ftp.dante.de the zip file grverb.zip which contains
 > the grverb package and the necessary font files. You should unzip the file
 > in the directory pub/tex/languages/greek/package-babel.

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the package as

   languages/greek/package-babel/grverb

 > Moroever, I believe
 > you should move the directory grtimes, which resides in the directory
 > /pub/tex/languages/greek into the directory package-babel, as this package
 > is related to the babel package.

Moved to

  languages/greek/package-babel/grtimes

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec  7 08:49:09 1999
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 13:42:12 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: extsizes upload

James Kilfiger writes:

> I've uploaded a file `extsizes.tar.gz' to the cambridge node
>
> This is an adaptation of Wolfgang May's extsizes (and is uploaded with
> his permission). It provides two classes: extarticle and extreport,
> which allow for documents with a base font of size 8--20pt.  An attempt
> is made to correct the spacing to suit the font size (though I make no
> great claims for the typographic quality of these class options)
>
> The licence is lppl and it should be placed in
> macros/latex/contrib/other/extsizes/

i've installed the classes (and .clo files) as requested.  thanks for
the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Dec  9 11:35:05 1999
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:31:32 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload

Christian Lackas writes:

 > I have written a perl-script that extracts images from postscriptfiles.
 > Someone asked me if I can send it to the CTAN, so I uploaded the file
 > (psrip.tgz) to ftp.dante.de.
 > The file should go to ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/.
 > The script is published under the GPL.

Thanks for your upload. I installed it under

  support/psrip

as you suggested. The readme file is appended to this announcement.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

----

psrip 1.1 (c) 1999 Christian Lackas

psrip is a perl-script that extracts images from postscriptfiles.
It saves them to the current directory if no other directory is
given with the -d parameter.

Usage  : psrip [-d dir] psfile(s)
  extracts images from postscriptfiles and saves them in
  the current directory or <dir> if given.
Example: psrip -d images skript1.ps skript2.ps

If there is no 'BoundingBox' specified in the extracted image you
have to insert it by hand.
E.g. for din-a4 size:
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 842

 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.

Christian Lackas, <delta@clackas.de>
http://www.clackas.de

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Dec 10 05:32:43 1999
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:28:40 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinTeXShell32

Dirk Struve writes:

 > I have uploaded the directory texshell32
 > to ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > It contains three files:
 >
 > WinTeXShell32.zip     The program
 > WinTeXShell32src.zip  Sourcecode
 > WinTeXShell32.txt     Short description
 >
 > It is a new release of the Windows TeXShell
 > WinTeXShell32.
 >
 > License: GPL
 >
 > Please put the files into:
 > /pup/tex/systems/win32/texshell32/

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in

   systems/win32/texshell32

as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Dec 10 05:39:12 1999
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:38:22 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: nestquot.sty

Florian Hars submitted the following package to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: nestquot.sty
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/other/
 > Summary description: quotes that change between double and single according to their nesting level
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > nestquot provides two new commands: \nlq and \nrq for nesting left and right quotes that properly change between double and single quotes according to their nesting level, e. g. the input
 >   \nlq Foo \nlq bar\nrq\ bletch\nrq
 > will be typeset as if it had been entered as
 >   ``Foo `bar' bletch''
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

The package has been installed in the suggested location

   macros/latex/contrib/other/nestquot

Virtually yours,
   CTAN Upload management

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Dec 13 14:22:03 1999
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:19:04 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- `ut-thesis' files: UPDATE

Francois Pitt writes:
 > On `ftp.dante.de', in the directory "/incoming/fpitt/", I have just
 > uploaded the following three files:
 >
 >     README.ut-thesis
 >     ut-thesis.tex
 >     ut-thesis.cls
 >
 > which contain corrections and updates of the files in the directory
 > "/tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/ut-thesis/".  Please
 > update these files.
 >
 > Thank you!
 >
 >  (= Francois =)

Thanks a lot, I installed the upadte as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Dec 13 14:34:19 1999
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:30:03 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- contour

Harald Harders writes:

 > I uploaded the file contour.tar.gz to the ftp server ftp.dante.de.
 > Please unpack it to CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/contour.
 >
 > The package contour package generates a colored contour around a given
 > text in order to enable printing text over a background without the need
 > of a color box around the text.
 >
 > The licence is still LPPL.
 > The file contains a bug fix that appeared using characters like y, p, q, g
 > etc.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec 14 06:42:48 1999
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:41:58 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: remove Euro-OzTeX

Bernard Gaulle writes:

>   I just see that the Euro-OzTeX made by YH on behalf of
> GUTenberg is still on CTAN and even in the "nonfree" tree.
> This stuff of 1995 is definitely obsolate and i ask the CTAN
> team to remove it.

one appreciates the necessity to remove the package, but the
implication that we should put a shareware package somewhere other
than the nonfree tree is plainly not sensible.

i have removed the package as suggested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Dec 17 09:03:38 1999
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:59:32 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission: MiKTeX 1.20e

From: cs@MIKTEX.DE
> I have uploaded MiKTeX 1.20e to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/1.20.
> Please:
>
>   - copy the contents of ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/1.20/ recursively
>     (because there are subdirectories) to the CTAN directory
>     systems/win32/miktex/1.20
>
>   - remove obsolete files: systems/win32/miktex/1.20/tth.*
>
> MiKTeX 1.20e is a free distribution.

Thanks for the upload, I installed it on dante.ctan.org (aka ftp.dante.de)
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

> >From the MiKTeX NEWS file:
>
> Updated Packages
> ----------------
>
>    * Dvipdfm 0.12.6e; now includes the utility `dvipdft' (imbed
>      thumbnail images).
>
>    * Texinfo 4.0
>
>    * LaTeX <1999/06/01>, Babel v3.6z, Hyperref v6.67e
>
>    * AMS-LaTeX v2
>
>    * pdfTeX 0.14d
>
>    * FreeType 1.3 utilities: `getafm', `ttf2pfb', `ttf2pk', `ttf2tfm'
>
> New Features
> ------------
>
>    * TeX: the TeX compiler accepts fully qualified file names with
>      spaces, i.e. it's now possible to say something like: `latex
>      "C:\My Thesis\Thesis.tex"'.
>
>    * TeX: new option `--interaction=MODE': sets TeX's interaction mode
>      (one of: `batchmode', `nonstopmode', `scrollmode',
>      `errorstopmode').
>
>    * TeX: new option `--quiet': suppresses output unless there are
>      errors (implies `--c-style-errors').
>
>    * Yap: two new toolbar buttons to control color interpolation of
>      text.
>
>    * Yap: emTeX line specials are now supported.
>
>    * TeXify: new option `--run-viewer': invokes a viewer on the
>      resulting `.pdf'/`.dvi' file. This option (and some Registry
>      wizardry) makes it possible to associate `.tex' files with a
>      viewer, i.e. double-clicking a `.tex' file opens the resulting
>      `.pdf'/`.dvi' file.
>
>    * TeXify: new option `--viewer-option=OPTION': can be used to pass
>      OPTION to the viewer.
>
>    * TeXify: new option `--mkidx-option=OPTION': can be used to pass
>      OPTION to the index generator. Useful if one wants to specify
>      MakeIndex style files.
>
>    * TeXify: new option `--tex-option=OPTION': can be used to pass
>      OPTION to the (La)TeX compiler.
>
>    * METAFONT: new option `--screen': enables METAFONT's online display
>      (thanks to Wolfgang Kleinschmit who supplied the patches).
>
> Anti Features
> -------------
>
>    * TtH has been removed from the MiKTeX distribution due to license
>      problems (TtH is not free software).

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Dec 19 05:43:35 1999
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 11:42:11 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- dvii 0.27

----- Forwarded message from Adam Lewenberg <adam@VONNEUMANN.CS.UAKRON.EDU> -----
Dear CTAN maintainer:


* Uploaded: dvii.c, README, and dviiman.dvi into ftp.dante.de
            (Look in 'dvii_retry'; I put the wrong files in directory 'dvii')

* Location: please place all the files in tex-archive/dviware/dvii

* License: these files are licensed under the LPPL (Latex Project Public
           License)

* What this upload does:

  Updates dvii (dvi file information utility) to version 0.27.

  Changes:

     + added -m and -M message digest options to display message
       digest of each page

     + added -g option to suppress the display of "non-printable"
       characters when showing \special text

     + added -n option to specify how much of the \special text to
       show

     + added -H option to show help on all command line options

     + executables for DOS, Windows 95/NT, Solaris, and Linux
       available for download at the dvii website

     + on-line and downloadable User Manual now ready

     + all (known) bugs squashed

   More information on dvii can be found at

                http://www.cs.uakron.edu/~adam/dvii.html

  From the README file:

  dvii is a utility written in C that extracts information from a TeX
  dvi file. Information displayed can include a summary:

    File comment (usually the date file was compiled)
    File size
    Number of (physical) pages
    Number of fonts

  as well as more detailed information:

    font names for all fonts used
    list of physical page number/TeX page number pairs
    list of all \specials and the page on which they appear

  Currently, there are some pre-compiled executables (DOS, Win 9X/NT,
  Solaris, and Linux) available at the dvii website
  www.cs.uakron.edu/~adam/dvii.html. If none of these are suitable,
  you will need to compile the C source.  To compile, you need to have
  a C compiler along with the standard C libraries. For example, if
  you have the C compile gcc, type

     gcc dvii.c -o dvii.exe  (assuming DOS/Windows platform)
     gcc dvii.c -o dvii      (assuming Unix platform)

----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission, I installed dvii 0.27 on dante.ctan.org in
/tex-archive/dviware/dvii as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Dec 19 05:48:18 1999
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 11:45:54 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- lgrind 3.64

----- Forwarded message from Michael Piefel <LGrind@GMX.NET> -----

I have uploaded the file lgrind-3.64.tar.gz to Dante. Please install its
contents into support/lgrind.
LGrind is a source code pretty-printer; it converts program text from many
languages into LaTeX. This new version features a Python mode.

----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version on dante.ctan.org
in /tex-archive/support/lgrind as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sun Dec 19 13:51:37 1999
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 18:50:50 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new on ctan -- calendar generation code

Slobodan Jankovic writes:

> This is the file `Cal.tar'. Besides this letter, it contains three
> short LaTeX2e files:
>
> * CalXXXX.tex prints a card-size calendar for any year, AD or BC,
> with Gregorian or Julian leap rules (useful for year before adoption
> of Gregorian rules).
>
> * Cal2000.tex prints a calendar for years 1990--2020.
>
> * ReadMe.tex prints instructions, explains possible modifications
> and gives some mathematical, astronomical and historical
> backgrounds.
>
> These files are for free use; I suppose that Public Domain licensing
> should be applied.
>
> A good place for these three files should be
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/CalXXXX/

i've installed the files in macros/latex/contrib/other/calxxxx
(directory name and all file names being all lower-case).

thanks for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Dec 20 05:34:57 1999
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:34:09 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: LaTeX upload

Nico Dam writes:

> I just uploaded a LaTeX style file plus an example to the CTAN.
>
> 1) Filenames:   dichokey.sty            for the style file
>                 rhodocyb.tex            for the example
> 2) CTAN node:   ftp.tex.ac.uk, /incoming directory
> 3) Style file can be freely available, no licensing
> 4) The package can be used to construct dichotomous identification keys
> (used especially in biology for species identification), taking care of
> numbering and indentation of successive key steps automatically. Run the
> example file!

i've installed the files in a new ctan directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/dichokey

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Dec 21 08:24:23 1999
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:21:39 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: aeguill upload

Denis B. Roegel writes:

 > I have uploaded aeguill.tar.gz on ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > This is an update of aeguill.sty, a package intended
 > to add french guillemets to the ae package.
 >
 > I think it should be installed (unpacked) in
 >
 >   macros/latex/contrib/aeguill

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files in the indicated
place.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Dec 21 09:04:21 1999
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:02:20 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ctan upload

Mark Potse writes:
 > I uploaded the following two packages, both new, to
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming:
 >
 > 1.  webfiles-0.5.39.tgz
 >     * A LaTeX package for inclusion of several CWEB and/or
 >       Spidery WEB documents in a single LaTeX document.
 >     * license: GPL
 >     * suggested place: in the directory
 >       tex-archive/web/webfiles/
 >
 > 2.  mweb-2.09.tgz
 >     * A literate programming system for the Matlab language.
 >       Similar to CWEB, created with a slightly modified version
 >       of the Spider system. Can be used with plain TeX or LaTeX,
 >       the latter with help from the webfiles package.
 >     * license: GLL
 >     * suggested place: in the directory
 >       tex-archive/web/matlabweb/
 >
 > I would like to upload new versions as .tar.gz archives
 > in the same directories.
 >
 > Perhaps my tgz files should be unpacked for installation,
 > as the server provides dynamic zipping and such.

Thanks a lot for the upload. I installed the unpacked packages in

  web/webfiles

and

  web/matlabweb

respectively.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Dec 21 09:28:20 1999
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:26:24 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CORRECTION: Re: aeguill upload

Denis B. Roegel writes:

 > I have uploaded aeguill.tar.gz on ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > This is an update of aeguill.sty, a package intended
 > to add french guillemets to the ae package.

Installed in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/aeguill

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Dec 22 05:43:02 1999
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 11:41:56 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- BibTool 2.44

----- Forwarded message from Gerd Neugebauer <gerd.neugebauer@SDM.DE> -----

Hello,

I have uploaded Release 2.44 of BibTool to
ftp.dante.de:/incoming/bibtool.tar.gz
BibTool is distributed under the GPL.
The uploaded tar archive contains several files and directories which
replace all files and directories in biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool execpt
the two files kpse2-6.*. Thus delete all files except those two from the
target directory and unpack the tarball from incoming there.

Lots of bug fixes and tiny enhancements have made it into this release.
Especially I want to mention the documentation which is now also
availlable in HTML format.
The changes in the new release are sketched in the file changes.html in
the uploaded files. I append the README file for a general description
of BibTool.

Ciao
        Gerd

======================================================================

        ######            ############
        #######           ############
        ##    ##               ##
        ##    ##  ##  #####    ##    ####      ####    ##
        #######   ##  ######   ##   ######    ######   ##
        #######   ##  ##   ##  ##  ##    ##  ##    ##  ##
        ##    ##  ##  ######   ##  ##    ##  ##    ##  ##
        ##    ##  ##  ##   ##  ##  ##    ##  ##    ##  ##
        ##    ##  ##  ##   ##  ##  ##    ##  ##    ##  ##
        #######   ##  ######   ##   ######    ######   #######
        ######    ##  #####    ##    ####      ####    #######

======================================================================

          BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases


BibTeX provides    an easy to  use means   to integrate  citations and
bibliographies into LaTeX documents.  But the user  is left alone with
the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to
fill this gap.  BibTool allows the  manipulation of BibTeX files which
goes  beyond the possibilities --- and intentions  --- of BibTeX.  The
possibilities of BibTool include

* Pretty-printing BibTeX data bases adjustable by lots of parameters.

* Syntactic checks with error recovery superior to BibTeX and helpful
  error messages.

* Semantic checks can be specified by the user.

* Sorting  and  merging of  BibTeX  data  bases according   to a  free
  definable sort key.

* Generation  of uniform reference keys  according to predefined rules
  or according to an own specification.

* Selecting references  used in  one  publication which are found   by
  analyzing an .aux file.

* Selecting references by a set of criteria (regular expressions).

* Controlled rewriting    of fields utilizing  regular expressions  to
  specify the rewriting rules.

* Macro  (String)  expansion to  eliminate the  need  of  extra string
  definitions.

* Collecting statistics about one or more BibTeX data bases.


BibTool  contains a  documentation written  in  LaTeX of  more than 60
pages (and still growing).

BibTool is written  in C and  has  been compiled on  various operating
systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOG machines.  It is distributed in
source code.   No compiled  versions  are  available from  the  author
(Useless to ask!).

BibTool can be obtained from the CTAN archives:

* ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool
* ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool
* ctan.tug.org:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool

Get  the  file BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz  where  x.xx is the version number.
Unpack it with the command (on UN*X)

        gunzip < BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

Alternatively get the file  BibTool-x.xx.zip where x.xx is the version
number.  Unpack it with the command

        unzip BibTool-x.xx.zip

It will create  a  directory  named  BibTool-x.xx which contains   the
installation instructions in the file install.tex.


----------------------------------------------------------------------
Enjoy it!

Gerd Neugebauer
gerd.neugebauer@sdm.de (or gerd.neugebauer@gmx.de)

----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version on dante.ctan.org
in /tex/archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec 22 09:27:01 1999
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:23:22 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Oleg Motygin: Re: CTAN - submission

> Oleg Motygin wrote:
>> I uploaded to CTAN the following files:
>>    REFCHECK.STY
>>    REFDEMO.TEX
>> They are collected in the directory ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/refcheck
>>
>> Could you please replace the existing files refcheck.sty and refdemo.tex in
>> macros/latex/contrib/supported/refcheck
>> by the new ones.
>
>i've installed the files.  thanks for the upload.

Oleg has now supplied the following details:

This is the version 1.6 of refcheck package. The problem of ver. 1.5 with
AmS-LaTeX's *-ed environments being marked as unlabelled has been
corrected. New options [ignoreunlbld] and [chkunlbld] are added, to set off
and on checking of unlabelled equations. Another scheme of work with
\bibitem and \cite is applied to improve compability with other packages
(in particular with hyperref). The version also pretends not to change
formatting of the text. The description file refdemo.tex is added with
information on versions, bugs and with a summary of options and
commands.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Dec 22 11:32:54 1999
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:30:34 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Please remove /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex

Young U. Ryu writes:

 > I was the maintainer of gTeX, an MS-DOS/Windows port of TeX
 > (/tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex). It has not been updated
 > for a few years; further I don't have any plan to update it
 > in the near future. One of main reasons is that a couple of
 > good/popular Windows ports of TeX are available and well-maintained.
 >
 > Please remove /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex from CTAN.

I have removed it from ftp.dante.de, the other CTAN hosts will remove
it when the mirror is complete.

Thanks for letting us know.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk Fri Dec 24 06:50:04 1999
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 11:47:30 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: PassiveTeX, JadeTeX, FOTeX

I have updated and reorganised the macro packages that I maintain
which relate to typesetting from  XSL and DSSSL using TeX. On CTAN,
you will now find:

 macros/passivetex: shared macros for JadeTeX and FOTeX, included the
   XML parser and UTF8 handler written by David Carlisle, and all the
   general support for characters in Unicode

 macros/jadetex: macro package used to process the output of the Jade
   DSSSSL processor in its TeX mode

 macros/fotex: macro package used to process XSL formatting objects
   when serialized as XML by an XSL processor; see
   http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rahtz/passivetex

The future plans for this lot include:

 - better XML parser and UTF8 handler when David completes his work
 - much more language support in fotex
 - better table handling in fotex
 - error backlog in JadeTeX

I do not have serious development of JadeTeX in mind, as I no longer
use it myself, but I will certainly try to fix errors, and include
patches from other people

And a merry christmas to you all [1] (if you are sad enough to be reading
this on Christmas Eve)

Sebastian Rahtz

[1] this assumes you live in an at-least-nominally Christian culture
like mine. my good wishes for everyone else are as fulsome as ever.

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Jan  1 14:49:51 2000
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 20:40:54 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- psnfss-beta.zip

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt <walter.schmidt@arcormail.de> -----
> I have uploaded the file psnfss-beta.zip to the /incoming
> directory at ftp.dante.de.  Please, unpack it to the directory
> macros/latex/required/psnfss-beta/, thus replacing its
> contents.  (Notice, that all text files in my archive are
> already Unix style.)
>
> This is version "beta 3" of the new PSNFSS 8.1, and it is
> hopefully the final thing, except for a few parts of the
> documentation (unless any new bugs are detected :-)
>
> See the file "changes.txt" for the latest news.

Thanks for the submission, I installed it on dante.ctan.org (aka ftp.dante.de)
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jan  4 16:28:22 2000
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 21:27:04 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN SUBMISSION: Circuit_macros4.8

Dwight Aplevich writes:

> Circuit_macros4.8.tar.gz has been uploaded into the incomong
> directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk.  Its expanded contents are to replace
> the contents of graphics/circuit_macros entirely.  The copyright
> is almost public domain.
>
> From time to time I receive comments, suggestions, bug fixes, and fixes
> for the fixes, and the current update includes the latest of these.
>
> From the README:
> ...
>   This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality electric circuit
>   diagrams containing fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors,
>   and basic logic gates to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents.
>   Some tools and examples for other types of diagrams are also included.
>   The advantages and disadvantages of such a system are similar to those
>   of TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg, and which uses ordinary
>   character input.
>
>   The macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic language, which is
>   readable and easy to learn.  Pic contains elements of a simple
>   programming language, and is well-suited to line drawings requiring
>   parametric or conditional components, fine tuning, significant
>   geometric calculations or repetition, or that are naturally block
>   structured or tree structured.  Free TeX- and LaTeX-compatible
>   interpreters for m4 and pic are readily available for Unix and PC
>   machines.
> ...
> CHANGES:
> Version 4.8: More robust ebox, source, shadebox, gap.  Modified d_fet and e_fet.
>   Macros mosfet and smosfet.  More examples in the manual.  Bug fixes in Fector,
>   transformer, BUFFER_gate and in sum_, abs_, neg_, sign_ (!).
> ...

thanks for the upload -- i've installed the files as requested.

r

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jan  5 09:45:44 2000
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 14:44:43 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- catdvi 0.7a

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho writes:

> I just uploaded catdvi-0.7a.tar.gz (which unpacks into catdvi-0.7a)
> to cam.ctan.org:/incoming .  It should probably end up unpacked in
> dviware/catdvi .
>
> The package is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2
> or later.  A copy of the license is in the file COPYING in the
> tarball.
>
> The package contains a program, catdvi, developed by me based on
> a skeletal version by J.H.M Dassen (Ray).  It is a DVI to plain text
> translator capable of generating ASCII, Latin-1 and UTF-8 (Unicode)
> output.  It aims to become a superior replacement for the dvi2tty utility;
> this version outperforms it in some areas and is inferior to it in
> other areas.  The current version is quite usable for previewing on
> character-cell displays DVI files that contain mostly linear text.

i've installed the new package as suggested -- thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jan  6 04:10:41 2000
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 10:09:30 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- epsincl, dvipaste, ps_conv

----- Forwarded message from Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz <staw@JUGGERNAUT.ETI.PG.GDA.PL> -----

> I've just uploaded to dante/incoming/ 3 packages from GUST:
>
> epsincl.zip
> EPSINCL: made in BOP s.c., bop@bop.com.pl; public domain
> 05.01.2000; ver. 0.2, first release
>
> The package EPSINCL facilitates including EPS files in METAPOST
> documents; it makes use of (G)AWK.
>
> Should be unpacked in graphics/metapost/macros/epsincl/
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> dvipaste.zip
> DVIPASTE: made in BOP s.c., bop@bop.com.pl; public domain
> 05.01.2000; ver. 1.0, first release
> A tiny package for including a DVI page into the EPS
> files generated by METAPOST.
>
> Should be unpacked in graphics/metapost/macros/dvipaste/
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ps_conv.zip
>
> Updated package. Unpacked should replace the contents of
> support/pstools/ps_conv/
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the submission, I installed all three packages on CTAN as suggested.

> I'll prepare xml files for Graham, OK?

That'll be fine.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jan  6 17:22:27 2000
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 23:21:45 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- dvipaste changed to dviinc

----- Forwarded message from Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz <staw@juggernaut.eti.pg.gda.pl> -----

> David Carlisle:
> > Would it be possible for you to consider renaming your package? It
> > clashes with the existing dvipaste (for pasting dvi fragments into dvi
> > files) that has been on ctan for some years.
>
> You are absolutely right. Thanks for your comments.
> The package was renamed to dviincl (like epsincl), OK?
>
> dviincl.zip was uploaded to DANTE/incoming
> Should be unpacked in graphics/metapost/macros/dviincl/
>
> Would you please removing graphics/metapost/macros/dvipaste/

I did both of this.  Sorry for the confusion...

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jan  7 10:42:31 2000
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 16:39:52 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: Example code for LaTeX book

Ingo Kloeckl writes:

 > Name of contribution: Example code for LaTeX book
 > Name and email: Ingo Kloeckl <kloeckl@vkcmzd.chemie.uni-mainz.de>
 > Suggested location on CTAN: http://www.dante.de/CTAN/info/ltt
 > Summary description: Example code for "LaTeX Tips und Tricks" book
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This is the code for the examples in the book
 > "LaTeX Tips und Tricks", dpunkt 2000, ISBN 3-932588-37-1. The code includes application examples as well as packages and class files developed in the book.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thansk a lot for the upload, I installed the files in

   info/ltt

as requested, after changing all file names to lowercase.

A link

   info/LaTeX_Tips_und_Tricks

was also added.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jan  7 10:49:26 2000
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 16:41:48 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: OCHEM

Ingo Kloeckl writes:

 > Name of contribution: OCHEM
 > Name and email: Ingo Kloeckl
 > Suggested location on CTAN: http://www.dante.de/CTAN/support/ochem/
 > Summary description: Typesetting chemical reactions and formulae
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Already existing OCHEM package with some minor bugs
 > fixed (interfered with MetaPost and picture-environments)
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot, I installed the update, changing all file names to
lowercase.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schoepf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Jan  8 02:53:40 2000
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 08:52:33 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- bibtopic update

----- Forwarded message from Stefan Ulrich <ulrich@cis.uni-muenchen.de> -----
I've uploaded to

ftp.dante.de/incoming

a new version of bibtopic.dtx, a package for multiple bibliographies.
The most significant change is added compatibility for natbib v7.0.
Please replace the existing file

CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/bibtopic/bibtopic.dtx

with this new one.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it on dante.ctan.org as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jan 10 13:03:31 2000
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 10:54:48 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: DTK bibliography

Gerd Neugebauer schrieb:

 > I have uploaded DTK.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
 > Please install the files contained in the directory of the archive
 > DTK.tar.gz into a new directory dante/dtk/biblio.
 > Maybe symbolic links in biblio/bibtex/databases should be made. Maybe also
 > some symbolic links in info/biblio are due. (As I don't know where the
 > appropriate location for bib files on CTAN is -- I see them distributed all
 > over the site)
 > In a certain sense dtk.bib superceeds the file info/biblio/komoedie.bib
 > which contains only a few publications from "Die TeXnische Komoedie".
 >
 > The files are distributed under the LPPL.
 >
 > The file dtk.bib contains the complete list of publications in "Die
 > TeXnische Komoedie" -- the Communications of the German speaking TeX Users
 > group DANTE e.V. from number 0/89 to 4/99 sometimes including abstracts and
 > keywords. It is also the base for the Web search service under
 > http//www.dante.de/dante/DTK/inhalt.html (in German).

The files have been installed in

  dante/dtk/biblio

as requested.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Schoepf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jan 11 03:50:09 2000
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:47:54 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf 1.10

Heiko Oberdiek writes:

 > I have uploaded 'thumbpdf.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > This updates and replaces the files in
 >   macros/pdftex/thumbpdf/
 >
 > Changes in Version 1.10:
 >   * Two bugs in the /Length detection fixed.
 >   * thumbpdf.sty revised.
 >
 > 'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with pdfTeX,
 > plain/latex formats. It consists of four files:
 >   * readme.txt:    documentation.
 >   * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
 >   * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
 >   * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
 > Requirements: Perl5, ghostscript, pdfTeX
 >
 > For the Catalogue entry: the license remains LPPL 1.1.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.

  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jan 13 07:19:11 2000
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:15:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: cam.ctan.org move

At approximately 1200 UTC today, Thursday 2000/01/13, the machine
serving cam.ctan.org (alias ftp.tex.ac.uk) changed.  The IP address of
the new machine is 128.232.0.34, but users are urged to use one of
the alphabetic names, for obvious reasons.

Users should not notice any change in the behaviour of the archive:
please contact ctan-uk@tex.ac.uk in case of any difficulty.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jan 13 18:12:41 2000
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:10:07 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: update of extsizes

> I've uploaded to the Cambridge node an update of extsizes.
>
> Extsizes is a collection of classes and class options to set the
> normal font size to values between 8 and 20 points.
>
> This update provides ext{book,letter,proc} classes and adds a couple of
> things to extreport and extarticle.  There is also a package which
> attempts to load a size option, for use with other classes, and a
> package which attempts to set the textwidth by measuring the current
> font.  The last two items are experimental.
>
> These should be put in macros/latex/contrib/other/extsizes
> The licence is still lppl.

thanks for the upload.  i've installed it all as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jan 17 04:55:46 2000
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 10:53:41 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New version of the AE package

Lars Engebretsen writes:
 > I've just uploaded a new version of my AE package (a set of virtual
 > fonts for creating PDF-files with T1 encoded CMR-fonts) to ftp.dante.de
 > as the file /incoming/ae-1.2.tar.gz
 >
 > Please replace the existing fonts/ae with the contents of this file.
 >
 > License: GPL.
 >
 > The main new features of this release are:
 >
 > * Better positioning of umlauts
 > * Better kerning
 >
 > and they were both provided by Matthias K�ppe.
 >
 >         /Lars

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it in

  fonts/ae

as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jan 18 03:56:46 2000
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:54:33 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: smartref

Giuseppe Bilotta writes:
 > I just uploaded the file
 >
 >     smartref.zip
 >
 > at the node
 >
 >     ftp.dante.de
 >
 > The file contains a macro package to extend LaTeX's \ref capability, and an
 > example on how to use it (source and .dvi); I think that an appropriate
 > position could be
 >
 > macros/latex/contrib/other/smartref
 >
 > Licensing condition: lppl

Thanks a lot for your upload, I installed the files as suggested.

  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jan 18 11:28:10 2000
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:26:32 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: hyperref

Sebastian Rahtz writes:
 > -- mail the administrators () to report:
 >    + what you've uploaded
 > hyperref.zip
 >
 >    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
 > dante
 >
 >    + where you want the files to go
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyperref
 >
 >    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
 >      below).
 > LPPL
 >
 >    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
 > maintenance release

Thanks a lot, installed.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jan 18 11:31:40 2000
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:30:06 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: xtrcode upload

Thomas Ruedas writes:
 > Dear CTAN team,
 > I have uploaded the file xtrcode.tar.gz to /incoming/xtrcode; it
 > includes the following files:
 >
 > xtrcode - a small Perl script for extraction of environment contents
 > xtrcode.tex - short doc
 > README
 >
 > From xtrcode code comments:
 > # xtrcode extracts contents of LaTeX environments from a LaTeX file,
 > # e.g. program code in verbatim environments from a program
 > documentation.
 >
 > It is an occasional hack and does not provide too sophisticated
 > features, but hopefully it is useful sometimes anyway.
 >
 > Maybe tex-archive/support/xtrcode is an appropriate place for it.

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files in

  support/xtrcode

as suggested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jan 18 11:34:27 2000
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:32:58 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- multibib v1.1

Thorsten Hansen writes:

 > I have just uploaded version 1.1 of multibib.
 >
 > --  uploaded file: multibib.tar.gz
 > --  uploaded to CTAN node: dante.ctan.org (ftp.dante.de)
 > --  recommended place: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/multibib
 > --  licensing condition: lppl
 > --  brief summary:
 >     The `multibib' package allows to create references to multiple
 >     bibliographies within one document. It thus provides a complementary
 >     functionality to packages like `bibunits' or `chapterbib', which allow
 >     to create one bibliography for multiple, but different parts of the
 >     document.
 >
 >     Changes to version 1.0 include
 >     . compatibility to inlinebib, natbib v7.0, suthesis and
 >       KOMA-SCRIPT classes
 >     . improvements and fixes for numerical reference schemes

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it in the indicated location.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jan 19 10:47:17 2000
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:40:46 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf 1.11

Heiko Oberdiek writes:

 > I have uploaded 'thumbpdf.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > This updates and replaces the files in
 >   macros/pdftex/thumbpdf/
 >
 > Changes in Version 1.11:
 >   * Problem with a perl version 5.003_07 fixed
 >     (use of "my" in ini-part of "for" loop).
 >   * LPPL updated to 1.2.
 >
 > 'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with pdfTeX,
 > plain/latex formats. It consists of four files:
 >   * readme.txt:    documentation.
 >   * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
 >   * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
 >   * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
 > Requirements: Perl5, ghostscript, pdfTeX
 >
 > For the Catalogue entry: the license is LPPL 1.2.

Thanks a lot for the update,
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jan 19 11:49:15 2000
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:48:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: xmltex upload

David Carlisle writes:

> on incoming at Cambridge is xmltex.zip
> could this be unpacked into
>
> tex-archive/macros/xmltex/base

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

from the readme file:

   xmltex.tex
   ==========

  Copyright 2000 David Carlisle

  This collection of files is distributed under the LaTeX Project Public
  License a (LPPL) as found at http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
  Either version 1.0, or at your option, any later version.


  xmltex is a system for typesetting XML files with TeX. It may be used
  on its own or in conjunction with another TeX format. (LaTeX is
  assumed for most examples).

  xmltex supports the XML Namespace Recommendation. Arbitrary prefixes
  may be used in document instances, and in definition files. It
  supports any encoding that matches ASCII in the first 127 positions.
  UTF-8, latin-1 and KOI8-R are included in the distribution, other
  encodings may be trivially added.

  Further documentation may be obtained by running manual.tex through
  LaTeX.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jan 20 10:53:04 2000
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:50:50 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of LaTeX package 'dinbrief'

Klaus Braune writes:
 > I have placed a new version of the LaTeX package 'dinbrief' into the
 > directory 'incoming/dinbrief'.
 >
 > Files uploaded to directory 'incoming/dinbrief:
 >      dinbrief.dtx
 >      dinbrief.ins
 >      readme
 >      liesmich
 >
 > CTAN node:
 >      dante.ctan.org
 >
 > Directory:
 >      /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief
 >
 > Licensing conditions:
 >      lppl  (LaTeX Project Public License)
 >
 > Summary:
 >      The LaTeX2e document class 'dinbrief' implements a document
 >      layout for writing letters according to the rules of DIN
 >      (Deutsches Institut f\"ur Normung, German standardization
 >      institute).  A style file for LaTeX 209 (with limited support
 >      of the features) is part of the package.  Since the letter
 >      layout is based on a German standard, the user guide is
 >      written in German, but most macros have English names from
 >      which the user can recognize what they are used for.
 >      In addition there are example files showing how letters may
 >      be created with the package.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jan 20 10:56:42 2000
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:53:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- eulervm.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Dear CTAN team,
 >
 > I have uploaded the file eulervm.zip to the /incoming directory
 > at dante.ctan.org.
 >
 > This archive provides the "Euler Virtual Math Fonts" and the
 > related LaTeX package "eulervm.sty".  Here's an excerpt from
 > the enclosed documentation:
 >
 > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 >
 > The well-known Euler math fonts are suitable for typsetting
 > math in conjunction with a variety of text fonts which do not
 > provide math character sets of their own.
 >
 > Euler-VM is a set of _virtual_ math fonts based on Euler and
 > CM.  This approach has several advantages over immediately
 > using the _real_ Euler fonts:  Most noticeably, less TeX
 > ressources are consumed, the quality of various math symbols
 > is improved and a usable \hslash symbol can be provided.
 >
 > The virtual fonts are accompanied by a LaTeX package which
 > makes them easy to use, particularly in conjunction with
 > Type1 PostScript text fonts.
 >
 > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 >
 > I suggest to unpack the archive to a directory fonts/eulervm/.
 >
 > (Alternatively, you may also install it to
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/eulervm/, if you think this is
 > more suitable.)

Thanks a lot for your upload. I installed it in

   fonts/eulervm

as suggested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jan 20 10:58:44 2000
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:56:22 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: KOMA-Script: Bugfix

Markus Kohm writes:

 > I've copied to files to ftp.dante.de//incoming/koma-script (scrlettr.dtx and
 > scrtime.dtx) to fix a problem with language selection at the class and packages.
 > Please copy them into the distribution of KOMA-Script.

Thanks a lot, I installed the files in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jan 21 03:19:24 2000
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:17:31 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: wordcount.tex: Count words in a LaTeX document

Michael J. Downes writes:
 > I have uploaded wordcount.zip to dante.ctan.org/incoming.
 >
 > It contains two files wordcount.tex and wordcount.sh which
 > should go into a directory
 >
 >   tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/wordcount
 >
 > License is unrestricted.
 >
 > Description:
 >
 > ========================================================================
 > The file wordcount.tex provides a relatively easy way of estimating the
 > number of words in a LaTeX document that does not require dvitty or
 > other DVI converters; it does however require something like Unix
 >
 >   grep -c
 >
 > that can search a file for a particular string and report the number of
 > matching lines. An accompanying Unix shell script wordcount.sh
 > illustrates how to count characters and words. The characters thus
 > counted are actual font characters in the page body (excluding running
 > heads): in math, each subscript and superscript character is counted
 > separately, even when they appear one over the other; and so are the
 > separate combining pieces used to make large delimiters. Interword
 > spaces are counted as separate characters, and so are the spaces around
 > mathrel symbols in math formulas (equal signs and the like)---but not
 > the spaces around mathbin symbols (plus, minus, and the like). You can
 > count words by dividing the character count by 5 (or whatever), or by
 > counting the occurrences of interword spaces. The latter is illustrated
 > in wordcount.sh.
 >
 > Warning: The counting method uses a large log file as an intermediate
 > step. If your disk space is really low this might conceivably cause you
 > to run out of space entirely. Depending on the density of your material,
 > the log file may take as much as 100K per page (1 MB for every 10
 > pages).
 >
 > Michael Downes
 >

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/wordcount

as suggested.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From latex-team@latex-project.org Sat Jan 22 16:43:24 2000
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 21:41:54 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <latex-team@latex-project.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Announce: LaTeX 1999/12/01 (and its first patch)

The LaTeX team is pleased to announce the December 1999 release of
LaTeX (which has been available from CTAN since 11th January 2000).
The team has today released a patch to fix a small bug in picture
mode; users who had already upgraded to the new release are urged to
pick up this patch and to regenerate their formats.

Very little has changed in the LaTeX kernel in this release, but a
package `fixltx2e' is now available.  This package represents an
attempt to address the recurrent issue of things that ought to be
changed, but cannot be for fear of the effect of change on legacy
documents.

New versions of some packages in the cyrillic, graphics and tools
bundles in the latex/required directories have also been released.

Details of the release, and further information about the development
of LaTeX, are to be found in LaTeX news issue 12 (file ltnews12.tex in
the distribution -- please note that this issue requires the latest
ltnews.cls from the distribution).

Robin Fairbairns

For the LaTeX Team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Jan 23 03:55:28 2000
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:53:08 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- CWEBbin 3.5 [p17]

----- Forwarded message from Andreas Scherer <andreas.scherer@pobox.com> -----
I have uploaded the files

   ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin/README.p17
   ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin/cwebbin-p17.tar.gz

containing the adaptation of CWEBbin to the current CWEB 3.5 as of
December 1999.  CWEBbin consists of a set of change files (to be applied
with the TIE processor) that make the original sources usable with
ANSI-C/C++ compilers on UNIX/Linux, MS/Windows, and Amiga.  Extra
functionality is introduced in the archive and documented in
README.p17.  Binary executables are no longer shipped with this
distribution.

Patch level 17 replaces the former patch level 16 at

   CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cwebbin/README.p16
   CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cwebbin/cwebbin-p16.tar.gz

Binary exectables of the ctangle and cweave processors for MS/Windows
are available at

   http://www.literateprogramming.com

so it is not necessary to retain the p16 archive.  Binary executables of
ctangle and cweave for the Amiga should be available from other sources,
so cwebbin-p14.tar.gz may also be removed.

CWEBbin is contributed to the public domain.  Licensing conditions are
the same as those of CWEB proper.

Both the README.p17 file and the cwebbin-p17.tar.gz archive should be
installed at

   CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cwebbin
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload, I installed the new version on CTAN in
/tex-archive/web/c_cpp/cwebbin/ as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jan 24 12:24:22 2000
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:22:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: xmltex upload (cambridge)

David Carlisle writes:

> xmltex has been updated to version 0.8 (and manual.xml similarly
> updated) xmltex may be found on ctan at tex-archive/macros/xmltex/base
>
> If there are any people using this and have made their own xmltex
> packages, I have asked ctan to accept xmltex contributions
> in  tex-archive/macros/xmltex/contrib/<your-directory>
>
>
> As for latex's contrib directory, I do not plan to `moderate' this
> contrib space. If you feel someone else might like to use your package,
> please upload it to ctan in the normal way, asking for it to be placed
> in the xmltex area.

i can confirm that the ctan team is happy for such extensions to the
macros/xmltex area

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jan 24 14:01:26 2000
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:00:43 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: Devanagari for TeX v2.0

Anshuman Pandey writes:

> I've uploaded a file called devnag2.zip on ftp.tex.ac.uk in the directory
> "incoming". The archive contains files for version 2.0 of the Devanagari
> for TeX package. Previous versions of the package have been stored on CTAN
> in the directory /language/devanagari/distrib. Please remove all files
> from "distrib" before installing the new version.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jan 25 07:02:00 2000
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:59:59 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: xmlcatalogue.xml

James Kilfiger writes:

> I've uploaded to the cambridge node a file xmlcatalogue.xml, which is
> the documentation (all 1 1/3 pages of it) for the xmlcatalogue packages
> It should go in macros/xmltex/contrib/xml-catalogue

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jan 25 09:08:33 2000
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:07:48 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ai package uploaded to ctan

Skip Collins writes:

> I have uploaded the file aifont-1.1.tar.gz to cam.ctan.org/incoming. The
> archive contains virtual fonts and other related files for remapping the
> BSR/Y&Y/AMS Type 1 Computer Modern fonts. This helps to produce more robust
> pdf output from pdftex, dvips/gs, and dvipdf. I am releasing the files under
> the LPPL. Perhaps the package should be located in fonts/cm/ai.

i've installed the file as suggested, and have also extracted the
README file from the archive to sit in the directory with it, as

  fonts/cm/ai/README

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jan 27 06:50:55 2000
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:48:39 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: CTAN administration <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- epmtfe26.zip

> From: Walter Schmidt <walter.schmidt@arcormail.de>
>
> I have uploaded the file epmtfe26.zip to the directory
> /incoming at at dante.ctan.org.
>
> This is version 2.6 of the EPM TeX Front End, an integrated
> TeX environment for OS/2, based on the text editor EPM.
>
> Please, unpack it (sic!) to the CTAN directory
>
>  tex-archive/systems/os2/epmtfe/
>
> and delete the existing files "readme" and "epmtfe25.zip".
>
> What's new?
>
> The distribution has been rearranged; it is no longer
> one monolithic zip archive.
>
> Besides, a special variant of the EPM Tex Front End for
> use with VTeX/2 is provided now.  Please, read the files
> "README.epmtfe" and "NEWS" before downloading!
>
> As to the "classical" TeX Front End for emTeX, there are
> no important changes over version 2.5a (Nov. 1999).

Thanks for the new version, I installed it on dante.ctan.org in
tex-archive/systems/os2/epmtfe/ as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jan 27 11:24:51 2000
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:24:18 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX 2.22

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" <malyshev@MX.IHEP.SU> -----
I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
upgrade for BaKoMa TeX 2.22.
Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
27-Jan-2000

------------------- Information about BaKoMa TeX 2.22 update ----------------

PDF Generation Improvements.

  Feature to rename fonts embedded into PDF file has been added.
  The renaming of embedded font solves problem of confusing some PDF
  browsers (for example GhostScript) that try to use system fonts
  instead of embedded fonts. This problem can be solved by configuring
  the browser (GhostScript) to disable using platform fonts.
  However, this feature will avoid confusion of PDF readers without
  any additional configuring.
  Font renaming can be customized in [PDF Font Name Mapping] section
  of BaKoMa\DVIEW.INI file.


Graphical Support Improvements.

  1. Added support for PC EPSF (binary, with preview).
  2. Compatibility with Adobe Illustrator 8.0 and earlier versions.
     It includes adding undocumented features of PS, fixing problems
     with Macintosh-like carriage control, increasing limits,
     fixing a several bugs.
  3. Compatibility with MatLab. (Thanks to Javier Mateo.)
     It includes fixing `bind' operator to accept [...] in addition to {...},
     that isn't documented in Red Book but it is used by MatLab prolog.
  4. Added automatical switching off clipping on GDI device inside BuildChar
     procedure of Type 3 fonts. It is because unaccurate GDI clipping produce
     garbage lines. This feature can be controlled by `setclipstate' operator.

Fonts and Font Handling Improvements.

  1. Fixed problem with virtual fonts with long glyph programs (>255 bytes).
  2. Fixed problem with autoinstalling fonts with the same face name but
     with different Weight and Italic angle. It is important for working
     without ATM and for using TrueType fonts not installed under Windows.
  3. Font mapping weights were fixed in Win98 module.
     Fixes touch Copperplate, Century Gothic, Westminster fonts.
     Because of using new weight names, Win98 is functional only under V 2.22.
  4. Fixed --/--- ligatures in several T2A and T1 encoded fonts.
     It touches KERNEL and WIN98 module.
  5. Updated MSBM* fonts (bad E is fixed, hint replacement is added).

User Interface Improvements

  1. Editor Control Bars for insertion of math symbols are improved.
     New super bar simplifies showing another control bars.
     Additional bars for AMS symbols was added.
  2. Changed unresonable defaults of DVIEW 'File|Print Options'.
  3. Fixed SRCINFO.STY style, that is obsolete.
     However, it can be used by some old documents.

For more information about BaKoMa TeX see CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/index.html

---------------- End of Information about BaKoMa TeX 2.22 update -------------

----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the update on dante.ctan.org
in /tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/ as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jan 27 11:34:38 2000
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:34:09 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Using TrueType with teTeX

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de> -----
I have uploaded the file ttf-tetex.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
It contains a description how to use TrueType fonts with teTeX. It is
available in html, pdf and ps file formats. I suggest to place its
contents in CTAN/info/TrueType/harders. Licence is LPPL.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed your documentation on dante.ctan.org
in /tex-archive/info/TrueType/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jan 27 14:46:36 2000
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:44:20 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload --- epigraph package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded epigraph.dtx to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Can
> you please use this to replace the current epigraph.dtx in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/epigraph.
>
>     The epigraph package is for typesetting epigraphs (quotations),
> usually, but not necessarily, at the start of a chapter.
>
>     Changes in this release include:
> o leftright justified epigraphs
> o commands to raise/lower chapter titles
> o more documentation:
>   -- how to put epigraphs at the start of a bibliography or index
>   -- how to put epigraphs on Part pages

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Jan 30 04:42:59 2000
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 10:40:46 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- HLaTeX 0.99

----- Forwarded message from Koaunghi Un <koaunghi.un@student.uni-tuebingen.de> -----

The following files are uploaded in ftp.dante.de:/incoming/HLaTeX
        HLaTeX-0.99.tar.gz
        moonttf.tar.gz
        uhc-bom.tar.gz
        uhc-gothic.tar.gz
        uhc-graphic.tar.gz
        uhc-gungseo.tar.gz
        uhc-jamo.tar.gz
        uhc-myoungjo.tar.gz
        uhc-pen.tar.gz
        uhc-pilgi.tar.gz
        uhc-shinmun.tar.gz
        uhc-taza.tar.gz
        uhc-yetgul.tar.gz

The destination directory of main distribution for LaTeX and Lambda,
HLaTeX-0.99.tar.gz is /pub/tex/language/korean/HLaTeX.  Because this is
an update for HLaTeX-0.98, the old files in this directory should be removed
entirely and HLaTeX-0.99.tar.gz can be unpacked IN this directory.

The other files, moonttf.tar.gz, uhc-* are fontsm, which are needed to use
HLaTeX.  The destination directory for this files is
/pub/tex/fonts/korean/HLaTeX.  All existing files in this directory can be
safely removed.

I have still no idea about the licensing information for my contribution to
the world of LaTeX for Korean people, but I can decide one for the next
distribution of HLaTeX.  At moment, it is lppl.

Brief summary of my intention:
The power of LaTeX can be applied to the far east language.  More powerful is
Lambda, as it works with 16 bit mechanism.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the new version.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/{fonts,language}/korean/HLaTeX
as suggested, removing the old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Jan 30 04:54:17 2000
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 10:52:35 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN upload notification: References

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload@dante.de -----
Name of contribution: References
Name and email: Volker Kiefel <volker.kiefel@med.uni-rostock.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: support/references
Summary description: Bibliographic software supporting LaTeX/BibTeX
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
REFERENCES is a bibliographic software supporting
preparation of scientific manuscripts, storage of
bibliographic data of articles in periodicals, books
and articles in books. Supports the TeX/LaTeX document
preparation systems including the BibTeX program and
commercial word processors. REFERENCES allows import of
bibliographic data from material downloaded in the
MEDLINE format.  Database functions allows retrieval of
references by keywords, authors' or editors' names,
date of publication, strings in title of article, in
book title or journal names.  Lists of references can
be compiled in all (user-defined) formats required by
the publishers of scientific journals. Documentation in
accompanying text files. Source code is included:
REFERENCES is free software distributed under the terms
of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2 (FSF).
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the contribution.  I installed in in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/references as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Feb  1 09:42:54 2000
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 13:40:51 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of ``hypht1.tex'' -- additional hyphenation patterns to use explicit hyphen character

Bernd Raichle writes:
 > Uploaded file                hypht1.tex
 > on CTAN node         ftp.dante.de
 >
 > Description:
 >
 >       Additional hyphenation patterns which have to be loaded in
 >       conjunction with each ``normal'' set of patterns. It contains
 >       patterns to allow hyphenation after an explicit - letter,
 >       which are needed if you want to use e.g. the second hyphen
 >       character (\char127) of the EC fonts or any other T1 encoded
 >       font as \hyphenchar\font.
 >
 > Changes:
 >      v0.3 includes the following changes w.r.t. v0.2:
 >      - changed from restricted copyright statement to LPPL
 >      - included missing patterns for T1 letters '340-'377 (:-{)
 >
 > Licensing Condition:
 >      LPPL
 >
 > Place on CTAN:
 >      language/hyphenation/hypht1.tex
 >
 >
 >
 > Best wishes,
 >   -bernd

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Feb  1 17:41:12 2000
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 22:40:23 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: play and xmlplay upload

James Kilfiger writes:

> I've uploaded to the cambridge node two files.
>
>  play.tar: A latex package and class for typesetting plays and
>    quotations from plays.
>  xmlplay.tar: An xmltex package for typsetting the plays of Shakespeare,
>    as marked up by Jon Bosak. (see http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/
>       bosakShakespeare200.html)
>
> play.tar should be installed over the existing versionn in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/play, xmlplay should go in
> macros/xmltex/contrib/xmlplay  The latex play package is lppl, xmlplay
> is public domain.

i've installed both packages as requested.  thanks for the uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Feb  2 07:20:47 2000
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 13:19:41 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- WinShell 2.0

----- Forwarded message from Ingo de Boer <idb@winshell.de> -----
i have uploaded a new version of WinShell to

ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell

please move these files to

tex-archive/systems/win32/winshell and delete the old
files there

licensing terms: nosource

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
What is WinShell ?

WinShell ist a graphical user interface for easy working with TeX. It is
NOT a TeX-System. You need an additional TeX-package for Windows.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Features

   * multi language support: english, german and french
   * Project-File
   * one-instance-program: WinShell will be started only once
   * MDI Application: multiple documents
   * log-file/project-file - window
   * userdefined programs
   * configure ToolBars (Symbols, userdef. Programs, Macros)
   * define Macros
   * Syntax-Highlighting
   * choose font
   * Unix-files can be read
   * toggle wrap mode
   * Command-Line-Argument: You may open WinShell with
        o winshell -m main_tex_file -c current_tex_file -l current_line
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
What does it cost ?

This software is supplied in a binary format ('as is') for free - the
source code is not available. In the TeX-Catalogue it will fall under the
category of 'nosource'.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
What's new in the latest release ?

   * Project-File
   * The Project-File uses relative pathnames
   * Command-Line-Argument: You may open WinShell with
          winshell -p project_file
   * one instance program: WinShell will be started only once
   * background color
   * new menus
   * drag & drop
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Future Work

The future work will deal with:
   * BibTeX entries in the ProjectBar
   * more Projects in the ProjectBar
   * a TableWizard for easy making tables
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

happy teXing...

----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the new version.  I replaced the old version on CTAN in
/tex-archive/systems/win32/winshell as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Feb  2 07:25:50 2000
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 13:25:20 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Type 1 Concrete Fonts for BaKoMa TeX

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" <malyshev@MX.IHEP.SU> -----

I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
CONCRETE fonts for BaKoMa TeX.
Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

--------- Information about Concrete Fonts for BaKoMa TeX -----------

This package includes three sets of Concrete fonts:

Concrete Roman fonts designed by D. Knuth (MF Src: CTAN:fonts/concrete);
Concrete Math fonts designed by Ulrik Veith (MF Src: CTAN:fonts/concmath);
European Concrete fonts designed by Walter Schmidt (MF Src: CTAN:fonts/ecc).

Totally, 69 fonts in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format are included.

Conversion MF -> Type 1 has been done by Basil K. Malyshev.

This package is distributed in form of BaKoMa TeX installation module
that can be applyed for already installed BaKoMa TeX 2.22 or later.

For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
        CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/index.html

For more information about these fonts see
        CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/dst/concrete.html

--------- End of Information about Concrete Fonts for BaKoMa TeX -----------

----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload, I  installed the files on CTAN in
/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/ as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Feb  2 09:49:50 2000
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 15:47:48 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: Euler-VM fonts (bug fix)

Walter Schmidt writes:
 > Dear CTAN team,
 >
 > I have uploaded the file eulervm.zip to the /incoming directory
 > at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack it to the CTAN directory
 > fonts/eulervm, thus replacing several (not all!) existing files.
 >
 > This will fix two silly bugs of the Euler-VM fonts (wrong
 > \mathcal alphabet, missing boldface arrow components).

I installed the upload, thanks.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb  7 10:39:14 2000
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 15:37:01 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN - submission

> Today I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming a new version of package
> REFCHECK.STY.  Could you please replace the existing file refcheck.sty in
> the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/refcheck/ by the new one.

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

this is:
> Refcheck v.1.7. Changed for compability with AmS-LaTeX 2.xx.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb 11 05:56:03 2000
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:53:25 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: cmbright.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:

 > I have uploaded the file cmbright.zip to the /incoming
 > directory at dante.ctan.org.
 >
 > Please, unpack it to the CTAN directory fonts/cmbright;
 > thus adding and updating a few files.
 >
 > This submission updates the CM Bright typefaces to v1.0f;
 > all CM Bright and CM Typewriter Light fonts will provide
 > a correct Euro symbol now.  Notice, that the metrics are
 > unchanged.
 > Furthermore, I have clarified the copyright conditions.

Thanks for the update; I installed it as requested.
For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb 11 05:59:14 2000
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:57:31 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- crop.sty

Melchior FRANZ writes:

 > I've just uploaded version 1.4 of `crop.sty' as archive
 >    ### crop.tar.gz ###
 > to
 >    ### ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ ###
 >
 > Please replace the contents of
 >    ### /macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop/ ###
 >
 > by the new files. (These are already in *nix style.)
 >
 >
 > As before, the package provides different forms of cropmarks
 > for trimming paper stacks, for camera alignment, and for
 > visualizing the page dimensions, as well as options
 > for reflecting and inverting the whole document.
 >
 > New:
 >   - the package implements a new option `rotate', which
 >     lets the document be printed upside-down (i.e. rotated
 >     by 180 degree) on PostScript-aware output drivers.
 >     This may be useful to circumvent problems with printers,
 >     which do not print close enough to the lower paper edge
 >     due to their paper feed mechanism.
 >
 > Thanks in advance
 > m.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb 11 06:02:18 2000
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:00:35 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Smartref 1.0 (upload)

Giuseppe Bilotta writes:
 > I just uploaded the file smartref10.zip; this contains two files
 > (readme.txt, smartref.sty) of which is built up the smartref package.
 >
 > Licensing info: lppl
 >
 > Description: this package inceases the \label and \ref capability, by adding
 > some commands similar to \pageref, and other (`intelligent references') to
 > user chosen counters;
 > please read the readme for further details.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb 11 06:05:58 2000
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:04:15 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- emtex/TDS 0.53 for OS/2

Walter Schmidt writes:

 > I have uploaded the file emtextds.zip to the /incoming
 > directory at dante.ctan.org.
 >
 > This is version 0.53 of the emtex/TDS distribution for OS/2,
 > featuring the latest releases of LaTeX, AmS-LaTeX and other
 > packages, as well as additional PostScript fonts and minor
 > fixes; see the file NEWS for details.
 >
 > Please, unzip emtextds.zip to the CTAN directory
 >
 >   systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS
 >
 > thus overwriting part of the existing files.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb 11 06:08:40 2000
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:06:50 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: syntax

 > Name of contribution: syntax
 > Name and email: Bernd Worsch <bernd.worsch@web.de>
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/other
 > Summary description: creation of syntax-diagrams
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This LaTeX supplement provides the possibility to create SYNTAX-DIAGRAMS. Using special environments and commands
 > to represent the diagram structure doesn't take half the time of drawing them by hand. :-)
 > I took some time in writing documentation, so this should
 > be easy to use. You'll need the fanybox package and hmmmmm...  it's all in german.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed it in

  macros/latex2e/contrib/other/syntax

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb 14 04:47:41 2000
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:45:05 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- latex2man version 1.8

Juergen Vollmer writes:

 > I uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file latex2man-1.8.tar.gz.
 > Please install it under the supported directory hierarchy under "latex2man".

Thanks for the upgrade. I installed it in

  support/latex2man




 > >From the README:
 >
 > Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a
 > format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command.
 > Alternatively HTML or TexInfo code can be produced too.
 > Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the conditional text
 > feature (for this feature, LaTeX can be produced too).
 >
 > There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the Man-page
 > and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual translation.
 >
 > Changes from version 1.7:
 >  - Added verbatim environment (many thanks to
 >    "Olaf Maibaum" <Maibaum@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
 >    who provided me the troff generation code)
 >  - Added better handling of german Umlaut
 >  - Fixed END_IF handling of -L option.
 >  - Fixed minor HTML tag mismatch.
 >
 > With best regards
 >
 > Juergen
 >
 >
 > PS
 > License:
 >    This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
 >    of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
 >    archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
 >    version 1 of the License, or any later version.

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb 14 08:54:36 2000
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:51:47 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <pssplit>

niepraschk@BERTEA.BERLIN.PTB.DE writes:
 > I have upload the archiv `pssplit.zip' to `/incoming' on
 > ftp.dante.de. The archive contains two c programs written by Peter
 > Kleiweg under the GPL with similar functionality to `psselect'
 > (psutils) and dos executables and a file README with more
 > informations.
 >
 > Please put all the files to a new directory
 >
 >   /tex-archive/support/pssplit

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files as suggested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Feb 15 13:04:39 2000
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:12:25 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload --- tocloft package v1.1

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded tocloft.dtx and README.tocloft to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Can you please use these to replace the
> current tocloft.dtx and README in macros/latex
> /contrib/supported/tocloft? The license is still LPPL.
>
> From the README
> ---------------
>
>     The tocloft package provides control over the typography of the
> Table of Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables.
>
> Changes in version 1.1:
> o Upgraded to work with minitoc and subfigure packages
> o Fixed slight problem with multiline ToC/LoF/LoT entries
> o Documentation includes more examples

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Feb 15 12:27:20 2000
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:21:03 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: acronym 1.4: Formatting the short form

Tobias Oetiker writes:

> Heiko Oberdiek has updated my Acronym package
> with the ability to have formated (complex) Acronyms.
>
> Please find the upload of the new version in
>
> ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/ACRO0209.ZIP
>
> --> /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/acronym

i've installed the new version.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Feb 16 12:51:00 2000
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:48:28 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - Type1 CM Brgiht fonts for BaKoMa TeX

Basil K. Malyshev writes:

 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
 > Type 1 CM Bright fonts for BaKoMa TeX.
 > In addition, there is update for minor fixes of Omega for BaKoMa TeX.
 >
 > Downloaded files must be placed on CTAN as following:
 >         news.html       -> systems/win32/bakoma/news.html
 >         index.html      -> systems/win32/bakoma/dst/index.html
 >         cmbright.html   -> systems/win32/bakoma/dst/cmbright.html
 >         cmbright.exe    -> systems/win32/bakoma/dst/cmbright.exe
 >         contrib/*       -> systems/win32/bakoma/contrib/*
 >
 > Bye.
 > Basil K. Malyshev
 > 14-Feb-2000

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

 >
 > --------- Information about CM Bright Fonts for BaKoMa TeX -----------
 >
 > This package includes 62 fonts from CM Bright font family
 > in ATM Compatible Type 1 font format.
 >
 > These fonts was designed in MF by Walter Schmidt.
 > MetaFont sources are available at CTAN:fonts/cmbright.
 > Conversion MF -> Type 1 has been done by Basil K. Malyshev.
 >
 > This package is distributed in form of BaKoMa TeX installation module
 > that can be applyed for already installed BaKoMa TeX 2.22 or later.
 >
 > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
 >         CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/index.html
 >
 > For more information about these fonts see
 >         CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/dst/cmbright.html
 >
 > --------- End of Information about CM Bright Fonts for BaKoMa TeX -----------

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb 18 07:30:16 2000
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:26:05 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload description

Dov Grobgeld writes:

 > I have uploaded to the /incoming directory of dante.ctan.org the
 > package impose-plus-0.1.tar.gz . (The name should really be
 > impose+-0.1.tar.gz, but ctan appearantly don't allow +'s in file
 > names...)

 > Here is the info:
 >
 > Upload server:      dante.ctan.org
 > Filename:           impose-plus-0.1.tar.gz
 > Where to place it:  ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/
 >                     "near 'psutils'"
 > Licence:            GPL
 > Requirements:       ghostscript, psutils
 > Description:
 >    impose+ is a set of PostScript utilities. The main program is
 >    impose, which is used for two-up printing of DSC-compliant
 >    PostScript (including that from Netscape, dvips, and
 >    FrameMaker). It makes an effort to remove white space from the
 >    printout by probing the original PostScript for the bounding box of
 >    the printed area. This makes the output much more esthetic than
 >    does a simplistic layout of non-cropped original pages.
 > Homepage:           http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/impose+/

I unpacked the archive into

   support/impose

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb 18 07:40:32 2000
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:36:54 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: epstopdf

Juergen Bausa writes:
 >
 > Name of contribution: epstopdf

 > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/graphics/ and  tex-archive/systems/win32/util/
 > Summary description: C-program to convert eps to encapsulated pdf using gs
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > epstopdf converts EPS files to encapsulated PDF files
 > and is written based on the perl script 'epstopdf' by
 > Sebastian Rahtz. It is written in C and does not require
 > perl. However, it does require ghostscript. A compiled
 > version for Windows95/98/NT is included in the package.
 > Since the sources are included, it can be ported to any
 > system having a C-complier.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot for your upload. As this program is not specific to
Windows, I installed the files in

  support/epstopdf

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb 18 13:01:43 2000
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:59:45 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submissions --- iso, iso10303, isorot, xtab

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded iso.tar, iso10303.tar, isorot.tar and
> xtab.tar to UK incoming. They are all destined for
> macros/latex/contrib/supported. Can you please
> o Use iso.tar to replace supported/isostds/iso directory
> o Use iso10303.tar to replace supported/isostds/iso10303
> o Use isorot.tar to create a new supported/isorot directory
> o Use xtab.tar to replace supported/xtab directory.
>
>     All these are under the LPPL. Essentially they are updates of
> all my ISO-related packages.
>
> From the READMEs
> ================
>
> ISO: The iso class is for typesetting ISO International Standard
> documents according to the requirements specified in "ISO/IEC
> Directives, Part 3", Third edition, 1997. Configuration files for
> TeX4ht are also provided.
>
> ----
>
> ISO10303: The step packages are for typesetting ISO 10303
> International Standard documents. The iso class is required for the
> use of these packages. Configuration files for TeX4ht are also
> provided.
>
> ----
>
> ISOROT: The isorot package is for rotation of document elements. It
> is a combination of the lscape package and an extension of the
> rotating package. It is designed for use with the iso class but may
> be used with any normal class.
>
> ----
>
> XTAB: The xtab package automatically breaks long tables so that they
> can span multiple pages. It is an extension of the supertabular
> package providing additional functionality and reducing some of the
> weaknesses.

i've installed all four packages.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb 21 04:21:48 2000
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:18:00 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload: wsuipa2tipa

Peter Kleiweg writes:
 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > I uploaded three files to ftp.dante.de/incoming/wsuipa2tipa: a
 > README, a Flex source, and a DOS executable.
 >
 > These files should probably go to fonts/wsuipa2tipa/ or to
 > support/wsuipa2tipa/
 >
 > Licensing: GPL
 >
 > Here is the contents of the README:
 >
 > ========
 >
 > The old wsuipa phonetic fonts often don't compile on newer TeX
 > installations. The wsuipa fonts were superseded by the tipa fonts. The
 > wsu2tipa program translates a LaTeX file with wsuipa font commands into
 > a file with tipa font commands.
 >
 > To compile on Unix:
 >
 >     flex -B -8 wsu2tipa.l
 >     gcc -s -Wall -o wsu2tipa lex.yy.c -lfl
 >     rm lex.yy.c
 >
 > ========

Thanks for the upload, I installed the package as

  support/wsuipa2tipa

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb 21 04:26:13 2000
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:23:13 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: [upload] HLaTeX 0.991

Koaunghi Un writes:
 > Hello,
 >
 > I�ve just uploaded two files
 >
 > HLaTeX-0.991.tar.gz
 > uhc-gothic.tar.gz
 >
 > to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.  The first file HLaTeX-0.991.tar.gz should be
 > unpacked in the directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX.
 > The files which are already there can safely be removed, because all files
 > are in the new archive file.
 > The second one, uhc-gothic.tar.gz, should go to the directory of
 > /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX.  The old one in this directory can be
 > overwritten.
 > The licensing conditions is lppl.
 > This is a small bug fix version of HLaTeX 0.99.  With this upload, the
 > previous version of HLaTeX should be updated.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Feb 22 03:59:39 2000
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:58:54 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- wordcount.tex

----- Forwarded message from Michael John Downes <mjd@ams.org> -----
Subject: wordcount.tex: Count words and characters in a LaTeX document
From: Michael John Downes <mjd@ams.org>

I have uploaded to dante.ctan.org/incoming
an update of the wordcount package
that resides in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/wordcount

This version includes a workaround for a natbib problem and some
improved documentation.

Regards, Michael Downes

========================================================================
The file wordcount.tex provides a relatively easy way of estimating
the number of words in a LaTeX document that does not require dvitty
or other DVI converters; it does however require something like Unix
grep -c that can search a file for a particular string and report the
number of matching lines. An accompanying shell script wordcount.sh
contains more information in its comments.

Warning: The counting method uses a large log file as an intermediate
step. If your disk space is really low this might conceivably cause you
to run out of space entirely. Depending on the density of your material,
the log file may take as much as 100K per page (1 MB per 10 pages).
If you use the wordcount.sh script the log file will be automatically
deleted after each use.
========================================================================
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Feb 22 19:44:58 2000
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:44:14 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ccaption package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded ccaption.dtx and README.ccaption to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you please use these to replace the
> similar files in macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccaption.
>
> From the README:
>     The ccaption package provides commands for `continuation
> captions', unnumbered captions, and a non-specific legend heading
> for any environment. Methods are provided to define captions for use
> outside float environments, and to define new float environments.
>
> Changes in version 2.5:-
> o Added support for the subfigure V2.1 package
> o Fixed an infelicity with \centering

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Feb 23 10:24:06 2000
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:21:28 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - titlesec 2.3

Javier Bezos writes:

 > I've uploaded to the DANTE server the titlesec2.3 directory containing
 > the following files (Unix linefeeds):
 >  block.tss
 >  drop.tss
 >  frame.tss
 >  leftmargin.tss
 >  margin.tss
 >  readme
 >  rightmargin.tss
 >  titlesec.sty
 >  titlesec.tex
 >  titletoc.sty
 >  ttlkeys.def
 >  ttlps.def
 >  wrap.tss
 >
 > Please, replace the whole contents of the
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec directory.
 >
 > Description
 > ~~~~~~~~~~~
 > Titlesec/titletoc is essentialy a replacement---partial or total---for
 > the LaTeX macros related with sections---namely titles, headers and
 > contents. The goal is to provide new features unavailable in current
 > LaTeX; if you just want a more friendly interface than that of
 > standard LaTeX but without changing the way LaTeX works you may
 > consider using fancyhdr, by Piet van Oostrum, sectsty, by Rowland
 > McDowell, and tocloft, by Peter Wilson.
 >
 > What's new in version 2.3
 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 > - Part of the code has been rewritten and some bugs fixed. In fact,
 > most of these changes are invisible (let's so hope :-) )
 >
 > titlesec:
 >
 > - The calcwidth package option measures the lines in some shapes
 > and returns the length of the longest one. It's useful for rules
 > and ornamental "leaders".
 > - Sectioning commands may belong to one of three classes: page,
 > top, and straight.
 > - Sectioning commands can be defined from scratch, with the
 > help of the new \titleclass command.
 > - Page styles have been fully reimplemented, but preserving the
 > one-step philosophy. Most of limitations in previous releases
 > have been removed.
 >
 > titletoc:
 >
 > - Support for partial tocs, with different sets (by chapter, by
 > part, by arbitrary criteria, etc.) allowed.
 > - Entries of different levels can be grouped in a single paragraph,
 > with the corresponding punctuation inserted automatically.
 >
 > Thanks a lot
 > Javier Bezos

Thanks for the update, I installed the files in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec

as you requested.
For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Feb 23 11:48:49 2000
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:44:10 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload -- Using TrueType with teTeX

Harald Harders writes:

 > I have uploaded the file ttf-tetex.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
 > Please replace all files in CTAN/info/TrueType by it's contents.
 > It contains a description how to use TrueType fonts with teTeX. It is
 > available in html, pdf and ps file formats.
 > The new version has a better pdf format and some links are corrected.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it, as requested, in

  info/TrueType

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Feb 23 11:48:38 2000
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:47:00 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ps2eps.tar.gz in /incoming

Roland Bless writes:

 > - I just uploaded the ps2eps-Tool (ps2eps.tar.gz and README.ps2eps)
 >   in CTAN /incoming of ftp.dante.de. Sorry, but I accidentially
 >   put README.txt in /incoming and could not delete it.
 >
 > - I suggest that the archive and README should reside in "support/ps2eps".
 >
 > - The program is licensed under gpl.
 >
 > - ps2eps is a tool to produce Encapsulated PostScript Files (EPS/EPSF)
 >   from usual one-paged Postscript documents. It calculates correct
 >   Bounding Boxes for those EPS files and filters some special postscript
 >   command sequences that can produce errorneous results on printers. EPS
 >   files are needed for including (scalable) graphics into TeX documents. I
 >   found out that other programs like "ps2epsi" didn't calculate the
 >   bounding box always correct (because the values are put on the
 >   postscript stack which may get corrupted by bad postscript code) or
 >   rounded it off so that clipping the EPS cutted off some part of the
 >   image. Therefore ps2eps uses a resolution of 144 dpi to get the correct
 >   bounding box.
 >   ps2eps needs perl, ghostscript and an ANSI-C compiler if your platform
 >   is not Linux, Solaris, Digital Unix or Windows 2000/9x/NT (binaries
 >   included).

Thanks a lot for the upload. As suggested, I installed it in

  support/ps2eps

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Feb 24 06:57:48 2000
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:55:06 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf 2.0

Heiko Oberdiek writes:

 > I have uploaded 'thumbpdf.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > 'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with pdfTeX
 > or dvips/ps2pdf (NEW), plain/latex formats. It consists of
 > four files:
 >   * readme.txt:    documentation.
 >   * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
 >   * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
 >   * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
 > Requirements: Perl5, ghostscript, pdfTeX
 >
 > This updates and replaces the files in
 >   macros/pdftex/thumbpdf/
 > But because of the additional pdfmark support for the
 > dvips/ps2pdf route (see below for more details) I
 > suggest as new location
 >   support/thumbpdf/
 > (If this directory is choosen, the old one can be removed
 > or better replaced by a symbol link to the new one).
 >
 > For the Catalogue entry: the license remains LPPL 1.1.
 >
 > Changes of Version 2.0:
 >
 > I am glad to be able to announce a new major version of
 > thumbpdf a year after its first version and three weeks,
 > after ghostscript 6.0 is released. The thumbpdf project
 > adds thumbnails to pdf files. The previous version was
 > limited to pdfTeX. Now thumbpdf also supports the dvips/ps2pdf
 > route, because the new ghostscript version understands the
 > pdfmark specials for this.
 >
 > Therefore the perl script thumbpdf(.pl) knows an additional
 > option for the different data file formats:
 >   --mode=pdftex     for use with pdfTeX (default)
 >   --mode=pdfmark    (or dvips, ps2pdf, that are synonyms)
 >                     for use with the dvips/ps2pdf route
 >   --mode=pdftex,pdfmark  or  --mode=all  creates both
 >                     types of data files.
 > (See readme.txt for additional new options.)
 >
 > Package thumbpdf.sty automatically recognizes a running pdfTeX.
 > Additinally it understands options pdfmark, dvips or ps2pdf for
 > the dvips/ps2pdf route. Plain users define \ThumbpdfDriver
 > before loading the package.
 >
 > I used the oppertunity of the major version upgrade for further
 > changes:
 > * Temporary files are now removed.
 > * The data files use the jobname of the main TeX file for their
 >   names. If the main TeX file is called `jobname.tex', then
 >   the name of the thumbnail data file for pdfTeX is:
 >   jobname.tpt (previously thumbopt.tex).
 >   jobname.tpm contains the data for the dvips/ps2pdf route.
 >   And jobname.tno replaces the optional thumbnail information
 >   file thumbopt.tex.
 >   By this renamings different TeX project in the same directory
 >   does not disturb each other.
 >
 > See file readme.txt for documentation and further changes and
 > additional features.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Feb 24 06:59:45 2000
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:58:02 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload to ftp.dante.de: makeglos.tar.gz

Thomas Henlich writes:

 > I've uploaded "makeglos.tar.gz" to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > This should go to macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/
 >
 > License: GPL
 >
 > makeglos is a LaTeX package to include a glossary into a document.
 > The glossary must be prepared by an external program, like xindy or
 > makeindex.
 >
 >
 > Features
 >
 > * Can be easily configured: various aspects of the appearance of the
 >   glossary can be changed by a simple \renewcommand.
 >
 > * Multi-language capability: certain keywords, like the name of the
 >   glossary, can be made language-dependent.
 >
 > * Flexible: works equally well for document classes with a book- or
 >   report-like structure (divided into \chapters) and for article-like
 >   documents, like the documentation for the makeglos package (based on
 >   \sections)
 > * Equivalent: makeglos is to glossaries what makeidx is to indices.
 >
 >
 > Files
 >
 > makeglos.sty     LaTeX style file
 > makeglos.pdf     The makeglos documentation
 > makeglos.tex     The LaTex source of the documentation
 > makeglos.glo     Glossary for documentation written by LaTeX run
 > makeglos.gls     File which contains the formatted glossary environment
 > makeglos.xdy     Style file for xindy to process the glossary
 > README.makeglos  This file
 >
 > --
 > Thomas Henlich
 >

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the package as

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/makeglos

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Feb 24 07:06:20 2000
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:04:22 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: HC Bundle for LaTeX2e

Christian Siefkes writes:

 > Name of contribution: HC Bundle for LaTeX2e
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/hc
 > Summary description: Replacement for the LaTeX default classes,
 > based upon the KoMa�Script bundle and the Seminar class.
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The HC Bundle for LaTeX2e provides the following four
 > classes as replacement for the LaTeX default classes:
 > - hcart.cls:    substitute for the article class,
 >                 based upon the KoMa�Script scrartcl class;
 > - hcreport.cls: substitute for the report class,
 >                 based upon the KoMa�Script scrreprt class;
 > - hcletter.cls: substitute for the letter class,
 >                 based upon the KoMa�Script scrlettr class;
 > - hcslides.cls: substitute for the slides class,
 >                 based upon the seminar class.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the package as suggested.
  For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Feb 24 07:07:20 2000
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:04:47 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: utf2any

Peter Kleiweg writes:

 > I uploaded a file to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming:
 >
 >     utf2any.tar.gz
 >
 > The top directory in the archive is utf2any.
 >
 > This is a new package that should be installed in:
 >
 >     /support/utf2any/
 >
 > Copying policy: gpl
 >
 > Here is the beginnen of the README:
 >
 > utf2any translates a file encoded in UTF-7 or UTF-8 (Unicode) into any
 > 7- or 8-bit text format. Currently, mapping tables are supplied for
 > LaTeX, HTML, iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15. These tables don't provide a
 > complete mapping, but they can be easily extended to personal needs.

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed it as suggested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Feb 24 11:02:43 2000
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:58:34 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission MiniBloquiHeader 1.0

Manuel Gutierrez Algaba writes:

 > CTAN Submission MiniBloquiHeader 1.0
 > _________________________
 >    + what you've uploaded
 > These are the files:
 > - MiniBloquiHeader.zip : Documentation of the MiniBloquiHeader
 >      Header_ing.py : Python program to produce pstrick boxes and
 >      allocate Text inside those boxes
 >
 >    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
 > - ftp.tex.ac.uk
 >    + where you want the files to go
 >    /tex-archive/support/MiniBloquiHeader
 >    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
 >      below).
 > GPL
 >    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
 > Easy and fast creation of page headers for the documentation
 > of Software Engineering Projects , using a Mini language implemented
 > in python that generates Pstrick code that it's embedded in
 > fancyhdr headers.
 >     Take a look at :
 >     http://www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina/Mini/MiniBloquiHeader.html

Thanks a lot. As you suggested, I installed the files in

  support/fancyhdrBoxed

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Feb 24 11:05:02 2000
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:01:07 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 2.23

Basil K. Malyshev writes:

 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
 > upgrade for BaKoMa TeX 2.23.
 > Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
 >
 > Bye.
 > Basil K. Malyshev
 > 24-Feb-2000

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


 > ------------------- Information about BaKoMa TeX 2.23 update ----------------
 >
 > PDF Generation Improvements.
 >
 >  * Embedding fonts into PDF in form of CFF.
 >    Fonts embedded in CFF are 2-3 times smaller then ATM Compatible font format.
 >
 > Improvements of Font Handling and Fonts itself.
 >
 >  * Metrics for 13 Standard PostScript has been updated by using
 >    new lw35nfss.zip for compatibility with PSNFSS 8.1(beta3),
 >    that is announced as final.
 >
 >  * Fixed bug related with loading several Type 3 fonts from single file.
 >    It had effect of mixing circle10/circlew10 in some documents.
 >
 >  * Type1 -> TTF convertor improvements (inspired by MarvoSym font):
 >      - Increase size of path buffer
 >      - support for non standard FontMatrix.
 >
 >  * Fixed problem with handling fonts that define /RD procs in userdict
 >    instead of Private Dict. The fix touches bkmfload.pro (DVIPS)
 >    pdf.pro (DVIEW, PDFGen).
 >
 > Update of LaTeX 2e (issue 12, 1999 Dec 01)
 >
 >  * It also, inlcudes update of:
 >      - LaTeX 2e required packages (cyrillic, tools, etc.)
 >      - AmsLaTeX,
 >      - HyperRef
 >
 >  *  In advance a lot of contrib packages have been added.
 >
 > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/index.html
 >
 > ---------------- End of Information about BaKoMa TeX 2.23 update -------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb 25 05:22:25 2000
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:21:25 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- webguide

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded webguide.tar to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Could you please untar this in the
> tex-archive/info directory, where it will create the webguide
> subdirectory.
>
> From the README:
>
>     webguide is a "Brief Guide to LaTeX Tools for Web publishing". For a much more detailed guide see: Michel Goossens and Sebastian Rahtz, "The LaTeX Web Companion",
> Addison Wesley, 1999. As an example of capabilities, webguide
> includes a LaTeX source file together with PostScript, PDF and HTML
> versions all generated automatically from the single source.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Feb 28 08:33:05 2000
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:27:44 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- pstoedit-3.17

----- Forwarded message from Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@BERTEA.BERLIN.PTB.DE> -----
I have upload the new version of the program `pstoedit' written by
Wolfgang Glunz to `/incoming' on ftp.dante.de. The names of the
archives are

  `pstoedit_3_17.zip' and `pstoedit_win.zip'

Please remove the old directory `/tex-archive/support/pstoedit' and
unpack the archive `pstoedit_3_17.zip' with

  unzip -a pstoedit_3_17.zip

Then move the resulting directory `pstoedit_3.17' to

  /tex-archive/support/pstoedit

Next step: Create a directory

  /tex-archive/support/pstoedit/win-binaries

and copy `pstoedit_win.zip' to this new directory.


>From `readme.txt':
--------------------------------------
PSTOEDIT
Copyright (C) 1993 - 2000 Wolfgang Glunz, wglunz@geocities.com

pstoedit converts Postscript(TM) and PDF files to other vector
graphic formats so that they can be edited graphically. See
pstoedit.htm or index.htm for more details on which formats are
supported by pstoedit. ...

License:
--------

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for your submission.  I installed the new version on dante.ctan.org
as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 28 17:44:31 2000
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:40:04 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ccaption package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded ccaption.dtx and README.ccaption to the UK
> CTAN/incoming. Could you please use these to update
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccaption?
>
>     The ccaption package provides many different varieties of
> captioning types, as well as new float environments. New in this
> release are bilingual captions.

i've isntalled the update as requested.  thanks for the contribution.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 28 18:31:57 2000
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:31:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- CMacTeX3.4

Tom Kiffe writes:

> I have uploaded CMacTeX3.4 to the /incoming/cmactex directory on
> ftp.tex.ac.uk. In addition to the usual things it contains the
> Feb 17th release of pdftex 0.14d, ghostscript 6.0, and dvips 5.86d.
>
> Please delete all files currently in /tex-archive/nonfree/systems/mac/cmactex
> and move all of the new files to that directory.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Feb 29 05:04:16 2000
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:01:31 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN notification: HC Bundle for LaTeX2e removed

Last week I announced the installation of the HC bundle for LaTeX, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/hc

This was a mistake. This cannot be installed in the supported
directory, as the author has not given a working address (email or
other).

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar  1 14:48:13 2000
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:44:19 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- appendix package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>    I have uploaded appendix.dtx and README.appendix to the UK
> incoming directory. Could you please use these to replace the
> corresponding files in macros/latex/contrib/supported/appendix?
>
>     They are released under the LPPL.
>
>     The appendix package provides additional appendexing
> capabilities than the simple \appendix command provides. New in this
> release is support for per chapter (or section for non-chaptered
> documents) appendices.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar  1 19:13:13 2000
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 00:12:00 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- midpage, nextpage and ifmtarg packages

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded three itsy-bitsy packages to CTAN UK /incoming,
> as midpage.sty, nextpage.sty and ifmtarg.sty. I guess they should go
> under macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc.
>
>     They are all released under the LPPL.
>
> o midpage package provides the midpage environment for vertical
> centering (corresponding to the center environment for horizontal
> centering).
>
> o nextpage package provides additional \clearto...page and
> \moveto...page commands, which are generalisations of the standard
> \clear...page and \newpage commands.
>
> o ifmtarg package provides an "if-then-else" command for processing
> potentially empty arguments.

i've installed the packages as requested, in a new
macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc directory.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

p.s. -- apologies to anyone who sees this announcement twice: i
thought i had sent it earlier, but it definitely didn't make it into
comp.text.tex either here or at Peter Wilson's site.

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Mar  2 04:41:05 2000
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:40:13 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- limap.dtx

----- Forwarded message from Gerd Neugebauer <gerd.neugebauer@sdm.de> -----
I have uploaded limap.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
I propose to put the files contained in the archive into a new directory

        macros/latex/contrib/other/gene/limap

The files may be distributed under the terms of the LPPL.

Abstract:

The Information Mapping method  provides a methodology for structuring
and presenting  information.  It claims  to be useful for  readers who
are more  concerned about finding  the right information  than reading
the document  as a whole.  Thus short, highly structured,  and context
free pieces of information are used.

limap.dtx  provides  a LaTeX  style  and  a  LaTeX class.   The  style
contains  definitions to  typeset  maps and  blocks  according to  the
Information  Mapping method.  The  class provides  all definitions  to
typeset a whole document.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it on dante.ctan.org in
/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/gene/limap as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Mar  2 04:46:59 2000
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:46:23 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- dvipsconfig

----- Forwarded message from Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz> ----
Uploaded: ftp://ctan.dante.de/incoming/dvipsconfig-1.3.tar.gz
License: public domain
To replace existing version: dviware/dvipsconfig

This is an update to my collection of dvips postscript header and dvips
config files. They control certain features of the printer, e.g. duplex
printing.

I know it is bad practice to embed this kind of control instruction into
the postscript file itself, but mickey$oft users only need to click a
box and problem solved. Unix users often pull their hair out standing in
front of a printer thinking "I really want to print this A3, not A4" or
"I want this in colour on transparency, not paper, thanks". It's also
a *lot* easier to delete these extra lines from a PS file than to put
them in in the first place...

In brief, these printer features can be controlled: A4, A3, usletter,
simplex, duplex / long edge, duplex / short edge, screen frequencies of
images, black/white invers, select transparency / paper for tektronix
550/560, and printing a postscript grid underneath the page material -
very useful for measuring and eliminates paper feed errors!

As much as possible care has been taken to allow for different postscript
levels.

Volker

(Thomas: any interest including this in tetex?)
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I replaced the old version on dante.ctan.org in
/tex-archive/dviware/dvipsconfig as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar  2 10:33:21 2000
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:32:21 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: utf2any additions

Peter Kleiweg writes:

 > Today, I uploaded a few additions for the utf2any package to
 > CTAN at ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/utf2any/
 >
 > These files should go to support/utf2any
 >
 >     update:
 >
 >         README
 >
 >     additions:
 >
 >         maps/rfc-1345-16-obsolete.map
 >         maps/rfc-1345-16.map
 >         maps/rfc-1345-7.map
 >         maps/rfc-1345-8.map
 >         Changes

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar  2 10:37:03 2000
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:34:36 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload mparhack package

Stefan Ulrich writes:

 > I've just uploaded the file
 > mparhack.tar.gz
 > to the incoming directory of
 > ftp.dante.de
 >
 > mparhack.tar.gz will unpack into a directory `mparhack'
 > containing the files:
 > README
 > mparhack.ins
 > mparhack.dtx
 >
 > Please install the `mparhack' directory under
 > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported
 >
 > License is gpl.
 >
 > Purpose of the package:
 > Implements a workaround for the LaTeX bug that marginpars
 > will sometimes come out at the wrong margin.

Thanks a lot for your submission, I installed it in the indicated
location.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar  2 11:06:58 2000
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 17:05:51 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf 2.1

Heiko Oberdiek writes:

 > I have uploaded 'thumbpdf.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > CAUTION:
 > * Dear CTAN maintainers, please install the files in the new
 >   directory:
 >     CTAN:support/thumbpdf/
 >   And remove the old directory CTAN:macros/pdftex/thumbpdf/.
 >   Perhaps it can be replaced by a symbol link for some weeks.
 >   (Reason: thumbpdf also supports the dvips/ps2pdf route
 >   since version 2.)
 > * Dear TeX distributors, the TDS location of `readme.txt' has
 >   changed from
 >     texmf/doc/pdftex/thumbpdf/readme.txt
 >   to
 >     texmf/doc/generic/thumbpdf/readme.txt
 >   (Reason: thumbpdf also supports dvips/ps2pdf and the package
 >   thumbpdf.sty works with both latex and plain formats).
 >
 > 'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with pdfTeX
 > or dvips/ps2pdf (NEW), plain/latex formats. It consists of
 > four files:
 >   * readme.txt:    documentation.
 >   * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
 >   * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
 >   * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
 > Requirements: Perl5, ghostscript, pdfTeX
 >
 > Changes of Version 2.1:
 >
 > * Environment variable THUMBPDF for default options of the
 >   perl script supported.
 > * Support of Configuration file thumbpdf.cfg for default
 >   driver of package `thumbpdf.sty'.
 >
 > See file readme.txt for documentation and further changes and
 > additional features.

As requested, I removed the old version

  macros/pdftex/thumbpdf

and installed the new version as

  support/thumbpdf

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar  2 11:09:22 2000
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 17:08:28 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload

Thomas Reinhardt writes:

 > Program: WinLatex 0.8 FrontEnd
 > File: winlatex08.zip
 > Upload: ftp.dante.de/incoming
 > Licence: pd (cardware)
 > Description:
 > FrontEnd for TeX, Win98/NT, needs Microsoft VisualBasic-DLLs

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files in

  systems/win32/winlatex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Mar  2 11:16:35 2000
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 17:15:32 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Files uploaded to CTAN

Harold de Wijn writes:

 > + I have uploaded to CTAN at  dante.ctan.org  the following files:
 >
 >   fnts.tex    font selection for plain TeX
 >   fnts.doc    documentation
 >
 >   and have stored them in a directory named  font_selection
 >
 >
 > + An appropriate place for the directory  font_selection  would be
 >   /macros/plain/contrib/font_selection
 >
 >
 > + Licensing conditions GNU General Public License
 >
 >
 > + The purpose of fnts.tex is, in abstract form:
 >
 >   FONT SELECTION FOR PLAIN TeX, featuring
 >   - 21 sizes in the range 7 to 154 points;
 >   - 16 typefaces, including Italic Bold, Calligraphic Bold, Sans Serif,
 >     Sans Serif Italic, and Sans Serif Bold;
 >   - Boldmath, inclusive of subscripts, superscripts, and symbols;
 >   - a few useful macros.
 >
 > + Note:
 >   The file has evolved over the years from v1.0 in 1994 to the current
 >   v3.0.  I feel that I should finally submit it to CTAN to "pay my little
 >   dime toward the TeX community", to whom I owe so much.

Thanks a lot for your submission, I installed it as requested.
For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar  3 02:34:49 2000
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 07:32:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ccaption package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded ccaption.dtx and README.ccaption to the UK
> incoming directory. Coulkd you please use these as replacements in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccaption?
>
>     They are under the LPPL.
>
>     The ccaption package provides a variety of captions:
> continuation captions, unnumbered captions and legends, captions
> outside float environments, bilingual captions, etc. It also enables
> the definitions of new float environments and their captions. New in
> this release is more flexible positioning of subfigure
> (continuation) captions.

i've installed the files as requested.  tanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar  3 04:53:03 2000
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:51:14 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Uploaded: "setspace.sty" version 6.6

Geoffrey Tobin writes:

> I have uploaded:
>
> Version 6.6 of setspace.sty
>
> to:    cam.ctan.org
>
> This LaTeX package should replace the earlier version
> in this directory:
>
>     macros/latex/contrib/supported/setspace/
>
> Licence:  pd    Public Domain
>
> Purpose:  Version 6.6 of setspace.sty introduces defaults for
> the line stretch values.  This enables the package to be used
> with documents of point sizes other than the traditional 10,
> 11 and 12 pt.
>
> The 10pt line stretch is used as the default.  Time will tell
> whether this is aesthetically satisfactory, so corrective
> comments are most welcome.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Mar  3 11:12:14 2000
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 17:10:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update to winedt english dictionaries

Daly Dr., Patrick writes:

 > I have put an update to the winedt english dictionaries (originally from me)
 > to the dante incoming directory.
 >
 > Can you put the files  english.txt and english.zip into
 > systems/win32/winedt/dict/
 > replacing the existing versions.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Mar  3 11:13:58 2000
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 17:13:15 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: MHequ.sty

Martin Hairer writes:

 > Name of contribution: MHequ.sty

 > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/
 > Summary description: Multicolumn equations, tags, labels, subnumbering
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > MHequ allows to create easily multicolumn equation environments, and to tag the equations therein. It also allows to subnumber blocks of equations (like (1.2a), (1.2b), etc) and to refer to each equation individually (1.2a) or to the whole block (1.2). It finally allows to show the labels in the draft.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the files in

   macros/latex/contrib/other/mhequ

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Mar  6 03:37:10 2000
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:35:36 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- paralist / nomencl

----- (edited) forwarded message from Bernd Schandl <schandl@GMX.NET> -----
I have uploaded the files paralist.zip and nomencl.zip to the /incoming
directory of ftp.dante.de.

The packages are licensed under the LPPL.

>From the abstracts:

  The paralist style file provides some new list environments. Itemized and
  enumerated lists can be typesetted within paragraphs, as paragraphs and in
  a compact version. Most environments have optional arguments to format the
  labels.  Additionally, the LaTeX environments itemize and enumerate can be
  extended to use a similar optional argument.

  The nomenclature package can be used to generate and format a
  nomenclature using MakeIndex.

The new version adds an option to avoid loading the configuration file. I
also corrected the email and WWW addresses.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new versions on both packages in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/nomencl and
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist replacing the
old versions.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Mar  7 03:36:43 2000
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 09:33:18 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: [TeXSatz@uni-bremen.de: oztex-german upload]

----- Forwarded message from "L. Meyer-Lerbs" <TeXSatz@uni-bremen.de> -----
here (dante.de/incoming) is the new oztex-german finally,
which should replace the old
/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/mac/oztex-german/

this collection is public domain but the
content has the same restrictions as oztex itself --
shareware and Andrew Trevorrow has the copyright to
the programs // and the LaTeX files ...

this is OzTex 4.0 with LaTeX 1999/12/01 pl 1
set up for german (speaking/writing) users.

\thanks Lothar Meyer-Lerbs  (for DANTE)
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission, I installed the news version replacing the
old one in CTAN:/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/mac/oztex-german/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar  7 10:22:29 2000
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:21:34 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf 2.2

Heiko Oberdiek writes:

 > I have uploaded 'thumbpdf.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > This updates and replaces the files in
 >   support/thumbpdf/
 >
 > Changes in Version 2.2:
 >   * Support for Adobe Distiller 3 and 4.
 >   * The current page, that is processed by Ghostscript, is shown
 >     on systems, that support fork (Linux, for example).
 >   * Trouble options (especially for DOS users, see readme.txt).
 >
 > 'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with
 >   * pdfTeX
 >   * dvips/ps2pdf
 >   * dvips/Distiller
 > both plain and latex formats.
 > It consists of four files:
 >   * readme.txt:    documentation.
 >   * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
 >   * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
 >   * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
 > Requirements: Perl5, Ghostscript, pdfTeX
 >
 > See file readme.txt for documentation and further changes and
 > additional features.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Mar  7 19:42:27 2000
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 00:41:55 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- tocbibind package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded tocbibind.dtx and README.tocbibind to the UK
> /incoming directory. Could you please use these to replace the
> corresponding files in macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocbibind.

i've done that

>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
>     The tocbibind package can be used to add document elements like
> a bibliography or an index to the Table of Contents. The List
> of... headings can also be put into the ToC.
>
> Changes in version 1.4:
> o Disabled LaTeX feature (bug 3126) of change in Index title height
> o Added commands for single line chapter headings
> o Added numbered List of... headings

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar  8 18:56:11 2000
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:55:08 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- tocbibind (again)

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded tocbibind.dtx and README.tocbibind to the
> UK /incoming direcxtory. Please use these to replace those in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocbibind (which you kindly installed
> only yesterday).

i've done that.

> Changes in v1.4a
> o Improved flexibility for single line, numbered, chapters
> o Examples of handling additional kinds of List of...
> o Replaced command \toc@file by \tocfile

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar  9 16:40:42 2000
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 21:39:50 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New package: twoup

Mogens Lemvig Hansen writes:

> I have uploaded  twoup.zip  containing  twoup.dtx  and  twoup.ins
> to  /incoming  on  ftp.tex.ac.uk
> I suggest placing this new package in CTAN:
> macros/latex/contrib/supported

i've installed teh files as requested (in macros/latex/contrib/supported/twoup)

> The twoup package is distributed under LPPL Version 1.2  1999-09-03.
>
> MiKTeX and many other TeX implementations include tools for massaging
> postscript into booklet and two-up printing - that is, printing two
> logical pages side by side on one side of one sheet of paper.
> However, some LaTeX preliminaries are necessary to use those tools.
> The twoup package provides such preliminaries and gives advise on how
> to use the postscript tools.

i have also moved the old macros/latex209/contrib/misc/twoup.sty, of
which the new package is a superset, to the obsolete/ tree.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar 10 04:13:22 2000
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:12:17 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload lineno.sty

Stephan Boettcher writes:

> Please replace
>    CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/lineno/
> by
>    ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/lineno.tar.gz

i've installed the files as requested.

> also available at
>    http://www.nevis.columbia.edu/~stephan/tex/lineno.tar.gz
>    http://www.nevis.columbia.edu/~stephan/tex/lineno/lineno.sty
>
> This is an update of the lineno.sty package.
> License LPPL.
>
> The LaTeX package lineno.sty provides line numbers on paragraphs.
> After TeX has broken a paragraph into lines there will be line numbers
> attached to them, with the possibility to make references through the
> LaTeX \ref, \pageref cross reference mechanism.
>
> [1999/08/28 v3.01]:
>    One step towards fixing the \footnote problems (using
>    \holdinginserts instead of \@reinserts).
>
> [2000/03/10 v3.02]:
>    Make it work with multicol.sty (calling \output indirectly).
>    \linelabel do _not_ work with multicol.  Please do _not_ try to put
>    \linenumbers on a {multicol} in internal vertical mode, like a
>    {table}.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar 10 11:52:27 2000
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:51:43 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: forwarded message from Jean-Pierre Drucbert

Sebastian Rahtz writes:

> The TeX Live 5 texmf tree will be closed on March 20th. Any
> new or updated material that appears on CTAN after that date will
> probably not make it onto this year's CD ROM. However, the master tree
> will be kept up to date, and there are plans for an updating system

so, package authors, please hurry in any pending updates you may have.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar 10 18:45:20 2000
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:44:46 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload -- sf298

Steven Douglas Cochran writes:

> > + what you've uploaded
> > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
>       I have uploaded the file sf298.tar.gz to //cam.ctan.org/incoming/.
>
>       Strictly speaking this is uploadable, but I will leave you to
> decide if it has general enough application.  This is a LaTeX package
> for generating a completed standard form 298 as prescribed by ANSI
> Std. Z39.18 for report documentation as part of a document delivered,
> for instance, on a U.S. government contract.  I could not find any
> LaTeX style to do this automatically or semi-automatically, and so I
> created this (since I have to fill one out fairly often -- five times
> this last year).
>
> > + where you want the files to go
>
>       If accepted, it should go into the directory
>  /tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/sf298/
> the TAR file expands into the three files:
>
>   ./sf298/Makefile
>   ./sf298/sf298.dtx
>   ./sf298/sf298.ins

duly installed as requested

> > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
>
>       lppl - LaTeX Project Public Licence
>
>
> > + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>
>       sf298.sty is a LaTeX package for generating a completed
> standard form 298 (Rev. 8-98) as prescribed by ANSI Std. Z39.18
> for report documentation as part of a document delivered, for
> instance, on a U.S. government contract.

it's quite a big country, the usa.  i think ctan can manage to hold
something of special interest to you folks ... ;-)

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Mar 11 01:47:41 2000
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 07:46:57 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission - dinbrief

----- Forwarded message from Klaus Braune <Klaus.Braune@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> -----
I just uploaded a new version of 2 files of the LaTeX package 'dinbrief' into
the directory 'incoming/dinbrief', which should replace the files currently
distributed.  The other 2 files of the package ('liesmich' and 'readme') have
not changed and should be left in place.

Files uploaded to directory 'incoming/dinbrief:
        dinbrief.dtx
        dinbrief.ins

CTAN node:
        dante.ctan.org

Directory:
        /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief

Licensing conditions:
        lppl  (LaTeX Project Public License)

Summary:
        The LaTeX2e document class 'dinbrief' implements a document
        layout for writing letters according to the rules of DIN
        (Deutsches Institut f\"ur Normung, German standardization
        institute).  A style file for LaTeX 209 (with limited support
        of the features) is part of the package.  Since the letter
        layout is based on a German standard, the user guide is
        written in German, but most macros have English names from
        which the user can recognize what they are used for.
        In addition there are example files showing how letters may
        be created with the package.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Mar 11 01:51:47 2000
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 07:51:18 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- jurabib

----- Forwarded message from Jens Berger <jberger@gmx.net> -----
I've just uploaded the file jurabib04h2.zip to
        ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.
This archive contains an updated version (0.4h) of the jurabib package.

It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

The following files are included:

readme.jrb
jurabib.ins
jurabib.dtx

>From the README:

        This package allows the use of BibTeX databases for
        German legal texts. It can be used both together
        with or independently from the jura documentclass.
        The package allows the dynamic citation of an
        abbreviated title, depending on a multiple citation
        of an author with different cited titles (The dynamic
        citation can be suppressed). It is very easy to modify
        the layout of the citations and the entries in the
        bibliography.

        To use this package, you can use two new fields
        in the .bib-file to determine the citation: the
        `juraauthor' and the `juratitle' field.
        These fields are no longer required for articles and
        periodicals: jurabib can build the widely used citation
        form by itself. The package can also detect the last
        names of the first three authors to use it in the citation.
        For further explanation see the documenation, which is
        written in German, because it is a package for german
        law students.

Please replace the current files in the directory
CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jura/

Please send an announcement to c.t.t.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the update, I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Mar 11 02:01:13 2000
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 08:00:43 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- wp2latex

----- Forwarded message from fojtik@htc.honeywell.cz -----
1,I uploaded wp2latex to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/wp2latex
2,the destination node is support/wp2latex
3,New functionality - better conversion from Wordperfect 6-8
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version of the
WordPerfect->LaTeX converter in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/wp2latex
as suggested.

The copyright is:
> The package, this is the collection of all the files mentioned above,
> may be distributed and copied freely under the condition that no
> changes to the files are made before distribution or copying.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Sun Mar 12 06:00:08 2000
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 11:57:52 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload: float 1.2e

Anselm Lingnau writes:

 > I've uploaded the file float-1.2e.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de:/incoming. This
 > is a new version of the LaTeX float package which should replace the
 > existing copy in .../latex/contrib/supported.
 >
 > This release fixes a bug with the formatting of double-column floats.
 > Thanks to Jonathan Shapiro for reporting it.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/float

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Sun Mar 12 06:03:29 2000
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 12:01:52 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - titlesec 2.3.3

Javier Bezos writes:

 > I've uploaded to the DANTE server the titlesec directory containing
 > the following files (Unix linefeeds):
 >  block.tss
 >  drop.tss
 >  frame.tss
 >  leftmargin.tss
 >  margin.tss
 >  readme
 >  rightmargin.tss
 >  titlesec.sty
 >  titlesec.tex
 >  titletoc.sty
 >  ttlhref.tex
 >  ttlkeys.def
 >  ttlps.def
 >  wrap.tss
 >
 > Please, replace the whole contents of the
 > latex/macros/contrib/supported/titlesec directory.
 >
 > The changes are mainly in ttlps.def (some parts of them have been
 > rewritten to provide a general mechanism to deal with redefined
 > \markboth's, mainly AMS and babel), but I uploaded the full bundle
 > to synchronize version numbers and dates. An unsupported ttlhref.tex
 > file is provided as well, to make titlesec and hyperref compatible
 > until hyperref is changed.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec

(Please note that the pathname you gave is incorrect.)

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar 13 04:07:22 2000
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:02:48 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: listbib

Volker Kuhlmann writes:
 > Uploaded:       ftp.dante.de:/incoming/listbib-2.0.tar.gz
 > Archive:        macros/latex/contrib/supported/listbib (suggested)
 > License:        GPL
 >
 > This is the first release of package listbib, the successor to biblist
 > (which seems no longer maintained).
 >
 > listbib generates listings of bibliographic data bases in BibTeX
 > format. This is meant for archival purposes. Included is a listbib.bst
 > which is better suited for this purpose than the standard styles.
 >
 > As per usual, feedback is appreciated...
 >
 > 1-line entry for catalog:
 >         listbib lists contents of bibtex files for archival purposes
 >
 > Please add to the archive - thanks for spending your time running it!!

Thanks for the upload, I installed the package as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Mar 13 04:22:08 2000
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:18:04 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Math into LaTeX, third edition, sample

----- Forwarded message from George Gratzer <gratzer@cc.umanitoba.ca> -----
(a) I have uploaded to

ftp.dante.de

into the

/incoming/mil3

directory 36 small text files.

(b) The list of files I uploaded is in the file named contents.

(c) These are the preliminary versions of the sample text files for
my forthcoming book: Math into LaTeX, third edition
(Birkhauser/Springer).

(d) I request that you place the files in the directory

/info/mil3

I will send the final version in a few weeks. But it is important
that they be placed on CTAN now, so I can accurately state in my book
where can they be found on CTAN.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for your submission.  I installed it on CTAN in
/tex-archive/info/mil3 as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk Mon Mar 13 04:45:21 2000
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:38:16 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New name for TeX Live number 5

"Bernard GAULLE (CNRS/IDRIS - France) <Bernard.Gaulle@idris.fr>" <gaulle@idris.fr> writes:
 >
 > as far as i know the contents are now free (in the way of
 > Free Soft. Fundation or GPL) and there is no more shareware on it,

I sincerely hope I have found all the non-free stuff.

But it is not GPL, largely. The criterion is "compatibility with
Debian Free Software Guidelines"

 > so i ask its name be slightly extanded with an appropriate word
 > showing explicitely the difference with TL4; why not GTL5 for
 > GNU TeX Live 5? or something like that.

In theory, I agree. But I cannot say "GNU", because Richard Stallman
would kill me. It is not in any sense a GNU product.  I also hesitate
to say "Free TeX Live", or something like that. Have you any other
suggestions?

sebastian

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar 13 05:12:11 2000
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:08:43 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Files upload in incoming/cweb-hy

Enrique Mel�ndez writes:

 > I have uploaded to /incoming/cweb-hy.tar.gz an evolution of the
 > cweb class, originally by Joachim Schrod, and some further contributions.
 >
 > In my opinion, the files should be put under
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/cweb/contrib/cweb-hy to make them clearly
 > different from the original ones.  A README file is also provided with a
 > few installing instructions for the end user.
 >
 > I have also uploaded a file cwbl-spanish.sty for transating
 > the cweb class strings to spanish.  This file may directly go to
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/cweb/contrib where lie all the other
 > language files.
 >
 > All these files are in cweb-hy.tar.gz
 >
 > The files are freely distributable under the LaTeX Project Public
 > Licence.
 >
 > The class consists of two files (like the original one does), now called
 > cweb-hy.cls and cwbasehy.tex.  An auxiliary file, called nodoc.tex is also
 > included.  The purpose of the new files is twofold:
 >
 > 1.- To allow a file written using this class to be included in other
 > documents, as for instance as an appendix to some report.  For this,
 > the file nodoc.tex may be of help.
 >
 > 2.- To insert hyperlinks from the places where a chunk of code is
 > referenced to the chunk itself, including the indices that are produced at
 > the end of cweb document.  The result  makes it a lot more easy to follow
 > the code if it is typeset using PDFTeX, or is otherwise post-processed
 > to obtain a PDF or an HTML file, and makes no harm in the paper version
 > of the document.

Thanks a lot, as requested, I installed the new files in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/cweb/contrib/cweb-hy

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Mar 13 11:42:25 2000
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:41:34 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- latex2man version 1.9

Juergen Vollmer writes:

 > I uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file latex2man-1.9.tar.gz.
 > Please install it under the supported directory hierarchy under "latex2man".
 > >From the README:
 >
 > Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a
 > format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command.
 > Alternatively HTML or TexInfo code can be produced too.
 > Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the conditional text
 > feature (for this feature, LaTeX can be produced too).
 >
 > There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the Man-page
 > and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual translation.
 >
 > Changes from version 1.8:
 >   - latex2man.sty: Added option pdf.
 >   - latex2man:     define names HTML TEXI MAN LATEX automatically.
 > With best regards
 >
 > Juergen
 >
 > PS
 > License:
 >    This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
 >    of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
 >    archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
 >    version 1 of the License, or any later version.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Mar 14 04:02:30 2000
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:56:22 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- vmargin updated

---- Forwarded message from Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@ELEC.CANTERBURY.AC.NZ> ----
Uploaded:       ftp.dante.de/incoming/vmargin-2.2b.tar.gz
License:        LPPL
Suggested place: macros/latex/contrib/supported/vmargin

I have finished an overhaul of my vmargin package (which allows margin
settings taking into account the paper size). All new is that it is now
in docstrip format, so the documentation should be much better. No real
code changes though.

Please delete macros/latex/contrib/supported/vmargin/vmargin.sty and
place the new .dtx and .ins files into that directory.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the update.  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar 14 07:23:01 2000
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:19:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update of `mparhack' package

Stefan Ulrich writes:

 > I've just uploaded to the incoming directory of
 > ftp.dante.de
 > the file
 > mparhack.dtx.gz
 >
 > Please gunzip the file and replace the existing
 > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/mparhack/mparhack.dtx
 > by this file.
 >
 > License (unchanged): gpl
 >
 > The package implements a workaround for the LaTeX bug that
 > marginpars will sometimes come out at the wrong margin.
 >
 > The update consists of minor changes to \NeedsTeXFormat and
 > the documentation.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar 14 07:26:12 2000
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:20:44 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- contour.sty

Harald Harders writes:

 > I have uploaded the file contour.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > The package contour generates a colored contour around a given text in
 > order to enable printing text over a background without the need of a
 > color box around the text.
 > The new version allows to change the thickness of the contour and has an
 > additional command \contour* which plots 32 instead of 16 copies of the
 > text in order to achieve a smoother contour.
 >
 > Please replace all files in the directory
 > CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/contour
 > by the contents of the file contour.tar.gz.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Mar 14 09:41:00 2000
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:35:28 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- SIunits update

Marcel Heldoorn writes:
 > I have uploaded the file SIunits.zip to dante.ctan.org
 >
 > The SIunits package contained in it is intended for LaTeX.
 > It typesets physical units following the rules of the International System
 > of Units (SI).
 >
 > It is the updated version 1.00.
 > Licence: LPPL
 >
 > Please replace the files in
 > /macros/latex/contrib/supported/SIunits/


Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Mar 14 11:38:58 2000
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:34:39 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload of flashcard.cls

James Kilfiger writes:

> Ive uploaded to the cambridge node flashcard.cls.
> It should be put in macros/latex/contrib/other/misc

i have so installed it.

> It's public domain
>
> The flashcard class is for typesetting flash cards, as you might have
> for revsion, ie cards with a question on one side and the answer on the
> other (though the mechansim could be adapted for other purposes.)
>
> This is uncompleted work, but many people have expressed an interest.
> Documentation is minimal.  YMMV.  Comments are welcome

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar 15 04:34:04 2000
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:32:54 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: yplan

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk the file yplan.tar.gz
>
> This is a Perl version of Dick Nickalls' yplan, which generates annual
> calendars for any year >=1999, made with Dick's knowledge and approval;
> I suggest installation in macros/latex/contrib/other/yplan

i've installed the files as suggested.  if they had been free-standing
i think they should have gone into support/, but as it is i guess
they'll do where they are.

> It supplements, rather than replacing, the material already there.

i have, however, taken the liberty of deleting the '99 planner files
that were there...

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Mar 16 02:16:17 2000
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:15:22 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new on CTAN: texdoctk v.0.3.0

-- Forwarded message from Thomas Ruedas <ruedas@geophysik.uni-frankfurt.de> ---
Dear CTAN maintainers,
I want to inform you that I have submitted a new release of texdoctk to
Thomas Esser; he has installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/contrib/
I would appreciate if you could announce it on the CTAN mailing list.
Here comes a short description:

texdoctk is a Perl/Tk-based GUI for easy access of package documentation
for
the TeX typesetting system on Unix platforms; the databases it uses are
based on the texmf/doc subtrees of teTeX v.1.0.x, but database files for
local configurations with modified/extended directories can be derived
from them.
Note that texdoctk is not a viewer itself, but an interface for finding
documentation files and opening them with the appropriate viewer; so it
relies on respective programs to be installed on the system. However,
the choice of these programs can be configured by the sysadmin or user.
The license is GPL; v.0.3.0 is the first public release.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Mar 16 07:21:59 2000
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:21:10 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Smf-LaTeX styles

--- Forwarded message from Antoine Chambert-Loir <chambert@math.jussieu.fr> ----
I uploaded in /incoming/smflatex on ftp.dante.de
Classes, Packages and BibTeX styles to be used
in the publications of the Soci�t� math�matique de France.

I propose that it will be installed in
  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/smflatex

Here follows a copy of the `README' file.
Thank you for maintaining CTAN,
Sincerely yours,

**************************

The Soci�t� math�matique de France provides
a set of classes, packages and bibtex styles
that are used in its publications.
They are based on AMS classes (whose code is sometimes recopied)
and mainly "upward-compatible".

Their main features are
   1. quite different design
   2. new environments for typesetting some informations
in two languages (altabstract, alttitle, altkeywords)
   3. if necessary, use of babel (option frenchb) and desactivation
of some features of frenchb.

The following files are included.

  smfart.cls
  smfbook.cls   classes for articles and books

  smfenum.sty   package for new alignment style of enumerations
  smfthm.sty    package for simplified definition of theorems

  smfplain.bst
  smfalpha.bst  BibTeX styles

  e-doc.tex     documentation and advices (in english)
  f-doc.tex     documentation et conseils (in french)
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for your submission.  I installed the package as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Mar 16 07:41:15 2000
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:40:26 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Update to custom-bib

--- Forwarded message from "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" <daly@LINPWD.MPAE.GWDG.DE> ---
I have just uploaded an update to my collection  custom-bib  to the dante
incoming directory.

incoming/custom-bib.zip

Please unpack this zip file to   macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib
removing all existing files in that directory.

This is now the first full release of version 4.00 which was available as a
beta release until now.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the new version.  I installed it on CTAN as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Mar 17 02:46:06 2000
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:44:44 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Update of newlfm, version 1.5

----- Forwarded message from Paul Thompson <Paul@wubios.wustl.edu> -----
I have posted newlfm.zip 1.6 to ftp.dante.de/incoming.  This replaced
version 1.8 of newlfm.

The new version of newlfm includes limited support for labels output and
more sensible naming of commands and options.
Here is the description of the package:

Announcing newlfm.cls
newlfm stands for NEW Letter Fax Memo
Available at CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/newlfm

newlfm integrates the letter class with fancyhdr and geometry to
o automatically make letterhead stationary
o includes support for a database for addresses; instead of putting all
   the information for different letters into different letters, you put
   it in the database, and pull it into the letter with a single command
o includes support for other languages, including pig Latin
o extends the letter situation to include a number of excluded article.cls
features (table, figure)
o integrates support for memos and faxes within the same package
o full support for positioning of items (moving the date up or down; putting
   the date between from and to blocks; etc.)
o supports mass mailings and form letters easily and simply
o supports 3 different types of letters (standard, business) and includes
   full control for positioning of letter elements
o includes options to print envelope labels
o has a full manual, for ease of use
Try it out!!! You may never use the letter class again!!
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the update as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Mar 17 02:58:23 2000
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:57:59 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- <sidecap>

-- Forwarded message from Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@BERTEA.BERLIN.PTB.DE> ---
I have upload a new version of the LaTeX package `sidecap' to `/incoming'
on ftp.dante.de. The name of the archive is

  sidecap-1.5d.tar.gz

Please overwrite the contents of

    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/sidecap

with the new files.

>From the README:

=============================
The sidecap package.

This package defines the new environments SCfigure and SCtable,
analogous to figure and table, which make it easy to typeset
captions sideways.
=============================

This version corrects some small bugs and has two new package options
`raggedright' and `wide'.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission, I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From mjd@ams.org Fri Mar 17 10:42:38 2000
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:42:33 -0500
From: Michael John Downes <mjd@ams.org>
To: CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE
Subject: update of amsmath distribution

I have posted some amsmath bug fixes to ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex to
clear up the following problems:

1. Double accent not working properly in subscripts or over capital Greek
letters.

2. \iint incorrect output when intlimits option is used.

3. Incorrect placement of equation numbers for "split" environments when
fleqn option and tbtag option are used together.

Also some additional information was added to the install.txt file on
installing amsmath for OzTeX.

The structure of the .zip and other archive files for amsmath was also
changed slightly to remove the topmost directory level. This is to make
it easier to install into a texmf tree where the root directory is named
something other than "texmf".

From mjd@ams.org Fri Mar 17 10:47:13 2000
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:46:35 -0500
From: Michael John Downes <mjd@ams.org>
To: CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE
Subject: update of amscls distribution

I have posted some very minor improvements in the amscls distribution
to ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex (so that TeX Live 5 will be able to
incorporate them).

A \newtoks statement in amsclass.dtx was changed so that it will work
even with rather old versions of LaTeX2e.

Some additional information was added to the install.txt file on
installing the AMS classes for OzTeX.

The structure of the .zip and other archive files for the amscls
distribution was also changed slightly to remove the topmost directory
level. This is to make it easier to install into a texmf tree where the
root directory is named something other than "texmf".

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Sun Mar 19 06:16:48 2000
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 12:15:24 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload: svjour.zip

J%ORG KNAPPEN writes:

 > I have just uploaded the most recent Springer-Verlag journal macros.
 >
 > I suggest to install them under
 >
 > macros/latex/supported/springer/svjour (with subdirectories in there).
 >
 > The licence is "nocommercial" -- the files may be freely distributed
 > (even for profit). Their use in professional publishing houses needs prior
 > consent of Springer-Verlag.

Thanks for the upload. I installed the files in

  nonfree/macros/latex/contrib/supported/springer/svjour

with a symbolic link

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/springer/svjour

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From mjd@ams.org Sun Mar 19 06:23:39 2000
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 12:23:21 +0100
From: Michael John Downes <mjd@ams.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: update of amscls distribution

I have posted some very minor improvements in the amscls distribution
to ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex (so that TeX Live 5 will be able to
incorporate them).

A \newtoks statement in amsclass.dtx was changed so that it will work
even with rather old versions of LaTeX2e.

Some additional information was added to the install.txt file on
installing the AMS classes for OzTeX.

The structure of the .zip and other archive files for the amscls
distribution was also changed slightly to remove the topmost directory
level. This is to make it easier to install into a texmf tree where the
root directory is named something other than "texmf".

From mjd@ams.org Sun Mar 19 06:24:19 2000
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 12:24:01 +0100
From: Michael John Downes <mjd@ams.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: update of amsmath distribution

I have posted some amsmath bug fixes to ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex to
clear up the following problems:

1. Double accent not working properly in subscripts or over capital Greek
letters.

2. \iint incorrect output when intlimits option is used.

3. Incorrect placement of equation numbers for "split" environments when
fleqn option and tbtag option are used together.

Also some additional information was added to the install.txt file on
installing amsmath for OzTeX.

The structure of the .zip and other archive files for amsmath was also
changed slightly to remove the topmost directory level. This is to make
it easier to install into a texmf tree where the root directory is named
something other than "texmf".

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Sun Mar 19 09:16:48 2000
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:16:26 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: TeXmacs distribution

Joris van der Hoeven writes:

 > I succeeded to upload the last TeXmacs distribution
 > to ftp.dante.de/incoming in the directory 'TeXmacs'.
 > It consists of the following files:
 >
 >   TeXmacs-0.2.4b-shared-linux.tar.gz  TeXmacs-0.2.4b-static-linux.tar.gz
 >   TeXmacs-0.2.4b-shared-sun.tar.gz    TeXmacs-0.2.4b-static-sun.tar.gz
 >   TeXmacs-0.2.4b-src.tar.gz           TeXmacs-600pk-fonts.tar.gz
 >
 > The software is distributed under gpl and might go to 'systems'.

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the package in

  systems/unix/TeXmacs

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf


 > Here a brief announcement of what the software does:
 >
 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Dear colleagues,
 >
 > It is my great pleasure to announce the last beta release of ``TeXmacs''
 > --- a free technical what-you-see-is-what-you-get text editor,
 > whose design was inspired by the popular TeX typesetting system and
 > the emacs editor. The main characteristics of ``TeXmacs'' are the
 > following:
 >
 >
 >   1. TeXmacs is a ``structured text editor'' with special support for
 >      mathematical expressions.
 >
 >   2. The typesetting quality of the produced documents is intended to
 >      be as high as possible, i.e. comparable to the quality of documents
 >      produced with TeX.
 >
 >   3. The user interface should be as natural and powerful as possible.
 >      In particular, the text you see on the screen corresponds exactly
 >      to what you get after printing.
 >
 >   4. TeXmacs comes with a typed lisp extension language.
 >      Like in emacs, this allows you for instance to
 >      redefine keyboard and menu actions.
 >
 >   5. TeXmacs can also be used as an interface for computer algebra systems.
 >      In particular, automatically generated mathematical formulas are
 >      typeset in a satisfactory way.
 >
 >   6. It is possible to generate LaTeX and Postscript output from TeXmacs.
 >      After compilation, the LaTeX output will resemble the Postscript output,
 >      although we guarantee no complete compatibility between TeXmacs and TeX.
 >      It is also possible to import "well written LaTeX documents".
 >
 >   7. The present release includes an interface with ghostscript,
 >      which enables you to include postscript (and some other formats) of images.
 >
 >   8. TeXmacs is FREE SOFTWARE. More precisely,
 >      it falls under the GNU general public license.
 >
 >
 > Currently, TeXmacs runs on PC's under Linux and on SUN computers.
 > It is reasonable to expect that it will run on most Unix/X-Windows
 > systems in the near future. If you are interested by the program,
 > we invite you to download it from
 >
 >         http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~anh/TeXmacs/TeXmacs.html
 >
 > We recall that this release is a beta version,
 > so the program will probably not yet fulfill all your expectations.
 > Nevertheless, I am very interested in bug reports and suggestions.
 > The more reactions I get, the faster TeXmacs will evolve towards
 > a stable and complete program which might be useful for you.
 >
 > Sincerely yours,
 >
 > Joris van der Hoeven

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Sun Mar 19 09:23:36 2000
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:23:18 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: fancynum

J.J.Green writes:

 > Name of contribution: fancynum
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/supported/fancynum
 > Summary description: A package for typesetting numbers
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Fancynum is a LaTeX package for typesetting numbers, in particular those numbers written by computers.
 >

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancynum

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Sun Mar 19 09:24:48 2000
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:24:24 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: flashcards

Alexander M. Budge writes:

 > Name of contribution: flashcards
 > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported
 > Summary description: Typesets two sided cards, particularly for use as flash cards.
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The FlashCards class provides for the typesetting of two sided cards, particularily for use as flash cards (the front side has a question on it, the back side has the answer). FlashCards can be configured for most types of perforated paper stock, such as business cards (e.g. Avery 5371) or index cards (e.g. Avery 5388).  FlashCards also alows you to customize various aspects of the style and formatting of the cards.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------


Thanks for the upload, I installed it as suggested.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Mar 20 05:33:27 2000
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:32:12 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- rtf2latex2e v0.3

----- Forwarded message from Ujwal Sathyam <setlur@BIGFOOT.COM> -----
I have uploaded rtf2latex2e v0.3. Please replace previous versions with this
one.

Files:
------
rtf2latex2e/README
rtf2latex2e/Release-notes.txt
rtf2latex2e/rtf2latex2eMac-0.3.sit.hqx
rtf2latex2e/rtf2latex2eUnix-0.3.tar.gz
rtf2latex2e/rtf2latex2eWin-0.3.zip

Node:
-----
ftp.dante.de

Install under:
--------------
tex-archive/support/rtf2latex2e

License:
--------
GPL

Summary:
--------
rtf2latex2e is an RTF->LaTeX2e translator. It can the handle the latest RTF
versions from Microsoft Word 97/98/2000, StarOffice, and other
word-processors. It has support for tables, figures, and to some extent
equations. It runs on Macintosh, Linux, Unix, Windows.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Mar 21 16:18:55 2000
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:17:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- needspace package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded needspace.sty to the UK /incoming
> directory. Please put this into the
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc directory.

i've done that

>     It is released under the LPPL.
>
>     The needspace package provides a command to disable pagebreaking
> within a given vertical space. If there is not enough space between
> the command and the bottom of the page, a new page will be started.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar 22 04:30:26 2000
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:26:11 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: hyperref

Sebastian Rahtz writes:

> The hyperref.zip in ctan:incoming is just a cleanup, version 6.70.
> It brings CTAN into line with the incremental test releases which
> have been happening on www.tug.org. The relevant portion of the
> ChangeLog is appended
>
> sebastian
>
> 2000-03-07  Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
>         * 6.69f
>         * \@ifundefined{thechapter} changed to \@ifundefined{chapter}
>           because of compatibility with french.sty.
>         * xr-hyper.sty: \xdef changed to \protected@xdef
>           (Stephan Lehmke <Stephan.Lehmke@cs.uni-dortmund.de>).
>         * hvtex.def: default for pdfview changed to xyz.
>
> 2000-03-07  Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
>         * 6.69e
>         * Fix for babel/3174 (\@save@activestrue in \hyper@normalise).
>
> 2000-03-02  Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
>         * 6.69d
>         * Fix for \texttilde with babel's spanish, estonian, galician
>         * Expandable versions without link of \ref and \pageref:
>           \hypergetref and \hypergetpageref.
>         * \ifthenelse: \ref and \pageref use the \hyperget... variants.
>         * \hyper@chars added in \hyper@anchor of drivers
>           hypertex, vtexhtml, and vtex.
>         * Forms: checkboxsymbol introduced (Michael Wiedmann
>           <michael.wiedmann@detewe.de>).
>         * Redefinitions in \appendix are made globally
>           (Tim J Harding <Tim.Harding@quadstone.com>).
>         * If \chapter is undefined, it remains now undefined.
>
> 2000-01-22  Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
>         * 6.69c
>         * D. P. Story <story@uakron.edu> has adapted forms
>           part of pdfTeX to dvipdfm.
>
> 2000-01-21  Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
>         * 6.69b
>         * \@writetorep: destination and level check added.
>         * \addcontentsline: \phantomsection added, if no destination.
>
> 2000-01-19  Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
>         * 6.69a
>         * Bug fixed: tabularx+\maketitle+\footnote.
>         * LPPL 1.2, manifest.txt updated.

i've installed the contents of the file as required.  thanks for the
upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Mar 22 05:15:12 2000
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:10:55 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- dvipsconfig-1.4

-- Forwarded message from Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@ELEC.CANTERBURY.AC.NZ> ---
Upload:         ftp.dante.de/incoming/dvipsconfig-1.4.tar.gz
Archive:        dviware/dvipsconfig
License:        GPL

Not that I was planning this update, but someone sent some code...
Please replace the existing package.

New are controls to print from the manual feeder, envelope feeder,
and tray 1, 2 and 3.

dvipsconfig is a set of postscript header files for dvips to control
various printer functions like paper size, duplex, and now paper source.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the update.  I installed it in CTAN:/tex-archive/dviware/dvipsconfig
as suggested replacing the old version

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Mar 22 05:39:11 2000
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:31:20 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- new font: semaphor

--- Forwarded message from "Vit Zyka;PhD student" <zyka@waltz.felk.cvut.cz> ---
I was asked by Barbara Beeton to send you the semaphore font package:

- I upload these files in directory /incoming/semaphor
     README       semaf.fd     smfbf10.mf   smfett10.mf  smfptt10.mf
     example.pdf  semaf.mf     smfebf10.mf  smfpbf10.mf  smfr10.mf
     example.tex  semaf.tex    smfer10.mf   smfpr10.mf   smfsl10.mf
     il2semaf.fd  semaf.zip    smfesl10.mf  smfpsl10.mf  smftt10.mf
- CTAN node: /fonts
- files go to new directory: semaphor
- licence: GPL
- summary: Semaphore alphabet font in METAFONT, 3 variants, each 4 shapes

Thank you
Vit Zyka
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for your submission.  I installed it in /tex-archive/fonts/semaphor
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Mar 22 11:30:26 2000
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:29:40 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload -- BaKoMa TeX GAMES

Basil K. Malyshev writes:

 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
 > addons for BaKoMa TeX: (1) GAMES - new module, (2) PSFONTS - update.
 > Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

Thanks a lot, I installed the update as requested.
For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

 >
 > --------- Information about GAMES for BaKoMa TeX -----------
 >
 > This module includes popular macro packages described
 > in chapters 7 and 8 of `LaTeX graphics Companion'.
 >
 >   * Chapter 7 - Preparing music scores:
 >     MusiXTeX.
 >   * Chapter 8 - Playing games:
 >     Chess, Xiangqi - Chinese Chess, Go, Backgammon, Bridge, Crosswords.
 >
 > Using this module, in comparison with installing these packages from CTAN,
 > has following advantages:
 >
 >   1. They are precompiled for use, together with fonts and documentation,
 >      that is properly registered registered in BaKoMa TeX.
 >
 >   2. Fonts used by some packages are converted into formats
 >      suitable both for printing and for PDF generation.
 >      For example:
 >        Chess - Diagram fonts are converted into vector Type 3 font format.
 >             Board black squares are coded via gray color instead of dashing.
 >             This approach takes the best results on printers and displays.
 >             Fonts for in-line notation are in Type 1 font format.
 >        Go - Special fonts are too hard to convert they  automatically.
 >             They was efficiently codded in Type 3 font format.
 >        Backgammon - Like to chess fonts, backgammon fonts have dithered
 >             halftone unsuitable for PDF. The halftone was emulated by
 >             using gray color in Type 3 fonts.
 >
 > For more information about this module see
 >         CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/contrib/games.html
 >
 > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
 >         CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/index.html
 >
 >
 > --------- End of Information about GAMES for BaKoMa TeX -----------

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Mar 23 03:23:22 2000
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:18:11 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- emtextds.zip

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt <walter.schmidt@arcormail.de> -----
I have uploaded the file emtexTDS.zip to the /incoming directory
at ftp.dante.de.

This submission will

(1) update the installation instructions and the installation script
of my emtex/TDS distribution for OS/2 with respect to the latest
versions of Ghostscript and GSView;

(2) provide fixpak # 004 for emtex/TDS, see the file README.fixes.

Please, unpack the ZIP archive to the CTAN directory

  CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS

thus updating several files and adding a new subdirectory fix004.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the update, I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar 24 14:09:51 2000
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:08:28 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ifmtarg package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded ifmtarg.sty to UK /incoming. Please use
> this to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/ifmtarg.sty.

i've installed the file as requested.

>     ifmtarg.sty provides if-then-else and if-else commands for an
> empty macro argument. This version is based on robust and more
> efficient coding, courtesy of Donald Arseneau.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Mar 29 04:12:23 2000
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:10:07 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- PSNFSS v8.1 final release

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt <walter.schmidt@arcormail.de> -----
I have uploaded the file psnfss81.zip to the /incoming directory
at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack this archive to the directory

  macros/latex/required/psnfss-beta

thus overwriting the existent files and adding a new one.

This is the final PSNFSS v8.1, which is to be moved to the
CTAN directory macros/latex/required/psnfss with the
next (June 2000) LaTeX release.

Changes over the previous version beta3:

* Thoroughly enhanced installation instructions and user guide;
  see the files 00readme.txt and psnfss2e.pdf.

* Minor bug fixes to the .fd files for Helvetica.
  (Many apologies for not keeping my promise that the code
  of beta 3 was already final!)

* In addition to lw35nfss.zip (which covers the Base35 fonts)
  a further archive named freenfss.zip provides metrics, vf's
  and fd's for the free "Utopia" and "Charter" typefaces now.

* The fd's and style files will no longer identify themselves
  as beta versions.

* Cosmetic changes to the test documents.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss-beta
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar 31 09:17:58 2000
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:15:16 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
Reply-To: uktug-faq@tex.ac.uk
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new version of the uk tug faq

i've just installed (usergrps/uktug/faq) a new version of the uk tug
faq.

this is an interim version; comments on its quality, suggestions for
improvements, etc., are welcome -- please mail uktug-faq@tex.ac.uk
(send it to the right address and my mindless robots will tell me the
proper time to read it, thus saving my brainpower ;-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Apr  3 14:23:28 2000
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:20:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- anonchap package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded anonchap.sty to UK /incoming. Please put this
> into directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc.
>
>     This is provided under the LPPL.
>
>     The anonchap package provides commands to make \chapter s be
> typeset like sections (i.e., like numbered \chapter* s).

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ctan@dante.de Thu Apr  6 06:59:12 2000
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:57:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: moving items to the obsolete/ tree

i have started a push to move items to the obsolete tree.  at least in
part, this is to relieve the load on mirror sites, many of which
(quite reasonably) do not carry the obsolete tree.

if eager users of ctan find i have moved something that is (as far as
they are concerned) of vital everyday importance, they should contact
the ctan team (as normal, via ctan@dante.de).

if other users feel know of items that could be moved without loss of
generality, again please contact ctan@dante.de

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Apr  6 11:31:50 2000
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:28:11 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <LaTeXdraw 15.29>

Rolf Niepraschk writes:

 > I have upload the archive file `latexdraw-15.29.tar.gz' to `/incoming'
 > on ftp.dante.de. This archive contains the program `LaTeXdraw'
 > written by Hans-J�rgen Siegert
 > (mailto:siegert@informatik.tu-muenchen.de).
 >
 > Please create a new directory
 >
 >   /tex-archive/support/LaTeXdraw
 >
 >  (or /tex-archive/support/latexdraw)
 >
 > and unpack the archive inside this new directory.
 >
 > From the manual page:
 > ________________________________________________________________
 >   latexdraw  is  a X-Window based and CAD orientated drawing
 >   program which generates LaTeX output using the  macropack�
 >   age latexdraw.sty. The macropackage latexdraw.sty is based
 >   on pstricks. The picture  may  be  generated  as  complete
 >   LaTeX-source or as a picture-environment to be included in
 >   other documents. You must translate the dvi-file generated
 >   by  LaTeX  to a postscript-file using dvips before you can
 >   view or print the document.
 > ____________________________________________________________
 >
 > The program is free for noncommercial use. The original place of
 > LaTeXdraw is
 >
 >  http://www6.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/dienste/software/software.html

Thanks for the upload. Due to the usage restriction, I installed it in

  nonfree/support/latexdraw

with a link in

  support/latexdraw

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From mjd@ams.org Mon Apr 10 03:37:28 2000
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 09:36:19 +0200
From: Michael John Downes <mjd@ams.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: update of amscls distribution

I have posted some patches for the amscls distribution
to ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex. The main change was to add support in the
AMS BibTeX styles for the MRNUMBER field as provided by MathSciNet.

From mjd@ams.org Mon Apr 10 03:40:18 2000
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 09:36:26 +0200
From: Michael John Downes <mjd@ams.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: update of amsmath distribution

I have posted some patches for the amsmath distribution to
ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex. Primarily to clear up a loading sequence
problem with the german package (or any package that changes the catcode
of the double-quote character) that was accidentally introduced in the
last round of patches. The installation instructions were also revised
slightly.

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Apr 10 04:32:04 2000
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:31:40 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of WMF2EPS 1.2

Wolfgang Schulter writes:

 > I've uploaded WMF2EPS version 1.2 (wmf2eps1.2.zip) to ftp.dante.de/incoming
 > which is an update for the version 1.1 found in /support/wmf2eps. Version
 > 1.2 replaces the version 1.1 of WMF2EPS.
 >
 > Regards,
 >
 > Wolfgang Schulter
 >
 > URL   http://www.wmf2eps.de.vu

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr 11 05:03:52 2000
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:59:51 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf 2.4

Heiko Oberdiek writes:

 > I have uploaded 'thumbpdf2.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > (Please ignore thumbpdf.zip because of a missing character in
 > thumbpdf.pl).
 > This updates and replaces the files in
 >   support/thumbpdf/
 >
 > Changes in version 2.4:
 >   * Fixes for the new perl version 5.6.0 of ActiveState.
 >
 > 'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with pdfTeX
 > or dvips/ps2pdf/distiller, plain/latex formats. It consists of
 > four files:
 >   * readme.txt:    documentation.
 >   * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
 >   * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
 >   * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
 > Requirements: Perl5, ghostscript, pdfTeX
 >
 > For the Catalogue entry: the license remains LPPL 1.2.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Apr 11 05:08:46 2000
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:01:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: isi2bib upload

John J. Lee writes:

> uploaded file: isi2bib2
>
> uploaded to: cam.ctan.org
>
> should go in: biblio/bibtex/isi2bib
>  as biblio/bibtex/isi2bib, NOT biblio/bibtex/isi2bib2 (sorry about that!)

i've installed the file as biblio/bibtex/utils/isi2bib/isi2bib

this is a bit tedious, i suppose, but it's the simplest way to make it
fit in the structure of the biblio/... hierarchy

> license: GPL
>
> summary:
>
> Isi2bib converts an ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) database
> file to a BibTeX file (both formats hold bibliographic data on scientific
> and other academic documents).  BIDS (Bath Information Data Services -
> BIDS ISI alas soon to disappear) and MIMAS WOS (Web of Science) are the
> only providers of ISI data that I know of in the UK.  This script replaces
> 'bids.to.bibtex'.  Full instructions are in the script, or type 'perldoc
> isi2bib' if you already have perl.

great.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Apr 12 02:25:50 2000
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:25:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- xtab package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded xtab.dtx to UK /incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current
> latex/macros/contrib/supported/xtab/xtab.dtx. This is under the
> LPPL.

i've installed the file.

> From the README:
>     The xtab package automatically breaks long tables so that they
> can span multiple pages. It is an extension of the supertabular
> package providing additional functionality and reducing some of its
> weaknesses.
>
> New in version 2.3:
> o Improved user control over page breaking
> o More efficient implementation

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Apr 12 02:46:43 2000
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:46:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Package "version"

Dnald Arseneau writes:

> Adrian Burd writes:
>
> > Donald Arseneau writes:
> >
> > > Martin Pergler writes:
> > >
> > > > The LaTeX companion discusses (p.80) a package named version,
> > >
> > > macros/latex209/contrib/misc/version.sty
> > >
> > > If it still works well,
> >
> > It does indeed....
>
> ...latex209/contrib/misc/version.sty
>
> should be put in
>
> macros/latex/contrib/other/misc.
>
> I added a small comment of personal opinion:
>
> % Additional Notes:  This package still works in LaTeX2e. Large
> % tracts of excluded text will likely cause a "TeX capacity exceeded"
> % error though.  See also comment.sty, verbatim.sty, optional.sty.
> %   -- Donald Arseneau      April, 2000
>
> and uploaded that version to /incoming.  If you don't think it too
> improper, how about using that one instead.
>
> The license is still unknown to me.  If I have guessed Stephen Bellantoni's
> email address correctly, perhaps he will clarify (re free distribution etc.).

i've installed donald's new version, deleted the old (latex209) copy
and updated info/companion.ctan

thanks, donald, for stirring us into action about this.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Apr 13 03:12:56 2000
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:11:32 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN upload: Using TrueType fonts with teTeX and dvips

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de> -----
I have uploaded the file ttf-tetex.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
Please delete all files in the directory CTAN/info/TrueType/ and unpack
the archive to that directory. Licence stays lppl.

The enclosed document describes how to use TrueType fonts with teTeX.
The new version explaines how the new font can be put into the global map
file so that also xdvi can deal with it.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Apr 17 03:31:14 2000
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:29:36 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- draftcopy

----- Forwarded message from Juergen Vollmer <vollmer@COCOLAB.DE> -----
I put a new version (2.13) of my  draftcopy  package to ftp.dante.de

This package is used to print on some pages the word `DRAFT'
(or the language dependent analogon) ``behind'' the intended stuff.

The following files are contained in draftcopy.tar.gz
    draftcopy/draftcopy.ins
    draftcopy/draftcopy.doc
    draftcopy/Makefile
    draftcopy/README
    draftcopy/THIS-IS-VERSION-2.13

Please put it into tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/draftcopy

I'm looking still for translations for the word DRAFT.
Have a look into draftcopy.sty, which are missing and send me some...

Who knows an easy way to typeset foreign letters like � in postscript?

Changes since the last version:
- New options portrait and landscape, thanks to Ross Moore ross@ics.mq.edu.au
  providing the Postscript code for them.
- Now \today can be used as draftcopy name, even for languages like german.
- Corrected Y&Y stuff, thanks to the Help Line of Y&Y
- Corrected some typoos
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload, I installed it on CTAN as requested replacing the
old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Apr 17 03:58:45 2000
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:42:13 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Breve Introducao ao LaTeX2e

----- Forwarded message from lenimar@mat.ufpb.br -----
    I have uploaded a file to you take a look if is worthing
add it to CTAN repository. It's an introductory LaTeX tutorial
in Portuguese.
-------

What I have uploaded:

      breve20.zip        (1.139.845  bytes)

CTAN node:

       dante.ctan.org

It could go to:

      CTAN: tex-archive/info/

Licensing conditions:

      GNU General Public Licence

Brief summary:

      "Breve Introducao ao LaTeX2e" (A brief introduction
to LaTeX2e) is  a Portuguese tutorial about LaTeX2e in PS
format. It has  about 80 pages organized  in  5  chapters
and 4 appendix. The chapters are: Basic concepts; Mathema-
tical formulae;  Tables; Including graphics in EPS format;
Diagrams with  Xy-pic.  The  appendix  are:  Mathematical
symbols; Letters; FoilTeX; LaTeX resources in the Internet.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload. I installed the Portuguese tutorial in
CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/portuguese parallel to the eight other versions.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Apr 17 15:54:38 2000
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:49:03 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt 5 - new release

----- Forwarded message from Aleksander Simonic <winedt@ISTAR.CA> -----
I have just uploaded the files

  0readme.txt
  winedt5.exe

to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt folder. Please move these
files to WinEdt's directory on CTAN:

  tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt

This is the official release of the new version of WinEdt. The
alpha and beta versions of the program have been around for
over a year under the name WinEdt 2000 or 2K. For the official
release the name has been changed to WinEdt 5 (since this is the
fifth major release of the program).

For the news on this release please visit WinEdt's Home Page at:

  http://www.winedt.com

Best regards,

alex

ps. Can you also remove the (obsolete) files winedt16.txt,
winedt32.txt and winedt32.news as well as the folder tools and its
contents from WinEdt's directory on CTAN. Thanks.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for your submission of the new version.  I installed it
in CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr 18 11:57:55 2000
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:53:51 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload 'minutes' on dante.de

Knut Lickert writes:

 > I uploaded a directory Minutes on  ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > The directory contains two dtx-Files and one ins-File.
 >
 > The files are new and search a place on CTAN.
 > My proposal:
 > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/minutes
 >
 > It contains a new package for writing minutes. It is free and I will
 > support it in future.
 >
 >
 > Short description of minutes.sty:
 > english:
 > With minutes.sty you can write minutes and built collections minutes.
 >
 > german:
 > Mit minutes.sty kann man (Sitzungs-) Protokolle und Protokollsammlungen
 > schreiben.

Thanks a lot for the upload. As proposed, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/minutes

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Apr 20 02:42:08 2000
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 08:40:52 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- TeXshade update

----- Forwarded message from Eric Beitz <ebeitz@jhmi.edu> -----
I have just uploaded an new update of my TeXshade package. Please exchange
the old files in

ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/texshade/

by the new ones in the dante/incoming/texshade folder.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as suggested.

For the record: TeXshade is a LaTeX package for setting nucleotide and
peptide alignments.  The License is GPL.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Apr 20 02:50:23 2000
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 08:49:50 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- dinat bibliography style

----- Forwarded message from Helge Baumann <Helge.Baumann@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> -----
I want to report an upload:

What: the folder 'dinat'

Which CTAN: ftp.dante.de/incoming

Where to go: biblio/bibtex/contrib/german/

License: public domain (pd)

Description:
This bibliography style files are intended for texts in german.
They draw up bibliographies in accordance with the german DIN 1505,
part 2 and 3. For more information see the included documentation.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the files in
CTAN:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/german/dinat/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 20 06:31:42 2000
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:31:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- pmcstex

Petr Mikulik writes:

> I've submitted an updated version of "pmCSTeX for EPM" to CTAN
> (ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming). Please move it into the appropriate location.
> Yours sincerely,

i've installed the file as requested; as before, i've extracted the
README from the zip archive, so that it's in the directory in its own
right.

>             Archive Name:  pmcstex.zip
>
>                 Replaces:  CTAN/systems/os2/pmcstex/
>
>                Your name:  Petr Mikulik
>            Email address:  mikulik@physics.muni.cz
>              Program URL:  http://www.sci.muni.cz/~mikulik/os2/pmCSTeX.html
>
>        Short Description:  pmCSTeX for EPM v16.4.2000: (La){em}TeX
> IDE/FrontEnd for EPM
>
>         Long Description:
> This is pmCSTeX for EPM, version 16. 4. 2000 (April 16, 2000)
>
> pmCSTeX for EPM is a macro package for the OS/2 editor EPM (Enhanced
> Programmers Editor, version 6.03b or higher).
>
> It installs the CSTeX menu, hotkeys and optionally a toolbar into EPM, which
> access comfortably many useful actions for {em}(La)TeXing from within the EPM:
>   -- (La)TeXing the document, LaTeXing a paragraph,
>   -- locate next error,
>   -- previewing (dviPM version, full-screen, and printer previewing),
>   -- printing (several printers configurable or print to a file),
>   -- producing PostScript output (dvips-ing, GhostView or psview preview),
>   -- access to other TeX tools like BibTeX, MakeIndex, vlnka, cstocs,
>   -- all of the above is applied to the currently edited file or its Master;
>      the Master, TeX format, dvips options etc. are easily configured on the
>      first line of the Master file,
>   -- new editor actions added (the list of the LaTeX/AMS-math environments
>      and fonts; a keyboard of the names of Greek letters, generalized
>      version of the "Include file under cursor" (Alt-1) action, easy
>      manipulation with dictionary of several languages, syntax highlighting,
>      TeX-friendly paragraph reformatting, filter for backing up edited files
>      before save,
>   -- hypertext help for the LaTeX2e commands,
>   -- and much more.
>
> pmCSTeX for EPM tries to implement the best features of these packages:
> CSTeX MNU for DOS, TeXshell, EPMTeX, pmgraf, emacs.
>
> Homepage: http://www.sci.muni.cz/~mikulik/os2/pmCSTeX.html
>
> Author:
>         Petr Mikulik
>         Laboratory of Thin Films and Nanostructures
>         Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
>         Brno
>         Czech Republic

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 20 06:34:19 2000
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:33:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload

Harvey Greenberg writes:

> I have uploaded a revision of my book, "A Simplified Introduction to
> Latex."  I sent simplified-intro.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/ and its 3
> zipped files replace the files at
> http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/info/simplified-latex/

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Apr 23 08:59:46 2000
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 14:57:39 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- hyphenation patterns for ancient and modern              Greek

----- Forwarded message from Dimitrios Filippou <dfilipp@hotmail.com> -----
I have uploaded in "ftp.dante.de/incoming" the following
files:

hyphenation-greek/ancient.ltx
hyphenation-greek/ancient.pdf
hyphenation-greek/ancient.ps
hyphenation-greek/anc-test.ltx
hyphenation-greek/anc-test.pdf
hyphenation-greek/anc-test.ps
hyphenation-greek/copyrite.txt
hyphenation-greek/compound.ltx
hyphenation-greek/compound.pdf
hyphenation-greek/compound.ps
hyphenation-greek/modern.ltx
hyphenation-greek/modern.pdf
hyphenation-greek/modern.ps
hyphenation-greek/grahyph2.tex
hyphenation-greek/grmhyph2.tex
hyphenation-greek/grphyph2.tex
hyphenation-greek/readme.txt

These files contain the hyphenation patterns for ancient
Greek and modern Greek in polytonic (multi-accent) and
monotonic (uni-accent) systems. The hyphenation patterns
will work perfectly with the "greek" option of "babel" or
Dryllerakis' GreeKTeX. For any other Greek package, the
patterns will have to be re-coded. A brief description of
the files is given in the file "readme.txt".

I think that the files should be placed in a new
directory called

/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/greek

or in the directory

tex-archive/language/greek/package-babel/hyphenation

Please also *remove* a file called "grdfhyph.tex", which
I made once and which contains many mistakes. The obsolete
file "grdfhyph.tex" resides now in the directory:

tex-archive/language/greek/package-babel/hyphenation
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files in a new subdirectory
to distinguish them from the existing file grhyph.tex.  Now your files are in
CTAN:/tex-archive/language/greek/package-babel/hyphenation/filippou/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Apr 23 09:03:45 2000
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:03:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- TeXtopo package

----- Forwarded message from Eric Beitz <ebeitz@jhmi.edu> -----
I have uploaded my new macro package 'TeXtopo' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.

TeXtopo is a LaTeX package for setting shaded and annotated membrane
protein topology plots and helical wheels.

The license is GPL.

Please install the files in
/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/textopo/
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for your submission. I installed the package as suggested,
even if I would prefer the name `topology' over `textopo' as the
prefix `tex' is quite redundant for a LaTeX macro package.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Apr 24 14:59:28 2000
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:54:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: new upload to CTAN - mathsPIC revision 1.9a

Dick Nickalls writes:

> mathsPIC (revision 1.9a) CTAN../graphics/pictex/mathspic/
> is a new upgrade which fixes a few bugs, and improves
> functionality. Some new drawing commands are added which
> allow (a) XY-axes options for graphs, (b) verbatim input of
> data files, (c) resetting the default PointSymbol.
> There are additional VARIABLE() commands for 'grabbing' area,
> angles, X-coordinates, and Y-coordinates of points.
> The manual has been improved, and is available in .tex, .dvi,
> .ps as usual.
> (mathsPIC is a DOS-based drawing package (DOS 6.0 or more,
> WINDOWS 9x) and functions as a filter program for use
> with the PiCTeX drawing engine.

i've installed this new version on ctan; thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Apr 28 04:06:26 2000
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:05:16 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: WinEdt Dictionary (Brazilian-Portuguese)

WinEdt Team writes:
 > The following files have been placed in the folder
 >   ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt-dict:
 >
 >   0readme.txt
 >   br.zip
 >   br.txt
 >
 > Please move these files to WinEdt's Dictionary directory on CTAN:
 >
 >     tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict
 >
 > This contribution consists of a much demanded Brazilian/
 > Portuguese word list for WinEdt. A link to this (and all other
 > available dictionaries for WinEdt) is available on
 > www.winedt.com...

Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Apr 28 04:27:52 2000
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:27:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- collection class

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded README.collection and collection.cls to the
> UK incoming directory. Could you please put these appropriately into
> a new subdirectory macros/latex/contrib/supported/collection?

i've installed them (renaming the README to just that)

>     These are released under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>     The collection class lets you bundle individual articles into a
> single document.
>
> Note: This is an initial experimental alpha release. It is provided
> for users to try it out and praise what they like and complain about
> everything else. In particular, I would appreciate any suggestions
> for improvements. There will be at least one later version of the
> class, hopefully an improvement, but not necessarily upwards
> compatible.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Apr 28 11:33:50 2000
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:32:39 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ctan installation: fncychap.sty patch

Tomas Lundberg has supplied a small patch to fncychap.sty, that
corrects a bug in the treatment of \chapter* in the package's Glenn
style of chapter headings.

i've installed the file, which includes a small test file, as
macros/latex/contrib/supported/fncychap/fncychap.patch

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May  1 11:37:32 2000
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 17:36:17 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- labelmag.zip

----- Forwarded message from Peter Willadt <Willadt@T-ONLINE.DE> -----
I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de
the file labelmag.zip

It should go to systems/win32/texhelpers/labelmag.
Please extract README from the zip file and place it there together
with the zip file.

The license type is free, without source code.

labelmag is a win32 program for managing a collection of labels to be
typeset by TeX and printed on demand. The collection will be held
together within a single file; labels may be kept within categories.
As an advanced feature, mailing labels, e.g. may query an odbc data
source. The formatting macros may hopefully be of interest for people
not willing or able to use labelmag, too.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/win32/texhelpers/labelmag

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May  1 11:57:10 2000
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 17:52:52 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- marvosym fonts

---- Forwarded message from Thomas Henlich <henlich@mmers1.mw.tu-dresden.de> ----
I've uploaded "marvosym.tar.gz" to ftp.dante.de/incoming.

This is an UPDATE to the previous version of marvosym in
fonts/psfonts/marvosym/

Please don't touch the directory fonts/psfonts/marvosym/mac/ which is not
part of this package.

License: GPL

Description:
The Martin Vogels Symbole (marvosym) font is a Type 1 font.
The marvosym style file lets you use this font in LaTeX2e documents.

The font contains
- the Euro currency symbol as defined by the European commission
- Euro currency symbols in typefaces Times, Helvetica and Courier
- Symbols fur structural engineering
- Symbols for steel cross-sections
- Astronomy signs (Sun, Moon, planets)
- The 12 signs of the zodiac
- Scissor symbols
- a CE sign
and many others.

File list:
README.1st      overview of what this package is
astro.README    copy of README.1st (for search on CTAN)
euro.README     copy of README.1st (for search on CTAN)
fmvr8x.tfm      TeX font metric file for the marvosym font
marvodoc.pdf    The documentation for the marvosym package (PDF)
marvodoc.ps     The documentation for the marvosym package (PS)
marvodoc.tex    The source of the documentation
marvosym.afm    Type 1 font metric file for the marvosym font
marvosym.pfb    Type 1 font
marvosym.sty    The marvosym style file for LaTeX2e
zodiac.README   copy of README.1st (for search on CTAN)
PROBLEMS        describes some problems and their solutions
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/marvosym/
replacing the previous version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May  1 11:58:10 2000
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 17:57:44 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- PSNFSS v8.1 documentation

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt <walter.schmidt@arcormail.de> -----
I have uploaded the file psnfss-beta.zip to the /incoming directory
at dante.ctan.org.  Pleas, unpack the file to the directory

  macros/latex/required/psnfss-beta

thus overwriting two of the existent files.  This is an improved
release of the PSNFSS v8.1 documentation.  (Special thanks to
Rolf Niepraschk for helpful comments and suggestions!)
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version of the documentation
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue May  2 05:15:02 2000
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 11:13:58 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: LGrind Win32 executable

Michael Piefel writes:

 > I uploaded lgrind.exe to Dante. This could possibly go into
 > support/lgrind/bin. It is an Win32 executable. That means, it should run
 > under almost any Windows and it support long filenames.
 > Unfortunately I didn't test it, I only have a cross-compiler.

Thanks a lot for the upload, i installed it in

  support/lgrind/bin/lgrind.exe

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May  3 07:20:03 2000
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 13:17:19 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- psnfss-src.zip (PSNFSS 8.1 sources)

Walter Schmidt writes:

 > I have uploaded the file psnfss-src.zip to the /incoming
 > directory at dante.ctan.org.  This archive contains the
 > sources (i.e., makefiles and fontinst scripts) of the new
 > PSNFSS v8.1.
 >
 > I suggest to put the material into a new directory
 >
 > fonts/psfonts/psnfss
 >
 > or
 >
 > fonts/psfonts/psnfss-source
 >
 > (or whatever you think is suitable).

Thanks a lot for the upload. I installed the files in

   fonts/psfonts/psnfss-source

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May  5 08:50:45 2000
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 13:49:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: more isi2bib bugfixes

John J. Lee writes:

> I've changed the name to isi2bibtex because the other converter for ISI to
> BibTeX (consisting of some add-ons to the bp package) is also called
> isi2bib, I just noticed.
>
> which: ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> where: biblio/bibtex/utils/isi2bibtex/isi2bibtex
>
> what: isi2bibtex 0.32
>
> why: mostly bugfixes

i've installed the file as requested, and deleted the old package.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May  5 15:35:52 2000
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 20:34:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: FW: CTAN Submission --- collection class

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded collection.tar to the UK incoming
> directory. Could you please use this to replace the contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/collection?

i've installed the ... er ... collection of files.

>     It is supplied under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>     The collection class lets you bundle individual documents into a
> single document.
>
>     This release is a much expanded version of the initial
> experimental version. Many options have been provided and the
> documentation is now provided. All the documents should be of the
> same class but it can sometimes handle a variety (e.g., articles and
> letters together).
>
>     Thanks are due to Dick Nickalls for providing requirements and
> testing the earlier version of the class.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue May  9 05:13:10 2000
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 11:11:52 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Files uploaded to CTAN

Juan M. Aguirregabiria writes:
 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incomig the following:
 >
 > File           which replaces
 > -----------------------------
 > ltxmc108.exe   ltxmc105.exe
 > ltxmc108.txt   ltxmc105.txt
 > texor108.exe   texor103.exe
 > texor108.txt   texor103.txt
 >
 > in the systems/win32/util directory
 >
 > This two programs are
 > nosource

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.

 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue May  9 06:40:29 2000
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 11:39:50 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: fixbbl -- fix up bibliographies with inappropriate %-signs in them

i've installed a little python script (biblio/bibtex/utils/fixbbl/fixbbl.py)
by frank stajano (of at&t cambridge and this laboratory).

the script deals with the well-known bibtex bug whereby it inserts a
`%' in an url to cause the bibliography line to fit into its minuscule
vision of what is an acceptable input line for tex.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu May 11 04:32:03 2000
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:29:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: acronym 1.5

Tobias Oetiker writes:

> I have uploaded acronym 1.5 to ftp.tex.ac.uk. This update adds
> commands for handling plural (english) of acronyms as well an
> option to have the full acronym printed as a footnote.

i've installed the new version in macros/latex/contrib/supported/acronym

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu May 11 04:57:56 2000
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 10:56:58 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: TeXmacs 0.2.4g

Joris van der Hoeven writes:

 > I just uploaded the new TeXmacs distribution in
 >
 >         ftp.dante.de/incoming/TeXmacs
 >
 > The new distribution contains the files
 >
 >         Compile.html
 >         Ctan.message
 >         Dependencies.html
 >         Fonts.html
 >         Install.html
 >         TeXmacs-0.2.4g-shared-linux.tar.gz
 >         TeXmacs-0.2.4g-shared-sun.tar.gz
 >         TeXmacs-0.2.4g-src.tar.gz
 >         TeXmacs-0.2.4g-static-linux.tar.gz
 >         TeXmacs-0.2.4g-static-sun.tar.gz
 >         TeXmacs-600pk-fonts.tar.gz
 >
 > The files should be put into the directory systems/unix/TeXmacs
 > All existing files in this directory have become obsolete.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu May 11 04:58:29 2000
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 10:57:31 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: savefnmark

Volker Kuhlmann writes:
 > Uploaded:       ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/savefnmark-1.0.tar.gz
 > License:        GPL
 > Suggested location: macros/latex/contrib/supported/savefnmark
 >
 > I have finished a new package; from the doc:
 >
 > Sometimes the same footnote applies to more than one location in a
 > table. With this package the mark of a footnote can be saved into a name,
 > and re-used subsequently without creating another footnote at the bottom.

Thanks for the submission, I installed the package as requested.
For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu May 11 09:49:21 2000
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:43:46 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload --- TeX Versioning System

David Antos writes:

>    I have uploaded the TeX Versioning System. TVS is a Perl script
> to collect all files which are needed to re-typeset TeX documents. It
> does it by parsing TeX logs. TVS is able to handle filenames
> intelligently. It's under GPL license.
>    I have put it into incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk and I suggest
> it to go to /support subdirectory.

i've installed the package in support/TVS (note capitals)

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May 12 04:40:34 2000
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:34:43 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- combine class & combinet package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded combine.tar to UK incoming
> directory. Please delete it. I have also uploaded
> combine.tar.new. Please use this to form a combine subdirectory in
> latex/macros/contrib/supported. The distribution is supplied under
> the LPPL.

i've installed the package as requested.

> From the README:
>     The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a
> single document, such as when preparing a conference proceedings.
>
>     The auxiliary combinet package puts the titles and authors from
> \maketitle commands into the main document's table of contents.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May 12 08:37:50 2000
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 13:35:35 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission

Norman Gray writes:

> -- mail the administrators (ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de) to report:
>    + what you've uploaded
>
>      dvi2bitmap-0.7.tar.gz
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
>      ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
>
>    + where you want the files to go
>
>      tex-archive/dviware, perhaps?
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
>
>      nocommercial (unfortunately)
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>
>      dvi2bitmap is a utility to convert TeX DVI files directly to bitmaps,
>      without going through the complicated (and slow!) route of conversion
>      via PostScript and PNM.  The prime motivation for this is to prepare
>      mathematical equations for inclusion in HTML files, but I expect
>      there are plenty of uses beyond that.  It can generate XBM and GIF
>      bitmaps, plus PNG, if you have the libpng library installed.  It uses
>      the same kpathsea font-searching library as other TeX programs,
>      again as long as you have the appropriate library installed.
>
>      The program is written in C++, and incidentally provides a reasonably
>      good (I think) object interface for DVI and PK files.
>
>      See http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/star/dvi2bitmap/

because of the licence restriction, i have (after consultation with
norman) installed the package as nonfree/dviware/dvi2bitmap, and have
instituted a link from dviware/dvi2bitmap to the new directory.

users should be aware that, apart from the `nocommercial' terms
imposed by norman's employers, there are issues surrounding the use of
patented technology in producing gif output (sigh).  (indeed, double
sigh.)

for all that, thanks, norman, for the upload!

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May 12 11:43:37 2000
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:42:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: obsolete packages

the following packages (which no longer work with latex) have been
moved to the ctan obsolete tree:

 macros/latex209/contrib/crosswords  (use the crosswrd package instead)
 macros/latex209/contrib/decalign    (use the dcolumn package instead)
 macros/latex209/contrib/dirkslides

advice about packages or other material that can be regarded as
obsolete is always welcome: mail ctan@dante.de if you want to help us
in our endeavour of tidying ctan.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri May 12 18:30:47 2000
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 23:28:20 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- texmalli 2.0

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho writes:

> I have uploaded the file texmalli-2.0.tar.gz into ftp.tex.ac.uk incoming.
> It should probably be unpacked into info/texmalli (also help/texmalli
> could be relevant, I'm not sure).

such things usually go into info, so info/texmalli it is -- i've
installed it thus.

> The package contains a quick introduction to using LaTeX, written as a
> sample document (with the source being as much - or more - relevant to
> the reader as the typeset result).  The document is written in Finnish
> and is thus intended primarily to a Finnish audience.
>
> The package was written by Lars Wirzenius (original author) and
> Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho (current maintainer).  It is licensed as follows:
>
>    N�it� tiedostoja saa k�ytt�� vapaasti omien tekstiens� pohjana,
>    muokata vapaasti, levitt�� vapaasti (muutettuinakin), v�itt��
>    vapaasti omikseen ja muutenkin tehd� niille mit� huvittaa v�litt�m�tt�
>    tekij�noikeuksista.
>
> which unofficially translates into
>
>    These files may be freely used as the basis for one's own documents,
>    edited freely, distributed freely (even with modifications), be
>    claimed as one's own work and in other ways treated as one likes to
>    without concerning oneself with copyright.

(i'm ashamed to say i have to take your word for that...)

> This license intends to be fairly equivalent with PD, and is in my
> opinion� DFSG-compliant.
>
> � Why is my opinion relevant?  I am a Debian developer and have a
> fair amount of experience with evaluating licenses against the DFSG,
> although IANAL.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun May 14 16:17:55 2000
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:17:01 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- tmview update

----- Forwarded message from Thomas Moor <qelis@aol.com> -----
this is a message about a CTAN submission,
as recommended in your README.uploads.

(1)
I have uploaded the file tmv0005.tgz, holding version v00.05 of tmview.

(2):
I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de

(3):
I suggest to remove the old dviware/tmview/*  and place the new
tmv0005.tgz again in dviware/tmview. An updated README can be
found in the archive and is suggested to replace the old one.

(4)
Licensing: tmview is freely redistributable.

(5)
tmv0005.tgz contains the sources of the dvipreviewer tmview, version v00.05.
It is ment as an update of version v99.06, which I've uploaded last year.
The new version supports linux' framebuffer device and double-page viewing.


List of files:
./tmview/README       Installation guide
./tmview/CHANGES      History of Changes
./tmview/VER0005      empty file, make people see the current version
./tmview/IAFA-PACKAGE IAFA document desription
./tmview/Make*        Makefiles for linux and  Solaris
./tmview/doc/*        manuals
./tmview/src/*        common sourcefiles
./tmview/svga/*       svgalib only sources
./tmview/fb/*         framebuffer only sources
./tmview/lX/*         X Window System only sources
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission, I installed the new version and README file
in CTAN:/tex-archive/dviware/tmview as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun May 14 16:27:18 2000
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:26:55 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- update of ttf-tetex

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders <h.harders@TU-BS.DE> -----
I have uploaded the file ttf-tetex.tar.gz to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.
Please replace all files in the directory CTAN/info/TrueType by the
contents of the archive.

The document ttf-tetex describes how to use TrueType fonts with teTeX.
In the new version the document also describes how to use the
automatically generated slanted and small capitals versions of the font.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/info/TrueType ass suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun May 14 16:43:22 2000
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:42:50 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX 2.30 - Win2000, MMType1

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" <malyshev@MX.IHEP.SU> -----
I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
upgrade for BaKoMa TeX 2.30.

------------------- Information about BaKoMa TeX 2.30 update ----------------

New version of BaKoMa TeX has following important features:

 1. BaKoMa TeX 2.30 is running under Windows 2000,
    including support for OpenType font format,
    and metrics for OpenType fonts distributed with Windows 2000.

 2. Support for Multiple Master fonts, including partial downloading
    into PostScript and PDF. Font metrics (TFM/VF) can be generated on the fly,
    so that all advantages of MM fonts are available inside TeX.

 3. Tools MakeTFM and MakeVF (used for generating metrics of MM fonts)
    can be also used for any Type1, TrueType, and OpenType fonts.

 4. Type 1 -> TrueType font convertor (important to run without ATM)
    now converts Type 1 hints into TruType instructions.

  5. FontZOO extension module (replacement for T3FONTS module)
     includes almost all fonts in Type 1 font format. In advance,
     it includes documentation, macro packages, and smaple sheetes for a fonts.

  6. New GUI commands:
       * TNS|Disactivate TeX's TrueType fonts
       * TNS|Erase TrueType font cache
       * TNS|List of Available TeX Fonts
         (improved - shows fonts including Virtual Fonts)
       * DVIEW: copying into clipboard image selected with left mouse button.
         (Also: Options|Confirm Copying Image to Clipboard)
       * Search|Spell|Active Dictionaries...
         (improved - dialog box, choose file for user dictionary)

  7. Improved printing
     * Fixed problem of initializing printing with negative page numbers.
     * Fixed problem with invisible dots when printed dotted lines.
     * Work arround distroyed kerning inside long words.

  8. Improvements in Font Configuration
     * Font mapping can be defined via templates.
       Primarilly, it is intended to support Multiple Master Fonts.
       However, it can efficiently reduce number of configuration records
       for many other fonts.

For more information about changes see:
        CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/dst/changes.html

For more information about BaKoMa TeX see:
        CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/index.html

---------------- End of Information about BaKoMa TeX 2.30 update -------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload; I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/ as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun May 14 16:48:48 2000
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:48:10 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Smartref 1.5

----- Forwarded message from Giuseppe Bilotta <oblomov@FREEMAIL.IT> -----
I just uploaded the file

    smartref15.zip

at the node

    ftp.dante.de

This should replace the previous version (smartref11.zip) in

macros/latex/contrib/other/smartref

Licensing condition: lppl

Excerpt from the readme:

This is the readme for the LaTeX Package ``smartref'', version 1.5

The purpose of this package is to extend the capability of the
the \ref command; precisely, whenever a label is set, this
package records, along with the label, the values of some other
counters (which, can be selected by the user); then, the value of
these counters can be recalled, with a command similar to
\pageref; moreover, this package adds a command (\s<name>ref) for
each counter added, that displays something only if the value of
the <name> counter is changed from when the label is set.

This is adds nameref.sty, with command \nameref to refer to a section by
name instead of by number (you set the label as always).
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload; I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/smartref
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon May 15 04:37:48 2000
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:37:03 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: bugfix release of mathsPIC (version 1.9b) for CTAN

Dick Nickalls writes:

> The 1.9b release of mathsPIC (mpic19b.exe) fixes a bug
> associated with the DrawAngleArrow, drawArrow, drawThickArrow
> commands, which arose when the y-coordinate of the terminal point
> was negative, causing a failure when the output file was LaTeXed.
> All the 19a documentation files apply as before.
> I thank Orlando Rodriguez (orodrig@ualg.pt) for bringing this
> problem to my attention.
> MathsPIC is a DOS filter for use with PiCTeX, and facilitates
> drawing maths & geometry figures.
> CTAN/tex-archive/graphics/pictex/mathspic

i've installed the patches.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon May 15 08:46:34 2000
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 14:45:45 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ftp.dante.de a.k.a. dante.ctan.org out of service during              2000-05-16

Tomorrow, 2000-05-16 starting at about 6:00 UTC, the CTAN master node
ftp.dante.de a.k.a. dante.ctan.org will not be available, due to
scheduled power failure.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue May 16 09:07:06 2000
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:04:57 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: pdfscreen

Radhakrishnan C V writes:

 > Uploaded:       ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/pdfscreen/pdfscreen.tar.gz
 > License:        LPPL
 > Suggested location: macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfscreen
 >
 > I have uploaded pdfscreen v.1.3 and related files to the above
 > directory. README.pdfscreen describes the changes made.

Thanks a lot for the update, I unpacked the .tar.gz archive in the
indicated directory.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue May 16 09:18:49 2000
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:09:14 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: OCHEM

 > A submission was uploaded to ftp.dante.de:
 >
 > Name of contribution: OCHEM
 > Name and email: Ingo Kloeckl
 > Suggested location on CTAN: ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/ochem
 > Summary description: Typesetting chemical formulae with LaTeX
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Update of OCHEM with some errors fixed, new bond types
 > and a package for typesetting Kekule-like structures
 > in the subdirectory ochem/kv
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue May 16 09:14:15 2000
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:12:47 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <eso-pic>

Rolf Niepraschk writes:

 > I have upload a new version of my LaTeX package `eso-pic' to `/incoming'
 > on ftp.dante.de. The name of the files are
 >
 >   `eso-pic.zip' and `README.eso-pic'
 >
 > Please remove the old files in
 >
 >   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms/contrib/
 >
 > and unpack `eso-pic.zip' to the same place. Move `README.eso-pic' to
 > `/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms/contrib/README'.
 >
 > From the README:
 > This package makes it easy to add some picture commands to every page.
 >
 > Changes:
 >
 > 1. Compatibility with `html.sty' (suggested by Ross Moore)
 > 2. A new example (background picture)
 > 3. A license note (LaTeX Project Public License)

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as per your instructions.
For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May 17 03:24:14 2000
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 09:23:29 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- Smartref 1.5

Giuseppe Bilotta writes:
 > Sorry, I re-uploaded it to solve a name conflict: the added style file il
 > now byname.sty; hope it does not conflict anymore; the version is then 1.6

Thanks, I installed the update.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May 17 06:22:16 2000
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 12:21:45 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload: SIunits

Heldoorn, M writes:

 > I just uploaded the last update of the SIunits package.
 >
 > * uploaded:                  directory SIunits containing: SIunits.dtx &
 > .ins
 > * to:                                ftp.dante.de
 > * replace files in:
 > ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/SIunits/
 > * licence:                   LPPL
 > * reason:                    bug fix (version 1.9)

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May 17 06:24:58 2000
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 12:24:32 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - titlesec 2.3.4

Javier Bezos writes:

 > I upload to the Dante server the titlesec bundle v2.3.4, containing
 > the following 14 files, which should replace the files under
 >
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec:
 >
 >  block.tss
 >  drop.tss
 >  frame.tss
 >  leftmargin.tss
 >  margin.tss
 >  readme
 >  rightmargin.tss
 >  titlesec.sty
 >  titlesec.tex
 >  titletoc.sty
 >  ttlhref.tex
 >  ttlkeys.def
 >  ttlps.def
 >  wrap.tss
 >
 > This release fixes some bugs, adds a minor new feature, and gives my
 > new e-mail address <jbezos@wanadoo.es>. From the readme:
 >
 > 2000/05/17 (2.3.4): The ttlhref.tex file no longer necessary, but
 >   still present.  \setmarks may be used outside \newpagestyle.
 >   Bug fixes:
 >   (1) package option nonindentfirst no longer misplaces the first line
 >   of tocs (titlesec; it works in most of classes, _but not in all of the
 >   them_),
 >   (2) the code for the unnumbered version of toc entries is used in
 >   unnumbered entries, as should be (titletoc),
 >   (3) expanding titles containing hardcoded marks with, say,
 >   \MakeUppercase no longer enters in an infinite loop, but note that
 >   marks are also uppercased (you can overcome this LaTeX behaviour
 >   by using the pagestyles module of titlesec, since it ignores the
 >   hardcoded marks),
 >   (4) \contentsformat* now seems to work in lists of floats
 >   (lof, lot, etc.).
 >
 > Please, annonce it on the CTAN list. Thanks a lot.
 >
 > Regards
 > Javier Bezos

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu May 18 10:52:12 2000
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 16:44:13 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload to dante from GUST

Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz writes:

 > After GUST conference, BachoTeX'2000, I'd like to upgrade some packages:
 > GUST contributions to CTAN.
 > I've just uploaded to DANTE/incoming:
 > pl-mf.zip, pl-tfm.zip, plpsfont.zip, qxcm.zip, antp.zip
 >
 > ----
 > pl-mf.zip replace language/polish/pl-mf.zip
 >
 > small bug fixes and code cleaning
 >
 > ----
 > pl-tfm.zip replace language/polish/pl-tfm.zip
 >
 > new tfm files generated from the new pl-mf sources
 >
 > For some reasons both packages are intentionally dated 13.04.2000 ;-)

Both updates installed are requested.

 > ----
 > plpsfont.zip
 > rm -rf /tex-archive/language/polish/plpsfont/*
 > plpsfont.zip should be unpacked in
 > language/polish/plpsfont/
 >
 > Under the pressure from the Windows users, the collection of PL fonts in
 > PostScript Type 1 format was eventually adapted to the (mostly
 > guessed) demands of the Windows environment. Still, the fonts are usable
 > with TeX, which was the primary aim of Janusz M. Nowacki when he created
 > the first version of the Type 1 PL fonts; however, encoding files are now
 > required, as Windows and TeX use different encoding schemes.
 > Fonts use the same .tfm files as generated from pl-mf package.

Update installed.

 > ----
 > qxcm.zip (new package) should be unpacked in
 > fonts/psfonts/polish/qfonts/
 >
 > An experimental collection of extended CM fonts in PostScript Type 1 format
 > (public domain). The collection contains fonts based on cmr10, cmbx10, cmti10,
 > and cmbxti10: qcmrr.pfb, qcmrri.pfb, qcmrb.pfb, qcmrbi.pfb (and .afm, .pfm,
 > .tfm files). The original Computer Modern layout is extended to QX layout
 > as an alternative to EC (Cork) encoding, usable also in Windows environment.
 > Fonts can be adapted to any needed TeX encoding; since they contain most
 > common European characters, the fonts can serve, e.g., for preparing good
 > PDF files.
 >
 > ----
 > antp.zip (new package) should be unpacked in
 > fonts/psfonts/polish/
 >
 > A replica of Antykwa P\'o\l{}tawskiego font in PostScript Type 1 format
 > -- preliminary version.  This font was designed in the 'twenties and the
 > 'thirties of XX century by a Polish graphic artist and a typographer
 > Adam P\'o\l{}tawski. It was widely used by Polish printing houses as long
 > as metal types were in use (until ca the 'sixties).
 > Perhaps the first complete font family programmed and parametrized
 > in METAPOST (?)
 >
 > -----

Both new packages installed.

Thanks for the updates.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From mjd@ams.org Thu May 18 10:54:31 2000
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 16:50:29 +0200
From: Michael John Downes <mjd@ams.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: update of amscls distribution

I have posted some patches in the amscls distribution at
ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex. The most serious bug fixed in these patches
is incorrect theorem spacing (too small) in the amsbook/amsart/amsproc
document classes.

Michael Downes
tech-support@ams.org

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May 19 03:25:55 2000
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 09:25:04 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- acmconf

Dr. Juergen Vollmer writes:

 > I put a new release (1.3) of my acmconf class to ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > This class may be used to typeset articles to be published in the proceedings
 > of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) conferences and workshops.
 >
 > The layout produced by the `acmconf' class is based on the description
 > contained in www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/pubform.doc.
 >
 > License:
 >   This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
 >   of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
 >   archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
 >   version 1 of the License, or any later version.
 >
 > The following files are contained in acmconf-1.3.tar.gz
 >                     acmconf/acmconf.ins
 >                     acmconf/acmconf.dtx
 >                     acmconf/Makefile
 >                     acmconf/README
 >                     acmconf/THIS-IS-VERSION-1.3
 >
 > Please put it into tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/acmconf
 >
 > HISTORY
 > v1.3 2000-05-18 Avoid superfluous spaces. Thanks to
 >                 Henning Niss (hniss@diku.dk)
 > v1.2 1999-11-05 Added the box and nobox options
 > v1.1 1999-06-16 Adopted to rules as given shown in the file pubform.tex

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue May 23 17:45:29 2000
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:42:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- expressg MetaPost package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded expressg.tar.gz to the UK /incoming
> directory. Please use this to replace the current
> graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/expressg subdirectory. The
> distribution is under the LPPL.

i've installed the new version as requested.
>
> From the README:
>     The expressg MetaPost package provides facilities for drawing
> diagrams that consist of boxes, lines and annotations. Particular
> support is provided for creating EXPRESS-G diagrams.
>
> Changes in version 1.3:
> o Additional box and line types
> o Additional examples (these now include EXPRESS-G, IDEF0, IDEF1X,
>   OMT, Shlaer-Mellor, E-R, NIAM, and general box/line/annotation
>   diagrams)
> o Scripts for copying MetaPost output files to the file naming
>   convention for inclusion in pdfLaTeX documents.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed May 24 02:55:44 2000
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 07:54:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- combine class & combinet package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>    I have just uploaded combine.tar to the UK /incoming
> directory. Please use this to replace the contents of
> latex/macros/contrib/supported/combine. The distribution is under
> the LPPL.

having now woken up again, i've installed the new version.

> From the README:
>     The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a
> single document, such as when preparing a conference proceedings.
>
>     The auxiliary combinet package puts the titles and authors from
> \maketitle commands into the main document's Table of Contents.
>
> Changes in version 0.3 of the combine class:
> o \newtheorem is now catered for.
> o Control over the \maketitle formatting
> o Improved documentation

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May 24 04:27:41 2000
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:27:13 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: uploaded files

George Gratzer writes:

 > (a) I have uploaded to
 >
 > ftp.dante.de
 >
 > into the
 >
 > /incoming/mil3
 >
 > directory a small number of text files.
 >
 > (b) The list of files I uploaded is in the file named contents.
 >
 > (c) These are the final versions of the sample text files for my
 > forthcoming book: Math into LaTeX, third edition
 > (Birkhauser/Springer). The preliminary version you have kindly placed
 > in the directory
 >
 > /info/mil3
 >
 > Please update this directory with the new files.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May 24 04:29:15 2000
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:28:52 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- aeguill

Denis B. Roegel writes:

 > I have uploaded ftp.dante.de/incoming/aeguill.tar.gz.
 > This contains an aeguill directory which should replace
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/aeguill.
 >
 > aeguill.sty is a package adding several kinds of guillemets
 > (polish cmr, cyrillic cmr, lasy and ec) to the ae fonts.
 > aeguill is useful if you are using ae fonts to produce PDF
 > files, since the additional guillemets exist in Type 1 versions
 > (and for free, except in ec's case).

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May 24 04:38:08 2000
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:37:33 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload to dante: corrected plpsfont.zip

Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz writes:
 > I've just uploaded to DANTE:/incoming/plpsfont.zip
 > It contains 3 fonts retouched, as well as README.*
 > Please unzip plpsfont.zip into
 > language/polish/

Thanks for the update, I replaced directory

  language/polish/plpsfont

with the contents of the zip archive.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May 24 04:42:21 2000
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:41:50 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: acronym 1.16 uploaded

Tobias Oetiker writes:

 > I have uploaded a new version of the acronym package to dante
 >
 > Version 1.6 (May 2000): Added the smaller option and the macros
 > \acsfont, and \acfsfont used to control the appearance of  \acs and
 > \acf.
 >
 > Thanks to Ingo Lepper <lepper@math.uni-muenster.de> contributing
 > these additions ...

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/acronym

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed May 24 04:46:20 2000
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:45:14 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: epstopdf

Juergen Bausa writes:

 > Name of contribution: epstopdf

 > Suggested location on CTAN: support
 > Summary description: Bugfix for epstopdf in C
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Bugfix for epstopdf in C
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the update in

 support/epstopdf

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May 25 03:21:12 2000
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 09:18:40 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- updated jurabib package v0.4j

----- Forwarded message from Jens Berger <jberger@gmx.net> -----

I've just uploaded the file jurabib-04j.zip to
the /incoming directory of the german CTAN node.

This archive contains an updated version (0.4j) of the jurabib package.

It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Changes:

No longer any manipulations to achieve babel support.

New command \nobibliography{bibfile} can suppress output of
    bibliography if option `citefull=first' or `citefull=all' is used.

`ibidem=strictdoublepage' places `ibidem' instead of the citation,
    if the (repeated) citation is the first citation on a odd page.

`ibidem=nostrict' ignore all restrictions for the placement of `ibidem'.

`crossref=short|long|normal' the crossrefs in the bibliography are
    implemented with LaTeX. So you can determine, how long your
    crossref should be.
    If you chose `short', only the author name is printed and the
    title only appears (automatically), if the author is cited with
    another work (Thanks to Oren). With `normal' (default) the author
    name and the title is printed. Type `long' and you will get
    the full entry as crossref.

`howcited=multiple'  the howcited-note is only printed if more
    than one work of the author is cited

`lookat'  automatic crossrefs to first full citations (only) in footnotes.

\nextciteshort{key1,key2,...} from here the given works are cited
    with the short form.

\nextcitefull{key1,key2,...} from here the given works are cited
    with the long form.

\nextcitereset{key1,key2,...} reset to the defaults.

\noibidem  no `ibidem' for (only) the next citation.

Please delete the current files

jurabib.dtx
jurabib.ins
readme.jrb

in the directory

CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jura/

and create an new one if possible:

CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib/

Please send an announcement to c.t.t.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for your upload.  As requested, I installed the new version in a
directory of its own at CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May 26 03:32:31 2000
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 09:31:11 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: pl-mf108.zip on dante:/incoming

Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz writes:
 > Ooops.... Once again, I'm so sorry.
 > Since Marek's email was changed, I corrected only README.* files.
 > I hope that it is the last correction to the pl-mf.zip ;-)

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

 language/polish/pl-mf.zip

For the CTAN team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May 26 03:35:47 2000
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 09:35:20 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ttf2pt1

Thomas Henlich writes:

 > Name of contribution: ttf2pt1
 > Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/utilities/ttf2pt1/
 > Summary description: ttf2pt1 converts True Type fonts into PS Type 1 fonts
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > ttf2pt1 converts True Type fonts into PS Type 1 fonts.
 > It has (among others) the following features:
 > - creates hinting information
 > - creates AFM files (preserving kerning information)
 > - supports all font encodings
 > - NEW: supports Asian fonts
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the package in

  fonts/utilities/ttf2pt1

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri May 26 07:41:27 2000
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 13:40:38 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: epstopdf

Juergen Bausa writes:

 > Name of contribution: epstopdf
 > Suggested location on CTAN: support
 > Summary description: epstopdf 2.26, bugfix
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > bugfix for epstopdf, older versions may crash
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  support/epstopdf

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon May 29 12:10:30 2000
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 18:05:38 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission akletter 1.5h

Axel Kielhorn writes:

 > i finally updated my letter-class akletter and uploaded it to
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming/akletter/akletter.tar.
 >
 > The new version suports:
 >
 > letterpaper for US letter and
 > a4offset a modified A 4 layout suitable for platic binders that cover
 >          a part of the left margin.
 >
 > isodate a way to set the date as YYYY-MM-DD as descibed in ISO 8601 and
 >         DIN 5008.
 > akfaxps a new configuration example that gets rid CM and uses Times/Courier
 >         instead. (Only math is still taken from CM)
 >
 > This version of akletter is supported and under LPPL.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/akletter

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon May 29 13:58:54 2000
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 18:57:07 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: announcing VTeX/Free v7.00

Walter Schmidt writes:

> Version 7.00 of MicroPress' VTeX/Free has been released
> and is mirrored in the CTAN directory systems/vtex .
>
> VTeX/Free is a TeX program that generates PDF or
> PostScript output immediately from the TeX source file.
> The distribution includes a complete working LaTeX system.
> VTeX/Free is available for Linux and OS/2.
>
> See also:
>
>   <http://www.micropress-inc.com/linux/>
>   <http://www.micropress-inc.com/os2/>

they have indeed made it into the ctan trees; thanks for pointing this
out.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue May 30 11:00:27 2000
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:58:44 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- isodate.sty

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders <h.harders@TU-BS.DE> -----
I have uploaded the file isodate.tar.gz to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.
Please put the contents of it to
CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/isodate.

>From the README:
This package provides four commands to switch the output format of
the \today command.
\isodate      switches to yyyy--mm--dd
\numdate      switches to dd.\,mm.~yyyy
\shortdate    switches to dd.\,mm.\,yy
\origdate     switches to the original LaTeX format (language
              dependent)

Licence is LPPL.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it in the directory
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/isodate/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed May 31 08:00:01 2000
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:56:32 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- skak: typesetting chess

----- Forwarded message from Torben Hoffmann <toho@it.dtu.dk> -----
I have uploaded the file skak.zip to the incoming directory at
ftp.dante.de.

The file should go to the directory:
        macros/latex/contrib/other

Licensing : LPPL (LaTeX Project Public Licence)

"This software is copyright but you are granted a license which gives
you, the "user" of the software, legal permission to copy, distribute,
and/or modify the software. However, if you modify the software and then
distribute it (even just locally) you must change the name of the
software to avoid confusion."

Summary: The package can be used to typeset chess games using PGN and
show diagrams of the current board in the document. The package builds
on work by Piet Tutelaers - the main novelty is use of PGN for input
instead of the more cumbersome coordinate notation (g1f3 becomes the
more readable Nf3 in PGN).
The documentation is not what it ought to be (heard that before?!?;-),
but the package should be relatively straightforward to use - the
documenation source file should get most people up and running in no
time.
I have tried to provide a makefile that installs the package, but manual
creation of directories is still needed - if some clever person can fix
this please let me know.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/skak/
with a symbolic link from CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/skak
to /tex-archive/fonts/skak/tex.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jun  1 09:12:57 2000
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:10:57 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- `arrayjob' package (version 1.03 - first              public version)

----- Forwarded message from Denis Girou <Denis.Girou@idris.fr> -----
  I just upload the `arrayjob' package from Zhuhan Jiang (University of New
England - Australia) on ftp.dante.de, with the authorization of it author.

Site: ftp.dante.de (/incoming/arrayjob.tar.gz file)
----

Location: I suggest macros/generic/arrayjob
--------

Licensing: LaTeX Project Public Licence (with the agreement of Zhuhan Ziang)
---------

Content:
-------
  This is the version 1.03 (first public version).

  In fact, this package is an extraction of some general purpose macros
included in the `formlett' package (macros/generic/formlett.sty) from the same
author, with very minor modifications.

  The distribution contain three files:
      - a brief README file,
      - the TeX macro file "arrayjob.sty",
      - the accompanying documentation file, "arrayjob.doc" (I wrote this file
myself, so all errors and misunderstandings in it are mine, not those of
Zhuhan Ziang.)

Description:
-----------
  The `arrayjob' package provides array data structures in (La)TeX, in the
meaning of the classical procedural programming languages like Fortran, Ada
or C, and macros to manipulate them. Arrays can be mono or bi-dimensional.
  This is useful for applications which require high level programming
technics, like algorithmic graphics programmed in the TeX language.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it on CTAN in the directory
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/generic/arrayjob as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jun  2 05:26:21 2000
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:25:18 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: submission <WinShell BugFix>

Ingo de Boer writes:

 > I have uploaded a bug fix file for WinShell to
 >
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell/
 >
 > please moves these files to
 >
 > /pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell/
 >
 > licence: nosource
 > summary: A graphical user interface for easy working with TeX.
 >
 > thanks & greets
 >    Ingo
 >
 > ----------
 > WinShell - A graphical user interface for easy working with TeX.
 > www  : http://www.winshell.de
 > email: idb@winshell.de
 >

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jun  5 08:24:26 2000
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:22:06 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- ifmslide

----- Forwarded message from Thomas Emmel <emmel@mechanik.tu-darmstadt.de> -----
Name of contribution: ifmslide
Name and email: Thomas Emmel <emmel@mechanik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ifmslide
Summary description: slides for direct presentation (monitor) and printouts
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is ifmslide v0.3 by Thomas Emmel (emmel@mechanik.tu-darmstadt.de), a package to produce printed slides with latex2e and online presentations with pdflatex.

It is provided by the "institute of mechanics" (ifm)
Univ. of Technology Darmstadt, Germany.

ifmslide is based on ideas of pdfslide, but completely rewritten for compatibility with texpower and seminar.
The manual (ifmman.pdf) describes all functions and provides a sample.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ifmslide/ as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jun  5 16:12:21 2000
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:11:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: uploads

Yuri Lubenets writes:

> I have placed on your server the demonstration version of the program LaTeX
> WIDE (multifunctional editor for LaTeX in Windows 95/98/NT/2000) in
> directory LaTeX_WIDE. Place it to Systems/Win32, please.
>
> The program "LaTeX WIDE" is free for noncommercial use. I name
> demonstration, as in it there are some functional limitations, which by the
> most essential of is absence of saving of user's customizations of
> parameters, menu, toolbar etc. Nevertheless, the demonstration version of
> the program allows to edit files, to execute compilation TeX, to use
> templates, hints of commands and other functions, which are circumscribed in
> the readme.txt file. The limitations on periods of use of the demonstration
> version (30 days etc.) are not used. The full version of the program is in
> operation and will be paid. Proceeding from it, I think, that has offered
> valid path of placement of files.

since the system is not available for commercial use, i have placed
latex wide in directory nonfree/systems/win32/LaTeX_WIDE; i trust that
is acceptable.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jun  6 05:30:09 2000
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:28:58 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- With a Little Help From My Friends

---- Forwarded message from Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@ELEC.CANTERBURY.AC.NZ> ----
Uploaded:       ftp://dante.ctan.org/incoming/lhelp-2.0.tar.gz
License:        GPL2
Suggested:      /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/lhelp

I have turned another one of my years-old packages into dtx format,
making it ready for CTAN. The abstract:

        This LaTeX2e package defines macros which are useful for many
        documents. It is a large collection of simple ``little helpers''
        which do not really warrant a separate package on their own.

        Included are, among other things, definitions of common units
        with preceeding thinspaces, framed boxes where both width and
        height can be specified, starting new odd or even pages, draft
        markers, notes, conditional includes, including EPS files, and
        versions of enumerate and itemize which allow the horizontal
        and vertical spacing to be changed.

If you could install it on the server - thanks.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload,  I installed the package in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/lhelp as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jun  6 05:36:39 2000
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:36:00 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- varindex.sty

---- Forwarded message from Martin V�th <vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de> ----
Name of contribution: varindex.sty
Name and email: Martin V�th <vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported?, link from macros/latex209/contrib/
Summary description: luxury frontend to the \index command
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A LaTeX package which provides a convenient front-end for the \index command. For example, it allows to generate multiple index entries in almost any form by a single command. Extremely customizable. Works with all versions of LaTeX and probably most other TeX formats, too.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the file in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/varindex.sty

/tex-archive/macros/latex209 is for old packages of historical or unclear
status, which have not yet been moved to the obsolete tree.  I won't place
new files or links there.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From mjd@ams.org Tue Jun  6 15:52:07 2000
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 15:52:03 -0400
From: Michael John Downes <mjd@ams.org>
To: CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE
Subject: update of amsmath distribution

Some patches have been posted for the amsmath distribution at
ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex. In addition, the files amsdtx.dtx and
amsdtx.cls have been moved to the amscls distribution.

Bugs fixed by these patches (see also 00readme.txt):

1. Error message for \allowdisplaybreaks[0].

2. "Arithmetic overflow" error in certain complicated situations with
"align" environment.

3. Incorrect numbering when equations are nested one inside another
(via minipage).

From mjd@ams.org Tue Jun  6 15:59:45 2000
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 15:59:42 -0400
From: Michael John Downes <mjd@ams.org>
To: CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE
Subject: update of amscls distribution

I have posted a few patches for the amscls distribution to
ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex. (5) is the most serious bug fix, it is likely
to affect page breaks in existing documents.

Summary of the patches (see also 00readme.txt):

1. In amsthdoc.tex use documentclass "article" instead of amsldoc (which
is overkill). Remove amsldoc.cls from the distribution since it is no
longer needed.

2. Arrange for \\ in argument of \author to work without \protect (for
backward compatibility with old versions of AMS classes)

3. \end{proof} near a page boundary could lead to an error message in
certain circumstances (LaTeX output routine is not safe against something else using \@elt).

4. Added \indexintro hook in theindex environment.

5. Fixed erroneous init for thm@preskip, thm@postskip.

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jun  6 18:42:17 2000
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 23:38:10 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- chngpage package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded chngpage.sty to the UK /incoming
> directory. Could you please put this in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc.

i've installed the package as requested.

>     The package is released under the LPPL.
>
> Description:
>     The chngpage package provides commands to change the page layout
> in the middle of a document (e.g., make the textblock wider or
> narrower, and/or longer or shorter, and/or shift it vertically or
> horizontally).

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From mjd@ams.org Wed Jun  7 04:27:20 2000
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:26:17 +0100
From: Michael John Downes <mjd@ams.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: update of amscls distribution

I have posted a few patches for the amscls distribution to
ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex. (5) is the most serious bug fix, it is likely
to affect page breaks in existing documents.

Summary of the patches (see also 00readme.txt):

1. In amsthdoc.tex use documentclass "article" instead of amsldoc (which
is overkill). Remove amsldoc.cls from the distribution since it is no
longer needed.

2. Arrange for \\ in argument of \author to work without \protect (for
backward compatibility with old versions of AMS classes)

3. \end{proof} near a page boundary could lead to an error message in
certain circumstances (LaTeX output routine is not safe against something else using \@elt).

4. Added \indexintro hook in theindex environment.

5. Fixed erroneous init for thm@preskip, thm@postskip.

From mjd@ams.org Wed Jun  7 04:29:25 2000
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:26:28 +0100
From: Michael John Downes <mjd@ams.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: update of amsmath distribution

Some patches have been posted for the amsmath distribution at
ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex. In addition, the files amsdtx.dtx and
amsdtx.cls have been moved to the amscls distribution.

Bugs fixed by these patches (see also 00readme.txt):

1. Error message for \allowdisplaybreaks[0].

2. "Arithmetic overflow" error in certain complicated situations with
"align" environment.

3. Incorrect numbering when equations are nested one inside another
(via minipage).

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jun  7 07:54:12 2000
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:52:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: update of uk tug faq, on ctan and on the web

i have just installed a new version of the faq, both on ctan and on
the web.

the ctan version contains printable copies of the faq in a variety of
sources, and sources in our own inscrutably munged latex format.  (the
format has changed in a minor way since the last announced release.)

see ctan usergrps/uktug/faq

the web version is much updated from earlier ones, see:

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

as always, comments, corrections and so on are welcome.  i would
prefer that they were mailed to uktug-faq@tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jun  7 17:25:26 2000
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:24:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- makecmds package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded makecmds.tar to the UK /incoming
> directory. Could you please install this under
> macros/latex/contrib/supported.

i've installed the package in macros/latex/contrib/supported/makecmds

i've also deleted the (now superseded) macros/latex/contrib/supported/
misc/makecmd.sty

>     The distribution is provided under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>     The makecmds package provides several additional commands along
> the lines of the traditional \(new|renew|provide)command and
> friends.
>
>     The new \makecommand{\foo}...} is equivalent to the pair of
> commands \providecommand{\foo}{}\renewcommand{\foo}...}. There are
> also \make... and \provide... for environments, counters and
> lengths.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jun  7 17:29:38 2000
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:27:37 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- combine class

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded combine.tar to the UK /incoming
> directory. Please use this to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/combine directory.

i've installed the new version as requested.

>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README;
>     The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a
> single document, such as when preparing a conference proceedings.
>
>     The auxiliary combinet package puts the titles and authors from
> \maketitle commands into the main document's Table of Contents.
>
> Changes in version 0.4 of combine.cls
> o Added book option
> o Extra options for ToC contents and more flexible ToC formatting
> o Counters are now reset for each imported document
> o Reduced the save stack size required for latexing combine.dtx

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jun  8 18:40:18 2000
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:39:13 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- the expressg MetaPost package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded expressg.tar to UK/incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/expressg.

i've installed the replacement as requested.

>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>     The expressg MetaPost package provides facilities to assist in
> drawing diagrams that consist of boxes, lines, and
> annotations. Particular support is provided for creating EXPRESS-G
> diagrams.
>
> Changes in version 1.3:
> o Additional box and line types
> o Additional examples (e.g., IDEF0, Flow diagram, ...) as well as
>   IDEF1X, OMT, Shlaer-Mellor, NIAM, etc.
> o Scripts for copying files basename.N to basenameN.mps, where N is an integer

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jun  9 16:00:26 2000
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 21:56:00 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- dvichk

----- Forwarded message from Thomas Esken <esken@uni-muenster.de> -----
  I've uploaded the latest DVIChk (`dvichk-1.91.tar.gz') at
  <ftp://dante.ctan.org/incoming> today.

  Please move `dvichk-1.91.tar.gz' to
  <ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvichk>
  and completely delete ALL files of former DVIChk versions !

  DVIChk 1.91 checks for the page numbers of a formatted text
  in a .dvi/.log FILE created by the TeX-formatter, and displays
  the page numbers found on standard output channel.

  DVIChk is distributed under the terms of the
  GNU ``General Public License'' GPL.

  Here is a summary of all available options:

    Usage: dvichk  [OPTION...] FILE...

    -c 0...9, --columns=0...9   number of columns (default:  4)
    -i,       --no-info         don't display further information
    -f,       --font-info               display font information if available
    -t,       --total-only              display total number of pages only
    -p,       --pager           output is paginated each 24 lines
    -h, -?,   --help            display help text and exit program
    -V,       --version         display version number and exit program
    -L,       --license         display software license and exit program
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the archive in
CTAN:/tex-archive/dviware/dvichk/ as requested and removed the old
versions in this directory and in CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/msdos/dvichk

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jun  9 16:13:56 2000
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 22:13:22 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- TeXnicCenter

----- Forwarded message from Sven Wiegand <sven.wiegand@gmx.de> -----
Name of contribution: TeXnicCenter
Name and email: Sven Wiegand <sven.wiegand@gmx.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/systems/win32/TeXnicCenter/
Summary description: A new TeXnicCenter IDE for developing LaTeX documents on Windows systems
License type: GPL

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
TeXnicCenter is an integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX documents on windows (Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT 4.0).

Here is a list of some features of TeXnicCenter:
- Project orientated integrated development environment for
  LaTeX documents
- Definition of unlimited "output types" (i.e. DVI,
  PostScript, PDF)
- Very comfortable, full customizable editor
- Structure View that shows the structure of the whole
  LaTeX document, even if it is split into several files
  using \input or \include
- Simple insertion of LaTeX constructs by menu or toolbar
- Compilation of the project in the IDE -- simple jumping
  to errors, warnings and bad boxes.
- Support for document templates
- Full customizable menu and toolbars in modern look and
  feel
- Support for english and german language

TeXnicCenter is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is therefore available for free.

To get more information, take a look at the TeXnicCenter site at

  http://neptune.spaceports.com/~wiegand/texniccenter/
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission, I installed it on CTAN in the directory
/tex-archive/systems/win32/TeXnicCenter/ as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jun 13 05:10:47 2000
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:09:10 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: METAFONTs with symbols

Ingo Kloeckl writes:

 > Name of contribution: METAFONTs with symbols
 > Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/ikloeckl
 > Summary description: METAFONTs for miscellaneous symbols (alpinistic, electronic, geometric etc.)
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The archive contains several fonts with symbols for alpinistic, electronic, meteorological, geometric etc. usage. A LaTeX2e package simplifies usage.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload. It took me some time to reach a conclusion on
where to install the package. I decided against fonts/ikloeckl, as
this does not indicate what the fonts are, so I installed them as

  fonts/ifsym

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jun 13 05:28:36 2000
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:28:18 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- latex2man version 1.10

Juergen Vollmer writes:

 > I uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file latex2man-1.10.tar.gz.
 > Please install it under the supported directory hierarchy under "latex2man".

Thanks for the update.

Please note: it's

  support/latex2man

NOT supported/latex2man.

 > From the README:
 >
 > Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a
 > format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command.
 > Alternatively HTML or TexInfo code can be produced too.
 > Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the conditional text
 > feature (for this feature, LaTeX can be produced too).
 >
 > There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the Man-page
 > and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual translation.
 >
 > Changes from version 1.9
 >      - added \Begin{Description}[label]
 >      - added \OptoArg \oOptoArg Option with optional
 >        argument
 >      - fixed: removed wrong line break in date for
 >        TROFF output
 >      - fixed wrong line breaks in some TROFF macros
 >      - fixed wrong output of optional arguments in TROFF
 >      - allow spaces between `\item' and following `['
 > With best regards
 >
 > Juergen
 >
 > PS
 > License:
 >    This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
 >    of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
 >    archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
 >    version 1 of the License, or any later version.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jun 13 08:05:36 2000
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:05:01 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- help file for <poster>

Rolf Niepraschk writes:
 > I have upload the file `poster.txt' to `/incoming' on ftp.dante.de:
 >
 > poster.txt : A plain text version of poster's man page.
 >
 > Please move the file `poster.txt' to
 >
 >   /tex-archive/support/poster/

Thanks for your submission, I installed the file as requested.
For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jun 14 04:22:28 2000
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:17:53 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- EPSF View

Javier Bezos writes:

 > I've uploaded to the Dante server the file epsfview.sea.hqx. It
 > contains an AppleScript tool (for Mac) mainly intended for viewing
 > figures generated with MetaPost, even if they have negative
 > coordinates. It is based on the Perl script on page 459 of the
 > Graphics Companion.
 >
 > It is unsupported and freeware (public domain). Please, place it in
 > the appropiate directory of CTAN (/systems/mac/, I presume).

Thanks for the upload, I installed the file as

  systems/mac/epsfview.sea.hqx

For the CTAN Team

 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jun 14 04:43:25 2000
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:38:52 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload: cm gs config

Karsten Tinnefeld writes:
 >    + what you've uploaded
 > /incoming/Fontmap.cmr
 >
 >    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
 > dante.ctan.org
 >
 >    + where you want the files to go
 > /tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky or
 > /tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/etc
 > (whatever owner/maintainer policy you apply)
 >
 >    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
 >      below).
 > lgpl
 >
 >    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
 > % This file make the Computer Modern font files by Donald Ervin Knuth
 > % available to Ghostscript.
 >
 > Until now, CTAN has had no ready-made Fontmap file for Ghostscript/CM
 > usage. The one from the Bakoma distribution is not appropriate since it
 > has not the same fonts and uses lowercase font names.
 >
 > Using a recent Ghostscript, this configuration file helps viewing/
 > processing PostScript/PDF files without embedded fonts.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the file as

  fonts/cm/ps-type1/contrib/Fontmap.cmr

Sorry for the delay,
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jun 14 06:52:44 2000
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:52:16 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upgrade of skak package (chess typesetting)

Torben Hoffmann writes:

 > I have uploaded skak.zip (removal of two minor bugs) to ftp.dante.de in
 > the incoming directory.
 >
 > This file should replace the one in fonts/skak and the link to
 > macros/latex/contrib/other should reflect the change ;-)
 >
 > Licensing : LPPL (LaTeX Project Public Licence)
 >
 > Summary: This is a package  for typesetting chess. The moves of the game
 > can be given using the PGN syntax and diagrams of the current board
 > position can be shown in the document.
 >
 > (The makefile is still out of order with regards to automatic
 > installation of the files in the texmf tree - info from some Linux
 > install shark would be appreciated.)

Thanks for the upload, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jun 14 12:42:42 2000
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:41:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Moving the TUG CTAN node

The CTAN team is pleased to announce that the TUG CTAN node has been
moved to St Michael's College, Vermont.

We believe that the new location will allow us to manage the node more
effectively, and therefore to offer a better service to users.

As a result, the old (long-since superseded) name tug2.cs.umb.edu is
likely to fail at any time, and the remnant archive on that machine
will most certainly not be kept in step with the rest of CTAN.

We hope that the change will not interrupt users' access to CTAN;
however, users who _do_ experience problems are urged to mail the CTAN
administrators' list, ctan@dante.de, with details.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jun 15 11:07:10 2000
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:05:21 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- isodate

Harald Harders writes:
 > I have uploaded the file isodate.tar.gz to
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > Please remove all files in the directory
 > CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/isodate and copy the contents of the
 > archive to that directory.
 >
 > Licence stays LPPL.
 >
 > From the README (v1.04):
 > This package provides commands to switch between different
 > date formats (standard, ISO, numeric, TeX package). They are used by the
 > \today command and the \printdate and \printdateTeX commands which
 > print any date.
 >
 > Changes:
 >  - enabled use of isodate without using babel, german or simular package
 >  - new date format TeX: yyyy/mm/dd
 >  - robust commands
 >  - improved documentation

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jun 19 05:55:31 2000
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:47:13 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- substr.sty

Harald Harders writes:

 > I have uploaded the file substr.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de/incoming. Please
 > put it's contents to CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/substr.
 >
 > From the README:
 >
 > This package provides commands to deal with substrings in strings:
 > Determine if a string contains a substring, count appearances of a
 > substring in a string.
 >
 > This package was made by big help of Heiko Oberdiek.
 >
 > Licence is LPPL.
 >
 > Yours
 > Harald

Thanks for the upload, I installed the package as requested.

  For the CTAN TEAM
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jun 19 09:27:43 2000
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 14:23:58 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- catdvi 0.10

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho writes:

> I have uploaded catdvi-0.10.tar.gz into ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming.
> The contents of that archive should replace the current content of
> the directory CTAN:/dviware/catdvi/.

i've installed the new version as requested.

> The catdvi program is licensed under the GNU General Public License,
> version 2 or later.
>
> CatDVI is a DVI to plain text translator aiming to be a superior free
> replacement for dvi2tty.  In some areas it already outperforms dvi2tty,
> while in some other areas it is clearly inferior to it.  The program is
> under development.
>
> Changes from 0.7a (the previous version in CTAN) to 0.10 are mostly
> in the build system, which has been thoroughly revamped.  There is now
> some coherent documentation in the form of a Unix manual page, thanks
> to Bjoern Brill.
>
> The home page for this program is http://catdvi.sourceforge.net/ .
> There is a mailing list for the CatDVI project.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jun 20 10:40:06 2000
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:36:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: jiffy package: secdot (section numbers with dots)

i've installed a jiffy of my own

  macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/secdot.sty

from the catalogue file:

    <caption>Section numbers with trailing dots</caption>

    <abstract>
      Makes the numbers of \section commands come out with a trailing
      dot.  Includes a command whereby the same can be made to happen
      with other sectioning commands.
    </abstract>

Robin Fairbairns

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jun 22 02:42:44 2000
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:40:54 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- texdoctk v.0.4.0

--- Forwarded message from Thomas Ruedas <ruedas@geophysik.uni-frankfurt.de> ---
yesterday I have sent a new release of texdoctk, my GUI for package
documentation access, to Thomas Esser, which he has installed in
systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/contrib/
The mirroring process seems to be completed, so I want to ask you to
send the announcement of texdoctk v.0.4.0 to the CTAN mailing list.

>From the README:
texdoctk is a Perl/Tk-based frontend for easy access of package
documentation
for the TeX typesetting system on Unix platforms.
Here are some of the new features in v.0.4.0:
- More than 1 document can now be viewed at one time, because the
        viewers now run as background processes.
        If Netscape is your browser, HTML documents are now loaded into
        an existing Netscape window; no new Netscape will be started.
- The Search button resp. <Ctrl-s> now switches on/off the search
        entry widget; this is to avoid that multiple entry widgets come up.
- If no TXT_VIEWER is defined, the environment variable $PAGER will
        be used, if defined (but see below).
- own text viewer for plain text documentation files; this is now the
        default in the original texdocrc.defaults
- kpsewhich instead of find is used for rescue file search
- temporary files generated when printing or possibly decompressing (as
        in Debian) now get different names to prevent overwriting files which
        are still in use
- main, settings, and help windows made non-resizable
- document selection toplevel windows will be raised now instead of
        being opened twice or more times if they are already open
- added a manpage (suggested/contributed by Adrian Bunk)
- some fixes of bugs reported by Hans Fredrik Nordhaug and Adrian Bunk

Some of the suggestions made by several persons are not yet implemented
due to lack of time and my limited programming skills; they stay on my
to-do list, though.
----- End forwarded message -----

Note for the catalogue: The License is GPL.

Reinhard Zierke

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jun 22 09:49:10 2000
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:47:59 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submissions --- combine class and combinet,              abstract and titling packages

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded combine.tar, abstract.tar and titling.tar
> to the UK /incoming directory. Could you please:
> o Use combine.tar to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/combine
> o Use abstract.tar to create a new macros/latex/contrib/supported/abstract
> o Use titling. tar to create a new macros/latex/contrib/supported/titling

i've installed the files as requested.

>     These are all distributed under the LPPL.
>
> From the READMEs:
>
>     The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a
> single document, such as when preparing a conference
> proceedings. The auxiliary combinet package puts the titles and
> authors from \maketitle commands into the main document's Table of
> Contents.
>
> Changes in version 0.41:
> o Cooperates with the abstract and titling packages
>
> ----------------------------
>
>     The abstract package gives you control over the typesetting of
> the abstract environment, and in particular provides for a one
> column abstract in a two column paper.
>
> -----------------------------
>
>     The titling package gives you control over the typesetting of
> the \maketitle command, and makes the \title, \author and \date
> information permanently available.

thanks for uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

[my apologies if this notice appears twice: it failed to emerge when i
first posted it, as far as i can tell -- rf]

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Jun 24 09:20:15 2000
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:19:01 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload jas99_m.bst

Ryo Furue has submitted jas99_m.bst; the introduction to the file says:

%       BibTeX style based on jas99.bst (Mike Moran, 1990, see below),
%       modified for better conformity to the American Meteorological
%       Society (AMS) style.
%
%       Before distributing this file, I sent email to the original
%       author (Mike Moran) and the maintainer (Piotr J. Flatau) for
%       permission, but apparantly both email addresses listed below
%       were disabled and email messages I sent were bounced back.
%
%       So, I make this modified file public without their permission,
%       since I guess they would grant it, as is usually the case for
%       this kind of files.  If it's not OK to make this public, please
%       contact me.
%
%       Undoubtedly there are remaining inconformities to the AMS
%       style, because I corrected only the features that I used.
%       If you find bugs, please let me know, although I cannot
%       promise that I would find time to fix it.

i've installed the file as biblio/bibtex/contrib/jas99_m.bst

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jun 27 09:57:41 2000
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:55:41 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: mathpazo

A submission was uploaded to CTAN.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: mathpazo
Name and email: Diego Puga <....>
Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/mathpazo
Summary description: The Pazo Math fonts and the mathpazo LaTeX macro
 package for mathematical typesetting with the Palatino fonts
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Pazo Math fonts are a family of PostScript fonts suitable for
typesetting math in combination with the Palatino family of text
fonts. The Pazo Math family is made up of five fonts provided in Type1
format (PazoMath, PazoMath-Italic, PazoMath-Bold, PazoMath-BoldItalic,
and PazoMathBlackboardBold). These contain, in designs that suit
Palatino, glyphs that are usually not available in Palatino and for
which Computer Modern looks odd when combined with Palatino. These
glyphs include the uppercase Greek alphabet in upright and slanted
shapes in regular and bold weights, the lowercase Greek alphabet in
slanted shape in regular and bold weights, several math glyphs
(partialdiff, summation, product, coproduct, emptyset, infinity, and
proportional) in regular and bold weights, other glyphs (Euro and
dotlessj) in upright and slanted shapes in regular and bold weights,
and the uppercase letters commonly used to represent various number
sets (C, I, N, Q, R, and Z) in blackboard bold. The LaTeX macro
package mathpazo.sty defines the Palatino family as the default roman
font and uses the virtual mathpazo fonts, built around the Pazo Math
family, for typesetting math in a style that suits Palatino.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jun 29 11:58:51 2000
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:56:05 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- geometry 2.3

Hideo Umeki writes:
 > I have uploaded the new version of `geometry' package (v2.3)
 > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry23.tar.gz. (tar + gzip)
 >
 > Please replace the contents of
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry.
 >
 > -------------------------------------------------
 > Geometry Package v2.3 (1999/06/28)
 > Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Hideo Umeki
 > Distributed under the terms of LPPL
 >
 > Abstract:
 >
 > This package provides an easy and flexible user interface to
 > customize page layout. It implements auto-centering and auto-balancing
 > mechanisms so that the users have only to give the least description
 > for the page layout. For example, if you want to set each margin 2cm
 > without header space, what you need is just
 > \usepackage[margin=2cm,nohead]{geometry}.
 >
 > This new release contains the following changes:
 >
 > o columnsep and footnotesep options are added.
 >
 >   footnotesep controls \skip\footins, the separation between
 >   the bottom of text body and the top of footnote text.
 >
 > o vtex option is added to support VTeX.
 >
 > o Magnification setting is sophisticated.
 >
 >   mag option becomes order-independent. In addition, truedimen
 >   option is introduced to add `true' before all internal explicit
 >   dimension values. Then one can use, for example,
 >     \usepackage[a4paper,mag=1440,truedimen]{geometry}
 >   This will have an effect that the paper size will be really A4,
 >   while all the fonts in the document will be magnified by 1.440.
 > -------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jun 29 12:01:25 2000
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:00:51 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Bugfix of skak package

Torben Hoffmann writes:

 > I have uploaded skak.zip to the incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > I have removed two bugs regarding castling moves in the skak package:
 > the king can now move after it has been castled and the FEN notation
 > reflects changes in castling status.
 >
 > This file should replace the one in fonts/skak and the link to
 > macros/latex/contrib/other should reflect the change.
 >
 > Licensing : LPPL (LaTeX Project Public Licence)
 >
 > Summary: This is a package  for typesetting chess. The moves of the game
 > can be given using the PGN syntax and diagrams of the current board
 > position can be shown in the document - the moves are displayed in
 > figurine notation with several layouts available. It is possible to
 > choose the input language, ie, the letters for the pieces can be
 > configured to follow any language.
 > Furthermore, various ornaments can be added to the boards shown in the
 > document, eg, arrows pointing from one square to another and
 > highlighting of squares (by framing them with a box).
 >
 > Enjoy your chess (typesetting)

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sun Jul  2 03:12:30 2000
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 08:10:44 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload lineno.sty

Stephan Boettcher writes:

> I uploaded the file
>
>   ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/lineno.tar.gz
>
> which should be unpacked to replace the contents of
>
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/lineno/

i've installed the upgrade

> to upgrade lineno.sty to version 3.03, which includes a fix to use
> lineno.sty together with hyperref.sty.  This fix needs to be activated
> via the package option [hyperref], like \usepackage[hyperref]{lineno}.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul  4 03:56:05 2000
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 09:54:36 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: new version of arydshln uploaded

Hiroshi NAKASHIMA writes:

 > I uploaded a file as follows:
 >
 > + what I've uploaded:
 >      arydshln.tar.gz
 > + which CTAN node I've uploaded to:
 >      dante.ctan.org
 > + where I want the file to go:
 >      tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/arydshln
 > + what lincensing conditions I apply to my software:
 >      lppl
 > + a brief summary of what I upload is intended to do:
 >      Ner version (1.4) of arydshln package archived in the
 >      directory (shown above) in CTAN.  The .tar.gz file contains;
 >              README (brief relase note)
 >              arydshln.dtx
 >              arydshln.ins

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul  5 05:12:25 2000
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:10:42 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: bytefield

Scott Pakin writes:

 > I have just uploaded bytefield.tar.gz to the /incoming directory on
 > dante.ctan.org.
 >
 > The package is distributed under the LPPL.
 >
 > I suppose bytefield should go under the /graphics subtree.
 >
 > From the README:
 >
 >     The bytefield package helps the user create illustrations for
 >     network protocol specifications and anything else that utilizes
 >     fields of data.  These illustrations show how the bits and bytes
 >     are laid out in a packet or in memory.

Thanks for the upload. As your package is a LaTeX package, I installed
it in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/bytefield

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul  5 05:15:00 2000
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:13:06 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: poster-os2.zip

Walter Schmidt writes:

 > I have uploaded the file poster-os2.zip to the /incoming directory
 > at dante.ctan.org.  This archive contains an OS/2 port of the
 > "poster" program and related documentation in the OS/2 hypertext
 > format (INF).  "Poster" is a program to generate large-size and
 > multi-sheet posters from PostScript files.
 >
 > Please, create a new directory "os2" under suppert/poster and
 > extract the archive to this dicrectory.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the contents of the zip archive in

   support/poster/os2

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul  5 05:16:16 2000
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:16:02 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: Hexdump.sty

Thomas Hillebrand writes:

 > Name of contribution: Hexdump.sty
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/generic
 > Summary description: Reads a file containing a hexdump into document.
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The main macro reads an ASCII hexdump file and puts it formated into the document. Additional macros included, e.g. for a Directory of Dumps.
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the file as

  macros/generic/hexdump.sty

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jul  6 04:07:39 2000
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:06:56 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: poster-os2.zip (update)

Walter Schmidt writes:

 > I have - again- uploaded a file named "poster-os2.zip" to the
 > /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org.
 >
 > Please, extract this archive to the directory support/poster/os2,
 > thus overwriting the files poster.exe and poster.inf which I had
 > uploaded yesterday.  The file readme.os2 is unchanged.
 >
 > I was just told that I had compiled an obsolete version of the
 > poster program.  This submission includes the latest one now.
 > Many apologies for causing you unnecessary work!
 >
 > Furthermore, Rolf Niepraschk suggests that you also make a further
 > directory support/poster/dos and create a link
 >
 > support/poster/dos/poster.exe -> support/poster/os2/poster.exe
 >
 > Rationale:
 > The OS/2 binary was compiled with EMX, thus it should run with
 > DOS, too.

Thanks for the update. I replaced the files in

  support/poster/os2

and created

  support/poster/dos

as per your instructions.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Sun Jul  9 06:07:27 2000
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 12:06:09 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ifmslide v0.43

Thomas Emmel writes:

 > Name of contribution: ifmslide v0.43
 > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ifmslide
 > Summary description: slides for direct presentation (screen) and printouts
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This is ifmslide.sty v0.43
 > for powerful presentations with PDFLaTeX and LaTeX
 >
 > Idea of ifmslide:
 > Make presentations not only for the screen or a beamer (pdflatex) but
 > for printed slides (latex) too without changing something in your document
 > and without problems getting any well sized print-format.
 >
 > Provided by the Institute of Mechanics, AGIV (ifm)
 > University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany.
 >
 > Author: Thomas Emmel <emmel@mechanik.tu-darmstadt.de>
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it as reuqested in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/ifmslide

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Sun Jul  9 06:09:52 2000
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 12:08:46 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: KOMA-Script: new version uploaded

Markus Kohm writes:

 > I�ve uploaded new version of KOMA-Script. You�ll find koma-script.tar.gz
 > at incomming.
 > Please delete the old contents of directory
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script and extract the tar-archive
 > to this diretory.
 >
 > Remark: KOMA-Script is distributed under conditions of lppl.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Sun Jul  9 06:13:52 2000
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 12:13:30 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload -- BaKoMa TeX 2.31 upgraade

Basil K. Malyshev writes:

 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
 > upgrade for BaKoMa TeX 2.31.
 > Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
 >
 > More notes:
 >  1. contrib/latex209.bkz is replacement for contrib/latex209.exe.
 >     So, that contrib/latex209.exe must be removed.
 >  2. file: `dst/patch230.bkz' must be removed, because it is incorporated
 >     into new version.
 >
 > This update has incorporated several patches and bug fixes.
 > There are no important improvements.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested in

   nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jul 10 07:23:49 2000
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:19:09 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: corrupt version of fixfoot.sty replaced

following a report of incomprehensible errors with the version of
fixfoot.sty currently on ctan, i have replaced

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/fixfoot/fixfoot.sty

with a new copy (which has been `updated' from the previous version to
ensure that mirror redistributes it).

my apologies to anyone who has been vainly trying to get the beastly
thing working.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jul 10 07:46:03 2000
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:42:51 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <pstoedit-3.20>

Rolf Niepraschk writes:
 > I have upload the new version of the program `pstoedit' written by
 > Wolfgang Glunz to `/incoming' on ftp.dante.de. The names of the archives
 > are
 >
 >   `pstoedit_3_20.zip', `pstoedit_bin_linux.zip' and `pstoedit_win.zip'
 >
 > Please remove the old directory `/tex-archive/support/pstoedit' and
 > unpack the archive `pstoedit_3_20.zip' with
 >
 >   unzip -a pstoedit_3_20.zip
 >
 > Then move the resulting directory `pstoedit_3.20' to
 >
 >   /tex-archive/support/pstoedit
 >
 > Next step: Create the directories
 >
 >  `/tex-archive/support/pstoedit/windows'
 >
 > and
 >
 >  `/tex-archive/support/pstoedit/linux'
 >
 >
 > and copy `pstoedit_win.zip' and `pstoedit_bin_linux.zip' to the new
 > directories.
 >
 >
 > From `readme.txt':
 > --------------------------------------
 > PSTOEDIT
 > Copyright (C) 1993 - 2000 Wolfgang Glunz, wglunz@geocities.com
 >
 > pstoedit converts Postscript(TM) and PDF files to other vector graphic
 > formats so that they can be edited graphically. See pstoedit.htm or
 > index.htm for more details on which formats are supported by pstoedit.
 >
 > ...
 >
 > License:
 > --------
 >
 >     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 >     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 >     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 >     (at your option) any later version.
 > --------------------------------------
 >
 > The original place of `pstoedit' is
 >
 >   http://www.geocities.com/wglunz/pstoedit/

Thanks for the submission, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jul 10 11:50:04 2000
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:35:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: light version of french uploaded

Bernard Gaulle writes:

> -- mail the administrators (ctan@dante.de) to report:
>    + what you've uploaded
>
> A light version of THE "french" package for LaTeX which is
> in alpha test.
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
> in incoming i have uploaded french.tar
>
>    + where you want the files to go
>
> you can untar that file in "languages"
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
>
> lppl
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>
> the light version of the "french" package has a maximum of automatic
> features: translation, layout, microtypography, etc. but no specific commands
> are available. Features like french guillemets, lettrines, etc. are
> only available with the professional version (not on ctan and not
> lppl).

i've installed a new language/french, as requested.  thanks for the
upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 11 07:14:27 2000
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:13:17 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload: updated version of bibtopic

Stefan Ulrich writes:

 > I've just uploaded the archive
 >    bibtopic.dtx.gz
 > to the incoming directory of
 >    ftp.dante.de
 >
 > The archive contains the files
 >    bibtopic.ins
 >    bibtopic.dtx
 >
 > Please replace the corresponding files in
 >    CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/bibtopic/
 > by these new versions.
 >
 > Licensing is GPL (unchanged).
 >
 > bibtopic is a package for multiple bibliographies sorted by `topic'.
 >
 > The current version v1.0e adds compatibility with hyperref.sty.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 11 07:14:27 2000
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:13:17 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload: updated version of bibtopic

Stefan Ulrich writes:

 > I've just uploaded the archive
 >    bibtopic.dtx.gz
 > to the incoming directory of
 >    ftp.dante.de
 >
 > The archive contains the files
 >    bibtopic.ins
 >    bibtopic.dtx
 >
 > Please replace the corresponding files in
 >    CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/bibtopic/
 > by these new versions.
 >
 > Licensing is GPL (unchanged).
 >
 > bibtopic is a package for multiple bibliographies sorted by `topic'.
 >
 > The current version v1.0e adds compatibility with hyperref.sty.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 11 08:39:10 2000
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:27:33 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ticket

 > Name of contribution: ticket
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ticket
 > Summary description: Making labels, visting-cards, pins with LaTeX
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > ticket.sty provides an easy to handle interface to produce
 > visiting cards, labels for your files, stickers, pins and
 > other stuff for your office, conferences etc.
 > All you need is a definition of your "ticket" included in
 > a ticket definition file  and the two commands
 > \ticketdefault and \ticket.
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/ticket

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jul 12 13:07:05 2000
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:05:02 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LH fonts update: v3.4a

Vladimir Volovich writes:

> i've uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/ a new version of Olga
> Lapko's LH fonts v3.4a (previous publicly available version was 3.2).
>
> please remove the old version of LH fonts from CTAN:fonts/cyrillic/lh
> and unpack the lhfnt-3.4a.tar.gz tarball in CTAN:fonts/cyrillic/

i've installed the files as requested.

> this new version fixes a number of bugs (the main reason ), adds
> support for slitex fonts for all encodings. hopefully, a new update
> will be made soon which will add concrete family for all encodings
> (and some other changes).
>
> teTeX-1.0 users can update to the new version of LH fonts by running
> an `inst-lh.sh' script.
>
> licensing conditions are the same as for CM fonts: one must rename
> files before making any changes.

thanks for the upload; please convey our thanks to olga for her
continued support of the community.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jul 13 06:36:36 2000
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:34:55 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- newvbtm, umoline, yafoot

----- Forwarded message from Hiroshi NAKASHIMA <nakasima@vegeta.para.tutics.tut.ac.jp> -----
I uploaded three files, which I've locally distributed to users from
my Web site, as follows:

+ what I've uploaded:
        newvbtm.tar.gz
        umoline.tar.gz
        yafoot.tar.gz
+ which CTAN node I've uploaded to:
        dante.ctan.org
+ where I want the files to go:
        tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/{newvbtm|umoline|yafoot}
        (I checked CTAN does not have such directories.)
+ what lincensing conditions I apply to my software:
        lppl
+ a brief summary of what I upload are intended to do:
    newvbtm:
        Defines general purpose macro named \newverbatim to define
        your own verbatim-like environment.  It also has a
        supplementary style file varvbtm.sty to provide set of macros
        for variants of verbatim, such as tab emulation.
    umoline:
        Defines \Underline{<text>} (and its relatives) to draw
        underlines for <text> allowing line breaking.
    yafoot:
        Contains three style files;  pfnote.sty to enclose footnote
        numbers within a page;  fnpos.sty to control the position of
        footnotes;  dblfnote to make footnotes double-columned.

    The .tar.gz files for them commonly have;
        README (brief release note)
        {newvbtm|umoline|yafoot}.dtx
        {newvbtm|umoline|yafoot}.ins
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the three packages in
        CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/newvbtm
        CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/umoline
        CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/yafoot
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

--
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-K�lln-Stra�e 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 42883-2295/2276 Fax: -2241

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jul 17 12:44:40 2000
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:43:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload to ctan (wotree.sty)

Eitan Gurari writes:

> ..    + what you've uploaded
>
>    wotree.sty
>
> ..    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
>    ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> ..    + where you want the files to go
>
>    tex-archive/graphics/dratex/
>
> ..    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
> ..      below).
>
>    lppl
>
> ..    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>
>    The style file supports drawing of Warnier/Orr diagrams in
>    TeX-based documents. Documentation is available at the
>    following address.
>
>       http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/wo-diag/wo-diagrams.html

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jul 17 14:13:31 2000
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:12:10 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- stdclsdv package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded stdclsdv.tar to the UK incoming directory. Could
> you please use this to replace the current
> latex/macros/contrib/supported/stdclsdv.
>
>     The distribution is provided under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>     The stdclsdv package is designed for package writers who need to
> know what sectioning divisions are provided by the document's
> class.
>
> Changes in version 1.1:
> o Added support for the koma classes (courtesy of Joerg Jaspert)

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jul 18 07:28:07 2000
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:26:29 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Fontmap.cmr: cm gs configuration

> From: Karsten Tinnefeld <karsten@tinnefeld.com>
>    + what you've uploaded
> /incoming/Fontmap.cmr
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> dante.ctan.org
>
>    + where you want the files to go
> /tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/contrib/Fontmap.cmr
> (replace existing file of the same name)
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
> lgpl (2.1 or consecutive)
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> % This file make the Computer Modern font files by Donald Ervin Knuth
> % available to ghostscript.
>
> I have added a reference to the ctan servers mainly for all of those
> who (for some weeks successlessly) did or tried to download this file
> from a temporary place on my employer's server, which was accidently
> included in the documentation of some versions of ghostscript. The main
> intent is that this reference will soon die out. The file brings no new
> "working content", but for the reasons mentioned above I'd strongly
> urge every (re)distributor of this file only to include this new version,
> dated 2000-07-17.
>
> % Check the canonical place for new versions of this file:
> %   ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/contrib/Fontmap.cmr
> % or one of its "CTAN" mirror sites.

Thanks for the updated version. I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/contrib/Fontmap.cmr

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jul 19 06:48:59 2000
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:43:40 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: new versions of xfig and TransFig uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk

> I have just put new versions of the drawing program xfig and its companion,
> TransFig, which allows people to create drawings and import them into
> their TeX/LaTeX documents on ftp.tex.ac.uk in the /incoming directory.
>
> All the files prefixed by xfig. and TransFig. should go into the
> /pub/archive/graphics directory for distribution.
>
> The licenses for both xfig and TransFig are as follows:
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> FIG : Facility for Interactive Generation of figures
> TransFig: Facility for Translating Fig code
>
> Copyright (c) 1985-1988 by Supoj Sutanthavibul
> Parts Copyright (c) 1989-2000 by Brian V. Smith
> Parts Copyright (c) 1991 by Paul King
>
> Any party obtaining a copy of these files is granted, free of charge, a
> full and unrestricted irrevocable, world-wide, paid up, royalty-free,
> nonexclusive right and license to deal in this software and
> documentation files (the "Software"), including without limitation the
> rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
> and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons who receive
> copies from any such party to do so, with the only requirement being
> that this copyright notice remain intact.
> _______________________________________________________________________

i've installed these new 3.2.3b files in graphics/xfig and
graphics/transfig, and deleted the old (3.2.3) versions.  thanks for
the uploads

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul 19 10:06:21 2000
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:02:21 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: update of amsmath distribution

I have posted a new version of the amsmath package, version 2.13, to
ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex containing a bug fix for an equation numbering
problem (\notag not working in certain circumstances). If the amsmath
package is used in conjunction with the hyperref package, this bug might
also manifest itself in a pdftex warning message:

! pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier
(name{equation.1}) has been already used, duplicate ignored

Michael Downes <tech-support@ams.org>

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul 19 10:24:48 2000
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:23:38 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- <html2text 1.2.2>

Rolf Niepraschk writes:
 > I have upload the program `html2text' written by Arno Unkrig
 > to `/incoming' on ftp.dante.de. The name of the archive is
 >
 >   `html2text-1.2.2.tar.gz'
 >
 > Please unpack the archive and move the resulting directory
 > `html2text-1.2.2' to
 >
 >   /tex-archive/html2text

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in

   support/html2text

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

--

 > From `README':
 > ----------------
 > This utility was written because GMRS was looking for a good, free
 > HTML-to-text converter for UNIX, and we couldn't find one on the net.
 > The
 > best that we could find was LYNX, i.e. "lynx -dump", but LYNX can't cope
 > with tables.
 >
 > HTML2TEXT was developed and tested under SINIX and Linux, however, it
 > uses
 > no OS-specific features and should be easily portable to other platforms
 > (at least to other UNIX-ish platforms). For details about how to compile
 > HTML2TEXT, see the "INSTALL" file.
 >
 > HTML2TEXT is more or less free; the copyright disclaimer is:
 >
 > /*
 >  * Copyright (c) 1999
 >  *      GMRS Software GmbH, Innsbrucker Ring 159, 81669 Munich, Germany.
 >  *      http://www.gmrs.de
 >  *      All rights reserved.
 >  *      Author: Arno Unkrig (arno.unkrig@gmrs.de)
 >  *
 >  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 >  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 >  * are met:
 >  * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
 >  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 >  * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
 >  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
 > the
 >  *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the
 > distribution.
 >  * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
 > software
 >  *    must display the following acknowledgement:
 >  *      This product includes software developed by GMRS Software GmbH.
 >  * 4. The name of GMRS Software GmbH may not be used to endorse or
 > promote
 >  *    products derived from this software without specific prior written
 >  *    permission.
 >  *
 >  * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY GMRS SOFTWARE GMBH ``AS IS'' AND ANY
 >  * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
 >  * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
 >  * PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL GMRS SOFTWARE GMBH BE
 > LIABLE
 >  * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
 >  * CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
 >  * SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
 > BUSINESS
 >  * INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER
 > IN
 >  * CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
 > OTHERWISE)
 >  * ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED
 > OF
 >  * THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 >  */
 >
 > We hope that this copyright policy is convenient enough for everybody
 > who
 > wants to use HTML2TEXT, or integrate it into his/her own product(s).
 > -------------
 >
 > The original place of `html2text' was
 >
 >   http://www.gmrs.de
 >
 > --------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jul 21 02:30:57 2000
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 07:29:32 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: notoccite.sty

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I've uploaded notoccite.sty to ctan/uk.
>
> Should probably go in macros/contrib/other/misc.
>
> released pd
>
> This prevents erroneous numbering of the cites in the
> toc or lof or lot when using bibtex/unsrt.

i've installed the package as macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/notoccite.sty

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jul 24 08:34:19 2000
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:28:50 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload 'minutes 1.4' on dante.de

Knut Lickert writes:

 > I uploaded the directory Minutes with new versions of minutes.sty and
 > blindtext.sty
 > on  ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > Could you be so kind and update
 > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/minutes

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

 > -----------------------------
 > Name of contribution: minutes
 > Name and email:       Knut Lickert <knut.lickert@gmx.de>
 > Location on CTAN:     tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/minutes
 > Summary description:  Package for writing (collection of) minutes
 > German Information:   Paket zum Erstellen von Protokollen
 >                         to take minutes = Protokoll schreiben
 >                         protocoll = diplomatische Protokoll
 > License type:         Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > minutes.sty provides the creation of a collection of minutes.
 > Special features:
 > - Support of tasks (who, schedule, what, date of finishing),
 >     possibility of creating a list of open tasks
 >     inclusion of open tasks from other minutes ('open last year tasks')
 > - Support of attachments
 > - Support of schedule dates (support of calendar.sty)
 > - Different versions (`secret parts')
 > - Macros for votes and decisions (list of decisions)
 >
 > Additional package included:
 > blindtext.sty:
 >     Style to create text (commands blindtext and Blindtext)
 >     Can be used to create examples with a lot text to become a feeling
 >     for the look of classes, packages...
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jul 24 08:34:39 2000
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:32:47 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ntabbing

 > Name of contribution: ntabbing
 > Suggested location on CTAN:  macros/latex/contrib/other/alg/
 > Summary description: simple tabbing extension for automatic line numbering
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The ntabbing} environment is an extension of the tabbing environment that supports automatic line numbering. The
 > lines can be referenced using the standard \label
 > and \ref mechanism.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the package in

  macros/latex/contrib/other/ntabbing

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jul 24 08:36:36 2000
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:35:46 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt dictionaries

WinEdt Team writes:

 > I have just uploaded 2 new WinEdt dictionaries (Portuguese,
 > Portugal version, and Swiss-German) and their accompanying readme
 > (txt) files to the folder:
 >
 >     ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt.dict
 >
 > Please move these files to WinEdt's Dictionary directory on CTAN:
 >
 >     tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict

Thanks for the update, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Jul 24 10:03:22 2000
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:47:30 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New TeXmacs distribution

Joris van der Hoeven writes:

 > I just uploaded the new TeXmacs distribution in
 >
 >         ftp.dante.de/incoming/TeXmacs
 >
 > The new distribution contains the files
 >
 > Compile.html
 > Ctan.message
 > Dependencies.html
 > Fonts.html
 > Install.html
 > RPM.html
 > TeXmacs-0.2.5-10-src.tar.gz
 > TeXmacs-0.2.5-10-static-gnu-linux.tar.gz
 > TeXmacs-0.2.5-10-static-sun.tar.gz
 > TeXmacs-0.2.5-10.i386.rpm
 > TeXmacs-0.2.5-10.src.rpm
 > TeXmacs-600pk-fonts.tar.gz
 >
 > The files should be put into the directory systems/unix/TeXmacs
 > All existing files in this directory have become obsolete.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jul 24 15:46:42 2000
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:43:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- chngpage package v1.1

Peter R. Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded chngpage.sty to the UK /incoming
> directory. Please use this to replace the current
> macros/latex/contring/supported/misc/chngpage.sty.

er, macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/chngpage.sty

anyway, i installed it.

>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> Summary
> -------
>
>     The chngpage package provides commands to change the page layout
> in the middle of a document.
>
> Changes in version 1.1:
> o Can now use empty arguments instead of zero lengths
> o New adjustwidth environment for extra wide (or narrow) paragraphs
>   or over-width floats

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Jul 29 04:11:00 2000
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 09:09:59 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload to CTAN -- bbl2html

Rik Blok writes:

> I've just uploaded the script bbl2html.awk to
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming.  It should probably be moved to
> biblio/bibtex/utils/.  The file is public domain.  Hmm...what else do
> you need?  Oh yeah a summary:
>
> Converts a LaTeX .bbl file to (mostly) formatted html code.
> Probably also works if applied directly to a .tex file.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jul 31 02:44:12 2000
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:39:29 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- semantic package v2.0(alpha)

----- Forwarded message from Peter Neergaard <turtle@cs.bu.edu> -----
I have just uploaded version 2.0(alpha) of the semantic package to
ftp.dante.de as semantic.zip.  The file is intended to replace the
version in macros/latex/supported/semantic.  The package is under
license LaTeX Project Public License.

The following short description applies to the package:

   This is major update encompassing several new features:
   - you can define math mode ligatures of your own, e.g., you can use =>
     as a short hand for \RightArrow.
   - support for typesetting reserved words in a consistent way.

   The drawing of inference rules has been substantially improved,
   allowing  deeper nesting.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jul 31 03:41:03 2000
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:37:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Scientific Viewer

----- Forwarded message from George Pearson <George@hipnt.com> -----
-- mail the administrators (ctan@dante.de) to report:
   + what you've uploaded
/incoming/sviewer350.exe and /incoming/scientificviewer/readme.txt
(sorry, started the download of sviewer350.exe before I remembered to
create the subdirectory to avoid a name conflict with readme.txt)
   + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
dante.ctan.org
   + where you want the files to go
Suggest: nonfree/systems/win32/scientificviewer and remove
nonfree/systems/win32/snviewer/ and the files in that directory.  The
previous version was the "viewer" version of Scientific Notebook.  We
now call this version simply Scientific Viewer.
   + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
below).
nosource
   + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
Scientific Viewer 3.5 is a free program for reading and printing (read-
only) documents created with Scientific Notebook, Scientific Word or
Scientific WorkPlace by MacKichan Software, Inc.  Scientific Viewer
can also be used to view many native LaTeX documents.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed Scientific Viewer 3.5 in
CTAN:/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/win32/scientificviewer/ as suggested
and deleted the old version in ../snviewer

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jul 31 03:47:59 2000
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:44:05 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Bugfix of skak package

----- Forwarded message from Torben Hoffmann <toho@it.dtu.dk> -----
I have uploaded skak.zip to the incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.

This time a nasty bug in the castling rutine has been removed.

This file should replace the one in fonts/skak and the link to
macros/latex/contrib/other should reflect the change.

Licensing : LPPL (LaTeX Project Public Licence)

Summary: This is a package  for typesetting chess. The moves of the game
can be given using the PGN syntax and diagrams of the current board
position can be shown in the document - the moves are displayed in
figurine notation with several layouts available. It is possible to
choose the input language, ie, the letters for the pieces can be
configured to follow any language.
Furthermore, various ornaments can be added to the boards shown in the
document, eg, arrows pointing from one square to another and
highlighting of squares (by framing them with a box).
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as requested excluding
the file skak/skakdoc.ps which is an older version of skak/doc/skakdoc.ps.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jul 31 03:52:27 2000
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:48:33 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- CWEBbin 3.61 [p18]

----- Forwarded message from Andreas Scherer <andreas.scherer@pobox.com> -----
I have uploaded the files

   ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin/README.p18
   ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin/cwebbin-p18.tar.gz

containing the adaptation of CWEBbin to the current CWEB 3.61 as of July 25.
CWEBbin 3.61 [p18] consists of a set of change files (to be applied with the TIE
processor coming with the standard TeX installation) that make the original
sources usable with ANSI-C/C++ compilers on UNIX/Linux, MS/Windows, and Amiga.
Extra functionality is introduced in the archive and documented in README.p18.
Binary executables are not shipped with this distribution.

The major "news" for this submission is that CWEB 3.61 proper now fully supports
"HyperCWEB" format with both tex+dvipdfm and pdftex.  For details see the CWEB
page http://sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/cweb.html.  As of this version,
CWEBbin 3.61 [p18] can simply be seen as the i18n adaptation of CWEB 3.61.  It
provides additional TeX macros and CWEB include files for French, German, and
Italian programmers and for 8-bit input, and it significantly improves the
compilability of the CWEB sources for non-Unix systems.

Patch level 18 replaces the former patch level 17 at

   CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cwebbin/README.p17
   CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cwebbin/cwebbin-p17.tar.gz

Binary exectables of the ctangle and cweave processors for MS/Windows are
available at http://www.literateprogramming.com.  Binary executables of ctangle
and cweave for the Amiga should be available from other sources.

CWEBbin is contributed to the public domain.  Licensing conditions are
the same as those of CWEB proper.

Both the README.p18 file and the cwebbin-p18.tar.gz archive should be
installed at

   CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cwebbin

Depending on the future development of CWEB, this version of CWEBbin might
prove to be the final edition.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/web/c_cpp/cwebbin as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jul 31 09:11:56 2000
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:07:33 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: patchcmd package for LaTeX

Michael John Downes writes:

> I've uploaded patchcmd.zip to cam.ctan.org. License is dfsg. I suggest
> putting it in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/patchcmd.
>
> The LaTeX package patchcmd.sty provides a command \patchcommand that can
> be used to add material at the beginning and/or end of the replacement
> text of an existing macro. It works for macros with any number of normal
> arguments (0--9), including macros that were defined with
> \DeclareRobustCommand. This package arose from discussions with Peter
> Wilson and Heiko Oberdiek.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug  1 02:19:16 2000
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 07:18:18 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Package ``cuisine''

Ben Cohen writes:

> + what you've uploaded
>
> Package cuisine v0.5 comprising the files in incoming/cuisine
> (README,  cuisine.dtx,  cuisine.ins)
>
> + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
> cam.ctan.org
>
> + where you want the files to go
>
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/cuisine
>
> + what licensing conditions you apply to your software.
>
> LPPL
>
> + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>
> Cuisine is a LaTeX package for typesetting recipes in steps in which each
> ingredient is on the left of the page next to the method step in which it
> is used.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Aug  2 06:07:34 2000
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:02:22 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- dvipsconfig 1.5

----- Forwarded message from Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@ELEC.CANTERBURY.AC.NZ> -----
uploaded:       ftp://dante.ctan.org/incoming/dvipsconfig-1.5.tar.gz
license:        GPL
archive:        ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipsconfig/

This is a set of files which can be used with dvips to control certain
parameters of the printer, like simplex/duplex printing, or screen
frequencies of images.

New with version 1.5:

* paper size usledger (upon request)

* a program addpsctrl, which allows to insert these postscript printer
controls into existing postscript files. The program can act as filter,
and is written for bash (version 1 or 2). Sorry about the bash but it's
too diffcult to do decent programming with what some vendors ship as
/bin/sh, e.g. SUN.

Below is the help output.

Please update the archive (and thanks again for running it)

Volker


Usage: addpsctrl [OPTION]... [FILE] [CTRL]...
Version VK 1.2, 2 Aug 2000

Inserts printer control instructions (e.g. duplex) into a PostScript file.
OPTIONS:
  -h, --help          show help
  -k, --kpsewhich     use kpsewhich to locate config files if necessary
  -K, --nokpsewhich   never use kpsewhich
  -f, --file FILE     insert control commands into file FILE ('-' for stdin)
  -d, --dir DIR       control files are in directory DIR
  -c, --ctrl CTRL     locate + insert control file 'config.CTRL'
  -i, --insert INSRT  insert file INSRT before any other control files
                        (give full path and filename)
  -o, --output OUT    write to file OUT instead of stdout
  -V, --version       display version and exit

  -s, -1      same as -c simplex
  -2L         same as -c duplong
  -2S         same as -c dupshort
  -a4, -a3    same as -c a4 / -c a3
  -man        same as -c manualfeed

If -f is not used, the first non-option argument is taken as FILE.
Remaining arguments are names of control files to be inserted (after those
given with -i and -c).
Control file searching:
  1)  In directory DIR (if given)
  2)  By running kpsewhich, unless disabled with -K
Default (can be changed by setting environment variable ADDPSCTRL_DFLTOPT):
  --kpsewhich
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I replaced the old version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/dviware/dvipsconfig/ with the new one.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Aug  3 04:29:21 2000
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 09:27:02 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: xdoc upload

Lars Hellstr�m writes:

> I've uploaded the following four files to /incoming/xdoc at ftp.tex.ac.uk:
>   xdoc2.dtx
>   xdox2.ins
>   xdocdemo.tex
>   README.txt
> and I would like to have them put in
>   /macros/latex/experimental/xdoc
> or in case /macros/latex/experimental is restricted, in
>   /macros/latex/contrib/supported/xdoc
> The licence that applies is the LPPL.

the directory is macros/latex/exptl; it's not restricted; indeed, we
encourage people to put work-in-progress in it.

so i've installed the package in macros/latex/exptl/xdoc

> On what these files are:
>   The xdoc2 package contains reimplementations of some of
>   the features found in the standard LaTeX doc package
>   by Mittelbach et al. Amongst other things, these
>   reimplementations provide support for definiting new
>   commands similar to \DescribeMacro and new environments
>   similar to the macro environment, for two-sided document
>   layouts, for external cross-referencing, and for making
>   index entries for invisible characters. The xdocdemo
>   document demonstrates a couple of these features.
>
>   I consider the xdoc2 package to merely be the second
>   prototype for an (as yet nonexistant) package xdoc which
>   should provide the same features (and more). I have
>   decided to release the prototype to make its functionality
>   generally avaiable, but under a variant name to avoid
>   future incompatibility problems. (E.g., the final xdoc
>   package will probably use many LaTeX2e* features that are
>   still on the prototype stage. xdoc2, on the other hand,
>   uses no LaTeX2e* features.)

thanks for that.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Aug  3 07:39:48 2000
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:37:21 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload BioCon.sty

PEdelman@dds.nl writes:

 > I've just uploaded the BioCon.sty package to
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming site. This package tries to typeset
 > some biological entities. This is a first basic version
 > (v0.01) which only typesets species. Altough the code is not
 > efficient yet, it works as far as I know.
 > Future releases also should typeset gene names with their
 > product and maybe more.
 > I am not really sure where the package should go, but since
 > it only works with LaTeX2e, I believe somewhere at
 > tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib.
 > This package is released under the GPL.

Thanks for your submission, I installed the file as

  macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/biocon/biocon.sty

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Aug  6 06:57:01 2000
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 12:54:28 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- update to accents 1.2

----- Forwarded message from Javier Bezos <jbezos@WANADOO.ES> -----
I uploaded to the Dante server the following files:

  accents.tex
  accents.sty
  tensind.tex
  readme

grouped in the /incoming/bezos-update/ directory. These files
should replace the corresponding ones under
/macros/latex/contrib/supported/bezos/ leaving untouched the
remainder (esindex.sty, etc.).

The only significant change is a quick fix in accents for it
to work with amsmath 2.

Thanks
Javier Bezos

PS. Please, annonce it on the CTAN list. Thanks.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the contribution, I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/bezos/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug  8 09:49:12 2000
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:45:21 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- isodate

Harald Harders writes:

 > I have uploaded the file isodate.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please replace
 > all files in the directory CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/isodate by
 > the contents of the archive. Licence stays LPPL.
 >
 > From the README:
 >
 > Tune the output format of the \today command.
 > This package provides five commands to switch the output format of the
 > \today command: \isodate, \numdate, \shortdate, \TeXdate, \origdate.
 > The package contains two additional commands to print a date given as an
 > argument using the actual date format for output.
 >
 > The new version avoids the former hack for the original date format and so
 > it gets compatible e.g. to the bibgerm style file.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug  8 10:49:24 2000
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:40:49 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- accfonts upgrade

John Smith writes

> I have uploaded an upgraded version of my gpl-licensed "accfonts"
> package to ftp.tex.ac.uk. The archive file /incoming/accfonts.tgz
> contains two files: (1) v. 0.212 of the program vpl2vpl, in which a
> single bug has been fixed, (2) a CHANGES file specifying what is new
> since release 0.211. The current version of the package is stored in
> "/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/accfonts": files for which I have *not*
> supplied new versions can be left unchanged.

i've installed the two new files as requested in
fonts/utilities/accfonts: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug  8 10:46:15 2000
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:42:13 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: tth-2.7-3.i386.rpm upload

Michael Sanders writes:

> I have just uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk the file tth-2.7-3.i386.rpm. It is
> a replacement for support/tth/rpm/tth-2.3-4.i386.rpm

i've installed the new file and deleted the old.  thanks for the
upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug  8 12:58:19 2000
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 17:56:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN package submission [undertilde]

Benjamin BAYART wrote:

> I uploaded undertilde.tgz in the /incoming of cam.ctan.org
>
> This is supposed to be extract in macros/latex/contrib/supported.
>
> This package provides an \utilde command that put a tilde
> under math material, like \widetilde, but the opposite...
>
> This is under LPPL.

i've installed the package in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/undertilde

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug  8 17:40:55 2000
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:37:25 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- the expressg MetaPost package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded expressg.tar to the UK /incoming
> directory. Please use this to replace the current
> graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/expressg subdirectory.

i've installed the replacement package.

>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>     The expressg MetaPost package provides facilities to assist in
> drawing diagrams that consist of boxes, lines and
> annotations. Although particular support is provided for creating
> EXPRESS-G diagrams, examples are provided of IDEF0, IDEF1X,
> Shlaer-Mellor, E-R, OMT, NIAM, and other diagrams.
>
> Changes in version 1.4:
> o Routines for generating piecewise linear paths with either
>   sharp or rounded corners
> o Diagram showing labeliing convention for a drum
> o General tidying up of the code.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Aug 14 02:57:17 2000
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 08:52:03 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- AMS-LaTeX primer

----- Forwarded message from Philip Hirschhorn <psh@math.mit.edu> -----
I've just uploaded to the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de the file
amshelp.zip.  This is a zipfile containing two files:

  amshelp.tex
  template.tex

This is an updated version of my document "Getting up and running with
AMS-LaTeX", which is an attempt to give enough information for a
newcomer to LaTeX (but with some plain TeX or AMS-TeX experience) to
quickly be able to make use of AMS-LaTeX.  The version currently on
CTAN was written for the older (pre-LaTeX2e) version of AMS-LaTeX;
this version is correct for the current version of AMS-LaTeX.

I suggest that these two files replace the older versions, which are
currently in tex-archive/info/amslatex-primer.

I've made these files subject to the LaTeX Project Public Licence.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/info/amslatex-primer/ as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Aug 14 03:00:20 2000
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 08:56:05 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- jurabib package v0.4n

----- Forwarded message from Jens Berger <jberger@gmx.net> -----
I've just uploaded the file jurabib-04n.zip to

        ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.

This archive contains an updated version (0.4n) of the jurabib package.

It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.


The following files are included:

jurabib.ins
jurabib.dtx


  jurabib supports various forms of short and long citations like
  those build with bibentry.sty or inlinebib.sty, but it's more
  flexible and no longer noteworthy only for German law students.

  I'm on the way translating the documentation from German, please
  be patient with me.


Changes in 0.4n:

superscriptedition=switch           You can switch on the feature of superscript
                                    edition numbers for each entry by using
                                    ssedition = 1 in your database entry

\jbformattedpages                   pre-formatted pages fields for the humanities.
                                    You can type now again pages = 23
                                    instead of pages = {p. 23}

\citeswithoutentry{key1,key2,...}   You can declare a list of keys, which doesn't
                                    appear in the bibliography, but the
                                    citation commands can be used normally.

jurabib.cfg                         You can now use jurabib.cfg to save your
                                    personal redefinitions.

I've done a lot of bugfixes.

Please replace the current files in the directory
CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib/

Please send an announcement to c.t.t.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the update.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 15 05:19:34 2000
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:17:10 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Withdrawal: macros/plain/contrib/springer

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, J�RG KNAPPEN wrote:

 > Springer-Verlag Heidelberg/Berlin wants to officially withdraw
 >
 > macros/plain/contrib/springer
 >
 > and all files and subdirectories below. The macros listed there are no longer
 > used in journal production and should not be picked up but our authors any
 > longer. Our up-to-date journal macros can be found under
 >
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/springer
 >
 > on CTAN.

Thanks for lettign us know.

The subtree

  macros/plain/contrib/springer

was moved to

  obsolete/macros/plain/contrib/springer

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 15 05:36:01 2000
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:34:09 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: jkthesis

Jochen K�pper submitted the following package to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: jkthesis
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/jkthesis
 > Summary description: thesis class
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > LaTeX thesis class
 > according to the guidelines of the Mat. Nat. Fakult�t, Heinrich-Heine-University D�sseldorf.
 > Can be used for other schools with minor changes, upon request I am willing to provide a more general version.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks a lot, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Aug 17 03:06:23 2000
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:05:02 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- TclTeXEd

----- Forwarded message from Martin Strauss <mys@faveve.uni-stuttgart.de> -----
> I've uploaded my latex editor "tcltexed" to
> ftp.dante.de/incoming/tcltexed/
> the directory would best fit into
> /tex-archive/support/tcltexed/
>
> ftp.dante.de/incoming/tcltexed/README
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> date:
> Wed Aug 16 11:57:49 CEST 2000
>
> description:
> TclTexEd is an editor written in the scripting language Tcl/Tk
> and is highly specialized on writing LaTeX documents.
>
> compatibility:
> Works both on unix and windows if a Tcl/Tk interpreter (>8.0)  is installed.
>
> Licensing terms:
> GPL ... GNU General Public Licence
>
> Author:
> Martin Strau\ss
> mys@faveve.uni-stuttgart.de
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/tcltexed/ as suggested.

> where the hell is your in
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/README.uploads
> mentioned file README.structure located ???

It's in CTAN:/tex-archive/ as all README files.  I copied it to
/incoming too now.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Aug 19 18:50:00 2000
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 23:48:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN SUBMISSION: Circuit_macros4.9

Dwight Aplevich writes:

> Circuit_macros4.9.tar.gz has been copied into the incoming directory
> of ftp.tex.ac.uk.  Its expanded contents are to replace the contents
> of graphics/circuit_macros entirely.  The copyright is almost public
> domain.
>
> From the README:
> ...
>   This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality electric circuit
>   diagrams containing fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors,
>   and basic logic gates to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents.
>   Several tools and examples for other types of diagrams are also included.
>   The advantages and disadvantages of such a system are similar to those
>   of TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg, and which uses ordinary
>   character input.
>
>   The macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic language, which is
>   readable and easy to learn.  Pic contains elements of a simple
>   programming language, and is well-suited to line drawings requiring
>   parametric or conditional components, fine tuning, significant
>   geometric calculations or repetition, or drawings that are naturally
>   block structured or tree structured.  Free TeX- and LaTeX-compatible
>   interpreters for m4 and pic are readily available for Unix and PC
>   machines.
> ...
> EXAMPLES:
>   View or print the file examples.ps in the examples directory, or try
>   ftp://joshua.smcvt.edu/pub/tex/graphics/circuit_macros/examples/examples.ps
>
>   A collection of examples and hints intended for his colleagues has
>   been produced by Alan Robert Clark at http://ytdp.ee.wits.ac.za/cct.html
> ...
> CHANGES:
> Version 4.9: More robust NOT_gate.  Function pmod(), macro shade().  Tweaks
>   to diode, dend, crossover. Newer manual and web references.  Binary
>   tree and flowchart macros.

thanks for the upload; i've (finally) installed all your upload -- my
apologies for the delay (i couldn't get in to the archive machine from
the tug2000 conference machines).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Aug 19 18:55:20 2000
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 23:54:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- TVS

David Antos writes:

> I've uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk new version of TVS, TeX Versioning System.
> It's under incoming/TVS.tar.gz.
>
> Description:
>
> TeX Versioning System (TVS) is to collect complete source codes of TeX
> documents in order to be able to re-typeset them exactly the same way.
> TVS uses TeX's log files to get all macro-packages and other files needed
> to typeset a document.
> TVS is a platform-independent Perl script, it's documentation comes in
> Texinfo format. TVS is under GPL license.
>
> New version 1.0 contains better support for packing format file sources
> and improved documentation.
>
> ***
>
> Previous version of TVS was located in support/TVS (note capitals),
> I would be pleased if you unpacked TVS.tar.gz there. As you may see, there
> are no (sym)links in it :-).

thanks for the upload: i've installed it as you requested (sorry about
the slight delay).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Aug 21 05:25:03 2000
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:23:54 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- germbib

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de> -----
I have uploaded the file germbib.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de/incoming. It
contains these files:
styles/bibgerm.sty
README.bibgerm
test/testbibgerm.tex
test/testbibgerm.dvi
test/schaum.bib

Please unpack germbib.tar.gz into the existing tree
CTAN/biblio/bibtex/contrib/germbib and replace the old bibgerm.sty by the
new version.

The licence stays whatever it was before.

The main change is the new support for ngerman and babel.


>From the README:
The package bibgerm.sty now supports the language packages ngerman.sty and
babel.sty.
If using LaTeX2e you can load either german.sty, ngerman.sty or babel.sty
before or after bibgerm.sty. If none of these packages is used bibgerm
behaves as before and loads german.sty.
If using LaTeX 2.09 you can load german.sty or ngerman.sty _before_
bibgerm.sty.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the update.  I installed the new and changed files in
CTAN:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/germbib/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Aug 21 05:29:25 2000
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:28:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/dvi2bitmap-0.9-5.tar.gz

Norman Gray writes (his mail was somewhat delayed by mail server
problems, as far as i can tell):

>    + what you've uploaded
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
> ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/dvi2bitmap-0.9-5.tar.gz
>
>    + where you want the files to go
>
> Replace /tex-archive/nonfree/dviware/dvi2bitmap/
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
>
> nocommercial, unfortunately (but I'm working on it!)
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>
> This replaces the previous version in CTAN (0.9-2) with a version
> which fixes a rather important spacing bug, and slightly expands the
> functionality.
>
> I've appended the program's README below.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

> dvi2bitmap
> ==========
>
> %%VERSION%% 0.9-5
>
> dvi2bitmap is a utility to convert TeX DVI files directly to bitmaps,
> without going through the complicated (and slow!) route of conversion
> via PostScript and PNM.  The prime motivation for this is to
> prepare mathematical equations for inclusion in HTML files, but I
> expect there are plenty of uses beyond that.  It can generate XBM and
> GIF bitmaps, plus PNG, if you have the libpng library installed.  It
> uses the same kpathsea font-searching library as other TeX programs,
> again as long as you have the appropriate library installed.
>
> The program is written in C++, and incidentally provides a reasonably
> good (I think) object interface for DVI and PK files.
>
> See <http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/star/dvi2bitmap/>
>
> Configuring and building
> ------------------------
>
> To configure and build:
>
>     ./configure
>     make
>
> You can override the C++ compiler the configure script will choose by
> setting the environment variable CXX, either via `CXX=cxx ./configure'
> or `env CXX=cxx ./configure', depending on your shell.
>
> To install, just copy the executable dvi2bitmap wherever you want it
> to live.
>
> Since this program uses `standard' TeX fonts, but at resolutions
> appropriate for screens rather than paper, there is a certain fuss
> involved in generating, and after that, finding, these fonts.  If you
> have the `kpathsea' library installed, then this should Just Work.
> Failing that, you might have to set an environment variable.  See the
> section of the manual entitled `Finding fonts' for some discussion of
> this.  As well, it's a good idea to give the command
>
>     make test
>
> after you've built the distribution.  As well as testing the program,
> this attempts to give you some advice about what you need to do on
> your particular system to tell dvi2bitmap where its fonts are.
>
> If you want it to be able to generate GIFs, then give the configure
> option `--enable-gif'.  The GIF format is the copyright of CompuServe.
> As far as I understand it, one does not need a licence from CompuServe
> if one is distributing non-commercial, not-for-profit software, such
> as this.  You probably shouldn't enable GIF support when you build
> this program unless you're in that category as well.  But don't listen
> to me: there's a much fuller account of the whole sorry business in
> the comp.graphics.misc FAQ at, for example,
> <http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/archive/graphics.fileformats-faq.part1.html>
>
> If you want it to be able to generate PNG files (much better, since
> they're free of the GIF copyright problems), then give the configure
> option `--enable-png'.  This will check you have the libpng library
> and headers somewhere the compilers can find them, and build in
> support if it finds them.  The PNG library is not distributed with
> this utility: you can find it at <http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/>.
>
> The program can work with the kpathsea library.  This is the same
> path-searching library which several TeX implementations use to find
> fonts (and more).  If you wish to use this (you should, if you can),
> then give the option `--with-kpathsea' to the configure command, and
> if the library is installed on your machine, the program will use it.
>
> The program builds successfully on (at least) the following
> machine/compiler combinations.  It should be written in
> standards-conforming C++, so if it doesn't build then (1) it's not as
> conformant as I think it is (in which case please tell me), (2) your
> compiler is not as conformant as you think it is (in which case please
> don't tell me), or (3) you need to invoke some magic to get the
> compiler to be conformant (in which case tell me, if there's something
> I can do in the autoconfigure script).
>
>     i686-pc-linux-gnu           egcs-2.91.66
>     powerpc-mac-linux-gnu       gcc 2.8.1?
>     sparc-sun-solaris2.7        egcs-2.91.66
>     sparc-sun-solaris2.7        gcc 2.8.1
>     sparc-sun-solaris2.7        WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0
>     alpha-dec-osf4.0f           Compaq C++ V6.2-024 for Digital UNIX V4.0F
>
>
> Documentation
> -------------
>
> See directory doc/ -- there are fuller installation instructions
> there.  There's also a man-page in dvi2bitmap.1, but this is not
> necessarily as up-to-date as the main documentation.
>
>
> Copyright
> ---------
>
> Copyright 1999, 2000, Council for the Central Laboratories of the
> Research Councils.  Free for non-commercial use.  See the file
> LICENCE, or the URL
> <http://www.starlink.rl.ac.uk/store/conditions.html>, for details.

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Aug 21 18:05:36 2000
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:03:39 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- hieroglf & oands (Meta) fonts

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded several files to the UK /incoming
> subdirectory. They are all released under the LPPL. Could you,
> please:
>
> o Extract oands.tar in the fonts/archaic subdirectory (creates the
> /oands directory)
>
> o Extract hieroglf.tar in the fonts/archaic subdirectory (creates
> the /hieroglf directory)
>
> o Move README.PRW, asamples.tex and asamples.ps to fonts/archaic to
> replace any files similarly named.
>
> From the hieroglf/README:
> -------------------------
>     The hieroglf package provides a Metafont version of about 60
> Egyptian Hieroglyphs from Serge Rosmorduc's comprehensive hieroglyph
> package. Sufficient glyphs are provided for writing a few names like
> Cleopatra or Ptolemy (together with cartouches). The package is not
> for serious Egyptologists.
>
>     The package requires the oands package.
>
> From the oands/README:
> ----------------------
>     The oands package provides a Metafont version of some odd
> characters that are used as symbols when transliterating ancient
> scripts (like Hieroglyphs).
>
>     Both packages are part of a series on archaic fonts.
>
>     The asamples.ps file shows examples of the archaic font set.

i've installed the files as requested.  thanks for the uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug 22 02:29:36 2000
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:27:26 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: truncate.sty

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I just uploaded a new version of truncate.sty (ver 3.5)
> to ctan/UK.
>
> Please
> mv incoming/truncate.sty tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/
>
> Truncate.sty allows truncation of horizontal (lr mode) text
> to a specified width.
>
> This new version allows truncation at arbitrary characters,
> without loading any special hyphenation patterns!  (Other
> methods are truncation only between words or at hyphenation
> points.)

i've installed the new package; thanks for the upload.

> I see the catalog entry is outdated, so I'll upload a revised
> truncate.xml.  (Note pd `license'.)

thanks for that; i've forwarded it to graham williams, who maintains
the catalogue.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Aug 22 03:20:01 2000
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:19:24 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- upgrade of minitoc package

----- Forwarded message from Jean-Pierre Drucbert <Jean-Pierre.Drucbert@onecert.fr> -----
I have uploaded the file

minitoc.tar.gz

in /incoming on the ftp.dante.de CTAN node.

This is a new version (#32) of the minitoc package.

It replaces the current version in
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/minitoc/

The licencing is still LPPL.

The upgrade is summarized below

Version #31
Patched by Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
to have hyper-links in the minitables (with the hyperref package).
He has also fixed a bug in parttoc with \chapter*.
Thousand thanks to him.

Version #32
Added commands:
      \before|part|toc
      \after |    |lof
             |    |lot
and
      \thispagepart|toc|style
                   |lof|
                   |lot|
and
      \adjust|mtc
             |ptc
             |stc

Documentation improved by Stefan Ulrich <ulrich@cis.uni-muenchen.de>

Corrected \nomtcrule (rules after minitocs & co. suppressed)


I must thank Heiko Oberdiek for his superb integration with
hyperref and Stefan Ulrich for his comments and his additions
to the documentation; I thank also all the beta-testers who
found bugs and helped me to fix some problems.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/minitoc/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 22 04:55:57 2000
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:55:29 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload - textcomptst.tar.gz

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file textcomptst.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > It contains the files textcomptst.{tex,dvi,ps}.
 >
 > They just contain a list of all symbols available using the package
 > textcomp.sty.
 > Licence is totally free.
 >
 > I am not sure where to put the files. Maybe into the info directory.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in

 info/textcomp-list

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Aug 23 05:23:19 2000
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:21:51 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: MiKTeX 2.0 beta 4

On 22 Aug 2000 cs@miktex.org wrote:

 > I have uploaded to
 >
 >      ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex
 >
 > a beta version of the upcoming MiKTeX 2.0 release.  Please copy all
 > files (including the sub-directory 'images') to the CTAN directory
 >
 >      systems/win32/miktex/2.0-beta
 >
 > MiKTeX is a free TeX distribution for Windows.  MiKTeX is freely
 > distributable.
 >
 > Tx,
 > Christian
 >
 > --------------
 >
 > MiKTeX 2.0 beta 4 News:
 >
 >  * Updated Packages: Dvipdfm 0.13.1b, Omega 1.11, pdfTeX 0.14f
 >
 >  * TeX: new option --output-directory=DIR sets the destination
 >    directory for all output files
 >
 >  * Yap: GUI enhancements (e.g. double-page view); Yap now supports
 >    EEPIC drawing primitives (aka tpic specials)
 >
 >  * Texify: --max-iterations=n limits the number of iterations (to
 >    prevent endless processing)
 >
 >  * New: Remove MiKTeX! Wizard: assists you in removing MiKTeX from the
 >    computer
 >
 >  * New: MiKTeX Options: graphical front-end to the MiKTeX
 >    configuration utility (initexmf)
 >
 > --
 > Christian Schenk <cs@miktex.org>

Thanks for the upload, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Aug 23 05:45:22 2000
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:44:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: v1.42 and 1.50 of the LaTeX curves package

Ian Maclaine-cross writes:

> I uploaded five files, curves.dtx, curves.ins, curve.sty, curvesls.sty
> and curves.tex, into directory incoming/curves at cam.ctan.org today.
>
> The two files, curves.dtx and curves.ins, are v1.50 to replace the
> three files, curve.sty, curvesls.sty and curves.tex, in subdirectory,
> /macros/latex/supported/curves.

i've installed these two files (in macros/latex/contrib/supported/curves)

> The three uploaded files, curves.sty, curvesls.sty and curves.tex, are
> v1.42 to go in a new subdirectory, /macros/latex209/contrib/curves.

and these three as requested

> The copyright license for the five new files is The LaTeX Project
> Public License.
>
> The curves package draws curves in the standard LaTeX picture
> environment using parabolas between data points with continuous slope
> at joins. For circles and arcs uses up to 16 parabolas. Also draws
> symbols or dash patterns along curves. Equivalent to technical pens
> with compasses and French curves. Curves consist of short secants
> drawn by overlapping disks or line drawing \specials selected by
> package options.
>
> Curves v1.42 can still be used with LaTeX 2.09, has a bug fix from
> v1.40 and encouragement to change to standard LaTeX in its
> documentation. There will be no further curves releases for LaTeX
> 2.09.
>
> Curves v1.50 can only be used with standard LaTeX. It has improved
> documentation, greater drawing accuracy and uses less TeX memory and
> runtime than v1.42.  Four package options for dvi specials improve
> drawing performance and some specials work with color.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Aug 24 03:39:04 2000
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:37:40 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- jurabib package v0.5

----- Forwarded message from Jens Berger <jberger@gmx.net> -----
I've just uploaded the file jurabib-05.zip to

        ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.

This archive contains an updated version (0.5) of the jurabib package.

It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

The following files are included:

jurabib.ins
jurabib.dtx

  jurabib supports various forms of short and long citations like
  those build with bibentry.sty or inlinebib.sty, but it's more
  flexible and no longer noteworthy only for German law students.

Changes in 0.5:

 o   It's no longer necessary to have two BibTeX style files
     (jurplain.bst and jurabbrv.bst)---You will need now only one:
     jurabib.bst. That's the major change in v0.5.

 o   It is now possible to chose `authorformat=abbrv'
     to get abbreviated first names.

 o   minor bugfixes

Please replace the current files in the directory
CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib/

Please send an announcement to c.t.t.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the update as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Aug 24 03:49:18 2000
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:48:50 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- fltpoint package for (La)TeX

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload@dante.de -----
A submission was uploaded to /ftp/incoming/upload-20000823.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: fltpoint package for (La)TeX
Name and email: Eckhart Guth�hrlein <ewg@epost.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/fltpoint
Summary description: basic floating point calculations
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The fltpoint package provides basic floating point calculations inside TeX (at the moment, only addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and a few gimmicks are supported). It has been tested with PlainTeX and with LaTeX2e, so I would also suggest a link to the package from macros/generic/.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the package in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fltpoint
with a symbolic link from CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/generic/fltpoint
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Aug 24 03:51:17 2000
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:50:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- rccol

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload@dante.de -----
A submission was uploaded to /ftp/incoming/upload-20000823.002/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: rccol package for use with LaTeX2e
Name and email: Eckhart Guth�hrlein <ewg@epost.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/rccol
Summary description: 'right-centered', optionally rounded numbers in tabulars
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The rccol package provides 'right-centered' numbers: corresponding digits aligned, centered to other entries (e.g., the title). Furthermore, rounding to the desired precision is possible.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the package in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/rccol/
as suggested

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Aug 25 04:51:26 2000
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:50:09 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- latex2man version 1.11

----- Forwarded message from Juergen Vollmer <vollmer@COCOLAB.DE> -----
I uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file latex2man-1.11.tar.gz.
Please install it under the support/latex2man directory.
>From the README:

Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a
format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command.
Alternatively HTML, TexInfo, or LaTeX code can be produced too.
Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the conditional text
feature (for this, LaTeX generation may be used).

There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the Man-page
and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual translation.

Changes from version 1.10
  - Fixed error in condtional text handling
    (MAN was not enabled by default, when calling with -M).
  - Added eror message, if arguments of \begin{Name} are
    not contained on a single line.
  - Better handling of \Tilde.

With best regards

Juergen

PS
License:
   This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
   of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
   archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
   version 1 of the License, or any later version.

PPS: If you find this software useful, please send me a postcard.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the update.  I installed it in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/latex2man/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Aug 25 12:55:49 2000
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:54:19 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Mike Piff's textmerg package

Mike Piff has granted me permission to modify his published packages
as I choose; in particular, I am allowed to change the licence terms
under which they are released.

I have therefore edited the licence statement in his textmerg package
to say that the package is in the public domain.  I have, accordingly,
moved the package from the nonfree/ tree to
macros/latex/contrib/other/textmerg (I am not in a position to support
the package myself, though I have corrected a minor problem while
editing.)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Aug 25 13:07:50 2000
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:02:01 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- vertbars package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded vertbars.sty to the UK /incoming
> directory. Please move this to /macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc.
>
>     The package is provided under the LPPL.
>
> The vertbars package
> --------------------
>     The VERTical BARS package is an extension to the lineno package
> to put vertical rules at left (right) of lines instead of
> numbers. Only complete paragraphs can be barred.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Aug 28 03:40:50 2000
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:39:14 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- listbib 2.2

----- Forwarded message from Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz> -----
uploaded:       ftp.dante.de/incoming/listbib-2.2.tar.gz
license:        GPL 2
archive:        macros/latex/contrib/supported/listbib

Please update the listbib version on CTAN - thanks!

New in 2.2:
 Enhancements to the listbib shell script.
 Example listbib.cfg.
 Support for entry fields `URL' and `totalpages' (custom-bib uses them).
 Fields URL and totalpages are not inherited from crossreferenced entries.

listbib lists the contents of .bib files in a printable format.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/listbib/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Aug 28 10:09:01 2000
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:06:58 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- directory-1.15.tar.gz

Christophe Geuzaine writes:

> I have just uploaded a new version of the 'directory' package on
> 'ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming'. The content of
> 'directory-1.15.tar.gz' is intended to replace all the existing files in
> the 'bibliography/bibtex/contrib/directory' directory.
>
> Changes since version 1.13:
> - cellular phone fields;
> - flexible definition of headers to generate nicer address booklets;
> - section in the user's guide on the use of 'hyperrref' to produce
> directories with hyperlinks.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 29 05:13:29 2000
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:10:32 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- jurabib package v0.5a

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Jens Berger wrote:

 > I've just uploaded the file jurabib-05a.zip to
 >
 >      ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > This archive contains an updated version (0.5a) of the jurabib package.
 >
 > It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
 >
 > The following files are included:
 >
 > jurabib.ins
 > jurabib.dtx
 > jurabib.pdf
 > jurabib.ps
 >
 >   jurabib supports various forms of short and long citations like
 >   those build with bibentry.sty or inlinebib.sty, but it's more
 >   flexible and no longer noteworthy only for German law students.
 >
 > Changes in 0.5a:
 >
 >  o   minor bugfixes
 >
 > Please replace the current files in the directory
 > CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib/

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Aug 30 08:00:35 2000
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:59:22 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Release of LaTeX 2000/06/01

I have just installed the (somewhat delayed) 2000 release of LaTeX on
cam.ctan.org; it will propagate to the other two CTAN primary sites in
the next few hours, and to CTAN mirrors in a day or so.

We apologise for the late release of this version of LaTeX, and
sincerely hope no-one has been inconvenienced by the delay.

This is the last (nominal) 6-monthly release of LaTeX; as previously
announced, we will in future only create new versions once a year.
For further details, and details of the other changes in this release,
see the file ltnews13.tex in the base distribution (processed versions
of this file exist in the directory macros/latex/doc).

The following directories on the archive have been changed:

  macros/latex/base
  macros/latex/doc
  macros/latex/required/cyrillic
  macros/latex/required/graphics
  macros/latex/required/tools
  macros/latex/unpacked

Robin Fairbairns

For the LaTeX Team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Aug 31 11:03:42 2000
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:59:51 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Jochen Kuepper wrote:

 > I just uploaded jkthesis.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 > These are supposed to be extracted into
 >   macros/latex/contrib/supported/jkthesis/
 > and replace all existing files.
 >
 > License is LPPL.
 >
 > jkthesis is a LaTeX document class for formatting a thesis.
 > Currently documentation is German only, sorry.
 >
 > This version fixes all reported bugs, esp. it uses ASCII-encoding
 > now.
 >
 > Jochen

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Aug 31 11:05:10 2000
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:01:25 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- numprint.sty

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file numprint.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please install
 > its contents to CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/numprint.
 >
 > From the README:
 >
 > Print numbers with a separator every three digits and convert numbers
 > given as 123e456 to 123\cdot 10^{456}.
 >
 > Example:
 > \numprint{1234567.1234e-5.3}
 >    -->   1\,234\,567{,}\ensuremath{\cdot} 10\textsuperscript{-5{,}3}
 > $\numprint{1234567.1234e-5.3}$
 >    -->   $1\,234\,567{,}\cdot 10^{-5{,}3}$
 >
 > Licence is LPPL.
 >
 > Yours
 > Harald

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Sep  1 08:36:17 2000
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:33:17 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload: jtbnew.bst

Yuri Robbers writes:
> I have uploaded the following:
>
> filename    : jtbnew.bst
> author      : Yuri Robbers <yuri@rulbii.leidenuniv.nl>
>               (using makebst by Patrick W. Daly)
> CTAN-node   : ftp.tex.ac.uk
> destination : /tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib
> license     : lppl
> description : In the directory /tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib is a
>               bibliography stylefile called jtb.bst, that formats BibTeX
>               data in a way suitable for submission to the Journal of
>               Theoretical Biology. Some years ago, however the Journal
>               of Theoretical Biology drastically changed the style of
>               its bibliographies. I used the makebst program to create
>               a new JTB bibliography stylefile.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Sep  2 10:48:04 2000
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 16:44:32 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- mfpic 0.4

----- Forwarded message from Daniel Luecking <luecking@uark.edu> -----
With the permission of Geoffrey Tobin, the previous maintainer,
I have just uploaded mfpic version 0.4 beta to CTAN at dante, to
replace the old version in graphics/mfpic.

Upload.html doesn't ask, but I wanted to add what to do with the old
version (0.2.10.9). I would suggest moving all of it to the obsolete
tree until further notice. Eventually we'll discard it.

Oh, and the license is LPPL.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thansk for the upload.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/graphics/mfpic replacing the old version.

Usually we don't move old versions to obsolete.  It is quite a lot
of effort to keep track of these versions and I fear these things
would never get deleted.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Sep  4 04:57:23 2000
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:56:00 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Uploaded: othello package

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Michiel le Comte wrote:

 > on sunday 3 sept. I uploaded a package to ftp.dante.de to create othello
 > boards in latex. Included also is a manual for othello (othello.tex) which
 > also includes information on the package. (Small note: the manual also uses
 > the floatfig package, so that needs to be available to compile it) Othello
 > is a game, somewhat similar to go. The package can be distributed using the
 > gpl license.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the package as

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/othello

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Sep  6 08:09:50 2000
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:06:00 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- fltpoint v1.0c for (La)TeX

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload@dante.de -----
A submission was uploaded to /ftp/incoming/upload-20000905.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: fltpoint v1.0c for (La)TeX
Name and email: Eckhart Guth�hrlein <ewg@epost.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/fltpoint
Summary description: update of fltpoint package
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.0c is an update needed for the new version of the rccol package. Apart from this, it contains only minor changes to the documentation. For users of fltpoint v1.0b who do not use rccol, the update is not necessary.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission, I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Sep  6 08:09:44 2000
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:07:08 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- rccol v1.1 (package for LaTeX)

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload@dante.de -----
A submission was uploaded to /ftp/incoming/upload-20000905.002/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: rccol v1.1 (package for LaTeX)
Name and email: Eckhart Guth�hrlein <ewg@epost.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/rccol
Summary description: update of rccol package ('right-centered' columns for tables)
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.1 of the rccol package now supports different decimal signs in input and output, similar to the mechanism of the dcolumn package.
The decimal sign can be chosen globally using package options, locally with commands and inside the tabular preamble with optional parameters, e.g. R[.][,]{1}{4}.
Furthermore, minor corrections have been made.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the submission, I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Sep  6 14:23:32 2000
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 19:20:36 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New version of elsart.cls uploaded

Simon Pepping writes:

> I have just uploaded the files elsart.cls, model-num.pdf, model-harv.pdf,
> template-num.tex, template-harv.tex into the directory incoming/elsevier of
> the CTAN node in Oxford. Could you please move these files to
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/elsevier? The file elsart.cls updates the
> existing file of the same name. The other four files are new; they contain
> instructions for use and template files for authors. I am not sure these
> files are suitable for CTAN; they are offered to authors on our own web site
> www.elsevier.nl/locate/latex. If they are not suitable, please, forget about
> them.

we welcome supporting material such as this; i have installed the lot
as requested; thanks for the upload.

> Last year Robin Fairbairns raised the question of the license. I have
> updated it, to be the lppl license. It is in elsart.cls; the other files do
> not mention a license, as they are not programs; they may be freely
> distributed.

thanks for that; it's good to have licensing sorted out.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Sep  7 03:56:17 2000
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:51:38 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf 2.5

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@RUF.UNI-FREIBURG.DE> -----
I have uploaded 'thumbpdf.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
This updates and replaces the files in
  support/thumbpdf/

Changes in version 2.5:
  * Save trick (from ps2pdf) when calling ghostscript
    (for several pages the fonts are only loade once).

'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with pdfTeX
or dvips/ps2pdf/distiller, plain/latex formats. It consists of
four files:
  * readme.txt:    documentation.
  * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
  * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
  * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
Requirements: Perl5, ghostscript, pdfTeX

For the Catalogue entry: the license remains LPPL 1.2.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/thumbpdf replacing the old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Sep  7 04:02:46 2000
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:58:34 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission --              hypcap,pdfcolmk,dvipscol,engord,refcount,settobox

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@RUF.UNI-FREIBURG.DE> -----
I have uploaded 'oberdiek.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.

It contains six additional packages:
* hypcap.sty   2000/08/12 v1.1 Adjusting anchors of captions.
* pdfcolmk.sty 2000/09/06 v0.5 PDFtex COLor MarK.
* dvipscol.sty 2000/08/31 v1.0 Fix for dvips.def.
* engord.sty   2000/05/23 v1.0 English ordinal numbers.
* refcount.sty 2000/09/07 v2.0 Converting references to numbers.
* settobox.sty 2000/09/07 v1.1 Getting box sizes.
and an updated version of readme.txt.

Please install all the files of the zip file in the directory
  CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/
(Do not delete the other files, only readme.txt
will be updated.)

>From the readme.txt:

* Package `hypcap' tries a solution for a problem of package
  `hyperref' with figures: The anchor for the figure caption
  is made in the caption itself. Therefore a link will point to
  the caption, but not to the start of the figure environment.
    Now `hypcap' provides a command \capstart that sets the
  anchor for the next \caption and redefines \caption, so that
  \caption uses the previous anchor. If all figure environments
  contain one \caption, then this can be automated by redefining
  the figure environment to execute \capstart every time at the
  begining of the environment. Also table environments and
  the star forms are supported.
  See package file for further documentation and use.

* Package `pdfcolmk' tries to fix color problems of pdfTeX
  at page breaks because of a missing color stack.
  Use: \usepackage{pdfcolmk} after \usepackge[pdftex]{color}
  See package file for further documentation.

* Package `dvipscol' tries to fix color stack overflows by
  `dvips' (e-TeX recommended).
  Use with e-TeX: \usepackage{dvipscol}
  Use without e-TeX: \usepackage{dvipscol} and all toplevel
    \color commands should be replaced by \nogroupcolor.
  See package file for further documentation.

* Package `engord' converts numbers to english ordinal
  numbers.
  Use: \engord{<LaTeX counter>}
       \engordnumber{<any TeX number>}
  See package file for further documentation and use.

* Package `refcount' extracts the numbers from references.
  The implementation is more safe than the direct use
  of references as numbers, because they works with packages
  such as `hyperref' that adds additional stuff to the
  references.
  Use: Commands similar to \setcounter and \addtocounter:
         \setcounterref, \addtocounterref,
         \setcounterpageref, \addtocounterpageref
       Arguments: {<LaTeX counter>}{<reference>}
       For expandible contexts:
         \getrefnumber, \getpagerefnumber
       Argument: {<reference>}
  See package file for further documentation and use.

* Package `settobox' defines commands similar to
  LaTeX's \settowidth commands:
    \settoboxwidth, \settoboxheight,
    \settoboxdepth, \settoboxtotalheight
  Arguments: {<LaTeX length>}{<LaTeX box name>}
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this bunch of files in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Sep  7 04:05:01 2000
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:04:09 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX: small update

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" <malyshev@MX.IHEP.SU> -----
I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
small update for BaKoMa TeX.
Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

Update includes:
   1. Few of CBGreek fonts (Small Caps) in Type 1 font format.
      contrib/cbgreek.bkz
   2. Small update for index.html file.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload, I installed the two files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Sep  7 12:11:04 2000
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 17:08:34 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: decorating label references -- new package on ctan

i've (today) written a small package, which i've now installed on ctan
as macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/fncylab.sty

from the catalogue entry i've also written:

    <caption>Altering the format of \label references</caption>
    <abstract>
      LaTeX provides a mechanism for altering the appearance of
      references to labels, but it's somewhat flawed, and requires
      that the user manipulate internal commands.  The package fixes
      the flaw in LaTeX, and provides a \labelformat command for
      changing the format of references to labels.
    </abstract>

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Sep  8 16:43:19 2000
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 22:40:02 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload 'minutes' on dante.de

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Knut Lickert wrote:

 > I uploaded the directory Minutes on  ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > The directory contains:
 > minutes.dtx + minutes.ins: Version 1.4b
 > blindtext.dtx + blindtext.ins: Version 1.1
 > The documentations are included as PDF-Files.
 >
 > Could you be so kind and update the files in
 >
 > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/minutes

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

 > One question:
 > I like to read a documentation before installing a packet, so I add the
 > PDF-Documentation.
 > Do you agree, or do you prefer a small Readme, so if somebody wants more
 > informations,
 > he has to install the packet?

I suggest that you add a small readme file so that people can read it
without installing acrobat reader.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

 > -----------------------------
 > (Very) Short description of minutes.sty:
 > english:
 > With minutes.sty you can write minutes and built collections minutes.
 >
 > german:
 > Mit minutes.sty kann man (Sitzungs-) Protokolle und Protokollsammlungen
 > schreiben.
 >
 > (Very) Short description of blindtext.sty
 > Creation of text to get a impression of the look of classes...

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Sat Sep  9 04:05:43 2000
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 10:04:41 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: listliketab
Resent-Subject: Re: CTAN submission: listliketab

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Scott Pakin wrote:

 > I have just uploaded listliketab.tar.gz to the /incoming directory on
 > ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > The package is distributed under the LPPL.
 >
 > I'd guess it probably belongs under macros/latex/contrib/supported/.
 >
 > From the README:
 >
 >     The listliketab package helps the user make list-like tabulars, i.e., a
 >     tabular that is indistinguishable from an itemize or enumerate
 >     environment.  The advantage of using a tabular is that the user can add
 >     additional columns to each entry in the list.

Thanks for your submission, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/listliketab

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Sep 11 16:49:18 2000
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:46:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- update to LH fonts (v3.4b)

Vladimir Volovich writes:

> I've uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming an update to LH fonts:
> lhfnt-3.4b.tar.gz
>
> Please remove the the old version contained in the directory
> CTAN:fonts/cyrillic/lh and unpack the uploaded tarball in
> CTAN:fonts/cyrillic

it doesn't quite happen like that, but i've done the equivalent, and
the new versions are now installed.

> Changes: a bug with swapped TSHE and DJE letters in T2A and OT2
> encodings has been (finally! :) fixed. Thanks to Thomas Henlich for
> reporting this bug. And a few minor changes to the installation script
> for teTeX users. All old generated TFMs and PKs for LH fonts should
> be removed (this will be offered by the installation script).

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Sep 12 17:33:34 2000
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 22:22:15 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN - submission

Oleg Motygin writes:

> I would like to upload to CTAN new versions of files
>     refcheck.sty
>     refdemo.tex
> to replace the existing ones in macros/latex/contrib/supported/refcheck.

thanks for those.  i have installed them as requested.

> Announcement for the update is as follows:
>     Version 1.8 of Refcheck is intended to remove a bug of ver. 1.7
>     which worked incorrectly when \ref, \pageref occured in a material
>     processed to \write, in particular, in \caption. Besides, more work
>     has been done to provide compability with AMS-LaTeX and HyperRef.

thank you for your continued support.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Sep 13 08:27:16 2000
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:26:21 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submssion: mv4vtex.zip

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file mv4vtex.zip to the /incoming
 > directory at dante.ctan.org.  The archive file contains
 >
 >     * instructions how to install the Marvosym font
 >       (CTAN: fonts/psfonts/marvosym) for use with VTeX/Free
 >       (file install.txt)
 > and
 >     * a font map file for using Marvosym with VTeX/Free
 >       (file marvosym.ali).
 >
 > Please, create a new directory
 >
 >     fonts/psfonts/marvosym/vtex
 >
 > and unpack my ZIP archive there.
 >
 > This upload occurs in accordance with Thomas Henlich,
 > the maintainer of Marvosym; he has also suggested the
 > CTAN location.

Thanks for the upload, we installed the files as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Sep 13 08:31:31 2000
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:29:23 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload of CWEB port for MacOS

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Markus van Almsick wrote:

 > to whom it may concern,
 >
 > I just uploaded a folder "CWEB361ofMacOS" and a zip archive "CWEB361.zip"
 > onto dante.ctan.org/incoming, both containing a MacOS port for CWEB 3.61.
 >
 > It should probably go into  web/systems/mac/
 >
 > The port is for FREE. The rest is copyrighted by Knuth and Levy (see CWEB).
 >
 > Sincerely,
 >
 >
 > Markus van Almsick

Thanks for your upload, I installed the folder as

  web/systems/mac/cweb

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Sep 13 09:37:58 2000
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:37:10 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: adobe.zip

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file adobe.zip to the /incoming directory
 > at dante.ctan.org.  This archive includes the files
 >
 >  alucida.dtx
 >  alucida.ins
 >  adobe.dtx
 >  adobe.ins
 >
 > which were "lost" during restructuring the PSNFSS distribution.
 >
 > Please, unpack the files to the directory:
 >
 >   macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx
 >
 > (This is, where also the other stuff form the old PSNFSS,
 > which refers to commercial fonts, resides now.)

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in the indicated location.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Sep 14 19:25:26 2000
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 00:24:01 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- Hieroglyph,              Proto-Semitic and Insular Majuscule fonts

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded the following files to the UK /incoming
> directory: archaic.tar, hieroglf.tar, protosem.tar, bookhands.tar
> and inslrmaj.tar. These are all released under the LPPL. Could you
> please:
>
> o  Use archaic.tar to replace the files README.PRW, asamples.tex and
>    asamples.ps in directory fonts/archaic
> o  Untar hieroglf.tar in fonts/archaic to replace the current
>    hieroglf subdirectory
> o  Untar protosem.tar in fonts/archaic to create a new protosem
>    subdirectory
> o  Use bookhands.tar to replace the files README.PRW, bsamples.tex
>    and bsamples.ps in directory fonts/bookhands
> o  Untar inslrmaj.tar in fonts/bookhands to create a new inslrmaj
>    subdirectory.
>
> SUMMARY
> -------
>
> o  asamples.(tex|ps) is a font sampler showing all 8 of the current
>    set of archaic fonts.
>
> o  hieroglf provides a Metafont rendition of some 60 plus Egyptian
>    Hieroglyphs (used between 3000BC and 100AD), and accompanying
>    files to use them in LaTeX. (This version has 5 new glyphs).
>
> o  protosem provides a Metafont rendition of a Proto-Semitic script
>    used about 1600BC in the Middle East, and the necessary files for
>    use in LaTeX.
>
> o  bsamples.(tex|ps) is a font sampler showing all 5 of the current
>    set of bookhands fonts.
>
> o inslrmaj provides a Metafont rendition of the Insular Majuscule
>    bookhand in use in Ireland (and England) between the sixth and
>    ninth centuries, and the necessary files for use with LaTeX.

i've installed that bumper bundle as requested.  thanks for the
uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Sep 15 02:44:32 2000
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:40:07 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- vpe 0.1

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@ruf.uni-freiburg.de> -----
I have uploaded 'vpe.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
Please unzip it in the directory:
  macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/
The following files will then be added:
  vpe.txt, vpe.pl, vpe.sty

For the Catalogue entry: the license is LPPL 1.2.

>From the documentation file `vpe.txt':

VPE deals with source specials for pdf files: clicking
on special annotations will launch an editor with the
source file at the source line.

The project supports three routes to pdf files:

* VTeX/Linux route:
  MicroPress' VTeX is able to insert specials by itself.
  It smoothly works under Windows. But the AcrobatReader
  versions under Linux/Unix require additional work, see
  section H "Linux launch details", that is done by the
  perl script `vpe.pl'.

* pdfTeX route:
  For Han The Thanh's pdfTeX under Linux/Unix or Windows
  the package `vpe.sty' inserts the specials with the
  help of the perl script `vpe.pl'.
    The catalog entry `/AcroForm' is added, so that
  the `revert' menu entry of AR4.05 is enabled for
  easier reloading, if the pdf file has changed.
    Users of AR4.05 can also try option `form' of
  the package to get nicer source special markers,
  but the memory consumption is higher.

* dvips route:
  As in the pdfTeX route package `vpe.sty' inserts the
  specials with the help of the perl script `vpe.pl'.
  Also the `/AcroForm' entry is added, but the
  `form' option is not implemented.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission; I installed the files in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Sep 15 02:45:15 2000
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:44:51 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt 5.1

----- Forwarded message from WinEdt Team <support@WINEDT.COM> -----
I have just uploaded the file

  winedt5.exe

    to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt folder.

Please move this file to WinEdt's directory on CTAN:

  tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt

replacing the existing file by that name.

NB: an aborted upload exists in
    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt5.exe (.5mb)
Please delete this one.

Today's submission is the official release of WinEdt 5.1 and
includes the latest patch which was previously available only
through separate download from our web site: http://www.winedt.com

Thanks, and best regards,

alex
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for your submission. I installed the official version of WinEdt 5.1
in CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/winedt5.exe as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Sep 15 05:21:43 2000
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:21:18 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Cambridge CTAN node downtime 17-18 September

The Cambridge CTAN node (cam.ctan.org, aka ftp.tex.ac.uk) will be
switched off some time shortly after 0700 BST on Sunday 17th September
2000, for power circuit testing.

The current schedule is that power should be restored to the room
housing the machine around midday on Monday 18th September.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Sep 15 06:56:51 2000
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:56:07 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX 3.0

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" <malyshev@mx.ihep.su> -----
I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
upgrade for BaKoMa TeX 3.0
Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

------------------- Information about BaKoMa TeX 3.0 ----------------

New version of BaKoMa TeX has following important impovements:

Graphics.
  * Support of *PostScript Level 2*.
  * Automatical creation of BB-files for non-PostScript graphics
    is useful for LaTeX graphics bundle.

Fonts.
  * *EC/TC* and *LH* (T2A) fonts in ATM Compatible Type 1 font format.
  * Support for Type 1 fonts in CFF (Compact Font Format) form.
  * Farther improvements in Type 1 -> TrueType font convertor:
    (1) configuring Grid-fitting And Scan-convertion Procedure (GASP)
    (2) Handling BlueFuzz;
    (3) Handling Stem Snap values.
    There are resonable GASP defaults which produce the best results
    on display with switched on `Smooth edges of screen fonts' flag.

User Interface.
  * Undo/Redo
  * Search|Go To Last Modification (related with Undo)
  * Search|Brace Match
  * File|Save As
  * Insert/Replace</b> mode
  * Option for `Persistent' or `non-Persistent' region selection
  * File|Print (Generate Listing) opens dialog with useful parameters
  * Insert|Document Template is refined for saving options and more clear layout
  * Syntax Highlighting modes is now configurable via dialog for
    colors, character category codes, and set of active dictionaries
  * Spell Checking:
      + There is `List of Ignored Words' in advance to user dictionary;
      + Handling of LaTeX syntax is now configurable via dialog
        for ignore comments, skipping arguments, environment, etc.
  * Aliases for Cut/Copy/Paste:
     Ctrl+X = Shift+Del, Ctrl+C = Ctrl+Ins, Ctrl+V = Shift+Ins.
  * DVIEW shows fisrt page of complicated documents much faster,
    because it prepares (loads/converts/setups) fonts when they are needed.
  * One Touch Key (in advance to TeX+Preview) can launch any postprocessors
    like to MakeIndex, MusixFlex, etc. (Defined in Project|Parameters Dialog).

BaKoMa Console - new application.
  * Output from all programs are saved into huge buffer,
    which is always available for examination even without pause.
  * Console keeps command queue to run they sequencially.
    This feature is useful for queueing second TeX pass without waiting
    of terminating first pass.
  * It is posible to choose any font with any encoding for displaying text.
  * Message highlighting - errors, warning, etc. are displayed
    with customizable colors.
  * Console may be optionally minimized at end of every process.
  * Console refresh rate may be altered to reach the best perfomance.
  * Console has convenient comamnds to save messages (to clipboard or file).

Configuration and Directory structure.
  * LOCAL texmf tree is fully supported both for TeX files
    and configuration files.

For more information about changes see:
        CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/dst/changes3.html

For more information about BaKoMa TeX see:
        CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/index.html

---------------- End of Information about BaKoMa TeX 3.0 -------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma
(with the usual link from CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma)

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Sep 15 09:19:38 2000
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:18:52 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- tfmpktest.pl

----- Forwarded message from Christian Rossi <Christian.Rossi@loria.fr> -----
I have uploaded the file tfmpktest.pl to the
/incoming directory at dante.ctan.org.

TFMPKtest.pl : control the checksum of pk font (use the tfm font).
Can delete bad pk font with checksum  missmatch and recreate it with mktexpk.
Can also control TFM files by generating new TFM with the MF files and mf.
TFMPKtest.pl need pktype, tftopl and mf.

Please, copy the script and the README to the directory:

 fonts/utilities/tfmpktest
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/tfmpktest as suggested.

The license is LPPL.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Sep 15 10:26:00 2000
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:25:19 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload files detail

C. Visavakul writes:

> About uploading::
>
> Uploaded to:        ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/lshortth
> Please place at:    CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/thai/
> Licensing:          Public Domain
>
> The uploaded files is a Thai translation of LShort
> tutorial (CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort) including
> LaTeX source files.
>
> lsh125ps.zip (284,418) The document in PS-zip format.
> lsh125.pdf (605,215) The document in PDF format.
> lsh125.zip (72,083) LaTeX sources
> readme.th (1,005) Readme file in Thai
>
> (Please keep the .zip files as .zip, ie. preferred in
> non-unpack form. thanks)

i've installed the files as you requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Sep 15 12:35:45 2000
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:31:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submissions: ams2bib

Art Werschulz writes:

> The ams2bib package has been uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk.  It is in the
> directory incoming/ams2bib-1.0.
>
> ams2bib is a Perl script that translates AmSTeX references into
> BibTeX.  It has been tested on Solaris, RedHat Linux, and Macintosh.
>
> The package contains a README file, the ams2bib script, a Unix
> manpage, and a plain text version of the Unix manpage.

i've installed the package on the archive in
biblio/bibtex/utils/ams2bib

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Sep 17 14:02:55 2000
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 19:58:32 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- nomencl v3.1

----- Forwarded message from Bernd Schandl <schandl@GMX.NET> -----
I have uploaded the file nomencl.zip to the /incoming directory of
ftp.dante.de. It contains version v3.1 of the nomencl package.

The package should help formatting a nomenclature using the MakeIndex
program. The license is the LPPL.

I corrected the WWW address (again), added support for Croatian, added
some more examples and made the ins file create some sample configuration
files.

Please put the three files README, nomencl.dtx and nomencl.ins in the
directory
        macros/latex/contrib/supported/nomencl/
overwriting the old files.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/nomencl/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Sep 19 11:30:45 2000
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:29:19 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of OS/2 port of latex2rtf converter

Stefan A. Deutscher writes:

> I have uploaded my OS/2 port of the Latex to RTF converter to /incoming,
> ftp.tex.ac.uk. It was built from the source found in latex2rtf-1.8aa.zip
> on CTAN. Thanks in advance for taking care of moving it to the right
> spot, and thanks a lot for keeping CTAN cookin'.
>
>
>   532222 Sep 15 16:04 latex2rtf-1.8aa-os2.zip
>      853 Sep 15 16:07 latex2rtf-1.8aa-os2.txt
>
>
>                            Upload Information Template for www.ctan.org
>                            ===============================================
>
>             Archive Name:  latex2rtf-1.8aa-os2.zip
>        Short Description:  LaTeX to RTF converter, OS/2 port of v.1.88
>         Long Description:
>
>       Proposed directory
>            for placement: /tex-archive/support/latex2rtf/
>
>                Your name:  Stefan A. Deutscher
>            Email address:  sad@utk.edu
>     Program contact name:  (same)
>    Program contact email:  (same)
>         Program homepage:  (none)
>
>       Would you like the
>      contact information
>                 included?  yes
>
> Operating System/Version:  OS/2 v2.x and higher
>  Additional requirements:  emxrt.zip, version 0.9d or higher
>
>                 Replaces:  a huge void

i've installed the files along with all the other versions in
support/latex2rtf; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Sep 20 03:20:04 2000
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:19:11 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- mhequ 1.5

----- Forwarded message from Martin Hairer <Martin.Hairer@math.unige.ch> -----
I've just uploaded a new version of the package "mhequ" on
ftp.dante.de/incoming/. It is supposed to replace the old package
which is located on the node macros/latex2e/contrib/other/.

The package mhequ is intended to facilitate the creation of multi-
lined equations and sublabelling. The new version fixes compatibility
problems with the packages showkeys and hyperref.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it in the supported tree at
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/mhequ/
and removed the old version in contrib/other/mhequ.

The license is public domain.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Sep 21 02:18:42 2000
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 07:17:41 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: pdftex.def 0.3e

Heiko Oberdiek writes:

> can you update the CTAN location of
> pdftex.def (2000/09/14 v0.3e)?
>
> Source:
>   http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/pdftex.def
>
> Target:
>   CTAN:macros/pdftex/graphics/pdftex.def
>
> New: viewport and trim with clip support.

i've done that.  thanks for the notification.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Sep 22 05:27:44 2000
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:22:23 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update of bibtopic package

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Stefan Ulrich wrote:

 > I've just uploaded to the incoming directory of
 >    ftp.dante.de
 > the archive
 >    bibtopic.tar.gz
 >
 > It contains the files:
 >    bibtopic.ins
 >    bibtopic.dtx
 >
 > Please unpack the archive, replacing the existing
 > files in
 > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/bibtopic/
 >
 > License (unchanged): gpl
 >
 > bibtopic is a package for including sectioned
 > bibliographies.
 >
 > This version, 1.0h, contains some minor bug fixes.

Thanks for the update, I installed the new files.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Sep 22 05:26:09 2000
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:25:11 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: Listings' language update

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Carsten Heinz wrote:

 > I've uploaded `listings.zip' to dante.ctan.org.
 > The files should go to
 >
 >    macros/latex/contrib/supported/listings
 >
 > `lstdrvrs.dtx' replaces an existing file and `UPDATE'
 > lists the added definitions.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Sep 22 05:28:04 2000
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:28:05 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Metapost for OS/2

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Dr. Uwe Baumert wrote:

 > I originally uploaded MetaPost4OS2 about 5 years ago. Since I do not
 > use OS/2 anymore I'm not able to give further support to this
 > distribution. Since this version is very old and lacks some nice
 > features like subdirectory searches (via !), I ask you to remove the
 > complete contents of the subdirectory {CTAN}:/tex-
 > archive/graphics/metapost/MetaPost4OS2. Instead establish symlinks to
 > {CTAN}:/tex-archive/systems/msdos/metapost. This version is newer. It
 > was also build with emx and works with OS/2. And what is most
 > appealing: this version can do subdirectory searches.

Thanks for letting us know, I replaced the directory with a symbolic link
to the msdos version.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Sep 22 16:17:13 2000
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:16:27 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- Ugaritic and Old Persian fonts

Peter R Wilson writes

>     I have uploaded archaic.tar, oldprsn.tar and ugarite.tar to the
> UK incoming directory. They are all under the LPPL. Please:
>
> o  archaic.tar contains the 3 files archaic/README.PRW,
> archaic/asamples.tex and archaic/asamples.ps. Untar archaic.tar to
> replace the current versions of these files in fonts/archaic.
>
> o  Move oldprsn.tar and ugarite.tar to fonts/archaic. Untarring
> these will create new subdirectories /oldprsn and /ugarite.
>
> Descriptions
> ------------
>
> o asamples.ps illustrates the current set of archaic fonts.
>
> o The ugarite directory contains MetaFont and LaTeX files for
> typesetting with the Ugaritic Cuneiform script (dating from about
> 1300 BC).
>
> o The oldprsn directory contains MetaFont and LaTeX files for
> typesetting with the Old Persian cuneiform font, in use between 500
> and 350 BC.

i've done that little episode of the ongoing tale, as requested.  ;-)
thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sun Sep 24 18:09:36 2000
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:06:42 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of lshort-3.15.src.tgz

Giuseppe Bilotta writes:

> I just uploaded
>
> lshort-3.15.src.tgz
>
> to the
>
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> node of CTAN. This is the italian version of lshort (The Not So Short
> Introduction to LaTeX2e), version 3.15.
>
> Please unpack it to CTAN:info/lshort/italian, replacing previous
> installation.

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Sep 27 12:21:45 2000
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 17:19:53 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Bug fixes for wordcount.tex (counts words in a LaTeX document)

Michael Downes writes:

> I have uploaded wordcount.zip to cam.ctan.org/incoming containing a new
> version of wordcount.tex with some bug fixes. This should be used to
> update the directory
>
>   tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/wordcount
>
> Regards, Michael Downes
>
>
> Description:
>
> The file wordcount.tex provides a relatively easy and accurate way of
> counting the number of characters and words in a LaTeX document. Apart
> from LaTeX, all that is required is "grep -c" (Unix) or an equivalent
> perl [or sed, or awk, or ...] script. Most of the work is done by LaTeX
> itself (among other things, text resulting from macro expansion is
> counted properly).
>
> The characters thus counted are actual font characters in the page body
> (excluding running heads and feet). The problem of counting "words" in a
> LaTeX document is revealed by any close scrutiny to be ill-defined; some
> of the subtleties are discussed in file comments (e.g., math). You can
> count words by dividing the character count by 5 (or whatever), or by
> counting the occurrences of interword spaces. An accompanying Unix shell
> script wordcount.sh demonstrates both character and word counting.

thanks for the upload -- i've installed the files as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Sep 28 08:26:29 2000
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:21:09 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: new files uploaded for ctan archive

Alison Woollatt writes:

> I've just dropped the following files in ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/fac
>
>     fac.sty
>     facguide.tex
>
>     fac.cls
>     fac2egui.tex
>
> These are for Springer Verlag authors, the journal is Formal Aspects
> of Computing.
>
> The first two files already exist in two places, so need replacing:
> tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/fac/fac.sty
> tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/fac/facguide.tex
> tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/publications/fac.sty
> tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/publications/facguide.tex
>
> The second two are the LaTeX2e class file and guide, and I guess they
> need to go in a similar directory stucture as above, using 'latex' instead
> of 'latex209'.
>
> Please confirm when and where all these files get transferred.

i've installed the files as

  macros/latex209/contrib/fac/fac.sty
  macros/latex209/contrib/fac/facguide.tex

and

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/fac/fac.cls
  macros/latex/contrib/supported/fac/fac2egui.tex

the old macros/latex209/contrib/publications directory is now
deprecated (but will continue to work for a while).

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Sat Sep 30 06:02:29 2000
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 12:01:16 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- numprint.sty

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded numprint.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
 > Please replace all files in CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/numprint/
 > by its contents. Licence stays LPPL.
 > The archive contains the file numprint.xml for the catalogue.
 >
 > Change from the old version:
 > Optional support for units.
 >
 >
 > From numprint.xml:
 > =================
 > Print numbers with separators and exponent if necessary.
 >
 > This package prints numbers with separators every threee digits. It
 > converts numbers given as 123e456 to 123\cdot 10^{456}. Numbers are
 > printed in the current mode (text or math) in order to use the correct
 > font. Optionally units can be printed with the number.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team

   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Oct  2 17:14:02 2000
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:13:03 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: hyperref

Sebastian Rahtz writes:

>
>    + what you've uploaded
> hyperref.zip  - hyperref 6.71
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
>    + where you want the files to go
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyperref
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
> LPPL
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>    (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing)
>
> Public release of bug fixing and enhancements since 6.70

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Oct  3 18:46:33 2000
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 23:45:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN installation: NRC macros

I have today installed on CTAN the latest release of the macros I have
written for the NRC press journals; see

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/nrc

This directory contains macros, and some documentation, for
typesetting papers for submission to journals published by the
National Research Council of Canada.  The macros are provided as a
pair of classes, one for journals printed in two columns and the other
for journals (such as the Canadian Journal of Physics, post-1997)
which are printed in a single-column format.  (The previous release of
these macros only supported the single-column format.)

This latest release of the macros, while they are not in the public
domain, are available for general use under the terms of the LPPL.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Oct  4 04:24:03 2000
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:22:57 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: u8tex.el (CTAN submission)

Sergei Pokrovsky writes:

> I've uploaded u8tex.el.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming; this is an Emacs
> Mule facility for inputing Unicode characters in TeX notation.
>
> I'm not sure it is a valid CTAN submission: it uses TeX, but not for
> the TeX's sake (except for Omega, eventually).
>
> So, I believe you are in a better position to decide on the relevance
> of u8tex.el to CTAN.  As to the place in the hierarchy, maybe
> support/emacs-modes, which mentions similar words ...
>
> The text is supposed to be used in UTF-8 encoding.  It is published
> under GPL.
>
> > From u8tex.el preface:
>
> ;;; quail/u8tex.el -- Quail package to input in -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>
> ;; Copyright (C) 2000 Sergei Pokrovsky
> ;; Time-stamp: <2000-10-02 14:09:13 pok>,  v. 1.1
>
> ;; Keywords: mule, multilingual, unicode, input method, TeX
>
> ;; Based on definitions stolen from "unicode-input.el" by
> ;; Florian Weimer <fw@s.netic.de>.
>
> ;; This file is not a part of GNU Emacs.
>
> ;; GNU Emacs is free software; ...
> ;;; Commentary:
> ;;
> ;; This file is intended for use with Markus Kuhn's Unicode fonts,
> ;; see <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html>.
>
> ;; The idea is to provide a routine way to input the many TeX
> ;; characters (and some more) using the familiar TeX notation.  Surely
> ;; it is not convenient for typing a French or German text, for which
> ;; there are special packages; but I prefer to use it for a mixed
> ;; text, where some accented characters from various languages occur
> ;; sporadically, and it is better to type a longer key sequence
> ;; /"Arger for �rger rather than suffer from unexpected �ny" when
> ;; typing "any" (as it is usual with the shorter `"Arger' manner, or
> ;; with o'clock becoming o\'clock etc).
>
> ;; I've taken some liberties with the TeX notation:
> ;; 1. Backslash is replaced with solidus in its escape function.  The
> ;;    reason is obvious: TeX users heavily use backspace for many other
> ;;    purposes as well.
> ;; 2. The prefix "text" is systematically dropped; just /euro rather
> ;;    than /texteuro, /degree rather than /textdegree.
> ;; 3. No internal spaces, e.g. /cC rather than {/c C} or /c{C}.
> ;; 4. /! and /? are used instead of !` and ?` -- like in EuroTeX,
> ;;    just to reduce the number of escape characters.
> ;; 5. /3/4 etc is used instead of \textthreequarters.

i think it's more-or-less relevant, but whatever -- the world's not
going to fall apart if we hold it on the archive, so i've installed
the file as support/emacs-modes/u8tex.el as suggested.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Oct  4 04:38:38 2000
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:38:06 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Auto-generated RFC bibilography

Richard Mortier wrote (some time back):

> >Having finally had enough of cutting and pasting to create BibTeX
> >refs. from IETF RFCs, I've knocked up an (g)awk script to parse
> >rfc-index.txt (since, somewhat surprisingly, I couldn't find an
> >existing equivalent).

Mort's original announcement gave a local pointer to a copy of the
output.  Since this file is ~=900Kbytes, and any interested party is
likely to have a copy of rfc-index.txt, I've not put the output on
CTAN.

> >Since [the output is] auto-generated there are a few [entries]
> >which it gets a little incorrect, but these should be fairly
> >obvious at a glance.  The script itself is in [local path] for
> >those who are interested/want to fix problems/want to add
> >functionality!  (eg. the institution field could perhaps be better
> >generated.)

Following my suggestion that I might put the file on CTAN, Mort
further wrote:

> Please do.  Although I was thinking of doing an Internet Start Up
> based around it -- oh well, back to the drawing board... ;-)

In order to protect the innocent masses on the stock exchanges of the
world, I hereby report in public that this file is in the public
domain.

I've installed the file in biblio/bibtex/utils/rfc2bib/rfc2bib.awk
(there being no biblio/bibtex/utils/misc directory).

Thanks, Mort, for permission to do this.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Oct  6 07:52:54 2000
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:49:45 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New on CTAN: verbdef.sty -- Define commands which expand to              verbatim text

I've just installed this small package here.  From the catalogue
entry:

      The package defines a single command \verbdef (which has a
      *-form, like \verb).  \verbdef will define a robust command
      whose body expands to verbatim text.  By using commands defined
      by \verbdef, one can put verbatim text into the arguments of
      commands; since the defined command is robust, it doesn't matter
      if the argument is moving.  (Full details of syntax and caveats
      about use are in comments in the file itself.)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Oct  6 08:45:14 2000
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 13:40:16 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New on CTAN: verbdef.sty

Bob Tennent wrote:

> In comp.text.tex, you wrote:
>
>  >I've just installed this small package here.
>
> It doesn't seem to be in today's FILES.last07days.

the FILES.* files are generated once a day, only (at 0600 or so,
here).

> Where can I find it?

oops.  macros/latex/contrib/other/misc

sorry, all

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Sat Oct  7 15:20:00 2000
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 21:19:36 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: emTeX/TDS v0.54 for OS72

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file emtexTDS.zip to the /incoming
 > directory at dante.ctan.org.
 >
 > This is version 0.54 of the emTeX/TDS distribution for OS/2,
 > featuring the latest releases of LaTeX, AmS-LaTeX and other
 > packages, as well as several bug fixes; see the file NEWS
 > for details.
 >
 > Please, unzip emtexTDS.zip to the CTAN directory
 >
 >   systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS
 >
 > thus updating the files
 >
 >   NEWS
 >   readme.eng
 >   readme.ger
 >   tdsinst.cmd
 >   texmf.zip
 >   config.zip
 >   README.fixes
 >   fix004/readme.1st
 >
 > The other files in the directory remain unchanged.

Thanks for update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Oct  9 04:13:30 2000
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:10:53 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- jurabib package v0.5d with English doc

----- Forwarded message from Jens Berger <jberger@gmx.net> -----
I've just uploaded the file jurabib-05d.zip to

        ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.

This archive contains an updated version (0.5d) of the jurabib package.

It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

The following files are included:

jurabib.ins
jurabib.dtx

  jurabib supports various forms of short and long citations like
  those build with bibentry.sty or inlinebib.sty, but it's more
  flexible and no longer noteworthy only for German law students.

Changes in 0.5d:

 o   English documentation (jbendoc.tex, special thanks to
        Maarten Wisse for the translation)
 o   howcited=all places the howcited remark for all entries
 o   [pm]french.sty-compatibility (frenchle.sty will follow)
 o   you can use the keyval-interface more intuitive:
        authorformat={smallcaps,indexed,abbrv}
 o   minimal example document for the humanities
 o   some macro names have changed inside \bibs<language>
 o   new file loading mechanism for linguistic stuff
 o   completely rewritten \bibitem code (necessary for
        [pm]french.sty-compatibility--Thanks to Stefan Ulrich)

Please replace the current files in the directory
CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib/

and send an announcement to c.t.t.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib/ replacing the five
old files (jurabib package plus documentation).

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Oct 11 08:28:21 2000
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:22:11 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- TeXshade 1.4a

----- Forwarded message from Eric Beitz <ebeitz@jhmi.edu> -----
From: ebeitz@jhmi.edu (Eric Beitz)
Subject: TeXshade 1.4a update uploaded

I have just uploaded a new version of the TeXshade package (1.4a) for
setting nucleotide and protein alignments in LaTeX to
"ftp.dante.de/incoming/texshade-corr". It features new possiblities for
positioning the legend and some changes in the documentation and the
FAQ-list.

Please replace the old files in
"~W/tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/texshade" by the new ones.

The license is GPL.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload, I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Oct 20 18:01:03 2000
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 22:58:49 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload to ctan

David Eppstein writes:

> I uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming the file bibgene122.hqx, my freeware
> (nosource license) Macintosh bibliographic database program, which belongs
> somewhere in the biblio/ part of the structure, most likely or
> biblio/bibtex/utils/ (apparently  biblio/bibtex/mac/ is reserved for the
> BibTeX program itself, and seems quite out of date compared with the copies
> of BibTeX available at http://www.santafe.edu/~vince/MacBibTeX.html).

should we delete our copies?  we obviously shouldn't upload to ctan
things people don't want to put there, but it seems silly to keep
wildly out of date stuff.  (i don't actually remember _any_ movement
in biblio/bibtex/mac since i've been involved with ctan...)

> BibGene is a freeware Macintosh application for maintaining databases of
> references to scientific papers.  It can maintain BibTeX information in a
> cross-linked object-oriented  format which makes it easier to detect and
> correct common mistakes such as  multiple spellings of an author's or
> journal's name. BibGene also provides a way to store information that does
> not fit well into the BibTeX framework, such as citations from one paper to
> another, pointers to online preprints, and author addresses.
>
> BibGene 1.2.2 is a PowerPC-only release.  For earlier versions of BibGene
> capable of running on 68000-based Macs, see the BibGene web site,
> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/bibs/bibgene/.  You will need version 5.0 or
> greater of Stuffit Expander to decode the binhex (.hqx) file for BibGene.

i decided actually to put bibgene into a directory of its own, so its
ctan path is now biblio/bibtex/utils/bibgene/bibgene122.hqx

thanks very much for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 23 07:00:13 2000
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:59:01 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 piet@cs.uu.nl wrote:

 > /ftp.dante.de:/incoming/fancyhdr.zip
 > This is an update of the fancyhdr package:
 >      added LPPL licence
 >      some small enhancements (error messages)
 >      some bugfixes in extramarks.sty
 >      obsolete fixmarks.sty removed
 >      documentation updated

Thanks a lot, I installed the update in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 23 07:39:50 2000
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:39:24 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN sunmission: Augie - a Type1 handwritng font

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file augie.zip to the /incoming directory
 > at dante.ctan.org.
 >
 > This is the free Type1 (PostScript) font "Augie", based on
 > American style casual handwriting.
 >
 > Please, unpack the uploaded archive to a new directory
 >
 >     fonts/augie
 >
 > The Type1 font was originally provided as freeware (!) by
 > emerald city fontwerks <http://www.speakeasy.org/~ecf>.
 > I have added metrics, .vf and .fd files for use with (La)TeX.
 > Font map files are provided for dvips, pdfTeX and VTeX/Free.
 > The distribution includes comprehensive and (hopefully) clear
 > installation instructions, too.

Thanks for the upload, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 23 07:44:36 2000
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:43:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: KTeXShell

A submission was uploaded to CTAN.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

 > Name of contribution: KTeXShell
 > Suggested location on CTAN: systems/unix/
 > Summary description: KTeXShell is a graphical frontend for TeX
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > KTeXShell is a graphical user interface to TeX, LaTeX, and the related
 > programs, running on Linux/UNIX with KDE. It is not another WYSIWYG
 > approach to TeX. Instead it provides a TeX document development
 > interface where you can define your TeX files, edit, compose, view,
 > and print them with a mouseclick.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the package as

  systems/unix/ktexshell

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Oct 24 12:52:19 2000
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:51:33 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Econometrica bibliography style -- ecta.bst

Sebastien Perez-Duarte writes:

>    + what you've uploaded
> ecta.bst
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
>    + where you want the files to go
> /biblio/bibtex/contrib/economic/
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
> LPPL
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>    (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing)
> This style file implements the style of references to use for submission to
> Econometrica, a journal of the Econometric society.
> The reason for a new style file is that the existing version
> econometrica.bst by KC Border does not follow exactly the official
> recommendations. Moreover, the new style ecta.bst is compatible with natbib,
> so is more flexible.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Oct 25 04:55:38 2000
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:53:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: txfonts: Type 1 symbol fonts to be used with Adobe Times

Young U. Ryu writes:

> Txfonts Version 1.0
>
> A font set (txfonts) and supporting files in the txfonts.zip file are
> uploaded
> in the /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk. I would recommend
>
>  tex-archive/fonts/txfonts
>
> to be the place where the file is unzipped.
>
> The txfont set contains
>
>  1. virtual text fonts using Adobe Times (or URW NimbusRomNo9L) with
>     modified plus (+), equal (=), and slash (/) symbols
>  2. math alphabets using Adobe Times (or URW NimbusRomNo9L)
>  3. math fonts of all symbols corresponding to those of Computer Modern
>     math fonts (CMSY, CMMI, CMEX, and Greek letters of CMR)
>  4. math fonts of all symbols corresponding to those of AMS fonts
>     (MSAM and MSBM)
>  5. additional math fonts of various symbols
>
> All fonts are in the Type 1 format. Necessary supporting files
> including tfm, vf, dvips font map, and LaTeX2e package files
> are also included.
>
> The txfont set is distributed under the GPL.

i've installed the fonts as requested: thanks very much for the
upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Oct 25 14:12:05 2000
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:11:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload to cam.ctan.org

Mogens Lemvig Hansen writes:

> Name of contribution: The coordsys and logsys Packages
> Name and email: Mogens Lemvig Hansen <mlhansen@uniserve.com>
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/coordsys
> Summary description: Typeset coordinate systems and grids.
> License type: LPPL
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The  coordsys  package provides commands for typesetting number
> lines (coordinate axes) and coordinate systems in the  picture
> environment.   The  logsys  package extends the  coordsys  package
> by providing logarithmic, semi-logarithmic, and double-logarithmic
> coordinate systems and grids.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Oct 26 06:21:56 2000
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:21:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload: MacOS versions of freely available fonts.

Alejandro Lopez-Valencia writes:

> I have uploaded to cam.ctan.org the file macos-fonts.zip that contains
> several freely available PS fonts in MacOS format. Due to the differences
> in file structure to other more common operating systems, each font family
> and supporting files has been packaged in Stuffit 5 archives. The present
> collection includes:
>
>     Belleek
>     CharterBT
>     LOGO
>     MANUAL
>     MathPazo
>     RSFS
>     Utopia
>
> In principle these fonts include support for OzTeX, but can be adapted
> for use with other TeX system in the MacOS.
>
> The Stuffit 5 archives and the text file "readme.macos" should be placed
> in systems/macintosh/fonts and if possible a symbolic link to the text file
> could be made in the respective font/<typeface> directories.
>
> These fonts are free, with different licensing conditions, yet all are
> unencumbered.

i have installed the fonts, but not quite as suggested: i chose to put
them in a new directory systems/mac/fonts/oztex (this is after
considering the advice on location you were offered last night, and
your announcement text -- the location i chose is supposed to avoid
problems in this area, later).

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Oct 26 12:00:51 2000
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:00:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: txfont patch 1 uploaded

Young U. Ryu writes:

> An encoding error in txi and txbi virtual fonts was noticed.
> A patch file txfonts_patch1.zip was uploaded to the UK CTAN site's
> /incoming directory.
>
> Please place it in
>
>    /tex-archive/fonts/txfonts
>
> without unzipping the file.
>
> To users: In order to fix the error, replace txi.vf, txi.tfm,
>           txbi.vf, and txbi.tfm of the original distribution
>           by those in this patch.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Oct 26 12:05:44 2000
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:05:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload into "fontinst"

Lars Hellstr�m writes:

> I have uploaded the following files to
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/fontinst, and I want them to be put as follo=
> ws:
>
> - manifest.tex and manifest.txt in fonts/utilities/fontinst-prerelease/,
> where they replace previously existing files by the same names.
> - math.tar.gz is an archive containing two directories mathetx/ and
> mathmtx/, each of which contain a couple of files. These directories with
> contents should be put in fonts/utilities/fontinst-prerelease/inputs/.
>
> The files constitute a partial collection of metric and encoding files for
> fontinst v1.915; more detailed descriptions can be found in manifest.tex.
> All the files uploaded are covered by the LPPL.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Oct 26 12:12:52 2000
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:12:20 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ConcProg in incoming
Resent-Subject: Re: ConcProg in incoming

On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Andrej Brodnik wrote:

 > I just left in the incoming the new version of the ConcProg package
 > (macros/latex/contrib/supported/concprog/).

Thanks a lot for the update, I replaced the old files with the new ones in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/concprog

For the CTAN Tean
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Oct 26 13:03:29 2000
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:02:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: isi2bibtex 0.40

John J. Lee writes:

> what:
> isi2bibtex 0.40
> in the directory /incoming/isi2bibtex
>
> uploaded to:
> cam.ctan.org
>
> directory should go in:
> biblio/bibtex/utils/
>
> licence:
> GPL
>
> summary:
> Isi2bibtex converts an ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
> bibliographic database file to a BibTeX file for use in TeX and LaTeX
> documents. Both formats hold bibliographic data on scientific and other
> academic documents.
>
> (In the UK, the ISI databases are commonly known as 'BIDS' or 'MIMAS WoS')
>
> See man page for detailed instructions, and README file for installation
> instructions.
>
> changes since 0.33:
>
> Generally more user-friendly: some checking of output fields,
> configuration file, command line switches, man page pre-formatted as html,
> text & unix man format.  Bug fixes of course.
>
> Seems to work with perl 5.004 and upwards, but the 5.004 I tested on is a
> bit of a mix of versions.

i've installed the contents of the .tar.gz file (which includes the
README) expanded (i.e., i didn't just install the .tar.gz and the
README) -- i trust that's ok?

whatever, thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Oct 27 04:34:12 2000
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:33:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload of CWEB port for MacOS (3.6.2 update)

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Markus van Almsick wrote:

 > to whom it may concern,
 >
 > I just uploaded the folder "CWEB3.6.2forMacOS"
 > onto dante.ctan.org/incoming containing a MacOS port of CWEB 3.6.2.
 > The port is slightly better (no fake /dev/null files anymore) than the one
 > I sent a month ago and it now includes the latest CWEB update 3.6.2.
 > Furthermore, I included the CWEB change files, with which I performed the port.
 >
 > It should probably go into  web/systems/mac/  as well as  systems/mac/.
 >
 > The port is for FREE. The rest is copyrighted by Knuth and Levy (see CWEB).

Thanks for the update, I replaced all files in

  web/systems/mac/cweb

and added a link called

  systems/mac/cweb

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Oct 28 04:48:19 2000
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 09:46:59 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload: hpsdiss.cls

Hanspeter Schmid (who had promised the upload, and is as good as his
word) writes:

> I have now uploaded the class file I have written to typeset my
> dissertation.  There are three files: the class as a .dtx file, an
> appropriate .ins file, and a pdf file showing several facing pages
> from my dissertation, such that users can decide whether they like the
> style.  (Those who hate a ragged right text margin: one can switch
> that off.)
>
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan        41181 Oct 27 06:47 hpsdiss.dtx
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan          100 Oct 27 06:47 hpsdiss.ins
> --w-r-----   1 ftp      ctan       217818 Oct 27 06:47 hpsdiss.pdf
>
> I suggest to put these files into the new directory
>
>   tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/hpsdiss
>
> The main point of putting this on CTAN is to provide an example for a
> scientific publication style, and how to program it.  I have tried to
> document the code well such that interested people can adapt the
> class to their own needs.
>
> The whole thing is under the Gnu General Public License, and please
> make especially sure that you first rename the class before you make
> any alterations to it.

thanks; i've installed the files as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Oct 28 05:06:54 2000
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:06:36 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: titleref.sty

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I just uploaded titlref.sty, version 3.0, to ctan-uk /incoming...
>
> I just noticed that there is no "license" listed, so I'm updating
> titleref.xml and uploading
>
> incoming/titleref.sty
> incoming/titleref.xml
>
> Please use the files to replace
>
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/titleref.sty
> tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/titleref.xml
>
> The license is pd.
>
> This version does more agressive `hooking' by default, but allows
> earlier behavior as an option.  It redefines \label in a better way.

thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new titleref.sty, but the
.xml file will take slightly longer (has to await at least one
overnight processing run).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Oct 30 10:22:04 2000
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:20:05 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: [toho@it.dtu.dk: Bugfix of the skak package.]

----- Forwarded message from Torben Hoffmann <toho@it.dtu.dk> -----
I have uploaded skak.zip to the incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.

Michal Rudolf was kind enough to report some bugs regarding knight and
queen movement - they should be fixed with this release.

This file should replace the one in fonts/skak and the link to
macros/latex/contrib/other should reflect the change.

Licensing : LPPL (LaTeX Project Public Licence)

Summary: This is a package  for typesetting chess. The moves of the game
can be given using the PGN syntax and diagrams of the current board
position can be shown in the document - the moves are displayed in
figurine notation with several layouts available. It is possible to
choose the input language, ie, the letters for the pieces can be
configured to follow any language.
Furthermore, various ornaments can be added to the boards shown in the
document, eg, arrows pointing from one square to another and
highlighting of squares (by framing them with a box).
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/skak/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Nov  3 05:09:42 2000
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:08:25 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload: MacOS version of XIPA fonts

Alejandro Lopez-Valencia writes:

> I have uploaded to cam.ctan.org the file xipa-fonts-oztex.sit
> a Stuffit 5 archive containing MacOS versions of the postscript
> type 1 XIPA fonts creaated by Taco Hoekwater.
>
> The XIPA fonts provide IPA93 characters plus extensions to be
> used with Times Roman and Helvetica. They are to be used with
> Fukui Rei's tipa package.
>
> The archive should be placed in systems/mac/fonts/oztex

and, in a similar message ...

> I have uploaded to cam.ctan.org the file arabtex-fonts-oztex.sit
>
> This file should be added to the directory
>
>     systems/mac/fonts/oztex
>
> It contains a MacOS adaption of Taco Hoekwater's postscript
> type 1 version of Dr. Prf. Klaus Lagally Nastaliq arab fonts,
> with additional support for OzTeX. The archive is in
> Stuffit 5 format.
>
> And yes, they keep coming :)

i've installed both files in the directory suggested.  i massaged
their names:

  <x>-fonts-oztex.sit => <x>-oztex.sit

to match the earlier files alejandro had uploaded for that directory.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Nov  3 13:29:16 2000
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 18:27:55 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Txfonts Version 2.0 Uploaded

Young U. Ryu writes:

> Txfonts Version 2.0
>
> Txfonts and supporting files in the txfonts2.zip file are uploaded
> in the /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk. It should replace those in
>
>  tex-archive/fonts/txfonts
>
> (Please remove the patch file in the above directory
>  before unpacking the uploaded file.)
>
> Changes:
>
>  1. T1 and TS1 encoding supported
>  2. More math symbols added
>  3. Metrics improved
>  4. Known bugs fixed
>  5. (Perhaps, additional bugs introduced ...)
>
> The txfont set contains
>
>  1. virtual text fonts using Adobe Times (or URW NimbusRomNo9L) with
>     modified plus (+), equal (=), and slash (/) symbols
>  2. math alphabets using Adobe Times (or URW NimbusRomNo9L)
>  3. math fonts of all symbols corresponding to those of Computer Modern
>     math fonts (CMSY, CMMI, CMEX, and Greek letters of CMR)
>  4. math fonts of all symbols corresponding to those of AMS fonts
>     (MSAM and MSBM)
>  5. additional math fonts of various symbols
>
> All fonts are in the Type 1 format. Necessary supporting files
> including tfm, vf, dvips font map, and LaTeX2e package files
> are also included.
>
> The txfont set is distributed under the GPL.

i've installed the files as requested.  thanks very much for the
upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov  6 05:51:40 2000
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 11:47:48 +0100
From: Dr. Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of LaTeX package unicode
Resent-Subject: Re: Upload of LaTeX package unicode

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Dominique Unruh wrote:

> I have just uploaded my LaTeX package
>       ucs.sty
> including some data and contrib files.
>
> I have uploaded it to
>       ftp.dante.de
> into the directory
>       incoming/unicode.try2
>
> These files should go to
>       tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/unicode
>
> I apply to my software the
>       lppl
> loosening some restrictions therein (see file LICENSE).
>
> This package implements a facility for mapping unicode characters to
> LaTeX macros and to use UTF-8 as an input encoding with standard LaTeX
> 2e.

Thanks a lot for the upload. As requested, I installed it as

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/unicode

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov  6 06:02:19 2000
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:50:50 +0000
From: Dr. Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: uploaded dinat

On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 helge.baumann@gmx.de wrote:

> I just put the folder dinat on the server ftp.dante.de.
> Please put it in the folder biblio/bibtex/contrib/german/,
> replacing the old one.
> It remains PD and enhances the old dinat-style for
> proceedings, inbook and misc. It also restructurred
> handling of names to avoid problems with the "von" part.

Thanks for your update, as you requested I installed it as

   biblio/bibtex/contrib/german/dinat

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov  6 06:38:00 2000
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:28:44 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: LigaTeX uploaded

On 25 Sep 2000, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:

 > I have just uploaded the programme ligatex-0.1.5 to ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > From the readme:
 >
 > Ligatex  Version 0.1.5
 >
 > The programme ligatex converts texts that are written for use with the layout
 > system TeX in such a way that ligatures are removed from certain places. The
 > programm currently only treats texts written in German. Thus this programme is
 > probably only of interest to you if you have some knowledge of the German
 > language. Therefore the rest of this documentation is only available in German.
 > However, the author welcomes additions to ligatex in order to make it usable
 > with any language. For this purpose the file ligatex.l should be edited.
 >
 >
 > I think that ligatex should get into therefore be put into the
 > language/german section, but do as you please. The programme is
 > gpl-licensed.

Thanks for your upload.

Sorry for the delay in installing your package.

I installed the package in

  support/ligatex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Nov 10 19:05:03 2000
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 00:03:22 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update of bibtopic package

Stefan Ulrich writes:

> I've just uploaded to the incoming directory of
>    ftp.dante.de
> the compressed file
>    bibtopic.dtx.gz
>
> Please replace the file in
> CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/bibtopic/
> by this new version.
>
> License (unchanged): gpl
>
> bibtopic is a package for including sectioned
> bibliographies.
>
> This version, 1.0j, fixes a problem with babel.sty's
> redefinition of \ifthenelse.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Nov 11 08:28:02 2000
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:27:37 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of file revcompchem.bst

Joerg-Ruediger Hill writes

> I have just uploaded revcompchem.bst, jpc.bst, jcc.bst, and pccp.bst
> to your incoming directory on dante.ctan.org. These are BibTeX style
> file for Reviews in Computational Chemistry, Journal of Physical
> Chemistry, Journal of Computational Chemistry, and Physical
> Chemistry Chemical Physics I wrote and licensed under the GPL. They
> should be placed into the biblio/bibtex directory.

i've created a new directory biblio/bibtex/contrib/chem-journal and
installed them in that.  (biblio/bibtex/contrib has too many
individual files in it already: if we were to restart we would
probably create a subdirectory structure for it like that of the latex
packages.)

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Nov 11 12:05:03 2000
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 16:48:44 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: sending new mathsPIC v2-1 as mpic21-zip for CTAN please

Dick Nickalls writes:

> Just a note to say I am sending you (at last) my new
> version of mathsPIC (DOS vers 2.1) as mpic21.zip

from the readme:

> mathsPIC is a DOS filter program for use with the small
> graphics engine PiCTeX (CTAN: tex-archive/graphics/pictex/ ).
> mathsPIC converts an input text-file (the mathsPIC file)
> containing mathsPIC/PiCTeX/TeX/LaTeX drawing commands,
> into an output TeX-file containing PiCTeX and TeX/LaTeX commands,
> which can then be run through TeX/LaTeX to produce
> the graphic in the normal way.
> Put simply, mathsPIC takes the pain out of PiCTeX!
> mathsPIC is designed for maths figures/diagrams/graphs/trees.
> The manual (55 pages, A4 size) is in .tex/.dvi/.ps/.pdf formats,
> and includes 16 example Figures with documented code.
>
> MathsPIC 2.1 will run under Windows 9x, NT4 and 2000

i've updated graphics/pictex/mathspic with the new release.  thanks
for the submission (and sorry it's taken so long to install --
combination of being off sick and chaos at work).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov 13 03:37:40 2000
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 09:36:35 +0100
From: Dr. Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- keystroke

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Rolf Niepraschk wrote:


> I have uploaded the archive file `keystroke.tar.gz' to the
> /incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.
>
> Please, extract this archive to the new directory
>
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/keystroke/
>
> >From README:
>
> The LaTeX package `keystroke' provides macros for the graphical
> representation of the keys on a computer keyboard. `keystroke' is
> based on macros which were used in a previous edition of the Linux
> manual published by the SuSE G.m.b.H. distributor, and is licensed
> under the GPL.

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed the package as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/keystroke

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From listserv@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Mon Nov 13 04:28:06 2000
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:27:39 +0100
From: Listserver <listserv@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: submission <WinShell beta>
Resent-Subject: Re: submission <WinShell beta>

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Ingo de Boer wrote:

> I have uploaded a beta version of WinShell to
>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell
>
> please copy the files to
>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/winshell/
>
> thanks...
>
> licensing conditions: nosource

Thanks a lot, I installed the additional files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Nov 18 02:56:37 2000
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 07:55:57 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: txfonts 2.1 uploaded

Young U. Ryu writes:

> Txfonts and supporting files in the txfonts21.zip file are uploaded
> in the /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk. It should replace those in
>
>  tex-archive/fonts/txfonts
>
> Changes:
>
>  1. Helvetica-based sans serif fonts
>  2. Monospaced fonts
>  3. OT1, T1, and TS1 encodings
>  4. Metrics improved
>  5. Known bugs fixed
>  6. (Perhaps, additional bugs introduced ...)
>
> The txfont set contains
>
>  1. Times and Helvetica based text fonts in OT1, T1, and TS1 encodings
>  2. Monospaced fonts in OT1, T1, and TS1 encodings
>  2. math alphabets using Adobe Times
>  3. math fonts of all symbols corresponding to those of Computer Modern
>     math fonts (CMSY, CMMI, CMEX, and Greek letters of CMR)
>  4. math fonts of all symbols corresponding to those of AMS fonts
>     (MSAM and MSBM)
>  5. additional math fonts of various symbols
>
> All fonts are in the Type 1 format. Necessary supporting files
> including tfm, vf, dvips font map, and LaTeX2e package files
> are also included.
>
> The txfont set is distributed under the GPL.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Nov 21 07:39:47 2000
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:23:48 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Hyphenation patterns for ancient and modern              Greek         (update)
Resent-Subject: CTAN submission -- Hyphenation patterns for ancient and modern
                Greek         (update)

----- Forwarded message from Dimitrios Filippou -----
I have uploaded the following files in the directory:

incoming/filippou

ancient.ltx
ancient.pdf
ancient.ps
anc-test.ltx
anc-test.pdf
anc-test.ps
copyrite.txt
compound.ltx
compound.pdf
compound.ps
modern.ltx
modern.pdf
modern.ps
grahyph3.tex
grmhyph2.tex
grphyph3.tex
readme.txt

These files contain an update of the hyphenation patterns
for ancient and modern Greek in polytonic (multi-accent)
and monotonic (uni-accent) systems. The patterns will work
perfectly with the "greek" option of "babel" or
Dryllerakis' GreeKTeX. For any other Greek package, the
patterns will have to be re-coded. A brief description of
the files is given in the file "readme.txt".

The files should be placed in the directory:

/tex-archive/language/greek/package-babel/hyphenation/filippou

All earlier files found in that directory should be erased.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload, I installed the updated version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Fri Nov 24 03:21:32 2000
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 09:18:48 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- varindex

Name of contribution: varindex
Name and email: Martin V�th <vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/varindex
Summary description: A LaTeX package which provides a convenient front-end for the \index command. Replaces macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/varindex.sty
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A LaTeX package which provides a convenient front-end for
the \index command.
For example, it allows to generate multiple index entries
in almost any form by a single command.
Extremely customizable.
Works with all versions of LaTeX and probably most other
TeX formats, too. The new release fixes a bug and contains
documentation appropriate for the doc and docstrip TeXfiles.
The old (single-file) version in
/macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/varindex.sty
is now obsolete.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as suggested
and removed the old version .../supported/misc/varindex.sty.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Fri Nov 24 03:34:18 2000
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 09:20:27 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- ziffer

Name of contribution: ziffer
Name and email: Martin V�th <vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc
Summary description: A (La)TeX package for numbers with German spacing.
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A (La)TeX package whichallows to output numbers like e.g.
1 000,-- with the correct German spacing simply by
typing 1.000,-- in math mode.
You may still use the symbols . , - in other context
(even in math mode).
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Thansk for the contribution.  I installed it on CTAN in
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/ziffer.sty
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.de Sat Nov 25 11:57:14 2000
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 17:54:55 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Submission of info/LatexHelpBook to CTAN (fwd)

On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Petr Vabishchevich wrote:

 > Name of contribution: LatexHelpBook
 > CTAN node: ftp.dante.de
 > Suggested location on CTAN: info/LatexHelpBook
 > Summary description: Latex Help e-Book (HTML-based help for Windows 98, 95, NT 4, and 5.
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Latex Help e-Book  ships with an online help system called HTML Help
 > (HTML-based help for Windows 98, 95, NT 4, and 5). HTML Help uses
 > the underlying components of Microsoft Internet Explorer to display
 > help content.
 > This help document shows how to work with LaTex program to find the
 > information in Internet.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your submission, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team

   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Nov 27 02:37:44 2000
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 07:36:48 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: txfonts 2.2 uploaded

Young Ryu writes:

> Txfonts Version 2.2
>
> Txfonts and supporting files in the txfonts2.2.zip file are uploaded
> in the /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk. It should replace those in
>
>    tex-archive/fonts/txfonts
>
> Changes:
>
>  1. LY1 encoding
>  2. Typewriter fonts modified (taller uppercase letters)
>  3. various minor improvements
>
> Upon the release of Version 2.2, txfonts are in the maintenance mode.
> (Hopefully, I will bother Robin much less often ...)
> Only bug fixes and minor improvements will be done.
> If really necessary, a few more math symbols or text symbols may be added.
>
> The txfont set contains
>
>  1. Times and Helvetica based text fonts in OT1, T1, LY1, and TS1 encodings
>  2. Monospaced fonts in OT1, T1, LY1, and TS1 encodings
>  2. math alphabets using Adobe Times
>  3. math fonts of all symbols corresponding to those of Computer Modern
>     math fonts (CMSY, CMMI, CMEX, and Greek letters of CMR)
>  4. math fonts of all symbols corresponding to those of AMS fonts
>     (MSAM and MSBM)
>  5. additional math fonts of various symbols
>
> All fonts are in the Type 1 format. Necessary supporting files
> including tfm, vf, dvips font map, and LaTeX2e package files
> are also included.
>
> The txfont set is distributed under the GPL.

i've installed the update as requested; thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Mon Nov 27 03:09:43 2000
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:09:22 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- rtf2latex2e v1.0 fc1

----- Forwarded message from "Ujwal S. Sathyam" <setlur@BIGFOOT.COM> -----
I am uploading rtf2latex2e v1.0fc1. Please put it under
tex-archive/support/rtf2latex2e replacing the old version 0.3.

Upload Node:
ftp.dante.de

Files:
rtf2latex2eMac-1.0fc1.src.sit
rtf2latex2eUnix-1.0fc1.tar.gz
rtf2latex2eWin-1.0fc1.src.zip
Release-notes.txt
README

License:
GPL

Function:
RTF-LaTeX2e converter

Platforms:
Mac, Linux, Unix, Windows.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission, I installed it as requested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/rtf2latex2e.

>From the README file:
This is rtf2latex2e 1.0 beta 3 by Ujwal Sathyam and Scott Prahl. It uses
the RTF reader by Paul DuBois and converts RTF files into the LaTeX2e
format. Its main features are:

1. detects text style: bold, italic, color, big, small,...
2. reads embedded figures: PICT, WMF, PNG, JPEG, converts to EPS
3. reads tables: simple to semi-complex
4. equations: converts embedded MathType < 3.0 equations (courtesy Mackichan Software)
5. symbols: converts most greek and math symbols
6. reads footnotes (not in tables yet)
7. support for use of the fontenc package
8. translates hyperlinks using the hyperref package

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Nov 27 10:02:12 2000
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:00:30 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New LaTeX package on CTAN: Prosper

A new LaTeX package `prosper' has been installed on CTAN.

Location:

macros/latex/contrib/supported/prosper

Summary:

Prosper is a LaTeX class on top of the `seminar' class by T. Van Zandt which
permits easily writing slides for both printing and display with a video
projector. Animation effects such as incremental display may straightforwardly
be added to slides to make lively presentations. Several slide styles are
already available and it is easy to add new ones. Presentations to be
displayed are to be translated into Adobe PDF files (using
e.g., ps2pdf included in the Aladdin GhostScript recent distributions) thereby
allowing to display them on a wide range of platforms.

Author:

Frederic Goualard <Frederic.Goualard@cwi.nl>

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Nov 27 10:52:43 2000
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:51:38 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Update of LaTeX package: XyMTeX

An update of the LaTeX package XyMTeX has been installed on CTAN.

Location:

macros/latex/contrib/supported/xymtex

Summary:

Macro Package including LaTeX document-style options for typesetting
chemical structural formulas

-----------
Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org>
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Nov 27 14:18:07 2000
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:17:22 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: uploaded new versions of xfig and transfig

Brian V. Smith writes:

> I have just uploaded the drawing package xfig and its postprocessor package
> TransFig into /incoming on ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>
> The files are:
>       xfig.README.3.2.3c
>       xfig.3.2.3c.code_only.tar.gz
>       xfig.3.2.3c.docs_only.tar.gz
>       xfig.3.2.3c.full.tar.gz
>       xfig.3.2.3c.libraries_only.tar.gz
>       xfig.3.2.3b.to.3.2.3c.gz
>       transfig.README.3.2.3c
>       transfig.3.2.3b.to.3.2.3c.gz
>       transfig.3.2.3c.tar.gz
>
> and they should go in /pub/archive/graphics.
>
> Here is the blurb for both packages:
>
> Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects
> interactively in an X window.  The resulting pictures can be saved, printed
> on postscript printers or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g. to
> allow inclusion in LaTeX documents).
>
> TransFig is a set of tools for creating TeX documents with graphics
> which are portable, in the sense that they can be printed in a wide
> variety of environments.
>
> The fig2dev program is a general program for translating from Fig code to
> other graphics desciption languages.
>
> The xfig drawing program directly calls fig2dev to translate Fig files
> to the various output languages.

thanks for the upload: i've installed the files (as appropriate) in
graphics/xfig or graphics/transfig

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.de Tue Nov 28 11:24:03 2000
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:22:59 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: LigaTeX uploaded

On 28 Nov 2000, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:

> I just uploaded Version 0.2.0 of LigaTeX.
>
> It parses now the makros used by the babel-package, i.e. after
> \selectlanguage{french} parsing is switched off and after
> \selectlanguage{german} (or ngerman, austrian, naustrian) switched on.

Thanks for the upgrade, I installed the files as

 support/ligatex

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Dec  1 08:06:36 2000
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:01:08 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: setspace 6.7

Geoffrey Tobin writes:

> Fri 1 Dec 2000.
>
> A new version of setspace.sty has been uploaded to
>
>   ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
>
> Please transfer it to:
>
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/setspace/
>
> replacing the older version.
>
> The setspace package, version 6.7, has three new options,
> suggested by George Pearson.  These set the default spacing
> for the current document to one of the three most common values.
>
> The implementation (following George's example) is as follows:
>
> \DeclareOption{singlespacing}{\AtEndOfPackage{\singlespacing}}
> \DeclareOption{onehalfspacing}{\AtEndOfPackage{\onehalfspacing}}
> \DeclareOption{doublespacing}{\AtEndOfPackage{\doublespacing}}
>
> Usage:  to give a document one-and-a-half spacing as its
> initial value, type:
>
>     \usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
>
> This is equivalent to issuing these two commands:
>
>     \usepackage{setspace}
>     \onehalfspacing
>
> Which you choose is a matter of preference and convenience.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Dec  1 08:51:46 2000
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:47:41 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: uploaded dvi2tty-german_umlauts.patch

Thomas Sefzick writes:

> i uploaded the file
>    dvi2tty-german_umlauts.patch
> into the incoming directory. if you find it useful, it should be added to the
>    /tex-archive/dviware/dvi2tty/
> directory. with this patch, dvi2tty replaces some special characters
> (a-,o-,u-umlauts, sz-ligature, a-ring) by their Latin-1 represention.
> useful to give some tex-written text to e.g. a secretary whose PC only contains
> MS-products; avoids dealing with different RTF- and DOC-versions.

i asked him

  > how does your file differ from
  >
  > 1998/08/04 |       2741 | nonfree/dviware/dvi2tty/dvi2tty-latin1.patch

and he replied

  the mentioned patch makes it possible to output 8-bit characters,
  but it makes no use of it.  the patch i've uploaded just uses this
  extension, and is in principle a continuation.

  it's just a simple patch, it's incomplete (mainly german umlauts),
  it could be done better (extended to output the other special
  characters in latin1, maybe i'll do it if i have time), but it
  solved the problem of converting a german text from dvi to ascii in
  a very simple and (nearly) perfect way.

i've installed the file in

nonfree/dviware/dvi2tty/dvi2tty-german_umlauts.patch

thanks, thomas, for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Dec  1 15:52:24 2000
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:50:00 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: uploads: bophook, mtgreek (two new latex macro packages) (fwd)

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Karsten Tinnefeld wrote:

 >    + what you've uploaded
 >
 > bophook0.01.tar.gz
 > mtgreek0.01.tar.gz
 >
 >    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
 >
 > dante.ctan.org
 >
 >    + where you want the files to go
 >
 > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported
 >
 >    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
 >      below).
 >
 > lppl 1.2+
 >
 >    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
 >
 > bophook: hook for adding material at the beginning of each page
 >
 > mtgreek: mathtime.sty supplement, uppercase greek letters displayed as
 >          either roman and italic glyphs

Thank you for your upload. As you proposed, I installed the pacakges in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/bophook

and

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/mtgreek

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Fri Dec  8 04:47:39 2000
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 10:46:13 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New 'zefonts' pachage uploaded

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Robert Ricard Fuster Capilla wrote:

> I have uploaded a new version of my zefonts package to ftp.dante.de,
> in a zipped format: 'zefonts.zip'
> The contents of this file is intended to substitute the previous version
> in the 'fonts/zefonts' directory.
> The licence for this software is 'lppl'.
>
> This new version of zefonts include two new 'fd' files and a comparison
> berween 'ae' fonts and 'zefonts'.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Fri Dec  8 08:45:21 2000
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 14:44:42 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: varindex - bugfixes

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, M. Vaeth wrote:

> I have uploaded a new version of the varindex package.
> The new version should replace the old one in
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/varindex
> It fixes two bugs which have been reported to me.
> Dear administrator,

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
    Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Dec 11 06:49:55 2000
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:48:42 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new files in info/symbols/math

i have created a new file "scriptfonts" and installed it on ctan in
info/symbols/math

the files i've installed are

-rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     user       107981 Dec 11 11:39 scriptfonts.pdf
-rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     user       151793 Dec 11 11:39 scriptfonts.ps
-rw-rw-r--   1 ctan     user         3924 Dec 11 11:40 scriptfonts.tex

the files present a summary of readily-available script fonts for use
in mathematical typesetting.

the files were developed for use as an example for reading in
conjunction with a faq answer i've generated from a comp.text.tex
answer by anthony goreham -- that faq answer will be available soon.

robin fairbairns

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Dec 11 10:36:18 2000
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:35:45 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New package on CTAN: FiNK

The FiNK package has been installed on the TUG CTAN, and should propagate
shortly to other sites.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: FiNK
Name and email: Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr>
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported
Summary description: The LaTeX2e File Name Keeper
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm happy to announce FiNK 1.0, the first public release.

        This package looks over your shoulder and keeps
track of files \input'ed (the LaTeX way) or \include'ed in
your document. You then have a permanent access to the name
of the file currently being processed through the macro
\finkfile.

FiNK also comes with support for AUC-TeX.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Dec 11 10:44:34 2000
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:43:13 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New package on CTAN: FiXme

A new LaTeX package has been installed on the TUG CTAN and should
shortly propagate to other sites.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: FiXme
Name and email: Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported
Summary description: A LaTeX2e package for inserting "fixme" notes in draft documents.
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm happy to announce FiXme 1.1, the first public release.

        This package provides you with a way to insert fixme
notes in documents being developped (in draft mode). Such
notes can appear in the margin of the document, as index
entries, in the log file and as warnings on stdout. It is
also possible to summarize them in a list. If your document
is in a final version, any remaining fixme note will produce
an error.

FiXme also comes with support for AUC-TeX.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From zierke@Dante.DE Tue Dec 12 05:21:42 2000
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:20:54 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- BibTexMng for Windows

----- Forwarded message from Petr Vabishchevich <vab@ibrae.ac.ru> -----
Name of contribution: BibTexMng
Name and email: Petr Vabishchevich <vab@imamod.ru>
CTAN node: ftp.dante.de
Suggested location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/utils/BibTexMng and
bibliography/bibtex/utils/BibTexMng
Summary description: BibTexMng is a easy to use product of
bibliographic software for Windows.
License type: Free

Announcement text:
BibTexMng is a very easy to use product of bibliographic software
for Windows. BibTexMng combines online searching, reference management,
bibliography making, and information sharing into a single user-friendly
environment. It was written to be used with Latex, using Bibtex.
BibTexMng is a program for manipulating BibTeX database files.
These files contain all the relevant data, and sometimes additional
information such as abstracts and keywords, but do not specify the
final format in which this data will be presented. The data is organized
into records, in which each record is identified by a unique key or label.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the submission, I installed it on CTAN in
CTAN:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/BibTexMng/ as suggested.
(biblio/bibliography is a symbolic link to biblio/bibtex)

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Tue Dec 12 05:31:33 2000
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:31:14 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission - trsym font

----- Forwarded message from Jan Holfert <jan.holfert@gmx.net> -----
I uploaded the "trsym" package.

I put it into "incoming/trsym".
I'd like the files to be stored in "fonts/trsym".
The package is licensed under lppl.

I uploaded the files:
- trsym.ins
- trsym.dtx
- manifest.txt


Finally, a short summary of the package:

keywords: transformation, symbol, font, metafont

This font contains symbols used for transformations (e.g. Laplace
transformation). There are horizontal and vertical symbols both for
transformation and inverse transformation.
To install the font it is only necessary to run the file trsym.ins through
latex. The file trsym.dtx contains the style files and the documentation. To
get the documentation run "latex trsym.dtx".

I still have one question: Is there a possibility to get feedback about the
amounts of downloads of my package?
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission;  I installed it in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/trsym/
as suggested.

Up to now, we collect download statistics but don't publish details.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Tue Dec 12 05:37:23 2000
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:37:04 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX 3.10

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" <malyshev@mx.ihep.su> -----
I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 3.10.
Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 3.10 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 3.10

For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

HIGHLIGHTS

 * PostScript enabled TeX system.
   Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks* graphics.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution including about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.

GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX 3 includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 9.0, Adobe Streamline 4.0,
MatLab, CorelDraw, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters),
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * OpenType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
Math Fonts:
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase),
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd),
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

USER INTERFACE

* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Typesetting a selected part of a document (styles may be precompiled as format).
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents:
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Control Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Spell Checker is configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 3.10

  User Interface.

   * Improved `Insert|Graphics|Graphical File' editor menu command
     opens dialog which helps to build/insert LaTeX2e graphics
     import command with different options. GrView is now available
     as option in this dialog.
   * Drag and Drop of graphical files into editor also opens
     dialog to build/insert graphics import command.
   * New `Options|Configuring TDS Path ...' editor menu command
     opens dialog for altering List of TDS (TEXMF variable),
     (re)building and removing ls-R files in every TDS,
     configuring auto-mirrors.

  PDF Generation.

   Support for embeding into PDF fonts in *CFF Type 2* form,
   that is much more portable then embedding in CFF Type 1 form.
   The reason of portability is buggy handling of CFF Type 1 fonts
   in many PDF browsers, such as GhostScript and old versions of AR.
   New output was successfully tested with following software:
     * GhostScript 5.50 and 6.0, * Acrobat Reader 3.0 and 4.0.

  Fonts.

   * New TX Fonts by Young Ryu are available with CONTRIB/TXFONTS module.
     These fonts expands Standard PostScript Fonts (Times/Helvetica/Courier)
     by math symbols and symbols required for OT1, T1, TS1, and LY1 encodings.
   * BaKoMa TeX Kernel includes FD files whose enable using TX Fonts
     for typesetting cyrillic papers in T2A encoding.

  Configuration.

   There is automatical reconfiguring of BaKoMa TeX directories
   when the system is running from Read Only media.
   This feature is useful for an installation shared by several users,
   that is typical for a site licenses.

  Bug fixes.

   All bug fixes was issued in four patches that are integrated in this version.
   In details see <CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/dst/changes3.html>

---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission, I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec 13 04:16:02 2000
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:15:17 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: u8tex.el (a new version upload)

Sergei Pokrovsky writes:

>
> Please find at ftp.tex.ac.uk a new version of u8tex.el.  The previous
> version is at <CTAN/support/emacs-modes/u8tex.el>; available at GGPL.
>
>
> ;;; quail/u8tex.el -- Quail package to input in -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>
> ;; Keywords: mule, multilingual, unicode, input method, TeX
>
> ;; The idea is to provide a routine way to input the many TeX
> ;; characters (and some more) using the familiar TeX notation.
>
> ;;; Changes in v. 1.2:
> ;; 1. Documentation (reference to Otfried's package).
> ;; 2. Some HTML abbreviations are adopted (/copy, /reg etc).
> ;; 3. Errors corrected: /permil
> ;; 4. More amssymb characters.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.de Wed Dec 13 08:57:52 2000
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:57:07 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of bpchem style

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Bjoern Pedersen wrote:

>   + what you've uploaded
>       /incoming/bpchem/chem.sty
>       /incoming/bpchem/chemtest.tex
>
>   + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>       ftp.dante.de
>    + where you want the files to go
>       macros/contrib/other/bpchem
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
>
>       lppl
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>
>       This package provides som commands and environments, which could
>         be useful for chemical typesetting:
>       a command to set chemical formulae
>       a command to allow breakpoints in multiline chemical names
>       a set of commands to enumerate/reference chemical substances

Thanks for the submission, I installed it as

  macros/latex/contrib/other/bpchem

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Thu Dec 14 03:45:12 2000
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:43:04 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt 5.2

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, WinEdt Team wrote:

> I have just uploaded the files
>
>       winedt5.exe and 0readme.txt
>
> to the folder: ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt
>
> Please move these file to WinEdt's directory on CTAN:
>
>   tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt
>
> replacing the existing files by that name.
>
> This submission is the official release of WinEdt 5.2 (shareware).
> Complete information about this release is available at our web
> site: http://www.winedt.com

Thanks for the update, I installed the files in the WinEdt directory

  nonfree/systems/win32/winedt

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Thu Dec 14 06:53:44 2000
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:34:05 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upgrade package -- minitoc version 34

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Jean-Pierre Drucbert wrote:

> I have uploaded a new version (v34) of my minitoc package.
> It should be upgraded in
>   tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/minitoc/
>
> The new version is now in the /incoming directory of
> ftp.dante.de and is minitoc.tar.gz .
>
> License is LPPL.
>
> Ths package adds mini tables of contents (minitocs) by
> chapters, parts or sections (an minilffs, minilots).
> The new version upgrades are:
>
> Version #33 (development version)
> Added commands:
>       \mtcadd|chapter|[title]
>              |section|
>              |part|
>
> These commands add stuff in the .toc, .lof and .lot files for
> the \chapter* (\section* and \part*) problem. From a suggestion
> by Karl F. Everitt (everitt@chem.wisc.edu).
>
> Added a test in mtcoff for ``incompatible commands''.
>
> Version #34
> Added in the documentation a section for use with tocbibend.
> Added .mld files for alternate names of languages: so,
> american.mld just loads english.mld, which contains the real
> definitions.
>
> Note also that
> a) a new test fike (add.tex) has been added to test the use
>    with tocbinend;
> b) a documentation in french (fminitoc.ps) has been added.

Thanks a lot for the upgrade, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Thu Dec 14 08:10:56 2000
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:10:31 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: latex.zip

Christian Schenk wrote:

> Name of contribution: latex.zip
> Suggested location on CTAN: systems/win32/miktex/1.20
> Summary description: LaTeX2e update for MiKTeX 1.20
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This an LaTeX2e update (2000/6/1) for the
> MiKTeX 1.20e distribution.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Thu Dec 14 08:12:55 2000
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:12:35 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: GNU TeXmacs 0.3.0-7

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

> I just uploaded the new GNU TeXmacs distribution in
>
>         ftp.dante.de/incoming/TeXmacs
>
> The new distribution contains the files
>
> Compile.html
> Ctan.message
> Dependencies.html
> Fonts.html
> Install.html
> RPM.html
> TeXmacs-0.3.0-7-src.tar.gz
> TeXmacs-0.3.0-7-static-gnu-linux.tar.gz
> TeXmacs-0.3.0-7-static-sun.tar.gz
> TeXmacs-0.3.0-7.i386.rpm
> TeXmacs-0.3.0-7.src.rpm
> TeXmacs-600pk-fonts.tar.gz
>
> The files should be put into the directory systems/unix/TeXmacs
> All existing files in this directory have become obsolete.

Thanks for the upgrade, I installed it in

   systems/unix/TeXmacs

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec 14 09:28:52 2000
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:28:06 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new version of the uk tug faq on ctan

i've just installed v2.5 of the uk tug faq on the archive, at
usergrps/uktug/faq.  at the same time, i have updated the sources of
the web access to the faq.

the web version of the faq is now available via a shiny new address:

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq

there are undoubtedly problems of omission and of fact in the faq; i
welcome comments about its content, both corrections of existing
answers and suggestions about other areas i might cover.  the address
for such submissions is

  uktug-faq@tex.ac.uk

note that this is *not* a good address to seek help ... i try to
compartmentalise my life, and i'm not in a help-giving mood when i'm
processing that mail.

the faq is subject to constant development.  i've spotted a few
(mostly insignificant) problems with it since i installed it 30
minutes ago.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team (or something)

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec 19 04:27:02 2000
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:24:08 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: lineno and longtable

Stephan Boettcher writes:

> A small fix to lineno.sty was uploaded to
>     ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/lineno.tar.gz
> To replace
>     macros/latex/contrib/supported/lineno/

i've installed the files as requested.

> "Tobias Wahl" wrote on c.t.t:
>
> > I am getting linenumbering with longtable even though I switched it off.
> > This line numbering appears only once at the bottom of each longtable
> > environment.
>
> This has been fixed.
>
> lineno.sty was recognising \outputpenalty from -175000 to -25000.
> longtable uses -30000 to mark the end of a table.  The range used by
> lineno was shrunk to -178000 to -32000.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec 19 07:49:34 2000
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:48:55 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: tug.ctan.org (apparently) down

jim hefferon, who manages the tug ctan node in vermont, mailed
yesterday to say that there were problems that might lead his building
managers to require him to shut the node down.  it appears that this
has indeed happened; the machine is not visible on the net.

we apologise to users for the inconvenience.  until the tug machine
reappears, new installations (as announced to ctan-ann) will only be
available on the european ctans cam.ctan.org and dante.ctan.org

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Dec 19 13:04:48 2000
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:05:06 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new package on CTAN: bundledoc

A submission has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should propagate
soon to other sites.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: bundledoc
Name and email: Scott Pakin <pakin@uiuc.edu>
Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/support
Summary description: Bundle all the files needed to build a LaTeX document
License type: BSD Style

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
bundledoc is a post-processor for the snapshot
package that bundles together all the classes,
packages, and files needed to build a given LaTeX
document.  It reads the .dep file that snapshot
produces, finds each of the files mentioned
therein, and archives them into a single .tar.gz
file, suitable for moving across systems,
transmitting to a colleague, etc.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From zierke@Dante.DE Wed Dec 20 04:40:32 2000
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:39:36 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- eso-ex3.tex

----- Forwarded message from Rolf Niepraschk -----
I have uploaded the files `eso-ex3.tex' and `ltx3info.pdf' to the
/incoming
directory at ftp.dante.de. `eso-ex3.tex' is another example for my LaTeX
package `eso-pic' which shows how include pages from an external (pdf)
document. Please put the two file to

==>
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms/contrib/
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed both files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Wed Dec 20 04:49:25 2000
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:49:01 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: MacDevnag for the Devanagari Latex package

----- Forwarded message from Bernard Desgraupes -----
I have uploaded in the incoming directory an archive I'd like to submit
for
insertion in the CTAN. It is a port to the Macintosh of the devnag
program a
preprocessor which is part of the Devanagari package (in
/tex-archive/language/devanagari/distrib/).
It will allow people working under MacOS to use the Devanagari package :
so
far the preprocessor had not been ported to this platform.
It is entirely GPL free software.

This port has been tested and showed to the authors and maintainers of
the
devanagari package (Velthuis and Pr John Smith). Pr Smith suggested me
to
submit it to CTAN.

I guess the best location where to put it should be in
    /tex-archive/language/devanagari/contrib/
I have made the C source files of this port available in the
"MacDevnag_src"
subfolder. It is up to you to decide if they should be put on CTAN to.
Everything can be found on my personal Web page :
http://perso.easynet.fr/~berdesg/macdevnag.html
There is also a subfloder called "For Alpha" containing Tcl resources
for
people working with the Alpha Latex Editor : they can drive MacDevnag
directly from within Alpha.

Contents of the archive (MacDevnag.sit.hqx 199k):
=================================================

Name                      Type Crtr  Size
--------------------      ---- ---- ------
    Licence terms         TEXT ALFA     4K
    MacDevnag             APPL DvnG   102K
    MacDevnagReadme       TEXT ALFA     6K

MacDevnag_src
    devnag.c              TEXT ALFA    48K
    devnag.h              TEXT ALFA    38K
    DVNGAppleEvents.c     TEXT ALFA     8K
    DVNGdialogs.c         TEXT ALFA    18K
    DVNGevents.c          TEXT ALFA    12K
    DVNGfiles.c           TEXT ALFA    12K
    DVNGinit.c            TEXT ALFA    12K
    DVNGmain.c            TEXT ALFA     6K
    DVNGmemory.c          TEXT ALFA     8K
    DVNGmenus.c           TEXT ALFA     6K
    DVNGwindows.c         TEXT ALFA     6K
    macdevnag.h           TEXT ALFA    14K
    macdevnag.mcp         MMPr CWIE    74K
    macdevnag.rsrc        rsrc RSED    10K

For Alpha:
    Devnag For Alpha Help TEXT ALFA     8K
    macDevnag.tcl         TEXT ALFA     6K
    OPEN TO INSTALL       TEXT ALFA     4K
    README FIRST          TEXT ALFA     4K
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks four your submission.  I installed it on ftp.dante.de in
CTAN:/tex-archive/language/devanagari/contrib/MacDevnag
together with the contents of your mail as README file.
It will soon be copied to the other CTAN nodes and mirrors.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec 20 12:14:05 2000
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:09:24 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: xdoc, tcldoc, and rtkinenc uploads

Lars Hellstr�m writes:

> I have to ftp.tex.ac.uk uploaded the following four files to /incoming/xdoc:
>   xdoc2.dtx
>   xdox2.ins
>   xdocdemo.tex
>   README.txt
> and I would like to have them put in /macros/latex/exptl/xdoc (replacing
> previous files by the same names);
> the following six files to /incoming/tcldoc:
>   tcldoc.dtx
>   tcldoc.ins
>   dtxload.dtx
>   dtxload.ins
>   pstokens.dtx
>   README.txt
> and I would like to have them put in /macros/latex/contrib/supported/tcldoc;
> the following three files to /incoming/rtkinenc:
>   README.txt
>   rtkinenc.dtx
>   rtkinenc.ins
> and I would like to have them put in
> /macros/latex/contrib/supported/rtkinenc. In all cases the licence that
> applies is the LPPL.

i've installed all the files as requested.  thanks for the upload(s).

> On what these files are:
> xdoc:
>   The xdoc2 package contains reimplementations of some of
>   the features found in the standard LaTeX doc package
>   by Mittelbach et al. Amongst other things, these
>   reimplementations provide support for definiting new
>   commands similar to \DescribeMacro and new environments
>   similar to the macro environment, for two-sided document
>   layouts, for external cross-referencing, for making
>   index entries for invisible characters, and for optionally
>   ignoring certain prefixes (such as @ and @@) in macro names
>   when sorting them. The xdocdemo document demonstrates a
>   couple of these features.
>
>   I consider the xdoc2 package to merely be the second
>   prototype for an (as yet nonexistant) package xdoc which
>   should provide the same features (and more). I have
>   decided to release the prototype to make its functionality
>   generally avaiable, but under a variant name to avoid
>   future incompatibility problems. (E.g., the final xdoc
>   package will probably use many LaTeX2e* features that are
>   still on the prototype stage. xdoc2, on the other hand,
>   uses no LaTeX2e* features.)
>
> tcldoc:
>   The tcldoc package defines a couple of environments and
>   commands for documenting Tcl (Tool Command Language)
>   source code in .dtx-style documented source files, much like
>   what the doc package does for TeX source code.
>   The tcldoc class is analogous to the ltxdoc document class
>   -- it loads the package to gain the basic functionality and
>   changes some layout parameters to values that are more
>   suitable for this kind of document.
>
>   dtxload.dtx and pstokens.dtx are two example documents which
>   use tcldoc. The code documented in dtxload.dtx is a feature
>   for the text editor Alpha which implements a command for
>   extracting and evaluating Tcl code directly from .dtx sources.
>   dtxload.ins is the installation script this code.
>
> rtkinenc:
>   The rtkinenc package is functionally similar to the standard
>   LaTeX package inputenc -- both set up active characters so
>   that input character outside 7-bit visible ASCII are converted
>   to the corresponding LaTeX commands. The main difference lies
>   in that rtkinenc allows the user to specify a fallback
>   procedure to use when the text command corresponding to some
>   input character isn't available. This is primarily useful for
>   program listings and similar material where one doesn't want
>   characters to disappear in the typesetting.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec 21 03:54:36 2000
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:52:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: itamsldoc.tar.gz uploaded on ftp.tex.ac.uk

some long time ago, Mileto Rigido wrote

> I uploaded the file
>
> itamsldoc.tar.gz
>
> on the /incoming directory of the CTAN node:
>
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> The archive contains the italian translation of the amsmath
> documentation (source, dvi, ps and pdf formats) and two ascii
> documents related to the same package.
>
> The archive contains two directories (amsldoc and amsmath), I suggest
> unpacking it to /info/italian/.

and i (to my shame) lost his mail.  however, i have now installed the
files as requested.  thanks, mileto, for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec 21 03:57:28 2000
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:55:52 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- the docmfp package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded docmfp.tar to the UK incoming
> directory. Please use this to replace the current contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/docmfp.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.

i've installed the files as requested.

> From the README:
>     The docmfp package extends the doc package to cater for
> documenting non-LaTeX code, such a Metafont and Metapost, or even C
> code.
>
> Changes in version 1.1
> o Added a general \Describe macro (generalisation of \DescribeEnv
> and \DescribeMacro)
> o Added a general Code environment (generalisation of the macro
> environment)
>
> Thank you, and Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year.

thank _you_, and the same to you (and to all the myriad authors of
things on ctan, not to say ctan's users and subscribers to
comp.text.tex).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec 21 04:29:53 2000
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:26:31 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: TX and PX fonts Final Versions Uploaded

Young U. Ryu writes:

> In the incoming directory of the UK CTAN site,
> TX fonts (based on Times and Helvetica)
>
>     txfonts31.zip
>
> and PX fonts (based on Palatino)
>
>     pxfonts1.zip
>
> are uploaded.
>
> The TX fonts (txfonts31.zip) should replace those in
>
>     /tex-archive/fonts/txfonts
>
> The PX fonts (pxfonts1.zip) can be placed in
>
>     /tex-archive/fonts/pxfonts
>
> These TX and PX fonts are final versions. They are frozen
> for the time being. Only obvious bugs, if they are found,
> will be fixed through patches. I will not modify or add
> letters/symbols in the near future.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.de Fri Dec 22 13:54:15 2000
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 17:18:58 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload of fancyhdr2.tar.gz

On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Hans Friedrich Steffani wrote:

> I uploaded fancyhdr2.tar.gz (and also an obsolete fancyhdr.tar.gz).
> fancyhdr2.tar.gz contains a number of files which should be placed at
> info/german/fancyhdr.
>
> Short description:
> A short german introduction to fancyhdr with examples.
>
> License: lppl

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in

   info/german/fancyhdr

For the CTAN Team
 Seasons Greetings
  Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@Dante.DE Thu Dec 28 07:29:37 2000
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:28:39 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- References

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload@dante.de -----
A submission was uploaded to /ftp/incoming/upload-20001225.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: References
Name and email: Volker Kiefel
Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/support/references
Summary description: Bibliographic software
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
REFERENCES v3.6 is bibliographic software for authors
of scientific manuscripts and for management of
bibliographic data on ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS, BOOKS
and CHAPTERS IN BOOKS.  REFERENCES supports LaTeX
including BibTeX. REFERENCES is able to import
bibliographic records in the MEDLINE format. Retrieval
of references by keywords, authors' or editors' names,
date of publication, title of article, book title,
journal name or combinations thereof is possible. Lists
of references can be compiled in any (user-defined)
format required by the publishers of scientific
journals. Source code is included: REFERENCES is free
software distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL
PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2 (FSF).
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it after some sanitizing
(renaming all files to lowercase - I don't like INSTALL.ENG and install.ger -
removing readme.txt which differed from readme only by three typos,
removing unzip.exe which should be available on all windows systems)
in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/references replacing the old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Fri Dec 29 05:59:57 2000
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 11:59:00 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- LGrind 3.65

----- Forwarded message from Michael Piefel -----
I just uploaded lgrind-3.65.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. This my last update
for the pretty printer LGrind which can produce nice LaTeX from source
code.

I hereby give up maintainership of said program for the following
reason: It contains non-free code. It may not be sold without the
authors written permission. This also means it may not be put on CTAN
CDs which are sold. Please move the programs directory (currently
support/lgrind) to somewhere beneath the nonfree hierarchie on CTAN.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:tex-archive/nonfree/support/lgrind with a symbolic link pointing
to it from the old location support/lgrind.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.de Sat Dec 30 15:32:18 2000
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 21:33:03 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX mailing list info

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory file `index.html'.
 > This file must replace file: 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/index.html'.
 >
 > Updated version of this file includes new information about
 > BaKoMa TeX mailing list founded December 25, 2000.
 >
 > This mailing list is intended for newsletters, questions, answers,
 > and user discussions about BaKoMa TeX, BaKoMa Fonts Collection,
 > and other BaKoMa Software.
 >
 > For more information about this mailing list see:
 >      `http://www.egroups.com/group/BaKoMa'.
 > Simplest subscription to this list is via sending empty E-Mail to:
 >      `BaKoMa-subscribe@egroups.com'

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jan  2 11:41:44 2001
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:40:47 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: Circuit_macros5.0.tar.gz

Dwight Aplevich writes:

> Circuit_macros5.0.tar.gz has been copied into the incoming directory
> of ftp.tex.ac.uk.  Its expanded contents are to replace the contents
> of graphics/circuit_macros.  The copyright is almost public domain.
>
> From the README:
> ...
>   This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality line diagrams to
>   include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents.  The macros are
>   intended primarily for electric circuit diagrams containing
>   fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors, and basic logic gates,
>   but several tools and examples for other types of diagrams are also
>   included.  The advantages and disadvantages of such a system are
>   similar to those of TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg,
>   and which uses ordinary character input.
>
>   The macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic language, which is
>   readable and easy to learn.  Pic contains elements of a simple
>   programming language, and is well-suited to line drawings requiring
>   parametric or conditional components, fine tuning, significant
>   geometric calculations or repetition, or drawings that are naturally
>   block structured or tree structured.  Free TeX- and LaTeX-compatible
>   interpreters for m4 and pic are readily available for Unix and PC
>   machines.
> ...
> EXAMPLES:
>   View or print the file examples.ps in the examples directory, or try
>   http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/
>
>   A collection of examples and hints intended for his colleagues has
>   been produced by Alan Robert Clark at http://ytdp.ee.wits.ac.za/cct.html
> ...
> CHANGES:
> Version 5.0: Examples in Xfig version 3.2 format. Web-based examples and
>   updated links.  Macros fuse, lpop, sinc; dpic-only sinusoid and
>   fitcurve macros.  More robust mosfet, smosfet, b_current, bi_tr,
>   j_fet, intersect_.  Editorial changes to the manual.
> ...

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.de Wed Jan  3 14:55:23 2001
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 20:56:00 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: CWEBbin 3.63 [p19]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Andreas Scherer wrote:

 > I have uploaded the files
 >
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin/README.p19
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin/cwebbin-p19.tar.gz
 >
 > containing the adaptation of CWEBbin to the current CWEB 3.63 as of January
 > 2001.  CWEBbin consists of a set of change files (to be applied with the TIE
 > processor) that make the original sources usable with ANSI-C/C++ compilers on
 > UNIX/Linux, MS/Windows, and Amiga.  Extra functionality, like TeX macros and
 > CWEB macros for international documentation of CWEB programs, is introduced
 > in the archive and documented in README.p19.  Binary files are not shipped
 > with this distribution.
 >
 > CWEBbin is contributed to the public domain. Licensing conditions are the
 > same as those of CWEB proper.
 >
 > Both the README.p19 file and the cwebbin-p19.tar.gz archive should be
 > installed at
 >
 >    CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cwebbin
 >
 > and should replace the now out-dated version.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan  5 04:42:45 2001
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:41:49 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ccaption & hyphenat packages

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded ccaption.tar and hyphenat.tar to the UK incoming
> directory. Please use these to replace the current contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/(ccaption|hyphenat).
>
> The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the READMEs:
>
>     The ccaption package provides commands for `continuation
> captions', unnumbered captions, and a non-specific legend heading
> for any environment. Methods are also provided to define captions
> for use outside float environments, and to define new float
> environments and subfloats.
>
> Changes in version 2.6d:
> o Fixed problem with fragile commands in subfigure 2.0 package
>   option (thanks to Steven Douglas Cochran)
> o Fixed problem with new subfloats and the subfigure21 package option
> o Added discussion on use with the endfloat package.
>
>
>
>     The hyphenat package can be used to disable all hyphenation in a
> document or just in selected text. It also enables hyphenation of
> words with analphabetic characters (e.g., that include underscores),
> and hyphenation in monospaced (e.g., CM typewriter) fonts.
>
> Changes in version 2.3a:
> o Fixed a double hyphen problem with some non-CM fonts.

i've installed the new versions.  thanks for the uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jan  5 11:22:58 2001
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 11:22:26 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission: attachfile

   A submission was uploaded to tug.ctan.org.

   The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

   Name of contribution: attachfile
   Name and email: Scott Pakin
   Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/attachfile
   Summary description: Attach arbitrary files to PDF documents
   License type: LaTeX Project

   Announcement text:
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
   Starting with PDF 1.3 (Adobe Acrobat 4.0), PDF files can
   contain file attachments -- arbitrary files that a reader
   can extract, just like attachments to an e-mail message.
   The attachfile package brings this functionality to pdfLaTeX
   and provides some additional features not available in
   Acrobat, such as the ability to use arbitrary LaTeX code for
   the file icon -- including things like \includegraphics,
   tabular, and math.  Settings can be made either globally or
   on a per-attachment basis.  attachfile makes it easy to
   attach files and customize their appearance in the enclosing
   document.

   ----------------------------------------------------------------------

I've installed it in the suggested location, and it should propagate
to the other sites overnight.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jan  5 14:15:12 2001
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:14:51 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: tug.ctan.org and www.ctan.org downtime notification

The North America CTAN, which goes under any of these names
 FTP: tug.ctan.org  ctan.tug.org  alan.smcvt.edu
 WWW: www.ctan.org
will be down for some time this Sunday and Monday, 2001 Jan 07-08.

I expect to shut the machine down Sunday morning.  The room in which
the machine lives will be having work done, and the machine will be
back up when the work is done.  I was told that will be by noon local
time on Monday.

Sorry for the disruption,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From schoepf@proteosys.de Tue Jan  9 12:23:50 2001
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 18:20:05 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - TX and PX fonts for BaKoMa TeX

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
> update for CONTRIB/TXFONTS.BKZ installation module.
> Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
>
> This module includes updated version of TX Fonts 3.1 and PX Fonts 1.0

Thanks for the update, the files are now installed in

  nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/contrib

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@Dante.DE Sun Jan 14 09:53:06 2001
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:50:21 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- hypernat package

----- Forwarded message from Jens Berger -----
I've just uploaded the file hypernat.sty to

        ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.

It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.


  This packages makes the hyperref package and the natbib package
  with options `numbers' and `sort&compress' work together. This
  means, that the citations (e.g [3,2,1]) will be compressed to
  [1-3], where the `1' and the `3' are (color-)linked to the
  bibliography.

  The changes I made here are suggested (in August 2000) for the
  next natbib release.

  This package will disappear from CTAN, when natbib will do
  the job by himself.


Please place the file in \macros\latex\contrib\supported\hypernat
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  As it is junst a single file, I installed
it in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/hypernat.sty


Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Sun Jan 14 09:56:14 2001
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:54:15 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Kto8_Mac

----- Forwarded message from Laurent Siebenmann -----

"Kto8_Mac" is a small directory uploaded to the
ftp.dante.de incoming directory.

It undoubtedly belongs in

   tex-archive/systems/mac/

where most analogous stuff is found.

IN BRIEF:

Converter for Mac OS, from TeX \write'ing, to 8-bit
text.

LICENCE: pd freeware

ANNOUNCEMENT:

The "Kto8" program converts the strangely
ASCII-encoded text files often output by TeX
into true 8-bit text files. The sign of probable
need for conversion by "Kto8" is the presence of
pairs ^^ of hat characters.  If there are no such
pairs, "Kto8" will merely copy the file intact.

     "Kto8" is presently a pd freeware program
realized for Macintosh OS as a tiny drag-and-drop
utility with a multiple file capability.

     Since "Textures" satisfactorily writes 8-bit
text files (even by default), "Kto8" is dedicated to
the several other Macintosh OS TeX systems currently
in use.

    "Kto8" can be helpful or essential when text
files output by TeX are to be edited visually --
which occurs, for example:

  ---   when TeX has been called upon to change the
encoding of a text file, and

  ---   when an index is being prepared on the basis
of information gleaned by TeX.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/mac/Kto8/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Sun Jan 14 09:58:30 2001
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:56:48 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf 2.8

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek -----
I have uploaded 'thumbpdf.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
This updates and replaces the files in
  support/thumbpdf/

Changes in version 2.8:
  * Bug fix for users of options "--mode=dvips --level2"
    on little-endian machines (eg., Solaris).
  * /Rotate should now work
    (ghostscript 6.0* contain a hack, that disable
    the /Rotate detection for non-screen productions.
    Therefore thumbpdf added a patch to disable the hack
    for versions 6.0*.
  * /CropBox detected with ghostscript 6.50:
    ghostscript uses the MediaBox for calculating
    the page size. In 6.50 I found a way to patch
    the behaviour of ghostscript to use the /CropBox
    instead.

'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with pdfTeX
or dvips/ps2pdf/distiller, plain/latex formats. It consists of
four files:
  * readme.txt:    documentation.
  * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
  * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
  * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
Requirements: Perl5, ghostscript, pdfTeX

For the Catalogue entry: the license remains LPPL 1.2.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission, I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/support/thumbpdf/ replacing the old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Sun Jan 14 10:01:28 2001
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:59:50 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- ziffer (bugfix)

----- Forwarded message from "M. Vaeth" -----
Dear administrator, I have uploaded a bugfix of my ziffer package
  macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/ziffer.sty
Please, update that file correspondingly.

Name of contribution: ziffer
Name and email: Martin V�th
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc
Summary description: A (La)TeX package for numbers with German spacing.
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A (La)TeX package which allows to output numbers like e.g.
1 000,-- with the correct German spacing simply by
typing 1.000,-- in math mode.
You may still use the symbols . , - in other context
(even in math mode).
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/ziffer.sty

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Sun Jan 14 10:05:37 2001
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:03:58 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- cmtiup

----- Forwarded message from "Sergei V. Znamenskii" -----
I have uploaded to the ftp.dante.de/incoming/cmtiup
        the files of CMTIUP package:

----------------------------------------------------------------------

   + what you've uploaded

    cmtiupsr.zip archive (26.51k) contains just the cmtiup.dtx
        file with all sources;
    cmtiup.zip archive (56.11k) contains all files packed for
        tds-compliant distribution;
    cmtiupem.zip archive (24.98k) packed for use with emTeX
        without sources and virtual fonts.
    cmtiup.txt (1.16k) contains brief plain text annotation;
    cmtiup.pdf (154.81k) 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

   + what licensing conditions you apply to your software

        LPPL

   + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to


    The cmtiuppackage contains the following modification of
cmti* fonts, named cmtiup*:

   (1) all Punctuation chars turns Uprighted (no slant),
   (2) corresponded italic corrections added as kerning;

Replacement of cmti* fonts fy cmtiup* simplifies typesetting
of articles where otherwise author or editor have to use
additional tex commands in italic text with formulas.

License: LPPL (LaTeX Project Public License)

Contents:
    - virtual font set to use type1 cm fonts,
    - corresponding tfm files,
    - METAFONT sources,
    - latex2e style file to switch from cmti* to cmtiup*.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the files as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/cm/cmtiup

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.de Mon Jan 15 07:52:03 2001
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:50:39 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: LaTeX package sepnum.sty -- format numbers with grouped digits

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Bernd Raichle wrote:

> (a) file:       sepnum.sty
> (b) CTAN node:  ftp.dante.de
> (c) place:      macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/sepnum.sty
> (d) license:    LaTeX Project Public License
> (e) summary:
>     This package provides a means of formatting numbers
>     with (a) a decimal separator different of the default (`.')
>     and (b) a separator (default `,') every three digits.
>     All separators are user-definable; the macro implementation
>     is fully expandable and can therefore be used in places where
>     problems occur with fragile commands.
>
>     \sepnum{}{}{}{} is used to format a number.
>
>     \sepnumform{}{}{}{} can be used to change the formatting
>       command \the<counter> of a LaTeX counter.
>
>     (``sepnum.sty'' obsoletes the old package ``printnum.sty'', which
>     was distributed only in TeX newsgroups and mailing lists.)

Thanks for the upload, I installed the file as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/sepnum.sty

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Mon Jan 15 08:58:21 2001
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:57:16 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - EC Type 1 fonts for BaKoMa TeX

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
> EC fonts in ATM compatible Type 1 font format intended for installing
> under BaKoMa TeX 3 and later.
>
> Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
>
> For more information see:
>    ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/fonts/ecfonts.html

Thanks for the upload, the new files have been installed in

  nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/fonts

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Mon Jan 15 12:07:56 2001
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:07:18 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Fontmap.cmr with pxfonts, tipa, txfonts

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Karsten Tinnefeld wrote:

>    + what you've uploaded
>       a new version of Fontmap.cmr
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>       ftp://dante.ctan.org/incoming/Fontmap.cmr
>    + where you want the files to go
>       CTAN:fonts/cm/ps-type1/contrib, replacing the old file
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
>       lgpl \geq 2.1
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>       added support for pxfonts, tipa, txfonts.
>
> % file Fontmap.cmr, last change 2001-01-15
> %
> % This file make the Computer Modern font files by Donald Ervin Knuth
> % and other fonts distributed e.g. with the tetex TeX distribution
> % http://www.tug.org/tetex/ available to ghostscript.
> %
> % Copyright � 2000, 2001 Karsten Tinnefeld.  All rights reserved.
> % Corresponding author: Karsten Tinnefeld <karsten@tinnefeld.com>
> %
> % This file is free software, licensed under the terms of the
> % GNU lesser public license, either version 2.1 or any consecutive,
> % as being obtainable from http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html or
> % FSF Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
> %
> % Check the canonical place for new versions of this file:
> %   ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/contrib/Fontmap.cmr
> % or one of its "CTAN" mirror sites.  For ghostscript, please check
> %   http://www.ghostscript.com
> %
> % Apply this file by moving it to the library directory of your
> % ghostscript installation (typically share/ghostscript/VERSION/lib)
> % and adding the command "(Fontmap.cmr) .runlibfile" to the end of
> % your "Fontmap" file in the same directory.  Symlink each pfa/pfb file
> % in the texmf/fonts/type1 tree of your local TeX installation to
> % share/ghostscript/fonts or add these directories to the GS_FONTPATH
> % environment variable.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Tue Jan 16 16:08:10 2001
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 22:06:45 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: submission: ttf2pt1-3.3.2

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Thomas Henlich wrote:

> I've uploaded ttf2pt1-3.3.2.tgz to ftp.dante.de/incoming/.
> This should be unpacked to fonts/utilities/ttf2pt1/, replacing the older
> version already there.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Raienr Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Wed Jan 17 09:44:56 2001
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:43:39 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX - updated LaTeX 2e module

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
> update of LaTeX 2e module (DST/LATEX2E.BKZ) for BaKoMa TeX.
> Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
>
> This module includes updated LaTeX 2e with <<required>> packages,
> AmS LaTeX, and HyperRef packages.

Thanks for the update, I installed the files in

  nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/dst

as requested.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Wed Jan 17 12:20:46 2001
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:06:38 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- jurabib package v0.5e

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Jens Berger wrote:

> I've just uploaded the file jurabib-05e.zip to
>
>       ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> This archive contains an updated version (0.5e) of the jurabib package.
>
> It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
>
> The following files are included:
>
>       jurabib.ins
>       jurabib.dtx
>       jurabib.dvi  (German documentation)
>       jurabib.ps   (German documentation)
>       jurabib.pdf  (German documentation)
>       jbendoc.tex  (English documentation)
>       jbendoc.dvi  (English documentation)
>       jbendoc.ps   (English documentation)
>       jbendoc.pdf  (English documentation)
>         changes.txt
>
> Changes in 0.5e:
>
>   Known Problem: Hyperref causes problems with the new url-interface.
>
>   New option `opcit'. Values: `true', `section' and `chapter';
>
>   New option `idem' with values `strict', `strictdoublepage'
>     and `nostrict' implemented, places `idem' for same authors in
>     subsequent citations;
>
>   Bug with \formatarticlepages removed;
>
>   Some `authorformat=indexed'-related code rewritten by Stefan Ulrich;
>
>   German code documentation cancelled, English code documentation will
>     follow;
>
>   jureco.bst is now part of the .dtx file, will be extracted with
>   `latex jurabib.ins';
>
>   \Edbyname added for capitalized `Edited by';
>
>   `von' part placement changed from `Last von, First' to `Last, First von';
>
>   new command \jbannote to format the new annote field;
>
>   jurabib is working well now with TeX4ht, thanks to Eitan Gurari and
>     Maarten Wisse;
>
>   title check added for \citefield command to avoid ambiguous citations;
>
>   Sorting bug for @COMMENTED with editor only removed and et.~al-Bug removed;
>
>   Completely rewritten `bibformat=ibidem';
>
>   Bug removed for `authorformat=and' and `authorformat=firstnotreversed';
>
>   Wrong `Th\'ese' removed;
>
>   \jbformattedpages   changed to option `pages=format',
>   \jbtestedpageranges changed to option `pages=test',
>   \jbalwayspageranges changed to option `pages=always';
>
>   Bug removed for \jb@checkperiod (`natoptargorder' was ignored);
>
>   New fields shortauthor and shorttitle introduced, they can be
>     used like (i.e. instead of) the jura*-fields;
>
>   Bug removed for `crossref=short';
>
>   \space-bug removed for crossrefs;
>
>   `pages=format' is working also for citations now, you can use some
>     shorthands as illustrated here:
>
>       \cite[45]{<key>}                         ===> p.~45
>       \cite[45--47]{<key>}                     ===> pp.~45--47
>       \cite[45, 47 and 49]{<key>}              ===> pp.~45, 47 and 49
>       \cite[45f]{<key>}                        ===> pp.~45f.
>       \cite[45ff]{<key>}                       ===> pp.~45ff.
>       \cite[\nopage{I, III and IV}]{<key>}     ===> I, III and IV
>       \cite[13,\pageadd{something text}]{<key} ===> p.~13, something text
>
>   This rewritten option was inspired by pageranges.sty, available at
>     <http://www.seindal.dk/rene/software/TeX/inlinebib.htm>,
>     and completely contributed by Stefan Ulrich. Thanks a lot.
>
>   It's possible to format editors independently from authors via:
>
>       \renewcommand\bibelnf{}
>       \renewcommand\bibefnf{};
>
>
>   New options:
>
>       `crossref=dynamic'         (first crossref long, the following short)
>       `edby'                     (switches from `Doe, John (editor)' to
>                                   `edited by Doe, John'---ONLY FOR @INCOLLECTIONS!),
>       `endnote',                 (note field at the end of the entry)
>       `biblikecite',             (author and title format in bibliography like
>                                   author and title format in citation)
>       `citefull=chapter',        (`citefull=first' per chapter)
>       `citefull=section',        (`citefull=first' per section)
>       `superscriptedition=bib',  (experimental!, superscripted edition
>                                   numbers in bibliography---for humanities)
>       `bibformat=ibidemalt',     (experimental!, for german law students)
>       `bibformat=compress',      (less vertical space between bibitems)
>       `human',                   (alpha stage option for the humanities)
>       `chicago',                 (alpha stage option for the humanities)
>       `oxford',                  (alpha stage option for the humanities)
>       `idem',                    (beta stage option for the humanities)
>        `idem=strict',
>        `idem=strictdoublepage',
>        `idem=nostrict',
>       `opcit',                   (alpha stage option for the humanities)
>        `opcit=chapter',          (`opcit' per chapter)
>        `opcit=section',          (`opcit' per section)
>
>   New commands:
>
>     \formatarticlepages[<separator>]{<page left delim>}{<page right delim>}
>
>        This command allows you to print out a (addtional) startpage
>        of a given pagerange, before the ``normal'' page(range), given
>        by the optional argument of \cite.
>        Assumed, you used \formatarticlepages[: ]{(}{)}
>        in the preamble, you typed `pages = {40--60}' in the .bib
>        file and you wrote \cite[45 and 47]{<key>} in the text,
>        the output will look like that:
>
>        ..., 40: (45 and 47)
>
>        or with option `pages=format':
>
>        ..., p. 40: (pp. 45 and 47)
>
>   New fields in jurabib.bst:
>
>       titleaddon               (adds the given sequence after title, e.g for remarks)
>       booktitleaddon           (same as titleaddon, for booktitles)
>       editortype               (use that field if you don't want to have `(ed.)')
>       sortkey                  (the entry will be sorted under that key)
>       annote                   (to put out a short abstract below the bib entry)
>
>   New BibTeX-styles for the humanities---compatible with jurabib.sty (alpha/beta stage!):
>
>       jchicago.bst             (derivative of chicago.bst)   alpha
>       jachicago.bst            (derivative of achicago.bst)  alpha
>       jhuman.bst               (derivative of oxford.bst)    beta
>
>       These styles doesn't contain all of the functionality known by jurabib.bst!
>       They are available only (as long as they are in beta stage) at
>
>                       http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jberger
>
>
> Please replace the current files in the directory
> CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib/

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From wz@iwd.uni-bremen.de Wed Jan 17 12:08:02 2001
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:07:18 +0100
From: Roland Weibezahn <wz@iwd.uni-bremen.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: xtem X11-TeX-Menu version 8.00
Resent-Subject: ANNOUNCE: xtem X11-TeX-Menu version 8.00


Dear xtem users,


we have finished the new version (xtem_TeXMenu 8.00) of

        "xtem",   an  X11-TeX-menu,

which runs with new Tcl/Tk version 8 (i.e. Tcl 8.1 - Tcl 8.3).
This is the first xtem version which no longer needs TclX,
as we use new Tcl-8 features!

In consequence of this mkcommand.7 is deleted (=obsolete),
mkcommand.6 modified from TclX commands to pure Tcl commands.

In addition to this, we have done error corrections and added some
(minor) features, such as:

- select boxes in setting menus now are expandable

- modifications of logfile analyze; LaTeX warnings can now be displayed
  editor options can now be modified in editor setting menu
  modifications of display of hyphen_show.


As usual you can get all material (including the source code of
Tcl/Tk we used) from our ftp server:

     http://www.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/
or
     ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem.v8/xtem_texmenu.8.00.tar.gz
     ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/*.tar.gz

You will find the xtem material on the CTAN servers:

   tex-archive/support/xtem_texmenu/xtem.v8



xtem provides for a simple and comfortable graphical user interface (GUI)
to control the following TeX/LaTeX facilities:

- syntax including examples of the LaTeX commands
- file and directory selection, directory creation
- editor (vi, emacs, ...) including additional windows for the
  LaTeX-syntax (using hypertext) and examples
- TeX, LaTeX, ... (including display of a summary of hyphenations
  occuring at the specific TeX run)
- previewer (ghostview, xdvi, TkDvi, ...)
- printing (including comfortable printer selection, ...)
- syntax and spelling check
- makeindex
- bibtex
- additional programs as required.

Online help is available for all the buttons and windows by simple mouse
click.
English or German language by choice, other languages may easily be
adapted.

xtem is written for Unix platforms and has been tested on many systems.
It requires Tcl and the appropriate Tk.



The authors: Guenther Lamprecht, Wolfhard Lotz, Roland Weibezahn

------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Roland Weibezahn
weibezahn@iwd.uni-bremen.de    phone: +49-421-218-3532
University Bremen, IWD, post-box: 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany
http://www.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/ (the xtem_TeXMenu project)

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 19 04:27:20 2001
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:26:00 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- chngpage package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>    I have just uploaded chngpage.sty to the UK incoming
> directory. Please use this to replace the current version in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> The package provides commands to change the page layout in the
> middle of a document.
>
> Changes in version 1.1a:
>
> o Added missing {} in the \changepage macro
> o Made \changetext and \changepage macros robust.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 19 04:45:28 2001
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:45:09 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New version of french "le"

Bernard Gaulle writes:

>   I've upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming the file french.tar.gz
> which is a replacement of language/french.
>
> Here is the related README file:
>
> % Here is a the light version of THE multilingual package "french" for LaTeX.
> % Copyright notice is LPPL, Copyright Bernard GAULLE, 2000-2001.
> %
> % You can find here 2 LaTeX source files to move to your LaTeX installation
> % at the same place where you normally put any other LaTeX package/extension.
> % frenchle.sty which is the main package
> %              to be called by \usepackage{frenchle} or via babel with
> % french.ldf which is called by babel when you type \usepackage[french]{babel}
> %
> % frenchle package will do its best to typeset your document according to the
> % french typographic rules. You have no command to type in (no commands
> % are available in the light version) but macrotypography (punctuation,
> % foot notes) is in action, as well as french layout (figures, tables, lists,
> % etc.), obviously frenh translation of standard titles and classes
> % changes (book, letter); but not hyphenation, abbreviations, illuminated
> % letters (lettrines), nor french guillemets. All that stuff and other
> % features are available with the professional version which gives you
> % the ability of customization and allows you to switch on/off any
> % feature depending of your needs. Ask Bernard Gaulle <frenchpro@free.fr>
> % if you want more informations.
> %
> % Notice to babel users: when you have the light version and the professional
> % version of french available on your (La)TeX engine, that's the professional
> % version (french.sty) which will be loaded.
> %
> % Notice to MLP users: \usepackage[english,frenchle]{mlp} should run with
> % version > 2000/07/07.
> %
> % Enjoy.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Jan 20 06:13:28 2001
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 11:11:10 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- ccaption package

Peter R Wilson writes

>     I have uploaded ccaption.tar to the UK incoming
> directory. Please use this to replace the current contents of
> directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccaption.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README
>
>     The ccaption package provides for continuation captions,
> unnumbered captions, bilingual captions, and an `anonymous caption'
> (a legend). Captions can be used outside float environments. New
> floats and subfloats can be defined. The package has been tested in
> conjunction with the rotating, caption2, subfigure, endfloat and
> hyperref packages.
>
> Changes in version 2.6e:
> o should now work smoothly with the subfigure/hyperref combination
>   of packages.

i've duly installed it; thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.de Sun Jan 21 05:54:58 2001
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:52:33 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- pdfpages

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Andreas Matthias wrote:

 > I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages.zip' to
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > Please, extract this archive to the new directory
 >
 >    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/
 >
 > The `pdfpages' package makes it easy to include pages of
 > external PDF documents. It is possible to arrange two or
 > four logical pages on each physical sheet of paper.
 >
 > It is distributed under the LPPL.

Thanks for the upload, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Sun Jan 21 05:57:16 2001
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:55:40 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: mkpic version 0.1

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Wybo Dekker wrote:

 > I uploaded mkpic version 0.1
 > to ftp.dante.de
 > it is a single file to replace all files in support/mkpic
 > license is GPL
 >
 > This is why:
 >
 > CHANGES
 >        The initial version (4 Jan 1999) had no version number.
 >
 >        version 0.1
 >            �   mkpic is now completely plain TeX based. The .sty
 >                extension has been replaced with .mac.
 >
 >            �   with the option -pdf mkpic now generates PDF
 >                output via pdftex.
 >
 >            �   the -box option generates a box around each figure
 >
 >            �   numbers generated with the mark commands now are
 >                set in mathmode
 >
 >            �   at the end of the run, unneeded files are now
 >                removed unless the -keep option was given
 >
 >            �   the option -clean removes all files related to the
 >                inputfile and then quits

Thanks for the update, I installed it as

   support/mkpic/mkpic

as requested.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Mon Jan 22 06:22:43 2001
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:21:23 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - LH Type 1 fonts for BaKoMa TeX

On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
> LH fonts in ATM compatible Type 1 font format intended for installing
> under BaKoMa TeX 3 and later.
>
> Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
>
> For more information see:
>    ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/fonts/lhfonts.html
>
> Bye.
> Basil K. Malyshev
> 21-Jan-2001

Thanks for the upload, I installed the upload as requested into

   nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/fonts

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Mon Jan 22 14:40:37 2001
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:39:59 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: minutes.sty

On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 Knut Lickert wrote:

 > Name of contribution: minutes.sty
 > Suggested location on CTAN: ftp.dante.de/macros/latex/contrib/supported/minutes/
 > Summary description: Writing minutes, version 1.6
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Version 1.6 of minutes.sty offers:
 > - new votes
 > - new fields for title (location, guest)
 > - Solved some bugs
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/minutes

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Tue Jan 23 04:31:44 2001
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:25:39 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ps2eps 1.28 in /incoming

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Roland Bless wrote:

> - I just uploaded an updated version of the ps2eps tool.
>   It's all in the ps2eps subdir of /incoming.
>
> - You can replace the existing version in "support/ps2eps"
>
> - The program is licensed under gpl.
>
> - ps2eps is a tool to produce Encapsulated PostScript Files (EPS/EPSF)
>   from usual one-paged Postscript documents. It calculates correct
>   Bounding Boxes for those EPS files and filters some special postscript
>   command sequences that can produce errorneous results on printers. EPS
>   files are needed for including (scalable) graphics into TeX documents. I
>   found out that other programs like "ps2epsi" didn't calculate the
>   bounding box always correct (because the values are put on the
>   postscript stack which may get corrupted by bad postscript code) or
>   rounded it off so that clipping the EPS cutted off some part of the
>   image. Therefore ps2eps uses a resolution of 144 dpi to get the correct
>   bounding box.
>   ps2eps needs perl, ghostscript and an ANSI-C compiler if your platform
>   is not Linux, Solaris, Digital Unix or Windows 2000/9x/NT (binaries
>   included).

Thanks for the update, i installed it in

  support/ps2eps

as you requested.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Wed Jan 24 04:13:29 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:11:47 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- updated hypernat package (v1.0a)

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Jens Berger wrote:

> I've just uploaded an updated version of hypernat.sty to
>
>       ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
>
>   This packages makes the hyperref package and the natbib package
>   with options `numbers' and `sort&compress' work together. This
>   means, that the citations (e.g [3,2,1]) will be compressed to
>   [1-3], where the `1' and the `3' are (color-)linked to the
>   bibliography.
>
> The package should work well now when using `LaTeX --> dvips --> ps2pdf' or
> `LaTeX --> dvips --> Distiller'
>
> Please replace the file in
>
>   CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/

Thanks for the update, I installed the file as

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/hypernat.sty

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Wed Jan 24 04:15:05 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:14:37 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: submission <WinShell beta>

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Ingo de Boer wrote:

> I have uploaded a beta version of WinShell to
>
>  ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell
>
>  please copy the files to
>
>  ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/winshell/
>
> licensing conditions: nosource
>
> please leave the 2.0release version and bugfix in the winshell
> directory.
>
> thanks & greets
>    Ingo

Thanks for the update, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf


> ----------
> WinShell - A graphical user interface for easy working with TeX.
> www  : http://www.winshell.de
> email: idb@winshell.de
>
> ######################
> WinShell is a graphical user interface for easy working with TeX.
> It is NOT a TeX-System. You need an additional TeX-package for Windows.
>
> - multi language support: english, german and french
>  - Project-File
>  - one-instance-program: WinShell will be started only once
>  - MDI Application: multiple documents
>  - log-file/project-file - window
>  - userdefined programs
>  - configure ToolBars (Symbols, userdef. Programs, Macros)
>  - define Macros
>  - Syntax-Highlighting
>  - choose font
>  - Unix-files can be read
>  - toggle wrap mode
>  - Command-Line-Argument: You may open WinShell with
>   winshell -m main_tex_file -c current_tex_file -l current_line
>
>

From schoepf@proteosys.de Wed Jan 24 04:19:15 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:18:45 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: MiKTeX 2.0

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Christian Schenk wrote:

> I have uploaded MiKTeX 2.0 to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex.

Thanks a lot for the upload. I installed the new version as

   systems/win32/miktex/2.0

(deleting the 2.0-beta version).

In addition, I created a zip archive

   systems/win32/miktex/2.0.zip

for the whole directory.

I intend the keep the old (1.20) version for a few days.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jan 25 06:29:33 2001
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:27:50 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: submission <WinShell beta - correct version >
Resent-Subject: Re: submission <WinShell beta - correct version >

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Ingo de Boer wrote:

> I have uploaded a beta version of WinShell to
>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell_new
>
> please copy the files to
>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/winshell/
>
> licensing conditions: nosource
>
> please leave the 2.0release version and bugfix in the winshell
> directory.
>
> thanks & greets
>    Ingo

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf



>
> ----------
> WinShell - A graphical user interface for easy working with TeX.
> www  : http://www.winshell.de
> email: idb@winshell.de
>
>
> >
> > ######################
> > WinShell is a graphical user interface for easy working with TeX.
> > It is NOT a TeX-System. You need an additional TeX-package for Windows.
> >
> > - multi language support: english, german and french
> >  - Project-File
> >  - one-instance-program: WinShell will be started only once
> >  - MDI Application: multiple documents
> >  - log-file/project-file - window
> >  - userdefined programs
> >  - configure ToolBars (Symbols, userdef. Programs, Macros)
> >  - define Macros
> >  - Syntax-Highlighting
> >  - choose font
> >  - Unix-files can be read
> >  - toggle wrap mode
> >  - Command-Line-Argument: You may open WinShell with
> >   winshell -m main_tex_file -c current_tex_file -l current_line
> >
> >
>

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 26 05:13:16 2001
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:12:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ccapt2 package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded ccaption.tar to the UK incoming
> directory. Please use this to replace the contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccaption.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README
>
>     The ccapt2 package is an experimental upgrade of the ccaption
> package (see below). It adds a set of tools for designing your own
> captioning styles, and as a side effect allows newlines in
> captions. It is slightly incompatible with the ccaption package as
> the \formatlegend command is no longer available.
>
>     I hope to replace the code in the ccaption package by the ccapt2
> code after a shakedown period. I would be most grateful if you could
> try out the ccapt2 package and let me know of any problems or
> missing functionality before I convert it to be version 2.7 of the
> ccaption package (at which time ccapt2 will be withdrawn).
>
>     The ccaption package provides continuation captions, unnumbered
> captions, a general legend, and commands to define captions for use
> outside floats. New float environments can also be defined.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Mon Jan 29 03:16:16 2001
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:15:25 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission - titlesec 2.4

----- Forwarded message from Javier Bezos -----
I uploaded to the Dante server the file titlesec.tar.gz
with release 2.4 of titlesec. Please, unpack it and
replace the contents of macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec/.
Licence is lppl.

This version contains the incremental updates in previous
releases and a bug fix, a huge bug fix, in titletoc: partial
tocs not only didn't work but in addition could broke
blocked entries. Now it seems to work. Besides that, two new
"easy" macros have been added:
  - \titleformat* in titlesec, and
  - \dottedcontents in titletoc;
and pagestyles to be applied in pages with floats is now
supported and documented.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I replaced the old version of titlesec in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec/ as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jan 29 08:41:15 2001
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:40:31 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New version of uk tug faq installed on ctan and web

i've just installed a new version of the uk tug faq (v2.5.2).  this is
an interim release of my work-in-progress, prompted by the appearance
of miktex v2.0

i've added a few things, and rearranged others.  the only major change
is a new proto-section "the joy of tex errors"; this section aims to
offer general advice about understanding errors, and solutions to
specific apparently incomprehensible error reports.

as always, contributions to all parts of the faq are welcome at any
time; i don't always manage to process them terribly quickly, though.

web address: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
ctan location: usergrps/uktug/faq
mail contact: uktug-faq@tex.ac.uk

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jan 31 03:26:32 2001
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:25:32 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Eplain 2.8.1 uploaded to dante.ctan.org

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Dorai Sitaram wrote:

> I've uploaded version 2.8.1 of Eplain to
> the ftp site dante.ctan.org in the directory
> incoming.
>
> Eplain, written by Karl Berry with contributions from
> Steven Smith and others, is a TeX macro package
> that extends the definitions of plain TeX.
>
> It is released under the GPL.
>
> It goes under the macros/ subdirectory in CTAN.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   macros/eplain

as requested.

Any chance that CTAN can mirror it from an ftp server?

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jan 31 09:13:16 2001
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:12:26 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload dice3d

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Thomas Heim wrote:

>   + files uploaded:   dice3d.tar.gz
>          containing:  dice3d.mf, dice3d.tex
>   + which CTAN node:  dante.de
>   + where to put:     tex-archive/fonts/dice
>   + license:          LPPL
>   + what is it?
>    -  MF source for 2D and 3D pictures of dice
>    -  the 2D pictures are the characters 1 through 6 in
>       the font "dice3d"; the 3D pictures are in character
>       slots "a" through "x", but they are accessible
>       through ligatures of the type "NumberLetter" where the
>       "Number" is the value on the top face (1 through 6), and
>       the "Letter" is either "a" through "d" for smallest to
>       largest value on the front face, or it is "a" through "f"
>       for "1" to "6" on the front face
>    -  switching between lig tables requires uncommenting
>       the appropriate table in the source and then recompiling
>       with metafont
>    -  works reasonably well only at display sizes of 20pt and up
>    -  uses primitive TeX font selection (no .FD files provided)
>    -  dice3d.tex contains a short demo (LaTeX)

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in

  fonts/dice

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jan 31 16:21:54 2001
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:21:22 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new CTAN package: IEEEtran

A new package has been installed on CTAN and should make its way to
the various mirrors in the next day or two.  The following information
was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: IEEEtran_v13.cls
Name and email: Michael Shell
Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/IEEEtran
Summary description: This is a new beta test version (V1.3) of the
  IEEEtran.cls which is used by authors of journal papers published by
  the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
License type: Perl Artistic

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

IEEEtran_v13.cls

This is a new beta test version (V1.3) of the IEEEtran.cls
which is used by authors of journal papers published by the
Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

It is designed to fix many bugs found in the current
(as of 1/2001) version (last updated in 1996,1997) found at
the IEEE web site (www.ieee.org).

V1.3 incorporates the combined set of enhancements and bug
fixes from myself and Juergen von Hagen. A rather large
amount of effort has been put into this new version and we
hope that it results in a significant benefit to IEEE authors.

The companion file, IEEEtest_v10.tex, demonstrates some of
the bugs fixed as well as serves as an example of usage.
PLEASE READ THE SOURCE COMMENTS TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO
PROPERLY USE THIS NEW IEEEtran.cls. The itemize, enumerate,
and description lists as well as \appendix(ces) have
enhanced controls and work differently from prior versions
of IEEEtran.cls.


Users are cautioned that as a beta test, there is no
guarantee that IEEE will accept this version as the
official version. If you use it, you should include this
IEEEtran.cls with your submitted work if IEEE has a different
version on their site at the time of your
submission.

Comments should be directed to the newsgroup comp.text.tex
or to me. Please note that I contributed to IEEEtran.cls
"on the side"  and do not have the time or energy to provide
much user support.


I certainly hope and wish that all of you will be pleased
with this work.


 Michael Shell
 Ph.D. Student
 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
 The Georgia Institute of Technology
 Atlanta, Georgia USA
 1/31/2001

Special thanks to Peter Wilson (CUA) and Donald Arseneau
for allowing the inclusion of the \@ifmtarg command
from their ifmtarg LaTeX package.


Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Feb  1 03:58:54 2001
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 08:57:49 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- chngpage package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded chngpage.sty to the UK incoming
> directory. Please use this to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/chngpage.sty.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
>     The chngpage package provides commands to change the page layout
> in the middle of a document, and to robustly check for typesetting
> on odd or even pages.
>
> Changes in version 1.1b
> -----------------------
>
> o Added robust page checking commands
>
> o Fixed \marginpar-like wrong margin problem with the adjustwidth
> environment.
>
>     Thank you for maintaing CTAN. I don't want to, and sometimes
> can't because of firewalls, go chasing all over the web to find the
> latest version of something. Keep up the good work and I'm glad to
> see encouragements for authors to provide their work to CTAN. That's
> the best way to get something bug tested.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Feb  2 03:23:27 2001
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 09:22:17 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: aeguill 1.00 uploaded on ftp.dante.de/incoming

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Denis B. Roegel wrote:

> I have uploaded the file aeguill1.00.tar.gz
> in ftp.dante.de/incoming. It is a cleaned-up version
> of the aeguill package. There are no new features.
> The simplifications were suggested by Bernd Raichle.
>
> The content of the archive should replace the content
> of macros/latex/contrib/supported/aeguill.
>
> aeguill is a package providing four different kinds of
> guillemets and is especially useful when used to produce
> PDF files with the ae fonts.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Feb  2 08:31:12 2001
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:13:06 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: listings package update

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Carsten Heinz wrote:

> I've uploaded the file `listings.zip' to dante.ctan.org/incoming.
> It should be unpacked to
>
>     macros/latex/contrib/supported/listings
>
> overwriting two files and creating a patch file. This update
> adds support for Visual Basic and removes some bugs.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
  For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb  2 12:09:56 2001
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:09:23 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Announcing French "pro" V5,01 for teTeX, Unix, Linux, Mac/OS

>   I've upload the first version of French "pro" for teTeX
> which is distributed as a shareware. It is also convenient
> for any unix system which has another TeX engine but the
> installation will not be so easy. A complete GNUmakefile
> is provided which should normally do the job. Sample ordinary
> makefile is also available. Windows version will follow in few weeks.
>
> That professional version of French for LaTeX offers numerous
> facilities and features for typesetting French documents or
> even multilingual documents. Full customization. French
> guillemets, lettrines, etc.
>
>  I created a directory "pro" in the "incoming" of ftp.tex.ac.uk
> and upload french.tar.gz in it. So that file can be expanded
> in that "pro" directory and "pro" then copied to language/french
> (i guess the tar.gz is to be removed).
>
> Thanks to the ctan maintainer.

i've installed the files as requested.  (i did delete the .tar.gz
after unpacking it.)

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Feb  5 04:15:40 2001
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:14:31 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- epstopdf.sty, pdflscape.sty

On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:

> I have uploaded 'oberdiek.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> It contains two additional packages:
> * epstopdf.sty  2001/02/04 v1.1 Conversion with epstopdf on the fly.
> * pdflscape.sty 2001/02/04 v0.2 Landscape pages in PDF.
> and an updated version of readme.txt.
>
> Please install all the files of the zip file in the directory
>   CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/
> (Do not delete the other files, only readme.txt
> will be updated.)
>
> >From the readme.txt:
>
> * Package `epstopdf' adds support of handling eps images
>   to package graphic{s,x} with option `pdftex'.
>   If an eps image is detected, `epstopdf' is automatically
>   called to convert it to pdf format.
>   To get the call of `epstopdf' work, the feature `\write18'
>   has to be enabled, for example by command line option:
>     pdflatex -shell-escape test.tex
>
> * Package `pdflscape' adds PDF support to the
>   environment `landscape' of package `lscape'
>   by setting the page attribute `/Rotate'.
>   Both the pdfTeX route and the dvips method
>   are supported.
>   Use: Load this package instead of `lscape':
>     \usepackage{pdflscape}
>     \begin{landscape}...\end{landscape}

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Feb  5 09:37:59 2001
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 09:23:35 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new package on CTAN: chemarrow

A new package has been installed on the tug.ctan.org CTAN and should
propagate to other sites in the next day or two.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: chemarrow
Name and email: Thomas Schroeder
Location on CTAN: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/
Summary description: New arrows for chemical reaction schemes
License type: Generic DFSG

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This macro and font provide new arrows for chemical
reaction schemes. They are easy to use and the results
are esthetically more pleasing than using plain LaTeX.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From zierke@Dante.DE Wed Feb  7 02:51:41 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:50:30 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- ascii-cyrillic

----- Forwarded message from Laurent Siebenmann -----
"ascii-cyrillic.zip" is a zipped directory uploaded to the
ftp.dante.de incoming directory on 6 Feb.

I recommend it be unzipped to become a subdiecctory
"ascii-cyrillic" of

   tex-archive/language/

where most analogous stuff is found, notably the
directory "cyrillic" that presents Barbara
Beeton's system for exploiting the AMS WNCY 7-bit
encoded Cyrillic font system.

[A more appropriate name for Barbara's directory
would be ams-cyrillic, but one should consult her
on this change.]


IN BRIEF:

"ASCII-Cyrillic" is a new system for dealing precisely
with Cyrillic languages using no more than an ASCII
keyboard and an ASCII screen font.

LICENCE: GPL

ANNOUNCEMENT:

The ASCII-Cyrillic system currently serves modern
Russian and Ukrainian in parallel and provides a
perfectly faithful (7-bit) ASCII representation for
any 8-bit Cyrillic text file.  Such a text file has
one of many 8-bit encodings, but its ASCII-Cyrillic
representation is entirely encoding-independent. It
is also reasonably readable, and reasonably
convenient to type.  For Russian, the 33 letters
of the alphabet are typed:

     a b v g d e 'o 'z z i j k l m n o p r
     s t u f x 't 'c 'w 'w q y h 'e 'u 'a

Latin 'words' are represented with prefix "!"; for
example, Coca-Cola becomes!Coca-!Cola in
ASCII-Cyrillic. A TeX control sequence like \begin
is unchanged, as are most ASCII diacritics.

ASCII-Cyrillic is logically independent of TeX, its
fonts, and font encodings. On the other hand, it can
be used more or less as an extension of the ASCII TeX
language allowing a convenient ASCII representation
of Cyrillic in the same sense that TeX has always
provided a convenient ASCII representation of
mathematics.

The conversion both ways between 8-bit Cyrillic text
(with any encoding) and ASCII-Cyrillic is
accomplished by a TeX utility called "email-ru.tex".
(As the name suggests, it can be exploited to email
Cyrillic 8-bit typing as ASCII-Cyrillic, assuring it
is undamaged by even the the most cranky email
facilities.)

Direct composition by Knuth's TeX of ASCII-Cyrillic
text to yield Cyrillic print is not possible (but it
could be done by eTeX of the NTS project).  One has to
use "email-ru.tex" as a preprocessor to TeX.  This will
become more convenient in future versions.

ASCII-Cyrillic reached alpha status in September 2000
and is now 'beta'.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the files in
CTAN:/tex-archive/language/ascii-cyrillic as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Wed Feb  7 01:51:41 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:50:30 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- ascii-cyrillic

----- Forwarded message from Laurent Siebenmann -----
"ascii-cyrillic.zip" is a zipped directory uploaded to the
ftp.dante.de incoming directory on 6 Feb.

I recommend it be unzipped to become a subdiecctory
"ascii-cyrillic" of

   tex-archive/language/

where most analogous stuff is found, notably the
directory "cyrillic" that presents Barbara
Beeton's system for exploiting the AMS WNCY 7-bit
encoded Cyrillic font system.

[A more appropriate name for Barbara's directory
would be ams-cyrillic, but one should consult her
on this change.]


IN BRIEF:

"ASCII-Cyrillic" is a new system for dealing precisely
with Cyrillic languages using no more than an ASCII
keyboard and an ASCII screen font.

LICENCE: GPL

ANNOUNCEMENT:

The ASCII-Cyrillic system currently serves modern
Russian and Ukrainian in parallel and provides a
perfectly faithful (7-bit) ASCII representation for
any 8-bit Cyrillic text file.  Such a text file has
one of many 8-bit encodings, but its ASCII-Cyrillic
representation is entirely encoding-independent. It
is also reasonably readable, and reasonably
convenient to type.  For Russian, the 33 letters
of the alphabet are typed:

     a b v g d e 'o 'z z i j k l m n o p r
     s t u f x 't 'c 'w 'w q y h 'e 'u 'a

Latin 'words' are represented with prefix "!"; for
example, Coca-Cola becomes!Coca-!Cola in
ASCII-Cyrillic. A TeX control sequence like \begin
is unchanged, as are most ASCII diacritics.

ASCII-Cyrillic is logically independent of TeX, its
fonts, and font encodings. On the other hand, it can
be used more or less as an extension of the ASCII TeX
language allowing a convenient ASCII representation
of Cyrillic in the same sense that TeX has always
provided a convenient ASCII representation of
mathematics.

The conversion both ways between 8-bit Cyrillic text
(with any encoding) and ASCII-Cyrillic is
accomplished by a TeX utility called "email-ru.tex".
(As the name suggests, it can be exploited to email
Cyrillic 8-bit typing as ASCII-Cyrillic, assuring it
is undamaged by even the the most cranky email
facilities.)

Direct composition by Knuth's TeX of ASCII-Cyrillic
text to yield Cyrillic print is not possible (but it
could be done by eTeX of the NTS project).  One has to
use "email-ru.tex" as a preprocessor to TeX.  This will
become more convenient in future versions.

ASCII-Cyrillic reached alpha status in September 2000
and is now 'beta'.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the files in
CTAN:/tex-archive/language/ascii-cyrillic as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Wed Feb  7 02:56:24 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:56:06 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- GenMPage

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload@dante.de -----
Name of contribution: GenMPage
Name and email: Thomas Lotze
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/genmpage
Summary description: Generalizes LaTeX's minipages, allowing easy control of their appearance.
License type: Free (LPPL)

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The GenMPage package generalizes LaTeX's minipages,
allowing an easier control of their appearance. Styles
can be defined and used in order to implement logical
mark-up. Parameters that can be influenced are the
size and vertical alignment of the minipage as well as
justification and font of their content.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload, I installed the file as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Feb  8 08:11:34 2001
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:10:10 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload into CTAN

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, H.W. de Wijn wrote:

> + I have uploaded to CTAN at  dante.ctan.de  the following files:
>
>   euro-ce.doc   documentation
>   eurorm.mf     METAFONT source of the official Euro currency symbol
>                 and its condensed variants, both filled and in outline
>   euroit.mf     METAFONT source of the italic version
>   eurosl.mf     METAFONT source of the slanted version
>   euromac.mf    macros and common parameters
>   cerm.mf       METAFONT source of the CE logo
>   ceit.mf       METAFONT source of the italic version
>   cesl.mf       METAFONT source of the slanted version
>   cemac.mf      macros and common parameters
>   euro-ce.tex   test to be run with plain TeX
>
>   and have stored them in a directory named  euro-ce.  The total size is
>   about 14 kB.
>
>
> + The appropriate place for the directory  euro-ce  selfevidently would
>   be .../tex/fonts.  Please be so kind to arrange the files in the above
>   order within the directory (in which they did not appear to be after
>   uploading).
>
>
> + Licensing conditions: GNU General Public License
>
>
> + Purpose of  euro-ce in abstract form:
>
> (1) METAFONT source of the official Euro currency symbol and its
>     condensed, italic, condensed italic, slanted, and condensed slanted
>     variants, both filled and in outline.  The symbols feature a uniform
>     thickness.
> (2) METAFONT source of the CE logo, and its italic and slanted variants,
>     both filled and in outline.
>
>
> + Note:
>
>   The METAFONT files in  euro-ce  were developed in 1997 and early 1998,
>   and have been finalized on 2 June 1998.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in

  fonts/euro-ce

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Feb  8 10:54:36 2001
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:54:03 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new CTAN upload: symbols

A new package, a document, has been contributed to CTAN.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: symbols
Name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive
Summary description: Updated version (v4.11) of the comprehensive symbols list
License type: Unknown

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a list of well over 1000 symbols available for use
in LaTeX.  Changes in this new version include: T1 fonts
used only where absolutely necessary, the addition of a
README file and an ASCII symbol list (SYMLIST), and
prebuilt PostScript versions of the symbol list.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Feb  9 09:02:45 2001
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 09:01:35 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new CTAN package: nomentbl

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way through the network in the next day or two.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: nomentbl
Name and email: Brian Elmegaard
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/other/nomentbl
Summary description: Nomenclature in longtable environment
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is a redefinition of the nomencl package. Instead of the usual makeindex style it uses a longtable environment to put the symbol list in three columns, symbol, description and unit.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Feb  9 09:53:00 2001
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 09:52:32 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new package on CTAN: JavaBib

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should in the
next few days make its way through the network

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: JavaBib
Name: John Janmaat
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/utils/JavaBib
Summary description: GUI BibTeX reference manager written in Java.
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
JavaBib is a GUI BibTeX reference manager.  It is written in
Java, making it executable, in theory at least, on any platform with a Java Runtime Environment.  Beyond easy reference entry, JavaBib can search a database, and paste citation LaTeX commands to the system clipboard.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 12 08:37:55 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:36:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- cd-cover

Christian Holm Christensen writes:

> a) I've uploaded a replacement for
>
>      macros/latex/contrib/other/cd-cover
>
>   The new version is a class rather than a package as before
>
> b) I uploaded the file cd-cover.tar.gz to
>
>      ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/cd-cover.tar.gz
>
> c) The files should replace those in
>
>      macros/latex/contrib/other/cd-cover
>
> d) The Licence is GPL
>
> e) Class for typesetting various forms of CD covers.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.de Mon Feb 12 10:58:11 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:57:31 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload epsdice

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Thomas Heim wrote:

> I have just uploaded a small LaTeX package with a dice font
> in .eps format.
>
>   + files uploaded:   epsdice.tar.gz
>          containing:  epsdice.{tex, sty, cfg, eps}
>                       diceface.eps
>                       readme
>   + which CTAN node:  dante.de
>   + where to put:     /macros/latex/contrib/supported/epsdice
>   + license:          LPPL
>   + what is it?
>    -  "scalable" dice font
>    -  works by including a clipped region from an .eps file
>    -  accepts counter values as arguments as well
>    -  requires "graphicx" package with [dvips] option, and
>                "ifthen" package

Thanks for the upload, I installed the package as requested.
For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Feb 13 09:26:53 2001
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:33:00 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- the abstract package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded abstract.tar to the UK incoming
> directory. Please use this to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/abstract directory.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README
>
>     The abstract package gives you control over the typesetting of
> the astract environment, and in particular provides for a one column
> abstract in a two column paper.
>
> Changes in version 1.1
> o Added an option for a run-in heading

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.de Tue Feb 13 11:20:27 2001
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:18:17 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: pdftricks

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Radhakrishnan C V wrote:

>    + what you've uploaded
>
>    pdftricks-1.12.tar.gz cotaining the package pdftricks.sty and
>    other documents.
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
>    dante.de
>
>    + where you want the files to go
>
>    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdftricks
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
>
>    GNU General Public Licence
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>
> pdftricks helps to include pstricks code in a LaTeX document to be
> processed by pdfLaTeX.

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdftricks

as you requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Feb 13 13:13:13 2001
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:11:31 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Version 1.3 of the AE fonts

Lars Engebretsen writes:

> -- mail the administrators (ctan@dante.de) to report:
>    + what you've uploaded
>
> Version 1.3 of the AE fonts
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
>    + where you want the files to go
>
> Replace the current version in fonts/ae
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
>
> Same as before.
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>
> The package contains a set of virtual fonts in almost T1 encoding to
> enable the use of type1 fonts and non-English hyphenation patterns at
> the same time. The glyphs are taken from the CM fonts and are
> composed to form accented glyphs.
>
> New in this version is support for the slides fonts.

i've installed the files; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Feb 14 06:26:10 2001
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:25:22 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: RFC to Bib script...

Richard Mortier writes:

> Just thought I'd let you know -- the script has been updated to
> better handle RFCs with periods in the title (eg. HTTP1.1) so
> that the author list gets properly generated, and to deal with
> what appears to have been a change in the format of the date for
> _just_ RFC768... :-/

i've installed the revised version on the archive.  thanks for the
notification...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.de Wed Feb 14 09:38:12 2001
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:37:27 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - psnfssx.zip

Walter Schmidt wrote:

> The CTAN directory
>
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx
>
> has been cleaned up and reorganized.  This directory is
> the home of packages that complement the basic PSNFSS
> distribution, primarily to support commercial PostScript
> fonts.
>
> The following subdirectories are provided:
>
> adobe
>        Sebastian Rahtz' garamond.sty, bembo.sty etc. (mainly
>        kept for historical reasons ;-)
>
> lucidabr, mathtime
>        Frank Mitelbach's macro packages to support Y&Y's
>        Lucida Bright and MathTime fonts.
>
> hvmath, tmmath
>        Macro packages to support MicroPress TM-Math and
>        HV-Math fonts (math fonts to go with Times and
>        Helvetica).  These are the latest versions, which
>        include support for the new TM- and HV-AMS fonts.
>
> LY1
>        A basic set of files to use the LY1 font encoding
>        with LaTeX.  I have replaced the previous .fd files
>        (which had severe bugs, anyway) with a fully working,
>        ready-made collection of .tfm and .fd files for
>        Times, Helvetica and Courier, with KB-compliant file
>        names.
>
> 8r
>        A package for directly using 8r-encoded fonts with
>        LaTeX; officially unsupported.
>
> obsolete
>        (I don't know what this is good for.  I've tried
>        to contact the author, so far without success.
>        Maybe this will be deleted soon.)
>
> Documentation resides in the particular directories only.


For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Thu Feb 15 12:42:38 2001
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 18:41:18 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload epsdice (UPDATE 1.1)

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Thomas Heim wrote:

> I have just uploaded an UPDATE of the LaTeX package "epsdice".
>
>   + files uploaded:   epsdice.tar.gz
>          containing:  epsdice.{sty, cfg, eps, pdf}
>                       dicetest.tex
>                       diceface.eps
>                       readme
>   + which CTAN node:  dante.de
>   + where to put:     /macros/latex/contrib/supported/epsdice
>                       after REMOVING all existing files
>   + license:          LPPL
>   + what is it?
>    -  "scalable" dice font
>    -  accepts counter values as arguments as well
>    -  requires "graphicx" package and "ifthen" package
>    -  version 1.1 works with pdfLaTeX, too
>       (suggested by Rolf Niepraschk; many thanks!)

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Fri Feb 16 06:38:52 2001
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:36:29 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: GenMPage v0.3

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 Thomas Lotze wrote:

> A submission was uploaded to /ftp/incoming/upload-20010216.001/.
>
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
>
> Name of contribution: GenMPage v0.3
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/genmpage
> Summary description: Generalization of LaTeX's minipages
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The GenMPage package generalizes LaTeX's minipages.
> Keyval options and styles can be used to determine
> their appearance in an easy and consistent way.
>
> In Version 0.3, options for paragraph indentation and
> vertical alignment with respect to the visual top and
> bottom margins have been introduced.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Fri Feb 16 12:04:37 2001
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:03:43 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: update to Scientific Viewer

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, George Pearson wrote:

>    + what you've uploaded
> ==>  sviewer351.exe
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> ==>  dante.ctan.org
>    + where you want the files to go
> ==>  This is a replacement for the existing file in the directory
> tex-archive/systems/win32/scientificviewer/
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
> ==>  No change (should be nosource)
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> ==>  Update from build 1988 to build 1990 to match the version on our
> web site.
>
> Thanks.
>
> George Pearson
> MacKichan Software, Inc.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Sat Feb 17 12:54:07 2001
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:53:31 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- Prelim2e v1.23

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Martin Schroeder wrote:

 > I have uploaded to the incoming dir of
 >         ftp.dante.de
 > the file
 >         prelim2e.zip
 > containing Version 1.23 of the prelim2e LaTeX package.
 >
 >  Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name ("^" ==> case
 >  ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----   conversion)
 >     505  Defl:X     410  19%  17-02-01  16:17  b4693946   prelim2e.asc
 >     418  Defl:X     263  37%  08-06-99  21:36  13d7f9fc   prelim2e.bug
 >   20980  Defl:X    5742  73%  17-02-01  16:14  42849120   prelim2e.dtx
 >   29248  Defl:X    9046  69%  17-02-01  16:17  60124b1c   prelim2e.dvi
 >    3732  Defl:X    1263  66%  17-02-01  16:14  6d62ec9b   prelim2e.ins
 >  ------          ------  ---                              -------
 >   54883           16724  70%                              5 files
 >
 > - From the documentation:
 > ------------ snipp ------------
 > %%  @LaTeX-package-file{
 > %%    author            = {Martin Schr\"oder},
 > %%    version           = "1.23",
 > %%    date              = "17 February 2001",
 > %%    filename          = "prelim2e.sty",
 > %%    address           = {Martin Schr\"oder
 > %%                         Cr\"usemannallee 3
 > %%                         28213 Bremen
 > %%                         Germany},
 > %%    telephone         = "+49-421-2239425",
 > %%    email             = "martin@oneiros.de",
 > %%    pgp-Key           = "2048 bit / KeyID 292814E5",
 > %%    pgp-fingerprint   = "7E86 6EC8 97FA 2995 82C3  FEA5 2719 090E",
 > %     checksum          = "63323 610 2225 20370",
 > %     codetable         = "ISO/ASCII",
 > %     keywords          = "LaTeX2e, preliminary versions, versions",
 > %     dependences       = "everyshi, scrtime",
 > %     supported         = "yes",
 > %%    docstring         = "LaTeX package which allows the marking of
 > %%                         preliminary versions of a document.
 > %
 > %                          The checksum field above contains a CRC-16
 > %                          checksum as the first value, followed by
 > %                          the equivalent of the standard UNIX wc
 > %                          (word count) utility output of lines,
 > %                          words, and characters.  This is produced
 > %                          by Robert Solovay's checksum utility."
 > %%  }
 > ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The only change from version 1.23 are the addition of a danish and an
 > italian option.
 >
 > ------------ snipp ------------
 >   \item v1.23\efill
 >  \subitem General:\ \textnormal  {\sffamily  danish} option added\pfill 2, 3
 >       \subsubitem \textnormal  {\sffamily  italian} option added\pfill
 >              2, 3
 > ------------ snapp ------------
 >
 > The files should replace their predecessors in
 >         tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms

Thanks for the update, I installed the files as requested.
 For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 19 09:49:34 2001
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:48:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new version of uk tex faq

i have just installed a new version of the uk tex faq (ctan
usergrps/uktug/faq).  this new version has several new questions
answered (including an entire section on bibliographies), and i've
taken this opportunity to distance the work i've been doing (pretty
much in isolation) from the uk tex users' group, which kicked it all
off but doesn't seem terribly active any more.

i've added a signficant improvement to the user interface of the web
version: you may now identify questions with symbolic labels, rather
than with numbers.  as a result, we are no longer forced to quote
question _numbers_ in usenet posts -- for example, my most frequent
recent advice, which was

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?keyword=&question=43+44

now becomes

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instpackages+wherefiles

i never could guarantee to keep question numbers the same, but
(provided i don't delete a question) i don't imagine labels need ever
change.  (that is to say, i guarantee to continue to use my stupid old
labels...)

as always, contributions on further development of the faq are welcome
... please submit them to uktug-faq@tex.ac.uk; submissions of
questions that need answering are welcome (provided they're questions
i think i can answer ;-) -- submissions of questions with answers are
welcome without qualification.

robin fairbairns
faq maintainer, of sorts

From schoepf@proteosys.de Tue Feb 20 05:44:43 2001
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:43:22 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload updated version of TeX<->PC-converter-FAQ

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Wilfried Hennings wrote:

> I have uploaded the updated (current) version of my FAQ pages on
> converters between (La)TeX and PC-Textprocessors to ftp.dante.de/incoming
> file name wp-conv.zip, size 327198 bytes.
> This file should replace the file
> /pub/tex/help/wp-conv/wp-conv.zip

Thanks for the update, it has been installed as

  help/wp-conv/wp-conv.zip

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.de Tue Feb 20 05:47:50 2001
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:47:18 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload psnfssx.zip

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the archive file psnfssx.zip to the /incoming
> directory  at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack this archive
> in the CTAN directory  macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx,
> thus updating the following files:
>
>   ly1/ly1.txt
>   hvmath/hvmaths.ins
>   tmmath/tmmaths.ins
>
> As to ly1.txt, this fixes a misleading typo.  As to the .ins
> files, I have removed the \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}, so that
> the install scripts can be processed with plainTeX or IniTeX,
> too.

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

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Feb 21 14:23:57 2001
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:17:38 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: bundledoc (v2.0)

The `bundledoc' package on CTAN has been upgraded from v1.0 to v2.0.
The upgrade has been done at tug.ctan.org and should make its way
through the mirroring system over the next day or two.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: bundledoc (v2.0)
Name and email: Scott Pakin
Suggested location on CTAN: support/bundledoc
Summary description: Bundle together all the files needed to build a LaTeX document
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
bundledoc is a post-processor for the snapshot package
that bundles together all the classes, packages, and files
needed to build a given LaTeX document.  It reads the .dep
file that snapshot produces, finds each of the files
mentioned therein, and archives them into a single .tar.gz
(or .zip, or whatever) file, suitable for moving across
systems, transmitting to a colleague, etc.

The primary change from v1.0 to v2.0 is that all code
specific to a particular operating system or TeX
distribution has been moved into separate configuration
files.  bundledoc ships with configuration files for
teTeX+Linux and MikTeX+WinNT, and the documentation
explains how to write configuration files for other
platforms.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Feb 24 06:57:56 2001
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:57:02 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- titling package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded titling.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please
> put the contents into macros/latex/contrib/supported/titling.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README
>     The titling package provides controls over the typesetting of
> the \maketitke and \thanks commands, and makes the \title, \author
> and \date information permanantly available.
>
> Changes in version 2.0
> o Added controls for typesetting the \thanks command
> o Added \thanksmark for reusing thanks marks
> o Added a titlingpage environment as a mix of the titlepage class
> option and the titlepage environment
> o Improved the user interface for the titling
> controls. Unfortunately this makes this part of version 2.0
> incompatible with the version 1.0 interface.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Feb 24 07:00:13 2001
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:59:46 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ccaption package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded ccaption.tar to the UK incoming
> directory. Please use this to replace the entire contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccaption. (After the process the
> ccapt2.* files should have gone).
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README
>     The ccaption package provides commands for `continuation
> captions', unnumbered captions, and a non-specific legend heading
> for any environment. Methods are also provided to define captions
> for use outside float environments, to define new float
> environments, and to define your own caption styles.
>
> Changes in version 2.7
> o Tools for styling captions.
> o \formatlegend command replaced by the general styling mechanism,
> so in this slight respect version 2.7 is not upwards compatible with
> earlier versions.
> o Added extensive discussion on float placement.
>
> NOTE
>     The ccapt2 package was an experimental upgrade to version 2.6e
> of the ccaption package. As this was released a month ago and the
> trickle of comments on it has ceased, ccapt2 is now withdrawn in
> favour of ccaption v2.7.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Feb 24 07:11:58 2001
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:11:26 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: jpicedt

> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
>
> Name of contribution: jpicedt
> Name and email: Sylvain REYNAL
> Suggested location on CTAN: graphics
> Summary description: a multiplatform picture editor for LaTeX
> License type: GNU Project
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> jPicEdt is a tool that allows you to draw pictures from a
> menu-driven interface, using LaTeX's picture environment or
> epic/eepic macro packages. It is written in Java, and is therefore
> 100% multiplatform. Support for both JDK1.1.x and Java 2 is
> provided. jPicEdt is free software, and is licensed under GPL.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

thanks for the upload.  i've installed the files as you requested in
graphics/jpicedt

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Mon Feb 26 08:28:23 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:27:02 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Babel release 3.7

CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/packags/babel has now Babel release 3.7

>From the announcement file:

        What's new in release 3.7?
        Actually babel 3.7 is very much like the later releases of
        babel 3.6 (from 3.6k onwards). The concept of language
        attributes is new in this release. And support for a number of
        languages has been added. Here is a list of the changes since
        babel 3.6j:
        - Shorthands are expandable again. The disadvantage is that
          one has to type '{}a when the acute accent is used as a
          shorthand character. The advantage is that a number of other
          problems (such as the breaking of ligatures, etc.) have
          vanished.
        - Two new commands, \shorthandon and \shorthandoff have
          been introduced to enable to temporarliy witch off one or more
          shorthands.
        - Support for typesetting Sanskrit in transliteration will
          be made available in a later release of babel 3.7.
        - Support for typesetting Kannada, Devnagari and Tamil will
          be made available in a later release of babel 3.7.
        - Support for typesetting Greek has been enhaced. Code from
          the kdgreek package (suggested by the author) was added
          and \greeknumeral has been added.
        - A language attribute has been added to the \mark...
          commands in order to make sure that a greek header line comes
          out right on the last page before a language switch.
        - Support for typesetting Basque is now available thanks to
          Juan Aguirregabiria.
        - Support for typesetting Serbian with latin script is now
          available thanks to Dejan Muhamedagi'c and Jankovic
          Slobodan.
        - Support for typesetting Hebrew (and potential support for
          typesetting other rigth-to-left written languages) is now
          available thanks to Rama Porrat and Boris Lavva.
        - Hyphenation pattern files are now read inside a
          group; therefore any changes a pattern file needs to make to
          lowercase codes, uppercase codes and category codes are kept
          local to that group. If they are needed for the language, these
          changes will need to repeated and stored in \extras...
        - Support for typesetting Latin is now available, thanks to
          Krzysztof Konrad .Zelechowski.
        - The concept of language attributes is introduced. It is
          intended to be used for giving the user some control over the
          use of the features a language definition file provides. It's
          first uses are for the Greek language, where the user can select
          to use the \pi o\lambda\upsilon\tau o\nu\kappa\acute{o}
          (``Polutoniko'' or multiaccented) Greek way of typesetting
          texts, and for the Latin language where both modern and
          medieval Latin are supported.
          These attributes wil possibly find wider use in future
          releases.


Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Mon Feb 26 09:43:22 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:37:45 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX 3.20

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----

I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 3.20.
Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma/' directory.

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
26-Feb-2001

PS: Please send announce to approapriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 3.20 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 3.20 in comparison with 3.10

For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

HIGHLIGHTS

 * PostScript enabled TeX system.
   Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks* graphics.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution including about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.

GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX 3 includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 9.0, Adobe Streamline 4.0,
MatLab, CorelDraw, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters),
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * OpenType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts:
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase),
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd),
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

USER INTERFACE

* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Typesetting a selected part of a document (styles may be precompiled as format).
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents:
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Control Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Spell Checker is configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 3.20 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 3.10

  User Interface.

  * Macro Recording.
    It supports recording editting commands
    and launching external applications like to TeX and friends.
  * `Search|Gather' is generalization of `Search|Table of Contents' command.
    It is suitable for observing Headings, Labels, References, Citations,
    Figures, Tables, INI file sections, WEB Headings, etc.
    New targets may be added via Gather category.
  * `File|Erase Working Files ...' is customizable tool
    to remove TeX working files.
  * `Spell Checking': Added option for switching on/off
    handling of english '-forms.
  * `Edit|Capitalize Word' (Alt+Z) - new command.
  * `Edit|File|...' - new command set:
       + Copy Region to File ...,
       + Append Region to File ...,
       + Insert File ...
  * `Persistent Selection' flag (from `Options|Editor Settings' dialog)
    influences on selection of blocks inserted by `Edit|File|Insert File'
    and `Edit|Paste' commands. In other words, inserted blocks are
    selected when selection is not persistent.
  * `Insert|LaTeX Font Selection Command ...' - new dialog.
    Collects all LaTeX FD files available in system to show available
    font families and encodings.
    In advance this dialog provides useful features:
        + constructs LaTeX 2e font selection command:
            `\fontencoding{XX}\fontfamily{XX}...\selectfont'.
        + generates test sheet for choosed font family or encoding+family pair.
  * `Edit|Comment/Uncomment Region' commands are extended
    to handle any string defined via dialog.
  * `DVIBook' called from DVIEW via `File|Arrange DVI Pages' creates output
    file with another name than original file by appending a suffix for
    a file name. This approach takes advantages: every page arranging
    step may be undone by using `Back' command; rearranged file and
    original file may keep different paper settings.
  * `Window|Close' (Ctrl+F4) is now bind to menu.
  * `File|Close' is new command.

  Configuration.

  * Definitions for page arrangement schemes are moved
    from file BaKoMa\DVIBook.rc to resource of category DVIBook.
    This feature simplifies upgrading BaKoMa TeX with user-defined schemes.
    For more information see BaKoMa\DVIBook directory.
  * New Gather resource category is used to define different
    types of Gather, such as Headings, Labels, References, Citations, etc.
    For more information see BaKoMa\Gather directory.

  Bug fixes.

  * Use Glyph Aliases (was disabled) to compute correct mappings
    for embeding document outlines into PDF file.
    This has sense for using encodings with non-standard glyph names.
  * Fixed: crashing DVI Viewer when Paper magnification
    is undefined. Correction aligns absent or too small magnification to 1
    instead of 0.
  * Fixed: installing PLPS Fonts 1.11 by using T1SETUP script.
    Fixing includes: (1) looking encodings in DVIPS subdirectory
    (in advance to ENC subdirectory);
    (2) Adding resource /Demi in category /FWeight.

---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------
----- End forwarded message -----

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Mon Feb 26 09:42:46 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:42:19 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Babel release 3.7

I wrote:

CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/packags/babel has now Babel release 3.7

That is of course a typo.  The correct directory is
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/babel

Reinhard Zierke

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 26 11:52:27 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:52:02 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- catdvi 0.11

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho writes:

> I have uploaded catdvi-0.11.tar.gz into ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming.
> The contents of that archive should replace the current content of
> the directory CTAN:/dviware/catdvi/.
>
> The catdvi program is licensed under the GNU General Public License,
> version 2 or later.
>
> CatDVI is a DVI to plain text translator aiming to be a superior free
> replacement for dvi2tty.  In some areas it already outperforms dvi2tty,
> while in some other areas it is clearly inferior to it.  The program is
> under development.
>
> This new version includes a much improved layout algorithm from Bj�rn
> Brill, which does amazingly good work (for example, it can generate
> a fairly pleasantly readable text file from a multicolumn DVI file).
> Also there are a new sequential option, support for a new font encoding,
> support for certain OT1 accents and some bug fixes.
>
> The home page for this program is http://catdvi.sourceforge.net/ .
> There is a mailing list for the CatDVI project, joining instructions
> are at http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/catdvi-misc .

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Feb 27 04:03:22 2001
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:02:40 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- chngpage package

Peter R Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded chngpage.sty to the UK incoming
> directory. Please use this to replace the current chngpage.sty in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
>     The chngpage package provides commands to change the page layout
> in the middle of a document, and to robustly check for typesetting
> on odd or even pages.
>
> Changes in version 1.1c
> -----------------------
> o Fixed odd/even page check problem when used with the calc package.
> o Fixed odd/even page check problem when used with the hyperref package.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Feb 28 04:44:29 2001
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:42:59 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: random numbers

erich janka writes:

> This submission contains the lcg package for generating random numbers
> (integers) -- via  a linear congruential generator (Schrage's method).
> The random numbers are written to a counter.
> The keyval package is used to set values for the range, a seed, and the
> name of the counter.
> My intention was to provide an easy way to use random numbers within
> latex.
>
> If you decide to put the packate on CTAN,
>    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other
> might be the right place.

i have installed the package in macros/latex/contrib/other/lcg; since
the original mail (quoted above) erich has told me that he wishes to
license the macros under the lppl.

thanks, erich, for the submission -- it looks rather fun...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar  1 06:29:38 2001
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:28:26 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: txfonts and pxfonts encoding error fix

Young U. Ryu writes:

> In the /incoming directory of the UK CTAN site, I uploaded
>
>     px_patch1.zip   (patch for pxfonts)
>     tx_patch1.zip   (patch for txfonts)
>
> Please place
>
>     px_patch1.zip in /tex-archive/fonts/pxfonts
> and
>     tx_patch1.zip in /tex-archive/fonts/txfonts
>
> without unzipping them. I expect users to download the zipped files
> and unzip them by themselves.
>
> An encoding mistake in Math Italic fonts (txmi and txmi1 for txfonts,
> and pxmi and pxmi1 for pxfonts) are fixed.
> That is, "5E and "5F were accidentally switched.
> This patch corrects the mistake.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Mar  1 09:21:07 2001
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:20:18 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new CTAN package installed: cv

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: CV
Name and email: Philipp Maier
Location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/cv
Summary description: A Curriculum Vitae
License type: Generic DFSG

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A style for a curriculum vitae and an example CV.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Mar  2 05:12:12 2001
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:57:46 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Uploads to ctan

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Eitan Gurari wrote:

>    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    + what you've uploaded
>    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 1. AlProTex.sty
> 2. TeXProject.sty
> 3. tex4ht.ZIP
>
>    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ftp.dante.de
>
>    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    + where you want the files to go
>    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Replacements to existing files in ctan
>
> 1. AlProTex.sty:    /tex-archive/web/protex/
>
> 2. TeXProject.sty:  /tex-archive/graphics/dratex/
>
> 3. tex4ht.zip:      /tex-archive/support/TeX4ht/
>
>    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
>    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> lppl
>
>    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>    (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing)
>    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 1. AlProTex.sty:
>
>    Minor modifications to a (La)TeX-based literate programming
>    system already in ctan, for compatibility with TeX4ht
>
> 2. TeXProject.sty:
>
>    An enhanced version of a (La)TeX-based project management system
>    already at ctan. Many of the enhancements were motivated by input from
>    Sven Utcke, and he deserves a lot of thanks for that.
>
> 3. tex4ht.zip:
>
>    An enhanced version of a system already in ctan for translating
>    (La)TeX sources into hypertext

Thanks for the updates, I installed them as requested.
For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar  5 04:17:56 2001
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:16:46 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: braille.sty

On Sat, 3 Mar 2001 William Park wrote:

> Name of contribution: braille.sty
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/braille/
> Summary description: Update of my old package (macros/latex/contrib/supported/braille/braille.sty)
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 'braille.sty' updated.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar  5 04:20:21 2001
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:19:49 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of amsthdoc_it.tar.gz

On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Onofrio de Bari wrote:

> My name is Onofrio de Bari and I'm a member of GILDA/GUILD (Italian group
> of translators of LaTeX documentation).
> I uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file amsthdoc_it.tar.gz, which is a
> traslation into Italian of the user's manual of the amsthm package (a
> package by AMS used to typeset theorems, conjectures and similar).
> My upload should go under the directory /tex-archive/info/italian, where
> there are some other documents we already translated.

Thanks for the upload. I installed the files in the new directory

 info/italian/amsthdoc

as you requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar  5 04:26:50 2001
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:26:18 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: tmv0103.tgz

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, thomas moor wrote:

> (1)
> I have uploaded the file tmv0103.tgz, holding version v01.03 of tmview.
> I have also uploaded the file tmv0103.README, holding the
> corresponding README file.
>
> (2):
> I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de
>
> (3):
> I suggest to replace the old dviware/tmview/tmv0005.tgz by tmv0103.tgz;
> and to copy tmv0103.README to dviware/tmview/README
>
> A new version of the READ
>
> (4)
> Licensing: tmview is freely redistributable.
>
> (5)
> tmv0103.tgz contains the sources of the dvipreviewer tmview, version v01.03.
> It is ment as an update of version v00.05, which I've uploaded last year.
> The new version fixes a number bugs reported duting the last year.
> There has also been added some limited support for color specials.
>
>
> List of files
> ./tmview/README       Instalation guide
> ./tmview/CHANGES      History of Changes
> ./tmview/VER0103      empty file, make people see the current version
> ./tmview/IAFA-PACKAGE IAFA document desription
> ./tmview/Make*        Makefiles for linux and  Solaris
> ./tmview/doc/*        manuals
> ./tmview/src/*        common sourcefiles
> ./tmview/svga/*       svgalib only sources
> ./tmview/fb/*         framebuffer only sources
> ./tmview/lX/*         X Window System only sources

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  dviware/tmview

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Mar  5 07:19:28 2001
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:18:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: package lcg -- minor improvememts

erich janka writes:

> I've correctde some typos in the docu and implemented a key "quiet"  (to
> supress the output to the screen and the log-file) to my lcg package for
> random numbers because of a user request.

i've installed the upgrade in macros/latex/contrib/other/lcg

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Wed Mar  7 04:13:09 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:12:13 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- paralist v2.0a

----- Forwarded message from Bernd Schandl -----
I have uploaded the file paralist.20a.zip to the /incoming directory of
ftp.dante.de.

The package is licensed under the LPPL.

>From the abstract:

        This style file provides some new list environments. Itemized and
        enumerated lists can be typesetted within paragraphs, as
        paragraphs and in a compact version. Most environments have
        optional arguments to format the labels.
        Additionally, the \LaTeX\ environments |itemize| and |enumerate|
        can be extended to use a similar optional argument.

The new version has two new options and corresponding macros to format
labels and references of enumerated environments as "1.", "1.1." ...

I recommend placing the unpacked files README, paralist.ins and
paralist.dtx in
        macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist/
replacing the old versions.

Thanks
  Bernd
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks fo the updated version.  I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Wed Mar  7 04:20:52 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:19:04 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX 3.20 minor fix

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 3.20.
Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

There is no new features.
This update fixes problem related with installing BaKoMa teX 3.20
in update mode over BaKoMa teX 3.10.

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
5-Mar-2001

PS: Please send announce to approapriate mailing lists and news groups.
----- End forwarded message -----

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Wed Mar  7 04:30:36 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:30:07 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- TeXshade 1.5 update

----- Forwarded message from Eric Beitz -----
I have just uploaded an update of the TeXshade macro package to
"dante.ctan.org/incoming/TeXshade1.5/". Please replace the old files in
"/tex-archive/latex/contrib/supported/texshade/" with the new ones.

TeXshade is a macro package for setting shaded nucleotide and protein
alignments. It can process multiple sequence alignments in the .MSF and the
.ALN file format. It provides in addition to common shading  algorithms
special shading modes featuring functional aspects, e.g. charge or
hydropathy, and a plenitude of commands for handling shading colors, text
styles, labels, legends and allows the user to define completely new
shading modes. The update fixes some bugs and offers new commands for the
fine adjustment of feature lines and allows one to add a caption to the
alignment.

The license is GPL.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the update in
CTAN:/tex-archive/latex/contrib/supported/texshade
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Wed Mar  7 04:35:34 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:34:59 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- eulervm-26.zip

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file eulervm-26.zip to the /incoming directory
at dante.ctan.org.

Please, unzip it in the CTAN directory fonts/eulervm, thus
replacing the files "eulervm.dtx" and "readme".

This is version 2.6 of the LaTeX package eulervm for using the
Euler math fonts with LaTeX.  It should flawlessly work with
the latest amsmath.sty now.  (Keeping in sync with the changes
in amsmath is really a mess!)  Besides, I have provided a
package option to load the Euler fonts at 95% of their
nominal size, thus blending better with certain text fonts,
e.g. Minion.

Note that the virtual fonts are unchanged.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/eulervm as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Mar  7 12:47:41 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:46:45 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new CTAN package: compactbib.sty

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will make its
way through the mirroring system over the next day or two.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: compactbib.sty
Name: Antoine Lejay
Location on CTAN: ftp://www.tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/compactbib
Summary description: For multiples bibliographies with different names and continuous numbering
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Allows many "thebibliography" environments with
continuous numbering.
Furthermore, the vertical space between the entries is slightly smaller.
A given bibliography does not necessarily start with \section{References} and this may be customized.
This package may be useful for curriculum vitaes or
progress reports.
This package is not interfaced with BibTeX
(except using "cut and paste")
(See multibib, bibunits, bibtopics ... for related packages).

Documentation: see compactbib.sty
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar  9 13:41:55 2001
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 18:41:00 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- chbibref package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded chbibref.sty to the UK incoming
> directory. Please move this to macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
>     The chbibref package provides a class-independent means of
> changing the Bibliography/References title.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 12 05:45:59 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:43:24 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- numprint

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Harald Harders wrote:

> I have uploaded the file numprint.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
> It contains the new release of the package numprint.sty.
> Please replace all files in the directory
> CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/numprint by the contents of the file
> numprint.tar.gz.
> The license stays lppl.
>
> Description:
>
> This package prints numbers with a separator every three digits and
> convert numbers given as 123e456 to 123\cdot 10^{456}. If an optional
> argument is given it is printed upright as unit.
>
> Changes since the last release:
>
> v0.04  2001/03/06  Added support for pure 10^{123} format using the
>                    command \numprint{e123}
> v0.03  2001/02/10  Fixed bug with units

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in:

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/numprint

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 12 06:03:35 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:44:47 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- sc3demo.tex

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Rolf Niepraschk wrote:

> I have uploaded the file `sc3demo.tex' to the /incoming
> directory at ftp.dante.de. `sc3demo.tex' is another small example for
> the LaTeX package `sidecap'. Please put the file to
>
> ==>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/sidecap/

Thanks for the upload, I installed the file as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 12 05:50:17 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:46:04 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- pdfpages v0.1e

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Andreas Matthias wrote:


> I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages.zip' to
> ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> Please, extract this archive and replace the files in
>
>    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/
>
> The `pdfpages' package makes it easy to include pages of
> external PDF documents. It is possible to arrange two or
> four logical pages on each physical sheet of paper.
>
> Changes in version 0.1e:
> o  Support of landscape format
> o  Pages are being centered automatically
>
> It is distributed under the LPPL.

Thankls for the update, I installed the files as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 12 05:47:58 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:47:23 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload: ttf2tex

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Philipp Lehman wrote:

> I've uploaded ttf2tex to /incoming/ttf2tex/ on ftp.dante.de; the
> directory contains the ttf2tex.sh script and its documentation. I
> suggest placing the files in /tex-archive/support/ttf2tex/. This
> material is released under the GPL.
>
> >From the README:
>
> ttf2tex is a Bash script which will create all files neccessary
> to use TrueType fonts with teTeX from a set of *.ttf files. It
> will sort them, build the map files required by ttf2pk and
> pdftex, and optionally install them. It is designed for
> UNIX/Linux systems running teTeX.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as requested, in

  support/ttf2tex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 12 05:59:59 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:51:49 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Updates for TeXshade and TeXtopo

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Eric Beitz wrote:

> I have just uploaded the second update of the TeXtopo package to
> "dante.ctan.org/incoming/TeXtopo/". Please replace the old files in
> "/tex/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/textopo/" with the new ones.
>
> Please announce this in the newsgroups.
>
> TeXtopo provides two LaTeX environments: (a) the textopo environment for
> plotting topology data of membrane proteins derived from PHD predictions,
> from SwissProt database files or from manually entered data, and (b) the
> helical wheel environment  draws transmembrane domains as seen from above
> or beneath the cell membrane. Both kinds of  plots can be richly decorated
> with special shading for domains of interest, with labels and legends.
> TeXtopo is fully compatible with TeXshade (v1.3 and up) -- the
> comprehensive alignment shading package for the TeX community.  This allows
> one to apply calculated  shading based on sequence conservation and
> functional aspects of the residue sidechains.
>
> The lincense is GPL.

Thanks for the update, I installed the package as requested, in:

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/textopo

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Mar 12 06:27:22 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:26:40 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Forwarded mail....

Petr Vabishchevich writes:

> Name of contribution: MPEdit
> Name and email: Petr Vabishchevich
> CTAN node: ftp.dante.de
> Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/metapost/tools/MPEdit
> Summary description: MetaPost text editor for Windows 98, 95, NT 4,
> and 5, ME.
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> MPEdit is developed to provide main possibilities on creation and
> editing of MetaPost files. MPEdit use of the standard Multiple
> Document Interface (MDI).
> MPEdit works in LaTex environment. For production and review of a
> figure in PostScript format the programs mp, latex, dvips and
> gsview are used.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i have installed the package as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Mar 12 09:54:09 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:51:44 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: info/symbols

The info/symbols package has been upgraded at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: symbols
Name and email: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: info/symbols/comprehensive
Summary description: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
License type: Unknown

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a major update to the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol
List.  While the previous version contained over 1200
symbols, this new version contains over 2000!  Other
changes include:

   * The symbol tables have been categorized into "text"
     symbols, "math" symbols, "science/technology"
     symbols, and "other" symbols.

   * Many of the tables have been cleaned up.  Columns no
     longer jut out deep into the margins; variable-sized
     operators are shown in multiple sizes (a la Lamport's
     tables); and symbols are sorted alphabetically within
     each table.

   * Explanatory notes have been added to an "Additional
     information" chapter and to individual tables.

Enjoy,
- -- Scott

----------------------------------------------
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Mar 13 05:05:32 2001
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:04:34 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New version of the alg package

Staffan Ulfberg writes:

> I've uploaded alg.tgz to ftp.tex.ac.uk.  The files in this archive are
> new versions of the files in .../macros/latex/contrib/other/alg.  The
> package is distributed under the lppl licence.
>
> The differnces from the last version are the following:
>
> * Added support for German.
> * Fixed typo in the French language support.
> * Now uses the language selected for the babel package, if it is loaded.
> * \algmarginwidth replaced by \algleftmarginwidth and
>   \algrightmarginwidth for more flexibility.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar 14 05:28:06 2001
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:26:38 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submissions --- tocloft and ccaption packages

Peter Wilson writes

>     I have uploaded tocloft.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please
> use this to replace the current contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocloft.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README
>     The tocloft package provides control ove the typography of the
> Table of Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables. You can also
> create your own kinds of `List of...'
>
> Changes in version 2.0
> o Added commands to create new `List of...'
> o Can eliminate page numbers from list entries
> o Removed the requirement for the stdclsdv package

and

>     I have uploaded ccaption.tar to the UK incoming
> directory. 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 `continuation captions', unnamed
> captions, and a legend heading for any environment. Methods are
> provided to define captions for use outside float environments and
> to define new floats, subfloats and List of float. Tools are
> provided for defining your own captioning styles.
>
> Changes in version 3.0
> o Provides same tools as tocloft for styling List of floats.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Mar 15 04:16:45 2001
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:15:44 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: varindex

A submission was uploaded to CTAN.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

> Name of contribution: varindex
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/varindex (replace old version)
> Summary description: New release 1.20 improves the handling of "placeholders".
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> "varindex" is a LaTeX package which provides a convenient
> front-end for the \index command.
> For example, it allows to generate multiple index entries
> in almost any form by a single command.
> Extremely customizable.
> Works with all versions of LaTeX and probably most other
> TeX formats, too.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the update as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar 15 12:35:15 2001
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:34:40 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update of fullpict.sty

Bruce Shawyer writes:

> An updated version of  fullpict.sty  has recently been installed on CTAN.
> This is an updated version of the March 1996 and Feb 1999 package.
>
> The Feb 1999 version enhances the previous enviroment   scalepicture
> in that it works properly inside tabular and minipage environments, and
> also choose at appropriate font size for the scale of the picture.
>
>          \begin{scaledpict}{percent}(a,b)[(c,d)]
>          ...
>          \end{scaledpict}
>
>      As in the picture environment, the (c,d) is optional and
>      defaults to (0,0) if not given.
>
>      percent is an integer in the range 0 < percent < 112
>
> Also added was a macro to make the placement of labels easy:
>          \angleput{angle}[radius] (x,y){label}
>                  angle            is in degrees, between -360 and +360
>                  radius           [optional - default 1] adjusts the distance from the point (x,y)
>                  (x,y)            are the coordinates of the point
>                  label            is the label
>
> There are (obvious) short forms for some angles:
>          \nput(x,y){label}        \sput(x,y){label}
>          \eput(x,y){label}        \wput(x,y){label}
>          \neput(x,y){label}       \seput(x,y){label}
>          \nwput(x,y){label}       \swput(x,y){label}
>
> The new version adds the following macros, which make use of the size of the scaled
> picture box:
>
> \xaxis                    --- draws a vector just longer than the axis length
> \yaxis                    --- draws a vector just longer than the axis length
> \axes                     --- draws vectors  just longer than the axes lengths
> \xticks{#1}[#2]           --- \#1 -- gap between ticks,
>                           --- \#2 -- length of tick -- default value is  1
> \yticks{#1}[#2]           --- \#1 -- gap between ticks,
>                           --- \#2 -- length of tick -- default value is  1
> \ticks{#1}[#2]            --- \#1 -- gap between ticks,
>                           --- \#2 -- length of tick -- default value is  1
> \xnums{#1}[#2]            --- \#1 -- gap between numbers,
>                           --- \#2 -- dist below axis -- default value is  .25
> \ynums{#1}[#2]            --- \#1 -- gap between numbers,
>                           --- \#2 -- dist to left of axis -- default value is  .25
> \nums{#1}[#2]             --- \#1 -- gap between numbers,
>                           --- \#2 -- dist from axis -- default value is  .25
> \origin{#1}               --- \#1 -- size of circle centred on the origin
>
> Please direct all questions to me at
>
>          Bruce Shawyer <bshawyer@math.mun.ca>

as bruce notes, i have already installed the new version at
macros/latex/contrib/supported/fullpict

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar 15 12:39:04 2001
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:38:36 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- amended ccaption and tocloft packages

Peter Wilson writes:

>     You may have noticed from ctt that I was too quick off the mark
> with my last updates of the ccaption and tocloft packages. I have
> put yet another pair of *.tar files in the UK incoming
> directory. Please use these to replace the just replaced contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/(ccaption|tocloft).
>
>     As usual the distributions are under the LPPL.

the corrected versions have been installed.

>     Included below are my original (yesterdays) announcements.
>
> Thanks and apologies for the extra work

no problem.  your submissions are always well-formatted for
installation -- it only takes a few moments.

i've repeated the notices, below.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

> Subject: CTAN submission --- ccaption package
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:51:24 -0800
>
>     I have uploaded ccaption.tar to the UK incoming
> directory. 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 `continuation captions', unnamed
> captions, and a legend heading for any environment. Methods are
> provided to define captions for use outside float environments and
> to define new floats, subfloats and List of float. Tools are
> provided for defining your own captioning styles.
>
> Changes in version 3.0
> o Provides same tools as tocloft for styling List of floats.

and

> Subject: CTAN submission --- tocloft package
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:56:10 -0800
>
>     I have uploaded tocloft.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please
> use this to replace the current contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocloft.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README
>     The tocloft package provides control ove the typography of the
> Table of Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables. You can also
> create your own kinds of `List of...'
>
> Changes in version 2.0
> o Added commands to create new `List of...'
> o Can eliminate page numbers from list entries
> o Removed the requirement for the stdclsdv package

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar 16 12:28:42 2001
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:27:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New material for CTAN: MNRAS class file

Nadine Thompson writes:

> On behalf of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, I have
> uploaded a new LaTeX class file and associated documents to the 'incoming'
> directory of the CTAN site ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> I have created a directory mnras, which contains the following files.
>     readme.txt      this listing of files
>     mn2e.cls        MNRAS LaTeX 2e class file
>     mn2e.bst        BibTeX style file
>     new_feat.tex    list of features new to the class file
>
> Please place the files in directory
> /tex-archive/macros/latex2e/supported/mnras
>
> These files are intended to supplement our LaTeX 2.09 style file, which is
> already on your site in a different directory. Please do not delete the old
> style file!
>
> Licensing conditions: nosell
> The package is freely distributable but may not be modified.
>
> The MNRAS class file is a LaTeX 2e class file that enables authors to
> produce papers for submission to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
> Society. The accompanying .bst file enables BibTeX users to produce
> references in a format suitable for the journal.

after a somewhat protracted discussion about licensing, i have
installed the macros in nonfree/macros/latex/contrib/supported/mnras

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Mar 19 12:27:57 2001
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:26:53 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- appendix and hanging packages

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded appendix.tar and hanging.tar to the UK incoming
> directory. Please use these to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/(appendix|hanging) directories.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the READMEs
>
>     The appendix package provides various ways of formatting the
> titles of appendices. Also (sub)appendices environments are provided
> that can be used, for example, for per chapter/section appendices.
>
> Changes in version 1.1a
> o Fixed unfortunate interaction between the \addappheadtotoc and
> \appendixpage commands.
>
> ----------
>
>     The hanging package facilitates the typesetting of hanging
> paragraphs. It also enables typesetting with hanging punctuation.
>
> Changes in version 1.2
> o Added option for less aggressive hanging punctuation

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Mar 21 09:42:20 2001
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:40:20 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: tfmpk

The tfmpk package located on CTAN in fonts/utilities/tfmpk
has been upgraded at tug.ctan.org, and that upgrade should
make its way through the mirroring process in the next day
or two.

Please note that the home page for this package is now
    http://yotam.freehosting.net/software/tfmpk/

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Mar 22 09:27:35 2001
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:25:56 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Files uploaded to CTAN

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Juan M. Aguirregabiria wrote:

> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming the following:
>
> File           which replaces
> -----------------------------
> texor111.exe   texor108.exe
> texor111.txt   texor108.txt
>
> in the systems/win32/util directory
>
> This program is
> nosource

Thanks for your upgrade. I installed it in

  systems/win32/util

as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Mar 22 09:32:59 2001
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:32:07 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- pdfpages v0.1f

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Andreas Matthias wrote:

> I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages.zip' to
> ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> Please, extract this archive and replace the files in
>
>    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/
>
> The `pdfpages' package makes it easy to include pages of
> external PDF documents. It is possible to arrange two or
> four logical pages on each physical sheet of paper.
>
> New feature in version 0.1f:
> o  The option `pages' allows a more flexible
>    selection of the pages to be included.
>    E.g.: pages={3,5-11,20,38}
>
> It is distributed under the LPPL.

Thanks for the upgrade, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar 22 12:37:54 2001
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:37:20 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: updload of French Light V5,02

Bernard GAULLE writes:

>   I've upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk in the incoming directory
> the file french.tar.gz wich contains the material for
> replacing the according files in language/french and
> in language/french/le. Files are still LPPL. The main
> modification is related to a bug in the use of \footnote
> which, in few cases, could stop with an "undefined!" message.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Mar 23 10:22:16 2001
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:21:17 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Updates of the PSTricks distribution

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Denis Girou wrote:

>   Thanks to download the content of the file pstricks.tar.gz that I just
> put on ftp.dante.de :
>
> pstricks/
> pstricks/CHANGES
> pstricks/VERSIONS
> pstricks/generic/
> pstricks/generic/pst-node.tex
> pstricks/contrib/
> pstricks/contrib/README
> pstricks/contrib/pst-gr3d/
> pstricks/contrib/pst-gr3d/pst-gr3d.dtx
> pstricks/contrib/pst-gr3d/pst-gr3d.ins
> pstricks/contrib/pst-gr3d/README
> pstricks/contrib/pst-poly/
> pstricks/contrib/pst-poly/pst-poly.dtx
> pstricks/contrib/pst-poly/pst-poly.ins
> pstricks/contrib/pst-poly/README
> pstricks/contrib/pst-lens/
> pstricks/contrib/pst-lens/pst-lens.dtx
> pstricks/contrib/pst-lens/pst-lens.ins
> pstricks/contrib/pst-lens/README
>
>   It contain:
>
>      - a patch to the core file pst-node.tex,
>      - two new versions of existing contributions `pst-gr3d' and `pst-poly'
> (to draw for three dimensional grids and to draw polygons),
>      - a new contribution `pst-lens' to simulate the effect of a lens,
>      - some updates of README and description files.
>
>   They are delivered under the LaTeX Project Public Licence.

Thanks a lot for the upgrade, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Mar 23 10:38:46 2001
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:38:14 +0100
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: allrunes

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 Carl-Gustav Werner wrote:

> Name of contribution: allrunes
> Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/fonts/allrunes
> Summary description: Fonts and LaTeX package for almost all runes.
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This collection of fonts and the LaTeX package gives
> access to almost all runes ever used in Europe. It
> covers not only the main forms, but really a lot of varieties.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the uploda, I installed it in

 fonts/allrunes

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Mar 24 07:41:51 2001
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 12:41:11 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- titling package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded titling.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please
> use this to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/titling subdirectory.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>     The titling package provides controls over the typesetting of
> the \maketitle and \thanks commands, makes the \title, \author and
> \date information permanently available, and allows multiple titles
> in a single document.
>
> Changes in version 2.1
> o Support for new titling elements to be printed by \maketitle
> o Additional controls for the layout of thanks text
> o Method for centering a titlepage title on the physical page

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 26 02:43:24 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:40:49 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- new package polynom

On 23 Mar 2001, Carsten Heinz wrote:

> Once again, I've uploaded the (corrected) file `polynom.zip' to
> dante.ctan.org/incoming. Proposed location of the new package is
>
>     macros/latex/contrib/supported/polynom
>
> Licensing is LPPL. The abstract is given below. Reply to comp.text.tex
> is appreciated.
>
> Many thanks in advance
> Carsten Heinz
>
> --- Abstract ---
>
> The polynom package implements macros for manipulating polynomials,
> for example it can typeset long polynomial divisions.
> The main test case and application is the polynomial ring in one
> variable with rational coefficients.

Thanks for the upload, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 26 02:46:14 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:41:36 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: New upload: dvii - TeX dvi information utility

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Adam H. Lewenberg wrote:

> Dear CTAN maintainer:
>
> * Uploaded: Files dvii.c, dviiman.dvi, dviiman.pdf,
>             and README to /incoming on ftp.dante.de
>             (I mistakenly added dvii.exe which I ask you to REMOVE.)
>
> * Location: place in tex-archive/dviware/dvii replacing old files
>
> * License: these files are licensed under the LPPL (Latex Project Public
>            License)
>
> * What this upload does:
>
>   Updates dvii to version 0.40. dvii now can display
>   which fonts appear on each page.
>
>   More information on dvii can be found at
>
>                 http://www.macrotex.net/dvii/dvii.html
>
>
>
>   From the README file:
>
> dvii is a utility written in C that extracts information from a TeX
> dvi file and displays it on the command line. Information displayed
> can include a summary:
>
>   File comment (usually the date file was compiled)
>   File size
>   Number of (physical) pages
>   Number of fonts
>
> as well as more detailed information:
>
>   Font names for all fonts used
>   List of physical page number/TeX page number pairs
>   List of all \specials and the page on which they appear
>   List of all fonts on a per page basis
>
> More information can be found at the dvii home page
>
>          http://www.macrotex.net/dvii/dvii.html
>
>   Currently, there are some pre-compiled executables (DOS, Win 9X/NT,
>   Solaris, OSF1, and Linux) available at the dvii website
>   www.macrotex.net/dvii/dvii.html. If none of these are suitable,
>   you will need to compile the C source.  To compile, you need to have
>   a C compiler along with the standard C libraries. For example, if
>   you have the C compile gcc, type
>
>      gcc dvii.c -o dvii.exe  (assuming DOS/Windows platform)
>      gcc dvii.c -o dvii      (assuming Unix platform)

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  dviware/dvii

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 26 08:09:45 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:07:06 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload - KTeXShell (update to version 0.4.0)

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Arnd Fischer wrote:

> I've just uploaded the source archive ktexshell-0.4.0.tar.gz to
> ftp.dante.de.
> KTeXShell is a graphical frontend to TeX and it's related tools.
> The package should replace the ktexshell package under
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/unix/ktexshell.
> This update does now compile with KDE2 and contains some minor bugfixes and
> KDE2 specific
> modifications.
>
> License is GPL as before.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  systems/unix/ktexshell

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Mar 26 08:22:07 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:20:00 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: uk tex faq

i have installed a new version of the uk tex faq on ctan.  this new
version (v2.5.4) represents a fair bit of hard work on my part, along
with some useful contributions from other ("real") experts.

the new version (which proffers 185 "answers") is also available via
http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq

there are still a number of questions in my to-do list; if you would
like to offer more such questions, or to correct my ideas/wording in
existing questions ... or even offer some of your time for the work
... please feel free to contact the faq address you see in the on-line
version, or contact me direct.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 26 10:11:56 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:09:50 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- pdfpages (bug fix)

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Andreas Matthias wrote:

> I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages.zip' to
> ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> Please, extract this archive and replace the files in
>
>    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/
>
> Delete the file `pic' which is now called `pic.tex'.
>
> I have just fixed the problem with the filename. There
> are no new features in this version of pdfpages.

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

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Mar 27 12:23:01 2001
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:22:46 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new package on CTAN: curve

A new LaTeX package has been uploaded and installed at tug.ctan.org.
It will make its way through the mirroring process in the next
day or two.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: curve
Name and email: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/curve
Summary description: A LaTeX2e class for making curriculum vitae's
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is CurVe 1.0, the first public release.

CurVe is a class package that hopefully will make your life easier when you want to write your CV. It provides you with a set of commands to create rubrics, entries in these rubrics etc. CurVe will then properly format your CV for you
(possibly splitting it onto multiple pages, repeating the titles etc), which is usually the most painful part of CV writing. Another nice feature of CurVe is its ability to manage different CV "flavors" simultaneously. It is in fact
often the case that you want to maintain slightly divergent versions of your CV at the same time, in order to emphasize on different aspects of your background. CurVe also comes with support for AUC-TeX.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    Virtually yours,
    CTAN Upload management
------- End of forwarded message -------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Mar 27 12:40:07 2001
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:39:55 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: fink

------- Start of forwarded message -------
An upgrade of the LaTeX package fink has been uploaded to,
and installed on, tug.ctan.org.  It should make its way
through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=========================================================
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: fink
Name and email: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/fink
Summary description: Keep track of the current file name
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.1: Bugfix of version 1.0

        This package looks over your shoulder and keeps track of files
\input'ed (the LaTeX way) or \include'ed in your document. You then have a
permanent access to the name of the file currently being processed through the
macro \finkfile. FiNK also comes with support for AUC-TeX.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Mar 27 12:42:28 2001
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:41:45 -0500
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: fixme

An upgrade of the LaTeX package fixme has been installed on
tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring process
in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: fixme
Name and email: Didier Verna
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported
Summary description: provides `fixme' notes in draft documents
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.2: german support from Harald Harders

        This package provides you with a way of inserting fixme notes in
documents being developped (in draft mode). Such notes can appear in the
margin of the document, as index entries, in the log file and as warnings on
stdout. It is also possible to summarize them in a list, and in the index. If
your document is in a final version, any remaining fixme note will produce an
error. FiXme also comes with support for AUC-TeX.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar 28 07:13:03 2001
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:12:03 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: excel2latex installed on ctan

with the author's permission, i have installed joachim marder's
excel->latex (table) translator on ctan in support/excel2latex

from the readme:

  It's hard to make tables in LaTex, especially if some columns are calculated.
  This Excel-To-LaTeX converter exports the current selection as a LaTeX file,
  which can be included via the \input command in an existing LaTeX document.
  Nearly all formattings are supported (bold, italic, border lines, multicolumn
  cells, ...). Now works correct with Excel 97.

the program is "mailware" -- i.e., freely distributable and usable
provided you tell the author you're using it (see the readme file).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Mar 29 03:36:23 2001
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:35:37 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- thumbpdf 2.9

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:

> I have uploaded 'thumbpdf.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
> This updates and replaces the files in
>   support/thumbpdf/
>
> Changes in version 2.9:
>   * Added option --password for encrypted pdf files.
>     (For ghostscript a patched pdf_sec.ps is required:
>     http://www.ozemail.com.au/~geoffk/pdfencrypt/pdf_sec.ps)
>
> 'thumbpdf' provides support for thumbnails with pdfTeX
> or dvips/ps2pdf/distiller, plain/latex formats. It consists of
> four files:
>   * readme.txt:    documentation.
>   * thumbpdf.pl:   perl script.
>   * thumbpdf.tex:  TeX program, used by the perl script.
>   * thumbpdf.sty:  package for the user.
> Requirements: Perl5, ghostscript, pdfTeX
>
> For the Catalogue entry: the license remains LPPL 1.2.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Mar 29 11:57:02 2001
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:56:43 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: upload: bophook (update for use with hyperref)
Resent-Subject: Re: upload: bophook (update for use with hyperref)

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Karsten Tinnefeld wrote:

>    + what you've uploaded
>
> bophook0.02.tar.gz
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
> dante.ctan.org
>
>    + where you want the files to go
>
> CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/bophook,
> substituting the files there
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
>
> lppl 1.2+
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>
> bophook is a hook for adding material at the beginning of each page
> Partial support for hyperref has been added.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar 29 12:07:39 2001
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:07:49 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: sigitas tolusis' packages

sigitas tolusis has given permission for me to install a copy of his
macro distribution directory on ctan.  the files are

presfull.pdf
  "Inside LaTeX2e kernel" by Sigitas Tolusis
stfloats.sty
  Floating baselineskip, footnotes below the floats, dblfloats at bottom.
floatpag.sty (made by Vytas Statulevicius)
  Different pagestyles for text and float pages.
stabular.sty
  Multipage tabular.
flushend.sty
  Columns balancing at last page.
cuted.sty, midfloat.sty
  Mixing onecolumn and twocolumn modes at any place of page.
boundbox.sty
  Calculate TeX Bounding Box in points.
marginal.sty
  Enlarge free and show lost marginal inserts.
texsort.sty
  Sort/compress numerical lists

the distribution is licensed under the lppl.  i've installed it at
macros/latex/contrib/supported/sttools

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar 30 04:19:06 2001
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:18:11 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Uploaded files to CTAN

Jirka Kosek writes:

> I have uploaded files iso-8859-2.xmt and windows-1250.xmt into
> incoming/xmltex/base. These files should go in directory xmltex/base in
> CTAN. I have consluted it with David Carlisle (xmltex maintainer), he
> does not time to upload files, so I uploaded them personaly.

thanks for the upload; i have installed the files in
macros/xmltex/base

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar 30 04:21:32 2001
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:20:32 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- chngcntr package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded chngcntr.sty to the UK incoming
> directory. Please move this into
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
>     The package provides commands to change the resetting of
> counters (i.e., it provides wrappers for \@addtoreset and
> \@removefromreset).

thanks for the upload: i've installed it as suggested.  (i shall
change my faq some time today to recommend its use...)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Mar 30 04:33:33 2001
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:33:43 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of French Pro for Windows

Bernard Gaulle writes:

>   I've upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk in directory incoming
> the file FrenchPourWin.zip which is the Windows distribution
> of French Pro V5,02. License is shareware and target directory
> is language/french/pro. This zip file contains all the stuff
> to run with fpTeX (teTeX); an automatic installation procedure
> is provided as well as uninstallation. Useful also for any
> other TeX engine.

thanks for the upload; i've installed the file as
nonfree/language/french/FrenchPourWin.zip (i'll also install a link
from language/french to the file in a moment).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Apr  2 12:12:17 2001
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:11:14 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: varindex

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 Martin V�th wrote:

> A submission was uploaded to /ftp/incoming/upload-20010402.002/.
>
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
>
> Name of contribution: varindex
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/varindex/
> Summary description: A convenient front-end for the \index command. The toolbox package is required.
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> A LaTeX package which provides a convenient front-end for
> the \index command. For example, it allows to generate
> multiple index entries in almost any form by a single
> command. Extremely customizable.
> Works with all versions of LaTeX and probably most other
> TeX formats, too.
>
> The new release is slightly shorter and better structured,
> because it makes use of the new toolbox package
> (which is now required).
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Apr  2 12:13:43 2001
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:12:18 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: toolbox

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 Martin V�th wrote:

> Name of contribution: toolbox
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/toolbox/
> Summary description: TeX programmer's toolbox. Contains macros for various tasks often needed in TeX programming.
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> A package for (La)TeX which provides some macros which
> are convenient for writing complex packages and macros.
> It contains macros which support
> -loops over tokenlists
> -searching and splitting
> -controlled expansion
> -redefinition of macros
> -concatenated macro names
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed it as requested in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/toolbox

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Apr  2 12:17:15 2001
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:17:13 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ManjuTeX

> Name of contribution: ManjuTeX
> Name and email: Oliver Corff
> Suggested location on CTAN: language/manju
> Summary description: ManjuTeX provides Manju language support for TeX and LaTeX2e.
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ManjuTeX provides Manju for the TeX/LaTeX community.
> Manju is a language in North East Asia, belonging to
> the Tungusic branch of the Altaic languages. Though it
> is virtually not spoken anymore, it survives in written
> form as Manju was the native language of the rulers of
> the Qing dynasty (1644--1911) in China. Large quantities
> of documents of the Imperial Archives survive, as well
> as some of the finest dictionaries ever compiled in Asia,
> like the Pentaglot, a dictionary comprising Manju, Tibetan,
> Mongolian, Uighur and Chinese.
>
> ManjuTeX, developed on the basis of MonTeX, provides all
> necessary characters for writing standard Manju as well
> as transliterated Tibetan texts, for which purpose
> a number of additional characters was created.
>
> The retransliteration (from Latin input to Manju output)
> is completely realized in TeX/Metafont so that no external
> preprocessor is required. ManjuTeX can hence be used with
> both TeX and LaTeX2e though there are a few more functions
> (notably vertical text) available for the latter.
>
> PS: Check
> http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/im/Buch/Pentaglot.html
> if you want to learn more about the Pentaglot dictionary.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the package as

   language/manju/manjutex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Apr  3 15:23:28 2001
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:24:10 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Uploaded `fmp'

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Marco Kuhlmann wrote:

 > I have just uploaded my `fmp' package for LaTeX to ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > The files come as a tgz-archive (fmp.tar.gz). They should go to
 >
 >     macros/latex/contrib/supported/fmp
 >
 > The package is licensed according to the LPPL.
 >
 > The `fmp' package provides means to include Functional
 > MetaPost, a Haskell frontend to the MetaPost language, into
 > LaTeX.
 >
 > (I have included the documentation in pdf-format for those who
 > might not yet have this system but could get interested by
 > reading the documentation.)
 >
 >     Regards,
 >     Marco Kuhlmann

Thanks for the package, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Apr  5 13:51:10 2001
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:46:05 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new CTAN package: uhrzeit

A new package, a LaTeX style uhrzeit.sty, has been installed on
tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring
process in the next day or two.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: uhrzeit.sty
Name: Olaf Meltzer
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/uhrzeit
Summary description: Time of day and ranges of time. German and international formats.
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Various layouts for automatic timestamps in german and international formats. Ancient formatted time of day and ranges of time (minutes superscripted and underlined).

Mitunter ist es hilfreich, aktuelle Zeitmarken automatisch setzen zu lassen. F�r diesen Zweck stellt uhrzeit.sty verschiedene deutsche und international gebr�uchliche Formate zur Verf�gung. Au�erdem wird das Setzen von Uhrzeiten und Zeitbereichen im �lteren Format (mit hochgestellten, unterstrichenen Minuten) unterst�tzt.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Apr  9 05:22:57 2001
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:21:25 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- the combine class

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded combine.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please
>     use this to replace the current
>     macros/latex/contrib/supported/combine directory. I also
>     uploaded README.combine and please use this to replace the just
>     replaced README in the combine directory.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README(.combine)
>
>     The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a
>     single document, such as when preparing a conference
>     proceedings.
>
>     The auxiliary combinet package puts the titles and authors from
>     \maketitle commands into the main documents's Table of Contents.
>
> Changes in version 0.42
>
> o Fixed incompatibility with the fancyhdr package
> o reduced, and hopefully eliminated, a pagebreak problem in the ToC

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Apr  9 10:00:29 2001
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 13:52:39 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: examdesign

An upgrade of the LaTeX package examdesign has been installed on
tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring process
in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: examdesign
Name and email: Jason Alexander
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/examdesign
Summary description: LaTeX class for typesetting exams
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.1:
  - Added the 'matching' environment

  - Continuous numbering of questions across sections is now
    possible.

  - Removed the following environments:
        = shortanswer*
        = fillin*
        = fixed*
        = multiplechoice*
        = truefalse*
    (the functionality provided by these environments can
     now be obtained in other ways)

  - Changed the syntax of the standard sections.  The
    optional argument now can be used to set a number of
    parameters customizing that section.  These parameters
    are described at length in the documentation.
    (Previously, it specified the section title.)

  - The format of the section number and identifier can now
    be easily customized.

  - Cross-referencing works.

  - The 'block' environment now accepts an optional
    argument.  Right now, the only optional argument
    is "questions", which specifies the number of questions
    in the block, and defines two new commands (\thefirst
    and \thelast) which refer to the range of questions
    which fall within that block.

  - The \pagebreak command can now be used to force
    pagebreaks before sections and questions.

  - The \BreakPageOnVersion command can be used to introduce
    pagebreaks before a question or section only on
    particular versions of the test.

  - For many of the standard question types, the command
    \ShortKey will produce a "shortened" answer key that
    contains only the answers (no question or section
    introduction text), hence saving paper.

  - A not-so-terribly-ugly hack has been provided in order
    to facilitate the typesetting of any TeX code requiring
    catcode changes.

  - Fixed a bug that prevented the 'block' environment from
    working correctly inside some of the sections.

  - The TeX source has been simplified.  It's still not
    pretty, but it should be a lot easier to understand.

  - Probably some other stuff that I've forgotten...

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Apr  9 12:07:22 2001
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:07:06 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -  emTeX/TDS v0.55

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the file emtexTDS-55.zip (12 613 992 Bytes)
> to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org.
>
> Please, unpack this archive in the CTAN directory
> systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS, thus replacing the
> following files:
>
>   NEWS
>   readme.eng
>   readme.ger
>   tdsinst.cmd
>   config.zip
>   texmf.zip
>   tfe.cfg
>
> This is release 0.55 of the emTeX/TDS distribution for OS/2.
> See the file NEWS for a list of news and changes.

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

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Apr  9 12:13:23 2001
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:12:38 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ushort

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 Martin V�th wrote:

> Name of contribution: ushort
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ushort/
> Summary description: With this package you may write shorter (or longer) various underlines/underbars
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package solves a problem which arose in the newsgroup
> de.comp.text.tex.
> Some engineers need `underlined' or `twice underlined'
> variables for which the usual \underline is too long.
> This package provides a generic command for creating
> underlines of various size and type.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed it as requested.
For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Apr  9 12:14:44 2001
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:14:33 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Update of srcltx package

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Stefan Ulrich wrote:

> Dear CTAN admins,
>
> I've just uploaded to the incoming directory of
>    ftp.dante.de
> the archive
>    srcltx.tar.gz
>
> It contains the files
>    README
>    srcltx.dtx
>    srcltx.ins
>
> Please unpack these files into a new directory
>    CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/srcltx/
>
> License: pd (Public Domain)
>
> >From the README:
>
> The package provides source special insertion into .dvi
> files, allowing to jump from the .dvi file to the .tex
> source and back (given a .dvi viewer that supports this,
> such as Yap or xdvi-22.38).
>
> It was originally written by Aleksander Simonic, the author
> of the WinEdt shell. He kindly permitted me to upload and
> maintain a version of this package on CTAN.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the package as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Apr 10 04:33:18 2001
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:32:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- tocloft package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded tocloft.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please
> use this to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocloft directory.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>     The tocloft package provides control over the typography of the
> Table of Contents, List of Figures, and List of Tables. You can also
> define your own kinds of "List of ..."
>
> Changes in version 2.1
> o Added command to change the ToC \parskip

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Apr 10 13:21:19 2001
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:19:54 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new material on CTAN: noTeX

The file noTeX.bst has been installed on tug.ctan.org and will make
its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

===============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: noTeX
Name and email: Sebastiano Vigna
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/utils
Summary description: noTeX is a BibTeX style that outputs HTML.
License type: pd

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
noTeX produces a number of beautifully formatted HTML P
elements instead of TeX code. It can be used to
automatically generate bibliographies to be served on the
web starting from BibTeX files.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From zierke@Dante.DE Thu Apr 12 04:55:54 2001
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:51:53 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- clock

A submission was uploaded to /ftp/incoming/upload-20010410.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: clock
Name and email: Oliver Corff
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/supported
Summary description: TeXclock -- graphical and textual clocks for TeX and LaTeX
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
TeXclock features graphical clocks (with a classical 12h
dial and two hands) and text clocks (in 24h format) which
can show system time or any time the user desires.

Works with both TeX and LaTeX.

The clock faces (appearances of the dial) are easily
expandable. User contributions are welcome!
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Thu Apr 12 04:59:07 2001
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:52:57 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- diagnose

A submission was uploaded to /ftp/incoming/upload-20010410.002/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: diagnose
Name and email: Oliver Corff
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/supported
Summary description: diagnose - a tool for pre-installation system diagnostics
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The diagnose package is mainly intended for package authors
who want to help users getting the most and best out a newly
written package. As many packages depend on the presence of
others to achieve their work, running a document with
diagnostic support tells the user what other packages should be installed.

The package is accompanied by full documentation and an example file to get the idea (which is harder to describe
than to understand).
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 12 12:06:53 2001
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:05:43 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: xdoc upload

Lars Hellstr�m writes:

> I have to ftp.tex.ac.uk uploaded the following four files to /incoming/xd=
> oc:
>   docindex.dtx
>   docindex.ins
>   xdoc2.dtx
>   xdox2.ins
>   README.txt
> and I would like to have them put in /macros/latex/exptl/xdoc. Old files
> with the same names are to be replaced. The licence that applies is the
> LPPL.
>
> On what these files are:
>
> xdoc2.dtx:
>   The xdoc2 package contains reimplementations of some of
>   the features found in the standard LaTeX doc package
>   by Mittelbach et al. Amongst other things, these
>   reimplementations provide support for definiting new
>   commands similar to \DescribeMacro and new environments
>   similar to the macro environment, for two-sided document
>   layouts, for external cross-referencing, for making
>   index entries for invisible characters, and for optionally
>   ignoring certain prefixes (such as @ and @@) in macro names
>   when sorting them. The xdocdemo document demonstrates a
>   couple of these features.
>
>   I consider the xdoc2 package to merely be the second
>   prototype for an (as yet nonexistant) package xdoc which
>   should provide the same features (and more). I have
>   decided to release the prototype to make its functionality
>   generally avaiable, but under a variant name to avoid
>   future incompatibility problems. (E.g., the final xdoc
>   package will probably use many LaTeX2e* features that are
>   still on the prototype stage. xdoc2, on the other hand,
>   uses no LaTeX2e* features.)
>
> docindex.dtx:
>   docindex.dtx contains a reimplementation of the doc mechanisms for
>   sorting and formatting a sorted index. docindex.ins installs two forms
>   of this package: docindex (which is a LaTeX2e* package) and docidx2e
>   (which can be used with only a normal LaTeX2e available). The main
>   advantage of these packages over the doc mechanisms is that
>   configuration has been made much easier.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Fri Apr 13 06:52:26 2001
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:50:52 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- KOMA-Script update

----- Forwarded message from Markus Kohm -----
I've uploaded koma-script.tar.gz. This is the new release of
KOMA-Script bundle. Please copy the contents of the tar.gz into the
komascript-directory. You do not need to remove the contents of the
directory before - but you may.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks, I installed the new version (plus two last minute updates)
in CTAN:tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Fri Apr 13 06:57:11 2001
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:56:38 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- language/polish/pl-mf.zip, poligraf

----- Forwarded message from Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz -----
I've just uploaded to dante/incoming/ 2 packages from GUST:

pl-mf.zip
please replace language/polish/pl-mf.zip
this is *very small* correction, so even remaking .tfm files is not needed.

poligraf.zip
please remove first the contents of macros/generic/TeX-PS/poligraf/*
then unpack here poligraf.zip. Poligraf ver. 2.0 is completely rewritten,
much smaller and robust set of macros for preparing pages for preprint.
Works with Plain and LaTeX.

Updated .xml files goes to Graham.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the updated versions, I installed them on CTAN as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Fri Apr 13 07:05:45 2001
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:01:28 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- pkfix 0.2

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek -----
I have uploaded 'pkfix.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
It is a new program and the unpacked files should go in
  support/pkfix/

'pkfix' tries the replacement of pk fonts in PostScript
files that are produced by dvips by type 1 fonts.
(Status: experimental)

There are two files:
  * README:   documentation.
  * pkfix.pl: perl script.

Requirements: Perl5, tex, dvips, kpsewhich

For the Catalogue entry: the license is LPPL 1.2.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/pkfix/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Apr 13 11:03:43 2001
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:59:19 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: preprint collection

Arash Esbati writes:

> I've uploaded preprint.tar.bz2 to:
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/preprint/
>
> The files should go to:
> macros/latex/contrib/other/
>
> Preprint is a set of packages written by Patrick W. Daly.  Unfortunatly,
> he doesn't have the time for further development, bug fixes, "wishes"
> etc., they are provided "as is".  The license is LPPL.
>
> Brief summary:
>
> 1. [suppressed]

this item has been temporarily suppressed due to a name clash; when an
appropriate alternative name has been found, we will restore the item

> 2. authblk.(ins,dtx): (version 1.3 from 2001/02/27)
> A LaTeX2e package to redefine the \author command to work as normal or
> to allow a footnote style of author/affiliation input.
>
> 3. balance.(ins,dtx): (version 4.3 from 1999/02/23)
> When writing a document with LaTeX two-column mode, the columns on the
> last page, or those before a \cleardoublepage command, will be of
> unequal height.  balance.sty solves this problem by modifying the output
> routines in two-column mode.
>
> 4. figcaps.(ins,dtx): (version 4.7 from 1999/02/23)
> This package allows the figure captions to be collected throughout the
> paper and printed on a separate page at the end.  The figures
> themselves will not appear in the text.  This is for purposes of a
> manuscript for submission.  Similarly, tables are not printed in the
> text, but are outputted at the end, after the figure captions.
> This package may optionally be used with the longtable environment
> defined in the package of the same name.
>
> 5. fullpage.(ins,dtx): (version 1.1 from 1999/02/23)
> This package sets all 4 margins to be either 1 inch or 1.5 cm,
> and specifies the page style.
>
> 6. sublabel.(ins,dtx): (version 4.5 from 1999/02/23)
> The macros in this package allow all counters to be subnumbered, as for
> example 4a, 4b, 4c, simply by bracketting the objects to be so numbered
> with appropriate on/off commands.  They will work with any user-defined
> counters too.

apart from item 1 of the submission, i have installed the files as
requested.  thanks to you (and to patrick as original author) for the
submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Apr 14 07:57:01 2001
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:55:57 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload import.sty

donald arseneau writes:

> I uploaded import.sty to ctan UK, for
> macros/latex/contrib/[other | supported]/misc
>
> % Allow input of a file with its own inputs from another directory.
> %
> % \import {full_path} {file}     \subimport {path_extension} {file}
> % Also \includefrom, \subincludefrom, and * variants.
> %
> % This software is free of any restrictions.
>
> I.e., license: PD

i installed the file in macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/import.sty

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Apr 18 08:58:56 2001
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:57:19 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: moving the directory containing the uk tex faq

as part of push to update the uk tex faq, i have moved the directory
holding stable sources on ctan from usergroups/uktug/faq to
help/uk-tex-faq; the contents of the directory are unchanged.

the old link from help (help/uktug-FAQ), which pointed to the old
location, has been deleted.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From root@sun2.dante.de Wed Apr 18 09:10:08 2001
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:09:17 +0100
From: "0000-Admin(0000)" <root@sun2.dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- pdfpages v0.1i

----- Forwarded message from Andreas Matthias -----
I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages.zip' to
ftp.dante.de/incoming.

Please, extract this archive and replace the files in

   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/

The `pdfpages' package makes it easy to include pages of
external PDF documents.

New Features in version 0.1i:
o  Hypertext operations (hyperlinks and article threads)

It is distributed under the LPPL.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission;  I installed the new version as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Thu Apr 19 01:59:50 2001
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 07:59:12 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- texdoctk v.0.5.0

----- Forwarded message from Thomas Ruedas -----
yesterday I have sent a new release of texdoctk, my GUI for package
documentation access, to Thomas Esser, which he has installed in
systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/contrib/
The mirroring process seems to be completed, so I want to ask you to
send the announcement of texdoctk v.0.5.0 to the CTAN mailing list.

texdoctk is a Perl/Tk-based frontend for easy access of package
documentation for the TeX typesetting system on Unix platforms, tuned
for the teTeX distribution. The License is GPL.

The most important new features in v.0.5.0 are:
- For some packages, the only documentation is included in the .sty
  file itself. This documentation is now made accessible by extracting
  the comments/instructions and passing them to the text file viewer.
  Thus 38 additional documentation files are made accessible now.
- contents of a local texmf tree can be included now. Arbitrary
  inclusion of additional private texmf trees is not yet possible,
  though.
- optional use of the program xwininfo to determine screen resolution
  and switch to a larger font size at hi-res screens.
- auto-determination of Perl's path
- introduced new message type with transient windows
- fatal error messages if essential config/database files are not found
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 19 04:26:21 2001
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:25:35 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- tocbibind and tocloft packages

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded tocbibind.tar and tocloft.tar to the UK incoming
> directory. Please use these to replace the current contents of the
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/(tocbibind|tocloft) directories.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the READMEs
>
>     The tocbibind package can be used to add the Bibliography and/or
> the Index and/or the Contents, etc., to the Table of Contents
> listing.
>
> Changes in version 1.5:
> o removed requirement for the stdclsdv package
> o fixed problem when used with the hyperref package
>
>
>     The tocloft package provides control over the typography of the
> Table of Contents, List of Figures, and list of Tables. You can also
> define your own kinds of `List of...'
>
> Changes in version 2.2:
> o Stitched up another wound inflicted by the hyperref package

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 19 04:48:09 2001
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:47:41 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload Report

Giulio Agostini writes:

> New revisions of Italian translations of (La)TeX manuals are now available
> in directory <CTAN>/info/italian, and include:
>
> - Una (mica tanto) breve introduzione a LaTeX2e [<CTAN>/info/italian/itlshort]
> - Manuale utente per il pacchetto amsmath [<CTAN>/info/italian/amsldoc]
> - Layout di pagina in LaTeX [<CTAN>/info/italian/fancyhdr]
> - Utilizzo del pacchetto amsthm [<CTAN>/info/italian/amsthdoc]
> - Vari files AMS [<CTAN>/info/italian/amsmath]
>
> The documents have been translated by the Guild/Gilda team,
> http://guild.prato.linux.it/

thanks, giulio (and the team) for maintaining this material.

(note that info/italian/itlshort is in fact a link to
info/lshort/italian, and therefore doesn't appear in "quote site
index" and some other forms of ctan search.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Apr 19 07:40:10 2001
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:38:57 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN upload notification: ua.dic

The files ua.txt and ua.zip, which add a Ukrainian dictionary to
the WinEdt package, have been contributed to CTAN.  They should
make their way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: ua.dic
Name: Kostyantyn Moroz
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/winedt/dict/
Summary description: Ukrainian dictionary for WinEdt -- General
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Colleagues,

This is just to inform you that ukrainian dictionary (general) for WinEdt have been uploaded to CTAN in systems/win32/winedt/dict/ directory.

Visit
http://i.com.ua/~morozko/LaTeX/
to get more information and ukrainian dictionaries for WinEdt

Happy TeXing!


Regards,

Kostyantyn Moroz
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From zierke@Dante.DE Fri Apr 20 03:59:28 2001
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:57:29 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- texdoctk v.0.5.0a (bugfix)

----- Forwarded message from Thomas Ruedas -----
two days ago I submitted a new release of texdoctk, and yesterday I was
notified about a bug in one of the databases. A fixed version 0.5.0a was
thus prepared and has already been installed by Thomas Esser in
systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/contrib/ and was mirrored. Please forward this
message to the CTAN mailing list.
For those who do not want to download and install the whole stuff again:
the bugfix itself consists in just changing one line in the database
file texdoc-102.dat:
-:
multirow;Table entry spanning multiple columns
(multirow);latex/misc/multirow.sty;-0-, tables
+:
multirow;Table entry spanning multiple columns
(multirow);latex/multirow/multirow.sty;-0-, tables

(no linebreaks above).
----- End forwarded message -----

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Apr 20 09:07:29 2001
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:06:19 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New package on CTAN: upquote.sty

A new package upquote.sty has been installed on tug.ctan.org and
should make its way through the mirroring process in the next
day or two.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: upquote.sty
Name: michael@covingtoninnovations.com
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/supported/upquote
Summary description: Modifies \verb and verbatim so that ' ` are straight-up
  single quote and backquote respectively
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package modifies \verb and verbatim (but not \tt or \texttt) so
that ' prints as straight-up single quotation mark and ` is a
slanted backquote, rather than the usual curved single quotation marks.
This corrects a problem with the appearance of program listings in which
'this' (for example) is a quoted string.  With this package, \verb and
verbatim always use Computer Modern Roman type (best for listings),
regardless of what font is in use for \tt.

Use \usepackage{upquote} after any other commands that affect the font set.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Apr 20 09:14:36 2001
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:14:07 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New CTAN package: eqparbox

A new package eqparbox has been installed at tug.ctan.org
and should make its way through the mirroring process in
the next day or two.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: eqparbox
Name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/eqparbox
Summary description: Equal-widthed parboxes
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
LaTeX users sometimes need to ensure that two or more
blocks of text occupy the same amount of horizontal
space on the page.  To that end, the eqparbox package
defines a new command, \eqparbox, which works just like
\parbox, except that instead of specifying a width, one
specifies a tag.  All eqparboxes with the same tag --
regardless of where they are in the document -- will
stretch to fit the widest eqparbox with that tag.  This
simple, equal-width mechanism can be used for a variety
of alignment purposes, as is evidenced by the examples
in eqparbox's documentation.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Apr 20 12:40:07 2001
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:39:31 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload -- textpos-1.1e.tar.gz

Norman Gray writes:

> Greetings:

and to you, too.

>    + what you've uploaded
>
> textpos-1.1e.tar.gz
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
>    + where you want the files to go
>
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/textpos
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
>
> gpl
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>
> This package facilitates placing boxes at absolute positions on the
> LaTeX page.  There are several reasons why this might be useful, but
> the main one (or at least my motivating one) is to help produce a
> large-format conference poster.
>
> This package provides a single environment, which contains the text
> (or graphics, or table, or whatever) which is to be placed on the
> page, and which specifies where it is to be placed.
>
> Version 1.1e corrects a spacing bug in 1.1d.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Mon Apr 23 04:16:56 2001
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:15:52 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- package multibbl

----- Forwarded message from Apostolos Syropoulos -----
I have upoloaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/multibbl the package multibbl
which can be used to multiple bibliographies for a document in the
spirit of the multind package by F.W. Long. The package has been designed
to facilitate the inclusion of bibliographies writen in different scripts,
e.g., Greek and Hebrew.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  Due to its licensing restrictions, I installed the
package in CTAN:/tex-archive/nonfree/macros/latex/contrib/supported/multibbl
with a symbolic link from .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/multibbl

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Tue Apr 24 03:14:37 2001
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:13:26 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- texdoctk v.0.5.1

----- Forwarded message from Thomas Ruedas -----
Dear CTAN maintainers,
yesterday I have sent a new subrelease of texdoctk, my GUI for package
documentation access, to Thomas Esser, which he has installed in
systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/contrib/
The mirroring process seems to be completed, so I want to ask you to
send the announcement of texdoctk v.0.5.1 to the CTAN mailing list.

texdoctk is a Perl/Tk-based frontend for easy access of package
documentation for the TeX typesetting system on Unix platforms, tuned
for the teTeX distribution. The License is GPL.

v.0.5.1 contains a fix for a severe bug concerning the treatment of
compressed docfiles, which probably rendered v.0.5.0/0.5.0a from last
week useless for people with systems where the docs are usually
compressed. Additionally, some smaller features have been implemented,
from the README:
- Enhanced right-button search function so that compressed doc files
  are also found.
- Fixed a bug in the documentation finding subroutine reported by H.F.
  Nordhaug: the compression determination block in sub finddoc was
  broken.
- Improved treatment of entering an empty string in the search:
  this is now explicitly treated as demand for display of the whole
  database, instead of search for a null string.
- Automatic selection of list item in listbox if it contains only one
  element; this will frequently happen in search results. In this
  context, the autoview flag (option -a) has been introduced in the
  texdocrc.defaults and the Settings menu: if it is chosen, the
  appropriate viewer will be started automatically in the case of
  one-item listboxes.
- Made <Ctrl-q>, <Ctrl-s>, <Ctrl-t> and <Ctrl-h> definitions active in
  all widgets; thus, you don't need to type <Ctrl-q> in the main window
  to quit, for example. Introduced new global key binding for raising
  the main window (<Ctrl-m>).
- Fixed a braindead typo in the texdoc-*.dat files (too dumb to tell).
- Some small changes/updates in the Help text; the button and window
  are now named "Help/About".
------------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@Dante.DE Tue Apr 24 03:40:49 2001
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:40:12 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- lettre.cls

----- Forwarded message from MEGEVAND Denis -----
I've uploaded my LaTeX class lettre.cls, which is a designed to write letters
with LaTeX in french, german, english. The letter aspect is entirely
configurable, through a number of dimension and macros, that can be put also in
a so-called "institute package" called at initialization.

The whole documentation, with examples of letters and faxes in english, german
and french is included in the subdirectory "doc", the class file itself, with
templates files, default institute and my institute files is located in the
subdirectory "inputs", and the package is completed by README files in english
and french, plus the lppl.txt file.

I've uploaded that package on ftp.dante.de, in /incoming/lettre directory. I
propose to install the files in /pub/tex/macros/latex/supported/lettre. That
package is distributed under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) terms.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/lettre/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Apr 24 13:22:59 2001
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:22:10 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new CTAN package: dashrule

A new LaTeX package dashrule has been installed on tug.ctan.org
and should make its way through the mirroring process in the
next few days.

==========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: dashrule
Name and email: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/dashrule
Summary description: Draw a huge variety of dashed rules (i.e., lines)
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The dashrule package makes it easy to draw a huge
variety of dashed rules (i.e., lines) in LaTeX.
dashrule provides a command, \hdashrule, which is a
cross between LaTeX's \rule and PostScript's setdash
command.  \hdashrule draws horizontally dashed rules
using the same syntax as \rule, but with an additional,
setdash-like parameter that specifies the pattern of
dash segments and the space between those segments.
Because dashrule's rules are constructed internally
using \rule (as opposed to, e.g., PostScript \specials)
they are fully compatible with every LaTeX back-end
processor.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From zierke@Dante.DE Thu Apr 26 02:35:18 2001
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:33:25 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- MiKTeX-WinEdt-TrueType-Anleitung (german)

----- Forwarded message from Jens Weissenburger -----
because of an encouragement of the FAQ-Team I have uploaded the file
MiKTeX-WinEdt-TrueType-Anleitung2.zip to the /incoming directory at
ftp.dante.de.
The content of the archive should place below
/tex-archive/info/german/

I think the most interesting part of this guide is the German
version of Damir Rakityansky page "Using TrueType fonts with TeX
(LaTeX) and pdfTeX (pdfLaTeX)". The other sections describe the co-
operation of MiKTeX with WinEdt.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed your documentation in
CTAN:/tex-archive/info/german/MiKTeX-WinEdt-TrueType-Anleitung/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Thu Apr 26 02:40:38 2001
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:40:05 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- aeguill 1.01

----- Forwarded message from "Denis B. Roegel" -----
I have uploaded the file aeguill1.01.tar.gz
in dante.ctan.org/incoming. This file should replace
the contents of  /macros/latex/contrib/supported/aeguill on CTAN.

This version of the aeguill package now works properly
with the frenchle package. The aeguill provides
several kinds of guillemets which are useful when using
the AE font, since this font lacks the guillemets.
The AE font in turn is useful when one wants to produce
nice PDF files with EC-like fonts.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version of the aeguill
package as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/aeguill

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Thu Apr 26 04:55:48 2001
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:55:13 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- eps_anleitung.html

----- Forwarded message from Rolf Niepraschk -----
I have uploaded the file `eps_anleitung.html' to /incoming at
`ftp.dante.de'. The document describes in german how create eps files
under Windows for use in LaTeX documents writte by Marco Duebendorfer.
The original place is

==> http://computing.ee.ethz.ch/text/eps_anleitung.html

Please put this file to

  ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/german/grafik/
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission, I installed the file as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/info/german/grafik/eps_anleitung.html

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Apr 27 09:36:44 2001
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:35:01 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New package on CTAN: dpfloat

With the author's permission, I have installed Jim Fox's dpfloat
package (and some brief instructions about its use) on CTAN in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/dpfloat.

Jim says of the package:

> As to copyright, the package is free for any use.
> It is not supported, although I would try to fix it if I
> knew about a problem.  The University is in no way
> liable for any problems.
>
> I think this is a standard sort of copyright.  If you have
> standard wording that most people use that would be fine.

dpfloat is to assist in formatting double-page figures or tables, as
two consecutive figure or table environments.  The package ensures
that the first of the pair is on a left-hand page, so that the double
display can be viewed together as a pair.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Apr 27 10:12:56 2001
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:12:15 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: newlfm

The LaTeX package newlfm has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org, and
should make its way through the mirroring process in the next
day or two.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==========================================================


The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: newlfm
Name: Paul Thompson
Location on CTAN: macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/newlfm
Summary description: New Letter class
License type: Generic DFSG

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Announcing newlfm.cls

newlfm stands for NEW Letter Fax Memo

Available at CTAN
macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/newlfm

newlfm integrates the letter class with fancyhdr and geometry to

o automatically make letterhead stationary

o includes support for a database for addresses; instead of putting all
  the information for different letters into different letters, you put
  it in the database, and pull it into the letter with a single command

o includes support for other languages, including pig Latin

o includes a number of excluded article.cls features (table, figure)

o integrates support for memos and faxes within the same package

o full support for positioning of items (moving the date up or down; putting
  the date between from and to blocks; etc.)

o supports mass mailings and form letters easily and simply

o prints addresses on labels.  One Avery label type is set up, while others
  are being added.

o supports 3 different types of letters (standard, business) and includes
  full control for positioning of letter elements

o has a full manual, for ease of use

Try it out!!! You may never use the letter class again!!

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Apr 30 09:11:55 2001
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:10:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Fontmap.cmr: MarVoSym fontname change

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Karsten Tinnefeld wrote:

>    + what you've uploaded
>       a new version of Fontmap.cmr
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>       ftp://dante.ctan.org/incoming/Fontmap.cmr
>    + where you want the files to go
>       CTAN:fonts/cm/ps-type1/contrib, replacing the old file
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
>       lgpl \geq 2.1
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>       reflect fontname change regarding MarVoSym.
>
> % file Fontmap.cmr, last change 2001-04-27
> %
> % This file make the Computer Modern font files by Donald Ervin Knuth
> % and other fonts distributed e.g. with the tetex TeX distribution
> % http://www.tug.org/tetex/ available to ghostscript.
> %
> % Copyright � 2000, 2001 Karsten Tinnefeld.  All rights reserved.
> % Corresponding author: Karsten Tinnefeld <karsten@tinnefeld.com>
> %
> % This file is free software, licensed under the terms of the
> % GNU lesser public license, either version 2.1 or any consecutive,
> % as being obtainable from http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html or
> % FSF Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
> %
> % Check the canonical place for new versions of this file:
> %   ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/contrib/Fontmap.cmr
> % or one of its "CTAN" mirror sites.  For ghostscript, please check
> %   http://www.ghostscript.com
> %
> % Apply this file by moving it to the library directory of your
> % ghostscript installation (typically share/ghostscript/VERSION/lib)
> % and adding the command "(Fontmap.cmr) .runlibfile" to the end of
> % your "Fontmap" file in the same directory.  Symlink each pfa/pfb file
> % in the texmf/fonts/type1 tree of your local TeX installation to
> % share/ghostscript/fonts or add these directories to the GS_FONTPATH
> % environment variable.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Apr 30 09:14:00 2001
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:12:47 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: formular

A submission was uploaded to CTAN

> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
>
> Name of contribution: formular
> Name and email: Hans-Christoph Wirth
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/
> Summary description: some macros for typesetting formular documents
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package contains some macros which may be helpful
> for typesetting formular documents.  It supports fields
> which are intended to be left empty (for filling them
> manually using a pen) or be filled with predefined
> contents.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, it was installed in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/formular

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Apr 30 09:14:58 2001
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:14:13 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- isodate

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Harald Harders wrote:

> I have uploaded the file isodate.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
> Please replace all files in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/isodate by
> the contents of this tar archive.
> License stays LPPL.
>
> >From the README:
>
> Tune the output format of dates.
>
> This package provides five commands to switch the output format of the
> commands \today, \printdate, \printdateTeX, and \daterange.
> The commands \printdate and \printdateTeX print any date.
> The command \daterange prints a date range and leaves out unnecessary
> year or month entries.
>
> This package supports German (old and new rules, Austrian), US
> English, French, Danish, and Norwegian (by Svend Tollak Munkejord).
>
>
> Changes:
> 2.01: Added support for using isodate.sty without one of the language
>       packages babel, german, or ngerman.
> 2.02: Added Norwegian language (by Svend Tollak Munkejord).

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.
For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Apr 30 09:24:12 2001
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:23:34 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new CTAN package: dingbat

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: dingbat
Name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: fonts/dingbat
Summary description: LaTeX bindings for the dingbat and ark10 fonts
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The dingbat package provides LaTeX names for some of the
characters in the dingbat.mf and ark10.mf fonts.  These
include decorations, a variety of pointing hands, and some
miscellaneous symbols (pencil, anchor, carriage return,
etc.).
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@Dante.DE Thu May  3 09:55:33 2001
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 15:53:37 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- ushort, varindex, toolbox

I installed three updates of package by M. Vaeth:

Name of contribution: ushort 1.4 (bugfix in documentation)
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ushort/ (replace old
+version)
Summary description: With this package you may write shorter (or longer) various
+underlines/underbars
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package solves a problem which arose in de.comp.text.tex.
Some engineers need `underlined' or `twice underlined'
variables for which the usual \underline is too long.
This package provides a generic command for creating
underlines of various size and type.

In the update, a bug in the documentation is fixed
(The default values are now documented correctly).
The *.sty has not changed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Name of contribution: toolbox 2.1
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/toolbox/ (replace old
+version)
Summary description: TeX programmer's toolbox. Contains macros for various tasks
+often needed in TeX programming.
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A package for (La)TeX which provides some macros which
are convenient for writing complex packages and macros.
It contains macros which support
-fancy optional arguments           (new in v2.0)
-loops over tokenlists and itemlist (extended in v2.0)
-searching and splitting            (extended in v2.0)
-controlled expansion               (extended in v2.1)
-redefinition of macros
-concatenated macro names
Further minor improvements in efficiency.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Name of contribution: varindex 2.2
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/varindex/ (replace old+version)
Summary description: A convenient front-end for the \index command. The toolbox
+package 2.1 is required.
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A LaTeX package which provides a convenient front-end for
the \index command.
For example, it allows to generate multiple index entries
in almost any form by a single command.
Extremely customizable.
Works with all versions of LaTeX and probably most other
TeX formats, too.

In the new release, placeholder replacement now works in the
expected way also with commas. Moreover, new variables to control
the output, and hooks to hack new features into the format string
are provided. Also the varindextwo macros are further improved
(with new flags and customization).
Requires now toolbox 2.1 which is uploaded simultaneously.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon May  7 08:46:47 2001
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:41:24 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- isodate
Resent-Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- isodate

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file isodate.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
 > Please replace all files in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/isodate by
 > the contents of this tar archive.
 > License stays LPPL.
 > The archive contains an xml file for the CTAN package list.
 >
 > >From the README:
 >
 > Tune the output format of dates.
 >
 > This package provides five commands to switch the output format of the
 > commands \today, \printdate, \printdateTeX, and \daterange.
 > The commands \printdate and \printdateTeX print any date.
 > The command \daterange prints a date range and leaves out unnecessary
 > year or month entries.
 >
 > This package supports German (old and new rules, Austrian), US
 > English, French, Danish, and Norwegian (by Svend Tollak Munkejord).
 >
 > Changes:
 > 2.03: Fixed a Bug in the French language that caused the package not to
 >       switch to the French format on startup
 > 2.03: Added new command to tune the spacings in the numerical date format
 >       of the German language

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/isodate

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon May  7 09:44:47 2001
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 15:43:37 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload report

On Mon, 7 May 2001, MEGEVAND Denis wrote:

> I've uploaded the latest version of my class lettre.cls, on ftp.dante.de, in
> /incoming/lettre directory to replace the files in
> /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/lettre.
>
> Remark: In the subdirectory "inputs", there should be a soft link from
> lettre.cls to lettre.cls_2.341, to be made at install time.
>
> The file lppl.txt is now correct (version 1.2)
>
> Thanks.
>
>                                       Denis M�gevand

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/lettre

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue May  8 03:52:15 2001
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 09:48:08 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- dehyphn.tex (new German hyphenation              patterns)

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the file dehyphn.zip to the /incoming directory
> at dante.ctan.org.
>
> Please, unpack it and move the resulting file dehyphn.tex to
> the CTAN directory language/hyphenation, thus replacing the
> existent file.
>
> This is version R31 of the "New German" hyphenation patterns.
> I have fixed two bugs, which were detected since the release
> of the previous version (March 1999).

Thanks for the update, I installed the new version of file

  language/hyphenation/dehyphn.tex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue May  8 07:30:05 2001
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 13:28:55 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: hvmaths.zip

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the file hvmaths.zip to the /incoming directory
> at dante.ctan.org.
>
> [...]
>
> This is version 1.2b of the LaTeX macro package hvmaths.sty for
> using MicroPress' HV-Math (Helvetica Math) fonts.  I have fixed
> a few bugs of the previous version: particularly the [scaled]
> option will now act on the HV-AMS fonts, too.

Thanks for the update, I installed the files in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/hvmath

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@Dante.DE Thu May 10 03:31:12 2001
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:29:51 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- latex2man version 1.13

----- Forwarded message from Juergen Vollmer -----
I uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file latex2man-1.13.tar.gz.
Please install it under the support/latex2man directory.
>From the README:

Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a
format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command.
Alternatively HTML, TexInfo, or LaTeX code can be produced too.
Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the conditional text
feature (for this, LaTeX generation may be used).

There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the Man-page
and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual translation.

Changes from version 1.12
- Added \begin{center} / \end{center}.
- Reimplemented font changing stuff in TROFF
  generation (use now troff instead of -man commands).
- Fixed \oOptArg in man output.
- Fixed handling of conditional translation to LaTeX
  (if in a IF .. ELSE .. END-IF, the condition
   evaluates to true, the ELSE and END-IF are written
   to the result file, but not the IF...
   Now all %@% directives are written.)
- In \setDate and \setVersion a ~ is replaced by the
  output specific blank.

With best regards

Juergen

PS
License:
   This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
   of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
   archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
   version 1 of the License, or any later version.

PPS: If you find this software useful, please send me a postcard.

PPPS:  ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/latex2man.html
        contains as version information 1.10, current is now 1.13
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/latex2man/ as suggested

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri May 11 11:01:38 2001
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 15:00:21 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN upload notification: mathlig.tex

A new file has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should
be making its way throught the mirroring process in the
next day or two.

===================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: mathlig
Name: Jules Bean
Location on CTAN: macros/generic
Summary description: Multicharacter ligatures in Math Mode
License type: Generic DFSG

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package lets you define 'ligatures' of one or more characters in
length, only for use in math-mode. For example, -> could expand to
\rightarrow and <-> to \leftrightarrow, without comprising the 'normal'
mathmode use of - and <. Can make certain mathmatical formulae much more
readable in source form.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue May 15 12:14:58 2001
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 17:14:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: diagxy.zip

Michael Barr writes:

> I have just uploaded a total redo of my diagram macros implemented as a
> front end for xypic.  It should go into the directory
> macros/generic/diagrams/barr.  The only restrictions on use are that if it
> is included in a commercial program (such as Scientific Word), then I want
> them to give me a free copy of their software.  Other than that it may be
> freely used distributed (unchanged) in non-commercial or commercial
> installations.
>
> What I uploaded is the file diagxy.zip.  It includes two files, diagxy.tex
> and diaxydoc.tex.  The first contains the macros and the second
> documentation by what is basically a tutorial.  The user will also have to
> have installed xy-pic.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Wed May 16 08:48:05 2001
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:46:05 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- Everyshi 3.00

----- Forwarded message from Martin Schr�der -----
I have uploaded to the incoming dir of
        ftp.dante.de
the file
        everyshi.zip
containing version 3.00 of the everyshi LaTeX package.

 Length   Method    Size  Ratio   Date   Time   CRC-32    Name ("^" ==> case
--------  ------  ------- -----   ----   ----   ------    ----   conversion)
     505  Defl:X      411  19%  05-15-01 17:23  5a8d25b3  everyshi.asc
     418  Defl:X      263  37%  06-08-99 21:19  e1197d0e  everyshi.bug
   14356  Defl:X     4535  68%  05-15-01 17:20  a739c3c8  everyshi.dtx
   18492  Defl:X     6121  67%  05-15-01 17:23  4b13fa5e  everyshi.dvi
    3683  Defl:X     1251  66%  06-08-99 21:21  fa870bac  everyshi.ins
--------          -------  ---                            -------
   37454            12581  66%                            5 files

- From the documentation:
%%  @LaTeX-package-file{
%%     author          = {Martin Schr\"oder},
%%     version         = "3.00",
%%     date            = "15 May 2001",
%%     filename        = "everyshi.sty",
%%     address         = {Martin Schr\"oder
%%                        Cr\"usemannallee 3
%%                        28213 Bremen
%%                        Germany},
%%     telephone       = "+49-421-2239425",
%%     email           = "martin@oneiros.de",
%%     pgp-Key         = "2048 bit / KeyID 292814E5",
%%     pgp-fingerprint = "7E86 6EC8 97FA 2995 82C3  FEA5 2719 090E",
%      checksum        = "51832 357 1434 12417",
%      codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
%      keywords        = "LaTeX2e, \shipout",
%      supported       = "yes",
%%     docstring       = "LaTeX package which provides hooks into
%%                        \cs{shipout}.
%
%                         The checksum field above contains a CRC-16
%                         checksum as the first value, followed by
%                         the equivalent of the standard UNIX wc
%                         (word count) utility output of lines,
%                         words, and characters.  This is produced
%                         by Robert Solovay's checksum utility."
%%  }
------------ snapp ------------

The main change from version 2.03 is the addition of the
\AtNextShipout command.

------------ snipp ------------

 \subitem \verb*+\@EveryShipout@AtNextHook+:\ new\pfill 2
    \subitem \verb*+\@EveryShipout@Hook+:\ \cs  {newcommand}\pfill 2
    \subitem \verb*+\@EveryShipout@Init+:\ output message\pfill 3
    \subitem \verb*+\@EveryShipout@Output+:\ added call to \cs  {@EveryShipout@AtNextHook}\pfill 3
    \subitem General:\ \cs  {AtNextShipout} added\pfill 1
      \subsubitem Reference to \textnormal  {\sffamily  eso-pic} added\pfill
                1
    \subitem \verb*+\AtNextShipout+:\ \cs  {AtNextShipout} added\pfill 2

------------ snapp ------------

The files should replace their predecessors in
        tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms

Best regards
        Martin

----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms/ as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Wed May 16 08:50:20 2001
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:48:01 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- ukrhyph update

----- Forwarded message from Maksym Polyakov -----
I have uploaded to
  ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ukrhyph
update to ukrhyph package (CTAN:language/hyphenation/ukrhyph).

Files:
  ukrhyph.tex
  ukrhypmp.tex
  ukrhypmt.tex
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version of the files
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed May 16 09:27:29 2001
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:26:16 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New package on CTAN: mftinc

A new LaTeX package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should
make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

=============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: mftinc
Name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/mftinc
Summary description: Include pretty-printed Metafont source in a LaTeX document
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The mft program pretty-prints Metafont source code into
a TeX file.  The mftinc package facilitates
incorporating such files into a LaTeX 2e document.  In
addition, mftinc provides routines for improved comment
formatting and for typesetting font tables.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri May 18 09:51:20 2001
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 13:47:12 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new font package on CTAN: oesch

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should
make its way through the mirroring process in the next
few days.

==================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: package oesch
Name: Bachmaier Gerhard
Location on CTAN: fonts/oesch
Summary description: script font for Austrian School Writing
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This METAFONT files will generate a font which is used in Austrian schools
for hand writing. There are two sizes, 10pt and 20pt.

The Austrian School Writing Font differs from german hand writing fonts in
many details; e.g. you have to continue lowercase letters at the middle bar
after capital letters F,H, and Z.

The font contains all letters including a sharp s, digits, a few typographic
characters .,;:()!? german quotes, and dashes. There is just one accent
(umlaut). This should be sufficient for german and english texts.

The font is based on the newer T1 encoding and can handle ligatures with
umlaut accent. All accented letters (also lowercase \"e and \"i) are
contained as glyphs.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon May 21 05:48:41 2001
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:46:50 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: **** WP2Latex Uploaded ******

On Mon, 21 May 2001 fojtik@htc.honeywell.cz wrote:

>    + what you've uploaded
> Wordperfect to Latex Convertor
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> ftp.dante.de
>
>    + where you want the files to go
> support/wp2latex  - replacement of previous stuff
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
> GPL (cardware)
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>    (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy
> processing)
> Upgrade of wp2latex convertor. These things are new:
>
>  WP 5.x prefix area is scanned correctly.
>  Codepage ISO8859-1 (Thanks to Mogens Kjaer)
>  ability to convert abstract.
>  Bugfixes in formula parser, partial support for longtable enviroment.
>  ability to cope with HTML files :-)))
>  supported ulem.sty for better underlining.
>  supported graphicx.sty for image boxes.
>  Ability to extract WPG from WP6.x, extracting postscript images.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue May 22 09:08:26 2001
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:06:11 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: diagxy.zip

Michael Barr writes:

> Attached is a later version with some bug fixes and minor modifications.
> I have changed the license (from requiring to requesting) a copy of any
> commercially distributed software that includes it) because I very much do
> not want it listed on the non-free tree.  I never look there, since I
> assume anything there is shareware and I am not prepared to pay.  I figure
> I pay my dues with these macros and I would like them as widely available
> as possible.
>
> I hope these are the last bugs (there are just two, in the more esoteric
> parts of the package), but I know that is unlikely.

i've installed the files as requested.  note the change of licence: in
my view, there's no longer any need for ctan to keep this version of
the package on the nonfree tree.

thanks, michael for the clarification and for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu May 24 05:48:02 2001
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:49:13 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: italian graphics manual

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Tommaso Pecorella wrote:

 > Hi, I'm Tommaso Pecorella, member of the Guild/Gilda team.  I just
 > uploaded the italian translation of "Packages in the 'graphics' bundle, by
 > D.P.Carlisle, to ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > The filename is "itgrfguide.tar.gz" and it contains the following directory
 > structure:
 >    + itgrfguide
 >    |
 >    -- itgrfguide.tex
 >    -- itgrfguide.ps
 >    -- itgrfguide.pdf
 >
 > Please, un-tar-gzip it and put the whole directory in info/italian/
 >
 > The licensing is the same of the original file...  lppl, obviously.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as requested, in

  info/italian/itgrfguide

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu May 24 06:28:33 2001
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:28:06 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded memoir.tar to the UK incoming
> directory. This is the first experimental alpha release of the
> memoir class. I don't know if you have a location for experimental
> (flaky) stuff, but if not then perhaps put it into
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir.

i've installed a new directory, macros/latex/exptl/memoir (yes, we do
have a tree for alpha releases, and there's no problem with moving the
file to the supported sub-tree when the class moves from its present
status).

>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README
> ---------------
>
>     The memoir class is designed for typesetting general books such
> as novels, biographies, histories, etc. It has the functionality of
> the standard book class so can also be used for technical works. It
> provides a variety of predefined page, chapter and captioning styles
> together with easy means of creating new ones. There is a reasonably
> intuitive way of specifying page margins, etc., and there are
> options for printing trimming marks or generating an old-fashioned
> typewritten appearance (double spacing, ragged right, no
> hyphenation, typewriter font). Documents can use 9pt, 10pt, 11pt,
> 12pt or 14pt as the normal font size.
>
>     THIS RELEASE IS THE FIRST PUBLIC EXPERIMENTAL ALPHA RELEASE
>
>     If you are willing, please try it out and let me know of any
> shortcomings (bugs, missing functionality). There is not yet a
> manual --- only the documented source code which is likely to change
> in future releases.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu May 24 11:30:12 2001
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 16:29:27 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: update: snapshot pkg version 1.11

Michael Downes writes:

> I have submitted a new version 1.11 of the LaTeX package "snapshot" at
>
>   cam.ctan.org/incoming/snapshot.zip
>
> This contains one change, to handle files where the date/version
> argument of \ProvidesPackage (...File, ...Class, etc) is omitted
> entirely.

i've installed the new version, replacing
macros/latex/contrib/supported/snapshot

> ---Package description---
>
> The snapshot package is designed to help the owner of a LaTeX document
> obtain a list of the external dependencies of the document. In other
> words, it provides a snapshot of the current processing context of the
> document, insofar as it can be determined from inside LaTeX. This can be
> useful when it is desired to ensure identical output, or at least warn
> if there is a danger of different output, from LaTeX runs of the
> document that are separated by time and/or distance.
>
> The snapshot information is written to either the LaTeX log or to
> \jobname.dep at the user's option.
>
> The home site of the package is ftp.ams.org:
>
>   ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/snapshot.zip [.tgz, .tar.Z]

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri May 25 12:59:47 2001
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:58:35 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New CTAN package: newcommand.py

A new package `newcommand' has been installed on tug.ctan.org
and should make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org
=======================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: newcommand.py
Name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: tex-archive/support/newcommand
Summary description: More flexible argument processing than what \newcommand provides
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
LaTeX's \newcommand is fairly limited in the way it
processes optional arguments, but the Plain TeX
alternative, a batch of \defs and \futurelets, can be
overwhelming to the casual LaTeX user.  newcommand.py
is a Python program that automatically generates LaTeX
macro definitions for macros that require more powerful
argument processing than \newcommand can handle.
newcommand.py is intended for LaTeX advanced beginners
(i.e., those who know how to use \newcommand but not
internal LaTeX2e commands like \@ifnextchar) and for
more advanced users who want to save some typing when
defining complex macros.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat May 26 06:17:19 2001
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 11:16:30 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: pdftex.def 2001/05/25 v0.03g

Heiko Oberdiek writes:

> I have updated
>   http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/pdftex.def
>
> \pdfpagewidth and \pdfpageheight are not set, if
> \paperwidth and \paperheight are zero, because
> the heuristic in pdfTeX in this case is more worse
> than the values of the pdfTeX configuration file.
> (This is a result of a thread in de.comp.text.tex,
> someone has used scrlettr.cls that does not set
> the \paper... lenghts.)
>
> Please update the CTAN place
>   CTAN:macros/pdftex/graphics/pdftex.def

i've installed a copy of the file as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat May 26 06:53:33 2001
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 11:53:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: submit files to the CTAN

NOMURA Masataka writes:

> As I would like to submit files to the CTAN, I tell the
> administrator about it as follows:
>
>  >    + what you've uploaded
> a set of files translated lshort into Japanese
>   00README                      127 00-06-14 16:14
>   CHANGES.jp                    192 00-06-28 11:17
>   READ.ME                       580 01-05-25 20:09
>   jlshort-1.00.src.tar.gz     81013 01-05-25 19:55
>   jlshort-book.ps           1670804 01-05-25 19:20
>   jlshort.dvi                480180 01-05-25 19:20
>   jlshort.ps                1632662 01-05-25 19:20
>
>  >    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/japanese/
>
>  >    + where you want the files to go
> CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/japanese/
>
>  >    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
> gpl
>
>  >    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> This is the Japanese translation of "The not so short
> introduction to LaTeX2e" by Tobias Oetiker, version 3.13.

i have installed the files as requested.  thank you very much for the
upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Mon May 28 02:38:27 2001
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 08:37:03 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- PSNFSS-8.2 beta

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded several files to the directory
/incoming/psnfss-8.2  at dante.ctan.org.
Please, move them to the CTAN directory

  macros/latex/required/psnfss-beta

This is a public test release of the new version 8.2
of the PSNFSS bundle, providing LaTeX support for common
PostScript fonts.  Comments are welcome!

The main news is, that the mathpazo package is now
integrated into PSNFSS.  See also the file changes.txt.
Since there are no further basic changes over v8.1,
I hope that PSNFSS 8.2 can soon replace v8.1 and make
its way into the TeX distributions.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Tue May 29 04:03:22 2001
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 10:00:43 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- fixmath, icomma, upgreek

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file was.zip to the /incoming directory
at dante.ctan.org.  Please unpack it to the CTAN directory

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/was

thus replacing the existent files and adding new ones.

This submission updates my personal :-) CTAN directory.
The following LaTeX macro packages will be available:

fixmath:  A package to provide italic uppercase Greek letters
  in math and an additional bold italic math alphabet; to be
  used with the CM fonts.

icomma:  An `intelligent' comma, which yields proper spacing
  in decimal numbers as well as in mathematical expressions.
  In contrast to other known solutions, this package does not
  depend on the encoding of the CM math fonts, and it works
  with decimal numbers of arbitrary length.

upgreek:  A package to provide the upright Greek letters from
  the Euler or Adobe Symbol fonts as additional math symbols,
  with proper scaling in super- and subscripts.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload,  I installed the packages as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue May 29 09:35:32 2001
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:34:07 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN upload: Il sistema PSfrag (translation of PSfrag doc to              italian)

A translation of the PSfrag document from English to Italian
has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way
through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Il sistema PSfrag
Name: Flavio Casadei DElla Chiesa
Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/info/italian/psfrag
Summary description: PSfrag translation from english to italian
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
PSfrag translation from english to italian
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue May 29 09:55:29 2001
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:54:04 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN upload: Petri-nets package

A package petri-nets has been installed on tug.ctan.org and will
make its way throught the mirroring process in the next day or
two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Petri-nets packages
Name: Franck Pommereau
Location on CTAN: macros/generic/petri-nets
Summary description: TeX/LaTeX packages for drawing Petri nets
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Petri-nets is a set of TeX/LaTeX packages about Petri nets
and related models. One package allows to draw Petri-nets
in PostScript documents. One other defines macros related
to PBC, M-nets and B(PN)� models. A last package just
gathers together the two previous.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed May 30 03:47:45 2001
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:43:00 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: mtfonts.fdd

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the file mtfonts.fdd to the /incoming directory
> at dante.ctan.org.  Please, move it to the CTAN directory
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/mathtime, thus replacing
> the existent file.
>
> This is the source of the .fd files for Y&Y's MathTime fonts.
> I have changed all fontnames to lowercase, thus complying with
> the files as distributed by Y&Y now.  See also the LaTeX bug
> report psnfss/3001.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the updated file as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed May 30 09:52:48 2001
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:50:30 GMT
From: "FTP archive manager (Jim Hefferon)" <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New material on CTAN: mdvi 0.2

New material mdvi has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should
make its way throught the mirroring process in the next day or
two.

=============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: mdvi
Name: Matias Atria
Location on CTAN: /dviware/mdvi
Summary description: A DVI previewer
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
MDVI is a previewer for DVI files. It supports a rich
variety of font formats (PK, GF, VF/OVF, Type1 and
TrueType), uses kpathsea to locate files and is able to
use the same font map files used by dvips, pdftex and
ghostcript, making its integration with an existing
TeX/Ghostscript installation painless. It has a web page
at http://mdvi.sourceforge.net.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jun  5 05:08:44 2001
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:06:10 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: invoice.sty
Resent-Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: invoice.sty

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 Dr. Oliver Corff wrote:

> Name of contribution: invoice.sty
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported
> Summary description: The invoice package generates invoices from fees etc.
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The invoice package is at present a tailor-made, yet
> expandable solution for a consultant who charges fees
> and claims all sorts of expenses in local and foreign
> currencies, even if working on different assignments
> for the same client.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the package in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/invoice

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@Dante.DE Thu Jun  7 07:43:02 2001
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:39:26 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- emTeX/TDS fixpack #007

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack the archive
in the CTAN directory

  systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS

thus adding a new subdirectory fix007 and replacing the
file README.fixes.  Please, do not specify the option
-a for unzip, as this would corrupt the OS/2 shell script.

This is fixpack #007 for emTeX/TDS 0.55 (OS/2).
See the updated file README.fixes for an overview.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission,  I installed the fixpack on CTAN as requested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jun  8 07:21:01 2001
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:18:24 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: Upload of new CM fonts in Type 1 form

Tom Kacvinsky writes:

>    + what you've uploaded
>
> cmfonts/cmps-oztex.hqx
> cmfonts/cmps-pc.zip
> cmfonts/cmps-textures.hqx
> cmfonts/cmps-unix.tar.gz
> cmfonts/README
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
> cam.ctan.org
>
>    + where you want the files to go
>
> The files should go into
>
>   tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky/
>
> The file READ.ME should be replaced by README, and the PFB files
>
>   lasy5.pfb
>   lasy6.pfb
>   lasy7.pfb
>   lasy8.pfb
>   lasy9.pfb
>   lasy10.pfb
>   lcircle1.pfb
>   lcirclew.pfb
>   line10.pfb
>   linew10.pfb
>
> from either cmps-unix.tar.gz or cmps-pc.zip should go into
>
>     tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky/pfb.
>
> The PFM files did not change.
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
>
> Same as before.
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>    (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing)
>
> New archive files containing updated documentation for the CM fonts in Type 1
> form, and modified PFB files for the fonts
>
>   lasy10
>   lasy5
>   lasy6
>   lasy7
>   lasy8
>   lasy9
>   lcircle10
>   lcirclew10
>   line10
>   linew10
>
> There were reports a typo in the eexec portion of the fonts may cause problems
> with previewing (in Acrobat 5.0) PDF documents using these fonts.  Not all PDF
> files have this problem, nor do all PDF generating programs write out PDF files
> that cause problems when using these fonts.  The typo has been fixed.
>
> The problem was brought to the AMS's attention on the tex-fonts mailing list
> hosted by Nelson Beebe.  The original report was by MicroPress on the
> comp.text.tex newsgroup, and the modified files were graciously made by Y&Y.

thanks very much for the upload: i have installed the files as
requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jun 11 03:52:23 2001
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 09:50:04 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: ushort 2.1
Resent-Subject: Re: ushort 2.1

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, M. Vaeth wrote:

> Name of contribution: ushort 2.1
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ushort/ (replace old version)
> Summary description: With this package you may write shorter (or longer) various underlines/underbars
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package solves a problem which arose in de.comp.text.tex.
> Some engineers need `underlined' or `twice underlined'
> variables for which the usual \underline is too long.
> This package provides a generic command for creating
> underlines of various size and type.
>
> The new release is essentially faster (up to the factor 4).
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/ushort

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jun 11 10:13:10 2001
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:04:17 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: your mail

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Petr Vabishchevich wrote:

> Name of contribution: BibTexMng  v. 2.0
> Suggested location on CTAN: bible/bibtex/utils/BibTexMng
> Summary description: BibTexMng is a easy to use product of
> bibliographic software for Windows.
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
>
> BibTexMng is a very easy to use product of bibliographic software
> for Windows. BibTexMng combines online searching, reference management,
> bibliography making, and information sharing into a single user-friendly
> environment. It was written to be used with Latex, using Bibtex.
> BibTexMng is a program for manipulating BibTeX database files.
> These files contain all the relevant data, and sometimes additional
> information such as abstracts and keywords, but do not specify the
> final format in which this data will be presented. The data is organized
> into records, in which each record is identified by a unique key or label.
>
> Version 2.0
>
> Main changes:
>  The interface is changed;
>  The possibility of obtaining of the bibliography in HTML format is
>  added;
>  The errors are eliminated.

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

  biblio/bibtex/utils/BibTexMng

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jun 11 12:36:45 2001
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:35:17 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: new version of footmisc

i have installed a new version of footmisc on the cambridge ctan.

the new version differs in the following respects:

- the check for stability of the latex code it's patching is *far*
  more up-to-date, and doesn't choke on perfectly good latex
- the over-elaborate provision for debugging is hidden somewhat: it
  was only ever really intended for me, and i've had comments
  suggesting that it was confusing
- i've replaced the code for perpage footnotes with a new, far more
  stable, algorithm; i have been using it in some huge (hundreds of
  pp) documents, and have not experienced any problems since i
  completed the debugging the new algorithm (they were a nightmare
  with the old algorithm, which was what got me started)

i have a backlog of small requests for changes to footmisc.  since
i've now cleared the log-jam of this new algorithm version, i shall
shortly review the set of requests i have.

robin fairbairns

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jun 12 13:31:49 2001
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:28:10 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New CTAN package: Makor System for Hebrew Typesetting]

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

===========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Makor System for Hebrew Typesetting
Name: Alan Hoenig
Location on CTAN: language/hebrew/makor
Summary description: Fonts, macros to typeset Hebrew (letters plus vowels) in a natural manner.
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This system (it's a beta version) comprises fonts + macros to typeset
Hebrew by using a natural input scheme.  Final letters are selected
automatically, and all vowels can be included.  With a software switch,
the vowels can be turned off or on.  Please check the included file
beta.ps for many additional examples.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jun 14 11:14:40 2001
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:12:57 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New CTAN package: gtex-letter

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: gtex-letter
Name: Christian Folini
Location on CTAN: support/gtex-letter
Summary description: A Gnome assistant (wizard/druid) to ease the writing of LaTeX letter
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A good looking interface, based on the gnome-desktop.

Serial letters are supported.

Multiple letter headers can be accessed from within the
application.

Standard openings and default closings can be configured.

These openings can be configured to adopt to the sex of the
addressee automatically.

You can choose from three different user interfaces. Novice
is very easy for the beginner, intermediate is the standard
way, expert is straight forward, all on one big page.

The application can swallow text you pipe into it, being it
the address or the text of the letter.

A special non-interactive mode lets you produce
standard-letters in an extremely efficient way.

gtex-letter connects to the gnome-address-book from the
gnome-pim package.

gtex-letter is implemented in python and based on gnome.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jun 15 15:23:36 2001
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 19:22:28 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New CTAN package: SchemeWEB2

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way throught the mirroring process in the next few days.

Jim Hefferon

===========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: SchemeWEB2
Name: Matthieu Moy
Location on CTAN: web/schemeweb2
Summary description: Literate programming for Lisp and Scheme
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I made several changes to SchemeWEB, from John D. Ramsdell, which
I think are improvement. I renamed it to keep the old version available.
The principle is still to mix Lisp source code with LaTeX source code,
and be able to produce both formats.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@Dante.DE Mon Jun 18 08:17:08 2001
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:07:35 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX 3.50

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 3.50.
Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
13-Jun-2001

PS: Please send announce to approapriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 3.50 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 3.50

For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

HIGHLIGHTS

 * PostScript enabled TeX system.
   Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks* graphics.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution including about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.

GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX 3 includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 9.0, Adobe Streamline 4.0,
MatLab, CorelDraw, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters),
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * OpenType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts:
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase),
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd),
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

USER INTERFACE

* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Typesetting a selected part of a document (styles may be precompiled as format).
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents:
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Control Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Spell Checker is configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 3.50 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 3.20

  User Interface.

  * Customizable Toolbar is available in Text Editor and DVI Viewer.
  * Toolbar icons are displayed at left edge of menus.
  * Tool tips are displayed for toolbar (including Control bars and GUI Bar).
  * Tips for editor menu are displayed in status bar.
  * Menu item and toolbar controls are automatically enabled/disabled
    according to context.
  * Popup menu is invoked by right mouse button.
  * Font Highlighting in DVI Viewer was improved:
    (1) font/color table is dislayed in dialog box;
    (2) colors may be customizable.
  * `Insert|Wrapping Selection' is new flag which
    enables insertion of LaTeX environment and other commands
    around selected text.
  * TeX Control Bar includes new options:
        embed Source Info,
        encpsualate DVI color stacks,
        automatical launching of DVI viewer.
  * `Search|Find...' supports matching whole word only.
    Search options: `Match case' and 'Match whole word only' was added
    to Search/Replace control bar.
  * `Window|Duplicate' was improved to inherit cursor position, viewport
     position, window size, and region selection from original window.
  * `Options|Appearance ...' controls appearance of Menu Tips, Menu Icons,
    Toolbar tips, Dialog tips, and sizes of dialogs and control bars.

  Fonts.

  Cached TrueType fonts may be automatically deinstalled after exiting
  last copy of DVI Viewer. This approach hides TeX fonts for another
  applications. This feature may be enabled/disabled from dialog
  opened from `DVIEW:Options|Font Convertor Cache ...'.

  Configuration.

  * `BaKoMa\CENTAUR.MNU' includes binding of menu and keystrokes
    for Centaur Text Editor.
  * `BaKoMa\DVIEW.MNU' includes binding of menu and keystrokes
    for DVI Viewer.
  * `FileHook' is new resource category
    intended for automatical running a preprocessors.

  Bug fixes.

  * `BaKoMa\OIF\OUT.OIF' - Fixing problem with converting unicoded outlines.
  * Fixed problem observed on PostScript files produced by Matlab.
    It was looking that some Up-Right fonts displayed as italic on display.
    (The problem was not distort PDF and PostScript output)

For more information about changes see
   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/dst/changes3.html>

---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

Thanks for the update, I installed it on CTAN as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Mon Jun 18 09:14:53 2001
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:08:02 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: CTAN Submission -- latex2man version 1.14

----- Forwarded message from Juergen Vollmer -----
I uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file latex2man-1.14.tar.gz.
Please install it under the support/latex2man directory.
>From the README:

Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a
format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command.
Alternatively HTML, TexInfo, or LaTeX code can be produced too.
Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the conditional text
feature (for this, LaTeX generation may be used).

There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the Man-page
and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual translation.

Changes from version 1.13
        - TROFF generation: fixed handling of leading . and '
        - removed macro \Dot
With best regards

Juergen

PS
License:
   This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
   of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
   archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
   version 1 of the License, or any later version.

PPS: If you find this software useful, please send me a postcard.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thansk for the update,  I installed it on CTAN as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jun 19 10:44:39 2001
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:41:12 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New CTAN package: MiniPlot

A new LaTeX package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and
should make its way through the mirroring process in the
next day or two.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

=================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: MiniPlot
Name: Tobias Wahl
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/miniplot
Summary description: a package for easy figure arrangements
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
MiniPlot is a package to help LaTeX's user to typeset eps figures using
an easy-to-use interface.
    Figures can be arranged as one-figure-only or as a collection of figure
in columns and rows which can contain itself sub-figures in columns and
rows. Also wrapped figures are supported.
    This package provides commands to display a framebox instead of the
figure as the graphics package does already but additionally it writes
useful information such as the label and scaling factor into these boxes.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jun 20 09:52:16 2001
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:50:03 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung

Walter Schmidt writes:

> I have uploaded the ZIP archive l2kurz.zip to the
> /incoming directory at ftp.tex.ac.uk.  Please, move its
> contents to the directory:
>
>   info/lshort/german/
>
> Please, delete the existing files l2kurz.dvi and l2kurz.ps;
> they are no longer to be distributed.
>
> This is a slightly updated release of the German
>
>   LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung.
>
> The ready-made PDF files were created using VTeX 7.32
> and should not cause any problems with Acrobat Reader 5
> (in contrast to the previous PDFs).  DVI and PostScript
> files are no longer distributed.
>
> See the file CHANGES for a list of changes.
> See README.l2kurz for a file list.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jun 20 16:51:51 2001
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 20:51:02 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: New package on CTAN: mf2pt1

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will make its
way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

=========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: mf2pt1
Name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: support/mf2pt1
Summary description: Produce PostScript Type 1 fonts from Metafont source
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
mf2pt1 facilitates producing PostScript Type 1 fonts from a
Metafont source file.  It is not, as the name may imply, an
automatic converter of arbitrary Metafont fonts to Type 1
format.  mf2pt1 imposes a number of restrictions on the
Metafont input.  If these restrictions are met, mf2pt1 will
produce valid Type 1 output.  (Actually, it produces
"disassembled" Type 1; the t1asm program from the t1utils
suite will convert this to a true Type 1 font.)

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Jun 22 08:04:33 2001
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:02:25 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ifpdf.sty, chemarr.sty

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:

> I have uploaded 'oberdiek.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> It contains two additional packages:
> * ifpdf.sty     2001/06/14 v1.0 Providing \ifpdf.
> * chemarr.sty   2001/06/22 v1.1 Chemical reaction arrows.
> and an updated version of readme.txt.
>
> Please install all the files of the zip file in the directory
>   CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/
> (Do not delete the other files, only readme.txt
> will be updated.)
>
> From the readme.txt:
>
> * Package `ifpdf' looks for pdfTeX in pdf mode and implements
>   and sets the switch \ifpdf. The detection is based on
>   \pdfoutput and the package will not change this value.
>   It works with plain or LaTeX formats.
>   Use: LaTeX: \usepackage{ifpdf}
>        plain: \input ifpdf.sty
>   The package provides the switch \ifpdf:
>     \ifpdf
>       ... do things, if pdfTeX is running in pdf mode ...
>     \else
>       ... other TeX or pdfTeX in dvi mode ...
>     \fi
>   See package file for further documentation and use.
>
> * Package `chemarr': Very often chemists need a longer
>   version of reaction arrows (\rightleftharpoons) with
>   the possibility to put text above and below. Analogous
>   to amsmath's \xrightarrow and \xleftarrow this package
>   provides the macro \xrightleftharpoons.
>   Requirements: amsmath
>   Use: \usepackage{chemarr}
>        \xrightleftharpoons[below]{above}
>   See package file for further documentation and use.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as requested, in

 macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Jun 22 08:19:49 2001
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:19:08 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: teubner.zip and cbgreek.zip

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Claudio Beccari wrote:

> This mail to inform you I have just uploaded into ftp.dante.de /incoming
> two zipped packages:
>
> cbgreek.zip contains an update version of  my CB Greek fonts: it should
> be  deposited in /tex-archive/fonts/greek/cb/mf
>
>
> teubner.zip conatains a bundle with installation file, documented TeX file,
> documentation in pdf format, etc. for philological typesetting, especially
> Greek, but not only Greek. I suggest to create a new directory under
> macros/latex/contrib/supported named teubner for depositing this bundle.
> Its a new contribution and is free under LPPP.

Thanks a lot for the uploads, I installed the files as requested.


For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Jun 24 13:53:48 2001
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 19:51:29 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN <CTAN-ANN@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Re: mirroring VTeX on CTAN (fwd)

Release 7.33 of MicroPress' VTeX/Free for OS/2 and Linux-x86
is available and mirrored in the CTAN directory

  systems/vtex .

VTeX/Free is a TeX program that generates PDF or PostScript
output immediately from the TeX source file.
The distribution includes a complete working LaTeX system.

See the file NEWS in the distribution for a list of all
new and/or changed features in release 7.33.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jun 26 11:00:37 2001
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:52:20 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: esdiff package

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Eddie Saudrais wrote:

> I have upload esdiff package to ftp.dante.de/incomming
>
> It contains four files:
>
> esdiff.ins and esdiff.dtx for the package, the documentation esdiff.ps
> and a readme.txt file.
>
> Please, install all the files on
> CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/esdiff
>
> Licence: gpl.
>
> ****
>
> The package "esdiff" allows to typeset derivatives, partial derivatives,
> multiple derivatives. The macro that deals with crossed derivatives was
> given on  comp.text.tex by Peter Schmitt.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/esdiff

They will propagate to the other CTAN hosts in due course.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jun 26 11:04:37 2001
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:56:31 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ifmslide (v0.45)

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 Thomas Emmel wrote:

> Name of contribution: ifmslide (v0.45)
> Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ifmslide
> Summary description: Powerful presentations with PDFLaTeX and LaTeX
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Produce printed slides with latex and online presentations with pdflatex
> from only one source, add buttons for navigation and visual effects from
> texpower.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it in the indicated location.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jun 27 04:41:27 2001
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:31:50 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: metaobj 0.80

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Denis B. Roegel wrote:

>   I have uploaded the file
>
>      dante.ctan.org/incoming/metaobj.tar.gz
>
>   It produces a directory `metaobj' with several subdirectories.
>   The metaobj directory should be put on CTAN either as
>
>      graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/metaobj
>
>   or
>
>      graphics/metapost/macros/metaobj
>
>      (I seem to bear responsibility for creating the latter `macros' directory,
>       since the oldest package it contains is my 3d package.)
>
>   You can put `metaobj' on either place, as you like.
>
>
>   METAOBJ is a large metapost package providing high-level objects.
>   It implements many of PSTricks' features for node connections,
>   but also trees, matrices, and many other things. It more or less
>   contains boxes.mp and rboxes.mp. There is a large (albeit not complete)
>   documentation distributed with the package. It is easily extensible
>   with new objects.
>
>   The package is distributed under the LPPL.
>
> Denis Roegel

Thanks a lot for the upload, the package is now installed as

  graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/metaobj

Sorry for the delay, sometimes these things lie around a bit.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jun 27 06:55:58 2001
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:47:49 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: patch for listings package

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Carsten Heinz wrote:

> I've uploaded the file `lstpatch.sty' to dante.ctan.org/incoming.
> Please overwrite the according file in the directory
>
>     macros/latex/conrtib/supported/listings


Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jul  2 05:16:43 2001
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 12:05:10 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: New package on CTAN: LaTable

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way through the mirroring process in the next few days.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org
=============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: LaTable
Name: Alex A. Denisov
Location on CTAN: support/latable
Summary description: A near-WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX tables.
License type: nosell

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A LaTeX table editor with the following features:
Real-time LaTeX code preview; Limited clipboard support for import/export
into other spreadsheet and text editors; CSV support; Support for 'tabular',
'array' and custom environments; Custom column formats.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul  2 05:06:17 2001
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:46:51 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: -- pkfix v1.0

On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:

> I have uploaded 'pkfix.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> The files in the zip archive go and update the files in
>   CTAN:support/pkfix/
>
> The perl script pkfix looks for DVIPSBitmapFont comments
> in PostScript files, generated by not too old dvips, and
> replaces them by the type 1 versions if possible.
>
> Changes:
>
> 2001/04/26 v0.9:
>   * Check of version number of dvips in PostScript file.
> 2001/06/30 v1.0:
>   * Problem with DOS line endings fixed.

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul  2 05:10:27 2001
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:48:23 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: file upload

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Dan Rizzuto wrote:

> I have uploaded a file to dante.ctan.org/incoming called neuron.bst. This
> is a bibliography style file for use in submitting manuscripts to the
> journal Neuron (www.neuron.org). I think it would be best suited to the
> /bibliography/bibtex/ portion of the archive. I submit this using the GPL
> license.

Thanks for the file, I installed it as

 bibliography/bibtex/contrib/neuron.bst

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul  2 05:38:10 2001
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:51:36 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: uploaded t-angles

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Volodymyr Lyubashenko wrote:

> I would like to submit to CTAN a new version of LaTeX2e style.
> It is already there in directory
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/t-angles
>
> (1) The uploaded file is called t-angles.zip .
> It includes the following files:
> readme , t-angles.sty , t-manual.tex .
> (2) I have uploaded it to dante.ctan.org  ( /incoming directory).
> (3) The three files have to go again to
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/t-angles
> (4) license is GNU General Public License
> (5) t-angles.sty
> is a LaTeX2e style for drawing tangles, trees,
> Hopf algebra operations and other pictures.
> It is based on emTeX or TPIC \special's.
> Therefore, it can be used with the most popular drivers:
>          emTeX drivers, dviwin, yap, xdvi and dvips.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as you requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul  2 05:38:22 2001
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:56:34 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: esvect package

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Eddie Saudrais wrote:

> I have uploaded esvect package to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> It contains several files :
> - readme.txt to know how to install it.
> - esvect.ins and esvect.dtx.
> - esvect.ps : documentation.

I installed these files in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/esvect

as requested.

> mf, tfm, sty and fd files have to be generated from esvect.ins and
> esvect.dtx, but I put them ready-to-use in mfinput, tfm and texinput
> directories.

Since they are easily generated, I did not install them on CTAN.

> Licence: gpl
>
> ****
>
> This package allows to write vectors with an arrow different from the
> Computer Modern one. You have the choice between several kinds of
> arrows. It consists of a metafont and a package to use it.

Thanks for the upload

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jul  2 11:08:25 2001
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:59:59 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: CTAN submission: memoir class

The LaTeX `memoir' package has been moved from the alpha directory
to macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir. A description is below.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

===============================================================

>From the README
- ---------------

    Memoir is a configurable class for typesetting general
fiction, non-fiction and mathematical books.

    It provides a variety of predefined page, chapter and
caption styles and easy means of creating new ones. There is an
easy way of specifying page margins etc., and there are options
for printing trimming marks or generating an old fashioned
typewriter appearance (double spacing, ragged right, no
hyphenation, typewriter font). Documents can use 9pt, 10pt,
11pt, 12pt or 14pt as the normal font size.

Changes in version 0.2
o major improvements over the alpha release.

Author: Dr. Peter R. Wilson
License: LPPL

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jul  2 13:10:03 2001
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 18:02:16 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload --- memman.tex

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded memman.tex to the UK incoming
> directory. Please use this to replace the current memman.tex at
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir/memman.tex.
>
>     This is a slight correction to the original to fix a bug
> reported by Martin Ziegler so that it will be completely processible
> by LaTeX.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jul  3 04:48:29 2001
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 09:40:06 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- layouts package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     Yet another upload to UK incoming; layouts.tar. Please use this
> to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/layouts.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>
>     The layouts package enables the display of various elements od a
> document's layout including: text positioning on a page; disposition
> of floats; layout of paragraphs, lists, footnotes, table of
> contents, sectional headings; font boxes.
>
> Facilities are provided for a document designer to experiment with
> the layout parameters.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul  3 09:27:39 2001
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:08:12 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: Hyphenation patterns for Interlingua

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Peter Kleiweg wrote:

> Uploaded to CTAN:
>
> file:        iahyphen.tex
> destination: language/hyphenation/
> licensing:   pd
> description: Hpyhenation patterns for Interlingua
>
> General information about Interlingua can be found at:
> http://www.interlingua.com/

Thanks for the upload, I installed the file as

  language/hyphenation/iahyphen.tex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jul  3 12:34:05 2001
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:26:11 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: upload of dcpic

Pedro Quaresmo de Almeida writes:

> Name of contribution: dcpic
>
> Your name: Pedro Quaresma
>
> Suggested CTAN directory: macros/generic/dcpic

i've installed the package, in directory macros/generic/diagrams/dcpic
(rather than the suggested directory: i felt it would be better for
the package to live with other commutative diagram packages).

thanks for the upload

> Summary description: DCpic, Comutative Diagrams in a (La)TeX Document
>
> Short text for announcement:
>   DCpic is a package of \TeX\ macros for graphing Commutative Diagrams
>   in a (La)\TeX\ or Con\TeX t document. Its distinguishing features
>   are: the use of \PiCTeX\ a powerful graphical engine, and a simple
>   specification syntax. A commutative diagram is described in
>   terms of its objects and its arrows. The objects are
>   textual elements and the arrows can have various straight or curved
>   forms.
>
> Type of licence: Generic DFSG

the documentation presently supplied is in portuguese.  an english
version is expected in due course.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jul  4 04:29:15 2001
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 09:20:49 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- combine class with the combinet and              combnat packages

Peter Wilson writes:

>     UK /incoming has just received combine.tar. Please use this to
> replace the current contents of
> latex/macros/contrib/supported/combine.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>
>     The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a
> single document, such as when preparing a conference proceedings.
>
>     The auxiliary combinet package puts the titles and authors from
> \maketitle commands into the main document's ToC and the auxiliary
> combnat package lets the combine class and the natbib package work
> harmoniously together.
>
> Changes in version 0.1 of combnat.sty
> o First public release

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jul  4 04:46:27 2001
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 09:36:31 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: mf.web and tex.web

both of these files have changed on ctan, as of last night's mirror of
knuth's source.

i've seen no announcement from knuth himself, but as far as i can tell
the changes (which the comments say apply to documentation only) are
for real.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jul  5 21:44:41 2001
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 13:34:08 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: update: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List

The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List on CTAN has been updated.
The following information was provided by the author.

Name of contribution: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
Name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive
Summary description: Samples of thousands of symbols that are accessible from LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a major update to the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol
List.  Not only does it contain hundreds of new symbols, but
the symbol tables have been reordered into a more logical
structure; the document begins with a "frequently requested
symbols" list; and there is a new, Latin 1 quick reference
table.  The result is that LaTeX symbols should be easier to
find than ever before.

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Please note that PDF files are available as
  info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-letter.pdf
(for US letter paper dimensions) and
  info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf
in the tex archive of your favorite CTAN or mirror.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jul  5 21:28:17 2001
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 13:52:26 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: CTAN upload: bibfind

The new package bibfind has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should
make its way through the mirroring system in the next day or two.

============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: bibfind
Name: Oyvind Breivik
Suggested location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/utils
Summary description: Prints entries in your bib file that match search string
License type: artistic

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Bibfind reads your bib file and prints those references that match your
search string. It works a bit like grep, only it prints the whole reference
(paragraph) and not just the line that matches.

The program is useful for quickly checking whether a certain reference is
in your database, or what year some guy made that major breakthrough, etc.
You can use Perl regexes in your search string and hence wield the awesome
power of Perl's pattern matching.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jul  9 09:09:11 2001
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:00:35 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: new CTAN package: 2in1.sty

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org
============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: 2in1.sty
Name: Sanjeev Saxena
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc
Summary description: LaTex Style File for printing two pages on a single page (landscape)
License type: pd

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
LaTex Style File for printing two pages on a single A4 page (landscape).
Page numbers are at bottom
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jul 10 04:51:47 2001
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:43:20 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: arraymaker

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20010709.001/.
>
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
>
> Name of contribution: arraymaker
> Name and email: Donu Arapura <>
> Suggested location on CTAN: support/
> Summary description: A program for making latex and xypic arrays
> License type: Generic DFSG
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This  program is designed to take some of the tedium
> out of constructing arrays, diagrams and tables. Latex code
> is entered into boxes, and it outputs an array that can be
> pasted into a latex file.
>
>  This is written in tcl/tk (>= 8.0), so that needs to be installed
> beforehand. Most unix/linux systems already have it, so it should be
> enough to save this to a file and make it executable.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

thanks for the upload.  i have installed the file as
support/arraymaker/arraymaker

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jul 11 11:54:48 2001
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:37:38 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: psnfss-beta.zip

> I have uploaded the file psnfss-beta.zip to the /incoming
> folder at dante.ctan.org.
>
> Please, unpack it and replace the files in the directory
> macros/latex/required/psnfss-beta.
>
> This is _probably_ the final version 8.2 of PSNFSS,
> but I'd like to keep it labeled as "beta" for some days
> still.  I will tell you when you can make it the official
> distribution.
>
> These are the changes over the previous beta release:
>
>  * mathpazo.sty:  Changed behavior of the options sc and osf;
>  \jmath and \imath changed back to type 'mathord', as in normal
>  LaTeX.
>
>  * mathptm.sty:  Revoked the changes re. AMS fonts, since the
>  package is only provided for use with legacy douments, anyway.
>
>  * Many changes to the documentation (psnfss2e.*).
>
>  * test1.tex, test2.tex, test3.tex:  Fixed typo.
>
> thank you very much

i've installed the files as requested (at cambridge, in the absence of
anyone available to do the work at dante).

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jul 12 05:23:12 2001
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:50:07 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: epstopdf

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 Juergen.Bausa wrote:

 > Name of contribution: epstopdf
 > Suggested location on CTAN: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/epstopdf/
 > Summary description: epstopdf in C: converts eps figures to pdf to embed them in pdflatex
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > bugfix
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   support/epstopdf

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jul 12 05:20:53 2001
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:52:09 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: MiKTeX-WinEdt-TrueType-Anleitung

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Jens Weissenburger wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file MiKTeX-WinEdt-TrueType-Anleitung.zip to the
 > /incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.
 > The content of the archive should replace
 > /tex-archive/info/german/MiKTeX-WinEdt-TrueType-Anleitung
 >
 > It is an update to the most up-to-date versions of the described
 > software.
 >
 > *********************************************************************
 > I think the most interesting part of this guidance is the German
 > version of Damir Rakityansky page "Using TrueType fonts with TeX
 > (LaTeX) and pdfTeX (pdfLaTeX)". The other sections describe the co-
 > operation of MiKTeX with WinEdt.
 > *********************************************************************

Thanks for the update, I installed i as requested, in

  info/german/MiKTeX-WinEdt-TrueType-Anleitung

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jul 12 05:18:10 2001
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:53:52 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: updated mpattern.zip on dante/incoming

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz wrote:

 > I've uploaded to dante:/incoming/mpattern.zip (update)
 > Please remove
 > graphics/metapost/macros/mpattern/
 > and unzip mpattern.zip in graphics/metapost/macros/

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jul 12 05:22:25 2001
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:55:07 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- updated hypernat package (v1.0b)

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Jens Berger wrote:

 > I've just uploaded an updated version of hypernat.sty to
 >
 >      ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
 >
 >   This packages makes the hyperref package and the natbib package
 >   with options `numbers' and `sort&compress' work together. This
 >   means, that the citations (e.g [3,2,1]) will be compressed to
 >   [1-3], where the `1' and the `3' are (color-)linked to the
 >   bibliography.
 >
 > Changes:
 >
 >      Anchor for all citations in the list added to make backref options
 >      working (bug reported by G�nter Keusen). There are some duplicates
 >      in the .aux file, but this should be ignored by backref.sty.
 >
 > Please replace the file in
 >
 >   CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jul 12 05:24:42 2001
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:57:42 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload -- BaKoMa TeX 3.51

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
 > upgrade for BaKoMa TeX 3.51.
 > Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
 >
 > This version has Patch status and may be freely installed
 > by holders of NON-UPGRADABLE license for BaKoMa TeX 3.50.

Thanks for the update, I installed the files in

   nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/dst

as requested.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf


 > --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 3.51 ----------------------
 >
 > CONTENTS
 >    * Highlights
 >    * Graphical Capabilities
 >    * Fonts
 >    * User Interface
 >    * PDF Generation Features
 >    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 3.51
 >
 > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
 >    <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000.
 >
 > HIGHLIGHTS
 >
 >  * PostScript enabled TeX system.
 >    Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks* graphics.
 >  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
 >    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 >  * Complete distribution including about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
 >    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 >  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 >  * Easy to install and use.
 >  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 >
 > GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX 3 includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
 > which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
 > software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 9.0, Adobe Streamline 4.0,
 > MatLab, CorelDraw, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
 >
 > All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible
 > with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
 > embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, XyPic, etc.).
 >
 > The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
 >    PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.
 >
 > FONTS
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 >  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters),
 >  * PostScript Type 3,
 >  * TrueType,
 >  * OpenType,
 >  * TeX PK/VF.
 >
 > The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
 > and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 >  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 >  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 >  * EC/TC,
 >  * LH (T2A),
 >  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 >  * Malvern,
 >  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 >  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 >  Math Fonts:
 >  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 >  Diagram drawing fonts:
 >  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase),
 >  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd),
 >  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
 >
 > Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
 > This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
 > between font formats when needed.
 > This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
 > On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
 > for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
 >
 > USER INTERFACE
 >
 > * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
 > * Typesetting a selected part of a document (styles may be precompiled as format).
 > * Quick navigation via document structure,
 > * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
 > * Powerful support for different input encodings,
 > * Project support,
 > * Graphics import assistant,
 > * Assitance for multi-file documents:
 >   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
 > * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
 > * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
 > * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
 > * Control Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
 > * Spell Checker is configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
 > * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
 >
 > OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
 >
 > * View on Windows Display.
 > * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
 > * PostScript (really scalable),
 > * PDF.
 >
 > Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
 > for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
 > may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical
 > capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
 >
 > PDF GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 > * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
 > * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
 >   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
 > * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
 > * Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
 >
 > NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 3.51 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 3.50
 >
 > This version has Patch status and may be freely installed
 > by holders of NON-UPGRADABLE license for BaKoMa TeX 3.50.
 >
 >   * `Search|Gather':
 >      commands to insert references was added to `Labels' and `Bibliography<'
 >      categories. `Bibliography' is new Gather category to collect \bibitem's.
 >   * `Search|TeX Error|...':
 >      bug related with setting a `Master file' was fixed.
 >   * Invoking TeX from `Log' window works correctly.
 >   * `File|Print (Generate Listing)' (LP2DVI.ctr): `AView' bug was fixed.
 >   * Fixed bug: Losted GDI objects in DVI Viewer.
 >   * Handling of missconfigured fonts was refined.
 >
 > For more information about changes see
 >    <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/dst/changes3.html>
 >
 > ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jul 12 05:18:46 2001
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:02:54 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: Upload

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Dr.Matthew Kuhn wrote:

 > The upload is:
 >   into directory:
 >     incoming/ascelike/
 >
 >   containing the files:
 >     ascelike.cls
 >     ascexmpl.tex
 >     ascexmpl.pdf
 >     ascexmpl.dvi
 >     ascexmpl.ps
 >
 > These were uploaded by ftp to dante.ctan.org, into an incoming/ascelike
 > directory.
 >
 > I would like to replace like-named files in the ctan directory
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ascelike, preserving the
 > remaining files int the ctan directory
 >
 > I prefer the "lppl" licencing conditions and have refered to them within
 > the files.

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

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/ascelike

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 13 04:29:35 2001
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:21:30 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- combine class

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded combine.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please
> use this to replace the current contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/combine.
>
>      The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>
>     The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a
> single document, such as when preparing conference proceedings.
>
>     The auxiliary packages, combinet and combnat, let you put
> \maketitle entries into the main ToC, and enable the natbib package
> to be used harmoniously.
>
> Changes in version 0.43 of combine.cls:
>
> o Removed the feature that the \appendix command changed the
> numbering scheme in all subsequent imported documents
>
> o ToC additions are now in a predefined order instead of input order.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 13 06:48:36 2001
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:32:37 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: New jadetex on ctan

development of jadetex has moved to sourceforge.

i have just installed the latest version (3.10) from there in place of
the rather ancient one (2.9) we had on ctan.

i don't currently have the technology to mirror versions from
sourceforge into ctan: it is under development.  however, we will do
our best to maintain the latest version on ctan by manual means, in
the interim.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jul 14 10:01:54 2001
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 14:41:50 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: new version of uk faq

i have installed a new version of the uk faq on ctan, at its usual
location of help/uk-tex-faq

the directory holds sources for building copies of the faq, as well as
printable versions, (nominally at least) configured either for a4 or
usa "letter" paper.

the web version at http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq was updated at the same
time.

the new version includes corrections and improvements to several
existing answers, a few new answers, and a rearrangement that creates
a new "section" about installing files.  a rehash of the questions
about user groups has led to a single question in place of the three
previous ones.

the new answers and the rearrangement mean that most question
_numbers_ have changed.  however, none of the question _labels_ has
changed (though of course, the labels for the three "old" user group
questions have now disappeared).  the label appears at the bottom of
each answer, as part of the "url for this question".

Robin Fairbairns

UK TeX FAQ maintainer,
For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jul 18 11:57:27 2001
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:41:24 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- the memoir class

Peter Wilson writes:
>     I have uploaded memoir.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please
> use this to replace the current subdirectory
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>
>     Memoir is a configurable class for typesetting general fiction,
> non-fiction and mathematical books. It encompasses the standard book
> and report classes and can simulate the article class as well as
> simulating a double spaced typewritten manuscript.
>
>     It provides a variety of predefined page, chapter and caption
> styles together with easy means of creating new ones. There is a
> reasonably intuitive way of specifying page margins, etc., with an
> option for printing trimming marks. Documents can use 9pt, 10pt,
> 11pt, 12pt and 14pt as the normal font size.
>
> Changes in version 0.3
> o Simulation of the article class
> o Addition of configurable titles
> o Addition of configurable abstract environment
> o Improved cooperation with the subfigure package

i've installed the update as requested -- thanks for the upload(s).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jul 19 05:27:33 2001
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:18:30 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- pdfcrypt.sty, ifpdf.sty

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:

> Please unzip in directory
>   CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/
>
> It contains one additional package:
> * pdfcrypt.sty  2001/07/19 v0.2 Setting pdf encryption.
> and updates
> * ifpdf.sty     2001/07/14 v1.1 Providing \ifpdf.
> * readme.txt
>
> >From the readme.txt:
>
> * Package `pdfcrypt' allows the setting of pdf encryption
>   options for
>   * pdfTeX, patched by Ricardo Sanchez Carmenes, or
>   * VTeX, version 7.35.
>   Use: The options can be set as package options or
>   in the command \pdfcryptsetup:
>     owner=OwnerPassword
>     user=UserPassword
>     print, copy, edit, annotate=true, false
>     all, none
>   The encryption is set at \begin{document} by default,
>   but this can be forced for an earlier time by option `set'.
>   Example:
>     \usepackage[owner=Donald,user=Knuth,print=false]{pdfcrypt}
>   See package file for further documentation and use.
>
> Changes of ifpdf.sty:
> * small documentation update.

Thanks for the update, I installed the three files in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jul 19 05:29:16 2001
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:21:14 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: bmeps

Dirk Krause writes:

> Name of contribution: bmeps
> Suggested location on CTAN:
> Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/TIFF/NetPBM to EPS
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The package contains a library and a command line tool
> for conversion of different bitmap graphics types to EPS.
> It can produce EPS levels 1, 2 and 3. Level 2 allows to
> use run-length compression and ASCII-85-encoding instead
> of ASCII-Hex-encoding, level 3 allows to use flate
> compression. TIFF- and PNG-alpha channels can be converted
> into EPS level 3 image masks. Modified dvips sources are
> included to allow image conversion directly from dvips.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the package as

  support/bmeps

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 19 09:01:39 2001
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:45:49 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: upload musixps-unix.tar.gz

Takanori Uchiyama writes:

> Dear Administrators
>
>        + what you've uploaded
>
> I uploaded musixps-unix.tar.gz
>
>
>        + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
> cam.ctan.org was.
>
>
>        + where you want the files to go
>
> If it is possible, I think that fonts/musixtex/ps-type1/ is best.
> The second candidate is fonts/psfonts/musixtex/.
> I think that it should not go into the taupin sub-directory.
>
>
>        + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>          below).
>
> I applied LPPL to musixps-unix.tar.gz.
>
>
>        + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>        (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing)
>
> This package provides PostScript (type 1) fonts (PFB format), and dvips and
> dvipdfm map files for MusiXTeX. The fonts are based on the original METAFONT
> sources, such as musix20.mf, which are distributed with MusiXTeX. The fonts
> provided here may be used to produce printer-independent Postscript files. PDF
> files generated using type 1 fonts are well displayed by the Acrobat Reader and
> xpdf.
>
> The fonts were generated from the METAFONT sources in the TeX Live CD 2000 July
> using TeXtrace 0.45. The METAFONT sources on the CD are the same as those in
> musixtex-T101.tar.gz.
>
> Here is a list of the 71 generated fonts.
>
> musix11.pfb  xgreg24.pfb  xsld29.pfb   xslhd24.pfb  xslhu24.pfb  xslu20.pfb
> musix13.pfb  xgreg29.pfb  xsld29d.pfb  xslhd24d.pfb xslhu24d.pfb xslu20d.pfb
> musix16.pfb  xsld11.pfb   xsldd20.pfb  xslhd29.pfb  xslhu29.pfb  xslu24.pfb
> musix20.pfb  xsld11d.pfb  xsldu20.pfb  xslhd29d.pfb xslhu29d.pfb xslu24d.pfb
> musix24.pfb  xsld13.pfb   xslhd11.pfb  xslhu11.pfb  xslhz20.pfb  xslu29.pfb
> musix29.pfb  xsld13d.pfb  xslhd11d.pfb xslhu11d.pfb xslhz20d.pfb xslu29d.pfb
> musixsps.pfb xsld16.pfb   xslhd13.pfb  xslhu13.pfb  xslu11.pfb   xslud20.pfb
> musixspx.pfb xsld16d.pfb  xslhd13d.pfb xslhu13d.pfb xslu11d.pfb  xslup20.pfb
> xgreg11.pfb  xsld20.pfb   xslhd16.pfb  xslhu16.pfb  xslu13.pfb   xslz20.pfb
> xgreg13.pfb  xsld20d.pfb  xslhd16d.pfb xslhu16d.pfb xslu13d.pfb  xslz20d.pfb
> xgreg16.pfb  xsld24.pfb   xslhd20.pfb  xslhu20.pfb  xslu16.pfb   xtie20.pfb
> xgreg20.pfb  xsld24d.pfb  xslhd20d.pfb xslhu20d.pfb xslu16d.pfb
>
> Note: musix25 and xgreg25 were not generated because they are not used in
>       musixgre.tex or musixtex.tex.
>
> The fonts are not hinted in this initial version.

thank you for the upload (good news for all musixtex users, i think).
i have installed the files as suggested at fonts/musixtex/ps-type1

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jul 19 09:26:02 2001
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:17:38 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: biblio

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, R.R.Stepanyan wrote:

> Please find below some information about my program Biblio, which
> I have recently uploaded to Your archive (ftp.dante.de).
>
>
> Name of the               Biblio v.1.0
> contribution
>
> My name                           R. Stepanyan
>
> My email                  rstepanyan@yahoo.com
>
> Summary description       system for maintaining and presenting
> bibliographies
>
> Suggested CTAN directory    biblio/
>
>
>
> Short text for announcement:
>
> Biblio is a program for preprocessing your bibliographic references
> (written in Perl). After preprocessing the input TeX file it creates
> output TeX file with references included according to the  formats
> prescribed either in a separate file (template) or in the header of the
> input TeX file. Output TeX is ready for LaTeX.
>
>
> License                            Nosell

Thank you for the upload. As your license is restricted, I installed the
package as

  nonfree/support/biblio

with a link to

  support/biblio

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jul 23 05:27:03 2001
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:08:50 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: french lite update V5,02a

Bernard Gaulle writes:

>   i've just upload in incoming of ftp.tex.ac.uk
> the file french.tar.gz which is to update language/french
> and /language/french/le
>
> The main goal is to upgrade french lite (frenchle.sty)
> to level V5,02a. Previous version was bugged
> when language.dat file defines more than 9 languages
> (which is defaultly the case with TL6).

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul 23 09:09:58 2001
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:58:53 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: SIunits 1.25

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 Marcel Heldoorn wrote:

> Name of contribution: SIunits 1.25
> Suggested location on CTAN: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/SIunits/
> Summary description: Use SI units in LaTeX
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version update 1.14 -> 1.25
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed the files in

 macros/latex/contrib/supported/SIunits

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul 23 10:49:44 2001
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:41:23 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: tmmath.zip

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the file tmmath.zip to the /incoming directory
> at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack it and move the resulting
> files to the directory
>
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/tmmath
>
> thus replacing the existent files.
>
> This is a new version 2.0 of the macro package tmmaths.sty
> for using MicroPress' TM fonts.  It is now accompanied by
> a further package tmmathm.sty for using the TM math fonts
> with "foreign" text fonts such as TimesTen or Concorde.
>
> Both packages provide additional features over the macros
> that are supplied with the fonts.

Thank you for the upadte, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul 23 10:52:09 2001
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:43:37 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: eulervm.zip

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> Dear CTAN team,
>
> I have uploaded the file eulervm.zip to the /incoming directory
> at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack it and move the resulting
> files to the directory
>
>   fonts/eulervm
>
> thus replacing the existent files "eulervm.dtx" and "readme".
> The other files and the subdirectories are unchanged.
>
> This is version 2.7 of the LaTeX package eulervm.sty for using
> the Euler math fonts.  Notice that this release is only to
> provide improved documentation.  As to the macros, there are
> _no_ changes over the previous version 2.6.

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

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jul 24 05:27:43 2001
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:11:22 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: move of cam.ctan.org (ftp.tex.ac.uk) and www.tex.ac.uk

both these machines (the cambridge ctan archive and web server) are
currently off the net, being moved to a new building.

they should become available again in a small number of hours.

i apologise for any inconvenience (it's all bill gates's fault,
actually, for giving us the money to build the new place ;-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Thu Jul 26 05:07:23 2001
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:50:37 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- koma-script/contrib/briefkopf

----- Forwarded message from Markus Kohm -----
Name of your contribution: briefkopf (see briefkopf.tar.gz)

Summary description: The package ``briefkopf'', which is described at
``Die TeXnische Komm�die'', 2/2001

Suggested CTAN directory: Don't know. You may use
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script/contrib/briefkopf
because it is related to koma-script but it is not supported.Please
unpack the tar.gz

License: LPPL

Short text for announcement:
briefkopf is a two-in-one-project
1. It is a package demonstating how to create your own
letter heads using scrlettr.cls from KOMA-Script.
2. It is a demonstation of how to write a package.
There is no english documentation. There is only a german
documentation. briefkopf.dtx contains the article from
``Die TeXnische Kom�die'', 2/2001.
There where two errors at the original package from the
article. These are fixed.

Markus
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for your submission, I installed it as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 26 11:55:52 2001
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:39:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: Ctan/UK upload: optional.sty (update)

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I uploaded  optional.sty
> to          ftp.tex.ac.uk
> to replace  macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/optional.sty
>
> New version has \optv variant that somewhat copes with
> verbatim in arguments.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 26 17:34:23 2001
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:18:41 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: gellmu upload

William F. Hammond writes:

> Uploaded:   gellmu-074.tgz (a gzipped tar archive)
>
> Node:       ftp.tex.ac.uk
>
> Placement:  support/gellmu/
>
> License:    gpl
>
> Summary:    GELLMU Alpha Release (Version  0.7.4)
>             William F. Hammond, University at Albany, Albany, NY 12222 (USA)
>             hammond@math.albany.edu
>
> GELLMU is an acronym for "Generalized Extensible LaTeX-Like MarkUp",
> which is the author's concept for using LaTeX-like markup to write
> consciously for SGML document types such as HTML, DocBook, TEI, or
> GELLMU's own didactic LaTeX-like article.
>
> It evolved from earlier thought about delineation of a coherent subset
> of LaTeX commands with the property that if a LaTeX document used only
> those commands then it could be translated with full reliability to
> other formats including HTML so that documents could be prepared both
> for print and for the web from a single source.
>
> Additional information is available for now from the GELLMU web site:
> http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu/ .

it's good to see this package on the archive at last: thanks for the
upload.  i've installed it, in its .tgz form, in support/gellmu (as
suggested).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 26 17:37:58 2001
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:22:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- verse package

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded verse.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please
> use this for a new subdirectory
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/verse.
>
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>
>     verse provides some aids for typesetting simple verse (poems).

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 27 05:02:38 2001
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:46:35 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: www.tex.ac.uk down

the machine that serves the cambridge ctan web server, www.tex.ac.uk,
has died (quietly, in the new building otherwise only occupied by
builders).  a technician has been despatched to attempt repair;
however, spares may be needed, which would mean a lengthy outage.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jul 30 05:49:29 2001
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:33:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: Upload: dashdbox & bitfield

Reuben Thomas writes:

> As per README.uploads:
>
> + what you've uploaded
>
> dashdbox/
>   dashdbox.dtx
>   dashdbox.ins
>
> bitfield
>   bitfield.dtx
>   bitfield.ins
>
> + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
> cam.ctan.org
>
> + where you want the files to go
>
> macros/latex/contrib/supported
>
> + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
>
> lppl
>
> + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>
> Provides two LaTeX 2e packages: dashdbox, for drawing dashed boxes (like
> \framebox, \fbox, but with dashed lines; also draws (an illusion of)
> vertical stacks of boxes), and bitfield, for drawing bit field data
> structure diagrams.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jul 30 05:51:33 2001
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:36:07 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: Upload: alphanum.bst

Reuben Thomas writes:

> As per README.uploads:
>
> + what you've uploaded
>
> alphanum.bst
>
> + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
> cam.ctan.org
>
> + where you want the files to go
>
> macros/biblio/bibtex/contrib/
>
> + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
>
> same as alpha.bst
>
> + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>
> A bibliography style based on alphanum.bst that omits the year, and instead
> of a letter, uses a number, e.g.:
>
> [Boo95a]
> [Boo95b]
> [Boo96]
>
> becomes:
>
> [Boo1]
> [Boo2]
> [Boo3]

thanks for the upload.  i've installed the file in
biblio/bibtex/contrib (not quite as you requested).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul 31 03:35:26 2001
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:25:35 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload lineno.sty v3.07

On 30 Jul 2001, Stephan Boettcher wrote:

> I uploaded the latest version of lineno.sty to
>
>   ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/lineno.tar.gz
>
> The contents of this tarball should replace the files in
>
>    macros/latex/contrib/supported/lineno/
>
> The files bframe.sty, ilineno.sty, mlineno.sty, numquote.sty, and
> rlineno.sty are obsolete and should be deleted.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul 31 05:33:02 2001
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:24:16 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Re: Bugfix to the skak package for chess typeseting

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Hoffmann, Torben wrote:

> This version fixes some bugs in connection with the babel package.
>
> Bug reports can be mailed to LeHoffmann@netscape.net
>
> I have placed the file skak.zip in incoming on ftp.dante.de
>
> Summary:
> The skak package makes it posible to write about chess games using the PGN
> notation, eg, \mainline{1. Nf3} denotes the movement of a white knight to
> f3.
> The current board position can be shown using the command \showboard.
>
> License: LaTeX Project Public License

Thanks for the update, I installed it in fonts/skak.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Aug  1 09:50:15 2001
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:41:34 +0200
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: Move of mailing liste ctan-ann (1st announcement)

The mailing list

 ctan-ann

will shortly be moved to

 ctan-ann@dante.de

This means that subscribe and unsubscribe messages need to be sent to

 majordomo@dante.de

I will send a more detailed announcement after the transition.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug  2 04:53:13 2001
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:12:22 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: 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

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Aug  2 04:26:56 2001
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:22:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Subject: Move of mailing CTAN-ANN (2nd announcement)

The mailing list for CTAN announcments:

  ctan-ann

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For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Aug  3 07:43:08 2001
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:40:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: David.Kastrup@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Cc: ctan@dante.de
Subject: 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 Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Aug  6 08:19:40 2001
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 13:16:10 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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)

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Aug  7 05:06:57 2001
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 10:06:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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
> \@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
> classes and can simulate the article class and double-spaced
> typewritten manuscripts. 
> 
>     It provides a variety of predefined page, chapter and caption
> styles with easy means of creating your own. There is a reasonably
> intuitive way of specifying page margins. etc, and trimming marks
> can be printed. Documents can use 9--12pt and 14pt fonts as the
> normal size. 
>
> Changes in version 0.32:
> o Fixes for old versions of the amsmath package.

and

>     I have uploaded verse.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/verse. 
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     verse provides some aids for typesetting simple verse (poems).
> 
> Changes in version 1.1:
> o Added pattern-based line indents.

i have installed all three upgrades as requested.  thanks for the
uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@Dante.DE Tue Aug  7 06:53:31 2001
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:42:20 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: CTAN-ANN@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: 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

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Aug  7 09:57:30 2001
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 14:54:49 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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
>   transformations are 1-to-1 in *all* the range 128--255, -- otherwise
>   the results may be incorrect).  This was suggested by Alexander
>   Cherepanov.
> 
> Please replace the old version located at
> CTAN:language/hyphenation/ruhyphen/ with this new version (please
> remove old package files first, because there were some changes in
> filenames).

installed the files as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Aug  7 12:25:59 2001
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 17:25:13 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Aug  7 12:55:42 2001
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 17:55:19 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload musixps-unix.tar.gz 

Takanori Uchiyama writes:

> I uploaded musixps-unix.tar.gz at cam.ctan.org.
> 
> Please replace previous one on fonts/musixtex/ps-type1/.
> 
> The license of the fonts is LPPL.
> 
> CHANGES
> 
>   + Reducing control points.
>   + Hinted automatically with Fontographer.
>   + Upgrade from T101 to T102 (musix11 - 29, xslhz20, xslhz20d)
>   + PostScript names were changed.
>       Ex. TeX-musix20 --> TeXMUSIX20-Regular
>   + typo correction.  
>       musix.tex --> musix.map
> 
> OUTLINES
> 
> This package provides PostScript (type 1) fonts (PFB format), and dvips and
> dvipdfm map files for MusiXTeX. The fonts are based on the original METAFONT
> sources, such as musix20.mf, which are distributed with MusiXTeX. The fonts
> provided here may be used to produce printer-independent Postscript files. PDF
> files generated using type 1 fonts are well displayed by the Acrobat Reader and
> xpdf.
> 
> The fonts were generated from the METAFONT sources in the TeX Live CD 2000 July
> using TeXtrace 0.45 but musix11-20, xslhz20 and xslhz20d were upgraded to those
> in musixtex-T102.tar.gz.
> 
> Here is a list of the 71 generated fonts.
> 
> musix11.pfb  xgreg24.pfb  xsld29.pfb   xslhd24.pfb  xslhu24.pfb  xslu20.pfb
> musix13.pfb  xgreg29.pfb  xsld29d.pfb  xslhd24d.pfb xslhu24d.pfb xslu20d.pfb
> musix16.pfb  xsld11.pfb   xsldd20.pfb  xslhd29.pfb  xslhu29.pfb  xslu24.pfb
> musix20.pfb  xsld11d.pfb  xsldu20.pfb  xslhd29d.pfb xslhu29d.pfb xslu24d.pfb
> musix24.pfb  xsld13.pfb   xslhd11.pfb  xslhu11.pfb  xslhz20.pfb  xslu29.pfb
> musix29.pfb  xsld13d.pfb  xslhd11d.pfb xslhu11d.pfb xslhz20d.pfb xslu29d.pfb
> musixsps.pfb xsld16.pfb   xslhd13.pfb  xslhu13.pfb  xslu11.pfb   xslud20.pfb
> musixspx.pfb xsld16d.pfb  xslhd13d.pfb xslhu13d.pfb xslu11d.pfb  xslup20.pfb
> xgreg11.pfb  xsld20.pfb   xslhd16.pfb  xslhu16.pfb  xslu13.pfb   xslz20.pfb
> xgreg13.pfb  xsld20d.pfb  xslhd16d.pfb xslhu16d.pfb xslu13d.pfb  xslz20d.pfb
> xgreg16.pfb  xsld24.pfb   xslhd20.pfb  xslhu20.pfb  xslu16.pfb   xtie20.pfb
> xgreg20.pfb  xsld24d.pfb  xslhd20d.pfb xslhu20d.pfb xslu16d.pfb
> 
> Note: musix25 and xgreg25 were not generated because they are not used in 
>       musixgre.tex or musixtex.tex.
> 
> The control points were reduced with Fontographer.
> The fonts were hinted automatically with Fontographer.  musix11 - 29 were
> hand tuned by Takanori Uchiyama.

i've installed the new file (as before) as
fonts/musixtex/ps-type1/musixps-unix.tar.gz -- thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Aug  8 04:21:22 2001
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 10:19:42 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Hilmar Straube <hilmstr@web.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: tkTeXCAD

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Hilmar Straube wrote:

> What: tkTeXCAD Beta
> Node: graphics
> Licence: GPL
> Purpose: Creation of standard picture-environments with special focus on
> 	creating reuseable picture parts.
> System: Requires Python >2.0 and Tcl/Tk (Available for various platforms at
> 	www.python.org and www.scriptics.com)
>
> There is currently only german documentation. English user interface can be
> activated by setting LANG = 1 in config.py.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in

  graphics/tktexcad

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Aug  8 10:10:44 2001
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:52:42 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: package upgrade: bundledoc

An upgrade of the bundledoc package has been installed on CTAN.
It should have made its way to your favorite mirror by now.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: bundledoc
Name: Scott Pakin 
Location on CTAN: support/bundledoc
Summary description: Bundle all the files needed to build a LaTeX document
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
bundledoc is a post-processor for the snapshot package that
bundles together all the classes, packages, and files
needed to build a given LaTeX document.  It reads the .dep
file that snapshot produces, finds each of the files
mentioned therein, and archives them into a single .tar.gz
(or .zip, or whatever) file, suitable for moving across
systems, transmitting to a colleague, etc.

As an added bonus, this distribution includes a small
script called arlatex.  arlatex is a LaTeX-specific
archiving program that combines a bunch of files into a
single .tex file.  When the .tex file is run through latex,
all of the original files are recreated and the LaTeX
document is built.  bundledoc can be easily configured to
use arlatex as its archiver in place of tar, zip, etc.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Aug  8 10:17:54 2001
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 14:14:37 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: crossreference

A new LaTeX package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way through the mirroring process in the next few days.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org 

===============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: crossreference
Name: Vincent Filby 
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/crossreference 
Summary description: Crossreferencing package that can help provide 
  tracability for technical documents, especially Software Requirements 
  Specifications.
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Preliminary release. see
http://filbar.org/projects/crossreference/ for more details.

Wish list:
1. combining multiple references with a ",".  For examples
[ref 31], [ref 87] should be [ref 31, 87].

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug  8 11:26:50 2001
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 16:26:26 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: minor bugfix and rename -- dashbox and bitfield

the package formerly known as dashdbox was found to suffer a minor
infelicity.  in the course of correcting the bug, the author (Reuben
Thomas) decided to change the name of the package to dashbox.

i have therefore deleted the previous
macros/latex/contrib/supported/dashdbox, and installed the new version
of the package in macros/latex/contrib/supported/dashbox

the dashbox package does \fbox(etc)-like things, with dashed borders

the bitfield package (macros/latex/contrib/supported/bitfield) has
also been upgraded, since it uses dashbox.

the bitfield package draws bitfield diagrams.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Aug  9 11:22:03 2001
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:17:27 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- datenumber

I installed the package macros/latex/contrib/supported/datenumber
by J�rg-Michael Schr�der.

>From the documentation:

This package provides commands to convert a date into a number and vice versa.
Additionally there are commands for incrementing and decrementing a date.
Leap years and the Gregorian calendar reform are considered.

The license is LPPL.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Aug 13 04:19:22 2001
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:15:26 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: arraymaker 

> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: arraymaker
> Name and email: Donu Arapura
> Suggested location on CTAN: support
> Summary description: A program for making latex and xypic arrays.
> License type: Generic DFSG
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  This program is designed to take some of the tedium out of
> constructing arrays, diagrams and tables. Latex code is entered into
> an array of blank boxes and arrows can be added with a click of the
> mouse. The program then outputs an array that can be pasted into a
> latex file. This is requires tcl/tk  (>= 8.0) to be installed
> beforehand; it is on most unix/linux systems.  This is an update of
> the July 10 2001 version.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Aug 14 05:43:59 2001
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:41:19 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- KOMA-Script update

----- Forwarded message from Markus Kohm -----
Summary description:	KOMA-Script is a bundle of classes and packages 
for LaTeX

Suggested CTAN directory:	Please remove the contents of 
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script but not the 
contrib subdirectory and extract the koma-script.tar.gz into 
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script 

Short text for announcement:	Lots of changes where done. There a many 
new features, a new package (scrpage2), better compatibility with 
packages like longtable and float, and a new written german scrguide. 
Because of lack in time and translation staff the english scrguide is 
still the old one.

License:		lppl

Greetings
Markus
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Aug 16 02:34:43 2001
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:33:14 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- new version of float package

----- Forwarded message from Anselm Lingnau -----
I've uploaded a new version (1.3a) of the float package to 
ftp.dante.de:/incoming. This should replace the existing version in
tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported. It is still a LPPL package.

This updates the float package in a number of respects, including

  - Introduces new `plaintop' float style
  - Introduces `\restylefloat*' command which will restyle floats but
    leave their caption processing alone
  - List-of-float starting code factored out (for the benefit of
    packages like KOMA-Script, suggested by Markus Kohm)
  - Adds \float@addtolists command to put something (such as extra
    vertical space at chapter boundaries) into all active list-of-float
    files
  - End-of-float handling simplified according to H.A. Sommerfeldt
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission, I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/float replacing the
old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Fri Aug 17 03:06:43 2001
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:59:50 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- xl2latex

----- Forwarded message from Ronny Buchmann -----
I've uploaded xl2latex in dante.ctan.org:/incoming/xl2latex

package summary
----------------
xl2latex

Convert Excel (97 and above) tables to LaTeX tabulars

This Excel to LaTeX converter exports the current selection as a LaTeX file which can be included via \input in your actual document.
It supports multicolumn cells (only horizontal), borders, font styles (bold, italic), colored cells and text, LaTeX math in cells and cells with wrapped text.

It has a nothing to do with Excel-To-LaTeX, despite some ideas and features.
---------------

this should go into CTAN:tex-archive/support/xl2latex

license: gpl
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission, I installed it as suggested.

Unfortunately, the above mentioned Excel-To-LaTeX is packaged in a zip
file CTAN:tex-archive/support/excel2latex/xl2latex.zip even though
the file in that archive is called Excel2Latex.bas again.
I'm sorry about this confusion of names but I am not allowed to rename
the older archive due to several reasons.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Aug 17 10:21:25 2001
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 16:18:11 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- warning.sty

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Harald Harders wrote:

> I have uploaded warning.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the package
> warning.sty and the xml-file for the package list.
> Please put it to CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/warning/
> Licence is LPPL
>
> >From the description:
>
> Sometimes a class or package has to make a global warning such as
> ``Rerun for this or that reason'' or ``This is draft, change this
> before the final run''. If you are generating them with
> \AtEndDocument{\PackageWarningNoLine{packagename}{warning}}
> the warning appears very early before the filelist. Then the
> warning can easily be overseen. This package provides a command
> that surely puts the warning at the end near to the global
> warnings generated by LaTeX itself.
> You can add a warning to a list of user defined warnings using the
> command \addglobalwarning as it can be seen in the example below.
> This package could be useful for the warnings generated e.g. by
> the packages changebar.sty or longtable.sty.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as suggested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/warning

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Aug 18 12:13:43 2001
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:11:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- booklet package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded booklet.tar to UK incoming. Please install the
> contents into macros/latex/contrib/supported/booklet. 
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     booklet provides some aids in printing simple booklets or
> signatures for longer books. 

i have installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Aug 19 05:16:58 2001
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 11:16:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Pieter Edelman <PEdelman@dds.nl>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Update of biocon package

On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Pieter Edelman wrote:

 > I just uploaded a new version of the biocon package to ftp.dante.de. It
 > should replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/biocon/
 > directory on CTAN. It is still licensed under the GPL.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Aug 19 05:18:54 2001
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 11:19:01 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: KOMA-Script

Markus Kohm wrote:

 > Name of contribution: KOMA-Script
 > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script
 > Summary description: KOMA-Script is a bundle of classes and packages
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This is only an update or fix of the last release.
 > Most changes are bug fixes. There are also some new
 > features at scrpage2 e.g. option 'nouppercase' and macro
 > \clearscrheadfoot.
 >
 > Never the less most files are changed, so I'll upload a
 > complete archive (but I've preseved file date and time of
 > the unchanged files). Please extract the contents of
 > directory
 > koma-script at the tar.gz into the koma-script directory
 > at CTAN.
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 22 09:47:28 2001
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:33:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: ps2eps 1.35 in /incoming/ps2eps 

Roland Bless has submitted an update of support/ps2eps

he writes of it:

> ps2eps v1.35 in CTAN:support/ps2eps
> -----------------------------------
> ps2eps is a tool to produce Encapsulated PostScript Files (EPS/EPSF)
> from usual one-paged Postscript documents. It calculates correct
> Bounding Boxes for those EPS files and filters some special postscript
> command sequences that can produce errorneous results on printers.
> 
> You need:
>  - perl (an interpreter for the perl language, see http://www.perl.com)
>  - ghostscript (an interpreter/raster image processor
>                 for the PostScript language,
>                 see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/)
>  - maybe an ANSI-C compiler if you don't use Linux, Solaris, Digital
>    Unix, HP-UX or Windows 9x/NT/2000.
>
> The program is licensed under gpl.
> 
> Important changes since version 1.28:
> - Improved processing of files with leading or trailing binary code
> - Improved processing of files with embedded binary coded images
> - Removes gabby diagnostic output from Adobe Printer Driver (see
>   variable removeADO)
> - Corrected handling of existing %%BoundingBox comments. Now it
>   takes the last one seen.  Should esp. work with %%BoundingBox:
>   (atend) usage...
> - Fixed case sensitiveness when checking for suffix replacement
>   (thanks to Erik J=F8rgensen)
> - Heuristic added for finding end of file by counting %%EOF comments.
>   Now correctly treats already embedded EPS, too.
>   Usually only trailing garbage (e.g., PCL control sequences) follows
>   last %%EOF. However, sometimes the last %%EOF may be missing.
>   Therefore, the behavior is switchable by new -E option.
> - New first line of code for getting rid of the #! comment
> - EOF handling corrected, allowing better handling of already
>   embedded eps files
> - New -P option to allow selective removal of embedded preview
>   images (was previously default)
> - Preview images were not filtered in the prolog section (now
>   corrected with -P)
> - New -N option to prevent inclusion of any surrounding postscript code

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Aug 23 03:48:44 2001
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:45:23 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- PSNFSS 8.2 final release

The LaTeX required package PSNFSS is now version 8.2, i.e. I renamed the
directory CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss-beta to
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss.

>From the changelog (file changes.txt):

2001-06-04 PSNFSS-v8.2

        * mathpazo.sty:  Changed behavior of the options sc and osf;
        \jmath and \imath changed back to type 'mathord', as in normal
        LaTeX.

        * mathptm.sty:  Revoked the changes re.  AMS fonts, since the
        package is only provided for use with legacy douments, anyway.

        * Many changes to the documentation (psnfss2e.*).

        * test1.tex, test2.tex, test3.tex:  Fixed typo.

2001/05/27 PSNFSS-v8.2beta

        * mathpazo.sty:
        An improved version of this package is now part of the PSNFSS
        distribution.

        * freenfss.zip:
        Added TFM, VF and FD files for the Pazo fonts.

        * mathptmx.sty
        New option: [slantedGreek]

        * The AMS fonts are scaled properly now, when used in
        conjunction with the packages mathptmx, mathpple or mathpazo.
        Specifying the [psamsfonts] option for the packages amsfonts or
        amssymb may be needed wrt/ the Euler Fraktur fonts, but will not
        affect the scaling of the others.

        * ot1*.fd:
        additional font shape substitition bx/ui -> b/it

        * fixed TFM file zptmcm7y.tfm so as to raise the subscripts
        generated by mathptmx (pr/3279)

        * fixed FD files for Adobe Courier so as to disable hyphenation
        (I wonder why this bug was never noticed...)

        * test file completely revised

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Fri Aug 24 10:08:34 2001
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:59:35 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Metapost examples

----- Forwarded message from Vincent Zoonekynd -----
Name of contribution: Metapost examples
Name and email: ZOONEKYND Vincent
Suggested location on CTAN:/tex-archive/info/metapost/examples/
Summary description: Example pictures drawn with Metapost
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
These are a few (hundred) example pictures drawn with
metapost, ranging from very simple (lines and circles)
to rather intricate (uncommon geometric transformations, 
fractals, bitmap, etc.).
See also:
http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~zoonek/LaTeX/Metapost/metapost.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Aug 24 11:15:12 2001
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:06:47 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new package on CTAN: filecontents

A new LaTeX package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should
make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon

====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: filecontents
Name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/filecontents
Summary description: Less-limited version of LaTeX2e's filecontents and filecontents* environments
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
LaTeX2e's filecontents and filecontents* environments
enable a LaTeX source file to generate external files
as it's run through latex.  However, there are two
limitations of these environments: They refuse to
overwrite existing files, and they can be used only
before the \documentclass declaration.  The
filecontents package removes these limitations, letting
you overwrite existing files and letting you use
filecontents/filecontents* anywhere.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Aug 25 04:12:25 2001
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 09:04:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submissions --- combine class & booklet package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded combine.tar and booklet.tar to the UK incoming
> directory. Please use these to replace the current contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/(combine|booklet).
> 
>     The distributions are under the LPPL.
> 
> From the READMEs
> 
> --- The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a single
> document, such as when preparing a conference proceedings.
> 
> Changes in version 0.44
> o Imported documents can now use a class that \LoadClass's another class.
> 
> 
> 
> --- Booklet provides some aids for printing simple booklets or signatures
> for longer books.
> 
> Changes in version 0.6
> o The number of \box es used is limited to the pages in a signature.

i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sat Aug 25 06:54:34 2001
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 12:54:14 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Submission -- draftcopy

----- Forwarded message from J�rgen Vollmer -----
I put a new version (2.14) of my  draftcopy  package to ftp.dante.de

This package is used to print on some pages the word `DRAFT'
(or the language dependent analogon) ``behind'' the intended stuff.

The following files are contained in draftcopy.tar.gz
    draftcopy/draftcopy.ins
    draftcopy/draftcopy.doc
    draftcopy/Makefile
    draftcopy/README
    draftcopy/THIS-IS-VERSION-2.14

Please put it into tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/draftcopy

I'm looking still for translations for the word DRAFT.
Have a look into draftcopy.sty, which are missing and send me some...

Who knows an easy way to typeset foreign letters like � in postscript?
Who knows how to implement draftcopy stuff for PDF?

Changes since the last version:
 - Added conditional, final and draft options
 - Added draftcopyPageX, etc. to specify the start of the text on the page
 - Added draftcopySetScaleFactor to specify a scailng factor
 - Added the timestamp option and the draftcopyVersion macro
 - Added the greek language option (i.e. DRAFT is printed in the greek
   translation with greek letters)

With best regards
J�rgen Vollmer

PS:
Thanks to all people, sending me new ideas and code, your are mentioned in the
package code.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/draftcopy/
replacing the old version

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Aug 27 11:33:08 2001
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:31:33 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- package ebezier

A submission was uploaded to Dante.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: package ebezier
Name and email: Gerhard Bachmaier
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ebezier
Summary description: plotting commands for picture environment
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The package ebezier is an extension of the (old)
bezier.sty which is now part of LaTeX2e. It defines
linear and cubic Bernstein polynomials together with some
plotting macros for arcs. 

With the aid of the calc package also the calculation of
square roots and henceforward lengths is supplied.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for upload, I installed the package as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Aug 27 15:05:52 2001
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:04:04 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: uiucthesis

A new LaTeX package has been installed at tug.ctan.org, and should
make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon

===============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: uiucthesis
Name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/uiucthesis/
Summary description: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign thesis style
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
uiucthesis is a LaTeX package for formatting theses in
the format required by the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.  Also, included is uiucredborder, a
LaTeX class for filling out the infamous "red-bordered
form" that must accompany UIUC theses.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Aug 28 04:28:20 2001
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:27:16 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload musixps-unix.tar.gz 

Takanori Uchiyama writes:

> I uploaded musixps-unix.tar.gz at cam.ctan.org.
> 
> Please replace previous one on fonts/musixtex/ps-type1/.
> 
> The license of the fonts is LPPL.
> 
> VERSION 1.11
> 
> CHANGES
>   + Fix wrong width of musix13.pfb.
>   + Fix wrong width of xslhu11-29 and xslhu11d-29d.
> 
> OUTLINES
> 
> This package provides PostScript (type 1) fonts (PFB format), and dvips and
> dvipdfm map files for MusiXTeX. The fonts are based on the original METAFONT
> sources, such as musix20.mf, which are distributed with MusiXTeX. The fonts
> provided here may be used to produce printer-independent Postscript files. PDF
> files generated using type 1 fonts are well displayed by the Acrobat Reader and
> xpdf.
> 
> The fonts were generated from the METAFONT sources in the TeX Live CD 2000 July
> using TeXtrace 0.45 but musix11-20, xslhz20 and xslhz20d were upgraded to those
> in musixtex-T102.tar.gz.
> 
> Here is a list of the 71 generated fonts.
> 
> musix11.pfb  xgreg24.pfb  xsld29.pfb   xslhd24.pfb  xslhu24.pfb  xslu20.pfb
> musix13.pfb  xgreg29.pfb  xsld29d.pfb  xslhd24d.pfb xslhu24d.pfb xslu20d.pfb
> musix16.pfb  xsld11.pfb   xsldd20.pfb  xslhd29.pfb  xslhu29.pfb  xslu24.pfb
> musix20.pfb  xsld11d.pfb  xsldu20.pfb  xslhd29d.pfb xslhu29d.pfb xslu24d.pfb
> musix24.pfb  xsld13.pfb   xslhd11.pfb  xslhu11.pfb  xslhz20.pfb  xslu29.pfb
> musix29.pfb  xsld13d.pfb  xslhd11d.pfb xslhu11d.pfb xslhz20d.pfb xslu29d.pfb
> musixsps.pfb xsld16.pfb   xslhd13.pfb  xslhu13.pfb  xslu11.pfb   xslud20.pfb
> musixspx.pfb xsld16d.pfb  xslhd13d.pfb xslhu13d.pfb xslu11d.pfb  xslup20.pfb
> xgreg11.pfb  xsld20.pfb   xslhd16.pfb  xslhu16.pfb  xslu13.pfb   xslz20.pfb
> xgreg13.pfb  xsld20d.pfb  xslhd16d.pfb xslhu16d.pfb xslu13d.pfb  xslz20d.pfb
> xgreg16.pfb  xsld24.pfb   xslhd20.pfb  xslhu20.pfb  xslu16.pfb   xtie20.pfb
> xgreg20.pfb  xsld24d.pfb  xslhd20d.pfb xslhu20d.pfb xslu16d.pfb
> 
> Note: musix25 and xgreg25 were not generated because they are not used in 
>       musixgre.tex or musixtex.tex.
> 
> The control points were reduced with Fontographer.
> The fonts were hinted automatically with Fontographer.  musix11 - 29 were
> hand tuned by Takanori Uchiyama.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Aug 29 03:24:24 2001
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:23:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Markus Triska <triska@gmx.at>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: The Green Point

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Markus Triska wrote:

> I have uploaded the file "greenpoint.mf" on node ftp.dante.de today.
> It should go into the directory "fonts", possibly in its own sub-directory, "greenpoint".
> The file is available under the terms of the GNU GPL.
>
> "greenpoint.mf" is a METAFONT-implementation of the logo commonly known as "Der Gruene Punkt" ("The Green Point"). In Austria, it can be found on nearly every bottle. It should not be confused with the "Recycle"-logo, implemented by Ian Green.
>
> I want to thank Beate Edl for her sharp eye and her suggestions.

Thanks for the upload. As you suggested, I installed it in

  fonts/greenpoint/greenpoint.mf

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

PS: I would appreciate if you would not send HTML enhanced Email. All
CTANners are human, not browsers.

From zierke@Dante.DE Wed Aug 29 18:25:09 2001
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 00:24:31 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@Dante.DE>
Reply-To: ctan@Dante.DE
To: ctan-ann@Dante.DE
Subject: new version of AMS-LaTeX (2.2)

----- Forwarded message from Barbara Beeton -----
A new version of AMS-TeX has been posted to the AMS server at
    ftp://ftp.ams.org/tex/amstex
This will be mirrored to CTAN into the ../macros/amstex area in
due course.

This is AMS-TeX version 2.2.  It is mostly a bug fix release, but
a few important changes have been made:

 - The copyright notice is no longer reported at run time, and
   there is no longer an explicit request for use of AMS-TeX to be
   acknowledged.  (A footnote "Typeset by AMS-TeX" that appears at
   the bottom of the first page of an article can be removed by
   the command \nologo.)

 - An explicit \subclassyear has been added to facilitate reference
   to versions of the Mathematics Subject Classification other than
   the default (1991).

 - The definition of \folio was simplified to include only the page
   number, permitting auxiliary packages such as index.tex (from
   texsis) to be used without conflict.

 - Empty elements (addresses, thanks, subjclass, caption) are checked
   and extraneous footnotes, punctuation, etc., are suppressed as
   appropriate.

Users of AMS-TeX are advised to consider obtaining this new release.
----- End forwarded message -----

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep  4 04:17:40 2001
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 09:14:27 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN update: Circuit_macros5.1 

Dwight Aplevich writes:

> Circuit_macros5.1.tar.gz has been copied into the incoming directory
> of ftp.tex.ac.uk.  Its expanded contents are to replace the contents
> of graphics/circuit_macros.  The copyright is almost public domain.
> 
> From the README:
> ...
>   This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality line diagrams to
>   include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents.  The macros were
>   originally intended for electric circuit diagrams containing
>   fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors, and basic logic gates,
>   but several tools and examples for other types of diagrams are also
>   included.  The advantages and disadvantages of such a system are
>   similar to those of TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg,
>   and which uses ordinary character input.
> 
>   The macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic "little language,"
>   which is easy to read and learn.  The programming elements in pic are
>   well suited to line drawings requiring parametric or conditional
>   components, fine tuning, significant geometric calculations or
>   repetition, or to drawings that are naturally block structured or
>   tree structured.  Arbitrary formatted text can be included.  Free
>   TeX- and LaTeX-compatible interpreters for m4 and pic are readily
>   available for Unix and PC machines.
> 
>   View or print the file examples.ps in the examples directory, or try
>   http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/
> 
>   A collection of examples and hints intended for his colleagues has
>   been produced by Alan Robert Clark at http://ytdp.ee.wits.ac.za/cct.html
> ...
> CHANGES:
> Version 5.1: Signal-flow graph (directed graph) macros.  More consistent
>   rot3Dz.  Work-around for a bug in some pic processors invoked by the
>   battery macro and for an arc instability invoked by the fuse macro.
>   Modified ground, dimension_, par_, label macros, b_current, diode,
>   transformer.  New macros gpar_, ujt, scr, contact, relay.  Document
>   fixes and additions.  Changes to examples for portability.
> ...

i have installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep  4 04:18:43 2001
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 09:18:33 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload 

Maurizio Loreti writes:

> + what you've uploaded: a file called "brushscr.tar.gz"
> + which CTAN node you've uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk
> + where you want the files to go: the uploaded files should replace the
>   files currently in the directory tex-archive/fonts/brushscr
> + what licensing conditions you apply to your software: public domain
> + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do: here follows the
>   uploaded file brushscr/README:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This directory contains: a Type-1 font named BrushScript-Italic, that
> simulates hand-written characters; all the files needed by LaTeX in
> order to use that font; a file AAA_readme.tex that fully describes the
> package; a sample file sample.tex .
> 
> The font itself and all the files are Public Domain.
> 
> History:
> 
> - The original (public domain) NeXT screen font has been edited, with
>   a Type-1 font editor named TypeSmith, on an Amiga computer.  The
>   service files have been generated using the "fontinst" package by
>   Alan Jeffrey.
> - Later, having TypeSmith generated a buggy font, a more strict dvips
>   refuses to handle BrushScript.  Louis Vosloo of Y&Y, with enormous
>   courtesy, has fixed the font in his spare time (I no longer have an
>   Amiga computer, or a font editor of any kind).
> - Rolf Niepraschk submits a file pbsi.sty .
> - A more strict dvips (5.86e) still refuses to handle the font.  Rolf
>   Niepraschk submits a fix, generated by the "type1fix" perl script
>   part of the TeXtrace package (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/)
>   by P\'eter Szab\'o

i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep  4 12:57:52 2001
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 17:57:09 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- memoir class 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memoir.tar to the UK incoming directory. 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 typesetting general fiction,
> non-fiction and mathematical books. It encompasses the standard book
> and report classes and can simulate the article class as well as a
> double spaced typewritten manuscript. 
> 
>     It provides a variety of predefined page, chapter and caption
> styles plus easy means of creating new ones. There is a reasonably
> intuitive way of specifying page margins, etc., with an option for
> printing trimmining marks. Standard font sizes are 9--12pt and
> 14pt. 
> 
> Changes in version 0.33 (2001/08/31)
> o Added controllable chapter spacing in LoF and LoT
> o Fixed bug in \appendixpage
> o Added dictionary style Index headers (in memman.(tex|ist) )

thanks for the upload: i've installed the files as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Sep  5 12:16:02 2001
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 17:13:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: New version TkTeXCAD 

Hilmar Straube writes:

> What: New Beta for TkTeXCAD, a graphical user interface to the
> picture environment
> Which node: graphics
> Licence: GPL
> Description: Tk-Python script for graphical creation of picture 
> environments. Runs on every GUI-platform with the Tk/Python scripting 
> language (see www.python.org). Provides Lines, Vectors, circles, 
> filled rectangles, various textboxes, .EPS-graphics, ...

i've installed the update.  thanks for submitting.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep  6 15:16:48 2001
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 20:14:37 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- combine class 

Peter Wilson writes: 

>     I have uploaded combine.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please use
> this to replace the current contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/combine.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a single
> document, such as when preparing a conference proceedings.
> 
>     The auxiliary combinet package puts the titles and authors from
> \maketitle commands into the main documents table of contents, and
> combnat.sty enables the combine class and the natbib package to work
> harmoniously together.
> 
> Changes in version 0.45 of combine.cls and version 0.2 of combinet.sty:
> o Fixed minor ToC alignment problem

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep  6 18:49:29 2001
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 23:48:14 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload: register 

Matthew Lovell writes:

> I have uploaded register.tar.gz to the UK incoming directory.  I would
> suggest that this new packaged be placed under
> 
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/register
> 
> The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> A description of the package is as follows:
> 
>   The register package is designed for typsetting the programmable
>   elements in digital hardware, i.e., registers.  Such registers
>   typically have many fields and can be quite wide; they are thus a
>   challenge to typeset in a consistent manner.  
> 
>   Register is similar in some aspects to the bitfield package by
>   Reuben Thomas.  Anyone doing hardware documentation using LaTeX
>   should examine both packages.
> 
>   Register requires a fairly recent version of the float package.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep 10 11:43:40 2001
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:41:12 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Javier Bezos <jbezos@wanadoo.es>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - gloss 1.5

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Javier Bezos wrote:

> I've uploaded to the DANTE server the following files under
> incoming/gloss/:
>  gloss.sty, gloss.tex, glsbase.bib, glsplain.bst, glsshort.bst,
>  readme, sample.bib, sample.tex.
>
> Please, delete the contents of /macros/latex/contrib/
> supported/gloss, and place under it the new files.
>
> Gloss is a LaTeX package which allows the creation of
> glossaries  using bibTeX. New in gloss 1.5:
>  - hyperlinks from text to entries when hyperref is used.
>  - a new glsshort.bst style which sorts entries by the
>    short field.
>
> License is lppl.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/gloss

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 11 05:07:30 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:05:06 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: typedref 

Greg Seidman writes:

> Please find on cam.ctan.org the file typedref.tar.gz, an update of the
> saferef package. Due to the licensing of the original the name had to be
> changed. The license for the original reads like this:
> 
> %%    Package `saferef' for use with LaTeX2e
> %%    Copyright (C) 1997 James Ashton (email `James.Ashton@anu.edu.au').
> %%    All rights reserved.  You may not alter the contents of this file
> %%    unless you also change its name.
> 
> ...so I am not entirely certain of the legitimacy of my submission. Anyway,
> my license reads identically (since I don't know what other rights I can
> give according to the previous license).

sigh.  leave it where it is for the time being: you're obviously doing
the best you can.  if your version is "enough" better, we could well
find saferef withering on the branch (at which point we could shuffle
it off to "obsolete", if we were to remember at that stage...).

> Presumably, typedref belongs in the same place in the tree as saferef, i.e.
> macros/latex/contrib/supported.
> 
> The improvements over saferef are:
> 
> 1. Compatibility with hyperref. This has been tested extensively.
> 2. Support for referencing appendices in documents which do not define
>    \chapter (i.e. anything that isn't a book).
> 3. Minor documentation changes/fixes.

thanks for the upload.  i've installed the files as suggested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Sep 11 09:16:50 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:13:54 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: Frankenbundle, including swiftex.el

An upgrade of the Frankenbundle package has been installed on tug.ctan.org
and should make its way to the other CTAN sites and mirrors in the
next day or two.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==========================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Frankenbundle, including swiftex.el
Name: Matt Swift 
Location on CTAN: support/frankenbundle
Summary description: Develop and distribute groups of LaTeX packages and classe; ALSO Edit doc.sty and normal LaTeX files with GNU Emacs. s and BibTeX bibstyles; 
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Interim cleanup release prior to some more significant work (I hope).
Please see README for a full description and ChangeLog for changes.

Please note that a preformatted TeX Catalogue database describing
this software is at http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/swift.db.  A
web page of description like the TeX Catalogue descriptions is at
http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/.

Frankenbundle: Develop and distribute groups of LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX bibstyles. 

    Frankenbundle allows an author to maintain and distribute a bundle of
    one or more LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX bibliography styles,
    their documentation, and any support files with a high degree of
    sophistication, consistency, and convenience both for the author and
    their end users, who will receive the bundle in a form easy to
    understand and use. The author using Frankenbundle needs a Unix-like
    environment, GNU Make, and a rudimentary understanding of
    Makefiles. The end user does not need Make.

Frankenbundle also includes swiftex.el:

Swiftex.el:  Edit doc.sty and normal LaTeX files with GNU Emacs. 

    docTeX mode is for editing buffers containing self-documenting
    LaTeX code that uses the doc package, including the ltxdoc
    document class. For these buffers, docTeX mode is IMHO
    significantly more useful than the alternatives provided by
    standard Emacs and AUC TeX, though I do intend to merge this code
    into AUC TeX one day.  swifTeX mode is for editing buffers
    containing normal \LaTeX{} files and provides an alternative to
    the other LaTeX modes.


The most important changes are noted here:

	* Frankenbundle: Handles variety of bundle licenses: LPPL and
	GPL are preconfigured.  Extensive documentation revision.
	
	* swiftex.el: Fix `stx-merge-list' for the thousandth time.
	Additional documentation.  Moved user documentation and todo
	list to swiftex-doc.txt.  Begin to implement Emacs
	customization.  Numerous bugfixes.  Numerous small extensions.

Please note that Frankenbundle is in the public domain and swiftex.el
is under the GPL.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Sep 11 09:20:36 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:20:19 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: Frankenstein

An upgrade of the Frankenstein package has been installed at 
tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring 
process in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Frankenstein
Name: Matt Swift 
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/frankenstein
Summary description: a collection of LaTeX packages and a Bibtex bibstyle
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Cleanup release prior to some more significant work (I hope).  Please see README for full package descriptions and ChangeLog for changes.

Please note that a preformatted TeX Catalogue database describing these packages is at http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/swift.db.  A web page of description like the TeX Catalogue descriptions is at http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/.  

The most important changes are noted here:

all:  LPPL instead of GPL

* achicago.bst: Extensive revisions to documentation.  Thanks
to Panagiotis Louridas for pointing out a significant bug that
would indicate authors with the same last name as the same
with a 3-em dash in the bibliography.  Major version to 1;
reflects non-beta state.

* achicago.sty: Depends on slemph and verbatim too now, but
not relsize.

* newclude.sty: Move from unsupported to supported.  Extensive
documentation revisions.  Incorporation of includex package
(working yet?  includex still available).  Revision and
extension of hooks mechanisms.  Remove "group" option.

* tag.sto: Add 2d optional argument to \include.  Revise
documentation.

* titles.dtx: Changed: \booktitle -> \book, \journaltitle ->
\journal, \musictitle -> \music, \articletitle -> \article,
\playtitle -> \play, \crafttitle -> \craft.  Compatibility easily
retained in configuration file.  New: \species, \WrapquotesSN,
\WrapquotesDN, \WrapquotesSK, \nospacelist (abstraction of what
was hard-coded).

* titles.cfg: New: \newlet\longpoem\textitswitch
\newlet\film\textitswitch \newlet\essaytitle\Wrapquotes
\newlet\chaptertitle\Wrapquotes.

* moredefs.sty: Many documentation changes.  Change
implementation of \provideboolean and \newboolean to be
compatible with ifthen package.  Fix \prependto@macro
\g@prependto@macro so they work.  Fix check for defined macro
in \SaveName.  Fix \SaveName so it works.  Fix \GobbleO
\GobbleMO so they work.

* abbrevs.sty: Added emulation of acromake.sty.

* lips.sty: New: \BracketedLips, \olips, \Lips, mla package
option.

* compsci.sty: New: \file \email.  Add hyperlatex package
option.

* bits.sty: Requires letterhead package -- which I don't think I
distribute.  Aha, that's why this is "unsupported"!  It may be
usable with a dummy letterhead package.

* attrib.sty: Add \attribcitations.
	

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Sep 11 09:26:02 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:25:03 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: FiXme v1.4

An upgrade to the FiXme package has been installed on tug.ctan.org
and should make its way through the mirroring process in the next day
or two.

Thanks for the contribution!
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: FiXme v1.4
Name: Didier Verna 
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/
Summary description: FiXme 1.4 is out.
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
	I'm happy to release the next version of FiXme (1.4). This version 
contains one bug fix, plus additional support for the koma-script classes.

        This package provides you with a way of inserting fixme notes in 
documents being developped (in draft mode). Such notes can appear in the 
margin of the document, as index entries, in the log file and as warnings 
on stdout. It is also possible to summarize them in a list, and in the 
index. If your document is in a final version, any remaining fixme note 
will produce an error. FiXme also comes with support for AUC-TeX.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Sep 11 15:44:46 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:43:22 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Basil K. Malyshev <malyshev@mx.ihep.su>
Cc: CTAN-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Uload -- BaKoMa TeX 4.0

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

 > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory
 > update for BaKoMa TeX 4.0
 > Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
 > All old files in directory `CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' must be removed.
 >
 > Bye.
 > Basil K. Malyshev
 > 11-Sep-2001

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed the new version as you requested,
completely replacing the old version.

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf

 > --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 4.0 ----------------------
 >
 > CONTENTS
 >    * Highlights
 >    * Graphical Capabilities
 >    * Fonts
 >    * User Interface
 >    * PDF Generation Features
 >    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 4.0
 >
 > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
 >    <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000.
 >
 > HIGHLIGHTS
 >
 >  * PostScript enabled TeX system.
 >    Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
 >  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
 >    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 >  * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
 >    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 >  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 >  * Easy to install and use.
 >  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 >
 > GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
 > which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
 > software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 9.0, Adobe Streamline 4.0,
 > MatLab, CorelDraw, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
 >
 > All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible
 > with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
 > embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).
 >
 > The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
 >    PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.
 >
 > FONTS
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 >  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters),
 >  * PostScript Type 3,
 >  * TrueType,
 >  * OpenType,
 >  * TeX PK/VF.
 >
 > The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
 > and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 >  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 >  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 >  * EC/TC,
 >  * LH (T2A),
 >  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 >  * Malvern,
 >  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 >  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 >  Math Fonts:
 >  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 >  Diagram drawing fonts:
 >  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase),
 >  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd),
 >  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
 >
 > Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
 > This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
 > between font formats when needed.
 > This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
 > On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
 > for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
 >
 > USER INTERFACE
 >
 > * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
 > * Typesetting a selected part of a document (styles may be precompiled as format).
 > * Quick navigation via document structure,
 > * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
 > * Powerful support for different input encodings,
 > * Project support,
 > * Graphics import assistant,
 > * Assitance for multi-file documents:
 >   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
 > * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
 > * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
 > * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
 > * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
 > * Spell Checker is configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
 > * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
 >
 > OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
 >
 > * View on Windows Display.
 > * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
 > * PostScript (really scalable),
 > * PDF.
 >
 > Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
 > for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
 > may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical
 > capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
 >
 > PDF GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 > * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
 > * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
 >   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
 > * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
 > * Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
 >
 > NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 4.0 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 3.51
 >
 >  Text Editor (CENTAUR)
 >
 >   * Customizable GUI Bars for insertion of a math symbols.
 >     Currently, the way for adding new symbols is simplest among
 >     another solutions (WinEdt, WinTeX, etc.). See subdirectory: `BaKoMa\GUI'.
 >   * `Options|TeX Running Parameters' - all parameters for running TeX are
 >      in one ddialog. Arbitrary set of postprocessors is available.
 >   * `File|Print (Generate Listing)' (LP2DVI) gets space width from TFM file.
 >
 >  DVI Viewer (DVIEW)
 >
 >   User Interface
 >     * Left mouse button may be used for dragging page inside a window
 >       like to hand tool of Acrobat Reader.
 >     * Right mouse button opens diffrent context menus
 >       for cases with selection and without selection.
 >     * Document Outline is displayed at left side of window
 >       via `tree view' like to Acrobat Reader bookmarks.
 >     * User Bookmarks are shown via dialog.
 >       Advantages: Looking to global bookmarks and removing a bookmarks.
 >
 >   DVIPS Compatibility
 >
 >     There are several improvements intended for more compatibility
 >     between BaKoMa DVI Viewer and DVIPS programs.
 >
 >     * Support for literal prologs (\special{! ...}).
 >     * Support for local headers (\special{header=...}),
 >       whose are in the same directory as document.
 >     * Support for PostScript procedure definitions splitted between
 >       several specials (Embedding TeX material into PostScript procedures).
 >       This feature enables running such macro
 >       packages as *PSFrag*, *PST-FILL* (from PSTricks), etc.
 >     * DVI page origin was changed to match it with DVIPS origin,
 >       that is sensitive for *changebar.sty* package.
 >     * Installation of PK Fonts is simplified -- just put they to TDS.
 >
 >   HyperRef Support
 >
 >     There is appeared specific HyperRef driver for BaKoMa TeX
 >     (see `BaKoMa\tex\latex\hBaKoMa4.def').
 >     This driver embeds document outline and document info into DVI file
 >     via `pdfmark' operator in `literal prologs' (\special{! ...}).
 >     This approach enables embedding into PDF document
 >     such HyperRef options as `pdftitle', `pdfauthor', etc.
 >     In advance, *unicoded* outline and document info
 >     are supported without any limitations, because DVIEW keeps
 >     document outline and document info in Unicode format.
 >
 >     Approach of importing outline and entering document info via dialog
 >     is still available for documents produced without HyperRef package.
 >
 >  MetaHelp
 >
 >   * MetaHelp displays document collection via Tree View in main dialog.
 >   * This tree view is synchronized with keyword targets.
 >   * All functions are available from buttons on main dialog.
 >
 >  FONTS
 >
 >   * Windows families for Standard TeX Fonts was changed
 >     to avoid conflicts with fonts from another TeX systems.
 >   * Multi-aliasing, which works acros not-present fonts.
 >     It works also for substitution of preconfigured but absent fonts.
 >   * Adobe 35 Fonts are preconfigured, to use they with BaKoMa TeX
 >     you must only put they in TDS.
 >   * Fixed problem with font files with two fonts (some Obliqued fonts)
 >
 >  New and Updated Packages.
 >
 >   * Omega 1.15
 >   * PSTricks 97 (Feb 2001)
 >   * PSFrag 3.04 (NEW)
 >   * RLEPSF (NEW)
 >   * MusixTeX T.103
 >   * DraftCopy - adapted for random page drawing.
 > 	        Works with DVIEW, DVIPS+GV, and with rearranged PS files.
 >   * ChangeBar - refixed for BaKoMa TeX 4.0
 >   * fancybox, fancyhdr, fancyvrb, caption, ccaption, units, and nicefrac
 >     was added because of user requests.
 >
 > For more information about changes see
 >    <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/dst/changes3.html>
 >
 > ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Sep 11 15:47:15 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:46:39 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Bernard Desgraupes <berdesg@easynet.fr>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: MacDevnag update

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:

 > this message concerns an update of the macdevnag package which I have
 > contributed and which is located in
 > /tex-archive/languages/devanagari/contrib/MacDevnag/
 >
 > Could you please replace it (version 0,1) by the latest version which is
 >
 > 0,4 and which has proven very stable.
 >
 > I have uploaded it in the incoming directory together with a new README.
 >
 > It is compacted in .sit.hqx which is the usual format expected by
 > macintosh users. Licence terms are unchanged : it is free software with
 > a
 > gpl license and the C source code is freely distributed on my Web page.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team

   Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Sep 18 09:19:01 2001
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:08:59 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: boites.sty

A new LaTeX package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should make
its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon 

===============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: boites.sty
Name: ZOONEKYND Vincent
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/other
Summary description: boxes that may break across pages
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I define environments that allow page breaks inside framed 
boxes and include a few examples (shaded box, box with a 
wavy line on its side, etc.)

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Sep 20 13:51:13 2001
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:37:35 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: JavaBib

An upgrade, including a change of license to LPPL, has been
made on the JavaBib package.  It has been installed at tug.ctan.org
and should make its way through the mirroring process in the 
next day or two.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=============================================================  


The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: JavaBib
Name: John Janmaat
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/utils/JavaBib
Summary description: BibTeX reference manager, written in Java
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
JavaBib update:
Have corrected a few bugs, added partial documentation, and
included the source files.  I was hoping to clean up the 
documentation in the source files, but have not had the time 
to do so.  Anyone who wants to continue the project is welcome to do so.  Please keep me appraised, so that I don't reinvent the wheel, if you do.

John.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Thu Sep 20 18:04:07 2001
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 00:03:31 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Submission -- paralist v2.1

----- Forwarded message from Bernd Schandl -----
I have uploaded the file paralist.21.zip to the /incoming directory of
ftp.dante.de.

The package is licensed under the LPPL.

I recommend placing the unpacked files README, paralist.ins and
paralist.dtx in
	macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist/
replacing the old versions.

>From the abstract:
	This style file provides some new list environments. Itemized and
	enumerated lists can be typesetted within paragraphs, as
	paragraphs and in a compact version. Most environments have
	optional arguments to format the labels.
	Additionally, the \LaTeX\ environments |itemize| and |enumerate|
	can be extended to use a similar optional argument.

New in the version are:
- New options alwaysadjust, neveradjust and neverdecreas to adjust label
  widths.
- New environments asparadesc and inparadesc.
- Flushleft labels.
- New macros \setdefaultleftmargin, \setdefaultitem and \setdefaultenum
  replacing the macros without "set". Now the left margin for all six
  possible list labels can be set.
- New macros \enumlabel, \itemlabel and \paradescriptionlabel to define
  label format.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission, I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Sep 25 07:52:37 2001
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:49:27 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- BrushScriptX-Italic PS Type-1 fonts (update)

I have installed an update of the Type-1 font BrushScriptX-Italic
by Maurizio Loreti in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/brushscr.

>From the README file:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This directory contains: a Type-1 font named BrushScriptX-Italic, that
simulates hand-written characters; all the files needed by LaTeX in
order to use that font; a file AAA_readme.tex that fully describes the
package; two example files.

History:

- The original (public domain) NeXT screen font has been edited, with
  a Type-1 font editor named TypeSmith, on an Amiga computer.  The
  service files have been generated using the "fontinst" package by
  Alan Jeffrey.
- Having TypeSmith generated a buggy font, Louis Vosloo of Y&Y, with
  enormous courtesy, has fixed the font in his spare time (I no longer
  had an Amiga computer, or a font editor of any kind).
- Rolf Niepraschk submits a file pbsi.sty .
- A more strict dvips (5.86e) refuses to handle the font.  Rolf
  Niepraschk submits a fix, generated by the "type1fix" perl script.
- Having learnt about a free Type-1 font editor called 'pfaedit' by
  George Williams (http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net) I have completely
  re-edited the font.  Thierry Bouche has been of invaluable help
  with fontinst.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Sep 26 03:13:49 2001
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:13:07 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- ifvtex.sty

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek -----
I have uploaded oberdiek.zip in the /incoming directory
of ftp.dante.de. Please unzip it in the directory
  CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek

It contains a new package ifvtex.sty:

% Function:  This package looks for VTeX and implements
%            and sets the switches \ifvtex, \ifvtex<mode>,
%            and \ifvtexgex.
%            It works with plain or LaTeX formats.

The licence is LPPL 1.2.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/ifvtex.sty
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Sep 26 10:22:25 2001
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:19:26 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New Dante CTAN server

I am proud to announce that one of the three central CTAN hosts,
ftp.dante.de and www.dante.de, has moved from the old server sun.dante.de,
located in Mainz, Germany, to a brand new machine nova.dante.de, which is
now located in my faculty in Hamburg, Germany.  

DANTE, Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V., appreciates the
long time support of the Computer Center of Johannes Gutenberg University
Mainz which has hosted the Dante servers for many years.
Thank you very much!

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

-- 
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de      Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg
postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276  Fax: -2241

From zierke@dante.de Thu Sep 27 03:25:19 2001
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:24:13 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New MiKTeX and LaTeX releases

Andreas Hirsch wrote:
> zu meiner "Uberraschung musste ich eben auf der MiKTeX-Seite lesen, 
> dass das j"ahrliche Update verf"ugbar ist.
> 
> Ich dachte, sowas erf"ahrt man hier als erster ...

[ Translation:  Andreas asks why the MiKTeX update has been announced
on the MiKTeX website but not on CTAN ]

We send to CTAN-ANN information about things that we manually install
on the CTAN hosts unless these are minor updates (whatever that is).
Lots of other things get mirrored from other sites though, e.g. MiKTeX.
Unfortunately we can't announce such things regularly as we would have
to wade through each updated package, analyse the - hopefully existent -
readme files, etc.  Therefore we have to trust the owners of packages
mirrored to CTAN to announce their new versions by themselves.  Of
course we are glad if they send us a release/update notice that we can
forward to CTAN-ANN.

Having said all this, I should add that the LaTeX release <2001/06/01>
is on CTAN for two days now.  See
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/doc/ltnews14.{dvi,pdf,ps}
for news.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Sep 27 09:13:49 2001
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:12:50 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- new polynom package

----- Forwarded message from Carsten Heinz -----
I've uploaded the file `polynom.zip' to dante.ctan.org/incoming.
Please decompress it to

    CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/polynom/

The new version just adds stepwise output of polynomial long
divisions and nothing else.

Reply to comp.text.tex is much appreciated.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission, I installed the new version as suggested.
The "Readme" file says about the package:

------------------------------------------------------------
The `polynom' package implements macros for manipulating
polynomials, for example it can typeset long polynomial
divisions. The main test case and application is the
polynomial ring in one variable with rational coefficients.

For more details read the documentation `polynom.dvi' or
visit http://www.atscire.de/products/polynom .
------------------------------------------------------------

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct  1 03:55:15 2001
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 09:42:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: Bernd Schandl <schandl@gmx.net>
Cc: ctan@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- paralist v2.2

On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Bernd Schandl wrote:

> I have uploaded the file paralist.zip to the /incoming directory of
> ftp.dante.de.
>
> The package is licensed under the LPPL.
>
> I recommend placing the unpacked files README, paralist.ins and
> paralist.dtx in
> 	macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/paralist/
> replacing the old versions.

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


> >From the abstract:
> 	This style file provides some new list environments. Itemized and
> 	enumerated lists can be typesetted within paragraphs, as
> 	paragraphs and in a compact version. Most environments have
> 	optional arguments to format the labels.
> 	Additionally, the \LaTeX\ environments |itemize| and |enumerate|
> 	can be extended to use a similar optional argument.
>
> New in the version are:
> - A few small bug fixes.
> - New WWW address (still as boring but at least reachable)

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct  1 03:55:15 2001
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 09:48:01 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Walter Schmidt <was@vr-web.de>
Cc: CTAN submissions <CTAN@dante.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: emTeX/TDS 0.56

On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the following files to the directory
> /incoming/emtexds at dante.ctan.org:
>
>   NEWS
>   readme.eng
>   readme.ger
>   config.zip
>   texmf.zip
>   tfe.cfg
>   tdsinst.cmd
>
> Please, move them to the directory
>
>   systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS
>
> thus replacing most of the present files.  (Please, do not
> alter the files; line endings ar already Unix-style where
> appropriate.)
>
>
> This is version 0.56 of the "emTeX/TDS" TeX system for OS/2.
> Main news with this release:
>
> * June 2001 LaTeX macros
> * Latest versions of all packages, including PSNFSS 8.2
>   and KOMA-Script.
> * Additional Type1 fonts:  WASY smybols, BrushScriptX.
>
> See the file NEWS in the distribution for details.

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

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Oct  2 11:03:41 2001
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:00:40 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Oliver Corff <corff@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: CTAN upload notification: clock & invoice packages

Oliver Corff submitted updates to his packages

  clock

Announcement: "A corrected and updated version of the TeX clock.
                Former inconsistencies in naming conventionss have
                been removed. Please note that the package files
                are not called ``texclock'' any longer; they are
                now simply named ``clock''."
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


  invoice

Announcement: "A corrected and updated version of the invoice
                package. Arithmetics has been fixed. Now works
                under KOMA-Script's scrlettr.cls."

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Thu Oct  4 04:06:28 2001
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:04:35 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- preview-latex

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----
I have uploaded preview-latex-0.5.tar.gz, a package for previewing
inline images of equation environments and similar.  It needs recent
pretest versions of GNU Emacs to work at the current point of time (at
least 21.0.105) as well as AucTeX.  I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de.
I would recommend loading it into a separate directory
support/preview-latex and extracting the file README from the archive
and placing this file as well as the tar archive into that directory.

The license is GPL.

I append an excerpt from the README:

I do not know where to start.  This is the preview-latex project at
Sourceforge, <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>.
There is a mailing list for developers, the web page is
<URL:http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/preview-latex-devel>
Send a message with just the word `help' as subject or body to
    preview-latex-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net
for more information.

Anonymous CVS is available as well.  See the Sourceforge web pages for
more information.

Purpose of the package is to embed LaTeX environments such as display
math or figures into the source buffers.  By mouse-clicking, you can
open the original text.  After editing, another click will just run
the region in question through LaTeX and redisplay the new results.

Thr project is just starting.  Current state of affairs: you need to
get access to a very recent Emacs 21 version, which at the current
time means that you need to be a pretester of Emacs.  Versions before
21.0.105 have EPS rendering support that is defective.  Direct EPS
rendering is in need of improvement and very experimental, so the
default setting replaces Emacs internal EPS handling by an indirect
rendering mechanism.  If you feel capable of helping out with Emacs'
EPS interface (meaning that the APIs connecting GhostScript and
viewers such as GhostView and xdvi are not a book with seven seals for
you), feel free to do so.  Report bugs you can reproduce along with
the files needed to reproduce them.  The new display engine for 21.1
is quite powerful, and some bugs still might be lurking inside.

You also need AucTeX installed and working, and probably a fairly
recent version of GhostScript.  At the current point of time, XEmacs
is not supported.  This may change in future versions, depending on
contributions.

Offers to support further development will be appreciated.

David Kastrup, <URL:mailto:dakas@users.sourceforge.net>
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested (tar archive + README
file) in the directory CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Oct  4 04:37:32 2001
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:37:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update of biblio/bibtex/utils/bibweb

I have updated CTAN:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibweb to the
current version on the author's website (dated Nov 10, 2000).
>From the README file:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
bibweb is a utility for automatically retrieving bibliographical
information from the American Mathematical Society's MathSciNet
program.  John Palmieri ("engineer") wrote bibweb, and Bill Dwyer
("idea man") helped to design it.

If you're too lazy to go to the library or use a web browser to find
out bibliographical information for that ground-breaking paper you're
writing, you can let bibweb do the work for you.  You have to use
bibtex (which means you have to use latex, I think), and you have to
write citations in a particular format, but that's about it.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Oct  4 04:53:56 2001
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:53:42 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- pdftricks 1.15

----- Forwarded message from Radhakrishnan CV -----

> 1. Uploaded pdftricks-1.15.tar.gz to /incoming/pdftricks of
>    ftp.dante.de
>
> 3. shall go to
>    /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdftricks by
>    replacing the existing contents of the directory
>
> The following major changes are made:
>  
> 1. pdftricks automatically finds out whether shell escape facility
>    is available in the user's pdfTeX implementation.
> 
> 2. If yes, it does the processing of pstricks figures using shell
>    escape facility. If not, pdftricks silently writes the external
>    figure files to be manually processed.
> 
> 3. A shell script, pst2pdf is supplied to automate the processing
>    of figure files generated in the first run of pdfTeX, if shell
>    escape is not available in the pdfTeX implementation.
> 
> 4. A new command, \NoProcess[fig number list] to suppress the
>    processing of figures, is introduced in this version.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdftricks/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Oct  4 06:39:25 2001
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 12:38:49 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- onlyamsmath package

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded the file onlyamsmath.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. 
Please install its contents to
CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/onlyamsmath.
Licence is lppl.

>From the README:
This package inhibits the usage of plain TeX and on demand of
standard LaTeX math environments.
This is useful for class writers who want to force their clients to
use the environments provided by the amsmath package.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed this new package as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/onlyamsmath

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Oct  4 08:08:39 2001
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:08:10 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- EC/TC Type1 font collection

----- Forwarded message from Szabo Peter -----
I've just uploaded tt2001, an EC/TC Type1 font collection to CTAN. I've
attached its README to my e-mail. Please find an appropriate location
for the fonts, and move them there.

Thank you,
Szab� P�ter

README.txt, Mon Oct  1 13:30:27 CEST 2001

This is version 1.0 of Tt2001.

This is Tt2001, a TeX .pfb font collection, converted to .pfb in 2001 by the
author of TeXtrace, using TeXtrace. It contains almost _all_ the EC (European
Computer Modern) and TC (Text Companion) fonts in all possible design sizes,
_all_ the AMS fonts in all possible design sizes, plus some more.

Author: pts@inf.bme.hu

The missing EC/TC fonts are:

        fcvt0500.pfb fcvi0500.pfb fctt0500.pfb fcst0500.pfb fcit0500.pfb
        fctc0500.pfb fcff0500.pfb fcff0600.pfb fcff0700.pfb fcff0800.pfb
        fcfi0500.pfb fcfi0600.pfb fcfi0700.pfb fcfi0800.pfb fcfb2488.pfb
        fcfb2986.pfb fcfb3583.pfb fcfs2488.pfb fcfs2986.pfb fcfs3583.pfb
        fymisc10.pfb ucfb2488.pfb ucfb2986.pfb ucfb3583.pfb ucfs2488.pfb
        ucfs2986.pfb ucfs3583.pfb ucff0500.pfb ucff0600.pfb ucff0700.pfb
        ucff0800.pfb ucff1728.pfb ucff2074.pfb ucff2986.pfb ucff3583.pfb
        ucfi0500.pfb ucfi0600.pfb ucfi0700.pfb ucfi0800.pfb ucfi2986.pfb
        ucfi3583.pfb ucit0500.pfb ucst0500.pfb uctt0500.pfb ucvi0500.pfb
        ucvt0500.pfb

They are missing because METAFONT failed to generate them. The missing EC
fonts are just some typewriter fonts at 5pt, plus some Fibonacci and funny
fonts.

Quick and dirty UNIX shell command to find the missing fonts:

        ls `awk -F '<' '/^[a-z]/{print$2}' <ecpfb.map` 2>&1 >/dev/null |
        awk -F ':' '{print substr($2,2)}'

TeXtrace is available from the net: http://textrace.sf.net

TeXtrace was first presented at EuroTeX 2001 http://www.ntg.nl/eurotex/.

Tanakori Uchiyama has reported:

        By the way, there is a musixps-unix.tar.gz at CTAN.
        fonts/musixtex/ps-type1/musixps-unix.tar.gz
        I think that it is easy to get and use it.

Quoting subsubsection 5.4.1 of dvips.dvi:

Commercial versions of the Computer Modern fonts are available from Blue
Sky; public domain versions are available from CTAN sites (for CTAN info,
see section `unixtex.ftp'' in Kpathsea) in:

        fonts/postscript/bakoma
        fonts/postscript/paradissa

You may need to modify these fonts; see http:///xxx.lanl.gov/faq/bakoma.html

Knuth's original CM (Computer Modern) fonts (_not_ including European
accentend letters) were converted to .pfb by Bluesky in 1991. These Bluesky
.pfb fonts (such as cmr10.pfb) are part of the standard teTeX distribution,
and are available from CTAN since years ago.

Some auxilary fonts (such as the MetaFont logo and the Wasy fonts) were
converted to .pfb by Taco Hoekwater, 1998.

Some fonts, such as Times, Helvetica and Charter were _originally_ in PFB
format, so they need no conversion. Many of them are part of the standard
teTeX distribution, and also from CTAN.

-- [B]+[T] Knuth's original CM (Computer Modern) fonts

   Knuth's original CM fonts converted by Bluesky are:

        cmb10 cmbsy10 cmbx10 cmbx12 cmbx5 cmbx6 cmbx7 cmbx8 cmbx9 cmbxsl10
        cmbxti10 cmcsc10 cmdunh10 cmex10 cmex9 cmff10 cmfi10 cmfib8 cmitt10
        cmmi10 cmmi12 cmmi5 cmmi6 cmmi7 cmmi8 cmmi9 cmmib10 cmr10 cmr12
        cmr17 cmr5 cmr6 cmr7 cmr8 cmr9 cmsl10 cmsl12 cmsl8 cmsl9 cmsltt10
        cmss10 cmss12 cmss17 cmss8 cmss9 cmssbx10 cmssdc10 cmssi10 cmssi12
        cmssi17 cmssi8 cmssi9 cmssq8 cmssqi8 cmsy10 cmsy5 cmsy6 cmsy7 cmsy8
        cmsy9 cmtcsc10 cmtex10 cmtex8 cmtex9 cmti10 cmti12 cmti7 cmti8 cmti9
        cmtt10 cmtt12 cmtt8 cmtt9 cmu10 cmvtt10

   Missing from Bluesky CM, included in Tt2001:

        cmex9

-- [T] all AMS fonts (AMS A, AMS B, other math fonts, Euler fraktur,
   cyrillic etc.) Most of them are available from [B].
   
   AMS fonts as Bluesky .pfb's, converted in automn 1992: (below). Since
then
   a lot of AMS fonts were drawn, so these are not enough:

        cmbsy5 cmbsy7 cmmib5 cmmib7 euex10 eufb10 eufb5 eufb7 eufm10 eufm5
        eufm7 eurb10 eurb5 eurb7 eurm10 eurm5 eurm7 eusb10 eusb5 eusb7
        eusm10 eusm5 eusm7 msam10 msam5 msam7 msbm10 msbm5 msbm7 wncyb10
        wncyi10 wncyr10 wncysc10 wncyss10

   Tt2001 contains all AMS fonts (including those above):

        cmbsy5 cmbsy6 cmbsy7 cmbsy8 cmbsy9 cmcsc8 cmcsc9 cmex7 cmex8 cmmib5
        cmmib6 cmmib7 cmmib8 cmmib9 wncyb10 wncyb5 wncyb6 wncyb7 wncyb8
        wncyb9 wncyi10 wncyi5 wncyi6 wncyi7 wncyi8 wncyi9 wncyr10 wncyr5
        wncyr6 wncyr7 wncyr8 wncyr9 wncysc10 wncyss10 wncyss8 wncyss9 euex10
        euex7 euex8 euex9 eufb10 eufb5 eufb6 eufb7 eufb8 eufb9 eufm10 eufm5
        eufm6 eufm7 eufm8 eufm9 eurb10 eurb5 eurb6 eurb7 eurb8 eurb9 eurm10
        eurm5 eurm6 eurm7 eurm8 eurm9 eusb10 eusb5 eusb6 eusb7 eusb8 eusb9
        eusm10 eusm5 eusm6 eusm7 eusm8 eusm9 msam10 msam5 msam6 msam7 msam8
        msam9 msbm10 msbm5 msbm6 msbm7 msbm8 msbm9

-- [T] EC (European Computer Modern) fonts (drawn by J"org Knappen and
   Norbert Schwarz), LaTeX \usepackage{t1enc}

-- [T] TC (Text Companion) fonts (drawn by J"org Knappen and Norbert
Schwarz)

-- [T] Knuth's original Concrete fonts (the font family of the book Concrete
   Mathematics)

-- [T] some LaTeX picture drawing etc. fonts. Converted in May 2001:

        icmcsc10 icmex10 icmmi8 icmsy8 icmtt8 ilasy8 ilcmss8 ilcmssb8 ilcmssi8

-- [T] all xypic: LaTeX picture drawing

   [2] contains some, but not all xypic:

        xyatip10 xybsql10 xybtip10 xycirc10 xycmat10 xycmbt10 xydash10
        xyeuat10 xyeubt10

   [T] contains all xypic, except for xymisc10 (for which dvips failed):

        xyatip10 xybsql10 xybtip10 xycirc10 xycmat10 xycmbt10 xydash10
        xyeuat10 xyeubt10 xyline10 xyqc10

-- [T] yandy mathtime fonts:

        mtcmmi mtcmsy

The following common teTeX .mf fonts are not available in .pfb yet:

-- jknappen/sauter/*
-- lh/*/* (many!)
-- public/*/* (too many!)

__EOF__
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the huge (53974 KB) submission.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sun Oct  7 04:45:01 2001
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 10:43:41 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- eline.sty: "english" lines

----- Forwarded message from Tobias Dussa -----
I have just uploaded a rather small style file for producing
"english" lines (i. e. lines that are thicker in the middle than
at the ends). The package is just one style file and quite simple.

I have placed it in incoming/texmf of ftp.dante.de; the file is
called eline.sty.
I would assume that it would best be added to someplace in
macros/generic, as it is coded entirely with plain TeX commands.

I did not much think about the licensing issue much, so I just allow
all uses and modifications, as long as a reference to the original
author is kept. Also, it is made clear that no responsibility is
assumed by myself. (If you think that it would be much better to
just use the GPL or whatever, then please go ahead and drop me a note.
I am not experienced in publishing TeX macro packages, so I am
grateful for any help, but I suppose that such an effort is not
warranted for such a small package.)
----- End forwarded message -----

Thansk for the submission.  I installed the file in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/generic/eline.sty as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct  8 09:36:18 2001
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:34:47 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- TeXnicCenter

----------------------------------------------------------------------
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20011008.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: TeXnicCenter
Name and email: Sven Wiegand
Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/systems/win32
Summary description: Integrated development environment for LaTeX on Windows.
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Some of you might already know TeXnicCenter (TXC). For those: This is the current release which has been much more improved in comparison to the version that was avaialable at CTAN before.

For those who do not know TXC here a short overview:

TeXnicCenter is an integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX-documents on windows (Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT 4.0).

TXC is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License (GPL) and is therefore AVAILABLE FOR FREE including the source codes.

Here is a list of some features provided by TeXnicCenter:

- Project orientated integrated development environment for
  LaTeX-documents
- Definition of unlimited "output profiles" (i.e. 
  "LaTeX => DVI", "LaTeX => PS", "LaTeX => PDF")
- Editor:
  - Syntax highlighting
  - Dynamic word wrapping (you don't need to scroll 
    horizontally)
  - Unlimited undo and redo
  - Bookmarks
  - "Go to last change"
  - Incremental search
  - Find, find and replace
  - Fully customizable
- Structure View:
  - Clear, document orientated tree view of the whole 
    document structure
  - Displays headers, floating figures and floating tables
  - Supports file inclusion via \input and \include
  - Simple navigation by double clicking on an item
  - Simple referencing by inserting references with an 
    item's context menu
  - Simple updating by saving one or all files
- LaTeX-support:
  - Simple insertion of LaTeX-constructs by menu or toolbar
  - Compilation of the project in the IDE -- simple jumping 
    to errors, warnings and bad boxes.
- Support for document templates
- Full customizable menu and toolbars in modern and 
  skinable look and feel (including Office 2000 and Office 
  XP like skins).
- Support for English and German language

More details about TXC are available on our homepage

  www.ToolsCenter.org

Happy TeXing...

  Sven Wiegand
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/win32/TeXnicCenter as suggested

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct  8 09:40:23 2001
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:40:09 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- eline.sty now swrule.sty

Toby,

> > This sounds like an excellent idea, but could you call them
> > (and perhaps the package) by the more conventional name of
> > "swelled rules"? I think a lot of people may have a problem
> > identifying the package under the name eline. Perhaps swrule?
> 
> Considering that I frankly have no idea what "Englische Linien"
> are properly called in English, I don't care. Go ahead.
> Rename the package. ;-)

Thank you for you permission.  I renamed the file from
macros/generic/eline.sty ro macros/generic/swrule.sty

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct  8 09:44:56 2001
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:44:41 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Submission -- crop.sty

----- Forwarded message from Melchior FRANZ -----
I've just uploaded version 1.5 of `crop.sty' as archive

  === crop.tar.gz ===

to

  === ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ ===


Please replace the contents of

  === /macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop/ ===

by the new files. The package is again licenced under the terms of the

  === LPPL ===


The new version now has
 - options for selectively suppressing graphics or text, which may
   be useful for printing just color graphics on a color laser and
   the rest on a cheap mono laser.
 - options for changing the cropmarks origin (which are
   deprecated, though)
 - a new page info line, which also contains the time and a new cropmarks
   index and is printed on top, rather than in the upper right corner
 - a configuration command for the info line font
 - options for better collaboration with dvips/pdftex/vtex
 - an improved documentation with some more examples
 - a Makefile for Unix/Linux systems
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I replaced the old version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct  8 09:48:20 2001
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:47:54 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- ttf2tex 0.3

----- Forwarded message from Philipp Lehman -----
node:		ftp.dante.de
directory:	/incoming/ttf2tex
destination:	/tex-archive/support/ttf2tex
license:	gpl

I've uploaded a new release of ttf2tex to /incoming/ttf2tex on
ftp.dante.de. Please remove the contents of support/ttf2tex and
replace them with the uploaded files. Thank you.

>From the README:

ttf2tex is a Bash script which will create all files neccessary
to use TrueType fonts with teTeX from a set of *.ttf files. It
will sort them, build the map files required by ttf2pk and
pdftex, and optionally install them. It supports small caps and
slanted shapes. ttf2tex is for UNIX/Linux systems with teTeX
and certain FreeType support binaries. See the file ttf2tex.pdf
for requirements, usage instructions, and some general
information.

Changelog:

2001-10-08	0.3
		-- support for TS1 encoding
		-- support for user-defined parameters when
		   generating small caps
		-- support for user-defined parameters when
		   generating slanted shapes
		-- revised command line switches

2001-03-09	0.2
		-- support for various weights
		-- create one pdftex map file for each font
		   family
		-- improved feedback

2000-10-25	0.1
		-- initial release
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I replaced the old version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/ttf2tex as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Oct  9 12:31:56 2001
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 18:08:22 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Walter Schmidt <was@vr-web.de>
Cc: CTAN submissions <CTAN@dante.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: tmmath.zip

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the file tmmath.zip to the /incoming directory
> at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack it to the directory
>
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/tmmath
>
> thus replacing the present files.
>
> This is release 2.1 of the LaTeX packages tmmaths.sty and
> tmmathm.sty for using MicroPress' TM-Math fonts.  I have
> fixed a potential clash with the amsmath package and an
> omission in the documentation.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Fri Oct 12 04:01:27 2001
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:59:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Submission -- CM-Super font package v0.3.0

----- Forwarded message from Vladimir Volovich -----
Dear CTAN maintainers,

i'm uploading the CM-Super package to
ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cm-super-0.3.0.tar.gz

It contains Type 1 fonts which cover entirely EC, TC and LH fonts
(see the README below for more information).
License conditions: GPL.

Please install it where you think it is more appropriate:
CTAN:fonts/psfonts/cm-super/ or CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/

You have recently installed the similar package Tt2001 under
CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/ec/.

Compared to the Tt2001 package, this package

* covers much bigger set of fonts (all cyrillic encodings are added,
  and eventually also other encodings like greek and vietnamese)
* has the fonts optimized and hinted
* has more exact (non-integer) glyph widths and more correct
  parameters like ItalicAngle, Weight, isFixedPitch, etc.
* has more correct (AGL-compliant) glyph names (esp. for non-EC
  fonts), which makes the fonts usable in non-TeX applications, too
* is more compact (contains all glyphs from one font shape combined in
  one PFB file -- superfont). if one will use the approach with
  separate files for all supported encodings, the package will be 6 times
  bigger in size (and in number of font files).
  while supporting much bigger number of glyphs than Tt2001 package,
  the CM-Super package is even smaller! (partially because of font
  optimization)
* contains some additional glyph variants like german "sharp s"
  which looks like in CM fonts
* includes AFM files (useful for non-TeX applications)

[but Tt2001 package contains some additional non-EC and non-TC fonts
which are not and will not be covered by CM-Super package]

See the ChangeLog for list of changes from previous versions.

The README file follows.

Best,
v.

=========================================================================
                     CM-Super font package
                     version 0.3.0 (October 11, 2001)

  Copyright (c) 2001 Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vsu.ru>.

  This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  As a special exception, permission is granted to include these font
  programs in a Postscript or PDF file that consists of a document that
  contains text to be displayed or printed using this font, regardless
  of the conditions or license applying to the document itself.

  This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

The CM-Super package contains Type 1 fonts converted from METAFONT
fonts and covers entire EC/TC and LH fonts (Computer Modern font
families). All European and Cyrillic writings are covered. Each Type 1
font program contains ALL glyphs from the following standard LaTeX
font encodings: T1, TS1, T2A, T2B, T2C, X2, and also Adobe
StandardEncoding (585 glyphs per non-SC font and 468 glyphs per SC
font), and could be reencoded to any of these encodings using standard
dvips or pdftex facilities (the corresponding support files are also
included).

The goal was to provide full support for a wide number of fonts used
in LaTeX, and at the same time minimize the number and total size of
font files. Each Type 1 font shares all common glyphs which are present
in supported encodings. E.g. Latin letters, Russian letters, accents
and a number of other glyphs which are present in more than one font
encoding are stored only once in Type 1 fonts.

These Type 1 fonts could be used as a drop-in replacement for LaTeX's
EC, TC, and LH fonts to create Postscript and PDF documents with
vector fonts (if you used METAFONT versions of EC, TC or LH fonts, no
changes to your LaTeX documents are required to use these Type 1 fonts
once you have them installed). You will still need the METAFONT
sources of these fonts to be able to generate needed TFM metric files
(once you have them generated, METAFONT will not be used). You could
also prepare EPS or PDF illustrations in your favorite applications
with texts written using these fonts, and then include them in your
LaTeX documents. These fonts could be used not only in TeX-related
applications, but also as all other Type 1 text fonts, e.g. in Windows
(and you will be able to typeset multilingual texts using them).

Font file names correspond to the scheme used in EC fonts, with the
first two letters "sf" ("super font") instead of "ec".  E.g., sfrm1000.pfb
contains all glyphs from:
ecrm1000, tcrm1000, larm1000, lbrm1000, lcrm1000, rxrm1000.

The third and fourth letters in the font name correspond to font shape.
The list of provided font shapes is included below:

  rm:  Computer Modern Roman
  sl:  Computer Modern Slanted
  ti:  Computer Modern Italic
  cc:  Computer Modern Caps and Small Caps
  ui:  Computer Modern Unslanted Italic
  sc:  Computer Modern Slanted Caps and Small Caps
  ci:  Computer Modern Classical Serif Italic
  bx:  Computer Modern Bold Extended
  bl:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Slanted
  bi:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Italic
  xc:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Caps and Small Caps
  oc:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Slanted Caps and Small Caps
  rb:  Computer Modern Roman Bold
  bm:  Computer Modern Roman Bold Variant
  ss:  Computer Modern Sans Serif
  si:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Slanted
  sx:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended
  so:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended Slanted
  tt:  Computer Modern Typewriter
  st:  Computer Modern Typewriter Slanted
  it:  Computer Modern Typewriter Italic
  tc:  Computer Modern Typewriter Caps and Small Caps
  vt:  Computer Modern Variable Width Typewriter
  vi:  Computer Modern Variable Width Typewriter Italic
  dh:  Computer Modern Dunhill Roman
  fb:  Computer Modern Fibonacci Medium
  fs:  Computer Modern Fibonacci Slanted
  ff:  Computer Modern Funny Roman
  fi:  Computer Modern Funny Italic

Each font shape comes in 14 font sizes ranging from 5pt to 35.83pt (or
11 font sizes for typewriter fonts ranging from 8pt to 35.83pt).
Also, the following 13 one-sized font shapes are included:

  sflq8:     Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation
  sfli8:     Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Inclined
  sflb8:     Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold
  sflo8:     Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Oblique
  sfltt8:    Computer Modern LaTeX Typewriter
  isflq8:    Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Invisible
  isfli8:    Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Inclined Invisible
  isflb8:    Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Invisible
  isflo8:    Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Oblique Invisible
  isfltt8:   Computer Modern LaTeX Typewriter Invisible
  sfsq8:     Computer Modern Sans Serif Quotation
  sfqi8:     Computer Modern Sans Serif Quotation Inclined
  sfssdc10:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Demi Condensed

Fonts were created using TeXtrace (based on AutoTrace and
Ghostscript), t1utils and a bunch of Perl scripts, and were optimized
and hinted using FontLab 3.1. The set of UniqueID values was
registered at Adobe. We use AGL compliant glyph names when possible
(there are some glyphs which are neither present in AGL nor in
Unicode).

I'd like to thank Peter Szabo for TeXtrace, Martin Weber for
AutoTrace, and FontLab Ltd. for providing a copy of FontLab.

It should be noted that while creating these fonts we intentionally
and on principle used only automatic methods which do not require font
designers talents. The aim was to use TOTALLY automatic conversion of
METAFONT fonts to Type 1 format, automatic optimization and hinting,
with the best achievable quality of final Type 1 fonts, to be able to
re-generate the fonts if necessary (e.g. when a new version of
original METAFONT fonts will be released).  Undoubtedly, there are
fields for improvement of this approach, which we will use in future
versions of the fonts, but even now the fonts seem to look and print
quite good (we hope :-).

It appears that careless approach to FontLab's optimization and
auto-hinting facilities could lead to loss of quality of the original
font (some glyph shapes could be broken), so we used the most precise
optimization, and hope that optimized and hinted fonts are indeed
better than original traced fonts (also, they are significantly
smaller in size). So far, we did not find any bugs in optimized fonts.

Note that a small number of (fortunately, rarely used) fonts are not
included yet because of the bugs in EC font drivers which prevented
their generation. We plan to provide these missing fonts soon.
(Currently there are 376 Type 1 font files here, of total 401.)

The CM-Super package could be freely downloaded from
CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/cm-super
and also from
ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/font-packs/cm-super/
(see also ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/README for a list of mirrors)
The total size of all PFB files is about 53.3 Mb
(AFM files are provided, too, for use with non-TeX applications).

To install this package in teTeX or TeX Live systems, copy all Type 1
fonts (*.pfb files) to .../texmf/fonts/type1/public/cm-super/
directory and install the MAP (*.map) and ENC (*.enc) files to their
usual place (e.g. under .../texms/dvips/cm-super/), and instruct dvips
and pdftex to use these MAP files (e.g. using the "updmap" script).
Do not forget to update the texmf filename database (run mktexlsr).

If you wish to use the original CM germandbls (sharp s) shape, rather
than the new EC one, change "germandbls" to "germandbls.alt" in t1.enc.

Although this package is provided AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY (as
explained in the file PUBLIC), we welcome your comments and bug
reports which should be sent to the email address given above.

Happy TeXing!
=========================================================================
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the huge submission.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super parallel to the above
mentioned .../ps-type1/em fonts.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Oct 12 14:44:22 2001
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 18:43:14 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN installation: Technics Package

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org.  It should make
its way through the mirroring system in the next few days.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim 
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Technics Package
Name: Joachim Nilsson
Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/technics
Summary description: Simplifies the making of technical documents, specifications, etc. Uses fancyhdr package to construct advanced headers.
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
New package for writing technical documents. Makes use of the fancyhdr package to build advanced headers.

Headers contains document name, prepared by, approved by, etc.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct 15 03:37:22 2001
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 09:33:55 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- repeatindex

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded repeatindex.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the
package repeatindex.sty as well an an xml file for the catalogue.
I suggest to put the file's contents to
CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/repeatindex. License is lppl.

>From the README:
This Package repeats item of an index if a page or column
break occurs within a list of subitems.
This helps to find out to which main item a subitem belongs.

Example:

   Main Item A, 1, 3, 6             Main Item A...
      Subitem a, 1                      Subitem g, 1
      Subitem b, 1                      Subitem h, 1
      Subitem c, 2                      Subitem i, 1
      Subitem d, 3                      Subitem j, 1
      Subitem d, 1                  Main Item B, 3, 6
      Subitem e, 4                      Subitem a, 3
      Subitem f, 2                      Subitem b, 4

Problems:
- When an item is repeated a small vertical space is included two
  items later
- If the last item is a subitem and the only entry on the last page
  of the index the repeation is omitted

This package has not been tested much, yet. Please help me to find
more problems and if possible solutions to my problems.
I have had much trouble in solving the problem that the code
defined in afterpage is executed with a delay.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new package as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/repeatindex/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct 15 03:39:07 2001
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 09:38:41 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Submission -- euro.sty

----- Forwarded message from Melchior FRANZ -----
I've just uploaded version 1.0 of `euro.sty' as archive

  === euro.tar.gz ===

to

  === ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ ===


Please replace the contents of

  === /macros/latex/contrib/supported/euro/ ===

by the new files. The package is again licenced under the terms of the

  === LPPL ===


Changelog:
 - added the Greek drachma, that is joining the Euro zone since
   2001/01/01. (How could these Greeks live so long without the
   euro.sty package supporting their currency. Could it be, that
   nobody is actually using euro.sty? OK, don't answer!  ;-)
 - added a Makefile for Unix/Linux systems
 - version number jumped from 0.1 to 1.0, because the package
   can now really be considered stable. (Not a single bug
   report. Hmm ...!?)
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/euro

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Oct 15 09:36:27 2001
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:34:57 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New package on CTAN: psgo

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make
its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Thanks for the package,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: psgo
Name: Victor Bos 
Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/psgo
Summary description: Psgo is a package to draw Go diagrams with LaTeX.
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Psgo is a LaTeX package to draw Go diagrams. It is built on top of PSTricks, 
does not need additional fonts, and is easy to install. More information can 
be found on the psgo homepage: 
  http://members.chello.nl/~v.bos01/psgo-frame.html
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Oct 17 15:43:38 2001
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 19:41:31 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: Hitec document class

A new LaTeX document class has been installed on tug.ctan.org.  It
should make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or
two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Hitec document class
Name: Eli Billauer
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/hitec
Summary description: Document class for hi-tec technical papers
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A new document class, very different from common LaTeX classes, is now 
available. By switching class from "article" to "hitec", your paper 
takes the form of a common technical document in the hi-tec industry.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct 18 04:32:23 2001
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:29:31 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload underscore.sty 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I've just uploaded a revised underscore.sty to CTAN-UK, for
> macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/underscore.sty
> 
> Changes from previous:  
>   A [nohyphen] option to suppress hyphens at line-breaks after _
>   Compatibility with Babel's active characters

i've installed the file as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct 18 06:41:42 2001
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:39:38 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: frenchle V5,03 update 

i'm announcing this even though my mail to bernard gaulle bounces, so
i can't confirm he wanted announcement...

Bernard GAULLE (CNRS/IDRIS - France) writes:

>   I've upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming the file
> french.tar.gz which is the last update for the LPPL
> part of language/french.
>   This update gives a better support for hypertext
> documents using hyperref and/or pdfscreen with pdflatex.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct 22 05:02:39 2001
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:59:11 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Gerd Neugebauer <gene@gerd-neugebauer.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Submission: dtk.cls

On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Gerd Neugebauer wrote:

> I have uploaded dtk-1.6.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
> This file replaces tex-archive/usergrps/dante/dtk/dtk_1_3.zip and the
> files in the subdirectory unpacked.
> The files are distributed under the GPL.
> The following text is a part of the ReadMe file:
>
>
>
> 		 dtk: A Document Class and Style for
> 		      ``Die TeXnische Komoedie''
>
> 			      written by
> 			   Gerd Neugebauer
> 		       gene@gerd-neugebauer.de
>
>
> dtk is a document  class and style file  which has been written  to be
> used for  the communications of  the German  speaking  TeX users group
> Dante e.V.: ``Die TeXnische Komoedie''.

Thanks for the update. As you requested, I installed the files under

  usergrps/dante/dtk

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct 22 08:37:08 2001
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:34:54 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Basil K. Malyshev <malyshev@mx.ihep.su>
Cc: CTAN-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload -- BaKoMa TeX EC/TC, LH Type 1 fonts

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma/images directory
> update for font packages comming with BaKoMa TeX.
>
> Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
>
> General reason is in changing license for EC/TC and LH font
> in ATM Compatible Type 1 font format comming with BaKoMa TeX.
>
> According to new license EC/TC and LH fonts are free for registered
> users of BaKoMa TeX 4 and later.

Thanks for the updates, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct 22 09:05:17 2001
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:03:10 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Subject: Recent CTAN-ANN@LISTSERV messages

Please ignore ALL messages about

  CTAN-ANN@listserv...

I don't know why these messages appear (and I don't care). The list is now
a majordomo mailing list hosted at dante.de.

Do not send any messages to me nor to the listserv.

Rainer Sch�pf



From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct 22 10:06:21 2001
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:04:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Nikola Jaksic <nikola.jaksic@fs.uni-lj.si>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Nikola Jaksic wrote:

> I uploaded a new program - eps2pdf - into incoming/eps2pdf directory.
>
> This application is similar to epstopdf, but (?much?) better and friendlier!
>
>
> *********************************
> Read me file of the eps2pdf
>
> Name:      eps2pdf
> Author:    Nikola Jaksic (in LaTeX code: Nikola Jak\v{s}i\'{c})
> E-mail:    nikola.jaksic@fs.uni-lj.si
> Purpose:   It converts EPS file(s) to PDF file(s)
> Version:   3.0.2.10
> OS:        Win32
> Home page: http://www.fs.uni-lj.si/ladisk/
> CTAN:      /tex-archive/support/eps2pdf
> License:   Free - Public Domain
> Manual:    eps2pdf.pdf
> Needs:     GhostScript
>
>
>
> The eps2pdf:
>
>  * is GUI application that calls GhostScript!
>  * makes everything 'clickable'!
>  * enables you to search for eps files and add them into the list!
>  * enables you to select directory and add all eps files into the list!
>  * enables you to edit the list of eps files prior conversion!
>  * enables you to convert all files in the list!
>  * alerts you if conversion failed!
>  * doesn't need GhostScript exe file in the PATH variable!
>  * can search for GhostScript exe file!
>  * can handle long filenames with spaces!
>  * enables you to edit and store configuration, see the manual!
>  * code is available, if requested!

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as requested, in

  support/eps2pdf

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct 22 10:07:23 2001
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:05:39 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload: ttf2tex 0.3.1

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Philipp Lehman wrote:

> node:        ftp.dante.de
> directory:   /incoming/ttf2tex
> destination: /tex-archive/support/ttf2tex
> license:     gpl
>
> I've put a new release of ttf2tex into /incoming/ttf2tex on
> ftp.dante.de. Please remove the contents of support/ttf2tex and
> replace them with the uploaded files. Thank you very much.
>
> From the README:
>
> ttf2tex is a Bash script which will create all files neccessary
> to use TrueType fonts with teTeX from a set of *.ttf files. It
> will sort them, build the map files required by ttf2pk and
> pdftex, and optionally install them. It supports small caps and
> slanted shapes. ttf2tex is for UNIX/Linux systems with teTeX
> and certain FreeType support binaries.
>
> Changes:
>
> 2001-10-15      v0.3.1
>   * mark files and map entries created by ttf2tex
>   * bug fixes
>   * updated manual
>
> 2001-10-08      v0.3
>   * support for TS1 encoding
>   * support for user-defined small caps
>   * support for user-defined slanted shapes
>   * revised command line switches
>   * updated manual
>
> 2001-03-09      v0.2
>   * support for various weights
>   * one pdftex map file for each font family
>   * improved feedback
>   * updated manual
>
> 2000-10-25      v0.1
>   * initial release

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Oct 23 10:59:37 2001
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:54:52 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Basil K. Malyshev <malyshev@mx.ihep.su>
Cc: CTAN-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa teX 4.01, EC/TC, LH fonts

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

> I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
> update for BaKoMa TeX and font packages comming with BaKoMa TeX.
>
> Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
>
> Update includes:
>    1. Patch 4.01 which fixes several bugs in BaKoMa TeX kernel.
>    2. EC/TC and LH fonts in ATM Compatible Type 1 font format.
>       Now, the fonts are free for registered users of BaKoMa TeX 4 and later.
>    3. Updated virtual fonts  CZ for CMCYR fonts.
>    4. PSCyr font package.
>
> Bye.
> Basil K. Malyshev
> 23-Oct-2001

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

> PS: Previous update (22-Oct-2001) of font  packages was failed:
>      a) packages was removed from incoming directory
>      b) announce was sent to CTAN-ANN list
>      c) However, they was not updated in CTAN directory.

Sorry for that, I hadn't realized my mistake.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Wed Oct 24 09:14:43 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:13:08 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- BibTool 2.45

----- Forwarded message from Gerd Neugebauer -----
Hi, I have uploaded Bibtool-2.45.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
It replaces tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/BibTool-2.44.tar.gz
and is distributed unnder the GPL.

The following text is an excerpt from the Changes and the ReadMe files:


- Version 2.45

Resource  suppress.initial.newline introduced  to  suppress the  empty
line at the beginning of the output file

Bugfix:  Some  C comilers  don't  like  the  initialization of  static
variables with  stderr. The  code has been  moved to  a initialization
routine.

Bugfix:  -R  disables  the reading  of  the  resource  at the  end  of
processing of commandline arguments.

Bugfix:  Parsing of select arguments with backslashes were not treated
correctly.

Minor documentation bugs fixed.

^Q

======================================================================

	######            ############
	#######           ############
	##    ##               ##
	##    ##  ##  #####    ##    ####      ####    ##
	#######   ##  ######   ##   ######    ######   ##
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	#######   ##  ######   ##   ######    ######   #######
	######    ##  #####    ##    ####      ####    #######

======================================================================

	  BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases

  
BibTeX provides    an easy to  use means   to integrate  citations and
bibliographies into LaTeX documents.  But the user  is left alone with
the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to
fill this gap.  BibTool allows the  manipulation of BibTeX files which
goes  beyond the possibilities --- and intentions  --- of BibTeX.  The
possibilities of BibTool include

* Pretty-printing BibTeX data bases adjustable by lots of parameters.

* Syntactic checks with error recovery superior to BibTeX and helpful 
  error messages.

* Semantic checks can be specified by the user.

* Sorting  and  merging of  BibTeX  data  bases according   to a  free
  definable sort key.

* Generation  of uniform reference keys  according to predefined rules
  or according to an own specification.

* Selecting references  used in  one  publication which are found   by
  analyzing an .aux file.

* Selecting references by a set of criteria (regular expressions).

* Controlled rewriting    of fields utilizing  regular expressions  to
  specify the rewriting rules.

* Macro  (String)  expansion to  eliminate the  need  of  extra string
  definitions.

* Collecting statistics about one or more BibTeX data bases.


BibTool  contains a  documentation written  in  LaTeX of  more than 60
pages (and still growing).

BibTool is written  in C and  has  been compiled on  various operating
systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOG machines.  It is distributed in
source code.   No compiled  versions  are  available from  the  author
(Useless to ask!).

BibTool can be obtained from the CTAN archives:

* ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool
* ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool
* ctan.tug.org:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool

Get  the  file BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz  where  x.xx is the version number.
Unpack it with the command (on UN*X)

	gunzip < BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

Alternatively get the file  BibTool-x.xx.zip where x.xx is the version
number.  Unpack it with the command

	unzip BibTool-x.xx.zip

It will create  a  directory  named  BibTool-x.xx which contains   the
installation instructions in the file INSTALL.


----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/BibTool-2.45.tar.gz
and removed the old version BibTool-2.44.tar.gz

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Oct 24 09:19:44 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:19:11 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- preview-latex version 0.5.8

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----
I have uploaded a new release of the preview-latex package, as a file
preview-latex-0.5.8.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.  It should be installed as
previously, as one archive file in CTAN:support/preview-latex, and the
README file should be unpacked into that directory.

License is GPL.

Release focus are user interface additions and skeletons for XEmacs
support (not yet working, volunteers welcome).

Here is an excerpt from the README:

Purpose of the package is to embed LaTeX environments such as display
math or figures into the source buffers.  By mouse-clicking, you can
open the original text.  After editing, another click will just run
the region in question through LaTeX and redisplay the new results.

Thr project is just starting.  Current state of affairs: you need to
get access to a version of Emacs 21.  The public release 21.1 should
be ok for starters.  Pretest versions before that have problems.

You also need AucTeX installed and working, and probably a fairly
recent version of GhostScript.  At the current point of time, XEmacs
is not supported.  Work is underway to change that in future versions,
contributions would be welcome.

Offers to support further development will be appreciated.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version in the directory
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex as suggested and removed the
old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Oct 25 10:56:26 2001
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 14:40:26 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: four new CTAN packages, for the tipa fonts

Four new packages have been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
their way to mirrors in the next few days.

The four separate descriptions are below.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

== Package: cipa =======================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Concrete TIPA 
Name: Berthold Crysmann
Location on CTAN: fonts/tipa/contrib/cipa
Summary description: Concrete parameters for TIPA
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The package provides mf parameter files to generate 
a Concrete version of the tipa IPA fonts, together with 
LaTeX .fd for the new font family, and type1 outlines 
generated from the .mf source via TeXtrace. 

The parameters are taken from Knuth's original Concrete 
fonts and combined with a few values specific to the TIPA fonts. 

You need the tipa sources (CTAN:fonts/tipa) to generate .pk files. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------


== Package: pipa =======================================================

Name of contribution: Palatino TIPA
Name: Berthold Crysmann 
Location on CTAN: fonts/tipa/contrib/pipa/
Summary description: Palatino-compatible parameters for TIPA
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The package provides mf parameter files to generate 
a version of the tipa IPA fonts that should combine 
a bit better with Palatino-type fonts. Included are 
tfm's and a LaTeX .fd for the new font family, and 
type1 outlines generated from the .mf source via TeXtrace. 

You need the tipa sources (CTAN:fonts/tipa) to generate .pk files. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------


== Package: bipa =======================================================
Name of contribution: CM Bright TIPA 
Name: Berthold Crysmann
Location on CTAN: fonts/tipa/contrib/biba
Summary description: CM Bright parameters for TIPA
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The package provides mf parameter files to generate 
a CM Bright version of the tipa IPA fonts, together with 
tfm's and a LaTeX .fd for the new font family, and type1 
outlines generated from the .mf source via TeXtrace. 

The parameters are taken from Walter Schmidt's original 
CM Bright fonts and combined with a few values specific 
to the TIPA fonts. 

You need the tipa sources (CTAN:fonts/tipa) to generate .pk files. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------


== Package: tipa =======================================================
Name of contribution: TIPA type1 fonts
Name: Berthold Crysmann
Location on CTAN: fonts/tipa/contrib/tipa
Summary description: Type1 version of TIPA fonts
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The package provides unhinted type1 outlines of the 
CM-compatible tipa IPA. The type1 fonts were converted
using TeXtrace 0.46. 

----------------------------------------------------------------------



From zierke@dante.de Sun Oct 28 10:01:12 2001
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 15:59:23 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- MonTeX Implementation Level IV

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: MonTeX Implementation Level IV
Name and email: Dr. Oliver Corff
Suggested location on CTAN: language/mongolian/montexiv
Summary description: Preview of Latest MonTeX
License type: Other

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The latest version of MonTeX is finally available for preview. Implementation Level IV offers vertical texts
in Mongolian and Manju, intermixed with Latin texts.
Requires eLaTeX for proper operation.

This is a preview! A fully documented and bug-fixed production version will follow soon.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/language/mongolian/montexiv
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct 30 15:03:36 2001
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:10:51 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- verse package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded verse.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please use this
> to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/verse subdirectory.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     verse provides some aids for typesetting simple verse (poems).
> 
> Changes in v1.2
> o Vertical spacing matches the original verse environment

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct 30 13:25:58 2001
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:43:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: belleek fonts on ctan

I have installed Richard Kinch's belleek font set on CTAN at
fonts/belleek (retrieve belleek.zip).

from the README:

  These are the Belleek fonts described in my paper at TUG 98, the 1998 annual
  meeting of the TeX Users Group.  They are drop-in replacements for the
  proprietary fonts required by the LaTeX mathtime style, where the "dropping
  in" process is simply to change the .fd files calling for specific fonts to
  reflect the font names starting with "bl".
  
  Notwithstanding any copyright notices in the files, these fonts have been
  contributed to the public domain in their Type 1 (.pfb) and TrueType (.ttf)
  forms:
  
      blex
      blsy
      rblmi

these fonts have been available via http://truetex.com for a long
time; they have recently been the subject of some discussion in
comp.text.tex and elsewhere, and i (and Richard) felt it appropriate
to make them more readily accessible to the world.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Oct 30 11:10:50 2001
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:46:25 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- MonTeX Implementation Level IV, 04.083

A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20011030.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: MonTeX Implementation Level IV, 04.083
Name and email: Dr. Oliver Corff
Suggested location on CTAN: language/mongolian/montexiv
Summary description: Improved Version of MonTeX IV
License type: Other

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Many bugs of Sunday, October 28, release eliminated.
Major new functions include vertical text boxes
(page within page, so to say) for Mongolian and Manju.

Documentation begins to take shape.

If you have MonTeX IV.04.08 already it is sufficient
to exchange texinput/mls.sty and doc/montex.tex against
the latest versions.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Oct 31 03:27:35 2001
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:25:31 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- MathTimePro support package

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file mathtimepro.zip to the /incoming
directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please, create a new directory

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/mathtimepro

and unzip my archive there.

This is the macro package for using Y&Y's new math font set
`MathTimeProfessional' with LaTeX.  

Development of the package was was commissioned by Y&Y, Inc.


thank you very much

Walter Schmidt
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the package in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/mathtimepro/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Nov  2 10:11:29 2001
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:09:53 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN material: LaTeX for Word Processor Users

A new guide _LaTeX for Word Processor Users_ has been installed
on tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring
process in the next day or two.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeX for Word Processor Users
Author's name: Guido Gonzato, Ph. D. 
Location on CTAN: info/latex4wp
Summary description: This is a LaTeX guide specifically designed for word processor users.
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
"LaTeX for Word Processor Users" is a guide that helps converting knowledge 
and techniques of word processing into the LaTeX typesetting environment. 
It aims at helping WP users use LaTeX instead.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Nov  3 04:16:23 2001
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 08:09:25 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- printlen package 

Peter Wilson writes: 

>     I have uploaded printlen.sty to the UK incoming directory. Please add
> this to the macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc directory.
> 
>     The package is under the LPPL.
> 
> DESCRIPTION:
> 
>     With the printlen package you can print lengths using any of the LaTeX
> units (i.e., pt, pc, in, mm, cm, bp, dd or cc).

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Nov  5 07:10:26 2001
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:52:08 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload: ttf2tex 0.4 -- TrueType font installer for teTeX

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Philipp Lehman wrote:

> I've put a new release of ttf2tex into /incoming/ttf2tex on
> ftp.dante.de. Please move the files to tex-archive/support/ttf2tex,
> replacing the contents of this directory. Thank you.
>
> >From the README:
>
> ttf2tex is a Bash shell script which will generate all files required
> to use TrueType fonts with teTeX from a set of .ttf files. In short,
> it is designed to do for TrueType fonts what fontinst's \latinfamily
> command does for Type 1 PostScript fonts. ttf2tex is designed for
> Linux/UNIX systems running teTeX.
>
> >From the CHANGELOG:
>
> 2001-11-05      v0.4
>   * revised weight substitution
>   * optional session log
>   * minor fixes and improvements
>   * updated and improved manual
>
> 2001-10-15      v0.3.1
>   * tagged map file entries
>   * bug fixes

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

   support/ttf2tex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Nov  5 10:33:33 2001
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:21:50 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Jiri VERUNEK <verunek@vol.cz>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload - timetable.tex

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Jiri VERUNEK wrote:

> I have uploaded timetable.tex and timetable.tex.sign to ftp.dante.de.
> I suppose that the best location will be in
>   /macros/plain/contrib/timetable
>
> timetable.tex is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence.
>
> timetable.tex is a TeX macro for generating timetables. It uses
> plain format commands. It excels in extremelely high configurability,
> nice appearance and simple input. It supports alternating subjects
> in dependence on odd and even week. Macro has radix sort mechanism
> so the order of subjects in input is irrelevant.
>
> Screenshot is available at http://verunek.oceany.cz.

Thanks a lot for the upload. I installed your files in directory

  macros/plain/contrib/timetable

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Nov  6 06:05:08 2001
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:52:15 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Axel Kielhorn <Axel.NoSpam@gmx.de>
Cc: CTAN-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: ADRconv

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Axel Kielhorn wrote:

> I have uploaded my ADRconv package to ftp.dante.de.
>
> This package converts bibtex databases of adresses to the adress
> format used in scrletter and akletter. It includes a TeX file to
> print the adresses in different layouts.
>
> ATM you can get a normal adress book and a list sorted by birthday.

>
> The package depends on koma-script, plead add a link to koma.script/conrtib.

Thanks for the upload. I installed the package in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/adrconv

with a link to it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script/contrib/adrconv

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Nov  6 06:07:04 2001
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:06:22 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Knut Lickert <knut@lickert.net>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload 'minutes' on dante.de

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Knut Lickert wrote:

> I uploaded the file Minutes.v17.zip on  ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> The file contains an update of the packages minutes and blindtext.
> Included is the (german) documentation in protocol.tex.
>
> Could you be so kind and replace all files in
> CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/minutes
> with the new ones.
> The old files can be deleted.
>
> Some changes:
> - different styles for votes
> - more flexibility in changes the look of minutes
> - corrected some bugs

Thank you for the update, I installed it as requested in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/minutes

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Nov  6 06:03:23 2001
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:08:01 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Dr. Oliver Corff <corff@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: Xewtee Dorwoljin for LaTeX

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 Oliver Corff wrote:

> Name of contribution: Xewtee Dorwoljin for LaTeX
> Suggested location on CTAN: language/mongolian/mxd
> Summary description: Xewtee Dorwoljin is one the scripts developed in the 17th century in Mongolia.
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Xewtee Dorwoljin is an old Mongolian script conceived in
> the 17th century. It shows strong Tibetan influence and can be rightfully considered as yet another uniquely Mongolian
> approach to define a suitable writing system that serves
> both worldly and clergical needs.
>
> Today, it is limited in usage to religious inscriptions.
>
> Please note that the present release is strongly alpha;
> the encoding and input method are not frozen yet.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thank you for the upload, I installed it in

   language/mongolian/mxd

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov  7 13:32:21 2001
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 17:27:31 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Martyn.Johnson@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: New version of UK FAQ

i've installed a new version of the uk faq on ctan and on
http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq

the new version features:

  detailed revision of several answers
  rearrangement of answers to make a more logical structure
  a small number of new answers (including "reading (la)tex files", to
    answer the question so many people who've been lumbered with
    something ask...)
  various changes to the web conversion system to make its management
    more robust

the change that prompted me to take the plunge (i've been working on
the new version for some time) was correcting the links to acquire
miktex.  i would welcome comments on what i've written (i install
miktex myself, from time to time, but i know there are greater miktex
experts out there...).

note that the question numbers have changed (due to the
rearrangement).  yet again, you see the advantage of the "logical"
addresses at the bottom of the web text of each answer in preference
to the answer number.  the answer mentioned above, for example, has
logical address http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=readtex

robin fairbairns

From zierke@dante.de Thu Nov  8 07:10:02 2001
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:32:09 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX 4.05

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 4.05 and macro packages comming with BaKoMa TeX.

Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

Update includes:

1. Support for `\Acrobatmenu' command of HyperRef package was added.
   This feature is used by such macro packages as pdfscreen, pdfslide, etc.
2. LaTeX 2e module was updated for:
     Last recent version of LaTeX base (issue 14) and other packages.
     Included almost all packages from `CTAN:macros/latex/contrib'.
3. Extended limits for some arrays of TeX processor.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
versions in CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Nov  8 09:24:07 2001
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 14:23:48 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- jkthesis

----- Forwarded message from Jochen K�pper -----
   + what you've uploaded

jkthesis.tar.gz

   + which CTAN node you've uploaded to

ftp.dante.de/incoming

   + where you want the files to go

Replacing everything in 
  ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jkthesis/

   + what licensing conditions you apply to your software

LPPL

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

,----[README.jkthesis]
| Just another LaTeX document class for formatting your thesis.
| 
| Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Jochen K�pper
| 
| See the TeX-documentation for more details --- I am sorry that the
| docs currently are German only, but this was needed for our
| school. When I have some time (not a resonable assumption) I will
| write an English manual as well (volunteers are wellcome).
| 
| Please send bug-reports, suggestions, patches to jochen@jochen-kuepper.de.
| 
| The most recent stable version of this class can be obtained from 
|   CTAN(dante.ctan.org):macros/latex/contrib/supported/jkthesis/
| 
| Jochen
| 
| PS: Feel free to change this class to your needs/feelings.
|     Please do not distribute your changed version as jkthesis, but do send me 
|     your changes, so I can consider to incorporate them into jkthesis.
| 
| PPS: You can look at one thesis formatted using this class at
|     http://www.ulb.uni-duesseldorf.de/diss/mathnat/2000/kuepper.pdf
`----
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jkthesis/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Nov  8 11:03:23 2001
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 14:46:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: announcing French Pro V5.03 

Bernard Gaulle writes:

>   I have upload the latest update of French Pro
> in the incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk as file
> french.tar.gz; this file when expanded provides a
> a tree named "french" which needs to be renamed "pro"
> in order to replace nonfree/languages/french/pro
> 
> The files  FrenchPourMac.bin, FrenchPourMac.hqx and
> FrenchPourWin.zip have just to be moved to 
> nonfree/languages/french
> 
> This update is a big enhancement in the field of
> hypertext and pdf documents. Automatic installation
> of the complete stuff is available for Windows and
> Linux, specially using teTeX or MikTeX.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Nov  8 13:50:25 2001
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 17:31:37 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - pdftex_for_oztex 

Tom Kiffe writes:

> I  have uploaded pdftex_for_oztex.sit.bin to the /incoming directory
> at ftp.tex.ac.uk. This file should be placed in nonfree/systems/mac/pdftex.
> Pdftex for OzTeX is a shareware package and this file updates the pdftex
> programs to the 20010806 source code for pdftex. The programs included in
> this package are modifications of similar programs distributed with CMacTeX.
> They have been adapted to work with an OzTeX installation.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov  9 20:11:14 2001
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 00:06:03 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- tocbibind package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded tocbibind.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please use
> this to replace the current contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocbibind.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The tocbibind package can be used to add the ToC and/or bibliography
> and/or index etc., to the Table of Contents listing.
> 
> Changes in version 1.5b
> o Improved interface for new page styles

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Nov 10 10:07:14 2001
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 14:59:26 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Apostolos Syropoulos <apostolo@ocean1.ee.duth.gr>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: ocherokee package

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:

 >   I have uploaded at ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming the file ocherokee.zip
 > This file contains all the necessary files to typeset Cherokee language
 > text with Lambda. The file contains a PostScript version of the
 > official Cherokee font which is redistributed with permission. The package
 > should be installed under tex/languages/cherokee (the directory does not
 > exist, but I guess you can create it:-)

Thanks for the uplaod, I installed your package in

   langugaes/cherokee/ocherokee

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Nov 10 10:12:44 2001
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 15:01:58 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: H.W. de Wijn <H.W.deWijn@phys.uu.nl>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload of newer version to CTAN

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, H.W. de Wijn wrote:

 > + I have uploaded to CTAN at  dante.ctan.org  the following files:
 >
 >   euro-ce.doc   documentation
 >   eurorm.mf     METAFONT source of the official Euro currency symbol
 >                 and its condensed variants, both filled and in outline
 >   eurobf.mf     METAFONT source of boldface Euro symbols
 >   euroit.mf     METAFONT source of italic Euro symbols
 >   eurosl.mf     METAFONT source of slanted Euro symbols
 >   euromac.mf    macros for generating Euro symbols
 >   cerm.mf       METAFONT source of the CE mark
 >   ceit.mf       METAFONT source of the italic CE mark
 >   cesl.mf       METAFONT source of the slanted CE mark
 >   cemac.mf      macros for generating CE marks
 >   euro-ce.tex   test (to be run with plain TeX)
 >
 >   and have stored them in a directory named  euro-ce.  The total size is
 >   about 16 kB.
 >
 >
 > + The above set of files (v1.3) is to replace the current files (v1.2)
 >   in CTAN's existing directory .../fonts/euro-ce.  Version 1.2 was
 >   submitted by me on 7 Februari 2001.  Version 1.3 dates from shortly
 >   thereafter, but I was slow in submitting it, until prompted by a user.
 >
 >
 > + Purpose of  euro-ce  in abstract form:
 >   (1) METAFONT source of the official Euro currency symbol and several
 >         variants (boldface, italic, slanted, condensed, outline).  The
 >         symbols feature a uniform thickness.
 >   (2) METAFONT source of the CE mark and several variants.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   fonts/euro-ce

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Nov 12 13:38:29 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:30:08 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Manuel Kauers <manuel@kauers.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: gauss

Manuel Kauers uploaded:

> Name of contribution: gauss
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/other/gauss
> Summary description: A package for Typesetting Matrix Operations
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The package defines a new environment gmatrix extending the usual matrix
> mechanisms to also enable typesetting of operations on rows and columns
> of that matrix, i.e. adding the $k$-fold of one row/column to another,
> swaping rows/cols, or multiplying them with a given value.
> The package is quite usefull for typesetting the individual steps of the Gauss algorithm.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the package as suggested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Nov 12 13:41:38 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:32:22 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@astro.uva.nl>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: psfixbb

An update was uploaded to CTAN:

> Name of contribution: psfixbb
> Suggested location on CTAN: support/psfixbb
> Summary description: Sets or fixes the bounding box of Postscript files.
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> psfixbb is a program which sets or fixed the bounding box of a Postscript
> file, using GhostScript, pnmfile and pnmcrop. In contrast to other tools
> with similar purpose (ghostscript, epstools), psfixbb works also when
> the background of the image was painted white by the drawing program.
> The new version deals corrrectly with files which have no showpage command,
> with landscape files and with files produced on a Mac.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Nov 12 15:39:27 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:37:57 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: PSNFSS support for EM fonts

A new package of material has been installed on tug.ctan.org

  These are the LaTeX PSNFSS support files for the
  "European Modern" (EM) fonts. Details in em.txt

by the author

   Berthold Horn

in the location

    macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/em/
  
and should make its way through the mirroring process in the
next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From zierke@dante.de Tue Nov 13 04:41:55 2001
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:32:18 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- preview-latex-0.5.8.2.tar.gz

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----
I have uploaded preview-latex-0.5.8.2.tar.gz to the incoming
directory of ftp.dante.de.  Its license is the GPL, and I would
recommend to install it in the following way:

Put the packed archive under
support/preview-latex/
but unpack the
README to support/preview-latex
and
README-preview and preview.dtx to macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/

The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a
standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX
source into separate pages of a DVI file.

Here are the release notes:

Release notes for version 0.5.8.2 of the preview-latex package:

preview-latex is a system for displaying inline images of selected
parts of a file in Emacs source buffers.  It is released under the GNU
Public License (GPL).  At the current point of time, GNU Emacs-21.1,
Auc-TeX, a working LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required.
XEmacs support is not yet operative, and contributions would be
welcome.  Due to missing image support of Emacs-21.1 under Microsoft
Windows, this platform is not usable at the current point of time,
either.

Release focus are mostly user interface improvements.  Notable are
changes in the build process, changes in cursor display handling,
preservation of indentation of previews, improvements in process
handling, better configurability.

User feedback about errors and suggested feature improvements is
welcome and heeded.  The home page is
<URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project
page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at
<URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/ replacing the old one
and installed the preview LaTeX package in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Nov 13 14:09:20 2001
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 19:07:21 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: usergroup information

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Wybo Dekker wrote:

 > - I have uploaded usergrps.zip
 > - to ftp.dante.de/incoming
 > - I propose this to be unzipped in usergrps
 >   (thus generating usergrps/usergrps/) and to remove the currently
 >   present file USERGRPS.TXT
 > - license: pd
 > - summary:
 >   usergrps/usergrps contains html pages for each known usergroup.
 >   I made this because USERGRPS.TXT is incomplete, outdated and
 >   unstructured. The same information is present on my website
 >   at www.servalys.nl/lug. wwww.tug.org contains a link to it.

Thanks a lot for the upload. I installed this already a few days ago, but
somehow forgot to announce it. The html pages for the various usergroups
are in CTAN subdirectory

  usergrps/usergrps

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Nov 15 12:43:31 2001
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:35:54 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: minor update of uk tex faq

i've just installed another minor update of the uk faq on ctan
(help/uk-tex-faq) and on the faq web site (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq)

the changes are mostly small: a couple of corrected typos, a corrected
address for the omega mailing list.  the one substantial item is the
first stab at listing macos x tex support (text thanks to norman gray,
who actually _uses_ a mac...)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Nov 16 10:09:59 2001
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:58:57 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Carsten Schurig <Carsten.Schurig@gmx.net>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload of  pdfcprot-2001-11-15.tar.gz

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Carsten Schurig wrote:

> I just uploaded the file  pdfcprot-2001-11-15.tar.gz to the incoming
> directory of dante.ctan.org.
>
> This archive should contain the following files:
>  -rw-r--r-- cs/users        266 2001-11-15 15:18:02 00CONTEN
>  -rw-r--r-- cs/users         41 2001-11-15 15:18:02 00README
>  -rw-r--r-- cs/users       2977 2001-11-15 13:18:39 README.txt
>  -rw-r--r-- cs/users      14439 2001-11-15 13:41:40 LEGAL.txt
>  -rw-r--r-- cs/users       4834 2001-11-15 13:19:25 INSTALL.txt
>  -rw-r--r-- cs/users      74799 2001-11-15 15:10:37 pdfcprot.dtx
>  -rw-r--r-- cs/users       5520 2001-11-15 14:56:36 pdfcprot.ins
>  -rw-r--r-- cs/users       7672 2001-11-15 15:17:13 Makefile.un
>
> This is a package to activate character protruding with pdftex (and has
> some additional features in choosing different adjustments depending on
> the font). It is supposed to be used instead of protcode.tex.
>
> I think these files should go somewhere into the macros/latex tree. I
> don't know on what you decide to put it into the unsupported or the
> supported tree ;-).
>
> The licence of the package is LPPL 1.2 or newer.
>
> Short description (taken from abstract of documentation):
>   This package was written to provide the ``normal''
>   \LaTeXe{} user an easy way to use the special character protruding
>   feature invented by pdftex. Further this package provides an easy
>   interface to adjust the character protrusion for different fonts and
>   choosing the right adjustment automatically depending on the font.

Thanks for the upload. We put packages into macros/latex/contrib/supproted
if the author is willing to accept bug reports and the like.

Therefore I've put the files into

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfcprot


For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Nov 16 10:09:56 2001
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:01:34 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Javier Bezos <jbezos@wanadoo.es>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de, Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- titlesec patch 2

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Javier Bezos wrote:


> I've uploaded to the DANTE server the following file:
>
>   titlesec.new
>
> Please, replace the file with the same name under
>
>   macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec
>
> This patch (level 2) fixes a few bugs:
> - titlesec made compatible with nameref, as suggested by
>   Heiko Oberdiek.
> - sectioning marks inside a group (for example, a bibliography)
>   were sometimes lost.
> - \firsttitlemarks sometimes returned the values corresponding
>   to \nexttoptitlemarks.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Nov 16 10:09:50 2001
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:04:08 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pictex2.sty

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 William Park wrote:

> Name of contribution: pictex2.sty
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/pictex2/
> Summary description: Extension to standard PiCTeX (pictex.sty)
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> It's replacement of my old 'pictex2.sty'.  I updated with new email
> address.  I hope Yahoo doesn't go under, or I'll have to do this again.
> :-)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Name and email: William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>

Thanks for the update, I installed the file.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Mon Nov 19 04:40:18 2001
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:39:47 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- crop.sty

----- Forwarded message from Melchior FRANZ -----
I've just uploaded version 1.6 of `crop.sty' as archive
   >>>> crop.tar.gz <<<<
to
   >>>> ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ <<<<

Please replace the contents of
   >>>> /macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop/ <<<<
by the new files. The package is again licenced under the terms of the
   >>>> LPPL <<<<

The new version now 
===================
 - has a new option for setting the info line font, e.g:
   \crop[font=\small\textsf]

 - automatically uses the currently loaded device dependent graphic[sx]
   driver; that can still be overridden by explicitly asking for a
   specific driver (dvips, pdf(la)tex, vtex currently supported)

 - supports the "(no)graphics" options also for pdftex

 - has a fix for a nasty bug, which disallowed setting custom
   physical paper sizes in the config file
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop
replacing the old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Nov 19 04:43:25 2001
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:53:25 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- newlfm

----- Forwarded message from Paul Thompson -----
I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de an update to my class file newlfm.cls.  It 
is a zip archive newlfm.zip

The package is stored at
macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/newlfm

Here is a brief description of newlfm:

Announcing newlfm.cls 3.2 (NEW Letter Fax Memo)

newlfm integrates the letter class with fancyhdr and geometry to
o automatically make letterhead stationary
o includes support for a database for addresses; instead of putting all
   the information for different letters into different letters, you put
   it in the database, and pull it into the letter with a single command
o includes support for other languages, including pig Latin
o includes a number of excluded article.cls features (table, figure)
o integrates support for memos and faxes within the same package
o full support for positioning of items (moving the date up or down; putting
   the date between from and to blocks; etc.)
o supports mass mailings and form letters easily and simply
o prints addresses on labels.  One Avery label type is set up, while others
   are being added.  Additionally, the envlab package has been integrated into
   newlfm, so that all of the features of envlab are now available in newlfm
o supports 3 different types of letters (standard, business) and includes
   full control for positioning of letter elements
o has a full manual, for ease of use.  The manual has been rewritten and 
reformatted

newlfm.cls is released under the lppl guidelines, or under gpl or under 
lgpl, whichever is LESS RESTRICTIVE
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/newlfm
replacing the old version.
  
Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Nov 19 15:46:33 2001
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 19:30:47 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: SPIE Proceedings

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way through the mirroring system in the next day or two.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: SPIE Proceedings
Author's name: Kenneth M. Hanson
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/spie
Summary description: SPIE Proceedings format
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Files to format manuscripts for the SPIE Proceedings.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 20 18:00:13 2001
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:57:21 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memoir.tar.gz to the UK incoming directory. Please use
> this to replace the current contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     Memoir is a configurable class for typesetting general fiction,
> non-fiction and mathematical books. It encompasses the standard book and
> report classes and can simulate the article class as well as a double spaced
> typewritten manuscript. There is a comprehensive user manual.
> 
>     The class provides a variety of predefined page, chapter and caption
> styles plus easy means of creating new ones. There is a reasonably intuitive
> way of specifying page margins, etc., with an option for printing trimming
> marks. Documents can use 9, 10, 11, 12, or 14pt as the normal font size.
> 
> Changes in version 1.0 (2001/11/17)
> o First production release (after 5 beta releases)
> o Support for tipped in illustrations
> o Fine control over chapter pages
> o Support for continuous page numbering even if switching between numbering
> systems (e.g., roman to arabic)
> o Minor change to *.clo files
> o Extended Part I of the manual, and more examples in Part II

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Nov 21 16:38:29 2001
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 21:20:23 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Claudio Beccari <beccari@polito.it>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload if ithyph.zip

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Claudio Beccari wrote:

 > I just uploaded on ftp.dante.de the file ithyph.zip; it contains updatede
 > versions of ithyph.tex and lahyph.tex, respectively the hyphenation
 > patterns for italian and latin. They should replace the same named files on
 > CTAN.

Thanks for the update. I copied the files ithyph.tex and lahyph.tex into
the directory languages/hyphenation.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Nov 26 10:21:15 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:18:46 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: findhyph

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: findhyph
Author's name: Martin Budaj
Location on CTAN: support/findhyph
Summary description: find all words hyphenated by TeX in a document
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Perl program that finds all words hyphenated by TeX in a document; should 
be TeX-format indenpendent (tested with plain and ConTeXt). Readme file 
included.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Nov 26 12:27:22 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:18:21 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: matthieu@herrb.com
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: new CTAN submission: flshort 3.20

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Matthieu Herrb wrote:

> I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de in /incoming/lshort-french a new version
> of the french translation of "The Not Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e"
> by Tobias Oetiker.
>
> The contents of the directory should replace the content of
> info/lshort/french.
>
> This manual is under GPL.
>
> There are the files that are in the directory:
>
> README
> flshort-3.20.dvi           The DVI file
> flshort-3.20.pdf           A  PDF version, produced by pdflatex
> flshort-3.20.zip           The LaTeX 2e document sources
>
> This was done by me <matthieu.herrb@laas.fr> with the
> help of many fr.comp.text.tex readers.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as you requested, in

  info/lshort/french

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Wed Nov 28 06:48:54 2001
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:32:55 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- anysize

----- Forwarded message from Thomas Esser -----
I just have uploaded anysize.tar.gz to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ .
The content of this archive should go to
  macros/latex/contrib/other
license is "public domain".

Anysize was distributed with teTeX since its first release, but was never
"officially" submitted to CTAN (which I hereby do).

>From the README:
  Anysize is a simple package that can be used to set up the margins of
  a document.

  This package is obsolete. Use the package typearea to define your
  margins typographically correct. Use the package geometry or vmargin
  for everything else.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the file as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/anysize

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Nov 28 10:21:44 2001
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:16:08 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: tug.ctan.org upload: latexmk

A new version of latexmk has been installed on tug.ctan.org
and will make its way through the mirroring process in the
next day or two.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=======================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: latexmk
Author's name: John Collins 
Location on CTAN: support/latexmk
Summary description: Automated running of latex and related programs 
    ("latex make")
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Given the source files for a document, latexmk issues the appropriate 
sequence of commands to generate a .dvi, .ps, .pdf or hardcopy version of 
the document.

An important feature is its "preview continuous mode", where it watches 
all of the source files (primary file and included TeX and graphics files), 
and reruns LaTeX etc whenever a source file has changed.  Thus a previewer 
can have an updated display whenever the source files change.

The current version (3.04) has many improvements over previous versions.  
Apart from bug fixes:

1.  The method for determining how many times to rerun latex is now correct 
in all normal situations.

2.  The determination of the dependencies is greatly improved.

3.  Pdf files can be made.

4.  Improvements to correspond to current versions of LaTeX and associated 
software have been made.

5.  License is GPL (with agreement of previous authors).

Previous version (v. 2) is in a subdirectory.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 30 03:38:44 2001
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 07:23:47 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN UK upload cite.sty etc 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I've uploaded 
> 
> cite.sty  overcite.sty  drftcite.sty
> 
> to tex.ac.uk.  To replace those in macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite/
> 
> Recent revisions fix inter-operability with babel.
> Drftcite.sty has been revised considerably.

i've installed the files.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Nov 30 13:48:30 2001
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:47:09 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: coordsys

An upgrade of the coordsys package has been installed at 
tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring
process in the next day or two.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==============================================================

Name of contribution: coordsys
Author's name: Mogens Lemvig Hansen
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/coordsys
Summary description: Coordinate systems, regular and logarithmic
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The  coordsys  package provides commands for typesetting
number lines (coordinate axes) and coordinate systems 
in the  picture  environment.
The  logsys  package extends the  coordsys  package by
providing logarithmic, semi-logarithmic, and 
double-logarithmic coordinate systems and grids.

This version correct an error in the logarithmic grids 
and improves flexibility.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Dec  3 08:58:48 2001
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 12:13:46 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: parskip.sty update

i have updated macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/parskip.sty

the package provides patches for standard (and some other) classes to
define a typewriter-style paragraph layout with zero paragraph indent
and non-zero paragraph skip.

the new version has patches to deal with adverse interactions with
tables of contents (and the like) -- previously the package added
undesirable extra space in these tables.

Robin Fairbairns

From zierke@dante.de Tue Dec  4 04:15:04 2001
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:11:02 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- bpchem

----- Forwarded message from Bjoern Pedersen -----
  + what you've uploaded
        /incoming/bpchem/bpchem.dtx

  + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
        ftp.dante.de
   + where you want the files to go
        replace the contents of
	macros/latex/contrib/other/bpchem
	with bpchem.dtx
   + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
     below).
        lppl
   + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.

        This package provides som commands and environments, which could
        be useful for chemical typesetting:
        a command to set chemical formulae
        a command to allow breakpoints in multiline chemical names
        a set of commands to enumerate/reference chemical substances

	NEW: now docstrip-documented
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
old version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/bpchem/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Dec  5 13:03:47 2001
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:54:25 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Gianfranco Boggio-Togna <gbt@acm.org>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --  metre  A LaTeX package for classicists

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Gianfranco Boggio-Togna wrote:

> I have uploaded the file `metre10.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> Name of contribution:  metre
> Author:  Gianfranco Boggio-Togna <gbt@acm.org>
> Suggested location:  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/metre
> License:  LaTeX Project Public License
>
> Description:
>
> The package provides classicists with some of the tools that are
> needed for typesetting scholarly publications dealing with Greek and
> Latin texts, with special emphasis on Greek verse.
>
> As the name suggests, the core of the package is a comprehensive set
> of commands for generating metrical schemes and for placing prosodical
> marks on text set in the Latin or the Greek alphabet.
>
> The rest of the package provides a miscellany of commands for symbols
> (most of them not directly related to metre) that are often used in
> critical editions of classical texts.
>
> The package does not require any special font: all symbols are taken
> from the Computer Modern OT1 fonts (included in all distributions of
> TeX) or are generated by means of TeX primitives.
>
> --
>    Gianfranco Boggio-Togna
>    Milano (Italy)

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as suggested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Dec  5 13:03:06 2001
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:55:57 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: "[ISO-8859-1] J�rgen Bausa" <Juergen.Bausa@Online.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: epstopdf

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 J�rgen Bausa wrote:

> Name of contribution: epstopdf
> Suggested location on CTAN: support/epstopdf
> Summary description: converts eps files to encapsulated pdf (for inclusion in pdflatex)
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is version 2.2.20, a bugfix release
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Dec  6 15:37:06 2001
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 19:35:08 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: tug.ctan.org upload: venn

The venn package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should
make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two. 

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=============================================================

The following information was provided.

Name of contribution: venn
Author's name: Jim Hefferon
Location on CTAN: graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/venn
Summary description: Macros for Venn diagrams with MetaPost
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Macros for drawing Venn Diagrams with MetaPost.  

For instance, draw_venn_two(true,false,true,false) will draw
a two-circle Venn diagram with the universal set shaded,
the left circle not shaded, the intersectionwedge shaded,
and the right circle not shaded.   You can draw zero- through 
three-circle diagrams.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Mon Dec 10 04:46:48 2001
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:39:11 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- invoice 0.4

A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20011208.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: invoice 0.4
Name and email: Oliver Corff
Suggested location on CTAN: 
Summary description: invoice 0.4 is an update of invoice 0.3.
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
invoice.sty is a package for writing invoices with many
fees and expenses, possibly in various currencies.

The latest update of invoice has version no. 04.
It supports now four languages: English, German, Dutch
and French.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/invoice

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Dec 10 10:25:27 2001
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:08:17 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: tug.ctan.org upload: mattens

A new package has been installed on the CTAN node tug.ctan.org and
should make its way through the mirroring process in the next few
days.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: mattens
Author's name: Danie Els 
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/mattens
Summary description: Type vector, matrix and tensor symbols.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This file contains LaTeX macros to type vector, matrix and tensor 
symbols in accordance with the Hassenpflug matrix-tensor notation.

An example file and a torture test for different fonts are included.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Dec 10 11:23:01 2001
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:59:21 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new tex faq sources and web version, accompanying package

i've just installed a new version (v2.5.8) of the uk faq on ctan
(help/uk-tex-faq), and on the faq web page (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq).

included is the answer to a question whose absence has been the
subject of a lot of ridicule of the hapless faqer of cambridge:

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=euro

in addition, i've installed a small package of my own, which is
mentioned by a question in the new version of the faq.

this package, macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/bold-extra.sty, makes
nfss tables for using the fonts in fonts/cm/mf-extra/bold (bold cmtt
and cmcsc fonts).

those creating tex distributions are welcome to copies of my
experimental static versions of the faq pages: please contact me
direct.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Dec 11 17:25:10 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 21:23:20 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- layouts package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded layouts.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please
> use it to replace the contents of macros/latex/contrib/supported/layouts.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The layouts package enables the display of various elements of a
> document's layout including: the general page layout; disposition of floats;
> layouts of paragraphs, lists, footnotes, table of contents and sectional
> headings; font boxes. Facilities are provided for a document designer to
> experiment with the layout parameters.
> 
> Changes in version 2.5
> o Cleaner separataion between generic and designed layouts
> o More controls over the appearance of pictures
> o Lengths can be printed in any TeX unit (except scaled point)
> o Minor code fixes

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Dec 11 17:26:11 2001
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 21:27:00 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- printlen package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded printlen.sty to UK /incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/printlen.sty.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> FUNCTION:
> 
>     Print LaTeX lengths in a variety of units.
> 
> Additions in version 1.1
> o Print numbers rounded to nearest integer (courtesy Harald Harders)

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Dec 12 07:16:50 2001
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:53:50 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: "[ISO-8859-1] J�rgen Vollmer" <juergen@informatik-vollmer.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- latex2man version 1.15

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, J�rgen Vollmer wrote:

> I uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file latex2man-1.15.tar.gz.
> Please install it under the support/latex2man directory.
> From the README:
>
> Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a
> format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command.
> Alternatively HTML, TexInfo, or LaTeX code can be produced too.
> Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the conditional text
> feature (for this, LaTeX generation may be used).
>
> There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the Man-page
> and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual translation.
>
> Changes from version 1.14
> 	- added extra stuff in the headline of man pages
> With best regards
>
> Juergen
>
> PS
> License:
>    This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
>    of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
>    archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
>    version 1 of the License, or any later version.

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in

  support/latex2man

as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf



From zierke@dante.de Mon Dec 17 06:23:15 2001
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:08:43 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- new version of TeXmacs

----- Forwarded message from Joris van der Hoeven -----
I just uploaded the new GNU TeXmacs distribution in

         ftp.dante.de/incoming/TeXmacs

The new distribution contains the files

message
TeXmacs-0.3.5.10-1.i386.rpm
TeXmacs-0.3.5.10-1.src.rpm
TeXmacs-0.3.5.10-src.tar.gz
TeXmacs-0.3.5.10-static-gnu-linux.tar.gz

The files should be put into the directory systems/unix/TeXmacs
All existing files in this directory become obsolete.
The file 'message' should be renamed to '.message'.
----- End forwarded message -----

>From the .message file:

                     Welcome to GNU TeXmacs
----------------------------------------------------------------

GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired
by TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents
via a wysiwyg (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) and user friendly interface.
New styles may be created by the user. The program implements high-quality
typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts, which help you to produce
professionally looking documents. 

The high typesetting quality still goes through for automatically
generated formulas, which makes TeXmacs suitable as an interface
for computer algebra systems. TeXmacs also supports the Guile/Scheme
extension language, so that you may customize the interface and
write your own extensions to the editor. 

TeXmacs currently runs on PC's and PPC's under Gnu/linux (a >200MHz
processor and >32Mb of memory are recommended) and on sun computers.
Converters exist for TeX/LaTeX and they are under development for
Html/Mathml/Xml. In the future, TeXmacs is planned to evoluate towards
a complete scientific office suite, with spreadsheet capacities,
a technical drawing editor and a presentation mode. 

Useful links:
  * "http://www.texmacs.org/Download/Install.html":
      downloading + installation instructions
  * "http://www.texmacs.org/Download/Compile.html":
      downloading source code + compilation instructions
  * The TeXmacs home page "http://www.texmacs.org"
  * The GNU home page "http://www.gnu.org"

----------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/unix/TeXmacs/ replacing the old one.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Dec 17 10:36:02 2001
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:55:16 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@ptb.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: keystroke

Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update for the package keystroke.

> Name of contribution: keystroke
> Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/keystroke/
> Summary description: Update of the LaTeX package `keystroke'
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The LaTeX package `keystroke' provides macros for the graphical representation of the keys on a computer keyboard.
>
> The new version has some modifications for the spanish language.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Wed Dec 19 04:48:53 2001
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:39:42 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- LaTeX extensions for NEdit text editor

----- Forwarded message from Joerg Fischer -----
I've uploaded the LaTeX-Pack at ftp.dante.de. It should go to support/.

Shortest description: AUC-TeX for NEdit

License is GPL.

Text for announcement:

The LaTeX-Pack is a package or set of macros, i.e. small
programs, written in the NEdit macro or scripting language.
It will turn NEdit, the Nirvana text editor, into an advanced
LaTeX editor. NEdit version 5.2 or later is required.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for your submission.  I installed it after some discussion in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/NEdit-LaTeX-Extensions/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Dec 19 07:30:06 2001
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:21:10 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: new French stuff 

Bernard Gaulle writes:

>   I've currently upload on ft.tex.ac.uk in "incoming"
> a directory "french" which contains FAQscreen.pdf;
> please install this documentation file in language/french.

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

users of Bernard's "french pro" should be aware that a rearrangement
of its layout on the archive (at nonfree/langauge/french/pro) has
taken place today.  this corrects an earlier error of mine in
installing an upload: ctan is now mirroring the package, so users are
insulated from further errors of a similar sort, on my part.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Dec 20 07:33:14 2001
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:29:30 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- TeXmacs version 0.3.5.11

----- Forwarded message from Joris van der Hoeven -----
I just uploaded the new GNU TeXmacs distribution in
 
          ftp.dante.de/incoming/TeXmacs
 
The new distribution contains the files

TeXmacs-0.3.5.11-1.i386.rpm
TeXmacs-0.3.5.11-1.src.rpm
TeXmacs-0.3.5.11-src.tar.gz
TeXmacs-0.3.5.11-static-gnu-linux.tar.gz
 
The files should be put into the directory systems/unix/TeXmacs
All existing files in this directory become obsolete,
except for the file .message.

-----------------------------------------------------------
Joris van der Hoeven <vdhoeven@texmacs.org>
http://www.texmacs.org: GNU TeXmacs scientific text editor
http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~vdhoeven: personal homepage
-----------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/unix/TeXmacs/ replacing the old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Dec 21 07:19:24 2001
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:14:05 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Javier Bezos <jbezos@wanadoo.es>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - titletoc patch

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Javier Bezos wrote:

> I've uploaded to the DANTE server the following file:
>
>   titletoc.new
>
> which should be added to the files currently under
>
> /macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec
>
> This patch fixes a bug which made the <after> parameter
> in the unstarred version of \titlecontents to be ignored.

Thanks for the upload, I added the new file as you requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Dec 21 07:22:12 2001
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:25:23 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Javier Bezos <jbezos@wanadoo.es>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - gloss 1.5.1

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Javier Bezos wrote:

> I've uploaded to the DANTE server the following files under
> incoming/gloss/:
>  gloss.sty, gloss.tex, glsbase.bib, glsplain.bst, glsshort.bst,
>  readme, sample.bib, sample.tex.
>
> Please, delete the contents of /macros/latex/contrib/
> supported/gloss, and place under it the new files.
>
> This release (1.5.1) fixes a few bugs:
>
> - page was missing when a nocite form was followed by a
>   "normal" form (not a frequent situation, however).
> - chars usually allowed in \cite now are allowed in \gloss
>   as well
> - refpage was no-op with nocite. Now it can be used to
>   refer to the page even if the term in not cited in the
>   text (and since this combination did not make sense
>   formerly, I hope there won't be uncompatibilities).
>
> License is lppl, as before.

Thanks for the update. As you requested, I installed the new files in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/gloss

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Dec 31 16:22:04 2001
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:52:54 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: LaTeX WIDE Uploads 

Yuri V. Lubenets has uploaded a new version of his LaTeX_WIDE
program; he supplies the following details:

  The multifunctional editor LaTeX WIDE for operation with LaTeX (or
  other TeX macropackages) in operating systems Windows 95/98/NT/2000
  is offered to your attention. The program does not introduce any
  changes to the system registry or system files Windows. 

  Some possibilities and features of the program:
       - interface in Delphi style,
       - syntax highlighting,
       - macro language,
       - online help on LaTeX commands,
       - 10 built-in buffers of the text,
       - fast input of templates,
       - possibility of synchronous scrolling of a source file and
         DVI-file in DVIWIN 3.2 (great thank to the author DVIWIN
         Hippocrates Sendoukas for cooperation),
       - direct and inverse searches in the DVI-file,
       - customizations of keyboard, menus and panels,
       - special functions for text manipulation,
       - possibility of operation with rectangular text blocks,
       - setup of the interface
       - and other. 

  The use of the program is based on a principle "AS IS". No warranty
  of any kind is expressed or implied. You use this software at your
  own risk. The author will not be liable for data loss, damages, loss
  of profits or any other kind of loss while using or misusing this
  software.

  Requirement: Pentium 133 MHz (or better), 16 Mb RAM (is recommended
  32 Mb or more), 10 Mb of an available disk space. Version 4.72 or
  later COMCTL32.DLL(Microsoft) is necessary for use of the program in
  Windows 95 without Internet Explorer 4. For spelling the
  availability of the installed Microsoft Word program is
  necessary. By default the program uses a color graphic palette High
  Color (16 bits) or best.

  The unregistered version is distributed freely. You have the right
  to use to it during unlimited time to copy to share with other
  programs in non-commercial objectives. You have not the right to
  decompile, to disassemble, to reconstruct or to change the program
  or its units, to extract resources, including strings, bitmaps,
  icons, dialogs etc. You have not the right to use the program in
  commercial objectives. Full the version of the program is paid. In
  it saving all customizations, list of files etc are realized. The
  unregistered version does not save user's customizations.

  The program was checked under Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000. For want of
  to operation with MS Word versions Office 97 and Office 2000 were
  checked. Thank you for choice of LaTeX WIDE.

  Version 1.2 (December 30 2001)
       - Print and print preview are added.
       - Saving as HTML and RTF are added.
       - Parameters of user commands are added.
       - Scrolling by mouse wheel is added.

  Happy New Year!

  Yuri V. Lubenets
  http://aprlabs.lipetsk48.ru

i've installed the new version at the cambridge ctan to replace the
previous version at nonfree/systems/win32/LaTeX_WIDE

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Jan  2 04:42:33 2002
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 09:10:52 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- jurabib package v0.51n

----- Forwarded message from Jens Berger -----
I've just uploaded the file jurabib-051n.zip to

	ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.

This archive contains an updated version (0.51n) of the jurabib package. 

It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

The following files are included:

	jurabib.ins
	jurabib.dtx
	jbgerdoc.tex (German documentation)
	jbendoc.tex  (English documentation)
        changes.txt

Changes since 0.5e:

    Bugfix regarding `bibformat=ibidemalt' and usage of \typearea from
         the KOMA-bundle after loading jurabib.sty, contributed by
         Tilman Finke.
    more spaces added for better line breaking, regarding the well
         known BibTeX bug.
    First trial for spanish support. Special thanks to Pablo Rodriguez
         for first translation. Bug reports welcome.
    new option `superscriptedition=year' places the superscripted edition
         number before the year. `superscriptedition=bib' is also available
         with `superscriptedition=address'. These options are working only
         for jurabib.bst and jureco.bst! There are no plans to implement
         them for jox.bst or jchic.bst.
    juratitle field in jurabib.bst was missing, reintroduced; new options
         `superscriptedition=multiple' (superscripted edition number instead of
         title for same work with different edition numbers) and
         `superscriptedition=kerning' (replaces \jbsseditionkerned) introduced.
    \bibpagename and \bibpagesname introduced for separate formatting of 
	 pages in the bibliography.
    year after label (`}% <year>') removed in jurabib.bst.
    new field `updated' for @commented introduced, `suggested' by
         Holger Pollmann in dctt.
    @phdthesis function rewritten. `format.mthesis' and `format.juradiss.thesis'
         removed. Now only one generic function `format.thesis'.
         Bug reported by Marco Kuhlmann.
    German documentation extracted to jbgerdoc.tex. `latex jurabib.dtx'
         will no longer produce any documentation.
    TEXTEDITION FIELD REMOVED, same behavior is available by enclosing the
         edition in braces.
    new option `hypercite=false' for disabling automated hyperlinks when
         using hyperref package, suggested by Tilman Finke.
    mixed series and title in FUNCTION {format.btitle.vol} in jurabib.bst
         and jureco.bst corrected.
    \nopage and \pageadd can be used in pages field, Bug reported by
         S�nke Schaal (<s.schaal@freenet.de>), solution suggested by
         Stefan Ulrich.
    changed version numbering.
    Ibidem/Idem-bugfix. Bug reported by S�nke Schaal (<s.schaal@freenet.de>)
         If German, `ibidem' and `idem' are used together, it appears
         `A.a.O.Ders.' because of ``hardcoded'' gender macros for German in
         dejbbib.ldf.
    bugfix regarding `superscriptedition=bib', the normal edition number
         was not suppressed for the first entry in the bibliography,
         bug reported by Andrea Heilmann (<andrea.heilmann@t-online.de>).
    jurabib.sty now removes `%' at the line end similar to hyperref.sty,
         (special thanks to Stefan Ulrich!).
    new option `citetoend' introduced, converts \cite's (= non-footcite's)
         into endnotes (endnotes.sty has to be loaded).
    check for chapter numbers > 1 removed (options `citefull=chapter' and
         `opcit=chapter').
    wrong warnings about ambiguous citations while using `authorformat=year'
         removed (bug reported by Anneke Emse).
    french and dutch translations for translator stuff inserted,
         contributed by H�l�ne Fernandez (french) and Maarten Wisse (dutch).
    once again \biburlfont command rewritten, hyperlinks were missing.
    new url-interface, contributed by Stefan Ulrich, solves problems
         with url.sty and hyperref.sty.
   `authorformat=indexed' is working for \nobibliography now
        (suggested by Thomas Rahlf). Thanks to Stefan Ulrich.
    ibidem options are able to make a difference between same/different
         pages for subsequent citations by \samepageibidemname or
         \samepageibidemmidname and \diffpageibidemname or \diffpageibidemmidname.
    endnotes-support: non-\footcite-commands are no longer automatically
         converted into endnotes.
    \formatarticlepages[<separator>]{<page left delim>}{<page right delim>}
         changed to
         \formatpages[<separator>]{<typelist>}{<page left delim>}{<page right delim>}
         The <typelist> allows you to specify any publication type for which you want 
	 to print out a starting page.
    new command \jbdotafterendnote places dot after endnote, analogous
         \jbdotafterbibentry.
    improved endotes.sty support -- emulated natbib cite commands are translated 
	 into endnotes too.
    new option `ibidem=name&title&auto' (suggested by Wolfgang Lange <wfl@ipg.mpg.de>).
    built-in footmisc's `multiple'-option (comma between subsequent \footnotes)
         (suggested by Wolfgang Lange <wfl@ipg.mpg.de>).
   `format.title' replaced by `format.artperiodincoll.title' for @inproceedings
         (suggested by Olaf Meltzer).
    special macros for gender-dependent i(bi)dem introduced -- separately for
         bibliography (long) and citations (shorter).
    some internal corrections and bug fixes. (regarding the footnote period problem).
    a set of natbib emulating citation commands (without starred variants and
         not so nifty) introduced.
    \par's are possible inside the annote field.
    `opcit' no longer switches `authorformat=year' automatically, the
         shorttitle will be used now to avoid ambiguous citations.
    `gender'-field for German users of the `idem' option added. This field
         can be used with six possible values:`sf'= singular female,
         `pf'= plural male, `sm'=singular male,`pf'=plural male,
         `sn'= singular neutrum and `pn'=plural neutrum.
     new command \citetitleonly{<key>} added, this command doesn't print the
         author.
     undocumented option `footnotes=marginal' is working now also when using 
	 endnotes.sty.
    `idem' is working properly for multiple keys (e.g. \footcite{<key1>,>key2>} will
         produce `Author, title; idem, other title').
    `annote' option added. Enables output of the annote field, For commented 
	 bibliographies.
     `et al.'-generating mechanism for full names (non-labels) in jurabib.bst
         and jureco.bst is now the same as for the label (more than three
         authors/editors ==> et al.)
     jurabib should work well now with endnotes.sty. You can use all cite
         commands like before, the simple loading of endnotes.sty will print
         all your citations as endnotes (well, you have to place \theendnotes
         appropriate yourself).
     Any `howcited'-option can be used with any other (except of `howcited=all').
         `howcited=compare' places the remark only, if the shorttitle was used
         at least one time.
     Missing documentation of some v0.5e features (new entry fields) added.
     no longer LaTeX error message, if `authorformat=indexed' is used
         without using makeidx.sty. You will get a warning from jurabib instead.
     babel option `ngerman' is handled correct now (Thanks to Robert Schlicht).
     `idem' is working now inside a bibliographic entry (i. e. if the editor
         `edited a collection of articles and he himself wrote an article in it').
     small bug in definition of \bibimfont and \edfont removed.


  New BibTeX-style for the humanities:

      jox.bst (beta stage)

      This style replaces jhuman.bst and does oxford like formatting. It is
      available only (as long as it is in beta stage) at

           http://www.jurabib.org


Please replace the current files in the directory
CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib/

And please send an announcement to ctt.

Thanks

Jens Berger
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib
replacing the old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Jan  3 04:28:57 2002
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 08:57:02 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Scientific Viewer 4.00

----- Forwarded message from George Pearson <George.Pearson@mackichan.com> -----
   + what you've uploaded

In the directory /incoming/sviewer400 the files svreadme.txt and
sviewer400.exe

   + which CTAN node you've uploaded to

ftp.dante.de

   + where you want the files to go

Replace the existing files in
tex-archive/systems/win32/scientificviewer/

   + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
     below).

No change (nosource as I recall).

   + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
   (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy
processing)

>From the readme:

Scientific Viewer 4.0 is a free program for reading and printing (read- 
only) documents created with Scientific Notebook, Scientific Word or 
Scientific WorkPlace by MacKichan Software, Inc.  Scientific Viewer 
can also be used to view many native LaTeX documents. 
Mathematics is difficult to display with ordinary browsers.  
Scientific Viewer is a version of Scientific Notebook which does not 
allow saving documents, but does allow printing of read-only 
documents. It is free and may be distributed freely. It can also be 
downloaded from our web site.
Scientific Viewer has three advantages over other browsers: 
  - There is no limit to the mathematics you can display.
  - The files will be small and will download quickly.
  - Users can print high quality documents from your web site.

Thanks.

George Pearson
MacKichan Software, Inc. 
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload, I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/win32/scientificviewer/ as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Fri Jan  4 06:09:21 2002
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:56:51 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- soul.sty

----- Forwarded message from Melchior Franz -----
I've just uploaded version 2.0 of `soul.sty' as archive
   >>>> soul.tar.gz <<<<
to
   >>>> ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ <<<<

Please replace the contents of
   >>>> /macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul/ <<<<
by the new files. The package is again licenced under the terms of the
   >>>> LPPL <<<<

The new version is an almost complete rewrite
=============================================

- it is much more robust now
- allows natural input syntax for accents, dashes etc.
- allows font switching commands in the argument
- has all(?) bugs from soul 1.3 fixed
- provides some additional features: highlighting, \sloppyword
- has an improved documentation
- has a much improved programming interface
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul/
replacing the old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Fri Jan  4 06:06:02 2002
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:09:35 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- LaTeX WIDE

----- Forwarded message from "Yuri V. Lubenets" -----
I have uploaded LaTeX_WIDE.zip on dante.de. This is new version 1.3. Some
installation errors in Windows 9x are corrected.

Announce

=================cut==================
Yuri V. Lubenets has uploaded a new version 1.3 of his LaTeX_WIDE
program; he supplies the following details:

  The multifunctional editor LaTeX WIDE for operation with LaTeX (or
  other TeX macropackages) in operating systems Windows 95/98/NT/2000
  is offered to your attention. The program does not introduce any
  changes to the system registry or system files Windows.

  Some possibilities and features of the program:
       - interface in Delphi style,
       - syntax highlighting,
       - macro language,
       - online help on LaTeX commands,
       - 10 built-in buffers of the text,
       - fast input of templates,
       - possibility of synchronous scrolling of a source file and
         DVI-file in DVIWIN 3.2 (great thank to the author DVIWIN
         Hippocrates Sendoukas for cooperation),
       - direct and inverse searches in the DVI-file,
       - customizations of keyboard, menus and panels,
       - special functions for text manipulation,
       - possibility of operation with rectangular text blocks,
       - setup of the interface
       - and other.

  The use of the program is based on a principle "AS IS". No warranty
  of any kind is expressed or implied. You use this software at your
  own risk. The author will not be liable for data loss, damages, loss
  of profits or any other kind of loss while using or misusing this
  software.

  Requirement: Pentium 133 MHz (or better), 16 Mb RAM (is recommended
  32 Mb or more), 10 Mb of an available disk space. Version 4.72 or
  later COMCTL32.DLL(Microsoft) is necessary for use of the program in
  Windows 95 without Internet Explorer 4. For spelling the
  availability of the installed Microsoft Word program is
  necessary. By default the program uses a color graphic palette High
  Color (16 bits) or best.

  The unregistered version is distributed freely. You have the right
  to use to it during unlimited time to copy to share with other
  programs in non-commercial objectives. You have not the right to
  decompile, to disassemble, to reconstruct or to change the program
  or its units, to extract resources, including strings, bitmaps,
  icons, dialogs etc. You have not the right to use the program in
  commercial objectives. Full the version of the program is paid. In
  it saving all customizations, list of files etc are realized. The
  unregistered version does not save user's customizations.

  The program was checked under Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000. For want of
  to operation with MS Word versions Office 97 and Office 2000 were
  checked. Thank you for choice of LaTeX WIDE.

  Version 1.3 (January 5 2002)
       - Installation under Windows 9x is corrected.
       - Command 'Add to clipboard' is added.

  Yuri V. Lubenets
  http://aprlabs.lipetsk48.ru
=================cut==================
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I have installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/win32/LaTeX_WIDE
replacing the previous version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jan  7 10:33:52 2002
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:26:46 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: Nath

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should
make its way through the mirroring process in the next few
days.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Nath
Author's name: Michal Marvan 
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/nath
Summary description: Natural math notation
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Nath is a LaTeX (both 2e and 2.09) style to separate presentation and 
content in mathematical typography. The style delivers a particular 
context-dependent presentation on the basis of a rather coarse 
context-independent notation. Although essentially backward compatible 
with LaTeX, Nath aims at producing traditional math typography. 
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Tue Jan  8 04:37:50 2002
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:07:43 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- dk-bib

----- Forwarded message from Arne J�rgensen -----
I have uploaded 5 files to /incoming/dk-bib/ at ftp.dante.de.

I suggest that the files be installed in
/biblio/bibtex/contrib/dk-bib/ (like norbib, swebib, germbib).

I guess the license is DFSG (BibTeX is DSFG according to the
Catalogue).

>From the README:

     Dk-bib is a translation of the fours standard BibTeX style files
     (abbrv, alpha, plain and unsrt) into Danish.

     The files have been extended with ISBN and ISSN fields.

     Actually these files where translated from the Norwegian
     translation (by Dag Langmyhr) into Danish. Dag also made the
     extension for ISBN and ISSN.


Regards,

        /arne
-- 
stud. scient. Arne J�rgensen
DK-TUG / Dansk TeX-brugergruppe

<URL:http://sunsite.dk/dk-tug/>
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/dk-bib

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan  8 09:00:51 2002
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:41:13 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: package uploaded 

Battista Benciolini writes:

> I have uploaded two files into the  "incoming"  directory of the CTAN site
> in Cambridge.
> 
> The name of the two files are
>                                             procIAGssymp.sty   (a LaTeX
> package)
>                                             TestPaper.tex         (usage
> example and instruction)
> 
> I excerpt here after a comment from   procIAGssymp.sty :
> 
> % This package provides (re-)definitions of some LaTeX commands
> % that can be useful for the preparation of a paper with
> % the style of the proceeding of symposia sponsored by the
> % "International Association of Geodesy (IAG)" published
> % by "Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg NewYork".
> 
> 
> This program is  available under the    LPPL.
> 
> I propose to post the two files in a folder
>  named     procIAGssymp    to be created in
>       ... macro/latex/contrib/supported/

i've installed the files in a new directory as requested.  thanks for
the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan  8 08:58:15 2002
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:49:37 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: I have uploaded bahyph.zip 

Juan M. Aguirregabiria writes:

> - I have uploaded basque.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk
> - It contains two files bahyph.sh and bahyph.tex
> - They should be put in a new directory called "basque" under "languages"
> - The files are in the public domain
> - The files provide the hyphenation patterns for the Basque
>   language. They can be used with the support for Basque included with
>   Babel 3.7 

thanks for the upload.  i've installed the new directory
language/basque, and also installed a link from
language/hyphenation/bahyph.tex to the file of the same name in the
new directory.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan  8 17:47:50 2002
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 21:32:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: rectopma 

the upload system reports:

> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: rectopma
> Name and email: Battista Benciolini
> Suggested location on CTAN: ... macros/latex/contrib/supported/rectopma
> Summary description: RECycling  TOp   MAtter in a LaTeX document
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The package rectopma allows the re-use of the main content of \title
> and \author anywhere in the document. 
> Designed for LaTeX2e
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

the directory contains the package rectopma.sty and and also
TestTitle.tex, which acts as a user manual and an example of use; it
has been installed on the cambridge ctan -- thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Jan 10 03:54:23 2002
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:48:40 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- eurosans.sty 3.0

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file eurosans.zip to the /incoming directory 
at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack it to fonts/euro/latex/eurosans/,
thus replacing the existent files eurosans.sty and README.eurosans.

This is version 3.0 of the eurosans package for LaTeX, supporting
the use the Adobe Euro symbol fonts.  As compared with the previous 
release, the Euro fonts can now be scaled in order to blend with 
the other typefaces in the document.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive//fonts/euro/latex/eurosans
replacing the old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Jan 10 04:01:41 2002
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:56:50 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- sihyph23.tex

----- Forwarded message from "Johannes L. Braams" -----
On behalf of Primoz Peterlin I have uploaded the file sihyph23.tex
to ftp.dante.de\incoming.
It should replace sihyph22.tex in /tex-archive/language/slovene.
The licensing conditions dodn't change. Primoz wrote:

> For quite a number of years, TeX users in Slovenia are patching the
> hyphenation patterns that are coming with their distribution of choice
> with the newer ones, sihyph23.tex. For reasons unknown to me, they never
> succeed to propagate the changes upstream to the source... :)
> 
> Anyway, I would like to ask you to include in the next release of babel
> package the corrected Slovenian hyphenation patterns, as found on
> ftp://sizif.mf.uni-lj.si/pub/i18n/tex/.
> 
> Slovenian hyphenation patterns were made by Matjaz Vrecko in 1990. During
> the late 90's, they were maintained mostly by Leon Zlajpah
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the file as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/language/slovene/sihyph23.tex
replacing the old version sihyph22.tex

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 14 04:09:56 2002
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 07:42:21 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Uploaded file to CTAN 

Julian Gilbey writes:

> I have just uploaded ctie-0.9a.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
> I recommend that the files are unpacked into
> /tex-archive/web/c_cpp/ctie
> (and probably also include the tar.gz file for convenience).
> 
> This is DFSG-free software (BSD-style licence).
> 
> CTIE is a CWEB-aware variant of TIE; I required it when I was trying
> to use TIE on the CWEB sources, and failed because of include files.

thanks for the upload.  i've installed it as requested, except that i
did _not_ include a copy of the .tar.gz on the archive.

(we don't as a general rule keep compressed archives along with
source: people complain if they get .tar.gz files inside their .tar.gz
or .zip retrievals of the whole directory.)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Jan 14 04:00:59 2002
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:49:47 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- acroread_new v1.0

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek -----
I have uploaded acroread_new.zip in the /incoming
directory of ftp.dante.de. Please unzip, it contains
the new perl script acroread_new.pl.
Suggested CTAN directory:
  CTAN:support/acroread_new/

The licence is LPPL 1.2.

Function: If acroread is started again, it will use
  a previously started instance. Exiting acroread will
  close all windows that belongs to that instance.
  This script runs acroread with a changed name, so
  several instances of acroread can be started
  independently from each other.

Documentation available as help screen: acroread_new --help
----- End forwarded message -----

THansk for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/acroread_new/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jan 14 10:56:23 2002
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:50:05 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New package on CTAN: cd

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and will make its
way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: cd
Author's name: Sebastiano Vigna 
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/other/cd
Summary description: A CD cover class
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A CD cover class featuring easy batch printing with crop marks, automatic 
track numbering and much more.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Mon Jan 14 10:53:16 2002
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:51:18 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- thumbpdf v3.0

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek -----
I have uploaded thumbpdf.zip in the /incoming directory
of ftp.dante.de. After unzipping it updates the files
in the directory
  CTAN:support/thumbpdf/

The licence remains LPPL 1.2.

New in version 3.0:
* The anti-alias parameters of ghostscript are supported
  and enabled by default.
* VTeX's PostScript mode are supported.
* Option --greek for Greek style mode (experimental).
* Signal handlers added for cleanup.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/thumbpdf
replacing the old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Jan 15 05:33:46 2002
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:25:23 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- polynom package v0.14

----- Forwarded message from Carsten Heinz -----
I've uploaded the file polynom.zip to dante.ctan.org/incoming. The contents
should replace the files in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/polynom

If you drop a note to comp.text.tex:

  The small changes are related to the introduction
  of a new style=C, which prints polynomial long
  division like

    (X^4+3X^2+...) : (X+2) = ...

  instead of (style=B)

     X^4+3X^2+... = (X+2)( ...

Many thanks in advance,
Carsten
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/polynom/
replacing the old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jan 16 13:17:14 2002
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:07:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: frhyph.tex 

Daniel Flipo writes:

> I have just uploaded a new version of the French hyphenation patterns
> to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming:
> file frhyph.tex (version 2.11, 2002/01/16).
> 
> It should replace tex-archive/language/hyphenation/frhyph.tex
> 
> This new file corrects the hyphenation of some words like
> cognitive, ignifuger, ignition, inexpugnable, pugnacit�
> which are now properly hyphenated as
> cog-ni-tive, ig-ni-fu-ger, pug-na-ci-t�
> instead of
> co-gni-tive, igni-fu-ger, pu-gna-ci-t�
> with the previous version.
> 
> License conditions are unchanged:
> % This file is available for free and can used and redistributed
> % asis for free. Modified versions should have another name.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jan 18 09:49:12 2002
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:00:39 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new package on CTAN: gatech-thesis

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org.  It should make
its way through the mirroring process soon.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: gatech-thesis
Author's name: Charles Wilson
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/gatech-thesis
Summary description: Georgia Institute of Technology thesis class
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Georgia Institute of Technology thesis class
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jan 21 04:25:26 2002
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:09:24 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Stefan Ulrich <stefan.ulrich@elexir.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: New version of srcltx package

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Stefan Ulrich wrote:

> I've just uploaded to the incoming directory of
> ftp.dante.de
> the gzipped file
> srcltx.dtx.gz
>
> Please install the gunzipped version of this file into
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/srcltx/
> replacing the current version of srcltx.dtx.
>
> From the README:
>
> This package provides source special insertion into .dvi files,
> allowing to jump from the .dvi file to the .tex source
> and back (given a .dvi viewer that supports this, such as Yap
> or xdvi(k) >= 22.38).
>
> Changes in this version:
> - simpler implementation of input file tracking, using macro
>   expansion instead of a stack
> - LaTeX's \input{...} command is now overloaded as well

Thanks for the update, I installed it in directory

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/srcltx

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jan 21 04:25:27 2002
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:39:23 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload: ttf2tex 0.4.1

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Philipp Lehman wrote:

> I've put a new release of ttf2tex into /incoming on ftp.dante.de.
> Please unpack ttf2tex.tar.gz into support/ttf2tex, replacing the
> contents of this directory. -- Thank you.
>
> From the README:
>
> ttf2tex is a Bash shell script which generates all files required to
> use TrueType fonts with teTeX from a set of .ttf files. In short, it
> will do for TrueType fonts what fontinst's \latinfamily command does
> for Type 1 PostScript fonts. ttf2tex is designed for Linux/UNIX
> systems running teTeX.
>
> From the CHANGELOG:
>
> 2002-01-21      v0.4.1
>   * minor fixes and improvements
>   * slightly extended manual
>   * manual built with updated pdftex to fix
>     problems with Acrobat Reader 5
>
> 2001-11-05      v0.4
>   * revised weight substitution logic
>   * optional session log
>   * minor fixes and improvements
>   * updated and improved manual

Thanks for the update, I put it in

  support/ttf2tex

as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Mon Jan 21 10:42:40 2002
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:27:42 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa teX 4.10

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 4.10 and macro packages coming with BaKoMa TeX.

Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

New features (in short):

  * Text Editor Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
    correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
  * DVI Viewer supports link text broken across lines.
  * Fonts: CM-Super, MathPatho, PalatinoLinotype (from Windows XP).
  * Support for Multi-User systems.
  * Running under *Windows XP*.
  * Reading TeX files in binary mode.

More details are explained at end of this E-Mail.  

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
21-Jan-2002

PS: Please send announce to approapriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 4.10 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 4.10
   
For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

HIGHLIGHTS

 * PostScript enabled TeX system.
   Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 
GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 9.0, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
MatLab, CorelDraw, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * OpenType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts: 
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

USER INTERFACE

* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Typesetting a selected part of a document (styles may be precompiled as format).
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents: 
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Spell Checker is configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 4.10 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 4.05


  Text Editor -- Spell Checker improvements.

  *  On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
     Spell Checking was integrated with (La)TeX syntax highlighting.
     In other words, unknown word are highlighted on display.
     Of course highlighting works correctly when you enter a words.
  *  Speller is now case sensitive.
  *  Suggestions for correction of a misspelled words are present;
  *  It recognizes soft hyphens (exam\-ples),
     accented character typed in 7-bit notation (F\"ur),
     whose may be defined in special dictionary.
  *  It recognizes *Babel shorthands* (F"ur).
     We provide ready to use tables for every language which has shorthands
     defined by Babel package. 

  DVI Viewer -- supports link text broken across lines.

    DVIEW (DVI Viewer), coming with BaKoMa TeX 4.10,
    supports link text broken across lines.
    DVIEW makes links on multiple lines into different PDF links to
    the same target. Links saved into PDF are the same as shown on display.

    In advance, there is simple solution for links broken across pages,
    even when a footnote (or another foot material) is present on this page.

  Fonts.

  * The system was improved to support *CM-Super* fonts.
    Displaying fonts is supported via automatical conversion
    to Unicoded TrueType fonts. We provide small module (CM-Super.BKZ)
    which installs all stuffs required to use CM-Super fonts.
  * The system was improved to support PalatinoLinotype fonts coming
    with *Windows XP*.
    The problem is that these fonts have no PostScript glyph names.
    The names are generated from CMAP table according to Adobe's glyph names.
  * *MathPazo* fonts was added to PSFONTS.BKZ module.
  * Experimental set of virtual fonts for Palatino fonts in T2A encoding
    was added.

  Running under Multi-User Environment.

    BaKoMa TeX was refined for working in multi-user systems
    (Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, NT, and Win 98 with enabled accounts).
    It includes:
     1. saving an user settings into a private configuration file.
     2. creating private directories for TEXMFLOCAL and VARTEX.

  Running under *Windows XP*

    BaKoMa TeX 4.10 is preliminary tested for running under Windows XP.
    In result, some features was improved in BaKoMa TeX 4.10.
    However, if compatibility problems with Windows XP are found
    we intend to develop an update release of BaKoMa TeX that will address
    the incompatibilities.

  Miscellany.

    TeX processor now reads TeX files in binary mode.
    This approach has following advantages:
    * All types of line separators (DOS, UNIX, MAC) are supported.
    * Reading of Ctrl-Z (ASCII 26) and other control characters
      as simple characters is supported.

For more information about changes see
   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/dst/changes3.html>

---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it in 
CTAN:/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/
replacing the old version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jan 21 12:11:13 2002
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 18:11:02 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Benjamin BAYART <bayartb@edgard.fdn.fr>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload to CTAN

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Benjamin BAYART wrote:

> Following README.uploads:
> - I checked this package is admissible (under lppl).
> - it should go into macros/latex/contrib/supported/stack
>   with a link relinput->stack
>   (it provides both, and relinput is probably the most
>   useful one).
>
> 1. I've upload stack.tar
> 2. on dante.ctan.org
> 3. as explained above, in macros/latex/contrib/supported/stack
>    with a symbolic link relinput -> stack
> 4. this is provided under lppl
> 5. a brief summary:
>
> Those files provide two packages:
> - stack, which implements a stack mechanism without using
>   TeX's stack, so that your stack imbrication is not related
>   to the TeX-grouping mechanism (useful for package developpers)
> - relinput, which implements a chdir-like mechanism so that
>   \input can be done relatively to the directory where a file
>   is, and not relatively to where the main file is.
>
> Hope this might prove usefull.

Thanks for the upload. I installed the package as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/stack

with a link in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/relinput

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jan 23 17:40:49 2002
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 22:38:35 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- Short fix for memoir class 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded README.memoir and memfixa.sty to the UK incoming
> directory. Could you please move README(.memoir) and memfixa.sty to the
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir directory.
> 
> Description
> -----------
> 
>     The memfixa package fixes a problem when the memoir class showtrims
> option is used with the calc package. Put \usepackage{memfixa} right after
> \documentclass[...]{memoir}
> 
>     This is a short term fix until the next (soon) release of the memoir
> class.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 25 17:26:35 2002
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 21:46:36 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: memfixa 

Peter Wilson has provided another copy of his memfixa.sty, which
patches memoir.cls.  he writes:

> I think that it does need another announcement
> as the person who tested the fix has distributed it to some others, so an
> announcement would make it official.
> 
>     The fix now covers the memoir showtrims and oneside options and the calc
> package.

i've installed the replacement file as
macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir/memfixa.sty

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jan 25 17:25:10 2002
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 22:04:05 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: Makor, version 1.0

An update of the Makor package has been installed on tug.ctan.org
and should make its way through the mirroring process in the 
next few days.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon

=============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Makor, version 1.0
Author's name: Alan Hoenig 
Location on CTAN: language/hebrew/makor
Summary description: A system for typesetting Hebrew with TeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Makor is my system for typesetting Hebrew with TeX.  It uses an
intuitive interface---that is, you type characters on the English
keyboard according to more-or-less what they sound like, and Makor
renders them in proper Hebrew, both with and without vowels (nekudot).
The vowels are properly centered on their letters, and final letters
are selected automatically by Makor+TeX.  This package works with
both plain TeX and LaTeX.

This new version is formally version~1.0.  In addition to many bug
fixes, the new version includes:

  * support of many more fonts:
    -- OmegaSerifHebrew, which is like David or David light; 
    -- Ezra (in regular, italic, bold, bold italic, and outline
          variants);
    -- Rashi (regular and bold); and 
    -- Hadassah (regular, italic, bold, and bold italic);

  * ability to typeset numbers properly amid Hebrew text;

  * special typesetting treatment of the defective cholem;

  * Hebrew table macros---you enter the columns left-to-right, and
    Makor typesets them right-to-left; and

  * much, much more!

The package is documented in the file makorman.tex.  Please check out
the file makorman.pdf which is replete with examples to see if this
package might be of interest to you.

From zierke@dante.de Sun Jan 27 08:11:52 2002
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 14:02:07 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- pdfpages v0.2d

----- Forwarded message from Andreas Matthias -----
I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages.zip' to
ftp.dante.de/incoming.

Please, extract this archive and replace the files in

  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/

The `pdfpages' package makes it easy to insert pages of
external PDF documents. Several logical pages can be
arranged onto each sheet of paper. (Like psnup.)
The package provides hypertext operations like
hyperlinks and article threads.

This version provides a new option `fitpaper', which
adjusts the paper size to the one of the inserted
document.

It is distributed under the LPPL.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sun Jan 27 08:26:54 2002
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 14:22:11 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new packages from GUST on CTAN

----- Forwarded message from Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz -----
I've just downloaded to dante://incoming/
1. qfnt.zip  -- it contains all set of the new qfonts families, generated
   by metapost; gpl
   Please remove first all stuff from fonts/psfonts/polish/qfonts/
   even pl-qx.zip (obsolete) *except* of fonts/psfonts/polish/qfonts/qxcm/
   Then unzip qfn.zip in fonts/psfonts/polish/qfonts/
   Do not unpack zip files which are in qfnt.zip

2. antt.zip -- contains some files added; pd
   to be concise with all distributions like teTeX, TL, etc. it should
   go rather to fonts/psfonts/polish/antt/
   so please unpack it in fonts/psfonts/polish/
   Please *remove* fonts/psfonts/polish/antyktor

3. tap077.zip,
   0README.TAP
   updated, pd; please replace the old contents of
   macros/generic/tables/
   oops, and unpack 0README.TAP, as before (cannot upload)

4. tex-ps.zip contains 2 files updated: epsfx.tex and trans.tex
   please unpack it in
   macros/generic/TeX-PS

5. tiff2ps.zip updated, pd
   please unpack it in
   support/pstools/tiff2ps/

Updated xml files will go soon to Graham's Catalogue.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed all these files on CTAN as suggested.

BTW, pl-qx.zip was in fonts/psfonts/polish/ not in
fonts/psfonts/polish/qfonts/.  I hope it was OK to remove it anyway.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jan 29 05:17:41 2002
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:08:29 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Christian Holm Christensen <cholm@hehi03.nbi.dk>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- cd-cover

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Christian Holm Christensen wrote:

> * I've uploaded an update (now version 1.4) of the cd-cover class
>
> * cd-cover resided in
>
>      macros/latex/contrib/other/cd-cover
>
>   though Robin Fairbanks has suggested to put it in
>
>      macros/latex/contrib/supported/cd-cover
>
> * The lisence of cd-cover is GPL
>
> * Typesetting CD covers for various case formats
>
> Changes:
>
> Automatic detection of the grpahics driver (if any) and automatic
> emmision of |\special| (or similar) so that the document will be
> printed in landscape mode.  Only supported for DVIPS, PDFLaTeX, and
> VTeX.  Some minor documentation changes.

Thanks for the update. I removed the old version and installed your new
version in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/cd-cover

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Wed Jan 30 08:37:48 2002
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:23:46 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: VTeX/Free 7.530 for Linux and OS/2

Release 7.530 of VTeX/Free is now mirrored in the CTAN
directory sytems/vtex/ .

VTeX/Free is a free TeX system, which is available for the 
Linux-x86 and OS/2 platforms.

Unlike traditional TeX systems, VTeX/Free can generate 
PDF and PostScript output immediately from the TeX source.  
No intermediate DVI files are generated, no "dvi driver
programs" are required, and there is no need to care for
their -- sometimes problematic -- setup.  Common PostScript
and PDF viewers such as Ghostscript and Acrobat Reader can 
be used for (pre)viewing and printing.

VTeX/Free includes a PostScript "distiller", thus inclusion
of PostScript graphics as well as inline PostScript
programming (PSTricks, psfrag etc.)  are supported, even
when generating PDF output.

VTeX/Free comes with a comprehensive LaTeX systen and many
additional packages and fonts, now including also the full
collection of the EC/TC fonts in Type 1 format.

See the file CTAN:systems/vtex/NEWS for a list of all
additions, changes and fixes with this release.

VTeX/Free is a partial port of the commercial TeX system
VTeX/Win by MicroPress Inc.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Feb  2 03:19:40 2002
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 09:14:51 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: DCpic 

Pedro Quaresma writes:

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20020131.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: DCpic
> Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/generic/diagrams/dcpic/ 
> Summary description: Commutative diagrams in a LaTeX or TeX document.
> License type: Generic DFSG
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> DCpic is a package of \TeX\ macros for drawing Commutative Diagrams
> in a (La)\TeX\ or Con\TeX t document. Its distinguishing features
> are: the use of \PiCTeX\ a powerful graphical engine, and a simple
> specification syntax. A commutative diagram is described in terms of
> its objects and its arrows. The objects are textual elements and the
> arrows can have various straight or curved forms.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i've installed the files in the submission, replacing the old
version.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Feb  3 12:55:41 2002
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 18:50:54 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Uploaded new labels.sty 

Julian Gilbey writes:

> I've uploaded labels.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk.
> 
> This tarball contains a replacement for the files in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/labels, and I have the permission of
> Sebastian Rahtz to do this.
> 
> It provides a new package option `newdimens' which allows a much more
> flexible specification of the label layout.  Without the option, the
> package functions identically to the way it used to.
> 
> No change in licensing conditions.

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Feb  4 08:14:49 2002
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 14:10:12 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: ncctools

The ncctools package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should
have made its way throught the mirroring process.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: ncctools
Author's name: Alexander I Rozhenko
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ncctools
Summary description: A new release of the NCCTOOLS bungle for LaTeX Project
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
%
% NCCTOOLS, Release 2.0
%======================

%
% HISTORICAL NOTES
% ================

The `ncctools' bundle consists of a number of packages extracted from
NCC style (developed by A. Rozhenko in 1992-1996 for LaTeX-2.09) while
reimplementation it for LaTeX-2e. This job is not completed yet. So,
some packages will be added to the bundle later.

Four of the packages, namely dcounter, extdash, manyfoot, and nccfoots,
are documented in corresponding `.dtx' files.  Others are partially
documented just inside `.sty' files.

%
% CONTENTS OF THE NCCTOOLS BUNDLE
% ===============================

cropbox.sty   Implements the \cropbox command which prepares a box with
              crop marks at its corners looking like angles.  Angle
              parameters are customizable.

cropmark.sty  Implements the \cropmark command producing crop box
              around page text area (header area, footer area and
              marginal notes are optionally taken into consideration).
              The \cropmark command is used inside \watermark
              commands.  It accurately interprets current state of
              two-column, two-side, and reverse-margin modes.

dcounter.dtx  Dynamic counters.  The counter declared as dynamic
              is really created at the first use and receives at that
              moment the count style which was established by the
              \countstyle command.  The special use of \counstyle command
              with optional parameter allows modifying of
              subordination of existing counter.  For example, while
              using the book class you can reject the subordination of
              the section counter to the chapter counter and
              resubordinate figures, tables and equations to sections.

desclist.sty  Implements the desclist environment.  It is considered
              as an improvement of the description environment.
              The appearance of item markers is easy customizable on the
              fly.  An optional parameter allows set a marker prototype
              for calculation of hang indentation skip.  The description
              environment is redefined to use an optional parameter also.

extdash.dtx   The package implements the commands, \Hyphdash, \Endash,
              \Emdash, and their *-forms, to control hyphenation of
              compound words and ordinary words dashed by em-dash. You
              can also use the shortcuts
                      \-/   \=/   \--   \==   \---   \===
              instead. On contrary to germanb style of the Babel package
              no active symbols added. You can also decrease the length
              of em-dash by the option `cyremdash' to satisfy the russian
              typesetting rules.

manyfoot.dtx  The package implements a command, \newfootnote, that adds
              footnote levels to the standard LaTeX's footnote
              mechanism. Footnotes of every additional level are
              automatically grouped together on a LaTeX-2e output page
              and are separated from another levels by the special
              vertical space and (maybe) rule. You can customize the
              typesetting style of additional footnotes choosing between
              ordinary footnotes and run-in paragraph footnotes (useful
              for critical editions).

nccbbb.sty    Implementation of poor Black Board Bold symbols. Ported
              from old NCC-LaTeX. It is useless in modern LaTeX but
              kept just in case.

nccboxes.sty  Additional boxes from NCC-LaTeX. The \jhbox and \jvbox can
              horizontally and vertically align a body with respect
              to a prototype. The \addbox adjusts the height and
              depth of the box body (it is alternative to using the `calc'
              package). The \pbox is a simple version of one-column
              table. It is independent on \arraystretch value. The \cbox
              is intended for design of fancy headers in tables.

nccfancyhdr.sty Absolutely new implementation of functionality of the
              fancyhdr package.  It is more transparent, simple,
              non-aggressive (redefining of standard page styles is
              optional), and bug-free (I hope :).  Header width control
              is improved with two commands, namely \extendedheaders
              (extended upon marginal notes) and \normalheaders. The
              command \thispagestyle correctly works with fancy
              page styles (in fancyhdr, it didn't work because of use
              of global definitions).

nccfoots.dtx  The package implements commands for generating footnotes
              with manual marks. For example, to mark footnote by star you
              can write \Footnote{*}{Footnote text}.

nccmath.sty   Extension of the `amsmath' package.  Its main aim is to
              combine AMS's typesetting of display equations and
              NCC-LaTeX's one.  In amsmath, the `eqnarray' environment
              leaves unchanged.  This package redefines `eqnarray' to allow
              using of amsmath tag control features and display breaks.
              Intercolumn distance is reduced to the distance typical
              for relation operations.  All columns are prepared in the
              \displaystyle.  A new `darray' environment is a mix of the
              AMS's `aligned' environment and LaTeX's `array' environment.
              It is typed out in the same way as `aligned' environment
              but has columns definition parameter as `array' environment.
              The use of column specifications is restricted to the
              necessary commands only: l,c,r,@, and * are allowed. The
              implementation is compatible with the array package.  Some
              additional commands are introduced also.

nccpic.sty    Envelop for the `graphicx' package. It customizes graphics
              extensions list for most popular drivers, namely dvips,
              dvidpf, and dvipdfm, and for use with pdftex also. Extension
              list now contains extensions of graphics files which are
              processed on the fly without additional efforts.  Using this
              feature simplifies typesetting.  You need not specify a
              graphics file extension when use the \includegraphics
              command.  Depending on a dvi driver specified, a graphics
              file with an appropriate extension is searched.  So, you
              only need to create a number of versions of a graphics file
              in different formats (for example, `.bmp' for dvips or Yap
              and `.png' for pdftex).  After that you can produce resulting
              `.ps' and `.pdf' file without any changes in the source file.
              The recommended storage for graphics files is the graphics/
              subdirectory of the directory the `.tex' file is translated.
              Some additional commands are introduced also.

nccsect.sty   Extension of LaTeX's section, caption, and toc-entries
              generation technique.  The package contains many
              improvements.  More interesting of them are:

               * simple declaring of sections of any level (including
                 sections of 0th level and captions for floats);
               * user-controlled typeout for display sections
                 (user can select one of the following typeout styles:
                 hangindent, parindent, center);
               * customizing of section or caption tag by the manner
                 similar to AMS equation tag;
               * simple declaring of toc-entries using prototypes
                 for calculation of hang indentations;
               * \numberline command newer overlaps the text going after;
               * \PnumPrototype{} is used for calculation of right margin
                 in table of contents;
               * different captions for different float types;
               * simple handle of new types of floats (after registration
                 of a new float in the package you can declare a caption
                 and toc-entry for it; be sure that the \chapter command
                 will automatically produce a vertical skip in a toc for
                 the new float also).

nccthm.sty    Yet another extension to the \newtheorem command.  Four
              orthogonal properties of theorems are used:

              numbering mode - standard or APAR (a number before header);
              theorem type - defines an appearance of a theorem (what fonts
                             are used for header, comment, and body). The
                             `theorem' and `remark' types a predefined;
              indent style - margin, nomargin, indent, noindent (selected in
                             package options);
              break mode   - do break after header or not? Hardcoded when a
                             new theorem is declared. Can be overridden on
                             the fly for concrete math statement.

              Easy customization of spacing and commands inserted after
              headers.  Two types of QED symbol (white and black).  The
              \proof command is introduced.  The \newtheoremtype command
              allows create new theorem types.  The \likeTYPE command
              is automatically created for every new type.  It simplifies
              typeout of rare math statements.  Instead of creation of a new
              theorem environment you can use

               \liketheorem{Header}{Number}[Comment]

              for it, or \likeremark, or ...  Every theorem environment
              and theorem type can be redefined with \renewtheorem and
              \renewtheoremtype.  Counters of all theorem-like environments
              are dynamic.  So, they are created at the first use.  This is
              very helpful for package writer.  A number of theorem-like
              environments can be created in a package or class, and a user
              only selects the count style for them (in simple case this can
              be done with only one \countstyle command in the document
              preamble).

parskip.sty   Useful for documents with non-zero skips between paragraphs.
              In this case, the additional vertical space inserted by lists
              is unlikely.  The package provides identical distance between
              all paragraphs except section markups. It redefines control
              list commands and suppress \topskip, \partopskip, and \itemsep
              in lists. As a result, the distance between ordinary paragraphs
              and paragraphs prepared by lists is the same. The command
              \SetParskip{distance} is described to control this distance.

tocenter.sty  Provides two commands, namely \ToCenter and \FromMargins, which
              simplify the customization of page layout.  It is now easy
              to change text width and height and center the text area
              on the page (the header, footer, and marginal note fields
              are optionally taken into consideration).  Other way is
              like-Word declaring of paper layout: you set margins
              from the left, right, top, and bottom.

watermark.sty Provides watermarks on output pages. A watermark is
              some text or picture printed at the background of paper.
              A watermark is usually stored in the page header. This way is
              inconvenient: it needs redefinition of page style commands.
              We use another method that is orthogonal to page mark
              commands and needs no redefinition of page marks.
              The left and right watermarks are allowed. Temporary
              \thiswatermark acts on the current page only.  Using this
              way it is easy to substitute a page header by your own page
              header with the \thispageheading command.

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Feb  5 08:23:43 2002
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:14:14 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: LaTeX for Word Processor Users 

An update of a CTAN package has been installed at tug.ctan.org
and should by now have made it through the mirroring system.

Thanks for the update,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeX for Word Processor Users (update)
Author's name: Guido Gonzato, Ph.D.
Location on CTAN: info/latex4wp
Summary description: This is a LaTeX guide specifically designed for word processor users.
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
"LaTeX for Word Processor Users" is a guide that helps 
converting knowledge and techniques of word processing 
into the LaTeX typesetting environment. It aims at helping 
WP users use LaTeX instead.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Feb  6 08:46:09 2002
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:38:43 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: jDVI - DVI viewer and printer coded in Java

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way through the mirroring process shortly.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: jDVI - DVI viewer and printer coded in Java
Author's name: James Hurt
Location on CTAN: dviware/jdvi
Summary description: DVI viewer and printer coded in Java
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the initial release of jDVI, a DVI viewer and printer coded in 
Java. You will need Java RTE 1.3 to run this application, as well as the 
BaKoMa True Type fonts for which I am endebted to Basil K. Malyshev. For 
completeness, a copy of the BaKoMa fonts are included in a Zip file, the 
format suitable for use with jDVI.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Feb  7 14:45:51 2002
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:32:23 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Maurizio Loreti <loreti@pd.infn.it>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: webo.tar.gz

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Maurizio Loreti wrote:

> + what you've uploaded
>   A file calles webo.tar.gz
> + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>   ftp.dante.de
> + where you want the files to go
>   tex-archive/fonts/webomints (or tex-archive/fonts/webo if this name is
>   too long)
> + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
>   public domain
> + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>   Here follows the included README file:
>
> On Tuesday 05 Feb 2002, Walter Schmidt (wal_schmidt@arcormail.de) has
> posted a message on comp.text.tex about a freely downloadable
> PostScript Type-1 font containing various types of ornaments.
>
> The URL is http://www.galapagosdesign.com/download/index.html, and
> contains the following lines:
>
>         Galapagos Design Group is pleased to make available to the
>         Internet community free downloads of original typefaces and
>         clipart.
>
>         Our first offering is a tasty border and ornament font called
>         Web-O-Mints.  Created by George Ryan, Web-O-Mints contains a
>         rich assortment of typographic decorations inspired by
>         historical sources.
>
>         The Web-O-Mints font is available in TrueType or PostScript
>         format, for use on PCs or Macs.  Web-O-Mints can be downloaded
>         and used immediately in all environments.  We hope you enjoy
>         using this original collection of images.
>
> Here are all the files needed to use these fonts in LaTeX (generated
> with the "fontinst" package) and two small example LaTeX files.

Thanks for the upload. As you requested, I installed the files in the CTAN
directory

   fonts/webomints

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf



From zierke@dante.de Sun Feb 10 09:42:37 2002
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 16:34:50 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- eqlist 1.2, guitar 1.5, toolbox 4.2

----- Forwarded message from "M. Vaeth" -----
I have uploaded the three latex packages
  eqlist.zip
  guitar.zip
  toolbox.zip
to the incoming directory. (toolbox.zip is only an update).
The description of the packages is appended.
Sincerely.
Martin V�th

Name of contribution: eqlist v1.2
Name and email: Martin V�th <vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/eqlist
Summary description: With this package you can write lists with
equal indentation. The eqparbox package is required.
License type: Free (lppl)

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package provides a list environment which typesets a
description-like list but with the difference that the
indentation corresponds to the longest item of the list.
The eqparbox package is required.
----------------------------------------------------------------------


Name of contribution: guitar v1.5
Name and email: Martin V�th <vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/guitar
Summary description: (La)Tex package for typesetting guitar chords
over song texts. The toolbox package is required.
License type: Free (lppl)

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package contains (La)TeX macros for typesetting
guitar chords over song texts.
The toolbox package is required.
Note that this package only places arbitrary TeX
code over the lyrics. To typeset the chords
graphically (and not only by name), I recommend
to use an additional package like e.g.
gchords.sty by K. Peeters.
Further references to packages which allow to
typeset songs or guitar chords can be found in
the documentation of the package.
----------------------------------------------------------------------


Name of contribution: toolbox v4.2
Name and email: Martin V�th <vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/toolbox
    (should replace previous release)
Summary description: A package for (La)TeX which provides some macros
which are convenient for writing indices, glossaries, or other macros.
License type: Free (lppl)

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A package for (La)TeX which provides some macros
which are convenient for writing indices,
glossaries, or other macros.
It contains macros which support
-implicit macros
-fancy optional arguments
-loops over tokenlists and itemlists
-searching and splitting
-controlled expansion
-redefinition of macros
-concatenated macro names

The new release keeps '#' in certain arguments
unexpanded. I would like to thank David Kastrup
<David.Kastrup@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
for pointing out the problem and solutions.
----- End of forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the updated toolbox and the two new
packages in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/{eqlist,guitar,toolbox}
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sun Feb 10 09:42:08 2002
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 16:39:41 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- webomints update

----- Forwarded message from Maurizio Loreti -----
+ what you've uploaded
  A file calles webomints.tar.gz
+ which CTAN node you've uploaded to
  ftp.dante.de
+ where you want the files to go
  They are intended to replace the files currently in
  tex-archive/fonts/webomints
+ what licensing conditions you apply to your software
  public domain
+ a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
  A .tfm file was missing in the previous upload; sorry for any
  inconvenience, and thanks to Andreas Matthias (<amat@kabsi.at>) for
  signalling that error.

  Here follows the included README file:

On Tuesday 05 Feb 2002, Walter Schmidt (wal_schmidt@arcormail.de) has
posted a message on comp.text.tex about a freely downloadable
PostScript Type-1 font containing various types of ornaments.

The URL is http://www.galapagosdesign.com/download/index.html, and
contains the following lines:

        Galapagos Design Group is pleased to make available to the
        Internet community free downloads of original typefaces and
        clipart.

        Our first offering is a tasty border and ornament font called
        Web-O-Mints.  Created by George Ryan, Web-O-Mints contains a
        rich assortment of typographic decorations inspired by
        historical sources.

        The Web-O-Mints font is available in TrueType or PostScript
        format, for use on PCs or Macs.  Web-O-Mints can be downloaded
        and used immediately in all environments.  We hope you enjoy
        using this original collection of images.

Here are all the files needed to use these fonts in LaTeX (generated
with the "fontinst" package) and two small example LaTeX files.  Just
"make samples" in the directory to generate the PostScript output; needs
fancyhdr and config.pdf (for dvips).
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/webomints/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Feb 12 10:35:09 2002
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:22:46 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new on CTAN: osa.bst

This material has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: osa.bst
Author's name: Richard J Mathar 
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/osa.bst

Summary description: BibTeX style file for OSA (Optical Society of America) journ
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
osa.bst is a BibTeX style file that follows guidelines
for OSA journals (Applied Optics,...). It has been generated
by running   latex makebst.tex and by-hand manipulation
of the result to get roman-style (non-italicized) names
of the proceeding's names. See
http://www.osa.org/pubs/authors/style/
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Feb 12 17:10:11 2002
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:07:00 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memfixa package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded memfixa.sty to the UK incoming directory. Kindly
> use this to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir/memfixa.sty, and please announce the
> update.
> 
>     The package provides temporary fixes to the memoir class until the next
> version is released. Current fixes include:
> o unfortunate interaction between the memoir class and the calc package
> o mismatch between oneside/showtrims options
> o 11pt option headheight too small
> o one line narrow captions not centered
> o provides class option to reinstate the deprecated font commands

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Feb 12 17:15:02 2002
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:14:37 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Submission: The AcroTeX eDucation Bundle 

D P Story writes:

> -- mail the administrators (ctan@dante.de) to report:
>    + what you've uploaded
> 
> I've uploaded to the uk ctan server, in the incoming/webeq directory
> the following files:
> 
>  154606 Feb 10 23:32 acrotex.zip
>   12863 Feb 10 23:45 dljslib.dtx
>    2174 Feb 10 23:45 dljslib.ins
>   13221 Feb 10 23:32 eq_pdfs.zip
>   63311 Feb 10 23:46 insdljs.dtx
>    1963 Feb 10 23:46 insdljs.ins
>    3080 Feb 10 23:32 readme.txt
>  815769 Feb 10 23:39 webeqman.pdf
>  542565 Feb 10 23:44 webeqman_p.pdf
> 
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> uk: ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
>    + where you want the files to go
> 
> I have a directory
> 
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/webeq
> 
> delete all files in that folder, and replace with the files listed above.
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
> 
> lppl            LaTeX Project Public Licence
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>    (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy 
> processing)
> 
> 
> I've just uploaded the Web/Exerquiz Packages, now bundled 
> together under the name "AcroTeX eDucation Bundle", read,
> "AcroTeX Education Bundle".
> 
> The AcroTeX Bundle is a series of LaTex packages, as the name 
> implies, is intended for, but not limited to, the creation of electronic 
> education materials, authored using LaTeX, with final file form of 
> PDF.
> 
> The materials are available for users of Distiller 5.0 or later (though 
> prior will work too), pdftex or dvipdfm.  Distiller users must make 
> their postscript document using either dvips or dvipsone.
> 
> The bundle comes with four componets
> (1) The Web.sty : for good screen design
> (2) The Exerquiz Package : for online exercises and quizzes
> (3) The insdljs Package : for introducing document level JavaScript 
> into the PDF document from a LaTeX source
> (4) The dljslib Package : A library of JavaScript functions, with the
> package, you can "check out" a function for use in your document 
> 
> What's New: The introduction of the insdljs Package enables the 
> LaTeX author to write his/her own JavaScript in the LaTeX source,
> the functions end up at the document-level of the final PDF 
> document. This is a standalone package that needs only hyperref
> and verbatim.
> 
> Exerquiz has been rewritten to use this package, and new 
> arguments of the math fill-in macro are introduced that lets the 
> author specify a JavaScript procedure that will process a given 
> question. As such, Exerquiz becomes quite programmable. See 
> jqzspec.pdf for example to see how Exerquiz can now process 
> math fill-in questions for which the answer is expected to be a 
> vector.  In addition to math fill-in questions, there is now text fill-in 
> as well, this too has many options.
> 
> In anticipation of the usefulness of insdljs, I recently wrote the 
> dljslib package. This package acts as sort of a library of routines 
> you can insert into your document. Very cool.

i've installed the macros (and other things) as requested.  thanks for
the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Feb 14 15:05:49 2002
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:01:28 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: LogFilter

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

A word about the license: this package is `nosource', meaning that it
is supplied in binary format (a .jar file) and the source code for it 
is not made available. This renders the software non-free in the sense 
of the Debian Free Software Guidelines and many other free software 
advocates. Please note, however, that the license *does* allow free use 
and distribution of the software, but modification is generally not 
possible. For more, see the following link.
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.html

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: LogFilter
Author's name: Kasper B. Graversen
Location on CTAN: nonfree/support/logfilter
Summary description: LogFilter is a program that monitors the logfiles 
(La)TeX/PDF(La) produces and presents them in an interactive environment 
to the author
License type: nosource

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
LogFilter is a program that monitors the logfiles TeX/LaTeX produces and 
presents them in an interactive environment to the user. 
The program lets the user choose which errors he cares to see. Furthermore 
LogFilter integrates with your editor so that when pressing an error, your 
editor will open the tex file and jump to the according line. 

It should work on any sane OS with Java (or JRE) installed
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Thu Feb 14 16:11:26 2002
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:27:30 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- BibTool 2.46

----- Forwarded message from Gerd Neugebauer -----
I have uploaded the following two files to ftp.dante.de/incoming

	BibTool-2.46.tar.gz
	BibTool-html.tar.gz

The first one is meant to replace the file 
biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/BibTool-2.45.tar.gz.
The second file should be unpacked in the same directory to update the 
HTML gif and dvi files residing there (The new HTML version of the 
manual isn't availlable yet).

BibTool is distributed under the GPL. The Readme file follows.

======================================================================
	  BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases


BibTeX provides    an easy to  use means   to integrate  citations and
bibliographies into LaTeX documents.  But the user  is left alone with
the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to
fill this gap.  BibTool allows the  manipulation of BibTeX files which
goes  beyond the possibilities --- and intentions  --- of BibTeX.  The
possibilities of BibTool include

* Pretty-printing BibTeX data bases adjustable by lots of parameters.

* Syntactic checks with error recovery superior to BibTeX and helpful
   error messages.

* Semantic checks can be specified by the user.

* Sorting  and  merging of  BibTeX  data  bases according   to a  free
   definable sort key.

* Generation  of uniform reference keys  according to predefined rules
   or according to an own specification.

* Selecting references  used in  one  publication which are found   by
   analyzing an .aux file.

* Selecting references by a set of criteria (regular expressions).

* Controlled rewriting    of fields utilizing  regular expressions  to
   specify the rewriting rules.

* Macro  (String)  expansion to  eliminate the  need  of  extra string
   definitions.

* Collecting statistics about one or more BibTeX data bases.


BibTool  contains a  documentation written  in  LaTeX of  more than 60
pages (and still growing).

BibTool is written  in C and  has  been compiled on  various operating
systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOG machines.  It is distributed in
source code.   No compiled  versions  are  available from  the  author
(Useless to ask!).

BibTool can be obtained from the CTAN archives:

* ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool
* ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool
* ctan.tug.org:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool

Get  the  file BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz  where  x.xx is the version number.
Unpack it with the command (on UN*X)

	gunzip < BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

Alternatively get the file  BibTool-x.xx.zip where x.xx is the version
number.  Unpack it with the command

	unzip BibTool-x.xx.zip

It will create  a  directory  named  BibTool-x.xx which contains   the
installation instructions in the file INSTALL.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/
replacing the ild files.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Feb 14 16:11:38 2002
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:31:02 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission --  rotfloat v1.1

----- Forwarded message from Axel Sommerfeldt -----
I just uploaded a new version of the \LaTeXe\ `rotfloat' package to
ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/rotfloat.

What I've uploaded:
rotfloat.ins + rotfloat.dtx + examples.tex

Which CTAN node I've uploaded to:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/rotfloat.

Where you want the files to go:
/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/rotfloat
(replacing the old version 1.0)

What licensing conditions you apply to your software:
LPPL

A brief summary of what your upload is intended to do:
The float package provides commands to define new floats of various styles;
the rotating package provides new rotated environments. This rotfloat
package builds a bridge between both packages and extend the commands from
the float package to define rotated versions of the new floats, too.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the update.  I Installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/rotfloat/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Feb 14 16:15:24 2002
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:34:40 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- g-brief 3.0

----- Forwarded message from Michael Lenzen -----
please update 'g-brief' rel. 2.4 to rel. 3.0.

(a) uploaded to ftp.dante.de

(b) 'g-brief-3.0.tar.gz' to /incoming

(c) g-brief is a document class for LaTeX 2e and serves for
� � formatting formless letters in german or english language

(d) macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief/
� � (please replace and remove the old and obsolete files in
� � �macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief)
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
old version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Feb 15 10:34:29 2002
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:30:50 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: york-thesis

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should
make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: york-thesis
Author's name: Norm Gall
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/york-thesis
Summary description: A LaTeX2e thesis class definition for York University (Toronto, Canada)
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This takes care of almost everything for generating a 
thesis or dissertation. I've included the class file and a 
sample latex source file. Kudos to York for not having 
an insanely complicated format.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Feb 15 10:46:43 2002
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:46:09 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: taupin@lps.u-psud.fr
Subject: Uploads: smallcap.sty, moresize and varsects.sty

Daniel taupin has provided various things to ctan:

1. smallcap.sty:
   smallcap.sty make small caps be a font family rather than a
   shape. This allows bold and slanted small caps to be available (EC
   fonts do exist). This family is called T1cmsc, and t1cmsc.fd is
   provided with the style.

2. moresize.zip
   Daniel Taupin's moresize.sty provides upper sizes corresponding to
   standard size increase of 1.2 above 3583. Fit for higher sizes
   'giant', 'Giant' and 'GIANT' (above 'huge', 'Huge' and
   'HUGE'). Compatible but more extended with Christian Cornelssen's
   version of 'moresize.sty'.

   Requires extended *.fd, provided with the package.

3. varsects.sty
   Package varsects.sty redefines \chapter, \section,
   \subsection... etc. with optional parameters changing vertical
   space before and after the title, and the font size, series, shape
   or family of this title.

   Usage is obvious when looking in the contents of the file.

i have installed all these files in macros/latex/contrib/supported/taupin

thanks, daniel, for the uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Feb 15 10:54:04 2002
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:53:26 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: EC fonts of size more than 3583 

daniel taupin has uploaded:

  Three upper size extensions for EC fonts, corresponding to standard
  size increase of 1.2 above 3583. Fit for higher sizes 'giant',
  'Giant' and 'GIANT' (above 'huge', 'Huge' and 'HUGE') as provided by
  Taupin's version of 'moresize.sty'

i have installed the .zip files of these extensions in
fonts/ec/contrib

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Feb 15 11:02:59 2002
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 17:01:31 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: dvispell-dvistats 

daniel taupin has uploaded:

  A linux or MSDOS/djgpp version of dvispell is provided (no more
  limited to 8+3 file names). Install specifications are included as
  well as a comprehensive set of dictionaries for spelling
  check. Win9x/MSDOS executable are provided.

i have installed the files at support/dvispell

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sun Feb 17 03:21:03 2002
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 10:15:06 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- esint package

----- Forwarded message from Eddie Saudrais -----
1. I upload the esint package on ftp.dante.de. They are 3
files: esint.ins, esint.dtx and esint.readme.

2. Please, put the files on macros/latex/contrib/supported.

3. As usual, this is a GNU General Public Licence.

4. This package provides several alternate integral symbols
(like \oiint) using the Computer Modern font. Run latex on
esint.ins to generate the files, install them (see the
esint.readme), and run latex on esint.dtx file to obtain the
documentation.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/esint/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 18 05:26:09 2002
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 11:22:43 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: webo.tar.gz 

Maurizio Loreti writes:

> + what you've uploaded
>   A file calles webo.tar.gz
> + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>   ftp.tex.ac.uk
> + where you want the files to go
>   they are intended to replace the files in tex-archive/fonts/webomints
> + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
>   public domain
> + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>   This is an upgrade to a previous upload.  Some files have been
>   added, and the "Makefile" modified.  Here follows the included
>   README file:
> 
> On Tuesday 05 Feb 2002, Walter Schmidt (wal_schmidt@arcormail.de) has
> posted a message on comp.text.tex about a freely downloadable
> PostScript Type-1 font containing various types of ornaments.
> 
> The URL is http://www.galapagosdesign.com/download/index.html, and
> contains the following lines:
> 
>         Galapagos Design Group is pleased to make available to the
>         Internet community free downloads of original typefaces and
>         clipart.
> 
>         Our first offering is a tasty border and ornament font called
>         Web-O-Mints.  Created by George Ryan, Web-O-Mints contains a
>         rich assortment of typographic decorations inspired by
>         historical sources.
> 
>         The Web-O-Mints font is available in TrueType or PostScript
>         format, for use on PCs or Macs.  Web-O-Mints can be downloaded
>         and used immediately in all environments.  We hope you enjoy
>         using this original collection of images.
> 
> Here are all the files needed to use these fonts in LaTeX (generated
> with the "fontinst" package) and three small example LaTeX files:
> download these files in a local directory, cd there and type "make
> samples".  Requires the fancyhdr package, and config.cmz for dvips.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Feb 18 14:24:53 2002
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 20:19:20 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New package on CTAN: Rotpages 

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Rotpages package
Author's name: Sergio Callegari
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/rotpages
Summary description: Multiple page rotation in latex 2e
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The rotpages.sty package for latex 2e permits to format documents where 
small sets of pages are rotated by 180 degrees and rearranged, so that 
they can be read by turning the printed copy upside-down.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Tue Feb 19 05:36:10 2002
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:30:31 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- preview-latex 0.6

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----

I have uploaded preview-latex-0.6.tar.gz and
preview-0.6.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
Its license is the GPL.

I would recommend installing it in the following way:

Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.6.tar.gz under
support/preview-latex/
and unpack the
README from it to support/preview-latex/README
Create a symbolic link from
support/preview-latex/preview-latex.tar.gz
to
preview-latex-0.6.tar.gz
so that people can always get the newest version under this name.

Unpack preview-0.6.tar.gz in the directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/

It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins.

The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a
standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX
source into separate pages of a DVI file.

Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted.

Here are the release notes:

Release notes for version 0.6 of the preview-latex package:

preview-latex is a system for displaying inline images of selected
parts of a file in Emacs source buffers.  It is released under the GNU
Public License (GPL).  At the current point of time, GNU Emacs-21.1,
AUC TeX, a working LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required.
XEmacs support is not yet operative, and contributions would be
welcome.  Due to missing image support of Emacs-21.1 under Microsoft
Windows, this platform is not usable at the current point of time,
either.

Release focus is user interface improvements and documentation.  Main
point has been an attempt to refrain from disabling previews unless
the text under it has indeed changed and not just been replaced by
something identical or decorated with font-lock.  This makes
preview-latex behave better when filling paragraphs, for example.
Menu entries for clearing out previews again have been added, and
temporary directories are removed when leaving Emacs.  A TeXinfo manual
has been started.  Provision has been made for configuration files
prdefault.cfg and prauctex.cfg for commonly defined operations.  The
latter file is provided and installed.

User feedback about errors and suggested feature improvements is
welcome and heeded.  The home page is
<URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project
page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at
<URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>.


For users of RedHat linux, a RPM is provided at the above site
primarily for RH 7.x. The RPM requires a few packages:

* GhostScript 6.51 is included in RH 7.2, but if you use an earlier
  release it can be downloaded from the RH7.2 updates,
  <URL:ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/i386/>

* AUC TeX can be found at several places, but if you want the latest
  11.11 (alpha, but stable AFAIK) with no known issues concerning
  preview-latex, an RPM can be found at the project homepage.

* Finally, Emacs-21.1 can be downloaded from rawhide,
  <URL:ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/>.
  I installed this using 'rpm -i --nodeps --force', which worked for
  me, but since it does not follow the usual emacs + emacs-X11 +
  emacs-nox, YMMV.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/ and
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 20 10:22:57 2002
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:17:50 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload --- titling package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded titling.dtx to the UK incoming directory. Please
> use this to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/titling/titling.dtx
> 
> From the README
> 
>     The titling package provides controls over the typesetting of the
> \maketitle and \thanks commands, makes the \title, \author, and \date
> information permanently available, and allows multiple titles in a single
> document.
> 
>     There is no technical change but some new examples have been added to
> the documentation.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Feb 20 13:51:51 2002
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:46:06 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New on CTAN: txt2latex

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: txt2latex
Author's name: Tristan Miller 
Location on CTAN: support/txt2latex
Summary description: Converts text files for use with LaTeX by escaping special characters and fixing quote marks
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a small Perl script intended to facilitate batch conversion of 
largely unformatted ASCII text for use with LaTeX.  In contrast to txt2tex, 
it does not assume the document has any underlying structure.  Its sole 
purpose is to escape special LaTeX characters and to fix single and double 
quotation marks.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Feb 25 06:42:54 2002
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:36:25 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: "[iso-8859-1] J�rgen Vollmer" <juergen@informatik-vollmer.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de, "Wilson, Peter R" <peter.r.wilson@boeing.com>, Henrik Holm <h.holm@spray.no>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- draftcopy

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, J�rgen Vollmer wrote:

> I put a new version (2.16) of my  draftcopy  package to ftp.dante.de
>
> This package is used to print on some pages the word `DRAFT'
> (or the language dependent analogon) ``behind'' the intended stuff.
>
> The following files are contained in draftcopy.tar.gz
>     draftcopy/draftcopy.ins
>     draftcopy/draftcopy.doc
>     draftcopy/Makefile
>     draftcopy/README
>     draftcopy/THIS-IS-VERSION-2.16
>
> Please put it into
>        CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/draftcopy/
>
> I'm looking still for translations for the word DRAFT.
> Have a look into draftcopy.sty, which are missing and send me some...
>
> Note: PDF support is still missing, but many people gave me hints how to do it.
>       If I have some spare time ....
>
> Changes since the last version:
> 	- replaced a \count99 by \count@
>
> With best regards
> J�rgen Vollmer
>
> PS:
> Thanks to all people, sending me new ideas and code, your are mentioned in the
> package code.

Thanks for the update. I installed it as you requested, replacing the old
version in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/draftcopy

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 28 01:38:23 2002
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:34:08 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: nth.sty put on ctan: uk 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I see there is no nth.sty on ctan, so I uploaded a new-revised version
> to Cambridge.
> 
> Public domain license.
> 
> To go in macros/latex/contrib/other/misc or in macros/generic/?
> 
> % nth.sty  version 2002/27/02 Donald Arseneau
> % Ordinal numbering style, 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th... 12th... 101st 102nd...
> %
> % (Public domain: take, include, extract, whatever)
> %
> % In LaTeX: 
> %           \usepackage[super,negative]{nth}
> % where option [super] gives superscript `th'
> % and option [negative] allows ``st, nd, rd'' suffixes on negative numbers.
> %
> % example:  \renewcommand{\thesection}{\ordinal{section}}
> % or        \renewcommand{\thesection}{\@ordinal\c@section}
> % or        \renewcommand{\thesection}{\nth\c@section}
> %   
> % In plain TeX: 
> %           \input nth.sty
> % use:      \nth{<number>}.
> % Change formatting by redefining \nthscript and \nthtest

i've installed the file in macros/generic/nth.sty (since it looks as
if it is just that).  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 28 05:19:03 2002
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:13:46 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Uploads to CTAN -- tex4ht and AlProTex

Eitan Gurari writes: 

> ============================== tex4ht =====================
> 
> >    + what you've uploaded
> 
> tex4ht.zip  
> 
> >    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> cam.ctan.org / incoming
> 
> >    + where you want the files to go
> 
> Replacement for tex4ht.zip at
> 
>     support/TeX4ht/ 
> 
> >    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
> >      below).
> 
> lppl
> 
> >    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> >    (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing)
> 
> The system translates (la)tex files to hypertext.  The upload is a
> yearly upgrade for the previous version.
> 
> ============================== AlProTex.sty ===================
> 
> >    + what you've uploaded
> 
> AlProTex.sty
> 
> >    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> cam.ctan.org / incoming
> 
> >    + where you want the files to go
> 
> Replacement for AlProTex.sty at
> 
>     web/protex/ directory
> 
> >    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
> >      below).
> 
> lppl
> 
> >    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> >    (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing)
> 
> The file is an extension of the (la)tex based literate programming
> system ProTeX. The upload adjusts the hypertext component to address
> changes made in tex4ht.

i've installed both files as requested.  thanks for the uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 28 05:25:25 2002
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:24:26 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: smartref 1.9 uploaded 

Giuseppe Bilotta writes:

>    + what you've uploaded
> 
>    smartref19.zip
>    
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
>    ftp.tex.ac.uk
>    
>    + where you want the files to go
> 
>    the three files (smartref.sty, byname.sty and readme.txt)
>    should overwrite the previous ones in
> 
>    macros/latex/contrib/other/smartref
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
> 
>    LPPL
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
>    This is version 1.9 of my SmartRef package, which adds "deep"
>    reference capabilities: the user can choose which extra counters
>    (usually part, chapter, section) number are to be stored
>    with labels so that they can be retrieved to know in which
>    part, chapter, section a certain equation, figure, table was
>    set, without having to mark the part, chapter or section.
>    
>    This release solves an issues where equation labels were not used
>    when using AMS-LaTeX, and it makes the \smartref command
>    robust.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Mar  1 09:33:22 2002
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:29:52 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New on CTAN: mathdots.sty

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way to your favorite mirror on the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=========================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: mathdots.sty
Author's name: Danial H. Luecking 
Location on CTAN: macros/generic
Summary description: Defines an "inverse \ddots" and improves \ddots and \vdots.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The mathdots packages provides the command \iddots for
diagonal dots slanting the opposite of \ddots. It also
modifies the LaTeX/plainTeX \ddots and \vdots so that they
change size with LaTeX's size changing commands (such as
\large), and also change size appropriately in sub- and
superscripts. 
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Mon Mar  4 10:15:16 2002
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:07:56 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: FixpPak 8 for emTeX/TDS (OS/2)

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file emtexfix8.zip to the /incoming directory
at ftp://dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack it in the CTAN directory

  systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS .

Doing so will replace the present files

  readme.eng
  readme.ger 
  README.fixes

and create a new subdirectory 

  fix008 .

(Please, do not specify the option -a for unzip; text files have 
already Unix line endings.)

Please, remove the existing subdirectories fix004, fix005, fix006 
and fix007; they are obsolete now.

This is FixPak 8 for emTeX/TDS; see the file README.fixes for an 
overview.  
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the update in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS
as suggested and removed the old fix00? directories.

-- 
Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Mar  5 02:47:30 2002
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:43:03 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update -- snapshot pkg version 1.13

----- Forwarded message from Michael John Downes -----
I have submitted a new version 1.13 of the LaTeX package "snapshot".

There are two main changes in this version:

1. Give suitable warnings for files listed in an embedded
   \RequireVersions statement that do not appear in \@filelist, and vice
   versa. (This was on the to-do list.)

2. Add a "test" option that might be used, with some auxiliary
   scripting, as a sort of system-independent way to resolve file names
   to a full path for the files listed in the \RequireVersions info.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it as suggested replacing the 
old version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/snapshot/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Mar  5 08:56:04 2002
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:47:51 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: TeXaide

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: TeXaide
Author's name: Design Science
Location on CTAN: support/texaide
Summary description: TeXaide is a special version of Equation Editor 
  that generates TeX & LaTeX.
License type: nosource

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
TeXaide

TeXaide(TM) is a special version of our Equation Editor that generates 
TeX using MathType's TeX translator technology. Whereas Equation Editor 
can be used with any application that supports OLE or can paste a graphic 
from the clipboard, TeXaide only generates TeX on the clipboard, where 
it can be pasted into any TeX system. Now you can generate TeX equations 
using Equation Editor's easy-to-use interface! Insert hundreds of 
characters and symbols without having to look them up!

The following TeX translators are supplied: 

Plain TeX 
AMS TeX 
AMS LaTeX 
LaTeX 2.09 and later 

TeXaide is available for Windows 95, 98, 2000, Me, XP, NT 4.0 and newer, 
and comes with a comprehensive help file that describes how to use the 
product. The download is only 1MB.

TeXaide is free; all we ask in return is for your email address. From 
time to time we'll send you information related to our mathematical 
typesetting products but will not use your email address for any other 
reason.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Wed Mar  6 02:04:49 2002
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:00:00 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update -- webfiles 1.0.1

----- Forwarded message from Mark Potse -----
I just uploaded version 1.0.1 of the WEBFILES package to
CTAN. Although the last release was two years ago, there
are few changes. The code for PDF links has been improved,
the color of links changed from red to blue to conform with
other packages, and the documentation now mentions that recent
versions of Levy & Knuth's cweave should be run with the +e 
flag to work correctly with webfiles.sty!

Mark Potse 
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/web/webfiles/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Mar  6 16:53:27 2002
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 22:48:59 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- subfigure and captcont packages. 

Steven Douglas Cochran writes (making it possible for me to produce
two separate announcements, but it's late and i'm bundling them into
one):

> BEGIN======================== subfigure package ========================
> 1.  Name of your contribution:
> 	 subfigure
> 
>     Your name:
> 	 Steven Douglas Cochran
> 
>     Summary description:
> 	 LaTeX package for providing support for the inclusion of
> 	 small, `sub', figures and tables.  It simplifies the
> 	 positioning, captioning and labeling of them within a single
> 	 figure or table environment.  In addition, this package
> 	 allows such subcaptions to be written to the List of Figures
> 	 or List of tables if desired."
> 
>     Suggested CTAN directory:
> 	 macros/latex/contrib/supported/subfigure/
> 
>     Short text for announcement:
> 
>          The subfigure package version 2.1 is finally (officially)
>          released.  If you have been using version 2.0 or earlier,
>          than you should notice no difference in its default behavior.
>          If you have been using a beta release of version 2.1, you may
>          need to add the "tight" option to maintain the same
>          "look-and-feel" that you are used to.  In addition, if you
>          use the options: RM, SF, TT, MD, BF, IT, SL, SC, or UP; you
>          will need to add their lowercase counterparts to get the same
>          output (see below).
> 
> 	 The main differences are:
> 
> 	   1. Bug fixes.
> 
> 	   2. Second optional argument to \subfigure to allow control
>               over the list-of-figures entry separately from the
>               subcaption.
> 
> 	   3. A "tight" option for a more compact and better looking
>               arrangement of your subfigures, the subcaptions and the
>               main caption.
> 
>            4. A \subref command to allow references to the subfigure
>               without the associated figure number (useful in the main
>               caption).
> 
>            5. New "raggedright" option for the subcaption.  Also,
>               changed the "RM", "SF", "TT", "MD", "BF", "IT", "SL",
>               "SC", and "UP" options to only affect the label portion
>               of the subcaption.  Their lowercase counterparts affect
>               the subcaption text as before.  You can now combine some
>               of these options for different effects---see the
>               documentation.
> 
> 2.  Indicate the license:
> 	  LaTeX Project Public License
> 
> 3.  Uploaded file(s):
> 	  The uploaded subfigure.tar.gz file unzips and untars into a
>           local ./subfigure directory.  The contents of this directory
>           are:
> 
> 		Makefile	To install or process documentation on 
>                                 a UNIX system.
> 		README		Manifest and overview of these files.
> 
> 		subfigure.dtx   Code and documentation.
> 		subfigure.ins
> 
> 		test.tex	Test / example files.
> 		test2.tex
> 		test3.tex
> 		test4.tex
> END========================== subfigure package ========================
> 
> 
> BEGIN======================== captcont package =========================
> 1.  Name of your contribution:
> 	 captcont
> 
>     Your name:
> 	 Steven Douglas Cochran
> 
>     Summary description:
> 
>          LaTeX package for providing support for retaining a figure or
>          table number across several float environments---usually over
>          several pages.  It also allows control over the contents of
>          the List-of-Figures and the List-of-Tables pages.
> 
>     Suggested CTAN directory:
> 	 macros/latex/contrib/supported/captcont/
> 
>     Short text for announcement:
> 
>           The captcont package provides the ability to continue the
>           numbering in your float environment (figure, table, etc.)
>           with a minimal overhead.  This package adds three commands:
>           \caption*, \captcont, and \captcont*.  Along with the
>           \caption command, these give full control over the caption
>           numbering, caption text and the entries in the list-of
>           pages.
> 
>             o  \caption and \captcont generate list-of page entries.
> 	    o  \caption and \caption* increment the figure or table
> 	       counter.
> 
>           This package also fully supports the subfigure package.
> 
> 2.  Indicate the license:
> 	  LaTeX Project Public License
> 
> 3.  Uploaded file(s):
> 	  The uploaded captcont.tar.gz file unzips and untars into a local
>           ./captcont directory.  The contents of this directory are:
> 
> 		Makefile	To install or process documentation on 
>                                 a UNIX system.
> 		README		Manifest and overview of these files.
> 
> 		captcont.dtx    Code and documentation.
> 		captcont.ins
> 
> 		test.tex	Test / example file.
> END======================== captcont package =========================

i've installed the files as suggested.  thanks for the uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Mar  7 12:39:38 2002
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 18:36:23 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: SQLTeX

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org.  It should
make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: SQLTeX
Author's name: Oscar van Eijk
Location on CTAN: support/SQLTeX 
Summary description: An SQL Preprocessor for LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
SQLTeX is a well documented preprocessor to enable the use of SQL statements 
in LaTeX . It is a perl script that reads an input file containing the LaTeX 
source with SQL commands, and writes a LaTeX file that can be processed with 
your LaTeX package. 

The SQL commands will be replaced by their values. It's possible to select a 
single field for substitution substitution in your LaTeX document, or to be 
used as input in another SQL command. 

When an SQL command returns multiple fields and or rows, the values can only 
be used for substitution in the document. 

This version only supports MySQL databases. It has been tested on Linux, but 
should work an all platforms where Perl is installed.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Mar  8 01:13:06 2002
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 07:07:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memfixa package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memfixa.sty to UK/incoming. Please use this to replace
> the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir/memfixa.sty.
> 
>     The memfixa package provides temporary fixes for the memoir class. This
> release (v1.2) provides a trial fix for hiccups when the natbib package is
> used with the memoir class. I would be grateful if anybody using the
> memoir/natbib combination tried it out and let me know if it does not work
> before I add it to the next release of memoir.

i've installed the package as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Mar  8 05:21:30 2002
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 11:17:31 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ccaption package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded ccaption.tar to the UK incoming directory. It is a
> new version of the ccaption package to match the soon-to-be-released version
> 2.1 of the subfigure package. AFTER subfigure 2.1 has been installed on CTAN
> please use ccaption.tar to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccaption, and announce it (I am away on
> business all next week).
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The ccaption package provides commands for `continuation captions',
> unnumbered captions, and a legen heading for any environment. Methods are
> also provided to define captions for use outside floats and to define new
> float (and subfloats with the subfigure package) environments. Tools are
> provided for specifying your own captioning styles.
> 
> Changes in version 3.1
> o subfigure option code changed to match released version 2.1 of the
> subfigure package.

the files were (eventually) uploaded a day or so ago, at the same time
as was the new version of subfigure.  i omitted to send this
announcement at that time -- my apologies.  thanks, peter, for the
upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sun Mar 10 03:41:45 2002
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 10:35:31 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update -- bmeps 1.0.2

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20020306.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: bmeps 1.0.2
Name and email: Dirk Krause
Suggested location on CTAN: CTAN:/tex-archive/support/bmeps
Summary description: Bugfix for the bmeps program
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
bmeps is a program to convert from PNG, TIFF, JPEG, NetPBM
to EPS. It writes PS levels 1, 2 and 3. Depending on the
PS level one can use run-length, flate and ASCII85-compression or encoding.
Alpha channels in PNG and TIFF can be converted to PS level 3 image masks.
This package contains a bugfix related to malformed DSC comments.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the update, I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/bmeps/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar 11 11:37:37 2002
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:33:25 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- tocbibind package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded tocbibind.tar to UK/incoming. Please use this to replace
> /macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocbibind. The distribution is under the
> LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The tocbibind package can be used to add the ToC and/or bibliography
> and/or the index. etc., to the Table of Contents listing.
> 
> Changes in version 1.5c
> o Fixed problem with \tocetcmark

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 11 11:37:38 2002
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:35:02 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Andreas Scherer <andreas.scherer@pobox.com>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: CWEBbin 3.64 [p20]

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Andreas Scherer wrote:

> I have uploaded the files
>
>    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin/README.p20
>    ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin/cwebbin-p20.tar.gz
>
> containing the adaptation of CWEBbin to the current CWEB 3.64 as of March
> 2002.  CWEBbin consists of a set of change files (to be applied with the TIE
> processor) that make the original sources usable with ANSI-C/C++ compilers on
> UNIX/Linux, MS/Windows, and Amiga.  Extra functionality, like TeX macros and
> CWEB macros for international documentation of CWEB programs, is introduced
> in the archive and documented in README.p20.  Binary files are not shipped
> with this distribution.
>
> CWEBbin is contributed to the public domain. Licensing conditions are the
> same as those of CWEB proper.
>
> Both the README.p20 file and the cwebbin-p20.tar.gz archive should be
> installed at
>
>    CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cwebbin
>
> and should replace the now out-dated version [p19].

Thanks for the update, which I installed as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Tue Mar 12 06:29:06 2002
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:25:13 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update -- preview-latex-0.6.1.tar.gz

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----
I have uploaded preview-latex-0.6.1.tar.gz and
preview-0.6.1.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
Its license is the GPL.

I would recommend installing it in the following way:

Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.6.1.tar.gz under
support/preview-latex/
and unpack the
README from it to support/preview-latex/README
Create a symbolic link from
support/preview-latex/preview-latex.tar.gz
to
preview-latex-0.6.1.tar.gz
so that people can always get the newest version under this name.

Unpack preview-0.6.1.tar.gz in the directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/

It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins.

The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a
standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX
source into separate pages of a DVI file.

Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted.

Here are the release notes:

Release notes for version 0.6.1 of the preview-latex package:

preview-latex is a system for displaying inline images of selected
parts of a file in Emacs source buffers.  It is released under the GNU
Public License (GPL).  At the current point of time, GNU Emacs-21.1,
AUC TeX, a working LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required.
XEmacs support is again being worked on.  If you are planning on
contributing, please contact the developers' list.  Due to missing
image support of Emacs-21.1 under Microsoft Windows, this platform is
not usable at the current point of time.

Release focus have been user interface improvements and documentation.
The TeXinfo documentation now also contains instructions for the used
LaTeX style, and users of Emacs' desktop package will have previews
survive into their next Emacs session.  The LaTeX style now has an
option for making TeX bounding boxes known to Dvips in case it gets
them wrong (frequent with packages like PStricks).  Due to a defective
backport of security handling, GNU GhostScript-6.53 failed to work
with version 0.6.  We now don't use the incomplete functionality.

User feedback about errors and suggested feature improvements is
welcome and heeded.  The home page is
<URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project
page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at
<URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>.

If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this
project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>.

Additional files can be found at
<URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>:

* If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt
  documentation files can be found there.

* AUC TeX can be found at several places, but if you want the latest
  11.11 (alpha, but stable AFAIK) with no known issues concerning
  preview-latex, you can find it there as well.

* RPMs for preview-latex and AUC TeX are provided for users of RedHat
  Linux.

The RPMs require a few packages:

* GhostScript 6.51 is included in RH 7.2, but if you use an earlier
  release it can be downloaded from the RH7.2 updates,
  <URL:ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/i386/>

* Finally, Emacs-21.1 can be downloaded from rawhide,
  <URL:ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/>.
  I installed this using 'rpm -i --nodeps --force', which worked for
  me, but since it does not follow the usual emacs + emacs-X11 +
  emacs-nox, YMMV.

----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex and
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Mar 12 06:37:03 2002
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:36:24 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Submission -- paralist v2.3a

----- Forwarded message from Bernd Schandl -----
I have uploaded the file paralist.zip to the /incoming directory of
ftp.dante.de.

The package is licensed under the LPPL.

I recommend placing the unpacked files README, paralist.ins and
paralist.dtx in
	macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/paralist/
replacing the old versions.

>From the abstract:
	This style file provides some new list environments. Itemized and
	enumerated lists can be typesetted within paragraphs, as
	paragraphs and in a compact version. Most environments have
	optional arguments to format the labels.
	Additionally, the \LaTeX\ environments |itemize| and |enumerate|
	can be extended to use a similar optional argument.

New in the version are:
- Documentation mentions problem with babel package when using the french
  option
- Some bug fixes for calculating the left margin in nested lists where
  enumerate and itemize are mixed.
----- End of forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload,  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Mar 12 06:46:21 2002
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:45:03 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update -- Euler-VM v2.8, ly1-min.zip, icomma.sty 2.0

Walter Schmidt was as helpful as ever and sent three package updates to us:

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file eulervm.zip to the /incoming 
directory at ftp://dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack this 
archive to the CTAN directory

          fonts/eulervm/

Doing so will replace the files "readme" and "eulervm.dtx".

This is release 2.8 of the LaTeX package eulervm.sty, 
supporting the use of the Euler math fonts with LaTeX.  

Apart from a minor code cleanup, the package has been 
modified so that it works not only with roman, but also
with sans serif text fonts now.  

The .vf. and .tfm files of the Euler-VM fonts are unchanged.

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file ly1-min.zip to the /incoming directory
at ftp://dante.ctan.org.
  
Please, move this archive -- without unpacking it -- to the
directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/ly1/, thus
replacing the existing file.

This archive includes a minimum set of support files for using
the LY1 encoding with LaTeX.  The present submission fixes only
the file texnansi.enc, which had a wrong glyph name for the
Euro symbol.  The original source of the (correct) file is:

      <http://www.YandY.com/download/texnansi.enc>

The other files in the archive are unchanged.

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file icomma.dtx to the /incoming directory
at ftp://dante.ctan.org.  Please, move it to the directory
  
  macros/latex/contrib/supported/was/

thus replacing the existing file.

This is version 2.0 of the LaTeX package icomma.sty.  It changes
the behavior of the comma in math mode, so that the comma can be
used both as a punctuation character and as a decimal separator.

As compared with the previous release, the package has been fixed
to avoid some potential problems.  Special thanks to Bernd Raichle
for providing the improved code!
----- End forwarded message -----

I installed all these updates as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Mar 13 02:38:14 2002
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:29:28 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update -- biblio 1.21

----- Forwarded message from "R.Stepanyan" -----
Please find below some information about a new version of my program 
Biblio, which I have recently uploaded on Your archive (ftp.dante.de).

Name of the		    Biblio v.1.2 
contribution

My name			    R. Stepanyan

My email		    rstepanyan@yahoo.com

Summary description	    system for maintaining and presenting
			    bibliographies

Suggested CTAN directory    biblio/

Short text for announcement:

Biblio is a program for preprocessing your bibliographic references
(written in Perl). After preprocessing the input TeX file it creates
output TeX file with references included according to the  formats
prescribed either in a separate file (template) or in the header of the
input TeX file. Output TeX is ready for LaTeX.

License			lppl
Note: license is changed (was Nosell)!

Name of the uploaded file: biblio1.21_12mar2002.tar.gz
(gunzip-ed tar archive)
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/biblio and removed the old one in
.../nonfree/support/biblio.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Mar 13 08:37:58 2002
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:34:32 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- language/bangtex

----- Forwarded message from Palash B Pal -----
   + what I've uploaded

The following files:

bfonts.tar.gz
bsample.tar.gz
bsty.tar.gz
README.bangtex

   + which CTAN node I've uploaded to

ftp.dante.de

   + where I want the files to go

Preferably in a directory/subdirectory called bangtex.

   + licensing conditions 

GPL

   + a brief summary of what the upload is intended to do.

The several tar.gz files contain font and class files for typesetting in
Bangla (Bengali) and Assamese. There are also some sample files, which
includes the manual. The installtion instructions can be obtained from

http://tnp.saha.ernet.in/~pbpal/bangtex/bangtex.html
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I unpacked the archives and installed them in
CTAN:/tex-archive/language/bangtex/{examples,latex,mf}

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Mar 13 08:37:57 2002
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:35:51 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update -- lettrine

----- Forwarded message from Daniel Flipo -----
I have just uploaded into ftp.dante.de/incoming a file lettrine.tar.gz,
which contains an upgrade (V 1.2) of the lettrine package designed to
typeset various sorts of dropped capitals.

It should replace the old version in 'macros/latex/contrib/supported/lettrine'.

The license is unchanged (LPPL).
 
This new version corrects a bug due to incorrect handling
of rubber lengths; the bug occured with seminar.cls for instance.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/lettrine'

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Mar 15 05:57:12 2002
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:52:53 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Ingo H. de Boer <idb@winshell.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: WinShell 2.1 upload

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Ingo H. de Boer wrote:

> I have uploaded WinShell 2.1 Release to
>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell
>
> Please move the files to
>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell/
>
> and delete all the older files.
>
> What is WinShell ?
>
> WinShell is a graphical user interface for easy working with LaTeX or
> TeX. It includes a text editor, different tool bars and user
> configuration options. It is NOT a LaTeX system. An additional LaTeX
> package for Windows is needed.
>
> WinShell falls under the 'nosource' licence.

Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Mar 16 11:19:17 2002
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:11:41 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New package on CTAN: iTeXMac

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: iTeXMac
Author's name: jerome Laurens
Location on CTAN: systems/mac/iTeXMac
Summary description: All in one application to use TeX on mac OS X
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
First release of iTeXMac.
This is a full cocoa application that takes benefit of mac os 10. It 
allows to produce higher quality TeX documents in a very efficient 
environment.  It is GPL product.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar 18 01:34:08 2002
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 07:30:26 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: uploaded: the sffms latex class 

"M.C.D" writes:

>     + what you've uploaded
> 
> sffms/sffms.dtx
> sffms/sffms.ins
> 
>     + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> cam.ctan.org
> 
>     + where you want the files to go
> 
> /macros/latex/contrib/supported/     or
> /macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/   - I'm not sure what the difference 
> is.
> 
>     + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
> 
> LPPL (1.2 & above)
> 
>     + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
> SFFMS is a latex class for formatting science fiction and fantasy 
> manuscripts in the format standard for the genre - 12pt monospaced font 
> with double spacing, etc., etc.  It is based on a previous style file 
> called sfms.  It would probably be appropriate for any fiction 
> manuscripts and non-technical non-fiction manuscripts as well.  Full 
> documentation is provided in the .dtx file.

i've installed the files in macros/latex/contrib/supported/sffms [the
latex2e directory is in fact an alias].

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Mar 18 05:26:56 2002
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:24:27 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- s2latex win32 binaries

----- Forwarded message from Kees Zeelenberg -----
I have uploaded to Dante an MS-Windows (Win32) executable for s2latex (converts Scribe documents to LaTeX documents):

s2latex-win32.exe
s2latex-win32.README

No changes to the sources were necessary to compile them.

I would suggest to place them in a subdirectory win32 of support / s2latex
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the files as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/s2latex/win32/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Mar 18 05:29:58 2002
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:29:29 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: [TeXmacs@math.u-psud.fr: Re: CTAN submission -- TeXmacs version 0.3.5.11]

----- Forwarded message from Joris van der Hoeven -----
I just uploaded the new GNU TeXmacs distribution in

          ftp.dante.de/incoming/TeXmacs

The new distribution contains the files

TeXmacs-1.0-1.i386.rpm
TeXmacs-1.0-1.src.rpm
TeXmacs-1.0-src.tar.gz
TeXmacs-1.0-static-gnu-linux.tar.gz

The files should be put into the directory systems/unix/TeXmacs
All existing files in this directory become obsolete,
except for the file .message.

-----------------------------------------------------------
Joris van der Hoeven <vdhoeven@texmacs.org>
http://www.texmacs.org: GNU TeXmacs scientific text editor
http://www.math.u-psud.fr/~vdhoeven: personal homepage
-----------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/unix/TeXmacs/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 18 16:24:13 2002
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:20:25 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Ingo H. de Boer <idb@winshell.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Correct WinShell 2.1 upload

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Ingo H. de Boer wrote:

 > I have uploaded the correct WinShell 2.1 Release to
 >
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell
 >
 > Please move the files to
 >
 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell/
 >
 > and delete all the older files.
 >
 > thanks & greets & sorry for the first incorrect version
 >
 >   Ingo
 >
 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 > What is WinShell ?
 >
 > WinShell is a graphical user interface for easy working with LaTeX or
 > TeX. It includes a text editor, different tool bars and user
 > configuration options. It is NOT a LaTeX system. An additional LaTeX
 > package for Windows is needed.
 >
 > WinShell falls under the 'nosource' licence.

Thanks for the corrected files, I installed them as you requested, in

  systems/win32/winshell

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Mar 19 10:35:51 2002
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:31:42 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upgrade: javaDVI

An upgrade of a package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and
should make its way through the mirroring process in the next day
or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=============================================================
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: javaDVI
Author's name: James Hurt
Location on CTAN: dviware/javadvi
Summary description: TeX and LaTeX DVI file viewer/printer coded in Java
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the second release of javaDVI, a DVI viewer and printer
coded in Java.  You will need Java RTE 1.3 to run this application.  
Read the file Readme.txt

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Mar 20 06:09:02 2002
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:05:15 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Enrico Bertolazzi <enrico.bertolazzi@ing.unitn.it>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Update of EASY package

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Enrico Bertolazzi wrote:

> I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped
> tar file easy.tgz. It contains the new version of easy macros
> family
>
> This file should replace
> the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy
> wich contain the old versions.

Thanks for the update. I installed it after removing the .DS_Store files.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Mar 20 06:10:58 2002
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:10:09 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Apostolos Syropoulos <apostolo@ocean1.ee.duth.gr>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: yhcmex10

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:

>   I have just uploaded on ftp.dante.de/incoming/yhmath
> the files TeX-yhmath10.pfb, yhmath.map and yhmath.pdf.
> The Type 1 font can be used to typeset documents that
> make use of the yhmath package.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in

   fonts/yhmath

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Mar 21 02:51:09 2002
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:46:33 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Bernd Schandl <schandl@gmx.net>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- paralist v2.3b

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Bernd Schandl wrote:

> I have uploaded the file paralist.zip to the /incoming directory of
> ftp.dante.de.
>
> The package is licensed under the LPPL.
>
> I recommend placing the unpacked files README, paralist.ins and
> paralist.dtx in
> 	macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/paralist/
> replacing the old versions.
>
> From the abstract:
> 	This style file provides some new list environments. Itemized and
> 	enumerated lists can be typesetted within paragraphs, as
> 	paragraphs and in a compact version. Most environments have
> 	optional arguments to format the labels.
> 	Additionally, the \LaTeX\ environments |itemize| and |enumerate|
> 	can be extended to use a similar optional argument.
>
> New in the version are:
> - Bug fixes for \setdefaultenum caused by changes made in v2.3a

Thanks for the upload. I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Mar 21 02:51:27 2002
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:49:22 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Paul Thompson <paul@wubios.wustl.edu>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: newlfm.zip

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Paul Thompson wrote:

> I have uploaded a new version of newlfm.zip to the dante.de incoming directory.
>
> Note that I uploaded newlfm.zip first, determined that a minor change was
> needed and tried to upload it again.  However,
> restrictions on incoming made that impossible.  Thus, the current version
> is anewlfm.zip. Please 1) delete newlfm.zip, 2) change anewlfm.zip to
> newlfm.zip and 3) install as required.  Sorry to be troublesome.
>
> It goes to macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/newlfm

This is just a link. The path is

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/newlfm

> License: gpl
> Here is an announcement for the list:
>
> Announcing newlfm.cls, Version 3.4 - this is a minor features upgrade
>
> newlfm stands for NEW Letter Fax Memo
>
> Available at CTAN
> macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/newlfm
>
> newlfm integrates the letter class with fancyhdr and geometry to
>
> o automatically make letterhead stationary
>
> o includes support for a database for addresses; instead of putting all
>    the information for different letters into different letters, you put
>    it in the database, and pull it into the letter with a single command
>
> o includes support for other languages, including pig Latin
>
> o includes a number of excluded article.cls features (table, figure)
>
> o integrates support for memos and faxes within the same package
>
> o full support for positioning of items (moving the date up or down; putting
>    the date between from and to blocks; etc.)
>
> o supports mass mailings and form letters easily and simply
>
> o prints addresses on labels.  One Avery label type is set up, while others
>    are being added.
>
> o supports 3 different types of letters (standard, business) and includes
>    full control for positioning of letter elements
>
> o has a full manual, for ease of use
>
> Try it out!!! You may never use the letter class again!!

Thankls for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar 23 11:40:39 2002
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 17:36:52 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload: devnag-contrib.zip 

anshuman pandey writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I've uploaded the devnag-contrib.zip to the incoming directory on
> ftp.tex.ac.uk. The zip archive has files intended for the directory 
> /language/devangari/contrib/. The archive contains stored path names
> for the following structures: 
> 
>   /fonts/dvpn/
>   /fonts/type1/
> 
> The files are supplemental files to be used by the "Devanagari for
> TeX" package that resides in /language/devanagari/.

i've installed the directories under language/devanagari/contrib/fonts

the type1 directory's readme says:

  These outline renderings (PostScript Type 1) of Frans Velthuis'
  Devanagari fonts for TeX were created by Primoz Peterlin
  <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>. 
  
  The original METAFONT sources were automatically converted to PFB using
  Peter Szabo's TeXtrace <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> package,
  and subsequently edited using George Williams' PfaEdit PostScript font
  editor <http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/>. 
  
  The AFM files were also automatically created by PfaEdit. Peterlin notes
  that a direct conversion from the TeX font metrics to Adobe font metric
  files might yield better results. 
  
  To use these Type 1 fonts, copy the contents of dvng.map to psfonts.map,
  or modify the dvips config.ps file to reference the file.
  
  Anshuman Pandey
  20 March 2002

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Mar 25 13:26:18 2002
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:00:42 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: TrueTypeToType42

A new package has been installed at 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@tug.ctan.org

===============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: TrueTypeToType42
Author's name: THomas H. Barton 
Location on CTAN: /fonts/utilities/TrueTypeToType42
Summary description: Conversion of TrueType to PostScript Type 42 font
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
TrueTypeToType42.ps and its auxiliary programs creates a PostScript Type 42 
font file from a TrueType font file. The included C program ShowAllGlyphs 
creates a PostScript program which shows all the glyphs defined by the font. 
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Mar 25 14:25:31 2002
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:15:43 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: ncclatex

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: ncclatex
Author's name: Alexander I Rozhenko
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/supported/ncclatex
Summary description: The NCCLATEX bungle is the first oficial release 
  of NCC-LaTeX classes
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This bungle contains the NCC class and NCCLATEX package released for use 
with LaTeX2e. It works together with NCCTOOLS, Release 2.03 or later. The 
description of classes and packages is provided with the ncclatex.tex guide 
(ncclatex.dvi is also available and can be announced to conferences). The 
NCC-LaTeX has many customization features and service commands making it 
more powerfull than standard LaTeX classes.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar 25 16:08:31 2002
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:04:55 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- layouts package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded layouts.tar.gz to UK /incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/layouts.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The layouts package enables the display of various elements of a
> document's layout including: general page layout; disposition of floats;
> layout of paragraphs, lists, footnotes, table of contents, and sectional
> headings; font boxes.
> 
>     Facilities are provided for a document designer to experiment with the
> layout parameters.
> 
> Changes in version v2.5a (2002/03/24)
> o Fixed problem with footer box size on page diagrams.

i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Mar 26 01:43:07 2002
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 07:40:24 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- verse package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>   I have uploaded verse.tar.gz to the UK /incoming directory. Please us this
> to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/verse.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     Verse provides some aids for typesetting simple verse (poems).
> 
> Changes in version 2.0 (2002/03/24)
> o Lines in a poem may be numbered (and \label ed)
> o Verses may be numbered or otherwise distinguished
> o Line-end macros (\\ and friends) work as advertised.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Mar 27 17:14:35 2002
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:09:08 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- verse package 

Peter Wilson writes:

> Dear CTAN/Robin,
> 
>     I have uploaded verse.tar.gz to UK/incoming. Please use this to replace
> the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/verse directory.
> 
>      The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
>     verse provides some aids for typesetting simple verse (poems).
> 
> Changes in version 2.1 (2002/03/28)
> o Added repeating patterns
> o Added \\> as a linebreaking command
> o Fixed \label when used with the first line of a poem.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Mar 28 02:47:19 2002
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:44:06 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Thomas Henlich <Thomas.Henlich@imm.tu-dresden.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: marvosym

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Thomas Henlich wrote:

> I've uploaded the file LICENSE to the ftp.dante.de/incoming/marvosym
> directory.
>
> This file describes the licensing conditions (GPL) of the marvosym package
> and should be placed along with it, in the fonts/psfonts/marvosym/ tree

Thanks for your upload. I placed the LICENSE file in

  fonts/psfonts/marvosym/LICENSE

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Mar 28 02:48:04 2002
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:47:27 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Olaf Kummer <olaf@renew.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: doublestroke font

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Olaf Kummer wrote:

> I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file ds.tar,
> which contains replacement files for the files in
> /tex-archive/fonts/doublestroke .
>
> This upload clarifies the license, which is
> essentially public domain with the restriction that
> Donald Knuth's conditions for modifying the CM fonts
> (from which the doublestroke fonts are derived)
> still apply.

Thanks for the update, the new files have been placed in

  fonts/doublestroke

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Mar 28 07:05:49 2002
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:02:11 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Eric Beitz <eric.beitz@uni-tuebingen.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: TeXshade v1.6

Eric Beitz <eric.beitz@uni-tuebingen.de> uploaded a new version of
the sequence alignment shading package TeXshade (v1.6).

Thanks for the upload, I installed it at the usual place in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/texshade

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Mar 28 07:50:26 2002
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:47:22 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New material on CTAN: ama.bst

New material has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make
its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: ama.bst
Author's name: Eric Kort 
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib
Summary description: AMA (JAMA, Cancer, NEJM, etc) Style File for Bibtex
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ama.bst is a modification of IEEE bibtex style file to conform to the 
American Medical Association Style Guide guidelines for references.  This 
is the style required by numerous biomedical journals (including JAMA, 
NEJM, Cancer) for manuscript submissions.  Don't forget to rebuild the 
file database after placing this file somewhere such as bibtex/bst/base
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 28 17:29:15 2002
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 23:25:14 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memoir.tar.gz to UK/incoming. Please use this to replace
> the current contents of macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir. Also, delete
> memfixa.sty from that directory (it has also been sitting in /incoming for
> some time now).

my desk is untidy, too.

> From the README:
>     Memoir is a configurable class for typesetting general fiction,
> non-fiction and mathematics. It encompasses the standard book and report
> classes and can simulate the article class, as well as double-spaced
> typewritten manuscripts.
> 
>     It provides a variety of predefined page, chapter and caption styles
> together with easy means of creating new ones. There is a reasonably
> intuitive way of specifying page margins, etc., with an option for printing
> trimming marks. Documents can use 9, 10, 11, 12 or 14pt as the normal font
> size.
> 
> Changes in version 1.1 (2002/03/28)
> o Incorporated all fixes from memfixa.sty that applied to version 1.0
> o Removed memfixa.sty
> o Minor change to *.clo files
> o Native support for subfigures
> o Fixed incompatibility with the natbib package
> o Additional facilities for verse typesetting
> o Experimental marginpar-like extensions
> o New edition of the user manual

i've installed (and deleted) files as requested.  thanks for the
upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Apr  2 02:20:30 2002
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:13:46 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- pdfpages v0.2g

----- Forwarded message from Andreas Matthias -----
I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages.zip' to
ftp.dante.de/incoming.

Please, extract this archive and replace the files in

  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/

The `pdfpages' package makes it easy to insert pages of
external PDF documents. Several logical pages can be
arranged onto each sheet of paper. (Like psnup.)
The package provides hypertext operations like
hyperlinks and article threads.


Changes in version 0.2g:

The new option `addtotoc' adds entries to the table of
contents. This may be useful, if putting together
conference proceedings.


It is distributed under the LPPL.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Apr  2 03:00:49 2002
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:57:42 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Korean version of lshort

----- Forwarded message from Cheol Ju -----
I uploaded `lshort-kr.pdf', `lshort-kr-src.tar.gz' and `README-kr' to dante.ctan.org/incoming/lshort-kr.
I want these files to go `CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/korean/
lshort-kr is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or higher.
lshort-kr is the korean translation of `The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2e'.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/korean/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Apr  3 02:40:06 2002
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 10:35:11 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX 4.20

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 4.20 and macro packages coming with BaKoMa TeX.

Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
1-Apr-2002

PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 4.20 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 4.20
   
For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95

HIGHLIGHTS

 * PostScript enabled TeX system.
   Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 
GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 9.0, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
MatLab, CorelDraw, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * OpenType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts: 
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.

USER INTERFACE

* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Typesetting a selected part of a document (styles may be precompiled as format).
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents: 
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
* Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
    correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
    configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* Support for Multi-User systems.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 4.20 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 4.10

  * Text Editor
    + Document Tabs for switching between Document Windows.
    + Windows of Console, Messages, Log-file, are managed 
      inside Centaur Frame window (switched via TAB Control).
    + GUI Control bars are switched via TAB Control instead of radio buttons.
      GUI Control bars may include bitmaps. 
      Added GUI Bar for insertion of LaTeX frequently used commands.
    + Show states of document tabs, toolbar, GUI Bar, status bar, and other
      control bars are controlled from context menu which is opened
      by right mouse button pushed under a control bar or program menu.
    + `File|Exit All BaKoMa TeX Programs' - new command.
    + Buttons for browsing through TeX Log file to TeX Control bar were added.
    + Alarm button is added at left edge of status bar.
      It is green when some warnings are in Message Window.
      It is blinked red when some errors are in message window.
      Pressing on this button shows Message Window.
    + Key binding list: list was changed to TAB Control.
    + Contents of text window is redrawn while dragging scroll bar thumb.
    + Moving mouse with pressed right mouse button drags text inside window.
    + Multiple click of left mouse button (without a moving) sequentially
      selects: Word, Line, Paragraph.

  * DVI Viewer
    + Added support for new HyperRef options:
        pdfpagemode, pdfstartview, pdfstartpage, pdfpagescrop, 
        pdfpagetransition, pdfpageduration, pdfpagehidden.
    + Options pdfstartview and pdfstartpage are handled by DVI Viewer.
    
  * Bug fixing
    + Fixed conflict between LaTeX packages: PSfrag and Color.
    + Font handling is refined to import EPS files produced by Corel 9/10.
    + Fixed incorrect handling of T1-fonts (CM+CX) (baseline quotes)
    + Fixed a buffer overflow at embedding DOCINFO object into PDF.

For more information about changes see
  <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes3.html>

---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version of BaKoMa TeX in
CTAN://tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/ as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Apr  3 13:00:36 2002
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:56:50 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: CurVe

An update to the package CurVe 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@tug.ctan.org

=================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: CurVe
Author's name: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: latex/contrib/supported/curve
Summary description: CurVe,  a LaTeX2e class for making curriculum vitae's
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm happy to announce a new release of CurVe, a class for
making curriculum vitae's, version 1.2. New in this
release: more translations, a starred form for the \entry
macro, with a simplified syntax, and most important,
support for standard bibliography inclusion.


CurVe is a class package that hopefully will make your
life easier when you want to write your CV. It provides
you with a set of commands to create rubrics, entries in
these rubrics etc. CurVe will then properly format your
CV for you (possibly splitting it onto multiple pages,
repeating the titles etc), which is usually the most
painful part of CV writing. Another nice feature of
CurVe is its ability to manage different CV "flavors"
simultaneously. It is in fact often the case that you
want to maintain slightly divergent versions of your CV
at the same time, in order to emphasize on different 
aspects of your background. CurVe also comes with support
for AUC-TeX.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Apr  3 13:00:38 2002
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:59:00 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: FiXme

An update to the package FiXme has been installed at tug.ctan.org
and should make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day
or two.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: FiXme
Author's name: Didier Verna 
Location on CTAN: latex/contrib/supported/fixme
Summary description: FiXme, insert fixme notes in your documents
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm happy to announce a new *major* release of FiXme, a
package for inserting fixme notes in your documents,
version 2.0. Many new features in this release, including
a new layout option (inline), notes counters, a usage
summary at the end of processing, more translations, and
most important, three additional macros for including 
non-critical notes (meta comments about the document
actualy) of different importance levels.


FiXme provides you with a way of inserting fixme notes in
your documents. Such notes can appear inline, as marginal
notes, footnotes, index entries, in the log file and as
warnings on stdout. It is also possible to summarize them
in a list. When you switch from draft to final mode, any
remaining fixme note will be logged, but removed from the
document's body. Additionally, critical notes will abort
compilation with an informative message. FiXme also comes
with support for AUC-TeX.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Apr  4 08:10:39 2002
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:06:35 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: purifyeps

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: purifyeps
Author's name: Scott Pakin 
Location on CTAN: support/purifyeps
Summary description: Make EPS files work with both latex+dvips and pdflatex
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
While pdfLaTeX has a number of nice features, its
primary shortcoming relative to standard LaTeX+dvips is
that it is unable to read ordinary Encapsulated
PostScript (EPS) files, the most common graphics format
in the LaTeX world.  purifyeps converts EPS files into
a "purified" form that can be read by *both*
LaTeX+dvips and pdfLaTeX.  The trick is that the
standard LaTeX2e graphics packages can parse
MetaPost-produced EPS directly.  Hence, purifyeps need
only convert an arbitrary EPS file into the same
stylized format that MetaPost outputs.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Apr  4 08:17:39 2002
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:17:01 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new CTAN package: plates

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its 
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: plates
Author's name: Anthony A. Tanbakuchi 
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/plates
Summary description: Float environment that is gathered to end of doc for special printing (eg. plates, photos, color diagrams)
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The plates package provides a simple facility for inserting color
figures in documents they should be gathered and printed together
- --- just like in books with a section of color plates. The benefit of
such a facility is to allow these special figures to be printed
separately  and later slipped into the final document. The package
provides the plates environment to handle this situation. The user
need only place these special figures in a plate environment
instead of a figure environment and issue a command to print the
plates at a chosen location in the document. Additional, if the
author wishes to have a version of the document where the color
figures are included in the text merely including the
figures option will change the behavior of the plates
environment to a figure environment, causing the plates to be
printed directly in the text.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Apr  6 11:17:07 2002
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 17:10:53 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: FigSize

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: FigSize
Author's name: Anthony A. Tanbakuchi 
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/figsize
Summary description: Dynamic and automatic sizing of graphics and other elements relative to page.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The FigSize package enables automatic sizing of graphics,
especially when including graphics with the graphicx package.  The
user only has to specify the number of graphics that should fit to
a page or fraction there of and the package will dynamically
calculate the correct graphics sizes relative to the page size.
Thus, graphics can be auto-sized to fill a whole page or fraction
and manual changes of graphic sizes are never needed when changing
document layouts!  Finally, the package's dynamic lengths can be
used to allow other document element sizes to be dynamic.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Apr  9 14:17:25 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 20:13:27 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Manuel Kauers <manuel@kauers.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: gauss.sty

On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 Manuel Kauers submitted an
update for the gauss package.

 > Name of contribution: gauss.sty
 > Summary description: A Package for Typesetting Matrix Operations
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Update of the package version which is currently online.
 > The old version was not compatible with the latest version of amstex. But new version is.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/other/gauss/

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Apr  9 14:18:30 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 20:17:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: Javier Bezos <jbezos@wanadoo.es>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission - titlesec 2.5

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Javier Bezos wrote:

 > I've uploaded to the Dante server the following 13 files
 > in /incoming/titlesec:
 >
 >   titlesec.tex
 >   titlesec.sty
 >   titletoc.sty
 >   block.tss
 >   drop.tss
 >   wrap.tss
 >   frame.tss
 >   margin.tss
 >   leftmargin.tss
 >   rightmargin.tss
 >   ttlkeys.def
 >   ttlps.def
 >   readme
 >
 > Please delete the contents of macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec
 > a place the new files in it.
 >
 > This release of titlesec/titletoc fixes some bugs as
 > for example:
 > - the extended settings didn't work properly in \titlespacing,
 > - the page class added a blank page after it even
 >   if openany.
 >
 > There are a few new features in titlesec (titletoc remains
 > almost unchanged):
 > - Now it's calc-savvy
 > - * shortand in lengths now accepts non integer numbers
 >   and the unit is not hardcoded.
 > - More meaningful errors at some places.
 >
 > License is still lppl.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec


 > I've also uploaded gloss.tex (in incoming/), which should replace the
 > file with the same name under macros/latex/contrib/supported/gloss
 > (a new explanation about the steps to follow and a important
 > typo fixed).

Thanks, I installed it as

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/gloss/gloss.tex

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Apr  9 15:01:12 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:00:37 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: MSC Macro Package

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: MSC Macro Package
Author's name: V. Bos
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/msc 
Summary description: With the MSC Macro Package you can draw Message Sequence Charts in LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The MSC Macro Package, version 1.10 is available.
This package was written by S. Mauw and V. Bos.

The MSC Macro Package provides LaTeX users with functionality to draw 
Message Sequence Charts. Version 1.10 is a major update since the previous 
version (which was available at http://www.win.tue.nl/~sjouke/mscpackage.html).
It supports the ITU standard MSC2000, including MSCs, Hig-level MSCs, and 
MSC documents.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Apr  9 16:16:26 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 22:14:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: MEGEVAND Denis <Denis.Megevand@obs.unige.ch>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload report [lettre]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, MEGEVAND Denis wrote:

 > I've uploaded the latest version (2.345) of my LaTeX class lettre.cls,
 > which is a designed to write letters
 > with LaTeX in french, german, english. The letter aspect is entirely
 > configurable, through a number of dimension and macros, that can be put also in
 > a so-called "institute package" called at initialization.
 >
 > The whole documentation, with examples of letters and faxes in english, german
 > and french is included in the subdirectory "doc", the class file itself, with
 > templates files, default institute and my institute files is located in the
 > subdirectory "inputs", and the package is completed by README files in english
 > and french, plus the lppl.txt file.

Thanks for your update. I replaced the old version at

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/lettre

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Apr  9 17:26:37 2002
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 22:22:15 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- tocbibind package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded tocbibind.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocbibind.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The tocbibind package can be used to add the ToC and/or the LoF/LoT
> and/or bibliography and/or index etc., to the Table of Contents listing.
> 
> Changes in version 1.5c (2002/04/09)
> o Fixed problem with \tocchapter in non-chaptered documents.

i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Apr  9 17:26:36 2002
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 22:24:41 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ccaption package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded ccaption.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current 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 a legend heading for any occasion. Methods are also
> provided to define captions for use outside floats, to define new floats and
> subfloats, and to style captions.
> 
> Changes in version 3.1a (2002/04/01)
> o subfigure option code changed to support version 2.1.2 of the subfigure
> package (coming to a CTAN near you soon).

i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Apr 10 12:45:58 2002
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:43:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Jean-Pierre.Drucbert@onecert.fr
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- shorttoc package

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 Jean-Pierre Drucbert wrote:

 > I just have uploaded a new version of the package:
 >
 > shorttoc (shorttoc.tar.gz)
 >
 > in the /incoming directory of the ftp.dante.de CTAN node.
 >
 > The contents of shorttoc.tar.gz should replace the contents of
 >
 > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/shorttoc
 >
 > The licence is LPPL.
 >
 > This version adds the macro
 >
 > \anothertableofcontents (or \anothertoc)
 >
 > to import and display the table of contents of another
 > document. It can also import and display the list of figures
 > (or similar things) from another document.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/shorttoc

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@dante.de Thu Apr 11 05:17:23 2002
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:12:36 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- dtk: A Document Class and Style for ``Die TeXnische Komoedie''

----- Forwarded message from Gerd Neugebauer -----
I have uploaded a new version of dtk-1.8.tar.gz to the incoming 
directory of ftp.dante.de. This file replaces the file 
usergrps/dante/dtk/dtk_1_6.tar.gz and the contents of the directory 
usergrps/dante/dtk/unpacked.
The files are distributed under the GPL.
Some words aout it:


		 dtk: A Document Class and Style for
		      ``Die TeXnische Komoedie''

			      written by
			   Gerd Neugebauer
		       gene@gerd-neugebauer.de


dtk is a document  class and style file  which has been written  to be
used for  the communications of  the German  speaking  TeX users group
Dante e.V.: ``Die TeXnische Komoedie''.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:/tex-archive/usergrps/dante/dtk/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sat Apr 13 02:36:33 2002
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 08:32:45 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- jurabib package v0.52h

----- Forwarded message from Jens Berger -----
I've just uploaded the file jurabib-052h.zip to

	ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/

This archive contains an updated version (0.52h) of the jurabib package. 

It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

The following files are included:

	jurabib.ins
	jurabib.dtx
	jbgerdoc.tex (German documentation)
	jbendoc.tex  (English documentation)
        changes.txt

Changes since 0.51n:

    bugfix regarding starred \cite-commands, produced fatal error,
        reported by Jan Reidar Oeverland.
    small bugfix regarding \jbfirstcitepageranges.
    wrong order of publisher and address in jureco.bst corrected
        (reported by Klaus Hellermann), all hardcoded ": "
        replaced by \bpubaddr.
    some improvements on norwegian language file nojbbib.ldf,
        contributed by Jan Reidar Oeverland.
    bugfix for indexing macros, reported by Andrea Rossato.
    bugfix for ibidem, reported by Matthias Steinbrink.
    command \jbfirstcitepageranges introduced, it enables the output
        of pageranges for first citation of @ARTICLE and @PERIODICAL
        and adds an `here' before the page given via the optional
        argument of the cite command:
            `Author: Title [...], p. 192-225, here: p. 200'
    \jbbookedaftertitle introduced, for a @BOOK-entry with author
        and editor you are able to switch from
            `author; editor (ed): title ...'
        to
            `author: title, ed. by editor, ...'
        this command is experimental!
    Markup for volume improved, it's possible to set a (globally)
        separation command after volume: \aftervolsep.
    New field `totalpages' for @BOOK type introduced, produces
        `n pages' at the end of the bibliographic entry. A new
        macro called \bibtotalpagesname can be used to adapt
        the sequence after the total pages number, but beware
        of using abbreviations with a period at the end, this
        can result in unwanted double dots! This feature is
        experimental too.
    again minor bugfix regarding \formatpages and `pages=format'.
    jurunsrt.bst reintroduced.
    small bugfix regarding \formatpages and `pages=format',
        reported by Klaus Hellermann.
    automatic formatting of second page removed, when using
        \formatpages and `pages=format' (suggested
        by Benjamin von Engelhardt).
    bugfix for \jblookforgender, reported by Benedikt Welter.
    markup for volume and indexed authors introduced, both
        suggested by Otto Janschek.
    small bugfix regarding `annote' option and `bibformat=tabular'.
    markup for ISBN and ISSN introduced.
    some modifications in frjbbib.ldf, contributed by H�l�ne Fernandez.
    some modifications in spjbbib.ldf and itjbbib.ldf,
        contributed by Pablo Rodriguez.
    some bugfixes for missing author in @COMMENTED.
    markup for numbered bibliography introduced (\bibnumberformat).
    \bibbudcsep added, configurable separation of \urldatecomment
        (suggested by Carsten Mennenoeh), docs adapted.
    some bugfixes regarding gender handling: you have to use
        \jblookforgender explicitely in the preamble now.
    again bugfix regarding `bibformat=ibidemalt', \fsted and
        \snded macros rewritten.
    hardcoded dot replaced by \bibatsep in \incolledformat
    check for jhuman.bst reintroduced.
    bugfix for `bibformat=ibidemalt', reported by Matthias Damm.
    \jbshowbibextralabel introduced to show extra label for
        works from same year in the bibliography.
    bugfix for `pages=format', wrong `s' removed (reported by Maarten
        Wisse).
    bugfix for `hypercite=false'; check for loaded hyperref package
        removed, caused wrong hyperlinks (reported by Maarten Wisse).
    \par added in \jbannoteformat (suggested by Robert Schlicht).
    \bib[e]imfont is using \bib[e]fnfont instead of
        \bib[e]lnfont by default (suggested by Robert Schlicht).
    minor bugfixes, some reported by Robert Schlicht.
    annote files for bibliography are useable now. These files
        have to be named like the bibliography database entry
        with .tex extension and are used if the annote field
        is empty. With \bibAnnotePath you can give a path
        to your annote files (suggested by Robert Schlicht).
    dummy year reintroduced, needed for correct label generating.
    superfluous whitespace in \cite removed.
    natbib emulation commands bug fixed and improved, much better
        endnotes-support now.
    natbib emulation commands are able to recognize a second optional
        argument.
    tilde removed from \jb@deactivate@babel.
    \citefield knows value `url' now.
    \cite command can print out url, if no shortauthor and shorttitle is
        given.
    jurabib speaks now italian, first trial. (Thanks to Pablo
        Rodriguez).
    small bug inside jurabib.bst fixed, reported by Tilman Finke.
    bugfix regarding \formatpages and `commabeforerest', found by Tilman
        Finke.
    again some definitions changed in spjbbib.ldf (thanks to Pablo
        Rodriguez).
    \formatpages has now two optional arguments, I added one to make the
        separation before the start page configurable; is influenced by
        `commabeforerest' by default.
    new commands added to adapt the separation of \formatpages
        automatically

Please replace the current files in the directory
CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib/
----- End forwarded message -----

Thank you for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Apr 15 04:04:07 2002
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:55:51 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- preview-latex 0.7

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----
I have uploaded preview-latex-0.7.tar.gz and
preview-0.7.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
Its license is the GPL.

I would recommend installing it in the following way:

Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.7.tar.gz under
support/preview-latex/
and unpack the
README from it to support/preview-latex/README
Create a symbolic link from
support/preview-latex/preview-latex.tar.gz
to
preview-latex-0.7.tar.gz
so that people can always get the newest version under this name.

Unpack preview-0.7.tar.gz in the directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/

It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins.

The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a
standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX
source into separate pages of a DVI file.

Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted.

Here are the release notes:

Release notes for version 0.7 of the preview-latex package:

preview-latex is a system for displaying inline images of selected
parts of a file in Emacs source buffers.  The employed style file
preview.sty is independently useful for extraction of selected text
elements as images.  The package is released under the GNU Public
License (GPL).  At the current point of time, GNU Emacs-21 under the X
window system, AUC TeX, a working LaTeX installation and GhostScript
are required.  This version for the first time also fully supports
XEmacs with a version of at least 21.1.  Some non-critical issues with
the display engine have been uncovered in the course of porting;
consult the PROBLEMS file for more information.  No versions have been
tested to run under the MS Windows operating system.  Recent CVS
versions of Emacs could possibly be made to run preview-latex there,
and you stand a chance of trying XEmacs there, too.  Please report
your experiences.

Release focus have been documentation improvements, staggering
performance enhancements, better error handling and new features.  For
the first time, workable XEmacs support is included.  The LaTeX style
has gained a load of new options.  It is now possible to generate all
image files for a document with a single run of GhostScript on a
single PostScript file from Dvips.

The README file has been changed in order to provide adequate
information for preinstalled distributions.  In that case, including
the separate INSTALL file will not be necessary.

User feedback about errors and suggested feature improvements is
welcome and heeded.  The home page is
<URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project
page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at
<URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>.

If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this
project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>.

Additional files can be found at
<URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>:

* If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt
  documentation files can be found there.

* AUC TeX can be found at several places, but if you want the latest
  11.11 (alpha, but stable AFAIK) with no known issues concerning
  preview-latex, you can find it there as well.

* RPMs for preview-latex and AUC TeX are provided for users of RedHat
  Linux.  For the binary RPMs, you will need the preview-latex-common
  RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM.

The RPMs require a few packages:

* GhostScript 6.51 is included in RH 7.2, but if you use an earlier
  release it can be downloaded from the RH7.2 updates,
  <URL:ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/i386/>.
  The current beta of RedHat 7.3 (see below) includes GhostScript 6.53.

* Emacs-21.2 is part of the beta release for RedHat 7.3 at
  <URL:ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/skipjack/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/>
  unless it has already been superceded by the regular release.
  I installed this using 'rpm -i --nodeps --force', which worked for
  me, but since it does not follow the usual emacs + emacs-X11 +
  emacs-nox, YMMV.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Apr 15 08:01:10 2002
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:57:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 4.30 with Instant Preview 

Basil K. Malyshev writes:

> I have uploaded to `ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/bakoma-430' directory
> 
> Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
> 
> General new feture of this version is *Dynamic Preview* of the 
> selected text. It is like to `Instant Preview' by Jonathan Fine.
> 
> In details see at end of this message.
> 
> Bye.
> Basil K. Malyshev
> 15-Apr-2002
> 
> PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.
> 
> --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 4.30 ----------------------
> 
> CONTENTS
>    * Highlights
>    * Graphical Capabilities
>    * Fonts
>    * User Interface
>    * PDF Generation Features
>    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 4.20
>    
> For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
>    <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
> 
> BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95
> 
> HIGHLIGHTS
> 
>  * PostScript enabled TeX system.
>    Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
>  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
>    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
>  * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
>    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
>  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
>  * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
>  * Easy to install and use.
>  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
>  
> GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
> 
> BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
> which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
> software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 9.0, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
> MatLab, CorelDraw, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
> 
> All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
> with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
> embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).
> 
> The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
>    PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.
> 
> FONTS
> 
> BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
>  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
>  * PostScript Type 3,
>  * TrueType,
>  * OpenType,
>  * TeX PK/VF.
> 
> The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
> and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
>  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
>  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
>  * EC/TC,
>  * LH (T2A),
>  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
>  * Malvern,
>  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
>  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
>  Math Fonts: 
>  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
>  Diagram drawing fonts:
>  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
>  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
>  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
> 
> Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
> This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
> between font formats when needed.
> This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
> On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
> for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
> 
> In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
> available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.
> 
> USER INTERFACE
> 
> * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
> * Typesetting a selected part of a document (styles may be precompiled as format).
> * Quick navigation via document structure,
> * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
> * Powerful support for different input encodings,
> * Project support,
> * Graphics import assistant,
> * Assitance for multi-file documents: 
>   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
> * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
> * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
> * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
> * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
> * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
> * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
>     correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
>     configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
> * Support for Multi-User systems.
> 
> OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
> 
> * View on Windows Display.
> * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
> * PostScript (really scalable),
> * PDF.
> 
> Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
> for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
> may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
> capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
> 
> PDF GENERATION FEATURES
> 
> * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
> * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
>   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
> * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
> * Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
> 
> NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 4.30 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 4.20
> 
>  DYNAMICAL PREVIEW
> 
>    Dynamical Preview is a new feature of BaKoMa TeX,
>    that allows the user to preview instantly selected region
>    of the file being edited.
> 
>    This feature is like to well known package: Instant Preview
>    (see: http://www.activetex.org).
> 
>    Dynamical Preview reformats the selected text on demand.
>    On modern computers, it refreshes preview window with every keystroke.
>    On old and slow computers, it will skip some editting stages.
>    In other words, this feature will not hang your input.
> 
>    Dynamical Preview is useful for completing following applications:
>    * typesetting complex paragraphs;
>    * typesetting complicated math formulas;
>    * designing a diagrams with LaTeX picture environment,
>      and with such macro packages as *PSTricks*, *Xy-Pic*, etc.
> 
>  MISCEANY:
>    * Handling of Mouse Wheel.
>    * `Generate as a Mirror Image' and `Generate as a Negative Image'
>      options was added to PDF Generation dialog.
>    * Del-key deletes non-persistent region.
>    * Shift + Left mouse click provides advanced way for selecting a text.
> 
> For more information about changes see
>   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes3.html>
> 
> ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

i have installed the files as requested (they actually live in
nonfree/, since the distribution is shareware, but there are links to
that tree from the main tree).

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team


From zierke@dante.de Wed Apr 17 08:33:29 2002
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:26:48 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- preview-latex 0.7.1

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----
I have uploaded preview-latex-0.7.1.tar.gz and
preview-0.7.1.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
Its license is the GPL.

0.7.1 is a bug fix release mainly interesting for XEmacs users (some
performance and error handling enhancements for GNU Emacs have been
done as well).  A potentially fatal XEmacs display bug in connection
with dired and installation issues has been fixed.  Please refer to
the previous announcement and the RELEASE file for details.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it replacing the a few days old
version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/
and
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Apr 18 11:45:00 2002
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:37:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: new version of OzTeX for CTAN (over 10MB) 

Andrew Trevorrow writes:

> oztex5.sit
> 
> It's a StuffIt archive and needs to be transferred in binary mode
> (it's NOT a MacBinary file).
> 
> The oztex5.sit file replaces ALL the existing files in
> CTAN/tex-archive/systems/mac/oztex/
> 
> OzTeX is shareware but I don't place any restrictions on its
> distribution so you can put it in the free tree if you like.
> Whatever you decide is fine by me.
> 
> OzTeX is a Macintosh implementation of TeX.  More details here:
> 
> http://www.trevorrow.com/oztex/
> 
> The site will be updated when oztex5.sit is available from CTAN.

i've installed the file in nonfree/systems/mac/oztex on the cambridge
ctan -- it'll propagate to the rest in due course.

thanks for the update.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Apr 22 03:28:42 2002
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:21:46 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- checkend and titlesec macros

----- Forwarded message from Javier Bezos -----
I uploaded to the dante server the following 2 files to
  /incoming/bezos:

  checkend.sty
  readme

checkend.sty should be added to the files under

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/bezos

while readme should replace the file with the same name in
that directory. From the style file:

% When an environment is left open, LaTeX gives an error at the
% end of the document. However it only informs about the first
% of them, while the rest are shown with meaningless errors:
% 
% (\end occurred inside a group at level N)
% 
% This package replaces them with more useful messages
% which show which environments (in reverse order) were
% not closed.
% 
% That's all. There are no user macros. Just use the package.

============

I've uploaded as well the following 2 files to
  /incoming/titlesec/

  frame.tss
  readme

which should replace the files with the same name under
  
  macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec

It's a bug fix (mispaced top rule in frame).
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed all files as suggested updating the
directories macros/latex/contrib/supported/bezos and
macros/latex/contrib/supported/titlesec

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Apr 22 04:44:38 2002
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:43:24 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: "[iso-8859-1] J�rgen Vollmer" <juergen@informatik-vollmer.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- rcsinfo

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, J�rgen Vollmer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I put a new version (1.9) of my  rcsinfo  package to ftp.dante.de
>
> The rcsinfo package is used to extract information of the RCS (Revision
> Control System) and use it in a LaTeX document.
> For users of LaTeX2HTML, a perl-package translating LaTeX documents to HTML,
> rcsinfo.perl is added, which adds the functionality to that tool.
>
> The following files are contained in rcsinfo-1.9.tar.gz
>    rcsinfo-1.9/rcsinfo.dtx
>    rcsinfo-1.9/rcsinfo.ins
>    rcsinfo-1.9/Makefile
>    rcsinfo-1.9/README-1.9
>
> Please put it into tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/rcsinfo
>
> HISTORY
> 1.9     : the initial \$ of \$Id may be omitted.
> 1.8     : rcsinfo.perl can deal now with latex2html version 99.1.
> 	  Restructured package files.
> 1.7.1   : Make does not abort, if laext2html is not found
> 1.7     : Underscores in file names are now handeled correctly.
> 1.6     : Fixed problems with the french-option of `babel'.
> 	  (The `:' is made active when using the french language.
> 	   Now rcsinfo can handle this situation).
> 1.5     : - The Babel-package is not loaded automagically anymore.
> 	    This avoids problems within the `babel'-package when other
> 	    packages (like `ifthen' or `varioref') are loaded _and_ no
> 	    language was given in the `documentclass'.
> 	  - Fixed the `notoday' option.
> 1.4     : Support fancyhdr-package, added rcsinfo.cfg configuration file.
> 1.3	: Fixed documentation, new address, reimplemeted parts, added
> 	  rcsinfo.perl.
> 1.2	: New Makefile.
> 1.1	: (internal changes).
> 1.0	: Initial Version, submitted to CTAN.
>
> License:
>    This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
>    of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
>    archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
>    version 1 of the License, or any later version.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/rcsinfo

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Apr 22 04:47:45 2002
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:47:15 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Ingo H. de Boer <idb@winshell.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: WinShell 2.2 upload

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Ingo H. de Boer wrote:

> I have uploaded the WinShell 2.2 Release to
>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell
>
> Please move the files to
>
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell/
>
> and delete all the older files.
>
> thanks & greets
>
>   Ingo
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> What is WinShell ?
>
> WinShell is a graphical user interface for easy working with LaTeX or
> TeX. It includes a text editor, different tool bars and user
> configuration options. It is NOT a LaTeX system. An additional LaTeX
> package for Windows is needed.
>
> WinShell falls under the 'nosource' licence.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  systems/win32/winshell

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Apr 22 05:33:21 2002
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:32:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: datetime 

Nicola Talbot writes:

> Name of contribution: datetime
> Name and email: Nicola Talbot <>
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/other
> Summary description: Changes format of \today.  Provides commands
>                      for current time.
> License type: Generic DFSG
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The package datetime.sty provides various different formats for the
> command \today, and also provides commands for displaying the
> current time, either in 12hr or 24hr format.  In addition, there are
> macros for displaying the value of a count register as an ordinal
> (e.g. \ordinal{3} would print 3rd, and \ordinalstring{3} would print
> third) as well as macros for displaying the value of a count
> register as a string (e.g. \numberstring{3} would print three).

i've installed the files in macros/latex/contrib/other/datetime

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Apr 22 11:23:34 2002
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:20:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: TeXtopo

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 Eric Beitz wrote:

> Name of contribution: TeXtopo
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/textopo
> Summary description: Plotting, shading and labeling of membrane protein topologies
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is an update (v1.3) of the LaTeX package for plotting, shading
> and labeling of membrane protein topologies. The new version introduces
> two more helical wheel styles and the indication of the hydrophobic
> moment. Further, the DVIPS driver is not mandatory anymore as is
> 'rotating.sty'.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Apr 22 14:48:21 2002
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:46:29 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: subfigure package version 2.1.3

An upgrade of a package on CTAN has been installed on tug.ctan.org
and should make its way through the mirroring process in the next
day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: subfigure package version 2.1.3
Author's name: Steven Douglas Cochran
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/subfigure
Summary description: LaTeX package for providing support for the inclusion 
  of small, `sub', figures and tables.  It simplifies the positioning, 
  captioning and labeling of them within a single figure or table environment.
  In addition, this package allows such subcaptions to be written to the List 
  of Figures or List of tables if desired.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The subfigure package version 2.1.3 fixes an incompatability with several 
packages including the tocloft and the ccaption packages when used with the 
hyperref package.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Tue Apr 23 10:45:01 2002
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:40:17 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- preview latex 0.7.2b

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----
I have uploaded preview-latex-0.7.2b.tar.gz and
preview-0.7.2b.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
Its license is the GPL.

0.7.2b is a post-release hotfix for a build problem.  Upgrading from
0.7.2 is not necessary unless building the release failed.  A separate
announcement is probably not necessary.

I would recommend installing it in the following way:

Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.7.2b.tar.gz under
support/preview-latex/
and unpack the
README from it to support/preview-latex/README
Create a symbolic link from
support/preview-latex/preview-latex.tar.gz
to
preview-latex-0.7.2b.tar.gz
so that people can always get the newest version under this name.

Unpack preview-0.7.2b.tar.gz in the directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/

It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins.

The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a
standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX
source into separate pages of a DVI file.

Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted.

Here are the release notes:

Release notes for version 0.7.2 of the preview-latex package:

preview-latex is a system for displaying inline images of selected
parts of a file in Emacs source buffers.  The employed style file
preview.sty is independently useful for extraction of selected text
elements as images.  The package is released under the GNU Public
License (GPL).  At the current point of time, at least GNU Emacs-21.1
under the X window system, AUC TeX (11.11 recommended, see below), a
working LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required.  This version
for the first time also fully supports XEmacs with a version of at
least 21.1.14.  Some issues with the display engine have been
uncovered in the course of porting; consult the PROBLEMS file for more
information.  No Emacs versions of preview-latex have yet been tested
to run under the MS Windows operating system.  Recent CVS versions of
Emacs could possibly be made to run preview-latex there, and we have
had a positive report with Cygwin XEmacs.  Please report your
experiences.

Release 0.7.2 is a consolidation release containing mostly bug fixes.
Its stability should be sufficient for third party package providers
of GNU Emacs packages.  The XEmacs part still has rough edges, partly
due to XEmacs internal bugs that are expected to be ironed out in
future XEmacs releases.

The README file provides adequate information for preinstalled
distributions.  The INSTALL file contains a special section with
advice for package providers.

User feedback about errors and suggested feature improvements is
welcome and heeded.  The home page is
<URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project
page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at
<URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>.

If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this
project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>.

Additional files can be found at
<URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>:

* If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt
  documentation files can be found there.

* AUC TeX can be found at several places, but if you want the latest
  11.11 (alpha, but stable AFAIK) with no known issues concerning
  preview-latex, you can find it there as well.

* RPMs for preview-latex and AUC TeX are provided for users of RedHat
  Linux.  For the binary RPMs, you will need the preview-latex-common
  RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM.

The RPMs require a few packages:

* GhostScript 6.51 is included in RH 7.2, but if you use an earlier
  release it can be downloaded from the RH7.2 updates,
  <URL:ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/i386/>.
  The current beta of RedHat 7.3 (see below) includes GhostScript 6.53.

* Emacs-21.2 is part of the beta release for RedHat 7.3 at
  <URL:ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/skipjack/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/>
  unless it has already been superceded by the regular release.
  I installed this using 'rpm -i --nodeps --force', which worked for
  me, but since it does not follow the usual emacs + emacs-X11 +
  emacs-nox, YMMV.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old version
in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex and
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Apr 23 10:45:00 2002
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:43:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission - protocol.sty

----- Forwarded message from Thomas Leineweber -----
I have put a new version of protocol.sty in the incoming directory
on ftp.dante.de. The file protocol.tgz is intended to replace
the contents of the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/protocol/
on CTAN. It is a new version of the protocol package for typesetting
meeting-protocols (in german). 
It is licensed under the lppl.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/protocol.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Apr 24 08:21:30 2002
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:15:46 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: atsol@aegean.gr
Subject: CTAN Announcement Greek kerkis fonts

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote:

> I have uploaded to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de (nova.dante.de)
> the file kerkis.zip
>
> The package contains the first (I believe) Type1 font to
> fully support Greek (polytonic included) through Babel.
> The support of the latin alphabet is also at a very good level
> as kerkis supports ot1 and t1 encodings. It is an extension
> of the Bookman Old Style fonts. In addition to Greek it contains
> many missing ligatures from URWBookman and true Small Caps.
>
> Since the package supports the latin languages I suppose that
> it is proper to be placed among the other Type1 fonts.
> Since it especially supports Greek I think that a link should be placed
> inside the Greek directory pointing to kerkis (for the moment it is the
> only free way to create descent pdf files in Greek as the default
> support for Greek provides only Metafont fonts).
>
> Licensing: They are free to redistribute. There is only one restriction
> that is if they are used for commercial purposes (eg books)
> the Copyright section must include a note about the fonts saying that
> the document uses
> "kerkis fonts (C) Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean"

Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed these files in

  fonts/greek/kerkis

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Apr 25 08:16:03 2002
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:59:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN uploads -- showlabels, textpos, urlbst and feyn

Norman Gray writes:

> I've just uploaded four packages to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming.  Two are
> updates, two are new.
> 
> ===========================================================================
> 
>    + What you've uploaded
> 
> showlabels-1.4.tar.gz
> 
>    + where you want the files to go
> 
> Replacing macros/latex/contrib/supported/showlabels/
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
> 
> gpl
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
> 
> Showlabels: put the names of \labels into the margins of a draft document
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> %%VERSION%%
> Version 1.4
> 
> This package helps you keep track of all the labels you define, by
> putting the name of new labels into the margin whenever the
> \label command is used.
> 
> The package allows you to do the same thing for other commands.  The
> only one for which this is obviously useful is the \cite command, but
> it's easy to do it for others, such as the \ref or \begin commands.
> 
> Changes in v1.4, 24 July 2001
> ------------------------------
> 
> Significant alteration to the mechanism for displaying the labels,
> which makes it easy to do the same trick for the \cite command.  It's
> also fairly easy to extend this to any other commands which might want
> it, through the new \showlabels command, though \ref is the only one
> which immediately springs to mind.
> 
> Also, the package option [inline] was introduced, giving an
> alternative format for displaying the labels.  This route is ripe for
> generalisation.
> 
> Corrections to the code which places labels in the margin.  This is
> manifest in that the package is now (more) compatible with the wrapfig
> package.
> 
> ===========================================================================
> 
>    + What you've uploaded
> 
> textpos-1.2.tar.gz
> 
>    + where you want the files to go
> 
> Replacing macros/latex/contrib/supported/textpos/
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
> 
> gpl
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
> 
> Textpos: absolute positioning of text on the LaTeX page
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> %%VERSION%%
> Version 1.2
> 
> This package facilitates placing boxes at absolute positions on the
> LaTeX page.  There are several reasons why this might be useful, but
> the main one (or at least my motivating one) is to help produce a
> large-format conference poster.
> 
> This package provides a single environment, which contains the text
> (or graphics, or table, or whatever) which is to be placed on the
> page, and which specifies where it is to be placed.
> 
> 
> Changes in  v1.2, 21 April 2002
> -------------------------------
> 
> Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@ptb.de> provided code to make textpos
> compatible with the {calc} package.
> 
> Added the [verbose] and [quiet] package options.
> 
> 
> ===========================================================================
> 
>    + What you've uploaded
> 
> urlbst-0.1.tar.gz
> 
>    + where you want the files to go
> 
> I suppose in biblio/bibtex/contrib/urlbst ?
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
> 
> gpl
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
> Adds a `webpage' BibTeX entry type, and support for general `url' and
> `lastchecked' fields, to arbitrary BibTeX style files.
> 
>     %%VERSION%% 0.1
> 
> The Perl script urlbst.pl can be used to add this support to an
> arbitrary .bst file which has a reasonably `conventional' structure.
> The result is meant to be robust rather than pretty.
> 
>     Usage: urlbst.pl [input-file [output-file]]
> 
> if either the input-file or the output-file is omitted, they default
> to stdin and stdout respectively.  If the input file already has a URL
> entry type, then the script objects.
> 
> For example:
> 
>     urlbst.pl `kpsewhich siam.bst` siamurl.bst
> 
> The distributed files abbrvurl.bst, alphaurl.bst, plainurl.bst and
> unsrturl.bst are versions of the standard style files which have been
> pre-converted.
> 
> Only the style files which result from conversion of the standard
> styles are checked in the regression tests.  Other style files which
> are known to work include
> 
>     acm.bst, amsalpha.bst, amsplain.bst, apalike.bst, gerabbrv.bst,
>     geralpha.bst, gerapali.bst, gerplain.bst, gerunsrt.bst, ieeetr.bst and
>     siam.bst
> 
> Style files known not to work, because they are too different from the
> standard styles, include the koma-script styles and the refer styles
> (they are not designed to produce conventional .bbl files).  The
> natbib and revtex style files already have URL fields.  If you have a
> BibTeX style file which you think ought to work, but with which the
> script fails, send it to me, and I'll try to work out what I've missed.
> 
> 
> 
> ===========================================================================
> 
>    + What you've uploaded
> 
> feyn-0.1.tar.gz
> 
>    + where you want the files to go
> 
> I suppose in fonts/feyn ?
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
> 
> gpl
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
> 
> Feyn: a Metafont for Feynman diagrams
> -------------------------------------
> 
> %%VERSION%%
> Version 0.1
> 
> This describes the font `feyn', which can be used to produce relatively
> simple Feynman diagrams within equations in a LaTeX document.
> 
> The other Feynman diagram package which exists is Thorsten Ohl's
> `feynmf/feynmp' package.  That works by creating Metafont or MetaPost
> figures using a preprocessor.  It's more general than this package,
> but is at its best when creating relatively large diagrams, for
> figures.  In contrast, the present system consists of a
> carefully-designed font with which you can write simple diagrams,
> within equations or within text, in a size matching the surrounding
> text size.

i've installed all four packages as suggested (i.e., i've adopted your
proposed locations for urlbst and feyn).  thanks for the uploads.

(sorry about the delay in installing: an emergency at [real] work
intervened.)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Apr 25 13:33:17 2002
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:29:24 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: skull

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tugn.ctan.org

====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: skull
Author's name: Scott Pakin (uploader only; package written by Henrik Christian Grove)
Location on CTAN: fonts/skull
Summary description: Skull-and-crossbones symbol
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Metafont version of a skull-and-crossbones symbol, with
LaTeX bindings.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Mon Apr 29 03:30:01 2002
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:23:45 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- WP2LaTeX

----- Forwarded message from J.Fojtik -----
   + what you've uploaded
	wp2latex package update

   + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
	ftp.dante.de/incoming

   + where you want the files to go
          support/wp2latex
   
   + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
     below).
	GPL

   + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
   (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy 
processing)

New: Supported style epsfig.sty, fixed problem with filenames. 
New: RTF parser now working. Try "make rtf". 
New: Small attempt to do something with raster images. 
New: Gamma version of Windows GUI. 
New: Ability to read WP3.x Macintosh files. 
New: Make install perhaps works under Linux. 
New: Supported package fontenc[T1]. 
New: Better windows GUI. Nested tables supported. 
New: German localization (Thanks to Hillmar Preusse). 
New: Make install should work under DOS/WINDOWS. 
New: T602 parser. 
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/wp2latex/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Apr 29 09:06:48 2002
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:00:06 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: LaTeX Songbook Style version 4.0

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and is making its way through 
the mirroring process.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeX Songbook Style version 4.0
Author's name: Christopher Rath 
Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/songbook
Summary description: Latest version of LaTeX Songbook style
License type: lgpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 4.0 of my LaTeX Songbook style has now been posted to CTAN as well
as the Songbook homepage (http://www.rath.ca/Misc/Songbook).

The Songbook style provides an all purpose songbook style for LaTeX2e.  
The package allows for three types of output from a single input file: words 
and chords books for the musicians to play from, words only songbooks for 
the congregation to sing from, and overhead transparency masters for 
congregational use.  The style will also print a table of contents, an 
index sorted by title and first line, and an index sorted by key.  It 
attempts to handle songs in multiple keys, as well as songs in multiple 
languages.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Apr 30 09:16:45 2002
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:13:28 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: mathabx

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: mathabx
Author's name: Anthony Phan
Location on CTAN: fonts/mathabx
Summary description: mathabx, quite large series of mathematical symbols
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The mathabx series are at their development's first stage. The ``me'' 
suffix means ``Merely for Evaluation''. Their author hopes to have time 
one day to design anew some symbols, especially large ones. Thus, he claims 
no stability about metrics and encoding of these fonts, nor about plain
TeX and LaTeX input files.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Apr 30 12:18:23 2002
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:14:33 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memfixb package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded memfixb.sty to UK incoming. Please install this in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir.
> 
>     The memfixb package provides temporary fixes for the memoir class,
> version 1.1. This release fixes:
> o Not initializing \maxsecnumdepth
> o Bad interaction between \subcaption and pdfLaTeX with the hyperref package

i've installed the file as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed May  1 07:50:21 2002
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 13:45:07 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Wolfgang May <may@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>, ntheorem@andreas-schlechte.de
Subject: Re: Upload: ntheorem.dtx

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Wolfgang May wrote:

> I have uploaded a new version (1.203) of the ntheorem package
> to ftp.dante.de/incoming. The file ntheorem.dtx should replace the old
> one in
>  macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntheorem/ntheorem.dtx

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed May  1 09:54:55 2002
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 13:50:55 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New on CTAN: How to Package Your LaTeX Package

A new tutorial has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should
make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or
two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: How to Package Your LaTeX Package
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: info/dtxtut
Summary description: Tutorial on writing .dtx and .ins files
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This tutorial is intended for advanced LaTeX2e users who
want to learn
how to create .ins and .dtx files for distributing their
homebrewed
classes and style files.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed May  1 18:45:31 2002
Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 23:41:39 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: Eurosym 

A submission was uploaded to cam.ctan.org:

> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: Eurosym
> Name and email: Henrik Theiling <--->
> Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/eurosym
> Summary description: Officially Shaped Euro Symbol for LaTeX in Metafont
> License type: Generic DFSG
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package contains the Metafont source for a Euro symbol
> that conforms to the official shape construction.  Moreover,
> there is LaTeX style to use it and several extensions that
> do not conform to the official shape but are still thought
> to be useful.
> Version 1.3 contains a Licence and Type1 fonts generated by
> textrace and modified by pfaedit.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i've installed the files as a replacement for the previous
fonts/eurosym

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri May  3 02:36:13 2002
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 07:32:13 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: revised cases.sty on ctan.uk 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> A revised cases.sty (2.5) to fix bug with formatting of over-full
> displays, to replace macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/cases.sty,
> is uploaded to Campridge ctan.

so i've now installed it in the proper place.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon May  6 06:52:59 2002
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 12:48:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: M. Vaeth <vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Subject: Re: ziffer.sty v2.1

On Mon, 6 May 2002, M. Vaeth wrote:

> I have uploaded a new release of ziffer.sty (v2.1). It should replace
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/ziffer.sty
> This is a small package which allows typesetting of numbers according to
> the conventions used in Germany and some other countries. More precisely:
>  .  (within a number in math-mode) becomes a small space [1000-separator]
>  ,  (within a number in math-mode) becomes a 'decimal-separator comma'
>  -- (in math-mode) gets a more natural spacing (customizable).
> In other contexts, the above symbols can be used as usual (also in math-mode).
> In the new release, the '--' conversion is not the default anymore and can
> be switched on/off separately. The reason is that this conversion causes
> (unavoidable) problems with newer versions of amsmath.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/ziffer.sty

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue May  7 10:07:56 2002
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:04:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Adam H. Lewenberg <adam@macrotex.net>
Subject: Re: Uploaded update to dvii to CTAN

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Adam H. Lewenberg wrote:

> * Uploaded: Files dvii.c, dviiman.dvi, dviiman.pdf, dvii.exe,
>             and README to /incoming on ftp.dante.de
>
> * Location: place in tex-archive/dviware/dvii replacing old files
>
> * License: these files are licensed under the LPPL (Latex Project Public
>            License)
>
> * What this upload does:
>
>   Updates dvii to version 0.44. Added an option to suppress display of
>   `physical' pages as well as another option to ignore certain opcodes
>   when computing checksums. Updated manual.
>
>   More information on dvii can be found at
>
>                 http://www.macrotex.net/dvii/dvii.html
>
>
>
>   From the README file:
>
> dvii is a utility written in C that extracts information from a TeX
> dvi file and displays it on the command line. Information displayed
> can include a summary:
>
>   File comment (usually the date file was compiled)
>   File size
>   Number of (physical) pages
>   Number of fonts
>
> as well as more detailed information:
>
>   Font names for all fonts used
>   List of physical page number/TeX page number pairs
>   List of all \specials and the page on which they appear
>   List of all fonts on a per page basis
>
> More information can be found at the dvii home page
>
>          http://www.macrotex.net/dvii/dvii.html
>
>   Currently, there are some pre-compiled executables (DOS, Win 9X/NT,
>   Solaris, OSF1, and Linux) available at the dvii website
>   www.macrotex.net/dvii/dvii.html. If none of these are suitable,
>   you will need to compile the C source.  To compile, you need to have
>   a C compiler along with the standard C libraries. For example, if
>   you have the C compile gcc, type
>
>      gcc dvii.c -o dvii.exe  (assuming DOS/Windows platform)
>      gcc dvii.c -o dvii      (assuming Unix platform)

Thanks for the update, I installed it at the location indicated:

  dviware/dvii

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf



From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu May  9 09:21:21 2002
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 13:15:14 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: slovak-lshort

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

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: slovak-lshort
Author's name: Jan Busa   (J\'an Bu\v{s}a) 
Location on CTAN: info/lshort/slovak
Summary description: slovak translation of "Not So Short Introduction ..."
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The source files, PostScript and PDF files of slovak translation of 
the "Not so Short Introduction to System LaTeX 2e"
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu May  9 09:25:43 2002
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 13:23:55 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: multicap

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tugn.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: multicap
Author's name: John Vassilogiorgakis
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/multicap
Summary description: Formating captions inside multicols
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a package for formating captions inside multicols.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri May 10 05:38:29 2002
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:35:39 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Bjoern Pedersen <Bjoern.Pedersen@ch.tum.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload of gradback.sty

On Wed, 8 May 2002, Bjoern Pedersen wrote:

>    + what you've uploaded
> 	gradback.sty
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 	ftp.dante.de
>
>    + where you want the files to go
>
> 	/pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/gradback
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
> 	LPPL
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>    (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing)
>
> 	gradback.sty is a small addition to ( and requiring) pstricks to
> 	generate gradient backgrounds. For usage notes, please see the
> 	sty-file.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the file as proposed.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri May 10 05:39:52 2002
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:39:07 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Walter Schmidt <was@vr-web.de>
Cc: CTAN-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: changed license conditions for the CM Bright fonts

On Thu, 9 May 2002, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the file cmbright.zip to the /incoming
> directory at dante.ctan.org.  The ZIP archive contains the
> files "readme" and "copyrite.txt".  They are to replace the
> existing files
>
>     fonts/cmbright/readme
> and
>     fonts/cmbright/mf/copyrite.txt .
>
> In agreement with MicroPress Inc I have changed the license
> conditions for my Computer Modern Bright fonts.  The
> restriction, that would forbid the creation and distribution
> of scalable vectorized versions of the fonts, such as Type1,
> has been abandoned.  The fonts are released under the LPPL,
> which applies without any modifications or restrictions now.

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

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri May 10 11:25:36 2002
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:23:06 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: SQLTeX

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make
its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: SQLTeX
Author's name: Oscar van Eijk
Suggested location on CTAN: support/SQLTeX
Summary description: An SQL Preprocessor for LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
SQLTeX is a well documented preprocessor to enable the use of SQL statements 
in LaTeX . It is a perl script that reads an input file containing the LaTeX 
source with SQL commands, and writes a LaTeX file that can be processed with 
your LaTeX package.  The SQL commands will be replaced by their values. It's 
possible to select a single field for substitution substitution in your 
LaTeX document, or to be used as input in another SQL command.  When an SQL 
command returns multiple fields and or rows, the values can only be used for 
substitution in the document. 

This is v1.4 of SQLTeX. New in this version is the option to replace values 
in the database results using configurable replace files; e.g., if the 
database value contains a percent sign (`%'), SQLTeX automatically replaces 
it by an escaped percent sign (`\%').

This version only supports MySQL databases. It has been tested on Linux, but 
should work an all platforms where Perl is installed.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat May 11 11:44:06 2002
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 17:37:03 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Bjoern Brill <brill@samson.math.uni-frankfurt.de>, catdvi-misc@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: CTAN subimssion -- catdvi 0.13

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Bjoern Brill wrote:

 > I have uploaded catdvi-0.13.tar.gz into ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ .
 > The contents of this archive should replace the current contents of
 > the directory CTAN:/dviware/catdvi/ .
 >
 > The catdvi program is licensed under the GNU General Public License,
 > version 2 or later.
 >
 > catdvi is a free DVI to plain text translator written in portable ISO C.
 > It can generate output in UTF-8 (Unicode), ASCII and some other customary
 > encodings, formatted for either good readability or easy machine processing.
 >
 > Changes since the last version submitted to CTAN (0.11) include several new
 > or improved TeX font encodings, European currency symbol support, improved
 > math layout, usability enhancements and a bunch of bug fixes.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From uktug-faq@tex.ac.uk Mon May 13 11:38:16 2002
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 16:34:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <uktug-faq@tex.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New release of the UK TeX FAQ

I have just released v3.0 of the UK TeX FAQ, both to the web
(http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) and to CTAN (help/uk-tex-faq)

This release represents a major upheaval of a good proportion of the
FAQ; I have re-arranged the questions into what seems to me to more
nearly to represent logical order.  (Note that I don't believe it's
possible to have an entirely logical order, but I believe this new
order is better.)

There are changes to the way in which things are presented, as well as
several new questions (for some of which I am indebted to help from
other people).

However, users should beware.  The structure is sufficiently different
that things may have gone wrong and not been noticed in my testing.
If the FAQ misbehaves for you, in whatever way, feel free to mail me
at the supposed "From" address of this message.

I remain open to suggestions for new questions and answers; the FAQ
itself tells you how to submit such things.

Robin Fairbairns

UK TeX FAQ maintainer

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon May 13 11:43:14 2002
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 17:42:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Melchior FRANZ <a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- soul.sty

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Melchior FRANZ wrote:

> I've just uploaded version 2.2 of `soul.sty' as archive
>     >--- soul.tar.gz ---<
>
> to
>     >--- ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ ---<
>
> Please replace the contents of
>     >--- /macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul/ ---<
>
> by the new files. The package is again licenced under the terms of the
>     >--- LPPL ---<
>
>
> The soul package provides hyphenatable letterspacing, underlining,
> overstriking, and highlighting.
>
> Version 2.2
> =============================================================
> - fixes several bugs, such as the \toksdef bug, that made soul
>   incompatible with the tabularx and other packages
> - reportedly fixes an underlining bug that I wasn't even aware of
> - fixes and improves expansion mode, as in \def\x{\foo}\so\x
> - adds support for the Plain TeX color package wrapper, so that
>   highlighting also works under Plain TeX.
> - fixes a long standing spelling mistake: now it's "hyphenatable" :-)

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue May 14 05:05:00 2002
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 11:01:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz <staw@eti.pg.gda.pl>
Subject: Re: mwcls on dante:/incoming

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz wrote:

> I've aploaded to DANTE:/incoming/mwcls.zip
> please mkdir /tex-archive/macros/latex/supported/mwcls
> then unzip here the contents of mwcls.zip (sorry for not packing
> it already into subdirectory)
>
> This is the first inauguaration on CTAN of standard LaTeX classes,
> tailored to the Polish printing customs (something like ntgclass or
> komascript). mwcls are already on TeX Live since version 6.
>
> Please make also ln -s  from language/polish/

Thanks for the upload. I installed the files in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/mwcls

with a link in

   languages/polish/mwcls

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 14 05:30:45 2002
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 10:30:01 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: LogFilter 

our little daemon writes:

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20020513.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: LogFilter
> Name and email: kasper B. Graversen <censored>
> Suggested location on CTAN: nonfree/support/logfilter
> Summary description: LogFilter is a program that monitors the
>   logfiles (La)TeX/PDF(La)TeX  produces and presents them in an
>   interactive environment to the author 
> License type: Nosource
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> LogFilter is a program that monitors the logfiles TeX/LaTeX produces and 
> presents them in an interactive environment to the user. 
> The program lets the user choose which errors he cares to see. Furthermore 
> LogFilter integrates with your editor so that when pressing an error, your 
> editor will open the tex file and jump to the according line. 
> 
> 
> A word about the license: this package is `nosource', meaning that it
> is supplied in binary format (a .jar file) and the source code for it 
> is not made available. This renders the software non-free in the sense 
> of the Debian Free Software Guidelines and many other free software 
> advocates. Please note, however, that the license *does* allow free use 
> and distribution of the software, but modification is generally not 
> possible. For more, see the following link.
>   http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.html
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue May 14 15:23:57 2002
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 21:18:07 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Melchior FRANZ <a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- crop.sty

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Melchior FRANZ wrote:

 > I've just uploaded version 1.7 of `crop.sty' as archive
 >     >--- crop.tar.gz ---<
 >
 > to
 >     >--- ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ ---<
 >
 > Please replace the contents of
 >     >--- /macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop/ ---<
 >
 > by the new files. The package is again licenced under the terms of the
 >     >--- LPPL ---<
 >
 >
 > The crop.sty package implements cropmarks, mirroring, inverting,
 > rotating of documents and some other features that are required
 > for printing.
 >
 >
 > Version 1.7
 > =============================================================
 >
 > - adds new options:
 >   * width,height  to set the physical paper dimensions explicitly
 >                   (instead of using the pre-defined formats, such
 >                   as a4)
 >   * even,odd      to suppress marks on odd/even pages (necessary
 >                   for two-sided printouts)
 > - fixes compatibility problems with geometry.sty/vtex/pdflatex
 > - adopts the \stock{width,height} 'standard'
 > - fixes problems with the graphics/nographics option

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue May 14 15:26:15 2002
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 21:23:44 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Basil K. Malyshev <malyshev@mx.ihep.su>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 4.40

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

 > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
 > update for BaKoMa TeX 4.40.
 >
 > Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
 >
 > General new features are:
 >    * Automatical Format Detection.
 >    * Wrapping Long Text Lines.
 >    * Scroll Margins to extend visible area around a caret.
 > In details see at end of this message.
 >
 > Bye.
 > Basil K. Malyshev
 > 14-May-2002
 >
 > PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.
 >
 > --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 4.40 ----------------------
 >
 > CONTENTS
 >    * Highlights
 >    * Graphical Capabilities
 >    * Fonts
 >    * User Interface
 >    * PDF Generation Features
 >    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 4.20
 >
 > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
 >    <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95
 >
 > HIGHLIGHTS
 >
 >  * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
 >    of the file being edited.
 >    (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
 >  * PostScript enabled TeX system.
 >    Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
 >  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
 >    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 >  * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
 >    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 >  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 >  * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 >  * Easy to install and use.
 >  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 >
 > GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
 > which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
 > software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 9.0, Adobe Streamline 4.0,
 > MatLab, CorelDraw, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
 >
 > All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible
 > with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
 > embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).
 >
 > The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
 >    PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.
 >
 > FONTS
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 >  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters),
 >  * PostScript Type 3,
 >  * TrueType,
 >  * OpenType,
 >  * TeX PK/VF.
 >
 > The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
 > and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 >  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 >  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 >  * EC/TC,
 >  * LH (T2A),
 >  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 >  * Malvern,
 >  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 >  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 >  Math Fonts:
 >  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 >  Diagram drawing fonts:
 >  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase),
 >  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd),
 >  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
 >
 > Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
 > This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
 > between font formats when needed.
 > This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
 > On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
 > for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
 >
 > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts
 > available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.
 >
 > USER INTERFACE
 >
 > * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
 > * Typesetting a selected part of a document (styles may be precompiled as format).
 > * Quick navigation via document structure,
 > * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
 > * Powerful support for different input encodings,
 > * Project support,
 > * Graphics import assistant,
 > * Assitance for multi-file documents:
 >   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
 > * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
 > * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
 > * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
 > * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
 > * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
 > * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
 >     correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
 >     configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
 > * Support for Multi-User systems.
 >
 > OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
 >
 > * View on Windows Display.
 > * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
 > * PostScript (really scalable),
 > * PDF.
 >
 > Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
 > for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
 > may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical
 > capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
 >
 > PDF GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 > * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
 > * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
 >   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
 > * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
 > * Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
 >
 > NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 4.40 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 4.30
 >
 >    * Automatical Format Detection.
 >      There is new virtual TeX format: `* Auto *'.
 >      When this format is chosen BaKoMa TeX automatically detects format
 >      required for typesetting current document.
 >
 >    * Wrapping Long Text Lines.
 >      BaKoMa TeX 4.40 wraps lines that are too long to fit a predefined width
 >
 >    * Scroll Margins.
 >      BaKoMa TeX 4.40 supports scrolling text window before caret
 >      touch window edge. Number of `Visible lines' and number of
 >      `Visible columns' are customizable.
 >
 > Problems fixed in 4.31:
 >
 >   * `Dynamical Preview' improvements:
 >     + fix for `twoside' option to avoid left-right jumping at every keystroke,
 >     + fix sectioning counters to avoid increasing section numbers in editing,
 >     + removing OUT-file to avoid displaing document outline.
 >   * Fix: Calculating Zoom = 0 in case of minimized DVI window (NNN).
 >   * Fix: Overlapping TAB Frame with Tool bars (SL).
 >   * Default of `Persisten Selection' is `false'
 >     (This setting is more compatible with another text editors).
 >   * Added `Close' command to Edit Window Context Menu.
 >
 > For more information about changes see
 >   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes3.html>
 >
 > ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

Thanks for the update, I installed the new files.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue May 14 15:30:10 2002
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 21:27:53 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz <staw@eti.pg.gda.pl>
Subject: Re: dante:/incoming/platex-1.2.3.zip

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz wrote:

 > Platex is a set of tools to typeseting in Polish.
 > Some of macros are alredy used by other packages (not typically Polish;-),
 > so we decided to put it finally in latex/supported/

Thanks for the upload. I installed the files in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/platex

with a symbolic link in

  languages/polish/platex

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@dante.de Thu May 16 05:10:21 2002
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:05:51 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- BSR2dvi for Textures

----- Forwarded message from Laurent Siebenmann -----

Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 02:29:46 +0200 (MEST)
From: lcs@math.u-psud.fr
To: ctan@dante.de, lcs@math.u-psud.fr, wwwmaint@dante.de
Subject: "BSR2dvi" upload
Sender: owner-ctan@dante.de

#NAME OF CONTRIBUTION: BSR2dvi
#UPLOADED TO:  ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/BSR2dvi.zip
#MY POSTING:    http://topo.math.u-psud.fr/~lcs/BSR2dvi.zip
#AUTHOR'S NAME: Laurent Siebenmann
#AUTHOR'S EMAIL: lcs@matups.math.u-psud.fr
#LOCATION ON CTAN: Expand zip atchive to become dviware/BSR2dvi
#SUMMARY DESCRIPTION: A free mass converter, from the private
format for the TeX implementation Textures by BlueSky Research
(BSR), to TeXs' standard output format dvi.
#LICENSE TYPE: public domain
#KEYWORDS: Textures, DVI export, Macintosh, freeware

#ANNOUNCEMENT:
--------------------------------------------------------------
This is the alpha release of BSR2dvi.  It is a public domain
Macintosh program for mass extraction from Textures' "all-in-one"
file format to TeX's output format suffixed ".dvi".  It uses a
multi-file 'drag-and-drop' user interface, or (for eary Macs) the
older 'joint-launch' user interface. BSR2dvi is a natural partner
to BSR's own freeware "DeleteType" utility of 1992, which
somewhat similarly extracts TeX's ASCII input format commonly
suffixed ".tex" or ".ltx".
---------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/dviware/BSR2dvi/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri May 17 18:12:06 2002
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 23:08:15 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: piechartMP 

our upload daemon rumbled, and quoth:

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20020514.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: piechartMP
> Name and email: Jens-Uwe Morawski <...>
> Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/metapost/macros/piechartmp/
> Summary description: Drawing 2D/3D pie-charts with MetaPost
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The package piechartMP enables even users
> with not much Metapost experience to draw their
> pie-charts with MetaPost.
> It supports basic 2D pie-charts as well pie-charts in 3D projection.
> The chief purpose for the piechartMP developmentwas the
> support for presentations. The user can make segments
> invisible or hide a segment completely, in order to draw
> multiple different charts from one data-set.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i have installed this contribution as suggested.  thanks for the
upload (and for your tolerance of ctan internal processes ;-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon May 20 15:09:47 2002
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 19:05:22 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: manuscript

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should
make its way through the mirroring process in the next day
or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: manuscript
Author's name: Matej Cepl
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/manuscript 
Summary description: LaTeX package emulating appearance of typewriter.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package emulates appearance of the document written on classical 
typewriter as much as possible. The package should be compatible both 
with classical article-like packages as well as with packages from
koma-script family.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue May 21 04:29:24 2002
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:26:06 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <was@vr-web.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: psnfss-src.zip (PSNFSS 9 fontinst sources)

On Mon, 20 May 2002, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the archive file psnfss-src.zip to the /incoming
> directory at dante.ctan.org.  These are the fontinst sources of the
> latest PSNFSS version 9.
>
> Please, remove everything (!) from the CTAN directory
>
>   fonts/psfonts/psnfss-source ;
>
> then unpack the archive file there.  Please, create an additional
> subdirectory fonts/psfonts/psnfss-source/mathpazo, which should
> constitute a link to fonts/mathpazo/pazofnst.

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

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue May 21 04:38:47 2002
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:38:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <was@vr-web.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: PSNFSS 9

On Mon, 20 May 2002, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the following ZIP archives to the /incoming directory
> at dante.ctan.org:
>
>   psnfss9.zip
>   lw35nfss9.zip
>   freenfss.zip

Thanks for the update. I installed the files in psnfss9.zip in

   macros/latex/required/psnfss

and added lw35nfss.zip and freenfss.zip to this directory.

> This is version 9 of the PSNFSS system, supporting the use
> of the Base35 PostScript fonts and the free Charter, Utopia
> and Pazo fonts with LaTeX.  PSNFSS 9 is to be used with the
> latest version 1.003 of the Pazo fonts, which were also
> updated now.
>
>
> Main news
> ---------
>
> The TeXBase1 encoding (file 8r.enc) includes the Euro symbol
> in slot 128 now.  Thus, future fonts that provide the Euro,
> can be supported.  This does, however, _not_ affect the
> present Base35, Charter and Utopia fonts.  The corresponding
> file 8r.etx in the fontinst distribution will soon be
> updated accordingly.
>
> Pazo fonts:  Added all the missing uppercase latin letters
> and numeral "1" to Pazo Math Blackboard Bold.  Re-designed
> \Phi, \varsigma, xi and \zeta.  Font metrics and virtual
> fonts (freenfss.zip) updated accordingly
>
> Palatino text fonts:  The textcompanion fonts of the
> Palatino family provide the Euro symbol \texteuro as well as
> the Omega \textohm now.  The letters are actually taken from
> the Pazo fonts.
>
> mathptmx.sty:  Improved \hbar.  Added missing redefinitions
> of \defaultscriptratio and \defaultscriptscriptratio.
>
> Documentation updated and slightly improved.  All fonts are
> embedded in psnfss2e.pdf now.
>
> There are no changes over the pre-release as of 2002-04-24,
> except for a minor fix to the Pazo blackboard bold fonts,
> whose metrics are, however, unchaged.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue May 21 05:33:40 2002
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:32:12 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Upload: ttf2tex 0.5, a TrueType font installer for teTeX

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Philipp Lehman wrote:

> From the README:
>
> ttf2tex is a Bash script which generates all files required to use
> TrueType fonts with teTeX from a set of .ttf files. In short, it will
> do for TrueType fonts what fontinst's \latinfamily command does for
> Type 1 PostScript fonts. ttf2tex is designed for Linux/UNIX systems
> running teTeX.
>
> From the CHANGELOG:
>
> 2002-05-21      v0.5
>   * preliminary support for OpenType fonts (TT based only)
>   * support for real small caps
>   * support for old style figures
>   * support for -n and -N switches of ttf2tfm
>   * new option to disable hyphenation (for 'typewriter' typefaces)
>   * new option to overwrite files when installing
>   * new option to dump internal vectors
>   * check availability of required binaries
>   * default path for .ttf files changed
>   * updated and extended manual

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   support/ttf2tex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 21 07:12:03 2002
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:10:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: minor update to uk faq

i've installed a minor update to the uk faq.  changes are

 -- removes assertions about the EC view of euro symbol typesetting
 -- various typos corrected

sources, etc., are now on ctan at help/uk-tex-faq
the web-massaged version is at http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue May 21 09:24:24 2002
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:21:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <was@vr-web.de>, Diego Puga <d.puga@utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: Pazo fonts v1.003

On Mon, 20 May 2002, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the archive file mathpazo.zip to the /incoming
> directory at dante.ctan.org.
>
> This is version 1.003 of Diego Puga's Pazo math fonts.
>
> Please, rename the existing CTAN directory fonts/mathpazo to
> fonts/mathpazo-1001 and install the uploaded files to a new
> directory fonts/mathpazo
>
> Notice that version 1.003 of the Pazo fonts is to be used with
> version 9 of PSNFSS, which was also updated now.
>
> [Version 1.001 should, however, still be kept on CTAN, with
> respect to the users of the TeXLive6 CD-ROM, which includes
> PSNFSS 8.2, but it is lacking the required Pazo 1.001 fonts.]
>
> What's new?
>
> * Added all the remaining uppercase latin letters and the
>   digit "one" to Pazo Math Blackboard Bold.
>
> * Re-designed \Phi to make it better proportioned.
>
> * Re-designed \varsigma to give it a more recognisable shape
>   Re-designed \xi and \zeta to match the new \varsigma.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed May 22 02:55:06 2002
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 07:43:37 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: drftcite.sty version 3.9? 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> Thomas Esser brought to my attention:
> 
> > I just have noticed that TeX Live has version 3.9 of drftcite.sty whereas
> > the latest CTAN version is version 3.7.
> 
> That is an oversight.  I've uploaded version 3.9 (Nov 2001)
> to ftp.tex.ac.uk: incoming.drftcite.sty.  It should 
> replace the one in macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite.
> 
> This version has quite a few changes (some of which I won't remember
> now) and maybe I should have called it 4.0.  Since it isn't as
> thoroughly tested as I used to do, mybe I'll adopt the convention
> that a .9 version is a pre-test of the next major revision :-)

i've installed this new version to replace the old one:
macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite/drftcite.sty

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed May 22 09:25:04 2002
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 13:20:27 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: proof

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make
its way soon to a mirror near you.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: proof
Author's name: Klaus Bosau
Location on CTAN: support
Summary description: Proof is a shell based completion to an ordinary word processing program, able to process and view TeX-, LaTeX-, METAFONT- and MetaPost-sources. This program needs an intact TeX/LaTeX environment and GNU bash (Bourne Again Shell), version 2.03 or higher to work properly.
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Proof is a shell based auxiliary program that's able to process and view 
TeX-, LaTeX-, METAFONT- and MetaPost-sources and thus can be used to quickly 
produce snapshots of TeX related documents whenever necessary. Its main 
purpose however is to act as a completion to an ordinary word processing 
program which normally lacks appropriate facilities to process TeX sources 
within a common TeX/LaTeX environment. Here, Proof completely relieves the 
author of doing shell related work and thus simplifies the process of 
preparing PostScript documents particularly in those cases where various 
different sources are involved. Besides Proof offers a simple control 
mechanism that may be accessed from within the editor being used, an 
interface to common METAFONT font test algorithms and a simple back-up 
facility, ensuring that sourcefiles can easily be restored when accidentally 
overwritten or deleted.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri May 24 13:41:29 2002
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 17:37:00 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: jasthesis

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org.  It should make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: jasthesis
Author's name: James A Shepherd
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/jasthesis 
Summary description: A laTeX class that typesets my thesis, roughly BS4821:1990
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This class sets up LaTeX to produce a document conforming to the standards 
required by the University of Bristol, UK. It should also be approximately 
BS4821:1990 standard.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri May 24 18:02:53 2002
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 22:59:17 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 4.44 

Basil K. Malyshev writes:

> I have uploaded to `ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/bakoma' directory
> update for BaKoMa TeX 4.44.
> 
> Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
> 
> Commonly, this patch fixes problem related with hanging
> BaKoMa Console under Microsoft Windows 2000 updated by 
> hotfixes issued in first half of March.
> 
> This version has *Patch status* and may be freely installed 
> by holders of NON-UPGRADABLE license for BaKoMa TeX 4.40.
> 
> Bye.
> Basil K. Malyshev
> 23-May-2002
> 
> PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.

this mail constitutes that announcement.

> --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 4.44 ----------------------
> 
> CONTENTS
>    * Highlights
>    * Graphical Capabilities
>    * Fonts
>    * User Interface
>    * PDF Generation Features
>    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 4.44
>    
> For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
>    <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
> 
> BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95
> 
> HIGHLIGHTS
> 
>  * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
>    of the file being edited. 
>    (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
>  * PostScript enabled TeX system.
>    Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
>  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
>    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
>  * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
>    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
>  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
>  * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
>  * Easy to install and use.
>  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
>  
> GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
> 
> BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
> which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
> software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 9.0, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
> MatLab, CorelDraw, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
> 
> All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
> with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
> embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).
> 
> The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
>    PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.
> 
> FONTS
> 
> BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
>  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
>  * PostScript Type 3,
>  * TrueType,
>  * OpenType,
>  * TeX PK/VF.
> 
> The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
> and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
>  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
>  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
>  * EC/TC,
>  * LH (T2A),
>  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
>  * Malvern,
>  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
>  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
>  Math Fonts: 
>  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
>  Diagram drawing fonts:
>  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
>  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
>  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
> 
> Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
> This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
> between font formats when needed.
> This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
> On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
> for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
> 
> In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
> available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.
> 
> USER INTERFACE
> 
> * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
> * Typesetting a selected part of a document (styles may be precompiled as format).
> * Quick navigation via document structure,
> * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
> * Powerful support for different input encodings,
> * Project support,
> * Graphics import assistant,
> * Assitance for multi-file documents: 
>   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
> * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
> * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
> * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
> * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
> * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
> * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
>     correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
>     configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
> * Support for Multi-User systems.
> 
> OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
> 
> * View on Windows Display.
> * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
> * PostScript (really scalable),
> * PDF.
> 
> Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
> for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
> may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
> capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
> 
> PDF GENERATION FEATURES
> 
> * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
> * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
>   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
> * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
> * Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
> 
> NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 4.44 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 4.40
> 
>    * Fixed hanging `BaKoMa Console' after an input waited by TeX processor,
>      that was caused under Windows 2000 updated by hotfixes isuued
>      in first half of March.
>    * Fixed `fullpage.sty' for LaTeX 2.09 compatibility mode.
>    * Removed pauses when System Console is used for Dynamical Preview.
> 
> For more information about changes see
>   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes3.html>
> 
> ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

i've installed the files as you requested, and pushed them out to the
other ctan nodes.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sun May 26 04:50:36 2002
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 10:38:12 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update -- fonts/euro-ce rev. 3.0

----- Forwarded message from "H.W. de Wijn" -----
Dear CTAN administrators:

+ I have uploaded to CTAN at  dante.ctan.org  the following files:
  [ deleted ]
  and have stored them in a directory named  euro-ce.  The total size is
  about 32 kB.

+ The above version of euro-ce (v3.0) is to replace the current version
  1.3 residing in CTAN's existing directory .../fonts/euro-ce.  I really
  attempt to minimize on updates, but this one constitutes a genuine and
  necessary improvement.

+ Purpose of  euro-ce  in abstract form for use in indexes, et cetera:

  (1) METAFONT source of the official euro currency symbol and scores of
        variants (boldface, italic, boldface italic, slanted, boldface
        slanted, condensed, outline).

  (2) METAFONT source of the CE mark and several variants.

With kind regards,

Harold W. de Wijn
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I have installed it as requested replacing the
old version in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/euro-ce/

-- 
Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sun May 26 04:52:37 2002
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 10:44:28 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- fontinst update

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file fi-update.zip to the /incoming directory 
at dante.ctan.org.  It includes up-to-date 8y.etx and 8r.etx files
with Euro character, to go into the fontinst "pre-release"  

These .etx files match the corresponding encoding vectors 
texnansi.enc and 8r.enc now.  (The latter was recently updated 
together with PSNFSS version 9.)

Please, unzip fi-update.zip in the CTAN directory 
fonts/utilities/fontinst-prerelease.  Doing so will overwrite the 
following files:

  inputs/etx/8r.etx
  inputs/etx/8y.etx
  manifest.tex
  manifest.txt

thank you very much

Walter Schmidt
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I habe installed the new files in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst-prerelease as suggested.

-- 
Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sun May 26 04:50:50 2002
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 10:50:25 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission  -- cmbright update

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file cmbr-update.zip to the /incoming directory
at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unzip this file in the CTAN directory
fonts/cmbright.  

This submission will update the CM-Bright fonts to version 1.0g.
Changes affect the fonts metrics of the text companion fonts,
which were wrong.  The font shapes are, fortunately, unchanged.
Besides, I have `cleaned up' the documentation of the macro package.

Special thanks to Vladimir Volovich, who -- once again -- spotted 
the longstanding bugs.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new files as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/cmbright/

-- 
Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sun May 26 04:55:06 2002
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 10:54:37 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- thumbpdf v3.1

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek -----
I have uploaded thumbpdf.zip in the /incoming directory
of ftp.dante.de. After unzipping it updates the files
in the directory
  CTAN:support/thumbpdf/

The licence remains LPPL 1.2.

Version 3.1 is mainly a bug fix release:
* At error messages version 3.0 exits before
  printing the message.
* Some minor bug fixes, see thumbpdf.pl.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/thumbpdf/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed May 29 11:20:56 2002
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 17:16:21 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- soul.sty

----- Forwarded message from Melchior FRANZ -----
I've just uploaded version 2.3 of `soul.sty' as archive
    >--- soul.tar.gz ---<

to
    >--- ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ ---<

Please replace the contents of
    >--- /macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul/ ---<

by the new files. The package is again licenced under the terms of the
    >--- LPPL ---<


The soul package provides hyphenatable letterspacing, underlining,
overstriking, and highlighting.

Version 2.3
=============================================================
- fixes a nasty hack, that kept soul from playing nice with
  ccfonts.sty (beton.sty), cmbright.sty and possibly other
  packages. This is now solved cleanly.
  (Under normal circumstances this would have become version 2.2.1
  or something, but soul is IMHO feature complete and has already 
  stabilized after the rewrite. So I consider this fix worth getting
  released soon and with its own minor release number. Imagine, this
  was the very last bug and I had to stick to an odd version number
  like "2.2.1a" forever. Shudder ...)
- fixes some small bugs in the documentation, as always
- GO FORTH now and steal sheep!   :-]

m.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in  CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri May 31 04:34:45 2002
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 10:30:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Nadine Thompson <nadine.thompson@edn.blacksci.co.uk>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: mn2eguide.zip

On Fri, 31 May 2002 Nadine Thompson wrote:

> Name of contribution: mn2eguide.zip
> Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex2e/supported/mnras
> Summary description: Style guide to writing MNRAS papers using the mn2e class file plus sample file.
> License type: Nosell
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> A guide for authors who are preparing papers for Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) using the
> LaTeX2e document preparation system and the mn2e class file, together with a sample article.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload. As the license type is nosell, I added the files to
the directory

   nonfree/macros/latex/contrib/supported/mnras

and added a link in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/mnras

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri May 31 10:12:06 2002
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 14:07:24 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: Swimgraph

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Swimgraph
Author's name: Martin J. Osborne
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/supported/swimgraph
Summary description: Macros for producing graphical and textual representations of swimming performances
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The package provides two macros that produce representations of a swimmer's 
performances.  The user records data in a text file and specifies as arguments
 of the macros the date range in which she is interested; the macros extract 
the relevant information from the file and process it as follows. 
 * \swimgraph produces a graph of the times in a single swimming event 
  (specified as an argument), plotting long course and short course times in 
  separate lines.  Records and qualifying times, stored in text files, may 
  optionally be included on the graph.
 * \swimtext produces a written record of the times in all events.

Files of current world and Canadian records are included.

The package requires the PSTricks and keyval packages.  For attractive output,
it requires also a color output device.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri May 31 14:24:40 2002
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 19:09:53 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: pdfTeX upheavals, texlive sources

following a lot of confusion about the state of pdftex on ctan, most
of it arising from problems in areas beyond the control of the ctan
team, it has been decided that ctan will no longer hold a "pdftex"
directory on the main tree.  (the pre-existing pdftex directory has
been moved to obsolete/systems/pdftex.)

the sources of pdftex are available in a number of alternative places:

as a pdftex source archive:

systems/web2c -- which has been brought up to date after a long hiatus

as part of a complete distribution source archive:

systems/texlive/Source - a new directory containing compressed
                         archives of the latest state of the texlive
                         discs; this is a *new* directory
systems/unix/teTeX-beta - the latest teTeX snapshot (note, at the time
                          this beta is finally "released", the source
                          will become systems/unix/teTeX)

while this means that there's no "headline" directory containing
pdftex, the ctan team consider that the situation that we now have
consistent, maintained, copies of the source more satisfactory.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jun  1 12:58:53 2002
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 17:55:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: TexLive images withdrawn

a last-minute problem has arisen, and the TexLive images i put on ctan
systems/texlive/Images last week have now been withdrawn.

i've deleted them here in cambridge; they will disappear from the rest
of ctan in the next few days.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Jun  5 04:11:45 2002
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:58:02 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- skak version 1.0 - chess typeseting the easy way

----- Forwarded message from Torben Hoffmann -----
Upload: skak2.zip 

Node: ftp.dante.de

Where to go: replace the old skak package in fonts/skak

Licensing conditions: LPPL (Latex Project Public Licence)
  This software is copyright but you are granted a license which gives
  you, the ``user'' of the software, legal permission to copy,
  distribute, and/or modify the software. However, if you modify the
  software and then distribute it (even just locally) you must change
  the name of the software to avoid confusion.

Summary: 
  This is version 1.0 of the skak package - it differs from the
  earlier non-numbered releases in the following aspects:
  1. The documentation has been split into three documents:
     * A short user guide.
     * An example of how to use the skak package.
     * A reference manual listing all available commands.
  2. Some minor bugs have been removed - thanks to all that have
  contacted me regarding these subtle errors.

Best regards and happy chess typesetting.
/Torben
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/skak/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun  9 06:52:30 2002
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 11:49:22 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New version of UK TeX FAQ on CTAN and on Web

I've just installed on CTAN a new version of the UK TeX FAQ.  This new
version is also available via the Web via http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq,
and TeX distribution builders will find a copy suitable for their use
in the "usual place".

This new version includes an extremely useful answer from David
Kastrup, which summarises recent work on the TeX document preparation
environment (and puts it in the context of better established work);
this answer appears in the "TeX Projects" section of the FAQ.

In addition, there are a few new answers I have written and a number
of minor corrections, some of which address changes in the layout of
CTAN.

The README file that comes with the distribution contains a Licence
statement (PD), at Thomas Esser's urging.

As always, comments, suggesstions or corrections are welcome.  A new
address for them has been created, which appears at the appropriate
place in the FAQ (somewhat hidden to discourage the bozos who fail to
read the surrounding text that says "this is not a question-answering
service"), but the old address will continue to work for a while.

Robin Fairbairns

UK TeX FAQ maintainer

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jun 10 12:29:55 2002
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:25:38 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: subfiles

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: subfiles
Author's name: Federico Garcia
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/subfiles
Summary description: Allows individual typeseting of files that are \input
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Using subfiles set, the user can handle multi-file projects more comfortably, 
since it is possible both to process the subsidiary files by themselves, and 
to process the main file that includes them, without making any changes to 
them.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Tue Jun 11 03:26:52 2002
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:23:37 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX 4.50

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 4.50.

Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

Most important new features:
  * Handling fonts embedded into imported Postscript was improved.
  * Unlimited number of objects in PDF Generation.
  * Adobe Illustrator 10 Compatibility.
  * Mathematica 4 Compatibility.
  * Improved appearance of thin filled elements on Display.
  * Controlable protection of Global VM for imported PostScript graphics. 
  * Directory for user graphics files is definable in `Options|Directories...'
  * Command set for tasks around `\include' and `\input' LaTeX commands:
    saving expanded document, openning all includes, looking in Gather.
  * Preserving column position at moving by Up/Down arrows.

More details are explained at end of this message.

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
10-Jun-2002

PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 4.50 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 4.50
   
For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95

HIGHLIGHTS

 * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
   of the file being edited. 
   (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
 * PostScript enabled TeX system.
   Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 
GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, 
FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * OpenType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts: 
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.

USER INTERFACE

* Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents: 
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
* Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
    correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
    configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* Support for Multi-User systems.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 4.50 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 4.40

 GRAPHICS

  * Handling fonts embedded into imported Postscript.
    Handling of fonts embedded into imported graphics was improved.
    New option: `Options|Graphics|Substitute Embedded Fonts' forces 
    graphical engine to substitute embedded fonts by a fonts installed 
    under BaKoMa TeX. However, when an embedded font isn't matched with 
    some installed font it will be rendered by built-in engine.
  * Unlimited number of objects in PDF Generation.
    We have removed any limitations related with generation of PDF files.
    They are: number of pages, objects, palettes, encodings, fonts, and images.
    Currently, they are limited only by Virtual Memory available on your
    computer. Now, you can typeset an enciclopedies.
  * Adobe Illustrator 10 Compatibility
    PostScript interpereter was drastically improved to handle import 
    of EPSF generated by Adobe Illustrator 10.
  * Mathematica 4 Compatibility
    Commonly, it includes configuration for Tyep1/TrueType fonts
    used by Mathematica 4 for generating EPS files.
  * Improved appearance on Display of thin filled elements
    Commonly, it is to avoid pixel drop out. It provide visibility
    of small elements even at small zoom factors. Now you can find
    that thin elements are appeared in DVIEW like to Acrobat Reader display.
  * `Options|Graphics|Protect Global VM' (new option)
    enables suppression of writing to Postscript intertpreter global memory
    by prologs of imported Postscript graphics.
  * `Graphics Files' is new option in dialog `Options|Directories...'.
    It lets user to define additional directory for graphical files
    shared by all documents.

 Text Editor Features
  * `File|Save LaTeX Document to Single File ...' (new command)
    saves the LaTeX Document into single file expanding `\include' and 
    `\input' LaTeX commands. It is similar to `LaTeXpand' tool.
  * `File|Open All Includes' (new command)
    opens (recursively) all files included into currently selected file 
    by `\include' and `\input' LaTeX commands.
  * `Window|Close Others' (new command) 
    closes all windows except of currently selected.
  * `Includes' is new category of Gather (Search|Gather...).
    It lists appearance of `\include' and `\input' LaTeX commands.
  * `Preserve Column at moving by Up/Down' is new option in
     		`Options|Editing Setting ...' dialog
    It enables preserving column position while
    moving the cursor by using Up and Down arrows.
    By default this feature is enabled.

For more information about changes see
  <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes3.html>

---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jun 13 09:05:53 2002
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:00:43 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Hoffmann Torben-CTOH001 <Torben.Hoffmann@motorola.com>
Subject: Re: skak (chess) package minor update 

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Hoffmann Torben-CTOH001 wrote:

> Upload: skak.zip
>
> Node: ftp.dante.de
>
> Where to go: replace the old skak package in fonts/skak
>
> Licensing conditions: LPPL (Latex Project Public Licence)
>   This software is copyright but you are granted a license which gives
>   you, the ``user'' of the software, legal permission to copy,
>   distribute, and/or modify the software. However, if you modify the
>   software and then distribute it (even just locally) you must change
>   the name of the software to avoid confusion.
>
> Summary:
>   This is just a minor addition to version 1.0 of the skak package:
>   the reference manual now contains info about the package options.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  fonts/skak

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf



From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 14 17:01:16 2002
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 21:57:55 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- tocloft package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>    I have uploaded tocloft.tar to the UK incoming directoty. Please use this
> to replace the current contents of /macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocloft.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The tocloft package provides control over the typography of the Table of
> Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables. You can also define your own
> kinds of "List of ..."
> 
> Changes in version 2.3 
> o Made compatible with the koma classes
> o Added control over the page style

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 14 17:01:21 2002
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 22:00:40 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memfixb package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memfixb.sty to the UK incoming directory. Please use
> this to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir/memfixb.sty
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> The memfixb package provides temporary fixes for the memoir class. This
> release corrects an oversight in the definition of the description
> environment.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jun 17 14:51:20 2002
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:47:14 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: mpp, a mutlilingual pretty-printer for noweb

A new version of the material from web/noweb/contrib/kostas has been 
installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to a mirror near
you soon.  It consists mainly of bug fixes for the 4/2002 version of 
mpp.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==================================================================== 

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: mpp, a mutlilingual pretty-printer for noweb
Author's name: Kostas Oikonomou 
Location on CTAN: web/noweb/contrib/kostas
Summary description: mpp, a mutlilingual pretty-printer for noweb
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Improvements and bug fixes
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jun 17 17:35:58 2002
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 22:34:50 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- layouts package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded layouts.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current contents of macros/latex/contrib/supported/layouts
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> FROM THE README:
> 
>     The layouts package enables the display of various elements of a
> document's layout including: the general page layout; disposition of floats;
> layouts of paragraphs, lists, footnotes, table of contents, and sectional
> headings; font boxes.
> Facilities are provided for document designers to experiment with the layout
> parameters.
> 
> Changes in version 2.6
> o Expanded page layout options

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jun 20 08:09:56 2002
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:04:44 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: poemscol.sty 

john burt told our upload web page:

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20020619.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: poemscol.sty
> Name and email: John Burt <--->
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/supported/poemscol
> Summary description: Macros for critical editions of poetry
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Poemscol numbers lines of verse, makes separate endnote sections for
> emendations, collations, and explanatory notes, with notes tied to
> the line numbers, marks cases where stanza breaks fall on page
> breaks. Poemscol provides most of the features necessary for an
> critical edition of a poet's works, such as described by the MLA
> Committee on Scholarly Editions. 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i've installed the package in macros/latex/contrib/supported/poemscol
(not quite as suggested...).  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jun 20 10:31:36 2002
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:30:11 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New version of CJK

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> CJK 4.5.1
> =========
>
> After a seemingly endless period of lazyness I've finally managed to release
> CJK 4.5.1.  The last `official' version has been 4.2.0, released in December
> 1998.  Intermediate versions (4.3.0, 4.4.0, and 4.5.0, already providing
> most of the features of 4.5.1) appeared on the TeX Live CDs.
>
> CJK 4.5.1 is available from ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/language/chinese/CJK
> and other CTAN hosts and its mirrors.  Following the CTAN rules, the source
> files of CJK are unpacked.  Additionally, the archive cjk-4.5.1-doc.tar.gz
> is available which provides some CJK documentation and example files in
> various output formats.
>
> Current development snapshots (updated twice a day) are available from
> ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/cjk/devel/.
>
> Bug reports should go to cjk-bug@ffii.org.
>
>
> CJK is a macro package for LaTeX, providing simultaneous support for various
> Asian scripts in many encodings (including Unicode):
>
>   Chinese (both traditional and simplified)
>   Japanese
>   Korean
>   Thai
>
> A special add-on feature is an interface to the Emacs editor (cjk-enc.el)
> which gives simultaneous, easy-to-use support to a bunch of other scripts in
> addition to the above:
>
>   Cyrillic
>   Greek
>   Latin-based scripts
>   Russian
>   Vietnamese
>
> See below for the relevant snippet from the history file.
>
> Enjoy!
>
>
>    Werner
>
>
> ======================================================================
>
> Version 4.5.1:  new:
> 17-Jun-2002         CJKulem.sty:
>                       Full underlining support using the latest version of
>                       ulem.sty.
>
>                     Bg5+ and GBK charsets and encodings added (together with
>                       `Bg5+text' and `GBKtext' environments). The encodings
>                       are C09 and C19, respectively.
>
>                       `bg5+latex' and `gbklatex' scripts added (together
>                       with its DOS and OS/2 pendants); both call the new
>                       converter `extconv'.
>
>                     EUC-JP and EUC-TW encodings (*with* single shifts) added.
>
>                     SJIS encoding with DNP fontencoding.
>
>                     A configuration file `CJK.cfg' will be read in by CJK.sty
>                       just before the \endinput command.
>
>                     CJKnumb.sty:
>                       Added the macro \CJKdigits to CJKnumb.sty for printing
>                       a (integer) number with CJK digits.
>
>                       Added macro \CJKnullspace to control the amount of
>                       space inserted before and after a circle character
>                       used for CJK digit zero.
>
>                     Added the macro \CJKindent to CJK.sty which sets the
>                       paragraph indentation to two ideographic spaces.
>
>                     Added a test file `CJKbabel.tex' for testing CJK,
>                       emacs 20, and the babel package.
>
>                     Thai support for Babel added.
>
>                     Added a test file `thai.tex' for testing Thai.
>
>                     cjk-enc.el:
>                       Will now work with XEmacs also (except for Thai).
>
>                       Support for ISO-8859-7 (Greek) added.
>
> *                     Support for multifile documents added.  As a
> *                     consequence, it is now necessary to specify the
> *                     encoding of all files with local variables for Emacs
> *                     (see the comments at the end of the files in the
> *                     `examples' directory how to do that; the `coding: ...'
> *                     line must exist.
>
>                       The translation tex->cjk will now be executed only if
>                       the source file is more recent than the corresponding
>                       output file (it is still possible to force translation
>                       though).
>
>                     Hyphenation patterns for unaccented pinyin syllables
>                       (together with support for the Babel package) in
>                       utils/pyhyphen. Documentation is in doc/pyhyphen.doc.
>
>                     pinyin.sty:
>                       Added option `useCMmacron' (for LaTeX only) to use
>                       a macron accent from the CM fonts in case the current
>                       font doesn't have it (e.g. some versions of virtual
>                       files for Palatino).
>
>                       Compound syllables can now be hyphenated.
>
>                     MULEenc.sty:
>                       Added \CJKinclude{<file>}, \CJKinput{<file>}, and
>                       \CJKbibliography{<file>} macros which behave similar
>                       to \include, \input, and \bibliography but include
>                       (input) <file>.cjk and <file>-cjk.bib instead.
>
>                     CJK.sty/MULEenc.sty:
>                       The command \CJKverbatim will suppress insertion of
>                       glue between CJK and Thai characters in verbatim
>                       environments if the `verbatim' package is used. This
>                       is useful if you have overlong lines.
>
>                 changed:
>                     Thai support has been redesigned. The external program
>                       `thaiconv' has been replaced by a Lisp file called
>                       thai-word.el; ligatures in virtual Thai fonts are now
>                       used to select the proper glyph representation forms.
>                       See thaifont.doc and cjk-enc.doc for details.
>
>                     CNS stuff moved into a `CNS' directory.
>
> *                   CJK.sty/MULEenc.sty,
> *                   cefconv, cef5conv, cefsconv, bg5conv, sjisconv,
> *                   cjk-enc.el:
> *                     The character slot 0xA0 is no longer used for
> *                     \CJKchar; instead, the multiplex character 0x7F
> *                     interface will now handle this also. Additionally,
> *                     character 0x7F (instead of 0xFF) will be used as
> *                     delimiting character.  0x7F is used for all CJK
> *                     characters also in preprocessed mode---as a
> *                     consequence, preprocessed and non-preprocessed data
> *                     can be used simultaneously.
> *
> *                     You *must* update the *conv programs (if you use
> *                     them). \CJKpreproc and \CNSpreproc now contain the
> *                     current version string so you can check whether really
> *                     the new versions are called.
>
>                     cjk-enc.el:
>                       ET5 encoding for Vietnamese replaced with T5 encoding.
>
>                       The version for emacs 20 has been removed. Please
>                       upgrade your emacs to 20.7 or newer.
>
>                     contrib/wadalab:
>                       Use CJK font size functions instead of DNP ones.
>
>                     hbf2gf:
>                       The configure option --with-kpathsea-dir has been
>                       replaced with --with-kpathsea-include and
>                       --with-kpathsea-lib to support web2c installations
>                       with multiple architectures.
>
>                 errors:
>                     cjk-enc.el:
>                       The formatting parameter `%i' has been replaced with
>                       `%d'.
>
>                     pmC.chr:
>                       Missing \ifCJK@ added.
>
>                       Punctuation macros fixed.
>
>                     Bg5.chr:
>                       Fixed a typo \CJK@temp -> \CJK@gtemp.
>
>                     hbf2gf:
>                       Will now work correctly with very large pixel sizes.
>
>                     Punctuation with half-width katakana in SJIS encoding
>                       improved.
>
>                     A bug fixed which prevented the usage of caption files
>                       together with hyperref.
>
>                     KS encoding with HLaTeX fontencoding will now support
>                       punctuation also.
>
>                     Specifying a font size factor (like `CJK * [1.5]') in
>                       FD files no longer produces a warning message for
>                       all subfonts.
>

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Fri Jun 21 05:03:32 2002
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:00:47 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- KOMA-Script

----- Forwarded message from Markus Kohm -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20020621.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: KOMA-Script
Name and email: Markus Kohm
Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script
Summary description: KOMA-Script, a versatile LaTeX2e bundle
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The KOMA-Script team is happy to announce the June '02  
Release of the KOMA-Script bundle aka "What we forgot in  
our previous release".  
  
--------------------------------------------------------  
What is KOMA-Script  
--------------------------------------------------------  
  
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  
the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities  
in order to provide the user an almost complete working  
environment.  
  
--------------------------------------------------------  
Versions of classes and packages at this release:  
--------------------------------------------------------  
  
  scrartcl.cls  2002/06/21  v2.9  
  scrbook.cls   2002/06/21  v2.9  
  scrreprt.cls  2002/06/21  v2.9  
  scrlttr2.cls  2002/06/21  v2.9  
  scrlettr.cls  2002/05/24  v2.6e (obsolete)  
  scrtime.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m  
  scrdate.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m  
  scrpage2.sty  2002/03/28  v2.1  
  typearea.sty  2002/06/21  v2.9  
  scrlfile.sty  2002/06/21  v2.9  
  scrpage.sty   2001/06/22  v1.3c (obsolete)  
  scraddr.sty   2002/06/02  v1.1b  
  
--------------------------------------------------------  
What is new in this KOMA-Script release  
--------------------------------------------------------  
  
The two most important changes are that there is now  
a completely rewritten letter class (scrlttr2) included  
and for our non-german users we are happy to provide  
the first time in the KOMA-Script history a complete  
english manual.  
  Furthermore, the article, report and book classes  
know some new options, commands and environments.  
For example KOMA-Script provides an environment to  
set captions beside a figure or table. Enhanced control  
over the captions should make packages like caption2  
almost unnecessary. A new interface allows to select the  
style of different text elements very easily.  
  The scrdate and scrtime packages now support also  
the languages dutch and croatian.  
  The new package scrlfile gives package developers  
and even users more control over package dependencies.  
  
This release includes of course some minor bug fixes  
and many more enhancements not mentioned here.  
  
Go discover.  
  
----------------------------------------------------  
Notes to the CTAN and the TeX Catalogue maintainers:  
----------------------------------------------------  
  
- I've used tar.bz2 because it's much shorter. 
- There's a ``koma-script.xml'' at this distribution. 
Please use it or modified version of it for The TeX 
Catalogue. 
 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for uploading the new version.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jun 24 09:54:26 2002
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:48:26 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: ePiX

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way to your favorite mirror in a day or so.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: ePiX
Author's name: Andrew D. Hwang
Location on CTAN: graphics/epix
Summary description: LaTeX preprocessor for creating mathematically accurate figures
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
ePiX ("epic" with a soft "k":) is a command-driven (non-GUI) preprocessor 
for creating flexible, mathematically accurate line figures containing 
mathematical typography. The language is simple and easy to use; detailed 
documentation and sample files are included. ePiX is written for and tested 
on GNU/Linux, but should run on any Unix-like operating system; a C++ compiler
 and GNU Bash are required for ordinary use.

ePiX is very usable, but in a fairly rapid state of development; feedback 
(bug reports, feature requests, general suggestions) is welcome!
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Tue Jun 25 03:02:25 2002
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:58:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX 4.60

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 4.60.

Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

Most important new features:

  * Pasting Images by using `Edit|Paste' editor command.
  * Automatical generation of BB-files for ALL graphical formats,
  * Improved appearance of raster images on a Display.
  * Improved handling of True Color images (touches PNG, BMP, MSP, WMF).
  * Important refinments in generation of PDF files.

More details are explained at end of this message.

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
24-Jun-2002

PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 4.60 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 4.60
   
For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95

HIGHLIGHTS

 * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
   of the file being edited. 
   (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
 * PostScript enabled TeX system.
   Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 
GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, 
FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * OpenType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts: 
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.

USER INTERFACE

* Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents: 
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
* Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
    correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
    configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* Support for Multi-User systems.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 4.60 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 4.50

  User Interface

  * Pasting Images
    When Windows Clipboard contains an image `Edit|Paste'
    editor command launches a wizard for pasting one.
    The wizard provides reasonable way for importing clipboard image
    into LaTeX document. It sequentially performs:
      1 saving the image into a file (PNG or EPS),
      2 insertion of proper `\includegraphics' command at the
    cursor position.
    Commonly, this operation requires pressing only ENTER key two times.
  * Automatical generation of BB-files is now available for all formats
    BaKoMa TeX beginning from version 3.0 supports automatical creation
    of BB-files for most frequently used graphical formats: 
    JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX.
    In this version the same approach is extended for other graphical
    formats: BMP, MSP, WMF, and compressed PostScript
    (supported extensions are: `.pz', `.ps.Z', `.eps.Z', `.ps.gz', `.eps.gz').
  * Bottom TAB Frame will be restored (if it was minimized)
    at any activity inside controlled windows (Console, Messages).
  * Space = Shift+Space = Ctrl+Space. They are bind to the same procedure.
  * Small fix for valid handling of 8-bit BIB-files by BibTeX8.

  Graphics

  * Appearance of raster images on a Display was improved
    Now you can find that quality of displaying raster images
    by DVI Viewer is comparable with one provided by Acrobat Reader.
  * Import of True Color PNG files was improved.
    (LIBPNG was upgraded to most recent version.)
  * Embedding into PDF True Color images imported via Metafile filters
    (BMP, MSP, WMF) was refined.
  * Fixed problem related with printing PDF
    from AcrobatReader 5.0 on a PostScript printer.
  * Fixed problem related with handling PDF by some Acrobat PLUG-INS.

For more information about changes see
  <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes3.html>

----- End forwarded message -----

THanks for the upload.  I installed the new files as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Jun 25 03:06:29 2002
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:04:42 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- ctable-1.2.tar.gz

----- Forwarded message from Wybo Dekker -----
- I have uploaded ctable-1.2.tar.gz
- at ftp.dante.de
- I suggest to unpack it in texmf/source/latex/ctable
- GPL
- ctable.sty provides commands to easily typeset centered table and
  (multiple-)figure floats, with footnotes. It makes use of the booktabs,
  keyval and tabularx packages.
  Instead of an environment, a command with 4 arguments is used; the first
  is optional and is used for key,value pairs generating variations on the
  defaults and offering a route for future extensions.

Best regards, Wybo Dekker
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the package in the directory
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ctable/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jun 26 09:28:41 2002
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:25:07 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: xmltex for CTAN 

Sebastian Rahtz sent me an update for macros/xmltex (which i've
installed), and asked me to delete macros/passivetex (which i've
done).

he writes:

> This release of xmltex is to bring it into line
> with the slightly enhanced version that has been
> distributed with PassiveTeX for the last year. Regular
> users should notice no difference, except that the default
> xmltex.cfg now turns *off* the verbose reporting.
> 
> The PassiveTeX update fixes some small problems,
> nothing outstanding

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jun 26 16:47:29 2002
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:43:50 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New on CTAN: decsci.bst

New material has been added to CTAN and should make its way to your favorite
mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tugn.ctan.org

======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: decsci.bst
Author's name: Paul A. Rubin
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/ 
Summary description: BibTeX style file for the journal Decision Sciences
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is is BibTeX style file suitable for submissions to Decision Sciences, 
the journal of the Decision Sciences Institute.  Use it with the natbib 
package (author-year format citations).
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jun 26 16:56:29 2002
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 20:55:49 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: OLETeX

A new package has been placed on tug.ctan.org and should appear at your
local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: OLETeX
Author's name: Peter Trifonov
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/oletex 
Summary description: OLE-LaTeX interface
License type: bsd

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The program is aimed to allow  LaTeX users easily embed pictures and other 
objects produced by OLE-aware programs into their LaTeX documents keeping 
it platform-independent.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jun 26 18:21:47 2002
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 23:20:30 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: cTAN submission --- newfile package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded newfile.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please use
> this to create a new /macros/latex/contrib/supported/newfile directory.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README
> 
>     The newfile package provides convenient user level commands for reading
> and writing new files during a LaTeX run.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Jun 27 06:50:40 2002
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:48:25 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- AstroSym 2.00

----- Forwarded message from Peter Schmitt -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20020625.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: AstroSym 2.00
Name and email: Peter Schmitt
Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/astro
Summary description: font of astronomical symbols (MetaFont)
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
AstroSym 2.00 provides 55 astronomical (and astrological)
symbols -- planets, signs of the zodiac, and other 
(including variant shapes) -- in three styles, 
plus 6 symbols for the phases of the moon.

[It extends version 1 which had 29 symbols in three styles.]
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/astro

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 28 02:25:00 2002
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 07:21:48 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: placeins.sty 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I have uploaded placeins.sty version 2.0 to ctan/uk, destined
> for macros/latex/contrib/other/misc
> 
> The default behaviour has been changed to prevent floats from
> floating up past a \FloatBarrier.  A package option [above]
> is now provided to restore the original more permissive
> behavior (in analogy with [below]).
> 
> (Licence is public domain)

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Jul  2 04:56:14 2002
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:45:41 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Submission -- geometry 3.0

----- Forwarded message from Hideo Umeki -----
I am pleased to announce version 3.0 of geometry package.

Package:  Geometry v3.0 (2002/06/30)
Author:   Hideo UMEKI (hideo.umeki@toshiba.co.jp)
Licence:  Distributed under the terms of LPPL
Abstract: The package provides a flexible and complete user
          interface to page dimensions.

Geometry becomes even more flexible and powerful with the release of
version 3.0. This new release contains major changes and enhancements
in user interface, calculation schemes and the default settings of the
page dimensions.

o New default layout.
     The automatic centering is no longer default layout. Instead
     centering, the idea of margin ratio and common values for default
     settings are introduced.

o Option 'twosideshift' is obsoleted.

o A complete set of options 'ignore*' and 'include*' for head, foot
  and marginpar. And 'ignoreall' is now set by default.

o New options:
  '{h,v}marginratio', 'ignore*', 'include*', 'lines', 'heightrounded',
  'screen', 'asymmetric', 'showframe' and etc.

See the manual for the detail.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it replacing the old version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Jul  2 10:54:06 2002
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:51:06 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- MonTeXIVu, MonTeX.Type1, ui-24.def and ctib

----- Forwarded message from Oliver Corff -----
Today, you'll find in the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de the 
following files:

1. ctib.tar.gz

The latest version of ctib, 0.6, has a greatly enhanced repertoire of 
glyphs and more than a dozen new ligatures (Tibetan stacks), and  a lot of 
new punctuation symbols. More or less the whole Unicode range of symbols 
is covered, too. The work is based on Sam Sirlin's Tibetan fonts.

Please note that upgrading to ctib 0.6 requires recompilation of old 
documents as the font layout has changed.

ctib.tar.gz goes into CTAN:language/tibetan/ctib and replaces all previous 
files completely.


2. montexivu.tar.gz

This latest version of MonTeX features many more Latin input encodings 
(all those a standard installation offers),  an overhauled documentation, 
and, for the first time, experimental Unicode support for utf8-encoded 
Mongolian.

Please note that upgrading to MonTeX IVu requires the presence of the 
utf8 input encoding system and there the file uni-24.def, containing the 
Mongolian plane (U+1800) of Unicode.

montexivu.tar.gz goes into CTAN:language/mongolian/montex.


3. montex.type1

A collection of Type1 outline files for the Mongolian scripts of MonTeX. 
These allow the pleasant display of Mongolian and Manju in PostScript and 
PDF documents. These fonts were contributed by Apostolos Syropoulos.

They should be placed into CTAN:language/mongolian/montex/contrib.

A detailed README file with instructions will follow later.


4. uni-24.def

The definition for plane U+1800 of Unicode, containing Traditional 
Mongolian.

This file should go into the ../data directory of the ucs/utf8 input 
encoding package (I happen to ignore where this is located, 
unfortunately...)
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the uploads.  I installed the new versions of ctib and montex in
CTAN:/tex-archive/language/tibetan/ctib
CTAN:/tex-archive/language/mongolian/montex
as suggested.

And I installed the Unicode definition file in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/unicode/data/uni-24.def
(pending the inclusion of this file in Dominique Unruh's sources)

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Jul  5 08:03:57 2002
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:56:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Hideo Umeki <hideo.umeki@toshiba.co.jp>, frank@mittelbach-online.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- geometry 3.1

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Hideo Umeki wrote:

> I have uploaded the new version of `geometry' package (v3.1)
> to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry-3.1.tgz. (tar + gzip)
>
> Please replace the contents of
> /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry.
>
> ------------
>
> Package:  Geometry v3.1 (2002/07/04)
> Author:   Hideo UMEKI (hideo.umeki@toshiba.co.jp)
> Licence:  Distributed under the terms of LPPL
> Abstract: The geometry package provides a flexible and complete user
>           interface to page dimensions.
>
>    * Release 3.1 (Bug-fixed version)
>    * Bug fix: error in setting geometry dimensions with \widthof of
>      calc package. \Gm@defbylen and \Gm@defbycnt are introduced to set
> 	 geometry dimensions.

Thanks I replaced the files in

         macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jul  6 05:48:09 2002
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 10:45:30 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: new version of FiXme (2.2) 

Didier Verna writes:

> I've just uploaded a new version (2.2) of FiXme to cam.ctan.org/incoming.
> This should replace the old one in the contrib directory.
> 
> From the NEWS file:
> 
> * Version 2.2
> * ===========
> ** New option "silent" to suppress notes logging.
> ** Support for Danish thanks to Kim Rud Bille <krbi01@control.auc.dk>

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jul  8 10:33:19 2002
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:26:07 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: Eurosym

A package on tug.ctan.org has been updated and should make its way to your
favorite mirror soon.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Eurosym
Author's name: Henrik Theiling
Location on CTAN: fonts/eurosym
Summary description: European currency symbol (Euro symbol)
License type: other

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is version 1.4 of Eurosym.  It contains a small correction of the 
construction after all measures are now known.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul  9 09:17:10 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:58:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Hideo Umeki <hideo.umeki@toshiba.co.jp>, frank@mittelbach-online.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- geometry 3.2

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Hideo Umeki wrote:

> I have uploaded the new (bug-fixed) version of `geometry'
> package (v3.2) to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry-3.2.tgz. (tar + gzip)
>
> Please replace the contents of
> /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> ------------
> 2002-07-08 Hideo UMEKI <hideo.umeki@toshiba.co.jp>
>       * Release 3.2
>       * Added known problem: for crop package with its 'center' option and
>         'mag' larger than 1000, the result is not the one expected.
>       * Bug fix: double-valued marginratio setting like {1:1,1:5} didn't
>         work properly. {h|v}marginratio should have been set by \edef
>         instead of \def (line:439-440 in geometry.sty).
>         The bug was introduced in v3.1.
>         (I'd like to thank Rolf Niepraschk for his pointing out the bug.)
>       * Added two test files: gtest15.tex gtest16.tex
> ------------

Thanks for the update, i installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jul 10 09:38:36 2002
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:30:55 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Johannes Reese <reese@linguist.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: Burmese

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 Johannes Reese wrote:

> Name of contribution: Burmese
> Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/language/burmese
> Summary description: support for writing Burmese characters
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The package provides support for writing Burmese characters. It comes
> with a preprocessor written in Perl, and it uses Type1 fonts
> obligatorily. The user can write Burmese texts in Roman script, by an
> intuitive transscription. Nothing but the characters in different script
> sizes are provided so far. A few characters are missing.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jul 10 09:51:13 2002
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:48:15 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Kai Schreiber <schreiber@genista.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: BiBLE

On Wed, 8 May 2002 Kai Schreiber wrote:

> Name of contribution: BiBLE
> Suggested location on CTAN:
> Summary description: BibTeX Library editing for Win32
> License type: Nosource
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a project I wrote for managing a BibTex-reference library on
> Win32 systems. It is capable of importing references in Medline Format
> via the clipboard and of exporting html overviews of the library as well
> as complex filtering of the contents.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Since readme.txt imposes an additional license condition:

5. BiBLE is postcardware. You're free to use it once you have sent me
   a nice postcard:

     Kai Schreiber
     Sieben-H�fe-Stra�e 105
     72072 T�bingen
     Germany

I installed the package in

  nonfree/bibliography/bibtex/utils/bible

Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jul 10 10:50:24 2002
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:46:57 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: savetrees

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org.  It should make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: savetrees
Author's name and: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/savetrees
Summary description: Pack as much text as possible onto each page of a LaTeX document
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The goal of the savetrees package is to pack as much
text as possible onto each page of a LaTeX document.
Admittedly, this makes the document far less
attractive.  Nevertheless, savetrees is a simple way to
save paper when printing draft copies of a document.
It can also be useful when trying to meet a tight
page-length requirement for a conference or journal
submission.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jul 11 04:45:41 2002
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:42:10 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: schreiber@genista.de
Subject: BiBLE Package moved on CTAN

The author of the BiBLE package, Kai Schreiber has clarified the license
conditions, so that we can move it from the nonfree part of CTAN into the
standard tree. The path is therefore now

    bibliography/bibtex/utils/bible

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

-------------readme.txt for bible package
README.TXT for BiBLE for Windows
V0.99 (15.03.2000)
******************************************************************

Before you use this software, read and understand the following:

1. BiBLE was written because I wanted a convenient way to edit my
   own BibTeX library. I can't and won't guarantee that it works
   with yours. Try it at your own risk.
2. Don't use the program on your library before you know what you're
   doing. Create a backup copy of your library.
3. If you find any errors or have suggestions for future versions,
   tell me. Maybe I'll include them. schreiber@genista.de
4. You may redistribute this package only as a whole with all the
   files unchanged. The distribution contains:

   bible.exe      - the win32 executable
   bible.hlp      - the windows helpfile
   bible.ini      - initialization file
   test.bib       - demonstration database
   readme.txt     - this file
   versions.txt   - the version history

5. BiBLE is free to use.
6. Read the windows helpfile.
7. The .ini-file contains the information about the possible itemtypes
   and their fields. If you want to add custom items, you can do so.
   Just add another type-name to the "types=..." line, and a line
   saying "typename=x,f,f,f,f". The x is the number of required fields
   following, the fs are the numbers of the field in the "fields=..."
   line. If you want to add your own optional or required fields DO SO
   ONLY AT THE END OF THAT LINE or all the other items will get messed
   up. The line starting with "choice=" contains alternative field pairs.
   Don't change the first pair, as it is the only one where you can have
   both field values set (type inbook, fields chapter and/or pages). If
   you need custom fields with and/or behaviour contact me and explain
   why.
8. Have fun.

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jul 11 04:47:53 2002
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:46:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Carsten Schurig <Carsten.Schurig@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Upload of pdfcprot-2002-07-10.tar.gz

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Carsten Schurig wrote:

> I just uploaded the file pdfcprot-2002-07-10.tar.gz into the
> incoming directory of dante.ctan.org.
>
>   The tar.gz should extract to the following files:
>
> -rw-r--r-- cs/users       3477 2002-07-10 19:51:22 INSTALL.txt
> -rw-r--r-- cs/users      14439 2002-07-10 20:11:22 LEGAL.txt
> -rw-r--r-- cs/users       7717 2002-07-10 19:51:15 Makefile.unx
> -rw-r--r-- cs/users      77363 2002-07-10 19:57:59 pdfcprot.dtx
> -rw-r--r-- cs/users       5520 2002-07-10 19:51:11 pdfcprot.ins
> -rw-r--r-- cs/users       3032 2002-07-10 19:51:25 README.txt
>
>   Please copy them to /macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfcprot/. The
> additional files 00README and 00CONTEN should be deleted. The
> license is still LPPL 1.2 or newer.
>
>   The most important news in this version (1.5) is a fix for a bug
> which prevented the usage together with the new KOMA-Script version
> (2.9).

Thanks for the update, I installed it as you requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jul 11 13:55:11 2002
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:31:04 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: ePiX

There has been a considerable upgrade on this existing package.  The
new version should make its way to a mirror near you in a day or two.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===========================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: ePiX
Author's name: Andrew D. Hwang
Location on CTAN: graphics/epix
Summary description: Version 0.8.5
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Color, spline, and line width declarations have been simplified, and 
arbitrary-width lines are available. Text may be aligned with a reverse 
LaTeX-style option. Line segments may be specified by points other than 
their endpoints. A bug that affected drawing of arrowheads has been fixed, 
and the code has been cleaned up. Users are strongly encouraged to upgrade, 
since some of the new declarations are not backward-compatible. The package 
includes a script that will bring old input files into compliance with the 
new syntax.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jul 17 12:58:12 2002
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 17:51:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: [Upload] a free drop-in replacement for Adobe's Courier 

Rolf Marvin B e Lindgren [subject to the manglings of my mailer]
wrote:

> I have uploaded bcr.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk. 
> 
> I assume I want the files to go to the /pub/tex/fonts/ directory and
> that I would like the lppl conditions to apply. 
> 
> there are README files in English and Norwegian.  the files just make it
> easy to use Bitstream's free Courier, which was made available for
> unrerstricted use by IBM many years ago.  in my biased and eccentric
> opinion, these fonts look nicer than Adobe's Courier, being somewhat
> darker.  they go well with e.g. Times and Helvetica.

i've installed the files under fonts/psfonts/bitstream/courier (which
seemed an appropriate sort of place).  i arranged them in
subdirectories, to match the way other fonts/psfonts sub-sub-
directories appear.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jul 17 15:14:20 2002
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 19:12:15 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: t1-fraktur

The t1-fraktur package has been installed at tug.ctan.org in fonts/t1-fraktur.
It should make its way to a mirror near you in a day or two.

>   T1 encoding fraktur fonts have been reviewed recently. Everything needed
>   (including an example)
>   is in fonts/t1-fraktur
> 
>   Please take it and send me your suggestions for enhancement.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From zierke@dante.de Thu Jul 18 03:06:22 2002
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:02:34 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- jkthesis 1.1

----- Forwarded message from Jochen K�pper -----
I have uploaded jkthesis 1.1 to CTAN.

   + what you've uploaded

jkthesis.tar.gz

   + which CTAN node you've uploaded to

Ftp.dante.de/incoming

   + where you want the files to go

replace all files in 
   CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/jkthesis/

   + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
     below).

LPPL

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

Just one more thesis class.  Of course the one I like most:))
It has a German manual that hopefully describes it's usage and gives a
little bit of background.

This class should solve all your formatting hassles for a dissertation
at a German school and give you a great looking thesis:) I am not sure
how well it goes with the often more stringent (and sometimes very
ugly) requirements in other countries.

For an example look at
   http://science.jochen-kuepper.de/publications.shtml --> D2
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission. I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jkthesis/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 19 04:58:49 2002
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:44:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload musixps-unix.tar.gz 1.12 

Takanori Uchiyama writes:

> I uploaded musixps-unix.tar.gz at cam.ctan.org.
> 
> Please replace previous one on fonts/musixtex/ps-type1/.
> 
> The license of the fonts is LPPL.
> 
> VERSION 1.12
> 
> CHANGES
>   + Fix broken fonts, xslhd11, xslhd11d, xslhd13, xslhd13d, xslhd16d,
>     xslhd24, xslhd29d
> 
> OUTLINES
> 
> This package provides PostScript (type 1) fonts (PFB format), and dvips and
> dvipdfm map files for MusiXTeX. The fonts are based on the original METAFONT
> sources, such as musix20.mf, which are distributed with MusiXTeX. The fonts
> provided here may be used to produce printer-independent Postscript files. PDF
> files generated using type 1 fonts are well displayed by the Acrobat Reader and
> xpdf.
> 
> The fonts were generated from the METAFONT sources in the TeX Live CD 2000 July
> using TeXtrace 0.45 but musix11-20, xslhz20 and xslhz20d were upgraded to those
> in musixtex-T102.tar.gz.
> 
> Here is a list of the 71 generated fonts.
> 
> musix11.pfb  xgreg24.pfb  xsld29.pfb   xslhd24.pfb  xslhu24.pfb  xslu20.pfb
> musix13.pfb  xgreg29.pfb  xsld29d.pfb  xslhd24d.pfb xslhu24d.pfb xslu20d.pfb
> musix16.pfb  xsld11.pfb   xsldd20.pfb  xslhd29.pfb  xslhu29.pfb  xslu24.pfb
> musix20.pfb  xsld11d.pfb  xsldu20.pfb  xslhd29d.pfb xslhu29d.pfb xslu24d.pfb
> musix24.pfb  xsld13.pfb   xslhd11.pfb  xslhu11.pfb  xslhz20.pfb  xslu29.pfb
> musix29.pfb  xsld13d.pfb  xslhd11d.pfb xslhu11d.pfb xslhz20d.pfb xslu29d.pfb
> musixsps.pfb xsld16.pfb   xslhd13.pfb  xslhu13.pfb  xslu11.pfb   xslud20.pfb
> musixspx.pfb xsld16d.pfb  xslhd13d.pfb xslhu13d.pfb xslu11d.pfb  xslup20.pfb
> xgreg11.pfb  xsld20.pfb   xslhd16.pfb  xslhu16.pfb  xslu13.pfb   xslz20.pfb
> xgreg13.pfb  xsld20d.pfb  xslhd16d.pfb xslhu16d.pfb xslu13d.pfb  xslz20d.pfb
> xgreg16.pfb  xsld24.pfb   xslhd20.pfb  xslhu20.pfb  xslu16.pfb   xtie20.pfb
> xgreg20.pfb  xsld24d.pfb  xslhd20d.pfb xslhu20d.pfb xslu16d.pfb
> 
> Note: musix25 and xgreg25 were not generated because they are not used in 
>       musixgre.tex or musixtex.tex.
> 
> The control points were reduced with Fontographer.
> The fonts were hinted automatically with Fontographer.  musix11 - 29 were
> hand tuned by Takanori Uchiyama.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 19 18:42:52 2002
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 23:37:46 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Booktabs (at long last!) 

Claire Connelly writes:

> I have uploaded Simon Fear's booktabs package to
> cam.ctan.org/incoming (in booktabs.tar.gz).
> 
> The files in that archive should replace the current version of
> booktabs on CTAN, located in
> 
>    macros/latex/contrib/supported/booktabs
> 
> (Simon didn't send me the readme file -- it can presumably stay
> the same.)

there isn't a readme file: i guess we have to make do with the
excellent documentation found (in the usual way) in the .dtx source.

> Booktabs is, with Simon's okay, now licensed under the GPL -- see
> below for details.
> 
> Booktabs is, of course, a package that allows you to produce
> publication-quality tables (ala _The Chicago Manual of Style_), as
> opposed to the standard tableaux seen in nearly every book on
> LaTeX.  Relicensing it means that it can once again be included in
> teTeX (and Debian).
> 
> Simon's okay to replace the current version follows:
> 
>     SF> From: simoncfear@netscape.net 
>     SF> Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 12:34:34 -0400 
>     SF> To: cmc@debian.org 
>     SF> Subject: booktabs package license 
>     SF> Message-ID: <0F3134B7.65CB45D5.1077F333@netscape.net>
> 
>     SF> Dear Claire,
> 
>     SF> sorry for not responding sooner. Robin Fairbairns phoned
>     SF> me to remind me, I promised to send it to him this weekend
>     SF> but my normal server is down, and I don't have his email -
>     SF> would you please forward this to him.
> 
>     SF> Please (either of you) insert the necessary LaTeX
>     SF> copyright where it currently says "Copyright Simon
>     SF> Fear". You have my complete permission to do this. (I
>     SF> think LaTeX rather than GPL, since it has no meaning
>     SF> outside LaTeX, but if you prefer GPL, that's fine by me.)
>     SF> Also, please run and correct the checksum, which will
>     SF> obviously now be wrong. Last but by no means least, please
>     SF> suitably edit the .ins file, which currently claims this
>     SF> is part of the LaTeX distribution (because I stole it more
>     SF> or less wholesale from one of the main packages).

(this has been done, i presume by claire.)

>     SF> Sorry I haven't been able to do this myself, if there is a
>     SF> problem please email both simon.fear@serono.ch and
>     SF> simoncfear@netscape.com but I may not be able to be online
>     SF> until Monday week, so fingers crossed this is all OK.
> 
>     SF> Please keep this package under "supported". I know I kept
>     SF> you waiting but when I get user queries I do still try to
>     SF> reply by return.
> 
>     SF> Thanks for your encouragement

thanks to all involved, in helping us find simon, and especially to
claire for being the point of contact through which this new version
has arrived.

i've installed the files in the tarball, replacing the originals at
macros/latex/contrib/supported/booktabs

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jul 22 04:15:16 2002
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:09:07 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: minor faq changes

a public-spirited user pointed out that one answer descended into
gibberish; investigating the cause, i found a general (small) problem
with the html-generation code, which i corrected.  i've installed the
update on http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq

in the course of making the change, i spotted a small number of
minuscule updates that needed doing and typos that needed correction.
i've therefore also pushed the source release to ctan
(help/uk-tex-faq).

distribution-builders will find a copy formatted for them in the
"usual place".

Robin Fairbairns

As FAQ maintainer, and for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jul 22 17:16:02 2002
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 22:12:38 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- verse package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded verse.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please use this
> to replace the current contents of macros/latex/contrib/supported/verse.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     verse provides some aids for typesetting simple verse (poems).
> 
> Changes in version 2.2 (2002/07/18)
> o Adjustable spacing between stanzas.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jul 22 17:19:00 2002
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 22:17:14 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN update: Circuit_macros5.2 

Dwight Aplevich writes:

> Circuit_macros5.2.tar.gz has been copied into the incoming directory
> of ftp.tex.ac.uk.  Its expanded contents are to replace the contents
> of graphics/circuit_macros.  The copyright is almost public domain.
> 
>  From the README:
> ...
>    This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality line diagrams to
>    include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents.  The macros were
>    originally intended for electric circuit diagrams containing
>    fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors, and basic logic gates,
>    but several tools and examples for other types of diagrams are also
>    included.  The advantages and disadvantages of such a system are
>    similar to those of TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg,
>    and which uses ordinary character input.
> 
>    The macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic "little language,"
>    which is easy to read and learn.  The programming elements in pic are
>    well suited to line drawings requiring parametric or conditional
>    components, fine tuning, significant geometric calculations or
>    repetition, or to drawings that are naturally block structured or
>    tree structured.  Arbitrary formatted text can be included.  Free
>    TeX- and LaTeX-compatible interpreters for m4 and pic are readily
>    available for Unix and PC machines.
> 
> View or print the file examples.ps in the examples directory, or try
> http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/
> 
> A collection of examples and hints intended for his colleagues has
> been produced by Alan Robert Clark at http://ytdp.ee.wits.ac.za/cct.html
> ...
> CHANGES:
> Version 5.2: New macros arrowline, nport, vlength, boxcoord, reversed.
>    Improved s_box, sfg_init, cross, fitcurve, sinusoid, transformer, darrow,
>    mosfet, psset_, battery, diode, capacitor.
> ...

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jul 24 17:03:40 2002
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:58:51 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Apostolos Syropoulos <apostolo@ocean1.ee.duth.gr>
Subject: Re: oinuit package

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:

> I have uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming the file oinuit.zip. You should
> create the directory language/inuktitut/ and inflate there the zip file. The
> system is released under the LPPL license.  The ``oinuit'' system is a set of
> Lambda (Omega LaTeX) typesetting tools for Inuktitut documents.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the package as requested, in

   language/inuktitut/oinuit

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jul 24 17:07:50 2002
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 23:07:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: MEGEVAND Denis <Denis.Megevand@obs.unige.ch>
Subject: Re: Upload report

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, MEGEVAND Denis wrote:

> I've uploaded the latest version (2.346) of my LaTeX class lettre.cls,
> which is a designed to write letters
> with LaTeX in french, german, english. The letter aspect is entirely
> configurable, through a number of dimension and macros, that can be put also in
> a so-called "institute package" called at initialization.
>
> The whole documentation, with examples of letters and faxes in english, german
> and french is included in the subdirectory "doc", the class file itself, with
> templates files, default institute and my institute files is located in the
> subdirectory "inputs", and the package is completed by README files in english
> and french, plus the lppl.txt file.
>
> I've uploaded that package on ftp.dante.de, in /incoming/lettre directory. I
> propose to install the files in /pub/tex/macros/latex/supported/lettre. That
> package is distributed under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) terms.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/lettre

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jul 24 17:12:04 2002
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 23:10:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <was@vr-web.de>, Y&Y Support <support@YandY.com>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission:  lucidabr.yy

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the file lucidabr.yy to the /incoming directory
> at dante.ctan.org.  Please, move it to the CTAN directory
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/lucidabr, thus replacing
> the present file.
>
> This is the installation script for the lucidabr.sty package
> and the related .fd files, using LY1 encoding for the text fonts
> and the original (not KB-style) font names for the math fonts.
>
> I have fixed a bug, which would cause the generated macro
> package not to include the code for the "vargreek" option,
> i.e., the option would not have any effect.
>
> Notice that most TeX distributions are not affected, because
> they use the alternative installation script lucidabr.ins
> (for standard encoding and KB-style font names), which does
> not exhibit the bug.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul 29 04:59:24 2002
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:54:54 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Javier Bezos <jbezos@wanadoo.es>
Subject: Re: CTAN -- gloss 1.5.2

On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Javier Bezos wrote:

> I've uploaded to /incoming/gloss in the Dante server the
> following 8 files:
>
> gloss.sty      gloss.tex   glsbase.bib   glsplain.bst
> glsshort.bst   readme      sample.bib    sample.tex
>
> They are still under lppl and they should replace the files
> currectly under macros/latex/contrib/supported/gloss.
> From the readme:
> ==================
> Gloss is a package which allows the creation of glossaries
> using bibTeX. This approach has several advantages:
> - bibTeX is available in every platform where TeX is.
> - Glossary entries can be stored in databases, and you needn't
>   rewrite the definitions.
> - There are a lot of tools for managing bibTeX databases.
> - bibTeX is a programable tool and you can define your own
>   styles for acronyms, symbols, and so on.
> ==================
>
> Release 1.5.2 fixes a bug (sometimes the space following
> \gloss was gobbled).

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul 29 04:59:22 2002
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:58:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk@ptb.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- eso-pic 0.9

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Rolf Niepraschk wrote:

> I uploaded a new version of the `eso-pic' package to `/incoming'
> on ftp.dante.de (file: `eso-pic-0.9.zip'). Please remove the
> contents of
>
>    tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms/contrib
>
> and put the new files to the same place. The package is now
> compatible with the package `crop' and a small vertical
> misplacement is corrected.

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Tue Jul 30 16:30:25 2002
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:26:02 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- fonts/LuxiMono

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file luximono.zip to the /incoming
directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please, create a new directory
fonts/LuxiMono and unpack my ZIP file there.  (Do not unpack
the inner ZIP file ul9.zip.)

This bundle includes the free LuxiMono Type1 fonts and all
required files to use them with LaTeX on the Un*x or PC
platform.  It is already part of the TexLive7 CD-ROM.

LuxiMono is a family of general-purpose monospaced
(typewriter) fonts.  

The Luxi fonts include the Euro symbol.  Accessing it 
through the textcompanion encoding and the command 
\texteuro needs at least version 9 of the PSNFSS system.

The installation instructions cover any TDS-compliant TeX
system, such as teTeX, MikTeX or VTeX/Free.  Font mapping
files are provided for dvips and pdfTeX as well as for 
VTeX/Free.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/LuxiMono/
as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Aug  1 11:43:12 2002
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:36:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Marcel Heldoorn <SIunits@webschool.nl>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: SIunits

A submission was uploaded to CTAN:

> Name of contribution: SIunits
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/SIunits
> Summary description: Package for using general markup for al your SI units in LaTeX
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Updated version of the SIunits package.
>
> Bug Fixes + added functionality.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Aug  1 11:43:16 2002
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:38:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload: miller.sty

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Harald Harders wrote:

> I have uploaded the file miller.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please unpack it
> to CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/miller/.
>
> It contains a package that typesets Miller indices used in material
> science, where negative numbers are written with a bar over them. It
> provides the command \hkl which can be used in one of the following ways:
> \hkl[1-10], \hkl<1-10>, \hkl(1-10), \hkl{1-10}.
>
> License is LPPL.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/miller

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Aug  1 13:13:26 2002
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:09:35 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New package on CTAN: bib-fr

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: bib-fr
Author's name: Nicolas MARKEY
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/bib-fr
Summary description: French translation of classical BibTeX styles
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
These are complete and easy-to-adapt translations of classical BibTeX 
style files (abbrv, alpha, plain, unsrt).
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Aug  8 07:52:02 2002
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:45:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Florian Benischke <beni@pflaphy.pph.univie.ac.at>
Subject: Re: upload mceinleger

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Florian Benischke wrote:

> Report on upload of directory 'mceinleger':
>
> + what you've uploaded
>
> 3 files in the named directory:
> mceinleger.sty
> mceinleger.pdf
> mceinleger.tex
>
> + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
> ftp.dante.de
>
> + where you want the files to go
> /support/mceinleger
>
> + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
>
> gpl             GNU General Public Licence
>
> + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do
>
> package for creating MC-covers on your own; allows creation of simple
> covers as well as covers with an additional page for more information
> about the cassette (table of contents e.g.). needs package 'rotating' to
> work.
> mceinleger.tex and mceinleger.pdf are files to explain the use of the
> package.

Thanks for your upload.

Since your package is mainly a LaTeX package, I decided to install it
in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/mceinleger

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Tue Aug 13 10:30:23 2002
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:23:29 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- allrunes 2.0

----- Forwarded message from Carl-Gustav Werner -----
I have uploaded a new version (2.0) of the allrunes font collection
and LaTeX package to ftp.dante.de/incoming/ (as allrunes.zip).
Please remove the files in /fonts/allrunes and replace them with
the new ones. The allrunes is still free (dfsg).
Keep the CTAN Catalogue description:
  Fonts and LaTeX package for almost all runes.
  This collection of fonts and the LaTeX package gives access to
  almost all runes ever used in Europe. It covers not only the main
  forms but also a lot of varieties.

The new version has more runic characters, other minor enhancements,
and in addition to the mf-source, the main varieties of the fonts
also comes as type1 fonts.

Carl-Gustav Werner

----- End forwarded message -----

Tack s� mycket!  I have installed the new version as suggested replacing 
the old one in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/allrunes/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Aug 15 10:59:43 2002
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:53:49 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- preview-latex-0.7.3.tar.gz

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----
I have uploaded preview-latex-0.7.3.tar.gz and
preview-0.7.3.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
Its license is the GPL.

I would recommend installing it in the following way:

Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.7.3.tar.gz under
support/preview-latex/
and unpack the
README from it to support/preview-latex/README
Create a symbolic link from
support/preview-latex/preview-latex.tar.gz
to
preview-latex-0.7.3.tar.gz
so that people can always get the newest version under this name.

Unpack preview-0.7.3.tar.gz in the directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/

It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins.

The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a
standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX
source into separate pages of a DVI file.

Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted.

Here are the release notes:

Release notes for version 0.7.3 of the preview-latex package:

preview-latex could be the greatest thing since sliced bread, were it
not just the same.  Sliced bread provides you with a handle on
conveniently sized chunks of the real matter as well as unhampered
creative freedom for the space in between.  It obliterates the
unwieldy handling of loaf-sized chunks and puts the bread right on
your plate where it belongs.  preview-latex similarly chops unwieldy
pages of subpixel-accurate LaTeX previews into handily sized fully
dressed chunks (such as single formulas) that get placed right into
your Emacs/XEmacs source buffer, freeing the desktop space otherwise
required for separate carving plates, while keeping the original
source readily accessible.  You get to have your eye candy and edit
it, too.

The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for
extraction of selected text elements as images.  The package is
released under the GNU Public License (GPL).  At the current point of
time, at least GNU Emacs-21.1 under the X window system, AUC TeX
(11.11 recommended, see below), a working LaTeX installation and
GhostScript are required.  This version also supports XEmacs-21.  For
best results, at least version 21.4.9 is recommended since it
incorporates several fixes necessary for proper operation of
preview-latex.  Under the Windows operating system, we have had
positive reports for both native and Cygwin ports of XEmacs.  Recent
CVS versions of GNU Emacs could conceivably be made to run
preview-latex under Windows, but we have had no reports for this
combination yet.

Release 0.7.3 is a consolidation release containing mostly bug fixes.
It has to disable a broken security implementation that persists into
version 7.05 of GNU GhostScript.  A complete lack of developer
response makes it likely that future versions of GhostScript will not
work unless preview-latex gets configured to disable security for them
as well.  For further information, please read the PROBLEMS file or
the respective manual section.

One new feature is dumping of precompiled preambles in order to
facilitate faster regeneration of previews.  You can do this via a key
combination or from the Preview menu which has been moved to the
menu bar from the LaTeX menu.  This further improves the already
impressive performance even on bottom-line computers.

The README file provides adequate information for preinstalled
distributions.  The INSTALL file contains a special section with
advice for package providers.

User feedback about errors and suggested feature improvements is
welcome and heeded.  The home page is
<URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project
page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at
<URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>.

If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this
project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>.

Additional files can be found at
<URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>:

* If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt
  documentation files can be found there.

* AUC TeX can be found at several places, but if you want the latest
  11.11 (alpha, but stable AFAIK) with no known issues concerning
  preview-latex, you can find it there as well.

* RPMs for preview-latex and AUC TeX are provided for users of RedHat
  Linux.  For the binary RPMs, you will need the preview-latex-common
  RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM.

The RPMs require a few packages that should be readily available in
current distributions.  As of RH 7.3, Emacs-21.2 and GhostScript-6.52
are included.  The current RedHat beta "Limbo" contains the
security-impaired GhostScript-7.05 (see above).  XEmacs in those
distributions will still be affected with a serious display bug, see
the PROBLEMS file or the respective manual section.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
versions in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Aug 20 06:13:18 2002
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:05:17 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- eqlist 2.1

----- Forwarded message from "M. Vaeth" -----
I have uploaded the new release 2.1 of the eqlist package.
The new version should replace the old one in
  macros/latex/contrib/supported/eqlist

Description:
With this LaTeX package you can write lists with equal indentation.
The new release also provides mechanisms to treat lists with
exceptionally long labels. The eqparbox package is required.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version of the eqlist
package as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 21 04:36:30 2002
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:30:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- appendix package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded appendix.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please use
> this to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/appendix. The
> distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
>     The appendix package provides various ways for formatting the titles of
> appendices. Also (sub)appendices environments are provided that can be used,
> for example, for per chapter/section appendices.
> 
> Changes in version 1.2
> o The ifthen package is not required
> o Supports hyperref bookmarks

i've installed the package as requested (sorry for the delay: even
ctan maintainers have holidays ;-); thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 21 05:05:43 2002
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:03:34 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: todo 

our web upload daemon tells me:

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20020806.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: todo
> Name and email: Federico Garc�a <...>
> Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/todo
> Summary description: Macros for fully cross-referenced `to do' lists
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> With `todo' package the user can collect lists of things 
> to do, to by typeset at the end of the document, with
> (hyper)references from and to the text itself. There are different
> options for the appearance of the marks in the text, and a one-step
> way to ignore the to-do list and marks for final or semi-final
> printing. 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i've installed the new package as suggested (sorry for the delay --
i've been relaxing in cretan sunshine ;-).  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Aug 21 14:17:42 2002
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:12:44 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: gatech-thesis upgrade

An upgrade has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: gatech-thesis
Author's name: Charles Wilson 
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/gatech-thesis
Summary description: Georgia Institute of Technology thesis class
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I have uploaded an update for the gatech-thesis class.
This new version (ver 1.5) is compliant with the June 2002
revision of the Georgia Tech Style Manual, and adds a 
number of new features and add-on styles.  I've also
updated the documentation -- see the COMPLIANCE, NEWS,
CHANGES, and INSTALL docs, especially.

The output generated by using this class has been approved
by the Georgia Tech Office of Graduate Studies.

Older versions are available here:
http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/gatech-thesis/
Also, note that version 1.4 was never publicly released.

- --Charles Wilson

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Aug 22 04:26:25 2002
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:20:10 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Stefan Ulrich <stefan.ulrich@dsl.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: new version of bibtopic package

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Stefan Ulrich wrote:

> I've just uploaded to
>    ftp.dante.de/incoming
> an archive
>    bibtopic.tar.gz
> containing the files:
>    bibtopic.ins
>    bibtopic.dtx
>
> Please unpack the archive into
> CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/bibtopic/
> replacing the existing files.
>
> License (unchanged): GPL
>
> Bibtopic is a package to include several bibliographies covering
> different `topics' or bibliographic material into a document.
>
> Changes in this version (1.0k):
>
> - fixed a bug with bibitem counter not being reset
>   properly at the beginning of a new btUnit
>
> - fixed an incompatibility with KOMA classes v2.9
>
> - updated author email info

Thanks for the update, I installed the files.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 22 17:30:04 2002
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 22:25:15 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded memoir.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir.
> 
>      The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the REAME:
> 
>     Memoir is a configurable class for typesetting books, reports and
> articles. It encompasses the standard book and report classes and simulates
> the article class as well as typewritten double spaced maunscripts.
> 
>     It provides a variety of predefined page, chapter and caption styles,
> plus easy ways of creating new ones. There is an intuitive way of specifying
> page margins, etc, with an option for printing trimming marks. Documents can
> use 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 or 17pt as the normal font size.
> 
> Changes in version 1.2 (2002/08/10)
> o Incorporated all fixes from memfixb.sty that applied to version 1.1
> o Minor changes to *.clo files
> o added 17pt class option
> o Boxes that break over pages and/or contain verbatim text
> o Several ways of dealing with verbatim text
> o Convenient methods for file input and output
> o Additional \provide... commands
> o User=specified footnote configuration, and footnotes tha can include
> verbatim text
> o Additional optional argument to \chapter and \chapter* for short header
> texts

I have installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Aug 23 09:48:13 2002
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:45:43 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: lilypond

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org and it should make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: lilypond
Author's name: han-wen nienhuys
Location on CTAN: support/lilypond/
Summary description: LilyPond version 1.6 - Print music beautifully
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter.  LilyPond produces beautiful 
sheet music using a description file as input.

This release is focused on improved output quality. For some pieces, 
LilyPond produces publication quality output. To achieve this, we have 
completely overhauled the spacing engine, the font and the beaming code.

Version 1.6 also adds support for figured bass, tablature and (limited) 
ancient notation.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Tue Aug 27 04:28:47 2002
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:13:30 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Eukleides (geometry drawing language)

----- Forwarded message from Christian Obrecht -----
As a mathematics teacher using LaTeX, I needed a tool to draw geometry
diagrams in my documents. Since I didn't find anything satisfying I
decided two years ago to create Eukleides, a Euclidean geometry drawing
language. The Eukleides distribution comes with a compiler which
translates Eukleides code into PSTricks code, and a graphical frontend
named Xeukleides. It is released under GPL. Various kinds of binaries are
available: RPM, Debian, Free BSD, and soon Mac OS X.

You'll find more informations in the home page:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/obrecht/

Eukleides is now used by people all over the world, for instance in
Japan, see:
http://www.mlb.co.jp/linux/science/eukleides/

It has been referenced by the FSF:
http://www.gnu.org/directory/Mathematics/Misc/eukleides.html

Last year, Dr James Foster, Membership Secretary of the UK TUG, made a
presentation about it at the annual general meeting:
http://uk.tug.org/UK-TuG/AGM-2001/

Since some TeX users may be interested in Eukleides, I thought you may
want to add the Eukleides distribution to CTAN.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for your submission.  I installed the new files in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/eukleides/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 28 04:52:04 2002
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:40:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload - doublestroke 1.111 

Olaf Kummer writes:

> I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk the file
>    doublestroke.tar.gz
> which contains the updated version 1.111 of the
> doublestroke font for typesetting the mathematical
> symbols for natural numbers, real number etc.
> 
> This package replaces the files in
> /tex-archive/fonts/doublestroke.
> 
> In this version PostScript variants of the fonts
> were added, which were kindly provided by Marco
> Kuhlmann.

thanks for the upload; i've installed the files, as requested, to
replace the old version.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 28 10:06:55 2002
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:02:30 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new version of footmisc installed

i have just installed a new version (v5.0) of footmisc.dtx on ctan

this represents a substantial revision of the previous version.

1. new package options

1a: side - put notes into marginpars rather than at the foot of the
    page; this option isn't terribly satisfactory, but it addresses at
    least one user's requirements
1b: ragged - set notes ragged right in their box; also a parameter
    \footnotelayout that determines how the notes are to be set
1c: hang - set footnote marker flush with the margin and hang-indent
    the footnote text according to the value of \footnotemargin

2. new commands

2a: \setfnsymbol and \DefineFNsymbols - these commands permit control
    of the way \fnsymbol-style footnote marks operate (i.e., they
    allow you to define the sequence of symbols)
2b: \mpfootnotemark - like \footnotemark, but referring to minipage
    footnotes if you're inside one
2c: \footref - make reference to a footnote label "as if a
    \footnotemark" (this is a copy of a command in the memoir class,
    at the suggestion of peter wilson)

3. improvements

3a: i've worked on the documentation somewhat.  several things are
    noticeably better, i think.
3b: the multiple option has been completely re-implemented using a
    scheme that is compatible with alexander rozhenko's manyfoot
    package -- i.e., his package and my package will each respect the
    other's footnote marks when checking for multiple footnote
    markers.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 28 12:25:22 2002
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:24:14 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded memoir.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir directory.
> 
> Changes this time:
> o Minor typos fixed in the manual (and the postscript version is current,
> not one edition behind).
> o Minor bug fixed in mem12.clo
> 
>     Maybe it would be as well to make a brief announcement.
> 
>     BTW Adriano Pascoletti (who I have cc'd) says that when trying to print
> memman.pdf the CM fonts are substituted by Courier, although noting that
> Acrobat Reader 5.0 says that the document has embedded 10 CM Type 1 fonts.
> It prints OK for me. Do you have any ideas?

i've installed teh new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From klaus@dante.de Thu Aug 29 08:32:59 2002
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:06:48 +0200
From: Klaus Hoeppner <klaus@dante.de>
To: ctan@dante.de
Subject: DANTE CTAN snapshot on CD ROM

As the years before there will be a CTAN snapshot on CD ROM
produced by DANTE, the German language users' group, and Lehmanns
bookstore in Germany.
My time schedule isn't fixed, yet, but expect that I will copy
the data from CTAN to my machine about mid of September.
So if you are a package author and have an update in your queue,
it might be a good idea to do it in the next 2--3 weeks.

Regards
Klaus

From zierke@dante.de Fri Aug 30 03:51:10 2002
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:47:48 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- apa.cls v1.3.0

----- Forwarded message from Athanassios Protopapas -----
I have just uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file apa.tar.gz
which contains the following:

apa/CHANGELOG
apa/LICENCE
apa/README
apa/apa.cls
apa/apacls.txt
apa/apaenum.txt
apa/endfloat.cfg
apa/examples.txt

This is a major upgrade for apa.cls, the LaTeX2e class for typesetting
documents according to the APA manual (5th ed) recommendations
for manuscript submission, or in an APA-journal look, or as regular
LaTeX documents, with the switch of a class parameter.  The current
version is 1.3.0 and is datestamped as 2002/08/30.  It replaces
version 1.23 (which should have been 1.2.3) of apa.cls (and
accompanying documentation) currently found at CTAN under

tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/apa

There are several bug fixes and new features in this new version, most
notably an upgrade to the latest edition of the APA manual, handling of
appendices and long tables, and miscellaneous minor corrections and
improvements, all detailed in the CHANGELOG.

The licensing terms for this package are as specified by the LaTeX
Project Public License (lppl) -- a note to this effect is included
in apa.cls and also as a separate LICENCE file.

Please replace the contents of the aforementioned directory with the
contents of the uploaded archive.

Thank you for maintaining CTAN!

Thanassi Protopapas
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old version 
in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/apa/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Sep  4 09:30:32 2002
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:49:18 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New package on CTAN: outline

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: outline
Author's name: Seth Flaxman 
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/outline
Summary description: Update to the outline package
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is an update of the original "outline" package for use with LaTeX 2e.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Sep  4 09:36:56 2002
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 14:30:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: what i did on my holidays (uk tex faq)

i have just installed, on ctan and on the web, a new release of the uk
tex faq.

changes:

1. this is the first time for ages that i've looked at the faq with an
editorial eye: this occupied some of the time on my holiday...

2. yet more rearrangement of the "section" structure of the faq; in
particular introducing new "fonts" and "graphics" sections.  the
"fonts" section hasn't had much technical work (though there is one
new contributed answer in there), but the first three answers in
graphics are completely new, and replace the old "using postscript
graphics".

3. several corrections and enhancements to existing answers, from
contributors.

4. a select few additions from my (huge) backlog of questions to be
answered.

[distribution builders will find a new copy of "detached" html files
in the usual place.]

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Sep  4 18:36:23 2002
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 23:04:20 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- combine class and friends 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded combine.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to replace
> the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/combine.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a single
> document, suach as when preparing a conference proceedings.
> 
>     The auxiliary combinet package puts the titles and authors from
> \maketitle commands into the main document's Table of Contents. The
> auxiliary combnat package enales the combine class and natbib packages to be
> used harmoniously together.
> 
> Changes in version 0.5 of combine.cls
>         and version 0.2 of combnat.sty (2002/08/24)
> o Options for individual bibliographies, or a global bibliography, or both
> local bibliographies and a global combined bibliography.

i've installed the updated files as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Sep  5 06:52:05 2002
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:22:27 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- bmeps 1.0.3

----- Forwarded message from Dirk Krause -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20020904.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: bmeps
Name and email: Dirk Krause
Suggested location on CTAN: /support/bmeps
Summary description: Converter from PNG/TIFF/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS (program+library)
License type: LGPL

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package contains the updated version 1.0.3
of bmeps including libbmeps and modification
suggestions for dvips.
The update fixes a bug in DSC comment output and provides
a makefile "dll.mak" to build a DLL version of libbmeps.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/bmeps/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep  5 07:02:06 2002
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 11:31:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: corrected version of type1cm.sty

i have contacted david carlisle, the author of type1cm.sty, and with
his permission i have corrected the errors in the package that i know
about.

i have installed the new version of the package source on ctan -
macros/latex/contrib/supported/type1cm/type1cm.fdd

there were two errors i knew of (in the coding of the use of cmbx and
cmti fonts), and bob tennent pointed out a third, in the use of
euex10.

if anyone should spot any further problem with this new version of the
package, they should report it to me and i'll put it right on the
archive.  there shouldn't be any, since i've scanned the file for
other errors ... but i missed euex :-(

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep  5 16:02:36 2002
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 20:27:55 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- iso class and step packages 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded 3 files to UK incoming. Please do:
> 
> o Use README.std (minus the extension) to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/isostds/README file
> 
> o Use iso.tar.gz to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/isostds/iso directory
> 
> o Use iso10303.tar.gz to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/isostds/iso10303 directory.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL
> 
> From the iso/README:
> 
>     The iso class is for typesetting ISO International Standard documents
> according to the requirements specified in "ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2,
> Rules for the structure and drafting of International Standards, Fourth
> edition, 2001". Configuration files for TeX4ht are also provided.
> 
> Changes (2002)
> o Class updated from Directives Edition 3, 1997
> o Supports use of the hyperref package
> 
> From the iso10303/README
> 
>     The step packages are for typesetting the ISO 10303 International
> Standard. The iso class is required for the use of these packages.
> Configuration files for TeX4ht are also provided.
> 
> Changes (2002)
> o Updated to match the 2002 iso class and the current (July 2002) SC4
> Supplementary Directives.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Sep  6 12:36:58 2002
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 18:06:53 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Markus Kohm <markus.kohm@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: KOMA-Script


> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The KOMA-Script team is happy to announce the September
> '02 Release of the KOMA-Script bundle aka "What we made
> wrong in out previous release".
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> What is KOMA-Script
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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
> the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities
> in order to provide the user an almost complete working
> environment.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Versions of classes and packages at this release:
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>   scrartcl.cls	2002/09/04  v2.9i
>   scrbook.cls	2002/09/04  v2.9i
>   scrreprt.cls	2002/09/04  v2.9i
>   scrlttr2.cls	2002/09/04  v2.9i
>   scrlettr.cls	2002/05/24  v2.6e (obsolete)
>   scrtime.sty	2002/02/02  v1.1m
>   scrdate.sty	2002/02/02  v1.1m
>   scrpage2.sty	2002/03/28  v2.1
>   typearea.sty	2002/09/04  v2.9i
>   scrlfile.sty	2002/09/04  v2.9i
>   scrpage.sty	2001/06/22  v1.3c (obsolete)
>   scraddr.sty	2002/06/02  v1.1b
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> What is new in this KOMA-Script release
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> This is only a bug-fix-release. There are no more known
> bugs left. One additional change was made at the letter
> class scrlttr2. You may find this change, using the
> "List of changes" at scrguien (English) or the
> "Aenderungsliste" at scrguide (German).
>
> Go discover.


For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Tue Sep 10 10:29:39 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:32:30 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX 5.0

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 5.0.

Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

Most important new features:

  * Support for LaTeX -> HTML conversion
  * Dynamical Preview improved
  * Flexible window management (docking model)

More details are explained at end of this message.

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
9-Sep-2002

PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.0 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.0
   
For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95

HIGHLIGHTS

 * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
   of the file being edited. 
   (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
 * PostScript enabled TeX system.
   Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 
GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, 
FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * OpenType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts: 
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.

USER INTERFACE

* Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
* Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen 
  for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents: 
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
* Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
    correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
    configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* Support for Multi-User systems.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF,
* HTML.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

*** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.0 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 4.60 ***

 * (La)TeX to HTML Conversion
 * Dynamical Preview Improvemets
 * Window Docking

 (La)TeX to HTML Conversion
 --------------------------

 BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 documents into HTML files.
  * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch 
     `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
  * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert 
     pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
     pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, 
     such as slides.

 In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of 
 `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.

 Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 into generated HTML pages.
 

 Dynamical Preview Improvements
 ------------------------------
 
 * New flexible way for managing windows provide much more optimal use 
   of display space in Dynamical Preview mode. So, console and DVI window 
   may be reattached to different edges of main window.
   Commonly it is based on new Docking approach.

 * TeX Daemon is running in separate console.
   It enables running TeX (or another utilities) without
   terminating Dynamical Preview.
 * Text in Dynamical Preview window is automatically adjusted to be 
   visible in window.
 * GUI Control Bar was extended to simplify Visual Design
   of math formulas with help of Dynamical Preview.

 Window Docking
 --------------
 
 BaKoMa Text editor supports docking another windows at any edge of 
 own window. It supports four docks:
   `Left', `Right', `Bottom', `Top'.
 Dockable windows have `Docking' option in context menu activated by 
 clicking right mouse button in the window.
 This option enables choose desired dock for a window, including
 virtual dock: `None', that disable docking of the window.
 Currently, dockable windows are:
   * Console Windows (new version manages several consoles)
   * Messages Window
   * DVI Windows (!!!)

 It is important, that every copy of DVI Viewer has own docking settings.
 So, you can choose different docks for regular document Windows (DView-0, ...),
 Character Map (DView-F), Partial Preview (DView-P), 
 Dynamical Preview (DView-B), and Help Viewer (DView-H).

 In advance, BaKoMa TeX 5.0 introduces different consoles for
 compiling regular documents (Console),
 for `Dynamical Preview TeX Daemon' (Console-B),
 and for generating Postscript files (Console-G).
 This approach enables:
 (1) choosing different docks for running these processes, and
 (2) compiling entire document without stopping Dynamical Preview.

 Sizes of window docks may be adjusted under `Docking' tab
 of dialog opened by `Options|Appearance ...' editor menu command.
 You can specify which dock will occupy bottom corner of the editor window.
 Width of bottom dock or height of other docks may be adjusted
 by dragging rulers whose divide docks from another window space.

 `Top dock' is slightly non standard object. It is positioned at right top 
 corner of editor window. It shares top area of window with control bars.
 This dock is small dock. However, it may be useful for managing
 `Console Window' and `Messages Window' on large displays,
 that will save a lot of space for another tasks.

For more information about changes see
  <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>

---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I added the new files to the existing directory
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/ upgrading it to the new version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Sep 11 03:42:20 2002
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:13:20 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- ps2eps 1.39

----- Forwarded message from Roland Bless -----
- I just uploaded an updated version of the ps2eps tool
  to ftp.dante.de. It's all in the subdir /incoming/ps2eps.

- You can replace the existing version in "support/ps2eps"

- The program is licensed under gpl. 

Due to necessary changes for Windows XP please announce the update 
as follows to CTAN-ANN.

ps2eps v1.39 in CTAN:support/ps2eps
-----------------------------------
ps2eps is a tool to produce Encapsulated PostScript Files (EPS/EPSF)
from usual one-paged Postscript documents. It calculates correct
Bounding Boxes for those EPS files and filters some special postscript
command sequences that can produce errorneous results on printers.

You need:
 - perl (an interpreter for the perl language, see http://www.perl.com)
 - ghostscript (an interpreter/raster image processor
                for the PostScript language,
                see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/)
 - maybe an ANSI-C compiler if you don't use Linux, Solaris, Digital Unix,
   HP-UX or Windows 9x/NT/2000.
- The program is licensed under gpl.

Important changes since version 1.35:
- This is an update that allows also to convert postscript
  files created under Windows XP (or PScript.dll 5.2) to eps. 
  I found that the original postscript output drew white boxes 
  that erased portions of the text above the bounding box of the 
  embedded image, although the .eps image was clipped by 
  \includegraphics*! ps2eps fixes this.
- Added filter for Star/Openoffice 5.2
- Added "/setpagedevice {pop} def" to prolog in order to fix
  problems with pdf creation, pstricks and nested dvips output
  (thanks to Hans Fredrik Nordhaug <hansfn@mi.uib.no> for
  suggesting this addition)
- Improved processing of binary files with beginimage endimage
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/ps2eps/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Sep 11 09:49:18 2002
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:18:36 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New package on CTAN: hebclass

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: hebclass
Author's name: Tzafrir Cohen
Suggested location on CTAN: language/hebrew/hebtex
Summary description: classes for Hebrew documents
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
hebclass 0.1: an initial release

hebclass is a package of Hebrew LaTeX classes for some documents. I 
generally intend them to be used as a basis for modifications. For that 
reason I avoided the use of docstrip: keeping the source and comments in 
one file makes hacking easier.

I tested them with recent version of heblatex from http://ivritex.sf.net/ . 
Specifically, they use \hebalef rather than \alef, and thus will not work 
with heblatex 2.0c from babel. I hope to commit that version to babel 
soon .

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Sep 11 12:46:45 2002
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 17:16:31 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- needspace package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>      I have uploaded needspace.sty to UK /incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/needspace.sty.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> Decription:
> 
>     Provides a command to reserve space at the bottom of a page (column). If
> there is not enough space left, a new page/column is started.
> 
> Changes in version 1.2 (2002/09/11)
> o Calc package commands can be used in the command's argument (courtesy
> Robin Fairbairns).

i've installed the file; thanks for the upload (and for the speedy
response to my suggestion!).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Sep 12 08:55:36 2002
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:36:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- PSNFSS 9.0a bug-fixing release

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file psnfss90a.zip to the /incoming 
directory at dante.ctan.org.  It provides some bug fixes 
for the PSNFSS bundle, which is updated to version 9.0a.  
Please, unpack the archive in the directory

  macros/latex/required/psnfss .

Doing so will replace the following files:

  psfonts.dtx
  lw35nfss.zip
  freenfss.zip
  changes.txt

>From the change log:

* Fixed TFM and VF files for mathpazo.  The size of 
  certain symbols was wrong, because of a bug in the 
  fontinst package.
* mathpazo.sty:  Changed definition of \hbar with 
  better spacing.
* Fixed identification strings in 8rpcr.fd and t1put.fd.
* Fixed comments in 8r.enc.
* Unneeded file removed from lw35nfss.zip.

The changes to the mathpazo fonts may result in changed 
line and page breaks.  I'm really sorry for the mess; the 
bug in the fontinst program was unnoticed for a long time.

All changed files in the archives, as well as psfonts.dtx,
show the time stamp as of 2002-09-08.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new files as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Sep 12 08:59:46 2002
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:51:18 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New package on CTAN: comicsans

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org.  It will make its
way, through the magic of mirroring, to a location near you in the 
next day or two.

Thanks for the upload.
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: comicsans
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/comicsans
Summary description: Use Microsoft's Comic Sans font with LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The comicsans package makes Microsoft's Comic Sans font
available to LaTeX2e.  comicsans supports Roman text,
boldface text, small-caps text, and -- with a little
extra effort -- italic text; it supports both Latin and
Cyrillic alphabets; and, it supports mathematical
typesetting with Comic Sans to the best of the font's
ability.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Sep 13 03:54:36 2002
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:14:43 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification 

Maurizio Loreti writes:

>    + what you've uploaded:
> 
>      A new release of the auxilliary files for the "webomints" font.
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to:
> 
>      ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/
> 
>    + where you want the files to go:
> 
>      Remove all the existing files from the directory
>      tex-archive/fonts/webomints, and replace them with the new ones.
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software:
> 
>      Public domain.
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do:
> 
>      Here follows a part of the enclosed README file:
> 
> ============================================================================
> On Tuesday 05 Feb 2002, Walter Schmidt (wal_schmidt@arcormail.de) has
> posted a message on comp.text.tex about a freely downloadable
> PostScript Type-1 font containing various types of ornaments.
> 
> The URL is http://www.galapagosdesign.com/download/index.html, and
> contains the following lines:
> 
>         Galapagos Design Group is pleased to make available to the
>         Internet community free downloads of original typefaces and
>         clipart.
> 
>         Our first offering is a tasty border and ornament font called
>         Web-O-Mints.  Created by George Ryan, Web-O-Mints contains a
>         rich assortment of typographic decorations inspired by
>         historical sources.
> ...
> This collection includes all the files needed to use this font in
> LaTeX and three small LaTeX examples.
> ...
> Important changes have been introduced with the current release of this
> package; these changes were performed by the same Walter Schmidt who
> first named in comp.text.tex these fonts.
> ...
> In case you have installed a previous release, please update your TeX
> system accordingly.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Sep 13 05:03:26 2002
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:35:51 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "Daly Dr., Patrick" <daly@linmpi.mpg.de>
Subject: Re: Update for custom-bib

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Daly Dr., Patrick wrote:

> I have uploaded an update to my custom-bib bundle to the dante CTAN server
> under /incoming.
>
> There are 4 files in custom-bib.zip:
>   merlin.mbs    (Replacement)
>   geojour.mbs   (Replacement)
>   slovene.mbs   (New file)
>   README.404    (Replaces Readme.403)

Thanks for the update, I isntalled it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Sep 13 05:05:57 2002
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:39:42 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <was@vr-web.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: urw2.zip

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the file urw2.zip to the /incoming
> directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please, remove everything from
> the directory fonts/urw and unpack the archive urw2.zip
> in the directory fonts/urw then.
>
> Doing so will create the subdirectories urw/antiqua and
> urw/grotesq, with the free URW fonts "URW Antiqua Condensed"
> and "URW Grotesk Bold", accompanied by detailed installation
> instructions and ZIP archives with all required files to use
> them with LaTeX.
>
> The Nimbus fonts are no longer included, because the present
> versions on CTAN are hopelessly obsolete and are superseded
> by the collection that comes with Ghostscript.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in

   fonts/urw

> Please, remove also the present metrics for these fonts,
> i.e., the directories
>
>         fonts/psfonts/urw/antiqua
>         fonts/psfonts/urw/grotesq
> 	fonts/psfonts/urw/nimbus
>
> These metrics are now obsolete and are lacking decent
> documentation, anyway.  Metrics, VFs etc. are now
> distributed with the fonts.

I deleted these directories from CTAN.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Sep 13 05:03:26 2002
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:44:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Christian Justen <christian@justen-mack.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: CJHebrew

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 Christian Justen wrote:

> Name of contribution: CJHebrew
> Suggested location on CTAN: /texarchive/language/hebrew/cjhebrew
> Summary description: Hebrew typesetting package including fonts.
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> CJHebrew is a package for typesetting Hebrew text. It includes two
> Hebrew Type1 fonts. eLaTeX is required for the right-to-left
> typesetting.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the new package as

   languages/hebrew/cjhebrew

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Sep 13 09:09:05 2002
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:39:10 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Andreas Wettstein <wettstae@ise.ch>
Subject: Re: New version of authorindex uploaded

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Andreas Wettstein wrote:

> I just uploaded the file authorindex.tar.gz to the /incoming directory
> of ftp.dante.de
>
> This is a new version of my authorindex package, and should replace the
> old version, which is located in indexing/authorindex.
>
> The licence is lppl.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested ,in

  indexing/authorindex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Sep 14 09:12:54 2002
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:31:41 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: mfpic

A package revision has be installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make its way
to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: mfpic
Author's name: Daniel Luecking
Location on CTAN: graphics/mfpic
Summary description: Macros which generate Metafont or Metapost for drawing pictures.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is version 0.6 beta of mfpic, a package for creating pictures in (La)TeX files via Metafont or MetaPost. The major changes:
1. Now *all* macros that draw a figure and that take a list of points or numbers as their last parameter can take that list from an external file.
2. The options mplabels and truebbox are now independent of one another.
3. With option mplabels, the specification of the location of a \tlabel can be any *list* of MetaPost point expressions, enclosed in braces.
4. New options draft, final and nowrite.
5. The main documentation now includes an index of commands and options.
6. Several bugs from version 0.5 corrected. (Our bugs are all new!)
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Sep 14 09:12:49 2002
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:42:54 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: yhmath

A package upgrade has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it will make its
way to your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: yhmath
Author's name: Yannis Haralambous
Location on CTAN: fonts/yhmath
Summary description: Update of the yhmath package
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
New version of yhmath package: now contains a 
PostScript Type 1 font.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Sep 16 03:32:57 2002
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:49:46 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: chktex upload to ctan 

Baruch Even writes:

> I wanted to let you know that I've uploaded a new version of ChkTeX, the
> LaTeX typographical checker.
> 
> It is uploaded to the ftp.tex.ac.uk incoming directory and it should
> replace the current chktex directory in the archive. This new upload
> removes the four subdirectories that were there formerly and packs them
> all into a single place at the root. The licensing stays the same (GPL)
> 
> The changes include bug fixes to allow running chktex from within emacs,
> fix a memory access error that caused crashes and add the \verb*
> command.
> 
> I couldn't get in touch with the former author and so I adopted the
> program.

in the unlikely event of some complaint, there's an old version still
on the archive (for a while).  otherwise, i've installed the files as
you requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Sep 16 03:34:00 2002
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:06:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: linsys 

my upload daemon spake thus:

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20020914.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: linsys
> Name and email: walter kehowski <suppressed>
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/linsys
> Summary description: Inserts a circled number tothe left of each
>                      equation in a linear system 
> License type: Generic DFSG
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a new environment that makes it easier to label each
> equation of a linear system. The pifont package is used to put a
> circled numer next to each equation. Example:
> \begin{linsys}{2}
>  -x & + & 4y & = & 8\\
>  -3x & - & 2y & = & 6
> \end{linsys}
> and similarly for a 3x3 system, and so on.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

the directory you suggested for the file is not actually admissible in
the present structure of ctan.  i have therefore installed the file as
macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/linsys.sty

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 17 18:05:02 2002
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:30:40 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: "Making TeX Work" on CTAN

i've just installed a file

  info/makingtexwork/mtw-1.0.1-html.tar.gz

on ctan here.  it's a copy of Norm Walsh's submission of the current
version of the free html version of the o'reilly book.

the root of the html tree is makingtexwork/html/index.html in the
expanded archive.

many thanks to Norm for permission to install the package.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Sep 18 12:16:21 2002
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:28:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- subfloat package

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Harald Harders wrote:

> I have uploaded the file subfloat.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
> Please replace the files in macros/latex/contrib/supported/subfloat by its
> contents.
> Licence stays LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>
> 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.
>
> Main changes to the old version are:
> - The labels of the subfloats can now easily be changed.
> - subfloat is compatible to subfigure, now.
> - The number of subfloats with the same main number can be counted and
>   displayed in the captions.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/subfloat

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Sep 20 03:01:40 2002
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 07:24:30 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: nolbreaks.sty on ftp.tex.ac.uk 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I've just written and uploaded nolbreaks.sty, which is an 
> attempt to prevent line-breaks in portions of text while
> still allowing flexible glue.
> 
> It is in  ctan.uk:incoming/nolbreaks.sty.real
> 
> NOTE .real!  Please copy to, perhaps, 
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/nolbreaks.sty
> 
> License is PD

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Sep 20 12:44:21 2002
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:02:45 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: lcs@math.u-psud.fr
Subject: Re: "BSR2dvi" beta upload

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 Laurent Siebenmann uploaded an update for the package
BSR2dvi.

Thanks for the update, I installed it, leaving the alpha version in place,
as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

> =============================================================
>
> #NAME OF CONTRIBUTION: BSR2dvi beta version of September 2002
> #UPLOADED TO:  ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/BSR2dvi_new.zip
> #MY POSTING:    http://topo.math.u-psud.fr/~lcs/BSR2dvi_new.zip
> #AUTHOR'S NAME: Laurent Siebenmann
> #AUTHOR'S EMAIL: lcs@matups.math.u-psud.fr
> #LOCATION ON CTAN: Expand the zip archive inside dviware/BSR2dvi
> #SUMMARY DESCRIPTION: A free mass converter, from the private
> format for the TeX implementation Textures by BlueSky Research
> (BSR), to TeXs' standard output format dvi.
> #LICENSE TYPE: public domain
> #KEYWORDS: Textures, DVI export, Macintosh, freeware
>
> #ANNOUNCEMENT:
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> This is the beta release of BSR2dvi; the alpha release was in
> May 2002.  It is a public domain Macintosh program for mass
> extraction from Textures' "all-in-one" file format to TeX's
> output format suffixed ".dvi".  It uses a multi-file
> 'drag-and-drop' user interface. This release has improved
> error handling and includes a small utility called
> "SerialKiller" to facilitate use in conjunction with the
> standard Mac file selection utility "Sherlock".
> ---------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Sep 23 10:03:11 2002
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:18:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: cj.bst 

my upload daemon tells me that Felix Gaertner wrote:

> Name of contribution: cj.bst
> Name and email: Felix Gaertner <...>
> Suggested location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib
> Summary description: A BibTeX style file for the Britsh Computer Journal
> License type: GNU Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> If you are submitting something for The Computer Journal
> (published by the British Computer Society) you can use
> this BibTeX style file for formatting the bibliography,
> since their rules for handling references are rather
> particular and not covered by any other BibTeX style file
> I know of. This style file is the result from hand-editing
> a basic style file produced using the great custom-bib package by Patrick W Daly.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Sep 28 18:59:38 2002
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 23:18:50 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: txt2tex version 3 

my upload daemon coughed, and reported:

> A submission was uploaded to upload-20020928.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: txt2tex version 3
> Name and email: Kalvis Marks Jansons <...>
> Suggested location on CTAN: support
> Summary description: Turns plain text directly into LaTeX.
> License type: Generic DFSG
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is the first free version of Txt2TeX, which turns plain
> text into LaTeX.  It has many command line options so that 
> it can be fine tuned for your application.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i've installed the new version in support/txt2tex, and deleted
nonfree/support/txt2tex

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sun Sep 29 05:21:52 2002
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:00:39 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- upgreek.sty v2.0

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file upgreek.dtx to the /incoming directory
at dante.ctan.org.  Please, substitute it for the present file
in the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/was.

This is a new release (v2.0) of my package upgreek.sty, which 
makes the Euler or Symbol typeface available as an upright Greek 
math alphabet.  This version can optionally scale the Adobe Symbol 
font so as to match the other typefaces used in the document.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/was/upgreek.dtx

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep 30 09:24:40 2002
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:18:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Upload: ttf2tex 0.6 (TrueType font installer for teTeX)

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Philipp Lehman wrote:

> I've put a new release of ttf2tex into the incoming directory on
> ftp.dante.de. Please unpack ttf2tex.tar.gz into support/ttf2tex,
> replacing the contents of this directory. Thank you in advance.
>
> From the README:
>
> ttf2tex is a Bash script which generates all files required to use
> TrueType fonts with teTeX from a set of .ttf files. In short, it will
> do for TrueType fonts what fontinst's \latinfamily command usually
> does for Type 1 PostScript fonts.
>
> The script is designed for UNIX systems running teTeX. It was
> reported to work under several Linux flavors, FreeBSD, and MacOS X
> with Fink.
>
> From the CHANGELOG:
>
> 2002-09-30      v0.6
>   * extended user feedback including installation paths
>   * fix in T1-WGL4.enc for '/Zdotaccent' and '/zdotaccent'
>   * debugging hooks
>   * slightly extended manual, new section on upgrading ttf2tex

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  support/ttf2tex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Mon Sep 30 10:45:25 2002
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:52:00 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- jurabib package v0.52p

----- Forwarded message from Jens Berger -----
I've just uploaded the file jurabib-052p.tar.gz to

	ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming.

This archive contains an updated version (0.52p) of the jurabib package.

It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

The following files are included:

	jurabib.ins
	jurabib.dtx

Changes since 0.52h:

    natbib commands are working with `authorformat=index' now
	(bug reported by Jose Ignacio Sanchez-Macias).
    some changes in spjbbib.ldf (suggested by Jose Ignacio
	Sanchez-Macias).
    bugfix for missing \endgroup (double \begingroup!) while
	calling \jbcitenotitle.
    removed doubled comma, if number and volume are given,
	while \artnumberformat prints out a comma by itself
	(reported by Kai Kramer and Jose Ignacio Sanchez-Macias).
    no longer double output of year for @article type (generated
	shorttitle contains `journal year').
    fallback to url (if url given and neither shortauthor or shorttitle
	are given) removed, because of problems of detecting
	not given url.
    check for `commabeforerest' introduced for \citefield.
    no longer additional shorttitle, if `authorformat=year' is used.
    `\bfseries ?' replaced by `{\bfseries ?, #1}' (suggested by
        Tilman Finke).
    hardcoded `in:' removed (reported by Peter Flynn).
    No longer warnings about ambiguous citations if
        `authorformat=year' is used.
    New entry type @LEXICON introduced (alpha stage!).
    bugfix regarding babel's french options (reported by Peter Flynn).
    sort.format.names removed for sortkey. All spaces are ignored now.
    natbib-emulated command `\citet' improved (bug reported by Klaus
	Hellermann).
    \citeworkwithtitle{} allows to specify a list of works (keys), for
	those the title should always be printed (suggested by
	Till A. Heilmann)
    natbib emulation commands using the first optional argument for
	pages now (bug reported by Bear F. Braumoeller).
    rewritten macro \jbfirstcitepageranges. Documentation added.
    Counting of citations inside \footnote's introduced to avoid
	lowercase ibidem at the begin of the footnote.
    `pages=always' includes no longer the pagerange in the short
	citation.
    lowercase ibidem for inline citations or \cite's inside the same
	footnote (reported by Matthias Damm).
    some \def's replaced by \DeclareRobustCommand's.
    bugfix for indexing with `index' package, reported by
	Dirk Steinmeyer.
    No special code for loaded footmisc, exceeded TeX capacity if
        `multiple' option was used (reported by Thorsten Manegold).
    Printout no title, if `authorformat=year' is used
        and no shorttitle is given (reported by Carsten Mennenoeh).
    output of startpage for ibidem citations is suppressed now
        (suggested by Benjamin von Engelhardt).

Please replace the current files in the directory
CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib/
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version (plus documentation)
as suggested replacing the old version in
CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jurabib/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Oct  1 08:07:54 2002
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:30:03 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Klaus Bosau <kbosau@web.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: proof v1.2

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 Klaus Bosau wrote:

> Name of contribution: proof v1.2
> Suggested location on CTAN: support/
> Summary description: Proof is a shell based completion to an
>   ordinary word processing program, able to process and view TeX, LaTeX,
>   METAFONT and MetaPost sources. This program needs an intact TeX/LaTeX
>   environment and GNU bash (Bourne Again Shell), version 2.03 or later
>   to work properly.
> License type: Free

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  support/proof

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct  4 06:54:28 2002
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 10:29:46 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- tocloft package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded tocloft.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to replace
> the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocloft.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The tocloft package provides control over the typography of the Table of
> Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables. You can also define your own
> kinds of `List of...'
> 
> Changes in version 2.3a
> o Made Part commands work as advertised or deleted them
> o Added examples for page break control in the ToC, etc.

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

r

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Oct  4 11:48:25 2002
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:52:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Bjoern.Pedersen@ch.tum.de
Subject: Re: bpchem

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Bjoern Pedersen wrote:

>    + what you've uploaded
> 	bpchem.tgz
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 	ctan.dante.de
>
>    + where you want the files to go
> 	macros/latex/contrib/other/bpchem,
>  	replacing any old files
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
>  	lppl
>
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 	New version, mainly improved the documentation

Thanks for your update, I installed it as requested, in

   macros/latex/contrib/other/bpchem

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Oct  4 13:38:21 2002
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:56:58 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: CervanTeX FAQ --- Spanish TeX Group FAQ

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should make
its way to your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: CervanTeX FAQ --- Spanish TeX Group FAQ
Author's name: Agustin Martin 
Location on CTAN: help/es-tex-faq
Summary description: CervanTeX FAQ ---Spanish TeX Group FAQ
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the FAQ from the Spanish TeX users group in some different formats
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Oct  6 11:53:04 2002
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 16:52:38 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Bjoern.Pedersen@ch.tum.de
Subject: Re: bpchem (bugfix release)

On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Bjoern Pedersen wrote:

 >    + what you've uploaded
 > 	bpchem.tgz
 >
 >    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
 > 	ctan.dante.de
 >
 >    + where you want the files to go
 > 	macros/latex/contrib/other/bpchem,
 >  	replacing any old files
 >
 >    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
 >      below).
 >  	lppl
 >
 >    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
 > 	bpchem is a package for typesetting chemical names and formulae.
 > 	This release fixes some bugs, mostly pointed out by M. Kohm.
 >
 > 	Bugfix, \BPChem was not as robust as it should have been.
 > 	replaced a lot of \def with \ProvideCommand

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Oct  7 03:09:40 2002
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 07:29:41 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- booklet package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded booklet.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to replace
> the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/booklet.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     booklet provides some aids for printing simple booklets or signatures
> for longer books.
> 
> Changes in this release
> o Expanded and improved documentation. No changes to any code.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct  8 11:24:29 2002
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:12:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: v3.3 of uk tex faq on ctan and web

i have installed this version of the faq to the usual places.  as
usual, for a major release, there are a few more questions answered,
and a few more wrinkles in old material sorted out.

an innovation, this time, is the files pdf-newfaq.lab and
pdf-letterfaq.lab; these give the relationship between question labels
and question titles, for the two forms of pdf that i distribute.  the
files are actually output of a toc-like mechanism; i've not actually
convinced myself of a way to typeset them, yet :-(

robin fairbairns.

who _won't_ be speaking at the uk tug meeting about faqs and things,
because of the lack of any voice.

From zierke@dante.de Wed Oct  9 10:23:42 2002
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 15:33:17 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Astrosym 2.20

About a month ago I installed the current version of the AstroSym font
in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/astro/ but forgot to announce it on CTAN-ANN.
So I'm announcing it now ...

----- Forwarded message from Peter Schmitt -----
I have just uploaded astro220.zip,
  containing a replacement (8 files) for /fonts/astro

*** AstroSym : astronomical symbols ***
* ( Version 2.2 --- August 10, 2002 ) *

ASTROSYM is a font containing astronomical symbols, including those
used for the planets, four planetoids, the phases of the moon,
the signs of the zodiac, and some additional symbols.

*** new : characters 55-69,155-169 and 178-191,255
          including: Lilith, Chiron (2 versions),
                     three signs for Pluto (Pluto 4,5,6), and
Thus, version 2.20 contains 70 characters each in three styles,
                       plus  6 characters
----- End forwarded message -----

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Oct 10 12:46:17 2002
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:30:16 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: bytefield (v1.1)

An update has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=====================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: bytefield (v1.1)
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/bytefield
Summary description: Create illustrations for network protocol specifications
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The bytefield package helps the user create illustrations for network 
protocol specifications and anything else that utilizes fields of data. 
These illustrations show how the bits and bytes are laid out in a packet 
or in memory.

Version 1.1 is a bug-fix release.  No new features have been added since 
the previous version.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Oct 10 12:46:58 2002
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:35:00 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org.  It should make its way to 
your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: info/symbols/comprehensive
Summary description: Samples of thousands of symbols that are accessible from LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
At long last, the next major version of the
Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List is available!
Improvements over the previous version include the
following:

  * Hundreds of new symbols are listed.

  * The index now includes the actual glyph next to
    each symbol name.

  * The section on composing new symbols out of
    existing ones has been expanded.  It now includes
    many recent tips posted to comp.text.tex.

  * A number of tables have been restructured and
    reorganized for clarity.

  * Various typos have been corrected.

Thanks to the following people who suggested additions
to the list or pointed out errors in the previous
version: Stefan Becuwe, Bernd Loechner, Bjarte
M. Oestvold, Norman Ramsey, and Peter Simon.  (I hope I
didn't miss anyone.)

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct 14 11:40:08 2002
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:56:18 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: M. Vaeth <vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Subject: Re: toolbox v4.3

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, M. Vaeth wrote:

> I have uploaded a new release of toolbox (toolbox.zip) to the
> incoming directory. A description follows.
> Sincerely.Martin V�th
>
> Name of contribution: toolbox v4.3
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/toolbox
>     (should replace previous release)
> Summary description: A package for (La)TeX which provides some macros
> which are convenient for writing indices, glossaries, or other macros.
> License type: Free (lppl)
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> A package for (La)TeX which provides some macros
> which are convenient for writing indices,
> glossaries, or other macros.
> It contains macros which support
> -implicit macros
> -fancy optional arguments
> -loops over tokenlists and itemlists
> -searching and splitting
> -controlled expansion
> -redefinition of macros
> -concatenated macro names
>
> The documentation was enhanced: A lot of examples and
> explanations about typical applications have been added.
> A small bug concerning \toolboxMakeDef has been fixed.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct 14 11:38:34 2002
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:58:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Manuel Kauers <manuel@kauers.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: gauss

A submission was uploaded:
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

> Name of contribution: gauss
> Name and email: Manuel Kauers
> Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/other/gauss
> Summary description: improved version of the package already there
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> A package for typesetting matrix operations as occur in the Gaussian
> algorithm for solving systems of linear equations.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Tue Oct 15 07:11:50 2002
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:38:58 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- cmbright fonts in Type 1 format

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded the file hfbright.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
Licence is LPPL.

>From the README:

This package contains the cmbright fonts in Type1 format. Only the
fonts are included that are not part of the cm-super bundle
(thus, math and OT1 fonts).
This package contains the ready Postscript Type1 fonts in PFB format as
used by dvips and pdflatex, as well as a map file and a config file for
dvips.
The font names and the file names begin with 'hf' for 'harders font'. This
has been done for not getting mixed up with the commercial cmbright fonts
by MicroPress. This has been suggested by Walter Schmidt, the creator of
the cmbright fonts.

I suggest to put the contents of this file to
CTAN/fonts/ps-type1/hfbright

Yours
Harald
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the files as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/hfbright/
next to the cm-super package.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Oct 15 09:14:21 2002
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:40:27 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: Petri-nets package

A package upgrade has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon
make its way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

================================================================= 

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Petri-nets packages
Author's name: Franck Pommereau
Location on CTAN: macros/generic/petri-nets
Summary description: TeX/LaTeX packages for drawing Petri nets
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Petri-nets is a set of (La)TeX packages for works about Petri nets and
related models. It allows in particular for drawing nets using a clear
and convenient language. This new release includes automated support
for producing PDF files with pdfLaTeX.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Wed Oct 16 05:57:48 2002
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:21:38 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- bmeps

----- Forwarded message from Dirk Krause -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20021015.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: bmeps
Name and email: Dirk Krause
Suggested location on CTAN: /support/bmeps
Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM/TIFF to EPS
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Overview:
bmeps is a program and library to convert from PNG, JPEG,
NetPBM and TIFF to EPS. The library can be used by a
modified dvips to convert images "on the fly".
Depending on the PS level choosed for output one can use
run-length compression, flate compression and ASCII85-
encoding instead of ASCII-Hex to create smaller output
files. Alpha channels in images can be used for mixing
and/or to create an image mask.

Changes in this update:
The dvips-mods subdirectory now contains suggestions
for modifications to divps(k) version 5.86 and 5.90a.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as auggested replacing the old version
in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/bmeps/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Oct 17 04:52:29 2002
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:10:35 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- FoilTeX 2.1.4

----- Forwarded message from Jim Hafner -----
******************************************************************
****** ANNOUNCING the release of FoilTeX 2.1.4 for LaTeX2e *******
******************************************************************
 
I have recently uploaded the latest release of the FoilTeX system for
generating foils (transparencies, slides) using TeX.  You should find
it on your nearest CTAN in
    /nonfree/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex

*******************  About the package ***************************
 
  Its features include simplicity of use, compatibility with LaTeX,
  large sans serif font as default, extra macros to start foils with
  bold headings and special mechanisms to control footer and header.
 
This new version (from 2.1.3 to 2.1.4) fixes a handful of bugs, fixes
compatibility with other packages and adds support for MicroTeX's VTeX.

     James (Jim) Hafner
     IBM Research Division
     Almaden Research Center, K56-B2
     650 Harry Road
     San Jose, CA 95120-6099
     email: hafner@almaden.ibm.com
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:/tex-archive/nonfree/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Oct 18 09:41:35 2002
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:05:36 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New on CTAN: jPicEdt 1.3.2

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

========================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: jPicEdt 1.3.2
Author's name: Sylvain Reynal
Location on CTAN: graphics/jPicEdt/
Summary description: jPicEdt is a vector-based graphic editor for LaTeX 
  and related packages (eepic, PsTricks,...), written in Java.
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is release 1.3.2 of "jPicEdt for LaTeX", now including basic support 
for PsTricks, user-defined macros and fragments. The archive comprises a 
clickable  Java-based installer (jar),  documentation, and a ReadMe file 
for installation instructions.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Oct 19 05:14:28 2002
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:07:02 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ccaption package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I've uploaded ccaption.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to replace
> the current latex/macros/contrib/supported/ccaption
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The ccaption package provides continuation captions (hence ccaption),
> unnumbered captions and legends. Methods are provided to define captions for
> use outside floats, and to define new floats and subfloats. Tools are
> provided for defining your own captioning styles.
> 
> Changes in version 3.1b (2002/10/18)
> o Minor bug fix related to brackets in captions with the subfigure option.
> o Stopped double labelling within a caption.

i've installed the files as required; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct 21 15:49:56 2002
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:12:42 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Update to custom-bib collection

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Daly Dr., Patrick wrote:

 > I have just uploaded an update to my custom-bib collection, to the DANTE
 > incoming directory, as a zip file custom-bib.zip.

Thanks for the update, I installed the new files in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib

For the CTAN Team

   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct 21 15:49:20 2002
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:16:40 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "[ISO-8859-1] Bj�rn Pedersen" <Bjoern.Pedersen@ch.tum.de>
Subject: Re: Upload of dnaseq.tgz

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, [IS0-8859-1] Bj�rn Pedersen wrote:

 >    + what you've uploaded
 >    dnaseq.tgz
 >
 >   + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
 >    ftp.dante.de
 >    + where you want the files to go
 >   unpack the archive, and put the resulting directory dnaseq
 >   into macros/tex/latex/supported
 >
 >    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
 >      below).
 >  licensed under lppl
 >
 >    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
 >
 >   dnaseq is a macro package for typesetting simple singlestranded
 > dna-sequences (or an other letter sequence) in fixed-length blocks.
 > The number of blocks per line is computed automatically.
 > The lines are prefixed with the current sequence number.

Thanks for your upload, I installed the package in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/dnaseq

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct 21 15:50:51 2002
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:18:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: announcing frenchle and French Pro V5.08

I'm sending this on behalf of Bernard Gaulle

   Rainer Sch�pf

-------------------------------------------------------------------

  Here is just a little announce for the new version 5.08 of the
"frenchle" (LPPL) package and of the "frenchpro" (shareware) package
for LaTeX. The first one was released weeks ago but never announced.
The last one was a little delayed for Windows but is now quite ready
with a complete unix-like installation procedure. Major changes in
the installation makefiles for Unix and MacOS X.

All this stuff will go their way through the CTAN servers in few hours
or days.

  --bg


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Oct 24 09:50:42 2002
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:14:58 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN install: brokent1

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: brokent1
Author's name: Torsten Bronger
Location on CTAN: fonts/brokent1
Summary description: The typefaces yfrak, yswab, and ygoth in T1 encoding
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The package provides virtual fonts for T1-like variants of the broken 
typefaces published in 1990 by Yannis Haralambous, namely yfrak, yswab, 
and ygoth.  Additionally, this package embeds these fonts nicely into 
LaTeXe's font selection scheme.  The structure of this package allows 
for further broken typefaces from other sources to be made usable for 
LaTeX in a similar way, too.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 25 06:00:49 2002
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:30:45 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- epigraph package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded epigraph.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to replace
> the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/epigraph.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The epigraph package is designed for typesetting epigraphs --- the pithy
> quotations often found at the start (or end) of a chapter. Various aspects
> are easily configurable.
> 
> Changes in version 1.5a
> o replaced flushleftright environment by flushepinormal  to avoid clash with
> the ccaption package's \flushleftright

i've installed the files (sorry about the delay...i've been a little
preoccupied); thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 25 06:07:30 2002
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:41:15 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memfixc package for memoir class 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded memfixc.sty to UK incoming. Please install this in
> the macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir directory.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> Description:
> ------------
> 
>     memfixc is a package providing bug fixes and extensions to version 1.2
> of the memoir class. This first release of memfixc provides:
> 
> o Fix to make control over Part entries in the ToC work as advertised
> o Extra controls for Part and Chapter ToC entries
> o Extra control for chapter styles
> 
> o Fix for \poemtitle when hyperref package is used
> 
> o Major extensions to trim marks
> o Provides a `sheet' counter in addition to the standard page counter.
> o Supports N of M page numbering, and N of M sheet numbering for use with
> trimming marks
> 
> o Indexing extended to provide multiple indexes and indexing using counters
> other than the page (hyperref will work with page numbers but not others).
> o Raw index entries from `excluded' \include files are retained
> o Provides one column indexes in addition to the standard two column
> indexes.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 25 15:38:45 2002
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 20:06:02 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memfixc package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have now uploaded a proper version of memfixc.sty, and memhfixc.sty,
> to UK incoming. Please install these in the
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir directory.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> Description:
> ------------
> 
>     memfixc is a package providing bug fixes and extensions to version 1.2
> of the memoir class. This release of memfixc provides:
> 
> o Fix so that control over Part entries in the ToC work as advertised
> o Extra controls for Part and Chapter ToC entries
> o Extra control for chapter styles
> 
> o Fix for \poemtitle when hyperref package is used
> 
> o Major extensions to trim marks
> o Provides a `sheet' counter as well as the standard page counter
> o Supports N of M page numbering, and N of M sheet numbering (e.g., for use
> with trim marks)
> 
> o Indexing extended to provide multiple indexes and indexes using other than
> page counters
> o Provides one column indexes in addition to the standard two column indexes
> o Raw index entries from `excluded' \include files are retained
> o Raw index entries can be shown in the margins
> 
>     The memhfixc package provides a modification to the hyperref package to
> enable it to work with memfixc. 
> 
>     I will be away the week starting 28 October so will not be able to
> respond to any plaudits or brickbats.

thanks for the upload: i've installed the files as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

[readers should know that peter had sent a message to say that i
shouldn't install the original memfixc.sty, but i missed it in my
backlog of 600-odd mails that awaited me when i returned from a few
days away.  this installation fixes that memfixc.]

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct 28 02:45:57 2002
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:10:51 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: psfragger

----- Forwarded message -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20021028.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: psfragger
Name and email: Primoz Cermelj
Suggested location on CTAN: support
Summary description: Psfrag graphical interface on win32 system used to modify existing eps files and create pdf files.
License type: Nocommercial

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
PSFragger is a free tool used to replace labels in eps files by using psfrag and LaTeX. The result is modified eps file that can be further converted to PDF file for use with PDFLaTeX (eps to pdf conversion is included in this tool).
Use of Ghostscript is assumed a priori.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  After stripping the text files of CR characters,
I installed the package in CTAN:/tex-archive/nonfree/support/psfragger
with a link from CTAN:/tex-archive/support/psfragger
 
Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct 28 02:52:34 2002
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:40:25 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: yfonts-t1

----- Forwarded message -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20021025.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: yfonts-t1
Name and email: Torsten Bronger
Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/gothic/ps/
Summary description: Y. Haralambous' yfrak, yswab, and ygoth in Type1 font format
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This bundle contains the broken typefaces yfrak, ysawb, and ygoth, originally created by Yannis Haralambous, in Type-1 font format.  It also includes the files necessary for use with pdftex and dvips.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the Type 1 fonts in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/yfonts/ plus a symbolic link from
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/fonts/gothic/ps/yfonts pointing to this directory
 
Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Oct 29 10:36:18 2002
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:01:59 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Gerhard A. Bachmaier <gerhard.bachmaier@uni-graz.at>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ebezier

A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20021029.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: ebezier
Name and email: Gerhard A. Bachmaier
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ebezier
Summary description: Extended version 3 for ebezier
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ebezier supports plotting bezier curves in the picture environment. Highlights of the new version are
.) Implementing line thickness.
.) Different plot symbols.
.) Lbezier for equally thick lines in all directions.
.) Qbezier implementation to be used with new plot symbols
and some others (see Section Changes).


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Oct 29 10:38:53 2002
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:10:10 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Jim Hafner <hafner@almaden.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: new upload of FoilTeX 2.1.4a 

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Jim Hafner wrote:

******************************************************************
****** ANNOUNCING the release of FoilTeX 2.1.4a for LaTeX2e *******
******************************************************************

I have recently uploaded the latest release of the FoilTeX system for
generating foils (transparencies, slides) using TeX.  You should find
it on your nearest CTAN in
    /nonfree/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex

*******************  About the package ***************************

  Its features include simplicity of use, compatibility with LaTeX,
  large sans serif font as default, extra macros to start foils with
  bold headings and special mechanisms to control footer and header.

This new version (from 2.1.4 to 2.1.4a) mostly fixes an landscape
orientation problem with dvips and Ghostview.

     James (Jim) Hafner
     IBM Research Division
     Almaden Research Center, K56-B2
     650 Harry Road
     San Jose, CA 95120-6099
     email: hafner@almaden.ibm.com
......................................................................
"The history of science rewrites itself each day.  We're living in days
of wonder, Simon says."   Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe
......................................................................

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Oct 29 15:41:19 2002
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:09:16 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: FoilTeX 2.1.4a fixed!


The first copy of FoilTeX 2.1.4 that was uploaded to CTAN recently was corrupted.
A new version has been uploaded and we hope that all the problems have been fixed.
My sincere apologies to all who downloaded the bad copy and had problems.

Regards,
Jim Hafner

From zierke@dante.de Wed Oct 30 02:41:26 2002
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:10:30 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: notes

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20021030.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: notes
Name and email: Duncan Webb
Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/supported
Summary description: A package to highlight important sections of text with graphics
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A style for highlighting notable sections of text in a document by putting
the text in a boxed frame and placing a small graphic in the margin. It has
been specifically designed to work with double sided pages, placing the
'icon' in the correct margin. A LyX style is also provided.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the package as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/notes

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Oct 31 02:10:12 2002
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:31:11 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- pdfcrop 1.1

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek -----
I have uploaded `pdfcrop.tar.gz' in the /incoming directory
of ftp.dante.de.

Please create the directory
  CTAN:support/pdfcrop/
and unpack the files there (`README' and `pdfcrop.pl').

License: LPPL

>From the README:
  PDFCROP takes a PDF file as input, calculates the BoundingBox
  for each page by the help of ghostscript and generates a output
  PDF file with removed margins.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the package as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/pdfcrop/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct 31 04:36:34 2002
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:08:05 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload of mimetex.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk 

John Forkosh writes:

>    + what you've uploaded
>         mimetex.zip
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>         ftp.tex.ac.uk
>    + where you want the files to go
>         support/mimetex   (README is the first file in the mimetex.zip
>                            archive, which you may want to keep a separate
>                            copy of alongside mimetex.zip)
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
>         GNU GPL
>    + brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>         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>
>         allowing you to embed math directly in html, which reduces
>         the need for lots of external gif images and makes your html
>         documents more readable and easily maintained.
>              Similar non-MathML packages, like textogif and gladTeX,
>         require setup procedures that use TeX to help generate external
>         gif (or png) images of your equations, which are later included
>         in your html document as it's being rendered.  MimeTeX, as far
>         as I know, is the only such non-MathML package that has its
>         own built-in rendering engine, entirely independent of TeX,
>         and therefore requires no setup procedure or external images
>         whatsoever.  It renders realtime, on-the-fly images directly
>         from your LaTeX math embedded in html documents.
>              You can think of mimeTeX as kind of a lightweight MathML,
>         with somewhat less functionality but also with fewer requirements.
>         MimeTeX's syntax is very TeX-like, requiring only a short learning
>         curve (maybe 30 minutes) for a LaTeX-aware user to learn the
>         occasional exceptions.  And mimeTeX should work with almost any
>         (graphical) browser and server.

thanks for the (interesting-looking ;-) upload.  i've installed it as
suggested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct 31 05:40:05 2002
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:59:03 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: removal of mpfnmark

the package macros/latex/contrib/other/mpfnmark seemed to offer
interesting functionality, but unfortunately had a bug that meant that
in many cases it simply didn't work.  the author has not responded to
suggestions that the bug be mended.  i therefore added a working
version of the functionality to the latest version of footmisc
(macros/latex/contrib/supported/footmisc), some time ago.

the ctan team has now decided that the mpfnmark package itself should
be removed; it will disappear from mirrors over the next few days.

users should switch to using footmisc, instead.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Oct 31 09:46:29 2002
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:07:16 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN installation: University of Wisconsin-Madison Thesis Class File

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

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: University of Wisconsin-Madison Thesis Class File
Author's name: Eric Benedict
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/withesis
Summary description: MS/PhD Thesis/Disseration format for UW-Madison.  
  Includes example thesis with numerous LaTeX examples and beginner's 
  introduction.  Class heavily commented for easy modification!
License type: artistic

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yet another thesis style file.  The withesis.cls LaTeX class
file produces MS/PhD theses in a format for UW-Madison.  
The class and example manual are based on the Purdue
University style.

Several useful features include:
- - Draft mode with
  * diagonal draft screen for draft copy
  * optional margin box to locate margin violations
  * page source file listed on bottom of each page
- -source code (Matlab, C, etc) inclusion command
- -automatic generation of additional abstract in the
 format for the UMI microfilming abstract 
- -numerous degrees/majors included as defaults.
- -example thesis illustrating
  * basic LaTeX usage (Essential LaTeX by Jon Warbrick)
  * different LaTeX styles/techniques for
     -equations
     -pictures/figures
     -general formatting
  *BibTeX usage guide/example
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Oct 31 09:45:35 2002
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:20:27 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN installation: University of Wisconsin-Madison Slide Class File

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way
to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: University of Wisconsin-Madison Slide Class File
Author's name: Eric Benedict
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/uwmslide
Summary description: Produces slides with a simple Power Point like appearance.  Several different slide enviroments are included.
License type: artistic

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A slide format which produces slides with a simple
Power Point like appearance.

Several useful features include:
- - uses standard titlepage to produce title slide
- - several slide environments including:
   - plain slide (page with a title)
   - double slide (two column page with slide title)
   - item slide (item list with title)
   - left item slide
   - right item slide
- - places a logo on the upper left corner of each slide if  
  the logo file logo.eps is present.
- - preconfigured in landscape mode
- - uses Times Roman by default for simple conversion to *.pdf
  format.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------


Additional announcement information, by the package's author.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

This slide class is different from what I found (when I wrote it a few years
ago) first in that it has a different 'look and feel' for the output
format.  I wanted a simple base slide format which would mimic the format
of the Power Point slides which my collegues were producing.   

This class also adds different slide environments which simplify the 
construction of the presentation.  While I saw the idea of 
\begin{slide} ... \end{slide} in other classes; I added the ability to
put in slide titles as well as creating different `stock format' slides.
The preformatted slides allow for quicker presentation creation and
are unique to my knowledge.  For example to make an itemized list slide:

\begin{itemslide}{Example Itemized List}
\item First Point
\item Second Point
\item Third Point
\end{itemslide}

Philosphically, I also was trying to minimize the amount of formating tricks
which were needed by the user.  I wanted the slide class to take care of
those issues as cleanly as possible. 

I've also included a sample presentation which puts the class through its
paces as it were. 

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Nov  4 04:21:34 2002
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 09:44:55 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: datetime 

my upload daemon tells me that Nicola Talbot wrote:

> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: datetime
> Name and email: Nicola Talbot <...>
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/other
> Summary description: Changes format of \today. Provides commands for current time.
> License type: Generic DFSG
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The package datetime.sty provides various different formats for the
> command \today, and also provides commands for displaying the
> current time, either in 12hr, 24hr or text format. In addition,
> there are macros for displaying the value of LaTeX counter as an
> ordinal (e.g. \ordinal{page} would print 3rd if the current value of
> page is 3, and \ordinalstring{page} would print third) as well as 
> macros for displaying the value of LaTeX counter as a string 
> (e.g. \numberstring{page} would print three). 
> 
> Since version 1.1, the command \thedate has been changed to
> \formatdate to avoid name clashes with some class files. 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

thanks for the upload; i've replaced the older version, as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Nov  4 17:01:18 2002
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 22:32:10 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- memfixc package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memfixc.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace
> the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir/memfixc.sty, and announce
> on CTT.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
>     The memfixc package provides temporary updates to version 1.2 of the
> memoir class until the next version of the class. 
> 
> Changes in v1.1 (2002/11/01)
> o Ensures that \printchapternonum is initialised
> o Supports the natbib package citation indexing.

done, in all particulars.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Nov  5 08:32:19 2002
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:50:19 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- mtype13-1.13, i-ching-20021102

----- Forwarded message from Bzyl Wlodzimierz -----
I have just uploaded (ftp.dante.de) packages mentioned in the Subject line.

I want mtype13-1.13.tar.gz package to got to: 

  systems/unix/mtype13

directory. The package is somehow similiar to ps2mf package
located in this directory.

The package i-ching-20021102.tar.gz I want to go to:

  fonts/psfonts/i-ching

directory. 

The licensing for these packages is GPL.

Below I include readme files, which are part of packages.

--Wlodek Bzyl.

----------------------------------------------------------------

``I-CHING package'' by Wlodek Bzyl <matwb@univ.gda.pl>

  November 2002

  The package contains I-Ching-Regular -- Type 1 font, 
  iching.sty and icircle.eps -- macros and graphics for 
  typesetting divinations, and dod.sh -- shell script 
  to make divinations with computer.

  The English translation of ``I Ching'' divinations is written
  by Alan M Stanier (see the file iching.tex on the CTAN)

  The I-Ching-Regular font was programmed with MTYPE13
  tools (available from CTAN's).

  The package is distributed under GPL.

----------------------------------------------------------------

``MTYPE13'' package by Wlodek Bzyl <matwb@univ.gda.pl>

November 2002

The package contains MetaPost libraries, bash and
Perl scripts which help in programming and
creation of Type 1 and Type 3 fonts under Linux.

The Type 1 part was written for DOS by JNS team
(B. Jackowski, J. M. Nowacki, and P. Strzelczyk).
and is available from <ftp://bop.eps.gda.pl/metatype1>

----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the two packages as suggested in
the directories

CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/unix/mtype13/
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/i-ching/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Nov  6 11:41:01 2002
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:57:51 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Daniel Flipo <Daniel.Flipo@univ-lille1.fr>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lettrine

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Daniel Flipo wrote:

> I have just uploaded into ftp.dante.de/incoming a file lettrine.tar.gz,
> which contains an upgrade (V 1.4) of the lettrine package designed to
> typeset various sorts of dropped capitals.
>
> It should replace the old version in 'macros/latex/supported/lettrine'.
>
> The license is unchanged (LPPL).
>
> This is a bug fix release to correct wrong linelengths in abstract/
> quote/quotation environments (bug found by Matthias C. Schmidt).
> I have also updated the documentation and the demo file in the 'doc'
> directory is now in PDF format instead PS format.

Thanks for the upadte, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/lettrine

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov  6 18:22:55 2002
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 23:14:49 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memfixc package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memfixc.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace
> the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir/memfixc.sty, and announce
> on CTT.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
>     The memfixc package provides temporary updates to version 1.2 of the
> memoir class until the next version of the class is released.
> 
> Changes in v1.2 (2002/11/06)
> o Fix double definition of (lof|lot)depth counters when the subfigure
> package is used.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Nov  7 03:56:16 2002
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:09:17 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Dirk Krause <d.krause@fh-sm.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: bmeps

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 Dirk Krause wrote:

> Name of contribution: bmeps
> Suggested location on CTAN: /support/bmeps
> Summary description: bmeps 1.0.6 - Converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Overview:
> This package contains a library and a command line program
> to convert from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS. Different
> compression and encoding mechanisms are available
> when producing the EPS output file.
>
> Update:
> - Documentation was enhancend. Now we have hyperlinks
>   from options examples in usage.html to sample
>   output pages.
> - TIFF support was removed because the TIFF graphics file
>   format uses LZW compression.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------


Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Nov 11 15:18:01 2002
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:46:04 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memfixc package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memfixc.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace
> the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir/memfixc.sty, and announce
> on ctt.
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
>     The memfixc package provides temporary fixes and updates to v1.2 of the
> memoir class, until the next release of the class.
> 
> Changes in version 1.3 (2002/11/11):
> o \tableofcontents, \listoffigures, etc., can be used multiple times
> o pages where a section heading has been moved to the next page can be
> typeset raggedbottom
> o Fixed indexing when filenames are analphabetic (names have characters
> other than letters)

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Nov 16 09:19:18 2002
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 15:41:37 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Bjoern.Pedersen@ch.tum.de
Subject: Re: new version of bpchem

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Bjoern Pedersen wrote:

>    + what you've uploaded
>         bpchem.tgz
>
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>         ctan.dante.de
>
>    + where you want the files to go
> 	unpack the archive and put the files into
>         macros/latex/contrib/other/bpchem,
>         replacing any old files
>
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
>         lppl
>
> BPchem is a package for typesetting chemical names and (sum) formulae, and
> numbering of chemical compounds.
>
> This release of bpchem contains some added features, as requested by
> users, and fixes some bugs.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the new files.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Nov 18 05:55:15 2002
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:11:34 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk@ptb.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- eso-pic 1.1b

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Rolf Niepraschk wrote:

 > I uploaded a new version of my `eso-pic' package to `/incoming'
 > on ftp.dante.de (file: `eso-pic.zip'). This version has new options for
 > drawing background grids and changing the zero point of the coordinate
 > system.

Thanks for the upload. The package has been installed in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/eso-pic

and the previous version removed from

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms/contrib

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Nov 18 13:02:15 2002
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:31:58 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Dirk Krause <d.krause@fh-sm.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: bmeps 1.0.6a

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 Dirk Krause submitted to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: bmeps 1.0.6a
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /support/bmeps
 > Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Overview:
 > bmeps is a library and command line tool to convert
 > PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS levels 1, 2 and 3 supporting
 > flate compression, run-length compression and ASCII85
 > encoding.
 >
 > Update contents:
 > The Win32 binary shipped in the 1.0.6 package used DLLs
 > to read images. Some users asked for a Win32 static binary
 > to avoid problems coming from different DLL versions used
 > by bmeps and the LaTeX distribution.
 > The WIN32BIN\static directory contains the static binary,
 > the old binary (using DLLs) is in WIN32BIN\dynamic.
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed the new version as

  support/bmeps

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 19 02:17:29 2002
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 07:46:41 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: threeparttable 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> There was a recent complaint that threeparttable didn't work with
> tabularx.  I had a version that does work, but neglected to send
> it to CTAN.  It is now uploaded to
> 
>   Ctan_UK  incoming
> 
> Please replace macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/threeparttable.sty
> with the version in incoming.

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 20 04:20:20 2002
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:46:07 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 5.10 

Basil K. Malyshev writes:

> I have uploaded to `ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/bakoma' directory
> update for BaKoMa TeX 5.10 (issued 17-Nov-2002).
> 
> Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

i have (finally) completed installation of this new version.  thanks
for the uploads.

> --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.10 ----------------------
> 
> CONTENTS
>    * Highlights
>    * Graphical Capabilities
>    * Fonts
>    * User Interface
>    * PDF Generation Features
>    * HTML Generation features
>    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.10
>    
> For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
>    <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
> 
> BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95
> 
> HIGHLIGHTS
> 
>  * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
>    of the file being edited. 
>    (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
>  * PostScript enabled TeX system.
>    Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
> ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
>  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
>    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
>  * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
>    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
>  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
>  * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
>  * Easy to install and use.
>  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
>  
> GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
> 
> BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
> which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
> software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
> Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, 
> FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
> 
> All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
> with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
> embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).
> 
> The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
>    PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.
> 
> FONTS
> 
> BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
>  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
>  * PostScript Type 3,
>  * TrueType,
>  * OpenType,
>  * TeX PK/VF.
> 
> The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
> and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
>  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
>  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
>  * EC/TC,
>  * LH (T2A),
>  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
>  * Malvern,
>  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
>  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
>  Math Fonts: 
>  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
>  Diagram drawing fonts:
>  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
>  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
>  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
> 
> Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
> This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
> between font formats when needed.
> This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
> On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
> for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
> 
> In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
> available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.
> 
> USER INTERFACE
> 
> * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
>   It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, 
>   when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, 
>   mathematics, pictures, etc.
> * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen 
>   for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
> * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
> * Quick navigation via document structure,
> * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
> * Powerful support for different input encodings,
> * Project support,
> * Graphics import assistant,
> * Assitance for multi-file documents: 
>   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
> * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
> * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
> * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
> * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
> * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
> * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
>     correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
>     configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
> * Support for Multi-User systems.
> 
> OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
> 
> * View on Windows Display.
> * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
> * PostScript (really scalable),
> * PDF,
> * HTML.
> 
> Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
> for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
> may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
> capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
> 
> PDF GENERATION FEATURES
> 
> * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
> * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
>   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
> * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
> * Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
> 
> HTML GENERATION FEATURES
> 
>  BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
>  documents into HTML files.
>   * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch 
>      `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
>   * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert 
>      pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
>      pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, 
>      such as slides.
> 
>  In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
>  Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of 
>  `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.
> 
>  Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
>  In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
>  into generated HTML pages.
>  
> *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.10 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.0 ***
> 
>  User Interface
>  --------------
>  * `Font Setup Wizard' for installing TrueType/OpenType fonts under BaKoMa TeX.
>     `Options|Install TrueType fonts for (La)TeX' editor menu command
>     opens a dialog to choose TrueType fonts files.
>     In advance `Drop and Drag' may be used to install a fonts.
>     This tool makes everithing to use TrueType font in LaTeX.
>  * `Undo buffer size' may be defined in `Options|Editing Settings' dialog.
>  * `Document Info' and `Outline' defined in `Document Properties'
>     dialog have immediate effect. Reopenning DVI file isn't required.
>  * Refined switching between windows under Windows XP.
>  * Fixed several problems under Windows 98: Alt+Space, redocking and exit crash.
> 
>  Graphics
>  --------
> 
>  * Improved handling of fig2dev output (PostScript produced by XFig)
>  * Refined handling of complex clip pathes (GDI).
>  * Refined stroking on display (GDI) meterlimit, linecap, etc.
>  * Added support (for GDI output) for 
>     + arbitrary transformed text (skewing, reflection),
>     + rotated/skewed bitmaps, 
>     + elliptical pens.
>  * Improved text output in `Accurate' and `Readable' modes.
>    Fixed problem with using `Readable' mode under Windows 95/98.
>  * Fixed CropBox in PDF files generated with Prosper package.
> 
>  Fonts
>  -----
> 
>  * Mathematica fonts are ready to use (TFM/VF/FD and STY files are included).
>    Encoding vectors for some fonts was fixed.
>  * Pazo fonts - fixed encoding definition.
>  * BBDING10 font was updated by Type1 version [LATEX2E.BKZ].
>  * BG font was updated for elliptical pens [GAMES.BKZ].
> 
> For more information about changes see
>   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
> 
> ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Nov 20 13:12:34 2002
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:40:23 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl>
Subject: Re: ctable-1.3.tar.gz

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Wybo Dekker wrote:

> - I have uploaded ctable-1.3.tar.gz
> - at ftp.dante.de
> - It should replace ctable-1-2.tar.gz and should
>   be unpacked in /texmf/source/latex/ctable
> - GPL
> - changes:
>   * if the caption key is not used, no caption will be typeset, instead
>     of (previously) an empty caption
>   * several syntactic corrections

Thanks for the upload. It repalces the old version of ctable at

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/ctable

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Nov 20 14:50:43 2002
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:22:58 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New on CTAN: mbboard

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: mbboard
Author's name: Anthony Phan
Location on CTAN: fonts/mbboard
Summary description: blackboard bold fonts
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The distribution mbboard defines new blackboard bold fonts intended to be 
used with TeX both in text or math mode. This distribution has only version 
number 0.4. but is quite stable.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Nov 21 01:59:41 2002
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:24:33 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memoir.tar.gz 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 typesetting general fiction,
> non-fiction and mathematical books. It encompasses the standard book and
> report clasees, and can simulate the article class and a double spaced
> typewritten manuscript.
> 
>     It provides a variety of predefined page, chapter and caption styles and
> easy means of creating new ones. There is an intuitive way of setting page
> margins, etc., with an option for printing trimming marks. Documents can use
> 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 or 17pt as the nomal font size.
> 
> Changes in version 1.3
> o More flexibility in defining chapter styles, and Part and Chapter listings
> in the ToC
> o \tableofcontents and friends can be used multiple times
> o Major extensions for indexing, including multiple and single column
> indexes
> o Major extensions to trim marks
> o Can do N of M page numbering
> o Added automatic inclusion of a patch file
> o No change to he ser Manual, but an Addendum is supplied

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 22 12:38:47 2002
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 17:58:46 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class 

Peter Wilson writes:

> Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhh
> 
>     I have just discovered a vicious intermittent gremlin in the memoir
> class that is not fixable by a patch file.
> 
>     My apologies to all memoir users.
> 
>     I have uploaded memoir.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to replace
> the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir, and announce on CTT.
> 
> Changes in version 1.3a
> o Fixed figure/table numbering gremlin

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Nov 24 11:45:35 2002
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 17:47:04 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- cmbright fonts v0.6

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Harald Harders wrote:

 > file:      hfbright.tar.gz
 > node:      ftp.dante.de
 > location:  CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/hfbright/
 > license:   LPPL
 >
 > Please replace all files in the directory by the contents of the tar
 > archive. Please remove the hfbright-beta directory.
 >
 > From the README:
 >
 > This package contains the cmbright fonts in Type1 format. Only the
 > fonts are included that are not part of the cm-super bundle
 > (thus, math and OT1 fonts).
 > This package contains the ready Postscript Type1 fonts in PFB format as
 > used by dvips and pdflatex, as well as a map file and a config file for
 > dvips.
 >
 > This version is tested with dvips and pdflatex. It will be quite stable
 > with the exception that the UniqueIDs will change someday. But this change
 > shouldn't cause any trouble.

Thanks for the update, I installed the new version as requested, in

   fonts/ps-type1/hfbright

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@dante.de Tue Nov 26 04:55:12 2002
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:12:16 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CYAN submission -- preview-latex-0.7.4.tar.gz

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----
I have uploaded preview-latex-0.7.4.tar.gz and
preview-0.7.4.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
Its license is the GPL.

I would recommend installing it in the following way:

Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.7.4.tar.gz under
support/preview-latex/
 (...)
Unpack preview-0.7.4.tar.gz in the directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/

It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins.

The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a
standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX
source into separate pages of a DVI file.

Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted.

Here are the release notes:

Release notes for version 0.7.4 of the preview-latex package:

preview-latex dresses up your LaTeX source by placing judiciously
selected chunks (such as single formulas) chopped from unwieldy
preview pages right into its Emacs/XEmacs buffer, while keeping the
original source readily accessible.  You get to have your eye candy
and edit it, too.

The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for
extraction of selected text elements as images.  The package is
released under the GNU Public License (GPL).  At the current point of
time, at least GNU Emacs-21.1 under the X window system, AUC TeX
(11.11 recommended, see below), a working LaTeX installation and
GhostScript are required.  This version also supports XEmacs-21, best
in version 21.4.9 or later.  The various Windows ports of XEmacs
should work out of the box.  Recent CVS versions of Windows GNU Emacs
could conceivably be made to work, too, but the jury is still out on
that one.

Release 0.7.4 is a consolidation release containing mostly bug fixes.
Several interoperatibility problems under Windows and with various
GhostScript versions have been dealt with.  The previous release lead
to problems when buffers without associated file name were put into
LaTeX-mode.  If this occured while first loading preview-latex,
compatibility macros caused further problems with XEmacs.  As a
promotional measure, preview-at-point has been added to the tool bar.

The README file provides adequate information for firing up
preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback.  The
INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package
providers.

The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the
SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access
is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>.

If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this
project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>.

Additional files can be found at
<URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>:

* If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt
  documentation files can be found there.

* AUC TeX can be found at several places, but if you want the latest
  11.11 (alpha, but stable AFAIK) with no known issues concerning
  preview-latex, you can find it there as well.

* RPMs for preview-latex and AUC TeX are provided for users of RedHat
  Linux.  For the binary RPMs, you will need the preview-latex-common
  RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM.

The RPMs require a few packages that should be readily available in
current distributions.  RedHat 7.3 contains Emacs-21.2 and
GhostScript-6.52 which are about the minimum versions to be
recommended.  Later releases should work fine.  XEmacs in current
distributions will still be affected with a serious display bug, see
the PROBLEMS file or the respective manual section.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I replaced the contents of
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/
with the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Nov 26 04:55:54 2002
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:19:50 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: SplitIndex

----- Forwarded message from Markus Kohm -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20021125.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: SplitIndex
Name and email: Markus Kohm
Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/splitindex
Summary description: Using a unlimited number of indices with almost every LaTeX-class
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
SplitIndex consists of a LaTeX package, splitidx, and a  
small program, splitindex. The package may be used to  
produce one index or several indices. Without using the  
program the number of indices is limited by the number of  
TeXs output streams. But using the program you may use even  
more than 16 indices. At this case, splitidx outputs only a  
single file \jobname.idx and the program splits that file  
into several raw index files and calls your favorite index  
processor for each of it.  
  
The splitindex program is available as perl-program  
(splitindex.pl), java-program (splitindex.java/class),  
Windows-CYGWIN binary (splitindex.exe), Linux-i386-ELF  
binary (splitindex-Linux-i386), OpenBSD-3.0-i386 binary  
(splitindex-OpenBSD-i386) and even as TeX program  
(splitindex.tex with some limitations). The source  
splitindex.c is also part of the distribution.  
 
There's an installation documentation (install.txt) and an 
installation script (install.sh) at the package. 
 
The package was testet with the standard LaTeX classes and 
the KOMA-Script classes. 
 
This version is intended to be stable though the version 
number is less than 1. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new package as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/splitindex

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Nov 27 17:25:43 2002
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:39:00 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl>
Subject: Re: vpp-1.0.tar.gz

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Wybo Dekker wrote:

 > - I have uploaded vpp-1.0.tar.gz
 > - at ftp.dante.de
 > - I suggest to unpack in support/vpp
 > - GPL
 > - vpp (View and Print Postscript/PDF) displays a pdf document or a
 >   postscript document (after conversion to pdf using gv, xpdf, or
 >   acrobat reader (in that order of choice), or perhaps another pdf
 >   viewer. One can use the viewer to print the document but,
 >   alternatively, leave the viewer and use vpp's facilities to print
 >   selected pages to a one- or two-sided hardcopy or an A5-booklet.

Thanks for the upload. I installed the files in the directory

   support/view_print_ps_pdf

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Nov 27 17:26:13 2002
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:40:11 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl>
Subject: Re: mk-1.0.tar.gz

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Wybo Dekker wrote:

 > - I have uploaded mk-1.0.tar.gz
 > - at ftp.dante.de
 > - I suggest to unpack in support/mk
 > - GPL
 > - mk (make for latex) is a Perl script that, in close collaboration with
 >   vpp (short for View and Print PostScript/PDF) is helpful in the cyclic
 >   process of editing, viewing, and printing a latex document.
 >   Essentially, mk uses the make utility for the management of file
 >   dependencies, texi2pdf for compilation, gv (or any other viewer you
 >   like) for viewing, and context's texexec for printing in various
 >   formats. mk has been tested under linux only. Adaptation to othes OS's
 >   should be not too complicated.

Thanks for the upload, i installed the files in directory

  support/latex_maker

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Nov 27 17:25:56 2002
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:46:08 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <was@vr-web.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- Euler-VM fonts v2.9a

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file eulervm.zip to the /incoming directory
 > at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack it to the CTAN directory
 >
 >        fonts/eulervm.
 >
 > Doing so will replace all present files there.
 >
 > This is version 2.9a of the Euler-VM fonts and the related
 > LaTeX package eulervm.sty.  Euler-VM is a set of "generic"
 > math fonts, based on the Euler and CM typefaces.
 >
 > With version 2.9a, both the fonts (*.vf, *.tfm) and the
 > macro package have changed.  Main news is, that \epsilon and
 > \varepsilon were exchanged for each other; they were mixed up
 > in all previous versions.

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@dante.de Fri Nov 29 04:18:40 2002
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:36:04 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission - preview-latex-0.7.5.tar.gz

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----
I have uploaded preview-latex-0.7.5.tar.gz and
preview-0.7.5.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
Its license is the GPL.

I would recommend installing it in the following way:

Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.7.5.tar.gz under support/preview-latex/
 (...)
Unpack preview-0.7.5.tar.gz in the directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/

It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins.

The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a
standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX
source into separate pages of a DVI file.

Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted.

Here are the release notes:

Release notes for version 0.7.5 of the preview-latex package:

preview-latex dresses up your LaTeX source by placing judiciously
selected chunks (such as single formulas) chopped from unwieldy
preview pages right into its Emacs/XEmacs buffer, while keeping the
original source readily accessible.  You get to have your eye candy
and edit it, too.

The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for
extraction of selected text elements as images.  The package is
released under the GNU Public License (GPL).  At the current point of
time, at least GNU Emacs-21.1 under the X window system, AUC TeX
(11.11 recommended, see below), a working LaTeX installation and
GhostScript are required.  This version also supports XEmacs-21, best
in version 21.4.9 or later.  The various Windows ports of XEmacs
should work out of the box.  Recent CVS versions of Windows GNU Emacs
could conceivably be made to work, too, but the jury is still out on
that one.

Release 0.7.5 is a bug fix release for XEmacs.  Compatibility macros
caused several conflicts with other packages when preview-latex was
loaded after them.  In addition, the preview icon could appear doubly
in the toolbar.  GNU Emacs users were not affected by either bug and
need not upgrade from 0.7.4.

The README file provides adequate information for firing up
preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback.  The
INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package
providers.

The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the
SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access
is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>.

If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this
project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>.

Additional files can be found at
<URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>:

* If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt
  documentation files can be found there.

* AUC TeX can be found at several places, but if you want the latest
  11.11 (alpha, but stable AFAIK) with no known issues concerning
  preview-latex, you can find it there as well.

* RPMs for preview-latex and AUC TeX are provided for users of RedHat
  Linux.  For the binary RPMs, you will need the preview-latex-common
  RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM.

The RPMs require a few packages that should be readily available in
current distributions.  RedHat 7.3 contains Emacs-21.2 and
GhostScript-6.52 which are about the minimum versions to be
recommended.  Later releases should work fine.  XEmacs in current
distributions will still be affected with a serious display bug, see
the PROBLEMS file or the respective manual section.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/ and
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/
replacing the old version

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Dec  3 10:27:33 2002
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 15:44:53 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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@tug.ctan.org

=================================================================

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:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Dec  5 08:50:31 2002
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 14:12:50 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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.
>              MimeTeX isn't primarily meant for latex2html-like tasks
>         where you're maintaining native LaTeX documents that are later
>         redistributed in several formats, including html.  Rather, mimeTeX
>         is primarily meant to help maintain native html documents containing
>         math.  In this sense it's a kind of "lightweight" alternative to
>         MathML, with the advantage that mimeTeX preserves LaTeX syntax.
>              Similar non-MathML packages, like textogif and gladTeX,
>         require setup procedures that use TeX to help generate external
>         gif (or png) images of your equations, which are later included
>         in your html document as it's being rendered.  MimeTeX, as far
>         as I know, is the only such non-MathML package that has its
>         own built-in parser and rendering engine, entirely independent
>         of TeX, and therefore requires no setup procedure or external
>         images whatsoever.  It renders realtime, on-the-fly images
>         directly from your LaTeX math embedded in html documents.

i've installed the files as required.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Fri Dec  6 03:42:16 2002
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:59:47 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Dec  6 13:09:18 2002
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 18:31:00 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

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

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Dec  9 12:02:34 2002
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 18:21:19 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Staszek Wawrykiewicz <StaW@gust.org.pl>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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 Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Dec 10 15:29:34 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:48:00 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Dec 11 03:50:22 2002
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:20:43 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Timo Hellgren <timo.hellgren@vtt.fi>
Subject: [ISO-8859-1] Re: CTAN upload notification: Pitk�npuoleinen johdanto LaTeX2e:n k�ytt��n

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 Timo Hellgren wrote:

> Name of contribution: Pitk�npuoleinen johdanto LaTeX2e:n k�ytt��n
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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 Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Dec 13 06:43:05 2002
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:40:32 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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 Sim�es for their uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Dec 16 16:57:50 2002
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:07:05 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: 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@tu-bs.de>
 >         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

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@dante.de Wed Dec 18 04:10:35 2002
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:27:36 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload -- preview-latex-0.7.7.tar.gz

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----
I have uploaded preview-latex-0.7.7.tar.gz and
preview-0.7.7.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
Its license is the GPL.

I would recommend installing it in the following way:

Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.7.7.tar.gz under
support/preview-latex/
and unpack the
README from it to support/preview-latex/README
Create a symbolic link from
support/preview-latex/preview-latex.tar.gz
to
preview-latex-0.7.7.tar.gz
so that people can always get the newest version under this name.

Unpack preview-0.7.7.tar.gz in the directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/

It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins.

The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a
standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX
source into separate pages of a DVI file.

Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted.

Here are the release notes:

Release notes for version 0.7.7 of the preview-latex package:

preview-latex dresses up your LaTeX source by placing judiciously
selected chunks (such as single formulas) chopped from unwieldy
preview pages right into its Emacs/XEmacs buffer, while keeping the
original source readily accessible.  You get to have your eye candy
and edit it, too.  Since only the display of the text is affected, you
can safely test-drive on important documents right away.  There are no
physical withdrawal symptoms to be feared if you chose to quit using
it, but you'll find yourself unable to do so.

The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for
extraction of selected text elements as images.  The package is
released under the GNU Public License (GPL).  At the current point of
time, at least GNU Emacs-21.1 under the X window system, AUC TeX
(11.14 recommended, see below), a working LaTeX installation and
GhostScript are required.  This version also supports XEmacs-21, best
in version 21.4.9 or later.  The various Windows ports of XEmacs
should work out of the box.  Really.  Recent CVS versions of Windows
GNU Emacs can reportedly be made to work, too.

Release 0.7.7 is 0.7.6 minus a last-minute bug for GNU Emacs, so 0.7.6
info applies: AFPL GhostScript releases 7.x should work.  Treatment of
multi-directory projects has been corrected, once yo upgrade to AUC
TeX 11.14.  An added feature can be customized into the new
preview-required-option-list variable: checking the counters
option will retain correct equation and section numbering even when
you are regenerating single previews.  Various bugs have been fixed
and the installation process does a better job of getting things to
work particularly for Windows users.

The README file provides adequate information for firing up
preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback.  The
INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package
providers.

The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the
SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access
is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>.

If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this
project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>.

Additional files can be found at
<URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>:

* If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt
  documentation files can be found there.

* Tarballs of preview-latex for all users, alternatively RPMs for
  RedHat Linux.  For the binary RPMs, you will need the
  preview-latex-common RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM.

* AUC TeX is now located at <URL:http://www.nongnu.org/auctex>.  The
  download area should also provide you with RPMs if you are using
  RedHat Linux.

The RPMs require a few packages that should be readily available in
current distributions.  RedHat 7.3 contains Emacs-21.2 and
GhostScript-6.52 which are about the minimum versions to be
recommended.  Later releases should work fine.  XEmacs in current
distributions will still be affected with a serious display bug, see
the PROBLEMS file or the respective manual section.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested replacing
the old versions in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Dec 18 04:11:47 2002
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:02:14 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload -- statex.sty

----- Forwarded message from Rodney Sparapani -----
> I've just uploaded statex.sty to ftp.dante.de into incoming.
> The licensing terms are LPPL.
> This style is designed to make statistical notation easier to type and more 
> appropriately rendered. 
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the style file in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/statex.sty

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Dec 19 08:32:20 2002
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:48:26 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: degrade

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org.  It will make its
way to your favorite local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: degrade
Author's name: Peter M�nster
Location on CTAN: graphics/degrade
Summary description: Degrades JPEG images to a given resolution
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A package that degrades JPEG images on the fly to decrease
the size of the resulting PostScript or PDF file. You'll need
the convert utility from the ImageMagick bundle and the
jpeg2ps program from CTAN if you don't use VTeX.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Dec 19 15:38:04 2002
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:59:35 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Joris van der Hoeven <TeXmacs@math.u-psud.fr>, vdhoeven@texmacs.org
Subject: Re: [TeXmacs@math.u-psud.fr: Re: CTAN submission -- TeXmacs version 0.3.5.11]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

 > I just uploaded the new GNU TeXmacs distribution in
 >
 >           ftp.dante.de/incoming/TeXmacs
 >
 > The new distribution contains the files
 >
 > TeXmacs-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm
 > TeXmacs-1.0.1-1.src.rpm
 > TeXmacs-1.0.1-src.tar.gz
 > TeXmacs-1.0.1-static-gnu-linux.tar.gz
 >
 > The files should be put into the directory systems/unix/TeXmacs
 > All existing files in this directory become obsolete,
 > except for the file .message.

Thanks for the update, I installed the files.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


 > -----------------------------------------------------------
 >                   Full announcement
 > -----------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Hi all,
 >
 > We are happy to announce the release of GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.
 > With respect to version 1.0, the major changes are the following:
 >
 >   * The user interface has been completely redesigned so as
 >     to become more intuitive and compatible with other software.
 >
 >   * The TeXmacs -> LaTeX and LaTeX -> TeXmacs converters have
 >     been improved. In particular, TeXmacs now generates LaTeX files
 >     which do no longer depend on the TeXmacs.sty style file.
 >
 >   * We implemented several structural editing primitives and
 >     better ways to visualize structure.
 >
 >   * The TeXmacs style files and packages have been reorganized,
 >     completed and improved.
 >
 >   * The documentation system has been improved.
 >     In particular, we now provide online documentation and
 >     you may update your documentation from the web.
 >     The user manual has been translated into French too.
 >
 >   * TeXmacs has been ported to Cygwin (Windows) and Fink (MacOS X).
 >
 >   * Interfaces with the Axiom and Giac computer algebra systems
 >     have been implemented. There is also an experimental interface
 >     with GNU Octave.
 >
 >   * Support has been added for Finnish and Ukrainian.
 >
 > As to the future, the focus for version 1.0.2 will be on further
 > stabilization of the editor and support of Html and MathML.
 > We also plan to work on a Windows port and better support for
 > external plug-ins.

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Dec 20 10:10:52 2002
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:23:07 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Package upgrade on CTAN: LaTeX for Word Processor Users

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org and the changes should propogate
to your favorite mirror within a day.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

========================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeX for Word Processor Users
Author's name: Guido Gonzato, Ph. D.
Location on CTAN: info/latex4wp
Summary description: A LaTeX guide specifically designed for word processor users.
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is an update of the "LaTeX for Word Processor Users" guide. It also 
contains a useful script for converting data files into LaTeX tables.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Dec 20 12:24:45 2002
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 17:43:06 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: New xfig/TransFig submission to CTAN 

Brian V. Smith writes:

> I have just uploaded the drawing package xfig and its postprocessor package
> TransFig into /incoming on ftp.tex.ac.uk.
> 
> The files are:
>         xfig.README.3.2.4
>         xfig.3.2.4.code_only.tar.gz
>         xfig.3.2.4.docs_only.tar.gz
>         xfig.3.2.4.full.tar.gz
>         xfig.3.2.4.libraries_only.tar.gz
>         xfig-3.2.4.i386.rpm
>         transfig.README.3.2.4
>         transfig.3.2.4.tar.gz
>         transfig-3.2.4.i386.rpm
> 
> and they should go in /pub/archive/graphics.
> 
> Here is the blurb for both packages:
> 
> Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects
> interactively in an X window.  The resulting pictures can be saved, printed
> on postscript printers or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g. to
> allow inclusion in LaTeX documents).
> 
> TransFig is a set of tools for creating TeX documents with graphics
> which are portable, in the sense that they can be printed in a wide
> variety of environments.
> 
> The fig2dev program is a general program for translating from Fig code to
> other graphics desciption languages.
> 
> The xfig drawing program directly calls fig2dev to translate Fig files
> to the various output languages.

i've installed the new material in graphics/xfig and
graphics/transfig, as appropriate, and have pushed the new versions
out to the other ctans.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Dec 20 13:58:48 2002
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:31:08 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: Scientific Viewer 4.1

The package described below has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org.  It 
should make its way to your local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Scientific Viewer 4.1
Author's name: George Pearson
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/scientificviewer/
Summary description: Scientific Viewer 4.1
License type: nosource

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is an updated release of Scientific Viewer.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Dec 21 12:38:35 2002
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:57:31 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "[ISO-8859-1] Martin Schr�der" <pdftex-latex@pdftex.org>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pdftex.def v0.0.3k

Martin Schr�der uploaded:

 > Name of contribution: pdftex.def v0.0.3k
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/required/graphics
 > Summary description: the pdftex-driver for (La)TeX
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This brings the CTAN version of pdftex.def up-to-date with the current stable version.
 >
 > The changes since 0.03g (the latest CTAN-version) are:
 > % 2002/06/19 v0.03k
 > %  * Correction by P\'etiard Fran\c{c}ois for \GPT@DoEndClip.
 > % 2002/06/18 v0.03j
 > %  * Contribution by P\'etiard Fran\c{c}ois <petiard@math.univ-fcomte.fr>:
 > %    Improvement of \Ginclude@mps (support of viewport and clip).
 > % 2001/11/29 v0.03i
 > %  * Problem with \if@inlabel (plain format) fixed.
 > % 2001/09/01 v0.03h
 > %  * Compatibilty for miniltx.tex, problems fixed:
 > %    \@ifpackageloaded, \PackageWarning, \PackageWarningNoLine,
 > %    \@currname.
 >
 > pdftex.def has found a new home on the internet at
 >            http://pdftex-def.berlios.de/
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.

pdftex.def

has beeen installed in

   graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def

The old file (which is part of the required LaTeX graphics bundle)
was replaced by a link to this new one.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Dec 21 14:01:00 2002
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:28:18 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Dan Luecking <luecking@uark.edu>
Subject: Re: Uploaded new mfpic

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Dan Luecking wrote:

 > What:    I have uploaded mfpic06a.zip to incoming
 > Node:    ftp.dante.de
 > Where:   unzip it into graphics/mfpic, replacing the files there.
 > License: LPPL
 > Summary: This is version 0.6a of mfpic, which fixes a couple of bugs
 > introduced in version 0.6 as a side effect of attempting to squash a
 > long-standing bug. In addition, the files (all ascii) have been prepared
 > with unix-style EOLs so that ftp programs will not be confused by DOS
 > EOLs inside files taken from a unix server. I apologize for not realizing
 > this problem before. (I sort of assumed the CTAN unzipper would just
 > make things right, I guess.)

Thanks for the update, in installed the update as you requested, in

  graphics/mfpic

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Dec 21 14:02:29 2002
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:31:48 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: David.Kastrup@t-online.de
Subject: Re: Upload of perpage.sty version 1.0

On 20 Dec 2002 David Kastrup wrote:

 > Hello, I have uploaded perpage.sty to ftp.dante.de.  License is LPPL,
 > I recommend installing it to
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/perpage.sty
 > since it is a single file including its docs.  It is so short that I
 > have not bothered making a dtx file from it.
 >
 > Here is its comment section:
 >
 > % The following package adds the ability to reset counters per page.
 > % Usage example:
 > % \MakePerPage[2]{footnote}
 > % will start footnote numbers with 2 on each page (the optional
 > % argument defaults to 1).  2 might be a strange number, unless
 > % you have \renewcommand\thefootnote{\fnsymbol{footnote}} and
 > % want to start off with a dagger.  This may need multiple passes
 > % to work: LaTeX will complain about changed labels if you need
 > % another pass.
 >
 > It is quite short and can do all the tricks that footnpag claims to
 > implement in some indefinite versions.  And it will work with any
 > counters, not just footnotes.  If "work" is the correct expression
 > for the dirty trickery it does.

Thanks for the upload. As suggested, I installed the file in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/perpage.sty

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Dec 21 14:04:17 2002
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:34:16 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Stefan Ulrich <stefan.ulrich@dsl.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Upload: new version of mparhack

On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Stefan Ulrich wrote:

 > I've just uploaded the archive
 >    mparhack.tar.gz
 > to the incoming directory of
 >    ftp.dante.de
 >
 > The archive contains the files:
 >     mparhack.ins
 >     mparhack.dtx
 >
 > Please replace the files in
 >     CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/mparhack/
 > by the new versions.
 >
 > Licensing is GPL (unchanged).
 >
 > Mparhack is a package for ensuring that marginpars appear on
 > the correct margin.
 >
 > The new version (1.3) contains updated author info, and fixes
 > a compatiblility problem with the scrpage2 package - thanks
 > to Achim Blumensath for spotting the bug, and suggesting a fix.

Thanks for the update, I installed the new version in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/mparhack

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Dec 26 12:43:08 2002
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 18:28:04 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Iliya Peregoudov <iliyap@rgotups.ru>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload

On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Iliya Peregoudov wrote:

 > What I've uploaded:
 >     single archive file `/incoming/glonti-fonts/glonti-fonts.zip'
 >
 > Which CTAN node I've uploaded to:
 >     ftp.dante.de
 >
 > Contents of this archive are intended for:
 >     `/tex-archive/fonts/cyrillic' tree
 >
 > Licensing conditions:
 >     public domain
 >
 > Summary:
 >     Virtual fonts that combine CM and CMCYR.
 >     `glonti-fonts.zip' includes following:
 >     - README file
 >     - VF and TFM files for the fonts
 >     - LaTeX support files
 >     - Files used to build these virtual fonts
 >       (fontinst scripts, etc.)

Thanks for the upload. I installed the files under

   fonts/cyrillic/glonti

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@dante.de Mon Dec 30 05:57:09 2002
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 12:15:32 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- fonts/greek/psgreek

Some months ago, Alexej Kryukov submitted this to CTAN:

----- Forwarded message from Alexej Kryukov -----
Name of contribution: psgreek
Name and email: Alexej Kryukov <basileia@yandex.ru>
Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/fonts/greek/
Summary description: LaTeX support for (some) PostScript Greek fonts
License type: LPPL

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
`Psgreek1' package provide LaTeX support for popular 
Type 1 Greek fonts in WinGreek encoding. The `Psgreek1' package includes
3 fonts: Greek Garamond by Carmelo Lupini 
(http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/3799/download.htm), Greek Oxonia
and original WinGreek font. As far as I know, all these fonts are
distributed free of charge. They don't contain kerning. 

For each typerface virtual fonts are provided, rearranging its mapping
according to so-called LGR encoding, e. g. to the layout of Claudio
Beccari's Greek fonts, which seem to became a standard for LaTeX.
There are two main differences from this mapping:

- ligatures for final sigma aren't supported. So, in order to get
  this symbol you must explicitly type the latin letter `c'.
- in order two produce the circumflex accent you can type the equal 
  sign (=) as well as ASCII tilde (~).

Furthermore, for each font virtual fonts with faked small capitals
are included.

I provided also a set of virtual font in my own encoding, called LEL,
as well as description for this encoding (lelenc.def). This encoding
is based on standard modern Greek mapping, and so it may be preferred
by users with Greek codepage (ELOT 928 or Windows 1253).

INSTALLATION AND USAGE

First you must put font files and `psgreek.sty' in any location, there
LaTeX can find them. If your TeX tree is TDS compliant, you can
simply unpack *.zip files in your TEXMF directory. Then add font
definitions from psgreek.map to your psfonts.map file (usually
this file resides in ../dvips/config/ directory).

In order to use Type 1 Greek fonts in your document, you have to load
the Babel package with `greek' or `polutonikogreek' option. I prefer
Babel version 3.6, since version 3.7 has many bugs and doesn't work
properly. Then load `psgreek' package with the font name as option.
The following names are supported: `regular' for original WinGreek font,
`garamond' for Greek Garamond, `oxonia' for Greek Oxonia, `oldface' for 
Greek Old Face, `milan' for Milan. You can change your greek font in any
time redefining the `greekfont' command (for example:

\renewcommand{\greekfont}{myfont}

Use `greek' environment or `localgreek{text goes here}' command for
switching to Greek font and language.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

I didn't install it at that time because I had some problems with the
naming and the directory structure - among others, the name psgreek
suggests that it is a general solution for Greek postscript fonts -
and then I let the matter drift into the backlog.  Sorry about that;
now I installed the package on CTAN in the directory

CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/greek/psgreek/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Dec 30 08:37:43 2002
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:59:25 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New package on CTAN: opcit

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should spread
soon to a mirror near you.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: opcit
Author's name: Federico Garc�a
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/opcit
Summary description: Footnote-style bibliographical references
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
`opcit' makes the bibliographical references to appear as footnotes. It 
automatically substitutes conventional shorthands such as `Op. Cit.' and 
`Idem' for multiply cited works.

The user can still append a `References' list at the end of the document. 
The documentation has a section on how to modify the BibTeX style.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan  2 12:49:21 2003
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:11:16 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memhfixc package (memoir/hyperref) 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memhfixc.sty and README.memoir to UK
> incoming. Please put memhfixc.sty into
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir, and use README.memoir as a
> new version of the README in the memoir subdirectory. 
> 
>     memhfixc package provides a patch for the hyperref package when
> it is used with the memoir class: 
> \documentclass[...]{memoir}
> ...
> \usepackage[...]{hyperref}
> \usepackage{memhfixc}

thanks for the upload; i've installed the new files as requested

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan  3 11:35:19 2003
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 16:58:46 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: skak - easy chess typesetting (skak package)

Torben Hoffmann writes (through the mediation of our upload server):

> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: skak - easy chess typesetting
> Name and email: Torben Hoffmann <torben.hoffmann@motorola.com>
> Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/skak
> Summary description: The skak package facilitates typesetting of
>                      chess using SAN input. 
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is version 1.1 of the skak package for typesetting chess.
> 
> New in this release:
> * A number of bugs have been removed:
>   - spaces or no spaces in the input
>   - spurious spaces in the output (fixed by Dirk Baechle)
>   - handling of ambiguous moves involving files (fixed by Ulrike Fischer).
> * The font has been extended with a number of Informator symbols
>   (courtesy of Dirk Baechle). 
> * A change history has been added.
> * The documentation has been expanded with a number of entries in the wish-list.
> 
> Enjoy your chess typesetting,
> /Torben
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

thanks for the upload; i've installed it to replace fonts/skak on ctan

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jan  6 06:21:36 2003
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:34:49 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Dan Luecking <luecking@uark.edu>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: mfpic06b.zip uploaded

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Dan Luecking wrote:

> I have uploaded mfpic06b.zip
> to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
> It should be unzipped in graphics/mfpic, replacing the files there.
> It may be redistributed under the LPPL.
>
> Summary: This is mfpic version 0.6b. It fixes an embarassing bug in
> 0.6a that has existed (undetected) since at least version 0.5. The
> definition of sinh x in both grafbase.mf and grafbase.mp had the
> sign wrong!

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  graphics/mfpic

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jan  6 09:20:36 2003
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 14:42:35 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: rotpages

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org and should make its way
to a mirror near you very shortly.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: rotpages
Author's name: Sergio Callegari
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/rotpages
Summary description: Typeset multiple pages upside-down with page order 
  rearrangement
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
rotpages.sty R3.0
Copyright 2002 Sergio Callegari

The rotpages.sty package for latex 2e permits to format documents where small 
sets of pages are rotated by 180 degrees and rearranged, so that they can be 
read by turning the printed copy upside-down.  It was primarly meant for 
collecting exercises and solutions: the package permits to print the exercise 
text normally and the solutions rotated. 

This is release 3.0 of the package, with many enhancements over release 1.0. 
Release 2.0 has never been distributed.  Note that release 3.0 is *not* 
compatible with version 1.0, however documents written for version 1.0 can 
be easily converted to take advantage of the features of version 3.0.

The package may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the 
LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.2 of this license or (at your 
option) any later version.

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan  7 04:17:30 2003
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 09:36:45 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload framed.sty (to ftp.tex.ac.uk) 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I've just uploaded framed.sty to:
> 
>   ftp.tex.ac.uk:incoming/true_framed.sty
> 
> It should replace macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/framed.sty
> Several bugs are fixed, and a new environment "leftbar" is defined.
> (I hope the latter doesn't cause conflicts!)

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jan  7 09:28:40 2003
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:45:41 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: development.bst

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and will make its way to 
your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: development.bst
Author's name: Stephen Eglen
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/
Summary description: Bibtex style file for the journal Development.
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Here is a bibtex style file for biologists interested in
submitting an article to the journal `Development' (http://dev.biologists.org).

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jan  7 15:47:41 2003
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:05:13 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Andreas Matthias <amat@kabsi.at>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- pdfpages v0.2l

On 7 Jan 2003, Andreas Matthias wrote:

> I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages.tar.bz2' to
> ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> Please, extract this archive and replace the files in
>
>   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/
>
> This version fixes a minor bug. A separate announcement
> is probably not necessary.
>
> The `pdfpages' package makes it easy to insert pages of
> external PDF documents. Several logical pages can be
> arranged onto each sheet of paper. The package provides
> hypertext operations like hyperlinks and article threads.
>
> It is distributed under the LPPL.

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

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jan  7 15:49:30 2003
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:11:19 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Basil K. Malyshev <malyshev@mx.ihep.su>
Cc: CTAN-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload -- BaKoMa TeX 5.20

On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

> I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
> update for BaKoMa TeX 5.20 (issued 5-Jan-2003).
>
> Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
>
> New features are:
>    1) BibEdit - new application to edit BIB files.
>    2) Font Setup Wizard supports Postscript Type 1 fonts
>       (in advance to TrueType/OpenType supported in V 5.10)
>    3) Improved editor `Insert' menu:
>       Syntax Comletion, Citation and Crossreferencing wizards, etc.
> Bye.
> Basil K. Malyshev
> 5-Jan-2003
>
> PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.
>
> --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.20 ----------------------
>
> CONTENTS
>    * Highlights
>    * Graphical Capabilities
>    * Fonts
>    * User Interface
>    * PDF Generation Features
>    * HTML Generation features
>    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.20
>
> For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
>    <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
>
> BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95
>
> HIGHLIGHTS
>
>  * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
>    of the file being edited.
>    (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
>  * PostScript enabled TeX system.
> ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
> ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
>  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
>    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
>  * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
>    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
>  * Font Setup Wizard installs Postscript/TrueType fonts almost in one click
>  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
>  * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
>  * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
>  * Easy to install and use.
>  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
>
> GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
>
> BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
> which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
> software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0,
> Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw,
> FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
>
> All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible
> with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
> embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).
>
> The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
>    PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.
>
> FONTS
>
> BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
>  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters),
>  * PostScript Type 3,
>  * TrueType,
>  * OpenType,
>  * TeX PK/VF.
>
> The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
> and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
>  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
>  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
>  * EC/TC,
>  * LH (T2A),
>  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
>  * Malvern,
>  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
>  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
>  Math Fonts:
>  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
>  Diagram drawing fonts:
>  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase),
>  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd),
>  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
>
> Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
> This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
> between font formats when needed.
> This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
> On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
> for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
>
> In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts
> available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.
>
> Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
> Postscript Type 1 and TrueType fonts in one click.
>
> USER INTERFACE
>
> * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
>   It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly,
>   when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs,
>   mathematics, pictures, etc.
> * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen
>   for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
> * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
> * Quick navigation via document structure,
> * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
> * Powerful support for different input encodings,
> * Project support,
> * Graphics import assistant,
> * Assitance for multi-file documents:
>   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
> * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
> * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
> * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
> * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
> * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
> * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
>     correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
>     configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
> * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
> * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
> * Support for Multi-User systems.
>
> OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
>
> * View on Windows Display.
> * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
> * PostScript (really scalable),
> * PDF,
> * HTML.
>
> Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
> for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
> may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical
> capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
>
> PDF GENERATION FEATURES
>
> * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
> * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
>   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
> * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
> * Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
>
> HTML GENERATION FEATURES
>
>  BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
>  documents into HTML files.
>   * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch
>      `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
>   * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert
>      pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
>      pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics,
>      such as slides.
>
>  In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
>  Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of
>  `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.
>
>  Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
>  In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
>  into generated HTML pages.
>
> *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.20 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.10 ***
>
>  Font Setup Wizard (`Options|Install TrueType/Postscript fonts ...')
>  -----------------
>
>  * supports installation of *Postscript Type 1*
>    in advance to TrueType/OpenType fonts.
>  * works faster, because of using dynamic update of ls-R files.
>
>  BibEdit - new application
>  -------------------------
>
>  BibEdit is new utility in BaKoMa TeX. It is intended for
>  browsing and editing BIB files used by BibTeX program.
>  It is launched for openning BIB files (Windows Explorer)
>  or from Centaur Text Editor (Insert|Edit Bibliography, Insert|\cite)..
>  Features:
>  * Edits several BIB files simultaneously, that is very useful
>    to handle situation when `\bibliography' command includes several files.
>  * Easy to use - Help window provides user with useful hints
>    for every editing mode;
>  * Provide user with hints for preparing fields of different types;
>  * Chroma codidng for fields: `Required', `Optional', and `Ignored'.
>  * Tells user when one or more `Required' fields are missed.
>  * Quick insertion of reference on string into the currently edited field;
>  * Quick insertion of citation into your document.
>
>  User Interface
>  --------------
>
>  * Improved `Insert' menu.
>    + `Complete Word' (Ctrl+Enter) LaTeX Syntax completion command.
>      Context sensitive, adding/removing words, definable extra code.
>    + `LaTeX Environment ...' (Alt+Enter)
>      now it is implemented as dialog (instead of submenu) whicj lets you:
>       (1) add/remove environments immediately in dialog
>       (2) modify default arguments for environment.
>    + `Edit Bibliography ...' Provide simple way to start edit of bibliography:
>      In case of \bibliography command launches BibEdit,
>      In case of `thebibliography' environment opens file with him.
>      If no bibliography in you document it helps to create it.
>    + `\cite' (Alt+C) inserts `\cite' LaTeX command.
>      However, at second call (when \cite{} is already under cursor)
>      it launches BibEdit or dialog with list of available bibliography entries.
>    + `Insert Indexing Stuffs'
>      lets you prepare document for indexing in one click.
>    + `\ref' (Ctrl+R) and `\pageref' (Ctrl+P) like to \cite command,
>      at second click, show list of labels in current document.
>    + `Graphics|Graphics File' (inserts `\includegraphics')
>      detects that cursor is already under some `\includegraphics' command
>      and edit it instead of inserting another command.
>
>  DVI Viewer
>  ----------
>
>  * Support for `colorlinks' option of HyperRef</i> package.
>  * `Document Properties|Outline' - more robust refreshing outline.
>  * `File|Read PDF' and `File|View Postscript'
>    commands check existing and date of PDF/PS file to suggest user
>    (re)generate it if one is absent or older then DVI file.
>  * `File|Edit Source TeX File' command is disabled when TeX
>    source isn't available for currently opened DVI file. In advance,
>    it works with non standard file extensions (DTX, DRV, LTX, etc.).
>    Also, cursor isn't jumped into BOF when file is already opened.
>  * Fixed Problem with mishandling negative deltas by ExtTextOut under Win98.
>  * Handling kerning in Readable mode was refined.
>
>  TeX4HT
>  ------
>
>  * Copying imported PNG and GIF images into TeX4HT subdirectory
>     (see texmf/tex/latex/tex4ht/tex4ht.fix).
>
> For more information about changes see
>   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
>
> ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

Thanks for uploading the update. I installed the files as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jan  7 15:48:15 2003
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:17:36 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: lugon@mail.telepac.pt
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Another 3D MetaPost implementation

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 Lu�s Nobre Gon�alves wrote:

> I've uploaded the file
> featpost.tar.gz
> to
> dante.ctan.org/incoming
>
> This file contains:
> 1) a set of MetaPost macros in the file la3Dmacros.mp
> 2) its documentation in the directory doc/
> 3) examples in the directory exa/
>
> I think it should go into
> graphics/metapost/macros.
>
> It is GPL'd.
>
> These macros allow the production of three-dimensional schemes
> containing: angles, circles, cylinders, cones and spheres, among other things.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in

  graphics/metapost/macros/featpost

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Wed Jan  8 02:36:42 2003
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:00:29 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- yfonts package v1.3

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploadad the file yfonts.zip to the /incoming directory
at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack it in the CTAN directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/yfonts, thus replacing all present 
files there.

This is version 1.3 of the LaTeX package yfonts.sty to support 
the blackletter (old-german) typefaces provided by Y. Haralambous.

This release fixes a bug of version 1.2, which would break the 
\AA and \aa commands.  Credits to Ingo Schwab for having found
the bug!
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/yfonts/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jan  8 10:15:36 2003
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 15:34:34 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload of 'gchords' 

Kasper Peeters writes:

> I have uploaded the following:
> 
> package:       gchords (several files)
> where:         cam.ctan.org:incoming/gchords
> please put in: graphics/gchords   
> license:       gpl
> summary:       Gchords is a LaTeX package for typesetting of guitar
>                chord diagrams, including options for chord names,
>                finger numbers and typesetting above lyrics.
> 
> master site:   http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/kp229/gchords/

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jan  8 11:09:54 2003
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:38:35 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Andre Dierker <dierker@euklid.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: fbithesis

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 Andre Dierker wrote:

> Name of contribution: fbithesis
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/supported/fbithesis
> Summary description: Thesis class for the department of computer science at the University of Dortmund
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> At the department of computer science at the University of
> Dortmund there are cardboard cover pages for research or
> internal reports like master/phd-theses. The main function
> of this LaTeX2e document-class is a replacement for the
> \maketitle command to typeset a title page that is
> adjusted to these cover pages.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/fbithesis

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jan 13 04:44:54 2003
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:26:35 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "[ISO-8859-1] Morten H�gholm" <moho01ab@student.cbs.dk>
Subject: Re: New LaTeX package: empheq

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Morten H�gholm wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file `empheq.zip' to the incoming directory of
 > dante.ctan.orgckage. It contains `.dtx', `.ins' and `readme' files for a
 > new LaTeX package empheq. The files should be installed in
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/empheq
 >
 > This package is distributed under the conditions of the LPPL.
 >
 > Extract from the readme file:
 > -------------------------------------------------------------
 > The scope of the empheq (EMPHasizing EQuations) package is to
 > provide a visual markup extension to amsmath.
 >
 > The user-friendly interface allows the user to put a set of
 > equations inside a box thus enhancing the \boxed feature of
 > amsmath. As a side effect it's also possible to add material on
 > both sides of the equations thus providing (and surpassing) the
 > functionality of the cases package.
 >
 > Users of ntheorem will probably want to have a look at it as well,
 > since the problem of end-of-theorem marks in gather and others can
 > be circumvented using empheq.
 > --------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Morten H\o gholm

Thanks a lot for the upload. As you requested, I installed the files in
directory

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/empheq

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jan 14 16:53:34 2003
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:11:38 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Markus Kohm <markus.kohm@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: KOMA-Script


 > The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
 >
 > Name of contribution: KOMA-Script
 > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script
 > Summary description: KOMA-Script, a versatile LaTeX2e bundle
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The KOMA-Script team is happy to announce the January '03
 > Release of the KOMA-Script bundle aka "What we have to
 > fix in our previous release".
 >
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 > What is KOMA-Script
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > 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
 > the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities
 > in order to provide the user an almost complete working
 > environment.
 >
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 > Versions of classes and packages at this release:
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 >
 >   scrartcl.cls  2003/01/12  v2.9k
 >   scrbook.cls   2003/01/12  v2.9k
 >   scrreprt.cls  2003/01/12  v2.9k
 >   scrlttr2.cls  2003/01/12  v2.9k
 >   scrlettr.cls  2002/05/24  v2.6e (obsolete)
 >   scrtime.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m
 >   scrdate.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m
 >   scrpage2.sty  2002/11/01  v2.1a
 >   typearea.sty  2003/01/12  v2.9k
 >   scrlfile.sty  2003/01/12  v2.9k
 >   scrpage.sty   2001/06/22  v1.3c (obsolete)
 >   scraddr.sty   2002/06/02  v1.1b
 >
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 > What is new in this KOMA-Script release
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > This is a bugfix release, so only bugs are fixed:
 >   - Manual fixed and improved
 >   - autodot-feature works even without output at
 >     \end{document}
 >   - parskip-option at scrlttr2 works with all agruments
 >   - option "tocleft" at scrbook and scrreprt improved
 >     (line breaks)
 >   - option "tocleft" works at scrartcl
 >   - problems with running headlines after
 >     \pagestyle{empty} fixed at scrpage2
 >
 > Go discover.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jan 14 16:56:03 2003
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:20:16 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w-a-schmidt@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: "Day Roman" font

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the files
 >
 >  readme.dayroman
 >  day_t1.zip
 >  dayroman.zip
 >
 > to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please,
 > create a new directory fonts/DayRoman and install the files
 > there.  Do _not_ unpack the ZIP archives!
 >
 > Thiese are the free Type1 fonts "Day Roman" and "Day Roman
 > Expert" and the required font metrics, virtual fonts etc.
 > to use them with TeX on the Un*x or PC platform.
 >
 > "Day Roman" is a digitally redrawn version of the "Two Line
 > Double Pica Roman", a typeface designed by 16th century
 > French punchcutter Francois Guyot.  The character set suits
 > today's requirements, including even the Euro.  Use of the
 > historic "long s" is supported as an option.
 >
 > The Type1 fonts are provided for free by Apostrophiclab
 > <http://www.apostrophiclab.com> and may be redistributed, as
 > long as the archive file (day_t1.zip) is kept intact and no
 > money is charged.  (Does this imply that it must be
 > distributed from the "nonfree" branch of the CTAN?)  I have
 > added the font metrics, virtual fonts and FD files, which
 > are released under the LPPL.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as requested in

   fonts/DayRoman

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 14 17:00:38 2003
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:31:09 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload lineno.sty 

Stephan Boettcher writes:

> Please find in ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/lineno.tar.gz a new version
> v3.09 of lineno.sty, to replace in macros/latex/contrib/supported/lineno.
> 
> This update fixes a bug in the nameref.sty detection test, which was
> gobbling a token from the \AtBeginDocument hook.  All users should
> consider to update to this version.

that was quick -- or have you been aware of the bug longer than i
have?

anyway, i've installed the files as requested -- thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jan 15 15:51:26 2003
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:58:21 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Markus Kohm <markus.kohm@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: SplitIndex

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 Markus Kohm wrote:

 > Name of contribution: SplitIndex
 > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/splitindex
 > Summary description: Using a unlimited number of indices with almost every LaTeX-class
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > SplitIndex consists of a LaTeX package, splitidx, and a
 > small program, splitindex. The package may be used to
 > produce one index or several indices. Without using the
 > program the number of indices is limited by the number of
 > TeXs output streams. But using the program you may use even
 > more than 16 indices. At this case, splitidx outputs only a
 > single file \jobname.idx and the program splits that file
 > into several raw index files and calls your favorite index
 > processor for each of it.
 >
 > The splitindex program is available as perl-program
 > (splitindex.pl), java-program (splitindex.java/class),
 > Windows-CYGWIN binary (splitindex.exe), Linux-i386-ELF
 > binary (splitindex-Linux-i386), OpenBSD-3.0-i386 binary
 > (splitindex-OpenBSD-i386) and even as TeX program
 > (splitindex.tex with some limitations). The source
 > splitindex.c is also part of the distribution.
 >
 > There's an installation documentation (install.txt) and an
 > installation script (install.sh) at the package.
 >
 > The package was testet with the standard LaTeX classes and
 > the KOMA-Script classes.
 >
 > This release is a bugfix of the Nov '02 release and
 > intended to be stable though the version number is less
 > than 1.
 >
 > Fixes:
 >   - no more segmentation fault, if a unknown long option
 > name is used
 >   - some spellings at documentation
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/splitindex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jan 15 15:51:44 2003
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 22:01:24 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Upload to CTAN

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:

 > I�ve uploaded the first official version of ShapePatch to CTAN. It is on
 > the server dante.ctan.org in the directory "/incoming/shapepatch" I
 > created.
 > ShapePatch is a patch against transfig, that adds a new output driver.
 > This driver writes definitions for the TeX macro "shapepar" by Donald
 > Arsenau. Defining such shapes is normally crucial, using this driver one
 > can sketch the shape in XFig and then convert it to shapepar. Details
 > can be found in the attached readme file.
 > Since it is a patch to transfig, I think the best place for it is a
 > subdirectory beyond the graphics/transfig or a separate directory
 > graphics/transfig-shape.
 > As for the license, it should be the same as transfig, which is listed
 > as "GPL" in your Catalogue.

Thanks for the upload. Installing your patch within the graphics/transfig
tree is not easily possible, as this tree is mirrored. I have therefore
taken the liberty to install it in

   graphics/transfig-shapepatch

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jan 16 08:46:19 2003
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:06:29 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Gerd Neugebauer <gene@gerd-neugebauer.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- BibTool 2.47

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Gerd Neugebauer wrote:

> I have uploaded Release 2.47 of BibTool to
> ftp.dante.de:/incoming/BibTool-2.47.tar.gz
> BibTool is distributed under the GPL.
>
> The uploaded file should go into the directory
> biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool. The file BibTool-2.46.tar.gz residing there
> can be deleted.
>
> Several and tiny enhancements have made it into this release.
> I append the README file for a general description
> of BibTool.
>
> Ciao
>          Gerd
>
> ======================================================================
>
>          ######            ############
>          #######           ############
>          ##    ##               ##
>          ##    ##  ##  #####    ##    ####      ####    ##
>          #######   ##  ######   ##   ######    ######   ##
>          #######   ##  ##   ##  ##  ##    ##  ##    ##  ##
>          ##    ##  ##  ######   ##  ##    ##  ##    ##  ##
>          ##    ##  ##  ##   ##  ##  ##    ##  ##    ##  ##
>          ##    ##  ##  ##   ##  ##  ##    ##  ##    ##  ##
>          #######   ##  ######   ##   ######    ######   #######
>          ######    ##  #####    ##    ####      ####    #######
>
> ======================================================================
>
>            BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases
>
>
> BibTeX provides    an easy to  use means   to integrate  citations and
> bibliographies into LaTeX documents.  But the user  is left alone with
> the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to
> fill this gap.  BibTool allows the  manipulation of BibTeX files which
> goes  beyond the possibilities --- and intentions  --- of BibTeX.  The
> possibilities of BibTool include
>
> * Pretty-printing BibTeX data bases adjustable by lots of parameters.
>
> * Syntactic checks with error recovery superior to BibTeX and helpful
>    error messages.
>
> * Semantic checks can be specified by the user.
>
> * Sorting  and  merging of  BibTeX  data  bases according   to a  free
>    definable sort key.
>
> * Generation  of uniform reference keys  according to predefined rules
>    or according to an own specification.
>
> * Selecting references  used in  one  publication which are found   by
>    analyzing an .aux file.
>
> * Selecting references by a set of criteria (regular expressions).
>
> * Controlled rewriting    of fields utilizing  regular expressions  to
>    specify the rewriting rules.
>
> * Macro  (String)  expansion to  eliminate the  need  of  extra string
>    definitions.
>
> * Collecting statistics about one or more BibTeX data bases.
>
>
> BibTool  contains a  documentation written  in  LaTeX of  more than 60
> pages (and still growing).
>
> BibTool is written  in C and  has  been compiled on  various operating
> systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOG machines.  It is distributed in
> source code.   No compiled  versions  are  available from  the  author
> (Useless to ask!).
>
> BibTool can be obtained from the CTAN archives:
>
> * ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool
> * ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool
> * ctan.tug.org:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool
>
> Get  the  file BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz  where  x.xx is the version number.
> Unpack it with the command (on UN*X)
>
>          gunzip < BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
>
> Alternatively get the file  BibTool-x.xx.zip where x.xx is the version
> number.  Unpack it with the command
>
>          unzip BibTool-x.xx.zip
>
> It will create  a  directory  named  BibTool-x.xx which contains   the
> installation instructions in the file install.tex.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed the new file in

  bibliography/bibtex/utils/bibtool

and deleted the old one.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jan 16 08:51:15 2003
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:39:55 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New package on CTAN: covington

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make its
way to your favorite local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: covington
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: fonts/covington
Summary description: Make Apostrophic Laboratories's Covington fonts available to TeX and LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The covington package provides all of the font
metrics, virtual fonts, font-description files,
and font-mapping files needed to use Apostrophic
Laboratories's freely downloadable Covington font
with TeX and LaTeX.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 16 19:26:07 2003
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:35:10 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- bundle of 8 bookhand fonts 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded 9 files to UK incoming. They are all under the
> LPPL. Please: 
> 
> o Move contents of bookhands.tar.gz into fonts/bookhands.
> 
> o For each of the 8 files, move them to fonts/bookhands and untar
> there to create new subdirectories: carolmin.tar, egothic.tar,
> humanist.tar, inslrmin.tar, pgothic.tar, rotunda.tar, sqrcaps.tar,
> and tgothic.tar. 
> 
>     This distribution completes my planned set of bookhand
> (METAFONT) fonts and packages covering manuscript scripts from the
> 1st century until Guthenberg and Caxton. The new hands are: 
> o Square Capitals 1st century onwards (sqrcaps)
> o Insular Minuscule 6th cenury onward (inslrmin) 
> o Carolingian Minuscule 8-12th century (carolmin)
> o Early Gothic 11-12th century (egothic)
> o Gothic Textura Quadrata 13-15th century (tgothic)
> o Gothic Textura Prescius 13th onward (pgothic)
> o Rotunda 13-15th century (rotunda)
> o Humanist Minuscule 14th onward (humanist).
> 
>     The existing set includes:
> o Roman Rustic 1st to 6th century
> o Uncial 3-6th
> o Half Uncial 3-9th
> o Artificial Uncial 6-10th
> o Insular Majuscule 6-9th
> 
>     The file bsamples.ps in bookhands.tar.gz shows examples of each
> of the fonts. 

installed as requested (in the spirit, if not the letter -- we don't
unpack things direct into the archive), and set to propagate.  thanks
for the uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team


From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Jan 17 03:57:57 2003
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:26:33 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w-a-schmidt@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: Day Roman font (bug fix)

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the files
>
>   readme.dayroman
>   dayroman.zip
>
> to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please, move them
> to the directory fonts/DayRoman, thus replacing the corresponding
> present files.  The existing archive file day_t1.zip, however,
> is to remain unchanged.
>
> This release fixes several bugs in the LaTeX support files for
> the Day Roman typeface, which I uploaded recently.  The changes
> affect particularly the use of ligatures and the shape of the
> Polish diacritics.  Besides, I have corrected a very misleading
> typo in the documentation.
>
> Many apologies for the bugs and for the confusion caused by
> the faulty documentation.  Credits to Staszek Wawrykiewicz for
> spotting the bugs with the Polish letters!

Thanks for the update. I installed it in

   fonts/DayRoman

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 17 06:16:29 2003
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:45:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: hatching.zip on DANTE:/incoming 

Staszek Wawrykiewicz writes:

>  > I've just uploaded to DANTE:/incoming/hatching.zip
>  > Please unpack it in graphics/metapost/macros/
>  > 
>  > The file HATCHING.MP contains a set of METAPOST macros for hatching
>  > interior of closed paths. The examples of usage included.
>  > Licence: PD

i have installed the files as requested (at the cambridge ctan, for
ctan internal reasons...).  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 17 09:11:12 2003
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:32:52 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Updated version of tugboat macros on ctan

i have just installed my latest working version of the tugboat macros
on ctan at macros/latex/contrib/supported/tugboat

there are significant changes between this version, and the one
previously on ctan: potential writers of tugboat (or tug conference
proceedings) papers are urged to update their macro files.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 17 08:46:11 2003
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:32:52 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: tub-prod@mailer.csit.fsu.edu
To: undisclosed-recipients:  ;
Subject: [Tub-prod] Updated version of tugboat macros on ctan

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To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Updated version of tugboat macros on ctan
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:32:52 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <rf@cl.cam.ac.uk>

i have just installed my latest working version of the tugboat macros
on ctan at macros/latex/contrib/supported/tugboat

there are significant changes between this version, and the one
previously on ctan: potential writers of tugboat (or tug conference
proceedings) papers are urged to update their macro files.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Jan 18 13:16:42 2003
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 19:28:24 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Herbert Voss <voss@perce.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-optic


 > Name of contribution: pst-optic
 > Summary description: A pstricks package for optical lenses and mirrors
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > pst-optic offers macros for lenses and mirrors to build
 > optical systems and drawing the rays.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload. As you suggested, I installed the files in

  graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optic

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Jan 19 11:29:31 2003
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:20:42 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Volker Kiefel <volker.kiefel@freenet.de>
Subject: Re: Upload

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Volker Kiefel wrote:

 > I have uploaded: References v4.0, Bibliographic software
 > To: ftp.dante.de
 > Files should go to: /tex-archive/support/references
 > GNU general public licence - Latex Project
 >
 > Summary:
 >
 > REFERENCES v4.0 is bibliographic software for authors
 > of scientific manuscripts and for management of
 > bibliographic data on ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS, BOOKS
 > and CHAPTERS IN BOOKS.  REFERENCES supports LaTeX
 > including BibTeX. REFERENCES is able to import
 > bibliographic records in the MEDLINE format. Retrieval
 > of references by keywords, authors' or editors' names,
 > date of publication, title of article, book title,
 > journal name or combinations thereof is possible. Lists
 > of references can be compiled in any (user-defined)
 > format required by the publishers of scientific
 > journals. Source code is included: REFERENCES is free
 > software distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL
 > PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2 (FSF).

Thanks for the update, I installed the new version in

   support/references

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@dante.de Mon Jan 20 08:12:30 2003
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:22:43 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- new font metrics for LucidaBright

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the following files to the /incoming directory
at dante.ctan.org:

  readme.lucida
  lucida.zip
  makefile

This is an updated set of font metrics, virtual fonts, FD and 
font map files for Y&Y's  commercial font family LucidaBright.
A "makefile" is provided to help with renaming of the original 
font files so standard "Berry-style" names. (This is optional.)

The upload occurs in accordance with Blenda Horn (Y&Y) and 
Sebastian Rahtz (who made the existing Lucida font metrics).

Please remove the following existing CTAN directories:

fonts/metrics/bh/lubright
fonts/metrics/bh/lucidfax
fonts/metrics/bh/lucsans
fonts/metrics/bh/lumath

and the contents of the directory fonts/metrics/bh/lucida.

Then move my files to the directory fonts/metrics/bh/lucida.
(The stuff is no longer spread over 5 different directories).
Please, do not unpack lucida.zip.

This release features a number of changes over the previous 
distribution:

* The file set includes also the metrics for LY1 encoded
text fonts.  These are the original files from Y&Y, only
renamed to Karl-Berry-style names.  The related .fd files
were changed appropriately.  Thus, LY1 can be used easily
beside T1/TS1.

* The LY1 and TS1 encodings make the Euro symbol (\texteuro)
accessible, which is present in the current release of the
Lucida fonts.

* With T1/TS1 encoding, the same set of font series and
shapes is supported as with Y&Y's original distribution.
The previous CTAN distribution, in contrast, included a
number of additional series/shapes, which were based on
artificially compressed, expanded or slanted fonts and faked
smallcaps.  Notice that these were never documented.

* The obsolete OT1 font encoding is no longer supported with
the Lucida fonts.

* T1 encoded smallcaps fonts (hlhrc8t, hlhbc8t) include
normal digits now, as expected.  Oldstyle digits are still
available in the TS1 encoding.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the update.  I installed it as suggested replacing everything
in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/bh/ with the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/bh/lucida/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Jan 20 08:09:14 2003
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:23:28 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- preview-latex-0.7.8

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----
I have uploaded preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz and
preview-0.7.8.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
Its license is the GPL.

I would recommend installing it in the following way:

Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz under
support/preview-latex/
and unpack the
README from it to support/preview-latex/README
Create a symbolic link from
support/preview-latex/preview-latex.tar.gz
to
preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz
so that people can always get the newest version under this name.

Unpack preview-0.7.8.tar.gz in the directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/

It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins.

The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a
standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX
source into separate pages of a DVI file.

Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted.

Here are the release notes:

Release notes for version 0.7.8 of the preview-latex package:

preview-latex dresses up your LaTeX source by pasting judiciously
selected chunks (such as single formulas) chopped from unwieldy
preview pages right over their source in the Emacs/XEmacs buffer.  You
get to have your eye candy and edit it, too.  Since only the display
of the text is affected, you can safely test-drive on important
documents right away.  Quitting its use can be done anytime you'd want
to, which you won't.

The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for
extraction of selected text elements as images.  The package is
released under the GNU Public License (GPL).  At the current point of
time, at least GNU Emacs-21.1 under the X window system, AUC TeX
(11.14 or later recommended, see below), a working LaTeX installation
and GhostScript are required.  This version also supports XEmacs-21,
best in version 21.4.9 or later, and the various Windows ports of
XEmacs.  You may also use recent CVS versions of Windows GNU Emacs.

Release 0.7.8 has gained a few more commands, its menu has been
reorganized, the fleqn document class option from LaTeX is fully
supported, preview.sty has gained a much more powerful interface for
configuring previews and a few more items are previewed by default or
more correctly.  Various bugs have been fixed and the installation
process does a better job of getting things to work particularly for
Windows users, with better documentation, too.  Whitespace changes
will not invalidate previews as they did before.  This means that
outline-minor-mode is usable in XEmacs now.

The README file provides adequate information for firing up
preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback.  The
INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package
providers.  There is also a file INSTALL.windows detailing
instructions for users of that operating system.

The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the
SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access
is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>.

If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this
project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>.

Additional files can be found at
<URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>:

* If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt
  documentation files can be found there.

* Tarballs of preview-latex for all users, alternatively RPMs for
  RedHat Linux.  For the binary RPMs, you will need the
  preview-latex-common RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM.

* AUC TeX is now located at <URL:http://www.nongnu.org/auctex>.  The
  download area should also provide you with RPMs if you are using
  RedHat Linux.

The RPMs require a few packages that should be readily available in
current distributions.  RedHat 7.3 contains Emacs-21.2 and
GhostScript-6.52 which are about the minimum versions to be
recommended.  Later releases should work fine.  XEmacs in current
distributions will still be affected with a serious display bug, see
the PROBLEMS file or the respective manual section.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/ and
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/
replacing the old versions.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jan 20 09:35:08 2003
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:04:54 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: newlfm

A package upgrade has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim

======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: newlfm
Author's name: Paul Thompson
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/newlfm
Summary description: newlfm - new letter fax memo
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 6.0 of newlfm is announced.  

This is a pretty major revision of newlfm.  It corrects an inconsistency 
with geometry (by removing dependence on geometry).  It incorporates several 
missing components from the page.  

Most importantly, Version 6.0 incorporates a keyed-value approach to 
parameter setting.  Rather than setting all parameters using the options 
section of the \documentclass command, the keyed-value approach allows the 
parameters to be set using several keyed-value parameters (i.e., 
\LetterP{stdletter,nofromaddr} ).  These allow the entire composition of the 
letter (dimensions, etc.) to be stored and used as callable values from the 
letter database file.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 20 16:57:45 2003
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:25:54 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- tocloft package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded tocloft.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/conrib/supported/tocloft. 
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The tocloft package provides control over the typography of the
> able of Contents, List of Figures, and List of Tables. You can also
> define your own kinds of `List of ...'. 
> 
> Changes in version 2.3b (2003/01/20)
> o Again made Part commands work as advertised (with the koma classes)

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jan 22 14:32:51 2003
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:58:42 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Sascha Beuermann <beuermann@ibnm.uni-hannover.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: LaTeX2PDF

A submission was uploaded to CTAN.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

 > Name of contribution: LaTeX2PDF
 > Name and email: Sascha Beuermann
 > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/info/german/
 > Summary description: Erstellung von PDF-Dokumenten mit LaTeX
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Erstellung von leistungsf�higen PDF-Dokumenten mit LaTeX und den
 > Paketen hyperref sowie thumbpdf, Version 2.10 vom 15. Januar 2002
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

(Howto create PDF document with LaTeX and hyperref/thumbpdf)

Thanks for the upload, I installed the file as

  info/german/LaTeX2PDF.pdf

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jan 22 14:39:32 2003
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:20:41 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- tocbibind package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded tocbibind.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to
>  replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocbibind 
>  
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The tocbibind package can be used to add the ToC and/or
> bibliography and/or the index, etc., to the Table of Contents
> listing. 
> 
> Changes in version 1.52 (2002/01/22)
> o Improved harmony with the chapterbib and natbib packages.

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jan 22 14:47:57 2003
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:42:31 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: statex v1.2 uploaded to ftp.ctan.org 

Rodney Sparapani writes:

> I've just uploaded statex v1.2 to ftp.ctan.org/incoming
> This is a replacement for v1.1 which currently resides in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/
> The license is LPPL v.1.2+
> 
> statex v1.2 corrects some bugs and adds lots of new features:
> 1) many positioning problems have been resolved
> 2) more statistics commands and probability mass/density functions
> 3) new commands for creating documentation for the TI-83 calculator
> 4) all commands are now short
> 5) updated examples at the end of the style file

by the wonders of the dns, the upload appeared in cambridge.
sorry this has been delayed for a day or so, but i've now installed
the package as requested.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 23 08:56:00 2003
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:04:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: new shapepar bundle (version 2.0) 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I have uploaded version 2.0 of shapepar to
> cambridge_ctan:incoming/shapepar.tar.gz  with contents:
> shapepar/
> shapepar/Canflagshape.def
> shapepar/shapepar.ltx
> shapepar/TeXshape.def
> shapepar/candleshape.def
> shapepar/proshap.py
> shapepar/README.shapepar
> shapepar/shapepar.sty
> 
> Please unpack this so the new shapepar directory appears in
> macros/latex/contrib/supported, and remove the previous
> macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/shapepar.sty.
> 
> Since shapepar.sty continues to be functional under plain
> TeX, please update whatever symbolic link exists from
> macros/plain or macros/generic to reflect the new location.
> 
> proshap.py doesn't really belong in the macros tree because
> it is a Python script (by Manuel Gutierrez Algaba).  Feel free
> to relocate it.
> 
> Also uploaded is a revised incoming/shapepar.xml to replace 
> help/Catalogue/entries/shapepar.xml, but someone with more
> experience should check it.  
> - I probably did not update all the information properly,
> - I don't know which distributions carry shapepar.sty
> 
> Abstract:
> The "\shapepar" macro (or `command') is used to typeset paragraphs of
> a specified shape, where the total size is adjusted automatically so
> that the entire shape is filled with text, and the shape may include
> separate pieces and holes. These macros work for both \LaTeX\ and 
> plain \TeX. 
> 
> New with version 2.0:
>  o  \cutout for fitting shape in surrounding text
>  o  Fixed-size shapes
>  o  Considerable re-write
>  o  Bug fix for disjoint parts
>  o  Allow back-spacing between disjoint parts
>  o  Typeset manual
>  o  More pre-defined shapes

i've installed the files as requested, and deleted the old version.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jan 23 08:59:39 2003
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:46:19 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: the covington font material renamed covfonts

The covington font package has been renamed covfonts, to avoid a 
name clash with an existing package.  

Sorry about any confusion; thank you to the folks who pointed out
my oversight and also to the package author, Scott Pakin, for 
making the changes.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: covfonts
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: fonts/covfonts
Summary description: Make Apostrophic Laboratories's Covington fonts available to TeX and LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The covfonts package provides all of the font
metrics, virtual fonts, font-description files,
and font-mapping files needed to use Apostrophic
Laboratories's freely downloadable Covington font
with TeX and LaTeX.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jan 23 14:41:45 2003
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:09:51 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Basil K. Malyshev <malyshev@mx.ihep.su>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 5.22

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

> I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
> update for BaKoMa TeX 5.22 (issued 23-Jan-2003).
>
> Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
>
> This version has Patch status and may be freely installed by
> holders of NON-UPGRADABLE license for BaKoMa TeX 5.20.
>
> This version has following bug fixing and refinments:
>   * Saving settings under accounts with names with international symbols.
>   * Changed format of date embedded into PDF file (Now use D:20030123....)
>   * Fixed configuration for BibEdit (It avoids Win98 limitations)
>   * Refined Outline generation in DVI2HTML (corporating bugs)
>   * Refined configuration of cyrillic (LH) fonts for TeX4HT.
>   * Fixed driver for HyperRef package (Extra `}' before \begin{equation}).
>   * Recent Files List was reimplemented via dialog.
>
> Bye.
> Basil K. Malyshev
> 23-Jan-2003


Thanks for the update, I installed the files in the

  nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma

hierarchy.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


> --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.20 ----------------------
>
> CONTENTS
>    * Highlights
>    * Graphical Capabilities
>    * Fonts
>    * User Interface
>    * PDF Generation Features
>    * HTML Generation features
>    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.20
>
> For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
>    <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
>
> BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95
>
> HIGHLIGHTS
>
>  * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
>    of the file being edited.
>    (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
>  * PostScript enabled TeX system.
> ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
> ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
>  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
>    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
>  * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
>    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
>  * Font Setup Wizard installs Postscript/TrueType fonts almost in one click
>  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
>  * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
>  * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
>  * Easy to install and use.
>  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
>
> GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
>
> BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
> which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
> software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0,
> Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw,
> FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
>
> All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible
> with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
> embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).
>
> The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
>    PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.
>
> FONTS
>
> BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
>  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters),
>  * PostScript Type 3,
>  * TrueType,
>  * OpenType,
>  * TeX PK/VF.
>
> The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
> and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
>  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
>  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
>  * EC/TC,
>  * LH (T2A),
>  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
>  * Malvern,
>  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
>  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
>  Math Fonts:
>  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
>  Diagram drawing fonts:
>  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase),
>  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd),
>  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
>
> Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
> This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
> between font formats when needed.
> This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
> On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
> for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
>
> In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts
> available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.
>
> Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
> Postscript Type 1 and TrueType fonts in one click.
>
> USER INTERFACE
>
> * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
>   It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly,
>   when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs,
>   mathematics, pictures, etc.
> * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen
>   for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
> * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
> * Quick navigation via document structure,
> * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
> * Powerful support for different input encodings,
> * Project support,
> * Graphics import assistant,
> * Assitance for multi-file documents:
>   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
> * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
> * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
> * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
> * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
> * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
> * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
>     correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
>     configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
> * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
> * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
> * Support for Multi-User systems.
>
> OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
>
> * View on Windows Display.
> * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
> * PostScript (really scalable),
> * PDF,
> * HTML.
>
> Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
> for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
> may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical
> capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
>
> PDF GENERATION FEATURES
>
> * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
> * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
>   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
> * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
> * Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
>
> HTML GENERATION FEATURES
>
>  BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
>  documents into HTML files.
>   * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch
>      `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
>   * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert
>      pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
>      pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics,
>      such as slides.
>
>  In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
>  Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of
>  `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.
>
>  Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
>  In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
>  into generated HTML pages.
>
> *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.20 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.10 ***
>
>  Font Setup Wizard (`Options|Install TrueType/Postscript fonts ...')
>  -----------------
>
>  * supports installation of *Postscript Type 1*
>    in advance to TrueType/OpenType fonts.
>  * works faster, because of using dynamic update of ls-R files.
>
>  BibEdit - new application
>  -------------------------
>
>  BibEdit is new utility in BaKoMa TeX. It is intended for
>  browsing and editing BIB files used by BibTeX program.
>  It is launched for openning BIB files (Windows Explorer)
>  or from Centaur Text Editor (Insert|Edit Bibliography, Insert|\cite)..
>  Features:
>  * Edits several BIB files simultaneously, that is very useful
>    to handle situation when `\bibliography' command includes several files.
>  * Easy to use - Help window provides user with useful hints
>    for every editing mode;
>  * Provide user with hints for preparing fields of different types;
>  * Chroma codidng for fields: `Required', `Optional', and `Ignored'.
>  * Tells user when one or more `Required' fields are missed.
>  * Quick insertion of reference on string into the currently edited field;
>  * Quick insertion of citation into your document.
>
>  User Interface
>  --------------
>
>  * Improved `Insert' menu.
>    + `Complete Word' (Ctrl+Enter) LaTeX Syntax completion command.
>      Context sensitive, adding/removing words, definable extra code.
>    + `LaTeX Environment ...' (Alt+Enter)
>      now it is implemented as dialog (instead of submenu) whicj lets you:
>       (1) add/remove environments immediately in dialog
>       (2) modify default arguments for environment.
>    + `Edit Bibliography ...' Provide simple way to start edit of bibliography:
>      In case of \bibliography command launches BibEdit,
>      In case of `thebibliography' environment opens file with him.
>      If no bibliography in you document it helps to create it.
>    + `\cite' (Alt+C) inserts `\cite' LaTeX command.
>      However, at second call (when \cite{} is already under cursor)
>      it launches BibEdit or dialog with list of available bibliography entries.
>    + `Insert Indexing Stuffs'
>      lets you prepare document for indexing in one click.
>    + `\ref' (Ctrl+R) and `\pageref' (Ctrl+P) like to \cite command,
>      at second click, show list of labels in current document.
>    + `Graphics|Graphics File' (inserts `\includegraphics')
>      detects that cursor is already under some `\includegraphics' command
>      and edit it instead of inserting another command.
>
>  DVI Viewer
>  ----------
>
>  * Support for `colorlinks' option of HyperRef</i> package.
>  * `Document Properties|Outline' - more robust refreshing outline.
>  * `File|Read PDF' and `File|View Postscript'
>    commands check existing and date of PDF/PS file to suggest user
>    (re)generate it if one is absent or older then DVI file.
>  * `File|Edit Source TeX File' command is disabled when TeX
>    source isn't available for currently opened DVI file. In advance,
>    it works with non standard file extensions (DTX, DRV, LTX, etc.).
>    Also, cursor isn't jumped into BOF when file is already opened.
>  * Fixed Problem with mishandling negative deltas by ExtTextOut under Win98.
>  * Handling kerning in Readable mode was refined.
>
>  TeX4HT
>  ------
>
>  * Copying imported PNG and GIF images into TeX4HT subdirectory
>     (see texmf/tex/latex/tex4ht/tex4ht.fix).
>
> For more information about changes see
>   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
>
> ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------



From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Jan 24 11:19:58 2003
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:44:46 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Volker Kiefel <volker.kiefel@freenet.de>
Subject: Re: Upload - References v4.0a

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Volker Kiefel wrote:

> I have uploaded: References v4.0a, bibliographic software
> To: ftp.dante.de
> Files should go to: /tex-archive/support/references
> GNU general public licence
>
> Summary: REFERENCES is bibliographic software for
> authors of scientific manuscripts and for management of
> bibliographic data on ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS, BOOKS
> and CHAPTERS IN BOOKS.  REFERENCES supports LaTeX
> including BibTeX. REFERENCES is able to import
> bibliographic records in the MEDLINE format. Retrieval
> of references by keywords, authors' or editors' names,
> date of publication, title of article, book title,
> journal name or combinations thereof is possible. Lists
> of references can be compiled in any (user-defined)
> format required by the publishers of scientific
> journals. Source code is included: REFERENCES is free
> software distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL
> PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2 (FSF).

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  support/references

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Jan 24 11:22:53 2003
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:46:57 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Upload to CTAN

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:

> I�ve uploaded a bugfix release of ShapePatch to CTAN. It is on
> the server dante.ctan.org in the directory "/incoming/shapepatch" I
> created.
> It should be placed in the directory /graphics/transfig-shape, where the
> old version is situated. It had (at least :-) two bugs that are fixed in
> this new release.
>
> The license of transfig was erroneously listed as "GPL" in your
> Catalogue, so I used this the last time. In fact transfig uses the
> X/Open Group license, so the license of shapepatch should match that
> too. (now listed as BSD in your Catalogue)

Thanks for your update, I installed it in

   graphics/transfig-shapepatch

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 24 12:21:59 2003
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:53:38 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memoir.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir. 
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     Memoir is a configurable class for general fiction, non-fiction
> and mathematical books. It encompasses the standard book and report
> classes and can simulate the article class as well as a double
> spaced typewritten manuscript. 
> 
>     It provides a variety of predefined page, chapter, and caption
> styles and easy ways of creating new ones. There is a reasonably
> intuitive way of specifyng page margins, etc., with an option for
> printing trimming marks. Documents can use 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt,
> 14pt or 17pt as the normal font size. 
> 
> Changes (2003/01/22)
> o Second optional argument to \section etc., for page header text
> o Number formatting --- cardinals and ordinals, numeric and spelled out
> o Better cooperation with natbib, chapterbib, hyperref and nameref packages
> o New version (1.3) of mempatch.sty
> o New version (1.1) of memhfixc.sty
> o New version of the Addendum

whew!  i've installed the new stuff as requested; thanks for the
upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 27 08:36:46 2003
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:19:52 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: bug fix version of footmisc on ctan

i have replaced macros/latex/contrib/supported/footmisc.dtx, to bring
the release up to version 5.2

this version fixes two bugs:

 - that multiple option did not work with perpage option enabled.

 - an interaction with the color package that caused errors if the
   para option was enabled.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jan 27 11:29:30 2003
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:33:12 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upgrade: Makor 2

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org and should be at your favorite
local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Makor 2
Author's name: Alan Hoenig
Location on CTAN: language/hebrew/makor
Summary description: Typesetting Hebrew with vowels with Omega
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Use Makor2 to typeset: Hebrew with vowels or liturgical accents; Yiddish; 
docs prepared using ArabTeX Hebrew conventions; Biblia Hebraica 
Stuttgartensia; Old Hebrew; and much, much more; see files README and 
mkr2man.pdf for additional details and copious examples.  
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jan 27 15:21:52 2003
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:31:04 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: iagproc

New material has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: iagproc
Author's name: Martin Vermeer
Location on CTAN: latex/contrib/supported/misc
Summary description: LaTeX2e class file for two column IAG Proceedings articles
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
LaTeX2e class file for two column IAG Proceedings articles,
like for the Banff GGG2000 Symposium or the Thessaloniki IGGC 2002 meeting.

Format description:

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~sideris/GGG2000/instructions.pdf

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 28 06:13:22 2003
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:11:38 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: encTeX on ctan

encTeX is (another) tex extension, written at the change-file level.

it provides means of translating input, on the way into tex's mouth.

the most recent version allows translation of multibyte sequences,
such as utf-8 encoding.

i have established a mirror of enctex into ctan at systems/enctex, to
aid people's evaluation of the system.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jan 28 15:50:41 2003
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:54:02 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "[ISO-8859-1] Martin Schr�der" <martin@oneiros.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ragged2e v2.00

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 Martin Schr�der submitted:

 > Name of contribution: ragged2e v2.00
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms/
 > Summary description: A new improved version of ragged2e
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This version fixes some (hopefully all) bugs and introduces some new features.
 > The bugs had to do with the handling of \spaceskip and \xspaceskip; this has been completely redesigned.
 > The new features are new options for setting the complete document, all footnotes and all parboxes raggedright. The new version also incorporates the raggedr package.

Thanks for the update. Following the upload instructions, I replaced the
files

  ragged2e.dtx
  ragged2e.ins

and removed the files

  ragged2e.asc
  ragged2e.bug
  ragged2e.dvi

The updated xml entry follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="ragged2e"
       datestamp="2003/01/28"
       modifier="martin@oneiros.de">
  <about>
    <name>ragged2e</name>
    <caption>
      Defines \Centering, \RaggedLeft, and \RaggedRight, and
      corresponding environments.
    </caption>
    <author>
      <name>Martin Schr&#246;der</name>
      <email>martin@oneiros.de</email>
    </author>
    <license type="lppl"/>
    <version>
      <number>2.00</number>
      <released>2003/01/28</released>
    </version>
    <xref refid="everysel"/>
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      A LaTeX package which defines new commands \Centering,
      \RaggedLeft, and \RaggedRight and new environments Center,
      FlushLeft, and FlushRight, which set ragged text and are
      easily configurable to allow hyphenation.
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms</ctan>
    <texlive>latexextra</texlive>
  </distribution>
</entry>



For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 28 17:31:22 2003
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 22:40:58 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Uploaded updated style file 

Rohit Grover writes:

> Uploaded to cam.ctan.org 
> Directory: incoming/newpunk
> 
> Updated style file and test latex file for using Knuth's punk fonts. The
> old one (released 1992) doesn't work anymore because it uses obsolete
> syntax. This version should probably replace the current punk.sty in the
> CTAN tree.

i've rearranged the fonts/punk directory:

  fonts/punk/source contains the original .mf files
  fonts/punk/latex  contains your contribution:
            punk.sty
            punktest.tex

thanks for the contribtion

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jan 29 05:42:31 2003
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:08:14 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: ctan upload: wrapfig.sty 3.5 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I've uploaded version 3.5 of wrapfig.sty to ctan/UK.
> 
> Please use it to replace  macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/wrapfig.sty
> 
> New with version 3.5: support for float.sty 
> 
> New with version 3.4: setting \linewidth in wrapped text.
> 
> As before the license is lppl.

i've installed the new version; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Jan 29 10:12:41 2003
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:27:35 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- KOMA-Script

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030129.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: KOMA-Script
Name and email: Markus Kohm
Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script 
Summary description: KOMA-Script, a versatile LaTeX2e bundle
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The KOMA-Script team is happy to announce the February '03 
Release of the KOMA-Script bundle aka "the three days too 
early release". 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
What is KOMA-Script 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
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 
the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities 
in order to provide the user an almost complete working 
environment. 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
Versions of classes and packages at this release: 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
  scrartcl.cls  2003/01/28  v2.9l 
  scrbook.cls   2003/01/28  v2.9l 
  scrreprt.cls  2003/01/28  v2.9l 
  scrlttr2.cls  2003/01/28  v2.9l 
  scrlettr.cls  2002/05/24  v2.6e (obsolete) 
  scrtime.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m 
  scrdate.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m 
  scrpage2.sty  2002/11/01  v2.1a 
  typearea.sty  2003/01/28  v2.9l 
  scrlfile.sty  2003/01/28  v2.9l 
  scrpage.sty   2001/06/22  v1.3c (obsolete) 
  scraddr.sty   2002/06/02  v1.1b 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
What is new in this KOMA-Script release 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
This is only a bug-fix-release: 
  - typo-fixes at the guides 
  - index is not longer openright with option openany 
  - missing files at source of english guides added 
  - some fixes behind the curtain (e.g. of scrlttr2) 
Go discover. 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
XML file to be used at The TeX Catalogue: 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
See koma-script.xml at the distribution. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old version
in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script 

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jan 29 12:05:39 2003
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:38:11 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New version (3.4) of UK TeX FAQ on CTAN and the Web

I have installed a new version of the FAQ.

As usual, a small set of new questions/answers has been added, and a
number of typos and plain-and-simple bugs have been corrected.

In addition, I have addressed a significant problem with the
presentation of URLs for directories, on the Web.  In the last few
months I have learned that some browsers always provide the answer
"non-existent" if you ask a CTAN node for a .tar.gz or a .zip file of
a directory.  (Tracing reveals packets where the client is asking
whether the file exists before attempting to download it; of course
the file _doesn't_ exist, and our FTP daemons aren't smart enough to
spot this case.  None of which explains _why_ these browsers behave
like this.)

Now, whenever the FAQ used to present a .tar.gz URL for a directory,
it also presents a .zip URL, and a URL for "browsing" (the latter two
in parentheses).  If all else fails, frustrated users may download a
directory one file at a time.

I have also made a small improvement to the way searches are
conducted.  I've been thinking about how to do this job better, but at
least now one of the worst excesses of the stupidity of the old
version have gone: the search regards space-separated words as
distinct.

A further advance has come for users of the PDF versions; thanks to
the good offices of Heiko Oberdiek, those files now have thumbnails by
each question title.  In the thumbnail's data, one finds the URL for
this question (in my favoured "label" format), and the question title.

As always, I shall be pathetically grateful for help with new answers,
or corrections to old answers, in the FAQ -- feel free to mail to
faq@tex.ac.uk

An HTML-only (i.e., no searching) version of the FAQ is available for
use by TeX distribution builders; for those who already use it, the
new version is in the usual place -- those who don't already use it
may contact me for details.

Robin Fairbairns

UK TeX FAQ maintainer

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jan 29 14:28:07 2003
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:59:47 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: iTe

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: iTe
Author's name: wolfgang kuehn
Location on CTAN: support/ite
Summary description: the interactive Tex editor
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
iTe is an easy to use, interactive authoring tool for LATEX and TEX documents.
With iTe running inside emacs, it is possible to select arbitrary display 
fragments such as figures, equations, labels, captions, etc. These fragments 
can then be freely moved, rotated and scaled.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jan 31 14:43:01 2003
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:09:03 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package: LaTeXPiX

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix
Summary description: LaTeX picture editor for Windows
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
LaTeXPiX is a picture editor for LaTeX and works on all Microsoft Windows 
versions. LaTeXPiX offers advanced picture drawing, editing and generation 
beyond the scope of most other available editors. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Feb  4 11:55:11 2003
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:15:21 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: skak v1.2 

and behold!  our upload daemon did say (yesterday, when i was too busy
to do anything about it):

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20030203.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: skak v1.2
> Name: Torben Hoffmann
> Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/skak
> Summary description: Easy chess typesetting using SAN input
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Changes from v1.1:
> * Better Informator symbols.
> * Description of how to choose a different font.
> * \movecomment command added - allows easy typesetting of comments.
> * The PostScript files are 10 times smaller (for big files)
> * All dead code has been removed from skak.sty
> 
> Most of this is due to a big effort by Dirk B�chle - plaudits are in order.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i've installed the files ins skak.zip as requested.  thanks for the
upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Feb  4 15:55:21 2003
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 22:14:17 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz <staw@eti.pg.gda.pl>
Subject: Re: platex and mwcls packages

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz wrote:

 > I've uploaded to dante:/incoming
 > platex-1.2.4.zip
 > mwcls.zip
 >
 > Both contain updated packages already on CTAN.
 > Please unzip platex-1.2.4.zip in
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/platex
 >
 > and mwcls.zip in
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/mwcls

Thanks for the updates. I installed the files.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Feb  4 15:54:12 2003
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 22:21:38 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Christian Justen <christian@justen-mack.de>
Subject: Re: Upload: cjhebrew manuals

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Christian Justen wrote:

 > I just uploaded the following files:
 > 	cjhebrew.pdf
 > 	cjh-en.pdf
 > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/cjhebrew
 >
 > Please install the files in CTAN/language/hebrew/cjhebrew.
 >
 > cjhebrew.pdf is the updated German manual for CJHebrew an should
 > replace the old version.
 >
 > cjh-en.pdf is an English translation of the CJHebrew manual.
 >
 > License: lppl
 >
 > Short description: CJHebrew is a system for typesetting of Hebrew
 > text with LaTeX containing two type 1 fonts.

Thanks for the new docs, I installed the files as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Feb  4 18:47:00 2003
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 00:12:29 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- tocbibind package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded tocbibind.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocbibind. The
> distribution is under the LPPL. 
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The tocbibind package can be used to add the ToC and/or
> bibliography and/or index etc., to the Table of Contents listing. 
> 
> Changes in version 1.5f (2003/02/04)
> o Fixed Index heading \MakeUppercase problem

i've installed the package as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb  5 01:52:18 2003
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:18:07 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload to Cambridge: wrapfig.sty 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I've uploaded yet another version of wrapfig.sty to ftp.tex.ac.uk.
> 
> Version 3.5 from last week introduced float.sty "support", but
> for the previous version of float.sty, not the current.
> 
> Version 3.6 supports current float.sty, and retains support for
> the previous version.  It also supports the new-float mechanisms
> of memoir.cls and ccaption.sty.
> 
> It also introduces a new command to support other, unknown, 
> classes of float:  e.g., \begin{wrapfloat}{figure} is the same
> as \begin{wrapfigure}.
> 
> Version 3.6 still retains the deficiencies I've known about for 
> years.

thanks for the upload: i've installed it as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Feb  5 13:45:37 2003
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:00:55 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Ingo H. de Boer <idb@winshell.de>
Subject: Re: WinShell 2.2.2beta upload

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Ingo H. de Boer wrote:

 > I have uploaded a new WinShell 2.2.2beta to
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell
 > please copy the files to
 > ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell
 >
 > Thanks
 >    Ingo
 >
 > --------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > WinShell is a graphical user interface for easy working with
 > LaTeX or TeX. It includes a text editor, different tool bars
 > and user configuration options. It is NOT a LaTeX system. An
 > additional LaTeX package for Windows is needed.
 >
 > Now, ISpell is also included !

Thanks for the new version. The files are now in directory

  systems/win32/winshell

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb  6 06:27:47 2003
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:56:35 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: minor update of uk faq

i've updated the faq in a very minor way, and reinstalled on ctan and
the web.

changes:

  correct links for tetex v2.0
  new text (and revised link) for question "tds"

Robin Fairbairns

UK TeX FAQ maintainer

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=maillists+askquestion

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb  6 07:44:27 2003
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 13:14:17 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN (Cambridge) upload: varwidth.sty 

Donal Arseneau writes:

> I have uploaded varwidth.sty and varwidth.xml (for the catalogue) 
> to ftp.tex.ac.uk:incoming.  Please put it in 
> macros/latex/contrib/other/misc.
> 
> I am releasing this as version 0.9 because it has gotten mouldy
> waiting for me to get back to it.  (It does work, mostly.)
> Anyone who tries it should be sure to make bug reports.
> 
> It is released under LPPL.
> 
> % The varwidth environment is based on minipage, and takes the same
> % parameters, but the specified width is just a maximum value -- the
> % environment will be typeset with a narrower "natural" width if
> % possible.
> %
> % In a varwidth environment, paragraph line-breaks are chosen
> % according to the specified width, but each line is reset to 
> % match a narrower natural width, if there is one.
> %
> % The \narrowragged command works like \raggedright, but produces 
> % generally narrower lines in paragraphs, but more text in the last 
> % line (the lines have more-equal lengths).
> %
> % This version works fine, but there are still many questions about
> % how it would work best.  Should there be a version that avoids the
> % usual minipage formatting style?
> %
> % Numbered equations are not handled well, especially with leqno.
> % AMSmath environments have not been tried, and undoubtedly fail.
> %
> % It also defines a \newcolumntype{V} that is the {varwidth}
> % counterpart of a "p" column in tabulars.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb  6 11:51:37 2003
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 17:21:45 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: installed up-to-date version of scripttex

macros/scripttex, on ctan, was dated 1991; an eager user spotted a
newer version on the web.

i've therefore contacted the author, adrian mccarthy, and with his
permission have installed the latest version (v.104 of march 2002) to
replace the older version.

beware: some file names in the previous version have changed.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Feb  7 14:54:44 2003
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 20:23:43 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- needspace package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded needspace.sty to UK incoming. Please ue this to
> replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/needspace.sty. It is released
> under the LPPL. 
> 
> Package Description:
> 
>     Provides commands to reserve space at the bottom of a page. If
> there is not enough space on the current page a new one is started. 
> 
> Changes in version 1.3 (2003/02/07)
> o Added new \Needspace and \Needspace* commands (providing a new algorithm)

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Feb 11 08:21:24 2003
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:35:20 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Need file to be removed from server 

Ross Maloney writes:

> I have uploaded xbibfile-0.7.tar.gz to the /incoming directory of
> ftp.tex.ac.uk for consideration for inclusion in CTAN.
> 
> I suggest it be located in CTAN at  biblio/bibtex/utils.  The package
> xbibfile  is released under the GNU Public License.
> 
> Xbibfile is used to create and search BibTeX databases.  It is
> written in C and uses the GTK graphics libraries to create its user
> interface.  It was written under Linux using the X Window system.
> It was written out of my need for such a research tool and has
> performed satisfactory in that role.  At some future stage I may get
> around to increasing its capabilities so some hooks are in place for
> doing that expansion.  However, it is usable in its current state.
> 
> This is the first public release of this package.  The 0.7 is a
> version number for my own records.

i have installed the contents of your .tar.gz in a new directory
biblio/bibtex/utils/xbibtex, which is now set off to propagate.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 12 09:23:17 2003
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:49:45 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: withdrawal of systems/unix/teTeX/1.0

with the arrival of teTeX 2.0, all traces of teTeX 1.0 are being
removed from the archive.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Feb 13 02:34:04 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:59:32 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission:  LaTeX package gensymb.sty

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt <w-a-schmidt@arcor.de> -----
I have uploaded the file gensymb.zip to the /incoming directory 
at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack it to the CTAN directory

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/was .

Doing so will add the files gensymb.dtx and gensymb.ins 
and update the files upgreek.dtx and readme.1st.  The other 
files in this directory are to remain unchanged.

This is the first (and somewhat experimental) release of the
LaTeX package gensymb.sty.  It provides generic commands
\degree, \celsius, \perthousand, \micro and \ohm, which work
both in text and math mode.  Various means are provided to
fake the symbols or take them from particular symbol fonts,
if they are not available in the default fonts used in the
document.  This should be perfectly transparent at user
level, so that one can apply the same notation for units of
measurement in text and math mode and with arbitrary
typefaces.  Note that the package has been designed to work
flawlessly in conjunction with the famous units.sty.

This upload updates also the source file of my package
upgreek.sty.  However, only the documentation has been
changed with respect to the new gensymb package, which can
coopereate with upgreek.  The macro package upgreek.sty is
actually unchanged.

thank you in advance
Walter Schmidt
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new and updated files in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/was/ as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Feb 13 02:42:15 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:36:55 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: evweek.cls (extension of Latex Calendar Bundle)

----- Forwarded message from Emanuele Vicentini -----
I've uploaded in incoming/evweek a small spinn-off/bugfix of weekly.cls of
the LaTeX Calendar Bundle. Licese is lppl.

I'd put evweek.{dtx,ins} in a new subdirectory of calendar:
macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/contrib

Here's the summary: evweek.cls is a small extension of weekly.cls, the
class for the weekly calendar format of the LaTeC Calendar Bundle. I've
fixed a little problem with the height of titleboxes; the only extensions
of this first release are five new options that allow a greater control
over fonts used to typeset titleboxes.

=====
Saluti,
Emanuele.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thank you for the submission.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/contrib/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Feb 13 03:19:52 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:49:11 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 5.25

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 5.25 (issued 12-Feb-2003).

Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

This version has Patch status and may be freely installed by 
holders of NON-UPGRADABLE license for BaKoMa TeX 5.20.

This version has following bug fixing and refinments:

TeX4HT improvements:
  * Improved appearance of imported graphics in HTML4 output mode.
  * Fixed copying images from Common Picture Directory.
  * Sets background color in css to keep it consistent with image background.
  * Fixed tabbing translated via picture.
Other fixes:
  * Updated Mathematica support, added wrisym, notebook2e, and notebook.
  * Buffer overflow (RunPL) at converting documents in too deep directories.
  * HTML external links, generated by DVI2HTML, now overloads frameset,
  * Fixed translating of URL directories (terminated by `/') to PDF and HTML.
  * Added Belleek fonts to PSFONTS.BKZ.

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
12-Feb-2003

PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.25 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * HTML Generation features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.25
   
For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95

HIGHLIGHTS

 * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
   of the file being edited. 
   (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
 * PostScript enabled TeX system.
** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Font Setup Wizard installs Postscript/TrueType fonts almost in one click
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
 * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 
GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, 
FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * OpenType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts: 
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.

Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
Postscript Type 1 and TrueType fonts in one click.

USER INTERFACE

* Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
  It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, 
  when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, 
  mathematics, pictures, etc.
* Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen 
  for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents: 
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
* Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
    correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
    configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
* Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
* Support for Multi-User systems.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF,
* HTML.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

HTML GENERATION FEATURES

 BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 documents into HTML files.
  * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch 
     `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
  * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert 
     pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
     pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, 
     such as slides.

 In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of 
 `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.

 Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 into generated HTML pages.
 
*** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.25 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.10 ***

 Font Setup Wizard (`Options|Install TrueType/Postscript fonts ...')
 -----------------

 * supports installation of *Postscript Type 1*
   in advance to TrueType/OpenType fonts.
 * works faster, because of using dynamic update of ls-R files.

 BibEdit - new application
 -------------------------

 BibEdit is new utility in BaKoMa TeX. It is intended for
 browsing and editing BIB files used by BibTeX program.
 It is launched for openning BIB files (Windows Explorer)
 or from Centaur Text Editor (Insert|Edit Bibliography, Insert|\cite)..
 Features:
 * Edits several BIB files simultaneously, that is very useful
   to handle situation when `\bibliography' command includes several files.
 * Easy to use - Help window provides user with useful hints
   for every editing mode;
 * Provide user with hints for preparing fields of different types;
 * Chroma codidng for fields: `Required', `Optional', and `Ignored'.
 * Tells user when one or more `Required' fields are missed.
 * Quick insertion of reference on string into the currently edited field;
 * Quick insertion of citation into your document.

 User Interface
 --------------

 * Improved `Insert' menu.
   + `Complete Word' (Ctrl+Enter) LaTeX Syntax completion command.
     Context sensitive, adding/removing words, definable extra code.
   + `LaTeX Environment ...' (Alt+Enter)
     now it is implemented as dialog (instead of submenu) whicj lets you:
      (1) add/remove environments immediately in dialog
      (2) modify default arguments for environment.
   + `Edit Bibliography ...' Provide simple way to start edit of bibliography:
     In case of \bibliography command launches BibEdit,
     In case of `thebibliography' environment opens file with him.
     If no bibliography in you document it helps to create it.
   + `\cite' (Alt+C) inserts `\cite' LaTeX command.
     However, at second call (when \cite{} is already under cursor)
     it launches BibEdit or dialog with list of available bibliography entries.
   + `Insert Indexing Stuffs' 
     lets you prepare document for indexing in one click.
   + `\ref' (Ctrl+R) and `\pageref' (Ctrl+P) like to \cite command,
     at second click, show list of labels in current document.
   + `Graphics|Graphics File' (inserts `\includegraphics')
     detects that cursor is already under some `\includegraphics' command
     and edit it instead of inserting another command.

 DVI Viewer
 ----------

 * Support for `colorlinks' option of HyperRef</i> package.
 * `Document Properties|Outline' - more robust refreshing outline.
 * `File|Read PDF' and `File|View Postscript'
   commands check existing and date of PDF/PS file to suggest user
   (re)generate it if one is absent or older then DVI file.
 * `File|Edit Source TeX File' command is disabled when TeX
   source isn't available for currently opened DVI file. In advance,
   it works with non standard file extensions (DTX, DRV, LTX, etc.).
   Also, cursor isn't jumped into BOF when file is already opened.
 * Fixed Problem with mishandling negative deltas by ExtTextOut under Win98.
 * Handling kerning in Readable mode was refined.

 TeX4HT
 ------

 * Copying imported PNG and GIF images into TeX4HT subdirectory
    (see texmf/tex/latex/tex4ht/tex4ht.fix).

 Fixes done in BaKoMa TeX 5.25
 -----------------------------
 
 TeX4HT improvements:
  * Improved appearance of imported graphics in HTML4 output mode.
  * Fixed copying images from Common Picture Directory.
  * Sets background color in css to keep it consistent with image background.
  * Fixed tabbing translated via picture.
 Other fixes:
  * Updated Mathematica support, added wrisym, notebook2e, and notebook.
  * Buffer overflow (RunPL) at converting documents in too deep directories.
  * HTML external links, generated by DVI2HTML, now overloads frameset,
  * Fixed translating of URL directories (terminated by `/') to PDF and HTML.
  * Added Belleek fonts to PSFONTS.BKZ.

For more information about changes see
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thank you very much for the submission.  I installed it as suggested
replacing and expanding the old version in the nonfree CTAN tree at
CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Feb 13 14:44:06 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:12:40 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: corelfonts

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should
make its way to your favorite local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: corelfonts
Author's name: Tony McClelland
Location on CTAN: fonts/utilities/corelfonts
Summary description: Perl script to install all Bitstream fonts on a Corel Ventura CD for use with LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
There are several Bitstream PostScript Type1 fonts on the Corel Ventura 5 CD 
(and probably other Corel products). This perl script will automatically 
install them to your TeXMF tree and create LaTeX package files to use with 
them. You will need a Corel CD, perl and fontinst for this to work.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Fri Feb 14 01:56:32 2003
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:28:25 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Ukrainian translation of lshort

----- Forwarded message from Maksym Polyakov -----
 I have uploaded to  ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/lshort-ukr


Ukrainian translation of 'Not so short introduction to LaTeX', v. 4.00

files 
  lshort-ukr-4.00.src.tar.gz 
  lshort-ukr.dvi 
  lshort-ukr.pdf
  lshort-ukr.ps.gz 

Files should be placed to 
CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/ukrainian
----- End forwarded message -----

Thank you very much for the submission.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/ukrainian/

Now we have 2^4 versions of this fine document.  Will we reach 2^5 too?

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Feb 14 04:49:55 2003
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:19:13 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload -- ruhyphen package update 

Vladimir Volovich writes:

> i've uploaded the file ruhyphen.tar.gz to the incoming directory of
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
> this is an update to the ruhyphen package (collection of Russian
> hyphenation patterns), version 1.6.
> 
> please replace the files under language/hyphenation/ruhyphen directory
> with the contents of this tarball (it may be unpacked in the
> language/hyphenation, as it contains the ruhyphen subdirectory).
> 
> the license is as previously, LPPL 1.2.
> 
> the changes are not significant - accompanying patterns for the letter
> "yo" were regenerated with the latest version of Alexander Lebedev's
> rus-ispell dictionary; more important is that all 7 different patterns
> are now fully redistributable (the files ruhyphas.tex and ruhyphzn.tex
> previously had some restrictions on commercial usage, which were
> removed by their authors), so that these 2 files can be re-included
> into teTeX distribution.

i have installed the files as requested, in language/hyphenation/ruhyphen.
thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Feb 16 16:31:42 2003
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 22:50:26 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Herbert Voss <voss@perce.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-optic

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 Herbert Voss submitted:

 > Name of contribution: pst-optic
 > Summary description: Drawing lenses and mirrors for optical systems
 > License type: Free
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This new version 0.9 has macros for refraction, reflection
 > and for spherical lenses/mirrors.
 > There are also some new utility macros for rotating nodes,
 > lines with arrows inside.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update. I installed it in

  graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optic

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Feb 16 16:32:43 2003
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 22:52:44 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Matthew Lovell <lovell@fc.hp.com>
Subject: Re: update to register package

On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Matthew Lovell wrote:

 > I have uploaded register.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.  This is a new
 > version of the register package for typesetting hardware Control &
 > Status Registers, similar in some ways to the bitfield package.
 >
 > Please replace the files in
 >
 >    macros/latex/contrib/supported/register
 >
 > with the contents of the tarball.
 >
 > The modifications allow register to work consistently with the
 > parskip package.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as you requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Feb 18 15:23:44 2003
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 20:52:35 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class updates 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memoir.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please put its
> contents into macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir. The
> distribution is under the LPPL. 
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     Memoir is a flexible class for typesetting general fiction,
> non-fiction and mathematical works as books, reports, articles or
> manuscripts. Documents can use 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 or 17pt as the
> normal font size. Many methods are provided to let you create your
> particular design. 
> 
> Changes (2003/02/13)
> o Reference sections, etc., by name as well as number
> o Now 3 `need space' macros
> o New macros for `slash' fractions (fractions like 6/19)
> o Use of \footnote in titling macros (e.g., \author) ignored
> o New version 1.4 of mempatch.sty
> o New version 1.2 of memhfixc.sty
> o new version of the Addendum (memmanadd.pf)
> o NO CHANGES TO OTHER DOCUMENTS

i've installed the new files as requested (leaving the majority of
memoir in place).  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 19 02:03:11 2003
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 07:34:27 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload musixps-unix.tar.gz 1.13 

Takanori Uchiyama writes:

> I uploaded musixps-unix.tar.gz at cam.ctan.org.
> 
> Please replace previous one on fonts/musixtex/ps-type1/.
> 
> The license of the fonts is LPPL.
> 
> VERSION 1.13
> 
> CHANGES
>   + Fix a problem that xslz20 disappears with Acrobat 5.
> 
> OUTLINES
> 
> This package provides PostScript (type 1) fonts (PFB format), and
> dvips and dvipdfm map files for MusiXTeX. The fonts are based on the
> original METAFONT sources, such as musix20.mf, which are distributed
> with MusiXTeX. The fonts provided here may be used to produce
> printer-independent Postscript files. PDF files generated using type
> 1 fonts are well displayed by the Acrobat Reader and xpdf.
> 
> The fonts were generated from the METAFONT sources in the TeX Live
> CD 2000 July using TeXtrace 0.45 or mftrace 1.0.12 but musix11-20,
> xslhz20 and xslhz20d were upgraded to those in musixtex-T102.tar.gz.
> 
> Here is a list of the 71 generated fonts.
> 
> musix11.pfb  xgreg24.pfb  xsld29.pfb   xslhd24.pfb  xslhu24.pfb  xslu20.pfb
> musix13.pfb  xgreg29.pfb  xsld29d.pfb  xslhd24d.pfb xslhu24d.pfb xslu20d.pfb
> musix16.pfb  xsld11.pfb   xsldd20.pfb  xslhd29.pfb  xslhu29.pfb  xslu24.pfb
> musix20.pfb  xsld11d.pfb  xsldu20.pfb  xslhd29d.pfb xslhu29d.pfb xslu24d.pfb
> musix24.pfb  xsld13.pfb   xslhd11.pfb  xslhu11.pfb  xslhz20.pfb  xslu29.pfb
> musix29.pfb  xsld13d.pfb  xslhd11d.pfb xslhu11d.pfb xslhz20d.pfb xslu29d.pfb
> musixsps.pfb xsld16.pfb   xslhd13.pfb  xslhu13.pfb  xslu11.pfb   xslud20.pfb
> musixspx.pfb xsld16d.pfb  xslhd13d.pfb xslhu13d.pfb xslu11d.pfb  xslup20.pfb
> xgreg11.pfb  xsld20.pfb   xslhd16.pfb  xslhu16.pfb  xslu13.pfb   xslz20.pfb
> xgreg13.pfb  xsld20d.pfb  xslhd16d.pfb xslhu16d.pfb xslu13d.pfb  xslz20d.pfb
> xgreg16.pfb  xsld24.pfb   xslhd20.pfb  xslhu20.pfb  xslu16.pfb   xtie20.pfb
> xgreg20.pfb  xsld24d.pfb  xslhd20d.pfb xslhu20d.pfb xslu16d.pfb
> 
> Note: musix25 and xgreg25 were not generated because they are not used in 
>       musixgre.tex or musixtex.tex.
> 
> The control points were reduced with Fontographer.
> The fonts were hinted automatically with Fontographer.  musix11 - 29 were
> hand tuned by Takanori Uchiyama.

thanks for the upload (i was worrying about this font -- i should have
guessed you would do the "right thing" :-).  i have installed it here,
and it will make its way to the other ctan sites soon.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Feb 19 04:29:33 2003
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:54:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: M.Marvan@math.slu.cz
Subject: Re: Nath release 2003

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 M.Marvan@math.slu.cz wrote:

> I would like to update my previous, one-year-old contribution to the CTAN
> archive.
>
> Name:          Nath
> Description:   Natural math notation
> License:       GPL
> Location:      macros/latex/contrib/supported/
>
> I have just uploaded four files to dante.ctan.org/incoming/Nath, intended
> to raplace the old material.

Thanks for the update, i installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/nath

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Feb 19 13:53:44 2003
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:22:47 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upgrade: latex4jed

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org.  It should make its way to
your favorite local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

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

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a major upgrade to latex4jed. This release features greatly 
improved syntax highlighting and math menus, some minor enhancements, 
and three colour schemes.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Feb 19 13:58:21 2003
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:26:21 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: SciWordConv

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org.  It should make its way
to your favorite local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: SciWordConv
Author's name: Berik I. Tuleuov
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/sciwordconv
Summary description: For use Scientific Word/Scientific WorkPlace source files with another TeX compiler.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
These macros allows to combine the power of graphical front-end of Scientific 
Word/Scientific WorkPlace (SW/SWP) with one's favourite TeX compiler (for 
example, MiKTeX).  Currently included support for russian language, other 
languages can be handled easily.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 19 17:10:58 2003
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:35:42 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: shadow.sty --- new version for CTAN 

With the original author's permission, Frank Mittelbach has corrected
some spacing bugs in shadow.sty, and changed its licence to lppl.

i've installed the new version as
macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/shadow.sty

i've moved the old version, macros/latex209/contrib/misc/shadow.sty to
obsolete/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/shadow.sty

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 20 16:35:36 2003
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:54:32 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class update 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded memoir.tar to UK incoming; this is not the
> same contents as the memoir.tar.gz which I found to be in
> incoming. Please use this to replace some of the contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir. The distribution is under the
> LPPL. 
> 
>     The changes are (2003/02/20):
> o New version 1.3 of memhfixc.sty which should fix a problem with
> hyperref's handling of memoir's appendices environment. 
> 
> o New version of the Addendum (memmanadd.pdf) with a description of
> how to restyle footnotes. 
> 
> THERE ARE NO CHANGES TO ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS

I have installed the files (including a README) as requested; thanks
for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Fri Feb 21 10:15:23 2003
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:40:43 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: Matthias Clasen's TeX extensions

----- Forwarded message from Werner LEMBERG -----
With permission of Matthias I've just uploaded his bundle of TeX
extensions (clasen.tar.bz2) to ftp.dante.de.  Note that this stuff is
about five years old -- the old ftp address is no longer valid.

I'm not sure where to install since I couldn't find similar stuff; I
suggest `systems/extensions/' as the place where to unpack the archive
(which creates an additional subdirectory called `clasen').

Below some text for ctan-ann.

======================================================================

This bundle contains some proposals for extensions to TeX   
which I have implemented in a series of change files.  These
have only been tested with web2c 7.2 as contained on the    
TeX live III CD. 

glue/glue.ch
  Adapt Knuth's glue.web to replace all cases of floating-point
  arithmetic in TeX by fixed-point counterparts.

hyphenation/classes.ch:
  Implements hyphen classes.

hyphenation/count.ch:
  Implements demerits for more than 2 consecutive hyphens.

math/accent.ch:
  Implements nestable and under math accents.

math/cramp.ch:
  Implements primitives to switch to cramped styles.

math/radical.ch:
  Implements generalized radicals with a left and right delimiter.
  
math/fraction.ch:
  Implements \mathstyle and \fraction.

hz/hz.ch
  Implement the hz-algorithm, ie using variants of a font to achieve
  better justification.

margin/margin.ch
  Implement \marginchar for hanging punctuation and hyphenation and
  optical margin correction.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for your upload.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/tex-extensions/clasen/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Rolf.Niepraschk@PTB.DE Mon Feb 24 01:10:46 2003
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:09:09 +0100
From: Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk@PTB.DE>
Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project <LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de
Subject: [Fwd: CTAN submission: Matthias Clasen's TeX extensions]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: CTAN submission: Matthias Clasen's TeX extensions
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:40:43 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de

----- Forwarded message from Werner LEMBERG -----
With permission of Matthias I've just uploaded his bundle of TeX
extensions (clasen.tar.bz2) to ftp.dante.de.  Note that this stuff is
about five years old -- the old ftp address is no longer valid.

I'm not sure where to install since I couldn't find similar stuff; I
suggest `systems/extensions/' as the place where to unpack the archive
(which creates an additional subdirectory called `clasen').

Below some text for ctan-ann.

======================================================================

This bundle contains some proposals for extensions to TeX
which I have implemented in a series of change files.  These
have only been tested with web2c 7.2 as contained on the
TeX live III CD.

glue/glue.ch
   Adapt Knuth's glue.web to replace all cases of floating-point
   arithmetic in TeX by fixed-point counterparts.

hyphenation/classes.ch:
   Implements hyphen classes.

hyphenation/count.ch:
   Implements demerits for more than 2 consecutive hyphens.

math/accent.ch:
   Implements nestable and under math accents.

math/cramp.ch:
   Implements primitives to switch to cramped styles.

math/radical.ch:
   Implements generalized radicals with a left and right delimiter.

math/fraction.ch:
   Implements \mathstyle and \fraction.

hz/hz.ch
   Implement the hz-algorithm, ie using variants of a font to achieve
   better justification.

margin/margin.ch
   Implement \marginchar for hanging punctuation and hyphenation and
   optical margin correction.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for your upload.  I installed it in
CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/tex-extensions/clasen/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 24 08:50:50 2003
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:06:24 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: DCpic 

our upload daemon tells me:

> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: DCpic
> Name and email: Pedro Quaresma <xxx>
> Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/generic/diagrams/dcpic
> Summary description: Commutative diagrams and Graphs in a (La)TeX or
>                       ConTeXt document
> License type: GNU Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> DCpic is a package of TeX macros for graph modelling in a (La)TeX or
> ConTeXt document. Its distinguishing features are: the use of PiCTeX
> a powerful graphical engine, and a simple specification syntax.

the new (v4.0) version of the package has now been installed as
suggested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Feb 25 03:53:14 2003
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:21:22 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- numprint.sty

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded the file numprint.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please replace
the files in CTAN://macros/latex/contrib/supported/numprint by its
contents.

>From the README:

Print numbers with a separator every three digits and convert numbers
given as 123e456 to 123\cdot 10^{456}. If an optional argument is given it
is printed upright as unit.

Change log:
- 0.20  2003/02/24  Added support for \pm sign,
                    Fixed bug which made units fragile.
- 0.10  2003/01/08  Changed several command from \<commandname> to
                    \np<commandname> because of an incompatibility with
                    the french language of babel. This makes numprint.sty
                    incompatible with older versions in some cases.

License is LPPL.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for submitting the new version.  I installed it as suggested replacing
the old version in CTAN://macros/latex/contrib/supported/numprint/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Feb 25 18:17:52 2003
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 23:23:20 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: bbcard10.zip 

Patrick TJ McPhee writes:

> I've uploaded bbcard10.zip to cam.ctan.org. The files it contains are
> either public domain or under a bsd-style licence.
> 
> I suggest installing under graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/bbcard.
> 
> The files are metapost examples which are useful in their own right
> and may provide value as models.
> 
>   bbcard.mp     -- a bullshit bingo playing card
>   breakwidth.mp -- a macro which breaks text into paragraphs without
>                    using an external formatter
>   calendar.mp   -- a monthly calendar, which can generate a year's
>                    worth of calendars in one step
>   scorecard.mp  -- a baseball score card

i've installed the files as you suggest.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Feb 27 09:59:44 2003
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:26:01 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: ctan upload: sam2p

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org.  It will make its
way to your favorite mirror shortly.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: sam2p
Author's name: Szab� P�ter 
Location on CTAN: graphics/sam2p 
Summary description: A sophisticated raster image-converter to PostScript 
  and PDF
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
sam2p is a UNIX command line utility written in ANSI C++ that converts many 
raster (bitmap) image formats into Adobe PostScript or PDF files and several 
other formats. The images are not vectorized. sam2p gives full control to 
the user to specify standards-compliance, compression, and bit depths. In 
some cases sam2p can compress an image 100 times smaller than the PostScript 
output of many other common image converters. sam2p provides ZIP, RLE and 
LZW (de)compression filters even on Level1 devices. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Feb 27 09:59:44 2003
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:28:51 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: LaTeX Font Sampler

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror soon.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeX Font Sampler
Author's name: Peter Flynn
Location on CTAN: info/fontsampler
Summary description: Samples of free typefaces available with LaTeX
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is an update of the sampler which has previously been
available on our Web site. It has been extended to include 
a few more faces, and this version comes with the complete
source code. The fonts themselves you have to install from
the CTAN. Contributions of code are welcomed to enable us to
include the omitted fonts. License: GNU GPL.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Feb 28 06:16:52 2003
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:44:12 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: wrapfig.sty moved, extra documentation

i suggested to donald arseneau that i should move wrapfig.sty to a
directory of its own, and add to it a copy of his recipe for multiple-
column inserts using wrapfig; he agreeed, and supplied a copy of his
latest version of the recipe.

i have now made the change: the new directory is
macros/latex/contrib/supported/wrapfig

the new directory will propagate to the other servers in due course.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sat Mar  1 02:37:23 2003
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 09:07:57 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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

* "VTeX":  for use with VTeX/2 _only_,  
  making the use of this system particularly convenient

Each variant is available with English or German user 
interface.  

Changes over version 3 are listed in the file NEWS.  
Main items are:

* fully interactive configuration 
  (except for the user-defined menu items);
* thorough "clean up" of menus, window titles and 
  error messages;
* menu item to control VTeX's path cache;
* improved log file parsing facility,  
  making use of VTeX's particular log file format;
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:systems/os2/epmtfe

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Mar  6 07:18:24 2003
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:37:30 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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
modification of cmti* fonts, named cmtiup*:

   (1) all Punctuation chars turns Uprighted (no slant),
   (2) corresponded italic corrections added as kerning;

Replacement of cmti* fonts fy cmtiup* simplifies typesetting
of articles where otherwise author or editor have to use
additional tex commands to upright punctuation in italic text
with formulas.

   No changes made in fonts; fatal bug in cmtiup.sty fixed
(thanks to  Shingo SAITO <new@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp>)
and documentation improved.

License: LPPL (LaTeX Project Public License)

Contents:
    - METAFONT sources,
    - corresponding tfm files,
    - virtual font set to use type1 cm fonts,
    - latex2e style file to switch from cmti* to cmtiup*.

--------------------------------------------------------------------

   + what you've uploaded

    cmslupsr.zip archive (17.76k) contains just the cmslup.dtx
        file with all the sources;
    cmslup.zip archive (40.74k) contains all files packed for
        tds-compliant distribution;
    cmslupem.zip archive (27.03k) packed for use with emTeX
        without sources and virtual fonts.
    cmslup.txt (1.16k) contains brief plain text annotation;
    cmslup.pdf (128.55k) contains short version of user
        documentation in PDF format;
    cmslup.tpm (1.73k) can serve the fpTeX installation routine.


   + which CTAN node you've uploaded to

        ftp.dante.de

   + where you want the files to go

        CTAN/fonts/cm/cmslup/


   + what licensing conditions you apply to your software

        LPPL

   + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to

    	The "cmslup" package contains the following modification of 
	cmsl* fonts, named cmtiup*:

   	(1) all Punctuation chars turns Uprighted (no slant),
   	(2) corresponded italic corrections added as kerning;

	Replacement of cmsl* fonts fy cmslup* simplifies typesetting
	of articles where otherwise author or editor have to use
	additional tex commands to upright punctuation in slanted text
	with formulas and add appropriate kerns which may differ
	from italic correction.


License: LPPL (LaTeX Project Public License)

Contents:
    - METAFONT sources,
    - corresponding tfm files,
    - virtual font set to use type1 cm* fonts,
    - latex2e style file to switch from cmsl* to cmslup*.

----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed both packages as suggested in the
directories CTAN:fonts/cm/cmtiup/ and CTAN:fonts/cm/cmslup/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Mar  6 09:29:09 2003
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:34:48 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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@tug.ctan.org

=========================================================================

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:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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 
* Super fast editing of large files 
* Sophisticated BiBTeX editor
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Mar  8 06:40:23 2003
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 12:11:03 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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@tug.ctan.org

==============================================================

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:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar  8 18:01:13 2003
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:33:15 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Mar 11 06:51:15 2003
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:15:02 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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@tex.ac.uk

Robin Fairbairns

UK TeX FAQ maintainer

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=maillists+askquestion



From zierke@dante.de Tue Mar 11 12:58:57 2003
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:26:04 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Stra�e 93a
	  D-57223 Kreuztal (Germany)

and available under his Web page

        http://www.steffmann.de/english/index.htm

(follow the link to "Fonts").  That URL states:

"You may download [the fonts] for free and use them for personal
purposes."; my own files (all but the .pfb and .afm from the following
list) are public domain.

The files included in the distribution are:

        .pfb files:   PostScript Font Binary files;
        .afm files:   Adobe Font Metric files;
        .tfm files:   TeX Font Metric files, for LaTeX;
        .fd  files:   Font Description files, for LaTeX;
        config files: configuration files, for dvips;
        .map files:   font mapping files, for dvips;
        .tex files:   example files;
        .pdf files:   Portable Document Format output from the
                      above example files.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thank you very much for the upload.  I installed the package in the directory
CTAN:/tex-archive/nonfree/fonts/initials/ with a symbolic link from
tex-archive/fonts/initials/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Mar 11 13:02:15 2003
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:35:47 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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-S�ndenregister (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:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

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

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Mar 12 04:01:17 2003
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:26:14 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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

From zierke@dante.de Thu Mar 13 04:57:05 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:19:19 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission:  updated font metrics for Lucida Bright and LuxiMono

Walter Schmidt asked us to update two packages:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
it ;-)  However, I think that the Lucida font metrics 
should profit as soon as possible from the above-mentioned
improvements.  Note that the character widths are unchanged,
as compared with the previous release, so there should be no
compatibility problems.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have uploaded the files "README.luximono" and "ul9.zip" to the
/incoming directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please, move them to the
directory
           fonts/LuxiMono

thus replacing the current ones.  These are updated fonts metrics
and VFs for the LuxiMono typewriter fonts.  Recent improvements
to the "fontinst" tool made it possible to fix a long-standing 
deficiency of many typewriter fonts (incl. Luxi):  the asterisk 
symbols are now vertically centered, as required for typical 
applications.  The Type1 font files on CTAN remain, of course,
unchanged.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

I installed the new and changed files as suggested in the directories
CTAN:/fonts/metrics/bh/lucida/ and CTAN:fonts/LuxiMono/.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 13 15:56:29 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:26:28 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- tocbibind package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded tocbibind.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocbibind. The distribtion is under
> the LPPL. 
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The tocbibind package can be used to add the ToC and/or
> Bibliography and/or Index, etc., to the Table of Contents listing. 
> 
> Changes in version 1.5g (2003/03/13)
> o Fixed Bibliography page headings in twocolumn book class

i've install the files as requested.  thanks for the upload.

From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan@dante.de>

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Mar 14 15:19:03 2003
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:24:49 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new CTAN package: RST

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org.  It shoud make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org


=====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: RST
Author's name: David Reitter
Location on CTAN: nonfree/macros/latex/contrib/supported/rst
Summary description: Drawing rhetorical structure analysis diagrams in LaTeX
License type: nocommercial

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is of interest for people working in linguistics and language 
technology. 

Drawing rhetorical analyses is no fun when you need to change and update 
diagrams as you refine your work, or, more importantly, if a lot of analyses 
are to be drawn. Voila, there we go: This package enables us to typeset 
beautiful diagrams with no hassle. It is oriented towards the style of 
the diagrams shown in Mann&Thompson's Rhetorical Structure Theory and 
subsequent works. This package works perfectly with (LaTeX) and pdfLaTeX 
and does not require any special postscript capabilities in the output side. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar 15 03:37:46 2003
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 09:09:09 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: excludeonly 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I have just uploaded excludeonly.sty to ctan/uk.
> 
> What:    excludeonly.sty and excludeonly.xml
> Why:     Provides \excludeonly which is the opposite to \includeonly
> How:     PD
> Who:     Donald Arseneau and Dan Luecking
> Where:   macros/latex/contrib/other/misc

installed: as reqested.
xml-file:  going off to catalogue maintainer
thanks:    yeah.

responder: rf
for:       ctan team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Mar 16 16:42:55 2003
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:12:37 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Sumbission -- cmap package: create searchable PDF files 

Vladimir Volovich writes:

> I've uploaded the file cmap.tar.gz into the incoming directory of
> ftp.tex.ac.uk. It is a new (version 1.0a) "cmap" package.
> The license is LPPL.
> 
> The cmap package is to be used with pdf(e)latex and provides CMap
> files for various LaTeX font encodings (currently, T1, T2A, T2B, T2C,
> T5; this list will grow in the future) and a latex package which adds
> the /ToUnicode entries into the font dictionaries of fonts used in the
> document on the fly, making the resulting PDF files "searchable" and
> "cut-and-pasteable" in Acrobat Reader and other PDF previewers.
> 
> Thus, when the document uses Type 1 fonts like cm-super or other fonts
> in standard font encodings, teh PDF files will contain the additional
> information in the form of CMap entries which will define the mappings
> from LaTeX font encodings to Unicode, making functions like search in
> PDF and cut-and-paste from PDF to other applications work properly.
> 
> Please install it in the CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/cmap
> directory.
> 
> Contributions and/or requests for other font encodings support, as
> well as user feedback/bug reports are welcome.
> 
> P.S. currently, this package is mirrored to
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/t2/etc/cmap; i think that a more
> generic location in macros/latex/contrib/supported/cmap is better,
> since the package is of general use. i'll remove it from the T2
> package once it will be installed on
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/cmap

i've installed the package as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar 17 08:49:37 2003
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:09:13 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Omega list <omega@omega.cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [Omega] Omega stuff for Hindi 

Yannis Haralambous writes:

> Omega stuff for Hindi has been submitted to CTAN:
> 
> >-- mail the administrators (ctan@dante.de) to report:
> >   + what you've uploaded
> 
> omega-hindi.tgz
> 
> >   + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
> >   + where you want the files to go
> 
> language/devanagari/omega
> 
> >   + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
> >     below).
> 
> free (same status as Omega distribution)
> 
> >   + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> >   (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing)
> 
> These are the files described in our TUGboat paper at TUG India. With
> them you can typeset Devanagari texts with omega. More info in "Low-level
> Devanagari Support for Omega--Adapting devnag", TUGboat, Volume 23 (2002),
> No. 3--Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Meeting, pp. 49--55.

i've installed the files as requested (at cambridge).  they'll take
some time to get to the other two ctan nodes, but will probably be at
every ctan mirror within a small number of days.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Mar 17 12:23:20 2003
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:55:24 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: dvipng

A new packge has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should 
make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

========================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: dvipng
Author's name: Jan-�ke Larsson
Location on CTAN: dviware/dvipng
Summary description: A fast DVI to PNG converter
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and 
its relatives. Its benefits include 

* Speed. It is the fastest bitmap-rendering code for DVI files known to 
the author. On a fairly low-end laptop, it takes less than a second to 
generate 150 one-formula images. 

* It does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX finishes. 
There is a -follow switch that makes dvipng wait at EOF for further output, 
unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of the DVI. 

* It supports PK and VF fonts, color specials, and more. 

The motivation for this project is preview-latex, a previewing tool for 
LaTeX in emacs, but since dvipng can be independently useful, a separate 
package is provided. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Mar 18 08:25:16 2003
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:47:47 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: sffms

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org and the new version should
make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: sffms
Author's name: M. C. DeMarco
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/sffms/
Summary description: A LaTeX class for typesetting fiction manuscripts
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sffms, a LaTeX class for typesetting science fiction and fantasy manuscripts, 
has been updated to version 2.0.  Sffms now includes several options for 
specific publishers as well as extensive documentation aimed at new LaTeX 
users.  The code has been cleaned up for version 2.0 and the geometry 
package made optional.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Wed Mar 19 06:26:50 2003
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:52:39 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- minitoc update

----- Forwarded message from Jean-Pierre Drucbert -----
I have uploaded a new release of the minitoc package
(release #38) in /incoming of ftp.dante.de
under the name minitoc.tar.gz

The minitoc package allows to create mini-tables of contents
(and mini-LOFs/LOTs) by chapter (in books and reports), by
section (in arcticles) or by parts.

The licence is LPPL as before.

The location is as before:
    tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/minitoc
The new release replaces all files in that directory.

As the version number jumps from 34 to 38, there are a lot of
corrections, improvements (and perhaps bugs?) in the new
release. See below the historic of changes.

I am very grateful to all people who helped me by pointing
bugs, asking for new features, giving hints and solutions, or
for useful packages (placeins from Donald Arseneau).

Could you install this package to replace the current release
#34. Thanks a lot.

Best regards,

Jean-Pierre F. Drucbert
(who is ashamed to have left so much time pass away since
the preceeding update)

%   03Jan2001   Version 35
%   09Jan2001   Added macros to test if a file is ``empty''
%               (i.e. empty, blank or inexistent) or ``non
%               empty'' (i.e. useful).
%               I used some code from Stephan von Bechtolsheim.
%               Added the checkfiles/nocheckfiles options.
%               Replaced \The@chapter by \The@mtc.
%   26Feb2001   Added bulgarian.mld, hebrew.mld,
%               icelandic.mld, latin.mld, samin.mld.
%   09Mar2001   Added \mtcselectlanguage.
%   01Jun2001   Fixed estionian option (missing).
%   04Jul2001   Added interlingua language.
%
%   11Feb2002   Version 36
%   11Feb2002   Corrected an interaction with \tableofcontents
%               which creates a \chapter* or a \section*,
%               perturbing mtc/stc counters (problem signalled
%               by Frank Mittelbach).
%   18Feb2002   Corrected a spacing problem with empty titles
%               (problem signalled by Frank Mittelbach).
%               Workaround for the \parttoc-\chapter*
%               problem.
%   19Feb2002   Added \mtcskip and \mtcskipamount.
%   27Feb2002   Fixed test for empty files.
%   13Mar2002   Added bangla language.
%   15Mar2002   Reduced depth of \mtc@strutbox.
%
%   xxxxxxxxx   Version 37 canceled
%
%   24Jan2003   Version 38
%   24Jan2003   pt -> \p@ and 0pt -> \z@
%   24Jan2003   \hrule and \vrule replaced by \rule (latex)
%   24Jan2003   added \mtc@zrule for zero-dims rules 
%   28Jan2003   added frenchb language (synonym of french)
%   30Jan2003   changed test for empty titles
%   30Jan2003   added options flsection and flsectionb
%   31Jan2003   option tight applies to \parttoc
%               (Thomas Leonhardt leonhardt@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de)
%   07Feb2003   options flsection and flsectionb removed,
%   07Feb2003   replaced by insection option (=flsectionb).
%   11Feb2003   corrected numbering of SLF, SLT
%   20Feb2003   added frenchle and frenchpro languages (synonym of french)
%   20Feb2003   corrected secttocs, at least.
%   18Mar2003   corrected some vertical spacings and struts
%               (I added some mods by Frank Mittelbach, many
%               thanks to him.)
%               A lot of cleaning remains to do, but the
%               release seems to be needed now.
%   Jean-Pierre F. Drucbert
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old version
in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/minitoc/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Fri Mar 21 08:19:12 2003
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:44:02 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Prosper update

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:20:58PM +0100, Mathieu Goutelle wrote:
> I have uploaded a brand new version of the prosper class, to update the 
> quite old (and a little buggy) one on CTAN. This update is done with 
> full permission from the developer of Prosper (Frederic Gouarlard), 
> whose spare time doesn't allow to do this himself.
> 
> Here are the informations about the upload:
> >   + what you've uploaded
> 
> /incoming/prosper.tar.gz
> 
> >   + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> dante.ctan.org
> 
> >   + where you want the files to go
> 
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/prosper (unchanged)
> 
> >   + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
> >     below).
> 
> LPPL (LaTeX Project Public License)
> 
> >   + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> >   (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing)
> 
> This is an update of the prosper class (slides using LaTeX), written by 
> Fr�d�ric Goualard. There is a lot of changes and bugs fixes since the 
> last version committed to CTAN (see ChangeLog file for further details).

Thanks for the update.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/prosper

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Mar 21 10:26:45 2003
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:47:56 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: Kerkis Font Family

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Kerkis Font Family
Author's name: Antonis Tsolomitis
Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/greek/kerkis
Summary description: Kerkis Font Family with complete Greek support
License type: other

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
New version of the Kerkis Font Family. Complete support of 
polytonic greek in all shapes and series. Initial release of 
KerkisSans. Polytonic support for KerkisSans included as well.  
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Tue Mar 25 03:56:45 2003
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:17:50 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- l2tabu

----- Forwarded message from Mark Trettin -----
I have uploaded `l2tabu-1.2.tar.gz' (l2tabu.{pdf,tex}, Version 1.2)
to ftp.dante.de/incoming/

Name of contribution: Das LaTeX-S�ndenregister (sins of LaTeX users)

Suggested location on CTAN: info/german/l2tabu/

Summary description: Obsolete commands, packages and other common
                     mistakes

License type: Free (Open Publication License v1.0)

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.

Changes: * License changed to Open Publication License
         * Fixed typos
         * Changed name from `altepakete' to `l2tabu' since it is more
           descriptive.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Please remove the files and the directory CTAN:info/german/altepakete/
and untar the archive to CTAN:info/german/l2tabu/
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in CTAN:info/german/l2tabu/
and removed the previous version CTAN:info/german/altepakete/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Mar 25 03:56:56 2003
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:25:22 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- evweek & evautofl

----- Forwarded message from Emanuele Vicentini -----
I've uploaded in incoming/ two small tarballs: an update of evweek class
(macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/contrib) and evautofl, a
spinn-off/bugfix of autofilo.sty of LaTeX Calendar Bundle. Licese is lppl.

I'd put evweek.{dtx,ins} in macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/contrib
to replace previous version; evautofl.{dtx,ins} could be put there too.

Here's the summary:

evweek.cls is a small extension of weekly.cls, the class for the weekly
calendar format of the LaTeX Calendar Bundle. In this release I've added
support for use of evautofl

evautofl.sty is a spin-off of autofilo.sty; the code has been hacked to
separate the two columns making the page in autofilo, so now it's possibile
to use ps2ps to put more than one single page on a sheet and print your
calendar saving a lot of paper.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  As you suggested, I installed both the evweek
update and the new evautofl package in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/contrib/

The license in LPPL.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Mar 25 03:57:05 2003
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:30:14 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update -- multibib v1.2

----- Forwarded message from Thorsten Hansen -----
I have just uploaded version 1.2 of multibib.
 
--  uploaded file: multibib-v1.2.tar.gz
--  uploaded to CTAN node: dante.ctan.org (ftp.dante.de)
--  recommended place: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/multibib
--  licensing condition: lppl
--  brief summary:
    The `multibib' package allows to create references to multiple
    bibliographies within one document. It thus provides a complementary
    functionality to packages like `bibunits' or `chapterbib', which allow
    to create one bibliography for multiple, but different parts of the
    document.
 
    Changes to version 1.1 include
    . enhanced compatibility to natbib and KOMA-SCRIPT classes
    . various small bug fixes
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/multibib/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Mar 25 03:58:24 2003
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:43:46 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 5.30 - OpenType/OTF supported

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 5.30 (issued 23-Mar-2003).

Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

Most important new features:
  1) Comrehensive support for *OpenType fonts with Postscript outlines (OTF)*.
     Supported: Font Setup Wizard, Generating PDF and Postscript, 
     Preview and Print under any Windows system (including 9x and NT 4.0).
  2) Generation of PDF files with enabled searh and copy-paste of text 
     with international (for example cyrillic) characters.
     See `Support Copy-Paste and Search in PDF files' in PDF generation dialog.
     The feature is implemented via embeding ToUnicode CMAPs.

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
24-Mar-2003

PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.30 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * HTML Generation features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.30
   
For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95

HIGHLIGHTS

 * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
   of the file being edited. 
   (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
 * PostScript enabled TeX system.
** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Font Setup Wizard installs Postscript/TrueType fonts almost in one click
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
 * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 
GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, 
FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts: 
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.

Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
Postscript Type 1 and TrueType fonts in one click.

USER INTERFACE

* Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
  It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, 
  when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, 
  mathematics, pictures, etc.
* Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen 
  for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents: 
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
* Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
    correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
    configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
* Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
* Support for Multi-User systems.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF,
* HTML.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

HTML GENERATION FEATURES

 BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 documents into HTML files.
  * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch 
     `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
  * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert 
     pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
     pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, 
     such as slides.

 In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of 
 `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.

 Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 into generated HTML pages.
 
*** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.30 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.25 ***

 Fonts - Support for OpenType fonts with Postscript outlines (OTF).
 -----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 BaKoMa TeX 5.30 includes support for OpenType fonts with Postscript outlines,
 whose have extension `OTF' (in following they are called OTF-fonts,
 to avoid mixing with OpenType fonts with TrueType outlines).

 To install `OTF-fonts' under BaKoMa TeX user can use
 Font Setup Wizard available via:
   `Options|Install OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript fonts for (La)TeX'
    text editor menu command.
 The wizard properly do configuring fonts, generating proper TFM files;
 and creating/updating LaTeX Font Definition (FD) files.
 In other words, it enables using your OTF-fonts for LaTeX documents
 in almost one-click.

 Advanced feature of BaKoMa TeX is that OTF-fonts may be used
 also under Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0 (even without ATM installed)
 for preview and print on any Windows supported printer.

 OTF-fonts are properly used for generating PDF and Postscript files.

 Another improvements in Font Setup Wizard
 * Improved updating of FD-files: handling `\endinput', copying modified files
   to LOCAL tree, that avoids forgetting user fonts added to common FD-files.
 * `Win 9x skewing support' - new option in Font Setup Wizard.
    It enables work around for displaying slanted fonts under Windows 95/98.
    Commonly, this option is checked automatically, when it is needed.

 PDF - Searchable PDF (ToUnicode CMAPs)
 --------------------------------------
 
 BaKoMa TeX 5.30 can generate PDF files that permite search and copy-paste
 of text with international (for example cyrillic) characters.
 This feature may be enabled by `Support Copy-Paste and Search in PDF files'
 option available in PDF generation dialog.

  This feature is implemented via embeding into PDF file ToUnicode CMAPs,
  whose map characters of every text font to unicode codes.
  These CMAPs are generated automatically from font encodings.
  In this reason, this feature works for fonts with custom encodings.
  It works without any additional packages.

 Other Improvements
 ------------------

 * `Insert|Indexing Stuffs' lets you choose Index Style for current document.
    In advance, it forces automatical running of MakeIndex after every TeXing,
    and marking inserted commands with bookmark #9.

For more information about changes see
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload;  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/
replacing the old version.

License: BaKoMa is shareware.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Mar 25 16:16:24 2003
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:45:25 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: Formatting Information: a beginner's guide to LaTeX

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Formatting Information: a beginner's guide to LaTeX
Author's name: Peter Flynn 
Location on CTAN: info/beginlatex
Summary description: Teach yourself basic LaTeX in 10 sessions
License type: lgpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a major revision of the Beginners' Guide which
has been hosted until now on my own site. It is now
available in HTML as well as PDF and PS formats, and
full GNU FDL source is available with images (warning: 
40Mb uncompressed). Please mail corrections to 
info@silmaril.ie
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Mar 26 16:48:21 2003
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:15:22 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new CTAN package: mps2eps

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make its
way to a mirror near you real soon now.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==========================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: mps2eps
Author's name: Jon Edvardsson
Location on CTAN: support/mps2eps
Summary description: MPS2EPS converts a MetaPost output file (.mps) to a 
  self-contained EPS file
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Having a problem with your MetaPost pictures? Symbols missing when pictures 
are included in your LaTeX document? Should you use "prologues := 1" or not? 
Well then MPS2EPS is a file converter for you!
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Fri Mar 28 06:27:56 2003
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:47:50 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- CJK version 4.5.2

----- Forwarded message from Werner LEMBERG -----
I've uploaded the archives

  cjk-4.5.2.tar.gz
  cjk-4.5.2-doc.tar.gz

to ftp.dante.de/incoming.  Please replace the old CJK version in
language/chinese/CJK with the new one.  In the archive, the top
directory is called cjk-4.5.2 -- maybe it is better to rename this to
4_5.2 as with the previous archive.

The archive cjk-4.5.2-doc.tar.gz should not be unpacked.

Below is a proper announcement.

Thanks in advance.

     Werner

======================================================================


CJK 4.5.2
=========

CJK 4.5.2 is available from ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/language/chinese/CJK
and other CTAN hosts and its mirrors.  Following the CTAN rules, the source
files of CJK are unpacked.  Additionally, the archive CJK-4.5.2-doc.tar.gz
is available which provides some CJK documentation and example files in
various output formats.

Current development snapshots (updated twice a day) are available from
ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/cjk/devel/.

Bug reports should go to cjk-bug@ffii.org.


CJK is a macro package for LaTeX, providing simultaneous support for various
Asian scripts in many encodings (including Unicode):

  Chinese (both traditional and simplified)
  Japanese
  Korean
  Thai

A special add-on feature is an interface to the Emacs editor (cjk-enc.el)
which gives simultaneous, easy-to-use support to a bunch of other scripts in
addition to the above:

  Cyrillic
  Greek
  Latin-based scripts
  Russian
  Vietnamese

See below for the relevant snippet from the history file.

Enjoy!


   Werner


======================================================================

Version 4.5.2:  new:
28-Mar-2003         The new macro \CJKnohwkatakana prevents the use of the
                      C49 encoding for half-width katakana; instead, the
                      characters are mapped to full-width glyphs.  The
                      opposite command is \CJKhwkatakana (the default).

                    Improved support for pseudo-vertical typesetting.

                      . CJKvert.sty provides new commands \CJKvert (the
                        default) and \CJKhorz to toggle pseudo-vertical
                        typesetting.

                      . After loading CJKvert.sty, LaTeX reads file
                        `<foo>.fdv' (if it exists) immediately after reading
                        `<foo>.fd'.  Such a file contains additional
                        information how to typeset a font vertically.  Most
                        importantly, outline fonts can be configured so that
                        they are rotated with the graphicx package, making
                        it work with both dvips and pdfTeX.  See
                        `vertical.doc' for more information.

                errors:
                    \CJKchar sometimes didn't accept 7bit representations.

                    pinyin.sty:
                      Added missing syllables \chua, \den, \rua.
                      Make it work properly in tables.

                    contrib/wadalab:
                      Older versions of the `makefont' script produce bad
                      hints for all Wadalab fonts. Either use the new
                      version to regenerate all fonts or use the new script
                      `fixwada' to correct fonts created with an old version
                      of `makefont'.

                    EUC-TW.chr: Make it really work.

----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:language/chinese/CJK/ and the documentation in
CTAN:language/chinese/cjk-4.5.2-doc.tar.gz, replacing the old version 4.5.1.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Fri Mar 28 07:51:48 2003
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:00:27 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload -- Font Installation Guide

----- Forwarded message from Philipp Lehman -----
I've uploaded the file 'ltxfonts.pdf' to the incoming directory on 
ftp.dante.de. This is the initial upload. I suggest to create the new 
subdirectory 'info/Type1/fontguide/' and moving ltxfonts.pdf into 
this directory. Thank you in advance.

For the catalogue:

ltxfonts.pdf - The Font Installation Guide

The font installation guide discusses the most common scenarios you 
are likely to encounter when installing Type1 Postscript fonts. While 
the individual tools employed in the installation process are 
documented well, the actual difficulty most users are facing when 
trying to install new fonts is understanding how to put all the 
pieces together. This is what this guide is about.
----- End of forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  After some internal discussion we installed this
document as CTAN:info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide.pdf

This is my first try at an XML Catalogue entry; I hope it is correct
(The license type gfdl doesn't fit with the current dtd but this will
probably be adapted soon):

***************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="The Font Installation Guide"
       datestamp="2003/03/28"
       modifier="zierke@dante.de">
  <about>
    <name>The Font Installation Guide</name>
    <caption>Using PostScript fonts to their full potential with LaTeX</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Philipp Lehman</name>
      <email>lehman@gmx.net</email>
    </author>
    <license type="gfdl" />
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      The font installation guide discusses the most common scenarios you
      are likely to encounter when installing Type1 Postscript fonts. While
      the individual tools employed in the installation process are
      documented well, the actual difficulty most users are facing when
      trying to install new fonts is understanding how to put all the
      pieces together. This is what this guide is about.
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide.pdf</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
***************************************************************

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Mar 28 10:02:55 2003
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:06:58 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: booktabs

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org 

================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: booktabs
Author's name: Simon Fear  (patch by Danie Els)
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/booktabs
Summary description: publication quality tables
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The booktabs package provides some additional commands to enhance the 
quality of tables in LaTeX. Guidelines are given as to what constitutes 
a good table in this context.

This is a patched version of booktabs. The original author, Simon Fear, 
could not be contacted or reached in any other way up to now. This patch 
was submitted on behalf of the wide group users of this very useful package. 
All changes were properly documented.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Mar 28 10:02:56 2003
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:09:13 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package: apacite

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

Thanks for the update,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: apacite
Author's name: Erik Meijer
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/apacite
Summary description: citation style following rules of  American 
  Psychological Assoc.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Update of apacite LaTeX/BibTeX citation package that attempts to implement 
the rules of the American Psychological Association.  Still work in 
progress, but a big step forward from the 1994 version. Main changes: author 
indexing facility, additional code for compatibility with babel/backref/natbib.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Mar 30 17:04:00 2003
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:31:36 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ledmac package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded ledmac.tar.gz to UK incoming. The distribution
> is under the LPPL. 
> 
> From the README:
>     The ledmac package is for typesetting critical editions. It is a
> LaTeX port of the plain TeX EDMAC macros. 
> 
> version 0.1 (2003/03/25) first public experimental release.
> 
>     I don't know where this would best go on CTAN as it is
> definitely experimental, but hopefuly robust in the sense that any
> bugs will be repeatable. All I can say is that it processed the four
> EDMAC example files I tried. If there is a `tryout' area perhaps it
> should go there, otherwise in macros/latex/contrib/supported. 

i've installed the stuff; thanks for the upload.

faut de mieux, the directory is now macros/latex/contrib/supported/ledmac

sorry about the delay.  other mail to you seems blocked, and i've only
just put two and two together about my mail about positioning...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Apr  2 02:59:26 2003
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:24:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Jens Weissenburger <jens@weissenburger.de>
Subject: Re: MiKTeX-WinEdt-TrueType-Anleitung

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jens Weissenburger wrote:

> I have uploaded the file MiKTeX-WinEdt-TrueType-Anleitung.zip to the
> /incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.
> The content of the archive should replace
> /tex-archive/info/german/MiKTeX-WinEdt-TrueType-Anleitung
>
> It is an update to the most up-to-date versions of the described
> software.
>
> *********************************************************************
> I think the most interesting part of this guidance is the German
> version of Damir Rakityansky page "Using TrueType fonts with TeX
> (LaTeX) and pdfTeX (pdfLaTeX)". The other sections describe the co-
> operation of MiKTeX with WinEdt.
> *********************************************************************

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  info/german/MiKTeX-WinEdt-TrueType-Anleitung

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Apr  2 02:59:23 2003
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:29:21 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Maksym Polyakov <polyama@auburn.edu>
Subject: Re: Ukrainian translation of lshort v 4.11

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Maksym Polyakov wrote:

> I have uploaded to  ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/lshort-ukrainian
>
>
>  Ukrainian translation of 'Not so short introduction to LaTeX',
> updated to v. 4.11
>
>  files
>    lshort-ukr-4.11.src.tar.gz
>    lshort-ukr.dvi
>    lshort-ukr.pdf
>    lshort-ukr.ps.gz
>
>  Files should be placed to
>  CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/ukrainian

Thank you for the update, I installed the files as requested,

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Apr  2 03:03:38 2003
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:34:28 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Maurizio Loreti <loreti@pd.infn.it>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Maurizio Loreti wrote:

> + 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
>   the archive files should replace the ones actually in the directory
>   tex-archive/nonfree/fonts/initials/
>
> + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
>   the .pfb and .afm files are freely usable for personal (non commercial)
>   use; the other files are public domain.
>
> + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>   this is an update of the previous collection of fonts for decorative
>   initials (a.k.a. dropped capitals) and of the related service files that
>   allow their use with LaTeX.  now 23 different fonts are included.  From
>   the distribution README file:
>
> > 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 <dieter@steffmann.de>
> >      Marburger Stra�e 93a, D-57223 Kreuztal (Germany)
> >
> > and available under his Web page
> >
> >         http://www.steffmann.de/english/index.htm
> >
> > (follow the link to "Fonts").  That URL states:
> >
> > "You may download [the fonts] for free and use them for personal
> > purposes."

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  nonfree/fonts/initials

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Apr  2 03:13:45 2003
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 11:06:49 +0200 (CEST)
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- germbib bst files

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Harald Harders wrote:

> I have uploaded the file germbib-bst.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It containes
> the bibtex styles gerabbrv.bst, geralpha.bst, gerplain.bst, and
> gerunsrt.bst.
> Please replace the old files in CTAN:biblio/bibtex/contrib/germbib/bst/.
> License stays whatever it was before.
>
> This is a bug fix. It enables these styles to detect the author or editor
> name "others" in order to replace it by "et al.".

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

   CTAN:biblio/bibtex/contrib/germbib/bst/

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Sat Apr  5 02:16:05 2003
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 09:27:06 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload -- ltabptch.sty

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: ltabptch.sty
Name and email: Uwe L"uck
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/
Summary description: longtable patch, tools/3485, tools/3180
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
longtable.sty (David Carlisle, tools) inserts wrong spaces 
above & below the table---bug report tools/3485, cf.  tools/3180. This is corrected by the present patch. 
(DPC was busy and has not yet told what he thinks about it.) 
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/ltabptch/ltabptch.sty

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sat Apr  5 02:17:33 2003
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 09:32:37 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload -- Ednotes

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: Ednotes
Name and email: Uwe L"uck <uwe.lueck@web.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/ 
Summary description: "critical edition", "line numbers", "layers of footnotes"
License type: LPPL

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
These packages offer macros for critical edition 
typesetting with LaTeX (cf. EDMAC/LEDMAC). Packages 
`lineno.sty' by Stephan I. B"ottcher and `manyfoot.sty' 
by Alexander Rozhenko are enhanced and combined. 
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed your package in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/ednotes

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sat Apr  5 02:22:17 2003
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 09:36:36 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- fnbreak.sty

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded the file fnbreak.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the
package fnbreak.sty (and an xml file for the catalogue).
License is LPPL. Please put the contents of the archive to
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/fnbreak

>From the README:

This package detects footnotes that are split over several pages. It
writes a warning into the log file.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/fnbreak

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sat Apr  5 02:16:41 2003
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 09:39:34 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload -- ncctools 2.05

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: ncctools
Name and email: Alexander I Rozhenko
Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/supported/ncctools
Summary description: New release 2.05 of the NCCTOOLS bundle
License type: Free

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
New version of manyfoot package released in this bundle: more service and compatibily added. Selection of custom footnote rules added. Perpage footnote numbering option added.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
old version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/ncctools

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Apr  7 08:37:26 2003
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 12:55:16 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: eps2pdf uploaded 

Nikola Jaksic writes:

> I've just uploaded eps2pdf application into: ../incoming/eps2pdf
> directory at ftp.tex.ac.uk node.
> 
> There you will find two files eps2pdf.zip and eps2pdf.readme.
> 
> Please copy this new version over the old one into
> ../support/eps2pdf directory. 
> 
> As stated in eps2pdf.readme file this is public domain completly
> free software intended to make conversion from eps to pdf file as
> easy as possible. 
> 
> Can you supply the eps2pdf application with the catalogue's entry?
> See the text bellow! 
> 
> In short:
> 
> Contribution's name: eps2pdf
> My name: Nikola Jaksic (in LaTeX code: Nikola Jak\v{s}i\'{c})
> My mail: nikola.jaksic@fs.uni-lj.si
> Summary: Eps2pdf is an application that makes eps to pdf file(s)
>          conversion easier.
> Catalogue text:
> The eps2pdf is a GUI shell that makes conversion of the EPS file(s) 
> into the PDF one(s) easier. The actual conversion is carried out by 
> the GhostScript. The eps2pdf makes everything clikable, enables you 
> to search for eps files and add them into the list, enables you to 
> select directory and add all eps files into the list, enables you 
> to edit the list of eps files prior conversion, enables you to 
> convert all files in the list, alerts you if conversion failed, 
> doesn't need GhostScript exe file in the PATH variable, can search 
> for GhostScript exe file, can handle long filenames with spaces, 
> enables you to edit and store configuration, makes batch mode 
> available with full functionality, enables the EPS preview and
> enables the use of the windows Shell command. 
> 
> 
> Please, feel free to contact me, if something else is needed.

i've installed the new version in support/eps2pdf, as requested.
thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Apr  7 08:39:32 2003
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 13:17:57 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pbox 

my upload daemon doth wink slyly and saith:

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20030407.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: pbox
> Name and email: Simon Law
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/supported/pbox/
> Summary description: A variable-width \parbox
> License type: GNU Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The \pbox command is a variable-width version of the \parbox
> command, but the specified width is the maximum value.  The box
> tries to be just as wide as its actual contents.  As well, this
> package provides commands to determine a \pbox's width.
> 
> If you are looking for a variable-width minipage, try the varwidth package.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i've installed the package as directory
macros/latex/contrib/supported/pbox; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Apr  8 16:00:49 2003
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:22:44 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-15] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Basil K. Malyshev <malyshev@mx.ihep.su>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 5.35 - Expert fonts

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

 > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
 > update for BaKoMa TeX 5.35 (issued 7-Apr-2003).
 >
 > Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
 >
 > This version has Patch status and may be freely installed by
 > holders of NON-UPGRADABLE license for BaKoMa TeX 5.30.
 >
 > Main improvement is support of Expert fonts by Font Setup Wizard:
 > `small caps', `old style figures', and other glyphs from Expert encoding.
 > In advance, for OpenType and TrueType fonts direct access to TS1 glyphs
 > (such as `Euro') is supported.
 >
 >
 > Bye.
 > Basil K. Malyshev
 > 8-Apr-2003

Thanks for the update, I installed the files in the

  nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma

subtree.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


 > --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.35 ----------------------
 >
 > CONTENTS
 >    * Highlights
 >    * Graphical Capabilities
 >    * Fonts
 >    * User Interface
 >    * PDF Generation Features
 >    * HTML Generation features
 >    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.35
 >
 > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
 >    <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95
 >
 > HIGHLIGHTS
 >
 >  * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system.
 >  * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
 >    of the file being edited.
 >    (like to Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
 > ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
 > ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
 >  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
 >    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 >  * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
 >    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 >  * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click
 >  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 >  * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
 >  * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 >  * Easy to install and use.
 >  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 >
 > GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
 > which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
 > software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0,
 > Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw,
 > FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
 >
 > All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible
 > with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
 > embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).
 >
 > The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
 >    PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.
 >
 > FONTS
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 >  * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
 >  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters),
 >  * PostScript Type 3,
 >  * TrueType,
 >  * TeX PK/VF.
 >
 > The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
 > and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 >  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 >  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 >  * EC/TC,
 >  * LH (T2A),
 >  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 >  * Malvern,
 >  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 >  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 >  Math Fonts:
 >  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 >  Diagram drawing fonts:
 >  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase),
 >  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd),
 >  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
 >
 > Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
 > This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
 > between font formats when needed.
 > This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
 > On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
 > for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
 >
 > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts
 > available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.
 >
 > Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
 > OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click.
 >
 > OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0
 > even without ATM.
 >
 > USER INTERFACE
 >
 > * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
 >   It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly,
 >   when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs,
 >   mathematics, pictures, etc.
 > * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen
 >   for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
 > * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
 > * Quick navigation via document structure,
 > * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
 > * Powerful support for different input encodings,
 > * Project support,
 > * Graphics import assistant,
 > * Assitance for multi-file documents:
 >   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
 > * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
 > * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
 > * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
 > * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
 > * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
 > * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
 >     correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
 >     configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
 > * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
 > * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
 > * Support for Multi-User systems.
 >
 > OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
 >
 > * View on Windows Display.
 > * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
 > * PostScript (really scalable),
 > * PDF,
 > * HTML.
 >
 > Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
 > for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
 > may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical
 > capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
 >
 > PDF GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 > * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
 > * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
 >   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
 > * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
 > * Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste
 >   of cyrillic and other international characters.
 > * Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
 >
 > HTML GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 >  BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 >  documents into HTML files.
 >   * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch
 >      `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
 >   * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert
 >      pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
 >      pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics,
 >      such as slides.
 >
 >  In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 >  Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of
 >  `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.
 >
 >  Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 >  In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 >  into generated HTML pages.
 >
 > *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.35 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.30 ***
 >
 >   Main improvement is support of Expert fonts by Font Setup Wizard:
 >   `small caps', `old style figures', and other glyphs from Expert encoding.
 >   In advance, for OpenType and TrueType fonts direct access to TS1 glyphs
 >   (such as `Euro') is supported.
 >
 >   Fonts with glyphs from expert encoding are generated with suffixes:
 >   9e (T1), 9t (OT1), and 9c (TS1). Conventionally, these fonts are accessed
 >   via LaTeX font family with suffix `x'. So, for example, to access expert
 >   fonts, you must use `\fontfamily{padx}' instead of `\fontfamily{pad}'.
 >
 > NOTE:
 >   ATM compatible (PFB/PFA) expert fonts comes in two font files.
 >   First have standard encoding, and second has Expert encoding.
 >   For such fonts installation order is important. Font with expert
 >   encoding should be installed after font with standard encoding.
 >   In other case expert encodings T1 (*9e), OT1 (*9t), and TS1 (*9c)
 >   will be missed.
 >
 > For more information about changes see
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
 >
 > ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

From zierke@dante.de Wed Apr  9 05:49:22 2003
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 11:17:02 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Submission -- tabvar

----- Forwarded message from Daniel Flipo -----
I have just uploaded into ftp.dante.de/incoming a file tabvar.tgz,
which contains a first beta release (v. 0.8) of the `tabvar' package 
designed to typeset tables of variations of functions.

The license is LPPL.
It should be unpacked in 'macros/latex/supported/'

Extract from the README file:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
This LaTeX package is meant to ease the typesetting of tables showing
variations of functions as they are used in France. 
The documentation is in French.

Listing of the package:
-- source : tabvar.dtx tabvar.ins tabvar.mp and 00README (this file)
-- font: tabvar.afm tabvar.tfm tabvar.pfb  tabvar.map
-- inputs: tabvar.sty tabvar.cfg tabvar.1 tabvar.2 tabvar.3
-- doc: tabvar.pdf demo.pdf demo.tex

Have a look at the PDF file demo.pdf in the doc directory, to have
a quick overview of how to use this package.
The complete documentation of the commands provided is in tabvar.pdf.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new package in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/tabvar/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Apr  9 05:55:34 2003
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 11:26:55 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- statistik

----- Forwarded message from Michael Niedermair -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030406.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Statistik
Name and email: Michael Niedermair <m.g.n@gmx.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: /tex/latex/misc
Summary description: Erstellen einer Kapitelstatistik
License type: Free - Public Domain

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Mit dem Paket werden die Seitenzahlen jedes Kapitels (mit Kapitelnummer und Kapiteltext) in eine externe Datei geschrieben. Dabei k�nnen verschiedene LaTeX-Dateien sowie CSV bzw. XML-Dateien erzeugt werden.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new package in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/statistik/

The package is documented in German only.  An English translation of the
above announcement text is:

  This package writes the page numbers of each chapter (plus chapter number
  and title) into an external file.  Several kinds of LaTeX files, CSV and
  XML files can be produced.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Apr 10 05:51:15 2003
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:08:12 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload -- mpsproof.tex

----- Forwarded message from Daniel Luecking -----
Name of contribution: mpsproof.tex
Name and email: Daniel Luecking
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/plain/misc  OR(?) graphics/metapost/contrib/misc
Summary description: Modified version of mproof.tex that works with pdftex or tex
License type: Public Domain

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The file mpsproof.tex can be used just like mproof.tex
to produce proofs of Metapost figures. The difference is
that it works with either pdftex or tex.  
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed your file in
CTAN:graphics/metapost/contrib/misc/mpsproof.tex

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Apr 10 09:36:58 2003
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:31:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Changes in the structure of CTAN

The CTAN team are working to improve searching and browsing of CTAN.

The first visible steps will include a large number of directory
moves.  Over the next few days, the directories

  macros/latex/contrib/(other|supported)

are going to disappear, and their contents will move to

  macros/latex/contrib

We believe this will increase clarity, since there has in practice
been no discernible difference between the two sub-trees apart from
content.

The moves have already started; contrib/other/misc and
contrib/supported/misc have been merged and moved to contrib/misc.
Whenever new packages are submitted from now on, they will go direct
into subdirectories of contrib/ (two such have appeared so far).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Apr 10 15:48:04 2003
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:18:58 +0200
From: "[iso-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w-a-schmidt@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung v2.3, now under GFDL

Walter Schmidt schrieb:

> I have uploaded the zip archive l2kurz.zip to the /incoming
> directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please, move its contents to
> the CTAN directory info/lshort/german/.  Doing so will replace
> the present files (except the empty "latex2e-kurzbeschreibung")
> and add one new file.
>
> This is version 2.3 of the German LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung.
> Main news is, that the document is now released under the
> GNU Free Documentation License.
>
> Apart from the license, there are only minor changes and
> updates; see the file CHANGES.  (A major revision is due
> after the release of the next LaTeX2e only.)

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   info/lshort/german

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Apr 12 05:09:50 2003
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 09:23:34 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload to ctan 

Eitan Gurari writes:

>    + what you've uploaded
> 
> tex4ht-mn.zip
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
>    + where you want the files to go
> 
> /tex-archive/support/TeX4ht/
> 
> please remove old tex4ht.zip from that directory
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
> 
> lppl            LaTeX Project Public Licence
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
> An updated version of tex4ht

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Apr 12 14:46:44 2003
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:13:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-15] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w-a-schmidt@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- URW PostScript Base35 fonts

On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file base35.tgz to the /incoming
 > directory at dante.ctan.org.  Its contents should go into
 > a new directory:
 >
 >         fonts/urw/base35
 >
 > The upload occurs in accordance with the suggestions by
 > Staszek Wawrykiewicz <staw@gust.org.pl>.
 >
 > These are URW's PostScript Base fonts, which are provided
 > under the GPL and usually distributed in conjunction with
 > Ghostscript.  As far as TeX is concerned, pdfTeX and other
 > applications need them as drop-in replacements for Adobe's
 > non-free original Base fonts.  For several reasons they
 > should, from now on, be kept on CTAN also as a collection of
 > their own:
 >
 > * There exists already at least one collection of these
 > fonts with incompatible extensions (or bugs?) but unchanged
 > file names, so we need a "reference" distribution, which is
 > known to work with TeX applications as usual.
 >
 > * In the present collection a long-standing bug of URW's
 > Helvetica fonts - the wrong germandls - has been corrected.
 > Many thanks to Primoz Peterlin, who did the work!  (All
 > other font files are exactly the same as in GNU Ghostscript
 > 7.x and 8.00.)  Note that the bug fix has not yet found its
 > way into the Ghostscript distribution, but this should
 > happen soon:  Primoz Peterlin has contacted the GS
 > maintainers.
 >
 > * In the present collection all files are already named
 > according to the Karl-Berry scheme.
 >
 > See the file README.base35 for more information.

Thanks for the upload. We took the liberty to put the different types of
files (pfb,pfm,afm) into separate subdirectories in

   fonts/urw/base35

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Apr 14 12:55:25 2003
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:22:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Matthias Eckermann <mge@suse.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- parallel-package

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Matthias Eckermann wrote:

> I just uploaded an update to my 'parallel'-package to ftp.dante.de
> /incoming/parallel.
>
> Please remove all old files in
> /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/parallel/
> and put the new files (from /incoming/parallel/*) there.
>
> The most important change of this beta-4 release is the switch to LPPL.  Thanks
> to Frank Mittelbach for some minor enhancements.
>
> In /incoming/parallel there is:
>
> -rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server      1854 Nov 10  1997 README
> -rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server     36339 Nov 10  1997 parallel.dtx
> -rw-rw-r--   1 Mr.Ftp   server      1578 Nov 10  1997 parallel.ins

> [...]

> What is it
> -----------
>
> The PARALLEL-package provides a small tool to typeset in two columns
> or on two pages parallel, e.g. if you want to set two languages besides.
>
> Please remember: this is only an ``interim-public-beta'' until I'll
> have finished the complete documentation, the code should be fine.
>
> date/release: parallel beta 4 $Date: 2003/04/13 16:54:40 $
> primary site: CTAN /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/parallel/
>
>
> Installation
> ------------
>
> (You need LateX2e)
> 1) Run latex on "parallel.ins" and three times on "parallel.drv".
> 2) Put "parallel.sty" where latex can find it.
> 3) View and/or print "parallel.dvi", latex the "exampl*.tex", if you want.
>
>
> Author & Thanks
> ---------------
>
> Matthias Eckermann (mge), Berlin, Germany, mge@arcor.de, mge@suse.de
> - debugging     :   Bernd Raichle (br), Stuttgart, Germany
> - contributions :   Wonkoo Kim (wk), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
> 	  	    Frank Mittelbach, Mainz, Germany
>
>
> Disclaimer/ License
> -------------------
>
> This file is part of the 'parallel'-package
>
> Copyright (c) 1994-2003 Matthias Eckermann
>
> This program may be distributed and/or modified under the
> conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.2
> of this license or (at your option) any later version.
> The latest version of this license is in
>   http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
> and version 1.2 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
> version 1999/12/01 or later.
>
> This program consists of the files parallel.dtx, parallel.ins, readme

Thanks for the update. I installed the files in

   macros/latex/contrib/parallel

Please note that this is a new location; the old one in

   macros/latex/contrib/supported/parallel

is no longer correct.

(The CTAN Team announced last week that the "supported" and "other"
directory will be deleted and everything moved up one level.)

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Apr 15 16:33:07 2003
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:00:25 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New package on CTAN: cm-lgc

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and has by now
made its way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: cm-lgc
Author's name: Alexej Kryukov
Location on CTAN: fonts/ps-type1/cm-lgc
Summary description: Set of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic fonts converted from the METAFONT sources
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The CM-LGC package contains Type 1 fonts converted from METAFONT sources of 
the Computer Modern font families. The following encodings are supported: 
T1, T2A (Cyrillic), LGR (Greek) and TS1. However, pfb files itself are in 
standard (non-TeX) encodings, so that they are suitable for any WYSIWYG 
application. The Greek fonts (based on the CB Greek package) provides 
type 1 versions for Greek Computer Modern family. The package includes also 
Unicode virtual fonts for use with Omega/Lambda.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Wed Apr 16 05:09:06 2003
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:39:10 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- babelbib package

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded babelbib.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
It contains a new package which could be a replacement to germbib.
Thus, I am not sure where it should go on CTAN. Either
    CTAN:biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib
or
    CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/babelbib
License ist LPPL.

>From the README:

Multilingual bibliographies: The babelbib package

This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in
cooperation with babel.
Thus, each citation may be written in another language.
In addition, it supports commands to change the typography of the
bibliographies.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it on CTAN in
biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib/

(By the way, there is a small problem in the Makefile: The rm commands in
the clean and distclean rules use C Shell style file name globbing but
make normally uses the Bourne Shell.)

XML file:
**********************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="babelbib"
       datestamp="2003/03/20" 
       modifier="ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org">
  <about>
    <name>babelbib</name>
    <caption>Multilingual bibliographies</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Harald Harders</name>
      <email>h.harders@tu-bs.de</email>
    </author>
    <license type="lppl" />
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      The babelbib package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in
      cooperation with babel.
      Thus, each citation may be written in another language.
      In addition, it supports commands to change the typography of the
      bibliographies.
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
**********************************************************************

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Apr 17 11:23:10 2003
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:46:59 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: tug.ctan.org downtime

The tug.ctan.org machine will go down this Thursday, Apr 17, at perhaps 
3:00 pm local (US Eastern) and remain down for some time.

This machine runs the http://www.ctan.org web interface, and is also
known as ctan.tug.org.

The reason for the downtime is that our entire campus will lose power for 
at least two days and the Easter weekend was judged a good time to do this.  
I may be able to get in on Sat morning and bring the machine back up but 
I need to leave town that day and if power is not back by then, the 
machine may not reappear until Tuesday morning.  

I apologize for the inconvienence.  The other two ctan nodes will be up
at ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.dante.de.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Apr 17 11:23:47 2003
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:02:00 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: lshort-dutch

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to the other CTAN sites and mirrors shortly.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: lshort-dutch
Author's name: Dong Hoon Van Uytsel
Location on CTAN: info/lshort/dutch
Summary description: Dutch translation of "The Not So Short Introduction To LaTeX2e"
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
"De niet zo korte inleiding tot LaTeX2e"

Version 1.3 of the Dutch version of "The Not So Short Introduction To LaTeX2e"
is a free translation of the English lshort-3.22 by various volunteers on 
the be.comp.os.linux newsgroup. It recycles large parts of other versions 
(Piet van Oostrum's, Stefan Becuwe's version 1.2) that were not published 
on CTAN.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Apr 20 19:02:47 2003
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 23:30:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: BegriffsschriftLaTeX 

behold, our upload daemon doth proclaim:

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20030420.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: BegriffsschriftLaTeX
> Name and email: Josh Parsons 
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib
> Summary description: a LaTeX2e package for typesetting Frege's
>                      begriffsschrift 
> License type: GNU Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This style style can be used in conjunction with LaTeX mathmode to
> typeset material written in Frege's Begriffsschrift. 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i have installed the package as requested
(macros/latex/contrib/begriff); thanks fro teh upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Apr 21 04:17:31 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:49:10 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload of poemscol 1.1 

John Burt writes:

> files: poemscol.dtx poemscol.pdf
> LaTeX public license
> 
> suggested location: tex-archive/macros/latex/supported/poemscol
> 
> changes: Added ability to change the mark poemscol uses to indicate that 
> there is (or is not) a stanza break at the page turn, Added ability to 
> alter the amount of indentation of runover lines of verse. Made the page 
> geometry and leading used in the original version an option rather than 
> the default.
> 
> original abstract:
>    \textsf{poemscol} provides macros for \LaTeX\ for setting
> collections of poetry. It is especially suited for setting collections
> of poetry in which several volumes are combined, such as in a
> critical edition of a poet's Collected Poems. It provides the structures
> required to produce a critical edition of the kind specified by the
> Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions, and it
> automatically marks every occasion where a stanza break falls on a
> page break.

i've installed the files as updates to the version in
macros/latex/contrib/supported/poemscol; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Apr 21 04:21:00 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:55:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Uploaded updated ctie package 

Julian Gilbey writes:
>    + what you've uploaded
> 
> ctie-1.1.tar.gz, an updated version of my CTIE package
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
>    + where you want the files to go
> 
> web/c_cpp/ctie
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
> 
> dfsg (I think it's a BSD-style licence)
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
> A few bugfixes and lots of updates to bring it in line with the latest
> kpathsea library.

thanks for the upload: i've installed it over the previous version, as
you suggested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Apr 21 06:14:59 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:44:03 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: modroman 

Yvon Henel, through the ghostly medium of cambridge's upload daemon,
writes:

> Name of contribution: modroman
> Name and email: Yvon Henel
> Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/misc
> Summary description: two macros to write numbers thus i, ij, iij, xj
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> modroman.sty, two macros to write numbers in lower case
> roman numerals thus i, ij, iij, iv and so on. (See the
> final j?)
> 
> modroman.sty, deux macros pour �crire les nombres en
> chiffres romains minuscules sous la forme i, ij, iij,
> iv etc. (Avez-vous not� le j final ?)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

with the restructuring of ctan, we're avoiding contrib/misc as much as
we can (it's difficult to make browsing of that directory
straightforward).

i have therefore placed your upload in macros/latex/contrib/modroman

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Apr 22 11:31:37 2003
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:52:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN uload -- e-TeX for BaKoMa TeX

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
e-TeX 2.1 for BaKoMa TeX.

Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

This implementation of e-TeX is well integrated with BaKoMa TeX.
Supported features are:
  * Dynamical Preview;
  * DVI Search marks generation;
  * Automatical generation of BB-files for all graphical formats;
  * TCX tables.

To install the e-TeX under BaKoMa TeX it just open programs/etex.bkz unit.

After installing this module and restarting BaKoMa Text Editor
following TeX formats will be available:
	* e-TeX
	* e-LaTeX 2e

For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I have added this to
CTAN:/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Apr 23 09:52:40 2003
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:49:21 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new package on CTAN: eemeir 

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should, in the
next day or two, make its way via the magic of FTP mirroring to a site 
near you.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: E-Em-Eir package
Author's name: Mogens Lemvig Hansen
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/eemeir
Summary description: Natural commands to type in place of gender 
  specific words.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The eemeir package facilitates writing documents that
must be produced in both a male and a female form by 
providing natural commands to type in place of gender 
specific words.  The user can extend the list of such 
commands as the need arises.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Apr 23 09:52:55 2003
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:51:32 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: facsimile

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and is even now speeding
toward your favorite mirror site.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: facsimile 1.0
Author's name: Torsten Bronger
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/facsimile
Summary description: LaTeX package for creating faxes.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The facsimile package provides a simple interface for creating a fax.  This 
covers by and large two areas: First, a title page is created with a detailed 
fax header.  And secondly, every page gets headers and footers so that the 
recipient can be sure to have received all pages and complete pages, and to 
have the correct order.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Apr 23 16:10:02 2003
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:30:30 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new CTAN package: refstyle

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will make
its way to your local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: refstyle
Author's name: Danie Els
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/refstyle
Summary description: Advanced formatting of cross references 
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The refstyle provides a consistent way of producing references throughout 
a project. Enough flexibility is provided to make local changes to a single 
reference. The user can configure his or own setup.

It has a direct interface to VARIOREF and namedref's from the
NAMEDREF package can easily be incorporated (if needed). 
For large projects such as a series of books or a multi volume thesis, 
written as freestanding documents, a facility is provided to interface to 
the XR package for external document references.

The REFSTYLE package is BABEL compliant in that all language definitions are 
added to the \extras<langauge> token list, enabling local and global language 
changes through the BABEL language changing commands. Afrikaans and English 
definitions are provided --- any other contributions will be appreciated.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Apr 23 18:35:55 2003
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:06:57 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: engpron 

The following information was provided by Yvon Henel, by way of our
upload daemon:

> Name of contribution: engpron
> Name and email: Yvon Henel
> Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/engpron
> Summary description: macros, such as �a, to typeset English
>                              pronunciation (uses tipa.sty)
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ce module utilise le module tipa. Il fournit des macros 
> commen�ant par le caract�re �, rendu actif, qui permettent 
> d'�crire la prononciation de l'anglais britannique ou 
> am�ricain � l'aide de l'API telle qu'on la trouve dans
> le << English Pronouncing Dictionary >> de Daniel Jones.  
> Une option permet d'obtenir le style adopt� par le Harraps.
> 
> This package uses the package tipa. It  provides macros 
> beginning with the �-character, made active, which enable 
> us to write the British or America English pronunciation 
> as one can find it in the "English Pronouncing Dictionary" 
> by Daniel Jones. There is an option to typeset the pronunciation in
> the style of Harrap's.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

one should note that the package documentation is in french.  there
are tables of usage (macros and symbols) in the documentation
(engpron.ps) as well as in exemple.ps within the bundle.  however, a
non-french reader will no doubt miss some of the subtleties of the
package.

anyway, i have installed the package as requested: thanks for the
upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Apr 24 04:27:58 2003
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:55:17 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: problems with Catalogue mirroring

there have been problems with Catalogue mirroring for quite a while.

we have now established a work-around, and have installed an (almost
complete) new copy of the Catalogue.  (the one exception we know about
is the support/ subdirectory, which contains a bunch of xsl files: we
hope to include that in an update within the next 24 hours.)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Apr 28 05:13:48 2003
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:43:01 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN shareware upload -- BaKoMa 5.36

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----

I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 5.36 (issued 22-Apr-2003).

Please put the files to 'CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

This version includes patch for fixing small but crucial bug:
* eventual crashing of DVI Viewer at reopenning files.

This version has Patch status and may be freely installed by 
holders of NON-UPGRADABLE license for BaKoMa TeX 5.30 and 5.35.

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
22-Apr-2003

PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.35 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * HTML Generation features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.35
   
For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95

HIGHLIGHTS

 * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system.
 * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
   of the file being edited. 
   (like to Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
 * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 
GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, 
FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts: 
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.

Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click.

OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0
even without ATM.

USER INTERFACE

* Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
  It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, 
  when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, 
  mathematics, pictures, etc.
* Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen 
  for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents: 
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
* Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
    correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
    configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
* Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
* Support for Multi-User systems.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF,
* HTML.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste 
  of cyrillic and other international characters.
* Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

HTML GENERATION FEATURES

 BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 documents into HTML files.
  * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch 
     `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
  * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert 
     pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
     pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, 
     such as slides.

 In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of 
 `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.

 Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 into generated HTML pages.
 
*** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.35 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.30 ***

  Main improvement is support of Expert fonts by Font Setup Wizard: 
  `small caps', `old style figures', and other glyphs from Expert encoding.
  In advance, for OpenType and TrueType fonts direct access to TS1 glyphs 
  (such as `Euro') is supported.

  Fonts with glyphs from expert encoding are generated with suffixes: 
  9e (T1), 9t (OT1), and 9c (TS1). Conventionally, these fonts are accessed 
  via LaTeX font family with suffix `x'. So, for example, to access expert 
  fonts, you must use `\fontfamily{padx}' instead of `\fontfamily{pad}'.

NOTE:
  ATM compatible (PFB/PFA) expert fonts comes in two font files.
  First have standard encoding, and second has Expert encoding.
  For such fonts installation order is important. Font with expert 
  encoding should be installed after font with standard encoding.
  In other case expert encodings T1 (*9e), OT1 (*9t), and TS1 (*9c) 
  will be missed.

For more information about changes see
  <CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>

---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Apr 28 05:15:54 2003
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:56:39 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: pst-3dplot

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030426.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: pst-3dplot
Name and email: Herbert Voss
Suggested location on CTAN: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot
Summary description: pstricks package for 3d objects
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
pst-3dplot is a package based on PSTricks to draw 
graphical three dimensional objects (points, lines,
squares, boxes, circles, spheres), math functions 
z=f(x,y) and three dimensional data files.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the package as requested in
CTAN:graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Apr 28 05:18:16 2003
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:06:17 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: labbook class

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: labbook class
Name and email: Frank K�ster <frank@kuesterei.ch>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/[fkuester|fant|wherever]
Summary description: a document class that produces an index of sectioning
a document class that produces an index of sectioning commands
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This class is designed to typeset laboratory journals that contain
chronologically ordered records about experiments. From the sectioning
commands, an experiment index is generated. The class is based on the
KOMA-Script class scrbook.cls.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new package in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/labbook/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Apr 29 16:02:45 2003
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:28:29 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: CurVe

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should make its way
to your favorite local mirror real soon.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: CurVe
Author's name: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/curve
  (Please also not that we are moving directories on CTAN and this package
  will soon be located in macros/latex/contrib/curve --JH)
Summary description: New release of Curve, version 1.4
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm pleased to announce the release of CurVe version 1.4.

New in this release: support for small id photo inclusion,
more control on the vertical and horizontal layout of the
headers.

CurVe is a class package that hopefully will make your life easier when you
want to write your CV. It provides you with a set of commands to create
rubrics, entries in these rubrics etc. CurVe will then properly format your CV
for you (possibly splitting it onto multiple pages, repeating the titles etc),
which is usually the most painful part of CV writing. Another nice feature of
CurVe is its ability to manage different CV "flavors" simultaneously. It is in
fact often the case that you want to maintain slightly divergent versions of
your CV at the same time, in order to emphasize on different aspects of your
background. CurVe also comes with support for AUC-TeX.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri May  2 07:48:04 2003
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 13:07:10 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Emmanuel Beffara <Emmanuel.Beffara@pps.jussieu.fr>
Subject: Re: upload: frcursive

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Emmanuel Beffara wrote:

> I just uploaded the following:
>
> file:      frcursive.tar.gz
> server:    dante.ctan.org
> target directory: fonts/
> license:   GPL
>
> This is the French Cursive font, a cursive hand-writing font family in
> the style of the French academic running-hand, written with Metafont.
> Several variants are provided, with explanation on how to write other
> ones. An NFSS font description and a support LaTeX package are provided.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as

   fonts/frcursive

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------


XML file:
**********************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="curve"
       datestamp="2003/05/02"
       modifier="ftpmaint@dante.de">
  <about>
    <name>frcursive</name>
    <caption>French Cursive font</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Emmanuel Beffara</name>
      <email>Emmanuel.Beffara@pps.jussieu.fr</email>
    </author>
    <license type="gpl" />
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
This is the French Cursive font, a cursive hand-writing font family in
the style of the French academic running-hand, written with Metafont.
Several variants are provided, with explanation on how to write other
ones. An NFSS font description and a support LaTeX package are provided.
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>fonts/frcursive</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
**********************************************************************


From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri May  2 07:49:42 2003
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 13:15:03 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Dwight Aplevich <aplevich@uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: CTAN update: Circuit_macros 5.3

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Dwight Aplevich wrote:

> Circuit_macros5.3.tar.gz has been copied into the incoming directory
> of ftp.dante.de.  Its expanded contents are to replace the contents
> of graphics/circuit_macros. The copyright is almost public domain.
>
>  >From the README:
> ...
>    This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality line diagrams to
>    include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents.  The macros were
>    originally intended for electric circuit diagrams containing
>    fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors, and basic logic gates,
>    but several tools and examples for other types of diagrams are also
>    included.  The advantages and disadvantages of such a system are
>    similar to those of TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg,
>    and which uses ordinary character input.
>
>    The macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic "little language,"
>    which is easy to read and learn.  The programming elements in pic are
>    well suited to line drawings requiring parametric or conditional
>    components, fine tuning, significant geometric calculations or
>    repetition, or to drawings that are naturally block structured or
>    tree structured.  Arbitrary formatted text can be included.  Free
>    TeX- and LaTeX-compatible interpreters for m4 and pic are readily
>    available for Unix and PC machines.
> ...
> EXAMPLES:
> Read the manual man.ps and view or print the file examples.ps in the
> examples directory, or for the possibly unstable development version, try
> http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/
> A collection of examples and hints has been produced by
> Alan Robert Clark at http://ytdp.ee.wits.ac.za/cct.html
> ...
> CHANGES:
> Version 5.3: New macros arcr, arcd, beginshade, endshade, larrow, rarrow,
>    s_sp, s_ht, s_wd, Max, Min, sfgself.  Improved ground, sfgnode, diode,
>    resistor.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   graphics/circuit_macros

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------


XML file:
**********************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="curve"
       datestamp="2003/05/02"
       modifier="ftpmaint@dante.de">
  <about>
    <name>Circuit_macros</name>
    <caption>New release of Circuit_macros, version 5.3</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Dwight Aplevich</name>
      <email>aplevich@uwaterloo.ca</email>
    </author>
    <license type="pd" />
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
>From the README:
...
  This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality line diagrams to
  include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents.  The macros were
  originally intended for electric circuit diagrams containing
  fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors, and basic logic gates,
  but several tools and examples for other types of diagrams are also
  included.  The advantages and disadvantages of such a system are
  similar to those of TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg,
  and which uses ordinary character input.

  The macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic "little language,"
  which is easy to read and learn.  The programming elements in pic are
  well suited to line drawings requiring parametric or conditional
  components, fine tuning, significant geometric calculations or
  repetition, or to drawings that are naturally block structured or
  tree structured.  Arbitrary formatted text can be included.  Free
  TeX- and LaTeX-compatible interpreters for m4 and pic are readily
  available for Unix and PC machines.
...
EXAMPLES:
Read the manual man.ps and view or print the file examples.ps in the
examples directory, or for the possibly unstable development version, try
http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/
A collection of examples and hints has been produced by
Alan Robert Clark at http://ytdp.ee.wits.ac.za/cct.html
...
CHANGES:
Version 5.3: New macros arcr, arcd, beginshade, endshade, larrow, rarrow,
  s_sp, s_ht, s_wd, Max, Min, sfgself.  Improved ground, sfgnode, diode,
  resistor.
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>macros/latex/contrib/supported/curve</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
**********************************************************************


From zierke@dante.de Fri May  2 10:11:51 2003
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 15:34:09 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- babelbib v0.31

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded the file babelbib.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains a
new version of the babelbib system. Please replace all files in
CTAN:biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib by its contents. License stays LPPL.

>From the README:

This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in
cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: Each citation
may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can
be typeset in a language chosen by the user. The current version
supports English, German, and Italian.
  In addition, the package supports commands to change the typography
of the bibliographies.
  Supported bibliography styles are bababbrv.bst, babalpha.bst,
babplain.bst, babunsrt.bst, and babamspl.bst.

Please help me to add more languages to babelbib.


This release is totally rewritten. It now supports special commands to
change the fonts in bibliographys. A version of the AMS BibTeX style
amsplain, called babamspl, is included, now.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri May  2 10:08:54 2003
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 13:40:46 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: scalebar

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make
its way to a mirror site near you in the next few days.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim

==================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: scalebar
Author's name: Michael Lake
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/scalebar
Summary description: This package creates scalebars for maps, diagrams 
  or photos.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a small package to create scalebars for maps, diagrams or photos. 
It was designed for use with cave maps but can be used for anything from 
showing a scalebar in kilometers for topographic maps to a scalebar in 
micrometers for an electron microscope image.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat May  3 04:27:18 2003
Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 08:50:53 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- Memoir class update 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memupdate.tar.gz to UK incoming. This includes 3
> files --- README, mempatch.sty, and memmanadd.pdf. Please use these
> to replace those in macros/latex/contrib(/supported)/memoir. The
> distribution is under the LPPL. 
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     Memoir is a flexible class for typesetting general fiction,
> non-fiction and mathematical works as books, reports, articles or
> manuscripts. Documents can use 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 or 17pt as the
> normal ont size. Many methods are provided to let you create your
> own particular design. 
> 
> Changes (2003/04/28)
> o New version 1.5 of mempatch.sty (improved frame boxes, footnotes,
>   and bug fixes) 
> o New version of the Addendum (memmanadd.pdf)
> o All other files, except for this README, are unchanged

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat May  3 17:08:11 2003
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 20:29:59 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: Progress

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@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Progress
Author's name: Kasper B. Graversen
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/progress
Summary description: Creates an overview of a documents state
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Progress is a package which when compiling \TeX{} and \LaTeX{} documents, 
generates a HTML file showing an overview of a documents state (of how 
finished it is).
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Mon May  5 09:20:17 2003
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 14:31:46 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: colorinfo

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: colorinfo
Name and email: Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk@ptb.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/colorinfo/
Summary description: LaTeX package `colorinfo'
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The LaTeX package `colorinfo' provides macros for retriving color model and color values for already defined colors. For details see the test file `colorinfo-test.tex'.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new package in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/colorinfo/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon May  5 09:20:17 2003
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 14:34:21 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: sidecap

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: sidecap
Name and email: Rolf Niepraschk
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/sidecap/
Summary description: LaTeX package `sidecap' (update)
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Please remove all old files in `macros/latex/contrib/sidecap/' and unpack
`sidepack.zip' at the same location.

>From README:
This package defines the new environments SCfigure and SCtable, analogous to
figure and table, which make it easy to typeset captions sideways. The package
knows the options outercaption, innercaption, leftcaption and rightcaption.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version of the sidecap package in 
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/sidecap/ according to our new directory structure.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon May  5 09:26:20 2003
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 14:40:57 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: ps4pdf

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: ps4pdf
Name and email: Rolf Niepraschk
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/
Summary description: LaTeX package `ps4pdf'
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The LaTeX package `ps4pdf' provides a new way to use Postscript commands (e.g. PSTricks graphics, PSfrag replacements, EPS graphics) inside a pdfLaTeX processed document. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new package in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon May  5 09:20:17 2003
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 14:49:40 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: bmeps 1.0.6b

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: bmeps 1.0.6b
Name and email: Dirk Krause
Suggested location on CTAN: /support/bmeps
Summary description: bmeps 1.0.6b - Converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS
License type: GNU Library

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Overview:
This package contains a library and a command line program
to convert from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS. Different
compression and encoding mechanisms are available
when producing the EPS output file.
Suggestions how to modify dvips to use the library are
included too.

Update contents:
- Modification suggestions for dvips 5.92 were added.
- Guido Gonzato contributed a .spec file for RPM creation.
  It is in the unsupported/rpm-spec directory as bmeps.spec.
  The directory is named unsupported because my Linux is
  a Debian one, so I do not know anything about building
  RPMs. The file is for those how know...
No changes were applied to the source code for the
libbmeps library or the bmeps program itself.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old version
in CTAN:support/bmeps/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue May  6 09:05:28 2003
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 14:13:44 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Herbert Voss <voss@perce.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-3dplot

Herbert Voss submitted an update to his pst-3dplot package:
3 May 2003 ctan-upload@nova.dante.de wrote:

> Name of contribution: pst-3dplot
> Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot
> Summary description: a package for drawing 3D objects, functions and data
> License type: LaTeX Project
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> A new version with some more macros, f.ex.:
> parametricplotThreeD, rputThreeD.  Better support
> for ellipse and circle.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Fri May  9 16:31:52 2003
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 13:09:11 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- g-brief 4.0.1

----- Forwarded message from Michael Lenzen -----
please update 'g-brief' rel. 4.0 to rel. 4.0.1.

(a) 'g-brief-4.0.1.tar.gz' to /incoming

(b) uploaded to ftp.dante.de

(c) /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/g-brief

(d) LPPL

(e)  g-brief is a document class for LaTeX 2e and serves for
      formatting formless letters in german or english language

release notes for CTAN-ANN:

- added a new and more flexible class g-brief2 with a new layout
- added a new class option to support document encoding
- fixed some severe bugs found in release 3.0
- changed license to LPPL
- documentation in German
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested replacing
the old version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/g-brief/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Fri May  9 08:13:50 2003
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 13:29:32 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: LaTeXPiX

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030509.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Name and email: N.J.H.M. van Beurden <beurden@email.com>
Suggested location on CTAN: systems/w32/latexpix
Summary description: LaTeX drawing program for Windows
License type: Public Domain

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
An update for LaTeXPiX already existing within CTAN. Could you please update it an ANNOUNCE it too for it has major improvements. For questions you can email me.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version replacing the old one in
CTAN:systems/w32/latexpix/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun May 11 10:25:54 2003
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 14:48:50 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-3dplot 

our upload daemon tells me:

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20030511.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: pst-3dplot
> Name and email: Herbert Voss <...>
> Suggested location on CTAN: CTAN:/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/
> Summary description: Plotting 3D graphic objects and data
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The new version has a new macro for a 3d triangle and
> some more small changes and bugfixes.
> 
> Please replace all files in the dir
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun May 11 10:30:08 2003
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 14:55:37 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: hvfloat.sty 

quoth the upload daemon:

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20030511.002/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: hvfloat.sty
> Name and email: Herbert Voss <...>
> Suggested location on CTAN: CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/hvfloat/
> Summary description: Rotating float object and caption
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> hvfloat allows rotating of a floating object (like figure 
> or table or ...) and caption with different angles. The caption  can
> be placed on every side of the floating object.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

thanks (very much ;-) for the upload.  i've installed it as requested.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon May 12 07:43:57 2003
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 12:59:27 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- crop.sty

----- Forwarded message from Melchior FRANZ -----
I've just uploaded     ## crop.tar.gz                ##
to                     ## ftp.dante.de               ##
licensed under the     ## LPPL                       ##
Please unpack to       ## macros/latex/contrib/crop/ ##


crop.sty provides different forms of cropmarks for trimming paper
stacks, for camera alignment and for visualizing the page dimensions.
It offers options for centering documents on printing paper, for
reflecting, mirroring, inverting documents and other features that
are needed in the printing process.

Changes in version 1.8
======================
- new kernel; adds user hooks for custom extension; pictures for
  axis marks for easier customization;
- fixes nasty \lineskip bug that could display the lower marks
  1 pt too low
- color support: redefines \pagecolor, so that it colors only
  the document page; allows to color marks
- presets \stock{width,height} with \paper{width,height}
- driver detection overhaul
- full pdflatex compatibility (uses \reflectbox & \rotatebox when
  processed with pdflatex)
- compatibility options are removed now
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/crop/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon May 12 07:47:52 2003
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 13:12:44 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- KOMA-Script

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030512.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: KOMA-Script
Name and email: Markus Kohm
Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script
Summary description: KOMA-Script, a versatile LaTeX2e bundle
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The KOMA-Script team is happy to announce the May '03 
Release of the KOMA-Script bundle aka "What we forgot in 
our previous release". 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
What is KOMA-Script 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
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 
the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities 
in order to provide the user an almost complete working 
environment. 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
Versions of classes and packages at this release: 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
  scrartcl.cls  2003/04/22  v2.9o 
  scrbook.cls   2003/04/22  v2.9o 
  scrreprt.cls  2003/04/22  v2.9o 
  scrlttr2.cls  2003/04/22  v2.9o 
  scrlettr.cls  2002/05/24  v2.6e (obsolete) 
  scrtime.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m 
  scrdate.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m 
  scrpage2.sty  2002/11/01  v2.1a 
  typearea.sty  2003/04/22  v2.9o 
  scrlfile.sty  2003/04/22  v2.9o 
  scrpage.sty   2001/06/22  v1.3c (obsolete) 
  scraddr.sty   2002/06/02  v1.1b 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
What is new in this KOMA-Script release 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
This is a bugfix release, so only bugs are fixed: 
  - Manual fixed and improved. 
  - color-bug at minisec fixed. 
  - ``twoside=false'' works with scrlttr2. 
  - ``specialmail'' indent bug fixed. 
  - \parfillskip problem at \cc and \encl fixed. 
  - script20.dtx is obsolete. Please use original 
    Script2.0 with LaTeX2.09! 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
XML file to be used at The TeX Catalogue: 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
See koma-script.xml at the distribution. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon May 12 11:00:50 2003
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 14:19:31 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: latex4jed

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org and that upgrade should make
its way to your favorite mirror very soon.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=====================================================

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:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a major update of LaTeX4Jed. This release introduces many 
enhancements: most notably, environment indentation, simplified font and 
environment selection, and external modules.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Mon May 12 11:06:24 2003
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 16:52:07 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 5.40, Omega with Dynamical Preview

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 5.40 (issued 9-May-2003).

Please put the files to 'CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

New features are:
   1) Updated TeX for version 3.141592.
   2) Updated Omega for version 1.23.5 based on TeX 3.141592.
      Included support for 
         Dynamical Preview;
         DVI Search marks generation;
         Automatical generation of BB-files for imported graphics.
   3) Support for TrueType fonts (Type42) embedded into imported Postscript.
   4) FlateDecode filter.
   5) Import of Enhanced Metafiles (EMF).
   6) Refined handling of Omega Unicoded fonts (OFM/OVF).

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
12-May-2003

PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.40 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * HTML Generation features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.40
   
For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95

HIGHLIGHTS

 * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system.
 * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
   of the file being edited. 
   (like to Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
 * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 
GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, 
FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts: 
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.

Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click.

OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0
even without ATM.

USER INTERFACE

* Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
  It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, 
  when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, 
  mathematics, pictures, etc.
* Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen 
  for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents: 
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
* Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
    correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
    configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
* Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
* Support for Multi-User systems.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF,
* HTML.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste 
  of cyrillic and other international characters.
* Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

HTML GENERATION FEATURES

 BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 documents into HTML files.
  * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch 
     `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
  * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert 
     pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
     pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, 
     such as slides.

 In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of 
 `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.

 Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 into generated HTML pages.
 
*** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.40 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.35 ***

  1) Updated TeX and Omega
     a) Updated TeX for version 3.141592.
     b) Updated Omega for version 1.23.5 based on TeX 3.141592.
        This implementation (in comparison with previous one) supports:
        + Dynamical Preview;
        + DVI Search marks generation;
        + Automatical generation of BB-files for imported graphics;
        In other words, Omega supports all features as TeX and e-TeX,
        except of TCX, because it has own transliteration feature.

  2) Graphics
     Added support for:
     1) TrueType fonts (Type42) embedded into imported Postscript graphics 
     	(Postscript Level 3 feature).
     2) FlateDecode filter (Postscript Level 3 feature).
     3) Import of Enhanced Metafiles (EMF).
        Geometry is calculated automatically.
        In this reason, to import EMF just `\includegraphics{foo.emf}'
        is enough.
     4) Refined handling of Omega Unicoded fonts (OFM/OVF).

For more information about changes see
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new files as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 13 09:52:01 2003
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 13:40:42 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: UK English FAQ v3.6

i have just installed revised versions of the faq that i maintain on
ctan (help/uk-tex-faq), on the web (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) and for
distributors in the usual place.

this version is much delayed for various technical reasons: i was
close to giving up on it until this lunch-time, when (seemingly) �
propos of nothing, the build suddenly started working again.

this issue claims to answer 300 questions: the first edition, in
december 1994, had 100.  because of the delay, my backlog of "pending"
answers is now up to 21 (though some of those are long-term
development items), and my list of unresolved requirements has well
over 100 entries.

other desiderata include:

-- a better search engine
-- a less demanding means of generating html from the sources
-- various technicalities about cross-referencing within the faq

suggestions, or offers of help, for the search engine would be very
welcome indeed.

Robin Fairbairns

UK TeX FAQ (and CTAN) maintainer

From zierke@dante.de Wed May 14 06:45:51 2003
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 10:16:01 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: ps4pdf

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: ps4pdf
Name and email: Rolf Niepraschk
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/
Summary description: Using Postscript code in pdf documents
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The new version provides the optional parameter "trim" for the macro `\PSforPDF' similar to `\includegraphics' from the package `graphicx'. Please remove the all files from

  macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/

and unpack the archive `ps4pdf.zip' to the same location. Thanks in advance,

...Rolf
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload; I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed May 14 06:03:01 2003
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 11:16:48 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: Highlight code converter

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Highlight code converter
Name and email: Andr� Simon
Suggested location on CTAN: web
Summary description: Command line tool to convert source code to highlighted TeX and LaTeX.
License type: GNU Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Highlight is a universal sourcecode converter for Linux and Windows, which transforms code to  LaTeX or TeX - files with syntax highlighting.
Source code may be reindented and reformatted
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it (together with the README file
extracted from the archive) in CTAN:support/highlight/

The web directory you suggested is for Donald Knuth's Web System of
Structured Information, not the World Wide Web which came some years
later.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed May 14 15:26:28 2003
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 18:49:39 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new CTAN package: pst-vue3d

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its 
way to your favorite local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=============================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: pst-vue3d
Author's names:  Manuel Luque, Herbert Voss
Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-vue3d
Summary description: pst-vue3d allows perspective views of three dimensional objects
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
With pst-vue3d three dimensional objects like cubes, spheres
and others can be viewed from different points. The
documentation is in french but the examples are self explanatory.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed May 14 15:26:14 2003
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 18:51:32 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new CTAN package: pst-uml

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should find its
way to your mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: pst-uml
Author's names: Maurice DIAMANTINI, Herbert Voss
Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-uml 
Summary description: pst-uml is a pstricks based package for uml diagrams
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
pst-uml allows drawing of uml diagrams (Unified
Modeling Langage) and is based on pstricks.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri May 16 13:16:34 2003
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 17:27:33 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: bgreek package upload 

J.-L. Rivera writes:

> bgreek
> ======
> 
> This package implements a dialect of the Beta Code encoding (TLG and Perseus 
> Project) for typesetting classical Greek using Claudio Beccari's Greek Fonts.
> 
> The package is distributed under the LaTeX Project Public License.

i have installed the bundle (readme.txt and a .zip file) on ctan at

  language/greek/bgreek

thank you for the submission.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun May 18 12:17:00 2003
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 16:32:03 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-3dplot 

from cambridge upload daemon:

> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: pst-3dplot
> Name and email: Herbert Voss
> Suggested location on CTAN: CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/
> Summary description: Plotting 3D objects, functions and data
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> New macro for placing objects, especially text, in one
> of the three planes (xy, xz or yz).
> 
> please replace all files in the directory
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i've installed the files as suggested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon May 19 07:28:54 2003
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 12:21:13 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: ps4pdf v0.5

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: ps4pdf v0.5
Name and email: Rolf Niepraschk
Suggested location on CTAN: CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/
Summary description: Using Postscript code in pdf documents
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Changes:
o trim option: Scaling was wrong, corrected.
o New options draft/final.
o Improved test file.

Please remove the all files from

  macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/

and unpack the archive `ps4pdf-030518.zip' to the same location. Thanks in advance,

...Rolf
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue May 20 13:43:31 2003
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 16:58:26 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: thrmappendix

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org.  It will make its way
to your local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: thrmappendix
Author's name: Ben Klemens
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/misc
Summary description: A macro package to facilitate moving proofs to an appendix.
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Long proofs break the flow of a paper, and should be moved to an appendix. 
However, this often means the reader has to flip back and forth between 
the statement of the theorem in the text and the proof in the appendix. 
This macro solves the problem by letting you write the theorem in the body, 
and repeat it verbatim just before the proof in the appendix.

The abbreviated format for writing up theorems, lemmas, &c. may be useful 
even if you don't have any proofs in your paper.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue May 20 13:43:31 2003
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 17:00:30 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: eCards

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: eCards
Author's name: D. P. Story
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/eCards
Summary description: Create electronic flash cards and have them viewed in random order
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The eCards package for LaTeX enables you to create a series of electronic 
(flash) cards. The document author provides questions, hints and answers 
to a series of questions. Question can be verbal-response, or multiple 
choice/fill-in. Users can test their knowledge by responding to the 
questions. The questions are delivered in random order.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed May 21 13:35:04 2003
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 17:37:19 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload: srhyphc.zip 

Aleksandar Jelenak writes:

>     FILE UPLOADED: srhyphc.zip
>       UPLOADED ON: ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
>     FILE CONTENTS: One file -- `srhyphc.tex'
> CTAN DESTINATION: tex-archive/languages/hyphenation
>      FILE LICENSE: GPL -- GNU General Public License
>           SUMMARY: The file `srhyphc.tex' provides hyphenation patterns
>                    for Serbian language in Cyrillic alphabet and T2A TeX
>                    font encoding.

i have installed the file as requested.  thanks for the upload.

robin

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu May 22 10:28:24 2003
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 13:40:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: update to cmap package 

Vladimir Volovich writes:

> i've uploaded the file cmap.sty to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/
> 
> Please replace the file CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/cmap/cmap.sty with
> this new file.
> 
> It fixes a typo due to which the package had no effect at all :)

that's good.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu May 22 17:28:29 2003
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 21:40:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: labels.sty bugfix release 

Julian Gilbey writes:

>    + what you've uploaded
> 
> labels.tar.gz
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
>    + where you want the files to go
> 
> replace the old ones in macros/latex/contrib/supported/labels/
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
> 
> lppl
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
> bugfix release so that the package works correctly with the color
> package.

thanks for the upload; i've actually installed it in
macros/latex/contrib/labels, and deleted the old directory in
contrib/supported.  (ctan is losing the increasingly silly distinction
between supported and other...)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu May 22 19:05:31 2003
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 22:22:22 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: tokenizer

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way, via the miracle of automatic mirroring, to your favorite 
local mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==================================================================== 

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: tokenizer
Author's name: Sascha Herpers
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tokenizer
Summary description: Package for tokenizing comma separated lists of strings.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package provides a rather small command, which splits a comma separated 
list of strings into two tokens at the first encounter of a comma. Each token 
is saved to a arbitrarily named command. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri May 23 09:27:01 2003
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 13:27:56 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submision --- combine class and support packages 

Peter Wilson writes:

> Dear CTAN/Robin,
> 
>     I have uploaded combine.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/combine. The distribution
> is under the LPPL. 
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The combine class lets you bundle individual documens into a
> single document, such as when preparing conference proceedings. 
> 
>     The axiliary combinet package puts the authors and titles from
> \maketitle commands into the main document's ToC, and the combnat
> package enables the combine class and natbib package to be used
> harmoniously together. 
> 
> Changes in combnat package version 0.21 (2003/05/22)
> o Removed extraneous space from year citation

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue May 27 07:31:08 2003
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:43:21 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: The TeXPower bundle, alpha release 0.0.9d

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: The TeXPower bundle, alpha release 0.0.9d.
Name and email: Stephan Lehmke
Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/texpower
Summary description: A bundle of LaTeX packages and classes for making pdf beamer presentations.
License type: GNU Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
   (Sorry, the summary is not brief. You can delete everything below
   and including "Among other packages" below if neccessary.)
   
   TeXPower is a bundle of packages intended to provide
   an `all-inclusive' environment for designing pdf
   `screen presentations' to be viewed with Adobe Acrobat[tm]
   reader in full-screen mode, especially for projecting
   `online' with a video beamer.
   
   The features provided include:
   
   * `dynamic' features like incremental building of pages,
     animated diagrams and such.
     
   * support for `navigation panels'
   
   * support for page backgrounds
   
   * advanced color management (`logical markup' for colors supplying
     `color sets' for different background colors, `dimming' and inverting
     of colors etc.) and color highlighting.
     
   * advanced font configuration.

   TeXPower is not so much meant as a help for _designing_ slides
   (a lot more in this direction is planned for the future, but 
   it is not the main purpose of the package); instead, you can 
   keep your favourite slide or presentation class (say, seminar
   or pdfscreen or ...) and add dynamic effects with
   \usepackage{texpower}.
   The bundle does contain a documentclass powersem which is derived
   from seminar by a very limited number of fixes and extensions
   trying to make it a little more suited for presentations (and
   more friendly towards pdftex).
   
   The bundle is developed by myself (Stephan Lehmke) and Hans
   Fr. Nordhaug who is also running the SourceForge site.
   
   The development is coordinated by a SourceForge Project. The
   homepage is http://texpower.sourceforge.net/.
   There you'll find the newest sources in a CVS repository,
   bug and patch trackers, a user forum and mailing list,
   and pdf files for all examples.
   
   Among other packages for dynamic effects (most notably PPower4
   http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/
   and prosper http://prosper.sourceforge.net/), TeXPower is
   distinguished by
   
   INDEPENDENCE: There is no postprocessor, and also no dependence on
   the way in which pdf is produced.
   
   VERSATILITY: Everything is implemented entirely in LaTeX, hence you
   can use whatever LaTeX programming skills you have (and the numerous
   hooks provided) to design your own presentation effects.
   There are a lot of examples in the doc directory of this bundle,
   from very simple things 
   (http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/simpledemo.pdf) to rather 
   involved (and not completely serious :) examples of what can
   be done (http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/divexample.pdf,
   http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/panelexample.pdf,
   http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/fancystep.pdf).
   TeXPower contains a small number of simple and customizeable
   basic commands and a large number of derived commands for 
   special purposes (for instance, dimming all colors on 
   a page and then incrementally `undimming').
   
   FRAGILITY (or maybe one should say BRITTLENESS): This is the 
   backside of versatility I'm afraid. Unfortunately it is extremely
   easy to introduce errors and irritating spacing glitches 
   (leading to parts of the page jumping and wobbling around
   during an incremental build).
   It is very helpful to have at least a basic understanding of
   the goings-on of LaTeX formatting for doing anything but the
   most basic things with TeXPower.
   While mostly the brittleness is inherent in the way texpower
   is implemented and can't be avoided at sustainable cost, it is
   our aim to reduce the impact by
   * `faultproof' customized environments like special list 
     environments with automatical incremental display of items;
   * a large number of `ready-made' examples for most common
     uses;
   * an extensive FAQ list containing the most common blunders.
   Most of the above is unfinished in this alpha version.
   
   PRODUCTIVENESS: TeXPower tries to do a lot of things by itself,
   making it easier to design presentations.
   For instance, the \stepwise command is similar to Prosper's
   \overlays, but you don't have to count the steps yourself,
   \stepwise will determine the number of steps quite reliably
   even if steps are nested inside of other steps etc.
   Furthermore, you _can_ say explicitly at which step something
   is to appear, but you don't have to; normally steps will just
   be executed in order.
   This makes it very easy to design and edit dynamic presentations.
   
   ROBUSTNESS: In spite of being alpha, the code is quite stable.
   In fact, no `real' bugs were found since november 2002.
   
One note on the alpha status:

TeXPower has been declared pre-alpha for several years, because I 
had promised myself to respect backwards-compatibility after alpha
release and restrict distribution until this time.
But then again, I had planned to get the alpha release out in 2000...

As there are a lot of `faithful' users now, and as since GPLing 
TeXPower to put it on SourceForge, everybody is putting it in 
Linux distributions and such anyway, there is not much point in not
declaring it alpha and putting it on CTAN also...

This means the vow for backward-compatibility has to be renewed for
the beta release...

The alpha status is justified by the following problem areas:

DOCUMENTATION: Part of the documentation, especially some of the examples
and the FAQ, are still the same as for the much inferior version 0.0.8,
partly invalidating them.
Furthermore, the manual has been criticised for terseness and lack
of examples. Currently, it is written for people who know quite a
bit about LaTeX, complemented by the numerous demos showing usage
of things.
The documentation needs a lot of enhancement.

CATCODE MONGERY: Currently \stepwise takes everything to be displayed
incrementally as a macro argument in the most naive way, destroying
everything which needs to change catcodes, like language changes or
verbatim printing.
There are ways to remedy this, but all of them are complicated and/or
awkward, so this need a bit of thought and might lead to backwards-
incompatible changes of the basic commands for incremental display.

BACKGROUNDS and PANELS: The support for page backgrounds and panels
is preliminary at the moment. There will be a much more involved 
version which might not be completely backward compatibile.

LABELS and LINKS: The basic idea for incremental display in TeXPower
is to execute everything several times. This can lead to a lot
of grief with duplicated links and labels.
The most basic precautions are taken, so there shouldn't be any 
real problems in using links, but there will be a lot of warnings,
and I didn't test yet what happens with bibliography and index.

THUMBNAILS: No concept yet.

PRESENTATION DESIGN: As mentioned above, TeXPower is not mainly 
design-oriented (and I myself don't really think a presentation
gets better by fancy design), but there seems to be a definite 
need for this kind of thing.
It is planned to add more `designish' document classes and provide
a user interface for designing presentations.

PDF GIMMICKS: With a little trickery with pdf forms, JavaScript
and such, amazing things can be achieved which can be useful
for presentations (most useful for me would be `popup boxes').
So far, no special pdf features (apart from what can be achieved 
in a generic way with hyperref) are supported.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thank you very much for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/exptl/texpower/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sun Jun  1 13:35:52 2003
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 16:50:28 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: proba

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should have by now
made its way to your favorite local mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: proba
Author's name: Laurent Nguyen-Ngoc
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/misc
Summary description: Some shortcuts commands to symbols used in probability texts
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package includes some of the most often used commands in 
probability texts, e.g. probability, expectation, variance, etc.
It also includes some short commands for set (blackboard) or filtrations 
(calligraphic)
It requires Latex 2e and the amsfonts package
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sun Jun  1 13:48:05 2003
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 17:13:53 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new CTAN package: smalltableof

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@tug.ctan.org

==========================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: smalltableof
Author's name: Boretti Mathieu
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/smalltableof
Summary description: Package to create listoffigures, ... as section instance of chapter
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package allow creating list of figures, list of tables, ... that
are section instance of chapter (You can make a chapter named "List"
that contents section "List of figure", section "List of tables", ...)

Ce package permet de gerer des tables/listes de figures/tables/... 
sous la forme de section et non pas de chapitre.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From zierke@dante.de Mon Jun  2 07:39:23 2003
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:43:33 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: tpslifonts package v0.6

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030530.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: tpslifonts package v0.6
Name and email: Stephan Lehmke <Stephan.Lehmke@udo.edu>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/exptl/texpower/tpslifonts
Summary description: A LaTeX package for configuring presentation fonts
License type: GNU Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
When I see a presentation which is a little demanding
wrt fonts (especially when a lot of math is used),
I'm usually disappointed by font readability.

Most commercial `presentation tools' are completely
out of the question because they don't have a clue
about math formatting.

But even when some LaTeX package is used, often the
readability is not so good.

cm math fonts at large design sizes are difficult to
read from far away, especially at low resolutions and
low contrast color choice.

What is more, the LaTeX presentation packages do almost
nothing for math readability.

To name a few, combining cmr with cm math (seminar default),
combining cmss with cm math (foils), or combining helvetica
with cm math (prosper) doesn't help readability and 
sometimes leads to positively ugly results.

It has to be said that real alternatives in the form 
of `presentation-friendly' math fonts freely available
in PostScript Type1 format exist only since very
recently.

Thanks to Harald Harders for providing the hfbright
collection and to Walter Schmidt for the cmbright fonts
and for changing the license to make this possible.

I hope that the ideas realised in the tpslifonts
package lead to much better overall readability of 
some font combinations.

The package tpslifonts offers a couple of `harmonising' combinations
of text and math fonts from the (distant) relatives of computer modern
fonts, with a couple of extras for optimising readability.

The package offers the following features:

 1) Text fonts from computer modern roman, computer modern sans serif,
    SliTeX computer modern sans serif, computer modern bright, or
    concrete roman.

 2) Support for OT1 and T1 font encoding.

 3) Math fonts from computer modern math, computer modern bright math,
    or Euler fonts. 

 4) Support of additional symbol fonts like AMS symbols or
    doublestroke.

 5) All fonts configured for `smooth scaling' (like in the type1cm
    package).

 6) Avoiding fonts not freely available in Type 1 format.

 7) Careful design size selection for optimum readability.

For some of the options to yield satisfying results, it is neccessary
to install additional (free) Type1 fonts on your system.

There's no intention to support other font families like the typical
``psnfss'' PostScript fonts, as they usually don't come in different
design sizes, making the effort of tuning them for viewing futile. If
you wish to use such a font, load it with the usual packages.

tpslifonts is part of the TeXPower bundle, residing at 

http://texpower.sourceforge.net/

but is completely independent and can be used without texpower without
problems. The example document slifontsexample.tex can also be
compiled without TeXPower installed.

A precompiled version of the example document
(showing SliTeX computer modern sans serif text
together with cmbright math) can be downloaded from
http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/slifontsexample.pdf

As I'm not really a font expert, I'm of course interested
in opinions of the experts concerning the concepts
behind tpslifonts and suggestions for improvement.

regards
Stephan Lehmke
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload;  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/exptl/texpower/tpslifonts/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jun  4 14:03:50 2003
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 18:14:09 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload of urlbst-0.3 

Norman Gray writes:

>    + what you've uploaded
> 
> urlbst-0.3.tar.gz
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
> 
>    + where you want the files to go
> 
> /tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/urlbst/ replacing the files there now
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
> 
> gpl
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
> Adds functionality to urlbst, supporting eprint BibTeX field, and
> adding --hypertex and --hyperref options.  Documentation expanded,
> explaining the difference between the goals of urlbst and those of
> custom-bib.

i've installed the package as requested (and i'll try and remember to
get it in my faq for next time around).  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Jun  4 17:56:33 2003
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 22:59:30 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: russian translation of lshort

----- Forwarded message from Boris Tobotras -----
	I'm uploading lshort-ru-4.12.tar to ftp.dante.de/incoming. This is
update of my translation of lshort; please place it to
/info/lshort/russian, replacing its contents. License is GPL, like
original text.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  This translation seems to be not so short anymore
as the files have about doubled in size.  Good work!  Anyway, I installed it
as suggested replacing the previous version in CTAN:info/lshort/russian/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Jun  4 18:03:12 2003
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 23:07:01 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- pdfpages v0.2m

----- Forwarded message from Andreas Matthias <amat@kabsi.at> -----
I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages.tar.bz2' to
ftp.dante.de/incoming.

Please, extract this archive in

  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages/

(formerly .../contrib/supported/pdfpages/)

The `pdfpages' package makes it easy to insert pages of
external PDF documents. Several logical pages can be
arranged onto each sheet of paper. The package provides
hypertext operations like hyperlinks and article threads.

New feature of the version:
  * support of PDF documents with mixed landscape/portrait pages
  * support of reverse page order: pages=7-3
  * support of \graphicspath
  * new option `picturecommand'; its argument is executed
    within a picture environment on each sheet of paper

It is distributed under the LPPL.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the submission.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jun  5 05:18:54 2003
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 10:25:53 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: ttf2tex 0.6.1

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Philipp Lehman wrote:

> I've put a new release of ttf2tex into the incoming directory on
> ftp.dante.de. This is a documentation update only. Please unpack
> ttf2tex.tar.gz into support/ttf2tex, replacing the contents of this
> directory. Thank you in advance.
>
> From the README:
>
> ttf2tex is a Bash script which generates all files required to use
> Truetype fonts with Tetex from a set of .ttf files. In short, it will
> do for Truetype fonts what fontinst's \latinfamily command usually
> does for Type 1 Postscript fonts.
>
> The script is designed for Unix systems running Tetex. It was
> reported to work under several Linux flavors, FreeBSD, and MacOS X
> with Fink.
>
> From the CHANGELOG:
>
> 2003-06-04      v0.6.1
>   * documentation update only
>   * added FAQ to manual

Thanks for the update, it was installed in

  support/ttf2tex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Jun  6 05:10:23 2003
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:13:28 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk@ptb.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ps4pdf v0.6a


> Name of contribution: ps4pdf v0.6a
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/
> Summary description: Using Postscript code in pdfLaTeX documents
> License type: LaTeX Project
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Changes:
> o trim parameter and draft option can be used
>   with the "inactive" option
> o Size and alignment after trimming changed.
> o Parameter "hpos" and "vpos" removed.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, it was installed as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Jun  6 05:09:05 2003
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:21:22 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Basil K. Malyshev <malyshev@mx.ihep.su>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa 5.50 - SVG/Animated Presentations

Basil K. Malyshev submitted an update to the BaKoMa package.

I installed all files in

   nonfree/system/win32/bakoma

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

> ------------------- ORIGINAL MESSAGE ---------------------
>
> I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
> update for BaKoMa TeX 5.50 (issued 1-Jun-2003).
>
> Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
>
> BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
> from a DVI files. Ability to add animation to the SVG output,
> makes it the best for producing high quality presentations.
>
> Sample of animated presentation is available at:
>   ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html
>
> Key Features:
>  SVG output is compatible with another output formats
>  (PDF, PS, HTML, View, and Print) so, that the same graphical
>  formats, font formats, and other features are supported.
>  In details:
>  *  All TeX Formats (LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09, AmSTeX, Plain TeX) are supported.
>  *  TeX extensions (e-TeX and Omega) are supported.
>  *  ALL LaTeX packages (including PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics, draftcopy, etc.)
>      are supported.
>  *  Graphical formats: EPS, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP,
>   		       BMP, WMF, EMF, HPGL, and DXY are supported.
>  *  More generally, Any imported or embedded Postscript is supported.
>  *  Hyperref is supported, including outline and links. For \Acrobatmenu
>     most general commands (such as NextPage or PrevPage) are supported.
>  *  Popular presentation packages: Prosper, PDFScreen, PDFSlide, Seminar, etc.
>      are supported.
> *** The existing presentations can be enhanced by adding animation.
>  *  All Font Types: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, Postscript Type1
>     (including MM), Postscript Type 3, and TeX PK are supported.
>
> More information about adding animations is at:
>   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
>
> Bye.
> Basil K. Malyshev
> 2-Jun-2003
>
> PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.
>
> --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.50 ----------------------
>
> CONTENTS
>    * Highlights
>    * Graphical Capabilities
>    * Fonts
>    * User Interface
>    * PDF Generation Features
>    * HTML Generation features
>    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.50
>
> For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
>    <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
>
> BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95
>
> HIGHLIGHTS
>
>  * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system.
>  * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
>    of the file being edited.
>    (like to Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
> ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
> ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
>  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
>    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
>  * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
>    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
>  * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click
>  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
>  * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
>  * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
>  * Easy to install and use.
>  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
>
> GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
>
> BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
> which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
> software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0,
> Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw,
> FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
>
> All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible
> with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
> embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).
>
> The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
>    PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.
>
> FONTS
>
> BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
>  * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
>  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters),
>  * PostScript Type 3,
>  * TrueType,
>  * TeX PK/VF.
>
> The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
> and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
>  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
>  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
>  * EC/TC,
>  * LH (T2A),
>  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
>  * Malvern,
>  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
>  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
>  Math Fonts:
>  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
>  Diagram drawing fonts:
>  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase),
>  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd),
>  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
>
> Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
> This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
> between font formats when needed.
> This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
> On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
> for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
>
> In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts
> available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.
>
> Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
> OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click.
>
> OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0
> even without ATM.
>
> USER INTERFACE
>
> * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
>   It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly,
>   when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs,
>   mathematics, pictures, etc.
> * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen
>   for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
> * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
> * Quick navigation via document structure,
> * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
> * Powerful support for different input encodings,
> * Project support,
> * Graphics import assistant,
> * Assitance for multi-file documents:
>   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
> * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
> * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
> * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
> * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
> * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
> * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
>     correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
>     configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
> * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
> * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
> * Support for Multi-User systems.
>
> OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
>
> * View on Windows Display.
> * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
> * PostScript (really scalable),
> * PDF,
> * HTML.
>
> Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
> for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
> may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical
> capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
>
> PDF GENERATION FEATURES
>
> * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
> * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
>   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
> * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
> * Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste
>   of cyrillic and other international characters.
> * Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
>
> HTML GENERATION FEATURES
>
>  BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
>  documents into HTML files.
>   * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch
>      `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
>   * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert
>      pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
>      pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics,
>      such as slides.
>
>  In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
>  Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of
>  `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.
>
>  Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
>  In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
>  into generated HTML pages.
>
> *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.50 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.40 ***
>
> BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
> from your DVI files. Animation is supported.
>
> For more information see
>   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
>
> ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Jun  6 05:18:35 2003
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:27:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@uni-freiburg.de>
Subject: Updates by Heiko Oberdiek

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:

> I have uploaded "pagesel.dtx" and "pagesel.ins" in the
> "/incoming" directory of ftp.dante.de. They update the
> files in the directory
>   CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/
>
> The licence: LPPL 1.2.
>
> Changes:
> * Fix, if more than \maxdeadcycles pages are omitted.


> I have uploaded engord.sty in the /incoming directory
> of ftp.dante.de. It replaces the file in
>   CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/
>
> The licence remains LPPL 1.2.
>
> Changes:
> * Bug fix for 30, 40, 50, ..., 100, 130, ...
> * \ordletters renamed to documented \engordletters.

Thanks for the updates, I installed the three files in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Jun  6 05:20:15 2003
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:59:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Daniel Flipo <Daniel.Flipo@univ-lille1.fr>
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lettrine

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Daniel Flipo wrote:

> I have just uploaded into ftp.dante.de/incoming a file lettrine.tar.gz,
> which contains an upgrade (V 1.4b) of the lettrine package designed to
> typeset various sorts of dropped capitals.
>
> It should replace the old version in 'macros/latex/contrib/lettrine'.
>
> The license is unchanged (LPPL).
>
> This is a minor release, apart from cosmetic changes to the .dtx file,
> a new demo file in German has been added (contribution of Georg Wagner),
> the French demo file has been updated too.

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sun Jun  8 12:54:58 2003
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 15:53:08 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: ePiX

An update has been done of this package at tug.ctan.org and it should
propagate to a mirror near you quite soon.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: ePiX
Author's name: Andrew D. Hwang
Location on CTAN: graphics/epix
Summary description: Utility for mathematically accurate, camera quality plots and line figures
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
ePiX is now capable of true perspective drawing and plotting. Other new features are too numerous to announce; please see the documentation.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jun 10 19:06:01 2003
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:11:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Devanagari for TeX version 2.02 

Anshuman Pandey writes:

> I have uploaded velthuis.zip to the 'incoming' directory at
> ftp.tex.ac.uk. This zip archive contains version 2.02 of the
> Velthuis Devanagari for TeX package. 
> 
> This package belongs in /language/devanagari. There are three
> directories under this CTAN directory: 'contrib', 'distrib', and
> 'omega'. Please remove the 'contrib' and 'distrib' directories. The
> contents of those directories have been revised; some are included
> in this latest update, some are obsolete. 
> 
> Please unpack velthuis.zip into a new directory called 'velthuis'.
> 
> You may post a message to comp.text.tex informing readers of the new
> release if you wish. 

i've installed the new files, and deleted the old, as requested.
thanks for the upload.

in summary, the whole of the old devanagari/contrib and /distrib
directories are replaced (or superseded) by a new subtree
devanagari/velthuis; the existing subtree devanagari/omega is
untouched.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jun 11 05:33:08 2003
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:47:12 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "[ISO-8859-1] J�rgen G�bel" <juergen.goebel@sysde.eads.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: savesym

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 J�rgen G�bel submitted the following
contribution:

> Name of contribution: savesym
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/savesym
> Summary description: saves and restores symbols
> License type: LaTeX Project
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> There are a number of symbols (e.g., \Square) that are defined by multiple packages.  In order to typeset all the
> variants in a document, we have to give glyph a unique
> name.  To do that, we define \savesymbol{XXX}, which renames a symbol from \XXX to \origXXX, and
> \restoresymbols{yyy}{XXX}, which renames \origXXX back to
> \XXX and defines a new command, \yyyXXX, which corresponds
> to the most recently loaded version of \XXX.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the file in directory

  macros/latex/contrib/savesym

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jun 12 12:05:59 2003
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:08:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w-a-schmidt@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: Euler-VM fonts 3.0

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> the ZIP archive file eulervm-30.zip has been uploaded to
> the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack
> it into the directory
>
>   fonts/eulervm
>
> Doing so will update all files in this directory and in the
> subdirectories tfm/, vf/ and fontinst/, and add also some new
> files (in fontinst/).
>
> This is version 3.0 of the Virtual Euler Math fonts and the
> related LaTeX macros.
>
> From the change log:
>
> * The symbols \leq and \geq now show the shape that is
> preferred by DEK in conjunction with the Euler fonts.
> (Credits to Frank Mittelbach for pointing me to this!)
> The width of the symbols is unchanged.
>
> * The package option [small] now acts on the AMS fonts,
> too, so there are no more restrictions affecting the
> usage of amssymb.sty in conjunction with the Euler fonts.
>
> * Slightly changed mapping of font sizes to design sizes
> used.  Particularly, when a math font with a size of 8pt is
> requested, we are now going to scale up a 7pt font, rather
> than scaling down a 10pt one.  This should improve the
> apprearance of documents with a normal font size of 11pt,
> where 8pt is used for super- and subscripts.  Strictly
> speaking, this is an incompatible change, but I hope that
> the amount of practical problems is tolerable, as compared
> with the improvement.
>
> * Fixed Makefile so as not to install the auto-generated FD
> files, which are lacking the code for the [small] option.
>
> * VFs and TFMs were now generated using the latest version of
> fontinst.  As a result, the font metrics have changed slightly,
> because of the improved rounding algorithm.  This may cause
> problems when procesing existing DVI files, but the metrics are
> definitely correct now.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jun 12 12:06:12 2003
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:09:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Claudio Beccari <claudio.beccari@polito.it>
Subject: Re: Upload of archive teubner.zip

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Claudio Beccari wrote:

> I just uploaded a new version of my previous teubner.zip package. It should
> replace the existing package in the teubner folder that already exists on
> the CTAN.
>
> The material as always is free under th lppl.
>
> The update corrects some small glitches, but most important of all refers
> explicitely to the recently uploaded CB greek fonts in scalable pfb format
> that are available since past november on CTAN.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/teubner

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jun 12 12:05:51 2003
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:13:03 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Johannes Heinecke <johannes.heinecke@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: serto

On Wed, Johannes Heinecke submitted:

> Name of contribution: serto
> Suggested location on CTAN: languages/aramaic
> Summary description: syriac fonts, style-files and a preprocessor to typeset Syriac (Aramaic)
> License type: LaTeX Project
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package enables (La)TeX users to typeset words or phrases (elatex
> needed) in Syriac (Aramaic) using the Serto-alphabet. The package
> includes a preprocessor written in Pythin (>= 1.5.2) in order to deal
> with the right-to-left typesetting for those who do not want to use
> elatex and to choose the correct letter depending on word context
> (initial/medial/final form)
> Detailed documentation and examples are included.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in

  languages/aramaic/serto

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jun 12 21:59:31 2003
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 01:07:41 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: progress

A package has been upgraded at the tug.ctan.org node of CTAN and should
make its way through the system to your favorite mirror in the next day 
or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

========================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: progress
Author's name: Kasper B. Graversen
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/progress
Summary description: "Progress" is a package which when compiling LaTeX 
   documents,  generates a HTML file giving an overview of the documents 
   state (of how finished its parts are).    
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
"Progress" is a package which when compiling LaTeX documents,  generates 
a HTML file giving an overview of the documents state (of how finished 
its parts are).    

This is a new version which replaces the old files in the catalogue.

New is "progressReportName" option to control report filename and a small 
bugfix.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Jun 13 05:51:03 2003
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:06:45 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Apostolos Syropoulos <apostolo@ocean1.ee.duth.gr>
Subject: Re: missing files

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:

>   I have uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming the file OInuit.zip
> This file contains four TFM files that are missing from the package
> oinuit located in /pub/tex/languages/inuktitut/oinuit. Please create
> the directory /pub/tex/languages/inuktitut/oinuit/tfm and install the
> TFM files there. In addition, replace the file
> /pub/tex/languages/inuktitut/oinuit/lambda/oinuit.dtx with the file
> that is included in the ZIP file. The old file contains a tiny bug.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  languages/inuktitut/oinuit

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Jun 13 05:52:50 2003
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:10:55 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Jacek Ruzyczka <uv_centcom@yahoo.com>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: TeXlogos


A submission was uploaded to CTAN

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

> Name of contribution: TeXlogos
> Name and email: Jacek Ruzyczka
> Suggested location on CTAN:
> Summary description: Defines a number of ready-to-use LaTeX logos.
> License type: LaTeX Project
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> TeXlogos defines an assortment of frequently used logos
> not contained in base LaTeX itself - for instance:
> *) the METAFONT, METAPOST, AMS, BibTeX and SliTeX logos
>    (you only need the appropriate CM/Logo/AMS fonts)
> *) currency symbols which do NOT require TCRM fonts:
>    Euro, Cent, Yen, Won, Naira
> *) the C++ logo with the '+' signs properly positioned
> *) the logo of the Vienna University Business
>    Administration Center (BWZ)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the submission. It was installed in

   macros/latex/contrib/texlogos

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Mon Jun 16 04:56:08 2003
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:08:33 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Directory language/spanish

----- Forwarded message from Javier Bezos -----
I've uploaded to the Dante server the file spanish.zip.

Until now, the language/spanish directory was a mess,
with several hyphenation files (some of them wrong)
and very outdated information. Please, remove the
whole contents of that directory and replace it by
the files inside spanish.zip, namely:

readme.txt
obsolete/eshyph.tex
obsolete/sphyph/shyphen.sh
obsolete/sphyph/sphyph.tex
hyphen/readme.txt
hyphen/division.pdf
hyphen/eshyph.tex

Replace the file eshyph.tex under language/hyphenation by
the new one (ie, hyphen/eshyph.tex), too.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thank you very much for cleaning this up.  I installed the new version
as suggested in CTAN:language/spanish and a link from
language/hyphenation/eshyph.tex to language/spanish/hyphen/eshyph.tex

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jun 18 11:53:02 2003
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:58:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Dirk Krause <krause.dirk@web.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: bmeps 1.0.7

A submission was uploaded CTAN.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

> Name of contribution: bmeps 1.0.7
> Suggested location on CTAN: /support/bmeps
> Summary description: bmeps 1.0.7 - Converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS
> License type: GNU Library
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Overview:
> This package contains a library and a command line program
> to convert from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS. Different
> compression and encoding mechanisms are available
> when producing the EPS output file.
> Suggestions how to modify dvips to use the library are
> included too.
>
> Update contents:
> When running as a filter the program calls setmode()
> to switch standard input into binaray mode before
> the image is read. This is neccessary on some operating
> systems - i.e. Windows - to process images from standard
> input properly.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thnaks for the update, it was installed as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jun 18 17:05:13 2003
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:21:06 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new package on CTAN: igo

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim 

=================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: igo
Author's name: �tienne Dupuis
Location on CTAN: fonts/igo
Summary description: Fonts and macro to typeset Go diagrams
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The package igo is based on go, a package written in 1991 by Hanna 
Kolodziejska which provides typesetting facilities for Go games and 
positions. Although igo contains roughly the same commands as the original 
package and uses the fonts created by Kolodziejska, it has (hopefully) been 
improved by
1. Using command names less likely to conflict with standard AMS packages;
2. Allowing different board sizes to be used;
3. Understanding a standardized notation for board coordinates;
4. Providing the facility to work on more than one board.
Moreover, a few commands were reworked to define positions or game sequences 
more conveniently.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 20 08:42:57 2003
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:45:06 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: uk tug faq v3.7

i've just installed v3.7 of the faq, on the web (www.tex.ac.uk/faq)
and on ctan in directory help/uk-tug-faq.

apart from the steady accretion of answers, there have been big
changes in:

- "quality of pdf from postscript", which has been split into several
  bite-sized chunks, following a complaint from a user that it was too
  daunting
  (http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dvips-pdf) 

- "installing files", which has gained the first few of a series about
  installing fonts.  these have proved extremely difficult to write: 
  striking a balance between accessibility and completeness, while
  retaining the crucial compactness needed of a faq answer, has taxed
  my feeble writing skills something rotten
  (http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instfont is the
  first of the series; follow "next question" to review the set)

in addition, the ctan distribution also includes an archive of the
static html version of the faq that i've been offering to distribution
builders for some time: see FAQ-html.tar.gz

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

(my apologies to c.t.t people: i can't announce things to ctan-ann
without bothering you.)

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Jun 21 18:09:55 2003
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:21:58 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk@ptb.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ps4pdf v0.6c

A submission was uploaded to CTAN by Rolf Niepraschk:

 > Name of contribution: ps4pdf v0.6c
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/
 > Summary description: Using Postscript code in pdfLaTeX documents
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Changes:
 > o The name of the graphics container can now be changed.
 > o A document without any \PSforPDF commands creates now
 >   an empty container file.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Jun 21 18:10:25 2003
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:24:13 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Andreas Matthias <amat@kabsi.at>
Cc: CTAN <ctan-ann@dante.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- pdfpages v0.3a

On 21 Jun 2003, Andreas Matthias wrote:

 > I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages-v0.3a.tar.bz2' to
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > Please, extract this archive and replace the files in
 >
 >   /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages/
 >
 > This version adds support for VTeX.
 >
 > The `pdfpages' package makes it easy to insert pages of
 > external PDF documents. Several logical pages can be
 > arranged onto each sheet of paper. The package provides
 > hypertext operations like hyperlinks and article threads.
 >
 > It is distributed under the LPPL.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in:

   macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jun 25 11:14:16 2003
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:33:10 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: pst-circ

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================== 

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: pst-circ
Author's name: Christophe Jorssen
Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ
Summary description: PSTricks package for drawing electric circuits
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
pst-circ is a package built above PSTricks and in particular pst-node. 
It can draw easily current dipoles, some tripoles and quadrupoles used 
in elecronic or electric theory. For a presentation, see 
http://pstcirc.free.fr
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jun 25 16:14:16 2003
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:34:31 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk -- textpos v1.3

Norman Gray writes:

>    + what you've uploaded
> 
> textpos-1.3.tar.gz
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
> 
>    + where you want the files to go
> 
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/textpos/
> ...replacing the files already there

in fact, it's become macros/latex/contrib/textpos

(we're phasing out the supported directory).

>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
> 
> GPL
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
> Version 1.3 adds the \textblockcolour command, specifying the
> background colour of text blocks.

thanks for the upload: installed as noted.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jun 25 18:22:39 2003
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 22:47:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload: bitfield.dtx 

Reuben Thomas writes:

> I want to withdraw a package I have previously submitted to CTAN. The
> reason for this is that there's now a superior package on CTAN that
> performs the same function rather better, and I want to avoid confusion
> among users. I have often wasted time when I have found two or three
> different packages that do the same job, because I have to evaluate them
> in order to pick the one I should use. I want to spare other users this
> tedium by removing my inferior package.
> 
> In my opinion my bitfield package is superseded by bytefield. I would
> certainly use bytefield in future rather than my package. The few features
> that bytefield does not provide which bitfield provides are, I think,
> unnecessary, and a result of my lack of understanding of typesetting.
> 
> Below is a list of what I originally uploaded:
> 
> > As per README.uploads:
> >
> > + what you've uploaded
> >
> > bitfield.dtx, bitfield.ins
> >
> > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> >
> > cam.ctan.org
> >
> > + where you want the files to go
> >
> > macros/latex/contrib/supported/bitfield/

i have moved bitfield from the macros tree (it had migrated to
macros/latex/contrib/bitfield) to the corresponding place on the
obsolete tree, but it will remain in the incorrect place in the
catalogue until that is next updated (not under my control).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Jun 26 06:30:00 2003
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:06:26 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: volker.kiefel@freenet.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: References

> A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030626.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: References
> Name and email: Volker Kiefel
> Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/support/references
> Summary description: Bibliographic software supporting LaTeX/BibTeX
> License type: GNU Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of
> scientific manuscripts and for management of
> bibliographic data of ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, of BOOKS
> and of CHAPTERS IN BOOKS and other document types
> including notes and electronic documents.  REFERENCES
> supports LaTeX including BibTeX.  Bibliographic records
> in MEDLINE format are easily converted. Retrieval of
> references by keywords, authors' or editors' names,
> date of publication, title of article, book title,
> journal name or combinations thereof is possible.
> Lists of references can be compiled in any
> bibliographic style required by the publishers of
> scientific journals. REFERENCES is provided with a text
> based console interface compiled for win32-systems, an
> external text editor is required for editing data.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
old version in CTAN:support/references/.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jun 26 16:11:38 2003
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 19:18:08 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new package on CTAN: MLA package

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon 
propagate to your favorite local mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: mla-paper
Author's name: Ryan Aycock
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mla-paper
Summary description: This package allows for proper MLA formatting
License type: bsd

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
LaTeX is a wonderful tool that has long been known for 
typesetting scientific papers books.  Unfortunately, 
when it comes to the humanities, writers are left out in 
the cold due to the lack of packages for writing in the 
MLA style.  The aim of this package is to allow students 
and other academics properly typeset their materials 
with minimal effort on their part.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 27 09:44:38 2003
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:49:27 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: 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 1.01, or 3.14 if you prefer, 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.
>         (a) New features: optional lowpass text anti-aliasing for gif images,
>             and optional HTTP_REFERER check blocks use from unwanted domains.
>         (b) Also: several (very obscure:) bug fixes.
>      From original submission...
>              MimeTeX parses LaTeX math expressions, and emits either
>         mime xbitmaps or gif images of them, rather than TeX dvi's.
>         Therefore, mimeTeX's images can be directly used by 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>
>         without intermediate dvi-to-gif conversion, and without storing
>         lots of resulting little gif files, one file for each converted
>         expression.  This makes your html documents more readable and
>         easily maintained.  See
>                 http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html#examples
>         for examples demonstrating mimeTeX's features and usage.
>              MimeTeX isn't primarily meant for latex2html-like tasks
>         where you're maintaining native LaTeX documents that are later
>         redistributed in several formats, including html.  Rather, mimeTeX
>         is primarily meant to help maintain native html documents containing
>         math.  In this sense it's a kind of "lightweight" alternative to
>         MathML, with the advantage that mimeTeX preserves LaTeX syntax.
>              Similar non-MathML packages, like textogif and gladTeX,
>         require setup procedures that use TeX to help generate external
>         gif images of your equations, which are later included
>         in your html document as it's being rendered.  MimeTeX, as far
>         as I know, is the only such non-MathML package that has its
>         own built-in parser and rendering engine, entirely independent
>         of TeX, and therefore requires no setup procedure or external
>         images whatsoever.  It renders realtime, on-the-fly images
>         directly from LaTeX math expressions embedded in html documents.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jun 30 09:02:49 2003
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:15:59 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New on CTAN: numalg.bst

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way
to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===========================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: numalg.bst
Author's name: Richard J Mathar
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib
Summary description: BibTeX style for Kluwer's Numerical Algorithms
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A BibTeX style file for the journal "Numerical Algorithms"
published by Kluwer.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jul  1 08:39:42 2003
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:53:09 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: Manuscript

The a package has been upgraded on the tug.ctan.org node of CTAN and
through the magic of automatic mirroring should make its way to your
favorite local mirror quite soon.
 
Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Manuscript
Author's name: Matej Cepl
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/manuscript
Summary description: LaTeX package emulating look of document typed on typewriter
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Purpose of this package is to emulate appearance of the
document written on classical typewriter as much as possible.
Originally created as a response to backward looking 
demands for layout created for typewriters, it now tries to 
emulate them as much as possible. It may be even useful, when 
the directions are non-negotiable. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jul  3 08:28:04 2003
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:40:57 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: Progress

An upgrade has been made to the CTAN package described below and by
now it should have made its way to your favorite local mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Progress
Author's name: Kasper B. Graversen
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/progress 
Summary description: "Progress" is a package which when compiling LaTeX 
  documents,  generates a HTML file giving an overview of the documents 
  state (of how finished its parts are).
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The package has become more configurable and now allows a graphical 
representation of progress as an alternative to the textural one. Finally, 
the two representations can easily be combined or used alternativly as 
done in the progress.dvi file in the archive.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul  6 11:38:06 2003
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 15:36:44 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload announcement (octavo class)

Stefan A. Revets writes:

> Please find here hopefully complete and relevant details of an
> upload I have made today to CTAN. As this is my first attempt at
> writing a LaTeX package, I welcome any comments or suggestions you
> may have before putting the package on CTAN.

i've had a quick look, but i see no reason not to install your
submission as it stands.

> Name of the package: octavo.zip (containing octavo.dtx, octavo.ins, read.me)
> CTAN upload node: ftp.tex.ac.uk
> Suggested repository: macros/latex/contrib/supported/octavo
> Licensing conditions: lppl
> Summary of the package:
>    Octavo provides a modification of the standard LaTeX book class
>    to typeset books following classical layout and design
>    principles. In particular, book formats are set to classical
>    sizes such as foolscap, crown, post, demy, etc., margins are set
>    harmonically, an attempt is made to maintain a constant grid of
>    printed lines throughout the text, and the page styles are
>    defined more discretely. The documentation includes methods to
>    produce signatures so that books can actually be made by the
>    user.

i've actually installed the files in macros/latex/contrib/octavo,
since the supported/misc distinction is disappearing and all of both
directories is being moved into contrib/

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Jul  7 03:51:31 2003
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 09:13:29 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- ps2eps 1.45

----- Forwarded message from Roland Bless -----
- I just uploaded an updated version of the ps2eps tool
  to ftp.dante.de. It's all in the subdir /incoming/ps2eps.

- You can replace the existing version in "support/ps2eps"

- The program is licensed under gpl. 

Due to a major bugfix, please announce the update 
-- if admissible -- as follows to CTAN-ANN.

ps2eps 1.45 in CTAN:support/ps2eps
==================================
ps2eps is a tool to produce Encapsulated PostScript Files (EPS/EPSF)
from usual one-paged Postscript documents. It calculates correct
Bounding Boxes for those EPS files and filters some special postscript
command sequences that can produce errorneous results on printers.

You need:
 - perl (an interpreter for the perl language, see http://www.perl.com)
 - ghostscript (an interpreter/raster image processor
                for the PostScript language,
                see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/)
 - maybe an ANSI-C compiler if you don't use Linux, Solaris, Digital Unix,
   HP-UX or Windows 9x/NT/2000.
- The program is licensed under gpl.

Main changes 1.39 -> 1.45
----------------------------
Please note:
Versions <=1.42 may have changed postscript output by
filtering too much postscript instructions. This could
have been lead to wrongly colored boxes and text. Please
consider re-running ps2eps over your files now. Sorry for
the inconvenience!

- corrected filter for deleting initclip instead of rectangles

- option processing is done by GetOpt, i.e. long options are
  available, too. Syntax for -s has changed therefore.

- Wildcards are resolved within the program, thus Windows users
  will profit from it.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:/support/ps2eps/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jul  7 12:16:40 2003
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 16:31:01 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: sorry ... 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memupdate.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this
> to replace some of the files in
> macros/latex/contrib(/supported?)/memoir. 
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     Memoir is a flexible class for typesetting general fiction,
> non-fiction and mathematical works as books, reports, articles or
> manuscripts. Documents can use 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, or 17pt as the
> normal font size. Many methods are provided to let you create your
> particular design. 
> 
> Changes (2003/06/28)
> O New version 1.6 of mempatch.sty (improved even/odd page checking,
>   page layout, and bug fixes). 
> O New version of the Addendum (memmanadd.pdf)
> O New version of the README.
> O NO CHANGES TO ANY OTHER FILE.

i've moved memoir down to macros/latex/contrib/memoir, and i've
installed the files.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jul  8 09:37:49 2003
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:51:27 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: LaTeX4Jed

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

====================================================================

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:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This LaTeX4Jed update introduces many new features: the ability to work 
on compressed files, new shortcuts, improved indentation of environments, 
and better documentation.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul  8 16:25:33 2003
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:32:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "[ISO-8859-1] Lars Hellstr�m" <Lars.Hellstrom@math.umu.se>
Subject: Re: xdoc upload

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Lars Hellstr�m wrote:

 > I have to ftp.dante.de uploaded an archive xdoc.tar.gz into /incoming. It
 > contains a directory xdoc with the six files:
 >   README.txt
 >   docindex.dtx
 >   docindex.ins
 >   xdoc2.dtx
 >   xdoc2.ins
 >   xdocdemo.tex
 > and I would like to have them put in /macros/latex/contrib/xdoc. The
 > licence that applies is the LPPL.
 >
 > This is an update of the material in /macros/latex/exptl/xdoc, so that
 > directory and its contents can be removed. It should probably be replaced
 > by a link to the new contrib/xdoc directory.
 >
 > BTW, am I right if I assume that you are in a process of moving the
 > previous contents of /macros/latex/contrib/other and
 > /macros/latex/contrib/supported to simply /macros/latex/contrib?  (It
 > certainly looks that way in the archive.)

Yes, we are. We announced this on the ctan-ann mailing lsit a while ago.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the new material in

  macros/latex/contrib/xdoc

and changed the directory

  macros/latex/exptl/xdoc

to a link to the new one.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

 >
 > On what these files are:
 >
 > xdoc2.dtx:
 >   The xdoc2 package contains reimplementations of some of
 >   the features found in the standard LaTeX doc package
 >   by Mittelbach et al. Amongst other things, these
 >   reimplementations provide support for:
 >   * definiting new commands similar to \DescribeMacro and
 >     new environments similar to the macro environment,
 >   * two-sided document layouts,
 >   * sorting of version numbers as 2 < 11 < 100
 >     (if they are marked up using \uintver),
 >   * external cross-referencing,
 >   * making index entries for invisible characters,
 >   * optionally ignoring certain prefixes (such as @ and
 >     @@) in macro names when sorting them.
 >   The xdocdemo document demonstrates a couple of these
 >   features.
 >
 >   I consider the xdoc2 package to merely be the second
 >   prototype for an (as yet nonexistant) package xdoc which
 >   should provide the same features (and more). I have
 >   decided to release the prototype to make its functionality
 >   generally avaiable, but under a variant name to avoid
 >   future incompatibility problems. (E.g., the final xdoc
 >   package will probably use many LaTeX2e* features that are
 >   still on the prototype stage. xdoc2, on the other hand,
 >   uses no LaTeX2e* features.)
 >
 > docindex.dtx:
 >   docindex.dtx contains a reimplementation of the doc mechanisms for
 >   sorting and formatting a sorted index. docindex.ins installs two forms
 >   of this package: docindex (which is a LaTeX2e* package) and docidx2e
 >   (which works with the normal LaTeX2e). The main advantage of these
 >   packages over the doc mechanisms is that configuration has been made
 >   much easier.


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 11 09:35:10 2003
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:44:40 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: ecltree updated

the ecltree macros, which have been dormant for *ages*, have now been
updated, by frank mittelbach with the authors permission, for better
performance with current latex.  (in parallel, i've done minor
modernisation of the documentation.)

i've installed the new version in macros/latex/contrib/eclbip (the
old macros/latex209/contrin/eclbip directory has moved to the the
obsolete/ tree).

the licence is now lppl.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Jul 11 11:58:41 2003
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:15:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "[ISO-8859-1] Frank K�ster" <frank@kuesterei.ch>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: Update of labbook

A submission was uploaded to CTAN:

> Name of contribution: Update of labbook
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/labbook
> Summary description: Typeset laboratory journals.
> License type: LaTeX Project
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> From the description:
>
> labbook.cls - a document class that produces an index of sectioning commands
>
> This class is designed to typeset laboratory journals that contain chronologically ordered records about experiments. From the sectioning commands, an experiment index is generated. The class is based on the KOMA-Script class scrbook.cls.
>
> The update fixes some annoying bugs and introduces some new features. First of all, there can now be several index entries for one experiment
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Jul 13 05:44:41 2003
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:57:51 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: massimiliano dominici <mlgdominici@interfree.it>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: parrun

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 massimiliano dominici submitted to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: parrun
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/
 > Summary description: typesets (two) streams of text running parallel.
 > License type: GNU Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > For typesetting translated text and his original source, parallel on the same page, one above the other.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/parrun

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 13 05:50:21 2003
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:10:01 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new ctan item: bibcheck.sty

in the course of a thread on a mailing list, cv raman mentioned a
package of his, that checks that every entry in a thebibliography
environment has been cited.  i have (with his permission) installed
the package on ctan, as macros/latex/contrib/misc/bibcheck.sty

the licence of the package is gpl.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jul 14 15:40:24 2003
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:46:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- OriyaTeX v0.99 

anshuman pandey writes:

> I've uploaded the file oriya-tex-0.99.zip to
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/. This zip archive contains files for
> Oriya-TeX v0.99. These files should replace all existing materials
> in /language/oriya. 

i've installed the files (nonfree/language/oriya, the same as the
previous version).

thanks for the upload.

robin

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jul 15 11:54:38 2003
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:03:23 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should make its way
to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix
Summary description: LaTeXPiX is a windows drawing tool for LaTeX
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
LaTeXPiX is a windows drawing tool for LaTeX.  The new version has many 
improvements.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul 15 11:53:20 2003
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:09:50 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: package decimal

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:

>   I have uploaded the files decimal.dtx and decimal.ins in
>   ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/decimal. This LaTeX package should be
>   used by people who need the traditional English decimal point,
>   instead of the American-style period. Please install the package
>   in any place you feel it is appropriate.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the file in

  macros/latex/contrib/decimal

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Wed Jul 16 09:22:56 2003
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:36:12 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- fontinst

----- Forwarded message from Lars Hellstr�m -----
I have to ftp.dante.de uploaded an archive fontinst.tar.gz into /incoming.
It contains the new fontinst release (v1.926), and the license is as usual
the LPPL.

I think the following will be the best course of action with this:

....
2. Place the archive contents in fonts/utilities/fontinst.

3. Delete the fontinst-prerelease hierarchy, and replace it with a link to
its fontinst sibling. The reason for making a link is that there are are
references to fontinst-prerelease here and there on the 'net, and it seems
unnecessary to break them.
....

Short quote from the README:

Fontinst is a program that helps with installing fonts
for (La)TeX. Since it is written entirely in TeX macros,
it is completely portable.

More precisely, fontinst helps mainly with the number
crunching and shoveling parts of font installation. This
means in practice that it creates a number of files which
give the TeX metrics (and related information) for a font
family that (La)TeX needs to do any typesetting in these
fonts. Fontinst furthermore makes it easy to create fonts
containing glyphs from more than one base font, taking
advantage of e.g. "expert" font sets.

Fontinst cannot examine files to see if they contain any
useful information, nor automatically search for files
or work with binary file formats; those tasks must
normally be done manually or with the help of some other
tool, such as the pltotf and vptovf programs.

Lars Hellstr�m
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version in
CTAN:fonts/utilities/fontinst/ replacing the old version.
For the time being, the link CTAN:fonts/utilities/fontinst-prerelease
points to the new directory.

-- 
Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jul 16 11:24:31 2003
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:38:57 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: texhax@tug.org
Subject: the demise of macros/latex/contrib/supported

earlier this year, at a ctan planning meeting, we decided to abolish
the distinction between "supported" and "other" packages installed
under macros/latex/contrib

the decision was made because we have watched the steady erosion of
the distinction since 1994, when the sub-trees were created.  for
example, there were packages that plainly were supported installed
under other/, while maintainers of packages installed under supported/
were unavailable to perform any maintenance.

as of today, the subtrees of macros/latex/contrib have disappeared
from the main ctan sites.  the subtree directories other/ and
supported/ will retain a shadowy (soft link) existence until the end
of september 2003.  (apart from the convenience of users for which
addresses are memory-imprinted, the ctan team has still to complete
the required changes to the catalogue: the uk faq will be up to date
at its next release in a day or two).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jul 17 08:13:48 2003
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:24:38 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package installed: isi2bib-vim

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and is right now 
making its way through the wire to your favorite local mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

====================================================================== 

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: isi2bib-vim
Author's name: Ajit Thakkar
Location on CTAN: support/vim
Summary description: Vim script to convert a bibliographic database from 
   ISI to BiBTeX format
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
isi2bib.vim is a script that enables Vim (a popular text editor) to 
convert a bibliographic database from ISI (Institute of Scientific 
Information, Web of Science) export format to BIBTeX format.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 18 16:19:24 2003
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:33:07 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- combine class 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded combine.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/combine. 
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
>     The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a
> single document, such as when preparing conference proceedings. 
> 
> Changes in version 0.51 (2003/07/17)
> o Added macro to fix stack overflow for the combination: pdflatex +
>   combine + graphicx + caption2. 

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 18 16:23:03 2003
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:50:23 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submision --- humanist font 

>     I have uploaded humanist.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current fonts/bookhands/humanist. The distribution is
> under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
>     The humanist and allhmin packages povide Metafont fonts based on
> the Humanist manuscript bookhand used from the 14th century. This is
> one in a series of manuscript fonts.
> 
> Changes in version 1.1 (2003/06/2)
> o Added "ae" and "AE" conjunctions.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 20 04:22:27 2003
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 08:15:34 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: framed.sty + headings 

Donald Arseneau writes (quoting a post on c.t.t):

> > if a framed environment is split across pages, the headings will be
> > placed too high on the page where the environment starts.
> 
> I've uploaded version 0.8 to ctan/uk

and i've installed the new version to replace the old one in
macros/latex/contrib/misc; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul 21 04:31:42 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:36:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w-a-schmidt@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submssion -- gensymb.sty v1.0

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the file gensymb.dtx to the /incoming
> directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please, move it to the
> directory macros/latex/contrib/was/, thus replacing the
> existing dtx file
>
> This is version 1.0 of the LaTeX macro package gensymb.
> It provides generic commands \degree, \celsius,
> \perthousand, \micro and \ohm, which work in both text
> and math mode.  The license is LPPL.
>
> As compared with the previous version 0.99, the error
> handling has been improved and a potential clash with
> the next LaTeX release is avoided.  The user interface
> and the output are unchanged.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/was/gensymb.dtx

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul 21 04:37:57 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:42:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "[ISO-8859-1] Lars Hellstr�m" <Lars.Hellstrom@math.umu.se>
Subject: Re: tclldoc upload

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Lars Hellstr�m wrote:

> I have to ftp.dante.de uploaded an archive tclldoc.tar.gz into /incoming. I
> would like to have the contents placed in macros/latex/contrib/tclldoc. The
> contents replace those of macros/latex/contrib/supported/tcldoc, so that
> directory can be replaced by a link to macros/latex/contrib/tclldoc. (The
> package has been renamed since I uploaded that.)

Thanks for the upload, I installed the update to

  macros/latex/contrib/tclldoc

and a link in

  macros/latex/contrib/tcldoc

Note that the supported subdirectory does no longer exist, except as a
link.

The the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

> The license is LPPL.
>
> From the README:
>
> The purpose of the tclldoc package and class is to
> simplify using the classical doc/docstrip style of
> literate programming with Dr. John Ousterhout's
> Tool Command Language (Tcl, pronounced "tickle",
> a.k.a. The Cool Language). The tclldoc package is
> a bit like the doc package is for LaTeX, whereas
> the tclldoc class more parallels the ltxdoc class.
>
> The tools subdirectory of this directory contains
> two tools that you may find useful complements to
> the tclldoc package. Both are Tcl scripts that make
> it possible to source Tcl code stored in a .dtx file
> without using docstrip to generate any .tcl file in
> between. Naturally, they are both distributed as
> pairs of .dtx and .ins files, so they can also be
> used as examples of using the tclldoc package.
>
> The examples subdirectory of this directory contains
> two more examples of Tcl packages written in the
> doc/docstrip style of literate programming. One is
> a package for writing PDF files, the other a package
> for parsing Tcl scripts.
>
> Lars Hellstr�m

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul 21 04:34:27 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:49:51 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Christophe Jorssen and Herbert Voss <voss@perce.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-circ

Christophe Jorssen and Herbert Voss uploaded:

> Name of contribution: pst-circ
> Summary description: pst-circ is a PSTricks package to draw electric curcuits
> License type: LaTeX Project
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> this version fixes some bugs and has new symbols for
> thyristor/GTO/coil.
>
> Please delete _all_ files in the above dir and
> save the new ones from the tgz.
> thanks
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul 21 04:39:35 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:17:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: The Font Installation Guide 1.20

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Philipp Lehman wrote:

> I've uploaded the file 'fontinstallationguide.pdf' to the incoming
> directory on ftp.dante.de. This is a maintenance release.
>
> Please install it as CTAN:info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide.pdf,
> replacing the previous version.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul 21 04:39:17 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:21:08 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w-a-schmidt@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- PSNFSS 9.0c

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have uploaded the files psnfss9c.zip, lw35nfss.zip and
> freenfss.zip to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org.
>
> Please, unpack psnfss9c.zip in the directory
>
>   macros/latex/required/psnfss
>
> and copy the other zip files to the same directory, without
> unpacking them.
>
> This is version 9.0c of the PSNFSS collection, the interface
> to use the Base 35 and other free PostScript fonts with LaTeX.

Thanks for the update. I replaced the directory

  macros/latex/required/psnfss

with its new contents.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


> From the change log:
>
> * mathptmx,sty, mathpazo.sty:  \upOmega and \UpDelta are of
> type \mathord now, to make sure that they are always upright
>
> * pifont.sty:  \Pifill and \dingfill should no longer fail at
> the beginning or end of a paragraph. (Bug fix suggested by FMi.)
>
> * mathptm(x).sty:  \jmath, \coprod, and \amalg will now generate
> error messages rather than print black squares.  (Suggested by
> FMi.)
>
> * Small changes to the documentation.
>
> * Enhanced test0.tex to test also the math alphabets.
>
> * 8r.enc:  version 2.0, comprising all of the Mac Roman
> character set, too.
>
> * The *.map files and the file 8r.enc have been moved out of the
> ZIP archives, since their final location in the texmf tree may
> vary due to changes in the TDS specs.
>
>
> Notice that the font metrics, virtual fonts and fd files
> are unchanged for the time being.  The archives lw35nfss.zip
> and freenfss.zip were updated only because the .map and .enc
> files are no longer included there.  (See the last item of
> the change log.)
>
> The license of PSNFSS is, of course, LPPL.

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul 21 05:46:04 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:02:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Staszek Wawrykiewicz <staw@gust.org.pl>
Subject: Re: lm085.zip on dante:/incoming

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:

> I've just uploaded to dante:/incoming/lm085.zip
> The package contains latin modern fonts in type 1 format
> and can be considered as outline replacement for ec+tc fonts.

Thanks for the fonts, I installed them in

   fonts/ps-type1/lm

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul 21 17:03:11 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:09:12 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Felix Berkemeier <felix.berkemeier@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: betababel

A new package was uploaded to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: betababel
 > Name and email: Felix Berkemeier
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/
 > Summary description: Betababel is a macro that allows to insert ancient greek text coded in Beta Code into your document.
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The betababel package provides a simple way to insert ancient greek
 > texts with diacritical characters into your document through the
 > commonly used Beta Code transliteration. You can directly insert Beta
 > Code texts - as they can be found at the Perseus project, for example -
 > without modification.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your submission. I installed the package in

   macros/latex/contrib/betababel

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Tue Jul 22 10:46:26 2003
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:57:50 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- LaTeXPiX

> A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
> Name and email: Nick van Beurden <beurden@email.com>
> Suggested location on CTAN: as is
> Summary description: LaTeXPiX is a LaTeX figure editor for Windows.
> License type: Public Domain
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> LaTeXPiX already exists within the CTAN archive. Could you please update the distribution with the supplied new version. Maybe you could announce it, for it removes some bugs compared with the previous release. Thanks a lot for your help.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested replacing
the old one in CTAN:systems/win32/latexpix/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Jul 22 10:47:13 2003
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:26:41 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- polytable

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: polytable
Name and email: Andres Loeh <polytable@andres-loeh.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/polytable
Summary description: tabular-like environments with named columns
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package implements a variant of tabular-like environments
where columns can be given a name and entries can flexibly
be placed between arbitrary columns. Complex alignment-based
layouts, for example for program code, are possible.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

XML file:
**********************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="polytable"
       datestamp="2003/07/22" 
       modifier="ftpmaint@dante.ctan.org">
  <about>
    <name>polytable</name>
    <caption>tabular-like environments with named columns</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Andres Loeh</name>
      <email>polytable@andres-loeh.de</email>
    </author>
    <license type="LaTeX Project" />
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      This package implements a variant of tabular-like environments
where columns can be given a name and entries can flexibly
be placed between arbitrary columns. Complex alignment-based
layouts, for example for program code, are possible.

    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>macros/latex/contrib/polytable</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
**********************************************************************

Thanks for the upload.  I installed you package as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/polytable

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jul 23 12:11:06 2003
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:10:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Mathieu Goutelle <mgoutell@alussinan.org>
Subject: Re: [CTAN submission] "Prosper Preview" class

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Mathieu Goutelle wrote:

> Dear CTAN maintainers,
>
> Here are the informations about the upload of a new document class:
>
> >    + what you've uploaded
>
> /incoming/ppr-prv.tgz
>
> >    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>
> dante.ctan.org
>
> >    + where you want the files to go
>
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/ppr-prv
>
> >    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
> >      below).
>
> LPPL (LaTeX Project Public License)
>
> >    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> >    (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing)
>
> This class is to be used with LaTeX presentations using the prosper
> class. ppr-prv stands for "Prosper Preview". The aim of this class is
> to produce a printable version of the slides written with Prosper, with
> two slides per page. Further informations can be found in the
> 'ppr-prv.txt' file.

Thanks for your upload, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv

(The supported subdirectory does no longer exist.)

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jul 23 19:05:48 2003
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:06:14 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class update 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memupdate2.tar.gz to UK incoming.  Please use
> this to replace some of the files in macros/latex/contrib/memoir. 
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README
>     Memoir is a flexible class for typesetting general fiction,
> non-fiction and mathematical works as books, reports, articles or
> manuscripts. Documents can use 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 or 17pt as the
> normal font size. Many methods are provided to let you create your
> particular design. 
> 
> Changes (2003/07/23)
> o New version 1.7 of mempatch.sty (improved odd/even page checking,
>   spacing in the bibliography, minor tweaks with the article option,
>   and bug fixes) 
> o New version of the Addendum (memmanadd.pdf)
> o Apart from these files (and the README) no changes to any other
>   documents 

i have installed the files as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jul 24 05:45:15 2003
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:57:11 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Christophe Jorssen and Herbert Vo <voss@perce.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-circ

Christophe Jorssen and Herbert Vo� submitted an update to pst-circ:

> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> update:
> - added dipolestyle "triac" and use "rectangle" option
>   also for the transformer;
> - added quadrupol optoCoupler;
> - added transistor option "circle"

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jul 26 04:45:19 2003
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 08:46:33 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Touched-up package lazylist on ctan

i've just installed lazylist on ctan, in macros/latex/contrib/lazylist

this package, formerly known as lambda (by Alan Jeffrey), has been
renamed, with the author's agreement, to avoid conflict with the
upstart omega "lambda" (which is believed to have a greater momentum).

the package does "lists in tex's mouth", and provides a bunch of
lambda-calculus and list handling macros.

the licence is lppl (again changed with alan's permission).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jul 26 14:13:09 2003
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 18:24:17 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: footbib 

this 'ere upload daemon saith:

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20030726.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: footbib
> Name and email: Eric Domenjoud 
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/footbib/
> Summary description: make bibliographic references appear as footnotes
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> version 2.0.3 of the footbib package
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jul 28 17:17:57 2003
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:28:12 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Roland Bless <bless@tm.uka.de>
Subject: Re: ps2eps 1.47 in /incoming

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Roland Bless wrote:

 > - I just uploaded an updated version of the ps2eps tool
 >   to ftp.dante.de. It's all in the subdir /incoming/ps2eps.
 >
 > - You can replace the existing version in "support/ps2eps"
 >
 > - The program is licensed under gpl.

Thanks for the update, it's all in

  support/ps2eps

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul 29 06:53:03 2003
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:37:23 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- isodate

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded isodate.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the new
 > version of the isodate package, please replace the files in
 > CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib(/supported)/isodate. License stays LPPL.
 > There is an xml file in the distribution for the catalogue.
 >
 > From the README:
 >
 > Tune the output format of dates.
 >
 > This package provides six commands to switch the output format of the
 > commands \today, \printdate, \printdateTeX, and \daterange
 > (partly language dependent):
 > \isodate switches to yyyy-mm-dd;
 > \numdate switches to dd.\,mm.~yyyy, dd/mm/yyyy, or mm/dd/yyyy;
 > \shortdate switches to dd.\,mm.\,yy, dd/mm/yy, or mm/dd/yy;
 > \TeXdate switches to yyyy/mm/dd;
 > \origdate switches to the original LaTeX format; and
 > \shortorigdate switches to a short format, e.g. dd mmm yy.
 >
 > This version adds Swedish to the list of known languages (thanks to
 > Christian Schlauer).

Thanks for the update, I replaced the old versin by the new one, in

  macros/latex/contrib/isodate

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul 29 07:01:08 2003
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:18:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- babelbib package

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Harald Harders wrote:

 > what:  babelbib.tar.gz, README.babelbib
 > node:  ftp.dante.de
 > location: CTAN:/biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib
 > license: lppl
 > Please replace all files in that directory. In addition, please replace
 > the README included in the tar archive by the seperately uploaded file
 > README.babelbib (renamed to README). An xml file is included for the
 > catalogue.
 >
 >
 > From the README:
 >
 > This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in
 > cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: Each citation
 > may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can
 > be typeset in a language chosen by the user. The current version
 > supports Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian,
 > Portoguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
 >   In addition, the package supports commands to change the typography
 > of the bibliographies.
 >   Supported bibliography styles are bababbrv.bst, babalpha.bst,
 > babplain.bst, babunsrt.bst, bababbr3.bst, babplai3.bst, and babamspl.bst.
 >
 > Changes to the last version:
 >
 > Now, the style file changes the case of titles if necessary (as in
 > English, while not in other languages). Thus, no change in bib files
 > needed anymore.
 >
 > New languages: Afrikaans, Danish, French, Portoguese, Spanish, and Swedish

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul 29 10:07:02 2003
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:12:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: John Forkosh <john@forkosh.com>
Subject: Re: upload (new version of) mimetex.zip to ftp.dante.de

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, John Forkosh wrote:

 >  As per your README.uploads instructions...
 >    + what you've uploaded
 >         mimetex.zip
 >         (version 1.10, to replace support/mimetex/mimetex.zip)
 >    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
 >         ftp.dante.de
 >    + where you want the files to go
 >         support/mimetex
 >              Please REPLACE all existing files (mimetex.zip and README) in
 >         support/mimetex (and please  unzip mimetex.zip README  and then
 >         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.
 >         (a) Completely replaced mimeTeX's original built-in fonts
 >             with thinner and more pleasing fonts, and added one
 >             larger font size.
 >         (b) Also: several new and tested, but as yet unused, functions
 >             to eventually support super-sampling anti-aliasing
 >             (with or without rotated grid), and general code modifications
 >             to eventually support this improved anti-aliasing.
 >      ----------------------------------------------------
 >      From the original submission...
 >              MimeTeX parses LaTeX math expressions, and emits either mime
 >         xbitmaps or gif images of them, rather than the usual TeX dvi's.
 >         Therefore, mimeTeX's images can be imported directly into html
 >         documents with the <tag>, e.g.,
 >           <img src="../cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^x~e^{-t^2}dt"
 >            border=0 align=absmiddle>
 >         without intermediate dvi-to-gif conversion, and without storing
 >         lots of little gif files, one file for each converted expression.
 >         This makes your html documents more readable and easily maintained.
 >         See
 >                     http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html#examples
 >         for examples demonstrating mimeTeX's features and usage.
 >              MimeTeX is primarily intended to help maintain native html
 >         documents containing math, not primarily for latex2html-like tasks
 >         where you're maintaining native LaTeX documents that are later
 >         redistributed in several formats, including html.  In this sense
 >         it's a kind of "lightweight" alternative to MathML, with the
 >         advantage that mimeTeX preserves LaTeX syntax.
 >              Similar non-MathML packages, like textogif and gladTeX,
 >         require setup procedures that use TeX to help generate external
 >         gif images of your equations, which are later included
 >         in your html document as it's being rendered.  MimeTeX, as far
 >         as I know, is the only such non-MathML package that has its
 >         own built-in parser and rendering engine, entirely independent
 >         of TeX, and therefore requires no setup procedure or external
 >         images whatsoever.  It renders realtime, on-the-fly images
 >         directly from LaTeX math expressions embedded in html documents.

Thanks for the update. I replaced mimetex.zip and README in the

  support/mimetex

directory.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jul 30 04:01:14 2003
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:06:24 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: threeparttable 

quoth the upload daemon:

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20030729.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: threeparttable
> Name and email: Donald Arseneau
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/misc
> Summary description: Three part tables: title (caption), tabular,
>                      notes, all with the same width 
> License type: Generic DFSG
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Updated threeparttable package (v. 3.0  Dated June 13 2003)
> 
> This package facilitates tables with titles (captions) and notes.
> The title and notes are given a width equal to the body of the
> table. 
> 
> New with version 3.0
> 
>   - Some bug fixes 
>   - tabularx support.
>   - package options for a few different table-notes formats
>   - simple "measuredfigure" environment operates similarly.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i've installed the file to replace the old version.  thanks for the
upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 31 03:59:01 2003
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:58:34 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: PerlTeX 

quoth our upload daemon:

> A submission was uploaded to upload-20030731.001/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: PerlTeX
> Name and email: Scott Pakin <...>
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/perltex
> Summary description: Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> PerlTeX is a combination Perl script (perltex) and
> LaTeX2e style file (perlmacros) that, together, give
> the user the ability to define LaTeX macros in terms of
> Perl code.  Once defined, a Perl macro becomes
> indistinguishable from any other LaTeX macro.  PerlTeX
> thereby combines LaTeX's typesetting power with Perl's
> programmability.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i've installed the files in macros/latex/contrib/perltex, there being
no contrib/supported any more.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 31 13:41:11 2003
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:46:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new version (3.8) of uk tex faq on ctan and the web

i've just pushed a snapshot of the current state of the faq onto ctan
(help/uk-tex-faq) and the web (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq).

apart from installation and usage instructions for those hardy souls
who would like to install the new latin modern fonts, there aren't
many substantial changes -- a few new questions synthesised and
answered, a few corrections and extensions of existing answers.

the static html copy of the faq is now a regular fixture of the ctan
distribution (help/uk-tex-faq/FAQ-html.tar.gz), and i have therefore
removed the startlingly awful perl scripts that are used to produce
html.

errors detected, comments, suggestions, to faq@tex.ac.uk, please

Robin Fairbairns

UK TeX FAQ maintainer

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Aug  1 10:24:31 2003
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 14:38:11 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: refstyle v0.2 

quoth the upload daemon at cam.ctan.org:

> A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20030731.002/.
> 
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
> 
> Name of contribution: refstyle v0.2
> Name and email: Danie Els <...>
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/refstyle
> Summary description: Advanced formatting of cross references
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The refstyle provides a consistent way of producing references
> throughout a project. Enough flexibility is provided to make local
> changes to a single reference. The user can configure his or own
> setup. 
> 
> It has a direct interface to VARIOREF and namedref's from the
> NAMEDREF package can easily be incorporated (if needed). For large
> projects such as a series of books or a multi volume thesis, written
> as freestanding documents, a facility is provided to interface to
> the XR package for external document references. 
> 
> The REFSTYLE package is BABEL compliant in that all language
> definitions are added to the \extras<langauge> token list, enabling
> local and global language changes through the BABEL language
> changing commands. Afrikaans, Danish, English, German and Swedish
> definitions are provided --- any other contributions will be
> appreciated (PLEASE HELP!). 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

thanks for the upload: i've installed the files as requested.

users should note that the distribution is in a mini-texmf tree under
macros/latex/contrib/refstyle

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Aug  2 09:59:11 2003
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 13:07:41 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: tug.ctan.org to be offline for a few days

Because of a security situation, the ftp://tug.ctan.org archive and the
http://www.ctan.org front end to that archive will be going down until
at least Wed Aug 06 (US East Coast).

The archives at http://www.tex.ac.uk and http://dante.ctan.org remain up.

I apologize for the inconvience that this causes.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@ug.ctan.org

From zierke@dante.de Mon Aug  4 10:45:46 2003
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:55:34 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: png2pdf 1.0.1

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030804.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: png2pdf 1.0.1
Name and email: Dirk Krause <krause.dirk@web.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: /support/png2pdf
Summary description: PNG to PDF converter
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The png2pdf program converts PNG images to PDF. An alpha
channel in the PNG file can be used to mix against a
specified background color and/or to create a PDF image
mask or PDF alpha channel.
The program may be of interest for pdfLaTeX users creating
posters, flyers having colored background.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:support/png2pdf/.  Additionally, I extracted the README file from
the archive and put it in this directory too.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Aug  4 14:45:13 2003
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 19:59:14 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: beamer

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload@nova.dante.de -----
Name of contribution: beamer
Name and email: Till Tantau <tantau@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/beamer
Summary description: A LaTeX class for producing beamer presentation and slides
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The beamer class is a new LaTeX class for producing slides. 
It s functionality is similar to Prosper, but does not need any external programs and can directly produce a presentation using pdflatex.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Aug  5 05:19:36 2003
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:32:33 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- bardiag

----- Forwarded message from "R. Stepanyan" -----
Please find below some information about BarDiag package, which
I have recently uploaded to Your archive (ftp.dante.de).

Name of the		    BarDiag v.0.4
contribution

My name			    R. Stepanyan

My email		    rstepanyan@yahoo.com

Summary description	    package for drawing bar diagrams

Suggested CTAN directory    /graphics

Short text for announcement:

The main purpose of the package is to make the drawing of
bar diagrams possible and  easy  in LaTeX.
The BarDiag package is inspired and based on PSTricks.

License			     lppl	
----- End of rwarded message from "R. Stepanyan" -----

Thaks for the upload.  I installed the package in CTAn:graphics/bardiag
after a bit of cleaning up (removing .log and Emacs backup files, and
renaming readme.txt to README to allow web browsers to show this file).

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Aug  5 07:42:44 2003
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:58:54 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: pdfTeX 1.11a

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: pdfTeX 1.11a
Name and email: Martin Schr�der <martin@pdftex.org>
Suggested location on CTAN: systems/pdftex
Summary description: A new stable version of pdfTeX
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Major changes since 1.10b
-------------------------
- New command \pdftrailer analogue to \pdfcatalog whose argument ends up in the
  trailer dictionary.

- The behaviour when an included pdf has a newer version than the one specified
  with \pdfoptionpdfminorversion can be controlled by the new internal integer
  \pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel: If it's 0, pdfTeX gives only a warning; if
  it's 1, it raises an error. 
    This can also be set in pdftex.cfg with pdf_inclusion_errorlevel

- The syntax for outlines has been extended to allow attributes:
  <outline spec> --> <attr spec> <action spec> [count <number>] <general text>
  See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2003-June/000165.html

- The syntax of \pdfobj has been extended:
  \pdfobj <object type spec>                              (h, v, m)
  <object type spec> --> reserveobjnum
                       | [useobjnum <number>] [<attr spec>] [stream [<attr spec>]] <object contents>
  <object contents> --> <file spec>
                      | <general text>
  When the optional keyword `reserveobjnum' and `useobjnum' is not given, the
  behaviour is unchanged. 
  See also http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/pdftex/2003-March/003814.html

- Bugfix: /CreationDate didn't care for the timezone and could be fooled.
  See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2003-July/000223.html

- Bugfix: The translation of 8-bit characters in included pdfs that had their
  eighth bit set sometimes got wrong because of a missing typecast.
  See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2003-July/000216.html
  
- Bugfix: pdfTeX -ini would crash with a minimal file because it didn't read
  it's config and so didn't know anything about fonts.
  See http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2003-July/004262.html
  
- Bugfix: \pdfstartlink would produce spurious /NewWindow entries. Also the
  syntax of <action spec> and <goto-action spec> has been cleaned up.
  See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2003-June/000167.html 

- Bugfix: \pdffontattr was not used for T3 fonts.
  See http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2003-June/004127.html

- Bugfix: The cropbox of an included pdf would sometimes not be used.
  See http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2003-May/004037.html

- pdfTeX uses xpdf 2.02

%EOF

the archive contains NEWS, README and pdftex.xml, which should be extracted and put alongside the archive. And pdftex.xml should go into the catalogue. :-)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:systems/pdftex

Graham, can you please use systems/pdftex/pdftex.xml for the catalogue?

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Aug  5 13:42:18 2003
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:40:19 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 5.55 - SVG Gradients optimization

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 5.55 (issued 1-Aug-2003).

Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

Most important improvement in BaKoMa TeX 5.55 is
optimized embedding of gradient fills into generated SVG and PDF.
Gradient fills are often used for Presentations, for example
by nice styles of Prosper package.
Most noticeable effect of optimization is in generated SVG:
  * generated files are much smaller,
  * they are displayed much faster (by any SVG Viewer),
  * gradients looks much better (in many SVG Viewers),
  * animations running over optimized gradients work much faster.

Optimization of PDF files is less noticeable,
however size of PDF files with gradient fills will be smaller.

More information about changes is at:
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>

This version has Patch status and may be
freely installed by holders of NON-UPGRADABLE license for BaKoMa TeX 5.50.

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
5-Aug-2003

PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.55 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * HTML Generation features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.55
   
For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95

HIGHLIGHTS

 * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system.
 * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
   of the file being edited. 
   (like to Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
** Generates *SVG* (PSTricks, Prosper + animations features).
** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
 * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 
GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, 
FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts: 
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.

Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click.

OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0
even without ATM.

USER INTERFACE

* Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
  It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, 
  when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, 
  mathematics, pictures, etc.
* Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen 
  for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents: 
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
* Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
    correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
    configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
* Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
* Support for Multi-User systems.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF,
* SVG (animation effects are supported),
* HTML.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste 
  of cyrillic and other international characters.
* Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

HTML GENERATION FEATURES

 BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 documents into HTML files.
  * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch 
     `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
  * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert 
     pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
     pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, 
     such as slides.

 In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of 
 `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.

 Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 into generated HTML pages.
 
SVG GENERATION FEATURES

 BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
 from a DVI files. Ability to add animation to the SVG output,
 makes it the best for producing high quality presentations.

 Sample of animated presentation is available at:
   ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html

 Key Features:
   SVG output is compatible with another output formats
   (PDF, PS, HTML, View, and Print) so, that the same graphical
   formats, font formats, and other features are supported.
   In details:
   *  All TeX Formats (LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09, AmSTeX, Plain TeX) are supported.
   *  TeX extensions (e-TeX and Omega) are supported.
   *  ALL LaTeX packages (including PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics, draftcopy, etc.)
       are supported.
   *  Graphical formats: EPS, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, 
   		         BMP, WMF, EMF, HPGL, and DXY are supported.
   *  More generally, Any imported or embedded Postscript is supported.
   *  Hyperref is supported, including outline and links. For \Acrobatmenu 
      most general commands (such as NextPage or PrevPage) are supported.
   *  Popular presentation packages: Prosper, PDFScreen, PDFSlide, Seminar, etc.
      are supported.
  *** The existing presentations can be enhanced by adding animation.
   *  All Font Types: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, Postscript Type1 
      (including MM), Postscript Type 3, and TeX PK are supported.

*** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.55 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.50 ***

Most important improvement in BaKoMa TeX 5.55 is
optimized embedding of gradient fills into generated SVG and PDF.
Gradient fills are often used for Presentations, for example
by nice styles of Prosper package.
Most noticeable effect of optimization is in generated SVG:
  * generated files are much smaller,
  * they are displayed much faster (by any SVG Viewer),
  * gradients looks much better (in many SVG Viewers),
  * animations running over optimized gradients work much faster.

Optimization of PDF files is less noticeable,
however size of PDF files with gradient fills will be smaller.

Optimization was done in two points:
   1. implementation of `shfill' (Postscript Level 3) operator,
      which is efficiently  converted into PDF and SVG;
   2. extending of PST-GRAD.PRO (see BaKoMa/DVIPS directory)
      to use `shfill' operator when it is available.

For more information see
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>

---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as usual replacing
the corresponding old files in
CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Aug  6 12:50:15 2003
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:01:42 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: ShLaTeX

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way to your favorite local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim

================================================================
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: ShLaTeX
Author's name: Mael Hill�reau
Location on CTAN: support/shlatex
Summary description: LaTeX compilation script for Linux (written in Bash)
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This script allows to centralize the many program calls necessary to 
completely compile a LaTeX document. In particular, the multiple calls 
of the latex command necessary in order to create a table of contents, a 
bibliography or an index are carried out automatically. Are also managed 
the calls of the programs bibtex and makeindex as well as the vizualisation 
of the resulting file (in DVI, PostScript or PDF format) by calling an 
external program.
It is possible to stress characters in documents which use the \input and 
\include commands to make references to some external files, and that in a 
transparent way by compiling only the main source file.
Available in English and French languages.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Aug  6 12:50:05 2003
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:02:57 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: tug.ctan.org is back

The ftp://tug.ctan.org archive and its http://www.ctan.org front end
are back up.  Thank you for your patience.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Aug 10 15:09:54 2003
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:15:08 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: New version of the AE package 

Lars Engebretsen writes:

> I have just uploaded a new version of the AE package, a set of virtual
> fonts that emulate T1 encoded fonts with CM fonts, to cam.ctan.org.
> The new version contains a bugfix: Apparently there are no ff, fi, fl,
> ffi or ffl ligatures in cmr5, so the corresponding glyphs in aer5
> must be faked.
> 
> Please replace all current files, which I believe reside in
> /tex-archive/fonts/ae with the contents of the archive ae.tar.gz that
> I put in /incoming on cam.ctan.org; licensing conditions are
> unchanged.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Aug 11 15:45:48 2003
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:04:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upquote.sty 

Frank Mittelbach writes:

> > could I ask you to update upquote.sty on CTAN for us?
> 
> differences:
> 
>  - works for any typewriter font (old version forced cmtt)
> 
>  - is not hardwired to T1 encoding (or was it OT1 encoding, cant remember but
>    works with any encoding as it uses the official names \textasciigrave
> 
>  - because of that requires std package textcomp

thanks for the submission.  i've installed the new version to replace
the old macros/latex/contrib/upquote/upquote.sty

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Aug 11 15:45:52 2003
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:11:48 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- chngpage.sty 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded chngpage.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/misc/chngpage.sty. The
> distribution is under the LPPL. 
> 
> Description:
>   Provides commands to change the page layout in the middle of a
> document, and to robustly check for typeseting on odd or even
> pages. 
> 
> Changes in v1.2
> o Odd page checking no longer limited to arabic page numbers

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 13 07:41:10 2003
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:51:30 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: new version of fncylab.sty

fncylab is a jiffy package that helps to change the way in which
labels are defined.  (the package itself contains the source of a
small test/example document.)

this new version adds a command \Ref, suggested by Frank Mittelbach
for the package.  \Ref is for use when referring to a fancy label at
the start of a sentence: it capitalises the first letter of the label.

Robin Fairbairns (prolific author of trivial packages)

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Aug 13 09:29:07 2003
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:46:42 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN new package: viking

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

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Viking
Author's name: Uwe Zimmermann
Location on CTAN: fonts/archaic/viking
Summary description: the Scandinavian runic alphabet as used by the vikings
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The package VIKING contains the two 16 letter runic alphabets as used by 
the vikings in Scandinavia. It is based on the archaic font series by 
Peter Wilson and uses the same, simple installation and interface routines.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 14 08:44:15 2003
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:53:11 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload of dvi2bitmap-0.11b1.tar.gz 

Norman Gray writes: 

>    + what you've uploaded
> 
> dvi2bitmap-0.11b1.tar.gz
> 
>     + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
> 
>     + where you want the files to go
> 
> /dviware/dvi2bitmap
> replacing the distribution currently there
> 
>     + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
> 
> gpl
> 
>     + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
> Major restructuring.
> 
> Now a static/shareable library, libdvi2bitmap, which the dvi2bitmap 
> program now `merely' wraps.  The library has extensive API 
> documentation, and is intended to be useful for other projects.
> 
> Can read DVI files from a pipe.
> 
> Internal bitmaps now automatically expandable.
> 
> Documentation improvements, discussing optimal font and parameter 
> choices, and usage of dvi2bitmap as part of a batched workflow (ie, 
> fancy pipe plumbing).
> 
> Builds using automake/libtool, so should (?!) be buildable on cygnus 
> systems (reports keenly appreciated).
> 
> Various stability improvements; some speedups.
> 
> Some minor option changes from 0.10 (which had major option changes 
> from previous versions); I hope these are the last such changes.

i've (eventually) installed the package at dviware/dvi2bitmap.  thanks
for the upload.

sorry about the delay: the load of being the only windows admin in the
department has been slightly stressful over the last few days, for
some reason.  today, my colleague came back off holiday :-)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Aug 17 14:32:51 2003
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:54:21 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk@ptb.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: keystroke 1.5

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 Rolf Niepraschk submitted:

> Name of contribution: keystroke 1.5
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/keystroke/
> Summary description: The LaTeX package `keystroke' provides macros for the graphical representation of the keys on a computer keyboard.
> License type: GNU Project
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a bug fix release (problem with the "english" option).
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Mon Aug 18 04:00:32 2003
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:05:49 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Metapost 3D upload

----- Forwarded message from Denis Roegel -----
I have uploaded a new version of my 3d metapost package
on dante/incoming/mp3d.tar.gz

This should completely replace ctan/graphics/metapost/macros/3d.

This new version corresponds to the article published in TUGBOAT 
  (volume 22, number 4, December 2001, pages 298-314).

It contains in particular new features for space geometry drawings.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:graphics/metapost/macros/3d/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Aug 18 04:14:32 2003
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:37:40 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: LaTeXDB

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: LaTeXDB
Name and email: Hans-Georg E�er <h.g.esser@gmx.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros
Summary description: LaTeXDB integrates LaTeX and SQL databases
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
LaTeXDB brings together LaTeX and a MySQL database. You can use SQL queries in your LaTeX document and loop over the result sets creating tables, serial letters, and other stuff.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

XML file:
**********************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="LaTeXDB"
       datestamp="2003/08/16" 
       modifier="ftpmaint@dante.ctan.org">
  <about>
    <name>LaTeXDB</name>
    <caption>LaTeXDB integrates LaTeX and SQL databases</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Hans-Georg E�er</name>
      <email>h.g.esser@gmx.de</email>
    </author>
    <license type="gpl" />
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      LaTeXDB brings together LaTeX and a MySQL database. You can use SQL queries in your LaTeX document and loop over the result sets creating tables, serial letters, and other stuff.
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>support/latexdb</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
**********************************************************************
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I copied the uploaded tar.gz file into
CTAN:support/latexdb/, extracted the README file from the archive and
added the above abstract to the README file.

-- 
Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Aug 21 18:55:58 2003
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:07:05 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: euroitc

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way around the world to your favorite local mirror quite soon.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: euroitc
Author's name: R Schlicht
Location on CTAN: fonts/euroitc
Summary description: LaTeX interface for the ITC euro font symbols
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The `euroitc' package provides a LaTeX interface to the PostScript euro 
font symbols which are available free of charge from the International 
Typeface Corporation in 16 variants (serif and sanserif, in four 
weights, upright and italic).

The package consists of the TeX font metrics, PS font map files, and a 
LaTeX style file. (The fonts themselves have to be downloaded from ITC.)

Loading the package will define a new macro \euro, which typesets the 
euro symbol, corresponding with the currently loaded font family, shape 
and weight.

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Aug 21 05:28:28 2003
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:51:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w-a-schmidt@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: removal of CTAN directories fonts/psfonts/tools/mathptm(x)

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> please remove the followng directories from CTAN:
>
>   fonts/psfonts/tools/mathptm
>   fonts/psfonts/tools/mathptmx
>
> These are obsolete fontinst sources for the virtual Times
> math fonts, which are used by the LaTeX packages mathptm and
> mathptmx.  The directories were created before I took over
> PSNFSS.
>
> The current versions of these sources can be found in the
> directory fonts/psfonts/psnfss-source, together with other
> sources of the VFs for the PSNFSS collection.

Thanks for letting us know, I deleted the two directories; this change
will propagate to the other CTAN hosts in due course.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Aug 21 05:32:50 2003
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:02:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Herbert Voss <voss@perce.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-3dplot

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 Herbert Voss submitted:

> Name of contribution: pst-3dplot
> Suggested location on CTAN: ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/
> Summary description: plotting basic 3d objects and mathematical functions
> License type: LaTeX Project
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This version fixes small bugs and offers some
> new options for drawing 3D math functions
>
> please replace all files in the dir
> thanks
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Aug 23 09:41:21 2003
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:02:50 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: ledmacs

The ledmacs package has been updated at tug.ctan.org, and will soon
work its way to your favorite local mirror.

This package by Peter Wilson is for typesetting critical editions.
I can be found in macros/latex/contrib/ledmacs.  A .pdf version of the 
manual has been included.

Thanks for the update,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

==============================================================

>From the README file:

    The ledmac package is for typesetting critical editions. It is a
LaTeX port of the plain TeX EDMAC and TABMAC macros.

    Users are warned that the package is still experimental. Do not rely
on any part of it. Bug reports and suggestions will be welcome.

Changes in version 0.2 (2003/08/16)
o Added indexing by page and line number
o Added simple tabular- and array-style environments

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Aug 23 09:44:51 2003
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:04:43 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: ibycus-babel

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should be at your 
favorite mirror by now.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=====================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: ibycus-babel
Author's name and: Peter Heslin
Location on CTAN: language/greek/package-babel/ibycus-babel
Summary description: Compatibility package for using the Ibycus 4 Greek 
  font with Babel
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package allows you to use the Ibycus 4 font for ancient Greek with Babel.
It uses a Perl script to generate hyphenation patterns for Ibycus from those 
for the ordinary Babel encoding, cbgreek.  It sets up "ibycus" as a 
pseudo-language you can specify in the normal Babel manner.  For proper 
hyphenation of Greek quoted in mid-paragraph, you should use it with elatex.  
See the README for details.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Aug 23 09:45:20 2003
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:06:23 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: gost

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make
its way to your favorite local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=======================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: gost
Author's name: Maksym Polyakov
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/gost
Summary description: BibTeX styles to format bibliography in English, 
  Russian and Ukrainian according to GOST 7.1-84 and GOST 7.80-00
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
BibTeX styles to format bibliography in English, Russian and Ukrainian 
according to GOST 7.1-84 and GOST 7.80-00
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Aug 25 12:45:41 2003
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:50:14 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Jaroslav Fojtik <fojtik@vision.felk.cvut.cz>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: WP2latex 2.111

Jaroslav Fojtik submitted a new version of wp2latex:

> Name of contribution: WP2latex 2.111
> Suggested location on CTAN: support/wp2latex
> Summary description: Convertor from Wordperfect to LaTeX
> License type: dfsg
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> New:
> 2.95 Better placing of \/. Small attempt to do something with images (high gamma).
> 2.96 Again small attempt to do something with images (high gamma).
> 2.97: You could type wp2latex figure.wpg - but still gamma :-;
> 2.98: Converts hatched regions inside WPG l.1
> 2.99: Correct calculation of bouding boxes of rotated objects in WPG l.1
> 2.100: Ability to dig out some WP7.x and WP8.x files stored inside OLE wrapper.
> 2.101: Bugfix in the formula parser, better conversion from T602 module.
> 2.102: Ability to parse Accent file format - new module.
> 2.103: The OLE support was improved by using cole library.
> 2.104: The Windows GUI port should not hang - if so, please report. I obtained bugreport for UNIX port of wp2latex. If you want to get it working please download character.cc from 2.105.: Better support for external WPG files.
> 2.106: Ability to cope with [center] inside caption. Detecting XML documents.
> 2.107: Converting MTEF r3.x objects inside OLE archive.
> 2.108 Fixed character tables for unicode. New: Converting MTEF r2.x objects inside OLE archive.
> 2.109: Implemented full WPG l.1 color table (palette), better decoding of WPG l.2 RLE.
> 2.110: Compilable under GCC 3.x, redesigned automatical file format detection see -force-xxx argument.
> 2.111: Attempt to autodetect WP4.x, conversion module for AbiWord.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, the new version is now installed in

  support/wp2latex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 27 14:32:03 2003
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:49:22 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: Ken Smith <kgs@maths.uq.edu.au>
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: uploads at cambridge switched off for a month 

> I trust that it's not anything too serious, Robin.
> I'm sure the thoughts of anyone reading this list will be with you at
> this time.

i'm now back from my morale-raising holiday: pre-admission discussion
with the surgeon tomorrow.

thanks for the good wishes.

robin

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 28 17:27:13 2003
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:41:59 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: aas macros

i've just read a post from chris wallace, on c.t.t, which says the
canonical source is elsewhere, and the 2.09 ones on ctan are obsolete
(the post offered a link to some publisher's site, fwiw).

so i've done the obvious thing and moved
macros/latex209/contrib/aasmacros to the obsolete tree on ctan.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Aug 29 12:15:57 2003
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:42:31 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de, texhax@tug.org
Subject: v3.9 of the uk tex faq

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

this latest version has a few minor changes (mostly editorial in
nature), and i'm only releasing it because of the changes in the
structure of the macros/latex/contrib tree on ctan: the subdirectories
supported/ and other/ are to disappear before i expect to have a
chance to work on the faq again.

Robin Fairbairns

UK TeX FAQ (and CTAN) maintainer

From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep  1 16:12:53 2003
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:19:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Till Tantau <tantau@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: beamer

On Mon, Till Tantau wrote:

> Name of contribution: beamer
> Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/beamer
> Summary description: update of parts of the beamer package
> License type: LaTeX Project
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This version 0.5 of the beamer class makes the
> creation of different versions of a presentation
> (like a handout or transparencies) much easier.
> A \note command allows one to add notes to oneself.
> Verbatim commands can now be used much easier inside
> overlays.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep  1 16:12:19 2003
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:21:07 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Herbert Voss <voss@perce.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-circ

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 Herbert Voss wrote:

> Name of contribution: pst-circ
> Suggested location on CTAN: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ/
> Summary description: pst-circ is a package to draw basic electrical and electronic circuits
> License type: LaTeX Project
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ver 1.2a
> - added opto coupler symbol
> - added options for the ground symbol
> - added part for logical symbols (alpha version)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep  1 15:34:33 2003
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:29:34 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Javier Bezos <jbezos@wanadoo.es>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- enumitem

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Javier Bezos wrote:

 > I've uploaded to the Dante server a new package named enumitem.
 >
 > With this package, users can control the layout of the three
 > basic list environments: enumerate, itemize and description.
 > This is still a 0.1 beta release, but the basic functions seem
 > to work properly. It provides the functionality of enumerate
 > and mdwlist, and adds more like computing the item sep or
 > the left margin.
 >
 > Please, after uncompressing enumitem.zip add enumitem.sty
 > and enumitem.tex to
 >
 > CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/bezos
 >
 > and replace readme by the new one.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Sep  2 09:57:49 2003
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:27:38 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: CTAN-ann@dante.de
Cc: Basil K. Malyshev <malyshev@mx.ihep.su>, BAKOMA@MAIL15.COM
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 6.0 - OpenType/SVG

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

 > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma6' directory
 > update for BaKoMa TeX 6.0 (issued 1-Sep-2003).
 >
 > Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
 >
 > Most important improvements in BaKoMa TeX 6.0 are:
 >
 >  1) Using ATM built in Windows 2000 and XP to render Postscript Type 1 fonts.
 >     It is implemented via automatical conversion of Type 1 fonts into
 >     OpenType fonts with Postscript outlines (OTF).
 >     This way improves quality in comparison with conversion into TrueType,
 >     and provides the better flexibility in comparison with installing fonts
 >     via Control Panel.
 >
 >  2) SVG.STY provides few interactive features for animated presentations.
 >     * New animation type `highlight' lets you specify objects whose are
 >       highlighted when mouse cursor is over them.
 >     * New environment: `interactiveitemize' creates itemize in which
 >       items animation is started after clicking on bullet.
 >     * We provide SVG.STY Quick Tour in form of animated presentation
 >       which is available from:
 >       <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html>
 >       (Source of the tour is included into BaKoMa TeX)
 >
 > More information about changes is at:
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
 >
 > Bye.
 > Basil K. Malyshev
 > 1-Sep-2003

Thanks for the files, I installed them in

 nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma


 > --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 6.0 ----------------------
 >
 > CONTENTS
 >    * Highlights
 >    * Graphical Capabilities
 >    * Fonts
 >    * User Interface
 >    * PDF Generation Features
 >    * HTML Generation features
 >    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 6.0
 >
 > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
 >    <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95
 >
 > HIGHLIGHTS
 >
 >  * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system.
 >  * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
 >    of the file being edited.
 >    (like to Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
 > ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
 > ** Generates *SVG* (PSTricks, Prosper + animation features).
 > ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
 >  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
 >    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 >  * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
 >    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 >  * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click
 >  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 >  * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
 >  * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 >  * Easy to install and use.
 >  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 >
 > GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
 > which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
 > software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0,
 > Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw,
 > FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
 >
 > All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible
 > with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
 > embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).
 >
 > The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
 >    PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.
 >
 > FONTS
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 >  * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
 >  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters),
 >  * PostScript Type 3,
 >  * TrueType,
 >  * TeX PK/VF.
 >
 > The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
 > and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 >  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 >  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 >  * EC/TC,
 >  * LH (T2A),
 >  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 >  * Malvern,
 >  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 >  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 >  Math Fonts:
 >  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 >  Diagram drawing fonts:
 >  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase),
 >  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd),
 >  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
 >
 > Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
 > This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
 > between font formats when needed.
 > This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
 > On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
 > for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
 >
 > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts
 > available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.
 >
 > Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
 > OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click.
 >
 > OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0
 > even without ATM.
 >
 > USER INTERFACE
 >
 > * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
 >   It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly,
 >   when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs,
 >   mathematics, pictures, etc.
 > * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen
 >   for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
 > * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
 > * Quick navigation via document structure,
 > * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
 > * Powerful support for different input encodings,
 > * Project support,
 > * Graphics import assistant,
 > * Assitance for multi-file documents:
 >   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
 > * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
 > * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
 > * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
 > * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
 > * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
 > * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
 >     correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
 >     configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
 > * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
 > * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
 > * Support for Multi-User systems.
 >
 > OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
 >
 > * View on Windows Display.
 > * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
 > * PostScript (really scalable),
 > * PDF,
 > * SVG (animation effects are supported),
 > * HTML.
 >
 > Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
 > for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
 > may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical
 > capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
 >
 > PDF GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 > * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
 > * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
 >   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
 > * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
 > * Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste
 >   of cyrillic and other international characters.
 > * Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
 >
 > HTML GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 >  BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 >  documents into HTML files.
 >   * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch
 >      `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
 >   * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert
 >      pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
 >      pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics,
 >      such as slides.
 >
 >  In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 >  Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of
 >  `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.
 >
 >  Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 >  In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 >  into generated HTML pages.
 >
 > SVG GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 >  BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
 >  from a DVI files. Ability to add animation to the SVG output,
 >  makes it the best for producing high quality presentations.
 >
 >  Sample of animated presentation is available at:
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html
 >
 >  Key Features:
 >    SVG output is compatible with another output formats
 >    (PDF, PS, HTML, View, and Print) so, that the same graphical
 >    formats, font formats, and other features are supported.
 >    In details:
 >    *  All TeX Formats (LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09, AmSTeX, Plain TeX) are supported.
 >    *  TeX extensions (e-TeX and Omega) are supported.
 >    *  ALL LaTeX packages (including PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics, draftcopy, etc.)
 >        are supported.
 >    *  Graphical formats: EPS, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP,
 >    		         BMP, WMF, EMF, HPGL, and DXY are supported.
 >    *  More generally, Any imported or embedded Postscript is supported.
 >    *  Hyperref is supported, including outline and links. For \Acrobatmenu
 >       most general commands (such as NextPage or PrevPage) are supported.
 >    *  Popular presentation packages: Prosper, PDFScreen, PDFSlide, Seminar, etc.
 >       are supported.
 >   *** The existing presentations can be enhanced by adding animation.
 >    *  All Font Types: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, Postscript Type1
 >       (including MM), Postscript Type 3, and TeX PK are supported.
 >
 > *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 6.0 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.55 ***
 >
 > Most important improvements in BaKoMa TeX 6.0 are:
 >
 >  1) Using ATM built in Windows 2000 and XP to render Postscript Type 1 fonts.
 >     It is implemented via automatical conversion of Type 1 fonts into
 >     OpenType fonts with Postscript outlines (OTF).
 >     This way improves quality in comparison with conversion into TrueType,
 >     and provides the better flexibility in comparison with installing fonts
 >     via Control Panel.
 >
 >  2) SVG.STY provide few interactive features for animated presentations.
 >     * New animation type `highlight' lets you specify objects whose are
 >       highlighted when mouse cursor is over them.
 >     * New environment: `interactiveitemize' creates itemize in which
 >       items animation is started after clicking on bullet.
 >     * We provide SVG.STY Quick Tour in form of animated presentation
 >       which is available from:
 >       <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html>
 >       (Source of the tour is included into BaKoMa TeX)
 >
 > For more information see
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
 >
 > ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------
 >
 >
 >

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Sep  2 16:23:32 2003
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:43:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Pascal Kockaert <Pascal.Kockaert@ulb.ac.be>
Subject: Re: Upload notification : psfragx.tar.gz

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Pascal Kockaert wrote:

 > psfragx : a psfrag eXtension.
 >            This means that psfragx cannot be used if psfrag
 >            is not installed on your system.
 >
 >     + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
 >       below).
 >
 >      * LPPL
 >
 >      * For convenience, the matlab file LaPrint.m (unmodified) is included with the
 >        examples. The licensing conditions for this file are as follows
 >        %  (c) Arno Linnemann.   All rights reserved.
 >        %  The author of this program assumes no responsibility for any  errors
 >        %  or omissions. In no event shall he be liable for damages  arising out of
 >        %  any use of the software. Redistribution of the unchanged file is allowed.
 >        %  Distribution of changed versions is allowed provided the file is renamed
 >        %  and the source and authorship of the original version is acknowledged in
 >        %  the modified file.
 >
 >     + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
 >     (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing)
 >
 > PSfragX offers a mechanism to embed \psfrag commands provided by the psfrag package
 > into the EPS file itself. Each time a graphic is included, the eps file is
 > scanned. If some tagged lines are found, they are used to define the psfrag
 > replacements that should be performed automatically.
 >
 > Though a similar mechanism is implemented in psfrag, (legends of the form
 > \tex[][]{}), psfragx offers much more flexibility. For example, if babel is
 > used, it is possible to define different replacements corresponding to
 > different languages. The replacements to take into account will be selected
 > on the basis of the current language of the document.
 >
 > In addition, a similar mechanism holds for overpic objects. These are
 > picture objects superimposed on the included graphic.
 >
 > Everything can be performed automatically, though some intervention of the
 > user is possible after the inclusion of the psfrag replacements coming from
 > the EPS file and before the inclusion of the EPS file itself.

Thanks for the new package, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/psfragx

as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Sep  2 16:25:38 2003
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:49:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Till Tantau <tantau@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: beamer

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 ctan-upload@nova.dante.de wrote:

 > Name of contribution: beamer
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/beamer
 > Summary description: minor update of beamer.cls and the user guide
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Simplification for creating handouts that use verbatim
 > commands.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Sep  2 16:23:04 2003
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:53:50 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload: Font Installation Guide 1.23

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Philipp Lehman wrote:

 > I've uploaded the file 'fontinstallationguide.pdf' to the incoming
 > directory on ftp.dante.de. Please install it as
 >
 > 	CTAN:info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide.pdf
 >
 > replacing the previous version.

Thank you for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Sep  4 03:32:28 2003
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:03:12 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk@ptb.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ps4pdf v0.6e

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 Rolf Niepraschk wrote:

 > Name of contribution: ps4pdf v0.6e
 > Suggested location on CTAN: CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/
 > Summary description: Using Postscript code in pdfLaTeX documents
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > A problematic bug related to `tabularx' fixed.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Sep  4 03:32:30 2003
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:07:34 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "[ISO-8859-1] Uwe L�ck" <uwe.lueck@web.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: Ednotes.sty

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 Uwe L�ck wrote:

 > Name of contribution: ednotes.sty
 > Suggested location on CTAN: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ednotes/
 > Summary description: New documentation about evading a bug
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > We explain how to deal with a bug recently found.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed the file as

  macros/latex/contrib/ednotes/ednotes.sty

(Note the lowercase "e")

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Sep  5 12:51:16 2003
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 18:15:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- numprint v0.30

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded numprint.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please replace all files
 > in CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/numprint/ by the archive's contents.
 > License stays LPPL.
 >
 > From the README:
 >
 > Print numbers with a separator every three digits and convert numbers
 > given as 12345.6e789 to 12\,345,6\cdot 10^{789}. The decimal sign, the
 > thousand separator, as well as the product sign can be changed by the
 > user, e.g. to reach 12,345.6\times 10^{789}.
 > If an optional argument is given it is printed upright as unit.
 > Numbers can be rounded to a given count of digits.
 >
 > Change log:
 >
 > - 0.30  2003/05/19  Allow to round numbers, automatically.
 >                     Optionally replace zero by text, e.g. ``---''.
 > - 0.22  2003/02/27  Bugfix with invalid spacing after the number.

Thanks for the update., I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Sep  5 12:51:31 2003
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 18:16:45 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Dwight Aplevich <aplevich@uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: CTAN update: Circuit_macros 5.4

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Dwight Aplevich wrote:

 > Circuit_macros5.3.tar.gz has been copied into the incoming directory
 > of ftp.dante.de. Its expanded contents are to replace the contents
 > of graphics/circuit_macros. The copyright is almost public domain.
 >
 >  From the README:
 > ...
 >    This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality line diagrams to
 >    include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents.  The macros were
 >    originally intended for electric circuit diagrams containing
 >    fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors, and basic logic gates,
 >    but several tools and examples for other types of diagrams are also
 >    included.  The advantages and disadvantages of such a system are
 >    similar to those of TeX itself, which is macro-based and non-wysiwyg,
 >    with ordinary character input.
 >
 >    The macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic "little language,"
 >    which is easy to read and learn.  Pic is well suited to line drawings
 >    requiring parametric or conditional components, fine tuning,
 >    significant geometric calculations or repetition, or to drawings that
 >    are naturally block structured or tree structured.  Arbitrary formatted
 >    text can be included.  Free TeX- and LaTeX-compatible interpreters
 >    for m4 and pic are readily available for Unix and PC machines.
 > ...
 > EXAMPLES:
 >    Read the manual man.ps and view or print the file examples.ps in the
 >    examples directory, or for the possibly unstable development version, try
 >    http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/
 >
 >    A collection of examples and hints intended for his colleagues has
 >    been produced by Alan Robert Clark at http://ytdp.ee.wits.ac.za/cct.html
 > ...
 > CHANGES:
 > Version 5.4: New Mux, for_, arca.  Reworked gate macros FlipFlop, AND_gate,
 >    OR_gate, NOT_gate.  Improved lg_pintxt, boxdim, s_box, s_ht, s_wd,
 >    s_dp, nport, resistor, opamp.  Completely reworked bi_tr, mosfet;
 >    deleted smosfet.  Minor additions and changes to the manual.

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Sep  5 12:52:06 2003
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 18:18:38 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk@ptb.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ps4pdf v0.6f

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 Rolf Niepraschk wrote:

 > Name of contribution: ps4pdf v0.6f
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/
 > Summary description: Using Postscript code in pdfLaTeX documents
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Another small bug fix related to `graphics'.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Sep  5 15:50:21 2003
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 19:16:27 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: leawood

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: leawood
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: fonts/psfonts/leawood
Summary description: Make the ITC Leawood font family available to LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The leawood package provides all of the files needed to
make the ITC Leawood font available to TeX and LaTeX.
Note that the font itself is not freely available; the
leawood package assumes you have already purchased ITC
Leawood.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep  8 16:19:45 2003
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 21:33:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Herbert Voss <voss@perce.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-circ

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 Herbert Voss wrote:

 > Name of contribution: pst-circ
 > Suggested location on CTAN: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ/
 > Summary description: pst-circ is a package to draw eltrical and electronical circuits
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > this version fixes a lot of typos in the doc and
 > adds a potentiometer (variable resistor)

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep  8 16:20:43 2003
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 21:38:13 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: textpos-1.4 upload

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Norman Gray wrote:

 >     + what you've uploaded
 >
 > textpos-1.4.tar.gz
 >
 >     + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
 >
 > ftp.dante.de:/incoming
 >
 >     + where you want the files to go
 >
 > macros/latex/contrib/textpos/ replacing the files already there
 >
 >     + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
 >       below).
 >
 > GPL
 >
 >     + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
 >
 > Fixes spacing misfeatures (not really bugs, but not good)

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/textpos

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep  8 16:19:49 2003
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 21:46:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Patrick Daly <daly@linmpi.mpg.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: custom-bib

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 Patrick Daly wrote:

 > Name of contribution: custom-bib
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contributed/custom-bib
 > Summary description: Customizing bibliography style files
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This is an update to the existing collection. Although only a few (main)
 > files are being replaced, the simplest thing is to replace everything
 > in the existing collection with the contents of the enclosed zip file.
 > There is a readme.411 that then vanishes, to be replaced by readme.412.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep  8 16:20:00 2003
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 21:49:45 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Massimiliano Dominici <mlgdominici@interfree.it>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: dramatist

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 Massimiliano Dominici wrote:

 > Name of contribution: dramatist
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib
 > Summary description: package for typesetting dramas
 > License type: gpl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The package `dramatist' has been designed for
 > typesetting drama both in verse and in prose.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your upload. I installed this new package in directory

  macros/latex/contrib/dramatist

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Sep  9 16:45:03 2003
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 22:05:44 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Uwe Kern <u.kern@web.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: xcolor

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 Uwe Kern wrote:

 > Name of contribution: xcolor
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor
 > Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > `xcolor' provides easy driver-independent access to several
 > kinds of color tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary
 > colors.
 > It allows to select a document-wide target color model and
 > offers complete tools for conversion between eight color
 > models.
 > Additionally, there is a command for alternating row colors
 > plus repeated non-aligned material (like horizontal lines)
 > in tables.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the package, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/xcolor

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Sep 10 08:36:36 2003
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:55:44 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload of e-Omega 1.15-2.1-RC1 

Giuseppe Bilotta writes:

>    + what you've uploaded : eomega-1.15-2.1-rc1.tar.bz2
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to : UK (ftp.tex.ac.uk)
> 
>    + where you want the files to go : tex-archive/systems/aleph
>    If possible, a soft link "eomega" should be created in the
>    /systems/ directory, pointing to aleph
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software:
>    since the program is based on Omega, which is GNU GPL, the
>    files are still released under the GPL
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>    (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing)
>    This is a preliminary (Release Candidate) version Aleph, a
>    TeX extension feature both Omega's and e-TeX's enhanced
>    features. For historical reasons, the package is named
>    eomega, and will maintain the name until the first stable
>    release. At that point it will be called Aleph. Note that
>    the Release Candidate is usable (and used) in production
>    environment.
> 
> Thank you,

thank _you_ -- it's good to see something new raising its head in the
systems area!

i've installed the file as requested, and created the link.  the stuff
will propagate to the other ctans fairly soon.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Sep 10 09:43:09 2003
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:05:08 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Lshort Upload (note the quote) 

Tobias Oetiker writes:

> I have uploaded lshort-4.13 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/lshort-4.13.
> 
> If you think it is appropriate, announce it please.

(i didn't announce the last new version, so i am announcing this.)

the files have now been installed as new contents of info/lshort/english

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Sep 10 16:10:43 2003
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:26:29 +0200
From: "[iso-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: 'Claudio Beccari' <claudio.beccari@polito.it>
Subject: RE: teubner.zip

 Claudio Beccari writes:

 > I just uploaded in /incoming an updated version of my 
 > package teubner4.zip, 
 > that should replace the previous version.

Installed in 

   macros/latex/contrib/teubner

Thank you.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Sep 10 16:10:54 2003
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:30:09 +0200
From: "[iso-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: 'Harald Harders' <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: RE: CTAN submission -- slantsc package

 Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded slantsc.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the package
 > slantsc.sty with the license LPPL. Please put the files in the archive to
 > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/slantsc. An xml file is contained for the
 > catalogue, it needs not to go to the CTAN archive.
 > 
 > From the README:
 > 
 > This package enables the use of small capitals in different font
 > shapes, e.g., slanted or bold slanted for all fonts that provide
 > appropriate font shapes.
 > The only prerequisite is that the corresponding |fd| file has to
 > define the font shapes |scsl| resp.\ |scit| for slanted resp.\
 > italic small capitals.

Thanks for you upload, I installed the package in

   macros/latex/contrib/slantsc

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Sep 11 11:37:19 2003
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:48:24 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: TeX for the Impatient

The new package described below has been installed at tug.ctan.org
and should make its way to your favorite local mirror in a day or
two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

=================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: TeX for the Impatient
Author's name: Karl Berry
Location on CTAN: info/impatient/
Summary description: GFDL'd distribution of TeX for the Impatient.
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The book TeX for the Impatient was originally published in 1990 by
Addison-Wesley.  It contains both tutorial and reference information on
primitive and plain TeX; it does not discuss LaTeX.

Now, it's been declared out of print and A-W has reverted all rights to
us, the authors.  We've decided to make the book available in source
form, under the GNU Free Documentation License, as our way of supporting
the community which supported the book in the first place.

Information about the free edition is included in the preface, the
copyright page, and the README.

We'd be interested in hearing about any projects undertaken with this
material.  We don't plan to make any further changes or additions to the
book ourselves, except for correction of any outright errors reported to
us, and perhaps inclusion of the illustrations.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Sep 13 18:52:37 2003
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:14:52 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: new version of bibliography/bibtex/contrib/directory 

Christophe Geuzaine writes:

> Hi! - I've just uploaded a new version of the 'directory' package
> (directory-1.18.tar.gz) in 'ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming'. The content
> of 'directory-1.18.tar.gz' is intended to replace all the existing files
> in 'bibliography/bibtex/contrib/directory'.
> 
> Version 1.18 introduces two new BibTeX styles that permit to export the
> address books in vCard and LDIF formats (accepted by Apple's Address
> Book, Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla, etc.), without requiring any external
> programs.

i've installed the files as requested; thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Sep 16 06:55:40 2003
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:28:30 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: xcolor 1.01 (Update)

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030915.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: xcolor 1.01 (Update)
Name and email: Uwe Kern
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor
Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
v1.01 (2003/09/15)
- New feature: automatic coloring (color series)
- Bugfixes: \rdivide, \rowcolors
- Documentation: PDF file included

`xcolor' provides easy driver-independent access to several
kinds of color tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary
colors.
It allows to select a document-wide target color model and
offers tools for automatic color schemes, conversion
between eight color models, and alternating table row
colors.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/xcolor.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Sep 16 11:54:06 2003
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:20:01 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: Finomaton

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way around cyberspace to your space, via your local mirror, real soon now.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

===================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: Finomaton
Author's name: Markus Triska
Location on CTAN: graphics/finomaton
Summary description: Comfortably Draw and Typeset Finite State Machines 
  (Automata)
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Finomaton allows users comfortably draw and typeset finite state machines 
(automata). The resulting graphs can be exported to plain MetaPost and 
subsequently be included in TeX and LaTeX documents for excellent 
typesetting quality. Contrary to many other packages, the mouse can be 
used to interactively move objects around. States are magnetic to 
facilitate connection, and any TeX command can be embedded in the labels 
of states and lines. Detailed instruction of how to embed the pictures in 
your document and many examples are included in the documentation.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Sep 16 15:19:54 2003
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:45:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: csquotes - context sensitive quotation marks

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Philipp Lehman wrote:

 > I've uploaded the file 'csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory on
 > ftp.dante.de. This is the initial release of the csquotes package,
 > released under the terms of the LPPL. Please extract the tarball to
 >
 > 	CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/csquotes
 >
 > Thank you in advance.
 >
 > For the catalogue:
 >
 > The csquotes package provides markup for inline quotations in terms of
 > control sequences or active quote characters. The quotation marks are
 > context sensitive, they alternate for nested quotes and can adapt to
 > the document language automatically by interfacing with the Babel
 > package. The active quote characters and all quotation styles are
 > fully configurable.

Thanks for your upload, I installed the package in

  macros/latex/contrib/csquotes

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Sep 17 14:04:22 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:19:40 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN packge update: ledmac package

A package update has been installed on tug.ctan.org and is making
its way around the world to your favorite local mirror.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon

=================================================================

>From the package author:
----------------------
Dear CTAN/Jim,

    I have uploaded ledmac.tar.gz to tug.ctan.org/incoming. Can you please use this to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ledmac. The distribution is under the LPPL.

>From the README:

    The ledmac package is for typesetting critical editions. It is a LaTeX port of the plain TeX EDMAC and TABMAC macros.

Changes in version 0.21 (2003/09/13)
o Minor bug fixes
o Compatible with the memoir class (mempatch v1.8)

Thanks
Peter W.

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Sep 17 14:00:58 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:22:55 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: memoir class

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and it will make its way through
the mirroring system in the next few days.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

Please note that the patch from today (2003-Sept-17) of memupdate.sty
is included in this installation.

====================================================================

>From the package author:
----------------------

Dear CTAN/Jim,

    I have uploaded memupdate.tar.gz to tug/ctan/org/incoming. Please use the contents to replace part of macros/latex/contrib/memoir. The distribution is under the LPPL.

>From the README
    Memoir is a flexible class for typesetting general fiction, non-fiction and mathematical works as books, reports, articles or manuscripts. Documents can use 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 or 17pt as the normal font size. Many methods are provided to let you create your own particular design.

Changes (2003/09/16)
o New version (v1.8) of mempatch.sty (major extensions to footnoting e.g., multiple styles and multiple series; a `fixed marginpar'; hooks for the ledmac package; and minor bug fixes).
o New version of the Addendum (memmanadd.pdf)
o Apart from the README, no changes to any other files

Thanks
Peter W.

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Sep 18 10:52:01 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:10:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Michel Bovani <michel.bovani@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: fourier-GUT.tgz

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 Michel Bovani wrote:

 > Name of contribution: fourier-GUT.tgz
 > Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/fourier-GUT
 > Summary description: fourier-GUT is a math complement for adobe Utopia (Type1 fonts + Latex interface)
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Fourier-GUTenberg is a math complement for adobe utopia. It
 > include type1 fonts, afm, tfm, vf, map files and a latex interface. In
 > order to work it needs the 4 Utopia type1 (pfb) fonts to be added (if
 > not already) to the installation.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your submission. I installed the files in

   fonts/fourier-GUT

as you suggested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Sep 18 10:52:59 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:12:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Mathieu Goutelle <mgoutell@alussinan.org>
Subject: Re: [CTAN upload notification] ppr-prv class update

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Mathieu Goutelle wrote:

 > I have uploaded an update of the ppr-prv class in /incoming/ppr-prv.tgz
 > on dante.ctan.org. Please replace all files in
 > macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv by the ones in the archive.
 >
 > This class is used with LaTeX presentations using the prosper class.
 > ppr-prv stands for "Prosper Preview". The aim of this class is to
 > produce a printable version of the slides written with Prosper, with
 > two slides per page.
 >
 > Changes are some improvements in the documentation and the addition of a
 > multi-language support with Babel. Currently supported languages are
 > english, german and french (and all their variants). Other languages
 > will come sooner.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Sep 18 14:12:44 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:34:12 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: LaTeX4Jed

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and it should make its
way to your favorite local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

====================================================================

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:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This release fixes a bug exposed under Windows 2000, and adds a new module 
for the textpos package.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Sep 21 14:13:09 2003
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 19:19:35 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Till Tantau <tantau@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pgf

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 Till Tantau wrote:

 > Name of contribution: pgf
 > Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/pgf
 > Summary description: pgf version 0.31 (tarball replacement, includes latest pgfshade.sty)
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > version 0.31:
 >
 > - small fix for shadings.
 > - one dimension in a call to \pgfdeclareimage can now
 >   be computed automatically.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update. I installed the package in

  graphics/pgf

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Sep 21 14:03:19 2003
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 19:24:46 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Till Tantau <tantau@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: beamer

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 Till Tantau wrote:

 > Name of contribution: beamer
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/beamer
 > Summary description: version 0.6 of beamer (replacement tarball)
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Version 0.52:
 > - Left and right margins can now be changed.
 > - In \section commands, you can now use formulas and
 >   line breaks.
 > - More documentation, especially on how to put several
 >   slides on one page.
 > - Workflow documentation.
 > - Two new themes. One of them needs version 0.11 of
 >   pgfshade.sty to work.
 >
 > Version 0.6:
 > This is a new version of the beamer class that contains
 > several bugfixes. Try this if you had problems with text
 > that "jumps around" or "slightly wobbles" on overlays.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the updates, I installed them.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Sep 21 14:01:27 2003
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 19:26:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Uwe Kern <u.kern@web.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: xcolor 1.03

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 Uwe Kern wrote:

 > Name of contribution: xcolor 1.03
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor
 > Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > v1.03 (2003/09/21)
 > - Change: bypass strange behaviour of some drivers.
 > - New feature: driver-sharing with hyperref.
 >
 > `xcolor' provides easy driver-independent access to several
 > kinds of color tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary
 > colors.
 > It allows to select a document-wide target color model and
 > offers tools for automatic color schemes, conversion
 > between eight color models, and alternating table row
 > colors.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Sep 24 17:09:03 2003
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:21:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Till Tantau <tantau@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: beamer

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 Till Tantau wrote:

 > Name of contribution: beamer
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/beamer
 > Summary description: update of beamer package (replacement tarball)
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Verion 0.62:
 > - Added a description enivronment.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.


For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@dante.de Thu Sep 25 08:58:39 2003
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:57:36 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: h.harders@tu-bs.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- leftidx package

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded leftidx-1_03.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains a new
version of the leftidx package. Please replace all files in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/leftidx by its contents. License stays LPPL.

The new version has been changed to dtx format and includes an English
documentation. The implementation has been simplyfied using \vphantom
instead of \mathchoice and different rules.

>From the README:

This package enables left subscripts and superscripts in math mode.
These subscripts and superscripts are automatically raised for better
fitting to the symbol they belong to.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old version
in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/leftidx/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Sep 25 14:04:31 2003
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:25:18 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upload: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and it should spread
to your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon

==================================================================

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Suggested location on CTAN: info/symbols/comprehensive
Summary description: An organized list of thousands of symbols available to LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List is an organized
list of over 2500 symbols commonly available to LaTeX
users.  Some of these symbols are guaranteed to be
available in every TeX distribution.  Others require
font files that come with some, but not all, TeX
distributions.  The rest require font files that must
be downloaded explicitly from CTAN and installed.  The
Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List currently showcases
symbols from 72 separate typefaces.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Sep 28 14:23:15 2003
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:48:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "Wilson, Peter R" <peter.r.wilson@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- tocloft package

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Wilson, Peter R wrote:

 >     I have uploaded tocloft.tar.gz to ftp.ctan.org/incoming. Please use this to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported (and announce). The distribution is under the LPPL.
 >
 > From the README:
 >
 >     The tocloft package provides control over the
 > typography of the Table of Contents, List of Figures,
 > and List of Tables. You can also define your own kinds of List of...
 >
 > Changes in version 2.3c (2003/09/26)
 > o Another fix for the hyperref package.

Thanks for the update, the new version is installed as

   macros/latex/contrib/tocloft

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Sep 28 14:20:02 2003
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:50:13 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "Wilson, Peter R" <peter.r.wilson@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class, memhfixc.sty

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Wilson, Peter R wrote:

 >     I have uploaded memhfixc.sty to ftp.ctan.org/incoming.
 >     Please use this to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memhfixc.sty
 >     (and announce). The file is under the LPPL.
 >
 >    This is version 1.4 of memhfixc.sty which provides temporary fixes for when the hyperref package is used with the memoir class.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as

  macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memhfixc.sty

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Sep 28 14:15:52 2003
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:53:15 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- numprint package

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded numprint-0_31.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please replace the
 > files in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/numprint by its contents. License stays
 > LPPL.
 >
 > From the README:
 >
 > Print numbers with a separator every three digits and convert numbers
 > given as 12345.6e789 to 12\,345,6\cdot 10^{789}. The decimal sign, the
 > thousand separator, as well as the product sign can be changed by the
 > user, e.g. to reach 12,345.6\times 10^{789}.
 > If an optional argument is given it is printed upright as unit.
 > Numbers can be rounded to a given count of digits.
 >
 > Change log:
 > - 0.31  2003/09/16  Describe automatic language-dependent switch of
 >                     decimal sign.
 >                     Expand the mandatory argument of the command before
 >                     parsing it.
 >                     Bug Fix: With four-digit numbers, print everything
 >                     instead of first digit only.

Thanks for the new version, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/numprint

For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Sep 28 14:13:52 2003
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:55:30 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: beamer

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 Till Tantau wrote:

 > Name of contribution: beamer
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/beamer
 > Summary description: beamer version 0.7 (replacement tarball)
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Version 0.7:
 > - Added per-frame resets for counters. Fixed a problem with
 >   wrong numbers in equations in overlays.
 > - Fonts can now easily be changed. Works together with
 >   mathtime and times packages.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update. I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Sep 28 14:13:57 2003
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:58:40 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Andreas Matthias <amat@kabsi.at>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- pdfpages v0.3c

On 28 Sep 2003, Andreas Matthias wrote:

 > I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages-v0.3c.tar.bz2' to
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming.
 >
 > This is a bugfix version. The latest version of pdfpages
 > had some problems with crop.sty. This bug is fixed now.
 >
 > Pdfpages is distributed under the LPPL.

Thanks for the update, I installed the files in

   macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep 29 12:28:46 2003
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:44:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- numprint v0.32

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded numprint-0_32.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains yet
 > another bug fix for the numprint package (sorry for that). Please replace
 > the files in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/numprint by its contents.
 >
 > From the README:
 > Print numbers with a separator every three digits and convert numbers
 > given as 12345.6e789 to 12\,345,6\cdot 10^{789}. The decimal sign, the
 > thousand separator, as well as the product sign can be changed by the
 > user, e.g. to reach 12,345.6\times 10^{789}.
 > If an optional argument is given it is printed upright as unit.
 > Numbers can be rounded to a given count of digits.
 >
 > Change Log:
 > - 0.32  2003/09/28  With wrong number format, generate only one error
 >                     message per \numprint call
 >                     Reset the number of digits before and after the decimal
 >                     sign (Bugfix for nosepfour)

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/numprint

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep 29 12:34:13 2003
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:46:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- babelbib v0.40

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded babelbib-0_40.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please replace all
 > files in CTAN:biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib by its contents. An xml file
 > for the catalogue is included. License stays LPPL.
 >
 > From the README:
 >
 > This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in
 > cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: Each citation
 > may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can
 > be typeset in a language chosen by the user. The current version
 > supports Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian,
 > Portoguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
 >   In addition, the package supports commands to change the typography
 > of the bibliographies.
 >   Supported bibliography styles are bababbrv.bst, bababbr3.bst,
 > babalpha.bst, babamspl.bst, babplai3.bst, babplain.bst, and babunsrt.bst.
 >
 > Change log:
 > - 0.40  2003/09/26  - babalpha.bst: Use long strings for Technical Reports
 >                     - Move the definition of the bst files into the
 >                       dtx file
 >                     - If no language field is given for an item, fall back
 >                       to the document's main language instead of an
 >                       undefined behaviour
 >                     - If no \url command is defined, produce an error
 >                       message when using the url field

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep 29 14:50:03 2003
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:31:28 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Juergen Fenn <juergen.fenn@gmx.de>, Mark Trettin <Mark.Trettin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: l2tabuen

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 Juergen Fenn wrote:

 > Name of contribution: l2tabuen
 > Suggested location on CTAN: somewhere in /info (please see below)
 > Summary description: English Translation Of Mark Trettin's `l2tabu'
 > License type: Generic DFSG
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > I have uploaded `l2tabuen.zip' to ftp.dante.de. It contains my English
 > translation of Mark Trettin's guide to LaTeX called `l2tabu' v. 1.5,
 > giving a lot of practical advice about how to avoid the most common
 > mistakes a user can make (i.e., obsolete commands, and packages).
 > `tabu' in the German name of the guide literally means `taboo'.
 >
 > As Mark did, I provide both the LaTeX source `l2tabuen.tex',
 > and the PDF version �l2tabuen.pdf'.
 >
 > It is published under the Open Publication License 1.0, or later, as
 > the original German version.
 >
 > `l2tabu' being installed in CTAN: info/german, I suggest you install
 > the files somewhere in
 >
 >   CTAN: info
 >
 > It may be useful to create a new directory for `l2tabu', and
 > (hopefully ;-) more translations, such as
 >
 >   CTAN: info/l2tabu/german, and ~/english.

Thanks for your submission. I have created a new CTAN directory

   info/l2tabu

and installed your files in

   info/l2tabu/english

The german version is now in

   info/l2tabu/german

(with the old directory linked to the new one)

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Sep 29 14:50:19 2003
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:34:43 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: interactiveworkbook

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: interactiveworkbook
Author's name: Jonathan Kuhn
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/interactiveworkbook
Summary description: latex-based interactive PDF on the web
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The package interactiveworkbook gives the user the ability to write LaTeX 
documents which, ultimately, create interactive question-and-answer 
Portable Document Format (PDF) tutorials meant to be used by Internet 
students and that, in particular, freely use mathematical notation. 
- - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/interactiveworkbook

although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

- --h8TIXrqO022670.1064860433/rzdspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de--
------- End of forwarded message -------

From zierke@dante.de Wed Oct  1 05:04:36 2003
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:12:30 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Update of l2tabu

----- Forwarded message from Mark Trettin -----
I have uploaded `l2tabu-1.6.tar.gz' (l2tabu.{pdf,tex}, Version 1.6)
to ftp.dante.de/incoming/

Name of contribution: Das LaTeX-S�ndenregister (sins of LaTeX users)

Suggested location on CTAN: info/l2tabu/german/

Summary description: Obsolete commands, packages and other common
                     mistakes

License type: Free (Open Publication License v1.0)

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.

Changes: * Added \sloppy
         * Added section numbers to FAQ references (changed FAQ Version
           to v72)
         * Some minor corrections
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Please untar the archive to CTAN:info/l2tabu/german/
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:info/l2tabu/german/  (It moved there a short while ago
from CTAN:info/german/l2tabu/ when an English translation was established
in info/l2tabu/english/)

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Oct  1 04:56:46 2003
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:17:02 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: beamer

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----

Name of contribution: beamer
Name and email: Till Tantau <tantau@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/beamer
Summary description: beamer update (replacement tarball)
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 0.71:
- Added bibliography environment and appropriate templates.
- Added \temporal command.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
previous version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer/.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Oct  1 09:55:31 2003
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:22:48 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: framed.sty

A packge has been updated on tug.ctan.org and it should appear at your
favorite local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: framed.sty
Author's name: Donald Arseneau
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/misc
Summary description: Create framed or shaded regions that can break across pages
License type: dfsg

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Patch (that went missing from previous fix)
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc

although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Oct  1 14:27:09 2003
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:06:53 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: KIX font

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it will make its
way to your favorite local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: KIX font
Author's name: Rick van Rein
Author's email: rick@vanrein.org
Location on CTAN: /fonts/kixfont
Summary description: KIX is a barcode font used for easy-scanned snail mail addresses
License type: bsd

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The postal services of a few countries accross the world use KIX to 
encode zipcode + home number.  This version is (at least) compatible 
with the Dutch system.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/kixfont

although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct  2 04:36:06 2003
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:02:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: `framed.sty' 

Rolf Niepraschk writes:

> The new updated LaTeX style
> 
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/framed.sty
> 
> has zero length. Does the mirroring not work?

it seems we installed a duff file.  i've put the previous version back
in place for the time being (i.e., while we wait for a new copy from
the author).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Oct  2 11:15:13 2003
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:29:02 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: framed.sty

I have installed a corrected version of the package framed.sty 
at tug.ctan.org and it will make its way through the mirroring 
system in the next day or two.  

This fixes the mistaken installation that I did yesterday, where 
the file had 0 bytes.  Thank you to the people who wrote with a 
heads-up about the error.

You can look at the file at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/framed.sty
.

Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Oct  2 12:10:06 2003
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:27:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: latexMP

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:

 > Name of contribution: latexMP
 > Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/metapost/latexmp/
 > Summary description: Interface for LaTeX-based typesetting in MetaPost
 > License type: pd
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The MetaPost package latexMP implements a user-friendly
 > interface to access LaTeX-based typesetting capabilities in
 > MetaPost.
 > The text to be typeset is given as string. This allows even
 > dynamic text elements, for example counters, to be used in
 > labels. Compared to other implementations it is much more
 > flexible, since it can be used as direct replacement for
 > btex..etex, and much faster, compared for example to
 > the solution provided by tex.mp
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your upload. I installed the package in

  graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/latexmp

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Oct  2 13:04:12 2003
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:47:57 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: namespc

A new packge has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make
its way to your favorite local mirror soon.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: namespc
Author's name: Alexander Dreyer
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/namespc
Summary description: rudimentary c++-like namespaces in LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 The \textsf{namespc} package adds rudimentary \emph{c++}-like namespace
 functionality to \LaTeX. It may be used to declare local \LaTeX{} commands,
 which can be made accessible in a later contexts without defining them 
 globally. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/namespc
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Oct  3 10:01:31 2003
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 13:15:59 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upload: skak v1.3

A package has been updated on CTAN and by now should have made its
way through the maze of Internet connections to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the update,
Jim Hefferon 

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: skak v1.3
Author's name: Torben Hoffmann
Location on CTAN: fonts/skak
Summary description: skak is used for typesetting of chess games 
  utilising the PGN standard
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Changes from v1.2:
* Better typesetting of the moves; thanks to Dirk B�chle.
* A few corrections to the Informator symbols (Dirk again).
* Added URL's to PGN standard and the pgn2ltx tool.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/skak
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Oct  3 15:54:54 2003
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 21:01:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Juergen Fenn <juergen.fenn@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: latexMP

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Juergen Fenn wrote:

 > I have uploaded an updated version of `l2tabuen.zip' to ftp.dante.de.
 > It contains my English translation of Mark Trettin's guide to LaTeX
 > called `l2tabu' v. 1.6, giving a lot of practical advice about how to
 > avoid the most common mistakes a user can make (i.e., obsolete
 > commands, and packages).
 >
 > Would you please replace both the *.tex, and the *.pdf files in
 >
 >   info/l2tabu/english


Thank you for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Oct  4 11:22:34 2003
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:34:52 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: clrscode

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make
its way to your favorite local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: clrscode
Author's name: Thomas H. Cormen
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/clrscode
Summary description: Typesets pseudocode in the same manner as Introduction 
  to Algorithms.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package allows you to typeset pseudocode in the style of Introduction 
to Algorithms, Second edition, by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein.  
The package was written by the authors.  You use the commands the same way 
we did in writing the book, and your output will look just like the 
pseudocode in the text.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/clrscode
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Oct  4 12:43:56 2003
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:27:38 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl>
Subject: Re: ctable-1.5.tar.gz

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Wybo Dekker wrote:

 > - I have uploaded ctable-1.5.tar.gz at ftp.dante.de
 >
 > - ctable.sty provides commands to easily typeset centered table and
 >   (multiple-)figure floats, with footnotes.
 >   Instead of an environment, a command with 4 arguments is used; the first
 >   is optional and is used for key,value pairs generating variations on the
 >   defaults and offering a route for future extensions.
 >
 > - It should replace ctable-1.3.tar.gz and should
 >   be unpacked in macros/latex/contrib/ctable
 >
 > - LPPL
 >
 > - changes (relative to v1.3):
 >
 >   * rotate   option added, rotating the float to landscape
 >
 >   * star     option added, to use starred versions of figure and table
 >              environments
 >
 >   * maxwidth option added (replaces X column specifier with l unless table
 >              would become wider than specified width)

Thanks for the new version, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/ctable

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Oct  4 15:48:47 2003
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 20:14:07 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Plain TeX macro: figflow -- flow text around a figure

recently, in response to a post on comp.text.tex, Ian Hutchinson
posted a short piece of code to do this job.

the abstract i've written for the catalogue says
  Provides a Plain TeX macro \figflow that allows one to insert a
  figure into an area inset into a paragraph.  Command arguments
  are width and height of the figure, and the figure (and its
  caption) itself.  (Does not work with LaTeX.)

i asked (and was given) permission to put the file on ctan, and have
installed it on ctan in directory macros/plain/contrib/figflow

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct  6 11:01:49 2003
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:19:18 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Joerg Knappen <knappen@uni-mainz.de>
Subject: Re: Upload ftp.dante.de:incoming/jknappen.zip

J�rg Knappen has updated some files in

  macros/latex/contrib/jknappen

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Oct  9 09:47:57 2003
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:21:25 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: BibTeX Database Generator

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: BibTeX Database Generator
Author's name: Pallav Gupta
Location on CTAN: support/bibtex-gen
Summary description: A simple interactive script to generate BibTeX Files.
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is just an interactive script that I use in my Latex work to generate 
Bibtex files. I do not like typing all the unnecessary details nor do I 
like copying and then modifying entries.

So I wrote this small script to help you type only what you need in your 
(customized) bibliographies and generate a file which contains all the 
extra info. I just wanted to share it. Who knows, some might find it useful.

Note that its not a bibtex file parser! I'll be happy to make improvments 
if someone (besides me) ever gets around to using it. You're welcome to 
email me to provide suggestions.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/bibtex-gen
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct  9 16:36:44 2003
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 20:55:14 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: acronym upload 

Tobias Oetiker writes:

> I have uploaded acronym-1.7 to  ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/acronym-1.7
> 
> Thanks to Sebastian Max for his work on this new version. The main
> new featuere is, that it is possible to have a list of acronyms,
> where only the ones get printed that are actually being used in the
> document. 

i have installed the new version to replace macros/latex/contrib/acronym

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 10 13:21:46 2003
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:59:37 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload Octavo package 1.1 

Stefan A. Revets writs:

> +Upload               : Octavo.zip
> +CTAN node            : ftp.tex.ac.uk
> +Where to go          : macros/latex/contrib/octavo
> +Licensing conditions : lppl
> +Summary of upload    : Version 1.1 of Octavo, which now deals
>                         correctly and consistently with the
>                         numbering of figures, tables _and_
>                         equations. Octavo is a modification of the
>                         standard LaTeX book class, incorporating
>                         classical design features to help with the
>                         printing and making of beautiful books.

thanks for the upload; i have installed the contents to replace the
previous version of octavo in macros/latex/contrib/octavo

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Oct 11 10:52:58 2003
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:25:16 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: ellipsis

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

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: ellipsis
Author's name: Peter J. Heslin
Location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ellipsis
Summary description: A LaTeX package to fix the uneven spacing around 
  ellipses in text mode
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a simple package that fixes a problem in the way LaTeX handles 
ellipses: it always puts a tiny bit more space after \dots in text mode 
than before it, which results in the ellipsis being off-center when used 
between two words.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ellipsis
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct 13 10:31:07 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:58:06 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: uwe.lueck@web.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: versions.sty

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload@nova.dante.de -----

Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2003
From: ctan-upload@nova.dante.de
To: ctan@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: versions.sty
Sender: owner-ctan@dante.de

A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20031010.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: versions.sty
Name and email: Uwe L"uck <uwe.lueck@web.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/versions
Summary description: Optionally omit pieces of text.
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Stephan Bellantoni's `version.sty' has provided preamble commands for selecting environments to be included/excluded. `versions.sty' does the same, but corrects, improves, and extends `version.sty' in both  implementation and function. See also `comment', `optional', `verbatim', and see package documentation for comparison with `version.sty' and `comment.sty'.
----------------------------------------------------------------------


XML file:
**********************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="versions.sty"
       datestamp="2003/10/07" 
       modifier="ftpmaint@dante.ctan.org">
  <about>
    <name>versions.sty</name>
    <caption>Optionally omit pieces of text.</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Uwe L"uck</name>
      <email>uwe.lueck@web.de</email>
    </author>
    <license type="LaTeX Project" />
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      Stephan Bellantoni's `version.sty' has provided preamble commands for selecting environments to be included/excluded. `versions.sty' does the same, but corrects, improves, and extends `version.sty' in both  implementation and function. See also `comment', `optional', `verbatim', and see package documentation for comparison with `version.sty' and `comment.sty'.
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>macros/latex/contrib/versions</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
**********************************************************************
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload, I installed it (the second upload dated October 10)
as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/versions/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct 13 10:28:07 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:01:33 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- toolbox v4.4

----- Forwarded message from "M. Vaeth" -----
I have uploaded a new release of toolbox (toolbox.zip) to the
incoming directory. A description follows.
Sincerely.Martin V�th

Name of contribution: toolbox v4.4
Name and email: Martin V�th <vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/toolbox
    (should replace previous release)
Summary description: A package for (La)TeX which provides some macros
which are convenient for writing indices, glossaries, or other macros.
License type: Free (lppl)

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A package for (La)TeX which provides some macros
which are convenient for writing indices,
glossaries, or other macros.
It contains macros which support
-implicit macros
-fancy optional arguments
-loops over tokenlists and itemlists
-searching and splitting
-controlled expansion
-redefinition of macros
-concatenated macro names

Some new if-commands are implemented (e.g. \toolboxIfEmpty to
test whether a given argument is empty (i.e. an empty tokenlist)).
Corrections in the documentation.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/toolbox

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct 13 10:31:17 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:05:07 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- numprint v1.10

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded the file numprint-1_10.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains
a new version of the numprint package. Please replace all files in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/numprint by its contents. And ignore the file
numprint-1_00.tar.gz that I have uploaded a few days ago. License stays
LPPL.

>From the README:

Print numbers with a separator every three digits and convert numbers
given as 12345.6e789 to 12\,345,6\cdot 10^{789}. Numbers are printed
in the current mode (text or math) in order to use the correct font.
  Many things, including the decimal sign, the thousand separator, as
well as the product sign can be changed by the user, e.g., to reach
12,345.6\times 10^{789}. If requested, numprint can round numbers to
a given number of digits.
  If an optional argument is given it is printed upright as unit.
Numbers can be rounded to a given number of digits.
  The package supports an automatic, language-dependent change of the
number format.
  Tabular alignment using the tabular(*), array, tabularx, and longtable
environments (similar to the dcolumn and rccol packages) is supported
using all features of numprint. Additional text can be added before and
after the formatted number.

If you prefer to use the old version 0.32 you may use numprint032.sty
which will stay fixed.

The main new features are automatic language support and a really usable
tabular alignment.

Change log:
- 1.10  2003/10/12  New tabular aligment mechanism (now comparable to
                      dcolumn and rccol) with full support of all
                      numprint formats.
                    Math version npbold which aligns with normal math
                      alphabet.
                    Don't use substr package.
                    Provide \npmakebox command that works as \makebox
                      but takes a text instead of a length for calculating
                      its width.
- 1.00  2003/10/07  Automatically add a plus to numbers without sign.
                    Define shortcut \np for \numprint on demand.
                    Automatic support for different number formats in
                      different languages (already supported are
                      English and German).
                    Better argument parsing.
                    Automatically don't separate degree sign from number.
                    Customize input characters (decimal sign, exponent
                      character).
                    Define a list of ignored characters.
                    User defined signs exceeding +,-, and \pm.
                    Load configuration file if present.
                    Improved calculation of box width for mantissa and
                      exponent.
                    Entirely new implementation (about 90% new code).
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested replacing
the old one in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/numprint

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct 13 12:38:49 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:41:40 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- TrueType with teTeX tutorial

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded the file ttf-tetex.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please replace
the files in CTAN:info/TrueType/ by its contents.

This upload contains the tutorial "Using TrueType fonts with teTeX and
dvips" that describes how to use TrueType fonts with teTeX, actually by
converting them to Postscript Type 1 fonts. It is not described how to use
TrueType fonts directly.

The section about updmap has been changed since it has been outdated in
the old version.

In order to save disk space, the postscript version of the description has
been omitted (there is a pdf version that should be enough).
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload;  I installed the new version as suggested.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct 13 12:15:01 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:48:59 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- new package svninfo

----- Forwarded message from "Achim D. Brucker" -----

I uploaded a new LaTeX package to the CTAN network which I propose
for including in the distribution:

File uploaded:     svninfo-0.1.tar.gz
CTAN-node:         ftp.dante.de
Proposed location: macros/latex/contrib/svninfo
Licence:           lppl
Description:
This package is used to extract the revision and file information
provided by the subversion (svn) revision control system.
It is an adaption of the rcsinfo package for rcs.

----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new packages as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/svninfo.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Oct 14 05:41:29 2003
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:21:30 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- isodate package

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded isodate-2_11.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please replace the
files in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/isodate by its contents. License stays
LPPL.

This version adds support for printing months with Roman numerals,
e.g., 14.\,X.~2003.


>From the README:

Tune the output format of dates.

This package provides ten output formats of the
commands \today, \printdate, \printdateTeX, and \daterange
(partly language dependent):
ISO (yyyy-mm-dd),
numeric (e.g. dd.\,mm.~yyyy),
short (e.g. dd.\,mm.\,yy),
TeX (yyyy/mm/dd),
original (e.g. dd. mmm yyyy),
short original (e.g. dd. mmm yy),
as well as numerical formats with Roman numerals for the month.

The commands \printdate and \printdateTeX print any date.
The date is given as an argument using the actual date format for output:
\printdate{yyyy-mm-dd}, \printdate{dd.mm.yyyy}, or \printdate{dd/mm/yyyy},
and \printdateTeX{yyyy/mm/dd}.

The command \daterange prints a date range and leaves out unnecessary
year or month entries.
E.g. 2000-05-03 to 2000-05-08 leads to `2000-05-03 to 08'.

This package supports German (old and new rules, Austrian), US
English, French, Danish, Swedish (by Christian Schlauer), and
Norwegian (by Svend Tollak Munkejord).
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/isodate/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Oct 16 06:40:01 2003
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:20:17 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: pdfTeX v1.11b

A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20031016.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: pdfTeX v1.11b
Name and email: Martin Schr�der <martin@pdftex.org>
Suggested location on CTAN: systems/pdftex
Summary description: A new stable version of pdfTeX
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
===========================================================================
  Main change of pdfTeX 1.11b:
===========================================================================

- Bugfix: The handling of /Rotate produced displaced images when /Rotate
  was 90 or 270.

For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Oct 16 10:52:02 2003
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:29:37 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- hhtensor package

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded hhtensor-0_6.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please unpack it to
the directory CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/hhtensor. License is LPPL. An xml
file is included for the catalogue.

>From the README:

This package provides commands for vectors, matrices, and tensors
with different styles (arrows as the \LaTeX\ default, underlined,
and bold).
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this new package as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/hhtensor/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Oct 16 10:52:58 2003
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:37:30 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Books for the Teubner Verlag: bgteubner.cls

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded the file bgteubner-1_07.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
Please unpack it to CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/bgteubner.
License is LPPL.

It contains a document class for producing books for the publisher
"Teubner Verlag", Wiesbaden, Germany.

Form the README:

I have programmed the "bgteubner.cls" document class by order of the
Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden, Germany. This has been done to ensure that
books of this publisher have a unique layout. The publisher has
allowed me to distribute the document class with auxilliary files
and documentation freely. Unfortunately, most of the documentation
is only available in German.

Since the document class is intended to generate a unique layout, many
things (layout etc.) are fixed and cannot be altered by the used.
If you want to use the document class for another purpose than publishing
with the Teubner Verlag, this may arrise unwanted restrictions
(For instance, the document class provides only two paper sizes:
DIN A-5 and 17cm x 24cm; only two font families are supported:
Times and European Computer Modern).

The document class needs some additional packages, partly relatively
new ones, partly packages that are not installed on most TeX
installations. A list of needed packages is contained in usefiles.txt.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this new package as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/bgteubner/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

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From zierke@dante.de Fri Oct 17 09:17:40 2003
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:54:46 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- view_print_ps_pdf

----- Forwarded message from Wybo Dekker -----
- I have uploaded vpp-1.2.tar.gz

- at ftp.dante.de

- to be unpacked in /support/view_print_ps_pdf

- LPPL

- summary:
  vpp (View and Print Postscript/PDF) displays a pdf or
  postscript documentand lets you print (os save as PDF)
  selected pages to a one- or two-sided hardcopy or an A5-booklet.
  Can also be used to re-arrange pages in in document.

- changes:
  . --batch parameter testing removed, so o option can be used
  . better pagecount and page dimension detection
  . Context used directly, not via texexec
  . changed oxyz subcommand so that absolute filenames can be used
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested replacing
the old version in CTAN:support/view_print_ps_pdf/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Fri Oct 17 09:17:43 2003
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:04:25 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- MimeTeX 1.20 (update)

----- Forwarded message from John Forkosh -----
 As per your README.uploads instructions...
   + what you've uploaded
        mimetex.zip
        (version 1.20, to replace support/mimetex/mimetex.zip)
   + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
        ftp.dante.de
   + where you want the files to go
        support/mimetex
             Please REPLACE all existing files (mimetex.zip and README) in
        support/mimetex (and please  unzip mimetex.zip README  and then
        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.
        (a) added picture-like environment, along with picture element
            commands for circles/ellipses and lines (but not bezier
            curves yet), see
                    http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html#example12
        (b) Also: various other changes and fixes, e.g., several delimiters
            can now be arbitrarily sized
     ----------------------------------------------------
     From the original submission...
        MimeTeX parses LaTeX math expressions, and emits either mime
        xbitmaps or gif images of them, rather than the usual TeX dvi's.
        MimeTeX images are therefore easily imported directly into html
        documents with the <tag>, e.g.,
          <img src="../cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^x~e^{-t^2}dt"
           border=0 align=absmiddle>
        without intermediate dvi-to-gif conversion, and without storing
        lots of little gif files, one file for each converted expression.
        This makes your web site and html documents more easily maintained.
        See
                    http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html#examples
        for examples demonstrating mimeTeX's features and usage.
             MimeTeX is primarily intended to help you maintain native
        html documents containing math.  In this sense it's a kind of
        "lightweight" alternative to MathML, with the advantage that
        mimeTeX preserves LaTeX syntax.
             Similar non-MathML packages, like textogif and gladTeX,
        require setup procedures that use TeX to help generate external
        gif images of your equations, which are later included
        in your html document as it's being rendered.
             MimeTeX is, as far as I know, the only such non-MathML
        package that has its own built-in parser and rendering engine,
        entirely independent of TeX, and therefore requires no setup
        procedure or external images whatsoever.  It renders realtime,
        on-the-fly images directly from LaTeX math expressions embedded
        in html documents.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:/support/mimetex/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct 20 12:16:45 2003
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:41:18 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: [emanuelevicentini@yahoo.it: GuIT logo package]

----- Forwarded message from Emanuele Vicentini -----
I've uploaded in incoming/ a little compressed tarball (guit.tar.gz)
containing source and documentation of guit.sty, a package to typeset GuIT's
logo.

The package is released under the LPPL. I'd suggest to store tarball's
contents in macros/latex/contrib/

Here's an extract from the README file:

The guit.sty package provides some commands useful to correctly write the
logo of "Gruppo Utilizzatori Italiani di TeX" (Italian TeX User Group),
using the default document color or any other color the user may ever
choose, in conformity with logo's scheme as seen on the Group site
(http://www.guit.sssup.it). Likewise, commands are available that simplify
the writing of GuIT acronym's complete expansion and of the correct address
of Group's internet site. Optionally, using hyperref, the outputs of the
above cited commands can become hyperlinks to Group's site
(http://www.guit.sssup.it).

Documentation available in Italian only.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this package as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/GuIT/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct 20 12:16:44 2003
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:48:01 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: 3DLDF

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: 3DLDF
Name and email: Laurence Finston <lfinsto1@gwdg.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/3DLDF
Summary description: A package for 3D graphics with MetaPost output
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
3DLDF is a package for 3D graphics with MetaPost output. It is  written in C++ using CWEB and includes a User and Reference Manual in Texinfo format. 3DLDF currently doesn't include an input routine, so user code must be written in C++, compiled, and linked with the rest of the program. Please don't be put off by this! Updates and news will be made available at http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~lfinsto1.
----------------------------------------------------------------------


XML file:
**********************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="3DLDF"
       datestamp="2003/10/20" 
       modifier="ftpmaint@dante.ctan.org">
  <about>
    <name>3DLDF</name>
    <caption>A package for 3D graphics with MetaPost output</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Laurence Finston</name>
      <email>lfinsto1@gwdg.de</email>
    </author>
    <license type="gpl" />
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      3DLDF is a package for 3D graphics with MetaPost output. It is  written in C++ using CWEB and includes a User and Reference Manual in Texinfo format. 3DLDF currently doesn't include an input routine, so user code must be written in C++, compiled, and linked with the rest of the program. Please don't be put off by this! Updates and news will be made available at http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~lfinsto1.
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>graphics/3DLDF</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
**********************************************************************

Thanks for the upload;  I installed the submitted archive plus the
extracted README file in CTAN:graphics/3DLDF/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Oct 23 11:19:43 2003
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:26:57 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: beamer

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org and it should make its
way to your favorite local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

=================================================================

Development of the beamer class has moved to SourceForge,
see http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net for latest version,
bug reports, etc.

ChangeLog Version 0.90:
- - Improved the installation procedure documentation.
- - Added a \plainframe command for creating frames that are
  completely filled with a picture. Navigation bars are
  suppressed. 
- - Clicking on the current frame icon will advance
  to last  lide of the frame.
- - Added nicer icons for the bibliography.
  These are now vector graphics that work nicely
  together with a background shading and
  can be zoomed arbitrarily.
- - Fixed bug in overwritten \document.
- - Added \appendix command.
- - Fixed bug when using color options like "red".
- - Added theme beamerthemesplitcondensed, adapted
  from a submission by Paul Gomme
- - Added command \insertframenumber
- - Added several new themes
- - Fixed behaviour of split theme: optional arguments 
  of \section and \subsection are now shown in
  navigation bars.
- - Added side bar management.

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Oct 26 07:06:09 2003
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 12:29:27 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: ctan@dante.de
Subject: Re: acronym-1.9 uploaded 

Tobias Oetiker writes:

> I have uploaded acronym-1.9 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/acronym-1.9.
> 
> Recent Changes:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Version 1.9 (October 2003): Fix hyperref processing to work regardles 
> of calling order. 'printused' now prints every acronym used not only 
> the ones called through \ac.
> -- Danie Els <dnjels@sun.ac.za> and Tobi Oetiker
> 
> Version 1.8 (October 2003): When the hyperref package is loaded before the
> acronym package, all acronyms will become a hyperlink to their own
> definition.
> -- Martin Salois <Martin.Salois@drdc-rddc.gc.ca>
> 
> Version 1.7 (September 2003): Added \acresetall for resetting the 'used'-tag
> of \ac. With the new option 'printonlyused', the acronym-list will consist of 
> the used acronyms only and not of all defined acronyms; Optional in a special 
> deflist - environment.
> -- Sebastian Max <smx@comnets.rwth-aachen.de>
> 
> Version 1.6 (May 2000): Added the smaller option and the macros \acsfont, 
> \acffont, and \acfsfont used to control the appearance of  \acs and \acf.
> -- Ingo Lepper <lepper@math.uni-muenster.de>
> 
> ...
> -------------------------------------------------

thanks for the upload: i've installed it replacing
macros/latex/contrib/acronym

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Oct 28 10:04:30 2003
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:40:20 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: makecirc

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org.  It should make
its way through the mirroring process to a site near you in a day
or two.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: makecirc
Author's name: Gustavo Sebasti�n Bustamante Arga�araz
Location on CTAN: graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/makecirc
Summary description: A METAPOST library for electrical circuit diagrams 
   drawing.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
MakeCirc is a METAPOST library that contains diverse symbols (the mayority 
of wich are electrician) for the use in circuit diagrams. MakeCirc tries 
to offer a high quality tool, with a simple syntax.

MakeCirc is completely integrated with LaTeX documents and with other 
METAPOST drawings/graphics. Its output is a PostScript file.

MakeCirc only requires (La)TeX and METAPOST to work
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/makecirc
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From zierke@dante.de Wed Oct 29 03:19:49 2003
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:52:31 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: l2tabuit (italian l2tabu)

----- Forwarded message from Emanuele Zannarini -----
Name of contribution: l2tabuit

Suggested location on CTAN: info/italian/l2tabu/
	or info/l2tabu/italian/

Summary description: Italian Translation Of Mark Trettin's `l2tabu'

License type: Free (Open Publication License v1.0)

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I have uploaded `l2tabuit.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming/.
Zip Archive I've provided contains 2 files: the pdf version of
the document �l2tabuit.pdf' and its LaTeX source �l2tabuit.tex'.

This is my italian translation of the Mark Trettin's practical
overview to LaTeX, called `l2tabu' v. 1.6.  The guide gives a
large number of practical hints about avoidance of the most
common  mistakes a user can make (for instance: obsolete
commands and packages, etc.).
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it in CTAN:info/l2tabu/italian
with a symbolic link from info/italian/l2tabu to this directory.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Oct 30 02:24:37 2003
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:57:22 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: fiorio@lirmm.fr
Subject: CTAN upload notification: Algorithm2e

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload@nova.dante.de -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20031027.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Algorithm2e
Name and email: Christophe Fiorio <fiorio@lirmm.fr>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/algorithm2e
Summary description: Floating algorithm environment with algorithmic keywords (re)definition feature
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Algorithm2e is an environment for writing algorithms.  An algorithm is
defined as a floating object like figures.  It provides macros that
allow you to create different sorts of key words, thus a set of
predefined key word is given. You can also change the typography of
the keywords.  The environment allows you to have vertical lines
delimiting block of instructions.  It defines also different sort of
algorithms such as Procedure or Function allowing name of this
functions to be reused in common text or other algorithms.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thank you very much for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/algorithm2e

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Oct 30 05:49:50 2003
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:26:36 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission --- hieroglf font

----- Forwarded message from "Wilson, Peter R" -----
    I have uploaded hieroglf.tar.gz to dante/incoming. Please use this to replace the current fonts/archaic/hieroglf. The distribution is under the LPPL.

>From the README:
    The hieroglf package provides a Metafont version of about 75 Egyptian hieroglyphs from Serge Rosmorduc's comprehensive hieroglyph package. Sufficient glyphs are provided for writing a few names like Cleopatra or Ptolomeny (together with cartouches) and some numbers. There is a command for transliterating into a modern alphabet. The package is not for serious Egyptologists.

New in version 1.2
o Numerals
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:fonts/archaic/hieroglf/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Fri Oct 31 04:16:43 2003
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:49:55 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- typogrid.sty

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded typogrid-1_00.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the
new package typogrid.sty (License LPPL) which I suggest to put to
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/typogrid.

>From the README:

This package produces a typographic grid on every page of the
document. That grid consists of vertical lines that devide the
text block into columns. This may be useful to get the horizontal
measures (distances etc.) into good values.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new package as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/typogrid

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Nov  3 12:48:50 2003
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:18:00 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: semantic

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and it should make its
way to your favorite mirror real soon now.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: semantic
Author's name: Peter M�ller Neergaard
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/semantic
Summary description: Help for writing programming language semantic 
   including software ligatures
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This revision updates semantic to version 2.0(epsilon).  It includes a 
patch to make semantic compatible with amsmath 2.0.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/semantic
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From zierke@dante.de Tue Nov  4 02:46:31 2003
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 09:25:02 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- bgteubner document class

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded bgteubner-1_10.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
Please unpack it to CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/bgteubner/, replacing the
old files. License stays LPPL with some minor extra remarks.

>From the README:

I have programmed the "bgteubner.cls" document class by order of the
Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden, Germany. This has been done to ensure that
books of this publisher have a unique layout. The publisher has
allowed me to distribute the document class with auxilliary files
and documentation freely. Unfortunately, most of the documentation
is only available in German.

Since the document class is intended to generate a unique layout, many
things (layout etc.) are fixed and cannot be altered by the user.
If you want to use the document class for another purpose than publishing
with the Teubner Verlag, this may arrise unwanted restrictions
(For instance, the document class provides only two paper sizes:
DIN A-5 and 17cm x 24cm; only two font families are supported:
Times and European Computer Modern).

The document class needs some additional packages, partly relatively
new ones, partly packages that are not installed on most TeX
installations. A list of needed packages is contained in usefiles.txt.


ChangeLog:

2003/10/30 v1.10
- Add proof environment
- Smaller indentation for quote, quotation, example, etc.
- Spacing around important(*) and theorem-like environments improved
- Limits for integrals below and above the sign in displayed equations
- Command \qed for proofs introduced
- Font size in theorem-like environments adjustable (global switch,
  default is normalsize, now)
- Line break in ISBN prohibited
- Use the same format for ISSN and ISBN
- Class option `layoutraster' removed


Attention:
Some measures have changed from version 1.07 to 1.10. Thus, the line
breaks and page breaks will surely change.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thansk for the upload.  I installed it replacing the previous version in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/bgteubner

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Nov  4 09:11:14 2003
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:25:58 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and those updates should make
their way to your favorite mirror very soon.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The eighth CTAN release has the following improvements:
* Oval radius is now editable
* So called instances can now be saved and loaded again. They act like grouped objects. A number of objects can be saved to an instance file (.lpxi) and be inserted as a grouped single object in your drawings. E.g. a complete two input AND gate can be drawn once, saved to a instance file and be inserted a lot of times to create a logic scheme.
* Added some preferences.
* Inclusion of bitmap (*.bmp) images is not possible anymore for it is not fully supported by LaTeX.
* Improvements made on arc drawing and conversion.
* Framebox text rotation can now be specified within a range of -360..360
* Movement, resizing and drawing of objects now by default snaps to grid, by holding the shift key you can move, resize and draw freely without snapping.
* Webupdate checker implemented. When a newer version is found on the CTAN server it asks if you want to be redirected.
* Major improvements and additions made to the manual. It is not finished yet but a lot better and clearer than the previous releases.
* Language editor added again. If you feel like translating LaTeXPiX into your language, please help me. See the manual for details.
* Bolditalic texts are possible.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov  4 17:46:07 2003
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:18:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload to Cambridge: cite.sty and overcite.sty 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I have uploaded new versions of cite.sty and overcite.sty to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk.  They should replace the ones currently in
> macros/latex/contrib/cite.
> 
> overcite.sty is now just a stub, loading cite.sty with the [superscript]
> option.
> 
>  4.0: Combine overcite with cite: [superscript] = [super] option.  Also add 
>       [nocompress] option and \CiteMoveChars hook; multibib hooks.
>  4.01 \bf -> \bfseries

i've installed the packages replacing older versions in
macros/latex/contrib/cite

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Nov  5 02:09:55 2003
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 08:50:16 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: frank@kuesterei.ch
Subject: CTAN upload notification: alnumsec

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: alnumsec
Name and email: Frank K�ster
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec
Summary description: alphanumeric sectioning numbering with standard sectioning commands
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package allows you to use alphanumeric section numbering, e.g.:
A. Introduction; III. International Law. It s output is similar to
alphanum.sty, but you can use the standard LaTeX sectioning commands.
Thus it is possible to switch numbering schemes easily. Greek letters,
double letters (bb) and different delimiters around them are supported.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----


Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new package in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec as suggested.

However, I added the above announcement text to the README file in that
directory.  For a cursory visitor, this is a bit more informative than
just installation instructions.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Nov  5 02:45:03 2003
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:30:10 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 6.10 - Animated GIF, Sound for SVG

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 6.10 (issued 1-Nov-2003).

Please put the files to 'CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

Most important improvements in BaKoMa TeX 6.10 are:

SVG Generation:
  * Import of animated GIF into SVG as animated image.
  * Import multi-page Postscript into SVG as animated
    graphics - every page is translated as frame.
  * Sound effects are supported by SVG.STY via \sound command.
  * More customization in Navigation Bar added at SVG generation: size, colors.
 
  More details about SVG Generation features are available in 
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/svgwrite.html>

Graphics (Supported for View, Print, SVG, PDF, Postscript)
  * Support of transparent background in imported GIF files.
  * Support of Color Key Masked Images - Type 4 (Postscript Level 3)

BibEdit Improvements:
  * Refined disappering comment subwindow 
    when adding new fields and resizing window.
  * Added Rename command for changing entry key and field name.

More information about changes is at:
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
4-Nov-2003

PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 6.10 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * HTML Generation features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 6.10
   
For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95

HIGHLIGHTS

 * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system.
 * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
   of the file being edited. 
   (like to Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
** Generates *SVG* (PSTricks, Prosper + animation features).
** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
 * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 
GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, 
FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts: 
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.

Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click.

OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0
even without ATM.

USER INTERFACE

* Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
  It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, 
  when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, 
  mathematics, pictures, etc.
* Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen 
  for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents: 
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
* Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
    correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
    configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
* Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
* Support for Multi-User systems.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF,
* SVG (animation effects are supported),
* HTML.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste 
  of cyrillic and other international characters.
* Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

HTML GENERATION FEATURES

 BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 documents into HTML files.
  * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch 
     `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
  * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert 
     pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
     pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, 
     such as slides.

 In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of 
 `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.

 Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 into generated HTML pages.
 
SVG GENERATION FEATURES

 BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
 from a DVI files. Ability to add animation to the SVG output,
 makes it the best for producing high quality presentations.

 Sample of animated presentation is available at:
   ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html

 Key Features:
   SVG output is compatible with another output formats
   (PDF, PS, HTML, View, and Print) so, that the same graphical
   formats, font formats, and other features are supported.
   In details:
   *  All TeX Formats (LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09, AmSTeX, Plain TeX) are supported.
   *  TeX extensions (e-TeX and Omega) are supported.
   *  ALL LaTeX packages (including PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics, draftcopy, etc.)
       are supported.
   *  Graphical formats: EPS, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, 
   		         BMP, WMF, EMF, HPGL, and DXY are supported.
   *  More generally, Any imported or embedded Postscript is supported.
   *  Hyperref is supported, including outline and links. For \Acrobatmenu 
      most general commands (such as NextPage or PrevPage) are supported.
   *  Popular presentation packages: Prosper, PDFScreen, PDFSlide, Seminar, etc.
      are supported.
  *** The existing presentations can be enhanced by adding animation.
   *  All Font Types: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, Postscript Type1 
      (including MM), Postscript Type 3, and TeX PK are supported.

 Details about adding animation to generated SVG files are explained at:
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/svgwrite.html>

*** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 6.10 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 6.0 ***

SVG Generation:
  * Import of animated GIF into SVG as animated image.
  * Import multi-page Postscript into SVG as animated
    graphics - every page is translated as frame.
  * SVG.STY have new command (\sound) to add sound effects (WAV-files).
  * More customization in Navigation Bar added at SVG generation: Size, colors.
 
  More details about SVG Generation features are available in 
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/svgwrite.html>

Graphics (Supported for View, Print, SVG, PDF, PDF, Postscript)
  * Support of transparent background in imported GIF files.
  * Support of Color Key Masked Images - Type 4 (Postscript Level 3)

BibEdit Improvements:
  * Refined disappering comment subwindow 
    when adding new fields and resizing window.
  * Added Rename command for changing entry key and field name.

For more information see
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>

---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new resp. changed files as
suggested in CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Nov  5 06:38:10 2003
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:15:25 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: latexMP (update)

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20031105.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: latexMP (update)
Name and email: Jens-Uwe Morawski
Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/latexmp
Summary description: Interface for LaTeX-based typesetting in MetaPost
License type: pd

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
the update includes:
- code cleanup, new key-value implementation
- bug fixes in documentation and examples
- a new macro \transparent that provides an interface
  to MetaFuns transparency features
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
previous version in
CTAN:graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/latexmp

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov  5 17:13:57 2003
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:54:09 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload to Cambridge: relsize.sty 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> Continuing to clear out my backlog...
> I have uploaded a new version of relsize.sty to ftp.tex.ac.uk:
> relsize.sty       3.1       July 4, 2003
> to replace tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/relsize.sty
> 
> Significant changes
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 1)
> The new version tries harder to make changes of constant relative 
> scale ("magsteps"), rather than just following the sequence of 
> font size commands (which have irregular size increments).  It 
> will continue to lock on to those specified fixed sizes (with 
> possible user control) but may interpret steps differently.
> 
> Old: \normalsize\smaller => \small (10pt -> 9pt)
> New: \normalsize\smaller => \footnotesize (10pt -> 8pt)
> 
> This new system is like a chromatic scale as opposed to a diatonic
> scale. (Hmmmmm maybe I should provide a "compatibility" package 
> option...)
> 
> 2)
> The math size-changing is changed to have super/subscripts attached
> better.  It is still not a seamless solution though.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Nov  6 07:22:54 2003
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:59:36 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- epiolmec

----- Forwarded message from Apostolos Syropoulos -----
   I have upoloaded on ftp.dante.de/incoming the file epiolmec.tar.gz,
which contains all the necessary files to typeset Epi-Olmec ``documents.''
Note that when you decompress the file epiolmec.tar.gz, it creates the
directory and some subdirectories. Ideally, these subdirectories should
be installed in /languages/epiolmec.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in CTAN:language/epiolmec.
(CTAN:languages being a symbolic link to CTAN:language).

For the unknowing (like me until a few minutes ago), Epi-Olmec is
a script used in Southern Middle America until about 500 AD.

The license is LPPL.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Nov  6 07:22:54 2003
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:04:19 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: custom-bib

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: custom-bib
Name and email: Patrick Daly
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib
Summary description: Customizing bibtex style files
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This update fixes a bug that entered with the last revision. It caused
the comma separating options in the docstrip batch file to be in the
wrong location when external language files were added. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov  7 07:10:09 2003
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 12:44:12 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: texthax@tug.org
Subject: UK TeX FAQ v3.10

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

during my time off work sick in the last two months, i wrote a few new
questions, and did fairly major tidying in several areas.  (it took
the mind off being uncomfortable for most of the time...)

i propose to do some work on the web server's performance (by using a
somewhat more sensible mechanism to generate html from the latex
source) before the next full release, so i may make minor content-
related releases between now and 2004.  (the existing texfaq2html
mechanism has persisted since 1995, when the faq operated on a web
server at the university of sussex.)

Robin Fairbairns

FAQ maintainer, and for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Nov 10 07:49:28 2003
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:22:24 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Version 0.93 of beamer

----- Forwarded message from Till Tantau -----
I have put version 0.93 of the beamer package (macros/latex/contrib/beamer) in 
the incoming directory of dante.ctan.org. The file beamer-version-0.93.tar.gz 
is a replacement tar ball (this time with prefix beamer/ !).

Possible announcement text:

"
Version 0.93:
- Added \article, \common, \presentation macros for creating an
  article version of a presentation from the same file.
- Corrected several examples in the user guide.	
- Added additional hyperlink commands.
- Added button management.
- Reworked the formatting of the user's guide.
- Added new navigation symbols.
- Replaced inrow option and theme splitcondensed by compress
  option. 
"
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Nov 11 04:21:37 2003
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:02:21 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- babelbib package

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded babelbib-v0_42.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the
updated version of the babelbib bundle. License stays LPPL. Please replace
the files in CTAN:biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib by its contents.

>From the README:

This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in
cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: Each citation
may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can
be typeset in a language chosen by the user. The current version
supports Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian,
Norwegian, Portoguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
  In addition, the package supports commands to change the typography
of the bibliographies.
  Supported bibliography styles are bababbrv.bst, bababbr3.bst,
babalpha.bst, babamspl.bst, babplai3.bst, babplain.bst, and babunsrt.bst.

Change log:
- 0.42  2003/11/09  - Use unique version strings for all files of the
                      bundle
                    - Reorganise documentation
- 0.41  2003/11/02  - Added Norwegian and corrected Swedish
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Nov 11 04:22:13 2003
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:03:15 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- contour package

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded contour-v1_04.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please replace the
files in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/contour by its contents. License stays
LPPL.

>From the README:

This package generates a colored contour around a given text in order
to enable printing text over a background without the need of a
color box around the text.

Change log:
1.04 2003/11/09  - Avoide usage of \cs{textversion} etc.
                 - Avoid line break of inner text
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/contour

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Nov 11 04:21:51 2003
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:07:45 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: xcolor 1.04

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: xcolor 1.04
Name and email: Uwe Kern
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor
Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
2003/11/09 v1.04
* New feature: easy access to current color within color expressions.
* New option: `override' to replace \definecolor by \xdefinecolor.
* New command: \tracingcolors for logging color-specific information.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/xcolor

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 11 11:33:02 2003
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:56:22 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: texhax@tug.org
Subject: cam.ctan.org (ftp.tex.ac.uk) failed

due to a little local difficulty, the machine serving the cambridge
ctan site was down for a while this afternoon (11 nov 2003).

now that it's back up, the ftp server is not working.  i'm struggling
with the problem, and will report progress as soon as there is any.
(the rsync server appears to be working.)

my apologies for the inconvenience

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 11 16:49:59 2003
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:17:14 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: texhax@tug.org
Subject: cam.ctan.org (ftp.tex.ac.uk) resurrected

i believe the server was down for less than two hours.  there were
users downloading things before _i_ was satisfied that it was going
again (ca 1730 gmt).

my apologies to all and sundry for the inconvenience.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Nov 12 04:01:03 2003
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:31:42 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Submission -- lettrine

----- Forwarded message from Daniel Flipo -----
I have just uploaded into ftp.dante.de/incoming a file lettrine.tar.gz,
which contains an upgrade (V 1.5) of the lettrine package designed to
typeset various sorts of dropped capitals.

It should replace the old version in 'macros/latex/contrib/lettrine'.

The license is unchanged (LPPL).
 
This release offers a new functionality:
%    Instead of giving optional parameters to the |\lettrine| command,
%    it is now possible to set them on a per character basis in a 
%    second config file (this was suggested by Pascal Kockaert):
%    |\renewcommand{\DefaultOptionsFile}{|\textit{filename}|}|
%    in the preamble (or anywhere in the document) will
%    force each call to |\lettrine| to read the file \textit{filename}.
%    See examples of such config files in the subdirectory
%    \file{contrib}.

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
previous version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/lettrine

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Nov 13 02:03:52 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:25:04 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- combine class 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded combine.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use
> this to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/combine. The
> distribution is under the LPPL. 
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a
> single document, such as when preparing a conference proceedings. 
> 
>     ...The auxiliary combcite package provides a version of the cite
> package for use with the combine class. 
> 
> Changes in version 1.0 of combcite (2003/11/09)
> o First public release
> 
> Changes in version 0.52 of combine.cls (2003/11/09)
> o Added `memoir' to the class options

i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Nov 13 02:04:01 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:26:18 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ledmac package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded ledmac.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use
> this to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ledmac. The
> distribution is under the LPPL. 
> 
> From the README:
>     The ledmac package is for typesetting critical editions. It is a
> LaTeX port of the plain TeX EDMAC and TABMAC macro. 
> 
> Changes in version 0.22 (2003/11/09)
> o More control over paragraphed footnotes
> o More control over page or line number printing in footnotes
> o Aditional example
> o Eliminated clash with the amsfonts package

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Nov 13 03:03:09 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:33:31 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- beamer version 1.00, pgf version 0.40

----- (shortened) forwarded message from Till Tantau -----
I have put version 1.00 of the beamer package (macros/latex/contrib/beamer) in 
the incoming directory of dante.ctan.org.

I have put version 0.40 of the pgf package (graphics/pgf) in 
the same directory.

Possible text for announcement of beamer:

"
Version 1.00:
- Added part managment and documented it.
- Changed \appendix to use \part internally. Appendix can now
  contain numerous sections.
- Added \nameslide commands for inserting slides into the article
  version. 
- Added draft option.
- Fixed bug with \pause and notesonly.
- Added CJK option for Chinese fonts in navigation bars.
- Added \includeslide command.
- Added \beamertemplateroundedblocks (quite cute).
- Added three examples.
- Added compressnotes option.

Needs pgf 0.40. 

Note that the syntax of \pgfdeclareimage has changed.
"


Possible text for announcement of pgf:

"
Version 0.40:
- Changed syntax of \pgfdeclareimage. Uses key=value scheme
  now. All parameters may now be omitted. 
- Added \pgfimage command.
- Option for selecting a specific page from an image file.
- Fixed bug in xxcolor.sty having to do with \@ifempty command.
- Reworked the formatting of the user's guide.
"
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed both packages as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer and CTAN:graphics/pgf replacing the
previous versions.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Nov 18 04:16:16 2003
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:57:11 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- soul.sty

----- Forwarded message from Melchior FRANZ -----
I've just uploaded     ## soul.tar.gz                ##
to                     ## ftp.dante.de               ##
licensed under the     ## LPPL                       ##
Please unpack to       ## macros/latex/contrib/soul/ ##


The soul package provides hyphenatable letterspacing, underlining,
overstriking, and highlighting.

Version 2.4
=============================================================
- fixes bug that broke using soul under plain TeX, ConTeXt etc.
- adds accent \r
- adds \> definition (for additional space between characters)
- \def\soulomit#1{#1} outside the soul domain
- lets \capssave check for overwriting a cs-name
- fixes -,'` flushing
- adds \MakeUppercase and \textsuperscript to font list
- fixes font handling bug (makes \MakeUppercase et al. work)
- makes rudimentary footnotes work
- fixes \char\hyphenchar\font for negative hyphenchar (\hl{\texttt{a-b}}
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
previous version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/soul/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Nov 18 09:49:07 2003
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:18:25 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should make its way
to your favorite local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix
Summary description: 
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The eighth CTAN bugfix release has the following improvements:
* On Windows 95/98/ME LaTeXPiX crashed because it could not retrieve a 
  registry value. This retrieval is removed for now until a good solution 
  is found.
* All preferences are now stored in the registry instead of in a .set file.
* Added PDF preview possibility.
* It is now possible to set a fixed executable path for your LaTeX 
  executable, DVI preview and DVI-to-PDF convertor. In the old situation 
  is was assumed that you used latex.exe, yap.exe and dvitopdfm.exe. Also, 
  these files had to be specified in the Windows "path" statement. When 
  this was not the case the preview process failed. Now you can set fixed 
  paths and specifiy your favorite set of executable to use for the 
  previewing.
* Added copy and paste to clipboard commands.

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Nov 18 09:45:20 2003
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:29:50 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: sseq

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make its 
way to your favorite local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: sseq
Author's name: Tilman Bauer
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/sseq
Summary description: Drawing spectral sequence charts in LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package provides a new LaTeX environment for inline typesetting of 
spectral sequence charts (certain two-dimensional diagrams coming up in 
mathematics, in particular in topology and algebra). It is built on top 
of Xy-pic.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sseq
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 19 18:06:36 2003
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 23:42:58 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: pdfcprot: package should be considered unsported 

Carsten Schurig writes:

> as I didn't have the time to actively support 'pdfcprot' for more
> than a year now and I don't see this changing in the near future, I
> announce herewith officialy that I won't support'pdfprot' any
> longer.
> 
> Please move it to the unsupported tree and add the attached
> README.unsupported to the directory. Please announce the change to
> CTAN-ANN.

there's never been an "unsupported" tree, but we collapsed the
"supported/other" level of the tree earlier this year ... so the
pdfcprot directory doesn't move.

however, i have installed your new README.unsupported into the
directory, so anyone who looks is unlikely to be misled.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 19 18:06:51 2003
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 23:52:03 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class updates 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memupdate.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this
> to replace corresponding files in macros/latex/contrib/memoir. The
> distribution is under the LPPL. 
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     Memoir is a flexible class for typesetting general fiction,
> non-fiction and mathematical works as books, reports, articles or
> manuscripts. Documents can use 9, 10, 11, 12 14 or 17pt as the
> normal font size. Many methods are provided to let you create your
> own particular design. 
> 
> Changes (2003/11/16)
> 
> o New version 1.9 of mempatch.sty (major extensions for typesetting
> arrays and tabulars; hung paragraphs; reduced moans about using
> deprecated font commands; bug fixes) 
> 
> o New version of the Addendum (memmanadd.pdf)
> 
> o Apart from the README, no changes to any other files.
> 
>     I hope that next time the patches and Addendum  will be bundled
> into the class code and manual. 

i've installed the new files as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Nov 20 09:36:37 2003
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:09:27 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: parrun

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: parrun
Name and email: massimiliano dominici
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/parrun
Summary description: Typesets two streams of text running parallel.
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
New version, automatic computation added.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version on CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/parrun.

-- 
Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Nov 22 08:56:20 2003
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:23:49 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: patch release of the uk tex faq

i've just installed a patch release of the faq on ctan help/uk-tex-faq
and on the web at http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq

the present release (v 3.10e) wraps up a few bug corrections that have
appeared in the web version only; there are also a few editorial
corrections.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sat Nov 22 09:49:41 2003
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:26:06 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Version 1.03 of beamer and version 0.42 of pgf

----- Forwarded message from Till Tantau -----
I have put version 1.03 of the beamer package (macros/latex/contrib/beamer) in 
the incoming directory of dante.ctan.org. The file beamer-version-1.03.tar.gz 
is a replacement tar ball.

I have put version 0.42 of the pgf package (graphics/pgf) in 
the same directory. The file is pgf-0.40.tar.gz.

Possible text for announcement of beamer:

"
Version 1.03:
	- Documented beamerboxes.sty
	- Added animation example.
	- Documented changes of syntax of \transxxxx commands.
	- Added shadow theme.
	- Added masked versions of images.
	- Added shadow blocks.
	- Added another example.

Needs pgf 0.42. 
"

Possible text for announcement of pgf:

"
Version 0.42:
- Added masks and documented them.
- Fixed bug in pgf.sty for nested pictures.
"
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed both packages as suggested replacing
the previous versions in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer and
CTAN:graphics/pgf

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sat Nov 22 09:48:08 2003
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:29:39 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- wasysym update

----- Forwarded message from Axel Kielhorn -----
I have uploaded a new version of wasysym to ftp.dante.de

New in version 2.0:
New integral handling by Walter Schmidt
Added \leavevmode to some characters to fix problems reported
in de.comp.text.tex

The new version is under LPPL.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/wasysym

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sat Nov 22 09:48:02 2003
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:35:41 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- BaKoMa TeX 6.15 - LaTeX update, bug fixing

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 6.15 (issued 17-Nov-2003).

Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

This version has Patch status and may be 
freely installed by holders of NON-UPGRADABLE license for BaKoMa TeX 6.10.

Improvements:
   * Updated most of LaTeX packages.
   * Prosper was updateted and refined to use transparency for item bullets.
     This feature is often noticable in moving the bullets over a gradients.
   * Fixed Bugs:
     - `image' Postscript operator failure;
     - wrong import of 16-bit PCX files (PCX2EPS).

More information about changes is at:
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
18-Nov-2003

PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 6.15 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * HTML Generation features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 6.15
   
For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95

HIGHLIGHTS

 * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system.
 * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
   of the file being edited. 
   (like to Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
** Generates *SVG* (PSTricks, Prosper + animation features).
** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
 * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 
GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, 
FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts: 
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.

Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click.

OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0
even without ATM.

USER INTERFACE

* Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
  It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, 
  when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, 
  mathematics, pictures, etc.
* Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen 
  for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents: 
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
* Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
    correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
    configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
* Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
* Support for Multi-User systems.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF,
* SVG (animation effects are supported),
* HTML.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste 
  of cyrillic and other international characters.
* Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

HTML GENERATION FEATURES

 BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 documents into HTML files.
  * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch 
     `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
  * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert 
     pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
     pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, 
     such as slides.

 In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of 
 `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.

 Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 into generated HTML pages.
 
SVG GENERATION FEATURES

 BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
 from a DVI files. Ability to add animation to the SVG output,
 makes it the best for producing high quality presentations.

 Sample of animated presentation is available at:
   ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html

 Key Features:
   SVG output is compatible with another output formats
   (PDF, PS, HTML, View, and Print) so, that the same graphical
   formats, font formats, and other features are supported.
   In details:
   *  All TeX Formats (LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09, AmSTeX, Plain TeX) are supported.
   *  TeX extensions (e-TeX and Omega) are supported.
   *  ALL LaTeX packages (including PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics, draftcopy, etc.)
       are supported.
   *  Graphical formats: EPS, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, 
   		         BMP, WMF, EMF, HPGL, and DXY are supported.
   *  More generally, Any imported or embedded Postscript is supported.
   *  Hyperref is supported, including outline and links. For \Acrobatmenu 
      most general commands (such as NextPage or PrevPage) are supported.
   *  Popular presentation packages: Prosper, PDFScreen, PDFSlide, Seminar, etc.
      are supported.
  *** The existing presentations can be enhanced by adding animation.
   *  All Font Types: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, Postscript Type1 
      (including MM), Postscript Type 3, and TeX PK are supported.

 Details about adding animation to generated SVG files are explained at:
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/svgwrite.html>

*** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 6.15 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 6.10 ***

   * Updated most of LaTeX packages.
   * Prosper was updateted and refined to use transparency for item bullets.
     This feature is often noticable in moving the bullets over a gradients.
   * Fixed Bugs:
     - `image' Postscript operator failure;
     - wrong import of 16-bit PCX files (PCX2EPS).

For more information see
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>

---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new files as suggested in
CTAN: nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sat Nov 22 09:50:00 2003
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:38:28 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: xcolor 1.05

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20031121.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: xcolor 1.05
Name and email: Uwe Kern
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor
Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
2003/11/21 v1.05
* Bugfixes:
    - Package option `hideerrors' should now work as expected.
    - Usage of `.' in the first color expression in a document caused
      an error due to incorrect initialisation.
* Code re-organisation: \extractcolorspec now uses \XC@splitcolor,
  making \XC@extract obsolete.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/xcolor

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Sat Nov 22 09:51:21 2003
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:46:24 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: [ctan-upload@nova.dante.de: CTAN upload notification: TeXpert 1.2]

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: TeXpert 1.2
Name and email: Christian Wei�
Suggested location on CTAN: Tools
Summary description: German language TeX-Editor f�r Windows
License type: pd

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
TeX-Editor f�r Windows mit Syntax-Highlighting, automatischer (De-)Kommentierung, etc.

http://texpert.berlios.de

Eine Version speziell f�r Windows NT, 2000 und XP,
eine zweite f�r Windows 95, 98 und ME.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it in CTAN:support/TeXpert, adding a
short README file.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Nov 22 10:42:32 2003
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:19:47 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submssion mtpro.sty v2.1.0 

Walter Schmidt writes:

> I have uploadad the ZIP archive mtpro2-1-0.zip to the 
> /incoming directory at cam.ctan.org.  It includes the 
> files
>      mtpro.txt
>      mtpro.dtx
>      mtpro.pdf
> 
> Please, move them to the CTAN directory 
> 
>   macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/mathtimepro/ 
> 
> (The existing files mtpro.ins and mtpro.yy remain
> unchanged.)
> 
> This is version 2.1.0 of the package mtpro.sty, which
> serves to use the commercial MathTimeProfessional fonts 
> with LaTeX.  I have fixed a few minor flaws (see the 
> change history in the documentation), and mtpro.txt 
> finally includes a pointer to the vendor PCTeX Inc.

i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer@dante.de Sun Nov 23 07:55:59 2003
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:32:45 +0100 (CET)
From: rainer@dante.de
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: fi2t1

Albert Kapune submitted:

 > Name of contribution: fi2t1
 > Suggested location on CTAN: support/miktex-contrib/fi2t1
 > Summary description: Tools for installing T1 fonts in the MiKTeX environment.
 > License type: Generic DFSG
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Preparing Type1 fonts for MiKTeX is a tedious work. This package
 > contains a short guideline for the font installation and a binary (and
 > its BASIC source) that performs the necessary *.pfb conversions. The
 > tool requires the fontinst package. It is specific to MiKTeX 2.3 and 2.4.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  support/miktex-contrib/fi2t1

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer@dante.de Mon Nov 24 15:32:35 2003
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:02:28 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Philipp N. Baecker <philipp.baecker@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ebsthesis

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 Philipp N. Baecker wrote:

 > Name of contribution: ebsthesis
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ebsthesis
 > Summary description: Document class and package for European Business School theses.
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The ebsthesis class and ebstools package facilitate the production of
 > camera-ready manuscripts in conformance with the guidelines of Gabler
 > Verlag and typographical rules established by European Business School.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in

  macros/latex/contrib/ebsthesis

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Nov 25 11:19:05 2003
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:57:50 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: ktv-texdata

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

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: ktv-texdata
Author's name: Ky Anh
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ktv-texdata
Summary description: Manage the libraries of exercises. Usefull for teachers.
License type: nocommercial

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is useful for the teachers of mathematics
who often work with large libraries of exercises of mathematics.
 
Assume that you have an input file
that specifies 16 exercises.
 
    \begin{exercise}\label{ex:1}
      This is the first exercise.
    \end{exercise}
    %
    \begin{exercise}\label{ex:2}
     ...
 
On Tuesday, for e.g., you want to create a student test
that contains the first  8 exercises.
However, on Wednesday, you want to create another test
that contains the last 8 exercises.
You may think of a solution like this
 
    \get{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}        % on Tuesday
    \get{9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16} % on Wednesday
 
This package helps you.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ktv-texdata
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 25 16:27:53 2003
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:08:47 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: url.sty 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I've uploaded a new url.sty to CTAN/UK: version 3.0
> 
> It contains the fix for the reversal-of-penalties just reported,
> 
> It has substantial modifications in the area of grouping and
> encapsulation of the lists of break-characters, automatic adjsutment
> to font encoding, definitions of new url styles.
> 
> I think there are previously-unreleased changes improving handling
> of #, and better separation of verbatim, breaking, and formatting
> (which were supposed to be version 2.)
> 
> Users: Please report any new problems asap.

i've installed the new version as macros/latex/contrib/misc/url.sty
replacing the old one.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 25 16:27:25 2003
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:12:06 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- layouts package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded layouts.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this
> to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/layouts (the layman.ps
> file should be removed). The distribution is under the LPPL. 
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The layouts package enables the display of various elements of a
> document's layout including: general page layout; disposition of
> floats; layout of paragraphs, footnotes, table of contents, and
> sectional headings; font boxes. Facilities are provided for a
> document designer to experiment with the layout parameters. 
> 
> Changes in version v2.6b (2003/11/25)
> o Fixed some typos in the generated diagrams

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 26 12:50:57 2003
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:03:14 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: package upload (latex/contrib/carlisle) 

David Carlisle writes:

> Not done this for a while...
> 
> I have uploaded some files in to incoming/carlisle at ftp.tex.ac.uk
> Please could you move them to macros/latex/contrib/carlisle
> colortbl.dtx  (update with new \cellcolor command, implemented by
>                Donald Arseneau) 
> tabulary.dtx
> tabulary.ins  (new table package implementing a different width
>                allocation to that of tabularx)  
> 
> The server did not let me upload a file called 00readme.txt so I
> uploaded it as x-00readme.txt but could you please rename this back and
> install as an updated contrib/carlisle/00readme.txt

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Nov 27 03:23:32 2003
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:49:44 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: TeXCad32

----- Forwarded message from Peter Furlan -----
I've uploaded version 4.3.3 of the program TeXCad32 to 
nova.dante.de/incoming/texcad32. 

I suggest to create a directory systems/win32/texcad32 for it.

Licence:
TeXCad32 is under the LPPL.

Summary:

TeXCad32 is a clone of the DOS program Texcad running under 
Windows from Win95. It is desined to create mathematical drawings 
with as much WYSIWYG as possible. 
The output consists either of Emtex-specials or of postscript 
elements for lines/circles together with LaTeX texts in a picture-
environment. Via postscript-pdf conversion also pdflatex is 
supported.

Examples are found on the homepage 
http://www.das-gelbe-rechenbuch.de/Texcad32/

Best regards and thanks for your work

Peter Furlan
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I'm sorry for the delay but I finally installed this
in CTAN:graphics/texcad32 next to graphics/tktexcad and graphics/xtexcad.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Dec  1 11:43:03 2003
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:46:13 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk 

Norman Gray writes:

>    + what you've uploaded
> 
> urlbst-0.4.tar.gz
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
>    + where you want the files to go
> 
> biblio/bibtex/contrib/urlbst/ replacing files currently there
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software 
> 
> gpl
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
> The urlbst script mechanically edits existing BibTeX .bst style files,
> to add support for `url', `lastchecked' and `eprint' fields.
> 
> This release adds a couple of small features, and fixes a reported
> bug: it is now compatible with the mla.bst collection of style files.
> 
> Note the invocation of the script has changed from `urlbst.pl' to just `urlbst'

i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Dec  3 01:47:16 2003
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:23:10 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload of ConTeXt extra math support files 

Giuseppe Bilotta writes:

>    + what you've uploaded : ctx-math.zip
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to : UK (ftp.tex.ac.uk)
> 
>    + where you want the files to go :
>    tex-archive/macros/context/t-party/bilotta
>    (the t-party subdirectory does not exist. I think it's worth
>    the effort to create it to hold third-party extensions to
>    ConTeXt)
>    
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software:
>    GNU GPL licence
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
>    The .zip archive contains two ConTeXt modules (t-nath.tex
>    and t-amsl.tex) that complement the math features in
>    ConTeXt. t-amsl provides some environments and commands that
>    most (AMS-)LaTeX users expect. t-nath provides for ConTeXt
>    the same functionality as provided by the Nath package for
>    LaTeX.

after our discussion, i've actually installed the two packages (is
that the right name for a context object?) in a new directory
macros/context/contrib/maths:

2003/08/11 |       4817 | macros/context/contrib/maths/t-amsl.tex
2003/12/01 |      90213 | macros/context/contrib/maths/t-nath.tex

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Dec  5 06:26:18 2003
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:46:25 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Till Tantau <tantau@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Re: Upload of Version 1.03 of beamer

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Till Tantau wrote:

 > I have put version 1.04 of the beamer package (macros/latex/contrib/beamer) in
 > the incoming directory of dante.ctan.org. The file beamer-version-1.04.tar.gz
 > is a replacement tar ball.
 >
 > Version 1.04:
 > - Fixed problem with Spanish style.
 > - Fixed problem with compress in beamerthemesplit
 > - Fixed bug that made beamerthemeclassic useless
 > - Fixed incompatibility with deluxetabular
 > - Fixed bug with "gray" option. Renamed to "blackandwhite".
 > - Fixed bug that caused columns in slidetop mode to be centered.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/beamer

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Dec  6 19:45:35 2003
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 00:54:21 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload of ConTeXt extra math support files (updated 2003.12.07) 

Giuseppe Bilotta writes:

>    + what you've uploaded : ctx-math.zip
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to : UK (ftp.tex.ac.uk)
> 
>    + where you want the files to go :
>    the two files contained in the .zip file should
>    be unpacked to
>    tex-archive/macros/context/contrib/maths
>    replacing the previous files.
>    
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software:
>    GNU GPL licence
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
>    The .zip archive contains two ConTeXt modules (t-nath.tex
>    and t-amsl.tex) that complement the math features in
>    ConTeXt. t-amsl provides some environments and commands that
>    most (AMS-)LaTeX users expect. t-nath provides for ConTeXt
>    the same functionality as provided by the Nath package for
>    LaTeX.
> 
>    This new upload fixes a couple of bugs concerning 'cases'
>    constructs and some font-related issues. Also, the nath
>    module now automatically loads the amsl module so there's no
>    need to manually load both if you need to use nath.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Dec  8 14:36:29 2003
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 21:15:10 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: L. Nobre G. <nobre@lince.cii.fc.ul.pt>
Subject: Re: New release of FeatPost uploaded

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, L. Nobre G. wrote:

 > I've uploaded the file
 > 	featpost.tgz
 > to
 > 	dante.ctan.org/incoming
 >
 > This file contains, among other files and directories:
 >
 > 	-An installation script
 > 		bashscript/dosome.sh
 >
 > 	-Documentation
 > 		doc/macroMan.sgml
 >
 > 	-Two sets of macros
 > 		macro/featpost2D.mp
 > 		macro/featpost3D.mp
 >
 > 	-And lots of example programs in
 > 		example/
 >
 > It is meant to replace the actual
 > 	graphics/metapost/macros/featpost
 > sub-tree. The new description of this package is:
 > "FeatPost is an extension of the MetaPost language,
 > works in three dimensions
 > and has several features to facilitate
 > the production of physics schemes."
 >
 > No change was introduced in the licensing: GPL.

Thanks for the update,  it has been installed as

  graphics/metapost/macros/featpost

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Dec  9 11:28:35 2003
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 17:17:23 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: tug.ctan.org upload: latex4wp

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org, and will soon make its
way to your favorite local mirror.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: latex4wp
Author's name: Guido Gonzato, Ph.D.
Location on CTAN: info/latex4wp/
Summary description: A LaTeX guide specifically designed for word 
  processor users.
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This update to 'LaTeX for Word Processor Users' adds information on 
extended hyperlinks (references to external programs) and tables. A minor 
bug was also fixed.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex4wp/
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Dec 11 05:47:41 2003
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:23:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload longdiv.tex 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I've uploaded longdiv.tex to UK/incoming.
> Would you please place it in macros/generic (or what is appropriate)
> 
> License is PD
> 
> Abstract --
> Work out and print integer long division problems.

i've created a new directory macros/generic/misc, with a single entry
macros/generic/misc/longdiv.tex (so far).

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Dec 11 05:47:41 2003
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:23:30 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload longdiv.tex 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I've uploaded longdiv.tex to UK/incoming.
> Would you please place it in macros/generic (or what is appropriate)
> 
> License is PD
> 
> Abstract --
> Work out and print integer long division problems.

i've created a new directory macros/generic/misc, with a single entry
macros/generic/misc/longdiv.tex (so far).

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Dec 11 10:49:17 2003
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:38:32 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: paolo lulli <paolo@lulli.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: texpack

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 Paolo Lulli wrote:

 > Name of contribution: texpack
 > Suggested location on CTAN: systems
 > Summary description: Scripts to create documented LaTeX style, class files and docs in a Unix environment
 > License type: artistic
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > texpack is a little bundle of scripts to create documented LaTeX style, class files and docs.
 > Texpack provides useful scripts for the automated creation of the skeleton required by *.dtx documented TeX files.
 > It is useful both for creating packages (*.sty) and new classes (*.cls). It also
 >   provides a command to automate the creation of commonly needed
 >   LaTeX skeleton file. It is mostly useful for the Italian author, but
 >   also provides the fast creation of a conditional preamble for
 >   handling dvi/pdf compilation
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your upload. I decided that your package belongs to the support
tree, so I installed it in

  support/texpack

I took the liberty to add a README file, containing your announcement
text.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Dec 11 11:09:00 2003
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:50:45 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Laurence Finston <lfinsto1@gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: 3DLDF 1.1.4

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 Laurence Finston submitted a new version of:

 > Name of contribution: 3DLDF 1.1.4
 > Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/3DLDF
 > Summary description: Three-dimensional drawing with MetaPost output. Version 1.1.4.
 > License type: gpl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 3DLDF 1.1.4 (A GNU package).
 > New release. The program itself hasn't changed much. The Texinfo manual
 > can now be generated in Info and HTML formats.Bug fix in the shell
 > script that's used in controlling recompilation. Added the function
 > Rectangle::is_rectangular() and made mediate() a member function in
 > class Point. MAX_REAL is now really the second largest float, but only
 > on 32-bit, little-endian architectures. On other architectures, 3dldf
 > will exit with an error message. I plan to make this work on other
 > architectures soon.
 >
 > Laurence Finston
 > 3DLDF maintainer
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed tarball, PDFs and README in

  graphics/3DLDF

as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Dec 11 11:00:58 2003
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:52:18 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "[ISO-8859-1] Morten H�gholm" <moho01ab@student.cbs.dk>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: dblfloatfix.sty

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 Morten H�gholm submitted:

 > Name of contribution: dblfloatfix.sty
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/misc/
 > Summary description: dblfloatfix.sty: Fixes for twocolumn floats.
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This is the LaTeX package dblfloatfix which solves two problems:
 >
 >   a)~floats in a twocolumn document come out in the right order and
 >   b)~allowed float positions are now [tbp].
 >
 > (This is actually just a merge between fixltx2e and stfloats with a few refinements.)
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your upload. I installed it as

  macros/latex/contrib/misc/dblfloatfix.sty

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Dec 11 15:29:44 2003
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:08:45 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload: csquotes (context sensitive quotation marks)

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Philipp Lehman wrote:

 > I've uploaded the file 'csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory on
 > ftp.dante.de. Please extract it to macros/latex/contrib/csquotes after
 > removing all files from this directory.
 >
 > Thank you in advance.
 >
 > ABOUT CSQUOTES
 >
 > LaTeX provides environments for typesetting longer quotations, but
 > there is no dedicated markup for short quotations embedded in the
 > text body.
 >
 > The csquotes package:
 >
 >  * provides proper markup for inline quotations in the first place
 >  * supports both control sequences and active characters
 >  * toggles between inner and outer quotation marks for nested quotes
 >  * interfaces with Babel and adapts quotation marks as required
 >  * features fully configurable quotation styles and active characters
 >
 > CHANGES
 >
 > 2003-12-11      v1.3
 >   * Added \MakeForeignQuote and \MakeHyphenQuote
 >   * Added \RestoreQuotes
 >   * Internal changes

Thanks for the update, it replaces all files in

  macros/latex/contrib/csquotes

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Dec 11 16:16:29 2003
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:59:58 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: footmisc.dtx v5.3

i have just installed a new version of footmisc.sty in ctan directory
macros/latex/contrib/footmisc

changes from the previous version are:

- mending a bug about per-page footnote numbers in a gather
  environment
- added \DefineFNsymbol* variant
- some new predefined symbol sets
- symbol* option uses symbol set lamport*-robust
- "hang"ing footnotes may hang for more than one paragraph (misfeature
  correction)

many of the changes were suggested by frank mittelbach, as part of his
on-going attempts to produce something he actually liked documenting
for the latex companion.  it's been a long time since he asked for
anything new, so i'm guessing it's time to submit this new version for
the world's attention.

Robin Fairbairns

Package author, acting as a member of the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Dec 15 13:20:06 2003
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:02:57 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Uwe Kern <u.kern@web.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: xcolor 1.06

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 Uwe Kern wrote:

 > Name of contribution: xcolor 1.06
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor
 > Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 2003/12/15 v1.06
 > * New feature: extended color expressions, allowing for cascaded mix
 >   operations, e.g. \color{red!30!green!40!blue}.
 > * Documentation: new section on color expressions.
 > * Bugfix: color series stepping did not work correctly within
 >   non-displaying commands like \extractcolorspec{foo!!+}
 >   (this bug was introduced in v1.05).
 > * Renamed commands: \ukfileversion and similar internal constants
 >   renamed to \XCfileversion etc.
 > * Removed commands: \ifXCpst and \ifXCtable made obsolete by a simple
 >   trick.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Dec 16 02:47:02 2003
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:29:59 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: D. P. Story <dpstory@uakron.edu>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: AcroTeX eDucation Bundle

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 D. P. Story wrote:

 > Name of contribution: AcroTeX eDucation Bundle
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/webeq
 > Summary description: A series of packages for online education: page layout, quizzes, eForm support, JavaScript support, server-side support
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The AcroTeX eDucational Bundle is a series of packages designed primarily, but not restricted to, online education. Design your online page layout; create online exercises and quizzes; add Acrobat eForm elements; add Acrobat JavaScript to make you document interactive; submit your online quizzes to server-side script (some basic script included).
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Dec 16 17:26:42 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 00:11:21 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Dr. Oliver Corff <oliver.corff@email.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: invoice 0.7

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 Oliver Corff wrote:

 > Name of contribution: invoice 0.7
 > Suggested location on CTAN: (as usual; this is an overhaul)
 > Summary description: A LaTeX2e package for generating invoices
 > License type: dfsg
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The invoice package, used for generating invoices,
 > has been overhauled substantially. Important changes:
 > - New languages: Afrikaans, Italian
 > - More functions: invisible expense items, deductions
 > - VAT of 0 now suppresses VAT output
 > - Bugs eliminated or fixed
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/invoice

as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@dante.de Wed Dec 17 08:08:41 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:39:51 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: algorithmicx

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20031217.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: algorithmicx
Name and email: Szasz Janos <szasz.janos@users.sourceforge.net>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/algorithmicx
Summary description: The algorithmic style you always wanted!
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Algorithmicx provides a very flexible, yet easy to use way for inserting good looking pseudocode or source code in your papers. It has built in support for Psudocode, Pascal, C, and powerful means to create definitions for any programming language. You can easily adapt a Pseudocode style to your native language.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

XML file:
**********************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="algorithmicx"
       datestamp="2003/12/17" 
       modifier="ftpmaint@dante.ctan.org">
  <about>
    <name>algorithmicx</name>
    <caption>The algorithmic style you always wanted!</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Szasz Janos</name>
      <email>szasz.janos@users.sourceforge.net</email>
    </author>
    <license type="lppl" />
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      Algorithmicx provides a very flexible, yet easy to use way for inserting good looking pseudocode or source code in your papers. It has built in support for Psudocode, Pascal, C, and powerful means to create definitions for any programming language. You can easily adapt a Pseudocode style to your native language.
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>/CTAN//macros/latex/contrib/algorithmicx</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
**********************************************************************
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this new package as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/algorithmicx.  I changed, however, the format
of the compiled documentation from a dvi file to a pdf file.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Dec 20 03:35:14 2003
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 09:05:14 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload of new version of HieroTeX 

Serge Rosmorduc writes:

> I have uploaded a new version of HieroTeX, my hieroglyphic package.
> 
> *They can be found on   
> 	ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/HieroTeX-3.5.tgz
> and 	ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/HieroType1-3.1.4.tgz
> 
> * They should replace all files in the directory fonts/hieroglyph
> 
> * The whole package is under the GPL
> 
> * Summary : HieroTeX is a package for typesetting ancient egyptian
> hieroglyphs. It contains a hieroglyphic font, a number of style files,
> and an helper program in C called "sesh" which allows one to type
> hieroglyphic texts using the so-called "manuel de codage", which is
> the current standard for encoding ancient egyptian.  HieroType1
> contains postscript type 1 version of the fonts, and is a *strongly*
> recommended addition, as it allows to create nice-looking pdf.

i have installed the two files in fonts/hieroglyph, as requested, and
have taken the liberty of extracting files LISEZMOI and README from
the HieroTeX file, and placing them in the directory to offer guidance
on what the directory is for.

thanks the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Dec 21 10:24:49 2003
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 16:10:25 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload -- dvi2bitmap 

Norman Gray writes:

>     + what you've uploaded
> 
> dvi2bitmap-0.12
> 
>     + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
>     + where you want the files to go
> 
> tex-archive/dviware/dvi2bitmap, replacing the files already there
> 
>     + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
> 
> GPL
> 
>     + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
> dvi2bitmap is a utility, wrapping a library, to convert TeX DVI files 
> directly to bitmaps, without going through the complicated (and slow!) 
> route of conversion via PostScript and PNM.  See fuller description at 
> <http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/star/dvi2bitmap/> and release 
> notes for 0.12b1 and b2 there.

files installed as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Dec 22 05:02:52 2003
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:51:24 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- bgteubner class bundle

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded bgteubner.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please replace the
 > entire tree below CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/bgteubner by its contents.
 > License stays LPPL with some extra remarks for bgteubner.cls.
 > An xml file for the catalogue is enclosed.
 >
 >
 > From bgteubner.xml:
 >
 > The "bgteubner.cls" document class has been programmed by order of the
 > Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden, Germany, to ensure that books of this
 > publisher have a unique layout. Unfortunately, most of the documentation
 > is only available in German.
 >
 > Since the document class is intended to generate a unique layout, many
 > things (layout etc.) are fixed and cannot be altered by the used.
 > If you want to use the document class for another purpose than publishing
 > with the Teubner Verlag, this may arrise unwanted restrictions
 > (For instance, the document class provides only two paper sizes:
 > DIN A-5 and 17cm x 24cm; only two font families are supported:
 > Times and European Computer Modern).
 >
 >
 > ChangeLog:
 >
 > 2003/12/17 v1.14
 > - Avoid usage of \bgteubnerfileversion and \bgteubnerfiledate
 > - New command \GetFileInfo (from url.sty)
 > - New abbreviated Bib styles (bgteuabbr.bst and bgteuabbr2.bst)
 >
 > 2003/12/16 v1.13
 > - Second Bib style with different name format (bgteupln2.bst)
 > - Use variable margins for theorem-like environments
 > - Make delimiter for theorems configurable
 > - Avoid negative margins of theorems grey boxes
 > - Reduce margins of advanced and exercises in grey boxes
 >
 > 2003/11/13 v1.12
 > - Problem with float.sty solved
 > - Lists for new floats get the same layout as other lists
 > - Redeclare captions of user-defined floats when using float.sty

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

  macros/latex/contrib/bgteubner

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Dec 22 05:05:33 2003
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:58:06 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Herbert Voss <voss@perce.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-vue3d

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 Manuel Luque and Herbert Voss wrote:

 > Name of contribution: pst-vue3d
 > Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-vue3d/
 > Summary description: Drawing 3D scenes
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The new version of pst-vue3D (1.0e) is not compatible
 > to the old one. It has now unique macro names and a
 > better handling of the parameters. There are
 > also some new macros:
 > - pNodeThreeD (x,y,z) %cartesian
 > - pNodeThreeD (x;y;z) %spherical
 > - AxesThreeD (u)
 > - AxesThreeD (x,y,z)
 > - PyramideThreeD[fracHeight=<value>](x,y,z){height}
 >
 > The documentation is now in english and there are some
 > new examples.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the new version, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Dec 22 05:19:02 2003
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 12:02:31 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: John Forkosh <john@forkosh.com>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload version 1.30 of mimetex.zip to ftp.dante.de

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, John Forkosh wrote:

 >    + what you've uploaded
 >         mimetex.zip
 >         version 1.30, to replace support/mimetex/mimetex.zip
 >    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
 >         ftp.dante.de
 >    + where you want the files to go
 >         support/mimetex
 >    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
 >         GNU GPL
 >    + brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
 >         (a) Improved LaTeX compatibility, e.g., \left(...\right) now works
 >             in addition to mimeTeX's abbreviation \(...\)  (and ditto for
 >             other sized delimiters).  Similarly, {...\atop...} works
 >             as expected, and ditto for various other commands that weren't
 >             precisely compatible in earlier versions.
 >         (b) Improved anti-aliasing.
 >         (c) New commands \raisebox{}{} and \rotatebox{}{} to afford users
 >             better control over rendered images, \textit{} and {\it...},
 >             \lim_ and all other functions and \tr for trace, \hspace{} and
 >             other new math spaces, various other new commands like \fbox{},
 >             and several minor bug fixes.
 >         (d) Recognizes html special characters like &lt; and &gt; since some
 >             web tools cause problems by translating < to &lt; and > to &gt;
 >             etc.  Also translates %xx url-encoded charcaters for essentially
 >             the same reason.
 >         (e) Thoroughly updated documentation.
 >      ----------------------------------------------------
 >      From the original submission...
 >         MimeTeX parses LaTeX math expressions, emitting either gif images
 >         or mime xbitmaps of them, rather than the usual TeX dvi's.
 >         MimeTeX images are therefore easily inserted directly into html
 >         documents using a standard html <img> tag, e.g.,
 >           <img src="../cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^xe^{-t^2}dt"
 >            border=0 align=absmiddle>
 >         without intermediate dvi-to-gif conversion, and without storing lots
 >         of little gif image files, one file for each converted expression.
 >         This makes your web site and html documents more easily maintained.
 >         See
 >                  http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html#examples
 >         for many examples demonstrating mimeTeX's features and usage.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

 support/mimetex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Dec 22 09:46:43 2003
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:26:00 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: R. Stepanyan <r.stepanyan@tn.utwente.nl>
Subject: Re: upload of bardiag ver.0.5

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, R. Stepanyan wrote:

 > On Monday, December 22nd, I have uploaded a file "bardiag_0.5.tgz" in
 > the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.
 >
 > The file contains a new version of my package "bardiag", which can be
 > found in the "graphics" directory of CTAN.
 >
 > There are no changes in the licensing conditions whatsoever. The files
 > should just replace the old ones (new ver.0.5 replaces old 0.4).
 >
 > A short description of the package can be found in the README file
 > included in the upload.

Thanks for the update, I installed the package as

  graphics/bardiag

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Dec 22 10:34:08 2003
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:32:02 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Knut Lickert <knut@lickert.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: menu

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 Knut Lickert submitted:

 > Name of contribution: menu
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/menu
 > Summary description: Menu.sty
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Defines \menu{x!y} to typeset something like x->y.
 > Can be used for documentations
 > Example: "Call Systems->Save to save the file")
 >
 > Details can be found in http://www.lickert.net/tex/menu/ (only german)
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your submission, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/menu

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Dec 22 09:47:59 2003
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:34:10 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Knut Lickert <knut@lickert.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: blindtext

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 Knut Lickert submitted:

 > Name of contribution: blindtext
 > Name and email: Knut Lickert <knut@lickert.net>
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/blindtext
 > Summary description: Blindtext.sty: Create text and ClassOverview
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > blindtext.dtx /blindtext.ins
 > The packages define command to create text for testing documents.
 > It is possible to create text, lists and whole documents.
 > Supported languages: (n)german, english
 >
 > ---------------------------------
 > ClassesGe.pdf + ClassesEn.pdf
 > The two pdf-Files gives an overview on different LaTeX-classes (german and english).
 > There is a short description and an example of the layout of the class.
 > Each example shows a table of contents, some pages text, lists up to level 4.
 >
 > Details can be found in http://www.lickert.net/tex/Klassen (update and english version will come soon)
 >
 > The two PDF's belong to blindtext.sty but you can copy them also to
 >  info/
 >  info/german/
 >
 > This package was part of the minutes packages
 > (tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minutes)
 > Please delete
 > macros/latex/contrib/minutes/blindtext.dtx
 > macros/latex/contrib/minutes/blindtext.ins
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your new version. I installed it as

  macros/latex/contrib/blindtext

as requested, and deleted the old files in

  macros/latex/contrib/minutes

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Dec 22 09:51:36 2003
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:38:00 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: ctan@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: showframe v0.1f

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 Rolf Nieprasch submitted:

 > Name of contribution: showframe v0.1f
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic/
 > Summary description: Draws visible frames for the text and margin area, and lines for the head and foot to check layout in detail.
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This is a reimplementation of geometry's `showframe' (no
 > more part of `geometry'). `showframe' uses now the `eso-pic' package.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the file as

  macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic/showframe.sty

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Dec 23 08:26:57 2003
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:58:41 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Axel Sommerfeldt <axel@sommerfeldt.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: The caption package 3.0

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Axel Sommerfeldt wrote:

 > Name of contribution: The caption package 3.0

 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/caption

 > Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Abstract:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions
 > in floating environments like figure and table and cooperates with
 > many other packages.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Changes:
 > Totally rewritten, new interface, many new features

Thanks for hte new version, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Dec 23 08:38:12 2003
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:59:42 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Axel Sommerfeldt <axel@sommerfeldt.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: The rotfloat package 1.1a

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Axel Sommerfeldt wrote:

 > Name of contribution: The rotfloat package 1.1a

 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/rotfloat

 > Summary description: Combining the float and rotating package
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Abstract:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The float package provides commands to define new floats
 > of various styles (plain, boxed, ruled, and userdefined ones);
 > the rotating package provides new environments (sidewaysfigure
 > and sidewaystable) which are rotated by 90 or 270 degrees.
 > But what about new rotated floats, e.g. a rotated ruled one?
 > This package makes this possible; it builds a bridge between both
 > packages and extend the commands from the float package to define
 > rotated versions of the new floats, too.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Changes:
 > Only cosmetic changes in the package, bugfixes in the documentation

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Dec 24 09:41:12 2003
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:50:37 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: csvtools

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should
make its way to your favorite local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: csvtools
Author's name: Nicola Talbot
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/csvtools
Summary description: Use data in CSV file for mail merging, creating 
  tables etc
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package allows you to repeatedly perform a set of LaTeX commands on 
data in each row of a comma separated variable (CSV) file.  This can be 
used for mail merging, converting CSV files into tables, etc.  Examples 
of use given in documentation. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csvtools
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Dec 30 14:51:43 2003
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:58:38 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Hendri Adriaens <spotje38@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: HA-prosper

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 Hendri Adriaens wrote:

 > Name of contribution: HA-prosper
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib
 > Summary description: Patch for prosper
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > HA-prosper is a patch for prosper that adds new
 > functionality to prosper based presentations.
 >
 > Among the new features you will find automatic
 > generation of a table of contents on each slide, support
 > for notes, portrait slides support and lots more...
 >
 > And available styles demonstrate how to expand the
 > functionality of prosper even further.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed your patch package as

   macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Dec 30 14:51:43 2003
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:05:11 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Heiko Bauke <heiko.bauke@physik.uni-magdeburg.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: isotope.sty

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 Heiko Bauke submitted to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: isotope
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/isotope
 > Summary description: package for type setting isotopes
 > License type: lppl

Thanks for the upload, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jan  5 08:41:37 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:26:38 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Heiko Bauke <heiko.bauke@physik.uni-magdeburg.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: isotope.sty

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 Heiko Bauke submitted:

 > Name of contribution: isotope.sty
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/isotope/
 > Summary description: package for type setting isotopes
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Vertical spacing between nuclear and atomic number has been improved.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jan  5 11:23:54 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:14:51 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix
Summary description: 
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The nineth CTAN release has the following improvements:
* New procedure for drawing and resizing squares and circles which is much more easy to use.
* Bug fix in the text editor form when entering text with '[' and ']'.
* Now shows the bounding box of inserted images instead of the image itself during preview.
* First/last point of closed polygons and spline could not be selected.
* Number of polygon/spline points increased to 50.
* Bug fix in arc conversion. LaTeX even crashed when converting or previewing.
* A grayscale of 100 percent resulted into a filling of the object with the border colour. This way corrected by setting the grayscale to 99 percent when converting to LaTeX code.
* Added Polish and Japanese translations.
* General LaTeXPiX GUI font can be changed, this was mainly implemented to deal with the different charsets some languages like Japanese, Chinese and Korean use.
* Removed bugs and improved the preview functionality.
* When converting drawing to LaTeX and saving them to a .out file you are asked to confirm the overwriting of the currently existing converted file. This message can be set on or off by the Confirm Overwrite Converted File option in the preferences menu.
* Warnings are given when objects are outside the canvas region or not fully visible if they are partially outside the canvas.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From zierke@dante.de Tue Jan  6 03:59:25 2004
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:49:35 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: malyshev@mx.ihep.su
Subject: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 6.20 - Continuous View, FIG/PDF import

----- Forwarded message from "Basil K. Malyshev" -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 6.20 (issued 2-Jan-2004)

Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

NEW FEATURES:

 * Fancy DVI Page Layout - `Continuous View'
   Like to Acrobat Reader BaKoMa DVI Viewer supports different
   page layouts: Single Page, Continuous, Facing, and Continuous - Facing.

 * Importing more Graphical Formats - FIG, PDF.
   + Importing FIG files.
     LaTeX users may just say: `\includegraphics[font=Helvetica]{foo.fig}'
   + Importing PDF files. [Preliminary implementation]
     LaTeX users may just say: `\includegraphics[page=2]{foo.pdf}'
     Currently, importing PDF files has several restrictions
     that will be resolved in next version.

 * Improved Font Support
   + Support TrueType fonts without Postscript glyph names.
   + Support for outlined fonts configured for DVIPS via `/PainType 2 store'.

 * New Packages
   + TeXsis format has been added on request of users.

More information about changes is at:
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>

Bye.
Basil K. Malyshev
5-Jan-2004

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 6.20 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * HTML Generation features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 6.20
   
For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95

HIGHLIGHTS

 * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system.
 * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
   of the file being edited. 
   (like to Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
** Generates *SVG* (PSTricks, Prosper + animation features).
** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
 * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 
GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*,
which is tested for compatibility with output from popular
software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, 
Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, 
FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   EPS/PS, HPGL, DXY, FIG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts: 
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.

Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click.

OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0
even without ATM.

USER INTERFACE

* Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
  It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, 
  when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, 
  mathematics, pictures, etc.
* Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen 
  for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents: 
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
* Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
    correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
    configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
* Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
* Support for Multi-User systems.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF,
* SVG (animation effects are supported),
* HTML.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste 
  of cyrillic and other international characters.
* Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

HTML GENERATION FEATURES

 BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 documents into HTML files.
  * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch 
     `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
  * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert 
     pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
     pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, 
     such as slides.

 In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of 
 `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.

 Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 into generated HTML pages.
 
SVG GENERATION FEATURES

 BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
 from a DVI files. Ability to add animation to the SVG output,
 makes it the best for producing high quality presentations.

 Sample of animated presentation is available at:
   ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html

 Key Features:
   SVG output is compatible with another output formats
   (PDF, PS, HTML, View, and Print) so, that the same graphical
   formats, font formats, and other features are supported.
   In details:
   *  All TeX Formats (LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09, AmSTeX, Plain TeX) are supported.
   *  TeX extensions (e-TeX and Omega) are supported.
   *  ALL LaTeX packages (including PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics, draftcopy, etc.)
       are supported.
   *  Graphical formats: EPS, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, FIG,
   		         BMP, WMF, EMF, HPGL, and DXY are supported.
   *  More generally, Any imported or embedded Postscript is supported.
   *  Hyperref is supported, including outline and links. For \Acrobatmenu 
      most general commands (such as NextPage or PrevPage) are supported.
   *  Popular presentation packages: Prosper, PDFScreen, PDFSlide, Seminar, etc.
      are supported.
  *** The existing presentations can be enhanced by adding animation.
   *  All Font Types: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, Postscript Type1 
      (including MM), Postscript Type 3, and TeX PK are supported.

 Details about adding animation to generated SVG files are explained at:
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/svgwrite.html>

*** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 6.20 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 6.15 ***

 Fancy DVI Page Layout - `Continuous View'
 
   Page Layout may be changed via `View|Page Layout' submenu or via toolbar.
   Default page layout may be defined under Display tab of
   `Viewer Preferences' dialog.

   DVIEW supports following page layouts:
      Single Page, Continuous, Facing,
      Continuous - Facing, and also
      Highlighted Fonts - Single Pageis
      replacement for Font Highlighting feature.

 Importing more Graphical Formats - FIG, PDF.

   Importing FIG files.
      LaTeX users may just say: `\includegraphics{foo.fig}'
      Additional key font (graphicx package) lets you define default font:
         `\includegraphics[font=Helvetica]{foo.fig}'

   Importing PDF files. [Preliminary implementation]
      LaTeX users may just say: `\includegraphics{foo.pdf}'
      Additional key page (graphicx) lets you choose page other then first:
         `\includegraphics[page=5]{foo.pdf}'

      Support for importing PDF files is yet not complete.
      There are following unsupported features:
	Embedded CFF and TrueType fonts,
    	Separation and DeviceN color spaces,
	shading patterns, and Postscript generation by using DVIPS.
      However, all these features will be supported in next version.

 Improved Font Support

  * Support TrueType fonts without Postscript glyph names.
    It uses standard glyph names according to unicode.
    If name is not defined synthetic name in form `uniXXXX' is used.
  * Support for outlined fonts configured for DVIPS via `/PainType 2 store'.
  * Force reading Font metrics from TTF-file for all TrueType fonts,
    even when using TFM file is specified.

 New Packages

  * TeXsis format has been added on request of users.

For more information see
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>

---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thank you very much for the upload.  As usual, I installed this at
CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Jan  6 03:59:13 2004
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:52:45 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- ppr-prv class update (v. 0.09)

----- Forwarded message from Mathieu Goutelle -----
I have uploaded an update of the ppr-prv class in /incoming/ppr-prv.tgz
on dante.ctan.org. Please replace all files in
macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv by the ones in the archive.

This class is used with LaTeX presentations using the prosper class.
ppr-prv stands for "Prosper Preview". The aim of this class is to
produce a printable version of the slides written with Prosper, with
two slides per page.

Changes since previous version are:
  * The load of the babel package is now better detected ;
  * ppr-prv is now compatible with the patch for Prosper written by 
Hendri Adriaens <http://stuwww.uvt.nl/~hendri/Downloads/haprosper.html>.

Best regards,
-- 
Q: Connaissez-vous la diff�rence entre l'ignorance et l'apathie ?
R: J'en sais rien et je m'en fous.
Mathieu Goutelle - <URL:http://webperso.easyconnect.fr/goutelle>
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Jan  6 08:35:20 2004
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:22:11 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- babelbib

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----

Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:50:01 +0100 (CET)
From: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
To: ctan@nova.dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- babelbib
Sender: owner-ctan@dante.de

I have uploaded babelbib-v0_44.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains a new
version of the babelbib bundle with unchanged license (LPPL). Please
replace all files in CTAN:/biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib by its contents.


>From the README:

This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in
cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: Each citation
may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can
be typeset in a language chosen by the user. The current version
supports Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian,
Norwegian, Portoguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
  In addition, the package supports commands to change the typography
of the bibliographies.
  Supported bibliography styles are bababbrv.bst, bababbr3.bst,
babalpha.bst, babamspl.bst, babplai3.bst, babplain.bst, and babunsrt.bst.


Change log:
- 0.44  2004/01/06  - Improved spacings in documentation
- 0.43  2004/01/06  - Document the problem using frenchle.sty when using
                      french language with some babel versions
                    - Warn if using french language
                    - Fix a bug in detection of the used languages that
                      did not work with some versions of babel
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jan  7 16:38:54 2004
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:15:11 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Axel Sommerfeldt <axel@sommerfeldt.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: The rotfloat package 1.2

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Axel Sommerfeldt wrote:

 > Name of contribution: The rotfloat package 1.2
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/rotfloat
 > Summary description: Combining the float and rotating package
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Abstract:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The float package provides commands to define new floats
 > of various styles (plain, boxed, ruled, and userdefined ones);
 > the rotating package provides new environments (sidewaysfigure
 > and sidewaystable) which are rotated by 90 or 270 degrees.
 > But what about new rotated floats, e.g. a rotated ruled one?
 > This package makes this possible; it builds a bridge between both
 > packages and extend the commands from the float package to define
 > rotated versions of the new floats, too.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Changes:
 > Rewritten for better compatibility. Furthermore rotfloat now supports the
 > float placement specifier [H] for rotated floats as well and a bug was fixed
 > which had prevented the usage of the color package.

Thanks for the new version, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Jan 11 14:47:56 2004
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:17:29 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Markus Kohm <markus.kohm@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: KOMA-Script

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 Markus Kohm wrote:

 > Name of contribution: KOMA-Script
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/koma-script
 > Summary description: KOMA-Script, a versatile LaTeX2e bundle
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The KOMA-Script team is happy to announce the
 > January '04 Release of the KOMA-Script bundle aka
 > "everybody loves Anabel".
 >
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 > What is KOMA-Script
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > 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
 > the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities
 > in order to provide the user an almost complete working
 > environment.
 >
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 > Versions of classes and packages at this release:
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 >
 >   scrartcl.cls  2004/01/07  v2.9p
 >   scrbook.cls   2004/01/07  v2.9p
 >   scrreprt.cls  2004/01/07  v2.9p
 >   scrlttr2.cls  2004/01/07  v2.9p
 >   scrlettr.cls  2002/05/24  v2.6e (obsolete)
 >   scrtime.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m
 >   scrdate.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m
 >   scrpage2.sty  2003/05/31  v2.1b
 >   typearea.sty  2004/01/07  v2.9p
 >   scrlfile.sty  2004/01/07  v2.9p
 >   scrpage.sty   2001/06/22  v1.3c (obsolete)
 >   scraddr.sty   2002/06/02  v1.1b
 >
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 > What is new in this KOMA-Script release
 > --------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > This is only a bug-fix-release:
 >   - typo-fixes at the guides
 >   - some improvements of the german guide
 >   - some fixes (use of \othersectionlevelsformat,
 >     captionbeside, error messages, warnings, \addpart at
 >     scrartcl, running head with bibtotocnumbered and
 >     listtotocnumbered, ...)
 > Go discover.

Thanks for the new version, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/koma-script

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Jan 11 14:42:59 2004
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:22:45 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Martti Nikunen <mnikunen@cc.helsinki.fi>, Eddie Saudrais <eddie.saudrais@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Upload of esint.zip

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Martti Nikunen wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file esint.zip the incoming directory of
 > ftp.dante.de. It contains the font esint10 by Eddie Saudrais in PostScript
 > Type1 format and the corresponding map file.
 >
 > I think the files could be put to directory CTAN/fonts/ps-type1/esint.
 >
 > Licensing terms: pd
 >
 > [...]
 >
 > Here is the README file from the package
 >
 > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 > Eddie Saudrais's font esint10 in Adobe PostScript Type 1 format
 > by Martti Nikunen (martti.nikunen@helsinki.fi).
 >
 > This PostScript Type 1 implementation of the font esint10, originally
 > created by Eddie Saudrais using METAFONT, is freely available for general
 > use.
 >
 > The conversion was done with the free mftrace program
 > (http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/mftrace/).
 >
 > This distribution does not contain the TFM files that are necessary to
 > use the fonts with TeX; the TFM files can be generated from the Metafont
 > sources obtained by following the instructions in
 > CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/esint.
 >
 > The fragment for the dvips mapfile is simply
 >
 > esint10  esint10  <esint10.pfb
 >
 > and the line in updmap.cfg for teTeX should be
 >
 > MixedMap esint.map
 >
 > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Thanks for your upload, I installed the files in directory

  fonts/ps-type1/esint

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jan 13 11:43:55 2004
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:22:10 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: subfig

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should be
mirrored to your favorite source site in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: subfig
Author's name: Steven Douglas Cochran
Location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/subfig
Summary description: Figures broken into subfigures
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package supersedes the subfigure package (which will continue to be 
supported, but no longer maintained).  The name has changed because the 
subfig package is not completely backward compatible with the older 
subfigure package due to an extensive rewrite to use the new caption 
package to produce its subcaptions.  The major advantage to the new 
package is that the user interface is keyword/value driven and easier to 
use.  To ease the transition from the subfigure package it includes a 
configuration file (subfig.cfg) which nearly emulates the subfigure package.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive//tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/subfig
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jan 14 12:34:57 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:12:34 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: LaTeXPiX

A package has been upgraded at tug.ctan.org and it should make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix
Summary description: As is
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The tenth CTAN release has the following improvements:
* Open polygons and splines are now possible by pressing CTRL+BkSp when 
  last point position has been chosen. Pressing BkSp closes the 
  polygon/spline.
* Bug fixes in the drawing engine.
* Bug fixes in the check if objects are not fully visible or invisible 
  within the canvas area.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From zierke@dante.de Fri Jan 16 07:21:38 2004
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:58:57 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- 3DLDF 1.1.5 Release

I installed the current version of 3DLDF in CTAN:graphics/3DLDF/
These are the Release Notes:

----- Forwarded message from Laurence Finston <lfinsto1@gwdg.de> -----

Release of 3DLDF 1.1.5.

3DLDF is a GNU package for three-dimensional drawing with MetaPost
output.

It is available from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/3dldf and other ftp
servers.
Please see the author's website,

http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~lfinsto1

and

http://www.gnu.org/directory/graphics/3D/3DLDF.html

for more information.

In release 1.1.5, I've tied up some loose ends.  I wanted to do this
before starting on the input routine.

* Added `const real step' argument to the version of
  Ellipse::intersection_points() that takes an Ellipse
  argument.

* BUG FIX:  Added `touch 3DLDFmp.mp' to the `3DLDFmp.mp' target in
  3DLDF-1.1.5/CWEB/Makefile.am.  This ensures that
  TeX and dvips will be run if MetaPost is run on `3DLDFmp.mp'.  This happens if
  `3DLDFput.mp' is newer than `3DLDFmp.mp', but the latter isn't
  changed, so TeX and dvips
  weren't being run.  I'm surprized nobody's complained about this.
  Not yet documented in the _3DLDF User and Reference Manual_.

* Added `PHONY' targets as synonyms for certain targets:
  `cpl' for `3dldf'.  For compiling and linking `3dldf'.
  `mp' for `3DLDFmp.mp'.  For running MetaPost on `3DLDFmp.mp'.
  `ldf' for `3DLDFput.mp'. For running `3dldf'.
  Not yet documented in the _3DLDF User and Reference Manual_.

* It is now possible to ``typedef'' `real' to either `float'
  or `double'.  This means that `real' can now be made a synonym
  for either `float' or `double' by using a `typedef'
  declaration.  `real' is typedeffed to `float' by default.

* Added `const bool ldf_real_float' and
  `extern const bool ldf_real_double'
  for use in non-conditionally compiled code.
  They are set according to the values
  of `LDF_REAL_FLOAT' and `LDF_REAL_DOUBLE'.

* `Transform::epsilon()' and `Point::epsilon()' now return
  different values, depending on the values of the preprocessor macros
  `LDF_REAL_FLOAT' and `LDF_REAL_DOUBLE'.  I have not yet tested
  whether good values are returned when `real' is `double'.

* `MAX_REAL' and `MAX_REAL_SQRT' are no longer constants.
  Their values are set at the beginning of `main()'.  However,
  users should not change their values.  `MAX_REAL' is the
  second-largest `float' or `double' on a given machine.  This
  now works for all common architectures.

* Added `namespace System' containing the following functions:
  `get_endianness()', `is_big_endian()',
  `is_little_endian()', `get_register_width()',
  `is_32_bit()', `is_64_bit()', and the template function
  `get_second_largest()'.

  `namespace System' and its functions are documented in
  `system.texi', which is new in edition 1.1.5 of the
  _3DLDF User and Reference Manual_.

* Replaced the various `create_new_<type>()' functions with the
  template function `create_new()'.  The latter is documented in
 `creatnew.texi', which is new in edition 1.1.5 of the
  _3DLDF User and Reference Manual_.

* Added the file `3DLDF-1.1.5/CWEB/cnepspng.el' to
  the distribution.  It contains the definitions of the Emacs-Lisp
  functions `convert-eps' and `convert-eps-loop'.

* Added the files
  3DLDF-1.1.5/CWEB/exampman.web and
  3DLDF-1.1.5/CWEB/examples.mp to the
  distribution.  They contain the C++ and MetaPost code,
  respectively, for generating the illustrations in the
  _3DLDF User and Reference Manual_.

----- End forwarded message -----

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jan 16 13:48:19 2004
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:30:27 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org.  It should make its way
to your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix
Summary description: As is
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
LaTeXPiX build 1210 (CTAN release 10) contained some bugs. 
The tenth CTAN bugfix 1 release has the following improvements:
* Number of possible polygon/spline points was said to be increased to 50 but in fact only 10 points were possible. Removed this bug.
* Webupdate hung because it want to be on top always.
* Added automatic update check when starting up the program. This option can be set on or off in the preferences menu.
* Removed tips from the help menu.
* Added a small section about GUI fonts in the manual.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From zierke@dante.de Sat Jan 17 01:59:06 2004
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 08:36:24 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: 3DLDF 1.1.5.1

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: 3DLDF 1.1.5.1
Name and email: Laurence Finston
Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/3DLDF
Summary description: 3DLDF is  a GNU package for three-dimensional drawing with MetaPost output.
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Release of 3DLDF 1.1.5.1.

3DLDF is a GNU package for three-dimensional drawing with MetaPost output.

Please see the author's website,
http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~lfinsto1
and
http://www.gnu.org/directory/graphics/3D/3DLDF.html
for more information.

* Added missing Texinfo files to the `3dldf_TEXINFOS' variable in
  `3DLDF-1.1.5.1/DOC/TEXINFO/Makefile.am', and reordered the filenames.

* Changed the names of the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files
  included in the HTML version of the _3DLDF User and Reference
  Manual_.  Changed the names in the commands for including these
  files in the Texinfo files.  I wasn't able to write some of the
  files with the old names to a CD-R (Compact Disk, Recordable).
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the corrected version as suggested
in CTAN:graphics/3DLDF.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Jan 17 12:39:53 2004
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 19:20:18 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w.a.schmidt@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN submssion: was.zip

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file was.zip to the /incoming directory
 > at ftp://dante.ctan.org.
 >
 > Please, unpack it to the CTAN directory
 >
 >   macros/latex/contrib/was
 >
 > Doing so will replace the dtx sources of the packages in
 > my `was' collection:
 >
 >   fixmath.dtx
 >   gensymb.dtx
 >   icomma.dtx
 >   upgreek.dtx
 >   readme.1st
 >
 > This is only a documentation update; in particular, I have
 > put in my current (and hopefully stable) email adress, and
 > I had to fix a number of references to third-party packages.
 > The actual macro packages are unchanged, so I think you need
 > not announce this upload.

Thank you for this doc update; I installed the files as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/was

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Jan 17 12:48:41 2004
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 19:39:10 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w.a.schmidt@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission:  Euler-VM 3.0a

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file eulervm30a.zip to the /incoming
 > directory at ftp://dante.ctan.org.
 >
 > Please, unpack it to the CTAN directory
 >
 >   fonts/eulervm
 >
 > Doing so will replace the files:
 >
 >   eulervm.dtx
 >   readme
 >
 > This is version 3.0a of the macro package eulervm.sty to
 > use the virtual Euler-VM math fonts.  There are only minor
 > changes over the previous version 3.0:
 >
 > *  The macro package does no longer redefine \vdots and
 > \ddots, since fixing these macros should be left to the
 > package mathdots.sty.
 >
 > * The documentation has been updated wrt/ my new email
 > address and a number of changed references.
 >
 > Notice that the related virtual fonts are unchanged!

Thank you for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Jan 18 12:07:51 2004
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:46:27 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Axel Sodtalbers <juramisc@sodtalbers.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: juramisc

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 Axel Sodtalbers submitted to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: juramisc
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/juramisc
 > Summary description: collection for typesetting german juridical documents
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This is juramisc, a collection of LaTeX packages
 > and classes for typesetting german juridical documents.
 >
 > Currently, it is only usable for german-speaking
 > users! juramisc contains
 >
 > * jurabook - Juristische Dissertationen
 > * juraurtl - Urteile, Voten
 > * juraovw  - Uebersichten, Skripte
 > * jurabase - used by the three classes above
 >
 > Every part of juramisc is still in development.
 >
 > Axel Sodtalbers
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed your package as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Jan 18 12:07:51 2004
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:51:50 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Till Tantau <tantau@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Re: Upload of versions 1.20 of beamer and 0.50 of pgf

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Till Tantau uploaded new versions of his beamer and
pgf packages.

I installed them in

  macros/latex/contrib/beamer

and

  /graphics/pgf

respectively. Thanks for the updates.

Changelog is appended.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


 > Version 1.20 of beamer:
 > - Reorganzed directory structure: new directories base and themes
 > - Added some explanations in user guide on font encodings and
 >   graphic file formats.
 > - T1 encoding is fully supported now.
 > - lmodern and fourier fonts are supported now.
 > - \mathrm will always produce roman text now.
 > - \mathbf will produced boldface serif or sans-serif text,
 >   depending on the math font selection.
 > - Added options to include only certain sections in the table of
 >   contents.
 > - Added option to hilight only the current subsection in the table
 >   of contents.
 > - Added inserts for numbering sections in the table of contents.
 > - Added predefined templates for more fancyful table of contents.
 > - Shadow theme now uses a numbered table of contents by
 >   default. Use \beamertemplateplaintoc to get the old behaviour.
 > - Changed the syntax of \frame. Overlay specification must now be
 >   given in pointed brackets. (Old syntax is quietly tolerated.)
 > - Command \plainframe has been replaced by \frame[plain]. (Old
 >   syntax is quietly tolerated.)
 > - Renamed beamerboxes to beamerbaseboxes and beamertemplates to
 >   beamerbasetemplate. They are included automatically, so simply
 >   delete an inclusion of the old packages).
 > - Fixed bug in beamerbaseboxes.
 > - Uncover now also works for whole lines or passages in tables and
 >   alignments, both for completely invisible covered and
 >   transparent covered text.
 > - Item balls/icons now change color inside beamerboxes according
 >   to the color scheme.
 > - Added versioning system for head and toc entries. Will no longer
 >   do weird things when left over files from an old version are
 >   encountered. (Makes updating a lot easier.)
 > - Slightly changed LyX stuff to work together with the syntax
 >   changes. Still no real documentation.
 > - Uses version 1.06 of xcolor now.
 > - Uses pgf 0.50 now.
 > - Mechanism for alternate selection of images and shading is
 >   slightly changed and incompatible with the old one.
 > - pgf's cvs is now also on SourceForge next to the beamer class.
 >
 > Version 0.50 of pgf:
 > - Switched to version 1.06 of xcolor.
 > - Core pgf no longer relies on xxcolor.
 > - The syntax of the mechanism for choosing alternate images and
 >   shadings is more flexible now. The syntax has been changed
 >   (mainly, you now have to have a dot between the original name and
 >   the alternate extension).
 > - Some xxcolor commands have been removed.



From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Jan 18 12:09:06 2004
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:55:41 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Herbert Voss <voss@perce.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-3dplot

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 Herbert Voss submitted to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: pst-3dplot
 > Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot
 > Summary description: drawing and plotting simple 3D-objects, math functions and data records
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This version has
 > - for all objects spherical coordinates possible
 > - the line macro is now similiar to the one of pstricks
 >   \pstThreeDLine[options]{arrows}(x1,y1,z1)...(xn,yn,zn)
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jan 19 10:59:48 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:35:01 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: mattens

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and it should make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: mattens
Author's name: Danie Els
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mattens/
Summary description: Vector/ tensor typesetting
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The mattens package contains the definitions to typeset vectors and 
tensors as used in the engineering community for the representation of 
common vectors and tensors such as forces, velocities, moments of inertia, 
etc.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mattens/
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jan 21 10:44:05 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:35:01 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: mattens

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and it should make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: mattens
Author's name: Danie Els
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mattens/
Summary description: Vector/ tensor typesetting
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The mattens package contains the definitions to typeset vectors and 
tensors as used in the engineering community for the representation of 
common vectors and tensors such as forces, velocities, moments of inertia, 
etc.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mattens/
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From zierke@dante.de Mon Jan 19 11:33:37 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:19:07 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: eric.beitz@uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: TeXshade 1.7

> Name of contribution: TeXshade 1.7
> Name and email: Eric Beitz <eric.beitz@uni-tuebingen.de>
> Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/texshade/
> Summary description: Update (v1.7) of the TeXshade nucleotide and protein alignment shading package
> License type: gpl
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is update 1.7 of TeXshade. Several minor bugs were fixed. 
> Problems with the \donotshade command solved and  `diverse'-
> mode display was modified to follow convention. Spanish label 
> translations were introduced as well as a new feature label: `helix.'
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested (after removing the
__MACOSX subdirectory and replacing the Mac text file endings with Unix ones)
in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/texshade replacing the previous version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jan 19 15:39:17 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:19:23 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Till Tantau <tantau@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Re: Bugfix version 1.21 of beamer

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Till Tantau wrote:

 > I just put version 1.21 of the beamer package  (macros/latex/contrib/beamer)
 > on fpt://dante.ctan.org/incoming/latex-beamer-1.21.tar.gz.
 >
 > Changelog:
 >
 > Version 1.21
 > - Fixed bug in \insertverticalnavigation that made sidebar themes unusable.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/beamer

as usual.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jan 20 18:49:14 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:19:23 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Till Tantau <tantau@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Re: Bugfix version 1.21 of beamer

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Till Tantau wrote:

 > I just put version 1.21 of the beamer package  (macros/latex/contrib/beamer)
 > on fpt://dante.ctan.org/incoming/latex-beamer-1.21.tar.gz.
 >
 > Changelog:
 >
 > Version 1.21
 > - Fixed bug in \insertverticalnavigation that made sidebar themes unusable.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/beamer

as usual.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jan 19 15:40:48 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:23:23 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w.a.schmidt@gmx.net>, MicroPress Inc. <support@micropress-inc.com>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission hvmaths.sty 1.4

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file hvmaths14.zip to the /incoming directory
 > at dante.ctan.org.  The ZIP archive includes the files
 >
 >   hvmaths.dtx
 >   hvmaths.ins
 >   hvmaths.txt
 >
 > Please, substitute them for the corresponding files in the
 > directory
 >
 >   macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/hvmath/
 >
 > This is version 1.4 of the macro package hvmaths.sty.
 > The packages serves to use MicroPress' commercial HV-Math
 > fonts with LaTeX.  It constitutes an alternative to the
 > macros that are shipped together with the fonts.
 >
 > Version 1.4 of hvmaths.sty makes all upright Greek letters
 > of the HV-Math fonts available.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Jan 21 18:25:57 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:23:23 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w.a.schmidt@gmx.net>, MicroPress Inc. <support@micropress-inc.com>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission hvmaths.sty 1.4

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file hvmaths14.zip to the /incoming directory
 > at dante.ctan.org.  The ZIP archive includes the files
 >
 >   hvmaths.dtx
 >   hvmaths.ins
 >   hvmaths.txt
 >
 > Please, substitute them for the corresponding files in the
 > directory
 >
 >   macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/hvmath/
 >
 > This is version 1.4 of the macro package hvmaths.sty.
 > The packages serves to use MicroPress' commercial HV-Math
 > fonts with LaTeX.  It constitutes an alternative to the
 > macros that are shipped together with the fonts.
 >
 > Version 1.4 of hvmaths.sty makes all upright Greek letters
 > of the HV-Math fonts available.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Jan 19 15:46:27 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:24:10 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w.a.schmidt@gmx.net>, MicroPress Inc. <support@micropress-inc.com>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission tmmaths.sty 2.4

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file tmmaths24.zip to the /incoming directory
 > at dante.ctan.org.  The ZIP archive incluides the files
 >
 >   tmmaths.dtx
 >   tmmaths.ins
 >   tmmaths.txt
 >
 > Please, substitute them for the corresponding files in the
 > directory
 >
 >   macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/tmmath/
 >
 > This is version 2.4 of the macro package tmmaths.sty.
 > The packages serves to use MicroPress' commercial TM-Math
 > fonts with LaTeX.  It constitutes an alternative to the
 > macros that are shipped together with the fonts.
 >
 > Version 2.4 of tmmaths.sty makes all upright Greek letters
 > of the TM-Math fonts available.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 20 01:36:55 2004
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:10:11 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN update: beginlatex 

> Now that the issue of TUGboat has been sent out, I have the 
> updated files for ~/tex-archive/info/beginlatex on CTAN.
>
> The file is beginlatex-3.4.tar.gz (8854032 bytes); there is a file
> beginlatex-3.4.lis there as well containing a listing of the
> tarball.
>
> The structure is identical, so you can just remove the existing
> directory and replace it with the new one.

thanks for the new stuff; i installed it in the small hours of the
morning, so it should be well on its way around the world already.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Jan 20 02:37:10 2004
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:11:11 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: xcolor 1.07

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20040120.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: xcolor 1.07
Name and email: Uwe Kern
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor
Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
2004/01/20 v1.07
* New feature: support for color masking and color separation.
* New commands:
    - \rmultiply to multiply a dimension register by a real number.
    - \xcolorcmd to pass commands that are to be executed at the end
      of the package.
* Changes:
    - more consistent color handling: extended colors now always take
      precedence over standard colors.
    - several commands improved by using code from the LaTeX kernel.
* Documentation: some minor changes.
* Example files: additional pstricks examples (file xcolor2.tex).
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/xcolor

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jan 20 13:13:23 2004
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:38:45 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and the mirroring process started.
Tou should be able to find the update at your favorite local site in a day 
or two.

Thanks for the update,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix
Summary description: As is
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The tenth CTAN bugfix 2 release has the following improvements:
* After resizing, drawing of new objects was performed incorrectly. Removed 
  this major bug.
* Added message when trying to open two instances of LaTeXPiX.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 23 09:40:24 2004
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:14:49 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: NEWSLETR macros package update 

Hunter Goatley writes:

> + what you've uploaded
> 
>    NEWSLETR.ZIP is in the incoming directory on ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>    It is an update to the NEWSLETR package currently found on CTAN.
> 
> + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
>   ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
> + where you want the files to go
> 
>   macros/plain/contrib/newsletr
> 
> + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
> 
>   dfsg
> 
> + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
>   Macros to help create newsletters and newspapers.
> 
> Thanks!

i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the update.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jan 23 12:57:08 2004
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:37:36 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: IEEEconf

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org .  It should make its way
to your favorite local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: IEEEconf
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf
Summary description: Format documents according to the IEEE Computer 
  Society Press guidelines
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The IEEEconf class implements the formatting dictated
by the IEEE Computer Society Press for conference
proceedings
(http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm).
IEEEconf.cls replaces latex8.sty and latex8.bst.  The
goal was to produce a more faithful implementation of
the formatting rules and to do so with cleaner LaTeX
code than that provided by the latex8.* files.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jan 27 11:53:02 2004
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:27:30 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: index

A package has been update on tug.ctan.org.  It will make its way through
the mirroring process to your favorite mirror site in the next day or
two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: index.sty
Author's name: David M. Jones
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/index
Summary description: A reimplementation of LaTeX's indexing macros
  to provide better support for indexing
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A maintenance update to a reimplementation of LaTeX's indexing macros
to provide better support for indexing in LaTeX.  For example, it
supports multiple indexes in a single document and provides a more
robust \index command.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/index
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From zierke@dante.de Thu Jan 29 09:48:01 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:15:55 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission - multibib v1.3

----- Forwarded message from Thorsten Hansen -----
I have just uploaded version 1.3 of multibib.
 
--  uploaded file: multibib-v1.3.tar.gz
--  uploaded to CTAN node: dante.ctan.org (ftp.dante.de)
--  recommended place: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/multibib
--  licensing condition: lppl
--  brief summary:
    The `multibib' package allows to create references to multiple
    bibliographies within one document. It thus provides a complementary
    functionality to packages like `bibunits' or `chapterbib', which allow
    to create one bibliography for multiple, but different parts of the
    document.
 
    Changes to version 1.2 include
    . compatibility to jurabib and cite 4.0, based on a new general
      compatibility mechanisms
 
It would be fine if you can sent a short note to comp.text.tex when
the new style has been installed.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/multibib

(Please note that we lost the contrib/supported and contrib/other
directory structure last year.)

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Fri Jan 30 07:21:07 2004
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:00:43 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: The caption package 3.0a

----- Forwarded message from Axel Sommerfeldt -----
Name of contribution: The caption package 3.0a
Uploaded to: ftp.dante.de/incoming/caption
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/caption
  (Please delete all the old files in this directory)
Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments
License type: lppl

Abstract:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions
in floating environments like figure and table and cooperates with
many other packages.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Changes:

- New option "tableposition=" for use inside \usepackage as 
abbreviation of \captionsetup[table]{position=...}

- Bugfix: spaces are allowed between 2nd and 3rd argument of 
\DeclareCaptionXXX and between the optional and the mandatory 
argument of \captionsetup.

- Bugfix: \newfloat + \restylefloat* gives correct float names in caption

- Bugfix: \captionof after \restylefloat* gives correct caption layout

- Improvement: after \newfloat or \restylefloat the right position of 
the caption is reported to the subfig package

- Bugfix: \caption* now works with the KOMA-Script classes, too.

- Improvement: \@makecaption is supported now.

- Bugfix in \DeclareCaptionFont: brackets where missing so it used to 
work only with one-token-definitions.

- Bugfix in supertabular support: A \par was missing at the beginning 
of \ST@caption.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/caption

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jan 30 08:55:07 2004
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:07:49 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: HA-prosper

A package has been upgraded at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon


The announcement written by the package's author:
- ---
HA-prosper is a patch for prosper that adds new
functionality to prosper based presentations.

The latest update contains support for hidden sections
and parts and a revised implementation of dualslides
which offers much new possibilities.

A mailinglist for HA-prosper is available here:
http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/ha-prosper.html
- ---

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Feb  1 03:35:28 2004
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 09:09:55 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload 

Kevin Patrick Scannell writes:

>   I have just uploaded version 1.0 of "gahyph.tex",
> containing TeX hyphenation patterns for Irish
> (the two-letter ISO-639 code for Irish is "ga").
> 
> I presume this belongs in 
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/
> 
> It is released under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.

thank you for the upload; i've installed it, as suggested, as
language/hyphenation/gahyph.tex here (it'll make its way out to the rest
of ctan pretty soon).

Robin Fairbairns (who didn't know that country code)

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Feb  1 12:14:38 2004
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 18:44:16 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Andreas Matthias <amat@kabsi.at>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- pdfpages v0.3e

On 31 Jan 2004, Andreas Matthias wrote:

 > I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages-v0.3e.tar.bz2' to
 > ftp.dante.de/incoming.

Thanks for the update, I installed iit in

   macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages/

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Feb  1 12:15:27 2004
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 18:46:36 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w.a.schmidt@gmx.net>, MicroPress Inc. <support@micropress-inc.com>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission:  hvmaths.sty v1.5

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Walter Schmidt wrote:


 > Several macro packages on CTAN have been updated to fix a
 > common bug regarding the processing of "key-value" options,
 > which could potentially affect the co-operation with other
 > packages:
 >
 > package         version/date       CTAN directory
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > eurosans.sty    v3.1 2004/01/26    fonts/euro/latex/eurosans
 > luximono.sty    2004/01/26         fonts/luximono
 > hvmaths.sty     v1.5 2004/02/30    macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/hvmath
 >
 > Further minor changes are described in the particular
 > documentation files.
 >
 > The macro package helvet.sty (part of the PSNFSS collection)
 > is still suffering from the same bug.  It will be fixed in
 > the next PSNFSS release, version 9.1b. (Hopefully soon :-)
 >
 > Many apologies for the problems; the long-standing bug was
 > discovered only recently.  See the thread "Problem mit
 > key-value-Paketoptionen" in the news group <de.comp.text.tex>.
 >
 > Walter Schmidt



For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Feb  1 12:22:45 2004
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 18:49:45 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Ulrich Dirr <ud@art-satz.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: SkakNew

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 Ulrich Dirr <ud@art-satz.de> submitted a package to
CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: SkakNew
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/fonts/chess/SkakNew
 > Summary description: PostScript Type-1 fonts for typesetting chess
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > PostScript Type-1 fonts for typesetting chess.
 > Based on 'skak' by Torben Hoffmann & Dirk B\"achle and 'chess' by Piet
 > Tutelaers.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your upload, I installed the files in directory

   fonts/chess/skaknew

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Feb  2 12:45:26 2004
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:18:40 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: l2tabufr

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make
its way to your favorite local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: l2tabufr
Author's name: Yvon Henel
Location on CTAN: info/l2tabu/french
Summary description: French translation of l2tabu
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
French translation of l2tabu 1.6
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/french
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From zierke@dante.de Tue Feb  3 07:25:27 2004
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:02:28 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- jurabib package v0.6

A few days ago, I installed a new version of Jens Berger's jurabib
package in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/jurabib.  Jens added this
text for the announcement of this package:

----- Begin forwarded message -----
Here is a list of the most important changes:

  NEW:
   o  IMPORTANT: The order of optional arguments has changed!
          `natoptargorder' option removed, natbib order of optional
	  arguments is now NEW DEFAULT! There is a compatibility
	  option `jurabiborder' for old documents.
   o  jox.bst is part of jurabib.dtx.
   o  Indexing code completely rewritten (contributed by Stefan Ulrich).
   o  Danish language support added (contributed by Mads Munch Hansen).
   o  Finnish language support added (contributed by Harri Kiiskinen).
   o  Portuguese language support (contributed by Eva and Miguel Costa).
   o  new option `silent', replaces \jbsilent.
   o  new option `dotafter=bibentry' replaces \jbdotafterbibentry.
   o  new option `dotafter=endnote' replaces \jbdotafterendnote.
   o  new option `lookforgender', replaces \jblookforgender.
   o  new option `annotatorlastsep', replaces `colastsep' option.
   o  new option `annotatorfirstsep', replaces `cofirstsep' option.
   o  new option `annotatorformat', replaces `coauthorformat' options.
   o  new option `super' transforms \cite commands to footnotes,
           suggested by Frank Mittelbach.
   o  new option `config=<configfile without extension>', allows to
           switch between configfiles, suggested by Frank Mittelbach.
   o  new command \lookatfortype, allows to determine a list of entry
           types for which the lookat feature should be used
           (suggested by David Feest).
   o  \footcitetitleonly introduced, suggested by Frank Mittelbach.
   o  New commands to tune indexing introduced:
           \jbdonotindexeditors (suppress editor-indexing).
           \jbdonotindexauthors (suppress author-indexing).
           \jbdonotindexorganizations (suppress org-indexing).
           \jbindexonlyfirstauthors (to index authors only at first
             appearence).
           \jbindexolyfirsteditors (to index editors only at first
             appearence).
           \jbindexolyfirstorganizations (to index organizations only
             at first appearence).
           Known Problem: Authors with special characters (umlauts etc.)
           aren't sorted properly (makeindex-problem).
    o  loading of config files rewritten. The loading is now as follows:
           1. \usepackage option overwrites values given by config
              files.
           2. option placed in \jurabibsetup (in the preamble)
              overwrites values given by \usepackage.
           3. last \jurabibsetup overwrites values of preceding
              \jurabibsetup.
    o  Some hooks for multibib.sty compatibility implemented, testfiles
           added for multibib compatibility (jbtestmb.tex) and for
           bibunits compatibility (jbtestbu.tex), thanks to
           Thorsten Hansen for adapting his packages.
  REMOVED:
    'multiple'-functionality removed! To have the same feature you
           have to load footmisc.sty with option 'multiple' now,
           suggested by Frank Mittelbach.
  BUGFIXES:
    o  \jbindexbib works correctly again.
    o  added some alternative babel main language values, initially
           suggested by Harri Kiiskinen.
    o  Hook for memoir.cls bibliography added, suggested by
           Robert Schlicht (requires mempatch.sty!).
    o  small bugfix for loaded hyperref and tabularx packages
           (hyperref turns off hyperfootnotes internally),
	       bug reported by Maarten Wisse.
    o  bugfix for @manual function, did not recognize organization as
           fallback for missing author, reported by Frank Mittelbach.
    o  new integer 'extra.extra.num', new function 'make.extra.label'
           and some modifications on 'forward.pass' (suggested by
           Robert Schlicht in d.c.t.t.)
[...]

Many Thanks

Jens Berger
-- 
www.jurabib.org

----- End forwarded message -----

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Feb  3 07:24:54 2004
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:07:27 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: logpap

----- Forwarded message from Mike Kaufmann -----
I have uploaded a new package on CTAN
(ftp.dante.de/incoming/logpap-20040201.tar.gz).
Please install it as suggested.

Regards, Mike

Name of contribution: logpap
Name and email: Mike Kaufmann
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/logpap
Summary description: Logarithmic Graph Paper with LaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The logpap package provides four macros for drawing logarithmic-logarithmic, 
logarithmic-linear, linear-logarithmic and (because it was easy to implement)
linear-linear graph paper with LaTeX.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this new package as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/logpap/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Feb  3 07:28:56 2004
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:12:10 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission:  the "Bera" fonts

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the archive file berafonts.zip to the 
/incoming directory at dante.ctan.org.  It contains the 
"Bera" Type1 fonts and all files required to use them
with LaTeX on the PC or Un*x platform.  Please, create a
new CTAN directory
                    fonts/bera

and unpack the archive there. (Do not unpack the inner 
archive bera.zip.)

"Bera" is a set of three PostScript Type1 font families:
  
  Bera Serif (a slab-serif Roman), 
  Bera Sans (a Frutiger descendant), and 
  Bera Mono (monospaced/typewriter).  

The fonts were originally created by Bitstream, Inc. in 
TrueType format under the name "Bitstram Vera".  
Malte Rosenau converted them to the Type1 format;  the 
license required that the result was given a different 
name ("Bera").

The "Bera" fonts are released under the same license as 
the original "Vera" fonts (see the file LICENSE).  
Please, evaluate this license to deteemine whether the 
fonts need to be put into the "nonfree" branch of the 
CTAN.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this new font as suggested in
CTAN:fonts/bera

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Feb  3 07:42:30 2004
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:35:19 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: ppr-prv class update (v0.10)

----- Forwarded message from Mathieu Goutelle -----
I have uploaded an update of the ppr-prv class in /incoming/ppr-prv.tgz
on dante.ctan.org. Please replace all files in
macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv by the ones in the archive.

This class is used with LaTeX presentations using the prosper class.
ppr-prv stands for "Prosper Preview". The aim of this class is to
produce a printable version of the slides written with Prosper, with
two slides per page.

Changes since previous version are:
 * Use of the 'float' package to declare the 'figure' and 'table'
   floats as non-floating environment ([H] for HERE!) ;
 * I have removed some garbages in the code ;
 * I found an other bug in {from|until|only}Slide macros ;
 * Modifications to be compatible with HA-prosper v3.8 (starred
   version of \tsection macro and \dualslide command). The backward
   compatibility with previous version is unfornately is not assured
   (due to \dualslide).
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Feb  3 07:46:02 2004
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:40:01 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: fonts/frcursive updated

----- Forwarded message from Emmanuel Beffara -----
I just uploaded frcursive.tar.gz on ftp.dante.de.
This is an updated version of the the French Cursive typeface,
it resides in /fonts/frcursive.

ChangeLog
---------

2004/02/02:
 - added the square brackets and the slash
 - added some hinting information
 - fixed the NFSS description files to make them agree with standard drivers
 - updated the LaTeX package to give access to all variants
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the update.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:fonts/frcursive

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Feb  3 07:58:52 2004
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:43:27 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Circuit_macros 5.5

----- Forwarded message from Dwight Aplevich -----
Circuit_macros5.5.tar.gz has been copied into the incoming directory
of ftp.dante.de. Its expanded contents are to replace the contents
of graphics/circuit_macros. The copyright is almost public domain.

>From the README:
...
  This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality line diagrams to
  include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents.  The macros were
  originally intended for electric circuit diagrams containing
  fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors, and basic logic gates,
  but several tools and examples for other types of diagrams are also
  included.  The advantages and disadvantages of such a system are
  similar to those of TeX itself, which is macro-based and non-wysiwyg,
  with ordinary character input.

  The macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic "little language,"
  which is easy to read and learn.  Pic is well suited to line drawings
  requiring parametric or conditional components, fine tuning,
  significant geometric calculations or repetition, or to drawings that
  are naturally block structured or tree structured.  Arbitrary formatted
  text can be included.  Free TeX- and LaTeX-compatible interpreters
  for m4 and pic are readily available.
...
EXAMPLES:
  Read the manual man.ps and view or print the file examples.ps in the
  examples directory, or for the possibly unstable development version, try
  http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/

  A collection of examples and hints intended for his colleagues has
  been produced by Alan Robert Clark at http://ytdp.ee.wits.ac.za/cct.html
...
CHANGES:
Version 5.5: New macros potentiometer, variable, igbt, tline. Optional
  negated logic gate inputs. Options for diode, source.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:graphics/circuit_macros/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Feb  3 13:24:24 2004
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 19:02:36 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: SIstyle

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

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: SIstyle v1.0
Author's name: Danie Els
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/SIstyle
Summary description: Package to typeset SI units, numbers and angles
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The SIstyle package typeset SI units, numbers and angles according to the 
ISO requirements. Care is taken with font setup and requirements. The 
emphasis is on ease of use, but it is the user's responsibility to know 
the rules and how to use SI units.

      e.g.:  \SI{1}{N}=\SI{1}{kg.m/s^2}

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/SIstyle
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From zierke@dante.de Wed Feb  4 02:54:07 2004
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 09:26:39 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification:  xcolor 1.08

A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution:  xcolor 1.08
Name and email:  Uwe Kern
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor
Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
2004/02/04 v1.08
* New commands/features:
    - \selectcolormodel to change the target model within a document.
    - \adjustUCRBG to fine-tune undercolor-removal and
      black-generation during conversion to `cmyk'.
* Bugfix: color expressions did not work correctly in connection with
  active `!' character, e.g. in case of \usepackage[frenchb]{babel}.
* Code re-organisation:
    - \XC@xdefinecolor merged into \xdefinecolor, making the first
      command obsolete.
    - several internal commands improved/streamlined.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

I installed this as suggested replacing the previous version in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/xcolor

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb  4 13:42:11 2004
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 19:04:28 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification "rgb"

> + what you've uploaded
>   Two files, rgb.ps and rgb.pdf
> 
> + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>   ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/
> 
> + where you want the files to go
>   I'm uncertain if both file should be keeped; in my opinion, one only
>   (the .pdf) is sufficient, and you should put it in /tex-archive/info/.
>   If you think that both are to be keeped, put them in a dedicated
>   subdirectory /tex-archive/info/rgb/ .
> 
> + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
>   public domain
> 
> + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do
>   rgb.pdf is a 13 pages document with \fcolorboxes showing samples of the
>   548 colors defined in my X11 database file "rgb.txt", together with
>   their RGB decimal/hexadecimal codes, and codes in the format needed by
>   the "color" package of the standard LaTeX distribution.  Pointers to
>   the source code, to some documentation, and to a related program are
>   supplied in the last page.

thanks for the upload.  i've installed the files in info/colour/rgb
(thus leaving opportunities for the proponents of other colour models).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb  4 15:50:33 2004
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 21:34:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Devanagari for TeX v2.1 

Anshuman Pandey writesL

> I've uploaded the file velthuis21.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk. The zip
> archive contains the latest release of the Devanagari for TeX package,
> version 2.1. Please place the contents of the zip archive in
> language/devanagari/velthuis/ after removing all existing files and
> subdirectories from the directory. 

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

> Version 2.1 includes a new alternate Devanagari family that offers
> character variants often used in the typography of Sanskrit texts. 

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb  5 17:18:22 2004
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:32:16 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class (major release) 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memoir.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
>     replace the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir. The distribution
>     is under the LPPL. 
> 
> From the README:
>     Memoir is a flexible class for typesetting general fiction,
> non-fiction and mathematical works as books, reports, articles or
> manuscripts. Documents can use 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 or 17pt as the normal
> font size. Many methods are provided to let you create your particular
> design.
> 
> Changes (2004/10/31)
> o New version of memoir.dtx which will generate the new version v1.6
>   of memoir.cls incorporating all earlier patches
> o New version v2.0 of mempatch.sty (which does nothing)
> o New edition (ed 6) of the manual memman.(tex|pdf) incorporating all
>   the material from the Addendum (which is no more). 
> 
>     This is a new release all round. Those who like to be on the safe
>     side, keep copies of the previous distribution while trying the
>     new one.

i've installed the new release in macros/latex/contrib/memoir -- thanks
for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Fri Feb  6 11:13:00 2004
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 17:45:47 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: References

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: References
Name and email: Volker Kiefel
Suggested location on CTAN: support/references
Summary description: Bibliographic software supporting LaTeX
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of
scientific manuscripts and for management of
bibliographic data of ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, of BOOKS,
of CHAPTERS IN BOOKS and other document types including
notes and electronic documents. REFERENCES supports
LaTeX including BibTeX.  Bibliographic records in
MEDLINE format are easily imported. Retrieval of
references is possible by keywords, authors' or
editors' names, date of publication, title of article,
book title, journal name and other data fields.  Lists
of references can be compiled in any bibliographic
style required by the publishers of scientific
journals. At present, REFERENCES is provided with a
text based console interface compiled for
win32-systems, an external text editor is required for
editing data.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:support/references/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Feb  7 11:01:58 2004
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 17:41:49 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Thorsten Hansen <Thorsten.Hansen@psychol.uni-giessen.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - bibunits v2.3

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Thorsten Hansen wrote:

 > I have just uploaded version 2.3 of bibunits.
 >
 > --  uploaded file: bibunits-v2.3.tar.gz
 > --  uploaded to CTAN node: dante.ctan.org (ftp.dante.de)
 > --  recommended place: CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/bibunits
 > --  licensing condition: lppl
 > --  brief summary: multiple references in one document
 >
 >     Changes to version 2.2 include
 >
 >     . new options [sectionbib] and [subsectionbib]
 >     . cite 4.0 compatibility
 >     . new macros to define defaults for bibliography data and style
 >     . gives "Label(s) may have changed..." warnings for the local
 >       bibliographies
 >     . compatibility when used with jurabib and babel

Thanks for the upload, I installed the update.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Feb  7 11:06:06 2004
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 17:45:21 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Mark Trettin <Mark.Trettin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Update of l2tabu

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Mark Trettin wrote:

 > I have uploaded `l2tabu-1.7.tar.gz' (l2tabu.{pdf,tex}, Version 1.7)
 > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/
 >
 > Name of contribution: Das LaTeX-S�ndenregister (sins of LaTeX users)
 >
 > Suggested location on CTAN: info/l2tabu/german/
 >
 > Summary description: Obsolete commands, packages and other common
 >                      mistakes
 >
 > License type: Free (Open Publication License v1.0)
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 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.
 >
 > Changes: * Extended and corrected the `\sloppy'-paragraph
 >          * Some minor corrections
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

 info/l2tabu/german/

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Sun Feb  8 05:34:16 2004
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 12:11:18 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: BibTool 2.48

----- Forwarded message from Gerd Neugebauer -----
I have uploaded BibTool-2.48.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. This file replaces 
tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/BibTool-2.47.tar.gz

A summary of the changes and a general description is apended below.

Ciao
	Gerd

======================================================================

- BibTool 2.48

  *	BibTcl has been taken out of the default making since it has
	caused troubles on several maschines.
  *	The printing of Strings honors now the dependencies that
	BibTeX relies on. This has been accomplished by a change in
	the printing routine for databases. No new resource is
	involved.
  *	Minor modification to the C API.
  *	Feature: When searching for an aux file and none is found then
	name.
  *	Feature: When expand.macros is set the macros will be
	suppressed automatically. No need to set
  *     The boolean resource select.crossrefs has been
        introduced. This resource can be used to force crossreferenced
        entries for selected entrie to be included in the output.
  *	Feature: deleted entries are not reported as "written" by the
	statistics any more.
  *	Bugfix: Bug in extracting by aux file. Crossrefed entires
	where sometimes ignored.
  *	Bugfix: Bug in parsing of backslashes in resources has been
	fixed. Unfortunately this bug appeared in one of the
	examples in the manual.
  *	Bugfix: Bug in expansion introduced in 2.47 has been fixed. An
	error occured when expanding macros.
	warning when the file could not be found.
  *	The meaning of post for the format specifiers %d and %D has
	been documented.
  *	Bugfix: BibTool has misinterpreted pre for the format
	specifier %t and %T due to an over-optimization. This has been
	fixed.
	crossreferenced keys. This has been fixed.
  *	Bugfix: Some compilers don't like it if static strings are
	modified. Thus I have made them dynamic.


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	  BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases


BibTeX provides    an easy to  use means   to integrate  citations and
bibliographies into LaTeX documents.  But the user  is left alone with
the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to
fill this gap.  BibTool allows the  manipulation of BibTeX files which
goes  beyond the possibilities --- and intentions  --- of BibTeX.  The
possibilities of BibTool include

* Pretty-printing BibTeX data bases adjustable by lots of parameters.

* Syntactic checks with error recovery superior to BibTeX and helpful
  error messages.

* Semantic checks can be specified by the user.

* Sorting  and  merging of  BibTeX  data  bases according   to a  free
  definable sort key.

* Generation  of uniform reference keys  according to predefined rules
  or according to an own specification.

* Selecting references  used in  one  publication which are found   by
  analyzing an .aux file.

* Selecting references by a set of criteria (regular expressions).

* Controlled rewriting    of fields utilizing  regular expressions  to
  specify the rewriting rules.

* Macro  (String)  expansion to  eliminate the  need  of  extra string
  definitions.

* Collecting statistics about one or more BibTeX data bases.


BibTool  contains a  documentation written  in  LaTeX of  more than 60
pages (and still growing).

BibTool is written  in C and  has  been compiled on  various operating
systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOG machines.  It is distributed in
source code.   No compiled  versions  are  available from  the  author
(Useless to ask!).

BibTool can be obtained from the CTAN archives:

* ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool
* ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool
* ctan.tug.org:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool

Get  the  file BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz  where  x.xx is the version number.
Unpack it with the command (on UN*X)

	gunzip < BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

Alternatively get the file  BibTool-x.xx.zip where x.xx is the version
number.  Unpack it with the command

	unzip BibTool-x.xx.zip

It will create  a  directory  named  BibTool-x.xx which contains   the
installation instructions in the file INSTALL.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/BibTool-2.48.tar.gz
and deleted the previous version
CTAN:biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/BibTool-2.47.tar.gz

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Feb  9 18:24:21 2004
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:42:03 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Basil K. Malyshev <malyshev@mx.ihep.su>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 6.30 - Importing PDF (release)

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Basil K. Malyshev wrote:

 > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
 > update for BaKoMa TeX 6.30 (issued 7-Feb-2004)
 >
 > Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
 >
 > Most important improvement in BaKoMa TeX 6.30 is
 >
 >    Importing PDF files [RELEASE].
 >
 >       LaTeX users may just say: `\includegraphics{foo.pdf}'
 >       Additional key page (graphicx) lets you choose page other then first:
 >          `\includegraphics[page=5]{foo.pdf}'
 >
 >       Features of importing PDF files:
 >       * It works for all types of output:
 >         Display, Printer, SVG, HTML, PS, and PDF (of cource).
 >       * All embedded basic fonts are supported:
 >         Type 1 (both ATM and CFF), Multiple Master Instances,
 > 	Type 3, and TrueType.
 >       * All Color Spaces, Patterns, Shadings, Shaded Patterns, Forms,
 >         and other page description features are supported.
 >
 >       In advance, `\pdfliteral' command has been added into graphicx package.
 >       This command allows embed PDF graphics into DVI files.
 >       This feature isn't restricted by PDF generation.
 >       Graphics drawn by `\pdfliteral' command will be visible on display
 >       and printer, and it will be well converted into SVG, HTML, and PostScript.
 >       This feature may be useful for
 >       porting macro packages hardly related on PDF output.
 >
 > More information about changes is at:
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma

For the CTAN Team
 Rainer Sch�pf


 > --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 6.30 ----------------------
 >
 > CONTENTS
 >    * Highlights
 >    * Graphical Capabilities
 >    * Fonts
 >    * User Interface
 >    * PDF Generation Features
 >    * HTML Generation features
 >    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 6.30
 >
 > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
 >    <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95
 >
 > HIGHLIGHTS
 >
 >  * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system.
 >  * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
 >    of the file being edited.
 >    (like to Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
 > ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
 > ** Generates *SVG* (PSTricks, Prosper + animation features).
 > ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
 >  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
 >    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 >  * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
 >    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 >  * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click
 >  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 >  * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
 >  * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 >  * Easy to install and use.
 >  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 >
 > GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*
 > (with most of Level 3 features), which is tested for compatibility
 > with output from popular software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10,
 > Adobe Streamline 4.0, Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA,
 > HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
 >
 > All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible
 > with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
 > embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).
 >
 > The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
 >    EPS, PDF, HPGL, DXY, FIG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF.
 >
 > FONTS
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 >  * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
 >  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters),
 >  * PostScript Type 3,
 >  * TrueType,
 >  * TeX PK/VF.
 >
 > The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
 > and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 >  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 >  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 >  * EC/TC,
 >  * LH (T2A),
 >  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 >  * Malvern,
 >  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 >  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 >  Math Fonts:
 >  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 >  Diagram drawing fonts:
 >  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase),
 >  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd),
 >  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
 >
 > Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
 > This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
 > between font formats when needed.
 > This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
 > On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
 > for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
 >
 > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts
 > available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.
 >
 > Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
 > OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click.
 >
 > OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0
 > even without ATM.
 >
 > USER INTERFACE
 >
 > * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
 >   It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly,
 >   when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs,
 >   mathematics, pictures, etc.
 > * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen
 >   for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
 > * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
 > * Quick navigation via document structure,
 > * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
 > * Powerful support for different input encodings,
 > * Project support,
 > * Graphics import assistant,
 > * Assitance for multi-file documents:
 >   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
 > * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
 > * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
 > * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
 > * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
 > * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
 > * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
 >     correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
 >     configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
 > * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
 > * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
 > * Support for Multi-User systems.
 >
 > OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
 >
 > * View on Windows Display.
 > * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
 > * PostScript (really scalable),
 > * PDF,
 > * SVG (animation effects are supported),
 > * HTML.
 >
 > Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
 > for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
 > may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical
 > capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
 >
 > PDF GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 > * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
 > * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
 >   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
 > * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
 > * Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste
 >   of cyrillic and other international characters.
 > * Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
 >
 > HTML GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 >  BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 >  documents into HTML files.
 >   * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch
 >      `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
 >   * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert
 >      pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
 >      pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics,
 >      such as slides.
 >
 >  In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 >  Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of
 >  `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.
 >
 >  Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 >  In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 >  into generated HTML pages.
 >
 > SVG GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 >  BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
 >  from a DVI files. Ability to add animation to the SVG output,
 >  makes it the best for producing high quality presentations.
 >
 >  Sample of animated presentation is available at:
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html
 >
 >  Key Features:
 >    SVG output is compatible with another output formats
 >    (PDF, PS, HTML, View, and Print) so, that the same graphical
 >    formats, font formats, and other features are supported.
 >    In details:
 >    *  All TeX Formats (LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09, AmSTeX, Plain TeX) are supported.
 >    *  TeX extensions (e-TeX and Omega) are supported.
 >    *  ALL LaTeX packages (including PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics, draftcopy, etc.)
 >        are supported.
 >    *  Graphical formats: EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, FIG,
 >    		         BMP, WMF, EMF, HPGL, and DXY are supported.
 >    *  More generally, Any imported or embedded Postscript is supported.
 >    *  Hyperref is supported, including outline and links. For \Acrobatmenu
 >       most general commands (such as NextPage or PrevPage) are supported.
 >    *  Popular presentation packages: Prosper, PDFScreen, PDFSlide, Seminar, etc.
 >       are supported.
 >   *** The existing presentations can be enhanced by adding animation.
 >    *  All Font Types: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, Postscript Type1
 >       (including MM), Postscript Type 3, and TeX PK are supported.
 >
 >  Details about adding animation to generated SVG files are explained at:
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/svgwrite.html>
 >
 > *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 6.30 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 6.20 ***
 >
 >    Importing PDF files. [RELEASE]
 >
 >       LaTeX users may just say: `\includegraphics{foo.pdf}'
 >       Additional key page (graphicx) lets you choose page other then first:
 >          `\includegraphics[page=5]{foo.pdf}'
 >
 >       Features of importing PDF files:
 >       * Imported PDF files are available for all type of output:
 >         shown on Display, printed on (even non Postscript) Printers,
 >         and converted into generated PDF, SVG, HTML, and PostScript (DVIPS).
 >       * In imported PDF files all embedded basic fonts are supported:
 >         Type 1 (both ATM and CFF), Multiple Master Instances,
 > 	Type 3, and TrueType. However, CID fonts are unsupported yet.
 >       * All Color Spaces, Patterns, Shadings, Shaded Patterns, Forms,
 >         and other page description features are supported.
 >       * Only page description and referenced objects are imported from PDF.
 >         Interactive features are just ignored.
 >         So, links, intercative forms, notes, and scripts are not handled
 >         in any way.
 >
 >       In advance, `\pdfliteral' command has been added into graphicx package.
 >       This command allows embed PDF graphics into DVI files.
 >       This feature isn't restricted by PDF generation.
 >       Graphics drawn by `\pdfliteral' command will be visible on display
 >       and printer, and it will be well converted into SVG, HTML, and PostScript.
 >       Of cource, this command isn't so powerful as Postscript sprcials.
 >       However, `\pdfliteral' command may be useful for
 >       porting some macro package hardly related on PDF output.
 >
 >    Other Improvements:
 >
 >       * Color Space support is compliant with PostScript Level 3.
 >       * Filter Set is compliant with PostScript Level 3.
 >       * Fixed zoom distortion on non standard displays under Windows XP.
 >         Some notebooks have display geometry 8/5 instead of standard 4/3.
 >       * Improved managing large truecolor images (i.e. 2048x1536 and more)
 >         - some problems was exxplored under under Windows XP.
 >       * Improved handling margins by DVIBook (DVIEW:File|Arrange Pages)
 >
 > For more information see
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
 >
 > ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Feb  9 15:13:59 2004
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:45:54 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Patrick Daly <daly@linmpi.mpg.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: custom-bib

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 Patrick Daly submitted an update:

 > Name of contribution: custom-bib
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib
 > Summary description: customizing bst files (update)
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Version 4.13 of merlin.mbs contains some bug fixes and additional options
 > resulting from requests from various users. All minor points. None of
 > the other files have been changed, other than README.413 that replaces
 > README.412a.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Feb 10 15:04:32 2004
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:29:41 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: EasyLaTeX

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will make its
way to your favorite local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: EasyLaTeX
Author's name: Bayle Shanks
Location on CTAN: support/easylatex
Summary description: Turns "ASCII math" into LaTeX source
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Why is it quicker to express simple equations in plaintext than it is to 
write the equivalent LaTeX? EasyLatex is a preprocessor to make writing 
LaTeX much easier. 

EasyLatex accepts 'ASCII math' such as 

"The identity matrix is the matrix for which a_i
j = 1 when i = j, and 0 everywhere else; for example, in three dimensions, 
I = [1 0 0 ; 0 1 0 ; 0 0 1]."

and generates equivalent LaTeX source documents.

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/easylatex
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Feb 10 15:04:31 2004
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:31:12 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: switcheml

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org, and it should make
its way to your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: switcheml
Author's name: Charles Duan
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/switcheml
Summary description: Obfuscates email addresses so they are unreadable to 
  email harvesters
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
switcheml provides one main command, "\switcheml{EMAIL}", that obfuscates 
an email address EMAIL by rearranging it so that, while it prints 
correctly on the page, it is unreadable by email address harvesters 
(typically used by spammers).
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/switcheml
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Feb 11 09:23:36 2004
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:03:42 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: paresse

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will get to your 
favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: paresse
Author's name: Yvon Henel
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/paresse
Summary description: defines macros using � made active to typeset greek 
  letters in math mode
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package provides a means of typing "easily" greek letters
with the least possible effort ;) It takes care only of the
letters which have a macro name as \alpha or \Omega.

Typing just �a will give the equivalent of \ensuremath{\alpha}.

A dtx and a ins file are provided with two examples and README files. 
The dtx has been translated from French into English. A bash file is 
provided, just in case, to generate the sty and pdf document file.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/paresse
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 12 14:12:22 2004
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:50:03 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: tex4ht upload 

Eitan Gurari writes:

>    + what you've uploaded
> 
> tex4ht-all.zip
> README
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
>    + where you want the files to go
> 
> Replace
> 
>   /tex-archive/support/TeX4ht/tex4ht-mn.zip
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
> LPPL
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>    (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy
> processing)
> 
> Yearly update of the TeX4ht system for translating TeX-based
> files to hypertext.

thanks for the upload.  i installed it earlier today, but didn't have
time to issue the announcement then...

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 12 14:18:44 2004
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:51:46 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload AlProTex.sty 

Eitan Gurari writes:

>    + what you've uploaded
> 
> AlProTex.sty
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> 
> cam.ctan.org
> 
>    + where you want the files to go
> 
> Replace
> 
>   /tex-archive/web/protex/AlProTex.sty
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list
>      below).
> LPPL
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>    (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy
> processing)
> 
> A style file of a TeX-based literate programming system

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 12 14:19:05 2004
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:03:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: CTAN <ctan@dante.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- mempatch.sty 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded memupdate.tar (which contains README and
> mempatch.sty) to UK incoming. Please use these to replace the README
> and mempatch.sty in macros/latex/contrib/memoir.
> 
>     This is a minor patch for the memoir class to cater for the use of
> \linespread.

i've installed the files: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Feb 15 11:24:40 2004
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:57:16 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: massimiliano dominici <mlgdominici@interfree.it>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: parrun

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 massimiliano dominici submitted a new version of
parrun.

No announcement was supplied.

The new version has been installed, thanks.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Feb 16 15:16:14 2004
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:48:39 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: pbsheet

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should have
made its way to your favorite mirror by now.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: pbsheet LaTeX2e document class
Author's name: Djalil CHAFAI
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/pbsheet
Summary description: LaTeX2e document class for easy typeset of problems sheets
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A simple LaTeX2e document class for typesetting of 
problems sheets including Mathematics, programs and 
graphics.  
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pbsheet
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Feb 16 15:10:40 2004
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:52:46 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: IEEEannot

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should be at
your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: IEEEannot
Author's name: Titus Barik
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib
Summary description: Annotated bibliography in the IEEE citation format.
License type: artistic

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
IEEEannot is a bibliography style template that generates an annotated 
bibliography in the IEEE citation format. It is not endorsed by the IEEE.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/IEEEannot.bst
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 16 15:16:42 2004
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:03:19 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ledmac package 

peter wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded ledmac.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the curent latex/macros/contrib/ledmac. The distribution is
> under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
>     The ledmac package is for typesetting critical editions. It is a
> LaTeX port, and extension, of the plain TeX EDMAC, TABMAC, and
> EDSTANZA macros. 
> 
> Changes v0.3 (2004/02/14)
> o Added edstanza macros for verse
> o Line numbering can use roman., etc numbers as well as arabic
> o Additional example

thanks for the upload; i've installed the files as you presumably
intended to ask, in macros/latex/contrib/ledmac

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Feb 16 17:46:19 2004
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:31:52 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: bmeps

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 Dirk Krause wrote:

 > Name of contribution: bmeps
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /support/bmeps
 > Summary description: Bitmap to EPS converter
 > License type: lgpl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > bmeps is a converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS.
 > The project was moved to SourceForge in November 2003.
 > Documentation was updated to show the new location
 > for docu and downloads.
 > No changes in functionality.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Feb 16 17:53:13 2004
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:32:37 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: png2pdf

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 Dirk Krause wrote:

 > Name of contribution: png2pdf
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /support/png2pdf
 > Summary description: PNG to PDF converter
 > License type: gpl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Png2pdf is a converter from PNG to PDF. Although one
 > can use PNG images directly in pdfLaTeX I had problems
 > sometimes when pictures had an alpha channel.
 > Using png2pdf one can convert PNG to PDF, the alpha channel
 > can be used for mixing against a user specified background,
 > a background color from the PNG file's background chunk
 > and/or to create an image mask. For PDF level 1.4 the
 > alpha channel can be transferred into the PDF file.
 >
 > The project was moved to SourceForge in November 2003.
 > This update contains new documentation pointing to
 > http://png2pdf.sourceforge.net as primary location for
 > documentation and software.
 >
 > No changes in functionality.
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From zierke@dante.de Tue Feb 17 07:19:31 2004
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:02:26 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: xcolor 1.09

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: xcolor 1.09
Name and email: Uwe Kern <xcolor@ukern.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor
Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
2004/02/16 v1.09
* New features:
    - color model `HTML', a 24-bit hexadecimal `RGB' variant;
      allows to specify colors like \color[HTML]{AFFE90};
    - color names `orange', `violet', `purple', and `brown' added to
      the set of predefined colors.
* New xcolor homepage: www.ukern.de/tex/xcolor.html
* Bugfix: \xdefinecolor sometimes did not normalise its parameters.
* Changes:
    - slight improvements of the documentation;
    - example file xcolor1.tex reorganised and abridged.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed as suggested it replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/xcolor

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Feb 18 15:50:31 2004
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:29:14 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: empheq

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make its way
to your local mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: empheq
Author's name: Morten H�gholm
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/empheq
Summary description: empheq v1.05b
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The empheq (emphasizing equations) package is designed for two
purposes:
 
  1) To allow a multi line equivalent of \boxed from amsmath which
     can be used with all of the display environments from amsmath.
  2) To produce arbitrary delimiters for arbitrary math displays.
 
The user-friendly interface allows the user to put a set of
equations inside a box thus enhancing the \boxed feature of
amsmath. As a side effect it's also possible to add material on
both sides of the equations including auto-scaling delimiters.
 
It also supports the end-of-theorem markers from ntheorem out of
the box, as the problems with those markers can be circumvented by
using empheq.  

This version of empheq is incompatible with versions prior to and 
including v0.7a. See the empheq manual for how to deal with this.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/empheq
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From zierke@dante.de Thu Feb 19 03:02:44 2004
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:42:58 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: beamer 2.00 and pgf 0.60

----- Forwarded message from Till Tantau -----
I have put version 2.00 of the beamer package (macros/latex/contrib/beamer) on 
fpt://dante.ctan.org/incoming/latex-beamer-2.00.tar.gz and version 0.60 of 
pgf (graphics/pgf) on fpt://dante.ctan.org/incoming/pgf-0.60.tar.gz.

ChangLogs:

beamer version 2.00

	Added:
	- Added placement options to columns and column commands.
	- Added \column command.
	- Added label option to frames.
	- Added \againframe command for showing a frame again later on
	  (very useful!). 
	- Added \includeonlyframe command for typesetting only specific
	  frames. 
	- Added \AtBeginSection, \AtBeginSubsection, and \AtBeginPart
	  commands (very useful!).
	- Added \visible command (opposite of \invisible).
	- Added verse, quotation, and quote environments.
	- Added abstract environment (not very useful in my opinion).
	- Added colored option to \defverbatim for use with lstlisting.
	- Added grid density option to grid background.
	- Added professionalfont option.
	- Added automatic support of serif math minion fonts.
	- Added option to \pause command to pause only from a specific
	  slide on. 
	- Added \unpause to stop the last \pause.
	- Includes enumerate.sty by default and allows one to use its
	  functionality in beamer.
	- Added dark and tab options to beamerthemesidebar. Other sidebar
	  themes no longer needed.
	- Made \note work also inside frames.
	- Added templates for notes.
	- Added notes=onlyframeswithnotes option for generating only
	  frames that contain a note.
	- Added options to all \insertshortxxx commands.
	- Added option for passing arguments to color, xcolor, pgf, and
	  hyperref.
	- Added \action and actionenv environments.
	- Added the concept of actions to overlay specifications. For example,
	  \item<alert@2> will alert the item on the second slide and
	  \item<2-| alert@2> will furthermore have the item covered before
	  that.  
	- Added <> option to \newcommand and \newenvironment to make the
	  defined commands overlay-specification aware.
	- \only and \alt will now also accept an overlay specification
	  "at the end".
	- Block environments now accept overlay specification also before
	  the argument.
	- Added \mode command
	- Added beamerbasearticle.sty -> makes nearly all beamer commands
	  available in article mode in a sensible way.
	- Added mode specifications to \section and \subsection commands
	  (useful for the article version).
	- Started adding some templates for rendering frames in article mode.
	- Added \lecture command and \includeonlylecture (useful for
	  lecture notes).  
	- Added a containsverbatim option to the \frame command. Should be
	  used instead of the old \frame<all:1> (which is, however, still
	  supported). 
	- Made \includegraphics, \pgfimage, and \pgfuseimage
	  overlay-specification-aware. (useful for pseudo-animations)
	
	Changed:
	- Every frame is now put into a box internally. Slides will never
	  be split over two pages.
	- \pause commands now transcends blocks (very useful, but not
	  compatible!) 
	- Balls are now also used for enumerations, not just for itemize
	  in shadow theme. Use \beamertemplateenumeratealpha to get old
	  behaviour. 
	- Changed syntax of alert and structure templates.
	- Reworked internals of overlay management. Should produce
	  slightly shorter files.
	- Changed file names of .jpg and .png images to start with "beamer-"
	  to avoid name clashes.
	- Renamed \original to \beameroriginal because of clash with
	  lucidia font styles.
	- "Streamlined" themes to use the same basic templates.
	- \noteitems replaced by \note[enumerate].
	- \nameslide command is now obsolete. Use the label= option
	  instead.
	- Removed notesonly option. Use notes=only.
	- Themes beamerthemesidebartab, beamerthemesidebardark, and
	  beamerthemesidebardarktab are now obsolete. Use
	  beamerthesesidebar will appropriate options instead.
	- Theme beamerthemetreebars obsolete. Use beamerthemetree with
          option bars instead.
	- Removed compressnotes option. Use \beamertemplatenotecompress
	  instead. 
	
	Removed:
	- Removed pauses environment (no longer needed).
	- Improved pgf makes \pgfonly superfluous. Use \only instead.
	- Removed reproducable .pdf example files from repository for
	  faster cvs checkout/checkin.
	- Removed \invisibleon command (was superfluous anyway).
	- Removed \mixinon command (was not very useful and clashes with
	  new \pause command; use \opaqueness instead).
	- Removed \newoverlaycommand and \renewoverlaycommand. Can be
	  better implemented using \newcommand<>.
	- Removed \article, \presentation, and \common commands (still
	  quietly tolerated). Should be replaced by \mode<article>,
	  \mode<presentation>, and \mode<all>. 
	- Removed beamer/lyx/doc. Documentation is now incorporated in
	  the main user's guide.
	
	LyX:
	- Added a big example file beamerlyxexample1.lyx.
	- Changed \tableofcontents command so that options can be
	  given in LyX. 
	- Changed \frame command in LyX so that options can be given. 
	- Added overprint and overlayarea environments.
	- Added \againframe command.
	- Changed beamer.layout to use new command \column. Old environment
 	  no longer supported in lyx.
	- A new frame and a section or subsection will automatically close
	  the previous frame. EndFrame is only needed before the end of
	  the document, before the appendix, and before "out-of-frame"
	  material. 
	- Added TitleGraphic command.
	- Documented the LyX interface in beameruserguide.pdf.
	
	Bugfixes:
	- Fixed bugs with "jumping" blocks in overlays.
	- Fixed bug with tabbing in beamerbaseboxes.
	- Added work-around for problem with black background in older
	  versions of acroread.
	- Fixed problems with linebreak in short title and short author
	  in sidebar themes. 


pgf version 0.60:

	- Replaced some commands for the postscript code by shorter
	  versions for smaller file size.
	- Fixed bug in pgfbox command that caused incorrect kerning in
	  postscript output.
	- Fixed bug in pgfsys@defineimage that made page inclusion
	  impossible. 
	- Fixed bug in pgfshading that did not reset dash patterns in
	  shadings in the PostScript version. 
	- Spaces are now allowed inside the pgfpicture environment.
	- Added \pgfgrid command.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed both packages as suggested replacing the
previous versions at CTAN:graphics/pgf and CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 19 11:56:39 2004
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:38:13 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- mempatch.sty 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty. 
> 
> Please announce:
> 
>     You don't need this patch to memoir unless you are using a command
> like \linespread (which should never have been invented). 

i've installed the file here in cambridge, whence it will wend its weary
way over the next few hours to the other ctan sites, and thence to
mirrors.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Feb 19 12:25:13 2004
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:20:08 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: nomentbl

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should be at your favorite 
mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: nomentbl
Author's name: Brian Elmegaard
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nomentbl
Summary description: Nomenclature typeset in a longtable
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The nomentbl package has needed a refreshment for a long time. It has now 
been updated to work the nomencl package version [2000/12/03 v3.1a 
Nomenclature package (BS)]. 

The package typesets the nomenclature in a table in four predefined groups: 
Roman letters, greek letters, subscrips and superscrips. This grouping 
may naturally be changed.

The table includes: 
symbol|description|unit|equation reference|page reference
The two last entries are optional
The package supports the options of the nomencl-package including the 
refeq and refpage options. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Feb 19 12:43:30 2004
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:31:20 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and will appear at your
favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix
Summary description: As is
License type: nosource

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The eleventh CTAN release has the following improvements:
* Possibility added to delete points from polygons and splines.
* Preview files can now be deleted from the main menu.
* Drawing of new objects is now done without dotted lines, improving 
  visibility.
* Circular arcs are now available.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Feb 20 15:47:39 2004
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:23:11 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- experimental ledmac extension 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded ledmini.sty to UK incoming. Please add this to the
> /macros/latex/contrib/ledmac subdirectory. 
> 
>     ledmini.sty is an experimental package to enable ledmac's line
> numbering and footnotes work in a minipage environment. 
> 
>     I'm hoping some will try it (at their own peril) and
> comment. Depending on the feedback I will either delete it or add it
> into the ledmac code.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Feb 21 08:44:18 2004
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:17:49 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: Pandora-type1

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: Pandora-type1
Author's name: Patrick TJ McPhee
Location on CTAN: fonts/ps-type1/pandora
Summary description: Type 1 versions of the Pandora fonts
License type: nocommercial

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
These are drop-in replacements for the PK version of the Pandora fonts, 
for use when generating PDF files. You are meant to use the metrics from 
the original distributon. The license is the same as the license  on the 
original fonts.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/pandora
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 



From zierke@dante.de Mon Feb 23 10:00:30 2004
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:38:02 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- bigfoot bundle for critical edition typesetting

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----
I have uploaded files suffix.dtx, suffix.ins, and README to the
incoming/bigfoot directory.  They are the first of what is supposed
to become a larger batch of files in the bigfoot bundle that is
primordinarily concerned with providing many of the mechanisms needed
for critical edition typesetting.

The other files of the suite are available via CVS in workable state,
but are still undergoing heavy change and are not yet documented, so I
don't want to upload them right now.  Pointers to the CVS are given in
the README (which also explains the current state of affairs).  The
files are supposed to be placed into CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/bigfoot
directory and are licenced under the GPL (version 2 or later).

Sorry that most of the suite is yet available only by CVS.

Here is the README file:

This is the bigfoot bundle for critical edition typesetting and other
concerns, written by David Kastrup (mailto:dak@gnu.org).  The complete
package in development can be accessed using the CVS instructions at
<URL:http://sarovar.org/projects/bigfoot>, and
CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/bigfoot should provide released versions
once they are fit for general consumption.

The whole bundle is released under the GPL version 2 (or later).  Part
of the work has been sponsored or commissioned by various parties
(including TUG), but further functionality and development depends on
your support, financially or by participation.  The author has a
Paypal account which you might consider contributing to.

All of the files (except perpage.sty, for historical reasons) need
eTeX 2 as the LaTeX engine.  Newer distributions already are
eTeX-based; with older distributions you might need to use the
`elatex' command.

File descriptions for available files:

suffix.ins: This is a generated file and not in the CVS archive (but
   on CTAN).  If you need to generate it, you can do so by running
   `tex docstrip' and answering the prompts

     \infileext=dtx
     \outfileext=ins
     \Options=installer
     \filelist=suffix

   Running TeX on suffix.ins will generate further files from
   `suffix.dtx'.

suffix.dtx: This is the doc source for `suffix.sty', a package that
   makes it very easy to define command variants like \macro* or
   \macro\!.  It is included in the critical bundle since typical
   document classes for real critical editions documents will tend to
   want weird signs under handy abbreviations, like \< and \<<, or
   \=>, or things like \footnote' macros, or \footnote<...\footnote>
   with different formatting/numbering and so on.

perpage.sty: Work in progress, CVS only.  Used for keeping counters
   sorted in order of page appearance and making numbering per page
   possible.

bigfoot.sty: Work in progress, CVS only.  Used for solving every
   problem around footnotes and then some.  Deals with nested
   footnotes in several apparatus, uses a backtracking algorithm for
   finding the optimal break across several footnotes, automatically
   breaks in-paragraph style footnotes across pages, uses fuzzy logic
   for deciding about when to prefer in-paragraph layout to
   one-footnote-per-paragraph layout on a per-note and per-block
   basis, deals with colors in footnotes even when broken across
   pages, adapts the document class's footnote style to in-paragraph
   footnotes as good as it can, allows customization of styles
   differing across footnote blocks, allows verbatim text in
   footnotes and so on.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new packages as suggested in
CTAN:tex-archive/macros/contrib/bigfoot

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Feb 24 10:57:12 2004
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:34:52 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Claudio Beccari <claudio.beccari@polito.it>
Subject: Re: new version of ithyph.tex

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Claudio Beccari wrote:

 > I just uploaded a new minor release of ithyph.tex in the /incoming
 > directory.
 >
 > If there are no problems. the new file, version 4.8e should replace the
 > preceding one version 4.8d.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  languages/hyphenation/ithyph.tex

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 25 11:02:19 2004
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:40:25 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ledmini.sty experimental ledmac extension


    I have uploaded ledmini.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to
replace the current /macros/latex/contrib/ledmac/ledmini.sty. 

    ledmini.sty is an experimental package to enable ledmac's line
numbering and footnotes to work in a minipage environment.  

    This version (2004/02/24) includes an environment that can break
across pages and puts enclosed footnotes at the end of the environment,
which might be in the middle of a page.

    Further comments welcome before I decide how to proceed.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Feb 26 07:38:34 2004
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:09:05 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- bugfix version 2.01 of beamer

----- Forwarded message from Till Tantau -----
I have put version 2.01 of the beamer package (macros/latex/contrib/beamer) on 
fpt://ftp.dante.de/incoming/latex-beamer-2.01.tar.gz. This version contains 
only bugfixes.

Change Log:

beamer version 2.01
	- Fixed bug with class options containing braces
	- Fixed bug in beamerbasecolor.sty
	- Fixed bug that caused footnotes not to be shown.
	- Fixed bug that caused \normalcolor to ignore mixins. 
	- Fixed bug with french and spanish babel in article mode.
	- Fixed bugs in \cite and \bibitem commands. Will now correctly
	  handle spaces in conjunction with babel.
	- Fixed bugs in beamerpresentation.lyx.
	- Fixed bug with \@centercr in article mode.
	- \cite now hyperlinks
	- \beamertemplateballitems will now also project mini templates on
	  balls. Write
	  \useenumerateitemminitemplate{\color{beamercolor}\insertenumlabel}
	  to get the old behaviour.
	- \footnote now takes an extra optional argument.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Feb 26 07:38:33 2004
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:10:36 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- update of HA-prosper

----- Forwarded message from Hendri Adriaens -----
I just uploaded an update of HA-prosper to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
The package is in zip format and is TDS compliant now. It should
be installed in the existing dir macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper.

The README file says:
--------------------------------------------------------
HA-prosper is a patch for prosper that adds new
functionality to prosper based presentations.

Among the new features you will find automatic
generation of a table of contents on each slide, support
for notes, portrait slides support and lots more.

And available styles demonstrate how to expand the
functionality of prosper even further.

The latest update contains support for a split toc
and permanent highlighting of sections in the toc.
Furthermore, an enumstep environment has been added,
the possibility to nest this into itemstep environments
has been added, these environments got extra options,
the package option blackslide has been added and some
small bugs have been solved.

A mailinglist for HA-prosper is available here:
http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/ha-prosper.html
--------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Feb 26 07:38:55 2004
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:14:56 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- ppr-prv class update (v0.11)

----- Forwarded message from Mathieu Goutelle -----
I have uploaded an update of the ppr-prv class in /incoming/ppr-prv.tgz
on dante.ctan.org. Please delete all files in
macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv before putting the ones in the archive, 
because I now distribute ppr-prv as a dtx file.

This class is used with LaTeX presentations using the prosper class.
ppr-prv stands for "Prosper Preview". The aim of this class is to
produce a printable version of the slides written with Prosper, with
two slides per page.

Changes since previous version are:
  * New ppr-prv option: nopagebreak, to have more than two slides per
    page ;
  * ppr-prv is now distributed as a .dtx file ;
  * Better handling of options: you can now pass to the article class
    the usual options for setting the paper and font sizes ;
  * Use of the 'geometry' package to set margins ;
  * I set a minimum height for the frame around the slides ;
  * Bug: the optional argument of itemstep was not handle when using
    HA-prosper ;
  * ppr-prv supports HA-prosper 3.9 ('indent' option on dualslide and
    'enumstep' environment).
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Feb 26 09:09:20 2004
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:45:04 +0100
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: pst-geo

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: pst-geo
Name and email: Manuel Luque, Giuseppe Mattarazzo <MLuque5130@aol.com>
Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-geo
Summary description: PSTricks geographical projections
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
These packages provide to print two or three dimensional geographical maps.
There are two databases, a small one (~1MByte) and a big one (~30MByte).

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this package as suggested in
CTAN:graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-geo


XML file:
**********************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="pst-geo"
       datestamp="2004/02/21" 
       modifier="ftpmaint@dante.ctan.org">
  <about>
    <name>pst-geo</name>
    <caption>PSTricks geographical projections</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Manuel Luque, Giuseppe Mattarazzo</name>
      <email>MLuque5130@aol.com</email>
    </author>
    <license type="LaTeX Project" />
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      These packages provide to print two or three dimensional
      geographical maps. There are two databases, a small one
      (~1MByte) and a big one (~30MByte).

    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-geo</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
**********************************************************************

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Feb 26 10:14:53 2004
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:00:07 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: arydshln

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and it should make its
way to your favorite local mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the update,
Jim Hefferon
======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: arydshln
Author's name: Hiroshi Nakashima
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/arydshln
Summary description: Horizontal and vertical dashed lines for 
   array/tabular (v1.6)
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Definitions of horizontal and vertical dashed lines for the array and 
tabular environment. Horizontal lines are drawn by \hdashline and 
\cdashline while vertical ones can be specified as a part of preamble 
using `:'. The shape of dashed lines may be controlled through style 
parameters or optional arguments.  Compatible with "array" (from v1.4),  
"colortab" (from v1.5), and "longtable" (new!!) packages.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/arydshln
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Feb 26 12:35:23 2004
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:16:31 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: PerlTeX

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org.  It should make its way to
your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: PerlTeX
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/perltex
Summary description: Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This upgrade (v1.1) corrects some unintuitive behavior
regarding the way that macro parameters are expanded.  Now,
\begin, \end, and all robust commands are left unexpanded. 
PerlTeX v1.1 also supports new \perlnewenvironment and 
\perlrenewenvironment macros that enable environments to be 
constructed from Perl code.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/perltex
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Feb 27 09:04:23 2004
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:44:07 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: LaTeX Team <latex-team@latex-project.org>, ctan@dante.de
Subject: Finally -- a pict2e.sty!

i have just installed a new directory macros/latex/contrib/pict2e, which
contains a distribution of the new (real) pict2e package, as documented
in lamport, 2nd edition.

from the readme:

  This package was described in the 2nd edition of "LaTeX: A Document
  Preparation System", but the LaTeX project team declined to produce
  the package.  For a long time, LaTeX has included a "pict2e package"
  that merely produced an apologetic error message.

  The new package extends the existing LaTeX picture environment, using
  the familiar technique (cf. the graphics and color packages) of driver
  files.  The package documentation (pict2e.dtx) has a fair number of
  examples of use, showing where things are improved by comparison with
  the LaTeX picture environment.

Robin Fairbairns

For the authors (Rolf Niepraschk and Hubert Gaesslein), and the LaTeX
and CTAN teams

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Feb 27 09:55:46 2004
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:34:40 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Philipp Lehman <plehman@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload: csquotes

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Philipp Lehman wrote:

 > I've uploaded the file 'csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory on
 > ftp.dante.de. Please extract it to macros/latex/contrib/csquotes after
 > removing all files from this directory. Thank you in advance.
 >
 > ABOUT CSQUOTES
 >
 > LaTeX provides environments for typesetting longer quotations, but
 > there is no dedicated markup for short quotations embedded in the
 > text body. The csquotes package:
 >
 > �* provides proper markup for inline quotations in the first place
 > �* supports both control sequences and active characters
 > �* toggles between inner and outer quotation marks for nested quotes
 > �* interfaces with Babel and adapts quotation marks as required
 > �* features fully configurable quotation styles and active characters
 >
 > CHANGES
 >
 > 2003-02-27      v1.5
 >   * Reset nesting level in minipages and footnotes

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/csquotes

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Feb 28 10:16:53 2004
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:53:02 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Upload to www.ctan.org down for a time

On the www.ctan.org machine, which is also tug.ctan.org and ctan.tug.org,
the web upload form will be unavailable for a few days.  I apologize
for the inconvenence.  If you cannot wait, you can http upload to 
  http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/upload.html
(or ftp upload to either ftp.dante.de or ftp.tex.ac.uk).

Jim Hefferon

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Feb 28 10:16:53 2004
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:55:37 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: fonts/cm/sauter/base/c-cmr.mf

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and the change should
make their way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thank you for the update.
Jim Hefferon

The following was written by the author of the package.

=====================================================
I have submitted an update to the file c-cmr.mf for your approval.
The file is on ctan.tug.org, which appears to be alan.smcvt.edu.
I would like the file to go to fonts/cm/sauter/base/c-cmr.mf.
The file is Public Domain.
This edit corrects letter_fit# for large point sizes.  The previous
formula was causing trouble for ligatures.
    John Sauter

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Feb 29 16:51:39 2004
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:32:06 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload -- lineno.sty 

Stepha Boettcher writes:

> The uploaded file:
> 
>    ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/lineno.tar.gz
> 
> provides version 3.10a of the lineno.sty package, located in
> 
>    ctan:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lineno/
> 
> This version includes two fixes for bugs found by Uwe L�ck and Frank
> Mittelbach.

i've installed the contents of the tarball to replace
macros/latex/contrib/lineno, as requested.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar  1 13:38:47 2004
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 20:18:41 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Andres Loeh <polytable@andres-loeh.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: polytable

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 Andres Loeh wrote:

 > Name of contribution: polytable
 > Suggested location on CTAN: CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/polytable
 > Summary description: tabular-like environments with named columns
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This package implements a variant of tabular-like environments
 > where columns can be given a name and entries can flexibly
 > be placed between arbitrary columns. Complex alignment-based
 > layouts, for example for program code, are possible.
 >
 > The new version 0.7.2 replaces the old one and fixes some bugs.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------


Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/polytable

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar  1 13:45:41 2004
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 20:20:44 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Yvon Henel <Yvon.Henel@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: l2tabufr

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 Yvon Henel wrote:

 > Name of contribution: l2tabufr
 > Suggested location on CTAN: info/l2tabu/french/
 > Summary description: French translation of l2tabu version 1-7
 > License type: dfsg
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > French translation of
 > l2tabu version 1.7 dated 2004-02-07 by Mark Trettin.
 >
 > This version replaces the preceding.
 > LaTeX source, two pdf (one with embedded fonts, one without)
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

 info/l2tabu/french

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar  1 15:48:43 2004
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:33:34 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ledmac package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded ledmac.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ledmac. The distribution is
> under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
>     The ledmac package is for typesetting critical editions. It is a
> LaTeX port and extension of the plain TeX EDMAC, TABMAC and EDSTANZA
> macros. 
> 
> Changes in v0.4 (2004/02/29)
> o Added draft/final options
> o All footnotes can be used in minipages
> o New minipage-like environments that can include page breaks and put
>   footnotes at the end of the environment, even if this is in the
>   middle of the page. 

i've installed the package as you request; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar  1 16:05:03 2004
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:57:23 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submision --- expressg metapost package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded expressg.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/expressg. The
> distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README
>  the expressg MetaPost package provides facilities to assist in
> drawing diagrams that consist of boxes, lines, and annotations, such
> as IDEF or UML. Particular support is provided for creating EXPRESS-G
> diagrams.
> 
> Changes in v1.6 (2004/02/29)
> o Additional `box' types: outputbox, stickfigure, bullseye

i've installed the update, as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar  1 17:39:32 2004
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:19:21 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- mempatch.sty 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty. 
> 
>     Please announce that I hope this refixes an indentation bug after
> the verbatim environment. 

installed as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Mar  2 04:07:56 2004
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:46:10 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Juergen Fenn <juergen.fenn@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: l2tabuen

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Juergen Fenn wrote:

 > I have uploaded an updated version of `l2tabuen.zip' to ftp.dante.de.
 > It contains my English translation of Mark Trettin's guide to LaTeX
 > called `l2tabu' v. 1.7, giving a lot of practical advice about how to
 > avoid the most common mistakes a user can make (i.e., obsolete
 > commands and packages).
 >
 > Would you please replace both the *.tex, and the *.pdf files in
 >
 >   info/l2tabu/english
 >
 > Thank you very much in advance.
 >
 > Name of contribution: l2tabuen
 > Suggested location on CTAN: info/l2tabu/english
 > Summary description: English translation of l2tabu version 1.7
 > License type: opl
 >
 > There are no changes to the present TeX Catalogue entry.

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar  6 17:42:38 2004
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 23:05:07 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- combinet package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded combine.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the curent macros/latex/contrib/combine. The distribution is
> under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README
> 
>     The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a
> single one, such as when preparing a conference proceedings. There are
> also auxiliary packages: combinet, combnat and combcite.
> 
> Changes in version 0.2a of combinet.sty (2004/03/06)
> o Minor internal change to ease hyperref pain

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Mar  7 12:00:44 2004
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 17:34:45 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload pstricks-add 

Herbert Voss writes:

> I just uploaded pstricks-add to
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
> 
> please install the files into the new dir:
> 
>   graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add
> 
> pstricks-add collects a lot of the code which was posted
> to the pstricks mailing list and has some more new features:
> 
> pstricks-add:
> - pstricks
>     o new options for pspicture environment
>     o ellipses,
>     o braces as node connection/linestyle
>     o ArrowInside
> 
> - pst-plot
>     o new options step, start end for plotting data files
>     o new options xLabel, yLabel
>     o new option plotNo for multiple data files x y1 y2 y3 ...
>     o new macro \psplotPolynomial[coeff=<0 a1 a2 ...>]{<xStart>}{<xEnd>}
> 
> - pst-node
>     o new macro nclineII for a two-colored line
>     o new option lineAngle for ncdiag

i've installed the files as suggested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar  8 02:22:35 2004
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 07:59:33 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: sansmath-bugfix (ctan upload) 

Donald Arseneau writes:

> Thomas Th�mmes writes:
> > i was using your "sansmath"-package together with the "koma-script"-package
> > and had the following problem:  error "\@tempa already defined" 
> 
> I was just cleaning out old mail, and saw that the correction
> for this bug was not on CTAN!
> 
> I've just uploaded sansmath.sty to CTAN/UK, for replacement
> of the version in macros/latex/contrib/misc/

i've installed the replacement; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar  8 07:22:21 2004
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:01:04 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: Fancyhdr

Piet van Oostrum submitted to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: Fancyhdr
 > Name and email: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr
 > Summary description: New version of fancyhdr as described in the new LaTeX Companion
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This is an update of fancyhdr with additional commands to change the
 > header and footer widths as described in the second edition of The
 > LaTeX Companion.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar  8 07:23:04 2004
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:15:51 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Emanuele Zannarini <ezannarini@libero.it>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: l2tabuit

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 Emanuele Zannarini submitted:

 > Name of contribution: l2tabuit
 > Name and email: Emanuele Zannarini <ezannarini@libero.it>
 > Suggested location on CTAN: info/l2tabu/italian
 > Summary description: Italian translation of l2tabu version 1.7
 > License type: dfsg
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > I have uploaded an updated version of `l2tabuit.zip'
 > to ftp.dante.de. Zip Archive I've provided contains
 > 2 files: the pdf version of the document and its
 > LaTeX source.
 >
 > This is my italian translation of the Mark Trettin's
 > practical overview to LaTeX, called `l2tabu' v. 1.7.
 > The guide gives a large number of practical hints
 > about avoidance of the most common mistakes a user
 > can make (for instance: obsolete commands and
 > packages, etc.).
 >
 > License type: OPL.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed the files in

  info/l2tabu/italian


For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar  8 07:29:17 2004
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:19:51 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Nicolas Markey <markey@lsv.ens-cachan.fr>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: bib-fr

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 Nicolas Markey submitted:

 > Name of contribution: bib-fr
 > Suggested location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/bib-fr
 > Summary description: French translation of classical BibTeX styles
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > These files are French translations of the classical
 > BibTeX style files. Translations can easily be
 > modified by simply redefining FUNCTIONs named fr.*,
 > at the beginning (lines 50-150) of each file.
 > If you modify anything, however, please change the
 > name of the file.
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  biblio/bibtex/contrib/bib-fr

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar  8 07:30:55 2004
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:22:36 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: John Frampton <jframpto@lynx.dac.neu.edu>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-jftree

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 John Frampton submitted to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: pst-jftree
 > Suggested location on CTAN:
 > Summary description: tree drawing macros
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > PSTricks macro package (Tex or LaTex) for typesetting syntax trees for
 > linguistics.  Includes documentation and examples.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your submission. I installed the files in

   graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-jftree


For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar  8 08:21:43 2004
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:05:30 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- bgteubner document class

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded the file bgteubner-ctan-v1_20.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de.
 > It contains an update of the bgteunber document class. License stays the
 > same (LPPL with an extra text).
 > Please replace all files in macros/latex/contrib/bgteubner by its
 > contents.
 >
 > From the README:
 >
 > I have programmed the "bgteubner.cls" document class by order of the
 > Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden, Germany. This has been done to ensure that
 > books of this publisher have a unique layout. The publisher has
 > allowed me to distribute the document class with auxilliary files
 > and documentation freely. Unfortunately, most of the documentation
 > is only available in German.
 >
 > Since the document class is intended to generate a unique layout, many
 > things (layout etc.) are fixed and cannot be altered by the user.
 > If you want to use the document class for another purpose than publishing
 > with the Teubner Verlag, this may arrise unwanted restrictions
 > (For instance, the document class provides only two paper sizes:
 > DIN A-5 and 17cm x 24cm; only two font families are supported:
 > Times and European Computer Modern).
 >
 > The document class needs some additional packages, partly relatively
 > new ones, partly packages that are not installed on most TeX
 > installations. A list of needed packages is contained in usefiles.txt.
 >
 >
 > ChangeLog:
 >
 > 2004/03/07 v1.20
 > - Enable use of the MathTime and MathTimePlus fonts if available (package
 >   option "mathtime")
 > - Bugfix: the mathcomp symbols (e.g., \tccelsius, \tcohm, \tcperthousand)
 >   now use the correct fonts
 > - With Times, many textcomp symbols are not available. Define
 > substitutions
 >   (sometimes with minor quality, then with a warning). This is done by the
 >   package ptmxcomp.sty which someday may be available seperately.
 > - Bugfix: Avoid page break after title in theorem-like environments,
 >   exercises, and answers
 > - Warnings when using \oldstylenums
 > - The titlepage now only types out how many figures, tables, and exercises
 >   are used, if they really are used
 > - Bugfix: The adjustment of many margins inside the important(*) and
 >   longimportant environments is fixed again
 > - Bugfix: Workaround for bug in framed.sty which caused a wrong margin
 >   if only an theorem was inside longimportant
 > - New environment longimportant* as important*

Thanks for the update, I installed the package as

 macros/latex/contrib/bgteubner

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Mar 10 13:45:23 2004
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:15:35 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: tug.ctan.org upload is back up

The page at http://www.ctan.org (which is the same as http://tug.ctan.org)
that allows contributors to send things to us via a web form is back
up.  I apologize for the downtime.

Jim Hefferon

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Mar 11 12:34:50 2004
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:11:01 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: CurVe

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make its way
to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: CurVe
Author's name: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: macros/contrib/curve
Summary description: A Curriculum Vitae class for LaTeX2e - Version 1.6
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
CurVe is a class package that hopefully will make your life easier when you
want to write your CV. It provides you with a set of commands to create
rubrics, entries in these rubrics etc. CurVe will then properly format your CV
for you (possibly splitting it onto multiple pages, repeating the titles etc),
which is usually the most painful part of CV writing. Another nice feature of
CurVe is its ability to manage different CV "flavors" simultaneously. It is in
fact often the case that you want to maintain slightly divergent versions of
your CV at the same time, in order to emphasize on different aspects of your
background. CurVe also comes with support for AUC-TeX.


New in version 1.6:
** Support for rubric and subrubric titles horizontal alignment
** Support for standard LaTeX page style mechanism
** Support for oneside and twoside options
** Support for Portuguese
thanks to Adiel Mittmann <adiel@inf.ufsc.br>
** Bug fix in \bibliography
** Fix conflict with Hyperref
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/contrib/curve
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Mar 11 12:30:22 2004
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:13:26 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: Nkarta

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should make its
way to your favorite mirror real soon.

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: Nkarta
Author's name: Daniel H. Luecking
Location on CTAN: fonts/nkarta
Summary description: A corrected version of the karta font
License type: unknown

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The font karta.mf had a few problems. The font nkarta
contains the same characters, but two incorrect ones are
corrected. Also, most "strange path" errors have been 
eliminated and capacity exceeded errors have been reduced.
Moreover, the same figures have been provided as MetaPost
code.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/nkarta
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Mar 12 03:42:22 2004
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:11:06 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Walter Schmidt <w.a.schmidt@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - PSNFSS 9.1b

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the ZIP file psnfss91b.zip to the /incoming
 > directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack it to the CTAN
 > directory
 >
 >         macros/latex/required/psnfss
 >
 > thus replacing all files that exist there.  (Do not unpack
 > the inner archives lw35nfss.zip and freenfss.zip.)
 >
 > This is release 9.1b (2004-01-26) of the PSNFSS collection;
 > a set of virtual fonts, font metrics, map files and macros
 > to support the "Base35" fonts and the free Charter and Pazo
 > fonts.  The license is, of course, LPPL.
 >
 > Main changes over version 9.0c are:
 >
 > * The Euro symbol \texteuro is now available in all text
 > font families supported by PSNFSS (except Utopia).  This
 > matches the corresponding changes in the latest version
 > 1.99f (2004/02/22) of the textcomp package.
 >
 > * The Utopia fonts are no longer regarded as "required"; the
 > package utopia.sty is marked as "obsolete".
 >
 > * Charter:  A number of long-standing bugs regarding the
 > fontdimens and the kerning data have been fixed.  In
 > particular, the overly tight kerning between between L and
 > quoteright has been abolished.
 >
 > * Package helvet.sty:  Fixed implementation of the key-value
 > interface.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Mar 12 03:41:53 2004
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:27:30 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Till Tantau <tantau@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Re: Upload of version 2.10 of beamer

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Till Tantau submitted version 2.10 of his beamer
package, to be installed in

 macros/latex/contrib/beamer

 > Change Log:
 >
 > 	Version 2.10
 > 	- Fixed some spacing problems in uncover and invisible, itemize
 > 	  and pause.
 > 	- Moved head/footline calculation after beginning of document.
 > 	  This fixes all sorts of problems.
 > 	- Added utf8 encoding support.
 > 	- Added a (HA-)Prosper emulation layer.
 > 	- Added a seminar emulation layer.
 > 	- Added third level of itemize/enumerate nesting (I don't like it,
 > 	  but some people do).
 > 	- Added the \onslide command for use outside overprint
 > 	  environments. It generalises \pause in a simple, easy-to-use
 > 	  way.
 > 	- Added incremental overlay specifications (very useful).
 > 	- Added beamer.el emacs plug-in, contributed by Thomas Baumann.
 > 	- Fixed problem that caused empty columns to disappear.
 > 	- \ref will now create hyperjumps.
 > 	- Switched to amsthm for theorems. Theorems now accept
 > 	  optional arguments (amsthm like).
 > 	- Added \newtheorem support.

Thanks for the update, I installed the package.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf


From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Mar 12 16:24:35 2004
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:49:32 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@NASA.Gov>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: umich-thesis.cls

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 Bil Kleb submitted to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: umich-thesis
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/umich-thesis
 > Summary description: University of Michigan Thesis LaTeX class
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > A LaTeX2e class to create a University of Michigan dissertation
 > according to the Rackham dissertation handbook.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the class file and the README in

  macros/latex/contrib/umich-thesis

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Mar 13 11:19:20 2004
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:52:34 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: latex-l@urz.uni-heidelberg.de, ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: LaTeX anniversary release 2003/12

Who remembers December 23, 1993, when the first public release of LaTeX2e
appeared?

The LaTeX3 Project Team wishes to announce the LaTeX 10th Anniversary
Release, officially dated December 2003.

It contains numerous changes, additions and improvements, some of which
I'd like to mention:

 - (Partial, experimental) support for Unicode input: the inputenc package
   has a new option utf8.

 - New version of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), now DFSG
   (Debian Free Software Guidelines) approved.

 - TLC2 - The LateX Companion, 2nd edition is about to appear

For more info, see the news sheets ltnews15 and ltnews16 in the
documentation directory (see below).

At the same time, the website of the LaTeX3 Project Team has a new look.
Come and visit:

  http://www.latex-project.org/

As usual, the files can be downloaded from a CTAN mirror near you. Go to
the CTAN root directory and look for

  macros/latex/base

Documentation (in PDF) can be found in

  macros/latex/doc

The required packages are in

  macros/latex/required


--

   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Mar 14 11:11:41 2004
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:48:26 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Richard J Mathar <mathar@mpia.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: osa.bst

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 Richard J Mathar submitted to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: osa.bst
 > Suggested location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/osa.bst
 > Summary description: BibTeX bibliography style for journals of the OSA
 > License type: dfsg
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This is an upgrade/refinement of my older osa.bst
 > file of 2002 that is already in the CTAN. It is a full
 > replacement, and the "version=1.0" ought be removed by
 > this one here, labelled "version=1.2".
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your update. The file, together with its documentation has been
installed in directory

  biblio/bibtex/contrib/osa

The old file (biblio/bibtex/contrib/osa.bst) was removed.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar 15 09:11:06 2004
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:48:45 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de, texhax@tug.org
Subject: Version 3.11 of the UK TeX FAQ

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

the new distribution on ctan includes a file CHANGES-3.11 which lists
what i've changed.  apart from significant changes to the macro coding
of faq source and of the conversion to html for the web version,
highlights include: 17 new answers, extension of several "documentation
and help" answers; thorough scan of answers for places where either or
both of the koma-script bundle and the memoir class can help; many
changes to reflect upgrades of several packages, or packages that
weren't previously mentioned.  and of course, several errors are
corrected.

please report any errors of fact, or of representation, to faq@tex.ac.uk

please do _not_ bother to ask questions on that address.  if you're
reading this message on comp.text.tex or texhax, you *already* *know*
where to ask questions.

the future of the faq may potentially include significant improvements
in its delivery.  there is, sadly, little chance that i can improve the
searching mechanisms without external help (all pleas for such help have
proved fruitless): i don't have the spare time to make myself an expert
in such things.

Robin Fairbairns

UK TeX FAQ maintainer
and for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Mar 17 11:40:06 2004
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:19:29 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: Scientific Paper Package

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: Scientific Paper Package (science)
Author's name: Ryan Aycock
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/scientificpaper
Summary description: This package enables authors to produce simple, 
  generic scientific papers.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
LaTeX has long been known as a convenient tool for writing scientific 
papers.  Much to my surprise, however, there are no packages on CTAN that 
actually format scientific papers easily.  The effort seeks to correct 
that problem by giving users a simple-to-use method for distributing their 
work.  Notice, this package is not based on any particular style guide.  
It will only create a generic, two column paper with a single column 
abstract at the top.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/scientificpaper
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Mar 17 13:12:54 2004
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:57:46 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: pclnfss

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: pclnfss
Author's name: Leif Harcke
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib
Summary description: LaTeX 2e style files for using standard 45 PCL fonts
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
pclnfss - a package of LaTeX 2e class files for selecting and using
the standard 45 scalable fonts built into most PCL laser printers.
Updates the .../texmf/tex/latex/dvilj/*.sty package files provided
with the original dviljk-2.x distribution.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pclnfss
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 18 01:18:59 2004
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:57:57 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- expressg MetaPost package 

Peter Wilson writes:

> Dear CTAN/Robin,
> 
>     I have uploaded expressg.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/expressg. The
> distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README
> 
>     The expressg MetaPost package provides facilities to assist in
> drawing diagrams that consist of boxes, lines, and annotations, such
> as IDEF or UML. Particular support is provided for creating EXPRESS-G
> diagrams.
> 
> Changes v1.61 (2004/03/17)
> o Added parentheses to namespace macro.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team


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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sun Mar 21 11:16:40 2004
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:07:25 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: pydocstrip

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror overnight.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: pydocstrip
Author's name: Ky Anh
Location on CTAN: support/pydocstrip
Summary description: An alternate of TeX `docstrip`, support `switches` 
  at the command line
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
`docstrip.py` is an alternate of TeX `docstrip`, support `switches` at 
the command line, `time checking` (so that we generate only the files 
whose source have changed).

Please visit http://docstrip.sarovar.org/
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pydocstrip
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Mar 21 13:14:59 2004
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:11:21 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload -- version 1.40 of mimetex.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk 

John Forkosh writes:

>    + what you've uploaded
>         mimetex.zip
>         version 1.40, 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 both existing files (mimetex.zip and README)
>             in support/mimetex, and please   unzip mimetex.zip README
>             and then 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.
>         Improved LaTeX compatibility, various new features and
>         fixes, including fix to work under Windows.
>      ----------------------------------------------------
>       From the original submission...
>         MimeTeX parses LaTeX math expressions, emitting either gif images
>         or mime xbitmaps of them, rather than the usual TeX dvi's.
>         These gif (or xbitmap) images are easily inserted directly into
>         html documents using a standard html <img> tag, e.g.,
>           <img src="../cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^xe^{-t^2}dt"
>            border=0 align=absmiddle>
>         without intermediate dvi-to-gif conversion, and without storing lots
>         of little gif image files, one file for each converted expression.
>         This makes your web site and html documents more easily maintained.
>         See
>                  http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html#examples
>         for many examples demonstrating mimeTeX's features and usage.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar 22 17:48:14 2004
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 23:39:38 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- verse package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded verse.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/verse. The distribution is
> under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README
>    verse provides some aids for typesetting simple verse (poems).
> 
> Changes in version 2.21 (2004/03/21)
> o Removed an incompatibility with the hangul package

i've installed the revised package as requested: it'll make its way to
the other ctan sites within a few hours, and thence to the rest of the
world.

thanks for the upload (and for demonstrating, once again, how good free
software bug fixing can be ;-).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 22 17:51:34 2004
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:47:02 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl>
Subject: Re: ctable-1.6.tar.gz

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Wybo Dekker wrote:

 > I have uploaded ctable-1.6.tar.gz at ftp.dante.de
 >
 > - ctable.sty provides commands to easily typeset centered table and
 >   (multiple-)figure floats, with footnotes.
 >   Instead of an environment, a command with 4 arguments is used; the first
 >   is optional and is used for key,value pairs generating variations on the
 >   defaults and offering a route for future extensions.
 >
 > - replaces ctable-1.5.tar.gz
 >
 > - unpack in macros/latex/contrib/ctable
 >
 > - LPPL
 >
 > - changes (relative to v1.5):
 >
 >   * left, right, center options added for alignment on the page
 >   * framerule, framesep, framefg, framebg options added for colored framing

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/ctable

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Mar 24 17:49:53 2004
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:34:52 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Hendri Adriaens <Hendri@uvt.nl>
Subject: Re: Uploaded HA-prosper 4.0

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Hendri Adriaens wrote:

 > I just uploaded HA-prosper 4.0 to ftp.dante.de
 > The files should go into the existing directory
 > macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper
 >
 > Notice that the package now includes source
 > files and a new README.
 >
 > Some of the changes wrt version 3.9 are:
 > - converted to dtx format
 > - added bm and sound options for slides
 > - improved bookmarking system
 > - added Aggie style by Jack Stalnaker
 > - added \onSlide and \OnSlide
 >
 > Best regards,
 > -Hendri Adriaens.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Mar 24 17:49:53 2004
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:36:53 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Mathieu Goutelle <mgoutell@alussinan.org>
Subject: Re: [CTAN upload] ppr-prv class update (v0.12)

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Mathieu Goutelle wrote:

 > I have uploaded an update of the ppr-prv class in /incoming/ppr-prv.tgz
 > on dante.ctan.org. Please delete all files in
 > macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv before putting the ones in the archive,
 > because I now distribute ppr-prv as a dtx file.
 >
 > This class is used with LaTeX presentations using the prosper class.
 > ppr-prv stands for "Prosper Preview". The aim of this class is to
 > produce a printable version of the slides written with Prosper, with
 > two slides per page.
 >
 > Changes since previous version are:
 >    * Support for the onSlide macros added by HA-prosper ;
 >    * Use of the 'HAP-ppr-prv.def' file for the support of HA-prosper ;
 >    * Changes to support HA-prosper 4.0 (one undefined counter, some new
 >      seminar and prosper macros are needed).

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Mar 24 17:49:55 2004
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:39:58 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "[ISO-8859-1] Uwe L�ck" <uwe.lueck@web.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ednotes.sty

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 Uwe L�ck wrote:

 > Name of contribution: ednotes.sty
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ednotes
 > Summary description: [bug fix]
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > [fix of serious bug that was reported 2003/09/03]
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------


Thanks for the update, I installed it as

  macros/latex/contrib/ednotes/ednotes.sty

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 29 13:49:42 2004
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:32:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Apostolos Syropoulos <apostolo@ocean1.ee.duth.gr>
Subject: Re: package elmath uploaded

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:

 >    I have uploaded at ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/elmath
 >    the files
 >
 >    elmath.dtx  (A package that allows users with a Greek keyboard to
 >    elmath.ins   directly type Greek math "symbols")
 >
 >    and iso-8859-7.def.
 >
 >    The files elmath.* can be installed at
 >
 >    /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/elmath
 >
 >    The file iso-8859-7.def should replace the file
 >
 >    fonts/greek/package-babel/encodings/iso-8859-7.def

Thanks for your upload, I installed the files.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 29 13:49:42 2004
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:35:23 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Uwe Kern <xcolor@ukern.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: xcolor 1.10

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 Uwe Kern submitted:

 > Name of contribution: xcolor 1.10
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor
 > Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 2004/03/27 v1.10
 > * New features:
 >     - support for `named' model;
 >     - support for `dvips' colors
 >       (may now be used within color expressions);
 >     - internal representation of `ordinary' and `named' colors merged
 >       into unified data structure;
 >     - allow multiple `-' signs at the beginning of color expressions.
 > * Bugfixes:
 >     - commands like \color[named]{foo} caused errors when color masking
 >       or target model conversion were active;
 >     - incompatibility with `soul' package: commands \hl, \ul, etc.
 >       could yield unexpected results.
 > * Documentation:
 >     - added formula for general color expressions;
 >     - enhanced text and index;
 >     - removed dependence of index generation on local configuration
 >       file.
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 29 13:52:27 2004
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:42:11 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Peter Furlan <peter.furlan@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: upload in ftp.dante.de

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Peter Furlan wrote:

 > I've uploaded a new version of TexCad32 to
 > ftp.dante.de
 >
 > Licence: LPPL
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ****************************************************
 > Changes in  version 4.4.1 since 4.3.3
 > ****************************************************
 >
 > - Parts of pictures may be saved and read as macros,
 >   giving the possibility to rapid insertion of often
 >   used elements e.g. parts of electrical circuits.
 > - Move is now done with the mouse
 > - Undeletion of deleted elements is now possible
 > - Two new pdf-files describing the use of macros and
 >   inclusion of pictures.
 > ****************************************************

Thanks for the new version, I installed it in

  graphics/texcad32

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 29 13:58:32 2004
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:48:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Basil K. Malyshev <malyshev@mx.ihep.su>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 6.40 - DVI editing, char based DVI Search

Basil K. Malyshev submitted an update to BaKoMa TeX.

As usual, it was installed in

  nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma

 > Most important improvements in BaKoMa TeX 6.40 are:
 >
 >    1) Dynamical Preview + Dual Cursor = Editing in DVI window.
 >    2) DVI Forward/Reverse Search - Character Precision Positionning.
 >    3) DVI Mouse Tools - Text Select Tool.
 >    4) New Modules - czech, phonetic, polish, runes, russian.
 >
 >  1) Dynamical Preview + Dual Cursor = Editing in DVI window.
 >
 >     In dynamical preview mode you will see two carets:
 >     one in text window another in DVI window.
 >     These carets are synchronized - moving one caret moves another.
 >
 >     DVI window also have text selection feature.
 >     Also, selections in text and DVI window are synchronized.
 >     So, in DVI window you can move caret and select text.
 >
 >     Farthermore, in DVI window you can press characters,
 >     BkSp, Del, and other keys, whose will be passed into text editor.
 >     TeX source modified by these commands will be reprocessed
 >     by TeX and redisplayed in DVI window on the-fly.
 >
 >     In fact, it looks such that you edit document immediatly in DVI window !!!
 >
 >  2) DVI Forward/Reverse Search - Character Precision Positionning.
 >
 >     Now DVI Forward Search and DVI Reverse Search
 >     are performed wirh character precision.
 >     DVI Reverse Search is invoked by double-click or from context menu.
 >
 >  3) DVI Mouse Tools - Text Select Tool.
 >
 >     Commonly Text Select Tool is intended for selection in
 >     Dynamical Preview mode.
 >     In advance, it may be useful to extract example codes from
 >     manuals provided in DVI format.
 >
 >  4) New Modules - czech, phonetic, polish, runes, russian.
 >
 >     We begin new directory - language, which currently includes
 >     five modules: czech, phonetic, polish, runes, russian.
 >
 > More information about changes is at:
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
 >
 > --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 6.40 ----------------------
 >
 > CONTENTS
 >    * Highlights
 >    * Graphical Capabilities
 >    * Fonts
 >    * User Interface
 >    * PDF Generation Features
 >    * HTML Generation features
 >    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 6.40
 >
 > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
 >    <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95
 >
 > HIGHLIGHTS
 >
 >  * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system.
 >  * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
 >    of the file being edited.
 >    (like to Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
 > ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
 > ** Generates *SVG* (PSTricks, Prosper + animation features).
 > ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
 >  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
 >    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 >  * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
 >    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 >  * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click
 >  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 >  * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
 >  * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 >  * Easy to install and use.
 >  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 >
 > GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*
 > (with most of Level 3 features), which is tested for compatibility
 > with output from popular software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10,
 > Adobe Streamline 4.0, Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA,
 > HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
 >
 > All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible
 > with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
 > embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).
 >
 > The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
 >    EPS, PDF, HPGL, DXY, FIG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF.
 >
 > FONTS
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 >  * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
 >  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters),
 >  * PostScript Type 3,
 >  * TrueType,
 >  * TeX PK/VF.
 >
 > The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
 > and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 >  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 >  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 >  * EC/TC,
 >  * LH (T2A),
 >  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 >  * Malvern,
 >  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 >  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 >  Math Fonts:
 >  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 >  Diagram drawing fonts:
 >  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase),
 >  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd),
 >  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
 >
 > Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
 > This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
 > between font formats when needed.
 > This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
 > On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
 > for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
 >
 > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts
 > available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.
 >
 > Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
 > OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click.
 >
 > OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0
 > even without ATM.
 >
 > USER INTERFACE
 >
 > * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
 >   It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly,
 >   when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs,
 >   mathematics, pictures, etc.
 > * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen
 >   for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
 > * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
 > * Quick navigation via document structure,
 > * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
 > * Powerful support for different input encodings,
 > * Project support,
 > * Graphics import assistant,
 > * Assitance for multi-file documents:
 >   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
 > * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
 > * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
 > * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
 > * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
 > * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
 > * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
 >     correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
 >     configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
 > * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
 > * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
 > * Support for Multi-User systems.
 >
 > OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
 >
 > * View on Windows Display.
 > * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
 > * PostScript (really scalable),
 > * PDF,
 > * SVG (animation effects are supported),
 > * HTML.
 >
 > Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
 > for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
 > may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical
 > capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
 >
 > PDF GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 > * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
 > * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
 >   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
 > * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
 > * Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste
 >   of cyrillic and other international characters.
 > * Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
 >
 > HTML GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 >  BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 >  documents into HTML files.
 >   * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch
 >      `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
 >   * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert
 >      pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
 >      pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics,
 >      such as slides.
 >
 >  In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 >  Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of
 >  `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.
 >
 >  Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 >  In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 >  into generated HTML pages.
 >
 > SVG GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 >  BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
 >  from a DVI files. Ability to add animation to the SVG output,
 >  makes it the best for producing high quality presentations.
 >
 >  Sample of animated presentation is available at:
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html
 >
 >  Key Features:
 >    SVG output is compatible with another output formats
 >    (PDF, PS, HTML, View, and Print) so, that the same graphical
 >    formats, font formats, and other features are supported.
 >    In details:
 >    *  All TeX Formats (LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09, AmSTeX, Plain TeX) are supported.
 >    *  TeX extensions (e-TeX and Omega) are supported.
 >    *  ALL LaTeX packages (including PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics, draftcopy, etc.)
 >        are supported.
 >    *  Graphical formats: EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, FIG,
 >    		         BMP, WMF, EMF, HPGL, and DXY are supported.
 >    *  More generally, Any imported or embedded Postscript is supported.
 >    *  Hyperref is supported, including outline and links. For \Acrobatmenu
 >       most general commands (such as NextPage or PrevPage) are supported.
 >    *  Popular presentation packages: Prosper, PDFScreen, PDFSlide, Seminar, etc.
 >       are supported.
 >   *** The existing presentations can be enhanced by adding animation.
 >    *  All Font Types: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, Postscript Type1
 >       (including MM), Postscript Type 3, and TeX PK are supported.
 >
 >  Details about adding animation to generated SVG files are explained at:
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/svgwrite.html>
 >
 > *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 6.40 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 6.30 ***
 >
 >    1) Dynamical Preview + Dual Cursor = Editing in DVI window.
 >    2) DVI Forward/Reverse Search - Character Precision Positionning.
 >    3) DVI Mouse Tools - Text Select Tool.
 >    4) New Modules - czech, phonetic, polish, runes, russian.
 >
 >  1) Dynamical Preview + Dual Cursor = Editing in DVI window.
 >
 >     In dynamical preview mode you will see two carets:
 >     one in text window another in DVI window.
 >     These carets are synchronized - moving one caret moves another.
 >
 >     DVI window also have text selection feature.
 >     Also, selections in text and DVI window are synchronized.
 >     So, in DVI window you can move caret and select text.
 >
 >     Farthermore, in DVI window you can press characters,
 >     BkSp, Del, and other keys, whose will be passed into text editor.
 >     TeX source modified by these commands will be reprocessed
 >     by TeX and redisplayed in DVI window on the-fly.
 >
 >     In fact, it looks such that you edit document immediatly in DVI window !!!
 >
 >  2) DVI Forward/Reverse Search - Character Precision Positionning.
 >
 >     Now DVI Forward Search and DVi Reverse Search
 >     are performed wirh character precision.
 >
 >  3) DVI Mouse Tools - Text Select Tool.
 >
 >     Commonly Text Select Tool is intended for selection in
 >     Dynamical Preview mode.
 >     In advance, it may be useful to extract example codes from
 >     manuals provided in DVI format.
 >
 >  4) New Modules - czech, phonetic, polish, runes, russian.
 >
 >     We begin new directory - language, which currently includes
 >     five modules: czech, phonetic, polish, runes, russian.
 >
 > For more information see
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
 >
 > ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------
 >
 >
 >

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 29 14:00:52 2004
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:51:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Mathieu Goutelle <mgoutell@alussinan.org>
Subject: Re: [CTAN upload] ppr-prv class update (v0.12b)

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Mathieu Goutelle wrote:

 > I have uploaded an update of the ppr-prv class in /incoming/ppr-prv.tgz
 > on dante.ctan.org. Please replace all files in
 > macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv by the ones in the archive.
 >
 > This class is used with LaTeX presentations using the prosper class.
 > ppr-prv stands for "Prosper Preview". The aim of this class is to
 > produce a printable version of the slides written with Prosper, with
 > two slides per page.
 >
 > Changes since previous version are:
 >    * [Bugfix] all key definitions were lost due to a name inconsistency.
 >
 > Best regards,

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Mar 29 14:05:32 2004
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:55:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Volker Kiefel <volker.kiefel@freenet.de>
Subject: Re: Upload of References bibliographic software

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Volker Kiefel uploaded:

 > References bibliographic software
 > (refs_41f.zip)
 >
 > License:
 > gpl
 >
 >
 > Description:
 > References bibliographic software supporting LaTeX/BibTeX
 >
 > REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of
 > scientific manuscripts and for management of
 > bibliographic data. The current version of REFERENCES
 > is provided with a text based console interface
 > compiled for win32-systems, an external text editor is
 > required for editing data.
 >
 > New in v4.1f:
 >
 > Support for OpenOffice.org/StarOffice WRITER: Command
 > [edit-main-p osw] generates macros to create citations
 > in OpenOffice.org/StarOffice WRITER documents (new
 > scripts ooo-xsr.awk and ooo-sr.awk).
 >
 > References starting screen: information on WORKING
 > DIRECTORIES AND FILES removed. This infomations remains
 > available under the [main-i] command.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  support/references

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@dante.de Tue Mar 30 09:18:33 2004
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:09:20 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- tipa 1.3

----- Forwarded message from Fukui Rei -----
Hi. I am the maintainer of the TIPA package.

I have just uploaded a new package of tipa which is
intended as the whole replacement of the contents found
in the fonts/tipa directory. Please remove everything
in that directory and extract the new material.

Filename is tipa.tar.gz.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this package - including the new
TIPA version 1.3 - in CTAN:fonts/tipa/ as suggested.

The changelog from the README file is:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         TIPA version 1.3

                 Fukui Rei (fkr@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

                          30 March, 2004
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.3 (2004/03/30):

- Some symbols included in the xipa and related font families modified.
- t3enc.def corrected (thanks to W. Lemberg).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Mar 30 13:06:08 2004
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:00:33 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: nature

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and is even now
propagating across the Internet -- but in a good way, heading
to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: nature
Author's name: Peter Czoschke
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nature
Summary description: Class for preprints for the journal Nature
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A class and .bst file to aid in preparing articles and letters for 
submission to the scientific journal Nature (published by the Nature 
Publishing Group).  Includes a template file.  I am in no way affiliated 
with the Nature Publishing Group.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nature
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Mar 31 08:11:40 2004
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:02:54 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: dvipng

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and those updates should
appear in a day or two at your favorite mirror site.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: dvipng
Author's name: Jan-�ke Larsson
Location on CTAN: dviware/dvipng
Summary description: A fast DVI to PNG converter
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and 
its relatives.

Dvipng has undergone a number of improvements and bugfixes since being 
first released in the 0.x number series a year ago. The 1.0 release changes 
the behaviour of the -D switch and simplifies choice of resolution greatly 
(see below for details).

It has been tested to a fair degree. Note the disclaimer in the COPYING 
file. Report any bugs you find, see README for instructions.

- - --------------------

People who are upgrading from version 0.9 or earlier should read the 
following:

This release changes the -D (resolution) option to specify the 
_output_resolution_ rather than the previous _base_resolution_. Changing 
output resolution from the default 100 dpi will now only need the -D 
option, as dvipng now calculates the required magnification and thus can 
render PK fonts suitable for any output resolution. There is no need 
anymore to specify by hand the base resolution, the Metafont mode, the 
quality, and the magnification.

If you really want to use a Metafont mode different from the default 
`cx' mode, the separate --bdpi option is used for specifying the 
corresponding base resolution.

In short, choosing the output resolution has become simple even when 
using PK fonts (but remember, the created PK fonts are normally cached 
on disk).
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipng
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Apr  2 02:08:41 2004
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 09:57:05 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Michel Bovani <michel.bovani@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: New fourier-GUT (v1.3)

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Michel Bovani wrote:

 > I just uploaded fourier-GUT.tgz in dante.ctan.org/incoming
 > 
 > The fourier-GUT directory should replace the old verion in 
 > tex-archive/fonts
 > 
 > The licence is lppl
 > 
 > This version is an upgrade to fourier-GUT 1.0 (note that 1.1 were never 
 > released, 1.2 was released only for the new latex companion).
 > Several bugs corrected, new widespace option, new ornament font, etc.
 > See the read me for d�tails.

Thanks for the new version, I installed the files in

  fonts/fourier-GUT

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Apr  2 12:35:37 2004
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 18:27:03 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: refcheck

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should make its way
to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: update of refcheck package
Author's name: Oleg Motygin
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/refcheck
Summary description: a new version of refcheck package
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The new version (1.9) of refcheck package can check usage of labels in 
external files and has more compability with cite package.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/refcheck/
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Apr  4 17:50:01 2004
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 22:40:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Lshort Upload (note the quote) 

Tobias Oetiker writes:

> I have uploaded lshort-4.14 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/lshort-4.14.

i've installed the files in directory info/lshort/english and
triggered ctan mirroring.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team


From zierke@dante.de Mon Apr  5 08:48:31 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:41:18 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- ctable 1.6a

----- Forwarded message from Wybo Dekker -----
I have uploaded ctable-1.6a.tar.gz at ftp.dante.de

- ctable.sty provides commands to easily typeset centered table and
  (multiple-)figure floats, with footnotes.
  Instead of an environment, a command with 4 arguments is used; the first
  is optional and is used for key,value pairs generating variations on the
  defaults and offering a route for future extensions.

- replaces ctable-1.6.tar.gz

- unpack in macros/latex/contrib/ctable

- LPPL

- changes (relative to v1.6):
  2 errors were corrected:
  * \fboxsep and \fboxrule changes made temporary
  * extra space behind tabulars removed
----- End forwarded message -----

Thank you for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ctable

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Apr  5 08:48:31 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:42:50 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- view_print_ps_pdf 1.3

----- Forwarded message from Wybo Dekker -----
- I have uploaded vpp-1.3.tar.gz at ftp.dante.de

- to be unpacked in /support/view_print_ps_pdf

- LPPL

- summary:
  vpp (View and Print Postscript/PDF) displays a pdf or
  postscript document and lets you print (or save as PDF)
  selected pages to a one- or two-sided hardcopy or an A5-booklet.
  Can also be used to re-arrange pages in a document.

- changes:
  * ConteXt pdf-selection and -rearrangements now done with LaTeX using
    the packages pagesel (Heiko Oberdieck) and pdfpages (Andreas Matthias)
    to evict font-problems that occurred with uninstalled fonts.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:support/view_print_ps_pdf/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Apr  5 08:53:02 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:51:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- chroma

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: chroma
Name and email: Uwe Kern <chroma@ukern.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: info/colour/chroma
Summary description: Chroma: a reference book of LaTeX colors
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
v1.00 (2004/04/04)

This reference book presents several lists of colors and their
respective parameters in a number of color models.
The lists are constructed either by parameters or by name.

`Colors by parameters' displays systematic series of colors, based on
3-tuples of numbers that are interpreted as color parameters in the
`rgb', `cmy', and `hsb' color models.

`Colors by name' displays sets of colors that have been given specific
names such that LaTeX users do not have to care about their
parametrisation. However, as soon as there is the intention to use
these colors outside the LaTeX world (e.g. website construction or
drawing programs), the parameters suddenly gain importance.
For each color name, we display
- the color itself plus the name of the underlying model,
- a 50%-tint (mixture with `white'),
- a 50%-tone (mixture with `gray'),
- a 50%-shade (mixture with `black'),
- and the complementary color.
Additionally, for the base colors defined by the `xcolor' package, also
all 50%-mixes of base color pairs are included.

----------------------------------------------------------------------


XML file:
**********************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="chroma"
       datestamp="2004/04/04" 
       modifier="ftpmaint@dante.ctan.org">
  <about>
    <name>chroma</name>
    <caption>Chroma: a reference book of LaTeX colors</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Uwe Kern</name>
      <email>chroma@ukern.de</email>
    </author>
    <license type="lppl" />
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      v1.00 (2004/04/04)

This reference book presents several lists of colors and their
respective parameters in a number of color models.
The lists are constructed either by parameters or by name.

`Colors by parameters' displays systematic series of colors, based on
3-tuples of numbers that are interpreted as color parameters in the
`rgb', `cmy', and `hsb' color models.

`Colors by name' displays sets of colors that have been given specific
names such that LaTeX users do not have to care about their
parametrisation. However, as soon as there is the intention to use
these colors outside the LaTeX world (e.g. website construction or
drawing programs), the parameters suddenly gain importance.
For each color name, we display
- the color itself plus the name of the underlying model,
- a 50%-tint (mixture with `white'),
- a 50%-tone (mixture with `gray'),
- a 50%-shade (mixture with `black'),
- and the complementary color.
Additionally, for the base colors defined by the `xcolor' package, also
all 50%-mixes of base color pairs are included.

    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>info/colour/chroma</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
**********************************************************************
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in CTAN:info/colour/chroma/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Mon Apr  5 08:58:43 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:56:42 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- WinShell 2.5

----- Forwarded message from "Ingo H. de Boer" -----
I have uploaded a new version of WinShell to:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell

Please replace all the files in:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell

The licence is 'nosource'.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
WinShell is a graphical user interface for easy working with LaTeX or
TeX. It includes a text editor, different tool bars and user
configuration options. It is NOT a LaTeX system. An additional LaTeX
package for Windows is needed.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

best regards,
  Ingo

-- 
Ingo H. de Boer
http://www.winshell.de
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:systems/win32/winshell

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Apr  5 13:51:24 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 17:44:10 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: tensor

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: tensor
Author's name: Philip G. Ratcliffe
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tensor
Summary description: Typeset tensors
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Typeset tensors with mixed upper and lower indices with spacing, also 
typset preposed indices. This is a complete revision and extension of 
the original "tensor" package by Mike Piff.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tensor
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Apr  5 13:59:03 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 17:56:39 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: tug.ctan.org upload: AIAA LaTeX Package v 3.5

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and the update should be 
working its way to your favorite mirror, to arrive in a day or two.

Thanks for the update,
Jim

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: AIAA LaTeX Package v 3.5
Author's name: Bil Kleb
Author's email: Bil.Kleb@NASA.Gov
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/aiaa
Summary description: A class and bibliography style file for AIAA 
   technical conference papers
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This distribution provides a LaTeX class (aiaa-tc.cls) and bibliography 
style file (aiaa.bst) that are used to create AIAA technical conference 
papers.  The distribution also contains a Users Manual (aiaa.pdf), AIAA 
paper submission instructions (author_guide.pdf) and two templates, a 
bare-bones template and an advanced template.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/aiaa
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Apr  6 11:39:01 2004
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 16:29:09 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Interim release of uk tex faq on ctan and web

this morning i found a significant bug in the way the faq's tex->html
translator works; i needed to correct both the script and the source.
as a side-effect the new version (3.11c) has one new answer (about the
error message "alignment tab has been converted to \cr").

the new versions are at the same place as ever:

web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
ctan: help/uk-tex-faq

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN & FAQ teams

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Apr  6 13:00:52 2004
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:56:18 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: xfrac

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and is making its 
way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: xfrac
Author's name: Morten H�gholm
Author's email: moho01ab@student.cbs.dk
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/exptl/xfrac
Summary description: experimental/extended fractions
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a prototype implementation of xfrac; a package designed for 
producing visually pleasing split level fractions for arbitrary fonts.

It's experimental and requires experimental code. See the README for more 
details.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/xfrac
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From zierke@dante.de Wed Apr  7 03:18:08 2004
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:09:24 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- kerntest.cls

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de> -----
I have uploaded kerntest-v1_10.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please
unpack it to macros/latex/contrib/kerntest. License is LPPL.

>From the README:

Print tables and generate mtx files that help to adjust kernings

This class makes it easy to generate tables that show many different
kerning pairs of an arbitrary font, usable by LaTeX.
It shows the kerning values that are used by the the font by default.

In addition, this class enables the user to alternate the kernings
and to observe the results.
Automatically, an mtx file is generated that can be loaded by
fontinst to introduce the user-made kernings into the virtual font
for LaTeX.


The Makefile contains the item `texlive' for producing a TeXLive directory
structure. An xml file is contained for the catalogue.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this new package as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/kerntest.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Apr  7 17:51:27 2004
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 23:38:35 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Olga Lapko <Lapko.O@g23.relcom.ru>
Subject: Re: floatrow uploading

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Olga Lapko submitted a new package called
floatrow. It is licensed under the LPPL and has been installed in

  macros/latex/contrib/floatrow

 > This package was created like extension or addition for float package.
 >
 > The float package has good possibility for creation of common layout
 > for all floats of one type without adding any layout code in document,
 > but it deals only with alone (plain) caption---object combinations.
 >
 > Current package allows to create and change similar float and caption layout
 > for plain float boxes, row of floats, and float with beside caption at once.
 >
 > This package recommends the usage of caption2 package.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Apr  7 17:53:39 2004
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 23:48:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Christian Justen <mail@christian-justen.de>
Subject: Re: Upload cjhebrew

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Christian Justen wrote:

 > I just uploaded the file
 > 	cjhebltx.enc
 > to
 > 	ftp.dante.de/incoming
 >
 > It should go to
 > 	CTAN/language/hebrew/cjhebrew
 >
 > Licence: LPPL
 >
 > The file is a corrected version of the CJHebrew encoding file, fixing a bug
 > which prevented the creation of valid PS documents when using CJHebrew.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as

  languages/hebrew/cjhebrew/cjhebltx.enc

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Apr  7 17:59:40 2004
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 23:54:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- miller.sty

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Harald Harders uploaded an update to miller.sty.
License stays LPPL.

 > From the README:
 >
 > Typeset miller indices, e.g., <1-20>, used in
 > material sicence with an easy syntax.
 > Minus signs are printed as bar above the corresponding number.
 >
 >
 > >From the ChangeLog:
 >
 > v1.10 2004/04/07
 >         - Add a documentation (HH).
 >         - Bugfix: In some cases, arguments without space have been parsed
 >           incorrectly (HH).
 >         - Bugfix: Detect isolated minus sign in argument with spaces (HH).
 >
 >
 > The Makefile contains a target "texlive" for preparing TeXLive. An xml
 > file as well as documentation in pdf are included.

Thanks for the upload, I installed the update in

  macros/latex/contrib/miller

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Apr  7 19:02:14 2004
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 23:56:05 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ledmac package 

Peter Wilsone writes:

>     I have uploaded ledmac.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ledmac. The distribution is
> under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
>     The ledmac package is for typesetting critical editions. It is a
> LaTeX port, and extension, of the plain TeX EDMAC, TABMAC and EDSTANZA
> macros.
> 
> Changes in version 0.5 (2004/04/04)
> o Added sidenotes (as a replacement for \marginpar in numbered text)
> o All footnotes can be used in numbered text, not just critical ones
> o If used with the memoir class, multiple regular and critical indexes.

thanks for the upload: i've installed the files as you request.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Apr  7 19:03:12 2004
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 00:00:10 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class 

>     I have uploaded memoir.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir. The distribution is
> under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README
>     Memoir is a flexible class for typesetting general fiction,
> non-fiction and mathematical works as books, reports, articles or
> manuscripts. Documents can use 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 or 17pt as the normal
> font. Many methods are provided to help you create your particular
> design.
> 
> Changes (2004/04/05)
> o New version of memoir.dtx which will generate version v1.61 of
>   memoir.cls and the *.clo files with minor fixes for extraneous
>   spaces, footnotes and sidebars. Incorporates the patches from
>   mempatch v2.2. 
> o New (vacuous) version v2.3 of mempatch.sty
> o NO CHANGES TO THE USER MANUAL

thanks for the upload: i've installed it as you request.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Apr  8 03:46:05 2004
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:36:39 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Till Tantau <tantau@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Re: Versions 2.10 of beamer and 0.61 of pgf

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Till Tantau submitted updates for his packaeges beamer 
and pgf.

 > The main purpose of these versions is to restore compatibility with xcolor 
 > 1.10. However, they also contain other bugfixes.
 > 
 > Change logs:
 > 
 > Version 2.11 of beamer:
 > 	- Now works with xcolor 1.10 (and only 1.10).
 > 	- Added t, b, c options to \frame.
 > 	- Fixed esoteric bug in beamerbaseoptions.
 > 	- Fixed problem with \againframe and counters.
 > 	- Added (small part of) texpower emulation and foils emulation.
 > 	- Changed the examples for emulation of prosper. 
 > 	- Fixed a PostScript related problems in bibliographies.
 > 	- Fixed lyx default template.
 > 	- Fixed bug that caused option CJK to be broken (though cjk
 > 	worked).
 > 	- Added inserts for section numbers for navigation bars.
 > 	- Fixed problem with spacing inside itemize after equations.
 > 
 > Version 0.61 of pgf:
 > 	- Added \pgfex and \pgfem dimensions.
 > 	- Fixed bug that causes pgfshade to fail to work if xcolor 
 > 	  is called with option "gray".
 > 	- Fixed PostScript code for radial shadings.
 > 	- xxcolor now works with xcolor 1.10 (and only 1.10).

Thanks for the updates, I installed them.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Apr  9 18:29:40 2004
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 23:18:48 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ledmac v0.51 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded ledmac.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this
> to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ledmac. The distribution
> is under the LPPL.
> 
> Changes in version 0.51
> o Resuscitated line numbers in right hand margin
> o Added a third kind of sidenote

i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Apr 11 05:51:48 2004
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 10:39:44 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: texinfo 4.7 available 

Karl Berry writes:

> I have released version 4.7 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format,
> with supporting programs.  The NEWS is below.
> 
> You can get it by anonymous ftp from
>   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.7.tar.gz
>   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.7.tar.bz2
> and its mirrors worldwide (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html).
> It will also be available through CTAN and its mirrors, for example,
> http://www.ctan.org/macros/texinfo.
> 
> The Texinfo home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/.
> 
> Please email bugs or suggestions to bug-texinfo@gnu.org,
> general discussion to help-texinfo@gnu.org.
> 
> Peace,
> karl@gnu.org
> 
> 
> 4.7 (9 April 2004)
> * Language:
>   . new commands @float, @caption, @shortcaption, @listoffloats for
>     initial implementation of floating material (figures, tables, etc).
>     Ironically, they do not yet actually float anywhere.
>   . new commands @docbook, @ifdocbook, @ifnotdocbook for conditional Docbook.
>   . new commands @ordf{} and @ordm{} for Spanish feminine/masculine ordinals.
>   . new commands @deftypecv[x] for class variables in typed OO languages.
>   . new command @registeredsymbol for the r-in-a-circle symbol.
>   . new command @headitem to make a heading row in @multitable.
>   . new command @LaTeX{} for the LaTeX logo.
>   . new command @comma{} to avoid comma-parsing problems.
>   . @url is now a synonym for @uref; new command @indicateurl has the
>     old meaning of just displaying a url as text.
>   . @quotation now accepts an optional argument for labelling the text
>       as a `Note', `Tip', etc.
>   . @defun (et al.) heading lines can now be continued with a lone @.
>   . @acronym accepts an optional argument for the meaning of the acronym.
> * makeinfo:
>   . New environment variable TEXINFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT determines the output
>     format at runtime, if no options are specified.
>   . New option --plaintext, equivalent to --no-headers with Info output.
>   . All outputs:
>     - sections are numbered by default.
>   . Info output:
>     - punctuation is inserted after @pxref and @ref, if needed to make
>       cross-references valid.
>     - line numbers included in index menus, so Info readers can go to
>       the exact line of an entry, not just a node.  Also in plaintext output.
>     - ^@^H[index^@^H] cookie included in index menus, so Info readers
>       can handle the ] etc. commands better.
>   . HTML output:
>     - new algorithm for cross-references to other manuals, for maximum
>       portability and stability.
>     - include node name in <title> with split output.
>     - @multicolumn fractions become percentages.
>     - entities used for bullets, quotes, dashes, and others.
>     - index entries are links to the exact locations.
>     - <h4> and <h5> used for @sub and @subsubsections again.
>     - accented dotless i supported.
>   . XML output: many new tags and structure to preserve more source features.
>   . Docbook output:
>     - upgraded DTD to Docbook XML 4.2, no longer using Docbook SGML.
>     - improved translation in general, for instance:
>     - line annotations and marked quotations.
> * texi2dvi:
>   . if available, use etex (pdfetex if --pdf) by default.
>   . if the input file includes thumbpdf.sty (for LaTeX), then run thumbpdf.
>   . more output if --debug.
> * texinfo.tex:
>   . @defun names are now printed in typewriter (instead of bold), and
>     within the arguments, @var text is printed in slanted typewriter.
>   . @tex code is executed inside a TeX group, so that any changes must
>     be prefixed with \global (or the equivalent) to be effective.  (This
>     change was actually made years ago, but never made it into the NEWS.)
> * info:
>   . new option --where (aka --location, -w) to report where an Info file
>     would be found, instead of reading it.
>   . by default, output ANSI terminal escape sequences as-is; new option
>     --no-raw-escapes overrides this.
>   . use the newly-generated index line numbers.
> * Distribution:
>   . new script gendocs.sh (not installed), for use by GNU maintainers in
>     getting their manuals on the GNU web site.  Documented in
>     maintain.texi (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_toc.html).
>   . Most code uses ANSI C prototypes, to some extent.
>   . New translation: nb.
>   . automake 1.8.3, autoconf 2.59, gettext 0.14.1.

the ctan location is in fact macros/texinfo, so the ctan url karl quotes
should in fact be http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/texinfo.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Apr 13 04:28:06 2004
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:16:44 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- preview-latex-0.8.1.tar.gz 

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup -----
I have uploaded preview-latex-0.8.1.tar.gz and
preview-0.8.1.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de.

(...)

Here are the release notes:

Release notes for version 0.8.1 of the preview-latex package:

preview-latex dresses up your LaTeX source by pasting judiciously
selected chunks (such as single formulas) chopped from unwieldy
preview pages right over their source in the Emacs/XEmacs buffer.  You
get to have your eye candy and edit it, too.

The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for
extraction of selected text elements as images.  It now fully supports
pdftex including the tightpage option.

The package is released under the GNU Public License (GPL).  At the
current point of time, at least GNU Emacs-21.1 under the X window
system or XEmacs-21 in version 21.4.10 or later, AUCTeX (11.14 or
later recommended, see below), a working LaTeX installation and
GhostScript are required.  dvipng (version 1.0 or later), a very fast
dvi converter available from the same CVS archive, can also be used
for conversion.  Recent CVS versions of GNU Emacs for Windows or MacOS
Carbon should also work.

0.8.1 fixes major bugs in code and RPMs for 0.8 which has been pulled.
Current releases support for the first time conversion with PDFLaTeX
(however, the foreground color of Emacs buffers appears always black
here, differing reports and PDFLaTeX/GhostScript expertise welcome),
and conversion with dvipng.  Several changes were done to the 
dumping process to get reasonable behavior when the "latex" executable
actually is eTeX-based.  The right mouse button now has a context
menu.  It is now possible to copy source text passages with images
into mail buffers.

The README file provides adequate information for firing up
preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback.  The
INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package
providers.  There is also a file INSTALL.windows detailing
instructions for users of that operating system.

The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the
SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access
is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>.

If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this
project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>.

Paypal donations to the maintainer are also possible via SourceForge.

Additional files can be found at
<URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>:

* If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt
  documentation files can be found there.

* Tarballs of preview-latex for all users, alternatively RPMs for
  RedHat Linux.  For the binary RPMs, you will need the
  preview-latex-common RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM.

* AUCTeX is now located at <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex>.  The
  download area should also provide you with RPMs if you are using
  RedHat Linux.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
file in CTAN:support/preview-latex/ and CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/preview/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Wed Apr 14 05:06:26 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:54:51 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Estonian hyphenation patterns

----- Forwarded message from Enn Saar -----
	I uploaded to ftp.dante.de a zip
file (eehyph.zip) with Estonian hyphenation patterns. 
I should have done that long ago, these patterns have
been in use for about twenty years.

The patterns should go into 
tex-archive/language/estonian/eehyph.tex,
and I chose to license them by lppl.

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in CTAN:language/estonian/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Apr 14 09:36:33 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:27:06 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: tpic2pdftex

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

Thanks again for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: tpic2pdftex.awk
Author's name: Hartmut Henkel
Location on CTAN: graphics/tpic2pdftex
Summary description: Converting tpic \special's into \pdfliteral's by awk
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The experimental awk-script tpic2pdftex.awk builds one bridge between 
the "pic" graphics language and pdfTeX.

What tpic2pdftex.awk does:

We start from one or more graphics described by the venerable pic 
language (see e. g. file example.pic), embedded inline within pdfTeX or
pdfLaTeX code, and limited by classical .PS and .PE markers as known from 
groff. The pic graphics might be annotated by TeX or LaTeX text. This 
pic/TeX language-mix file is piped through the (groff-)pic preprocessor 
and the tpic2pdftex.awk script. The result is a TeX file with inline 
\pdfliteral{} sections, for further processing by pdftex or pdflatex.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/tpic2pdftex
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Apr 14 10:25:27 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:20:55 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: empheq

A package has been upgraded at tug.ctan.org and it is working its 
way to your favorite mirror even now.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: empheq
Author's name: Morten H�gholm
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/empheq
Summary description: empheq v2.00
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Changes in v2.00:

* New features:
  - Easy creation of new tag forms.
  - Extensible arrows, harpoons and hookarrows.
  - Extensible under- and overbrackets.
  - Starred versions of the `amsmath' matrices taking an optional
    argument specifying column alignment.
  - Added options `fixamsmath', `donotfixamsmathbugs', `overload,
    `overload2', and `ntheorem'.
  - The `overload' feature lets you use the syntax
    \begin{<AmS env>}[<markup>]
      ...
    \end{<AmS env>}
  - Scale non-delimiter material to the correct size of the math
    display yourself.
* Bug fixes:
  - More `ntheorem' fixes: the optional argument of \label
    is now caught in various `amsmath' environments.
  - Minor spacing bugs removed.
* Documentation:
  - Added descriptions of all the new features.
  - Added descriptions of all the new options.
* Code:
  - Now uses the new internal LaTeX3 syntax with _ and : except
    for user commands.
  - The fixes for `ntheorem' is now a separate module generated by
    the installation file and included by the option `ntheorem'.
  - Split up installation file for the obsolete version of the
    package, which now lives a (very quiet) life of its own.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/empheq
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Apr 14 14:01:45 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:52:43 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- accfonts upgrade 

John Smith writes:

> I have uploaded an upgraded version of my gpl-licensed "accfonts"
> package to ftp.tex.ac.uk. The archive file /incoming/accfonts.tgz
> contains two files: (1) v. 0.221 of the program mkt1font, in which a
> single bug has been fixed, (2) a CHANGES file specifying what is new
> since release 0.22. The current version of the package is stored in
> "/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/accfonts": files for which I have *not*
> supplied new versions can be left unchanged.

i've installed the two files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Thu Apr 15 05:09:02 2004
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:54:23 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Estonian hyphenation patterns (moved)

Yesterday I erroneously installed Enn Saar's Estonian hyphenation patterns
in CTAN:language/estonian/eehyph.tex.  I just moved this file to
CTAN:language/hyphenation/eehyph.tex where it belongs.

I'm sorry for the confusion.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Apr 15 05:17:57 2004
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:13:41 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de, ucam.mlist.texhax@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Documentation policy for packages on CTAN

Documentation of packages on CTAN
=================================

For a long time, the CTAN team has relied on the users to find their
own way to package documentation.  This reliance is proving
increasingly unsatisfactory, and we hope to improve things for archive
users, at the cost of some extra work by package authors.

Our aim is that all packages should have with them, on the archive, a
documentation file.  Since we want these files to be browsable, we
would ordinarily expect that the documentation be provided as an
Acrobat (.pdf) file; plain text (.txt) is just about acceptable,
Postscript and DVI are definitely not acceptable.

We are aware that this is a mammoth aim; it is not something the CTAN
team could even hope to do unaided, even if we wanted to.  

How does this affect _you_?
---------------------------

If you're merely browsing the archive (or downloading files), you
should be aware that it will be worth looking for a separate file of
documentation with packages of interest.  (There are not many there,
yet, but things should improve.)

If you're an author submitting a new or revised package, you will need
to consider how best to supply documentation.  For many LaTeX package
authors, no more is needed than to run the documented source file
(.dtx) with pdfLaTeX, and to submit the result when submitting your
package.  Some packages come with separate documentation: that
documentation should be distributed in pdf form.

If you're the author of an established package, please try to find the
time to submit a documentation file.

If you're an author, and unsure how to proceed, please contact the
CTAN team via ctan@dante.de to discuss your issues.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Apr 15 12:01:57 2004
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:52:30 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- kerntest v1.32

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded kerntest-v1_32.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please replace all
 > files in ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/kerntest/ by
 > its contents. License stays LPPL.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/kerntest
 

 > >From the README:
 >
 > Print tables and generate mtx files that help to adjust kernings
 > 
 > This class makes it easy to generate tables that show many different
 > kerning pairs of an arbitrary font, usable by LaTeX.
 > It shows the kerning values that are used by the the font by default.
 > 
 > In addition, this class enables the user to alternate the kernings
 > and to observe the results.
 > Kerning pairs can be defined for groups of similar glyphs at once.
 > Automatically, an mtx file is generated that can be loaded by
 > fontinst to introduce the user-made kernings into the virtual font
 > for LaTeX.
 > 
 > 
 > >From the ChangeLog:
 > 
 > v1.32 2004/04/13  Harald Harders (h.harders@tu-bs.de)
 >         - Direct access on glyph names instead of parsing \getpsname.
 >         - Speed up \writemtxkern, \defglyphclass, \ifglyphinclass, and
 >           \@ifglyphinclass (in total, app. factor 20).
 >         - Allow to set relative kerning widths in glyph classes.
 >         - Do not scale Helvetica by default because this breaks
 >           testing Helvetica.
 > 
 > v1.31 2004/04/13  Harald Harders (h.harders@tu-bs.de)
 >         - Use \setleftkerning and \setrightkerning instead of writing
 >           every kerning pair.
 > 
 > v1.30 2004/04/12  Harald Harders (h.harders@tu-bs.de)
 >         - Add encodings OT1, T2A, T2B, and LY1.
 >         - Template for OT1 encoding.
 >         - Parameter-dependent encodings (for example with or without
 >           ligatures).
 >         - New option designsize for giving the design size of the font
 >           explicitely.
 > 
 > v1.11 2004/04/06  Harald Harders (h.harders@tu-bs.de)
 >         - Allow to give glyphs by number (decimal, hex, octal) or by
 >           PostScript name.
 >         - Write glyph name to table.
 >         - Find and complain inconsistent kerning data.
 >         - Introduce glyph classes to set the kerning for similar glyph
 >           shapes by once.
 >         - Reduce left margin.
 > 
 > Yours
 > Harald
 > 
 > 

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Apr 15 12:01:54 2004
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:54:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: dante:/incoming/lm.zip

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:

 > I've just uploaded to dante:/incoming/lm.zip 
 > it contains ver. 0.92 of LM fonts (corrected and added kerning).

Thanks for your update. I installed the new files in

  fonts/ps-type1/lm

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

From zierke@dante.de Fri Apr 16 13:47:23 2004
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:29:26 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: ptptex

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: ptptex
Name and email: Publication Office, Progress of Theoretical Physics <ptp@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ptptex
Summary description: Latex2e class files for Progress of Theoretical Physics
License type: nocommercial

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The package includes the main class file, related style files and manual for ptptex, which is the standard tex format file for the journal, Progress of Theoretical Physics. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------

XML file:
**********************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="ptptex"
       datestamp="2004/04/15" 
       modifier="ftpmaint@dante.ctan.org">
  <about>
    <name>ptptex</name>
    <caption>Latex2e class files for Progress of Theoretical Physics</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Publication Office, Progress of Theoretical Physics</name>
      <email>ptp@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp</email>
    </author>
    <license type="nocommercial" />
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      The package includes the main class file, related style files and manual for ptptex, which is the standard tex format file for the journal, Progress of Theoretical Physics. 
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>macros/latex/contrib/ptptex</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
**********************************************************************
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this new packages as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ptptex

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Apr 18 12:12:44 2004
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:58:31 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New software for mailing list ctan-ann

Dear CTAN-ANN list member,

during the next week the ctan-ann mailing list will be changed to use a
new mailing list software, namely GNU Mailman. Today you will receive an
automatically generated message explaining how to confirm your
subscription to this new incarnation of the ctan-ann mailing list.

Until next weekend, messages will still be sent via the old (majordomo)
software. Afterwards, they will be sent using the new software.

This means: if you do not confirm your subscription until next weekend,
you will not see new messages after that time. However, these messages
will be archived can be accessed using the web interface.

 Thank you for your cooperation
   Rainer Sch�pf

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Apr 19 04:23:06 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:15:51 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: New software for mailing list ctan-ann

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:

 > As I'm sure everyone has already discovered, ctan-ann-request is still
 > pointing at majordomo, so mailed mailman confirm replies end up there
 > instead of going to mailman.

Yes, thanks for pointing it out. I changed ctan-ann-request to point to 
mailman.

 > Workaround is to GET the url in the confirm request instead of
 > replying to the message.

Indeed. And it allows to set various useful options.

 Rainer

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Apr 19 14:48:43 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:38:25 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: LaTeX for Autoconf

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make
its way to your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeX for Autoconf
Author's name: Boretti Mathieu
Location on CTAN: tools/autoconf
Summary description: Autoconf macros to test for the presence of LaTeX
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
"LaTeX for Autoconf" is a set of macro to test if latex is installed or 
if some package exists or .... These macro are in the M4 language.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/tools/autoconf
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

XML file:
**********************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="autoconf"
       datestamp="2004/04/19" 
       modifier="ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org">
  <about>
    <name>LaTeX for Autoconf</name>
    <caption>Autoconf macros to test for the presence of LaTeX</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Boretti Mathieu</name>
      <email>boretti@bss-network.com</email>
    </author>
    <license type="gpl" />
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      "LaTeX for Autoconf" is a set of macro to test if latex is
      installed or if some 
      package exists or .... These macro are in the M4 language.
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>tools/autoconf</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
**********************************************************************

From zierke@dante.de Tue Apr 20 04:36:36 2004
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:28:55 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: AuriocusKallgraphicus (aurical)

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: AuriocusKallgraphicus (aurical)
Name and email: Christian Gollwitzer
Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/aurical
Summary description: Calligraphic font for LaTeX in T1-encoding
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Aurical is the short name for the font AuriocusKalligraphicus. It
implements a calligraphic font resembling my handwriting in Type1-Format,
T1/Cork encoding for use with LaTeX. Some glyphs are still missing, and
there is not yet exhaustive kerning information. Apart from that, the font
may be useful for invitations or informal texts, as it looks calligraphic,
nevertheless is quite readable.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this new font as suggested in
CTAN:fonts/aurical

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From zierke@dante.de Tue Apr 20 04:50:30 2004
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:41:13 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Version 2.20 of beamer

----- Forwarded message from Till Tantau -----
Dear CTAN Team,

I have put version 2.20 of beamer on 
fpt://ftp.dante.de/incoming/latex-beamer-2.20.tar.gz. 

Change log:

	Version 2.20

	Added:
	- Added style "Separator" in LyX.
	- Added multimedia.sty for movie and sound inclusion.
	- Added evil allowframebreaks option to frames for automatic frame breaking.
	- Added evil shrink option for automatic frame text shrinking.
	- Added squeeze option to frames for squeezing more on a frame.
	- Added \framesubtitle command.
	- Added \subtitle command.
	- Added \subject command.
	- Added option usepdftitle=false to suppress automatic generation of
	  author and title entries in pdf document info.
	- Added \framezoom command.
	- Added new version of beamer.el, due to Thomas Baumann.

	Changes:
	- FoilTeX emulation will now do automatic page breaking.
	- Empty lines in "Standard" lyx style will no longer be kept, use
	  an empty Separator line instead. 
	- Changed the qed symbol to an open rectangle.
	- The way frame titles are typeset is completely different now,
	  internally. Under normal circumstance you should not notice any
	  differences, but if you do wicked things with the frame titles,
	  problems might arise.

	Bugfixes:
	- Fixed definition of overlayarea to give better spacing.
	- Fixed problem with persisting background color and dvips.
	- Fixed zillions of typos in the user's guide spotted by 
	  Xavier Noria and Uwe Stoer. 
	- Fixed unrobust definition of \\.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  As usual, I have replaced the previos version
in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer with the new one.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Apr 21 09:15:10 2004
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:04:22 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: a2ping

A new one has been installed to tug.ctan.org.  It should appear at
your favorite mirror very soon, if indeed it is not already there.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: a2ping
Author's name: Szab� P�ter
Location on CTAN: graphics/a2ping
Summary description: advanced PS, PDF, EPS converter
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
a2ping is a UNIX command line utility written  in  Perl  that  converts  many
  raster  image  and  vector  graphics  formats  to  EPS  or PDF and other page
  description formats. Accepted input file formats are: PS  (PostScript),  EPS,
  PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PNM, BMP, GIF, LBM, XPM, PCX, TGA. Accepted output 
  formats are: EPS, PCL5, PDF, PDF1, PBM, PGM, PPM, PS, markedEPS, markedPS,  
  PNG, XWD,  BMP,  TIFF,  JPEG,  GIF,  XPM.   a2ping delegates the low-level 
  work to Ghostscript (GS), pdftops and sam2p. a2ping fixes many  glitches  
  during the EPS to EPS conversion, so its output is often more compatible 
  and better embeddable than its input.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/a2ping
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

From zierke@dante.de Fri Apr 23 07:33:37 2004
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:23:18 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Upload: Font Installation Guide 2.0

----- Forwarded message from Philipp Lehman <plehman@gmx.net> -----
I've uploaded the file 'fontinstallationguide.tar.gz' to the incoming 
directory on ftp.dante.de. This tarball includes an update to a file 
currently installed as:

	info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide.pdf

plus some new files which were not included in any of the previous 
releases. As of this release, the guide will be accompanied by 
additional resources. Therefore I would like to request a minor path 
change. If possible, please add the directory:

	info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/

and extract the tarball to the newly created directory.
 
 (...)

ABOUT
-----

The Font installation guide discusses the most common scenarios you 
are likely to encounter when installing Type 1 Postscript fonts. 
While the individual tools employed in the installation process are 
documented well, the actual difficulty most users are facing when 
trying to install new fonts is understanding how to put all the 
pieces together. This is what this guide is about.

CHANGES
-------

* Complete revision of the guide for fontinst 1.9
* All examples discussed in the guide now included as separate files
* Monolithic Latex source now included as well
* Added README file
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in the directory
CTAN:info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team

From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Apr 25 15:44:59 2004
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 21:34:27 +0200 (CEST)
From: rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com
To: ctan-ann-old@dante.de
Subject: Re: New software for mailing list ctan-ann

Dear CTAN-ANN list member,

last weekend I announced that the mailing list ctan-ann will use new
software, namely GNU Mailman.

This is the last message that will be distributed with the old software.
If you haven't yet subscribed to the new software, you can do so via the
web interface:

   https://sun.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann

of by sending a mail to

   ctan-ann-join@dante.de

 Thank you for your cooperation
   Rainer Sch�pf

From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Apr 26 20:01:20 2004
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:48:01 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: chapterfolder

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org.  It should appear at
your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: chapterfolder
Author's name: Boretti Mathieu
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/chapterfolder
Summary description: Package that simplify working with folder structure
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package simplify working with folder structure that match the chapter/
section/subsection structure. It provide macro to define chapter/section/
subsection folder that contains the file for chapter/section/subsection, and 
provide macro that allow inclusion without using the full path, but only path 
inside the current folder of the chapter/section/subsection. It make easy 
change to the name of a folder, for example.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chapterfolder
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Apr 26 18:05:06 2004
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 23:03:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- mempatch.sty 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty 
> 
>     This version of the mempatch package cures a problem between the
> memoir class and the natbib package. 

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Apr 29 15:57:54 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:56:06 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: new package: xkeyval

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Hendri Adriaens wrote:

 > I just uploaded a new package to ftp.dante.de
 > It is called xkeyval. The readme starts with:
 > -------------------------------------------------------
 > This package is an extension of the keyval package and
 > offers additional macros for setting keys and declaring
 > and setting class or package options.
 > -------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > The package is released under the LPPL lisence.
 > I propose to install it in macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval

Thanks for your package, I installed it as you suggest, in

  macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Apr 29 16:04:56 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:04:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: wasy fonts

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 Frank K�ster wrote:

 > Name of contribution: wasy fonts
 > Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/wasy2
 > Summary description: The wasy fonts (Waldis symbol fonts).
 > License type: pd
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Roland Waldi has asked me to upload this corrected version of the wasy
 > fonts. It fixes one error in wasychr.mf (see
 > http://bugs.debian.org/134763).
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

---
>From the documentation:

The font wasy contains all lasy characters, and a lot more symbols.
New characters were modified from the Metafont files of the standard
TeX fonts, and many were designed from scratch.
---

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Apr 29 16:17:49 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:16:49 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload: devnag211.zip

A submission was uploaded to CTAN:

 > I've uploaded the file devnag211.zip to the incoming directory at ftp.dante.de.
 > This file contains the latest release of the Devanagari for TeX package.
 >
 > Please delete the entire existing tree under language/devanagari/velthuis/ and
 > replace it with the contents of devnag211.zip. The zip file contains 'velthuis'
 > as the topmost stored directory.
 >
 > This is a major release. New Devanagari families have been added for regional
 > Bombay, Calcutta, and Nepali variants. Older dvng Metafonts are now obsolete.

Thank you for the update. I installed it as requested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Apr 30 09:48:39 2004
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:47:05 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload unitsdef

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Patrick Happel wrote:

 > I've recently uploaded unitsdef.tgz to ftp.dante.de/incoming. This
 > package is distributed under the conditions of the lppl.
 >
 > I suggest to move it to
 >
 >   CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/unitsdef/
 >
 > The file provides the new package �unitsdef�. This is taken from the
 > abstract:
 >
 > There are a lot of packages for typesetting units in LaTeX2e.
 > Some define macros to typeset a lot of units but do not suit
 > to the actual font settings, some make the characters needed
 > available but do not predefine any unit.
 >   This package tries to comply with both requirements. It
 > predefines common units, defines an easy to use interface to
 > define new units and changes the output concerning to the
 > surrounding font settings.

Thanks for your upload. I installed the package as requested in:

   macros/latex/contrib/unitsdef

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Apr 30 18:47:14 2004
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:45:53 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- mempatch.sty 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty
> 
>     Also announce: it provides fixes for the memoir class regarding
> the color package and verbatim footnotes, and bookmarking appendices.

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat May  1 16:07:02 2004
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 21:05:35 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: bugfix version of footmisc on ctan

i've just installed a new version (v5.3a) of footmisc.dtx on the
cambridge ctan (together with the corresponding footmisc.pdf)

this version mends a bug in the check for a patched latex output
routine: the bug was failing with the most recent latex release
(2003/12/01), when footmisc was invoked with certain options.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun May  2 11:03:32 2004
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 11:48:34 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Second revision of footmisc.dtx

i found another bug in the footmisc i installed yesterday (it was
actually corrected in the version that had previously been on ctan; the
version i installed yesterday had the same version number as the one
already there...)

the new version is v5.3c, and it even works in the part of my test suite
that doesn't live in the same subtree, and therefore got forgotten
yesterday...

any unfortunate who updated their copy of footmisc yesterday should
update again -- sorry.

files updated are macros/latex/contrib/footmisc.dtx and footmisc.pdf

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun May  2 16:26:28 2004
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 22:24:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: toolbox v5.1

On Sat, 1 May 2004, M. Vaeth wrote:

 > I have uploaded a new release of toolbox (toolbox.zip) to the
 > incoming directory. A description follows.
 > Sincerely, Martin V�th
 >
 > Name of contribution: toolbox v5.1
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/toolbox
 > Summary description: A package for (La)TeX which provides some macros
 > which are convenient for writing indices, glossaries, or other macros.
 > License type: Free (lppl)
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > A package for (La)TeX which provides some macros
 > which are convenient for writing indices,
 > glossaries, or other macros.
 > It contains macros which support
 > -implicit macros
 > -fancy optional arguments
 > -loops over tokenlists and itemlists
 > -searching, splitting, and replacing
 > -controlled expansion
 > -redefinition of macros
 > -concatenated macro names
 >
 > The main change to the previous release is that macros for
 > text replacement are provided. There are also some minor bugfixes
 > (also in the documentation).
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/toolbox

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun May  2 16:29:12 2004
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 22:28:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pstricks-add

On Sat, 1 May 2004 Herbert Voss uploaded an update to his package

 pstricks-add

Summary description: A collection of several add-ons and bugfixes for PSTricks
License type: lppl

 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This new version contains some more bugfixes
 > for pstricks/pst-node/pst-plot and pst-tree
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

   graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May  4 04:38:27 2004
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 09:36:43 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: statex v1.5 

Rodney Sparapani writes of his statex, which provides support for
writing statistics presentations:

> I've uploaded a new version of statex (v1.5) to cam.ctan.org.  It has
> some additional functionality, but mainly it's just bug/mis-feature
> fixes.  The older version that is available on CTAN is in the
> directory macros/latex/contrib/misc

i've installed the package as reqested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

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From zierke@dante.de Mon May 10 02:58:15 2004
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:56:54 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Herbert.Voss@perce.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: pst-geo

> Name of contribution: pst-geo
> Name and email: Manuel Luque, Giuseppe Matarazzo, Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss@perce.de>
> Suggested location on CTAN: CTAN:// graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-geo
> Summary description: Geographical Projections
> License type: LaTeX Project
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This new version has some more features to the big
> database, it is now possible to define a step to get
> smaller pdf files.
> There are new small databases for cities of France and
> capitals of Europe with longitude and latitude
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested
replacing the old version in CTAN:graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-geo.
However, I renamed the file How-To-Install.txt to README as this will
be shown automagically by web browsers.

Reinhard Zierke
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From zierke@dante.de Mon May 10 03:02:30 2004
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:01:37 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- HA-prosper update

----- Forwarded message from Hendri Adriaens -----
I just uploaded an update of HA-prosper to ftp.dante.de.
It should be installed in the existing directory:
macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper

------------------------------------------------------------
Version 4.1 has:
- new features
- support for environments using \item
- a new style
- revised documentation
- and more

Important: HA-prosper 4.1 uses the xkeyval package
which can be retrieved here:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval
------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper/

Reinhard Zierke
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From zierke@dante.de Mon May 10 03:08:36 2004
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:07:55 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: xcolor 1.11

Name of contribution: xcolor 1.11
Name and email: Uwe Kern <xcolor@ukern.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor
Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
2004/05/09 v1.11
* New features:
    - switch \ifglobalcolors to control whether color definitions are
      global or local;
    - option `hyperref' provides color expression support for the
      border colors of hyperlinks, e.g.
      \hypersetup{xurlbordercolor=red!50!yellow};
    - internal hooks \XC@bcolor, \XC@mcolor, and \XC@ecolor for
      additional code that has to be executed immediately before/after
      the current color is being displayed.
* Changes:
    - \XC@logcolor renamed to \XC@display, which is now the core color
      display command;
    - improved interface to `pstricks'.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/

Reinhard Zierke
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From zierke@dante.de Mon May 10 03:28:20 2004
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:27:41 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: arcs.sty  Placing an arc over/under text

----- Forwarded message from Gianfranco Boggio-Togna -----
I have uploaded the file `arcs.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.

Name of contribution:  arcs 
Author:  Gianfranco Boggio-Togna <gbt@acm.org>
Suggested location:  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/arcs
License:  LaTeX Project Public License

Description:

This tiny package provides two commands for placing an arc
over/under a short piece of text.

The code comes from my package `metre'. I have repackaged it to
make it more easily available and to allow the commands to be
used within math formulas.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new package as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/arcs/

As we are trying to move to online PDF documentation, I ran arcs.dtx
through pdflatex and installed the file arcs.pdf as well.

(While I was at it, I also renamed macros/latex/contrib/metre/readme
to macros/latex/contrib/metre/REAME.  Thus web browsers will automagically
display this file when entering the directory.)

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon May 10 14:08:28 2004
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 19:07:19 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- mempatch.sty 

Peter Wilson writes:

>      I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty. 
> 
>     Thanks to Carsten Heinz it fixes a problem that the memoir class
> causes with the listings package. 

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

Robin Fairbairns

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue May 11 15:30:43 2004
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 19:28:13 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: dramatist

A package has been updated on CTAN.  By now, due to my slowness, it
should already be at your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the uplaod,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: dramatist
Author's name: Massimiliano Dominici
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/dramatist
Summary description: The `dramatist' package provides support for drama 
both in verse and in prose. The following facilities are given: two 
environments for typesetting dialogues in prose or in verse; new document
divisions corresponding to acts and scenes; macros that control
the appearance of characters and stage directions; and automatical
generation of a `dramatis personae' list.
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
v1.2: Added support for `poemscol' package. Introduced an
`uppercase' series of sectioning commands. First argument in
\Character made optional (this causes incompatibility with
previous versions). Added environment (`CharacterGroup') for
characters groups in the `Dramatis Personae' list. Added various hooks for 
user customization.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dramatist
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

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From zierke@dante.de Thu May 13 12:02:41 2004
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 16:24:46 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- bibunits 2.4

----- Forwarded message from Thorsten Hansen -----
I have just uploaded version 2.4 of bibunits.

--  uploaded file: bibunits-v2.4.tar.gz
--  uploaded to CTAN node: dante.ctan.org (ftp.dante.de)
--  recommended place: CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/bibunits
--  licensing condition: LPPL
--  brief summary: multiple bibliographies in one document
    
    Changes to version 2.3 include 

    . proper inclusion of the license conditions (LPPL 1.3) 
      in all relevant files

It would be fine if you can sent a short note to comp.text.tex when
the new style has been installed.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/bibunits

However, I renamed the 00Readme file to README as this will be shown
by web browsers and ran bibunits.dtx through pdflatex to produce
readymade documentation.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri May 14 12:50:00 2004
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 16:48:34 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: sgame

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will make its way
to your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: sgame
Author's name: Martin J. Osborne
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/sgame
Summary description: LaTeX style for typesetting strategic games
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Formats strategic games. For a 2 x 2 game, for example, the input

\begin{game}{2}{2}
      & $L$    & $M$\\
$T$   &$2,2$   &$2,0$\\
$B$   &$3,0$   &$0,9$
\end{game}

produces output with (a) boxes around the payoffs, (b) payoff columns of 
equal width, and (c) payoffs vertically centered within the boxes. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sgame
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From zierke@dante.de Sat May 15 04:48:15 2004
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 10:46:41 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Eukleides 1.0

----- Forwarded message from Christian Obrecht -----
I've just uploaded the latest source archives (1.0.0) of `eukleides' and
`xeukleides' in `CTAN:/incoming/eukleides'. They should be installed in
`CTAN:/tex-archive/support/eukleides/'. There's also a `README' file
which is intended to replace the old one.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:support/eukleides/.  The license remains GPL.

>From the README file:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eukleides is a Euclidean geometry drawing language. Two softwares are related
to it. First, eukleides, a compiler which allows to typeset geometry figures
within a (La)TeX document. This program is also useful to convert such figures
in EPS format or in various other vector graphic formats. Second, xeukleides,
an X-Window front-end which makes possible to create interactive geometry
figures. This program is also useful to edit and tune some Eukleides code.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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From zierke@dante.de Sat May 15 07:55:43 2004
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 13:54:13 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Upload: csquotes 1.7

----- Forwarded message from Philipp Lehman -----
I've uploaded 'csquotes.tar.gz' to DANTE incoming. This is an update for 
macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. Thank you.

ABOUT

The csquotes package:

�* provides markup for inline quotations
�* supports both control sequences and active characters
�* toggles between inner and outer quotation marks for nested quotes
�* interfaces with Babel and adapts quotation marks as required
�* features fully configurable quotation styles and active characters

CHANGES

* Shiny new manual in PDF format
* Added \setquotestyle
* Modified \DeclarePlainStyle
* Modified quote handling in pdf strings
* Modified French quotation marks
_______________________________________________

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
previous version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/
The license remains LPPL.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat May 15 08:48:51 2004
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 12:47:41 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: egameps

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should have by
now made its way to your favorite local mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: egameps
Author's name: Martin J. Osborne
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/egameps
Summary description: LaTeX style for typesetting extensive games, using 
  PSTricks macros
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The style is intended to have enough features to draw any extensive game 
with relative ease.  (An older version, which uses the LaTeX picture 
environment rather than the PSTricks macros (and consequently has many 
fewer features), is available on my website.)
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/egameps
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From zierke@dante.de Tue May 18 03:54:53 2004
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:53:08 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- The caption package 3.0b

----- Forwarded message from Axel Sommerfeldt -----
Name of contribution: The caption package 3.0b
Uploaded to: ftp.dante.de/incoming/caption
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/caption
  (Please delete all the old files in this directory)
Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments
License type: lppl

Abstract:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions
in floating environments like figure and table and cooperates with
many other packages.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Changes:

- Improvement: \captionsetup within a SCfigure/SCtable is now working
- New: \captionsetup[SCfigure/SCtable/longtable/supertabular]{...}
- "parindent" and "hangindent" have defaults now (\parindent and 0pt) to
  avoid conflicts with global options
- New: Support of the listings package (1.2), that means
  \captionsetup[lstlisting]{...} is working now
- Improved non-ragged2e support: Only typeout a warning if \RaggedRight
  is actually used
- New option "listof=<boolean>" (for use with the sidecap package)
- New subsection in the documentation about incompatible packages
- Some minor bugfixes
- LPPL 1.3 (author-maintained)
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
previous version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/caption

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From zierke@dante.de Tue May 18 07:58:21 2004
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 13:56:54 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: pstricks update and contributed packages

I installed an update for CTAN:graphics/pstricks and the two contributed
packages graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add and
graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-geo by Herbert Voss.  According to a personal
e-mail from Herbert, he has been approved by Timothy van Zandt as current
pstricks maintainer.

Name of contribution: pstricks
Name and email: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss@perce.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/generic
Summary description: PSTricks - TeX and PostScript
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the pstricks.tex 97-patch 15
It has the new macros 
\psellipticarc
\psellipticarcn
\psellipticwedge
and the options eofill (similiar to PostScript) and the
modfied dash option.

please install the files into the following directories
README -> graphics/pstricks/README
pstricks.pro -> graphics/pstricks/dvips
pst-all.sty  -> graphics/pstricks/latex
pstricks.sty -> graphics/pstricks/latex
pst-news97-15.tex -> graphics/pstricks/doc
pst-news97-15.pdf -> graphics/pstricks/doc
pstricks.tex -> graphics/pstricks/generic
----------------------------------------------------------------------


Name of contribution: pstricks-add
Name and email: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss@perce.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add
Summary description: Additional macros
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
- This version has one new option for drawing coordinate 
  axis -> ticklines (see doc))
- All the stuff, which went into pstricks - patch 15 is now
  no more available in this package 
----------------------------------------------------------------------


Name of contribution: pst-geo
Name and email: Manuel  Luque, Giuseppe Matarazzo, Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss@perce.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/pst-geo
Summary description: Geographical Projections
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
- new database of cities
- some more improvements
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Reinhard Zierke
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat May 22 09:44:39 2004
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 00:00:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: texhax@tug.org
Subject: new machine for cambridge ctan

cambridge has a new ctan machine; it's now been up and working on the
addresses cam.ctan.org, ftp.tex.ac.uk (ftp protocol) and rsync.tex.ac.uk
(rsync protocol) for well over 24 hours.  even the most dilatory name
server should get you to the new machine, now.

this is the third machine that has served ctan since it came to
cambridge, and it's not come a moment too soon -- the old machine was
providing rather poor performance.

the machine is a dual 2.6ghz xeon with 2gbyte of memory and lots of
disc.  we believe it will support applications at an acceptable level for
some time.

the machine was purchased with a grant from the uk tex users' group, and
the ctan team is also grateful to the university of cambridge computer
laboratory for continuing to provide a friendly home to ctan.

the observant will have noticed that i did not mention www.tex.ac.uk,
above.  that is still being hosted by the laboratory's main web server.
there are (ahem) structural difficulties with moving the web service,
and we decided to go live with what we could, as soon as i could make at
least something work reliably,

Robin Fairbairns

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sun May 23 12:07:56 2004
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 16:06:26 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: CurVe

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and by now has made its way to a
mirror near you.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: CurVe
Author's name: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/curve
Summary description: A Curriculum Vitae class for LaTeX2e
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm happy to announce release 1.7 of CurVe.

New in this release:
** Support for key horizontal alignment
** \raggedleft and \raggedright can now be used within individual entries
** Fix typo in Danish version of \continuedname


CurVe is a class package that hopefully will make your life easier when you
want to write your CV. It provides you with a set of commands to create
rubrics, entries in these rubrics etc. CurVe will then properly format your CV
for you (possibly splitting it onto multiple pages, repeating the titles etc),
which is usually the most painful part of CV writing. Another nice feature of
CurVe is its ability to manage different CV "flavors" simultaneously. It is in
fact often the case that you want to maintain slightly divergent versions of
your CV at the same time, in order to emphasize on different aspects of your
background. CurVe also comes with support for AUC-TeX.

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/curve
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From zierke@dante.de Mon May 24 12:36:46 2004
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:35:09 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: KOMA-Script

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: KOMA-Script
Name and email: Markus Kohm <markus.kohm@gmx.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script
Summary description: KOMA-Script, a versatile LaTeX2e bundle
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The KOMA-Script team is happy to announce the May '04 
Release of the KOMA-Script bundle aka "fix me again". 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
What is KOMA-Script 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
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 
the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities 
in order to provide the user an almost complete working 
environment. 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
Versions of classes and packages at this release: 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
  scrartcl.cls  2004/04/26  v2.9q 
  scrbook.cls   2004/04/26  v2.9q 
  scrreprt.cls  2004/04/26  v2.9q 
  scrlttr2.cls  2004/04/26  v2.9q 
  scrlettr.cls  2002/05/24  v2.6e (obsolete) 
  scrtime.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m 
  scrdate.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m 
  scrpage2.sty  2004/02/07  v2.1c 
  typearea.sty  2004/04/26  v2.9q 
  scrlfile.sty  2004/04/26  v2.9q 
  scrpage.sty   2001/06/22  v1.3c (obsolete) 
  scraddr.sty   2002/06/02  v1.1b 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
What is new in this KOMA-Script release 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
This is only a bug-fix-release: 
  - some fixes at the manuals 
  - \deffootnote generates more compatible macros 
  - \parfillskip unlimited is 0pt plus 1fil (was \fill) 
  - dictum uses a local group before changing to 
\raggeddictum 
  - addmargin does not longer change \labelsep 
  - scrpage2: thickness of footbelow line fixed 
  - typearea: warning at twocolumn mode 
  - scrlttr2: \closing with empty argument allowed 
Go discover. 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
I installed this new version as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/koma-script

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 25 09:41:04 2004
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:39:19 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: New ConTeXt math modules 

Giuseppe Bilotta writes:

>    + what you've uploaded : ctx-math.zip
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to : UK (ftp.tex.ac.uk)
> 
>    + where you want the files to go :
>    the two files contained in the .zip file should
>    be unpacked to
>    tex-archive/macros/context/contrib/maths
>    replacing the previous files.
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software:
>    GNU GPL licence
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
>    The .zip archive contains two ConTeXt modules (t-nath.tex
>    and t-amsl.tex) that complement the math features in
>    ConTeXt. t-amsl provides some environments and commands that
>    most (AMS-)LaTeX users expect. t-nath provides for ConTeXt
>    the same functionality as provided by the Nath package for
>    LaTeX.
> 
>    This new upload add a \startbigcases ... \stopbigcases pair
>    for cases construct where displayed math is supposed to be
>    used.

thanks for the upload: i've installed the new files, and kicked the
other ctan sites to copy them.

Robin Fairbairns

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed May 26 11:12:10 2004
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 15:09:39 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: cm-lgc

This package has been updated on CTAN. 

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

==========================================================
Announcement text provided by the package author:

The cm-lgc font package contains a set of Type 1 fonts,
converted from the METAFONT sources, which covers 3 European
alphabets (LGC stands for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic) and the 
corresponding TeX font encodings. It also includes Unicode 
virtual fonts which may be used with Omega/Lambda.

Unlike other Type 1 font packages based on original METAFONT
files, CM-LGC doesn't tend to cover all the fonts available in the
METAFONT format. In particular, each font family and shape 
is represented with a single file which is used in all point
sizes. This allows to keep the whole package compact but
still enough powerful and sufficient for regular work.

Another goal of the CM-LGC font package is to provide a set of
8-bit fonts suitable for use outside of TeX. That's why all the
PFB files it includes contain meaningful PostScript names (e.g. 
CMRoman Bold Italic) and have standard encoding vectors (e. g.
AdobeStandard for Latin fonts), while virtual fonts are used to 
combine glyphs present in those PFB files into TeX-specific 
codepages.

The latest package release (v. 0.3) contains some important 
improvements and bug fixes, which hopefully make the whole 
package really stable. This version also includes INF files, 
so that installing the fonts under MS Windows becomes really 
easy.
===============================================================

You can visit the package (so it doesn't get lonely) at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-lgc

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed May 26 11:23:28 2004
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 15:22:32 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: engrec

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should
make its way to your favorite mirror real soon now.


Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: engrec
Author's name: Yvon Henel
Author's email: Yvon.Henel@wanadoo.fr
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/engrec
Summary description: Two macros \engrec and \EnGrec to enumerate, for 
  example some lists, with lower case or upper case greek letters. They 
  have the syntax of \alph and friends.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Two macros \engrec and \EnGrec to enumerate, for example
some lists, with lower case or upper case greek letters. 
They have the syntax of \alph and friends.

Provides macros for capital greek letters which have the shape of a latin 
character such as Alpha (macro \Alpha) and so on.

Provides macros \omicron and \upomicron to give sloped and upright shape 
of omicron.

There are options to chose between the shape of the lowercase greek letters 
for which two variants are classicaly provided.

With option upgreek, upgreek.sty is loaded and the lowercase letters are 
shown upright. Option slgreek, default, is the opposite.

There are options upright and sloped (default) designed mainly to be used 
with fourier.sty.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/engrec
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu May 27 03:09:29 2004
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:07:37 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: updated acryonym package 

Tobias Oetiker writes:

> it seems uploads at ftp.tex.ac.uk do not work presently ... so here
> is my update via email ....
> 
> Danie Els has fixed some issues in the acronym package ...
> 
> Version 1.10 (May 2004): Fix for the bug of a \cs{}\cs{} following an
> acronym. Add footnote optional out for \cmd{\acs}. Fix for list of acronyms
> in front matter and addition of \cmd{\acroextra} command.
> -- Danie Els

thanks for the submission.  i'm sorry you had problems with uploading:
the problem isn't (that i'm aware of) manifesting itself for other
users, and i would welcome any reports of problems (dates and times of
any problems observed will help my log-file gardening...)

anyway, i've installed the file as requested, replacing
macros/latex/contrib/acronym

Robin Fairbairns

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problems -- thanks, everyone.
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From zierke@dante.de Thu May 27 09:56:24 2004
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 12:53:00 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: guia-atx.pdf

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: guia-atx.pdf
Name and email: Joaqu�n Ataz L�pez <jal@um.es>
Suggested location on CTAN: info/spanish
Summary description: How use Emacs-AucTeX to write LaTex documents (in Spanish)
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This document explains in Spanish how to use GNU Emacs and its extensions
(Auc-TeX, RefTeX and BibTeX) to write LaTeX source documents.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this document in the new directory
CTAN:info/spanish/guia-atx. I added a README file explaining the purpose
of the document as I and probably a lot of other persons would not be
able to guess its contents from the file name.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu May 27 14:45:00 2004
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 18:43:23 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: clefval

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and will make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: clefval
Author's name: Yvon Henel
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/clefval
Summary description: clefval.sty provides two macros \TheKey and \TheValue 
  to define then use pairs of key/value and gives a semblance of hash.  
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
clefval.sty provides two macros \TheKey and \TheValue to define then use 
pairs of key/value and gives a semblance of hash.  

Syntax: \TheKey{key}{value} to define the value associated to the key, 
does not produce text; \TheValue}{key} to insert the value linked to the 
key.
  
Both arguments of \TheKey are `moving' as \LaTeX{} defines it and we have 
sometimes to protect them. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/clefval
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From zierke@dante.de Tue Jun  1 07:40:10 2004
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:38:33 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: OFS - Olsak's Font System

> Name of contribution: OFS - Olsak's Font System
> Name and email: Petr Olsak <petr@olsak.net>
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/generic/ofs
> Summary description: plainTeX +LaTeX macro for managing large font collections
> License type: other
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> OFS (Olsak's Font System) is plainTeX and LaTeX macro for managing large font collections. It is used by Czech/Slovak users many years. 
> 
> Main features:
> 
> * Long names of fonts to metric file name mapping. User
>   can specify only exact long names in your document.
> * Support for many font encodings.
> * Printing of catalogues of fonts, test samples of 
>   font families.
> * Interactive macro \showfonts shows all font families
>   you have instaled via OFS
> * User interface is the same for plainTeX and for LaTeX,
>   but implementation differs: LaTeX variant of OFS uses 
>   NFSS, but plain variant implements its own font managing
>   (may be better than NFSS).
> * Support for math fonts including TX fonts.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thank you very much for the upload.  I installed the package in
CTAN:macros/generic/ofs.

The package has an individually worded license which I'd like to sort under
the license type 'other'.  I believe it to be free enough to have it put
in the 'official' CTAN tree instead of the 'CTAN:/nonfree' directory tree.

Reinhard Zierke
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From zierke@dante.de Tue Jun  1 13:27:48 2004
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:25:41 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: fc fonts version 1.4

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: fc fonts version 1.4
Name and email: J�rg Knappen <joerg.knappen@uni-mainz.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/jknappen/fc
Summary description: Update of the fc fonts
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I have uploaded an update for the fc fonts. The update contains some fixes to the METAFONT sources of the fc fonts
and improved LaTeX2e support files. The documentation is 
updated appropriately.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:fonts/jknappen/fc/

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jun  3 10:15:14 2004
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:13:09 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: dvipng

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and it should make its way 
to your favorite mirror very soon.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: dvipng
Author's name: Jan-�ke Larsson
Location on CTAN: dviware/dvipng
Summary description: A fast DVI to PNG converter
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Release notes for version 1.1 of the dvipng package:

This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its 
relatives.

This release adds t1lib support, which is good when installing with teTeX. 
A man page is also now included. Finally color special support has been fixed, 
and a few build issues.

dvipng has gained its own project on SourceForge, so starting from now, 
that project will be the main distribution point. 
                                                                 
It has been tested to a fair degree. Note the disclaimer in the COPYING file. 
Report any bugs you find, see README for instructions.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipng
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jun  3 10:48:18 2004
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:47:16 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: europecv

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: europecv
Author's name: Nicola Vitacolonna
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/europecv
Summary description: Unofficial class for European curricula vitae
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This class is an unofficial LaTeX implementation of the standard model for 
curricula vitae as recommended by the European Commission. Although 
primarily intended for users in the European Union, the class is flexible 
enough to be used for any kind of curriculum vitae.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/europecv
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
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From zierke@dante.de Fri Jun  4 12:24:42 2004
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 18:23:01 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Upload: csquotes 2.0

----- Forwarded message from Philipp Lehman -----
I've uploaded 'csquotes.tar.gz' to DANTE incoming. This is an update for 
macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. The package status does not change (LPPL 1.3, 
author-maintained). Please purge the old files, install the new ones, and 
announce the upload as usual.

Thank you very much.

ABOUT

The csquotes package:
* provides markup for inline quotations
* supports both control sequences and active characters
* toggles between inner and outer quotation marks for nested quotes
* interfaces with babel and adapts quotation marks as required
* features fully configurable quote styles and active characters

CHANGES

* Added \blockquote
* Added \foreignblockquote
* Added \hyphenblockquote
* Added \setblockthreshold
* Added \setblockenvironment
* Extended \DeclareQuoteStyle
* Added initialization hook for quote styles
* Added support for middle quote marks
* Added support for kerning between quote marks
* Added package option and style variants for French
* Added package option and style variant for Italian
* Added style variant for English
* Added basic support for Omega
* Revised and improved error recovery
* Added 'strict' option
_______________________________________________

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/csquotes 

Reinhard Zierke
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jun  4 13:09:21 2004
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:08:15 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: orderrefs

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: orderrefs
Author's name: John Collins
Location on CTAN: support/orderrefs
Summary description: Reorder bibliography in LaTeX document by order 
  of citation
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
When the bibliography in a LaTeX document is made by hand,
without use of BibTeX, it is frequently necessary to reorder the items in the
bibliography according to their order of citation.  Orderrefs is a
little program that automates this reordering.  It is a portable perl
script that should run on any computer with a working perl
installation.
- - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/orderrefs
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun  6 09:19:17 2004
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 14:17:21 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload 

Herbert Voss writes:

> I am just uploading Mathmode.pdf to
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming
> I don't know which is the best place to save this
> file, maybe ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/math/
> 
> Mathmode.pdf is a documentation of the math mode
> of standard LaTeX and the amsmath package.
> It also shows some examples of the most popular
> math related packages.

i have installed the file (after discussion with herbert) in
info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf

i've been acquainted with this file for some time; it is an excellent
resource.  i'm pleased to have it on ctan -- thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jun  7 18:39:10 2004
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 23:37:33 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: upload 

Herbert Voss writes:

> in the incoming dir is a new version
> of Voss-Mathmode.pdf (only small changes) and an
> article about the gauss.sty (from dtk) and

(note, this file is in German)

> a README for some informations.
> 
> please install the files in the dir
> info/math/voss

i've installed the files, but i took the liberty of renaming gauss.pdf
as Voss-gauss.pdf, to avoid confusion with the package itself.

so the directory now contains:

 README
 Voss-gauss.pdf
 Voss-Mathmode.pdf

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jun  7 18:44:32 2004
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 23:43:33 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: acronym-1.11 uploaded 

Tobi Oetiker writes:

> I have uploaded acronym-1.11 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/acronym-1.11.

installed as macros/latex/contrib/acronym; thanks for the upload.

> If you think it is appropriate, announce it please.

i think so, given that the error that this version fixes first appeared
on a public list, rather than in mail between user and maintainer.

> Recent Changes:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Version 1.11 (June 2004): Make hyperlinks work inside optional
> item text by replaceing hypertarget with raisedhypertarget
> --  Martin Salois <Martin.Salois@drdc-rddc.gc.ca>
>
> Version 1.10 (May 2004): Fix for the bug of a \cs{}\cs{} following an
> acronym. Add footnote optional out for \cmd{\acs}. Fix for list of acronyms
> in front matter and addition of \cmd{\acroextra} command.
> -- Danie Els <dnjels@sun.ac.za>
> 
> Version 1.9 (October 2003): Fix hyperref processing to work regardles 
> of calling order. 'printused' now prints every acronym used not only 
> the ones called through \ac.
> -- Danie Els <dnjels@sun.ac.za> and Tobi Oetiker
> 
> Version 1.8 (October 2003): When the hyperref package is loaded before the
> acronym package, all acronyms will become a hyperlink to their own
> definition.
> -- Martin Salois <Martin.Salois@drdc-rddc.gc.ca>
> 
> Version 1.7 (September 2003): Added \acresetall for resetting the 'used'-tag
> of \ac. With the new option 'printonlyused', the acronym-list will consist of 
> the used acronyms only and not of all defined acronyms; Optional in a special 
> deflist - environment.
> -- Sebastian Max <smx@comnets.rwth-aachen.de>
> ...
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jun  8 19:21:23 2004
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 21:56:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: malyshev@mx.ihep.su, Basil Malyshev <bakoma@mail.ru>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 6.50: Omega & Math Fonts generation.

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Basil Malyshev wrote:

 > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
 > update for BaKoMa TeX 6.50 (issued 5-Jun-2004)
 >
 > Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
 >
 >    Most important improvements in BaKoMa TeX 6.50
 >    are related with using Windows fonts.
 >
 >    Font Setup Wizard (`Options}Install OpenType, TrueType, ...' menu)
 >    have two new features:
 >
 >      1) Generating Omega Font Metrics (OFM) for unicoded OpenType/TrueType fonts.
 >         In advance, set of TFM files is generated - one file for every slot,
 >         that allows access to all characters from Standard TeX.
 >
 >      2) Generating fonts in OT1 and OML font encodings,
 >         to use in math formulas.
 >
 > More information about changes is at:
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
 >
 > Bye.
 > Basil K. Malyshev
 > 6-Jun-2004
 >
 > PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.
 >
 > --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 6.50 ----------------------
 >
 > CONTENTS
 >    * Highlights
 >    * Graphical Capabilities
 >    * Fonts
 >    * User Interface
 >    * PDF Generation Features
 >    * HTML Generation features
 >    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 6.50
 >
 > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
 >    <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95
 >
 > HIGHLIGHTS
 >
 >  * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system.
 >  * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
 >    of the file being edited.
 >    (like to Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org).
 > ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc.
 > ** Generates *SVG* (PSTricks, Prosper + animation features).
 > ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH.
 >  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
 >    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 >  * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
 >    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 >  * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click
 >  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 >  * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
 >  * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 >  * Easy to install and use.
 >  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 >
 > GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*
 > (with most of Level 3 features), which is tested for compatibility
 > with output from popular software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10,
 > Adobe Streamline 4.0, Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA,
 > HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
 >
 > All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible
 > with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
 > embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).
 >
 > The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
 >    EPS, PDF, HPGL, DXY, FIG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF.
 >
 > FONTS
 >
 > BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 >  * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
 >  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters),
 >  * PostScript Type 3,
 >  * TrueType,
 >  * TeX PK/VF.
 >
 > The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
 > and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 >  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 >  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 >  * EC/TC,
 >  * LH (T2A),
 >  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 >  * Malvern,
 >  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 >  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 >  Math Fonts:
 >  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 >  Diagram drawing fonts:
 >  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase),
 >  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd),
 >  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
 >
 > Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
 > This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
 > between font formats when needed.
 > This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
 > On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
 > for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
 >
 > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts
 > available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.
 >
 > Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
 > OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click.
 >
 > OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0
 > even without ATM.
 >
 > USER INTERFACE
 >
 > * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
 >   It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly,
 >   when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs,
 >   mathematics, pictures, etc.
 > * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen
 >   for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
 > * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
 > * Quick navigation via document structure,
 > * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
 > * Powerful support for different input encodings,
 > * Project support,
 > * Graphics import assistant,
 > * Assitance for multi-file documents:
 >   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
 > * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
 > * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
 > * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
 > * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
 > * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
 > * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
 >     correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
 >     configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
 > * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included.
 > * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
 > * Support for Multi-User systems.
 >
 > OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
 >
 > * View on Windows Display.
 > * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
 > * PostScript (really scalable),
 > * PDF,
 > * SVG (animation effects are supported),
 > * HTML.
 >
 > Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
 > for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
 > may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical
 > capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
 >
 > PDF GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 > * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
 > * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
 >   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
 > * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
 > * Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste
 >   of cyrillic and other international characters.
 > * Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
 >
 > HTML GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 >  BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 >  documents into HTML files.
 >   * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch
 >      `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
 >   * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert
 >      pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
 >      pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics,
 >      such as slides.
 >
 >  In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 >  Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of
 >  `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.
 >
 >  Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 >  In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 >  into generated HTML pages.
 >
 > SVG GENERATION FEATURES
 >
 >  BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
 >  from a DVI files. Ability to add animation to the SVG output,
 >  makes it the best for producing high quality presentations.
 >
 >  Sample of animated presentation is available at:
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html
 >
 >  Key Features:
 >    SVG output is compatible with another output formats
 >    (PDF, PS, HTML, View, and Print) so, that the same graphical
 >    formats, font formats, and other features are supported.
 >    In details:
 >    *  All TeX Formats (LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09, AmSTeX, Plain TeX) are supported.
 >    *  TeX extensions (e-TeX and Omega) are supported.
 >    *  ALL LaTeX packages (including PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics, draftcopy, etc.)
 >        are supported.
 >    *  Graphical formats: EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, FIG,
 >    		         BMP, WMF, EMF, HPGL, and DXY are supported.
 >    *  More generally, Any imported or embedded Postscript is supported.
 >    *  Hyperref is supported, including outline and links. For \Acrobatmenu
 >       most general commands (such as NextPage or PrevPage) are supported.
 >    *  Popular presentation packages: Prosper, PDFScreen, PDFSlide, Seminar, etc.
 >       are supported.
 >   *** The existing presentations can be enhanced by adding animation.
 >    *  All Font Types: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, Postscript Type1
 >       (including MM), Postscript Type 3, and TeX PK are supported.
 >
 >  Details about adding animation to generated SVG files are explained at:
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/svgwrite.html>
 >
 > *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 6.50 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 6.40 ***
 >
 >    Font Setup Wizard (`Options}Install OpenType, TrueType, ...' menu)
 >    have two new features:
 >
 >      1) Generating Omega Font Metrics (OFM) for unicoded OpenType/TrueType fonts.
 >         In advance, set of TFM files is generated - one file for every slot,
 >         that allows access to all characters from Standard TeX.
 >
 >      2) Generating fonts in OT1 and OML font encodings,
 >         to use in math formulas.
 >
 > For more information see
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
 >
 > ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

Thanks for the update, it was installed in

   nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jun  8 16:02:02 2004
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 22:00:54 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Mathieu Goutelle <mgoutell@alussinan.org>
Subject: Re: [CTAN upload] ppr-prv class update (v0.13)

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Mathieu Goutelle wrote:

 > I have uploaded an update of the ppr-prv class in /incoming/ppr-prv.tgz
 > on dante.ctan.org. Please replace all files in
 > macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv by the ones in the archive.
 >
 > This class is used with LaTeX presentations using the prosper class.
 > ppr-prv stands for "Prosper Preview". The aim of this class is to
 > produce a printable version of the slides written with Prosper, with
 > two slides per page.
 >
 > Changes since previous version are:
 >     * Compatibility with HA-prosper 4.2 (\xitem particularly) ;
 >     * Some bug fixes in starred version of overlay macros.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested.

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jun  8 19:13:25 2004
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 22:23:17 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: acronym-1.12 uploaded 

> I have uploaded acronym-1.12 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/acronym-1.12.

i've installed it in macros/latex/contrib/acronym

> If you think it is appropriate, announce it please.

might as well...  it's another significant improvement, after all

> Recent Changes:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Version 1.12 (June 2004): Make acronyms robust and compatible
> with pdf bookmarks.
> --  Danie Els <dnjels@sun.ac.za>
> 
> Version 1.11 (June 2004): Make hyperlinks work inside optional
> item text by replaceing hypertarget with raisedhypertarget
> --  Martin Salois <Martin.Salois@drdc-rddc.gc.ca>
> 
> Version 1.10 (May 2004): Fix for the bug of a \cs{}\cs{} following an
> acronym. Add footnote optional out for \cmd{\acs}. Fix for list of acronyms
> in front matter and addition of \cmd{\acroextra} command.
> -- Danie Els <dnjels@sun.ac.za>

...

thanks for the upload

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From zierke@dante.de Thu Jun 10 07:41:49 2004
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:40:17 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: HA-prosper update

----- Forwarded message from Hendri Adriaens -----
I just uploaded HA-prosper 4.2 to ftp.dante.de.
Please install the update in the existing dir
macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper

Changes:
* new styles have been added
* improved toc typesetting
* extra controls for \xitem

Notice that the package will be converted into
a class in the coming period to provide more
features. The class will be called TeXciting.
Don't forget to look for the class!
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
previous version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper.

Reinhard Zierke
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jun 10 10:04:00 2004
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:02:32 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to
your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Author's name: Nick van Beurden
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix
Summary description: 
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The twelfth CTAN release has the following improvements:
* Fixed bug in text editor. When pressing backspace during typing of the 
  text LaTeXPiX crashed.
* WinEdt tool bar button and main menu addition for LaTeXPiX is now offered.
* Fixed bug in the automatic check for updates when starting LaTeXPiX. 
  This can be set off in the preferences menu but even when off an check 
  was always done.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 11 09:53:26 2004
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:51:46 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: chktex 1.6.2 upload 

Baruch Even writes:

> I've uploaded chktex 1.6.2 to ftp.tex.ac.uk incoming directory, it
> should replace the current chktex in the archive. The file name is:
> chktex-1.6.2.tar.gz
> 
> ChkTeX is currently located in /support/chktex and should probably stay
> there.

i've installed the new version as suggested; thanks for the upload.

i've also, following discussions with baruch, removed the old version
1.5, which we were holding on ctan while baruch took over maintenance.
(the old version was at obsolete/support/chktex.)

Robin Fairbairns

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 11 09:58:46 2004
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:57:47 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: latex companion examples

those of you who've already got a copy of the latex companion, second
edition, may have noticed a remark (top of p14) that the examples were
going to be on ctan.

the arrangement was that i would install them as soon as my copy
arrived.  my copy took some time in the maws of the publishers'
system...

... but arrived today.  so, from today, there is indeed a ctan directory
info/examples/tlc2, which contains files for running the examples in the
book.

so, even people without the book (and its accompanying cd) can now use
the examples without further ado.

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jun 12 06:24:21 2004
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:22:40 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: metatype1 on ctan

metatype1 is the tool used to build the excellent lm fonts (there's a
paper by boguslaw jackowski coming in the proceedings of the 1993 tug
conference, which the tugboat team are currently working on).

the authors of metatype1 have now agreed that it should appear on ctan,
so i have mirrored its home site to fonts/utilities/metatype1.  the
directory also contains the source of an extended version of knuth's
logo font, which serves as an example of the use of metatype1.

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From zierke@dante.de Tue Jun 15 07:29:20 2004
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:24:52 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- NEdit-LaTeX-Extensions 0.8

----- Forwarded message from Joerg Fischer -----
I have uploaded an update for the NEdit LaTeX Extensions at
ftp.dante.de to /support/NEdit-LaTeX-Extensions/.

I renamed the support package to simply (NEdit) LaTeX-Mode. The new
version is 0.8. License is GPL.

Please remove all of the files in the NEdit LaTeX Extensions folder
and add the submitted files to this folder.

Text for announcement:

The NEdit LaTeX-Mode is a package or set of macros, i.e. small
programs, written in the NEdit macro or scripting language.
It will turn NEdit, the Nirvana text editor, into an advanced
LaTeX editor. NEdit version 5.4 or later is required.

The home page of the LaTeX-Mode is 
http://nedit.gmxhome.de/latexmode.html
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.   I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:support/NEdit-LaTeX-Extensions.

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jun 15 14:33:12 2004
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:31:01 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Martin Hensel <mhchem@MartinHensel.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: mhchem bundle

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 Martin Hensel submitted the new package:

 > Name of contribution: mhchem bundle
 > Name and email: Martin Hensel <mhchem@MartinHensel.de>
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mhchem
 > Summary description: for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical equations and Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Currently, the mhchem bundle consists of two packages: mhchem and rsphrase.
 >
 > The mhchem package provides two commands: one for typesetting chemical
 > molecular formulae and one for typesetting chemical equations with
 > these formulae.
 >
 > The rsphrase package contains the text of all official Risk and Safety
 > (R and S) Phrases that are used to label chemicals. At the time being,
 > these phrases are available in Englisch and German (current spelling).
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the submission, I installed the bundle in

  macros/latex/contrib/mhchem

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From zierke@dante.de Wed Jun 16 06:36:23 2004
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:34:38 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: KOMA-Script

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: KOMA-Script
Name and email: Markus Kohm <komascript@gmx.info>
Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script
Summary description: KOMA-Script, a versatile LaTeX2e bundle
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The KOMA-Script team is happy to announce the June '04 
Release of the KOMA-Script bundle aka "nothing is perfect 
unless you define it to be". 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
What is KOMA-Script 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
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 
the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities 
in order to provide the user an almost complete working 
environment. 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
Versions of classes and packages at this release: 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
  scrartcl.cls  2004/06/11  v2.9r 
  scrbook.cls   2004/06/11  v2.9r 
  scrreprt.cls  2004/06/11  v2.9r 
  scrlttr2.cls  2004/06/11  v2.9r 
  scrlettr.cls  2002/05/24  v2.6e (obsolete) 
  scrtime.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m 
  scrdate.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m 
  scrpage2.sty  2004/02/07  v2.1c 
  typearea.sty  2004/06/11  v2.9r 
  scrlfile.sty  2004/06/11  v2.9r 
  scrpage.sty   2001/06/22  v1.3c (obsolete) 
  scraddr.sty   2002/06/02  v1.1b 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
What is new in this KOMA-Script release 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
One change in functionality of scrlttr2: 
  - \providelanguage, \newlanguage and \renewlanguage for 
    the language defined at \languagename (this is the name 
    of the current language using a package like babel) are 
    immediate. 
 
And some bug fixed: 
  - \parfillskip was 1em plus 1fil instead of 0pt plus 1fil 
    serveral times 
  - warning messages at scrlttr2 fixed (class name was 
    scrlttr) 
  - Footnotes at one line captions fixed 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
XML file with infromations for The TeX Catalogue: 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
See koma-script.xml at the distribution. 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
Distributors note: 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
Removing any of the files of the distribution made by 
the KOMA-Script maintainers prevents the users from 
using the provided makefile mentioned at the 
installation documentation: INSTALL.TXT or INSTALLD.TXT. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
previous version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/koma-script

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From zierke@dante.de Wed Jun 16 06:40:27 2004
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:39:25 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- csquotes 2.1

----- Forwarded message from Philipp Lehman -----
I've uploaded 'csquotes.tar.gz' to DANTE incoming. This is an update for 
macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. Please purge the old files, install the new 
ones, and announce the upload as usual.

Thank you very much.

ABOUT

The csquotes package:
* provides markup for inline quotations
* supports both control sequences and active characters
* toggles between inner and outer quotation marks for nested quotes
* interfaces with babel and adapts quotation marks as required
* features fully configurable quote styles and active characters

CHANGES

* Added internal environment quoteblock
* Disable active quotes in \verb and verbatim
* Disable active quotes in \index and \glossary
* Reset language in footnotes within quotations
* Added package option and style variants for Norwegian
* Rearranged quote styles and aliases
* Removed uncertain quote styles and aliases
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/csquotes.

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jun 16 11:17:26 2004
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:27:46 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload -- cmap package update 

Vladimir Volovich writes:

> I've uploaded the file cmap.sty to the incoming directory of
> ftp.tex.ac.uk
> 
> Please put this file to CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/cmap/cmap.sty
> replacing the old file.
> 
> License remains LPPL.
> 
> This update allows to use the cmap package with Werner Lemberg's CJK
> package, and the change was sent to me by Werner Lemberg.
> 
> The cmap package is intended to make the PDF files generated by
> pdflatex "searchable and copyable" in acrobat reader and other
> compliant PDF viewers. Just include the \usepackage{cmap} at the
> beginning of your preamble, and it will pre-load the needed CMap
> translations for the fonts used in the document. It works for Type 1
> fonts, and also for Type 3 fonts with recent versions of pdftex.  The
> main limitation currently is inability to work with virtual fonts, and
> this is because of limitation of pdftex, and may be resolved in a
> future versions of pdftex.

i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jun 16 13:19:25 2004
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:17:52 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: spain

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its 
way to your favorite mirror quite soon.

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: spain
Author's name: Jos� Ra Portillo Fern�ndez
Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/spain
Summary description: Bibliography style for Spain
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
spain.bst and spain.dbj files for bibliography. It follows the traditional 
bibliographic style in Spain, as shown in the "Diccionario de ortograf�a 
t�cnica" of  J. Mart�nez de Sousa (1999)
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/spain
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jun 17 15:19:45 2004
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:13:13 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: Algorithm2e

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make its way
to your favorite mirror soon.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: Algorithm2e
Author's name: Christophe Fiorio
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/algorithm2e
Summary description: Floating algorithm environment with algorithmic 
  keywords (re)definition feature
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Release 3.3 is a major revision which makes the package independent from 
float.sty and solves all known conflicts with other packages (with color 
package for example!).  Moreoever all know bugs have been removed and 
also some new features added as the long awaiting auto-numbering lines 
option.

Algorithm2e is an environment for writing algorithms.  An algorithm is 
defined as a floating object like figures.  It provides macros that allow 
you to create different sorts of key words, thus a set of predefined keyword 
is given. You can also change the typography of the keywords.  The 
environment allows you to have vertical lines delimiting block of 
instructions.  It defines also different sort of algorithms such as 
Procedure or Function allowing name of this functions to be reused in 
common text or other algorithms.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/algorithm2e
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jun 18 11:08:09 2004
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:56:14 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: Autoconf for LaTeX

The package described below has been update on tug.ctan.org and should
shortly make its way to your favorite mirror.

Please note in particular the change of location from tools to support;
I put the prior version in the wrong place.  I appreciate the
correction.

Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: Autoconf for LaTeX
Author's name: Boretti Mathieu
Location on CTAN: /support/autoconf
Summary description: Autoconf macros to test for the presence of LaTeX
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
New release of Autoconf for LaTeX.

Autoconf for LaTeX is a set of M4 macro for autoconf that can check if LaTeX 
is installed or if some features work.

This new release add autoconf macro to test much more program and to find 
a location where to install new package and class (path to the texmf folder)
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/autoconf
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

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From zierke@dante.de Mon Jun 21 03:26:55 2004
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:24:58 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- NEdit LaTeX Extensions update

----- Forwarded message from Joerg Fischer -----
I have uploaded an update for the NEdit LaTeX Extensions at
ftp.dante.de to /support/NEdit-LaTeX-Extensions/.

The new version is 0.8a. License is GPL. This version is triggered
by a bug report. Using large bib files containing @String can lock
NEdit (sorry for this). For all changes see the Changelog.

Please remove all of the files in the NEdit LaTeX Extensions folder
and add the submitted files to this folder.

Text for announcement:

The NEdit LaTeX-Mode is a package or set of macros, i.e. small
programs, written in the NEdit macro or scripting language.
It will turn NEdit, the Nirvana text editor, into an advanced
LaTeX editor. 

Version 0.8a fixes some problems. If you have downloaded version
0.8, it will be enough to come to  
http://nedit.gmxhome.de/latexmode.html
and download only the changed files (instead of the whole package).
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
previous version in CTAN:support/NEdit-LaTeX-Extensions.
However, I renamed the file Readme to README allowing it to be
automagically displayed by some web browsers.

Reinhard Zierke
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From zierke@dante.de Mon Jun 21 03:34:29 2004
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:33:45 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: MnSymbol

----- Forwarded message from Achim Blumensath -----
Name of contribution: MnSymbol
Name and email: Achim Blumensath <blume@i7.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/MnSymbol
Summary description: math symbol font for Adobe MinionPro
License type: pd

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
MnSymbol is a math symbol font designed for use in conjunction with
Adobe MinionPro. It includes most symbols from cmsy, cmex, and the AMS
symbol fonts.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed is at suggested in CTAN:fonts/MnSymbol

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From zierke@dante.de Thu Jun 24 03:27:58 2004
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:26:26 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: v1.1 of TeX Directory Structure document

----- Forwarded message from Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> -----
After a lengthy review process, I've released version 1.1 of the TeX
Directory Structure (TDS) document.

HTML: http://tug.org/tds/
PDF:  http://tug.org/tds/tds.pdf
DVI:  http://tug.org/tds/tds.dvi
sources and all output: ftp://tug.org/tex/tds/

It should propagate to CTAN (in the top-level tds directory) shortly.


Here is the summary of the non-editorial changes:

 * Inputs for TeX extensions included under `tex', instead of in their
   own top-level directories.

 * New top-level directory `scripts'.

 * New subdirectories `lig', `opentype', `truetype', and `type3' under `fonts'.

 * `enc', `lig', and `map' all use `SYNTAX/PACKAGE' subdirectories.

 * `pfm' files specified to go under `type1', and `inf' files under `afm'.

There is more information and rationale for each of these changes
cross-referenced in the document.


Happy TeX structuring,
Karl Berry (on behalf of the TDS working group)
----- End forwarded message -----

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From zierke@dante.de Thu Jun 24 12:27:13 2004
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:29:30 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: Tapir font

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Tapir
Name and email: mitek <mitek@email.cz>
Suggested location on CTAN: fonts
Summary description: A simple geometrical font
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
'Tapir' is a simple geometrical font mostly created from line and circular
segments with constant thickness.  The character set contains all characters
in the range 0-127 and also accented characters used in Czech language.

For a rendered example of the font see the file tapir.pdf.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this font in CTAN:fonts/tapir.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jun 24 09:46:00 2004
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:40:45 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: pst-math

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror real soon.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: pst-math
Author's name: Christophe Jorssen
Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-math
Summary description: Enhancement of postscript math operators to use 
   with pstricks
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Postscript lacks a lot of basic operators such as tan, acos, asin, cosh, 
sinh, tanh, acosh, asinh, atanh, exp (with e base).  Also, cos and sin 
give result in degrees.

pst-math provides all those operators in a header file pst-math.pro with 
wrappers pst-math.sty and pst-math.tex.

In addition, sinc, gauss, gammaln and bessel are implemented (only 
partially for the latter).  pst-math is designed essentially to work 
with pst-plot but can be used in whatever PS code (such as pstricks 
SpecialCoor "!", useful to put labels).

This work is in progress! PS is limited to single precision so complex 
operators like gammaln can give erroneous results. Any help on 
implementing double precision math in PS would be highly appreciated :-)
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-math
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jun 24 09:48:06 2004
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:44:26 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload 

Herbert Voss writes:

> I just uploaded pst-grad.tgz to the uk mirror.
> Please replace the following files.
> 
> 
> VERSION         /graphics/pstricks/
> pst-grad.pro    /graphics/pstricks/dvips/
> pst-grad.tex    /graphics/pstricks/generic/
> 
> 
> This new version has the option CircleGradient to
> build also circled gradients. It is the code which was
> published some time ago in the pstricks mailing list.

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

Robin Fairbairns

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jun 24 10:09:06 2004
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:07:10 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: stanpage

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should make its
way to your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: stanpage
Author's name: Georg Michael Verweyen
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/stanpage
Summary description: Produces standard pages with n lines, at most m 
  characters each. For instance the German "Normseite": 60 lines of 30 characters each.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
For translations, proofreading, journal contributions etc. standard pages 
are used. Those standard pages consist of a fixed number of lines and 
characters per line.  This package produces pages with n lines of at most m 
characters each. For instance the German "Normseite": 60 lines of 30 
characters each.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/stanpage
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jun 24 10:09:59 2004
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 14:08:39 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: mentis

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its 
way to your favorite mirror soon.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: mentis
Author's name: Georg Michael Verweyen
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mentis
Summary description: Provides adjustments for publishing at mentis 
  publishers in Paderborn, Germany.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This LaTeX class provides adjustments for publishing at mentis publishers 
in Paderborn, Germany.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mentis
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
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From zierke@dante.de Fri Jun 25 03:33:58 2004
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:32:21 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- pdfcrop v1.5

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek -----
I have uploaded `pdfcrop.zip' in the /incoming directory  
of ftp.dante.de.  

It replaces the files in CTAN:support/pdfcrop/

License remains LPPL 1.2

Current version is 1.5, changes:

2002/11/23 v1.3: Use of File::Spec module's "devnull" call.
2002/11/29 v1.4: Option --papersize added.
2004/06/24 v1.5: Clear map file entries so that pdfTeX
                 does not touch the fonts.
_______________________________________________

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
previous version pdfcrop 1.2 in CTAN:support/pdfcrop/

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jun 28 11:47:37 2004
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:45:52 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package name change: stanpage to stdpage

Please note that the stanpage package has been renamed stdpage.

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From zierke@dante.de Wed Jun 30 16:14:07 2004
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:14:09 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New release of the free TeX System VTeX/Free

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
============================================================
           VTeX/Free 8.44/8.46 for OS/2 and Linux
============================================================


A new release of the free TeX System VTeX/Free for OS/2 
and Linux (x86) is available from 

  ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/vtex

and will soon propagate to the other CTAN nodes.


About VTeX/Free
----------------
VTeX/Free is a TeX distribution, which is built around the
VTeX program.  VTeX is an implementation of the TeX
typesetting engine, including the eTeX extensions.  VTeX can
generate PDF or PostScript output immediately from the TeX
source file.  The distribution includes Plain TeX, a LaTeX
system with many additional packages and fonts, and the 
Bibtex and Makeindex programs.  VTeX is developed by 
MicroPress Inc.

In contrast to traditional TeX systems, no intermediate DVI
files need to be generated, no "DVI driver programs" are
required, and there is no need to take care of their
sometimes fussy setup.  The common PostScript and PDF
viewers Ghostscript and Adobe Reader (Acrobat) are to be
used for (pre)viewing and printing.  Output from VTeX is
immediately suitable for public distribution, e.g., over the
www, since PDF and PostScript are standardized document
formats.

Actually, VTeX/Free is a port of MicroPress' commercial TeX
system VTeX for the Windows platform, see
<http://www.micropress-inc.com>.  However, the free
distribution does not include the GUI and certain tools of
VTeX/Win, and it does not support HTML and SVG generation.

VTeX/Free comes in two variants:

* VTeX/2 is for the OS/2 operating system
* VTeX/Lnx is for Linux (on the x86 platform only)

VTeX has a built-in Postcript interpreter and supports 

* inclusion of PostScript images,
* inclusion of PDF images,
* inclusion of bitmap images (PNG, JPG, TIFF and others),
* inline PostScript programming.

Thus, packages such as PStricks, PSfrag and draftcopy can be
used with VTeX.  and are part of the distribution.  The
hyperref features are supported in both PDF and PostScript
mode.  PDF encryption is available without external tools.

Beside the standard Computer Modern fonts, VTeX/Free
includes lots of other free Type1 fonts and the macro
packages to use them:

* European Computer Modern (EC/TC fonts)
* URW's clones of the 35 PostScript base fonts
* Pazo Math fonts
* the AMS math fonts (Symbols, Euler, Fraktur and others)
* various special math fonts: RSFS, WASY, St-Mary-Road,
  Doublestroke, esint, esvect
* the Ibycus&nbsp;4 system and its Greek typefaces
* the ArabTeX system with Arab and Hebrew typefaces
* the CJHebrew package with Hebrew typefaces
* TIPA (phonetic) typefaces
* BrushScriptX-Italic
* various symbol fonts:  MarVoSym, Cheq, Context navigation
  symbols, MF-Logo


What is new in the currect release?
-----------------------------------
* v8.44 of the VTeX compiler for OS/2, v8.46 on Linux
* latest LaTeX
* additional fonts: Fourier, CJHebrew, esint
* ... and more, see the file
  <ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/vtex/NEWS>


NB:  The previous distribution site ftp.uni-erlangen.de 
is NO LONGER IN USE.  Please, do not attempt to download
VTeX/Free from this site any longer!
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jul  1 09:32:19 2004
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:30:21 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: m-bib

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should be spreading
to other sites even as you read this.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: m-bib
Author's name: Taco Hoekwater
Location on CTAN: macros/context/contrib/bib
Summary description: ConTeXt bibliography module
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the ConTeXt bibliography module. There is nothing really new in 
this release, just a (re)packaging for CTAN. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/context/contrib/bib
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul  1 15:08:16 2004
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 20:06:31 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de, texhax@tug.org
Cc: Jim Hefferon <jim@joshua.smcvt.edu>
Subject: tug.ctan.org/www.ctan.org out

Jim Hefferon's just reported that the machine has been "fried" by a
storm.

He doesn't know how long it will take to get things back on the air
again.

In the mean time, there's still cam.ctan.org/dante.ctan.org (for ftp)
and www.tex.ac.uk and www.dante.de for web access.

I fear that www.tex.ac.uk's CTAN search is currently broken, and dante
doesn't have one :-(

Report problems to ctan@dante.de, please.  I'll try and get the CTAN
search here going again this evening (I had intended to sneak a copy
off Jim :-( )

Robin Fairbairns

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jul  1 15:11:07 2004
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 21:10:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: ctan@dante.de, Jim Hefferon <jim@joshua.smcvt.edu>
Subject: (no subject)

After a bad storm, the US main CTAN node alan.smcvt.edu is out of
service. In particular, the web interface at www.ctan.org cannot be
reached.

We apologize for the interruption. We will post an announcement when the
machine is operational again.

 For the CTAN Team
   Rainer Sch�pf
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul  1 17:14:09 2004
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:13:11 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de, texhax@tug.org
Subject: CTAN catalogue search

I've got an old copy of Jim Hefferon's excellent catalogue search from
www.ctan.org; it's been off the air for a bit, but is now available
again at http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTANfind.html

Does what you need, I think, though it's undoubtedly less pretty than
Jim's current thing (which is on a machine that's currently not
working...).

Robin Fairbairns

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jul  2 09:14:23 2004
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:20:05 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: tug.ctan.org/www/ctan.org out

The tug.ctan.org machine is back up, thanks to help from the IT staff
here at St Michael's College.  We had some strong lightening last night, 
which fried the power supply, and they kindly replaced it.

Sorry about the downtime.

Jim Hefferon
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From zierke@dante.de Mon Jul  5 03:27:43 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 09:26:23 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: xcolor 2.00

----- Forwarded message from Uwe Kern -----

Name of contribution: xcolor 2.00
Name and email: Uwe Kern <xcolor@ukern.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/
Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
`xcolor' provides easy driver-independent access to several kinds of
colors, tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary colors by means of
color expressions like \color{red!50!green!20!blue}.
It allows to select a document-wide target color model and offers tools
for automatic color schemes, conversion between nine color models,
alternating table row colors, color blending and masking, and color
separation.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload; I installed the new version of this package as
suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/

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From zierke@dante.de Mon Jul  5 15:41:40 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 10:09:22 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: xcolor 2.00 (addendum)

Uwe Kern asked me to add the list of changes to the xcolor 2.0
accouncement of a few minutes ago.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
2004/07/04 v2.00
* New features:
    - extended functionality for color expressions: mix colors like a
      painter;
    - support for color blending: specify color mix expressions that
      are being blended with every displayed color;
    - \xglobal command for selective control of globality for color
      definitions, blends, and masks;
    - multiple step operations (e.g. \color{foo!!+++}) and access to
      individual members (e.g. \color{foo!![7]}) in color series;
    - \providecolor command to define only non-existent colors;
    - \definecolorset and \providecolorset commands to facilitate the
      construction of color sets with common underlying color model;
    - additional 147 predefined color names according to SVG 1.1
      specification;
    - `xpdfborder' key for setting the width of hyperlink borders in a
      more driver-independent way if `dvips' is used.
* Changes:
    - `color' package now completely integrated within `xcolor';
    - `override', `usenames', `nodvipsnames' options and \xdefinecolor
      command no longer needed;
    - `dvips' and `dvipsnames' options now independent of each other;
    - \tracingcolors's behaviour changed to make it more versatile and
      reduce log file size in standard cases;
    - \rdivide's syntax made more flexible (divide by numbers and/or
      dimensions);
    - code restructured, some internal commands renamed;
    - documentation rearranged and enhanced.
* Bugfixes:
    - \definecolor{foo}{named}{bar} did not work (error introduced in
      v1.11);
    - more robust behaviour of conditionals within `pstricks'
      key-values.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

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From zierke@dante.de Mon Jul  5 06:09:01 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 10:25:28 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: epmtfe.zip (EPM TeX Front End 4.2)

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the archive file epmtfe.zip to the /incoming 
directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack the uploaded 
ZIP file in the CTAN directory:

	systems/os2/epmtfe

(Please, do not unpack the enclosed archives.)

This is version 4.2 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.  Two flavors of the TeX Front End are provided:

* "classic":  for use with any TeX system, 
  including emTeX and VTeX/2

* "VTeX":  for use with VTeX/2 _only_,  
  making the use of this system particularly convenient

Each variant is available with English or German user 
interface.  

Changes over the previous version 4.0 are listed in the 
file NEWS.  
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
previous version in CTAN:systems/os2/epmtfe

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jul  6 15:20:38 2004
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:35:15 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: newlfm

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make its way 
to your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: newlfm
Author's name: Paul Thompson
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/newlfm
Summary description: Produces letters, faxes and memos
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.0 of newlfm is announced. 

Several improvements have been included in this version.
* Letterhead and non-letterhead pages can now have quite different dimensions. 
* Multiple signatures are now supported.
* The manual has been rewritten to attempt to make the program clearer.

Several minor fixes have also been included.  
* A number of dimensions have been fixed to actually work.
* Labels now work a little better.

Users of newlfm are urged to upgrade to Version 8.0.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/newlfm
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jul  8 11:48:18 2004
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:46:30 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: SmileTeX

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

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: SmileTeX
Author's name: Christian Sch�ler
Location on CTAN: nonfree/support/smiletex
Summary description: creates LaTeX documents and more from simple texts
License type: nosource

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
SmileTeX is a small compiler for win32 systems, which takes simple text 
files and creates LaTeX documents and furthermore PDF, DVI and HTML 
documents from them.  It automatically calls all tools necessary to 
include nearly all types of images and Excel tables, it recognizes 
equations, hyperlinks, sections, lists, special characters, references, 
long comments, table of contents, colors, etc. Additionally, it comes 
with a WinEdt highlighting scheme and menus.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/support/smiletex
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From zierke@dante.de Fri Jul  9 07:08:01 2004
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:06:33 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Version 2.21 of beamer and version 0.62 of pgf

Till Tantau wrote:

> I have put version 2.21 of beamer on 
> fpt://ftp.dante.de/incoming/latex-beamer-2.21.tar.gz. 
> 
> I have put version 0.62 of pgf on 
> fpt://ftp.dante.de/incoming/pgf-0.62.tar.gz. 
> 
> These versions work together (and require) xcolor 2.00. Also, there are some 
> minor bugfixes in pgf.

Thanks for the upload.  I installed both packages on CTAN replacing the
previous versions in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer/ and
CTAN:graphics/pgf
 
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From zierke@dante.de Mon Jul 12 08:19:02 2004
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:17:02 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: ltxindex

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: ltxindex
Name and email: J.L.Rivera
Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ltxindex
Summary description: A LaTeX package to typeset indices with GNU's Texindex
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
ltxindex is a macro package that allows the user to make indices with GNU's
Texindex program instead of makeindex. It provides the indexing commands
available in Texinfo by default. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for your upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ltxindex/

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jul 12 11:46:36 2004
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:44:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: revision of tugboat macros for latex

I've installed a revision of the tugboat macros in
macros/latex/contrib/tugboat

The macros should be used by anyone who wishes to submit a paper to
tugboat, or to a tug conference.

The installation contains revised documentation to go with the new
release.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN and TUGboat teams
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From zierke@dante.de Tue Jul 13 09:47:11 2004
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:45:38 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: movie15

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: movie15
Name and email: Alexander Grahn
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/movie15
Summary description: multimedia inclusion package
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
*This is an update to the previously uploaded package 
'moviez' with documentation added in PDF format. New 
package name 'movie15' has been chosen to reflect PDF-1.5 
compatibility. 
 
*Option 'autoplay' added to '\includemovie' command. It 
causes media clip to be started right after page has 
loaded. Useful for side by side movie clips to be played 
back synchronously. 
 
*Dependency on recent versions of ghostscript removed. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this new package as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/movie15

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jul 13 12:34:11 2004
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:33:00 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: courier-scaled

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

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: courier-scaled
Author's name: Herbert Schulz
Location on CTAN: fonts/ps-fonts/courier-scaled
Summary description: Provides a Scaled Courier Font similar to the 
  helvet package
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package sets the default typewriter font to courier with a possible 
scale factor; like the helvet package for Helvetica and sans serif.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive//fonts/ps-fonts/courier-scaled/
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jul 13 12:36:48 2004
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:36:07 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: SIstyle

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and it should soon make its way to
your favorite mirror.

Thank you again for the upload,
Jim

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: SIstyle
Author's name: Danie Els
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/SIstyle
Summary description: Package to typeset SI units, numbers and angles
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The SIstyle package typeset SI units, numbers and angles according to the 
ISO requirements. Care is taken with font setup and requirements.

Help with the definition of more locales will be grately appreciated.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/SIstyle
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jul 13 12:38:46 2004
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:38:04 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: MetaPlot

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: MetaPlot
Author's name: Brooks Moses
Location on CTAN: graphics/metaplot
Summary description: Plot-manipulation macros for use in Metapost.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
MetaPlot is a set of Metapost macros for manipulating pre-generated plots 
(and similar objects), and formatting them for inclusion in a Metapost 
figure.  The intent is that the plots can be generated by some outside 
program, in an abstract manner that does not require making decisions 
about on-page sizing and layout, and then they can be imported into MetaPlot 
and arranged using the full  capabilities of Metapost.  Metaplot also 
includes a very flexible set of macros for generating plot axes, which 
may be useful in other contexts as well.

Presently, MetaPlot is in something of a pre-release beta state; it is 
quite functional, but the syntax of the commands are still potentially 
in flux.  Bug reports and other suggestions would be most welcome!
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metaplot
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jul 13 12:41:06 2004
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:40:22 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: underbracket

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org.  It should make its
way to your favorite mirror real soon now.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: underbracket
Author's name: Bernd Feucht
Location on CTAN: macros/musixtex/taupin/add-ons/underbracket
Summary description: Draw brackets to underline (song) text
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The package underbracket.sty draws brackets to underline text (especially, 
but not exclusively, syllables of song text). It may be combined with 
musixtex/musixlyr, within the argument of the \setlyrics command or
 outside the music score.

The file underbracket.sty provides several macros to define brackets 
which may e.g. start/end centered below syllables. Three length variables 
are provided to allow a fine adjustment of the bracket parameters.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/musixtex/taupin/add-ons/underbracket
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul 13 15:53:55 2004
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:52:08 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Philipp Lehman <plehman@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: csquotes 2.2

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Philipp Lehman wrote:

 > I've uploaded 'csquotes.tar.gz' to DANTE incoming. This is an update for
 > macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. Please purge the old files, install the new
 > ones, and announce the upload as usual.
 >
 > Thank you very much.
 >
 > ABOUT
 >
 > The csquotes package:
 > * provides markup for inline quotations
 > * supports both control sequences and active characters
 > * toggles between inner and outer quotation marks for nested quotes
 > * interfaces with babel and adapts quotation marks as required
 > * features fully configurable quote styles and active characters
 >
 > CHANGES
 >
 > * Extended \DeclareQuoteStyle
 > * Added initialization hook for inner quotes
 > * Added support for middle inner quote marks
 > * Rearranged French quote styles, removing two variants
 > * Added new style variant for French
 > * Fixed bug that caused stacking of reset hook for footnotes
 > * Fixed bug that prevented hyphenation in certain places
 > * Fixed kerning issue specific to EC fonts


Thanks for the update, I installed it.


For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jul 14 11:24:57 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:23:22 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: assignment

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will soon make its
way throught the system to your favorite mirror.

Thanks again for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: assignment
Author's name: Madhusudan Singh
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/assignment
Summary description: A class file for typesetting homework and lab assignments
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A LaTeX class file for typesetting homework and lab assignments.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/assignment
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jul 14 16:08:23 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:05:35 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: pst-infixplot

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it will make its
way to your favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: pst-infixplot
Author's name: Jean-C�me Charpentier / Christophe Jorssen
Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-infixplot
Summary description: Using pstricks plotting capacities with infix expressions rather than RPN
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Plotting functions with pst-plot is very powerful but sometimes difficult 
to learn since the syntax of \psplot and \parametricplot requires some 
PostScript knowledge. What infix-RPN and pst-infixplot styles intend to 
do is to simplify the usage of pst-plot for the beginner, providing macro 
commands that convert natural mathematical expressions to PostScript syntax.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-infixplot
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 15 11:12:43 2004
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:57:04 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de, texhax@tug.org
Subject: version 3.12 of uk faq on ctan and web

i have just released version 3.12 of the faq; this is only a little
more than a month later than i had originally intended.

as usual the (limping) dynamic faq is available from
http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq, while sources, .pdf and other formats, and a
static html version of the faq are available from ctan help/uk-tex-faq

the change file for this version is appended

Robin Fairbairns

For the FAQ and CTAN teams

========================================================================

CHANGES-3.12

Changes in version 3.12

Acquiring the software
  Replace three "finding things" answers with a single "Finding
  (La)TeX files", which covers the ground of the old questions, but
  with a more nearly up-to-date emphasis.  This area needs more
  attention; "hints on regular expressions" from the old set is no
  more -- which probably doesn't matter (much) since almost no-one
  uses "quote site index" any longer.

Systems, etc.
  Expunge mention of the (defunct) 4allTeX CD-ROM under "editors and
  shells" (it had long since gone from CD-ROM answer).
  Mention the MikTeX CD from the CD-ROM answer.
  Tidied the answer about systems for macintoshes

Mathematics:
  Clarification of answer label mathsize (following c.t.t. thread)

Document structure (and similar places):
  Corrected stupid error in the example in Q-alreadydef

Installing (La)TeX files:
  Whole section moved up to before "Fonts" in the FAQ (rationalisation)

Macros:
  further explanation in Q-protect

New or revised packages (or just ones never before mentioned):
  MimeTeX mentioned (along with TechExplorer) in label mathml
  europecv mentioned in label cv
  highlight reference upgraded (because I now understand it better)
  chapterfolder mentioned in label docotherdir

Presentation:
  Web version now copes with tables (in a pretty simplistic way)

New answers:
subsection{Common errors}:
  label zerochap: "Why is my section numbering 0.1...?"
subsection{Common misunderstandings}:
  label tocloftwrong: "Numbers too large in table of contents, etc." (providing
    a link from the problem to the solution in answer label tocloft)
subsection{Creating bibliographies}:
  label buildbib: "Creating a BibTeX bibliography file"
subsection{Creating citations}:
  label usebibtex: "'Normal' use of BibTeX from LaTeX"
  label compactbib: "Reducing spacing in the bibliography"
  label bibtocorder: "Table of contents rearranges 'unsrt' ordering"
subsection{Generic macros and techniques}
  label ifpdf: "Am I using PDFTeX?"
section{The joy of TeX errors}:
  label altabcr: "Alignment tab changed to \cr"
  label manymathalph: "Too many math alphabets"
  label normalszmiss: "\normalsize not defined"
  label missbegdoc: "Missing \begin{document}"
  label divzero: "Graphics division by zero"
section{Current TeX-related projects}:
  label extex: outline description of the ExTeX project
  label xetex: outline description of the XeTeX project
subsection{Hyphenation}:
  label hyphexcept: use of, and pitfalls of, hyphenation exceptions
subsection{Page layout}:
  label outszwrng: the infamous "stupid acrobat reader" answer
subsection{LaTeX programming}:
  label ltxabbrv: latex "abbreviations" and (some of) their meanings
subsection{Alternative document classes}: 
  label slidecls: a set of hints on presentations
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From zierke@dante.de Fri Jul 16 07:30:59 2004
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:29:35 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: struktex

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:05:58PM +0200, ctan-upload wrote:
> Name of contribution: struktex
> Name and email: Jobst Hoffmann
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/struktex
> Summary description: a package to generate Nassi Shneidermann structure charts
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Even in the age of OOP one must develop algorithms. Nassi Shneidermann structure charts are a well known tool to describe an algorithm in a graphical way. This packages presents some macros for generating those structure charts in a LaTeX document
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installd the new package in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/struktex/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team
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From zierke@dante.de Fri Jul 16 08:56:31 2004
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:55:33 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: FeatPost

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: FeatPost
Name and email: L. Nobre G.
Suggested location on CTAN: graphics/metapost/macros/featpost
Summary description: FeatPost is an extension of the MetaPost language, works in three dimensions and has several features to facilitate the production of physics schemes.
License type: GNU Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Producing large numbers of pictures for animations to be shown at TUG2004
revealed some bugs in some macros. Only ashes of bugs remain in
"tropicalglobe" and "smoothtorus".
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:graphics/metapost/macros/featpost

Reinhard Zierke
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From zierke@dante.de Fri Jul 16 08:58:05 2004
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:57:31 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: movie15

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: movie15
Name and email: Alexander Grahn
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex2e/contrib/
Summary description: PDF-1.5 compatible multimedia inclusion
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Options added: autopause,autostop,autoresume (for page 
open/close events). 
Implementation of autoplay slightly changed. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/movie15

Reinhard Zierke
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jul 16 12:42:48 2004
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:40:55 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: splitbib

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

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: splitbib
Author's name: Nicolas Markey
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/splitbib
Summary description: Split and reorder your bibliography
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package allows you to split a bibliography into several categories 
and subcategories. It does not depend on BibTeX, and any bibliography 
may be split and reordered.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/splitbib
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Jul 18 04:58:35 2004
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:56:22 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Axel Sommerfeldt <axel.sommerfeldt@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: The caption package 3.0c

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Axel Sommerfeldt wrote:

 > Name of contribution: The caption package 3.0c
 > Uploaded to: ftp.dante.de/incoming/caption.zip
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/caption
 >    (Please delete all the old files in this directory)
 > Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments
 > License type: lppl
 >
 > Abstract:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions
 > in floating environments like figure and table and cooperates with
 > many other packages.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Changes:
 >
 > - Bugfix: \rotcaption* did not work if the caption package was loaded *after*
 >    the rotating package.
 > - Bugfix: sideways-captions did not work at all if the caption package was
 >    loaded *after* the sidecap package.
 >    (NOTE: info/examples/LaTeX_Companion_2ed/6-5-15.ltx did not compile with v3.0b!)
 > - Bugfix: Old documents using the caption package and the captcont package
 >    should compile fine now.
 >    (NOTE: New documents should use \ContinuedFloat instead of \captcont)
 > - Improvement: Minimal adaption for use with the memoir document class

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

For the CTAN Team
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 18 17:04:33 2004
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 22:03:16 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: mimeTeX 

John Forkosh writes:

>   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
>              Please replace both existing files (mimetex.zip and README)
>              in support/mimetex, and please   unzip mimetex.zip README
>              and then 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.
>          Various new features and fixes, including \mathbb font,
>          nested arrays (e.g., for block diagonal matrices), etc.
>       ----------------------------------------------------
>        From the original submission...
>          MimeTeX facilitates easily embedding LaTeX math in html pages.
>          It parses a LaTeX math expression and immediately emits a gif
>          (or xbitmap) image of it, rather than the usual TeX dvi.
>             And mimeTeX is an entirely separate little program that's
>          very easy to install -- it's just one cgi that you put in your
>          site's cgi-bin/ directory, with no other dependencies.  And it's
>          equally easy to use -- just place an html <img> tag in your
>          document wherever you want to see the corresponding LaTeX
>          expression.  For example,
>            <img src="../cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^xe^{-t^2}dt"
>             border=0 align=absmiddle>
>          immediately generates the corresponding image on-the-fly,
>          and displays it wherever you put that <img> tag, without
>          needing intermediate dvi-to-gif conversion, and without
>          creating separate gif files for each converted expression.
>          See
>                   http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html
>          for many examples demonstrating mimeTeX's features and usage.

now installed; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

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From zierke@dante.de Mon Jul 19 09:08:39 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:06:12 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload -- enumitem 1.0 and esindex 1.1

----- Forwarded message from Javier Bezos -----
I've uploaded to the DANTE server the files

esindex.sty
esindex.tex
README

(zipped as bezos.zip) which should be replace the files currectly under

/macros/latex/contrib/bezos

===============================================================
With esindex you can write, say, \esindex{ca��n} and the
entry will be correctly alphabetized. This release of esindex
works with accented characters in any encoding, or so I hope,
and without babel.
===============================================================

I've uploaded to the DANTE server the 4 files

enumitem.sty
enumitem.tex
enumitem.pdf
README

(zipped as enumitem.zip) which should be placed under the new directory
 
/macros/latex/contrib/enumitem

Note this package is not placed under contrib/bezos any more.

===============================================================
Enumitem is package to customize the three basic lists
(enumerate, itemize and description) by means of a set
of parameters.

It provides most of the flexibility you may want to
design your own lists:
- fancy labels and fancy refs,
- leftmargin, labelsep and labelwidth automatically set,
- changes applied globally or only in one of the three
  types or even in a single list (including topsep) by
  means of a sort of "inheritance",
- several description styles (which fix some bad
  spacing, too),
- starting value and resuming the counter,
- trivlists properly formatted,
- control on page breaking
===============================================================
----- End forwarded message -----

Thank you very much for the upload.  I installed the files as suggested
in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/bezos/ and CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/enumitem/.

The latter package moved from the "common" directory macros/latex/contrib/bezos
to a place of its own.

Reinhard Zierke
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jul 19 11:29:55 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:28:47 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: tug.ctan.org upload: latexrender

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

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LatexRender
Author's name: Steve Mayer
Location on CTAN: support/latexrender
Summary description: Use LaTeX in PHP programs
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
LatexRender is a set of scripts that allows one to call LaTeX from PHP 
programs; in particular, this allows users to enter LaTeX commands in a 
forum and, on posting, have it replaced by a suitable gif or png. 
LatexRender requires LaTeX and ImageMagick to be installed. The open 
source PHP code was originally designed for use with phpBB, but it can be 
adapted for use with other PHP programs. Details and Example 
Installations are given at 
http://www.mayer.dial.pipex.com/tex.htm#latexrender 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexrender
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jul 19 11:43:26 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:42:39 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: algorithms

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: algorithms
Author's name: Peter Williams
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/algorithms
Summary description: Macros for describing algorithms and a float to encapsulate them
License type: lgpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package provides two environments, "algorithmic" and "algorithm", 
which are designed to be used together but may be used separately. The 
"algorithmic" environment provides an environment for describing algorithms 
and the "algorithm" environment provides a "float" wrapper for algorithms 
(implemented using "algorithmic" or some other method at the author's 
option).  The reason that two environments are provided is to allow the 
author maximum flexibility.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/algorithms
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul 20 03:54:28 2004
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:52:30 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Dirk Krause <krause.dirk@web.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: bmeps-1.0.8

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 an update to the bmeps package was submitted.

 > Name of contribution: bmeps-1.0.8
 > Name and email: Dirk Krause
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /support/bmeps
 > Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS
 > License type: lgpl
 > 
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > bmeps is a converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS.
 > This update fixes two bugs: (1) a memory leak in the
 > pnmeps module, the memory allocated for the PNM image
 > was not freed and (2) uninitialized pointers to colormaps
 > in the jpgeps module.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed it in 

   support/bmeps

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul 20 04:08:46 2004
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:07:35 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Gunther Maier <gunther.maier@wu-wien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: maketable

A new package has been installed on CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: maketable
 > Name and email: Gunther Maier
 > Summary description: convert Word or Excel tables to TeX tabular structures
 > License type: dfsg
 > 
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > MAKETABLE helps in converting tables in Word, Excel, etc. to a tabular
 > structure for TeX. Copy your table in Word, Excel, etc. and paste it 
 > into a data grid in MAKETABLE. Click a button to convert the data grid 
 > to the tabular structure, then copy and paste it into your TeX editor.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in

  support/maketable

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Jul 21 14:51:05 2004
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:49:42 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: ttb

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

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: splitbib
Author's name: Markey Nicolas
Location on CTAN: info/biblio/ttb/
Summary description: A manual about bibliographies and especially BibTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
An (as-complete-as-possible) manual about bibliographies
in LaTeX, and thus mainly about BibTeX.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/biblio/ttb/
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jul 22 12:54:32 2004
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:52:51 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: functan

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

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: functan
Author's name: Antoine Lejay
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/functan
Summary description: macros for functional analysis and PDE theory
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The goal of this package is to provide a convenient 
and coherent way to deal with name of functional spaces
(mainly Sobolev spaces) in functional analysis and PDE theory.
It also provides a set of macros for dealing with
norms, scalar products and convergence with some
object oriented flavor (it gives the possibility 
to override the standard behavior of norms, ...).
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/functan
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jul 22 15:39:42 2004
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:38:20 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN: ttb changes 

The package that I installed yesterday as info/biblio/ttb has been
put in info/bibtex/tamethebeast .  You can look at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/bibtex/tamethebeast
Note in particular that the .pdf now works.  (Who knew that saving a
.pdf from acrobat by printing to a file would cause it to come out
as "PostScript document text conforming at level 3.0"?)

Thank you to the folks who noticed the error,
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jul 24 16:11:03 2004
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:09:22 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: cam.ctan.org upload: probsoln 

> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20040724-182436/
> 
> ======================================================================
> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: probsoln
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/probsoln
> Summary description: generate problem sheets and their solution sheets
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The package probsoln.sty is designed for lecturers who have to
> generate new problem sheets for their students on a regular basis
> (e.g. yearly) by randomly selecting a specified number of problems
> defined in another file.  This means that you can easily generate a
> new problem sheet that is different from the previous year, thus
> alieviating the temptation of students to seek out the previous
> year's students and checking out their answers. The solutions to the
> problems can be defined along with the problem, making it easy to
> generate the solution sheet from the same source code.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> You can have a look at the package at
>   http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/probsoln
> although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
> of CTAN that is near to you; see 
>   http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

thanks for the upload.  i've now installed it as i've indicated.

Robin Fairbairns

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul 27 15:11:42 2004
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:09:42 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Frederik Tilmann <tilmann@esc.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: latexdiff

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 Frederik Tilmann submitted a new package to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: latexdiff
 > Suggested location on CTAN: support
 > Summary description: latexdiff - determine and mark up significant differences between latex files
 > License type: gpl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > latexdiff is a script-based system for visual mark up and revision of
 > significant differences between two latex files.
 >
 > latexdiff is a PERL script, which compares two latex files and marks
 > up significant differences between them.  Various options are
 > available for visual markup using standard latex packages such as
 > "color.sty". Changes not directly affecting visible text, for example
 > in formatting commands, are still marked in the latex source.
 >
 > A rudimentary revision facilility is provided by another PERL script,
 > latexrevise, which accepts or rejects all changes.  Manual
 > editing of the difference file can be used to override this default
 > behaviour and accept or reject selected changes only.
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed your package in

  support/latexdiff

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul 27 15:17:55 2004
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:16:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Marcou Gilles <gilles_marcou@yahoo.fr>, Antonio Pereira <pereira_antonio_pereira@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: CVsty

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004  Marcou Gilles and Antonio Pereira
submiited a new package to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: CVsty
 > Summary description: Yet another sty for easy CV pagination
 > License type: pd
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This package contains a proposition for making CV presentation more
 > easy. The sty file define new space for the page, and allows new
 > control of the presentation. A tex file give an example of CV. Yet, a
 > CV reflects your personality. We encourage you to edit that sty and
 > modify it as you prefer and to play with pagination of your CV as much
 > as possible.
 >
 > Have Fun!
 >
 > G. Marcou, A. Pereira
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your submission. I installed your package as

  macros/latex/contrib/cvsty

(macros/latex/contrib/cv already being there )


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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Jul 27 15:34:51 2004
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:33:42 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Hans Fredrik Nordhaug <hansfn@mi.uib.no>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: TeXPower bundle version 0.1b

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 Hans Fredrik Nordhaug submitted an update to the
texpower package to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: TeXPower bundle version 0.1b
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/texpower
 > Summary description: Creating dynamic online presentations with LaTeX
 > License type: gpl
 >
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The TeXPower bundle consists of the TeXPower package, the powersem
 > class and the tpslifonts package. The main author is Stephan Lehmke.
 >
 > Changes in texpower.sty since v0.0.9d:
 >
 >  - Removed font stuff (now resides in tpslifonts.sty).
 >  - Fixed display errors with some packages like pdfscreen  related to \shipout
 >  - Color management extended a little to integrate better with LaTeX.
 >  - Made \step-like commands give better error messages when outside \stepwise.
 >  - Moved source to dtx-format. This made the examples/demos much easier to read.
 >
 > Other changes in texpower bundle since v0.0.9d:
 >
 >  - powersem.cls and tpslifonts.sty now in dtx format. (No other changes.)
 >  - tpslifonts documentation moved out of manual.tex and into tpslifonts.dtx
 >  - manual updated, only minor changes.
 >  - tplists.sty. New (experimental) addon package for texpower which provides easy
 >    dynamic lists.  Currently there are stepped, flipped and dimmed versions of
 >    itemize and enumerate (and corresponding lists from the eqlist and paralist
 >    package).
 >
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your upload, I installed the new version in

  macros/latex/contrib/texpower

The old version in macros/latex/exptl/texpower I replaced with a symlink
to the new version.

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Jul 29 05:32:14 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:30:27 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Dirk Krause <krause.dirk@web.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: bmeps-1.0.9

Dirk Krause uploaded a new version of his bmeps package.

 > Name of contribution: bmeps-1.0.9
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /support/bmeps
 > Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS
 > License type: lgpl
 > 
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This update minimizes interferences between the image produced
 > by bmeps and the enclosing document by: (1) suppressing the
 > showpage operator unless required explicitely (option -o),
 > (2) undefining the /pstr and /inputf dictionary entries
 > after usage and (3) using a separate dictionary which is 
 > removed at the end of file (Option -u). Garbage collection via
 > "1 vmreclaim" can be forced using the -r option.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

The new version has been installed in

  support/bmeps

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 29 07:24:49 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:23:48 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload 

Herbert Voss writes:

> I am just uploading pst-3dplot.tgz to the UK mirror.
> Please delete _all_ files in the directory
> 
> graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/
> 
> and put the new ones in there.

i've installed the new files as requested.

> The 1.35 version of pst-3dplot, a PSTricks related package
> contains several bugfixes (spurious blanks) and provides
> now ticklines and labels for the 3D-axes.

thanks for the upload.

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 29 07:30:01 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:29:17 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de, texhax@tug.org
Subject: cam.ctan.org, {ftp,rsync,www}.tex.ac.uk down sun 1 aug

the central cambridge university switches, etc., will all be down from
about 08:00 to 17:00 next sunday 2004-08-01.  the university will keep
needing more central facilities and the entire backup power supply is
to be replaced.  as a result, all the cambridge ctan services will be
inaccessible for that period.  (we don't take power from the centre,
so at least our machines ought to survive the down-time.)

my apologies for the inconvenience; among other things, it will allow
even more under-used bandwidth to the cambridge ctan.

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 29 16:33:18 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:55:10 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: acronym-1.13 uploaded 

Tobias Oetiker writes:

> I have uploaded acronym-1.13 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/acronym-1.13.
> 
> If you think it is appropriate, announce it please.

i renamed "readme" to  "README" for the benefit of the web server, but
otherwise i've installed exactly what you uploaded in
macros/latex/contrib/acronym

thanks for the upload.

i think the changes are enough to justify advertisement to the world
at large:

> Recent Changes:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Version 1.13 (July 2004): deflist renamed to AC@deflist to
> avoid unnecessary nameing conflict.
> --  Peter May <peter.may@philips.com>
> 
> Version 1.13 (July 2004): printonlyused was not working anymore
> --  Tobi Oetiker <oetiker@ee.ethz.ch>
> 
> Version 1.13 (July 2004): if the footnote option was on, footnotes were
> printed for ALL acronyms ALL the time, this looked rather odd if the same
> acronym was used more than once on the same page. Changed it so that
> footnote printing follows the same rules as normal acronym printing (only
> print footnote first time). One might think about changeing this, so that
> either footnotes get printed 'once' per page. Or that the footnote marks are
> issued once per acronym and page, so that all instances of the same acronym
> on a page get the same footnote mark. Feel free to contribute patches.
> --  Tobi Oetiker <oetiker@ee.ethz.ch>
> 
> Version 1.12 (June 2004): Make acronyms robust and compatible
> with pdf bookmarks.
> --  Danie Els <dnjels@sun.ac.za>

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 29 18:49:59 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 23:48:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: cam.ctan.org upload: glossary 

Nicola Talbot writes (through the magic of the upload daemon):

> Name of contribution: glossary
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/glossary
> Summary description: Create a glossary
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The package glossary.sty is provided to assist generating a glossary
> with makeindex. It has a certain amount of flexibility allowing the
> user to customize the format of the glossary and define new
> glossary-style objects so that you can have more than one type of
> glossary in your document. 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> You can have a look at the package at
>   http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossary/
> although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
> of CTAN that is near to you; see 
>   http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

thanks for the upload; installed as requested.

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Aug  1 14:00:29 2004
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 19:58:25 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: Ednotes

Uwe L�ck submitted an update to the package ednotes.

Ednotes is a macro package for typesetting scholarly critical
editions. It provides macros for critical edition typesetting with LaTeX,
including support for line numbers and layers of footnotes.

Description of the update:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
 (i) mfparptc.sty bug fix.
 (ii) new mfparxsp.sty describes spacing bug of most
      para-footnote macros and supplies an interim remedy.
 (iii) draft of TUGboat article provides usage instructions
       as well as comparisons with similar packages.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Aug  1 14:06:49 2004
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:05:34 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Dekel Tsur <dekelts@cs.haifa.ac.il>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ldiff

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 Dekel Tsur submitted to CTAN:

Name of contribution: ldiff
Suggested location on CTAN: support/ldiff
Summary description: A script for marking the differences between two LaTeX files
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Ldiff (LaTeX diff) script takes two LaTeX (or LyX) files as input
and generate a Postscript file that contains the changes between the
two files: Text that appears in both files is shown in black, text
that appears only in the first file is shown in red and is crossed
out, and text that appears only in the second file is shown in blue.
Note that in some cases, Ldiff will not give correct results.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Aug  1 14:13:48 2004
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:12:40 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- numprint.sty

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded numprint-v1_21.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please replace the
 > old version in CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/numprint/. License stays LPPL.
 >
 > >From the README:
 >
 > Print numbers with a separator every three digits and convert numbers
 > given as 12345.6e789 to 12\,345,6\cdot 10^{789}. Numbers are printed
 > in the current mode (text or math) in order to use the correct font.
 >   Many things, including the decimal sign, the thousand separator, as
 > well as the product sign can be changed by the user, e.g., to reach
 > 12,345.6\times 10^{789}. If requested, numprint can round numbers to
 > a given number of digits.
 >   If an optional argument is given it is printed upright as unit.
 > Numbers can be rounded to a given number of digits.
 >   The package supports an automatic, language-dependent change of the
 > number format.
 >   Tabular alignment using the tabular(*), array, tabularx, and longtable
 > environments (similar to the dcolumn and rccol packages) is supported
 > using all features of numprint. Additional text can be added before and
 > after the formatted number.
 >
 >
 > Changes in this version:
 >
 > - Now, the language Portuguese is supported.
 > - Numbers can be padding by an arbitrary character on their left side to
 >   a given number of digits.
 > - Plain exponential numbers (e.g., \numprint{e5} => 10^5) may now contain
 >   signs (e.g., \numprint{+-e5} => \pm 10^5)

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Aug  1 14:18:27 2004
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:17:22 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- makebox.sty

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded makebox-v0_1.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the new
 > package makebox. Please copy the contents of the archive to
 > CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/makebox. License is LPPL.
 > The archive contains an xml file for the archive, the Makefile contains
 > the target texlive: for preparation of TeXLive.
 >
 > >From the README:
 >
 > Define a \makebox* command that does the same as a \makebox command
 > while the width is given by a sample text instead of an explicit length
 > measure.

Thanks for your pakcage, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/makebox

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Aug  2 08:38:23 2004
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:36:40 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Scott Pakin <scott+eqp@pakin.org>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: eqparbox

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 Scott Pakin submitted an update to his eqparbox 
package:

 > Name of contribution: eqparbox
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/eqparbox/
 > Summary description: Create equal-widthed parboxes
 > License type: lppl
 > 
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > LaTeX users sometimes need to ensure that two or more
 > blocks of text occupy the same amount of horizontal
 > space on the page.  To that end, the eqparbox package
 > defines a new command, \eqparbox, which works just like
 > \parbox, except that instead of specifying a width, one
 > specifies a tag.  All eqparboxes with the same tag --
 > regardless of where they are in the document -- will
 > stretch to fit the widest eqparbox with that tag.  This
 > simple, equal-width mechanism can be used for a variety
 > of alignment purposes, as is evidenced by the examples
 > in eqparbox's documentation.
 > 
 > Version 2.0 makes better use of TeX's memory, allows
 > numbers and symbols to appear in tags, preserves fonts
 > across \\ boundaries, and eliminates some incorrect
 > \global prefixes.
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed the new version.

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Aug  4 06:19:06 2004
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:17:18 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: FPL Fonts

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 Ralf Stubner submitted a new 
package to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: FPL Fonts
 > Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/fpl/
 > Summary description: SC and OsF fonts for URW Palladio L
 > License type: gpl
 > 
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The FPL Fonts provide a set of SC/OsF fonts for URW Palladio L which 
 > are compatible with respect to metrics with the Palatino SC/OsF fonts 
 > from Adobe. LaTeX support is provided by Walter Schmidt's improved 
 > Palatino metrics.  
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in 

  fonts/fpl

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Wed Aug  4 06:24:25 2004
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:23:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- contour.sty

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded contour-v2_00.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the new
 > version of contour.sty. Please replace the files in
 > CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/contour by its contents. License stays LPPL.
 > 
 > >From the README:
 > 
 > This package generates a colored contour around a given text in order
 > to enable printing text over a background without the need of a
 > color box around the text.
 > 
 > ChangeLog:
 > 
 > 2004/08/03  v2.00  Harald Harders (h.harders@tu-bs.de),
 > 		   Morten H�gholm (moho01ab@student.cbs.dk)
 > 	- Allow arbitrary numbers of copies and automatic determination of
 > 	  this number.

Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/contour 

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Aug  4 11:49:45 2004
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 15:48:17 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: ebib

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

Thank you for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: ebib
Author's name: Joost Kremers
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/utils/ebib
Summary description: Ebib is a BibTeX database manager for GNU Emacs
License type: bsd

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ebib is a BibTeX database manager that runs in GNU Emacs. With Ebib, you 
can create and manage a BibTeX database within Emacs, without having to 
edit the raw .bib-file. It supports @string and @preamble definitions, 
multi-line field values, searching, and integration with Emacs' (La)TeX 
mode.

Ebib's homepage is located at <http://ebib.sourceforge.net>.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/ebib
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Aug  6 10:23:11 2004
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 14:21:22 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: TeX Converter

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

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: TeX Converter
Author's name: Steve Mayer
Location on CTAN: nonfree/support/tex_converter
Summary description: Windows front-end to various LaTeX to HTML converters
License type: nosource

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
TeX Converter is a Windows front-end to 4 programs that convert TeX to 
HTML - HeVeA, TtH, TeX4ht and LaTeX2HTML.

These programs run in DOS and require complicated command lines. The 
purpose of TeX Converter is to make these programs easy to run.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/support/tex_converter
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From zierke@dante.de Sun Aug  8 03:25:55 2004
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 09:24:27 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: leaflet 1.0

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: leaflet 1.0
Name and email: Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk@ptb.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/leaflet
Summary description: Create small handouts (flyers)
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A document class to create small hand-outs (flyers) that
fit on a single sheet of paper which is then folded twice.
Pages are rearranged by LaTeX so that they print correctly
on a single sheet -- no external script is necessary.
(Works with PostScript and PDF.)

This is a complete reimplementation with permission of
the original author Juergen Schlegelmilch.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this as suggested replacing
Juergen Schlegelmilch's original version.

Reinhard Zierke
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From zierke@dante.de Sun Aug  8 03:40:58 2004
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 09:40:22 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: sauerj (several small packages)

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload@nova.dante.de -----
Name of contribution: SauerJ
Name and email: Jonathan Sauer <jonathan.sauer@gmx.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sauerj
Summary description: Three packages for LaTeX2e: parcolumns, processkv and zahl2string
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Three LaTeX2e packages I wrote recently:

- parcolumns provides an environment for typesetting text in two or
  more columns columns in parallel.

- processkv provides macros for processing of key-value-lists by
  calling a user-defined macro for each key-value-pair.

- zahl2string provides macros for formatting numbers as german words,
  i.e. `1' gets formatted as `eins'.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed these packages as suggested in
CTAN:tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sauerj/

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Aug  9 17:16:09 2004
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:35:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: FPL Fonts (fwd)

The following message is sent on behalf of Walter Schmidt:


=================================== schnipp ==================================

>  > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  > The FPL Fonts provide a set of SC/OsF fonts for URW Palladio L which
>  > are compatible with respect to metrics with the Palatino SC/OsF fonts
>  > from Adobe. LaTeX support is provided by Walter Schmidt's improved
>  > Palatino metrics.
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------

These metrics and VFs will be integrated into the
next version 9.2 of PSNFSS.  A pre-release can
be downloaded via

  <http://home.vr-web.de/was/psnfss.html>

Feedback is welcome :-)

Walter
================================ schnapp =====================================



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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Aug  9 17:32:08 2004
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:51:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "[ISO-8859-1] Lars Hellstr�m" <Lars.Hellstrom@math.umu.se>
Subject: Re: fontinst upload

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Lars Hellstr�m wrote:

 > I have to ftp.dante.de uploaded an archive fontinst.tar.gz into /incoming.
 > It contains the new fontinst release (v1.927), and the license is as usual
 > the LPPL.
 >
 > The main differences to the previous version are:
 >   * A bug that prevented running fontinst on eTeX has been fixed.
 >   * The manual has been revised (and is available also as PDF).
 >
 > Short quote from the README:
 >
 > Fontinst is a program that helps with installing fonts
 > for (La)TeX. Since it is written entirely in TeX macros,
 > it is completely portable.
 >
 > More precisely, fontinst helps mainly with the number
 > crunching and shoveling parts of font installation. This
 > means in practice that it creates a number of files which
 > give the TeX metrics (and related information) for a font
 > family that (La)TeX needs to do any typesetting in these
 > fonts. Fontinst furthermore makes it easy to create fonts
 > containing glyphs from more than one base font, taking
 > advantage of e.g. "expert" font sets.
 >
 > Fontinst cannot examine files to see if they contain any
 > useful information, nor automatically search for files
 > or work with binary file formats; those tasks must
 > normally be done manually or with the help of some other
 > tool, such as the pltotf and vptovf programs.

Thanks for the new version, I installed it as

  fonts/utilities/fontinst


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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Aug  9 17:38:53 2004
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:58:22 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- numprint.sty and nbaseprt.sty

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded numprint-v1_22-v0_10.tar.gz which contains a new version
 > of numprint and the new package nbaseprt. Please replace the files in
 > CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/numprint by the contents of the archive. License
 > is LPPL.
 >
 > >From the README:
 >
 > numprint.sty:
 > Print numbers with a separator every three digits and convert numbers
 > given as 12345.6e789 to 12\,345,6\cdot 10^{789}. Numbers are printed
 > in the current mode (text or math) in order to use the correct font.
 >   Many things, including the decimal sign, the thousand separator, as
 > well as the product sign can be changed by the user, e.g., to reach
 > 12,345.6\times 10^{789}. If requested, numprint can round numbers to
 > a given number of digits.
 >   If an optional argument is given it is printed upright as unit.
 > Numbers can be rounded to a given number of digits.
 >   The package supports an automatic, language-dependent change of the
 > number format.
 >   Tabular alignment using the tabular(*), array, tabularx, and longtable
 > environments (similar to the dcolumn and rccol packages) is supported
 > using all features of numprint. Additional text can be added before and
 > after the formatted number.
 >
 > If you prefer to use the old version 0.32 you may use numprint032.sty
 > which will stay fixed.
 >
 > nbaseprt.sty:
 > This package prints integer numbers in different bases (octal,
 > decimal, hexadecimal, binary) similarly to the numprint package.
 > But here, the number of digits within one group depends on the
 > base.
 >   This version of nbaseprt.sty is a BETA VERSION. The main command
 > \nbaseprint will stay stable but all configuration commands and the output
 > of \nbaseprint may change in future. Please give me feedback what can be
 > improved and if the abbreviations for the different number bases are
 > correct.
 >
 >
 > ChangeLog.numprint:
 >
 > 2004/08/08  v1.22  Harald Harders (h.harders@tu-bs.de)
 >         - Use \npunitcommand to typeset units.
 >         - Produce a warning rather than an error when using \textdegree as
 >           unit.
 >         - Enable to use \textcelsius, \textohm, \textmu, \textperthousand
 >           in the unit.
 >         - Print sign in a group to avoid additional space for an operator
 >           (for nbaseprt).
 >         - Restrain empty \color command to exponent.
 >
 >
 > ChangeLog.nbaseprt:
 >
 > 2004/08/08  v0.10  Harald Harders (h.harders@tu-bs.de)
 >         - New Implementation
 >
 >
 > nbaseprt is a beta version. Please give me feedback what can be improved
 > and if the input and output is correct.

Thanks for your upload. I installed the package in

  macros/latex/contrib/numprint


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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Aug  9 17:45:19 2004
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 23:04:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Georg Verweyen <Georg.Verweyen@web.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submision: DictSym font and macro package

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Walter Schmidt wrote:

 > I have uploaded the ZIP file dictsym-dist.zip to the /incoming
 > directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please, create a new directory
 >
 >         fonts/dictsym
 >

 >
 > This is the "DictSym" Type1 font designed by Georg Verweyen,
 > accompanied by a number of files to use it with LaTeX on the
 > Un*x or PC platform.  The font provides a number of symbols
 > commonly used in dictionaries.

Thanks for your upload. As requested, I installed the files in

  fonts/dictsym


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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Aug 12 04:14:30 2004
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:11:44 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: linenox0.sty, linenox1.sty

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 Uwe L�ck uploaded to CTAN:

 > Name of contribution: linenox0.sty, linenox1.sty
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ednotes/
 > Summary description: bug fix, \nopagebreak under lineno.sty
 > License type: LaTeX Project
 > 
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Former revival of \nopagebreak at paragraph ends with lineno.sty (which 
 > ednotes.sty calls) worked as if *each* paragraph had been closed by 
 > \nopagebreak. Here is a fix.---However, we are planning to dissolve 
 > these packages linenox0f..sty in lineno.sty in August anyway, at its 
 > author's, Stephan Boettcher's, offer.   
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I installed the two files in

  macros/latex/contrib/ednotes/

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Aug 12 10:22:08 2004
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:20:35 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN ahs a new package: FigBib

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

Thank you for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: FigBib
Author's name: Jan Poland
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/figbib
Summary description: organize figure databases with BibTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
FigBib lets you organize your figures in BibTeX databases. Some FigBib 
features are:
- - - Store and manage figures in a BibTeX database
- - - Include figures in your LaTeX document with one short command
- - - Generate a List of Figures containing more/other information than 
  the figure captions
- - - Control with one switch where to output the figures, either as usual 
  float objects or in a separate part at the end of your document

FigBib is for LaTeX authors who have to organize
many figures. In this case, it may not be convenient to manage all
information in a ``low level" manner directly in the documents.
Instead, it would be desirable to have a database which contains
the images, corresponding captions and additional information in a
bundled form. Then, a ``high-level" command is issued each time a
figure needs to be included.
 
FigBib provides such a mechanism. If the user wants to include a
figure with the label ``MyFigure:1" as a float object on the top
of the page with a width of 5cm, then he writes
  \fbEpsfig{MyFigure:1}{5cm}{t}
The corresponding data for the figure, such as caption, name of
the eps file etc., is stored in a BibTeX data base. There, the
entry could be for example
  @fig{MyFigure:1,
    main = {This is the description/caption},
    file = {myfigure1}
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/figbib
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Aug 13 04:22:33 2004
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:20:42 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Alexander Grahn <a.grahn@fz-rossendorf.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: movie15

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 Alexander Grahn submitted a new version of his package 
`movie15'':

 > Name of contribution: movie15
 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/movie15
 > Summary description: PDF-1.5 compatible multimedia inclusion package
 > License type: lppl
 > 
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This package defines the command '\includemovie' for  
 > inclusion of media files (movies and sound) following 
 > Adobe's PDF-1.5 specification. PDF-1.5 allows for a larger 
 > variety of file types to be included. Moreover, multiple 
 > media clips can be played back at the same time. The 
 > package can be used with LaTeX and pdfLaTeX, the latter 
 > being the preferred method. If LaTeX source is processed 
 > by pdfLaTeX, media file data are incorporated into PDF 
 > output by default, thus producing selfcontained PDF 
 > documents. Several options, e.g., autoplay, autostop, 
 > autoresume and autopause, repeat and volume have been 
 > provided.  
 >  
 > pdfLaTeX support has been added.
 > **********************************************************************

Thanks for the update.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Aug 16 10:53:47 2004
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:52:09 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: polynom

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

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: polynom
Author's name: Carsten Heinz
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/polynom
Summary description: Macros for manipulating polynomials
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The polynom package implements macros for manipulating polynomials, for 
example it can typeset polynomial long divisions and synthetic divisions 
(Horner's scheme). The main test case and application is the polynomial 
ring in one variable with rational coefficients. Multivariate polynomials
are currently not supported.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/polynom
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Aug 16 11:14:40 2004
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:13:55 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: ushyph

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and teh changes should soon be
at your favorite mirror.

Thank you for the upload,
Jim


======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: ushyph
Author's name: Gerard Kuiken
Location on CTAN: language/hyphenation
Summary description: extended US hyphenation patterns freely available
License type: dfsg

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
In 1990, Gerard Kuiken published extended patterns for hyphenation of US 
English (TUGboat 11(1)).  Gerard has now graciously agreed to release 
them under a Debian/FSF free license, hence this update.  

The patterns themselves are unchanged since 1990, though Gerard may 
release updates in the future for other incorrect hyphenations which 
have come to light.

The ushyphmax.tex file was previously known as ushyphen.max.

Thanks Gerard!

Happy hyphenating,
Karl Berry (just the release droid)
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Aug 16 12:03:08 2004
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:02:20 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package license clarification: tex_converter

The CTAN package tex_converter license has been set to be an X11 license,
and so the package now does not live in nonfree.

See
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/tex_converter
.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Aug 18 12:07:27 2004
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:05:39 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: filecontents

A package has been upgraded at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your 
favorite mirror.

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: filecontents
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/filecontents
Summary description: Improved version of LaTeX2e's filecontents environment
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
LaTeX2e's filecontents and filecontents* environments
enable a LaTeX source file to generate external files
as it's run through latex.  However, there are two
limitations of these environments: They refuse to
overwrite existing files; and, they can be used only
before the \documentclass declaration.  The
filecontents package removes these limitations, making
it possible to overwrite existing files and to use
filecontents/filecontents* anywhere.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/filecontents
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From zierke@dante.de Thu Aug 19 03:11:07 2004
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:09:34 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: sauerj (several small packages)

Name of contribution: sauerj (several small packages)
Name and email: Jonathan Sauer
Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sauerj
Summary description: Update for sauerj: optparams (new), parcolumns, processkv, zahl2string
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
These are a few LaTeX2e-packages for a variety of tasks:

- optparams provides a small macro for creating macros with multiple
  optional parameters.

  Current version: 0.9


- parcolumns provides an environment for typesetting text in two or
  more columns columns in parallel.

  Requires the processkv-package (below).

  Current version: 1.0.1


- processkv provides macros for processing of key-value-lists by
  calling a user-defined macro for each key-value-pair.

  Requires the keyval-package dated 1999/03/16 or later.

  Current version: 1.0.1


- zahl2string provides macros for formatting numbers as german words,
  i.e. `1' gets formatted as `eins'.

  Current version: 1.1
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new and updated packages as
suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/sauerj.

Reinhard Zierke
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Aug 19 15:25:26 2004
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:23:42 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: the exam document class

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and will by now 
be at your favorite mirror.

Thank you for the update.
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: The exam document class
Author's name: Philip Hirschhorn
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/exam
Summary description: A document class that makes it easy for even a 
  LaTeX novice to prepare exams.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is version 2.2 of the exam documentclass, a major extension of 
version 2.01.  Version 2.2 is fully backward compatible with version 2.01.

The exam documentclass, together with its documentation file
examdoc.tex, attempts to make it easy for even a LaTeX novice to prepare
exams.  Simple commands are provided to:

1. Create questions, parts of questions, subparts of parts, and 
subsubparts of subparts, all with optional point values.

2. Create a grading table, indexed either by question number (listing each 
question and the total possible points for that question) or by page 
number (listing each page with points and the total possible points for 
that page).

3. Create headers and footers that are each specified in three parts: 
One part to be left justified, one part to be centered, and one part to 
be right justified.

4. Headers and/or footers can be different on the first page of the exam, 
can be different on the last page of the exam, and can vary depending on 
whether the page number is odd or even, or on whether the current page 
continues a question from a previous page, or on whether the last q
uestion on the current page continues onto the following page.

5. Multiple line headers and/or footers are allowed, and it's easy to 
increase the part of the page devoted to headers and/or footers to 
allow for this.


The documentation file examdoc.tex attempts to explain all of the 
possibilities in a readable way, with many specific examples. 

- - --------------------------------------------------------------------

The main features of version 2.2 that are new since version 2.01 are:

1. Grading tables can be created automatically, formatted either 
horizontally or vertically, and indexed by either question number 
or page number.

2. Point values can be allocated in half points.

3. Headers and footers can know whether the current page continues a 
question begun on an earlier page (and, if so, the number of that 
question).

4. Headers and footers can know whether last question on the current 
page continues onto a later page (and, if so, the number of that 
question).

5. Point values for question, parts, subparts, or subsubparts can appear 
either in the text of the question, in the left margin, in the right 
margin on the first line of the question (or part, etc.), or in the 
right margin on the last line of the question (or part, etc.).

6. The format of the line containing the question number can be totally 
reformatted.

7. There are two environments for listing the possible answers to 
multiple choice questions: One lists the choices as items in a list, 
and the other lists all the choices in a single paragraph.  There is 
also a command to print an answer line for a short answer question.

8. There is an environment for printing ruled lines to be used for 
answers.

9. There is a solution environments in which one can type the solution 
to a problem and have it printed or not printed depending on a single 
command near the beginning of the file.  These environments can 
(optionally) leave either blank space or ruled lines when solutions are 
not being printed.

10. All of the labels for questions, parts, subparts, and subsubparts 
and all of the words used in grading tables can be completely 
customized, allowing for use in languages other than English.

11. There is a coverpages environment to print one or more cover pages 
numbered separately from the main pages of the exam.

12. The exam documentclass is compatible with hyperref.sty.

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/exam
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Aug 19 15:36:34 2004
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:28:24 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Matt and Lale Lovell <lovell@indra.com>
Subject: Re: Update to register package

Matt Lovell submitted an update of his package register.

This package is designed for typesetting the programmable
elements in digital hardware, i.e., registers.  Such registers
typically have many fields and can be quite wide; they are thus
a challenge to typeset in a consistent manner.  Register is
similar in some aspects to the bitfield package by Reuben Thomas.

Anyone doing hardware documentation using LaTeX should examine
both packages.  Register requires a fairly recent version of
the float package.

This update provides a new boolean which can be used to test against
being within the context of a register diagram.  The accompanying Perl
script and module have also been modified to allow extraction of LaTeX
dependencies for Makefiles.

Thanks for the upload, I installed it in

   macros/latex/contrib/register

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Aug 19 15:47:49 2004
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:47:07 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: t1infos

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

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

The author provides this information:
======================================================

       Two little programs written in C (using the t1lib) for scanning Type 1 
   fonts, and
       doing:
	 a) compute the "black area" of each glyph, with how much percent of 
   the square
	    containing the glyph is black.
	 b) checking if the "extremas" (see Adobe Type 1 specifications) of 
   the outline are
	    correct, and tell which one are missing.

       A postscript dictionary containing three algorithms for "automatic
   kerning"
       (the kerning is computed "on the fly" instead of being pre-computed by 
   an external
       software like TeX, groff or lout; very useful for some PostScript 
   hacking);
       two of them are quite classical ; one is original and is 
   Postscript-optimized.
       The postscript file contains both a demonstration code and the 
   dictionary itself;
       thus it can be previewed with gv.

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Aug 20 02:39:05 2004
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:36:25 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: OzTeX 5.2

Andrew Trevorrow writes:

> OzTeX 5.2 is now available at all the main CTAN sites:
> 
> ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/systems/mac/oztex/oztex52.sit
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/mac/oztex/oztex52.sit
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/mac/oztex/oztex52.sit
> 
> OzTeX is a stand-alone Mac implementation of TeX, or it can be used as
> a front-end to teTeX on OS X.
> 
> I try to keep the above download version as small as possible (the .sit
> archive is 13.2MB).  OzTeX 5.2 is also available on a CD packed with
> extra fonts, macros and TeX-related software, including Gerben Wierda's
> teTeX/Ghostscript installer.  More details here:
> 
> http://www.trevorrow.com/oztex/ozcd.html

andrew -- thanks for the contribution.

Robin Fairbairns

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From zierke@dante.de Mon Aug 23 10:34:26 2004
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:32:52 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: Voss-mathCol.pdf

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: Voss-mathCol.pdf
Name and email: Herbert Voss
Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/info/math/voss
Summary description: Article from the german dtk of colored math
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Voss-mathCol.pdf is the pdf version of the article
"Farbige Mathematik" (Colored math) in the journal 
"Die TeXnische Kom�die" of DANTE, the german TeX 
users group
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this article as suggested in
CTAN:info/math/voss/ next to the other articles living there.

Reinhard Zierke
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From zierke@dante.de Mon Aug 23 10:40:38 2004
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:40:04 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: pittetd

A new package found its way on CTAN:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Name of contribution: pittetd
Name and email: Federico Garcia
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/pittetd
Summary description: Class for Electronic Theses and Diss. at Univ. of Pittsburgh
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A class that formats documents for submission as ETD's (Electr. Theses and Diss.) to the University of Pittsburgh. Creates a PDF file with all the required bookmarking (including bookmarks for each table and figure, within the bookmark for the corresponding List, a possibility that hyperref doesn't offer directly), checks for the required `preliminary pages', etc. 

It could be of use for writers of similar classes at other institutions. More and more universities are adopting some form of ETD every day, so I would expect more and more 'etd' LaTeX classes will come out. This one has some tricks that solve 'generic' needs of the kind.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

I installed this as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/pittetd
and created a PDF documentation from the pittetd.dtx file.

Note that there already is another University of Pittsburgh thesis class
in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/pitthesis.

Reinhard Zierke
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From zierke@dante.de Mon Aug 23 10:46:52 2004
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:46:17 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- hfoldsty virtual font

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded hfoldsty-v1_11.tar to ftp.dante.de. It contains the new
version of the hfoldsty virtual font package. Please replace all files in
CTAN/fonts/hfoldsty by its contents. Please do not unpack the zip
archives. License stays GPL.

>From the README:

The hfoldsty package provides virtual fonts for using oldstyle
(0123456789) figures with the European Computer Modern fonts.
It does a similar job as the eco package by Sebastian
Kirsch <skirsch@t-online.de> but includes a couple of
improvements, e.g., better kerning with guillemets, support for
character protruding using the pdfcprot package, arbitrary font
sizes in conjunction with fix-cm.sty.

The new version provides the possiblity to reduce the number of used
design sizes and to use arbitrary font sizes as done by the fix-cm
package. Some missing fd files have been added, too.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:fonts/hfoldsty/.

Reinhard Zierke
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Aug 23 10:56:03 2004
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:55:22 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: exercise

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should by now have made
it to your favorite mirror.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: exercise
Author's name: Paul Pichaureau
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/exercise
Summary description: A package to typeset exercises, problems, etc. and 
  their answers.
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The package helps to typeset exercises or list of exercises within any 
document. 

Exercises, questions, sub-questions are automatically numbered. It is 
possible to put answers in the same document, and display them immediatly, 
later in the document or not at all.

The layout of exercise is fully customisable. It is then possible to 
typeset long problems, short exercises, questionnaires, etc.

Usage of the babel package is detected, but not fully supported by now 
(only english and french are implemented). 

See documentation for more information.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/exercise
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
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From zierke@dante.de Tue Aug 24 09:07:36 2004
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:06:26 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: KOMA-Script rev. 2.9s

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload@nova.dante.de -----
Name of contribution: KOMA-Script
Name and email: Markus Kohm <komascript@gmx.info>
Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script
Summary description: KOMA-Script, a versatile LaTeX2e bundle
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The KOMA-Script team is happy to announce the August '04 
Release of the KOMA-Script bundle aka "scrpage2 
improvement". 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
What is KOMA-Script 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
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 
the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities 
in order to provide the user an almost complete working 
environment. 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
Versions of classes and packages at this release: 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
  scrartcl.cls  2004/08/11  v2.9s 
  scrbook.cls   2004/08/11  v2.9s 
  scrreprt.cls  2004/08/11  v2.9s 
  scrlttr2.cls  2004/08/11  v2.9s 
  scrlettr.cls  2002/05/24  v2.6e (obsolete) 
  scrtime.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m 
  scrdate.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m 
  scrpage2.sty  2004/07/05  v2.2 
  typearea.sty  2004/08/11  v2.9s 
  scrlfile.sty  2004/08/11  v2.9s 
  scrpage.sty   2001/06/22  v1.3c (obsolete) 
  scraddr.sty   2002/06/02  v1.1b 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
What is new in this KOMA-Script release 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
This is mostly a scrpage2-improvement release: 
  - pre-set-line-commands, which may be used to colorize 
the 
    lines at head and foot 
  - part may be used at running head, if the class provides 
    this (the KOMA-Script classes do so) 
  - fix: captions at longtables improved (thanks to Axel 
Sommerfeldt) 
Go discover. 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
XML file with infromations for The TeX Catalogue: 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
See koma-script.xml at the distribution. 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
Distributors note: 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
Removing any of the files of the distribution made by 
the KOMA-Script maintainers prevents the users from 
using the provided makefile mentioned at the 
installation documentation: INSTALL.TXT or INSTALLD.TXT. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  As usual, I installed is replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.

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From zierke@dante.de Wed Aug 25 06:49:23 2004
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:47:55 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: ltabptch.sty, ltabtest.tex

----- Forwarded message from Uwe L�ck -----
Name of contribution: ltabptch.sty, ltabtest.tex                                
Name and email: Uwe L�ck
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ltabptch/                      
Summary description: [update:] diagnosis motivating longtable patches improved; 
+demonstrating .tex                                                             
License type: LaTeX Project 

Announcement text:                                                              
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Recall: According to tools/3180/3485, there is more
space below than above a longtable. ltabptch.sty
fixes this. However, the diagnosis it presented
before was not quite correct concerning one reason.
This is fixed in the present version. Explanations
should appear more clear now, and a through-going
discussion of possible effects has been added. The
patch code was not affected.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I removed macros/latex/contrib/misc/ltabptch.sty
and installed the new files in macros/latex/contrib/ltabptch/ as suggested.
I added a short README file (containing just the first few lines of
ltabptch.sty).

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From zierke@dante.de Wed Aug 25 09:21:03 2004
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:19:54 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: updates of xkeyval and HA-prosper

----- Forwarded messages from Hendri Adriaens -----
I just uploaded an update of the xkeyval package
to ftp.dante.de. Since the package is now TeX
compatible, please install it in the dir
macros/generic/xkeyval
(as discussed some time ago). Thanks!

Main new features in version 1.4:
1) TeX compatible
2) big extensions to the syntax for defining
   and setting keys to allow for a wide range
   of key name structures
3) added pointer syntax to copy key values
4) increased efficiency in \xsetkeys
5) improved \ProcessOptionsX

I just uploaded HA-prosper 4.21 to ftp.dante.de
Please install it in the existing dir
macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper

Changes:
1) added two new styles: Capsules and Ciment
2) updated for xkeyval 1.4
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the packages as suggested in
CTAN:macros/generic/xkeyval and CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper
and removed the old version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval.

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From zierke@dante.de Wed Aug 25 09:23:50 2004
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:23:10 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: Ednotes update

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: [many names ... files for the Ednotes bundle]
Name and email: Uwe L"uck
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ednotes/
Summary description: Extension, fix, further changes of the Ednotes bundle. 
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Ednotes bundle for critical editions under LaTeX 
gets a functionality extension (notes from math mode), 
a fix (notes from center environments), and further 
minor changes. The math mode thing can also just be 
used for extending the \linelabel command from Stephan 
Boettcher's lineno.sty. For further details, see file 
CHANGES in the Ednotes CTAN folder. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new and changed files as suggested
in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ednotes/

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Aug 25 14:44:32 2004
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:40:48 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: hyphenation-greek

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and will soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: hyphenation-greek
Author's name: Dimitrios Filippou
Location on CTAN: language/hyphenation/elhyphen
Summary description: Hyphenation patterns for ancient and modern Greek
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This set of files contains the hyphenation patterns for typesetting Ancient 
and Modern Greek texts with TeX/LaTeX. The patterns are suitable for the 
LGR encoding ("cb" -- "babel" -- and "kd" fonts).  They can be easily 
converted for use with the "ibycus" fonts (look for the "ibycus-babel" 
package in CTAN), or with Omega/Lambda (look for the "antomega" package 
in CTAN).  For a few more details, read the "readme.txt" in this set of 
files.
- - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/elhyphen
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Aug 25 14:46:26 2004
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:42:40 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: tt2001

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: tt2001 font package
Author's name: Szab� P�ter
Location on CTAN: fonts/ps-type1/tt2001
Summary description: Type1 EC fonts generated by TeXtrace
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
tt20001 is a TeX font package with CM (EC) in Type1 in T1, TS1 encoding.
It contains Type 1 fonts converted from METAFONT
fonts and covers entire EC/TC fonts. The glyph CharStrings are not optimized
for size, and there are even some minor visual distortions from the original.
For an alternative, see the cm-super package.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/tt2001
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Aug 26 15:07:46 2004
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:06:10 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: newlfm

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

Thanks for the update
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: newlfm
Author's name: Paul Thompson
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/newlfm
Summary description: Letter, fax, memo
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.2 is announced.  This includes several important bug fixes and 
a variety of other improvements.

For newlfm users, this is a recommended upgrade.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/newlfm
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Aug 26 16:48:34 2004
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:47:37 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: OSA

A new package has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

===================================================
Information about the package:

This material pertains to publications of the Optical Society of America.
These are the latest LaTeX, REVTeX, and BibTeX tools for OSA journals 
 * Primary print journals (J. Opt. Soc. Am A, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Applied
    Optics)
 * Optics Letters
 * Optics Express
 * Journal of Optical Networking

You can have a quick look by following
 http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/osa
.
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Aug 27 10:19:45 2004
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:18:14 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload 

Herbert Voss writes:

> I just uploaded pstricks-add.tgz to the IK mirror.
> 
> Please delete all files in
> graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add
> and put the new ones in there.
> 
>  From the README:
> 
> pstricks-add collects a lot of the code which was posted
> to the pstricks mailing list and has some more new features:
> 
> pstricks-add:
> - pstricks
>     o braces as node connection/linestyle
>     o arrows, arrows, arrows, ...
> 
> - pst-plot
>     o new environment psgraph
>     o new macro pstScalePoints
>     o new option for logarithmic axes
>     o new macro and options for ticklines
>     o new options step, start end for plotting data files
>     o new options xLabel, yLabel
>     o new option plotNo for multiple data files x y1 y2 y3 ...
>     o new macro \psplotPolynomial[coeff=<0 a1 a2 ...>]{<xStart>}{<xEnd>}
>     o new optional input of arithmetic notation instead of the
>       default PostScript one
> 
> - pst-node
>     o bugfixes
>     o new macro nclineII for a two-colored line
>     o new option lineAngle for ncdiag
>     o new macros for interpolation nodes
>       and linear combination of two vectors

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

Robin Fairbairns

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Aug 27 14:10:29 2004
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:09:04 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: sanskrit-t1

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror very soon.

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: sanskrit-t1 font package
Author's name: Sergey Korop
Location on CTAN: fonts/ps-type1/sanskrit
Summary description: sanskrit-t1: Type 1 version of Charles Wikner's 
  'skt' font series for Sanskrit language
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sanskrit-t1 font package provides Type 1 version of Charles Wikner's 
  'skt' font series for Sanskrit language.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/sanskrit
or (via a soft link) at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/sanskrit/ps-type1
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Aug 28 13:27:48 2004
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 17:26:00 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: Vancouver

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

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: Vancouver
Author's name: Folkert van der Beek
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/vancouver
Summary description: bibliographic style file (for LaTeX/BibTeX) to meet 
  the ``Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical 
  Journals'' (aka the Vancouver style)
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This `vancouver.bst' bibliographic style file (for LaTeX/BibTeX) is 
generated with the docstrip utility and modified manually to meet the 
``Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals'' 
as published in N Engl J Med 1997;336:309-315. (also known as the 
Vancouver style)
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/vancouver
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Aug 31 09:25:10 2004
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:23:16 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has two new packages: jurarsp and juraabbrev

Two new packages have been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon 
be at your favorite mirror.

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: jurarsp and juraabbrev
Author's name: Lucas Wartenburger
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/jurarsp/ and 
  macros/latex/contrib/juraabbrev
Summary description: another two packages for typesetting (german) 
  juridical documents
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
These new packages should be helpful for people working on (German) law. 
  - package juraabbrev helps you to handle abbreviations and creates a 
list of those (pre-defined) abbreviations that have actually been used 
in the document
  - package jurarsp (ab)uses BibTeX for citations of judgements and 
official documents. For this purpose, a special BibTeX-style is provided. 
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jurarsp
and
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/juraabbrev
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From zierke@dante.de Tue Aug 31 09:39:12 2004
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:38:22 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- contour.sty v2.12

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders -----
I have uploaded contour-v2_12.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the new
version of the contour page. Please replace all files in
CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/contour by the archive's contents. License stays
LPPL.

>From the README:

This package generates a colored contour around a given text in order
to enable printing text over a background without the need of a
color box around the text.
By default this is done by placing copies of the text around the text
itself and can be switched to use real outlines if supported by the
backend driver.

The new feature is to enable vector outlines for backend driver that
support this when using vector fonts. Supported are dvips, pdftex, and
vtex. Switch on outlines by using the package option 'outline'.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the update.  I installed the new version as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/contour/

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From zierke@dante.de Tue Aug 31 10:11:04 2004
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:10:26 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: TeXshade v1.8

> Name of contribution: TeXshade v1.8
> Name and email: Eric Beitz <eric.beitz@uni-tuebingen.de>
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/texshade/
> Summary description: Update v1.8 of the TeXshade package for setting sequence alignments
> License type: gpl
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is version 1.8 of the nucleotide and protein sequence alignment setting 
> package TeXshade. New powerful feature styles have been implemented, 
> which allow one to plot sequence related numeral data, such as hydropathy or 
> solvent accessibility etc., as bar graphs or color scales along the alignment.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/texshade/

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From zierke@dante.de Tue Aug 31 10:17:20 2004
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:16:45 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload: TeXmacs 1.0.4

----- Forwarded message from Joris van der Hoeven -----
I just uploaded the new GNU TeXmacs distribution in

          ftp.dante.de/incoming/TeXmacs

The new distribution contains the files

TeXmacs-1.0.4-3.i386.rpm
TeXmacs-1.0.4-3.src.rpm
TeXmacs-1.0.4-R3-src.tar.gz
TeXmacs-1.0.4-R3-static-gnu-linux.tar.gz

The files should be put into the directory systems/unix/TeXmacs

-----------------------------------------------------------
                  Full announcement
-----------------------------------------------------------

I am happy to announce the new stable release 1.0.4 of TeXmacs.
The main improvements with respect to TeXmacs-1.0.3 are:

  * A (very) experimental Windows version (alpha)

	http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/windows.en.html

    as well as the official inclusion of TeXmacs into Cygwin.

  * Higher reactivity for editing large documents and
    faster booting and loading of files.

  * A lot of new documentation about the TeXmacs document format,
    environment variables and tags.

  * Possibility to work with TrueType fonts instead of Type 3 fonts.

  * New interfaces with Python, Clisp, Cmucl and Matlab.

  * Thorough reorganization of the style files, implementation of
    "mutator" tags, and location-awareness of internal trees.

  * Support for the Danish language and partial translation of
    the documentation into Polish.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:systems/unix/TeXmacs/

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Sep  3 02:52:17 2004
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 07:50:27 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: gellmu, version 0.8, uploaded 

William F Hammond writes:

> I've uploaded version 0.8 of the GELLMU tarball to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk.
> 
> GELLMU stands for "Generalized Extensible LaTeX-Like MarkUp".
> 
> I suggest that it be placed in "support/gellmu".
> 
> License: GPL
> 
> This supersedes version the three-year old version 0.74.
> 
> This is the first version that provides translation of gellmu article
> (which may be written very much the way LaTeX article is written
> though it is not LaTeX) to the XML form of HTML extended by MathML.
> There is a new user document in addition to a slightly revised version
> of the project manual.
> 
> The new HTML + MathML form of the user doc at
> 
>   http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu/igl/userdoc-ht.xml
> 
> has a significant number of mathematical examples, and at
> the same place may be found its gellmu source (userdoc.glm) and
> PDF (userdoc.pdf) made from the same source with pdflatex.
> 
> Other examples with significant mathematical content are:
> 
>   http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu/examples/f356g-ht.xml
>   http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu/examples/confrac-ht.xml

i've installed the upload as suggested; thank you very much for it --
i (at least) have been waiting ;-)

i took the liberty of extracting README and doc/userdoc.pdf to appear
separately on the archive, the .pdf to appear in the catalogue and the
README also to appear in browsers wandering through the archive.

Robin Fairbairns

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Sep  5 15:53:36 2004
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 21:52:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Mitek <mitek@email.cz>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: Tapir Font

Summary description: The 'Tapir' is a simple geometrical font mostly
created of line and circular segments with con stant thickness.

License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 0.2 contains new characters needed for polish language.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

The fonts is installed in fonts/tapir.

Thanks for the upload.

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep  6 04:29:05 2004
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:27:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Claudio Beccari <claudio.beccari@polito.it>
Subject: Re: upload of cbgreek21.zip 

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Claudio Beccari uploaded an upgrade of the package
teubner and its documentation.

The teubner package contains an extension for philological 
typesetting.

It was installed in

  macros/latex/contrib/teubner

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep  6 11:51:37 2004
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 17:50:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Nicola Talbot <nlct@cmp.uea.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: datetime

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 Nicola Talbot submitted a new version of his package 
datetime.

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Provides various different formats for the command \today, and also 
provides the command \currenttime to display the current time (in various 
formats).  The commands \newtimeformat and \newdateformat are provided to 
allow the user to customise \today and \currenttime.  The command \pdfdate 
is provided for use in \pdfinfo.  In addition, there are macros for 
displaying the value of LaTeX counter as an ordinal (e.g. \ordinal{page} 
would print 3rd if the current value of page is 3, and 
\ordinalstring{page} would print third) as well as macros for displaying 
the value of LaTeX counter as a string hange format of \today with 
commands for current time.         
----------------------------------------------------------------------

The package was installed in

  macros/latex/contrib/datetime

the license type is lppl.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Sep  6 12:15:03 2004
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:14:11 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: ibycus-babel

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and the changes should soon 
appear at your favorite mirror.

Thank you for the update,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: ibycus-babel
Author's name: Peter Heslin
Location on CTAN: language/greek/package-babel/ibycus-babel
Summary description: Integrates the Ibycus font for ancient Greek into Babel
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This update is based on version 4 of Dimitrios Filippou's 
hyphenation patterns for ancient Greek.  Since those 
patterns are now distributed under LaTeX Project Public 
License, they are now the default and are the only patterns 
supported explicitly by this package. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/greek/package-babel/ibycus-babel
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Sep  7 11:58:10 2004
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:56:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Carsten Heinz <cheinz@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload -- listings 1.3

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Carsten Heinz submitted an update to his package 
`listings'. It has been installed in:

    macros/latex/contrib/listings

 > Abstract
 >    The listings package is a source code printer for LaTeX. You can
 >    typeset stand alone files as well as listings with an environment
 >    similar to verbatim as well as you can print code snippets using
 >    a command similar to \verb. Many parameters control the output and
 >    if your preferred programming language isn't already supported,
 >    you can make your own definition.
 > 
 > News
 >    - LPPL 1.3 compliant
 >    - new \output routine for improved compatibility
 >    - new language definitions for Awk (Gnu and Posix), Gnuplot,
 >      Handel-C, ByteCode Java (JVMIS), Plasm, Promella, and RSL;
 >      improved definitions for AspectJ, HTML, and MetaPost
 >    - small add-ons for keywordstyle, texcs, and texcsstyle
 >    - bugfixes

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Sep  8 11:41:13 2004
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:38:57 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX

A package update has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make
its way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Author's name: Nick van Beurden
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix
Summary description: As Is
License type: pd

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The thirteenth CTAN release has the following improvements:
* Multi-line framebox text is now possible.
* Registration key can now be entered by hand.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Sep 11 11:28:53 2004
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:26:37 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: microtype

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon get to
your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: microtype
Author's name: R Schlicht
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/microtype
Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of 
  pdfTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The `microtype' package provides a LaTeX interface to pdfTeX's 
micro-typographic extensions: character protrusion and font expansion.

It allows to restrict character protrusion and/or font expansion to a 
certain set of fonts, and to configure micro-typographic aspects of the 
fonts in a straight-forward and flexible way.

Settings for various fonts are provided.

Note: Font expansion and character protrusion only works with the pdfTeX 
compiler, at least version 0.14f, resp. version 1.20a, for automatic font 
expansion.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Sep 12 11:30:09 2004
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:08:38 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "[ISO-8859-1] Joaqu�n Ataz L�pez" <jal@um.es>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: guia-atx.pdf

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 Joaqu�n Ataz L�pez submitted:

 > Name of contribution: guia-atx.pdf
 > Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/info/spanish/guia-atx
 > Summary description: How can you use the combination Emacs-AucTeX to write LaTeX documents (in spanish)
 > License type: other
 > 
 > Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > This is a new version with hyperref of the document that 
 > I've upload last juny. 
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your upload, I installed this update.

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Sep 12 11:33:58 2004
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:21:15 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: "[ISO-8859-1] Martin Schr�der" <martin@pdftex.org>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: pdftex

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 Martin Schr�der submitted version 1.20a of pdftex.

PDFTeX is an extension of TeX which directly generates PDF documents 
instead of DVI. Various TeX distributions, including teTeX and miktex 
include pdftex and pdflatex. License type is gpl.

It has been installed in 

  systems/pdftex/

Details about the new version can be found in the file NEWS.

Thanks for the upload.

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Sep 12 11:34:21 2004
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:26:10 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Antonis Tsolomitis <atsol@aegean.gr>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: kmath.sty

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 Antonis Tsolomitis submitted an update to kmath.sty, 
which is part of the kerkis font family distribution. kerkis are greek 
fonts to match the URW Bookman set. It is installed in

  fonts/greek/kerkis

Announcement text:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > update for kmath.sty, thanks to Michiel Kreutzer.
 > 
 > Now it also requires txfonts. This improves a lot, since
 > several symbols (including signs like =, +, -, fraction lines,
 > parenthesis etc) have now a matching color (symbols from cmr look very thin with kerkis).
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Sep 14 10:05:24 2004
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:03:27 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: ePiX

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way 
to your favorite mirror.

Thank you for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: ePiX
Author's name: Andrew D. Hwang
Location on CTAN: graphics/epix
Summary description: Utilities for plotting in LaTeX
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This version provides numerous 3-D improvements, compiles standalone pdf 
images (in addition to eepic and eps), and creates mng animations using 
ImageMagick. The documentation has been completely rewritten. gcc-3.x is 
required to build and use this package.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/epix
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From zierke@dante.de Thu Sep 16 08:57:50 2004
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:14:44 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 6.60: LaTeX Update, Template Library

----- Forwarded message from Basil Malyshev -----
I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
update for BaKoMa TeX 6.60 (issued 15-Sep-2004)

Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.

   Most important improvements in BaKoMa TeX 6.60 are:

   1. LaTeX and most of contributed packages (more then 600 packages)
      have been updated by using CTAN snapshot of 27-Aug-2004. 

   2. New template library includes more then 70 document templates
      organized up by document types: Article, Book, Report, Presentation,
      Letter, Fax, Memo, CV, Thesis, etc. Access to this template library is
      provided via a dialog appeared when you try to create new file.
      There are preview of selected template and editing of document class
      options.

More information about changes is at:
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>

PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups.

--------------- About BaKoMa TeX 6.60 ----------------------

CONTENTS
   * Highlights
   * Graphical Capabilities
   * Fonts
   * User Interface
   * PDF Generation Features
   * HTML Generation features
   * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 6.60
   
For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
   <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>

BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95

HIGHLIGHTS

 * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system.
   `Postscript enabled' means that the system includes built-in 
   Postscript interpreter that provides careful drawing Postscript graphics
   (including one embedded into DVI via TeX special's) on display 
   and on (even non-postscript) printers. Also, it provides perfect
   conversion of any Postscript graphics for such output formats as:
   PDF, SVG, and HTML. 
 * SVG output lets you to create high quality animated presentations. 
 * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
   of the file being edited. (like to Instant Preview)
   Dual cursor feature efficiently simulates editing in DVI Window.
 * DVI Forward/Inverse search is supported with character precision.
   It is really help to edit formulas and tables and other complex stuffs.
 * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
   However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
   in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click
 * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
 * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 * Easy to install and use.
 * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 
GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES

BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*
(with most of Level 3 features), which is tested for compatibility 
with output from popular software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, 
Adobe Streamline 4.0, Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, 
HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.

All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).

The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
   EPS, PDF, HPGL, DXY, FIG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF.

FONTS

BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
 * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 * PostScript Type 3,
 * TrueType,
 * TeX PK/VF.

The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 * EC/TC,
 * LH (T2A),
 * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 * Malvern,
 * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 Math Fonts: 
 * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 Diagram drawing fonts:
 * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.

Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
between font formats when needed.
This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.

In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.

Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click.

OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0
even without ATM.

USER INTERFACE

* Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
  It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, 
  when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, 
  mathematics, pictures, etc.
* Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen 
  for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
* One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
* Quick navigation via document structure,
* DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
* Powerful support for different input encodings,
* Project support,
* Graphics import assistant,
* Assitance for multi-file documents: 
  context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
* Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
* Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
* Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
* Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
* Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
* Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
    correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
    configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
* BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
* Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
* Support for Multi-User systems.

OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS

* View on Windows Display.
* Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
* PostScript (really scalable),
* PDF,
* SVG (animation effects are supported),
* HTML.

Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.

PDF GENERATION FEATURES

* Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
* Creating PDF files which share fonts.
  Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
* Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
* Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste 
  of cyrillic and other international characters.
* Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.

HTML GENERATION FEATURES

 BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 documents into HTML files.
  * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch 
     `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
  * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert 
     pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
     pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, 
     such as slides.

 In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of 
 `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.

 Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 into generated HTML pages.
 
SVG GENERATION FEATURES

 BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
 from a DVI files. Ability to add animation to the SVG output,
 makes it the best for producing high quality presentations.

 Sample of animated presentation is available at:
   ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html

 Key Features:
   SVG output is compatible with another output formats
   (PDF, PS, HTML, View, and Print) so, that the same graphical
   formats, font formats, and other features are supported.
   In details:
   *  All TeX Formats (LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09, AmSTeX, Plain TeX) are supported.
   *  TeX extensions (e-TeX and Omega) are supported.
   *  ALL LaTeX packages (including PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics, draftcopy, etc.)
       are supported.
   *  Graphical formats: EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, FIG,
   		         BMP, WMF, EMF, HPGL, and DXY are supported.
   *  More generally, Any imported or embedded Postscript is supported.
   *  Hyperref is supported, including outline and links. For \Acrobatmenu 
      most general commands (such as NextPage or PrevPage) are supported.
   *  Popular presentation packages: Prosper, PDFScreen, PDFSlide, Seminar, etc.
      are supported.
  *** The existing presentations can be enhanced by adding animation.
   *  All Font Types: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, Postscript Type1 
      (including MM), Postscript Type 3, and TeX PK are supported.

 Details about adding animation to generated SVG files are explained at:
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/svgwrite.html>

*** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 6.60 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 6.50 ***

   1. LaTeX and most of contributed packages (more then 600 packages)
      have been updated by using CTAN snapshot of 27-Aug-2004. 

   2. New template library includes more then 70 document templates
      organized up by document types: Article, Book, Report, Presentation,
      Letter, Fax, Memo, CV, Thesis, etc. Access to this template library is
      provided via a dialog appeared when you try to create new file.
      There are preview of selected template and editing of document class
      options.

For more information see
  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the files as suggested replacing the
previous ones in CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/

Reinhard Zierke
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From zierke@dante.de Thu Sep 16 09:01:31 2004
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:47:13 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: PSNFSS 9.2

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file psnfss92.zip to the /incoming directory at
dante.ctan.org.

This is release 9.2 of PSNFSS (PostScript font support for LaTeX).
Please, unpack the archive in the following directory:

  macros/latex/required/psnfss

Doing so will update the present files, except for lw35nfss.zip, which
is unchanged.

Changes over PSNFSS 9.1b
------------------------
* Charter:  Improved kerning data, fixing the bugs reported in the
news group comp.text.tex (Subject: "new charter kerning problem ?")
on 2004-08-13 by "jt".

* Palatino:  additional font families pplx and pplj with real
smallcaps and oldstyle figures, and improved metrics, as compared with
the font family ppl.  Smallcaps and oldstyle figures are taken from
the new free FPL fonts, whcih are already available from CTAN.
[Notice that the metrics and kerning tables of pplx and pplj were
slighlty corrected once again, as compared with the pre-release 
from 2004-08-01.]

* Packages mathpazo, mathptmx:  Beside \upDelta and \upOmega also the
other upright uppercase Greek letters are explicitly accessible now.

* Documentation psnfss2e.tex(.pdf) updated.

* Font map files:  Additional file fpls.map for the FPL fonts.

* Test files: Minor changes to mathtest.tex.
-------------------------------------------------

Thank you very much for the upload.  I installed the new version
as suggested in CTAN:archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss.

Reinhard Zierke
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From zierke@dante.de Thu Sep 16 09:36:22 2004
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:35:42 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: improved metrics for the Bera fonts

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploadad the files 
 
  bera.zip
  bera.pdf
  README.bera

to the directory /incoming/bera at dante.ctan.org.

Please, move them to the directory fonts/bera, thus replacing
the corresponding files and adding the new file bera.pdf.
(The .afm and .pfb font files and the file LICENSE are unchanged.)

This submission provides improved font metrics for the Bera fonts.
In particular, Ulrich Dirr (Art & Satz) has substantially enhanced
the kerning tables of the font family Bera Sans.
Furthermore, a font sample in PDF format (bera.pdf) is provided now.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new and updated files as suggested
in the directory CTAN:fonts/bera

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Sep 16 10:13:43 2004
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:12:48 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: pst-bar

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

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: pst-bar
Author's name: Alan Ristow
Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-bar
Summary description: Produces bar charts using pstricks.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
pst-bar uses pstricks to draw bar charts from data stored in a 
comma-delimited file. Several types of bar charts may be drawn, and 
the drawing parameters are highly customizable. No external packages 
are required except those that are part of the standard pstricks 
distribution. This release should be considered a beta with all of 
the caveats that beta releases typically carry.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-bar
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Sep 17 14:35:26 2004
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:33:49 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: Layaureo

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: Layaureo (v.0.2)
Author's name: Aragorn
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/layaureo
Summary description: A package to improve the A4 page layout.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package produces a wide page layout for documents that use A4 paper 
size. Moreover, LayAureo provides both a simple hook for leaving an empty 
space which is required if pages are bundled by a press binding use option 
binding=length), and an option called big which it forces typearea to 
become maximum. There~Rs no full English documentation yet.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/layaureo
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From zierke@dante.de Mon Sep 20 05:33:31 2004
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:31:42 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: 1, 2, many 

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: 1, 2, many
Name and email: Ulrich M. Schwarz <ulrichmschwarz@gmx.net>
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/12many/
Summary description: Various styles of typesetting finite ranges of natural numbers.
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
In the discrete branches of mathematics and the computer sciences, it will
only take some seconds until you're faced with a set like $\{1,\ldots,m\}$.
Only some people write $1\ldotp\ldotp m$, or $\{j:1\leq j\leq m\}$, and
that journal you're submitting to might want something else entirely.
"1, 2, many" makes changing from one to another a one-line change.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new package (style file 12many.sty
and documentation 12many.pdf) as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/12many/

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From zierke@dante.de Mon Sep 20 05:40:37 2004
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:40:00 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: FPL Fonts (sources)

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: FPL Fonts (sources)
Name and email: Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/fpl
Summary description: SC/OsF for URW Palladio L (sources)
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Please unzip this file in CTAN:fonts/fpl. This will overwrite the existing README and create the new subdirectory source. The former is needed as the corresponding metric files are now part of PSNFSS v9.2. The source directory contains different FontForge files and metric files needed for producing the FPL Fonts.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the changed README file and the
source file as suggested in CTAN:fonts/fpl/

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From zierke@dante.de Mon Sep 20 05:44:54 2004
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:44:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: csquotes 2.3

----- Forwarded message from Philipp Lehman -----
I've uploaded 'csquotes.tar.gz' to DANTE incoming. This is a maintenance 
update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. Please purge the old files, install 
the new ones, and announce the upload as usual.

Thank you very much.

ABOUT

The csquotes package:
* provides markup for inline quotations
* supports both control sequences and active characters
* toggles between inner and outer quotation marks for nested quotes
* interfaces with babel and adapts quotation marks as required
* features fully configurable quote styles and active characters

CHANGES

* Reduced default kerning between adjoining curved quote marks
* Fixed bug with \DeclareQuoteStyle in preamble
_______________________________________________

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/csquotes

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep 20 17:40:29 2004
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:36:34 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Ulf Lindgren <ulf.a.lindgren@ericsson.com>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: fncychap

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Ulf Lindgren submitted a new version of the fncychap
package to CTAN.

This version contains bug fixes and inclusion of patch.

This package provides six predefined chapter headings.  Each can be
modified using a set of simple commands. Optionally one can modify the
formatting routines in order to create additional chapter headings.

Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fncychap/
License type: dfsg

Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Sep 20 17:53:47 2004
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:51:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- miller.sty

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Harald Harders submitted version 1.2 of the miller
package.

This package is used to typeset miller indices, e.g., <1-20>, used in
material sicence with an easy syntax.
Minus signs are printed as bar above the corresponding number.

ChangeLog:

v1.2  2004/09/20  Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
	- Make \hkl robust.
	- Adapt Makefile to TeXLive 2004.

Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 21 05:25:25 2004
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:23:45 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: ctan@dante.de
Subject: Changes in CTAN directory fonts/psfonts (and its descendents)

fonts/psfonts was created long ago, when fontinst was new, and
computers were so slow that running it (let alone preparing to run it)
was a serious undertaking.

The metrics created back then, kept on ctan in directories
fonts/psfonts/(adobe|xadobe|monotype|xmono), have been extremely
useful, over the years.  However, they don't match modern ideas about
using the commercial fonts they support.

We now have a modern set of metrics, provided and maintained by Walter
Schmidt, which substantially replace the old metrics.

Therefore, we have deleted the directories
fonts/psfonts/(adobe|xadobe|monotype|xmono)

New directories are:

fonts/psfonts/ly1            metrics for the basic "35 fonts" set, using
                             ly1 encoding
fonts/psfonts/psnfss-metrics links to metrics for the basic "35 fonts"
                             set, using T1/TS1 encodings (and a set of pk
                             files for the same fonts)
fonts/psfonts/w-a-schmidt    metrics for other commercial fonts

fonts/psfonts/ly1 and fonts/psfonts/psnfss-metrics contain files and
links that were previously in fonts/psfonts itself.

Some README files remain to be updated/written, but we believe the
changes will make life less confusing for users.

Robin Fairbairns

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From zierke@dante.de Tue Sep 21 07:37:51 2004
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:23:35 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: sauerj (several small packages)

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: sauerj (several small packages)
Name and email: Jonathan Sauer <jonathan.sauer@gmx.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sauerj
Summary description: Update for sauerj: collect (new), parcolumns (changed), zahl2string (changed)
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
New:
'collect' provides several environment to collect text in a macro or a
file for later use.


Changed:
'parcolumns' provides an environment for typesetting text in two or more
columns columns in parallel.

- \colchunk now has an optional parameter to set the column number


Changed:
'zahl2string' provides macros for formatting numbers as german words,
i.e. `1' gets formatted as `eins'.

- Typos fixed
- Option 'publicnumstr' removed
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the new/updated packages as suggested
in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/sauer

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From zierke@dante.de Tue Sep 21 07:37:52 2004
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:30:16 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: Circuit_macros5.6

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: Circuit_macros5.6
Name and email: Dwight Aplevich <aplevich@uwaterloo.ca>
Suggested location on CTAN: graphics
Summary description: graphics/circuit_macros update
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
>From the README:
...
  This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality line
diagrams to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents.
The macros were originally intended for electric circuit
diagrams containing fundamental elements, amplifiers,
transistors, and basic logic gates, but several tools and
examples of other types of diagrams are also included.
Elements can be scaled or drawn in any orientation, and are
easy to modify.  The advantages and disadvantages of such a
system are similar to those of TeX itself, which is
macro-based and non-wysiwyg, with ordinary character input.

  The macros are to be processed by m4, and evaluate to
drawing commands in the pic "little language," which is easy
to read and learn.  Pic is well suited to line drawings
requiring parametric or conditional components, fine tuning,
significant geometric calculations or repetition, or to
drawings that are naturally block structured or tree
structured.  Arbitrary formatted text can be included.  Free
TeX- and LaTeX-compatible interpreters for m4 and pic are
readily available.

...
EXAMPLES:
  Read the manual man.ps and view or print the file
examples.ps in the examples directory, or for the possibly
unstable development version, try
http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/

  A collection of examples and hints intended for his
colleagues has been produced by Alan Robert Clark at
http://ytdp.ee.wits.ac.za/cct.html
...
CHANGES:
Version 5.6: Better MetaPost, pdflatex, and xfig support.
PDF examples. Reworked diode for easier customization and
more options.  Improved shade, sfgline, dline, darrow, gap,
point_, Point_, opamp, bi_trans, variable, em_arrows,
larrow, rarrow, FlipFlop6.  New speaker, bell, microphone,
buzzer.  Negated logic gate inputs and IEEE box logic gates.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed this as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:graphics/circuit_macros/

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From zierke@dante.de Wed Sep 22 06:37:29 2004
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:35:57 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: Ednotes [updates]

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: Ednotes [updates]
Name and email: Uwe L"uck <uwe.lueck@web.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/supported/ednotes
Summary description: ednotes (critical editions): changes for new lineno and manyfoot versions
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
New features have been added to underlying lineno and manyfoot. (Thanks
to Stephan Boettcher and Alex Rozhenko!)  Some Ednotes components are
withdrawn accordingly (linenox..., lnopatch). mfparxsp.sty is rendered
a dummy file for reminding. Its \MFparaxbuffer is replaced by manyfoot's
\ExtraParaSkip. 

Further rearrangements are planned for the next days. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the changed files as suggested in
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ednotes and removed from this directory
the obsolete files linenox0.sty, linenox1.sty, and lnopatch.sty.

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From zierke@dante.de Wed Sep 22 08:33:55 2004
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:33:03 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: KOMA-Script

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: KOMA-Script
Name and email: Markus Kohm <komascript@gmx.info>
Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script
Summary description: KOMA-Script, a versatile LaTeX2e bundle
License type: LaTeX Project

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The KOMA-Script team is happy to announce the September '04 
Release of the KOMA-Script bundle aka "released to be ready 
for TeX Live". 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
What is KOMA-Script 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
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 
the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities 
in order to provide the user an almost complete working 
environment. 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
Versions of classes and packages at this release: 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
  scrartcl.cls  2004/09/16  v2.9t 
  scrbook.cls   2004/09/16  v2.9t 
  scrreprt.cls  2004/09/16  v2.9t 
  scrlttr2.cls  2004/09/16  v2.9t 
  scrlettr.cls  2002/05/24  v2.6e (obsolete) 
  scrtime.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m 
  scrdate.sty   2002/02/02  v1.1m 
  scrpage2.sty  2004/09/05  v2.2a 
  typearea.sty  2004/09/16  v2.9t 
  scrlfile.sty  2004/09/16  v2.9t 
  scrpage.sty   2001/06/22  v1.3c (obsolete) 
  scraddr.sty   2002/06/02  v1.1b 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
What is new in this KOMA-Script release 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
This is mostly a scrpage2-improvement release: 
  - pre-set-line-commands, which may be used to colorize the 
    lines at head and foot 
  - part may be used at running head, if the class provides 
    this (the KOMA-Script classes do so) 
  - fix: captions at longtables improved (thanks to Axel Sommerfeldt) 
Go discover. 
 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
Distributors note: 
-------------------------------------------------------- 
 
Removing any of the files of the distribution made by 
the KOMA-Script maintainers prevents the users from 
using the provided makefile mentioned at the 
installation documentation: INSTALL.TXT or INSTALLD.TXT. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the
previous version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/koma-script

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Sep 23 11:00:57 2004
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:59:06 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: microtype

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and it should make its way to
your favorite mirror real soon.

Thank you for the update,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: microtype
Author's name: R Schlicht
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/microtype
Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of 
  pdfTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The `microtype' package provides a LaTeX interface to pdfTeX's 
micro-typographic extensions: character protrusion and font expansion.

 NEW:
 =====
 * added protrusion settings for Adobe Minion 
   (contributed by Harald Harders)
 * added protrusion factors for more characters
 * possibility to declare inheriting characters
 * characters may also be specified as hexadecimal or 
   octal numbers

 CHANGES:
 =========
 * configuration file names are now in lowercase
 * removed 8-bit characters from the default 
   configuration files
 * several bug fixes

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Sep 24 02:52:39 2004
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:51:19 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- pagenote package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded pagenote.tar to UK incoming. Please add this to CTAN
> under macros/latex/contrib. The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> >From the README:
>     The pagenote package provides tagged notes on a separate page (aka end
> notes).

i've installed the package as requested (macros/latex/contrib/pagenotes),
and sent it on its way around the world.

thanks for the upload -- indeed ... welcome back to the world of ctan
contributors!

Robin Fairbairns

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Sep 25 09:18:39 2004
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:17:06 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN packages update: ncclatex, ncctools

Two related packages have been updated on tug.ctan.org and should have 
already appeared at your favorite mirror.

Thank you for the update,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: NCCLATEX bundle
Author's name: Alexander I Rozhenko
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ncclatex, macros/latex/contrib/ncctools
Summary description: Improved support for Cyrillic
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Using non-ASCII symbols in math mode is very limitted in LaTeX (e.g. 
cyrillic letters simply disappear when they typesetted in math mode). This 
leads to many errors in typesetting LaTeX papers, especially for papers 
converted from MS Word. The introduced light version of CP1251 input 
encoding, cp1251-light, allows using common cyrillic letters in label 
names and solves the problem of typesetting common cyrillic letters in 
math mode.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the packages at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ncclatex
and
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ncctools
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
.

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Sep 27 17:41:15 2004
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:39:19 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- titling package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded titling.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/titling. The distribution is under
> thec LPPL.
> 
> >From the README:
>     The titling package provides controls over the typesetting of the
> \maketitle and \thanks commands, makes the \title, \author and \date
> information permanantly available, and allows multiple titles in a single
> document.
> 
> Changes in version 2.1c (2004/09/26)
> o No technical change but deleted mention  of an unimplemented macro.

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

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From zierke@dante.de Tue Sep 28 08:11:23 2004
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:09:35 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload -- xkeyval

----- Forwarded message from Hendri Adriaens -----
I just uploaded version 1.5 of xkeyval to
ftp.dante.de. Please install it in the
existing directory:
tex-archive/macros/generic/xkeyval/

Information on the update:
1) a preset system has been added
2) commands for defining boolean keys
   now available
3) a LaTeX patch has been added to
   avoid premature expansions of class
   and package options
4) pst-xkey, a specialization of xkeyval
   for PSTricks packages
5) some minor bug fixes
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload, I installed the new version as suggested replacing
the old version in CTAN:macros/generic/xkeyval

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Sep 28 09:54:03 2004
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:53:14 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: bibfile-reformat-pages

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the material,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: bibfile-reformat-pages
Author's name: Barak A. Pearlmutter
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/utils/bibfile-reformat-pages
Summary description: puts .bib file page ranges into uniform format 
  (abbreviated or not as requested)
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Small gawk script to put all the pages= page ranges in a .bib file into 
a uniform format, either 1234-1256 or upon request 1234-56; 12-12 always 
scrunched to just 1234; squeezes out spaces around separator; can make 
all separators one-dash or two-dashes upon request.  Very very 
conservative: probably impossible for it to actually mess up a file.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibfile-reformat-pages
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Sep 29 12:09:28 2004
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:07:54 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: cam.ctan.org Upload: pst-light3d

Herbert Voss wrote:

> I am just uploading pst-light3d.tgz. Plaese install
> all files in the new directory
> 
> graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-light3d/
> 
> `pst-light3d' is a PSTricks package for three dimensional
> lighten effect on characters and PSTricks graphics, like
> lines, curves, plots, ...

(the package's author is in fact Denis Girou).

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

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep 30 02:50:18 2004
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:48:51 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- pagenote package 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded pagenote.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current latex/contrib/pagenote.
> 
> >From the README:
> 
>    The pagenote package provides tagged notes on a separate page (aka end
> notes).
> 
> Changes in v1.1 (2004/09/27)
> o New hooks for babel
> o Improved error handling

thanks for the upload; i've installed the files in
macros/latex/contrib/pagenote, as suggested.

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Oct  2 08:15:03 2004
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:13:03 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: mimeTeX version 1.50 

John Forkosh writes:

>     I've uploaded ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/mimetex.zip
>     containing mimetex version 1.50
>       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
>              (Please replace both existing files
>                  mimetex.zip  and  README
>               in support/mimetex, i.e.,
>                  unzip mimetex.zip README
>               and then place this separate copy of README
>               "alongside" mimetex.zip in the support/mimetex
>               directory.  Thanks.)
>       + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
>           GNU GPL
>       + brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>           Various new features and fixes since the last point
>           release, and updated documentation.
>         ----------------------------------------------------
>         From the original submission...
>           MimeTeX, licensed under the gpl, lets you easily embed
>           LaTeX math in your html pages.  It parses a LaTeX math
>           expression and immediately emits the corresponding gif
>           image, rather than the usual TeX dvi.
>                And mimeTeX is an entirely separate little program
>           that doesn't use TeX or its fonts in any way.  It's just
>           one cgi that you put in your site's cgi-bin/ directory,
>           with no other dependencies.  So mimeTeX is very easy to
>           install.  And it's equally easy to use.  Just place an
>           html <img> tag in your document wherever you want to see
>           the corresponding LaTeX expression.  For example,
>            <img src="../cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^xe^{-t^2}dt"
>             border=0 align=absmiddle>
>           generates and displays the corresponding gif image
>           on-the-fly, wherever you put that <img> tag.  MimeTeX
>           doesn't need intermediate dvi-to-gif conversion, and it
>           doesn't clutter your filesystem with separate little gif
>           files for each converted expression.  (Optional image
>           caching does store gif files, and subsequently reads them
>           as needed, rather than re-rendering the same images every
>           time a page is reloaded.)
>                See      http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html
>           for examples illustrating mimeTeX's features and usage.

i've installed the upload as requested -- thanks for it.

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From zierke@dante.de Tue Oct  5 03:00:33 2004
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 08:59:01 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: ctan submission -- fixed font metrics for the Bera fonts

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the files 

  README.bera
  bera.zip
  bera.pdf
  
to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org.  
Please, move them to the CTAN directory 

  fonts/bera 

thus replacing the existing files.

These are corrected font metrics for the Bera font family.
In detail, I have fixed a few bugs in the kerning tables of 
the BeraSans fonts, which resulted from a faulty installation
script.  A fixed font sample is provided. too.
-------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the updated files as suggested
in CTAN:fonts/bera/

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From zierke@dante.de Tue Oct  5 03:04:48 2004
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:03:59 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Floatrow 0.1a

----- Forwarded message from Olga Lapko -----
Name of contribution: floatrow package 0.1a

Uploaded to: ftp.dante.de/incoming/floatrow

Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/floatrow

Summary description: Customising layouts for floating environments

License type: lppl

Abstract:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The floatrow package provides many ways to customise layouts of
floating environments; offers possibilities to put floats side by side,
to put caption beside float. All floats of one type could appear in one 
layout

This package co-operates with caption 3.0 package
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Changes:

There was created \floatsetup stuff, analogous to \captionsetup 
in caption 3.0---the more flexible way to customising of float layouts.
_______________________________________________
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/floatrow

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From zierke@dante.de Wed Oct  6 09:21:34 2004
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:19:42 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- xkeyval 1.6

----- Forwarded message from Hendri Adriaens -----
I just uploaded xkeyval 1.6 to ftp.dante.de
Please install it in the existing dir macros/generic/xkeyval

The update is mainly inspired on a small bug that was present in
version 1.5. Further, typos have been corrected and some small changes
have been made in preventing loading parts of the package twice.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested replacing the previous
version in CTAN:macros/generic/xkeyval/

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Oct  7 11:30:17 2004
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:02:38 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: bib2xhtml

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror quite soon.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: bib2xhtml
Author's name: Diomidis Spinellis
Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/utils/bib2xhtml
Summary description: Convert BibTeX Files into XHTML
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
bib2xhtml is a program that converts BibTeX files into HTML (specifically 
XHTML 1.0). The conversion is mostly done by specialized BibTeX style 
files, derived from a converted bibliography style template. This ensures 
that the original BibTeX styles are faithfully reproduced. Some 
postprocessing is performed by Perl code.

This is an update of the bib2html program written by David Hull in 1996 
and maintained by him until 1998. I have been a happy user of the program 
since 1995, using the program to keep my publication list up to date, and, 
lately, to generate the on-line bibliography list for my book Code 
Reading: The Open Source Perspective (Addison-Wesley 2003). After 1998 no 
other changes were made to the program, and I failed to locate an active 
program home page. Since there were a number of changes I needed to bring 
the program up to date with evolving web standards, I decided to adopt 
bib2html for maintenance, evolution, and further distribution. The first 
new public release made in 2004, features support for XHTML 1.0. Given 
that two projects on freshmeat.net claim the name bib2html, on March 2004, 
I decided to rename the project into bib2xhtml, to emphasize the result's 
XHTML conformance.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bib2xhtml
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Oct  7 08:34:02 2004
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:32:03 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: microtype

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org, and should already be
at your favorite mirror.

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: microtype
Author's name: R Schlicht
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/microtype
Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions 
  of pdfTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The `microtype' package provides a LaTeX interface to pdfTeX's 
micro-typographic extensions: character protrusion and font expansion.

 NEW:
 =====
 * new font sets: `allmath' and `basicmath' enabling
   character protrusion in math mode
 * protrusion factors for Computer Modern Roman
   math symbols
 * more protrusion factors for Adobe Garamond and
   Computer Modern Roman in TS1 encoding

 CHANGES:
 =========
 * if an alias font name is specified, it will be used
   as an alternative, not as a replacement
 * more tests for sanity of settings and whether all
   fonts will be set up
 * more robust parsing of sizes in font sets
 * more bug fixes
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Oct  7 09:29:07 2004
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:53:20 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror soon.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Author's name: Nick van Beurden
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix
Summary description: As Is
License type: As is

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The fourteenth CTAN release has the following improvements:
* Added German translations by Lars Borchert.
* Lowered unnecessary RGB to CMYK conversion precision for all colours.
* Removed several bugs (thanks to Robert Rutten) in the text editor form 
  and added information label here.
* Hopefully fixed the looping automatic upgrading.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systemx/win32/latexpix
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct 11 05:23:55 2004
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:21:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: fancyhdr.sty

Piet van Oostrum submitted the new version 3.1 of his fancyhdr package. It 
contains a small patch to solve a problem with \verbatiminput and 
\includegraphics.

fancyhdr is a package for extensive control of page headers and footers in 
LaTeX. It is installed on CTAN in

 macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr

License type: lppl

Thanks for the update.

For the CTAN Team
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From zierke@dante.de Mon Oct 11 08:45:39 2004
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:45:39 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission -- Beamer version 3.00, pgf version 0.64

----- Forwarded message from Till Tantau -----
I have put new versions of beamer and pgf on ftp.dante.de:/incoming.

Announcement:

This is version 3.00 of beamer, a class for creating presentations using 
latex. To use it, you also need 

- pgf version >=0.63,
- xcolor version >=2.00

To install the class follow the instructions in doc/beameruserguide.pdf.

This is a major update of beamer, containing many changes, most having to do 
with a new theme management. Old presentations should still compile without 
errors, but some slight color and spacing changes may occur, however.

The update from pgf 0.63 to 0.64 is just a minor bugfix and not needed to use 
the new beamer version.


Here are the changelogs:

Beamer version 3.00:
	
	Themes:
	- Completely new theme management.
	- Lot's of new variations of themes.
	- Font/element/layout/color themes are orthogonal and can be
	  freely combined. 
	- Old themes obsolete, but supported for compatibility.
	- Original default theme is now in
	  "beamerthemecompatibility.sty". New default is more minimalistic.

	+ Presentation themes:
	- There are now 24 ready-to-use presentation themes. 
	- Manuel Carro has send me a theme that I slightly adapted and
	  added as the Madrid theme.

	+ Layout and element Themes:
	- There are 9 different layouts themes, including three new ones
	  that were not available in the previous version.
	- There are 4 different element themes (which dictate things like
	  how items are typeset).

	+ Color themes:
	- There are 10 color themes, including a yellow-on-blue theme.
	- The seahorse and rose theme allow you to change the colors of
	  headlines and footlines easily to much less "aggressive"
	  versions.  
	- You can now dictate the color of every minute detail of a
	  presentation individually, (including math!).

	+ Font themes:
	- 6 font themes. Change the fonts of titles to, say, small caps
	  just by using the smallcaps theme; no need to meddle with
	  templates. 
	- Just like colors, you can individually change all fonts in
	  minute detail without touching any templates.

	
	Documentation:
	- Split documentation into multiple files.
	- Reorganized and reworked large parts of the documention.
	- Added a small tutorial to help new users.
	- Extracted all "guidelines" and "recommendations" and put them in
	  a "guidelines" section. Also added lots of guidelines on fonts.
	- Added an index (though it's pretty poor, still).

	
	Solutions:
	- Added a solutions directory.
	  It contains ready-to-use solutions for common problems (like
	  a template for a conference talk).
	- Help appreciated (see the documentation).

	
	Added:
	- Added frame environment (finally!).
	- Added the dot notation to overlay specifications. If a dot is
	  used instead of a plus, the beamerpauses counter is not
	  incremented. 
	- Added xmpmulti.sty. Very useful for including Multi Metapost
	  graphics. 
	- Added some functionality to \onslide to get it more in sync with
	  ha-prosper. 
	- Made \beamerdefaultoverlayspecification work also outside
	  frames. 
	- Added new version of beamer.el by Thomas Baumann.
	- \footnote now takes an overlay specification.
	- Added beamercolorbox environment.
	- Characters like : may now be active (nice for french
	  style). Only exceptions are < and >.
	- Added a note on how to use msc.sty with beamer.
	- TOCs in sidebar will now do line breaking (finally!).
	- Powerful object-oriented new font management.
	- Powerful object-oriented new color management.
	- \tableofcontents now has more options for showing/not showing
	  entries.
	- Same is true for the toc in sidebars.
	- Added \keywords command (like \subject).
	- Added a patch to make beamer work together with musixtex. \pause
	  will be redeclared inside music environments.
	- Added \insert's for inserting the start and end pages of the
	  current frame, subsection, section, part, presentation, appendix.

	Changed:
	- Reordered directories.
	- beamerboxesrounded now works differently. color schemes no
	  longer needed.
	- Option class=xxxx onsolete. Use document class xxxx directly
	  instead and load new style beamerarticle.
	- Cleaned up lot's of internals.
	- Slight changes to vertical spacing.
	- slidestop is now called "t" and slidescentered is called "c".
	- \beamersetleftmargin and \beamersetrightmargin obsolete. Use
	  \setbeamersize instead.
	- Old themes are now mapped to new internal mechanisms. Slight
	  color and vertical spacing changes may occur.
	
	Bugfixes:
	- Fixed incompatibility with czech.sty.
	- Fixed some spacing problems with \label.
	- Fixed bug that could cause endless loop if more than two pages
	  resulted from an allowframebreaks.
	- Fixed bug that caused incorrect counter resets in conjunction
	  with allowframebreaks.
	- Fixed bug that caused footnotes of suppressed frames to spill
	  over to the next frame.
	- Fixed bug with \AtBeginSection + \lecture + \mode*
	- Fixed \label bug in article mode in conjunction with amstex
	- Fixed spacing problems when \pause is used in equations
	- Fixed spacing problem with slides that start with an itemize.
	- Fixed color problem in itemize in conjunction with evil use of
	  \everymath. 
	- Fixed failure of action environment in handout and trans modes.
	- Fixed bug with shrink + t options.
	- Fixed lot's of other small things.
	- Fixed problem with displayed math formulas are message "improper
	  halign..."
	- Fixed wrong positioning of mini frames on notes pages.
	- Fixed bugs in outer theme miniframes.
	- Fixed foreground coloring problem in beamerboxesrounded.
	- Fixed \alert in article mode problem.
	- Fixed \temporal problem.
	- Fixed vertical mode after \item problem.
	- Applied patch with typo fixed submitted by Ohura Makoto.
	- Fixed warnings concerning it/sl substitution for cmss.
	- Renamed "ternary" to "tertiary" and "fourth" to
	  "quaternary".
	- Changed parent of color "frametitle" to "titlelike".
	- Fixed problem with \note in lectures that are excluded.

pgf version 0.64:
	- Fixed missing depth of \pgfnodebox.
	- Fixed bug that caused infinite stack loop with pictures inside
	  nodes. 
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the uploads.  I installed them as suggested replacing the old
versions in CTAN:graphics/pgf/ and CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer/

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Oct 12 11:40:00 2004
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:38:31 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: ANUfinalexam

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org.  It should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thank you for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: ANUfinalexam
Author's name: Timothy Kam
Author's email: timothy.kam@anu.edu.au
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/anufinalexam
Summary description: LaTeX document shell for ANU final exam
License type: nocommercial

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This LaTeX document shell is created for the standard formatting of 
final exams in The Australian National University.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/anufinalexam
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
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From zierke@dante.de Wed Oct 13 06:15:22 2004
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:13:39 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: psethiop

----- Forwarded message from -----
Name of contribution: psethiop
Name and email: Malte Rosenau <mrosena@gwdg.de>
Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/psethiop
Summary description: Type1 fonts for ethiop.sty
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a set of Type1 fonts for ethiop.sty, a LaTeX package for
typesetting Ethiopian languages. The 44 Postscript fonts included in this
collection were created from the original Metafont sources with mftrace.
Despite the fact that potrace does an amazing job, the quality of the
individual glyphs is by no means as good as in the original bitmap
version, so please do NOT use them for printing purposes. They look
pretty much ok in pdf files.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed the fonts in
CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/ethiop/ and created a link from
CTAN:language/ethiopia/psethiop/ to fonts/ps-type1/ethiop/
(CTAN:language/ethiopia/ethiop/ is the place of the original font)

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Wed Oct 13 10:58:50 2004
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:57:21 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: PerlTeX

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should already have
arrived at your favorite mirror.

Thank you for the update,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: PerlTeX
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/perltex
Summary description: Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code 
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
PerlTeX is a combination Perl script (perltex.pl) and
LaTeX2e style file (perltex.sty) that, together, give
the user the ability to define LaTeX macros in terms of
Perl code.  Once defined, a Perl macro becomes
indistinguishable from any other LaTeX macro.  PerlTeX
thereby combines LaTeX's typesetting power with Perl's
programmability.

The following changes have been made from the previous
version of PerlTeX:

   * perlmacros.sty has been renamed to perltex.sty.

   * PerlTeX macros can now return LaTeX code which in
     turn invokes other PerlTeX macros.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/perltex
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From zierke@dante.de Thu Oct 14 04:02:21 2004
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:00:44 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: CorrIdx

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload -----
Name of contribution: CorrIdx
Name and email: Johannes Karl Fink <fink@unileoben.ac.at>
Suggested location on CTAN: indexing
Summary description: A preprocessor for MakeIndex to sort chemical names in an index 
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The CorrIdx program can be used to sort an index with chemical names
containing leading numbers, etc. into a proper alphabetical order. It
is intended as a preprocessor for the MakeIndex program.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it in CTAN:indexing/corridx next
to the makeindex directory.

Note: The program is written in Pascal.  A Windows binary and Pascal code
are provided.

Reinhard Zierke
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From zierke@dante.de Thu Oct 14 07:45:20 2004
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:43:58 +0200
From: Reinhard Zierke <zierke@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: updated minitoc package

----- Forwarded message from Jean-Pierre Drucbert -----
I just uploaded a new version of the `minitoc' package in
ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/minitoc.tar.gz

package: minitoc
version: 39
position on CTAN : tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/
                   (should replace the version 38)
licence: LPPL

updates versus version 38:
=======================================================================
Version #39
Corrections in documentation
modern font commands
added \@fileswfalse and \mtc@hook@beforeinputfile for the notoccite package
              (asked for by Donald Arseneau)
added notoccite option (loads the notoccite package)
added language options and .mld files for dialects:
         canadian (=english)
         acadian, acadien, canadien (=french)
         naustrian, ngerman (=ngermanb)
added comments in .mld files using special fonts.
corrections in the documentation
added a paragraph about making a TOC for
      appendices, not listed in the main TOC.
added a PDF version of the english documentation (I used the
      txfonts to get a better rendering with PDF; the dangerous
      bend signs are still in a bit-map font, but it is not
      vital).

TODO: compatibility with the memoir class
TODO: \nomtcpagenumbers & memoir class
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload; I installed as suggested replacing the old
version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Oct 14 10:25:15 2004
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:23:17 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: QCM

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and I expect that it has
already arrived at your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: QCM
Author's name: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/qcm
Summary description: A LaTeX2e class for making multiple choices questionnaires
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the first public release of QCM.

This package provides you with a document class for making multiple choices
questionnaires ("QCM" is the corresponding French acronym) under LaTeXe. A
special environment allows you to define questions and possible answers that
you can specify as correct or wrong. QCM not only formats the questions for
you, but also generates a "form" (a grid that your students will have to fill
in), and a "mask" (the same grid, already filled in properly). You can then
print the mask on a slide and correct the questionnaires more easily by
superimposing the mask on top of students' forms. QCM also comes with support
for AUC-TeX.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/qcm
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Oct 16 08:00:46 2004
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:58:53 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: cam.ctan.org upload: pstricks-add 

Herbert Voss writes:

> Robin, I just uploaded pstricks-add.tgz into the
> incoming directory.
> 
> pstricks-add, version 2.18 (2004-10-16)
> 
> pstricks-add collects a lot of the code which was posted
> to the pstricks mailing list and has some more new features:
> 
> pstricks-add:
> 
> - pstricks
>     o braces as node connection/linestyle
>     o arrows, arrows, arrows, ...
> 
> - pst-plot
>     o new environment psgraph
>     o new macro pstScalePoints
>     o new option for logarithmic axes
>     o new macro and options for ticklines
>     o new plot option bar and option barwidth
>     o new options step, start end for plotting data files
>     o new options xLabel, yLabel
>     o new option plotNo for multiple data files x y1 y2 y3 ...
>     o new macro \psplotPolynomial[coeff=<0 a1 a2 ...>]{<xStart>}{<xEnd>}
> 
> - pst-node
>     o bugfixes
>     o new macro nclineII for a two-colored line
>     o new option lineAngle for ncdiag
>     o new macros for interpolation nodes
>       and linear combination of two vectors
>     o new macro ncbarr (line with 5 segments)
> 
> 
> pst-eqdf.pro:         the prolog file for pstricks-add
> pstricks-add-doc.ltx: the main doc file
> pstricks-add-doc.tex: the included doc file

i've installed the files as required, and despatched them to other
mirrors.

thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Oct 19 10:02:32 2004
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:54 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: eskd
Resent-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:00:46 +0200 (CEST)
Resent-From: [ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf <schoepf@proteosys.com>
Resent-To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Resent-Subject: CTAN has a new package: eskd

A new package has been uploaded on tug.ctan.org, and should soon make
its way to your favorite mirror.

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: eskd
Author's name: Vjacheslav Fyodorov
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/eskd
Summary description: Class for making text documents in accordance with
  russian (and probably post-USSR) standards for designers
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
eskd.cls class designed for making text documents in accordance with
russian (and probably post-USSR) standards for designers.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eskd
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Oct 16 13:56:43 2004
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:55:25 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Announcement: GELLMU version 0.8.0.5 -- bug fixes and minor changes 

William F. Hammond writes:

> Version 0.8.0.5, a bug fix release to replace version 0.8 (and an
> earlier bug fix release), is now available at CTAN in support/gellmu.
> 
> The bugs addressed all involve the gellmu project's "article"
> document type and its output streams for XHTML+MathML and PDF
> (via LaTeX).
> 
> There had been a serious bug in XHTML+MathML output that could
> intertwine subscripts in the content of \sum (or \int or \prod) with
> the use of a subscript attached to the \sum command itself for range.
> Also the handling of \not in XHTML+MathML output had been simply
> wrong.
> 
> An annoying (and regressive) small bug in LaTeX output had caused
> verbatim->verblist to be double spaced.
> 
> There is now an environmental variable for turning off use of UMSS
> (which is on by default) and the default location for UMSS materials
> (and "mxh.css") is now simply "../webstyle" (which can be changed
> using an environmental variable).
> 
> For other fixes and changes see
> 
>      http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/gellmu/README
> 
> There have been requests for better documentation and, in particular,
> a command glossary.
> 
> The user's guide has been expanded somewhat, but it is still far from
> finished.
> 
> A command glossary is now high on my to-do list.  For it to be as
> reliable as possible it will be implemented as one of the output
> streams from a literate document type definition.  That will take
> some time.
> 
> Please continue to report any bugs you find.
> 
>                                     -- Bill

Forwarded by Robin Fairbairns

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Oct 18 16:34:29 2004
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 22:32:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission:  PSNFSS 9.2 bug fix

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Walter Schmidt submitted a fix to PSNFSS. He
wrote:

 > I have uploaded the files
 >
 > 	changes.txt
 > 	freenfss.zip
 >
 > to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org.
 > Please, substitute them for the corresponding files in the
 > CTAN directory
 >
 > 	macros/latex/required/psnfss
 >
 > This is a fix to PSNFSS 9.2, correcting a major bug in the
 > metrics and VFs of the Charter fonts.  Credits to
 > Ingo Lepper for pointing me to the problem!

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 22 06:41:59 2004
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:40:28 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Oct 24: Cambridge offline

for at least 0800-1400 (gmt +0100) of 2004-10-24, the central
computing facilities of the university of cambridge will be off-line
to switch over to a new, beefier, ups.

this means that all the cambridge-supplied tex facilities, viz.

  www.tex.ac.uk, including the uk tex faq
  ftp.tex.ac.uk, also known as cam.ctan.org
  rsync.tex.ac.uk

we[*] apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

[*] for some value of "we": actually, i don't think that cambridge
university really cares about tex.  but i do, and i apologise...
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Oct 24 14:49:34 2004
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:47:49 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Lapko.O@g23.relcom.ru
Subject: Re: floatrow v1.0b uploading

Olga Lapko uploaded an update to the floatrow package. This package allow
customising layouts for floating environments. It's license is LPPL.

Abstract:
----------------------------------------------------------------------

The floatrow package provides many ways to customise layouts of
floating environments; offers possibilities to put floats side by side,
to put caption beside float. All floats of one type could appear in one
layout

This package co-operates with caption 3.0 package

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Changes:

Bug fixing in counting of widths in float row building.

The floatrow package is located in

  macros/latex/contrib/floatrow

The following files were updated:

  floatrow.dtx
  floatrow.ins
  fr-sample.tex

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sun Oct 24 15:05:40 2004
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:04:52 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Juergen Fenn <juergen.fenn@GMX.DE>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: l2tabuen v1.7.4

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Juergen Fenn uploaded an updated version of
l2tabuen. He writes:

 > It contains v1.7.4 of my English translation of Mark Trettin's guide
 > to LaTeX called `l2tabu' v1.7, giving a lot of practical advice about
 > how to avoid the most common mistakes a user can make (i.e., obsolete
 > commands and packages).
 >
 > I have corrected some minor typos and inserted a new section on the
 > euler and eulervm packages which may be of interest to those using
 > LaTeX for mathematical typesetting.

I installed the update in

  info/l2tabu/english

Thanks for the update.

For the CTAN Team
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Tue Oct 26 04:26:07 2004
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:24:12 +0200 (CEST)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Jean-Pierre Drucbert <Jean-Pierre.Drucbert@onecert.fr>
Subject: Re: minitoc package documentation update

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Jean-Pierre Drucbert uploaded an update to his 
minitoc package, which produces a table of contents for each chapter.

 > updates versus version 39:
 > =======================================================================
 > Version #39 (slightly changed)
 > Corrections in documentation (minitoc.pdf) for the generation of
 > minitoc.pdf (thanks to Staszek Wawrykiewicz) for a better
 > rendering; hyperlinks are active (using pdflatex and
 > hyperref.sty).
 > =======================================================================

Thanks for the update.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Nov  1 10:30:38 2004
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:27:56 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload -- pstricks-add

Herbert Voss writes:

> I am just uploading pstricks-add into the incoming dir.
> Please delete _all_ files in
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/
> and put the new ones in there.
> 
> For the announcement:
> 
> pstricks-add is an additional package for PSTricks. It
> collects a lot of the material which was sent to the
> mailing list and some new experimental features. This
> update, version 2.21, has some bugfixes and three new
> macros:
> 
> \psParallelLine for lines parallel to another one
> \psIntersectionPoint sets a node at the intersection point
>                       of two lines
> \psRelLine for lines relative to another one, depending to
>             a given angle

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

robin
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Nov  1 15:06:34 2004
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 22:05:07 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: lineno.sty -- new features

Uwe L�ck submitted the new version 4.1 of his lineno package.

Summary description: version 4.1: module files incorporated, options for others
License type: LaTeX Project

Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/lineno

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Version 4.0 incorporated enhancements that the ednotes bundle
 > for critical editions had provided before. --
 > Stephan I. B�ttcher passed maintenance to Uwe L�ck for this. --
 > Two other packages from the ednotes bundle supported \linelabel
 > in math mode and in tabular environments. They are now
 > (version 4.1) handled by package options. See the CHANGES file
 > and the introduction section of lineno.tex/pdf.
 >
 > License: intended to be LPPL v1.3a which corrects former
 > omission in the NO WARRANTY section
 > (http://www.latex-project.org/site-news.html: `October 11'.)
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload

For the CTAN Team
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Nov  1 15:20:26 2004
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 22:12:07 +0100
From: "[iso-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@nova.dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ednotes.sty -- new user interface
Resent-Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 22:19:28 +0100 (CET)
Resent-From: [ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf <rainer@proteosys.com>
Resent-To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Resent-Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: ednotes.sty -- new user interface

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 Uwe L�ck submitted version 1.0 of the ednotes package.

Summary description: version 1.0: module files handled by package options
License type: LaTeX Project

Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ednotes

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > The ednotes bundle for critical editions formerly offered
 > some optional extension files. These are now handled by
 > new ednotes package options (so no more bothering about the
 > order of loading). This move requires at least changes of
 > documentation in former .sty files of the ednotes bundle,
 > so we recommend updating all of them. See the CHANGES file.
 >
 > License: intended to be LPPL v1.3a which corrects former
 > omission in the NO WARRANTY section
 > (http://www.latex-project.org/site-news.html: `October 11'.)
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Nov  1 15:25:00 2004
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 22:24:12 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Michael Wiedmann <mw@miwie.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: tex-references

Michael Wiedmann submitted the tex-references package to CTAN.

Location on CTAN: info/tex-references
Summary description: References for TeX and Friends
License type: Generic DFSG

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is an ongoing project with the aim of providing a help file for LaTeX
(and its friends like ConTeXt, Metapost, Metafont, etc.) using a
state-of-the-art source format, aka DocBook/XML.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Nov  1 15:32:36 2004
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 22:31:48 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Philipp Lehman <plehman@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission: csquotes 2.4

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Philipp Lehman submitted version 2.4 of his csquotes
package to CTAN. This is a maintenance update.

ABOUT

The csquotes package:
 * provides markup for inline quotations
 * supports both control sequences and active characters
 * toggles between inner and outer quotation marks for nested quotes
 * interfaces with babel and adapts quotation marks as required
 * features fully configurable quote styles and active characters

CHANGES

 * Prevent use of \RestoreQuotes in preamble
 * Fixed bug causing premature expansion of quote macros
 * Fixed bug suppressing kerning before closing quotes

Thanks for the update.

For the CTAN Team
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov  2 07:46:33 2004
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:44:36 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: revised examples for the latex companion, 2nd ed

i've just installed a revised set of examples for the second edition
of the latex companion; aiui, these apply to the second, revised,
printing of the second edition.

the ctan location remains info/examples/tlc2

Robin Fairbairns

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Nov  2 11:05:46 2004
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:03:23 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: fontspec

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

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: fontspec
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/
Summary description: An automatic interface to feature-rich fonts in XeLaTeX.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
fontspec is a package for XeLaTeX. It provides an automatic and unified 
interface to feature-rich AAT and OpenType fonts through the NFSS in LaTeX 
running on XeTeX. XeTeX is the successor to TeX-GX, a TeX-variant for Mac 
OS X that accepts unicode input and can access system fonts directly.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov  2 16:20:20 2004
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:18:31 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: acronym-1.15 uploaded 

Tobias Oetiker writes:

> I have uploaded acronym-1.15 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/acronym-1.15.

i've used the contents to update macros/latex/contrib/acronym

thanks for the upload

> If you think it is appropriate, announce it please.

since it's a fix for a current thread in c.t.t, it seems appropriate
to announce.

> Recent Changes:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Version 1.15 (November 2004): fix for acresetall to work when ac is called
> in grouped material.
> -- Hendri Adriaens <Hendri@uvt.nl>
> 
> Version 1.14 (October 2004): fix acsp and acfp for footnote mode
> -- Markus Ortner <m.ortner@icie.jku.at>
> 
> Version 1.13 (July 2004): deflist renamed to AC@deflist to
> avoid unnecessary nameing conflict.
> --  Peter May <peter.may@philips.com>
> 
> Version 1.13 (July 2004): printonlyused was not working anymore
> --  Tobi Oetiker <oetiker@ee.ethz.ch>
> 
> Version 1.13 (July 2004): if the footnote option was on, footnotes were
> printed for ALL acronyms ALL the time, this looked rather odd if the same
> acronym was used more than once on the same page. Changed it so that
> footnote printing follows the same rules as normal acronym printing (only
> print footnote first time). One might think about changeing this, so that
> either footnotes get printed 'once' per page. Or that the footnote marks are
> ...

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov  3 18:26:32 2004
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 00:24:39 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: FW: acronym-1.15 uploaded 

Tobias Oetiker provided a new version of acronym for me to install, on
tuesday 2nd november.  it's been noticed that this version had an
incorrect version number in it...

... so we now have a new version, 1.16; just installed here in
macros/latex/contrib/acronym

version 1.16 has no distinguishing property _other_ than a correct
record of its version number.

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Nov  6 02:34:47 2004
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 08:33:17 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload 

Herbert Voss writes:

> I am just uploading pst-3dplot.tgz
> Please delete _all_ files in /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot
> and put the new ones in there.
> 
> ----
> This new version 1.42 of pst-3dplot, a PSTricks package
> 
> - uses the extended version of the keyval interface (xkeyval) to
>    prevent clashes between option names of different packages.
> - has some bugfixes (spurious blanks)
> - new options for \pstPlanePut
> - new macro \pstThreeDPlaneGrid
> ----

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

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Nov  6 11:08:06 2004
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 18:06:42 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Stefan Ulrich <stefanulrich@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: bibtopic package

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 Stefan Ulrich submitted an
update to the bibtopic package.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/bibtopic/
Summary description: LaTeX package for including several bibliographies in a document
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a maintainance release that fixes compilation problems of bibtopic.ins
with newer docstrip versions.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update.

For the CTAN Team
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Nov  6 11:11:49 2004
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 18:08:27 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Till Tantau <tantau@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Beamer versions 3.01 and pgf version 0.65 uploaded

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Till Tantau submitted new versions to CTAN:

version 3.01 of beamer and version 0.65 of pgf

Thanks for the update.

 > Release notes:
 >
 > These versions are mainly bugfix versions. However, beamer now has a
 > much-improved support of verbatims. If you use verbatims a lot, you'll love
 > the "fragile" frame option (to get going quickly, read the text in the
 > tutorial section of the user's guide).
 >
 >
 > Change logs:
 >
 > beamer version 3.01:
 > 	added:
 > 	- Option "fragile" that allows the use of
 > 	  overlays together with verbatims. *Extremely* useful.
 > 	- Added option "T" to columns command/environment for alignment of
 > 	  top of first lines instead of baselines of first lines.
 > 	- Added a color theme (dolphin) and a presentation theme
 > 	  (Boadilla) due to Manuel Carro.
 >
 > 	bugfixes:
 > 	- Fixed "fotoline" in beamerbasecompatibility.sty and
 > 	  beamerthemeboxes.sty.
 > 	- Fixed vertical spacing problem having to do with the use of
 > 	  \trivlist.
 > 	- Fixed problem with wrong short forms of section/subsection in
 >     	  certain outer themes in headline.
 > 	- Fixed bug causing "unknown command \insertblockname" in article
 > 	  mode.
 > 	- Changed definition of \normalcolor so that it works inside color
 > 	  mixins.
 > 	- Fixed problems with autoframebreak and unwanted breaks.
 > 	- Fixed problem with problem with vertical mode after \item.
 > 	- "Smoothed" the rendering of the right side of boxes with
 > 	  shadows.
 > 	- Fixed "descriptionwidth" to "description width".
 > 	- Fixed problem with labels outside frames creating empty frames.
 > 	- Applied lot's of spelling patches to user guide.
 > 	- Fixed \thanks.
 > 	- Navigation symbols are no longer shown in handout and trans
 > 	  modes, by default (write
 > 	  \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}[default] to get them
 > 	  back).
 >
 > pgf version 0.65:
 > 	- Fixed bug in pgfshade.sty that arises in conjunction with
 > 	  calc.sty and latex+dvips.


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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Nov  7 11:54:49 2004
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 15:00:01 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: Upload -- pst-func

Herbert Voss

> I uploaded the new PSTricks package pst-func. Please install
> it into CTAN:/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/
> --------
> pst-func is a PSTricks related package. It has macros
> for special mathematical functions:
> 
> - Polynom and its abbreviations f(x)=an*x^n+an-1*x^(n-1)+...+a0
>    defined by the coefficients a0 a1 a2 ... and the abbreviation
>    order
> - Fourier sum f(x) =a0/2+a1cos(omega x)+...+b1sin(omega x)+...
>    defined by the coefficients a0 a1 a2 ... b1 b2 b3 ...
> - Bessel function
>    defined by its order
> - Gauss function
>    difined by sigma
> 
> for more informations have a look at the documentation.

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

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Nov  9 12:21:31 2004
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:19:07 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: extarrows

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror quite soon.

Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: extarrows
Author's name: Chim Cut Canh
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/extarrows
Summary description: Extensive Arrows
License type: lgpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Arrows Provided
    (more than \xleftarrow, \xrightarrow of AMSMATH package)

    \xlongequal

    \xLongleftarrow
    \xLongrightarrow
    \xLongleftrightarrow
    \xLeftrightarrow

    \xlongleftrightarrow
    \xleftrightarrow
    \xlongleftarrow
    \xlongrightarrow

Enjoy!
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/extarrows
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Nov  9 12:25:10 2004
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:20:56 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: QCM

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

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: QCM
Author's name: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/qcm
Summary description: QCM (multiple choice questionnaires) version 2.0 is released
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is version 2.0 of QCM.

New in this release: QCM now comes both in class and style form.

QCM is a package for making multiple choices questionnaires ("QCM" is the
corresponding French acronym) under LaTeX 2e. A special environment allows you
to define questions and possible answers. You can specify which answers are
correct and which are not. QCM not only formats the questions for you, but
also generates a "form" (a grid that your students will have to fill in), and
a "mask" (the same grid, only with correct answers properly checked in). You
can then print the mask on a slide and correct the questionnaires more easily
by superimposing the mask on top of students' forms.
QCM also comes with support for AUC-TeX.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/qcm
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 10 14:30:20 2004
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:28:45 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update acronym-1.17 

Tobias Oetiker writes:

> Recent Changes:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Version 1.16 (November 2004): fix version number
> -- Oliver Creighton <creighto there in.tum.de>
> new option to suppress all acronym printing -- don't use acronyms (dua)
> 
> Version 1.16 (November 2004): fix version number
> -- tobi there oetiker.ch
> 
> Version 1.15 (November 2004): fix for acresetall to work when ac is called
> in grouped material.
> -- Hendri Adriaens <Hendri there uvt.nl>
> 
> Version 1.14 (October 2004): fix acsp and acfp for footnote mode
> -- Markus Ortner <m.ortner there icie.jku.at>
> 
> Version 1.13 (July 2004): deflist renamed to AC there deflist to
> avoid unnecessary nameing conflict.
> --  Peter May <peter.may there philips.com>
> 
> Version 1.13 (July 2004): printonlyused was not working anymore
> --  Tobi Oetiker <oetiker there ee.ethz.ch>

i've installed the upload in macros/latex/contrib/acronym

thanks for the upload.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Nov 11 08:40:32 2004
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:39:09 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: greektex

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org, and should make its way soon to
your favorite mirror.

Here is the README file for the update:
-----------------------------------------------------------
The files of this package make it possible to process with
LaTeX2e files written in "Greeklish", i.e., a mixture of Greek
and English. They are based on Silvio Levy's classical Greek
("plain") fonts, and they have evolved from earlier distributions
for Latex209, in 1993 by Moschovakis and in 1994 by Moschovakis
and Spiliotis. To use them, you need to have an ASCII editor that
can handle mixed Greek and English input, such as notepad or
(better) winedt, and a full LaTeX2e installation with the
capability to automatically compile metafont files when they are
called, e.g., Miktex or a linux installation.

To install and use these fonts, you need the following files, posted here:

ywcl.zip          This contains all the metafont files necessary
                  to produce the Greek fonts.

greektexdoc.pdf   The document (in Greek).

greektexdoc.tex   The texfile of the document (as a sample).

greektex.sty      The main package.

gehyphw.gr        The hyphenation file.

You should print greektexdoc.pdf, which has detailed instructions
(in Greek) for installing and using this package and also
illustrates the "look" of the fonts.

As far as we know, all the programs in this package are in the
public domain and they are offered without any obligation or
guarantee, with the usual proviso that if you change any files you
should also change their names.

October 2004 Yiannis Moschovakis, ynm@math.ucla.edu
Chrysovalantis Sfyrakis, hammer@math.uoa.gr
---------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/greek/greektex
. 

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Nov 11 08:44:08 2004
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:41:17 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: pecha

A new package has gone into tug.ctan.org and should appear soon at your
mirror of choice.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: pecha
Author's name: Dieter J�ger
Location on CTAN: /language/tibetan/pecha
Summary description: A LaTeX class to print Tibetan text in the classic 
  pecha layout style.
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The pecha class provides an environment for writing Tibetan  
on LaTeX2e in the traditional Tibetan Pecha layout used for  
spiritual or philosophical texts, using the cTibTeX  
package by Oliver Corff. 
It provides features like headers in different languages, 
page numbering in Tibetan and more. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/tibetan/pecha
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Sat Nov 13 14:34:18 2004
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:32:18 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: Albrecht Mehl <mehl@hrz1.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>
Cc: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: Shortcuttool

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 Albrecht Mehl submitted to the following material to CTAN:

Name of contribution: Shortcuttool
Summary description: Enables file import to the input tool Shortcut, provides shortcut file
License type: dfsg

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Typing LaTeX commands can be facilitated by the WINDOWS input tool
Shortcut (see http://www.typer.de/). The creation of a shortcut base just
with the input window of Shortcut is cumbersome. Here is a tool for the
import of shortcut files in Ascii format together with such a shortcut
file containing more than 140 shortcuts.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload, the files have been installed in

  support/shortcuttool

For the CTAN Team
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Nov 14 04:57:41 2004
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 10:56:43 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: pst-fr3d 

Herbert Voss writes:

> I uploaded pst-fr3d.tgz to the uk mirror. It is a
> "new" PSTricks related package, which was only available
> from the PSTricks TUG website. Please put the files into
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-fr3d/
> 
> 
> This package allows to draw three dimensional framed boxes using the
> macro \PstFrameBoxThreeDMacro. This is specially useful to draw
> 3d-like buttons.
> The author of this package is Denis Girou.

i've installed the package as suggested.  thanks for the upload.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Nov 16 08:08:21 2004
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:06:08 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: RRGtrees

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: RRGtrees
Author's name: David Gardner
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/rrgtrees
Summary description: Linguistic tree diagrams for Role and Reference 
  Grammar (RRG) with LaTeX.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A set of LaTeX macros that makes it easy to produce linguistic tree 
diagrams suitable for Role and Reference Grammar (RRG). This package allows 
the construction of trees with crossing lines, as is required by this theory 
for many languages. 

There is no known limit on number of tree nodes or levels.

Requires the pst-node and pst-tree LaTeX packages.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rrgtrees
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Nov 16 08:11:31 2004
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:07:55 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: microtype

A package has been upgraded at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: microtype
Author's name: R Schlicht
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype
Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions 
  of pdfTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

 CHANGES (v1.3 + v1.4):
 ----------------------
 * set up fonts independently from LaTeX font loading
   (therefore, no risk of overlooking fonts anymore,
   and the package may be loaded at any time)
 * compatibility with german and ngerman packages
 * \microtypesetup now sets the correct level of
   character protrusion
 * minor bug fixes and improvements

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype
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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Nov 19 03:56:07 2004
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:54:07 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- contour

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded contour-v2_14.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the new
 > version of the contour package. Please install it to
 > CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/contour. The license stays LPPL.
 > 
 > >From the README:
 > 
 > This package generates a colored contour around a given text in order
 > to enable printing text over a background without the need of a
 > color box around the text.
 > By default this is done by placing copies of the text around the text
 > itself and can be switched to use real outlines if supported by the
 > backend driver.
 > 
 > 
 > ChangeLog:
 > 
 > 2004/11/18  v2.14  Harald Harders (h.harders@tu-bs.de)
 > 	- Add support for DVIPSONE.
 > 
 > 2004/11/04  v2.13  Harald Harders (h.harders@tu-bs.de)
 > 	- More robust mechanism to change Postscript internals for dvips.

Thanks for the upload, I installed it as requested. 

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Fri Nov 19 04:03:27 2004
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:03:10 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Petr Vabishchevich <latexmng@latexsoft.com>
Subject: Re: CTAN upload notification: LaTexMng

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 Petr Vabishchevich submitted a 
new shareware package called latexmng.

It has been installed on CTAN in

  nonfree/systems/win32/latexmng

with a symbolic link in

  systems/win32/latexmng

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
LaTexMng
Version 1.0

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system, with features designed for
the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the 
de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific 
documents.

LaTexMng is  easy to use product of integrated development environment 
software for Windows. This application integrates all the tools, needed 
to the creation of LaTeX documents. 

LaTexMng requires Windows 2000 or XP, or later editions of MS Windows.

We do not warrant that the software is error free.

This is not free software. Subject to the terms below, you are hereby.

Licensed to use Shareware Version of this software for evaluation
purposes without charge for a period of 30 days. The free evaluation
period starts at the moment of installation of the software.

Installation

LaTexMng is distributed as LaTexMngSetup.exe. Run LaTexMngSetup.exe and 
simply follow the on-screen instructions to install LaTexMng.

LaTexMng is copyright (C) 2004, by VNP Comp. 

Contact:
Home Page:    http://www.latexsoft.com
e-mail:       latexmng@latexsoft.com
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Sch�pf

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 19 08:56:48 2004
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:54:48 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: New ConTeXt math modules 

Giuseppe Bilotta writes:

>    + what you've uploaded : ctx-math.zip
> 
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to : UK (ftp.tex.ac.uk)
> 
>    + where you want the files to go :
>    the two files contained in the .zip file should
>    be unpacked to
>    tex-archive/macros/context/contrib/maths
>    replacing the previous files.
> 
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software:
>    GNU GPL licence
> 
>    + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> 
>    The .zip archive contains two ConTeXt modules (t-nath.tex
>    and t-amsl.tex) that complement the math features in
>    ConTeXt. t-amsl provides some environments and commands that
>    most (AMS-)LaTeX users expect. t-nath provides for ConTeXt
>    the same functionality as provided by the Nath package for
>    LaTeX.
> 
>    This new upload fixes a few bugs in the t-nath module.

i've installed the files as requested -- thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Sat Nov 20 08:28:29 2004
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:14:36 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: Fonts for Cirth

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to 
your favorite mirror.

Please note the change of maintainer; we were unable to find the prior
author Jo Grant.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: Fonts for Cirth
Author's name: Martin Habets
Location on CTAN: /fonts/cirth
Summary description: Fonts for Cirth version 2.0
License type: dfsg

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 2.0 of this font provides several fixes and
improvements. Most importantly fixes are to the runes for 
'a' and the reduced forms of 'e'.
New runes have been provided to create for one through four 
vertical dots. All runes can now be accessed through
character sequences, which eliminates the need for
numerical access.

All changes are summarized in the Changelog file.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cirth/
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Nov 21 03:02:50 2004
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:01:35 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upgrade: pst-poly 

Herbert Voss writes:

> I just uploaded pst-poly to the uk ,irror
> Please delete _all_ files in
> graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-poly/
> and put the new ones in there.
> 
> pst-poly is a PSTricks (PostScript Tricks) related
> package for drawing various polygons. This update
> uses the extended version of the keyval package
> (xkeyval) and has one new macro \pspolygonbox for
> framing text with a polygon.
> The original author of this package is Denis Girou.

i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Nov 22 04:21:12 2004
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:19:03 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- numprint

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded numprint-v1_33-v0_10.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains
 > the new version of the numprint package. License stays LPPL.
 > 
 > >From the README:
 > 
 > Print numbers with a separator every three digits and convert numbers
 > given as 12345.6e789 to 12\,345,6\cdot 10^{789}. Numbers are printed
 > in the current mode (text or math) in order to use the correct font.
 >   Many things, including the decimal sign, the thousand separator, as
 > well as the product sign can be changed by the user, e.g., to reach
 > 12,345.6\times 10^{789}. If requested, numprint can round numbers to
 > a given number of digits.
 >   If an optional argument is given it is printed upright as unit.
 > Numbers can be rounded to a given number of digits.
 >   The package supports an automatic, language-dependent change of the
 > number format.
 >   Tabular alignment using the tabular(*), array, tabularx, and longtable
 > environments (similar to the dcolumn and rccol packages) is supported
 > using all features of numprint. Additional text can be added before and
 > after the formatted number.
 > 
 > 
 > The new version avoids to use the calc package which causes problems with
 > many packages.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in

  macros/latex/contrib/numprint

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Nov 22 04:24:48 2004
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:20:26 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Harald Harders <h.harders@tu-bs.de>
Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- isodate

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded isodate-v2_23.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the new
 > version of isodate. License stays LPPL.
 > 
 > >From the README:
 > 
 > Tune the output format of dates.
 > 
 > This package provides ten output formats of the
 > commands \today, \printdate, \printdateTeX, and \daterange
 > (partly language dependent):
 > ISO (yyyy-mm-dd),
 > numeric (e.g. dd.\,mm.~yyyy),
 > short (e.g. dd.\,mm.\,yy),
 > TeX (yyyy/mm/dd),
 > original (e.g. dd. mmm yyyy),
 > short original (e.g. dd. mmm yy),
 > as well as numerical formats with Roman numerals for the month.
 > 
 > The commands \printdate and \printdateTeX print any date.
 > The date is given as an argument using the actual date format for output:
 > \printdate{yyyy-mm-dd}, \printdate{dd.mm.yyyy}, or \printdate{dd/mm/yyyy},
 > and \printdateTeX{yyyy/mm/dd}.
 > 
 > The command \daterange prints a date range and leaves out unnecessary
 > year or month entries.
 > E.g. 2000-05-03 to 2000-05-08 leads to `2000-05-03 to 08'.
 > 
 > This package supports Danish, English (UK, US, Australian, New Zealand),
 > French, German (old and new orthography, Austrian), Norwegian (by Svend
 > Tollak Munkejord), and Swedish (by Christian Schlauer).
 > 
 > 
 > The new version avoids to use the calc package which causes many problems
 > with many other packages.

Thanks for the update, I installed it in 

  macros/latex/contrib/isodate

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Mon Nov 22 09:46:14 2004
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:44:53 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: malyshev@mx.ihep.su, Basil Malyshev <bakoma@mail.ru>
Subject: Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 6.70: DVI Reverse Search smart features.

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Basil Malyshev wrote:

 > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory
 > update for BaKoMa TeX 6.70 (issued 21-Nov-2004)
 > 
 > Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory.
 > 
 > Most important improvements in BaKoMa TeX 6.70 are:
 > 
 >    1. Improved DVI Reverse Search:
 >       a) avoiding jumping into STY and AUX files;
 >       b) linking bounding boxes of imported graphics with proper source.
 >    2. New option to show bounding boxes of imported graphics in DVI Viewer.
 >    3. Support JPEG/CMYK images and improved support of PCX/BW
 >    4. Updated TeX4HT (snapshot of 2004/11/04)
 >    5. DVI Font Highlighting shows font sizes (option)
 >    6. Fixed \Pause in svg-beta.sty
 >    7. Improved color support in Postscript interpreter.
 > 
 > More information about changes is at:
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

 > CONTENTS
 >    * Highlights
 >    * Graphical Capabilities
 >    * Fonts
 >    * User Interface
 >    * PDF Generation Features
 >    * HTML Generation features
 >    * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 6.70
 >    
 > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see
 >    <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html>
 > 
 > BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95
 > 
 > HIGHLIGHTS
 > 
 >  * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system.
 >    `Postscript enabled' means that the system includes built-in 
 >    Postscript interpreter that provides careful drawing Postscript graphics
 >    (including one embedded into DVI via TeX special's) on display 
 >    and on (even non-postscript) printers. Also, it provides perfect
 >    conversion of any Postscript graphics for such output formats as:
 >    PDF, SVG, and HTML. 
 >  * SVG output lets you to create high quality animated presentations. 
 >  * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region
 >    of the file being edited. (like to Instant Preview)
 >    Dual cursor feature efficiently simulates editing in DVI Window.
 >  * DVI Forward/Inverse search is supported with character precision.
 >    It is really help to edit formulas and tables and other complex stuffs.
 >  * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*.
 >    However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available.
 >  * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH)
 >    in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format.
 >  * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click
 >  * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends.
 >  * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
 >  * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages.
 >  * Easy to install and use.
 >  * Much less expensive than other analogues.
 >  
 > GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES
 > 
 > BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*
 > (with most of Level 3 features), which is tested for compatibility 
 > with output from popular software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, 
 > Adobe Streamline 4.0, Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, 
 > HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc.
 > 
 > All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible 
 > with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript
 > embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.).
 > 
 > The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats:
 >    EPS, PDF, HPGL, DXY, FIG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF.
 > 
 > FONTS
 > 
 > BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats:
 >  * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported),
 >  * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), 
 >  * PostScript Type 3,
 >  * TrueType,
 >  * TeX PK/VF.
 > 
 > The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1
 > and Type 3 font format including the following fonts:
 >  * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX
 >  * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols),
 >  * EC/TC,
 >  * LH (T2A),
 >  * Concrete (Math, ECC),
 >  * Malvern,
 >  * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY
 >  * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk.
 >  Math Fonts: 
 >  * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke).
 >  Diagram drawing fonts:
 >  * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), 
 >  * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), 
 >  * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc.
 > 
 > Any font type can be used for any output device/format.
 > This feature is supported by automatic font conversion
 > between font formats when needed.
 > This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*.
 > On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts
 > for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers.
 > 
 > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts 
 > available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems.
 > 
 > Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free)
 > OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click.
 > 
 > OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0
 > even without ATM.
 > 
 > USER INTERFACE
 > 
 > * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document.
 >   It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, 
 >   when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, 
 >   mathematics, pictures, etc.
 > * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen 
 >   for using Dynamical Preview efficiently.
 > * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors,
 > * Quick navigation via document structure,
 > * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent),
 > * Powerful support for different input encodings,
 > * Project support,
 > * Graphics import assistant,
 > * Assitance for multi-file documents: 
 >   context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files,
 > * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file,
 > * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection,
 > * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries,
 > * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands,
 > * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics.
 > * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words,
 >     correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts.
 >     configurable for handling (La)TeX commands.
 > * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. 
 > * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible.
 > * Support for Multi-User systems.
 > 
 > OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS
 > 
 > * View on Windows Display.
 > * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver.
 > * PostScript (really scalable),
 > * PDF,
 > * SVG (animation effects are supported),
 > * HTML.
 > 
 > Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support
 > for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned
 > may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical 
 > capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output.
 > 
 > PDF GENERATION FEATURES
 > 
 > * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks).
 > * Creating PDF files which share fonts.
 >   Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries.
 > * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms.
 > * Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste 
 >   of cyrillic and other international characters.
 > * Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline.
 > 
 > HTML GENERATION FEATURES
 > 
 >  BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX
 >  documents into HTML files.
 >   * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch 
 >      `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options.
 >   * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert 
 >      pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML
 >      pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, 
 >      such as slides.
 > 
 >  In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors.
 >  Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of 
 >  `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command.
 > 
 >  Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine.
 >  In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX
 >  into generated HTML pages.
 >  
 > SVG GENERATION FEATURES
 > 
 >  BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
 >  from a DVI files. Ability to add animation to the SVG output,
 >  makes it the best for producing high quality presentations.
 > 
 >  Sample of animated presentation is available at:
 >    ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html
 > 
 >  Key Features:
 >    SVG output is compatible with another output formats
 >    (PDF, PS, HTML, View, and Print) so, that the same graphical
 >    formats, font formats, and other features are supported.
 >    In details:
 >    *  All TeX Formats (LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09, AmSTeX, Plain TeX) are supported.
 >    *  TeX extensions (e-TeX and Omega) are supported.
 >    *  ALL LaTeX packages (including PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics, draftcopy, etc.)
 >        are supported.
 >    *  Graphical formats: EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, FIG,
 >    		         BMP, WMF, EMF, HPGL, and DXY are supported.
 >    *  More generally, Any imported or embedded Postscript is supported.
 >    *  Hyperref is supported, including outline and links. For \Acrobatmenu 
 >       most general commands (such as NextPage or PrevPage) are supported.
 >    *  Popular presentation packages: Prosper, PDFScreen, PDFSlide, Seminar, etc.
 >       are supported.
 >   *** The existing presentations can be enhanced by adding animation.
 >    *  All Font Types: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, Postscript Type1 
 >       (including MM), Postscript Type 3, and TeX PK are supported.
 > 
 >  Details about adding animation to generated SVG files are explained at:
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/svgwrite.html>
 > 
 > *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 6.70 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 6.60 ***
 > 
 >    1. Improved DVI Reverse Search:
 >       a) Avoiding jumping into STY and AUX files.
 >       b) jumping to proper source from bounding boxes of imported graphics.
 >    2. Support JPEG/CMYK images and improved support of PCX/BW
 >    3. Updated TeX4HT (snapshot of 2004/11/04)
 >    4. DVI Font Highlighting shows font sizes (option)
 >    5. Fixed \Pause in svg-beta.sty
 >    6. Improved color support in Postscript interpreter.
 > 
 > For more information see
 >   <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>
 > 
 > ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Nov 25 09:09:42 2004
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:06:30 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Bjoern.Pedersen@frm2.tum.de
Subject: CTAN update: bpchem bugfix release v 1.06

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Bjoern Pedersen announced an update to bpchem.

It fixes a white space bug in the \CNlabel command.

BPChem is a package to aid typesetting chemical names and labels.

It has been installed in

  macros/latex/contrib/bpchem

License remains lppl.

Thanks for the upload.

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From rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com Thu Nov 25 10:26:55 2004
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:25:43 +0100 (CET)
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Rainer Sch�pf" <rainer.schoepf@proteosys.com>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: xkeyval 1.7 and pst-xkey 1.2

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Hendri Adriaens uploaded uploaded xkeyval 1.7 and 
pst-xkey 1.2 to CTAN.

They have been installed in the directory

  macros/generic/xkeyval

Thanks for the update.

Announcement text:
---------------------------------------------
Don't forget to read the README on installing
xkeyval in a (La)TeX distribution.

Information about the updated xkeyval:
1)  Added \disable@key
2)  Added \define@cmdkey (command keys)
3)  Changed xkvltxp.tex to xkvltxp.sty
4)  Namechange: \XKV@ifku to \key@ifundefined
5)  Simplified both the value saving and the
    pointer mechanism
6)  Improved coding at several places
7)  Package now uses eTeX if available
8)  Removed optional existence checking from
    \define@key and friends
9)  \presetkeys: made incremental
10) \XKV@makepf: protects internal macros.
11) Introduced optional global saving of macros
    produced by \savekeys and \presetkeys.
12) Added notation to \savekeys and \savevalue
    to instruct xkeyval to save values globally.

Information about the updated pst-xkey:
1) Updated docs and code to match xkeyval 1.7
---------------------------------------------

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 26 02:34:15 2004
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:32:31 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: dviware/dvipng 

Jan-�ke Larsson writes (via the cam.ctan.org upload daemon):

>     dvipng: A fast DVI to PNG/GIF converter.
>
>       The 1.3 release adds the possibility to give a fallback color
>       for the transparent border, and makes few other small changes.

thanks for the upload: i've updated the files on ctan, and the ctan
catalogue now mentions gif as well as png.

Robin Fairbairns

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Nov 27 10:36:07 2004
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:33:36 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: QCM 2.1 

Didier Verna writes, through the magic of the www.tex.ac.uk upload
daemon:

> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20041127-160732/
> 
> ======================================================================
> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: QCM 2.1
> Author's name: Didier Verna
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/qcm
> Summary description: Multiple Choice Questionnaire for LaTeX2e, version 2.1
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> I'm happy to announce version 2.1 of QCM.
> 
> New in this release: you can now automatically typeset a correction for your exams.
> 
> QCM is a package for making multiple choices questionnaires ("QCM" is the
> corresponding French acronym) under LaTeX2e. A special environment allows you
> to define questions and possible answers. You can specify which answers are
> correct and which are not. QCM not only formats the questions for you, but
> also generates a "form" (a grid that your students will have to fill in), and
> a "mask" (the same grid, only with correct answers properly checked in). You
> can then print the mask on a slide and correct the questionnaires more easily
> by superimposing the mask on top of students' forms. QCM can also typeset
> exams corrections automatically, and comes with support for AUC-TeX.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> You can have a look at the package at
>   http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/qcm
> although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
> of CTAN that is near to you; see 
>   http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

i've installed the files as suggested; thanks for the upload.

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Nov 29 10:50:29 2004
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:47:51 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: macros/latex/contrib/maybemath

Andy Buckley writes (via the cam.ctan.org upload daemon):

>   Macros for making math bold or italic according to context
>
>     The \maybebm and \maybeit macros can be used in math
>     expressions to make the arguments typeset as bold or italic
>     respectively if the surrounding context is appropriate. They
>     are useful for writing user macros for use in general contexts.
>     
>     \maybebm is especially appropriate when section titles contain
>     math expressions, since the title will appear bold but the
>     header and table of contents usually replicate the title in
>     normal width.
>     
>     \maybeit performs a similar role to \mathrm{} but the math
>     expression will be italicised if the surrounding text is.
>     \maybeitsubscript is provided to shift subscripts to the left
>     if the expression is italicised.

i've installed the package as requested, in
macros/latex/contrib/maybemath.  thanks for the upload.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Wed Dec  1 05:57:34 2004
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:56:05 +0100 (CET)
From: ctan-ann@dante.de
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update notification: sauerj

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 Jonathan Sauer submitted an update to his sauerj 
bundle. It is installed in

  macros/latex/contrib/sauerj

Thanks for the upload.

Summary description: Some packages for LaTeX: collect, metainfo, optparams, parcolumns, processkv, zahl2string
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
An update for the sauerj LaTeX packages:

Changed:

- parcolumns provides an environment for typesetting text in two or
  more columns in parallel.

  Requires the processkv-package (below).

  Current version: 1.2 (fixes bug with list environments and works
  correctly with the amsart class)


- zahl2string provides macros for formatting numbers as german words,
  i.e. `1' gets formatted as `eins'.

  Current version: 1.2.1 (@Numstring and @Ordstring made robust)


New:

- metainfo provides a macro for only typesetting specially formatted
  comments of a document.

  Current version: 0.9.1


Unmodified:

- collect provides several environment to collect text in a macro
  or a file for later use.
 
  Current version: 0.9


- optparams provides a small macro for creating macros with multiple
  optional parameters.

  Current version: 0.9


- processkv provides macros for processing of key-value-lists by
  calling a user-defined macro for each key-value-pair.

  Requires the keyval-package dated 1999/03/16 or later.

  Current version: 1.0.1

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Dec  2 15:56:12 2004
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:53:57 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: hepparticles 

Andy Buckley writes, through the magic of the www.tex.ac.uk upload
daemon:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: hepparticles
> Author's name: Andy Buckley
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/hepparticles
> Summary description: Macros for typesetting high energy physics particle names
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> hepparticles is a set of macros for typesetting high energy 
> particle names, to meet the following criteria:
> 
> 1. The main particle name is a Roman or Greek symbol, to be
> typeset in upright font in normal contexts. 
> 
> 2. Additionally a superscript and/or subscript may follow the main symbol.
> 
> 3. Particle resonances may also have a resonance specifier which is
> typeset in parentheses following the main symbol. In general the
> parentheses may also be followed by sub- and superscripts. 
> 
> 4. The particle names are expected to be used both in and out of
> mathematical contexts. 
> 
> 5. If the surrounding text is bold or italic then the particle name
> should adapt to that context as best as possible (this may not be
> possible for Greek symbols).
> 
> A consequence of point 5 is that the well-known problems with
> boldness of particle names in section titles, headers and tables of
> contents automatically disappear if these macros are used.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> You can have a look at the package at
>   http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hepparticles
> although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
> of CTAN that is near to you; see 
>   http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/README.mirrors 

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Dec  3 14:06:01 2004
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 20:03:56 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: LaTexMng (version 1.1)

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make
its way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTexMng (version 1.1)
Author's name: Petr Vabishchevich
Location on CTAN: /nonfree/systems/win32/latexmng
Summary description: LaTexMng integrates all the tools, needed to the creation of LaTeX documents. 
License type: shareware

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.1

Enhancements:

Auto setting programs (MiKTeX, Acrobar Reader, Ghostgum) in LaTexMng Wizard
Displays or hides line numbers in the active view

Fixes problems:

Select graphical user interface at initial installation LaTexMng

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system, with features designed for
the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the 
de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific 
documents.

LaTexMng is  easy to use product of integrated development environment 
software for Windows. This application integrates all the tools, needed 
to the creation of LaTeX documents. 

LaTexMng requires Windows 2000 or XP, or later editions of MS Windows.

We do not warrant that the software is error free.

This is not free software. Subject to the terms below, you are hereby.

Licensed to use Shareware Version of this software for evaluation
purposes without charge for a period of 30 days. The free evaluation
period starts at the moment of installation of the software.

Installation

LaTexMng is distributed as LaTexMngSetup.exe. Run LaTexMngSetup.exe and 
simply follow the on-screen instructions to install LaTexMng.

LaTexMng is copyright (C) 2004, by VNP Comp. 

Contact:
Home Page:    http://www.latexsoft.com
e-mail:       latexmng@latexsoft.com

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/win32/latexmng
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Dec  6 09:02:19 2004
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:59:32 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: the localization package "msg" 

Bernard Gaulle writes:

>   I'm pleased to announce i'm releasing the first public version of
> the "msg" package which is a LaTeX package designed to localize any
> document class or package. Very usefull for end-users which could 
> obtain messages in their own prefered language. It is really easy to 
> use by class/package writers. File names and syntax are still under
> consideration; this is the main reason why it is a beta version 0.06
> which can be improved. Volunteers are welcome to test it, report,
> and even localize the messages file in their own language.
> Documentation is provided in... English (-like).
> 
> The upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk is:   msg.tar.gz
> They could go to: macros/latex/contrib/msg 
> 
> % This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
> % the LaTeX Project Public License as of http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
> %
> % This file has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
> %  The current maintainer is Bernard.Gaulle at idris.fr

i have installed the files in macros/latex/contrib/msg, as suggested.
thank you for the interesting upload.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Tue Dec  7 05:21:04 2004
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:55:55 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: fonts/antt installed

Staszek Wawrykiewicz kindly supplied a new version of the antt package.
The old version, in

  fonts/psfonts/polish/antt

has been removed and placed into

  fonts/antt/antt-old.zip.

Thanks for the update.


Description:

Antykwa Torunska (meaning just ``Antiqua of Torun'') is a two-element
typeface designed by Zygfryd Gardzielewski, a typographer from Toru\'n,
Poland.

Font author: Janusz Marian Nowacki
License: GPL

Version 1.0, which deserves to be called computerised in
that it was precise and reused character building elements across
the font, was released in 1998 and comprised (similarly as the
original) of three faces: upright, bold and italic. This is now
archived in antt-OLD.zip

The current distribution (ver 2.01) was generated using the METATYPE1
tools package authored by Bogus{\l}aw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and
Piotr Strzelczyk. Version 2.01 contains a greatly extended character
set (e.g., cyrillic, greek, most often used mathematical symbols and
currency symbols, additional ligatures), as well as additional
typefaces (light, regular, medium and bold in normal and condensed
widths). Support files for LaTeX and various encoding files were also
added.


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From ctan-ann@dante.de Mon Dec  6 16:10:03 2004
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 23:01:35 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Update: csquotes 2.5

Philipp Lehman submitted version 2.5 of his package csquotes.

This package provides markup for inline quotations by means of control
sequences and active quote characters. The quotation marks are context
sensitive, they alternate for nested quotes and can adapt to the document
language by interfacing with the babel package. The active quote
characters and all quotation styles are fully configurable.

License is lppl.

Changes:

* Added \MakeBlockQuote
* Added \MakeForeignBlockQuote
* Added \MakeHyphenBlockQuote
* Added \ifblockquote
* Modified syntax of \blockquote
* Modified syntax of \foreignblockquote
* Modified syntax of \hyphenblockquote
* Changed default threshold for block quotations
* Improved math mode compatibility
* Improved verbatim compatibility
* Improved backend and active character handling
* Improved validation of user-defined active characters
* Fixed bug suppressing kerning after block quotations
* Issue an error message for nested block quotations

The package is installed in

  macros/latex/contrib/csquotes

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Mon Dec  6 16:15:25 2004
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 23:07:25 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Update - BaKoMa TeX 6.73 - PDF/CMYK Output, DVIPS/GS Fix.

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma
package. The package is installed in

  nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma

Most important improvements in BaKoMa TeX 6.73 are:

   1. New option (CMYK Output) in PDF Generation dialog
      forces conversion RGB/Gray colors into CMYK color space.
   2. Refined DVIPS output avoids bug existing in GhostScript 8.xx
   3. DVI Search: Improved selection of graphics after jumping to viewer.
   4. Refined handling of Image Decode key for indexed and bi-level images.
   5. DVI Viewer displays relative position of mouse cursor with pressed SHIFT.

This version has patch status and may be
used as free upgrade for BaKoMa TeX 6.70.

More information about changes is at:
  <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html>

Thanks for the upload.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Tue Dec  7 05:17:59 2004
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 23:13:18 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Update TeX Front End v5.4 for OS/2

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Walter Schmidt submitted the new release 5.4 of the
EPM TeX Front End, a module for the OS/2 editor EPM, which turns the
editor into an integrated TeX environment. The TeX Front End is primarily
made for use with the TeX system VTeX/2.

Main news with this release:

* All particular features of the former "professional"
version, including the live menu, are now made available
also with the precompiled (linkable) version.  Special
thanks to Andreas Schnellbacher!

* The `classic' flavor of the TFE (the one for use with
emTeX) is no longer shipped as a precompiled module.
It can, however, still be compiled from the sources.

* Both the source code and the ready-made module are
compatible with NEPMD 1.01 and later.

See the file NEWS for further details.


Thanks for the update

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Tue Dec  7 05:20:33 2004
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 23:17:55 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Update: fontinstallationguide 2.14

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Philipp Lehman submitted version 2.14 of his Font
installation guide.

This guide discusses the most common scenarios you are likely to encounter
when installing Type 1 PostScript fonts. While the individual tools
employed in the installation process are documented well, the actual
difficulty most users are facing when trying to install new fonts is
understanding how to put all the pieces together. This is what this guide
is about.

The license is dfsg. It has been installed in

  info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide

Thanks for the upload.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Wed Dec  8 17:54:23 2004
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 00:51:26 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: FeatPost 0.6.2

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 L. Nobre G. submitted an
update of his package FeatPost.

New version number is 0.6.2.
License is gpl.
Location on CTAN is graphics/metapost/macros/featpost

Description of the package:

FeatPost is an extension of the MetaPost language, works in two and three
dimensions, and has many features to facilitate the production of physics
diagrams, as you may need for the International Year of Physics.

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 1) "photoreverse" is functional but not very much documented;
 2) "closedline" is new;
 3) Only one macrofile.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update.

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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Dec 11 14:15:22 2004
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:13:21 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: topcapt.sty

i have just updated macros/latex/contrib/misc/topcapt.sty here at
cambridge.

the new release fixes a recently-discovered problem that arises when
topcapt is operating in the presence of hyperref.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Mon Dec 13 18:57:24 2004
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:55:41 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: xkeyval v1.8

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Hendri Adriaens submitted version 1.8 of his xkeyval
package.

This package is an extension of the keyval package and offers additional
macros for setting keys and declaring and setting class or package
options.  The package allows the programmer to specify a prefix to the
name of the macros it defines for keys, and to define families of key
definitions; these all help use in documents where several packages define
their own sets of keys.

The license is lppl.

The location on CTAN is

  macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval

Note that the official location has changed since the last update and is
not macros/generic/xkeyval anymore!

Changes:
1) fixed a small bug in the treatment of
   spaces in key and family names. These
   spaces are now untouched.
2) bug in \@selective@sanitize has been
   fixed and level control has been added
3) the package is robust for catcode changes
   of = and , but characters with changed
   catcode inside key values are left untouched
   so, for instance, babel shorthand notation
   with the `=' character is possible, if it
   is inside a group in the key value.
4) simplified some internal macros.

Thanks for the upload.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Dec 14 09:13:03 2004
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:11:30 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package upgrade: microtype

A package has been upgraded at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: microtype
Author's name: R Schlicht
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/microtype
Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions 
  of pdfTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 CHANGES (v1.5):
- - -----------------
 * When output mode is DVI, font expansion will by default 
   be turned off, automatic expansion will be disabled
 * New option: `selected~R, to enable selected expansion; 
   default is: false
 * Changed default for expansion option `step~R: 4 
   (min(stretch,shrink)/5)
 * Protrusion settings for Bitstream Charter
 * Compatibility with turkish babel + chemsym

- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ctan-ann@dante.de Tue Dec 14 16:12:21 2004
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:10:46 +0000
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update _and_ new package --- ledmac and ledpar

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have just uploaded ledmac.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to 
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ledmac. The distribution is under 
> the LPPL.
> 
> >From the README:
> 
>     The ledmac package is for typesetting critical editions. It is a LaTeX 
> port, and extension, of the plain TeX EDMAC, TABMAC and EDSTANZA macros. The 
> ledpar package is an extension of ledmac enabling parallel typesetting in 
> columns or on facing pages.
> 
> Changes:
> 
> ledpar version 0.1 (2004/12/10)
> o First public release
> 
> ledmac version 0.6 (2004/12/10)
> o Fixed infinite loop problems when processing complex paragraphs
> o Prepared for the ledpar package.

i've installed the bundle as requested -- thanks for the upload.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Tue Dec 14 17:01:25 2004
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:00:36 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: sparklines

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 Andreas Loeffler submitted
a new package called

  sparklines

Sparklines are intense, simple, wordlike graphics. This tool allows to draw sparklines using the pgf-package.

License is lppl
CTAN location is graphics/sparklines

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sparklines are intense, simple, wordlike graphics (so named by Edward
Tufte). In lieu of a more detailed introduction, Professor Tufte's site
has an early release of a chapter on sparklines, see www.edwardtufte.com.
A PHP implementation can be found at http://sparkline.sourceforge.net/.

A sparkline can be added using the sparkline-environment. Also, you can
add sparkling rectangles for the median and special sparkling dots in red
or blue. Only use sparklines with pdflatex, sparklines do not appear in a
dvi-file. Sparklines does not work with pictex.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Wed Dec 15 01:27:46 2004
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:26:03 +0000
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: msg package update V 0.07 

Bernard Gaulle writes:

>   I upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk an update (V 0.07) of the "msg" package 
> for LaTeX. 
> 
> The "msg" package is a LaTeX package designed to localize any
> document class or package. Very usefull for end-users which could 
> obtain messages in their own prefered language. It is really easy to 
> use by class/package writers. File names and syntax are still under
> consideration; this is the main reason why it is still a beta version
> which can be improved. Volunteers are welcome to test it, report,
> and even localize the messages file in their own language.
> Documentation is provided in... English (-like).
> 
> It is localized itself in French, Englisk and Norsk.
> 
> The upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk is:   msg.tar.gz
> Ctan directory: macros/latex/contrib/msg 
> 
> % This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
> % the LaTeX Project Public License as of http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
> %
> % This file has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
> %  The current maintainer is Bernard.Gaulle at idris.fr
> 
> V 0.07 mods: 3 bugs corrected, 1 file missing, 
>              test file added, Norsk added, documentation changed.

i've installed the new version as requested.  thanks for the upload.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Thu Dec 16 03:59:54 2004
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:57:09 +0000
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission - Mem 

Javier Bezos writes:

> I've uploaded to the UK server the file Mem.zip,
> which contains the experimental code I'm writing for
> a multiligual system for Lamed (ie, LaTeX + Aleph).
> This is still a pre-alpha release, which is being
> developed as open source on SourceForge:
> 
> http://mem-latex.sourceforge.net
> 
> It still consists in a somewhat unorganized set of
> files whose final form is not clear yet. I intend to
> release periodically on CTAN some milestones in its
> development.
> 
> I'm not sure where the files must be placed in the
> CTAN tree, particularly given its highly experimental
> status. Maybe systems/aleph/contrib/mem?

after some discussion with javier, i've installed the package in
macros/latex/exptl/mem -- a location that emphasises both its
experimental status and its links with latex.

thanks, javier, for the upload.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Thu Dec 16 13:38:17 2004
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:36:47 +0000
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- mempatch.sty (Patch file for memoir class) 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace 
> the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty
> 
>     mempatch.sty fixes all the known problems with the memoir class. If it 
> is on the system it is automatically used by memoir.cls.

i have installed the file as required.  thanks for the upload.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Fri Dec 17 09:55:37 2004
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:53:56 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: toil and tif2eps

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted updates to the
following packages:

tif2eps
ver. 0.77
date: 10.12.2004
authors: Boguslaw Jackowski, P. Pianowski and P. Strzelczyk
license: GPL
Location on CTAN: support/pstools/tif2eps

 TIF2EPS is a PostScript program for the conversion of TIFF files (ver. 6.0)
 to EPS ones. Compression (LZW, CCITT Fax, RLE, Flate, DCT) and ASCII85
 encoding is available. The package may be used for generating colour-
 separated EPSes, `EPS thumbnails,' and, moreover, little header EPSes,
 containing only a pointer to a source TIFF file. Employing Ghostscript
 guarantees portability and efficient processing.

--------
toil
ver. 1.07
date: 15.12.2004
authors: Boguslaw Jackowski, P. Pianowski and P. Strzelczyk
license: PD
Location on CTAN: fonts/utilities/t1install/toil

 A flexible, AWK+MetaFont-based Type One Install utiLity which
 facilitates installation of Adobe Type 1 fonts for (plain)
 TeX; an alternative for afm2tfm; starting from version 1.04,
 includes an option that enables neutralizing sidebars (via
 implicit kerning mechanism); currently, the scripts are available
 for DOS (but adaptable for U*X).

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Sun Dec 19 16:10:36 2004
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:06:32 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New package on CTAN: CBcoptic 

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 Claudio Beccari submitted a new bundle to CTAN:

Name of bundle: CBcoptic
Author's name: Claudio Beccari
Location on CTAN: language/coptic/cbcoptic
License type: lppl

Summary description: This bundle provides Coptic fonts in Metafont source
and in pfb type1 format and the necessary files for using them in a LaTeX
environment, with a certain amount of macros for philological
applications.

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
CBcoptic is a bundle of files for typesetting Coptic philological text
with the proper fonts and hyphenation; the bundle includes also font
descrition files, METAFONT sources and the type 1 Poscript equivalent
fonts in pfb format. There are available also e certain number of macros
of philological interest in an accompanying sty file.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Sun Dec 19 16:12:56 2004
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:09:40 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update -- hfoldsty

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Harald Harders submitted an update to the hfoldsty
package. It contains a new version (1.13) of the hfoldsty virtual fonts.

Location on CTAN: fonts/hfoldsty
License stays gpl.

>From the README:

The hfoldsty package provides virtual fonts for using oldstyle
(0123456789) figures with the European Computer Modern fonts.
It does a similar job as the eco package by Sebastian
Kirsch <skirsch@t-online.de> but includes a couple of
improvements, e.g., better kerning with guillemets, support for
character protruding using the pdfcprot package, arbitrary font
sizes in conjunction with fix-cm.sty.

ChangeLog:

2004/11/19  v1.13  Harald Harders (h.harders@tu-bs.de)
        - More errors in \ProvidesFile line fixed.


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From ctan-ann@dante.de Sun Dec 19 16:27:32 2004
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:27:02 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
Reply-To: ctan@dante.de
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New package on CTAN: extract

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Hendri Adriaens submitted a new package called

  extract

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

Package information:
---------------------------------------------------------
The package provides the means to extract specific
content from a source document and write that to
a target document. One could, for instance, use this
to extract all exercises from lecture notes and
generate an exercises book on the fly.

The package also provides an environment which writes
its body entirely to the target file. Another environment
will write to the target file, but will also execute the
body. This allows to share code (for instance, a preamble)
between the source document and the target file.

Finally, the package provides an interface to conditionally
extract content. With a single option in the \usepackage
command, one can specify exactly which commands (counted
from the start of the document) should be extracted and
which not. This might be useful for extracting specific
slides from a presentation and use them in a new file.
-----------------------------------------------------------

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Mon Dec 20 01:23:27 2004
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:21:54 +0000
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- mempatch.sty (again) 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace 
> the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty.
> 
>     This provides further solutions to the memoir class's infelicities.

i've installed the file, as macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty

thanks for the upload.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Dec 20 09:31:10 2004
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:29:45 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: ibycus-babel

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: ibycus-babel
Author's name: Peter Heslin
Location on CTAN: language/greek/package-babel/ibycus-babel/
Summary description: Integrate the Ibycus Greek font with Latex Babel
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 2.4 features a major rewrite of the Babel 
interface by Walter Schmidt.  Many new features have been 
added and old limitations removed.  Some functionality and 
some command names have changed, so consult the 
documentation if you are upgrading from a previous 
version. 
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/greek/package-babel/ibycus-babel/
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Dec 20 09:59:40 2004
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:59:01 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: NCCTOOLS

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the update,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: NCCTOOLS
Author's name: Alexander I Rozhenko
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ncctools
Summary description: All packages are documented and revised
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
In release 3.0, all packages are documented in .dtx files and revised. The 
new package, nccstretch, is introduced. The short guide ncctools.tex is 
prepared
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ncctools
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ctan-ann@dante.de Mon Dec 20 23:20:22 2004
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:18:21 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN updates of l2tabu and l2tabuen packages

The packages

  l2tabu (Das LaTeX-S�ndenregister (sins of LaTeX users), by Mark Trettin)
and

  l2tabuen (English translation of l2tabu by J�rgen Fenn)

have been updated on CTAN. Location on CTAN is

  info/l2tabu/{german,english}

respectively.

Summary description: Obsolete commands, packages and other common
                     mistakes

License type: Free (Open Publication License v1.0)

Announcement text of l2tabu:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.

Changes: * fixed typos
         * caption.sty
         * euler vs. eulervm
         * TEXINPUTS vs. \graphicspath
         * fixed colors for b/w printing
         * \em changed
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Announcement text of l2tabuen:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Apart from some minor changes, we have inserted a new section on how
to use \graphicspath. We also have added new crossreferences to
usrguide, clsguide, and fntguide.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Mon Dec 20 23:24:25 2004
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:23:30 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: xkeyval and pst-xkey packages

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Hendri Adriaens uploaded an update to his packages

  xkeyval (1.8a) and pst-xkey (1.2a)

xkeyval is an extension of the keyval package and offers additional macros
for setting keys and declaring and setting class or package options.  The
package allows the programmer to specify a prefix to the name of the
macros it defines for keys, and to define families of key definitions;
these all help use in documents where several packages define their own
sets of keys.

pst-xkey is an adaptation of the techniques of xkeyval to the needs of the
family of packages associated with pstricks, so that those packages can
safely, and with relative ease, use key-value syntax in their commands.

License is lppl.

Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval

Announcement text:
-----------------------------------------------
The updates are related to three small bugs
that were discovered on 2004/12/20. Two are
related to the support of the empty family
(eg, for pstricks). The previous update
avoided removing spaces from key and familynames
and some macros were adjusted. I overlooked
the fact that one of those macros removed the
empty family from the list of families.

The last bug that was solved was in reusing
a macro that was redefined intermediately in
case presets were used.

I hope no more bugs will show up now.
------------------------------------------------

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Mon Dec 20 23:29:13 2004
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:28:38 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: minitoc package, version 40

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Jean-Pierre Drucbert uploaded version 40 of his
package

  minitoc

Location on CTAN : macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/
Licence: LPPL

minitoc.sty is useful to add mini-tables-of-contents (minitocs)
at the beginning of every chapter. They are also minilofs and minilots.
At the part level, they are parttocs, partlofs and partlots.
If the type of document does not use chapters, they are
section level secttocs, sectlofs and sectlots.

updates versus version 39:
=======================================================================
Version #40
Added the japanese language (japanese.mld)
Added the castillan language (castillan.mld)
Removed the test on the presence of the multicol package in
minitoc.tex, because multicol is a required package.
Added a figure in minitoc.tex about the need of 3
compilations.
Added some infos in minitoc.bug.
Added a paragraph about problem with the appendix package.
Updated minitoc.bib
Added the hints option. This option is still experimental; you advice is welcome.
Added fminitoc.pdf (french documentation in PDF format).
=======================================================================

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Mon Dec 20 23:35:04 2004
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:34:24 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: leaflet v1.0c

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 Rolf Niepraschk uploaded
version 1.0c of his package

   leaflet

leaflet is a document class to create small hand-outs (flyers) that fit on
a single sheet of paper which is then folded twice.  Pages are rearranged
by LaTeX so that they print correctly on a single sheet -- no external
script is necessary.  (Works with PostScript and PDF.)

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/leaflet/
License type: LaTeX Project (lppl)

Announcement text:
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Some bug fixes and improvements.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Mon Dec 20 23:45:27 2004
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:44:50 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: Ibycus 4, release 4.5

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Walter Schmidt uploaded the new release 4.5 of the
Ibycus 4 system, a collection of fonts and macros to typeset ancient
Greek.

This upload occurs in agreement with the original author if Ibycus, Pierre
MacKay.

Location on CTAN: fonts/greek/ibygrk


Main news (see also the file NEWS in the distribution):

   The bold Ibycus font is now available in Postscript
   format.  It was converted from Metafont to Type1 by
   Harald Harders.

   The regular Ibycus Type1 font should work flawlessly
   with Acrobat Reader 5 now; special thanks to Peter
   Heslin and Ralf Stubner, who succeeded to find and fix
   a long-standing bug.

   Virtual fonts and related font metrics are no longer
   needed.

   Fixed definition of the macro \greek, so as to work
   also with default font encodings other than OT1.

   New text-generating command \textgreek as a
   counterpart to the declaration \greek.

   Improved installation intructions which should suit
   recent TeX systems.

   Ibycus 4.5 is released under the GNU General Public
   License.


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From ctan-ann@dante.de Wed Dec 22 05:44:48 2004
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:42:19 +0000
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package revision: tensor 

Philip G. Ratcliffe writes:

> I've just uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk a slightly improved version of the
> "tensor" package: a small problem in conjunction with the "color" package
> has been eliminated and I've added a some minor extra capabilities.  All
> covered in the updated documentation.

i have updated the version in macros/latex/contrib/tensor

thanks for the upload.

> One small point: the original package by Mike Piff should possibly be
> (re)moved since it actually takes precedence in the TDS.  Note that the new
> package is perfectly backward compatible.

distribution managers should note this.  for my part, i've simply
moved mike's original to the ctan obsolete/ tree

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Thu Dec 23 03:38:31 2004
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:36:42 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: pdftex 1.20b

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 Martin Schr�der uploaded the new version 1.20b of
pdftex to CTAN.

pdftex is an extension of TeX which directly generates PDF documents
instead of DVI. Most TeX distributions, including teTeX, fpTeX and miktex
include pdftex and pdflatex.

Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex/
Summary description: A bug fixing release of pdfTeX
License type: gpl

Announcement text:
------------------------------------------------
pdfTeX 3.141592-1.20b was released on 2004-12-22
------------------------------------------------
- Fixed some minor bugs, mostly with hz

- The info line "output format initialized to PDF/DVI" isn't shown anymore, as
  this info wasn't reliable (bug 112).

- Now the PDF-related statistics (PDF objects...) in the .log file is only
  shown in PDF output mode. It start with a line "PDF statistics:".

- \pdfimageresolution is not limited to 2400 [dpi] anymore, can now be between
  0 and 65535 [dpi].

- pdfTeX uses xpdf 3.00pl2

- pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.8, which fixes some png-related bugs.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Thu Dec 23 04:05:46 2004
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:04:03 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: C.D.P. Bundle

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 Gustavo Mezzetti uploaded version 0.33 of the C.D.P.
bundle.

    The C.D.P. Bundle can be used to typeset high-quality
    business letters formatted according to Italian style
    conventions.  It is highly configurable, and its modular
    structure provides you with building blocks of increasing
    level, by means of which you can compose a large variety of
    letters.  It is also possible to write letters divided into
    sections and paragraphs, to include floating figures and
    tables, and to have the relevant indexes compiled
    automatically.  A single input file can contain several
    letters, and each letter will have its own table of
    contents, etc., independant from the other ones.

Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/cdpbundl
Summary description: Business letters in the Italian style
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
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Release of version 0.33, which provides a better
interaction with the hyperref package.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Thu Dec 23 09:20:22 2004
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:18:28 +0000
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upgrade: msg package update V 0.08 

Bernard Gaulle writes:

>    I upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk an update (V 0.08) of the "msg" package 
>  for LaTeX. 
>  
>  The "msg" package is a LaTeX package designed to localize any
>  document class or package. Very usefull for end-users which could 
>  obtain messages in their own prefered language. It is really easy to 
>  use by class/package writers. File names and syntax are still under
>  consideration; this is the main reason why it is still a beta version
>  which can be improved. Volunteers are welcome to test it, report,
>  and even localize the messages file in their own language.
>  Documentation is provided in... English (-like).
>  
>  It is localized itself in French, Englisk, Norsk and now German.
>  
>  The upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk is:   msg.tar.gz
>  Ctan directory: macros/latex/contrib/msg 
>  
>  % This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
>  % the LaTeX Project Public License as of http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
>  %
>  % This file has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
>  %  The current maintainer is Bernard.Gaulle at idris.fr
>  
>  V 0.08 mods: added German messages file; added input encoding
>               facility (\msgencoding); test file stronger;
>               documentation changed.

good to see the contributions "taking off".  i've installed the files
as requested -- thanks for the upload.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Dec 24 08:00:42 2004
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:58:21 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: wallpaper

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon -- unless
the holidy rush slows it down -- be at your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: wallpaper
Author's name: Michael H.F. Wilkinson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/wallpaper
Summary description: Easy addition of wallpapers (background images) to 
  LaTeX documents, including tiling.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This collection contains files to add wallpapers (background images) to
LaTeX documents. It uses the eso-pic.sty package, but provides simple 
commands to include effects such as tiling. An example is provided, which 
works under both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. A (pdf) manual is provided as well.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/wallpaper
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ctan-ann@dante.de Mon Dec 27 15:35:04 2004
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:32:26 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: New CTAN package: MnTTeX- Tools for Typesetting the Secret History of the Mongols

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 Oliver Corff submitted his new package

  MNTTeX

to CTAN.

Name of contribution: MnTTeX- Tools for Typesetting the Secret History of the Mongols
Author's name: Oliver Corff
Location on CTAN: /language/mongolian/MNT
Summary description: The Package assists in typing the special Chinese characters used in the
                     Secret History of the Mongols
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Secret History of the Mongols (Monggol-un niguca tobciyan -> MNT) is
the oldest work of Mongolian literature surviving today.  Though the
language of the text is Middle Mongolian, the text was written entirely in
Chinese characters which were used to render Mongolian phonetically.

Modern tools for typing, editing and typesetting Chinese do not easily
lend themselves for preparing research documentation due to pecularities
of the historical source.

The MNTTeX package assists the scholar typesetting the complex Chinese
material by accessing all characters either by number or pronounciation as
well as offering convenient access to small or combined characters.

The MNTTeX package relies on an existing environment for processing
Chinese characters and assumes that the package CJK is installed.
Furthermore it is required to use the font zysong.ttf or a similar font in
Song style.Since not all characters used in the MNT are provided by modern
fonts they had to be made for this package. Being closely modelled
according to Song style, these especially made characters would stand out
in stark contrast from e.g. Kaiti style character sets. Limited in number,
these individual characters were coded as scalable vector images, rather
than as font. No difference between these characters and ordinary
characters can be perceived in print even though the on-screen display may
appear hardly intelligible.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Thu Dec 30 16:36:21 2004
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:33:54 +0000
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: msg package update V 0.09 

Bernard Gaulle writes:

>    I upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk an update of the "msg" package 
>  for LaTeX package/class writers. 
>  
>  The "msg" package is a LaTeX package designed to localize any
>  document class or package. Very usefull for end-users who could 
>  obtain messages in their own prefered language. It is also really 
>  easy to use by class/package writers. Volunteers are still welcome 
>  to translate the short messages file in their own language.
>  Currently "msg" is localized in French, Englisk, Norsk and German.
> 
>  Please, be free to try/test it on any existing package/class and
>  report any pb.
>  
>  The upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk is:   msg.tar.gz
>  Ctan directory: macros/latex/contrib/msg 
>  
>  % This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
>  % the LaTeX Project Public License as of http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
>  %
>  % This file has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
>  %  The current maintainer is Bernard.Gaulle at idris.fr
>  
>  V 0.09 mods: bug correction whith the "tracefiles" option, 
>               \msgencoding now generalized,
>               few documentation changes.

i've installed the new files in macros/latex/contrib/msg, as
requested.

thanks for the upload.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Mon Jan  3 07:28:52 2005
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:25:43 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: update xkeyval and extract packages

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Hendri Adriaens uploaded updates to his packages

 xkeyval and extract

------------------------------------------------------------ 
xkeyval is an extension of the the keyval package and offers additional 
macros for setting keys and declaring and setting class or package 
options.  The package allows the programmer to specify a prefix to the 
name of the macros it defines for keys, and to define families of key 
definitions; these all help use in documents where several packages define 
their own sets of keys.

Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval
License: lppl
Changes:
 1) Simplified some code for speed.
 2) Updated the license info.
 3) restructured package, changed a name of an internal file
 4) pointer replacement macros have been updated in order to
    avoid capacity problems when pointers are nested deeply.

-------------------------------------------------------------

The package extract provides the means to extract specific content from a 
source document and write that to a target document. One could, for 
instance, use this to extract all exercises from lecture notes and 
generate an exercises book on the fly.

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

Changes:
 1) Added conditional extraction with labels
 2) Revised documentation
 3) Added examples.
 4) Updated the license info.

--------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the updates.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Mon Jan  3 11:35:29 2005
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:32:24 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: fourier

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way
to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: fourier-GUT
Author's name: Michel Bovani
Location on CTAN: fonts/fourier-GUT
Summary description: It is a major upgrade of the fourier-GUTenberg 
  font distribution
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
An upgrade of fourier GUT, including boldmath symbols, new ornaments, 
corrected metrics... See the documentation for details.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/fourier-GUT
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ctan-ann@dante.de Mon Jan  3 15:51:47 2005
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:50:26 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: l2tabuit v1.8.3

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Emanuele Zannarini uploaded an update to
l2tabuit, the Italian Translation Of Mark Trettin's `l2tabu'.

Name of contribution: l2tabuit v.1.8.3

Location on CTAN: info/italian/l2tabu/

Summary description: Italian Translation Of Mark Trettin's `l2tabu'

License type: Free (Open Publication License v1.0)

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is an update to my italian translation of the Mark Trettin's
practical overview to LaTeX, called `l2tabu' v. 1.8.

Changes from previous version:

 * fixed typos
 * caption.sty
 * euler vs. eulervm
 * TEXINPUTS vs. \graphicspath
 * fixed colors for b/w printing
 * some little changes
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Tue Jan  4 00:41:05 2005
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 06:39:11 +0000
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- update mempatch.sty for memoir class 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace 
> the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty
> 
>     The patch for the memoir class fixes a minor quibble or two, and also 
> provides more controls over the position of sidebars.

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

> Best wishes for a fruitful and stress free 2005

and to you, and to all our readers, too!

Robin Fairbairns

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Tue Jan  4 00:57:48 2005
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 06:56:56 +0000
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- ledpar package update 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded ledpar.tar.gz to UK incoming. This unpacks into a 
> directory called ledpar. Please use the contents of this directory to 
> replace similarly named files in macros/latex/contrib/ledmac. the 
> distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
>     The ledmac package supports the typesetting of critical editions. The 
> ledpar package is an extension which provides for parallel (multilingual) 
> texts.
> 
>     The ledpatch.sty file eliminates spurious spaces generated by the ledmac 
> package and the new version of ledpar.dtx improves the cooperation between 
> the ledpar and babel packages.

i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jan  4 09:19:53 2005
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:17:50 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: FiXme

The package below has been updated, and should by now have reached all
the mirrors.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: FiXme
Author's name: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/fixme
Summary description: A LaTeX2e style for managing fixme's and meta-comments.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm happy to announce the Christmas release of FiXme: 3.0 !

New in this release:
- - - FiXme now provides environments for longer notes.
- - - Layouts can be overridden on a per-note basis.
- - - Bug fix in the marginal note layout.

	This package provides you with a way of inserting fixme notes in your
documents. Such notes can appear inline, as marginal notes, footnotes, index
entries, in the log file and as warnings on stdout. It is also possible to
summarize them in a list. When you switch from draft to final mode, any
remaining fixme note will be logged, but removed from the document's body.
Additionally, critical notes will abort compilation with an informative
message. FiXme also comes with support for AUC-TeX.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fixme
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ctan-ann@dante.de Tue Jan  4 09:25:45 2005
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:19:41 +0000
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: uk tex faq v3.13

i've just reinstalled the faq at ctan help/uk-tex-faq and at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq

there has been a very long delay since v3.12, for various reasons.
the changes list (appended) looks impressive, but isn't very startling
for nearly 6 months' work.

i have been doing experiments about presentation of the faq, and i'm
hoping to have an entirely new mechanism in a few months' time.  in
the mean time i shall try to install updates in a more timely fashion.

so, if you have been, thanks for listening.

robin fairbairns

(faltering faq maintainer.)

=======================

Changes in version 3.13

Fonts:
  Substantial re-arrangement and re-writing of "Choice of scalable
  outline fonts" (label psfchoice)

Installing (La)TeX files:
  Reference made to Jim Hefferon's "One person TeX system" web page,
  both under tutorials, and under the installation answers.

Current TeX-related projects:
  Reworked, and brought up-to-date, question label textrace (new
  question title, as well).

New or revised packages (or just ones never before mentioned):
  algorithmicx (mentioned in label algorithms)
  bbm fonts and macros (mentioned in label numbersets)
  bib2xhtml conversion utility (mentioned in label htmlbib)
  doublestroke fonts and macros (mentioned in label numbersets)
  euler (macros) and eulervm (macros and fonts) (mentioned in label concrete)
  extract (mentioned in label conditional)
  fourier (and utopia) fonts (mentioned in label psfchoice)
  gellmu latex-like xml system (mentioned in label mathml)
  latexdiff (mentioned in label changebar)
  ledpar (mentioned in label parallel)
  mathtime pro (mentioned in label psfchoice)
  metatype1 (mentioned in label textrace)
  parcolumns (mentioned in label parallel)
  protext (mentioned in label TeXsystems)
  texniccenter (mentioned in label editors)
  wallpaper (mentioned in label watermark)
  xcomment (mentioned in label conditional)
  ziffer (mentioned in label dec_comma)

Presentation:
  Switched to LuxiMono (in place of cmtt) for monospace fonts, in the
  default distribution; removed "computer modern" targets from the
  makefile -- no .dvi files will now be distributed.

New answers:
  subsection{Creating citations}:
   label i18nbib: Non-english bibliographies
  subsection{Tables, figures and diagrams}:
   label rulethk: The thickness of rules in LaTeX tables
  section{The joy of TeX errors}:
   label ouparmd: "Not in outer par mode"
  subsection{Page layout}:
   label changemargin: substantial rewrite (not really a new answer)
  subsection{"Generic" macros and techniques}
   label subverttoks: Subverting a token register

Things removed:
  label commercial: Reference to Y&Y TeX Inc (which no longer exists).
  label psfchoice: Reference to fonts Lucida New Math, MathTime and
                   MathTime plus, none of which are now available
                   since the demise of the distributors, Y&Y TeX.
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jan  4 10:03:45 2005
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:02:57 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: pxfonts and txfonts

The two packages shown below have been updated at tug.ctan.org and will 
make their way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: pxfonts / txfonts
Contributer's name: karl berry 
Location on CTAN: /fonts/txfonts and /fonts/pxfonts
Summary description: [pt]xfonts.sty update for " active characters
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The txfonts.sty and pxfonts.sty packages released in 2000 by Dr. Young Ryu 
had the deficiency of using " to specify character codes, etc.  
Consequently, if " is an active character when these styles were read 
(e.g., if german.sty had been loaded), they would not work.

Thomas Esser fixed this some years ago in teTeX by changing all the 
references to decimal.  This upload simply propagates the new files to 
CTAN, with Dr. Ryu's permission.  (Thanks also to Volker Schaa for 
reporting the inconsistency.)

Also, the txfonts.map and pxfonts.map files from the TeX Live distribution 
are now included in the distribution on CTAN; they simply omit the entries 
for the standard base fonts (e.g., Palatino-Roman, Times-Roman).

Finally, users of [pt]xfonts may be interested in this note on future work 
from Dr. Ryu:

  When I released the current txfonts and pxfonts, I thought
  it would be the final release. But, I have heard of some
  issues, especially those related to spacing of math alphabets,
  symbols and the size of small caps (being too small),
  integrals looking "ugly," and parentheses being flat too quickly.
  I have a plan to update these fonts (together
  with complete hxfonts including complete math alphabets
  and symbols), but not until I finish something that I
  am now committed to. Hopefully it will be within a couple
  of years...
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the two packages at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/pxfonts/
and
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/txfonts/
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan  7 04:44:10 2005
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:40:40 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: hyperlatex

idling through the catalogue, as i do, i lighted on the silly state of
this stuff.

i've updated it from sourceforge, and pushed a new version out.
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From ctan-ann@dante.de Fri Jan  7 07:10:32 2005
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:09:32 +0000
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: msg package update V 0.10 

Bernard Gaulle writes:

>    I upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk an update of the "msg" package 
>  for LaTeX package/class writers. 
>  
>  Volunteers are really welcome to translate the short (13) messages 
>  file in their own language. 
>  Currently "msg" is localized in French, Englisk, Norsk and German.
> 
>  The "msg" package is a LaTeX package designed to localize any
>  document class or package. Very usefull for end-users who could 
>  obtain messages in their own prefered language. It is also really 
>  easy to use by class/package writers. 
> 
>  Please, be free to try/test it on any existing package/class and
>  report any pb.
>  
>  The upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk is:   msg.tar.gz
>  Ctan directory: macros/latex/contrib/msg 
>  
>  % This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
>  % the LaTeX Project Public License as of http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
>  %
>  % This file has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
>  % The current maintainer is Bernard.Gaulle at idris.fr
>  
>  V 0.10 mods: bug corrections: mostly \msgencoding not running before
>                                \begin{document};
>               German message file completed.
>               Few documentation changes.

thanks for the upload; i've installed the files as required.

Robin Fairbairns

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Fri Jan  7 10:22:34 2005
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:20:25 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: unitsdef

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 Patrick Happel uploaded an 
update of his package 

   unitsdef

to CTAN.

There are a lot of packages for typesetting units in LaTeX2e.  Some define 
macros to typeset a lot of units but do not suit to the actual font 
settings, some make the characters needed available but do not predefine 
any unit.

This package tries to comply with both requirements. It predefines common 
units, defines an easy to use interface to define new units and changes 
the output concerning to the surrounding font settings.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/unitsdef/
Summary description: Typesetting units in LaTeX2e
License type: lppl
 
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is an update of unitsdef to version 0.2. It includes some bugfixes, 
all units are robust now, a configuration file is supported and unitsdef 
now uses xspace to simplify the writing process. There are some new 
options to exclude some abbreviations to avoid conflicts with macros 
defined by other packages.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update.

For the CTAN Team
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From ctan-ann@dante.de Fri Jan  7 10:26:05 2005
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:22:24 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: l2tabuit v.1.8.4

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 Emanuele Zannarini uploaded version 1.8.4 of 

   l2tabuit

the italian translation oMark Trettin's `l2tabu'.

Location on CTAN: /info/l2tabu/italian/
License type: other

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is an update to my previous (v1.8.3) italian translation of
the Mark Trettin's practical overview to LaTeX, called `l2tabu'
v. 1.8.

Changes from previous version:

 * fixed typos
 * fixed/updated references
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Fri Jan  7 10:28:10 2005
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:24:37 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: extract v1.2

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Hendri Adriaens uploaded version 1.2 of his package 

  extract

Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/extract
License: lppl
Summary description: Extract specific content from a source document and 
   write that to a target document

Update info:
 1) fixed \AfterEndEnv hook for nested environments
 2) increased efficiency of package
 3) simplified optional argument check for extract environment

Thanks for the update

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Fri Jan  7 10:37:57 2005
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:36:29 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN upload notification: Revise bst files for natbib

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 Patrick Daly  uploaded revised bst files for the natbib 
package.

natbib is a Bibliography style with author-year and numbered references.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/natbib
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The natbib package comes with replacement bst files for 3 of the 4 
standard BibTeX styles: plainnat, abbrvnat, unsrtnat. Until now, the 
ordering is exactly as for the original styles, which is not always 
appropriate for author-year citation. Especially when works have identical 
authors and years, as in a multipart paper, the original ordering has 
undesirable side effects. The revised style files improve on this.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update.

For the CTAN Team
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jan  7 10:40:54 2005
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:38:57 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: attachfile

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your
favorite mirror in a day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: attachfile
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/
Summary description: Attach an arbitrary file to a PDF document
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Starting with PDF 1.3 (Adobe Acrobat 4.0), PDF files
can contain file attachments -- arbitrary files that a
reader can extract, just like attachments to an e-mail
message.  The attachfile package brings this
functionality to pdfLaTeX and provides some additional
features not available in Acrobat, such as the ability
to use arbitrary LaTeX code for the file icon --
including things like \includegraphics, tabular, and
math.  Settings can be made either globally or on a
per-attachment basis.  attachfile makes it easy to
attach files and customize their appearance in the
enclosing document.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Tue Jan 11 10:54:16 2005
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:52:00 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: bibexport

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its 
way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: bibexport
Author's name: Nicolas Markey
Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/bibexport
Summary description: Exporting entries out of a .bib file
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a shell script using BibTeX to extract .bib entries 
that are \cite'd in a document. It also permits to expand a
BibTeX file, i.e. to develop abbreviations (except standard
ones) and crossrefs.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibexport
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ctan-ann@dante.de Wed Jan 12 13:57:18 2005
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:54:46 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN submission: The catalanbib bibliographic styles

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 Robert Fuster submitted the package

   catalanbib

to CTAN. It contains the catalanbib bibliographic styles.

Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/catalan
Summary description: BibTeX bibliographic styles for the Catalan language
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------

The catalanbib package includes several Catalan bibliografic styles for
BibTeX: the standard ones ---adapted to the Catalan typographical
conventions--- (caplain.bst, caunsrt.bst, caabbrev.bst, and caalpha.bst),
and also four author-date styles (caauda{0-3}.bst).

-----------------------------------------------------

El paquet catalanbib cont� diversos estils bibliogr�fics per fer servir el
BibTeX en catal�: els estils est�ndard ---adaptats a les convencions
tipogr�fiques catalanes--- (caplain.bst, caunsrt.bst, caabbrev.bst i
caalpha.bst) i altres quatre estils autor-data (caauda{0-3}.bst).

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Wed Jan 12 14:03:11 2005
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:56:39 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: struktex

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 Jobst Hoffmann submitted version 8.0d of his package

  struktex

Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/struktex
Summary description: package for creating Nassi-Shneiderman structure charts
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Even in the age of OOP one must develop algorithms. Nassi-Shneiderman
structure charts are a well known tool to describe an algorithm in a
graphical way. This packages presents some macros for generating those
structure charts in a LaTeX document.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update.

For the CTAN Team
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From ctan-ann@dante.de Wed Jan 12 14:05:17 2005
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:59:24 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: Euler-VM 4.0

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Walter Schmidt submitted version 4.0 of the Euler-VM
fonts.

Location on CTAN: fonts/eulervm
License type: unknown

Announcement text:

Euler-VM, in the CTAN directory fonts/eulervm, is a collection
of (virtual) math fonts and a related LaTeX macro package.
Euler-VM blends well with various popular text fonts, such as
Palatino or Minion.

The present submission constitutes version 4.0, featuring the
following bug fixes and changes:

  An obscure bug, affecting the extensible symbols in the
  font zeuex10, has been fixed.  (I'm surprised that it
  went unnoticed since the very first release of Euler-VM,
  even though it seemed quite serious to me.)

  Slightly changed vertical symmetry axis in formulas, to
  comply exactly with the design of the math symbols in the
  Euler fonts.

  Documentation in PDF format, to show the fonts in use.

NB:  The macro package and the fd files are unchanged, except
for the version number.

Thanks for the update.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Wed Jan 12 14:08:46 2005
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:01:32 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: extract

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted version 1.3 of his package

   extract

The package provides the means to extract specific
content from a source document and write that to
a target document. One could, for instance, use this
to extract all exercises from lecture notes and
generate an exercises book on the fly.

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

Announcement text:

Update information for extract v1.3:
 1) Added \extractline command.
 2) Added `document-handles' option.
 3) Added examples and documentation.
 4) Added line extraction method for commands.
 5) Removed some checks for more flexibility.
 6) Simplified the package to save memory.
 7) Changed name: \extractlabel -> \extractionlabel.
 and:
 8) Updated license info to define the
    minimal distribution of the package.

Thanks for the update.

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jan 13 10:59:05 2005
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:57:23 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN ahs a new package: nohyphbx

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

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: nohyphbx.tex
Author's name: Ole Michael Selberg
Location on CTAN: /language/hyphenation
Summary description: hyphenation patterns for Norwegian
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
A revised version of Rune Kleveland's nohyphb.tex, adjusted manually in 
order to prevent numerous wrong hyphenations, especially in compounds.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Thu Jan 13 12:23:19 2005
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:22:19 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should shom be at
your favorite mirror.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Author's name: Nick van Beurden
Location on CTAN: /systems/win32/latexpix
Summary description: As Is
License type: nosource

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Updates of the current version (CTAN15 release) include:
* Completely rewritten internal database to store objects allowing faster 
  drawing and editing of the objects with less memory. Thanks to Robert 
  Rutten for early testing and debugging.
* PGF output functionality added, though not stable yet. Only added for 
  demonstration purposes.
* EEPIC output changed to have extension .eepic instead of .out. The PGF 
  drawings will have the extension .pgf. This change was moreover done 
  because .out is already an output extension for LaTeX.
* Multilevel undo and now working on more stages of the drawing process.
* All objects selectable with CTRL+A. Arrow drawing used to have this 
  shortcut key and is now assigned to CTRL+W.
* Stripped buggy and more or less useless features like zoom form, 
  instances, anti-aliasing.
* When previewing PDF output, now closes all documents when Adobe Acrobat 
  Reader is already open. The preview PDF file couldn't be overwritten in 
  previous versions of LaTeXPiX because when it is opened in Acrobat the 
  file gets a read-only status.
* Added rulers with support for centimetres and inches. Moreover, the 
  grid distance is also controllable from the main drawing grid.
* Some preferences were not stored, thanks to Robert Rutten for finding 
  this bug.
* Crash occurred when registering manually. Thanks to the various users 
  for pointing this out.
* Set unitlength to 0.254 because in EEPIC 1 inch which equals 2.54 cm 
  so 0.254 mm.
* Transparency can be set for Windows NT based systems.
* Using MDI form for drawing canvas, making toggling of toolbar redundant 
and offering more stable user interface.
* Using RGB colours instead of CMYK colours. This prevents unnecessary 
  conversions and is somewhat more accurate.
* Option added to snap to grid without forcing the mouse to snap to grid 
  too.
* Log file can be save containing all statusbar messages for debugging 
  purposes.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
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From ctan-ann@dante.de Fri Jan 14 08:05:26 2005
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:03:16 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update notification: movie15

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 Alexander Grahn uploaded an 
update to his package 

  movie15

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

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------

This is an upgrade to `movie15', a multimedia inclusion package. Now you 
can produce self contained PDF's with the standard latex -> dvips -> 
ps2pdf procedure as well. File embedding is done during the Postscript to 
PDF conversion step.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update

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From ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu Fri Jan 14 15:47:16 2005
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:45:46 GMT
From: Jim Hefferon <ftpmaint@alan.smcvt.edu>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN has a new package: pseudocode

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

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

======================================================================

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: pseudocode
Author's name: Donald L. Kreher
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pseudocode
Summary description: A LaTeX enviromnet for specifying algorithms in a 
  natural way.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package provides the environment "pseudocode" for describing 
algorithms in a natural manner.
- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pseudocode
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
.
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From ctan-ann@dante.de Sun Jan 16 10:21:04 2005
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:18:49 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN Update: xkeyval 1.9 and pst-xkey 1.3

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Hendri Adriaens uploaded

  xkeyval 1.9 and pst-xkey 1.3

The xkeyval package is an extension of the keyval package and offers
additional macros for setting keys and declaring and setting class or
package options.  The package allows the programmer to specify a prefix to
the name of the macros it defines for keys, and to define families of key
definitions; these all help use in documents where several packages define
their own sets of keys.

The pst-xkey package is an adaptation of the techniques of xkeyval to the
needs of the family of packages associated with pstricks, so that those
packages can safely, and with relative ease, use key-value syntax in their
commands.

General
----------------------------------------------------------
This is the last update of the xkeyval bundle for now. I
will maintain the package though when problems come up and
might implement new features if there are any requests.

xkeyval 1.9
----------------------------------------------------------
 1) Added \delpresetkeys and \delsavekeys
 2) Added file extension to default families for
    \ExecuteOptionsX and \ProcessOptionsX
 3) Added a test for back linking with pointers
 4) Made the running command in \XKV@whilist contain
    last used list entry at exit
 and
 5) Updated license information

pst-xkey 1.3
----------------------------------------------------------
 1) Updated license information
----------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Mon Jan 17 17:36:01 2005
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:34:24 +0000
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- updated mempatch.sty v3.3 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/memoir/mempatch.sty.
> 
>    This version (v3.3) fixes some (un)wanted spaces in the verse and array
> environments for the memoior class.

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

Robin Fairbairns

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Tue Jan 18 09:11:04 2005
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:09:31 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: juramisc

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 Axel Sodtalbers uploaded a 
new version of the package

   juramisc

juramisc is a collection of LaTeX packages and classes for typesetting 
german juridical documents.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/juramisc
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Updated:

jurabook 0.75 (beta) (2004/10/17)
 - new commands: \shortindexingon and \shortindexingoff
 - new command: \dumpoptions
 - rewritten example file
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update.

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Tue Jan 18 16:22:56 2005
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:21:20 +0000
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- update mempatch v3.4 patch file for memoir class 

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded  mempatchv34.sty to UK incoming.
> 
>     Please use this, renaming it to mempatch.sty, to replace the current 
> macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty
> 
>     This fixes a minor problem with memoir's \counterwithout* macro. (One of 
> the few problems that I have found before the users)

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

Robin Fairbairns

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From ctan-ann@dante.de Wed Jan 19 10:23:42 2005
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:21:16 +0100 (CET)
From: CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann@dante.de>
To: ctan-ann@dante.de
Subject: CTAN update: l2tabuen

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, J�rgen Fenn uploaded v1.8.5 of the english 
translation of Mark Trettin's guide to LaTeX called `l2tabu' v1.8, giving 
a lot of practical advice about how to avoid the most common mistakes a 
user is prone to make (i.e., obsolete commands and packages).

Location on CTAN: info/l2tabu/english

Changes: 
 
 - References adapted to the UK TeX FAQ v3.13
 - Licence changed to GNU Free Documentation Licence

Thanks for the update, I installed it.

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  Rainer Sch�pf

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