The Treasure Chest for Compatibility with Texpower and Seminar
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TUGboat, Volume 22 (2001), No. 1/2 67 the concept of pdfslide, but completely rewritten The Treasure Chest for compatibility with texpower and seminar. ifsym: in fonts Fonts with symbols for alpinistic, electronic, mete- orological, geometric, etc., usage. A LATEX2ε pack- age simplifies usage. Packages posted to CTAN jas99_m.bst: in biblio/bibtex/contrib “What’s in a name?” I did not realize that Jan Update of jas99.bst,modifiedforbetterconfor- Tschichold’s typographic standards lived on in the mity to the American Meteorological Society. koma-script package often mentioned on usenet (in LaTeX WIDE: in nonfree/systems/win32/LaTeX_WIDE comp.text.tex) until I happened upon the listing A demonstration version of an integrated editor for it in a previous edition of “The Treasure Chest”. and shell for TEX— free for noncommercial use, but without registration, customization is disabled. This column is an attempt to give TEX users an on- : LAT X2ε macro package of simple, “little helpers” going glimpse of the trove which is CTAN. lhelp E converted into dtx format. Includes common units This is a chronological list of packages posted with preceding thinspaces, framed boxes, start new to CTAN between June and December 2000 with odd or even pages, draft markers, notes, condi- descriptive text pulled from the announcement and tional includes (including EPS files), and versions edited for brevity — however, all errors are mine. of enumerate and itemize which allow spacing to Packages are in alphabetic order and are listed only be changed. in the last month they were updated. Individual files makecmds Provides commands to make commands, envi- / partial uploads are listed under their own name if ronments, counters and lengths. Moved from so uploaded. If not otherwise noted, packages are in .../misc to supported. macros/latex/contrib/supported/. Subdirecto- mathpazo: in fonts ries (e.g. foo)ofmacros/latex/contrib/ are listed Package (fonts and LATEXstyle file) for mathemat- as .../foo/ to save space. ical typesetting with the Palatino fonts. Corrections and suggestions are welcome. secdot: in .../other/misc Section numbers with trailing dots. June 2000 substr Provides commands to deal with substrings in strings: Determine if a string contains a substring, abstract Gives you control over abstracts, and in par- count appearances of a substring in a string. ticular provides for a one column abstract in a two : column paper. texdoctk in systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/contrib (V.0.4.0) A Perl/Tk-based GUI for easy access to amsclass: in package documentation; the databases it uses are macros/latex/required/amslatex/classes basedonthetexmf/doc subtrees of teT Xv.1.0.x, AMS-LAT Xdocument classes and theorem pack- E E but database files for local configurations with mod- age. Bug-fix updates. ified/extended directories can be derived from them. : arrayjob in macros/generic/arrayjob Update adds: view multiple documents simultane- The arrayjob package provides array data struc- ously, UI improvements, internal text viewer, uses A tures in LTEX, like those in Fortran, Ada or C, and kpsewhich, bug fixes, manpage. macros to manipulate them. TeXnicCenter: in systems/win32 : catdvi in dviware An integrated development environment (IDE)for DVI to plain text translator aiming to replace A developing LTEXdocuments in Windows (95, 98, dvi2tty. 2000, NT 4.0). Project oriented, unlimited “output dvichk: in dviware types”, customizable editor, structure View, etc. (V.1.91) Checks .dvi/.log files and displays the titling Provides control over the typesetting of the page numbers found on standard output. \maketitle command, and makes information from epsfview: in systems/mac it permanently available. AppleScript tool (for Mac) mainly intended for view- tugboat/t-of-c: in digests ing figures generated with METAPOST,evenifthey tb1594.cnt, tb1695.cnt, tb1998.cnt, tb2099.cnt have negative coordinates. and tbcv20.tex. geometry (V.2.3) An easy and flexible user interface varindex.sty: in .../misc to customize page layout. Update adds columnsep Provides a convenient front-end for the index com- and footnotesep options, vtex option is added to mand. For example, it allows generation of mul- support VTEX, sophisticated magnification setting. tiple index entries in almost any form by a single ifmslide A package (v.0.3) from the Institute of Me- command. Extremely customizable. Works with chanics (ifm) Univ. of Technology, Darmstadt, Ger- all versions of LATEXand probably most other T EX many, for producing slides with LATEX2ε. Based on formats, too. 68 TUGboat, Volume 22 (2001), No. 1/2 WinShell: in systems/win32/ rules of typography and paper formats as docu- Bug fix to WinShell, a graphical user interface for mented in Tschichold (Selected Papers on Book De- easily working with TEX.Itisnot aTEXsystem so sign and Typography).” requires one to have a system such as MikT Xor E newvbtm Allows one to define one’s own verbatim-like T XLive installed. E environment with variants. : July 2000 notoccite.sty in .../other/misc Prevents erroneous numbering of the cites in the : amsmath in macros/latex/required/amslatex/math toc or lof or lot when using bibtex/unsrt. (V.2.13) Bug fix for an equation numbering prob- : lem with the hyperref package. ntabbing in .../other An extension of the tabbing environment that sup- New version (1.4). Extension of the arydshln array ports automatic line numbering with referencing. package which allows dashed lines/rules in tables, and control over the spacing of vertical rules. patchcmd Provides a command \patchcommand that adds bbl2html: in biblio/bibtex/utils materials at the beginning and/or end of the re- placement text of an existing macro. Converts a LATEX .bbl file to (mostly) formatted HTML code. Probably also works if applied directly Portuguese-Portugal: in systems/win32/winedt/dict to a .tex file. WinEdt dictionary — Portuguese (Portugal version). bytefield The bytefield package helps the user cre- poster-os2: in support ate illustrations for network protocol specifications A program to generate large-size and multi-sheet and anything else that utilizes fields of data. These posters from PostScript files. Also works in DOS. illustrations show how the bits and bytes are laid : out in a packet or in memory. pstoedit in support (V.3.20) Converts PostScript and PDF files to other chngpage: in biblio/bibtex/utils vector graphic formats so that they can be edited (V.1.1) Provides commands to change the page lay- graphically. out in the middle of a document. Now uses empty arguments instead of zero lengths, new adjustwidth scientificviewer: in nonfree/systems/win32 environment for extra wide (or narrow) paragraphs Scientific Viewer 3.5 is a free program for reading or over-width floats and printing (read-only) documents created with combine (V.0.41) Bundles individual documents into Scientific Notebook, Scientific Word or Scientific a single document, such as when preparing a con- WorkPlace by MacKichan Software, Inc. Scientific A ference proceedings. The auxiliary combinet pack- Viewer can also be used to view many native LTEX age puts the titles and authors into the main doc- documents. ument’s Table of Contents. Now cooperates with semantic (V.2.0 alpha) Adds customizable math mode the abstract and titling packages. ligatures; support for typesetting reserved words in CWEBbin: in web/c_cpp a consistent way and the drawing of inference rules (V.3.61) A set of change files (to be applied with has been substantially improved, allowing deeper the TIE processor) that make the original sources nesting. usable with ANSI-C/C++ compilers on UNIX/Linux, stdclsdv (V.1.1) allows package writers to learn what MS Windows, and Amiga. Now fully supports sectioning divisions are provided by the document’s “HyperCWEB”. class. Fontmap.cmr: in fonts/cm/ps-type1/contrib Swiss-German: in systems/win32/winedt/dict Makes Computer Modern available to ghostscript. WinEdt dictionary — Swiss-German. french: in languages Light version has a maximum of automatic features: ticket Provides an easy interface to produce visiting translation, layout, microtypography, etc., but no cards, labels for your files, stickers, pins and other specific commands are available. stuff for your office, conferences, etc. Hexdump.sty: in macros/generic umoline Allows underlines while allowing line breaking. Reads an ASCII hexdump file and puts it formatted wotree.sty: in graphics/dratex into the document. Additional macros included, Supports drawing of Warnier/Orr diagrams. Docu- e.g., for a Directory of Dumps. mentation is at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/ html2text: in support ~gurari/wo-diag/wo-diagrams.html. HTML-to-text converter for UNIX, which, unlike yafoot Contains three style files: pfnote.sty to enclose lynx-dump, handles tables. footnote numbers within a page; koma-script fnpos.sty to control the position of footnotes; A Reimplementation of the LTEXclasses ( article, dblfnote to make footnotes double-columned. report, book, letter), “implementing European TUGboat, Volume 22 (2001), No. 1/2 69 August 2000 germbib: in biblio/bibtex/contrib accents: in .../bezos Now supports the language packages ngerman.sty (V.1.2) Quick fix in accents to work with amsmath. and babel.sty. accfonts: in fonts/utilities isodate Tunes the output format of the \today com- V.0.212 of the program vpl2vpl (bug fix), updated mand providing \isodate, \numdate, \shortdate, CHANGES file. \TeXdate and \origdate and two additional com- mands to print a date argument using the actual amslatex-primer: in info date format for output. Compatible with bibgerm An updated version of “Getting up and running style file. with AMS-LATEX”. An attempt to give enough in- A jkthesis Updated class for formatting a thesis (bug fix formation for a newcomer to LTEX(but with some and now has ASCII-encoding). Documentation in plain TEXor AMS-TEXexperience) to quickly be A German only. able to make use of AMS-LTEX.Updatedtocur- rent version (LATEX2ε).