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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, meteorological, geometric, etc., usage. A LATEX2ε package 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 commands 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). LaTeX 2000/06/01 The last (nominal) 6-monthly release A ε BioCon Typesets some biological entities. Initial version of LTEX2 . Further updates will be on an annual (0.01) which only typesets species. basis. : circuit_macros: in graphics latex2man in support (V.1.11) Bug-fix update. A tool to translate UNIX (V.4.9) A set of macros for drawing high-quality A electric circuit diagrams containing fundamental el- manual pages written with LTEXintoaformatun- UNIX ements, amplifiers, transistors, and basic logic gates. derstood by the man(1) command. Several tools and examples for other types of dia- listbib Lists the contents of .bib files in a printable grams are also included. More robust NOT gate, format. V.2.2, enhancements to the listbib shell Function pmod(), macro shade(), etc. script, example listbib.cfg, support for entry fields URL and ‘totalpages’ (custom-bib uses them). cuisine Package for typesetting recipes in steps in which : each ingredient is on the left of the page next to the MiKTeX in systems/win32/miktex/2.0-beta method step in which it is used. V.2.0 beta 4 update. MiKTEXis a free T EXdistri- bution for Windows. curves Draws curves in the standard LAT Xpicture en- E : vironment using parabolas between data points with oands in fonts/archaic METAFONT continuous slope at joins. V.1.42 (bug fix) can still version of some odd characters that are A used as symbols when transliterating ancient scripts be used with LTEX2.09. V.1.50 can only be used A (like Hieroglyphs). with standard LTEX. It has improved documentation, greater drawing accuracy and is more efficient. springer: in obsolete/macros/plain/contrib Four package options for dvi specials improve draw- Springer-Verlag Heidelberg/Berlin officially pulled ing performance and some specials work with color. the macros in macros/plain/contrib/springer, A directory: in biblio/bibtex/contrib hence the move to obsolete. Up-to-date LTEX (V.1.15) Adds cellular phone fields, flexible defini- files are at: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ tion of headers to generate nicer address booklets, springer. use of hyperrref to produce directories with hy- tcltexed: in support perlinks. An editor written in the scripting language Tcl/Tk A dvi2bitmap: in nonfree/dviware for writing LTEXdocuments. : A utility to convert TEX dvi files directly to bitmaps. textcomptst in info/textcomp-list A list of all symbols available using the package dvipsconfig: in dviware (V.1.5) A set of PostScript header files for dvips textcomp.sty. : to control various printer functions such as paper textmerg in .../other size, duplex, and paper source (e.g., manual feeder, Minor problem fixed and placed in public domain. A envelope feeder, and trays 1, 2, and 3). Adds paper Word-processor-style merges for TEXand L TEX. size usledger and addpsctrl, which inserts these truncate.sty: in .../other/misc controls into existing files. Allows truncation of horizontal (lr mode) text to a expressg: in graphics/metapost/contrib/macros specified width. New version allows truncation at (V.1.4) Provides facilities to assist in drawing dia- arbitrary characters, without loading any special grams that consist of boxes, lines and annotations. hyphenation patterns. Although particular support is provided for creat- tth-2.7-3.i386.rpm: in support ing EXPRESS-G diagrams, examples are provided of Version update to 2.7-3. TEX(or LATEX)toHTML IDEF0, IDEF1X, Shlaer-Mellor, E-R, OMT, NIAM, converter. Includes equations using native fonts in and other diagrams. Update adds outines for gen- tables. erating piecewise linear paths with either sharp or TVS: in support/TVS rounded corners, diagram showing labeling conven- TEXVersioning System — Perl script collects com- tion for a drum and general tidying up of the code. plete source codes of TEXdocuments in order to be 70 TUGboat, Volume 22 (2001), No. 1/2

able to re-typeset them exactly the same way. New inslrmaj: in fonts/archaic version 1.0 contains better support for packing for- METAFONT rendition of the Insular Majuscule book- mat file sources and improved documentation (in hand in use in Ireland (and England) between the TEXinfo format). sixth and ninth centuries, and the necessary files A undertilde Provides an \utilde command that puts a for use with LTEX. tilde under math material. jtbnew.bst: in biblio/bibtex/contrib vertbars An extension to the lineno package to put Bibliography stylefile for the Journal of Theoretical vertical rules at left (right) of lines instead of num- Biology’s new style. bers. Only complete paragraphs can be barred. latex2rtf-1.8aa-os2.zip: in support OS/2 port of latex2rtf converter. Needs emxrt.zip, version 0.9d or higher. September 2000 lh: in fonts/cyrillic : adobe.zip in .../psnfssx Bug-fix update (v.3.4b). Cyrillic fonts including Replaces files (alucida.dtx/ins & adobe.dtx/ins) characters for languages often not supported such which were “lost” during restructuring the PSNFSS as Kazakh. distribution. listings LATEXsource code printer. Language update. : ams2bib in biblio/bibtex/utils listliketab Makes list-like tabulars so that the user A S A Perl script that translates M -TEXreferences can add additional columns to each entry. into BibT X. E lshort: in info/lshort/italian archaic: in fonts The Italian version of lshort (The Not So Short Samples of archaic fonts. Introduction to LATEX2ε), version 3.15. blindtext: in .../minutes lshortth: in info/lshort Creation of text to get an impression of the look of Thai translation of lshort (The Not So Short In- classes. troduction to LATEX2ε). bsamples: in fonts/archaic MetaPost4OS2: in graphics/metapost Sampler showing all 5 of the bookhands fonts. Replaced with a symbolic link to the MS-DOS ver- CBGreek: in systems/win32/bakoma/contrib sion. CBGreek fonts (Small Caps) in Type 1 font format. mfpic: in graphics dvipscol: in .../oberdiek (V.0.4 beta) A pdfTEXpackage for drawing pictures using METAFONT or METAPOST commands. Fix color stack overflows by dvips (ε-TEXrecom- mended). MHequ: in .../other A package to easily create multicolumn equation elsart.cls: in .../elsevier environments, and to tag the equations therein. Elsevier class for compuscript (as opposed to man- New version fixes compatibility problems with the uscript) submission of publications. License clarifi- packages showkeys and hyperref. cation (now LPPL). minutes A package (v.1.4b) for setting minutes and build- : in engord .../oberdiek ing collections of minutes. Converts numbers to English ordinal numbers. model-harv.pdf: in .../elsevier A fac LTEX2ε class file and guide for the Springer Verlag Instructions for use and template files for Elsevier journal Formal Aspects of Computing. authors. fltpoint V.1.0c is an update needed for the new ver- model-num.pdf: in .../elsevier sion of the rccol package with minor changes to Instructions for use and template files for Elsevier the documentation. Provides basic floating point authors. calculations inside TEX. mv4vtex.zip: in fonts/psfonts/marvosym/vtex fncylab.sty: in .../misc Instructions for installing the Marvosym font for Package allows customizing the appearance of la- use with VTEX/Free and a font map file. bels (without modifying internal commands), and nomencl Help formatting a nomenclature using Make- provides a \labelformat command for changing Index. V.3.1 adds support for Croatian, more ex- the format of references to labels. amples and the ins file creates some sample config- hieroglf: in fonts/archaic uration files. METAFONT rendition of some 60 plus Egyptian numprint Prints numbers with separators and exponent Hieroglyphs (used between 3000 BC and 100 AD), if necessary. New version includes an option for and accompanying files to use them in LATEX.(5 units. new glyphs.) oldprsn: in fonts/archaic hypcap: in .../oberdiek METAFONT and LATEXfiles for typesetting with the Fix for using hyperref with figures, table environ- Old Persian cuneiform font, in use between 500 and ments and the star forms. 350 BC. TUGboat, Volume 22 (2001), No. 1/2 71 othello Creates othello boards using LATEX. BibGene: in biblio/bibtex/utils/bibgene pdfcolmk: in .../oberdiek Macintosh bibliographic database program; freeware application for maintaining databases of ref- Fixes color problems with pdfTEXat page breaks. erences. BibGene 1.2.2 is PowerPC-only. For ver- : pdftex.def in macros/pdftex/graphics sions for M68K Macs, see http://www.ics.uci. (V.0.3e) Adds viewport and trim with clip support. edu/~eppstein/bibs/bibgene/. protosem: in fonts/archaic ConcProg Sets music concert programmes, with support METAFONT rendition of a Proto-Semitic script used for part divisions, etc. about 1600 BC in the Middle East, and the neces- coordsys Provides commands for typesetting number A sary files for use in LTEX. lines (coordinate axes) and coordinate systems in rccol (V.1.1) Supports different decimal signs in input the picture environment. and output. Provides ‘right-centered’, optionally CWEB3.6.2forMacOS: in web/systems/mac/cweb rounded numbers in tabulars. Improved port of CWEB (no fake /dev/null files OS refcheck (V.1.8) Fix of bug when \ref, \pageref oc- any more) for Mac v.3.6.2. : curred in a material processed to \write.Alsoim- ecta.bst in biblio/bibtex/contrib/economic proved compability with AMS-LATEXand HyperRef. Econometrica bibliography style — now follows exactly the official recommendations. Also compati- : in refcount .../oberdiek ble with natbib. Extracts the numbers from references. emTeXTDS: in systems/os2/emtex-contrib : settobox in .../oberdiek Version 0.54 of the emTEX/TDS distribution for A Defines commands similar to LTEX’s \settowidth OS/2, featuring the latest releases of LATEX, AMS- commands for boxes. LATEXand other packages, as well as several bug template-harv.tex: in .../elsevier fixes. Instructions for use and template files for Elsevier fancyhdr Update of the fancyhdr package: added LPPL authors. license, some small enhancements (error messages), some bug fixes in ,obsoletefilere- template-num.tex: in .../elsevier extramarks.sty Instructions for use and template files for Elsevier moved and documentation updated authors. hpsdiss Class file (documented in .dtx) developed by Hanspeter Schmid to typeset his dissertation. .pdf : tfmpktest.pl in fonts/utilities sample provided. Checksum of pk fonts. Can delete bad pk font with hyperref: (V.6.71) Bug fixes and enhancements of this checksum mismatch and recreate it. package for creating/enabling hyperlinks in docu- thumbpdf: in support ments. The package provides support for thumbnails with isi2bibtex: in biblio/bibtex/utils A pdfTEX, and plain/LTEXformats. Requirements: (V.0.40) Isi2bibtex converts an Institute for Sci- Perl5, ghostscript,pdfTEX. V.2.5 reduces filesize by entific Information (ISI,knownintheUKas‘BIDS’ only loading fonts once. or ‘MIMAS WoS’) bibliographic database file to a ugarite: in fonts/archaic BibTEXfile for use with T EXand LATEX METAFONT and LATEXfiles for typesetting with the jurabib Various forms of short and long citations — Ugaritic Cuneiform script (dating from about 1300 now more flexible and no longer just for German BC). law students. Changes in 0.5d: English documen- vpe: in .../oberdiek tation, option to place the howcited remark for all Enables source specials for pdf files (clicking on entries french.sty-compatibility, keyval-interface special annotations will launch an editor with the more intuitive, minimal example document for the humanities, etc. source file at the source line) in VTEX/Linux, pdf- : TEX,andwithdvips. KTeXShell in systems/unix A graphical user interface to T X,LAT X,andre- wordcount Provides a relatively easy and accurate way E E lated programs, running on Linux/UNIX with KDE. of counting the number of characters and words in It is not another WYSIWYG approach. Instead it aLAT Xdocument. E provides a document development interface where you can define your files, edit, compose, view, and October 2000 print them with a mouseclick. Augie: in fonts logsys Extends the oordsys package by providing log- A Type 1 handwriting font, based on American arithmic, semi- and double-logarithmic coordinate style casual handwriting. The font itself is freeware systems and grids. by emerald city fontwerks www.speakeasy.org/~ecf. mathetx/mathmtx: in The package adds metrics, .vf, .fd and map files. fonts/utilities/fontinst-prerelease/inputs 72 TUGboat, Volume 22 (2001), No. 1/2

A partial collection of metric and encoding files for LatexHelpBook: in info fontinst v.1.915. HTML-based help for LATEXfor Windows 98, 95, macos-fonts.zip: in systems/mac/fonts/oztex NT 4, and 5. Collection of freely available PS fonts in MacOS for- mpic21.zip: in graphics/pictex/mathspic mat. Includes: Belleek, CharterBT, LOGO, MAN- mathsPIC (DOS vers 2.1), a DOS filter program for UAL, MathPazo, RSFS and Utopia. Can be adapted use with PiCTEX. OS for use with other TEXsystems in the Mac . pccp.bst: in biblio/bibtex/contrib/chem-journal NRC Macros for typesetting papers for submission to jour- BibTEXstyle file for the journal Physical Chemistry nals published by the National Research Council of Chemical Physics. Canada. Prosper ALAT Xclass on top of the seminar class. Per- : E rfc2bib.awk in biblio/bibtex/utils mits easily writing slides for both printing and dis- AWK Bib g script to automatically generate TEXen- play with a video projector, including animation IETF RFC tries from s. effects such as incremental display. Several slide skak: in fonts styles are available and new ones are easily added. Package for typesetting chess. Bug fix (regarding revcompchem: in knight and queen movement). biblio/bibtex/contrib/chem-journal TeXshade Package (1.4a update) for setting nucleotide BibT Xstyle file for Reviews in Computational A E and protein alignments in LTEX. Features new pos- Chemistry. siblities for positioning the legend and some changes rtf2latex2e: in support in the documentation and the FAQ-list. Beta release. rtf2latex2e 1.0 beta 3 converts RTF titleref.sty: in .../other files into LATEX2ε. Detects text style (bold, italic, Version 3.0. Provides a \titleref command to color, big, small, etc.), reads tables (simple to semi- cross-reference section (and chapter, etc.) titles and complex), converts embedded MathType equations, captions like \ref and \pageref. Now licensed as converts most Greek and math symbols, reads foot- PD . notes (not in tables), support for use of the fontenc : verbdef.sty in .../other package, translates hyperlinks using the hyperref Define robust commands which expand to verba- package. tim text — can be used in arguments for other com- TransFig: in graphics mands/macros. TransFig is a set of tools for creating TEXdoc- uments with graphics which are portable, in the November 2000 sense that they can be printed in a wide variety of arabtex-oztex.sit: in systems/mac/fonts/oztex environments. AMacOS adaption of Taco Hoekwater’s PostScript ucs.sty This package implements a facility for map- Type 1 version of Dr. Prf. Klaus Lagally’s Nastaliq ping Unicode characters to LATEXmacros and to use arab fonts, with additional support for OzTEX. UTF-8 as an input encoding with standard LATEX2ε. bibtopic A package for sectioned/multiple bibliogra- xfig: in graphics phies. Update to version, 1.0j, fixes a problem with Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to babel.sty’s redefinition of \ifthenelse. V.1.0e draw and manipulate objects interactively in an adds compatibility with hyperref and another up- X window. The resulting pictures can be saved, date added compatibility for natbib v.7.0. printed on PostScript printers or converted to a va- dinat: in biblio/bibtex/contrib/german riety of other formats. Enhancement of the old dinat-style for proceedings, xipa-oztex.sit: in systems/mac/fonts/oztex inbook and misc. Improves handling of names to A Stuffit 5 archive containing MacOS versions of avoid problems with the “von” part. the PostScript Type 1 XIPA fonts created by Taco : filippou in Hoekwater. These fonts provide IPA93 characters language/greek/package-babel/hyphenation plus extensions to be used with Times Roman and Update of the hyphenation patterns for ancient and Helvetica for use with Fukui Rei’s tipa package. modern Greek in polytonic (multi-accent) and mono- XyMTeX Update. Package including LAT Xdocument- tonic (uni-accent) systems. Works with the greek E style options for typesetting chemical structural for- option of babel or Dryllerakis’ GreeKTeX. mulas. jcc.bst: in biblio/bibtex/contrib/chem-journal ziffer Formats numbers with the correct German spac- BibTEXstyle file for Journal of Computational Chemistry. ing (even in math mode). jpc.bst: in biblio/bibtex/contrib/chem-journal BibTEXstyle file for Journal of Physical Chemistry. December 2000 keystroke Provides macros for the graphical represen- bakoma: in systems/win32 tation of the keys on a computer keyboard. BaKoMa TEXsystem upgrade to v.3.10. TUGboat, Volume 22 (2001), No. 1/2 73 bakoma/index.html: in systems/win32/bakoma itamsldoc: in info/italian Updated version of this file with new information Italian translation of the amsmath documentation. about the BaKoMa TEXmailing list which is in- latex.zip: in systems/win32/miktex/1.20 tended for news, questions, answers, and user dis- LATEX2ε update (2000/6/1) for the MiKTEX1.20e cussions about BaKoMa TEXSoftware. distribution. BibTexMng: in biblio/bibtex/utils LigaTeX: in support Easy to use bibliographic software for Windows. Version 0.2.0 of LigaTEX (a package which removes Combines online searching, reference management, certain ligatures from text). Now switched on and bibliography making, and information sharing into off by the babel-package macros. a single user-friendly environment. It was written LGrind: in nonfree/support/lgrind A Bib to be used with LTEX,using TEX. V. 3.65. Last update by Michael Piefel (due to bophook (V.0.01) Hook for adding material at the be- non-free license issues) for the pretty printer LGrind ginning of each page. which can produce nice LATEXfrom source code. bpchem: in .../other Moved from support/lgrind (but a symbolic link This package provides commands and environments, to that location has been added). which are useful for typesetting chemical formulæ lineno.sty Update for compatibility with longtable. as well as breakpoints in multiline chemical names ltx3info.pdf: in .../ms/contrib and a set of commands to enumerate/reference chem- Article describing the motivation, achievements and ical substances. future of the LATEX3Project. bundledoc: in support MacDevnag: in language/devanagari/contrib Post-processor for the snapshot package that bun- Macintosh port of the devnag program — a prepro- dles together the classes, packages, and files needed cessor which is part of the Devanagari package (in A to build a given LTEXdocument into a .tar.gz file, language/devanagari/distrib). suitable for moving across systems, transmitting to minitoc Update to version 34. This package adds mini a colleague, etc. tables of contents by chapters, parts or sections docmfp Update to v 1.1 of the docmfp package. This (and minilofs, minilots). Updated documentation extends the doc package to document non-LATEX (a section for use with tocbibend and a French code, such as METAFONT and METAPOST,oreven translation (fminitoc.ps) and additional .mld files C code. Adds a generalized \Describe macro and for alternate names of languages. a Code environment. mtgreek A mathtime.sty supplement, uppercase Greek dvi2tty-german umlauts.patch: in letters displayed as either roman or italic glyphs. nonfree/dviware/dvi2tty pxfonts: in fonts With this patch, dvi2tty replaces some special char- Final update to v.3.1 of the PX fonts (based on acters (a-,o-,u-umlauts, sz-ligature, a-ring) by their Palatino). Only obvious bugs, if they are found, Latin-1 representation. will be fixed through patches, no modification to or eso-ex3.tex: in .../ms/contrib adding of letters/symbols in the near future. A Example for the LTEXpackage eso-pic showing references: in support how to include pages from an external (PDF)doc- Updated to v.3.6. references is bibliographic soft- ument. ware for authors of scientific manuscripts and for fancyhdr: in /info/german management of bibliographic data. Supports LATEX A short german introduction to fancyhdr with ex- including BibTEX. Able to import bibliographic amples. records in the MEDLINE format. faq: in usergrps/uktug rtkinenc Similar to the standard package inputenc, V.2.5 of the FAQ by the UK TEXUsers Group, also but allows the user to specify a fallback procedure available from http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq. to use when the text command corresponding to some input character isn’t available. FiNK The LATEX2ε File Name Keeper, first public release. This package keeps track of files \input’ed scriptfonts: in info/symbols/math (the LATEXway) or \include’ed in your document. A summary of readily-available script fonts for use Also comes with support for AUC-TeX. in mathematical typesetting. FiXme ALATEX2ε package for inserting “fixme” notes in setspace.sty The setspace package, version 6.7, has draft documents. V.1.1, the first public release — three new options, to set default spacing (single- provides a way to insert “fixme” notes in draft doc- spacing, onehalfspacing, doublespacing)when uments, either in the margin of the document, as the package is loaded. index entries, in the log file and/or as warnings on tcldoc Defines a couple of environments and commands stdout or to summarize them in a list. Also comes for documenting Tcl (Tool Command Language) with support for AUC-TeX. source code in .dtx-style documented source files. 74 TUGboat, Volume 22 (2001), No. 1/2

TeXmacs: in systems/unix Update to v.0.3.0-7 of GNU TeXmacs,atexteditor inspired by the popular TEXtypesetting system and the emacs editor. Runs on PCs 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.” trsym: in fonts Horizontal and vertical symbols used for transfor- mations (e.g. Laplace transformation) including in- verse transformation. txfonts: in fonts Final update to v.3.1 of the TX fonts (a complete set of fonts with math support based on Times and Helvetica). Only obvious bugs, if they are found, will be fixed through patches, no modification to or adding of letters/symbols in the near future. u8tex.el: in support/emacs-modes Quail package to input TEXcharacters (and some more) using familiar notation. Changes in v.1.2: Documentation, adoption of some HTML abbrevia- tions, more amssymb characters and bug fixes. varindex Bug fix update. WinEdt: in nonfree/systems/win32 Official release of WinEdt 5.2 (shareware). Com- plete information at http://www.winedt.com. xdoc2: in macros/latex/exptl/xdoc Second prototype for the hypothetical xdoc package. Reimplements some of the features found in the standard LATEX doc package. Additionally provides support for defining 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. zefonts: in fonts New version of zefonts with two new fd files and a comparison between aefonts and zefonts.

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