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circuit macros: in graphics/ The Treasure Chest A set of macros for drawing high-quality electric circuit diagrams containing fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors, and basic logic gates to in- clude in TEX, LATEX, or similar documents. Some tools and examples for other types of diagrams also Packages posted to CTAN included. The first five months of 2000 have been amazingly CWEBbin: in web/c_cpp/ productive in terms of new and updated packages A set of change files (to be applied with the TIE pro- going onto CTAN: 182 are listed here, compared cessor) that make the original sources usable with with 59 for the last quarter of 1999.1 If this keeps up, ANSI-C/C++ compilers on UNIX/Linux, MS Win- we’ll have to move the inventories into some other dows, and Amiga. : place and reserve this column just for package tours! devnag2 in language/devanagari/ And if you’re really really interested in stats . . . V. 2.0 upgrade for preprocessor, package, and fonts for Devanagari. Jan Feb Mar Apr May June dtk: in dante/dtk/ 23 25 46 19 38 31 The directory contains the complete list of pub- lications of Die TEXnische Komoedie (nos. 0/89 . . . the above table shows how many entries for each to 4/99), sometimes including abstracts and key- monthappearinthisinventory,keepinginmindthat words. It is also the base for the Web search ser- each inventory list (should) only count a package vice under www.dante.de/dante/DTK/inhalt.html once, regardless of how many upgrades are posted (in German). to CTAN within the period in question. dviincl: in graphics/metapost/ A tiny package for including a .dvi page into the Notes on inventory format .eps files generated by METAPOST. 1.Packagesarelistedinthemonthofthelatest epmtfe: in systems/os2/ upgrade; that is, if a version is posted in Oct. Upgrade. and a new version in Dec., only the newer one epsincl: in graphics/metapost/ will be listed. The package facilitates including .eps files in META- POST documents; it makes use of (G)AWK. 2. Monthly entries are in alpha-order, for easier : reference. eulervm in fonts/ This is a set of virtual math fonts, based on Euler 3. Unless otherwise stated, packages are located and CM. Included is a LATEX package, which makes in: them easy to use, particularly in conjunction with macros/latex/contrib/supported/ Type1 PostScript text fonts. However, there are two main branches under extsizes: in .../other/ contrib/: supported/ and other/. The de- Upgrades to class files. fault used here is supported,andwhereother HLaTeX: in fonts/korean/ is the location, its path will simply be noted as Upgrade to packages and Korean fonts. : A .../other/, to cut down on path length.2 koma-script Reimplementation of the LTEX classes (article, report, book, letter), “implementing January 2000 European rules of typography and paper formats as documented in Tschichold (Selected Papers on ae: in fonts/ae This package is a set of virtual fonts for creating Book Design and Typography). : PDF files with T1-encoded CMR fonts. ltt in info/ This is the code for the examples in the book LATEX : in aifont fonts/cm/ai Tips und Tricks (ISBN 3-932588-37-1). The code Virtual fonts and other related files for remapping includes application examples as well as packages the BSR/Y&Y/AMS Type 1 Computer Modern fonts. and class files developed in the book. This helps to produce more robust PDF output multibib: The package allows the user to create refer- from pdfTEX, dvips/gs,anddvipdf (upgrade to v. 1.2). ences to multiple bibliographies within one docu- : bibtopic A package for multiple bibliographies. The ment, thus providing a complementary functional- most significant change is added compatibility for ity to packages such as bibunits or chapterbib, natbib v. 7.0. which make it possible to create one bibliography 1 for multiple yet different parts of the document. See TUGboat 20,4 (1999), pages 370–374. 2 If anyone has a suggestion on a better shorthand, please ochem: in support/ send it in. –Ch. Typesetting chemical reactions and formulae. TUGboat, Volume 21 (2000), No. 2 137 references: in support/ iso: The iso classisfortypesettingISO documents ac- Bibliographic software supporting preparation of cording to “ISO/IEC Directives, Part 3” (3rd ed., scientific manuscripts, storage of bibliographic data 1997). Configuration files for TEX4ht also provided. of articles in periodicals, books and articles in books. isorot: A package for rotating of document elements Bib Supports TEX, commercial word processors; also (a combination of the lscape package and an ex- allows import of bibliographic data from material tension of the rotating package. Designed for use downloaded in MEDLINE format. with both the iso class and any normal class. : ttf-tetex in info/TrueType/ iso10303: Step packages for typesetting ISO 10303 In- A description on using TrueType fonts with teTEX, ternational Standard documents. Requires the iso available in .html, .pdf and .ps file formats. class. : wordcount The package provides a relatively easy way makeglos: A package to include a glossary in a docu- A of estimating the number of words in a LTEXdoc- ment. The glossary must be prepared by an exter- ument. nal program such as xindy or makeindex. : xmlcatalogue in macros/xmltex/contrib/ play: A package and class for typesetting plays and quo- Documentation for the xmlcatalogue packages. tations from plays. : xmltex in macros/xmltex/ pssplit: in support/ XML xmltex is a system for typesetting files with C program and DOS executables to print selected TEX.Itmaybeusedonitsownorinconjunc- pages from a PostScript file. tion with another T Xformat(LAT X is assumed E E : for most examples). pstoedit in support/ Converts PostScript and PDF files to other vector : xtrcode in support/ graphic formats so that they can be edited graphi- A small Perl script for extraction of environment cally. contents. ps2eps: in support/ February 2000 A tool to produce EPS/EPSF files from usual one- bakoma: in systems/win32/bakoma/dst/ paged PostScript documents. Requirements: Perl, ghostscript and an ANSI-C compiler if your plat- CM Bright Fonts for BaKoMa TEX. form is not Linux, Solaris, Digital UNIX or Win- CMacTeX: in nonfree/systems/mac/ dows 2000/9x/NT (binaries included). V. 3.4 upgrade of CMacTeX. refcheck: This package is intended to check references. : in cmbright fonts/ It looks for numbered but unlabelled equations; for Updates the CM Bright typefaces to v. 1.0f; all CM labels not used in the text; for unused bibliogra- Bright and CM Typewriter Light fonts will provide phy references. As well, it displays \label and a correct Euro symbol now. \bibitem keys in text margins. concrete: in systems/win32/bakoma/dst/ syntax: in .../other/ Concrete Fonts for BaKoMa T X. E Package to create syntax diagrams, using special crop: The package provides different forms of cropmarks environments and commands. Requires fancybox fortrimmingpaperstacks,forcameraalignment, package; documentation in German. and for visualizing the page dimensions, as well as tocloft: The package provides control over the typog- options for reflecting and inverting the whole doc- raphy of the Table of Contents, List of Figures, and ument. List of Tables. fancyhdrBoxed: in support/ webguide: in info/ Provides easy and fast creation of page headers for “A Brief Guide to LAT X Tools for Web Publishing.” the documentation of software engineering projects, E : using a Mini language implemented in Python that WinShell in systems/win32/ generates PSTricks code embedded in Upgrade to WinShell, a graphical user interface for not fancyhdr headers. easy working with TEX. It is aTEXsystem. : hc: Replacement for the LATEX default classes, based on wsuipa2tipa in support/ the KoMa-Script bundle and the seminar class. C program files (incl. Flex source, DOS executable) to translate a LAT Xfilewithwsuipa font com- hypht1.tex: in language/hyphenation/ E mands into a file with TIPA font commands. Additional hyphenation patterns to be loaded in conjunction with each “normal” set of patterns. xmlplay: in macros/xmltex/contrib/ An xmltex package for typsetting the plays of Shake- impose: in support/ A set of PostScript utilities for two-up printing of speare,asmarkedupbyJonBosak. DSC-compliant PostScript (including that from Net- xtab: Automatically breaks long tables so that they can scape, dvips, and FrameMaker). Requires Ghost- span multiple pages. An extension of the super- script and psutils. tabular package. 138 TUGboat, Volume 21 (2000), No. 2

March 2000 float: This package improves the interface for defining appendix: Provides additional appendexing capabilities. floating objects, such as figures and tables. It adds New in this release is support for per-chapter (or the notion of a ‘float style’, which governs the ap- section for non-chaptered documents) appendices. pearance of floats. : captdef: in .../other/misc/ fnts in macros/plain/contrib/ This small package permits you to have things with Provides font selection for plain TEX. ‘proper’ captions in the body of your text, without games: in systems/win32/bakoma/contrib/ using explicit floats. This module includes popular macro packages de- scribedinChaps.7and8oftheLAT X Graphics ccaption: Provides: continuation captions, unnumbered E Companion. captions and legends, captions outside float envi- : ronments, bilingual captions, etc. It also enables hyperref A maintenance release. the definition of new float environments and their ifmtarg: in .../misc/ captions. New in this release is more flexible posi- Provides provides “if-then-else”and“if-else”com- tioning of subfigure (continuation) captions. mands for an empty macro argument. : contour: Generates a colored contour around a given limap in .../other/gene/ text in order to enable printing text over a back- Provides a style and class for typesetting maps and ground without the need of a color box around the blocks according to the Information Mapping text. method. : custom-bib: A package to generate customized BibT X listbib Generates listings of bibliographic databases E Bib bibliography styles from a generic file by means of in TEX format (indented for archival purposes). the docstrip program. Included is a listbib.bst that is better suited for this purpose than the standard styles. cwbl-spanish: in .../supported/cweb/contrib/ : A package for translating the cweb class strings into MHequ in .../other/ Spanish. A package to create easily multicolumn equation environments, and to tag the equations therein. cweb-hy: in .../supported/cweb/contrib/ midpage: in .../misc/ To allow a file using this class to be included in Provides an environment for vertical centering (cor- other documents (e.g., as an appendix to some re- responding to the center environment for horizon- port (the file nodoc.tex may be of help). Also tal centering). makes it possible to insert hyperlinks from the places : A where a chunk of code is referenced to the chunk it- mparhack Implements a workaround for the LTEX bug self, including the indices produced at the end of that \marginpars will sometimes come out at the a cweb document. An evolution of the cweb class, wrong margin. originally by Joachim Schrod. needspace: in .../misc/ Provides a command to disable page breaking with- dinbrief: This document class implements a document layout for writing letters according to the rules of in a given vertical space. If there is not enough the German standardization institute, DIN. space between the command and the bottom of the page, a new page will be started. dvipsconfig: in dviware/ newlfm: Thisclassintegratestheletter class with fancy- A set of PostScript header files for dvips to con- hdr and geometry. trol various printer functions such as paper size, : duplex, and paper source (e.g., manual feeder, en- nextpage in .../misc/ velope feeder, and trays 1, 2, and 3). Provides additional \clearto...page and \moveto ...page commands, which are generalizations of emtextds: in systems/os2/emtex-contrib/ the standard \clear...page and \newpage com- Upgrade of the emtex/TDS distribution for OS/2. mands. : in english systems/win32/winedt/dict/ nomencl: A package to generate and format a nomen- Upgrade to English dictionary. clature using MakeIndex. : fancynum A package for typesetting numbers, in par- oztex-german: in nonfree/systems/mac/ ticular those numbers written by computers. System upgrade. : faq in usergrps/uktug/ psnfss-beta: in macros/latex/required/ New but interim version of the FAQ by the UK TEX Upgrade of the new psnfss, v. 8.1, and it is hope- Users Group. fully the final thing, except for a few parts of the flashcard: in .../other/misc/ documentation (unless any new bugs are detected). A class file for typesetting flash cards: a question See the file changes.txt for the latest news. on one side and the answer on the other. rtf2latex2e: in support/ flashcards: A class for typesetting two-sided cards, par- An RTF-to-LATEX translator, it can handle the lat- ticularly for use as flash cards. [Note: Not the est RTF versions from MS Word 97/98/2000, Star- same as flashcard.] Office, and other word processors. It has support TUGboat, Volume 21 (2000), No. 2 139

for tables, figures, and to some extent equations. It br: in systems/win32/winedt/dict/ runs on Macintosh, Linux, UNIX, and Windows. This contribution consists of a much demanded semaphore: in fonts/ Brazilian/Portuguese word list for WinEdt. A link Semaphore alphabet font in METAFONT (3 vari- to this (and all other available dictionaries for Win- ants, each with 4 shapes). Edt) is available on www.winedt.com. : setspace: This style option provides commands and en- breve.ps in info/lshort/portuguese/ A vironments for doing double and one-and-a-half spac- “Breve Introducao ao LTEX2ε” is a tutorial in Por- A ing based on point size. tuguese about LTEX2ε. It has about 80 pages or- ganized into 5 chapters and 4 appendices. sf298: A package for generating a completed standard : form 298 as prescribed by ANSI standard Z39.18 for dinat in biblio/bibtex/contrib/german/dinat/ report documentation (e.g, on a U.S. government Bibliography style files intended for texts in Ger- contract). man. They draw up bibliographies in accordance with the German DIN 1505, parts 2 and 3. For sidecap: The environments to make it easy to typeset more information see the included documentation. table and figure captions sideways. draftcopy: This package is used to print on some pages : Bib smflatex A set of classes, packages, and TEXstyles the word ‘DRAFT’ (or the language-dependent anal- for the Soci´et´emath´ematique de France (SMF) pub- ogo) ‘behind’ the intended stuff (upgrade to v. 2.13). lications. fncychap.patch: in .../fncychap/ : svjour in nonfree/.../springer/ Asmallpatchtofncychap.sty that corrects a bug Springer-Verlag journal macros. in the treatment of \chapter* in the package’s Glenn TeXmacs: in systems/unix/ style of chapter headings. A text editor (beta release) inspired by the popular hyphenation-greek: in language/greek/package-babel/ TEX typesetting system and the emacs editor. Runs hyphenation/filippou/ on PCs under Linux and on SUN computers: “It These files contain the hyphenation patterns for an- is reasonable to expect that it will run on most cient and modern Greek in polytonic (multi-accent) UNIX/X-Windows systems in the near future.” and monotonic (uni-accent) systems. The patterns tocbibind: A package to add document elements like a will work perfectly with the greek option of babel bibliography or an index to the Table of Contents. or Dryllerakis’ GreeKTeX. For any other Greek pack- The“Listof...” headingscanalsobeputintothe age, the patterns will have to be re-coded. A brief ToC. description of the files is given in the file readme.txt. twoup: Provides the necessary LATEX preliminaries needed [CTAN note: the files are located in a new subdi- to use PostScript tools (as found in MiKTEXand rectory to distinguish them from the existing file many other TEX implementations) to print booklet grhyph.tex] and two-up output (i.e., two logical pages printed isi2bib: in biblio/bibtex/utils/isi2bib/ side-by-side on one side of one sheet of paper). isi2bib converts an ISI (Institute for Scientific In- utf2any: in support/ formation) database file to a BibTEXfile.This Translates a file encoded in UTF-7 or UTF-8 (Uni- script replaces bids.to.bibtex. code) into any 7- or 8-bit text format. Currently, latexdraw: in nonfree/support/ mapping tables are supplied for LATEX, HTML, ISO- An X-Window-based and CAD-orientated drawing 8859-1, and iso-8859-15. program which generates LATEX based on PSTricks. vmargin: Allows margin settings to take into account minutes: A package for setting minutes and building the paper size. All new is that it is now in docstrip collections of minutes. format so the documentation should be much bet- pmcstex.: in systems/os2/pmcstex/ ter. No real code changes. pmCSTeX for EPM is a macro package for the OS/2 WinLatex: in systems/win32/ editor EPM (Enhanced Programmers Editor, ver- AfrontendforTEX (Win98/NT; needs Microsoft sion 6.03b or higher) (package upgrade: v. 16.4.2000 VisualBasic DLLs. (April 16, 2000). : wp2latex: in support/ simplified-latex in info/ A Simplified Conversion from Wordperfect 6–8 into LATEX. Revision of Harvey Greenberg book, Introduction to LATEX. yplan: in .../other/ : A A Perl version of Dick Nickalls’ yplan, which gen- TeXshade ALTEX package for setting nucleotide and erates annual calendars for any year after 1999. peptide alignments (package upgrade). TeXtopo: ALATEX package for setting shaded and anno- April 2000 tated membrane protein topology plots and helical anonchap: in .../misc/ wheels. Provides commands to make \chapters be typeset thumbpdf: in support/ like \sections (i.e., like numbered \chapter*s). Upgrade to v. 2.4. The package provides support 140 TUGboat, Volume 21 (2000), No. 2

for thumbnails with pdfTEX, and plain/LATEXfor- note: Users should be aware that, apart from the mats. Requirements: Perl5, Ghostscript, pdfTEX. ‘nocommercial’ terms imposed by the developer’s ttf-tetex: in info/TrueType/ employers, there are issues surrounding the use of Upgrade. patented technology in producing GIF output.] version.sty: in .../other/misc/ epstopdf: in support/ Formerly listed in latex209, this package still works Upgrade to v. 2.26 (bugfix). Converts .eps files to in LATEX2ε and has been moved as noted. encapsulated .pdf files.ItiswritteninCanddoes winedt: in systems/win32/ not require Perl; however, it does require Ghostscript. Official release of the new version, now called Win- A compiled version for Windows95/98/NT is in- Edt 5. See also: www.winedt.com. cluded. Since the sources are included, it can be ported to any system having a C-complier. xtab: Upgrade to v. 2.3. eso-pic: in .../ms/contrib/ May 2000 This package makes it easy to add some picture acmconf: Upgrade to v. 1.3. This class may be used commands to every page, including compatibility to typeset articles to be published in the proceed- with html.sty and a new example (background pic- ings of ACM (Association for Computing Machin- ture). ery) conferences and workshops. fixbbl.py: in biblio/bibtex/utils/fixbbl/ Bib acronym: Upgrade to v. 1.6. Added the smaller option A python script to deal with the well-known TEX and the macros \acsfont and \acfsfont used to bug whereby it inserts a ‘%’inaurltocausethe control the appearance of \acs and \acf. bibliography line to fit into its minuscule vision of what is an acceptable input line for T X. aeguill: Upgrade to v. 0.99. This file gives French E guillemets built with the Polish CMR fonts (de- isi2bibtex: in biblio/bibtex/utils/isi2bibtex/ fault), WNCYR fonts, the LASY fonts or with the Package upgrade to v. 0.32. EC fonts. This is useful in conjunction with the ae jurabib: Upgrade to v. 0.4j. A package for the use of package (this package loads the ae package in case BibTEX databases for German legal texts. It can it has not been loaded) and with or without the be used both together with or independently from french package. the jura document class. akletter: Upgrade to v. 1.5h. This class implements a labelmag: in systems/win32/texhelpers/labelmag/ fixed layout for the first page of a letter, with with A Win32 program for managing a collection of la- more or less variable contents, to be specified by bels to be typeset by TEX and printed on demand. the user. The collection will be held together within a sin- amscls: Upgrade patches: the most serious bug fixed gle file; labels may be kept within categories. As in these patches is incorrect theorem spacing (too an advanced feature, mailing labels, for instance, small) in the amsbook/amsart/amsproc document may query an ODBC data source. The formatting classes. macros may also be of interest for people not willing antp: in fonts/psfonts/polish/ or able to use labelmag. A replica of the Antykwa P´oQltawskiego font in Post- lgrind: in support/lgrind/bin/ Script Type 1 format — preliminary version. This A Win32 executable — it should run under almost font was designed in the 1920s and ’30 by the Pol- any Windows and it supports long filenames. ish graphic artist and typographer Adam P´oQltawski ltxmc***: in systems/win32/util/ and was widely used by Polish printing houses as Set of LATEX macros to integrate with your text long as metal types were in use (until ca. the ’60s). editor. Also helps you write document templates bakoma: in systems/win32/ (with options and packages) and creates the skele- Upgrade to v. 2.30 of the BaKoMa TEXsystem.For ton of an array, a table, or complex environments, information about changes see: dst/changes.html by selecting the appropriate button on a toolbar. in the same directory. marvosym: in fonts/psfonts/ collection: The collection class lets you bundle in- The Martin Vogels Symbole (marvosym) font is a dividual articles into a single document. Many op- Type 1 font. The marvosym style file lets you use tions have been provided and the documentation is this font in LATEX2e documents (package upgrade). now provided. mathsPIC: in graphics/pictex/ dvi2bitmap: in nonfree/dviware/ mathsPIC is a DOS filter for use with PICTEX, and Upgrade to v. 0.7. dvi2bitmap is a utility to con- facilitates drawing maths and geometry figures. This vert .dvi files directly to bitmaps, without going upgrade (v. 1.9b) fixes a bug associated with the through the complicated route of conversion via DrawAngleArrow, drawArrow,anddrawThickArrow PostScript and PNM. It can generate XBM and GIF commands, which arose when the y-coordinate of bitmaps, plus PNG,ifyouhavethelibpng library the terminal point was negative, causing a failure installed. The program is written in C++. [CTAN when the output file was LATEX’d. All the v. 1.9a TUGboat, Volume 21 (2000), No. 2 141

documentation files apply as before. The manual is titlesec: Upgrade to v. 2.3.4. Essentially a replace- available in .tex, .dvi, .ps. ment — partial or total — for the LATEXmacrosre- mil3: in info/ lated to sections; namely, titles, headers, and con- Final versions of the sample text files for forthcom- tents. This release fixes some bugs, adds a minor ing George Gratzer book, Math into LATEX (3rd new feature, and provides a new contact e-mail ad- ed.). dress for the developer. ochem: in support/ tmview: in dviware/ Upgrade to v. 3.0 with some errors fixed, new bond Upgrade to v. 00.05. The new version supports types added, and a package for typesetting Kekule- linux’ framebuffer device and double-page viewing. like structures in the subdirectory ochem/kv. ttf2pt1: in fonts/utilities/ pdfscreen: Upgrade to v. 1.3. This package helps to Converts TrueType fonts into PS Type 1 fonts. redesign the PDF output of your normal documents ttf-tetex: in info/TrueType/ fit to be read in a computer monitor while retaining Upgrade to documentation on using TrueType fonts. the freedom to format it for conventional printing. In the new version the document also describes : plpsfont in language/polish/ how to use the automatically generated slanted and Upgrade to v. 1.14. Encoding files for the PL col- small capitals versions of the font. lection of fonts in PostScript Type 1 format for use TVS: in support/ with Windows. Fonts use the same .tfm files as TeX Versioning System (TVS) is a Perl script which generated from the pl-mf package. collects all files needed for re-typesetting TEXdoc- pl-mf: in language/polish/ uments. It does this by parsing TEX logs. TVS is Upgrade: small bug fixes and code clean-up. able to handle filenames intelligently. pl-tfm: in language/polish/ New tfm files generated from the new pl-mf sources. June 2000 : psnfss-beta in macros/latex/required/psnfss-beta/ abstract: The abstract package gives you control over An improved release of the PSNFSS v. 8.1 documen- the typesetting of the abstract environment, and in tation. particular provides for a one-column abstract in a psnfss-src: in fonts/psfonts/ two-column paper. Contains the sources (i.e., and makefiles fontinst amscls: Some patches for the amscls distribution, in- scripts) of the new PSNFSS v. 8.1. cluding a most serious bug fix likely to affect page : qxcm in fonts/psfonts/polish/qfonts/ breaks in existing documents. See 00readme.txt. An experimental collection of extended CM fonts amsmath: Some patches for the amsmath distribution. In in PostScript Type 1 format (public domain). The addition, the files amsdtx.dtx and amsdtx.cls have original Computer Modern layout is extended to been moved to the amscls distribution. See the file QX layout as an alternative to EC (Cork) encoding, 00readme.txt. usable also in the Windows environment. Fonts can arrayjob: in macros/generic/ be adapted to any needed TEX encoding; as they contain the most common European characters, the The package provides array data structures in A fonts can be used in preparing good PDF files, for (L )TEX, in the sense of classic procedural program- example. ming languages such as Fortran, Ada, or C, and savefnmark: Sometimes the same footnote applies to macros to manipulate them. Arrays can be mono- more than one location in a table. With this pack- or bi-dimensional. age the mark of a footnote can be saved into a name, catdvi: in dviware/ and re-used subsequently without creating another Upgrade to v. 0.10. A DVI-to-plain text transla- footnote at the bottom. tor aiming to be a superior free replacement for SIunits: Upgrade to v. 1.9. Package typesets physical dvi2tty. The program is under development; home units following the rules of the International System page: catdvi.sourceforge.net. of Units (SI). chngpage: in .../misc/ smartref: in .../other/ The package provides commands to change the page Upgrade to v. 1.6. The purpose of this package is layout in the middle of a document (e.g., make to extend the capabilities of the \ref command. the textblock wider or narrower, and/or longer or TeXmacs: in systems/unix/TeXmacs/ shorter, and/or shift it vertically or horizontally). Upgrade to v. 0.2.4g. combine: Upgrade to v. 0.41. The combine class lets TeXmacs home page: www.math.u-psud.fr/~anh/ you bundle individual documents into a single doc- TeXmacs/TeXmacs.html ument, such as when preparing a conference pro- texmalli: in info/ ceedings. A quick introduction to using LaTeX, written in The auxiliary combinet package puts the titles Finnish as a sample document (with the source be- and authors from \maketitle commands into the ing as relevant to the reader as the typeset result). main document’s table of contents. 142 TUGboat, Volume 21 (2000), No. 2 dvichk: in dviware/ makecmds: The package provides several additional com- This package checks for the page numbers of a for- mands along the lines of the traditional \(new| matted text in a .dvi/.log file created by the TEX renew|provide)command and friends. [CTAN note: formatter and displays the page numbers found on makecmd.sty is thus superseded and has been deleted standard output channel. from .../misc/.] epsfview.sea.hqx: in systems/mac/ mathpazo: in fonts/ An AppleScript tool (for Mac) mainly intended for The Pazo Math fonts are a family of PostScript viewing figures generated with METAPOST,evenif fonts suitable for typesetting math in combination they have negative coordinates, and based on the with the Palatino family of text fonts. Perl script shown on p. 459 of The Graphics Com- poster.txt: in support/ panion. A plain text version of the package man page. The expressg: Upgrade to v. 1.3. The expressg MetaPost poster package resizes a PostScript image to print package provides facilities for drawing diagrams that on larger media and/or multiple sheets. consist of boxes, lines and annotations. Particular secdot: in .../other/misc/ support is provided for creating EXPRESS-G dia- Makes the numbers of \section commands come grams. out with a trailing dot. Includes a command whereby faq: in usergrps/uktug/ the same can be made to happen with other section- AnewversionoftheFAQ,bothonCTAN and on ing commands. the web. skak: in fonts/skak/ Fontmap.cmr: in fonts/cm/ps-type1/contrib/ This is a package for typesetting chess. The moves This file make the Computer Modern font files avail- of the game can be given using PGN syntax and di- able to Ghostscript. Using a recent Ghostscript, agrams of the current board position can be shown this configuration file helps viewing/processing Post- in the document. Script/PDF files without embedded fonts. substr: This package provides commands to deal with geometry: Upgrade to v. 2.3. This package provides an substrings in strings: to determine if a string con- easy and flexible user interface to customize page tains a substring, and to count appearances of a layout. It implements auto-centering and auto- substring in a string. balancing mechanisms so that the users have only texdoctk: in systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/contrib/ to give the least description for the page layout. Upgrade to v. 0.4.0. A Perl/Tk-based GUI for easy access to package documentation; the databases it ifmslide: A package to produce printed slides with uses are based on the texmf/doc subtrees of teT X LATEX2e and on-line presentations with pdfTEX. E v. 1.0.x, but database files for local configurations : ifsym in fonts/ with modified/extended directories can be derived METAFONT s for miscellaneous symbols (alpinistic, from them. electronic, geometric, etc.) TeXnicCenter: in systems/win32/ : isodate Upgrade to v. 1.04. This package provides An integrated development environment (IDE)for commands to switch between different date formats A developing LTEX documents on windows (Windows (standard, ISO,numeric,TEX package). They are 95, 98, 2000, NT 4.0). used by the \today command and the \printdate titling: The titling package gives you control over the and \printdateTeX commands, which print any date. typesetting of the \maketitle command, and makes jas99 m.bst: in biblio/bibtex/contrib/ the \title, \author and \date information perma- BibTEXstylebasedonjas99.bst, modified for bet- nently available. ter conformity to the American Meteorological So- varindex: in .../misc/ ciety (AMS)style. A package that provides a convenient front-end for latex2man: in support/ the \index command (e.g., generate multiple index AtooltotranslateUNIX manual pages written with entries in almost any form via a single command). LATEX into a format understood by the UNIX Extremely customizable. Works with all versions of man(1)-command. Alternatively, HTML or TexInfo LATEX and probably most other TEXformats,too. code can also be produced. winshell: in systems/win32/ LaTeX WIDE: in nonfree/systems/win32/ Bug fix. A graphical user interface for easy working A Demonstration version of the program LTEXWIDE with TEX. Website: www.winshell.de (a multifunctional editor for LATEX in Windows 95/ 98/NT/2000).
Christina Thiele lhelp: This package defines macros that are useful for 15 Wiltshire Circle many documents. It is a large collection of simple Nepean, Ontario “little helpers” that do not really warrant a sepa- K2J 4K9 Canada rate package on their own. [email protected]