TUGboat, Volume 28 (2007), No. 1 15 classico in fonts/urw The Treasure Chest URW Classico, a clone of Hermann Zapf's Optima. cmll in fonts Linear logic symbols for Computer Modern. emerald in fonts Editor's note: This is Mark's final column. The Support for Emerald City Fontwerks fonts. editorial board would like to thank Mark for moni- enpassant in fonts/chess toring the CTAN announcements and compiling this Use free chess fonts from www.enpassant.dk. collection since 2004. foekfont in fonts This is a large but still incomplete list of the Fonts and LATEX macros to use the title font of the Mads Foek magazine, http://madsfoek.dk. new packages posted to CTAN (http://www.ctan. org) in 2006, with descriptions either taken from the fonetika in fonts Fonts for the Danish phonetic system Dania, based announcement or researched, then edited for brevity. on URW Palladio and Iwona Condensed. Entries are listed alphabetically within CTAN indic in fonts/ps-type1 directories. A few entries which the editors subjec- Indic Type 1 fonts for TEX converted from public tively believed to be of especially wide interest or METAFONT sources. otherwise notable are starred; of course, this is not JustFontItTE in fonts/utilities intended to slight the other contributions! Windows program with the functionality of stan- Hopefully this column and its companions will dard TEX utilities such as pltotf and vftovp. Can help to make CTAN a more accessible resource to the create TFM files from PFB, TTF, OTF, and more. TEX community. Comments are welcome, as always. linearA in fonts LinearA script. Mark LaPlante * otfinst in fonts/utilities 166 3rd Avenue West Installs OpenType fonts for use in (LA)TEX systems. Grant, AL 35747 sarabian in fonts/archaic laplante (at) mac dot com Type 1 fonts for the South Arabian script in use from roughly 1000 to 600 BC. biblio starfont in fonts/ps-type1 Support for the StarFont Sans astrological font. alphabib in biblio/bibtex/utils in A Bash script allowing addition of alphabetical head- * tex-gyre fonts Extensions of the well-known URW and other free ers into BibTEX bibliographies. fonts, much as Latin Modern is an extension of ijqc in biblio/bibtex/contrib Computer Modern. BibT X style for the International Journal of Quan- E thaifonts-scalable in fonts/thai tum Chemistry. A collection of Thai scalable fonts. jneurosci in biblio/bibtex/contrib winfonts in fonts BibT X style for the Journal of Neuroscience. E Support for the Windows core fonts. mad2bib in biblio/bibtex/utils xq in fonts Scripts to convert MAD to T X and UTF-8 to Bib E Fonts and macros for xiangqi (Chinese chess). LATEX ASCII. mrcheckbib in biblio/bibtex/utils BibTEX verification using the AMS MRef database. graphics munich in biblio/bibtex/contrib AddTeX2Eps in graphics The Munich `name (year)' style. Use LATEX syntax on EPS figures from Mathemat- rsc.bst in biblio/bibtex/contrib/misc ica. BibTEX styles for RSC journals. blockdraw mp in graphics/metapost/contrib/macros sort-by-letters in biblio/bibtex/contrib Block diagrams and bond graphs. Some BibTEX styles for sorting by initial letters. cmarrows in graphics/metapost/contrib/macros Synapsen in biblio/bibtex/utils MetaPost arrows and braces in CM style. Java program for managing references. gapfill in graphics Generate LATEX picture environments by parsing PostScript files. fonts gastex in graphics arial in fonts/urw LATEX macros to draw automata, networks, etc., in An Arial clone in Type 1 format. the LATEX picture environment. graphics/gastex 16 TUGboat, Volume 28 (2007), No. 1 m3D in graphics/metapost/contrib/macros Three-dimensional drawing with METAPOST. language MPStoEPS in graphics/metapost/contrib/misc * arabi in language/arabic METAPOST to EPS converter. Arabic and Farsi support in standard LATEX via Ba- pedigree-perl in graphics/pstricks/contrib bel, using several input encodings, including UTF-8. Generate pedigrees in TEX from CSV files. Includes good-quality free fonts. prerex in graphics bghyph in language/hyphenation Produce charts of course nodes linked by arrows Bulgarian hyphenation patterns. representing pre- and co-requisites. glhyph in language/hyphenation pst-asr in graphics/pstricks/contrib Galician hyphenation patterns. Autosegmental representations, used by linguists. pst-code in graphics/pstricks/doc/code hrlatex in language/croatian Original code documentation of PSTricks from Tim- Typical setup for Croatian users. othy Van Zandt. mkbangtex in language/bengali pst-coil in graphics/pstricks/contrib Preprocessor for BangTEX. Coils and zigzags as lines or node connections. magyar in language/hungarian/babel pst-dbicons in graphics/pstricks/contrib Much improved Hungarian definitions for Babel. Typesetting ER diagrams in declarative style, using mexican in language standard database terminology. Modifications to Spanish for Mexican typography. pst-eps in graphics/pstricks/contrib mkpattern in language/hyphenation/utils Exporting pspicture environments. TEX program for generating hyphenation patterns. pst-fill in graphics/pstricks/contrib staves in language Filling and tiling of areas and characters. Fonts and macros for the \magical" Icelandic staves pst-grad in graphics/pstricks/contrib as well as the runic letters used in Iceland. Colored gradients. thailatex in language/thai pst-ob3d in graphics/pstricks/contrib Babel-based Thai support with fonts. Support for basic 3-dimensional objects. pst-pdgr in graphics/pstricks/contrib/pedigree Draw medical pedigrees with PSTricks and LATEX. macros/generic pst-spectra in graphics/pstricks/contrib dirtree in macros/generic/ Draw continuum, emission and absorption spectra. Display directory trees. * pst-text in graphics/pstricks/contrib Typeset text on a path. splines in graphics/metapost/contrib/macros macros/latex/contrib MetaPost/METAFONT macros for drawing graphs abc in macros/latex/contrib of cubic splines. Support ABC Plus (abcplus.sourceforge.net) mu- * textpath in graphics/metapost/contrib/macros sic notation in LATEX. Typeset text along a path with the help of LATEX, so kerns are preserved and 8-bit input is supported. active-conf in macros/latex/contrib/conferences Class for typesetting papers at the ACTIVE confer- uml in graphics/pstricks/contrib ence on noise and vibration control. Writing UML diagrams in LATEX. akktex in macros/latex/contrib Collection of new document classes and packages, info easing creation of math documents in particular. * Free Math Font Survey in info arabicfront in macros/latex/contrib/bezos A survey of the free math fonts available for use Number pages in Arabic numerals starting with the front matter. with (LA)TEX. Vietnamese translation in the vn sub- directory. authoraftertitle in macros/latex/contrib MemoirChapStyles in info Make title, author and date available after \maketitle. Memoir chapter style showcase. auto-pst-pdf in macros/latex/contrib MFwL in info Wrapper for pst-pdf with some psfrag features. Making Friends with LATEX, a LATEX introduction. boxhandler in macros/latex/contrib l2picfaq in info/l2picfaq/german Managing boxed objects such as tables and figures, Questions about LATEX and pictures, and answers with caption customization. in the form of sample code. bussproofs in macros/latex/contrib * visualFAQ in info Construction of proof trees in the style of the se- A visual interface to the UK TEX FAQ. quent calculus and other systems. graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/m3D TUGboat, Volume 28 (2007), No. 1 17 * cellspace in macros/latex/contrib gmdoc in macros/latex/contrib Minimal spacing of table cells to avoid touching Documenting packages with minimal markup and \hline s. hyperlinks. Needs the other new packages gmiflink, centernot in macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek gmverb, and gmutils from the same author. Horizontally center a \not symbol on its argument. gnuplottex in macros/latex/contrib chessboard in macros/latex/contrib Generate and include Gnuplot (http://gnuplot. Typeset chessboards. info) graphs in LATEX. classicthesis in macros/latex/contrib gu in macros/latex/contrib Thesis style in homage to The Elements of Typo- Typeset crystallographic group-subgroup-schemes in graphic Style. B¨arnighausenformalism. cool in macros/latex/contrib hyperxmp in macros/latex/contrib COntent Oriented LATEX, retaining mathematical Embed XMP metadata within a LATEX document. meaning in addition to the typesetting instructions. icsv in macros/latex/contrib/conferences coollist in macros/latex/contrib Class for typesetting papers at the ICSV conference. Manipulation of lists. isodoc in macros/latex/contrib coolstr in macros/latex/contrib Producing customizable letters, invoices, etc. Manipulation of strings (sequences of characters, labelcas in macros/latex/contrib not tokens). Tests and branches depending on label existence. cooltooltips in macros/latex/contrib lewis in macros/latex/contrib Associate a pop-up window and tooltip with a PDF Rudimentary support for drawing Lewis Structures. hyperlink. lingtrees in macros/latex/contrib coverpage in macros/latex/contrib Linguistic tree macros and preprocessor. Supplement scientific papers with a cover page. lsc in macros/latex/contrib dateiliste in macros/latex/contrib Typesetting Live Sequence Charts, similar to msc. Typeset the file list (like \listfiles), and more. marginnote in macros/latex/contrib digiconfigs in macros/latex/contrib Marginal notes where \marginpar fails. Small package for easily writing ‘configurations’, minipage-marginpar in macros/latex/contrib i.e., special + matrices. Allow commands outside minipages; an ◦ • \marginpar disser in macros/latex/contrib