From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Fri Dec 2 10:43:14 2005 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Fri Dec 2 10:43:20 2005 Subject: [Ii2-announce] New i-Packages: potrace and pstoedit Message-ID: <89CCC45E-A159-4F02-97C6-03227885574D@rna.nl> Two i-Packages have been released: 1. potrace (bitmap image trace tool). This was already available in the *EXPERIMENTAL* i-Directory 2. pstoedit (vector image conversion program). This one is untested (just compilation and packaging done) but I think the basic functionality will be OK. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Fri Dec 2 19:44:30 2005 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Fri Dec 2 19:44:36 2005 Subject: [Ii2-announce] Release candidate of TeX i-Package with Macfont support Message-ID: The TeX i-Package has been updated and will become the standard package in a few days. Currently, it can be downloaded from the *EXPERIMENTAL* i-Directory. When you have the fondu program installed (for which there is an i- Package) and you install the updated TeX i-Package, an addition to gwTeX will be installed which will enable you to use several fonts which come with your Mac in normal PDFTeX. (TeX + dvips is not supported, nor are TeX hacks that depend on PostScript trickery like pstricks and microtype supported). Using the Mac fonts is simple, and support for LaTeX and ConTeXt is available. For the Hoefler and Didot fonts, you can even select to have the old style numerals by default. After installation, the manual is in /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/ doc/fonts/gtamacfonts/gtamacfonts.pdf or you can type "texdoc gtamacfonts" in a Terminal window. The rest of the i-Package has not changed so only a download of the gwTeX part will follow if you update and (re)install. The support has been developed by Adam Lindsay and Thomas A. Schmitz. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Tue Dec 6 09:16:49 2005 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Tue Dec 6 09:16:53 2005 Subject: [Ii2-announce] TeX i-Package updated, Easy Mac font support for PDFTeX Message-ID: The TeX i-Package has been updated. It now contains support for several Mac fonts using the gtamacfonts package. Both LaTeX and ConTeXt are supported. Note: only PDFTeX (not TeX+dvips) is supported. PS trickery like font expansion and pstricks is not supported. This is all because of the formats of the fonts (truetype). Apple ships the fonts packed in socalled "font suit cases". PDFTeX can only use the fonts unpacked. To unpack them a tool called fondu can be used. There is an i-Package for fondu. If fondu is installed *before* TeX is installed, the TeX i-Package will automatically unpack the Mac fonts in the right TeX directory. Note that distributing the Apple fonts (packed or unpacked) is a breach of copyright, hence I do not distribute the fonts and nor should you. After installing fondu and TeX, you can us it like this: To use these fonts with LaTeX, put e.g. the following in your file: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{gtamachoefler} Such a style file will make Hoefler Text the serif (roman) text font and Gill Sans the sans serif font. The following basic styles are available: gtamacbaskerville.sty gtamacdidot.sty gtamacgeorgia.sty gtamachoefler.sty There are more. See the manual for details. For the same effect using ConTeXt, enter e.g.: \usetypescriptfile[type-gtamacfonts] \usetypescript[Hoefler][ec] \setupbodyfont[Hoefler,12pt] Support for ConTeXt is better than support for LaTeX for the simple reason that ConTeXt is more powerful. Example documents and a manual can be found in the texmf.gwtex/doc/ fonts/gtamacfonts subdirectory. To get the manual you can type "texdoc gtamacfonts" in a Terminal window. Also check out "texdoc GTAHoeflerSymbols" in a Terminal window. G PS. I expect to do one more update with this with some changes to the manual and such, but nothing fundamental. From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Wed Dec 7 09:58:45 2005 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Wed Dec 7 09:58:49 2005 Subject: [Ii2-announce] TeX i-Package updated Message-ID: <7303.159.46.248.233.1133945925.squirrel@mail.rna.nl> 1. GTAmacfonts has changed slightly. To bring equality between ConTeXt and LaTeX the LaTeX interface has changed for old style numbers: \usepackage[os]{gtamachoefler} has become \usepackage[osf]{gtamachoefler} 2. The configuration phase now warns (with a sheet, not a message in the output) if it finds personal configurations because of the use of updmap instead of updmap-sys etc. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Wed Dec 7 10:23:37 2005 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Wed Dec 7 10:23:41 2005 Subject: [Ii2-announce] Very OT: Paris Message-ID: <36358.159.46.248.233.1133947417.squirrel@mail.rna.nl> My wife Ren?e and I will be celebrating our 15-year anniversary of togetherness next weekend in Paris. I have spent too much time on TeX and i-Installer (TL2005 release, intel binaries, universal binaries i-Installer, and the whole foo-sys problem comes to mind) lately. So Ren?e has paid a price as well. I will be scaling back efforts in the coming months, otherwise it will be impossible to keep doing this at all. Sincere apologies (one page, well laid out with nice typography of course :-) to Ren?e (not felicitations, *definitely* not felicitations, as this will really work inversely at the moment) can be *faxed* **on Thursday evening or Friday (let's not trouble the hotel too much)** to: Hotel Victoria Chatelet, attn. Mme Ren?e van Roode (accompanying G. Wierda) Fax: (+33) 1 40 26 35 61 G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Sat Dec 31 17:34:30 2005 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Sat Dec 31 17:34:41 2005 Subject: [Ii2-announce] ImageMagick 6.2.5-5 In-Reply-To: <19af81400512310634h6d9a002ape79d04b8878318bb@mail.gmail.com> References: <20051231041846.AB56E9E898@merle.it.northwestern.edu> <19af81400512310634h6d9a002ape79d04b8878318bb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <09641a8d6925c3053bcda1ce6a2e0af9@rna.nl> On Dec 31, 2005, at 15:34, Victor Ivrii wrote on the Mac OS X TeX mailing list: > I tried it with failure to produce any png files first due to > inability of convert recognize > +repage option. This was despite the fact that I had ImageMagick of > the latest > i-installer version. Only after updating to ImageMagick 6.2.5 > everything started to work well. I depend on reports from users if an upgrade of an i-Package is necessary. As long as there is no user demand I do not upgrade. This is part of the strategy to keep the workload manageable. I have updated the package to ImageMagick version 6.2.5-5. Happy New Year, G