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This bundle contains two packages: - oldgerm, a package to typeset with old german fonts designed by Yannis Haralambous. - pandora, a package to typeset with Pandora fonts designed by Neena Billawala. Note that support for the Pandora fonts is also available via the pandora-latex package.
A collection of programs (as web source) for processing the output of Metafont.
The package provides a LaTeX interface to the micro-typographic extensions that were introduced by pdfTeX and have since also propagated to XeTeX and LuaTeX: most prominently, character protrusion and font expansion, furthermore the adjustment of interword spacing and additional kerning, as well as hyphenatable letterspacing (tracking) and the possibility to disable all or selected ligatures. These features may be applied to customisable sets of fonts, and all micro- typographic aspects of the fonts can be configured in a straight-forward and flexible way. Settings for various fonts are provided. Note that character protrusion requires pdfTeX, LuaTeX, or XeTeX. Font expansion works with pdfTeX or LuaTeX. The package will by default enable protrusion and expansion if they can safely be assumed to work. Disabling ligatures requires pdfTeX or LuaTeX, while the adjustment of interword spacing and of kerning only works with pdfTeX. Letterspacing is available with pdfTeX or LuaTeX. The alternative package `letterspace', which also works with plain TeX, provides the user commands for letterspacing only, omitting support for all other extensions.
The minitoc package allows you to add mini-tables-of-contents (minitocs) at the beginning of every chapter, part or section. There is also provision for mini-lists of figures and of tables. At the part level, they are parttocs, partlofs and partlots. If the type of document does not use chapters, the basic provision is section level secttocs, sectlofs and sectlots. The package has provision for language-specific configuration of its own "fixed names", using .mld files (analagous to babel .ldf files that do that job for LaTeX"s own fixed names).
MnSymbol is a symbol font family, designed to be used in conjunction with Adobe Minion Pro (via the MinionPro package). Almost all of LaTeX and AMS mathematical symbols are provided; remaining coverage is available from the MinionPro font with the MinionPro package. The fonts are available both as Metafont source and as Adobe Type 1 format, and a comprehensive support package is provided. While the fonts were designed to fit with Minon Pro, the design should fit well with other renaissance or baroque faces: indeed, it will probably work with most fonts that are neither too wide nor too thin, for example Palatino or Times; it is known to look good with Sabon. There is no package designed to configure its use with any font other than Minion Pro, but (for example) simply loading mnsymbol after mathpazo will probably do what is needed.
The modes file collects all known Metafont modes for printing or display devices, of whatever printing technology. Special provision is made for write-white printers, and a 'landscape' mode is available, for making suitable fonts for printers with pixels whose aspect is non-square. The file also provides definitions that make \specials identifying the mode in Metafont's GF output, and put coding information and other Xerox-world information in the TFM file.
Implements a workaround for the LaTeX bug that marginpars will sometimes come out at the wrong margin. date: 2006-10-22 16:45:29 +0200
Works around the LaTeX bug that marginpars will sometimes come out at the wrong margin.
The mptopdf script does standalone conversion from mpost to PDF, using the supp-* and syst-* files. They also allow native MetaPost graphics inclusion in LaTeX (via pdftex.def) and ConTeXt. They can be used independently of the rest of ConTeXt, yet are maintained as part of it. So in TeX Live we pull them out to this separate package for the benefit of LaTeX users who do not install the rest of ConTeXt. This can be found on CTAN in macros/pdftex/graphics.