CTAN submission -- metre A LaTeX package for classicists

[Rainer Schoepf]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Gianfranco Boggio-Togna wrote:

> I have uploaded the file `metre10.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming.
>
> Name of contribution:  metre
> Author:  Gianfranco Boggio-Togna <gbt at acm.org>
> Suggested location:  /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/metre
> License:  LaTeX Project Public License
>
> Description:
>
> The package provides classicists with some of the tools that are
> needed for typesetting scholarly publications dealing with Greek and
> Latin texts, with special emphasis on Greek verse.
>
> As the name suggests, the core of the package is a comprehensive set
> of commands for generating metrical schemes and for placing prosodical
> marks on text set in the Latin or the Greek alphabet.
>
> The rest of the package provides a miscellany of commands for symbols
> (most of them not directly related to metre) that are often used in
> critical editions of classical texts.
>
> The package does not require any special font: all symbols are taken
> from the Computer Modern OT1 fonts (included in all distributions of
> TeX) or are generated by means of TeX primitives.
>
> --
>    Gianfranco Boggio-Togna
>    Milano (Italy)

Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as suggested.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf