CTAN submission --- subfigure and captcont packages.

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Wed Mar 6 23:48:59 CET 2002


Steven Douglas Cochran writes (making it possible for me to produce
two separate announcements, but it's late and i'm bundling them into
one):

> BEGIN======================== subfigure package ========================
> 1.  Name of your contribution:
> 	 subfigure
> 
>     Your name:
> 	 Steven Douglas Cochran
> 
>     Summary description:
> 	 LaTeX package for providing support for the inclusion of
> 	 small, `sub', figures and tables.  It simplifies the
> 	 positioning, captioning and labeling of them within a single
> 	 figure or table environment.  In addition, this package
> 	 allows such subcaptions to be written to the List of Figures
> 	 or List of tables if desired."
> 
>     Suggested CTAN directory:
> 	 macros/latex/contrib/supported/subfigure/
> 
>     Short text for announcement:
> 
>          The subfigure package version 2.1 is finally (officially)
>          released.  If you have been using version 2.0 or earlier,
>          than you should notice no difference in its default behavior.
>          If you have been using a beta release of version 2.1, you may
>          need to add the "tight" option to maintain the same
>          "look-and-feel" that you are used to.  In addition, if you
>          use the options: RM, SF, TT, MD, BF, IT, SL, SC, or UP; you
>          will need to add their lowercase counterparts to get the same
>          output (see below).
> 
> 	 The main differences are:
> 
> 	   1. Bug fixes.
> 
> 	   2. Second optional argument to \subfigure to allow control
>               over the list-of-figures entry separately from the
>               subcaption.
> 
> 	   3. A "tight" option for a more compact and better looking
>               arrangement of your subfigures, the subcaptions and the
>               main caption.
> 
>            4. A \subref command to allow references to the subfigure
>               without the associated figure number (useful in the main
>               caption).
> 
>            5. New "raggedright" option for the subcaption.  Also,
>               changed the "RM", "SF", "TT", "MD", "BF", "IT", "SL",
>               "SC", and "UP" options to only affect the label portion
>               of the subcaption.  Their lowercase counterparts affect
>               the subcaption text as before.  You can now combine some
>               of these options for different effects---see the
>               documentation.
> 
> 2.  Indicate the license:
> 	  LaTeX Project Public License
> 
> 3.  Uploaded file(s):
> 	  The uploaded subfigure.tar.gz file unzips and untars into a
>           local ./subfigure directory.  The contents of this directory
>           are:
> 
> 		Makefile	To install or process documentation on 
>                                 a UNIX system.
> 		README		Manifest and overview of these files.
> 
> 		subfigure.dtx   Code and documentation.
> 		subfigure.ins
> 
> 		test.tex	Test / example files.
> 		test2.tex
> 		test3.tex
> 		test4.tex
> END========================== subfigure package ========================
> 
> 
> BEGIN======================== captcont package =========================
> 1.  Name of your contribution:
> 	 captcont
> 
>     Your name:
> 	 Steven Douglas Cochran
> 
>     Summary description:
> 
>          LaTeX package for providing support for retaining a figure or
>          table number across several float environments---usually over
>          several pages.  It also allows control over the contents of
>          the List-of-Figures and the List-of-Tables pages.
> 
>     Suggested CTAN directory:
> 	 macros/latex/contrib/supported/captcont/
> 
>     Short text for announcement:
> 
>           The captcont package provides the ability to continue the
>           numbering in your float environment (figure, table, etc.)
>           with a minimal overhead.  This package adds three commands:
>           \caption*, \captcont, and \captcont*.  Along with the
>           \caption command, these give full control over the caption
>           numbering, caption text and the entries in the list-of
>           pages.
> 
>             o  \caption and \captcont generate list-of page entries.
> 	    o  \caption and \caption* increment the figure or table
> 	       counter.
> 
>           This package also fully supports the subfigure package.
> 
> 2.  Indicate the license:
> 	  LaTeX Project Public License
> 
> 3.  Uploaded file(s):
> 	  The uploaded captcont.tar.gz file unzips and untars into a local
>           ./captcont directory.  The contents of this directory are:
> 
> 		Makefile	To install or process documentation on 
>                                 a UNIX system.
> 		README		Manifest and overview of these files.
> 
> 		captcont.dtx    Code and documentation.
> 		captcont.ins
> 
> 		test.tex	Test / example file.
> END======================== captcont package =========================

i've installed the files as suggested.  thanks for the uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team



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