upload version 1.30 of mimetex.zip to ftp.dante.de
Rainer Schöpf
rainer.schoepf at proteosys.com
Mon Dec 22 12:02:31 CET 2003
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, John Forkosh wrote:
> + what you've uploaded
> mimetex.zip
> version 1.30, to replace support/mimetex/mimetex.zip
> + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> ftp.dante.de
> + where you want the files to go
> support/mimetex
> + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
> GNU GPL
> + brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> (a) Improved LaTeX compatibility, e.g., \left(...\right) now works
> in addition to mimeTeX's abbreviation \(...\) (and ditto for
> other sized delimiters). Similarly, {...\atop...} works
> as expected, and ditto for various other commands that weren't
> precisely compatible in earlier versions.
> (b) Improved anti-aliasing.
> (c) New commands \raisebox{}{} and \rotatebox{}{} to afford users
> better control over rendered images, \textit{} and {\it...},
> \lim_ and all other functions and \tr for trace, \hspace{} and
> other new math spaces, various other new commands like \fbox{},
> and several minor bug fixes.
> (d) Recognizes html special characters like < and > since some
> web tools cause problems by translating < to < and > to >
> etc. Also translates %xx url-encoded charcaters for essentially
> the same reason.
> (e) Thoroughly updated documentation.
> ----------------------------------------------------
> From the original submission...
> MimeTeX parses LaTeX math expressions, emitting either gif images
> or mime xbitmaps of them, rather than the usual TeX dvi's.
> MimeTeX images are therefore easily inserted directly into html
> documents using a standard html <img> tag, e.g.,
> <img src="../cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^xe^{-t^2}dt"
> border=0 align=absmiddle>
> without intermediate dvi-to-gif conversion, and without storing lots
> of little gif image files, one file for each converted expression.
> This makes your web site and html documents more easily maintained.
> See
> http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html#examples
> for many examples demonstrating mimeTeX's features and usage.
Thanks for the update, I installed it in
support/mimetex
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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