CTAN package Update: BaKoMa TeX 7.72 - TeXWord improvements.
CTAN Announcements
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Fri Oct 13 13:24:13 CEST 2006
Basil K. Malyshev submitted an update to the
bakoma
package.
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma
License: shareware
Most noticeable improvements (in short):
* Way to resume of hanging TeX engine.
Blinking button will be appeared at right bottom
corner of TeXWord window when TeX is running
more then a second without progressive reading.
* Fixed crash of TeXWord at displaying incomplte
math formulas in long paragraphs.
* BkSp removes selected text like to Del.
* Ctrl+Del removes word forward (when no selection)
* Ctrl+BkSp removes word backward.
* warning of upgrade expiration.
* /space character is added to cmcyr10 and cmcyr12
fonts to enable using them in Postscript.
More details about changes and another bug fixing see at:
<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html
>
PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists.
-------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.72 ------------------
BaKoMa TeX 7.72 supports two coexisting IDE:
1) BaKoMa TeX Word - Visual (True WYSIWYG) LaTeX Editor.
2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Classical IDE.
About BaKoMa TeX Word.
BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
The word `True' is used to highlight two following
facts:
1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor.
It means that display shows precisely the same
what will be printed. It looks as if you edit
your document immediately in DVI Viewer window.
2) It is True LaTeX Editor.
It edits LaTeX source text without any
import/export procedure. It means that
you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document.
BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX
graphic engine and consequently it inherits all features
of BaKoMa TeX related with import graphics,
font support, and document export.
It supports processors:
(1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX.
Other processors such as Omega may be added in future.
It imports:
EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX,
MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY.
It supports fonts:
OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM),
PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF.
It exports:
DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT).
It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS
compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as:
PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy,
PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.
Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is
final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing.
Editing slides in WYSIWYG interface
(with such packages as PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.)
is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'.
Beginner users of LaTeX may consider TeXWord as
good start point for learning LaTeX together with writing papers.
TeXWord is transparent for cooperation.
TeXWord don't use additional macro packages.
So that documents made with TeXWord may be compiled
in any LaTeX setup without any adaptation.
In other side, TeXWord can handle arbitrary LaTeX documents.
So, that your coleagues may even don't know that you use
powerful WYSIWYG tool to edit your part of common work.
More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at:
<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html>
Some snapshots are available at:
<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/>
Root of BaKoMa TeX distribution is at:
<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/>
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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