CTAN update: flowfram

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Mon Nov 12 12:34:11 CET 2012


the daemon cries:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: flowfram
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Package version: 1.14
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/flowfram/
> Summary description: Create text frames for posters, brochures or magazines
> License type: lppl
> 
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  * Now loads xkeyval rather than keyval
> 
>  * Now loads xfor and etoolbox
> 
>  * Added new package options:
> 
>    - verbose (mainly for debugging messages)
> 
>    - thumbtabs (key=value option replacing options "ttbtitle",
>      "ttbnotitle", "ttbnum" and "ttbnonum")
> 
>    - pages
> 
>  * Changed the following package options to boolean key=value
>    (missing value assumed "true", providing backward compatibility):
> 
>    - rotate
> 
>    - color
> 
>  * Made \usedframebreaktrue global in definition of \framebreak
> 
>  * Added \usedframebreaktrue to definition of \newpage
> 
>  * New counter: "absolutepage" (keeps track of physical page rather
>    than page number given by \c at page).
> 
>  * Added pre-chapter hook \ffprechapterhook
> 
>  * Added page exclusion list.
> 
>  * New commands to set page list and page exclusion list:
> 
>   - \flowsetpagelist
>   - \flowsetexclusion
>   - \flowaddexclusion
>   - \dynamicsetpagelist
>   - \dynamicsetexclusion
>   - \dynamicaddexclusion
>   - \staticsetpagelist
>   - \staticsetexclusion
>   - \staticaddexclusion
> 
>  * New commands to make it easier to switch frames on and off
>    on-the-fly:
> 
>   - \flowswitchonnext
>   - \flowswitchoffnext
>   - \flowswitchonnextonly
>   - \flowswitchoffnextonly
>   - \flowswitchonnextodd
>   - \flowswitchoffnextodd
>   - \flowswitchonnextoddonly
>   - \flowswitchoffnextoddonly
> 
>   - \dynamicswitchonnext
>   - \dynamicswitchoffnext
>   - \dynamicswitchonnextonly
>   - \dynamicswitchoffnextonly
>   - \dynamicswitchonnextodd
>   - \dynamicswitchoffnextodd
>   - \dynamicswitchonnextoddonly
>   - \dynamicswitchoffnextoddonly
> 
>   - \staticswitchonnext
>   - \staticswitchoffnext
>   - \staticswitchonnextonly
>   - \staticswitchoffnextonly
>   - \staticswitchonnextodd
>   - \staticswitchoffnextodd
>   - \staticswitchonnextoddonly
>   - \staticswitchoffnextoddonly
> 
>   - \ffaddtoadjustframeshook
> 
>  * Added \fftolerance (now only warns about moving to unequal width
>    frame if width difference is greater than tolerance).
> 
>  * Added optional argument to \@sf at chckifthispg and
>    \@df at chckifthispg
> 
>  * Bug fixes:
> 
>   - removed unwanted spaces caused by eol character
> 
>   - added check for non-void boxes.

thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.

> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/flowfram.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/flowfram/

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team




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