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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