ctan-ann - alnumsec

CTAN upload notification: alnumsec

2003-11-05T08:50:16Z

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: alnumsec
Name and email: Frank Küster
Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec
Summary description: alphanumeric sectioning numbering with standard sectioning commands
License type: lppl

Announcement text:This package allows you to use alphanumeric section numbering, e.g.:
A. Introduction; III. International Law. It s output is similar to
alphanum.sty, but you can use the standard LaTeX sectioning commands.
Thus it is possible to switch numbering schemes easily. Greek letters,
double letters (bb) and different delimiters around them are supported.
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CTAN update: alnumsec

2005-02-17T17:08:42Z

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 Frank Küster submitted an update of his package

   alnumsec

to CTAN.

Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec
Summary description: alphanumeric sectioning numbering with standard 
                    sectioning commands 
License type: lppl

Announcement text:This package allows you to use alphanumeric section numbering, e.g.: A. 
Introduction; III. International Law. It s output is similar to 
alphanum.sty, but you can use the standard LaTeX sectioning commands.  
Thus it is possible to switch numbering schemes easily. Greek letters, 

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CTAN auto-archiving: the future

2005-02-26T14:10:52Z

"Auto-archiving" is the mechanism that allows you to get all of a
directory's contents at once, by asking your ftp client for a download
of .zip or .tar.gz .  The ftp daemon
creates these bundles on the fly.  Auto-archiving is available at some
CTAN sites and mirrors as a convience for users.

The great advantage of auto-archiving is that it provides short-cuts
for the ordinary user, who doesn't want to perform a retrieval
operation for every file in a directory, or is concerned about how
many files to download.  An additional advantage is the simple fact of
compression: there are savings in network bandwidth, and hence
download time, to be had.

The management of CTAN has been concerned, for some time, about 
auto-archive offered by the central CTAN nodes, for two reasons:

a. Auto-archiving is offered by a small minority of mirror sites.

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CTAN Package Update: The alnumsec package v0.03

2007-09-25T15:04:33Z

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Frank Küster submitted an update to the

  alnumsec 

package.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec/
Summary description: Using alphanumeric section numbering with standard sectioning commands
License type: lppl

Announcement text: Minor improvement:

 - Three \newcommand  changed to \providecommand to enhance compatibility
 - Licence updated to LPPL 1.3, "maintained"
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