CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 7.80 - TeXWord improvements.

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma License: shareware > Most noticeable improvements (in short): > > * Added keyboard shortcuts for symbol panels. > It enables to insert math via keyboard. > Alt+G - lowercase greek, Shift+Alt+G uppercase greek. > Alt+Q - Big Operators. > Alt+N - Binary Operators. > Alt+R - Binary Relations. > Alt+M - Mics Math Symbols. > > * Also added one shortcut for text mode. > Alt+T - Text Symbols > \dots (d) \vdots (v) \S (q) \P (p) \copyright (c) > \textregistered (r) \texttrademark (t) > \textdagger (g) \textbullet (b) \textsterling (s) > \euro (e) > > * We have done pretest of BaKoMa TeX under VISTA beta. > Version 7.80 includes some performance improvements. > > * BaKoMa TeX Support Site (http://www.bakomatex.com) > is opened to provide News (RSS Feed) and > technical support via `Support Tickets'. > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html > > > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 4-Dec-2006 > > PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists. > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.80 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.80 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/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bakoma (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf