New CTAN package: dhua
Date: September 17, 2011 9:22:44 AM CEST
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 Uwe Lück submitted the
dhua
package.
Summary description: German Abbreviations Using Thin Space
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
`dhua.sty' provides commands for German phrase abbreviations such as `d. h.' that are recommended to use a thin space - set-up commands `\newdhua' and `\newtwopartdhua' as well as commands for single cases (e.g., `\zB' for `z. B.', to save you from typing `z.\,B.'). Package options support generating PDF and HTML from the same source and automatical use of `\xspace'. Das Paket `dhua' bietet Befehle fuer mehrgliedrige Abkuer- zungen, fuer die schmale Leerzeichen (Festabstaende) empfoh- len werden (Duden, Wikipedia). In die englische Paketdokumen- tation sind deutsche Hinweise eingestreut. KEYWORDs: German typography; web typography, language support, macro programming
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/dhua . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/dhua (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 .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
`dhua.sty' provides commands for German phrase abbreviations such as `d. h.' that are recommended to use a thin space - set-up commands `\newdhua' and `\newtwopartdhua' as well as commands for single cases (e.g., `\zB' for `z. B.', to save you from typing `z.\,B.'). Package options support generating PDF and HTML from the same source and automatical use of `\xspace'. Das Paket `dhua' bietet Befehle fuer mehrgliedrige Abkuer- zungen, fuer die schmale Leerzeichen (Festabstaende) empfoh- len werden (Duden, Wikipedia). In die englische Paketdokumen- tation sind deutsche Hinweise eingestreut. KEYWORDs: German typography; web typography, language support, macro programming
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/dhua . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/dhua (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 .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
dhua – German abbreviations using thin space
The package provides commands for those abbreviations of German phrases for which the use of thin space is recommended. Setup commands \newdhua and \newtwopartdhua are provided, as well as commands for single cases (such as \zB for ‘z. B.’, saving the user from typing such as ‘z.\,B.’).
To typeset the documentation, the niceverb package, version 0.44, or later, is required.
| Package | dhua |
| Version | 0.11 |
| Maintainer | Uwe Lück (deceased) |