New CTAN package: thumbs

the dante upload daemon call across the north sea, saying: > The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: > > Name of contribution: thumbs > Version number: 1.0a > Author's name: H.-Martin Münch > Author's email: Martin.Muench at Uni-Bonn.de > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/thumbs/ > Summary description: This package allows to create one or more > customizable thumb index(es), providing a quick and easy reference > method for large documents. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > CTAN has a new package: thumbs > > This package puts running, customizable thumb marks in the outer > margin, moving downward as the chapter number (or whatever shall be > marked by the thumb marks) increases. Additionally an overview > page/table of thumb marks can be added automatically, which gives the > respective names of the thumbed objects, the page where the > object/thumb mark first appears, and the thumb mark itself at the > respective position. The thumb marks are probably useful for > documents, where a quick and easy way to find e.g. a chapter is > needed, for example in reference guides, anthologies, or quite large > documents. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i have pulled the files back to cambridge, installed them and made an entry in the catalogue repository. > This package is located at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/thumbs/ and for the tds: install/macros/latex/contrib/thumbs.tds.zip > . More information is at > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/thumbs The catalogue entry will not appear anywhere until some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team