Pro­duc­tion Notes for Ver­sion 1.1.0

Skin­ning

The web pages can be ren­dered is var­i­ous ways. Sev­eral skins are pro­vided to ac­com­mo­date dif­fer­ent tastes of the users.

The se­lec­tion of the skin are per­sisted even when the user does not use a per­son­al­ized lo­gin.

Ty­pog­ra­phy on the Web: Re­spon­sive Web De­sign

The web pages can be ren­dered on var­i­ous out­put de­vises with dif­fer­ent screen sizes. The por­tal pages adapt to the space avail­able as good as pos­si­ble.

Ty­pog­ra­phy on the Web: Lo­gos from the TeX World

The TeX world knows sev­eral char­ac­ter­is­tic word types for pro­grams or macro pack­ages. Those lo­gos are shown when­ever pos­si­ble.

Since some users pre­fer to see the pure ASCII rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the lo­gos it is pos­si­ble to se­lect a re­spec­tive set­ting.

Ty­pog­ra­phy on the Web: Hyphen­ation

The ty­pog­ra­phy on the web is re­stricted by the pos­si­bil­i­ties of the var­i­ous browsers. In the area of line break­ing things are evolv­ing slowly. Thus we have to help the browsers by in­sert­ing op­tional break points – soft hy­phens – to help the browsers to pro­duce prop­erly filled lines.

The por­tal uses TeX's hy­phen­ation al­go­rithm (Liang) to in­sert soft hy­phens. The hy­phen­ation uses the base hy­phen­ation pat­terns and ex­cep­tions for amer­i­can English.

Search: Static Con­tent

This por­tal has a few static pages. The search finds con­tents on these static pages.

Search: Authors

The au­thors of pack­ages as con­tained in the Cat­a­logue is search­able by name.

Search: Topics

The top­ics for pack­ages as con­tained in the Cat­a­logue is search­able.

Search: Pack­ages

The pack­ages as con­tained in the Cat­a­logue is search­able. At least the name and de­scrip­tion are con­sid­ered.

Upload: Form

A up­load form is pro­vided which al­lows a user to sub­mit a con­tri­bu­tion.

Upload: Ini­tial­iz­ing Fields

The fields in the up­load form are ini­tial­ized when­ever pos­si­ble. The name of the sub­mit­ter can be filled with the in­for­ma­tion of the logged in user. The pack­age can be filled if the up­load in started from a pack­age page or a page as­so­ci­ated to a pack­age in the TeX archive.

Mir­rors: List

Pro­vide a page con­tain­ing a list of all CTAN mir­rors.

Visu­al­iza­tion of CTAN Mir­rors on a Map

It would be nice to have a world map with the CTAN mir­rors marked. Maybe Google Maps might be help­ful. [Mo­jca Miklavec]

Mir­rors: Regis­tra­tion

Pro­vide a form to sub­mit a reg­is­tra­tion of a new mir­ror site.

Brows­ing: texarchive

The TeX archive can be browsed. The files and di­rec­to­ries are listed.

Down­load­ing of a whole di­rec­tory is en­abled if a zip file with the con­tents ex­ists. This zip file is sup­pressed in the list­ing.

A file named README is dis­played if present in a di­rec­tory.

A file named .zipped is sup­pressed in the list­ing.

Brows­ing: Links

The sin­gle files pre­sented are linked to http://mir­ros.ctan.org to dis­tribute the load to the mir­rors.

Pack­ages: Links

The de­scrip­tions of the pack­ages from the Cat­a­logue are ac­ces­si­ble via the URL /pkg/<pack­age name>.

Authors: Links

The de­scrip­tions of the pack­age au­thors from the Cat­a­logue are ac­ces­si­ble via the URL /au­thor/<au­thor id>.

Com­mu­nity Fea­tures: User Regis­tra­tion

A user can join the com­mu­nity and reg­is­ter an ac­count. The ini­tial pass­word is sent by email to the user to check that the email ad­dress works.

Com­mu­nity Fea­tures: User Set­tings

The user can change his set­tings – ex­cept ac­count name. This works only if the user is logged in.

Com­mu­nity Fea­tures: User Lo­gin

The user can lo­gin and lo­gout.

Com­mu­nity Fea­tures: User Pass­word

If the user has for­got his pass­word he can re­quest a new pass­word by en­ter­ing his ac­count and email. The new pass­word can be en­tered on a page for which the URL is sent by email.

Com­mu­nity Fea­tures: User Ac­count

If the user has for­got his ac­count he can re­quest the ac­count. The ac­count name is sent by email.

Com­mu­nity Fea­tures: Guest Book

A guest book can be used to leave some com­ments on the CTAN por­tal.