texlive-shipunov 2025.2

The bundle collects packages and classes, along with one bibliography style and examples and scripts for converting TeX files. Many of the files in the collection are designed to support field biologists and/or Russian writers, while others have wider application. The collection includes:

• add2, a quick way to fit as many as possible into one page, which is good for handouts.

• altverse, for typesetting verses.

• autolist, a means to define various sorts of list.

• biokey, providing flexible identification key tables in LaTeX. It implements straightforward macros to typeset sets of biological identification keys. Layout is flexible, and the macros will be useful in other disciplines.

• biolist, to list observed species. It offers pretty formatting of species lists of flora and fauna.

• boldline, for heavier lines in tables. The package provides commands replacing \hline and \cline, as well as a table preamble element that generates heavy lines.

• cassete, to print labels for audio cassettes.

• classif2, for biological classification tables. The package defines an environment classif that simplifies the process of typesetting classification tables.

• dline, for a double line on the left of text.

• drcaps, for simple dropped capitals. The package offers simple macros for dropped capitals, in a couple of forms.

• etiketka, a class for typesetting business-card-sized information (including business cards).

• flower, for typesetting lists of flower formulas.

• isyntax, which interactively checks LaTeX file syntax.

• numerus, for spelling numbers in Russian words.

• punct: within italicized text, punctuation is still straight, this is typographically more aesthetic.

• qqru, providing universal quotation marks, for Russian and English.

• rusnat, a bibliography style file, now deprecated.

• sltables, which simplifies tables for LaTeX. These macros develop the concepts of the stables, which are designed to offer table macros whose use is as simple as one might hope. Some would claim that LaTeX's built-in table specifications are as simple as one might hope, but this package offers many short-cuts and optimization of the mechanisms of tables.

• starfn, for stars as footnote marks.

• textfrac, for simple slanted fractions.