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Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: QCM
Author's name: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/qcm
Summary description: QCM (multiple choice questionnaires) version 2.0 is released
License type: lppl
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This is version 2.0 of QCM.
New in this release: QCM now comes both in class and style form.
QCM is a package for making multiple choices questionnaires (QCM is the
corresponding French acronym) under LaTeX 2e. A special environment allows you
to define questions and possible answers. You can specify which answers are
correct and which are not. QCM not only formats the questions for you, but
also generates a form (a grid that your students will have to fill in), and
a mask (the same grid, only with correct answers properly checked in). You
can then print the mask on a slide and correct the questionnaires more easily
by superimposing the mask on top of students' forms.
QCM also comes with support for AUC-TeX.
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You can have a look at the package at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/qcm
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror
of CTAN that is near to you; see
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors
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A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror quite soon.
Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: extarrows
Author's name: Chim Cut Canh
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/extarrows
Summary description: Extensive Arrows
License type: lgpl
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Arrows Provided
(more than xleftarrow, xrightarrow of AMSMATH package)
xlongequal
xLongleftarrow
xLongrightarrow
xLongleftrightarrow
xLeftrightarrow
xlongleftrightarrow
xleftrightarrow
xlongleftarrow
xlongrightarrow
Enjoy!
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You can have a look at the package at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/extarrows
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror
of CTAN that is near to you; see
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors
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Herbert Voss
> I uploaded the new PSTricks package pst-func. Please install
> it into CTAN:/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/
> --------
> pst-func is a PSTricks related package. It has macros
> for special mathematical functions:
>
> - Polynom and its abbreviations f(x)=an*x^n+an-1*x^(n-1)+...+a0
> defined by the coefficients a0 a1 a2 ... and the abbreviation
> order
> - Fourier sum f(x) =a0/2+a1cos(omega x)+...+b1sin(omega x)+...
> defined by the …
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> - Bessel function
> defined by its order
> - Gauss function
> difined by sigma
>
> for more informations have a look at the documentation.
i've installed the package as requested. thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Till Tantau submitted new versions to CTAN:
version 3.01 of beamer and version 0.65 of pgf
Thanks for the update.
> Release notes:
>
> These versions are mainly bugfix versions. However, beamer now has a
> much-improved support of verbatims. If you use verbatims a lot, you'll love
> the fragile frame option (to get going quickly, read the text in the
> tutorial section of the user's guide).
>
>
> Change logs:
>
> beamer version …
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> added:
> - Option fragile that allows the use of
> overlays together with verbatims. *Extremely* useful.
> - Added option T to columns command/environment for alignment of
> top of first lines instead of baselines of first lines.
> - Added a color theme (dolphin) and a presentation theme
> (Boadilla) due to Manuel Carro.
>
> bugfixes:
> - Fixed fotoline in beamerbasecompatibility.sty and
> beamerthemeboxes.sty.
> - Fixed vertical spacing problem having to do with the use of
> rivlist.
> - Fixed problem with wrong short forms of section/subsection in
> certain outer themes in headline.
> - Fixed bug causing unknown command insertblockname in article
> mode.
> - Changed definition of
ormalcolor so that it works inside color
> mixins.
> - Fixed problems with autoframebreak and unwanted breaks.
> - Fixed problem with problem with vertical mode after item.
> - Smoothed the rendering of the right side of boxes with
> shadows.
> - Fixed descriptionwidth to description width.
> - Fixed problem with labels outside frames creating empty frames.
> - Applied lot's of spelling patches to user guide.
> - Fixed hanks.
> - Navigation symbols are no longer shown in handout and trans
> modes, by default (write
> setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}[default] to get them
> back).
>
> pgf version 0.65:
> - Fixed bug in pgfshade.sty that arises in conjunction with
> calc.sty and latex+dvips.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 Stefan Ulrich submitted an
update to the bibtopic package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/bibtopic/
Summary description: LaTeX package for including several bibliographies in a document
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This is a maintainance release that fixes compilation problems of bibtopic.ins
with newer docstrip versions.
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Thanks for the update.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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Herbert Voss writes:
> I am just uploading pst-3dplot.tgz
> Please delete _all_ files in /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot
> and put the new ones in there.
>
> ----
> This new version 1.42 of pst-3dplot, a PSTricks package
>
> - uses the extended version of the keyval interface (xkeyval) to
> prevent clashes between option names of different packages.
> - has some bugfixes (spurious blanks)
> - new options for pstPlanePut
> - new macro …
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i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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Tobias Oetiker provided a new version of acronym for me to install, on
tuesday 2nd november. it's been noticed that this version had an
incorrect version number in it...
... so we now have a new version, 1.16; just installed here in
macros/latex/contrib/acronym
version 1.16 has no distinguishing property _other_ than a correct
record of its version number.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Tobias Oetiker writes:
> I have uploaded acronym-1.15 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/acronym-1.15.
i've used the contents to update macros/latex/contrib/acronym
thanks for the upload
> If you think it is appropriate, announce it please.
since it's a fix for a current thread in c.t.t, it seems appropriate
to announce.
> Recent Changes:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Version 1.15 (November 2004): fix for acresetall to work when ac is called
> in …
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>
> Version 1.14 (October 2004): fix acsp and acfp for footnote mode
>
> Version 1.13 (July 2004): deflist renamed to AC@deflist to
> avoid unnecessary nameing conflict.
>
> Version 1.13 (July 2004): printonlyused was not working anymore
>
> Version 1.13 (July 2004): if the footnote option was on, footnotes were
> printed for ALL acronyms ALL the time, this looked rather odd if the same
> acronym was used more than once on the same page. Changed it so that
> footnote printing follows the same rules as normal acronym printing (only
> print footnote first time). One might think about changeing this, so that
> either footnotes get printed 'once' per page. Or that the footnote marks are
> ...
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to your favorite mirror soon.
Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: fontspec
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/
Summary description: An automatic interface to feature-rich fonts in XeLaTeX.
License type: lppl
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fontspec is a package for XeLaTeX. It provides an automatic and unified
interface to feature-rich AAT and OpenType fonts through the NFSS in LaTeX
running on XeTeX. XeTeX is the successor to TeX-GX, a TeX-variant for Mac
OS X that accepts unicode input and can access system fonts directly.
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You can have a look at the package at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror
of CTAN that is near to you; see
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors
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i've just installed a revised set of examples for the second edition
of the latex companion; aiui, these apply to the second, revised,
printing of the second edition.
the ctan location remains info/examples/tlc2
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team