ctan-ann February 2006

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CTAN Package update: wordlike v1.1
by CTAN Announcements 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Juergen Fenn submitted an update to the wordlike package. The package simulates typical word processor layout: narrow page margins, Times/ Helvetica/ Courier fonts, ormalsize and small headings, and sloppy typesetting. The package aims at making life easier for those users who are discontent with LaTeX's standard layout settings because they need a layout that resembles the usual wordlike output. The package draws on several discussions in the de.comp.text.tex and comp.text.tex newsgroups that are referred to in the manual. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/wordlike License: LPPL Changes as compared to v1.0: * Section headings now resemble more to MS Word's normal.dot settings by default. If you prefer a more reserved approach you may call option basic which supplies normalsize bold headers. * New itle, author, date commands. * Fixes to the manual. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.4
by CTAN Announcements 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, John Burt submitted an update to the poemscol package. Poemscol is a set of LaTeX macros for typesetting critical editions of poetry. Its features include automatic linenumbering, generation of separate endnotes sections for emendations, textual collations, and explanatory notes, special marking for cases in which page breaks occur during stanza breaks, running headers of the form ``Notes to pp. xx--yy''for the notes sections, index of titles and first lines, and automatic generation of table of contents. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Poemscol 2.4 enables users to define new species of endnotes in sections of line numbered prose and in sections of prose numbered by paragraph and sentence. Poemscol's handling of prose is now on a par with its handling of verse. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN oackage update: csquotes 3.3 (final)
by CTAN Announcements 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Philipp Lehman writes: > I've uploaded `csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the CTAN > UK node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. Please > purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as > usual. Note that the split into two `stable' and `testing' > subdirectories ends with this release. -- Thank you very much. > > ABOUT > > The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and > display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging > from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of > formal quotations. > > CHANGES > > * Added support for UTF-8 encoded active quotes > * Modified active quotes, category codes 7, 8 no longer valid > * Modified delimiters, category codes 3, 4, 7, 8 no longer valid > * Active quotes may now be defined in the document body > * Renamed RestoreQuotes to EnableQuotes > * Added DeleteQuotes > * Added VerbatimQuotes > * Added ExecuteQuoteOptions > * Added value `once' to package option `babel' > * Added new style variant for French > * Improved nesting control of active block quotes > * Made active block quotes robust > > CHANGES FROM RC1 > > * Quite a few internal modifications and rollbacks > * No user-visible changes > * Updated implementation notes at end of csquotes.sty > * Updated configuration file csquotes.cfg > * Updated manual and tutorial i've installed this final version, overwriting the old stable and testing subdirectories; i'm just checking-in a catalogue update. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: A Visual LaTeX FAQ
by CTAN Announcements 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Scott, Jim ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: A Visual LaTeX FAQ Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /info/visualFAQ Summary description: A visual interface to the UK TeX FAQ License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Having trouble finding the answer to a LaTeX question? The Visual LaTeX FAQ is an innovative new search interface that presents over a hundred typeset samples of frequently requested document formatting. Simply click on a hyperlinked piece of text and the Visual LaTeX FAQ will send your Web browser to the appropriate page in the UK TeX FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/visualFAQ . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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New CTAN package: coverpage
by CTAN Announcements 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 Matthias Mühlich submitted the package coverpage to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/coverpage Summary description: automatic cover page creation for scientific papers (with BibTeX data and copyright notice) License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package coverpage was created to supplement scientific papers with a cover page containing bibliographical information, a copyright notice, and/or some logos of the author's institution. The cover page is created (almost) automatically; this is done by parsing BibTeX information corresponding to the main document and reading a configuration file in which the author can set information like the affiliation he or she is associated with. The cover page consists of header, body and footer; all three are macros which can be redefined using enewcommand, thus allowing easy customization of the package. Additionally, it should be stressed that the cover page layout is totally independent of the main document and its page layout (which is not the easiest thing to achieve in LaTeX). This package requires four other packages (keyval, url, textcomp, and verbatim), but all of them are standard packages and should be part of every LaTeX installation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: TeXshade v1.13
by CTAN Announcements 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Eric Beitz submitted an update ot the texshade package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ Summary description: Update of the DNA and protein sequence alignment LaTeX package TeXshade License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a major update of the DNA and protein sequence alignment LaTeX package TeXshade. Now, sequence logos can be displayed. Further, a novel way to identify and visualize relevant, subfamily-specific sequence deviations has been implemented, i.e. subfamily logos. Numerous improvements have been made, e.g. limitations in the maximal number of sequences per alignment have been overcome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: lsc
by CTAN Announcements 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: lsc Author's name: Bernd Westphal Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/lsc Summary description: Typesetting Live Sequence Charts License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is similar to the 'msc' package in that it provides macros for typesetting a variant of sequence diagrams, in this case the Live Sequence Charts of Damm and Harel. It supports the full LSC language of the original LSC paper, the Klose-extensions for formal verification and some of the Harel-extensions for the Play-In/Play-Out approach (cf. the manual). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lsc . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: CMLL
by CTAN Announcements 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

A new package has just been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: CMLL Author's name: Emmanuel Beffara Location on CTAN: /fonts/cmll Summary description: Linear logic symbols for Computer Modern License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a very small font set that contain some symbols useful in linear logic and that I didn't find elsewhere. Variants are included for use with Computer Modern serif and sans-serif and with the AMS Euler series. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cmll . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: ctable 1.7
by CTAN Announcements 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the ctable package. - ctable.sty provides commands to easily typeset centered or left or right aligned table and (multiple-)figure floats, with footnotes. Instead of an environment, a command with 4 arguments is used; the first is optional and is used for key,value pairs generating variations on the defaults and offering a route for future extensions. - replaces ctable-1.6b.tar.gz - major changes (relative to v1.6b): option captionskip to influence whitespace between caption and table option rotate is now obsolete, use the option sideways instead. The latter rotates tables: - by 90 degrees anticlockwise in onesided documents, - with their head to the fold in twosided documents. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ctable License: LPPL Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: csquotes rc1
by CTAN Announcements 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Philipp Lehman writes: > I've placed `csquotes.tar.gz' in the incoming directory of the CTAN UK > node. This should go into macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/testing. > Please overwrite the old files and announce the upload as usual. > Note that this update only affects the 'testing' subdirectory. The > 'stable' subdirectory remains unchanged. - Thank you very much. > > About csquotes > > The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and > display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging > from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of > formal quotations. > > Changes in beta1: > > * Added support for UTF-8 encoded active quotes > * Modified active quotes, catcode 7 no longer allowed > * Modified delimiters, catcode 3, 4, and 7 no longer allowed > * Added value `once' to package option `babel' > > Changes in beta2: > > * Modified active quotes, catcode 8 no longer allowed > * Modified delimiters, catcode 8 no longer allowed > * Active quotes may now be defined in the document body > * Renamed RestoreQuotes to EnableQuotes > * Added DeleteQuotes > * Added ExecuteQuoteOptions > * Added new style variant for French > * Improved nesting control for active block quotes > * Ensure that delimiters are robust if they are active > > Changes in rc1: > > * Internal modifications and fixes, but no user-visible changes > * Restored and updated implementation notes at end of csquotes.sty i've installed the update, and am committing the updated catalogue entry. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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