The main CTAN node
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will be out of service between 2006-05-16 19:00 and 2006-05-17 07:00 UTC,
due to changes to the technical infrastructure.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should already be at your
favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: A Classic Thesis Style
Author's name: André Miede
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis
Summary description: Update of classicthesis
License type: gpl
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Update of classicthesis: fixes many little bugs and annoyances (please
see prodvided CHANGES file).
Most important change: the look-and-feel can now be used without the
bundle and works for both LaTeX and PDFLaTeX. :-)
Thanks to all the folks who already sent me a postcard!
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On Thu, 11 May 2006, Achim D. Brucker submitted an update to the
svninfo
package,
a package for incorporating the values of Subversion keywords into typeset
documents. Information about Subversion (a replacement for CVS) is
available from
http://subversion.tigris.org/'>http://subversion.tigris.org/
Location on CTAN: /tex/macros/latex/contrib/svninfo/
Summary description: A package for accessing svn revision information
License type: lppl
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This release adds special support for multi-file documents, i.e.,
svnInfoMinRevision and svnMaxRevision allows one to access the minimum
and maximum revision numbers of such a document. Using the new package
option revrange a short revision overview similar to the svnversion
command of svn is generated. Furhter, are now allowed in expaned svn
keywords.
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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The ConTeXt package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon
make its way to your favorite mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: ConTeXt
Author's name: Taco Hoekwater
Location on CTAN: /macros/context/current
Summary description: ConTeXt 2006.05.11 released
License type: gpl
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I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen
can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its
mirrors, as well as a CTAN node near you.
The current release has version 2006.05.11
A very short list of changes is given below. As usual, there is an
html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes
Most important New features (since April, 24):
* Integrated support for XeTeX on Linux
* The Ruby scripts are now preferred over the perl ones
* The included pattern files now use UTF-8 encoding
* Automatic handling of UTF-8 Byte Order Marks
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A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: opteng
Author's name: Patrick Egan
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/opteng
Summary description: SPIE Optical Engineering and OE Letters manuscript template
License type: lppl
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With this template, and associated style and LaTeX packages, it is
possible to estimate the page length of manuscripts for submission to
the SPIE journals extit{Optical Engineering} and extit{Optical
Engineering Letters}. With a strict three-page limit, this is particularly
important for the latter. This template gives simple instructions on how
to prepare the manuscript.
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A package update has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should soon
be at your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: listings
Author's name: Brooks Moses
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/listings
Summary description: Typeset source code listings using LaTeX.
License type: lppl
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Typeset programs (programming code) within LaTeX. The source code is read
directly by TeX. Keywords, comments and strings can be typeset using
different styles (default is bold for keywords, italic for comments and
no special style for strings). Includes support for hyperref. To use,
simply usepackage{listings}, identify the language with
lstset{language=Python}, then employ the egin{lstlisting} ...
end{lstlisting} environment or the lstinputlisting{filename.py} command.
NOTE: The original author of this package, Carsten Heinz, became inactive
sometime in late 2004. Hendri Adriaens took over maintenance of the
package in accordance with the LPPL's procedure for abandoned packages.
He then passed the maintainership of the package to Brooks Moses, who had
volunteered for the position while this procedure was going through.
This release, version 1.3c, is not yet the long awaited bugfix release,
as the new maintainer (Brooks Moses) has neither a list of reported bugs
nor a good test suite to use to check to make sure that the fixes don't
break other things. Thus, he asks that users email him reports of any
outstanding bugs that they are aware of, as well as examples of
interesting uses of listings that should go into the test suite.
Thanks!
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Donald Arseneau writes:
> I've uploaded tabto.sty to ac.uk.
>
> It is a new package, sort of a merger of tabto.tex and
> varindent.tex providing:
>
> Tabbing to fixed positions in a paragraph.
> Commands abto ( abto*) and ab.
>
> It is LPPL. It could go in macros/latex/contrib/misc or have
> its own directory created.
i've installed the files (tabto.sty and tabto.txt) in a new directory
macros/latex/contrib/tabto
thanks for the upload: i'll update the …
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run.
Robin Fairbairns
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A package has been (after some bumbling on my part) updated at tug.ctan.org
and by now has likely made it to your favorite mirror.
Thank you for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: exceltex
Author's name: Hans-Peter Doerr
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/exceltex
Summary description: get data from Excel files into …
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License type: gpl
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Exceltex is a LaTeX package combined with a helper program written in
Perl. It provides a easy to use yet powerfull and flexible way to get
data from Spreadsheets into LaTeX.
In difference to other existing solutions, exceltex does not seek for
making the creation of tables in LaTeX easier, but to get data from
Spreadsheets into LaTeX as easy as possible.
The excel fileformat only acts as an interface between the spreadsheet
application and exceltex beacause it is easily accessible via the
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Perl module and because most spreadsheet
applications are able to read and write excel files.
* changes since last ctan-upload
- changed commandline interface
- support for configuration files
- support for some character encodings, currently latin1 latin9 and utf8
- experimental support for the EURP currency symbol
* homepage
http://www.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~doerr/exceltex
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The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.
Thank you for the update,
Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: microtype
Author's name: R Schlicht
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype
Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX
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Changes in version 1.9d
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* Support for the Central European QX encoding
(inheritance, generic protrusion settings, contributed by Maciej Eder;
protrusion settings for Times)
* Protrusion settings for various Euro symbol fonts (Adobe, ITC, Marvosym)
* Compatibility with the tex4ht package
* Support for Unicode input in the configuration (inputenc/utf8)
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Jim Hefferon
St Michael's College
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: Beamer LaTeX class tutorial (in portuguese)
Author's name: Carlos Campani
Location on CTAN: /info/portuguese/beamer
Summary description: Beamer tutorial
License type: gpl
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A short introduction to Beamer class for LaTeX2e.
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