ctan-ann September 2006

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CTAN package update: refstyle
by CTAN Announcements 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

The package described below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: refstyle Author's name: Danie Els Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/refstyle Summary description: Advanced formatting of cross references License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The update fixes a problem with xkeyval and adds Norwegian definitions. ------------ The refstyle provides a consistent way of producing references throughout a project. Enough flexibility is provided to make local changes to a single reference. The user can configure his or own setup. It has a direct interface to VARIOREF and namedref's from the NAMEDREF package can easily be incorporated (if needed). For large projects such as a series of books or a multi volume thesis, written as freestanding documents, a facility is provided to interface to the XR package for external document references. The REFSTYLE package is BABEL compliant in that all language definitions are added to the extras<langauge> token list, enabling local and global language changes through the BABEL language changing commands. Afrikaans, Danish, English, German, Norwegian and Swedish definitions are provided --- any other contributions will be appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/refstyle . 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: article (sikumuna) layout style for lyx
by CTAN Announcements 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: article (sikumuna) layout style for lyx Author's name: Guy Rutenberg Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/lyx/sikumuna Summary description: an extended lyx layout style based on heb-article for use in Sikumuna License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- an extended lyx layout style based on article-hebrew for use in Sikumuna ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lyx/sikumuna . 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: natbib
by CTAN Announcements 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Patrick Daly submitted a bugfix update to the natbib package. Natbib provides a style with author-year and numbered references, as well as much detailed of support for other bibliography use. Provides versions of the standard BibTeX styles that are compatible with natbib - plainnat, unsrtnat, abbrnat. The bibliography styles produced by custom-bib are designed from the start to be compatible with natbib. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/natbib Summary description: General citation and bibliography package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug fix for compress option when used with hyperref and dvips ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/info/?id=natbib Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: examdesign
by CTAN Announcements 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

There have been changes to the package examdesign. Previously, it used a class named exam.cls that conflicted with another of that name for a different package. The author, Jason Alexander, has graciously allowed a change to examdesign.cls. For more information about this package see http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=examdesign Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College

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CTAN package update: biblatex 0.2
by CTAN Announcements 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

Philipp Lehman writes: > I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex. Please > purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as > usual. > > Thank you very much. > > RELEASE NOTES > > See the file `RELEASE' for release notes. > > CHANGES > > Added bibliography categories > Added DeclareBibliographyCategory > Added addtocategory > Added category and notcategory filters > Added ibbycategory > Added usage examples for bibliography categories > Added documentation of configuration file > Added documentation of ExecuteBibliographyOptions > Added documentation of AtBeginBibliography > Added AtEveryBibitem > Added AtEveryCite > Added AtEveryCitekey > Added optional argument to printtext > Added ifpage > Added ifpages > Added field titleaddon > Added field booktitleaddon > Added field maintitleaddon > Added field library > Added field part > Added field origlocation > Added field origtitle > Added field origyear > Added field origlanguage > Modified profile of field language > Extended entry type book > Extended entry type inbook > Extended entry type collection > Extended entry type incollection > Extended entry type proceedings > Extended entry type inproceedings > Added entry type alias www > Added compatibility code for the showkeys package > Support arbitrary characters in keyword and notkeyword filters > Support arbitrary characters in keywords field > Ignore spaces after commas in keywords field > Internal rearrangement of all bibliography styles > Fixed various bugs > > ABOUT > > The biblatex package is a complete reimplementation of the > bibliographic facilities provided by LaTeX in conjunction with > BibTeX. It redesigns the way in which LaTeX interacts with BibTeX at > a fairly fundamental level. With biblatex, BibTeX is only used to > sort the bibliography and to generate labels. Instead of being > implemented in BibTeX's style files, the formatting of the > bibliography is entirely controlled by TeX macros. Good working > knowledge in LaTeX should be sufficient to design new bibliography > and citation styles. There is no need to learn BibTeX's postfix > stack language. Just like the bibliography styles, all citation > commands may be freely (re)defined. i have installed the update on CTAN macros/latex/exptl/biblatex thanks for the upload. the catalogue isn't much changed since v0.1, but users may conveniently access the package via the catalogue page http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html thanks for the upload, philipp -- the more i read about the package, the more impressed i am. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: Corso: Introduzione al mondo di LaTeX
by CTAN Announcements 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Corso: Introduzione al mondo di LaTeX Author's name: Maurizio W. Himmelmann, Emiliano G. Vavassori, Fabiano Busdraghi Location on CTAN: /info/italian/GuIT/corso_guit Summary description: Materiale per il corso: Introduzione al mondo di LaTeX License type: nocommercial Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Viene qui presentato il materiale realizzato per il corso Introduzione al mondo di LaTeX tenuto dai membri del Gruppo Utilizzatori Italiani di TeX e destinato a chiunque abbia in animo di organizzare un corso ma non trovi il tempo e/o la voglia necessaria per allestire tutto il materiale. Il corso è articolato in quattro lezioni ed è rivolto a discenti senza alcuna conoscenza pregressa di LaTeX e/o linguaggi di programmazione. Esso può essere svolto sia per piattaforme Windows che *nix, essendo stato sperimentato con successo su entrambi i sistemi. Le presentazioni a video sono realizzate sulla base della classe guitbeamer sviluppata da Emiliano Giovanni Vavassori e disponibile su CTAN. [ This material provides everything is necessary to give a LaTeX course. The course is divided into four lessons and it has been written for people without any previous knowledge of LaTeX. It has been successfully tested on Windows and *nix platforms. The class guitbeamer is needed to run the presentations. Documentation available in Italian only.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/italian/GuIT/corso_guit . 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: arabicfront
by CTAN Announcements 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Javier Bezos submitted a new package arabicfront to CTAN. Location: macros/latex/contrib/bezos License: LPPL CTAN package page: http://www.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=arabicfront This package modifies frontmatter and mainmatter to number pages in arabic style starting from the front matter, while preserving the rest of the original definitions. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: pax v0.1
by CTAN Announcements 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new package pax to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/pax/ License: other (lppl/gpl) ----------------------------------------------------------- >From the README: | A. PROJECT PAX | ============== | | If PDF files are included using pdfTeX, PDF annotations | are stripped. This project tries a solution without | altering pdfTeX. A Java program (pax.jar) parses the PDF file that | will later be included. It writes the data of the annotations | in a file that can be read by TeX. Then a LaTeX package (pax.sty) | extends the graphics package. If a PDF file is included, the package | looks for the file with the annotation data, reads them and puts | the annotations in the right place. | | Project status: experimental ----------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Font packages antt, iwona, kurier
by CTAN Announcements 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted updates to the following packages: antt - http://www.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=antt iwona - http://www.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=iwona kurier - http://www.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=kurier Annoucnement texts: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package: antt Version: 2.08 Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) Location on CTAN: fonts/antt/ The current version (2.08) corrected the italic correction in math fonts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package: iwona Version: 0.98 Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) Location on CTAN: fonts/iwona/ Iwona is a two-element sans-serif typeface. It was created as an alternative version of the Kurier typeface, which was designed in 1975 for a diploma in typeface design at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of Roman Tomaszewski. Kurier was designed for linotype typesetting of newspapers and similar periodicals. The Iwona fonts are an alternative version of the Kurier fonts. The difference lies in the absence of ink traps which typify the Kurier font. This distribution contains a significantly extended set of characters covering the following modern alphabets: latin (including Vietnamese), cyrillic and greek as well as a number of additional symbols (including mathematical symbols). The fonts are prepared in Type 1 and OpenType formats. For use with TeX the following encoding files have been prepared: T1 (ec), T2 (abc), and OT2 -- cirilic, T5 (Vietnamese), OT4, QX, texansi and nonstandard (IL2 for the Czech fonts), as well as supporting macros and files defining fonts for LaTeX. The doc/fonts/iwona folder contains examples for plain TeX as well as for LaTeX and an example of typesetting mathematics. The current version (0.98) contains corrected: -- the italic corrections in math fonts -- exclamdown and questiondown ligatures in tfm files ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package: kurier Version: 0.98 Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) Location on CTAN: fonts/kurier/ Kurier is a two-element sans-serif typeface. It was designed for a diploma in typeface design at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of Roman Tomaszewski. The result was presented with other Polish typefaces at the ATypI conference in Warsaw in 1975. Kurier was intended for linotype typesetting of newspapers and similar periodicals. The design goals included resistance to technological processes destructive to the letter shapes. As a result, amongst others, the typeface distinguishes itself through intra- and extra-letter white spaces as well as ink traps at cross-sections of some elements constituting the characters. This distribution contains a significantly extended set of characters covering the following modern alphabets: latin (including Vietnamese), cyrillic and greek as well as a number of additional symbols (including mathematical symbols). The fonts are prepared in Type 1 and OpenType formats. For use with TeX the following encoding files have been prepared: T1 (ec), T2 (abc), and OT2 -- cirilic, T5 (Vietnamese), OT4, QX, texansi and nonstandard (IL2 for the Czech fonts), as well as supporting macros and files defining fonts for LaTeX. The doc/fonts/kurier folder contains examples for plain TeX as well as for LaTeX and an example of typesetting mathematics. The current version (0.98) contains corrected: -- the italic corrections in math fonts -- exclamdown and questiondown ligatures in tfm files ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New CTAN package: biblatex 0.1-beta
by CTAN Announcements 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

Philipp Lehman writes: > I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is the initial public release of the biblatex package. I > suggest installing the package in macros/latex/contrib/biblatex. > Thank you very much. > > ABOUT (this is also for the catalogue) > > The biblatex package is a complete reimplementation of the > bibliographic facilities provided by LaTeX in conjunction with > BibTeX. It redesigns the way in which LaTeX interacts with BibTeX at > a fairly fundamental level. With biblatex, BibTeX is only used to > sort the bibliography and to generate labels. Instead of being > implemented in BibTeX's style files, the formatting of the > bibliography is entirely controlled by TeX macros. Good working > knowledge in LaTeX should be sufficient to design new bibliography > and citation styles. There is no need to learn BibTeX's postfix > stack language. Just like the bibliography styles, all citation > commands may be freely (re)defined. > > Apart from the features unique to biblatex, this package also > incorporates core features of the following packages: babelbib, > bibtopic, bibunits, chapterbib, cite, inlinebib, mlbib, multibib, > natbib, splitbib. There are also some conceptual parallels to the > amsrefs package. The biblatex package supports split bibliographies, > multiple bibliographies within one document, and separate lists of > bibliographic shorthands. Bibliographies may be subdivided into > parts (by chapter, by section, etc.) and/or segmented by topics (by > type, by keyword, etc.). The package is fully localized and can > interface with the babel package. > > RELEASE NOTES > > Please be advised that this package is in beta stage and released > for testing only. The architecture of the package, including its > BibTeX interface and even the entry type and field specifications, > is under scrutiny and still subject to change. There are also > several gaps in this manual. TeX distributors are urged not to > consider this package while it is in beta. The version number will > be stepped up to 1.0 as soon as it is considered suitable for > distribution. whew! by agreement with the author, i've installed this major piece of work in the LaTeX experimental tree, macros/latex/exptl/biblatex explore the package on ctan via the catalogue: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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