ctan-ann January 2007

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CTAN package update: pdftex 1.40.1
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pdftex 1.40.1 Author's name: Martin Schröder Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: A new version of pdftex License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.40.1 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.1, an extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF. =========================================================================== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.40.1 =========================================================================== - bugfix: the shell escape function was a bit broken - bugfix: pdffontattr gave confusing warnings - allow JBIG2 images only with PDF >= 1.4 - allow pdfglyphtounicode in dvi mode for format generation - pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.15 For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS =========================================================================== Legal notice / license =========================================================================== pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2007 Han The Thanh, <thanh(a)pdftex.org> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README =========================================================================== The files / installation =========================================================================== You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your distribution. If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful documentation. =========================================================================== Mailing lists / web pages: =========================================================================== Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex Related web pages: http://www.pdftex.org http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ http://www.tug.org/tetex/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes http://www.dante.de/ http://tug.org/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/ Have fun! Martin Schröder (martin(a)pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, January 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pdftex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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: philokalia
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted a new package philokalia for typesetting the Philokalia Books to CTAN. The philokalia package has been designed to ease the use of the Philokalia-Regular OpenType font with XeLaTeX. It contains an OpenType font and an accompanying XeLaTeX package. The font started as a project to digitize the typeface used to typeset the Philokalia books. See http://orthodoxwiki.org/Philokalia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/philokalia . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=philokalia (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: pdftex.def v0.04d
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new version of the pdftex.def file. Location on CTAN: graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def License: LPPL Changes: * Support for JBIG2 added (pdfTeX 1.40.0). * Bug fix: .mps forgotten for extension list if pdfTeX >= 1.40.0 * .jbig2 and .jb2 are not listed in the extension list if pdfminorversion < 4. Thus pdfminorversion should have the correct value, if pdftex.def is loaded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdftex-def (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: The caption package v3.0k
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table and cooperates with many other packages. This is a bugfix release of the caption package 3.0: - The usage of setspace was fixed in documentation - AtBeginEnvironment added to caption kernel - subref will be made robust (See changelog for details.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=caption (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: mathscinet
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mathscinet Author's name: Michael Tweedale Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/mathscinet Summary description: Gets references from MathSciNet in bibtex format. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A Perl script that downloads references from MathSciNet in bibtex format. Works with the recently redesigned MathSciNet site. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/mathscinet . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=mathscinet (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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 package update: biblatex 0.6
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Philipp Lehman wrote: > 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. (see below for changes) I have installed this new version, as suggested by Philipp, on the LaTeX experimental tree on CTAN -- macros/latex/exptl/biblatex users may browse the package via its catalogue entry http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html or direct on CTAN via http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team addendum: CHANGES > * Added package option 'sorting=none' > * Renamed package option 'block=penalty' to 'block=ragged' > * Changed data type of 'origlanguage' back to field > * Support 'origlanguage' field if 'translator' is present > * Renamed field 'articleid' to 'id' > * Support 'id' field in 'article' entries > * Support 'series' field in 'article' entries > * Support 'doi' field > * Updated documentation of all entry types > * Updated documentation of field 'series' > * Added field 'redactor' > * Added field 'shortauthor' > * Added field 'shorteditor' > * Improved support for corporate authors and editors > * Updated documentation of field 'labelname' > * Added field alias 'key' > * Added package option 'autocite' > * Added package option 'autopunct' > * Added citation command autocite > * Added command DeclareAutoCiteCommand > * Added command DeclareAutoPunctuation > * Added option 'filter' to printbibliography > * Added command defbibfilter > * Added package option 'maxitems' > * Added package option 'minitems' > * Added option 'maxitems' to printbibliography > * Added option 'minitems' to printbibliography > * Added option 'maxitems' to ibbysection > * Added option 'minitems' to ibbysection > * Added option 'maxitems' to ibbysegment > * Added option 'minitems' to ibbysegment > * Added option 'maxitems' to ibbycategory > * Added option 'minitems' to ibbycategory > * Added option 'maxitems' to printshorthands > * Added option 'minitems' to printshorthands > * Added counter 'maxitems' > * Added counter 'minitems' > * Added adapted headings for 'scrartcl', 'scrbook', 'scrreprt' > * Added adapted headings for 'memoir' > * Added citation command Cite > * Added citation command Textcite > * Added citation command Parencite > * Added citation command Footcite > * Added citation command Citeauthor > * Added citation command parencite* > * Added citation command supercite > * Added command ameyeardelim > * Added command multiitemdelim > * Added command multipubsdelim > * Added command multilangdelim > * Completed documenation > * Completed documenation > * Added command usecitecmd > * Added command hyphenate > * Added command hyphen > * Added command bhyphen > * Improved test ifsamepage > * Removed test ifnameequalstr > * Removed test iflistequalstr > * Added test ifcapital > * Added documentation of command MakeCapital > * Added starred variant to setunit > * Improved test ifterm > * Straightened out documentation of helist > * Straightened out documentation of hename > * Added command docsvfield > * Added command docsvlist > * Removed command CopyFieldFormat > * Removed command CopyIndexFieldFormat > * Removed command CopyListFormat > * Removed command CopyIndexListFormat > * Removed command CopyNameFormat > * Removed command CopyIndexNameFormat > * Added command savefieldformat > * Added command estorefieldformat > * Added command savelistformat > * Added command estorelistformat > * Added command savenameformat > * Added command estorenameformat > * Added command savebibmacro > * Added command estorebibmacro > * Added command savecommand > * Added command estorecommand > * Added documentation of 'shorthands' driver > * Rearranged, renamed, and extended localization keys > * Renamed counter 'citecount' to 'instcount' > * Added new counter 'citecount' > * Added counter 'citetotal' > * Rearranged and expanded documentation > * Expanded documentation > * Expanded documentation > * Expanded documentation > * Completed support for Spanish > * Added support for Italian (translations by Enrico Gregorio) > * Added language alias 'australian' > * Added language alias 'newzealand' > * Various minor improvements throughout

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CTAN Update: bmeps
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Dirk Krause submitted version 2.0.0 of the bmeps package. Location on CTAN: /support/bmeps Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/Tgb81AIFF/NetPBM to EPS and PDF License type: bsd Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The bmeps program was rewritten completely. > Advantages from a users point of view: > - Bmeps can produce PS/EPS and PDF now. > - Easier configuration. Simply type > bmeps -leps2 input.png output.eps > instead of the former > bmeps -p 2 -c -e r8 input.png output.eps > - Better compression: > - Use of the multiple data sources feature > allows run-length compression of horizontal > lines in the same color. Previous versions > allowed run-length compression only for > gray lines. > - Pass-through of JPEG files. If bmeps successfully > analyzes a JPEG file it uses the file contents > directly as DCT-encoded data and only adds > ASCII-Hex- or ASCII85-encoding. If the analysis > function fails the program uses the JPEG library > to read the image and uses the combination of > run-length-, flate- and ASCII-Hex/ASCII85-encoding > to produce output. > Advantages from my point of view: > - Using the dklibs libary set allows to combine > different encoding/compression methods easier than > in previous versions of bmeps. > - Grouping image reading functions in a separated > library (dkbif library from the dklibs library set) > makes it easier to add new file types. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/bmeps . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bmeps (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: dvisvgm 0.4.3
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Dvisvgm is a command line utility that converts TeX DVI files to the XML-based Scalable Vector Graphics format. The initial (limited) realease 0.3 provides basic functionality that will be extended in future versions. Users will need a working TeX installation including the kpathsea library and Type 1 versions of the fonts used in the DVI file. Dvisvgm has been successfully tested with both teTeX and MikTeX. Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: minor update of dvisvgm License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a minor dvisvgm update. I have added support for MiKTeX 2.5 and fixed a compilation issue caused by a freetype API change. Precompiled binaries for Windows can be downloaded from the project page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvisvgm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pdftex.def v0.04b
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new version of pdftex.def Location on CTAN: graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def License: LPPL Latest changes: % 2007/01/01 v0.04a (HO) % * Support of color stack, introduced in pdfTeX 1.40.0. % * Support of transform matrix commands of pdfTeX 1.40.0. % * The argument for option `page' can be a register. * Internal change: Switching of color stacks is easier by using @pdfcolorstack for the stack number. Thus this command should be redefined, if someone wants to use another color stack (e.g. for footnotes). main@pdfcolorstack should not be changed for this purpose. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This file is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pdftex-def (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: tabularht v2.3, pdfcolmk v1.0
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the oberdiek bundle. Location on CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License: LPPL > Changes: > * tabularht v2.3: > * Documentation fix. > * Fix in code of option vlines. > * pdfcolmk v1.0: > * If pdftex.def >= 2007/01/01 v0.04a is used with > pdfTeX 1.40.0, then package pdfcolmk is obsolete. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This bundle is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=oberdiek (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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