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Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: environ
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/environ
Summary description: A new environment interface
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package defines amsmath's collect@body, as well as a long version
Collect@Body, for collecting the body text inside an environment.
These are used to define a new author interface for creating new
environments that might be useful on occassion. For example,
NewEnvironment{test}{[#1]}
wraps the entire environment body in square brackets, doing the
right thing in ignoring leading and trailing spaces.
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On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Axel Sommerfeldt submitted a bugfix release of the
caption
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/
Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is a bugfix release of the caption package 3.1:
- The combination of centering and labelsep=newline works now
- Problems with hyperref and breaklinks=true are resolved
-
ewfloat{Example}+captionsetup{type=Example}works now
- New feature: Warning !label before caption ignored added
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The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: hexgame
Author's name: Meron Brouwer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/hexgame
Summary description: Hexgame introduces a new environment to easily
draw a hexgame-board
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Hex is a mathematical game invented by the Danish mathematician Piet Hein
and independently by the mathematician John Nash. This package defines a new
environment that enables the user to draw such a game in a trivial way.
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Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: GraphicxSP
Author's name: D. P. Story
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/graphicxsp
Summary description: GraphicxSP is an extension of the graphicx package.
License type: lppl
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GraphicxSP is an extension of the graphicx package. GraphicxSP embeds
the graphic in the PDF document once, and allows the document author
to use and re-use that same graphic without significantly increasing
the file size. Additionally, GraphicxSP supports Adobe transparency
imaging model.
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Name of contribution: trivfloat
Author's name: Joseph Wright
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/trivfloat
Summary description: Quick floats in LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v1.3b:
* Fixed error with hyperref
Note licence change to LPPL
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Name of contribution: chemscheme
Author's name: Joseph Wright
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chemscheme
Summary description: Support for chemistry schemes
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v1.2a:
* Instructions for use with pdfLaTeX (many thanks to Stefan Pinnow for these)
* Bug with hyperref fixed
Notice that the license of the package has been changed to LPPL.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: GraphicxSP
Author's name: D. P. Story
Location on CTAN: /graphics/graphicxsp
Summary description: GraphicxSP is an extension of the graphicx package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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GraphicxSP is an extension of the graphicx package. GraphicxSP embeds
the graphic in the PDF document once, and allows the document author
to use and re-use that same graphic without significantly increasing
the file size. Additionally, GraphicxSP supports Adobe transparency
imaging model.
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the
caption
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/
Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is a bugfix release of the caption package 3.1:
- combination KOMA-Script + longtable should work now
- combination listings + hyperref should work now
- combination longtable + subfigure should work now
- the load order longtable->caption->hyperref should work now
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the
oberdiek
bundle.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek
License: LPPL
Announcment text:
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New packages:
* intcalc v1.0
This package provides expandable arithmetic operations
with integers.
* pdfcol v1.0
Since version 1.40 pdfTeX supports color stacks.
The driver file `pdftex.def for package `color'
defines and uses a main color stack since version v0.04b.
Package `pdfcol' is intended for package writers.
It defines macros for setting and maintaining new color stacks.
* pdfcolparallel v1.0
Since version 1.40 pdfTeX supports several color stacks.
This package uses them to fix color problems in
package `parallel'.
* pdfcolparcolumns v1.0
Since version 1.40 pdfTeX supports several color stacks.
This package uses them to fix color problems in
package `parcolumns'.
* soulutf8 v1.0
This package extends package `soul' and adds some support
for UTF-8. Namely the input encodings `utf8.def' from package
`inputenc' and `utf8x.def' from package `ucs' are supported.
New main version:
* alphalph v2.0
The package provides methods to represent numbers with a limited
set of symbols. Both LaTeX and plain-TeX are supported.
* New implementation that uses package `intcalc'.
This removes the dependency on e-TeX.
*
ewalphalph is extended to support new methods `wrap' and 'multi'.
* Documentation rewritten.
Updates:
* Catcode section updated for some packages.
* embedfile v1.2
* Fixes for plain-TeX, wrapper for package `keyval' added.
* iflang v1.4
* Bug fix: IfLang@StrEqual -> IfLangStrEqual
* kvsetkeys v1.2
* Using package `infwarerr' for error messages.
* pdfcolfoot v1.1
* Use of package `pdfcol'.
* Test file added.
* stringenc v1.2
* Uses EdefSanitize instead of PE@sanitize from package `pdfescape'.
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Andy Buckley wrote:
> Name of contribution: hepthesis
> Author's name: Andy Buckley
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/hepthesis
> Summary description: A class for academic reports, especially PhD theses.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Hepthesis is a LaTeX class for typesetting large academic reports, in
> particular PhD theses. It was originally developed for typesetting the
> authors high-energy physics PhD thesis and includes some features
> specifically tailored to such an application. In particular, hepthesis
> offers:
> -- Attractive semantic environments for various rubric sections;
> -- Extensive options for draft production, screen viewing and
> binding-ready output;
> -- Helpful extensions of existing environments, including equation and
> tabular; and
> -- Support for quotations at the start of the thesis and each chapter.
>
> This release is version 1.4, which contains many improvements,
> including layout bug fixes and tweaks, reduced external package
> dependencies, improved multi-lingual interaction with babel, and
> improved documentation. Users of previous versions are encouraged to
> upgrade.
i have installed the package, and updated the catalogue repository;
thanks for the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/hepthesis.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hepthesis
since the installation happened last night, the package should have
progressed around the world a fair bit, by now; the catalogue entry
itself won't be updated until some time overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team