This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
local mirror.
Happy new year,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: xstring
Author's name: Christian Tellechea
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xstring
Summary description: manipulation of strings
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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package xstring update
version v1.5 2008/12/31
This package does not require LaTeX (but eTeX is required).
Consequently, the xstring.tex file should be installed in
the tex/ subtree.
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Changes
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* New feature : a group between braces has an identifier
qualifying its position and its nestling depth.
In an argument, a group can be found with its identifier
with the macro StrFindGroup. Several macros of the package
also give the identifier of the group they worked into with
the command groupID.
* Code improvment.
* Bugfixes.
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http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xstring
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cam.ctan.org's nightly mirrors collapsed last night, for lack of disc
space on the ctan partition. as a result, for much of today, the site
has been without mactex and its friends and relations.
all is now right, so anyone planning to retrieve from cambridge may
proceed at their convenience.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 Marek Kubica submitted an update to the
texments
package, an interface for LaTeX to access the Pygments source highlighter.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texments/
Summary description: An interface for LaTeX to access the Pygments source highlighter
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A revised release of texments which makes the package more
user friendly and much more usable for real-world documents.
It features documentation how to install it, which options
it has and how to get beautifully highlighted code in your
own documents. The package supports syntax coloring of over
50 different file types and in several possible color schemes.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/texments/
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http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=texments
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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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 Henrik Skov Midtiby submitted an update to the
todonotes
package.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/todonotes
Summary description: The todonotes package allows you to insert to–do items in your
document. At any point in the document a list of all the inserted
to–do items can be listed with the listoftodos command.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Avoid to change the fontsize inside the list of todos,
fixing a bug that was triggered by the Univ. of Toronto
thesis package.
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
my upload daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: induni-om
> Author's name: John Smith
> Location on CTAN: fonts
> Summary description: Omega fonts for characters used in study of Sanskrit.
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Bugfix re-release of fonts first released on 2008-12-22 (an
> error in a shell script led to incorrect formation of some less
> common accented glyphs).
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed it and updated the catalogue.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/induni-om.html
(will be _slightly_ updated overnight)
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 James Clawson submitted an update to the
biblatex-mla
package.
The package provides biblatex support for citations in the format specified by
the MLA
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-mla
Summary description: MLA (humanities) style files for biblatex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 0.6 of biblatex-mla is an update to support changes
since biblatex version 0.8. With csquotes and babel, it
provides support for native quotation marks and punctuation.
Finally, it improves reliability in many cases, with better
adherence to MLA standards and new support for various
entrytypes.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-mla
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and is making its way through
the mirroring system.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pst-2dplot
Author's name: Farshid Delgosha
Location on CTAN: /pst-2dplot
Summary description: The pst-2dplot is an easy-to-use and intuitive tool for
drawing two-dimensional plots in LaTeX documents.
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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The pst-2dplot is an easy-to-use and intuitive tool for
drawing two-dimensional plots in LaTeX documents. The main
environment introduced by pst-2dplot is pstgraph that draws
grid lines, tag numbers, and labels on both axes.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-2dplot
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-2dplot
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This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
favorite mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: zwpagelayout
Author's name: Zdenek Wagner
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/
Summary description: Page layout and cropmark package
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package was developed as a typographers toolbox
offering the most
important features for everyday work. First it allows
setting the paper size
as well as the page layout. The next important feature is
the ability of
printing crop marks both with TeX + dvips or (x)dvipdfm(x)
and with pdfTeX.
Finally it is possible to reflect pages both horizontally
and vertically.
Note: This is the missing source for generating PDF
documentation f packages ean13isbn, makebarcode, zwgetfdate.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/zwpagelayout
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yesterday, my upload daemon wrote:
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>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: glossaries
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
> Summary description: Create glossaries and lists of acronyms
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v1.17:
> * changed definition of @glossary to prevent conflict with
> memoir
>
> * added check to determine if printglossary is defined. (If
> it is, issue warning and redefine.)
>
> * provided means to suppress number list for specific entries
>
> * provided means to suppress description terminator for
> specific entries
>
> * added cross-referencing support
>
> * added hierarchical support
>
> * added xindy support
>
> * modified glshypernumber to support
ohyperpage
> (code provided by Heiko Oberdiek)
>
> * added 2 and 3-page suffix support
>
> * added order package option to set word/letter ordering
> (only has an effect in combination with makeglossaries script)
>
> * added Brazilian dictionary (supplied by Thiago de Melo)
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/glossaries.html
(note that the entry will be updated overnight tonight.)
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite
mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ionumbers
Author's name: Christian Schneider
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ionumbers
Summary description: Bugfix release
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This release is a bugfix release.
Robert N{u}rnberg reported two problems in ionumbers
v0.2.1-alpha:
1. compilation of code like $a^0$ or $sqrt 2$ will fail, if
the digit (or sign/point/comma) is not grouped in curly braces
2. the operatorname macro of amsmath/amsopn leads to an
error in combination with ionumbers
In the current release (v0.2.3-alpha) the following fixes
are included:
1. by adding a special handling of the first character of a
number an ungrouped single digit or sign will no longer lead
to a failure (similar to the ziffer.sty package, point and
comma will still lead to a failure in these (rare) cases
from the examples above; this is documented)
2. a warning message is added for the case that
amsmath/amsopn is loaded; as a workaround the ionumbers
package should be loaded as last package (as already
suggested) and the operatorname macro should be used in
ionumbersoff (this is documented); this problem is a result
of amsopn's strategy of saving the standard mathcode of -
and can hardly be fixed in ionumbers (amsopn together with
ziffer.sty leads to the same error)
3. the ionumbers_test file contains a lot of different input
with the output and expected output of ionumbers for
different package options; this makes it easier to test
ionumbers especially after changes
Thanks a lot to Robert for his bug reports!
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