ctan-ann December 2008

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CTAN update: xstring
by CTAN Announcements 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

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 ........................................................................... 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. =========== Changes =========== * 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xstring . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xstring (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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cam.ctan.org: apologies for partial outage
by Robin Fairbairns 30 Dec '08

30 Dec '08

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

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CTAN Update: texments
by CTAN Announcements 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/texments/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=texments (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: todonotes
by CTAN Announcements 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Avoid to change the fontsize inside the list of todos, fixing a bug that was triggered by the Univ. of Toronto thesis package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/todonotes/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=todonotes (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: induni-om
by CTAN Announcements 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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

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CTAN Update: biblatex-mla
by CTAN Announcements 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-mla . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-mla (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: pst-2dplot
by CTAN Announcements 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

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 .............................................................................. 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (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: zwpagelayout
by CTAN Announcements 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

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 ......................................................................... 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/zwpagelayout . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/zwpagelayout (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 update: glossaries
by CTAN Announcements 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

yesterday, my upload daemon wrote: > ====================================================================== > > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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

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CTAN update: ionumbers
by CTAN Announcements 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

This package has been updated 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: ionumbers Author's name: Christian Schneider Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ionumbers Summary description: Bugfix release License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ionumbers . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ionumbers (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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