ctan-ann December 2008

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CTAN Update: cyklop font
by CTAN Announcements 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the cyklop package. > --------- > Font: Cyklop > Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki, Grudziadz, Poland > Version: 0.915 > Date: December 2008 > Licence: GUST Font License > Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry > Location on CTAN: fonts/cyklop > > The Cyclop typeface was designed in the 1920s at the workshop of Warsaw > type foundry Odlewnia Czcionek J. Idzkowski i S-ka. This sans serif > typeface has a highly modulated stroke so it has high typographic > contrast. The vertical stems are much heavier then horizontal ones. > Most characters have thin rectangles as additional counters giving the > unique shape of the characters. > > The font was generated using the Metatype1 package. Then the original > set of characters was completed by adding the full set of accented > letters and characters of the modern Latin alphabets (including > Vietnamese). > > The fonts are distributed in the Type1 and OpenType formats along with the > files necessary for use these fonts in TeX and LaTeX including > encoding definition files: T1 (ec), T5 (Vietnamese), OT4, QX, texnansi > and nonstandard ones (IL2 for Czech fonts). > > In the ver. 0.915 only internal comments in .otf files have been corrected. > > ------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/fonts/cyklop/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=cyklop (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: WinShell 3.3
by CTAN Announcements 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Ingo H. de Boer submitted an update for the winshell package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/winshell/ Summary description: WinShell is a free multilingual integrated development environment (IDE) for LaTeX and TeX. License type: nosource Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I am happy to announce the WinShell 3.3 Release. The new major feature is the BibTeX front-end where BibTeX entries can easily be created and edited. Also, there is a streamline of the original full toolbar and a pdfLaTeX optimized toolbar which can be choosen during installation. WinShell 3.3 also supports SyncTeX and Sumatra PDF for forward/inverse search. From this version on there is no more Win9x/NT support, but Linux support via wine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/winshell/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=winshell (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: Toptesi v.5.00
by CTAN Announcements 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Toptesi v.5.00 Author's name: Claudio Beccari Location on CTAN: /contrib/toptese Summary description: This is a bundel of files for typesetting university theses in a multilanguage environment. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a main upgrade of the bundle Toptesi; the main difference is the new version has provisions for saving the output thesis file in PDF/a-1b compliant form. This format is particularly useful for archiving. The PDF/A difficulties are discussed in the /english and Italian documentation and several fine modifications are already included in the class file so as to avoid the user to fiddle with some obscure features that may forbid the output file to fully satisfy the PDF/A specifications established by the reguation ISO 19005-1:2005. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/toptesi . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/toptesi (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: leading
by CTAN Announcements 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

This package has been updated at 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: leading Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/leading Summary description: Set leading with an explicit length License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides the leading command to set the baselineskip explicitly. E.g., leading{15.5pt} will use linespread to space out the lines of text by the amount specified. v0.3 is a bug fix to get the package actually working like it's described! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/leading . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/leading (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: biblatex-apa
by CTAN Announcements 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and is making its way to your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: biblatex-apa Author's name: Philip Kime Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-apa/ Summary description: Update to biblatex-apa (0.1 -> 0.2) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update for biblatex-apa. Fixes a bug in long author list display and also adds new option to suppress remote retrieval information in References. Some documentation fixes. Custom apa.cls is removed as apa.cls 1.3.4 will allow biblatex use. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-apa (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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tug.ctan.org upload: MetaPost 1.101
by CTAN Announcements 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

This package has been updated at 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: MetaPost 1.101 Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/base Summary description: MetaPost release 1.101 License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This releases fixed a number of bugs found in MetaPost 1.100. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/base . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/metapost (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: package multibib
by CTAN Announcements 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Thorsten Hansen submitted an update to the multibib package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/multibib/ Summary description: package multibib version 1.4 -- multiple bibliographies within one document License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A new version of multibib (1.4) is now available. Changes to version 1.3 include a new option 'labeled' to generated labeled references and a compatibility patch that allows continuous numerical labels with package natbib. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/multibib/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=multibib (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: showframe v0.1h
by CTAN Announcements 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update to the showframe package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic/ Summary description: Draws visible frames for the text and margin area, and lines for the head and foot to check layout in detail. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This Version adds a frame to show the outline of the whole page. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=showframe (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: biblatex-jura
by CTAN Announcements 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

This package has gone up at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: biblatex-jura Author's name: Ben E. Hard Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-jura Summary description: Biblatex stylefiles for german legal literature License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package provides biblatex support for citations in the format specified by the Nomos-Verlag for german legal citations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-jura (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: dozenal
by CTAN Announcements 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

The package below has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: dozenal Author's name: Donald P. Goodman III Location on CTAN: /fonts/dozenal Summary description: A package for typesetting documents in base twelve (also called dozenal) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dozenal is a package for typesetting documents in base twelve, also called dozenal. It includes a macro by David Kastrup for converting positive whole numbers to dozenal from decimal (base ten). It also includes a few other macros, redefines all the standard counters to produce dozenal output, and provides Metafont characters, in Roman, italic, slanted, and boldface versions of each, for ten and eleven (the Pitman characters preferred by the Dozenal Society of Great Britain). These characters were designed to blend well with the Computer Modern fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/dozenal . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dozenal (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: venturisadf
by CTAN Announcements 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: venturisadf Author's name: Clea F. Rees Location on CTAN: /fonts/venturisadf Summary description: Venturis ADF fonts collection with LaTeX support. License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fonts: complete serif and sans serif text font families, in both Adobe Type 1 and OpenType formats for publication. The families are based on Utopia, and have been modified and developed by Arkandis Digital Foundry. LaTeX support: support and package files are included for the type 1 fonts. A number of additional commands are provided so that the various features of the fonts may be accessed in LaTeX documents. These include variant widths, additional weights, oldstyle and lining figures, swash characters and titling fonts. See venturisadf.pdf for details. New in version 1.004: updated and additional fonts; LaTeX support. See README and LIST-Venturis.txt for details of the former; see venturisadf.pdf for details of the latter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/venturisadf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/venturisadf (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: pdfcomment
by CTAN Announcements 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Josef Kleber submitted the new package pdfcomment to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment Summary description: A user-friendly interface to pdf annotations License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For a long time pdflatex offers the command pdfannot for inserting arbitrary pdf annotations. However, in a form where additional knowledge of the pdf reference is indispensable. pdfcomment.sty is an answer to the – from time to time – emerging questions in newsgroups, how one could use the comment function of Adobe Reader. At least out of the LaTeX code pdfcomment.sty offers a convenient and user-friendly possibility to use pdf annotations in pdf files. Unfortunately the support of pdf annotations by pdf viewers is only partly available to nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is Adobe Reader. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcomment (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: miktex_update
by CTAN Announcements 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the miktex_update package. The miktex_update script offers automatic updating and/or installing of new packages of an existing MiKTeX installation. It supports direct connection with online repositories of the MiKTeX server network, as well as synchronizing a local repository (CTAN) with following update. In the end you should have an up-to-date and complete MiKTeX installation. Location on CTAN: /support/miktex_update Summary description: A cygwin bash script for automatic updating and installing new packages of MiKTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in v1.2: Bugfix: added --delete to rsync options for real synchronization (deleted files in the online repository will now also deleted in the local repository) See: http://latex.josef-kleber.de/en_miktex_update.htm for more information ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/miktex_update . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=miktex_update (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 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: todonotes Author's name: Henrik Skov Midtiby Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/todonotes Summary description: The package lets the user mark things to do later, in a simple and and visually appealing way. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reworked the color options for both the whole package and the todo command. General code clean up. Added the prependcaption package option. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/todonotes . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/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 .

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CTAN has a new package: pigpen for TeX, 0.2
by CTAN Announcements 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Thanks to some bery quick work by Oliver, the package below has appeared, on tug.ctan.org. It will soon reach your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pigpen for TeX, 0.2 Author's name: Oliver Corff Location on CTAN: /fonts/pigpen Summary description: Pigpen cipher, masonic cipher, or Freemason cipher, a simple substitution License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Pigpen cipher package provides the font and the necessary wrappers (style file, etc.) in order to write Pigpen ciphers, a simple substitution cipher. Version 0.2 has improved glyphs, an outline font and a minimal font map. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/pigpen . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pigpen (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: TpX 1.5
by CTAN Announcements 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

This package has been updated and should soon be at your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: TpX 1.5 Author's name: Alexander Tsyplakov Location on CTAN: /graphics/tpx/ Summary description: LaTeX-friendly drawing tool for Windows, v.1.5 License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TpX 1.5 is on CTAN TpX is a lightweight, easy-to-use graphical editor for Windows platform for creation of drawings and inclusion them into LaTeX files in publication-ready form. It can also be used as a stand-alone editor for vector graphics. The output is a file (with extension .TpX) containing the drawing as LaTeX code or as an includegraphics link to an external file created by the program. User can choose between several output formats. TpX saves its own data in TeX file comments so that the drawing could be loaded into TpX and edited again. This internal TpX format is based on XML and could be understood and edited easily. TpX can import EMF/WMF pictures created by other Windows applications, including many applications producing scientific graphs. It also can import simple SVG pictures. In most cases the result is nice, though sometimes imported picture needs some manual editing. So TpX can be used as a EMF-to-any and SVG-to-any converter. Homepage: http://tpx.sourceforge.net/ Distributed under GNU Public License ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/tpx/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tpx (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: pdfx
by CTAN Announcements 04 Dec '08

04 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: pdfx Author's name: CV Radhakrishnan and Han The Thanh Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfx Summary description: PDF/X-1a and PDF/A-1b support for pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pdfx is a LaTeX package which helps to create PDF/X-1a and PFD/A-1b compliant pdf documents with pdfTeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfx . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pdfx (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: svn-multi
by CTAN Announcements 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

This package has been updated at 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: svn-multi Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/svn-multi/ Summary description: Update of svn-multi (was svnkw.sty) to version 1.3b. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update fixes some problems which occurred when svn-multi was used together with [french]babel. Many thanks goes to mpg for publishing a patch in the comp.text.tex newsgroup (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/msg/c4ef18ad0e49ea49). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/svn-multi/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/svn-multi (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: latexmk
by CTAN Announcements 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

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