On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the
glossaries
package.
The glossaries package supports acronyms and multiple glossaries. New entries
are defined to have a name and description (and optionally an associated
symbol). Plural forms can also be specified. New glossary styles can be
defined, and preambles and postambles can be specified. There is provision for
loading a database of terms, only terms used in the text will be added to the
relevant glossary.
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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v1.1 (22 Feb 2008):
* New package options:
- numberline:
inserts
umberline{} in addcontentsline when used with
the toc option.
- numberedsection:
puts glossaries in numbered chapters/sections
- translate:
translate=false option prevents glossaries package from
using pre-supplied translations.
- description:
changes definition of
ewacronym to allow a description
- footnote:
changes definition of
ewacronym to use a footnote on
first use
- smallcaps:
changes definition of
ewacronym to set acronyms in
small capitals
- dua:
changes definition of
ewacronym to always expand
acronyms
* Added setglossarysection
- changes the section type used by the glossaries
* Added listdotted glossary style.
* No longer uses xspace package; uses amsgen instead.
* Added glsname, glsdesc, glssymbol, glsfirst, glstext,
glsplural and glsfirstplural.
* Added support for translator package.
The url for the glossaries FAQ is now http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/packages/faq/glossaryfaq.html
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Herbert Voss submitted an update to the
pst-circ
package to CTAN.
Pst-circ is a package built using PSTricks and in particular pst-node. It can
easily draw current 2-terminal devices and some 3- and 4-terminal devices used
in electronic or electric theory. The package’s macros are designed with a view
to ‘logical’ representation of circuits, as far as possible, so as to relieve
the user of purely graphical considerations when expressing a circuit.
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ
License: LPPL
This new version 1.44 comes with a lot of new
microwave symbols.
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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
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: FiNK 2.1.1
Author's name: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fink
Summary description: The LaTeX2e File Name Keeper
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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I'm happy to announce the release of FiNK 2.1.1.
What's new:
** Fix trailing whitespace in fink@restore
** Added some hints about filenames with special characters
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 Joseph Wright submitted an update to the
notes2bib
package.
The notes2bib package defines a new type of note, bibnote, which will always be
added to the bibliography. The package allows footnotes and endnotes to be
moved into the bibliography in the same way. The package can be used with
natbib and biblatex as well as plain LaTeX citations. Both sorted and unsorted
bibliography styles are supported.
The package makes use of the e-TeX extensions (any post-2005 LaTeX distribution
will provide these by default, but users of older systems may need to use an
elatex command or equivalent). It also makes use of the xkeyval and etoolbox
packages.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib
Summary description: Integrating notes into the bibliography
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v1.3c:
- Removed need to load etoolbox
- Patching of hanks altered
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib
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The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be
at your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: PST-Cox
Author's name: Jean-Gabriel Luque
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib
Summary description: Drawing regular complex polytopes with PSTricks
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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We have wrote a new package for PSTricks for drawing 2 dimensional
projection of complex regular polyopes (after the work of Coxeter).
The package consists in a library of macro for drawing the
projections. The complex polytopes appears in the study of the roots
systems and play a crucial role in many domains related to
mathematics and physics. These polytopes have been completely
described by Coxeter in his book Regular Complex Polytopes. there
exist only a finite numbers of exceptional regular complex polytopes
(for example the ikosae dron) and some infinite series (for
example, one can construct multi-dimensional analogous of the
hypercube in any -finite- dimension). The library contains two
packages. The first, pst-coxcoor, is devoted to the exceptional
complex regular polytopes whose coordinates have been pre-computed.
The second, pst-coxeterp, is devoted to the infinite series.
One can find also other informations in the beautiful page of
Jean-Michel Sarlat:
http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/pstricks/pst-cox/
To contact me, use the email given in the documentation of the
package.
best wishes
Jean-gabriel Luque
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: CurVe
Author's name: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/curve
Summary description: A curriculum vitae class for LaTeX2e
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is edition 1.15 of CurVe.
What's new in this version:
** Support for itemize environments, suggested by Mirko Hessel-von Molo.
** Added some documentation about vertical spacing problems in |bbl|
files, suggested by Seweryn Habdank-Wojewódzki.
CurVe is a class package that hopefully will make your life easier
when you want to write your CV. It provides you with a set of commands
to create rubrics, entries in these rubrics etc. CurVe will then
properly format your CV for you (possibly splitting it onto multiple
pages, repeating the titles etc), which is usually the most painful
part of CV writing. Another nice feature of CurVe is its ability to
manage different CV flavors simultaneously. It is in fact often
the case that you want to maintain slightly divergent versions of
your CV at the same time, in order to emphasize on different
aspects of your background. CurVe also comes with support for
AUC-TeX.
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The package below has been updated and should soon appear at a mirror
near you.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: autolatex-5.5
Author's name: Stephane GALLAND
Location on CTAN: /support/autolatex
Summary description: New release of autolatex with bug fixes and
TeXlive support
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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autolatex 5.5 fixes several bugs and provides a new EPS to PDF
translator which is based on the TeXlive tools instead of the teTeX
ones (because Ubuntu operating systems now distribute the first
distribution).
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 Till Tantau submitted the new
translator
package to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/translator
License: lppl
Announcement for the package:
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> The translator package is intended to provide an open platform for
> packages that need to be localized. Unlike the babel package (which
> can and typically will be used together with translator), the set of
> words that can be translated is not fixed and new words and
> translations can be added in a simple manner. New translations can be
> added in a decentralized manner.
>
> The package is written in completely LaTeX and it is quite
> lightweight. It could very easily be ported to plain-TeX or ConTeXt,
> provided there is a public demand for this.
>
> A typical application of this package is the beamer class, which
> already uses it, if it present. Then words like Theorem will be
> translated to Satz if the document language is German, for instance.
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Till Tantau submitted version 2.0 of the
TikZ/pgf
package to CTAN.
PGF is a macro package for creating graphics. It is platform- and
format-independent and works together with the most important TeX backend
drivers, including pdftex and dvips. It comes with a user-friedly syntax layer
called TikZ.
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/base
License: lppl
Release notes:
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> This new version of the TikZ and pgf graphic packages comes with a
> large number of new features, too numerous to list them all. Hilights
> are Mark Wibrow's decoration library, Mark's new shapes, the improved
> notations for doing geometric drawings, fadings (the transparency
> version of shadings), easy shadows, improved support for systems like
> xetex, as well as countless bugfixes.
>
> This version *may break existing code* (hence the big version step).
> We tried to make sure that 99% of all code will still work exactly as
> it did before and all larger documents that the developers and some
> volunteers tried still look exactly as they did before, but there a
> number of places where unavoidable changes had to be done. Known
> changes that break existing code:
>
> - There was a bug in the diamond shape that caused it to be twice as
> large as the minimum size required. This has been fixed. However, if
> you code relied on the wrong minimum size handling, your diamond
> shapes will now be too small.
>
> - Snakes are now handled by decorations internally. While this offers
> endless new possibilities, you are no longer allowed to use negative
> values with the after snake gap option. The documentation did neither
> explicitly allow nor forbid this, so some people may have used this.
>
> - The basic layer has been restructured. Some things moved into the
> core, other stuff moved into something new, called modules.
> Typically, you will not notice this at all, but it is imaginable that
> you may need to include a different library or module, now, to
> compile your code.
>
>
> Also note that the PDF-file of the manual has moved to a less obscure
> location: It is now at .../doc/generic/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf (and no
> longer at .../doc/generic/pgf/version-for-pdftex/en/...)
>
>
> Happy TeXing everyone,
> Till
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