ctan-ann March 2008

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CTAN package update: vc
by CTAN Announcements 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

The package below has been updated and is working its way through the system. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: vc bundle Author's name: Stephan Hennig Location on CTAN: /support/vc Summary description: version control for TeX and friends License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a script based approach to version control for TeX documents. It works more reliably than keyword substitution based approaches, since it tracks all files in a working copy, not only .tex files. The vc bundle works with LaTeX and plain TeX. Currently, Git and Subversion are supported. Changes: v0.21 (2008-03-10) ---------------------- * Incompatible change: - Removed macros VCDate, VCLongDate, VCDateTeX. - Introduced macros VCDateRAW, VCDateISO, VCDateTEX. * Improved documentation: - Added section Questions and answers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/vc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/vc (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: polski package
by CTAN Announcements 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 at 18:53 +0100, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the polski package. > --------- > Package: polski > Authors: Mariusz Olko, Marcin Woliski > Version: 1.3.3 > Date: February, 24 2008 > License: LPPL > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/polski > > Bundle `Polski' provides tools to typeset documents in Polish using > LaTeX2e. Documented source code is in *.dtx and *.fdd files. > > In the curent version (1.3.3) only ot4cmss.fd was corrected. > > ------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: TeX Gyre fonts
by CTAN Announcements 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 at 16:05 +0100, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the tex-gyre fonts. Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre > ----- > Package: The TeX Gyre Collection of Fonts > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 1.104 > Date: February 2008 > Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre > License: GUST Font License > Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre > > The whole package consists of the following font families: > TeX Gyre Adventor, TeX Gyre Bonum, TeX Gyre Chorus, TeX Gyre Cursor, > TeX Gyre Heros, TeX Gyre Pagella, TeX Gyre Schola, TeX Gyre Termes > > --------- > Description > > All of the Ghostscript text font families have become gyrefied > as the result of the project. Gyrefication, also called LM-ization, > was first applied to the Computer Modern Fonts and their various > generalizations with the result known as the Latin Modern (LM) Fonts. > > > The TeX Gyre Adventor family of sansserif fonts is based on the > URW Gothic L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, > ITC Avant Garde Gothic was designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase > in 1970. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs > each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. > > The TeX Gyre Bonum family of serif fonts is based on the URW Bookman L > family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font was designed > by Alexander Phemister in 1860 and named Bookman (or Bookman Old Style). > The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and > are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note > that with the release of this family the QuasiBookman fonts became > obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Chorus is a font based on the > URW Chancery L Medium Italic font distributed with Ghostscript. > The original, ITC Zapf Chancery, was designed in 1979 by > Hermann Zapf who was inspired by handwritten letterforms of the > Italian Renaissance (currently, other variants of this typeface > are available). Compared to URW Chancery L Medium Italic, > TeX Gyre Chorus is heavily extended and contains more than 900 glyphs. > Unlike for other fonts from the TeX Gyre collection, Greek letters are > missing and so are small caps (using capital forms of chancery > characters for typesetting whole words should be forbidden by law). > The font is available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. > Please note that with the release of TeX Gyre Chorus the QuasiChancery > font became obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Cursor family of monospaced serif fonts is based on the > URW Nimbus Mono L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original > font, Courier, was designed by Howard G. (Bud) Kettler in 1955 for > the IBM Corporation. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly > 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type > formats. Please note that with the release of this family > the QuasiCourier fonts became obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Heros family of sansserif fonts is based on the > URW Nimbus Sans L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original > font, Helvetica, was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger in cooperation > with Eduard Hoffman at the Haas type foundry. The constituent > 8 faces (4 standard and 4 condensed) contain nearly 1250 glyphs each > and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. > Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiSwiss fonts > became obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Pagella family of serif fonts is based on the URW Palladio L > family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, Palatino, > was designed by Hermann Zapf in the 1940's for the Stempel type foundry. > The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and > are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that > with the release of this family the QuasiPalatino fonts became obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Schola family of serif fonts is based on the > URW Century Schoolbook L family distributed with Ghostscript. > The original was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1919, for > the American Type Founders. The constituent 4 standard faces > contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, > TeX and Open Type formats. > > The TeX Gyre Termes family of serif fonts is based on the > Nimbus Roman No9 L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original > font, Times, was designed by Stanley Morison together with > Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent for the London newspaper > The Times. It was first issued by the Monotype Corporation in 1932. > The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each > and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please > note that Termes obsoletes the QuasiTimes fonts. > > ---- > Recent changes > * math glyphs shifted horizontally (widths left intact) > * kerns between half rings and `A' (also `a.sc') added > * in the OTF files, the features `salt', `ss01', `ss02', > `ss03', `ss04' added > * compatibility with the recent Latin Modern release (1.106) implemented, > see -- http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern/ > main changes: the repertoire of glyphs extended by Arabic transliteration > glyphs, OTF structure modified (`size' feature implemented, the ligatures > `i_j' and `I_J' available only for Dutch, the ligature `f_k' -- for Polish, > the `locl' feature reimplemented -- an artificial glyph `i.TRK' is no > longer needed) > * glyphs uni03C6 and uni03D5 used to be interchanged in all TeX Gyre fonts; > the unicode specification is not explicit too much: > 03C6;GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI > 03D5;GREEK PHI SYMBOL > * `copyright.alt' added > * an underlining stroke added in `ordmasculine' and `orfeminine'; > `colonmonetary' and `guarani' touched > > ------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: glossaries
by Robin Fairbairns 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

ctan-upload(a)tex.ac.uk wrote (in its sweet little way): > ====================================================================== > > 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 list of acronyms > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.12 (8 March 2008): > * Fixed bug that causes glspl to print the plural short form > on first use instead of the plural long form. > > * Added descriptionplural and symbolplural keys. > > * Added glsshortkey, glsshortpluralkey, glslongkey and > glslongpluralkey. > > * Fixed bugs in glsname, glstext, glsdesc etc. > > * Added a check for hypertarget in addition to checking > for hyperlink (in the event that hyperlink is defined > but not hypertarget). > > * Changed #! line in makeglossaries to use /usr/bin/env > > * Added package mfirstuc.sty which provides the command > makefirstuc{<stuff>} which makes the first object of > <stuff> uppercase unless <stuff> starts with a control > sequence followed by a group, in which case the first > object in the group is converted to uppercase. Examples: > > makefirstuc{abc} -> Abc > makefirstuc{emph{abc}} -> emph{Abc} > makefirstuc{{a}bc} -> {A}bc > makefirstuc{ae bc} -> AE bc i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue. i've also added a catalogue entry for mfirstuc, on the grounds that it surely has other uses. thanks for the upload. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/glossaries.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries the package itself is already on its journey to mirror sites around the world. the catalogue entry will be updated overnight (i.e., pretty soon, here in cambridge, but different times at the other two main sites). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: xecyr
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

A new 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: xecyr Author's name: Alexey Shipunov Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xecyr Summary description: helper for Cyrillic languages in XeLaTeX + Babel License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the version 1.0 of 'xecyr' package which is intended to help with Russian and other Cyrillic-based languages in Babel and XeLaTeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xecyr . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xecyr (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: frontespizio
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

A new 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: frontespizio Author's name: Enrico Gregorio Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/frontespizio Summary description: This package provides an environment to typeset a frontispiece to theses in Italian style License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Typesetting a frontispiece independently of the layout of the main document is difficult. This package provides a solution by producing an auxiliary TeX file to be typeset on its own and the result is automatically included at the next run. The markup necessary for the frontispiece is written in the main document in a frontespizio environment. Documentation is mainly in Italian, as the frontispiece style is probably apt only to theses in Italy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/frontespizio . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/frontespizio (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 package update: abc
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

The package here has been updated and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: abc Author's name: Enrico Gregorio Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/abc Summary description: This package supports ABC(Plus) and Mup music notation in LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 2 of the abc package for including music in ABC and ABCPlus notation in LaTeX files. The package now supports writing music excerpts with different names for each abc environment automatically. An important addition is support for Mup (Music Publisher from Arkkra.com) via the subpackage mup (many thanks to Martin Tarenskeen for suggesting this addition and some improvements on the main package) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/abc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/abc (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 package update: chemstyle
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: chemstyle Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle Summary description: Writing chemistry with style License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.2: - New keyval-based option handling - Re-write of code to alter reference section name: now works with natbib and biblatex - Options now allowed at run-time - Removed obsolete `chapter' option - Several internal tweaks - Documentation improvements ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/chemstyle (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: vc bundle
by CTAN Announcements 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

The package below has been installed on 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: vc bundle Author's name: Stephan Hennig Location on CTAN: /support/vc Summary description: version control for TeX and friends License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The vc bundle ---------------------- This is a script based approach to version control for TeX documents. It works more reliable than keyword substitution based approaches, since it doesn't track .tex files only, but /all/ files in a working copy. The vc bundle works with LaTeX and plain TeX. Currently, Subversion and Git are supported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/vc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/vc (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 package update: csquotes 4.0
by CTAN Announcements 02 Mar '08

02 Mar '08

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded `csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. > > ABOUT > > The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and > display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging > from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of > formal quotations. > > CHANGES > > * e-TeX now mandatory requirement > * New dependency on 'etoolbox' package > * Added package option 'spanish' > * Added variant 'mexican' to style 'spanish' > * Removed variant 'oldstyle' from 'english' style > * Removed variant 'oldstyle' from 'french' style > * Removed variant 'imprimerie' from 'french' style > * Expanded documentation > * Added openautoquote and closeautoquote > * Added openinnerquote and closeinnerquote > * Moved predefined styles, variants, options to csquotes.def > * Added more hints and examples to csquotes.cfg > * Added extended PDF bookmarks to the manual i've installed the new version as requested; thanks for the upload. users may view the catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/csquotes.html (that entry will be updated overnight tonight) and they may browse the package directory on the archive at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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