ctan-ann July 2008

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CTAN has a new package: tex-gpc
by CTAN Announcements 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 Wolfgang Helbig submitted the new tex-gpc package. Location on CTAN: systems/unix/tex-gpc Summary description: collection of change files for a TeX sytem based on GNU Pascal License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This directory contains change files for Donald E. Knuth's suite of TeX related programs. The change files (.ch) are to be applied to Knuth's master files (.web) in the version from March 2008. You can use them to build 'TeX-GPC', i.e., a TeX system based on the GNU Pascal Compiler version 2.1. TeX-GPC runs in a Unix environment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/unix/tex-gpc/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tex-gpc (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 package update: chemstyle
by CTAN Announcements 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '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: chemstyle Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle Summary description: Schemes and style for chemistry License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.3a: - Improved appearance and behaviour of standardstate ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: CTAN update -- atbegshi v1.8
by CTAN Announcements 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the atbegshi package, a modern reimplementation of package everyshi, providing various commands to be executed before a command. It makes use of e-TeX’s facilities if they are available. Both LaTeX and plain TeX are supported. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License: LPPL Update: * atbegshi v1.8 * AtBeginShipoutUpperLeftForeground added. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: LaTeX Notes
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jul '08

19 Jul '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: LaTeX Notes Author's name: Alpha Huang Location on CTAN: /info/lnotes Summary description: A Chinese introduction to TeX/LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This Chinese document is an introduction to TeX/LaTeX. It covers basic text typesetting, math, graphics, table, Chinese language & fonts, and some miscellaneous features (hyperlink, long document, bibliography, index, page layout). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lnotes . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/lnotes (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: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jul '08

19 Jul '08

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: siunitx Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx Summary description: A comprehesive (SI) units package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.0g: - Improved loading of configuration files in document body ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/siunitx (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: Version 2.3 of the exam document class
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jul '08

19 Jul '08

The package here has been updated 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: Version 2.3 of the exam document class Author's name: Philip Hirschhorn Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/exam Summary description: A document class for preparing exams License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Major changes since version 2.2: 1. In addition to grading tables for the entire exam (indexed either by question number or by page number), it's now possible to create grading tables that cover only part of the exam. 2. In addition to grading tables, it's now possible to create point tables (either for the entire exam or for only part of the exam). These tables list the questions (or pages) and the number of points possible, but don't have space to fill in the number of points actually earned. 3. There are now ``bonus points'', which can be assigned to a question (or part, or subpart, or subsubpart) instead of regular points. Bonus points are not counted by the regular grading tables or point tables, but there are commands to create both grading tables and point tables that count only bonus points, either for the entire exam for for only part of the exam. 4. In a grading table (or point table) indexed by question number, it's possible to replace the number of a question by a title of that question (e.g., "Concepts", or "Design"). Of course, the title of a question can also include the question number. 5. If you create a pdf file from your LaTeX file, then the question numbers (or question titles; see item 4 above) in a grading table indexed by question number will be clickable links that take you to the corresponding question. Similarly, the page numbers in a grading table indexed by page number will be clickable links that take you to the corresponding page. 6. The command answerline, which creates an answer line for short answer questions, can now take an optional argument, which should be the correct answer. The correct answer will be printed on the answer line when solutions are being printed. 7. When creating a choices environment (to list the possible answers to a multiple choice question), you can mark one or more of the choices as "correct choices", and these choices will be printed with emphasis when solutions are being printed. By default, the emphasis is boldface, but this can be changed. 8. Hooks are provided for advanced users to modify the list parameters (e.g., opsep, itemsep, etc.) used in the lists created by the questions, parts, subparts, subsubparts, and choices environments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/exam . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/exam (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: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

This package has been updated 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: pstricks-add Author's name: Herbert Voß Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ Summary description: pstricks-add is a PSTricks related package with bugfixes and new features License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pstricks-add.tex ----------- (Dominik Rodriguez/hv) v 3.07 2008-07-18 - fix bug with psdice - new macro psChart - added setlinecap to linestyle dashed - fix bug with psGTriangle and fillstyle for pspolygon - fix bug with vertical setting of the horizontal labels - add option value inner for tickstyle - add Makro psCancel (Stefano Baroni) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pstricks-add (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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Re: Upgrade the minitoc package to version 60 - documentation fix
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Jean-Pierre Drucbert submitted an update to the minitoc package. The minitoc package allows you to add mini-tables-of-contents (minitocs) at the beginning of every chapter, part or section. There is also provision for mini-lists of figures and of tables. At the part level, they are parttocs, partlofs and partlots. If the type of document does not use chapters, the basic provision is section level secttocs, sectlofs and sectlots. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/minitoc License: LPPL This new version has the following changes or improvements: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Minitoc version #60 --* Fixing a lot of corrupted graphic (PDF) files by replacing them with the original PNG files. --** Making internal hyperlinks work again with Acrobat Reader. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: * These files were corrupted during the conversion PNG->PDF using ImageMagick. ** But xpdf did not show these problems. Many thanks to Heiko Oberdiek and Staszek Wawrykiewicz who signaled the problems and helped to fix them. The administravive trivia are in the `CATALOG' file in the distribution. Note that the documentation is mainly available in PDF form: -- in (not perfect) english: minitoc.pdf, -- in french: minitoc-fr.pdf. The ``cmk'' script may be used to convert the PDF documentation into PostScript. The INSTALL file (and, better, the ``Installation'' chapter in the documentation) describes the files of this package (the complete list of files is in minitoc.l). A minitoc.tds.zip file is also available in the distribution. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: pdfcrop 1.10
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the pdfcrop package. It contains a perl script that can either trim pages of any whitespace border, or trim them of a fixed border. Location on CTAN: /support/pdfcrop/pdfcrop.pl License: LPPL Changes: 2008/07/16 v1.10: Support for XeTeX added with new options --pdftex, --xetex, --xetexcmds. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '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: siunitx Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx Summary description: A comprehesive (SI) units package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.0f: - Fixed spacing bug with colour support - Extended documentation of methods to mask material in columns to avoid processing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/siunitx (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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