ctan-ann July 2008

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CTAN package update: fontch
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jul '08

15 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: fontch Author's name: Rodrigo Medina Location on CTAN: /macros/plain/contrib/fontch Summary description: Macros for changing fonts and sizes in plain TeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A new version of fontch, which is compatible with the new versions of Latin Modern fonts, is available. Fontch is package of macros for changing fonts and sizes in plain TeX. The old version of fontch has been moved to the obsolete directory of CTAN. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/fontch . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fontch (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: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8 encoding
by CTAN Announcements 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8 encoding Author's name: Mojca Miklavec Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Hyphenation patterns have been converted into UTF-8 and should serve as a replacement for the old patterns without any change in functionality. The patterns should be considered upstream replacement that will be used in TeX Live and other distrubutions instead of loading the old files. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * additional patterns with hyphen for Russian and Ukrainian added (UTF-8 patterns only) * source for documentation for Bulgarian added (and improved from previous version) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyph-utf8 . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8 (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: hepthesis
by CTAN Announcements 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

> ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: hepthesis > Author's name: Andy Buckley > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/hepthesis > Summary description: Latest bugfix release of thesis authoring class > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 1.4.2 of the hepthesis package, which provides a convenient > class for authoring academic theses, is now released. > > This version is a bug fix release, which remedies issues with serif > chapter and section headers introduced by use of the scrbook base > class. This version also attempts to hide external style files bundled > for convenience with the example document, since these style files > could get accidentally picked as canonical versions of those packages > within a texmf tree. > > See http://www.insectnation.org/projects/hepthesis/ and the bundled > documentation for more details. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/hepthesis.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hepthesis i have installed the new version of the package, and updated the catalogue entry. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: animate
by CTAN Announcements 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the animate package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/animate Summary description: creating portable PDF animations from graphics files and inline graphics License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update adds the command multiframe, to be used within environment `animateinline', which facilitates building loops around parameterized pictures. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/animate . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=animate (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: isodoc-0.5
by CTAN Announcements 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the isodoc package. The isodoc class can be used for the preparation of letters, invoices, and, in the future, similar documents. Documents are set up with options, thus making the class easily adaptable to user’s wishes and extensible for other document types. Victor Eijkhout’s NTG brief class, which implements the NEN1026 standard, was the starting point. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/isodoc License: LPPL Announcement Text: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ major changes of v0.5 relative to v0.4) - norwegian translations added (thanks Sveinung Heggen) - misplacement of text in subject-less letters corrected ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/isodoc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=isodoc (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: polyglossia
by CTAN Announcements 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 François Charette submitted the new package polyglossia to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia Summary description: Babel replacement for XeLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- THE POLYGLOSSIA PACKAGE v1.0 Modern multilingual typesetting with XeLaTeX ¦ This package for provides a complete Babel replacement for users of XeLaTeX. The initial version includes support for 54 different languages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=polyglossia (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: bidi
by CTAN Announcements 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 François Charette submitted an update to the bidi package. Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/bidi Summary description: Support for bidirectional typesetting with XeLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- THE BIDI PACKAGE v0.3 This package provides a convenient interface for typesetting bidirectional texts with XeLaTeX. This version adds support for tabular environments and captions and brings several other improvements and bugfixes. (Right-to-left tables with the array package are not yet supported.) The code for alphabetic numerals has been moved to the relevant language definition files of the new polyglossia package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/bidi . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bidi (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: pdftex-1.40.8
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

The package below 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: pdftex-1.40.8 Author's name: Han The Thanh Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: A new stable release of pdftex License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The pdfTeX team announces the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.40.8 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.8, an extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF. =========================================================================== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.40.8 =========================================================================== - Incorporated synctex - Incorporated the new version of TeX: 3.1415926 - The pool file is now compiled in - some bugfixes For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS =========================================================================== Legal notice / license =========================================================================== pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2008 Han The Thanh, <thanh(a)pdftex.org> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README =========================================================================== The files / installation =========================================================================== You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your distribution. If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful documentation. =========================================================================== Mailing lists / web pages: =========================================================================== Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex Related web pages: http://www.pdftex.org http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ http://foundry.supelec.fr/scm/?group_id=23 http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes http://www.dante.de/ http://tug.org/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/ The pdfTeX team, Jul 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pdftex (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: xeCJK package
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jul '08

11 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: xeCJK package Author's name: Wenchang Sun Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xecjk Summary description: Typesetting Chinese/Japanese/Korean in XeLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xeCJK is a packge written for XeLaTeX which allows users to typeset CJK scripts easily. Main Features: specify different default fonts for CJK and other characters, respectively. automatically ignore spaces between CJK characters. special effects on full-width CJK punctuation. adjust spaces between CJK and other characters automatically ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xecjk . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xeCJK (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: latex-tds 2008/07/10
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the latex-tds package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/latex-tds/ Changes: 2008/07/10 * Update of babel (2008/07/07). * Module `knuth' added, (mainly to generate PDF files from CTAN:systems/knuth/dist/*/*.web). Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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