ctan-ann July 2008

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CTAN Update: Phaistos.otf
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted an update to the phaistos package. It is a A font that contains all the symbols of the famous Disc of Phaistos, together with a LaTeX package. The disc was ‘printed’ by stamping the wet clay with some sort of punches, probably around 1700 BCE. There are those who believe that this Cretan script was used to ‘write’ Greek (it is known, for example, that the rather later Cretan Linear B script was used to write Greek), but arguments for other languages have been presented. Given that the disc is the only known example of the script, it seems unlikely that a decipherment will ever be confirmed. Location on CTAN: /fonts/archaic/phaistos License: lppl Announcement: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now that the symbols of the Disk of Phaistos are included in Unicode, I have created an OpenType font from the Type 1 font that we had created some years ago. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8 encoding
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '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: 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 loding the old files. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - hyph-en-gb.tex (ukhyphen) and hyph-en-us.tex (ushyphmax) added - Russian and Ukrainian depend on the old loading schemes (for UTF-8) again - some Russian patterns added (cyryoal (yo) for Russian and some more) that were forgotten before - import documentation for Bulgarian (still waiting for update from author) one upload before that: - Sanskrit added - Serbo-Croatian fixed - in Ancient Greek wrong patterns were loaded - fixes in Turkish and Basque ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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