ctan-ann September 2008

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CTAN update: esindex 1.3
by CTAN Announcements 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: esindex 1.3 Author's name: Javier Bezos Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/bezos Summary description: Spanish indexes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package defines the macro esindex which calls index with a sort key created automatically so that entries are correctly ordered in Spanish with makeindex. What's new in 1.3: - Fixed an uncompatibility with recent versions of LaTeX. - Package option ignorespaces for letter-by-letter sorting. - ignorewords to set a list of particles to be ignored. - Package option replaceindex, which makes index to behave like esindex. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bezos . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/esindex (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: XePersian
by CTAN Announcements 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

The package here 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: XePersian Author's name: Vafa Khalighi Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xepersian/ Summary description: Persian for LaTeX over XeTeX, updated to v0.161111111 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XePersian updated to version 0.161111111. Huge Improvements have been done in this version: Introducing wocolumnstableofcontents, setparsimathsdigitsfont, pagenumbering{adadi}. Changed pagenumbering{farsi} to pagenumbering{harfi}. Corrected the table of contents problem in amsart and amsbook classes. Corrected the header problems in all classes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xepersian/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xepersian (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: psu-thesis
by CTAN Announcements 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

This package has gone up 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: psu-thesis Author's name: Matt Floros Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/psu-thesis Summary description: Package for writing a thesis at Penn State University License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The psu-thesis package provides proper page formatting according to the Penn State thesis office guidelines (as of 2004) and automatically formats the front and back matter, title page, and more. A BibTeX style file is also included for the bibliography. This is version 1.1, including the new committee page and removing the doublespace.sty dependency. The setspace package is still required. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psu-thesis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/psu-thesis (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: Writing Scientific Documents Using LaTeX
by CTAN Announcements 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

This package has been installed 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: Writing Scientific Documents Using LaTeX Author's name: Andrew J. Bennieston Location on CTAN: /info/intro-scientific Summary description: An introduction to typesetting scientific or mathematical documents using LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Writing Scientific Documents Using LaTeX is an article introducing the use of LaTeX in typesetting scientific documents. It covers the basics of creating a new LaTeX document, special typesetting considerations, mathematical typesetting and graphics. It also touches on bibliographic data and BibTeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/intro-scientific . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/intro-scientific (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: The hypdvips package
by CTAN Announcements 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The hypdvips package Author's name: Raimund Niedrist Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/hypdvips Summary description: Hyperref extensions for use with dvips License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.03 - new package options: `flip' & `mirror' - support for package threeparttable: tablenotes are now hyperlinked - fixes corrupted /Names entry in {Catalog} when embedding files ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hypdvips . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hypdvips (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: kpfonts
by CTAN Announcements 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

The package below 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: kpfonts Author's name: Caignaert Christophe Location on CTAN: /fonts/kpfonts Summary description: Full set of fonts for text and math typesetting License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kpfonts is a very full set of fonts for typesetting text and math. It includes real small caps, all current math symbols (TeX, AMS and more), in normal and bold version. The kepler's project is to provide a very large set of options to customize your typesetting. This 2.3 release gets: - a new option 'nofligatures' with no fi, fl, ff, ffi and ffl ligature. The 'f' glyphs are redesigned to get a good result; now, searching a word like 'difficult' became possible with all viewers. - a new option 'partialup' with upright design of the partial symbol, - a new shape 'scsl' with slanted smallcaps. - new kerning uppercase-lowercase of large small caps. - new kerning P-s. Read the .pdf doc file available in english and in french! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/kpfonts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/kpfonts (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 -- bookmark v1.4
by CTAN Announcements 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update of the oberdiek bundle. Location on CTAN: install/macros/latex/contrib/. > > Changes > * bookmark v1.4 > * Fix for bug introduced in v1.3, package `flags' is one-based, > but package `bitset' is zero-based. Thus options `bold' > and `italic' are wrong in v1.3. (Daniel Müllner) Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pdfcrop v1.14
by CTAN Announcements 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 at 21:56 +0200, 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/ License: lppl Changes: 2008/09/12 v1.14: Error detection for invalid Bounding Boxes. _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: hypcap v1.10, hycolor v1.4
by CTAN Announcements 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the oberdiek bundle. > Changes: > > * hypcap 2008/09/08 v1.10 > * capstartfalse and capstarttrue added. > > * hycolor 2008/09/08 v1.4 > * Fix added to package `xcolor-patch': > Fragile @frameb@x (used in fbox) is made robust. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: pst-pdf v1.1t
by CTAN Announcements 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update to the pst-pdf package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf/ Summary description: A LaTeX package to integrate PostScript code into a PDF output. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The new version correct a critical error introduced in version v1.1q. The handling of the ps-based environments in pdf mode is now more robust using the macro Collect@Body from the required package environ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pst-pdf (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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