ctan-ann January 2009

ctan-ann@ctan.org

3 participants
56 discussions

CTAN update: varsfromjobname
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

This package has been updated. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: varsfromjobname bugfix Author's name: Uwe Ziegenhagen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/varsfromjobname Summary description: License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In version 0.4 was an error due to some missing % chars ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/varsfromjobname . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/varsfromjobname (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 .

1 0

CTAN update: newlfm
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and is making its way through the mirroring system to your local neighbor. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: newlfm Author's name: Paul Thompson Author's email: paul(a)wubios.wustl.edu Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/newlfm Summary description: Letter, fax, memo formatting class License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- newlfm v 9.1 is uploaded. This is a slight upgrade in functionality. The system now supports the inclusion of letterhead form as wallpaper, so that the letter info is superimposed on the letter. Additionally, spacing commands for the closing line are included. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/newlfm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/newlfm (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 . -- Please reply to the list ctan (at) dante.de, not directly to me.

1 0

CTAN update: chemstyle
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jan '09

10 Jan '09

quoth my upload daemon: > The following information was provided by the package's 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 given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.3d: > - Alkyl radicals now work with mhchem > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/chemstyle.html the (very minor) update to the catalogue will appear on the web overnight tonight. > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle thanks for the update; i've installed and updated things as needed. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

1 0

CTAN update: biblatex-chicago-notes-df
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jan '09

10 Jan '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and within a day should be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: biblatex-chicago-notes-df Author's name: David Fussner Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib Summary description: Chicago notes + bibliography style files for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version (0.8.5) adopts the American punctuation tracker provided by biblatex, thereby fixing many small formatting errors and eliminating the need for the awkward custpunct commands, but now requiring, at least in some circumstances, that you use mkbibquote when quoted material appears inside a bibliography field. The package also now supports several new entry types provided by biblatex 0.8. Please see the docs for all the details of these and other changes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-chicago-notes-df (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 .

1 0

CTAN update: language/spanish reorganization
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jan '09

10 Jan '09

Some changes to /language/spanish are propagating through the mirror system at this very moment. See for instance http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/spanish for the new layout. Thanks to Javier for his work and his patience. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... What's new ---------- - The language/spanish directory has been reorganized and will become a permanent place for the latest version of the spanish style for babel, including the Spanish doc. - spanish 5.0h has two changes: - fixed wrong kerning with '' - added two package options: noitemize and noenumerate

1 0

CTAN Update: todonotes
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jan '09

10 Jan '09

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 Henrik Skov Midtiby submitted an update to the todonotes package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/todonotes/ Summary description: The package lets the user mark things to do later, in a simple and and visually appealing way. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A lot of things happened in this release. Added three new translations french, spanish and Catalan thanks to Richard Dominique and Joan Queralt. Improved the visual appearence of the inserted notes (rounded corners and optional shadows) with code from Joan Queralt. Found an untranslated textstring ''Figure'' in the source. Added a figwidth option to the missingfigure command, patch by Paul Ivanov. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/todonotes/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=todonotes (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

1 0

CTAN update: pst-func
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pst-func.tgz to the uk node. Please replace the > files with the ones in the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/ i've done that and updated the catalogue entry for the package in the repository; thanks for the upload. > pst-func is a PSTricks related package for drawing > special mathematical functions like distributions, > polynomials, a.s.o. > > This update has new PostScript routines for the > Chebyshev polynomials first and second kind. > > pst-func.tex -------- > 0.58 2008-12-08 - add ChebyshevT and ChebyshevU (first and second kind) > the macros are only wrappers for the PS routines > - take the optional argument comma from pstricks-add > into account for psPrintValue > > ..... pst-func.pro > 0.10 2009-01-08 added ChebyshevT and ChebyshevU (first/second kind) users may view the catalogue entry at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-func.html or browse the package itself at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/ the catalogue entry (on the web) will be updated overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

1 0

CTAN has a new package: xecolour
by CTAN Announcements 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

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: xecolour Author's name: Vafa Khalighi Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/ Summary description: Colour is XeLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xecolour package is a simple package which defines about 140 different colours by XeTeX's colour feature that can be used in bidirectional texts without any problem. All the command names are the names of the colours (i.e. lue for blue colour) except `` ancolour'' for ``tan colour'' and the general syntax of the command is colourname{<text>} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xecolour . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xecolour (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 .

1 0

CTAN update: keys3
by CTAN Announcements 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

my little daemon wrote: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: keys3 > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/keys3/ > Summary description: Key management for LaTeX3 > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Added .store in skip properties > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/keys3.html (which will be updated overnight) > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/exptl/keys3/ thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

1 0

Re: dante.ctan.org upload: todonotes
by CTAN Announcements 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 Henrik Skov Midtiby submitted an update to the todonotes package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/todonotes/ Summary description: The package lets the user mark things to do later, in a simple and and visually appealing way. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixed a typo in a macroname. Added a textsize option for the package and the prepend / noprepend option for the todo command. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/todonotes/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=todonotes (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

1 0

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

ctan-ann January 2009