On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
pdfcomment
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment
Summary description: A user-friendly interface to PDF annotations
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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For a long time pdflatex has offered the command pdfannot for inserting
arbitrary PDF annotations. However, the command is presented in
a form where additional knowledge of the definition of the PDF format is
indispensable. This package is an answer to the – occasional – questions
in newsgroups, about how one could use the comment function of Adobe
Reader. At least for the writer of LaTeX code, the package offers a
convenient and user-friendly means of using pdfannot to provide comments
in PDF files. Since version v1.1, pdfcomment.sty also supports:
LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf, LaTeX -> dvipdfmx and XeLaTeX.
Unfortunately, support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers is sparse to
nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is
Adobe Reader.
License: LPPL
Changes in v1.5b:
- new option deadline
-> new list styles with deadline
feature request by: Michael Niedermair
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This should within a day be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: autolatex
Version number: 8.0
Author's name: Stephane GALLAND
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: GXL support for AutoLaTeX
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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AutoLaTeX 8.0 is able to automatically convert GXL files
(Graph eXtended Language) into PDF or PNG pictures.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: inconsolata
Version number: 2009/11/28
Author's name: Karl Berry
Location on CTAN: /fonts/inconsolata
Summary description: Fix spacing font dimensions.
License type: ofl
Announcement text:
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This update of the Inconsolata monospaced support corrects
the spacing-related fontdimen values so that there is no
stretch and shrink, and end-of-sentence extraspace is equal
to the word space. (Same as in cmtt.)
Thanks to Enrico Gregorio and Eddie Kohler.
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and again, the daemon says:
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> Name of contribution: luainputenc
> Author's name: Elie Roux
> Author's email: elie.roux(a)telecom-bretagne.eu
> Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/latex/luainputenc/
> Summary description: Replacing inputenc for use in LuaTeX.
> License type: lppl
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> fixing a bug with endlinechar introduced with recent versions of LuaTeX.
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thanks for this also; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/latex/luainputenc/
the web catalogue entry will change minutely, overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should reach your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: cleveref
Version number: 0.15
Author's name: Toby Cubitt
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cleveref
Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This version adds support for the amsthm package, and fixes
a subtle bug that could occasionally cause page numbers to
be reset.
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quoth the daemon:
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> Name of contribution: xetex.def 0.94
> Author's name: Karl Berry
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xetex-def
> Summary description: merge big-point and eps changes
> License type: lppl
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> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> This xetex.def 0.94 combines the two different 0.93 releases:
> big-point incompatibility (from Ross Moore) and EPS support from
> dvipdfmx.def (from Jonathan Kew). It does not include any additional
> changes.
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thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xetex-def
as always, the catalogue will change, in a small way, overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Daniel Luecking submitted an update to the
mfpic
package.
Location on CTAN: /graphics/mfpic/
Summary description: A package for creating pictures in TeX with the aid of MetaPost or Metafont.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Mfpic version 1.03.
Bugs fixed since 1.00:
-- Polar vector fields extending past picture boundaries.
-- Problem with handling of verbatimtex.
-- Color handling broken for MetaPost version < 0.900
-- Flawed detection of amstex format.
-- Corrupted PDF files in documentation.
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Rainer Schöpf
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Massimo Redaelli submitted an update to the
circuitikz
package.
The package provides a set of macros for naturally typesetting electrical and
(somewhat less naturally, perhaps) electronic networks.
It is designed as a tool that is easy to use, with a lean syntax, native to
LaTeX, and directly supporting PDF output format.
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/circuitikz/
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Quite an update. Many bugs fixed, but probably just as many
new ones introduced: feedback welcome!
* Version 0.2.3
- fixed compatibility problem with label option from tikz
- Fixed resizing problem for shape ground
- Variable capacitor
- polarized capacitor
- ConTeXt support (read the manual!)
- nfet, nigfete, nigfetd, pfet, pigfete, pigfetd
(contribution of Clemens Helfmeier and Theodor Borsche)
- njfet, pjfet (contribution of Danilo Piazzalunga)
- pigbt, nigbt
- *backward incompatibility* potentiometer is now the
standard resistor-with-arrow-in-the-middle; the old
potentiometer is now known as variable resistor (or vR),
similarly to variable inductor and variable capacitor
- triac, thyristor, memristor
- new property name for bipoles
- fixed voltage problem for batteries in american voltage mode
- european logic gates
- *backward incompatibility* new american standard
inductor. Old american inductor now called cute inductor
- *backward incompatibility* transformer now linked with
the chosen type of inductor, and version with core, too.
Similarly for variable inductor
- *backward incompatibility* styles for selecting shape
variants now end are in the plural to avoid conflict with paths
- new placing option for some tripoles (mostly transistors)
- mirror path style
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> Name of contribution: xpackages
> Author's name: LaTeX team
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xpackages
> Summary description: High-Level LaTeX3 concepts
> License type: lppl
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> The xpackages bundle: high-level LaTeX3 concepts
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> The xpackages are experimental, high-level parts of LaTeX3. They
> are designed to provide a link between the programming system
> (expl3) and the user. Each xpackage is focussed in a different
> area, for example creating document commands (xparse),
> producing flexible formatting functions (template), etc.
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> At present, the xpackages are designed to be loaded on top
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> usepackage{xparse}
> usepackage{xtemplate}
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> In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code.
> This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a
> stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed.
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> To use the xpackages, you will need to have the expl3 package
> available. This provides the LaTeX3 coding environment on which
> the xpackages are built.
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> This release (SVN 1750)
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> This release adds the new package xtemplate to the release.
> xtemplate is a complete re-working of the template code, to
> improce the interface and internals. Crucially, templates are
> nmow much better self-documenting: a designer should be able
> to read a template to see the nature of the keys it defines.
> The team have also constucted a number of automated tests for
> the xtemplate code, so that problems will show up before
> breaking the released version.
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> The current template package is slowly being retired from use
> in the other xpackages (currently SVN only). New packages
> should use the xtemplate approach only: at a suitable stage in
> the future, template will be removed from the xpackages.
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> There are some outstanding questions about the xtemplate code,
> which have been discussed on the LaTeX-L list. These will be
> addressed, although it may take some time as the answers depend
> on testing xtemplate in the real world.
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> The team is currently examining the galley2 and xfmgalley
> modules, and expect that the next xpackage to be revised to a
> usable position will be a galley system built on these existing
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: PerlTeX
Version number: 2.0
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/perltex/
Summary description: Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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PerlTeX is a combination Perl script (perltex.pl) and LaTeX2e style
file (perltex.sty) that, together, give the user the ability to define
LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code. Once defined, a Perl macro becomes
indistinguishable from any other LaTeX macro. PerlTeX thereby combines
LaTeX's typesetting power with Perl's programmability.
Version 2.0 (not a major release, just the version after 1.9) of
PerlTeX fixes two bugs. First, user code can now safely change the
current directory. Second, multi-paragraph error output is now
reported correctly. Thanks to Przemyslaw Wesolek for providing a bug
report and minimal example that triggered both bugs.
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