This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local
mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: asyfig
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/asyfig
Summary description: External Asymptote graphics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bug fix for the most recent version of Asymptote. The code
was sitting on my machine for some time, and I neglected to
update my installation of Asymptote for testing before
releasing this package. Thanks to Ricard Torres for alerting
me to the fault.
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This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at you local CTAN mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pstdoc
Author's name: Michael Sharpe
Location on CTAN: /info/pstdoc
Summary description: Help script for pstricks
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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SQLite database and Python script that provides extensive help with
PSTricks commands from a Terminal window. Eg pstdoc psarc
gives the syntax os psarc and all associated keywords, with short
definitions. Works well on Mac. OK on Win, should work with Linux.
The database covers pstricks, pst-plot, pst-node, pst-text, pstricks-add,
pst-3dplot and related packages.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/pstdoc
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in the depths of the server, something stirred, and wrote:
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>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: achemso
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso
> Summary description: Support for submissions to American Chemical Society journals
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v3.2c:
> - Added phone and fax macros
> - Better handling of footnotes in title/author list
> - Various bug fixes
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/achemso.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/achemso
(the catalogue entry will change, almost imperceptibly, overnight
tonight.)
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
From: Jerzy B. Ludwichowski
Subject: URW++ making original 35 fonts available under LPPL
I am forwarding the message below on behalf of Peter Rosenfeld, Managing
Director of URW++, who has kindly agreed to make the basic 35 PostScript
fonts also available under the LPPL. At his request, I'll be
disseminating the information throughout the TeX community.
Many thanks to Dr. Rosenfeld!
Many thanks are also due to Karl Berry, TUG President, for his unswerving
support and advice and Bogus{}aw Jackowski, lead TeX Gyre developer,
for pushing the issue.
Best,
Jerzy
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From: Peter Rosenfeld
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:33:29 +0200
Subject: URW++ original 35 fonts available under LPPL
To whom it may concern,
Many years ago, URW++ Design and Development Inc. released their
Type 1 implementations of the basic 35 PostScript fonts under the
GNU General Public License and the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public
License.
We now additionally release them under the LaTeX Project Public License
(http://www.latex-project.org/lppl), either version 1 or (at your
option) any later version.
Of course, this additional licensing applies to the original URW++
material, not any subsequent changes and additions made by other
parties.
The original font files are widely available, for instance as part of
the Ghostscript 4.00 release, and therefore we are not releasing any new
font files. Those interested can replace the license terms in those
original files accordingly. Responsibility for ensuring that no
material is incorrectly licensed remains with the distributor, as
always.
We hope this additional licensing will make our fonts even more widely
available and usable in the free software community, such as the TeX
Gyre Project.
Sincerely,
Peter Rosenfeld (Managing Director, URW++)
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local
mirror.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: The CodeDoc class
Author's name: Paul Isambert
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: LaTeX code and documentation in LaTeX-format file.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bugfix release:
ef in the (unmodified) code
environment and input in produce mode work properly.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/codedoc
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The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
local mirror.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: recycle
Author's name: Ian Green, Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /fonts/recycle
Summary description: A font providing the recyclable logo
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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As Ian Green's recycle.readme states, recycle.mf is awful code and
doesn't even put the logo in a box (properly). In practical terms,
this means that recycle.mf produces a number of Metafont Inconsistent
equation errors, which break many of the scripts that process
Metafont fonts. Fortunately, running Metafont manually and forcing it
to ignore errors does seem to produce valid output.
To ease the pain of using the recycling symbol in (La)TeX documents
and to enable the recycling symbol to look good at arbitrary scale I
hereby provide recycle.pfb, a PostScript Type 1 version of recycle.mf.
recycle.pfb was produced by running recycle.mf through mf2pt1 and
tweaking the resulting Type 1 font in FontForge to relocate a few
control points to integral coordinates and to remove a
self-intersecting path.
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This package is located at
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On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Mojca Miklavec and Arthur Reutenauer submitted an update to
the
hyph-utf8
package.
Modern native UTF-8 engines such as XeTeX and LuaTeX need hyphenation patterns
in UTF-8 format, whereas older systems require hyphenation patterns in the 8-bit
encoding of the font in use (such encodings are codified in the LaTeX scheme
with names like OT1, T2A, TS1, OML, LY1, etc).
The present package offers a collection of conversions of existing patterns to
UTF-8 format, together with converters for use with 8-bit fonts in older
systems. Since hyphenation patterns for TeX are only read at iniTeX time, it is
hoped that the UTF-8 patterns, with their converters, will completely supplant
the older patterns.
Location on CTAN: /language/hyph-utf8/
Summary description: UTF-8 hyphenation patterns
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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Synchronize changes from dehyph-exptl v0.20:
- improvements in hyph-de-1901.tex, hyph-de-1996.tex
- added Swiss-German patterns with traditional ortography
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/hyph-utf8/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=hyph-utf8
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Stephan Hennig submitted an update to the
dehyph-exptl
package.
Location on CTAN: /language/hyphenation/dehyph-exptl
Summary description: experimental hyphenation patterns for the German language
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides experimental hyphenation patterns for
the German language, covering traditional and reformed
orthography for several varieties of Standard German. The
patterns can be used with packages Babel and hyphsubst from
the Oberdiek bundle.
Dieses Paket enthaelt experimentelle Trennmuster fuer die
deutsche Sprache. Die Trennmuster decken das in
Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz gebraeuchliche
Standarddeutsch in der traditionellen und reformierten
Rechtschreibung ab und koennen mit den Paketen Babel und
hyphsubst aus dem Oberdiek-Buendel verwendet werden.
2009-06-24: v0.20
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Aenderungen:
* allgemein:
** Die Trennung von Zahlwoertern wurde verbessert.
** Die roemischen Zahlen bis MMD (2500) werden nicht getrennt.
** Viele zusaetzliche irrefuehrende Trennungen werden vermieden.
** Viele Fehler in der Wortdatenbank wurden korrigiert.
** Die Dokumentation wurde erweitert.
* dehypht-x (traditionelle Rechtschreibung, Deutschland, Oesterreich):
Der Ersatz ss fuer ß wird beruecksichtigt und wie bei der Schreibung
mit ß getrennt. Das Babelkuerzel S muss damit in Versalwoertern
nur noch in Ausnahmefaellen verwendet werden (siehe auch Regel T2
in der Paketdokumentation).
* dehyphts-x (traditionelle Rechtschreibung, Schweiz):
Es werden neue Trennmuster fuer die traditionelle Rechtschreibung
des Schweizer Standarddeutschs angeboten. Die Trennmuster
unterscheiden sich von denen fuer die traditionelle Rechtschreibung
des Standarddeutschs Deutschlands und Oesterreichs (dehypht-x) in
der Trennung von ss als Ersatz fuer ß. Babelunterstuetzung fuer
diese Trennmuster fehlt bisher jedoch. Wer machts?
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, James Clawson submitted an update to the
biblatex-mla
package.
The package provides biblatex support for citations in the format specified by
the MLA.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 0.7 of biblatex-mla allows for compatibility with
the latest version of biblatex (o.8d), fixes other problems,
and adds many new features, including the following:
- package option mladraft
- entry options totalnames and uniquetranslator
- support for entry types @suppbook and @suppcollection
- support for reprints and translations
- improved localization for non-American (and American) users
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-mla/
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local
mirror.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Asymptote
Author's name: Andy Hammerlindl and John Bowman
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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Thread locking issues were fixed. The linegranularity is now
respected when
drawing thick curved lines. A bug in FSAL ODE integrators
when using a
fixed time step was fixed. Missing miterlimit defaults were
added.
Xasy was updated to use Python 2.6.2 and Imaging-1.1.7b1
(which requires no
alpha support patches). Obsolete patches were removed. More
TeXLive build
issues were addressed: the install-prebuilt target omits
texhash and does
not attempt to install PNG files for asymptote.info. A
configuration
problem with --disable-gc was fixed. The 3D mouse bindings
are now
customizable. Support was added for generating syntax
highlighting for the KDE
editor Kate.
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