that upload daemon is testing my excitement threshold:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: boolexpr
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Author's email: florent.chervet(a)free.fr
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/
> Summary description: A purely expandable way to evaluate boolean expressions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The oolexpr macro evaluate boolean expressions in a purely
> expandable way.
> oolexpr{ A OR B AND C } expands to 0 if the logical
> expression is 1.
> A, B, C may be :
> - numeric expressions such as: x=y, x<>y, x>y or: x<y
> - boolean switches: iftrue 0else 1fi
> - conditionals: ifcsname whatsitendcsname 0else 1fi
> - another oolexpr: oolexpr{ D OR E AND F }
>
> oolexpr may be used with ifcase:
> ifcaseoolexpr{ A OR B AND C }
> What to do if true
> else
> What to do if false
> fi
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i've installed the new package, and created a catalogue entry for it (as
yet, only in the repository). thanks for the upload (i've printed the
doc to read in bed tonight...).
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/boolexpr.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/
of course, the catalogue entry won't appear until the processing has
run. the only safe assumption is that it will happen overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the deeps have been silent for a while -- but wait! -- something stirs!
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: achemso
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Author's email:
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso
> Summary description: Support for American Chemical Society journal submissions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v3.2e:
> - Fix to include abstract text in JACS Communication submissions
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for that.
i've installed the package, 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
as usual, a tiny change in the catalogue entry will be visible, to the
eagle-eyed, overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-3dplot.tgz to the uk mirror. Please replace
> files with the ones in the directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/
>
> and put the new ones in there.
i've done that, and updated the catalogue repository.
> pst-3dplot is a PSTricks related package for drawing
> 3-D objects in parallel projection.
>
> This update has a bug fixes and a new feature
>
> pst-3dplot.pro --------
> 0.28 2009-07-28 add option showgrid for sphere, paraboloid and cylinder
>
> pst-3dplot.tex --------
> 1.84 2009-07-28 - add option showgrid for sphere, paraboloid
> and cylinder
> - fix bug with psBox
thanks for the update.
users may view the package catalogue entry at:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-3dplot.html
or browse the package directory at:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/
not surprisingly, the catalogue entry will change overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Timo Baumann submitted the new package
germkorr
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/germkorr
Summary description: Change kerning for german quotation marks.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The package germkorr has to be loaded after the package german.
It brings some letters like T nearer to german ingle and double quotes even when
that letter wears a standard accent like `.T'.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/germkorr/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=germkorr
(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
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan submitted an update to the
thailatex
package.
ThaiLaTeX enables typesetting Thai with standard LaTeX document classes.
Version number: 0.4.3
Author's name: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
Location on CTAN: /language/thai/thailatex
Summary description: Typeset Thai texts with standard LaTeX classes.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Changes from 0.4.2:
- Update fonts from thaifonts-scalable 0.4.13, changes include:
+ thicker bold faces for ttpyist
+ variation faces for purisa
- Default monospace font is now ttypist.
- Drop the obsolete ' hai' command, in favor of ' haitext'.
- UTF-8 support.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/thai/thailatex
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=thailatex
(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
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the
tikz-timing
package.
This package provides macros and an environment to generate timing diagrams
(digital waveforms) without much effort. The TikZ package is used to produce
the graphics. The diagrams may be inserted into text (paragraphs, hbox, etc.)
and into tikzpictures. A tabular-like environment is provided to produce larger
timing diagrams.
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-timing
Summary description: Update to Version 0.6
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This versions brings the following new features:
* New optional characters (loadable by package options):
'A'/'W' for up and down arrows.
'E' (either) for uncertain low-to-high and high-to-low transitions.
* New forward modifier 'F' as reverse version of the backward modifier 'B'.
* Support for lower-case modifiers 'b','f' and 'n', which
are (a.t.m.) identical to the upper-case versions.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-timing/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tikz-timing
(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
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the
dvisvgm
package.
Name of contribution: dvisvgm
Version number: 0.8
Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm
Summary description: dvisvgm 0.8 has been released
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to
SVG.
Besides some bugfixes and internal code improvements, the
latest version introduces the evaluation of PostScript
specials, as created by PSTricks for example. Currently,
most drawing features like stroking, filling, and clipping
including color, line styles, and transformations are supported.
For further information including a list of recent changes
and pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project
page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm
(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
On Sun, 26 Jul 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 v1.4b:
- Bugfix: problem with different default values for page size
with pdflatex (dvi mode) and dvips/dvipdfmx
=> better specify page size with an option like a4paper
- Bugfix: changed procedure of loading hyperref to prevent warnings
with dvipdfmx
reported by: Jin-Hwan Cho
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcomment
(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
This package has been updated on CTAN and should by now be at your local mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
------------------------- Announcement -------------------------
I'm happy to announce release 3.3 of Eplain, a set of TeX macros that
expands on and extends the definitions in plain TeX in a
style-neutral fashion. Eplain's home page is
http://tug.org/eplain
You can get it off CTAN at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/eplain
The manual is available on-line from CTAN or Eplain's home page, or as
a hard-copy from
http://www.lulu.com/content/113810
(royalties are donated to the TeX Users Group).
Here's an excerpt from the NEWS file.
* New commands eqnum and eqalignnum, counterparts of (l)eqno and
(l)eqalignno, producing equation numbers which can be uniformly
transformed to right-aligned (
ighteqnumbers) or left-aligned
(lefteqnumbers).
* Eplain has borrowed the eTeX, ExTeX, XeTeX and XeLaTeX logos from
tugboat.dtx.
* idxnameseparator is now expanded once so that the .idx file
contains its contents instead of the macro call.
* Non-silent indexing macros have been fixed not to produce a spurious
newline when newline's catcode is 13 (active).
* Eplain now takes care to unactivate any active characters before
typesetting index term in the margin for proofing.
* Updated ifpdf.sty.
* LaTeX package reloading warnings are now not shown on the terminal.
* Documentation improvements.
Thanks to everybody who contributed with bug reports, feature
suggestions and code patches.
Oleg Katsitadze
Philipp Lehman wrote:
> I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK
> node. This is an update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex. Please
> purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as
> usual.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> RELEASE NOTES
>
> See the file RELEASE for release notes.
>
> CHANGES
>
> This is bug fix release. The following files have been modified:
>
> VERSION
> RELEASE
> bibtex/biblatex.bst
> latex/biblatex.sty
i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
Thanks for the upload.
users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html
or browse the package's directory (or rather, its sub-tree) at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/
the catalogue will be updated, on the web, overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team