ctan-ann July 2009

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CTAN update: latex-veryshortguide
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at you local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The Very Short Guide to LaTeX Version number: July 2009 Author's name: Peter Flynn Location on CTAN: /info/latex-veryshortguide Summary description: An 4pp folder designed as an aide-mémoire for people who have just done a course in LaTeX and need something by them on their desk the next day to refresh their memories. It is not intended as a substitute for full documentation. License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a revision with minor updates of the Very Short Guide to LaTeX. It is now typeset as four A5 pages, leaving the imposition for printing up to the user (a ready-to-print 2pp 2-up landscape A4 imposition is included). I am open to suggestions as to how best to re-arrange this for Letter size users. There is a descriptive web page with preview images at http://latex.silmaril.ie/veryshortguide/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex-veryshortguide . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latex-veryshortguide (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: ly1enc.def
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

that upload daemon was at it while i was coming home from work: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: ly1enc.def > Author's name: Karl Berry > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1 > Summary description: dotless j support > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The existing LY1 support file for LaTeX (ly1enc.def) has always given > a LaTeX error when the j (dotless j) command is used. However, > dotless j has always been defined in the LY1 encoding (position 17, > decimal), and many fonts, such as Latin Modern, do support it there. > > With David Carlisle's ok, this new version of the file treats j like > all other glyphs. If it's there in the font, it's supported, and if > not, there's a missing character warning in the log file. > > Questions to Karl. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the new version, and (minutely) updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ly1.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1 the sharp-eyed (and very keen) reader will spot the minute changes to the catalogue entry, some time after i've gone to bed. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: natbib 8.31
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 Patrick Daly submitted an update to the natbib package. Natbib provides a style with author-year and numbered references, as well as much detailed of support for other bibliography use. Provides versions of the standard BibTeX styles that are compatible with natbib - plainnat, unsrtnat, abbrnat. The bibliography styles produced by custom-bib are designed from the start to be compatible with natbib. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contributed/natbib Summary description: Fix for use with RevTeX, ensures backward compatibility License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- With natbib V8.3, a new merging feature was added, essentially for use with ReVTeX. However, there is a bug that makes it incompatible with LaTeX files written for earlier versions. This bug is now fixed, so that the default works as before. The new code and the bug fix are written by Arthur Ogawa. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/natbib . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=natbib (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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CTAN has a new package: mathgifg
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should be at your local mirror in a day. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mathgifg Version number: 0.4 Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/mathgifg Summary description: LaTeX Support for Microsoft Georgia and ITC Franklin Gothic In Text and Math License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides LaTeX support for Microsoft Georgia and ITC Franklin Gothic fonts, supplied, for example, with Microsoft Windows. The package provides support for text and math. The math support is very preliminary: there is a lot of work to do on individual kerning and glyph placement! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/mathgifg . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mathgifg (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: FiXme
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: FiXme Version number: 3.4 Author's name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ Summary description: A LaTeX2e package for inserting fixme and meta-notes in your documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm pleased to announce the release of FiXme version 3.4. New in this release: ** fixme, fxerror, fxwarning and fxnote are now robust ** Fix incompatibility with KOMA-Script classes when the lox file is inexistent FiXme is a LaTeX2e package for inserting fixme notes in your documents. Such notes can appear inline, as marginal notes, footnotes, index entries, in the log file and as warnings on stdout. It is also possible to summarize them in a list. When you switch from draft to final mode, any remaining fixme note will be logged, but removed from the document's body. Additionally, critical notes will abort compilation with an informative message. FiXme also comes with support for AUC-TeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fixme . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fixme (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: memoir
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The memoir class Version number: v1.6180339g Author's name: Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ Summary description: Highly configurable book like class License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Maintenance update, fixes minor bugs in memoir, mempatch and the manual. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/memoir (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: cell
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

This has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at you local mirror. Jim Hefferon ................................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: cell Version number: 1.28, 2.03 Author's name: Tom Schneider Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cell Summary description: bibliography and style files for the journal Cell License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bibliography and style files for the journal Cell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cell . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cell (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: pstool
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

This package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pstool Version number: 1.3 Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pstool Summary description: Facilitate psfrag graphics in pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A package like pst-pdf for processing PostScript graphics with psfrag labels within pdfLaTeX documets. The difference with this package is that every graphic is compiled individually, drastically speeding up compilation time when only a single figure needs re-processing. Version 1.3 has some new features: - [bitmap] option to control compression of bitmap graphics, - Package options may now be set anywhere with pstoolsetup{}, - localised pstool options can be set per-graphic. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pstool . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pstool (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: etextools
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: etextools Version number: 2e Author's name: Florent CHERVET Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ Summary description: e-TeX more useful tools for LaTeX package writers License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Many bug fixed... an example file added. his package provides mainly 4 categories of macros : - the expandnext macro and other expansion control macros - the \FE@testopt and \FE@ifstar macros for fully expandable (FE) (starred-)macros with options - fully expandable command list parsers : csvloop, listloop and a general constructor - some macros lacking from the etoolbox package : listdel, listgdel, listxdel, getlistitem, getlistindex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etextools . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/etextools (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: ltxnew
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Florent Chervet submitted the new package ltxnew to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew Summary description: ltxnew provides the ew, enew and provide prefixes for checking definition of control sequences License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ltxnew provides the ew, enew and provide prefixes for checking definitions. It is designed to work with e-TeX distributions of LaTeX and relies on the LaTeX macro @ifdefinable. Local allocation of counters, dimensions, skips, muskips, boxes, tokens and marks are provided by the etex.sty package. ew and enew as well as provide may be used for all kind of control sequences. Please refer to the section Using ew of the pdf documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ltxnew (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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