On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Vafa Khalighi, having taken over maintainance, submitted an
update to the
bidi
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/bidi/
Summary description: Support for bidirectional typesetting with XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is the new release of the bidi package (v1.0.1). This
version has been tested by me and other people and so
contains a minimum number of bugs (or known better as XeTeX
limitations). In this version we have fixed all the known
bugs and support for lots of LaTeX packages is added. There
is no real documentation at the moment due to my illness but
if you have any question, then please ask it on the XeTeX
mailing list. There are heaps of examples that will help you
understand how this new version works and what features are
added. Unfortunately it proved almost impossible to support
hyperref and color because of XeTeX limitations. For color
support, you are encouraged to use xecolour package instead
using ordinary color and xcolor packages. Also please note
that when you use longtable package with bidi package, in
RTL mode, your tables will not break when a page is finished
and again this is due to XeTeX limitation. Please note that
you always should load bidi package as your last package.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/bidi/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bidi
(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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
the upload daemon coughed modestly, and told me about an upload. and
then the details disappeared to that great archive system in the sky.
fortunately, i've managed to reconstruct the mail...
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: cleveref
> Author's name: Toby Cubitt
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/
> Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Version 0.13.1:
>
> * Bug fix allowing arbitrary LaTeX code within ag{...} commands to
> work properly when cleveref is loaded.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thank you for the upload.
i have 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/cleveref.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/
users may notice the catalogue entry changing, in a small way,
overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the upload daemon raises its voice above the conversations in the
corridor, and says
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: glossaries
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
> Summary description: Create glossaries and lists of acronyms
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v2.02:
> * Renamed glossaries-dictionary-Brazil.dict to
> glossaries-dictionary-Brazilian.dict
> * Replaced @mkboth with glossarymark in glossarysection
> to make it easier for the user to override it
> * Fixed bug that generated no printglossary warning when
> the glossary is placed in a group
> * translate=false option will now prevent automatic loading
> of translator package.
thank you for the upload.
i have installed the update and edited the catalogue repository to
reflect the new version.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/glossaries.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
as usual, the catalogue entry will change, minutely, overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the
pdfcrop
package.
Pdfcrop is a Perl script that can either trim pages of any whitespace border, or
trim them of a fixed border.
Location on CTAN: support/pdfcrop
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Changes:
2009/07/14 v1.15: Fix for negative coordinates in Bounding Boxes
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/pdfcrop/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcrop
(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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, John Bowman submitted version 1.81 of the
asymptote
package.
Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical
drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote
provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does
for scientific text.
Location on CTAN: /graphics/asymptote
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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A boolean targetsize option can now be used to draw 3D labels with the apparent
size they would have on the target plane. The camera adjustment algorithms
were fixed; the autoadjust flag is respected. Missing path3 functions
such as endpoint(path3) were added. The doubleclick timeout under MSWindows
was fixed. A workaround for a ConTeXT small font bug is illustrated in
contextfonts.asy. File associations are now used under MSWindows for
psviewer, pdfviewer, display, and animate. Single quotation marks are now
allowed in filenames. Deconstruction is now only supported in PNG format;
the xformat setting was removed. The example lmfit illustrates
Levenberg-Marquardt nonlinear least-squares fitting.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=asymptote
(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
simultaneously, i splutter over my lunch, and the upload daemon also
splutters:
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: datatool
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/datatool
> Summary description: Tools to load and manipulate data
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v2.02:
>
> * fixed bug caused by undefined @dtlifhaskey (should be
> @DTLifhaskey)
> * fixed bug caused by undefined dtl@getcolumnindex (should
> be @dtl@getcolumnindex)
> * fixed bug in DTLsavedb that ignores the file name
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i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue entry (a bit).
thanks for the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/datatool.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/datatool
the truly alert will observe a change to the catalogue entry after
tonight's update run.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 Michael Niedermair submitted the new package
properties
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/properties
Summary description: Load Properties from a file
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package loads properties (key, value) from a properties
file, e.g. jobname.properties.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/properties
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=properties
(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 Thu, 2 Jul 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
softmaker-freefont
package.
Location on CTAN: /fonts/softmaker-freefont/
Summary description: Support files for fonts available at www.freefont.de
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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In June 2009 www.freefont.de offered a beautiful handwriting font
for free download: The Softmaker Stone Handwriting.
As handwriting fonts are a quite limited resource in the LaTeX world,
i decided to create support files for this beautiful font. Therefore,
Stone Handwriting will be the starting point for the freefont bundle.
Other (beautiful) fonts may be included in future.
License: LPPL (not the font itself)
New in v1.1:
- added LaTeX support for the quite narrow running font: Henderson
Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the
month (July 2009) and can be downloaded for free at (at least
this month): http://freefont.de
Later you can buy from Softmaker
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/softmaker-freefont/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=softmaker-freefont
(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 update should make it from tug.ctan.org to your local mirror in a day or less.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: TotCount
Version number: 1.1
Author's name: Vasileios Koutavas
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/totcount/
Summary description: A package for computing the last value of counters
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This version fixes a nasty bug that changes the date of
documents using totcount.sty
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/totcount/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/totcount
(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 .
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local
mirror.
Tnx,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: VnTeX
Version number: 3.1.9
Author's name: Reinhard Kotucha
Location on CTAN: /language/vietnamese
Summary description: VnTeX - support for typesetting Vietnamese
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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VnTeX provides fonts and macro packages for typesetting
Vietnamese.
Version 3.1.9 fixes a severe bug which had been introduced
in V. 3.1.8.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/vietnamese/vntex
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/vntex
(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 .
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