ctan-ann January 2010

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CTAN Update: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the softmaker-freefont package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/softmaker-freefont/ Summary description: Support files for SoftMaker free fonts available at www.freefont.de License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 softmaker-freefont bundle. Other fonts will be included in future. Supported fonts at the moment: Congress (regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold), Jugendstil, Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) New in v1.7: - added support for the font Jugendstil Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (January 2010) and can be downloaded for free (at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de Later you can buy it from Softmaker ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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CTAN update: expl3
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

ctan-upload(a)cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: > Name of contribution: expl3 > Author's name: LaTeX3 Project > Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/expl3 > Summary description: Packages supporting LaTeX3 programming conventions > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This release (SVN 1766) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > This is a maintenance release following the recent snapshot of > SVN 1755. A bug in l3doc is fixed so that the changes function > correctly indexes alterations under the name of the relevant > function. New l3keys properties are added to handle variable > names by name, for example .tl_set:c > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/expl3.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/expl3 as always, there will be a very minor change to the html file overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: microtype
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: microtype Version number: 2.4 Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- protrusion settings for T2A encoded Minion (contributed by Karl Karlsson) -- lua functions moved to dedicated lua file (contributed by Élie Roux) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/microtype (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: keyreader
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: keyreader Version number: 0.1 Author's name: Ahmed Musa Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Reads multiple keys to be defined by xkeyval License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saves tokens in circumstances where several keys are to be defined using xkeyval package. Also provides a means for defining (within xkeyval) complementary boolean keys. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/keyreader . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/keyreader (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: notes2bib
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

quoth the upload daemon, in the midst of all the snow and ice: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: notes2bib > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Author's email: joseph.wright(a)morningstar2.co.uk > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib > Summary description: Integrating notes into the bibliography > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.0b: > - Bug fix when using nofiles > - Documentation improvements > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the new version, and updated the 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/notes2bib.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib and, of course he catalogue entry on the web will change, ever so slightly, overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: drv
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: drv Version number: 0.95 Author's name: Laurent Méhats Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/drv/ Summary description: Derivation trees with MetaPost. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Derivation forests, radial mode (beta), documentation update. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/drv/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/drv (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: The caption package v3.1l
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table, and cooperates with many other packages. Includes rotating captions, sideways captions, continued captions (for tables or figures that come in several parts). A list of compatibility notes, for other packages, is provided in the documentation. The package also provides the caption outside float facility, in the same way that simpler packages like capt-of do. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version includes adaptions to the very recent hyperref and nameref package versions. Furthermore it should work with the combine document class, too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=caption (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: rake4latex
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: rake4latex Version number: 0.1.0 Author's name: Knut Lickert Location on CTAN: /support/rake4latex Summary description: call_rake4latex.rb is a rake-based tool to compile LaTeX-Projects. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The tool compiles LaTeX-documents as often as needed, including makeindex and bibTeX calls. Splitindex, gloss and rail A simple interface to the rake4latex-gem (Ruby/Rake) and an exe-file for windows. The exe-file requires no Ruby or Rake. The gem itself is available at http://gemcutter.org/gems/rake4latex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/rake4latex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/rake4latex (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: threeparttablex
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

This should soon be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: threeparttablex Version number: v0.08 Author's name: Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/threeparttablex Summary description: Threeparttablex brings tablenotes to longtable, and provides extra features to the regular tabelnotes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Someone forgot to commit his changes to subversion, so the ote and source macros got lost in the version from 2009/12/28. This version brings them back again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/threeparttablex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/threeparttablex (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: minted
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

This should soon be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: minted Version number: 0.0.4 Author's name: Konrad Rudolph Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ Summary description: Highlighted source code for LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- minted is a package that facilitates expressive syntax highlighting in LaTeX using the powerful Pygments library. The package also provides options to customize the highlighted source code output using fancyvrb. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minted . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/minted (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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