ctan-ann October 2010

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CTAN update: xpackages
by CTAN Announcements 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

the daemon wrote, while i was playing a game on another computer ... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xpackages > Author's name: LaTeX3 Project > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xpackages > Summary description: High-level LaTeX3 concepts > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This release (SVN 2076) fixes a bug in the xparse package which leads > to errors when environments are nested. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xpackages.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xpackages/ thanks for the upload; i have instaqlled the revised files and updated the catalogue repository. the (minutely updated) catalogue entry will appear on the web some time overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: present
by CTAN Announcements 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

This should be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: present.tex Version number: 2.0 Author's name: Matthias Meister Summary description: Presentations with Plain TeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package offers a collection of simple macros for preparing presentations in Plain TeX. Slide colour and text colour may be set, links between parts of the presentation, to other files, and to web addresses may be inserted. Images may be included easily. Background images can be set. The structure of the macros is not overly complex, so that users should find it easy to adapt the macros to their specific needs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/present . Information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/present (it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN Update: poltawski fonts
by CTAN Announcements 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the poltawski font package. > Package: Antykwa Poltawskiego fonts > Version: 1.101 > Date: Oct 9 2010 > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > License: GUST Font License > Location on CTAN: fonts/poltawski > > Maintenance status maintained. The Current Maintainer > of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki. > > The package contains the Antykwa Po{l}tawskiego family of fonts in the > PostScript Type 1 and OpenType formats. > The original font was designed in the twenties of the XX century by > the Polish typographer Adam Po{l}tawski (1881-1952). > > Following the route set out by the Latin Modern and TeX Gyre projects > (http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry), the Antykwa Poltawskiego > digitisation project aims at providing a rich collection of > diacritical characters in the attempt to cover as many Latin-based > scripts as possible. To our knowledge, the repertoire of characters > covers all European languages as well as some other Latin-based > alphabets such as Vietnamese and Navajo; at the request of users, > recent extensions (following the enhancement of the Latin Modern > collection) provide glyphs sufficient for typesetting of romanized > transliterations of Arabic and Sanskrit scripts. > > The Antykwa Poltawskiego family consists of 4 weights (light, > normal, medium, bold), each having upright and italic forms and one > of 5 design sizes: 6, 8, 10, 12 and 17pt (in the OTF lingo: extended, > semiextended, normal, semicondensed, and condensed, respectively). > Altogether, the collection comprises 40 font files, > containing the same repertoire of 1126 characters. > > Recent changes: > Ver 1.101: 09.10.2010 > mistakenly missing `smcp' (small caps) feature and stylistic alternatives > added in OTF files; altered implementation of the `numr', `dnom', `frac', > and `dlig' features; other font files remained essentially intact (only > version number changed). Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: mtx
by CTAN Announcements 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

This should be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mtx Version number: 0.60d Author's name: Bob Tennent Location on CTAN: /support/mtx Summary description: A preprocessor for pmx. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- An update to 0.60d and re-organization of the files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/mtx . Information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mtx (it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: cals
by CTAN Announcements 12 Oct '10

12 Oct '10

This should be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: cals Version number: 2.0.1 Author's name: Oleg Parashchenko Summary description: multipage tables with headers, footers, cell spanning and decorations License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The cals package is a set of macros to typeset multipage tables with repeatable headers and footers, with cells spanned over rows and columns. Decorations are supported: padding, background color, width of separation rules. The code is compatible with multicols and pdfsync. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cals . Information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cals (it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: answers
by CTAN Announcements 12 Oct '10

12 Oct '10

and *again*! the daemon's busy tonight. > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: answers > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/answers > Summary description: Setting questions (or exercises) and answers. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.13: > - Produce proper cross-references with hyperref > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository/ > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/answers.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/answers The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: achemso
by CTAN Announcements 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

that old daemon's at it again: > > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v3.5c: > - Fix an issue with mciteSubRef > - Remove sections from Org. Lett. drafts > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and updated the catalogue entry (very lightly). > 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 (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New on CTAN: Math-E (examples) bundle
by CTAN Announcements 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded math-E.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please save all > files in the directory > > /info/examples/Math-E/ > > The zip contains all examples from the english book > Typesetting Mathematics with LaTeX > > The examples are stand alone documents and can be > run with LaTeX or pdflatex. For more information > read the README file. thanks for the upload. i have installed the files and made an entry in the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/math-e.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/examples/Math-E/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: progressbar
by CTAN Announcements 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 Marcel Jira submitted the new package progessbar to CTAN. Summary description: Visualize shares of total amounts in the form of a (progress-)bar License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Description =========== This package allows you to easily visualize shares of total amounts in the form of a bar. So basically you can convert any number between 0 and 1 to a progressbar using the command progressbar{<number>}. Also a lot of customizations are possible, allowing you to create an unique progressbar on your own. License ======= Copyright 2010 Marcel Jira This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later. This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'. The Current Maintainer of this work is Marcel Jira. This work consists of the files progressbar.sty and progressbar.tex. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/progressbar/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=progressbar (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: chletter
by CTAN Announcements 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 Boris Oriet submitted an update to the chletter package. Summary description: A class for typesetting letters to Swiss rules. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The chletter document class enables composition of letters fitting into Swiss C5 & C6/5 windowed envelopes. This class is compatible with the standard letter class. It is not limited to letters and may be used as a generic document class. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/chletter/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=chletter (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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