ctan-ann November 2010

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Removing the biber package from CTAN
by CTAN Announcements 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Philip Kime wrote: > Greetings, I am a developer/current maintainer of the biber package. > I'd like to remove this from CTAN at the moment as we now have > binaries available via TLContrib and SF - the CTAN version is out of > date and won't be updated directly until it's in TeXLive properly. Can > someone let me know how to remove this package from CTAN? It seems to > live here: > > biblio/biber.zip > biblio/biber/* i've removed the package; it will disappear from the catalogue overnight tonight. it's a bit sad, since i was browing the code in spare moments... :-} Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: excel2latex
by CTAN Announcements 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '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: Excel2LaTeX Version number: 3.0 Author's name: Kirill Müller Location on CTAN: /support/excel2latex Summary description: Convert Excel spreadsheets to LaTeX tables. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Major enhancements for the Excel2LaTeX converter: - Stored tables -- save the ranges you want to export to LaTeX, and export them all at once - Multirow cells, rotation, accurate cell borders - Modeless dialog -- edit the Excel workbook while Excel2LaTeX is open ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/excel2latex . Information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/excel2latex (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: Interfaces
by CTAN Announcements 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

the daemon leaps into frenzied action; third (and finally), he reports > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: Interfaces > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/interfaces > Summary description: key-value interface for commands and environments in LaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > version 2.2 > > Fix a bug in interfaces-tocloft (key section/dotsep) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/Interfaces.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/interfaces The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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ctan update: tabu
by CTAN Announcements 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

the daemon leaps into frenzied action; second, he reports: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: tabu > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tabu > Summary description: Flexible LaTeX tabulars > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > version 1.3 > .Documentation > .Fix a bug that may appear in abucline depending on the > document preamble > .Improvement of everycr management: no global. As a > consequence, tabu can now be used inside AMS-align > environments. > . abuphantomline added (to be used with multicolumn > in some cases) > .Improvement in vertical alignments of nested tabus > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/tabu.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabu The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: parselines
by CTAN Announcements 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

the daemon leaps into frenzied action; first, he reports: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: parselines > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/parselines > Summary description: A simple line parser for files or text inside environment > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > version 1.3 > > Replacement of ewrobustcmd by protecteddef > (parselines does not require etoolbox, as Will Robertson > noticed) 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/parselines.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/parselines The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: elbioimp
by CTAN Announcements 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '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: elbioimp Version number: 1.1 Author's name: Dag Langmyhr Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/elbioimp Summary description: Document class for the Journal of Electrical Bioimpedance License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A document class for writing articles to the Journal of Electrical Bioimpedance; version 1.1: modified line spacing according to wish from journal editors ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elbioimp . Information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/elbioimp (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: lualatex grouped changes
by CTAN Announcements 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote: > I just uploaded to the UK node updates of fontspec, luaotfload, luainputenc, > luamplib, luatextra and luatexbase. This grouped update is due to a few names > changing in luatexbase, so users and distributions are advised to update these 6 > packages together. It should be noted, however, that this release also contains > unrelated changes for luamplib and luatextra. > > So, what's new in each package? > > fontspec 2.1e adapt to luatexbase 0.3 > luaintputenc 0.972 adapt to luatexbase 0.3 > luaotfload 1.21 adapt to luatexbase 0.3 > > luamplib v1.06 > * bugfix from Hans (bad function name) > luamplib v1.05 > * adapt to luatexbase v0.3 > > luatextra v1.0 > * move to latex only > * remove old callback code > * remove old macro/primitive aliases > * load fontspec > luatextra v0.99a > * adapt to luatexbase v3.0 > > luatexbase v0.3 > The [BI] tag highlights backwards incompatible changes. > all not using LuaTeX results in an error (formerly a warning) > luatexbase-modutils > - [BI] luatexUseModule and luatexRequireModule replaced by > RequireLuaModule with a unified syntax. > - [BI] luatexbase.use_module removed (use luatexbase.require_module > with a single argument instead). > - [BI] luatexbase.module_term removed. > - [BI] removed support for version check using a floating point > number, only date is supported now. > - module_{error,warning,info,log} now apply string.format > automatically > - date, version and description are now optional. > - improved formatting of messages. > - luatexbase.require_module now returns curstom err/war/inf functions. > luatexbase-mcb > - [BI] rationalise list-type callbacks handling. The new calling > convention differs from the old one only in edge cases. > - add user documentation > - misc code tuning (more locals, etc) > > Concerning luatextra: it's now a latex-only package, so I guess its CTAN > location should be changed to macros/luatex/latex/luatextra. Also, you may want > to update the catalogue description due to major changes, see the README. i have installed all these updates, moved the luatextra package as suggested, and made (at least some of) the necessary changes to the catalogue. thanks for the uploads. Users may view the packages' catalogue entries at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fontspec.html http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/luainputenc.html http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/luaotfload.html http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/luamplib.html http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/luatextra.html http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/P.html or browse the packages' directories at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/latex/luainputenc/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luamplib/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/latex/luatextra/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luatexbase/ The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. (whew) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: parselines
by CTAN Announcements 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

the daemon writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: parselines > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/parselines > Summary description: A simple line parser for files or text inside environment > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Fix in .ins file > Redesign of the doc. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i have 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/parselines.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/parselines/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: tabu
by CTAN Announcements 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

quoth the daemon, desperately hoping i'm more awake than i was yesterday: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: tabu > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tabu > Summary description: Flexible LaTeX tabulars > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Improvement in parameters parsing for optional parameters > > Better results with m columns (X[m]) and when > minrowclearance>0 (package colortbl) > > A few other technical improvements... 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/tabu.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabu/ the (slightly changed) catalogue entry will appear on the web some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update(s): siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

the daemon spluttered forth, yesterday, twice, for this package. at joseph's suggestion i've amalgamated the two upload announcements. > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx > Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package > License type: lppl > > Announcement texts given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.1c: > - Deal correctly with math mode switches in S column > - Clarify umlist, umrange, SIlist and SIrange > behaviour: require these to be given in text mode > - Discourage 'allowed' line breaks in number-unit > combinations > v2.1d: > - Apply unit options when in 'free-standing' mode i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the uploads. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ the catalogue entry will change, slightly, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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ctan-ann November 2010