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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Apprends LaTeX !
Version number: 4.01
Author's name: Marc Baudoin
Location on CTAN: /info/apprends-latex/
Summary description: Apprends LaTeX ! (Learn LaTeX!) is a French documentation
for LaTeX beginners.
License type: lppl
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Apprends LaTeX ! (Learn LaTeX!) is a French documentation
aimed at LaTeX beginners.
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, François Charette submitted an update to the
arabxetex
package.
Summary description: An ArabTeX-like interface for XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
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This version provides some bugfixes and minor documentation
update.
* Don't mess with baselineskip AtBeginDocument
* Bugfix for Sindhi: 'O' was not in the mappings
* Load bidi after amsmath and fontspec
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, François Charette submitted an update to the
biber
package.
Summary description: A BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex
License type: artistic
Announcement text:
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This release fixes numerous bugs from v0.5.1:
* Locale fixes
* Uniquename fixed to match BibLaTeX option values
* Improved error message for malformed names
* Fixed config file problems under windows
and added option to ignore config file
* Bug with conflicting case between citations and bib entries
* Moved pure perl parsename to PRD.pm
* Re-write of name parsing to use Text::BibTeX::Name by default
* Fields which can be null are explicitly flagged
* Die early when biber is called without argument
* Fixed Mac config path error
* .bib parse continues after certain errors
* regularised collate options processing
* field nameaddon was missing from Biber::Constants
* Improved warning message for missing backend=biber
* SF bug 2952347 fix (empty date range end)
* uniquename counter was being provided incorrectly
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Eukleides
Version number: 1.5.2
Author's name: Christian Obrecht
Location on CTAN: /support/eukleides
Summary description: A geometry drawing system
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The code has been slightly modified to allow building with
MinGW. A win32 binary distribution is now available.
An optional step parameter for drawing conics has been
implemented. Some minor bugs have been fixed as well.
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Ingo H. de Boer submitted an update to the
winshell
package.
Summary description: WinShell is a free multilingual integrated development environment (IDE) for LaTeX and TeX.
License type: nosource
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I am happy to announce the new, actual WinShell 3.31
Release. Major BugFixes/Features to version 3.30 are
- Update to Scintilla 2.03
- Improved BibTeX Project Window: toggle author/label view, show all entries
- New feature: Autocompletion for LaTeX commands and BibTeX labels
- New feature: Update checker
- New feature: Split/join paragraph
- New option: BibTeX front-end: disable/enable
- New option: Reload open files at startup
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On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
softmaker-freefont
package.
Summary description: Support files for SoftMaker free fonts available at www.freefont.de
License type: lppl
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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 softmaker-freefont
bundle. Other fonts will be included in future.
Supported fonts at the moment:
Baskerville-Nova (regular + bold + italic + bold italic),
Congress (regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Henderson,
Iceberg (regular + bold), Jugendstil, Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting,
Sunset (regular + bold)
License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves)
New in v1.9:
- added support for the font family Sunset
(regular + bold + faked slanted + faked small caps)
Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the
month (March 2010) and can be downloaded for free (at least
this month) at: http://www.freefont.de
Later you can buy it from Softmaker
- added options scaled and leading to all existing style files
- changing font families: fsh->5sh, fhs->5hs, ffs->5fs, fib->5ib
- renamed freefont.map -> softmaker-freefont.map
- renamed directory Baskerville-Nova -> BaskervilleNova
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Thomas Titz submitted an update to the
idxlayout
package.
Summary description: Configurable index layout, responsive to KOMA-Script and memoir
License type: lppl
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- Corrected emulation of setindexpreamble
- New option columnnote
- Package index now supported
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: TeXshade
Version number: 1.21
Author's name: Eric Beitz
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texshade/
Summary description: Update of the DNA and protein sequence alignment LaTeX package TeXshade
License type: lppl
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This is version 1.21 of TeXshade. It fixes some bugs but mainly introduces a
convenient new way to select residues that are to be specially labeled by having
TeXshade search for sequence motifs.
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Robin Höns submitted the
ratexdb
package.
Summary description: Database reports using LaTeX and Ruby
License type: gpl
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This is a compatible rewrite of LaTeXDB by Hans-Georg Eßer in Ruby.
It is a preprocessor which performs SQL queries on a
database and creates LaTeX code for the resulting rows.
Ratexdb implements a few improvements, e.g. regexp
postprocessing, command-line options, some protection
against SQL injection, replacement of LaTeX reserved characters.
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