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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: latexmk
Version number: 4.15
Author's name: John Collins
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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1. Changes of default settings for running latex and
pdflatex with latexmk's -quiet option; they are now TeX-Live
compatible for all OSs.
2. Small improvements in diagnostics and error handling.
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Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: prerex
Version number: 5.7
Author's name: Bob Tennent
Location on CTAN: /graphics/prerex
Summary description: macro support, editors and viewers for producing prerequisite charts
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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+ corrected coordinate calculations in the vprerex application
+ the delete command in the prerex editor can now do
multiple deletions
+ more detailed documentation
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i continue to make small updates of the faq, while pondering a new web
interface. today's release (some details below) contains a number of
minor improvements and extensions, and some corrections.
the web interface (such as it is) remains at http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
Changes in version 3.19d
This file lists changes since its most recent release (version 3.19c).
New answers:
+Label plaintex: explains writing in tex, was part of Label whattex
Relabelled answers:
<none>
Revised answers:
+Label codelist: mention the minted package
+Label docs: single reference to epslatex (via catalogue)
+Label etex: add ctan link
+Label filesused: rewrite to clarify the issue with input
+Label luatex: now version 0.60.0
+Label fonts-pln: replace some complete gibberish (undoing mis-edits, I guess)
+Label parallel: mention the pdfcolparcolumns package
+Label seccntfmt: remove superfluous expandafter in programming, tidy text
+Label tabcellalign: editorial on PBS macro discussion
+Label texfuture: rehashed, in light of today's situation
+Label whattex: simplified by removal of material for Label plaintex
Deleted answers:
<none>
Web interface:
Extension of links to catalogue, to packages distributed as part of...
Abbreviate header text (omitting long list of helpers -- which will
ultimately be available in a separate file online)
Convert alphabetic SGML entities to use numeric equivalents
(stragglers are bound to show up, but most have gone)
Users may view the faq's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/uk-tex-faq.html
or browse the faq directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: seuthesis
Version number: 1.3.0
Author's name: Xu, Yuan
Summary description: The LaTeX template for thesis of Southeast University
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The LaTeX template for thesis of Southeast University,
Nanjing China
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: pgf-umlsd
Version number: 0.5
Author's name: Xu, Yuan
Summary description: Some LaTeX macros for UML Sequence Diagrams.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Some LaTeX macros for UML Sequence Diagrams.
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On Tue, 6 Apr 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
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 softmaker-freefont bundle.
Other fonts will be included in future.
Supported fonts at the moment:
Baskerville-Nova (regular + bold + italic + bold italic),
Canossa (regular + bold + light), 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 v1.10:
- added support for the font family Canossa
(regular + bold + light + faked slanted + faked small
caps)
Attention: The font is not included! This font is font
of the month (April 2010) and can be downloaded for free
(at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de
Later you can buy it from Softmaker
- added smfflseries.sty (provides the commands extl and
lseries for light fonts)
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
nicetext
package.
Summary description: arseneau.pdf adds description of optional.sty, corrections
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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* Donald Arseneau's `optional.sty' is added as an
example of typesetting LaTeX-quality documentation of
third-party .txt-type package documentation (unmodified)
with `makedoc' and `niceverb''s auto mode plus (new) a
function of `wiki.sty' from the bundle, cf. abstract of
`arseneau.pdf' and `arseneau.tex'
* correction of `niceverb''s AutoCmdInput
* documentation corrections
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: newverbs
Version number: v1.0
Author's name: Martin Scharrer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/newverbs
Summary description: New package to define variants of verb incl. short verb versions.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package allows the definition of verb variants which
add TeX code before and after the verbatim text (e.g. quotes
or surrounding fbox{}).
When used together with the 'shortvrb' package it allows the
definition of short verbatim characters which use this variants
instead of the normal verb.
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: TeXlipse
Version number: 1.4.0
Author's name: Boris von Loesch
Location on CTAN: /support/texlipse
Summary description: New version of TeXlipse
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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Version 1.4.0 of TeXlipse adds check as you type spell
checking support for different languages and a parser for
aux files to detect labels that in previous version triggers
warnings and to better decicide when to run BibTeX.
Furthermore it adds a lot of other minor improvements. Many
bugs are fixed.
More details on the changes:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/texlipse/files/texlipse%20plugin/1.4.0/Chan…
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: iftex
Version number: 0.1
Author's name: Vafa Khalighi
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/iftex
Summary description: Am I running under PDFTeX, or XeTeX, or LuaTeX?
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This very simple package, for both Plain TeX and LaTeX,
defines the ifPDFTeX, ifXeTeX, and ifLuaTeX boolean
for testing whether PDFTeX, or XeTeX, or LuaTeX is being
used for typesetting.
Also provides the RequirePDFTeX, RequireXeTeX, and RequireLuaTeX
command which throws an error if PDFTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX (respectively)
is not the engine in use.
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