ctan-ann May 2010

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CTAn Update: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 04 May '10

04 May '10

On Tue, 4 May 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Artistic, 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 v1.11: - added support for the font Softmaker Artistic (regular + faked slanted + faked small caps) Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (May 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: xpdfopen
by CTAN Announcements 04 May '10

04 May '10

This update should reach your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: xpdfopen Version number: 0.80 Author's name: Jim Diamond Location on CTAN: /support/xpdfopen Summary description: A program to make various PDF viewers reload the file being displayed License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pdfopen is a program which can be used to both start a new instance of a PDF viewer program as well as to instruct that program to reload the PDF file. This is particularly useful if pdfopen is called automatically whenever tex is (re-)run. This version has an updated pdfopen and pdfclose that work with Adobe Reader 5, 7, 8 and 9 as well as xpdf. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/xpdfopen . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xpdfopen (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: mdframed
by CTAN Announcements 01 May '10

01 May '10

On Sat, 1 May 2010 Marco Daniel submitted an update to the mdframed package. Summary description: auto split frame environment License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Working with the command fbox or fcolorbox, one has to handle page breaks by hand. The present package defines the environment mdframed which automatically deals with page breaks. Author's name: Marco Daniel License type: lppl changes in version 0.3b: - fixes some bugs -- thanks to Dr. Dietrich Grau - added new options: ntheorem ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdframed/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mdframed (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 package update: pgfopts
by CTAN Announcements 01 May '10

01 May '10

that ol' daemon collects something while i'm washing up last night's dishes... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: pgfopts > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pgfopts > Summary description: LaTeX package options with pgfkeys > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.0: > - Package internals completely rewritten > - New ProcessPgfPackageOptions macro, which ignores class > options when used with a package i've installed the new version, and updated 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/pgfopts.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/pgfopts the catalogue entry will change ever so slightly overnight (not quite so little as with some packages, but not much either). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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