ctan-ann June 2010

ctan-ann@ctan.org

1 participants
86 discussions

CTAN update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

yesterday morning, i missed the daemon saying: > 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 text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.0c: > - Fix issue with mixed unit and literal macros (for example > DeclareSIUnitexample{volt~vs.~NHE}) > - Minor changes to version-1 configuration thanks for the upload, and sorry about the delay. 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/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ the catalogue entry on the web will change overnight tonight. i shan't be waiting up. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

1 0

CTAN Update: eso-pic
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update to the eso-pic package. Summary description: eso-pic adds one or more user commands to LaTeX's shipout actions (e.g. background pictures) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version adds the macros AddToShipoutPictureFG and AddToShipoutPictureFG*. Now it is possible to put picture commands also above the normal document content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=eso-pic (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

1 0

CTAN Update: dvisvgm
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. Finally, dvisvgm has reached version 1.0 with the following additions: * conversion of multiple pages * evaluation of transparency operators in PostScript specials * improved PostScript handler * DVI special to compute local bounding boxes * improved optional progress indicator For further information including a list of recent changes and pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm (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

1 0

CTAN Update: Iwona and Kurier fonts
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the iwona and kurier packages. > ---- > Package: Iwona fonts > Version: 0.995 (June 2010) > Authors: Janusz M. Nowacki > License: GUST Font Nosource License > Location on CTAN: fonts/iwona > > ---- > Package: Kurier fonts > Version: 0.995 (June 2010) > Authors: Janusz M. Nowacki > License: GUST Font Nosource License > Location on CTAN: fonts/kurier > > Recent changes in both packages: > -- changed the names of small caps characters > A.small --> a.sc > B.small --> b.sc > C.small --> c.sc > etc.; > -- added previously missing characters: > Aogonekacute, Ddotbelow, Dlinebelow, E.reversed, Eogonekacute, > Germandbls, Hbrevebelow, Hdotbelow, Htilde, Iogonekacute, Jacute, > Ldot, Oogonek, Oogonekacute, Rdotaccent, Sdotbelow, Tcedilla, > Tdotbelow, Tlinebelow, Ttilde, Zdotbelow, ain, angleleft, angleright, > aogonekacute, bigcircle, brevebelow, cent.oldstyle, centigrade, > copyleft, ddotbelow, dieresis.alt, dlinebelow, dmacron, e.reversed, > ell, eogonekacute, hamza, hbrevebelow, hdotbelow, htilde, hyphen.alt, > hyphen.prop, hyphendbl, hyphendbl.alt, i.TRK, imacron.alt, iogonekacute, > jacute, ldot, linebelow, macron.alt, nomero, oogonek, oogonekacute, > permyriad, perthousandzero, rdotaccent, sdotbelow, servicemark, > tcedilla, tdotbelow, tlinebelow, ttilde, zdotbelow > -- added proportional digits (xxx.prop), as well as oldstyle proportional > digits (xxx.oldstyle); > > ---- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

1 0

CTAN update: vntex
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

the daemon was primed and ready for: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: vntex > Author's name: Reinhard Kotucha > Location on CTAN: language/vietnamese > Summary description: Fonts and Macros for typesetting Vietnamese > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > New Version 3.2: > The font support files for the Microsoft core fonts and Comicsans were > removed because we can't provide the actual (TrueType)fonts > (requirement for TeX Live). > > These packages will be distributed separately. 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/vntex.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/language/vietnamese the catalogue entry will change (a bit) overnight. (more work on that still needed.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

1 0

CTAN update: luaotfload
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: luaotfload Version number: 1.10 Author's name: Khaled Hosny Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * provide a fonts.names.scan(dir) function that temporally loads fonts from the specified dir into the names database * Log loaded font file before attempting to open it * fix XeTeX's square brackets syntax so that it doesn't trigger database update * fix loading fonts with absolute path * add fontdimen8 support, for XeTeX compatibility * be more verbose when updating the font database * improve fonts.conf parsing * make sure when a TFM font is requested we don't end up loading a non-TFM font with a similar name instead * Remove --fc-cache option from mkluatexfontdb.lua, since we no longer use fontconfig tools * misc. bug fixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload (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 .

1 0

CTAN has a new package: pstricks_calcnotes
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Two applications of macros in PSTricks Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Le Phuong Quan Summary description: To draw Riemann sums of an integral and to draw the vector field of an ordinary differential equation. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Illustrates using PSTricks codes for LaTeX typesetting of lecture notes on Calculus. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/pstricks_calcnotes . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pstricks_calcnotes (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 .

1 0

CTAN update: spreadtab
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

1 0

CTAN update: translator
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Translator package Version number: 1.01 Author's name: Vedran Miletic Summary description: New Translator version! License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Added Croatian and Serbian dictonary and some bugs fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/translator . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/translator (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 .

1 0

CTAN update: beamer
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: LaTeX Beamer class Version number: 3.08 Author's name: Vedran Miletic Summary description: New Beamer version! License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally, a new version of Beamer. Notable new features and bugfixes include: * notes about lualatex and xelatex in documentation, * improve Linux distribution-specific information, * add support for more professional fonts (suppresses Beamer internal replacements), * add support for 16:9, 16:10, 14:9, 5:4, 3:2 layout using screensize class option (e.g. screensize=169) * fix utf8, utf8x, ucs class options, * add (an undocumented for now) option [noframenumbering] to skip numbering a specific frame, * merge lots of patches scattered around the Internet (see ChangeLog if you are interested). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/beamer (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 .

1 0

← Newer
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Older →

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

ctan-ann June 2010