ctan-ann July 2010

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CTAN has a new package: gillcm
by CTAN Announcements 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '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: gillcm Version number: 1.1 Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/gillcm Summary description: Unslanted Italic Computer Modern Fonts Based on Eric Gill's Ideas License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a demonstration of the use of virtual fonts for unusual effects. We employ virtual fonts to implement an old idea of Eric Gill. This package was written for the author's talk at TUG'2010. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/gillcm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/gillcm (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 metauml
by CTAN Announcements 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '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: MetaUML Version number: 0.2.5 Author's name: Ovidiu Gheorghies Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/metauml Summary description: Human-friendly UML textual notation for LaTeX/MetaPost License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update to the latest stable upstream version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/metauml . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/metauml (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 has a new package: jamtimes
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '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: jamtimes Version number: 1.8 Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/jamtimes Summary description: Expanded Times Roman Fonts As Used in Journal d'Analyse Mathematique License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides LaTeX support for expanded Times Roman font, which has been used by Journal d'Analyse Mathematique for many years. Mathematics support is based on Belleek fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/jamtimes . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/jamtimes (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 polyglossia
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

This should be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. Update summary: ........................................................................ This is a bugfix release: * Initialize fontfamily acc to value of familydefault (Fixes a bug when using polyglossia with beamer) * Remove spurious space in def of dateenglish * Add missing English variant american * Serbian: fix date format and captions (Latin+Cyrillic) (thanks to Zoran Filipovic and Nikola Lečić) * Fix atticnumeral in gloss-greek * Small improvements and fixes in documentation ........................................................................ Basic package information, as sent by the contributor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package name: polyglossia Author: François Charette Caption: Modern multilingual typesetting with XeLaTeX. Description: This package provides a complete Babel replacement for users of XeLaTeX; it relies on the fontspec package, version 2.0 at least. The current release offers support of 68 languages. Location: /macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia Version: v1.2.0 License: lppl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/polyglossia (the link may take a day to sync). Our archive service is sponsored by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .

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CTAN update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

there was i, playing a mindless little computer game, and the daemon says: > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.0q: > - Fix broken free-standing units > - Deal with an issue with the textpos packge (actually a > textpos bug, but fixed at the siunitx end) 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/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ and the small change to the catalogue will be visible on the web some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: pst-jtree-de
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pst-jtree-de Version number: 1 Author's name: Christine Römer Location on CTAN: /info/translations/pst-jtree/de Summary description: translation in german pst-jtree-doc License type: nocommercial Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- translation in german pst-jtree-doc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/translations/pst-jtree/de . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-jtree-de (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: csvsimple
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '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: csvsimple Version number: 1.00 Author's name: Thomas F. Sturm Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/csvsimple Summary description: csv file processing, comma separated values License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- csvsimple provides a simple LaTeX interface for the processing of files with comma separated values (CSV). csvsimple relies heavily on the key value syntax from pgfkeys which results (hopefully) in an easy way of usage. Filtering and table generation is especially supported. Since the package is considered as a lightweight tool, there is no support for data sorting or data base storage. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csvsimple . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/csvsimple (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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New CTAN package: lecturer
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

that old daemon was warned to expect something big, and... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: lecturer > Author's name: Paul Isambert > Location on CTAN: macros/generic > Summary description: On-screen presentations with PDF features for > (almost) all formats. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Lecturer creates slides for on-screen presentations based on PDF > features without manipulating TeX's typesetting process. The > presentation flow relies on PDF's abilities to display content step by > step. > > Features include: > - Free positioning of anything anywhere in painted areas on the slide, > as well as in the main textblock. > - Numerous attributes to control the layout and the presentation flow, > from TeX's primitive dimensions to the visibility of steps. > - Feature inheritance from global to local settings, with intermediate > types. > - Basic drawing facilities to produce symbols, e.g. for list items or > buttons. > - Colors, transparency, shades, and pictures. > - Navigation with links, pop-up menus, and customizable bookmarks. > - Easy switch between presentation and handout. > - PDF transitions. > > Besides the traditional documentation, the distribution includes a > visual doc (LecturerDemo-VisualDoc.pdf) and six demo presentations > ranging from geometric abstraction to classic style to silly video > game. > > Lecturer is designed for all formats except ConTeXt MkIV (because of > clashes in management of PDF objects, probably), works only with > pdfTeX and LuaTeX for the time being, and requires texapi and yax, > both v.1.02. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i have installed it, and created a catalogue entry for it. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/lecturer.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/lecturer/ of course, the catalogue entry won't appear on the web until some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: latexmk
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: latexmk Version number: 4.18 Author's name: John Collins Location on CTAN: /support/latexmk Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. In analysis of log file, add test for natbib's citation-undefined warning. 2. Minor improvements/corrections in diagnostic messages and documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latexmk (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 new package: uowthesis
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

This should be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................. Name of contribution: UoWthesis Class Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Lei Ye Summary description: University of Wollongong (UoW) Document Class for higher degree research theses License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- University of Wollongong (UoW) Document Class for higher degree research theses in compliance with the specifications of UoW theses in the Guidelines for Preparation and Submission of Higher Degree Research Theses (March 2006), by Research Student Centre, Research & Innovation Division, UoW. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/uowthesis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/uowthesis (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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