ctan-ann August 2010

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CTAN has a new package: present
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

This should be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: present.tex Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Matthias Meister Summary description: Presentations with (plain) TeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Collection of simple macros for preparing presentations in TeX. Slide colour and text colour can be set, links between parts of the presentation, to other files, and to web addresses can be inserted. Images can be included easily. The structure of the macros is not overly complex, so that users should find it easy to adapt the macros to their specific needs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/present . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/present (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: mylatexformat
by CTAN Announcements 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

the daemon wrote, while i was in the theatre in london: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: mylatexformat > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mylatexformat > Summary description: Use mylatexformat.ltx to make a format based on > the preamble of any LaTeX file > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 2.9 is an improvement of the previous one, due to > many reports of users in the new groups. > > catcode changes have been carefully rethought and > simplified. > > % --- ECM ---- > %&myformat > egin{document} > something silly > end{document > % --- /ECM --- > > can now be compiled with the format. > > This was the main objection of some users... > > Example of command lines to make the format (dump) on > Debian are welcome, in order for me to complete the doc one > day or another ! thanks for the upload; i have 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/mylatexformat.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mylatexformat/ the catalogue entry will change (slightly) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update pdfpages
by CTAN Announcements 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '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: pdfpages Version number: 0.4k Author's name: Andreas Matthias Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages Summary description: Inclusion of multi-page PDF documents. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release fixes a bug in the `addtotoc' option when used together with the memoir class. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pdfpages (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: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

On Sun, 8 Aug 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, Helium (regular + bold), Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold), Jugendstil, Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting, Sunset (regular + bold), VAGRounded License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) New in v1.13: - added support for the sans serif font VAGRounded (regular + faked slanted + faked small caps) Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (August 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 has a new package: punknova
by CTAN Announcements 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

This should be at your local mirror. Regards, Jim ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Punk Nova font Version number: 1.01 Author's name: Khaled Hosny Summary description: OpenType version of Don Knuth's Punk font License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Punk Nova is an OpenType implementation of Don Knuth's Punk font, based on modified Metapost sources by Taco Hoekwater and Hans Hagan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/punknova . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/punknova (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: dvisvgm
by CTAN Announcements 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

On Fri, 6 Aug 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. The latest release 1.0.3 is a maintenance update that fixes a potential memory issue and a transformation bug regarding special command 'psfile'. 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

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CTAN update flashcards
by CTAN Announcements 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

This should reach your local mirror soon. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: flashcards Version number: 1.0.1 Uploader's name: Matthew Vernon Summary description: A class for typesetting flashcards. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a bug-fix to the previous 1.0.0 release, taking into account changes in the geometry package's interface since that version. For details of the bug, see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501520 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flashcards . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/flashcards (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: adfsymbols
by CTAN Announcements 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

the daemon doesn't give me a moment's rest ... just back from holiday and i have another thing to install. > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: adfsymbols > Author's name: Clea F. Rees > Location on CTAN: fonts/adfsymbols > Summary description: SymbolsADF with TeX/LaTeX support > License type: other-free > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 1.001 of SymbolsADF with TeX/LaTeX support. Package includes > ArrowsADF and BulletsADF in type 1 format, TeX/LaTeX support files and > documentation. > > Fonts are released under GPL v. 2 or later with font exception. > > Support files and documentation are released under LPPL. > > Details in README/NOTICE/COPYING/manifest.txt and adfsymbols.pdf. thanks for the upload. i've installed the package and created an entry for it in the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/adfsymbols.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/adfsymbols of course, the catalogue entry will only appear on the web overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update confproc
by CTAN Announcements 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '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: confproc Version number: 0.7 Author's name: Vincent Verfaille Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/conferences/confproc Summary description: A set of tools for generating conference proceedings, or any collection of PDFs, with table of contents, author index and general bibliography. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v0.7 is a major update: - key-value options for the class and procpaper{} function - tested with TeXLive 2008-2010 - can insert papers with any number of pages - various new class options (hyperref, geometry, binding=Xmm, checktitle, checkauthor, showmarginlines, showpapernumber, colorheaders=red, pdftk) - documentation reorganized with more examples (incremental learning) - new 2-minute summary of commands and options (confproc-short.tex) - new Unix/bash scripts: exportIndividualPDFs.sh, countnbpages.sh... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/conferences/confproc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/confproc (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 package update: csquotes 5.0b
by CTAN Announcements 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

Philipp Lehman writes: > I've uploaded 'csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. There's > also a csquotes.tds.zip file. Please delete the old files, install the > new ones, and announce the upload. > Thank you very much. i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. > ABOUT > > The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and > display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging > from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of > formal quotations. > > CHANGES > > See the changelog in the manual for a list of changes. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/csquotes.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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