ctan-ann September 2010

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CTAN package update: csquotes 5.0c
by CTAN Announcements 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Philipp Lehman wrote: > 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. > > 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. thanks for the upload. i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/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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CTAN : [Freefont-announce] new release 20100919
by CTAN Announcements 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

The new release should be on your local CTAN mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. A year and a half has passed since the last release. The delay was largely my fault--you have my apologies. A lot has happened though. Several new ranges have been added, some of which are hard to find anywhere as free software. Sinhala and Vietnamese should now be much more functional. Lots of symbols have been added. Many glyphs have been cleaned up and some more kerning has been specified, for a better overall look. Get it at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/ Look for files dated 20100919 What follows is a summary of changes made to Gnu FreeFont since the last release. For a more complete listing, see the Changelog. Unicode ranges ============== new --- Cherokee (Daniel Johnson) Osmanya (Daniel Johnson) Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (Daniel Johnson) Tifinagh (Daniel Johnson) Armenian in Serif (Daniel Johnson) Vai (Daniel Johnson) Kayah Li (Daniel Johnson) Coptic (Steve White) Glagolitic (Steve White) deleted ------- Tamil from Sans (due to absence of necessary ligatures) replaced -------- Sinhala is now taken directly from the TeX font 'sinh' by Yannis Haralambous. It has been reviewed and corrected by a native speaker. altered ------- Armenian (spacing; Aiw to reference Phi on Daniel Johnson's advice) Vietnamese (better accent placement, esp. in Sans) Latin (general letter form improvements and clean-ups, numeral 1 and braces in mono re-designed for distinctness) Greek (various letter form improvements: made nu distinct from Latin v) Cyrillic (mark placement, letter forms) Mahjong Tiles (got rid of a bamboo shoot) Superscripts and subscripts (standardize placement) Georgian (added missing letter in Mono, Sans) Western Musical Symbols (much cleaning up, correcting) Miscellaneous Symbols (re-design of musical flat symbol) Hebrew (corrected some vowel marks) expanded -------- Currency Symbols Latin Extended-D (Mayanist letters from Daniel Johnson) Supplemental Arrows-A (completed in Serif) Arrows (completed in Serif, corrected some switched glyphs) Combining Diacritics Spacing Modifier Letters Letterlike Symbols Mathematical Symbols Miscellaneous Technical Symbols Scan Lines Geometric Shapes (completed in Sans) Number Forms (new vulgar fractions; completed in Serif roman) Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols Internatonal Phonetic Alphabet Phonetic Extensions Supplement (completed in roman) IPA Extensions (completed in roman bold and oblique) Cyrillic (Abkhasian letters, yi_yi Ukrainian ligature) Cyrillic Extended-B Georgian (completed in Serif) Gurmukhi (completed Unicode range) Gujarati (completed Unicode range) Devanagari (completed Unicode range) Tamil (completed Unicode range) Technical/Legal =============== Added full GNU copyright notice to each SFD file. Reduced cases of nested character references, to ameliorate a bug in Mac OS 10.6 Various improvements to kerning Removed TTF Names for sample text TTF Names tables to give locale-specific names to the various faces. Checked each with a native speaker. Added special characters for TrueType, .notdef .null nonmarkingreturn Corrected the replacement character Added GASP tables for control of hinting/smoothing (anti-aliasing) of TrueType. PS Blues Values improvements; removed BlueFuzz altogether Deleted TrueType tables 'cvt', 'fpgm', 'prep' because of FontForge complaints. Arabic ligatures: turned on ignore combining marks on advice of Khaled Hosny. tools ===== range_report.py has been improved a lot and expanded for Unicode 5.2 ligature_lookups.py makes an HTML list and display of the ligatures in a font Thanks ====== Foremost to Daniel Johnson, who drew and contributed several ranges, as well as providing technical and moral support. To Harshula Jayasuriya for edits, advice, and other collaboration on the Sinhala range. To Yannis Haralambous for permission to include his TeX sinha font The Wellcome Library Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy for the Wellcome Library Thanks to Dominik Wujastyk, for providing us with feedback and contacts to repsonsible people at the Trust. To Mina Magdy for much advice and criticism concerning the Coptic range (and for her tolerance of my choice of letter forms, which was different from hers). To Pavel Skrylev for many additions to old Cyrillic ranges. To Mohammed Anwari for correct ligatures in Buginese. To Khaled Hosny for his patch for Persian. To Karl Berry for hard work and overall sanity. -- and to the Debian packaging team -- and to the many bug reporters!

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CTAN update: datetime
by CTAN Announcements 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

the daemon's dancing again: lots of uploads since sunday morning: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: datetime > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/datetime > Summary description: Change format of oday with commands for current time > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 2.58: > > * Added Polish days of the week (supplied by Piotr Kempa). > > * Fixed bug that caused some of the def files to be truncated when > unpacked from the dtx file. > > * Added loadDTdef to ensure dt-*.def files are only loaded once. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/datetime.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/datetime there's nothing much new to be seen in the catalogue update on the web tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: memoir
by CTAN Announcements 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '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: The Memoir class Version number: v3.6g Author's name: Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ Summary description: Latest updates for the memoir class License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Maintenance release, from the README: -- fixed a typo in the vplaces env -- made eedspace work better with section and friends -- added settypeoutlayoutunit such that users can choose in which unit the layout list should be written to the log file. -- removed the footnoteA--C commands from the manual, they have never existed -- Added OnehalfSpacing* and DoubleSpacing* which will additionally also make floats and page notes have the same spacing. Macros to explicitly set these values have also been added ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/memoir (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: euenc
by CTAN Announcements 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

This should be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College Update summary: ........................................................................ Remove xunicode from the EU2 encoding; it is now loaded internally by fontspec. ........................................................................ Basic package information, as sent by the contributor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package name: EUenc Caption: Unicode font encoding definitions for XeTeX. Description: Font encoding definitions for unicode fonts loaded by LaTeX in XeTeX or LuaTeX. The package provides two encodings: * EU1, designed for use with XeTeX, which the fontspec uses for unicode fonts which require no macro-level processing for accents, and * EU2, which provides the same facilities for use with LuaTeX. Neither encoding places any restriction on the glyphs provided by a font; use of EU2 causes the package euxunicode to be loaded (the package is part of this distribution). The package includes font definition files for use with the Latin Modern OpenType fonts. Location: /macros/latex/contrib/euenc Authors: Élie Roux; Will Robertson; Khaled Hosny Version: 0.1g License: lppl1.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/euenc (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 has a new package: elteikthesis
by CTAN Announcements 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '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: elteikthesis Version number: v1.0 Author's name: Daniel Majoros Summary description: Thesis class for the ELTE university's Informatics wing License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thesis class for the ELTE university's Informatics wing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elteikthesis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/elteikthesis (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: hyph-utf8
by CTAN Announcements 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '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: hyph-utf8 Version number: 2010.09.18 Author's name: Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer Location on CTAN: /language/hyph-utf8/ Summary description: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8 License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Added Afrikaans hyphenation patterns from OpenOffice.org (patterns need improvement) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyph-utf8/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8 (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: unicode-math v0.5b
by CTAN Announcements 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

that old daemon is really into the swing of things now. no doubt he'll be all upset with next week's total lack of work. > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: unicode-math v0.5b > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/unicode-math > Summary description: Unicode math support for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > In addition to working around a recent problem with expl3 (which will also be > addressed there, shortly) version 0.5b of unicode-math brings: > > * Added missing symbols/synonyms: > diamond smallint emptyset hbar ackepsilon eth > * overline works for LuaLaTeX > * Fix slash; previously, it overwrote the text definition > * vartriangle now has the correct math class 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/unicode-math.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/unicode-math the catalogue entry on the web will be updated overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xltxtra
by CTAN Announcements 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

and again, the daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xltxtra > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xltxtra > Summary description: Extras for LaTeX users of XeTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > In this release of xltxtra, code that was duplicated by the more > recent realscripts has been removed, and that package is loaded instead. > > Users are recommended only to load xltxtra for backwards compatibility now; > loading fontspec on its own is the recommended default (for both XeLaTeX and > LuaLaTeX). > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xltxtra.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xltxtra note that this is a new location for the package. for the time being, i have planted links from the old location. (and of course, the updated catalogue entry won't appear on the web until some time tonight.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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ctan update: realscripts
by CTAN Announcements 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

the daemon's getting back into the swing of things: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: realscripts > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/realscripts > Summary description: Access OpenType subscripts and superscripts > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The previous redefinition of the footnote mark followed the LaTeX2e default, but > this clobbered KOMA-Scripts redefinition. > > The release of realscripts now plays nicely with KOMA-Script's footnote font > changes, and provide an interface to do the same thing for non-KOMA users. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/realscripts.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/realscripts the catalogue entry will change very slightly overnight Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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