the daemon carried on with:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: ifxetex
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/generic/ifxetex
> Summary description: Am I running under XeTeX?
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bug fix update for ifxetex to ensure that …
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>
elax in the case that XeTeX is not being used. (High time for me to fix this
> behaviour!)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ifxetex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/ifxetex
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository. the catalogue entry on the web will change, a
bit, overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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been quiet for a bit, that daemon, but today it started by saying:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xetexref
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Author's email: wspr81(a)gmail.com
> Location on CTAN: info/xetexref
> Summary description: Reference documentation for XeTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> --------------------------------------------------…
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> This update on top of TL2010 brings the addition of some missing primitives and
> expansion of one section in particular that was marked This description is
> incomplete.
>
> Many thanks to Heiko Oberdiek, Paul Isambert, and William Adams for their help
> for these updates.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xetexref.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/xetexref
i've installed the update and made the necessary change to the catalogue
repository. (the web catalogue will change slightly, overnight.)
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 at 15:50 +0200, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted the new
package
poltawski
to CTAN, replacing the old antp package.
Location on CTAN: fonts/poltawski
> Package: Antykwa Poltawskiego fonts
> Version: 1.10
> Date: Sep 9 2010
> Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki
> License: GUST Font License
> Location on CTAN: fonts/poltawski
>
> Maintenance status maintained. The Current Maintainer
> of this work is Bogusl{}aw …
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>
> The package contains the Antykwa Po{l}tawskiego family of fonts in the
> PostScript Type 1 and OpenType formats.
> The original font was designed in the twenties of the XX century by
> the Polish typographer Adam Po{l}tawski (1881-1952).
>
> Following the route set out by the Latin Modern and TeX Gyre projects
> (http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry), the Antykwa Poltawskiego
> digitisation project aims at providing a rich collection of
> diacritical characters in the attempt to cover as many Latin-based
> scripts as possible. To our knowledge, the repertoire of characters
> covers all European languages as well as some other Latin-based
> alphabets such as Vietnamese and Navajo; at the request of users,
> recent extensions (following the enhancement of the Latin Modern
> collection) provide glyphs sufficient for typesetting of romanized
> transliterations of Arabic and Sanskrit scripts.
>
> The Antykwa Poltawskiego family consists of 4 weights (light,
> normal, medium, bold), each having upright and italic forms and one
> of 5 design sizes: 6, 8, 10, 12 and 17pt (in the OTF lingo: extended,
> semiextended, normal, semicondensed, and condensed, respectively).
> Altogether, the collection comprises 40 font files,
> containing the same repertoire of 1126 characters.
>
> The preliminary version of Antykwa Poltawskiego (antp package)
> released in 2000 becomes obsolete.
>
> ---------
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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This should be at your local mirror.
im Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: suftesi
Version number: 0.3
Author's name: Ivan Valbusa
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/
Summary description: Document class for typesetting theses, especially in the Humanities
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/suftesi
(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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This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ctex
Version number: 0.99b
Author's name: Jiang Jiang
Location on CTAN: /language/chinese/ctex
Summary description: LaTeX classes and packages for Chinese typesetting.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Fix compatibility issues with expl3.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/chinese/ctex
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ctex
(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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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-plot.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please
> delete all files in the directory
>
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-plot/
>
> and put the new ones in there.
>
> ----- pst-plot.tex
> 1.20 2010-09-09 - new optional arguments for setting a variable
> linewidth and variable color for plotstyle curve
>
> read pst-news10.pdf of the base package pstricks for more
> informations.
thanks for the upload. i …
[View More]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/pst-plot.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-plot/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pstricks-base.tgz to the uk CTAN node. Please
> replace all files with the ones in the main directory
>
> /graphics/pstricks/base/
>
> 2.11 2010-09-09 - new optional arguments for setting a variable
> linewidth and variable color
> - new optional argument noCurrentPoint, which is
> preset to false.
>
>
> Read the documentation pst-news10.pdf for more
> …
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thanks for the upload; i have installed the new files and updated the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/base/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
Update summary:
........................................................................
v2.02 - improves compatibility with package caption (thanks to Benedikt
Leinss for the bug-report)
- fixes the mstyle command to work with chapters (thanks to
Benedikt Leinss for the bug-report)
- fixes incorrect spacing after certain environments (thanks to Benedikt
Leinss for the bug-report)
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Basic package information, as sent by the contributor.
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Package name: hypdvips
Caption: Hyperref extensions for use with dvips
Description: The hypdvips package is a collection of add-ons and fixes
for problems when using hyperref with dvips. It adds support for
breaking links, hyperlinked tablenotes, file attachments,
embedded documents and different types of GoTo-links. The
cooperation of hyperref with cleveref is improved, which in
addition allows an enhanced back-referencing system.
Location: /macros/latex/contrib/hypdvips
Author: Raimund Niedrist
Version: 2.01
License: lppl1.3
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More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hypdvips
(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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This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: latex2e-help-texinfo
Version number: 2010/09/06
Author's name: Karl Berry
Location on CTAN: /info/latex2e-help-texinfo
Summary description: spanish translation of unofficial latex2e refman
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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The unofficial LaTeX2e reference manual
(http://home.gna.org/latexrefman) now has a Spanish
translation, thanks to Nacho Pacheco.
Help with extending the manual to cover more control
sequences, improvements to existing descriptions, further
translations, ..., is always very welcome.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latex2e-help-texinfo
(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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This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: biblatex-chicago
Version number: 0.9.5a
Author's name: David Fussner
Summary description: Biblatex style files for both Chicago specifications
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This …
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biblatex-chicago.sty. Please upgrade, particularly if you
are having issues with the previous (0.9.5) release.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate…
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-chicago
(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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