ctan-ann December 2011

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new CTAN package: nameauth
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

the daemon proclaims: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: nameauth > Author's name: Charles P. Schaum > Package version: 0.7 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/ > Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and > flexibility in body text and index. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Publications that reference many names require editors and > proofreaders to track those names in the text and index. These name > authority macros allow authors and compilers to normalize occurrences > of names, variant name forms, and pen names in the text and > index. This may help minimize writing and production time and cost. 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/nameauth.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/ The catalogue entry will first appear on the web some time early in 2012. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: Endheads
by CTAN Announcements 31 Dec '11

31 Dec '11

the daemon said: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: Endheads > Author's name: John Burt > Package version: 1.5 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/endheads/ > Summary description: Running headers of the form Notes to pp. xx--yy > for endnotes > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Endheads provides running headers of the form Notes to pp. xx-yy for > endnotes. It is designed to work with endnotes.sty. Version 1.5 fixes > a bug in the interaction of Endheads and the page styles for memoir > 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/endheads.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/endheads/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: libertine-legacy
by CTAN Announcements 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

the daemon offers a late-night goodie: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: libertine-legacy > Author's name: Bob Tennent > Package version: 5.1.2 (2011-12-30) > Location on CTAN: fonts/libertine-legacy/ > Summary description: Linux Libertine fonts for TeX and PdfTeX users. > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To avoid conflicts with the otf fonts of the > libertine package, the otf fonts and some associated files > have been removed. (La)TeX and Pdf(la)TeX users should have > no need for these. thanks for the upload -- rapid reaction, indeed, to the concerns of the user community. 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/libertine-legacy.ht… > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/libertine-legacy/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: pgfplots
by CTAN Announcements 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 Christian Feuersänger submitted an update to the pgfplots package. Summary description: pgfplots - Create normal/logarithmic plots in two and three dimensions for LaTeX. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pgfplots version 1.5.1 comes with several bugfixes and a couple of new features, including - more operations for FPU library (==, !=,<=,>=,?) - fixed bug in usage of decorations in addplot - bugfix for contour prepared format=matlab - added 'const plot mark mid' and 'jump mark mid' plot handlers - nodes on a plot (addplot ... node[pos=<fraction>] {};) - 'trim axis group left' and 'trim axis group right' - bugfixes for polar axes and log+stacked plots - added style 'log ticks with fixed point' - introduced patched tikz paths to simplify circles and ellipses within an axis - patchplots lib: patch type=polygon - some more bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgfplots (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: luacode
by CTAN Announcements 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard submitted an update to the luacode package. Summary description: Helper for executing lua code from within TeX. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011/12/29 v1.2 * new helper macros luastring, luastringO, luastringN * new debug (logging) feature ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/luacode . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/luacode (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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New CTAN package: reverxii
by CTAN Announcements 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 Bruno Le Floch submitted the reverxii package. Summary description: Playing Reversi in TeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the lead of xii.tex, here is a little (938 chars) game of Reversi for New Year. WIth a primitive AI. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/plain/contrib/reverxii . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/reverxii (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 packages updated: l3kernel, l3packages, l3experimental
by CTAN Announcements 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

the daemon's been up to one of his mammoth sessions... > Name of contribution: l3kernel > Name of contribution: l3packages > Name of contribution: l3experimental > Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project > Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org > Package version: SVN 3109 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/ > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/ > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/ > Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Snapshot of SVN 3109 > -------------------- > > - New tl-analysis module for decomposing and analysing token lists > on a token-by-token basis. > - Extend l3regex to work with tokens where appropriate. In > particular, the syntax c{<csname>} can be used to match > control sequences. > - Improved robustness of regex system. > - Improve behaviour of DeclareExpandableDocumentCommand such > that optional arguments (o, O, d and D) can contain > nested delimiter tokens in the same way as happens for > non-expandable functions. > - No longer accept l type arguments for > DeclareExpandableDocumentCommand, as this was not reliable. > - Added expandable l_if_empty:x(TF) test. > - Add experimental 'list comprehension' functions > seq_(g)set_filter:NNn and seq_(g)set_map:NNn. > - Improve the behaviour of vbox_... and vtop... functions so > that they always end with a par rather than the internal TeX > /end_graf/ procedure. > - Revise cs_to_str:N such that it requires exactly two > expansions and is faster. > - Revise register allocation such that a full set of registers > are accessible using the native allocator when using LuaTeX. > - Revise cs_show:c and cs_meaning:c to test explicitly for > undefined arguments. > - Revise some internals of ior/iow stream allocations. > - Make l_replace_... functions robust inside halign. > - Fix bugs in the l_rescan... functions to handle & > correctly and to preserve braces under all circumstances. > - Fix bugs in LuaTeX-only catcode table allocator (IniTeX mode > only). > - Test that catcode tables are new when allocating in package > mode. > - Tighten up on use of _nopar so that it is only applied to > functions with no arguments. > - Documentation fixes for prg_(new|set)_eq_conditional:NNn. thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the three entries in the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entries at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3experimental.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/ > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/ > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/ The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: endfloat
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '11

i wake up to find the daemon saying: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: endfloat > Author's name: Axel Sommerfeldt > Package version: 2.5d > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/ > Summary description: Place all figures on pages by themselves at the > end of the document, optionally leaving markers like [Figure 3 > about here] in the text near to where the figure (or table) would > normally have occurred. > > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Improved compatibility to version 2.4 of the endfloat package 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/endfloat.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: amiri-font
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '11

the daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: amiri-font > Author's name: Khaled Hosny > Package version: 0.101 > Location on CTAN: /fonts/amiri > Summary description: Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface, Naskh > style, for typesetting books and other running text. > License type: other-free > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > See 'documentation/NEWS.txt' 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/amiri-font.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/amiri/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 26 Dec '11

26 Dec '11

the daemon tells us: > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Package version: v2.4f > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.4f: > - Bug fix for font changes in tables > - Better handling of 'escaped' material in tables when > parse-numbers = false is set > - Some performance enhancements 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/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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