ctan-ann February 2011

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CTAN Update: lipsum
by CTAN Announcements 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 Patrick Happel submitted an update to the lipsum package. Summary description: Easy access to the Lorem Ipsum dummy text. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lipsum now provides an option that enables one to select whether the single paragraphs of the dummy text are terminated by a par or not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/lipsum . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=lipsum (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: luaindex
by CTAN Announcements 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 a new package luaindex was submitted. Summary description: create index with lualatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- luaindex is another index processor written in Lua. Currently usage of LuaLaTeX is provided only, but plainLuaTeX, ConTeXt or other formats may follow. luaindex provides more than one index. Like SplitIndex it needs only one help file for all produced indexes. Note: This is an alpha version! For additional version information see `lualatex.dtx.' Distributors should README! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/luaindex/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=luaindex (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 package on CTAN: catoptions
by CTAN Announcements 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

the daemon, for once, comes and greets me (rather than creeping out while i'm asleep, or whatever...): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: catoptions > Author's name: Ahmed Musa > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/catoptions > Summary description: Preserving and recalling standard catcodes. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The 'catoptions' package changes package loading internals so that all > subsequently loaded packages can rely on normal/standard catcodes of > all ASCII characters. The package defines canonical control sequences > to represent all the visible ASCII characters. It also provides robust > options parsing mechanisms, in addition to many other TeX programming > tools. thanks for the upload. i have 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/catoptions.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/catoptions/ The catalogue entry will appear for the first time, at some stage overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: mathastext
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 Jean-Francois Burnol submitted updates to the mathastext package. Summary description: Use the text font in simple mathematics License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In version 1.11: * various bugs have been corrected * the endash and alldelims options are active by default * the en-dash and dotless i and j are now compatible with all encodings, including Unicode * the Mathastext command has been improved to facilitate the mechanism of math versions also when using XeTeX or LuaTeX with package fontspec. Usage: usepackage{mathastext}. This will propagate the text font to math mode. Version 1.12 corrects some bugs from the recently released version 1.11. And it makes mathastext better aware of Unicode engines and fonts. * The endash and alldelims options are active by default. * The Mathastext command has been improved to facilitate the * mechanism of math versions also when using XeTeX or LuaTeX * The en-dash and dotless i and j will now work with all 8bit encodings, and also with Unicode fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mathastext/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mathastext (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: biblatex-dw
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 Dominik Wassenhoven aubmitted an update to the biblatex-dw package. Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.3c This version of biblatex-dw needs biblatex 1.1a. Please note that you have to update biblatex as well if you would like to use biblatex-dw 1.3c! Changes: - BUGFIX: Under some circumstances, an error occurred (command cbx@tempa could not be found). This should be fixed now. - BUGFIX: Some of the German translations were broken due to a change of internal commands in biblatex. This is now fixed. - The entry type @review is now supported. You can specify a reviewed work via the xref field. See the documentation for details. - Some internal changes concerning DeclareFieldFormat directives. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-dw (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: bibleref-german
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 Dominik Waßenhoven submitted the bibleref-german package. Summary description: German formatting of bible citations License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the first release of bibleref-german. This package provides translations and various formats for the use of bibleref in German documents. The German naming of the bible books complies with the 'Loccumer Richtlinien' (Loccum guidelines). Apart from that, the Vulgate (Latin bible) is supported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/bibleref-german . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bibleref-german (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: rtf2latex2e
by CTAN Announcements 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 Wilfried Hennings submitted an update to the rtf2latex2e package. Summary description: rtf to LaTeX converter License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The rtf2latex2e converter has been updated to release 2-0-1. The package rtf2latex2e-2-0-1.zip contains the source code files. The package rtf2latex2e-2-0-1-Win.zip contains a precompiled executable for Windows and the necessary data files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/rtf2latex2e . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=rtf2latex2e (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: collcell
by CTAN Announcements 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted the collcell package. Summary description: Provides macros to collect the content of a tabular cell and provide it to a macro as argument License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This small package provides macros which collect the cell content of a tabular and provide it to a macro as argument. It was inspired by the collect@body macro defined by the amsmath or the environ package, which can be used to collect the body of an environment. Special care is taken to remove all aligning macros inserted by tabular from the cell content. The macros also work in the last column of a table. They do not support verbatim material inside the cells. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/collcell . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=collcell (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: latexmk
by CTAN Announcements 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

while i slept (the afternoon sleep of the convalescent), the daemon cried: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: latexmk > Author's name: John Collins > Location on CTAN: support/latexmk > Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ver. 4.22e > > Fix incorrect error handling in reading initialization files. > (Sometimes an error was incorrectly detected, when there was in fact no error.) thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and tweaked the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/latexmk.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/latexmk/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: biblatex 1.1b
by CTAN Announcements 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded a new biblatex release to the incoming directory of the > UK node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/. Please > purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as > usual. Thank you very much. > > RELEASE NOTES > > This is a maintenance release. Biber users are advised to update Biber > to version 0.7.3. > > CHANGES > > See the changelog in biblatex.pdf. 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/biblatex.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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