ctan-ann May 2011

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CTAN Update: Asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '11

27 May '11

On Fri, 27 May 2011 John Bowman submitted an update to the asymptote package. Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-aware vector graphics language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PRC vertex-shading for straight patches was implemented. A general image routine that uses a pen function of two INT parameters was implemented. A 3D pixel routine was added. A temporary expression is now used to avoid side effects in self operators. Keyword-only function arguments were implemented. The sizing routines were recoded. Bugs in drawline and geometry were fixed. The geometry module no longer overloads the built-in circle and ellipse functions. PDF TeX engines are now supported in xasy. Directory prefixes are no longer stripped from .js and .prc file names. The TeXShop instructions were updated. The asymptote.sty LaTeX style file was updated to allow leading spaces before end{asy} and to introduce a keepAspect keyval option. Segmentation faults were fixed. Unwanted state-dependency was removed from the startTrembling function of the contributed trembling module by introducing a tremble structure (backwards incompatible change); see the example floatingdis! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (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: thumbs
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '11

27 May '11

On Thu, 26 May 2011 H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the thumbs package. Summary description: Bug fix License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug fix: labels or index or glossary entries were gobbled for the thumb marks overview page, but gobbling leaked to the rest of the document; fixed. New option draft for the thumbs package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/thumbs/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/thumbs (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 package update: toptesi
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '11

27 May '11

the daemon said, just as i left work: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: toptesi > Author's name: Claudio Beccari > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/toptesi > Summary description: A complete package for bachelor, master and PhD > theses with a multilingual approach > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The package has been upgraded to version 5.5; some auxiliary packages > contents have been included into the main extension file and the > various university logos have been eliminated in order to avoid legal > questions with their owners. 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/toptesi.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/toptesi/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xpdfopen 0.82
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '11

27 May '11

the daemon tells us: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xpdfopen 0.82 > Author's name: Jim Diamond > Location on CTAN: /support/xpdfopen > Summary description: Add version number information to programs, improve man page. > License type: other-free > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > xpdfopen provides pdfopen and pdfclose programs for X11 systems (at > least GNU/Linux). This version adds version information to the > programs and a considerably improved man page. 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/xpdfopen.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/xpdfopen/ 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 May '11

26 May '11

the daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.2f: > - Fix bug when setting table-column-width = 0 pt > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the update; 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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CTAN package update: Version 2.2 of Getting up and running with AMS-LaTeX
by CTAN Announcements 25 May '11

25 May '11

the daemon, having slumbered all day when i was at work, now wakes up and says: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: Version 2.2 of Getting up and running with AMS-LaTeX > Author's name: Philip S. Hirschhorn > Location on CTAN: info/amslatex/primer > Summary description: A primer on using AMS-LaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > An improved version of a primer on using AMS-LaTeX. This version > contains an enlarged section describing how to draw commutative > diagrams using Xy-pic and a more thorough description of the > environments for displayed mathematics. 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/amslatex-primer.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/amslatex/primer/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAn Update: pdfcomment
by CTAN Announcements 24 May '11

24 May '11

On Mon, 23 May 2011 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the pdfcomment package. Summary description: A user-friendly interface to PDF annotations License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For a long time pdflatex has offered the command pdfannot for inserting arbitrary PDF annotations. However, the command is presented in a form where additional knowledge of the definition of the PDF format is indispensable. This package is an answer to the – occasional – questions in newsgroups, about how one could use the comment function of Adobe Reader. At least for the writer of LaTeX code, the package offers a convenient and user-friendly means of using pdfannot to provide comments in PDF files. Since version v1.1, pdfcomment.sty also supports: LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf, LaTeX -> dvipdfmx and XeLaTeX. Unfortunately, support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers is sparse to nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is Adobe Reader. License: LPPL Changes in v2.2: - added pdftooltip which allows annotating objects with tooltips - allow setting of disable globally pdfcommentsetup{disable} + pdfcomment[disable=false]{comment} => will enable this single PDF annotation feature request by: Zvi Gilboa - added option printSOfinal printSOfinal=false will not typeset the markup text in a StrikeOut annotation if the option final or disable is used! feature request by: Marcel Dausend - revised documentation added information about escape commands in pdfstringdef used for conversion of comments to PDFDocEncoding/PDFUnicode feature request by: Max Funk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcomment (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: ifnextok
by CTAN Announcements 23 May '11

23 May '11

On Mon, 23 May 2011 Uwe Lück submitted the ifnextok package. Summary description: replacing @ifnextchar so `\ [' prints `[' in new line etc. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- `ifnextok' deals with the behavior of LaTeX's internal `@ifnextchar' to skip blank spaces. This sometimes has surprising or for some users really unwanted effects, especially with brackets following ` where the user does not intend to specify an optional argument, rather wants that brackets are printed. The package offers commands and options for modifying this behavior, maybe limited to certain parts of the document source. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ifnextok . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ifnextok (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 package update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 23 May '11

23 May '11

there's me, innocently reading and eating my lunch, and the daemon says: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.2e: > - Fix misinterpretation of complex numbers with no real part 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/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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New CTAN package: pst-layout
by CTAN Announcements 23 May '11

23 May '11

this effusion from the daemon also failed to wake me: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: pst-layout > Author's name: Michael Sharpe > Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/ > Summary description: Page layout macros based on pstricks packages > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Macros based on pstricks packages for preparing quasi-tabular material such > as menu pages, musical program pages, business cards, brochure pages etc. > No expertize in pstricks is required for basic usage. thanks for the upload; i have installed it and made a new entry in the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-layout.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/ The catalogue entry will first appear on the web overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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