the daemon burbled (but failed to wake me up):
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: Version 2.4 of the exam document class
> Author's name: Philip Hirschhorn
> Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/exam
> Summary description: A document class for preparing exams
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 2.4 of the exam document class.
>
> Some new possibilities for grade tables, multiple choice questions,
> blank space for answers, and ways to escape the indentation, along
> with various minor improvements and bug fixes.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/exam.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/exam/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Alberto Simões wrote:
> After four years (?) I finally managed to get some time and update the
> Portuguese translation of lshort.
>
> I uploaded to /incoping/pt-lshort-5.01.0/ the PDF files.
thanks for the upload; i've finally installed it (after a bit of an
inescapable hiatus), and updated the catalogue respository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/lshort-portuguese.h…
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/lshort/portuguese/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
i was on my way to bed when the daemon said:
> Name of contribution: musixtex-1.15 (packaged 2011-05-21)
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Location on CTAN: macros/musixtex
> Summary description: Sophisticatex music typesetting using TeX
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Augmented the musixtex.lua script to allow multiple filenames, and
> added -l (latex) and -f (default) options.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and tweaked the
catalogue entry.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/musixtex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/musixtex
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sat, 21 May 2011 Zoran Filipovic submitted the
serbian-lig
package.
Summary description: This package disables ligatures for some serbian words in latin scripts
License type: gpl
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/serbian-lig
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/serbian-lig
(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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Sat, 21 May 2011 Zoran Filipovic submitted an update to the
eqell
package.
Summary description: This package produce very nice punctuation marks
License type: gpl
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eqell
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/eqell
(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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Fri, 20 May 2011 H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the
thumbs
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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CTAN update:
- Bug fix for thumbs: Missing (second) advance h@mbheighty- h@mbsdistance could cause an endless loop.
- More information about thumb marks/margins dimensions (in verbose mode).
- Change in used packages.
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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 .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Thu, 19 May 2011, Kirill Müller submitted an update to the
excel2latex
package.
Summary description: Convert Excel spreadsheets to LaTeX tables.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update fixes compatibility with Office Mac and earlier versions of Office for Windows. It also includes some very minor bug fixes and updates.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/excel2latex
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/excel2latex
(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
On Wed, 18 May 2011, H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the
thumbs
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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CTAN update: thumbs
Thumbs now supports more than six thumb marks at one page.
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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
On Tue, 17 May 2011 Andreas Stergiou submitted the
chet
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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chet is a class that introduces a set of commands that make TeXing faster. It is
inspired by Paul Ginsparg's harvmac.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/chet
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/chet
(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
On Tue, 17 May 2011 Jiří Mrkus submitted the
upca
package.
Summary description: Macros for printing UPC-A barcodes
License type: lppl
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/upca
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/upca
(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