ctan-ann June 2011

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New CTAN package: pst-rubans
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pst-rubans2.tgz to the uk mirror. Please put > the files into the new directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-rubans/ > > pst-rubans (v.1.20) is a PSTricks related package for > drawing three dimensional tapes. > > the authors are Manuel Luque and Herbert Voß. The license > is as usual LPPL > > pst-rubans is an extension of pst-solides3d which allows to > draw tapes on a cylinder, torus, sphere, cone and paraboloid. > The width of the ribbon, the number of turns, the color of > the outer and the inner surface of the tape can be set. In > the case of circular and conical helices, one can also choose > the number of ribbons. thanks for the upload; i have installed the new package, and created an entry in the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-rubans.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-rubans/ The catalogue entry will first appear some time overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: serbianc
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

the daemon said, yesterday (unfortunately, there's been a cascade of ctan work, and i've fallen behind): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: serbianc > Author's name: Filip Brcic > Location on CTAN: language > Summary description: Serbian cyrillic support for babel > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Serbian cyrillic package for Babel thanks for the upload. despite your suggestion of where to put the package, the ctan team decided to make it the first of a new bundle of babel contributed packages; i have installed the package accordingly, and have made a catalogue entry (in the repository only, as yet). > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/serbianc.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/serbian… The catalogue entry will first appear some time overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: The hypdvips package
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 Raimund Niedrist submitted an update to the hypdvips package. Summary description: Hyperref extensions for use with dvips License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v2.03 - fixes broken links within cleveref references - breaks up links between pages and columns into individual links ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hypdvips . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/hypdvips (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: schwalbe-chess
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 Stefan Hoening submitted the schwalbe-chess package. Summary description: An extension to the chess-problem-diagrams package to typeset the german chess problem magazine Die Schwalbe. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Initial publication of the schwalbe-chess package. This package contains the style which is used to typeset the german chess problem magazine Die Schwalbe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/schwalbe-chess . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/schwalbe-chess (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: classicthesis
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 André Miede submitted an update to the classicthesis package. Summary description: Major release, including support for porting classicthesis to LyX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 3.0 (June 2011) o There have been some major changes in order to port classicthesis to LyX easily. See below for details. Special thanks go to Ivo Pletikosic for all his hard work he put into this project! o Changes in ClassicThesis.tex: - Redundant fleqn removed from documentclass options (will be set by amsmath package in preamble) - KOMA adjustments for documentclass: fontsize=11pt,paper=14 - Moved language options into documentclass due to LyX issues with babel o Changes in classicthesis.sty: - Removed bcor from areaset command so that it can be set via documentclass option (BCOR=) - New ctparttext command for putting preamble text after part titles (see ClassicThesis.tex for examples) - graffito command now also available as original marginpar (backward compatibility is enabled) - Chapter number in margin done with oldmarginpar o Changes to classicthesis-preamble.sty: - Fixed autoref for subfigures (see Chapter 2 for example) - Fixed issues with redefining autoref strings (for different languages) - Now contains all configuration information, such as the title, your name etc. - This package now also loads classicthesis.sty, change the options classicthesis to be loaded with here - Package inputenc now loaded with latin9 option - Package listings now also loaded here - Now safer package loading regarding options by using PassOptionsToPackage command extensively - Inserted new string for mySubtitle o Changes in Titlepage.tex and Titleback.tex because of new string mySubtitle o Changed a lot of the documentation, e.g., in Chapter01.tex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/classicthesis (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: alterqcm
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 Alain Matthes submitted an update to the alterqcm package. Summary description: Multiple choice questionnaires in two column tables. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New documentation. I fixed some bugs and added some features. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/alterqcm . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/alterqcm (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: ifnextok
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the ifnextok package. Summary description: make commands not skipping spaces, cf. amsmath/mathtools License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- After hints on texhax by Heiko Oberdiek and on LATEX-L by Bruno Le Floche (May 11) and Frank Mittelbach (May 15; that I now finally read, 2011-06-02), IfNextToken and IfStarNextToken of v0.21 essentially (not exactly) are ew@ifnextchar and @ifstar, resp., from amsmath; main own features (i) control of where to employ them, (ii) use outside math, indeed rather thinking of humanities. Documentation now mentions amsmath and mathtools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 bug fix: l3kernel
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

the daemon continues to keep me busy... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: l3kernel > Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project > Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel > Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > SVN 2453 (bug fix): > - Corrects issue with l3keys, where l_keys_choice_int was > not correctly defined > (see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20032/) thanks for the upload; i've installed the fixed version and tweaked the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/ as always, the micro-change to the catalogue file may not appear until some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re-bundling of LaTeX 3 on CTAN: l3kernel, l3packages, l3experimental
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

the daemon's been busy (and so have i): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: l3kernel, l3packages, l3experimental > Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project > Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel > /macros/latex/contrib/l3packages > /macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental > Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > LaTeX3 coding and concepts as LaTeX2e packages > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > As work continues toward LaTeX3, a number of programming > conventions and higher-level ideas are being developed by The > LaTeX3 Project. These are designed to be available as LaTeX2e > packages, meaning that they can be used now by both developers > and day-to-day LaTeX users. > > The material released to CTAN is currently divided into three > parts: > - l3kernel: code which will be present in a LaTeX3 kernel in > its current form. Currently, this part contains the coding > layer for LaTeX3 ('expl3'). > - l3packages: code which is broadly 'stable', and which adds > new functionality to LaTeX2e. Material from l3packages may be > present in a LaTeX3 kernel, but the interfaces may change. > - l3experimental: code which is more experimental, and which is > intended mainly for testing by interested users. Over time, > material from this area may move to one of the other two > divisions. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This release (SVN 2448) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > This release is a major overhaul of the CTAN release of the > LaTeX3 development code. As described above, the arrangement of > the code on CTAN has been altered, with material which was > previously available as 'l3in2e' moving broadly to 'l3kernel' > while 'xpackages' has been split into 'l3packages' and > 'l3experimental'. This arrangement has been adopted to make the > status of the different parts of LaTeX3 clearer, and also means > that the CTAN structure now aligns with that off the development > repository. > > As part of the code rearrangement, the status of all of the > LaTeX3 modules has been reviewed. A small number of modules have > been removed from the CTAN release as a result, as they are not > currently suitable for general use in their current form. At the > same time, the xfrac package has been integrated into the main > LaTeX3 release. This will allow the team as a whole to keep > xfrac up to date with any changes to the 'template' concept. > > The code and documentation for the 'expl3' programming layer has > been reviewed, and this release features a range of performance > enhancements. At the same time, several inexact sections in the > documentation have been revised to make the detailed behaviour > of the code clearer, and with more attention to covering edge > cases. At the same time, a number of functions have been renamed > or removed from the code. Notification of these changes has > already been given on the LaTeX-L list. While the team hopes > that these changes will not break any existing code, developers > using LaTeX3 for programming should of course test their code > against the new release. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Discussion > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Discussion concerning the approach, suggestions for > improvements, changes, additions, etc. should be addressed to > the list LaTeX-L. > > You can subscribe to this list by sending mail to > > listserv(a)urz.uni-heidelberg.de > > with the body containing > > subscribe LaTeX-L <Your-First-Name> <Your-Second-Name> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Bugs > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > The issue tracker for LaTeX3 bugs is currently located at > > https://github.com/latex3/svn-mirror/issues > > Please report specific issues with LaTeX3 code there. More > general discussion should be directed to the LaTeX-L lists. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The LaTeX3 Project > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 directories 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/l3kernel/ The catalogue entries will first appear, on the web, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: skb
by CTAN Announcements 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 Sven van der Meer submitted an update to the skb package. Summary description: Create and maintain a repository for long-living documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides macros that help to build a document repository for long living documents. It focuses on structure and re-use of text, code, figures etc. The basic concept is to first separate structure from content (i.e. text about a topic from the structure it is presented by) and then separating the content from the actual published document, thus enabling easy re-use of text blocks in different publications (i.e. text about a protocol in a short article about this protocol as well as in a book about many protocols); all without constantly copying or changing text. As a side effect, using the document classes provided, it hides a lot of LaTeX from someone who just wants to write articles and books. Updates in v0.52: added moderncv to the supported classes, changed package structure to be compliant with CTAN requirements and added information in the README file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/skb/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/skb (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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