ctan-ann August 2011

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New CTAN Package: musuos
by CTAN Announcements 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 Tobias Weh submitted the musous package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- musuos provides a class file for typsetting papers at the department of music of the university osnabrueck, germany. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/musuos (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: rake4latex
by CTAN Announcements 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 Knut Lickert submitted an update to the rakelatex package. Summary description: A rake-based tool to compile LaTeX projects. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Correction of bug related to splitindex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/rake4latex . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/rake4latex (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: pst-bspline
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

the daemon interrupts my work cleaning the house (good old daemon!) > Name of contribution: pst-bspline > Author's name: Michael Sharpe > Package version: 1.44 > Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/ > Summary description: B-spline curves for PSTricks > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This version adds a number of macros that permit B-spline curves to be used > in the same way as parametric curves and graphs of functions. thanks for the upload; i have installed this version, and adjusted the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-bspline.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-bspline/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: prerex
by CTAN Announcements 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

the daemon writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: prerex > Author's name: Bob Tennent > Package version: 6.1.0 > Location on CTAN: graphics/prerex/ > Summary description: Macros for prerequisite charts, with associated > editor and viewer applications. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 6.1.0 of prerex.sty provides commands to specify the > background color of individual course boxes. The corresponding > version of the prerex editor supports the new feature. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/prerex.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/prerex/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: othelloboard
by CTAN Announcements 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

i was sleepy by the time the daemon said: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: othelloboard > Author's name: Steven Hall > Author's email: stevenhall.uk(a)gmail.com > Package version: 1.2 > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/othelloboard > Summary description: Typeset Othello (Reversi) diagrams of any size, > with annotations. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Have extended the functionality of one of the commands. Updated the > documentation to reflect this. Also included a file of some sample > text typeset with the thanks for the upload; i have 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/othelloboard.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/othelloboard/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: caption
by CTAN Announcements 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 Axel Sommerfeldt submitted the caption package. Summary description: This LaTeX package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table, and cooperates with many other packages. Includes rotating captions, sideways captions, continued captions (for tables or figures that come in several parts). A list of compatibility notes, for other packages, is provided in the documentation. The package also provides the caption outside float facility. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfix release of caption v3.2 and subcaption v1.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/caption (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: nlatexdb
by CTAN Announcements 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 Robin Hoens submitted the nlatexdb package. Summary description: Database reports using LaTeX and .Net (or Mono) License type: gpl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a compatible rewrite of LaTeXDB (by Hans-Georg Eßer) or ratexdb (by myself) in C#/.Net. It works under Mono, too. It is a preprocessor which performs SQL queries on a database and creates LaTeX code for the resulting rows. It implements a few improvements, e.g. regexp postprocessing, command-line options, protection against SQL injection, replacement of LaTeX reserved characters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/nlatexdb . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/nlatexdb (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 on CTAN: pxtxalfa
by CTAN Announcements 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

the daemon writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: pxtxalfa > Author's name: Michael Sharpe > Package version: 1.0 > Location on CTAN: fonts/pxtxalfa > Summary description: Virtual math alphabets based on pxfonts and txfonts > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Virtual math alphabets based on pxfonts and txfonts, with LaTeX support files > and adjusted metrics. The most recent version of mathalfa contains support > for this collection. thanks for the upload; i have installed the new 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/pxtxalfa.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/pxtxalfa/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: mathalfa
by CTAN Announcements 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

the daemon writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: mathalfa > Author's name: Michael Sharpe > Package version: 1.02 > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mathalfa > Summary description: A package to load math alphabets > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This package provides the means to load math alphabets usually called by > mathcal, mathbb, mathfrak, mathscr and their bold variants without > relying on the default sty and fd files, so that every font may be scaled > arbitrarily and no metafont-related size restrictions are imposed. Support is > offered for a number of new math alphabets including dutchcal and pxtx. thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository accordingly. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/mathalfa.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mathalfa/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: l3kernel
by CTAN Announcements 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

the daemon tells me > 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 > Package version: SVN 2607 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/ > Summary description: Experimental LaTeX3 concepts > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Snapshot of SVN 2607 > > This release adds experimental functionality to xparse, and > also support for this in other areas. It also includes > a small number of other changes: > - xparse now supports (experimental) verbatim argument > grabbing. As discussed in the documentation, this > allows xparse to generate verb-like functions. > - Support function peek_N_type:TF added for testing if > a token can be grabbed as an N-type argument. > - l_trim_spaces:n is improved in handling of spaces. > - int_to_base: performance is improved. > - Deprecated functions should now not be used anywhere in > team code (in preparation for removal of deprecated > functions in a later snapshot). thanks for the upload; i have installed the updated 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/ similarly, i have installed new versions of the l3packages and l3experimental bundles: ========== Name of contribution: l3packages Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/ Of which users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/ ========== Name of contribution: l3experimental Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/ Of which users may view the package catalogue entry at 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/l3experimental/ ========== The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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