ctan-ann September 2011

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CTAN Update: ctanupload
by CTAN Announcements 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the ctanupload package. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changelog: * CTAN upload server can now be given using the environment variables CTAN_URL (direct URL) or CTAN_SERVER (server name 'dante' or 'uktug') environment variable. Otherwise it is now choicen randomly. * Added log file feature. * Better support for UK-TUG upload. * Improved manual. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/ctanupload . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ctanupload (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: toptesi 5.59a
by CTAN Announcements 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

the daemon calls, but i'm in a meeting. it seems to have said: > Name of contribution: toptesi 5.59a > Author's name: Claudio Beccari > Package version: 5.59a > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/toptesi > Summary description: Bundle for ttypesetting theses in different > languaes using pdfLaTeX or XeLaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > A specific test was inverted and produced unwanted results. Bug corrected. thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and made a minor adjustment to the catalogue data. > 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: mdframed
by CTAN Announcements 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 Marco Daniel submitted an update to the mdframed package. Summary description: auto split frame environment License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v0.9b - fixes bugs in ewmdtheoremenv (Thanks to Enrico Gregorio) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdframed . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mdframed (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: teubner
by CTAN Announcements 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

the daemon writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: teubner > Author's name: Claudio Beccari > Package version: 3.3 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/teubner > Summary description: Typesetting greek phiilology. Bugs fixed. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The teubner bundle allows the philologists dealing with ancient Greek > to typeset their documents with ease, with a larger choice of Greek > fonts, and with helpful environments for typesetting poems and > metrae. > > The package has been updated so as to change the options selection, to > upgrade the documentation and to fix some serious bugs among a handful > of extended accent macros. 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/teubner.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/teubner/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: coseoul
by CTAN Announcements 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 Michael Teubner submitted the coseoul package. Summary description: Context censitive outline elements for dynamically changing the document structure License type: lppl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package provides “relative” commands that may be used in place of chapter, section, etc. The documentation shows a number of document-management scenarios in which such commands are valuable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/coseoul . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/coseoul (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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UK TeX FAQ v3.23
by CTAN Announcements 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

i have just released v3.23 of the faq to ctan and to the usual web address this release contains more tidying up than new material, but some significant changes have been made (see changes list, below). details: interactive access: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq sources, etc: http://mirror.ctan.org/help/uk-tex-faq catalogue entry: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/uk-tex-faq.html robin fairbairns ================ CHANGES-3.23: Changes since version 3.22 New answers: +Label book-lists: redirector to the dismembered parts of old label books +Label ctan: summary of the salient points of the archives +Label catalogue: outline of the CTAN catalogue +Label latex-books: the LaTeX part of old label books +Label other-books: the miscellanea from old label books +Label subdepth: getting even subscripts in your maths +Label tex-books: TeX and Plain TeX part of old label books +Label type-books: typesetting part of old label books Relabelled answers: <none> Revised answers: +Label altabcr: error can be caused by insufficient columns in a matrix +Label clsvpkg: rewritten with a LaTeX 2e perspective (rather than 2.09) +Label context: add detail following Hans Hagen's outline in Tugboat 100 +Label destable: more details of caption above table +Label doc-dirs: correct link to TUG India tutorials page +Label drawing: link to intro doc on pgf/TikZ, and sparse docs of DraTeX +Label gethelp: rewritten for (slightly) improved clarity +Label hyphen: LuaTeX's hyphenation pattern loading is different +Label keyval: references to expl3, xpackages replaced with l3* versions keyval: mention getoptk +Label labelfig: mention pst-layout; mention that pgf/TikZ is also capable +Label latex2e: mention frozen state +Label latex3: references to expl3, xpackages replaced with l3* versions +Label latexqual: mention lacheck +Label luatex: clarify statement about future changes to PDFTeX luatex: updated versions mentioned; MikTeX now offers LuaTeX +Label MF: mention sidelining of Metafont in the modern world +Label patch: use letltxmacro where necessary +Label RCS: mention gitinfo +Label texthings: clarify description of luatex +Label tfm: XeTeX and LuaTeX don't need TFM files +Label underscore: \_ in OT1 encoding is bad news +Label useMF: a step in removing archaic baggage from this answer Deleted answers: +Label books: dismembered to produce the new *-books above (the label is now redirected to book-lists) Web interface, etc.: A small change to the HTML generation has (to the author's eye) improved the appearance of pages on the web. There remain problems in this area, despite the improvement. Robin Fairbairns

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CTAN package update: ctanupload
by CTAN Announcements 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

the daemon tells me: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: ctanupload > Author's name: Martin Scharrer > Package version: v1.1 > Location on CTAN: support/ctanupload/ > Summary description: Update to v1.1: More options, file i/o and reponse output > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Changelog v1.1: > * Now supports both DANTE and UK-TUG upload server. > * Fixed issues with DoNotAnnounce checkbox. > * Added reponse output. > * Added saving and loading of input data. > * Values can now be read from files. > * Added manual as LaTeX file. > * Added upload server selection by name. > * Prompt mode is now the default if script is run in a terminal > but disabled if run from a script or Makefile. 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/ctanupload.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/ctanupload/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN updates upload: l3kernel, l3packages, l3experimental
by CTAN Announcements 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

the daemon has been banging at the door again. three times, would you believe?!: > Name of contributions: l3kernel, l3packages, l3experimental > Author's name: LaTeX3 Project > Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org > Package version: SVN 2729 > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Snapshot of SVN 2729 > -------------------- > > - Revised behaviour of clists with respect to spaces. > Spaces are now trimmed from clist entries when adding to > stored clists or when mapping to inline clists. Braces > are retained in all cases. This leads to the deprecation > of clist_trim_spaces:N, and moves clist_trim_spaces:n > to an 'internal' function. > - Improve detail in documentation on expandablity of > functions, focussing on the difference between f- and > x-type expansion. > - Documentation hyperlinks and appearance improved > - Various documentation fixes and extensions > - Box rotations and (affine) scalings added as experimental > functions to l3box > - Higher-level scaling added to l3coffins/xcoffins. > - Better space treatment in hard-wrapping messages for > l3msg module. thanks for the uploads; i have installed the new versions and updated the catalogue repository for the 3 ctan bundles. > 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/l3experimental/ The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: filehook
by CTAN Announcements 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the filehook package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This bug fix release changes the internal use of csname .. endcsname to execute potential file hooks. Instead, the existence of the file hook is tested first to avoid implicit definition as elax, which might interfere with user code, i.e. start a new tabular row. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/filehook . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/filehook (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: adjustbox
by CTAN Announcements 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted an upadte to the adjustbox package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update adds the key options 'tabular', 'tabular*' and 'array' which format the 'adjustbox' content using these environments before it is boxed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/adjustbox . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/adjustbox (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-ann September 2011