On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 Brian Blackmore submitted the
hanoi
package.
Summary description: Towers of Hanoi / Brahma
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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Surely you want to practice your TeX skills by solving the Towers of Hanoi with
(up to) 15 discs, or maybe you just want to know the 32767 moves. Take a day
off, solve the tower, and learn about TeX category codes!
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/plain/contrib/hanoi
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http://www.ctan.org/pkg/hanoi
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On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 renamed the getfileversion package to
latexfileversion
Summary description: Prints the version and date of a LaTeX input file
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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2011-12-31 v0.3 Harald Harders
- Rename from getfileversion to latexfileversion
- Add support for arbitrary tex input file types
2011-12-30 v0.2 Harald Harders
- Avoid special characters as guillemets
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http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latexfileversion
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On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 Harald Harders submitted an update to the
fnbreak
package.
Summary description: Detects footnotes that are split over several pages.
License type: lppl
Announcement text: Yes
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New features since version 1.10:
- Add options `nonverbose' and `label' and macros to switch behaviour after loading the package
- Distinguish between split over double page or with flipping the page.
- Allow commands in page number (non-numeric pages and footnote labels).
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On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 H.-Martin Münch submitted the
romanbar
package.
Summary description: Write Roman numbers (or any other text) with bars.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This LaTeX package allows to write Roman numbers (or any other text) with bars.
(Additionally, commands for converting Arabic numbers into Roman ones are
provided and an ifnumeric test function.)
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/romanbar/
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On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the
regstats
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text: Yes
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+ Now supports (but does not require) lua(la)tex for option timer.
+ Due to the use of temporary counters, no longer a new counter is used (except when option proof=true is chosen, of course).
+ Circumvention of the incompatibility of the atveryend package with seminar class and slidesec package introduced.
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On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the
calxxxx-yyyy
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Happy new year and all the best for 2012!
(Calender examples updated to 2012-2029.)
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-solarsystem.tgz to the uk mirror. Please put
> the files into the _new_ directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solarsystem/
>
> pst-solarsystem (v. 0.12) is a PSTricks related package
> for drawing a solar system.
>
> the authors are Manuel Luque and Herbert Voß. The license
> is as usual LPPL
>
> pst-solarsystem plots the visible planets, projected on the plane of
> the ecliptic. As we can not represent all the planets in the real
> proportions, only Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars have the correct
> proportions of the orbits and their relative sizes are observed.
> Saturn and Jupiter are in the right direction, but not in correct size.
thanks for the upload; i have installed it and made a new entry in the
catalogue.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-solarsystem.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solarsystem/
The catalogue entry will first appear, on the web, overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
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On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 Harald Harders submitted an update to the
getfileversion
package.
Summary description: This simple shell script prints the version and date of a LaTeX input files (e.g., class or style files).
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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2011-12-31 v0.3 Harald Harders
- Add support for arbitrary tex input file types
2011-12-30 v0.2 Harald Harders
- Avoid special characters as guillemots
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/getfileversion
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On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 Harald Harders submitted an update to the
typogrid
package.
Summary description: Print a typographic grid.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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2011/12/31 0.21 Harald Harders (harald.harders(a)gmx.de)
- Change Makefile in order to produce pdf documentation
- Set date and version explicitly in ProvidesPackage
2003/11/09 0.20 Harald Harders (harald.harders(a)gmx.de), Rolf Niepraschk
- Reimplementation, provide grid for headings and a frame for
the margin
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On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 Mohamed El Morabity submitted an update to the
lato
package.
Summary description: Lato font fanily and LaTeX support
License type: lppl
Announcement text: Yes
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Changelog for version 2.2:
- update .ttf files to version 1.104
- update documentation to mention latofonts.com
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