the daemon tells me:
> Name of contribution: newtx
> Author's name: Michael Sharpe
> Package version: 1.04
> Location on CTAN: fonts/newtx/
> Summary description: New version of txfonts, with improved metrics and options.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This update no longer depends on the presence of libertine-legacy, for which
> libertine-type1 is the recommended replacement, or any other libertine
> package. Most changes in this version are to newtxmath with the libertine
> option. Note that the former map file ntx.map has been replaced by
> newtx.map.
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catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/newtx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/newtx/
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the daemon tells me:
> Name of contribution: imakeidx
> Author's name: Enrico Gregorio
> Package version: 1.2d
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/imakeidx/
> Summary description: A package for producing multiple indices
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a maintenance release, fixing some severe bugs introduced in version
> 1.2b
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catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/imakeidx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/imakeidx/
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Pierre Lasou submitted the
ulthese
package.
Summary description: LaTeX class and templates for theses and memoirs at Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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ulthese is a LaTeX class based on memoir to prepare theses and memoirs compliant
with the presentation rules set forth by the Faculty of Graduate Studies of
Université Laval, Québec, Canada. The class also comes with an extensive set of
templates for the various types of theses and memoirs offered at Laval. Please
note that the documentation for the class and the comments in the templates are
all written in French, the language of the target audience.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ulthese
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ulthese
(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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Rainer Schöpf
maïeul Rouquette submitted the
latex-sciences-humaines
package.
Summary description: French book about XeLaTeX and Humanities
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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French book about LaTeX and Humanities, 270p. Also available in paper form at
http://www.atramenta.net/books/latex-sciences-humaines/79
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/info/latex-sciences-humaines.pdf
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latex-sciences-humaines
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maïeul Rouquette submitted an update to the
eLedmac/eledpar
packages.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 1.1.1 fixed a bug with the class memoir introduced by eledmac
The 1.1. introduced spurious spaces every line of numbered text. This made two problem :
- overfull hboxes everyline
- space too wide between line number and line content.
This problem is fixed by 1.1.2
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eledmac
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Wolfgang Skala submitted an update to the
pgfmolbio
package.
Summary description: Molecular biology graphs with LuaLaTeX and TikZ
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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pgfmolbio v0.2 includes
* A new 'domains' module for drawing domain diagrams
* A new 'convert' module for using pgfmolbio graphs in TeX engines that do not implement Lua
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/pgfmolbio
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Stephane GALLAND submitted an update to the
upmethodology
package.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The options of the upmethodology-document class are now processed in the order
given by the caller in place of the order from the .cls file.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/upmethodology
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemmacros
package.
Summary description: macros and commands for chemists
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bugfix: the coupling constant command J for the `experimental' environment now works as described.
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the daemon told me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: mathastext
> Author's name: Jean-François Burnol
> Package version: 1.15c
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mathastext
> Summary description: Use the text font in simple mathematics
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Optimal typographical results for documents containing
> mathematical symbols can only be hoped for with math fonts
> specifically designed to match a given text typeface.
> Although the list of freely available math fonts (alongside
> the Computer Modern and AMS extension fonts) is slowly
> expanding (fourier, kpfonts, mathdesign, pxfonts, txfonts,
> and others...) it remains limited, and the situation is even
> worse with Unicode fonts (XeTeX/LuaTeX). So if you can't
> find a math font which fits well with your favorite text
> font, and wish to still be able to typeset mathematical
> documents, perhaps not of the highest typographical quality,
> but at least not subjected to obvious visual incompatibi-
> -lities between your text font and the math fonts,
> try out mathastext: it will simply use the text font also
> for the math!
>
> New with 1.15c:
>
> + it is now possible to use multiple distinct LGR encoded
> fonts for the Greek letters in math mode, one for each math
> version.
>
> + improved documentation.
>
> New with 1.15:
>
> + with the subdued option the action of mathastext can be
> limited to a portion of your document.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/mathastext.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mathastext/
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the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xpatch
> Author's name: Enrico Gregorio
> Package version: 0.3
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xpatch/
> Summary description: Generalizing the macro patching commands of
> P. Lehmann's `etoolbox'
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Added macros for patching other biblatex commands (those defined by
> Declare...Format)
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/xpatch.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xpatch/
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