ctan-ann May 2012

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CTAN and the TeX Directory Structure
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

* TDS layout on CTAN: the problem. CTAN was developed as a means of unifying access to TeX-related material; in pre-CTAN days, packages to use with TeX were dotted on ftp sites around the net, according to the whim of the sites' maintainers. To find a file, you prowled the mailing lists and news groups until someone mentioned the file. CTAN, therefore, provides uniform access to a range of files, and those files may be found at the same place on any conforming CTAN site or mirror. The structure of the directory tree on a CTAN site is designed to ease browsing: packages form the leaf nodes of the tree (either as single files or as directories containing several files). The big distributions can be viewed, in this sense, as packages. Above all, the interested user can browse the tree to find out what CTAN offers. Methods of access have changed, too; CTAN sites originally offered no more than FTP access. Today's archives offer web access as well (and rsync access for mirrors), and the CTAN team and its helpers provide many other related services, including a catalogue, an index of packages by topic (i.e., by subject and usage areas). However, CTAN remains careful not to lose sight of a vital part of its original brief: an archive that users may browse. Separately from the development of CTAN, a TUG working group defined the TeX Directory Structure (TDS), which makes possible TeX systems that offer efficient access to huge numbers of TeX-related files, in an efficient way. Most (if not all) modern TeX distributions lay out files in TDS-compiant way; but constructing a TDS-compliant form of a package is not trivial. How, then, is the user to decide where to put files of a new package? An obvious solution is to provide packages on the archive laid out according to TDS format. Unfortunately, this conflicts with the requirement that people may browse CTAN; TDS layout could have been designed to discourage people from browsing -- it is typically dominated by directories whose only contents are links to other directories. * The CTAN team's solution The CTAN team have decided that packages on the archive shall remain in a browsing-friendly layout. In parallel, a new install tree has been created. The install tree's structure parallels those of the main trees: for any package foo/bar/baz/... on the main tree foo, a TDS-structured ZIP file would be found at install/foo/bar/baz.tds.zip which may be used to update a TeX system. The CTAN team will check that baz.tds.zip correctly covers the package material, when each version of baz is uploaded. The check is not guaranteed to spot every problem, but it detects gross errors (such as updating a file zot.tex in the main tree, but not updating the copy in baz.tds.zip) Note that, in most cases, the usefulness of the .tds.zip is transitory: most modern distributions provide most (free) packages, so that after a day or so, a new (version of a) package will be available via the distribution's update mechanism. * Anomalies. Overall, banishing TDS-format layouts remains our aim, but we can't possibly claim that the policy has always been applied as we would like. All over the archive there are packages that are variously wrong (by our reckoning above). We shall not be correcting these packages, unless new versions are uploaded, or some other imperative arises. Another (inevitable) anomaly is the TeX distributions. CTAN archives provide a repository from which users load a distribution, and which supplies updates as parts of the distribution are upgraded. We do not expect to improve the distributions' layout (that is, any change will come from the distribution managers). The CTAN Team (What is left of it)

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CTAN update: amiri font
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '12

31 May '12

the daemon tells me > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: amiri > Author's name: Khaled Hosny > Author's email: khaledhosny(a)eglug.org > Package version: 0.103 > Location on CTAN: fonts/amiri > Summary description: Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface, Naskh > style, for typesetting books and other running text. > License type: other-free > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > * This is a bug fix release: > - Fix wrong kerning of digits inside end of ayah and other Arabic enclosing > marks. > - Add visible glyphs for BiDi control characters. > - Kern more kaf forms accross ZWNJ. > - Fix handling of right-slanting and left-slanting common characters in the > italic fonts to be more logical. 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/amiri.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/amiri/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning (Cambridge time). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: lmacs
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '12

31 May '12

the daemon chooses to say, as i slip into bed: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: lmacs > Author's name: D. P. Story > Package version: 1.1 > Location on CTAN: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ > Summary description: A simple package for including support files > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is a simple package designed to clean up command definitions made in > the preamble. You can cut the commands in your preamble and paste them > into a file named myDefs.def, for example. Then insert the following line > to replace what you just removed: > > usepackage[def=myDefs,!js=myJS]{lmacs} > > The package supports auxiliary files with extensions of .def, .js, and > .cfg. More can easily be added, if needed. Use of an exclamation mark > as shown above cancels the inclusion of that file. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new package, and made an entry for it in the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/help/Catalogue/entries/lmacs.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/lmacs/ The catalogue entry will have appeared on the web by tomorrow morning (Cambridge time). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: Asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '12

31 May '12

On Wed, 30 May 2012 John Bowman submitted an update to the asymptote package. License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ticks are no longer autoscaled when the number of major intervals is specified and autoscale is false. Manual tick scaling was fixed. A bug in the palette range was fixed. A division by zero in constructing curved arrows was fixed. A numerical underflow was fixed. A picture bound error was fixed. The current value of currentpen is now always respected in default arguments. A default viewportwidth is no longer imposed for attached images. A routine for computing camera positions was added. The format command is now more consistent with C++ printf formatting. Named arguments can now appear in function calls after rest arguments. The wheel example was improved to support PDF animations. The erase command no longer resets the machine state. Pipes are now used for xasy communication. A new mode parameter to input and output replaces xinput, xoutput, binput, and boutput. The icon directory path for 64-bit MSWindows systems was fixed. Compilation of native CYGWIN binaries is now supported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (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: tex-gyre-math
by CTAN Announcements 30 May '12

30 May '12

the daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: tex-gyre-math > Uploader's name: Staszek Wawrykiewicz > Package version: 1.007 > Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre-math/ > Summary description: Maths fonts to match the tex-gyre-pagella text font > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The update of the package contains some corrections. Also some examples were added. > The font provides maths support for users of the tex-gyre-pagella fonts. > > The fonts are available in OpenType format, only; the fonts conform to > the developing standards for OpenType maths fonts. > > The fonts are part of the TeX-Gyre-Math collection of fonts. > > The authors are BogusÅ‚aw Jackowski, P. Strzelczyk and Piotr > Pianowski. The package is Copyright Â© 2012 B. Jackowski, > P. Strzelczyk and P. Pianowski. 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/tex-gyre-math.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/tex-gyre-math/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning (Cambridge time). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: hyph-utf8
by CTAN Announcements 30 May '12

30 May '12

On Wed, 30 May 2012, Mojca Miklavec, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard, and Khaled Hosny submitted an update to the hyph-utf8 package. Summary description: Hyphenation patterns in UTF-8 License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update German patterns by Werner Lemberg to version 2012-05-30. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/language/hyph-utf8 . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8 (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: dehyph-exptl
by CTAN Announcements 30 May '12

30 May '12

On Wed, 30 May 2012, Stephan Hennig submitted an update to the dehyph-exptl package. Summary description: experimental hyphenation patterns for the German language License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ## English This package provides experimental hyphenation patterns for the German language, covering traditional and reformed orthography for several varieties of Standard German. The patterns can be used with packages Babel and hyphsubst from the Oberdiek bundle. ## Deutsch Dieses Paket enthält experimentelle Trennmuster für die deutsche Sprache. Die Trennmuster decken das in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz gebräuchliche Standarddeutsch in der traditionellen und reformierten Rechtschreibung ab und können mit den Paketen Babel und hyphsubst aus dem Oberdiek-Bündel verwendet werden. ## v0.23 (2012-05-30) #### Wortdatenbank Rechtschreibung hinzugefügt entfernt korrigiert --------------------------------------------------------------- traditionell (DE, AT) 44 93 166 traditionell (CH) 44 93 161 reformiert 45 56 67 * _traditionelle Rechtschreibung (DE, AT, CH):_ Greift an einer Wortfuge die Dreikonsonantenregel, so wird die folgende Trennstelle grundsätzlich unterdrückt, sofern sie einen Abstand von nur zwei Lauten hat. Beispiele: Metallegierung => Me-tallegie-rung Stilleben => Stilleben Aber: Brennessel => Brennes-sel Stoffetzen => Stoffet-zen #### Paket * Wenn pTeX verwendet wird, werden nun kompatible Trennmuster aus dem Paket `hyph-utf8` geladen. (Das Paket `hyph-utf8` verwendet die Trennmuster dieses Pakets. Es kann sich dabei jedoch um eine andere Version der Muster handeln.) * Die Dateien `projektbeschreibung.*` wurden entfernt. Die Inhalte sind nun im [Trennmuster-Wiki](http://projekte.dante.de/Trennmuster) zu finden. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/language/hyphenation/dehyph-exptl . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/dehyph-exptl (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: morehype
by CTAN Announcements 30 May '12

30 May '12

On Wed, 30 May 2012, Uwe Lück submitted an update to the morehype package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MAJOR CHANGES: - The pure expansion limitation for the `blog.sty' way to HTML is overcome by intercepting certain commands such as EXECUTE, egin, and end (configurable). So you can introduce shorthand macros specific for a certain web page within its source `.tex' file, or even limited to an environment. And environment nesting is checked! And we introduce certain nice active characters for an intuitive table syntax. - We also use intercepting to support ligatures (`--', `---', `...', ...) and some Wikipedia and Markdown markup (font switching, highlighting by colours, Wikipedia links). Parsing can be enabled within macro arguments by modifying the two backbone macros that implement short HTML elements. This way, `blog.sty' becomes fun (but also slow ...) ... - A kind of minimalist multilanguage approach based on languages codes and the `dowith' package for adjusting language-dependent settings is used. Unfortunately, this upload is somewhat hasty, in order to provide the files generating `latexfileinfo_pkgs.htm' (`latexfileinfo-pkgs'). Some of the powerful code must later move from the patch file `texblog.fdf' into proper packages and be documented better. MINOR CHANGES: - `atari_ht.fdf' replaces `atari.fdf' to use HTML entities for umlauts instead of relying on the encoding declaration - `blog.sty' accesses some more characters than before - `texlinks.sty' uses langcode for Wiki... + minor additions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/morehype . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/morehype (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: Frenchle (french light edition)
by CTAN Announcements 30 May '12

30 May '12

the daemon reports: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: Frenchle (french light edition) > Author's name: Raymond Juillerat > Author's email: raymond(a)juillerat-marly-ch.net > Package version: 5,9995 > Location on CTAN: http://mirror.ctan.org/language/french/frenchle/ > Summary description: Frenchle is a simplified version of french.sty > maintained by the eFrench group > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The extension frenchle.sty has not been changed. > Only faq.pdf, frenchle.pdf and readme were revisited in order to give > an up-to-date documentation. 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/ctan/help/Catalogue/entries/frenchle.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/language/french/frenchle/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning (Cambridge time). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: jmlr
by CTAN Announcements 30 May '12

30 May '12

the daemon tells me, in between all these phone calls from my family... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: jmlr > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Package version: 1.17 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/jmlr/ > Summary description: Class files for the Journal of Machine Learning Research > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > * jmlr.cls > > - added itletag > > - added warnings if obsolete font commands (such as f) used > > * jmlrbook.cls > > - added 'articlet' page style > > - importarticle sets title page style to articlet > > - importpaper disables jmlryear, jmlrworkshop, jmlrvolume > and jmlrissue > > - html title page uses jmlrvolume instead of volume > > - added optional argument to logo 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/jmlr.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jmlr/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning (Cambridge time). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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