ctan-ann June 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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New on CTAN: embrac
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Clemens Niederberger submitted the embrac package. Summary description: Upright Brackets in Emphasized Text License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package redefines emph and extit so that parentheses and squared brackets are typeset upright. It is strongly based on an article by Dominik Waßenhoven in “Die TeXnische Komödie” 2 (2012), pp. 51--53 which introduced code by Bruno Le Floch (see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13048/upright-parentheses-in-italic-…). Code parts and idea used with their kind permission. Many thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/embrac . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/embrac (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: newtx
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

the daemon tells me: > Name of contribution: newtx > Author's name: Michael Sharpe > Package version: 1.00 > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > New option 'minion' provides an alternative to MinionPro+MnSymbol, offering > distinct math italic v, nu, plus scalability. Option 'libertine' has > been improved substantially, thanks to feedback from users. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. the font set is being recommended a lot -- good to see something really useful getting the recognition it deserves! > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/newtx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/newtx/ 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: fnpct
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the fnpct package. Summary description: footnote kerning and punctuation interaction License type: free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bugfix: now works with `bigfoot' out of the box ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fnpct/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fnpct (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: biblatex-dw
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 Dominik Waßenhoven submitted an update to the biblatex-dw package. Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 1.5 This version of biblatex-dw was tested with biblatex 1.7. - BUGFIX: The functionality of ibidpage=true was broken. This is now fixed. - BUGFIX: With edbyidem=true (and xref=false), the first citation of an @inbook entry where author and editor are the same, but the bookauthor differs resulted in ed. by idem, which is wrong. This is now fixed. - BUGFIX: With edbyidem=false, the book author of @inbook entries was not typeset in the appropriate format. This could lead to a wrong output (e.g. Lastname, Firstname instead of Firstname Lastname). This is now fixed. - BUGFIX: With @inreference entries, the output could be inconsistent with regard to the volume(s). This is now fixed. - BUGFIX: Changes in font size for annotationfont and libraryfont led to a wrong baselineskip. This is now fixed. - BUGFIX: There was a small bug in @collection entries concerning the punctuation after the labelname. This should be fixed now. - BUGFIX: With shorthandinbib=true the labelnamepunct was printed when there was no author or editor present. This lead to superfluous punctuation and is now fixed. - BUGFIX: In some circumstances the final period of the bibliography items (finentry) was not printed. This is now fixed. - In authortitle-dw, the extcite command now also considers the value of the firstfull option. That means, if a work is cited for the first time via a extcite command, the result would be <Name> (<full citation>). - New option citeauthor which can take the values namefont, namefontfoot and normalfont. This option controls the name format for the citeauthor command. With citeauthor=namefont the same format as set by the option namefont is used. This is the default behaviour. With citeauthor=normalfont the normal font is always used for citeauthor, regardless of the namefont option. With citeauthor=namefontfoot the namefont format is used if the citeauthor command is inside a footnote, otherwise the normal font is used. - The list of shorthands with option terselos=true is now even more terse: the [main]subtitle and [main]titleaddon fields are now also omitted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-dw (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-barcode
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pst-barcode.tgz to the uk mirror. Please delete _all_ > files in the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ > > and put the new ones in there. > > pst-barcode is a PSTricks related package for drawing > barcodes for all important modes. > > This new version 0.09 comes with: > > ----- pst-barcode.tex > 0.09 2012-06-25 - using another code for loading the ps code > > ----- pst-barcode.pro > 2012-06-25 - The QR Code encoder was modified to select an > optimal encoder based on the data. > - A bug in the symbol size selection for > QR Code was fixed. > - The QR Code encoder was optimised by > allowing the terminator pattern to be trimmed. > - Support for the alphanumeric, numeric and > kanji encodings was added to the qrcode encoder. > - The PZN symbology was extended with support for PZN8. > - The 1.5 scale factor was removed from the > DataMatrix encoder. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and tweaked the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-barcode.html or browse the package's directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight (subject to mirroring delays). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: hobete
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 Tobias Görlach submitted an update to the hobete package. Summary description: Inofficial Beamer Theme for University of Hohenheim, Germany v0004 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update provides new options and some back-end improvements (latex 3). Please Note: This is not an official Theme, there will be no support at all from the University. Furthermore there is NO relationship between the University and this theme. For more information please contact the maintainer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hobete . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/hobete (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: newtx
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jun '12

25 Jun '12

quote the daemon: > Name of contribution: newtx > Author's name: Michael Sharpe > Package version: 0.99 > 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 release corrects the faulty Libertine 5pt and 7pt math fonts released with > version 0.98. 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/newtx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/newtx/ 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: luatexja
by CTAN Announcements 23 Jun '12

23 Jun '12

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 submitted an update to the luatexja package. Summary description: Typeset Japanese documents with Lua(La)TeX. License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update fixes several bugs. - Updated documentations. - Fixed the data for non-embedded fonts. - Added new addon package (luatexja-preset.sty). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/luatexja . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/luatexja (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: incgraph
by CTAN Announcements 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 Thomas F. Sturm submitted the incgraph package. Summary description: including graphics, paper format change, drawing on full paper size License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- incgraph provides tools for including graphics on full paper size. The graphics can be centered for a given paper format or the paper may be resized to the graphics dimensions. The main use case for the package incgraph is to transform one or many scans or taken pictures to a PDF document. It can also be applied for full paper size LaTeX created graphics. The package incgraph provides a tool box with basic macros and a convenience user interface which wraps the well-known includegraphics. Also, bookmarking is especially supported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/incgraph . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/incgraph (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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