Michael Sharpe submitted the
fbb
package.
Version number: 0.9
License type: lppl
Summary description: Bembo-like font package based on Cardo
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Bembo-like font package based on Cardo but with many
modifications, adding Bold Italic, small caps in all styles,
six figure choices in all styles, updated kerning tables,
added figure tables and corrected f-ligatures.
Both otf and pfb are provided.
Works well with newtxmath using libertine option.
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Stéphane Galland submitted an update to the
AutoLaTeX
package.
Version number: 21.0
License type: gpl
Summary description: Major bug fix and Gedit plugin
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The filename extensions for the SVG figures with embodied TeX
macros (and for other picture formats with embodied TeX macros)
were completed with .tex.svg and +tex.svg.
A Gedit plugin was added into the AutoLaTeX distribution. It
provides a lightweight-IDE for LaTeX based on AutoLaTeX
compilation process.
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Robert J Lee submitted the
macroswap
package.
Version number: 1.0
License type: lppl
Summary description: Macros for swapping the definitions of two LaTeX macros
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This archive provides the macroswap package, providing simple utility
methods to swap the meaning (token expansion) of two macros by name.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/macroswap
More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/macroswap
(as the package is new, it may take a day for that information to
appear).
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the daemon reported:
> Name of contribution: xCJK2uni
> Author's name: Qing Lee
> Author's email: sobenlee(a)gmail.com
> Package version: 0.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcjk2uni/
> Summary description: Convert CJK character to Unicode in pdfTeX.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> This package provides commands to convert CJK character to Unicode in
> non-UTF-8 encoding. It provides hooks for `hyperref` to get the
> correct bookmarks. It also provides some /ToUnicode mapping file for
> CJK subfont. They can be used with `cmap` package and make CJK
> character searchable and copyable in PDF files generated by pdfLaTeX.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Announcement required: Yes
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xcjk2uni
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xcjk2uni/
thanks to Qing Lee for the upload; i've installed the new package, and
created a catalogue repository.
[my apologies for the delay in this announcement.]
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Sam Whited submitted an update to the
poetrytex
package.
Version number: 2.0.0
License type: lppl
Summary description: A package for formatting anthologies of
poetry and other writings.
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PoetryTeX 2.0
>From the release notes (https://github.com/SamWhited/poetrytex/releases/edit/v2.0.0):
- Breaking API changes:
- Rename ` optitle` to ` opname` (Breaking API change!)
- New Features:
- Begin using semantic versioning (semver.org).
- Add lots of hooks into parts of PoetryTeX.
- Allow customization of dedication format.
- Allow changing of group page style (Issue #8).
- Allow the user to insert poems into the ToC (Issue #9)
- Allow the user to declare an incipit (Issue #1).
- Allow listing poems in the table of contents.
- Create a new counter to track poem groups.
- Lots of formatting and spacing settings.
- Allow changing of the default group environment.
- Allow user to reset poem nums on counter change.
- Minor changes and bug fixes
- Require `tcloft` package.
- Use custom table for list of poems (Issue #6).
- Prevent orphan / widow lines in poems (Issue #7).
For a detailed change log see the documentation.
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Qing Lee submitted an update to the
xpinyin
package.
Version number: 1.4
License type: lppl
Summary description: Automatically add pinyin to Chinese characters
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Introduce a new package `xCJK2uni` to support `GBK` encoding.
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Qing Lee submitted an update to the
xecjk
package.
Version number: 3.2.6
License type: lppl
Summary description: Support for CJK documents in XeLaTeX
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* Sync with the latest version of `expl3`.
* Some internal bug fixes and improvement.
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Nicola Talbot submitted the
datatooltk
package.
Version number: 1.0
License type: gpl
Summary description: Java application to accompany datatool package
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A Java GUI that can be used to create datatool.sty databases in
datatool's internal format, which can be quickly imported into a
LaTeX document using input. It can also be used in batch mode to
convert from SQL or CSV or import probsoln.sty datasets. Tools are
available to sort or shuffle the database.
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Jürgen Spitzmüller submitted an update to the
biblatex-publist
package.
Version number: 0.8
License type: lppl
Summary description: BibLaTeX bibliography support for publication lists
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- Add custom sorting schemes ddnt, ydmdnt and dnt.
- Revise the documentation.
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Maïeul Rouquette submitted an update to the
eledmac-eledpar
package.
Version number: 1.5.1/1.4.1
License type: lppl
Summary description: Fix some bugs
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This release fixes two bugs :
- Bug with normal familiar footnote (footnoteX) and eledpar
when mixing RTL and LTR language.
- Bug with stanzaindentsrepetition. <!>READ the Appendix A.2
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