ctan-ann September 2013

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New on CTAN: bxcjkjatype
by CTAN Announcements 29 Sep '13

29 Sep '13

the daemon tells us of a new contribution: > Name of contribution: bxcjkjatype > Author's name: Takayuki Yato > Author's email: tak_yato(a)yahoo.co.jp > Package version: 0.2b > Location on CTAN: language/japanese/BX/bxcjkjatype/ > Summary description: Support for Japanese typesetting with pdfLaTeX > and CJK package > License type: other-free > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This package provides working configuration of the CJK package > suitable for Japanese typesetting of moderate quality. > Moreover, it facilirates use of the CJK package for pLaTeX users, by > providing commands that are similar to those used by the pLaTeX kernel > and some other packages used with it. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Announcement required: Yes > > Uploader's additional comments: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This package is distributed under the MIT License. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/bxcjkjatype > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/language/japanese/bxcjkjatype/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: sa-tikz
by CTAN Announcements 29 Sep '13

29 Sep '13

Claudio Fiandrino submitted an update to the sa-tikz package. Summary description: TikZ library to draw switching architectures License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The version 0.6 introduces support to Omega and Flip Networks, particular kind of Banyan Networks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/sa-tikz . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/sa-tikz (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: epstopdf
by CTAN Announcements 29 Sep '13

29 Sep '13

Karl Berry submitted an update to the epstopdf package. Version number: 2.20 License type: other-free Summary description: convert EPS to PDF (or other formats) Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All thanks to Heiko Oberdiek, changes in this version of epstopdf: * New command line argument --(no)safer which allows setting -dNOSAFER instead of -dSAFER (only for non-restricted). * New command line argument --pdfsettings for Ghostscript's -dPDFSETTINGS. * New command line argument --(no)quiet. * New command line argument --device for specifying a differnt Ghostscript device (limited set of devices for restricted mode). * New command line arguments --gsopts and --gsopt for adding Ghostscript options. * Full support of Ghostscript's option -r, DPIxDPI added. * Support for DOS EPS binary files (TN 5002) added. * Removes PJL commands at start of file. Home page: http://tug.org/epstopdf/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/epstopdf/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: Circuit_macros
by CTAN Announcements 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

Dwight Aplevich submitted an update to the Circuit_macros package. Version number: 7.7 License type: lppl Summary description: Electric circuits and other diagrams for latex and the web Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version fixes a bug in one of the logic macros. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/circuit_macros/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/circuit-macros 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: csvsimple
by CTAN Announcements 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the csvsimple package. Version number: 1.07 License type: lppl Summary description: csv file processing, comma separated values Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - internal macro 'TrimSpaces' renamed to avoid name clashed with 'xparse' - new option 'separator' to set the data value separator to 'comma', 'semicolon', or 'pipe' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/csvsimple/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/csvsimple 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: acro
by CTAN Announcements 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the acro package. Version number: 1.4b License type: lppl Summary description: typeset acronyms Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug fix: option `only-used=false' works again as advertised ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/acro/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/acro 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: resphilosophica
by CTAN Announcements 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Boris Veytsman submitted an update to the resphilosophica package. Version number: 1.15 License type: lppl Summary description: Typesetting Articles For Res Philosophica Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Typesetting Articles For Res Philosophica This package provides a class for typesetting articles for the journal Res Philosophica, http://www.resphilosophica.org. This work was commissioned by the Saint Louis University. Changes version 1.15: New command: suppresscomma version 1.14: Bug fix version 1.13: New command: itlenote New options: preprint and forthcoming version 1.12: Bibliography changes version 1.11: Automatic doi generation Bibliography formatting changes version 1.10: Bibliography formatting changes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/resphilosophica/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/resphilosophica 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: dejavu
by CTAN Announcements 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Pavel Farar submitted an update to the dejavu package. Version number: 2.34 License type: lppl & others Summary description: LaTeX support for the fonts DejaVu Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated the fonts to version 2.34. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/dejavu/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/dejavu 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: upmethodology
by CTAN Announcements 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

Stéphane Galland submitted an update to the upmethodology package. Summary description: Create Unified Process methodology (UP or RUP) based documents. License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A major bug in 'frontmatter' is fixed. This release adds the macro declareupmtheorem and redefines the environment definition with it. Several math symbols and operators are provided. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/upmethodology . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/upmethodology (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: autolatex
by CTAN Announcements 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

Stéphane Galland submitted an update to the autolatex package. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The plugin for the Sublime Text editor is added. Since th CLI option '--search-project-from' was added, it is possible to invoke AutoLaTeX easily from TeXmaker, TeXworks and Kile. Several major bugs were fixed in the parser of the TeX log and in the plugins. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/autolatex . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/autolatex (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: xint
by CTAN Announcements 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

Jean-François Burnol submitted an update to the xint package. Version number: 1.09a License type: lppl Summary description: Expandable operations on long numbers Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xintexpr.. elax is an expandable parser of expressions written with infix operators. It computes *exactly* on arbitrarily big numbers or fractions. Release 1.09a has added to its syntax: * functions with one, two, or arbitrarily many argments, among them reduce, sqr, sqrt, abs, sgn, floor, ceil, quo, rem, round, trunc, float, gcd, lcm, max, min, sum, prd, add, mul, all, any, xor, not. * comparison (<, >, =) and logical (|, &) operators, * 2way ? and 3way : conditional branching (skipped branches are /not/ evaluated), * xintexpr <stuff>,<stuff>,... elax returns the comma separated list where each <stuff> has been evaluated, * use of the standard macro parameter character # in the command constructor xintNewExpr. Some new macros correspond to some of the xintexpr recognized functions mentioned functions, such as xintGCDof, xintLCMof (package xintgcd), xintMaxof, xintMinof, e.g. to be used e.g. as xintLCMof {{12}{15}{32}} with arbitrarily many arguments, etc... lcm(12,15,32) in the easier xintexpr syntax. Macros for expandable conditional code xintifSgn, xintifGt, etc... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/xint/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xint 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: luamplib
by CTAN Announcements 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

Dohyun Kim submitted an update to the luamplib package. Version number: 2.01 Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fix a bug reported by Stephan Hennig: wrong baseline of tex-text box ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/luamplib/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/luamplib 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: schemata
by CTAN Announcements 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

Charles P. Schaum submitted an update to the schemata package. Version number: 0.7 License type: lppl Summary description: Print topical diagrams Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in contact information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/schemata/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/schemata 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: nameauth
by CTAN Announcements 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

Charles P. Schaum submitted an update to the nameauth package. Version number: 1.8 License type: lppl Summary description: Name authority mechanism for consistency in body text and index Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Documentation fixes and improvements, including more details on what macros will and will not work in names. Change in contact information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/nameauth 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: skdoc
by CTAN Announcements 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

Simon Sigurdhsson submitted an update to the skdoc package. Version number: 1.4 License type: lppl Summary description: Documentation and extraction for packages and document classes Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Fix spacing issue in option environment * Add optional default-value arguments to macro environment * Add option to control babel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/skdoc/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/skdoc 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: biblatex-dw
by CTAN Announcements 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

Dominik Waßenhoven submitted an update to the biblatex-dw package. Version number: 1.6a License type: lppl Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 1.6a This version of biblatex-dw was tested with biblatex 2.7a and biber 1.7. - New option inreference (authortitle-dw only) which can take the values normal and full: If set to full, @inreference entries are printed always in full, but are omitted from the bibliography. Note that when using xref=false, you have to cite the corresponding @reference entry manually (e.g. with ocite) if you wish to see the @reference entry in the bibliography. The inreference option complies with both ibidtracker and idemtracker. The default for this option is normal. - BUGFIX: With the option addyear a superfluous space was introduced in some circumstances. This should be fixed now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: menukeys
by CTAN Announcements 22 Sep '13

22 Sep '13

Tobias Weh submitted an update to the menukeys package. Version number: 1.2a License type: lppl Summary description: Format menu sequences, paths and keystrokes from lists. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Improved babel/french compatibility: Added braces to all ikz commands, so menukeys will work better with french (babel). Replaced obsolete ikzstyle. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/menukeys/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/menukeys 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: philex
by CTAN Announcements 22 Sep '13

22 Sep '13

Peter Pagin submitted an update to the philex package. Version number: 1.1 License type: lppl Summary description: Philex provides means for creating and cross-referencing named or numbered environments. Possible uses would be equations, example sentences (as in linguistics or philosophy) or named principles. Cross references may refer either to the number, or to a short name of the target environment, or to the contents of the environment. Philex builds on the facilities of the linguex package. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some new features, new tips, and bug fixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/philex/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/philex 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: skrapport
by CTAN Announcements 22 Sep '13

22 Sep '13

Simon Sigurdhsson submitted an update to the skrapport package. Version number: 0.12d License type: lppl Summary description: A class for simple documents. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Added hanging-titles option * Fixed missing frenchspacing * Add titles=it option * Add latin phrase macros * Fixed option clash bug with fontspec ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/skrapport/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/skrapport 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: xepersian
by CTAN Announcements 22 Sep '13

22 Sep '13

Vafa Khalighi submitted an update to the xepersian package. Version number: 13 License type: lppl Summary description: Persian for LaTeX, using XeTeX Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2013/09/22 version 13 Vafa Khalighi * Version 13 released. * Synced with version 13.8 of `bidi' package. * Two new environments: `latinitems' and `parsiitems'. I would like to dedicate this version of xepersian package to Sara Eghbali for her friendship. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/xepersian/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xepersian 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: bidi
by CTAN Announcements 22 Sep '13

22 Sep '13

Vafa Khalighi submitted an update to the bidi package. Version number: 13.8 License type: lppl Summary description: Bidirectional typesetting in plain TeX and LaTeX, using XeTeX engine Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2013/09/22 version 13.8 Vafa Khalighi * Version 13.8 released. * LuaTeX-related files removed; bidi package now only works with XeTeX. * Moved all `DeclareOption's to `bidi.sty'. * `RTLdocument' and `rldocument' option no longer insert `autofootnoterule' at the beginning of the document. * All footnote rule related commands can now be used in the preamble of your LaTeX document and not necessarily at the beginning of the document. * New conditional for `extrafootnotefeatures' of the package. * bidi package macros for LaTeX `fleqn' and `leqno' options and `@eqnum' command are not loaded if the `amsmath' package is loaded. * Redefinition of `[ ... ]' display math of `amsmath' package removed from `amsmath-xetex-bidi.def'. * Synced `mdframed-xetex-bidi.def' with version 1.9b of `mdframed' package. I would like to dedicate this version of bidi package to Sara Eghbali for her friendship. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/bidi/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/bidi 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: NumericPlots
by CTAN Announcements 21 Sep '13

21 Sep '13

Thomas Koenig and Alexander Michel submitted an update to the NumericPlots package. Version number: 2.0.2 License type: gpl Summary description: package to plot numeric data using pstricks (including Matlab export) Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/numericplots/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/numericplots 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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New on CTAN: lilyglyphs
by CTAN Announcements 19 Sep '13

19 Sep '13

Urs Liska submitted the lilyglyphs package. Version number: 0.2.1 License type: lppl Summary description: Insert musical symbols into LaTeX documents Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lilyglyphs enables LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX documents to include any notational elements (musical symbols) that can be created with the LilyPond engraving software (www.lilypond.org). This is an offer for anyone authoring documents about music, for example analytical essays or critical reports. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/lilyglyphs More information will be at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lilyglyphs (as this is a new package, it may take another 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 19 Sep '13

19 Sep '13

Herbert Voß, Dominique Rodriguez, and Michael Sharpe submitted an update to the pstricks-add package. Version number: 3.61 License type: lppl Summary description: Collects together examples that have been posted to the pstricks mailing list Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v 3.61 2013-09-18 - added pstContour for contour plots ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pstricks-add 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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New on CTAN: simurgh
by CTAN Announcements 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

Vafa Khalighi submitted the simurgh package. Version number: 0.01a License type: gpl Summary description: Parsi typesetting for LaTeX, using LuaTeX engine Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the first version of the `simurgh' package (a package for typesetting Parsi in LaTeX, using LuaTeX engine). The project is dedicated to my Master, Ferdowsi The Great. Many thanks to all Iranian TeX users for all their encouragements and kind words over the years; the simurgh package could not exist without their support over many years. Finally Sara Eghbali deserves special mention for her moral support that motivated me to work on this package. Vafa Khalighi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/simurgh More information will be at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/simurgh (as this is a new package, it may take another 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 Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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