ctan-ann February 2014

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New on CTAN: yandy
by CTAN Announcements 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Clerk Ma submitted the yandy package. Version number: 0.1 License type: gpl Summary description: Y&Y TeX distribution for Win32 Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a small distribution of GPL version Y&Y TeX, a fast TeX with increamental memory management. Y&Y TeX donated to the TeX Users Group in 2005. Current distribution of Y&Y TeX are all licensed with GPL. For more infomation of Y&Y TeX, see http://tug.org/yandy/. Current version can runs under Windows 7/8 (not tested under Windows XP/Vista). The program yandytex.exe can only product DVI file. Printing DVI to another format, try dvips or dvipdfmx. dviwindo are not provided, which contains a non-GPL library (finally will be replaced by FreeType of t1lib). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/yandy More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/yandy 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 Manfred Lotz

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CTAN Update: luatex-ja
by CTAN Announcements 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

Hironori Kitagawa submitted an update to the luatex-ja package. Version number: 20140204.0 License type: other-free Summary description: Typeset Japanese documents with Lua(La)TeX. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version is a bugfix release. * Work with recent LuaTeX. This version uses direct access model for nodes, if possible. * Reduced memory leak of nodes. * The previous version 20140114.0 is slow when selectfont is executed many times. It is fixed in this version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/luatexja/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/luatexja (more modern view of our Catalogue, but at present afflicted with a bug in the updating process) http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/luatexja.html (older layout, but updated regularly) 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: tlg2latex
by CTAN Announcements 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

Maïeul Rouquette submitted an update to the lg2latex package. Version number: 2.5.2 License type: gpl Summary description: Hyphen before line number Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.5.2 03-02-2014 Correct line ending characters. 2.5.1 03-01-2014 Correct bug when a hyphen is before a line number and this line number is kept in the output. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/tlg2latex More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tlg2latex 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 Manfred Lotz

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CTAN Update: eledmac-eledpar
by CTAN Announcements 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

Maïeul Rouquette submitted an update to the eledmac-eledpar package. Version number: 1.8.3-1.6.0 License type: lppl Summary description: Typeset scholarly editions Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release fixes spurious spaces, added by 1.7.0, which has made bad justification of text. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eledmac/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/eledmac http://www.ctan.org/pkg/eledpar Unfortunately, these two pages are not quite up to date, due to a bug in the software behind our dynamic web pages. The following, more traditional views of the information in our Catalogue give a more reliable picture: http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/eledmac.html http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/eledpar.html 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: The rubik bundle
by CTAN Announcements 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Apostolos Syropoulos and RWD Nickalls submitted the rubik bundle. Version number: 2.0 License type: lppl Summary description: Packages that draw the rubik cube Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The ubikcube package provides LaTeX commands and macros for typesetting Rubik cube (3x3x3) notation, configurations, and rotation sequences using the TikZ graphic language. The ubikrotation package is an extension for the rubikcube package. It provides the RubikRotation command which processes on-the-fly a sequence of Rubik rotation moves (using the Perl script rubikrotation.pl) and returns the new Rubik cube state. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- These packages are located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/rubik/ More information will some day appear at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/rubik http://www.ctan.org/pkg/rubikcube http://www.ctan.org/pkg/rubikrotation (i.e. when another nasty bug afflicting our website will have been squashed.) In the meantime, try: http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/rubik.html http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/rubikcube.html http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/rubikrotation.html There is no known reason why these pages should not appear quite soon (hopefully tomorrow). 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: datatool
by CTAN Announcements 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the datatool package. Version number: 2.20 License type: lppl Summary description: Tools to load and manipulate data Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New commands: - DTLloaddbtex - DTLifnullorempty - DTLassignfirstmatch - xDTLassignfirstmatch Minor bug fixes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/datatool/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/datatool (due to a known bug in our software this page shows a slightly outdated view of our Catalogue data) This older, but more reliable view shows the correct data: http://texcatalogue.ctan.org/entries/datatool.html 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 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Dohyun Kim submitted an update to the luamplib package. Version number: 2.4 License type: gpl Summary description: Use LuaTeX's built-in METAPOST interpreter Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v2.4 implemented numbersystem option. Default value scaled can be changed by declaring mplibnumbersystem{double}. For details, see http://github.com/lualatex/luamplib/issues/21. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Manfred Lotz

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New on CTAN: pkgloader
by CTAN Announcements 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

the daemon reports: > Name of contribution: pkgloader > Author's name: Michiel Helvensteijn > Package version: 0.1.0 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/pkgloader/ > Summary description: managing the options and loading order of other packages > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is the first release of the pkgloader package, meant to address > the frustration caused by package conflicts. > > The package is not yet mature enough to blindly use in your documents, > but at this point I could use feedback. > > Community collaboration is key for this package. I encourage LaTeX > users and package authors to play with it and report bugs, feature > requests and suggestions to the Githib issue tracker at: > > https://github.com/mhelvens/latex-pkgloader/issues > > Pull requests? Even better! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Announcement required: Yes > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pkgloader > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pkgloader/ thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New on CTAN: perfectcut
by CTAN Announcements 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

the daemon reported: > Name of contribution: perfectcut > Author's name: Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni > Package version: 1.9 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/perfectcut > Summary description: Brackets whose size adjusts to the nesting > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This package defines the command perfectcut#1#2 which displays a > bracket <#1||#2>. Its effect is to determine the size of the bracket > depending on the number of nested perfectcut (regardless of the > contents). It is intended for use: > - In proof theory, for term notations of sequent calculus, > - In computer science, for the modeling of abstract machines. > > This package also offers a reimplementation of ig, igg, etc. into > arbitrary-size variants. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Announcement required: Yes > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/perfectcut > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/perfectcut/ thanks for the upload; i've installed the new package, and made an entry for it in the catalogue repository. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: mhchem
by CTAN Announcements 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

the daemon reported: > Name of contribution: mhchem > Author's name: Martin Hensel > Package version: 2014-02-01 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/ > Summary description: for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical > equations, H and P Statements, and Risk and > Safety (R and S) Phrases > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 2014-02-01 mhchem v3.15 > - follow the IUPAC Red Book more closely (staggered superscripts) > - rewrote large parts using LaTeX3, needs package expl3 > - added: ond{1}, ond{2}, ond{3} (because # cannot be used in all > contexts) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Announcement required: Yes > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mhchem > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/ thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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