Khaled Hosny submitted an update to the
dviasm
package.
Version number: 2014-07-21
License type: gpl3
Summary description: A utility for editing DVI files
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Add support for XeTeX’s extended DVI files.
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Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
getmap
package.
Version number: 1.3
License type: lppl
Summary description: Download OpenStreetMap maps for
Announcement text:
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The goal of this package is the simplest possible provision of
map images (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps and Google Street View
are supported). In the simplest case, the specification of an
address is sufficient. The package loads the map …
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write18 feature, which you must activate to use this package.
The image will be downloaded by an external Lua script. You can
use this script also from the command line.
License: LPPL
Changes in v1.3:
- added support for Google Street View
* new options heading, pitch, fov
- added more examples to the documentation
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The LaTeX3 Project submitted an update to the
l3kernel + l3packages + l3experimental
packages.
Version number: SVN 5241
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
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Snapshot of SVN 5421
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- Change in treatment of juxtaposition in l3fp: now simply
inserts * and thus has same precedence as explicit * or
/ (this is a breaking change …
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- Produce 'string-like' output as standard in l3regex
replacements: in replacement text has catcode 10
- New single l3str module in kernel for 'stable' str_...
functions
- New str_fold_case:n function for Unicode (UTF-8) case
folding
- Functions moved to 'stable' status: clist_const:Nn,
<thing>_item:Nn, clist_set_from_seq:NN,
seq_set_from_clist:NN, seq_reverse:N
- New dim_to_decimal:n and related function to replace
experimental dim_strip_pt:n, etc.
- New experimental expandable Unicode case changing functions
l_lower_case:n, l_upper_case:n, l_mixed_case:n.
- New experimental ox_resize_to_ht:Nn and
ox_resize_to_wd_and_ht:Nn as per user request
- Bug fix for c{...} construct in l3regex
- Bug fix for logarithms in l3fp
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
exsheets
package.
Version number: 0.15
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Create exercise sheets and exams
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- the packages `tasks' and `cntformats' are no longer a part
of the bundle and are now distributed as packages of their
own
- the options `load-headings' and `load-tasks' have been
deprecated; what they did …
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- new command IfQuestionPropertyTF that allows to test if a
certain question property has been set for a question
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Clemens Niederberger submitted the
cntformats
package.
Version number: 0.7
License type: lppl
Summary description: A different way to read counters
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The package is not really new but used to be distributed as
part of the `exsheets' bundle. It is now a package of its own.
Other news:
- robustify non-expandably commands that weren't defined
robust, yet
- replace def with
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ewrobustcmd where possible
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Clemens Niederberger submitted the
tasks
package.
Version number: 0.10
License type: lppl
Summary description: Horizontally columned lists
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The package is not really new as it used to be distributed
as part of the `exsheets' bundle. As of version 0.10 it is
distributed as a package of its own.
New features:
- new option `debug'
- new option `column-sep
- new: optional …
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line ( ask!)
- new: optional star to a ask forces an item to use the
complete remaining line ( ask*); the star has itself has
an optional argument for specifying the number of columns
to span ( ask*(<num>))
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The LaTeX3 Project submitted an update to the
l3build
package.
Version number: SVN 5240
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: A testing and building system for (La)TeX
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- Improve clarity regarding directory 'clean out'
- Allow for manual module inclusion/exclusion
- Standardise chk/check in variable names
- Fix bug with dir separator on Unix
- Typeset 'changes' info if …
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- Improve support for testing plain TeX/generic code
- Documentation fixes
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Walter Daems submitted an update to the
exsol
package.
Version number: 0.8
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Exercises and solutions from the same source, into
a book.
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Fixed:
- missing babel tag
- consuming all write handles
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Vafa Khalighi submitted the
bidishadowtext
package.
Version number: 0.1
License type: lppl
Summary description: Bidi-aware shadow text
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This package allows you to typeset Bidi-aware shadow text.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/bidishadowtext/
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Marijn Waltman submitted the
lpform
package.
Version number: 2014-07-14
License type: lppl
Summary description: Typesetting linear programming formulations and
sets of equations
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The lpform package is designed for easily writing linear programming
formulations one restriction at a time. With this package, one can
easily label equations, formulations can span multiple pages and
several …
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tags) are also customizable. Besides linear programming formulations,
this package can also be used to display any series of aligned
equations with easy labeling/referencing and other customization
options.
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