Herbert Voß submitted the
spark-otf
package.
Version number: 0.01
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Support OpenType Spark fonts
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Package spark-otf supports the free fonts from
After the Flood which are available from the
website http://aftertheflood.co
Following font files are supported:
- Spark - Bar - Medium.otf
- Spark - Bar - Narrow.otf
- Spark - Bar - Thin.otf
- Spark - Dot-line - Medium.otf
- Spark - Dot - Medium.otf
- Spark - Dot - Small.otf
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The LaTeX3 Project submitted an update to the
l3kernel + l3packages + l3experimental
package.
Version number: 2017-09-18
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
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- Rename ox_use_clear:N to ox_use_drop:N as this command has
non-standard grouping behaviour
- New inteval command in xfp
- New c_catcode_active_space_tl
- Fix bug with color code when current@color is not a simple
string
- Fix behaviour of sys_rand_seed: in engines without the
underlying random number primitives
- Allow only INT powers for negative bases in floating point
expressions
- Various documentation improvements
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Scott Pakin submitted an update to the
bytefield
package.
Version number: 2.4
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Create illustrations for network protocol
specifications
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The bytefield package helps the user create illustrations for network
protocol specifications and anything else that utilizes fields
of data. These illustrations show how the bits and bytes are laid out in
a packet, register, or memory.
Version 2.4 makes bytefield robust to changes in aselinestretch.
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Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the
babel
package.
Version: 3.13 2017-09-18
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Multilingual support for Plain TeX or LaTeX
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What's new
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- Existing ldf files take priority over declared options
with DeclareOption (except hebrew).
- With a few exceptions, ini files have reached version 1.0.
- New key `import' for abelprovide, which also defines dates.
This means babel currently provides (total or partial) support
for about 200 languages. Many of them are usable with XeTeX
and LuaTeX.
Current development is focused on Unicode engines, mainly
font handling and bidi writing.
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Herbert Voß submitted an update to the
pstricks-add
package.
Version number: 3.84 2017-09-18
License type: lppl
Summary description: A collection of add-ons and bugfixes for PSTricks
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This version has a new macro psRandomPoinArea to draw random points in a
square qhich is devided by a function.
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Vincent Belaïche submitted an update to the
fmtcount
package.
Version number: 3.04 2017-09-16
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Display the value of a LaTeX counter in a variety
of formats
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* Fix issue #27 (New definition of `Numberstring` is now causing
problems with glossaries.sty)
* Code optimization with octal, hexdecimal, aaalph, abalph and
uppercase counterparts when applicable.
* Declare ordinalnum with etoolbox
ewrobustcmd*, rather than LaTeX
kernel DeclareRobustCommand* --- this is preferable for compilation
with TeX4ht.
* Test bench upgrade.
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Herbert Voß submitted an update to the
pstricks-base
package.
Version number: 2.76
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: PostScript macros for TeX
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This version has a new optional argument psfonts for pstricks.sty.
Switching between the original PostScript font files and the URW fonts
is now possible.
The command psframe now draws its rectangle
counter clockwise, similiar to the other closed macros.
For more informations read the pst-news17.pdf
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Einar Andreas Rødland submitted an update to the
TeXcount
package.
Version number: 3.1
License type: lppl
Summary description: Count words in a LaTeX document
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TeXcount version 3.1 fixes a few problems and errors. It also adds an
option for counting all non-space characters.
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Herbert Voß submitted an update to the
hvfloat
package.
Version number: 1.2a
License type: lppl
Summary description: Rotating caption and object of floats independently
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Placing figures/tables with various options, like rotating
the image/table and/or caption.
This version has a new helper package hvfloat-fps for
global float placement.
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Thomas Söll submitted an update to the
pst-geometrictools
package.
Version: 1.1 2017-09-16
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: A PSTricks package to draw geometric tools
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Choose ps-fonts for some tools.
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