ctan-ann March 2025

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CTAN update: hduThesiS
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '25

08 Mar '25

Mingyu Xia submitted an update to the hduThesiS package. Version: 1.0.0 2025-03-07 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: LaTeX class for bachelor and MPhil theses in Hangzhou Dianzi University Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - The sources are rewritten in the literature programming. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/hduthesis The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hduthesis/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs

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CTAN update: memoir
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

Lars Madsen submitted an update to the memoir package. Version: 3.8.3 2025-03-06 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: Typeset fiction, non-fiction and mathematical books Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From the README: Changes (2025/03/06) o memoir v3.8.3 -- A few places we loaded package using \usepackage, now changed to \RequirePackage. Plus under very large font sizes, don't auto load `fontenc` under Xe- and LuaLaTeX. -- Has started marking some macros and envs as deprecated, to be removed at a later date (2026). Each will give a warning at their first use. The macros/envs include: -- \addtodef(*), \addtoiargdef(*) and \patchcommand They have better alternatives in the etoolbox and xpatch packages (which we already load). Additionally these macros does not preserve robustness, the macros from xpatch does. -- \newloglike, \provideloglike Users should use \DeclareMathOperator from amsopn (amsmath) -- The redefinitions of \title, \author, \date, \thanks now done via \xpretocmd and \xapptocmd instead of \addtoiargdef which did not preserve robustness. -- The provided code for \counterwithin/out and \@removefromreset has fininally been removed. All three macros have been in the LaTeX-kernel since 2018. -- Internal code cleanup regarding macros that are not used -- Reimplemented how verse numbers are added thus fixing <https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/609802/3929> This is a slight change in behavior, as now line numbers are always added at the start of the line and not the end. Old implementation added the numbers at the end, and thus they are aligned with the last line of a line broken line. -- Changed the implementation for \cftinserthook. It can have some ordering issuses when \include is used, \cftinserthook* should now help. Note that it may force a \clearpage so should only be used between \include's -- Changed \settocdepth in a similar fashion to \cftinserthook. -- Memoir will now warn if the fancyhdr package is loaded. Users should use the build in interface instead. Additionally warn against titlesec and titlepos -- Chose different defaults for \partmark and \bookpagemark. Problem reported in <https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/737771/3929> -- Breaking change: Changed the code for the "article" chapter style. \chapterheadstart was changed to use \addvspace (like \section) instead of \vspace. This will lead to a (small) difference in vertical spacing when the "article" chapter style is used, fx under the "article" class option. Problem reported in <https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/732129/3929> -- changed \cftchapterbreak so it now also contains the vertical skip (similar to what \part and book does). Unsure why it did not already Note that this may affect existing documents if users have redefined \cftchapterbreak in order to change the penalty -- refactored \cftbookbreak, \cftpartbreak and \cftchapterbreak such that the penalty used is now configurable as \cftbeforebookpenalty, \cftbeforepartpenalty and \cftbeforechapterpenalty. They all have the same default value of -\@highpenalty -- In \cftchapterbreak and in all toc entries generated by \newlistentry the macro that executes \cftbeforeXskip has now been factored out into a macro that can be set using \setcftvspacecmd{\macro} The default is still \vskip, but users might want to change it to \addvspace for new documents. Issue reported in private email. One can argue that \addvspace would be the best choice going forward, but this also means slightly shifting upwards the first page of the toc for all memoir docs that uses \tableofcontents. For now this has been deemed undesirable. -- no longer load the mparhack package in twocolumn mode. There are packages there are incomparible with it, thus better for the user to explicitly load it themself if they need it. Issue reported in private email. o memhfixc v1.23 -- renamed Hpagenote counter to mem@Hpagenote to avoid hyperef warning. -- added \bookautorefname support for french, requested in private email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/memoir The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs

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CTAN update: tagpdf
by CTAN Announcements 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

The LaTeX Project Team submitted an update to the tagpdf bundle. Version: 0.99o 2025-03-05 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: Code for PDF tagging using pdfLaTeX and LuaLaTeX Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ### Added - Default CSS style definition for derivation to html. - keys attach-css, css-list, css-list-add, css-list-remove to configure the CSS style definitions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/tagpdf The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tagpdf/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs

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CTAN update: datatool
by CTAN Announcements 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the datatool package. Version: 3.0.1 2025-03-05 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: Tools to load and manipulate data Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Added missing ldf, def and rollback files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/datatool The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/datatool/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs

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CTAN update: tkz-elements
by CTAN Announcements 05 Mar '25

05 Mar '25

Alain Matthes submitted an update to the tkz-elements package. Version: 3.34c 2025-03-04 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: A Lua library for drawing Euclidean geometry with TikZ or tkz-euclide Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Package additions - added functions for creating circles "through" and "diameter" - adding centers with “kimberling” method X(55), X(56), X(371) - added “kenmotu_circle” and “kenmotu_point” methods - added start of error handling with "tex.error" - Documentation - correction of some file headers (date and name) - start of documentation reformatting; classification of examples - addition in the examples, circles of Yff, Adams, Van Lamoen, Kenmotu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/tkz-elements The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tkz/tkz-elements/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs

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CTAN update: glossaries-extra
by CTAN Announcements 05 Mar '25

05 Mar '25

Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the glossaries-extra package. Version: 1.57 2025-03-04 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: An extension to the glossaries package Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - bug fix: \glsfmtfirstpl produces \GLSfmtfirstpl variant PDF bookmark - corrections to manual ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/glossaries-extra The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries-extra/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs

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CTAN update: texlogsieve
by CTAN Announcements 05 Mar '25

05 Mar '25

Nelson Lago submitted an update to the texlogsieve package. Version number: 1.5.0 2025-03-03 License type: gpl3+ Summary description: Filter and summarize LaTeX log files Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version identifies some more log messages (a few of which made the program get confused), detects repetitions better, and presents more context for unknown messages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/support/texlogsieve More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/texlogsieve ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs

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CTAN update: datatool
by CTAN Announcements 05 Mar '25

05 Mar '25

Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the datatool package. Version: 3.0 2025-03-03 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: Tools to load and manipulate data Announcement text: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Major rewrite. Rollback to v2.32 available if there are any issues. Key features: - new 'math' package options: math=lua and math=l3fp. If not specified, the defaults are now math=lua for LuaLaTeX and math=l3fp otherwise. The older options are still supported, but the newer ones are better and support scientific notation. - parsed formatted numbers and currency have their values embedded within the control sequence variable for easy access without having to reparse. Note that this affects expansion, which may cause a difference from v2.32. For example: \DTLparse\result{\$12,345.67} Original text: \result. Data type: \DTLgetDataTypeName{\DTLdatumtype{\result}}. Numeric value: \DTLdatumvalue{\result}. Currency symbol: \DTLdatumcurrency{\result}. In this case, \result will only expand as far as the original text. To fully expand use \DTLusedatum{\result}. - For databases that contain numeric values that will be used in calculations (including plotting), use \DTLsetup{store-datum} (before creating the database) to embed the numeric information within the database entries. This should improve build time but may impair fast data lookup of unique strings. - New multi-purpose \DTLaction command with key=value interface that may be used instead of the alternative commands with long names. - New sort functions that internally use \seq_sort:Nn for faster sorting. The old sort commands still work but the newer ones are more efficient. Note: the glossaries package uses the datatool-base sorting commands for \printnoidxglossary. If you are using that command you may notice a difference. Make sure you have at least glossaries v4.56 to take advantage of the improved sorting and new localisation support. - Localisation support has been added for orthography (alphabet order for word sorting) and for numeric parsing (currency symbols, number group separator and decimal character). Support for numeric parsing and currency is supplied by datatool-regions which needs to be installed separately. Support for orthography is supplied by the applicable language module, which needs to be installed separately. Currently only datatool-english is available. For example (assuming datatool v3.0, datatool-regions and datatool-english are all installed): \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setromanfont{Noto Serif} \usepackage[locales={en-BE,ang-Latn}]{datatool-base} \newcommand{\wordlist}{ýþung, eásteweard, áǽðan, Œthelwald, þorn, æsċ, eaþ-fynde, ðæt, Æðelþryð, aardvark, zebra, ƿēana, Oswine} \begin{document} Currency: \DTLdecimaltocurrency{1234.56}{\result}\result. \DTLenLocaleHook \DTLsortwordlist{\wordlist}{\DTLsortletterhandler} Sorted list: \DTLformatlist{\wordlist}. \DTLangLatnLocaleHook \DTLsortwordlist{\wordlist}{\DTLsortletterhandler} Sorted list: \DTLformatlist{\wordlist}. \DTLresetRegion \DTLresetLanguage Currency: \DTLdecimaltocurrency{1234.56}{\result}\result. \DTLsortwordlist{\wordlist}{\DTLsortletterhandler} Sorted list: \DTLformatlist{\wordlist}. \end{document} The result is: Currency: 1.234,56€. Sorted list: aardvark, Æðelþryð, æsċ, áǽðan, ðæt, eásteweard, eaþ-fynde, Œthelwald, Oswine, þorn, ƿēana, ýþung and zebra. Sorted list: aardvark, áǽðan, eásteweard, eaþ-fynde, Œthelwald, Oswine, ýþung, zebra, ƿēana, ðæt, æsċ, Æðelþryð ⁊ þorn. Currency: ¤1,234.56. Sorted list: aardvark, eaþ-fynde, eásteweard, Oswine, zebra, áǽðan, æsċ, Æðelþryð, ðæt, ýþung, þorn, Œthelwald & ƿēana. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/datatool More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/datatool -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .

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New on CTAN: tikzcalendarnotes
by CTAN Announcements 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

Alceu Frigeri submitted the tikzcalendarnotes package. Version number: 1.0 2025-03-03 License type: lppl1.3c gpl3+ Summary description: Highlighting, Marking and Annotating dates in a TikZ calendar in a systematic way Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package offers a TikZ calendar's arrangement and provides a set of commands to highlight, mark and annotate dates. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikzcalendarnotes More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/tikzcalendarnotes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs

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CTAN update: biblatex-gb7714-2015
by CTAN Announcements 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

Hu Zhenzhen submitted an update to the biblatex-gb7714-2015 package. Version: 1.1t 2025-03-03 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: A BibLaTeX implementation of the GBT7714-2015 bibliography style for Chinese users Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. add toggle gbNoAfPcSpace to delete the automatically added space after parencite for numeric style. 2. revise the macro modifydate to make it outputs in the order of eventdate, enddate, and date. 3. revise the doc and readme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-gb7714-2015 The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-gb7… ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs

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