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CTAN update: verse
by CTAN Announcements via ctan-ann 10 Aug '26

10 Aug '26

The LaTeX Project Team submitted an update to the verse package. Version: 2.5 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: Aids for typesetting simple verse Announcement text: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update to verse package to support LaTeX tagging code -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/verse More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/verse -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: marginalia
by CTAN Announcements 10 Aug '26

10 Aug '26

Alan J. Cain submitted an update to the marginalia package. Version: 0.84.1 2026-08-09 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: Marginal content anywhere with automatic adjustment for LuaLaTeX Announcement text: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New feature: Support right-to-left text and documents bound on the right-hand side (in which case the default placement of marginal content and the semantics of configuration options that refer to outer/inner margins will change appropriately). Documentation improvements. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/marginalia The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/marginalia/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: suanpan-l3
by CTAN Announcements 10 Aug '26

10 Aug '26

Nan Geng submitted an update to the suanpan-l3 package. Version: 2.0.1 2026-08-09 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: Traditional Chinese 7-beads suanpan (abacus) package based on l3draw Announcement text: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.Removed the numrods option and lifted the restriction on abacus size. 2.Fixed a bug in the rod value range checking code. 3.Optimized code for improved maintainability. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/suanpan-l3 The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/suanpan-l3/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: babel
by CTAN Announcements 09 Aug '26

09 Aug '26

Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the babel package. Version: 26.10 2026-08-08 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: Multilingual support for LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and Plain TeX Announcement text: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes in version 26.10 are described in: https://latex3.github.io/babel/news/whats-new-in-babel-26.10.html Here is a summary: * Breaking change (bidi texts): Now the option layout=tabular has been made the default. * New locale: persian-latin, thanks to @RamtinMoslemi. * Fix: Variant was ignored with BCP 47 tags. * Support for the new lua-calendrica package. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/babel The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: LuaTeX-CN
by CTAN Announcements 09 Aug '26

09 Aug '26

Frank Lin submitted an update to the LuaTeX-CN bundle. Version: 0.4.1 License: apache2 Summary description: A LuaTeX based package to handle Chinese text typesetting Announcement text: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ luatex-cn 0.4.1 -- first update on CTAN since 0.3.1. luatex-cn typesets Chinese with LuaLaTeX in both writing directions: faithful reproduction of classical (guji) page layouts, and modern Chinese typesetting following the W3C Requirements for Chinese Text Layout (clreq). Highlights since 0.3.1: * Unified entry point: \usepackage{luatex-cn} now loads the new horizontal clreq pipeline by default (options are passed through, e.g. [style=taiwan]); the [vertical] option or any ltc-* document class selects the vertical engine, with 0.3.x semantics unchanged. * Horizontal clreq pipeline (new): CJK-Western spacing (1/4 em, compressible to 1/8, stretchable to 1/2, with the exceptions clreq specifies), punctuation width adjustment with Mainland China / Taiwan / untouched presets, quote-style conversion, four-level line-breaking prohibitions and non-separation rules, intra-line compression/stretching in clreq priority order, half-width punctuation at line end, hanging punctuation, interlinear marks (proper-name mark, book-title mark, emphasis dots), word-aligned pinyin ruby, paragraph/page controls (orphan handling, hanging indentation, last-line alignment). * Vertical clreq conformance: 1/4 em CJK-Western boundary spacing, \Sideways (rotated Western text), \CombineUpright (tate-chu-yoko), hanging punctuation at column end, clreq-conformant emphasis dots per document class. * A shared rules kernel used by both directions (single source for the clreq punctuation table, space-distribution solver and prohibition rules), a published conformance matrix (doc/CLREQ-CONFORMANCE.md), and 119 PDF-content-stream metric assertions run in CI. * Installation-free fonts: \setmainfont with a bare font file name, registry aliases, and a helper script that installs fonts into TEXMFHOME without touching the system font library. * Typesetting additions from the 0.3.x series: tables with cross-page support and horizontal bands, European-style genealogy charts, gongche (traditional musical notation), illustration pages, colophon (paiji) boxes, multi-level headings, and a modern vertical book layout in the style of Zhonghua Shuju (footnotes, first-line indentation, alternating running heads). * 0.4.1 fixes: Western words in annotations/textboxes are no longer hyphenated and mis-columned; in fixed-grid mode \Sideways now sizes rotated words by their advance width. Full changelog: https://github.com/open-guji/luatex-cn/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/luatex-cn The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/language/chinese/luatex-cn/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: xecjk
by CTAN Announcements via ctan-ann 09 Aug '26

09 Aug '26

Liam Huang submitted an update to the xecjk package. Version: 3.10.5 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: Typeset CJK in XeLaTeX Announcement text: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This release fixes several bugs related to CJK glue handling, brace-group consumption, hyperlink anchors, and underline/strikethrough decorations, and adds a new transparent wrapper variant for brace-delimited argument forwarding. BUG FIXES - `\CJKecglue` inserted at source-space positions now uses a portable code path, preventing its shrink component from being frozen inside the fixed-width segment boxes produced by `ulem` (#1037). - Before boundary detection, category-code-4 `&` in the parameter copy is replaced with `\scan_stop:`, fixing compilation errors when commands like `\colorbox` receive arguments containing `&` inside `\halign` (#1043). - `\sbox` now uses a dedicated adapter: prefixes such as `\global` must immediately precede `\setbox`, but assignments placed in the `cmd/sbox/before` hook consumed the prefix, causing `\global\sbox` to silently degrade to a local assignment (#1029). - Only the single triggering left brace is now absorbed instead of swallowing the entire group and re-emitting it, fixing the `Improper alphabetic constant` error when `中文¥¥` appears in `tabular` (#1038). - Inline anchor outputs `¥hyper@anchor`, `¥Hy@raisedlink`, and `¥__hyp_target_raise:n` are registered as transparent captures so that `¥hypertarget`, `¥phantomsection`, `¥MakeLinkTarget`, unnumbered heading anchors, and manually wrapped anchors no longer mask the actual boundaries on either side; the path via `¥hyper@anchorstart` (e.g. `¥pdfbookmark`) is not yet covered (#1047). - The stream capture for `l3doc` is moved from the internal `¥__codedoc_meta:n` up to the public `¥meta`, so that `¥CJKecglue` on both sides is evaluated using the font metrics outside the command (#1046). - Period-style decorations now save end-of-segment state per nesting level, preventing an inner command from overwriting the right end of an outer one (#1012). - Body text now always enters `ulem` arguments as literal tokens: only "math followed by a trailing source space" is reformatted, and reformatting first assembles then expands once, preventing `¥CJKecglue` to the right of Latin words from being trapped in a fixed-width decoration segment box and losing its shrink component (#1026). - The user manual now explains that a nested segment inside line-style commands cannot break across lines, distinguishes line-style from symbol-style commands, and provides alternative approaches; a regression guard for the `¥UL@onin` path is added using "ability to line-break" as the observable (#1057). - Wavy underlines and diagonal strikethroughs now use a quarter-em drawing unit that scales with font size and ordinary `¥leaders`; the minus-sign variant insets by half a period at each end to prevent adjacent commands from merging (#1012). - Decoration content is wrapped in an empty `ActualText` marker, and LaTeX tagging is suspended during decoration box construction, preventing glyphs used by wavy underlines and diagonal strikethroughs from appearing in PDF text extraction results (#1017). NEW FEATURES - A new transparent wrapper variant is added that forwards arguments delimited by braces, for use by target functions that consume their argument as `¥hbox:n` content (#1047). Source code: https://github.com/CTeX-org/ctex-kit Issue tracker: https://github.com/CTeX-org/ctex-kit/issues -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/xecjk More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/xecjk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: unicode-data
by CTAN Announcements 09 Aug '26

09 Aug '26

The LaTeX Project Team submitted an update to the unicode-data package. Version: 1.20 2026-08-07 License: lppl1.3c other-free Summary description: Unicode data and loaders for TeX Announcement text: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Adjustments to support HiTeX -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/generic/unicode-data More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/unicode-data -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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CTAN update: luamplib
by CTAN Announcements via ctan-ann 08 Aug '26

08 Aug '26

Dohyun Kim submitted an update to the luamplib package. Version: 2.42.5 2026-08-07 License: gpl2 Summary description: Use LuaTeX’s built-in MetaPost interpreter Announcement text: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- clean up color-related codes (adapt to recent version of l3kernel) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/luamplib More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/luamplib -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: repere
by CTAN Announcements via ctan-ann 08 Aug '26

08 Aug '26

Olivier Péault submitted an update to the repere package. Version: 26.07 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: MetaPost macros for secondary school mathematics teachers Announcement text: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - code change in spline macro - orthogonal projection -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/repere More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/repere -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: latex-*-dev
by CTAN Announcements 07 Aug '26

07 Aug '26

The LaTeX Project Team submitted updates to the latex-base-dev latex-amsmath-dev latex-graphics-dev latex-tools-dev latex-lab-dev latex-firstaid-dev bundles. Version: pre-release 1 2026-11-01 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: Development pre-release of the LaTeX kernel Announcement text: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ See draft LaTeX News 44 https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex-dev/base/ltnews44.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The packages’ Catalogue entries can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/latex-base-dev https://ctan.org/pkg/latex-amsmath-dev https://ctan.org/pkg/latex-graphics-dev https://ctan.org/pkg/latex-tools-dev https://ctan.org/pkg/latex-lab-dev https://ctan.org/pkg/latex-firstaid-dev The packages’ files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex-dev/base/ https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex-dev/required/amsmath/ https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex-dev/required/graphics/ https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex-dev/required/tools/ https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex-dev/required/latex-lab/ https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex-dev/required/firstaid/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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