Herbert Voß submitted the
xurl
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Version number: 0.02 2017-12-20
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Allow url break at any alphanumerical character
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Package xurl loads package url by default and defines
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and = / . :
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Andreas Nolda submitted an update to the
overlays
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Version number: 2.9 2017-12-20
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Incremental slides
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hide included images in the argument of the visible command
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Khaled Hosny submitted an update to the
amiri
package.
Version number: 0.110 2017-12-20
License type: ofl
Summary description: A classical Arabic typeface, Naskh style
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New Glyphs
U+0604 ARABIC SIGN SAMVAT.
Alternate glyph for U+1EE13 ARABIC MATHEMATICAL REH.
Localized Kashmiri digits.
Alternate Kaf when followed by medial Heh
Fixes:
Fix rendering of Amiri Quran Colored on Windows.
Improve Hamza below positioning in Amiri Quran.
Make U+0608 ARABIC RAY look like نق not just ق.
Make U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT the same width as space.
Keep exclamation mark upright in slanted fonts.
Make the الله combination work in better in some faulty applications.
Allow فالله/بالله/تالله/والله to take the special form.
Improve U+0674 ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA by making it bigger and not
zero-width, since it is a variant of Hamza and not a combining mark.
Improve the design of U+0600 ARABIC NUMBER SIGN to derive from the Urdu
word نمرة.
Improve small Noon placement over Kashida.
Allow marks over small Yeh and Noon.
Greatly improve the handling of curvilinear Kashida.
Disable “لبمـ” and “ببحـ” combinations in Quran font.
New features:
Add ss07 to disable curvilinear Kashida.
Small improvements to the documentation.
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Alan Munn submitted an update to the
msu-thesis
package.
Version number: 2.8
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Class for Michigan State University Master's and PhD
theses
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Minor bug fixes. Added a new public abstract environment.
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Barbara Beeton submitted an update to the
amscls
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Version: 2.20.4 2017-10-31
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: AMS document classes for LaTeX
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Definition of dh was changed to not assume amsfonts, saving
two math families.
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Joseph Wright submitted an update to the
beamer
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Version: 3.47 2017-12-16
License: lppl1.3c gpl2+ fdl
Summary description: A LaTeX class for producing presentations and slides
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Release v3.47
- Restore definition of insertsectionnumber, etc.
- Restore colsep* setting
- Simplify some box nesting
- Improved patching of paralist package
- Provide a ready-to-install TDS-style zip as part of release
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Philip S. Hirschhorn submitted an update to the
exam
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Version: 2.603 2017-12-17
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Package for typesetting exam scripts
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This is version 2.603 of exam.cls.
It removes an incompatibility with colortbl.sty that
was created in version 2.6.
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Joseph Wright submitted an update to the
l3kernel + l3packages + l3experimental
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Version number: 2017-12-16
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
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Release 2017-12-16
- New prg_generate_conditional_variant:Nnn function
- Add missing l_if_novalue_p:n
- Make IfBooleanTF robust against multi-token arguments
- Some doc fixes
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Hironobu Yamashita submitted an update to the
platex-tools
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Version number: 2017-12-17
License type: bsd3
Summary description: pLaTeX standard tools bundle
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Update for 1 package, and 2 new packages added.
* gentombow.sty: Generate crop marks on pdfLaTeX/XeLaTeX etc.
(compatible with pxgentombow.sty)
* pxgentombow.sty: Adjusted to support gentombow.sty.
* pxatbegshi.sty: atbegshi support in vertical writing of pLaTeX/upLaTeX.
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The Japanese TeX Development Community submitted an update to the
platex
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Version number: 2017-12-17
License type: bsd3
Summary description: pLaTeX2e and miscellaneous macros for pTeX
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* Fix a bug in ascmac package.
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