Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
exsheets
package.
Summary description: Yet another package for the creation of exercise sheets.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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new:
- looping commands ForEachQuestion, iflastquestion, numberofquestions
- examspace for inserting space for an answer
- possibility to add own question/solution environment pairs with NewQuSolPair and RenewQuSolPair
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/exsheets
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/exsheets
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
quoth the daemon:
> Name of contribution: xstring
> Author's name: Christian Tellechea
> Package version: 1.6
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xstring/
> Summary description: String (token list) manipulation
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> xstring update
> v1.6 2012/10/24
>
> ===========
> Changes
> ===========
> * new StrCut macro
> * bugfix in okenize macro
> * bugfix in IfDecimal
> * bugfix in @xs@cutafteroccur
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/xstring.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xstring/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: fmtcount
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot and Vincent Belaiche
> Package version: 2.02
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fmtcount/
> Summary description: Display the value of a LaTeX counter in a variety of formats
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> * Improved check for multilingual options (now works again with polyglossia)
>
> * Fixed FCloadlang so that catcode for @ set to `letter' before
> reading .def file.
>
> * Moved loading of fcprefix from fc-french.def to fmtcount.sty
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/fmtcount.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fmtcount/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: venndiagram
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Package version: 1.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/venndiagram/
> Summary description: Creating Venn diagrams with tikz
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> This package is provided to assist generating simple two- and
> three-set Venn diagrams for lectures or assignment sheets. This
> package requires the tikz package.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/venndiagram.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
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Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon said:
> Name of contribution: libertine-type1
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Package version: 5.3.0 (2012-10-21)
> Location on CTAN: fonts/libertine-type1/
> Summary description: [pdf]LaTeX support for Linux Libertine fonts
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Minor correction to libertine-type1.sty.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/libertine-type1.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/libertine-type1/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded libertine.zip to the uk ctan node. Please
> delete all files in the directory
>
> /macros/latex/contrib/libertine/
>
> and put the new ones in there.
>
> This version 0.03 has one optional argument
> SlantedAsItalic which sets the macros extsl
> and slshape to the same meaning as the variants
> for italic. The current versions of Libertine/Biolinum
> have no more a slanted font.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
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Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Jean-Francois Burnol submitted an update to the
mathastext
package.
Summary description: Use the text font in math mode
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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1.15e [2012/10/22]
* New user commands to specify skip or glue to be
inserted after the math symbols exists and forall
* Complete (user transparent) rewrite of the code
implementing the subdued option; and its action has
been extended to apply also to the mathbf, mathit,
mathsf, mathtt alphabets and not only to mathrm and
mathnormal as in the previous versions.
* Improvements in the documentation.
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Rainer Schöpf
Jürgen Spitzmüller submitted the
biblatex-publist
package to CTAN.
Summary description: A biblatex bibliography file for publication lists
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The biblatex-publist package provides a biblatex bibliography style file (*.bbx)
for publication lists. The style file draws on biblatex's authoryear style, but
provides some extra features often desired for publication lists, such as the
omission of the own name from author or editor data.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-publi…
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
i had been away all day, and the daemon was bursting to tell me...
> Name of contribution: apa6
> Author's name: Brian Beitzel
> Package version: 2.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/
> Summary description: Format documents in APA style (6th Edition)
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> New integration with EndNote when converting documents to Word
> using TeX2Word; be sure to copy the new apa6.ptex file to your
> pseudoTeX folder. See Section 6.7 in the documentation for
> details.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/apa6.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/apa6/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon reports:
> Name of contribution: quotchap
> Author's name: Jan Klever
> Author's email: jasa.klever(a)gmx.de
> Package version: 1.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/quotchap/
> Summary description: A package for creating decorative chapter
> headings with quotations.
> License type: gpl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Updated font options to work with libertine-type1 and biolinum-type1.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/quotchap.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/quotchap/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team