Rudra Banerjee submitted the
mkbib
package to CTAN.
Summary description: gtk+-3 based bibtex file creator
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This is a completely free gtk+3 based package for generating bibtex file.
This is developed and tested in linux distro, but should also run in other *nix
distro as well. I have no idea about non-*nix distro.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/mkbib
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mkbib
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
Vincent Goulet submitted the
actuarialangle
package to CTAN.
Summary description: Typeset nice looking angles in present value of an annuity symbol
License type: free
Announcement text: Yes
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Command to typeset nice looking angles in present value of an annuity symbols
common in actuarial and financial notation.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/actuarialangle
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/actuarialangle
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
Hendri Adriaens submitted an update to the
xkeyval
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update is created to also protect CurrentOption in processing nested
setkeys, particularly, setkeys inside ProcessOptionsX.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xkeyval
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
the daemon pronounces:
> Name of contribution: acro
> Author's name: Clemens Niederberger
> Package version: 0.4a
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/acro/
> Summary description: typeset acronyms
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> automatic babel/polyglossia support for the list heading (at least for
> some common languages)
>
> new options:
> - uc-cmd
> - list-long-format
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/acro.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/acro/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: kantlipsum
> Author's name: Enrico Gregorio
> Package version: 0.6
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/kantlipsum/
> Summary description: Generate sentences in Kant's style
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> The new version has a new feature: with the option index one can
> also compile a mock index.
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/kantlipsum.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/kantlipsum/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon (somewhat exhaustedly) cries:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: loops
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Package version: 1.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/loops/
> Summary description: Generic looping macros, including extensions to
> PGF's foreach.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> (1) In nested
ewforeach, the options/keys are now always reset for
> inner loops. This recovers any changes made to the values of the keys
> by the outer loops.
> (2) The key 'reverse list' is now added to allow users to
> automatically reverse their lists prior to processing. See
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/77612/how-to-invert-list-used-for-a-…
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/loops.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/loops/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon reports:
> Name of contribution: skeyval
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Package version: 1.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/skeyval/
> Summary description: Combining the features of xkeyval and pgfkeys.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> This upload was necessitated mainly by corrections to the example
> files. The packages too have been affected by the corrections.
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/skeyval.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/skeyval/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon reports:
> Name of contribution: xwatermark
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Package version: 1.5.2c
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xwatermark/
> Summary description: Insert watermarks on select document pages.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> New commands introduced to answer the requirement at
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/76141/draft-watermark-image-just-in-….
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/xwatermark.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xwatermark/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon reports...
> Name of contribution: ltxkeys
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Package version: 0.0.3b
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ltxkeys/
> Summary description: Robust LaTeX options parser.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Some command name changes to avoid name clashes elsewhere.
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/ltxkeys.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ltxkeys/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team