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New CTAN package: pgfkeyx
by CTAN Announcements 21 Apr '12

21 Apr '12

no-one in the house but the cat and me, so it was nice when the daemon popped up to say... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: pgfkeyx > Author's name: Ahmed Musa > Author's email: amusa22(a)gmail.com > Package version: 0.0.1 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/pgfkeyx/ > Summary description: Patches for pgfkeys, to increase robustness and functionality. > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The pgfkeyx package provides extensions and robustness to the pgfkeys > package. In particular, it can deal with active comma, equality sign, > and slash in key parsing. This has been a long-standing problem with > the pgfkeys package. It also introduces new handlers. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new package, and made an entry for it in the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pgfkeyx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pgfkeyx/ The catalogue entry will have appeared on the web by tomorrow morning. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: nameauth
by CTAN Announcements 21 Apr '12

21 Apr '12

the daemon tells me: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: nameauth > Author's name: Charles P. Schaum > Package version: 1.24 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/ > Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and > flexibility in body text and index. > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This version reverts the functionality to 1.2 due to a unintended side > effect. I suggest a manual workaround in the docs. I will cease adding > functionality until I study more about ways to improve and restructure > the package. 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/nameauth.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: nameauth
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

the daemon muttered: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: nameauth > Author's name: Charles P. Schaum > Package version: 1.22 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/ > Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and > flexibility in body text and index. > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This maintenance release allows capitalization of particles in > mononyms, e.g., du Cange, to be capitalized in first references. 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/nameauth.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New on CTAN: pgf-blur
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Martin Giese submitted the pgf-blur package. Summary description: pgf-blur adds blurred/faded/fuzzy shadows to TikZ/PGF License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pgf-blur is a library for the TikZ/PGF graphics package. It adds blurred/faded/fuzzy shadows to TikZ/PGF. The method is similar to the pst-blur package for PSTricks (and the author is the same) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgf-blur . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgf-blur (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 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: tcolorbox
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the tcolorbox package. Summary description: colored text boxes, LaTeX examples, theorems, documentation License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- new library 'skins' added for changing the colorbox appearance ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tcolorbox . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tcolorbox (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 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New on CTAN: LuaTeX-ja
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Hironori Kitagawa submitted the luatex-ja package. Summary description: A macro package for typesetting Japanese documents with Lua(La)TeX License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The LuaTeX-ja package is a macro package for typesetting Japanese documents with Lua(La)TeX. This package supports both the plain format and LaTeX2e. Developed by the LuaTeX-ja project. <http://sourceforge.jp/projects/luatex-ja/wiki/FrontPage(en)> Note that this package is still alpha stage. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/luatexja . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/luatex-ja (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 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload and rename: ucs replaces unicode
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

the daemon alerts me to an eagerly awaited upload: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: ucs > Author's name: Wolfgang Jeltsch > Package version: 2.0 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ucs/ > Summary description: Extended UTF-8 input encoding support for LaTeX > License type: lppl > >=20 > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The ucs package provides advanced support for using UTF-8 as the input > encoding of LaTeX files. It goes much beyond the standard UTF-8 > support of LaTeX. For example, it supports much more characters, > provides facilities for efficiently handling this large number of > characters, and allows glyph production to be controlled by various > options. As a result, the ucs package is also suitable for using > non-ASCII characters when entering mathematical formulas.=20 > > Before version 2.0, the ucs package was called =91unicode=92 in certain > contexts. Starting with version 2.0, it should always be called =91ucs= =92. thanks for the upload; i've installed the package as if it were new, and made an entry for it in the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ucs.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ucs/ The new catalogue entry will have appeared on the web by tomorrow morning. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: upquote
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 Markus Kuhn submitted an update to the upquote package. Summary description: upright-quote and grave-accent glyphs in verbatim License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug fix: removed two spurious space characters from @noligs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/upquote/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/upquote (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 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New on CTAN: Font package Countries Of Europe
by CTAN Announcements 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded CoE.tgz to the uk mirror. Please put > the files into the _new_ directory > > /macros/latex/contrib/countriesofeurope/ > > ContriesOfEurope (v. 0.21) is a package for supporting > the Type 1 font of the same name. It has all european > countries as single characters. The size of a country is > relative to the other ones. > > The author of the Type 1 (.pfb file) font is Ingo Zimmermann. > It is copyrighted by the (OFL) Open Font Licence > > The authors of all other files are Rolf Niepraschk and Herbert Voß > and the files are published under the LPPL thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/countriesofeurope.h… or browse the package's directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/countriesofeurope/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update -- vpe 0.2
by CTAN Announcements 18 Apr '12

18 Apr '12

Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > I have uploaded vpe.zip in the /incoming directory > of ftp.cam.ctan.org. After unzipping it updates the files > in the directory > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/vpe/ > and it additionally provides `vpe.tds.zip'. > > Also file `vpe.txt' is renamed to `README', because > it seems to me that `README' is the preferred naming convention. thank you ;-) > License remains LPPL. > > Changes: > * Option --version added. > * File `vpe.txt' renamed to `README'. > * Email address updated. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/vpe.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/vpe/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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