i was on my way to bed when the daemon said:
> Name of contribution: musixtex-1.15 (packaged 2011-05-21)
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Location on CTAN: macros/musixtex
> Summary description: Sophisticatex music typesetting using TeX
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Augmented the musixtex.lua script to allow multiple filenames, and
> added -l (latex) and -f (default) options.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and tweaked the
catalogue entry.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/musixtex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/musixtex
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sat, 21 May 2011 Zoran Filipovic submitted the
serbian-lig
package.
Summary description: This package disables ligatures for some serbian words in latin scripts
License type: gpl
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/serbian-lig
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/serbian-lig
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Rainer Schöpf
On Sat, 21 May 2011 Zoran Filipovic submitted an update to the
eqell
package.
Summary description: This package produce very nice punctuation marks
License type: gpl
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eqell
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/eqell
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Rainer Schöpf
On Fri, 20 May 2011 H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the
thumbs
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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CTAN update:
- Bug fix for thumbs: Missing (second) advance h@mbheighty- h@mbsdistance could cause an endless loop.
- More information about thumb marks/margins dimensions (in verbose mode).
- Change in used packages.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/thumbs/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/thumbs
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Thu, 19 May 2011, Kirill Müller submitted an update to the
excel2latex
package.
Summary description: Convert Excel spreadsheets to LaTeX tables.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update fixes compatibility with Office Mac and earlier versions of Office for Windows. It also includes some very minor bug fixes and updates.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/excel2latex
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/excel2latex
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Rainer Schöpf
On Wed, 18 May 2011, H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the
thumbs
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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CTAN update: thumbs
Thumbs now supports more than six thumb marks at one page.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/thumbs/
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http://www.ctan.org/pkg/thumbs
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Rainer Schöpf
On Tue, 17 May 2011 Andreas Stergiou submitted the
chet
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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chet is a class that introduces a set of commands that make TeXing faster. It is
inspired by Paul Ginsparg's harvmac.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/chet
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/chet
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Tue, 17 May 2011 Jiřà Mrkus submitted the
upca
package.
Summary description: Macros for printing UPC-A barcodes
License type: lppl
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/upca
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/upca
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Rainer Schöpf
On Mon, 16 May 2011 H.-Martin Münch submitted the
regstats
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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CTAN has a new package: regstats
This package allows to count the number of used registers (counter,
dimen, skip, muskip, box, token, input, output, math families, languages,
insertions) and compare these to the maximum available number of such
registers.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/regstats/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/regstats
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Rainer Schöpf
ctan-upload(a)dante.de wrote:
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
>
> Name of contribution: chemmacros
> Version number: 1.0
> Author's name: Clemens Niederberger
> Location on CTAN: /
> Summary description: a collection of macros to make typesetting
> chemistry documents more convenient
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text:
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> chemmacros is a collection of macros and commands which are intended
> to make typesetting chemistry documents faster and more
> convenient. This includes some nomenclature commands, oxidation
> numbers, thermodynamic data, newman projections...
thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and created an entry
describing the package, in the CTAN catalogue.
> This package is located at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/
> More information is at
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/chemmacros
> (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
> appear).
>
> The CTAN service in Cambridge runs on hardware donated by the UK TeX
> Users Group (http://uk.tug.org/), and with infrastructure support from
> the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
> (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/).
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team