quoth the cambridge upload daemon:
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: cite.sty
> Author's name: Donald Arseneau
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/cite
> Summary description: Bugfix release of cite.sty
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> There were two serious bugs found in the recent cite.sty:
> disappearing non-numeric citations and a broken [nosort] option.
> They are fixed in this 5.1 release
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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/cite.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cite
(the catalogue entry on the web, will change to reflect the new
version, overnight.)
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss has uploaded a new version of pstricks-add:
> pstricks-add is a PSTricks related package, which has a lot
> of additional features, like arrows, special curves, a...
>
> pstricks-add ----------- (Dominik Rodriguez/hv)
> v 3.31 2009-04-29 - added pstFPDiv for division int(#1=#2/#3)
> - added axes style polar
> psaxes[axesstyle=polar](5,5)
> - fix trailing space with yAxisLabel
> - added option decimalSeparator to allow special
> symbols for persian language
i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository.
thanks for the upload.
users may view the catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks-add.html
and browse the package directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This is new at tug.ctan.org and within a day will be at your local mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: luaotfload
Author's name: Elie Roux
Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload
Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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luaotfload allows to open OTF fonts with (almost) all
features available, with the XeTeX font syntax. You must
have luatextra to use it.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload
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This package is new at tug.ctan.org and within a day should be at your local mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: luamplib
Author's name: Elie Roux
Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luamplib
Summary description: package to use metapost with the mplib library of LuaTeX
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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luamplib allows to typeset metapost natively in you TeX
files, with the mplib library of LuaTeX (in PDF mode only).
You must have luatextra to use it.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luamplib
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luamplib
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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 .
This is new at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: luainputenc
Author's name: Elie Roux
Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/latex/luainputenc
Summary description: inputenc package for LuaTeX
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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This is the adaptation of inputenc for LuaTeX. You must have
luatextra to use it. This package is necessary for 8-bit
encodings, and also for UTF-8 if you use usual TeX fonts.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/latex/luainputenc
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luainputenc
(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 .
This package is new at tug.ctan.org and will within a day be at your local
mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: luatextra
Author's name: Elie Roux
Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luatextra
Summary description: additional macros for Plain and LaTeX to use LuaTeX
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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The package LuaTeXtra brings a lot of new macros and lua
functions for Plain and LaTeX users to use LuaTeX. This
includes, among many other things, the macro
ewluaattribute and the possibility to register serveral
functions in a callback.
This package is fully documented and contains a small
introduction in a separate document.
You must have this package in order to benefit from
luainputenc or luaotfload.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luatextra
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luatextra
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should be at your local mirror
in a day or so.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: auto-pst-pdf
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf
Summary description: Wrapper for pst-pdf
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package uses -shell-escape (or write18) to
automatically perform the extra compilations
required for the pst-pdf package.
This makes it especially easy to integrate into the
workflow of an editor with just LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
buttons.
v0.6 introduces a minor feature to allow multiple
auxiliary compilations in order to resolve cross-
references or other multi-pass information.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/auto-pst-pdf
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This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local
mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: svn-prov
Author's name: Martin Scharrer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/svn-prov
Summary description: Subversion Variants of the File Header Macros ProvidesPackage,
ProvidesClass and ProvidesFiles.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Package svn-prov
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This package introduces Subversion variants of the standard
LaTeX macros
ProvidesPackage, ProvidesClass and ProvidesFile where the
file name and date
is extracted from Subversion Id keywords. The file name can
also be given
explicitly as an optional argument.
Syntax summary:
ProvidesPackageSVN [file name]{$Id: ... $}[Package
Information (version, description)]
ProvidesClassSVN [file name]{$Id: ... $}[Class Information
(version, description)]
ProvidesFileSVN [file name]{$Id: ... $}[File Information
(version, description)]
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/svn-prov
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/svn-prov
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This package has been put in at tug.ctan.org and should in the next day make
its way to your local mirror.
Thanks again
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pst-vowel
Author's name: Alan Munn
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pst-vowel
Summary description: Add arrows for diphthongs to vowel charts created using vowel.sty.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package insert nodes for use with pstricks so that
arrows can
be drawn to show diphthongs on vowel charts created with
vowel.sty.
For cardinal vowels, the change is minimal, since predefined
node
labels are used. For non-cardinal vowels vowels, an extra
node argument
must be provided.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pst-vowel
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-vowel
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and that update should reach your
local mirror in the next day.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: protocol
Author's name: Thomas Leineweber
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/protocol
Summary description: A class for typesetting minutes (only german)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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It is now possible to use the group name within the
protocol. Additionally, you can suppress the generation of
the section announcing the next meeting.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/protocol
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