my update daemon wrote:
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: achemso
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso
> Summary description: Support for submissions to American Chemical Society journals
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v3.1:
> - Much improved handling of affiliations
> - Pre-formatted JACS Communication template
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>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/achemso.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/achemso
> _______________________________________________
thanks for the upload; i've installed it, and udpated the catalogue
repository.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the
cyklop
package.
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> Font: Cyklop
> Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki, Grudziadz, Poland
> Version: 0.915
> Date: December 2008
> Licence: GUST Font License
> Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry
> Location on CTAN: fonts/cyklop
>
> The Cyclop typeface was designed in the 1920s at the workshop of Warsaw
> type foundry Odlewnia Czcionek J. Idzkowski i S-ka. This sans serif
> typeface has a highly modulated stroke so it has high typographic
> contrast. The vertical stems are much heavier then horizontal ones.
> Most characters have thin rectangles as additional counters giving the
> unique shape of the characters.
>
> The font was generated using the Metatype1 package. Then the original
> set of characters was completed by adding the full set of accented
> letters and characters of the modern Latin alphabets (including
> Vietnamese).
>
> The fonts are distributed in the Type1 and OpenType formats along with the
> files necessary for use these fonts in TeX and LaTeX including
> encoding definition files: T1 (ec), T5 (Vietnamese), OT4, QX, texnansi
> and nonstandard ones (IL2 for Czech fonts).
>
> In the ver. 0.915 only internal comments in .otf files have been corrected.
>
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Ingo H. de Boer submitted an update for the
winshell
package.
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/winshell/
Summary description: WinShell is a free multilingual integrated development environment (IDE) for LaTeX and TeX.
License type: nosource
Announcement text:
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I am happy to announce the WinShell 3.3 Release.
The new major feature is the BibTeX front-end where BibTeX
entries can easily be created and edited. Also, there is a
streamline of the original full toolbar and a pdfLaTeX
optimized toolbar which can be choosen during installation.
WinShell 3.3 also supports SyncTeX and Sumatra PDF for
forward/inverse search. From this version on there is no
more Win9x/NT support, but Linux support via wine.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/winshell/
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon 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: Toptesi v.5.00
Author's name: Claudio Beccari
Location on CTAN: /contrib/toptese
Summary description: This is a bundel of files for typesetting university
theses in a multilanguage environment.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is a main upgrade of the bundle Toptesi; the main
difference is the new version has provisions for saving the
output thesis file in PDF/a-1b compliant form. This format
is particularly useful for archiving. The PDF/A difficulties
are discussed in the /english and Italian documentation and
several fine modifications are already included in the class
file so as to avoid the user to fiddle with some obscure
features that may forbid the output file to fully satisfy
the PDF/A specifications established by the reguation ISO
19005-1:2005.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/toptesi
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This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
favorite mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: leading
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/leading
Summary description: Set leading with an explicit length
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides the leading command to set the baselineskip
explicitly. E.g., leading{15.5pt} will use linespread to space out the lines
of text by the amount specified.
v0.3 is a bug fix to get the package actually working like it's described!
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This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and is making its way to your
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Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: biblatex-apa
Author's name: Philip Kime
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-apa/
Summary description: Update to biblatex-apa (0.1 -> 0.2)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Update for biblatex-apa.
Fixes a bug in long author list display and also adds new
option to suppress remote retrieval information in
References. Some documentation fixes. Custom apa.cls is
removed as apa.cls 1.3.4 will allow biblatex use.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate…
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This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
favorite mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: MetaPost 1.101
Author's name: Taco Hoekwater
Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/base
Summary description: MetaPost release 1.101
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This releases fixed a number of bugs found in MetaPost 1.100.
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Thorsten Hansen submitted an update to the
multibib
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/multibib/
Summary description: package multibib version 1.4 -- multiple bibliographies within one document
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A new version of multibib (1.4) is now available. Changes to version
1.3 include a new option 'labeled' to generated labeled references and
a compatibility patch that allows continuous numerical labels with
package natbib.
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update to the
showframe
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic/
Summary description: Draws visible frames for the text and margin area, and lines for the head and foot to check layout in detail.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This Version adds a frame to show the outline of the whole page.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic/
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf