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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: More Math into LaTeX, fourth edition, Short Course, Video presentation
Author's name: George Gratzer
Location on CTAN: /info/Math_into_LaTeX-4
Summary description: A series of video presentations introducing LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A series of video presentations introducing LaTeX, based on Part I,
Short Course, of More Math into LaTeX, fourth edition.
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This material is located in
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Math_into_LaTeX-4
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Michael Niedermair submitted the new package
xelibertine
to CTAN.
The package makes the opentype font libertine available for XeLaTeX.
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xelibertine
License type: gpl
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, James Clawson submitted an update to the
biblatex-mla
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/
Summary description: MLA (humanities) style files for biblatex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is an update to version 0.5 of biblatex-mla. Biblatex-mla provides
Biblatex support for references and citations in the style defined by the Modern
Language Association (MLA). The style is a common standard for writers in the
humanities and is outlined in the MLA Style Manual and the MLA Handbook for
Writers of Research Papers. These files follow definitions for the 2nd edition
of the Manual and the 6th edition of the Handbook.
Version 0.5 fixes many bugs, adds new driver support, and introduces support for
MLA-style footnotes.
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the
caption
package.
The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating
environments like figure and table, and cooperates with many other packages.
Includes rotating captions, sideways captions, continued captions (for tables or
figures that come in several parts). A list of compatibility notes, for other
packages, is provided in the documentation.
The package also provides the caption outside float facility, in the same way
that simpler packages like capt-of do.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/
License type: lppl
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Bugfix release of the caption package bundle:
- Missing options `within' & `without' added
- Bugfix: label...pageref should work always now
- Bugfix: subfigure support of caption2 package revised
- Bugfix: label, index, and glossary are allowed inside
sub-captions which produce a list entry now
- Bugfix: figurename=<name> works now when using (n)german.sty
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The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror.
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: boxhandler
Author's name: Steven B. Segletes
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/boxhandler
Summary description: Tools for Optimizing Captions, Presentation, and
Placement of Tables and Figures
License type: lppl
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This package facilitates the optimized presentation of LaTeX tables and
figures. Not only can boxhandler conveniently lay out table and figure
captions with a wide variety of stylistic appearances, but allows for
figures and tables to be ``wrapped'' in a manner consistent with many
business and government documents.
For a document that might appear in different venues with different
formatting, boxhandler very powerfully permits the creation of a LaTeX
source document that can, with a single-line change in the source code,
produce an output that has vastly different layout from the baseline
configuration, not only in terms of caption style, but more importantly
in terms of the locations where figures, tables and lists appear (or
not) in the document.
Deferral routines also allow one to keep all figure and table data in
a separate source file, while nonetheless producing a document with
figures and tables appearing in the desired location in the document.
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Han The Thanh submitted an update to the
pdftex
package.
Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex
Summary description: A new stable release of pdftex
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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> The pdfTeX team announces the release of a new stable version:
>
> ===========================================================================
> pdfTeX 1.40.9
> ===========================================================================
>
> This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.9, an extended version of TeX that
> can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX
> typesetting with the help of PDF.
>
> ===========================================================================
> Main changes of pdfTeX 1.40.9
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>
> some bugfixes only
>
> For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS
>
> ===========================================================================
> Legal notice / license
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>
> pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2008 Han The Thanh, <thanh(a)pdftex.org>
>
> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
> terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
> Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
> version.
>
> For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look
> at http://www.pdftex.org/README
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> The files / installation
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>
> You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your
> distribution.
>
> If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org --
> there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful
> documentation.
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> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
> http://www.dante.de/
> http://tug.org/
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/
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> The pdfTeX team, August 2008
>
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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: termlist
Author's name: Bernd Rellermeyer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/termlist
Summary description: Label any kind of terms with a continuous number.
License type: lppl
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The termlist package provides environments to indent and label any kind
of terms with a continuous number, like mathematical terms are indented
and labelled inside an equation or eqnarray environment.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: mathspec
Author's name: Andrew Gilbert Moschou
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/mathspec
Summary description: Specify arbitrary fonts for mathematics
License type: lppl
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The mathspec package provides an interface to typeset mathematics in
XeLaTeX with arbitrary text fonts using fontspec as a backend.
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 Morten Høgholm submitted an update of the
mh
bundle, more precisely of the breqn and mathstyle packages.
The breqn package makes more easy the business of preparing displayed equations
in LaTeX, including permitting automatic line-breaking within displayed
equations. (Breqn uses the mathstyle package to keep track of the current maths
typesetting style, something that raw TeX hides from the programmer.)
The mathstyle package performs two functions:
– to make sub- and superscript operations macros, which has the effect of
making their behaviour uniform and more readily understandable; and<br/>
– to take advantage of the lack of infix operations (such as over) in LaTeX to
redesign the control of mathematical typesetting style, and to rationalise
the way mathchoice and dependent mechanisms work.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mh
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bug fix for breqn and mathstyle. Super- and subscripts of
ight delimiters
would be interpreted as if there was a {} before them, leading to completely
wrong position.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mh
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 Uwe Lück submitted the
doc-pictex
package to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /info/pictex/Doc-PiCTeX.txt
Summary description: Recent (2008/02/15) list of documentations for PiCTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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PiCTeX is a generic set of TeX macros for drawing diagrams and pictures,
dating from 1987, written and described by Michael J. Wichura ... and
descriptions (documentation) is somewhat hard to get. Doc-PiCTeX.txt is a recent
(i.e., based on web search 2008/02/15) list of descriptions and reference lists.
(A little rivalry with UK FAQ label `docpictex' which, however, is included.)
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http://mirror.ctan.org/info/pictex/Doc-PiCTeX.txt
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