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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ean13isbn
Author's name: Zdenek Wagner
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ean13isbn
Summary description: Print EAN13 with ISBN
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package generates EAN13 bar codes with ISBN as uaed after 1 January
2007. The package makes use of ean13.tex developed by Petr Olsak.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ean13isbn
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Get package/file date
Author's name: Zdenek Wagner
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/zwgetfdate
Summary description: Package for obtaining package/file date
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package enables to fetch dates of used packages and files and provide
such information in macros. It is useful for automatic obtaining the date
of a package being documented, mainly if you do not use doc/docstrip.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/zwgetfdate
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Please note that the location of this package has been changed to
language/hyph-utf8 (and the package identifier has changed also).
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8
Author's name: Jonathan Kew, Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer
Location on CTAN: language/hyph-utf8
Summary description: Hyphenation patterns have been converted into UTF-8 and
should serve as a replacement for the old patterns without any change in
functionality. The patterns should be considered upstream replacement
that will be used in TeX Live and other distrubutions instead of loding
the old files.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Native UTF-8 engines such as XeTeX and LuaTeX have urged the need to
provide hyphenation patterns in UTF-8 format.
These patterns should replace the old ones eventually.
This is the first upload to CTAN that will enable testing for
TeX Live 2008 and is not yet set in stone. In particular we still want
to change all the copyright notes in patterns, and add some
documentation.
SVN repository is available on http://www.tug.org/svn/texhyphen.
Bug reports and feature requests welcome.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyph-utf8
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http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8
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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 soon be at your
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Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: notes2bib
Author's name: Joseph Wright
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib
Summary description: ntegrating notes into the bibliography
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v1.4:
- e-TeX made optional, with control option is avoid using extensions
even when available
- Improved desciption of options
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8
Author's name: Jonathan Kew, Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer
Location on CTAN: language/hyphenation-utf8
Summary description: Hyphenation patterns have been converted into UTF-8 and
should serve as a replacement for the old patterns without any change in
functionality. The patterns should be considered upstream replacement
that will be used in TeX Live and other distrubutions instead of loding
the old files.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Native UTF-8 engines such as XeTeX and LuaTeX have urged the need to
provide hyphenation patterns in UTF-8 format.
These patterns should replace the old ones eventually.
This is the first upload to CTAN that will enable testing for
TeX Live 2008 and is not yet set in stone. In particular we still want
to change all the copyright notes in patterns, and add some
documentation.
SVN repository is available on http://www.tug.org/svn/texhyphen.
Bug reports and feature requests welcome.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation-utf8
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http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hyphenation-utf8
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Thanks again
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: dehyph-exptl
Author's name: Stephan Hennig
Location on CTAN: /language/hyphenation/dehyph-exptl
Summary description: new, experimental hyphenation patterns for the
German language
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides new, experimental hyphenation
patterns for the German language, covering traditional
and reformed orthography. The patterns can be used
with packages Babel and hyphsubst from the Oberdiek
bundle.
Dieses Paket enthält experimentelle Trennmuster für
die traditionelle und reformierte deutsche
Rechtschreibung. Die Trennmuster können mit den
Paketen Babel und hyphsubst aus dem
Oberdiek-Bündel verwendet werden.
v0.1:
This release contains hyphenation patterns as of
2008-06-18.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/dehyph-exptl
. More information is at
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I have released v3.18 of the (English) FAQ, and installed it on CTAN as
well as its own little web site http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
As always, there have been a number of minor changes since the last
release; the significant ones are listed in the file CHANGES-3.18 in the
distribution, which I append below.
Users may view the catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/faq.html
or visit the faq directory with its jumble of files at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq/
There was a brief interruption of service with the Web version of the
FAQ; this related to the arrival of the new version and has (I think)
been corrected.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team (not to mention my own interests)
Changes in version 3.18
This file lists changes since its most recent release (with version 3.17
of the FAQ).
New answers:
+Label acroantics:getting Adobe Reader to produce the right size output
+Label inst-scut: introduction to the old inst-miktex and to inst-tds-zip
+Label inst-tds-zip: installing a package using .tds.zip files
+Label onna-stick:making MikTeX run from a memory key
+Label papergeom: how to select the correct paper geometry
+Label prept1font:the generating metrics part of old instt1font
+Label tds-zip: brief outline of TDS ZIP files
Revised answers:
+Label biblatex: now discusses crossTeX too
+Label bibtranscinit: discuss truly excessive sets of initials
+Label chngmargonfly: mention new changepage package
+Label findfiles: correct one of the search address links
+Label fmtconv: add tex4ht as a route to word format, tidy up
+Label footintab: I _think_ the answer now says what I meant it to say!
+Label labelfig: mention (auto-)pst-pdf
+Label letterspace: microtype now covers the functionality of old letterspace
+Label luatex: detail some recent developments
+Label oddpage: mention new changepage package
+Label papersize: rewritten as intro to new acroantics and papergeom
+Label parallel: mention the pdfcolparallel package
+Label patch: rewrite to downplay patch, add mention of ted and etoolbox
+Label pkfix: mention pkfix-helper
+Label poster: updated with further informative links, etc.
+Label protect: rewritten (again)
+Label psfchoice: add kpfonts, link to the font catalogue at various points
mention font catalogue (as a whole) and maths font survey
Web interface:
A mechanism is now in place, whereby old question labels may be used to get
to the nearest current equivalent of the question. It does not cover *all*
old questions: please mail faq-devel(a)tex.ac.uk if you have a problem with an
old question label that you have stored.
Bugfixes:
Bits of silliness in the web interface continue to surface. They get mended
as soon as I work out how; the most recent was a tendency not to translate
extbackslash -- I know how to correct it, but not why it happened...
2008-06-20
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: moderncv
Author's name: Xavier Danaux
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/moderncv/
Summary description: A modern curriculum vitae class
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Major bug corrections:
- spacing between lines
- compatibility with bibunits and other bibliographic packages
- display of long names / long addresses
- ...
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv/
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: xetex-pstricks
Author's name: Jonathan Kew
Location on CTAN: /graphics/xetex-pstricks
Summary description: configuration files to use PSTricks with XeTeX
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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This package provides a configuration file to support the use of
PSTricks with the xdvipdfmx output driver, as used by the XeTeX engine.
With this configuration, many PSTricks features can be used in xelatex
or plain xetex documents.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/xetex-pstricks
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The package below has been updated.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: environ
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/environ
Summary description: A new syntax for defining environments
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is a new version of the environ package, which provides a long
version of amsmath's collect@body command; more usefully for
authors, it provides a convenient LaTeX wrapper for defining
environments that read their entire body.
v0.2 completely replaces the functionality from v0.1, with a new
macro (with a new name) for defining environments that is significantly
improved over the analogous command in previous version. (Backwards
compatibility is preserved, for now.)
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