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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: statex v. 2
Author's name: Rodney Sparapani
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/misc
Summary description: a statistics style for latex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Syntax incompatible upgrade of statex v. 1, hence the name change.
Although, not syntax compatible, the new syntax is more internally
consistent and more latexy. Also, new experimental option autobold,
to bold statistical formulas for presentation (often needed so that
greek characters, subscripts and superscripts can be seen by the
audience).
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Name of contribution: modroman
Author's name: Yvon Henel, TeXnicien de surface
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/modroman/
Summary description: modroman.sty, two macros to write numbers in lower
case roman numerals thus i, ij, iij, iv and so on. (See the final j?)
With option upourv, modroman 6 writes uj instead of vj. The default
option, vpourv, makes it write vj.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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MODROMAN 0.4 2008-05-04
50th anniversary edition ;-)
Changes:
v0.4
redefinition of the auxiliary macros via a new command
and, consequently, compactification of the code
suppression of the if... to manage options
use @ifdefinable for the def-s, just in case
some garbage files to the garbage can
lbnl ;-) a tmf ready zip is now available
and should be, at last, tds compliant
Files:
LISEZMOI.txt README.txt
modroman.dtx modroman.ins
modroman.pdf % bilingual documentation
Makefile % *nix tool
modroman.tds.zip
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Name of contribution: curve2e
Author's name: Claudio Beccari
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/curve2e
Summary description: Upgrade of existing package
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 1.01 of curve2e.sty contains several corrections to both the
code and the documentation.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: siunitx
Author's name: Joseph Wright
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/siunitx
Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v0.7b:
- Fixed bug with applying settings on a per-unit basis
- TDS-style zip included
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On Thu, 1 May 2008 Martin Hairer submitted an update to the
mhequ
package.
MHequ simplifies creating multi-column equation environments, and tagging the
equations therein. It supports sub-numbers of blocks of equations (like (1.2a),
(1.2b), etc) and references to each equation individually (1.2a) or to the
whole block (1.2). The labels can be shown in draft mode.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mhequ
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The functionalities of the equs and equa environments are merged, but equa still
exists for backwards compatibility.
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
isodoc
package.
The isodoc class can be used for the preparation of letters and invoices (and,
in the future, similar documents). Documents are set up with options, thus
making the class easily adaptable to user's wishes and extensible for other
document types.
The class is based on Victor Eijkhout's NTG brief class, which implements the
NEN1026 standard.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/isodoc
License: LPPL
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major changes of v0.4 relative to v0.3)
- norwegian translations added (thanks Sveinung Heggen)
- option shift: shift all output on the page
- option currency added: changes euro into other
- option cityzip added: put zip behind city instead of before
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
ctable
package.
ctable.sty provides commands to easily typeset centered or left or right aligned
tables and (multiple-)figure floats, with footnotes. Instead of an environment,
a command with 4 arguments is used; the first is optional and is used for
key,value pairs generating variations on the defaults and offering a route for
future extensions.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ctable
License: LPPL
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major changes of v1.13 relative to v1.12):
- cap option with empty argument will prohibit insertion in lot/lof
- added option continued, for continuation tables: same number as
previous table, ` (continued' added to caption.
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The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
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Regards,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Metapost 1.004
Author's name: Taco Hoekwater
Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/base
Summary description: This is metapost 1.004, a bugfix release
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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See the file CHANGES or the comp.text.tex. (usenet) posting entitled
MetaPost 1.004 announcement for a detailed description of changes
in this release.
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 Vladimir Lidovski submitted the
lcyw
package to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/lcyw/
Summary description: This package makes available the Classic Cyrillic CM fonts
for LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package makes available the classic CM Cyrillic fonts from
CTAN:/fonts/cyrillic/cmcyr/type1 for LaTeX. This support was
missing for 10 years!
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Josef Kleber submitted the
miktex_update
package to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /support/miktex_update
Summary description: A cygwin bash script for automatic updating and installing new packages of MiKTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The miktex_update script offers automatic updating and installing of
new packages of an existing MiKTeX installation. It supports direct connection
with online repositories of the MiKTeX server network, as well as
synchronizing a local repository (CTAN) with following update. In the end
you should have an up-to-date and complete MiKTeX installation.
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Das Script miktex_update bietet automatisches Updaten und Installieren
neuer Pakete einer existierenden MiKTeX-Installation. Es unterstützt
die direkte Verbindung mit Online-Repositories des MiKTeX-Servernetzwerks,
als auch das Synchronisieren eines lokalen Repository (CTAN)
mit anschließendem Update. Nach Abschluß des Scripts sollte man eine
aktuelle und vollständige MiKTeX-Installation vorfinden.
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