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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pgfplots
Author's name: Christian Feuersänger
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots
Summary description: Create normal/logarithmic plots in LaTeX
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Pgfplots draws high-quality function plots in normal or logarithmic
scaling with a user-friendly interface. The user supplies axis labels, legend
entries and the plot coordinates for one or more plots and Pgfplots applies
axis scaling, computes any logarithms and axis ticks and draws the plots.
It is based on Till Tantau's package PGF/TikZ.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots
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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: a mexican dialect of spanish
Author's name: Luis Rivera
Location on CTAN: /language/spanish/nonstandard/mx
Summary description: language and configuration files to typeset spanish
in mexico
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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These files help the user to typeset texts in spanish according to
mexican current practices with the babel system. They effectively merge
an old (and short-lived) mexican.ldf with spanish.ldf, or else provide
a configuration file to typeset all spanish documents in a given
system according to the `mexico' option defined by spanish.ldf v5.0
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/spanish/nonstandard/mx
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: vxu
Author's name: Robert Nyqvist
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/vxu
Summary description: Document classes for Växjö University
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Document classes for formatting theses and exams in the format required
at Växjö University, Sweden.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/vxu
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Saint Michael's College
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Package name: Spanish-babel
Package author: Javier Bezos
Location: languages/spanish/babel
Description: This is the developer's latest working version of Spanish
support for Babel.
For more, please see:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/spanish/babel
.
Philipp Lehman wrote:
> I've uploaded `etoolbox.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK
> node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox. Please
> purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as
> usual.
i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
> ABOUT
>
> The etoolbox package is a toolbox of programming facilities geared
> primarily towards LaTeX class and package authors. It provides LaTeX
> frontends to some of the new primitives provided by e-TeX as well as
> some generic tools which are not related to e-TeX but match the
> profile of this package.
>
> CHANGES
>
> * Resolved conflict with tex4ht
users may view the catalogue entry at
http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/etoolbox.html
or browse the package directory at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox/
thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss(a)FU-Berlin.DE> wrote:
> I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk mirror. Please
> copy all files into the directories
> /graphics/pstricks/*
>
> this is a major update of the main PSTricks packages
> pstricks, pstricks-add and pst-3dplot
i've done that, and updated the catalogue repository to reflect the
new/updated material.
> Read /graphics/pstricks/doc/pst-news2008.pdf for
> more information and examples.
>
> ---- pstricks.sty
> 0.36 2008-01-22
> - Better error message, when the document
> has the same name as a PSTricks file. (RN)
> - add message for loading pst-alpparser.pro
> - add option vtex to disable opacity values
>
> pst-node.sty --------
> 2007-09-13
> add message for loading pst-node.pro (hv)
>
> pst-all.sty --------
> 2008-01-01 load pstricks-add
>
> ---- pstricks.tex
> 1.20 2008-01-01
> - added opacity for default fill operations
> - added strokeopacity for normal stroke operation (lines)
> - added the arrowtype <D-D> and <D<D-D>D>, which draws the
> sides as bezier curves (ArrowD type in pstricks.pro)
> - add special coor type (*x f(x)), which invokes the
> algebraic parser for f(x) before using the default
> (!x y) coor type
> - add option linejoin=0,1,or 2 for connecting lines
> - add option linecap=0,1,or 2 for line ends
> - small tweaks to psellipticarc x y -> xOrig yOrig
> - fix introduced bug with
ewpsstyle: pst@tempa->pst@tempA
> - add PS subroutines /UserCoor and /ScreenCoor for easy
> transforming into user or screen coordinates
> - changed wrong name of psk@shift to pst@shift
> - fix bug with pst-node and \[name=...]. It now uses
> ps@ifnextchar for scanning the next token
> - fix bug with pst@tempg in polar@coor. It was already
> used in pst@getangle.
> - new option gridfont for the label font of psgrid
> Times-Roman, Palatino-Roman, ...
>
>
> ---- pstricks.pro
> 1.02 2008-01-01
> - added the arrowtype D>, sides as curves (ArrowD)
> - added the whole algebraic parser stuff
> - added function tan := sin cos div
> - added function Tan := sin cos Div
> - added Pyth2 for 2 points given by xA yA xB yB
> - change variable names from x,y to xOrig, yOrig for
> EllipticArcArrow
> - move font setting for psgrid into pstricks.tex
>
>
> vtex.con ------
> 0.02 2008-01-01
> - disable transparent color setting
>
>
> ---- pstricks-add.tex
> v 3.00 2008-01-01
> - delete transalpha stuff (moved into pstricks.tex)
> - load header file pst-algparser.pro
>
> pst-3dplot.tex --------
> 1.79 2008-01-03
> - add option algebraic for 3d plots
> - fix bug with ellipse phi=f(alpha)!
The catalogue entries are:
http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.htmlhttp://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks-add.htmlhttp://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-3dplot.html
(those files will be updated to reflect the new version overnight)
The updated material may be browsed as follows
pstricks -- http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/base/
pstricks-add -- http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/
pst-3dplot --
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
The package below has been updated at tog.ctan.org
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: kpfonts
Author's name: Christophe Caignaert
Location on CTAN: /fonts/kpfonts
Summary description: New malor release of Kpfonts
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Kpfonts is a very full set of fonts for typesetting text and math.
It includes real small caps, all current math symbols (TeX, AMS and
more), in normal and bold version.
The new major release 2.0 gets a 'light' option, with lighter roman
fonts and same metrics...
Read the .pdf doc file available in english and in french!
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/kpfonts
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/kpfonts
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The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org.
Thank you again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: tableauVariations
Author's name: Frederic Mazoit
Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros
Summary description: Variation tables in metapost
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This metapost package helps in creating variation tables.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/tableauvar…
. More information is at
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: achemso
Author's name: Joseph Wright
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso
Summary description: Support for American Chemical Society journal submissions
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v2.2g:
* BibTeX style and package option for journal Industrial & Engineering
Chemistry Research
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/achemso
. More information is at
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: The LaTeX Brochure
Author's name: Peter Flynn
Location on CTAN: /info/latex-brochure
Summary description: Publicity flyer for LaTeX
License type: nosell
Announcement text:
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This is the Jan 2008 version of the publicity flyer for LaTeX that I
showed at the TUG meeting in Delaware in 2001.
It is designed for printing on A3 paper, double-sided, and folding
once to A4. A future version may also be for Ledger paper (twice
Letter size).
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex-brochure
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