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Name of contribution: pst-diffraction
Author's name: Herbert Voss
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-diffraction/
Summary description: patterns for monochromatic light
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package enables the user to draw the diffraction patterns for
different geometric forms of apertures for monochromatic light. The
aperture stops can have rectangular, circular or triangular openings.
This new version allows three dimensional views of the light patterns.
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: l2picfaq
Author's name: Dominik Bischoff
Location on CTAN: /info/l2picfaq/german/
Summary description: l2picfaq: A picture How-To / l2picfaq: Ein Bilder How-To
License type: fdl
Announcement text:
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ENGLISH: A major update - completely reworked:
- new Layout
- source-code better documented
- direct links to the package-documentations
- updated all the examples (where necessary)
- several new examples
- ...
-> comments are - as always - highly welcome!
DEUTSCH: Komplett überarbeitete Version:
- neues Layout
- Quellcode sauber dokumentiert
- Paketdokus direkt verlinkt
- sämtliche Beispiele überarbeitet und wo nötig aktualisiert
- diverse neue Beispiele
- ...
-> Kommentare sind - wie immer - höchst erwünscht!
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Name of contribution: pst-fractal
Author's name: Herbert Voss
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-fractal
Summary description: pst-fractal, v 0.05
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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pst-fractal, a PSTricks related package, draw the Julia and
Mandelbrot set, a Sierpinski triangle, Koch flake, Apollonious
Circle as well as fractal trees with a variety of different parameters
(including varying numbers of iterations).
This new version of pst-fractal allows unbalanced fractal trees.
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Frank Küster submitted an update to the
alnumsec
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec/
Summary description: Using alphanumeric section numbering with standard sectioning commands
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Minor improvement:
- Three
ewcommand changed to providecommand to enhance compatibility
- Licence updated to LPPL 1.3, "maintained"
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A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be
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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 environment interface
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package defines amsmath's collect@body, as well as a long version
Collect@Body, for collecting the body text inside an environment.
These are used to define a new author interface for creating new
environments that might be useful on occassion. For example,
NewEnvironment{test}{[#1]}
wraps the entire environment body in square brackets, doing the
right thing in ignoring leading and trailing spaces.
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On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Axel Sommerfeldt submitted a bugfix release of the
caption
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/
Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is a bugfix release of the caption package 3.1:
- The combination of centering and labelsep=newline works now
- Problems with hyperref and breaklinks=true are resolved
-
ewfloat{Example}+captionsetup{type=Example}works now
- New feature: Warning !label before caption ignored added
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: hexgame
Author's name: Meron Brouwer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/hexgame
Summary description: Hexgame introduces a new environment to easily
draw a hexgame-board
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Hex is a mathematical game invented by the Danish mathematician Piet Hein
and independently by the mathematician John Nash. This package defines a new
environment that enables the user to draw such a game in a trivial way.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hexgame
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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: GraphicxSP
Author's name: D. P. Story
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/graphicxsp
Summary description: GraphicxSP is an extension of the graphicx package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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GraphicxSP is an extension of the graphicx package. GraphicxSP embeds
the graphic in the PDF document once, and allows the document author
to use and re-use that same graphic without significantly increasing
the file size. Additionally, GraphicxSP supports Adobe transparency
imaging model.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: trivfloat
Author's name: Joseph Wright
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/trivfloat
Summary description: Quick floats in LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v1.3b:
* Fixed error with hyperref
Note licence change to LPPL
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/trivfloat
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: chemscheme
Author's name: Joseph Wright
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chemscheme
Summary description: Support for chemistry schemes
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v1.2a:
* Instructions for use with pdfLaTeX (many thanks to Stefan Pinnow for these)
* Bug with hyperref fixed
Notice that the license of the package has been changed to LPPL.
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This package is located at
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