On Thu, 10 May 2007 François Charette submitted an update for the
arabxetex
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/arabxetex
Summary description: An ArabTeX-like interface for XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 1.1:
* improved documentation
* added language-specific font setup
* Kurdish mappings corrected
* extlatin changed to extroman
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/arabxetex
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http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=arabxetex
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Thu, 10 May 2007 Alexander Grahn submitted an update for the
animate
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/animate
Summary description: creating portable PDF animations from graphics files and inline graphics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The `
ewframe' and `
ewframe*' commands now take an optional argument
that allows to change the frame rate in the middle of an animation.
Moreover, some minor bugs have been cleared.
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Rainer Schöpf
A new collection of materials has been added to the AeB Pro area of 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: AeB Pro
Author's name: D. P. Story
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/aeb_pro/aeb_pro
Summary description: A package that complements AeB. Targeted primarily at
users of Acrobat Pro 7.0 or later
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A package that complements AeB (AcroTeX eDucation Bundle) and is targeted
at users of Acrobat Pro 7 (or later).
Features: AeB Control Central, set initial view, set document actions of
all types, set page open actions, complete full screen support, methods
for attaching and linking to files, an option to create a PDF Package,
initialize form fields using unicode, basic support for layers, rollovers
and animation.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/aeb_pro/aeb_pro
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On Wed, 9 May 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the
oberdiek
bundle.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek
License: LPPL
Announcement:
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Update:
* bmpsize v1.3
* Uses package `infwarerr'.
* Image reuse algorithm fixed for dvipdfmx.
* Some support for Exif's orientation tag.
* stackrel v1.1, zref v2.0, kvoptions v2.6
* Use of package `etexcmds'.
New:
* etexcmds v1.0
New primitive commands are introduced in eTeX. Sometimes the
names collide with existing macros. This package solves this
name clashes by adding a prefix to eTeX's commands. For example,
eTeX's unexpanded is provided as etex@unexpanded.
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This bundle is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek
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On Mon, 7 May 2007, Michael Niedermair submitted the new
linux-libertine
package.
The Linux-Libertine project offers a font family with a wide range of
shapes, and support of several alphabets (including Latin, Cyrillic, Greek
and Hebrew).
This is the first package (alpha version) to use the font LinLibertine with LaTeX.
Documentation is in german.
Homepage: http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/
Location on CTAN: /fonts/linuxlibertine
Summary description: The font LinLibertine and the LaTeX files
License type: gpl
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/linuxlibertine
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http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=linux-libertine
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On Wed, 9 May 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new version of his
mkjobtexmf
package.
The progam mkjobtexmf runs a program and tries to find the used file
names. Two methods are available, option -recorder of TeX (Web2C) or the
program strace.
Then it generates a directory with a texmf tree. It checks the found files
and tries sort them in this texmf tree.
It can be used for archiving purposes or to speed up following TeX runs.
Location on CTAN: support/mkjobtexmf
License: artistic
Changes of version 0.2:
* Typo in option name fixed.
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http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/mkjobtexmf
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Rainer Schöpf
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: dlfltxbcodetips
Author's name: Lars Madsen
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dlfltxbcodetips
Summary description: Various (possibly) usefull macros for math
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The dlfltxbcodetips package contains some 'home made' macros that are
presented as code tips (i.e. macros that the reader might find useful)
in my LaTeX book. This package just brings these macros out to a wider
audience.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dlfltxbcodetips
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On Tue, 8 May 2007, Daniel Flipo submitted version 1.1 of the
tabvar
package.
The tabvar package helps in drawing variation tables of functions.
It does not require pstricks and works with LaTeX or pdfLaTeX.
The documentation is in French, see files demo.pdf and tabvar.pdf.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tabvar
License: lppl
Announcement text:
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New in version 1.1:
-- a new command arre{} has been added to draw vertical rules
centered on special values of the function or it's derivatives.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tabvar
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Philipp Lehman wrote:
> I've uploaded `elatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK
> node. This is the initial upload of the elatex package. I suggest
> installing it in macros/latex/contrib/elatex. Thank you very much.
>
> ABOUT
>
> The elatex 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 strictly related to e-TeX but match
> the profile of this package. This package will not modify any part of
> the LaTeX kernel. Its name is not meant to imply that it patches
> LaTeX such that the kernel makes use of e-TeX facilities by default.
i've installed the package, and it should be at the tug and dante ctan
nodes, by now. thanks for the upload.
i've updated the catalogue: users may view that:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/elatex.html
or go direct to the archive entry:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elatex/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear
at your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: leading
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/leading
Summary description: Define leading with a length
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Defines the leading{<length>} command to set the
leading of the document to the length specified. In
contrast with linespread{<ratio>}, which is less
useful in most cases.
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