An exploitable programming error in the proftpd software has been
announced. Until this is resolved, dante.ctan.org will not offer ftp
access.
Rainer Schöpf
The Cambridge upload daemon spake:
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: gastex
> Author's name: Paul Gastin
> Author's email: ...
> Location on CTAN: graphics
> Summary description: GasTeX: Graphs and Automata Simplified in TeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> GasTeX is a set of LaTeX macros which allow to draw very easily graphs,
> automata, nets, diagrams, etc... under the picture environment of LaTeX.
>
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i have installed the package at ctan:graphics/gastex, and made a new
entry in the catalogue. thanks for the upload.
interested users may browse the package via its new catalogue page
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/gastex.html
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
The package below has been put in on tug.ctan.org and should soon be
on your favorite mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: auto-pst-pdf
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf
Summary description: Wrapper for pst-pdf (with some psfrag features)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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auto-pst-pdf uses --shell-escape to execute pst-pdf when necessary.
This makes it especially easy to integrate into the workflow of an editor
with just LaTeX and pdfLaTeX buttons.
Wrappers are provided for various psfrag-related features so that
Matlab figures via laprint, Mathematica figures via MathPSfrag, and
regular psfrag figures can all be input consistently and easily.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=auto-pst-pdf
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Herbert Voss <LaTeX(a)zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> I uploaded pst-dbicons.tgz to the uk mirror.
> Please put all files in the _new_ directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-dbicons
>
> The pst-dbicons package provides some useful macros in the
> database area. It focusses on typesetting ER-Diagrams in a
> declarative style, i.e., by positioning some nodes and defining
> the position of all other nodes relative to them by using the
> standard database terminology.
>
> the author is Wolfgang May
thanks for the upload; i have installed it as suggested.
users who wish to browse the package may look at the catalogue entry
i've created:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-dbicons.html
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will 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: pst-spectra
Author's name: Arnaud Schmittbuhl
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-spectra
Summary description: Draw continuum, emission and absorption spectra
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This PSTricks extension, based on a NASA lines database, allows you to
draw continuum, emission and absorption spectra. A Total of 16 880
visible lines from 99 elements can be displayed.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-spectra
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pst-spectra
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: gu
Author's name: Stefan Lange
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gu
Summary description: Typeset crystallographic group-subgroup-schemes
in Bärnighausen formalism
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The aim of the package gu.sty is to simplify typesetting of simple
crystallographic group-subgroup-schemes in the Bärnighausen formalism. It
defines a new environment stammbaum, wherein all elements of the scheme
are defined. Afterwards all necessary dimensions are calculated and the
scheme is drawn. Currently two steps of symmetry reduction are supported.
Das Paket gu.sty erleichtert das Setzen von einfachen kristallographischen
Gruppe-Untergruppe-Schemata im Bärnighausen-Formalismus und/oder
Lagenfortführungstabellen. Die einzelnen Elemente und Abstände werden
innerhalb einer neuen Umgebung namens stammbaum mittels vorgegebener
Kommandos definiert. Anschließend werden alle Abstände automatisch berechnet
und der Stammbaum und/oder die Tabellen ausgegeben. Momentan werden maximal
zwei Abstiegsschritte unterstützt.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gu
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=gu
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-ob3d.tgz to the uk mirror.
> Please put all files in the _new_ directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-ob3d
>
> pst-ob3d is a PSTricks based package for basic three
> dimensional objects. Up to now only cubes (which can be
> deformed to rectangular parallelipiped ones) and
> dies (which are only a special kind of cubes) are defined.
i've installed the package at Cambridge, as suggested, and created a
catalogue entry.
users who wish to browse the package may do so via its (processed)
catalogue entry:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-ob3d.html
thanks for the upload, Herbert.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Reinhard Kotucha submitted an update to the
vntex
package.
Location on CTAN: /language/vietnamese/vntex
Summary description: Support for typesetting Vietnamese
License type: dfsg
Announcement text:
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Version 3.1.1 fixes a severe bug in t5enc.def.
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/vietnamese/vntex
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=vntex-3.1.1
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the update.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror.
Tnx,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: savetrees
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/savetrees
Summary description: Pack as much text as possible onto each page
of a LaTeX document
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The goal of the savetrees package is to pack as much text as possible
onto each page of a LaTeX document. Admittedly, this makes the
document far less attractive. Nevertheless, savetrees is a simple way
to save paper when printing draft copies of a document. It can also
be useful when trying to meet a tight page-length requirement for a
conference or journal submission.
Version 1.2 of savetrees adds code to discourage TeX from permitting
paragraphs to end with a lone word. It also sets the top and bottom
margins to nonzero values because that was too ugly even for
savetrees. Finally, this version of savetrees improves the check for
chapter-based document classes, making it more robust.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/savetrees
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=savetrees
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
favorite mirror.
Regards,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Technica
Author's name: Gianfranco Boggio-Togna
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/technica
Summary description: Typesetting for the Humanities
License type: nocommercial
Announcement text:
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A suite of LaTeX packages for typesetting literary texts.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/technica
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=technica
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