Alceu Frigeri submitted an update to the
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> Version: 1.12a 2025-12-08
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> Summary description: A structured array (of properties) based on expl3
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> Parsed commands: due to internal changes, a series of commands had to be renamed to avoid name crashing (sorry for that). Given the number of deprecated (renamed) commands, a package option has been added to `easy` the process. see documentation. On the bright side: Code is faster now.
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Daniel Flipo submitted an update to the
lettrine
package.
Version: 2.83 2025-12-06
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Typeset dropped capitals
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More changes to fix a tagging issue (#1108).
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Mingyu Xia submitted an update to the
LXGW-fonts
package.
Version: 1.521G 2025-12-08
License: ofl
Summary description: A CJK font family with a comprehensive character set
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- Fixed a bug of fontset configuration for `upTeX`: replace the
bold type JFM name `upzhserifitb` with the default fallback one
- Optimized the `ctex-spa-lxgw.tex` script.
- Make the bold version of the main font heavier
- Optimized the `build.lua` script, replaced some lines to
interface provided by `l3build`;
Enabled the tagging function for bumping easily
- Added Index in the manual
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Japanese TeX Development Community submitted an update to the
japanese-otf
package.
Version: 2025-12-06
License: bsd3
Summary description: Advanced font selection for platex and its friends
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Based on japanese-otf-uptex Ver.0.33.
japanese-otf-uptex:
* Enable to use Unicode base multi-weight virtual fonts
for \UTFM{} macros with both platex and uplatex.
For platex only:
* Remove conventional vf's and tfm's by subfont scheme for
\UTFM{} macros from the archive.
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Alan J. Cain submitted an update to the
marginalia
package.
Version: 0.83.17 2025-12-06
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Non-floating marginal content with automatic placement for LuaLaTeX
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New feature: additional vertical alignment options for marginal items ("c" =
vertically centred; "m" = midway between topmost and bottommost baselines).
New feature: option to place a user-specified mark (e.g. an arrow) next to the
relevant line; the mark stays in position even if the marginal item is moved.
Documentation improvements: additional explanation and examples.
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Johan Larsson submitted an update to the
moloch
package.
Version number: 2.0.0 2025-12-05
License type: cc-by-sa-4
Summary description: Beamer theme based on Metropolis
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This release of Moloch is a major update, with a refactored color system,
revamped itemize environment, and bug fixes.
See below for detailed changes.
BREAKING CHANGES
- refactor color theme
Features
- add frametitle margin options (bc02e8a)
- add catppuccin theme (3452624)
- add new “Paper” color theme (05de59a)
- change default progressbar linewidth to 1pt (3b71fc9)
- draw all itemize symbols manually (a82527c)
- refactor color theme (37d3a37)
- tune color themes (a11710f)
- use brighter alert and example colors in dark hcontr (8babd1e)
Bug Fixes
- enable background macro for alternative color themes (59b4d79)
- remove and fix examples (35523ee)
- remove example text bg in highcontrast theme (528ea8d)
- work-around division by zero in progress bar arithmetic (28fc1a2)
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Mingyu Xia submitted an update to the
LXGW-fonts
package.
Version: 1.521F 2025-12-06
License: ofl
Summary description: A CJK font family with a comprehensive character set
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- Change the `cmap` to from `UniGB-UTF16-H` to `unicode` for
pdfTeX and upTeX
- Changed `zhmappdf`.
- Included the `.spa` file to ensure the best typesetting of
punctuation compression under `latex` + `dvipdfmx`.
- Finished literature programming: the implementation of the ctex-kit
fontset configuration for the LXGW font family is available now.
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Sergey Slyusarev submitted an update to the
byrne
package.
Version: 0.2.5 2025-12-05
License: gpl3+
Summary description: Typeset geometric proofs in the style of Oliver Byrne’s 1847 edition of Euclid’s “Elements”
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This update to the `byrne` package contains several bug fixes and
minor improvements over the last version.
Those include: improved dashed lines, several new labeling functions,
and a function to draw polygonal chains by only referencing their vertices.
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Dohyun Kim submitted an update to the
luamplib
package.
Version number: 2.37.7 2025-12-05
License type: gpl2
Summary description: Use LuaTeX’s built-in MetaPost interpreter
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* avoid error inside trivlist environment, related to \partokencontext=2
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samcarter submitted an update to the
TikZducks
package.
Version number: 2.1 2025-12-05
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: A little fun package for using rubber ducks in TikZ
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### New
- new accessories: towel
### Fixed
- bounding box problem with different bill shapes
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