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Long Silence of CTAN-Ann
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

Faithful readers of the CTAN-Ann messages may have noticed the sudden disruption of the service about two and a half weeks ago. This was not for lack of noteworthy submissions, nor had the CTAN team gone on a collective holiday or on strike. What had in fact befallen us was the -- gradual -- loss of our second main host at Cambridge. As a matter of fact we had been suspecting for some time that this host was running more or less unattended, but on Thu March 12 it definitely ceased to pick up the packages that had been newly installed or updated on the server in Germany. In consequence, all the mirrors (http://dante.ctan.org/mirmon/) that had up to then obtained their new material via tex.ac.uk went out of sync. Still hoping that things might arrange themselves by themselves within a few days, we did not take any immediate action except trying -- in vain -- to reach somebody in charge at Cambridge. We also stopped sending out CTAN-Ann messages, so that people should not be tempted to go looking for new packages on stale mirrors, and tried to contact mirror admins, asking them to switch from tex.ac.uk to the German server. As one can see on http://dante.ctan.org/mirmon/, these messages still seem not to have reached all the persons concerned, although the situation has improved a little. Luckily, TeX Live was not affected by this problem, as they are fetching their packages from the server in Germany. We have now finally given up hope that the Cambridge server will ever re-enter into reliable service again. We have therefore taken the necessary measures to keep up the service on our own. In particular, we will post in the course of the day the 40 messages kept back during the past weeks and then resume CTAN-Announcements as usual. Thanks for your patience! For the CTAN team Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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Re: CTAN Upload: eledmac-eledpar
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

Maïeul Rouquette submitted an update to the eledmac-eledpar package. Version number: 1.19.1-1.13.1 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: Typeset scholarly editions. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release: - optimize code repartition between eledmac and eledpar - delete spurious empty pages after Pages (added by 1.13.0) - fixe somes spacing trouble for onlyXside and onlysideX feature (we are waiting feedback for these two features) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eledmac More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/eledmac We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Ina Dau

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CTAN update: etoc
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

Jean-François Burnol submitted an update to the etoc package. Version number: 1.08 2015-03-10 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: Completely customisable TOCs. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- etocskipfirstprefix may now appear anywhere in the part of a level style. New commands etociffirst, etocxiffirst, etocxifnumbered. It is now possible to issue line style specifications directly with & and \ tokens, in order to typeset a TOC as a tabular or longtable with the opening for example in the first argument of etocsettocstyle and the closing in its second argument. It is mandatory for such uses to issue etocglobaldefs which tells etoc to proceed globally for certain definitions. This is also useful in the context of the inline environments of package enumitem. On this occasion, various old parts of the code have been improved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/etoc More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/etoc We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz

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New on CTAN: fcolumn
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

Edgar Olthof submitted the fcolumn package. Version: 1.0 / 2015-03-07 License: lppl1.2 Summary description: Typesetting financial tables. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A new LaTeX package is available that provides a new column type ``f'' that typesets financial tables from raw data. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fcolumn/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fcolumn We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: newpx
by CTAN Announcements 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

Michael Sharpe submitted an update to the newpx package. Version: 1.22 / 2015-03-09 License: lppl Summary description: Alternative uses of the PX fonts, with improved metrics. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In addition to a number of changes in kerning between small cap glyphs and punctuation, this release detects use of babel and modifies its behavior accordingly, and provides new options to fine tune word spacing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/newpx/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/newpx We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN Update: etoolbox
by CTAN Announcements 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

Joseph Wright submitted an update to the etoolbox package. Version number/date: 2.1b / 2015-03-10 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: e-TeX tools for LaTeX. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.1a: ------------- - Maintainence now by Joseph Wright - Minor adjustment: loading of support package etex is now skipped if the LaTeX kernel is aware of e-TeX registers. This is in preparation for an upcoming LaTeX release. Version 2.1b: ------------- - Update of some URLs in the documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/etoolbox We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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New on CTAN: boxedminipage2e
by CTAN Announcements 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

Scott Pakin submitted the boxedminipage2e package. Version number: 1.0 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: Framed minipages of a specified total width (text and frame combined) Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The boxedminipage2e package is a very simple package that essentially just wraps a minipage within an fbox. However, while fbox{egin{minipage}{linewidth}...end{minipage}} juts out into the margin, egin{boxedminipage}...end{boxedminipage} does not. Instead, it subtracts the frame's dimensions from the specified dimensions of the minipage before typesetting the minipage. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/boxedminipage2e More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/boxedminipage2e We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz

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CTAN update: europasscv
by CTAN Announcements 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

Giacomo Mazzamuto submitted an update to the europasscv package. Version number: 2015-03-10 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: Unofficial class for the new version of the Europass curriculum vitae Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * add definitions for German (hopefully more languages to come soon) * update documentation * fix alignment in personal information * fix spacing of an ecvitem following an ecvsection * fix file name conflicts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/europasscv More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/europasscv We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz

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CTAN Update: beamer
by CTAN Announcements 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Joseph Wright submitted an update to the beamer package. Version number: 3.36 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: A LaTeX class for producing presentations and slides. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 3.36: - Fix TOC behaviour of hidden subsections - Add Catalan dictonaries - Documentation: Index commands ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/ More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/beamer We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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CTAN update: ptex2pdf
by CTAN Announcements 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Norbert Preining submitted an update to the ptex2pdf package. Version number: 0.6 2015-03-08 License type: gpl2 Summary description: Convert Japanese TeX documents to PDF. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fix script not working on cygwin due to superfluous spaces in the shebang line ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/language/japanese/ptex2pdf More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ptex2pdf We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz

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