Maïeul submitted an update to the
eledmac
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The minor release fix some bugs when using with Koma-Scripts
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Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the
dvisvgm
package.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG.
The recent release 1.2 is a feature update with the following most important enhancements and additions:
- The PostScript handler evaluates tiling fill patterns now.
- The new options --eps allows the direct conversion of EPS files to SVG.
- The number of decimal places applied to numerical values can be set with the new option --precision.
- EPS files with embedded preview images are handled properly now.
For further information including a more detailed list of recent changes and
pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project page
http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net
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Jean-François Burnol submitted an update to the
etoc
package.
Summary description: easily customisable TOCs
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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1.07e [2013/03/01]
The minor updates during the previous month have brought some
various improvments to the code, and relatively important changes:
* v1.07b removed the xspace previously used in etocname,
etocnumber, etocpage. This could mean that some sources will
have to be edited, my apologies for that.
* v1.07e (this update) completely modifies the (unsatisfactory)
use of penalties and vertical spaces in the package `own line
styles'. The changes could cause documents having made use of
these etoc default line styles to compile a bit differently,
my apologies for that.
The documentation has been gradually extended to include more and
more examples of various uses of the package. Are now explained,
among others:
* an example of an `inline' TOC with the subsections and the
sub-subsections being typeset as footnotes to the sections,
* an example of a TOC using the LaTeX default layout except for
the subsections of one given section,
* an example of a TOC listing all TOCs of the documents,
* an example of a subsection which is itself a TOC on three
columns displaying all subsections of the document,
* and the latest addition: a TOC displayed as a tree. (uses tikz
and package tikz-qtree).
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Josef Kleber submitted the
logicpuzzle
package, a replacement for the
battleship
package.
Summary description: Typesetting logic puzzles
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The logicpuzzle bundle allows you to typeset various logic
puzzles. At the moment the following puzzles are supported:
* Battleship (aka Bimaru, Marinespiel, Batalla Naval, ...)
* Bokkusu (aka Kakurasu, Feldersummenrätsel, ...)
* more to come
License: LPPL
Changes in v1.3:
- the logicpuzzle bundle replaces the now obsolete
battleship package
- added support for Bokkusu puzzle
- added option cvoffset to battleship.sty
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http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/logicpuzzle
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Christian Tellechea submitted an updaet to the
xstring
package.
Summary description: String (token list) manipulation
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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xstring update
v1.7a 2013/2/28
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Bugfix: suprious space in @xs@removefirstsyntaxunit
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Raphaël ALLAIS submitted an update to the
fast-diagram
package. This package was originally uploaded under the name
fast
Summary description: Easy generation of FAST diagrams
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- More explicit package's name
- Changing of commandes's name
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http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/fast-diagram
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i have installed v3.26 of the faq on ctan, and on the faq web processor
at http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
there are several minor improvements and corrections (see summary list
below) but nothing, i think, that's particularly important.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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Changes since version 3.25
New answers:
+Label expl3-old: package needs a newer LaTeX 3 harness
+Label latex3-prog: learning LaTeX 3 programming
+Label repeat-num: repeat an operation a given number of times
+Label repeat-set: repeat an operation for each element of a set
+Label whatenv: brief outline of what environments are
Relabelled answers:
<none>
Revised answers:
+Label acrobat: [tidying layout]
+Label archives: largely rewritten for new archive arrangements
+Label chapbib: show biblatex-based approach
+Label codelist: more on use of minted package
+Label complist: clarified description of what's going on
+Label cmdstar: clarified use of LaTeX 3, here
+Label conditional: suggest stampinclude for rapid (partial) compilation
+Label ctan: revised following recent changes to archive access
+Label dolldoll: elaborated reasons from a tex.stackexchange answer
+Label dpfloat: describe use of caption package for the job
+Label drawing: reword text about PGF/TikZ
+Label extsizes: describe use of scrextend package for document font sizes
+Label ftncapt: clarify example
+Label hyphenaccents: the future (unicode hyphenation tables) is here!
+Label ltxcmds: more detail of the latexdef application
+Label latexqual: add a proviso about l2tabu/nag
+Label make: add recommendation for arara
+Label man-latex: Nicola Talbot's stuff has moved to a new web site
+Label minxampl: discuss support packages
+Label nofm: suggest zref-lastpage
+Label oddpage: suggest the ifoddpage package
+Label patch: describe the regexpatch package
+Label pkgdoc: mention the site texdoc.net, miktex mthelp
+Label pdftexgraphics: mention pdftricks2
+Label psfchoice: update mathdesign outline, add newtx and garamondx
+Label readML: Context can do the job (rather well, one understands ;-)
+Label readtex: suggest asking for a PDF instead ;-)
+Label spell: update, add recommendation for (exptl) spelling package
+Label struttab: removed internal macros in example of cellspace
+Label symbols: rearrange, and mention unicode maths symbol table
+Label tocloft: mention new (straightforward) etoc package
+Label uploads: rewritten for the (new) archive arrangements
+Label vertspacefloat: moved to a new location in question list
+Label virtualfonts: change question title to be a question
+Label xetex: change question title to match other projects' titles,
redo answer, based on a tex/sx post
Deleted answers:
<none removed>
Web interface, etc.:
The default archive (used in links from answers) is now mirror.ctan.org
(i.e., it's not an archive, but a selector of a mirror of the archive)
Robin Fairbairns
Hapless FAQer of Cambridge
quoth the daemon:
> Name of contribution: fontspec
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Package version: v2.3
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fontspec/
> Summary description: Font selection for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Long, long, long overdue, this release of fontspec brings a
> significant new feature which allows default font features to be
> selected on a per-font basis, and to store such customisations in a
> separate configuration file.
>
> This allows font authors to distribute config files with their texmf
> fonts so that filename-based fonts can be loaded as complete families
> without specifying all the tedious bold/italic names, etc.
>
> This feature has been barely tested; please let me know of any issues
> you come across. See section 7.1 in the manual for documentation of
> this feature.
>
> Official (read, terse) change notes follow.
>
> - v2.3 (2013/02/25)
>
> * Add support for per-font options in `defaultfontfeatures`
> * Add support for `<fontname>.fontspec` per-font configuration files
> * Keep up-to-date with expl3 changes
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontspec
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Steven B. Segletes submitted the
scalerel
package to CTAN.
Summary description: Routines for constrained scaling and stretching of objects, relative to a reference object or in absolute terms
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The scalerel package provides four commands for vertically scaling and
stretching objects. Several features make this package unique. Primarily is
the ability to scale/stretch and shift one object to conform to the size of a
specified second object. This feature can be useful in both equations and
schematic diagrams. Additionally, the scaling and stretching commands offer
constraints on maximum width and/or minimum aspect ratio, which are often used
to preserve legibility or for general appearance sake.
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemmacros
package.
Summary description: macros and commands for chemists
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- works now when `breqn' package is used
- in ch{} math escaping is also possible via ()
- new options: `radical-vshift', `radical-hshift' and `radical-space' allow finer control over the radical point
- bug fix: `radical-...' options are now correctly set
- stoichiometric factors: a missing leading 0 is added
- ch{}'s !()() syntax now also works with when babel is used with `french' or `frenchb'
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