the university's border router failed yesterday evening (while i was
working on ctan). as a result (www|ftp|rsync).tex.ac.uk (and
cam.ctan.org) were unavailable to everyone, not just me.
the network management people say:
The cause is still under investigation but we believe that the service
is functioning normally.
sorry for any inconvenience.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 Uwe Lück submitted the
longnamefilelist
package.
Summary description: listfiles with long names
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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`longnamefilelist.sty' equips LaTeX's listfiles with an optional
argument for the number of characters in the longest base filename.
This way you get a neatly aligned file list even when it contains
files whose base names have more than 8 characters. The package can
be combined with `myfilist.sty' as explained in the documentation.
KEYWORDs: file info; file version, macro programming
RELATED PACKAGES: classlist, dateiliste, ltxfileinfo, ltxinput, myfilist
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/longnamefilelist
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/longnamefilelist
(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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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the
csvsimple
package.
Summary description: csv file processing, comma separated values
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Documentation language changed from German to English.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/csvsimple
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/csvsimple
(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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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 Nicolas Vaughan submitted the
tui
package.
Summary description: Thesis style for the University of the Andes, Colombia
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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TUI - Clase de Tesis doctorales para ingenieria, Universidad de los Andes,
Bogota (Colombia) // TUI class for typesetting doctoral dissertations for the
Faculty of Engineering at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota (Colombia).
V.1.8 (initial release at CTAN)
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tui
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tui
(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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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda submitted the
checkcites
package.
Summary description: Check citation commands in a document
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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checkcites is a Lua script written for the sole purpose of detecting undefined and unused references from LaTeX auxiliary or bibliography files.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/checkcites
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/checkcites
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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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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pstricks-base.tgz to the uk mirror. Please replace all
> files with the ones in the main directory
>
> /graphics/pstricks/base/
>
> pstricks.tex --------
> 2.27 2012-03-11 - activate x@strokeopacity for psgrid
> 2012-02-19 - showgrid=top is now possible
>
> read the file /base/doc/pst-news12.pdf for more informations
> about this update to the base part of PSTricks or read
> the other Changes files which lists all what's new in
> the other files.
Thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/base/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon tries to alert me, but i was out...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: beamer
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Package version: 3.15
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/beamer/
> Summary description: A LaTeX class for producing presentations and slides
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v3.15:
> - Fix incorrect punctuation when working with biblatex
> - Fix footnote width to avoid text going off-slide
> - Correct width of section markers in header with some
> themes
> - Incorrect Unix file permission corrected
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.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/beamer.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon stumbled out, blinking, into the light...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: bashful
> Author's name: Yossi Gil
> Package version: 0.93
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/
> Summary description: Invoke bash commands from within LaTeX.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The bashful package, v 0.93
>
> This package makes it possible to execute bash scripts from within
> LaTeX. The main application is in writing computer-science texts, in
> which you want to make sure the programs listed in the document are
> executed directly from the input. Version 0.93 includes shorthands for
> splicing the output of your script into your LaTeX document, and
> better support for invoking several scripts.
>
> This package may be distributed and/or modified under the LaTeX
> Project Public License, version 1.3 or higher (your choice). The
> latest version of this license is at:
> http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
>
> This work is author-maintained (as per LPPL maintenance status)
> by Yossi Gil, <yogi(a)cs.Technion.ac.i>
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.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/bashful.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 Evgeny Baldin submitted the
computer-typesetting-using-latex
package.
Summary description: The book Computer Typesetting Using LaTeX was published
by the BHV-Petersburg (Russia) publishing house in 2008 under ISBN
978-5-9775-0230-6. Under the contract with the publishing house, I have now
regained exclusive rights to the content and decided to publish it under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0).
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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The book Computer Typesetting Using LaTeX was published by the
BHV-Petersburg (Russia) publishing house in 2008 under ISBN 978-5-9775-0230-6.
Under the contract with the publishing house, I have now regained exclusive
rights to the content and decided to publish it under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0). Please contact me
(E.M.Baldin(a)inp.nsk.su) if you require a different type of copyright license for
your purposes.
This book is a guide to using the LaTeX document preparation system. It
describes the complete fundamentals of the typesetting and layout processes and
covers at least 1300 LaTeX commands and about 750 packages, styles, and classes
that can be used in the typesetting of any documents. It also deals with
creating presentations, table layouts, inserting graphics, bibliography and
index, and many other tasks. Specific examples demonstrate that publishing
systems using LaTeX can handle projects of any scope and complexity. A major
part of the book is devoted to the typesetting of mathematical text, which is
the key differentiator of LaTeX compared to other word processors.
The book was written completely and exclusively by means of LaTeX tools. As
the author of both the content and the typesetting, I will greatly appreciate
any comments and useful advice on improving the quality of the electronic
version of the book.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/info/russian/computer-typesetting-using-latex
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/computer-typesetting-using-latex
(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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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Package version: 1.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
> Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and
> flexibility in body text and index.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This bugfix release addresses specific issues related to package error
> reporting. One should see more accurate and meaningful warnings.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/nameauth.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team