the daemon says:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: protocol
> Author's name: Thomas Leineweber
> Package version: 1.13
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/protocol/
> Summary description: A class for typesetting minutes of meetings.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The class protocol.cls now includes commands actionitem and vote for
> typesetting the results (action items and votes) of a meeting.
>
> As in the versions before, this class is (without changes) only useful
> for users writing in german.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/protocol.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/protocol/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, starting
overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
> Name of contribution: tcolorbox
> Author's name: Thomas F. Sturm
> Author's email: thomas.sturm(a)unibw.de
> Package version: 1.10
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tcolorbox/
> Summary description: colored text boxes, LaTeX examples, theorems,
> documentation
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> New library 'documentation' to support LaTeX documentations with
> several library commands, environments and keys.
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/tcolorbox.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tcolorbox/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon tells me, as i stagger from one crisis to the next:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: media9
> Author's name: Alexander Grahn
> Package version: 2012/03/01 (v0.1)
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/media9/
> Summary description: Multimedia inclusion package with AdobeReader-9/X
> compatibility
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package provides an interface to embed interactive Flash (SWF)
> and 3D objects (Adobe U3D & PRC) as well as video and sound files or
> streams in the popular MP4, FLV and MP3 formats into PDF documents
> with Acrobat-9/X compatibility. Playback of multimedia files uses the
> built-in Flash Player of Adobe Reader and does, therefore, not depend
> on external plug-ins. Flash Player supports the efficient H.264 codec
> for video compression.
>
> This package is based on the RichMedia Annotation, an Adobe addition
> to the PDF specification. It replaces the now obsolete `movie15'
> package.
>
> *
> * Note that Adobe Reader for Linux has dropped Flash
> * support since version 9.4.2.
> *
>
> This package was written in the new LaTeX3 syntax. Many thanks to the L3 team!
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new package, and made an entry
for it in the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/media9.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/media9/
The catalogue entry will have appeared on the web by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon says:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: lmake
> Author's name: Shengjun Pan
> Package version: 1.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/lmake
> Summary description: This package provides macros to simplify
> typsetting a list of phrases that fit a pattern.
> License type: nosource
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package (lmake) provides macros to simplify the writing of
> sequential list-like structures such as making similar new commands in
> batch or writing phrases that fit a pattern.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new package, and made an entry
for it in the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/lmake.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lmake/
The catalogue entry will have appeared on the web by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: issuulinks
> Author's name: Boris Veytsman
> Package version: 1.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/issuulinks/
> Summary description: Produce External Links Instead of Internal Ones
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> PDF visualizer ISSUU (http://issuu.com) is a popular service
> allowing to show PDF documents ``one page a time''. Due to the way
> it is implemented, internal links in these documents are not
> allowed. Instead, they must be converted to external ones in the
> form http://issuu.com/action/page?page=PAGENUMBER.
>
> This package patches hyperref to produce external links in the
> required form instead of internal links created by
ef, cite and
> other commands.
>
> Since the package redefines the internals of hyperref, you need to
> call it AFTER hyperref.
>
> The author is grateful to FAO UN which partially funded this work
> and to Matthieu Stigler, Adam Prakash & Filippo Gheri for
> suggesting and testing this package.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new package, and made an entry
for it in the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/issuulinks.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/issuulinks/
The catalogue entry will have appeared on the web by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon tells me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: menukeys
> Author's name: Tobias Weh
> Author's email: mail(a)tobias-weh.de
> Package version: v1.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/menukeys/
> Summary description: Set menu sequences, paths and kystrokes
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Renamed path to directory because it crashes with biblatex.
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/menukeys.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/menukeys/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
my busy little daemon tells me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: bibleref-lds
> Author's name: Chad Parry
> Package version: 1.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/bibleref-lds/
> Summary description: The bibleref-lds package is an extension of the
> bibleref-mouth package that supports references
> for the scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ
> of Latter-day Saints (LDS).
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The bibleref-lds package is an extension of the bibleref-mouth package
> that supports references for the scriptures of The Church of Jesus
> Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). To write a reference, the document
> should use the command ibleref{reference}, exactly as with the stock
> bibleref-mouth package.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and created an
entry in the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/bibleref-lds.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bibleref-lds/
The catalogue entry will first appear on the web by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
as i struggled to catalogue changes for the latex 3 stuff, the daemon
popped up and said:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: apacite
> Author's name: Erik Meijer
> Author's email: apacite(a)gmail.com
> Package version: 6.01
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/apacite; biblio/bibtex/contrib/apacite/
> Summary description: LaTeX/BibTeX citation package that implements the
> rules of the American Psychological Association
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bug fix
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Announcement required: Yes
>
> Uploader's additional comments:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/apacite.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/apacite; biblio/bibtex/contrib/apacite/
thanks for the update; i've installed it and updated the catalogue
repository for it.
do you need me to announce it?
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon comes to bother me...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contributions: l3kernel,l3packages,l3experimental
> Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Package version: SVN3471
> Locations on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
> macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental
> Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Snapshot of SVN 3471
> --------------------
>
> - Merge l3io and l3file modules to use a common approach for loading
> files for reading
> - file_input:n now issues an error if the file is not found
> - Ability to show regex's with
egex_show:n
> - Various additions to l3regex coverage
> - Performance improvements for l3str
> - Improve SplitArgument such that surrounding spaces are removed from
> the output
> - Verbatim argument grabbing in xparse now allows for active
> characters
> - Various documentation improvements and output tweaks
thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3experimental.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/
The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team