quoth the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Package version: 0.92
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The nameauth package now builds under latex, lualatex, pdflatex, and
> xetex. The .dtx file functions as a test suite for the package using
> these engines.
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) 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: mattex
> Author's name: Romeo Van Snick
> Package version: 1.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mattex
> Summary description: A set of macro's and matlab m-files to to import
> matlab values.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package allows a user to export matlab variables to an
> intermediary file, and then import them to LaTeX for later use. This
> adds to consistency and helps to prevent errors that might arise when
> manually copy-pasting.
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/mattex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mattex/
The catalogue entry will first appear by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Norbert Preining submitted an update to the
jfontmaps
package.
Summary description: font maps and support scripts for managing kanji embedding for Japanese TeX
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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New version of the jfontmaps package contains the following changes:
- inclusion of ipa and ipaex map files (the map files will be removed from the
IPAex package on CTAN, and will be available here in the jfontmaps package)
- several improvements of the updmap-setup-kanji script
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/japanese/jfontmaps
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/jfontmaps
(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 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 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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- various bug fixes in chemformula
- new arrow type <>
- new command DeclareChemParticle
- changed default behaviour of the phases macros to follow IUPAC recommendations, new options to customize it
- new command DeclareChemPhase
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/chemmacros/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/chemmacros
(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 calls:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Author's email: charles.schaum(a)att.net
> Package version: 0.9
> 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 is a major update. Added features include automatic formatting of
> forenames, in addition to more flexible handling of ancient, royal,
> and Eastern names. A number of features are now fully macro-
> expandable, making index entries created by nameauth compatible with
> manual entries. More style options are included and the package is
> virtually feature-complete.
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) by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss tells us:
> I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please replace all
> files with the ones in the main directory
> /graphics/pstricks/base/
>
> pstricks.tex --------
> 2.24 2012-02-09 - add option for curve ticks with option symbol
>
> pstricks.pro --------
> 1.10 2012-02-09 - add option for curve ticks with option symbol
>
> 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 update; i've installed the new version and tweaked 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
On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 Michael Anderson submitted an update to the
uothesis
package.
Summary description: class for the creation of dissertation and theses that meet the requirements of the University of Oregon Graduate School
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This revision addresses revisions to the dissertation style made by the UO
graduate school. It is strongly recommended that all users of the class update
to this version.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/uothesis
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/uothesis
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Rainer Schöpf
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 Martin Sievers submitted the
hausarbeit-jura
package.
Summary description: A class for writing juristische Hausarbeiten at German Universities.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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hausarbeit-jura was developed to write legal essays (juristische Hausarbeit)
at German Universities. It is based on jurabook and jurabib and makes it easy
for LaTeX beginners to get a correct and nicely formatted paper.
This is the initial upload. A documentation will be added soon. Suggestions for
improvements are welcome.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hausarbeit-jura
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/hausarbeit-jura
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Rainer Schöpf
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 Leo Liu submitted the
zhmcjk
package.
Summary description: Setup CJK fonts dynamically using the mechanism of zhmetrics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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zhmCJK is a package written to ease the complex CJK fonts setup. All CJK
fonts may share the same .tfm metrics. The package sets the NFSS font
definition and actual font maappings using TeX macros dynamically. As a
result, zhmCJK provides similar faculties and interface of xeCJK, TrueType CJK
fonts are used to generate PDF output with pdfTeX or DVIPDFMx driver.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/chinese/zhmcjk/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/zhmcjk
(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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf