the daemon's crept up on me, again, with a huge mallet. i'm still
reeling...
> The following information was provided by the packages' contributor
> (note -- three packages in one series):
>
> Name of contribution: l3kernel
> Name of contribution: l3packages
> Name of contribution: l3experimental
>
> Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Package version: SVN 3331
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/
>
> Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Snapshot of SVN 3331
> --------------------
>
> - Bug fixes in l3regex for c{...} syntax
> - Bug fix for dim_gset_(max|min):Nn, which did not account properly for
> global status
> - Bug fixes for some while_do loops, which looped using incorrect
> functions
> - Add experimental sorting code in l3sort, to allow arbitrary sorting
> of list-like variable content
thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the
catalogue repository entries.
> Users may view the packages' catalogue entries 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 packages' directories 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
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 Xavier Danaux submitted an update to the
moderncv
package.
Summary description: A modern curriculum vitae class.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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version 0.19 (06 Feb 2012)
- reintroduced the ability to force the width reserved to display the name in the resume header for the classic style (maketitlenamewidth).
- improved the pdf metadata, as reported by S. Wunsch (launchpad bug #922476).
- fixed a footersymbol bug in the casual style when no mobile number was given, as reported by S. Wunsch (launchpad bug #922470).
- fixed a display bug when an address was given without postcode/city, as reported by O.Shaneh (launchpad bug #670263).
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/moderncv
(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
the daemon tries to distract me with:
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Package version: 0.86
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> These macros help an author to encode the (optional) forenames and
> (mandatory) surnames of people in order to normalize occurrences in
> the text and entries in the index. This package is intended for
> Western-style naming conventions.
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
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 Lorenzo Pantieri submitted an update to the
arsclassica
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Added compatibility with the version 4.0 of ClassicThesis and its new text body size
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/arsclassica
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/arsclassica
(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
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 Marco Daniel submitted an update to the
mdframed
package.
Summary description: auto split frame environment
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- fixed bug (Thanks Dietrich Grau)
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdframed
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mdframed
(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
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 Xavier Danaux submitted an update to the
moderncv
package.
Summary description: A modern curriculum vitae class.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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version 0.18 (05 Feb 2012)
- corrected the handling of pdf bookmarks, as suggested on stackexchange by U. Fischer.
- improved the spacing between sections and subsections by using addvspace instead of vspace.
- corrected the spacing between entries with nested itemize environments (temporary solution working only for single line items).
- added a check in the oldstyle style for an empty 4th argument in the cvdoubleitem definition, to avoid printing a colon without preceding label.
- added a new style on top of classic, casual and oldstyle: banking.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/moderncv
(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
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 Marco Daniel submitted an update to the
mdframed
package.
Summary description: auto split frame environment
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- add options shadow, shadowsize, shadowcolor
- fixed bugs
- fixed documentation
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdframed
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mdframed
(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
On Fri, 3 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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Updated README and documentation now containing a few notes about the correct
installation. Particularly the directories language/ and pictures/ need to be
copied in the same directory as the style files.
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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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 Norbert Preining submitted the
japanese-otf-uptex
package.
Summary description: upLaTeX support of japanese-otf
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This is a package for upLaTeX support of
japanese-otf package otfbeta (v1.7b3 2011/10/28) by psitau-san
( http://psitau.kitunebi.com/otf.html )
It requires upTeX-0.20 or later.
It was written by TANAKA Takuji.
The tfm/vf files were created by Preining Norbert.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/japanese/japanese-otf-uptex
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/japanese-otf-uptex
(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
Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss(a)FU-Berlin.DE> wrote:
> I uploaded examples.tgz to the uk CTAN node
> Please save all files in the _new_ directory
>
> /info/examples/Einfuehrung/
>
> This upload contains all examples with the source
> code, document classes, and data files for the new
> book of the DANTE-Edition Einführung in LaTeX.
> http://www.dante.de/index/Literatur/Einfuehrung.html
i have installed the files and created a catalogue entry.
thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team