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CTAN update: kantlipsum
by CTAN Announcements 24 Dec '11

24 Dec '11

the daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: kantlipsum > Author's name: Enrico Gregorio > Author's email: Enrico.Gregorio(a)univr.it > Package version: 0.5 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/kantlipsum/ > Summary description: The kantlipsum package spits out sentences in > Kantian style > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is version 0.5 of the package. Just a cleanup of the macros to > make them more efficient. 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/kantlipsum.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/kantlipsum/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: endfloat
by CTAN Announcements 24 Dec '11

24 Dec '11

the daemon writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: endfloat > Author's name: Axel Sommerfeldt > Author's email: axel.sommerfeldt(a)f-m.fm > Package version: 2.5c > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/ > Summary description: Place all figures on pages by themselves at the > end of the document, optionally leaving markers like [Figure 3 about > here] in the text near to where the figure (or table) would normally > have occurred. > > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Increased compatibility to version 2.4 of the endfloat package 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/endfloat.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: rmannot
by CTAN Announcements 23 Dec '11

23 Dec '11

the daemon summons me from my evening slumbers: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: rmannot > Author's name: Don Story > Package version: 2.0 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/rmannot/ > Summary description: creates rich media annotations, now supports 3d > models (distiller PDF creator required) > License type: lppl > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > What's New for Version 2.0: I've added support for 3D models (U3D and > PRC). These models are presented within a rich media annotation rather > than a 3D annotation. This allows you to bind SWF applications to the > background or foreground of the scene, or to materials of the model > itself. 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/rmannot.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rmannot/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package reinstated: keyreader
by CTAN Announcements 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

the daemon wrote, yesterday: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: keyreader > Author's name: Ahmed Musa > Author's email: amusa(a)gmail.com > Package version: 0.4 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/keyreader/ > Summary description: A robust interface to the xkeyval package. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1. Some of the features of the package have been moved to the ltxkeys > package, where more robustness can be found. But the keyreader package > continues to be used by some TeXnicians, long after I abandoned it. I > don't know how TeXLive kept it on long after it disappeared from > CTAN. Now it is officially back anew. > > 2. I used it as a testing platform for the ltxkeys package because the > xkeyval package, for all its shortcomings, has been stable and widely > used for years. Even now I send the keyreader package to users of > ltxkeys package to benchmark problems with the ltxkeys package. So it > is right that it returns to CTAN. > > 3. New interfaces for defining and setting keys have been introduced. > > 4. The alternate/admissible values of choice keys can now have > individual callbacks. Incidentally, the implementation of this feature > in the keyreader package is more optimized than that of the ltxkeys > package. In the future there will be a need to return to the ltxkeys > package on this matter. > > 5. The selective sanitization procedure of the xkeyval package has > been replaced by the new list normalization scheme of the keyreader > package. The relevant macros of the xkeyval package have been hacked. > > 6. For some users of xkeyval's define@key command, the fact that a > space between the key name and its callback/function can cause > problems in key definition has been annoying. But this isn't the fault > of the xkeyval package. Well, the keyreader package has addressed this > concern: the space causes no more headache. > > 7. Still, as in the xkeyval package, it isn't possible to pass > unbalanced conditionals as key values in the keyreader > package. ltxkeys to the rescue. 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/keyreader.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/keyreader/ The catalogue entry (at the address above) will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. (For some reason it remained when the previous package was removed from the archive -- at other sites, the web entry will no doubt reappear overnight.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: biblatex-fiwi
by CTAN Announcements 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

the daemon reports: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-fiwi > Author's name: Simon Spiegel > Package version: 1.1d > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-fiwi/ > Summary description: biblatex styles for German humanities, especially film studies > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is mainly a bugfix release. The last releases always introduced small > errors, this should now have been taken care of. > > - Many small inconsistencies have been eliminated. > - A new testing environment should make sure that future releases don't > introduce new inconsistencies > - Separate example files now show the output for different setups 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/biblatex-fiwi.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/bibl… The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: standalone
by CTAN Announcements 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the standalone package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This major update adds the following new features: standalone class: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * New 'crop' option as an alternative to 'preview'. * New 'varwidth' option to wrap content in a 'varwidth' environment. * Support for multiple pages using the 'multi' option. * Standalone environments (very similar to PreviewEnvironment's) are supported, including the possibility to ignore extra material (see the 'ignorerest' option). * New dedicated options for TikZ and PSTricks. * Floats (table, figure) are turned automatically to non-floating replacements. See the 'float' option for more details. * Options to allow for easy conversion to raster images by external tools like Image Magick and Ghostscript were added. standalone package: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * New includestandalone[<options>]{<file>} macro which allows to include standalone files similar to images. * New 'build' option to automatically build standalone output files (like PDFs) which can be included as such in the main document. * New 'mode' setting to switch between using the source code of standalone files or build images from it. * New 'obeyclassoptions' option which will apply most class options to the source code of standalone files when included with includestandalone in source code mode. * New 'group' option to control if input'ed standalone files are wrapped in a group (default) or not (group=false). Files included using includestandalone are always placed in a group. See the newly redesign manual for further details. Please do not hesitate to report bugs and feature requests to the author, either by email to martin(at)scharrer-online.de or using the issue tracker at https://bitbucket.org/martin_scharrer/standalone/issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/standalone . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/standalone (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 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: dvisvgm
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. License type: gpl Announcement text: Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. The most noticeable changes in the latest maintenance release are: * The new environment variable DVISVGM_COLORS allows user-defined message colorings. * A linking issue concerning the FreeType library has been fixed. * The ID format used to reference glyphs and paths has been updated in order to avoid potential ID collisions. For further information including a list of recent changes and pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project page http://dvisvgm.sf.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/dvisvgm (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 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New on CTAN: libertine-legacy
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

The daemon told me yesterday: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: libertine-legacy > Author's name: Bob Tennent > Package version: 5.1.2 (2011-12-19) > Location on CTAN: fonts/libertine-legacy/ > Summary description: Linux Libertine fonts for TeX and pdfTeX users. > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > From December 11, 2011, the libertine package supports only xetex and > luatex users (opentype-format fonts). This package provides the last > version that still supported tex and pdftex users (type 1 > fonts). Except for a small number of directory and file re-namings to > avoid conflicting with more recent distributions, the files in this > package are identical to those of the libertine package version 5.1.2 > distributed at CTAN before December 2011. > > It is believed that this package can be installed and used as before, > without conflicting with newer libertine packages, except that the > latter have a dummy libertine.sty that should be deleted or > avoided. Xetex and luatex users should use libertineotf.sty in the > more recent libertine packages. 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/libertine-legacy.ht… > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/libertine-legacy/ The catalogue entry will first appear (some time) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: storebox
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

the daemon wrote: > Name of contribution: storebox > Author's name: Martin Scharrer > Package version: v1.3 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/storebox/ > Summary description: v1.3: patches for PGF pdftex driver in order to > support transparency and shadings > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This update adds automatic loaded patches for the PGF pdftex driver in > order to support transparent material and shadings together in one > storebox. The driver currently misses immediate before several > pdfxform's. Many thanks to Alexander Grahn again for pointing this out. > The corresponding bug report can be found at > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=752792&aid=3462542&group_…. > Future versions of the driver might make the patches redundant, but > they are provided nevertheless as an immediate workaround and also in > order to support older versions of TikZ/PGF. 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/storebox.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/storebox/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: storebox
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

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