On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the
mkjobtexmf
package.
Summary description: Generate a texmf tree for a particular job
License type: artistic
Announcement text:
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The progam mkjobtexmf runs a program and tries to find the used file names. Two
methods are available, option -recorder of TeX or the program strace.
Then it generates a directory with a texmf tree. It checks the found files and
tries sort them in this texmf tree.
It can be used for archiving purposes or to speed up following TeX runs.
Changes of version 0.8:
* MiKTeX is better supported.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/support/mkjobtexmf
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mkjobtexmf
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Rainer Schöpf
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 Heiko Oberdiek submitted the
dosepsbin
package.
Summary description: Extract PS/WMF/TIFF sections from DOS EPS binary files
License type: artistic
Announcement text:
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The program dosepsbin analyses an EPS file that is not a plain ASCII PostScript
file but given as DOS EPS binary file.
dosepsbin [options] <input file>
First it analyzes the *input file*, validates its header and summarizes the
available sections. Depending on the given options, the sections are then
written to files.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/dosepsbin
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http://www.ctan.org/pkg/dosepsbin
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appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 Wolfgang Skala submitted an update to the
pgfgantt
package.
Summary description: Draw Gantt charts with LaTeX and TikZ
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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pgfgantt v2.1 includes
* Labels near chart elements (via the 'inline' key)
* Keys that customize inline label placement
* ganttchart environments outside of a tikzpicture
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfgantt
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgfgantt
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the
caption
package.
Summary description: This LaTeX package provides many ways to customise the
captions in floating environments.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Combining caption+float+wrapfig package was broken in version 3.2d, fixed
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption
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http://www.ctan.org/pkg/caption
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On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 Maïeul Rouquette submitted an update to the
ledmac and ledpar
packages.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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In ledmac : a new counter stanzaindentrepetition, to say to repeat indentation every n verse. For example
setstanzaindents{0,1,0}
setcounter{stanzaindentsrepetition}{2}
is like
setstanzaindents{0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0…}.
In ledpar :
- with Columns, the verse's hanging now runs on the left column.
- the hanging symbol is now shown only on the stanza, not in prose.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ledmac
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ledmac
and
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ledpar
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the daemon tells me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: French Cursive hand fonts
> Author's name: Emmanuel Beffara
> Location on CTAN: fonts/frcursive/
> Summary description: a cursive hand-writing font family
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This updated version provides almost all T1 glyphs and Adobe Type 1
> versions of the fonts.
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/frcursive.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/frcursive/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon sneaks up on me while i relax after work...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xits
> Author's name: Khaled Hosny
> Package version: 1.102
> Location on CTAN: /fonts/xits
> Summary description: A Scientific Times-like font with support for
> mathematical typesetting.
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fix inconsistent line spacing caused by inline math in MS Word
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/xits.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/xits/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemnum
package.
Summary description: A method of numbering chemical compounds.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- proper language support
- dis- and enabling the serial comma
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/chemnum/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/chemnum
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the daemon reports:
> Name of contribution: hletter
> Author's name: Brian Housley
> Package version: 4.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/hletter/
> Summary description: Produce letters and heading with user difined options
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> A package is presented which permits the user to specify easily, with
> the aid of self defined key-words, letters (with a logo and private)
> and headings. The heading may include a footer and the letter provides
> commands to include a scanned signature, two signees and works with
> the merge package.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new package, 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/hletter.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hletter/
The catalogue entry will first appear on the web overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the
tablefootnote
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bug-fix:
When etoolbox.sty was not found, and the float package had been loaded, and the
float specifier was H, then no ablefootnote was printed for that table. Fixed.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tablefootnote
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tablefootnote
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