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new ctan package: hardwrap
by CTAN Announcements 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

quoth the daemon (uncharacteristically, at a time when i'm both awake and alert...): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: hardwrap > Author's name: Will Robertson and Kevin Godby > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/hardwrap > Summary description: Hard wrap text to a certain character length > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This package facilitates wrapping text to a specific character width, > breaking lines by words rather than, as done by TeX, by characters. > > The primary use for these facilities is to aid the generation of messages > sent to the log file or console output to display messages to the user. > Package authors may also find this useful when writing out arbitary text > to an external file. thanks for the upload; i have installed the new package and made an entry in the catalogue repository for it. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/hardwrap.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hardwrap/ the catalogue entry will not appear on the web until some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: pdfcomment
by CTAN Announcements 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to his pdfcomment package. Summary description: A user-friendly interface to PDF annotations License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For a long time pdflatex has offered the command pdfannot for inserting arbitrary PDF annotations. However, the command is presented in a form where additional knowledge of the definition of the PDF format is indispensable. This package is an answer to the – occasional – questions in newsgroups, about how one could use the comment function of Adobe Reader. At least for the writer of LaTeX code, the package offers a convenient and user-friendly means of using pdfannot to provide comments in PDF files. Since version v1.1, pdfcomment.sty also supports: LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf, LaTeX -> dvipdfmx and XeLaTeX. Unfortunately, support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers is sparse to nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is Adobe Reader. License: LPPL Changes in v2.0: - Bugfix: unwanted whitespace before comment commands [jk] -> added unskip This removes whitespace before comment commands and may change the reference point for hoffset -> added global option version (1|2(default)) version=1 will preserve the old behavior for old documents reported by: Stefan Pinnow - added local option disable to all comment commands [jk] to switch off single comments feature request by: Stefan Pinnow - changed definitions of options open and disable [jk] to choicekey* to check valid option values (true|false) feature request by: Jannis von Buttlar ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcomment (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: Interfaces
by CTAN Announcements 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

that daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: Interfaces > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/interfaces > Summary description: pgfkeys interface for document settings provided by other packages > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Interfaces v2.0 > - compatibility with pgfkeys in pgf v2.1 > - also compatible with pgf v2.0 > > interfaces-pgfkeys handlers have been improved > + possibility to change the toc depth along the document > + some corrections in > interfaces-fancyhdr (offset, colors) > interfaces-marks > interfaces-hypbmsec thanks for the upload; i have installed the update in the previously agreed location, and tweaked the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/interfaces.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/interfaces/ the catalogue entry on the web will be updated some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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corrigendum: elsevier and elsevier-bib packages
by CTAN Announcements 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

i wrote: > the elsevier and elsevier-bib packages have been superseded by > elsarticle. however, elsevier's web site seems to be accruing updates > to the obsolete packages, but elsevier seem unwilling to upload newer > versions to ctan. > > the ctan team has therefore deleted both packages, in order to minimise > confusion. since posting this message, i have received mail from the relevant person within elsevier. he assures me that i was wrong to think that changes were appearing for the elsevier* packages. nevertheless, given that the packages are long obsolete, he concurs with the decision to remove them from ctan. my apologies are due to elsevier for the misinformation. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN updates: new package luacode & update of luatextra
by CTAN Announcements 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg(a)elzevir.fr> wrote: > I just uploaded to the UK node an updated version of luatextra: > > > 2010/10/08 v0.99 > > * delegate definition of {luacode} and luadirect to package luacode > > * raise an error rather than a warning when not running LuaTeX > > * load fixltx2e under LaTeX thanks for the update; i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/luatextra.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luatextra/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. > and a new LLPL'ed package that grew out of luatextra: luacode. > > > Executing Lua code from within TeX with directlua can sometimes be > > tricky: there is no easy way to use the percent character, counting > > backslashes may be hard, and Lua comments don't work the way you expect. > > This package provides the luaexec command and the luacode(*) > > environments to help with these problems. > > > > For an introduction to the most important gotchas of directlua, see > > lualatex-doc.pdf. Before you start using the tools in this package, let me > > insist that the most robust way to manage a non-trivial piece of Lua code is > > to use an external file and source it from Lua, as explained in the cited > > document. > > > > 2010/11/08 v1.0 > > * initial version i've installed this new package and committed an entry to the catalogue repository for it. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/luacode.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/latex/luacode/ The catalogue will not appear on the web until some time overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: dktools
by CTAN Announcements 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 Dirk Krause submitted an update of his dktools package. Summary description: Tools and libraries by Dirk Krause. License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfix release. Due to an if(stat64(...)) instead of an if(stat64(...) == 0) in the dksf_must_rebuild() function the make mode of bmeps, fig2vect and tracecc did not work properly on systems with the stat64() function available. This is fixed now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/dktools . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dktools (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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elsevier and elsevier-bib packages
by CTAN Announcements 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

the elsevier and elsevier-bib packages have been superseded by elsarticle. however, elsevier's web site seems to be accruing updates to the obsolete packages, but elsevier seem unwilling to upload newer versions to ctan. the ctan team has therefore deleted both packages, in order to minimise confusion. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: new package: lualatex-doc
by CTAN Announcements 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote: > This document is a map, or touristic guide, for the new world of > LuaLaTeX. Though focusing on LuaLaTeX, it includes relevant > information about LuaTeX with the Plain format, too. > > The intended audience ranges from complete newcomers (with a working > knowledge of conventional LaTeX) to package developers. This guide is > intended to be comprehensive in the following sense: it contains > pointers to all relevant sources, gathers information that is > otherwise scattered, and adds introductory material. > > Feedback and suggestions for improvement are most welcome. i have installed the bundle and created an entry for it in the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/lualatex-doc.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/luatex/lualatex-doc/ The catalogue entry will firs appear some time overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: ytableau
by CTAN Announcements 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

This should be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: ytableau Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Ryan Reich Summary description: Many-featured Young tableaux and Young diagrams License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ytableau provides several functions for drawing Young tableaux and Young diagrams, extending the young and youngtab packages but providing lots more features. Skew and colored tableaux are easy, and keyval-syntax configuration is provided. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ytableau . Information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ytableau (it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN Update: installfont
by CTAN Announcements 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the installfont package. Summary description: A bash script for installing a LaTeX font family. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- With this script you can install a LaTeX font family (Postscript Type1, Truetype, Opentype). It supports font series from light to ultra bold + (faked) small caps + faked slanted, but no expert fonts. The script will rename the fonts automatically (optinal) or will otherwise expect *.afm files and the font files (in Postscript Type1 format!) named in the Karl Berry scheme (e.g. 5nar8a.pfb). After running the script, you should have a working font installation in your local TeX tree. License: LPPL New in v1.6a: - Bugfix: RequirePackage{softmakerfreefont} got lost in the last update ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/installfont . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=installfont (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 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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