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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: expl3
Version number: SVN 1509
Author's name: LaTeX3 Project
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/expl3
Summary description: An Experimental LaTeX3 Programming Convention
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The expl3 bundle: low-level LaTeX3 coding
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The files of the expl3 bundle provide a low-level API for TeX
programmers with special syntax conventions, completely
separating it from document level syntax. Hence, the commands
provided are not intended for use at the document level nor for
use in describing design layouts in document class files.
This API provides the foundation on which the LaTeX3 kernel
and other advanced extensions are built. Special care has been
taken so that they can be used within a LaTeX2e context as
regular packages.
The TeX and eTeX primitives are all given a new name according
to these conventions. However, in the main direct use of the
primitives is not required or encouraged: the expl3 modules
define an independent low-level LaTeX3 programming language.
At present, the expl3 modules are designed to be loaded on top
of LaTeX2e:
usepackage{expl3}
In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code.
This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a
stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed.
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This release (SVN 1509)
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Most of the changes to expl3 since the last snapshot (SVN 1441)
are additions or documentation improvements.
The documentation provided in expl3.pdf has been heavily
revised to make it clearer which parts of the bundle are stable.
The terminology used has also been tightened up. Some of the
module documentation has had minor improvements to try to
ensure that all functions are documented.
The new functions added are:
- exp_args:NnV
- keys_if_exist:nn(TF)
- prop_put:NVn
- prop_put:NVV
- l_head:V
- l_tail:V
as these have proved useful to the team. These updated functions
are needed by the SVN version of the xpackages.
There has also been some One undocumented function has been
removed:
- file_not_found:nTF
as this can now be handled using the l3file module.
Some minor internal logic changes have been made to a small
number of functions. This should not affect the functions in
use.
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: xltxtra
Version number: 0.5
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra
Summary description: Grab-bag of features for XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Changes in v0.5:
- Switch to using Andrew Moschou's metalogo package for the logos.
- Bug fix involving hyperref logo definitions.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra
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On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
softmaker-freefont
package.
Location on CTAN: /fonts/softmaker-freefont/
Summary description: Support files for fonts available at www.freefont.de
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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In June 2009 www.freefont.de offered a beautiful handwriting font
for free download: The Softmaker Stone Handwriting.
As handwriting fonts are a quite limited resource in the LaTeX world,
i decided to create support files for this beautiful font. Therefore,
Stone Handwriting will be the starting point for the softmaker-freefont
bundle. Other fonts will be included in future.
Supported fonts at the moment:
Flagstaff, Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold), Stone Handwriting
License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves)
New in v1.3:
- added LaTeX support for font family: Iceberg (regular + bold)
Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the
month (September 2009) and can be downloaded for free at (at
least this month): http://www.freefont.de
Later you can buy it from Softmaker
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http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/softmaker-freefont/
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 Florent Chervet submitted an update to the
boolexpr
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/
Summary description: Purely expandable boolean expressions and switch
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Many bugs fixed on switch syntax
Optimization of test macros (hopefully no best solution exists...)
Revision of the pdf documentation
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local
mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: linguex
Version number: 3.7a
Author's name: Wolfgang Sternefeld
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/linguex
Summary description: Update for Linguex: delete .ps files, fix bugs, update documentation
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Fixed a minor bug that made redefinition of heExNo
ineffective, since parts of the package were using the
hard coded version instead of the heExNo macro.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/linguex
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On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Daniel Becker submitted an update to the
epspdfconversion
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/epspdfconversion/
Summary description:
The package calls the epstopdf (epstopdf-pkg) package to convert EPS graphics to
PDF, on the fly. It servs as a vehicle for passing conversion options (such as
grayscale , prepress or pdfversion ) to the epspdf converter.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update makes use of changes in the epstopdf-package v2.2
* new options update,verbose,prefersuffix,suffix,outdir (they are really
epstopdf options, but can be set as options for this package)
* default is that converted files have a suffix
* info in logfile about the setup that is used for epstopdf
* new options hires, no-hires
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/epspdfconversion/
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
the upload daemon is at it again (it's realised i'm back from holiday):
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: achemso
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso
> Summary description: Support for American Chemical Society journal submissions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v3.3a:
> - New etalmode option, to support both truncating author lists as seen
> in ACS Nano
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i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
thanks for the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/achemso.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/achemso
the catalogue entry will change a bit, overnight. nothing much...
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: listings-ext
Version number: v48
Author's name: Jobst Hoffmann
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/listings-ext
Summary description: a package to support automated input of source code into a document
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The LaTeX package listings-ext.dtx contains some macros
and a supporting Bash script, which can be used to
automatically input parts of source code programs into a
documentation.
This version introduces tests of command parameters as well
as an
exemplary configuration file.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings-ext
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/listings-ext
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that upload daemon went and wrote:
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: achemso
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Author's email:
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso
> Summary description: Support for American Chemical Society journal submissions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v3.3:
> - New layout option to allow both one- and two-column drafts
> - Better handling of altaffiliation to detect and combine duplicate values
> - Fix for ACS Nano style
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i've installed the new package and updated the catalogue repository.
thanks for the upload.
as always...
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/achemso.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/achemso
and (as is common) the catalogue entry will change in a small way,
overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This update should within a day be at your local mirror.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: boolexpr
Version number: 2.9
Author's name: Florent CHERVET
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/
Summary description: purely expandable boolean expressions and switch (eTeX) [v2.9 2008/08/31]
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Testing values of counters required
umber of
umexpr :
oolexpr{
umbervalue{myCounter}=5}
Now number is no more required before value.
switch has an optional argument (and remains purely expandable...): eg:
switch[value{myCounter}]
case{=0}...
case{<10}...
case{<=12}...
otherwise......
endswitch
Documentation updated.
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