This update should be at your local mirror within the day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: geometry
Version number: 5.0
Author's name: Hideo Umeki
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/geometry
Summary description: Flexible and easy interface to page dimensions
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Release 5.0
* Changing page layout mid-document.
* A new set of options to specify the layout area.
* A new driver option 'xetex' (fixed for XeLaTeX)
* New paper size presets for JIS B-series.
* Changing default for underspecified margin.
* The option 'showframe' works on every page.
* Loading geometry.cfg precedes processing class options.
* Deleted options: 'compat2' and 'twosideshift'.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/geometry
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http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/geometry
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This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Thanks again,
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: onrannual
Version number: 1.0
Author's name: Adam R. Maxwell
Summary description: Office of Naval Research Ocean Battlespace Sensing annual report class
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is an unofficial document class for writing ONR annual reports using
LaTeX, as ONR has had numerous problems with LaTeX-generated PDF
submissions in the past.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/onrannual
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/onrannual
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appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
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On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 Herbert Voß submitted an update to the
pst-3d
package.
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3d
Summary description: basic macros for 3D operations
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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pst-3d provides basic macros for plotting 3D objects, for tilting and
affin transformation of any object, like a text, a graphic or something
else. This version comes with a new PostScript prologue file to speed
up operations for 3D elements.
pst-3d.tex --------
1.10 2010/02/13 - created a pro file
- add macro pstAffinTransform
1.00 2005/09/08 - using the extended pst-xkey instead of the old pst-key package;
- creating a dtx file
- new LaTeX wrapper file to load pstricks.sty first (hv)
0.90 2001/02/16 - First public release. (tvz)
pst-3d.pro --------
0.01 2010/02/13 - first public version
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>
> This package is located at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3d
> . More information is at
> http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pst-3d
> (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 finished his night's work with:
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: luainputenc
> Author's name: Elie Roux
> Location on CTAN: macros/luatex/latex/luainputenc/
> Summary description: inputenc package for LuaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> removing the files eu2* that now belong to the euenc package.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i have 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/luainputenc.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/latex/luainputenc/
the catalogue entry on the web change almost imperceptibly, overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon was busy as i slept:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: euenc
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/euenc
> Summary description: Unicode font encoding definitions for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is the first released version of euenc to support LuaTeX as an engine as well
> as XeTeX. This does not yet mean that fontspec is working under LuaTeX, but
> we're (slowly) ironing out the bugs right now.
>
> There's no .ins file in these zip files, everything being done with a
> Makefile that runs some sed scripts. This isn't ideal, but having
> everything in the pre-built .tds.zip I hope means the .ins file won't
> often be used. If people would like me to provide the .ins file
> anyway (which will generate the .def files but not the .fd files) just
> let me know.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i have installed the package as requested, and updated the catalogue
repository. thanks for the upload.
(i have removed the older macros/xetex/latex/euenc directory; it's no
longer appropriate to keep the package there.)
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/euenc.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/euenc
the catalogue entry on the web can't be relied upon again until some time
tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
while i slept the sleep of the exhausted, the daemon stirred into
action:
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>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xtab
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xtab
> Summary description: Break tables across pages.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 2.3e allows calc input in column widths and row separation
> lengths.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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/xtab.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xtab
in the usual way, the catalogue on the web will be updated some time
when i'm next slumbering.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Tobias Oetiker <oetiker(a)oetiker.ch> wrote:
> I have uploaded lshort-4.27 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/lshort-4.27.
thanks for the update. i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
[from the CHANGES file]
4.27 2009.11.16
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* add a second argument to the example of the new command
* better explanation of the textcomp degree symbol commands
* Now that barack is in office we do not need all these 'you can's in the text
anymore removed about 1k of them.
* fix documentation on hyperref default settings by Gust Eilinger
* better english for the apppendix by Tobias Vidarssønn Langhoff.
* use extbackslash instead of $ackslash$.
* added notes on mongolian support by Dorjgotov Batumongke
* added big update to math from stefan m. moser
* added letter size to the build system
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/lshort-english.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-func.tgz to the uk ctan node.
> Please replace the files with the ones in the directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/
>
> pst-func is a PSTricks related package for drawing
> special mathematical functions like distributions,
> polynomials, a.s.o.
>
> This update has a new macro psWeibull for the
> Weibull distribution
>
> pst-func.tex --------
> 0.68 2010-02-11 - add Weibull distribution
i have installed this new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
thanks for the upload.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pst-func.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should within a day be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: threeparttablex
Version number: v0.1
Author's name: Lars Madsen
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/threeparttablex
Summary description: threeparttablex brings tablenotes to longtable and
(if asked for it) makes notes referable
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update fixes a bug where the table notes added to a
longtable would end up having the width of an earlier
threeparttable and not the width of the longtable
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/threeparttablex
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/threeparttablex
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This update should be at your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: A short introduction to LaTeX 2e (french translation)
Version number: 4.27fr-2
Author's name: Samuel Colin
Location on CTAN: /info/lshort/french
Summary description: This is the french translation of the not so Short Introduction to
LaTeX by Tobias Oetiker
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The outdated french translation of the not so short
introduction to LaTeX has finally been updated to the
latest upstream version, with new translators, new
maintainers and (translated) sources at disposal.
Hopefully this new up-to-date translation will be of use to
any inquisitive french person wanting to know more about the
awesome document preparation system that LaTeX is.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/french
. More information is at
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