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CTAN new package cntdwn
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

This should be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: cntdwn Version number: v.3 Author's name: D. P. Story Summary description: Provides support for short and long countdowns, and for clocks in any time zone License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The cntdwn package provides three sets of timers: 1. A short countdown (or count up) to an event. (Short being defined as less than a day.) The short countdown is designed for talks or presentations. There are three notification times, to announce to the speaker and audience that time is running out. 2. A long countdown to an event in the (distant) future. There are three notifications up to the main event (when counter reaches 0 seconds), and three notifications following 0 seconds. 3. Clock counters. The cntdwn package allows you to create a clocks that display time and date. Clocks can show local time or time in any foreign time zone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cntdwn . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cntdwn (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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CTAN new package marginfix
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

This should be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: marginfix Version number: 0.9 Author's name: Stephen Hicks Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/marginfix Summary description: Patches LaTeX's marginpar routines to prevent overflowing and misalignment License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As advertised at TUG 2010 (more or less). Authors using LaTeX to typeset books with significant margin material often run into the problem of long notes running off the bottom of the page. A typical workaround is to insert vshift commands by hand, but this is a tedious process that is invalidated when pagination changes. Another workaround is memoir's sidebar function, but this can be unsatisfying for short textual notes, and standard marginpars cannot be mixed with sidebars. This package implements a solution to make marginpars just work by keeping a list of floating inserts and arranging them intelligently in the output routine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/marginfix . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/marginfix (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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CTAN update: UK TeX FAQ v3.20
by CTAN Announcements 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

i have installed a new version of the uk tex faq on ctan, and updated the version presented by http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq existing advertised faq links should continue to work. (note that there are no guarantees for links that use the long-abandoned question number form.) the major change in this version of the faq is that the package links (from the bottom of faq answer pages) now use mirror.ctan.org, rather than using www.tex.ac.uk exclusively. other changes are listed in the file help/uk-tex-faq/CHANGES-3.20 on any ctan node. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/uk-tex-faq.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN new package drawstack
by CTAN Announcements 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

This should be in your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: drawstack Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Matthieu Moy Summary description: drawstack.sty: draw execution stacks in LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- drawstack is a simple LaTeX package to easily draw execution stack (typically to illustrate assembly language notions), written on top of TikZ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/drawstack . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/drawstack (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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CTAN new package fjodor
by CTAN Announcements 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

This should be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ...................................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: fjodor Version number: none Author's name: Zoran Filipovic Summary description: This package provide several nice layout options for a small book License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provide several nice layout options for a small book ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fjodor . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fjodor (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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CTAN update pst-circ
by CTAN Announcements 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

This should be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pst-circ Version number: 1.55 Author's name: Herbert Voss Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ Summary description: drawong electrical and electronic circuits License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pst-circ is a PSTricks related package for drawing dipoles, some tripoles and quadrupoles and logical elements used in elecronic or electric theory. 1.55 2010-08-15 - circledipole with variable radius - added macro ewCircDipole (thanks to Christoph Bersch) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-circ (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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CTAN update pst-plot
by CTAN Announcements 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

This should be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pst-plot Version number: 1.18 Author's name: Herbert Voss Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-plot Summary description: Plotting functions and data License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pst-plot (v 1.18) is a PSTricks related package and provides macros for plotting mathematical functions and data sets. This update has some important changes: 1.18 2010-08-15 - added plotstyle ybar - added optional arguments xLabels, yLabels, xLabelsRot, and yLabelsRot - added plotstyle xvalues ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-plot . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-plot (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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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: xfrac
by CTAN Announcements 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

a pre-tester of tex live 2010 noticed that it was holding an older version of xfrac than was last announced. after some investigation, the problem was identified, and the daemon was asked to say: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xfrac > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mh > Summary description: Split-level fractions in LaTeX2e > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [This upload restores v0.3, which I uploaded last year and then > accidentally got overwritten by other mh changes. I'll sort out the > SVN version this time too!] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i've installed this consolidated version and ensure the catalogue is up to date. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xfrac.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mh note that the .tds.zip file for the mh bundle was not updated, and has therefore been withdrawn, temporarily. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: pdfcomment
by CTAN Announcements 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the 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 v1.6: - added support for using pdfmarkupcomment in math mode (see: example_math_markup.pdf) feature request by: Ross Moore (he also contributed ideas and code) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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tex.ac.uk power cuts
by CTAN Announcements 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

tex.ac.uk has at least one power cut scheduled on monday 2010-08-16 (installing power-monitoring equipment to help us keep on the green straight and narrow). the cut(s) is/are likely to occur at some stage in the morning (cambridge time, GMT +0100); as system manager, please accept my apologies in advance. ironically, the laboratory has suffered 4 unscheduled power cuts in the last 48 hours; the reason is unclear -- my apologies for this too. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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