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Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: trivfloat
Author's name: Joseph Wright
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/trivfloat
Summary description: Quick floats in LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v1.3b:
* Fixed error with hyperref
Note licence change to LPPL
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/trivfloat
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/trivfloat
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be
at your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: chemscheme
Author's name: Joseph Wright
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chemscheme
Summary description: Support for chemistry schemes
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v1.2a:
* Instructions for use with pdfLaTeX (many thanks to Stefan Pinnow for these)
* Bug with hyperref fixed
Notice that the license of the package has been changed to LPPL.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chemscheme
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The package below has just gone into tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
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Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: GraphicxSP
Author's name: D. P. Story
Location on CTAN: /graphics/graphicxsp
Summary description: GraphicxSP is an extension of the graphicx package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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GraphicxSP is an extension of the graphicx package. GraphicxSP embeds
the graphic in the PDF document once, and allows the document author
to use and re-use that same graphic without significantly increasing
the file size. Additionally, GraphicxSP supports Adobe transparency
imaging model.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/graphicxsp
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the
caption
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/
Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is a bugfix release of the caption package 3.1:
- combination KOMA-Script + longtable should work now
- combination listings + hyperref should work now
- combination longtable + subfigure should work now
- the load order longtable->caption->hyperref should work now
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption/
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the
oberdiek
bundle.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek
License: LPPL
Announcment text:
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New packages:
* intcalc v1.0
This package provides expandable arithmetic operations
with integers.
* pdfcol v1.0
Since version 1.40 pdfTeX supports color stacks.
The driver file `pdftex.def for package `color'
defines and uses a main color stack since version v0.04b.
Package `pdfcol' is intended for package writers.
It defines macros for setting and maintaining new color stacks.
* pdfcolparallel v1.0
Since version 1.40 pdfTeX supports several color stacks.
This package uses them to fix color problems in
package `parallel'.
* pdfcolparcolumns v1.0
Since version 1.40 pdfTeX supports several color stacks.
This package uses them to fix color problems in
package `parcolumns'.
* soulutf8 v1.0
This package extends package `soul' and adds some support
for UTF-8. Namely the input encodings `utf8.def' from package
`inputenc' and `utf8x.def' from package `ucs' are supported.
New main version:
* alphalph v2.0
The package provides methods to represent numbers with a limited
set of symbols. Both LaTeX and plain-TeX are supported.
* New implementation that uses package `intcalc'.
This removes the dependency on e-TeX.
*
ewalphalph is extended to support new methods `wrap' and 'multi'.
* Documentation rewritten.
Updates:
* Catcode section updated for some packages.
* embedfile v1.2
* Fixes for plain-TeX, wrapper for package `keyval' added.
* iflang v1.4
* Bug fix: IfLang@StrEqual -> IfLangStrEqual
* kvsetkeys v1.2
* Using package `infwarerr' for error messages.
* pdfcolfoot v1.1
* Use of package `pdfcol'.
* Test file added.
* stringenc v1.2
* Uses EdefSanitize instead of PE@sanitize from package `pdfescape'.
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
Andy Buckley wrote:
> Name of contribution: hepthesis
> Author's name: Andy Buckley
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/hepthesis
> Summary description: A class for academic reports, especially PhD theses.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Hepthesis is a LaTeX class for typesetting large academic reports, in
> particular PhD theses. It was originally developed for typesetting the
> authorÂ’s high-energy physics PhD thesis and includes some features
> specifically tailored to such an application. In particular, hepthesis
> offers:
> -- Attractive semantic environments for various rubric sections;
> -- Extensive options for draft production, screen viewing and
> binding-ready output;
> -- Helpful extensions of existing environments, including equation and
> tabular; and
> -- Support for quotations at the start of the thesis and each chapter.
>
> This release is version 1.4, which contains many improvements,
> including layout bug fixes and tweaks, reduced external package
> dependencies, improved multi-lingual interaction with babel, and
> improved documentation. Users of previous versions are encouraged to
> upgrade.
i have installed the package, 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/hepthesis.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hepthesis
since the installation happened last night, the package should have
progressed around the world a fair bit, by now; the catalogue entry
itself won't be updated until some time overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Nicola Talbot writes:
> Name of contribution: glossaries
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
> Summary description: Create glossaries and lists of acronyms
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.07: Fixed bug causing incorrect page number for entries in the
> first paragraph of a page.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i have installed the package 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/glossaries.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
installation happened last night, so the package is well on its way
around the globe; the catalogue entry itself will be updated overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the
tex-gyre
package.
> Font: TeX Gyre Pagella
> Design: Hermann Zapf
> Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki
> Version: 1.030
> Date: 12 IX 2007
> Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/pagella
> License: GUST Font License
> Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre
>
> ---------
> Font: TeX Gyre Termes
> Design: Stanley Morison together with Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent
> Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki
> Version: 1.030
> Date: 12 IX 2007
> Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/termes
> License: GUST Font License
> Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre
>
> TeX Gyre Termes is based on the URW Nimbus Roman No9 L distributed
> under GPL with Ghostscript. The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters
> were added by Han The Thanh and Valek Filippov, respectively.
>
> ---------
> Font: TeX Gyre Schola
> Design: Morris Fuller Benton
> Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki
> Version: 1.010
> Date: 12 IX 2007
> Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/schola
> License: GUST Font License
> Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre
>
> ---------
> Font: TeX Gyre Cursor
> Design: Howard G. (Bud) Kettler
> Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki
> Version: 1.010
> Date: 12 IX 2007
> Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/cursor
> License: GUST Font License
> Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre
>
> TeX Gyre Cursor is based on the URW Nimbus Mono L distributed under
> GPL with Ghostscript. The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters were
> added by Han The Thanh and Valek Filippov, respectively.
>
> -----------
> The following changes have been made recently on the official web site
> of the TeX Gyre project
> (http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre):
>
> 12.09.2007:
> TeX Gyre Cursor, ver. 1.010 (first release on CTAN)
> TeX Gyre Pagella, ver. 1.030
> TeX Gyre Termes, ver. 1.030
> TeX Gyre Schola, ver. 1.010
>
> * now, the widths of the TeX Gyre Cursor, Pagella, Schola and Termes glyphs
> are almost consistent with the relevant Adobe metric data (for the glyphs
> from the Adobe Standard Encoding).
>
> ------------
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
I apologize; there was an outage on the machine that houses
http://www.ctan.org and ftp://tug.ctan.org and I was unaware so it was
down for some time. I believe that it is fixed now.
It seems that someone went in my ceiling and did something bad to my
power. Fortunately, the power strip died to save the box, and the box
appeared to come back up fine.
Power strip, we salute you!
Jim
Herbert Voss has submitted another new pstricks package:
> The authors of the package are Manuel Luque and Herbert Voss
>
> This package allows to draw the diffraction patterns for different
> geometric forms of apertures for monochromatic light.
> The aperture stops can have rectangular, circular
> or triangular openings.
> The options available are the dimensions of the aperture
> under consideration and of the particular optical
> setting, e.g. the radius in case of an circular opening.
> Moreover one can choose the wavelength
> of the light (the associated color will be given
> automatically by the package).
> There are three commands, for rectangular, circular and
> triangular openings respectively:
>
> psdiffractionRectangle[settings]
> psdiffractionCircular[settings]
> psdiffractionTriangle[settings]
>
> The documentation is available in english, french, and german.
i've installed the package and updated the catalogue. users may view
the catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-diffraction.html
or browse the package directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-diffraction/
(note that the documentation files are rather painfully large, and thus
the zip of that directory is also pretty huge.)
thank you, herbert and manuel, for the new package.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team