Peter Wilson wrote:
> I have uploaded memfixesDec06b.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use the
> contents to replace the corresponding files in macros/latex/contrib/memoir.
>
> Version 4.7 of mempatch.sty fixes some minor infelicities in version
> 4.6. Mempatch provides fixes for the memoir class.
i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue. Interested
users may browse the memoir package (including its patch) direct at:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/
or via the catalogue entry:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/memoir.html
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk mirror.
> Please put all directories with it files below the directory
> graphics/pstricks/
>
> the version 1.15 of pstricks defines some more dot styles
> (done by Etienne Riga). The documentation pstnews1-15.pdf
> in graphics/pstricks/doc/ lists all old and new styles
> and additional changes in the distribution.
>
> the files pst-dots.pro and pstricks.pro should go into
> $TEXMF/dvips or $TEXMFHOME/dvips
i have installed the package as requested. users may browse the
package, embedded in a rather complicated structure on ctan at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks
or they may browse via the catalogue at:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html
thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Tommy Ekola submitted the
cmarrows
package to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/cmarrows
Summary description: MetaPost arrows and braces in the Computer Modern style
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This MetaPost package contains macros to draw arrows and braces in the
Computer Modern style.
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/cmarrows
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=cmarrows
(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
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Martin Hensel submitted version 3.05 of his
mhchem
bundle.
Currently, the mhchem bundle consists of two packages: mhchem and
rsphrase. The mhchem package provides two commands: one for typesetting
chemical molecular formulae and one for typesetting chemical equations
with these formulae. The rsphrase package contains the text of all
official Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases that are used to label
chemicals. At the time being, these phrases are available in Danish,
English, French, German (current spelling), and Spanish.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/
Summary description: for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical equations and Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- fixed: more complex structures (bonds, hyphens etc.) in TOC
- changed: $...$ replaces cmath{...}
- fixed: parenthesis, brackets, braces in corrent font
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mhchem bundle v3.05
(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
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Grzegorz `Natror' Murzynowski submitted new packages
gmutils
gmverb
gmiflink
gmdoc
to CTAN.
Information on the individual packages follows.
gmutils
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Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmutils
Summary description: misc. macros used by other packages by Natror (GM)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Miscellaneous macros used by other packages of Natror.
Contents of the package:
ewgif and Other Globals. @ifnextcat. afterfi
and Pals. Almost an Environment or Redefinition
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmutils
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=gmutils
gmverb
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Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmverb
Summary description: my version of verb and verbatim, provides also short verb
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A redefinition of verb and verbatim so that long lines are breakable
before
and after { with % as `hyphen'. Allows you to define your own
verbatim-like environments (not too long!) and allows you to declare any
single char as a shorthand for verb (cf. shortvrb.sty)
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmverb
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=gmverb
gmiflink
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Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmiflink
Summary description: 3 macros to simplify usage of hypertarget an
hyperlink of hyperref.sty nad avoid error if there's
no target
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Three hyperref-based macros that simplify usage of hypertarget and
hyperlink: one argument instead of twice the same. And gmiflink and
gmifref to typeset plain text instead of error or ?? if there's no
respective hypertarget or label.
I also used them in automatically generated hyperindex while documenting
some database project.
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmiflink
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=gmiflink
gmdoc
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Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmdoc
Summary description: a package for documenting packages etc.
with minimal markup of source and hyperlinks in pdf
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A .sty file and an example .cls (documentclass) for documenting (La)TeX
packages, document classes, .dtx etc. providing hyperlinks, compatible
with doc.sty (no warranty :-) and letting to mark up the code minimally
(no macrocode env. necessary anymore). Needs hyperref and three 'basic'
packages of mine: gmutils, gmverb and gmiflink.
As a bonus, the driver files are added that typeset the LaTeX
(TeXLive2005) Base.
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmdoc
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=gmdoc
(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
The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror.
Thank you again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: arabi version 1.1
Author's name: Youssef JABRI
Location on CTAN: /language/arabic/arabi
Summary description: A package toa add support of Arabic and Farsi to
(La)-TeX, compliant with BABEL
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The Arabi package provides the Arabic script support for TeX without
the need of any external pre-processor. The Bi-directional capability
s that the user has a TeX--XeT or e-TEX engine. Arabi is fully
compliant with the BABEL system.
Among the new things with Version 1.1:
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+ You can search and copy Arabic and Farsi text from PDF files
generated by pdflatex (read the documentation to know how to)
+ You can use TeX4ht to make HTML files.
+ Now we can have Arabic in the bookmarks sidebar, although hyperref
is still not fully supported yet.
+ In Farsi contexts, Digits (0, 1, . . . , 9) are written with the
extended Indo-Arabic (Farsi) digits.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/arabic/arabi
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=arabi
(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 .
I have installed a new version of the UK TeX FAQ on CTAN, in directory
help/uk-tex-faq
This new version includes some work on tidying the FAQ-as-a-whole, and a
small number of improvements and additions (see extracts from the
CHANGES file, copied below).
(I did in fact install a new copy last week, but problems with it were
detected almost immediately, so I delayed announcement until the
problems were resolved and this replacement installed.)
The FAQ appears on CTAN as
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq
and in the catalogue as
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/faq.html
However, browsing (and rather feeble searching) is best achieved via the
web interface at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
The CHANGES file for this release mentions:
Changes in version 3.16c
New answer:
+Label isdef: is this command defined? tests
Revised answers:
+Label bibprefixsort: two new examples
+Label citeURL: provide a list (rather than a bunch) of alternative
styles, mention babelbib
+Label multirow: mention the case of multicolumn-multirow
+Label music: correct Web output of package list at end of answer
+Label oarglikesect: mention kernel command @dblarg
+Label secthead: rewritten accounts of sectsty & titlesec
+Label tutbitslatex: added pointer to Fauske's page on PGF/TikZ
+Label watermark: noted that package draftcopy doesn't work with pdflatex,
+Label watermark: mention draftwatermark
+Label whatbst: correct reed.edu link
Bugfix:
+Release dates are now represented in ISO format (yyyy-mm-dd) --
previously we used the LaTeX format, using solidus instead of hyphen
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Morten Høgholm submitted an update to the
expl3 bundle
on behalf of the LaTeX Project.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/project/expl3
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The expl3 bundle consists of the core files of the LaTeX3 kernel. The
modules in this bundle can be used as add-on packages on top of LaTeX2e as
well.
All files are also available in the Subversion (SVN) repository of the
LaTeX3 Project, which is located at
http://www.latex-project.org/svnroot/experimental/trunk
The bundle on CTAN is a snapshot of the SVN repository as of 2006/12/12.
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/project/expl3
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=expl3
(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 .
_______________________________________________
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Morten Høgholm submitted the
xbase bundle
on behalf on the LaTeX Project.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/project/xbase
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The xbase bundle provides the packages xparse and template.
xparse provides a high-level interface for declaring document commands,
e.g., a uniform way to define commands taking optional arguments,
optional stars (and others), mandatory arguments and more.
template provides an interface for defining generic functions using a
key=val syntax.
All files are also available in the Subversion (SVN) repository of the
LaTeX3 Project, which is located at
http://www.latex-project.org/svnroot/experimental/trunk
The bundle on CTAN is a snapshot of the SVN repository as of 2006/12/12.
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/project/xbase
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=xbase
(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 .
_______________________________________________
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I have uploaded pst-code,tgz to the uk mirror. Please
> create the new directory /graphics/pstricks/doc/code
> and put all files in there.
>
> pst-code is the original code documentation of PSTricks
> from Timothy Van Zandt from 1997. All macros, dimensions and
> counters of the packages pstricks and pst-node are
> explained in detail.
i have installed the material as suggested: users may view the source,
etc., via
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/doc/code/
the stuff appears in the catalogue as one of the documentation links in:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html
thanks for the upload
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team