Alex Ball submitted an update to the
dccpaper
package.
Version: 2.7 2026-05-08
License: lppl1.3c cc-by-4
Summary description: Typeset papers for the International Journal of Digital Curation
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This release adds support for emulating submissions to the
21st International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC27).
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Stéphane Galland submitted an update to the
utbmciad-report
package.
Version: 20260508
License: lgpl3 other-nonfree
Summary description: A class and configuration file for writing high quality scientific or technical reports
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* Minor bug fixes.
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Stéphane Galland submitted an update to the
spim-phdthesisthemes
package.
Version: 20260508
License: lgpl3 other-nonfree
Summary description: Classes, styles and configuration files for writing PhD dissertations
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* Minor bug fixes.
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The LaTeX Project Team submitted an update to the
latex-base-dev
package.
Version: pre-release 2 2026-06-01
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Development pre-release of the LaTeX kernel
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See draft LaTeX News 43
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Stéphane Galland submitted an update to the
ciad-beamertheme
package.
Version: 20260508
License: lgpl3 other-nonfree
Summary description: A beamer theme for creating modern presentations
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* Add the 'subtitle=' option to the \part command.
* Improve multilingual file inclusion with the command \localized\input{f}
now looks for a file whose name includes the current language code.
* Fixing the translation mecanism for the titles for outline slides
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Naam Mohamed submitted the
na-urmborder
package.
Version: 1.0
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: A package for professional geometric page borders for mathematical documents using umranda and umrandb fonts
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The na-urmborder package provides a collection of professional geometric page borders designed for
mathematical documents and educational materials. It utilizes the umranda and umrandb fonts to
create high-quality frames with flexible color options. This is a new package contribution by
Professor Naam Mohamed.
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Frederick Heyder submitted an update to the
gia-handout
package, which was formerly known as “gi-handout”.
Version: 0.99a 2026-05-04
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: A LaTeX class for typesetting publications of the German Informatics Association
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The gia-handout package provides a layout for publications of
the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), following its
corporate design.
It is intended for handouts and similar documents.
It also includes optional support for accessible PDF tagging
via the tagpdf package.
“GIA” stands for “German Informatics Association”.
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Nan Geng submitted an update to the
nwafuthesis
package.
Version: 2.01 2026-05-07
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: A thesis template package for Northwest A&F University, China
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1. Fixed the missing comma between the last author and the year
in the bibliography list, as well as the issue of an extra comma
in the \textcite and \yearcite citation commands.
2. Removed the content of the acknowledgements and resume in the
anonymous (blind review) version of the thesis.
3. Enhanced the processing of supervisor and cosupervisor information,
adding support for including professional titles.
When no cosupervisor is present, this entry is not output.
4. Added a circled number footnote option and set the default
footnote style for undergraduate theses to circled numbers.
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Naam Mohamed submitted the
na-pageborder
package.
Version: 1.8
License: cc-by-nd-4
Summary description: A package for adding professional decorative frames with Arabic language support
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The na-pageborder package provides a collection of professional page borders specifically designed
for LaTeX users, with full support for Arabic documents. It includes three decorative styles (using
TikZ and specialized fonts) suitable for educational materials and exam papers.
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Hugo Gomes submitted an update to the
pgf-PeriodicTable
package.
Version: 2.1.6a 2026-05-06
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Create custom periodic tables of elements
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Major changes:
*** v2.1.6a (06/05/2026) ***
Correction of the pgf-PeriodicTable.sty file: the previous version, 2.1.5, was included in the update to version 2.1.6.
*** v2.1.6 (03/05/2026) ***
Small bug fixes:
- the font selection in eDist is now within a group
- alignment for unavailable values '---' is now correctly centered vertically
- fixed a problem that occurs when changing the Z position (with \pgfPTbuildcell)
- fixed the resizing of boxes for some numeric values (larger than the width given in the built cell - via \pgfPTbuildcell)
Interaction with other packages (see pgfPT manual for more information):
- babel-spanish
- graphicx (\resizebox) & preview
- extdash
New translations:
- Russian translation provided by Konstantin Nikiforov
- Ukrainian translation provided by Nikita Khveshchuk
- Slovenian translation provided by Domen Vaupotic
New loading option:
- hyperref
New keys:
- legend xshift
- legend yshift
- legend acronyms at right
- radio symbol
- radio font
- radio font color
- Z links (available with the 'hyperref' loading option)
- Z links color (available with the 'hyperref' loading option)
- Z links outline width (available with the 'hyperref' loading option)
Updated keys:
- group numbers, now supports a list of user labels to display group numbers
- ls, now supports a starred version of the available flags - fig*, txt*, fig+txt* and txt+fig* - which omits the structure figure in the extra legend that describes the structures' abbreviations
New libraries:
'fittowidth': fits the Periodic Table to the text's width
- \pgfPTfittowidth[font size]
- \pgfPTendfittowidth
'override': user can override the default acronyms or the element names:
- \pgfPToverrideacros[language flag]{override list}
- \pgfPTrestoreacros[language flag]{override list}
- \pgfPToverridenames[language flag]{override list}
- \pgfPTrestorenames[language flag]{override list}
Fixed some typos in manual.
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