Frank Mittelbach submitted the
fewerfloatpages
package.
Version number: 1.0a 2020-02-14
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Reduce the number of unnecessary float pages
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A new package that extends LaTeX's output routine to produce less (half
empty) float pages without getting the floats too far away from their
callout. Behavior is customizable but in most cases just loading the
package is enough to get noticeable improvements.
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Gernot Salzer submitted an update to the
subfiles
package.
Version: 1.6 2020-02-14
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Individual typesetting of subfiles of a “main” document
Announcement text:
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* Support for sub-bibliographies with package bibunits dropped,
in favor of subfix.
* Command subfix added.
* Incompatibility with standalone class removed.
* The options of the main class are now also processed when
typesetting a subfile; before they were ignored.
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Qing Lee submitted an update to the
xecjk
package.
Version: 3.8.1 2020-02-14
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Support for CJK documents in XeLaTeX
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Fixed a couple of bugs.
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The LaTeX Team submitted an update to the
l3kernel
package.
Version number: 2020-02-14
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
Announcement text:
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## [2020-02-14]
### Fixed
- Interaction with some `babel` languages at the start of the document
## [2020-02-13]
### Changed
- Leave implicit tokens unchanged by ` ext_expand:n`
- Extend the `de-alt` case changing locale to 8-bit engines
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Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the
glossaries
package.
Version number: 4.45 2020-02-13
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Create glossaries and lists of acronyms
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glossaries-accsupp.sty:
- new associated accessibility keys for the user fields
- new commands: glsaccessibility, glsfieldaccsupp, xglsfieldaccsupp,
glsshortaccsupp, glsshortplaccsupp (determine Alt/ActualText/E
according to the field)
- added accessibility support to glstext etc
- bug fixes:
- added field existence checks for gls...accessdisplay commands
- removed symbol use backward compatibility as it causes
interference
glossaries-prefix.sty:
- new command glsprefixsep
glossaries.sty:
- new package options:
disablemakegloss
restoremakegloss
writeglslabels
- package option debug now also accepts value 'showaccsupp'
- detokenize label before passing to glsshowtarget
- new commands: glsentryparent, glsshowtargetouter and
glsshowtargetfont
- made robust: ifglshaschildren, ifglshassymbol, ifglshaslong,
ifglshasshort, ifglshasfield
- Bug fix:
- added existence check to glsentrytitlecase
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Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the
glossaries-extra
package.
Version number: 1.42 2020-02-13
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: An extension to the glossaries package
Announcement text:
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Bug fixes:
- corrected interference caused by 'acronym'/'acronyms'
package option with abbreviation display style
- moved protect inside glsxtrscsuffix (otherwise it
interferes with all caps)
- corrected missing space factor with 'insertdots' attribute
- glslink with record was causing an undefined control
sequence error (glslabel) in the post-link hook when
entries are undefined
- restored original definition of glsdohyperlink and
added glsxtrdohyperlink to reference attributes instead.
- GlsXtrSetAltModifier now has a check to ensure '*' or '+'
haven't been used as the alternative modifier.
- corrected accessibility support for abbreviations
- redefine @gls@entry@field so that it uses csuse instead of
csname (in the event commands like glsentrytext are used
in captions or section headings with bib2gls)
Other changes:
- added support for glossaries.sty 'disablemakegloss' option
(introduced to glossaries.sty v4.45).
- new package option 'prefix' automatically loads glossaries-prefix.sty
- new abbreviation styles
- new commands
- additional checks and warnings
See CHANGES file for complete list.
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The LaTeX Team submitted an update to the
latex-base
package.
Version: 2020-02-02-PL2
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Base sources of LaTeX
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# 2020-02-02 PL 2 Release
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2020-02-11 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach(a)latex-project.org>
* ltfssini.dtx (subsection{Miscellaneous}):
Provide default value for @fontenc@load@list (gh/273)
* fontdef.dtx (subsection{Encodings}):
Provide start value for @fontenc@load@list (gh/273)
* ltoutenc.dtx (subsection{The fontenc package}):
Update @fontenc@load@list with option list (gh/273)
2020-02-10 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach(a)latex-project.org>
* ltfssini.dtx:
Renamed @reservedb to
eserved@b
Renamed @reservedc to
eserved@c
Add @defaultfamilyhook to
ormalfont (gh/269)
* lttextcomp.dtx (subsection{Sub-encoding 2):
Use @tabacckludge for tabbing where necessary if defining capitalacute
and friends for Unicode engines (gh/271)
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Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the
bib2gls
package.
Version number: 2.0 2020-02-12
License type: gpl3+
Summary description: Command line application to convert .bib files to
glossaries-extra.sty resource files
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- New command line options:
--trim-only-fields
--trim-except-fields
- New resource option:
interpret-fields-action
prefix-fields
append-prefix-field
append-prefix-field-cs
append-prefix-field-exceptions
append-prefix-field-cs-exceptions
append-prefix-field-nbsp-match
save-sibling-count
- New values for 'identical-sort-action' option: 'def' and 'use'
- New value for 'selection' option: 'recorded and deps and see not also'
- Improved support for glossaries-prefix.sty
- Added support for nonumberlist
- Bug fixes:
- corrected interpret-fields
- corrected selection={recorded and deps and see}
- corrected plural for entries where the name is inherited from
the parent
- convertgls2bib:
- new command line options:
--ignore-type
--no-ignore-type
--split-on-type (-p)
--no-split-on-type
--ignore-category
--no-ignore-category
--split-on-category (-c)
--no-split-on-category
--ignore-fields (-f)
--overwrite
--no-overwrite
--preamble-only (-p)
--no-preamble-only
--index-conversion (-i)
--no-index-conversion
--absorb-see
--no-absorb-see
- added check for see=[alsoname] in addition to
see=[seealsoname]
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Markus Kohm submitted an update to the
gridset
package.
Version: 0.3 2020-02-12
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Grid, a.k.a. in-register, setting
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Support for LaTeX's internal twocolumn mode added
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Theppitak Karoonboonyanan submitted an update to the
fonts-arundina
package.
Version number: 0.3.2
License type: other-free lppl1.3
Summary description: DejaVu-compatible Thai fonts
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- Source has been restructured using mixed cubic/quadratic layers and different
font splines are generated from the corresponding layers instead of being
converted on the fly.
- Allow installable font embedding. (Issue caught by Debian's lintian)
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