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Serious error
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

just before midnight in cambridge, a serious incident happened on the cambridge ctan node, resulting in the loss of much of the macros/latex/contrib tree. because of the nature of the incident, the losses propagated to the other ctan sites. i have since then been doggedly restoring stuff from backups (not easy, since it involves juggling files across three machines), but at 0530, i'm starting to fail. i've made quite a lot of headway, but there is stil much to do -- i shall restart when i've had a bit of sleep. apologies to one and all. robin fairbairns

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CTAN update: The Memoir class
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

the daemon writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: The Memoir class > Author's name: Lars Madsen > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ > Summary description: Latest updates for the memoir class > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Latest updates for the memoir class. > > Most notably several issues with hyperref have been fixed. > > Two changes that effects current documents: > (1) if in 'article' mode, the default page style is now 'plain', not 'headings' > (2) The toc precis text is no longer indented by default. A separate > macro has been added to control this > > Manual changes: We changed the manner in which we handle the manual > source at our end. This enables us to mark each chapter with > information as to when this chapter was last changed. This feature > relies on a yet unreleased version of svn-multi (that we have been > testing), and thus these markers are disabled in the supplied source > of the manual. thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/memoir.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ but the (minor) change to the catalogue won't appear until some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: paperTeX
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

the daemon's been busy today, again: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: paperTeX > Author's name: Nacho Llopis > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/papertex/ > Summary description: Class for newspapers, etc. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bug fix in paperTeX class thanks to Janosch Maier. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the update; i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/papertex.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/papertex/ the change to the catalogue (such as it is) will appear some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: jmlr
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

quoth the daemon, while i was in the doctor's surgery: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: jmlr > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/jmlr > Summary description: Class files for the Journal of Machine Learning Research > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.07: > > * Added check for two column thanks for the upload; i've installed the update and made the usual tiny change to the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/jmlr.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jmlr and the usual tidy change won't appear on the web until some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: listings-ext
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 Jobst Hoffmann submitted an update to the listings-ext package. Summary description: Automated input of source code (C, Java, LaTeX, ...) into LaTeX documents. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package provides means for marking up source code (e.g. C, C++, Fortran, Java, LaTeX, ...), so that samples of it may be included in a document (by macros of the listings package) in a stable fashion, regardless of any change to the source. The markup in the source text defines tags for blocks of source. These tags are processed by a shell script to make a steering file that is used by the package when LaTeX is being run. The author is Jobst Hoffmann. The package is Copyright 2008-2010 Jobst Hoffmann. If one is working with (X)emacs and AUCTeX the including of the parts is supported by listings-ext.el, a style file which knows the syntax of most of the commands from the listings-ext package. Version v67 of the package is supposed to work also on Mac OS X. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/listings-ext/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=listings-ext (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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New CTAN package: locality
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

the daemon's always happier with something new and different: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: locality > Author's name: Jason Gross > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/locality > Summary description: Various macros for keeping things local > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The locality package is primarily for (La)TeX programmers. It > provides various macros which implement basic scoping, so that > the programmer has more control over scoping than whether > something is local to the current group, or global to the > entire file. i've installed the new package, and made an entry in the catalogue repository for it. thanks for the contribution. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/locality.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/locality/ the catalogue entry won't appear on the web until tonight's processing run. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Joseph Wright submitted an updtae to the siunitx package. Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v2.0h: - Improve handling of complex root printing - Repair broken 'bracket-numbers' option - Fix issue with complex numbers in quotients (add brackets when in numerator) - Introduce localisation for text values (range-pharse and list-final-separator options) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=siunitx (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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CTAN update: prerex v. 6.0
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

the daemon reports: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: prerex v. 6.0 > Author's name: Bob Tennent > Author's email: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca > Location on CTAN: /graphics/prerex > Summary description: Interactive editor for prerequisite charts, macro support. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > prerex source files now organized as a gzipped tarball with an > autoconf-generated configure script. thanks for the upload; i have installed the new files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/prerex.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/prerex/ a minuscule change will be visible on the catalogue entry, some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team --===============1956298751==--

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CTAN update: luaotfload
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

the daemon reports: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: luaotfload > Author's name: Khaled Hosny > Location on CTAN: macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload > Summary description: OpenType layout system for Plain TeX and LaTeX > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > * anum feature did not work as advertised > * add system shipped TTC fonts on Mac OS X to the blacklist, until the > culprit ones are isolated thanks again for the upload. i have installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/luaotfload.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload a (minuscule) catalogue entry change will happen some time overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: lualibs
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

the daemon is delighted to tell us all that > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: lualibs > Author's name: Khaled Hosny > Location on CTAN: macros/luatex/generic/lualibs > Summary description: Lualibs is a collection of Lua modules useful for > general programming. > License type: lgpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > * don't use kpse.set_program_name(), people loading lualibs with > texlua should set it themselves, to avoid possible clashes > * drop deprecated functions and aliases > * update the documentation > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/lualibs.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/lualibs/ the catalogue entry will be updated (in a small way) overnight, tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 Joseph Wright submitted an update to the siunitx package. Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v2.0f: - Fix issue with spacing of multiplication sign in text mode ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=siunitx (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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CTAN Update: ctable
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the ctable package. Summary description: Option-driven typesetting of table/figure floats License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ctable.sty provides commands to easily typeset centered or left or right aligned tables and (multiple-)figure floats, with footnotes. Instead of an environment, a command with 4 arguments is used; the first is optional and is used for key,value pairs generating variations on the defaults and offering a route for future extensions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ctable . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ctable (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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CTAN Update: idxlayout
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 Thomas Titz submitted an update to the idxlayout package. Summary description: Configurable index layout, responsive to KOMA-Script and memoir License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Corrected option justific=RaggedRight - Package ragged2e now loaded automatically ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/idxlayout/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=idxlayout (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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CTAN Update: Asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 John Bowman submitted an update to the asymptote package. Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.00 The construction of 3D TeX labels was sped up greatly. Plain TeX page numbers were suppressed. Dotted 3D lines and 3D sizing problems were fixed. A general search function for sorted structures was implemented; the lexorder functions in math.asy now return strict partial orders. Additional GSL functions were added. The correct PRC units (PostScript pt units, properly called bp) are now displayed in Adobe Reader. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=asymptote (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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CTAN Update: achemso
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 Joseph Wright submitted an update to the achemso package. Summary description: Support for submissions to American Chemical Society journals License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v3.5: - Completely revised BibTeX style file, clearing up internal issues and improving compliance with The ACS Style Guide - Fix issue with bibliography labels ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/achemso . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=achemso (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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CTAN update: stex
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Thank you again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: sTeX Version number: 0.9.2 Author's name: Michael Kohlhase Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/stex/ Summary description: Semantic TeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sTeX: An Infrastructure for Semantic Preloading of LaTeX Documents The sTeX package collection, a version of TeX/LaTeX that allows to markup TeX/LaTeX documents semantically without leaving the document format, essentially turning it into a document format for mathematical knowledge management (MKM). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/stex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/stex (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: struktex
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

This should within the day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: struktex Version number: v101 Author's name: Jobst Hoffmann Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/struktex/ Summary description: A package for the creation of Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package provides a collection of LaTeX macros to create Nassi Shneiderman diagrams. It is based on the LaTeX picture environment, but by the use of additional packages (e.g. pict2e) the limitations of the picture macros concerning fixed slopes are nullified. Version v101 contains a new set of macros to display parallel tasks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/struktex/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/struktex (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: Xy-pic
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Kristoffer Rose submitted an update to the xypic package. Location on CTAN: /macros/generic/diagrams/xypic Summary description: Typeset beautiful mathematical graphs and diagrams License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Release 3.8.2 fixes a problem with the xypic.map file where some installations did not pick up the Xy-pic special fonts thus resulting in diagrams with lines replaced by repeated characters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/diagrams/xypic . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=Xy-pic (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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CTAN update: teubner
by CTAN Announcements 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

the upload daemon has been busy again: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: teubner > Author's name: Claudio Beccari > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/teubner/ > Summary description: Upgrade of the teubner package > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This major upgrade allows the user to use all fonts series and shapes > available with the default LGR Greek encoded CBfonts; it contains the > extended accent macros that avoid the kerning problems that sometimes > arise with the built in font ligature mechanism; it is compatible for > use together with CM, EC, LM, TX, and PX vector fonts, and it contains > the necessary macros for working with other vector fonts; > capitalization and uppercasing are working correctly with a minimum of > attention by the typist; provide classical number rendereng in both > Milesian and Attic form; plus many other minor enhancements. thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/teubner.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/teubner/ the catalogue entry will be refreshed from the repository overnight, tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: cleveref
by CTAN Announcements 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: cleveref Version number: 0.17.1 Author's name: Toby Cubitt Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version fixes bugs in the amsmath and babel support. It also adds a new labelcref command which produces only the label part of a cross-reference (complementing the amecref command, which produces only the name part). Like cref (and unlike the standard ef), labelcref supports multi-references. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cleveref (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: frontespizio
by CTAN Announcements 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: frontespizio Version number: 1.2 Author's name: Enrico Gregorio Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/frontespizio Summary description: The frontespizio package lets you typeset a frontispiece (suitable for Italian university style) independently of the page layout of the main document. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 1.2 of the package Changes from version 1.1 o A Preambolo* environment to collect things that had to be argument of several Preambolo commands o Option nouppercase to avoid uppercasing the second line o The package honors the inputenc option in the main document also in the frn file o Implementation modifications (use atbegshi instead of eso-pic and others) o Documentation update ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/frontespizio . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/frontespizio (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 has a new package: chemfig
by CTAN Announcements 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: chemfig Version number: v0.1 Author's name: Christian Tellechea Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chemfig Summary description: Draw molecule with an easy syntax License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- ChemFig v0.1 2010/06/23 --------------- Among other features, this package provides the following command: chemfig{<code>} This command draws 2D molecules with the tikz package. The <code> contains instructions for the drawing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chemfig . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/chemfig (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 package hypdvips
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jun '10

22 Jun '10

This should reach your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College Update summary: ........................................................................ v2.00 - supports newer versions of hyperref and cleveref - new package option `emptypagelabels': allows to choose whether empty PDF pagelabels are created if pagestyle is set to `empty' (thanks to Sebastian Bomberg for the suggestion) - uses ackrefalt for back-referencing system (thanks to Benedikt Leinss for the bug-report) - changes mstyle to use ookmarkdefinestyle ........................................................................ Basic package information, as sent by the contributer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package name: hypdvips Authors: Raimund Niedrist Caption: Hyperref extensions for use with dvips Description: The hypdvips package is a collection of add-ons and fixes for problems when using hyperref with dvips. It adds support for breaking links, hyperlinked tablenotes, file attachments, embedded documents and different types of GoTo-links. The cooperation of hyperref with cleveref is improved, which in addition allows an enhanced back-referencing system. Location: /macros/latex/contrib/hypdvips License: lppl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hypdvips (the link may take a day to sync). Our archive service is sponsored by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .

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CTAN update: pst-func
by CTAN Announcements 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pst-func.tgz to the uk CTAN node. > Please delete the files in the directory > > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/ > > and put the new ones in there. > > pst-func is a PSTricks related package for drawing > special mathematical functions like distributions, > polynomials, a.s.o. > > ..... pst-func.tex > 0.69 2010-06-21 - fix bug with markZeros for psPolynomial > > ..... pst-func.pro > 0.13 2010-06-21 - run FindZeros in a local dictionary > - return [zeros] on stack thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pst-func.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

the daemon stirred too late last night... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ > Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.0e: > - Correct behaviour of pm in numbers when abbreviations > configuration is loaded: problem introduced in v2.0c. today, i've got the time to install the update, and to update 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/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ the (minuscule) catalogue update won't appear until some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pst-sigsys
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jun '10

19 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pst-sigsys Version number: 1.3 Author's name: Farshid Delgosha Summary description: An update to the pst-sigsys package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is a collection of useful macros for disciplines related to signal processing. It defines macros for plotting a sequence of numbers, drawing the pole- zero diagram of a system, shading the region of convergence, creating an adder or a multiplier node, placing a framed node at a given coordinate, creating an up-sampler or a down-sampler node, drawing the block diagram of a system, drawing adaptive systems, sequentially connecting a list of nodes, and connecting a list of nodes to one node using any node-connecting macro. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-sigsys . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-sigsys (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: circuit-macros
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Circuit_macros Version number: 6.8 Author's name: Dwight Aplevich Summary description: Updated Circuit_macros package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New configuration file svg.m4 and other changes to support dpic svg output. Inkscape-aware changes. Opamp option. New macros ptrans and tgate. Tweaks to switch macros, color, variable, centerline, intersect_, inductor(,W), inductor(,L). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/circuit_macros . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/circuit-macros (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: luaotfload
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within the day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: luaotfload Version number: 1.12 Author's name: Khaled Hosny Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * populate MathConstants table for OpenType math fonts, now such fonts can be really used in math mode. * sync with ConTeXt beta 2010.06.18 * change cache dir to $TEXMFCACHE/luatex-cache/generic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload (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: asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

This should within the day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Asymptote Version number: 1.99 Author's name: John Bowman Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A segmentation fault was fixed. Perspective animations were fixed. A bug in the bezulate topological sorting algorithm was fixed. A settings.framedelay parameter was added for working around OpenGL animation rendering buffer overruns. Further optimizations were made. A portability issue was addressed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (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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Another item new on CTAN: jmlr
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

i was busy on other matters last night, and couldn't act on the daemon's message until this morning: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: jmlr > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/jmlr > Summary description: Class files for the Journal of Machine Learning Research > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > jmlr bundle v1.06 provides: > > * jmlr class (for authors) > * jmlrbook class (for production editors) > * makejmlrbook Perl script > > The jmlr class is a LaTeX2e class for articles for the Journal of > Machine Learning Research (JMLR) or for the JMLR Workshop and > Conference Proceedings (JMLR W&CP). > > The jmlrbook class is a LaTeX2e class that can be used to combine > articles written using the jmlr class into a book. The jmlrbook class > uses the combine class and the hyperref package to produce either a > colour hyperlinked book for on-line viewing or a greyscale > nonhyperlinked book for printing. > > The makejmlrbook Perl script can be used to create the colour > hyperlinked and greyscale nonhyperlinked PDFs of a document using the > jmlrbook class. It can also create a set of HTML files that list the > included papers with links to their abstracts and the individual > articles as PDFs. thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and created an entry in the catalogue source repository > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/jmlr.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jmlr though the catalogue entry won't appear on the web until tonight's processing run. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: pst-electricfield
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pst-electricfield.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please > put all files into the _new_ directory > > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-electricfield/ > > pst-electricfield is a PSTricks related package and provides > macros for drawing electric field and equipotential lines. > There can be any number of charges which can be placed in > a cartesian coordinate system by (x,y) values. > > the authors are > Juergen Gilg > Manuel Luque > Patrice Megrét > Herbert Voß > > pst-electricfield.tex -------- > 0.13 2010-06-09 - first CTAN version > > pst-electricfield.pro -------- > 0.05 2010-06-09 - first CTAN version > > pst-electricfield.sty -------- > 2010-05-28 - first CTAN version thanks for the upload. i've installed the new files and made an entry in the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pst-electricfield.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-electricfiel… The catalogue entry will first appear some time overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team [4 new packages today -- marvellous what a tex live closing date will do!]

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CTAN update: ryethesis
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: ryethesis Version number: 1.1 Author's name: Jason Lassaline Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ryethesis Summary description: Bug fixes to existing Ryerson University Thesis class License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug fixes for the Ryerson University Thesis class including: - Fix for location of previous degrees - Fix for including List of Appendices - Updated sample usage, including output of additional required commands ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ryethesis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ryethesis (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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New CTAN package: texapi
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

the weather's almost like summer, and the daemon staggers in with a new package: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: texapi > Author's name: Paul Isambert > Location on CTAN: macros/generic > Summary description: Macros to write format-independent packages. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Texapi provides utility macros to write format-independent (and > -aware) packages. It is similar in spirit to Philipp Lehman's > etoolbox, except it isn't tied to LaTeX. > > Tools include: engine and format detection, expansion control, command > definition and manipulation, various testing macros, string > operations, and highly customizable while and for loops. > > The package requires e-TeX. thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and created an entry in the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/texapi.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/texapi/ the catalogue entry won't appear until after the processing run some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: yax
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

the daemon's struggling to keep up: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: yax > Author's name: Paul Isambert > Author's email: zappathustra(a)free.fr > Location on CTAN: macros/generic > Summary description: Yet Another Key System. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > At first sight, YaX is just a key-system (and at second sight > too). However, YaX rather organizes attributes in parameters, and the > latter can be executed, so that YaX is halfway between key management > and macro definition (and actually aims at being a user's interface). > > Values to attributes can be retrieved and tested in various ways, with > full expandability ensured as much as possible. > > Finally, YaX's syntax is a quite peculiar (as few braces as possible), > but can be customized. > > It is based on texapi and thus requires e-TeX. thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and created an entry in the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/yax.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/yax/ the catalogue entry will appear some time overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pstricks-add.tgz to the uk ctan node. > Please replace _all_ files with the ones in the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. > pstricks-add is a PSTricks related package, which has a lot > of additional features, like arrows, special curves, a... > > This update has a modified macro psComment > > v 3.41 - fix bug with psComment and the if@star > added another optional argument for the > put command Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pstricks-add.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pstricks - base
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk CTAN node. Please replace > the two files with the ones in the main directory > > /graphics/pstricks/base/latex/ > > 0.45 2010-06-16 - add option pdf for using auto-pst-pdf together > with pdflatex (needs an option -shell-escape > for TeXLive or -enable-write18 for MiKTeX i've installed the update; nothing in the catalogue needed to be changed. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pstricks.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/base Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: mhchem
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 Martin Hensel submitted an update to the mhchem package. Summary description: Typeset chemical formulae/equations and Risk and Safety phrases License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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), Italian, and Spanish. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mhchem (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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CTAN has a new package: chronology
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Chronology Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Levi Wiseman Summary description: Provides a horizontal timeline with per day granularity. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A new timeline package. Allows labeling of events with per day granularity. Other features include relative positioning with unit specification, adjustable tick mark step size, and scaling to specified width. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chronology . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/chronology (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: glossaries
by CTAN Announcements 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

that old daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.06: > > * Added altnewglossary > > * added facility to customise acronyms if the predefined styles > don't fit the user's requirements. > > * Serbian dictionary added (provided by Zoran Filipovic) > > makeglossaries: > > * Scans aux file for @input in case printglossary is in an > imported file. thanks for the upload. i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository (in the usual minuscule way). > 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 and the catalogue entry on the web will change overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Asymptote Version number: 1.98 Author's name: John Bowman Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Memory usage and garbage collection were greatly improved, and many optimizations were made. Labels are now aligned using the rotational instead of the shiftless part of the transform. A portable CYGWIN memory limit fix was implemented. Noncyclic stokepaths are discarded to work around a bug in gs 8.71. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (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: moderncv
by CTAN Announcements 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

This update should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: moderncv Version number: 0.10 Author's name: Xavier Danaux Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/moderncv Summary description: A modern curriculum vitae class License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 0.10, with compatibility issues with natbib and etoolbox (and packages relying on it like csquotes) solved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/moderncv (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: beamer
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jun '10

12 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: LaTeX Beamer class Version number: 3.09 Author's name: Vedran Miletic Summary description: Translator and bugfixes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Couple of days after 3.08, here is 3.09. One of early adopters noticed that subsusbsection toc code was broken. In addition, I also implemented reals support for section title pages and subsection title pages, in style of part pages. Also, this package now includes translator and it's translations, since it was tied to Beamer from the start and since it's easier to maintain it this way. This will also (hopefully) increase number of translations we have. Translator user guide is now merged with Beamer's, and it was a nontrivial merge; if you note any errors, please report. One more noteworthy change is that now we have a logo for Beamer. I took and image available in public domain and modified it a bit to use Beamer colors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/LaTeX Beamer class (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: asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jun '10

12 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Asymptote Version number: 1.97 Author's name: John Bowman Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A new render.labelfill option (enabled by default) fills subdivision cracks in unlighted labels. The dependence on gcc-4.3 was removed. Offscreen detection and zoom bugs in the OpenGL renderer were fixed. Three-dimensional grouping was improved. The symbol table was replaced with a custom hash table. Portability updates were made. The Cygwin memory limit fix for MSWindows now works even on systems that lack a complete Cygwin installation. The examples were updated to exploit the new PRC rendering options. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (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: ly1
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

This change should reach your local mirror in a day or so. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: ly1 Version number: 2010/06/11 Author's name: Karl Berry Location on CTAN: /fonts/psfonts/ly1/ Summary description: support all 35 standard ps fonts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Previously, the ly1 package only supported Times, Helvetica, and Courier. This update adds support for the rest of the standard 35 PostScript fonts. The new files are from the Y&Y distribution, previously on CTAN in /fonts/psfonts/ly1/lw35nfsx.zip. Neither the old files nor the new ones have been altered -- just merged together into one package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/ly1/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ly1 (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: mylatexformat
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

that old daemon lifts a hoof with weary acceptance, and writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: mylatexformat > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mylatexformat > Summary description: Use mylatexformat.ltx to make a format based on the preamble of any LaTeX file > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Revision 2. > > listfiles is now available in the preamble, after > cs{endofdump}, when the document is compiled with its > format. > > AtEndOfDump macro to include some code in the format, just > before cs{dump}. thanks for the upload. for once, i've installed it rapidly and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/mylatexformat.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mylatexformat though the catalogue will change overnight, it's not worth checking for... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: highlight
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: highlight Version number: 2.16 Author's name: André Simon Location on CTAN: /support/highlight Summary description: Highlight is a code to formatted text converter License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package updates highlight to the latest stable release ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/highlight . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/highlight (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: dvisvgm
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. The latest release 1.0.1 is a minor update that fixes a couple of issues. For further information including a list of recent changes and pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm (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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CTAN Update: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Herbert Voß submitted an update to the pstricks-add package. Summary description: Additional features for pstricks License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pstricks-add is a PSTricks relatex package with additional features like tangent lines, plots of differential equations, large braces, etc pstricks-add.tex v 3.40 2010-06-05 - add macros for ticks on curves (ms) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pstricks-add (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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CTAN Update: pst-magneticfield
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Herbert Voß submitted an update to the pst-magneticfield package. Summary description: magnetic field lines and density plots of Helmholtz coils License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version has a PostScript prologue file and a new optional argument for density plots. The documentations in EN/FR/DE are now created with pst2pdf to reduce the file size of the pdf -> see README pst-magneticfield.tex -------- 1.12 - allow density plots - move PS code into a pro file - change order for the different lines in the 3d view (dashed lines first) (hv) pst-magneticfield.pro -------- 0.01 - initial pro file ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-magneticfield . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pst-magneticfield (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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CTAN has a new package: svg-inkscape
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

This package should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: SVG images and LaTeX Version number: 2010-06-10 Author's name: Johan B. C. Engelen Location on CTAN: /info/svg-inkscape Summary description: How to include an SVG image in LaTeX using Inkscape License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This work demonstrates the use of SVG images in LaTeX documents. Using the PDF + LaTeX output option of Inkscape 0.48, it is possible to include SVG images in LaTeX and have LaTeX typeset the text. This results in the same text style in the images as in the text. Moreover, LaTeX commands can be used in the image's text, such as math or references. The document also describes how to automate the conversion from SVG to PDF+LaTeX using Inkscape. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/svg-inkscape . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/svg-inkscape (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 has a new package: hrefhide
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: hrefhide Version number: 1.0b Author's name: Hans-Martin Münch Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/hrefhide Summary description: Provides the command hrefdisplayonly . License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides the command hrefdisplayonly (instead of href). While the (hyperlinked) text appears like an ordinary href in the compiled pdf-file, the same text will be hidden when printing the text. It is not really invisible, but just has the same colour as the background (default: white). Therefore the layout is not changed when printing the document. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/muench/hrefhide . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hrefhide (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 has a new package: papermas
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: papermas Version number: 1.0b Author's name: Hans-Martin Münch Summary description: Compute the mass of a printed version of a document License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows to compute the mass of a printed version of a document, usefull e. g. when sending it by mail to determine the postage. Further it allows to compute base to the power of exponent inside LaTeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/papermas/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/papermas (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 has a new package: undolabl
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: undolabl Version number: 1.0b Author's name: Hans-Martin Münch Location on CTAN: /package: macros/latex/contrib/undolabl Summary description: This package allows to override existing labels, especially automatically generated ones. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows to override existing labels, especially automatically generated ones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/undolabl . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/undolabl (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 has a new package: pageslts
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pagesLTS Version number: 1.1b Author's name: Hans-Martin Münch Summary description: Puts the labels LastPage (AtEndDocument) and VeryLastPage (AfterLastShipout) into the .aux file, allowing the user to refer to the (very) last page of a document..number of pages in the current page numbering scheme. hepage and heCurrentPageLocal are different e. g. when addtocounter{pageg}{...} or setcounter{page}{...} were used. At the first page of the document a label pagesLTS.0 is created. This label can be referred to, too. Further labels are provided for special cases. The alphalph package is supported, i. e. page numbers alph or Alph > 26 and fnyambol > 9 can be used (with according options set). Even zero and negative page numbers can be used with ara License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package puts the labels LastPage (AtEndDocument) and VeryLastPage (AfterLastShipout) into the .aux file, allowing the user to refer to the (very) last page of a document. This might be particularly useful in places like headers or footers. When more than one page numbering scheme is used, these references do not give the total number of pages. For this case the label LastPages is introduced. Additionally, at the last page of each page numbering scheme a label pagesLTS.<numbering scheme> is placed, where <numbering scheme> is e. g. arabic, roman, Roman, alph, or Alph. For fnsymbol please use lastpageref{pagesLTS.fnsymbol} instead of pageref{pagesLTS.fnsymbol}. When the same numbering scheme is used twice, the page numbers are either reset to one or continued automatically, depending on the option given when the package is called. The command heCurrentPage prints the current total/absolute page number - in contrast to hepage, which gives only the page name in the current page numbering scheme. heCurrentPageLocal gives the current number of pages in the current page numbering scheme. hepage and heCurrentPageLocal are different e. g. when addtocounter{pageg}{...} or setcounter{page}{...} were used. At the first page of the document a label pagesLTS.0 is created. This label can be referred to, too. Further labels are provided for special cases. The alphalph package is supported, i. e. page numbers alph or Alph > 26 and fnyambol > 9 can be used (with according options set). Even zero and negative page numbers can be used with arabic, alph, Alph, roman, Roman, and fnsymbol page numbering (with alphalph package and according options). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pageslts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pageslts (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: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

the daemon was at work while i was still in night-clothes, and said: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ > Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.0d: > - Documentation concerning behaviour of last cell in table > row > - Fix bug in table-format option thanks for the upload. i've installed the files and made the necessary trivial change to the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ the catalogue entry will change (trivially) overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: csquotes 5.0a
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded 'csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. There's > also a csquotes.tds.zip file. Please delete the old files, install the > new ones, and announce the upload. > Thank you very much. > > ABOUT > > The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and > display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging > from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of > formal quotations. > > CHANGES > > See the changelog in the manual for a list of changes. thanks for the upload. i have installed the files, and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/csquotes.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: luaotfload
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: luaotfload Version number: 1.11 Author's name: Khaled Hosny Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * when asking for a font with style that doesn't exist, we would return nothing, now we fallback to the regular font. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload (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: xeCJK
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Jiang Jiang submitted an update to the xecjk package. Summary description: Support for CJK documents in XeLaTeX. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Fix fontspec 2.0 support 2. Add definition of ormalfont 3. Remove indentfirst like functions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/xecjk . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=xeCJK (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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CTAN update: xypdf
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: xypdf Version number: v1.4 Author's name: Daniel Müllner Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xypdf/ Summary description: PDF output for the Xy-pic package License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The xypdf package is now integrated with Xy-pic version 3.8. Moreover, it is now a “driver” to Xy-pic and not a separate “LaTeX package” as in previous versions. The current update of the xypdf package reduces the file “xypdf.sty” to a wrapper for “xypdf.tex”. It also issues a warning message saying that the LaTeX style file “xypdf.sty” has become obsolete. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xypdf/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xypdf (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: cleveref
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: cleveref Version number: 0.17 Author's name: Toby Cubitt Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version adds support for the algorithm and listings packages, adds a new crefalias command for aliasing a counter to a different cross-reference type. It also fixes various small bugs, particularly in the hyperref and amsmath support. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cleveref (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: fontspec v2
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

the daemon cries (and i respond): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: fontspec v2 > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fontspec > Summary description: Advanced font selection in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > After a short testing period, I'm happy to call this v2 of the > fontspec package. > > Since the last beta on CTAN the following changes have been made: > > - New feature: with xcolor loaded you may now select colours by name > - Typeset examples have been re-added to the documentation > - Better compatibility with other packages that use internal functions > of fontspec pre-v2 (polyglossia is still broken, however) > - Added a test suite, with few tests so far > - A number of bug fixes > > This release coincides with version 1.10 of the luaotfload package; > please update both packages together. i've installed the new version 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/fontspec.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec don't stay up to watch the catalogue entry change, on the web. i shan't. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: biblatex-chem
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

the daemon mutters away so quietly, again, that i missed his words of wisdom: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-chem > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-chem/ > Summary description: biblatex styles for chemistry > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.9e: > - Fix for patents with no holder thanks for the upload. remind the daemon to speak up, would you -- my hearing is failing, and that's the second of yours i'm late with. anyway, i've now (finally) installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-chem.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-chem/ and again, there's nothing much to see, when the catalogue entry is updated overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

yesterday morning, i missed the daemon saying: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ > Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.0c: > - Fix issue with mixed unit and literal macros (for example > DeclareSIUnitexample{volt~vs.~NHE}) > - Minor changes to version-1 configuration thanks for the upload, and sorry about the delay. i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ the catalogue entry on the web will change overnight tonight. i shan't be waiting up. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: eso-pic
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update to the eso-pic package. Summary description: eso-pic adds one or more user commands to LaTeX's shipout actions (e.g. background pictures) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version adds the macros AddToShipoutPictureFG and AddToShipoutPictureFG*. Now it is possible to put picture commands also above the normal document content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=eso-pic (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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CTAN Update: dvisvgm
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. Finally, dvisvgm has reached version 1.0 with the following additions: * conversion of multiple pages * evaluation of transparency operators in PostScript specials * improved PostScript handler * DVI special to compute local bounding boxes * improved optional progress indicator For further information including a list of recent changes and pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm (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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CTAN Update: Iwona and Kurier fonts
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the iwona and kurier packages. > ---- > Package: Iwona fonts > Version: 0.995 (June 2010) > Authors: Janusz M. Nowacki > License: GUST Font Nosource License > Location on CTAN: fonts/iwona > > ---- > Package: Kurier fonts > Version: 0.995 (June 2010) > Authors: Janusz M. Nowacki > License: GUST Font Nosource License > Location on CTAN: fonts/kurier > > Recent changes in both packages: > -- changed the names of small caps characters > A.small --> a.sc > B.small --> b.sc > C.small --> c.sc > etc.; > -- added previously missing characters: > Aogonekacute, Ddotbelow, Dlinebelow, E.reversed, Eogonekacute, > Germandbls, Hbrevebelow, Hdotbelow, Htilde, Iogonekacute, Jacute, > Ldot, Oogonek, Oogonekacute, Rdotaccent, Sdotbelow, Tcedilla, > Tdotbelow, Tlinebelow, Ttilde, Zdotbelow, ain, angleleft, angleright, > aogonekacute, bigcircle, brevebelow, cent.oldstyle, centigrade, > copyleft, ddotbelow, dieresis.alt, dlinebelow, dmacron, e.reversed, > ell, eogonekacute, hamza, hbrevebelow, hdotbelow, htilde, hyphen.alt, > hyphen.prop, hyphendbl, hyphendbl.alt, i.TRK, imacron.alt, iogonekacute, > jacute, ldot, linebelow, macron.alt, nomero, oogonek, oogonekacute, > permyriad, perthousandzero, rdotaccent, sdotbelow, servicemark, > tcedilla, tdotbelow, tlinebelow, ttilde, zdotbelow > -- added proportional digits (xxx.prop), as well as oldstyle proportional > digits (xxx.oldstyle); > > ---- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: vntex
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

the daemon was primed and ready for: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: vntex > Author's name: Reinhard Kotucha > Location on CTAN: language/vietnamese > Summary description: Fonts and Macros for typesetting Vietnamese > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > New Version 3.2: > The font support files for the Microsoft core fonts and Comicsans were > removed because we can't provide the actual (TrueType)fonts > (requirement for TeX Live). > > These packages will be distributed separately. thanks for the upload. i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/vntex.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/language/vietnamese the catalogue entry will change (a bit) overnight. (more work on that still needed.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: luaotfload
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: luaotfload Version number: 1.10 Author's name: Khaled Hosny Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * provide a fonts.names.scan(dir) function that temporally loads fonts from the specified dir into the names database * Log loaded font file before attempting to open it * fix XeTeX's square brackets syntax so that it doesn't trigger database update * fix loading fonts with absolute path * add fontdimen8 support, for XeTeX compatibility * be more verbose when updating the font database * improve fonts.conf parsing * make sure when a TFM font is requested we don't end up loading a non-TFM font with a similar name instead * Remove --fc-cache option from mkluatexfontdb.lua, since we no longer use fontconfig tools * misc. bug fixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload (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 has a new package: pstricks_calcnotes
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Two applications of macros in PSTricks Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Le Phuong Quan Summary description: To draw Riemann sums of an integral and to draw the vector field of an ordinary differential equation. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Illustrates using PSTricks codes for LaTeX typesetting of lecture notes on Calculus. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/pstricks_calcnotes . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pstricks_calcnotes (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: spreadtab
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: spreadtab Version number: v0.3b Author's name: Christian Tellechea Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/spreadtab Summary description: Spreadsheet features for LaTeX table environments. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- spreadtab v0.3b What's new ? * macro function id * bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/spreadtab . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/spreadtab (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: translator
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Translator package Version number: 1.01 Author's name: Vedran Miletic Summary description: New Translator version! License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Added Croatian and Serbian dictonary and some bugs fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/translator . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/translator (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: beamer
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: LaTeX Beamer class Version number: 3.08 Author's name: Vedran Miletic Summary description: New Beamer version! License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally, a new version of Beamer. Notable new features and bugfixes include: * notes about lualatex and xelatex in documentation, * improve Linux distribution-specific information, * add support for more professional fonts (suppresses Beamer internal replacements), * add support for 16:9, 16:10, 14:9, 5:4, 3:2 layout using screensize class option (e.g. screensize=169) * fix utf8, utf8x, ucs class options, * add (an undocumented for now) option [noframenumbering] to skip numbering a specific frame, * merge lots of patches scattered around the Internet (see ChangeLog if you are interested). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/beamer (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: Asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Asymptote Version number: 1.95 Author's name: John Bowman Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The PRC driver has been overhauled to support model tree groups, lossy compression, efficient representations of elementary geometrical objects, and specialized rendering options. More efficient OpenGL thick tubes were implemented; the capping of 3D curves was improved. The SIGQUIT signal was replaced by SIGTERM. Under MSWindows, the 384MB Cygwin memory limit is now automatically disabled by the Asymptote installer. Inferred variable types were added and operator symbols are now pretranslated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (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: chemstyle
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

the daemon's grumbling about not being allowed a lie=in on a sunday morning, and says: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: chemstyle > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Author's email: joseph.wright(a)morningstar2.co.uk > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle > Summary description: Schemes and style for chemistry > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.0i: > - Update to match siunitx v2 thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/chemstyle.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle the catalogue entry will change overnight tonight. i wouldn't recommend waiting up for the event. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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ctan update: linegoal
by CTAN Announcements 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

the daemon's had a quiet day, and then something nice turns up: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: linegoal > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/linegoal > Summary description: A new ``dimen'' corresponding to the remainder of the line > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.1 > Small corrections onto the first release ! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the new version, 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/linegoal.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/linegoal the updated catalogue entry won't appear until some time in the night (i have nocturnal daemons as well...). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pstricks - base
by CTAN Announcements 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk CTAN node. Please replace > the files with the ones in the main directory > /graphics/pstricks/base/ > > /generic/ > pstricks.tex -------- > 2.07 2010-05-24 - fix bug with uput and node setting (ms) > 2010-04-27 - fix bug with trailing space in pst@isnum > 2010-04-26 - fix bug with missing psk@rot for Ellipse > 2010-04-24 - take psk@rot into account for psellipse (hv) > - new version of pst@divide (ms) > > /latex/ > pstricks.sty -------- > 0.44 2010-04-24 - change version number of pstricks.pro > 2010-03-20 - rename pst@tempa to pat@sty@tempa to prevent > problems with pst-fill > > /dvips/ > pstricks.pro -------- > 1.07 2010-04-30 - take psk@rot into account for psellipse > - new helper function concatstring > > /doc/ > pst-doc.cls -------- > 2010-05-15 - extensions to pst-doc.cls v 0.15 thanks for the upload. i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pstricks.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/base/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xy-pic
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Xy-pic Version number: 3.8 Author's name: Kristoffer Rose Location on CTAN: /macros/generic/diagrams/xypic/ Summary description: Xy-pic is a package for typesetting diagrams License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New release of Xy-pic after ten years - now includes PDF generation in addition to several improvements! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/diagrams/xypic/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xy-pic (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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New on CTAN: unicode-math
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

the daemon perks up with the appearance of the following (which he had previously imagined to be a myth concocted by people on the net): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: unicode-math > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/unicode-math > Summary description: Unicode math support for XeTeX and LuaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Well, I guess it's now or never. With an archive of emails about the > thing going back to 2006, I think it's finally time to release this > package. (Sorry about the hold-up, really.) > > This is the initial release of the unicode-math package for inclusion > in TeX Live 2010. It is designed to typeset mathematics with unicode > input and using OpenType math fonts. (There is very very little > compatibility with older maths packages.) XeTeX support is fully > tested but LuaTeX not quite so much. (At least the example file > runs...) > > You can typeset with the STIX fonts with the present version of the > package, but there is no support yet for its extra alphabets in the > Unicode `private use area'. I hope to add support for them soon. > > Thanks to all the people who've provided valuable feedback over the > years, and especially to Barbara Beeton for laying the foundations > with her work with the STIX fonts. > > Good luck; I hope it works. Let me know if it doesn't. Finally, this > package is by no means complete (it's called the initial release for > a reason). Your feedback and suggestions now are greatly > appreciated. Anyone coming along to the TUG 2010 conference will have > the opportunity to hear me speak about it in a couple of weeks. (But > will I be able to muster up a full 30 minutes? Actually, yeah, I > probably will.) > > Time for a beer. have a good one! i have installed the package and created an entry in the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/unicode-math.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/unicode-math though, of course, the catalogue entry won't appear on the web until some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: savetrees
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: savetrees Version number: 1.3 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/savetrees Summary description: Pack as much as possible onto each page of a LaTeX document. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of the savetrees package is to pack as much text as possible onto each page of a LaTeX document. Admittedly, this makes the document far less attractive. Nevertheless, savetrees is a simple way to save paper when printing draft copies of a document. It can also be useful when trying to meet a tight page-length requirement for a conference or journal submission. Version 1.3 of savetrees adds support for pdfTeX's font-expansion mechanism via the microtype package. Documents built with pdflatex should therefore shrink even more than with previous versions of savetrees. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/savetrees . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/savetrees (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: hepthesis
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: hepthesis Version number: 1.4.3 Author's name: Andy Buckley Summary description: A class for academic reports, especially PhD theses. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hepthesis is a LaTeX class for typesetting large academic reports, in particular PhD theses. It was originally developed for typesetting the author’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. The class is based on scrbook, from the KOMA-Script (koma-script) bundle. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hepthesis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hepthesis (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: xltxtra
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

and again, up comes that daemon again: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xltxtra > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra > Summary description: Extras for XeLaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Remove all the features that have been incorporated into fontspec v2. > No user-level changes. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for this one, too. i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xltxtra.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra the catalogue entry (which has actually changed a bit) won't appear on the web until after i've retired to bed tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: fontspec v2.0b2
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

that daemon pops up at the most inconvenient times. while i was working hard on my day job, it said: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: fontspec v2.0b2 > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fontspec > Summary description: Font loading in XeTeX and LuaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Second beta release of fontspec v2, which supports LuaTeX. > > Minor changes since the previous release: > - No longer need to run mkluatexfontdb manually; > update documentation to reflect this > - Fix a bug with automatic font scaling in LuaTeX > - Two new XeTeX features: AutoFakeBold and AutoFakeSlant > for generating poor man's bold and poor man's oblique > shapes for a family (these are extensions of FakeBold/FakeSlant) > - An internal programmer's interface command for creating > new LaTeX font families. > - Minor internal and documentation changes. > - For XeTeX: many functions of xltxtra are now incorporated > into fontspec. > - The makefile can now automatically install fontspec without > needing the path to your texmfhome. > > (Note we no longer have a .ins file but Manuel assures me that's > okay. You can extract everything from the dtx using the Makefile > or by running `tex fontspec.dtx`.) thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fontspec.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec though the catalogue entry won't change (in so far as it changes at all) until some time while i sleep tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: csquotes 5.0
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded 'csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. There's > also a csquotes.tds.zip file. Please delete the old files, install the > new ones, and announce the upload. > Thank you very much. > > ABOUT > > The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and > display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging > from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of > formal quotations. > > RELEASE NOTES > > See the file RELEASE for release notes. Note that this release > includes some changes which are not backwards compatible. However, > there is a new package option which emulates older versions of the > package to ease the transition. The release notes have all the > details. > > CHANGES > > See the changelog in the manual for a verbose list of changes. thanks for the upload. i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/csquotes.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the softmaker-freefont package. Summary description: Support files for SoftMaker free fonts available at www.freefont.de License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In June 2009 www.freefont.de offered a beautiful handwriting font for free download: The Softmaker Stone Handwriting. As handwriting fonts are a quite limited resource in the LaTeX world, i decided to create support files for this beautiful font. Therefore, Stone Handwriting will be the starting point for the softmaker-freefont bundle. Other fonts will be included in future. Supported fonts at the moment: Artistic, Baskerville-Nova (regular + bold + italic + bold italic), Canossa (regular + bold + light), Congress (regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Helium (regular + bold), Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold), Jugendstil, Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting, Sunset (regular + bold) License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) New in v1.12: - added support for the font Softmaker Helium (regular + bold + faked slanted + faked small caps) Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (June 2010) and can be downloaded for free (at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de Later you can buy it from Softmaker - renamed font families (5xx -> 6xx) to avoid naming conflict with LaTeX support for Softmaker FontSite 500 CD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/softmaker-freefont/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=softmaker-freefont (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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CTAN update: newcommand
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

This should reach your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: newcommand Version number: 2.0 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /support/newcommand Summary description: Easily create macros utilizing sophisticated argument processing License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX's ewcommand is fairly limited in the way it processes optional arguments, but the TeX alternative, a batch of defs and futurelets, can be overwhelming to the casual LaTeX user. newcommand.py is a Python program that automatically generates LaTeX macro definitions for macros that require more powerful argument processing than ewcommand can handle. newcommand.py is intended for LaTeX advanced beginners (i.e., those who know how to use ewcommand but not internal LaTeX2e commands such as @ifnextchar) and for more advanced users who want to save some typing when defining complex macros. With newcommand.py, the user specifies a template for a macro's arguments. newcommand.py then custom-generates a macro definition according to the user's specifications and includes a user-friendly Put code here comment to indicate where the macro's main code should appear. newcommand.py supports arbitrary interleavings of required and optional arguments, starred macros, mandatory literal text, macros with more than nine arguments, optional arguments delimited by parentheses instead of square brackets, and optional arguments whose value defaults to the value given for a prior argument. The generated macros can easily be pasted into a LaTeX document and edited as desired. This version (2.0) represents a major rewrite of newcommand.py. New features include improved code generation, support for starred macros, and support for more than nine macro arguments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/newcommand . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/newcommand (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: epspdfconversion
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Daniel Becker submitted an update to the epspdfconversion package to CTAN. Summary description: On-the-fly conversion of EPS to PDF License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- epspdfconversion.sty facilitates the use of the epspdf tools (on CTAN in pub/tex/support) from within PDFLaTeX. EPS graphic files are converted on the fly. It is similar to and based on the epstopdf package and allows to pass several options such as grayscale, prepress, pdfversion etc. to the epspdf conversion-command. Can also be used to trigger a conversion of PDF- and PS-files. New in version 0.61: * new options pdftopdf and pstopdf. Uses epspdf to do pdf-to-pdf and ps-to-pdf conversions. Allows grayscaling, calculation of bounding boxes etc for pdf's that already exist an for .ps-files. Disabled by default. * bugfix for the outdir-option (converted files in subdirectories are again saved in those subdirectories) (Thanks to Stefan Pofahl for the feedback.) * small improvement of the documentation (on the windows epspdf.bat file, on epstopdf's option 'outdir') * now uses epstopdf's epstopdfDeclareGraphicsRule ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/epspdfconversion/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=epspdfconversion (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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CTAN Update: pdfcomment
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

On Tue, 1 Jun 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 v1.5e: - Bugfix: empty line, pdfcomment, empty line produced two new paragraphs even in final mode reported by: Marc-André Michel - revision of option declaration (code clean up) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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CTAN update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

the first upload since the file system meltdown! oh, the daemon's _so_ excited... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ > Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Maintenance release v2.0b: > - Further improvements to version-1 configuration file > - Documentation of relationship between version 1 and > version 2 option names thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the ctan catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ the catalogue entry will appear on the web some time during the night tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: moderncv
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '10

31 May '10

This should within the day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: moderncv Version number: 0.9 Author's name: Xavier Danaux Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/moderncv/ Summary description: A modern curriculum vitae class. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 0.9 (31 May 2010) - added support for the itemize, enumerate and description environments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/moderncv (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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tug.ctan.org upload: adobemapping
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '10

31 May '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: adobemapping Version number: 2010/05/31 Author's name: Karl Berry Location on CTAN: /support/adobemapping Summary description: Adobe cmap and pdfmapping files License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the collection of mapping files from Adobe, now released under a (permissive) free software license. The files come from http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cmap/Downloads and http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/pdfmapping/Downloads. Links to technical documentation, user forums, etc. are available there. No changes to the files have been made. Thanks to Ken Lunde at Adobe for making this possible. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/adobemapping . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/adobemapping (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: linguex
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '10

31 May '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: linguex Version number: 4.3 Author's name: Wolfgang Sternefeld Summary description: Several bugfixes. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Mysterious incompatability with beamer class removed by adding a strut to the definition of label (for mysterious reasons must be done AtBeginDocument). 2) Inconsistency with font selection removed by replacing the global m in the print out of grammaticality judgements with the local extrm comand 3) Suggestions for replacing .66aselineskip by Extopsep (as done in version 4.0) were damaging. Returned to previous version. (Comment: I still don't understand the working of this, as the value .66aselineskip of that dimension is totally arbitrary.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/linguex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/linguex (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: cfr-lm
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '10

31 May '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: cfr-lm Version number: 1.3 (for lm 2.004) Author's name: Clea F. Rees Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/cfr-lm Summary description: Enhanced support for the Latin Modern fonts. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Now with added documentation! The package supports a number of features of the Latin Modern fonts which are not easily accessible via the default (La)TeX support provided in the official distribution. In particular, the package supports the use of the various styles of digits available, oblique small-caps and upright italic shapes, and alternative weights and widths. It also supports the variable width typewriter, dunhill and “quotation” fonts. Version 2.004 of the Latin Modern fonts is supported. By default, the package uses proportional oldstyle digits and variable width typewriter but this can be changed by passing appropriate options to the package. The package also supports using e.g. different styles of digits within a document so it is possible to use proportional oldstyle digits by default, say, but tabular lining digits within a particular table. See the documenation for details. The package requires the official Latin Modern distribution, including its (La)TeX support. The package relies on the availability of both the fonts themselves and the official font support files. The package also makes use of the nfssext-cfr package. Only the T1 and TS1 encodings are supported for text fonts. The set up of fonts for mathematics is identical to that provided by Latin Modern. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/cfr-lm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cfr-lm (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: luaotfload
by CTAN Announcements 30 May '10

30 May '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: luaotfload Version number: 1.09 Author's name: Khaled Hosny Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * the last release didn't even load * fix passing --destdir to mkluatexfontdb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload (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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New CTAN package: The STIX fonts
by CTAN Announcements 29 May '10

29 May '10

that daemon reports, excitedly: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: The STIX fonts > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: fonts/stix > Summary description: Unicode mathematics fonts, with a complete repertoire of glyphs > License type: ofl (SIL open font licence) > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The STIX fonts are a suite of unicode OpenType fonts > containing a complete set of mathematical glyphs. > They may be obtained from <http://www.stixfonts.org/>. > > This repository is a mirror of their official release, > organised in the form of the `TeX Directory Structure' > for inclusion in TeX Live and MiKTeX. > > The STIX fonts are released under the SIL Open Font > License, Version 1.1. They have copyright (c) 2001-2010 > by the STI Pub Companies. Please see the official > documentation for further information. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/stix.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/stix the catalogue entry won't appear until some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: hyph-utf8
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '10

This materials should reach your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: hyph-utf8 Version number: 2010.05.28 Author's name: Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer Location on CTAN: /language/hyph-utf8/ Summary description: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8 License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important change: - NEW: support for advanced LuaTeX & LuaLaTeX loading of patterns (they are not dumped into format, but loaded on demand) maintained by Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard and Élie Roux - NEW: plain version of patterns and exceptions (one pattern/exception per line) Other news: - NEW: Armenian (Sahak Petrosyan) and Lao patterns (Brian Wilson) - UPDATE: Spanish (Javier Bezos), Galician (Javier A. Múgica) and Italian patterns (Claudio Beccari) - new: sources and documentation for Spanish patterns - new: more documentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyph-utf8/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8 (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: luaotfload
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: luaotfload Version number: 1.08 Author's name: Khaled Hosny Location on CTAN: / Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * fix misc. bugs with system fonts scanning * parse fontconfig configuration directly, no longer dependant on 'fc-list' * now if no font names database is found, luaotfload will generate it, also it will force an update of the database if the asked font can not be found * avoid loading non-tfm fonts when the user asks for tfm font * update the documentation * blacklist .ttc and LastResort font on mac. * sync with ConTeXt beta 2010.05.22 * fix attribute handling * clarify license * misc. bug fixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload (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: lualibs
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '10

Wthin a day 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: lualibs Version number: 0.94 Author's name: Khaled Hosny Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Lualibs is a collection of Lua modules useful for general programming. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sync with ConTeXt, adding new function required by latest luaotfload. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/lualibs . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/lualibs (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: autolatex
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '10

This should within a day appear at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: autolatex Version number: 8.3 Author's name: Stephane GALLAND Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Bug fix in command line options License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Command option '-f' is documented but not supported by source code. This option was added into the list of the explicitly supported options to fix this bug. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/autolatex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/autolatex (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: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '10

the daemon reports: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ > Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Maintenance release v2.0a: > - Make SendSettingsToPgf available in document body > - Automatically detect use of version 1 options and > load backward-compatibility code > - Fix problem with free-standing units > - Fix a number of bugs in version-1 configuration file > - Include high energy physics units in documentation > and version-1 configuration file thanks for the upload. i have installed it, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ the updated catalogue entry will appear on the web some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xltxtra
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '10

27 May '10

and, to finish its latest flurry, the daemon's moving finger writes: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xltxtra > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra > Summary description: Extras for LaTeX users of XeTeX. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This update to version 0.5c of xltxtra coincides with fontspec v2 (and > both must be used together), but there are no user-level changes to > the package. thanks for the upload. i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xltxtra.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra the catalogue entry on the web will change some time overnight tonight. (my time.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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