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CTAN Update: philex
by CTAN Announcements 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 Peter Pagin submitted an update to the philex package. Summary description: Formatting and cross referencing for numbered and named environments License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Several new formatting options and extended support for hyperref ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/philex/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=philex (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: tikz-3dplot
by CTAN Announcements 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

that ol' daemon crawls out of his hole again, and croaks: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: tikz-3dplot > Author's name: Jeff Hein > Location on CTAN: graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-3dplot/ > Summary description: Coordinate transformation styles for 3d plotting in TikZ. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > just a few bug fixes and code cleanup. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/tikz-3dplot.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-3dplot/ and the web catalogue entry will twitch slightly at some stage in the night tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: docmute
by CTAN Announcements 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 Tomasz M. Trzeciak submitted an update to the docmute package. Summary description: Input or include stand-alone LaTeX documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Starting with version v1.2 nesting of inputted documents is allowed by default and doesn't require an explicit option any more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/docmute/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=docmute (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 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 John Bowman submitted an update to the asymptote package. Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Labels work correctly with oblique projections. Transformed Label alignment and pt scalings were fixed. Latticeshading is now properly clipped. The normal and true Circle calculations were fixed. The interface to the simpson integrator and an array index in contour.asy were fixed. In the flowchart module, the implicit cast from a pair to a virtual node was removed in favour of a block constructor. The ode integrationg routines now return a structure that includes the sampled time values; dynamic timestepping was implemented for solveBVP. New predefined tick modifiers were added. The CLZ and CTZ bit functions were implemented. PRC part names were fixed. The GL library is now explicitly linked. Memory usage was improved by configuring the garbage collector with --enable-large-config. Null 3D paths are ignored. Non-pdf output is supported for PDF tex engines. Portability changes for CYGWIN 1.7 were made. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: latexmk
by CTAN Announcements 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 John Collins submitted an update to the latexmk package. Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. To give compatibility with tlperl (in TeX Live), latexmk now uses the Digest::MD5 module instead of the Digest module. 2. When latexmk is used under cygwin, the searched locations for the system rc file are extended to include UNIX-like paths. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latexmk . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=latexmk (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: plantslabels
by CTAN Announcements 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

the daemon staggers centre stage again, after a hard day's work: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: plantslabels > Author's name: Merciadri Luca > ocation on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ > Summary description: This packages helps the user to write labels for plants. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > By using the command plant{}, which takes 3 mandatory arguments from > a total of 9, this package will help the user to write labels for > plants. It uses the `labels' package. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the package and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/plantslabels.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/plantslabels in fact, i installed the package on sunday, and then forgot to announce it. it was one of those days... a side-effect of the error is that the catalogue entry is now stable on the archive(s)... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: keycommand
by CTAN Announcements 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

the daemon's having to work for his living, just now: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: keycommand > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/keycommand > Summary description: key-value interface for commands and environments in LaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > I fixed two bugs : > - in the normalization process > - in ifcommandkey > If nobody complains, it could be the last version... > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- not complaining yet, except you seem to hav caused my wife's windows machine to crash. thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and updated the catalogue source repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/keycommand.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/keycommand and the web catalogue entry will change ever so slightly, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: pdfjam
by CTAN Announcements 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

the daemon splutters a little, and coughs up: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: pdfjam > Author's name: Karl Berry > Author's email: > Location on CTAN: support/pdfjam > Summary description: shell interface to pdfpages > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > I'm uploading on behalf of the author, David Firth. This is a > collection of shell scripts which provide an interface to the pdfpages > LaTeX package. They do such jobs as selecting pages, concatenating > files, doing n-up formatting, and so on. > > The pdfjam home page is http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pdfjam. thanks for the upload. i've installed the package and made a catalogue entry in the repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pdfjam.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/pdfjam as usual, the new catalogue entry won't appear until some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: boolexpr
by CTAN Announcements 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

the daemon stirs from his slumbers, and proclaimsL > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: boolexpr > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/ > Summary description: purely expandable boolean expressions and switch (eTeX) > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > etoolbox (v1.9 2010-04-10) now defines a ifboolexpr macro > (which is not purely expandable). > ifboolexpr was used to be defined by boolexpr.sty > > Fix has been done to be able to use boolexpr and purely > expandable ifboolexpr. thanks for that. i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue source repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/boolexpr.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/ and of course, the catalogue entry will change, minutely, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New ctan package: ot-tableau
by CTAN Announcements 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

ctan-upload(a)cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: ot-tableau > Author's name: Adam Baker > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ot-tableau > Summary description: Creates Optimality Theory tableaux > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The ot-tableau package makes it easy to create beautiful > optimality-theoretic tableaux. The LaTeX source is visually very > similar to a formatted tableau, which makes working with the source > code painless (well, less painful). A variety of stylistic variants > can be modified to suit personal taste. thanks for the upload. i've installed it and created a catalogue entry. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ot-tableau.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ot-tableau/ 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: pst-solides3d
by CTAN Announcements 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

Herbert Voss wrote: > I have uploaded pst-solides3d.tgz to the uk CTAN node. > Please delete _all_ files in the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solides3d/ > > and put the new ones in there. > > pst-solides3d is a collection of PSTricks macros to > threedimensional objects with hidden lines and > hidden surfaces. > > pst-solides3d.tex --- > 4.18 2010-04-14 - set ngrid= to an empty value > - some modifcations to the code > - moved the algebraic option into the base pstricks.tex > - fix for introduced bug in psSolid (hv) > > solides.pro --- > 4.16 2010-01-07 - fix bug with pst-surfaceparametre and function def thanks for the upload: i've 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-solides3d.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solides3d/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: svn-prov
by CTAN Announcements 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the svn-prov package. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version allows the version number and description to be stated in two optional argument instead in one. This simplifies DTX files which extract several style files. A new macro filetoday is provided which print filedate in the format of oday. For this the oday macro is required (otherwise filetoday simply return '?') and might be defined using the babel package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/svn-prov/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/svn-prov (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 package update: etoolbox 1.9
by CTAN Announcements 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded etoolbox.tar.gz and etoolbox.tds.zip to the incoming > directory of the UK node. This is an update for > macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox and install/macros/latex/contrib, > respectively. Please purge the old files, install the new ones, and > announce the upload. Thank you very much. > > ABOUT > > The etoolbox package is a toolbox of programming facilities geared > primarily towards LaTeX class and package authors. It provides LaTeX > frontends to some of the new primitives provided by e-TeX as well as > some generic tools which are not related to e-TeX but match the > profile of this package. > > CHANGES > > See the manual for a list of changes. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/etoolbox.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: bundledoc
by CTAN Announcements 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

with jim otherwise engaged, the ol' daemon's going to be working hard... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: bundledoc > Author's name: Scott Pakin > Location on CTAN: support/bundledoc/ > Summary description: Bundle together all the files needed to build a LaTeX document > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > bundledoc is a post-processor for the snapshot package that bundles > together all the classes, packages, and files needed to build a given > LaTeX document. It reads the .dep file that snapshot produces, finds > each of the files mentioned therein, and archives them into a single > .tar.gz (or .zip, or whatever) file, suitable for moving across > systems, transmitting to a colleague, etc. > > As an added bonus, this distribution includes a small script called > arlatex. arlatex is a LaTeX-specific archiving program that combines > a bunch of files into a single .tex file. When the .tex file is run > through latex, all of the original files are recreated and the LaTeX > document is built. bundledoc can be easily configured to use arlatex > as its archiver in place of tar, zip, etc. > > Version 3.0 of bundledoc retains in the generated archive the > document's directory structure; provides support for including only > document files, not parts of LaTeX; lets the user control at a > fine-grained level exactly which files are included or excluded; and > improves the handling of filenames containing spaces. The tetex.cfg > configuration file has been replaced by a (virtually identical) > texlive-unix.cfg file. Thanks to Marius Kleiner and Fabien > Vignes-Tourneret for their contributions to this release. thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository (somewhat more than usual for a package update). > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/bundledoc.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/bundledoc/ the web copy of the catalogue entry will change a fair bit, overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: ydoc
by CTAN Announcements 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '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: ydoc Version number: v0.1alpha Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ydoc Summary description: Documentation Macros for LaTeX packages and classes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 'ydoc' provides macros and environments to document LaTeX packages and classes. It is an (unfinished) alternative to the 'ltxdoc' class and 'doc' or 'xdoc' package. It targets a different layout and tries to provide more modern styles (xcolor, hyperref, etc.). This is an alpha release. It should not be used yet for other packages, because the implementation might change. However, the other packages of the author will use it soon to some extend. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ydoc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ydoc (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: librarian
by CTAN Announcements 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

uploads pour into tug.ctan.org, while my little daemon is pathetically grateful for a single package uploaded: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: librarian > Author's name: Paul Isambert. > Location on CTAN: macros/generic/ > Summary description: Tools to create bibliographies in TeX. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Small adjustments: > > * Fix a bug when used in ConTeXt (thanks to Cédric Mauclair). > * Fix an undefined command on first compilation. > * Provide the source of the documentation, so the package is now really free. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've updated the archive with this new version and made small changes to 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/librarian.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/librarian/ the catalogue entry on the web is out of step at the moment, and will return to its normal (hem hem) impeccable accuracy some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: modroman
by CTAN Announcements 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '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: modroman Version number: 1 Author's name: Yvon Henel aka Le TeXnicien de surface Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/modroman/ Summary description: macros to write roman numerals thus i, ij, iij, iv... or thus i, ij, iij, iiij... or even thus I, II, III, IIII... License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- modroman.sty, macros to write numbers 1) in lowercase roman numerals thus i, ij, iij, iv... 2) in lowercase roman numerals thus i, ij, iij, iiij... 3) in uppercase roman numerals thus I, II, III, IIII... complete rewriting of the code new documentation many new macros to format roman numerals two thirds of them are purely expandable new options but compatibility with the previous version ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/modroman/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/modroman (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: montex
by CTAN Announcements 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

This should soon be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: montex Version number: IVu.04.092 Author's name: Oliver Corff Summary description: MonTeX provides Mongolian and Manju support for the TeX/LaTeX community. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Change language name for hyphenation patterns from mongolian to mongolianlmc that needs to be updated simultaneously with hyph-utf8 and language.dat in TeX distributions (the change will allow babel users to use T2A-encoded patterns). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/mongolian/montex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/montex (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: xypdf
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '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: v1.2 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * No error message with the [color] and [all] options in Xy-pic * Support for rotation and scaling. * Improved precision and numerical stability in the curve offset algorithm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Has a new package: currfile
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '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: currfile Version number: v0.1 Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/currfile Summary description: Macros for file name and path of input files License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides macros holding the file name information (dir, base name, extension, full name and full path) for files read by LaTeX's input and include macros. It uses the file hooks provided by the 'filehook' package. The package is similar to the 'fink' package, but uses a different implementation (a stack) and takes care to restore the parent file name after the trailing clearpage of an include'd file. This allows the usage of the macros on the page header and footer of the last page of such files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/currfile . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/currfile (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: filehook
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '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: filehook Version number: v0.1 Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/filehook Summary description: Provides hooks for input files License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides several file hooks (AtBegin, AtEnd, ...) for files read by input, include and InputIfFileExists. General hooks for all such files (e.g. all include'd ones) and file specific hooks only used for a named files are provided. Also two hooks are provided for the end of include'd files: one before and one after the clearpage. This hooks allows document and package author to execute code before and after specific or all files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/filehook . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/filehook (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: ocgtools
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '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: OCGtools Version number: 0.6 Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ocgtools Summary description: hanlding PDF document's this.dirty License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This new version keeps PDF document's this.dirty and hence the users of Adobe Acrobat are not bothered by the question Save changes? if the user only opened/closed the layers and related buttons and nothing else has been changed in document. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ocgtools . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ocgtools (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: fancytooltips
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '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: fancytooltips Version number: 1.6 Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fancytooltips/ Summary description: Added new options and examples, expanded documentation License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The new version includes the following * New options active and inactive allow to extract labeled equations, figures and theorem-like environments and put tooltips to the output of ef and eqref commands. This all is done automatically. (See the demo file examples/fancy-preview/fancy-preview-demo.pdf and script fancy-preview in the same directory.) * Starred versions of ooltip and ooltipanim commands (see the demo file above). * Expanded documentation and new option for debug debugging problems (see the file fancytooltis-example-min-dvips.pdf in the examples directory). * Handles PDF's this.dirty variable and the users of Adobe Acrobat are not bothered by the questions about saving changes. * Created repository with forum for reporting problems and with development version of the package at http://bitbucket.org/robert.marik/fancytooltips . The version from this repository is considered to be unstable, the last stable version is always the version at CTAN. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fancytooltips/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fancytooltips (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: installfont
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the installfont package. Summary description: A bash script for installing a LaTeX font family License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- With this script you can install a LaTeX font family (Postscript Type1, Truetype, Opentype). At least the four basic cuts + light + (faked) small caps + faked slanted, but no expert fonts. The script will rename the fonts automatically (optinal) or will otherwise expect *.afm files and the font files (in Postscript Type1 format!) named in the Karl Berry scheme (e.g. 5bbr8a.pfb). After running the script, you should have a working font installation in your local TeX tree. License: LPPL New in v1.4: - added support for light font - Bugfix: added Book as grep search pattern for regular font ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/installfont . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=installfont (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: jeopardy
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '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: jeopardy package Version number: 1.1a Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/ Summary description: Redesigned examples to work in TeXlive 2009. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The demo files for Jeopardy package stopped to work under TeXlive 2009 due to some conflict between packages used in these files. This update of demo files solves the problem. The pdfscreen.sty package has been replaced by web.sty package. This solves also problems with pdfscreen, babel and select@language command, which has been reported by some users. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/jeopardy (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: latexmk
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '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: latexmk Version number: 4.15 Author's name: John Collins Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Changes of default settings for running latex and pdflatex with latexmk's -quiet option; they are now TeX-Live compatible for all OSs. 2. Small improvements in diagnostics and error handling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latexmk (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: prerex
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '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: prerex Version number: 5.7 Author's name: Bob Tennent Location on CTAN: /graphics/prerex Summary description: macro support, editors and viewers for producing prerequisite charts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- + corrected coordinate calculations in the vprerex application + the delete command in the prerex editor can now do multiple deletions + more detailed documentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/prerex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/prerex (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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UK TeX FAQ, version 3.19d
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

i continue to make small updates of the faq, while pondering a new web interface. today's release (some details below) contains a number of minor improvements and extensions, and some corrections. the web interface (such as it is) remains at http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq Changes in version 3.19d This file lists changes since its most recent release (version 3.19c). New answers: +Label plaintex: explains writing in tex, was part of Label whattex Relabelled answers: <none> Revised answers: +Label codelist: mention the minted package +Label docs: single reference to epslatex (via catalogue) +Label etex: add ctan link +Label filesused: rewrite to clarify the issue with input +Label luatex: now version 0.60.0 +Label fonts-pln: replace some complete gibberish (undoing mis-edits, I guess) +Label parallel: mention the pdfcolparcolumns package +Label seccntfmt: remove superfluous expandafter in programming, tidy text +Label tabcellalign: editorial on PBS macro discussion +Label texfuture: rehashed, in light of today's situation +Label whattex: simplified by removal of material for Label plaintex Deleted answers: <none> Web interface: Extension of links to catalogue, to packages distributed as part of... Abbreviate header text (omitting long list of helpers -- which will ultimately be available in a separate file online) Convert alphabetic SGML entities to use numeric equivalents (stragglers are bound to show up, but most have gone) Users may view the faq's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/uk-tex-faq.html or browse the faq directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: seuthesis
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '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: seuthesis Version number: 1.3.0 Author's name: Xu, Yuan Summary description: The LaTeX template for thesis of Southeast University License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The LaTeX template for thesis of Southeast University, Nanjing China ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/seuthesis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/seuthesis (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: pgf-umlsd
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '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: pgf-umlsd Version number: 0.5 Author's name: Xu, Yuan Summary description: Some LaTeX macros for UML Sequence Diagrams. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some LaTeX macros for UML Sequence Diagrams. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgf-umlsd . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgf-umlsd (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: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

On Tue, 6 Apr 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: Baskerville-Nova (regular + bold + italic + bold italic), Canossa (regular + bold + light), Congress (regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold), Jugendstil, Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting, Sunset (regular + bold) License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) New in v1.10: - added support for the font family Canossa (regular + bold + light + faked slanted + faked small caps) Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (April 2010) and can be downloaded for free (at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de Later you can buy it from Softmaker - added smfflseries.sty (provides the commands extl and lseries for light fonts) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: nicetext
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the nicetext package. Summary description: arseneau.pdf adds description of optional.sty, corrections License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Donald Arseneau's `optional.sty' is added as an example of typesetting LaTeX-quality documentation of third-party .txt-type package documentation (unmodified) with `makedoc' and `niceverb''s auto mode plus (new) a function of `wiki.sty' from the bundle, cf. abstract of `arseneau.pdf' and `arseneau.tex' * correction of `niceverb''s AutoCmdInput * documentation corrections ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nicetext/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=nicetext (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 pacakge: newverbs
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

This should appear 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: newverbs Version number: v1.0 Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/newverbs Summary description: New package to define variants of verb incl. short verb versions. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows the definition of verb variants which add TeX code before and after the verbatim text (e.g. quotes or surrounding fbox{}). When used together with the 'shortvrb' package it allows the definition of short verbatim characters which use this variants instead of the normal verb. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/newverbs . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/newverbs (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: texlipse
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '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: TeXlipse Version number: 1.4.0 Author's name: Boris von Loesch Location on CTAN: /support/texlipse Summary description: New version of TeXlipse License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.4.0 of TeXlipse adds check as you type spell checking support for different languages and a parser for aux files to detect labels that in previous version triggers warnings and to better decicide when to run BibTeX. Furthermore it adds a lot of other minor improvements. Many bugs are fixed. More details on the changes: http://sourceforge.net/projects/texlipse/files/texlipse%20plugin/1.4.0/Chan… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/texlipse . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/texlipse (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: iftex
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '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: iftex Version number: 0.1 Author's name: Vafa Khalighi Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/iftex Summary description: Am I running under PDFTeX, or XeTeX, or LuaTeX? License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This very simple package, for both Plain TeX and LaTeX, defines the ifPDFTeX, ifXeTeX, and ifLuaTeX boolean for testing whether PDFTeX, or XeTeX, or LuaTeX is being used for typesetting. Also provides the RequirePDFTeX, RequireXeTeX, and RequireLuaTeX command which throws an error if PDFTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX (respectively) is not the engine in use. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/iftex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/iftex (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: adrconv
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 Axel Kielhorn submitted an update to the adrconv package. Summary description: BibTeX styles to implement an address database. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release contains the modifications I made to adrconv over the last 4 years. New features: - Removed email.bst and added email, notes, and organization to the fields exported by adrconv.bst. Email and Notes are printed by adrdir.tex. - Renamed birthday.bst to adrbirthday.bst to avoid a collision with directory.cls - Added support for a pdfTeX only workflow, no DVIDVI is needed, supplied files for automatic imposition. - Added a quick and dirty solution to export data from Addressbook.app via a Pages file and some vi commands. The archive contains a Pages file useable with iWork08 or iWork09 and a Vim script, both should go to the doc directory in TL. When the dtx is expanded, adrmontage[12].tex should go to the doc directory as well, these are templates that need modification by the user. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/adrconv . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=adrconv (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: biblatex-philosophy
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 Ivan Valbusa submitted an update to the biblatex-philosophy package. License type: lppl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-philoso… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-philosophy (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: tabvar
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 Daniel Flipo submitted an update to the tabvar package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release fixes a bug of the arre{} command: the depth of the vertical rule was wrong in some cases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tabvar/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tabvar (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: luatex
by CTAN Announcements 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '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: LuaTeX Version number: 0.60 Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: /systems/luatex Summary description: LuaTeX beta 0.60.0 release License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This luatex release starts a new chain of stable betas, and will be the version included in TeXLive 2010. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/luatex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luatex (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: librarian
by CTAN Announcements 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

quoth the daemon on thursday (and i forgot it and deleted the mail, and have only just been reminded and restored the mail from archive): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: librarian > Author's name: Paul Isambert > Location on CTAN: macros/generic/librarian > Summary description: Tools to create bibliographies in TeX. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The librarian package extracts information in bib files, makes it > available in the current document, and sorts lists of entries > according to that information and the user's specifications. Citation > and bibliography styles can then be written directly in TeX, without > any use of BibTeX. Creating references thus depends entirely on the > user's skill in TeX. > > The package works with all formats using plain TeX's basic syntactic > sugar; the distribution includes a third-party file for ConTeXt and a > style file for LaTeX. > > As an example of use, an Author (Year) style is given in a separate > file and explained in the documentation. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i installed the package (on thursday) and created the catalogue entry then too. thanks to Paul for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/librarian.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/librarian/ and of course, given the delay, the catalogue entry is now stable. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: metapost
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

This should be at your local mirror by tomorrow. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Metapost Version number: 1.211 Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/base Summary description: bug fix release License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Metapost 1.211 fixes a list of bugs found in the 1.20X release series, and is the version that will appear on TeXLive 2010. Detailed descriptions of the bugs and their fixes can be found in the file CHANGES. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/base . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/metapost (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: epspdf & epspdf-extra
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 Siep Kroonenberg submitted updates to the epspdf and epspdf-etra packages. Summary description: Converter for PostScript, EPS and PDF with optional GUI. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The GUI frontend has been rewritten in Tcl/Tk. As a consequence, the GUI works again under Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Various minor improvements and bug fixes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/epspdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=epspdf (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-circ
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 Herbert Voß submitted an update to the pst-circ package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pst-circ is a PSTricks related package for drawing electrical and electronic circuits 1.54 2010-03-29 - fix bug in Transformer - allow any type of coordinates in Transformer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pst-circ (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 . _______________________________________________ Ctan mailing list Ctan(a)dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: keycommand
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 Florent Chervet submitted an update to the keycommand package. Summary description: key-value interface for commands and environments in LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package completely redesigned Added new feature in particular the + form of ewkeycommand ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/keycommand . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=keycommand (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 . _______________________________________________ Ctan mailing list Ctan(a)dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: todo
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '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: todo Version number: 2.4142 Author's name: Federico Garcia Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/todo/ Summary description: Utilities for compiling a list of to-do items in a document. Version 2.4142 fixes bugs and adds extra tools. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The todo package, version 2.4142 todo provides macros for users to insert reminders in their documents for tasks 'to do', which will then be shown as a list at the end of the document. Version 2.4142 fixes bugs and adds extra functionality (quiet todos, verbose todos, a new environment for full flexibility, and a done command to mark todos as 'done'). By Federico Garcia, 2002 (original) and 2010 (2.4142). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/todo/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/todo (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: pgfplots
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '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: pgfplots Version number: 1.3.1 Author's name: Christian Feuersänger Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots/ Summary description: pgfplots - Create normal/logarithmic plots in two and three dimensions for LaTeX. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.3.1 is a bugfix release containing - improved parametric plots with gnuplot - improved normalsize, small and footnotesize scale styles and added tiny - a lot of bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgfplots (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: ocgtools
by CTAN Announcements 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '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: OCGtools package Version number: 0.5 Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ocgtools Summary description: OCGtools package allows to manipulate OCG layers in PDF presentations, namely hide and reveal parts of document by clicking active links or buttons. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package ocgtools is designed to insert OGC (Optional Group Content, known as layers) into PDF presentations. From the user's point of view, the package allows to insert in an comfortable way any TeX material into separate layers in PDF document and also insert links which toggle these layers on and off. Parts of the PDF document like formatted text, tables, math formulas or graphics can be turned to visible or invisible state by clicking active links or buttons. Similar packages are cooltooltips, pdfcomment, AcroTeX and fancytooltips. See the ocgtools package documentation for differences between ocgtools and the other packages. The package is distributed with examples build from one source using several presentation packages (beamer, web, pdfscreen). All necessary files are on Texlive 2009. Allmost all necessary files are on CTAN, the file ocg.sty is at http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf/tex/latex/asymptote/ocg.s… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ocgtools . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ocgtools (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: nicetext
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '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: nicetext bundle Version number: release 0.4 Author's name: Uwe Lück Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nicetext Summary description: txt to TeX processing of third-party package documentations: Step 2 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New with release 0.4: * Additionally to the `%% ' commenting style (allowing commenting out) the usual `% ' commenting style is supported -- applied to packages by Donald Arseneau, see abstract in `arseneau.pdf'. * Extended formatting of Harald Harder's `substr.sty' through specific preprocessing replacements (MakeDocCorrectHook) -- see abstract in `substr.pdf'. * Setup of MakeDocCorrectHook (txt to TeX) easier with SetPatternCodes, ResetPatternCodes, SetCorrectHookJob, SetCorrectHookJobLast ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nicetext . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/nicetext (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: biblatex-science
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

here we go again... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-science > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Author's email: joseph.wright(a)morningstar2.co.uk > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-science > Summary description: biblatex style for Science > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.9a: > - Fix for misc field > - Move TDS location to tex/latex/biblatex-science (cf. other biblatex contributions) 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/biblatex-science.ht… > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac/tex-archive/macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-science and of course the web catalogue entry will change in the course of tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: biblatex-nature
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

they're coming in thick and fast (so fast i'm not keeping up!) > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-nature > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-nature > Summary description: biblatex style for Nature > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.9a: > - Fix for misc field > - Move TDS location to tex/latex/biblatex-nature (cf. other biblatex contributions) 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/biblatex-nature.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-nat… and of course, the web catalogue entry will change a bit overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: biblatex-chem
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

that there daemon's running wild: ctan-upload(a)cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: > 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/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem > Summary description: biblatex styles for chemistry > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.9b: > - Fix for misc field > - Move TDS location to tex/latex/biblatex-chem (cf. other biblatex contributions) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the files, 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/biblatex-chem.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem and of course, the catalogue entry will change overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xpackages
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

it's grinding me down: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xpackages > Author's name: LaTeX3 Project > Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xpackages > Summary description: High-level LaTeX3 concepts > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The xpackages bundle: high-Level LaTeX3 concepts > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > The xpackages are experimental, high-level parts of LaTeX3. They > are designed to provide a link between the programming system > (expl3) and the user. Each xpackage is focussed in a different > area, for example creating document commands (xparse), > producing flexible formatting functions (xtemplate), etc. > > At present, the xpackages are designed to be loaded on top > of LaTeX2e: > > usepackage{xparse} > usepackage{xtemplate} > > In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code. > This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a > stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed. > > To use the xpackages, you will need to have the expl3 package > available. This provides the LaTeX3 coding environment on which > the xpackages are built. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This release (SVN 1881) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > This release features a new versions of the template package, > xtemplate, which revises the idea of a template and brings in > the idea of a self-documenting template. The new templates > are not compatible with those created using the older > template package, which is depreciated. The documentation > covers the full detail of the new approach, which we hope makes > the template concept easier to follow and more useful for > designers. > > In the xparse module, the nesting of D arguments has been > revised so that is is more robust. > > This release also keeps the xpackages up to date with changes > in expl3. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The LaTeX3 Project > ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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/xpackages.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xpackages the perceptive will spot the tiny change in the catalogue entry, overnight. if they bother to look. it's not very exciting. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: expl3
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

that daemon's trying to grind me down: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: expl3 > Author's name: LaTeX3 Project > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/expl3 > Summary description: Packages supporting LaTeX3 programming conventions > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The expl3 bundle: Low-level LaTeX3 programming conventions > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > The files of the expl3 bundle provide a low-level API for TeX > programmers with special syntax conventions, completely > separating it from document level syntax. Hence, the commands > provided are not intended for use at the document level nor for > use in describing design layouts in document class files. > > This API provides the foundation on which the LaTeX3 kernel > and other advanced extensions are built. Special care has been > taken so that they can be used within a LaTeX2e context as > regular packages. > > The TeX and eTeX primitives are all given a new name according > to these conventions. However, in the main direct use of the > primitives is not required or encouraged: the expl3 modules > define an independent low-level LaTeX3 programming language. > > At present, the expl3 modules are designed to be loaded on top > of LaTeX2e: > > usepackage{expl3} > > In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code. > This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a > stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This release (SVN 1881) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > As the existing LaTeX3 code is used by more people and for more > purposes, some of the original ideas are being re-examined and > inconsistencies and bugs are being addressed. This release > reflects the consolidation process, which is of course ongoing. > > The robustness of functions has been revised, and all functions > should now be either protected or fully expandable. This is > regarded as a general pattern for LaTeX3: any function which is > not expandable should be defined using cs_set_protected:Npn, > etc. > > On variables, the definitions for l_set:Nn and related > functions now allow # tokens in token lists, for example: > > l_set:Nn l_my_tl { single~#~token! } > > We hope that this means that token registers (toks) functions > are needed for the small number of primitive token registers > and for LaTeX2e work only. Feedback on this change is very > welcome. > > The file and keyval modules have been revised to provide > only higher-level functions for general use. The lower > level functions are either renamed, removed or not documented, > and the intention is that everything will be done via the > documented functions. > > In l3msg, msg_set:nnnn, etc., now read messages with expl3 > category codes (spaces are ignored). While this requires a > little more typing we feel that the consistency it brings is > valuble. > > One area of active discussion is whether register creation > should be local or global. This release includes *experimental* > support for locally-created registers using the > <var>_new_local:N functions. Be warned that this concept is > included for discussion and may not be retained in the longer > term. > > There are a number of other minor changes, as the team are > hard at work in a number of areas. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The LaTeX3 Project > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- i have 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/expl3.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/expl3 the catalogue entry will change a bit, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: The CodeDoc class.
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

my upload daemon tells me: > Name of contribution: The CodeDoc class. > Author's name: Paul Isambert > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ > Summary description: LaTeX code and documentation in LaTeX-format file. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Fixed a fatal bug in produce mode when ProduceFile was used without > optional arguments. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i have 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/codedoc.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/codedoc the web copy of the catalogue will change very slightly, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: chemstyle
by CTAN Announcements 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

that there daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: chemstyle > Author's name: Joseph Wright > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.0g: > - Add warning that schemeref does not wok with XeTeX > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/chemstyle.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle and, as usual, the web copy of the catalogue will change, minutely, overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: disser
by CTAN Announcements 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '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: disser Version number: 1.1.5 Author's name: Stanislav Kruchinin Summary description: LaTeX classes, BibTeX styles, Makefiles and document templates for typesetting dissertations in Russian License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes in version 1.1.5 (2010-03-23): Classes and styles: + Add support for classified dissertations. + Add support for ISBN and DOI to gost705 style. + Add colorlinks option. + Add scientific consultant field. * Fix compatibility with latest versions of hyperref and oberdiek packages. Templates: + Enable colorlinks option by default. + Add examples of isbn and doi fields. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/disser . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/disser (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 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '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: v0.3 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 v0.3 What's new ? * macro functions gcd, lcm and scitodec * <<b5>> displays the value of the cell b5 * STautoround* fills the decimal part with 0 * 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: xstring
by CTAN Announcements 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '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: xstring Version number: 1.5d Author's name: Christian Tellechea Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xstring Summary description: String (token list) manipulation License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xstring update version v1.5d 2010/03/28 =========== Changes =========== Bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xstring . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xstring (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: xypdf
by CTAN Announcements 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '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: xypdf Version number: 1.0 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 improves the output quality of the Xy-pic package when PDF documents are generated. It produces generic PDF code for graphical elements like lines, curves and circles instead of approximating these elements with glyphs in special fonts as the original Xy-pic package does. The xypdf package works both with pdfLaTeX and the two-step compilation LaTeX → dvipdfm(x). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: standalone
by CTAN Announcements 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '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: standalone Version number: v0.3 Author's name: Martin Scharrer Summary description: Update to v0.3: Automatic sub-preamble inclusion inside the main preamble License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update brings some exciting new options for the 'standalone' package. Using these options the preamble code of the sub-files can not only be skipped but extracted into an auxiliary file (.sta) which is then loaded by the main document during the next LaTeX run. The body content of the sub-files is skipped during the first run to avoid compile errors. To avoid option clashes of loaded packages all package option can be extracted first and predefined using 'PassOptionsToPackage'. Alternatively the sub-preambles can be simply printed (without special macros added by 'standalone') into a different auxiliary file (.stp) for easy manual copy&paste into the main document. If requested a list of required packages and pgf, tikz and tikz-timing libraries can be printed avoiding duplicates. New macros: onlyifstandalone{<code>} Used to hide code from the sub-preamble code extractor. standaloneignore Can be used to ignore code before the 'documentclass' of sub-files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/standalone . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/standalone (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: fc_arith
by CTAN Announcements 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '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: fc_arith Version number: 0.1a Author's name: D. P. Story Summary description: fc_arith is a LaTeX package used to create an arithmetic flash card. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fc_arith is a LaTeX package used to create an arithmetic flash card. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems are randomly generated. The flash card created by fc_arith can be customized in many ways. Design and build your own flash card using an dvips/Acrobat Distiller work flow, or a pdftex work flow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fc_arith . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fc_arith (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: pdfrack
by CTAN Announcements 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '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: pdfrack Version number: 0.5 Author's name: Marc Boyer Summary description: Use psfrag with PDFLaTeX. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Add of an auto option to automaticaly convert all figures. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pdfrack . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pdfrack (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: pst-dbicons
by CTAN Announcements 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Wolfgang May submitted an update to the pst-dbicons package. Summary description: Support for drawing ER diagrams License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- replaces the previous version of pst-dbicons ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-dbicons . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pst-dbicons (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: svn-prov
by CTAN Announcements 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '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: svn-prov Version number: v2 rev 1747 Author's name: Martin Scharrer Summary description: Update to v2 rev 1747 - Bug fix: Id parser failed in *.fd files. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This bug fix release fixes issues which appeared when used in font definition (*.fd) files (and properly in other files which are read with changed catcodes). This release also fixes an error which occurred when the Id line was not (yet) expanded by Subversion. Thanks goes to Oleg Parashchenko for reporting the issue and for providing a minimal example. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/svn-prov . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/svn-prov (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 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Summary description: dvisvgm 0.9 has been released License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. The latest version 0.9 introduces a new command-line option to compute the exact bounding boxes of each glyph instead of relying on the TFM values. This prevents clipped characters at the edges of the SVG graphic. 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: biblatex-chem
by CTAN Announcements 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

the good old daemon stands there wagging his tail: > 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/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem > Summary description: biblatex styles for chemistry > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.9a: > - Added doi option to force DOI inlcusion 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/biblatex-chem.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-ch… the catalogue entry on the web will change (very slightly) overnight. blink, and you'll miss it. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: nicetext
by CTAN Announcements 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the nicetext package. Summary description: `makedoc' + `niceverb' - an alternative documentation system for LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The `nicetext' bundle offers minimal markup syntax for restricted kinds of text: There should not be much more characters typed than printed! -- mainly: quick documentation of (smaller) LaTeX packages -- achieved by active characters and preprocessing similar to `docstrip' (opposite direction however, incl. some txt to TeX). New with release 0.3: * `substr.tex' should typeset LaTeX quality documentation from next available (on your install) substry.sty's ASCII/UTF-8 input (works with me) -- first application of `niceverb''s auto mode and `makedoc.sty' to a third-party package! * `makedoc' simplified: single MakeInputJobDoc[<in>][<out>]{<header>}{<parser>} generates a documentation file from the package file and typesets it immediately (kind of DocInput equivalent) -- see `Using makedoc the simplest way' in `makedoc.pdf' * `|...|' from `niceverb' typesets an inline frame box for setting-off a command description, modifiable by hooks (e.g., colorbox) * `niceverb' syntax works in page headers, PDF bookmarks, and `hyperref' labels and otherwise much better than before, dis-/re-enableable featurewise as well as altogether * documentation extended, lists of script commands * configurable txt to TeX functionality or other replacements like ASCII-arrows to arrow commands or inserting index entries (setting up expandable replacement chains slightly more comfortable) -- try with templates and dialogue * `fifinddo' works with character codes > 127, improved setup * `makedoc' requires the `moreverb' package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nicetext/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=nicetext (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: Polyglossia
by CTAN Announcements 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, François Charette submitted an update to the polyglossia package. Summary description: Modern multilingual typesetting with XeLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version fixes numerous bugs and brings several enhancements. NB: The next version (1.2), currently in development, will bring a new simplified setup interface for writing gloss-*.ldf files (see http://github.com/fc7/polyglossia/tree/1.2/ for the current development tree) and support for more languages. - Bugfix for French: explicit spaces before/after double punctuation signs are now replaced by the appropriate non-breaking spaces, as in Babel. - Bugfix for font switching mechanism within Latin script (pending a complete re-implementation in v1.2): the font shape and series are no longer reset when switching language. - New macros for non-Western decimal digits (instead of fontmappings) - New gloss files for Asturian, Lithuanian and Urdu - hijrical.sty is now locale-aware: hijritoday is formatted differently in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Turkish and Bahasa Indonesia. - Enable babelshorthands for Dutch - Add missing macro allowhyphens - Add global option babelshorthands - Support Catalan geminated l - Bugfix when declaring more than one pkg option - Add missing requirement makecmds - Bugfix for smallcaps in captions - Typo for ccname in Hebrew - Add option numerals to gloss-russian.ldf - Bugfix for Russian alph - Provide newXeTeXintercharclass when undefined - Remove superfluous level of {} in def of markright - Bugfix for datecatalan - Change hyphenmins for Sanskrit ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=polyglossia (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: combine
by CTAN Announcements 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

after its long slumber, the upload daemon awakes and says: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: combine > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/combine > Summary description: bug fix update > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bug fix for the combnat package in the combine class bundle, thanks to Nicola > Talbot. > > This update advances all version numbers of derived files of > combine.dtx to v0.7 to decrease the chance that I'll make a > book-keeping mistake with five different version numbers (and dates) > in the same source file. (Not that I think anyone will be worried by > this happening one way or the other.) thanks for the upload. i have 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/combine.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/combine/ the catalogue entry will change overnight. a bit. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: eukleides
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '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: eukleides Version number: 1.5.3 Author's name: Christian Obrecht Location on CTAN: /support/eukleides Summary description: A geometry drawing system License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Keyword localization in German and some example scripts were added. Some minor bugs were corrected as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/eukleides . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/eukleides (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: standalone
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '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: standalone Version number: v0.1 Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/standalone/ Summary description: New class and package 'standalone' to compile TeX pictures standalone or as part of a main document. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A class and package is provided which allows TeX pictures or other TeX code to be compiled standalone or as part of a main document. Special support for pictures with beamer overlays is also provided. The package is used in the main document and skips extra preambles in sub-files. The class can be used simplify the preamble in sub-files. By default the 'preview' package is used to only display the code without margins. The behaviour in standalone mode can be adjusted using a configuration file 'standalone.cfg' be redefining the 'standalone' environment. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/standalone/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/standalone (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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CAN update: hyph-utf8
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '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: hyph-utf8 Version number: 2010.03.21 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - additional patterns in Sanskript (Yves Codet) - added Turkmen patterns (Nazar Annagurban) - added 11 Indic patterns: Assamese, Bengali, Guajrati, Hindi, Assamese, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Panjabi, Tamil, Telugu (Santhosh Thottingal and Kevin & Siji) - some changes in Tamil are expected to be released soon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: paresse
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '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: paresse Version number: 3 Author's name: Le TeXnicien de surface Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/paresse/ Summary description: paresse enables to obtain $alpha$ and such with §a and so on... License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- as a consequence of a very kind mail of Claudio Beccari, I've decided to enable the user to choose between to `encoding' for greek alphabet and therefore paresse has two new mutually exclusive options: `legacy' (default, same as preceding version) and `Levi' to use Sylvio Levi's greek encoding. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/paresse/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/paresse (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: biber
by CTAN Announcements 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 François Charette submitted an updat to the biber package. Summary description: A BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex License type: artistic Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release occurs in sync with biblatex 0.9a and will not work with earlier versions! See the accompanying Changes file for details on this release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/biber . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biber (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: biblatex 0.9a
by CTAN Announcements 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded biblatex.tar.gz and biblatex.tds.zip to the incoming > directory of the UK node. This is an update for > macros/latex/exptl/biblatex. Please purge the old files, install the > new ones, and announce the upload as usual. > > Thank you very much. > > RELEASE NOTES/CHANGES > > See the file RELEASE for release notes and the changelog in > biblatex.pdf for the full list of changes. 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/biblatex.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: turkmen
by CTAN Announcements 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '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: Turkmen definition language for Babel Version number: 0.1 Author's name: Nazar Annagurban Summary description: Turkmen definition file for Babel. License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Turkmen definition file for Babel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/turkmen . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/turkmen (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: biblatex-chicago-notes-df
by CTAN Announcements 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '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: biblatex-chicago-notes-df Version number: 0.9 Author's name: David Fussner Summary description: Chicago notes + bibliography style files for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release is for use only with version 0.9 of biblatex. It offers, for the first time, internationalization support, as well as a new package option for producing annotated bibliographies. Please see the RELEASE file for instructions on how to update your .bib files to work with this new version, which has introduced some incompatibilities with previous releases. The docs in biblatex-chicago-notes-df.pdf, contain, as ever, all the details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-chicago-notes-df (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: dvipng
by CTAN Announcements 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '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: dvipng Version number: 1.13 Author's name: Jan-Åke Larsson Summary description: dvipng - A fast DVI to PNG/GIF converter. License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release adds the possibility to report the output image width. Other than that, a segfault occuring from faulty DVIs has been removed, and a number of build issues have been corrected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipng . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dvipng (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: revtex
by CTAN Announcements 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

This update to version 4.1 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: REVTeX 4.1 Version number: 4.1p Author's name: Arthur Ogawa Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/revtex/ Summary description: Styles for the physics journals of APS and AIP License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an update release of REVTeX 4.1 that addresses several bugs in the initial release. Additional improvements have also been made. Please note that REVTeX 4.1 requires version 8.31a or later of natbib. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/revtex/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/revtex (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: pdfcomment
by CTAN Announcements 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

On Tue, 16 Mar 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 v1.5d: - Bugfix: faulty expansion broke hyperref's auto corrected conversions of LaTeX commands like $ or extCR to PDFDocEncoding or PDFUnicode in comments reported by: Guillaume Millet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: TeX-GPC, 2nd edition
by CTAN Announcements 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

the daemon's not called on a lot, recently, so leaps eagerly into action when: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: TeX-GPC 2nd edition > Author's name: Wolfgang Helbig > Location on CTAN: systems/unix/tex-gpc > Summary description: TeX-GPC now supports a wider range of GPC and Unix alikes > License type: other-free > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This edition of TeX-GPC compiles and runs on Mac OS X 10.2 and GPC > 20070904. Some bugs were fixed. This edition provides a directory > that helps to include german hyphenation patterns and styles. The > documentation in tex.ch is revised. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/tex-gpc.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/unix/tex-gpc the catalogue entry will change a bit, overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: installfont
by CTAN Announcements 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the installfont package. Summary description: A bash script for installing a LaTeX font family License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- With this script you can install a LaTeX font family (Postscript Type1, Truetype, Opentype). At least the four basic cuts + (faked) small caps + faked slanted, but no expert fonts. The script will rename the fonts automatically (optinal) or will otherwise expect *.afm files and the font files (in Postscript Type1 format!) named in the Karl Berry scheme (e.g. 5bbr8a.pfb). After running the script, you should have a working font installation in your local TeX tree. License: LPPL New in v1.3: - added installfont-tl for TeXLive (thanks to Christoph Bier) - added support for Truetype (needs ttf2pt1) and Opentype fonts (needs otftotfm (LCDF Typetools) and pf2afm (Ghostscript)) - added evaluation of command line options - added an uninstall option - added support for installation as mdefault, sfdefault or tdefault - Bugfix: automatic renaming failed if installfont was in working directory - Bugfix: changed setstretch (setspace) to linespread (option leading) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/installfont . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=installfont (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: libertine
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

This should be at your local mirror by tomorrow. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: font libertine Version number: 4.6.5a Author's name: Michael Niedermair Summary description: new version of font LinuxLibertine License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - new version of biolinum keyboard font - fix problem with empty encoding vectors and tmf files ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/libertine . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/libertine (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: onrannual
by CTAN Announcements 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '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: onrannual Version number: 1.1 Author's name: Adam Maxwell Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/onrannual/ Summary description: Class for Office of Naval Research Ocean Battlespace Sensing annual report License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Various fixes, mostly requested by ONR: - Title font is now 14pt instead of 17.22pt - Hyperref is now required - Disable PDF bookmarks - Color hyperlinks blue - Changed leading to conform more closely to ONR requirements - Better documentation of optional and required sections - Added some documentation to the skeleton file ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/onrannual/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/onrannual (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: ucdavisthesis
by CTAN Announcements 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '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: ucdavisthesis Version number: 1.1 Author's name: Ryan Scott Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ucdavisthesis/ Summary description: UCDavis thesis class License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Release 1.1: *Updated Title page so that committee member names appear under signature lines *Updated committee command and Title page macros to accept up to five committee members. *Fixed singlespacing usage in example file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ucdavisthesis/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ucdavisthesis (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: geometry
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '10

13 Mar '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: geometry Version number: 5.3 Author's name: Hideo Umeki Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/geometry Summary description: Flexible and easy interface to page dimensions License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Release 5.3: * Fixed missed initialization of Gm@lines. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/geometry . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/geometry (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: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '10

13 Mar '10

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pstricks-add.tgz to the uk CTAN node. Please put > the files 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... > > pstricks-add ----------- (Dominik Rodriguez/hv) > 3.39 2010-03-12 - fixed bug with algebraic option in psplotTangent 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 has a new package: bardi
by CTAN Announcements 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

This should be at your local mirror in a day. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Bardi Version number: 1 Author's name: Claire Bowern Summary description: hyphenation and language support for Bardi (BCJ) License type: nocommercial Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- hyphenation and language support for Bardi (BCJ); ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/bardi . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bardi (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: kpfonts
by CTAN Announcements 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '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: kpfonts Version number: 3.2 Author's name: Caignaert christophe Summary description: full set of fonts for text and math typesetting License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- With the 3.2 release, you get - one new main option 'sfmath' with sf math typesetting - two small options 'sfmathbb' and 'rmmathbb' to force the mathbb alphabet - 4 new math versions 'sf', 'boldsf', 'rm' and 'boldrm' Except bugs, the development of kpfonts is finished! Christophe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/kpfonts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/kpfonts (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: historische-zeitschrift
by CTAN Announcements 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Dominik Wassenhoven submitted an update to the historische-zeitschrift package. Summary description: Biblatex style for the journal 'Historische Zeitschrift' License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 0.9 - Compatibility to biblatex 0.9 - The options 'doi', 'eprint' and 'url' are supported. The defaults are 'doi=false', 'eprint=false' and 'url=true'. - Added the file 'historische-zeitschrift.lbx' for the handling of (German) language related issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/historische-zeit… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=historische-zeitschrift (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: biblatex-dw
by CTAN Announcements 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Dominik Waßenhoven submitted an update to the biblatex-dw package. Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 1.3 (for biblatex 0.9) This version of biblatex-dw supports biblatex 0.9. Please note that you have to update biblatex as well if you would like to use biblatex-dw 1.3! Users might need to update their data due to some changes in biblatex, especially concerned with date specifications. Please follow the hints for users given in biblatex's RELEASE notes. Further changes in this release: - The option 'isrn' and 'issn' were dropped. Their functionality can be achieved by the biblatex option 'isbn'. - BUGFIX: When using 'idembibformat=dash', the @inreference entries had a wrong punctuation inside the title. This is now fixed. - Option 'pseudoauthor' changed: if set to true (and the entry option 'pseudoauthor' is used), the author of this entry is printed. The new commands ibleftpseudo and ibrightpseudo are used to enclose the author. These commands are empty by default. If the global option 'pseudoauthor' is set to 'false', the author of entries with the entry option 'pseudoauthor' are not printed at all. The default value for the global option is 'true' (i.e. the behaviour is the same regardless of the entry option 'pseudoauthor'). - New command locationdatepunct for the punctuation between location and year/date. The default is addspace. - New command locationpublisherpunct for the punctuation between location and publisher. The default is addcolonspace. - New command publisherdatepunct for the punctuation between publisher and year/date. The default is addcommaspace. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-dw (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 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

On Tue, 9 Mar 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 v1.5c: - Bugfix: pdfsidelinecomment only worked on pages with arabic page numbers reported by: Fritz Moore ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: biblatex-philosophy
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

This should by tomorrow be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: biblatex-philosophy Version number: 0.5 Author's name: Ivan Valbusa Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib Summary description: Bibliography styles for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version of biblatex-philosophy includes also the new style philosophy-verbose, intended primarily for writers in the humanities and for citations given in footnotes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-philosophy (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: biblatex-apa
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '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: biblatex-apa Version number: 0.9 Author's name: Philip Kime Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-apa/ Summary description: Biblatex style for APA (American Psychological Association) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 0.9 updated for biblatex 0.9 and APA manual 6th edition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-apa (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: libertine
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '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: libertine font Version number: 4.6.5 Author's name: Michael Niedermair Location on CTAN: /fonts/libertine Summary description: new version of the libertine font License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- new version of the libertine font package - new font version of some shapes - new package structure - new biolinum italic font - new keyboard font (alpha) - new outline font (alpha) - new shadow font (alpha) and something more ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/libertine . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/libertine (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: lua-alt-getopt
by CTAN Announcements 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

This material has been moved to support/lua/lua-alt-getopt . Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... Name of contribution: lua-alt-getopt Version number: 0.7.0 Author's name: Khaled Hosny Summary description: A lua module for processing application's arguments the same way BSD/GNU getopt_long(3) functions do. License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lua_altgetopt is a MIT-licenced module for Lua programming language for processing application's arguments the same way BSD/GNU getopt_long(3) functions do. This module is made available for lua script writers to have consistent command line parsing routines. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/lua/lua-alt-getopt . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/lua-alt-getopt (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: gmverb
by CTAN Announcements 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '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: gmverb Version number: 0.93 Author's name: Grzegorz Murzynowski Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmverb Summary description: my implementation of short verbatims and some improvements to verbatim License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- minor update: some bug fixes, introducing adjustable hyphen char (broken bar ¦ by default) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmverb . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/gmverb (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: gmutils
by CTAN Announcements 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '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: gmutils Version number: 0.991 Author's name: Grzegorz Murzynowski Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmutils Summary description: basic package of other gm* packages; provides DeclareCommand License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides many macros used by me, also copied from other packages such as relsize. some are low-level, such as @ifnextcat, @ifnextif, probably the main is DeclareCommand to define command with weird optional arguments. This update provides major development of DeclareCommand, such as Knuthian arguments (as in TeX Book chap.20) and afterassignment pseudo-argument. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmutils . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/gmutils (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: gmdoc
by CTAN Announcements 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '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: gmdoc Version number: 0.991 Author's name: Grzegorz Murzynowski Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmdoc Summary description: a package for documenting TeX sources with minimal markup License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- a package for documenting TeX sources with minimal markup. No .dtx necessary, inline comments, automatic detection of definitions and more. this update is mostly for compatibility with geometry v>=5.1 (doesn't rely on gmeometric anymore). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmdoc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/gmdoc (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: dlfltxb
by CTAN Announcements 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '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: The dlfltxb bundle Version number: various Author's name: Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dlfltxb Summary description: Support packages for Introduktion til LaTeX, my Danish LaTeX manual License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated support packages for Introduktion til LaTeX (http://www.imf.au.dk/system/latex/bog/) Details are in the README Please note that the packages are made for above mentioned book, and are thus not very flexible. If interested use it as inspiration. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dlfltxb . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dlfltxb (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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