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CTAN update: ijmart
by CTAN Announcements 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

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: ijmart Version number: 1.4 Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ijmart Summary description: LaTeX Class for The Israel Journal of Mathematics License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.4: Fixed the bug inherited from amsart: now appendices do not cause large indentations in table of content ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ijmart . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ijmart (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 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: dvisvgm 0.8.7 has been released License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. The latest version 0.8.7 is a maintenance release that fixes a couple of bugs and improves the collaboration with Asymptote. 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: pauldoc
by CTAN Announcements 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 Paul Ebermann submitted an update to the pauldoc package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pauldoc Summary description: German LaTeX package documentation. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The pauldoc package provides helpers for German language package documentation. Version 0.5 adds an option for UTF-8-encoding (and one for Latin-1) and fixes the coding of Ä in the package file (now A). And the documentation is a bit better now. This version is needed to product the documentation for dateiliste 0.5 and will be needed for coming versions of other packages from me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pauldoc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=LaTeX package pauldoc (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: comprehensive
by CTAN Announcements 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

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: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List Version number: 11.0 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /info/symbols/comprehensive Summary description: Symbols accessible from LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List is an organized list of over 5900 symbols commonly available to LaTeX users. Some of these symbols are guaranteed to be available in every TeX distribution. Others require font files that come with some, but not all, TeX distributions. The rest require font files that must be downloaded explicitly from CTAN (http://www.ctan.org/) and installed. The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List currently showcases symbols from 130 separate typefaces. This new release of the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (version 11.0) is a particularly exciting one. At long last the document has been fully hyperlinked! (This was not a simple manner of including a usepackage{hyperref}; the document was filled with constructs that confused hyperref.) The list contain almost a thousand more symbols than before (a 20% increase), new how to prose in the Additional Information section, an expanded index with more see... entries, and other features designed to help the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List live up to its name. Enjoy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/comprehensive (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: microtype
by CTAN Announcements 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

This should within a day reach your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: microtype Version number: 2.3e Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update includes settings for the Cyrillic T2A encoding, as well as minor bug and compatibility fixes (most notably for TeXlive 2009's luatex). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/microtype (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: glossaries
by CTAN Announcements 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

just as i get to the end of cataloguing all the tex live 09 changes, the daemon thumbs his nose and cries: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: glossaries > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/glossaries > Summary description: Create glossaries and lists of acronyms > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.04: > * Improved support for multiple lists of acronyms. > > * Fixed bug that caused glsadd to ignore counter option > > * Fixed bug that causes babel to override translator's definition > of glossaryname. > > * Added user1, ... , user6 keys. > > * Added polyglossia support > > glossaries-accsupp v0.2: > * Added access keys. > > * Added support for acronyms. > > mfirstuc v1.04: > * fixed bug occurring when initial control sequence > in the argument of makefirstuc has more than one > argument. thank you for the upload; i've installed it, and updated all three packages' catalogue entries. > Users may view the package catalogue entries at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/glossaries.html > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/glossaries-accsupp.… > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/mfirstuc.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries the catalogue entries will, of course, change overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

This should reach your local mirror in the next day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Asymptote Version number: 1.89 Author's name: John Bowman Location on CTAN: / Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The draw, fill, and clip commands now pass raw SVG code directly to dvisvgm (version 0.8.6 required); zero-length paths are output as circles. Unsupported SVG elements are converted to PNG images; unimplemented SVG features such as Gouraud and tensor-patch shading can be (partially) emulated as vector elements using the -svgemulation option. The control point normalization of rational NURBS surfaces was fixed; 3D NURBS curves are now implemented. A problem with inlinemovie3 was fixed. The linetype pattern is now a real array: for backwards compatibility, a string is still accepted, but the return type of linetype(pen) is now real[] instead of string (backwards incompatible). The split routine was changed so that an empty delimiter splits on spaces, discarding duplicates. The palette routines are now guaranteed to generate at least the specified number of colours. PNG output produces a transparent background. Surface and path3 garbage collection was fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: background
by CTAN Announcements 08 Nov '09

08 Nov '09

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The background package Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Gonzalo Medina Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ Summary description: Offers the placement of background material on the pages of a document. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The `background' package v1.0 offers the placement of background material on the pages of a document. The user can control many aspects (i.e., contents, position, color, opacity) of the background material that will be displayed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/background . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/background (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: achemso
by CTAN Announcements 08 Nov '09

08 Nov '09

just as i was going to bed last night, that daemon tried to distract me: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: achemso > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso > Summary description: Support for submissions to American Chemical Society journals > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v3.3d: > - Fix for altaffiliation macro > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for that; i've installed the new version and updated its catalogue entry. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/achemso.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/achemso and of course, the catalogue entry will change in an itsy-bitsy way overnight, tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: pst-knot
by CTAN Announcements 08 Nov '09

08 Nov '09

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: pst-knot Version number: 0.1 Author's name: Herbert Voss Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-knot/ Summary description: pst-knot is a PSTricks related package for knots License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pst-knot is a new PSTricks package for drawing knots. For more information see the documentation of the package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-knot/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-knot (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 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the pdfcomment package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment 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 v1.5a: - added options liststyle and heading to command listofpdfcomments -> setliststyle, defineliststyle - added checks for undefined avatars, styles and liststyles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: miktex_update
by CTAN Announcements 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the miktex_update package. Location on CTAN: /support/miktex_update Summary description: A cygwin bash script for automatic updating and installing new packages of MiKTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The miktex_update script offers automatic updating and/or installing of new packages of an existing MiKTeX installation. It supports direct connection with online repositories of the MiKTeX server network, as well as synchronizing a local repository (CTAN) with following update. In the end you should have an up-to-date and complete MiKTeX installation. License: LPPL Changes in v1.4: - new switch -a, --admin to run mpm in administrative mode (MiKTeX v2.8+) - Bugfix: corrected variable names for alternative rsync servers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/miktex_update . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=miktex_update (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: dateiliste
by CTAN Announcements 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 Paul Ebermann submitted an update to the dateiliste package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dateiliste Summary description: LaTeX package dateiliste - version 0.5 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package provides a file list (similar to that offered by listfiles ), neatly laid out as a table. The main document can be included in the list, and a command is available for providing RCS/CVS- or SVN- maintained data for printing in the file list. Version 0.5 adds support for SVN (Subversion, additionally to CVS/RCS) and escapes dangerous characters in file names and descriptions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/dateiliste . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dateiliste (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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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the softmaker-freefont package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/softmaker-freefont/ 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: Congress (regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold), Stone Handwriting License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) New in v1.5: - added LaTeX support for the very nice font family Congress Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (November 2009) and can be downloaded for free (at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de Later you can buy it from Softmaker ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: disser
by CTAN Announcements 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

This should within the day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: disser Version number: 1.1.3 Author's name: Stanislav Kruchinin Location on CTAN: / Summary description: LaTeX classes, BibTeX styles, document templates and Makefiles for typesetting dissertations in Russian. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes in version 1.1.3: Classes and styles: + Added new bibliography styles gost705 and gost705s for compliance with new GOST R 7.0.5-2008. - Removed disser and disser-s bibliography styles. + Added index style for documented source code. Makefiles: + Nomake files now support processing of multiple targets and compare modification times of input and output files. + Added support for DESTDIR environment variable. + Added bmtoeps and optimize targets. + Added comparison of initial and optimized EPS file sizes. Templates: + Added some bibliography entries for testing purposes. * Set gost705 as default bibliography style. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: pst-optexp
by CTAN Announcements 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

This should reach your local mirror in the next day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pst-optexp Version number: 2.1 Author's name: Christoph Bersch Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optexp Summary description: Drawing optical experimental setups. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 2.1 * Bugfix: removed the buggy check for an appropriate version of pstricks-add. * Bugfix: 'thicklens' now also works with plain* lenses * Different minor bugfixes * Different enhancements * New psstyle 'OptComp' which sets general parameters for all optical components. Appropriate parameters 'addtoOptComp' and 'newOptComp' were also introduced. * New parameters: - 'label' allows a more condensed change of several label parameters - 'innerlabel' - 'compshift' - 'bsstyle' - 'connjoin' - 'newBeam' and 'addtoBeam' to allow for local changes of the internal beam style. * New component: 'optfiberpolarizer' * Changed 'fibercollimator' so that it uses two, three or four nodes. * Changed documentation to use 'pst-doc' class. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optexp . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-optexp (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: Apprends LaTeX !
by CTAN Announcements 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

This should within a day reach your local mirror. Thanks again Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Apprends LaTeX ! Version number: 3.0 Author's name: Marc Baudoin Location on CTAN: /info/ Summary description: Apprends LaTeX ! (Learn LaTeX!) is a French documentation for LaTeX beginners. License type: other-nonfree Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Apprends LaTeX ! (Learn LaTeX!) is a French documentation for LaTeX beginners. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/apprends-latex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/apprends-latex (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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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: xesearch
by CTAN Announcements 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

the cambridge upload daemon stirs again, and says: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xesearch > Author's name: Paul Isambert > Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/generic > Summary description: A string finder for XeTeX. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Corrected for ConTeXt (thanks to Wolfgang Schuster): > - A bug happening only with ConTeXt has been fixed. > - A third party file t-xesearch.tex is provided so ConTeXt users can > say usemodule[xesearch]. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/xesearch.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/xetex/generic the catalogue entry (as above) will twitch a little, overnight tonight, as it's rebuilt. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: spreadtab
by CTAN Announcements 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

This should reach your local mirror in a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: spreadtab Version number: 0.1 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides spreadsheet features for LaTeX table environments. It allows to construct tables in a manner similar to a spreadsheet. The cells of a table have row and column indices and these can be used in formulas to generate values in other cells. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: tablor
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

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: tablor Version number: 4.06 Author's name: Guillaume Connan Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablor Summary description: Create tables of signs and of variations. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New option windows for microsoft windows users : usepackage[windows,xcas]{tablor} No need to change tablor.cfg. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tablor . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tablor (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: upmethodology
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

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: upmethodology Version number: 20091102 Author's name: Stephane Galland Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Feature enhancement and bug fixes License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Add book, report and article options for upmethodology-document class. Fixing footnote macros to allow to put any character as id. Add macros: prname, drname, phdname, scdname, mdname, pename, iename. Allow to override the default document font in style extensions. Rename setbacklayout to setbackcover. Add makebackcover. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/upmethodology . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/upmethodology (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: combinedgraphics
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: combinedgraphics Version number: v0.0.2-alpha Author's name: Christian Schneider Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/combinedgraphics Summary description: macro for inclusion of combined EPS/LaTeX and PDF/LaTeX graphics License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a macro (|includecombinedgraphics|) for the inclusion of combined EPS/LaTeX and PDF/LaTeX graphics (an export format of Gnuplot, Xfig, and maybe other programs). Instead of including the graphics with a simple |input|, the |includecombinedgraphics| macro has some comforts: * changing the font and color of the text of the LaTeX part * rescaling the graphics without affecting the font of the LaTeX part * automatic inclusion of the vector graphics part, as far as LaTeX part does not do it (e.g., for files exported from Gnuplot before version 4.2) * rescaling and rotating of complete graphics (similar to |includegraphics| from graphicx package) See `combinedgraphics.pdf' for detailed information on usage. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/combinedgraphics . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/combinedgraphics (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: notes2bib
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

a bit later, the upload daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: notes2bib > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib > Summary description: Integrating notes into the bibliography > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.0a: > - Some documentation improvements > - Change to reflect some expl3 style change > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the package and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/notes2bib.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib the catalogue entry may well be up-to-date. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: achemso
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

quoth the upload daemon: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: achemso > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso > Summary description: Support for submissions to American Chemical Society journals > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v3.3c: > - Bug fix for author list when there are two entries > - New .cfg file for J. Phys. Chem. Lett. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/achemso.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/achemso the catalogue entry may well be up-to-date, now. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: extpfeil
by CTAN Announcements 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

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: extpfeil Version number: 0.4 Author's name: Paul Ebermann Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/extpfeil Summary description: Extensible arrows in mathematics. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The exptfeil package provides some more extensible arrows (usable in the same way as xleftarrow from amsmath), and a command to simply create new ones. Version 0.4 adds some double arrows with bigger distance, which I had in my private version already in april 2007 ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/extpfeil . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/extpfeil (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: xeindex
by CTAN Announcements 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

the upload daemon coughed again, and said: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xeindex > Author's name: Paul Isambert > Location on CTAN: macros/xetex/generic/xeindex > Summary description: Automatic index for XeLaTeX. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > XeIndex is a package based on XeSearch that automatically indexes > words or phrases in a XeLaTeX documents. > > Words are declared in a list, and every occurrence then creates an > index entry whose content can be fully specified beforehand. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i installed the package as it appeared, and have now (after a brief holiday) created an entry in the catalogue for it. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xeindex.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/xetex/generic/xeindex the catalogue entry will appear overnight tonight. some time. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: xesearch
by CTAN Announcements 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

just before i went on a few days' excursion, the upload daemon cried wait! -- and said: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xesearch > Author's name: Paul Isambert > Location on CTAN: macros/xetex/generic/xesearch > Summary description: A string finder for XeTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > XeSearch finds strings (e.g. (parts of) words or phrases) and > manipulates them (apply any macro), thus turning each word or phrase > into a possible command. > > It is written in plain XeTeX and should thus work with any format. > > The main application for the moment is XeIndex, an automatic index for > XeLaTeX, but examples are given of simple use to check spelling, count > words, and highlight syntax of programming languages. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i installed the package just before i went away, and have now created an entry for the package in the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xesearch.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/xetex/generic/xesearch the catalogue entry will appear overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: prerex
by CTAN Announcements 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

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: prerex Version number: 5.3 Author's name: Bob Tennent Location on CTAN: /graphics/prerex Summary description: Interactive editor for prerequisite charts, macro support. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- prerex.sty now generates image-map data and an image-generating script as auxiliary files, for use with html. The editor now allows for an alternative to ps2pdf if using LaTeX; this is primarily to allow a script to adjust the orientation to landscape if necessary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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CTAN has a new package: pagerange
by CTAN Announcements 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

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: pagerange Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Ahmed Musa Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Package resolves page ranges intelligently. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Given a page range in xx-tie-yy or defmacro{xx-tie-yy}, the package resolves the range as page xx to page yy and highlights any incosistencies in the range. Range macros are fully expanded prior to resolution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pagerange . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pagerange (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 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the pdfcomment package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment 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 v1.5: - new command listofpdfcomments feature request by: Michael Niedermair - revision of documentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: upmethodology
by CTAN Announcements 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

This should within a day arrive at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: upmethodology Version number: 20091029 Author's name: Stephane Galland Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Major bug fix License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Invert the parameters of the setfrontillustration macro in the implementation to respect the document. Allow style extensions to set the global document font. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/upmethodology . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/upmethodology (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: upmethodology
by CTAN Announcements 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

This update 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: upmethodology Version number: 20091028 Author's name: Stephane GALLAND Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Major bug fixes License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Move the style extensions outside the package and provide them as third-party packages. Major bug fix: the PDF bookmarks are now correctly generated. Set the color of the hyperlinks according to the extension's color. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/upmethodology . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/upmethodology (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: upmethodology
by CTAN Announcements 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

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: upmethodology Version number: 20091027 Author's name: Stephane GALLAND Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Major bug fixes, extended API for style extensions License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- upmethodology 20091027 releases major bug fixes in the core components (Ifnotempty...), provides a new publication page's generation with the dedicated macros, and give more macros to style extensions. A new extension example is also provided. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/upmethodology . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/upmethodology (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: subsupscripts
by CTAN Announcements 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

This package should reach your local mirror in the next day. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ..................................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: SubSupScripts Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Riccardo Bresciani Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/subsupscripts Summary description: This package provides some new more flexible commands to typeset subscripts and superscripts in mathematical mode. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package SubSupScripts provides some new more flexible commands to typeset subscripts and superscripts in mathematical mode. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/subsupscripts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/subsupscripts (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: threeparttablex
by CTAN Announcements 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

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: threeparttablex Version number: v0.06 Author's name: Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/threeparttablex Summary description: updates for the threeparttablex package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release brings ote and source to the tablenotes. Note that they are only available under the referable package option. For usage see the manual. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/threeparttablex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/threeparttablex (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: dateiliste
by CTAN Announcements 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 Paul Ebermann submitted an update to the package dateiliste Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dateiliste Summary description: Extensions of the listfiles concept. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package provides a file list (similar to that offered by listfiles ), neatly laid out as a table. The main document can be included in the list, and a command is available for providing RCS-maintained data for printing in the file list. Version 0.4 corrects a bug in the encoding of the german list preamble, which rendered the package unusable in UTF8-encoded main file. Now it should work in any (ASCII-based) encoding. Thanks to Michael Niedermair for the bug report. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/dateiliste . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dateiliste (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: widetable
by CTAN Announcements 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

This package update 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: widetable Version number: 1.1 Author's name: Claudio Beccari Location on CTAN: /.../contrib/widetable/ Summary description: Small package for typesetting specified width tables License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Upgrade of the widetable.sty package so as to exploit the e-TeX computation facilities if they are available and activated. All modern distributions of the TeX system should be able to exploit these facilities. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/widetable/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/widetable (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 - base
by CTAN Announcements 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk mirror. Please replace the > files with the ones in the main directory > /graphics/pstricks/base/ > > > pstricks.tex -------- > 1.30 2009-10-25 - revert the changes for the pst@object, > it now uses defpst@par{} > > read the file /base/doc/pst-news09.pdf for more informations > about this update to the base part of PSTricks or read > the other Changes files which lists all what's new in > the other files. i have installed the changed files, and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pstricks.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/base/ The catalogue entry will change (a bit) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: upmethodology
by CTAN Announcements 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

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: upmethodology Version number: 20091025 Author's name: Stephane GALLAND Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Features enhancement and major bug fixes License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The upmethodology collection of packages is released with major bug fixes on language support. This release now support a back page style in extensions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/upmethodology . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/upmethodology (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: todonotes
by CTAN Announcements 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 Henrik Skov Midtiby submitted an update to the todonotes package. The package lets the user mark things to do later, in a simple and and visually appealing way. The package takes several options to enable customization/finetuning of the visual appearance. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/todonotes/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated portuguese translation. Added a ngerman alias for the german translation suggested by Michael Niedermair. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/todonotes/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=todonotes (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

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: siunitx Version number: v1.3d Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.3d: - Better handling of slanted Omega ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/siunitx (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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tug.ctan.org upload: popupmenu
by CTAN Announcements 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Thank you, Donald. I've put it into place and triggered the mirroring. Regards, Jim ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: popupmenu Version number: .7 Author's name: D. P. Story Author's email: dpstory(a)uakron.edu Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ Summary description: Create popup menus using JavaScript License type: lppl Announcement text: No ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== No announcement needed === The popupmenu Package popupmenu is a LaTeX package used to create a menu structure. This menu structure (an array of menu items) is passed to the Acrobat JavaScript method app.popUpMenuEx() method to create a popup menu. Using the environments defined in this package, and the command popUpMenu, you can create and display hierarchical menus. The menu items can have JavaScript actions associated with them, they can be marked and dis-enabled. The package requires only hyperref. Thus, users of pdftex, dvipdfm, and dvips can use this package. Two examples are included in the distribution, additional examples can be found at the AeB Blog http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/aebblog.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/popupmenu (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 . -- Please reply to the list ctan (at) dante.de, not to me personally.

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CTAN update: ecv
by CTAN Announcements 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

This update should reach your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}eron Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: ecv Version number: 0.2 Author's name: Christoph Neumann Summary description: A fancy Curriculum Vitae class License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Conflict with ifpdf package corrected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ecv . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ecv (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

the daemon slumbered while i worked ... but i get home and he/she/it has written: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx > Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.3b: > - Bug fix when using emulation of other packages and KOMA-Script classes > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx if you blink, you won't notice the overnight change to the catalogue entry. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: changepage and chngpage
by CTAN Announcements 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

having more fun than he's had in one day, for ages, the daemon writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: changepage and chngpage > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/changepage > Summary description: Margin adjustment and detection of odd/even pages > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > All-new PDF documentation adapted from the docs formerly inside the .sty files, > and chngpage and changepage brought together in CTAN. > > Please remove from CTAN: > macros/latex/contrib/misc/changepage.sty > obsolete/macros/latex/contrib/misc/chngpage.sty i've rearranged things as suggested, and updated the catalogue entries. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the (rather similar) package catalogue entries at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/changepage.html > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/chngpage.html > or they may browse the packages' directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/changepage Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: fonttable v1.6
by CTAN Announcements 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

quoth the busy old daemon: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: fonttable v1.6 > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fonttable > Summary description: Print font tables from a LaTeX document > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Adjustment/improvement to the default placement of the decimal numbers > aligned next to each glyph in the font tables. This will change (not > seriously) the output of documents compiled with previous versions of > this package. > > If necessary, this change can be reversed with the new generalisation > of the internal code for typesetting the glyph plus its slot. Or you > can invent a new, better method. if so, let me know. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/fonttable.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fonttable and of course the catalogue entry will change, overnight. a bit. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: substr
by CTAN Announcements 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Substr package Version number: 1.2 Author's name: Harald Harders Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/substr Summary description: Commands to deal with substrings in strings: determine, count. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides commands to deal with substrings in strings: Determine if a string contains a substring, count appearances of a substring in a string. ChangeLog 2009/10/20 v1.2 Uwe Lück - Fix IfSubStringInString which did not work if the string was contained in the substring 2005/11/29 v1.1 Harald Harders - Add IfBeforeSubStringEmpty and IfBehindSubStringEmpty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/substr . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/substr (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: ctex
by CTAN Announcements 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

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: ctex Version number: 0.95 Author's name: Jiang Jiang Location on CTAN: /language/chinese/ Summary description: LaTeX classes and packages for Chinese typesetting License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Remove the dependency of CJKnumb.sty package. * Remove unnecessary cjkfonts option. * Use winfonts as the default fontset. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/chinese/ctex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ctex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: xecjk
by CTAN Announcements 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

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: xecjk Version number: 2.3.10 Author's name: Jiang Jiang Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/ Summary description: A XeLaTeX package for typesetting CJK documents in the way users have become used to, in the CJK package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Add ormalspacedchars{<char list>} macro, characters in <char list> will not have spaces added. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xecjk . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xecjk (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: svn-multi
by CTAN Announcements 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

This should be at you local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: svn-multi Version number: v2.2 Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/svn-multi/ Summary description: Update to version 2.2 - 'Revision Modified' macro and bug fixes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary: This update adds two new macros which where requested by an user and fixes some bugs. Details: * Added check to not have main file twice in list of groups. * Added macro `ifsvnfilemodified` and global version `ifsvnmodified` which allows the user to check if the source files got changed after the last commit. * Added usage of svn-prov package for file headers. * Fixed bug related to short keyword names (i.e. 'Date' vs. 'LastChangedDate') in `svnidlong` and svnkwdef/svnkw macros. * Fixed bug causing wrong parent group names. * Several other minor fixes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/svn-multi/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/svn-multi (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: tablor
by CTAN Announcements 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

This should within a day be at yourlocal mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: tablor Version number: 4.05-c Author's name: Guillaume Connan Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablor Summary description: Create tables of signs and of variations. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fix a minor bug in tablor-xetex.sty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tablor . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tablor (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-dw
by CTAN Announcements 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Dominik Wassenhoven submitted an update to the biblatex-dw package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/ Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 1.2l - BUGFIX: With footnote-dw, the references to the first citations did not work, when refsections were used. This is now fixed. - BUGFIX: With xref=true, when no volume was present in an @inreference entry as well as in its corresponding @reference entry, the bibstring 'vol.' was printed. This is now fixed. - New option 'shortjournal'. If set to 'true', the field 'shortjournal' is used instead of 'journaltitle'. This is useful for journal abbreviations. The default is 'false'. - New option 'acronyms'. If set to 'true', shorthands (and with 'shortjournal=true' also the abbreviated journal titles) are set with the command mkbibacro, but only if the entry option 'acronym' is set to 'true'. The default is 'false'. - New option 'pageref' (in footnote-dw only). If set to 'true', it adds the page to the footnote number pointing to the full citation if it is located on a different page. This option is the same as in the standard styles 'verbose-note' and 'verbose-inote'. The default is false. - In footnote-dw, the pointer to the earlier citation is suppressed if a shorthand exists and the option 'citedas' is true. Note that you can override the global option 'citedas' by setting the entry option 'citedas'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 has a new package: ftnxtra
by CTAN Announcements 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

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: ftnxtra Version number: 0.1 Author's name: Vafa Khalighi Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ftnxtra Summary description: fixes the issue of standard LaTeX footnote License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package fixes the isuue of footnote inside caption{}, tabular environment and section{} like (chapter{}, part{}, subsection{} and etc) commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ftnxtra . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ftnxtra (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: popupmenu
by CTAN Announcements 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

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: popupmenu Version number: .6 Author's name: D. P. Story Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/popupmenu Summary description: Short package to create popup menus by clicking on a link or passing over a button. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- popupmenu is a LaTeX package used to create a menu structure. This menu structure (an array of menu items) is passed to the Acrobat JavaScript method app.popUpMenuEx() method to create a popup menu. Using the environments defined in this package, and the command popUpMenu, you can create and display hierarchical menus. The menu items can have JavaScript actions associated with them, they can be marked and dis-enabled. The package requires only hyperref. Thus, users of pdftex, dvipdfm, and dvips can use this package. An example is included in the distribution, an additional example can be found at the AeB Blog http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/aebblog.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/popupmenu . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/popupmenu (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: rsc
by CTAN Announcements 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

the daemon has slept, but now it wakes and cries: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: rsc > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/rsc > Summary description: BibTeX styles for Royal Society of Chemistry and Wiley journals > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v3.1c: > - Better incollection treatment > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/rsc.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/rsc of course, there are changes to come, for the catalogue entry ... but they don't amount to much. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: mfpic
by CTAN Announcements 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

This package should soon be updated at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mfpic Version number: 1.01 Author's name: Daniel Luecking Location on CTAN: /graphics/mfpic/ Summary description: A package for creating pictures in TeX with the aid of MetaPost or Metafont. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release mainly fixes a bug in the command plrvectorfield. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/mfpic/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mfpic (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: draftmark
by CTAN Announcements 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

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: draftmark Version number: 1.2 Author's name: Ahmed Musa Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Puts user specified draftmarks on select pages License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package date error corrected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/draftmark . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/draftmark (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: hvindex
by CTAN Announcements 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded hvindex.tgz to the uk mirror. Please put > all files into the _new_ directory > /macros/latex/contrib/hvindex/ or another one > > hvindex defines some macros as a > replacement for index{...!...} which makes > live easier. You have to type every index > word only once to get it into the index > and into the text, too. i have installed the package and added an entry to the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/hvindex.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hvindex/ The catalogue entry will appear on the web overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: linguex
by CTAN Announcements 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

This should appear within a day at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: linguex Version number: 4.0 Author's name: Wolfgang Sternefeld Location on CTAN: / macros/ latex/ contrib/ linguex Summary description: A tool for rendering linguistic examples in scientific papers. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- added flexibility for designing labels by yourself ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/linguex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/linguex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: ctex
by CTAN Announcements 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

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: CTeX Version number: r206 Author's name: Yue Wang Location on CTAN: /language/chinese/ctex Summary description: Macros for Chinese localization License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update remove use of CJKnumb, correct adobefonts. We hope this will be final version that will be included in TL09 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/chinese/ctex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ctex (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: zhmetrics
by CTAN Announcements 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

This update should soon reach your local mirror. Jim ............................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Chinese Font Metrics Version number: r206 Author's name: Yue Wang Location on CTAN: /fonts/metrics Summary description: tfm files, map files, fd files needed to embed Chinese TTF fonts into PDF License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release provide bug fixes, and minor updates to better match the font definitions in the CJK package. We hope this will be the final version that will be appeared in TeXLive 2009. For more information, visit http://code.google.com/p/ctex-kit ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/zhmetrics . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/zhmetrics (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 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

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: REVTeX Version number: 4.1 Author's name: Mark Doyle Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/revtex/ Summary description: REVTeX 4.1 Distribution for APS and AIP Journals License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The first update to REVTeX since 2001 is now available. REVTeX 4.1 includes bug fixes, improved functionality, and support for a wider range of journals, including those of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). REVTEX 4.1 was developed jointly by APS, AIP, and Arthur Ogawa. Additional work was done by Patrick Daly to incorporate our suggested improvements into his natbib package to address many new features concerning bibliographies. For more information, please visit http://authors.aps.org/revtex4/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss(a)FU-Berlin.DE> wrote: > I uploaded pstricks-add.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please replace the files with the ones in > the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ > > > pstricks-add is a PSTricks related package, which has a lot > of additional features, like arrows, special curves, ... > > This update has: > > pstricks-add.tex ----------- (Dominik Rodriguez/hv) > v 3.35 2009-08-13 - fix bug with trailing space in psaxes@vi > - fix bug with star version of psplotTangent > take care of math mode for comma or dot in > labels for the axes thanks for the upload; i have installed the new files and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pstricks-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: combelow
by CTAN Announcements 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

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: combelow Version number: 0.99d Author's name: Gianluca Pignalberi Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/combelow Summary description: The package allows the typesetting of comma-belowed letters License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To add a comma below (accent) to a character, call it x, just write cb x in your document. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/combelow . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/combelow (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: cookybooky
by CTAN Announcements 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Jürgen Gilg submitted the new cookybooky package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cookybooky/ Summary description: This is a LaTeX based package to easily typeset some professional looking cooking recipes. License type: lppl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/cookybooky/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=cookybooky (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: dvisvgm
by CTAN Announcements 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: dvisvgm 0.8.6 has been released License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. The latest version 0.8.6 is a maintenance release that fixes a couple of bugs and improves the collaboration with Asymptote. 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 has a new package: soton
by CTAN Announcements 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

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: soton Version number: 0.1 Author's name: Max Blanco Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/soton Summary description: A beamer-friendly use of the University of Southampton palette. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 'brand' of the University of Southampton (UoS) changed in early 2008. This macro package builds on the 'soton-palette.sty' package to enable the author to create UoS-compliant slides. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/soton . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/soton (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: eso-pic 2.0a
by CTAN Announcements 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update to the eso-pic package. Eso-pic is an extension of everyshi. Using everyshi's EveryShipout command, eso-pic adds one or more user commands to LaTeX's shipout actions. o Uses now `atbegshi' instead of `everyshi'. o Is now usable with the class `memoir' (see also `showframe'). o Some small bug fixes. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: drv
by CTAN Announcements 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

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: drv.mp Version number: 0.94 Author's name: Laurent Méhats Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/ Summary description: derivation trees with MetaPost License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Minor code corrections and improvements, documentation update. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/drv . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/drv (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: tamethebeast
by CTAN Announcements 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

This should be at your local mirror within the day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Tame the BeaST Version number: v1.4 Author's name: Nicolas Markey Location on CTAN: /info/bibtex/ Summary description: This is a detailled documentation about BibTeX. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tame the BeaST -- The B to X of BibTeX ========================= This is an (as complete as possible) documentation about bibliographies in LaTeX, thus mainly about BibTeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/bibtex/tamethebeast . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tamethebeast (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: bibexport
by CTAN Announcements 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

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: bibexport Version number: v2.20 Author's name: Nicolas Markey Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/ Summary description: Extract a BibTeX file based on a .aux file. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a shell script using BibTeX to extract .bib entries that are cite'd in a document. It also permits to expand a BibTeX file, i.e. to develop abbreviations (except standard ones) and crossrefs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibexport . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bibexport (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-historian
by CTAN Announcements 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

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: historian Version number: 0.2a Author's name: Sander Gliboff Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-historian Summary description: Bibliography style for use with the biblatex system of programmable bibliographies License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Historian is a bibliography- and citation style for use with the biblatex system of programmable bibliographies. It implements the formatting rules from the Turabian Manual, a version of the Chicago Manual of Style. This is a maintenance release of historian, for use with biblatex v. 0.8i. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-historian (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: babelbib
by CTAN Announcements 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

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: Babelbib Version number: 1.29 Author's name: Harald Harders Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib/ Summary description: Multilingual bibliographies: The babelbib package - Update to Version 1.29 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: Each citation may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can be typeset in a language chosen by the user. The current version supports Afrikaans, Bahasa, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. In addition, the package supports commands to change the typography of the bibliographies. Many of the standard and extended bibliography styles are available. ChangeLog: 2009/10/10 1.29 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Fix output of urldate 2009/06/23 1.28 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Corrected Diciembre in Spanish language - Automatic formatting of month year combinations (either June 2009 or 06/2009) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/babelbib (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 Updates: lm and tex-gyre fonts
by CTAN Announcements 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted updates to the lm and tex-gyre font packages. > ---- > Package: Latin Modern fonts > Version: 2.004 (Oct 07 2009) > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > License: GUST Font License > Location on CTAN: fonts/lm > > Recent changes: > * malformed `Euro' sign in oblique fonts corrected (thanks to > Gunter Spahlinger) > * LaTeX *.fd files improved (better substitutions for unavailable > variants) > > ----- > Package: The TeX Gyre Collection of Fonts > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 2.004 > Date: Oct 07 2009 > Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre > License: GUST Font License > Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre > > The whole package consists of the following font families: > TeX Gyre Adventor, TeX Gyre Bonum, TeX Gyre Chorus, TeX Gyre Cursor, > TeX Gyre Heros, TeX Gyre Pagella, TeX Gyre Schola, TeX Gyre Termes > > ---- > Recent changes: > - accents repositioned to work better (a little bit) with > the accent primitive > - malformed `estimated' glyph corrected > __________________________________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: The caption package v3.1k
by CTAN Announcements 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 Axel Sommerfeldt submitted version 3.1k of the caption package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table, and cooperates with many other packages. Includes rotating captions, sideways captions, continued captions (for tables or figures that come in several parts). A list of compatibility notes, for other packages, is provided in the documentation. The package also provides the caption outside float facility, in the same way that simpler packages like capt-of do. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfix release of the caption package bundle: - Bugfix in listings package support: Workaround for wrong skips added - Bugfix Option within=section fixed - Bugfix caption@xref is robust now - Bugfix in fltpage package support: DeclareCaptionType now works correctly with FP-variants, too - Bugfix in floatrow package support: Missing KV error handler will be defined automatically - Bugfix in sub-caption feature: The sub-caption counter will be reset at chapter in report and book alike document classes now - Bugfix usepackage{bar} won't lead to an error anymore - Bugfix in sub-caption feature: Sub-captions are working correctly now in floating environments (re-)defined by the floatrow package - Bugfix in float package support: Fixed pdfTeX warning when used with color package - Support of ifcapstart (hypcap package v1.10) added - The options `figureposition' and `tableposition' will give a warning now when used with a KOMA-Script document class ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=caption (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: docmute
by CTAN Announcements 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 T.M. Trzeciak submitted the new package docmute to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/docmute Summary description: Input standalone documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The docmute package enables to input or include standalone LaTeX documents as if they consisted of only the content between egin{document} and end{document}. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: UK TeX FAQ
by CTAN Announcements 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

i have just installed a new version of the uk tex faq. this version is not a finished product (a bug was discovered in the html files that tex distributions use, so *something* had to be done in short order -- so i have released a development snapshot). i believe that it's self consistent, however. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/uk-tex-faq.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq/ or, of course, they can browse the Web version at http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: texshade
by CTAN Announcements 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

This should be at your local mirror by this time tomorrow. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: TeXshade Version number: 1.20 Author's name: Eric Beitz Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ Summary description: Update of the DNA and protein sequence alignment LaTeX package TeXshade License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update finally corrects problems with displaying sequence alignments in landscape mode. New commands were introduced to select and define residue weight tables (PAM250, PAM100, BLOSUM62, etc.) for calculations of sequence conservation. Another set of commands allows you to print tables with percent identity and similarity data. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/texshade (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-func
by CTAN Announcements 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Herbert Voss wrote: > Please replace the files with the ones in > the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/ > > pst-func is a PSTricks related package for drawing > special mathematical functions like distributions, > polynomials, a.s.o. > > v0.60 2009-10-08 > - modified psPrintValue to allow algebraic function mode > - fix bug with algebraic=true for all > macros with psplot which need postfix code thanks for the upload. i've installed the files as requested, and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pst-func.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: l2tabu
by CTAN Announcements 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

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: l2tabu Version number: 2.1 Author's name: Marc Ensenbach Location on CTAN: /info/l2tabu/german/ Summary description: Collection of LaTeX sins (German) License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- l2tabu is a collection of LaTeXe sins with hints how to correct them (in German). This update includes some minor improvements due to hints of readers and adds information on ae.sty and zefonts.sty. l2tabu ist eine Sammlung von LaTeXe-Suenden mit Hinweisen, wie diese korrigiert werden koennen. Dieses Update beinhaltet einen neuen Abschnitt zu ae.sty und zefonts.sty sowie einige kleinere Verbesserungen, die auf Leserhinweise zurueckgehen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/german/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/l2tabu (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: draftmark
by CTAN Announcements 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

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: draftmark Version number: 1.2 Author's name: Ahmed Musa Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Puts user-specified watermarks on select document pages. License type: nocommercial Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A revision. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/draftmark . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/draftmark (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: getfiledate
by CTAN Announcements 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

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: getfiledate Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Ahmed Musa Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Gets the date of last modification of a resident file. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- An error in using boolkeys has been corrected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/getfiledate . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/getfiledate (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: changelayout
by CTAN Announcements 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

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: changelayout Version number: 0.1 Author's name: Ahmed Musa Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Change the layout of the page dynamically. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- An error in using 'boolkeys' has been corrected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/changelayout . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/changelayout (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-3dplot
by CTAN Announcements 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pst-3dplot.tgz to the uk node. Please replace > the files in the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/ > > pst-3dplot is a PSTricks related package for drawing > 3-D objects in parallel projection. > > This update v1.86 has a new optional argument > to handle different types of spherical > coordinates: SphericalCoorType=0 or 1 thanks for the upload. i've installed the replacement files, and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pst-3dplot.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: draftmark
by CTAN Announcements 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

This update should within a day be at the mirror near you. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: draftmark Version number: 1.2 Author's name: Ahmed Musa Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Puts user-specified marks on document pages License type: nocommercial Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Revised and updated based on user feedback. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/draftmark . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/draftmark (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: autolatex
by CTAN Announcements 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

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: autolatex Version number: 7.1 Author's name: Stephane Galland Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Minor bug fix in Makefiles License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A warning is displayed by the default Makefiles when it tries to display the list of the auto-generated pictures when the auto-generation flag was set to false. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/autolatex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/autolatex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: luamplib
by CTAN Announcements 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

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: luamplib Version number: 1.02 Author's name: Elie Roux Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luamplib/ Summary description: Use LuaTeX's built-in MetaPost interpreter. License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- changing the name of the .mem file to mplib-luatex.mem, which will be the one of next TeXLive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luamplib/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luamplib (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 -- match_parens-1.1
by CTAN Announcements 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Wybo Dekker wrote: > I have uploaded (new) match_parens-1.1.zip at ftp.dante.de/incoming > > - I have added a GPL notice > > - Unpack in support > > - please announce > > - further info in README match_parens is a perl script to assist the user check parenthesis balancing in documents. i have installed the package, and updated the catalogue repository -- thanks for the upload. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/match_parens.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/match_parens The catalogue entry will not appear until the processing run, some time overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: fmtcount
by CTAN Announcements 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

another upload rouses him from his slumbers, and the daemon writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: fmtcount > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fmtcount > Summary description: Display the value of a LaTeX counter in a variety of formats > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 1.31: > > * fixed unwanted space in decimalnum > > * fixed bug that ignores spaces after commands like > ordinalnum. > > * added Italian support (translations provided by Edoardo Pasca) 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/fmtcount.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fmtcount the catalogue entry has a few pointers in need of updating; that will happen overnight (along with the usual minor changes). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the softmaker-freefont package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/softmaker-freefont/ 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: Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold), Stone Handwriting License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) New in v1.4: - added LaTeX support for the small caps font Delano-Caps Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (October 2009) and can be downloaded for free (at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de Later you can buy it from Softmaker ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Asymptote Version number: 1.88 Author's name: John Bowman Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Compilation without OpenGL was fixed. PRC billboard labels were implemented; settings.billboard was renamed to settings.autobillboard and by default enabled for all 3D labels. The surface constructor for embedding labels on surfaces now draws both the top and bottom faces by default. The meshpen, knot, weight, and color arrays are now properly cached. The example fequlogo.asy illustrates how to draw an arbitrary 3D background plane. The intermediate DVI file is now removed when producing SVG output. Improvements were made to the tutorial. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: latex-veryshortguide
by CTAN Announcements 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

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: The Very Short Guide to LaTeX Version number: 1 Oct 2009 Author's name: Peter Flynn Location on CTAN: / info/ latex-veryshortguide Summary description: An 4pp folder designed as an aide-mémoire for people who have just done a course in LaTeX and need something by them on their desk the next day to refresh their memories. It is not intended as a substitute for full documentation. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This revision corrects some minor typographical inconsistencies, and rephrases some descriptions for greater clarity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex-veryshortguide . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latex-veryshortguide (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: jpgfdraw
by CTAN Announcements 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

to the ringing sounds of a martinu symphony, the daemon sings out: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: jpgfdraw > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: graphics/jpgfdraw > Summary description: Vector graphics application for LaTeX users > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > version 0.5.5b > > * Fixed bug that can cause save function to prematurely terminate > when saving after trying to quit with unsaved data. > > * Added check if I/O operation in progress before discarding frame. > > * Added progress bar when loading and saving images. > > * Fixed bug when exporting image with text-path object to SVG > (class cast exception). > > * Fixed bug when exporting image with text-path object to pgf > (null written when alternative LaTeX text wasn't set). > > * Added print function to jdrview. > > * Added -doc switch to jdr2tex and ajr2tex to save as a complete > document rather than just the pgf code. > > (From version 0.5.4b which I didn't get around to uploading): > > * Fixed bug preventing parshape or shapepar menu items from being enabled > > * Fixed bug causing NullPointerException when exporting to > flowframe (sty) > > * Added check to see if any flowframe data has been assigned > when exporting to sty file. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/jpgfdraw.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/jpgfdraw the catalogue entry will change quite noticeably, overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: luamplib
by CTAN Announcements 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

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: luamplib Version number: 1.02 Author's name: Elie Roux Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luamplib/ Summary description: Use LuaTeX's built-in MetaPost interpreter. License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Inputing the .mp file if the loading of the .mem file fails, adapting the .mem names for TeXLive 2009, adapting search function, improving the warning/error/log messages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luamplib/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luamplib (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: etextools
by CTAN Announcements 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

my upload daemon crawls out, blinking in the early autumn light, and says ctan-upload(a)cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: etextools > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: CTAN home/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ > Summary description: a lot of purely expandable tools for e-TeX -LaTeX Users and package Writers > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > etextools provides many (purely expandable) tools for LaTeX > - Extensive list management (csv lists, lists of single > tokens/characters, etoolbox lists): > . purely expandable loops (csvloop, forcsvloop etc.) > . conversion (csvtolist etc.)) > . addition/deletion (csvadd, listdel etc.) > . purely expandable linear interpolation (interval, > locinterplin) > - Tests on strings (among them ifstrnum to check if a > string could be parsed by eTeX's umber) > - Selective detokenization (detokenizeChars) and character- > test > - Purely expandable macros with options (FE@testopt) or > modifiers (FE@modifiers) > - Vectorized form of futurelet: futuredef can read more > than one single token > > The pdf documentation contains a lot of example in verbatim. > > v3.1 (2009/09/30) - pretty stable - Any suggestion welcome ! thanks for the upload. i've installed this latest version, and the catalogue is already up-to-date. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/etextools.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/CTAN home/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: boolexpr
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 Florent Chervet submitted an update to the boolexpr package. Summary description: Purely expandable boolean expressions and switch License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Added support for pdfmatch Correction of catcode collision when loaded with etextools... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=boolexpr (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: latex-make
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 Vincent Danjean submitted the new latex-make package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: support/latex-make Summary description: easy compiling of complex (and simple) LaTeX documents License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides several tools that aim to simplify the compilation of LaTeX documents: * LaTeX.mk: a Makefile snippet to help compiling LaTeX documents in DVI, PDF, PS, ... format. Dependencies are automatically tracked: one should be able to compile documents with a one-line Makefile containing 'include LaTeX.mk'. Complex documents (with multiple bibliographies, indexes, glossaries, ...) should be correctly managed. * figlatex.sty: a LaTeX package to easily insert xfig figures (with includegraphics{file.fig}). It can interact with LaTeX.mk so that the latter automatically invokes transfig if needed. * And various helper tools for LaTeX.mk Homepage: http://gforge.inria.fr/projects/latex-utils/ This package *requires* GNUmake (>= 3.81) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latex-make/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=latex-make (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 Gyre fonts
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 at 23:09 +0200, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the tex-gyre fonts package. > Package: The TeX Gyre Collection of Fonts > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 2.003 > Date: Sep 16 2009 > Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre > License: GUST Font License > Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre > > The whole package consists of the following font families: > TeX Gyre Adventor, TeX Gyre Bonum, TeX Gyre Chorus, TeX Gyre Cursor, > TeX Gyre Heros, TeX Gyre Pagella, TeX Gyre Schola, TeX Gyre Termes > > ---- > Recent changes > this release is strictly based on the 35 PostScript base fonts > as distributed with Ghoscript ver. 4.00; according to URW++ > decision the base fonts may as of 22nd June 2009 be distributed > under LPPL/GFL and we gladly took advantage of this. > With the removal of the Cyrillic glyphs all t2a-*.tfm, t2b-*.tfm > t2c-*.tfm files and the relevant LaTeX *.fd files were also removed. > LaTeX *.sty and *.fd files were reworked, etc. > > ------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAn Update: lm fonts
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 at 23:08 +0200, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the lm fonts package. > ---- > Package: Latin Modern fonts > Version: 2.003 (Sep 16 2009) > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > License: GUST Font License > Location on CTAN: fonts/lm > > Recent changes: > main modification: shapes of LM glyps consistent > with D.E. Knuth's recent changes in CMs plus lots of tiny changes, > e.g. LaTeX *.sty and *.fd files reworked, etc. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: mfpic
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

This update 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: mfpic Version number: 1.00 Author's name: Daniel Luecking Location on CTAN: /graphics/mfpic/ Summary description: A package for creating pictures in TeX with the aid of MetaPost or Metafont. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mfpic is a package for creating pictures in (pdf)(La)TeX files, using macros that create an external Metafont or MetaPost input file. With this major update, mfpic now supports the new color models of MetaPost (cmyk and grayscale) and the new renaming feature (filenametemplate of MP version 1.0 and/or outputtemplate in 1.2). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/mfpic/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mfpic (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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