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CTAN update: draftmark
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 20 May '09

20 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: draftmark Author's name: Ahmed Musa Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Puts user-specified watermarks on document pages License type: nocommercial Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- An upgrade to enable multiline text marks and graphic watermarks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 package update: kpfonts
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 20 May '09

20 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: kpfonts Author's name: Caignaert christophe Location on CTAN: /fonts/kpfonts Summary description: Full set of fonts for text and math typesetting License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kpfonts loads the amsmath package, except if you use the 'noamsmath' option. It was not good if you want to use 'amsmath' with one of its options. With the 3.1 release, you can use the options of 'amsmath' as options of 'kpfonts'. They are simulated or passed to 'amsmath'. Christophe Caignaert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/kpfonts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/kpfonts (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: biblatex-historian
by CTAN Announcements 20 May '09

20 May '09

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Sander Gliboff submitted the new package biblatex-historian to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-historian/ Summary description: A biblatex style, based on the Turabian Manual (a version of Chicago) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Initial beta release of a biblatex style, based on the Turabian Manual (a version of Chicago). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-histori… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=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 . _______________________________________________________________________-- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Bug fixes: CTAN files givbc10.pfb and etr10.pfb
by CTAN Announcements 19 May '09

19 May '09

peter wilson wrote: > I have uploaded (binary) givbc10.pfb and etr10.pfb to UK > incoming. Please use givbc10.pfb to replace the current > fonts/archaic/givbc10.pfb and etr10.pfb to replace > fonts/archaic/etr10.pfb. > > These changes are to correct the original file naming/contents > mismatch. > > I suppose this should be announced as it corrects a problem noted > with TeXLive (and hence CTAN). i have installed the fixed versions of these fonts; thanks for the upload. the fonts are part of the archaic fonts bundle, whose catalogue entry may be viewed at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/archaic.html links to the separate font catalogue entries may be seen on that page (greek 4th century bce and etruscan). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: minutes
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 19 May '09

19 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: minutes Author's name: Knut Lickert Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/minutes Summary description: minutes.sty provides the creation of a collection of minutes. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Minor corrections (space around -- at time) - Corrected documentation (previous pdf was uncomplete) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minutes . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/minutes (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: Asymptote
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 19 May '09

19 May '09

This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and 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: Asymptote Author's name: John Bowman Location on CTAN: /graphics/asymptote Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Asymptote (http://asymptote.sourceforge.net) is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: hyph-utf8
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 19 May '09

19 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and 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: hyph-utf8 Author's name: Arthur Reutenauer, with Mojca Miklavec Location on CTAN: /language/hyph-utf8 Summary description: Hyphenation patterns expressed in UTF-8. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package update, with a couple of hyphenation files modified, and a new language (Latvian). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyph-utf8 . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8 (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: enumitem 2.2
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 18 May '09

18 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: enumitem 2.2 Author's name: Javier Bezos Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/enumitem Summary description: Formats enumerate, itemize, description License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release fixes a bug in some description styles (the first label in the first list after a description was wrong). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/enumitem . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/enumitem (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: Tufte-LaTeX
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 17 May '09

17 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Tufte-LaTeX Author's name: Kevin Godby Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tufte-latex Summary description: Document classes inspired by the work of Edward Tufte. License type: apache2 Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Provides two document classes (handout and book) inspired by the works of Edward Tufte. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tufte-latex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tufte-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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CTAN Update: libertine
by CTAN Announcements 17 May '09

17 May '09

On Sun, 17 May 2009 Michael Niedermair submitted an update to the libertine package. This supercedes the xelibertine package as well. Location on CTAN: fonts/libertine Summary description: new version of the libertine font (for latex and xelatex) License type: ofl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- new version of the libertine font - with biolinum - new version for xelatex (otf-font) - new version for latex (Type1-font) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/libertine/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=libertine (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ________________________________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: diagmac2, version 2.1
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 16 May '09

16 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: diagmac2, version 2.1 Author's name: Bob Tennent Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/diagmac2 Summary description: Diagram macros (esp. for category theory), using pict2e. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a development of the long-established diagmac package, using pict2e so that the restrictions on line direction and circle diameter are removed. In this version, two additional macros are defined and the documentation has been TeXified and expanded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/diagmac2 . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/diagmac2 (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: tikz-timing
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 15 May '09

15 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org. Regards, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: tikz-timing Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-timing/ Summary description: Update to version 0.5 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes: * Fixed bug which caused load errors if the `calc` package was loaded before the `tikz-timing` package. * Added posibility to give diagram wide settings as first optional argument in ikztiming and tikztimingtable. * Timing diagram is now a PGF shape (node) with many anchors including start and end points. This help to draw material relative to timing diagrams. Rows inside a `tikztimingtable' are automatically named. * Package now depents on 'amsmath' or 'environ' package. Previous versions always needed the 'environ' package. * Syntax change: The iming macro now awaits an 'at' before the coordinate like nodes do. The old syntax still works but causes a warning. Future versions might enforce the 'at' or react different if it is not used. * Added user defined meta-characters which can store user defined character groups. * Added special 'B' character to introduce negative width. Main application is for meta-characters and other groups. * Changed `M` character to use path decorations. * Some code improvements to speed up compilation and make the source code cleaner. For more informations and examples see the package manual. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-timing/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tikz-timing (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 pacakge: ulqda
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 15 May '09

15 May '09

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should soon 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: ulqda Author's name: Ivan Griffin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ulqda Summary description: A LaTeX package supporting Qualitative Data Analysis License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ulqda is a LaTeX package for use in Qualitative Data Analysis research. It supports the integration of Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) research tasks, specifically for Grounded Theory, into the LaTeX work flow. It assists in the analysis of textual data such as interview transcripts and field notes by providing the LaTeX user with macros which are used to markup textual information - for example, in-depth interviews. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ulqda . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ulqda (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 package update: hyphen-spanish
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 15 May '09

15 May '09

This package was updated yesterday and should already be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: hyphen-spanish Author's name: Javier Bezos Location on CTAN: /language/spanish/hyphen/base Summary description: Hyphenation patterns for Spanish License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some patterns fixed, particularly for familia, superar, sub- and final consonants. Patterns are now generated with the help of a few lua/luatex files, which are included. Their status is still alpha, but I think they can show an application of luatex. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/spanish/hyphen/base . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hyphen-spanish (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: lshort-mongol
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 15 May '09

15 May '09

This package has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should soon 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: lshort-mongol Author's name: Batumongke Dorjgotov Location on CTAN: /info/lshort/mongolian/lshort-mongol Summary description: The (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e, in Mongolian. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e, in Mongolian. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/mongolian/lshort-mongol . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/lshort-mongol (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 (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 14 May '09

14 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: tablor 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There was a little bug in TVI & co : new version 4.04-g ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --- fonttable package v1.5
by CTAN Announcements 14 May '09

14 May '09

peter wilson wrote: > I have uploaded fonttable.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this > to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/fonttable. The > distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > The fonttable package enables you to print a table of the > characters in a font (a font table), and/or some example text, and/or > individual glyphs in a variety of settings. > > This, in package form, is a poor man's version of nfssfont.tex and > testfont.tex. > > Changes in version 1.5 (2009/05/12) > o Added code providing a packaged version of Donald Knuth's > testfont.tex, principally as an aid for font designers in testing > their fonts. i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fonttable.html or browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fonttable/ (the catalogue entry will be updated overnight tonight.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: VnTeX 3.1.8
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 13 May '09

13 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: VnTeX 3.1.8 Author's name: Reinhard Kotucha Location on CTAN: /language/vietnamese/vntex Summary description: VnTeX - support for typesetting Vietnamese License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 3.1.8: * improved documentation * bugfix for CM Bright and Concrete fonts * new package vntex.sty (using UTF-8 by default) * many files moved from doc/ to source/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/vietnamese/vntex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/vntex (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: pst-gantt
by CTAN Announcements 13 May '09

13 May '09

Herbert Voß wrote: > I uploaded pst-gantt.tgz to the uk node. Please put the > files into the new directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-gantt/ i have installed the package and made an entry the catalogue repository; thanks for the upload. > pst-gantt is a PSTricks related package for > drawing Gantt charts, which is a type of bar chart > that illustrates a project schedule. > > the authors are Denis Girou and Herbert Voß. The license > is as usual LPPL users will be able to view the catalogue entry (when the overnight update run has happened) at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-gantt.html and they may (right now) browse the package directory at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-gantt/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pst-math
by CTAN Announcements 13 May '09

13 May '09

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pst-math.tgz to the uk mirror. Please replace the > files with the ones in the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-math/ > > pst-math is a collection of PostScript subroutines for > special mathematical functions like sin hyperbolic > Gamma function , a.s.o. > > This version 0.4 of pst-math.pro has a new subroutine > for solving linear equation systems i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. users may view the catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-math.html or browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-math/ the catalogue entry will be updated, on the web, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 13 May '09

13 May '09

Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss(a)FU-Berlin.DE> wrote: Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 09:23:17 +0100 Message-ID: <11886.1242202997(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> Sender: rf10(a)cl.cam.ac.uk > 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, a... > > This update has a new macro (see documentation): > > v 3.32 2009-05-11 - added psTangentLine for a curve of three points > Tnormal option is valid > - load pst-math for equation solver i have updated the package and the ctan catalogue; thanks for the upload. users may view the catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks-add.html and browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ the catalogue entry on the web will be updated overnight, tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: MetaPost 1.200
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 11 May '09

11 May '09

This package had been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: MetaPost 1.200 Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/base Summary description: New stable metapost release License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This new release of MetaPost will be included in the next TeXLive. MetaPost 1.200 has: * support for SVG graphics generation * the possibility to access PostScript Type1 font curves from within the MetaPost language * a series of bugfixes * an improved manual and tutorial The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost . The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Supelec, https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost; please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the <metapost(a)tug.org> mailing list as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/base . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/metapost (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: logical-markup-utils
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 10 May '09

10 May '09

A new package has been put up at tug.ctan.org and 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: logical-markup-utils Author's name: Michał Masłowski Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/logical-markup-utils Summary description: Styles for language-dependent inline quotes and dashes License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Two styles are contained here -- ``quoted'' providing a single command to use inline quotes in a specific language, and ``onedash'' to typeset dashes in a specific style and language. Unlike widely used alternatives, the exact appearance of the characters produced by these styles is specified only in their options. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/logical-markup-utils . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/logical-markup-utils (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: BibTexMng (version 6.0)
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 10 May '09

10 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and the changes should reach your local mirror within a day. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: BibTexMng (version 6.0) Author's name: Petr Vabishchevich Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/BibTexMng/ Summary description: The new version of BibTexMng License type: shareware Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BibTexMng Version 6.0 BibTexMng is a very easy to use product of bibliographic software for Windows. BibTexMng combines online searching, reference management, bibliography making, and information sharing into a single user-friendly environment. It was written to be used with LaTeX, using BibTeX. BibTexMng is a program for manipulating BibTeX database files. These files contain all the relevant data, and sometimes additional information such as abstracts and keywords, but do not specify the final format in which this data will be presented. The data is organized into records, in which each record is identified by a unique key or label. BibTexMng requires Windows XP or Vista, or later editions of MS Windows. We do not warrant that the software is error free. This is not free software. Subject to the terms below, you are hereby. Licensed to use Shareware Version of this software for evaluation purposes without charge for a period of 30 days. The free evaluation period starts at the moment of installation of the software. New features in version 6.0: • The program rewritten to use the WinForm components in the language C# • Internal Xml format used for bibliographic records • Support for advanced search capabilities of bibliographic records in the database • Import bibliographical data on the basis of Google Scholar service Installation BibTexMng is distributed as BibTexMngSetup.exe. Run BibTexMngSetup.exe and simply follow the on-screen instructions to install BibTexMng. BibTexMng is copyright (C) 2000-2009, by VNP Comp. Contact: Home Page: http://www.latexsoft.com e-mail: bibtexmng(a)latexsoft.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/BibTexMng/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/BibTexMng (version 6.0) (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 (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 10 May '09

10 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: biblatex-dw Author's name: Dominik Wassenhoven Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/ Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 1.2i - BUGFIX: When using option 'usetranslator=true', the translator string was not aware of the option 'editorstring'. This is now fixed. - Improved bibmacro 'journal+issuetitle' which is now aware of the option 'edbeforetitle'. - The 'typeeditor' field is now supported. It can take the values 'editor' and 'compiler'. This field determines the editor string after the name of the editor(s). The abbreviated forms are 'ed.' for 'editor' and 'comp.' for 'compiler'. In German, both strings are the same ('Herausgeber' or 'Hrsg.'). - In English, the 'idem' string is now declined (idem, eadem, idem in singular; eidem, eaedem, eadem in plural) and no longer abbreviated, even if abbreviate=true is used. - Improved the handling of 'origfields=true'. - In German, the string 'reprint' (Nachdruck) is now abbreviated as 'Ndr.', not as 'Nachdr.' - Compound abbreviations are now separated by a thin space rather than a normal one. At the moment, this affects only the German localization in strings like 'hg. v.' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-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 .

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CTAN package update --- fonttable package v1.4
by CTAN Announcements 10 May '09

10 May '09

peter wilson wrote: > I have uploaded fonttable.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this > to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/fonttable. > > From the README: > > The fonttable package enables you to print a table of the > characters in a font (a font table), and/or some sample text. > > This, in a package form, is a poor man's version of nfssfont.tex > > Changes in v1.4 (2009/05/06) > o Added another method for font selection i've installed the new version; thanks for the upload. users may view the catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fonttable.html or browse the package diretory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fonttable/ i've updated the catalogue entry very slightly, and that change will appear on the web overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: figbas
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 09 May '09

09 May '09

This package has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: figbas Author's name: Bob Tennent Location on CTAN: /fonts/figbas Summary description: mini-fonts for figured-bass notation in music License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package consists of three mini-fonts (and associated metrics) of conventional ligatures for the figured-bass notations 2+, 4+, 5+, 6+ and 9+ in music manuscripts. The fonts are usable with Computer Modern Roman and Sans, and Palatino/Palladio, respectively. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/figbas . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/figbas (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 (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 07 May '09

07 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be updated at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: draftmark Author's name: Ahmed Musa Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Adds draftmark intelligently on arbitrary pages of documents License type: nocommercial Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Optimized a segment of code and included an example source file as requested by users. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: The fge font
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 06 May '09

06 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The fge font Author's name: J.J. Green Location on CTAN: /fonts/fge Summary description: a font for Frege's Grundgesetze der Arithmetik License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release fixes garbled dvips output when using the PostScript version of the font (only fge.map is modified). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/fge . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fge (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: TeXcount
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 06 May '09

06 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: TeXcount Author's name: Einar Andreas Rødland Location on CTAN: /support/texcount Summary description: Perl script for counting the words in LaTeX documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.2 of TeXcount adds support for handling Unicode (UTF-8) encoded documents, thus able to handle non-Latin alphabets such as Greek and Hebrew, and special options for counting the characters of Chinese and Japanese texts. The script, including these new features, is available as a web-service at http://folk.uio.no/einarro/Comp/texwordcount.html where additional support (FAQ) is also provided. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/texcount . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/texcount (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 package update: achemso
by CTAN Announcements 05 May '09

05 May '09

and so, up pops another billet-doux from my upload daemon: > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v3.2b: > - New email option to prevent printing e-mails > - Bug fix for non-superscript citations > - Added better compatibility with v3.1 configuration files 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/achemso.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/achemso the catalogue entry on the web will be updated (ever so slightly) overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: tikz-timing
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 05 May '09

05 May '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: tikz-timing Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-timing/ Summary description: Update to version 0.4a License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update adds a ablerules macro to add booktabs-like table rules to a tikztimingtable. The default style of inline nodes has been changes from empty to 'shape=coordinate' which should be better suited for the standard application of this feature. A further example showing the use of inline use to draw marker lines and ablerules has been added. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-timing/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tikz-timing (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: draftmark
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 05 May '09

05 May '09

This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: draftmark Author's name: Ahmed Musa Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/draftmark Summary description: Put draftmarks on select pages intelligently License type: nocommercial Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package puts a user-specified draftmark on pages of documents. It is more general than the package 'draftwatermark' by Sergio Callegari. The advantages of this package over 'draftwatermark' include: the user can specify his own draftmark and color, the draftmark position, the page (all pages, odd pages, even pages, a particular page number, and a range of pages) on which the draftmark should appear, and all the options are passed directly to package instead of being defined by macros. There is also the provision to use the macro draftmarksetup, which can be used to specify draftmark properties for each page or range of pages. With the 'xcolor' package (loaded by this package), all colors (including 'white', shades like 'red!75!green!50', and those defined within the user document) can be passed to this package. The code of this package is very much shorter than that of the 'draftcopy' package by Jurgen Vollmer (2002) because it capitalizes on some dvi 'hook' packages that have become available in recent years (post 2002). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: tolkienfonts
by CTAN Announcements 04 May '09

04 May '09

the upload daemon, here, claims: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: tolkienfonts > Author's name: Ariel Barton > Location on CTAN: fonts/ > Summary description: Virtual fonts for writing easily with Tolkien's tengwar and cirth scripts > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The virtual fonts in this package allow the user to easily write > English, Quenya and Sindarin in several modes with J.R.R. Tolkien's > tengwar, cirth, sarati and valmaric scripts, using freely available > TrueType fonts found on the internet. > > Support is at very nearly the highest possible level; the point of > this package was to avoid bizarre spellings or lots of special > commands. > > Fonts supported are Tengwar Annatar, Cirth Erebor, Sarati and Valmaric > Eldamar, and (with a little more work) Tengwar Parmaite, Eldamar, > Noldor, Quenya and Sindarin. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and made an entry in the ctan catalogue. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/tolkienfonts.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/ the catalogue entry won't, of course, appear on the web until after the processing job, which is some time after i've gone to bed... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: fancytooltips
by CTAN Announcements 04 May '09

04 May '09

On Mon, 4 May 2009, Robert Marik submitted an update to the fancytooltips package. The package was inspired by the cooltooltips package. In contrast to cooltooltips, fancytooltips allows inclusion of tooltips which contain arbitrary TeX material or a series of TeX materials (animated graphics) from an external PDF file. To see the tooltips, you have to open the files in Adobe Reader. The links and JavaScripts are inserted using eforms package from the AcroTeX bundle. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fancytooltips Summary description: fixed bug from previous version License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixed bug which caused that some tooltips (on the top of the page) appeared on previous page. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fancytooltips . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=fancytooltips (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ______________________________________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: CircuiTikz
by CTAN Announcements 03 May '09

03 May '09

my upload daemon has been excited again, this time by: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: CircuiTikz > Author's name: Massimo Redaelli > Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/circuitikz > Summary description: Draw electrical networks with TikZ > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 0.2.1 of the unofficial circuit-drawing package for Tikz. > > Changes: > - added support for op-amps > - new options arrowmos and noarrowmos for drawing arrows in pmos and nmos i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue entry; thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/circuitikz.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/circuitikz the catalogue entry will change in a small way (to recognise this update), overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: svn-prov
by CTAN Announcements 03 May '09

03 May '09

On Sun, 3 May 2009 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the svn-prov package. The package introduces Subversion variants of the standard LaTeX macros ProvidesPackage, ProvidesClass and ProvidesFile where the file name and date is extracted from Subversion Id keywords. The file name may also be given explicitly as an optional argument. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/svn-prov/ Summary description: Update to v1. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release adds a DefineFileInfoSVN macro, which defines the version, revision, date and info text of the package, class or file as macros with the form packagename@version, classname@version or filename.ext@version, respectively. The used name can be overwritten using an optional argument, which is useful if the package name includes non-letters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/svn-prov/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=svn-prov (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf -- Please send messages to this mailing list in english only. Please do not send software to this list, use the web upload form.

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CTAN Update: tikz-timing
by CTAN Announcements 03 May '09

03 May '09

On Sat, 2 May 2009 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the tikz-timing package. Tikz-timing provides macros and an environment to generate timing diagrams (digital waveforms) without much effort. The TikZ package is used to produce the graphics. The diagrams may be inserted into text (paragraphs, hbox, etc.) and into tikzpictures. A tabular-like environment is provided to produce larger timing diagrams. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-timing/ Summary description: Update to version 0.4 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update brings the following improvements and new features: Timing Characters: * Multiple identical characters are now combined: DDDd -> 3.5D This improves the graphical quality for zoomed screen display and reduces the output file size. State dependent characters like 'T' and 'C' (toggle, clock) are not combined. * Lowercase characters are no longer handled by own macros but by the macros for the uppercase characters which are called with the half width. This reduces the number of needed macros significant. * Added special character `N' to add nodes at the current position of the timing diagram. * The factors for group repeats (`4{HL}' -> `HL HL HL HL') are now rounded arithmetically, not truncated, to integers if necessary. * Fixed miss-position of text in initial 'D'. Examples: * Added more examples, including two complete timing diagram (redrawn from free images on Wikipeadia). * Code for examples is now attached (as full LaTeX document) to the PDF file. Table environment `tikztimingtable': * Added macros to draw grids and marker lines inside `tikztimingtable'. * Added tabular-like error handling for wrong number of columns (`&'), i.e.: Ignores missing columns and raises error when too many columns are given. * Added table macros ` owdist' and `coldist' and corresponding tikz styles `timing/rowdist' and `timing/coldist' to allow the user to adjust distances between rows and columns in table (styles), as well as drawing lines relative to this values (macros). Other: * Some fixes to the used ` ikzset' settings. * Added `timing/lslope` setting to only set the normal slope. * General code clean-up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-timing/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tikz-timing (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 --- the fonttable package v1.3
by CTAN Announcements 01 May '09

01 May '09

peter wilson <herries.press(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > I have uploaded fonttable.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this > to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/fonttable. The > distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > The fonttable package enables you to print a table of the > characters in a font (a font table), and/or some sample text. > > This, in package form, is a poor man's version of nfssfont.tex > > Changes in version 1.3 (2009/04/30) > o Fixed a major bug related to redefining : i have installed the new version as requested, and brought the catalogue repository into line; thanks for the update. users may view the catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fonttable.html or browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fonttable/ (the catalogue entry will be updated overnight; the change will include editorial correction ;-) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: cleveref
by CTAN Announcements 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

the moving finger writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: cleveref > Author's name: Toby Cubitt > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ > Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This release adds a number of significant new features (as well as > fixing some bugs and compatibility issues): > > * New package options allow multiple cross-references to be > * automatically sorted, consecutive references to automatically be > * compressed, both of the above, or neither. > > * Babel support is finally here! (Currently, only English, German and > * French are available. Translations for other languages, or > * corrections for the existing ones, are most welcome. See the package > * documentation for details of how to submit contributions.) > > * Varioref is now fully supported. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/cleveref.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ note that the catalogue entry on the web will change a bit, overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: fancytooltips
by CTAN Announcements 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Robert Mařík submitted an update to the fancytooltips package. The package was inspired by the cooltooltips package. In contrast to cooltooltips, fancytooltips allows inclusion of tooltips which contain arbitrary TeX material or a series of TeX materials (animated graphics) from an external PDF file. To see the tooltips, you have to open the files in Adobe Reader. The links and JavaScripts are inserted using eforms package from the AcroTeX bundle. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fancytooltips/ Summary description: New version of fancytootips: support for slides divided into multiple pages. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This new version of fancytooltips package contains some modifications necessary for slides which are divided into multiple pages (like slides produced by texpower package and pause command). New option mouseover has been added - the tooltip is invoked by mouseover action only. Two demo files for dvips route have been added. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fancytooltips/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=fancytooltips (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: upmethodology
by CTAN Announcements 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Stéphane Galland submitted an update to the upmethodology package. The bundle allows the user to create Unified Process methodology (UP or RUP) based documents. The style provides document versioning, document history, document authors, document validators, specification description, task management, and several helping macros. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/upmethodology Summary description: Major bug fix in package inclusion License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Since texlive (because tetex is not more supported), the Pisymbol command is now available from the pifont package. Include this missed package.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/upmethodology/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: cite.sty
by CTAN Announcements 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

quoth the cambridge upload daemon: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: cite.sty > Author's name: Donald Arseneau > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/cite > Summary description: Bugfix release of cite.sty > License type: other-free > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > There were two serious bugs found in the recent cite.sty: > disappearing non-numeric citations and a broken [nosort] option. > They are fixed in this 5.1 release > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/cite.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cite (the catalogue entry on the web, will change to reflect the new version, overnight.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Herbert Voss has uploaded a new version of pstricks-add: > pstricks-add is a PSTricks related package, which has a lot > of additional features, like arrows, special curves, a... > > pstricks-add ----------- (Dominik Rodriguez/hv) > v 3.31 2009-04-29 - added pstFPDiv for division int(#1=#2/#3) > - added axes style polar > psaxes[axesstyle=polar](5,5) > - fix trailing space with yAxisLabel > - added option decimalSeparator to allow special > symbols for persian language i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. users may view the catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks-add.html and browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: luaotfload
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

This is new at tug.ctan.org and within a day will be at your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: luaotfload Author's name: Elie Roux Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- luaotfload allows to open OTF fonts with (almost) all features available, with the XeTeX font syntax. You must have luatextra to use it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: luamplib
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and within a day should 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: luamplib Author's name: Elie Roux Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luamplib Summary description: package to use metapost with the mplib library of LuaTeX License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- luamplib allows to typeset metapost natively in you TeX files, with the mplib library of LuaTeX (in PDF mode only). You must have luatextra to use it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 has a new package: luainputenc
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

This is new at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: luainputenc Author's name: Elie Roux Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/latex/luainputenc Summary description: inputenc package for LuaTeX License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the adaptation of inputenc for LuaTeX. You must have luatextra to use it. This package is necessary for 8-bit encodings, and also for UTF-8 if you use usual TeX fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/latex/luainputenc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luainputenc (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 packge: luatextra
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and will 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: luatextra Author's name: Elie Roux Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luatextra Summary description: additional macros for Plain and LaTeX to use LuaTeX License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package LuaTeXtra brings a lot of new macros and lua functions for Plain and LaTeX users to use LuaTeX. This includes, among many other things, the macro ewluaattribute and the possibility to register serveral functions in a callback. This package is fully documented and contains a small introduction in a separate document. You must have this package in order to benefit from luainputenc or luaotfload. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luatextra . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luatextra (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: auto-pst-pdf
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should be at your local mirror in a day or so. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: auto-pst-pdf Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf Summary description: Wrapper for pst-pdf License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package uses -shell-escape (or write18) to automatically perform the extra compilations required for the pst-pdf package. This makes it especially easy to integrate into the workflow of an editor with just LaTeX and pdfLaTeX buttons. v0.6 introduces a minor feature to allow multiple auxiliary compilations in order to resolve cross- references or other multi-pass information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/auto-pst-pdf (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: svn-prov
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 26 Apr '09

26 Apr '09

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and 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: svn-prov Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/svn-prov Summary description: Subversion Variants of the File Header Macros ProvidesPackage, ProvidesClass and ProvidesFiles. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package svn-prov ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This package introduces Subversion variants of the standard LaTeX macros ProvidesPackage, ProvidesClass and ProvidesFile where the file name and date is extracted from Subversion Id keywords. The file name can also be given explicitly as an optional argument. Syntax summary: ProvidesPackageSVN [file name]{$Id: ... $}[Package Information (version, description)] ProvidesClassSVN [file name]{$Id: ... $}[Class Information (version, description)] ProvidesFileSVN [file name]{$Id: ... $}[File Information (version, description)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/svn-prov . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/svn-prov (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: pst-vowel
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

This package has been put in at tug.ctan.org and should in the next day make its way to your local mirror. Thanks again Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pst-vowel Author's name: Alan Munn Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pst-vowel Summary description: Add arrows for diphthongs to vowel charts created using vowel.sty. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package insert nodes for use with pstricks so that arrows can be drawn to show diphthongs on vowel charts created with vowel.sty. For cardinal vowels, the change is minimal, since predefined node labels are used. For non-cardinal vowels vowels, an extra node argument must be provided. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pst-vowel . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-vowel (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: protocol
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and that update should reach your local mirror in the next day. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: protocol Author's name: Thomas Leineweber Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/protocol Summary description: A class for typesetting minutes (only german) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- It is now possible to use the group name within the protocol. Additionally, you can suppress the generation of the section announcing the next meeting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/protocol . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/protocol (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 admin (Robin Fairbairns) 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

it's at it again: > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v3.1: > - mciteplus package now optional > - Includes a demonstration file for submission to the RSC > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i've installed the package 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 at the time of writing, the catalogue entry lists a document that has now disappeared. this confusion will sort itself out overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: tikz-timing
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

This package has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: tikz-timing Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-timing Summary description: Easy generation of timing diagram as tikz pictures. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides macros and an environment to generate timing diagrams (digital waveforms) without much effort. The TikZ package is used to produce the graphics. The diagrams can be inserted into text (paragraphs, hbox, etc.) and into tikzpictures. A tabular-like environment is provided to produce larger timing diagrams. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-timing . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tikz-timing (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 0.7.3
by CTAN Announcements 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. The latest version is a plain bugfix release, so no new features have been added this time. 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: pstool
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

This package should get from the tug.ctan.org box to your local mirror in the next day. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pstool Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pstool Summary description: Alternative to pst-pdf for using psfrag in pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A package like pst-pdf for processing PostScript graphics with psfrag labels within pdfLaTeX documets. The difference with this package is that every graphic is compiled individually, drastically speeding up compilation time when only a single figure needs re-processing. This version adds some minor configuration options and slightly changes the way filenames are processed; they are now fully expanded before being written to the auxiliary file to be processed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pstool . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pstool (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: trivfloat
by CTAN Announcements 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

that daemon's at it again: ctan-upload(a)cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: trivfloat > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/trivfloat > Summary description: Quick floats in LaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.4: > - Bug fix for altering List of caption > - Package internals re-ordered and improved > - rivfloat now takes a comma list of float names > - Support for floatrow package introduced > - Some testing for babel introduced > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/trivfloat.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/trivfloat the (slightly changed) catalogue entry will appear on the web overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: Search-Plugin for Firefox
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. Name: firefox_ctan_plugins Author: Martin Engler See: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/firefox_ctan_plugins Description: I've created the two attached Firefox search-plugins. These may be useful to other users as well. How to embed them: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox#Au…

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CTAN has a new package: minibox
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: minibox Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/minibox/ Summary description: A simple type of box for LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A small package to provide a convenient input syntax for boxes that don't break their text over lines automatically, but do allow manual lines breaks, and that shrink to the natural width of the maximum line width. minibox{Some\ broken\ text} minibox[c]{Centred\ broken\ text} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minibox/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/minibox (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: tabularcalc
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: tabularcalc Author's name: Christian Tellechea Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tabularcalc Summary description: Calculate formulas in a tabular License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tabularcalc update v0.2 -------------------------- Warning: some incompatibilities with the previous version may occur. Please, read manual. New features: * the fp package is the math engine (pgfmath is canceled since its precision is too bad). * values can be calculated from formulas * the code of a table can be exported to a file * vietnamese manual ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabularcalc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tabularcalc (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 (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: svn-multi Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/svn-multi/ Summary description: Bug-fix for svn-multi v2.1 - Avoid if-fi parsing error for beamer and other classes. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This small update fixes an 'fi too much' error when used with the beamer class or any other class which does not define the 'if@restonecol' switch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 has a new package: alterqcm
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

This package has been put up at tug.ctan.org from where it should make it to your local mirror in about a day. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: alterqcm Author's name: Alain Matthes Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/alterqcm Summary description: A LaTeX2e package for making multiple choice questionnaires in a table License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 'alterqcm' package is a LaTeX2e package, for making Multiple Choices Questionnaires in a table with two columns. The aim is to provide some useful macros to build QCM in tables. These macros may be used by only LaTeX TeX users. The documentation is in French. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/alterqcm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/alterqcm (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 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

the daemon clears its little throat, and speaks thus: > ====================================================================== > > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v3.2: > - Added tocentry environment for graphics TOC entry > - Easier methods for turning on and off sections and section numbering > - Dependency on other packages greatly reduced > - Internal improvements to code > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue entries. > Users may view the package catalogue entries at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/achemso.html > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/natmove.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/achemso another busy little daemon will update the web representation of the catalogue, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: diagmac2
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: diagmac2 Author's name: Bob Tennent Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/diagmac2 Summary description: Reynolds diagram macros modified to allow arbitrary line slopes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Reynolds's diagmac macros have been in use since 1987, particularly for drawing commutative diiagrams. diagmac2 assumes that the pict2e package is in use, allowing arbitrary line slopes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/diagmac2 . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/diagmac2 (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: sparklines
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '09

20 Apr '09

On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 Andreas Loeffler submitted an update to the sparklines package. Sparklines are intense, simple, wordlike graphics (so named by Edward Tufte). Location on CTAN: /graphics/sparklines/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- removed error from previous version ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/sparklines/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=sparklines (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: xifthen
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '09

20 Apr '09

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 Josselin Noirel submitted an update to the xifthen package. This package extends the ifthen package by implementing new commands to go within the first argument of ifthenelse: to test whether a string is void or not, if a command is defined or equivalent to another. The package also enables use of complex expressions as introduced by the package calc, together with the ability of defining new commands to handle complex tests. The package requires e-TeX features. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xifthen License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug fix (spurious space removed) Bug reported by Ulrike Fisher. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xifthen/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=xifthen (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: nicetext (fifinddo & makedoc)
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '09

20 Apr '09

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the nicetext package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nicetext/ Summary description: string substitution and txt->TeX by LaTeX (documenting packages) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The NICETEXT bundle offers ``minimal'' markup syntax for restricted kinds of text: There should not be much more characters typed than printed! (though keeping LaTeX quality.) No more backslashes, technical terms, and curly braces! (so clumsy on PC keyboards) ... Main focus now is easy *documentation of LaTeX packages*. Preprocessing by 'Perl' or so is replaced by TeX macros (reviving/generalizing the 'docstrip' idea). 'fifinddo.sty' provides setup for txt -> TeX preprocessing macros including *expandable* sequences of safe, correct string substitions. 'fifinddo.pdf' mathematically characterizes wrong substring detection by 'substr.sty' as well as by LaTeX's internal `in@'. There is a script language for detecting package code and documentation and for supplying plain text with typographical markup ('makedoc.sty', 'mdcorr.cfg'). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nicetext/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=nicetext (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: texdirflatten
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 19 Apr '09

19 Apr '09

This package has been put up at tug.ctan.org and 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: texdirflatten Author's name: Cengiz Gunay Location on CTAN: /support/texdirflatten Summary description: Collapses components of a (La)TeX file to a single output directory. License type: artistic Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- texdirflatten is a Perl script that parses a (La)TeX source file, following its included children (La)TeX files recursively, to collect together its components, such as graphics and BibTeX files in different directories. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/texdirflatten . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/texdirflatten (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 admin (Robin Fairbairns) 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Herbert Voss has supplied an update to pstricks-add: > pstricks-add is a PSTricks related package, which has a lot > of additional features, like arrows, special curves, a... > > This update has the following changes > > pstricks-add.tex ----------- (Dominik Rodriguez/hv) > v 3.30 2009-04-17 - rewrote unit calculation for psgraph. It uses now > the package pst-fp, which has the division macro > (stolen from the fp package) > - new star option for psPlotTangent > - new optional argument for a x interval for > psPlotTangent > - new macro pslineByHand to make hand drawn lines > - add option showOriginTick, similiar to > showorigin from the basic pst-plot > > pstricks-add.pro ----------- > v 0.22 2009-03-17 - add LineByHand stuff > > pst-fp.tex ----------- (hv) > v 0.02 2009-04-02 initial version (floating point division) thanks for the update. i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository (for distribution overnight tonight). users may view the catalogue entry at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks-add.html or browse the package directory at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: CircuiTikZ
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

This package has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should soon 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: CircuiTikZ Author's name: Massimo Redaelli Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/circuitikz Summary description: A package for drawing electrical networks with TikZ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a set of macros for naturally typesetting electrical and (somewhat less naturally, perhaps) electronic networks. It is designed as a tool that is easy to use, with a lean syntax, native to LaTeX, and supporting directly PDF output format. So is based on the very impressive pgf/TikZ package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/circuitikz . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/circuitikz (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: turkishintro
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................... The package: Turkish intro License: nosource Location: /info/turkishintro Link: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/turkishintro More information: The Book : Adim Adim LaTeX Step by Step LaTeX, The language: Turkish Volume : 1 Authors : Rakhimov A.A. and Kesemen O. Public. date: 2004 Publishing house: Derya Kitabevi, Trabzon, Turkey. In brief about the book: ========================== It is the first book in Turkish language which in detail describes (La)TeX. In the book all the information (from the very beginning) on (La)TeX is given. In the book authors have tried to explain this program on a simple language. All explanations are accompanied from set by examples. In the book are stated such the important topics as LATEX Concepts (Environments and commands; Classes and packages), Document structure(Counters and Length parameters;Document and page organisation; Pagebreaks, footnotes, etc), Environments (Listing Items; Tabular; Pictures; Figures; Tabbing, etc), Packages(amsfont, amsmath, cite, eucal, hyperref, etc), Bibliographies and indexes and Math into LATEX.

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CTAN update: glossaries
by CTAN Announcements 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

a thread worming its way around www.tex.ac.uk wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: glossaries > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/glossaries > Summary description: Create glossaries and lists of acronyms > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.2: fixed bug in ngerman captions > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the catalogue. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/glossaries.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries though (as always) the catalogue entry won't change much, even when it's updated overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: disser
by CTAN Announcements 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Stanislav Kruchinin submitted an update to the disser package, containing a document class and set of templates for typesetting dissertations in Russian. One of its primary advantages is a simplicity of format specification for titlepage, headers and elements of automatically generated lists (table of contents, list of figures, etc). Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/disser/ Summary description: Class and templates for typesetting dissertations in Russian. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes in version 1.1.1: Class: * Compatibility with newest version of natbib package. + New pagestyles that allow to change position of page numbers. + New option noams to forbid inclusion of AMS packages from the class. + User manual has been moved from disser.dtx to the separate file manual.tex. Templates: * Changed separators in BibTeX labels for compatibility with hyphenated surnames. * Fixed double inclusion of common.tex. Makefiles and Installation: - Documentation for class is compiled only as PDF. + Added installation of sources to TeX tree. + Provide ZIP-archive with compiled class, documentation and templates. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/disser/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=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 . _______________________________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: cc-pl fonts repackaged on dante:/incoming
by CTAN Announcements 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the cc-pl package. In particular, the package cc-plps containing Adobe Type 1 versions of the fonts has been merged into this package. > --------- > Font: cc-pl > Authors: Bogus{l}aw Jackowski and Marek Ry{}cko > Type1 version produced by W{l}odek Bzyl > Version: 1.02.2 > Date: April 2009 > Licence: Public domain > Location on CTAN: fonts/cc-pl > > The cc-pl fonts are the Polish version of Computer Concrete fonts. > The fonts are distributed in the .mf source files and Type1 format. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: mfpic4ode
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mfpic4ode Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mfpic4ode/ Summary description: Update for mfpic4ode - dashed and dotted trajectories License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mfpic4ode is a collection of macros for drawing slope fields and phase portraits of first order ODE's and planar autonomous systems. This new version, allows to draw trajectories with prefixes like dashed, dotted, gendashed etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mfpic4ode/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mfpic4ode (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: TotCount
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

This package hs been put up at tug.ctan.org and will 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: TotCount Author's name: Vasileios Koutavas Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/totcount/ Summary description: A package for computing the last value of counters License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The TotCount package computes and displays the last value of counters inside a document. With this package one may count the total number of elements (e.g. sections, pages, citations, etc.) in a LaTeX document by simply using standard LaTeX counters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/totcount/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/totcount (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:: newlfm
by CTAN Announcements 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Paul A. Thompson submitted an update to the newlfm package. It integrates the letter class with fancyhdr and geometry to automatically make letterhead stationery. Useful for writing letters, fax, and memos. You can set up an address book using ‘wrapper’ macros. You put all the information for a person into a wrapper and then put the wrapper in a document. The class handles letterheads automatically. You place the object for the letterhead (picture, information, etc.) in a box and all sizing is set automatically. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/newlfm License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug fix and feature enhancement - newlfm v 9.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/newlfm/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=newlfm (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: oberdiek bundle
by CTAN Announcements 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the oberdiek bundle. > Changes: > > * All packages that also run with plain-TeX: > Bug fix in package reload prevention. > > * Some adaptations for LuaTeX 0.40: > * ifluatex v1.1 > * ifpdf v2.0 > * luacolor v1.1 > * luatex v0.2 > * magicnum v1.1 > * pdftexcmds v0.4 > > Minor issues: > > * epstopdf v1.8: > * Warning message for missing xfile{pdftex.def} changed. > > * kvoptions v3.1: > * Unwanted space removed. > > * picture v1.2: > * Check for package loading order. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: latexmk
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

This package has been updated and should within the next day be through the mirroring system. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: latexmk Author's name: John Collins Location on CTAN: /support/latexmk Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- V. 4.05. Bug fixes, notably a solution of problems when latexmk makes both dvi files by latex and pdf files by pdflatex. Plus updated CHANGES and INSTALL files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latexmk (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: chapterbib.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

quoth my upload thingummy: > Name of contribution: chapterbib.sty > Author's name: Donald Arseneau > Author's email: asnd(a)triumf.ca > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/cite > Summary description: Chapterbib updates version 1.14 > License type: other-free > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Updated chapterbib.sty, version 1.14. > Changes since 1.11: > License statement (Simple MIT/BSD-like) > New CitationPrefix declaration for chapter.cite numbering > No warning from ocite* in chapters > Rewrite final-bibs titling > Update @citex with fseries > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/chapterbib.sty.html (slightly update due overnight tonight) > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cite thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pkfix-helper
by CTAN Announcements 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

the cambridge upload daemon's moving finger wrote: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: pkfix-helper > Author's name: Scott Pakin > Location on CTAN: support/pkfix-helper > Summary description: Make PostScript files produced by older dvips versions accessible to pkfix > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > pkfix is a useful utility for replacing resolution-dependent bitmapped > fonts in a dvips-produced PostScript file with the corresponding > resolution-independent vector fonts. Unfortunately, pkfix needs to > parse certain PostScript comments that appear only in files produced > by dvips versions later than 5.58 (ca. 1996); it fails to work on > PostScript files produced by older versions of dvips. > > pkfix-helper is a program that attempts to insert newer-dvips comments > into an older-dvips PostScript file, thereby making the file suitable > for processing by pkfix. pkfix-helper can sometimes process documents > fully autonomously but does require the user to verify and, if needed, > correct its decisions. > > CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1: When producing font samples (TeX and > PostScript), pkfix-helper now knows how to break pages -- useful for > documents containing a large number of fonts. Thanks to RogÃ©rio Brito > for suggesting this feature. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pkfix-helper.html (it will change minutely overnight tonight.) > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/pkfix-helper i have installed the update, and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: sseq
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

This package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: sseq Author's name: Tilman Bauer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sseq Summary description: drawing spectral sequence charts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update of the sseq package for drawing spectral sequence charts to version 2.0. It now uses pgf graphics instead of xypic, resulting in nicer output and less inexplicable behavior. Many new options and features; consult the manual. Compatible to previous versions 1.0x ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sseq . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/sseq (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: accfonts
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 John Smith submitted an update to the accfonts package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/utilities/accfonts Summary description: Utilities to derive new fonts from existing ones License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The accfonts package contains three utilities to permit easy manipulation of fonts, in particular the creation of unusual accented characters. Mkt1font works on Adobe Type 1 fonts, vpl2vpl works on TeX virtual fonts and vpl2ovp transforms a TeX font to an Omega one. All three programs read in a font (either the font itself or a property list), together with a simple definition file containing lines such as ‘128 z acute’; they then write out a new version of the font with the requested new characters in the numerical slots specified. Great care is taken over the positioning of accents, and over the provision of kerning information for new characters; mkt1font also generates suitable “hints” to enhance quality at small sizes or poor resolutions. The programs are written in Perl. See the file CHANGES for information about this update. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/utilities/accfonts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=accfonts (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: IEEEconf
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: IEEEconf Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf Summary description: Class file for IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The IEEEconf class implements the formatting dictated by the IEEE Computer Society Press for conference proceedings (ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.pdf). IEEEconf.cls replaces latex8.sty and is compatible with any BibTeX style, not just latex8.bst. The goal was to produce a more faithful implementation of the formatting rules and to do so with cleaner LaTeX code than that provided by the latex8.* files. Version 1.4 of IEEEconf.cls includes a few changes to better match the IEEE Computer Society Press's latest formatting requirements, a latex8 class option that retains latex8.sty's incorrect but more space-efficient title formatting, and support for the onecolumn class option in case an author wants to use the multicolumn package along with the IEEEconf class. Thanks to Oliver Kopp for proposing latex8 and onecolumn support and for helping with testing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ieeeconf (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: Frontespizio
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Frontespizio Author's name: Enrico Gregorio Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib Summary description: This package provides an environment to typeset a frontispiece to theses in Italian style License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The frontespizio package lets you typeset a frontispiece (suitable for Italian university style) independently of the page layout of the main document. This is version 1.1 of the package; the only change from version 1.0 is the addition of the option `swapnames', to exchange the position of candidate and advisor names. A bug with option `onlyinclude' has been corrected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/frontespizio (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: dozenal
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

This package has been updated on tug.ctan.or and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: dozenal Author's name: Donald P. Goodman Location on CTAN: /fonts/dozenal Summary description: Typeset documents using base twelve numbering (also called dozenal). License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package supports typesetting documents whose counters are represented in base twelve, also called “dozenal”. It includes a macro by David Kastrup for converting positive whole numbers to dozenal from decimal (base ten) representation. The package also also includes a few other macros and redefines all the standard counters to produce dozenal output. Bugs in the original redefinition of these standards counters have been resolved. Fonts, in Roman, italic, slanted, and boldface versions, provide ten and eleven (the Pitman characters preferred by the Dozenal Society of Great Britain). The fonts were designed to blend well with the Computer Modern fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/dozenal . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dozenal (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: jeopardy
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: jeopardy.sty - fixed example with babel/pdfscreen issue Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/ Summary description: Fix for two of the examples - babel is not compatible with pdfscreen License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update fixes problem reported on comp.text.tex in January. The package pdfscreen (I use 1.5) is not compatible with babel and it has to be modified slightly to work well (there are problems with catcode of @ when creating table of contents in panel). I've removed babel from example files written in English and these files (game2.tex, game2a.tex) should compile fine now. For two remaining czech demo files (game3.tex, jeopardy-CZ.tex) you still need the fixed pdfscreen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/jeopardy (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN Update: dvisvgm 0.7.2
by CTAN Announcements 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. The latest release introduces a caching mechanism for vectorized bitmap fonts. The slowest part during a DVI to SVG conversion using dvisvgm is the call of Metafont and the following vectorization of its bitmap output. To increase the conversion speed in this area, dvisvgm now keeps information about the vectorized glyphs in cache files for future usage. This avoids multiple Metafont calls for the same fonts as well as repeated vectorizations of the same glyphs. To reduce the length of font path description a bit, dvisvgm now generates SVG shorthand path commands if possible. 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: pdfcomment
by CTAN Announcements 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the pdfcomment package. 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. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment Summary description: A user-friendly interface to pdf annotations License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New in v1.4: - new annotation type: PDF sideline, line, polyline, polygon, square and circle annotation -> pdfsidelinecomment, pdflinecomment (type=line|polyline|polygon), pdfsquarecomment, pdfcirclecomment - new options: font, fontsize, fontcolor, borderstyle, dashstyle, bse, bsei, line, type, lineend, linebegin, icolor, caption, captionhoffset, captionvoffset ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: silence
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: silence Author's name: Paul Isambert Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Selective filtering of error messages and warnings. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update: * LaTeX Font Warnings can now be filtered out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/silence . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/silence (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 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

On Tue, 31 Mar 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 Summary description: The package lets the user mark things to do later, in a simple and and visually appealing way. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Added a use case for linking to the list of todos, idea from Andreas Plank. Introduced a package option for listening to the draft option given to the document class. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: pst-sigsys
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pst-sigsys Author's name: Farshid Delgosha Location on CTAN: / Summary description: An update to the pst-sigsys package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The pst-sigsys is a collection of useful macros for disciplines related to signal processing. It defines macros for plotting a sequence of numbers, drawing the pole-zero diagram of a system, shading the region of convergence, creating an adder or a multiplier node, placing a framed node at a given coordinate, creating an up-sampler or a down-sampler node, and connecting a list of nodes using any node-connecting macro. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-sigsys . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-sigsys (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: libris
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

This package has be updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: libris Author's name: Clea F. Rees Location on CTAN: /fonts/libris Summary description: LibrisADF License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Includes updated OTF and TTF fonts. Note that the type 1 fonts, which are used by the LaTeX package, and the corresponding support files are unchanged. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/libris . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/libris (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: The CodeDoc class
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

This package is new on tug.ctan.org and should in the next day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The CodeDoc class Author's name: Paul Isambert Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/codedoc Summary description: Produce LaTeX code and documentation in a single file with ordinary LaTeX syntax. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The CodeDoc class is an alternative to DocStrip (and others) to produce LaTeX code along with its documentation without departing from LaTeX's ordinary syntax. The documentation is prepared like any other LaTeX document and the code to be commented verbatim is simply delimited by an environment. When an option is turned on in the class options, this code is written to the desired file(s). The class also includes fully customizable verbatim environments which provide the author with separate commands to typeset the material and/or to execute it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/codedoc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/codedoc (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 (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: biblatex-dw Author's name: Dominik Wassenhoven Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/ Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 1.2h - BUGFIX: The 'idem' functionality is now also aware of page breaks. If the citation is the first on a page (or double page in twoside mode), the 'idem' is suppressed. If you don't want this behaviour, you can set the option 'pagetracker=false'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-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 .

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CTAN Update: calctab
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Roberto Giacomelli submitted an update of the calctab package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/calctab Summary description: A language for numeric tables License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- calctab package - A language for numeric tables version 0.6 update - 2009/03/28 The calctab package helps the user to typeset a kind of economic table such as invoices, expense notes and liquidation, or other tabular material with a values columns. The code computes sum and percentage with floating point numeric method (with the fltpoint package by Eckhart Guthoehrlein) and builds the render table task. Economics items may be are independent values or not like sums and percentage on previous values. The language must be expressive concerning together data and its relationships. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/calctab/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=calctab (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: rotating
by CTAN Announcements 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

juergen spitzmueller found a bug in sebastian rahtz's rotating package, which i now maintain. i have now mended the bug (which i introduced), and i have installed a new version of the package on ctan (note that a file rotating.tds.zip also exists, for the convenience of those who maintain their own systems). users may visit the catalogue entry for the package at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/rotating.html or browse the package directory on the archive at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotating/ i have updated the catalogue entry in the repository, and the link above will be updated overnight, but is unlikely to deceive in any important way before then. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: svn-multi
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should be at your local mirror within a day. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: svn-multi Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/svn-multi/ Summary description: Update to version 2.1 - Automatic extraction of keyword values from Subversion working directory License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version adds the possibility to extract the needed version control keyword values of LaTeX or external files directly from the Subversion working directory. This feature avoids the need for an external script to generate the keyword definitions for external files (a feature introduced by v2.0) and can also be used to make id macro completely redundant. This feature must be explicitly enabled using the 'autokw' (Auto-Keywords) option. It only works with valid Subversion working directories from Subversion v1.4 or newer but not with exported or downloaded files. Technical Informations: A TeX parser for the '.svn/entries' file which is located in every Subversion working copy/directory is added. The working copy format versions 8, i.e. Subversion v1.4, or higher should be supported. The implementation was tested with Subversion 1.5.1 under Ubuntu 8.10. Users which encounter parsing errors or wrong results should not hesitate to send bugreports with information about the used Subversion version and platform to the author. Bugfixes: The version 2.0 released earlier this week erroneously changed the document date (e.g. oday) to the package release date. This has been fixed in this version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: PerlTeX
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: PerlTeX Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/perltex Summary description: Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PerlTeX is a combination Perl script (perltex.pl) and LaTeX2e style file (perltex.sty) that, together, give the user the ability to define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code. Once defined, a Perl macro becomes indistinguishable from any other LaTeX macro. PerlTeX thereby combines LaTeX's typesetting power with Perl's programmability. Version 1.8 of PerlTeX adds support for creating documents that can build either with or without PerlTeX. Specifically, the new optional package option tells PerlTeX not to issue an error message if Perl is inaccessible, and the new ifperl macro checks if Perl is accessible, thereby letting the author define fallback macros/environments if it's not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/perltex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/perltex (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: datatool
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should with in a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: datatool Author's name: Nicola Talbot Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/datatool Summary description: Tools to load and manipulate data License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v2.01: * fixed bug that ignores descending sort option ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/datatool . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/datatool (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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