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CTAN package update: pst-pad
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pst-pad Author's name: Patrick Drechsler Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-pad Summary description: `pst-pad' is a PSTricks package to draw simple attachment systems. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Added german documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-pad . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-pad (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: The Memoir Experimental Support package
by CTAN Announcements 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The Memoir Experimental Support package Author's name: Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/memexsupp/ Summary description: memexsupp provides experimental macros for the memoir class License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated as to reflect the changes in the latest memoir update, which included some of the ideas from this package. New in this version: a very simpel way of creating ...mark macros for memoir, such that the casual user does not need to know about if@mainmatter or ifnum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memexsupp/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/memexsupp (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: computational-complexity class
by CTAN Announcements 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Michael Nüsken submitted an update to the computational-complexity package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/computational-complexity Summary description: Class originally desigend for the journal Computational Complexity License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The LaTeX2e class cc was written for the journal Computational Complexity, and it can also be used for a lot of other articles. You may like it since it contains a lot of features as more intelligent references, a set of theorem definitions, an algorithm environment, ... The class requires natbib. This is the version: 2008/03/18 v2.08. It contains some bugfixes. (Note that still the combination with hyperref is problematic.) The author is <a href=http://cosec.bit.uni-bonn.de/cosec/members/nuesken/>Michael Nüsken</a>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/computational-complexity . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=computational-complexity (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: biblatex 0.7f
by CTAN Announcements 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded `biblatex_new.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the > UK node. This is a maintenance update for > macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. > > Please use the contents of the archive to replace the corresponding > files in macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. Note that the archive only > contains the files which have actually been modified. i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the update. > RELEASE NOTES > > This is a maintenance update for biblatex 0.7. The following files > have been modified: > > latex/biblatex.sty > > The updated files are tagged 0.7f 2008/03/18. > > CHANGES > > * Fixed a bug introduced in 0.7d which breaks the lx@crossref > code discussed in section 4.10.1 of the manual as always, users may view the catalogue entry (with the old version number still in place until tonight's update) at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html or browse the package directory itself: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN package update: biblatex 0.7e
by Robin Fairbairns 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

Philipp Lehman has submitted a new version of biblatex.sty: Philipp Lehman <plehman(a)gmx.net> wrote: > RELEASE NOTES > > This is a maintenance update for biblatex 0.7. The following files > have been modified: > > latex/biblatex.sty > > The updated files are tagged 0.7e 2008/03/15. > > CHANGES > > * Fixed bug triggered by bibencoding option in conjunction > with csquotes and inputenc 1.1b i have installed the new version, and updated the version number in the catalogue. thanks for the update. users may view the catalogue entry (updated tonight, but it doesn't really matter) at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html and they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: show2e
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

The package below has been installed 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: show2e Author's name: Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/show2e Summary description: show variants for LaTeX2e License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This small package aims at making debugging (esp. in an interactive way) easier, by providing show variants suited to LaTeXe's commands (with optional arguments or robust) and environments: those variants also display the internal macros used by such commands, if any. The showcs variant helps with macros with exotic names. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/show2e . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/show2e (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: DeLig
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: DeLig Author's name: Daniel Warner Location on CTAN: /support/delig Summary description: DeLig disables misplaced ligatures in LaTeX documents License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DeLig disables misplaced ligatures in LaTeX documents using a dictionary approach. In general LaTeX always uses ligatures for the letter combinations ff, fi, fl, ffi and ffl. This is not always correct in the German language, e.g. the word Auflage may not be printed with an fl-ligature, that is, the fl-ligature in Auflage must be disabled. This may be accomplished by using the babel-package and the two symbols |: Auflage. The Java program DeLig does this job automatically for you, using a ligature word list. Please note that DeLig is only as good as the ligature word list file DeLig.list it relies on. This version is intended for German language texts only. DeLig is partially based on the Perl script rmligs by Björn Jacke, in particular the wordlist data is based on his igerman98 dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/delig . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/delig (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: achemso Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso Summary description: LaTeX and BibTeX support for American Chemical Society publications License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v2.2h: - Fix for use with re-applied ibliographystyle, for example when using chapterbib ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/achemso . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/achemso (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: Frontiers in Bioscience BibTeX style file
by CTAN Announcements 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

The material below has just gone up on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way through the system. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Satin Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Frontiers in Bioscience BibTeX style file Author's name: Jakob Suckale Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/misc/fbs.bst Summary description: BibTeX style file (fbs.bst) to format bibliography according to Frontiers in Bioscience (FBS) rules License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Custom made BibTex style file to fit Frontiers in Bioscience requirements: - all authors, no et al, full author names, initials abbreviated - only abbreviated journal name italicised, no abbreviation dots - only year, no month, at end of reference - DOI excluded, ISSN excluded ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/misc/fbs.bst . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fbs (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: sagetex
by CTAN Announcements 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and is working its way through the system. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: sagetex Author's name: Dan Drake Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sagetex Summary description: embed Sage code and plots into LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows you to embed code, results of computations, plots, and graphics from the Sage mathematics software suite (http://sagemath.org) into LaTeX documents. It is similar in spirit to Literate Haskell and lhs2TeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sagetex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/sagetex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: vc
by CTAN Announcements 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

The package below has been updated and is working its way through the system. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: vc bundle Author's name: Stephan Hennig Location on CTAN: /support/vc Summary description: version control for TeX and friends License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a script based approach to version control for TeX documents. It works more reliably than keyword substitution based approaches, since it tracks all files in a working copy, not only .tex files. The vc bundle works with LaTeX and plain TeX. Currently, Git and Subversion are supported. Changes: v0.21 (2008-03-10) ---------------------- * Incompatible change: - Removed macros VCDate, VCLongDate, VCDateTeX. - Introduced macros VCDateRAW, VCDateISO, VCDateTEX. * Improved documentation: - Added section Questions and answers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/vc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/vc (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: polski package
by CTAN Announcements 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 at 18:53 +0100, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the polski package. > --------- > Package: polski > Authors: Mariusz Olko, Marcin Woliski > Version: 1.3.3 > Date: February, 24 2008 > License: LPPL > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/polski > > Bundle `Polski' provides tools to typeset documents in Polish using > LaTeX2e. Documented source code is in *.dtx and *.fdd files. > > In the curent version (1.3.3) only ot4cmss.fd was corrected. > > ------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: TeX Gyre fonts
by CTAN Announcements 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 at 16:05 +0100, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the tex-gyre fonts. Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre > ----- > Package: The TeX Gyre Collection of Fonts > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 1.104 > Date: February 2008 > Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre > License: GUST Font License > Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre > > The whole package consists of the following font families: > TeX Gyre Adventor, TeX Gyre Bonum, TeX Gyre Chorus, TeX Gyre Cursor, > TeX Gyre Heros, TeX Gyre Pagella, TeX Gyre Schola, TeX Gyre Termes > > --------- > Description > > All of the Ghostscript text font families have become gyrefied > as the result of the project. Gyrefication, also called LM-ization, > was first applied to the Computer Modern Fonts and their various > generalizations with the result known as the Latin Modern (LM) Fonts. > > > The TeX Gyre Adventor family of sansserif fonts is based on the > URW Gothic L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, > ITC Avant Garde Gothic was designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase > in 1970. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs > each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. > > The TeX Gyre Bonum family of serif fonts is based on the URW Bookman L > family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font was designed > by Alexander Phemister in 1860 and named Bookman (or Bookman Old Style). > The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and > are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note > that with the release of this family the QuasiBookman fonts became > obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Chorus is a font based on the > URW Chancery L Medium Italic font distributed with Ghostscript. > The original, ITC Zapf Chancery, was designed in 1979 by > Hermann Zapf who was inspired by handwritten letterforms of the > Italian Renaissance (currently, other variants of this typeface > are available). Compared to URW Chancery L Medium Italic, > TeX Gyre Chorus is heavily extended and contains more than 900 glyphs. > Unlike for other fonts from the TeX Gyre collection, Greek letters are > missing and so are small caps (using capital forms of chancery > characters for typesetting whole words should be forbidden by law). > The font is available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. > Please note that with the release of TeX Gyre Chorus the QuasiChancery > font became obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Cursor family of monospaced serif fonts is based on the > URW Nimbus Mono L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original > font, Courier, was designed by Howard G. (Bud) Kettler in 1955 for > the IBM Corporation. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly > 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type > formats. Please note that with the release of this family > the QuasiCourier fonts became obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Heros family of sansserif fonts is based on the > URW Nimbus Sans L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original > font, Helvetica, was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger in cooperation > with Eduard Hoffman at the Haas type foundry. The constituent > 8 faces (4 standard and 4 condensed) contain nearly 1250 glyphs each > and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. > Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiSwiss fonts > became obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Pagella family of serif fonts is based on the URW Palladio L > family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, Palatino, > was designed by Hermann Zapf in the 1940's for the Stempel type foundry. > The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and > are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that > with the release of this family the QuasiPalatino fonts became obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Schola family of serif fonts is based on the > URW Century Schoolbook L family distributed with Ghostscript. > The original was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1919, for > the American Type Founders. The constituent 4 standard faces > contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, > TeX and Open Type formats. > > The TeX Gyre Termes family of serif fonts is based on the > Nimbus Roman No9 L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original > font, Times, was designed by Stanley Morison together with > Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent for the London newspaper > The Times. It was first issued by the Monotype Corporation in 1932. > The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each > and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please > note that Termes obsoletes the QuasiTimes fonts. > > ---- > Recent changes > * math glyphs shifted horizontally (widths left intact) > * kerns between half rings and `A' (also `a.sc') added > * in the OTF files, the features `salt', `ss01', `ss02', > `ss03', `ss04' added > * compatibility with the recent Latin Modern release (1.106) implemented, > see -- http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern/ > main changes: the repertoire of glyphs extended by Arabic transliteration > glyphs, OTF structure modified (`size' feature implemented, the ligatures > `i_j' and `I_J' available only for Dutch, the ligature `f_k' -- for Polish, > the `locl' feature reimplemented -- an artificial glyph `i.TRK' is no > longer needed) > * glyphs uni03C6 and uni03D5 used to be interchanged in all TeX Gyre fonts; > the unicode specification is not explicit too much: > 03C6;GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI > 03D5;GREEK PHI SYMBOL > * `copyright.alt' added > * an underlining stroke added in `ordmasculine' and `orfeminine'; > `colonmonetary' and `guarani' touched > > ------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: glossaries
by Robin Fairbairns 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

ctan-upload(a)tex.ac.uk wrote (in its sweet little way): > ====================================================================== > > 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 list of acronyms > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.12 (8 March 2008): > * Fixed bug that causes glspl to print the plural short form > on first use instead of the plural long form. > > * Added descriptionplural and symbolplural keys. > > * Added glsshortkey, glsshortpluralkey, glslongkey and > glslongpluralkey. > > * Fixed bugs in glsname, glstext, glsdesc etc. > > * Added a check for hypertarget in addition to checking > for hyperlink (in the event that hyperlink is defined > but not hypertarget). > > * Changed #! line in makeglossaries to use /usr/bin/env > > * Added package mfirstuc.sty which provides the command > makefirstuc{<stuff>} which makes the first object of > <stuff> uppercase unless <stuff> starts with a control > sequence followed by a group, in which case the first > object in the group is converted to uppercase. Examples: > > makefirstuc{abc} -> Abc > makefirstuc{emph{abc}} -> emph{Abc} > makefirstuc{{a}bc} -> {A}bc > makefirstuc{ae bc} -> AE bc i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue. i've also added a catalogue entry for mfirstuc, on the grounds that it surely has other uses. thanks for the upload. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/glossaries.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries the package itself is already on its journey to mirror sites around the world. the catalogue entry will be updated overnight (i.e., pretty soon, here in cambridge, but different times at the other two main sites). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: xecyr
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

A new 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: xecyr Author's name: Alexey Shipunov Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xecyr Summary description: helper for Cyrillic languages in XeLaTeX + Babel License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the version 1.0 of 'xecyr' package which is intended to help with Russian and other Cyrillic-based languages in Babel and XeLaTeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xecyr . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xecyr (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: frontespizio
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

A new 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: frontespizio Author's name: Enrico Gregorio Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/frontespizio Summary description: This package provides an environment to typeset a frontispiece to theses in Italian style License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Typesetting a frontispiece independently of the layout of the main document is difficult. This package provides a solution by producing an auxiliary TeX file to be typeset on its own and the result is automatically included at the next run. The markup necessary for the frontispiece is written in the main document in a frontespizio environment. Documentation is mainly in Italian, as the frontispiece style is probably apt only to theses in Italy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/frontespizio . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/frontespizio (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: abc
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

The package here has been updated and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: abc Author's name: Enrico Gregorio Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/abc Summary description: This package supports ABC(Plus) and Mup music notation in LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 2 of the abc package for including music in ABC and ABCPlus notation in LaTeX files. The package now supports writing music excerpts with different names for each abc environment automatically. An important addition is support for Mup (Music Publisher from Arkkra.com) via the subpackage mup (many thanks to Martin Tarenskeen for suggesting this addition and some improvements on the main package) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/abc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/abc (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: chemstyle
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: chemstyle Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle Summary description: Writing chemistry with style License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.2: - New keyval-based option handling - Re-write of code to alter reference section name: now works with natbib and biblatex - Options now allowed at run-time - Removed obsolete `chapter' option - Several internal tweaks - Documentation improvements ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/chemstyle (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: vc bundle
by CTAN Announcements 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

The package below has been installed on 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: vc bundle Author's name: Stephan Hennig Location on CTAN: /support/vc Summary description: version control for TeX and friends License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The vc bundle ---------------------- This is a script based approach to version control for TeX documents. It works more reliable than keyword substitution based approaches, since it doesn't track .tex files only, but /all/ files in a working copy. The vc bundle works with LaTeX and plain TeX. Currently, Subversion and Git are supported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/vc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/vc (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: csquotes 4.0
by CTAN Announcements 02 Mar '08

02 Mar '08

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded `csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. > > ABOUT > > The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and > display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging > from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of > formal quotations. > > CHANGES > > * e-TeX now mandatory requirement > * New dependency on 'etoolbox' package > * Added package option 'spanish' > * Added variant 'mexican' to style 'spanish' > * Removed variant 'oldstyle' from 'english' style > * Removed variant 'oldstyle' from 'french' style > * Removed variant 'imprimerie' from 'french' style > * Expanded documentation > * Added openautoquote and closeautoquote > * Added openinnerquote and closeinnerquote > * Moved predefined styles, variants, options to csquotes.def > * Added more hints and examples to csquotes.cfg > * Added extended PDF bookmarks to the manual i've installed the new version as requested; thanks for the upload. users may view the catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/csquotes.html (that entry will be updated overnight tonight) and they may browse the package directory on the archive at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: Feyn font
by Robin Fairbairns 02 Mar '08

02 Mar '08

Norman Gray wrote (via the usual indirection): > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: Feyn font > Author's name: Norman Gray > Location on CTAN: /fonts/feyn (replacing existing package) > Summary description: Easily produce simple Feynman diagrams, for use > within equations > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Feyn font helps produce relatively simple Feynman diagrams, for > example within equations. It's less general than the FeynMF package, > but easier to use for simple diagrams. > > Version 0.3.1 updates v0.2 by adding small fermion loops, a variant > the proper vertex, and compatibility with amsmath. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository; thanks for the upload. the update is already on its way around the world, and the catalogue entry will be updated overnight. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/feyn.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/feyn/ > _______________________________________________ or at the corresponding locations in local mirrors (the catalogue offers a way to get to your local mirror of choice). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: glossaries (minor correction)
by CTAN Announcements 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

The FAQ link in the latest announcement is incorrect, it should read: The url for the glossaries FAQ is now http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/packages/faq/glossariesfaq.html For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: glossaries
by CTAN Announcements 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the glossaries package. The glossaries package supports acronyms and multiple glossaries. New entries are defined to have a name and description (and optionally an associated symbol). Plural forms can also be specified. New glossary styles can be defined, and preambles and postambles can be specified. There is provision for loading a database of terms, only terms used in the text will be added to the relevant glossary. 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.1 (22 Feb 2008): * New package options: - numberline: inserts umberline{} in addcontentsline when used with the toc option. - numberedsection: puts glossaries in numbered chapters/sections - translate: translate=false option prevents glossaries package from using pre-supplied translations. - description: changes definition of ewacronym to allow a description - footnote: changes definition of ewacronym to use a footnote on first use - smallcaps: changes definition of ewacronym to set acronyms in small capitals - dua: changes definition of ewacronym to always expand acronyms * Added setglossarysection - changes the section type used by the glossaries * Added listdotted glossary style. * No longer uses xspace package; uses amsgen instead. * Added glsname, glsdesc, glssymbol, glsfirst, glstext, glsplural and glsfirstplural. * Added support for translator package. The url for the glossaries FAQ is now http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/packages/faq/glossaryfaq.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=glossaries (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: pst-circ
by CTAN Announcements 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Herbert Voss submitted an update to the pst-circ package to CTAN. Pst-circ is a package built using PSTricks and in particular pst-node. It can easily draw current 2-terminal devices and some 3- and 4-terminal devices used in electronic or electric theory. The package’s macros are designed with a view to ‘logical’ representation of circuits, as far as possible, so as to relieve the user of purely graphical considerations when expressing a circuit. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ License: LPPL This new version 1.44 comes with a lot of new microwave symbols. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org//graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pst-circ (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: FiNK
by CTAN Announcements 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: FiNK 2.1.1 Author's name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fink Summary description: The LaTeX2e File Name Keeper License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm happy to announce the release of FiNK 2.1.1. What's new: ** Fix trailing whitespace in fink@restore ** Added some hints about filenames with special characters ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fink . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fink (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN Update: notes2bib
by CTAN Announcements 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 Joseph Wright submitted an update to the notes2bib package. The notes2bib package defines a new type of note, bibnote, which will always be added to the bibliography. The package allows footnotes and endnotes to be moved into the bibliography in the same way. The package can be used with natbib and biblatex as well as plain LaTeX citations. Both sorted and unsorted bibliography styles are supported. The package makes use of the e-TeX extensions (any post-2005 LaTeX distribution will provide these by default, but users of older systems may need to use an elatex command or equivalent). It also makes use of the xkeyval and etoolbox packages. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib Summary description: Integrating notes into the bibliography License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.3c: - Removed need to load etoolbox - Patching of hanks altered ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=notes2bib (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: PST-Cox
by CTAN Announcements 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: PST-Cox Author's name: Jean-Gabriel Luque Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib Summary description: Drawing regular complex polytopes with PSTricks License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We have wrote a new package for PSTricks for drawing 2 dimensional projection of complex regular polyopes (after the work of Coxeter). The package consists in a library of macro for drawing the projections. The complex polytopes appears in the study of the roots systems and play a crucial role in many domains related to mathematics and physics. These polytopes have been completely described by Coxeter in his book Regular Complex Polytopes. there exist only a finite numbers of exceptional regular complex polytopes (for example the ikosae dron) and some infinite series (for example, one can construct multi-dimensional analogous of the hypercube in any -finite- dimension). The library contains two packages. The first, pst-coxcoor, is devoted to the exceptional complex regular polytopes whose coordinates have been pre-computed. The second, pst-coxeterp, is devoted to the infinite series. One can find also other informations in the beautiful page of Jean-Michel Sarlat: http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/pstricks/pst-cox/ To contact me, use the email given in the documentation of the package. best wishes Jean-gabriel Luque ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-cox . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-cox (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: CurVe
by CTAN Announcements 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: CurVe Author's name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/curve Summary description: A curriculum vitae class for LaTeX2e License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is edition 1.15 of CurVe. What's new in this version: ** Support for itemize environments, suggested by Mirko Hessel-von Molo. ** Added some documentation about vertical spacing problems in |bbl| files, suggested by Seweryn Habdank-Wojewódzki. CurVe is a class package that hopefully will make your life easier when you want to write your CV. It provides you with a set of commands to create rubrics, entries in these rubrics etc. CurVe will then properly format your CV for you (possibly splitting it onto multiple pages, repeating the titles etc), which is usually the most painful part of CV writing. Another nice feature of CurVe is its ability to manage different CV flavors simultaneously. It is in fact often the case that you want to maintain slightly divergent versions of your CV at the same time, in order to emphasize on different aspects of your background. CurVe also comes with support for AUC-TeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/curve . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/curve (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: autolatex-5.5
by CTAN Announcements 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

The package below has been updated and should soon appear at a mirror near you. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: autolatex-5.5 Author's name: Stephane GALLAND Location on CTAN: /support/autolatex Summary description: New release of autolatex with bug fixes and TeXlive support License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- autolatex 5.5 fixes several bugs and provides a new EPS to PDF translator which is based on the TeXlive tools instead of the teTeX ones (because Ubuntu operating systems now distribute the first distribution). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/autolatex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/autolatex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: translator
by CTAN Announcements 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 Till Tantau submitted the new translator package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/translator License: lppl Announcement for the package: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The translator package is intended to provide an open platform for > packages that need to be localized. Unlike the babel package (which > can and typically will be used together with translator), the set of > words that can be translated is not fixed and new words and > translations can be added in a simple manner. New translations can be > added in a decentralized manner. > > The package is written in completely LaTeX and it is quite > lightweight. It could very easily be ported to plain-TeX or ConTeXt, > provided there is a public demand for this. > > A typical application of this package is the beamer class, which > already uses it, if it present. Then words like Theorem will be > translated to Satz if the document language is German, for instance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/translator . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=translator (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: Version 2.00 of TikZ/pgf
by CTAN Announcements 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Till Tantau submitted version 2.0 of the TikZ/pgf package to CTAN. PGF is a macro package for creating graphics. It is platform- and format-independent and works together with the most important TeX backend drivers, including pdftex and dvips. It comes with a user-friedly syntax layer called TikZ. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/base License: lppl Release notes: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This new version of the TikZ and pgf graphic packages comes with a > large number of new features, too numerous to list them all. Hilights > are Mark Wibrow's decoration library, Mark's new shapes, the improved > notations for doing geometric drawings, fadings (the transparency > version of shadings), easy shadows, improved support for systems like > xetex, as well as countless bugfixes. > > This version *may break existing code* (hence the big version step). > We tried to make sure that 99% of all code will still work exactly as > it did before and all larger documents that the developers and some > volunteers tried still look exactly as they did before, but there a > number of places where unavoidable changes had to be done. Known > changes that break existing code: > > - There was a bug in the diamond shape that caused it to be twice as > large as the minimum size required. This has been fixed. However, if > you code relied on the wrong minimum size handling, your diamond > shapes will now be too small. > > - Snakes are now handled by decorations internally. While this offers > endless new possibilities, you are no longer allowed to use negative > values with the after snake gap option. The documentation did neither > explicitly allow nor forbid this, so some people may have used this. > > - The basic layer has been restructured. Some things moved into the > core, other stuff moved into something new, called modules. > Typically, you will not notice this at all, but it is imaginable that > you may need to include a different library or module, now, to > compile your code. > > > Also note that the PDF-file of the manual has moved to a less obscure > location: It is now at .../doc/generic/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf (and no > longer at .../doc/generic/pgf/version-for-pdftex/en/...) > > > Happy TeXing everyone, > Till ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org//graphics/pgf/base . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pgf (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: dogma v1.0b
by CTAN Announcements 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

This package has also gone up on tug.ctan.org today. It will soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: dogma v1.0b Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/psfonts/emigre/dogma Summary description: LaTeX Support For Dogma Font From Emigre Graphics License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX Support For Dogma Font From Emigre Graphics Version 1.0b 2008/02/21 This package provides metric files and LaTeX support for Dogma font family from Emigre Graphics designed by Zuzana Licko, 1994. It has everything you need to typeset in this font - except the font itself, of course. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/emigre/dogma . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dogma (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: futurans v1.0a
by CTAN Announcements 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

This package has also just gone in on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror soon. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: futurans v1.0a Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/psfonts/adobe/futurans Summary description: LaTeX Support For Futura Fonts From Adobe As Used By No Starch Press License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX Support For Futura Fonts From Adobe As Used By No Starch Press Version 1.0a 2008/02/17 This package provides metric files and LaTeX support for Futura fonts from Adobe. It has everything you need to typeset in this font - except the font itself, of course. There are several versions of the fonts available, different by the version year. This package provides support for fonts as used by No Starch Press, http://www.nostarch.com. To prevent a clash with support of a newer version by W. A. Schmidt, the fontname |pfv| is used instead of the standard |pfu|. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/adobe/futurans . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/futurans (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: nbaskerv v1.0a
by CTAN Announcements 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

The package below has also just gone in on tug.ctan.org. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: nbaskerv v1.0a Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/psfonts/adobe/nbaskerv Summary description: LaTeX Support For ITC New Baskerville Font From Adobe License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX Support For ITC New Baskerville Font From Adobe Version 1.0a 2008/02/21 This package provides metric files and LaTeX support for ITC New Baskerville font from Adobe. It has everything you need to typeset in this font - except the font itself, of course. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/adobe/nbaskerv . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/nbaskerv (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: thsmc v1.0b
by CTAN Announcements 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: thsmc v1.0b Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/psfonts/fontfabrik/thsmc Summary description: LaTeX Support For Sans Mono Condensed Font License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX Support For Sans Mono Condensed Font Version 1.0b 2008/02/21 This package provides metric files and LaTeX support for The Sans Mono Condensed Family designed by Lucas de Groot, 1996. It has everything you need to typeset in this font - except the font itself, of course. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/fontfabrik/thsmc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/thsmc (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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tug.ctan.org upload: dprogress
by CTAN Announcements 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

The package below has been put into the CTAN system at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: dprogress Author's name: Brian Amberg Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dprogress Summary description: dprogress displays the typeset headers and equation numbers in the latex output, making debugging easier. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package logs latex's progress through the file, making the latex output more verbose. This helps to make latex debugging easier, as it is simpler to find where exactly latex failed. It outputs the typesetting of section, subsection, subsubsection headers and the align environment. The align environment is only output if the amsmath package is loaded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dprogress . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dprogress (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: si
by CTAN admin (Robin Fairbairns) 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

ctan-upload(a)tex.ac.uk (anthropomorphised) wrote: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: si > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/si > Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.6a: > * Fixed bug with memoir and KOMA-script classes > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the update, and made a microscopic change to the catalogue. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/si.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/si the update is available immediately at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/si.zip and is well on its way around the world. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: modes.mf
by CTAN Announcements 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

Karl Berry <karl(a)freefriends.org> wrote: > CTAN:fonts/modes/modes.mf has been updated to version 3.8. All > distributions that used modes.mf should update as soon as possible. > > Per Don Knuth, this version no longer redefines the Metafont `end' > primitive; it also no longer defines a `?' macro for help. Now you can > say, e.g., > mf 'fontmaking:=1; end' > and it will work again. > > In order to get the previous behavior, where the coding scheme, font > family, and so on were output at the end of the run, the Metafont input > should call the (new) mode_extra_info macro. Or incorporate the code in > the font files themselves, as preferred. the revised file has been installed in ctan fonts/modes/modes.mf Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: mathtex
by Robin Fairbairns 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

John Forkosh writes: > + what you've uploaded > mathtex.zip > to replace support/mathtex/mathtex.zip > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > ftp.tex.ac.uk > + where you want the files to go > support/mathtex > (The existing README file in support/mathtex > has changed. Please replace that copy with > the updated copy in mathtex.zip.) > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software > GNU GPL > + brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. > o Changes since CTAN version 1.00 released in Oct, 2007: > o 11 Oct 2007 -- optional usepackage[arg]{package} argument > now recognized correctly (initial release neglected to > handle optional [arg] following usepackage). > o 12 Oct 2007 -- html &#nnn; now translated during preprocessing, > e.g., &#091 or [ becomes [ (left square bracket) before > it's submitted to latex. > o 12 Oct 2007 -- special mathTeX directives like ime > are now checked for proper command termination, i.e., non-alpha > character. (In particular, LaTeX imes had been incorrectly > interpreted as mathTeX ime followed by an s.) > o 12 Oct 2007 -- url unescape translation, i.e., > %20-to-blank, etc, repeated (done twice) for > <form> input. (I'm not sure why this is necessary, > and can't reproduce the problem myself, but am acting > on seemingly reliable reports.) > o 20 Oct 2007 -- removed leading and trailing pairs of $$...$$'s > from input expressions, interpreting $...$ as extstyle and > $$...$$ as displaystyle (and $$$...$$$ as parstyle). > Also removed leading and trailing [...], interpreting it > as displaystyle. (Note: displaystyle is mathTeX's default, > so $$...$$'s or [...] are unnecessary. But some people submit > expressions containing them, so they're now interpreted.) > o 16 Feb 2008 -- more robust test to display the correct > error message when a required dependency isn't installed. > (Occasionally, the ran but failed message was emitted > when a dependency was actually not installed.) > o 16 Feb 2008 -- -DDENYREFERER=string or > -DDENYREFERER=string1,string2,etc compile switch added. > If compiled with it, mathTeX won't render images for > HTTP_REFERER's containing string (or string1 or string2, etc) > as a substring of their url's. > o 17 Feb 2008 -- updated (slightly) documentation Thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue. Users may view the catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/mathtex.html or they may view the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/mathtex/ (which directory contains the zip file to download Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: everypage
by CTAN Announcements 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

The package below has been updated on 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: everypage Author's name: Sergio Callegari Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/everypage Summary description: Provide hooks to be run on every page of a document. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 1.1 of the everypage package. Version 1.0 had a bug that caused LaTeX to exceed its capacity or to hang. Such behaviour was particularly evident in conjunction with the draftwatermark package. UPGRADE IS RECOMMENDED The package provides hooks to perform actions on every page, or on the current page. Specifically, actions are performed after the page is composed, but before it is shipped, so they can be used to prepare the output page in tasks like putting watermarks in the background, or in setting the next page layout, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/everypage . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/everypage (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: pst-pad
by CTAN Announcements 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

A new package has been installed 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: pst-pad Author's name: Patrick Drechsler Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-pad Summary description: A PSTricks package to draw simple attachment systems License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package pst-pad is a collection of graphical elements based on PStricks that can be used to facilitate display of attachment systems such as two differently shaped surfaces with or without a fluid wedged in between. These macros ease the display of wet adhesion models and common friction systems such as boundary lubrication, elastohydrodynamic lubrication and hydrodynamic lubrication. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-pad . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-pad (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: gaceta
by CTAN Announcements 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

The package below has been installed on 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: gaceta.cls Author's name: Juan Luis Varona Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gaceta Summary description: The gaceta.cls LaTeX class to typeset <<La Gaceta de la RSME>> License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the LaTeX class gaceta.cls, which is intended to write papers for <<La Gaceta de la Real Sociedad Matematica Espa~nola>>, a journal of the Real Sociedad Matematica Espa~nola, http://www.rsme.es/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gaceta . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/gaceta (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: shipunov
by CTAN Announcements 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: shipunov Author's name: Alexey Shipunov Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib Summary description: 'shipunov' bundle --- collection of LaTeX packages and classes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 'shipunov' bundle is a collection of LaTeX packages and classes, along with one bibliography style, two independent examples and a set of Perl scripts for converting TeX files. Many of them intend to help field biologists and Russian writers, others have wider application. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/shipunov . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/shipunov (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: numprint package
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 Harald Harders submitted a new version of the numprint package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/numprint Summary description: Update of the numprint package to address two bugs License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Print numbers with a separator every three digits and convert numbers given as 12345.6e789 to 12,345,6cdot 10^{789}. Numbers are printed in the current mode (text or math) in order to use the correct font. Many things, including the decimal sign, the thousand separator, as well as the product sign can be changed by the user, e.g., to reach 12,345.6 imes 10^{789}. If requested, numprint can round numbers to a given number of digits. If an optional argument is given it is printed upright as unit. Numbers can be rounded to a given number of digits. The package supports an automatic, language-dependent change of the number format. Tabular alignment using the tabular(*), array, tabularx, and longtable environments (similar to the dcolumn and rccol packages) is supported using all features of numprint. Additional text can be added before and after the formatted number. 2007/05/18 v1.38 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Moved counters prt@curpos and prt@rndpos outside the macro definitions to avoid an overflow of counters - Replaced stepcounter and addtocounter by advance because otherwhise, umprint does not work inside ensuremath{ ext{$...$}}. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/numprint . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=numprint (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: thmtools
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

A new package has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at the mirror near to you. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: thmtools Author's name: Ulrich M. Schwarz Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/thmtools Summary description: Various extensions to theorem environments License type: lppl Announcement text: No ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== No announcement needed === The hmtools bundle provides several packages for commonly-needed features for theorems. As designed, the bundle should work with kernel theorems, the theorem package and the amsthm package. WARNING: Currently, things might still be a bit rough. You might want to consider not relying on hmtools for your Ph.D. thesis masterpiece. Provided features: a keyval interface to ewtheorem a listoftheorems command hyperref/autoref compatibility a way of restating entire theorems with a single macro call ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/thmtools . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/thmtools (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: pdftex 1.40.7
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should be at your favorite mirror real soon now. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pdftex 1.40.7 Author's name: Martin Schröder Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: A new version of pdftex License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.40.7 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.7, an extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF. =========================================================================== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.40.7 =========================================================================== - Bugfix: - PDFs > 2GiB (LFS) were still broken on 32-bit systems For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS =========================================================================== Legal notice / license =========================================================================== pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2008 Han The Thanh, <thanh(a)pdftex.org> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README =========================================================================== The files / installation =========================================================================== You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your distribution. If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful documentation. =========================================================================== Mailing lists / web pages: =========================================================================== Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex Related web pages: http://www.pdftex.org http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ http://foundry.supelec.fr/scm/?group_id=23 http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes http://www.dante.de/ http://tug.org/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/ Have fun! Martin Schröder (martin(a)pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, February 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pdftex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: pgfplots
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pgfplots Author's name: Christian Feuersänger Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots Summary description: Create normal/logarithmic plots in LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release significantly improves the quality of non-logarithmic plots: It employs coordinate transformations to allow plot coordinates out of TeX's number precision range. Furthermore, it provides additional formatting options for plots (grid line placement, detailed tick formatting) and better integration of TikZ-drawing commands for plot-annotations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgfplots (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: Ijmart
by CTAN Announcements 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

The package below 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: Ijmart Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ijmart Summary description: LaTeX Class for The Israel Journal of Mathematics License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Israel Journal of Mathematics is published by The Hebrew University Magnes Press. This class provides LaTeX support for its authors and editors. It strives to achieve the distinct ``look and feel'' of the journal, while having the interface similar to the one of the amsart document class. This will help the authors already familiar with amsart to easily submit manuscripts for The Israel Journal of Mathematics or to put the preprints in http://www.arxiv.org with minimal changes in the LaTeX source. Changes: Version 1.1: Added environments namedprop and namedprop* for special named propositions. Version 1.1a: Minor documentation updates. Version 1.2: New table of contents formatting. Version 1.3: Changed the typesetting of proofs that end by a math display. This involves interface changes. Changed table of contents formatting (again). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ijmart . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ijmart (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package umtypewriter
by CTAN Announcements 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted the new package umtypewriter to CTAN. It contains four OpenType fonts released under the Open Font License which are necessary support for the Latin, the Greek and the Cyrillic scripts. Location on CTAN: fonts/umtypewriter License: ofl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 8.20 - New face, Common Settings.
by CTAN Announcements 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma License: shareware > Improvement in BaKoMa TeX 8.20 are: > > * New face: icons and toolbars. > Icons are redesigned for 24x24 size, with XP styled colors. > (More then 300 icons - math symbols of symbol panels are not counted). > Toolbars are automatically sized and wrapped as needed. > Improved default scaling of Symbol Panels and Symbol Bars. > > Screenshots of new face are available at: > <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/screenshots.php> > > * Common Settings - new program integrates important global settings. > It is accessible from 'Start/Programs' system menu > and from 'Options/Common Settings' menu command of every program. > > * VAR directory is moved to 'Local Settings' > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/changes.php> or > < > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 12-Feb-2008 > > PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists. > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 8.20 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 8.20 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Classical IDE. > They are high compatible, so that you can choose what to use > depend on kind of a document or stage of work under a document. > > About BaKoMa TeX Word. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > > The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts: > > 1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor. > It means that display shows precisely the same what will be printed. > It looks such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer. > > 2) It is True LaTeX Editor. > It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure. > It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and > consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related > with import graphics, font support, and document export. > > It supports processors: > (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX. > Other processors such as Omega may be added in future. > > It imports: > EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, > MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY. > It supports fonts: > OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM), > PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF. > It exports: > DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT). > > It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS > compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as: > PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, > PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc. > > Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > Editing slides in WYSIWYG interface > (with such packages as PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.) > is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > TeXWord dramatically simplifies editing complex formulas and tables. > > TeXWord is transparent for cooperation. > TeXWord don't use additional macro packages. > It uses only standard LaTeX packages, so that documents made up > in TeXWord may be compiled in any LaTeX setup without any adaptation. > In other side, TeXWord can handle arbitrary LaTeX documents. > So, that your coleagues may even don't know that you use > powerful WYSIWYG tool to edit your part of common work. > > Beginner users of LaTeX may consider TeXWord as > good start point for learning LaTeX together with writing papers. > > More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at: > < > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html> > > Some screenshots are available at: > <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/screenshots.php> > > Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> > > New features in BaKoMa TeX 8.20 are: > * New face: icons and toolbars. > Icons are redesigned for 24x24 size, with XP styled colors. > (More then 300 icons - math symbols of symbol panels are not counted). > Toolbars are automatically sized and wrapped as needed. > Improved default scaling of Symbol Panels and Symbol Bars. > * Common Settings - new program integrates important global settings. > It is accessible from 'Start/Programs' system menu > and from 'Options/Common Settings' menu command of every program. > * VAR directory is moved to 'Local Settings' > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/changes.php> or > < > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: prerex-4.0
by CTAN Announcements 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: prerex-4.0 Author's name: Bob Tennent Location on CTAN: /graphics/prerex Summary description: Interactive editor for prerequisite charts with macro support License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release adds support in the style file and the editor for a command that places a line of text (hbox) at any place in the chart. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/prerex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/prerex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: biblatex 0.7d
by CTAN Announcements 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is a maintenance update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. > > Please use the contents of the archive to replace the corresponding > files in macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. Note that the archive only > contains the files which have actually been modified. > > Thank you very much. > > RELEASE NOTES > > This is a maintenance update for biblatex 0.7. The following files > have been modified: > > latex/biblatex.sty > > The updated files are tagged 0.7d 2008/02/11. > > CHANGES > > * Fixed nasty bug related to bibencoding option thanks for the upload. the update has been installed and catalogued, and should by now have propagated around the world. users may view the catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html or browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: DotArrow
by CTAN Announcements 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

A new package has been put up on 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: DotArrow Author's name: Sven Schneider Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dotarrow Summary description: extendable dotted arrows License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the first release. This package can draw dotted arrows that are extendable just like xrightarrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dotarrow . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dotarrow (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: nag
by CTAN Announcements 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Ulrich M. Schwarz submitted an update to the nag package. Old habits die hard. All the same, there are commands, classes and packages which are outdated and superseded. The nag package provides routines to warn the user about the use of such obsolete things. As an example, we provide an extension that detects many of the sins described in l2tabu. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nag License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.61 fixes numerous robustness and compatibility issues, you are strongly advised to update. nag-experimental now warns about failed includes and informs about floats that are too large for their position. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nag . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=nag (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: biblatex-dw
by Jim Hefferon 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and will 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.1a - BUGFIX: When using the commands 'mancite' or 'citereset', the 'idem' functionality was not reset. This is now fixed. - New option 'edsuper'. If set to 'true', the edition is printed as superscript number (not as ordinal number) straight ahead of the year. The default is 'false'. - New option 'firstfull' (only in 'authortitle-dw'). If set to 'true', the first citation is a fullcite. The default is 'false'. - Option 'citedas' is now also available for 'authortitle-dw' and used when 'firstfull' is set to 'true'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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New CTAN package: biblatex-mla
by CTAN Announcements 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

ctan-upload(a)tex.ac.uk wrote: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-mla > Author's name: James Clawson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/ > Summary description: MLA style files for biblatex > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The biblatex-mla style files have been updated to version 0.4 and been > made available on CTAN. The files provide MLA-style parenthetical > citations and Works Cited lists (bibliographies) for use with > Biblatex. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the files as requested, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-mla.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-mla/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: pdf-forms-tutorial-0.9.5
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Dirk Krause submitted an update to the pdf-forms-tutorial package. This package contains a tutorial and examples showing how to create PDF forms using pdfLaTeX with the hyperref and insdljs packages. Location on CTAN: /info/pdf-forms-tutorial License type: fdl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A section was added to show how to add online help to forms using PDF annotations and tooltips. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/info/pdf-forms-tutorial . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdf-forms-tutorial (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: euenc
by CTAN Announcements 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: euenc Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/euenc/ Summary description: Unicode font definitions for XeLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update to support the latest release of the LM fonts (v1.106) and fix a small bug with French support in babel. See the included readme and documentation for more information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/euenc/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/euenc (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: biblatex 0.7c
by CTAN Announcements 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is a maintenance update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. > > Please use the contents of the archive to replace the corresponding > files in macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. Note that the archive only > contains the files which have actually been modified. > > Thank you very much. > > RELEASE NOTES > > This is a minor maintenance update for biblatex 0.7. The following > files have been modified: > > latex/biblatex.sty > latex/biblatex.def > latex/lbx/*.lbx > > The updated files are tagged 0.7c 2008/02/03. > > CHANGES > > * Added mkpagetotal > This is like mkpageprefix but formats the pagetotal field: > DeclareFieldFormat{pagetotal}{mkpagetotal[bookpagination]{#1}} > * Fixed bug in mkpageprefix > * Improved KOMA-Script support > The headings 'bibliography' and 'shorthands' are responsive to > the 'bibtotoc' and 'bibtotocnumbered' class options now. > * Added ifkomabibtotoc > Use ifkomabibtotoc{<true>}{<false>} in heading definitions to > check the state of the 'bibtotoc' class option (works only with > 'KOMA' classes). > * Added ifkomabibtotocnumbered > Use ifkomabibtotocnumbered{<true>}{<false>} in heading > definitions to check the state of the 'bibtotocnumbered' class > option (works only with 'KOMA' classes). > * Added ifmemoirbibintoc > Use ifmemoirbibintoc{<true>}{<false>} in heading definitions to > check the state of memoir's ibintoc switch (works only with > the memoir class). > * Updates for various localization files thanks for the upload. i have installed the package and updated the catalogue (in a microscopic way). users may view the catalogue entry at: http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html or browse the package directory at: http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: pdftex 1.40.6
by CTAN Announcements 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

The package below is up at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pdftex 1.40.6 Author's name: Martin Schröder Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: A new stable version of pdftex License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.40.6 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.6, an extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF. =========================================================================== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.40.6 =========================================================================== - Bugfixes: - inclusion of encrypted PDFs was broken (861) - PDFs > 2GiB (LFS) would be broken, even on 64-bit systems. Now the basic support for LFS is there, you only need to supply the right compiler flags (this is not yet done automatically). See build.sh for hints on compiling. - Page groups in pdfs (see the discussion in the notes vor v1.10a) are now handled correctly (741) - When including transparent PNGs pdftex now automatically adds a Page Group (896) - broken map files would lead to core dumps - unusual TrueType fonts would lead to an assertion error (874) - the null object in the object table was never initialized - included PDFs with /PieceInfo lost their /LastModified date - an empty colorstack crashed pdftex (897) - pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.24 - pdfTeX uses xpdf 3.02pl2 For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS =========================================================================== Legal notice / license =========================================================================== pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2008 Han The Thanh, <thanh(a)pdftex.org> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README =========================================================================== The files / installation =========================================================================== You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your distribution. If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful documentation. =========================================================================== Mailing lists / web pages: =========================================================================== Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex Related web pages: http://www.pdftex.org http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ http://foundry.supelec.fr/scm/?group_id=23 http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes http://www.dante.de/ http://tug.org/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/ Have fun! Martin Schröder (martin(a)pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, February 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pdftex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: LM fonts v.1.106
by CTAN Announcements 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 at 22:32 +0100, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitetd an updaet to the lm fonts package. Loaction on CTAN: fonts/lm > Package: Latin Modern fonts > Version: 1.106 (Jan 22 2008) > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > License: GUST Font License > Location on CTAN: fonts/lm > > Recent changes: > * the `size' feature (opical sizing) implemented in the OTF files; > this triggered a chain of changes of internal names in order to > provide adequate family grouping (complying nolens volens with > the 4-member family paradigm) and resulted eventually in > a completely new naming scheme > * beware of the change of the OTF file names > * beware of the change of the PostScript Type 1 internal font names > * ligatures I_J and i_j are now available (in OTFs; feature `liga') only > for Dutch; similarly, the ligature f_k -- for Polish; the `locl' feature > reimplemented -- using an artificial glyph i.TRK is no longer needed > * the metric bugs corrected; > and some more meaningful fixes and enhancements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: biblatex-dw
by CTAN Announcements 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.1 - BUGFIX: The 'citedas' functionality did not work if the first citation of an entry was introduced by 'idem'. - New option 'terselos' introduced for a terse version of the list of shorthands (default is 'true'). - New option 'herename' introduced to specify if the term enquote{here} should prelude the pages of a fullcite (or, with 'footnote-dw', also the first citation of an entry) which has a non-empty exttt{pages}-field. - New option 'nopublisher' introduced to suppress the publisher. The default value is 'true', but if you want to have the publisher printed, you now can set the option 'nopublisher=false'. - If the field 'origlocation' is given, it will be set together with 'origyear', whereas 'location' and 'year' are appended in parentheses, preluded by the bibstring 'reprint'. - The options 'annotation' and 'library' are now also usable with the style 'footnote-dw'. The annotations and library information are only printed in the bibliography (if there is one), not in the citations or in the list of shorthands. - Updated documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: a mexican dialect of spanish
by CTAN Announcements 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

The package below 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: a mexican dialect of spanish Author's name: Luis Rivera Location on CTAN: /language/spanish/nonstandard/mx Summary description: language and configuration files to typeset spanish in mexico License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixed an unfortunate choice of filename: on some distributions, the included spanish.cfg was automatically installed, thus becoming automatically default; the file has been renamed to esmx.cfg, so you have to create the spanish.cfg file, if not present, and type `include esmx.cfg' explicitly into spanish.cfg to make the mexican spanish default. The README file has been updated accordingly. With my apologies to all users affected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/spanish/nonstandard/mx . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/spanish-mx (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: hwkatakana
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: hwkatakana Author's name: Gernot Hassenpflug Location on CTAN: /fonts/hwkatakana Summary description: Half-width katakana font for Japanese License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Half-width katakana Type 1 fonts in SJIS encoding are provided to integrate with the Wadalab fonts for use with, for example, the CJK package. Auxiliary files to use the font with Unicode UTF8 encoding are also provided. The origin of the font is the Wadalab gothic font katakana glyphs, which have been modified to make up the JIS X 0201 set of half-width katakana characters using Fontforge. The Wadalab fonts need to be available for this package to work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/hwkatakana . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hwkatakana (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: pdfsync
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

The package below has been updated and should soon be at the mirror near you. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pdfsync Author's name: Laurens Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfsync Summary description: LaTeX package to synchronize between source and pdf output License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pdfsync.sty allows one to synchronize between LaTeX source and pdf output. When used with a text editor and a PDF viewer that both support pdfsync, you can navigate from the source to the output and vice versa. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfsync . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pdfsync (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: pst-solides3d
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

The package below 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: pst-solides3d Author's name: Jean-Paul Vignault Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solide3d Summary description: Draw solids in 3d perspective License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package pst-solides3d is designed to draw solids in 3d perspective. Features include: - create primitive solids - create solids by including a list of its vertices and faces ; - faces of solids and surfaces can be colored by choosing from a very large palette of colors ; - draw parametric surfaces in algebraic and reverse polish notation ; - create explicit and parameterized algebraic functions drawn in 2 or 3 dimensions ; - project text onto a plane and onto the faces of a solid ; - support for including external database files ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solide3d . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-solides3d (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: foiltex2.1.4b
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: foiltex2.1.4b Author's name: Jim Hafner Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/foiltex Summary description: FoilTeX 2.1.4b (with patch for hyperref 6.77a) License type: nocommercial Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New release of FoilTeX (2.1.4b) -- fixes an incompatibility with recent versions of hyperref, specifically 6.77a. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/foiltex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/foiltex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: semaphore
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: semaphore Author's name: Vít Zýka Location on CTAN: /fonts/semaphore Summary description: Semaphore alphabet font. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OpenType and Type1 versions of the semaphore alphabet fonts (semaf). The semaf font family contains 5 shapes (regular, bold, slanted, bold slanted, and mono) in 3 variants (differ by a pillar shape). They were obtained by rewriting the original Metafont sources to Metatype1 and utilizing FontForge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/semaphore . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/semaphore (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: thailatex
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

The package below has been updated 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: thailatex Author's name: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan Location on CTAN: /language/thai/thailatex Summary description: Babel-based Thai support with fonts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thailatex is a Thai package which enables typesetting Thai with LaTeX's standard document classes. It is meant to become a part of babel, a multilingual package for LaTeX which supports a lot of non-American languages. This version has been relicensed as LPPL. The Thai babel macro file has been rewritten as .dtx, for documentation. The fonts are updated to latest versions, with four new fonts added. One LIGKERN bug has been fixed using Werner Lemberg's method as published in TUGboat Volume 21 (2000), No. 2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/thai/thailatex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/thailatex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: pgfplots
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pgfplots Author's name: Christian Feuersänger Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots Summary description: Create normal/logarithmic plots in LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pgfplots draws high-quality function plots in normal or logarithmic scaling with a user-friendly interface. The user supplies axis labels, legend entries and the plot coordinates for one or more plots and Pgfplots applies axis scaling, computes any logarithms and axis ticks and draws the plots. It is based on Till Tantau's package PGF/TikZ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgfplots (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: a mexican dialect of spanish
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: a mexican dialect of spanish Author's name: Luis Rivera Location on CTAN: /language/spanish/nonstandard/mx Summary description: language and configuration files to typeset spanish in mexico License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- These files help the user to typeset texts in spanish according to mexican current practices with the babel system. They effectively merge an old (and short-lived) mexican.ldf with spanish.ldf, or else provide a configuration file to typeset all spanish documents in a given system according to the `mexico' option defined by spanish.ldf v5.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/spanish/nonstandard/mx . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mx (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: vxu
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

A new 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: vxu Author's name: Robert Nyqvist Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/vxu Summary description: Document classes for Växjö University License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Document classes for formatting theses and exams in the format required at Växjö University, Sweden. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/vxu . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/vxu (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: spanish-babel
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and by now should have reached the mirrors. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... Package name: Spanish-babel Package author: Javier Bezos Location: languages/spanish/babel Description: This is the developer's latest working version of Spanish support for Babel. For more, please see: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/spanish/babel .

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CTAN package update: etoolbox 1.4
by CTAN Announcements 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded `etoolbox.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox. Please > purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as > usual. i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. > ABOUT > > The etoolbox package is a toolbox of programming facilities geared > primarily towards LaTeX class and package authors. It provides LaTeX > frontends to some of the new primitives provided by e-TeX as well as > some generic tools which are not related to e-TeX but match the > profile of this package. > > CHANGES > > * Resolved conflict with tex4ht users may view the catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/etoolbox.html or browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox/ thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN packages updated: pstricks, pstricks-add and pst-3dplot
by CTAN Announcements 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss(a)FU-Berlin.DE> wrote: > I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk mirror. Please > copy all files into the directories > /graphics/pstricks/* > > this is a major update of the main PSTricks packages > pstricks, pstricks-add and pst-3dplot i've done that, and updated the catalogue repository to reflect the new/updated material. > Read /graphics/pstricks/doc/pst-news2008.pdf for > more information and examples. > > ---- pstricks.sty > 0.36 2008-01-22 > - Better error message, when the document > has the same name as a PSTricks file. (RN) > - add message for loading pst-alpparser.pro > - add option vtex to disable opacity values > > pst-node.sty -------- > 2007-09-13 > add message for loading pst-node.pro (hv) > > pst-all.sty -------- > 2008-01-01 load pstricks-add > > ---- pstricks.tex > 1.20 2008-01-01 > - added opacity for default fill operations > - added strokeopacity for normal stroke operation (lines) > - added the arrowtype <D-D> and <D<D-D>D>, which draws the > sides as bezier curves (ArrowD type in pstricks.pro) > - add special coor type (*x f(x)), which invokes the > algebraic parser for f(x) before using the default > (!x y) coor type > - add option linejoin=0,1,or 2 for connecting lines > - add option linecap=0,1,or 2 for line ends > - small tweaks to psellipticarc x y -> xOrig yOrig > - fix introduced bug with ewpsstyle: pst@tempa->pst@tempA > - add PS subroutines /UserCoor and /ScreenCoor for easy > transforming into user or screen coordinates > - changed wrong name of psk@shift to pst@shift > - fix bug with pst-node and \[name=...]. It now uses > ps@ifnextchar for scanning the next token > - fix bug with pst@tempg in polar@coor. It was already > used in pst@getangle. > - new option gridfont for the label font of psgrid > Times-Roman, Palatino-Roman, ... > > > ---- pstricks.pro > 1.02 2008-01-01 > - added the arrowtype D>, sides as curves (ArrowD) > - added the whole algebraic parser stuff > - added function tan := sin cos div > - added function Tan := sin cos Div > - added Pyth2 for 2 points given by xA yA xB yB > - change variable names from x,y to xOrig, yOrig for > EllipticArcArrow > - move font setting for psgrid into pstricks.tex > > > vtex.con ------ > 0.02 2008-01-01 > - disable transparent color setting > > > ---- pstricks-add.tex > v 3.00 2008-01-01 > - delete transalpha stuff (moved into pstricks.tex) > - load header file pst-algparser.pro > > pst-3dplot.tex -------- > 1.79 2008-01-03 > - add option algebraic for 3d plots > - fix bug with ellipse phi=f(alpha)! The catalogue entries are: http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks-add.html http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-3dplot.html (those files will be updated to reflect the new version overnight) The updated material may be browsed as follows pstricks -- http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/base/ pstricks-add -- http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ pst-3dplot -- http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: kpfonts
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

The package below has been updated at tog.ctan.org Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: kpfonts Author's name: Christophe Caignaert Location on CTAN: /fonts/kpfonts Summary description: New malor release of Kpfonts License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kpfonts is a very full set of fonts for typesetting text and math. It includes real small caps, all current math symbols (TeX, AMS and more), in normal and bold version. The new major release 2.0 gets a 'light' option, with lighter roman fonts and same metrics... Read the .pdf doc file available in english and in french! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: tableauVariations
by CTAN Announcements 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: tableauVariations Author's name: Frederic Mazoit Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros Summary description: Variation tables in metapost License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This metapost package helps in creating variation tables. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/tableauvar… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tableauvariations (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: achemso Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso Summary description: Support for American Chemical Society journal submissions License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v2.2g: * BibTeX style and package option for journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/achemso . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/achemso (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: The LaTeX Brochure
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The LaTeX Brochure Author's name: Peter Flynn Location on CTAN: /info/latex-brochure Summary description: Publicity flyer for LaTeX License type: nosell Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Jan 2008 version of the publicity flyer for LaTeX that I showed at the TUG meeting in Delaware in 2001. It is designed for printing on A3 paper, double-sided, and folding once to A4. A future version may also be for Ledger paper (twice Letter size). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex-brochure . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latex-brochure (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: dlfltxb
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: dlfltxb bundle Author's name: Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dlfltxb/ Summary description: Update to support pacakges for Introduktion til LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update brings two new features * the dlfltxbtocconfig package for providing the two special TOCs that are used in my LaTeX book * the dlfltxbcodetips package now provides a ProvidePGFPagesFourOnOneWithSpaceForNotes macro that will activate a 4 on 1 with space for notes layout for the pgfpages packages. It is like 8 on 1 but leaving the second column empty for the readers notes As always comments on the packages or my LaTeX book (see http://www.imf.au.dk/system/latex/bog/version3beta.html) are welcomme /daleif ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dlfltxb/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dlfltxb (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: catechis
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

The package below has been put into place 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: catechis Author's name: Donald P. Goodman Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/catechis Summary description: Macros for producing catechisms License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Macros for producing catechisms; includes format for question-and-answer, comments on answers, citations, and a specialized enumerate operative only within catechism parts of a document. Highly customizable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/catechis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/catechis (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: GraphConv
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and will soon make it to your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: GraphConv Author's name: Martin Chicoine Location on CTAN: /support/graphconv Summary description: Convert Graph files to PSTricks License type: nosource Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Graph (http://www.padowan.dk/graph/) is a very easy to use program to create simple graphs. GraphConv a small Windows program to convert Graph files to PStricks code. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/graphconv . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/graphconv (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

The packag below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: achemso Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macrso/latex/contrib/achemso Summary description: Support for American Chemical Society journal submissions License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v2.2e: * mciteplus support ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macrso/latex/contrib/achemso . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/achemso (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: rsc
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ----------------------------------------------------------------- The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: rsc Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macrso/latex/contrib/rsc Summary description: BibTeX style for use with RSC journals License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v2.2a: * mciteplus support ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macrso/latex/contrib/rsc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/rsc (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: notes2bib
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: notes2bib Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macrso/latex/contrib/notes2bib Summary description: Integrating notes into the bibliography License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.3b: * Improved warnings for tail mode * Some improvements in documentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macrso/latex/contrib/notes2bib . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/notes2bib (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: mf2pt1
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org ans should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ============================================================================ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mf2pt1 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /support/mf2pt1 Summary description: Produce PostScript Type 1 fonts from Metafont source License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mf2pt1 facilitates producing PostScript Type 1 fonts from a Metafont source file. mf2pt1's advantage over tools such as TeXtrace and mftrace is that it does not rely on bitmap tracing and therefore can produce higher-quality Type 1 fonts than trace-based tools. The catch is that mf2pt1 imposes a number of restrictions on the Metafont input so it is not, as the name may imply, an automatic converter of arbitrary Metafont fonts to Type 1 format. This release substantially alters the (internal) is_clockwise macro with the intention of making it a lot more robust. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/mf2pt1 . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mf2pt1 (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: cbgreek-complete
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: cbgreek-complete Author's name: Claudio Beccari Location on CTAN: /fonts/greek/cbfonts-all Summary description: revised cbfonts-all License type: lppl Announcement text: No ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The full collection of the CBgreek fonts is now remade with the correct encoding and a better tracing routine. The collection is completed with new font description files that allow to use the families, shapes and series that are available with this full collection; it is completed also with the new font description files necessary to use them together with the Latin Modern fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/greek/cbfonts-all . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cbgreek-complete (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: mciteplus
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mciteplus Author's name: Michael Shell Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mciteplus/ Summary description: An enhanced mcite License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The mciteplus LaTeX package is an enhanced reimplementation of Thorsten Ohl's mcite package which provides support for the grouping of multiple citations together as is often done in physics journals. An extensive set of features provide for other applications such as reference sublisting. Mciteplus is compatible with the REVTeX4 class. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mciteplus/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mciteplus (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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 tablists package 0.0d
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Olga Lapko submitted an update to the tablists package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablists (note the change) License type: lppl Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package offers tabulated lists of short items (useful for exersizes in textbooks). Allows two-level tabulated lists. The environments follow support of optional arguments of item numbering as enumerate or paralist packages. Offers QED signs at the end of proof environment (amsmath). ----- Changes: minor corrections for correct version cooperation with the makecell package ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tablists . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tablists (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: tablor
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, 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: Obtenir rapidement des tableaux de signes et de variations. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Permet de créer des tableaux de signes et de variations depuis latex en utilisant XCAS pour les calculs et MetaPOST pour les tableaux. On rentre par exemple: egin{TV} TV([-10,+infinity],[-1,1],g,t,x^2/(x^2-1),1,3) end{TV} et on obtient le tableau de variation de x->x^2/(x^2-1). ............. The tablor.sty package allows to create signs tables and variations tables through latex using XCAS for calculus and MetaPOST to draw the tables. For instance : egin{TV} TV([-10,+infinity],[-1,1],g,t,x^2/(x^2-1),1,3) end{TV} draws the variation table of function x->x^2/(x^2-1). It needs the metapost macro file tableauVariation.mp You can download it there : http://frederic.mazoit.free.fr/LaTeX_metapost/tableauVariations/ You can download XCAS there: http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/%7Eparisse/giac.html You need to activate shell-escape. The non-french users need to comment out every « usepackage[upright]{fourier} » ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 has a new package: biblatex-dw
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

The package below 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- biblatex-dw is a small collection of styles for the biblatex package. It was designed for citations in the humanities and offers some features that are not provided by the standard biblatex styles. biblatex-dw is dependend on biblatex (at least version 0.7) and cannot be used without it! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 has a new package: FastPicTeX
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Regards, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: FastPicTeX Author's name: Harald M. Stauss Location on CTAN: /support/fastpictex Summary description: A preprocessor for PiCTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FastPicTeX is a preprocessor for PiCTeX that takes very easy to write macros and converts them to PiCTeX code that can be included in LaTeX documents. FastPicTeX is specifically designed for diagrams of numbered data material, such as line graphs, bar graphs, or xy graphs. A detailed manual for FastPicTeX is included as PDF. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/fastpictex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fastpictex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: GV savepos patch
by CTAN Announcements 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: GV savepos patch Author's name: The Thanh Han Location on CTAN: /support/gv-savepos Summary description: A patch to allow recording the current coordinate of the cursor in GV License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A patch to allow recording the current coordinate of the cursor in GV to a file. Useful for example for use with pinlabel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/gv-savepos . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/gv-savepos (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). 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: newcommand
by CTAN Announcements 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: newcommand Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /support/newcommand Summary description: Easily generate complex LaTeX macro definitions License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX's ewcommand is fairly limited in the way it processes optional arguments, but the TeX alternative, a batch of defs and futurelets, can be overwhelming to the casual LaTeX user. newcommand.py is a Python program that automatically generates LaTeX macro definitions for macros that require more powerful argument processing than ewcommand can handle. newcommand.py is intended for LaTeX advanced beginners (i.e., those who know how to use ewcommand but not internal LaTeX2e commands such as @ifnextchar) and for more advanced users who want to save some typing when defining complex macros. This update supports optional arguments whose default value is the value of a preceding argument. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/newcommand . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/newcommand (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: texcount
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, 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 counting words in LaTeX documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TeXcount.pl is a Perl script that counts the number of words in the text of LaTeX files. It has rules for handling most of the common macros and provieds colour coded output indicating which parts have been counted. Go to http://folk.uio.no/einarro/Comp/texwordcount.html for more information or to access the script online as a web service. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Update: pdfcrop v1.8
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Heiko Oberdiek submitetd an update to the pdfcrop package. > Changes: > > 2008/01/09 v1.8: Fix for moving the temporary file to the output > file across file system boundaries. > Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN packagte update: notes2bib
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

cambridge upload wrote (for some value of wrote): > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: notes2bib > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib > Summary description: Integrating notes into the bibliography > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.3a: > * Added checks on versions of supporting packages xkeyval and etoolbox > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the package update and amended the catalogue repository as necessary. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/notes2bib.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/latex/contrib/notes2bib the catalogue entry will be updated overnight tonight, but the package revision itself is already on its way around the world. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: notes2bib
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

also sprach the cambridge upload daemon: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: notes2bib > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib > Summary description: Integrating notes into the bibliography > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.3: > * Revised control interface, using keyval for all package > and control options; > * Package options (head, tail, footnotes, ...) and control macros can > now be modified throughout the source; > * biblatex compatibility updated for 0.7 release of biblatex; > * Fixed serious error with head and tail mode operation; > * Renamed flushcitestack to flushnotestack, to better reflect purpose of macro. > > This release modifies a great deal of the advanced interface to make > the package easier to use. Users upgrading from v1.2a (or earlier) > will need to make changes to their source if they have used any of the > old setup macros ( iib...), which have been *removed* from the > package. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/notes2bib.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib the package itself should be well on its way around the world by now; the catalogue entry will be updated overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: skaknew
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 Ulrich Dirr submitted a new verrsion of the skaknew package. This package offers Adobe Type 1 versions of the fonts provided as MetaFont source by the skak bundle. Location on CTAN: /fonts/chess/skaknew Summary description: Update skaknew & new AlphaDia font License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated SkakNew-Diagram fonts, documentation and added new AlphaDia font. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/chess/skaknew . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=skaknew (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New CTAN package: nb4latex
by CTAN admin (Robin Fairbairns) 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

quoth the upload daemon: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: NB4LATEX > Author's name: Guido Milanese > Author's email: > Location on CTAN: systems/msdos/nb4latex > Summary description: Transforms old NotaBene4 files (DOS version) to LaTeX format > License type: pd > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > A DOS programme designed to transform old NotaBene4 files (DOS > version) to LaTeX format. Please see the README: the programme is old > (1995-1997) and needs a radical update to support modern Windows > versions of Nota Bene. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the package, and updated the catalogue (which used to list the program on an off-ctan website). thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror-ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/nb4latex.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror-ctan.org/systems/msdos/nb4latex the package itself is already on its way around the world; the catalogue will be updated some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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