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CTAN update: babel
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the babel package. Version number: 3.17 2018-01-24 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: Multilingual support for Plain TeX or LaTeX Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New --- - A tool for bidi footnotes. - Fix -- agged... didn't work for bidi. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel We are supported by the TeX User Groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Ina Dau

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New on CTAN: stealcaps
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

Ruben Giannotti submitted the stealcaps package. Version: 1.0 2018-01-21 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: “Steal” small capitals Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package enables you to borrow small capitals from another font than the main document font. For that simply load the package and specify the replacement font via the key-value-option 'from', i.e. usepackage[from=<font name>]{stealcaps}. In case you use pdfLaTeX the font name has to be NFSS compliant. With XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, correspondingly, it has to be fontspec compliant. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/stealcaps The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/stealcaps/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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New on CTAN: lccaps
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

Ruben Giannotti submitted the lccaps package. Version: 1.0 2018-01-21 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: Lowercased (spaced) small capitals Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This tiny package serves the mere purpose of providing a uniform method to use lowercased small capitals (and spaced lowercased small capitals). It relies on the iftex, textcase and microtype packages and comes with four new user macros: extlcc, the main feature: lowercased small capitals, spacedcaps, a prefix to small capitals text commands to slightly increase their spacing, extslcc and extssc, which are shortcuts for spacedcaps extlcc and spacedcaps extsc(accordingly). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/lccaps The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/lccaps/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN Update: docsurvey
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

Brian Dunn submitted an update to the docsurvey package. Version: 2018-01-21 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: A survey of LaTeX documentation Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Adds several LaTeX tutorials. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/docsurvey The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/info/docsurvey/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: elpres
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

Volker Kiefel submitted an update to the elpres package. Version number: 0.4a License type: lppl Summary description: A simple class for electronic presentations Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Document class: elpres Version: 0.4a License: LaTeX project public license (lppl) Short description: Elpres is a simple class for electronic presentations to be shown on a screen or a beamer. Elpres is derived from article.cls and may be used with LaTeX or pdfLaTeX. The elpres class requires the packages: ifthen, fancyhdr, geometry. For enhanced options, the packages ragged2e, overlays, wallpaper, eso-pic, footmisc and hyperref are useful. Volker Kiefel volker (dot) kiefel (at) freenet (dot) de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/elpres More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/elpres ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz We are supported by the TeX user groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: poemscol
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

John Burt submitted an update to the poemscol package. Version number: 2.97 2018-01-11 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: Typesetting Critical Editions of Poetry Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Manual revised for clarity ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/poemscol More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/poemscol ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz We are supported by the TeX user groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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Update to package footnotehyper
by CTAN Announcements 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

Jean-Francois Burnol submitted an update to the footnotehyper package. version: 1.1 2018-01-23 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: The footnote package by Mark Wooding dates back to 1997 and has not been made hyperref compatible. The aim of the present package is to do that. Announcement text: ---- bugfix: Footnotes disappeared when savenotes environment was used _inside_ a minipage. Indeed, I never had considered this use case, but it did work with original footnote package. This use case has issues though (e.g. consider a minipage in a savenotes in a minipage: the sub-minipage also starts footnotes at a...), which were already present in original package or even simply in LaTeX2e (see remarks at end of pdf documentation), and I didn't try to address them. ---- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/footnotehyper We are supported by the TeX User Groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Ina Dau

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CTAN update: lwarp
by CTAN Announcements 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

Brian Dunn submitted an update to the lwarp package. Version number: 0.46 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: Converts LaTeX to HTML Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updates to the introduction, MikTeX install instructions, graphics and epstopdf instructions. Added memoir class and eighteen packages. Improved bibliography and related. Fixes for underscores in label, empty lines in tabular, spaces in usepackage, SVG math in numerous situations. Now allows MathJax in tabbing, verse. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lwarp The package's files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/lwarp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN Update: fancyhandout
by CTAN Announcements 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Sebastian Friedl submitted an update to the fancyhandout package. Version: 2018-01-22 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: A LaTeX class for producing nice-looking handouts Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- THIS RELEASE FIXES SOME CRITICAL BUGS ===================================== Half an hour after the class had been announced on the CTAN-Ann mailing list, I recieved the first notification regarding a missing fi command that caused maketitle to crash. A patch has thankfully been provided by Sébastien Le Callonnec. This version (2018/01/22) should be bug-free now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/fancyhandout The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fancyhandout/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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New on CTAN: mathfam256
by CTAN Announcements 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Hironobu Yamashita submitted the mathfam256 package. Version: 0.2 2018-01-22 License: bsd3 Summary description: Extend math family up to 256 for pLaTeX/upLaTeX/Lamed Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package increases the upper limit of math symbols up to 256, using `omath...` primitives. It can be used on Japanese pLaTeX, upLaTeX and Lamed (Aleph/Omega). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/mathfam256 The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mathfam256/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: luatexja
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

Hironori Kitagawa submitted an update to the luatexja package. Version number: 20180121.0 License type: bsd Summary description: Typeset Japanese with Lua(La)TeX Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Better compatibility with the unicode-math package (tested in v0.8j). * Introduced Cjascale which stores the scaling value of Japanese font. * Improved lltjp-geometry.sty. - now auto-detect tate-gumi classes in pLaTeX. - added `force' and `disable' options. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/luatexja More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/luatexja ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz We are supported by the TeX user groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN Update: datatooltk
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the datatooltk package. Version: 1.7 2018-01-20 License: gpl3+ Summary description: A Java GUI for preparing datatool input Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Added --sort-locale, --tex-encoding and --csv-encoding - Import probsoln function now uses texparserlib.jar - Removed --shuffle-iterations - Improved GUI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/datatooltk The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/datatooltk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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New on CTAN: fancyhandout
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

Sebastian Friedl submitted the fancyhandout package. Version: 2018-01-20 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: A LaTeX class for producing nice-looking handouts Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fancyhandout breaks with some of LaTeX's principles and redefines basic LaTeX commands with the aim of producing well-designed and clearly structured handouts: A sans-serif font is used by default; sections are not numbered but highlighted by underlining; head- and footline display document information; and for avoiding too large whitespace around the text, the margin sizes are adjusted to a proper value. All together, fancyhandout provides a means of typesetting documents not exclusively consisting of running text in a beautiful way. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/fancyhandout The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fancyhandout/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN Update: thesis-gwu
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

Shankar Kulumani submitted an update to the thesis-gwu package. Version: 1.2.7 2018-01-20 License: gpl3 Summary description: Thesis class for George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update to thesis-gwu class file - Chapter headings modified to match guidelines - Version information included in class file ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/thesis-gwu The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/thesis-gwu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: witharrows
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jan '18

22 Jan '18

François Pantigny submitted an update to the witharrows package. Version number: 1.4 2018-01-20 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: “Aligned” math environments with arrows for comments Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version of the extension witharrows solves a problem of compatibility with Beamer (and others). The package footnote is no longer loaded by default but with a option (named footnote). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/witharrows More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/witharrows ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz We are supported by the TeX user groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN Update: pstool
by CTAN Announcements 21 Jan '18

21 Jan '18

Will Robertson submitted an update to the pstool package. Version: 1.5e 2018-01-20 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: Support for psfrag within pdfLaTeX Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * v1.5e, Jan 2018: - New package option `crossref=false` to disable cross-referencing support. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/pstool The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pstool/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN Update: reledmac and reledpar
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jan '18

20 Jan '18

Maïeul Rouquette submitted an update to the reledmac and reledpar packages. Version: reledmac: 2.26.4 2018-01-18 reledpar: 2.21.3 2018-01-18 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: Typeset scholarly editions Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fix bug when using umberpstarttrue and alternating between manual pstart and automatic produced by autopar. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/reledmac and https://ctan.org/pkg/reledpar The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/reledmac/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: latexindent
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jan '18

20 Jan '18

Chris Hughes submitted an update to the latexindent package. Version number: 3.4.1 2018-01-18 License type: gpl3 Summary description: Indent a LaTeX document, highlighting the programming structure Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This represents a bug fix for the Windows executable file. (The YAML::Tiny module errors if the file it is trying to read does not exist -- this wasn't true previously. This was reported at https://github.com/cmhughes/latexindent.pl/issues/97) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexindent The package's files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latexindent ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: VisualTikZ
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Jean Pierre Casteleyn submitted an update to the VisualTikZ package. Version number: 0.65 2018-01-18 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: Visual help for TikZ based on images with minimum text Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Partial resolution of the conflict between tikzlibrary{patterns} and package{ tikzpeople} Matrices of nodes added Library matrix added Tikzducks package added ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/info/visualtikz More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/VisualTikZ We are supported by the TeX User Groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Ina Dau

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CTAN Update: latexmk
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

John Collins submitted an update to the latexmk package. Version: 4.55 2018-01-17 License: gpl2 Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Correct bug that some variables weren't defined under msys. 2. Compensate for problems caused by time offset between system time on system running latexmk and file times on remote file system. (These caused trouble for documents that both are compiled under MiKTeX and use biber.) 3. Allow optional timeout in pvc mode after a period of inactivity. (See documenta tion for -pvctimeout option.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/latexmk (although, at the moment, the data displayed on this page fail to be up to date due to a bug of the website. Sorry for the inconvenience!) The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latexmk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN Update: polexpr
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Jean-François Burnol submitted an update to the polexpr package. Version: 0.3.1 2018-01-18 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: A parser for polynomial expressions Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are two main changes: - polynomials are also made known as functions to the xintfloatexpr parser. This is indispensible for numerical algorithms (such as finding roots by Newton's method or Regula Falsi) as exact computations quickly give very big fractions. - there was a breaking change for PolToExpr. It now outputs in descending powers; use PolToExpr* for ascending powers. See README.md for more. The documentation (in polexpr.html) was extended and fully revised. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/polexpr (although, at the moment, the data displayed on this page are not up to date due to a bug of the website. Sorry for the inconvenience!)) The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/polexpr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: beuron
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Keno Wehr submitted an update to the beuron package. Version number: 1.3 2018-01-17 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: The script of the Beuronese art school Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Correction of corrupted outlines ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/beuron More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/beuron ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz We are supported by the TeX user groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: docsurvey
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Brian Dunn submitted an update to the docsurvey package. Version number: 2018-01-18 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: A survey of LaTeX documentation Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Adds TeXdoc Online. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/docsurvey The package's files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/info/docsurvey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: graphics-pln
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

David Carlisle submitted an update to the graphics-pln package. Version number: 2018-01-16 License type: lppl1 Summary description: LaTeX-style graphics for Plain TeX users Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update to graphics-pln to include autopict.sty which is no longer generated by the base LaTeX sources. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/graphics-pln The package's files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/plain/graphics ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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New on CTAN: mathfixs
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

Niklas Beisert submitted the mathfixs package. Version number: 1.0 2018-01-17 License type: lppl1.3 Summary description: Fix various layout issues in math mode Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mathfixs is a LaTeX2e package to fix some odd behaviour in math mode such as spacing around fractions and roots, math symbols within bold text as well as capital Greek letters. It also adds some related macros. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mathfixs The package's files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mathfixs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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