Konrad Höffner submitted the
aurl
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Version number: 2016-08-12
License type: pd
Summary description: Extends the hyperref package with a mechanism for
hyperlinked URLs abbreviated with prefixes
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Semantic Web resource URLs are often abbreviated with prefixes, like
owl:Class or rdf:type. The abbreviated URL (aurl) package
provides the correct hyperlinks for those URLs. The 1000 most common
prefixes are predefined and more can be added.
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Excel2LaTeX
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* Bug fix: Launching the form would throw an error on some localized
Excel versions
* Bug fix: Right vertical borders sometimes weren't recognized on
blank cells
* Bug fix: On some localized Excel versions, generated colors were
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pgfplots
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Version number: 1.14
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Summary description: Create normal/logarithmic plots in two and three
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- new feature: 'contour filled' (compat=1.14)
- new feature: building colormaps from other colormaps (see Building
Colormaps based on other Colormaps in the manual)
- new feature: non-uniform colormaps (compat=1.14)
- new feature: colormaps defined on position of arbitrary magnitude
- new feature: colorbar as legend
- new feature: 'colorbar style={xtick=data}' positions tick labels at
colormap positions
- fixed bug: pgfplots now handles incompatible changes of luatex
loading usepackage{pgfplots} _before_ pgf also allows makes older
PGF versions compatible with luatex
- fixed bug: incompatibility between units + groupplots (bug 119)
- fixed bug: 'axis line shift' did not respect labels
- fixed bug: layers for axis lines were not respected
- fixed bug: two axes with fillbetween in the same picture failed due
to clip paths on layers
- fixed bug: quiver plots with 'every arrow' failed to evaluate arrow
tip length arguments
- fixed bug: usepgfplotslibrary{colorbrewer}: colormap 'PuOr' was
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NotesPages
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Version: 0.8 2016-08-10
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Filling documents with notes pages and notes areas
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The NotesPages package provides one macro to insert a single notes page
and another to fill the document with multiple notes pages, until the
total number of pages (so far) is a multiple of a given number.
A third command can be used to fill half empty pages with a notes area.
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LaTeX-veryshortguide
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Version: 2016-06-14
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Summary description: The Very Short Guide to LaTeX
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class (vsg.cls) and parameterisation to allow formatting for US Legal
as well as A4 paper.
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pstricks-add
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Version number: 3.81
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menukeys
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Summary description: Format menu sequences, paths and keystrokes from
lists
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New option 'hyperrefcolorlinks' to prevent an color-sty option clash. See
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paralist
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Fix for nested inparaitem and inparadesc environments changing the enum
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optidef
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Version number: 2.0
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Summary description: Provides a standard set of environments for
writing minimization problems
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- Addition of short problem format where subject to can be
substituted by s.t. and minimize by min.
- Added compatibility for long optimization variables. Now, with long
optimization variables, minimize and subject to are left aligned
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acmart
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version 1.19 Include 'Abstract', 'Acknowledgements', and 'References'
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version 1.20 Bug fixes, documentation updates
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ledmac
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Version: 0.19.4 2016-08-06
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Summary description: Typeset scholarly editions
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This release fixes a bug with nested crossref introduced in v0.8.1 (!).
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tocdata
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Version number: 0.11
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Summary description: Adds names to chapters, sections, figures in the
TOC and LOF.
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The tocdata package may be used to add a small amount of data to an
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name and the page number. The typical use would be to add the name of
an author or artist of a chapter or section, such as in an anthology or
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biblatex-publist
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- Proper sorting of pubstates.
- Add possibility to increase the indentation of items (by means
of the length extralabelnumberwidth).
- Use pagetracker=true instead of pagetracker=spread by default
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mcf2graph
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Version: 3.96 2016-08-06
License: bsd
Summary description: Draw chemical structure diagrams with Metafont/MetaPost
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-update MCF syntax manual
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Alex Ball submitted an update to the
dccpaper
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Version: 1.5 2016-08-05
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Typeset papers for the International Journal of Digital Curation
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* New option '17' for idcc.cls, relating to the 2017 conference.
* To avoid issues with some automated compilation systems, the
common class code is now implemented as a package (dccpaper-base.sty)
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ecards
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Version number: 2016-08-02
License type: lppl1.2
Summary description: Electronic flash cards
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The ecards package for LaTeX enables you to create a series of
electronic (flash) cards. The demo file for this package is named
ecardstst.pdf. The document author provides questions, hints and
answers to a series of questions. Users can test their knowledge by
responding to the questions. The questions are delivered in random
order.
What's new (2016/08/02): The last revision was in 2003, and since then
there have been many changes in exerquiz. This revision brings ecards
into harmony with exerquiz dated 2016/04/18 or later). Additionally,
several new commands are created to help customize the cards.
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acrotex
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Summary description: The AcroTeX education bundle
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philosophersimprint
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etex-pkg
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Version: 2.7 2016-08-01
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BXjscls
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Version number: 1.2 2016-08-01
License type: bsd2
Summary description: Japanese document class collection for all major
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latex-base
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mfirstuc
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Version: 2.03 2016-07-29
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Summary description: Uppercase the first letter of a word
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genealogytree
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Version: 1.01 2016-07-29
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Pedigree and genealogical tree diagrams
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* Family options like 'pivot shift' are now applicable for
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* New option 'tikz'
* New option 'genealogytree extra edges scope'
* New tutorial for multi-ancestors
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xassoccnt
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