Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
getmap
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Version number: 1.4
License type: lppl
Summary description: Download OpenStreetMap maps for
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map images (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps and Google Street View
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address is sufficient. The package loads the map using the
write18 feature, which you must activate to use this package.
The image will be downloaded by an external Lua script. You can
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License: LPPL
Changes in v1.4:
- added new options in gm mode
* language (language of map labels)
* markers (set marker on map)
* visible (ensure locations to be on the map)
* path (draw pathes and routes)
* pathfile (load complicated encoded polylines (routes))
- added more examples to the documentation
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The package DSPTricks is a set of LaTeX macros (based on
PSTricks) for plotting the kind of graphs and figures that are
usually employed in digital signal processing publications.
DSPTricks provides facilities for standard discrete-time
lollipop plots, continuous-time and frequency plots, and
pole-zero plots.
The companion package DSPFunctions provides macros to compute
frequency responses and DFTs, while the package DSPBlocks
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Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the
tcolorbox
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Version number: 3.11
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- example file updated with new features
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Philipp Gesang submitted an update to the
luaotfload
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Version number: 2.5-2 2014-07-24
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Summary description: OpenType ‘loader’ for Plain TeX and LaTeX
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Bugfix release.
Fixes an issue with fontconfig configuration files.
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Travis L. Scholten submitted the
qcircuit
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Version number: 2.0
License type: gpl2
Summary description: Macros to generate quantum ciruits
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qcircuit is a package designed for those within the quantum information
community who typeset quantum circuits. Based off the xy-pic package,
qcircuit contains a list of macros designed to help users speedily
generate circuits.
This package was originally written by Bryan Eastin and Steven Flammia
while graduate students at the University of New Mexico, New Mexico,
USA. Recently, some students from this same university have expressed
an interest in rebooting the project to add enhancements and other
features needed by the quantum information community.
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tcolorbox
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Version number: 3.10
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* breakable boxes now always have
oindent
* distance to preceeding text corrected
* interaction with floating objects fixed
* dimensioning of partial boxes improved
* splitting of an empty closing frame can now be avoided (depending on 'pad at break*')
* The upper total height limit for breakable boxes is extended from
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* experimental code added (breakable=unlimited) for breakable boxes
without height limit besides memory
* splitting boxes inside multicols environments supported (to a certain degree)
* limited orphan control added ('enlargepage flexible')
- library 'breakable':
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- Corners can be set individually now to be 'rounded' or 'sharp'
for all types of boxes, skins, borders, and shadows:
* new options: 'sharpish corners', 'sharp corners', and 'rounded corners'
- library 'skins':
* new options: ' cbline*'
* bug fix: skin families 'bicolor' and 'beamer' did not respect 'colbacktitle'
- pictures 'blueshade.png', 'crinklepaper.png', 'goldshade.png', 'pink_marble.png'
moved to package folder
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Herbert Voß submitted an update to the
pstricks-add
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Version number: 3.75
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diwtex
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Version number: 2
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Tex/Latex equivalent program for Android
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Alexander Shibakov submitted an update to the
splint
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Version number: 1.03
License type: gpl3
Summary description: SPLinT---write LALR(1) in TeX using bison and flex
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TeX code in actions, various minor changes.
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Khaled Hosny submitted an update to the
dviasm
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Version number: 2014-07-21
License type: gpl3
Summary description: A utility for editing DVI files
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Add support for XeTeX’s extended DVI files.
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Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
getmap
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Version number: 1.3
License type: lppl
Summary description: Download OpenStreetMap maps for
Announcement text:
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The goal of this package is the simplest possible provision of
map images (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps and Google Street View
are supported). In the simplest case, the specification of an
address is sufficient. The package loads the map using the
write18 feature, which you must activate to use this package.
The image will be downloaded by an external Lua script. You can
use this script also from the command line.
License: LPPL
Changes in v1.3:
- added support for Google Street View
* new options heading, pitch, fov
- added more examples to the documentation
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The LaTeX3 Project submitted an update to the
l3kernel + l3packages + l3experimental
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Version number: SVN 5241
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
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Snapshot of SVN 5421
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- Change in treatment of juxtaposition in l3fp: now simply
inserts * and thus has same precedence as explicit * or
/ (this is a breaking change as discussed previously)
- Produce 'string-like' output as standard in l3regex
replacements: in replacement text has catcode 10
- New single l3str module in kernel for 'stable' str_...
functions
- New str_fold_case:n function for Unicode (UTF-8) case
folding
- Functions moved to 'stable' status: clist_const:Nn,
<thing>_item:Nn, clist_set_from_seq:NN,
seq_set_from_clist:NN, seq_reverse:N
- New dim_to_decimal:n and related function to replace
experimental dim_strip_pt:n, etc.
- New experimental expandable Unicode case changing functions
l_lower_case:n, l_upper_case:n, l_mixed_case:n.
- New experimental ox_resize_to_ht:Nn and
ox_resize_to_wd_and_ht:Nn as per user request
- Bug fix for c{...} construct in l3regex
- Bug fix for logarithms in l3fp
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
exsheets
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Version number: 0.15
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Create exercise sheets and exams
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- the packages `tasks' and `cntformats' are no longer a part
of the bundle and are now distributed as packages of their
own
- the options `load-headings' and `load-tasks' have been
deprecated; what they did optionally is now non-optional behaviour
- new command IfQuestionPropertyTF that allows to test if a
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Clemens Niederberger submitted the
cntformats
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Version number: 0.7
License type: lppl
Summary description: A different way to read counters
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The package is not really new but used to be distributed as
part of the `exsheets' bundle. It is now a package of its own.
Other news:
- robustify non-expandably commands that weren't defined
robust, yet
- replace def with
ewcommand or
ewrobustcmd where possible
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Clemens Niederberger submitted the
tasks
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Version number: 0.10
License type: lppl
Summary description: Horizontally columned lists
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The package is not really new as it used to be distributed
as part of the `exsheets' bundle. As of version 0.10 it is
distributed as a package of its own.
New features:
- new option `debug'
- new option `column-sep
- new: optional bang to a ask forces an item to use a full
line ( ask!)
- new: optional star to a ask forces an item to use the
complete remaining line ( ask*); the star has itself has
an optional argument for specifying the number of columns
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The LaTeX3 Project submitted an update to the
l3build
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Version number: SVN 5240
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: A testing and building system for (La)TeX
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- Improve clarity regarding directory 'clean out'
- Allow for manual module inclusion/exclusion
- Standardise chk/check in variable names
- Fix bug with dir separator on Unix
- Typeset 'changes' info if present in .dtx files
- Improve support for testing plain TeX/generic code
- Documentation fixes
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Walter Daems submitted an update to the
exsol
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Version number: 0.8
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Exercises and solutions from the same source, into
a book.
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Fixed:
- missing babel tag
- consuming all write handles
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bidishadowtext
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Version number: 0.1
License type: lppl
Summary description: Bidi-aware shadow text
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Marijn Waltman submitted the
lpform
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Version number: 2014-07-14
License type: lppl
Summary description: Typesetting linear programming formulations and
sets of equations
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The lpform package is designed for easily writing linear programming
formulations one restriction at a time. With this package, one can
easily label equations, formulations can span multiple pages and
several elements of the layout (such as spacing, texts and equation
tags) are also customizable. Besides linear programming formulations,
this package can also be used to display any series of aligned
equations with easy labeling/referencing and other customization
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Geoffrey M. Poore submitted an update to the
pythontex
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Version number: 0.13
License type: lppl
Summary description: Run Python from within a document,
typesetting the results
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Added support for interactive debugging. Now includes syncpdb,
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line numbers and corresponding document line numbers.
Added support for GNU Octave.
TeX information such as page dimensions can automatically be
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todonotes
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Version number: 1.0.2
License type: lppl
Summary description: Marking things to do in a LATEX document
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Added usecase by Tobias Winchen.
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Updated list of alternatives to the todonotes package.
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Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the
csvsimple
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Summary description: csv file processing, comma separated values
License type: lppl
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version 1.12 (2014/07/14):
- fixed: CSV-Sorter call incompatibilities with the ngerman
package (not babel)
- changed: success of CSV-Sorter call is checked (Note: Update
to CSV-Sorter v0.94 or newer!);
new key 'csvsorter token'
- changed: encircling column entry braces removed for all
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- documentation revised and extended with siunitx examples
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