The LaTeX3 Project submitted the
l3build
package.
Version number: SVN5141
License type: lppl
Summary description: A testing and building system for (La)TeX
Announcement text:
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l3build: A testing and building system for (La)TeX
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The LaTeX3 Project are pleased to release to CTAN a first public
version of the testing/building system used to create kernel
releases of LaTeX3 code: `l3build`. This new build system has
been written to support not only the work of the team itself but
also to enable other (La)TeX developers to take advantage of the
functionality offered.
The build system is written in Lua, and is thus usable with any
recent TeX system (all of which include LuaTeX and thus the
`texlua` scripting executable). The code has been designed to
run on both Unix systems (Linux, Mac OS X, _etc._) and on
Windows, and offers the following features:
- A unit testing system for (La)TeX code, essential for the
work of the team but also highly-relevant to other (La)TeX
developers
- A system for typesetting package documentation
- An automated process for creating CTAN releases (this
requires a command line zip program: Windows users will need
a copy of Info-ZIP, conveniently available as part of
[GNU on Windows](https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow) if not
installed already)
A key design aim of `l3build` is that it enables testing of
(La)TeX code using an automated approach. This is described in
the documentation, and requires only a TeX system and one or
more suitably-designed tests. The latter comprise a file
containing the test code and a reference log file showing the
expected outcomes: running the tests and comparing the results
is handled entirely by `l3build`. The entire testing and
building system can be run in an 'isolated' way such that files
in the main TeX system do not influence the outcomes.
The system has been designed to be flexible, with setting stored
in a small Lua-based configuration file and allowing
considerable control over the build process. The team have
included a range of customisation options in this first release,
but anticipate that over time more will be added in response to
user requests.
Note that `l3build` is essentially independent of other release
material from the team. As such, updates to `l3build` will be
made to CTAN separately from those for `l3kernel`, `l3packages`
and `l3experimental`.
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Tim Arnold submitted the
longfigure
package.
Version number: 1.0
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Provides a figure-like environment that break over
pages.
Announcement text:
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The longfigure package uses and relabels components of the well-known
longtable package, written by David Carlisle, to provide a table-like
environment that can display a stream of figures as a single figure
that can break across pages.
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Daniel H. Luecking submitted an update to the
mathdots
package.
Version number: 0.9
License type: lppl
Summary description: Commands to produce dots in math that respect font
size.
Announcement text:
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Added user level commands to fine-tune placement of dots. Renamed
internal commands. Minor bugs corrected. Upgraded documentation.
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Herbert Voß submitted an update
to the
pstricks-add
package.
Version number: 3.72
License type: lppl
Summary description: A collection of add-ons and bugfixes for PSTricks.
Announcement text:
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v 3.72 2014-06-12 - allow multiple coors for psVector
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Tim Arnold submitted an update to the
statrep
package.
Version number: 1.02
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Displays SAS code and results of running the code.
Announcement text:
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Enhancement: The SAS macros bundled with the StatRep package now
support European languages. This change updates the single file
'statrep_macros.sas'
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The LaTeX3 Project submitted an update to the
l3kernel + l3packages + l3experimental
packages.
Version number: SVN 5015
License type: lppl
Summary description: Higher-level LaTeX3 concepts
Announcement text:
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Snapshot of SVN 5105
====================
Changes in this release focus primarily on minimising
dependency of expl3 on other packages and on having consistent
behaviour across the supported engines (pdfTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX).
The team have developed a new build system to support this:
while this does not 'show up' directly, it has resulted in a
number of code improvements. The build system itself will be
made generally available as a stand-alone product in the near
future: full details will be given at that point.
Changes:
- Use expl3 native graphic drivers as standard rather than
those from LaTeX2e
- Move experimental l3luatex code out of l3kernel: this
requires more work before inclusion in the 'stable' release
bundle
- Remove use of ifpdf package: with the standard settings,
expl3 now requires only the LaTeX2e kernel and etex package
to load
- pdf_strcmp:D is now only defined if a primitive: an internal
wrapper \__str_if_eq_x:nn is now used for all engines
(similar to pdf@strcmp in the pdftexcmds package)
- Bug fix for pdfstrcmp emulation in LuaTeX: # tokens are now
handled correctly in all cases
- Bug fixes for native drivers: negative scaling and descender
depths are now handled correctly
- Bug fix for l3keys: attempting to 'nest' choice keys (set the
code for a choice to itself be a choice) raises an error
- l3file now allows spaces in file names and quotes them in
the web2c style: surround tokens only if the file name
contains spaces
- Performance enhancement for l_if_single:n(TF)
- int_step_... functions now evaluate all three INT
arguments at the start of the loop
- dim_to_pt:n/dim_to_unit:nn are now fully expandable; the
input syntax is now restricted to 'properly formed' dimensions
(i.e. exactly one unit must be given)
- l3fp-old, which contained some code to support the older,
non-expandable FPU syntax, is removed entirely
- gind.ist is used for index sorting rather than l3doc.ist
- Improved error messages in l3regex
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i've released version 3.28 of the uk tex faq.
users may view its sources, printable versions, etc., at
http://mirror.ctan.org:help/uk-tex-faq -- or they may access it (sort of) ineractively via
http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
i retire soon: when i do, i shall probably not have access to the server
that has served this faq since 1995 (or so). so this is probably the last
ever release of this faq in its present form.
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the daemon reports:
> Name of contribution: historische-zeitschrift
> Author's name: Dominik Waßenhoven
> Package version: 1.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/historische-zeitschrift/
> Summary description: Biblatex style for the journal ‘Historische Zeitschrift’
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 1.1
> - This is a bugfix release.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Announcement required: Yes
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/historische-zeitschrift
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/historische-ze…
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Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the
flowfram
package.
Version number: 1.16
License type: lppl
Summary description: Create text frames for posters, brochures or magazines
Announcement text:
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* Added `hide' and `hidethis' attributes for static and
dynamic frames.
* Removed bug that modified extwidth in output routine.
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Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
mk
package.
Version number: 3.03
License type: gpl
Summary description: a TeX and LaTeX maker
Announcement text:
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Changes with respect to version 3.02:
- bug causing break in working cycle repaired
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> Name of contribution: pst-optexp
> Author's name: Christoph Bersch
> Package version: 4.10
> Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optexp/
> Summary description: Drawing optical experimental setups
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 4.10 2014-06-04
> * Added value firstcomp to parameter beamalign.
> * Modified optsource to handle also the beam alignment.
>
> 4.9 2014-06-03
> * Added new component optsource.
> * Improved naming of the last component name, which can now be
> accessed also by its number besides using N.
> * Fixed bug related to extnodes together with compname
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Announcement required: Yes
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pst-optexp
> or they may browse the package directory at
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> Name of contribution: mk
> Author's name: Wybo Dekker
> Package version: 3.02
> Location on CTAN: support/latex_maker/
> Summary description: a TeX and LaTeX maker
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Changes with respect to version 3.01:
> - let vpp save its output in the working directory
> - removed crappy version testing on texi2dvi - use texi2dvi from the /texinfo/ package
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Announcement required: Yes
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mk
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Igor A. Kotelnikov submitted an update to the
babel-russian
package.
Version number: 1.3c
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Russian language module for Babel.
Announcement text:
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-- fix bug in daterussian
-- support for the packages listing, nomencl, nomentbl.
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Linus Romer submitted an update to the
fetamont
package.
Version number: 1.4
License type: lppl
Summary description: fetamont is an extended version of Knuth’s logo typeface
Announcement text:
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Reduced the number of files drastically, this has changed the
shape of letters like IJ in the script faces; improved the
English of the typeface documentation; added a compiled version
of the package documentation
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> Name of contribution: dehyph-exptl
> Author's name: Werner Lemberg
> Package version: 0.40
> Location on CTAN: language/hyphenation/dehyph-exptl/
> Summary description: experimental hyphenation patterns for the German language
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> English
> -------
>
> This package provides experimental hyphenation patterns
> for the German language, covering traditional and
> reformed orthography for several varieties of Standard
> German. The patterns can be used with packages Babel
> and hyphsubst from the Oberdiek bundle.
>
> Deutsch
> -------
>
> Dieses Paket enthält experimentelle Trennmuster für die
> deutsche Sprache. Die Trennmuster decken das in
> Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz gebräuchliche
> Standarddeutsch in der traditionellen und reformierten
> Rechtschreibung ab und können mit den Paketen Babel und
> hyphsubst aus dem Oberdiek-Bündel verwendet werden.
>
> v0.40 (2014-05-21)
> ------------------
>
> Wortdatenbank
>
> Rechtschreibung hinzugefügt entfernt korrigiert
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> traditionell (DE, AT) 2493 274 458
> traditionell (CH) 2493 274 457
> reformiert 2468 278 394
>
> - Die Arbeiten an der Klassifizierung von
> Trennstellen sind nahezu abgeschlossen.
>
> - Es wird eine Liste mit Schreibweisen vor der
> I. Orthographischen Konferenz gepflegt (Datei
> pre-1901). Mit Hilfe dieser Datei lassen sich
> Muster erstellen, die veraltete Wörter und
> Schreibweisen erwartungsgemäßer trennen.
>
> - Die Lizenz der Dateien im Entwickler-Repositorium
> wurde klargestellt (MIT). (Das Paket dehyph-exptl
> steht jedoch unter der LPPL.)
>
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> Announcement required: Yes
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the daemon reported:
> Name of contribution: chemnum
> Author's name: Clemens Niederberger
> Package version: 1.0b
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/chemnum/
> Summary description: A method of numbering chemical compounds
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> bug fix: list of sublabels can now correctly be sorted and compressed
> if referenced before they're defined
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>
> Announcement required: Yes
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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Claudio Beccari submitted an update to the
babel-latin
package.
Version number: 3.0
License type: lppl
Summary description: Latin support for the babel package
Announcement text:
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The laguage description file for Latin has been extended to
classical Latin with its special spelling and hyphenation.
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemnum
package.
Version number: 1.0a
License type: lppl
Summary description: A method of numbering chemical compounds
Announcement text:
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Bug fix: subcompounds can now be correctly referenced before
they're defined
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the little bell rings, and up pops:
> Name of contribution: bagpipe
> Author's name: Walt Innis
> Package version: 302
> Location on CTAN: macros/generic/
> Summary description: package to support typesetting bagpipe music
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Typesetting bagpipe music in MusixTeX is needlessly tedious. This
> package provides specialized and re-defined macros to simplify this
> task.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Announcement required: Yes
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/bagpipe
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> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: udesoftec
> Author's name: J. Peter M. Schuler
> Package version: 2014/05/27 v1.4.1 udesoftec
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/udesoftec/
> Summary description: The class is designed for typesetting theses at
> the Research Group for Business Informatics and
> Software Engineering at the University of
> Duisburg-Essen.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2014/05/19 v1.4.1
> * minor improvements to documentation
> * moved tested addtitions from udesoftec-extra.sty to udesoftec.cls
>
> 2014/05/19 v1.4.0
> * splitted documentclass in two files to create udesoftec-bst.sty which holds the configuration for bibstyle and might be used separately
> * major code cleanup: removed many usepackages and configuration which is not necessary anymore
> * major documentation cleanup and improvement: added list of listings for easy access to code examples
> * added list of listings and classoption omit-lol
> * improved the title page background files
> * updated tlmgr install for new dependencies
> * fixed font usage to just stick to one family
> * changed line spacing to a more appropiate value.
> * changed box size to be same for all kind of boxes (e.g. citequotepar, lstlisting)
>
> == WARNING: your document might need update using newer version ==
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Announcement required: Yes
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Maïeul Rouquette submitted an update to the
eledmac
package.
Version number: 1.11.1-1.7.0
License type: lppl
Summary description: Fix bug in critical notes
Announcement text:
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This release fixes a bug when starting a critical note by
plus or minus.
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Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the
tcolorbox
package.
Version number: 3.05
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Coloured boxes, for LaTeX examples and theorems,
etc.
Announcement text:
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- compatibility fix for the upcoming version 2.0 of the package minted
- inner boxes are enforced to be unbreakable now
- library 'breakable':
new key 'enforce breakable' (for breaking inner boxed deliberately)
- library 'skins':
* new options:
'lifted shadow', 'drop small lifted shadow', 'drop lifted shadow',
'drop large lifted shadow'
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quoth the daemon:
> Name of contribution: getmap
> Author's name: Josef Kleber
> Package version: v1.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/getmap/
> Summary description: A style file for downloading OpenStreetMap maps
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> The goal of this package is the simplest possible provision of
> OpenStreetMap maps. In the simplest case, the specification of
> the 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, as well as the attached bash script also from
> the command line.
>
> License: LPPL
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Announcement required: Yes
>
> Uploader's additional comments:
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/getmap
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Jim Diamond submitted an update to the
xpdfopen
package.
Version number: 0.86
License type: pd
Summary description: Commands to control PDF readers, under X11
Announcement text:
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adds 'load at named destination' support (-g/--goto option) for
xpdf, evince and AR9. Also add aliases for option names to
make ms-windows users feel at home.
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