Norbert Preining submitted an update to the
jfontmaps
package.
Summary description: Font maps and configuration tools for Japanese fonts
License type: other-free
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The following changes have been implemented since the last release in TL2012:
* proper support for JIS2004 shape - previous version did not actually select the correct shape
* renaming of the setup script: new name: kanji-config-updmap (to avoid problems on Windows)
* differentiation of various families
Thanks goes to the hard work of
Hironori Kitagawa
Takuji Tanaka
and
Yato Takayuki
for his findings on JIS2004.
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Markus Kohm submitted an update to the
koma-script-examples
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Summary description: Examples from the German KOMA-Script book (4th edition)
License type: lppl
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This package contains some examples from the 4th edition of the book
»KOMA-Script«, »Eine Sammlung von Klassen und Paketen für LaTeX2e« by Markus
Kohm and Jens-Uwe Morakswki, published by Lehmanns Media.
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
exsheets
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Summary description: Yet another package for the creation of exercise sheets.
License type: lppl
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translations:
- slightly improved messages
tasks:
- protected internal commands where appropriate
- made enumerated items referenceable with label{} and
ef{}; this introduced new options:
* the former `label-format' is now `counter-format'
* new: `label-format'
- changed defaults for `label-width' and `label-offset'
- ensure that the `after-item-skip' is only inserted in between rows
- new option `after-item-skip'
- improvements when label are set with optional argument:
* a provided but empty argument is now correctly recognized
* the counter is _not_ stepped anymore for enumerated lists when the optional argument is provided
- new command startnewitemline that forces the next item to be put at the beginning of a row
exsheets:
- protected internal commands where appropriate
- added possibility to set general options with NewQuSolPair and RenewQuSolPair
- added headings instance `empty'
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Scott Pakin submitted an update to the
savetrees
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Summary description: Pack as much text as possible onto each page of a LaTeX document
License type: lppl
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The goal of the savetrees package is to pack as much text as
possible onto each page of a LaTeX document. Admittedly,
this makes the document far less attractive. Nevertheless,
savetrees is a simple way to save paper when printing draft
copies of a document. It can also be useful when trying to
meet a tight page-length requirement for a conference or
journal submission.
Version 2.1 introduces a convenient set of package
meta-options -- subtle, moderate, and extreme -- which
encapsulate useful subsets of savetrees's space-saving
techniques. In addition, savetrees now knows how to reduce
space within and between mathematical expressions. Finally,
to complement the documentation, the package includes a new
demonstration file, st-sample2.pdf, which showcases
savetrees's ability to reduce document white space.
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Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the
tcolorbox
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Summary description: colored text boxes, LaTeX examples, theorems, documentation
License type: lppl
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- bug fix: cbox ignored font settings
- outdated documentation in German removed from package
- new core package keys:
'oversize', 'tcbox raise', 'tcbox raise base',
'before title', 'after title', 'before upper', 'after upper', 'before lower',
'after lower', 'center title', 'center upper', 'center lower',
'tabularx*', 'tabularx', 'tikz upper', 'tikz lower',
'shrink tight', 'extrude left by', 'extrude right by', 'extrude top by',
'extrude bottom by', 'extrude by'
- the 'theorems' library now loads 'amsmath'
- new macros for the 'theorems' library:
' cboxmath', ' cbhighmath'
- new keys for the 'theorems' library:
'math upper', 'math lower', 'math', 'highlight math', 'highlight math style',
'ams equation upper', 'ams equation lower', 'ams equation', 'ams equation* upper',
'ams equation* lower', 'ams equation*', 'ams align upper', 'ams align lower',
'ams align', 'ams align* upper', 'ams align* lower', 'ams align*',
'ams gather upper', 'ams gather lower', 'ams gather', 'ams gather* upper',
'ams gather* lower', 'ams gather*',
'ams nodisplayskip upper', 'ams nodisplayskip lower', 'ams nodisplayskip'
- new library 'hooks' for hook options
- colorization of source code snippets in the documentation
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The Persian TeX Group submitted an update to the
bidi
package.
Summary description: Support for bidirectional typesetting in plain TeX and LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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2013/04/16 version 12.4 Persian TeX Group
* Version 12.4 released.
* `midfloat' package supported.
* Fixed reported bug in `biditools' package.
* Fixed redefinitions of `l@part' and `l@chapter' when `titletoc' package loaded.
* Synced `lettrine-xetex-bidi.def' with version 1.64 of `lettrine' package.
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the daemon wrote:
> Name of contribution: enigma
> Author's name: Philipp Gesang
> Package version: 0.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/luatex/generic/enigma
> Summary description: Encrypt documents with a three rotor Enigma.
> License type: other-free
>
>
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> Historical Encryption (Enigma cipher) on node-level for Luatex-based formats.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Please consult README for a description of the files and suggested TDS layout.
> As the code is documented in Context there is no dtx/ins.
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> License is BSD.
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> Name of contribution: acro
> Author's name: Clemens Niederberger
> Package version: 1.2a
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> Summary description: typeset acronyms
> License type: lppl
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> Added Portuguese translations
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> Name of contribution: tikzposter
> Author's name: Richard Barnard
> Author's email: tikzposter(a)mathcces.rwth-aachen.de
> Package version: 1.1
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> Summary description: A document class providing a simple way of using TikZ for generating posters.
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> Name of contribution: pfarrei
> Author's name: Markus Kohm
> Author's email: komascript(a)gmx.info
> Package version: r33
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/pfarrei/
> Summary description: LaTeX support of a pastor’s and priest's work
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> In Die TeXnische Komödie 1/2013 Christian Justen told about his
> practice using LaTeX at his work as pastor. One point was to arrange
> A5 papers onto A4 landscape paper either side-by-side or as a
> booklet. He made two bash scripts for this. `pfarrei' provides one
> texlua script for the same.
>
> Other points at the article are, e.g,, special limitations of the page
> break. `pfarrei' provides LaTeX commands and environments for that
> too.
>
> TeX distributors please note, that a5toa4.tlu (generated from
> pfarrei.dtx) is an executable! You should make it available as a5toa4
> executable in the binary directory of your TeX distribution
> additionally to the original copy in the scripts directory. See README
> for more information.
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> These are the files:
>
> pfarrei.dtx
> - installation script, source, and manual source;
>
> pfarrei.pdf
> - user manual (in German);
>
> README
> - short information about the bundle and the installation;
>
> pfarrei.tds.zip
> - tds conform installation archive (without the binary).
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The Persian TeX Group submitted an update to the
bidi
package.
Summary description: Support for bidirectional typesetting in plain TeX and LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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2013/04/08 version 12.3 Persian TeX Group
* Version 12.3 released.
* Fixed `c' position of `window' environment of `picinpar' package in RTL.
* Disabled some frequently-used commands of `bidi' package in pdfstring
when `hyperref' package is used.
* Disabled footnote-rules when `ftnright' package is used.
* Fixed the issue of `
ef' not working in math-mode in RTL when `hyperref'
package is used.
* `biditufte' bundle and `bidi-longtable' package documented.
* Fixed wrong spacing of `color' in RTL.
* `mdframed' package supported.
* `floatrow' package supported.
* Loaded `ftnright' package automatically in `bidi' package for two-columns documents.
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Clemens Niederberger submitted the
snotez
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Summary description: sidenote support for LaTeX 2e
License type: lppl
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This has just been an exercise on a lazy afternoon. Well, more or less at least.
Since there already is Andy Thomas' `sidenotes' package
(mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/sidenotes) there is probably no real need
for `snotez'. Moreover, the tufte classes
(mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tufte-latex) as well as the memoir class
(mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/memoir) also provide corresponding
mechansims. Besides the fun I had my motivation was also based on the fact that
I didn't like some smaller things (_not_ bugs) done by the `sidenotes' package
such as inserting kerns and superscripted commas for multiple marks. I prefer to
let my `fnpct' package handle these things. Anyways, here it is and it seems to
be working as intended so I don't see a reason why it shouldn't be available to
others for use.
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Casper Ti. Vector submitted an update to the
pkuthss
package.
Summary description: LaTeX template for dissertations in Peking University
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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Major changes:
- Use the internal hyperref support in ctex 1.02c+.
- Remove usage of etoolbox.
- Add hint for split sorting with biblatex in documentation.
See ChangeLog.txt for more detailed summary of changes.
This may probably be the last RC version of the 1.4 series.
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Casper Ti. Vector submitted an update to the
biblatex-caspervector
package.
Summary description: A simple, nice and easily extensible biblography/citation style for Chinese LaTeX users.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Major changes:
- Make (more) proper use of `setunit'/`setunit*'.
- Default to `defernumbers = true' and `sorting = none'.
- Add hint for split sorting in documentation.
See ChangeLog.txt for more detailed summary.
This version would probably be the last RC version in the current series.
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
fnpct
package.
Summary description: footnote kerning and interaction with punctuation
License type: lppl
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bug fix: suppress possible break point between footnote mark and punctuation mark when used with option `punct-after=true'
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The Persian TeX Group submitted an update to the
xepersian
package.
Summary description: Persian for LaTeX, using XeTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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2013/04/08 version 12.2 Persian TeX Group
* Version 12.2 released.
* Definitions of `Umathcode' and `Umathchardef' removed from
`xepersian-mathsdigitspec.sty'.
* `harfi', `adadi', and `tartibi' counters are now protected when `glossaries'
package is used.
* Disabled `lr' and `
l' in pdfstring when `hyperref' package is used.
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Johannes Heinecke submitted an update to the
aramaic-serto
package.
Summary description: fonts and a preprocessor to typeset syriac texts with LaTeX
License type: lppl
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new character for the linea occultans.
The fonts now come also as type1 fonts (pfb)
slight corrections in the preprocessor
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Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
logicpuzzle
package.
Summary description: Typesetting logic puzzles
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The logicpuzzle bundle allows you to typeset various logic
puzzles. At the moment the following puzzles are supported:
* 2D-Sudoku (aka Magiequadrat, Diagon, ...)
* Battleship (aka Bimaru, Marinespiel, Batalla Naval, ...)
* Bokkusu (aka Kakurasu, Feldersummenrätsel, ...)
* Chaos Sudoku
* Hakyuu (aka Seismic, Ripple Effect, ...)
* Hitori
* Skyline (aka Skycrapers, Wolkenkratzer, Hochhäuser, ...)
incl. Skyline Sudoku and Skyline Sudoku (N*N) variants
* Sudoku
* more to come
License: LPPL
Changes in v1.7:
- added support for 2D-Sudoku puzzle
https://bitbucket.org/kleberj/logicpuzzle/wiki/2D-Sudoku
- added support for Hitori puzzle
https://bitbucket.org/kleberj/logicpuzzle/wiki/Hitori
- logicpuzzle.sty
* added documentation
* added filldiagonals, framepuzzle, setcolorrow, setcolorcolumn,
LP@definecolor, LP@define@key, LP@define@choicekey@fontsize
and LP@init@counter
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Markus Kohm submitted an update to the
splitindex
package.
Summary description: Unlimited number of indexes with SplitIndex and splitidx.sty
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Since version 1.2 the binaries for several platforms are optional. The perl
implementation of splitindex is still the primary one. It is recommended to use
this, if perl is available. But there's a new TeXLua implementation of
splitindex, splitindex.tlu and splitindex_main.tlu, that may be used, if perl is
not available. Note, that splitindex.tlu is only a wrapper to
splitindex_main.tlu, that makes it easier to install new version of splitindex
in TEXMFLOCAL or TEXMFHOME.
Michael Palmer has improved the English user manual of splitidx and splitindex.
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Herbert Voß submitted an update to the
pstricks
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Summary description: PSTricks Graphics with PostScript for TeX/LaTeX
License type: lppl
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2.40 2013-04-05 - fix for showgrid=top. Uses now the
same units as showgrid=bottom
- added psRing
- fix for introduced bug for showgrid
- fix for showgrid=true
- fix for uput@vii#1#2
- fix for introduced bug for pst@dotFill
- fix for introduced bug with missing
definition for @width
- make package pgffor available
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
exsheets
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Summary description: Yet another package for the creation of exercise sheets.
License type: lppl
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- exsheets: added Portuguese translations
- translations: bug fix in DeclareDictTranslation
- tasks: changed deprecated seq_length:N into seq_count:N
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the daemon reported:
> Name of contribution: upmethodology
> Author's name: Stephane Galland
> Author's email: galland(a)arakhne.org
> Package version: 20130401
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/upmethodology/
> Summary description: Avoid error with default bibliography style
> License type: gpl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> The default bibliography style is no more added to prevent error when
> ibliographystyle is used by the user of the package.
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Simon Sigurdhsson submitted the
skrapport
package.
Summary description: A document class for simple reports
License type: lppl
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