Petr Olsak wrote:
> I have done major changes in CSTeX packages during October--December,
> namely in:
>
> csplain.tar.gz
> cspsfonts.tar.gz
>
> The CSTeX is a support of Czech and Slovak typesetting by TeX,
> csplain extends the plainTeX macros, cspsfonts includes adobe35 fonts
> support for csplain.
>
> The following major revision of these packages was done:
>
> - New metrics was regenerated in cspsfonts in order to Euro character
> accesibility and to avoid the useless virtual font compositions.
> - csplain implicitly reads the UTF8 input encoding.
> - csplain co-operates now with LuaTeX and XeTeX too.
> - csplain can load all hyphen patterns from http://tug.org/tex-hyphen/
> - csplain is extended by OPmac macro which gives similar features like
> LaTeX but more straight and simply.
>
> More information about these changes can be found at
>
> http://petr.olsak.net/cstex-e.html
> http://petr.olsak.net/opmac-e.html
>
> These packages mentioned above are automatically mirrored to CTAN, and
> tex live has been updated as needed.
thanks for all of that petr; as noted above, all necessary actions have
already taken place.
Robin Fairbairns
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the daemon reports:
> Name of contribution: toptesi
> Author's name: Claudio Beccari
> Package version: 5.62
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/toptesi/
> Summary description: A package for typesetting multilanguage theses
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The bundle has been upgraded in order to insert a plurality of logos
> into the title page, as it is required when a thesis is created in the
> frame of an agreement between a plurality of universities.
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> Name of contribution: garamondx
> Author's name: Michael Sharpe
> Package version: 1.01
> Location on CTAN: fonts/garamondx/
> Summary description: URW GaramondNo8 plus expert features and newtxmath
> License type: other-nonfree
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> This version adds kerning modifications for pairs involving the
> delimiters (), [] and {}. It also provides fontinst source for the
> package.
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> Name of contribution: apa6
> Author's name: Brian Beitzel
> Package version: 2.10
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/apa6
> Summary description: Format documents in APA style (6th Edition)
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The 'biblatex' option now requires the biber package (for full
> APA 6th edition compatibility), but as always, users may
> manually load any bibliographic package they choose.
>
> Additionally, the apa6.ptex file now honors the 'mask' option.
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Jean-François Burnol submitted an update to the
mathastext
package.
Summary description: Use the text font in math mode
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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* A new command sets up the amount of space to be automatically
inserted before the derivative glyph (useful when using an
upright font).
* The scope of the math alphabets has been extended to apply
to the non-alphabetical characters, and also to operator
names. In usual math mode $mathbf{(sin(n!)<cos(x)?)}$
changes only the font for n and x. With mathastext and if
not told otherwise, /everything/ in the formula above
will respond to mathbf (and the automatic spaces are left
untouched).
* The documentation has been improved. The package file is
self-extracting from the dtx, and four additional test files
are also produced during `latex mathastext.dtx'.
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Maïeul submitted an update to the
eledpar
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License type: lppl
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the daemon reported (three times):
> Name of contribution: l3kernel,l3packages,l3experimental
> Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Package version: SVN 4390
> Locations on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
> macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental
> Summary description: LaTeX3 proÂgramÂming conÂvenÂtions
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Snapshot SVN 4390
> -----------------
>
> - Defensive change to allow for redefinition of RequirePackage
> which could lead to issue with
eserveinserts
> - Update peek_... functions to cover various edge cases
> - Make KeyValue work with
> - Fix implementation of l3galley to work correctly with
> LaTeXe's @@par
> - Galley improvements in handling of parshape and cutouts,
> naming of functions, etc.
> - Various documentation clarifications
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> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/l3experimental.html
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> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/
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the daemon wrote
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: hyperxmp
> Author's name: Scott Pakin
> Package version: 2.2
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/hyperxmp/
> Summary description: Embed XMP metadata within a LaTeX document
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform) is a mechanism proposed by Adobe
> for embedding document metadata within the document itself. The
> metadata are designed to be easy to extract, even by programs that are
> oblivious to the document's file format. Most of Adobe's applications
> store XMP metadata when saving files. Now, with the hyperxmp package,
> it is trivial for LaTeX document authors to store XMP metadata in
> their documents as well.
>
> hyperxmp integrates seamlessly with hyperref and requires virtually no
> modifications to documents that already exploit hyperref's mechanisms
> for specifying PDF metadata. The current version of hyperxmp can
> embed the following metadata as XMP: title, authors, primary author's
> title or position, metadata writer, subject/summary, keywords,
> copyright, license URL, document base URL, document identifier and
> instance identifier, language, source file name, PDF generating tool,
> PDF version, and contact telephone number/postal address/email
> address/URL. hyperxmp is compatible with pdflatex,
> latex+dvips+ps2pdf, latex+dvipdfm, xelatex, and lualatex.
>
> Version 2.2 of hyperxmp adds support for the IPTC Photo Metadata
> schema. It allows xmpcomma and xmpquote to be used in any hyperxmp
> option, not only those that require special treatment of commas. And
> it introduces an xmplinesep macro that controls how multiline fields
> are represented in the XMP packet.
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
exsheets
package.
Summary description: Yet another package for the creation of exercise sheets.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- corrected translation of exercise titles into Catalan
- added means to easily create variants of exams
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Luis Rivera submitted the
aecc
package to CTAN.
License type: lppl
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First release of Almost European Concrete Roman fonts.
This is a set of virtual fonts (built from the standard Concrete fonts)
providing a set of fonts that almost cover the T1 encoding.
The main characters missing, of those specified in the T1 encoding are eth,
thorn, and the Sami letter eng. Sometimes the £ (pound sterling) character is
also missing. For the typewriter fonts, the situation is worse.
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the daemon reported:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: dirtree
> Author's name: Jean-Côme Charpentier
> Package version: 0.32
> Location on CTAN: macros/generic/dirtree/
> Summary description: Display trees in the style of windows explorer.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> The dirtree package provides a macro to typeset directory trees like
> in windows explorator.
>
> This version fixes a bug about length and changes some names in order
> to prevent clash with other packages.
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the daemon wrote:
> Name of contribution: backnaur
> Author's name: Adrian Robson
> Author's email: adrian.robson(a)nepsweb.co.uk
> Package version: 1.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/backnaur
> Summary description: Typesetting for Backus-Naur Form (BNF) definitions.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The backnaur package typesets Backus-Naur Form (BNF) definitions.
> It prints formatted lists of productions, with numbers if required.
> It can also print in line BNF expressions using math mode.
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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users please note: i have taken the brunt of one of the changes to the
ctan web site, and have been snowed under with uploads. fortunately, i
haven't needed to announce all of them, but there remain several days'
announcements.
the daemon told me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: concepts
> Author's name: Michiel Helvensteijn
> Package version: 0.0.4
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/concepts/
> Summary description: managing names and symbols of document specific formal concepts
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is the first fully documented version of the concepts
> package. Initially written for my own use (as I imagine many
> packages are), but I hope it will be useful for many people!
>
> I'm happy to receive feedback. Preferably in the issue
> tracker at: http://latex-concepts.googlecode.com
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users please note: i have taken the brunt of one of the changes to the
ctan web site, and have been snowed under with uploads. fortunately, i
haven't needed to announce all of them, but there remain several days'
announcements.
Frederik Tilmann submitted an update to the
latexdiff
package.
Summary description: Determine and mark up significant differences between latex files
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Highlights of the new version are:
- Choice of granularity of equation processing allows latexdiff to be used even with complicated changes in complicated equations
- Option --flatten now works recursively
- Highlighting of changes to the title, author or date of a manuscript, even if defined in the preamble
In addition many minor improvements have been made to improve the robustness of the difference file.
In addition a dedicated webpage has been created at Berlios Developler site, offering:
- mailing lists for users and developers, a system for submitting bug reports and feature requests
- an SVN server opening up the possibility of collaborative development
See http://latexdiff.berlios.de
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Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
morehype
package.
Summary description: Hypertext tools with LaTeX (hyperref, HTML)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Another fix of `texlinks.sty' v0.7 as of November (-> v0.71).
ctanannpref (smart referring to CTAN announcements)
gets behaviour according to documentation,
as opposed to previous code and my original usage.
Tiny documentation fixes (Wikipedia piped links)
have been uploaded earlier silently.
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The CTAN Team is proud to announce the relaunch of the CTAN Web site
http://www.ctan.org/
The new site provides the information and functions of the old site in
a new look&feel. This is a first step towards an improved user
experience. Some of the features of the new site are:
* Informative landing page
* Improved upload form with forwarding to the master hosts
* Browsing of the CTAN tree
* Listing, registering and monitoring of the CTAN mirrors
* Browsing the Catalogue (packages, authors, topics)
* Availability of different skins to suit your taste
Most of the existing URLs are preserved. If you encounter any problems
report them to webmaster -at- ctan.org.
We have established a mailing list for discussions about further
development of the site. Thus all feature requests and proposals
should go there. Register for this mailing list under
https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctanweb
Enjoy the new site and keep on TeXing
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Simon Spiegel submitted an update to the
biblatex-fiwi
package.
Summary description: biblatex styles for German humanities – especially film studies
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 1.2b
- fixes two stupid bugs
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Paul Gaborit submitted an update to the
ocgx
package.
Summary description: The package extends the ocg package, which allows you to create OCGs (Optional Content Groups) in PDF documents.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The ocgx package extends the ocg-p package (previous version extended the ocg
package), which allows you to create OCGs (Optional Content Groups) in PDF
documents.
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Hironori Kitagawa submitted an update to the
luatexja
package.
Summary description: Typeset Japanese documents with Lua(La)TeX.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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* Redesigned lltjp-listings.sty (patch for listings.sty).
* Added luatexja-adjust.sty (``better'' justification for Japanese).
* Changed specification of metrics.
* Some bugfixes.
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Andreas Stergiou submitted an update to the
chet
package.
Summary description: LaTeX macros and layout inspired by harvmac
License type: lppl
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A new option macrosonly is defined. Calling chet with this option forces it to
load only the essential macros, without any of the default styling. This is
helpful for journal submissions.
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Jean-François Burnol submitted an update to the
etoc
package.
Summary description: easily customizable TOCs
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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1.06
1. With previous versions, macros such as l@section
recovered their standard meanings only in compatibility mode
at the time of typesetting TOCs. With this version, it is
the opposite: macros such as l@section or l@subsection
have throughout the document their standard meanings, which
means that they can be customized (even if no package has
added to them customizing hooks) and that the compatibility
mode of etoc will obey this.
2. The .toc file is now read into memory at the time of
usepackage{etoc} and it is opened for write operation at
the first TOC typesetting command. Prior, both happened at
the egin{document}.
3. The commands added by the package to the .toc file are
declared to the external world to do nothing. Hence some
other package can also load the .toc file (this must happen
before the first typeset TOC) and execute its contents.
(related to the point 2 above.)
4. A number of superfluous global's and a few gdef's,
which were left-overs from the war against bugs in the
developing stages of the code, were removed.
5. The documentation has been updated and improved. An
unclear statement about secnumdepth has been corrected.
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Jean-François Burnol submitted the
tableof
package to CTAN.
Summary description: tables of tagged contents
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The tableof package allows to tag the table of contents entries.
The ableof{comma,separated,list,of,tags} command displays a table of
contents containing only the entries having all the listed tags. There
is a complementary command ablenotof. They may be used multiple times.
One sets tags in the source with commands such as oftagstart{A,B,C,D}
and one unsets them with oftagstop{A,D}, and, for a punctual use, one
has oftagthis{A,E}, ofuntagthis{C,D}.
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David Fussner submitted an update to the
biblatex-chicago
package.
Summary description: Biblatex style files for both Chicago specifications
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This release includes a new style, authordate-trad, which maintains the plain,
15th-edition treatment of titles while following the 16th-edition specification
everywhere else. It updates all styles to work with the latest biblatex (2.4).
It contains new localizations for Icelandic and Norwegian, very kindly
contributed by Baldur Kristinsson and HÃ¥kon Malmedal, respectively. Finally, it
simplifies the use of the British option to babel, and fixes several bugs. As
usual, see the RELEASE file and biblatex-chicago.pdf for all the details.
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the daemon cried:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: spelling package
> Author's name: Stephan Hennig
> Package version: v0.2
> Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/latex/spelling
> Summary description: Aid spell-checking LuaTeX documents.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package aids spell-checking of TeX documents compiled with the
> LuaTeX engine. It can give visual feedback in PDF output similar to
> WYSIWYG word processors. The package relies on an external
> spell-checker application to check spelling of a text file and to
> output a list of bad spellings. The package should work with most
> spell-checkers, even dumb, TeX-unaware ones.
>
> v0.2 (2012-12-04)
>
> Fixes:
>
> File spelling.lua could not be found by LaTeX style file (GitHub issue 14).
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