i had been away all day, and the daemon was bursting to tell me...
> Name of contribution: apa6
> Author's name: Brian Beitzel
> Package version: 2.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/
> Summary description: Format documents in APA style (6th Edition)
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> New integration with EndNote when converting documents to Word
> using TeX2Word; be sure to copy the new apa6.ptex file to your
> pseudoTeX folder. See Section 6.7 in the documentation for
> details.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/apa6.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/apa6/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon reports:
> Name of contribution: quotchap
> Author's name: Jan Klever
> Author's email: jasa.klever(a)gmx.de
> Package version: 1.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/quotchap/
> Summary description: A package for creating decorative chapter
> headings with quotations.
> License type: gpl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Updated font options to work with libertine-type1 and biolinum-type1.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/quotchap.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/quotchap/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
adhocfilelist
package.
Summary description: listfiles entries from command line
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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FIRST UPLOAD was v0.6 as of 2012-10-14.
UPLOAD of v0.7 as of 2012-10-17 (2012-10-18):
* New option -c adds test of date consistency with the
`filedate' package and may thus be a way to check
date consistency with XeLaTeX (where pdffilemoddate
is not available ... may be silly ...).
* Indeed new option -x uses `xelatex' rather than `latex'
(see manual `adhocfilelist.htm' for discussion of
possible silliness -- somewhat missing in `filedate'
discussion).
* Some documentation mistakes have been corrected.
* srcfiles.tex checks date consistency for scripts and
documentation and lists what is used indeed
(but cf. makehtml.log from recent makehtml.tex).
* `adhocfilelist.RLS' provides a release summary with
`typeoutfileinfo', appearing in SrcFILEs.txt too.
v0.8 should allow -c with an explicit list of filenames ...
UPLOAD r0.3 (2012-10-19):
* added present RELEASE.txt (started for v0.7)
* corrected adhocfilelist.tds.zip
* added `filedate' checks in makehtml.tex, additionally
to those in srcfiles.tex
* listfiles in makehtml.tex (HTML driver) more careful,
using `nicefilelist', for comparison with SrcFILEs.txt
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/adhocfilelist
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/adhocfilelist
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Uwe Lück submitted the
filedate
package to CTAN.
Summary description: Access and compare info and modification dates
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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`filedate.sty' provides basic access to the date of a LaTeX
source file according to its ProvidesFile, ProvidesPackage,
or ProvidesClass entry -- the info date --, as well as to
its modification date according to pdffilemoddate if the
latter is available. Moreover commands are provided to compare
the info date with the modification date, with today's
date, or with another date that a script accessing modifica-
tion dates such as adhocfilelist.sh may insert, and to choose
the effect of comparisons (error vs. notice, reference date
characterization). Thus updating the info date (date con-
sistency) of a source file may be ensured by a test during
typesetting from it or by some (shell/TeX) script.
In fact the test today admonished me to update the
documentation source and driver `filedate.tex'. Another
motivating example of date inconsistency was `nicefilelist'
v0.6 as of 2012-10-11 (see version history) with info date
2012/10/03.
REQUIRED PACKAGES: `readprov' for two commands
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/filedate
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Qing Lee submitted an update to the
xecjk
package.
Summary description: Package for typesetting CJK scripts with XeLaTeX.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Update some deprecated functions of 'expl3'.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/xecjk
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-tools.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please
> delete all files in the directory
>
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-tools/
>
> and put the new ones in there.
>
>
> The package pst-tools provides some helper macros/functions
> for TeX/PostScript. The main change is the new file pst-tools.pro
> which moved from the base pstricks package into this one.
>
> ..... pst-tools.tex
> 0.02 2012-10-16 - added option postString and stripSpaces
> to macro psPrintValue
>
> ..... pst-tools.sty
> 2012-01-01 first version
>
>
> ---- pst-tools.pro
> 0.03 2012-10-16 - added function /rightTrim
> - moved file from pstricks base to pst-tools
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catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-tools.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks-contrib/pst-tools/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Rudra Banerjee submitted the
mkbib
package to CTAN.
Summary description: gtk+-3 based bibtex file creator
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This is a completely free gtk+3 based package for generating bibtex file.
This is developed and tested in linux distro, but should also run in other *nix
distro as well. I have no idea about non-*nix distro.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/mkbib
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Vincent Goulet submitted the
actuarialangle
package to CTAN.
Summary description: Typeset nice looking angles in present value of an annuity symbol
License type: free
Announcement text: Yes
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Command to typeset nice looking angles in present value of an annuity symbols
common in actuarial and financial notation.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/actuarialangle
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/actuarialangle
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Hendri Adriaens submitted an update to the
xkeyval
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update is created to also protect CurrentOption in processing nested
setkeys, particularly, setkeys inside ProcessOptionsX.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval
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the daemon pronounces:
> Name of contribution: acro
> Author's name: Clemens Niederberger
> Package version: 0.4a
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/acro/
> Summary description: typeset acronyms
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> automatic babel/polyglossia support for the list heading (at least for
> some common languages)
>
> new options:
> - uc-cmd
> - list-long-format
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/acro.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/acro/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: kantlipsum
> Author's name: Enrico Gregorio
> Package version: 0.6
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/kantlipsum/
> Summary description: Generate sentences in Kant's style
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The new version has a new feature: with the option index one can
> also compile a mock index.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/kantlipsum.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/kantlipsum/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon (somewhat exhaustedly) cries:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: loops
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Package version: 1.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/loops/
> Summary description: Generic looping macros, including extensions to
> PGF's foreach.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> (1) In nested
ewforeach, the options/keys are now always reset for
> inner loops. This recovers any changes made to the values of the keys
> by the outer loops.
> (2) The key 'reverse list' is now added to allow users to
> automatically reverse their lists prior to processing. See
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/77612/how-to-invert-list-used-for-a-…
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/loops.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/loops/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon reports:
> Name of contribution: skeyval
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Package version: 1.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/skeyval/
> Summary description: Combining the features of xkeyval and pgfkeys.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This upload was necessitated mainly by corrections to the example
> files. The packages too have been affected by the corrections.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/skeyval.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/skeyval/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon reports:
> Name of contribution: xwatermark
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Package version: 1.5.2c
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xwatermark/
> Summary description: Insert watermarks on select document pages.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> New commands introduced to answer the requirement at
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/76141/draft-watermark-image-just-in-….
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xwatermark.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xwatermark/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon reports...
> Name of contribution: ltxkeys
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Package version: 0.0.3b
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ltxkeys/
> Summary description: Robust LaTeX options parser.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Some command name changes to avoid name clashes elsewhere.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ltxkeys.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ltxkeys/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon whispers:
> Name of contribution: mathastext
> Author's name: Jean-Francois Burnol
> Package version: 1.15d
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mathastext/
> Summary description: Use the text font in simple mathematics
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a maintenance release to settle (at last) some remnant
> Unicode related issues, and in particular a problem with the
> amsmath macro DeclareMathOperator.
>
> (see the pdf documentation, section Miscellaneous).
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/mathastext.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mathastext/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: LaTeX Set Deck
> Author's name: Gwyneth Whieldon
> Package version: 0.1
> Location on CTAN: graphics/pgf/contrib/setdeck
> Summary description: Provides LaTeX commands to typeset cards from the game set
> License type: gpl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a package for drawing cards from a Set deck using TikZ in LaTeX.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i installed the package (some time back) and
created an entry in the catalogue repository.
apologies for the delay in announcement; seems to have got buried
somewhere in the thing that passes for my brain...
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/setdeck.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/setdeck/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
maïeul Rouquette sbumitted an update to the
eledmac and eledpar
packages.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- debug in familiar footnote (bug introduced with 1.1)
- ledchapter is now compatible with the memoir class.
- in // text, the sectionning command have their own numbering for each side.
- the ledsectnotoc command can be used inside a Leftside or Rightside
environnment to disable the adding of ledsection commands to the table of
contents.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eledmac
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http://www.ctan.org/pkg/eledmac
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Rainer Schöpf
Uwe Lück submitted the
adhocfilelist
package to CTAN.
Summary description: listfiles entries from command line
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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`adhocfilelist.sh' is a shell script to display a list of LaTeX
Provides... contents on screen. Parameters can be either a list
of comma-separated file names or criteria for the Unix `find'
utility, especially to restrict the list to LaTeX source files
modified <digits> days ago, such as today. Command line options
provide interfaces to the find utility and to packages `myfilist',
`longnamefilelist', and `nicefilist' for accessing and aligning
those file informations.
DOCUMENTATION: The manual `adhocfilelist.htm' can be read by a
web browser, and the command line option `-h' provides an
abridged version of it.
REQUIRED: This works on Unix-like systems only, and probably the
GNU version of `find' is required. The LaTeX bundle `fileinfo'
must be installed, and full functionality requires the LaTeX
packages `longnamefilelist' and `nicefilelist'.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/adhocfilelist
. More information is at
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Rainer Schöpf
Paul Ebermann submitted an update to the
dateiliste
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update fixes two bugs:
- this package introduced hard spaces in captions (and maybe on other locations,
too) when used together with Babel. These are now removed.
- When used without listfiles, compilation hung in an endless loop. Now we give
a warning instead.
Thanks to Matthias Pospiech, Markus Kohm and Andrew Swann for reporting the bug
and analyzing the causes. See http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/75533/3335 for some
background.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/dateiliste
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Rainer Schöpf
Sergio C. de la Barrera submitted the
physics
package.
Summary description: Simple, yet flexible macros for typesetting equations in the languages of vector calculus and linear algebra via Dirac notation.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This packages defines simple, yet flexible macros for typesetting equations in
the languages of vector calculus and linear algebra via Dirac notation. The goal
of this package is to make typesetting equations for physics simpler, faster,
and more human-readable.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/physics
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/physics
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Rainer Schöpf
Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
fileinfo
package.
Summary description: enhanced display of LaTeX File Information
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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`myfilist' v0.6a provides a trick
(i) FileListRemark to insert comments in the file list
(applied in `gather.tex', see result `CONTENTS.txt'), a hook
(ii) ListGenerator to support `adhocfilelist', and
(iii) NoBottomLines to suppress final messages,
(iv) also issued by the new package option [no-bot]
`myfilist' v0.5 (2012/09/27) provided shorthands and tricks
also preparing `adhocfilelist', two commands address processing
input from the `find' utility (unable to get a proper
comma-separated list with my bash [IFS=',' without effect]).
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fileinfo
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fileinfo
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Rainer Schöpf
Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
nicefilelist
package.
Summary description: listfiles alignment with date and version columns
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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`nicefilelist' is nice even with short base filenames (up to eight
characters). MaxBaseEmptyList* saves the template argument for this case.
I failed to announce that `longnamefilelist' has received a similar
MaxLengthEmptyList.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nicefilelist
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Rainer Schöpf
Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
inputtrc
package.
Summary description: trace which file loads which
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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(i)
otracingreturns corrected, (ii) package options for immediately issuing
dotracinginputs and dotracingreturns (should help when you learn about an
input line and its number but not about the file where that is), (iii)
documentation adjusted and slightly corrected.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/inputtrc
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