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> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Package version: v3.21
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/beamer/
> Summary description: A LaTeX class for producing presentations and slides
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> - Fix handling of first blank line in fragile frames
> - Fix compatibly with bm packages
> - Allow for empty translation strings
> - Minor doc tweaks
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> Name of contribution: abraces
> Author's name: Werner Grundlingh
> Package version: 1.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/abraces
> Summary description: The abraces package provides a character
> key-driven interface to supplement new constructions of the
> traditional overbrace and underbrace pairs in an asymmetric or
> arbitrary way.
> License type: lppl
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> to supplement new constructions of the traditional overbrace
> and underbrace pairs in an asymmetric or arbitrary way.
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 Maïeul ROUQUETTE submitted an update to the
ledmac and ledpar
packages.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A minor correction is debug with lineation command.
A major change is the add of new commands to allow easy customization of critical footnotes.
These commands are :
-
umberonlyfirstinline[series]
- symlinenum[series]
-
onumberinfootnote[series]
-
onumberthisnote
- eforenumberinfootnote[series]{length}
- afternumberinfootnote[series]{length}
- eforesymlinenum[series]{length}
- aftersymlinenum[series]{length}
- inplaceofnumber[series]{length}
- lemmaseparator[series]{text}
- eforelemamseparator[series]{length}
- afterlemmaseparator[series]{length}
-
olemmaseparator[series]
- afternote[series]{length}
- parafootsep[series]{text}
These commandes are documented on page 17 and next. I think they makes personal Xfootmt commands deprecated.
But for people how wanted to conserv their own definition of Xfootmt, they should replace
defXfootmt#1#2#3{code}
or
ewcommand{Xfootmt}[3]{code}
by
ewcommandx{Xfootmt}[4][4]{code}.
Note this version requires package xargs and etoolbox, which are in all recent TeX distribution.
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>
> Name of contribution: l3kernel
> Name of contribution: l3packages
> Name of contribution: l3experimental
> Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Package version: SVN4160
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Snapshot of SVN 4160
> ====================
>
> - Fix bug in xparse when creating environments
> - Improve robustness of cs_generate_variant:Nn with respect to
> protected commands, erroneous input and so on
> - Some global/local fixes in l3file
> - Better documentation for while/do loops
> - Extend l3fp to cover secant and cosecant
> - Add fp_while_do:nn and related loop functions
> - Add more exceptions to l3fp
> - Optimisation of some l3fp implementation
> - New experimental string formatting module l3str-format
> - Move indexing to work from one in experimental l3dt module
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 Robin Schneider submitted the
counttexruns
package.
Summary description: Count how often a LaTeX document is compiled.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The counttexruns package counts how often a LaTeX document is compiled. To print
the count you can use the macro hecounttexruns.
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> Name of contribution: ucs
> Author's name: Wolfgang Jeltsch
> Package version: 2.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ucs/
> Summary description: Extended UTF-8 input encoding support for LaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The bundle provides the ucs package, and utf8x.def, together with a
> large number of support files.
>
> The utf8x.def definition file for use with inputenc covers a wider
> range of Unicode characters than does utf8.def in the LaTeX
> distribution. The package provides facilities for efficient use of its
> large sets of Unicode characters.
>
> Glyph production may be controlled by various options, which permits
> use of non-ASCII characters when coding mathematical formulae.
>
> Note that the bundle previously had an alias unicode; that alias has
> now been withdrawn, and no package of that name now exists.
>
> The authors are Wolfgang Jeltsch and Dominique Unruh. The package is
> Copyright 2011,2012 Wolfgang Jeltsch.
>
> Updates for this version:
> -- Added support for various arrows, musical notes and
> NON-BREAKING HYPHEN
> -- minor bug fixes
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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>
> Name of contribution: Lsabon
> Author's name: Boris Veytsman
> Package version: 1.1
> Location on CTAN: tex-archive/fonts/lsabon/
> Summary description: support files for the Linotype Sabon fonts
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package provides support files for the Linotype
> Sabon fonts
>
>
> Installation:
>
> 1. Purchase and install the pfb files into
> $TEXMFLOCAL/fonts/type1/linotype/lsabon
>
> 2. Unzip the file lsabon.tds.zip in $TEXMFLOCAL.
>
> 3. Add +lsb.map to the configuration files of dvips, pdftex
> and your
> dvi previewer.
>
> 4. Run texhash and updmap
>
>
> Changes in v1.1:
> - added small caps
>
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> Name of contribution: poemscol 2.6
> Author's name: John Burt
> Package version: 2.6
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/poemscol/
> Summary description: Macros for critical editions of poetry
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Poemscol is a set of macros for typesetting critical editions of poetry.
> Poemscol 2.6 enables you to center the text block for poems on the longest line.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 Markus Kohm submitted an update to the
gs1
package.
Summary description: GS1 codes and bar codes (currently EAN-8 and EAN-13 only) using expl3
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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GS1 started to handle codes specified by the GS1 specification. It can generate
the control digits of some GS1 codes and some bar codes corresponding with the
GS1 codes. It depends on stable expl3 packages and the sub-package rule-D only.
There's an additional sub-package rule-D, that provides L3 functions
ule:nn
and
ule:nnn similar to LaTeX2e
ule command.
Major changes:
- Options scale and scale_to_font implemented.
- Works with expl3 2012/08/14 v4091.
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 Sergio Spina submitted the
plipsum
package.
Summary description: `Lorem ipsum' paragraphs generator for the purposes of the plain TeX developers.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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`Lorem ipsum' paragraphs generator for the purposes of the plain TeX developers.
Coded in plain TeX. Paragraphs contains many `f-groups' like fi, ffi, fl, ffl to check the effect of the ligatures on the font that you choose.
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 Christian Feuersänger submitted an update to the
pgfplots
package.
Summary description: Create normal/logarithmic plots in two and three dimensions for LaTeX.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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1.6.1:
- fixed incompatibility lualatex,shader=interp, and german package (introduced in 1.6)
1.6:
- added support for layered graphics (main use case: multiple axes and layers)
- added support for second colormap in mesh plots (mesh/interior colormap name)
- added support for scopes inside of axes
- contour plots: added ability to provide list of discrete labels (mesh/levels)
- empty lines are interpreted as interruptions in data plots (was undocumented since 1.4)
- added more scaling options to 'scale mode=scale uniformly' (affects axis equal in 3d
and addplot3 graphics)
- fixed wrong implementation of 'axis equal' and 'unit vector ratio' in 3d
(backwards compatible for 2d, but not for 3d - the 3d implementation was plain wrong)
- fixed incompatibility of lualatex and shader=interp
- fixed bugs/added features around addplot3 graphics
- fixed bug: colorbar did not support ymode=log
- fixed a couple of minor bugs
- fixed bounding box computation for clip=false,axis lines=none
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 Mohamed El Morabity submitted an update to the
comfortaa
package.
Summary description: Sans serif font, with LaTeX support.
License type: lppl
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- update fonts to version 2.003. This version fixes the upside down questionmark which was facing the wrong direction.
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> Name of contribution: bchart
> Author's name: Tobias Kuhn
> Package version: 0.1.2
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/bchart/
> Summary description: Customizable font style
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> bchart is a LaTeX package based on TikZ for drawing simple bar
> charts. With this update, font styles are customizable.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 Philipp Stephani submitted an update to the
lualatex-math
package.
Summary description: Fixes for mathematics-related LuaLaTeX issues.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This bugfix-only update adapts lualatex-math to the breaking changes made to the
LaTeX 3 kernel of August 2012. I want to thank Joseph Wright who alerted me
about the incompatibility and provided a fix.
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pstricks-base.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please replace all
> files with the ones in the main directory
> /graphics/pstricks/base/
>
> pstricks.tex --------
> 2.31 2012-08-24 - fixed bug with the star version of psellipticarc
> and the additional setting of showpoints
>
> ---- pstricks.pro
> 1.15 2012-08-24 - modified Div operator
> - take eofill into account
> - add eoclip for linefill and dotfill
>
>
> read the file /base/doc/pst-news12.pdf for more informations
> about this update to the base part of PSTricks or read
> the other Changes files which lists all what's new in
> the other files.
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 Ivan Andrus submitted an update to the
chktex
package.
Summary description: Check for errors in LaTeX documents.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Many minor bugfixes. Allow using PCRE or POSIX regular expressions. Allow suppressing a warning for the rest of the file.
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemmacros
package.
Summary description: macros and commands for chemists
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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a few additions to the NMR command, thanks to Timo Stein.
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded presentations-e.tgz to the uk CTAN node
> Please put all files into the _new_ directory
>
> /info/examples/Presentations_en/
>
> it contains all examples of the book
> Presentations with LaTeX published by DANTE and Lehmanns Media.
> Read the file README for more informations about the
> example files.
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: figbas
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Package version: 1.0.2
> Location on CTAN: fonts/figbas/
> Summary description: Mini-fonts for figured-bass notation in music
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Added a TeXified version of the README and the example document to the
> doc branch of the TDS tree.
>
> Re-organization to facilitate browsing.
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/figbas.html
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> http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/figbas/
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[sorry about the delay in announcement; holidays and family illness have
thrown my schedules into confusion.]
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: aomart
> Author's name: Boris Veytsman
> Package version: 1.11
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/aomart/
> Summary description: LaTeX Class for The Annals of Mathematics
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package provides the class for typesetting articles for
> The Annals
> of Mathematics, http://annals.princeton.edu/.
>
> Changes:
>
> Version 1.11
> Added copyrightnote
> Added fulladdress
> Bibliography changes: added titlenote field,
> deleted ysame line
> Bug fix with e-mail including underscores
>
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quoth the daemon:
> Name of contribution: The chkfloat package
> Author's name: Tomas Hejda
> Package version: 0.1
> Location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chkfloat/
> Summary description: Warns whenever a float is placed too far from its origin.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> A package that checks for floats that are placed too far from their
> origin. It was motivated by a question on a
> http://tex.stackexchange.com question&answer page.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 Paul Stanley submitted the
oscola
package.
Summary description: Biblatex style for Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Oscola is a set of style files for use with Biblatex (v 2+) and Biber (v 1+) to
produce citations and bibliographies in accordance with the widely-used Oxford
Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities. It also includes facilities for
constructing tables of cases and legislation from citations (in conjunction with
appropriate indexing packages).
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On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 Ahmed Musa submitted an update to the
xwatermark
package.
Summary description: Dynamic watermarking schemes and tools.
License type: free
Announcement text:
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Interaction mode persitence corrected
(http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/66501/pdftex-and-interaction-batchmo…)
Update brought about by changes in catoptions package.
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On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 Ahmed Musa submitted an update to the
ltxkeys
package.
Summary description: A robust key-value parser.
License type: free
Announcement text:
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Interaction mode persitence corrected
(http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/66501/pdftex-and-interaction-batchmo…)
Update brought about by changes in catoptions package.
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On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 Ahmed Musa submitted an update to the
catoptions
package.
Summary description: Preserving catcodes and parsing options.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Interaction mode persitence corrected
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