On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the
tcolorbox
package.
Summary description: colored text boxes, LaTeX examples, theorems, documentation
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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new library 'skins' added for changing the colorbox appearance
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Hironori Kitagawa submitted the
luatex-ja
package.
Summary description: A macro package for typesetting Japanese documents with Lua(La)TeX
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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The LuaTeX-ja package is a macro package for
typesetting Japanese documents with Lua(La)TeX.
This package supports both the plain format and LaTeX2e.
Developed by the LuaTeX-ja project.
<http://sourceforge.jp/projects/luatex-ja/wiki/FrontPage(en)>
Note that this package is still alpha stage.
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the daemon alerts me to an eagerly awaited upload:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: ucs
> Author's name: Wolfgang Jeltsch
> Package version: 2.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ucs/
> Summary description: Extended UTF-8 input encoding support for LaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
>=20
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The ucs package provides advanced support for using UTF-8 as the input
> encoding of LaTeX files. It goes much beyond the standard UTF-8
> support of LaTeX. For example, it supports much more characters,
> provides facilities for efficiently handling this large number of
> characters, and allows glyph production to be controlled by various
> options. As a result, the ucs package is also suitable for using
> non-ASCII characters when entering mathematical formulas.=20
>
> Before version 2.0, the ucs package was called =91unicode=92 in certain
> contexts. Starting with version 2.0, it should always be called =91ucs=
=92.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the package as if it were new, and
made an entry for it in the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ucs.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ucs/
The new catalogue entry will have appeared on the web by tomorrow
morning.
Robin Fairbairns
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 Markus Kuhn submitted an update to the
upquote
package.
Summary description: upright-quote and grave-accent glyphs in verbatim
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bug fix: removed two spurious space characters from @noligs
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded CoE.tgz to the uk mirror. Please put
> the files into the _new_ directory
>
> /macros/latex/contrib/countriesofeurope/
>
> ContriesOfEurope (v. 0.21) is a package for supporting
> the Type 1 font of the same name. It has all european
> countries as single characters. The size of a country is
> relative to the other ones.
>
> The author of the Type 1 (.pfb file) font is Ingo Zimmermann.
> It is copyrighted by the (OFL) Open Font Licence
>
> The authors of all other files are Rolf Niepraschk and Herbert Voß
> and the files are published under the LPPL
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Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> I have uploaded vpe.zip in the /incoming directory
> of ftp.cam.ctan.org. After unzipping it updates the files
> in the directory
> CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/vpe/
> and it additionally provides `vpe.tds.zip'.
>
> Also file `vpe.txt' is renamed to `README', because
> it seems to me that `README' is the preferred naming convention.
thank you ;-)
> License remains LPPL.
>
> Changes:
> * Option --version added.
> * File `vpe.txt' renamed to `README'.
> * Email address updated.
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Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> I have uploaded pkfix.zip in the /incoming directory
> of ftp.cam.ctan.org. After unzipping it updates the files
> in the directory
> CTAN:support/pkfix/
>
> License remains LPPL.
>
> Changes:
> * Option --version added.
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemnum
package.
Summary description: a comprehensive approach for the numbering of chemical compounds
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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bug fix: new labels can now correctly be created with cmpdref
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 L. Nobre G. submitted an update to the
featpost
package.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This is probably the final version of FeatPost.
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On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 Gerd Neugebauer submitted an update to the
bibtool
package.
Summary description: BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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This is a maintenance release with a few enhancements and bug fixes,
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http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool
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i was still working in the garden, when the daemon cried:
> Name of contribution: cleveref
> Author's name: Toby Cubitt
> Author's email: toby-cleveref(a)dr-qubit.org
> Package version: 0.18.5
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/
> Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fixes compatibility with:
> - listing package
> - algorithm package
> - memoir's internal subfig reimplementation
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catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/cleveref.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/
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Robin Fairbairns
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as i laboured in the garden, the daemon idly cried:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: regexpatch
> Author's name: Enrico Gregorio
> Package version: 0.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/regexpatch
> Summary description: High level patching for commands
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The regexpatch package generalises the macro patching commands
> provided by P. Lehmann's `etoolbox'. The difference between this
> package and its sibling `xpatch' is that this package sports a very
> powerful `
egexpatchcmd' based on the `l3regex' module of LaTeX3
> experimental packages.
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/regexpatch.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/regexpatch/
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Robin Fairbairns
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the daemon came to call, but i was out shopping...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: beamer
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Package version: 3.17
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 3.17:
> - Allow for starred form of
ef
> - Correctly create links for navigation symbols with XeTeX
> - Remove spurious ? from captions
> - Add option to beamerarticle to skip loading AMSsymb
> (thanks to Jürgen Spitzmüller)
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catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/beamer.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/
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Robin Fairbairns
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ctan-upload(a)cl.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20120415-112752/
>
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: siunitx
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Package version: v2.5
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/
> Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 2.5:
> - New omit-uncertainty option
> - New zero-decimal-to-INT option
> - Reduced number of intrinsically- mathematical options
> - Slight alteration of code order so that fixed-exponent
> can be used to remove an exponent part from numerical
> input
> - Minor change to table code to give fewer underfull boxes
> when comparators are used
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catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/
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we were entertaining a friend to tea, and the daemon cried out:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: pedigree-perl
> Author's name: Boris Veytsman
> Package version: 1.0
> Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pedigree/pedigree-perl/
> Summary description: A Program for Generating TeX Pedigrees From CSV Files
> License type: gpl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Compatibility with TeXLive distribution
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pedigree/pedigre…
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the daemon's at it again:
> Name of contribution: usebib
> Author's name: Enrico Gregorio
> Package version: 1.0a
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/usebib/
> Summary description: Reusing bib data
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 1.0a corrects the macro names in the documentation
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catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/usebib/
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that daemon's been making noises again, and waking me up...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: prerex
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Package version: 6.4.0
> Location on CTAN: graphics/prerex/
> Summary description: Interactive editor and macro support for prerequisite charts
> License type: gpl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> vprerex now uses QThread::sleep rather than an undeclared sleep function.
>
> The prerex editor now used editline (libedit) instead of readline, and
> the libedit sources are embedded in the prerex tarball; this may make
> it possible for the prerex executable to be distributed in TeXLive.
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/prerex/
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On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Claudio Beccari submitted the
friulan
package.
Summary description: Language description file for typesetting in Friulan (furlan)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Recently polyglossia and babel were enriched with new hyphenation patterns for
typesetting in still more languages, among which the Friulan language, official
regional language of North Eastern Italy in the autonomous Region Friuli -
Venezia Giulia; this package provides the necessary language descritpion files.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/friulan
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quoth the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: standalone
> Author's name: Martin Scharrer
> Package version: v1.0b
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/standalone/
> Summary description: Minor bugfixes; Added simple math and SVG support.
> License type: lppl
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/standalone/
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On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Claudio Beccari submitted the
romansh
package.
Summary description: Language description file for typesettin in Romansh (Rumantsch Grischun)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Polyglossia and babel have been recently enriched with the hyphenation patterns
for new languages, among which the Romansh language, the fourth official
language of the Swiss confederation. This package adds the suitable language
description files.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/romansh
. More information is at
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On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Andrea Ghersi submitted the
mycv
package.
Summary description: A list-driven curriculum vitae class, with basic support for TikZ decorations
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is the first public version of a LaTex class that provides a set of
functionality for writing curriculum vitae with different layouts.
Basically, the idea is that a user can write some custom configuration
directives, by means of which is possible both to produce different c.v. layouts
and quickly switch among them. In order to process such directives, this class
uses a set of lists, provided by the package <etextools>. A basic support for
using the <TikZ> decorations is also provided.
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the daemon interrupts my luxurious dinner with:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: present
> Author's name: Matthias Meister
> Package version: 2.2
> Location on CTAN: macros/plain/contrib/present/
> Summary description: Presentations with Plain TeX
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Added macros for showing slides incrementally.
> Also added extra file with macros for transition effects between slides / frames.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the
media9
package.
Summary description: Multimedia inclusion package with AdobeReader-9/X compatibility
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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* dependency on babel package removed; code contributed by Enrico Grigorio
* fixed annotation box size calculation
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/media9
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