the daemon (who's been shunning me recently) cries out, saying:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: usebib
> Author's name: Enrico Gregorio
> Package version: 1.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/usebib/
> Summary description: Reusing bib data
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The usebib package is a poor person's replacement for the more powerful
> methods provided by biblatex to access data from a .bib file.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new package, 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/usebib.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/usebib/
The catalogue entry will have appeared on the web by tomorrow morning.
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For the CTAN team
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda submitted an update to the
checkcites
package.
Summary description: Check citation commands in a document.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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New update: if citation{*} is found, checkcites will issue a message telling
that
ocite{*} is in the .tex document, but the script will do the check
nonetheless. The previous version halts when this behaviour is found.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/support/checkcites
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On Fri, 16 Mar 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 features: Several height options, bounding box options, more geometry control.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tcolorbox
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the
caption
package.
Summary description: Customize captions in floating environments like figure and table
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bugfix release of the caption package v3.2
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On Wed, 14 Mar 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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- bugfix in listofreactions
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 Leo Liu submitted an update to the
zhspacing
package.
Summary description: Spacing for mixed CJK-English documents in XeTeX.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bug fix for Plain TeX format.
This is a bug fix update. The package is now supposed to be mainly for Plain TeX format, while xeCJK is a better alternative for XeLaTeX.
The package is maintained on http://code.google.com/p/ctex-kit/
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 Uwe Lück submitted the
typeoutfileinfo
package.
Summary description: screen info display for single LaTeX source file
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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`typeoutfileinfo.sh' is a shell script for Unices. It runs LaTeX on a here
document that reads the file info using the readprov package and shows it by
ypeout, that's it (hoping that the latex binary won't add a lengthy report of
the run). Thus it aims to be a minimalistic alternative to the latexfileversion
and ltxfileinfo packages.
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded powerdot.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please
> delete all files in the directory
>
> /macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/
>
> and put the new ones in there.
>
> powerdot is a presentation class, based on PSTricks.
>
> powerdot.cls --------
> 1.4i 2012-03-13 - added support for description environment
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
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The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 Dimitrios Ververidis submitted the
vocaltract
package.
Summary description: Visualization of the vocal tract using LaTeX and PSTricks
License type: apache2
Announcement text:
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VocalTract.sty is a package to visualize the vocal tract. Vocal tract is
manipulated by a vector of articulation parameters according to S. Maeda model.
Animation can be achieved by providing a sequence of vectors over time, e.g.
from Matlab. An embedded sequence of vectors in the VocalTract.sty for certain
German phonemes allows for a sequence of phonemes animation when no vector is
available.
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the university's border router failed yesterday evening (while i was
working on ctan). as a result (www|ftp|rsync).tex.ac.uk (and
cam.ctan.org) were unavailable to everyone, not just me.
the network management people say:
The cause is still under investigation but we believe that the service
is functioning normally.
sorry for any inconvenience.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 Uwe Lück submitted the
longnamefilelist
package.
Summary description: listfiles with long names
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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`longnamefilelist.sty' equips LaTeX's listfiles with an optional
argument for the number of characters in the longest base filename.
This way you get a neatly aligned file list even when it contains
files whose base names have more than 8 characters. The package can
be combined with `myfilist.sty' as explained in the documentation.
KEYWORDs: file info; file version, macro programming
RELATED PACKAGES: classlist, dateiliste, ltxfileinfo, ltxinput, myfilist
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/longnamefilelist
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the
csvsimple
package.
Summary description: csv file processing, comma separated values
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Documentation language changed from German to English.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/csvsimple
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 Nicolas Vaughan submitted the
tui
package.
Summary description: Thesis style for the University of the Andes, Colombia
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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TUI - Clase de Tesis doctorales para ingenieria, Universidad de los Andes,
Bogota (Colombia) // TUI class for typesetting doctoral dissertations for the
Faculty of Engineering at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota (Colombia).
V.1.8 (initial release at CTAN)
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tui
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On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda submitted the
checkcites
package.
Summary description: Check citation commands in a document
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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checkcites is a Lua script written for the sole purpose of detecting undefined and unused references from LaTeX auxiliary or bibliography files.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/checkcites
. More information is at
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pstricks-base.tgz to the uk mirror. Please replace all
> files with the ones in the main directory
>
> /graphics/pstricks/base/
>
> pstricks.tex --------
> 2.27 2012-03-11 - activate x@strokeopacity for psgrid
> 2012-02-19 - showgrid=top is now possible
>
> 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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catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/base/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
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the daemon tries to alert me, but i was out...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: beamer
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Package version: 3.15
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v3.15:
> - Fix incorrect punctuation when working with biblatex
> - Fix footnote width to avoid text going off-slide
> - Correct width of section markers in header with some
> themes
> - Incorrect Unix file permission corrected
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/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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the daemon stumbled out, blinking, into the light...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: bashful
> Author's name: Yossi Gil
> Package version: 0.93
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/
> Summary description: Invoke bash commands from within LaTeX.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The bashful package, v 0.93
>
> This package makes it possible to execute bash scripts from within
> LaTeX. The main application is in writing computer-science texts, in
> which you want to make sure the programs listed in the document are
> executed directly from the input. Version 0.93 includes shorthands for
> splicing the output of your script into your LaTeX document, and
> better support for invoking several scripts.
>
> This package may be distributed and/or modified under the LaTeX
> Project Public License, version 1.3 or higher (your choice). The
> latest version of this license is at:
> http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
>
> This work is author-maintained (as per LPPL maintenance status)
> by Yossi Gil, <yogi(a)cs.Technion.ac.i>
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catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/bashful.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/
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For the CTAN team
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 Evgeny Baldin submitted the
computer-typesetting-using-latex
package.
Summary description: The book Computer Typesetting Using LaTeX was published
by the BHV-Petersburg (Russia) publishing house in 2008 under ISBN
978-5-9775-0230-6. Under the contract with the publishing house, I have now
regained exclusive rights to the content and decided to publish it under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0).
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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The book Computer Typesetting Using LaTeX was published by the
BHV-Petersburg (Russia) publishing house in 2008 under ISBN 978-5-9775-0230-6.
Under the contract with the publishing house, I have now regained exclusive
rights to the content and decided to publish it under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0). Please contact me
(E.M.Baldin(a)inp.nsk.su) if you require a different type of copyright license for
your purposes.
This book is a guide to using the LaTeX document preparation system. It
describes the complete fundamentals of the typesetting and layout processes and
covers at least 1300 LaTeX commands and about 750 packages, styles, and classes
that can be used in the typesetting of any documents. It also deals with
creating presentations, table layouts, inserting graphics, bibliography and
index, and many other tasks. Specific examples demonstrate that publishing
systems using LaTeX can handle projects of any scope and complexity. A major
part of the book is devoted to the typesetting of mathematical text, which is
the key differentiator of LaTeX compared to other word processors.
The book was written completely and exclusively by means of LaTeX tools. As
the author of both the content and the typesetting, I will greatly appreciate
any comments and useful advice on improving the quality of the electronic
version of the book.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/info/russian/computer-typesetting-using-latex
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Package version: 1.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
> Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and
> flexibility in body text and index.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This bugfix release addresses specific issues related to package error
> reporting. One should see more accurate and meaningful warnings.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/nameauth.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
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the daemon cried (but i didn't wake up until the alarm went off):
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: pmx
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Author's email: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
> Package version: 2.6.17
> Location on CTAN: support/pmx/
> Summary description: Preprocessor for MusiXTeX.
> License type: gpl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Several bug fixes. New features: instrument-wise transposition;
> hairpin dynamics now may span input blocks.
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/pmx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/pmx/
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as i listened, enthralled, to the radio, the daemon tried to catch my
attention with:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: beamer
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Package version: 3.14
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v3.14:
> - Fix issue with bold in math mode in some themes
> - Use geomtry to set underlying 'paper' size
> - Allow for starred version of includegraphics
> - Document behaviour of left/right skip keys with colour
> boxes
> - Document subsubsectionstyle
> - New EastLandsing theme (thanks to Alan Munn)
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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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quoth the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: pst-bspline
> Author's name: Michael Sharpe
> Package version: 1.61
> Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-bspline
> Summary description: B-spline curves for PSTricks
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Adds some new macros which allow one to thicken B-spline curves in a
> number of ways.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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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/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-bspline/
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 Eduardo C. Lourenço de Lima submitted the
sepfootnotes
package.
Summary description: Footnotes in separate file
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package allows the content of footnotes to be defined before their marks
are inserted in a document. Footnotes and endnotes can, thus, be easily grouped
together in a separate file, so that the main body is less cluttered.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/sepfootnotes
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/sepfootnotes
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 Markus Kohm submitted an update to the
koma-script
package.
Summary description: KOMA-Script a versatile LaTeX2e bundle
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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KOMA-Script is a versatile bundle of LaTeX2e document classes and packages. It
aims to be a replacement to the standard LaTeX2e classes. KOMA-Script does not
stop with the features known from the standard classes, but it extends the
possibilities in order to provide the user an almost complete working
environment.
Classes at KOMA-Script: scrartcl (article class), scrbook (book class), scrdoc
(internal), scrguide (internal), scrlettr (obsolete), scrlttr2 (letter class),
scrreprt (report class).
Packages at KOMA-Script: scraddr (handling of address files), scrbase (basic
features for class and package authors, e.g, key-value-options), scrdate (e.g.,
name of the day), scrextend (provides some KOMA-Script features for users of
other classes), scrfontsizes (developer help package to generate font size
files), scrhack (beta, improves some other packages), scrjura (beta, writing
laws, contracts etc.), scrkbase (sub-package used by KOMA-Script classes and
packages), scrlfile (manipulations while loading files, packages or classes),
scrpage (obsolete), scrpage2 (configuration and definition of page styles),
scrtime (output of current time), scrwfile (minimize number of write handles and
provide cloning of helper files), tocbasic (easy generation and handling of
table of contents and lists of floats), tocstyle (alpha), typearea (professional
type area and borders for ordinary persons).
Main documentation files: scrguide.pdf (German), scrguien.pdf (English),
scrhack.pdf (English), scrjura.pdf (German), tocstyle.pdf (English).
For a detailed list of changes see <http://www.komascript.de/release> (in
German) or <http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4307> (in
English) or simply the ChangeLog inside the bundle.
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