quote the daemon, just as i set out for lunch...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: cleveref
> Author's name: Toby Cubitt
> Author's email: toby-cleveref(a)dr-qubit.org
> Package version: 0.18.4
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/
> Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This version:
>
> - adds compatibility with the xr package
>
> - modifies the scope of the label information used by cref et al. to
> match that of
ef (so that e.g. placing a section label in the
> body of a section after other cross-referencable material now works)
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/cleveref.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
texlog_extract
package.
Summary description: Print colored summary of errors and warning in a log file, with file info.
License type: free
Announcement text:
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major changes of release 1.1 relative to 1.0
- none, mostly comment
- scriptingutils.rb offered as a ruby gem
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/texlog_extract
. More information is at
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
ltxfileinfo
package.
Summary description: Print version info for latex class or style file.
License type: free
Announcement text:
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major changes of release 1.1 relative to 1.0
- none, mostly comment
- scriptingutils.rb offered as a ruby gem
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http://mirror.ctan.org/support/ltxfileinfo
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
vpp
package.
Summary description: View and Print PostScript/PDF with page/printer selection and much more
License type: free
Announcement text:
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major changes of release 2.5 relative to 2.4:
- added w command (list log file warnings)
- scriptingutils.rb offered as a ruby gem
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
mk
package.
Summary description: Maker for LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX, TeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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major changes of release 2.4 relative to 2.3:
- zero size pdf will not exit but offer edit option
- scriptingutils.rb offered as a ruby gem
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latex_maker
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the daemon rejoices at the return of an old friend...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: colortbl
> Author's name: David Carlisle
> Author's email: d.p.carlisle(a)gmail.com
> Package version: 1.0a
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/colortbl/
> Summary description: Update to colortbl package
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Update fixing some bugs reported in colortbl since the last release 10
> years ago. Notably in handling of multicolumn and the interaction
> with the hhline package.
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/colortbl.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/colortbl/
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Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
thus spake the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xits
> Author's name: Khaled Hosny
> Package version: 1.104
> Location on CTAN: /
> Summary description: A Scientific Times-like font with support for
> mathematical typesetting.
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Fix various warnings reported vy `compareFamily` tool of AFDKO
> - Fix primes size so that base and superscripted primes are identical
> in size and a bit smaller than before.
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/xits.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/xits/
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For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Package version: 0.92
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The nameauth package now builds under latex, lualatex, pdflatex, and
> xetex. The .dtx file functions as a test suite for the package using
> these engines.
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/nameauth.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
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For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: mattex
> Author's name: Romeo Van Snick
> Package version: 1.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mattex
> Summary description: A set of macro's and matlab m-files to to import
> matlab values.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package allows a user to export matlab variables to an
> intermediary file, and then import them to LaTeX for later use. This
> adds to consistency and helps to prevent errors that might arise when
> manually copy-pasting.
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/mattex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mattex/
The catalogue entry will first appear by tomorrow morning.
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For the CTAN team
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Norbert Preining submitted an update to the
jfontmaps
package.
Summary description: font maps and support scripts for managing kanji embedding for Japanese TeX
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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New version of the jfontmaps package contains the following changes:
- inclusion of ipa and ipaex map files (the map files will be removed from the
IPAex package on CTAN, and will be available here in the jfontmaps package)
- several improvements of the updmap-setup-kanji script
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http://mirror.ctan.org/language/japanese/jfontmaps
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On Fri, 10 Feb 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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- various bug fixes in chemformula
- new arrow type <>
- new command DeclareChemParticle
- changed default behaviour of the phases macros to follow IUPAC recommendations, new options to customize it
- new command DeclareChemPhase
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the daemon calls:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Author's email: charles.schaum(a)att.net
> Package version: 0.9
> 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 is a major update. Added features include automatic formatting of
> forenames, in addition to more flexible handling of ancient, royal,
> and Eastern names. A number of features are now fully macro-
> expandable, making index entries created by nameauth compatible with
> manual entries. More style options are included and the package is
> virtually feature-complete.
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/nameauth.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss tells us:
> I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please replace all
> files with the ones in the main directory
> /graphics/pstricks/base/
>
> pstricks.tex --------
> 2.24 2012-02-09 - add option for curve ticks with option symbol
>
> pstricks.pro --------
> 1.10 2012-02-09 - add option for curve ticks with option symbol
>
> 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.
thanks for the update; i've installed the new version and tweaked the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
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For the CTAN team
On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 Michael Anderson submitted an update to the
uothesis
package.
Summary description: class for the creation of dissertation and theses that meet the requirements of the University of Oregon Graduate School
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This revision addresses revisions to the dissertation style made by the UO
graduate school. It is strongly recommended that all users of the class update
to this version.
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On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 Martin Sievers submitted the
hausarbeit-jura
package.
Summary description: A class for writing juristische Hausarbeiten at German Universities.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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hausarbeit-jura was developed to write legal essays (juristische Hausarbeit)
at German Universities. It is based on jurabook and jurabib and makes it easy
for LaTeX beginners to get a correct and nicely formatted paper.
This is the initial upload. A documentation will be added soon. Suggestions for
improvements are welcome.
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 Leo Liu submitted the
zhmcjk
package.
Summary description: Setup CJK fonts dynamically using the mechanism of zhmetrics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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zhmCJK is a package written to ease the complex CJK fonts setup. All CJK
fonts may share the same .tfm metrics. The package sets the NFSS font
definition and actual font maappings using TeX macros dynamically. As a
result, zhmCJK provides similar faculties and interface of xeCJK, TrueType CJK
fonts are used to generate PDF output with pdfTeX or DVIPDFMx driver.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/chinese/zhmcjk/
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the daemon's crept up on me, again, with a huge mallet. i'm still
reeling...
> The following information was provided by the packages' contributor
> (note -- three packages in one series):
>
> 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: SVN 3331
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/
>
> Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Snapshot of SVN 3331
> --------------------
>
> - Bug fixes in l3regex for c{...} syntax
> - Bug fix for dim_gset_(max|min):Nn, which did not account properly for
> global status
> - Bug fixes for some while_do loops, which looped using incorrect
> functions
> - Add experimental sorting code in l3sort, to allow arbitrary sorting
> of list-like variable content
thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the
catalogue repository entries.
> Users may view the packages' catalogue entries at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3experimental.html
> or they may browse the packages' directories at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/
The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 Xavier Danaux submitted an update to the
moderncv
package.
Summary description: A modern curriculum vitae class.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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version 0.19 (06 Feb 2012)
- reintroduced the ability to force the width reserved to display the name in the resume header for the classic style (maketitlenamewidth).
- improved the pdf metadata, as reported by S. Wunsch (launchpad bug #922476).
- fixed a footersymbol bug in the casual style when no mobile number was given, as reported by S. Wunsch (launchpad bug #922470).
- fixed a display bug when an address was given without postcode/city, as reported by O.Shaneh (launchpad bug #670263).
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the daemon tries to distract me with:
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Package version: 0.86
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> These macros help an author to encode the (optional) forenames and
> (mandatory) surnames of people in order to normalize occurrences in
> the text and entries in the index. This package is intended for
> Western-style naming conventions.
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/nameauth.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 Lorenzo Pantieri submitted an update to the
arsclassica
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Added compatibility with the version 4.0 of ClassicThesis and its new text body size
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On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 Marco Daniel submitted an update to the
mdframed
package.
Summary description: auto split frame environment
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- fixed bug (Thanks Dietrich Grau)
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdframed
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On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 Xavier Danaux submitted an update to the
moderncv
package.
Summary description: A modern curriculum vitae class.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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version 0.18 (05 Feb 2012)
- corrected the handling of pdf bookmarks, as suggested on stackexchange by U. Fischer.
- improved the spacing between sections and subsections by using addvspace instead of vspace.
- corrected the spacing between entries with nested itemize environments (temporary solution working only for single line items).
- added a check in the oldstyle style for an empty 4th argument in the cvdoubleitem definition, to avoid printing a colon without preceding label.
- added a new style on top of classic, casual and oldstyle: banking.
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On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 Marco Daniel submitted an update to the
mdframed
package.
Summary description: auto split frame environment
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- add options shadow, shadowsize, shadowcolor
- fixed bugs
- fixed documentation
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On Fri, 3 Feb 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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Updated README and documentation now containing a few notes about the correct
installation. Particularly the directories language/ and pictures/ need to be
copied in the same directory as the style files.
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