On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 H.-Martin Münch submitted the
romanbar
package.
Summary description: Write Roman numbers (or any other text) with bars.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This LaTeX package allows to write Roman numbers (or any other text) with bars.
(Additionally, commands for converting Arabic numbers into Roman ones are
provided and an ifnumeric test function.)
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/romanbar/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/romanbar
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On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the
regstats
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text: Yes
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+ Now supports (but does not require) lua(la)tex for option timer.
+ Due to the use of temporary counters, no longer a new counter is used (except when option proof=true is chosen, of course).
+ Circumvention of the incompatibility of the atveryend package with seminar class and slidesec package introduced.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/regstats/
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On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the
calxxxx-yyyy
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Happy new year and all the best for 2012!
(Calender examples updated to 2012-2029.)
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/calxxxx-yyyy/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/calxxxx-yyyy
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-solarsystem.tgz to the uk mirror. Please put
> the files into the _new_ directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solarsystem/
>
> pst-solarsystem (v. 0.12) is a PSTricks related package
> for drawing a solar system.
>
> the authors are Manuel Luque and Herbert Voß. The license
> is as usual LPPL
>
> pst-solarsystem plots the visible planets, projected on the plane of
> the ecliptic. As we can not represent all the planets in the real
> proportions, only Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars have the correct
> proportions of the orbits and their relative sizes are observed.
> Saturn and Jupiter are in the right direction, but not in correct size.
thanks for the upload; i have installed it and made a new entry in the
catalogue.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-solarsystem.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solarsystem/
The catalogue entry will first appear, on the web, overnight tonight.
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On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 Harald Harders submitted an update to the
getfileversion
package.
Summary description: This simple shell script prints the version and date of a LaTeX input files (e.g., class or style files).
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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2011-12-31 v0.3 Harald Harders
- Add support for arbitrary tex input file types
2011-12-30 v0.2 Harald Harders
- Avoid special characters as guillemots
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/getfileversion
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/getfileversion
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On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 Harald Harders submitted an update to the
typogrid
package.
Summary description: Print a typographic grid.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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2011/12/31 0.21 Harald Harders (harald.harders(a)gmx.de)
- Change Makefile in order to produce pdf documentation
- Set date and version explicitly in ProvidesPackage
2003/11/09 0.20 Harald Harders (harald.harders(a)gmx.de), Rolf Niepraschk
- Reimplementation, provide grid for headings and a frame for
the margin
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/typogrid
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/typogrid
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On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 Mohamed El Morabity submitted an update to the
lato
package.
Summary description: Lato font fanily and LaTeX support
License type: lppl
Announcement text: Yes
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Changelog for version 2.2:
- update .ttf files to version 1.104
- update documentation to mention latofonts.com
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/lato/
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http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lato
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On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 Mohamed El Morabity submitted an update to the
comfortaa
package.
Summary description: Sans serif font, with LaTeX support
License type: lppl
Announcement text: Yes
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Changelog for version 2.1:
- fix bad weight substitution when using light weight and slanted
shape
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/comfortaa/
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 Sven Harder submitted the
xcookybooky
package.
Summary description: typesetting (long) recipes with pictures and background images
License type: free
Announcement text:
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This package is intended for typesetting recipes, which could be greater than
one page. Above the recipe text two (optional) pictures can be displayed. You
could enter recipe name, energy content, portions, preparation and baking time,
baking temperatures, recipe source and of course preparation steps and required
ingredients. At the bottom you can insert a optional hint.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xcookybooky
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xcookybooky
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the daemon wrote:
> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20111231-135208/
>
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: acrosort
> Author's name: D. P. Story
> Package version: 1.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/aeb_pro/acrosort/
> Summary description: Bubble sorting of images/tiles
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a package that uses Adobe Distiller as the PDF creator as well
> as Acrobat itself.
>
> The AcroSort is a novelty LaTeX package for importing a series of
> sliced images of a picture. The sliced images are randomly arranged,
> then resorted before the user's eyes using a bubble sort.
>
> Images can be sliced using AcroSlice, also available through CTAN
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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/acrosort.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/aeb_pro/acrosort/
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Robin Fairbairns
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the daemon proclaims:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Package version: 0.7
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Publications that reference many names require editors and
> proofreaders to track those names in the text and index. These name
> authority macros allow authors and compilers to normalize occurrences
> of names, variant name forms, and pen names in the text and
> index. This may help minimize writing and production time and cost.
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 first appear on the web some time early in 2012.
Robin Fairbairns
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the daemon said:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: Endheads
> Author's name: John Burt
> Package version: 1.5
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/endheads/
> Summary description: Running headers of the form Notes to pp. xx--yy
> for endnotes
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Endheads provides running headers of the form Notes to pp. xx-yy for
> endnotes. It is designed to work with endnotes.sty. Version 1.5 fixes
> a bug in the interaction of Endheads and the page styles for memoir
> class.
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/endheads.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/endheads/
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Robin Fairbairns
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the daemon offers a late-night goodie:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: libertine-legacy
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Package version: 5.1.2 (2011-12-30)
> Location on CTAN: fonts/libertine-legacy/
> Summary description: Linux Libertine fonts for TeX and PdfTeX users.
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> To avoid conflicts with the otf fonts of the
> libertine package, the otf fonts and some associated files
> have been removed. (La)TeX and Pdf(la)TeX users should have
> no need for these.
thanks for the upload -- rapid reaction, indeed, to the concerns of the
user community. 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/libertine-legacy.ht…
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/libertine-legacy/
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 Christian Feuersänger submitted an update to the
pgfplots
package.
Summary description: pgfplots - Create normal/logarithmic plots in two and three dimensions for LaTeX.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Pgfplots version 1.5.1 comes with several bugfixes and a couple of new features, including
- more operations for FPU library (==, !=,<=,>=,?)
- fixed bug in usage of decorations in addplot
- bugfix for contour prepared format=matlab
- added 'const plot mark mid' and 'jump mark mid' plot handlers
- nodes on a plot (addplot ... node[pos=<fraction>] {};)
- 'trim axis group left' and 'trim axis group right'
- bugfixes for polar axes and log+stacked plots
- added style 'log ticks with fixed point'
- introduced patched tikz paths to simplify circles and ellipses within an axis
- patchplots lib: patch type=polygon
- some more bugfixes
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots/
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On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 Bruno Le Floch submitted the
reverxii
package.
Summary description: Playing Reversi in TeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Following the lead of xii.tex, here is a little (938 chars) game of Reversi for New Year. WIth a primitive AI.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/plain/contrib/reverxii
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the daemon's been up to one of his mammoth sessions...
> 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 3109
> 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 3109
> --------------------
>
> - New tl-analysis module for decomposing and analysing token lists
> on a token-by-token basis.
> - Extend l3regex to work with tokens where appropriate. In
> particular, the syntax c{<csname>} can be used to match
> control sequences.
> - Improved robustness of regex system.
> - Improve behaviour of DeclareExpandableDocumentCommand such
> that optional arguments (o, O, d and D) can contain
> nested delimiter tokens in the same way as happens for
> non-expandable functions.
> - No longer accept l type arguments for
> DeclareExpandableDocumentCommand, as this was not reliable.
> - Added expandable l_if_empty:x(TF) test.
> - Add experimental 'list comprehension' functions
> seq_(g)set_filter:NNn and seq_(g)set_map:NNn.
> - Improve the behaviour of vbox_... and vtop... functions so
> that they always end with a par rather than the internal TeX
> /end_graf/ procedure.
> - Revise cs_to_str:N such that it requires exactly two
> expansions and is faster.
> - Revise register allocation such that a full set of registers
> are accessible using the native allocator when using LuaTeX.
> - Revise cs_show:c and cs_meaning:c to test explicitly for
> undefined arguments.
> - Revise some internals of ior/iow stream allocations.
> - Make l_replace_... functions robust inside halign.
> - Fix bugs in the l_rescan... functions to handle &
> correctly and to preserve braces under all circumstances.
> - Fix bugs in LuaTeX-only catcode table allocator (IniTeX mode
> only).
> - Test that catcode tables are new when allocating in package
> mode.
> - Tighten up on use of _nopar so that it is only applied to
> functions with no arguments.
> - Documentation fixes for prg_(new|set)_eq_conditional:NNn.
thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the
three entries in the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package 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 package directory 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) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
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i wake up to find the daemon saying:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: endfloat
> Author's name: Axel Sommerfeldt
> Package version: 2.5d
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/
> Summary description: Place all figures on pages by themselves at the
> end of the document, optionally leaving markers like [Figure 3
> about here] in the text near to where the figure (or table) would
> normally have occurred.
>
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Improved compatibility to version 2.4 of the endfloat 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/endfloat.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: amiri-font
> Author's name: Khaled Hosny
> Package version: 0.101
> Location on CTAN: /fonts/amiri
> Summary description: Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface, Naskh
> style, for typesetting books and other running text.
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> See 'documentation/NEWS.txt'
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/amiri-font.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/amiri/
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Robin Fairbairns
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the daemon tells us:
> Name of contribution: siunitx
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Package version: v2.4f
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.4f:
> - Bug fix for font changes in tables
> - Better handling of 'escaped' material in tables when
> parse-numbers = false is set
> - Some performance enhancements
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/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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Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: cleveref
> Author's name: Toby Cubitt
> Package version: 0.18.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/
> Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fix compatibility with recent versions of caption.
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/
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Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
as i was out doing last-minute shopping, the daemon popped up to say:
> Name of contribution: keyreader
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Package version: 0.4a
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/keyreader/
> Summary description: Robust and compact interface to the xkeyval package.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bug fix. Not really a bug, but a matter of wrong logic or concept.
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/keyreader.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/keyreader/
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Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: kantlipsum
> Author's name: Enrico Gregorio
> Author's email: Enrico.Gregorio(a)univr.it
> Package version: 0.5
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/kantlipsum/
> Summary description: The kantlipsum package spits out sentences in
> Kantian style
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is version 0.5 of the package. Just a cleanup of the macros to
> make them more efficient.
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/
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Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon writes:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: endfloat
> Author's name: Axel Sommerfeldt
> Author's email: axel.sommerfeldt(a)f-m.fm
> Package version: 2.5c
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/
> Summary description: Place all figures on pages by themselves at the
> end of the document, optionally leaving markers like [Figure 3 about
> here] in the text near to where the figure (or table) would normally
> have occurred.
>
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Increased compatibility to version 2.4 of the endfloat 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/endfloat.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon summons me from my evening slumbers:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: rmannot
> Author's name: Don Story
> Package version: 2.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/rmannot/
> Summary description: creates rich media annotations, now supports 3d
> models (distiller PDF creator required)
> License type: lppl
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> What's New for Version 2.0: I've added support for 3D models (U3D and
> PRC). These models are presented within a rich media annotation rather
> than a 3D annotation. This allows you to bind SWF applications to the
> background or foreground of the scene, or to materials of the model
> itself.
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/rmannot.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rmannot/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team