On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 Will Robertson submitted an update to the
unicode-math
package.
Summary description: Unicode mathematics support for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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After an interminable wait, this release fixes a terribly embarrassing
incompatibility with recent versions of expl3. I'm very sorry for any
inconvenience. Other changes are listed below:
* Command names are now `protected`; this makes them safe to use in moving
arguments and so on
* Similarly to the change in v0.5c, the main math font is now loaded in
math family zero (equiv. to LaTeX's `operators` math font)
* `mathring` added
* Ensure that a math font has been selected in order to prevent problems
in minimal documents (this will be unnecessary when the OpenType LM math
font is released)
* Documentation for which was which of epsilon/varepsilon was backwards!
(thank to Rasmus Villemoes for pointing this out)
* Spurious `upUpsilon` removed (the one at U+03A5 is now the correct one)
* Typo when defining `dprime` fixed
(thanks to Ulrik Vieth for these last two)
* Fix the math class of `modtwosum`; it is now a large operator
(thanks to Michael Ummels)
* Move several LuaTeX-related patches to the `lualatex-math` package
* Fixed mathtool's `cramped` in XeLaTeX usage
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 Michael Sharpe submitted an update to the
pst-bspline
package.
Summary description: Draw cubic B-spline curves using PSTricks macros.
License type: lppl
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This version adds a number of new macros that allow B-spline curves to be used
in the same manner as parametric curves and, in some circumstances, like graphs
of functions.
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On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 Einar Andreas Rødland submitted an update to the
texcount
package.
License type: lppl
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TeXcount is a Perl script for counting words in TeX/LaTeX documents, also
available as a web-service. TeXcount version 2.3 now comes with added language
support including East Asian languages, customisable summary output, and
improved handling of large documents and multi-file documents. (NB: A bug from
2.3.beta has been fixed which was also in the version first made available 28
July.)
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 Michael Nüsken submitted an update to the
computational-complexity
package.
Summary description: Class originally desigend for the journal Computational Complexity
License type: lppl
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The LaTeX2e class cc was written for the journal Computational
Complexity <http://www.computational-complexity.org>, and
it can also be used for a lot of other articles. You may like it
since it contains a lot of features as more intelligent references,
a set of theorem definitions, an algorithm environment, and more.
The class requires natbib.
The author is Michael Nüsken. The package is Copyright (c) 2000-2011
Michael Nüsken.
Present version v2.20.
Differences to previous version: Bug fixes and similar.
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 Christian Feuersänger submitted an update to the
pgfplots
package.
Summary description: Create normal/logarithmic plots in two and three dimensions for LaTeX/TeX/ConTeXt.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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PGFPlots version 1.5 comes with a huge bunch of new visualization features:
- Contour plots,
- Histograms,
- Quiver plots,
- patch plots (library)
- Triangle Meshes
- Bilinear Elements
- Quadratic Triangles
- Biquadratic Quadrilaterals
- Coons Patches
- Discrete colorbars,
- Table sorting,
- Linear regression,
- Ternary diagrams,
- Tieline Plots
- Smith Charts
- Polar axes,
- Empty lines in input files result in interrupted plots,
- PDF user defined coordinate mouse popups
- CMYK colormaps and shadings,
- new markers and cycle lists
- access to axis limits,
- addplot3 graphics: pgfplots draws an appropriate axis for a three-dimensional(!) external png graphics
- 3D axes: support to provide explicit unit vectors:
- explicit unit vectors
- explicit unit vectors which are uniformly rescaled to match width/height
- 3D axes: improved support for unit vector ratios
- improvements of the groupplot styles
- preliminary support for (2d) bar plots in 3d axes
- new shader 'faceted interp'
- table package:
- 'every nth row' style
- 'comment chars' key to define comment characters in input files
- 'skip first n' style
- lots of smaller bugfixes (see ChangeLog for details)
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 Einar Andreas Rødland submitted an update to the
texcount
package.
License type: lppl
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TeXcount is a Perl script for counting words in TeX/LaTeX document, also
available as a webservice. The latest version 2.3 has improved support for
multiple languages via Unicode, word frequency statistics and customisable
summary output. Handling of large and multifile documents is improved.
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the
texdef
package.
Summary description: Display the definitions of TeX commands.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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= Changelog =
== v1.4 from 2011/07/28 ==
* Added -F option to display file path.
* Added basic support for pdfkeys using -k and -K options.
* Added -V option to print version numbers of LaTeX packages or classes.
* Added '--tempdir' option to specify the location of the temporary files. Useful for debugging.
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 Michael Nüsken submitted an update to the
computational-complexity
package.
Summary description: Class originally desigend for the journal Computational Complexity
License type: lppl
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The LaTeX2e class cc was written for the journal Computational
Complexity <http://www.computational-complexity.org>, and
it can also be used for a lot of other articles. You may like it
since it contains a lot of features as more intelligent references,
a set of theorem definitions, an algorithm environment, and more.
The class requires natbib.
The author is Michael Nusken. The package is Copyright (c) 2000-2011
Michael Nusken.
Present version v2.19.
Differences to previous version:
Layout adapted to new needs. New publishing service handling.
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On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 Apostolos Syropoulos submitted an update to the
asana-math
package.
License type: ofl
Announcement text:
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This version includes support for the Cherokee script.
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On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 Stephan Hennig submitted the
mpcolornames
package.
Summary description: color names for MetaPost
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The MetaPost format plain.mp provides only five built-in color names
(variables), all defined in the RGB model: red, green and blue for the
primary colors and black and white. The mpcolornames package makes more
than 500 color names from different color sets in different color models
available to MetaPost. Color sets include X11, SVG, DVIPS and xcolor
specifications.
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On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the
latex-tds
package.
License type: lppl
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CTAN's package description:
This bundle provides a set of zip file modules containing
TDS (tds)-compliant trees for items of the LaTeX distribution
(both the base system and required packages), together with
`user-friendly' documentation (PDF files with navigation support
using bookmarks and links).
A further module (knuth) performs the same service for Knuth's
software distribution (knuth-dist).
Latest changes (see readme.txt):
2011/07/26
* PDF generation: Use of package unicode-math with Latin Modern Math
where possible.
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted the
macros2e
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This document lists the internal macros defined by the LaTeX2e base files which
can be also useful to package authors. The macros are hyper-linked to their
description in source2e. For this to work both PDFs must be inside the same
directory. This document is not yet complete in content and format and may miss
some macros.
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 Zdenek Wagner submitted an update to the
devanagari
package.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The purpose of this release is to remove the map files that were moved to
xetex-devanagari. Their placement in the xetex specific package is more logical.
Maintainers of TeX distributions should preferably update both packages at the
same time and be sure that xetex-devanagari is automatically installed if
velthuyis was installed previously, otherwise users will miss the map files.
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On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 Javier Bezos submitted an update to the
titlesec
package.
Summary description: Redefining sectioning commands
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A few new features a bug fixes:
- Added iftitlemeasuring (for wrap and calcwidth)
- Added package option uppercase
- Fixed assignpagestyle, which did not work except in a few cases.
- Fixed an incompatibility with hyperref (wrong appendix name).
- Fixed a bug when reckoning the number of lines in wrap/drop.
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the
newverbs
package.
Summary description: New macros to collect macro arguments verbatim
License type: lppl
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This update provides the new macros `collectverb` and `Collectverb` which
allow other macros to collect an argument verbatim to either typeset or write it
into an auxiliary file, respectively.
A `Verbdef` macro is provided to define verbatim text to a macro which can be
used for writing the text to auxiliary files.
This differs from the `verbdef` macro from the `verbdef` package which defines
macros with a typesetable version of the verbatim text which cannot be written
to auxiliary files.
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 Alan Munn submitted an update to the
msu-thesis
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/msu-thesis
Summary description: Thesis and Dissertation class for Michigan State University
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Updated to match current MSU Graduate School requirements.
Note change of CTAN path:
Old: macros/latex/contrib/msuthesis
New: macros/latex/contrib/msu-thesis
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 Tobias Schwan submitted the
biblatex-juradiss
package.
License type: lppl
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This package provides a style for creating a german law thesis with LaTeX, based
on biblatex and biblatex-dw.
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the
collectbox
package.
License type: lppl
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The new macro collectboxto supports the storage of a following brace group in a
box register.
The new macro collectboxcheckenv{<name>} allows to check if the defined macro
is used as environment (by egin{<name>}) and adjusts the included collectbox
or collectboxto etc. to support this usage.
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 Daniel Stender submitted an update to the
xetex-devanagari
package.
Summary description: XeTeX input map for Unicode Devanagari
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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Added velthuis encoding maps (thanks to Zdeněk Wagner).
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On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 Jochen Voss submitted the
jvlisting
package.
Summary description: a replacement for LaTeX's verbatim package
License type: lppl
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This package provides the LaTeX environment 'listing', an alternative to the
built-in 'verbatim' environment. The 'listing' environment is specially
taylored for including listings of computer program source code into documents.
The main advantages over the original 'verbatim' environment are that 'listing'
environments automatically fix leading white-space so that the environment and
program listing can be indented with the rest of the document source and that
'listing' environments can easily be customised and extended.
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Karl Berry writes:
We've gone ahead with the network release of TeX Live 2011 (as some
people have already noticed :). It is now or will be soon available
from CTAN sites (http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive). As with last
year, we recommend doing a network install in one way or another instead
of downloading the large (2+gb) .iso -- see
http://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html for a discussion of the various
alternatives.
Package updates will restart in another day or two.
If anyone notices stale or missing information on the TL web pages, or
problems with the release, please report as usual.
MacTeX 2011 (http://tug.org/mactex) and proTeXt 3.0 for 2011
(http://tug.org/protext) have also been released and are available from
CTAN.
The TeX Collection DVD with all the above will be released as soon as
possible; hopefully, it will go out in August.
Happy TeXing,
Karl
the daemon whispered (while i was out of the office)
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: urlbst 0.7
> Author's name: Norman Gray
> Author's email: norman(a)astro.gla.ac.uk
> Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/urlbst/ (replacing current contents)
> Summary description: A script to add a webpage BibTeX entry type, and
> add support for general url and lastchecked fields, to (most) BibTeX
> .bst files.
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> A script to add a webpage BibTeX entry type, and add support for
> general url and lastchecked fields, to (most) BibTeX .bst files.
> Optionally adds basic support for eprint, doi and pubmed fields, and
> hypertex/hyperref support.
>
> Release 0.7 adds further configuration or parameterisation of the
> generated style file, and incorporates a couple of minor bugfixes
thanks for the upload; i have 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/urlbst.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/urlbst/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-plot.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please
> delete all files in the directory
>
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-plot/
>
> and put the new ones in there.
>
> pst-plot is a PSTricks related package for drawing
> mathematical functions and data records.
>
> This version 1.30 has the following changes:
>
> ----- pst-plot.tex
> 1.30 2011-07-20 - added new optional arguments xlabelsep
> and ylabelsep for setting labels on the
> x/y axis
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and tweaked the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-plot.html
or browse the package's directory at
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On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 Michael Anderson submitted an update to the
uothesis
package.
Summary description: A LaTeX class to support the generation of theses and dissertations for the University of Oregon
License type: lppl
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This version corrects the name of the dean of the graduate school.
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On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 Mojca Miklavec submitted an update to the
context
package.
Summary description: The ConTeXt macro package.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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Patched version of ConTeXt 2011.05.18 as distributed with TeX Live. This should
hopefully fix issues in MikTeX as well. In particular this fixes:
- most problems with spaces in path (jobname may not contain spaces)
- extended search path for texmfcnf.lua (closer related with search path for texmf.cnf)
- support for multiple luatex caches
- auto-generation of cache during the first run
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