On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 Daniel Flipo submitted an update to the
tabvar
package.
Summary description: Typesetting of tables showing variations of functions
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This release corrects a bug (newcolumntype `N' conflicted with numprint.sty) and adds a new command TVcenter{} to vertically center function names.
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On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 Maxime Chupin submitted an update to the
bclogo
package.
Summary description: The package facilitates the creation of colorful boxes with a title and logo. It may use either tikz or PSTricks as graphics engine.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Terrible mistake about the German flag, really sorry!
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i'm on a roll with my database conversion program, but the daemon tells me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: latexmk
> Author's name: John Collins
> Location on CTAN: support/latexmk
> Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine V. 4.25
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1. Fix to evade apparent cygwin bug that prevented system rc-file from being read.
> 2. Diagnostic for unreadable rc-file.
> 3. Add deps output file to target part of dependency information
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/latexmk.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/latexmk/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 Raphaël Pinson submitted the
fontbook
package.
Summary description: Generate a font book with XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
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This is the first version of the fontbook package, for use with XeLaTeX
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/fontbook
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http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontbook
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Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> I have uploaded pax-ctan.zip in ftp://ftp.cam.ctan.org/incoming/.
> It updates the files in
> CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/pax/README
> CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/pax.tds.zip -> link to install branch
> and
> CTAN:install/macros/latex/contrib/pax.tds.zip
>
> Changes of version 0.1k:
> * Use of package `kvsetkeys' to avoid problems with
> incompatible package `xkeyval'.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the files as you requested.
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The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Tue, 5 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 2000-2011 computational complexity, Michael Nüsken.
Present version v2.16. Differences to previous version: New options for
textarea. The default is now the new textarea of computational complexity (119mm
x 208mm). The old textarea stays available by adding the option textarea=cc1.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/computational-complexity
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quoth the daemon, again:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: siunitx
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.3:
> - Extend group-digits option, deprecating
> group-decimal-digits and group-INT-digits
> - Load abbreviations as standard
> - New group-minimum-digits option to replace
> group-four-digits
> - New literal-superscript-as-power option for controlling
> how literal units superscripts behave
> - New table-align-text-pre option
> - New implementation for alignment
> in S column
> - Replace load-configurations option with separate
> abbreviations, binary-units and
> version-1-compatibility options
>
> Note: This release requires expl3 and xparse packages dated 2011/05/30 or newer.
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/siunitx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon tells me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: spreadtab
> Author's name: Christian Tellechea
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/spreadtab
> Summary description: Spreadsheet features for LaTeX table environments
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> spreadtab v0.4
>
> What's new:
> * no more save satck clash for large tables
> * new macro functions tag, cell, row, col
> * STeol set the end of lines marker
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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> or they may browse the package directory at
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The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon creeps out to tell me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: VAK
> Author's name: Vitaly G. Melnikov
> Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/vak
> Summary description: A bibliography stylefile for Russian PhD theses, books etc.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The file can be used to format the bibliographies of PhD thesys, books
> etc. according to the latest Russian standarts: GOST 7.82 -- 2001 and
> GOST 7.1 -- 2003. It introduces the minimum number new entries and
> styles to cover all frequently used situations. The style file
> provides an easy way to perform a semiautomatic, or a completely
> manual sort of the list of the references.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the package, and created an
entry in the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/vak.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/vak/
The catalogue entry will first appear (on the web) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
as i slumber, the daemon works:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: apa6e
> Author's name: Nathaniel J. Smith
> Location on CTAN: latex/contrib/apa6e
> Summary description: v0.3 -- bug fixes and new features
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Added exttt{floatmarkers} option.
>
> Increased |headheight| to make extsc{fancyhdr} happy.
>
> Made it possible to refer to appendices by label.
>
> Implemented the rule that if there is only a single appendix, it is
> simply called ``Appendix'', not ``Appendix A''.
>
> Fixed a bug where floats were sometimes labeled as being in an
> appendix (like ``Figure A1'') even when they weren't (thanks to
> J. Olson and Alex Sommerfeldt for the report and fix).
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/apa6e.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/latex/contrib/apa6e/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Stephan Hennig submitted an update to the
dehyph-exptl
package.
Summary description: experimental hyphenation patterns for the German language
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides experimental hyphenation patterns for
the German language, covering traditional and reformed
orthography for several varieties of Standard German. The
patterns can be used with packages Babel and hyphsubst from
the Oberdiek bundle.
Dieses Paket enthaelt experimentelle Trennmuster fuer die
deutsche Sprache. Die Trennmuster decken das in
Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz gebraeuchliche
Standarddeutsch in der traditionellen und reformierten
Rechtschreibung ab und koennen mit den Paketen Babel und
hyphsubst aus dem Oberdiek-Buendel verwendet werden.
2011-07-02: v0.22
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Wortdatenbank:
* Etwa 200 Eintraege wurden korrigiert.
Paket:
* Wenn pTeX verwendet wird, werden keine Trennmuster geladen
(notwendig für die platex-Formaterstellung in TeX Live 2011).
* Die Dokumentation wurde erweitert.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/hyphenation/dehyph-exptl
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the daemon cried out ... twice:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: l3kernel
> Author's name: LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel
> Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> SVN 2491:
> - Fix bug in peek_... code which caused errors when used
> in tables
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
... and
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: l3packages
> Author's name: LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/l3packages
> Summary description: High-level LaTeX3 concepts
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [Goes with l3kernel update]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
thanks for those; i've installed both bundles and updated the catalogue
repository, for both.
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sat, 2 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):
2011/07/01
* PDF generation:
* Use of LuaTeX instead of pdfTeX for most of the files.
* Use of package `fontspec' with Latin Modern fonts as
default in OpenType format (smaller PDF file sizes).
The post-processing of PDF files is skipped.
* Various patches and fixes for LuaLaTeX and package `fontspec'.
* Module base:
* Update of LaTeX.
* Patches ltpatch.ltx.diff and ltfssdcl.dtx.diff removed
(no longer needed).
* Module tools: Update.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/latex-tds
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latex-tds
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On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Javier Bezos submitted an update to the
enumitem
package.
Summary description: Control layout of lists
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Ths release fixes an uncompatibility with xkeyval.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/enumitem
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On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Mike Kaufmann submitted the
beamersubframe
package.
Summary description: Reordering frames in the PDF file without reordering the source
License type: lppl
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The Beamer SubFrame package provides a method to reorder frames in the
PDF file without reordering the source. Mainly, it is meant to embed or
append frames with details on some subject.
This is the very first version! It's still considered experimental!
Everything, including the name and the user interface, may change in
the future.
Although it can only be used with the beamer class, it is not a part
of the beamer class.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/beamer-contrib/beamersubframe
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/beamersubframe
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Javier Bezos submitted an update to the
enumitem
package.
Summary description: Control layout of itemize, enumerate, description.
License type: lppl
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This is a major update including inline lists, rewritten description styles,
gathering of lists, defining keys and values, paragraph-like items, and many
more.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/enumitem
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and the daemon slips this one in, too, when i'm not watching...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: notes2bib
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib
> Summary description: Integrating notes into the bibliography
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.0g:
> - Updates to reflect l3kernel changes
thanks for the upload; i've installed the package and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/notes2bib.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
there was i, virtuously gardening away, and the daemon comes out and says
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: l3packages
> Author's name: LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/l3packages
> Summary description: High-level LaTeX3 concepts
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> SVN 2487:
> - Correct an error which meant that l3packages was out of
> sync with l3kernel
> - Add checks to packages to ensure that l3kernel support
> is sufficiently new when loading l3packages
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/l3packages.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 Lorenzo Pantieri submitted an update to the
arsclassica
package.
License type: lppl
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The package is now compatible with ClassicThesis 3.0. Moreover I've made some fixes in the code.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/arsclassica
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the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: siunitx
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.2l:
> - Fix lack of unit printing when a pre-unit is used and
> per-mode = symbol
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new files and tweaked 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/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemnum
package.
Summary description: A method of numbering chemical compounds.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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bugfixes
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/chemnum/
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last night, the sneaky old daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: l3kernel
> Author's name: LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel
> Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> SVN 2484:
> - Bug fix for ool_until_do:nn, which had wrong logic for
> termination
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/l3kernel.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 Clemens Niederberger submitted the
chemnum
package.
Summary description: chemnum is a new and hopefully comprehensive approach for
the numbering of chemical compounds. It is vaguely inspired by the
chemcompounds package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package defines a label- and
ef-like commands for compound numbers.
Basically two main commands are provided, cmpd{<label name>} and cmpdlist{<comma separated list of label names>}.
With them compound labels are initialized, declared and printed.
There are some variants of these commands and possibilities to customize them.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/chemnum
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