and they keep rolling in, sighs the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: catoptions
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Location on CTAN:
> Summary description: Preserving catcodes and parsing options
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This version 0.2 gains some efficiency in declaring futurelet
> canonical controls of/for 'other' characters. Following suggestions
> from users, it also introduces additional interfaces for declaring new
> package options.
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/catoptions.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/catoptions/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Yossi Gil submitted the
bashful
package.
Summary description: Invoke bash commands from within latex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/latex/bashful
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bashful
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Pavel Farar submitted an update to the
ptserif
package.
Summary description: PT Serif font and LaTeX support.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This package contains LaTeX support for the font PT Sans.
- Added several Cyrillic letters that were missing in the encoding
files but present in the fonts (some Cyrillic letters are
not in Unicode or Adobe Glyph List).
- The encoding files have more descriptive names now.
Related package: ptsans
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ptserif
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ptserif
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Pavel Farar submitted an update to the
ptsans
package.
Summary description: PT Sans font and LaTeX support.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package contains LaTeX support for the font PT Sans.
- Added several Cyrillic letters that were missing in the encoding
files but present in the fonts (some Cyrillic letters are
not in Unicode or Adobe Glyph List).
- The encoding files have more descriptive names now.
Related package: ptserif
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ptsans
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ptsans
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
my daemon tells me (with a sly smile on his face):
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: Piano diagram
> Author's name: Émile Daneault
> Location on CTAN:
> Summary description: Draws basic 2 octaves keyboard diagrams
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> I'm by no mean a TeX expert, but since it works okay I though it
> should be out there.
>
> This package adds the keyboard[1][2]..[7] command to your
> project. When used, it draws a small 2 octaves piano keyboard on your
> document, with up to 7 keys highlighted.
>
> Keys go : Co, Cso, Do, Dso, Eo, Fo, Fso, Go, Gso, Ao, Aso, Bo, Ct,
> Cst, Dt, Dst, Et, Ft, Fst, Gt, Gst, At, Ast and Bt.
>
> Suggested use :
> egin{figure}[thpb]\n> centering
> keyboard[Co][Eo][Gso][Ct][Et]
> caption{C aug chord}
> label{Chord1}
> end{figure}
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/piano.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/piano/
The catalogue entry will first appear overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 Yossi Gil submitted an update to the
unisugar
package.
Summary description: Selected Unicode characters employed in some very common LaTeX commands
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Using this package, you may find yourself typing a bit less,
provided you can configure your text editor or keyboard driver to
generate the handful of Unicode characters defined by this package.
More importantly, the package is useful in defining macros whose name
is composed of right-to-left characters and in minimizing mixed
directionality text in right-to-left documents.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/unisugar
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=unisugar
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the
standalone
package.
Summary description: Update to v0.4: New option 'border' to set preview border
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The update adds an option to set the preview border when preview is enabled. This avoid manual adjustments of PreviewBorder or PreviewBbAdjust.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/standalone
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=standalone
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
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Rainer Schöpf
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the
collcell
package.
Summary description: Update to v0.5: Some bug fixes and removed limitations
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This updated fixes some limitations of the previous version.
The following uses are now supported:
* Empty cells before \
* Missing \
* Use inside multicolumn
* Use of # inside collected cells (except inside multicolumn which doesn't support this by itself)
* Use around or inside other >{} <{} material
* Cascaded use of collectcell
* The argument of collectcell can now consist of multiple tokens
* Material inside <{} before endcollectcell is now also collected if it is part of the last column
* An almost-verbatim version of verb is provided (uses the version of the 'tabularx' package)
* supports 'tabular', 'tabularx', 'array' as well as 'tabularx' in the LaTeX or TeX syntaxes as well as in csname ... endcsname (except 'tabularx' which doesn't support this by itself).
And some more smaller features. See the manual for details.
The code has been improved and more documentation has been added.
Acknowledgements and Thanks goes to:
Heiko Oberdiek, GL, Joseph Wright and Hendrik Vogt for their feedback and help on comp.text.tex, using PM and on http://tex.stackexchange.com .
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/collcell
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=collcell
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 Boris Veytsman submitted an update to the
aomart
package.
Summary description: LaTeX Class for The Annals of Mathematics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides the class for typesetting articles for The Annals
of Mathematics, http://annals.princeton.edu/.
Changes:
Version 1.5
Typo corrected: arXiV is now arXiv
Bibliography style change: added sortyear field
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/aomart
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=aomart
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
the daemon likes coloured shapes, and was grinning when he said:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: tikz-3dplot
> Author's name: Jeff Hein
> Author's email: jeffrey.d.hein(a)gmail.com
> Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-3dplot
> Summary description: 3D coordinate transformations and plotting using TikZ
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The tikz-3dplot package provides straightforward ways to define
> three-dimensional coordinate frames through which to plot in TikZ. The
> user can specify the orientation of the main coordinate frame, and use
> standard TikZ commands and coordinates to render their tikzfigure. A
> secondary coordinate frame is provided to allow rotations and
> translations with respect to the main coordinate frame. In addition,
> The tikz-3dplot package can also handle plotting user-specified
> functions in spherical polar coordinates, where both the radius and
> fill color can be expressed as parametric functions of polar angles.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/tikz-3dplot.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-3dplot/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon hasn't had a lot to say, in the last few days, but has
today offered:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: fwlw
> Author's name: Donald Arseneau
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fwlw
> Summary description: Facilitates headers with first word/last word
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Added a brief license statement -- simple permissive BSD-like. (Also
> modified the manual, which someone had created -- THANKS!)
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository to reflect its new status and all.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fwlw.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fwlw
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded LATeX-Bib.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please
> put all files in the new directory
>
> /info/examples/LaTeX-Bib/
>
> It contains all examples from the 1st edition of the book
> Bibliografien mit LaTeX, published by DANTE and lehmanns media.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the collection as suggested and
made an entry in the catalogue repository for the collection.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/latex-bib-ex.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/examples/LaTeX-Bib/
The catalogue entry will first appear on the web, overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon cries (frustrated that he's no more for me, this morning...)
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: biblatex-ieee
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-ieee
> Summary description: A biblatex implementation of the IEEE bibliography style
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.0:
> - First stable release (.bbx file from v0.9a)
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/biblatex-ieee.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-ieee
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
here comes that daemon ... do you hear him muttering?
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: biblatex-nature
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-nature
> Summary description: A biblatex implementation of the Nature bibliography style
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.1:
> - Rework styles to follow core biblatex styles more closely
> - Locations and volumes printed in more cases, where
> Nature seems to allow this
> - Rearrange CTAN/TDS locations to reduce unnecessary folder
> use
>
> This version requires biblatex v1.2 or higher.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository, somewhat
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-nature.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-nature/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon greeted me (after i came home from a food-shopping trip):
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: tabu (v2.8)
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tabu
> Summary description: Flexible LaTeX tabulars
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> . Bug in {longtabu*} the starred form of the environment
> {longtabu} which used scantokens to insert verbatim
> text.
>
> Fixed after Ahmed Musa bug report.
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/tabu (v2.8).html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabu
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon told me, when i woke up this morning.
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: fontspec
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fontspec
> Summary description: Advanced font selection in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Right before the start of a busy semester, I'm happy to release a small
> improvement to fontspec for probably the last time in quick a while:
>
> Changes introduced in the new version are:
>
> * Finally add a real error message when a font cannot be found!
> * Add Letters=Random feature.
> * Fix bug in which Unknown feature `'... warnings
> were shown in the log file.
> * Some small documentation improvements.
thanks for the upload, and sorry for the delay in installing (a machine
vital to my tool-chain failed to switch on this morning -- fortunately,
a colleague was going into work, and was able to start the machine for
me).
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/fontspec.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
and yet another the daemon's slipped past me...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: tabu (v2.7 release)
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tabu
> Summary description: Flexible LaTeX tabulars
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> . Automatic par after the end of the tabu environment
> when used with its default target is removed in the case
> of {tabu} spread (this was a bug)
>
> . Some ignorespaces were missing (after everyrow,
> aburulecolor, aburowcolors and abulinestyle)
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/tabu.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabu/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
i don't remember what i was doing, but it was obviously terribly
interesting work, because i didn't notice the daemon saying:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: linegoal (v2.9)
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/linegoal
> Summary description: A ``dimen'' that corresponds to the remainder of the line
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> . Modification of the expansion process for setting the
> linegoal in order to allow the use of linegoal inside
> the arguments of tabular column :
> p{ .4linegoal} m{ .2linegoal } b{ .15linegoal }
>
> when the calc.sty package is loaded.
>
> This is because such arguments are expanded by array.sty
> during the rewriting process and hence, before setlength.
>
> This can be handy for multicolumn in some cases:
>
> egin{tabu}{|XX[2]X|}
> Hello
> &
> multicolumn2{p{linegoal}|}
> {vskip-htstrutboxstrutlipsum[5]} \
> abuphantomline
> end{tabu}
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new files and updated the
catalogue repository entry.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/linegoal.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/linegoal/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon obviously noticed i was out of the office, and so it pounced:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: tabu (v2.6 release)
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tabu
> Summary description: Flexible LaTeX tabulars
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - savetabu now also saves abulinesep (ie
> abovetabulinesep
> and elowtabulinesep)
>
> - Bug fixed for custom environments when nested
>
> - aburulecolor now works for the longtabu environment even
> if colortbl is not loaded
> (same behaviour as for the tabu environments then:
> . colored rules only require xcolor.sty,
> . colored cells (and columns and rows) require colortbl.sty)
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/tabu.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabu
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
ctan-upload(a)cl.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20110224-042550/
>
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: adjmulticol, v1.0
> Author's name: Boris Veytsman
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/adjmulticol
> Summary description: Adjusting Margins for Multicolumn and Unicolumn Output
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package provides an extension of the multicol package with the
> option to change the margins for multicolumn and unicolumn layout.
> The package understands the difference between the even and odd
> margins for two side printing.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new package, and created 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/adjmulticol.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/adjmulticol/
The catalogue entry will first appear on the web overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded PSTricks6_de.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please
> put all files in the new directory
>
> /info/examples/PSTricks_6_de/
>
> It contains all examples from the 6th edition of the german
> version.
>
> The existing /PSTricks5_de/ can be deleted
thanks for the upload.
i have installed the new files and deleted the old, and converted the
catalogue entry to refer to the new version.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks-examples.h…
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/examples/PSTricks_6_de/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon tells me, as i stagger in from the pouring rain:
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.0f:
> - Update to work with biblatex v1.2
thanks for the (second!) upload; i have installed the files 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
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 Yossi Gil submitted the
unisugar
package.
Summary description: Selected Unicode characters employed in some very common LaTeX commands
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Using this package,
you will find yourself typing a bit less,
provided you can configure your text editor or
keyboard driver to generate
the handful of Unicode characters defined by this package.
More importantly, the package is useful in defining macros whose name
is composed of right-to-left characters.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/unisugar
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=unisugar
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf