the daemon continues to keep me busy:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: tabu (v2.3)
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Complete new implementation
> but some people will say I just changed the logo ;-)
>
> i found a bug with nested tabu and
owfont inside longtabu.
>
> Fixed.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new files and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/tabu (v2.3).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
Philipp Lehman wrote:
> I've uploaded a new biblatex release to the incoming directory of the
> UK node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/. Please
> purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as
> usual. Thank you very much.
>
> RELEASE NOTES
>
> This is a maintenance release.
>
> CHANGES
>
> Removed overzealous (non-expanding) INT check from mkbibmonth.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
as i slept, the daemon accepted:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: unicode-math v0.5d
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/unicode-math
> Summary description: Unicode math support for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - v0.5d (2011/01/30)
>
> * Assorted improvements to LuaLaTeX support, including non-growing accents
> available in LuaTeX v0.65 and later
> * Improved behaviour with reading and using maths font dimensions
> * Better compatibility with legacy maths packages and environments
> (always more worked needed, though)
> * Fix the default setting for vargreek-shape
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/unicode-math v0.5d.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/unicode-math
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon continues on his saturday-night romp:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: mylatexformat (v3.4)
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mylatexformat
> Summary description: Make a format from the preamble of any LaTeX file
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Reorganisation of the code and optimization
>
> you should update, really ! ;-)
what, me? (i'm only working on one latex document, atm -- the faq --
which we call latex as a courtesy, so that it doesn't get tetchy.)
anyway, 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/mylatexformat.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mylatexformat
the delayed announcement means that the catalogue entry is probably
up-to-date, by now.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon (as mentioned earlier) has been pursuing me.
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: interfaces (v3.0)
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/interfaces/
> Summary description: Interfaces with keys for other packages
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - New: quickprofile (for profiling with pdfTeX
> pdfelapsedtime)
>
> - papergraduate: positionning of the graduated paper
> was not always acurate. Fixed.
>
> - Added some hooks for ocsetup, listofsetup etc.
> to make even easier the positionning of lines in
> multicolumn table of contents:
> tocsetup{multicols/beforebegin = ...
> multicols/afterbegin = ...
> multicols/beforeend = ...
> multicols/afterend = ...}
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository. (this package provides *such* a lot of
facilities, the catalogue entry looks more than usually sketchy...)
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/interfaces.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/interfaces/
The delay in announcement means that the catalogue entry should
currently be up-to-date.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
and finally, the daemon comes along with:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: tabu (v2.2)
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Complete new implementation
> but some people will say I just changed the logo ;-)
>
> Some new features (lines, leaders, colors ...)
>
> Vertical spacing adjustment is very acurate !
>
> Convergence to target really optimized in the case of
> nested tabu.
>
> The syntax is now fixed and should not change in the future,
> even if some more developments would be profitable
> (allowing the X token in the argument of multicolumn).
> However, there is some backward incompatibility with
> former version 2.1 :
> - abulinestyle
> - X columns with negative width coefficient
>
> If anybody has a proposal for the improvements of leaders
> (and especially the vertical ones) I would be glad to have
> a look at it ;-)
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/tabu (v2.2).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
there i was, innocently taking in an opera relay, and the daemon pops up
3 (three!) times. the first was:
> 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: The ieee bibliography style for biblatex
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The biblatex-ieee package provides an implementation if the
> bibliography style of the IEEE for biblatex. This implementation
> follows standard biblatex conventions, and can be used simply by
> loading biblatex with the appropriate option
>
> usepackage[style=ieee]{biblatex}
>
> A demonstration database is provided to show how to format input for the style.
>
> This first CTAN release is marked as v0.9, reflecting the fact that it
> is usable but will probably require testing to be 'release'
> quality. In particular, an update to use the new features of biblatex
> v1.2 will follow as part of the testing procedure.
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/biblatex-ieee.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/bibl…
The catalogue entry will first appear some time overnight, tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Philipp Lehman wrote:
> I've uploaded a new biblatex release to the incoming directory of the
> UK node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/. Please
> purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as
> usual. Thank you very much.
>
> RELEASE NOTES
>
> This release requires Biber 0.8.
> See the file RELEASE for further release notes.
>
> CHANGES
>
> See the changelog in biblatex.pdf.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
finstrut
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Many redundancies removed after seeing code by Donald
Arseneau, replaced bad comments.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/finstrut
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=finstrut
(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 wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: biber
> Author's name: Philip Kime
> Location on CTAN: biblio/biber
> Summary description: Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX
> License type: artistic
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Companion release for biblatex 1.2
> New features: supports remote data sources, RIS data sources, highly flexibly
> data inheritance
thanks for the upload; i've installed the replacement version and
updated the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biber.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/biber/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 Luis Marco Adrian submitted the
mathstone
package.
Summary description: Use PostScript Stone Serif and Stone Sans for typesetting maths.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This package provides metric files and LaTeX support for
Stone Sans and Stone Serif fonts from Adobe. It has
everything you need to typeset in this font -except the font
itself. You need to purchase the fonts themselves: the pfb
files are not included in the package. To use the Greek
letters need to install the package Mathdesign.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/mathstone/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mathstone
(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 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
morehype
package.
Summary description: texlinks v0.3 [blog], urlpkgfoot
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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urlpkgfoot{PKG-ID} abbreviates urlfoot{CtanPkgRef}{PKD-ID}
that is needed frequently.
Package option [blog] suppresses document definitions.
blog.sty is updated accordingly and at the occasion.
README points to morehype.tds.zip.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/morehype
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=morehype
(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 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 Pavel Farar submitted an update to the
ptsans
package.
Summary description: PT Sans font and LaTeX support.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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- In the fonts/enc/ and fonts/map directories omitted the paratype level
(suggested by Karl Berry).
- Changed style files in this way:
1) Added an option to scale the fonts. In the font definition files
was support for it but not in the style files. It was caused
by creating simpler style files than those created by autoinst
from fontools (they were created because the original files
required the package fontenc with all supported encodings --
which might be a problem).
2) Style files do not change neither familydefault nor fdefault.
There are font substitutions in the font definition files now.
Both suggested by Ricard Torres. Used his patches (based on Walter
Schmidt's macros) for PTSans.sty and T1PTSans-TLF.fd. The changes
extended to all other files.
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
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 Pavel Farar submitted an update to the
ptserif
package.
Summary description: PT Serif font and LaTeX support.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
- In the fonts/enc/ and fonts/map directories omitted the paratype level
(suggested by Karl Berry).
- Changed style files in this way:
1) Added an option to scale the fonts. In the font definition files
was support for it but not in the style files. It was caused
by creating simpler style files than those created by autoinst
from fontools (they were created because the original files
required the package fontenc with all supported encodings --
which might be a problem).
2) Style files do not change neither familydefault nor fdefault.
There are font substitutions in the font definition files now.
Both suggested by Ricard Torres. Used his patches (based on Walter
Schmidt's macros) for PTSerif.sty and T1PTSerif-TLF.fd. The changes
extended to all other files.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 Jean-Francois Burnol submitted an update to the
mathastext
package.
Summary description: Use the text font in simple mathematics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 1.12b fixes some bug of 1.12 related to uppercase
Greek (sorry!). Use mathastext to propagate the main text
font to math mode. Greek letters will be taken either from
the default math fonts at the time of loading mathastext or
from the Euler or from the Symbol font.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mathastext
(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's keeping me occupied. seems to think i need things to take
my mind off it all.
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.1l:
> - Bug introduced in v2.1k (yesterday) corrected
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
thanks for the upload.
> 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 favours me with another upload:
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.1k:
> - Fix a bug when using literal units with negative superscripts and
> the fontspec package
> - New option detect-inline-family, analogous to detect-inline-weight
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new files, 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
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 a new package
finstrut
was submitted.
Summary description: no more spurious line from par at end of footnote text
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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`finstrut.sty' changes LaTeX's @finalstrut (that is
automatically inserted at the end of footnote text) so that
it does not produce an extra empty line in vertical mode,
e.g., with lipsum from lipsum.sty for dummy text.
KEYWORDs: footnotes; tables, dummy text, macro programming
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/finstrut
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=finstrut
(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 Wed, 9 Feb 2011 Patrick Happel submitted an update to the
lipsum
package.
Summary description: Easy access to the Lorem Ipsum dummy text.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Lipsum now provides an option that enables one to select
whether the single paragraphs of the dummy text are
terminated by a par or not.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/lipsum
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=lipsum
(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 Wed, 9 Feb 2011 a new package
luaindex
was submitted.
Summary description: create index with lualatex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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luaindex is another index processor written in Lua.
Currently usage of
LuaLaTeX is provided only, but plainLuaTeX, ConTeXt or other
formats may
follow.
luaindex provides more than one index. Like SplitIndex it
needs only one
help file for all produced indexes.
Note: This is an alpha version!
For additional version information see `lualatex.dtx.'
Distributors should README!
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/luaindex/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=luaindex
(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, for once, comes and greets me (rather than creeping out
while i'm asleep, or whatever...):
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: catoptions
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/catoptions
> Summary description: Preserving and recalling standard catcodes.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The 'catoptions' package changes package loading internals so that all
> subsequently loaded packages can rely on normal/standard catcodes of
> all ASCII characters. The package defines canonical control sequences
> to represent all the visible ASCII characters. It also provides robust
> options parsing mechanisms, in addition to many other TeX programming
> tools.
thanks for the upload. i have installed the 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/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 appear for the first time, at some stage
overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 Jean-Francois Burnol submitted updates to the
mathastext
package.
Summary description: Use the text font in simple mathematics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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In version 1.11:
* various bugs have been corrected
* the endash and alldelims options are active by default
* the en-dash and dotless i and j are now compatible with
all encodings, including Unicode
* the Mathastext command has been improved to
facilitate the mechanism of math versions also when
using XeTeX or LuaTeX with package fontspec.
Usage: usepackage{mathastext}. This will propagate the text
font to math mode.
Version 1.12 corrects some bugs from the recently released
version 1.11. And it makes mathastext better aware of Unicode
engines and fonts.
* The endash and alldelims options are active by default.
* The Mathastext command has been improved to facilitate the
* mechanism of math versions also when using XeTeX or LuaTeX
* The en-dash and dotless i and j will now work with all 8bit
encodings, and also with Unicode fonts.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mathastext/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mathastext
(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 .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 Dominik Wassenhoven aubmitted an update to the
biblatex-dw
package.
Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 1.3c
This version of biblatex-dw needs biblatex 1.1a. Please note
that you have to update biblatex as well if you would like
to use biblatex-dw 1.3c!
Changes:
- BUGFIX: Under some circumstances, an error occurred
(command cbx@tempa could not be found). This should be
fixed now.
- BUGFIX: Some of the German translations were broken due
to a change of internal commands in biblatex. This is now
fixed.
- The entry type @review is now supported. You can
specify a reviewed work via the xref field. See the
documentation for details.
- Some internal changes concerning DeclareFieldFormat
directives.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-dw
(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 Sun, 6 Feb 2011 Dominik Waßenhoven submitted the
bibleref-german
package.
Summary description: German formatting of bible citations
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is the first release of bibleref-german. This package provides translations
and various formats for the use of bibleref in German documents. The German
naming of the bible books complies with the 'Loccumer Richtlinien' (Loccum
guidelines). Apart from that, the Vulgate (Latin bible) is supported.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/bibleref-german
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bibleref-german
(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