On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted the
collcell
package.
Summary description: Provides macros to collect the content of a tabular cell and provide it to a macro as argument
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This small package provides macros which collect the cell content of
a tabular and provide it to a macro as argument. It was inspired by the
collect@body macro defined by the amsmath or the environ package,
which can be used to collect the body of an environment. Special care
is taken to remove all aligning macros inserted by tabular from the cell
content. The macros also work in the last column of a table.
They do not support verbatim material inside the cells.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/collcell
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
while i slept (the afternoon sleep of the convalescent), the daemon
cried:
> 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
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ver. 4.22e
>
> Fix incorrect error handling in reading initialization files.
> (Sometimes an error was incorrectly detected, when there was in fact no error.)
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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/
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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. Biber users are advised to update Biber
> to version 0.7.3.
>
> CHANGES
>
> See the changelog in biblatex.pdf.
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the daemon slept, and then crawls out with the excellent:
> Name of contribution: biber
> Author's name: Philip Kime
> Location on CTAN: biblio/biber/
> Summary description: Biber is a BibTeX replacement for biblatex
> License type: artistic
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 0.7.3 has support for re-encoding of UTF-8 <-> TeX macros to help
> people using PDFLaTeX and the incomplete subset of UTF-8 which inputenc
> supports.
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
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/biber/
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On Thu, 3 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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This package contains LaTeX support for the font PT Sans developed by
ParaType for the project Public Types of Russian Federation, and
released under an open user license.
The fonts are included in original TrueType format and converted Type 1
format (as kindly allowed by ParaType). The fonts provide coverage of
the T2* and X2 encodings, and partial coverage of T1.
Reason of upload: CHANGE: Inclusion of Type 1 version of the
fonts.
Related package: ptserif
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 Pavel Farar submitted 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 developed by
ParaType for the project Public Types of Russian Federation, and
released under an open user license.
The fonts are included in original TrueType format and converted Type 1
format (as kindly allowed by ParaType). The fonts provide coverage of
the T2* and X2 encodings, and partial coverage of T1.
Related package: ptsans
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 Günter Milde submitted the
pzccal
package.
Summary description: Zapf Chancery as calligraphic math alphabet
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List by Scott Pakin describes the
use of Zapf Chancery as a mathematical alphabet that contains capital
and small Latin letters as well as digits. This allows full coverage
of the script Unicode Mathematical Alphabet with 8-bit LaTeX engines.
This package sets up the Zapf Chancery font as script (calligraphic)
math alphabet mathpzc. It provides options to scale the font and to
configure the alias command name. By default, it overwrites the
predefined math alphabet command mathcal.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pzccal/
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pstricks-add.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please replace all
> files with the ones in the directory
>
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/
>
>
> pstricks-add is a PSTricks related package, which has a lot
> of additional features, like arrows, special curves, a...
>
> v 3.51 2011-02-02 - new MacropsKiviat for Kiviat diagrams
> - new optional argument colorTypeDef for psMatrix
thanks for the upload; i have installed updated files and updated the
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Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
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Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pstricks-base.tgz to the uk CTAN node. Please replace
> the files with the ones in the main directory
>
> /graphics/pstricks/base/latex/
>
>
> pstricks.tex --------
> 2.17 2011-01-30 - added psLoop for loops without an
> explicit defined counter
thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the
catalogue repository.
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 Grzegorz Murzynowski submitted an update to the
gmdoc
package.
Summary description: a package for documenting TeX sources with minimal markup, a nontrivial update
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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a package for documenting TeX sources with minimal markup.
No .dtx necessary, inline comments, automatic detection of
definitions and more. this update adds some minor features
and makes use of new gmutils bundle
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/gmdoc
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 Grzegorz Murzynowski submitted an update to the
gmverb
package.
Summary description: my implementation of short verbatims and some improvements to verbatim; this is a dashes' catcodes bug fix.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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my implementation of short verbatims and some improvements
to verbatim. This is a bug fix of spoiled dashes' catcodes
(that were not robust to use of the pre-XeTeX engines).
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/gmverb
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 Grzegorz Murzynowski submitted an update to the
gmutils
package.
Summary description: basic package of other gm* packages; provides DeclareCommand; this is a major development of the latter
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides many macros used by me, also copied
from other packages such as relsize. some are low-level,
such as @ifnextcat, @ifnextif, probably the main is
DeclareCommand to define command with weird optional
arguments. This update provides major development of
DeclareCommand, as announced at BachoTeX 2010. May lack
compatibility with previous version to some degree.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/gmutils
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the
sty2dtx
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Changelog:
* Better handling of code comments:
- Comments direct before a macro or environment definition
are now placed inside the corresponding
description environment before `egin{macrocode}`.
- Separate comment lines stay as they are and will be normal
text in the .DTX file.
- Commented text inside definitions will cause the `macrocode`
environment to be interrupted and reopened afterwards.
- Code lines which are commented out (i.e. are indented and
there is no space after the '%' sign) will stay as part of
the macro code.
* Added '-c' (generate code section only) option. This resembles
the output of v1.0 and is useful to insert more code into
exisiting .DTX files.
* Config files can now include comment lines as well.
These lines must start with '%' or '#'.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/support/sty2dtx
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 Günter Milde submitted an update to the
isomath
package.
Summary description: Math for scientists
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The isomath package implements an ISO math style and provides
new math alphabets with bold italic and sans-serif bold italic
typeshape that can be used for vector and tensor symbols.
New in version 0.5:
* math alphabet names matching Unicode;
* documentation review and extension;
* bold alphabet variants in bold math version;
* upright numbers with vectorsym.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/isomath
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Rainer Schöpf
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-tvz.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please put the
> files into the _new_ directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-tvz/
>
> pst-tvz is a PSTricks related package for drawing
> trees with more than one root node. It is similiar
> to the already existing pst-tree but uses another
> algorithm for placing the tree nodes
>
> The authors are Timothy Van Zandt and Herbert Voß
> and the license is LPPL
>
> ----- pst-tree.tex
> v1.00 2010-10-28 - initial CTAN version
>
> ----- pst-tree.sty LaTeX wrapper
> 2010-10-28 - initial CTAN version
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have made an entry in the catalogue repository.
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The catalogue entry will not appear until some time overnight tonight.
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For the CTAN team
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 Hans-Martin Münch submitted an update to the
pageslts
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The option alphMult is now set to ab by default.
The option AlphMulti is now set to AB by default.
Warnings added, bugs fixed
Diverse new versions of other packages; new (& changed!)
version of Adobe Reader
Replaced my package list
etc.
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 Jean-Francois Burnol submitted an update of the
mathastext
package to CTAN.
Summary description: Use the text font in simple mathematics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The mathastext package propagates the document text font to
mathematical mode, for the letters of the Latin alphabet
and, optionally, other characters in the font. Thus it makes
possible (for a document with simple mathematics) to use a
quite arbitrary text font without worrying too much that no
specially designed accompanying maths fonts are available.
The package also offers a simple mechanism for using many
different choices of (text hence, now, math) font in the
same document. Of course, using one font for two purposes
helps produce smaller PDF files.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mathastext/
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the
sty2dtx
package.
Summary description: Improved version which generates full .dtx and .ins file from a .sty file
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This major update introduces the following features:
* Now full .dtx files are generated. A template based on
the skeleton file from 'dtxtut' is used.
* User level macros are added automatically to the 'Usage'
section of the .dtx file.
* Also a corresponding .ins file can now be generated.
* Own templates can be used for the .dtx and .ins file.
* Many other options are provided to customize the output.
See the README file for details.
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the daemon crept out while i was at hospital for tests:
> Name of contribution: turnthepage
> Author's name: Merciadri Luca
> Location on CTAN: see previous versions
> Summary description: see previous versions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Update (v1.2):
> * Setting page numbering to ‘arabic’ lead to errors (in v1.1). As a
> result, Mr. Philipp Stephani proposed to use zref-abspage and
> zref-lastpage at the place of lastpage. After some slight
> modifications, one can now use any page numbering style.
> * `Deutsch' sentence has been modified.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/turnthepage.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/see previous versions
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
I am offline, pending an improvement of conditions. This includes
tug.ctan.org, www.ctan.org, and az.ctan.org on the interfaces http, ftp,
and rsync.
In case I do not come back, I would like to thank the people that I have
enjoyed working with over the years. I would also like to thank the TeX
Users Group, including the board and particularly including Karl, for
their sponsorship. And, I would be remiss if I didn't again acknowledge
the support provided by Saint Michael's College to me, and to the entire
TeX community, in bearing the Internet traffic.
Jim Hefferon
This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: latexmk
Version number: 4.22d
Author's name: John Collins
Location on CTAN: /support/latexmk
Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Fix compatibility problem with MiKTeX v. 2.8, that latexmk
didn't always detect use of makeindex. (It was OK with
TeXLive.)
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk
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This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: bytefield
Version number: 2.0
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/bytefield/
Summary description: Draw network-protocol specifications and other bit-field
representations
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The bytefield package helps the user create illustrations
for network protocol specifications and anything else that
utilizes fields of data. These illustrations show how the
bits and bytes are laid out in a packet or in memory.
Version 2.0 improves the user interface, albeit in a
non-backwards-compatible way. The package now uses a
key=value interface to specify formatting parameters either
globally or local to an individual diagram; rows are now
grouped using a more LaTeX-like syntax; and there are more
opportunities for customizing the appearance of a diagram.
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This package is at
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
Update summary:
This version 2.0 has new symbols for integrated circuits in american
style (IEEE), a new symbol for a 7-segment-diode and some more new
symbols. Read the documentation for more informations.
Basic package information, as sent by the contributor.
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Location: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ
Author: Herbert Voß
License: lppl
Caption: PSTricks package for drawing electric circuits.
Description: Pst-circ is a package built using PSTricks and in
particular pst-node. It can easily draw current 2-terminal devices
and some 3- and 4-terminal devices used in electronic or electric
theory. The package’s macros are designed with a view to ‘logical’
representation of circuits, as far as possible, so as to relieve the
user of purely graphical considerations when expressing a circuit.
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cooperation with the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: sty2dtx
Version number: v1.0
Author's name: Martin Scharrer
Location on CTAN: /support/sty2dtx
Summary description: Perl script to add a .sty to a .dtx file (code section only)
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Converts a .sty file (LaTeX package) to .dtx format
(documented LaTeX source),
by surrounding macro definitions with 'macro' and
'macrocode' environments.
The macro name is automatically inserted as an argument to
the 'macro'
environemnt.
Code lines outside macro definitions are wrapped only in
'macrocode'
environments. Empty lines are removed.
The script is not thought to be fool proof and 100% accurate
but rather
as a good start to convert undocumented style file to .dtx
files.
It does not generate a complete .dtx file, just the code
section.
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/sty2dtx
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see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This should be in your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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Update summary:
r0.2c changes inputtrc.tex (documentation) only,
using texlinks.sty v0.2 (urlfoot).
aselineskip's are corrected with makedoc.sty v0.41
Basic package information, as sent by the contributor.
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Location: /macros/latex/contrib/inputtrc
Author: Uwe Lück
License: lppl1.3
Caption: Trace which file loads which.
Description: The package produces screen/log messages of the form
‘<current> INPUTTING <next>’ reporting LaTeX input commands (<current>
and <next> being file names). The message is indented to reflect the
level of input nesting.
Tracing may be turned on and off, and the unit of indentation may be
adjusted.
The implementation somewhat resembles those of packages filehook,
currfile, FiNK and inputfile.
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