On Sat, 25 Dec 2010, Siep Kroonenberg submitted updates to the
epspdf and epspdf-extra
packages.
Summary description: Converter for PostScript, EPS and PDF with optional GUI
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Need for Unix wrappers eliminated; symlink will do
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the daemon said (yesterday):
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: The fldigigal
> Author's name: D. P. Story
> Location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fldigigal/
> Summary description: Create digiatl slidge shows with Flash from a LaTeX source
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Minor update, version 0.5a: Removed some spurious spaces, changed the
> size of fgRmAnnot from 640bp x 480bp to 320bp x 240bp; minor changes
> to example files
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i've installed the new version and tweaked 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/The fldigigal.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fldigigal/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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: droid
Version number: 1.0
Author's name: Mohamed El Morabity
Location on CTAN: /fonts/droid
Summary description: LaTeX support for the Droid font families
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The Droid typeface family was designed in the fall of 2006 by
Ascender's Steve Matteson, as a commission from Google to create a
set of system fonts for its Android platform. The goal was to provide
optimal quality and comfort on a mobile handset when rendered in
application menus, web browsers and for other screen text. The Droid
family of fonts consists of Droid Serif, Droid Sans and Droid Sans Mono,
licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0, and available in the
Android Git tree.
This package provides support for this font in LaTeX. It is licensed under
the LaTeX project public license version 1.3c or above, except the fonts
delivered under the Apache License version 2.0. Notice that this
package does not support the Droid Pro family sold by the Ascender
foundry.
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: lpic
Version number: 0.8
Author's name: Rostislav Matveev
Summary description: Put LaTeX material over included graphics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package lpic defines convenient interface to put any
LaTeX material on top of included graphics.
LaTeX material could also be rotated and typeset on top of a white
box overshadowing graphics. Coordinates of LaTeX boxes are
given relative to the original, unscaled graphics, when graphics is
rescaled, LaTeX annotations stay at their right places (unless you
do something extreme). In a draft mode it allows to draw a coordinate
grid over the picture for easy adjustment of positions of the annotations.
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This should be at your local mirror.
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: The fldigigal Package
Version number: 0.5
Author's name: D. P. Story
Summary description: Create a Flash Slide show of digital photos
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The fldigigal package uses the rmannot package (Adobe
Distiller workflow required) to create, what I am
calling, an AcroTeX Flash Digital Gallery; that is, a
Flash slide show that displays a series of digitals
(PNG, JPG, GIF). The document author describes the
digitals (path and caption) from the LaTeX source, on
compilation, fldigigal write an XML file, which
Distiller embeds in the PDF. The digitals may be
embedded in the PDF, or reside on the Internet (reducing
filesize). Three layouts of are offered at this time:
vertical thumbnails, horizontal thumbnails, or no
thumbnails.
The home page for this package is
http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/fldigigal.html
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On Tue, 22 Dec 2010 Marco Daniel submitted an update to the
mdframed
package.
Summary description: auto-split frame environment
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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changes in version 0.6a:
- fixes bugs
- added mdfsetup to the documentation
- expanded documentation
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Jürgen Vollmer submitted an update to the
latex2man
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written
with LaTeX into the troff format understood by the UNIX
man(1)-command.
Alternatively HTML, TexInfo, or LaTeX code can be produced too.
Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the
conditional text
feature (for this, LaTeX generation may be used).
There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the
Man-page
and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual translation.
Changes from version 1.23:
add CSS support for HTML generation
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latex2man
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the
ydoc
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update fixes some bugs and adds a few features. It is
required to build the documentation of 'filehook' v0.3
correctly.
This class and its packages is still in apha stage and
should not be used by other people yet.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ydoc/
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the
filehook
package.
Summary description: Updated to v0.3: Add support for package and class file hooks.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update adds AtBeginOfPackageFile, AtEndOfPackageFile,
AtBeginOfClassFile and AtEndOfClassFile hook macros to
execute code before or after packages or classes. Special
care is taken to execute the AtEnd code after any code
inserted by the package or class itself using the standard
LaTeX macros AtBeginOfPackage/AtBeginOfClass.
This version now triggers an error when a incompatible
definition of InputIfFileExists is detected. An option
'force' is provided to overwrite this.
Further information can be taken from the discussion on
comp.text.tex: svn-multi incompat fink -- Was: [Re: CTAN
update: fink] (e.g.
https://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_frm/thread/d535855d0bc…).
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/filehook/
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This should be at your local mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: zwpagelayout
Version number: 1.1
Author's name: Zdenek Wagner
Summary description: Package update
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 1.1 adds a few features: support of black overprint,
possibility
of setting PDF information without the need of loading the
hyperref package,
automatic setting of ArtBox, TrimBox and BleedBox (can be
disabled) and
partial compliance with PDF/X-1a.
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/zwpagelayout
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the daemon wrily remarks on the start of the holiday torrent:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: biblatex-chem
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem/
> Summary description: biblatex styles for chemistry
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.0a:
> - Correctly format 'et al.' when truncating name list in
> RSC style
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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/biblatex-chem.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-che…
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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: ucharclasses
Version number: 1.0
Author's name: Michiel Kamermans
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/ucharclasses
Summary description: A XeLaTeX package for automatic code insertion between
unicode blocks, such as automatic font switching for different languages
License type: other-nonfree
Announcement text:
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This package addresses one of the few features where TeX still has to play catch-up to
word processing programs: automatic font switching for different languages. In fact, it
goes one better than word processing programs and comes with macros for inserting
arbitrary code between text from different unicode blocks, by making use of XeTeX's little
known intercharclass behaviour.
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This package is at
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Jim
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: productbox
Version number: 1.0
Author's name: Gerd Neugebauer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gene/productbox
Summary description: Typesetting a Three-Dimensional Product Box
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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productbox.dtx provides a style file for typesetting a
three-diemnsional product box. This product box can be
rendered as it is standing on a surface and some light is
shed onto it. Alternatively it can be typeset as a wireframe
to be cut out and glued together. This will lead to a
physical product box.
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This package is at
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 Marco Daniel submitted an update to the
mdframed
package.
Summary description: auto-split frame environment
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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changes in version 0.6:
- added style=3 with pstricks
- added option pstrickssetting
- added option splitbottomskip (see documentation)
- added option splittopskip (see documentation)
- added options for hidden lines (see documentation)
- changed the calculation
- fixed bugs
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Rainer Schöpf
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the
dvisvgm
package.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to
SVG.
The latest release 1.0.4 is a small maintenance update that
fixes two scaling issues in the PostScript handler.
For further information including a list of recent changes
and pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project
page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This also 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: fancytooltips package
Version number: 1.8
Author's name: Robert Mařík
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fancytooltips/
Summary description: New version of fancytooltips package
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This version adds new options blur and fg. Includes also
full example of a presentation which contains extracted
popups od pictures and formulas which follow reflinks (see
the README file in examples/fancy-preview2 directory for
more details).
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fancytooltips/
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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: ocgtools package update
Version number: 0.8a
Author's name: Robert Mařík
Summary description: Minor bugfix
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Fixed minor problem related to color management and new
eforms.sty package. Thanks to Paolo Russu for the bug report.
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ocgtools/
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This should be at your local mirror.
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: comfortaa
Version number: 1.0
Author's name: Mohamed El Morabity
Summary description: LaTeX support for the Comfortaa font family
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Comfortaa is a sans-serif font comfortable in every aspect designed by
Johan Aakerlund. This font, which includes three weights (thin, regular
and bold), is available on Johan's deviantArt web page as TrueType files
under the Open Font License version 1.1.
This package provides support for this font in LATEX. It is licensed under
the LATEX project public license version 1.3c or above, except the fonts
delivered under the OFL version 1.1.
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Saint Michael's College
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Update summary:
Important bug fixes from version 1.5b, plus some user command changes.
Basic package information, as sent by the contributor.
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Location: /macros/latex/contrib/msuthesis
Caption: Class for Michigan State University Master's and PhD theses.
Description: This is a class file for producing dissertations and
theses according to the Michigan State University Graduate School
Guidelines for Electronic Submission of Master’s Theses and
Dissertations (2010).
The class is based on the memoir document class, and thefore
inherits all of the functionality of that class.
Author: Alan Munn
License: lppl1.3
Name: msu-thesis
Version: 1.7
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More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/msu-thesis
(this link may take a day to sync). Our archive service is sponsored
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
oddly, cambridge isn't snowed in, but i'll bet the daemon had to force
himself out of bed in the cold:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: expl3
> Author's name: LaTeX3 Project
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/expl3
> Summary description: Packages supporting LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> This release (SVN 2103)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This intermediate release, focussing mainly on improving l3fp.
> A number of bugs in the module are fixed, and the range of
> functions covered is extended to include exp, ln and powers.
> A bug in the l_if_ee:nn(TF) family of functions is also
> fixed.
wow -- that was quick!
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/expl3.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/expl3
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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: xlop
Version number: 0.23
Author's name: Jean-Côme Charpentier
Summary description: Xtra Large OPerations (process and display operations)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Xlop (eXtra Large OPeration) will typeset arithmetic
problems either in-line or “as in school” (using French
school conventions). So for example, opadd{2}{3} can give
either $2+3=5$ or something similar to: egin{tabular}{r}
2\ +3\ hline 5end{tabular}.
This release fix some bugs and offers an english manual.
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/xlop/
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http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xlop
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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: DoX
Version number: 2.2
Author's name: Didier Verna
Summary description: DoX (extensions to the Doc package) 2.2 is released
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Hello, I'm happy to announce the release of DoX v2.2. DoX is a set of extensions to the
Doc package, for LaTeX2e class and style authors.
New in this release: the ability to create new control-sequence based documentation
items (for instance LaTeX lengths).
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This package is at
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This should be at your local mirror.
Thanks again
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: nirma
Version number: 0.1
Author's name: Ashish Revar
Summary description: Academic Presentation Template
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is the package developed for academic purpose. This includes only style file needed
for to prepare presentations.
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer-contrib/themes/…
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This should be at your local mirror.
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: dvipng
Version number: 1.14
Author's name: Jan-Åke Larsson
Summary description: A DVI-to-PNG converter
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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Release notes for version 1.14 of the dvipng package:
This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained
from TeX
and its relatives.
This release changes raw PostScript processing to avoid the
non-rendering PostScript specials created by hyperref. A
command-line
switch to turn off raw PostScript rendering has been added.
Finally, a
few bugs has been fixed, such as correct decoding of the -T
switch, a
CRLF bug when reading configuration files in Windows, and a
few bugs
associated to subprocesses.
Report any bugs you find, see README for instructions.
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipng
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aha ... the flow has resumed:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: enumitem-zref
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/enumitem-zref
> Summary description: Extended references to items for enumitem package
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> version 1.5
>
> 1) start= resume resume* keys
>
> References are now compatible with the `start=' key of
> enumitem and also the `resume' and `resume*' keys provided
> by enumitem.
>
> 2) Added the [greekctr] package option
>
> The [greek] option is based on engrec.sty while
> the [greekctr] option is based on greekctr.sty
>
> Both uses alphalph.sty from HO to make greek letters wrap
> around the greek alphabet.
>
> Those options are now automatically loaded at begin document
> is engrec.sty and/or greekctr.sty are detected (ie. loaded)
thanks for this upload, too. 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/enumitem-zref.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/enumitem-zref
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team