This has been installed at tug.ctan.org
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: refstyle
Version number: 0.5
Author's name: Danie Els
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/refstyle
Summary description: Advanced formatting of cross references
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The refstyle provides a consistent way of producing
references throughout a project. Enough flexibility is
provided to make local changes to a single reference. The
user can configure his or own setup.
Changes from version 0.3 to 0.4 (Major update):
(1) List of references can now distinguish between two and
more than two items. For example:
equation (1)
equations (1) and (4)
equations (1), (2), and (5)
(2) Option nokeyprefix is added to remove all the prefixes
in the <type>label commands. The user has now the option to
use the standard latex label command everywhere (especialy
for old documents), for example:
label{tab:xxx} and then abref{tab:xxx} with refstyle
(3) Languages added: French, Italian and Portuguese, Brazilian
Changes from version 0.4 to 0.5:
(1) Workaround for active characters such as :;? in the
reference argument (french)
(2) Documentation update
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/refstyle
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/refstyle
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group
see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
The FTP download service at tug.ctan.org is back after an outage of a
couple of days, caused by a security notice issued for the program that
runs the downloads. Thanks to Rainer for the report and help with
fixing the problem.
Ordinary users are not directly affected by this outage and reset.
(Except, those mirror sites that rely on FTP may take a day to sync
their entire holdings to this site and so a user trying to get quite
recent material at a mirror may see a day's delay.)
I'll note that in the reconfiguration I've abandoned anonymous FTP
uploads. Those days are gone.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
This has been installed at tug.ctan.org.
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: 1.3
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/bytefield
Summary description: Create illustrations for network protocol specifications
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 1.3 adds support for e-TeX's larger dimen pool using
code provided by Heiko Oberdiek. When used with the etex
package, bytefield should now be far less likely to abort
LaTeX with a No room for a new dimen error.
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bytefield
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bytefield
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group
see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This has been installed at tug.ctan.org.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: mdputu
Version number: 1.2
Author's name: Boris Veytsman
Location on CTAN: /fonts/mdputu
Summary description: Unslanted Digits in Adobe Utopia Italics
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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The Annals of Mathematics uses italics for theorems.
However, slanted
digits and parentheses look disturbing when surrounded by
(upright)
math. This package provides virtual fonts with italics and
upright
digits and punctuation.
Changes:
Version 1.1 - Changed the location of TFM and VF files
per request by Karl Berry
Version 1.2 - Corrected the bug that lead to wrong size in
italics (thanks to AoM staff for
noticing!)
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/mdputu
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mdputu
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group
see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This has been installed at tug.ctan.org.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: musixtex
Version number: T-114
Author's name: Bob Tennent
Summary description: Sophisticated music typesetting using TeX
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Several small extension packages, including curly.tex,
tuplet.tex, underbracket.sty, and musixcrd.tex now install under
doc/generic/musixtex/addons
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/musixtex
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/musixtex
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group
see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This has been installed at tug.ctan.org.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: teubner
Version number: 3.1
Author's name: Claudio Beccari
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/teubner/
Summary description: Important upgrade of the teubner package
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This important upgrade solves the conflict with the txfontsb
package. Now who uses teubner and selects the TX fonts as
default Latin ones, does not get trapped any more in with
the font description files of the txfontsb package.
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/teubner/
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/teubner
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group
see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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 3.45 2010-11-01 - modified Put for checking coor type (hv,ms)
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/pstricks-add.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please replace all
> files with the ones in the main directory
> /graphics/pstricks/base/
>
> 2.13 2010-11-01
> - new macro and counter for the type of read coordinates
> pstCheckCoorType{#1} sets the macro pst@C@@rType
> % pst@C@@rType = 0 cartesian (x,y)
> % = 1 polar (r;phi)
> % = 2 PS (! x y)
> % = 3 mixed ((x,y)|(x,y))
> % = 4 algebraic (*x f(x))
> % = 5 node (A)
> % = 6 special node ([...]A)
> % = 7 node (>A)
>
> - new optional argument for setflat
> - fix bug with doubled linecap definition
> - fix bug with missing linejoin in psls@solid
>
>
> read the file /base/doc/pst-news10.pdf for more informations
> about this update to the base part of PSTricks or read
> the other Changes files which lists all what's new in
> the other files.
thanks for the upload; i've 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/pstricks.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/base/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon creeps out and says:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: linegoal
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/linegoal
> Summary description: A new ``dimen'' corresponding to the remainder of the line
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> linegoal can be loaded now even if pdfTeX is not used:
>
> linegoal is then equal to linewidth in any case.
>
> linegoal can be used in dvi mode with pdfTeX.
>
> This improves compatibility with other packages
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/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 FTP service for the CTAN main node
dante.ctan.org
is working again, after replacing the ftp server software (proftpd) by another
one (vsftpd).
With this change, FTP uploads on dante.ctan.org are no longer possible.
Uploads should be done via the web interface:
http://upload.ctan.org/
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-func.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please replace the
> files with the ones in the directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/
>
> pst-func is a PSTricks related package for drawing
> special mathematical functions like distributions,
> polynomials, a.s.o.
>
> ..... pst-func.tex
> 0.71 2010-11-03 - allow option dotstyle for psGaussI
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/pst-func.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
A security flaw has been found in the the FTP server program that is
used at the tug.ctan.org node of CTAN, as noted earler by Rainer.
Consequently I shut off this service. I expect that it will be off for
a few days, for lack of time to repair it. I apologize for the
inconvienence.
Individuals who use HTTP would not be immediately affected by this
change.
Jim
A serious bug has been detecetd in proftpd:
http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3521
As a consequence, ftp access to ftp.dante.de a.k.a. dante.ctan.org will be
disabled, effective immediately. http or rsync access to dante.ctan.org are not
affected.
Service will be resumed only after this bug is corrected.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 John Bowman submitted an update to the
asymptote
package.
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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The -P option required by ghostscript 9.00 was added. The
limits command now works correctly with reversed axes. The
asyinclude command of asymptote.sty was improved so that asy
source files do not need to be sent to publishers; the asy
extension is now optional. A mktemp function was
implemented. Further MSWindows installer problems were
addressed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=asymptote
(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, 30 Oct 2010 Leonard Michlmayr submitted the new
textgreek
package.
Summary description: upright greek letters in text
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Use upright greek letters as text symbols, e.g. extbeta.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/textgreek/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=textgreek
(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
the daemon creeps up on me, unawares, again
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: prerex-6.0.4
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Author's email:
> Location on CTAN: graphics
> Summary description: Interactive editor and macro support for prerequisite charts.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This release fixes an initialization bug in some of the prerex.sty macros.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload. i have installed the files and updated the entry
in the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/prerex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/prerex
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
i go out for a sociable cup of coffee with a friend, and the daemon
creeps in, saying:
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.1:
> - table-align-exponent and table-align-uncertainty
> options for additional choices of table formatting
> - copy-complex-root option for moving input complex root
> to output
> - power-font option for controlling whether superscript
> powers are treated as numbers or units
> - scientific-notation option for to use exponent form for
> numbers in all cases
> - table-omit-exponent option for simplifying tables by
> removing exponents entirely
> - round-INT-to-decimal option to convert integers to
> decimals on rounding
> - input-comparators option for numbers greater than, less
> than and so on
> - table-comparator option for reserving space for
> comparators in tables
> - round-minimum option to set a floor for rounding
> numbers downward
(whew!)
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/
the catalogue entry will be updated on the web, overnight tonight ...
but there's not much change to see.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
Update summary:
Changes:
Version 1.1: Added environments namedprop and namedprop* for special
named propositions.
Version 1.1a: Minor documentation updates.
Version 1.2: New table of contents formatting.
Version 1.3: Changed the typesetting of proofs that end by a math
display. This involves interface changes.
Changed table of contents formatting (again).
Version 1.4: Fixed the bug inherited from amsart: now appendices
do not cause large indentations in table of contents
Version 1.5: Added compatibility with babel
Version 1.6: Bibliography style now understands fjournal field.
Documentation update
Basic package information, as sent by the contributor.
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Location: /macros/latex/contrib/ijmart
Caption: LaTeX Class for the Israel Journal of Mathematics.
Description: The Israel Journal of Mathematics is published by The
Hebrew University Magnes Press. This class provides LaTeX support
for its authors and editors. It strives to achieve the distinct
“look and feel” of the journal, while having the interface similar
to that of the amsart document class. This will help authors
already familiar with amsart to easily submit manuscripts for The
Israel Journal of Mathematics or to put the preprints in arXiv with
minimal changes in the LaTeX source.
Author: Boris Veytsman
License: lppl
Name: ijmart
Version: 1.6
------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ijmart
(this link may take a day to sync). Our archive service is sponsored
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
there i was, innocently buying food for the weekend, and the daemon
said:
> Name of contribution: rmannot
> Author's name: D. P. Story
> Author's email: dpstory(a)uakron.edu
> Location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rmannot/
> Summary description: Package to create rich media annotations for
> version 9 or later
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This update to the rmannot package includes support for cue points and
> for certain third party video players.
>
> The support video players are VideoPlayerPlus.swf and
> VideoPlayerX.swf. Both of these can play multiple videos in the same
> rich media annotation, dynamically change skins and change skin
> colors, as well as several other features.
>
> Demos of these new features are found at the AeB Blog,
> http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/aebblog.html
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/rmannot.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rmannot/
the change to the catalogue entry is hardly worth waiting for, but will
appear on the web sometime overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
i was out of the office yesterday, longer than i expected (train failure
that made national news!), and wasn't able to report the following
effusion from the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: musixtex
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Author's email: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
> Location on CTAN: macros
> Summary description: Sophisticated music typesetting using TeX
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The musixflx components have been updated to incorporate several minor
> bug fixes and improvements from TeXLive and teTeX.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository (about 0130 this morning).
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/musixtex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros
since my installation seems to have happened after the catalogue
regeneration run, the (minutely) updated catalogue entry won't appear on
the web until some time overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
ctable
package.
Summary description: Easily typeset tables using key,value options
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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fixed option doinside, which propagated in subsequent ctable
calls
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ctable
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ctable
(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 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 Palle Jørgensen submitted an update to the
tfrupee
package.
Summary description: A font offering the new (Indian) Rupee symbol.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Correction of typo in tfrupee.map
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/tfrupee
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tfrupee
(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 comes up with:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: adobemapping
> Author's name: Karl Berry
> Author's email: karl(a)freefriends.org
> Location on CTAN: support/adobemapping
> Summary description: Adobe cmap and pdfmapping files
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Propagating an update to the CMap and PDFmapping tables made by Adobe
> a few days ago.
>
> The original files are now kept on sourceforge, in the subprojects
> http://sourceforge.net/adobe/cmap and
> http://sourceforge.net/adobe/mapping-for-pdf.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and (minimally)
updated the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/adobemapping.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/adobemapping/
there is no point in waiting for the catalogue on the web to change,
overnight...
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: pgf
Version number: 2.10
Author's name: Christian Feuersänger
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/base
Summary description: Create PostScript and PDF graphics in TeX.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
PGF 2.10 contains a huge bulk of additional libraries,
improved node placement, lots of bug fixes and smaller
improvements.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/base
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgf
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group
see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
the daemon wakes me up from rest after a hard day's work:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: Interfaces
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/interfaces
> Summary description: Set parameters for other packages, conveniently.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Revision 1.2 2010/10/27
>
> First annoucement didn't came on comp.text.tex
> Is it possible to announce now ?
users who don't subscribe to the mailing list may read the original
announcement at
https://lists.dante.de/pipermail/ctan-ann/2010-October/004852.html
for this revision:
> interfaces-hypbmsec now works properly
> interfaces-fancyhdr: bug fixed while setting offsets
> Conversion from points to mu (1em/18): bug fixed (catcodes)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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/interfaces.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/interfaces/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team