and *again*! the daemon's busy tonight.
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: answers
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/answers
> Summary description: Setting questions (or exercises) and answers.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.13:
> - Produce proper cross-references with hyperref
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and updated the
catalogue repository/
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/answers.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/answers
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
that old daemon's at it again:
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: achemso
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso
> Summary description: Support for submissions to American Chemical Society journals
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v3.5c:
> - Fix an issue with mciteSubRef
> - Remove sections from Org. Lett. drafts
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and updated the
catalogue entry (very lightly).
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/achemso.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/achemso
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded math-E.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please save all
> files in the directory
>
> /info/examples/Math-E/
>
> The zip contains all examples from the english book
> Typesetting Mathematics with LaTeX
>
> The examples are stand alone documents and can be
> run with LaTeX or pdflatex. For more information
> read the README file.
thanks for the upload. i have installed the files and made an entry in
the catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/math-e.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/examples/Math-E/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 Marcel Jira submitted the new package
progessbar
to CTAN.
Summary description: Visualize shares of total amounts in the form of a (progress-)bar
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Description
===========
This package allows you to easily visualize shares of total
amounts in the form of a bar. So basically you can convert
any number between 0 and 1 to a progressbar using the
command progressbar{<number>}. Also a lot of customizations
are possible, allowing you to create an unique progressbar
on your own.
License
=======
Copyright 2010 Marcel Jira
This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either
version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later
version. The latest version of this license is in
http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3c or
later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version
2005/12/01 or later.
This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'.
The Current Maintainer of this work is Marcel Jira.
This work consists of the files progressbar.sty and
progressbar.tex.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/progressbar/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=progressbar
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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, 10 Oct 2010 Boris Oriet submitted an update to the
chletter
package.
Summary description: A class for typesetting letters to Swiss rules.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The chletter document class enables composition of letters fitting into Swiss C5 & C6/5
windowed envelopes. This class is compatible with the standard letter class. It is not
limited to letters and may be used as a generic document class.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/chletter/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=chletter
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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 wrote, yesterday:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: The yt4pdf package
> Author's name: D. P. Story
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/
> Summary description: Play YouTube videos in a PDF
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The yt4pdf package uses the rmannot package to embed a special SWF
> file to play the YouTube videos. There is a complete set of buttons
> that come with the package to control the video: play, pause, stop
> loading, rewind, load a video by its YouTube video ID, and a button to
> view a video on the YouTube web site. Adobe Acrobat 9 or later is
> required to author a document; only Adobe Reader 9 is need to view the
> created yt4pdf document.
thanks for the upload. i have installed the files and created a
catalogue entry in the repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/yt4pdf.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/yt4pdf/
the catalogue entry won't appear on the web until some time tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
........................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: BodeGraph with Tikz
Version number: 1.4
Author's name: Papanicola Robert
Summary description: This package allows you to draw the Bode plots, Nyquist, and Black
using Gnuplot and Tikz.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ce package permet de tracer les diagrammes de Bode, Black et Nyquist à l’aide de
Gnuplot et Tikz. Les fonctions de transfert élémentaires et les correcteurs courants
sont préprogrammés pour être utilisés dans les fonctions de tracé.
This package allows you to draw the Bode plots, Nyquist, and Black using Gnuplot
and Tikz. Elementary Functions Transfer and basics correctors are preprogrammed
to be used.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/bodegraph
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bodegraph
(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 also says:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xpackages
> Author's name: The LaTeX Project
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xpackages
> Summary description: High-level LaTeX3 concepts
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> This release (SVN 2072)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This snapshot keeps xpackages in sync with expl3.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload. i have installed the files and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xpackages.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xpackages
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon is
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: expl3
> Author's name: The LaTeX Project
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/expl3/
> Summary description: Low-level LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> This release (SVN 2072)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> In this release, some historical issues have been addressed.
> The intexpr_... functions have all be been renamed to
> int_..., following the earlier removal of the l3num module.
> This brings the INT functions into line with those for
> dimensions and skips. The old names are still provided at
> present. This is a transitional arrangement: other packages
> should be updated to use the new names as soon as possible.
>
> The display of messages is also being re-examined: at this
> stage the changes are not complete although hopefully
> improvements have already been made.
>
> Documentation improvements are ongoing. In this snapshot the
> modules l3int and l3clist have updated documentation which is
> more formal than that produced earlier. Other modules will be
> updated in forthcoming snapshots.
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/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, slightly, overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
ctan-upload(a)cl.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: chextras
> Author's name: Boris Oriet
> Location on CTAN:
> Summary description: A companion package for the Swiss typesetter.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The chextras package simplifies the preparation of Swiss documents and letters
> by setting up linguistic and common packages. While linked to the chletter
> document class, it is not tied to it and may be used as a general purpose
> package.
i have installed the files, and committed a catalogue entry for it to
the repository. thanks for the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/chextras.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chextras/
The catalogue entry will not appear until some time tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon writes, before i had even switched my computer on...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: chletter
> Author's name: Boris Oriet
> Location on CTAN:
> Summary description: A class for typesetting letters to Swiss rules.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The chletter document class enables composition of letters fitting into Swiss C5
> & C6/5 windowed envelopes. This class is compatible with the standard letter
> class. It is not limited to letters and may be used as a generic document class.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the
catalogue repository. users should note that the class makes use of the
chextras package (announcement of which in a small number of minutes).
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/chletter.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chletter/
the web catalogue entry will be updated some time tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
inputtrc
package.
Summary description: trace which file loads which
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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added optional message on leaving inputted files
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/inputtrc/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=inputtrc
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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
This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
.....................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: inputtrc
Version number: 0.1
Author's name: Uwe Lück
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/inputtrc/
Summary description: tracing which file loads which
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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'inputtrc.sty' produces screen/log messages
`<current> INPUTTING <next>' on LaTeX input commands,
<current> and <next> being file names.
The message indents reflect the input nesting level.
This can be turned on and off, and the indent unit
can be chosen.
The implementation somewhat resembles packages
'FiNK' and 'inputfile'.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/inputtrc/
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/inputtrc
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
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Philipp Lehman wrote:
> I've uploaded biblatex.tar.gz and biblatex.tds.zip to the incoming
> directory of the UK node. This is an update for
> macros/latex/exptl/biblatex. Please purge the old files, install the
> new ones, and announce the upload as usual. Thank you very much.
>
> RELEASE NOTES
>
> See the file RELEASE for release notes.
>
> CHANGES
>
> See the changelog in biblatex.pdf.
thanks you for the update; 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/exptl/biblatex/
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
....................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: cals
Version number: 2.0.1
Author's name: Oleg Parashchenko
Summary description: multipage tables with headers, footers, cell spanning and decorations
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The cals package is a set of macros to typeset multipage
tables with repeatable headers and footers, with cells
spanned over rows and columns. Decorations are supported:
padding, background color, width of separation rules. The
code is compatible with multicols and pdfsync.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cals
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cals
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
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see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
.......................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pmx
Version number: 2.5.21
Author's name: Bob Tennent
Location on CTAN: /support/pmx
Summary description: Preprocessor for music typesetting
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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pmx is a preprocessor for MusiXTeX. It builds the TeX input
file based on an input file in a much simpler language,
making most of the layout decisions by itself. An auxilliary
program makes single-player parts from a multi-player score.
pmx can make a MIDI file of your score.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pmx
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pmx
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I've uploaded powerdot.tgz to the uk ctan node.
> please delete all files in /macros/contrib/powerdot
> and put the new ones in there.
>
> This new version 1.4a has the following changes:
>
> (2005/12/10)
> - Added cf option
> - Moved lf and rf keys from global to glslide family
> - Moved footers out of slide box in handout mode
> - Solved some small bugs
> - Updated styles
> (2010/10/07)
> - fixed bug with geometry 5.x (hv)
>
> Changes were made by permission of the authors.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the
package catalogue entry.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/powerdot.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update to the
eso-pic
package.
Summary description: eso-pic adds one or more user commands (e.g. background pictures) to LaTeX's shipout.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Correction of a bug related to the memoir class.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id= eso-pic
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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
judging by the time-stame the daemon managed this as i stumbled upstairs
to bed...
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: adforn
> Author's name: Clea F. Rees
> Location on CTAN: fonts/adforn
> Summary description: OrnementsADF with TeX/LaTeX support
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The only difference between this version and the previous one is
> uOrnementsADF.fd has been renamed as uornementsadf.fd.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload. i've installed the new version, which should
work on caseful file systems and when the files are retrieved via ls-R
indexes. an interesting experience.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/adforn.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/adforn/
the minor change to the catalogue won't appear on the web until some
time tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Dirk Krause submitted an update to the
dktools
package.
Summary description: Tools and libraries by Dirk Krause.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Changes in the update probably relevant for LaTeX users:
- X-spline handling in fig2vect changed.
- New Perl module DKrause::Diagram to create diagrams
following DIN 461 standard. The output is a *.pgf file which
can be used with the pgf package.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/dktools
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dktools
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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
Peter Wilson wrote:
> I have just uploaded cutwin.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please install
> this under macros/latex/contrib.
>
> The distribution is under the LPPL
>
> From the README:
>
> The cutwin package enables you to create a window in a
> paragraph. Facilities are provided to assist in putting text or a logo
> into the space cutout.
thanks for the upload -- i've installed the files and made an entry for
it, in the catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/cutwin.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cutwin/
The catalogue entry will not appear until some time tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
.....................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: tex-overview
Version number: 0.1
Author's name: Arno L Trautmann
Summary description: overview of the development of TeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This document gives an overview of the development of TeX,
makro packages and related programs.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/tex-overview
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tex-overview
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-math.tgz to the uk mirror. Please replace the
> files with the ones in the directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-math/
>
>
> The PostScript function vasicek moved into the
> package pst-func and is now available as psVasicek.
> For more information read the package documentation
> of pst-func.
>
> This version of pst-math is 0.61.
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/pst-math.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-math/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
>
> thanks
> Herbert
>
>
>
>
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-func.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please
> replace all 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.
>
> This update has a new macro psVasicek
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasicek_model) for
> describing the evolution of interest rates
>
> pst-func.tex --------
> 0.70 2010-10-02 - added psVasicek with two possible parameters
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/pst-func graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team