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: geometry
Version number: 5.6
Author's name: Hideo Umeki
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/geometry
Summary description: Flexible and complete interface to document dimensions
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Release 5.6
* Package 'ifxetex' is loaded for robuster detection of XeTeX.
* Fixed a bug where 'pass' option was not reset in
ewgeometry.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/geometry
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update to the
overpic
package.
Summary description: Package for overwriting graphics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Reset the graphics parameter after including the main graphic.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/overpic/
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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: mdputu
Version number: 1.0
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.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/mdputu
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karl berry writes:
> We've gone ahead with the network release of TeX Live 2010. It is now
> or will be soon available from CTAN sites
> (http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive). As with last year, we
> recommend doing a network install in one way or another instead of
> downloading the large (2gb) ISO -- http://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html.
>
> Package updates will start propagating in another day or two.
>
> If anyone notices stale or missing information on the TL web pages, or
> problems with the release, please report as usual.
>
> MacTeX 2010 has also been released and is available from CTAN. Its web
> pages will be updated soon.
>
> The TeX Collection DVD will be released as soon as possible; hopefully,
> it will go out in October. Issues with it (unrelated to TL) made me
> decide it was not desirable to delay the TL release any longer.
i believe ctan and its mirrors have more or less settled down with the
new release.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 osef Kleber submitted additional packages for the
softmakerfreefont
package:
softmaker-broadway
softmaker-egyptiennestd
softmaker-grenoble
softmaker-heliumtwo
softmaker-inverserif
softmaker-marseille
softmaker-nevada
softmaker-newcastle
softmaker-quadrat
softmaker-velo
softmaker-veracruz
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/softmakerfreefont/softmakerfreefont
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=softmakerfreefont
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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
Philipp Lehman wrote:
> I've uploaded etoolbox.tar.gz and etoolbox.tds.zip to the incoming
> directory of the UK node. This is an update for
> macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox and install/macros/latex/contrib,
> respectively. Please purge the old files, install the new ones, and
> announce the upload. Thank you very much.
>
> ABOUT
>
> The etoolbox package is a toolbox of programming facilities geared
> primarily towards LaTeX class and package authors. It provides LaTeX
> frontends to some of the new primitives provided by e-TeX as well as
> some generic tools which are not related to e-TeX but match the
> profile of this package.
>
> CHANGES
>
> See the manual for a list of changes.
i've installed the update, and made minor changes to the catalogue
repository.
thanks for the upload.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/etooolbox.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
and finally (for his efforts before i switched my computer on, today),
the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: needspace
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/needspace
> Summary description: Insert pagebreak if not enough space
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> On a Sunday during a break from piles of marking, here's a bug fix to
> needspace. It allows better behaviour for
eedspace when followed by
> addvspace, such as inserted by a section-like command.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/needspace.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/needspace
thanks for this one, too; i've installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository. the web version of the catalogue will change
slightly, overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon carried on with:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: ifxetex
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/generic/ifxetex
> Summary description: Am I running under XeTeX?
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bug fix update for ifxetex to ensure that XeTeXrevision isn't accidentally set to
>
elax in the case that XeTeX is not being used. (High time for me to fix this
> behaviour!)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ifxetex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/ifxetex
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository. the catalogue entry on the web will change, a
bit, overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
been quiet for a bit, that daemon, but today it started by saying:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xetexref
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Author's email: wspr81(a)gmail.com
> Location on CTAN: info/xetexref
> Summary description: Reference documentation for XeTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This update on top of TL2010 brings the addition of some missing primitives and
> expansion of one section in particular that was marked This description is
> incomplete.
>
> Many thanks to Heiko Oberdiek, Paul Isambert, and William Adams for their help
> for these updates.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xetexref.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/xetexref
i've installed the update and made the necessary change to the catalogue
repository. (the web catalogue will change slightly, overnight.)
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 at 15:50 +0200, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted the new
package
poltawski
to CTAN, replacing the old antp package.
Location on CTAN: fonts/poltawski
> Package: Antykwa Poltawskiego fonts
> Version: 1.10
> Date: Sep 9 2010
> Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki
> License: GUST Font License
> Location on CTAN: fonts/poltawski
>
> Maintenance status maintained. The Current Maintainer
> of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki.
>
> The package contains the Antykwa Po{l}tawskiego family of fonts in the
> PostScript Type 1 and OpenType formats.
> The original font was designed in the twenties of the XX century by
> the Polish typographer Adam Po{l}tawski (1881-1952).
>
> Following the route set out by the Latin Modern and TeX Gyre projects
> (http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry), the Antykwa Poltawskiego
> digitisation project aims at providing a rich collection of
> diacritical characters in the attempt to cover as many Latin-based
> scripts as possible. To our knowledge, the repertoire of characters
> covers all European languages as well as some other Latin-based
> alphabets such as Vietnamese and Navajo; at the request of users,
> recent extensions (following the enhancement of the Latin Modern
> collection) provide glyphs sufficient for typesetting of romanized
> transliterations of Arabic and Sanskrit scripts.
>
> The Antykwa Poltawskiego family consists of 4 weights (light,
> normal, medium, bold), each having upright and italic forms and one
> of 5 design sizes: 6, 8, 10, 12 and 17pt (in the OTF lingo: extended,
> semiextended, normal, semicondensed, and condensed, respectively).
> Altogether, the collection comprises 40 font files,
> containing the same repertoire of 1126 characters.
>
> The preliminary version of Antykwa Poltawskiego (antp package)
> released in 2000 becomes obsolete.
>
> ---------
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This should be at your local mirror.
im Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
........................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: suftesi
Version number: 0.3
Author's name: Ivan Valbusa
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/
Summary description: Document class for typesetting theses, especially in the Humanities
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/suftesi
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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: ctex
Version number: 0.99b
Author's name: Jiang Jiang
Location on CTAN: /language/chinese/ctex
Summary description: LaTeX classes and packages for Chinese typesetting.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Fix compatibility issues with expl3.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/chinese/ctex
. More information is at
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-plot.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please
> delete all files in the directory
>
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-plot/
>
> and put the new ones in there.
>
> ----- pst-plot.tex
> 1.20 2010-09-09 - new optional arguments for setting a variable
> linewidth and variable color for plotstyle curve
>
> read pst-news10.pdf of the base package pstricks for more
> informations.
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-plot.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-plot/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pstricks-base.tgz to the uk CTAN node. Please
> replace all files with the ones in the main directory
>
> /graphics/pstricks/base/
>
> 2.11 2010-09-09 - new optional arguments for setting a variable
> linewidth and variable color
> - new optional argument noCurrentPoint, which is
> preset to false.
>
>
> Read the documentation pst-news10.pdf for more
> informations.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new 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/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
This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
Update summary:
........................................................................
v2.02 - improves compatibility with package caption (thanks to Benedikt
Leinss for the bug-report)
- fixes the mstyle command to work with chapters (thanks to
Benedikt Leinss for the bug-report)
- fixes incorrect spacing after certain environments (thanks to Benedikt
Leinss for the bug-report)
........................................................................
Basic package information, as sent by the contributor.
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Package name: hypdvips
Caption: Hyperref extensions for use with dvips
Description: The hypdvips package is a collection of add-ons and fixes
for problems when using hyperref with dvips. It adds support for
breaking links, hyperlinked tablenotes, file attachments,
embedded documents and different types of GoTo-links. The
cooperation of hyperref with cleveref is improved, which in
addition allows an enhanced back-referencing system.
Location: /macros/latex/contrib/hypdvips
Author: Raimund Niedrist
Version: 2.01
License: lppl1.3
------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hypdvips
(the link may take a day to sync). Our archive service is sponsored
by 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: latex2e-help-texinfo
Version number: 2010/09/06
Author's name: Karl Berry
Location on CTAN: /info/latex2e-help-texinfo
Summary description: spanish translation of unofficial latex2e refman
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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The unofficial LaTeX2e reference manual
(http://home.gna.org/latexrefman) now has a Spanish
translation, thanks to Nacho Pacheco.
Help with extending the manual to cover more control
sequences, improvements to existing descriptions, further
translations, ..., is always very welcome.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latex2e-help-texinfo
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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: biblatex-chicago
Version number: 0.9.5a
Author's name: David Fussner
Summary description: Biblatex style files for both Chicago specifications
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This release fixes a potentially show-stopping mistake in
biblatex-chicago.sty. Please upgrade, particularly if you
are having issues with the previous (0.9.5) release.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate…
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-chicago
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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 .
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 Josef Kleber submitted the
softmaker-bonita
package to CTAN.
Summary description: LaTeX support files for Softmaker Bonita
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package offers LaTeX support files for the
Softmaker Bonita font (regular) available at
http://www.freefont.de in September 2010.
License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/softmakerfreefont/bonita
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=softmaker-bonita
(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
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: attachfile
Version number: 1.5
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/attachfile
Summary description: Attach arbitrary files to a PDF document
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Starting with PDF 1.3 (Adobe Acrobat 4.0), PDF files can contain file
attachments -- arbitrary files that a reader can extract, just like
attachments to an e-mail message. The attachfile package brings this
functionality to pdfLaTeX and provides some additional features not
available in Acrobat, such as the ability to use arbitrary LaTeX code
for the file icon -- including things like includegraphics, tabular,
and math. Settings can be made either globally or on a per-
attachment basis. attachfile makes it easy to attach files and customize their
appearance in the enclosing document.
Version 1.5 of attachfile is a minor update that enables macro
expansion in the attachment filename. For example, an author can
now use jobname in the name of a file to attach.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/attachfile
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This should be at your local mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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Contribution: suftesi
Version number: 0.1
Author's name: Ivan Valbusa
Summary description: Document class for typesetting thesis, especially in the Humanities
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A document class for typesetting thesis, especially in the Humanities
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/suftesi
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/suftesi
(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 .
Thank you, Scott.
Regards,
Jim
..........................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: attachfile
Version number: 1.5
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Author's email: scott+ctan(a)pakin.org
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/attachfile
Summary description: Attach arbitrary files to a PDF document
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Starting with PDF 1.3 (Adobe Acrobat 4.0), PDF files can contain file
attachments -- arbitrary files that a reader can extract, just like
attachments to an e-mail message. The attachfile package brings this
functionality to pdfLaTeX and provides some additional features not
available in Acrobat, such as the ability to use arbitrary LaTeX code
for the file icon -- including things like includegraphics, tabular,
and math. Settings can be made either globally or on a per-
attachment
basis. attachfile makes it easy to attach files and customize their
appearance in the enclosing document.
Version 1.5 of attachfile is a minor update that enables macro
expansion in the attachment filename. For example, an author can
now
use jobname in the name of a file to attach.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/attachfile
(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 .
--
Please reply to the list ctan (at) dante.de. Please do not send
materials; instead use the upload form.
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: cleveref
Version number: 0.17.4
Author's name: Toby Cubitt
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/
Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This release fixes a serious bug introduced in version
0.17.3, affecting hyperref support. With hyperref loaded, it
would sometimes produce incorrect cross-reference names,
without any warning in the log or output.
Any users of that short-lived version should upgrade
immediately (or downgrade to an earlier version; old
versions are always available from
www.dr-qubit.org/latex.php). Apologies to anyone unlucky
enough to have downloaded that version. This one slipped
through the net.
To make some amends for this mess, this version includes
improved support for the alisacnt package as a bonus.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cleveref
(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 .
This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Micahel's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: biblatex-chicago
Version number: 0.9.5
Author's name: David Fussner
Summary description: Biblatex style files for both Chicago specifications
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the package formerly known as
biblatex-chicago-notes-df. This version now, for the first
time, implements the Chicago author-date style as well as
the notes & bibliography style, and is for use only with
version 0.9c (or later) of biblatex. Returning users should
consult the RELEASE file for any changes you may need to
make to your .bib files, as the release also contains some
improvements to the notes & bibliography style. The docs in
biblatex-chicago.pdf contain all the details on both
specifications.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate…
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-chicago
(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 .
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-am.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please
> delete all files in the directory
>
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-am/
>
> and put the new ones in there.
>
> The package pst-am allows the modulation and demodulation
> of radio waves. The output can be drawn in the same ways as an
> oscilloscope will shown such curves. For more information read
> the documentation
>
> pst-am.sty --------
> v. 1.02 2010-08-04 use par only whith option values
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/pst-am.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-am/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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.
as always, 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/biblatex-chicago.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblat…
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team