This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Asymptote
Version number: 1.95
Author's name: John Bowman
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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The PRC driver has been overhauled to support model tree
groups, lossy compression, efficient representations of
elementary geometrical objects, and specialized rendering
options. More efficient OpenGL thick tubes were implemented;
the capping of 3D curves was improved. The SIGQUIT signal
was replaced by SIGTERM. Under MSWindows, the 384MB Cygwin
memory limit is now automatically disabled by the Asymptote
installer. Inferred variable types were added and operator
symbols are now pretranslated.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/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 .
the daemon's grumbling about not being allowed a lie=in on a sunday
morning, and says:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: chemstyle
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Author's email: joseph.wright(a)morningstar2.co.uk
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle
> Summary description: Schemes and style for chemistry
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.0i:
> - Update to match siunitx v2
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/chemstyle.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle
the catalogue entry will change overnight tonight. i wouldn't recommend
waiting up for the event.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon's had a quiet day, and then something nice turns up:
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.1
> Small corrections onto the first release !
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i've installed the new version, and updated 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/linegoal.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/linegoal
the updated catalogue entry won't appear until some time in the night (i
have nocturnal daemons as well...).
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk CTAN node. Please replace
> the files with the ones in the main directory
> /graphics/pstricks/base/
>
> /generic/
> pstricks.tex --------
> 2.07 2010-05-24 - fix bug with uput and node setting (ms)
> 2010-04-27 - fix bug with trailing space in pst@isnum
> 2010-04-26 - fix bug with missing psk@rot for Ellipse
> 2010-04-24 - take psk@rot into account for psellipse (hv)
> - new version of pst@divide (ms)
>
> /latex/
> pstricks.sty --------
> 0.44 2010-04-24 - change version number of pstricks.pro
> 2010-03-20 - rename pst@tempa to pat@sty@tempa to prevent
> problems with pst-fill
>
> /dvips/
> pstricks.pro --------
> 1.07 2010-04-30 - take psk@rot into account for psellipse
> - new helper function concatstring
>
> /doc/
> pst-doc.cls --------
> 2010-05-15 - extensions to pst-doc.cls v 0.15
thanks for the upload. i've 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/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 within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Xy-pic
Version number: 3.8
Author's name: Kristoffer Rose
Location on CTAN: /macros/generic/diagrams/xypic/
Summary description: Xy-pic is a package for typesetting diagrams
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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New release of Xy-pic after ten years - now includes PDF generation in
addition to several improvements!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/diagrams/xypic/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xy-pic
(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 .
the daemon perks up with the appearance of the following (which he had
previously imagined to be a myth concocted by people on the net):
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: unicode-math
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/unicode-math
> Summary description: Unicode math support for XeTeX and LuaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Well, I guess it's now or never. With an archive of emails about the
> thing going back to 2006, I think it's finally time to release this
> package. (Sorry about the hold-up, really.)
>
> This is the initial release of the unicode-math package for inclusion
> in TeX Live 2010. It is designed to typeset mathematics with unicode
> input and using OpenType math fonts. (There is very very little
> compatibility with older maths packages.) XeTeX support is fully
> tested but LuaTeX not quite so much. (At least the example file
> runs...)
>
> You can typeset with the STIX fonts with the present version of the
> package, but there is no support yet for its extra alphabets in the
> Unicode `private use area'. I hope to add support for them soon.
>
> Thanks to all the people who've provided valuable feedback over the
> years, and especially to Barbara Beeton for laying the foundations
> with her work with the STIX fonts.
>
> Good luck; I hope it works. Let me know if it doesn't. Finally, this
> package is by no means complete (it's called the initial release for
> a reason). Your feedback and suggestions now are greatly
> appreciated. Anyone coming along to the TUG 2010 conference will have
> the opportunity to hear me speak about it in a couple of weeks. (But
> will I be able to muster up a full 30 minutes? Actually, yeah, I
> probably will.)
>
> Time for a beer.
have a good one!
i have installed the package and created an entry in the catalogue
repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/unicode-math.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/unicode-math
though, of course, 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 within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
................................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: savetrees
Version number: 1.3
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/savetrees
Summary description: Pack as much as possible onto each page of a LaTeX document.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The goal of the savetrees package is to pack as much text as possible
onto each page of a LaTeX document. Admittedly, this makes the
document far less attractive. Nevertheless, savetrees is a simple way
to save paper when printing draft copies of a document. It can also
be useful when trying to meet a tight page-length requirement for a
conference or journal submission.
Version 1.3 of savetrees adds support for pdfTeX's font-expansion
mechanism via the microtype package. Documents built with pdflatex
should therefore shrink even more than with previous versions of
savetrees.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/savetrees
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/savetrees
(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 within a day 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: hepthesis
Version number: 1.4.3
Author's name: Andy Buckley
Summary description: A class for academic reports, especially PhD theses.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Hepthesis is a LaTeX class for typesetting large academic
reports, in particular PhD theses. It was originally
developed for typesetting the author’s high-energy physics
PhD thesis and includes some features specifically tailored
to such an application. In particular, hepthesis offers:
* Attractive semantic environments for various rubric sections;
* Extensive options for draft production, screen viewing
and binding-ready output;
* Helpful extensions of existing environments, including
equation and tabular; and
* Support for quotations at the start of the thesis and
each chapter.
The class is based on scrbook, from the KOMA-Script
(koma-script) bundle.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hepthesis
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hepthesis
(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 .
and again, up comes that daemon again:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xltxtra
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra
> Summary description: Extras for XeLaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Remove all the features that have been incorporated into fontspec v2.
> No user-level changes.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for this one, too. 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/xltxtra.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra
the catalogue entry (which has actually changed a bit) won't appear on
the web until after i've retired to bed tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
that daemon pops up at the most inconvenient times. while i was working
hard on my day job, it said:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: fontspec v2.0b2
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fontspec
> Summary description: Font loading in XeTeX and LuaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Second beta release of fontspec v2, which supports LuaTeX.
>
> Minor changes since the previous release:
> - No longer need to run mkluatexfontdb manually;
> update documentation to reflect this
> - Fix a bug with automatic font scaling in LuaTeX
> - Two new XeTeX features: AutoFakeBold and AutoFakeSlant
> for generating poor man's bold and poor man's oblique
> shapes for a family (these are extensions of FakeBold/FakeSlant)
> - An internal programmer's interface command for creating
> new LaTeX font families.
> - Minor internal and documentation changes.
> - For XeTeX: many functions of xltxtra are now incorporated
> into fontspec.
> - The makefile can now automatically install fontspec without
> needing the path to your texmfhome.
>
> (Note we no longer have a .ins file but Manuel assures me that's
> okay. You can extract everything from the dtx using the Makefile
> or by running `tex fontspec.dtx`.)
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/fontspec.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec
though the catalogue entry won't change (in so far as it changes at all)
until some time while i sleep tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Philipp Lehman wrote:
> I've uploaded 'csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK
> node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. There's
> also a csquotes.tds.zip file. Please delete the old files, install the
> new ones, and announce the upload.
> Thank you very much.
>
> ABOUT
>
> The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and
> display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging
> from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of
> formal quotations.
>
> RELEASE NOTES
>
> See the file RELEASE for release notes. Note that this release
> includes some changes which are not backwards compatible. However,
> there is a new package option which emulates older versions of the
> package to ease the transition. The release notes have all the
> details.
>
> CHANGES
>
> See the changelog in the manual for a verbose list of changes.
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/csquotes.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
softmaker-freefont
package.
Summary description: Support files for SoftMaker free fonts available at www.freefont.de
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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In June 2009 www.freefont.de offered a beautiful handwriting
font for free download: The Softmaker Stone Handwriting.
As handwriting fonts are a quite limited resource in the
LaTeX world, i decided to create support files for this
beautiful font. Therefore, Stone Handwriting will be the
starting point for the softmaker-freefont bundle.
Other fonts will be included in future.
Supported fonts at the moment:
Artistic, Baskerville-Nova (regular + bold + italic
+ bold italic), Canossa (regular + bold + light), Congress
(regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Helium
(regular + bold), Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold),
Jugendstil, Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting,
Sunset (regular + bold)
License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves)
New in v1.12:
- added support for the font Softmaker Helium
(regular + bold + faked slanted + faked small caps)
Attention: The font is not included! This font is font
of the month (June 2010) and can be downloaded for free
(at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de
Later you can buy it from Softmaker
- renamed font families (5xx -> 6xx)
to avoid naming conflict with LaTeX support for
Softmaker FontSite 500 CD
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/softmaker-freefont/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=softmaker-freefont
(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 reach your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
.........................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: newcommand
Version number: 2.0
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /support/newcommand
Summary description: Easily create macros utilizing sophisticated argument processing
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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LaTeX's
ewcommand is fairly limited in the way it processes optional
arguments, but the TeX alternative, a batch of defs and futurelets,
can be overwhelming to the casual LaTeX user. newcommand.py is a
Python program that automatically generates LaTeX macro definitions
for macros that require more powerful argument processing than
ewcommand can handle. newcommand.py is intended for LaTeX advanced
beginners (i.e., those who know how to use
ewcommand but not
internal LaTeX2e commands such as @ifnextchar) and for more advanced
users who want to save some typing when defining complex macros.
With newcommand.py, the user specifies a template for a macro's
arguments. newcommand.py then custom-generates a macro definition
according to the user's specifications and includes a user-friendly
Put code here comment to indicate where the macro's main code should
appear. newcommand.py supports arbitrary interleavings of required
and optional arguments, starred macros, mandatory literal text, macros
with more than nine arguments, optional arguments delimited by
parentheses instead of square brackets, and optional arguments whose
value defaults to the value given for a prior argument. The generated
macros can easily be pasted into a LaTeX document and edited as
desired.
This version (2.0) represents a major rewrite of newcommand.py. New
features include improved code generation, support for starred macros,
and support for more than nine macro arguments.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/newcommand
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/newcommand
(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 .
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Daniel Becker submitted an update to the
epspdfconversion
package to CTAN.
Summary description: On-the-fly conversion of EPS to PDF
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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epspdfconversion.sty facilitates the use of the epspdf tools (on CTAN in
pub/tex/support) from within PDFLaTeX. EPS graphic files are converted
on the fly. It is similar to and based on the epstopdf package and
allows to pass several options such as grayscale, prepress, pdfversion
etc. to the epspdf conversion-command. Can also be used to trigger a
conversion of PDF- and PS-files.
New in version 0.61:
* new options pdftopdf and pstopdf. Uses epspdf to do pdf-to-pdf and
ps-to-pdf conversions. Allows grayscaling, calculation of bounding boxes
etc for pdf's that already exist an for .ps-files. Disabled by default.
* bugfix for the outdir-option (converted files in subdirectories are
again saved in those subdirectories) (Thanks to Stefan Pofahl for the
feedback.)
* small improvement of the documentation (on the windows
epspdf.bat file, on epstopdf's option 'outdir')
* now uses epstopdf's epstopdfDeclareGraphicsRule
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/epspdfconversion/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=epspdfconversion
(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 Tue, 1 Jun 2010 josef Kleber submitted an update to the
pdfcomment
package.
Summary description: A user-friendly interface to PDF annotations
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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For a long time pdflatex has offered the command pdfannot
for inserting
arbitrary PDF annotations. However, the command is presented in
a form where additional knowledge of the definition of the
PDF format is
indispensable. This package is an answer to the – occasional
– questions
in newsgroups, about how one could use the comment function
of Adobe
Reader. At least for the writer of LaTeX code, the package
offers a
convenient and user-friendly means of using pdfannot to
provide comments
in PDF files. Since version v1.1, pdfcomment.sty also supports:
LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf, LaTeX -> dvipdfmx and XeLaTeX.
Unfortunately, support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers is
sparse to
nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of
this package is
Adobe Reader.
License: LPPL
Changes in v1.5e:
- Bugfix: empty line, pdfcomment, empty line produced two new
paragraphs even in final mode
reported by: Marc-André Michel
- revision of option declaration (code clean up)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcomment
(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 first upload since the file system meltdown! oh, the daemon's _so_
excited...
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Maintenance release v2.0b:
> - Further improvements to version-1 configuration file
> - Documentation of relationship between version 1 and
> version 2 option names
thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the ctan
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 appear on the web some time during the night
tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should within the day be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
.......................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: moderncv
Version number: 0.9
Author's name: Xavier Danaux
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/moderncv/
Summary description: A modern curriculum vitae class.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
version 0.9 (31 May 2010)
- added support for the itemize, enumerate and description
environments.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/moderncv
(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 within a day be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
.......................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: adobemapping
Version number: 2010/05/31
Author's name: Karl Berry
Location on CTAN: /support/adobemapping
Summary description: Adobe cmap and pdfmapping files
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This is the collection of mapping files from Adobe, now
released under a (permissive) free software license. The
files come from
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cmap/Downloads and
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/pdfmapping/Downloads.
Links to technical documentation, user forums, etc. are
available there. No changes to the files have been made.
Thanks to Ken Lunde at Adobe for making this possible.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/adobemapping
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/adobemapping
(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 within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
.......................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: linguex
Version number: 4.3
Author's name: Wolfgang Sternefeld
Summary description: Several bugfixes.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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1) Mysterious incompatability with beamer class removed by adding a
strut to the definition of label (for mysterious reasons must be done
AtBeginDocument).
2) Inconsistency with font selection removed by replacing the global
m in the print out of grammaticality judgements with the local
extrm comand
3) Suggestions for replacing .66aselineskip by Extopsep (as done in
version 4.0) were damaging. Returned to previous version. (Comment:
I still don't understand the working of this, as the value
.66aselineskip of that dimension is totally arbitrary.)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/linguex
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/linguex
(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 within a day be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
...........................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: cfr-lm
Version number: 1.3 (for lm 2.004)
Author's name: Clea F. Rees
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/cfr-lm
Summary description: Enhanced support for the Latin Modern fonts.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Now with added documentation!
The package supports a number of features of the Latin
Modern fonts which are not easily accessible via the default
(La)TeX support provided in the official distribution. In
particular, the package supports the use of the various
styles of digits available, oblique small-caps and upright
italic shapes, and alternative weights and widths. It also
supports the variable width typewriter, dunhill and
“quotation” fonts. Version 2.004 of the Latin Modern fonts
is supported.
By default, the package uses proportional oldstyle digits
and variable width typewriter but this can be changed by
passing appropriate options to the package. The package also
supports using e.g. different styles of digits within a
document so it is possible to use proportional oldstyle
digits by default, say, but tabular lining digits within a
particular table. See the documenation for details.
The package requires the official Latin Modern distribution,
including its (La)TeX support. The package relies on the
availability of both the fonts themselves and the official
font support files. The package also makes use of the
nfssext-cfr package.
Only the T1 and TS1 encodings are supported for text fonts.
The set up of fonts for mathematics is identical to that
provided by Latin Modern.
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This package is located at
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: luaotfload
Version number: 1.09
Author's name: Khaled Hosny
Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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* the last release didn't even load
* fix passing --destdir to mkluatexfontdb
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that daemon reports, excitedly:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: The STIX fonts
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: fonts/stix
> Summary description: Unicode mathematics fonts, with a complete repertoire of glyphs
> License type: ofl (SIL open font licence)
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> The STIX fonts are a suite of unicode OpenType fonts
> containing a complete set of mathematical glyphs.
> They may be obtained from <http://www.stixfonts.org/>.
>
> This repository is a mirror of their official release,
> organised in the form of the `TeX Directory Structure'
> for inclusion in TeX Live and MiKTeX.
>
> The STIX fonts are released under the SIL Open Font
> License, Version 1.1. They have copyright (c) 2001-2010
> by the STI Pub Companies. Please see the official
> documentation for further information.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/stix.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/stix
the catalogue entry won't appear until some time tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This materials should reach your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: hyph-utf8
Version number: 2010.05.28
Author's name: Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer
Location on CTAN: /language/hyph-utf8/
Summary description: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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Important change:
- NEW: support for advanced LuaTeX & LuaLaTeX loading of patterns
(they are not dumped into format, but loaded on demand)
maintained by Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard and Élie Roux
- NEW: plain version of patterns and exceptions
(one pattern/exception per line)
Other news:
- NEW: Armenian (Sahak Petrosyan) and Lao patterns (Brian Wilson)
- UPDATE: Spanish (Javier Bezos), Galician (Javier A. Múgica)
and Italian patterns (Claudio Beccari)
- new: sources and documentation for Spanish patterns
- new: more documentation
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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: luaotfload
Version number: 1.08
Author's name: Khaled Hosny
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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* fix misc. bugs with system fonts scanning
* parse fontconfig configuration directly, no longer
dependant on 'fc-list'
* now if no font names database is found, luaotfload will
generate it, also
it will force an update of the database if the asked font
can not be
found
* avoid loading non-tfm fonts when the user asks for tfm font
* update the documentation
* blacklist .ttc and LastResort font on mac.
* sync with ConTeXt beta 2010.05.22
* fix attribute handling
* clarify license
* misc. bug fixes
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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: lualibs
Version number: 0.94
Author's name: Khaled Hosny
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Lualibs is a collection of Lua modules useful for general programming.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Sync with ConTeXt, adding new function required by latest
luaotfload.
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