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CTAN has a new package: seuthesis
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

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: seuthesis Version number: 1.3.0 Author's name: Xu, Yuan Summary description: The LaTeX template for thesis of Southeast University License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The LaTeX template for thesis of Southeast University, Nanjing China ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/seuthesis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/seuthesis (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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CTAN has a new package: pgf-umlsd
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .................................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pgf-umlsd Version number: 0.5 Author's name: Xu, Yuan Summary description: Some LaTeX macros for UML Sequence Diagrams. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some LaTeX macros for UML Sequence Diagrams. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgf-umlsd . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgf-umlsd (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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CTAN Update: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

On Tue, 6 Apr 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Baskerville-Nova (regular + bold + italic + bold italic), Canossa (regular + bold + light), Congress (regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold), Jugendstil, Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting, Sunset (regular + bold) License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) New in v1.10: - added support for the font family Canossa (regular + bold + light + faked slanted + faked small caps) Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (April 2010) and can be downloaded for free (at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de Later you can buy it from Softmaker - added smfflseries.sty (provides the commands extl and lseries for light fonts) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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CTAN Update: nicetext
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the nicetext package. Summary description: arseneau.pdf adds description of optional.sty, corrections License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Donald Arseneau's `optional.sty' is added as an example of typesetting LaTeX-quality documentation of third-party .txt-type package documentation (unmodified) with `makedoc' and `niceverb''s auto mode plus (new) a function of `wiki.sty' from the bundle, cf. abstract of `arseneau.pdf' and `arseneau.tex' * correction of `niceverb''s AutoCmdInput * documentation corrections ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nicetext/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=nicetext (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

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CTAN has a new pacakge: newverbs
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

This should appear 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: newverbs Version number: v1.0 Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/newverbs Summary description: New package to define variants of verb incl. short verb versions. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows the definition of verb variants which add TeX code before and after the verbatim text (e.g. quotes or surrounding fbox{}). When used together with the 'shortvrb' package it allows the definition of short verbatim characters which use this variants instead of the normal verb. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/newverbs . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/newverbs (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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CTAN update: texlipse
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

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: TeXlipse Version number: 1.4.0 Author's name: Boris von Loesch Location on CTAN: /support/texlipse Summary description: New version of TeXlipse License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.4.0 of TeXlipse adds check as you type spell checking support for different languages and a parser for aux files to detect labels that in previous version triggers warnings and to better decicide when to run BibTeX. Furthermore it adds a lot of other minor improvements. Many bugs are fixed. More details on the changes: http://sourceforge.net/projects/texlipse/files/texlipse%20plugin/1.4.0/Chan… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/texlipse . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/texlipse (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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CTAN has a new package: iftex
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

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: iftex Version number: 0.1 Author's name: Vafa Khalighi Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/iftex Summary description: Am I running under PDFTeX, or XeTeX, or LuaTeX? License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This very simple package, for both Plain TeX and LaTeX, defines the ifPDFTeX, ifXeTeX, and ifLuaTeX boolean for testing whether PDFTeX, or XeTeX, or LuaTeX is being used for typesetting. Also provides the RequirePDFTeX, RequireXeTeX, and RequireLuaTeX command which throws an error if PDFTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX (respectively) is not the engine in use. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/iftex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/iftex (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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CTAN Update: adrconv
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 Axel Kielhorn submitted an update to the adrconv package. Summary description: BibTeX styles to implement an address database. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release contains the modifications I made to adrconv over the last 4 years. New features: - Removed email.bst and added email, notes, and organization to the fields exported by adrconv.bst. Email and Notes are printed by adrdir.tex. - Renamed birthday.bst to adrbirthday.bst to avoid a collision with directory.cls - Added support for a pdfTeX only workflow, no DVIDVI is needed, supplied files for automatic imposition. - Added a quick and dirty solution to export data from Addressbook.app via a Pages file and some vi commands. The archive contains a Pages file useable with iWork08 or iWork09 and a Vim script, both should go to the doc directory in TL. When the dtx is expanded, adrmontage[12].tex should go to the doc directory as well, these are templates that need modification by the user. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/adrconv . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=adrconv (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

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CTAN Update: biblatex-philosophy
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 Ivan Valbusa submitted an update to the biblatex-philosophy package. License type: lppl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-philoso… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-philosophy (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

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CTAN Update: tabvar
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 Daniel Flipo submitted an update to the tabvar package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release fixes a bug of the arre{} command: the depth of the vertical rule was wrong in some cases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tabvar/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tabvar (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

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CTAN has a new package: luatex
by CTAN Announcements 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

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: LuaTeX Version number: 0.60 Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: /systems/luatex Summary description: LuaTeX beta 0.60.0 release License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This luatex release starts a new chain of stable betas, and will be the version included in TeXLive 2010. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/luatex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luatex (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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New CTAN package: librarian
by CTAN Announcements 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

quoth the daemon on thursday (and i forgot it and deleted the mail, and have only just been reminded and restored the mail from archive): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: librarian > Author's name: Paul Isambert > Location on CTAN: macros/generic/librarian > Summary description: Tools to create bibliographies in TeX. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The librarian package extracts information in bib files, makes it > available in the current document, and sorts lists of entries > according to that information and the user's specifications. Citation > and bibliography styles can then be written directly in TeX, without > any use of BibTeX. Creating references thus depends entirely on the > user's skill in TeX. > > The package works with all formats using plain TeX's basic syntactic > sugar; the distribution includes a third-party file for ConTeXt and a > style file for LaTeX. > > As an example of use, an Author (Year) style is given in a separate > file and explained in the documentation. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i installed the package (on thursday) and created the catalogue entry then too. thanks to Paul for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/librarian.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/librarian/ and of course, given the delay, the catalogue entry is now stable. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: metapost
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

This should be at your local mirror by tomorrow. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Metapost Version number: 1.211 Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/base Summary description: bug fix release License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Metapost 1.211 fixes a list of bugs found in the 1.20X release series, and is the version that will appear on TeXLive 2010. Detailed descriptions of the bugs and their fixes can be found in the file CHANGES. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/base . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/metapost (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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CTAN Update: epspdf & epspdf-extra
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 Siep Kroonenberg submitted updates to the epspdf and epspdf-etra packages. Summary description: Converter for PostScript, EPS and PDF with optional GUI. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The GUI frontend has been rewritten in Tcl/Tk. As a consequence, the GUI works again under Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Various minor improvements and bug fixes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/epspdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=epspdf (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

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CTAN Update: pst-circ
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 Herbert Voß submitted an update to the pst-circ package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pst-circ is a PSTricks related package for drawing electrical and electronic circuits 1.54 2010-03-29 - fix bug in Transformer - allow any type of coordinates in Transformer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pst-circ (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 . _______________________________________________ Ctan mailing list Ctan(a)dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: keycommand
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 Florent Chervet submitted an update to the keycommand package. Summary description: key-value interface for commands and environments in LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package completely redesigned Added new feature in particular the + form of ewkeycommand ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/keycommand . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=keycommand (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 . _______________________________________________ Ctan mailing list Ctan(a)dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: todo
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

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: todo Version number: 2.4142 Author's name: Federico Garcia Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/todo/ Summary description: Utilities for compiling a list of to-do items in a document. Version 2.4142 fixes bugs and adds extra tools. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The todo package, version 2.4142 todo provides macros for users to insert reminders in their documents for tasks 'to do', which will then be shown as a list at the end of the document. Version 2.4142 fixes bugs and adds extra functionality (quiet todos, verbose todos, a new environment for full flexibility, and a done command to mark todos as 'done'). By Federico Garcia, 2002 (original) and 2010 (2.4142). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/todo/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/todo (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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CTAN update: pgfplots
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

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: pgfplots Version number: 1.3.1 Author's name: Christian Feuersänger Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots/ Summary description: pgfplots - Create normal/logarithmic plots in two and three dimensions for LaTeX. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.3.1 is a bugfix release containing - improved parametric plots with gnuplot - improved normalsize, small and footnotesize scale styles and added tiny - a lot of bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgfplots (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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CTAN has a new package: ocgtools
by CTAN Announcements 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

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: OCGtools package Version number: 0.5 Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ocgtools Summary description: OCGtools package allows to manipulate OCG layers in PDF presentations, namely hide and reveal parts of document by clicking active links or buttons. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package ocgtools is designed to insert OGC (Optional Group Content, known as layers) into PDF presentations. From the user's point of view, the package allows to insert in an comfortable way any TeX material into separate layers in PDF document and also insert links which toggle these layers on and off. Parts of the PDF document like formatted text, tables, math formulas or graphics can be turned to visible or invisible state by clicking active links or buttons. Similar packages are cooltooltips, pdfcomment, AcroTeX and fancytooltips. See the ocgtools package documentation for differences between ocgtools and the other packages. The package is distributed with examples build from one source using several presentation packages (beamer, web, pdfscreen). All necessary files are on Texlive 2009. Allmost all necessary files are on CTAN, the file ocg.sty is at http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf/tex/latex/asymptote/ocg.s… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ocgtools . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ocgtools (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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CTAN update: nicetext
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

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: nicetext bundle Version number: release 0.4 Author's name: Uwe Lück Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nicetext Summary description: txt to TeX processing of third-party package documentations: Step 2 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New with release 0.4: * Additionally to the `%% ' commenting style (allowing commenting out) the usual `% ' commenting style is supported -- applied to packages by Donald Arseneau, see abstract in `arseneau.pdf'. * Extended formatting of Harald Harder's `substr.sty' through specific preprocessing replacements (MakeDocCorrectHook) -- see abstract in `substr.pdf'. * Setup of MakeDocCorrectHook (txt to TeX) easier with SetPatternCodes, ResetPatternCodes, SetCorrectHookJob, SetCorrectHookJobLast ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nicetext . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/nicetext (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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CTAN update: biblatex-science
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

here we go again... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-science > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Author's email: joseph.wright(a)morningstar2.co.uk > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-science > Summary description: biblatex style for Science > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.9a: > - Fix for misc field > - Move TDS location to tex/latex/biblatex-science (cf. other biblatex contributions) 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/biblatex-science.ht… > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac/tex-archive/macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-science and of course the web catalogue entry will change in the course of tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: biblatex-nature
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

they're coming in thick and fast (so fast i'm not keeping up!) > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-nature > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-nature > Summary description: biblatex style for Nature > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.9a: > - Fix for misc field > - Move TDS location to tex/latex/biblatex-nature (cf. other biblatex contributions) 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/biblatex-nature.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-nat… and of course, the web catalogue entry will change a bit overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: biblatex-chem
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

that there daemon's running wild: ctan-upload(a)cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-chem > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem > Summary description: biblatex styles for chemistry > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.9b: > - Fix for misc field > - Move TDS location to tex/latex/biblatex-chem (cf. other biblatex contributions) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the files, 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/biblatex-chem.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem and of course, the catalogue entry will change overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xpackages
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

it's grinding me down: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xpackages > Author's name: LaTeX3 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The xpackages bundle: high-Level LaTeX3 concepts > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > The xpackages are experimental, high-level parts of LaTeX3. They > are designed to provide a link between the programming system > (expl3) and the user. Each xpackage is focussed in a different > area, for example creating document commands (xparse), > producing flexible formatting functions (xtemplate), etc. > > At present, the xpackages are designed to be loaded on top > of LaTeX2e: > > usepackage{xparse} > usepackage{xtemplate} > > In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code. > This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a > stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed. > > To use the xpackages, you will need to have the expl3 package > available. This provides the LaTeX3 coding environment on which > the xpackages are built. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This release (SVN 1881) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > This release features a new versions of the template package, > xtemplate, which revises the idea of a template and brings in > the idea of a self-documenting template. The new templates > are not compatible with those created using the older > template package, which is depreciated. The documentation > covers the full detail of the new approach, which we hope makes > the template concept easier to follow and more useful for > designers. > > In the xparse module, the nesting of D arguments has been > revised so that is is more robust. > > This release also keeps the xpackages up to date with changes > in expl3. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The LaTeX3 Project > ---------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i have installed it 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 the perceptive will spot the tiny change in the catalogue entry, overnight. if they bother to look. it's not very exciting. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: expl3
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

that daemon's trying to grind me down: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: expl3 > Author's name: LaTeX3 Project > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/expl3 > Summary description: Packages supporting LaTeX3 programming conventions > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The expl3 bundle: Low-level LaTeX3 programming conventions > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > The files of the expl3 bundle provide a low-level API for TeX > programmers with special syntax conventions, completely > separating it from document level syntax. Hence, the commands > provided are not intended for use at the document level nor for > use in describing design layouts in document class files. > > This API provides the foundation on which the LaTeX3 kernel > and other advanced extensions are built. Special care has been > taken so that they can be used within a LaTeX2e context as > regular packages. > > The TeX and eTeX primitives are all given a new name according > to these conventions. However, in the main direct use of the > primitives is not required or encouraged: the expl3 modules > define an independent low-level LaTeX3 programming language. > > At present, the expl3 modules are designed to be loaded on top > of LaTeX2e: > > usepackage{expl3} > > In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code. > This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a > stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This release (SVN 1881) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > As the existing LaTeX3 code is used by more people and for more > purposes, some of the original ideas are being re-examined and > inconsistencies and bugs are being addressed. This release > reflects the consolidation process, which is of course ongoing. > > The robustness of functions has been revised, and all functions > should now be either protected or fully expandable. This is > regarded as a general pattern for LaTeX3: any function which is > not expandable should be defined using cs_set_protected:Npn, > etc. > > On variables, the definitions for l_set:Nn and related > functions now allow # tokens in token lists, for example: > > l_set:Nn l_my_tl { single~#~token! } > > We hope that this means that token registers (toks) functions > are needed for the small number of primitive token registers > and for LaTeX2e work only. Feedback on this change is very > welcome. > > The file and keyval modules have been revised to provide > only higher-level functions for general use. The lower > level functions are either renamed, removed or not documented, > and the intention is that everything will be done via the > documented functions. > > In l3msg, msg_set:nnnn, etc., now read messages with expl3 > category codes (spaces are ignored). While this requires a > little more typing we feel that the consistency it brings is > valuble. > > One area of active discussion is whether register creation > should be local or global. This release includes *experimental* > support for locally-created registers using the > <var>_new_local:N functions. Be warned that this concept is > included for discussion and may not be retained in the longer > term. > > There are a number of other minor changes, as the team are > hard at work in a number of areas. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The LaTeX3 Project > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- i have 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/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 a bit, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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