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: skeyval
Version number: 0.5
Author's name: Ahmed Musa
Summary description: Extensions to the xkeyval package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The skeyval package provides enhancements and extensions
to the xkeyval package. There are several new features,
all of which are explained in the accompanying
documentation.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/skeyval
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Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: Apprends LaTeX !
Version number: 4.01
Author's name: Marc Baudoin
Location on CTAN: /info/apprends-latex/
Summary description: Apprends LaTeX ! (Learn LaTeX!) is a French documentation
for LaTeX beginners.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Apprends LaTeX ! (Learn LaTeX!) is a French documentation
aimed at LaTeX beginners.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/apprends-latex/
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, François Charette submitted an update to the
arabxetex
package.
Summary description: An ArabTeX-like interface for XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This version provides some bugfixes and minor documentation
update.
* Don't mess with baselineskip AtBeginDocument
* Bugfix for Sindhi: 'O' was not in the mappings
* Load bidi after amsmath and fontspec
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/arabic/arabxetex/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=arabxetex
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_______________________________________________
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Rainer Schöpf
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, François Charette submitted an update to the
biber
package.
Summary description: A BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex
License type: artistic
Announcement text:
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This release fixes numerous bugs from v0.5.1:
* Locale fixes
* Uniquename fixed to match BibLaTeX option values
* Improved error message for malformed names
* Fixed config file problems under windows
and added option to ignore config file
* Bug with conflicting case between citations and bib entries
* Moved pure perl parsename to PRD.pm
* Re-write of name parsing to use Text::BibTeX::Name by default
* Fields which can be null are explicitly flagged
* Die early when biber is called without argument
* Fixed Mac config path error
* .bib parse continues after certain errors
* regularised collate options processing
* field nameaddon was missing from Biber::Constants
* Improved warning message for missing backend=biber
* SF bug 2952347 fix (empty date range end)
* uniquename counter was being provided incorrectly
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/biber
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Rainer Schöpf
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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: Eukleides
Version number: 1.5.2
Author's name: Christian Obrecht
Location on CTAN: /support/eukleides
Summary description: A geometry drawing system
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The code has been slightly modified to allow building with
MinGW. A win32 binary distribution is now available.
An optional step parameter for drawing conics has been
implemented. Some minor bugs have been fixed as well.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/eukleides
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Ingo H. de Boer submitted an update to the
winshell
package.
Summary description: WinShell is a free multilingual integrated development environment (IDE) for LaTeX and TeX.
License type: nosource
Announcement text:
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I am happy to announce the new, actual WinShell 3.31
Release. Major BugFixes/Features to version 3.30 are
- Update to Scintilla 2.03
- Improved BibTeX Project Window: toggle author/label view, show all entries
- New feature: Autocompletion for LaTeX commands and BibTeX labels
- New feature: Update checker
- New feature: Split/join paragraph
- New option: BibTeX front-end: disable/enable
- New option: Reload open files at startup
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/winshell/
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On Wed, 3 Mar 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:
Baskerville-Nova (regular + bold + italic + bold italic),
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 v1.9:
- added support for the font family Sunset
(regular + bold + faked slanted + faked small caps)
Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the
month (March 2010) and can be downloaded for free (at least
this month) at: http://www.freefont.de
Later you can buy it from Softmaker
- added options scaled and leading to all existing style files
- changing font families: fsh->5sh, fhs->5hs, ffs->5fs, fib->5ib
- renamed freefont.map -> softmaker-freefont.map
- renamed directory Baskerville-Nova -> BaskervilleNova
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http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/softmaker-freefont/
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Thomas Titz submitted an update to the
idxlayout
package.
Summary description: Configurable index layout, responsive to KOMA-Script and memoir
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- Corrected emulation of setindexpreamble
- New option columnnote
- Package index now supported
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/idxlayout/
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Rainer Schöpf
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: TeXshade
Version number: 1.21
Author's name: Eric Beitz
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texshade/
Summary description: Update of the DNA and protein sequence alignment LaTeX package TeXshade
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is version 1.21 of TeXshade. It fixes some bugs but mainly introduces a
convenient new way to select residues that are to be specially labeled by having
TeXshade search for sequence motifs.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/texshade/
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Robin Höns submitted the
ratexdb
package.
Summary description: Database reports using LaTeX and Ruby
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This is a compatible rewrite of LaTeXDB by Hans-Georg Eßer in Ruby.
It is a preprocessor which performs SQL queries on a
database and creates LaTeX code for the resulting rows.
Ratexdb implements a few improvements, e.g. regexp
postprocessing, command-line options, some protection
against SQL injection, replacement of LaTeX reserved characters.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/ratexdb/
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_______________________________________________
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Rainer Schöpf
This should reach your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Sait Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: geometry
Version number: 5.2
Author's name: Hideo Umeki
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/geometry
Summary description: Flexible and easy interface to page dimensions
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Release 5.2
* Fixed a bug that the papersize setting explicitly specified
with geometry or usepackage in the preample didn't come to
ewgeometry.
* Added mag offset adjustment for
ewgeometry.
* Added 'onecolumn' option as a shorthand for 'twocolumn=false'.
* Changed the format of the verbose mode.
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This package is located at
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the daemon's active today...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: silence
> Author's name: Paul Isambert
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/silence
> Summary description: Selective filtering of error messages and warnings.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Small improvements:
> - The debrief option really counts all messages now.
> - The package is compatible with LuaTeX.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/silence.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/silence
the catalogue entry will change, in a small way, overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: easylist
> Author's name: Paul Isambert
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib
> Summary description: Lists using a single active character.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The package is compatible with LuaTeX (thanks to Elie Roux).
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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/easylist.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib
the catalogue entry will twitch slightly, overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon sleeps ... and then awakes while _i_ sleep:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: tocvsec2
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tocvsec2
> Summary description: Section numbering and table of contents control
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bug fix that removes occasional extraneous vertical space before section
> headings. This will unfortunately change, perhaps, the output of some old
> documents that use this package, but that's the sad price that must be paid for
> the existence of a bug.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/tocvsec2.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tocvsec2
the eagle-eyed (who have never looked before) will notice minuscule
change in the catalogue entry.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Thanks again,
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: lua-alt-getopt
Version number: 0.7.0
Author's name: Khaled Hosny
Summary description: A lua module for processing application's arguments the same way
BSD/GNU getopt_long(3) functions do.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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lua_altgetopt is a MIT-licenced module for Lua programming
language for processing application's arguments the same way
BSD/GNU getopt_long(3) functions do.
This module is made available for lua script writers to have
consistent command line parsing routines.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/lua-altgetopt
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Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Knitting Pattern class
Version number: 1
Author's name: Hugh Griffiths
Summary description: LaTeX class for formatting knitting patterns
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This class aims to provide a simple, effective method for
knitters to produce high-quality, attractive patterns using
LaTeX. It does this by providing commands to handle as much
of the layout of the document as possible, leaving the
author free to concentrate on the pattern.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/knittingpattern
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------------------------- Announcement -------------------------
I'm happy to announce release 3.4 of Eplain, a set of TeX macros that
expands on and extends the definitions in plain TeX in a
style-neutral fashion. Eplain's home page is
http://tug.org/eplain
You can get it off CTAN at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/eplain
The manual is available on-line from CTAN or Eplain home page, or as a
hard-copy from
http://www.lulu.com/content/113810
(royalties are donated to the TeX Users Group).
Here's an excerpt from the NEWS file.
* Eplain repository moved from cvs.sarovar.org:/cvsroot/eplain to
svn://tug.org/eplain/trunk.
* Changed ProcessOptions from miniltx.tex to gobble the optional star
argument, to accommodate the new version of epstopdf.sty.
Thanks to everybody who contributed with bug reports, feature
suggestions and code patches.
Oleg Katsitadze
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-gantt.tgz to the uk CTAN node.
> Please replace the files with the ones in the
> directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-gantt/
>
> pst-gantt is a PSTricks related package for
> drawing Gantt charts, which is a type of bar chart
> that illustrates a project schedule.
>
> v0.21 2010-02-23 - add optional arguments
> ChartModulo and ChartModuloValue
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new files and updated the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
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or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-gantt/
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: pst-jtree
Version number: 2.5
Author's name: John Frampton
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib
Summary description: fixes bug revealed by new version (2.01) of pstricks
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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New error checking by pstricks revealed an error in one of
the examples in pst-jtree-examples.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib
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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: pst-asr
Version number: 1.3
Author's name: John Frampton
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib
Summary description: bug fix
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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fixes compatibility issue with new version (2.01) pstricks
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after my days of doing nothing but adding documentation to the archive,
suddenly the daemon says:
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.4c:
> - Fix issue with cmbright package
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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/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 chance (almost imperceptibly) overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Ralf Angeli submitted an update to the
preview
package.
Summary description: Extract bits of a LaTeX source as graphics
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The main purpose of the preview package is the extraction of selected
elements from a LaTeX source, like formulas or images, into separate
pages of a DVI file. This works with DVI files postprocessed by
either Dvips and Ghostscript or dvipng, but it also works when you are
using PDFTeX for generating PDF files.
Current uses of the package include the preview-latex package for
WYSIWYG functionality in the AUCTeX editing environment, generation of
previews in LyX, as part of the operation of the ps4pdf package, the
tbook XML system and some other tools.
The preview package is being developed along and distributed with
preview-latex. With the integration of preview-latex into AUCTeX as
of version 11.81, the preview package became part of AUCTeX as well.
It can therefore be obtained as part of AUCTeX distribution files
available at <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/>. CTAN provides
the standalone preview package at
<CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/preview>.
For more information about the preview package please refer to the
home page of AUCTeX at
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>.
Version 11.86 of the preview package adds support for XeTeX.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/preview/
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Jim
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: luaotfload
Version number: 1.06b
Author's name: Elie Roux
Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/
Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Fixing feature file loading.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/
. More information is at
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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: The memoir class
Version number: v1.618033988c
Author's name: Lars Madsen
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/memoir
Summary description: The memoir class for configurable typesetting
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Fixes a sporadic space in the regular footnote command
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir
. More information is at
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Thanks again
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: footbib
Version number: 2.0.7
Author's name: Eric Domenjoud
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/footbib
Summary description: Bibliographic references as footnotes.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A bug in earlier versions could make the references appear
on the wrong page. Also the package became incompatible with
the output routine of LaTeX. This version corrects both
these problems.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footbib
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