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CTAN Update: pdfcomment
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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CTAN update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

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

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CTAN update: moderncv
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '10

31 May '10

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 .

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tug.ctan.org upload: adobemapping
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '10

31 May '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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 .

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CTAN update: linguex
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '10

31 May '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: linguex Version number: 4.3 Author's name: Wolfgang Sternefeld Summary description: Several bugfixes. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 .

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CTAN update: cfr-lm
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '10

31 May '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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/cfr-lm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cfr-lm (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: luaotfload
by CTAN Announcements 30 May '10

30 May '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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * the last release didn't even load * fix passing --destdir to mkluatexfontdb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload (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: The STIX fonts
by CTAN Announcements 29 May '10

29 May '10

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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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

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CTAN update: hyph-utf8
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '10

This materials 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyph-utf8/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8 (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: luaotfload
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload (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: lualibs
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '10

Wthin a day this should be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sync with ConTeXt, adding new function required by latest luaotfload. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/lualibs . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/lualibs (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: autolatex
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '10

This should within a day appear at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: autolatex Version number: 8.3 Author's name: Stephane GALLAND Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Bug fix in command line options License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Command option '-f' is documented but not supported by source code. This option was added into the list of the explicitly supported options to fix this bug. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/autolatex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/autolatex (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: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '10

the daemon reports: > 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 v2.0a: > - Make SendSettingsToPgf available in document body > - Automatically detect use of version 1 options and > load backward-compatibility code > - Fix problem with free-standing units > - Fix a number of bugs in version-1 configuration file > - Include high energy physics units in documentation > and version-1 configuration file 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/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ the updated catalogue entry will appear on the web some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xltxtra
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '10

27 May '10

and, to finish its latest flurry, the daemon's moving finger writes: > ====================================================================== > > 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 LaTeX users of XeTeX. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This update to version 0.5c of xltxtra coincides with fontspec v2 (and > both must be used together), but there are no user-level changes to > the package. 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/xltxtra.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra the catalogue entry on the web will change some time overnight tonight. (my time.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update and move: fontspec
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '10

27 May '10

the daemon, rushing around as i rushed around preparing for work, wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: fontspec > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is the initial (beta 1) release of fontspec version 2 for TeX > Live 2010. > > Testing and feedback most appreciated! > > It now supports OpenType font loading in LuaTeX thanks to the work of > Khaled Hosny, Elie Roux, and Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard. Please discuss bugs > or improvements on the lualatex-dev mailing list. In between main releases > on CTAN, updates for bug testing can be obtained from > <http://github.com/wspr/fontspec/>. > > The documentation still needs improvement but the basic functionality should > be working. It is intended to be tested on TeX Live 2010; it should still be > compatible with earlier versions of XeTeX, however. > > * * * > > Please remove fontspec from its current location on CTAN > (macros/xetex/latex/fontspec). I can't think of a better alternative than > placing it now in the standard latex/ directory macros/latex/contrib/fontspec > since it has functionality for both XeTeX and LuaTeX. i've installed, as requested, and created a link from the old location, until such time as i think to remove it again. i've also 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/fontspec.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec as usual, the catalogue entry will change during the european night hours. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: euenc
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '10

27 May '10

the daemon's moving finger writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: euenc > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/euenc > Summary description: Unicode font definitions for XeTeX and LuaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This update for euenc adds support for LuaTeX in concert with version > 2 of the fontspec package. > > Please remove euenc from its current location on CTAN > (macros/xetex/latex/euenc). I can't think of a better alternative > than placing it now in the standard latex/ directory > macros/latex/contrib/euenc since it has functionality for both XeTeX > and LuaTeX. that move actually took place in february this year; links were linking the package's old location to its current one. i have now deleted the links. 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/euenc.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/euenc the catalogue update will happen overnight (european) tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: cfr-lm
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '10

27 May '10

This should soon 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: updated version for Latin Modern 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, small-caps and upright italic shapes, and alternative weights and widths. It also supports variable width typewriter and the “quotation” font. 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 README for details. The package requires the official Latin Modern distribution, lmodern, 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. This version has been updated for version 2.004 of the Latin Modern fonts. cfr-lm.sty has been significantly revised to offer more flexible and robust options. The production of the virtual fonts has been tweaked to improve accent placement by adjusting for some peculiarities in the lmodern distribution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/cfr-lm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cfr-lm (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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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: TeX-GPC 2nd edition, 1st fix
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '10

27 May '10

the daemon tells me an upload, that i suggested, has arrived: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: TeX-GPC 2nd edition, 1st fix > Author's name: Wolfgang Helbig > Location on CTAN: systems/unix/tex-gpc/ > Summary description: booby-trap defused > License type: other-free > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > replaced tangle.p needed for bootstrapping > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. (users should note that booby trap was my characterisation of a problem with tangle.p in the distribution, of which others had complained. mr. helbig generously agreed to re-release to clear up this one confusion.) > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/tex-gpc.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/unix/tex-gpc/ and the catalogue entry will be updated, in a small way, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: cleveref
by CTAN Announcements 26 May '10

26 May '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: cleveref Version number: 0.16.3 Author's name: Toby Cubitt Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version fixes a number of small issues: * Added missing amecrefs and ameCrefs commands to get plural forms of cross-reference names * Fixed bug preventing redefinition of group conjunction macros * Fixed bug in format definitions for subsections and subsubsections, which in particular broke language switching * Added translations for Russian and Ukranian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cleveref (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: ConTeXt
by CTAN Announcements 26 May '10

26 May '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: ConTeXt Version number: 2010.05.24 Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: /macros/context/current Summary description: The new stable ConTeXt release License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website, CTAN, or one of its mirrors. The current release has version 2010.05.24 13:05 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/context/current . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/context (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: achemso
by CTAN Announcements 26 May '10

26 May '10

joseph (gently) urges me to get on with it, and the daemon passes it on: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: achemso > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso > Summary description: Support for submissions to American Chemical Society journals > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v3.4g: > - Add support for ACS Chemical Neuroscience > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/achemso.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/achemso the catalogue change (little though it is) will make its way to the web overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: duotenzor
by CTAN Announcements 25 May '10

25 May '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: duotenzor Version number: 1.00 Author's name: Lucien Hardy Location on CTAN: /graphics/duotenzor Summary description: Drawing package for circuit and duotensor diagrams. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a drawing package for circuit and duotensor diagrams within LaTeX documents. It consists of about eighty commands and calls on TikZ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/duotenzor . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/duotenzor (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: moderncv
by CTAN Announcements 24 May '10

24 May '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: moderncv Version number: 0.8 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 0.8 - small new features and several important bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 .

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CTAN update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 23 May '10

23 May '10

grumbling again, the daemon says: it's amazingly hot, but > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Author's email: joseph.wright(a)morningstar2.co.uk > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The siunitx package --- A comprehensive (SI) units package > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Typesetting values with units requires care to ensure that the > combined mathematical meaning of the value plus unit combination > is clear. In particular, the SI units system lays down a > consistent set of units with rules on how these are to be used. > However, different countries and publishers have differing > conventions on the exact appearance of numbers (and units). > > The siunitx package provides a set of tools for authors to > typeset numbers and units in a consistent way. The package has > an extended set of configuration options which make it possible > to follow varying typographic conventions with the same input > syntax. The package includes automated processing of numbers and > units, and the ability to control tabular alignment of numbers. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 2 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Over the past two years siunitx has developed to include many > features not originally foreseen when development began. While > it has been possible to add a range of new features, some of the > underlying limitation of the version 1 code have made this > difficult. At the same time, renewed effort by the LaTeX Team on > the development of LaTeX3, and in particular the expl3 > programming system, has offered a more robust method to create > the internal structure of siunitx. As a result, version 2 of > siunitx has been almost completely re-written internally. > > As well as fixing a number of bugs and limitations in the > original release, version 2 is also much better written to work > quickly. As a result, most users should see performance > enhancements with this new release of siunitx. > > As part of the revision of siunitx, the option system and user > macros have been completely re-thought. The options now have > longer, descriptive names and also a much clearer range of input > values. The options which in version 1 took either a key word or > a literal value have been replaced by ones which take literals > only: in some cases this means that advice has been added to the > documentation on how to get particular output effects. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Moving from version 1 to version 2 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Depending on how you use siunitx, there may be very little to do > to move to version 2. The new version includes a compatibility > support file, meaning that loading siunitx using: > > usepackage[load-configurations = version-1]{siunitx} > > should mean that existing documents compile with very few > changes. > > There are some changes to standard settings between version 1 > and version 2, which may lead to some alterations in documents. > At the same time, a small number of the features of siunitx > version 1 which I feel did not work cleanly have been dropped. > At present, some of these are scheduled to be re-examined for > inclusion in later releases of siunitx. > > While there is a back-compatibility layer for users upgrading, > it is strongly recommended that documents are updated to use the > new option names and functions. The new approach has been chosen > as it is an improvement on the previous version, and in the > longer term this layer may be removed. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Installation > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Most users will obtain siunitx as part of their TeX distribution. > MiKTeX 2.8 should include siunitx version 2 after a short delay (a few > days after CTAN upload); TeX live users won't see the package in their > distribution until after the 2010 release has appeared. Both > distributions also include the necessary support packages, and so > simply updating will in due course lead to a working siunitx version 2 > installation. > > For users who wish to install siunitx themselves, the package is > available as a pre-extracted zip file, siunitx.tds.zip. Simply > unzip this in your local texmf directory and run 'texhash' to > update the database of file locations. Version 2 of siunitx > requires up to date versions of the LaTeX3 packages expl3 and > xpackages. These are also available from CTAN in ready to > install format (as expl3.tds.zip and xpackages.tds.zip), and can > be installed in the same way if necessary. > > If you want to unpack the dtx yourself, running 'tex > siunitx.dtx' will extract the package whereas 'latex > siunitx.dtx' will extract it and also typeset the documentation. > Typesetting the documentation requires a number of packages in > addition to those needed to use siunitx. These should all be > available in a complete TeX Live 2009 or MiKTeX 2.8 > installation. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Development code and bug database > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > In order to help users see what is happening, and also to allow > me to work efficiently, the development code for siunitx is > available on the code hosting site BitBucket: > > http://bitbucket.org/josephwright/siunitx > > You can download the very latest code from there: of course, > this may or may not work properly depending on exactly what I > have added to the code. > > The BitBucket site includes an issue tracker, where you can > report bugs or make feature requests. I also add bugs to the > database from e-mails I get from users. Filling in the bug > database helps to make sure that I do not forget things, and > also helps other users see what issues are known. > > If you want to contribute code to siunitx, you can of course > send patches directly to me. Alternatively, the code is hosted > using the revision control system Mercurial, which was chosen as > it is decentralised and is easy to install on a range of > operating systems (I use MacOS X, Windows XP, Windows 7 and > Ubuntu!). I'm happy to explain to potential contributors how > Mercurial works for developing siunitx. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Roadmap for future releases > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > The bug database already includes a number of feature requests > which are marked to be looked at for version 2.1: see > http://tinyurl.com/2b6flkt. The current intention is that the > next few months will be devoted to bug fixes in this release > (v2.0), with moves to add features for v2.1 beginning in the > late summer. I anticipate that v2.1 will be released toward the > end of 2010. > > It is likely that not all of the features currently marked as to > be looked at for v2.1 will be fully working by the time it is > released. At the same time, there are some longer term areas > which may also need attention. Version 2.2 of siunitx is > therefore planned, but with no current list of features marked > for inclusion. This version is likely to appear in Spring 2011. > > One longer term aim is to include LuaTeX support in siunitx, so > that the entire package can work much more rapidly with LuaTeX > than when using TeX macros alone. This is not likely to happen > until next year (2011), but is in the bug database and is part > of the longer term development plan for siunitx. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The internals of siunitx > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Currently, the only documented interface to any of the > functionality of siunitx is via the key--value control system > and functions described in the manual. The internal code of the > package is not documented, and there is therefore no guarantee > of stability of internal functions. While it is common for users > to have to modify the internals of LaTeX2e packages as part of > their documents, this is not good programming practice and is > not encouraged for siunitx, or indeed in general. > > If there is a user function that you require that is not > available using the documented tools, please either e-mail or > report a bug in the database. One of the general aims of siunitx > is to provide a proper documented interface for all of the > functions of the package. I am therefore very happy to add > interfaces to internal processes as necessary. > > Programmers should note that siunitx is coded using the LaTeX3 > 'expl3' programming system. This looks somewhat different to > traditional TeX or LaTeX programming. Details of the programming > environment are documented as part of the expl3 bundle. > Currently, none of the internal functions or interfaces are > documented, and so are not meant for use outside of siunitx. > Other programmers wanting to make use of internal siunitx > functions are encouraged to get in contact with me. This will > enable me to ensure that the parts of siunitx which are needed > by others are documented and are not changed without > consultation. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Joseph Wright <joseph.wright(a)morningstar2.co.uk> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ the catalogue entry won't appear at all until some time tonight. all of the files will be subject to mirroring delays. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: expl3
by CTAN Announcements 23 May '10

23 May '10

the daemon grumbles about being awakened in such bright sunlight, but deigns to say: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: expl3 > Author's name: LaTeX3 Project > Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This release (SVN 1925) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > This is an intermediate release of expl3. > > cs_set:Nn and related functions are removed in this release: > all internal functions now need to be defined using > cs_set:Npn, etc., fully listing the arguments required. > > A bug in ior_close:N, which caused knock-on problems with > file_if_exist:nTF and potentially with the LaTeX2e label > system is also fixed. > > Some bugs in the l3box module are also addressed and the logic > improved. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The LaTeX3 Project > ---------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i have installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/expl3.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/expl3/ there will be some delay before the updates will reach all mirror sites. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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