On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
pdfcomment
package.
Summary description: A user-friendly interface to PDF annotations
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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For a long time pdflatex has offered the command pdfannot for inserting
arbitrary PDF annotations. However, the command is presented in
a form where additional knowledge of the definition of the PDF format is
indispensable. This package is an answer to the – occasional – questions
in newsgroups, about how one could use the comment function of Adobe
Reader. At least for the writer of LaTeX code, the package offers a
convenient and user-friendly means of using pdfannot to provide comments
in PDF files. Since version v1.1, pdfcomment.sty also supports:
LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf, LaTeX -> dvipdfmx and XeLaTeX.
Unfortunately, support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers is sparse to
nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is
Adobe Reader.
License: LPPL
Changes in v1.5c:
- Bugfix: pdfsidelinecomment only worked on pages with arabic page numbers
reported by: Fritz Moore
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Name of contribution: biblatex-philosophy
Version number: 0.5
Author's name: Ivan Valbusa
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib
Summary description: Bibliography styles for biblatex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This version of biblatex-philosophy includes also the new style philosophy-verbose,
intended primarily for writers in the humanities and for citations given in footnotes.
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Name of contribution: biblatex-apa
Version number: 0.9
Author's name: Philip Kime
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-apa/
Summary description: Biblatex style for APA (American Psychological Association)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 0.9 updated for biblatex 0.9 and APA manual 6th edition
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Name of contribution: libertine font
Version number: 4.6.5
Author's name: Michael Niedermair
Location on CTAN: /fonts/libertine
Summary description: new version of the libertine font
License type: pd
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new version of the libertine font package
- new font version of some shapes
- new package structure
- new biolinum italic font
- new keyboard font (alpha)
- new outline font (alpha)
- new shadow font (alpha)
and something more
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This material has been moved to support/lua/lua-alt-getopt .
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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
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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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Name of contribution: gmverb
Version number: 0.93
Author's name: Grzegorz Murzynowski
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmverb
Summary description: my implementation of short verbatims and some improvements to verbatim
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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minor update: some bug fixes, introducing adjustable hyphen
char (broken bar ¦ by default)
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Name of contribution: gmutils
Version number: 0.991
Author's name: Grzegorz Murzynowski
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmutils
Summary description: basic package of other gm* packages; provides DeclareCommand
License type: lppl
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This package provides many macros used by me, also copied
from other packages such as relsize. some are low-level,
such as @ifnextcat, @ifnextif, probably the main is
DeclareCommand to define command with weird optional
arguments. This update provides major development of
DeclareCommand, such as Knuthian arguments (as in TeX
Book chap.20) and afterassignment pseudo-argument.
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Name of contribution: gmdoc
Version number: 0.991
Author's name: Grzegorz Murzynowski
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmdoc
Summary description: a package for documenting TeX sources with minimal markup
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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a package for documenting TeX sources with minimal markup.
No .dtx necessary, inline comments, automatic detection of
definitions and more. this update is mostly for
compatibility with geometry v>=5.1 (doesn't rely on
gmeometric anymore).
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Name of contribution: The dlfltxb bundle
Version number: various
Author's name: Lars Madsen
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dlfltxb
Summary description: Support packages for Introduktion til LaTeX, my Danish LaTeX manual
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Updated support packages for Introduktion til LaTeX
(http://www.imf.au.dk/system/latex/bog/)
Details are in the README
Please note that the packages are made for above mentioned
book, and are thus not very flexible. If interested use it
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Name of contribution: ijmart
Version number: 1.5
Author's name: Boris Veytsman
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ijmart
Summary description: LaTeX class for The Israel Journal of Mathematics
License type: lppl
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The Israel Journal of Mathematics is published by The Hebrew
University Magnes Press. This class provides LaTeX support for its
authors and editors. It strives to achieve the distinct
``look and feel'' of the journal, while having the interface similar to
the one of the amsart document class. This will help the authors
already familiar with amsart to easily submit manuscripts for The Israel
Journal of Mathematics or to put the preprints in http://www.arxiv.org
with minimal changes in the LaTeX source.
Changes:
Version 1.1: Added environments namedprop and namedprop* for special
named propositions.
Version 1.1a: Minor documentation updates.
Version 1.2: New table of contents formatting.
Version 1.3: Changed the typesetting of proofs that end by a math
display. This involves interface changes.
Changed table of contents formatting (again).
Version 1.4: Fixed the bug inherited from amsart: now appendices
do not cause large indentations in table of contents
Version 1.5: Added compatibility with babel
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Name of contribution: estcpmm
Version number: 0.4
Author's name: Boris Veytsman
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/estcpmm/
Summary description: LaTeX Style For Munitions Management Project Reports
Environmental Security Technology Certification Program
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Typesetting Cost & Performance Reports and Final Reports for
Munitions
Management Reports, US Environmental Security Technology
Certification
Program.
The class was commissioned and paid for by US Army Corps of
Engineers,
Engineer Research and Development Center, 3909 Halls Ferry Road,
Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199.
Changes:
Version 0.4: Typographical updates
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Name of contribution: skeyval
Version number: 0.5
Author's name: Ahmed Musa
Summary description: Extensions to the xkeyval package.
License type: lppl
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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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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
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
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Apprends LaTeX ! (Learn LaTeX!) is a French documentation
aimed at LaTeX beginners.
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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- Corrected emulation of setindexpreamble
- New option columnnote
- Package index now supported
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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
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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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On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Robin Höns submitted the
ratexdb
package.
Summary description: Database reports using LaTeX and Ruby
License type: gpl
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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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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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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
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> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Small improvements:
> - The debrief option really counts all messages now.
> - The package is compatible with LuaTeX.
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thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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> or they may browse the package directory at
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the catalogue entry will change, in a small way, overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
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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:
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> The package is compatible with LuaTeX (thanks to Elie Roux).
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thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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> 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