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CTAN update: autolatex
by CTAN Announcements 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

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: autolatex Version number: 7.1 Author's name: Stephane Galland Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Minor bug fix in Makefiles License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A warning is displayed by the default Makefiles when it tries to display the list of the auto-generated pictures when the auto-generation flag was set to false. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: luamplib
by CTAN Announcements 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

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: luamplib Version number: 1.02 Author's name: Elie Roux Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luamplib/ Summary description: Use LuaTeX's built-in MetaPost interpreter. License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- changing the name of the .mem file to mplib-luatex.mem, which will be the one of next TeXLive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luamplib/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luamplib (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 -- match_parens-1.1
by CTAN Announcements 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Wybo Dekker wrote: > I have uploaded (new) match_parens-1.1.zip at ftp.dante.de/incoming > > - I have added a GPL notice > > - Unpack in support > > - please announce > > - further info in README match_parens is a perl script to assist the user check parenthesis balancing in documents. i have installed the package, and updated the catalogue repository -- thanks for the upload. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/match_parens.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/match_parens The catalogue entry will not appear until the processing run, some time overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: fmtcount
by CTAN Announcements 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

another upload rouses him from his slumbers, and the daemon writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: fmtcount > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fmtcount > Summary description: Display the value of a LaTeX counter in a variety of formats > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 1.31: > > * fixed unwanted space in decimalnum > > * fixed bug that ignores spaces after commands like > ordinalnum. > > * added Italian support (translations provided by Edoardo Pasca) 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/fmtcount.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fmtcount the catalogue entry has a few pointers in need of updating; that will happen overnight (along with the usual minor changes). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the softmaker-freefont package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/softmaker-freefont/ 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: Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold), Stone Handwriting License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) New in v1.4: - added LaTeX support for the small caps font Delano-Caps Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (October 2009) and can be downloaded for free (at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de Later you can buy it from Softmaker ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

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: Asymptote Version number: 1.88 Author's name: John Bowman Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Compilation without OpenGL was fixed. PRC billboard labels were implemented; settings.billboard was renamed to settings.autobillboard and by default enabled for all 3D labels. The surface constructor for embedding labels on surfaces now draws both the top and bottom faces by default. The meshpen, knot, weight, and color arrays are now properly cached. The example fequlogo.asy illustrates how to draw an arbitrary 3D background plane. The intermediate DVI file is now removed when producing SVG output. Improvements were made to the tutorial. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: latex-veryshortguide
by CTAN Announcements 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

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: The Very Short Guide to LaTeX Version number: 1 Oct 2009 Author's name: Peter Flynn Location on CTAN: / info/ latex-veryshortguide Summary description: An 4pp folder designed as an aide-mémoire for people who have just done a course in LaTeX and need something by them on their desk the next day to refresh their memories. It is not intended as a substitute for full documentation. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This revision corrects some minor typographical inconsistencies, and rephrases some descriptions for greater clarity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex-veryshortguide . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latex-veryshortguide (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: jpgfdraw
by CTAN Announcements 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

to the ringing sounds of a martinu symphony, the daemon sings out: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: jpgfdraw > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: graphics/jpgfdraw > Summary description: Vector graphics application for LaTeX users > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > version 0.5.5b > > * Fixed bug that can cause save function to prematurely terminate > when saving after trying to quit with unsaved data. > > * Added check if I/O operation in progress before discarding frame. > > * Added progress bar when loading and saving images. > > * Fixed bug when exporting image with text-path object to SVG > (class cast exception). > > * Fixed bug when exporting image with text-path object to pgf > (null written when alternative LaTeX text wasn't set). > > * Added print function to jdrview. > > * Added -doc switch to jdr2tex and ajr2tex to save as a complete > document rather than just the pgf code. > > (From version 0.5.4b which I didn't get around to uploading): > > * Fixed bug preventing parshape or shapepar menu items from being enabled > > * Fixed bug causing NullPointerException when exporting to > flowframe (sty) > > * Added check to see if any flowframe data has been assigned > when exporting to sty file. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/jpgfdraw.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/jpgfdraw the catalogue entry will change quite noticeably, overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: luamplib
by CTAN Announcements 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

This update 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: luamplib Version number: 1.02 Author's name: Elie Roux Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luamplib/ Summary description: Use LuaTeX's built-in MetaPost interpreter. License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Inputing the .mp file if the loading of the .mem file fails, adapting the .mem names for TeXLive 2009, adapting search function, improving the warning/error/log messages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luamplib/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luamplib (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: etextools
by CTAN Announcements 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

my upload daemon crawls out, blinking in the early autumn light, and says ctan-upload(a)cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: etextools > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: CTAN home/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ > Summary description: a lot of purely expandable tools for e-TeX -LaTeX Users and package Writers > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > etextools provides many (purely expandable) tools for LaTeX > - Extensive list management (csv lists, lists of single > tokens/characters, etoolbox lists): > . purely expandable loops (csvloop, forcsvloop etc.) > . conversion (csvtolist etc.)) > . addition/deletion (csvadd, listdel etc.) > . purely expandable linear interpolation (interval, > locinterplin) > - Tests on strings (among them ifstrnum to check if a > string could be parsed by eTeX's umber) > - Selective detokenization (detokenizeChars) and character- > test > - Purely expandable macros with options (FE@testopt) or > modifiers (FE@modifiers) > - Vectorized form of futurelet: futuredef can read more > than one single token > > The pdf documentation contains a lot of example in verbatim. > > v3.1 (2009/09/30) - pretty stable - Any suggestion welcome ! thanks for the upload. i've installed this latest version, and the catalogue is already up-to-date. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/etextools.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/CTAN home/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: boolexpr
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 Florent Chervet submitted an update to the boolexpr package. Summary description: Purely expandable boolean expressions and switch License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Added support for pdfmatch Correction of catcode collision when loaded with etextools... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=boolexpr (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: latex-make
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 Vincent Danjean submitted the new latex-make package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: support/latex-make Summary description: easy compiling of complex (and simple) LaTeX documents License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides several tools that aim to simplify the compilation of LaTeX documents: * LaTeX.mk: a Makefile snippet to help compiling LaTeX documents in DVI, PDF, PS, ... format. Dependencies are automatically tracked: one should be able to compile documents with a one-line Makefile containing 'include LaTeX.mk'. Complex documents (with multiple bibliographies, indexes, glossaries, ...) should be correctly managed. * figlatex.sty: a LaTeX package to easily insert xfig figures (with includegraphics{file.fig}). It can interact with LaTeX.mk so that the latter automatically invokes transfig if needed. * And various helper tools for LaTeX.mk Homepage: http://gforge.inria.fr/projects/latex-utils/ This package *requires* GNUmake (>= 3.81) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latex-make/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=latex-make (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: TeX Gyre fonts
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 at 23:09 +0200, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the tex-gyre fonts package. > Package: The TeX Gyre Collection of Fonts > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 2.003 > Date: Sep 16 2009 > Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre > License: GUST Font License > Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre > > The whole package consists of the following font families: > TeX Gyre Adventor, TeX Gyre Bonum, TeX Gyre Chorus, TeX Gyre Cursor, > TeX Gyre Heros, TeX Gyre Pagella, TeX Gyre Schola, TeX Gyre Termes > > ---- > Recent changes > this release is strictly based on the 35 PostScript base fonts > as distributed with Ghoscript ver. 4.00; according to URW++ > decision the base fonts may as of 22nd June 2009 be distributed > under LPPL/GFL and we gladly took advantage of this. > With the removal of the Cyrillic glyphs all t2a-*.tfm, t2b-*.tfm > t2c-*.tfm files and the relevant LaTeX *.fd files were also removed. > LaTeX *.sty and *.fd files were reworked, etc. > > ------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAn Update: lm fonts
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 at 23:08 +0200, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the lm fonts package. > ---- > Package: Latin Modern fonts > Version: 2.003 (Sep 16 2009) > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > License: GUST Font License > Location on CTAN: fonts/lm > > Recent changes: > main modification: shapes of LM glyps consistent > with D.E. Knuth's recent changes in CMs plus lots of tiny changes, > e.g. LaTeX *.sty and *.fd files reworked, etc. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: mfpic
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

This update 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: mfpic Version number: 1.00 Author's name: Daniel Luecking Location on CTAN: /graphics/mfpic/ Summary description: A package for creating pictures in TeX with the aid of MetaPost or Metafont. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mfpic is a package for creating pictures in (pdf)(La)TeX files, using macros that create an external Metafont or MetaPost input file. With this major update, mfpic now supports the new color models of MetaPost (cmyk and grayscale) and the new renaming feature (filenametemplate of MP version 1.0 and/or outputtemplate in 1.2). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/mfpic/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mfpic (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: fixme
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

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: FiXme Version number: 4.1 Author's name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ Summary description: A collaborative annotation tool for LaTeX documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FiXme v4.1 is out. What's new: ** 8 new PDF-specific annotation layouts. ** New annotation layout: marginnote ** Better mechanism for handling layout mutual exclusion. ** Fix bug in inner layout processing. FiXme is a collaborative annotation tool for LaTeX documents. Annotating a document refers here to inserting meta-notes, that is, notes that do not belong to the document itself, but rather to its development or reviewing process. Such notes may involve things of different importance levels, ranging from simple fix the spelling flags to critical this paragraph is a lie mentions. Annotations like this should be visible during the development or reviewing phase, but should normally disapear in the final version of the document. FiXme is designed to ease and automate the process of managing collaborative annotations, by offering a set of predefined note levels and layouts, the possibility to register multiple note authors, to reference annotations by listing and indexing etc. FiXme is extensible, giving you the possibility to create new layouts or even complete themes, and also comes with support for AUC-TeX. FiXme homepage: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/software/latex.php#fixme ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fixme . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fixme (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: mathspec
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

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: mathspec Version number: 0.2 Author's name: Andrew Gilbert Moschou Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/mathspec Summary description: Font selection for mathematics with XeLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The mathspec package provides an interface to select ordinary text fonts for typesetting mathematics with XeLaTeX. The package is developmental and later versions might to be incompatible with this version. This version is incompatible with earlier versions. The package requires at least version 0.9995 of XeTeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/mathspec . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mathspec (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: rangen
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

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: rangen Version number: 1.3e Author's name: D. P. Story Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/rangen Summary description: The rangen package is a package that generates random integers, rational numbers, and decimal number. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The rangen package is a package that generates random integers, rational numbers, and decimal number. Actually, the package uses the lcg package (by Erich Janka) to generate random integers, while rangen builds rational numbers and decimal numbers from the generated integers. My purpose in writing this package was to be able to create random questions for the quizzes of exerquiz (part of AeB). Indeed, that is what you can do with this package: Write a quiz question based on a template (for example, differentiate $a x^{ }$ , where a and are RVs (random variables) generated with rangen), determine if the user input is correct, and display the correct answer to the question. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rangen . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/rangen (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: epstopdf
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

This update 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: epstopdf Version number: 2.11 Author's name: Karl Berry Location on CTAN: /support/epstopdf Summary description: improved binary file and (atend) handling; new maintainer License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- epstopdf 2.11 improves handling of binary files, the various line-ending conventions, and (atend) BoundingBoxes, as well as error checking and a plethora of minor changes. epstopdf now has a web page at http://tug.org/epstopdf with its basic coordinates. Finally, Gerben Wierda has passed maintainership of epstopdf to me. Thanks to Gerben, Sebastian, and all the many contributors to this script over these many years. For this release, I especially thank Martin von Gagern, who made most of the substantive improvements. Happy converting, Karl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/epstopdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf (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: eqexam
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

This package should by now be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: eqexam Version number: v1.9a Author's name: D. P. Story Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/eqexam Summary description: A stand alone exam package, yet tightly integrated with AeB when certain PDF options are taken. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eqExam is a LaTeX package for writing exams, tests, quizzes, homework assignments, etc. It is a stand alone package, yet is tightly integrated with the AcroTeX eDucation Bundle (AeB). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eqexam . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/eqexam (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: ctantools
by CTAN Announcements 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

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CTAN update: tablor
by CTAN Announcements 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

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CTAN update: dox
by CTAN Announcements 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

This should reach your local mirror in a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: DoX Version number: 2.1 Author's name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ Summary description: Extensions to the doc package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What's new in version 2.1: ** New lisp functions doxitem[s] to register new documentation environments with AUC-TeX. What's DoX: The doc package provides LaTeX developers with means to describe the usage and the definition of new commands and environments. However, there is no simple way to extend this functionality to other items (options or counters for instance). DoX is designed to circumvent this limitation, and provides some improvements over the existing functionality as well. DoX homepage: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/software/latex.php#dox ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dox . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dox (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: chklref
by CTAN Announcements 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

This package 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: chklref Version number: 2.4 Author's name: Jérôme Lelong Location on CTAN: /support/chklref Summary description: check for useless labels in LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- It is quite common that after modifying a tex file, many unused labels remain in it. The purpose of chklref is to automatically find these useless labels. It also looks for non starred mathematical environments with no labels and advises to use a starred version instead. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/chklref . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/chklref (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: asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

This update should be at your local mirror in a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Asymptote Version number: 1.87 Author's name: John Bowman Location on CTAN: /graphics/asymptote Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Support for SVG output was added (requires dvisvgm-0.8.4). Billboard labels were implemented for the OpenGL renderer. OpenGL animations were improved: reverse and step menu items were added, along with a framerate setting. An addStereoViews function and example stereoscopic.asy were added. The addViews function was generalized to handle any layout; the default layout was changed from ThreeViewsFR to SixViewsUS. PRC node names are now implemented for curves, surface, labels, and dots. OmitTick was generalized to omit both major and minor ticks. A graphicx.tex workaround was implemented to parse paths properly. A viewportsize bug was fixed. A memory deallocation bug was fixed. The ENDIAN test was fixed. The ucyclic and vcyclic parameters are no longer set for conditional surfaces. The erase() function clears the PostScript canvas again. A projection() function that returns the interactive camera parameters was implemented. A hyperrefOptions setting was implemented. The tutorial was improved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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