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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: minutes
Version number: 1.8d
Author's name: Knut Lickert
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/minutes
Summary description: Package for writing (collection of) minutes
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 2.8d:
*Add Polish texts
*Correction French texts
*Correction in example file Protokol.tex (after error message in d.c.t.t.)
*Extend samples with attachments with label.
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Name of contribution: flashmovie
Version number: 0.0
Author's name: Timo Hartmann
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/flashmovie
Summary description: This package allows direct embedding of flash movies into PDF files.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package allows direct embedding of flash movies into PDF files. It is
designed for use with pdflatex.
Basically it uses the fact that the Adobe Reader 9 contains
an embedded Adobe Flash player which can be invoked with the
rich media annotation feature which is described in
Adobe Supplement to the ISO 32000 BaseVersion: 1.7
ExtensionLevel: 3.
advantages:
- You can directly embed videos into the pdf (external window is optimal and not necessary).
- You can play back videos without worrying about platform dependencies.
disadvantages:
- You can only play back embedded videos with Adobe Reader 9 and upwards.\n----------------------------------------------------------------------
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I apologize; the prior announcement had a typo. Thank you for the correction.
The correct name is jablantile. The corrected announcement is below.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: jablantile
Version number: 3dec09
Author's name: Karl Berry
Location on CTAN: /fonts/jablantile
Summary description: Metafont tiles a la Slavik Jablan, from Don Knuth
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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This is a small Metafont font created by Don Knuth to implement the
modular tiles described by Slavik Jablan. See the dearjablan.tex file
for a description from DEK, and jablantile.mf for the sources.
jablantile.pdf is the formatted version of dearjablan.tex.
Karl Berry (merely the uploader on behalf of DEK)
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: jablantine
Version number: 3dec09
Author's name: Karl Berry
Location on CTAN: /fonts/jablantile
Summary description: Metafont tiles a la Slavik Jablan, from Don Knuth
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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This is a small Metafont font created by Don Knuth to implement the
modular tiles described by Slavik Jablan. See the dearjablan.tex file
for a description from DEK, and jablantile.mf for the sources.
jablantile.pdf is the formatted version of dearjablan.tex.
Karl Berry (merely the uploader on behalf of DEK)
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: latexmk
Version number: 4.11
Author's name: John Collins
Location on CTAN: /support/latexmk
Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine V. 4.11
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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1. Corrects a long-standing bug that when the main file
uses bibtex, and uses include for subdocuments, changes in
bibliography citations did not always trigger a rerun of bibtex.
2. Fixed a problem that latexmk did not detect changed aux
files etc on a small document when the run of (pdf)latex was
within the 1-second granularity of filetimes.
3. Improved start-up times on some large documents by
avoiding unnecessary recalculations of md5 checksums.
4. Deals better with eps-to-pdf conversions reported by
epstopdf package.
5. Minor fixes and improvements.
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On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 Russell Standish submitted the new
pnas2009.bst
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/misc/pnas2009.bst
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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Update to PNAS bibliograohy style to include journal article
title, as per new requirements.
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On Tue, 1 Dec 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:
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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:
Congress (regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Henderson,
Iceberg (regular + bold), Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting
License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves)
New in v1.6:
- added support for the blackletter font Old Blackletter
(This font offers additional ligatures for ch, ck, ft, tz!)
Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the
month (December 2009) and can be downloaded for free (at least
this month) at: http://www.freefont.de
Later you can buy it from Softmaker
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This should be at your local mirror within a day.
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: luaotfload
Version number: 1.06
Author's name: Elie Roux
Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/
Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Bugfix: last update broke compatibility with LuaTeX version
0.40.6. This version is compatible with version 0.40 and
more recent versions.
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Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: tablor
Version number: 4.06-c
Author's name: Guillaume Connan
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablor
Summary description: Create tables of signs and of variations.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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New tablor.cfg which allows to set giac's epsilon (1e-100 by
default) and fix a minor bug.
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Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: pstdoc
Version number: 1.0
Author's name: Michael Sharpe
Location on CTAN: /info/pstdoc/
Summary description: pstricks help system
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This version adds an updated pstricks help database plus a web interface to
that database.
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On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
pdfcomment
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment
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 v1.5b:
- new option deadline
-> new list styles with deadline
feature request by: Michael Niedermair
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: autolatex
Version number: 8.0
Author's name: Stephane GALLAND
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: GXL support for AutoLaTeX
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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AutoLaTeX 8.0 is able to automatically convert GXL files
(Graph eXtended Language) into PDF or PNG pictures.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: inconsolata
Version number: 2009/11/28
Author's name: Karl Berry
Location on CTAN: /fonts/inconsolata
Summary description: Fix spacing font dimensions.
License type: ofl
Announcement text:
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This update of the Inconsolata monospaced support corrects
the spacing-related fontdimen values so that there is no
stretch and shrink, and end-of-sentence extraspace is equal
to the word space. (Same as in cmtt.)
Thanks to Enrico Gregorio and Eddie Kohler.
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and again, the daemon says:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: luainputenc
> Author's name: Elie Roux
> Author's email: elie.roux(a)telecom-bretagne.eu
> Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/latex/luainputenc/
> Summary description: Replacing inputenc for use in LuaTeX.
> License type: lppl
>
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for this also; i have 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
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/latex/luainputenc/
the web catalogue entry will change minutely, overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should reach your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: cleveref
Version number: 0.15
Author's name: Toby Cubitt
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cleveref
Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This version adds support for the amsthm package, and fixes
a subtle bug that could occasionally cause page numbers to
be reset.
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> Name of contribution: xetex.def 0.94
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> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xetex-def
> Summary description: merge big-point and eps changes
> License type: lppl
>
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This xetex.def 0.94 combines the two different 0.93 releases:
> big-point incompatibility (from Ross Moore) and EPS support from
> dvipdfmx.def (from Jonathan Kew). It does not include any additional
> changes.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i have 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
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xetex-def
as always, the catalogue will change, in a small way, overnight.
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For the CTAN team
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Daniel Luecking submitted an update to the
mfpic
package.
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:
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Mfpic version 1.03.
Bugs fixed since 1.00:
-- Polar vector fields extending past picture boundaries.
-- Problem with handling of verbatimtex.
-- Color handling broken for MetaPost version < 0.900
-- Flawed detection of amstex format.
-- Corrupted PDF files in documentation.
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Massimo Redaelli submitted an update to the
circuitikz
package.
The package provides a set of macros for naturally typesetting electrical and
(somewhat less naturally, perhaps) electronic networks.
It is designed as a tool that is easy to use, with a lean syntax, native to
LaTeX, and directly supporting PDF output format.
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/circuitikz/
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Quite an update. Many bugs fixed, but probably just as many
new ones introduced: feedback welcome!
* Version 0.2.3
- fixed compatibility problem with label option from tikz
- Fixed resizing problem for shape ground
- Variable capacitor
- polarized capacitor
- ConTeXt support (read the manual!)
- nfet, nigfete, nigfetd, pfet, pigfete, pigfetd
(contribution of Clemens Helfmeier and Theodor Borsche)
- njfet, pjfet (contribution of Danilo Piazzalunga)
- pigbt, nigbt
- *backward incompatibility* potentiometer is now the
standard resistor-with-arrow-in-the-middle; the old
potentiometer is now known as variable resistor (or vR),
similarly to variable inductor and variable capacitor
- triac, thyristor, memristor
- new property name for bipoles
- fixed voltage problem for batteries in american voltage mode
- european logic gates
- *backward incompatibility* new american standard
inductor. Old american inductor now called cute inductor
- *backward incompatibility* transformer now linked with
the chosen type of inductor, and version with core, too.
Similarly for variable inductor
- *backward incompatibility* styles for selecting shape
variants now end are in the plural to avoid conflict with paths
- new placing option for some tripoles (mostly transistors)
- mirror path style
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> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20091125-085946/
>
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xpackages
> Author's name: LaTeX team
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xpackages
> Summary description: High-Level LaTeX3 concepts
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> The xpackages bundle: high-level LaTeX3 concepts
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The xpackages are experimental, high-level parts of LaTeX3. They
> are designed to provide a link between the programming system
> (expl3) and the user. Each xpackage is focussed in a different
> area, for example creating document commands (xparse),
> producing flexible formatting functions (template), etc.
>
> At present, the xpackages are designed to be loaded on top
> of LaTeX2e:
>
> usepackage{xparse}
> usepackage{xtemplate}
>
> In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code.
> This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a
> stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed.
>
> To use the xpackages, you will need to have the expl3 package
> available. This provides the LaTeX3 coding environment on which
> the xpackages are built.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> This release (SVN 1750)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This release adds the new package xtemplate to the release.
> xtemplate is a complete re-working of the template code, to
> improce the interface and internals. Crucially, templates are
> nmow much better self-documenting: a designer should be able
> to read a template to see the nature of the keys it defines.
> The team have also constucted a number of automated tests for
> the xtemplate code, so that problems will show up before
> breaking the released version.
>
> The current template package is slowly being retired from use
> in the other xpackages (currently SVN only). New packages
> should use the xtemplate approach only: at a suitable stage in
> the future, template will be removed from the xpackages.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Looking forward
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> There are some outstanding questions about the xtemplate code,
> which have been discussed on the LaTeX-L list. These will be
> addressed, although it may take some time as the answers depend
> on testing xtemplate in the real world.
>
> The team is currently examining the galley2 and xfmgalley
> modules, and expect that the next xpackage to be revised to a
> usable position will be a galley system built on these existing
> packages.
>
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: PerlTeX
Version number: 2.0
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/perltex/
Summary description: Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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PerlTeX is a combination Perl script (perltex.pl) and LaTeX2e style
file (perltex.sty) that, together, give the user the ability to define
LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code. Once defined, a Perl macro becomes
indistinguishable from any other LaTeX macro. PerlTeX thereby combines
LaTeX's typesetting power with Perl's programmability.
Version 2.0 (not a major release, just the version after 1.9) of
PerlTeX fixes two bugs. First, user code can now safely change the
current directory. Second, multi-paragraph error output is now
reported correctly. Thanks to Przemyslaw Wesolek for providing a bug
report and minimal example that triggered both bugs.
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On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 François Charette submitted an update to the
polyglossia
package.
The package provides a complete Babel replacement for users of XeLaTeX. The
initial version includes support for 54 different language
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia/
Summary description: Modern multilingual typesetting with XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bugfix for version 1.1.0
Only the language modules for french, breton, turkish and sanskrit are
affected.
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On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 Andreas Löffler submitted an update to the
sparklines
package.
Sparklines are intense, simple, wordlike graphics (so named by Edward Tufte).
Location on CTAN: /graphics/sparklines
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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removed errors from previous version
added color support for drawing sparklines
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back on the 17th, the daemon piped up and wittered about an upload...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: datetime
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/datetime
> Summary description: Change format of oday with commands for displaying the time
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 2.56:
> * Added formattime. (Specific times can now be displayed in
> the same format as currenttime)
> * Added new date format yyyymmdd
> * Added new time format hhmmss
> * Added new package option iso
> * datetime package options now override babel's date format
> * Moved definition of
ewdateformat and
ewtimeformat before
> configuration file is loaded.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
and that same day i installed the new version, but was not able to
update the catalogue repository (mechanism failure at the server). so i
forgot to send this mail ... even when the catalogue repository was
mended.
so, 4 days late ...
thanks for the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/datetime.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/datetime
needless to say, the catalogue entry has now done all the changing it's
going to do, from this update.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
just as massenet prepares werther to kill himself (on the radio), up
pops the daemon and says:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: expl3
> Author's name: LaTeX Team
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/expl3
> Summary description: Low-level LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> The expl3 bundle: Low-level LaTeX3 programming conventions
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The files of the expl3 bundle provide a low-level API for TeX
> programmers with special syntax conventions, completely
> separating it from document level syntax. Hence, the commands
> provided are not intended for use at the document level nor for
> use in describing design layouts in document class files.
>
> This API provides the foundation on which the LaTeX3 kernel
> and other advanced extensions are built. Special care has been
> taken so that they can be used within a LaTeX2e context as
> regular packages.
>
> The TeX and eTeX primitives are all given a new name according
> to these conventions. However, in the main direct use of the
> primitives is not required or encouraged: the expl3 modules
> define an independent low-level LaTeX3 programming language.
>
> At present, the expl3 modules are designed to be loaded on top
> of LaTeX2e:
>
> usepackage{expl3}
>
> In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code.
> This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a
> stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> This release (SVN 1733)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Since SVN 1550, internal changes have been made to switch from
> cs_new:Nn to cs_new:npn (and of forth) for performance
> reasons. Some numerical code has switched from using num to
> int storage.
>
> The messaging system (l3msg) now allows messages to use up to
> four arguments. At the same time, the recovery code concept
> has been removed from l3msg, which now focusses purely on
> messages. These changes may therefore require changes to other code.
> Kernel messages are now divided up into groups, so that they can
> be named more freely. More details of these changes are included
> in l3obsolete.txt
>
> In the l3keys module, there have been some improvements to
> choices. An error is now issued if .generate_choices:n is given
> before .choice_code:n has defined the necessary code. The value
> l_keys_choice_int is now indexed from 0, rather than from 1,
> so that it is more easily used with if_case:w and so on.
>
> New functions chk_if_free_cs:c and seq_if_in:NV(TF) have
> been added. The exp_args:x function has been removed from the
> core of expl3, as it is only of significant benefit when using
> LuaTeX.
>
> Documentation has been improved at various places. Some changes
> have been made the font loading system, so that the use of
> lmodern is documented, and details of using l3doc.cfg to change the
> behaviour are provided.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> The LaTeX3 Project
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/expl3.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/expl3
the catalogue entry will change overnight (though the difference will
hardly be noticeable).
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, submitted an update to the
polyglossia
package.
Summary description: Modern multilingual typesetting with XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is a rather substantial bugfix release. See the
accompanying README file for details.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/polyglossia/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=polyglossia
(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