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Name of contribution: xstring
Author's name: Christian Tellechea
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xstring
Summary description: manipulation of strings
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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package xstring update
version v1.4 2008/11/04
This package does not require LaTeX (but eTeX is required).
Consequently, the xstring.tex file should be installed in
the tex/ subtree.
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Changes
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* from this version, arguments can be (La)TeX code, i.e chars,
control sequences, groups between braces, and tokens with
other catcodes (excepted catcode 6 and 14).
New code for almost all macros.
* New expansion mode : expandarg
The first token of each argument is expanded one time, then
the macro is called.
* many corrections in the manual.
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Name of contribution: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8
Author's name: Mojca Miklavec
Location on CTAN: /language/hyph-utf8
Summary description: Hyphenation patterns have been converted into UTF-8
and should serve as a replacement for the old patterns without any
change in functionality. The patterns should be considered upstream
replacement that will be used in TeX Live and other distrubutions
instead of loading the old files.
License type: other-free
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- added Lithuanian patterns
- added Gujurati script (Sanskrit)
- replaced Hungarian patterns with a newer version
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Name of contribution: ionumbers
Author's name: Christian Schneider
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ionumbers
Summary description: restyle numbers in math mode
License type: gpl
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`ionumbers' stands for `input/output numbers'.
This package restyles numbers in math mode. If a number in the input file
is written, e.g., as |$3,231.44$| as commonly used in English texts, this
package is able to restyle it to be output as `$3,231{,}44$' as commonly
used in German texts (and vice versa). This may be very useful, if you
have a large table and want to include it in texts with different output
conventions without the need of changing the table.
Furthermore this package can automatically group digits left to the
decimal separator (thousands) and right to the decimal separator
(thousandths) in triplets without the need of specifing commas
(English) or points (German) as separators. E.g., the input
|$1234.567890$| can be output as `$1,234.,567,890$'.
Finally, an |e| starts the exponent of the number. For example,
|$21e6$| may be output as `$26 imes10,^{6}$'.
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded PSTricks5_de.tgz to the uk mirror. Please put
> all files into the new directory
>
> /info/examples/PSTricks5_de/
>
> The tarzip collects all examples as stand alone documents
> for the fifth edition of the PSTricks book.
(users should note that the book is only available in german.)
i have installed the files and updated the catalogue; thanks for the
update.
this replaces the earlier PSTricks4_de directory, though that remains
available on the archive (at least for the time being).
users may browse the package at
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Robin Fairbairns
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> Name of contribution: siunitx
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
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> Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.1d:
> - Added micL, mL, microliter, milliliter units
> - Option tabexpalign as alias for tabalignexp
> - Bug fix for per=frac
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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i have installed the new version, and have updated the catalogue entry
(for regeneration overnight tonight).
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
The package below is new at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local
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Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: lithuanian
Author's name: Sigitas Tolušis
Location on CTAN: /language/lithuanian
Summary description: Lithuanian language support package for TeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Lithuanian language support package for TeX provides:
- Lithuanian hyphenation;
- Lithuanian adds for Babel;
- Lithuanian TeX fonts for urw font family;
- examples for making Lithuanian TeX fonts with fontinst;
- extra tools for inputenc and fontenc.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: VauCanSon-G
Author's name: Lombardy Sylvain, Sakarovitch Jacques
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/vaucanson-g
Summary description: PSTricks macros for drawing automata
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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VauCanSon-G is a package that allows you to draw automata within texts
written using LaTeX. It is a set of macros that uses commands of the
beautiful PSTricks package which is part of the current LaTeX
distribution.
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Name of contribution: shuffle
Author's name: Antoine Lejay, J. Gilbey
Location on CTAN: fonts/shuffle
Summary description: A symbol for the shuffle product
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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This style allows one to access to a symbol (in Metafont) for the shuffle
product which is used in some part of mathematics and physics.
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Name of contribution: cfr-lm
Author's name: Clea F. Rees
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/cfr-lm
Summary description: Enhanced support for GUST's Latin Modern fonts.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package is experimental.
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, including
ts (La)TeX support. The package relies on the availability of both the
fonts themselves and the official font support files.
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.
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Name of contribution: CaSylTeX
Author's name: Ivan A Derzhanski
Location on CTAN: /language/casyl/
Summary description: Typeset Cree/Inuktitut in Canadian Aboriginal
Syllabics (version 2).
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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TeX macros and a fount for typesetting Cree and Inuktitut in Canadian
Aboriginal Syllabics (updated version).
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 Henrik Skov Midtiby submitted an update to the
todonotes
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/todonotes
Summary description: Let you mark things todo in your latex document.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Added the caption option to the todo command.
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: biblatex-chicago-notes-df
Author's name: David Fussner
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib
Summary description: Chicago notes + bibliography style files for biblatex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update allows biblatex-chicago-notes-df to work with biblatex
version 0.8 (and only with that version). It also thoroughly reworks
the contextual capitalization facilities available in the style, using
a combination of automatic functionality in selected fields and the
new autocap command provided by biblatex 0.8. The package
documentation gives full details on how these changes, and others,
will affect your .bib file.
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Henrik Skov Midtiby submitted an update to the
todonotes
package.
The package lets the user mark things to do later, in a simple and and visually
appealing way. The package takes several options to enable
customization/finetuning of the visual appearance.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/todonotes
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update fixes a bug that was triggered by the babel package. The problem
made the package unusable when then babel package was loaded with the frenchb
option.
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ctan-upload(a)cl.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: notes2bib
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib
> Summary description: Integrating notes into the bibliography
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.6:
> - Bug fix with
ofiles
> - New option keyword for separating notes and references using
> biblatex (gives endnotes-like effect but with hyperref abilities)
> - Some documentation improvements
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/notes2bib.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib
thanks for the upload; i've installed it as required, and updated the
catalogue entry.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This package has been updated on tug.ctan.org.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: tablor
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 environment TVCP for functions with a removable singularity like,
for instance, exp(-1/x^2) near 0. (Version 4.02)
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: syllogism
Author's name: Nicolas Vaughan
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/syllogism
Summary description: A package for typesetting syllogisms and
syllogistic-style arguments in LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Release 1.1 of the syllogism package.
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>
> Name of contribution: siunitx
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
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> Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.1c:
> - Minor config changes for
em and degree
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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
i've installed the package update as requested, and will update the
catalogue repository in a moment or two.
thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
favorite mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: xskak 1.2
Author's name: Ulrike Fischer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xskak
Summary description: An extension to the skak package for chess typesetting.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update adapts xskak to skak version 1.5 and corrects some small bugs.
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Name of contribution: historische-zeitschrift
Author's name: Dominik Wassenhoven
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/historische-zeitschrift/
Summary description: biblatex style for the German journal
'Historische Zeitschrift'
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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'historische-zeitschrift' is a citation style for the
biblatex package. It provides citations according with the
house style of the 'Historische Zeitschrift', a German
historical journal. The scheme is a fullcite for the first
citation and 'Author, Shorttitle (as note N, P)' for later
citations (P being the page number). For further details, see
the description of the house style at
http://www.oldenbourg.de/verlag/historische-zeitschrift/hz-richtlinien.htm.
This package depends on biblatex (version 0.8 or higher) as
well as etoolbox (version 1.5 or higher) and cannot be used
without these packages!
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Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: biblatex-dw
Author's name: Dominik Wassenhoven
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/
Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v1.2a
- Improved option 'edsuper' which also outputs non-INT
editions (though not as superscript, but rather similar
to a note.)
- The field 'origpublisher' (new in biblatex 0.8) is now
also supported.
- New option 'origfields' which can take the values 'true'
(standard) and 'false'. With this option, you can now
decide, whether you want to have the fields
'origlocation', 'origpublisher' and 'origyear' to be
printed or not.
-> New option 'origfieldsformat=parens|brackets|punct'.
The default is 'punct' which means that the new
punctuation mark 'origfieldspunct' (default:
addcommaspace) is used to introduce the reprint
phrase. If you choose 'parens' or 'brackets', the
reprint phrase is put in parentheses or brackets,
respectively, and the origfieldspunct is ignored.
- New option 'shorthandwidth'. With this option you can set
the width of the label in the list of shorthands to any
length (e.g. '3em' or '40pt'). This is useful if you have
very long shorthands.
-> New punctuation command 'shorthandpunct' which is
only exerted when you use the option 'shorthandwidth'.
Then it is set to a colon. You can redefine this
punctuation command with
enewcommand.
-> New length 'shorthandsep' which is only exerted if
you use the option 'shorthandwidth'. The length
'shorthandsep' defines the spacing after the label in
the list of shorthands.
- Improved package warnings.
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Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: tablor
Author's name: Guillaume Connan
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablor
Summary description: create tables of signs and variations
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 4.01 :
- new environment tablor-xetex to use with XeLaTeX (only on UNIX OS).
- Minor change in TSc environment to deal with forbidden values
- minor bug fixed.
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This package is located at
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: biblatex-nature
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-nature/
> Summary description: The Nature bibliography style for biblatex
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v0.8:
> - Initial public release
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i've installed the new package, and placed a catalogue proforma in the
repository. thanks for the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-nature.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblat…
the catalogue entry will appear on the web overnight, tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: biblatex-chem
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem/
> Summary description: biblatex styles for chemistry
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v0.8:
> - Completely updated bundle for biblatex v0.8
> - Completion of all styles, to fully cover ACS, RSC and Angewandte journals
> - Full set of demo files included
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload. i've 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/biblatex-chem.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
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Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team