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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: mh
Author's name: Morten Høgholm
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mh
Summary description: mh bundle update
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is an update of the mh bundle. The maintainer email address has
changed and some bugs have been fixed in mathtools.
More importantly, the mh bundle now also contains the breqn package
originally developed by the late Michael J. Downes of the American
Mathematical Society. I wish to thank the American Mathematical Society
for making this possible. See the breqn documentation for more
information.
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Synapsen
Author's name: Markus Krajewski
Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/Synapsen
Summary description: Synapsen, new version 3.0
License type: shareware
Announcement text:
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New features since Synapsen 3.0:
* New categories for movies, music, and proceedings
* Printing of cards with many user settings, extensive printing interface
* Improved editing functions for cards
* Direct export of the bibliography into a pdf file
* Enhancements of the OPAC interface (including articles and papers, new
catalogues like bnf.fr)
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/Synapsen/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/synapsen
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>From the Cambridge upload daemon:
> Name of contribution: SIunits
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Author's email: joseph.wright(a)morningstar2.co.uk
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/SIunits
> Summary description: Typeset physical units following the rules of the International System of Units (SI)
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.36:
> * Now uses real minus sign in text mode
> * Requires amstext (due to the above)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository;
thanks for the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/SIunits.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/SIunits
the catalogue entry (only slightly changed) will be updated overnight;
the package itself is already on its way around the world.
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Herbert Voss has provided an update for his Mathmode tutorial document.
He writes:
Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> This new version 2.29 has the following changes:
>
> 2.29 2007-11-30
> - added two special symbols Let and eL
> - typo with BlueSky
> - package fixltx2e with command MakeRobust
> - small example for limits
> - www.yandy.com -> www.pctex.com
> - added an example for aligned vertical dots
> - typos
> - added an appendix for the package file list of the pdflatex run
I have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
Thanks for the upload.
Users may view the catalogue entry at
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http://mirror.ctan.org/info/math/voss/mathmode/
(The minor change to the catalogue will propagate overnight; the updated
package is on its way already.)
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the
animate
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/animate
Summary description: creating portable PDF animations from graphics files and inline graphics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update comes with
- support for multipage PDF inclusion with animategraphics
- new options bb, viewport and trim to manipulate the graphics bounding box (borrowed from the `graphicx' package)
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/animate
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_______________________________________________
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
The package below has been updated at 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: bpolynomial
Author's name: Stephan Hennig
Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/bpolynomial/
Summary description: Drawing polynomials with MetaPost.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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bpolynomial v0.4, 2007-11-28
The MetaPost package bpolynomial helps drawing polynomial functions
of up to degree three. It provides macros to calculate Bezier curves
exactly matching a given constant, linear, quadratic or cubic polynomial.
Additionally, paths of derivatives and tangents can be calculated.
Changes to v0.3:
* New:
+ The package can now compute paths of derivatives and tangents.
+ Improved documentation.
Please update the catalogue entry with the new package description.
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Oleg Katsitadze has provided a package which has been mirrored,
automatically, to CTAN. He writes:
I'm happy to announce a new release of Eplain (3.2), a set of TeX
macros that expands on and extends the definitions in plain TeX in a
style-neutral fashion. Eplain's home page is
http://tug.org/eplain
Location on CTAN is
/macros/eplain
The manual is available on-line from Eplain's home, or as a hard-copy
from
http://www.lulu.com/content/113810
(Royalties are donated to the TeX Users Group.)
Here's an excerpt from the NEWS file.
* Fixed a bug which caused silent indexing macros to output spurious
space in vertical mode.
* Added a switch to disable index file input/output.
* Fixed xref and bibliography label definition macros so that reading
in a .aux file with a large number of label definitions does not
overflow the save stack.
* Fixed double-column macros -- they were occasionally losing material
and producing columns too high to fit on a page. Also improved
appearance of the last column, which often came out spaced out.
==============
I've updated the catalogue, and the new version should be widely
available by now. Users may view the catalogue entry at
http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/eplain.html
or browse the distribution at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/eplain/
Thanks for the continuing support of the package, Oleg.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
The package below has bee updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon
be at your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: FiXme version 3.3
Author's name: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fixme
Summary description: A LaTeX2e package for inserting fixme and meta-notes
in your documents
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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I'm happy to announce the next edition of FiXme: version 3.3
New in this release:
* Document incompatibility between marginal layout and the ACM SIG classes
* Honor twoside option in marginal layout
* Support KOMA-Script classes version 2006/07/30 v2.95b
* Documentation improvements
* Fix incompatibility with AMS-Art
* Fix bug in fixme@footnotetrue
FiXme provides you with a way of inserting fixme notes in your
documents. Such notes can appear inline, as marginal notes, footnotes, index
entries, in the log file and as warnings on stdout. It is also possible to
summarize them in a list. When you switch from draft to final mode, any
remaining fixme note will be logged, but removed from the document's body.
Additionally, critical notes will abort compilation with an informative
message. FiXme also comes with support for AUC-TeX.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fixme
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Werner Lemberg submitted an update to the
arphic
package.
These are font bundles for the Chinese Arphic fonts which work with the CJK package.
Arphic is actually the name of the company that which created the fonts
(and put them under a GPL-like licence).
Location on CTAN: /fonts/arphic
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The four bundles contain revised versions of the four Arphic fonts bundles
for simplified and traditional Chinese, as used in the CJK package for
LaTeX. It fixes omissions of some vertical glyph representation forms,
improves the TFM metrics (however, the widths stay unchanged), and
provides smaller PFB subfont files due to a newer version of FontForge
used in the conversion process.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/arphic
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_______________________________________________
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A new package has been installed at 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: CurVe
Author's name: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/curve
Summary description: A curriculum vitae class for LaTeX2e
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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I'm happy to annouce the next edition of CurVe, version 1.14.
New in this release:
- an option to reverse-count bibliographic entries
- localization to Polish
CurVe is a class package that hopefully will make your life easier when
you want to write your CV. It provides you with a set of commands to
create rubrics, entries in these rubrics etc. CurVe will then properly
format your CV for you (possibly splitting it onto multiple pages,
repeating the titles etc), which is usually the most painful part of
CV writing. Another nice feature of CurVe is its ability to manage
different CV flavors simultaneously. It is in fact often the case
that you want to maintain slightly divergent versions of your CV at
the same time, in order to emphasize on different aspects of your
background. CurVe also comes with support for AUC-TeX.
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On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Axel Sodtalbers submitted an update of the
juramisc
package.
Juramisc is a collection of classes for typesetting court sentences, legal
opinions, and dissertations for German lawyers. The package is still under
development.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/juramisc
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Updated versions of jurabase and jurabook, documentation revised.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/juramisc
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http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=juramisc
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_______________________________________________
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Oscar van Eijk submitted an update to the
sqltex
package.
SQLTeX is a well documented preprocessor to enable the use of SQL
statements in LaTeX. It is a perl script that reads an input file
containing the LaTeX source with SQL commands, and writes a LaTeX file
that can be processed with your LaTeX package. The SQL commands will be
replaced by their values. It's possible to select a single field for
substitution substitution in your LaTeX document, or to be used as input
in another SQL command. When an SQL command returns multiple fields and
or rows, the values can only be used for substitution in the document.
This version only supports MySQL databases. It has been tested on Linux,
but should work an all platforms where Perl is installed.
Location on CTAN: /support/SQLTeX
Summary description: An SQL Preprocessor for LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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After 5 years, there's finally a reason to update SQLTeX.
SQLTeX is a well documented preprocessor to enable the use of SQL
statements in LaTeX. It is a perl script that reads an input file
containing the LaTeX source with SQL commands, and writes a LaTeX file
that can be processed with your LaTeX package. The SQL commands will be
replaced by their values. It's possible to select a single field for
substitution substitution in your LaTeX document, or to be used as input
in another SQL command. When an SQL command returns multiple fields and or
rows, the values can only be used for substitution in the document.
New in this version:
--- Updates are now possible
--- Support for multiple databases
--- Multiple documents can be created
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/SQLTeX
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=sqltex
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_______________________________________________
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> I uploaded pst-user.tgz to the uk mirror. Please put
> the two new files of the tarzip into the directory
> /graphics/pstricks/base/doc/
>
> pst-user.pdf is the original documentation of PSTricks
> pst-user.tgz is the tarzip of the source files, which can
> now be run with the current LaTeX and the current
> PSTricks packages. Linux user can run the makefile
> to build the documentation and the quick reference
thank you very much for the upload. i've installed the files, and
updated the pstricks catalogue entry.
users may view the new (i.e., updated) pdf file at
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/base/doc/pst-user.pdf
or browse the pstricks base as a whole at
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/base/
the catalogue entry may be found at
http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html
the catalogue entry will be updated overnight tonight, and the document
itself will make its way around the world in its own sweet way (24 hours
or so for full propagation).
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
joseph wright wrote (in a sort of sense):
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: SIunits
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/SIunits
> Summary description: Consistent application of SI units
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.35:
> * Bug fix for handling powers in textstyle mode
> * Improved appearance of electronvolt
> * Added using dalton and atomicmassunit
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i've installed this new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
thanks for the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/siunits.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/SIunits
the package itself is well on its way around the world; the catalogue
entry will change (slightly) overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the
animate
package.
The package provides an interface to create portable, JavaScript driven
PDF animations from sets of graphics files or from inline graphics, such
as LaTeX picture environment, PSTricks or pgf/TikZ generated pictures, or
just from typeset text.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/animate
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update comes with improved timeline capabilities:
- detection of multiple inclusion of the same object into the same animation frame
- grouping objects into layers for better depth level control
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/animate
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=animate
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_______________________________________________
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Rainer Schöpf
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: SIunits
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/SIunits
> Summary description: Support for the International System of Units
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.34:
> * Change of maintainer. The package is now maintained by Joseph
> Wright (joseph.wright(a)morningstar2.co.uk)
> * License update to LPPL 1.3
> * Bug fix for negative signs when using the textstyle option
>
> Important note
> --------------
> This is a bug release, with a change of maintainer. The new
> maintainer intents to carry out a detailed review of the package, but
> *this* release is a big-fix only. The other changes made are to add
> the new maintainer to the documentation.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i have installed the new version of the package, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/siunits.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org//macros/latex/contrib/SIunits
the catalogue entry will be updated overnight; the new version of the
package is already on its way around the world.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
ctan-upload(a)tex.ac.uk wrote:
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: cleveref
> Author's name: Toby Cubitt
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/
> Summary description: Automatic cross-reference formatting.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This release is now aware of appendices, i.e. the format for
> references to appendices is now independent of that for references to
> top-level sections. It also (finally!) includes all the previously
> missing default format definitions for tables, and is a better TeX
> citizen in that it doesn't leave as many temporary macro definitions
> lying around.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I have installed the package and updated the catalogue repository (in a
minuscule fashion). Thanks for the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/cleveref.html
(this entry will change ... slightly ... overnight.)
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear
at your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
.....................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ijmart
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
Announcement text:
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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.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ijmart
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ijmart
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The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon
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Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: auto-pst-pdf
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf
Summary description: Automatic pst-pdf processing
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package uses -shell-escape to execute pst-pdf.
This makes it especially easy to integrate into the
workflow of an editor with just LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
buttons.
Wrappers are provided for various psfrag-related
features so that Matlab figures via laprint, Mathematica
figures via MathPSfrag, and regular psfrag figures can
all be input consistently and easily.
v0.4 adds options to change the commandline flags
passed to the auxiliary programs, improves robustness
and flexibility, and simplifies the output from using
the package.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf
. More information is at
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
A new package has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ifplatform
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ifplatform
Summary description: Conditionals for testing the operating system being used
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package uses -shell-escape to establish whether
the document is being processed on Windows or a *NIX
platform (Mac OS X, Linux, etc.).
Booleans provided are:
- ifwindows
- iflinux
- ifmacosx
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ifplatform
. More information is at
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The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon
be at your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: LaTeX for Malayalam
Author's name: Alex A.J.
Location on CTAN: /language/malayalam
Summary description: A package for Typesetting Malayalam using LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This version supports teTeX 3 and TeXLive.
16 new font families are supported (available as a separate package
from Sarovar - see documentation)
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/malayalam
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/malayalam-latex
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