The LaTeX Project Team submitted an update to the
l3build
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Version number: 2023-12-12
License type: lppl1.3c
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- Document default value of `ctanpkg` as a valid lua expression
- Improve log for failed checks with no diff files
- Document full syntaxes of `SHOWFILE` and `ASSERT(STR)`
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- Short-circuit `check --rerun` if `testdir` doesn't exist
- Retain errorlevel on Windows during `check` target
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Marei Peischl submitted an update to the
tuda-ci
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Summary description: LaTeX templates of Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Jürgen Spitzmüller submitted an update to the
polyglossia
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Version number: 1.66 2023-12-11
License type: mit lppl1.3 cc0
Summary description: An alternative to babel for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
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1.66 (2023/12/02)
Bug fixes
‣ Fix OpenType language and script tags in Chinese (#606).
‣ Fix resetting of language specifications at the end of a local font set with babel legacy means (foreignlanguage or otherlanguage* environment) (#607).
‣ Fix lowercasing of extlang’s first mandatory argument. Now the casing does not change (language tag was lower-cased always) (#608).
‣ Add missing BCP-47 alias for Khmer (#611).
‣ Stop charifavailable from looking ahead for more numbers or gobbling a space (#613).
New Features
‣ Add support for Odia, provided by AviseK Jena and AshoK Das.
‣ New auxiliary package odiadigits
‣ Add auxiliary command IfCharIsAvailableTF to complement charifavailable.
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Jürgen Spitzmüller submitted an update to the
covington
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Version: 2.14 2023-12-11
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: LaTeX macros for Linguistics
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- Add ownexcounterprep macro to add a prefix (e.g., the chapter)
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- Document how to (not) number examples per chapter.
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The LaTeX Project Team submitted an update to the
l3kernel
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Version: 2023-12-11
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Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
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### Fixed
- Support for deprecated `pdf` module functions (issue #1373)
- Generate stub `l3bitset` for transitional support
### Changed
- Use keyval handler for `l3doc` class options
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Jianrui Lyu submitted an update to the
jnuexam
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Version: 2.0 2023-12-11
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Exam class for Jinan University
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- require LaTeX release 2022-11-01 or newer
- remove class options display and reverse
- add class options medmath, solidot and random
- define setexam command
- add setexam options binding, scratch and seed
- rename command score as points
- remove commands rue and false
- add commands ickin and ickout
- remove command step
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Sajad Kazemi submitted an update to the
parsimatn
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Version: 2.1a 2023-12-11
License: ofl
Summary description: Contemporary Persian font for scientific and formal writings
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The Oberdiek Package Support Group submitted an update to the
bookmark
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Version: 1.31 2023-12-10
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Summary description: A new bookmark (outline) organization for hyperref
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* Simplified the .dtx. It is no longer a self-extracting archive
instead the newly added .ins should be used for installation.
(issue #7)
* Removed the now outdated frozen drivers from 2019.
* Removed the dependency on ltxcmds.
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Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the
babel
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Version: 3.99 2023-12-10
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* Fix spurious space in some cases because of a missing %
(introduced in 3.98).
* Two new locales: chakma and lowgerman.
* And more bare minimum locales: aramaic, avestan, aymara,
bashkir, bataktoba, bavarian, classicalmandaic, ingush, komi,
lepcha, limbu, lineara, lu, makasar, samaritan, sinteromani,
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Romano Giannetti submitted an update to the
CircuiTikZ
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Version number: 1.6.6 2023-12-09
License type: lppl gpl
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- Added the symbol for metal-oxide varistor `mov`
- Added another symbol for fuse (wiggly fuse `wfuse`)
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pdfmanagement-testphase
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Version: 0.96d 2023-12-09
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: LaTeX PDF management testphase bundle
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### Added
- l3pdfmeta.dtx: support for PDF declarations in XMP metadata, issue #58
- hyperref-generic.dtx: option nested-links key to suppress nested links.
### Changed
- key family in hyperref-generic is now hyp and not hyp/setup
- do not use pdfuaid:rev with pdf/UA-1 to avoid validator failures
- l3bitset is not loaded if a current l3kernel is detected
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Christophe Bal submitted an update to the
tutodoc
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Version: 1.0.1 2023-12-08
License: gpl3
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Two spacing weaknesses have been corrected, and the documentation codes are the
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Luis Rivera submitted an update to the
BLOpenType
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Version: 0.0.4 2023-12-07
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Quick bugfixes for missing ligature tables or shapes/series in fonts.
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The LaTeX Project Team submitted an update to the
l3experimental
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Version number: 2023-12-08
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Experimental LaTeX3 concepts
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### Added
- `draw_box_use:Nn` and `draw_coffin_use:Nnnn` to allow
placement of boxed material at an offset (issue #1357)
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l3kernel
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Version number: 2023-12-08
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### Added
- `c_empty_str` (issue #1361)
- `l3bitset`: moved from `l3experimental`
### Fixed
- Return `str` (not `tl`) in `ool_to_str:N` and `ool_to_str:n` (issue #1331)
- Catcode of space from `str_set_convert:Nnnn` (issue #1344)
- Tidy up various documentation issues (issue #1345)
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Jacob Wiersma submitted an update to the
OneDown
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Version: 1.7
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Summary description: Typeset Bridge Diagrams
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Alain Matthes submitted an update to the
tkz-elements
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Version: 1.50c
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: A Lua library for drawing Euclidean geometry with TikZ or tkz-euclide
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- version 1.50c Correction of the documentation
Added swap option to create triangles from the line object.
iscyclic is a new method to know if a quadrilateral is inscribable in a circle.
Added function diameter to create a circle.
Added function swap to swap two points.
Correction method gold of object rectangle.
Correction method in_circle_ of object triangle.
Correction method incentral_tr_ of object triangle.
Added method soddy_center of object triangle.
Added option swap for method square of object line.
Added method report for object line. Transfer a defined length from a point
Added option swap to the function square : side
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Stephan Lukasczyk submitted an update to the
inconsolata-nerd-font
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Version: 0.4
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Summary description: Inconsolata Nerd Font with support for XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX
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- Update to the latest version of the Nerd Fonts
- Replace the Inconsolata fonts by its variant *InconsolataLGC*, which also
contains Hellenic and Cyrilic glyphs, as well as bold-italic and italic
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Nelson Lago submitted an update to the
texlogsieve
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Version number: 1.4.0 2023-11-30
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This version filters some new strings from TeXlive 2023 and provides tips on how to
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The Oberdiek Package Support Group submitted an update to the
pdfrender
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Version: 1.8 2023-12-07
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Control rendering parameters
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Fix faulty command name, issue #3
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Antoine Missier submitted the
decimalcomma
package.
Version: 1.0 2023-12-06
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Comma for decimal numbers
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A new package that enhances the well-known icomma and ncccomma:
with decimalcomma, the comma behaves similarly to ncccomma, but
the code is lighter, and several compatibility issues have been
fixed.
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Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the
babel
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Version number: 3.98 2023-12-06
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Multilingual support for LaTeX, LuaLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and
Plain TeX
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Changes in version 3.98 are described in:
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Here is a summary:
* Case mappings in ini files, with new casing variants in the Latin locales.
* New: ShowLocaleProperties.
* Improved Persian/Farsi, thanks to Farshad Rasuli
(@farshadrasuli).
* In some languages and xetex, the language name was printed with the first foreignlanguage.
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Christophe Bal submitted the
tutodoc
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Version number: 1.0.0 2023-11-29
License type: gpl3
Summary description: Typeset tutorial-like documentations
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1st release: tutodoc can be used to type tutorial-like documentations.
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Antoine Missier submitted an update to the
spacingtricks
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Version: 1.8 2023-12-06
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Addressing various spacing issues
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New macro 'cstrut' for a symmetric strut around the mathematical axis
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