Jochen Wertenauer submitted an update to the
vhistory
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Peter Flynn submitted an update to the
latex-brochure
package.
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License type: lppl
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Peter Flynn submitted an update to the
latex-veryshortguide
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License type: lppl
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some descriptions for greater clarity. The preformatted version uses commercial
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Daniel Flipo submitted an update to the
tabvar
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License type: lppl
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
exsheets
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Summary description: Yet another package for the creation of exercise sheets.
License type: lppl
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There has been a potentially breaking change: the {tasks} environment previously
provided by ExSheets has been extracted into a package of its own (`tasks') now
shipped with and being part of the exsheets bundle. This does not change any
syntax per se. However, the options for the environment are no longer set with
SetupExSheets but with settasks. Also the object that is used for the list
template and its instances has been renamed from `exsheets-tasks' into `tasks'.
Another breaking change while we're at it) is a syntax difference with the
{tasks} environment: the optional argument for the number of columns is no
longer set in braces but parentheses. This is deliberate as it reflects the
optional nature of the argument better and is consistent with the syntax of
NewTasks, too.
Additionally the labels of the list got an additional offset of 1ex from the
items which will lead to different visual output. In some cases this might
actually lead to the most annoying changes. In this case say
settasks{label-offset=0pt} which should cure things again.
Unrelated with the above there have been improvements to the random selection of
questions which seems to work properly now.
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemnum
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Summary description: a comprehensive approach for the numbering of chemical compounds
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the daemon writes:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: clipboard
> Author's name: Eduardo C. Lourenco de Lima
> Package version: 0.2
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/clipboard/
> Summary description: Copy and paste into and across documents
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The clipboard package provides a basic framework for copying and
> pasting text and commands into and across multiple documents. It
> replaces the copypaste package.
>
> 2013/01/18 v0.2
> Renamed: copypaste->clipboard
> Commands:
> Copy {key} {content}
> Paste {key} {content}
>
ewclipboard {basename}
> openclipboard {basename}
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Announcement required: Yes
>
> Additional comments:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a complete replacement for the copypaste package. I cleaned up
> the code but decided to rename the package because I had to rename all
> user commands due to old yank being confusing to emacs users.
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entry in the catalogue repository.
in due course, the copypaste package will move from the main ctan tree
(leaving a link, in the first instance); we don't throw out packages
immediately, unless they prove to be a legal embarrassment, or the
like....
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the daemon told me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: sepfootnotes
> Author's name: Eduardo C. Lourenco de Lima
> Package version: 0.2
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/sepfootnotes/
> Summary description: Support footnotes and endnotes from separate files
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The sepfootnote package supports footnotes and endnotes from separate
> files. Basically, it provides sepfootnotecontent and sepfootnote:
> the former defines the content of a note; the latter typesets that
> note. It is compatible with both standard footnote and footcite from
> biblatex.
>
> 2013/01/17 v0.2
> * utf8: Support keys with UTF-8 characters
> *
ewfootnotes: Use the standard footnote counter
> *
ewfootnotes*: Use its own footnote counter
> * sepfootnote: Default footnote apparatus
> * addto{prefix}notes: Add text and commands to endnotes
> * print{prefix}note: Print the content of a note
> * jobname.ent-{prefix}: Renamed endnote external file
> * {prefix}noteref: Removed
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> Name of contribution: acro
> Author's name: Clemens Niederberger
> Package version: 1.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/acro/
> Summary description: typeset acronyms
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The syntax of the commands `DeclareAcronym' and of `printacronyms'
> has changed! Since this will break compatibility with documents set
> with prior versions of `acro' the option `version=0' has been
> introduced which _should_ retain compatibility.
>
> Also new:
> - new `accsupp' acronym property
> - new `sort' acronym property
> - new default: `sort=true'
> - new options `page-ranges', `next-page', `next-pages', `pages-name',
> `record-pages'
> - no automatic label placement for page number referencing any more,
> the page referencing now is done with a different method
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Robin Fairbairns
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Silke Hofstra submitted an update to the
sourcecodepro
package.
Summary description: Use Source Code Pro with TeX(-alike) systems
License type: ofl
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This version removes 'sourcecodepro-type1.sty' and 'sourcecodepro-otf.sty' in
favour of a single 'sourcecodepro.sty' with overrides 'type1' (or 't1') and
'opentype' (or 'otf').
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> Name of contribution: datatool
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Package version: 2.13
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/datatool/
> Summary description: Tools to load and manipulate data
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> * Added new package `datagidx'
>
> - create glossaries/indexes /without/ using an external tool such
> as makeindex or xindy
>
> * datatool.sty
>
> - added dtlsort (like DTLsort but user supplies custom
> comparison handler).
>
> - added DTLgnewdb, DTLgdeletedb, DTLgcleardb
>
> - added DTLsaverawdb
>
> - added ifDTLnewdbonload, DTLnewdbonloadtrue,
> DTLnewdbonloadfalse
>
> - added dtlparsewords
>
> - fixed bug in @DTLnewrow (misspelt PackageError command)
>
> - removed spurious space in @dtl@setheaderforindex
>
> - removed spurious space in DTLaddentryforrow
>
> - removed spurious space in DTLdisplaydb and DTLdisplaylongdb
>
> - removed spurious space in @dtl@getsortdirection
>
> - removed spurious space in @dtl@readline
>
> - removed spurious space in DTLrawmap
>
> - dtl@setcharcode and dtl@setlccharcode now check
> for @dtl@wordbreak instead of space and tilde
>
> - dtl@setlccharcode bug fix (characters without a lowercase
> now correctly dealt with)
>
> - dtlicompare and dtl@teststartswith now use
> dtl@setwordbreaksnohyphens to deal with spaces
>
> - added @dtlstringnull and @dtlnumbernull and fixed bug in
> DTLifnull
>
> - renamed datatool.pdf to datatool-code.pdf
>
> * datatool-base.sty
>
> - added dtlwordindexcompare
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Zdenek Wagner submitted an update to the
zwpagelayout
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Summary description: Page layout and crop-marks
License type: lppl
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Version 1.4c is a bug fix, the PDF boxes (TrimBox and BleedBox) now properly
work in the (x)dvipdfm(x) family of drivers.
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Boris Veytsman submitted an update to the
philosophersimprint
package.
Summary description: Typesetting articles for the journal Philosopher's Imprint
License type: lppl
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As said in its mission statement at
http://www.philosophersimprint.org, ``Philosophers' Imprint is a
refereed series of original papers in philosophy, edited by philosophy
faculty at the University of Michigan, with the advice of an
international Board of Editors, and published on the World Wide Web by
the University of Michigan Digital Library. The mission of the Imprint
is to promote a future in which funds currently spent on journal
subscriptions are redirected to the dissemination of scholarship for
free, via the Internet.'' The journal used to accept manuscripts in
Rich Text Format only. However, for many authors, especially from the
field of logic, TeX seems to be a better choice. I was commissioned
to write a LaTeX class for this journal.
The aim of the class is to help authors to typeset their own
articles in the ``Web-ready'' format. We do not assume the authors
have any commercial fonts installed on their machines. The class
uses only freely available and freely distributed fonts.
Changes in version 1.3
- Added copyright licensing information
Changes in version 1.2
- Added trailing slash to the title page URL
Changes in version 1.1
- New formatting of journal URL
- Better handling of footnotes
- Use for microtype if exists
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> Name of contribution: dejavu
> Author's name: Pavel Farar
> Package version: 2.33
> Location on CTAN: fonts/dejavu
> Summary description: LaTeX support for the DejaVu fonts
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> - Changed the Em Size in the Type 1 version of the fonts
> from non-standard value 2048 to 1000. This corrects
> problem with weird spacing of letters when xelatex
> used Type 1 version of DejaVu fonts, lualatex was
> Ok. Problem reported by Felix Lehmann.
>
> - The support files were not regenerated, because they are
> created from the TrueType fonts, not from the Type 1
> fonts.
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> Name of contribution: pst-vectorian
> Author's name: Patrick Fradin
> Package version: 0.4
> Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-vectorian/
> Summary description: Printing ornaments
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> This is a PSTricks related package for drawing ornaments. The
> documentation is in french, but the examples are self-explanatory
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Dwight Aplevich submitted an update to the
circuit-macros
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Summary description: Macros for drawing circuits and other diagrams for LaTeX and the web.
License type: lppl
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>From the CHANGES file, Version 7.4:
New macro lthick.
Simplified shadebox.
The ifroff macro renamed to iftpic.
New configuration file m4defaults.m4.
Reworked darrowlibrary for consistency with solid lines and arrows; new macro darc and wrappers
Darc, Darrow, Dline; old version included in olddarrow.m4 to ease transition.
Macros and examples fixed and made more robust for gpic (where possible).
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Christian Tellechea submitted an update to the
xstring
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Summary description: String (token list) manipulation
License type: lppl
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xstring update
v1.7 2013/1/13
==============
* bugfix: global assignments for groupID (no more save stack-error)
* macros are now long
NOTE: CTAN path changed!
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Bob Tennent submitted an update to the
pmx
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Summary description: pre-processor for MusiXTeX
License type: gpl
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Several changes at movement breaks to improve compatibility with M-Tx
and musixlyr.
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Daniel Stender submitted the
xetex-tibetan
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Summary description: XeTeX input maps for Unicode Tibetan (0F00-0FFF)
License type: lppl
Announcement text: Yes
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Initial release of TECkit input mappings for typesetting of Unicode Tibetan
(0F00-0FFF) with the LateX PDF-engine XeTeX.
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Eduardo C. Lourenço de Lima submitted the
copypaste
package to CTAN.
Summary description: Copy and paste into and across documents
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides a basic framework for copying and pasting content into a
single document, or across different documents. The intended use is to quote an
external document dynamically.
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Qing Lee submitted an update to the
xecjk
package.
Summary description: Support for CJK documents in XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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* Correct the font substitution of CJKfamily.
* Fix a bug in `xeCJKfntef` that makes `hbox`
output weird result.
* Fix an issue that package `xunicode` makes
`
obreakspace` invalidated in non
`UTFencname` encoding.
* Some other minor adjustment.
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the daemon relates the following:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: algorithm2e
> Author's name: Christophe Fiorio
> Package version: 5.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/
> Summary description: Floating algorithm environment with algorithmic keywords
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This release 5.0 of algorithm2e package.
> A lot a new features and fixes have been added since last release 3
> years in response to user requests.
> See log for details on what's new. Here are some:
>
> Three major changes:
> - now, when no end keyword is defined in a block macro no empty line is printed
> - SetKwSwith takes now 9 args
> - leIf macro automatically defined by SetKwIF
>
> New features:
> - new macro SetStartEndCondition
> - block markers
> - new environment algomathdisplay
> - new macro SetKwProg
> - new languages: croatian, ngerman, spanish
>
> And some fixes:
> - works now with multicol package
> - problem when numbering line inside until condition
> - dotocloa option
> - uIf and uCase which didn't have same behavior when used with noline, vlined or lined option.
> - fix a bug with Repeat Until command when use with side comment on Until
> - fix a bug with side text of command macro
> - fix a bug with hyperref and chapter definition (thanks to Hubert Meier)
> - fix bugs with l macro and side comment
> - fix non ascii character (utf8 not yet recognized by all latex engine)
> Uploader's additional comments:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a major, stable release answering lot of request and remarks
> made on newsgroup or forums.
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
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Boris Veytsman submitted an update to the
resphilosophica
package.
Summary description: Typesetting Articles For Res Philosophica
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides a class for typesetting articles for the journal
Res Philosophica, http://www.resphilosophica.org.
This work was commissioned by the Saint Louis University.
Changes
version 1.11: Automatic doi generation
Bibliography formatting changes
version 1.10: Bibliography formatting changes
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Dan Luecking submitted the
minifp
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Summary description: Fixed-point real computations to 8 decimals.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides basic arithmetic operations to 8 decimal places for plain
TeX or LaTeX. Results are exact when they fit within the digit limits. Along
with the basic package is an optional extension that adds computation of sin,
cos, log, sqrt, exp, powers and angles. These are also exact when theoretically
possible and are otherwise accurate to at least 7 decimal places. In addition
there is provided a stack-based programing environment.
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Jean-François Burnol submitted an update to the
mathastext
package.
Summary description: Use the text font in math mode
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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1.2e [2013/01/10]
This version should be the last one in the 1.2 series as it seems to
correct most of the main problems which were introduced with the massive
use of mathematically active characters in versions 1.2 and 1.2b.
* It is indeed a thorny point when one wants to modify only in math mode
how an active character acts, without breaking things. The package now
does that /only/ if the activation appears to originate in the Babel
system, as it is then possible to modify appropriately the Babel macros
user@active<char> and
ormal@char<char>. The relevant issues are
discussed in section 2.10 of the user manual, in the test file
testmathastextalphabets.tex, and in the source code comments to the
macro mst@mathactivate. The inherent incompatibility of Babel with
packages having made mathematically active the characters itself makes
document active is circumvented by this interference of mathastext. A
generally applicable Babel patch could be derived from the method used
by mathastext.
* The technique of mathematical activation is maintained only for the
characters which are not catcode active (at the entrance in math mode,
as mathastext does all its activation job at everymath and everydisplay).
* Sadly, the feature of added italic corrections introduced in version
1.2b did not behave as described in the user manual, due to forgotten
group braces. Fixed.
* The command MTlowerast from the user manual of v1.2d was not the one
implemented in the source code. Fixed.
* The test files automatically extracted from a latex run on the dtx file
have been revised and extended.
* The code is better documented.
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License type: lppl
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Macros meant to avoid using too many expandafter. Should hopefully be
compatible with plain, LaTeX and ConTeXt, but requires eTeX's
umexpr.
This was written before I had understood LaTeX3's variant mechanism, and I
advise people who fight with expansion to use LaTeX3 rather than multiexpand.
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caption
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Summary description: Many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table.
License type: lppl
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progressbar
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threadcol
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Summary description: Organize document columns into PDF article threads
License type: lppl
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The threadcol package combines a document's columns into a
PDF article thread. PDF readers that support this
mechanism (probably just Adobe Acrobat/Reader) can be
instructed to scroll automatically from column to column,
which facilitates on-screen reading of two-column documents.
Even for single-column documents, threadcol supports the
creation of multiple article threads, which help organize
discontiguous but logically related regions of text into a
form that the user can scroll through as if its contents
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> without scaling
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> - Save axis ratio
> - Support externaldisable and externalenable
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Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
morehype
package.
Summary description: Tools for hyperref and HTML
License type: lppl
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morehype r0.81 as of 2013/01/04:
TEXLINKS v0.81:
`texlinks' v0.81 changes some defaults and offers new
choices for CTAN package description pages. The
documentation also gives a little overview of what the
different interfaces offer.
`texlinks' v0.81 also generates links to Google search pages
and Google maps (think of TeX user meetings), moreover to
question pages on tex.stackexchange.com and on
stackoverflow.com, and finally to the Wikibook on TeX.
These macros generate the full URLs from minimal identifiers
(and memorizable macro names) in the site-specific way.
The documentation contains several new examples.
BLOG v0.81:
* egin{enumtype}{<1/a/A/i/I>} resembling the `enumerate'
package becomes official.
* HTML entities added: soft hyphen (-), ...caron; (v),
...lig; (AE etc.)
* Documentation of `markblog' in `blog.pdf' mentions
alternative implementations of simplified/non-TeX markup
(especially `interpreter').
BLOGEXEC v0.21:
* The {noblog} environment becomes official. It
generates no HTML code at all, as opposed to `blog''s
{commentlines} that generates an HTML comment.
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Joseph Wright submitted an update to the
beamer
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Summary description: A LaTeX class for producing presentations
License type: lppl
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Beamer v3.26:
- Remove Lyx material (improved version
now in Lyx itself)
- Fix bug in includeonlylecture
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemmacros
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Summary description: macros and commands for chemists
License type: lppl
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Bug fix: the handling of sub- and superscripts when more than one isotope is used within ch{} now works as it should
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Michael Shell submitted an update to the
ieeetrantools
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Summary description: The IEEEtrantools.sty package provides several commands from the IEEEtran.cls file so that they can be used under other LaTeX classes.
License type: lppl
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I am pleased to announce the release of the v1.3 update to the IEEEtrantools LaTeX package.
IEEEtrantools.sty provides several commands from IEEEtran.cls, including
IEEEPARstart and the IEEEeqnarray family so that they may be used under other
class files.
Version 1.3 is based on version 1.8 of IEEEtran.cls. Notable changes include:
1) No longer redefines the standard LaTeX itemize, enumerate and description
(IED) lists by default. (e.g., the older package option retainorgcmds is
now the default behavior.) A new package option, redeflists, can be
invoked to redefine the standard IED list environments to their IEEE
versions. IEEEitemize, IEEEenumerate and IEEEdescription remain available in
any case. The redeflists option may not be compatible with other packages
that alter the standard IED list environments.
2) Added new *-forms of IEEEyesnumber*, IEEEnonumber*, IEEEyessubnumber*,
and IEEEnosubnumber* (the non-star form of the latter is also new) which
persist across IEEEeqnarray lines until countermanded. To provide for
continued subequations across instances of IEEEeqnarrays as well as for
subequations that follow a main equation (e.g., 14, 14a, 14b ...)
IEEEyessubnumber no longer automatically increments the equation number on
it's first invocation of a subequation group. Invoke both
IEEEyesnumberIEEEyessubnumber together to start a new equation/subequation
group.
3) Hyperref links now work with IEEEeqnarray equations. Thanks to Stefan M.
Moser for reporting this problem.
4) Now provides the IEEEproof environment, as well as the IEEEQEDhere,
IEEEQEDhereeqn and IEEEQEDoff commands. Also, IEEEproofindentspace allows
users to change the IEEEproof indentation via
enewcommand. Thanks to Mark
D. Butala, Hennadiy Leontyev and Stefan M. Moser for suggesting this.
Special thanks to Stefan M. Moser for beta testing and additional
suggestions which improved IEEEproof.
See the changelog.txt file for full details.
Enjoy!
Mike Shell
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Carsten Ace Dahlmann submitted the
uni-wtal-lin
to CTAN.
Summary description: Citation style for linguistic studies at the University of Wuppertal
License type: lppl
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The package defines a biblatex citation style based on the standard style
authoryear. The citations are optimised for linguistic studies at the Institute
of Linguistics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal.
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Jean-François Burnol submitted an update to the
mathastext
package.
Summary description: Use the text font in math mode
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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1.2d [2013/01/02]
* an incompatibility with amsmath (its macro
esetMathstrut@),
exists since version 1.2 of the package. This is fixed
here.
* various improvements in dealing with the asterisk and in the
mechanism of letting non-letter symbols obey the math alphabet
commands.
* documentation extended and improved.
* mathastext now inserts automatically after all (latin)
letters in math mode their italic corrections, if the font
used is upright (sic). This improves the spacings for the
positioning of subscripts. The feature is de-activated
inside the math alphabets commands (apart from mathnormal),
so as to not prohibit the formation of ligatures,
* the documentation has been extended to explain in detail the
issues which are relevant to the new feature of added italic
corrections,
* version 1.2 had some bad bugs when confronted to active
characters. This is corrected and additionally MTnonletters-
-donotobeymathxx is made the default, as the user input is too
much constrained in its absence.
* a less fatal, but still annoying, typo had made the dot in 1.2
of type mathpunct rather than mathord
* the inner namespace has been rationalized a bit.
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemnum
package.
Summary description: a comprehensive approach for the numbering of chemical compounds
License type: lppl
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Italian documentation added (many thanks to Jonas Rivetti!)
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
enotez
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Summary description: Endnotes for LaTeX2e
License type: lppl
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new options `mark-cs' and `mark-format', redefinable commands enmarkstyle and enotezwritemark
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Michael Shell submitted an update to the
ieeetran
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Summary description: A LaTeX class for authors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) transactions journals and conferences.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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I am pleased to announce the release of the v1.8 update to IEEEtran.cls
(the class file for IEEE journal and conference authors). Version 1.8
offers a new transmag mode for IEEE Transactions on Magnetics papers
as well as new persistent *-forms of the IEEEeqnarray equation numbering
controls. Hyperref links now work with IEEEeqnarray equations. There are
also several bug fixes. See the changelog.txt file for full details.
Enjoy!
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Petr Olsak wrote:
> I have done major changes in CSTeX packages during October--December,
> namely in:
>
> csplain.tar.gz
> cspsfonts.tar.gz
>
> The CSTeX is a support of Czech and Slovak typesetting by TeX,
> csplain extends the plainTeX macros, cspsfonts includes adobe35 fonts
> support for csplain.
>
> The following major revision of these packages was done:
>
> - New metrics was regenerated in cspsfonts in order to Euro character
> accesibility and to avoid the useless virtual font compositions.
> - csplain implicitly reads the UTF8 input encoding.
> - csplain co-operates now with LuaTeX and XeTeX too.
> - csplain can load all hyphen patterns from http://tug.org/tex-hyphen/
> - csplain is extended by OPmac macro which gives similar features like
> LaTeX but more straight and simply.
>
> More information about these changes can be found at
>
> http://petr.olsak.net/cstex-e.html
> http://petr.olsak.net/opmac-e.html
>
> These packages mentioned above are automatically mirrored to CTAN, and
> tex live has been updated as needed.
thanks for all of that petr; as noted above, all necessary actions have
already taken place.
Robin Fairbairns
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> Name of contribution: toptesi
> Author's name: Claudio Beccari
> Package version: 5.62
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/toptesi/
> Summary description: A package for typesetting multilanguage theses
> License type: lppl
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>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> The bundle has been upgraded in order to insert a plurality of logos
> into the title page, as it is required when a thesis is created in the
> frame of an agreement between a plurality of universities.
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> Name of contribution: garamondx
> Author's name: Michael Sharpe
> Package version: 1.01
> Location on CTAN: fonts/garamondx/
> Summary description: URW GaramondNo8 plus expert features and newtxmath
> License type: other-nonfree
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> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> delimiters (), [] and {}. It also provides fontinst source for the
> package.
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> Name of contribution: apa6
> Author's name: Brian Beitzel
> Package version: 2.10
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/apa6
> Summary description: Format documents in APA style (6th Edition)
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> The 'biblatex' option now requires the biber package (for full
> APA 6th edition compatibility), but as always, users may
> manually load any bibliographic package they choose.
>
> Additionally, the apa6.ptex file now honors the 'mask' option.
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