the daemon tells me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Author's email: charles.schaum(a)att.net
> Package version: 0.96
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
> Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and flexibility in body text and index.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 0.96 has addressed several package conflict issues and has a
> friendlier quick start guide. There remains an outstanding issue that
> is discussed, with manual workarounds, in the manual. Resolving that
> issue will be a final step toward version 1.0, and I welcome anyone's
> interest in finding a solution. It is my hope that this package will
> help others as much as it helps me.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/nameauth.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Yves de Saint-Pern submitted the
droit-fr
package.
Summary description: LaTeX document class and bibliographic style for french law.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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droit-fr is a toolkit intented for students writing a thesis in french law.
It features:
- a LaTeX document class
- a bibliographic style for Biblatex package
- a practical example of french thesis document
- a documentation
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/droit-fr
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/droit-fr
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yesterday, the daemon reported a submission; unfortunately the daemon
doesn't have a nag function ...
so _now_ i've installed:
> Name of contribution: biblatex-fiwi
> Author's name: Simon Spiegel
> Author's email: simon(a)simifilm.ch
> Package version: 1.1e
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-fiwi/
> Summary description: biblatex styles for German humanities, especially film studies
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 1.1e
> - New command inparencite (suggested by Christian Erll)
> - Support for @periodical
> - New package option citefilm
> - New package option pages
> - New package option origyearwithyear=brackets
> - Support for nameaddon
> - Various bugfixes
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-fiwi.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/bibl…
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon tells me, as i sit in post-prandial contemplation...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Package version: 0.94
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
> Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and
> flexibility in body text and index.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fine-tuning features added include: fine-grained indexing control,
> specific handling of certain naming conventions, and more extensive
> error-handling. Testing is welcome in order to declare the package to
> be stable and move it to 1.0.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/nameauth.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan submitted an update to the
fonts-tlwg
package.
Please note that this package was previously named
thaifonts-scalable
Summary description: Thai fonts for LaTeX from TLWG
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Changes from thaifonts-scalable 0.4.7:
- Project is renamed to fonts-tlwg.
- More consistent directory names for LaTeX installation.
- LaTeX fonts building is now self-contained, no more build-dependency on
thailatex.
- Supports more LaTeX escape sequences.
- More Latin glyphs in all fonts.
- Fine-tuned Latin glyphs for Loma and Umpush.
- Corrected GSUB rules for Pali-Sanskrit descender removal in all fonts.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes in fonts.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/thai/fonts-tlwg
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fonts-tlwg
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan submitted an update to the
fonts-sipa-arundina
package.
Please note that the package was renamed from thaifonts-arundina.
Summary description: DejaVu-compatible Thai fonts
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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Changes from thaifonts-arundina 0.1.3:
- Project is renamed to fonts-sipa-arundina.
- More consistent directory names for LaTeX installation.
- LaTeX fonts building is now self-contained, no more build-dependency on
thailatex.
- Supports more LaTeX escape sequences.
- Add OpenType language tags as required by some rendering engines.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/thai/fonts-sipa-arundina
. More information is at
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan submitted an update to the
thailatex
package.
Summary description: Typeset Thai texts with standard LaTeX classes
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- No more stretch for wbr. It caused uneven spacing between words.
- Font encoding and ligkern stuff is now moved to font packages,
to allow custom ligkern rules per font.
- Supports more LaTeX escape sequences, namely extdollar, i, j,
extasciicircum, extasciitilde, extbackslash, extbar, extbraceleft,
extbraceright, extgreater, extless, extquotedbl
- Revised documentation for the Thai language definition.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/thai/thailatex
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/thailatex
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Brian Beitzel submitted an update to the
apa6
package.
Summary description: Format documents in APA style (6th Edition)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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apa6 now requires at least version 6.00 (2012/02/14) of the apacite package (when apacite is used for bibliographic citations).
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/apa6
. More information is at
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Erik Meijer submitted an update to the
apacite
package.
Summary description: LaTeX/BibTeX citation package that implements the rules of the American Psychological Association
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Major update implementing the rules of the 6th ed. of the APA manual;
coordinated options and macros with the new apa6 class. Also now explicit
support for natbib.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/apacite
. More information is at
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the daemon tells me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: aeb_mobile
> Author's name: D. P. Story
> Package version: 1.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/aeb_mobile/
> Summary description: Format a file for a smartphone
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package, aeb_mobile, is a simple application of the web and eforms
> packages to format a PDF for the smartphone, such as my Windows Phone.
>
> I've attempted to maximize the viewing and printing experience when
> the PDF is viewed on the desktop/laptop and in a smartphone.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/aeb-mobile.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/aeb_mobile/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
quote the daemon, just as i set out for lunch...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: cleveref
> Author's name: Toby Cubitt
> Author's email: toby-cleveref(a)dr-qubit.org
> Package version: 0.18.4
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/
> Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This version:
>
> - adds compatibility with the xr package
>
> - modifies the scope of the label information used by cref et al. to
> match that of
ef (so that e.g. placing a section label in the
> body of a section after other cross-referencable material now works)
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/cleveref.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
texlog_extract
package.
Summary description: Print colored summary of errors and warning in a log file, with file info.
License type: free
Announcement text:
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major changes of release 1.1 relative to 1.0
- none, mostly comment
- scriptingutils.rb offered as a ruby gem
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/texlog_extract
. More information is at
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
ltxfileinfo
package.
Summary description: Print version info for latex class or style file.
License type: free
Announcement text:
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major changes of release 1.1 relative to 1.0
- none, mostly comment
- scriptingutils.rb offered as a ruby gem
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/ltxfileinfo
. More information is at
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
vpp
package.
Summary description: View and Print PostScript/PDF with page/printer selection and much more
License type: free
Announcement text:
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major changes of release 2.5 relative to 2.4:
- added w command (list log file warnings)
- scriptingutils.rb offered as a ruby gem
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/view_print_ps_pdf
. More information is at
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
mk
package.
Summary description: Maker for LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX, TeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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major changes of release 2.4 relative to 2.3:
- zero size pdf will not exit but offer edit option
- scriptingutils.rb offered as a ruby gem
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latex_maker
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mk
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the daemon rejoices at the return of an old friend...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: colortbl
> Author's name: David Carlisle
> Author's email: d.p.carlisle(a)gmail.com
> Package version: 1.0a
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/colortbl/
> Summary description: Update to colortbl package
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Update fixing some bugs reported in colortbl since the last release 10
> years ago. Notably in handling of multicolumn and the interaction
> with the hhline package.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/colortbl.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/colortbl/
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For the CTAN team
thus spake the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xits
> Author's name: Khaled Hosny
> Package version: 1.104
> Location on CTAN: /
> Summary description: A Scientific Times-like font with support for
> mathematical typesetting.
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Fix various warnings reported vy `compareFamily` tool of AFDKO
> - Fix primes size so that base and superscripted primes are identical
> in size and a bit smaller than before.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xits.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/xits/
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For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Package version: 0.92
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
> Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and
> flexibility in body text and index.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The nameauth package now builds under latex, lualatex, pdflatex, and
> xetex. The .dtx file functions as a test suite for the package using
> these engines.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/nameauth.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
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For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: mattex
> Author's name: Romeo Van Snick
> Package version: 1.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mattex
> Summary description: A set of macro's and matlab m-files to to import
> matlab values.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package allows a user to export matlab variables to an
> intermediary file, and then import them to LaTeX for later use. This
> adds to consistency and helps to prevent errors that might arise when
> manually copy-pasting.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/mattex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mattex/
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On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Norbert Preining submitted an update to the
jfontmaps
package.
Summary description: font maps and support scripts for managing kanji embedding for Japanese TeX
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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New version of the jfontmaps package contains the following changes:
- inclusion of ipa and ipaex map files (the map files will be removed from the
IPAex package on CTAN, and will be available here in the jfontmaps package)
- several improvements of the updmap-setup-kanji script
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/japanese/jfontmaps
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/jfontmaps
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On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemmacros
package.
Summary description: macros and commands for chemists
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- various bug fixes in chemformula
- new arrow type <>
- new command DeclareChemParticle
- changed default behaviour of the phases macros to follow IUPAC recommendations, new options to customize it
- new command DeclareChemPhase
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
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the daemon calls:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Author's email: charles.schaum(a)att.net
> Package version: 0.9
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
> Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and
> flexibility in body text and index.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a major update. Added features include automatic formatting of
> forenames, in addition to more flexible handling of ancient, royal,
> and Eastern names. A number of features are now fully macro-
> expandable, making index entries created by nameauth compatible with
> manual entries. More style options are included and the package is
> virtually feature-complete.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/nameauth.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
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Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss tells us:
> I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please replace all
> files with the ones in the main directory
> /graphics/pstricks/base/
>
> pstricks.tex --------
> 2.24 2012-02-09 - add option for curve ticks with option symbol
>
> pstricks.pro --------
> 1.10 2012-02-09 - add option for curve ticks with option symbol
>
> read the file /base/doc/pst-news12.pdf for more informations
> about this update to the base part of PSTricks or read
> the other Changes files which lists all what's new in
> the other files.
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Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
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On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 Michael Anderson submitted an update to the
uothesis
package.
Summary description: class for the creation of dissertation and theses that meet the requirements of the University of Oregon Graduate School
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This revision addresses revisions to the dissertation style made by the UO
graduate school. It is strongly recommended that all users of the class update
to this version.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/uothesis
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On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 Martin Sievers submitted the
hausarbeit-jura
package.
Summary description: A class for writing juristische Hausarbeiten at German Universities.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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hausarbeit-jura was developed to write legal essays (juristische Hausarbeit)
at German Universities. It is based on jurabook and jurabib and makes it easy
for LaTeX beginners to get a correct and nicely formatted paper.
This is the initial upload. A documentation will be added soon. Suggestions for
improvements are welcome.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hausarbeit-jura
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 Leo Liu submitted the
zhmcjk
package.
Summary description: Setup CJK fonts dynamically using the mechanism of zhmetrics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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zhmCJK is a package written to ease the complex CJK fonts setup. All CJK
fonts may share the same .tfm metrics. The package sets the NFSS font
definition and actual font maappings using TeX macros dynamically. As a
result, zhmCJK provides similar faculties and interface of xeCJK, TrueType CJK
fonts are used to generate PDF output with pdfTeX or DVIPDFMx driver.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/chinese/zhmcjk/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/zhmcjk
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reeling...
> The following information was provided by the packages' contributor
> (note -- three packages in one series):
>
> Name of contribution: l3kernel
> Name of contribution: l3packages
> Name of contribution: l3experimental
>
> Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Package version: SVN 3331
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/
>
> Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Snapshot of SVN 3331
> --------------------
>
> - Bug fixes in l3regex for c{...} syntax
> - Bug fix for dim_gset_(max|min):Nn, which did not account properly for
> global status
> - Bug fixes for some while_do loops, which looped using incorrect
> functions
> - Add experimental sorting code in l3sort, to allow arbitrary sorting
> of list-like variable content
thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the
catalogue repository entries.
> Users may view the packages' catalogue entries at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3experimental.html
> or they may browse the packages' directories at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/
The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
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For the CTAN team
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 Xavier Danaux submitted an update to the
moderncv
package.
Summary description: A modern curriculum vitae class.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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version 0.19 (06 Feb 2012)
- reintroduced the ability to force the width reserved to display the name in the resume header for the classic style (maketitlenamewidth).
- improved the pdf metadata, as reported by S. Wunsch (launchpad bug #922476).
- fixed a footersymbol bug in the casual style when no mobile number was given, as reported by S. Wunsch (launchpad bug #922470).
- fixed a display bug when an address was given without postcode/city, as reported by O.Shaneh (launchpad bug #670263).
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the daemon tries to distract me with:
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Package version: 0.86
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
> Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and
> flexibility in body text and index.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> These macros help an author to encode the (optional) forenames and
> (mandatory) surnames of people in order to normalize occurrences in
> the text and entries in the index. This package is intended for
> Western-style naming conventions.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/nameauth.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
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For the CTAN team
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 Lorenzo Pantieri submitted an update to the
arsclassica
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Added compatibility with the version 4.0 of ClassicThesis and its new text body size
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On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 Marco Daniel submitted an update to the
mdframed
package.
Summary description: auto split frame environment
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- fixed bug (Thanks Dietrich Grau)
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On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 Xavier Danaux submitted an update to the
moderncv
package.
Summary description: A modern curriculum vitae class.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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version 0.18 (05 Feb 2012)
- corrected the handling of pdf bookmarks, as suggested on stackexchange by U. Fischer.
- improved the spacing between sections and subsections by using addvspace instead of vspace.
- corrected the spacing between entries with nested itemize environments (temporary solution working only for single line items).
- added a check in the oldstyle style for an empty 4th argument in the cvdoubleitem definition, to avoid printing a colon without preceding label.
- added a new style on top of classic, casual and oldstyle: banking.
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On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 Marco Daniel submitted an update to the
mdframed
package.
Summary description: auto split frame environment
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- add options shadow, shadowsize, shadowcolor
- fixed bugs
- fixed documentation
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On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemmacros
package.
Summary description: macros and commands for chemists
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Updated README and documentation now containing a few notes about the correct
installation. Particularly the directories language/ and pictures/ need to be
copied in the same directory as the style files.
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On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 Norbert Preining submitted the
japanese-otf-uptex
package.
Summary description: upLaTeX support of japanese-otf
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This is a package for upLaTeX support of
japanese-otf package otfbeta (v1.7b3 2011/10/28) by psitau-san
( http://psitau.kitunebi.com/otf.html )
It requires upTeX-0.20 or later.
It was written by TANAKA Takuji.
The tfm/vf files were created by Preining Norbert.
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Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss(a)FU-Berlin.DE> wrote:
> I uploaded examples.tgz to the uk CTAN node
> Please save all files in the _new_ directory
>
> /info/examples/Einfuehrung/
>
> This upload contains all examples with the source
> code, document classes, and data files for the new
> book of the DANTE-Edition Einführung in LaTeX.
> http://www.dante.de/index/Literatur/Einfuehrung.html
i have installed the files and created a catalogue entry.
thanks for the upload.
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Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> I have uploaded `pdfcrop.zip' in the /incoming directory
> of ftp.cam.ctan.org.
>
> It replaces the files in CTAN:support/pdfcrop/
> and pdfcrop.tds.zip goes in CTAN:install/support/
>
> Changes:
>
> 2012/02/01 v1.33
> Standard input can be used as input PDF file.
> Then the output file name must be given explicitly.
thanks for the upload; i've installed it as requested.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the
pagecolor
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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New commands
ewpagecolor{...} and
estorepagecolor, similar to
ewgeometry and
estoregeometry of the geometry package.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pagecolor
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On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Leo Liu submitted an update to the
xecjk
package.
Summary description: A package written for XeLaTeX which allows users to typeset CJK scripts easily
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is a bug fix update. CJKglue is not changed by setCJKmonofont+ globally, only verbatim font is affected now.
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On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Norbert Preining submitted the
jfontmaps
package.
Summary description: font maps and support scripts for managing kanji embedding for Japanese TeX
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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First upload of separated out packages of jfontmaps together with the new script update-setup-kanji (former update-otf).
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the daemon wrote (last night, when i was struggling with a problem)@
> Name of contributions: l3kernel
> Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Package version: SVN 3287
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Snapshot of SVN 3285
> --------------------
>
> - Drop loading of calc package by expl3. This was included for
> historical reasons, and users requiring calc should now load
> it explicitly.
> - Better documentation of load-time options for expl3.
> - Extend coverage of characters set to 'correct' catcodes by
> ExplSyntaxOn.
> - l3str and l3regex documentation improved in preparation
> for addition to stable codebase.
> - Various l3str functions renamed or removed.
> - l3regex now recognises u as a shortcut for token list
> variables.
> - Better handling of active characters and spaces in file
> names when using io... or file... operations.
> - xgalley improvements to incorporate behaviour of \ as in
> LaTeX2e.
> - New experimental module l3dt to construct 'data tables'.
> This module is intended for handling tabular data, for
> example as is done by the LaTeX2e package datatool. At
> present, the functions provided are at the most basic
> level only.
thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entries at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3experimental.html
> or they may browse the package directories at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/
The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon tried to wake me with:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xwatermark
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Author's email: amusa22(a)gmail.com
> Package version: 1.5.2a
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xwatermark/
> Summary description: A dynamic watermarking scheme for LaTeX.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> An independent outer-brace stripper is introduced for xwatermark to
> offset a previous external dependence.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xwatermark.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xwatermark/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 Jim Diamond submitted an update to the
xpdfopen
package.
Summary description: Commands to control PDF readers, under X11.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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xpdfopen provides programs that allow you to remotely control PDF readers
under X11. It works with various versions of Acrobat reader, xpdf and evince.
This is most useful in situations where you are previewing your output while
editing your source.
This update adds an option which attempts to restore input focus to the window
which has focus when pdfopen is called.
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemmacros
package.
Summary description: macros and commands for chemists
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The chemmacros package got bundled with two further packages. Thus the
functionality of chemmacros is considerably increased. Please read the new
documentation for details.
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On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 Mauro Sacchetto submitted an update to the
l2tabu-italian
package.
Summary description: Italian translation of the last version of l2tabu
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This is the Italian translation of the last original German version of l2tabu, with some upgrades
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http://mirror.ctan.org/info/l2tabu/italian
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 Harald Harders submitted an update to the
babelbib
package.
Summary description: Multilingual bibliographies in cooperation with babel. Update mainly for new and improved language definitions.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in
cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: Each citation
may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can
be typeset in a language chosen by the user. The current version
supports Afrikaans, Bahasa, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English,
Esperanto, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian,
Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Swedish.
In addition, the package supports commands to change the typography
of the bibliographies.
Many of the standard and extended bibliography styles are available.
Changes since version 1.29:
2012/01/03 1.31 Harald Harders (harald.harders(a)gmx.de)
- Added Serbian, Czech, and Romanian language
- Corrections in Portuguese, Croatian, Swedish
- Change handling of editions to allow keyword `edition' before the
edition number
- Added Romanian and Swedish numerals
- Fix definition of txnumerallong in Spanish
2010/01/06 1.30 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de)
- Added Croatian language
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 Claudio Beccari submitted an update to the
aspectratio
package.
Summary description: Fonts, maps, an sty file for typesetting the aspect ratio symbol
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The AspectRatio package is completelely rewritten and extended; now it is
possible to use the vector fonts (wit version 1.0, allowed only the raster pk
ones) now it is possible to have variant glyphs that match not only the Computer
Modern & Co. fonts, but also the Times and Palatino ones.
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On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
pdfcomment
package.
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 v2.2a:
- revised documentation
project moved to https://bitbucket.org/kleberj/pdfcomment/
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On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
installfont
package.
Summary description: A bash script for installing a LaTeX font family.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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With this script you can install a LaTeX font family
(Postscript Type1, Truetype, Opentype). It supports
font series from light to ultra bold + (faked) small caps
+ faked slanted, but no expert fonts. The script will
rename the fonts automatically (optinal) or will otherwise
expect *.afm files and the font files (in Postscript
Type1 format!) named in the Karl Berry scheme
(e.g. 5nar8a.pfb). After running the script, you should
have a working font installation in your local TeX tree.
License: LPPL
Changes in v1.6b:
- revised documentation
project moved to https://bitbucket.org/kleberj/installfont/
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