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CTAN Update: xeCJK
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Jiang Jiang submitted an update to the xecjk package. Summary description: Support for CJK documents in XeLaTeX. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Fix fontspec 2.0 support 2. Add definition of ormalfont 3. Remove indentfirst like functions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/xecjk . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=xeCJK (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: xypdf
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: xypdf Version number: v1.4 Author's name: Daniel Müllner Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xypdf/ Summary description: PDF output for the Xy-pic package License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The xypdf package is now integrated with Xy-pic version 3.8. Moreover, it is now a “driver” to Xy-pic and not a separate “LaTeX package” as in previous versions. The current update of the xypdf package reduces the file “xypdf.sty” to a wrapper for “xypdf.tex”. It also issues a warning message saying that the LaTeX style file “xypdf.sty” has become obsolete. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xypdf/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xypdf (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: cleveref
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: cleveref Version number: 0.17 Author's name: Toby Cubitt Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version adds support for the algorithm and listings packages, adds a new crefalias command for aliasing a counter to a different cross-reference type. It also fixes various small bugs, particularly in the hyperref and amsmath support. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cleveref (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: fontspec v2
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

the daemon cries (and i respond): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: fontspec v2 > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fontspec > Summary description: Advanced font selection in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > After a short testing period, I'm happy to call this v2 of the > fontspec package. > > Since the last beta on CTAN the following changes have been made: > > - New feature: with xcolor loaded you may now select colours by name > - Typeset examples have been re-added to the documentation > - Better compatibility with other packages that use internal functions > of fontspec pre-v2 (polyglossia is still broken, however) > - Added a test suite, with few tests so far > - A number of bug fixes > > This release coincides with version 1.10 of the luaotfload package; > please update both packages together. i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fontspec.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec don't stay up to watch the catalogue entry change, on the web. i shan't. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: biblatex-chem
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

the daemon mutters away so quietly, again, that i missed his words of wisdom: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-chem > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-chem/ > Summary description: biblatex styles for chemistry > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.9e: > - Fix for patents with no holder thanks for the upload. remind the daemon to speak up, would you -- my hearing is failing, and that's the second of yours i'm late with. anyway, i've now (finally) 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-chem.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-chem/ and again, there's nothing much to see, when the catalogue entry is updated overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

yesterday morning, i missed the daemon saying: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ > Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.0c: > - Fix issue with mixed unit and literal macros (for example > DeclareSIUnitexample{volt~vs.~NHE}) > - Minor changes to version-1 configuration thanks for the upload, and sorry about the delay. 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/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ the catalogue entry on the web will change overnight tonight. i shan't be waiting up. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: eso-pic
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update to the eso-pic package. Summary description: eso-pic adds one or more user commands to LaTeX's shipout actions (e.g. background pictures) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version adds the macros AddToShipoutPictureFG and AddToShipoutPictureFG*. Now it is possible to put picture commands also above the normal document content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=eso-pic (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: dvisvgm
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. Finally, dvisvgm has reached version 1.0 with the following additions: * conversion of multiple pages * evaluation of transparency operators in PostScript specials * improved PostScript handler * DVI special to compute local bounding boxes * improved optional progress indicator For further information including a list of recent changes and pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: Iwona and Kurier fonts
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the iwona and kurier packages. > ---- > Package: Iwona fonts > Version: 0.995 (June 2010) > Authors: Janusz M. Nowacki > License: GUST Font Nosource License > Location on CTAN: fonts/iwona > > ---- > Package: Kurier fonts > Version: 0.995 (June 2010) > Authors: Janusz M. Nowacki > License: GUST Font Nosource License > Location on CTAN: fonts/kurier > > Recent changes in both packages: > -- changed the names of small caps characters > A.small --> a.sc > B.small --> b.sc > C.small --> c.sc > etc.; > -- added previously missing characters: > Aogonekacute, Ddotbelow, Dlinebelow, E.reversed, Eogonekacute, > Germandbls, Hbrevebelow, Hdotbelow, Htilde, Iogonekacute, Jacute, > Ldot, Oogonek, Oogonekacute, Rdotaccent, Sdotbelow, Tcedilla, > Tdotbelow, Tlinebelow, Ttilde, Zdotbelow, ain, angleleft, angleright, > aogonekacute, bigcircle, brevebelow, cent.oldstyle, centigrade, > copyleft, ddotbelow, dieresis.alt, dlinebelow, dmacron, e.reversed, > ell, eogonekacute, hamza, hbrevebelow, hdotbelow, htilde, hyphen.alt, > hyphen.prop, hyphendbl, hyphendbl.alt, i.TRK, imacron.alt, iogonekacute, > jacute, ldot, linebelow, macron.alt, nomero, oogonek, oogonekacute, > permyriad, perthousandzero, rdotaccent, sdotbelow, servicemark, > tcedilla, tdotbelow, tlinebelow, ttilde, zdotbelow > -- added proportional digits (xxx.prop), as well as oldstyle proportional > digits (xxx.oldstyle); > > ---- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: vntex
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

the daemon was primed and ready for: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: vntex > Author's name: Reinhard Kotucha > Location on CTAN: language/vietnamese > Summary description: Fonts and Macros for typesetting Vietnamese > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > New Version 3.2: > The font support files for the Microsoft core fonts and Comicsans were > removed because we can't provide the actual (TrueType)fonts > (requirement for TeX Live). > > These packages will be distributed separately. thanks for the upload. i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/vntex.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/language/vietnamese the catalogue entry will change (a bit) overnight. (more work on that still needed.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: luaotfload
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: luaotfload Version number: 1.10 Author's name: Khaled Hosny Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * provide a fonts.names.scan(dir) function that temporally loads fonts from the specified dir into the names database * Log loaded font file before attempting to open it * fix XeTeX's square brackets syntax so that it doesn't trigger database update * fix loading fonts with absolute path * add fontdimen8 support, for XeTeX compatibility * be more verbose when updating the font database * improve fonts.conf parsing * make sure when a TFM font is requested we don't end up loading a non-TFM font with a similar name instead * Remove --fc-cache option from mkluatexfontdb.lua, since we no longer use fontconfig tools * misc. bug fixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: pstricks_calcnotes
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Two applications of macros in PSTricks Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Le Phuong Quan Summary description: To draw Riemann sums of an integral and to draw the vector field of an ordinary differential equation. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Illustrates using PSTricks codes for LaTeX typesetting of lecture notes on Calculus. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/pstricks_calcnotes . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pstricks_calcnotes (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: spreadtab
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: spreadtab Version number: v0.3b Author's name: Christian Tellechea Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/spreadtab Summary description: Spreadsheet features for LaTeX table environments. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- spreadtab v0.3b What's new ? * macro function id * bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/spreadtab . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/spreadtab (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: translator
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Translator package Version number: 1.01 Author's name: Vedran Miletic Summary description: New Translator version! License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Added Croatian and Serbian dictonary and some bugs fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/translator . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/translator (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: beamer
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: LaTeX Beamer class Version number: 3.08 Author's name: Vedran Miletic Summary description: New Beamer version! License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally, a new version of Beamer. Notable new features and bugfixes include: * notes about lualatex and xelatex in documentation, * improve Linux distribution-specific information, * add support for more professional fonts (suppresses Beamer internal replacements), * add support for 16:9, 16:10, 14:9, 5:4, 3:2 layout using screensize class option (e.g. screensize=169) * fix utf8, utf8x, ucs class options, * add (an undocumented for now) option [noframenumbering] to skip numbering a specific frame, * merge lots of patches scattered around the Internet (see ChangeLog if you are interested). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/beamer (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: Asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Asymptote Version number: 1.95 Author's name: John Bowman Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The PRC driver has been overhauled to support model tree groups, lossy compression, efficient representations of elementary geometrical objects, and specialized rendering options. More efficient OpenGL thick tubes were implemented; the capping of 3D curves was improved. The SIGQUIT signal was replaced by SIGTERM. Under MSWindows, the 384MB Cygwin memory limit is now automatically disabled by the Asymptote installer. Inferred variable types were added and operator symbols are now pretranslated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: chemstyle
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

the daemon's grumbling about not being allowed a lie=in on a sunday morning, and says: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: chemstyle > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Author's email: joseph.wright(a)morningstar2.co.uk > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle > Summary description: Schemes and style for chemistry > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.0i: > - Update to match siunitx v2 thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/chemstyle.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle the catalogue entry will change overnight tonight. i wouldn't recommend waiting up for the event. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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ctan update: linegoal
by CTAN Announcements 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

the daemon's had a quiet day, and then something nice turns up: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: linegoal > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/linegoal > Summary description: A new ``dimen'' corresponding to the remainder of the line > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.1 > Small corrections onto the first release ! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload! > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/linegoal.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/linegoal the updated catalogue entry won't appear until some time in the night (i have nocturnal daemons as well...). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pstricks - base
by CTAN Announcements 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk CTAN node. Please replace > the files with the ones in the main directory > /graphics/pstricks/base/ > > /generic/ > pstricks.tex -------- > 2.07 2010-05-24 - fix bug with uput and node setting (ms) > 2010-04-27 - fix bug with trailing space in pst@isnum > 2010-04-26 - fix bug with missing psk@rot for Ellipse > 2010-04-24 - take psk@rot into account for psellipse (hv) > - new version of pst@divide (ms) > > /latex/ > pstricks.sty -------- > 0.44 2010-04-24 - change version number of pstricks.pro > 2010-03-20 - rename pst@tempa to pat@sty@tempa to prevent > problems with pst-fill > > /dvips/ > pstricks.pro -------- > 1.07 2010-04-30 - take psk@rot into account for psellipse > - new helper function concatstring > > /doc/ > pst-doc.cls -------- > 2010-05-15 - extensions to pst-doc.cls v 0.15 thanks for the upload. i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pstricks.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/base/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xy-pic
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Xy-pic Version number: 3.8 Author's name: Kristoffer Rose Location on CTAN: /macros/generic/diagrams/xypic/ Summary description: Xy-pic is a package for typesetting diagrams License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New release of Xy-pic after ten years - now includes PDF generation in addition to several improvements! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/diagrams/xypic/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xy-pic (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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New on CTAN: unicode-math
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

the daemon perks up with the appearance of the following (which he had previously imagined to be a myth concocted by people on the net): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: unicode-math > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/unicode-math > Summary description: Unicode math support for XeTeX and LuaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Well, I guess it's now or never. With an archive of emails about the > thing going back to 2006, I think it's finally time to release this > package. (Sorry about the hold-up, really.) > > This is the initial release of the unicode-math package for inclusion > in TeX Live 2010. It is designed to typeset mathematics with unicode > input and using OpenType math fonts. (There is very very little > compatibility with older maths packages.) XeTeX support is fully > tested but LuaTeX not quite so much. (At least the example file > runs...) > > You can typeset with the STIX fonts with the present version of the > package, but there is no support yet for its extra alphabets in the > Unicode `private use area'. I hope to add support for them soon. > > Thanks to all the people who've provided valuable feedback over the > years, and especially to Barbara Beeton for laying the foundations > with her work with the STIX fonts. > > Good luck; I hope it works. Let me know if it doesn't. Finally, this > package is by no means complete (it's called the initial release for > a reason). Your feedback and suggestions now are greatly > appreciated. Anyone coming along to the TUG 2010 conference will have > the opportunity to hear me speak about it in a couple of weeks. (But > will I be able to muster up a full 30 minutes? Actually, yeah, I > probably will.) > > Time for a beer. have a good one! i have installed the package and created an entry in the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/unicode-math.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/unicode-math though, of course, the catalogue entry won't appear on the web until some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: savetrees
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: savetrees Version number: 1.3 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/savetrees Summary description: Pack as much as possible onto each page of a LaTeX document. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of the savetrees package is to pack as much text as possible onto each page of a LaTeX document. Admittedly, this makes the document far less attractive. Nevertheless, savetrees is a simple way to save paper when printing draft copies of a document. It can also be useful when trying to meet a tight page-length requirement for a conference or journal submission. Version 1.3 of savetrees adds support for pdfTeX's font-expansion mechanism via the microtype package. Documents built with pdflatex should therefore shrink even more than with previous versions of savetrees. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/savetrees . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/savetrees (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: hepthesis
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: hepthesis Version number: 1.4.3 Author's name: Andy Buckley Summary description: A class for academic reports, especially PhD theses. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hepthesis is a LaTeX class for typesetting large academic reports, in particular PhD theses. It was originally developed for typesetting the author’s high-energy physics PhD thesis and includes some features specifically tailored to such an application. In particular, hepthesis offers: * Attractive semantic environments for various rubric sections; * Extensive options for draft production, screen viewing and binding-ready output; * Helpful extensions of existing environments, including equation and tabular; and * Support for quotations at the start of the thesis and each chapter. The class is based on scrbook, from the KOMA-Script (koma-script) bundle. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hepthesis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hepthesis (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: xltxtra
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

and again, up comes that daemon again: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xltxtra > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra > Summary description: Extras for XeLaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Remove all the features that have been incorporated into fontspec v2. > No user-level changes. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for this one, too. i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xltxtra.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra the catalogue entry (which has actually changed a bit) won't appear on the web until after i've retired to bed tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: fontspec v2.0b2
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

that daemon pops up at the most inconvenient times. while i was working hard on my day job, it said: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: fontspec v2.0b2 > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fontspec > Summary description: Font loading in XeTeX and LuaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Second beta release of fontspec v2, which supports LuaTeX. > > Minor changes since the previous release: > - No longer need to run mkluatexfontdb manually; > update documentation to reflect this > - Fix a bug with automatic font scaling in LuaTeX > - Two new XeTeX features: AutoFakeBold and AutoFakeSlant > for generating poor man's bold and poor man's oblique > shapes for a family (these are extensions of FakeBold/FakeSlant) > - An internal programmer's interface command for creating > new LaTeX font families. > - Minor internal and documentation changes. > - For XeTeX: many functions of xltxtra are now incorporated > into fontspec. > - The makefile can now automatically install fontspec without > needing the path to your texmfhome. > > (Note we no longer have a .ins file but Manuel assures me that's > okay. You can extract everything from the dtx using the Makefile > or by running `tex fontspec.dtx`.) thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fontspec.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec though the catalogue entry won't change (in so far as it changes at all) until some time while i sleep tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: csquotes 5.0
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded 'csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. There's > also a csquotes.tds.zip file. Please delete the old files, install the > new ones, and announce the upload. > Thank you very much. > > ABOUT > > The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and > display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging > from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of > formal quotations. > > RELEASE NOTES > > See the file RELEASE for release notes. Note that this release > includes some changes which are not backwards compatible. However, > there is a new package option which emulates older versions of the > package to ease the transition. The release notes have all the > details. > > CHANGES > > See the changelog in the manual for a verbose list of changes. thanks for the upload. i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/csquotes.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the softmaker-freefont package. Summary description: Support files for SoftMaker free fonts available at www.freefont.de License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In June 2009 www.freefont.de offered a beautiful handwriting font for free download: The Softmaker Stone Handwriting. As handwriting fonts are a quite limited resource in the LaTeX world, i decided to create support files for this beautiful font. Therefore, Stone Handwriting will be the starting point for the softmaker-freefont bundle. Other fonts will be included in future. Supported fonts at the moment: Artistic, Baskerville-Nova (regular + bold + italic + bold italic), Canossa (regular + bold + light), Congress (regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Helium (regular + bold), Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold), Jugendstil, Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting, Sunset (regular + bold) License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) New in v1.12: - added support for the font Softmaker Helium (regular + bold + faked slanted + faked small caps) Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (June 2010) and can be downloaded for free (at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de Later you can buy it from Softmaker - renamed font families (5xx -> 6xx) to avoid naming conflict with LaTeX support for Softmaker FontSite 500 CD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/softmaker-freefont/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=softmaker-freefont (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: newcommand
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

This should reach your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: newcommand Version number: 2.0 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /support/newcommand Summary description: Easily create macros utilizing sophisticated argument processing License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX's ewcommand is fairly limited in the way it processes optional arguments, but the TeX alternative, a batch of defs and futurelets, can be overwhelming to the casual LaTeX user. newcommand.py is a Python program that automatically generates LaTeX macro definitions for macros that require more powerful argument processing than ewcommand can handle. newcommand.py is intended for LaTeX advanced beginners (i.e., those who know how to use ewcommand but not internal LaTeX2e commands such as @ifnextchar) and for more advanced users who want to save some typing when defining complex macros. With newcommand.py, the user specifies a template for a macro's arguments. newcommand.py then custom-generates a macro definition according to the user's specifications and includes a user-friendly Put code here comment to indicate where the macro's main code should appear. newcommand.py supports arbitrary interleavings of required and optional arguments, starred macros, mandatory literal text, macros with more than nine arguments, optional arguments delimited by parentheses instead of square brackets, and optional arguments whose value defaults to the value given for a prior argument. The generated macros can easily be pasted into a LaTeX document and edited as desired. This version (2.0) represents a major rewrite of newcommand.py. New features include improved code generation, support for starred macros, and support for more than nine macro arguments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/newcommand . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/newcommand (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN Update: epspdfconversion
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Daniel Becker submitted an update to the epspdfconversion package to CTAN. Summary description: On-the-fly conversion of EPS to PDF License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- epspdfconversion.sty facilitates the use of the epspdf tools (on CTAN in pub/tex/support) from within PDFLaTeX. EPS graphic files are converted on the fly. It is similar to and based on the epstopdf package and allows to pass several options such as grayscale, prepress, pdfversion etc. to the epspdf conversion-command. Can also be used to trigger a conversion of PDF- and PS-files. New in version 0.61: * new options pdftopdf and pstopdf. Uses epspdf to do pdf-to-pdf and ps-to-pdf conversions. Allows grayscaling, calculation of bounding boxes etc for pdf's that already exist an for .ps-files. Disabled by default. * bugfix for the outdir-option (converted files in subdirectories are again saved in those subdirectories) (Thanks to Stefan Pofahl for the feedback.) * small improvement of the documentation (on the windows epspdf.bat file, on epstopdf's option 'outdir') * now uses epstopdf's epstopdfDeclareGraphicsRule ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/epspdfconversion/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=epspdfconversion (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: pdfcomment
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 josef Kleber submitted an update to the pdfcomment package. Summary description: A user-friendly interface to PDF annotations License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 v1.5e: - Bugfix: empty line, pdfcomment, empty line produced two new paragraphs even in final mode reported by: Marc-André Michel - revision of option declaration (code clean up) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcomment (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

the first upload since the file system meltdown! oh, the daemon's _so_ excited... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ > Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Maintenance release v2.0b: > - Further improvements to version-1 configuration file > - Documentation of relationship between version 1 and > version 2 option names thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the ctan catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ the catalogue entry will appear on the web some time during the night tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: moderncv
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '10

31 May '10

This should within the day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: moderncv Version number: 0.9 Author's name: Xavier Danaux Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/moderncv/ Summary description: A modern curriculum vitae class. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 0.9 (31 May 2010) - added support for the itemize, enumerate and description environments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/moderncv (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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tug.ctan.org upload: adobemapping
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '10

31 May '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: adobemapping Version number: 2010/05/31 Author's name: Karl Berry Location on CTAN: /support/adobemapping Summary description: Adobe cmap and pdfmapping files License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the collection of mapping files from Adobe, now released under a (permissive) free software license. The files come from http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cmap/Downloads and http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/pdfmapping/Downloads. Links to technical documentation, user forums, etc. are available there. No changes to the files have been made. Thanks to Ken Lunde at Adobe for making this possible. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/adobemapping . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/adobemapping (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: linguex
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '10

31 May '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: linguex Version number: 4.3 Author's name: Wolfgang Sternefeld Summary description: Several bugfixes. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Mysterious incompatability with beamer class removed by adding a strut to the definition of label (for mysterious reasons must be done AtBeginDocument). 2) Inconsistency with font selection removed by replacing the global m in the print out of grammaticality judgements with the local extrm comand 3) Suggestions for replacing .66aselineskip by Extopsep (as done in version 4.0) were damaging. Returned to previous version. (Comment: I still don't understand the working of this, as the value .66aselineskip of that dimension is totally arbitrary.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/linguex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/linguex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: cfr-lm
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '10

31 May '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: cfr-lm Version number: 1.3 (for lm 2.004) Author's name: Clea F. Rees Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/cfr-lm Summary description: Enhanced support for the Latin Modern fonts. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Now with added documentation! The package supports a number of features of the Latin Modern fonts which are not easily accessible via the default (La)TeX support provided in the official distribution. In particular, the package supports the use of the various styles of digits available, oblique small-caps and upright italic shapes, and alternative weights and widths. It also supports the variable width typewriter, dunhill and “quotation” fonts. Version 2.004 of the Latin Modern fonts is supported. By default, the package uses proportional oldstyle digits and variable width typewriter but this can be changed by passing appropriate options to the package. The package also supports using e.g. different styles of digits within a document so it is possible to use proportional oldstyle digits by default, say, but tabular lining digits within a particular table. See the documenation for details. The package requires the official Latin Modern distribution, including its (La)TeX support. The package relies on the availability of both the fonts themselves and the official font support files. The package also makes use of the nfssext-cfr package. Only the T1 and TS1 encodings are supported for text fonts. The set up of fonts for mathematics is identical to that provided by Latin Modern. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/cfr-lm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cfr-lm (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: luaotfload
by CTAN Announcements 30 May '10

30 May '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: luaotfload Version number: 1.09 Author's name: Khaled Hosny Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * the last release didn't even load * fix passing --destdir to mkluatexfontdb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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New CTAN package: The STIX fonts
by CTAN Announcements 29 May '10

29 May '10

that daemon reports, excitedly: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: The STIX fonts > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: fonts/stix > Summary description: Unicode mathematics fonts, with a complete repertoire of glyphs > License type: ofl (SIL open font licence) > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The STIX fonts are a suite of unicode OpenType fonts > containing a complete set of mathematical glyphs. > They may be obtained from <http://www.stixfonts.org/>. > > This repository is a mirror of their official release, > organised in the form of the `TeX Directory Structure' > for inclusion in TeX Live and MiKTeX. > > The STIX fonts are released under the SIL Open Font > License, Version 1.1. They have copyright (c) 2001-2010 > by the STI Pub Companies. Please see the official > documentation for further information. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/stix.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/stix the catalogue entry won't appear until some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: hyph-utf8
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '10

This materials should reach your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: hyph-utf8 Version number: 2010.05.28 Author's name: Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer Location on CTAN: /language/hyph-utf8/ Summary description: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8 License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important change: - NEW: support for advanced LuaTeX & LuaLaTeX loading of patterns (they are not dumped into format, but loaded on demand) maintained by Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard and Élie Roux - NEW: plain version of patterns and exceptions (one pattern/exception per line) Other news: - NEW: Armenian (Sahak Petrosyan) and Lao patterns (Brian Wilson) - UPDATE: Spanish (Javier Bezos), Galician (Javier A. Múgica) and Italian patterns (Claudio Beccari) - new: sources and documentation for Spanish patterns - new: more documentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyph-utf8/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8 (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: luaotfload
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: luaotfload Version number: 1.08 Author's name: Khaled Hosny Location on CTAN: / Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * fix misc. bugs with system fonts scanning * parse fontconfig configuration directly, no longer dependant on 'fc-list' * now if no font names database is found, luaotfload will generate it, also it will force an update of the database if the asked font can not be found * avoid loading non-tfm fonts when the user asks for tfm font * update the documentation * blacklist .ttc and LastResort font on mac. * sync with ConTeXt beta 2010.05.22 * fix attribute handling * clarify license * misc. bug fixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: lualibs
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '10

Wthin a day this should be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: lualibs Version number: 0.94 Author's name: Khaled Hosny Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Lualibs is a collection of Lua modules useful for general programming. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sync with ConTeXt, adding new function required by latest luaotfload. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/lualibs . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/lualibs (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: autolatex
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '10

This should within a day appear at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: autolatex Version number: 8.3 Author's name: Stephane GALLAND Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Bug fix in command line options License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Command option '-f' is documented but not supported by source code. This option was added into the list of the explicitly supported options to fix this bug. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/autolatex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/autolatex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: siunitx
by CTAN Announcements 28 May '10

28 May '10

the daemon reports: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: siunitx > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ > Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Maintenance release v2.0a: > - Make SendSettingsToPgf available in document body > - Automatically detect use of version 1 options and > load backward-compatibility code > - Fix problem with free-standing units > - Fix a number of bugs in version-1 configuration file > - Include high energy physics units in documentation > and version-1 configuration file thanks for the upload. i have installed it, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/ the updated catalogue entry will appear on the web some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xltxtra
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '10

27 May '10

and, to finish its latest flurry, the daemon's moving finger writes: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xltxtra > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra > Summary description: Extras for LaTeX users of XeTeX. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This update to version 0.5c of xltxtra coincides with fontspec v2 (and > both must be used together), but there are no user-level changes to > the 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/xltxtra.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra the catalogue entry on the web will change some time overnight tonight. (my time.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update and move: fontspec
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '10

27 May '10

the daemon, rushing around as i rushed around preparing for work, wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: fontspec > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fontspec > Summary description: Font loading in XeTeX and LuaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is the initial (beta 1) release of fontspec version 2 for TeX > Live 2010. > > Testing and feedback most appreciated! > > It now supports OpenType font loading in LuaTeX thanks to the work of > Khaled Hosny, Elie Roux, and Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard. Please discuss bugs > or improvements on the lualatex-dev mailing list. In between main releases > on CTAN, updates for bug testing can be obtained from > <http://github.com/wspr/fontspec/>. > > The documentation still needs improvement but the basic functionality should > be working. It is intended to be tested on TeX Live 2010; it should still be > compatible with earlier versions of XeTeX, however. > > * * * > > Please remove fontspec from its current location on CTAN > (macros/xetex/latex/fontspec). I can't think of a better alternative than > placing it now in the standard latex/ directory macros/latex/contrib/fontspec > since it has functionality for both XeTeX and LuaTeX. i've installed, as requested, and created a link from the old location, until such time as i think to remove it again. i've also updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fontspec.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec as usual, the catalogue entry will change during the european night hours. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: euenc
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '10

27 May '10

the daemon's moving finger writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: euenc > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/euenc > Summary description: Unicode font definitions for XeTeX and LuaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This update for euenc adds support for LuaTeX in concert with version > 2 of the fontspec package. > > Please remove euenc from its current location on CTAN > (macros/xetex/latex/euenc). I can't think of a better alternative > than placing it now in the standard latex/ directory > macros/latex/contrib/euenc since it has functionality for both XeTeX > and LuaTeX. that move actually took place in february this year; links were linking the package's old location to its current one. i have now deleted the links. thanks for the upload. i have installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/euenc.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/euenc the catalogue update will happen overnight (european) tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: cfr-lm
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '10

27 May '10

This should soon be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: cfr-lm Version number: updated version for Latin Modern 2.004 Author's name: Clea F. Rees Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/cfr-lm Summary description: Enhanced support for the Latin Modern fonts. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package supports a number of features of the Latin Modern fonts which are not easily accessible via the default (La)TeX support provided in the official distribution. In particular, the package supports the use of the various styles of digits available, small-caps and upright italic shapes, and alternative weights and widths. It also supports variable width typewriter and the “quotation” font. By default, the package uses proportional oldstyle digits and variable width typewriter but this can be changed by passing appropriate options to the package. The package also supports using e.g. different styles of digits within a document so it is possible to use proportional oldstyle digits by default, say, but tabular lining digits within a particular table. See the README for details. The package requires the official Latin Modern distribution, lmodern, including its (La)TeX support. The package relies on the availability of both the fonts themselves and the official font support files. The package also makes use of the nfssext-cfr package. Only the T1 and TS1 encodings are supported for text fonts. The set up of fonts for mathematics is identical to that provided by Latin Modern. This version has been updated for version 2.004 of the Latin Modern fonts. cfr-lm.sty has been significantly revised to offer more flexible and robust options. The production of the virtual fonts has been tweaked to improve accent placement by adjusting for some peculiarities in the lmodern distribution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/cfr-lm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cfr-lm (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: TeX-GPC 2nd edition, 1st fix
by CTAN Announcements 27 May '10

27 May '10

the daemon tells me an upload, that i suggested, has arrived: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: TeX-GPC 2nd edition, 1st fix > Author's name: Wolfgang Helbig > Location on CTAN: systems/unix/tex-gpc/ > Summary description: booby-trap defused > License type: other-free > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > replaced tangle.p needed for bootstrapping > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. (users should note that booby trap was my characterisation of a problem with tangle.p in the distribution, of which others had complained. mr. helbig generously agreed to re-release to clear up this one confusion.) > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/tex-gpc.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/unix/tex-gpc/ and the catalogue entry will be updated, in a small way, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: cleveref
by CTAN Announcements 26 May '10

26 May '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: cleveref Version number: 0.16.3 Author's name: Toby Cubitt Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version fixes a number of small issues: * Added missing amecrefs and ameCrefs commands to get plural forms of cross-reference names * Fixed bug preventing redefinition of group conjunction macros * Fixed bug in format definitions for subsections and subsubsections, which in particular broke language switching * Added translations for Russian and Ukranian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cleveref (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: ConTeXt
by CTAN Announcements 26 May '10

26 May '10

This should reach your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: ConTeXt Version number: 2010.05.24 Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: /macros/context/current Summary description: The new stable ConTeXt release License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website, CTAN, or one of its mirrors. The current release has version 2010.05.24 13:05 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/context/current . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/context (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: achemso
by CTAN Announcements 26 May '10

26 May '10

joseph (gently) urges me to get on with it, and the daemon passes it on: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: achemso > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso > Summary description: Support for submissions to American Chemical Society journals > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v3.4g: > - Add support for ACS Chemical Neuroscience > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i have 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/achemso.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/achemso the catalogue change (little though it is) will make its way to the web overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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