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CTAN has a new package: JFlap2TikZ
by CTAN Announcements 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should withing a day be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: JFlap2TikZ Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Andrew Mertz Location on CTAN: /graphics/jflap2tikz Summary description: converts a JFlap ﬁle into a LaTeX ﬁle depicting the automaton using TikZ License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JFlap is an excellent piece of software for experimenting with finite state machines, Turing machines and exploring many aspects of the theory of computation. JFlap2TikZ is a groovy script that converts a JFlap jff file representing a finite automaton, push down automaton, or Turing machine to LaTeX file depicting the automaton graphically using TikZ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/jflap2tikz . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/jflap2tikz (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: GaPFilL
by CTAN Announcements 17 Aug '09

17 Aug '09

This has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: GaPFilL Version number: 1.3 Author's name: Moeller, Herbert Location on CTAN: /graphics Summary description: Perl filter programs for the generation of LaTeX picture environments by parsing PostScript files exported from drawing programs. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GaPFilL (Graphics as PostScript Filtered for LaTeX) is a method for the generation of LaTeX picture environments in a four step way: i) Construction of the desired figure with a drawing program or with geometry software; ii) Export as a PostScript file; iii) Application of a Perl filter program to the PostScript text; iv) Transfer of the resulting code into a LaTeX document. A new Perl filter program is now available for the powerful free drawing software OpenOffice 3 Draw. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/gapfill . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/gapfill (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: ctanify
by CTAN Announcements 16 Aug '09

16 Aug '09

This has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: ctanify Version number: 1.1 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /support/ctanify Summary description: Prepare a package for upload to CTAN License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ctanify is intended for developers of LaTeX packages who want to distribute their packages via the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN). Given a list of filenames, ctanify creates a tarball (a .tar.gz file) with the files laid out in CTAN's preferred structure. The tarball additionally contains a ZIP (.zip) file with copies of all files laid out in the standard TeX Directory Structure (TDS), which facilitates inclusion of the package in the TeX Live distribution of TeX. Version 1.1 incorporates a patch submitted by Kirill Maslinsky that adds a command-line option to create only a TDS directory as opposed to a complete tarball. The documentation now separates commonly used command-line options from more obscure options and, at Juergen Fenn's request, notes that ctanify does not automatically run latex on the user's behalf. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ctanify . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ctanify (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: biblatex-dw
by CTAN Announcements 16 Aug '09

16 Aug '09

This has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: biblatex-dw Version number: 1.2j Author's name: Dominik Wassenhoven Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/ Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 1.2j - This is just a bugfix release. The only files changed are footnote-dw.cbx, CHANGES, README and LIESMICH. - BUGFIX: Since biblatex version 0.8e, footnote-dw gave an error (Undefined control sequence: lx@addperiod). This is now fixed; thus, biblatex-dw (or rather footnote-dw) should work with the biblatex versions 0.8e, 0.8f, 0.8g and 0.8h, but it will not work with earlier versions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-dw (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: gbrief-creator
by CTAN Announcements 16 Aug '09

16 Aug '09

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 Carsten Schinke submitted an update to the g-brief-creator package. Location on CTAN: /support/gbrief-creator/ Summary description: g-brief Creator is a Windows frontend for the g-brief package by Michael Lenzen. License type: nosource Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version v1.000beta provides a completely redesigned user interface and extended functionality. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/gbrief-creator/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=g-brief Creator (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: asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 16 Aug '09

16 Aug '09

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 John Bowman submitted an update to the asymptote package. Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text. Location on CTAN: /graphics/asymptote Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OpenGL animations, illustrated in glmovie.asy, were implemented. Viewportshift flicker was fixed. An empirical translation between OpenGL and PRC shininess was implemented. Splined parametric surfaces are now used to implement smooth thick lines and tubes. The projected bounding box calculation and angle calculations were fixed. A labelsurface function was added. The Headlamp light is now the default light; a light argument was added to shipout. Patches are now constructed with the usual orientation for a counterclockwise external path; the convention for tensor product shading was updated. Picture environments for TeX clipping are no longer nested. A texpath initialization bug was fixed. An ASYMPTOTE_HOME environment variable was added. Viewing was fixed for file names conntaining spaces. A picture sizing bug was fixed. An example of an inset graph was added. Type information for variables is now returned at the interactive prompt. Warning message suppression was improved; warnings in Asymptote code can now be disabled. The cyclic member of an array is now writeable; the obsolete cyclicflag and void cyclic(TINYINT(1)) functions were removed. File mode functions are now virtual members; this backwards incompatibility requires that line(file f) be changed to f.line(), etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: thailatex
by CTAN Announcements 16 Aug '09

16 Aug '09

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 Theppitak Karoonboonyanan submitted an update for the thailatex package. Location on CTAN: /language/thai/thailatex Summary description: ThaiLaTeX enables typesetting Thai with standard LaTeX document classes. It is designed to become a part of babel. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in this version: - Fix installation problems in Makefiles and related scripts. - Drop support for old teTeX versions, for simplicity. - Update ttypist font from thaifonts-scalable trunk, with manually adjusted bold glyphs. - Support automated tarball preparation for CTAN upload. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/language/thai/thailatex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=thailatex (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: etextools
by CTAN Announcements 16 Aug '09

16 Aug '09

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 Florent Chervet submitted an update to the etextools package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ Summary description: More Useful Tools for LaTeX Users and Packages Writers License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Many additions : - List of tokens : loops and management gettokslistindex purely expandable for use with ifcase - Vectorization of futurelet (simple token sanner : collectoks) - Support of pdfTeX and XeTeX ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=etextools (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: biblatex-chem
by CTAN Announcements 16 Aug '09

16 Aug '09

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 Joseph Wright submitted an update to the biblatex-chem package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem/ Summary description: Chemistry styles for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v0.8c: - Fix for citation style in chem-angew style ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-chem (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: boolexpr
by CTAN Announcements 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 Florent Chervet submitted an update to the boolexpr package. The oolexpr macro evaluates boolean expressions in a purely expandable way. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/ Summary description: Purely expandable boolean expressions and switch License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Adding new syntax : switch case{ TINYINT(1) expr } ... case{ TINYINT(1) expr} ... otherwise ... endswitch remains purely expandable (may be used inside csname ... endcsname) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=boolexpr (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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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: etextools
by CTAN Announcements 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 Florent Chervet submitted an update to the etextools package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ Summary description: More Useful Tools for LaTeX Users and Packages Writers License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The documentation has been completely redesigned macro ifempty added (purely expandable) correction of ifsinglechar using ifempty rather than ifblank ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=etextools (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 has a new package: suanpan
by CTAN Announcements 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 Denis Roegel submitted the new suanpan package. Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/suanpan Summary description: metapost macros for drawing Chinese and Japanese abaci License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Metapost macros for drawing Chinese and Japanese abaci. These macros are described in Denis Roegel: MetaPost macros for drawing Chinese and Japanese abaci, TUGboat (volume 30, number 1, 2009, pages 74-79) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/suanpan . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=suanpan (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 has a new package: garrigues
by CTAN Announcements 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 Denis Roegel submitted the garrigues package. Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/garrigues Summary description: Metapost macros for the reproduction of Garrigues' Easter nomogram License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Metapost macros for the reproduction of Garrigues' Easter nomogram. These macros are described in Denis Roegel: An introduction to nomography: Garrigues' nomogram for the computation of Easter, TUGboat (volume 30, number 1, 2009, pages 88-104) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/garrigues . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=garrigues (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: biblatex 0.8h
by CTAN Announcements 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 Philipp Lehman submitted an update to the biblatex package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/exptl/biblatex License: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is mostly a bug fix release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex (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 has a new package: spverbatim
by CTAN Announcements 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 Scott Pakin submitted the new package spverbatim to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/spverbatim Summary description: Allow line breaks within verb and verbatim output. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX's verb macro treats its argument as an unbreakable unit of text. This can lead to poor typesetting, especially when the argument is long. The spverbatim package provides an spverb macro that is analogous to verb and an spverbatim environment that is analogous to verbatim with the difference being that spverb and spverbatim allow LaTeX to break lines at space characters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/spverbatim . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=spverbatim (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 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 Joseph Wright submitted an update to the siunitx package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.2m: - Auto-detect fourier package to avoid a clash ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=siunitx (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: findhyph
by CTAN Announcements 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 Martin Budaj submitted an update to the findhyph package. Findhyph is a Perl script that will analyse the log file from running your document with racingparagraphs=1 set. The output contains enough context to enable you to find the hyphenated word that’s being referenced. Location on CTAN: /support/findhyph/ Summary description: Perl program which finds all words hyphenated by TeX in a document License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bug fixes and new features -- see findhyph.pdf for details ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/findhyph/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=findhyph (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: luaotfload
by CTAN Announcements 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 Elie Roux submitted an update to the luaotfload package. The package adopts the TrueType/OpenType Font loader code provided in ConTeXt, and adapts it to use in Plain TeX and LaTeX. Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/ Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX. License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- luaotfload update: syncing with ConTeXt 20090809 (+small patch line 63 of font-dum.lua); ofm fonts are now usable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: bibhtml 2.0
by CTAN Announcements 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

On Sunday, 9 August 2009, Norman Gray submitted an update to the bibhtml package. It should soon be at your favorite mirror. Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/bibhtml Summary description: BibTeX style files (.bst) for producing HTML/XML License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bibhtml consists of a set of BibTeX style files, which allow you to use BibTeX to produce bibliographies in HTML. These are modelled closely on the standard BibTeX style files: plain.bst -> plainhtml.bst. To accompany them, this package includes a pair of XSLT scripts which illustrate how you might integrate these generated bibliographies into an XML/HTML workflow. This is version 2.0, released after a long hiatus. Differences from v1.3: * The package now supports HTML versions of all four standard BibTeX styles * The functionality of the style files has been improved, and is now based on the output from urlbst versions of the standard styles (ie, it includes @webpage entry types, and url fields on all entries) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/contrib/bibhtml (replacing current contents) . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bibhtml (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, Joachim Schrod

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CTAN update: dashrule 1.2
by CTAN Announcements 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

On Sunday, 9 August 2009, Scott Pakin submitted an update to the dashrule package. It should soon be at your favorite mirror. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/dashrule Summary description: Draw dashed rules License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The dashrule package makes it easy to draw a huge variety of dashed rules (i.e., lines) in LaTeX. dashrule provides a command, hdashrule, which is a cross between LaTeX's ule and PostScript's setdash command. hdashrule draws horizontally dashed rules using the same syntax as ule, but with an additional, setdash-like parameter that specifies the pattern of dash segments and the space between those segments. Because dashrule's rules are constructed internally using ule (as opposed to, e.g., PostScript specials) they are fully compatible with every LaTeX back-end processor. Version 1.2 of dashrule fixes a bug (reported by Piazza Luca) that prevented hdashrule from working properly within a tabular cell and adds support for empty dash patterns for more consistency with PostScript's setdash command. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/dashrule . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dashrule (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, Joachim Schrod

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CTAN update: pkfix-helper
by CTAN Announcements 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

On Saturday, 8 August 2009, Scott Pakin submitted an update to the pkfix-helper package. It should soon be at your favorite mirror. Location on CTAN: /support/pkfix-helper Summary description: Make PostScript files accessible to pkfix License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pkfix is a useful utility for replacing resolution-dependent bitmapped fonts in a dvips-produced PostScript file with the corresponding resolution-independent vector fonts. Unfortunately, pkfix needs to parse certain PostScript comments that appear only in files produced by dvips versions later than 5.58 (ca. 1996); it fails to work on PostScript files produced by older versions of dvips. pkfix-helper is a program that attempts to insert newer-dvips comments into an older-dvips PostScript file, thereby making the file suitable for processing by pkfix. pkfix-helper can sometimes process documents fully autonomously but does require the user to verify and, if needed, correct its decisions. Version 1.2 of pkfix-helper provides a --cache option that can speed up the processing of multiple PostScript files by analyzing TFM font metrics once, storing the results in a specified cache file, and reusing that cache file on subsequent runs. This feature was requested by M. S. Dousti. The accompanying encoding-samples.pdf document, which shows samples of various TeX font encodings to help a user identify obscure document fonts, has been enhanced to include samples of eufm10, msam10, msbm10, wasy10, ptmr8r, cmtex10, and stmary10. This enhancement was requested by Rogério Brito. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/pkfix-helper . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pkfix-helper (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, Joachim Schrod

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CTAN update: pict2e
by CTAN Announcements 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

On Saturday, 8 August 2009, Josef Tkadlec submitted an update to the pict2e package. It should soon be at your favorite mirror. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/pict2e Summary description: enhancement of the LaTeX picture environment License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Support for XeTeX added. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pict2e (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, Joachim Schrod

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CTAN update: achemso
by CTAN Announcements 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

raised again from its slumbers, the upload daemon rises, roaring: > ====================================================================== > > 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 American Chemical Society journal submissions > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v3.2f: > - Better support and bug fixes for Biochemistry submissions > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the update, and brought the catalogue repository up to date. thanks for the uploaded. > 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 entry will change, a bit, overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: etoolbox 1.8
by CTAN Announcements 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded etoolbox.tar.gz and etoolbox.tds.zip to the incoming > directory of the UK node. This is an update for > macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox and install/macros/latex/contrib, > respectively. Please purge the old files, install the new ones, and > announce the upload. Thank you very much. > > ABOUT > > The etoolbox package is a toolbox of programming facilities geared > primarily towards LaTeX class and package authors. It provides LaTeX > frontends to some of the new primitives provided by e-TeX as well as > some generic tools which are not related to e-TeX but match the > profile of this package. > > CHANGES > > See the manual for a list of changes. I have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Thanks for the upload. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/etoolbox.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: biblatex 0.8g
by CTAN Announcements 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex. Please > purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as > usual. > > Thank you very much. > > RELEASE NOTES > > See the file RELEASE for release notes. > > CHANGES > > This is bug fix release. The following files have been modified: > > VERSION > RELEASE > bibtex/biblatex.bst > latex/biblatex.def > latex/biblatex.sty I have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Thanks for the upload. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xwatermark
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: xwatermark Version number: 1.2 Author's name: Ahmed Musa Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Puts graphic and text watermarks on select pages of document. License type: nocommercial Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Active characters can now be submitted as part of text watermark in the key-val setup. Reference has been made to xkvltxp package in the user manual. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xwatermark . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xwatermark (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: expl3
by CTAN Announcements 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

ooh! an upload to cambridge! my daemon said: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: expl3 > Author's name: The LaTeX Team > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/expl3 > Summary description: An Experimental LaTeX3 Programming Convention > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The expl3 bundle: low-level LaTeX3 coding > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > The files of the expl3 bundle provide a low-level API for TeX > programmers with special syntax conventions, completely > separating it from document level syntax. Hence, the commands > provided are not intended for use at the document level nor for > use in describing design layouts in document class files. > > This API provides the foundation on which the LaTeX3 kernel > and other advanced extensions are built. Special care has been > taken so that they can be used within a LaTeX2e context as > regular packages. > > The TeX and eTeX primitives are all given a new name according > to these conventions. However, in the main direct use of the > primitives is not required or encouraged: the expl3 modules > define an independent low-level LaTeX3 programming language. > > At present, the expl3 modules are designed to be loaded on top > of LaTeX2e: > > usepackage{expl3} > > In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code. > This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a > stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This release (SVN 1441) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > This release includes two notable changes from the previous > snapshot (SVN 1422). First, the documentation in expl3.pdf has > been updated to make it clearer that expl3 is ready for general > use by LaTeX programmers. At the same time, some older parts of > the documentation were removed. > > The second change is the inclusion of a new module, l3keys. This > is intended as a high-level programmers interface for creating > key-value input, such as used in the optional arguments of many > modern packages. l3keys creates keys using key-value input > itself, inspired by the pgfkeys package. > > Two new functions have been added to the clist module: > - clist_set_from_seq:NN > - clist_gset_from_seq:NN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The LaTeX3 Project > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/expl3.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/expl3 i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. the catalogue link, above, will change minutely overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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ctan update: the lhfonts package
by CTAN Announcements 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

the dante upload daemon wrote: > Name of contribution: The lhfonts package > Version number: 3.5g > Author's name: Olga Lapko > Location on CTAN: /fonts/cyrillic/lh > Summary description: CyrTUG Cyrillic alphabet fonts (LH) with support of LaTeX standard encodings > License type: lppl > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > CyrTUG Cyrillic alphabet fonts (LH) with support of > LaTeX standard encodings. > The LH fonts address the problem of the wide variety of > alphabets that are written with Cyrillic-style > characters. The fonts are the original basis of the set > of T2* and X2 encodings that are now used when LaTeX > users need to write in Cyrillic languages. > > LH offers the latex/lhfonts bundle of packages for > standard LaTeX Cyrillic and traditional encodings. > > The fonts are available in Adobe Type 1 format, in the CM- > Super family of fonts. > > See also cyrillic t2 ccfonts cmbright concrete ecc. > > The authors are Andrey Khodulev, Olga Lapko, Alexander > Berdnikov and Vladimir Volovich. > > ----- > > Changes: > > Bug fixes in ff-ligatures in T2* typewriter fonts -- that > changes metrics of the monospaced fonts > > Bug fix with ligature of letter TSE -- that changes > metrics of all fonts in OT2 encoding. > > I hope that these fixes are the last which change metrics. > > I'm very sorry for my mistakes. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This package is located at > http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/cyrillic/lh > . More information is at > http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=The lhfonts package > (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 . i have pulled the upload to cambridge and installed the files. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xecjk
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

This package has been updated a tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: xeCJK Version number: 2.3.5 Author's name : Jiang Jiang Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/ Summary description: LaTeX classes and packages for Chinese typesetting License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xeCJK 2.3.5 has the following updates: 1. Produces error message when running on a XeTeX engine it does not support. 2. Significantly improve processing speed. 3. You can customize underline decorations when used in companion with CJKfntef.sty (available in the latest version of CJK package) 4. Add support of fontspec addfontfeature, xeCJK will pass options it does not recognize directly to fontspec 5. Fix a linebreaking problem caused by punctuations at the end of paragraphs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xecjk . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/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 .

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ctan update: tablists
by CTAN Announcements 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

dante upload daemon wrote: > Name of contribution: tablists > Version number: 0.0e > Author's name: Olga Lapko > Author's email: > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablists > Summary description: Tabulated list of short items (exercises in textbooks) > License type: lppl > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > The package offers environments and commands for one- > level and two-level > lists of short items (exercises in textbooks). The > environments follow > support of optional arguments of item numbering as > enumerate or paralist > packages. > ----- > > Changes: > > *) changed layout of tabulated list placed inside LaTeX's > proper list. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This package is located at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tablists > . More information is at > http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tablists > (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 . i have pulled the upload to cambridge and installed it here; i have also updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

dante's upload daemon wrote: > Name of contribution: softmaker-freefont > Version number: 1.2 > Author's name: Josef Kleber > Location on CTAN: /fonts/softmaker-freefont/ > Summary description: Support files for 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 > freefont bundle. > Other fonts will be included in future. > > License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) > > New in v1.2: > > - added LaTeX support for the special purpose font: Flagstaff > Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the > month (August 2009) and can be downloaded for free at (at > least > this month): http://www.freefont.de > Later you can buy it from Softmaker > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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. i've pulled it to the cambridge ctan and installed the files here. i've also done some work on the catalogue entry, which an eager world won't see until tonight's run has processed it to appear on the web. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: makecell
by CTAN admin (Robin Fairbairns) 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

quoth dante's upload daemon: > Name of contribution: makecell > Version number: 0.1e > Author's name: Olga Lapko > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/makecell > Summary description: Managing tabular column heads and cells > License type: lppl > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Changes: > > Added: > *) command and environment for usage of cells inside text; > *) commands for creation of empty rows or rows with > repeated text. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This package is located at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/makecell > . More information is at > http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=makecell > (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 . i have retrieved the package from the dante machine and installed it in cambridge. i have also updated the catalogue repository, noting the new documentation in russian. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: hyph-utf8
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

This has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: hyph-utf8 Version number: N/A Author's name: Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer Location on CTAN: /language/hyph-utf8 Summary description: Hyphenation patterns in UTF-8 with converter scripts for 8-bit encodings License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Adding Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) patterns by Jörg Knappen et al. The Spanish patterns are updated to version 4.5 (by Javier Bezos). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 has a new package: titlepic
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

This has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: titlepic Version number: 1.1 Author's name: Thomas ten Cate Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/titlepic Summary description: Displays a picture on the title page License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The titlepic package allows you to place a picture on the title page (cover page) of a LaTeX document. Example of usage: usepackage[cc]{titlepic} usepackage{graphicx} itlepic{includegraphics[width= extwidth]{picture.png}} Note: the package currently only works with the document classes article, report and book. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/titlepic . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/titlepic (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: cellspace
by CTAN admin (Robin Fairbairns) 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

coming in thick and fast... > Name of contribution: cellspace > Version number: 1.6 > Author's name: Josselin Noirel > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cellspace/ > Summary description: The package defines a S modifier in tabular > preambles to space out cells > License type: lppl > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The package defines a S modifier in tabular preambles to > space out cells. Now, an option [math] has been added to > allow to space out matrices too. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This package is located at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/cellspace/ > . More information is at > http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=cellspace > (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 . i pulled your upload to cambridge, installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: The floatrow package
by CTAN Announcements 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

that dante upload daemon is still mythering me: > Name of contribution: The floatrow package > Version number: 0.3b > Author's name: Olga Lapko > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/floatrow > Summary description: Modifying the layout of floats > License type: lppl > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Changes: > > Bug fixes of hisfloatsetup settings for floats with > [H] option and > inside floatrow environment. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This package is located at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/floatrow > . More information is at > http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=The floatrow package > (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 . i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue entry. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: dvisvgm
by CTAN Announcements 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

the dante upload daemon says: Name of contribution: dvisvgm Version number: 0.8.1 Author's name: Martin Gieseking Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: release of dvisvgm 0.8.1 License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. The latest release fixes a bounding box computation bug and corrects some issues related to x64 systems. Additionally, parameters of the psfile special are now evaluated more completely. 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 . i have installed the new version (at cambridge) and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: dvisvgm
by CTAN admin (Robin Fairbairns) 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

the dante upload daemon also says: Name of contribution: dvisvgm Version number: 0.8.1 Author's name: Martin Gieseking Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: release of dvisvgm 0.8.1 License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. The latest release fixes a bounding box computation bug and corrects some issues related to x64 systems. Additionally, parameters of the psfile special are now evaluated more completely. 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). i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. (the slight changes to the catalogue will appear overnight.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: bidi
by CTAN admin (Robin Fairbairns) 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Quoth the dante upload daemon: Name of contribution: bidi Version number: 1.0.3 Author's name: Vafa Khalighi Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/bidi/ Summary description: Support for bidirectional typesetting with XeLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version of the bidi package fixes few bugs that were present in v1.0.2 and adds full support for the hyperref package. We also have deleted bidimemoir class in this version and instead added support for the original memoir class, therefore you should be using memoir class instead using bidimemoir class. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/bidi/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bidi i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository; thanks for the upload. users should note that the (limited) changes to the info in that last link will actually appear overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: blindtext
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: blindtext Version number: 1.9b Author's name: Knut Lickert Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/blindtext Summary description: blindtext.sty: Create dummy text. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes blindtext 1.9: - Added mathematical blind text - support of polyglossia - added a interim solution for French ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/blindtext . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/blindtext (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: boolexpr
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

that upload daemon is testing my excitement threshold: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: boolexpr > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Author's email: florent.chervet(a)free.fr > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/ > Summary description: A purely expandable way to evaluate boolean expressions > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The oolexpr macro evaluate boolean expressions in a purely > expandable way. > oolexpr{ A OR B AND C } expands to 0 if the logical > expression is 1. > A, B, C may be : > - numeric expressions such as: x=y, x<>y, x>y or: x<y > - boolean switches: iftrue 0else 1fi > - conditionals: ifcsname whatsitendcsname 0else 1fi > - another oolexpr: oolexpr{ D OR E AND F } > > oolexpr may be used with ifcase: > ifcaseoolexpr{ A OR B AND C } > What to do if true > else > What to do if false > fi > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the new package, and created a catalogue entry for it (as yet, only in the repository). thanks for the upload (i've printed the doc to read in bed tonight...). > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/boolexpr.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/ of course, the catalogue entry won't appear until the processing has run. the only safe assumption is that it will happen overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: achemso
by Robin Fairbairns 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

the deeps have been silent for a while -- but wait! -- something stirs! > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: achemso > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Author's email: > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso > Summary description: Support for American Chemical Society journal submissions > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v3.2e: > - Fix to include abstract text in JACS Communication submissions > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for that. i've installed the package, 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 as usual, a tiny change in the catalogue entry will be visible, to the eagle-eyed, overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pst-3dplot
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pst-3dplot.tgz to the uk mirror. Please replace > files with the ones in the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/ > > and put the new ones in there. i've done that, and updated the catalogue repository. > pst-3dplot is a PSTricks related package for drawing > 3-D objects in parallel projection. > > This update has a bug fixes and a new feature > > pst-3dplot.pro -------- > 0.28 2009-07-28 add option showgrid for sphere, paraboloid and cylinder > > pst-3dplot.tex -------- > 1.84 2009-07-28 - add option showgrid for sphere, paraboloid > and cylinder > - fix bug with psBox thanks for the update. users may view the package catalogue entry at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-3dplot.html or browse the package directory at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/ not surprisingly, the catalogue entry will change overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: germkorr
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Timo Baumann submitted the new package germkorr to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/germkorr Summary description: Change kerning for german quotation marks. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package germkorr has to be loaded after the package german. It brings some letters like T nearer to german ingle and double quotes even when that letter wears a standard accent like `.T'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/germkorr/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=germkorr (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: thailatex
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan submitted an update to the thailatex package. ThaiLaTeX enables typesetting Thai with standard LaTeX document classes. Version number: 0.4.3 Author's name: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan Location on CTAN: /language/thai/thailatex Summary description: Typeset Thai texts with standard LaTeX classes. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes from 0.4.2: - Update fonts from thaifonts-scalable 0.4.13, changes include: + thicker bold faces for ttpyist + variation faces for purisa - Default monospace font is now ttypist. - Drop the obsolete ' hai' command, in favor of ' haitext'. - UTF-8 support. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/language/thai/thailatex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=thailatex (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: tikz-timing
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the tikz-timing package. This package provides macros and an environment to generate timing diagrams (digital waveforms) without much effort. The TikZ package is used to produce the graphics. The diagrams may be inserted into text (paragraphs, hbox, etc.) and into tikzpictures. A tabular-like environment is provided to produce larger timing diagrams. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-timing Summary description: Update to Version 0.6 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This versions brings the following new features: * New optional characters (loadable by package options): 'A'/'W' for up and down arrows. 'E' (either) for uncertain low-to-high and high-to-low transitions. * New forward modifier 'F' as reverse version of the backward modifier 'B'. * Support for lower-case modifiers 'b','f' and 'n', which are (a.t.m.) identical to the upper-case versions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-timing/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tikz-timing (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 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Name of contribution: dvisvgm Version number: 0.8 Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: dvisvgm 0.8 has been released License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. Besides some bugfixes and internal code improvements, the latest version introduces the evaluation of PostScript specials, as created by PSTricks for example. Currently, most drawing features like stroking, filling, and clipping including color, line styles, and transformations are supported. 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: pdfcomment
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jul '09

26 Jul '09

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the pdfcomment package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment 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 v1.4b: - Bugfix: problem with different default values for page size with pdflatex (dvi mode) and dvips/dvipdfmx => better specify page size with an option like a4paper - Bugfix: changed procedure of loading hyperref to prevent warnings with dvipdfmx reported by: Jin-Hwan Cho ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Eplain 3.3
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 26 Jul '09

26 Jul '09

This package has been updated on CTAN and should by now be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ------------------------- Announcement ------------------------- I'm happy to announce release 3.3 of Eplain, a set of TeX macros that expands on and extends the definitions in plain TeX in a style-neutral fashion. Eplain's home page is http://tug.org/eplain You can get it off CTAN at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/eplain The manual is available on-line from CTAN or Eplain's home page, or as a hard-copy from http://www.lulu.com/content/113810 (royalties are donated to the TeX Users Group). Here's an excerpt from the NEWS file. * New commands eqnum and eqalignnum, counterparts of (l)eqno and (l)eqalignno, producing equation numbers which can be uniformly transformed to right-aligned ( ighteqnumbers) or left-aligned (lefteqnumbers). * Eplain has borrowed the eTeX, ExTeX, XeTeX and XeLaTeX logos from tugboat.dtx. * idxnameseparator is now expanded once so that the .idx file contains its contents instead of the macro call. * Non-silent indexing macros have been fixed not to produce a spurious newline when newline's catcode is 13 (active). * Eplain now takes care to unactivate any active characters before typesetting index term in the margin for proofing. * Updated ifpdf.sty. * LaTeX package reloading warnings are now not shown on the terminal. * Documentation improvements. Thanks to everybody who contributed with bug reports, feature suggestions and code patches. Oleg Katsitadze

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CTAN package update: biblatex 0.8f
by CTAN admin (Robin Fairbairns) 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex. Please > purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as > usual. > > Thank you very much. > > RELEASE NOTES > > See the file RELEASE for release notes. > > CHANGES > > This is bug fix release. The following files have been modified: > > VERSION > RELEASE > bibtex/biblatex.bst > latex/biblatex.sty i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Thanks for the upload. users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html or browse the package's directory (or rather, its sub-tree) at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ the catalogue will be updated, on the web, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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