On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 Basil K. Malyshev submitted an update to the
bakoma
package.
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma
>
> Most important improvements in BaKoMa TeX 8.45 are:
>
> * Dialog to insert symbols from Windows fonts.
> * Compatibility with BibLaTeX.
>
> More details about changes and another bug fixing see at:
> <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/changes.php> or
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html>
>
>
> -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 8.45 ------------------
>
> BaKoMa TeX 8.45 supports two coexisting IDE:
> 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
> 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Classical IDE.
> They are high compatible, so that you can choose what to use
> depend on kind of a document or stage of work under a document.
>
> About BaKoMa TeX Word.
>
> BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
>
> The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts:
>
> 1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor.
> It means that display shows precisely the same what will be printed.
> It looks such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer.
> 2) It is True LaTeX Editor.
> It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure.
> It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document.
>
> BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and
> consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related
> with import graphics, font support, and document export.
>
> It supports processors:
> (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX.
> Other processors such as Omega may be added in future.
>
> It imports:
> EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX,
> MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY.
> It supports fonts:
> OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM),
> PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF.
> It exports:
> DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT).
>
> It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS
> compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as:
> PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy,
> PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.
>
> Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is
> final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing.
>
> Editing slides in WYSIWYG interface
> (with such packages as PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.)
> is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'.
>
> TeXWord dramatically simplifies editing complex formulas and tables.
>
> TeXWord is transparent for cooperation.
> TeXWord don't use additional macro packages.
> It uses only standard LaTeX packages, so that documents made up
> in TeXWord may be compiled in any LaTeX setup without any adaptation.
> In other side, TeXWord can handle arbitrary LaTeX documents.
> So, that your coleagues may even don't know that you use
> powerful WYSIWYG tool to edit your part of common work.
>
> Beginner users of LaTeX may consider TeXWord as
> good start point for learning LaTeX together with writing papers.
>
> More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at:
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html>
>
> Some screenshots are available at:
> <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/screenshots.php>
>
> Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at:
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/>
>
> Most important improvements in BaKoMa TeX 8.45 are:
>
> * Dialog to insert symbols from Windows fonts.
> * Compatibility with BibLaTeX.
>
> More details about changes and another bug fixing see at:
> <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/changes.php> or
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html>
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will in the next day work its
way through the mirroring system.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: gbrief Creator
Author's name: Carsten Schinke
Location on CTAN: /support/gbrief-creator
Summary description: Windows-Frontend (german) for the g-brief package by Michael Lenzen
License type: nosource
Announcement text:
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g-brief Creator is a small Windows frontend for the g-brief package.
Usage is free for everyone. Program and documentation language is german.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: tablor
Author's name: Guillaume Connan
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablor
Summary description: Create tables of signs and of variations.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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New version 4.04 : new environment TVIex with roots of
equations f(x)=a.
Bugs in TVI and TVIapp fixed.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Stellenbosch thesis and other utilities - 08
Author's name: Danie Els
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/stellenbosch
Summary description: Typesetting dissertations, theses and reports of the University
of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The usthesis class/style files are provided to typeset
reports, theses and dissertations that conform to the
requirements of the Engineering Faculty of the University of
Stellenbosch.
The class file usthesis.cls is based on the standard LaTeX
book class, while usthesis.sty is a style file to be loaded
on top of the very powerful memoir class. Both options give
identical output, but the benefit of the using memoir is
that it has many additional command and environments for
formatting and processing of a document.
Usthesis is primarily concerned with the formatting of the
front matter such as the title page, abstract, etc. and a
decent page layout on A4 paper. It also works together with
the babel package to provide language options to typeset
documents in Afrikaans or in English.
Additional packages are provided for bibliographic matter,
note title pages, lists of symbols, as well as various
graphic files for logos.
CHANGES FROM Stellenbosch-07:
USthesis: v4.1
a) Fix errors in declaration page (usthesis.eng)
a) Add signature and signed date macros for
declaration page.
USbib.sty v1.0
a) Rewrite inside bib testing mechanism for BIBand
b) Remove redefinition of thebibliography environment.
USlogos v4.0
a) Add UScrest-WM.jpg/eps for watermarks
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On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 Paul Ebermann submitted the new package
exp-testopt
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/exp-testopt
Summary description: an expandable variant of @testopt
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides an expandable variant of the LaTeX
kernel command @testopt, named @expandable@testopt, and
a more general @expandable@ifopt, both intended for package
writers. Also we have a variant of
ewcommand which
uses these macros to check for optional arguments.
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On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 Siep Kroonenberg submitted an update to the
epspdf
and
epspdf-extra
packages.
Epspdf[tk] is a Ruby script which converts between PostScript, EPS and PDF. It
has both a command-line and a GUI interface.
Using pdftops (from the xpdf command-line utilities) for round-tripping opens up
several new possibilities compared to older similarly-named utilities.
epspdf-extra provides multi-platform support for epspdf.
Location on CTAN: /support/epspdf and /support/epspdf-extra
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Main changes:
- optional support for hires boundingbox
- support for MikTeX's builtin Ghostscript
- various bugfixes
Changes to epspdf-extras:
Updated Ruby/Tk subset.
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pstricks-add.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please replace
> the files with the ones in the directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/
>
>
> pstricks-add is a PSTricks related package, which has a lot
> of additional features, like arrows, special curves, a...
>
> This update has new internal PostScript procedures and three
> new arrow types.
>
> v 3.18 2009-03-03
> - fix bug with division in the psgraph macro
> - add macro psComment
> - add optional argument for psplot and parametricplot
> for additional PostScript settings
> - add macro psGetSlope
> - add psForeach (without grouping its contents like psforeach)
i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository.
users may view the catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks-add.html
(though it'll be slightly out of date until tonight's update), and they
may browse the package directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/
thanks for the upload,
Robin Fairbairns
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the mirroring system.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: glossaries
Author's name: Nicola Talbot
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
Summary description: Create glossaries and lists of acronyms
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v1.19:
* changed acronymfont to use extsmaller instead of
smaller
(for smaller package option)
* Added glsdisp (similar to glslink except that it uses
glsdisplay/glsdisplayfirst and unsets the first use flag)
* Added experimental package glossaries-accsupp which
requires accsupp package.
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 Alain Matthes submitted the new package
tkz-doc
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tkz-doc
Summary description: Documentation macros for the TKZ series of packages.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This bundle offers a documentation class (tkz-doc) and a package (tkzexample).
These files are used in the documentation of the author’s packages tkz-tab and
tkz-linknodes.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tkz-doc/
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On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 Alain Matthes submitted the new package
tkz-linknodes
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tkz-linknodes
Summary description: Link nodes in mathematical environments.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package arose from a requirement to link the elements of an amsmath align or
aligned environment. The package makes use of PGF/TikZ.
The package documentation relies on the facilities of the tkz-doc bundle
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tkz-linknodes/
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 Alain Matthes submitted the new package
tkz-tab
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tkz-tab
Summary description: The 'tkz-tab' package provides some macros to build tables showing variations of functions
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The 'tkz-tab' package is built on top of PGF and its associated front-end, TikZ and is
a (La)TeX-friendly drawing package. The aim is to provide some useful macros to
build tables showing variations of functions as they are used in France.
These macros may be used by only LaTeX TeX users. The documentation is in
French.
Features
-- works with utf8 and pdflatex
-- provides 'help' option,
-- allows to draw tables of variations with a forbidden zone,
-- allows to use TikZ.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tkz-tab/
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On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 J.J. Green submitted an update to the
fge
fonts package.
Location on CTAN: /fonts/fge
Summary description: a font for Frege's Grundgesetze der Arithmetik
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Fixed some defects in the overturned eszett.
Added type 1 (pfb) versions of the font
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This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should be at your local mirror
within the day.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: svn-multi
Author's name: Martin Scharrer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/svn-multi/
Summary description: Update to version 1.5 - New macros: svntoday and svnfiletoday
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This version introduces two new macros svntoday and
svnfiletoday which typeset the document-global or
file-local date, respectively, in the format of oday.
Thanks and credit for the sample code goes to Manuel
Pégourié-Gonnard.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ThuThesis
Author's name: Ruini Xue
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/thuthesis
Summary description: ThuThesis is a LaTeX thesis template package for
Tsinghua University in order to make it easy to write thesises for
either bachelor, master or doctor.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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xetex is supported now.
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On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 Zdeněk Wagner submitted an update to the
zwpagelayout
package.
This package was developed as a typographers’ toolbox offering the most
important features for everyday work. First it allows setting the paper size as
well as the page layout. The next important feature is the ability to print
crop marks both with TeX + dvips or (x)dvipdfm(x) and with pdfTeX. Finally it
is possible to reflect pages both horizontally and vertically.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/zwpagelayout/
Summary description: Update of the sample files
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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I was notified that the sample files require a private
package that is not publicly available. The macros in the
sample files were modified and dependence on encTeX was
removed so that everyone can run them through LaTeX. The
package itself remained unchanged.
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the
datatool
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/datatool
Summary description: Tools to load and manipulate data
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v2.0 (2009/02/27):
datatool.sty:
* Rewritten database internal representation to make the code
faster (thanks to Morten Ho gholm for the suggestion)
* added etex as a required package
* Database columns can now have an associated header (in addition
to the key)
* added DTLdisplaydb and DTLdisplaylongdb
* added DTLremoverow
* DTLloaddb, DTLloadrawdb:
- removed unnecessary checks to determine if database
exists when adding entries.
- added optional argument
- can now also load files without header row
* DTLsumforkeys, DTLmeanforkeys, DTLvarianceforkeys,
DTLsdforkeys, DTLminforkeys and DTLmaxforkeys now have a
second optional argument
* added DTLsumcolumn, DTLmeanforcolumn, DTLvarianceforcolumn,
DTLsdforcolumn, DTLminforcolumn and DTLmaxforcolumn
* added dtlforeachkey
* added dtlforint and dtlgforint
* added dtlforcolumn and dtlforcolumnidx
* added DTLcolumncount
* added starred versions of:
- DTLifdbempty
- DTLnewrow
* added DTLifhaskey
* added DTLgetcolumnindex
* added DTLunsettype, DTLstringtype, DTLinttype, DTLrealtype
and DTLcurrencytype
* added DTLgetdatatype
* removed @dtl@setidtype
* removed @dtl@setkeys
* removed @dtl@getidtype
* removed @dtl@ifrowcontains
* removed dtl@getentryvalue
* removed dtl@getentryid
* added dtlgetentryfromcurrentrow
* added dtlforcolumnindex
dataplot.sty
* fixed bug causing ! Argument of pgfmath@afterquick has an extra }
error
databar.sty
* added DTLeverybarhook
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the
svn-multi
package.
This package lets you typeset keywords of the version control system Subversion
inside your LaTeX files anywhere you like. Unlike the otherwise similar package
svn the use of multiple files for one LaTeX document is well supported.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/svn-multi/
Summary description: Update to version 1.4 - support of timezones with non-zero minute part.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update adds support of timezones which are not full
hours. This was requested by an user living in India with a
timezone of +0530. Previous versions assumed '00' at the end
of the timezone and failed with a TeX parse error when
confronted with other timezones. Please note the changes to
the timezone macros (svntimezone, svnfiletimezone) and the
new related macros: svntimezonehour, svntimezoneminute,
svnfiletimezonehour, svnfiletimezoneminute. Please see the
PDF manual for more details.
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 Yvon Henel submitted the new package
yagusylo
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/yagusylo
Summary description: A kind of extension of pifont gone technicolor
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package yagusylo
<Yet Another Grand Unified SYmbols LOader>
version 1.2 dated 2009-02-26; first CTAN version
This package enables you to obtain a symbol whithout loading the
package which usually provides it in order to avoid name
clashes.
It could be considered as an extension of pifont gone technicolor.
It's behaviour is controlled by keys using xkeyval.
Provides macros for obtaining one glyph, for filling and
drawing lines, itemize-like and enumerate-like environments .
The user documentation contains examples. The code is more
or less explained. A French documentation is provided.
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This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your
favorite mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: libris
Author's name: Clea F. Rees
Location on CTAN: /fonts/libris
Summary description: LibrisADF
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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LibrisADF is a sans-serif family designed to mimic Lydian.
Package includes:
- fonts in postscript type 1, opentype and truetype formats
by Hirwen Harendal of Arkandis Digital Foundry released
under the GPL, v2 or later with the font exception;
- LaTeX support for the type 1 fonts by Clea F. Rees
released under the LPPL.
LaTeX support requires nfssext-cfr and should be considered
experimental. Instructions are provided in the included README.
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 Uwe Lück submitted the new package
nicetext
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nicetext/
Summary description: ``minimal'' markup for simple text (Wikipedia style) and documentation
License type: lppl
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The NICETEXT bundle offers ``minimal'' markup syntax for rather
simple kinds of text. The code you type should show little more
characters than are printed, though you get LaTeX quality. We try
to do away with backslashes, technical terms, and curly braces,
which (a.o.) may cause musculoskeletal damages at PC keyboards
<optional arghh>.
'wiki.sty' addresses general kinds of texts. 'niceverb.sty' is
made for documenting LaTeX packages. 'niceverb.sty' especially
offers [almost-]WYSIWIG for meta-variables (macro arguments) and
for referring to commands (and their syntax) in footnotes, section
titles etc. E.g., to typeset the syntax description
foo[<opt-arg>]{<mand-arg>}
you just type
foo[<opt-arg>]{<mand-arg>}
!-)
One source of inspiration is the markup syntax that is used in
editing Wikipedia pages. The package 'wiki.sty' of the bundle
offers a very similar syntax as a LaTeX front-end. It suffices for
italics, boldface, sectioning, and certain list-like environments.
This is also similar to 'easylatex',
http.//www.ctan.org/pkg/easylatex
which is more powerful and uses Perl. 'wiki.sty', by contrast, is
just a LaTeX package, working on any TeX installation.
'niceverb' is not ready in two essential respects, but I thought
it should be released in time for German Carnival (read on in README)
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Rainer Schöpf
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 Roberto Giacomelli submitted the new package
calctab
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/calctab
Summary description: Autocalc table environment
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The calctab package helps the user to typeset a kind of
economic table such as invoices, expense notes and
liquidation, or other tabular material with a values column.
The code computes sum and percentage with floating point
numeric method (with the fltpoint package by Eckhart
Guthoehrlein) and buils the render table task.
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 Paul Ebermann submitted the new package
gmdoc-enhance
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmdoc-enhance
Summary description: LaTeX-package 'gmdoc-enhance' - some enhancements for gmdoc.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides some enhancements for the gmdoc package:
nicer formatting for multiple line inline comments,
an ability to comment out some code, and a macro to input
other files in normal LaTeX mode.
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This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should in the next day be at your
local mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: silence
Author's name: Paul Isambert
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/silence
Summary description: Selective filtering of error messages and warnings.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package is meant to allow the user to filter out
unwanted warnings and error messages issued by LaTeX,
packages and classes, so they won't pop out when there's
nothing one can do about them.
Filtering goes from the very broad (avoid all messages
by such and such) to the fine-grained (avoid messages
that begin with...).
Messages may be saved to an external file for later
reference.
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ucdavisthesis
Author's name: Ryan Scott
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ucdavisthesis
Summary description: A thesis/dissertation class for University of California Davis
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A thesis/dissertation class for the University of
California, Davis. It includes documentation and example
files. The formatting provided by the class file conforms to
UC Davis requirements as of 2009.
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Please note that I mistyped the address of this package. It should be
/support/texloganalyser
(my fingers spelled it -zer).
I apologize,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: texloganalyser
Author's name: Thomas vO
Location on CTAN: /support/texloganalyser
Summary description: Perl script displaying selective infos from LaTeX logs
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This Perl script allows users to extract (and display) some
parts of a (La)TeX log.
This is texloganalyser, version 0.6
Copyright 2006-2009 Thomas van Oudenhove
Usage: texloganalyser [--help|--version|-efhioprstuvw] <TeX log>
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-circ.tgz to the uk mirror. Please replace
> the files in the directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ/
>
> pst-circ is a PSTricks related package for drawing
> dipoles, some tripoles and quadrupoles
(that's 2-, 3- and 4-terminal devices, in english nomenclature)
> and logical elements used in elecronic or
> electric theory.
>
> Version 1.51 has a new Symbol SQUID.
i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
users may view the catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-circ.html
or browse the package director at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ/
the catalogue entry on the web will be updated overnight (but it's not
much changed, to be honest).
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite
mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: macqassign
Author's name: Vafa Khalighi
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/macqassign
Summary description: Typesetting Macquarie University (Sydney) Assignments
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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macqassign is a simple class for typesetting Macquarie University (Sydney)
Assignments.
Note: Since we are using PSTricks, to compile your documents, I would
recommend using LaTeX+dvips+ps2pdf to produce a PDF file.
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On Thu, 19 Feb 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:
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For a long time pdflatex has offered the command pdfannot for inserting
arbitrary PDF annotations. However, the command is presented in
a form where additional knowledge of the definition of the PDF format is
indispensable. This package is an answer to the – occasional – questions
in newsgroups, about how one could use the comment function of Adobe
Reader. At least for the writer of LATEX code, the package offers a
convenient and user-friendly means of using pdfannot to provide comments
in PDF files. Since version v1.1, pdfcomment.sty also supports:
LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf, LaTeX -> dvipdfmx and XeLaTeX.
Unfortunately, support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers is sparse to
nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is
Adobe Reader.
License: LPPL
New in v1.2:
- new options: voffset, hoffset, width, height, opacity, avatar, style
- new annotation type: FreeText annotation
-> pdffreetextcomment
- introduction of an avatar and style system
-> defineavatar, definestyle, options avatar and style
- printing the PDF annotations and popups is possible now!
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Rainer Schöpf
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon work its way through
the mirroring system.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow 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:
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v1.2f:
- Ability to disable literal unit processing
- Units for chemical engineers (g-mol, kg-mol, lb-mol)
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: texloganalyser
Author's name: Thomas vO
Location on CTAN: /support/texloganalyzer
Summary description: Perl script displaying selective infos from LaTeX logs
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This Perl script allows users to extract (and display) some
parts of a (La)TeX log.
This is texloganalyser, version 0.6
Copyright 2006-2009 Thomas van Oudenhove
Usage: texloganalyser [--help|--version|-efhioprstuvw] <TeX log>
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Thank you again
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: MEPer
Author's name: Shengjun Pan
Location on CTAN: /support/meper
Summary description: MetaPost Editor and Previewer v1.0
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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MEPer is a java program for editing MetaPost source file and
previewing the output image. It works in both Linux and
Windows, provided that the following programs are installed:
the latest Sun JSE, MetaPost, and either ImageMagick or
Ghostscript. This is a preliminary version. For more
information and updates please see
http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~s1pan/MEPer/.
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also sprach the cambridge ctan-upload:
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: bgreek
> Author's name: Luis Rivera
> Location on CTAN: /language/greek/bgreek
> Summary description: A bundle to typeset Greek texts with different
> ascii encodings and Claudio Beccari's fonts
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This release is an update.
>
> 1. The older bgreek and ibycus options of the bgreek package are now the Babel languages bgreek and ibygreek.
>
> 2. The bgreek package and its delims option are now deprecated.
>
> 3. Added support for Beta Code's backslash accents in the arguments of moving commands (section, footnote, etc.).
>
> 4. Added support for the workaround of the betababel package.
i have 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/bgreek.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//language/greek/bgreek
(the catalogue entry will be updated overnight tonight.)
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the
dvisgm
package.
Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts dvi files to
SVG. The latest release introduces basic evaluation of DVI
specials which is currently limited to color statements.
However, more special handlers are planned and partially
already in the works.
For further information including a list of recent changes
and pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project
page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net
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_______________________________________________
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be through the
mirroring system.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: biblatex-dw
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:
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version 1.2f
- Adjustments to biblatex version 0.8c. Note that from
this version on biblatex 0.8c is required, so you have to
update biblatex as well if you would like to use
biblatex-dw 1.2f!
-> The biblatex-dw option 'idem' was replaced by the new
biblatex option 'idemtracker'. The standard setting is
'idemtracker=constrict'. If you would like to switch
off the idem functionality, you can use
'idemtracker=false'. For more information on the
'idemtracker' option see the biblatex manual.
- New options 'doi', 'eprint', 'isbn' and 'issn' which can
take the values 'true' and 'false'. With these options
you can decide whether you want to have printed the
corresponding fields or not. The default for these
options is 'false' (as was the standard before).
- New option 'idemfont' which can take the values
'smallcaps', 'italic', 'bold' and 'normal'. The default
is none which means that the 'idem' string is printed in
the font shape of 'namefont'.
- New option 'ibidemfont' which can take the values
'smallcaps', 'italic' and 'bold'. The default is none
which means that the 'ibidem' string is printed in normal
font shape.
- New macro 'jourvolstring' which introduces the volume of
an article entry. The default is a space (as it was the
case before), but you can adjust it to your needs, e.g.:
enewcommand*{jourvolstring}{addspace voladddotspace}
- New macro 'journumstring' which introduces the number in
article entries, if the option 'journumafteryear' is set
to 'true'. The default for this macro is a comma,
followed by the bibstring 'number' and a non-breakable
space. You can redefine it to your needs, e.g.:
enewcommand*{journumstring}{addspace}
- If there is no volume in an article entry, but the month
field is set, the date is separated from the journal
title by a comma and a space, not only a space.
- Fixed some BUGS concerning the xref functionality.
- Reorganized some bibliography drivers.
- Enhanced the documentation.
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: luamcallbacks
Author's name: Elie Roux
Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luamcallbacks/
Summary description: Package to register multiple functions by callback
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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New low-level package to be able to register several
functions in a callback.
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: lua-inputenc
Author's name: Elie Roux
Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/latex/lua-inputenc
Summary description: inputenc package for LuaTeX
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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First version of the inputenc package for LuaTeX.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: SkakNew
Author's name: Ulrich Dirr
Location on CTAN: /fonts/chess/skaknew
Summary description: Update of SkakNew and AlphaDia; new OpenType versions
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Small improvements of existing fonts. Changed AlphaDia to
use 1000x1000 matrix for PostScript font instead of 2400.
Improved diagonal lines for black fields (reported by
Wolfgang Schuster). Removed all Unique ID entries (not
useful anymore). Made OpenType versions of all fonts.
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
miktex_update
package.
Location on CTAN: /support/miktex_update
Summary description: A cygwin bash script for automatic updating and installing new packages of MiKTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The miktex_update script offers automatic updating and/or installing of new
packages of an existing MiKTeX installation. It supports direct connection with
online repositories of the MiKTeX server network, as well as synchronizing a
local repository (CTAN) with following update. In the end you should have an
up-to-date and complete MiKTeX installation.
License: LPPL
Changes in v1.3:
- Bugfix: changed main rsync URL to new TUG URL
rsync://tug.ctan.org/CTAN/
- new option -R, --rsync specifies rsync server URL
- Bugfix: error in handling of cgywin style path by mpm, like:
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/kleberj
reported by: Hongsheng Zhao
See: http://latex.josef-kleber.de/en_miktex_update.htm or
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=miktex_update
for more information
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_______________________________________________
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite
mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: cleveref
Author's name: Toby Cubitt
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/
Summary description: Intelligent cross-referencing.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This release fixes a few bugs, and documents work-arounds
for others. In particular,
ef* now works when hyperef is
loaded.
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: xstring
Author's name: Christian Tellechea
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xstring
Summary description: String (token list) manipulation
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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package xstring update
version v1.5a 2009/02/09
This package does not require LaTeX (but eTeX is required).
Consequently, the xstring.tex file should be installed in
the tex/ subtree.
===========
Changes
===========
* New macro StrExpand
* Code improvment.
* Several bugfixes.
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-optic.tgz to the uk mirror. Please replace the
> files with the ones in the directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optic/
>
> pst-optic is a collection of PSTricks macros to draw
> both reflective and refractive optics diagrams.
>
> This version 1.00 of pst-optic.tex has a new style
> for the optical axis and the documentation is now
> in the PSTricks style.
i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository;
thanks for the upload.
users may view the catalogue entry (which will be updated over night
tonight) at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-optic.html
and they may visit the package directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optic/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This package is new on tug.ctan.org and should work its way through the mirroring
system in the next day.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pdfmarginpar
Author's name: Christian Feuersänger
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/congtrib/pdfmarginpar
Summary description: An improved marginpar command which produces read-only
PDF Annotations readable by Acrobat Reader with latex.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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pdfmarginpar provides the pdfmarginpar command which is
similar in spirit to marginpar. How-
ever, it creates pdf-annotations which can be viewed with
Adobe Reader instead of normal text margins:
small icons indicate the in-text position where the message
originates, popups provide detailed messages.
The advantage over marginpar is that bugfixes and
communication is clearly visible together with its
text source and the document as such is not obscured.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfmarginpar
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Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: tablor
Author's name: Guillaume Connan
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablor
Summary description: Create tables of signs and of variations.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Tables with forbidden zones improved.
Need new version (2.1 02/december/2008) of
tableauVariation.mp available here :
http://download.tuxfamily.org/tehessinmath/les_sources/tableauVariation.mp
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: The memoir class
Author's name: Lars Madsen
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/memoir/
Summary description: Bugfix for the memoir class
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This version fixes a bug that I inadvertently introduced in
v1.6180339c, the announced functionality the V1.6...c
remains the same.
In this version we also fix
ameref when used with memoir.
See the README for more information
/daleif
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my upload daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xfor
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xfor
> Summary description: A reimplimentation of the LaTeX for-loop macro
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.05:
> changed @forloop to @xforloop to avoid conflict caused
> by new syntax.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue; thanks for
the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xfor.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xfor
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This package has been put up at tug.ctan.org and will work through the mirroring
system in the next day.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pst-support
Author's name: Herbert Voss
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/pst-support
Summary description: Files for supporting Distiller and TeXnicCenter when
using PSTricks
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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>From the README:
Standard_transparency.joboptions
File for the Distiller to make the transparency work with
usepackage[distiller]{pstricks}
Put the file into AdobeADOBE PDFSettings or
any similiar directory.
latex-ps-pdf.tco
TeXnicCenter profile for running latex->dvips->ps2pdf on
a LaTeX file
latex-pstpdf-pdf.tco
TeXnicCenter profile for running
latex->dvips->pdflatex on a LaTeX file
but with using the package pst-pdf
pdflatex-autopstpdf.tco
TeXnicCenter profile for running
pdflatex on a LaTeX file but with using
the package auto-pst-pdf and an enabled
--enable-write18 option for MiKTeX
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 Henrik Skov Midtiby submitted an update to the
todonotes
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/todonotes
Summary description: The package lets the user mark things to do later, in a simple and and visually appealing way.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Added a space between the colored square and the text in the
list of todos. Added a new usecase for marking old / new
sections. Made the name of listoftodos changeable.
Italian translation by Gustavo Cevolani. Removed the
dependence on the hyperref package.
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pgfplots
Author's name: Christian Feuersänger
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots
Summary description: pgfplots - A tool to work with scientific data. It draws
normal and/or logarithmic plots in LaTeX/TeX/ConTeXt. pgfplotstable - Loads,
rounds and formats and postprocesses numerical tables.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The new release features a completely rewritten math
expression parser with extended data range, colormaps for
scatter plots and fine tuning for plot parameters.
The table package has been extended and is now a fully
featured table typesetting, computing and postprocessing tool.
A detailed list can be found in the ChangeLog file.
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my upload daemon wrote:
> 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:
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> v3.1a:
> - Minor bug in Biomacromolecules citation style
> - Fix for affiliations containing accents
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i have 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/achemso.html
(this page will be updated overnight, but not by much...)
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/achemso
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way
through the mirror system in the next day.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: modref
Author's name: Niel de Beaudrap
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/modref
Summary description: a package enabling the customization of cross-references
in LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The modref package contains macros which allow authors to
easily customize how cross-references appear in their document,
both in general (across all cross-references) and for particular
types of references (identified by a prefix in the reference
label), in a very generic manner.
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