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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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CTAN package change: zhmetrics
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

The package that a week or two ago was installed as chinese-font-metrics under fonts/ has had its identifier changed as well as its location. It will take perhaps a day for this change to propogate to your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Chinese Font Metrics Version number: r143 Author's name: Yue Wang Location on CTAN: /fonts/metrics Summary description: TFM subfonts files for using Chinese Fonts in 8-bit TeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an updated version of chinese-font-metrics. The new package name should be zhmetrics as Karl suggested. It should be located in /fonts/metrics rather than /fonts. The directories are reorganized to meet the TDS standard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/zhmetrics . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/zhmetrics (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: pst-solides3d
by Robin Fairbairns 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

Herbert Voss wrote: > I have uploaded pst-solides3d.tgz to the uk mirror. Please > replace the files with the ones in the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solides3d/ > > pst-solides3d is a collection of PSTricks macros to > threedimensional objects with hidden lines and > hidden surfaces. > > This new version comes with several bug fixes and > enhencements. Read file Changes for more informations i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-solides3d.html or browse the package directory tree at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solides3d/ the catalogue entry will acquire a new version overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: latex-veryshortguide
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '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: The Very Short Guide to LaTeX Version number: 24 July 2009 Author's name: Peter Flynn Location on CTAN: / info/ latex-veryshortguide Summary description: An 4pp folder designed as an aide-mémoire for people who have just done a course in LaTeX and need something by them on their desk the next day to refresh their memories. It is not intended as a substitute for full documentation. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed license to LPPL, corrected a typo, changed an example. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex-veryshortguide . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latex-veryshortguide (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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New on CTAN: Example files for the book Presentations with LaTeX
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded presentations.tgz to the uk mirror. Please put > the files into the new directory > > info/examples/Presentations_de/ > > The files are the examples from the book Presentationen mit LaTeX > from the Dante-Edition series. thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and created a catalogue entry for them. users may view the catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/presentations.html or browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/examples/Presentations_de/ the catalogue entry should be up-to-date at all ctan sites by now (though possibly not at mirrors). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: csquotes 4.4b
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded 'csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. There's > also a csquotes.tds.zip file. Please purge the old files, install the > new ones, and announce the upload. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version as requested, and updated the catalogue. > ABOUT > > The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and > display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging > from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of > formal quotations. > > CHANGES > > See the manual for a list of changes. users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/csquotes.html and browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/ (the catalogue entry will be updated overnight tonight) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: erdc
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

This has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make it to your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: erdc Version number: v1.1 Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/erdc/ Summary description: LaTeX Style For Technical Information Reports of the Engineer Research and Development Center, US Army Corps of Engineers License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides class for typesetting Technical Information Reports of the Engineer Research and Development Center, US Army Corps of Engineers. The class was commissioned and paid for by US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199. I am grateful to Gordon L. Cohen, ERDC-ITL-IL for the detailed explanations of the ERDC guidelines, to Christopher E. Kees, ERDC-CHL-MS and Ryan E. North, ERDC-GSL-MS, for the formatting suggestions and the patient recompilation of the reports with each new version of the style. Version 1.1: This version uses Georgia and Franklin Gothic for text and math. It conforms to the latest guidelines of USACE. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/erdc/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/erdc (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: fig4latex
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

This is new at tug.ctan.org and should soon 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: fig4latex Version number: 0.1 Author's name: Joe Fields Location on CTAN: /graphics/fig4latex Summary description: creates Makefile for managing figures in large projects License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fig4LaTeX is designed to simplify management of the figures in a large LaTeX document. Fig4LaTeX is appropriate for projects that include figures with graphics created by XFig -- in particular, graphics which use the combined PS/LaTeX (or PDF/LaTeX) export method. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/fig4latex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fig4latex (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: memoir
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

This has been udated at tug.ctan.org and should be at your local mirror by tomorrow. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The Memoir class Version number: 1.6180339h Author's name: Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ Summary description: Minor update for the memoir class License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixed a typo that caused compilation errors when compiling memoir.dtx to see the documented source code. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/memoir (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-apa
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '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-apa Version number: 0.4 Author's name: Philip Kime Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-apa Summary description: Update for the biblatex-apa package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfix release of the biblatex-apa BiBLaTeX style for American Psychological Association citation and bibliographies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-apa (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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tug.ctan.org upload: Chinese Font Metrics
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '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: Chinese Font Metrics Version number: 1 Author's name: Yue Wang Location on CTAN: /fonts Summary description: TFM subfonts files for using Chinese Fonts in 8-bit TeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The new version of this package includes the following update: - in order not to mess up TeXLive's map files, now font map lines are loaded runtime through pdfTeX primitives and DVIPDFMx specials. - Since HTH kindly applied a ttc support patch to pdfTeX, now simsun.ttf is renamed to simsun.ttc in the map lines so there is no need for the user to break their ttc fonts manually. Everything should work right out of the box. - a new script, CTeXFonts.lua is included into the scripts directory. This enables the users to convert Chinese TTF files into Type1 subfonts for dvips and dvipdfm. Yue Wang and Lingyun Wu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/chinese-font-metrics . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/chinese-font-metrics (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: latex-veryshortguide
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at you local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The Very Short Guide to LaTeX Version number: July 2009 Author's name: Peter Flynn Location on CTAN: /info/latex-veryshortguide Summary description: An 4pp folder designed as an aide-mémoire for people who have just done a course in LaTeX and need something by them on their desk the next day to refresh their memories. It is not intended as a substitute for full documentation. License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a revision with minor updates of the Very Short Guide to LaTeX. It is now typeset as four A5 pages, leaving the imposition for printing up to the user (a ready-to-print 2pp 2-up landscape A4 imposition is included). I am open to suggestions as to how best to re-arrange this for Letter size users. There is a descriptive web page with preview images at http://latex.silmaril.ie/veryshortguide/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex-veryshortguide . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latex-veryshortguide (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: ly1enc.def
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

that upload daemon was at it while i was coming home from work: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: ly1enc.def > Author's name: Karl Berry > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1 > Summary description: dotless j support > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The existing LY1 support file for LaTeX (ly1enc.def) has always given > a LaTeX error when the j (dotless j) command is used. However, > dotless j has always been defined in the LY1 encoding (position 17, > decimal), and many fonts, such as Latin Modern, do support it there. > > With David Carlisle's ok, this new version of the file treats j like > all other glyphs. If it's there in the font, it's supported, and if > not, there's a missing character warning in the log file. > > Questions to Karl. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the new version, and (minutely) 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/ly1.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1 the sharp-eyed (and very keen) reader will spot the minute changes to the catalogue entry, some time after i've gone to bed. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: natbib 8.31
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 Patrick Daly submitted an update to the natbib package. Natbib provides a style with author-year and numbered references, as well as much detailed of support for other bibliography use. Provides versions of the standard BibTeX styles that are compatible with natbib - plainnat, unsrtnat, abbrnat. The bibliography styles produced by custom-bib are designed from the start to be compatible with natbib. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contributed/natbib Summary description: Fix for use with RevTeX, ensures backward compatibility License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- With natbib V8.3, a new merging feature was added, essentially for use with ReVTeX. However, there is a bug that makes it incompatible with LaTeX files written for earlier versions. This bug is now fixed, so that the default works as before. The new code and the bug fix are written by Arthur Ogawa. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/natbib . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=natbib (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: mathgifg
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should be at your local mirror in a day. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mathgifg Version number: 0.4 Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/mathgifg Summary description: LaTeX Support for Microsoft Georgia and ITC Franklin Gothic In Text and Math License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides LaTeX support for Microsoft Georgia and ITC Franklin Gothic fonts, supplied, for example, with Microsoft Windows. The package provides support for text and math. The math support is very preliminary: there is a lot of work to do on individual kerning and glyph placement! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/mathgifg . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mathgifg (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: FiXme
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

This package 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: FiXme Version number: 3.4 Author's name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ Summary description: A LaTeX2e package for inserting fixme and meta-notes in your documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm pleased to announce the release of FiXme version 3.4. New in this release: ** fixme, fxerror, fxwarning and fxnote are now robust ** Fix incompatibility with KOMA-Script classes when the lox file is inexistent FiXme is a LaTeX2e package for inserting fixme notes in your documents. Such notes can appear inline, as marginal notes, footnotes, index entries, in the log file and as warnings on stdout. It is also possible to summarize them in a list. When you switch from draft to final mode, any remaining fixme note will be logged, but removed from the document's body. Additionally, critical notes will abort compilation with an informative message. FiXme also comes with support for AUC-TeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fixme . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fixme (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: memoir
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '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: The memoir class Version number: v1.6180339g Author's name: Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ Summary description: Highly configurable book like class License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Maintenance update, fixes minor bugs in memoir, mempatch and the manual. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/memoir (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: cell
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

This has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at you local mirror. Jim Hefferon ................................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: cell Version number: 1.28, 2.03 Author's name: Tom Schneider Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cell Summary description: bibliography and style files for the journal Cell License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bibliography and style files for the journal Cell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cell . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cell (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: pstool
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

This package has been updated on 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: pstool Version number: 1.3 Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pstool Summary description: Facilitate psfrag graphics in pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A package like pst-pdf for processing PostScript graphics with psfrag labels within pdfLaTeX documets. The difference with this package is that every graphic is compiled individually, drastically speeding up compilation time when only a single figure needs re-processing. Version 1.3 has some new features: - [bitmap] option to control compression of bitmap graphics, - Package options may now be set anywhere with pstoolsetup{}, - localised pstool options can be set per-graphic. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pstool . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pstool (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: etextools
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

This package 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: etextools Version number: 2e Author's name: Florent CHERVET Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/etextools/ Summary description: e-TeX more useful tools for LaTeX package writers License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Many bug fixed... an example file added. his package provides mainly 4 categories of macros : - the expandnext macro and other expansion control macros - the \FE@testopt and \FE@ifstar macros for fully expandable (FE) (starred-)macros with options - fully expandable command list parsers : csvloop, listloop and a general constructor - some macros lacking from the etoolbox package : listdel, listgdel, listxdel, getlistitem, getlistindex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etextools . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/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 .

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CTAN has a new package: ltxnew
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Florent Chervet submitted the new package ltxnew to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew Summary description: ltxnew provides the ew, enew and provide prefixes for checking definition of control sequences License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ltxnew provides the ew, enew and provide prefixes for checking definitions. It is designed to work with e-TeX distributions of LaTeX and relies on the LaTeX macro @ifdefinable. Local allocation of counters, dimensions, skips, muskips, boxes, tokens and marks are provided by the etex.sty package. ew and enew as well as provide may be used for all kind of control sequences. Please refer to the section Using ew of the pdf documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ltxnew (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: oberdiek bundle
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Heiko submitted an update to the oberdiek bundle. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License: LPPL > Changes: > > * epstopdf 2009/07/16 v2.2 > * New options: suffix, prefersuffix. > * New default settings. > * New package layout: using optionless package epstopdf-base.sty. > > * ifluatex 2009/04/17 v1.2 > * Fixes. > * Makes luatexrevision available, too. > > * kvoptions 2009/07/17 v3.2 > * Fixes. > > * kvsetkeys 2009/07/19 v1.4 > * Fixes. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: changelayout
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 21 Jul '09

21 Jul '09

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should withing 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: changelayout Version number: 0.1 Author's name: Ahmed Musa Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/changelayout Summary description: Changes the layout of individual pages and their text. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package can be used to change the layout of individual pages and their texts. It is an extension of changepage package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/changelayout . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/changelayout (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: animate
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jul '09

20 Jul '09

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the animate package. The package provides an interface to create portable, JavaScript driven PDF animations from sets of graphics files or from inline graphics, such as LaTeX picture environment, PSTricks or pgf/TikZ generated pictures, or just from typeset text. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/animate Summary description: Create PDF animations from graphics files and inline graphics. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- improved documentation of the timeline option -- New: transparency stack can be cleared using `c' in the timeline file -- animated Lorenz Attractor added as an inline animation example ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/animate . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=animate (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: zhspacing package
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jul '09

20 Jul '09

yet again, that upload daemon is nagging me... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: zhspacing > Author's name: Jiang Jiang > Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/generic > Summary description: A simpler solution to typeset CJK documents in XeTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Renamed some files according to Karl Berry's suggestion. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/zhspacing.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/xetex/generic/zhspacing (the catalogue entry hasn't changed at all, so all the information up there is correct, even now.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: bmeps
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jul '09

20 Jul '09

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Dirk Krause submitted an update to the bmeps package. Bmeps is a library and a command line tool for conversion of different bitmap graphics types to EPS. It can produce EPS levels 1, 2 and 3. Level 2 allows the use of run-length compression and ASCII-85-encoding instead of ASCII-Hex-encoding, while level 3 allows the use of flate compression. TIFF- and PNG-alpha channels can be converted into EPS level 3 image masks. Modified dvips sources are included to allow image conversion directly from dvips. Version number: 2.1.3 Location on CTAN: /support/bmeps Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/Tgb81AIFF/NetPBM to EPS License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Several bug fixes, new features: - Perl script mkpdfsls.pl to create a slide show of photos - Developer documentation created by doxygen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/bmeps . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bmeps (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 20 Jul '09

20 Jul '09

On Mon, 20 Jul 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. Version number: 1.82 Location on CTAN: /graphics/asymptote/ Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Threaded exports were fixed. The texpath fontsize was fixed for PDF tex engines. A default currentprojection argument was added to transform3(projection). The -gray and -bw settings are now respected in PRC output. A consistent approximation is now used for drawing tube centers. Missing pt units were added to all fontsize examples. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ctex
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jul '09

20 Jul '09

Thus spake the upload daemon: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: ctex > Author's name: Jiang Jiang > Location on CTAN: /language/chinese/ > Summary description: A collection of document classes and macro > packages for Chinese typesetting > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.93 with a few bug fixes. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ctex.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//language/chinese/ as usual, the catalogue entry will change, in a small way, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: keycommand
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jul '09

20 Jul '09

just when i thought i might get to bed early, the upload daemon popped up with: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: keycommand > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: CTAN home/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/keycommand > Summary description: keycommand provides an easy way to define commands with keys > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > keycommand is a eTeX/LaTeX package that provides a very > natural way to define commands with optional keys. > > The package provides : > ewkeycommand, enewkeycommand, providekeycommand > ewkeyenvironment, enewkeyenvironment > > and also keycmd for a more advanced interface. > > It is based on the kvsetkeys package by Heiko Oberdiek. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i've installed the package and written a description for the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/keycommand.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/keycommand of course, the catalogue entry won't even appear until the overnight processing run has happened. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pdfcrop
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jul '09

19 Jul '09

On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the pdfcrop package. Pdfcrop is a Perl script that can either trim pages of any whitespace border, or trim them of a fixed border. Location on CTAN: support/pdfcrop License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes: 2009/07/17 v1.16: Security fixes: * -dSAFER added for Ghostscript, * -no-shell-escape added for pdfTeX/XeTeX. 2009/07/17 v1.17: Security fixes: * Backticks and whitespace are forbidden for options --(gs|pdftex|xetex)cmd. * Validation of options --papersize and --resolution. 2009/07/18 v1.18: * Restricted mode added. * Option `--version' added. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/pdfcrop/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcrop (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: biblatex-authoryear-icomp-tt
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jul '09

19 Jul '09

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 Thomas Titz submitted a new biblatex style to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/ Summary description: author-year style with compact multiple-reference-citations and ibidem mechanism License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a citation scheme that combines the features of the styles authoryear-comp (omission of recurring author/year in multiple-reference-citations) and authoryear-ibid (replacement of repeated citations by the abbreviation ibidem). The implementation relies heavily on unmodified biblatex macros, and no attempt has been made to add further features not present in core biblatex. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-authory… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-authoryear-icomp-tt (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: lshort-persian
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jul '09

19 Jul '09

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 Mehdi Omidali submitted the persian (farsi) translation of the (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. Location on CTAN: info/lshort/persian Summary description: Persian (Farsi) Translation of The not so short introduction to Latex2e License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This directory contains Persian Translation of The Not So Short Introduction to Latex2e by Tobias Oetiker. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/info/lshort/persian . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=lshort-persian (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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