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Name of contribution: ConTeXt Top Ten Commands
Uploader's name: Yue Wang
Location on CTAN: /info/context-top-ten
Summary description: Frequently used ConTeXt commands
License type: fdl
Announcement text:
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This is an introductory document on ConTeXt (www.pragma-ade.nl) frequently used
commands written by Corsair.
In the beginning of the ConTEXt manual (see cont-eni.pdf on ConTeXt official site),
Hans Hagen listed ten groups of them which are considered most frequently used,
and this short document tries to explain these commands in detail.
1. starttext, stoptext
2. chapter, section, itle, subject, setuphead, completecontent
3. em, f, cap
4. startitemize, stopitemize, item, head
5. abbreviation, infull, completelistofabbreviations
6. placefigure, externalfigure, useexternalfigures
7. placetable, starttable, stoptable
8. definedescription, defineenumeration
9. index, completeindex
10. setuplayout, setupfootertexts, setupheadertexts
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Name of contribution: Chinese Font Metrics
Version number: 0.9
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:
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Chinese Font Metrics is a set of font metrics for using Chinese fonts under the latex-
>dvipdfmx or pdflatex route. Note, latex->dvips is not supported since dvips can not
embed ttf. In order to use that in dvips, you should create type1 subfonts from
truetype files by your self (perhaps using ttf2pt1 or fontforge).
No actual Chinese TrueType typeface font is provided in the package. If you want to
use this package, bear in mind that a set of ttfs (like sim*.ttf distributed in Simplified
Chinese version of Windows XP) are needed for font embedding. Just copy the
sim*.ttf to corresponding directory enables you to typeset Chinese out of the box. If
you are using other fonts, you might consider adding/modifying the map lines
manually.
the package contained files in three categories :
- fonts/tfm: contained all the tfm metric files for 6 typeface (kai, song, lishu,
fangsong, youyuan, hei) in two widely used character encodings (GBK and UTF-8)
here.
- scripts: in order to make sure that all the above tfms distributed have no legal
problems (since most Chinese TrueType fonts are commercial, and converting that
using ttf2tfm might raise some legal problems) Lingyun Wu wrote a script to
generate the metrics. Lua and pltotf are used to generate the tfms, no actual ttf are
involved thanks to the fact that Chinese characters are monospace font by nature.
- fonts/map and tex/latex/zhwinfonts: default map file (for simsun.ttf, simhei.ttf,
simfang.ttf, simkai,ttf, simli.ttf and simyou.ttf. These fonts are widely used in China)
for pdftex, ttf2pk and dvipdfmx.
The package is created following Yue Wang's article. If you are interested in why this
package can do the magic, that article explains everything, available on
http://bbs.ctex.org/viewthread.php?tid=50078.
This package is licensed in LPPL.
If you are interested in the process of development you
may observe
http://code.google.com/p/ctex-kit/updates/list
- Yue Wang and Lingyun Wu
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Asymptote Manual (Chinese Translation)
Author's name: Yue Wang
Location on CTAN: /info
Summary description: Chinese Translation to the official Asymptote Manual
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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This is a (incomplete) Chinese translation of Asymptote Manual (original English
version can be found on http://asymptote.sourceforge.net) by milksea at ctex.org.
This translation is still unfinished, we welcome contributions from the Asymptote
community.
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Name of contribution: Asymptote By Example
Author's name: Yue Wang
Location on CTAN: /info
Summary description: A Chinese Asymptote Tutorial
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Asymptote by Example is an Asymptote tutorial in Simplified Chinese by milksea at
ctex.org.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/asymptote-by-example
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Name of contribution: Asymptote
Author's name: Andy Hammerlindl and John Bowman
Location on CTAN: /graphics/asymptote
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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The interface for changing the precision for XDR/binary
files was
simplified; file parameters can now be queried as virtual
members.
The zoom/menu action was improved to emulate a double-click
and assigned again
to the right mouse button; a left-button binding bug was fixed.
New settings zoomfactor, zoomstep, spinstep, arcballradius,
resizestep, and
doubleclick were added. The OpenGL thread is now exited
gracefully; idle
state and other parameters are properly reset on quitting.
Lighting is now
initialized only in home(). Animations with global=false
were fixed.
An improved (and free) psview PostScript viewer is now
suggested for MSDOS
users. A mechanism for disabling annoying warnings like
writeoverloaded
was implemented. The documentation directory under TeXLive
was fixed.
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Name of contribution: Asymptote FAQ (Chinese Translation)
Author's name: Yue Wang
Location on CTAN: /info/asy-faq/zh-cn
Summary description: Chinese Translation to the official Asymptote FAQ
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is a Chinese translation of Asymptote FAQ (original English version can be found
on http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/FAQ) by goodluck at bbs.ctex.org
cvgmt and milksea also contributed to the translation.
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Name of contribution: ConTeXt Notes
Author's name: Yue Wang
Location on CTAN: /info/context-notes-zh-cn
Summary description: A ConTeXt tutorial in Chinese
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This is an introductory tutorial on ConTeXt in Chinese written by Yanrui Li.
ConTeXt installation, fonts, layout design, cross-reference, project structure, metafun,
presentation design are covered in this tutorial.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/context-notes-zh-cn
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Name of contribution: ctex-faq
Author's name: Yue Wang
Location on CTAN: /info/ctex-faq
Summary description: LaTeX FAQ by the Chinese TeX Society (ctex.org)
License type: fdl
Announcement text:
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This is a LaTeX FAQ for the Chinese TeX users.
The document was written by LingYun Wu. Most questions were collected on the
bbs.ctex.org forum, and answered elaborately by the author.
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Name of contribution: dozenal
Author's name: Donald P. Goodman III
Location on CTAN: /fonts/dozenal
Summary description: Typeset documents using base twelve numbering (also called dozenal)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package supports typesetting documents whose counters
are represented in base twelve, also called “dozenal”. It
includes a macro by David Kastrup for converting positive
whole numbers to dozenal from decimal (base ten)
representation. The package also also includes a few other
macros and redefines all the standard counters to produce
dozenal output.
Fonts, in Roman, italic, slanted, and boldface versions,
provide ten and eleven (the Pitman characters preferred by
the Dozenal Society of Great Britain). The fonts were
designed to blend well with the Computer Modern fonts. As
of Version 2.0, Type 1 versions of the fonts are included.
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Name of contribution: kmrhyph.tex
Author's name: Jörg Knappen
Location on CTAN: /language/hyphenation
Summary description: Hyphenation patterns for the kurmanji language, T1 encoded
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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For the first time we provide hyphenation patterns for the
kurmanji language (northern kurdish, as spoken in Turkey and
by the kurdish diaspora in Europe). The patterns are
generated by patgen from a word list of approx. 2500
hyphenated words provided by Medeni Shemdê.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ctex
Author's name: Jiang Jiang
Location on CTAN: /language/chinese/ctex
Summary description: A collection of document classes and macro packages for
Chinese typesetting
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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ctex is a collection of macro packages and document classes for LaTeX
Chinese typesetting.
We have been maintaining this outside of CTAN for a while, adding this
package back to CTAN can ensure it can be easily accessed by more
people, especially people running TeXLive.
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Name of contribution: zhspacing
Author's name: Jiang Jiang
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/generic/zhspacing
Summary description: A simpler solution to typeset CJK documents in XeTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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zhspacing is a CJK typesetting package for all document formats running
XeTeX engine. This original author is Yin Dian.
We have been maintaining this outside of CTAN for a while, adding this
package back to CTAN can ensure it can be easily accessed by more
people, especially people running TeXLive.
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Name of contribution: xeCJK
Author's name: Jiang Jiang
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xecjk
Summary description: A simpler solution to typeset CJK documents in XeTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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xeCJK is a LaTeX2e package for typesetting CJK documents in XeTeX like we
used to with the CJK package. It has been submitted to CTAN earlier but
retracted by the author because it was not matured enough for general
public. Now, upon the author's agreement, we submit it again.
We have been maintaining this outside of CTAN for a while, adding this
package back to CTAN can ensure it can be easily accessed by more people,
especially people running TeXLive.
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Name of contribution: CJKpunct
Author's name: Jiang Jiang
Location on CTAN: /language/chinese/cjkpunct
Summary description: A LaTeX package to adjust the location and kerning of CJK
punctuation marks
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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We have been maintaining this outside of CTAN for a while, adding this
package back to CTAN can ensure it can be easily accessed by more
people, especially people running TeXLive.
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Philipp Lehman <plehman(a)gmx.net> 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
>
> See the manual for a comprehensive list of changes.
i have installed the package, 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 directory at:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/
the catalogue entry will change in a small way, overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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. Thank you very much.
>
> ABOUT
>
> The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and
> display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging
> from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of
> formal quotations.
>
> CHANGES
>
> See the manual for a list of changes.
i've installed the new version of the package, and updated the catalogue
repository. thanks for the new version.
users may view the catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/csquotes.html
and they may browse the package directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/
the catalogue entry (linked above) will change, in a small way,
overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: mlist 0.6a
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mlist
Summary description: Semantic markup for math lists: vectors, matrices, functions, etc.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Minor bug fix that I forgot to distribute last year; fixes an incompatibility
with breqn.
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Name of contribution: pstool 1.2b
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pstool
Summary description: Facilitate psfrag graphics in pdfLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bug fix to prevent includegraphics options being applied twice. Which is
not really noticeable -- until you start rotating the image!
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pstool
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Name of contribution: ERDC
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:
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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.
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Name of contribution: ESTCPMM
Author's name: Boris Veytsman
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/estcpmm
Summary description: LaTeX Style For Munitions Management Project Reports,
Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, 2008/12/09 v0.2
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Typesetting Cost & Performance Reports and Final Reports for
Munitions
Management Reports, US Environmental Security Technology
Certification
Program.
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.
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Name of contribution: biblatex-chicago-notes-df
Author's name: David Fussner
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib
Summary description: Chicago notes + bibliography style files for biblatex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This version (0.8.9) introduces a new default way of loading
the package, using usepackage{biblatex-chicago} instead of
usepackage{biblatex}, an interface that should be simpler
for those who want the standard settings, and more flexible
for those who don't. I've also added new entry types and
new package options, as well as fixing a number of bugs.
Please see the docs for all the details of these and other
changes.
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Name of contribution: Asymptote
Author's name: Andy Hammerlindl and John Bowman
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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The perp vector calculation in the solids module was fixed.
A bug in the
mouse motion functions was fixed. A pan action (which
differs from shift
due to perspective distortion) was added to the OpenGl renderer;
the Camera (c) menu item now outputs all camera settings.
The default right
mouse button mouse binding was changed from zoom/menu to
zoom.
User-initiated exports no longer cause the renderer to quit.
Dynamic time stepping was fixed in the ode module; the
integrate
routines now return the array of computed values. Operators
== and != were
added for all built-in arithmetic 2D arrays; a segmentation
fault was
fixed. The etc/fstab kludge for Cygwin 1.7 was removed. The
configuration
directory under TeXLive is now $TEXMFCONFIG/asymptote.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: asyfig
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/asyfig
Summary description: External Asymptote graphics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bug fix for the most recent version of Asymptote. The code
was sitting on my machine for some time, and I neglected to
update my installation of Asymptote for testing before
releasing this package. Thanks to Ricard Torres for alerting
me to the fault.
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This package is located at
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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: pstdoc
Author's name: Michael Sharpe
Location on CTAN: /info/pstdoc
Summary description: Help script for pstricks
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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SQLite database and Python script that provides extensive help with
PSTricks commands from a Terminal window. Eg pstdoc psarc
gives the syntax os psarc and all associated keywords, with short
definitions. Works well on Mac. OK on Win, should work with Linux.
The database covers pstricks, pst-plot, pst-node, pst-text, pstricks-add,
pst-3dplot and related packages.
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in the depths of the server, something stirred, and 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v3.2c:
> - Added phone and fax macros
> - Better handling of footnotes in title/author list
> - Various 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/achemso.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/achemso
(the catalogue entry will change, almost imperceptibly, overnight
tonight.)
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
From: Jerzy B. Ludwichowski
Subject: URW++ making original 35 fonts available under LPPL
I am forwarding the message below on behalf of Peter Rosenfeld, Managing
Director of URW++, who has kindly agreed to make the basic 35 PostScript
fonts also available under the LPPL. At his request, I'll be
disseminating the information throughout the TeX community.
Many thanks to Dr. Rosenfeld!
Many thanks are also due to Karl Berry, TUG President, for his unswerving
support and advice and Bogus{}aw Jackowski, lead TeX Gyre developer,
for pushing the issue.
Best,
Jerzy
...............................................................
From: Peter Rosenfeld
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:33:29 +0200
Subject: URW++ original 35 fonts available under LPPL
To whom it may concern,
Many years ago, URW++ Design and Development Inc. released their
Type 1 implementations of the basic 35 PostScript fonts under the
GNU General Public License and the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public
License.
We now additionally release them under the LaTeX Project Public License
(http://www.latex-project.org/lppl), either version 1 or (at your
option) any later version.
Of course, this additional licensing applies to the original URW++
material, not any subsequent changes and additions made by other
parties.
The original font files are widely available, for instance as part of
the Ghostscript 4.00 release, and therefore we are not releasing any new
font files. Those interested can replace the license terms in those
original files accordingly. Responsibility for ensuring that no
material is incorrectly licensed remains with the distributor, as
always.
We hope this additional licensing will make our fonts even more widely
available and usable in the free software community, such as the TeX
Gyre Project.
Sincerely,
Peter Rosenfeld (Managing Director, URW++)
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local
mirror.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: The CodeDoc class
Author's name: Paul Isambert
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: LaTeX code and documentation in LaTeX-format file.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bugfix release:
ef in the (unmodified) code
environment and input in produce mode work properly.
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local mirror.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: recycle
Author's name: Ian Green, Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /fonts/recycle
Summary description: A font providing the recyclable logo
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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As Ian Green's recycle.readme states, recycle.mf is awful code and
doesn't even put the logo in a box (properly). In practical terms,
this means that recycle.mf produces a number of Metafont Inconsistent
equation errors, which break many of the scripts that process
Metafont fonts. Fortunately, running Metafont manually and forcing it
to ignore errors does seem to produce valid output.
To ease the pain of using the recycling symbol in (La)TeX documents
and to enable the recycling symbol to look good at arbitrary scale I
hereby provide recycle.pfb, a PostScript Type 1 version of recycle.mf.
recycle.pfb was produced by running recycle.mf through mf2pt1 and
tweaking the resulting Type 1 font in FontForge to relocate a few
control points to integral coordinates and to remove a
self-intersecting path.
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On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Mojca Miklavec and Arthur Reutenauer submitted an update to
the
hyph-utf8
package.
Modern native UTF-8 engines such as XeTeX and LuaTeX need hyphenation patterns
in UTF-8 format, whereas older systems require hyphenation patterns in the 8-bit
encoding of the font in use (such encodings are codified in the LaTeX scheme
with names like OT1, T2A, TS1, OML, LY1, etc).
The present package offers a collection of conversions of existing patterns to
UTF-8 format, together with converters for use with 8-bit fonts in older
systems. Since hyphenation patterns for TeX are only read at iniTeX time, it is
hoped that the UTF-8 patterns, with their converters, will completely supplant
the older patterns.
Location on CTAN: /language/hyph-utf8/
Summary description: UTF-8 hyphenation patterns
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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Synchronize changes from dehyph-exptl v0.20:
- improvements in hyph-de-1901.tex, hyph-de-1996.tex
- added Swiss-German patterns with traditional ortography
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/hyph-utf8/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=hyph-utf8
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Stephan Hennig submitted an update to the
dehyph-exptl
package.
Location on CTAN: /language/hyphenation/dehyph-exptl
Summary description: experimental hyphenation patterns for the German language
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides experimental hyphenation patterns for
the German language, covering traditional and reformed
orthography for several varieties of Standard German. The
patterns can be used with packages Babel and hyphsubst from
the Oberdiek bundle.
Dieses Paket enthaelt experimentelle Trennmuster fuer die
deutsche Sprache. Die Trennmuster decken das in
Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz gebraeuchliche
Standarddeutsch in der traditionellen und reformierten
Rechtschreibung ab und koennen mit den Paketen Babel und
hyphsubst aus dem Oberdiek-Buendel verwendet werden.
2009-06-24: v0.20
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Aenderungen:
* allgemein:
** Die Trennung von Zahlwoertern wurde verbessert.
** Die roemischen Zahlen bis MMD (2500) werden nicht getrennt.
** Viele zusaetzliche irrefuehrende Trennungen werden vermieden.
** Viele Fehler in der Wortdatenbank wurden korrigiert.
** Die Dokumentation wurde erweitert.
* dehypht-x (traditionelle Rechtschreibung, Deutschland, Oesterreich):
Der Ersatz ss fuer ß wird beruecksichtigt und wie bei der Schreibung
mit ß getrennt. Das Babelkuerzel S muss damit in Versalwoertern
nur noch in Ausnahmefaellen verwendet werden (siehe auch Regel T2
in der Paketdokumentation).
* dehyphts-x (traditionelle Rechtschreibung, Schweiz):
Es werden neue Trennmuster fuer die traditionelle Rechtschreibung
des Schweizer Standarddeutschs angeboten. Die Trennmuster
unterscheiden sich von denen fuer die traditionelle Rechtschreibung
des Standarddeutschs Deutschlands und Oesterreichs (dehypht-x) in
der Trennung von ss als Ersatz fuer ß. Babelunterstuetzung fuer
diese Trennmuster fehlt bisher jedoch. Wer machts?
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, James Clawson submitted an update to the
biblatex-mla
package.
The package provides biblatex support for citations in the format specified by
the MLA.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 0.7 of biblatex-mla allows for compatibility with
the latest version of biblatex (o.8d), fixes other problems,
and adds many new features, including the following:
- package option mladraft
- entry options totalnames and uniquetranslator
- support for entry types @suppbook and @suppcollection
- support for reprints and translations
- improved localization for non-American (and American) users
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-mla/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-mla
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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 local
mirror.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Asymptote
Author's name: Andy Hammerlindl and John Bowman
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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Thread locking issues were fixed. The linegranularity is now
respected when
drawing thick curved lines. A bug in FSAL ODE integrators
when using a
fixed time step was fixed. Missing miterlimit defaults were
added.
Xasy was updated to use Python 2.6.2 and Imaging-1.1.7b1
(which requires no
alpha support patches). Obsolete patches were removed. More
TeXLive build
issues were addressed: the install-prebuilt target omits
texhash and does
not attempt to install PNG files for asymptote.info. A
configuration
problem with --disable-gc was fixed. The 3D mouse bindings
are now
customizable. Support was added for generating syntax
highlighting for the KDE
editor Kate.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote
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local mirror.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: luaotfload
Author's name: Elie Roux
Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/
Summary description: ConTeXt font loading system for Plain and LaTeX
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This is an update for luaotfload. It syncronises it with a
recent ConTeXt version : more features, less bugs.
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: latexmk
Author's name: John Collins
Location on CTAN: /support/latexmk
Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine V. 4.08
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This version corrects problem caused by MikTeX 2.7 writing
log files containing binary characters, including ctrl/Z.
When latexmk reads the log file to get dependency
information, a ctrl/Z causes a premature end-of-file
condition. On MS-Win, latexmk now reads the log file in
binary mode.
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1. i recently realised that our mirror of macros/plain/base wasn't
delivering the correct stuff (don's latest updates went into
systems/knuth/dist/lib and not to the canonical place on ctan for the
files).
i've therefore corrected that; macros/plain/base now contains don's
latest release.
see http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/plain.html
2. version 3.0 of the amsfonts bundle has been released. this includes
revised versions of the ams fonts, and an update of the long-
established y&y and blue sky research versions of the computer modern
fonts (for which the ams holds the copyright).
note that rather little of the amsfonts documentation has been updated
for the new version; the ams are working on that.
see http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/amsfonts.html
that's quite enough excitement for one day. now i'll get back to _real_
work.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Luis Randez submitted an update to the
tdclock
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tdclock
Summary description: A ticking digital clock package to be used in Pdf-LaTeX documents, for example in presentations.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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New version of tdclock package with additional features has been released
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tdclock/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tdclock
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_______________________________________________
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This package is new at tug.ctan.org, but is an update of materials that were
previously available from cstug. It should soon 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: ELTEX
Author's name: Libor Gajdosik
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/eltex
Summary description: latex macro for drawing the simple electrical circuit diagrams
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This macro enables you to draw simple electrical circuit
diagrams in the picture environment withouth any special
fonts. The application of this macro for drawing is
proper for school materials in education area. The
circuit symbols are accordingly the IEC 617 standard. No
special requirements to hardware or installation. It
runs in latex2.09 or latex2e.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eltex
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/eltex
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This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local
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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: asyfig
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/asyfig
Summary description: Standalone Asymptote files for LaTeX inclusion
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package hacks support for including standalone .asy
figures into LaTeX documents. (See the Asymptote drawing
language.) This allows figures to be rapidly proofed before
re-typesetting the document.
This is the first CTAN release after some time of private
use, and has not been widely tested.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/asyfig
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 Olga Lapko submitted an update to the
floatrow
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/floatrow
Summary description: Modifying the layout of floats.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The floatrow package provides many ways to customize layouts of
floating environments and has code cooperation with caption 3.x
package. Package offers possibilities to put floats side by
side, to put caption beside float. The floatrow settings could
be expanded to the floats created by packages rotating, wrapfig,
subfig (in the case of rows of subfloats), and longtable.
Changes:
Bug fixes.
Documentation was extended by examples.
Fixed code for settings for common height for the photos in the row.
Frame(plate) settings for full row -- allow to put material
accordingly to frame corners.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/floatrow
. More information is at
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_______________________________________________
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: getfiledate
Author's name: Ahmed Musa
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Fetches and formats the date of last modification of
any resident file.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package fetches from the system the date of last
modification or opening of a resident file. It is based
on an idea by Heiko Oberdiek that appeared in February
2009 on the TeX newsgroup website comp.text.tex, ie,
using the pdffilemoddate command of pdfTeX. A user-
friendly interface is provided for obtaining and
presenting the needed filedate in several formats.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/getfiledate
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/getfiledate
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at
your local mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: xwatermark
Author's name: Ahmed Musa
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Upgrade of xwatermark package to address some of the issues
raised by users.
License type: nocommercial
Announcement text:
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The package puts user-specified watermarks (graphics and
arbitrary texts) on select pages of documents. The user
can specify the watermark and color, the watermark
position and orientation, the page(s) (all pages, odd
pages, even pages, a particular page number, and a range
of pages) on which the watermark should appear, and all
the options are passed directly to package instead of
being defined by macros. It extends the functionality of
the 'draftmark' package to permit the direct use of
graphic watermarks.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xwatermark
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xwatermark
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local
mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: tdsfrmath
Author's name: Yvon Henel, TeXnicien de surface
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tdsfrmath
Summary description: Macros for French teachers of mathematics.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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version 1.3
(as usual, only French for the same reasons)
I Code :
1) correction d'un bogue qui interdisait l'utilisation de
la clef nupletsep ;
2) correction du placement des délimiteurs avec
uplet et
sa famille en
mode mathématique en ligne ;
3) création des macros R/ et R/+
4) MODIFICATION de la macro EnsembleDeNombre pour obtenir
l'équivalent de R^n et R_m[X] (voir le manuel pour les
détails) ;
5) création de valeur par défaut pour les clés booléennes
(voir le
manuel pour les détails) ;
II Documentation :
Mise à jour ; complètement de la table des options dans
laquelle
l'option nupletsep n'apparaissait pas.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tdsfrmath
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tdsfrmath
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the snitchy little upload daemon whispered in my ear:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: Getting up and running with AMS-LaTeX, Version 2.1
> Author's name: Philip S. Hirschhorn
> Location on CTAN: tex-archive/info/amslatex/primer/
> Summary description: A primer on using AMS-LaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is version 2.1 of Getting up and running with AMS-LaTeX
> (contained in the file amshelp.tex), and its template file
> template.tex.
>
> This is an attempt to get you up and running with AmS-LaTeX as quickly
> as possible. These instructions (along with the template file
> template.tex) won't be a substitute for the full documentation, but
> they may get you started quickly enough so that you'll only need to
> refer to the main documentation occasionally.
>
> The major additions in this version are:
>
> 1. A new section describing how to draw commutative diagrams using Xy-pic.
>
> 2. A new section describing how to use amsrefs to create a bibliography.
>
> 3. An expanded description of the environments for displayed mathematics.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/amslatex-primer.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/tex-archive/info/amslatex/primer/
i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
one small -- but important -- change to the catalogue entry (removing
the last paragraph of the description) was not committed last night, so
the web page will change again overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 Dan Drake submitted an update to the
sagetex
package.
Sagetex allows you to embed code, the results of computations, plots, and
graphics from the Sage mathematics software suite into LaTeX documents. It is
similar in spirit to Literate Haskell and lhs2TeX.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sagetex
Summary description: Embed Sage code and plots into LaTeX.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This is version 2.2.1 of SageTeX, which brings a lot of
improvements over the version currently on CTAN. It now
includes a number of extra Python scripts which help users
parse documents that use SageTeX, and a script that uses a
remote Sage server instead of a local Sage installation --
so now all you need to use SageTeX is TeX and Python.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/sagetex/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=sagetex
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 Günter Milde submitted an update to the
isomath
package.
The isomath package enables formatting Greek and Latin letters as symbols for
vectors, matrices, and tensors in the typefaces recommended for scientific
papers by the International Standard ISO 31.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/isomath
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 0.3 of isomath:
documentation update;
fix OMLmathrm and OMLmathsans definitions.
Switch license to LPPL.
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 Harald Harders submitted an update to the
babelbib
package.
Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib
Summary description: Multilingual bibliographies: The babelbib package
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in
cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: Each citation
may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can
be typeset in a language chosen by the user. The current version
supports Afrikaans, Bahasa, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto,
Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese,
Spanish, and Swedish.
In addition, the package supports commands to change the typography
of the bibliographies.
Many of the standard and extended bibliography styles are available.
ChangeLog:
2009/06/19 1.27 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de)
- Capitalised month names in Poruguese but not in Brazilian
- Fixed publisherfont in babamspl.bst
- Added Russian language
2009/06/17 1.26 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de)
- Correct journal article title font in babamspl.bst
- Linebreak added between url and urldate
- Added Galician and Bahasa languages
- Added French and Portuguese numerals
- Corrected Spanish numerals
- Removed comma before `and' in long lists of authors in Portuguese
and Swedish
2008/09/24 1.25 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de)
- Add font command for publisher
- Remove change of language in alpha-numerical bib items because
of occasional exceeded TeX memory
2008/02/17 1.24 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de)
- Put txISSN and txISBN into an mbox to prevent them from being
hyphenated
2006/08/18 1.23 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de)
- Fix bug in typesetting title of articles for babamspl.bst
2006/01/02 1.22 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de)
- Remove space after txurlfont again (has been lost sometimes)
because a linebreak between url and the argument breaks
hyperref.sty.
2005/11/20 1.21 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de)
- Fix problem when the first bibliography entry is in an unknown
language.
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, John Bowman submitted an update to the
asymptote
package.
Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical
drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote
provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does
for scientific text.
Location on CTAN: /graphics/asymptote
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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Splined parametric surfaces were implemented; a bug in the Cartesian
splined surface routines was fixed. An ode module for solving ordinary
differential equations was added. A bug in maxtimes and mintimes was fixed.
A Levenberg-Marquardt nonlinear fitting routine was added. The format
command now returns TeX compatible output only in math mode. A path3 label
alignment problem was fixed. The MSWindows support for TeXLive 2009 was fixed.
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 Josef Kleber submitted the new package
softmaker-freefont
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /fonts/softmaker-freefont/
Summary description: Support files for fonts available at www.freefont.de
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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In June 2009 www.freefont.de offered a beautiful handwriting font
for free download: The Softmaker Stone Handwriting.
As handwriting fonts are a quite limited resource in the LaTeX world,
i decided to create support files for this beautiful font. Therefore,
Stone Handwriting will be the starting point for the freefont bundle.
Other (beautiful) fonts may be included in future.
License: LPPL (not the font itself)
v1.0:
- added LaTeX support for the font: Softmaker Stone Handwriting
Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the
month (June 2009) and can be downloaded for free at (at least
this month): http://freefont.de
Later you can buy it as part of Softmaker Handwriting
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
isodoc
package.
The isodoc class can be used for the preparation of letters,
invoices, and, in the future, similar documents. Documents are set
up with options, thus making the class easily adaptable to user’s
wishes and extensible for other document types.
Victor Eijkhout’s NTG brief class, which implements the NEN1026
standard, was the starting point.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/isodoc
License: LPPL
Announcement Text:
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major changes of v0.6 relative to v0.5)
- moved all documentation files in subdirectory doc,
because files appeared to be wrongly placed on the
TeX Collection DVD
- Some minor corrections
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This package is located at
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This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should withing a day be at your local
mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: grid
Author's name: River Valley Technologies
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/grid
Summary description: Enables grid typesetting in two column documents in LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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grid.sty is a LaTeX package to enable grid typesetting in
double column documents. Grid typesetting (vertical aligning
of lines of text in adjacent columns) is a difficult task in
LaTeX, this is only a humble attempt to help users to
achieve it in a limited way. An example document, grid.tex,
has been provided with simple instructions to typeset it by
making use of grid.sty. The package needs a lot of
improvements, this is only a beginning.
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