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CTAN has a new package: ConTeXt Top Ten Commands
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

This package is new on ctan. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/context-top-ten . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/context-top-ten (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) 09 Jul '09

09 Jul '09

This package is new 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 has a new package: Asymptote Manual (Chinese Translation)
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

This package is new 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/asymptote-manual-zh . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote-manual-zh (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: Asymptote By Example
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

This package is new 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: Asymptote By Example Author's name: Yue Wang Location on CTAN: /info Summary description: A Chinese Asymptote Tutorial License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Asymptote by Example is an Asymptote tutorial in Simplified Chinese by milksea at ctex.org. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/asymptote-by-example . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote-by-example (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: Asymptote
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 07 Jul '09

07 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: Asymptote FAQ (Chinese Translation)
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

This is new 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/asy-faq-zh-cn . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asy-faq-zh-cn (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: ConTeXt Notes
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

This package 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/context-notes-zh-cn . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/context-notes-zh-cn (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: ctex-faq
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

This package is newly installe at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/ctex-faq . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ctex-faq (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: dozenal
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

This package has been updated 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/dozenal . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dozenal (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: kmrhyph
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 05 Jul '09

05 Jul '09

This package is new 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/kmrhyph (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: ctex
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 05 Jul '09

05 Jul '09

This package is new 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/chinese/ctex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ctex (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: zhspacing
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 05 Jul '09

05 Jul '09

This package is new 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/generic/zhspacing . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/zhspacing (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: xeCJK
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 05 Jul '09

05 Jul '09

This package is new 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xecjk . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xecjk (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: CJKpunct
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 05 Jul '09

05 Jul '09

This package has been installed 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/chinese/cjkpunct . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cjkpunct (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 package update: biblatex 0.8e
by CTAN Announcements 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

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

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CTAN package update: csquotes 4.4a
by CTAN Announcements 04 Jul '09

04 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. 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

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CTAN update: mlist 0.6a
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 04 Jul '09

04 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Minor bug fix that I forgot to distribute last year; fixes an incompatibility with breqn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mlist . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mlist (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 1.2b
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 04 Jul '09

04 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug fix to prevent includegraphics options being applied twice. Which is not really noticeable -- until you start rotating the image! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 has a new package: ERDC
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

This package is new 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ESTCPMM
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/estcpmm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/estcpmm (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-chicago-notes-df
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

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 ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-chicago-notes-df (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 package update: Asymptote
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 02 Jul '09

02 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: asyfig
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

This package has been updated 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: asyfig Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/asyfig Summary description: External Asymptote graphics License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/asyfig . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asyfig (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: pstdoc
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at you local CTAN mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/pstdoc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pstdoc (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: achemso
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

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

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URW++ original 35 fonts available under LPPL
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

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++)

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CTAN update: The CodeDoc class
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfix release: ef in the (unmodified) code environment and input in produce mode work properly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/codedoc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/codedoc (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 package update: recycle
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

The package below 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/recycle . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/recycle (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: hyph-utf8
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Synchronize changes from dehyph-exptl v0.20: - improvements in hyph-de-1901.tex, hyph-de-1996.tex - added Swiss-German patterns with traditional ortography ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/language/hyph-utf8/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: dehyph-exptl
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------- 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? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/language/hyphenation/dehyph-exptl . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dehyph-exptl (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: biblatex-mla
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (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 (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's ....................................................................... 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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

24 Jun '09

This update has been put 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an update for luaotfload. It syncronises it with a recent ConTeXt version : more features, less bugs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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

24 Jun '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and within a day should be at your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latexmk (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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stealth update of packages
by Robin Fairbairns 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

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

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CTAN Update: tdclock
by CTAN Announcements 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New version of tdclock package with additional features has been released ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tdclock/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tdclock (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: ELTEX
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

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 ......................................................................... 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (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: asyfig
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

This package 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/asyfig . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asyfig (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: floatrow 0.3a
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/floatrow . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=floatrow (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: getfiledate
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

This package is new 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (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: xwatermark
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

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 ................................................................................. 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xwatermark . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xwatermark (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: tdsfrmath
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

This package has been updated 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: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tdsfrmath . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tdsfrmath (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 documentation update: Getting up and running with AMS-LaTeX, Version 2.1
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

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

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CTAN Update: sagetex
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jun '09

20 Jun '09

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/sagetex/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=sagetex (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: isomath
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jun '09

20 Jun '09

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 0.3 of isomath: documentation update; fix OMLmathrm and OMLmathsans definitions. Switch license to LPPL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/isomath/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=isomath (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: Babelbib v1.27
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jun '09

20 Jun '09

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=babelbib (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 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 has a new package: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/softmaker-freefont/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=softmaker-freefont (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: isodoc 0.6
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/isodoc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=isodoc (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: grid
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should withing a day be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/grid . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/grid (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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