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CTAN package update: pst-pad
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pst-pad Author's name: Patrick Drechsler Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-pad Summary description: `pst-pad' is a PSTricks package to draw simple attachment systems. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Added german documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-pad . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-pad (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: The Memoir Experimental Support package
by CTAN Announcements 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The Memoir Experimental Support package Author's name: Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/memexsupp/ Summary description: memexsupp provides experimental macros for the memoir class License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated as to reflect the changes in the latest memoir update, which included some of the ideas from this package. New in this version: a very simpel way of creating ...mark macros for memoir, such that the casual user does not need to know about if@mainmatter or ifnum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memexsupp/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/memexsupp (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: computational-complexity class
by CTAN Announcements 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Michael Nüsken submitted an update to the computational-complexity package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/computational-complexity Summary description: Class originally desigend for the journal Computational Complexity License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The LaTeX2e class cc was written for the journal Computational Complexity, and it can also be used for a lot of other articles. You may like it since it contains a lot of features as more intelligent references, a set of theorem definitions, an algorithm environment, ... The class requires natbib. This is the version: 2008/03/18 v2.08. It contains some bugfixes. (Note that still the combination with hyperref is problematic.) The author is <a href=http://cosec.bit.uni-bonn.de/cosec/members/nuesken/>Michael Nüsken</a>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/computational-complexity . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=computational-complexity (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 package update: biblatex 0.7f
by CTAN Announcements 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded `biblatex_new.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the > UK node. This is a maintenance update for > macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. > > Please use the contents of the archive to replace the corresponding > files in macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. Note that the archive only > contains the files which have actually been modified. i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the update. > RELEASE NOTES > > This is a maintenance update for biblatex 0.7. The following files > have been modified: > > latex/biblatex.sty > > The updated files are tagged 0.7f 2008/03/18. > > CHANGES > > * Fixed a bug introduced in 0.7d which breaks the lx@crossref > code discussed in section 4.10.1 of the manual as always, users may view the catalogue entry (with the old version number still in place until tonight's update) at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html or browse the package directory itself: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN package update: biblatex 0.7e
by Robin Fairbairns 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

Philipp Lehman has submitted a new version of biblatex.sty: Philipp Lehman <plehman(a)gmx.net> wrote: > RELEASE NOTES > > This is a maintenance update for biblatex 0.7. The following files > have been modified: > > latex/biblatex.sty > > The updated files are tagged 0.7e 2008/03/15. > > CHANGES > > * Fixed bug triggered by bibencoding option in conjunction > with csquotes and inputenc 1.1b i have installed the new version, and updated the version number in the catalogue. thanks for the update. users may view the catalogue entry (updated tonight, but it doesn't really matter) at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html and they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: show2e
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: show2e Author's name: Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/show2e Summary description: show variants for LaTeX2e License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This small package aims at making debugging (esp. in an interactive way) easier, by providing show variants suited to LaTeXe's commands (with optional arguments or robust) and environments: those variants also display the internal macros used by such commands, if any. The showcs variant helps with macros with exotic names. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/show2e . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/show2e (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: DeLig
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: DeLig Author's name: Daniel Warner Location on CTAN: /support/delig Summary description: DeLig disables misplaced ligatures in LaTeX documents License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DeLig disables misplaced ligatures in LaTeX documents using a dictionary approach. In general LaTeX always uses ligatures for the letter combinations ff, fi, fl, ffi and ffl. This is not always correct in the German language, e.g. the word Auflage may not be printed with an fl-ligature, that is, the fl-ligature in Auflage must be disabled. This may be accomplished by using the babel-package and the two symbols |: Auflage. The Java program DeLig does this job automatically for you, using a ligature word list. Please note that DeLig is only as good as the ligature word list file DeLig.list it relies on. This version is intended for German language texts only. DeLig is partially based on the Perl script rmligs by Björn Jacke, in particular the wordlist data is based on his igerman98 dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/delig . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/delig (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: achemso
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: achemso Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso Summary description: LaTeX and BibTeX support for American Chemical Society publications License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v2.2h: - Fix for use with re-applied ibliographystyle, for example when using chapterbib ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/achemso . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/achemso (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: Frontiers in Bioscience BibTeX style file
by CTAN Announcements 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

The material below has just gone up on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way through the system. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Satin Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Frontiers in Bioscience BibTeX style file Author's name: Jakob Suckale Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/misc/fbs.bst Summary description: BibTeX style file (fbs.bst) to format bibliography according to Frontiers in Bioscience (FBS) rules License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Custom made BibTex style file to fit Frontiers in Bioscience requirements: - all authors, no et al, full author names, initials abbreviated - only abbreviated journal name italicised, no abbreviation dots - only year, no month, at end of reference - DOI excluded, ISSN excluded ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/misc/fbs.bst . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fbs (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: sagetex
by CTAN Announcements 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and is working its way through the system. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: sagetex Author's name: Dan Drake Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sagetex Summary description: embed Sage code and plots into LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows you to embed code, results of computations, plots, and graphics from the Sage mathematics software suite (http://sagemath.org) into LaTeX documents. It is similar in spirit to Literate Haskell and lhs2TeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sagetex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/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 .

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CTAN package update: vc
by CTAN Announcements 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

The package below has been updated and is working its way through the system. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: vc bundle Author's name: Stephan Hennig Location on CTAN: /support/vc Summary description: version control for TeX and friends License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a script based approach to version control for TeX documents. It works more reliably than keyword substitution based approaches, since it tracks all files in a working copy, not only .tex files. The vc bundle works with LaTeX and plain TeX. Currently, Git and Subversion are supported. Changes: v0.21 (2008-03-10) ---------------------- * Incompatible change: - Removed macros VCDate, VCLongDate, VCDateTeX. - Introduced macros VCDateRAW, VCDateISO, VCDateTEX. * Improved documentation: - Added section Questions and answers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/vc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/vc (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: polski package
by CTAN Announcements 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 at 18:53 +0100, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the polski package. > --------- > Package: polski > Authors: Mariusz Olko, Marcin Woliski > Version: 1.3.3 > Date: February, 24 2008 > License: LPPL > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/polski > > Bundle `Polski' provides tools to typeset documents in Polish using > LaTeX2e. Documented source code is in *.dtx and *.fdd files. > > In the curent version (1.3.3) only ot4cmss.fd was corrected. > > ------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: TeX Gyre fonts
by CTAN Announcements 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 at 16:05 +0100, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the tex-gyre fonts. Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre > ----- > Package: The TeX Gyre Collection of Fonts > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 1.104 > Date: February 2008 > Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre > License: GUST Font License > Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre > > The whole package consists of the following font families: > TeX Gyre Adventor, TeX Gyre Bonum, TeX Gyre Chorus, TeX Gyre Cursor, > TeX Gyre Heros, TeX Gyre Pagella, TeX Gyre Schola, TeX Gyre Termes > > --------- > Description > > All of the Ghostscript text font families have become gyrefied > as the result of the project. Gyrefication, also called LM-ization, > was first applied to the Computer Modern Fonts and their various > generalizations with the result known as the Latin Modern (LM) Fonts. > > > The TeX Gyre Adventor family of sansserif fonts is based on the > URW Gothic L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, > ITC Avant Garde Gothic was designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase > in 1970. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs > each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. > > The TeX Gyre Bonum family of serif fonts is based on the URW Bookman L > family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font was designed > by Alexander Phemister in 1860 and named Bookman (or Bookman Old Style). > The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and > are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note > that with the release of this family the QuasiBookman fonts became > obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Chorus is a font based on the > URW Chancery L Medium Italic font distributed with Ghostscript. > The original, ITC Zapf Chancery, was designed in 1979 by > Hermann Zapf who was inspired by handwritten letterforms of the > Italian Renaissance (currently, other variants of this typeface > are available). Compared to URW Chancery L Medium Italic, > TeX Gyre Chorus is heavily extended and contains more than 900 glyphs. > Unlike for other fonts from the TeX Gyre collection, Greek letters are > missing and so are small caps (using capital forms of chancery > characters for typesetting whole words should be forbidden by law). > The font is available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. > Please note that with the release of TeX Gyre Chorus the QuasiChancery > font became obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Cursor family of monospaced serif fonts is based on the > URW Nimbus Mono L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original > font, Courier, was designed by Howard G. (Bud) Kettler in 1955 for > the IBM Corporation. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly > 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type > formats. Please note that with the release of this family > the QuasiCourier fonts became obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Heros family of sansserif fonts is based on the > URW Nimbus Sans L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original > font, Helvetica, was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger in cooperation > with Eduard Hoffman at the Haas type foundry. The constituent > 8 faces (4 standard and 4 condensed) contain nearly 1250 glyphs each > and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. > Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiSwiss fonts > became obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Pagella family of serif fonts is based on the URW Palladio L > family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, Palatino, > was designed by Hermann Zapf in the 1940's for the Stempel type foundry. > The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and > are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that > with the release of this family the QuasiPalatino fonts became obsolete. > > The TeX Gyre Schola family of serif fonts is based on the > URW Century Schoolbook L family distributed with Ghostscript. > The original was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1919, for > the American Type Founders. The constituent 4 standard faces > contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, > TeX and Open Type formats. > > The TeX Gyre Termes family of serif fonts is based on the > Nimbus Roman No9 L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original > font, Times, was designed by Stanley Morison together with > Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent for the London newspaper > The Times. It was first issued by the Monotype Corporation in 1932. > The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each > and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please > note that Termes obsoletes the QuasiTimes fonts. > > ---- > Recent changes > * math glyphs shifted horizontally (widths left intact) > * kerns between half rings and `A' (also `a.sc') added > * in the OTF files, the features `salt', `ss01', `ss02', > `ss03', `ss04' added > * compatibility with the recent Latin Modern release (1.106) implemented, > see -- http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern/ > main changes: the repertoire of glyphs extended by Arabic transliteration > glyphs, OTF structure modified (`size' feature implemented, the ligatures > `i_j' and `I_J' available only for Dutch, the ligature `f_k' -- for Polish, > the `locl' feature reimplemented -- an artificial glyph `i.TRK' is no > longer needed) > * glyphs uni03C6 and uni03D5 used to be interchanged in all TeX Gyre fonts; > the unicode specification is not explicit too much: > 03C6;GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI > 03D5;GREEK PHI SYMBOL > * `copyright.alt' added > * an underlining stroke added in `ordmasculine' and `orfeminine'; > `colonmonetary' and `guarani' touched > > ------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: glossaries
by Robin Fairbairns 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

ctan-upload(a)tex.ac.uk wrote (in its sweet little way): > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: glossaries > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/glossaries > Summary description: Create glossaries and list of acronyms > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.12 (8 March 2008): > * Fixed bug that causes glspl to print the plural short form > on first use instead of the plural long form. > > * Added descriptionplural and symbolplural keys. > > * Added glsshortkey, glsshortpluralkey, glslongkey and > glslongpluralkey. > > * Fixed bugs in glsname, glstext, glsdesc etc. > > * Added a check for hypertarget in addition to checking > for hyperlink (in the event that hyperlink is defined > but not hypertarget). > > * Changed #! line in makeglossaries to use /usr/bin/env > > * Added package mfirstuc.sty which provides the command > makefirstuc{<stuff>} which makes the first object of > <stuff> uppercase unless <stuff> starts with a control > sequence followed by a group, in which case the first > object in the group is converted to uppercase. Examples: > > makefirstuc{abc} -> Abc > makefirstuc{emph{abc}} -> emph{Abc} > makefirstuc{{a}bc} -> {A}bc > makefirstuc{ae bc} -> AE bc i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue. i've also added a catalogue entry for mfirstuc, on the grounds that it surely has other uses. thanks for the upload. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/glossaries.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries the package itself is already on its journey to mirror sites around the world. the catalogue entry will be updated overnight (i.e., pretty soon, here in cambridge, but different times at the other two main sites). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: xecyr
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: xecyr Author's name: Alexey Shipunov Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xecyr Summary description: helper for Cyrillic languages in XeLaTeX + Babel License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the version 1.0 of 'xecyr' package which is intended to help with Russian and other Cyrillic-based languages in Babel and XeLaTeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xecyr . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xecyr (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: frontespizio
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: frontespizio Author's name: Enrico Gregorio Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/frontespizio Summary description: This package provides an environment to typeset a frontispiece to theses in Italian style License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Typesetting a frontispiece independently of the layout of the main document is difficult. This package provides a solution by producing an auxiliary TeX file to be typeset on its own and the result is automatically included at the next run. The markup necessary for the frontispiece is written in the main document in a frontespizio environment. Documentation is mainly in Italian, as the frontispiece style is probably apt only to theses in Italy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/frontespizio . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/frontespizio (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: abc
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

The package here has been updated and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: abc Author's name: Enrico Gregorio Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/abc Summary description: This package supports ABC(Plus) and Mup music notation in LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 2 of the abc package for including music in ABC and ABCPlus notation in LaTeX files. The package now supports writing music excerpts with different names for each abc environment automatically. An important addition is support for Mup (Music Publisher from Arkkra.com) via the subpackage mup (many thanks to Martin Tarenskeen for suggesting this addition and some improvements on the main package) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/abc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/abc (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: chemstyle
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '08

08 Mar '08

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: chemstyle Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle Summary description: Writing chemistry with style License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.2: - New keyval-based option handling - Re-write of code to alter reference section name: now works with natbib and biblatex - Options now allowed at run-time - Removed obsolete `chapter' option - Several internal tweaks - Documentation improvements ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/chemstyle (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: vc bundle
by CTAN Announcements 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: vc bundle Author's name: Stephan Hennig Location on CTAN: /support/vc Summary description: version control for TeX and friends License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The vc bundle ---------------------- This is a script based approach to version control for TeX documents. It works more reliable than keyword substitution based approaches, since it doesn't track .tex files only, but /all/ files in a working copy. The vc bundle works with LaTeX and plain TeX. Currently, Subversion and Git are supported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/vc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/vc (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: csquotes 4.0
by CTAN Announcements 02 Mar '08

02 Mar '08

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. > > 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 > > * e-TeX now mandatory requirement > * New dependency on 'etoolbox' package > * Added package option 'spanish' > * Added variant 'mexican' to style 'spanish' > * Removed variant 'oldstyle' from 'english' style > * Removed variant 'oldstyle' from 'french' style > * Removed variant 'imprimerie' from 'french' style > * Expanded documentation > * Added openautoquote and closeautoquote > * Added openinnerquote and closeinnerquote > * Moved predefined styles, variants, options to csquotes.def > * Added more hints and examples to csquotes.cfg > * Added extended PDF bookmarks to the manual i've installed the new version as requested; thanks for the upload. users may view the catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/csquotes.html (that entry will be updated overnight tonight) and they may browse the package directory on the archive at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: Feyn font
by Robin Fairbairns 02 Mar '08

02 Mar '08

Norman Gray wrote (via the usual indirection): > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: Feyn font > Author's name: Norman Gray > Location on CTAN: /fonts/feyn (replacing existing package) > Summary description: Easily produce simple Feynman diagrams, for use > within equations > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Feyn font helps produce relatively simple Feynman diagrams, for > example within equations. It's less general than the FeynMF package, > but easier to use for simple diagrams. > > Version 0.3.1 updates v0.2 by adding small fermion loops, a variant > the proper vertex, and compatibility with amsmath. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository; thanks for the upload. the update is already on its way around the world, and the catalogue entry will be updated overnight. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/feyn.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/feyn/ > _______________________________________________ or at the corresponding locations in local mirrors (the catalogue offers a way to get to your local mirror of choice). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: glossaries (minor correction)
by CTAN Announcements 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

The FAQ link in the latest announcement is incorrect, it should read: The url for the glossaries FAQ is now http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/packages/faq/glossariesfaq.html For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: glossaries
by CTAN Announcements 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the glossaries package. The glossaries package supports acronyms and multiple glossaries. New entries are defined to have a name and description (and optionally an associated symbol). Plural forms can also be specified. New glossary styles can be defined, and preambles and postambles can be specified. There is provision for loading a database of terms, only terms used in the text will be added to the relevant glossary. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/glossaries Summary description: Create glossaries and lists of acronyms License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.1 (22 Feb 2008): * New package options: - numberline: inserts umberline{} in addcontentsline when used with the toc option. - numberedsection: puts glossaries in numbered chapters/sections - translate: translate=false option prevents glossaries package from using pre-supplied translations. - description: changes definition of ewacronym to allow a description - footnote: changes definition of ewacronym to use a footnote on first use - smallcaps: changes definition of ewacronym to set acronyms in small capitals - dua: changes definition of ewacronym to always expand acronyms * Added setglossarysection - changes the section type used by the glossaries * Added listdotted glossary style. * No longer uses xspace package; uses amsgen instead. * Added glsname, glsdesc, glssymbol, glsfirst, glstext, glsplural and glsfirstplural. * Added support for translator package. The url for the glossaries FAQ is now http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/packages/faq/glossaryfaq.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=glossaries (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: pst-circ
by CTAN Announcements 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Herbert Voss submitted an update to the pst-circ package to CTAN. Pst-circ is a package built using PSTricks and in particular pst-node. It can easily draw current 2-terminal devices and some 3- and 4-terminal devices used in electronic or electric theory. The package’s macros are designed with a view to ‘logical’ representation of circuits, as far as possible, so as to relieve the user of purely graphical considerations when expressing a circuit. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ License: LPPL This new version 1.44 comes with a lot of new microwave symbols. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org//graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pst-circ (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 package update: FiNK
by CTAN Announcements 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: FiNK 2.1.1 Author's name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fink Summary description: The LaTeX2e File Name Keeper License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm happy to announce the release of FiNK 2.1.1. What's new: ** Fix trailing whitespace in fink@restore ** Added some hints about filenames with special characters ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fink . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fink (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: notes2bib
by CTAN Announcements 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 Joseph Wright submitted an update to the notes2bib package. The notes2bib package defines a new type of note, bibnote, which will always be added to the bibliography. The package allows footnotes and endnotes to be moved into the bibliography in the same way. The package can be used with natbib and biblatex as well as plain LaTeX citations. Both sorted and unsorted bibliography styles are supported. The package makes use of the e-TeX extensions (any post-2005 LaTeX distribution will provide these by default, but users of older systems may need to use an elatex command or equivalent). It also makes use of the xkeyval and etoolbox packages. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib Summary description: Integrating notes into the bibliography License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.3c: - Removed need to load etoolbox - Patching of hanks altered ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=notes2bib (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: PST-Cox
by CTAN Announcements 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: PST-Cox Author's name: Jean-Gabriel Luque Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib Summary description: Drawing regular complex polytopes with PSTricks License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We have wrote a new package for PSTricks for drawing 2 dimensional projection of complex regular polyopes (after the work of Coxeter). The package consists in a library of macro for drawing the projections. The complex polytopes appears in the study of the roots systems and play a crucial role in many domains related to mathematics and physics. These polytopes have been completely described by Coxeter in his book Regular Complex Polytopes. there exist only a finite numbers of exceptional regular complex polytopes (for example the ikosae dron) and some infinite series (for example, one can construct multi-dimensional analogous of the hypercube in any -finite- dimension). The library contains two packages. The first, pst-coxcoor, is devoted to the exceptional complex regular polytopes whose coordinates have been pre-computed. The second, pst-coxeterp, is devoted to the infinite series. One can find also other informations in the beautiful page of Jean-Michel Sarlat: http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/pstricks/pst-cox/ To contact me, use the email given in the documentation of the package. best wishes Jean-gabriel Luque ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-cox . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-cox (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: CurVe
by CTAN Announcements 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: CurVe Author's name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/curve Summary description: A curriculum vitae class for LaTeX2e License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is edition 1.15 of CurVe. What's new in this version: ** Support for itemize environments, suggested by Mirko Hessel-von Molo. ** Added some documentation about vertical spacing problems in |bbl| files, suggested by Seweryn Habdank-Wojewódzki. CurVe is a class package that hopefully will make your life easier when you want to write your CV. It provides you with a set of commands to create rubrics, entries in these rubrics etc. CurVe will then properly format your CV for you (possibly splitting it onto multiple pages, repeating the titles etc), which is usually the most painful part of CV writing. Another nice feature of CurVe is its ability to manage different CV flavors simultaneously. It is in fact often the case that you want to maintain slightly divergent versions of your CV at the same time, in order to emphasize on different aspects of your background. CurVe also comes with support for AUC-TeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/curve . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/curve (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: autolatex-5.5
by CTAN Announcements 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

The package below has been updated and should soon appear at a mirror near you. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: autolatex-5.5 Author's name: Stephane GALLAND Location on CTAN: /support/autolatex Summary description: New release of autolatex with bug fixes and TeXlive support License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- autolatex 5.5 fixes several bugs and provides a new EPS to PDF translator which is based on the TeXlive tools instead of the teTeX ones (because Ubuntu operating systems now distribute the first distribution). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/autolatex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/autolatex (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: translator
by CTAN Announcements 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 Till Tantau submitted the new translator package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/translator License: lppl Announcement for the package: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The translator package is intended to provide an open platform for > packages that need to be localized. Unlike the babel package (which > can and typically will be used together with translator), the set of > words that can be translated is not fixed and new words and > translations can be added in a simple manner. New translations can be > added in a decentralized manner. > > The package is written in completely LaTeX and it is quite > lightweight. It could very easily be ported to plain-TeX or ConTeXt, > provided there is a public demand for this. > > A typical application of this package is the beamer class, which > already uses it, if it present. Then words like Theorem will be > translated to Satz if the document language is German, for instance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/translator . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=translator (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: Version 2.00 of TikZ/pgf
by CTAN Announcements 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Till Tantau submitted version 2.0 of the TikZ/pgf package to CTAN. PGF is a macro package for creating graphics. It is platform- and format-independent and works together with the most important TeX backend drivers, including pdftex and dvips. It comes with a user-friedly syntax layer called TikZ. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/base License: lppl Release notes: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This new version of the TikZ and pgf graphic packages comes with a > large number of new features, too numerous to list them all. Hilights > are Mark Wibrow's decoration library, Mark's new shapes, the improved > notations for doing geometric drawings, fadings (the transparency > version of shadings), easy shadows, improved support for systems like > xetex, as well as countless bugfixes. > > This version *may break existing code* (hence the big version step). > We tried to make sure that 99% of all code will still work exactly as > it did before and all larger documents that the developers and some > volunteers tried still look exactly as they did before, but there a > number of places where unavoidable changes had to be done. Known > changes that break existing code: > > - There was a bug in the diamond shape that caused it to be twice as > large as the minimum size required. This has been fixed. However, if > you code relied on the wrong minimum size handling, your diamond > shapes will now be too small. > > - Snakes are now handled by decorations internally. While this offers > endless new possibilities, you are no longer allowed to use negative > values with the after snake gap option. The documentation did neither > explicitly allow nor forbid this, so some people may have used this. > > - The basic layer has been restructured. Some things moved into the > core, other stuff moved into something new, called modules. > Typically, you will not notice this at all, but it is imaginable that > you may need to include a different library or module, now, to > compile your code. > > > Also note that the PDF-file of the manual has moved to a less obscure > location: It is now at .../doc/generic/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf (and no > longer at .../doc/generic/pgf/version-for-pdftex/en/...) > > > Happy TeXing everyone, > Till ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org//graphics/pgf/base . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pgf (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: dogma v1.0b
by CTAN Announcements 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

This package has also gone up on tug.ctan.org today. It will soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: dogma v1.0b Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/psfonts/emigre/dogma Summary description: LaTeX Support For Dogma Font From Emigre Graphics License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX Support For Dogma Font From Emigre Graphics Version 1.0b 2008/02/21 This package provides metric files and LaTeX support for Dogma font family from Emigre Graphics designed by Zuzana Licko, 1994. It has everything you need to typeset in this font - except the font itself, of course. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/emigre/dogma . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dogma (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: futurans v1.0a
by CTAN Announcements 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

This package has also just gone in on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror soon. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: futurans v1.0a Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/psfonts/adobe/futurans Summary description: LaTeX Support For Futura Fonts From Adobe As Used By No Starch Press License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX Support For Futura Fonts From Adobe As Used By No Starch Press Version 1.0a 2008/02/17 This package provides metric files and LaTeX support for Futura fonts from Adobe. It has everything you need to typeset in this font - except the font itself, of course. There are several versions of the fonts available, different by the version year. This package provides support for fonts as used by No Starch Press, http://www.nostarch.com. To prevent a clash with support of a newer version by W. A. Schmidt, the fontname |pfv| is used instead of the standard |pfu|. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/adobe/futurans . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/futurans (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: nbaskerv v1.0a
by CTAN Announcements 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

The package below has also just gone in on tug.ctan.org. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: nbaskerv v1.0a Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/psfonts/adobe/nbaskerv Summary description: LaTeX Support For ITC New Baskerville Font From Adobe License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX Support For ITC New Baskerville Font From Adobe Version 1.0a 2008/02/21 This package provides metric files and LaTeX support for ITC New Baskerville font from Adobe. It has everything you need to typeset in this font - except the font itself, of course. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/adobe/nbaskerv . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/nbaskerv (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: thsmc v1.0b
by CTAN Announcements 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: thsmc v1.0b Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/psfonts/fontfabrik/thsmc Summary description: LaTeX Support For Sans Mono Condensed Font License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX Support For Sans Mono Condensed Font Version 1.0b 2008/02/21 This package provides metric files and LaTeX support for The Sans Mono Condensed Family designed by Lucas de Groot, 1996. It has everything you need to typeset in this font - except the font itself, of course. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/fontfabrik/thsmc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/thsmc (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: dprogress
by CTAN Announcements 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

The package below has been put into the CTAN system at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: dprogress Author's name: Brian Amberg Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dprogress Summary description: dprogress displays the typeset headers and equation numbers in the latex output, making debugging easier. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package logs latex's progress through the file, making the latex output more verbose. This helps to make latex debugging easier, as it is simpler to find where exactly latex failed. It outputs the typesetting of section, subsection, subsubsection headers and the align environment. The align environment is only output if the amsmath package is loaded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dprogress . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dprogress (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: si
by CTAN admin (Robin Fairbairns) 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

ctan-upload(a)tex.ac.uk (anthropomorphised) wrote: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: si > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/si > Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v0.6a: > * Fixed bug with memoir and KOMA-script classes > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the update, and made a microscopic change to the catalogue. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/si.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/si the update is available immediately at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/si.zip and is well on its way around the world. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: modes.mf
by CTAN Announcements 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

Karl Berry <karl(a)freefriends.org> wrote: > CTAN:fonts/modes/modes.mf has been updated to version 3.8. All > distributions that used modes.mf should update as soon as possible. > > Per Don Knuth, this version no longer redefines the Metafont `end' > primitive; it also no longer defines a `?' macro for help. Now you can > say, e.g., > mf 'fontmaking:=1; end' > and it will work again. > > In order to get the previous behavior, where the coding scheme, font > family, and so on were output at the end of the run, the Metafont input > should call the (new) mode_extra_info macro. Or incorporate the code in > the font files themselves, as preferred. the revised file has been installed in ctan fonts/modes/modes.mf Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: mathtex
by Robin Fairbairns 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

John Forkosh writes: > + what you've uploaded > mathtex.zip > to replace support/mathtex/mathtex.zip > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > ftp.tex.ac.uk > + where you want the files to go > support/mathtex > (The existing README file in support/mathtex > has changed. Please replace that copy with > the updated copy in mathtex.zip.) > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software > GNU GPL > + brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. > o Changes since CTAN version 1.00 released in Oct, 2007: > o 11 Oct 2007 -- optional usepackage[arg]{package} argument > now recognized correctly (initial release neglected to > handle optional [arg] following usepackage). > o 12 Oct 2007 -- html &#nnn; now translated during preprocessing, > e.g., &#091 or [ becomes [ (left square bracket) before > it's submitted to latex. > o 12 Oct 2007 -- special mathTeX directives like ime > are now checked for proper command termination, i.e., non-alpha > character. (In particular, LaTeX imes had been incorrectly > interpreted as mathTeX ime followed by an s.) > o 12 Oct 2007 -- url unescape translation, i.e., > %20-to-blank, etc, repeated (done twice) for > <form> input. (I'm not sure why this is necessary, > and can't reproduce the problem myself, but am acting > on seemingly reliable reports.) > o 20 Oct 2007 -- removed leading and trailing pairs of $$...$$'s > from input expressions, interpreting $...$ as extstyle and > $$...$$ as displaystyle (and $$$...$$$ as parstyle). > Also removed leading and trailing [...], interpreting it > as displaystyle. (Note: displaystyle is mathTeX's default, > so $$...$$'s or [...] are unnecessary. But some people submit > expressions containing them, so they're now interpreted.) > o 16 Feb 2008 -- more robust test to display the correct > error message when a required dependency isn't installed. > (Occasionally, the ran but failed message was emitted > when a dependency was actually not installed.) > o 16 Feb 2008 -- -DDENYREFERER=string or > -DDENYREFERER=string1,string2,etc compile switch added. > If compiled with it, mathTeX won't render images for > HTTP_REFERER's containing string (or string1 or string2, etc) > as a substring of their url's. > o 17 Feb 2008 -- updated (slightly) documentation Thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue. Users may view the catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/mathtex.html or they may view the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/mathtex/ (which directory contains the zip file to download Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: everypage
by CTAN Announcements 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: everypage Author's name: Sergio Callegari Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/everypage Summary description: Provide hooks to be run on every page of a document. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 1.1 of the everypage package. Version 1.0 had a bug that caused LaTeX to exceed its capacity or to hang. Such behaviour was particularly evident in conjunction with the draftwatermark package. UPGRADE IS RECOMMENDED The package provides hooks to perform actions on every page, or on the current page. Specifically, actions are performed after the page is composed, but before it is shipped, so they can be used to prepare the output page in tasks like putting watermarks in the background, or in setting the next page layout, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/everypage . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/everypage (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: pst-pad
by CTAN Announcements 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

A new 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: pst-pad Author's name: Patrick Drechsler Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-pad Summary description: A PSTricks package to draw simple attachment systems License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package pst-pad is a collection of graphical elements based on PStricks that can be used to facilitate display of attachment systems such as two differently shaped surfaces with or without a fluid wedged in between. These macros ease the display of wet adhesion models and common friction systems such as boundary lubrication, elastohydrodynamic lubrication and hydrodynamic lubrication. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-pad . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-pad (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: gaceta
by CTAN Announcements 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: gaceta.cls Author's name: Juan Luis Varona Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gaceta Summary description: The gaceta.cls LaTeX class to typeset <<La Gaceta de la RSME>> License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the LaTeX class gaceta.cls, which is intended to write papers for <<La Gaceta de la Real Sociedad Matematica Espa~nola>>, a journal of the Real Sociedad Matematica Espa~nola, http://www.rsme.es/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gaceta . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/gaceta (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: shipunov
by CTAN Announcements 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: shipunov Author's name: Alexey Shipunov Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib Summary description: 'shipunov' bundle --- collection of LaTeX packages and classes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 'shipunov' bundle is a collection of LaTeX packages and classes, along with one bibliography style, two independent examples and a set of Perl scripts for converting TeX files. Many of them intend to help field biologists and Russian writers, others have wider application. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/shipunov . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/shipunov (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: numprint package
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 Harald Harders submitted a new version of the numprint package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/numprint Summary description: Update of the numprint package to address two bugs License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Print numbers with a separator every three digits and convert numbers given as 12345.6e789 to 12,345,6cdot 10^{789}. Numbers are printed in the current mode (text or math) in order to use the correct font. Many things, including the decimal sign, the thousand separator, as well as the product sign can be changed by the user, e.g., to reach 12,345.6 imes 10^{789}. If requested, numprint can round numbers to a given number of digits. If an optional argument is given it is printed upright as unit. Numbers can be rounded to a given number of digits. The package supports an automatic, language-dependent change of the number format. Tabular alignment using the tabular(*), array, tabularx, and longtable environments (similar to the dcolumn and rccol packages) is supported using all features of numprint. Additional text can be added before and after the formatted number. 2007/05/18 v1.38 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Moved counters prt@curpos and prt@rndpos outside the macro definitions to avoid an overflow of counters - Replaced stepcounter and addtocounter by advance because otherwhise, umprint does not work inside ensuremath{ ext{$...$}}. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/numprint . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=numprint (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: thmtools
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

A new package has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at the mirror near to you. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: thmtools Author's name: Ulrich M. Schwarz Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/thmtools Summary description: Various extensions to theorem environments License type: lppl Announcement text: No ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== No announcement needed === The hmtools bundle provides several packages for commonly-needed features for theorems. As designed, the bundle should work with kernel theorems, the theorem package and the amsthm package. WARNING: Currently, things might still be a bit rough. You might want to consider not relying on hmtools for your Ph.D. thesis masterpiece. Provided features: a keyval interface to ewtheorem a listoftheorems command hyperref/autoref compatibility a way of restating entire theorems with a single macro call ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/thmtools . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/thmtools (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: pdftex 1.40.7
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should be at your favorite mirror real soon now. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pdftex 1.40.7 Author's name: Martin Schröder Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: A new version of pdftex License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.40.7 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.7, an extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF. =========================================================================== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.40.7 =========================================================================== - Bugfix: - PDFs > 2GiB (LFS) were still broken on 32-bit systems For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS =========================================================================== Legal notice / license =========================================================================== pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2008 Han The Thanh, <thanh(a)pdftex.org> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README =========================================================================== The files / installation =========================================================================== You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your distribution. If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful documentation. =========================================================================== Mailing lists / web pages: =========================================================================== Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex Related web pages: http://www.pdftex.org http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ http://foundry.supelec.fr/scm/?group_id=23 http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes http://www.dante.de/ http://tug.org/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/ Have fun! Martin Schröder (martin(a)pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, February 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pdftex (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: pgfplots
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pgfplots Author's name: Christian Feuersänger Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots Summary description: Create normal/logarithmic plots in LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release significantly improves the quality of non-logarithmic plots: It employs coordinate transformations to allow plot coordinates out of TeX's number precision range. Furthermore, it provides additional formatting options for plots (grid line placement, detailed tick formatting) and better integration of TikZ-drawing commands for plot-annotations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgfplots (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: Ijmart
by CTAN Announcements 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Ijmart Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ijmart Summary description: LaTeX Class for The Israel Journal of Mathematics License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Israel Journal of Mathematics is published by The Hebrew University Magnes Press. This class provides LaTeX support for its authors and editors. It strives to achieve the distinct ``look and feel'' of the journal, while having the interface similar to the one of the amsart document class. This will help the authors already familiar with amsart to easily submit manuscripts for The Israel Journal of Mathematics or to put the preprints in http://www.arxiv.org with minimal changes in the LaTeX source. Changes: Version 1.1: Added environments namedprop and namedprop* for special named propositions. Version 1.1a: Minor documentation updates. Version 1.2: New table of contents formatting. Version 1.3: Changed the typesetting of proofs that end by a math display. This involves interface changes. Changed table of contents formatting (again). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ijmart . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ijmart (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 umtypewriter
by CTAN Announcements 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted the new package umtypewriter to CTAN. It contains four OpenType fonts released under the Open Font License which are necessary support for the Latin, the Greek and the Cyrillic scripts. Location on CTAN: fonts/umtypewriter License: ofl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 8.20 - New face, Common Settings.
by CTAN Announcements 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma License: shareware > Improvement in BaKoMa TeX 8.20 are: > > * New face: icons and toolbars. > Icons are redesigned for 24x24 size, with XP styled colors. > (More then 300 icons - math symbols of symbol panels are not counted). > Toolbars are automatically sized and wrapped as needed. > Improved default scaling of Symbol Panels and Symbol Bars. > > Screenshots of new face are available at: > <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/screenshots.php> > > * Common Settings - new program integrates important global settings. > It is accessible from 'Start/Programs' system menu > and from 'Options/Common Settings' menu command of every program. > > * VAR directory is moved to 'Local Settings' > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/changes.php> or > < > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 12-Feb-2008 > > PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists. > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 8.20 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 8.20 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Classical IDE. > They are high compatible, so that you can choose what to use > depend on kind of a document or stage of work under a document. > > About BaKoMa TeX Word. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > > The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts: > > 1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor. > It means that display shows precisely the same what will be printed. > It looks such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer. > > 2) It is True LaTeX Editor. > It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure. > It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and > consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related > with import graphics, font support, and document export. > > It supports processors: > (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX. > Other processors such as Omega may be added in future. > > It imports: > EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, > MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY. > It supports fonts: > OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM), > PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF. > It exports: > DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT). > > It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS > compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as: > PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, > PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc. > > Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > Editing slides in WYSIWYG interface > (with such packages as PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.) > is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > TeXWord dramatically simplifies editing complex formulas and tables. > > TeXWord is transparent for cooperation. > TeXWord don't use additional macro packages. > It uses only standard LaTeX packages, so that documents made up > in TeXWord may be compiled in any LaTeX setup without any adaptation. > In other side, TeXWord can handle arbitrary LaTeX documents. > So, that your coleagues may even don't know that you use > powerful WYSIWYG tool to edit your part of common work. > > Beginner users of LaTeX may consider TeXWord as > good start point for learning LaTeX together with writing papers. > > More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at: > < > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html> > > Some screenshots are available at: > <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/screenshots.php> > > Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> > > New features in BaKoMa TeX 8.20 are: > * New face: icons and toolbars. > Icons are redesigned for 24x24 size, with XP styled colors. > (More then 300 icons - math symbols of symbol panels are not counted). > Toolbars are automatically sized and wrapped as needed. > Improved default scaling of Symbol Panels and Symbol Bars. > * Common Settings - new program integrates important global settings. > It is accessible from 'Start/Programs' system menu > and from 'Options/Common Settings' menu command of every program. > * VAR directory is moved to 'Local Settings' > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/changes.php> or > < > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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