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CTAN package update: vc
by CTAN Announcements 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

The package below has been updated 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: vc bundle Author's name: Stephan Hennig Location on CTAN: /support/vc Summary description: version control for TeX and friends License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The vc bundle ---------------------- 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, Bazaar, Git and Subversion are supported. v0.4 (2008-04-10) ---------------------- Incompatibel changes: * Search for local modifications only at request (relevant to macro VCRevisionMod, see appendix B). Changes: * Again improved locale handling. * Improved compatibility for Subversion within Msys shell. * Improved documentation: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: minipage-marginpar
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 Paul Ebermann submitted an update to the minipage-marginpar package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/minipage-marginpar Summary description: Package-update: minipage-marginpar (bugfix and namechange) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows marginpar -commands inside of minipages and other boxes. (It takes another approach than marginnote by Markus Kohm: it saves all marginpar -commands and typesets them outside (i.e., after) the box.) Version 0.3 fixes a bug, which caused marginpars of some kind only appearing on odd pages, not even ones. In my documents I don't have much of those, so I remarked it only now, nearly two years after version 0.2 (which introduced this bug, fixing another one). At the same time, i decided to change the name of the package files from mpgmpar to minipage-marginpar, as already is the CTAN directory name. (There is a compatibility style file, which simply loads the new one.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/minipage-marginpar . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?minipage-marginpar (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: The caption package v3.1h
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: Customising captions of floating environments License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated Russian documentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=caption (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: nostarch v1.0
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

A new package has just been installed on 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: nostarch v1.0 Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nostarch Summary description: LaTeX Style For No Starch Press License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the ``official'' LaTeX style for No Starch Press, http://www.nostarch.com. The class is intended to typeset books for this publisher---both hard copies and electronic books. The suite provides main class, nostarch.cls, hyperref interface nshyper.sty and MakeIndex style nostarch.ist. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nostarch . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/nostarch (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: The caption package v3.1h
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table, and cooperates with many other packages. Includes rotating captions, sideways captions, continued captions (for tables or figures that come in several parts). A list of compatibility notes, for other packages, is provided in the documentation. The package also provides the caption outside float facility, in the same way that simpler packages like capt-of do. The package supersedes caption2. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: Customising captions of floating environments License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfix release of the caption package bundle: - English documentation revised - German documentation finished! - ablecaption* does not increment the table counter anymore - ameref & autoref work for supertabulars now, too - Support of the xtab package added ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=caption (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 -- pdfcrop v1.9
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > I have uploaded `pdfcrop.zip' in the /incoming directory > of ftp.dante.de. > > It replaces the files in CTAN:support/pdfcrop/ > > Changes: > > 2008/04/05 v1.9: Options --resolution and --bbox added. Thanks for the update, I installed it. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: minitoc -- version 57
by CTAN Announcements 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Jean-Pierre Drucbert <Jean-Pierre.Drucbert(a)onecert.fr> wrote: > The licence is LPPL. > > This package allows the creation of mini-tables of contents, > lists of figures or lists of tables per part, chapter or > section, with language dependent titles. > > This new version has the following changes or improvements: > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Minitoc version #57 > -- Updated the bibliography. > -- Corrections in examples of documents. > -- Added occitan.mld, occitan2.mld and mexican.mld. > -- * Updated croatian.mld, danish.mld, dutch.mld, galician.mld, > germanb2.mld, greek.mld, icelandic.mld, interlingua.mld, > polish.mld, scottish.mld, turkish.mld, and polski.mld. > -- ** Added many maps and illustrations (often with links). > -- Better captions for maps. > -- *** The page numbers in the index are now hyperlinks. > -- *** Corrected an error of message number. > -- Shortened the ``Installation'' chapter. > -- *** Updated from the babel package version v3.8j > of 2008/03/16. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Notes: > * *.mld files are ``minitoc language description'' files. > ** These graphic files are the main cause of the increased size > of the package; there are needed only to compile the documentation; > it is not necessary to install them if you do not need to recompile > the documentation. > *** Bug fixes and main updates. > > The administrative trivia are in the `CATALOG' file in the > distribution. > > Note that the documentation is mainly available in PDF form: > -- in (not perfect) english: minitoc.pdf, > -- in french: fminitoc.pdf. > The ``cmk'' script may be used to convert the PDF documentation > into PostScript. > > The INSTALL file (and, better, the ``Installation'' chapter in the > documentation) describes the files of this package (the complete > list of files is in minitoc.l). thanks for the upload; i've installed it and updated the catalogue repository. users may read the catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/minitoc.html or browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/ (the catalogue entry will be updated overnight, but not significantly). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: latex-tds 2008/04/01
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 at 21:51 +0200, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the latex-tds package. This bundle provides a set of zip files containing TDS-compliant trees for items of the LaTeX distribution (both the base system and required packages), together with ‘user-friendly’ documentation (PDF files with navigation support using bookmarks and links). Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/latex-tds License: lppl Changes: 2007/04/01 * Update of babel (2007/03/17). Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: pdfpages v0.4c
by CTAN Announcements 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 at 17:45 +0200, Andreas Matthias submitted an update to the pdfpages package. The pdfpages package simplifies the insertion of external multi-page PDF documents into your LaTeX documents. It is ditributed under the LPPL. Update: * XeTeX-driver: Support of XeTeX was introduced in beta versions of pdfpages some time ago. Now it's about time to put an official non-beta version on CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages License: lppl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: The floatrow package 0.2c
by CTAN Announcements 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, 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: 1) Some bug corrections and redefinitions for caption--floatrow co-operation. 2) Support for the row of parts with subtype settings of caption package. 3) Corrected bug for beside captions in oneside documents. 4) Corrections in documentation. 5) The stuff for colored frame moved to main package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 hazs a new package: stringstrings
by CTAN Announcements 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

A new package 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: stringstrings Author's name: Steven B. Segletes Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/stringstrings Summary description: String manipulation for cosmetic and programming application License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a large and sundry array of routines for the manipulation of strings. The routines are developed not only for cosmetic application, such as the changing of letter cases, selective removal of character classes, and string substitution, but also for programming application, such as character look-ahead applications, argument parsing, if-tests for various string conditions, etc. A key tenet employed during the development of this package (unlike, for comparison, the uppercase and lowercase routines) was to have resultant strings be ``expanded'' (i.e., the product of an edef), so that the stringstrings routines could be strung together sequentially and nested (after a fashion) to achieve very complex manipulations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/stringstrings . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/stringstrings (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: A Compact List of Symbols
by CTAN Announcements 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

The package below has been put up 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: A Compact List of Symbols Author's name: Emre Sermutlu Location on CTAN: /info/symbols/compact Summary description: A user-friendly list of LaTeX and AMS LaTeX symbols License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This upload includes two lists of LaTeX symbols. One of them includes standard LaTeX+AMS+several packages. The other includes everything in the first+Txfonts. As Txfonts package redefine many symbols and fonts, they look different. These lists are not rivals to Scott Pakin's admirable and comprehensive list of symbols, as mine include much smaller sets. Yet, they were written in Beamer class, and therefore easier to view on a computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/compact . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/compact (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: constants
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '08

30 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: constants Author's name: Antoine Lejay Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/constants Summary description: a package for automatic numbering of constants with a label/ref mechanism License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This set of macros aims to provide a way to number automatically constants in a mathematical proof with a system for labelling/referencing. In addition, several families of constants (with different symbols) may be defined. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/constants . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/constants (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: fouridx
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

The package below 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: fouridx Author's name: Stefan Karrmann Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fouridx Summary description: An alternative to sideset and leftidx. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package enables left subscripts and superscripts in math mode. These subscripts and superscripts are automatically raised for better fitting to the symbol they belong to. This is done in such a way that the left and right subscripts and superscripts are set on the same line, respectivly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fouridx . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fouridx (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: futurans v1.3
by CTAN Announcements 28 Mar '08

28 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: futurans v1.3 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 1.3 2008/03/20 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|. INSTALLATION First, you need to purchase the fonts themselves: the pfb files are not included in the package. If you got the fonts from No Starch Press, do not rename the pfb files. However, if there are uppercase letters in your file names, downcase them. If you obtained the fonts from another source, rename the files according to the documentation (futurans.pdf). If your TeX system is TDS-compliant, install the files into $TEXMF/fonts/type1/adobe/futurans. Then download http://ctan.tug.org/install/fonts/psfonts/adobe/futurans.tds.zip and unzip this file in $TEXMF. Add +pfv.map to the configuration files of dvips, pdftex and your dvi previewer. Run updmap and texhash programs to update the configuration files and file names database. The included style futurans.sty makes your default Sans Serif family. NOTE The files were generated using fontinst 1.927. CHANGES v1.1 Added light letterspaced, bold compressed and heavy compressed fonts heavy compressed fonts v1.2 Changed scales for letterspaced and compressed fonts v1.3 Added medium, bold and heavy letterspaced fonts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 package update: dogma v1.3
by CTAN Announcements 28 Mar '08

28 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: dogma v1.3 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 1.3 2008/03/20 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. INSTALLATION First, you need to purchase the fonts themselves: the pfb files are not included in the package. If you got the fonts from No Starch Press, do not rename the pfb files. However, if there are uppercase letters in your file names, downcase them. If you obtained the fonts from another source, rename the files according to the documentation (dogma.pdf). If your TeX system is TDS-compliant, install the files into $TEXMF/fonts/type1/public/dogma. Download http://ctan.tug.org/install/fonts/psfonts/emigre/dogma.tds.zip and unzip this file in $TEXMF. Add +fdg.map to the configuration files of dvips, pdftex and your dvi previewer. Run updmap and texhash programs to update the configuration files and file names database. The included style dogma.sty adds commands to use the font from LaTeX. NOTE The files were generated using fontinst 1.927. CHANGES v1.1 Added bold letterspaced font v1.2 Changed letterspacing v1.3 Added several letterspaced fonts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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New CTAN package: changepage.sty
by CTAN Announcements 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Peter Wilson wrote: > I have just uploaded changepage.sty to UK incoming. Please add > this to CTAN (under the misc directory?). It is under the LPPL. > > The changepage package is an extract of code from the memoir class > for checking odd/even pages and locally changing the textwidth or page > layout. It is intended that it will eventually replace the chngpage > package (which does the same thing but whose user interface is not the > same as memoir's). i've installed the file at macros/latex/contrib/misc/changepage.sty and made an entry for it in the catalogue. thanks for the upload. (i've also added it to my preparations for a new version of the uk faq.) Potential users may view the catalogue entry at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/changepage.html (when it's been created in the nightly run, between 0000 and 0100 gmt), the may view the file itself at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/changepage.sty (or corresponding addresses at the other main ctan sites, by now). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: txfonts & pxfonts small cap fonts update
by CTAN Announcements 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

The packages below have been updated 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: txfonts & pxfonts small cap fonts update Author's name: Young Ryu Location on CTAN: /fonts/txfonts and fonts/pxfonts Summary description: txfonts & pxfonts small cap fonts update License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The uploaded txpxfonts.zip contains pxfonts/afm/rpxbsc.afm pxfonts/afm/rpxsc.afm pxfonts/pfb/rpxbsc.pfb pxfonts/pfb/rpxsc.pfb txfonts/afm/rtxsc.afm txfonts/afm/rtxsssc.afm txfonts/afm/rtxbsssc.afm txfonts/afm/rtxbsc.afm txfonts/pfb/rtxsc.pfb txfonts/pfb/rtxsssc.pfb txfonts/pfb/rtxbsssc.pfb txfonts/pfb/rtxbsc.pfb Adobe Reader 8 often does not properly display/print small cap letters. The above updates correct this issue. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/txfonts http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/pxfonts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/txfonts http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pxfonts (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: MemoirChapStyles
by CTAN Announcements 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon work 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: MemoirChapStyles Author's name: Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /info/latex-samples/MemoirChapStyles Summary description: Showcase for memoir chapter styles License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A much delayed update to the showcase document. New since last CTAN update: * some of the styles shown in an older version of the document, is now a part of the officiel memoir dist., so the document have been changed accordingly. * added the jenor style If you have any memoir chapterstyle examples you would like to share, please send it to daleif+memoir(a)imf.au.dk. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex-samples/MemoirChapStyles . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/MemoirChapStyles (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: tablor
by CTAN Announcements 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Guillaume Connan submitted an update to the tablor package. The package allows the user to use the computer algebra system XCAS to generate tables of signs and of variations (the actual plotting of the tables uses the MetaPost macro package tableauVariations The tablor package requires that shell escape be enabled. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablor License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Still tablor 2.01 but with an utf-8 version of tablor.sty which fixes a bug with £ and µ characters within a Verbatim Environment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tablor . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tablor (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: mongolian language hyphenation file
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 Batmunkh Dorjgotov submitted an update to the hyphenation file for the mongolian language. Location on CTAN: language/hyphenation/mnhyphn.tex License type: lppl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: xargs
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard submitted an update to the xargs package. The package provides extended versions of ewcommand and related LaTeX commands, which allow easy and robust definition of macros with many optional arguments, using a clear and simple xkeyval-style syntax. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xargs Summary description: extented optional arguments handling License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Two new features: 1. The usedefault key allows you, when using many consecutive optional arguments, to specify a value only for the last one if you want. 2. You can know make gobal (or even protected) definitions easily with the addprefix key. Have fun! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xargs . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=xargs (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: tablor
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 Guillaume Connan submitted an update to the tablor package. The package allows the user to use the computer algebra system XCAS to generate tables of signs and of variations (the actual plotting of the tables uses the MetaPost macro package tableauVariations The tablor package requires that shell escape be enabled. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablor Summary description: Create tables of signs and of variations License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 more environments to study fonctions which derivative has no formal zero. Version 2.01 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tablor . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tablor (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: kpfonts
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '08

24 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: kpfonts Author's name: Caignaert Christophe Location on CTAN: /fonts/kpfonts Summary description: New release of kpfonts License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kpfonts is a very full set of fonts for typesetting text and math. It includes real small caps, all current math symbols (TeX, AMS and more), in normal and bold version. The kepler's project is to provide a large set of options to customize your typesetting. The major release 2.0 gets a 'light' option, with lighter roman fonts and same metrics... This 2.1 release gets: - a new option 'oldstylenums' with oldstyle numbers as default (and nothing else), - a full support of 'textcomp' package. Read the .pdf doc file available in english and in french! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/kpfonts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/kpfonts (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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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: The caption package v3.1g
by CTAN Announcements 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table, and cooperates with many other packages. Includes rotating captions, sideways captions, continued captions (for tables or figures that come in several parts). A list of compatibility notes, for other packages, is provided in the documentation. The package also provides the caption outside float facility, in the same way that simpler packages like capt-of do. The package supersedes caption2. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfix release of the caption package bundle: - Skips are handled correctly now in lstlistings - captionlistentry for longtables: Table counter will not be incremented anymore, ameref works - Starred variant of captionlistentry added - Test for empty caption text improved - fltpage package support revised, bug fixes regarding ContinuedFloat and captionsetup, FPlist=figure used to produce two entries - thesis document class support added - within=section will be handled correctly within book/report classes - Missing options listfigurename= & listtablename= added - KOMA-Script support improved (Thanks to Markus Kohm!) - Improved compatibility: captionsetup{position=b} will be set if the ftcap, nonfloat, or topcapt package is used - Improvement: captionsetup{list=off} is valid for sub-captions, too - Improved support of LTcaptype in longtable, improved longtable* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=caption (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 updatge: pst-func
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pst-func.tgz to the uk mirror. Please replace the > files with the ones in the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/ > > > pst-func is a PSTricks related package for drawing > special mathematical functions like distributions, > polynomials, a.s.o. > > This update has a new macro psBezier, which allows > to plot a Bezier curve from order 1 (two control points) > up to order 9 (10 control points). > See the documentation for more informations. > > pst-func.tex -------- > 0.53 2008-03-21 - added macro psBezier# for Bezier curves of order > #=1...9 with 2..10 pairs of coordinates > 0.52 2008-03-02 - changes macros from SpecialObj to OpenObj, which > allows using the macros inside pscustom > 0.51 2008-02-27 - enable filling support for psIntegral and > psCumIntegral (suggested by Rafal Bartczuk) > > pst-func.pro -------- > 0.08 2008-03-21 added BezierCurve code for Bezier curves of up to > order 9 > 0.07 2007-08-30 new subroutine LogGamma i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue. thanks for the update. users may view the catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-func.html or browse the package directory on the archive at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/ (the catalogue entry will be updated overnight tonight.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Babel release 3.8j
by Johannes L. Braams 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Hi, I have been updating a number of files in the babel distribution. I will keep on doing so for some time to come in order get rid of my back log. I will not announce the update of each individual file, but tpday I prepared version 3.8j of the babel core files. They will be available from CTAN from march 22nd I expect. If you encounter any problems with the new versions, please report that using the regular LaTeX bugs reporting procedures. Kind regards, Johannes Braams

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CTAN package update: vc bundle
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

The package below has been updated here 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: vc bundle Author's name: Stephan Hennig Location on CTAN: /support/vc Summary description: version control for TeX and friends License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The vc bundle ---------------------- 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, Bazaar, Git and Subversion are supported. v0.3 (2008-03-20) ---------------------- New: * Added support for Bazaar. * The vc bundle is now Public Domain. Changes: * Fixed line endings in Unix scripts (solving several issues). * Fixed handling of variable LANG in shell scripts. * Improved documentation: - Added some more Questions and answers. To the CTAN maintainers: Please note the license change! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: chemstyle
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. 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.2a: - Fixed problem with restyling schemes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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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