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CTAN update: The lhfonts package 3.5b
by CTAN Announcements 29 May '06

29 May '06

On Sun, 28 May 2006, Olga Lapko submitted an update to the lh package. The LH fonts address the problem of the wide variety of alphabets that are written with Cyrillic-style characters. The fonts are the original basis of the set of T2* and X2 encodings that are now used when LaTeX users need to write in Cyrillic languages. The fonts are available in Adobe Type 1 format, in the CM-Super family of fonts. Location on CTAN: fonts/cyrillic/lh Summary description: Cyrillic fonts with support of LaTeX standard encodings License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes: - Corrected the width of letters ZHE_dsc and K_dsc (file lgt2upu.mf) (to restore 3.4 widths): the font metric of fonts (of already existing letters) are going to be stable. - Small changes in documentations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Word2LaTeX
by CTAN Announcements 29 May '06

29 May '06

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Ingo H. de Boer submitted verison 1.1 of the word2latex package. He writes: > I am happy to announce the wsW2LTX 1.1 Release. > I have uploaded the complete files to > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/word2latex/ > > please replace all the files in > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/support/word2latex/ > > The licence is 'nosource' > > thanks & greets > Ingo > > ####################################### > > The wsW2LTX library is an application programming interface (API) > designed to translate a MS Word document to LaTeX. > The library is based on libwv and on several other -- mostly Unix based -- > libraries. > > ####################################### > > The update from 1.0 to 1.1 contains minor bug fixes. > _______________________________________________ Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: WinShell 3.1
by CTAN Announcements 29 May '06

29 May '06

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Ingo H. de Boer submitted version 3.1 of the winshell package. He writes: > I am happy to announce the WinShell 3.1 Release. > I have uploaded the complete files to > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell/ > > please replace all the files in > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell/ > > The licence is 'nosource' > > thanks & greets > Ingo > > ####################################### > > WinShell is a free multilingual integrated development environment (IDE) for > LaTeX and TeX. The program includes a text editor, syntax highlighting, > project management, spell checking, a table wizard, BibTeX support, different > toolbars and user configuration options. It is not a LaTeX system; an > additional LaTeX package is required. > > ####################################### > WinShell 3.1 major BugFixes/Features to version 3.0 > > - Brazilian-Portuguese, Catalan, Hungarian, Mexican-Spanish > and Turkish language support > - The log window couldn't handle huge log files > - Fix of brace matching in DBCS files (due to new Scintilla library) > - Search in files dialog > - Activation of last active project on WinShell start up > - Unicode support; Automatic conversion of UTF-8 files > - Jumping to error line by double clicking in Output Window > or automatic jumping > - <sel> tag in macro to replace a selected text > - Redesign of the menu and toolbars > - Redesign of the Project Window > - Redesign of the Output Window > - Redesign of the log file parsing > - Redesign of the Fonts dialog > - Redesign of the Syntax highlighting dialog Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: showlabels 1.6
by CTAN Announcements 26 May '06

26 May '06

digested by my upload daemon, Norman Gray writes: > Name of contribution: showlabels 1.6 > Author's name: Norman Gray > Author's email: ... > Location on CTAN: latex/contrib/showlabels (replacing current version) > Summary description: put the names of labels and other commands > into the margins of a draft document > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This package helps you keep track of all the labels you define, by > putting the name of new labels into the margin whenever the > label command is used. > > The package allows you to do the same thing for other commands, such as > the ef or egin commands. > > (1.6 is an enhancement release: the package will now work for alternative > commands which have optional arguments) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the new version and triggered mirroring, and i have updated the catalogue entry. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: tugboat macros
by CTAN Announcements 26 May '06

26 May '06

The package described below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: tugboat Author's name: karl berry Location on CTAN: /macros/plain/contrib/tugboat Summary description: tugboat and ltugboat macro updates License type: dfsg Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Small updates to both the plain and LaTeX style files for TUGboat: additional abbreviations, hyphenation exceptions, assorted compatibility, licensing, and other bug fixes. Please email tugboat(a)tug.org if questions about the macros, or especially if you have ideas for articles! http://tug.org/TUGboat ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/tugboat . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: visualtex
by CTAN Announcements 25 May '06

25 May '06

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: visualtex Author's name: Alex Romanenko Location on CTAN: /systems/win32/visualtex Summary description: Major update for visualtex License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Project functions are added for usual file management. Some interface features are changed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/visualtex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: guit
by CTAN Announcements 24 May '06

24 May '06

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Emanuele Vicentini submitted an update for the guit package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/GuIT Summary description: Macros for typesetting the GuIT logo License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Guit provides some commands useful to correctly write the logo of Gruppo Utilizzatori Italiani di TeX (Italian TeX User Group), using the default document color or any other color the user may ever choose, in conformity with logo's scheme as seen on the Group site (http://www.guit.sssup.it). Likewise, commands are available that simplify the writing of GuIT acronym's complete expansion, of the addresses of Group's internet site and public forum, the meeting GuITmeeting and magazine Ars TeXnica's logo. Optionally, using hyperref, the outputs of the above cited commands can become hyperlinks to Group's site (http://www.guit.sssup.it). Documentation available in Italian only. Changes in this version 0.8.2 (2005/04/08) o New configuration file o New command: DeclareGuITLogoCommand o Changed default logo's color Changes in this version 0.9 (2006/05/24) o Commands can now use keys defined with xkeyval and have some new features o New command: setupGuIT o Removed command swapGuITcommands o xcolor is now required o New command: GuITtextEn o GuIT now works also with fseries for most of the supported fonts o Ars TeXnica's logo commands have been incorporated ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.51
by CTAN Announcements 23 May '06

23 May '06

On Tue, 23 May 2006, John Burt submitted an update to the poemscol package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol Summary description: macros for critical editions of poetry License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.51 adds commands to support multiple indices and compatibility with splitindex. Better multilingual support (e.g. titles of sections such as Table of Contents and Textual Notes can be easily changed), new commands for marginal references, new title commands that include marginal references, many small bug fixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: lewis
by CTAN Announcements 23 May '06

23 May '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: lewis Author's name: Kent Horvath Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/lewis Summary description: Lewis Structures Package License type: pd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Provides rudimentary support for drawing Lewis Structures. Limited to elements that obey the octet rule. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lewis . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: TpX
by CTAN Announcements 22 May '06

22 May '06

The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: TpX Author's name: Alexander Tsyplakov Location on CTAN: /graphics/tpx Summary description: TpX 1.3 License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TpX 1.3 is on CTAN TpX is a lightweight, easy-to-use graphical editor for Windows platform for creation of drawings and inclusion them into LaTeX files in publication-ready form. It can also be used as a stand-alone editor for vector graphics. The output is a file (with extension .TpX) containing the drawing as LaTeX code or as an includegraphics link to an external file created by the program. User can choose between several output formats. TpX saves its own data in TeX file comments so that the drawing could be loaded into TpX and edited again. This internal TpX format is based on XML and could be understood and edited easily. TpX can import EMF/WMF pictures created by other Windows applications, including many applications producing scientific graphs. It also can import simple SVG pictures. In most cases the result is nice, though sometimes imported picture needs some manual editing. So TpX can be used as a EMF-to-any and SVG-to-any converter. Homepage: http://tpx.sourceforge.net/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/tpx . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: pedigree-perl
by CTAN Announcements 22 May '06

22 May '06

The package described below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should by now be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Pedigree-perl Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pedigree/pedigree-perl Summary description: A Program for Generation of TeX Pedigrees From CSV Files License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This program generates TeX commands to typeset pedigrees - either TeX fragments of full LaTeX files. It has support for multilanguage pedigrees (at the present moment English and Russian languages are supported). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pedigree/pedigree… . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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-pdgr
by CTAN Announcements 22 May '06

22 May '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should be at your favorite mirror by now. Thanks, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: pst-pdgr Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pedigree/pst-pdgr Summary description: Package for Creating Medical Pedigree with PSTricks and LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is a set of macros based on PSTricks to draw medical pedigrees according to the recommendations for standardized human pedigree nomenclature. The drawing commands place the symbols on a pspicture canvas. An interface for making trees is also provided. The package can be used both with LaTeX and PlainTeX. A separate Perl program for generating TeX files from spreadsheets is provided in the sibling directory on CTAN. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pedigree/pst-pdgr . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: bghyphen
by Robin Fairbairns 21 May '06

21 May '06

my upload daemon quoth: > An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20060521-132811/ > > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: bghyphen > Author's name: Georgi Boshnakov > Author's email: ... > Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/language/hyphenation/ > Summary description: Bulgarian hyphenation patterns for LaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > These files provide support for hyphenation of text written in > Bulgarian. To use with Babel, simply drop the .tex files in an > appropriate place, tell babel that bghyphen.tex is the hyphenation > file for Bulgarian, and produce new format files. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the files as suggested (in ctan directory language/hyphenation/bghyphen), and pushed the mirrors. the upload will be available at the other ctan sites in a few hours, and will appear at mirrors later. i've catalogued the submission: the catalogue entry will appear overnight. thanks for the upload, georgi! note: there are earlier versions of bghypen.tex and bghyphsi.tex already on ctan (in macros/latex/required/babel); for various tedious technical reasons we shan't be able to remove those files for a few days. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: RFIL - Ruby font installer library
by CTAN Announcements 19 May '06

19 May '06

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Patrick Gundlach submitted a new package rfil to CTAN. Name of contribution: RFIL - Ruby font installer library Author's name: Patrick Gundlach Location on CTAN: support/rfil Summary description: Experimental initial release of a new font installer library License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ruby font installer library (RFIL) is another attempt on font installation for TeX fonts. It consists of a set of example programs and several libraries for doing font related tasks, such as read/write tfm, afm, vf and enc files, creating font metrics, doing calculations and alike. The software is all written in Ruby. It is hosted at https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/rfil/ where it is documented. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pdftex.def v0.03q
by CTAN Announcements 18 May '06

18 May '06

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the pdftex.def file. Location on CTAN: graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def > Latest changes: > > % 2006/05/17 v0.03q > % * Error message if ConTeXt's supp-pdf.tex is missing and > % support of MPS files is not available (Markus Kohm, HO). Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: SkakNew fonts
by CTAN Announcements 17 May '06

17 May '06

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ulrich Dirr submitted an update to the skaknew package. This package contains the fonts from the skak package (metafont) as Postscript fonts. Location on CTAN: fonts/chess/skaknew License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 1.3 of SkakNew-Diagram and SkakNew-DiagramT. I have added some character 'masks' for use with the new version of chessfss and chessboard by Ulrike Fischer. Their main task is for separately colouring borders, fields, character outlines, and character inlines. For more information see the documentation of the resp. styles. PDFs showing the font layout are supplied. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: References v4.3
by CTAN Announcements 16 May '06

16 May '06

On Sun, 14 May 2006, Volker Kiefel submitted an update to the references package. Location on CTAN: support/references License: gpl Summary: REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of scientific manuscripts and for management of bibliographic data of ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, of BOOKS, of CHAPTERS IN BOOKS and other document types including notes and electronic documents. REFERENCES supports LaTeX including BibTeX. Bibliographic records in MEDLINE format are easily imported. Retrieval of references is possible by keywords, authors' or editors' names, date of publication, title of article, book title, journal name and other data fields. Lists of references and formatted citations in the text can be compiled in any bibliographic style required by the publishers of scientific journals. REFERENCES is provided with a text based console interface compiled for win32-systems and as Linux port. An external text editor is required for editing data. Changes: Beginning with v4.3, References is provided as win32 application and it comprises a Linux port. Encoding of the internal data representation and of .arr, .fd and text files has been changed. Minor bugs have been removed. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: hyperxmp
by CTAN Announcements 16 May '06

16 May '06

The package described below has just been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Scott, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: hyperxmp Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/hyperxmp Summary description: Embed XMP metadata within a LaTeX document License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform) is a mechanism proposed by Adobe for embedding document metadata within the document itself. The metadata is designed to be easy to extract, even by programs that are oblivious to the document's file format. Most of Adobe's applications store XMP metadata when saving files. Now, with the hyperxmp package, it is trivial for LaTeX document authors to store XMP metadata in their documents as well. hyperxmp integrates seamlessly with hyperref and requires virtually no modifications to documents that already exploit hyperref's mechanisms for specifying PDF metadata. The current version of hyperxmp can embed the following metadata as XMP: author, title, subject, keywords, copyright, and license URL. hyperxmp currently embeds XMP only within PDF documents but is compatible with pdflatex, latex+dvipdfm, and latex+dvips+ps2pdf. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperxmp . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: CMS4talks
by CTAN Announcements 15 May '06

15 May '06

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Olle Nebendahl submitted a new package called cms4talks to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /support/cms4talks Summary description: Content Management System for Talks License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a small tool written in Java enhancing the searching within and rearanging of bigger collections of talks (and slides) written in LaTeX. It requires Java 1.5 (tested) but should work with older versions and requires MySQL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: The caption package v3.0j
by CTAN Announcements 14 May '06

14 May '06

On Sat, 13 May 2006 Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table and cooperates with many other packages. This is a bugfix release of the caption package 3.0: - piccaption from the picins package now produces a non-empty entry in the list of figures - Bugfix in ProcessOptionsWithKV: Only those global options which have a default value will be processed now - Bugfix in captionabove+below: Will not be overwritten by captionsetup[...]{position=...} anymore (See changelog for details.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN package update: alphabib
by CTAN Announcements 14 May '06

14 May '06

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: alphabib Author's name: Mael Hilléreau Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/alphabib Summary description: Add alphabetical headers into citations License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a major release. ibitem commands are now handled much more cleanly. All standard styles as well as other styles which produce ibitem commands in a specific way (such as frplainnat.bst) should now be supported. Fixed a bug occurring while using an input file without BibTeX entries. Names with a von part such as Ludwig van Beethoven are now handled properly, and the two sorting policies regarding relevant entries are supported through the -s option. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/alphabib . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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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dante.ctan.org out of service 2006-05-16/17
by ctan-ann＠dante.de 12 May '06

12 May '06

The main CTAN node dante.ctan.org (a.k.a. ftp.dante.de) will be out of service between 2006-05-16 19:00 and 2006-05-17 07:00 UTC, due to changes to the technical infrastructure. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: A Classic Thesis Style
by CTAN Announcements 12 May '06

12 May '06

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should already be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: A Classic Thesis Style Author's name: André Miede Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis Summary description: Update of classicthesis License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update of classicthesis: fixes many little bugs and annoyances (please see prodvided CHANGES file). Most important change: the look-and-feel can now be used without the bundle and works for both LaTeX and PDFLaTeX. :-) Thanks to all the folks who already sent me a postcard! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .

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CTAN update: svninfo
by CTAN Announcements 12 May '06

12 May '06

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Achim D. Brucker submitted an update to the svninfo package, a package for incorporating the values of Subversion keywords into typeset documents. Information about Subversion (a replacement for CVS) is available from http://subversion.tigris.org/'>http://subversion.tigris.org/ Location on CTAN: /tex/macros/latex/contrib/svninfo/ Summary description: A package for accessing svn revision information License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release adds special support for multi-file documents, i.e., svnInfoMinRevision and svnMaxRevision allows one to access the minimum and maximum revision numbers of such a document. Using the new package option revrange a short revision overview similar to the svnversion command of svn is generated. Furhter, are now allowed in expaned svn keywords. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: ConTeXt
by CTAN Announcements 11 May '06

11 May '06

The ConTeXt package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: ConTeXt Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: /macros/context/current Summary description: ConTeXt 2006.05.11 released License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors, as well as a CTAN node near you. The current release has version 2006.05.11 A very short list of changes is given below. As usual, there is an html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes Most important New features (since April, 24): * Integrated support for XeTeX on Linux * The Ruby scripts are now preferred over the perl ones * The included pattern files now use UTF-8 encoding * Automatic handling of UTF-8 Byte Order Marks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/context/current . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: opteng
by CTAN Announcements 11 May '06

11 May '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: opteng Author's name: Patrick Egan Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/opteng Summary description: SPIE Optical Engineering and OE Letters manuscript template License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- With this template, and associated style and LaTeX packages, it is possible to estimate the page length of manuscripts for submission to the SPIE journals extit{Optical Engineering} and extit{Optical Engineering Letters}. With a strict three-page limit, this is particularly important for the latter. This template gives simple instructions on how to prepare the manuscript. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/opteng . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: listings
by CTAN Announcements 10 May '06

10 May '06

A package update has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: listings Author's name: Brooks Moses Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/listings Summary description: Typeset source code listings using LaTeX. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Typeset programs (programming code) within LaTeX. The source code is read directly by TeX. Keywords, comments and strings can be typeset using different styles (default is bold for keywords, italic for comments and no special style for strings). Includes support for hyperref. To use, simply usepackage{listings}, identify the language with lstset{language=Python}, then employ the egin{lstlisting} ... end{lstlisting} environment or the lstinputlisting{filename.py} command. NOTE: The original author of this package, Carsten Heinz, became inactive sometime in late 2004. Hendri Adriaens took over maintenance of the package in accordance with the LPPL's procedure for abandoned packages. He then passed the maintainership of the package to Brooks Moses, who had volunteered for the position while this procedure was going through. This release, version 1.3c, is not yet the long awaited bugfix release, as the new maintainer (Brooks Moses) has neither a list of reported bugs nor a good test suite to use to check to make sure that the fixes don't break other things. Thus, he asks that users email him reports of any outstanding bugs that they are aware of, as well as examples of interesting uses of listings that should go into the test suite. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/ . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: tabto.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 10 May '06

10 May '06

Donald Arseneau writes: > I've uploaded tabto.sty to ac.uk. > > It is a new package, sort of a merger of tabto.tex and > varindent.tex providing: > > Tabbing to fixed positions in a paragraph. > Commands abto ( abto*) and ab. > > It is LPPL. It could go in macros/latex/contrib/misc or have > its own directory created. i've installed the files (tabto.sty and tabto.txt) in a new directory macros/latex/contrib/tabto thanks for the upload: i'll update the catalogue for the overnight run. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: exceltex
by CTAN Announcements 09 May '06

09 May '06

A package has been (after some bumbling on my part) updated at tug.ctan.org and by now has likely made it to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: exceltex Author's name: Hans-Peter Doerr Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/exceltex Summary description: get data from Excel files into LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Exceltex is a LaTeX package combined with a helper program written in Perl. It provides a easy to use yet powerfull and flexible way to get data from Spreadsheets into LaTeX. In difference to other existing solutions, exceltex does not seek for making the creation of tables in LaTeX easier, but to get data from Spreadsheets into LaTeX as easy as possible. The excel fileformat only acts as an interface between the spreadsheet application and exceltex beacause it is easily accessible via the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Perl module and because most spreadsheet applications are able to read and write excel files. * changes since last ctan-upload - changed commandline interface - support for configuration files - support for some character encodings, currently latin1 latin9 and utf8 - experimental support for the EURP currency symbol * homepage http://www.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~doerr/exceltex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/exceltex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: microtype
by CTAN Announcements 06 May '06

06 May '06

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the update, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: microtype Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 1.9d ======================== * Support for the Central European QX encoding (inheritance, generic protrusion settings, contributed by Maciej Eder; protrusion settings for Times) * Protrusion settings for various Euro symbol fonts (Adobe, ITC, Marvosym) * Compatibility with the tex4ht package * Support for Unicode input in the configuration (inputenc/utf8) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: Beamer LaTeX class tutorial (in portuguese)
by CTAN Announcements 06 May '06

06 May '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Beamer LaTeX class tutorial (in portuguese) Author's name: Carlos Campani Location on CTAN: /info/portuguese/beamer Summary description: Beamer tutorial License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A short introduction to Beamer class for LaTeX2e. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/portuguese/beamer . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: titlepage-uni-dortmund
by CTAN Announcements 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 Gerd Sebastiani submitted a new package titlepage-uni-dortmund to CTAN. Locatoin on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/titlepage-uni-dortmund Summary description: Titlepage for University of Dortmund License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package introduces a titlepage layout to be used at the University of Dortmund (UDO). The implementation involves a usual LATEX-document in addition to the general setup of the package. Please note that this is the first version of the UDO title, thus errors unknown to the developer may occur. Therefore the use of this package is at your own risk. The author rejects any responsibility for loss of code, data, or unexpected results. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN has a new package: cursolatex
by CTAN Announcements 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeX slides (in portuguese) Author's name: Carlos Campani Location on CTAN: /info/portuguese/cursolatex Summary description: LaTeX slides License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A set of slides for a short course about LaTeX (in portuguese). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/portuguese/cursolatex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: Xy-pic tutorial
by CTAN Announcements 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Xy-pic tutorial (in portuguese) Author's name: Carlos Campani Location on CTAN: /info/xypic-tutorial Summary description: Xy-pic tutorial License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A tutorial of the Xy-pic graphics package for LaTeX. Xy-pic provides a powerful graphics language for technical diagrams. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/xypic-tutorial . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: mkbangtex
by CTAN Announcements 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: mkbangtex Author's name: Koushik Ray Location on CTAN: /language/bengali/mkbangtex Summary description: mkbangtex --- preprocessor for BangTeX License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mkbangtex (Version 1.0) is a Python code that creates a BangTeX file from a Bengali document written phonetically in Roman script. It has been tested with Python 2.4.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/bengali/mkbangtex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: CTAN next week
by CTAN Announcements 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

With two central members of the CTAN team absent and the third extremely busy, response to requests in the period from 1 to 5 May (in particular) is likely to be even more than usually sluggish. The Cambridge server will shut down its upload mechanisms, but will continue to serve files by ftp or http. We apologise in advance for any difficulties users may experience: we will restore service as quickly as possible. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: thuthesis
by CTAN Announcements 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at the mirror that you like the best. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: thuthesis Author's name: Ruini Xue Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/thuthesis Summary description: Thesis template for Tsinghua University. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ThuThesis is a LaTeX thesis template package for Tsinghua University in order to make it easy to write thesises for either bachelor, master or doctor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/thuthesis . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: sort-by-letters
by CTAN Announcements 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

The package described below has been installed on tug.ctn.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sort-by-letters.zip Author's name: Thomas van Oudenhove Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/sort-by-letters Summary description: some bibliography styles for a sorting by letter License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This archive contains several bibliography styles for separating the references by the first letter of the first author/editor in the bibliography. These styles are adapted from standard ones or natbib ones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/sort-by-letters . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: chessboard
by CTAN Announcements 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: chessboard Author's name: Ulrike Fischer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chessboard Summary description: A package to print chessboards. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package offers commands to print chessboards. It can print partial boards, hide pieces and fields, color the boards and put various marks on the board. It has a lot of options to place pieces on the board. Using exotic pieces e.g. for fairy chess is possible. It can be used together with the skak package which you can find at http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex-skak/. REQUIREMENTS chessboard uses some primitives of eTeX. It needs a recent version of chessfss and xkeyval. It also needs the packages pgfcore and pgfbaseshapes (from the pgf bundle), and pst-node (from pstricks). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chessboard . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: boxhandler
by CTAN Announcements 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 Steven B. Segletes submitted the new package boxhandler to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/boxhandler Summary description: Flexible Captioning and Deferred Box/List Printing License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a powerful, yet simple, interface for managing and manipulating the captions of boxed objects (e.g., tables and figures). In addition to providing wide flexibility in the presentation style of the captions, this package, when used in combination with conditionally compiled LaTeX source codes, provides the ability to defer or preempt the presentation of figures, tables, and their associated lists. In this way, one can, for example, by changing a single line of source code in the .tex file, change the output of LaTeX from a technical report with tables and figures interspersed in the text, to a journal-manuscript submission, with figures collected at the end of document, as well as lof and lot deferred or preempted. Run `boxhandler.ins' through LaTeX to produce boxhandler.sty from boxhandler.dtx. Run `boxhandler.dtx' through LaTeX to produce the documentation. This program can be redistributed and/or modified, with attribution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN update: pst-func package
by Robin Fairbairns 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

Herbert Voss writes: > I have uploaded pst-func.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please delete _all_ files in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/ > and put the new ones in there. > > This new version has: > ..... pst-func.tex > 0.45 2006-04-22 added psplotImp for plotting implicit > defined functions (experimental), > the options algebraic (pstricks-add) > and polarplot can be used > accept plotstyle curve for psBinomialN > new option barwidth for psBinomial > new macros psBinomial and psBinomialN > for the (normalized) binomial distribution > new macros psCumIntegral, psIntegral > psConv > > ..... pst-func.sty > 2004-10-18 first version > 2006-04-22 add pst-func.pro to the filelist > > > ..... pst-func.pro > 0.06 2006-04-16 new subroutine MoverN (binomial coefficient) i have installed the new version. thanks for the upload. >From the catalogue: Pst-func is a package built for use with PSTricks. It provides macros for plotting various mathematical functions. Polynomials and their derivatives $f(x)=an*x^n+an-1*x^(n-1)+...+a0$ defined by the coefficients a0 a1 a2 ... and the derivative order; the Fourier sum $f(x) = a0/2+a1cos(omega x)+...+b1sin(omega x)+...$ defined by the coefficients a0 a1 a2 ... b1 b2 b3 ...; the Bessel function defined by its order; and the Gauss function defined by sigma. i need to add more to the catalogue: that will happen later today, in time for nightly updates. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: AddTeX2Eps
by CTAN Announcements 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

A new package has been put into place at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favirote mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: AddTeX2Eps Author's name: Janko Slavic Location on CTAN: /graphics/AddTeX2Eps Summary description: Package for using native LaTeX syntax on eps figures directly from Mathematica License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package for using native LaTeX syntax on eps figures directly from Mathematica AddTeX2Eps calls latex.exe and dvips.exe and makes use of psfrag package (needs to be installed). default.tex is the LaTeX template where you can add packages and define your own LaTeX commands. Copy default.tex and AddTeX2Eps.m to ..AddOnsStandardPackagesGraphics or to search path. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/AddTeX2Eps . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: polynom v0.17
by CTAN Announcements 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Hendri Adriaens submitted an update to the polynom package by Carsten Heinz. Because Carsten Heinz could not be reached anymore for a long time, this package has been taken over according to the LPPL for maintenance by Hendri Adriaens on 2006/04/20. This package was using and redefining internals of the keyval package and hence it was incompatible with xkeyval. This problem has been solved and the processing of the vars key has been simplified. All other things are left as the original by Carsten Heinz. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: TeXShell32
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Dirk Struve submitted an update to the texshell32 package. It is a new release of the Windows TeXShell WinTeXShell32. License: GPL Noticeable new features: - Unicode support - Support for spell checking (ispell, aspell) on Win 2000 and XP ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: dateiliste
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Paul Ebermann submitted an update to the package dateiliste The package provides a file list (similar to that offered by listfiles), neatly laid out as a table. The main document can be included in the list, and a command is available for providing RCS-maintained data for printing in the file list. Location on CTAN: /macros/contrib/dateiliste License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update (v0.2) lets mainFileToList now also work without eTeX, thanks to an entry in the UK TeX FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: aurical
by CTAN Announcements 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Christian Gollwitzer submitted an update to the aurical package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/aurical Summary description: Update of aurical: Two additional calligraphic fonts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a major upgrade of the package aurical. In addition to improvements of the kerning tables and some glyphs of AuriocusKalligraphicus, two new calligraphic fonts have been added: * LukasSvatba resembles a 16th century handwritten Bastarda. It has a variant with a long s for mediaeval writing. * JanaSkrivana is an elegant cursive handwriting font with strong variations of the stroke width. All three fonts cover the whole glyphset of the Cork/T1 encoding. Installation is now made easy by a single zip archive, that can be extracted directly into the TEXMFLOCAL directory. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: tug.ctan.org site will not be working for a while
by CTAN Announcements 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

I believe that http://tug.ctan.org is back. I would appreciate an email if someone notices a remaining problem. I will leave a small notice up on the home page for a day or two. The major reason for the outage was a software upgrade that should improve our ability to gather and maintain metadata. In particular, there is an improved upload facility that will allow contributers to directly edit package descriptions, etc. These scripts should emerge from testing in the coming weeks. Allow me, please, a thanks. Part of the upgrade -- the part I was scratching my head about -- involved putting a version 8 of the database PostgreSQL onto my Debian system (Sarge stable now has a version 7). While I was aware that magical things can be done with apt-get, dpkg, etc., I didn't personally know how to do them. Then I found Vadim Kutchin's article http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/373 and it was perfect. Of course, CTAN is built on the contibutions of many people so in some ways I am not surprised at his generosity in publishing the steps, but wow was I glad when that article title showed in Google! Jim Hefferon St Michael's College

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CTAN package update: nomentbl
by CTAN Announcements 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you Brian, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: nomentbl Author's name: Brian Elmegaard Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nomentbl/ Summary description: package for typesetting a nomenclature in a longtable License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A new version of nomentbl, a package that typesets a nomencalture in a longtable environment. The package has been updated to be used with version 4.2 of the nomencl and a few new features have been added. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nomentbl/ . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: poemscol 2.48
by CTAN Announcements 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, John Burt submitted an update to the poemscol package. Poemscol is a set of LaTeX macros for typesetting critical editions of poetry. Its features include automatic linenumbering, generation of separate endnotes sections for emendations, textual collations, and explanatory notes, special marking for cases in which page breaks occur during stanza breaks, running headers of the form ``Notes to pp. xx--yy''for the notes sections, index of titles and first lines, and automatic generation of table of contents. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixed a bug intoduced in 2.38 which caused marginal line numbers occasionally to drift up a point. Added commands for marginal references on the same lines as poem titles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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