Christian Tellechea submitted an update to the
scratch
package.
Version: 0.32 2017-09-20
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Draw programs like “scratch”
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scratch v0.32
- bugfix: shape of selectmenu inside ovalboxes
- bugfix: fill color of ovallist
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Takayuki Yato submitted an update to the
jfmutil
package.
Version number: 1.1.0
License type: mit
Summary description: Utility to process pTeX-extended TFM and VF
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Add the function to replicate TeX virtual fonts with different names.
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Robert Allgeyer submitted an update to the
novel
package.
Version number: 1.40.1 2017-09-20
License type: lppl1.3c ofl
Summary description: Class for printing fiction, such as novels
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Minor improvements to docs and code.
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Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
xsim
package.
Version number: 0.10 2017-09-19
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: eXercise Sheets IMproved
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v0.8b 2017/05/23 - use printgoal in default environment template
- xsim_print_goal:nnn now expands input to a number
v0.9 2017/06/20 - xsimstyle's behaviour now matches the description in
the manual
- add style file `layouts' which at the moment provides the
two exercise templates `runin' and `margin'
- printforexercises , xsim_print_type_code:nnnnn
- IfExerciseParameterSetTF
- GetExerciseParameterTF
- change syntax of SetExerciseProperty
- SetExpandedExerciseProperty
- ExerciseSetProperty, ExerciseSetExpandedProperty
- property `sectioning'
- IfExistSolutionTF
v0.10 2017/09/19 - xsim_input:nnn
- GetExerciseBody
- option `blank/fill'
- bug fix in xsim_start_collection:nn
- added further examples to package
- new option `file-extension'
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Michal Zeman submitted an update to the
fnspe
package.
Version number: 1.2a 2017-09-20
License type: lppl
Summary description: Macros for supporting mainly students of FNSPE CTU in
Prague
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Improved subscription
Added macro for natural number including zero
Added macro for floor and ceiling functions
Added two options for definition operator
Added macro for set of 1,2,...,n and 0,1,...,n
Added macro for differentiably class (just symbol, with infinity, with
parameter of order)
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Herbert Voß submitted the
spark-otf
package.
Version number: 0.01
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Support OpenType Spark fonts
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Package spark-otf supports the free fonts from
After the Flood which are available from the
website http://aftertheflood.co
Following font files are supported:
- Spark - Bar - Medium.otf
- Spark - Bar - Narrow.otf
- Spark - Bar - Thin.otf
- Spark - Dot-line - Medium.otf
- Spark - Dot - Medium.otf
- Spark - Dot - Small.otf
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The LaTeX3 Project submitted an update to the
l3kernel + l3packages + l3experimental
package.
Version number: 2017-09-18
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
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- Rename ox_use_clear:N to ox_use_drop:N as this command has
non-standard grouping behaviour
- New inteval command in xfp
- New c_catcode_active_space_tl
- Fix bug with color code when current@color is not a simple
string
- Fix behaviour of sys_rand_seed: in engines without the
underlying random number primitives
- Allow only INT powers for negative bases in floating point
expressions
- Various documentation improvements
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Scott Pakin submitted an update to the
bytefield
package.
Version number: 2.4
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Create illustrations for network protocol
specifications
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The bytefield package helps the user create illustrations for network
protocol specifications and anything else that utilizes fields
of data. These illustrations show how the bits and bytes are laid out in
a packet, register, or memory.
Version 2.4 makes bytefield robust to changes in aselinestretch.
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Javier Bezos López submitted an update to the
babel
package.
Version: 3.13 2017-09-18
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Multilingual support for Plain TeX or LaTeX
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- Existing ldf files take priority over declared options
with DeclareOption (except hebrew).
- With a few exceptions, ini files have reached version 1.0.
- New key `import' for abelprovide, which also defines dates.
This means babel currently provides (total or partial) support
for about 200 languages. Many of them are usable with XeTeX
and LuaTeX.
Current development is focused on Unicode engines, mainly
font handling and bidi writing.
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Herbert Voß submitted an update to the
pstricks-add
package.
Version number: 3.84 2017-09-18
License type: lppl
Summary description: A collection of add-ons and bugfixes for PSTricks
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This version has a new macro psRandomPoinArea to draw random points in a
square qhich is devided by a function.
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