the daemon offers:
> Name of contribution: dejavu
> Author's name: Pavel Farar
> Package version: 2.33
> Location on CTAN: fonts/dejavu
> Summary description: LaTeX support for the DejaVu fonts
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Changed the Em Size in the Type 1 version of the fonts
> from non-standard value 2048 to 1000. This corrects
> problem with weird spacing of letters when xelatex
> used Type 1 version of DejaVu fonts, lualatex was
> Ok. Problem reported by Felix Lehmann.
>
> - The support files were not regenerated, because they are
> created from the TrueType fonts, not from the Type 1
> fonts.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/dejavu.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/dejavu/
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the daemon stirred and cried:
> Name of contribution: pst-vectorian
> Author's name: Patrick Fradin
> Package version: 0.4
> Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-vectorian/
> Summary description: Printing ornaments
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a PSTricks related package for drawing ornaments. The
> documentation is in french, but the examples are self-explanatory
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-vectorian.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-vectorian/
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Dwight Aplevich submitted an update to the
circuit-macros
package.
Summary description: Macros for drawing circuits and other diagrams for LaTeX and the web.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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>From the CHANGES file, Version 7.4:
New macro lthick.
Simplified shadebox.
The ifroff macro renamed to iftpic.
New configuration file m4defaults.m4.
Reworked darrowlibrary for consistency with solid lines and arrows; new macro darc and wrappers
Darc, Darrow, Dline; old version included in olddarrow.m4 to ease transition.
Macros and examples fixed and made more robust for gpic (where possible).
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Rainer Schöpf
Christian Tellechea submitted an update to the
xstring
package.
Summary description: String (token list) manipulation
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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xstring update
v1.7 2013/1/13
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* bugfix: global assignments for groupID (no more save stack-error)
* macros are now long
NOTE: CTAN path changed!
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Bob Tennent submitted an update to the
pmx
package.
Summary description: pre-processor for MusiXTeX
License type: gpl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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Several changes at movement breaks to improve compatibility with M-Tx
and musixlyr.
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Daniel Stender submitted the
xetex-tibetan
package to CTAN.
Summary description: XeTeX input maps for Unicode Tibetan (0F00-0FFF)
License type: lppl
Announcement text: Yes
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Initial release of TECkit input mappings for typesetting of Unicode Tibetan
(0F00-0FFF) with the LateX PDF-engine XeTeX.
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Eduardo C. Lourenço de Lima submitted the
copypaste
package to CTAN.
Summary description: Copy and paste into and across documents
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides a basic framework for copying and pasting content into a
single document, or across different documents. The intended use is to quote an
external document dynamically.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/copypaste
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Qing Lee submitted an update to the
xecjk
package.
Summary description: Support for CJK documents in XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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* Correct the font substitution of CJKfamily.
* Fix a bug in `xeCJKfntef` that makes `hbox`
output weird result.
* Fix an issue that package `xunicode` makes
`
obreakspace` invalidated in non
`UTFencname` encoding.
* Some other minor adjustment.
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the daemon relates the following:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: algorithm2e
> Author's name: Christophe Fiorio
> Package version: 5.0
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/
> Summary description: Floating algorithm environment with algorithmic keywords
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This release 5.0 of algorithm2e package.
> A lot a new features and fixes have been added since last release 3
> years in response to user requests.
> See log for details on what's new. Here are some:
>
> Three major changes:
> - now, when no end keyword is defined in a block macro no empty line is printed
> - SetKwSwith takes now 9 args
> - leIf macro automatically defined by SetKwIF
>
> New features:
> - new macro SetStartEndCondition
> - block markers
> - new environment algomathdisplay
> - new macro SetKwProg
> - new languages: croatian, ngerman, spanish
>
> And some fixes:
> - works now with multicol package
> - problem when numbering line inside until condition
> - dotocloa option
> - uIf and uCase which didn't have same behavior when used with noline, vlined or lined option.
> - fix a bug with Repeat Until command when use with side comment on Until
> - fix a bug with side text of command macro
> - fix a bug with hyperref and chapter definition (thanks to Hubert Meier)
> - fix bugs with l macro and side comment
> - fix non ascii character (utf8 not yet recognized by all latex engine)
> Uploader's additional comments:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a major, stable release answering lot of request and remarks
> made on newsgroup or forums.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/algorithm2e.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/
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