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CTAN Update: exsheets
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the exsheets package. Summary description: Yet another package for the creation of exercise sheets. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - corrected translation of exercise titles into Catalan - added means to easily create variants of exams ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/exsheets . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/exsheets (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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New on CTAN: aecc
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

Luis Rivera submitted the aecc package to CTAN. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- First release of Almost European Concrete Roman fonts. This is a set of virtual fonts (built from the standard Concrete fonts) providing a set of fonts that almost cover the T1 encoding. The main characters missing, of those specified in the T1 encoding are eth, thorn, and the Sami letter eng. Sometimes the £ (pound sterling) character is also missing. For the typewriter fonts, the situation is worse. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/aecc . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/aecc (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: dirtree
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

the daemon reported: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: dirtree > Author's name: Jean-Côme Charpentier > Package version: 0.32 > Location on CTAN: macros/generic/dirtree/ > Summary description: Display trees in the style of windows explorer. > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The dirtree package provides a macro to typeset directory trees like > in windows explorator. > > This version fixes a bug about length and changes some names in order > to prevent clash with other packages. 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/dirtree.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/dirtree/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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new on CTAN: backnaur
by CTAN Announcements 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

the daemon wrote: > Name of contribution: backnaur > Author's name: Adrian Robson > Author's email: adrian.robson(a)nepsweb.co.uk > Package version: 1.1 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/backnaur > Summary description: Typesetting for Backus-Naur Form (BNF) definitions. > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The backnaur package typesets Backus-Naur Form (BNF) definitions. > It prints formatted lists of productions, with numbers if required. > It can also print in line BNF expressions using math mode. 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/backnaur.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/backnaur/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team users please note: i have taken the brunt of one of the changes to the ctan web site, and have been snowed under with uploads. fortunately, i haven't needed to announce all of them, but there remain several days' announcements.

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New on CTAN: concepts
by CTAN Announcements 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

the daemon told me: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: concepts > Author's name: Michiel Helvensteijn > Package version: 0.0.4 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/concepts/ > Summary description: managing names and symbols of document specific formal concepts > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is the first fully documented version of the concepts > package. Initially written for my own use (as I imagine many > packages are), but I hope it will be useful for many people! > > I'm happy to receive feedback. Preferably in the issue > tracker at: http://latex-concepts.googlecode.com 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/concepts.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/concepts/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team users please note: i have taken the brunt of one of the changes to the ctan web site, and have been snowed under with uploads. fortunately, i haven't needed to announce all of them, but there remain several days' announcements.

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CTAN Update: latexdiff
by CTAN Announcements 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Frederik Tilmann submitted an update to the latexdiff package. Summary description: Determine and mark up significant differences between latex files License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Highlights of the new version are: - Choice of granularity of equation processing allows latexdiff to be used even with complicated changes in complicated equations - Option --flatten now works recursively - Highlighting of changes to the title, author or date of a manuscript, even if defined in the preamble In addition many minor improvements have been made to improve the robustness of the difference file. In addition a dedicated webpage has been created at Berlios Developler site, offering: - mailing lists for users and developers, a system for submitting bug reports and feature requests - an SVN server opening up the possibility of collaborative development See http://latexdiff.berlios.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latexdiff . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexdiff (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: morehype
by CTAN Announcements 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Uwe Lück submitted an update to the morehype package. Summary description: Hypertext tools with LaTeX (hyperref, HTML) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Another fix of `texlinks.sty' v0.7 as of November (-> v0.71). ctanannpref (smart referring to CTAN announcements) gets behaviour according to documentation, as opposed to previous code and my original usage. Tiny documentation fixes (Wikipedia piped links) have been uploaded earlier silently. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/morehype . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/morehype (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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The new www.ctan.org
by CTAN Announcements 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

The CTAN Team is proud to announce the relaunch of the CTAN Web site http://www.ctan.org/ The new site provides the information and functions of the old site in a new look&feel. This is a first step towards an improved user experience. Some of the features of the new site are: * Informative landing page * Improved upload form with forwarding to the master hosts * Browsing of the CTAN tree * Listing, registering and monitoring of the CTAN mirrors * Browsing the Catalogue (packages, authors, topics) * Availability of different skins to suit your taste Most of the existing URLs are preserved. If you encounter any problems report them to webmaster -at- ctan.org. We have established a mailing list for discussions about further development of the site. Thus all feature requests and proposals should go there. Register for this mailing list under https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctanweb Enjoy the new site and keep on TeXing The CTAN Team

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CTAN Update: biblatex-fiwi
by CTAN Announcements 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

Simon Spiegel submitted an update to the biblatex-fiwi package. Summary description: biblatex styles for German humanities – especially film studies License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.2b - fixes two stupid bugs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-fiwi . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-fiwi (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: ocgx
by CTAN Announcements 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

Paul Gaborit submitted an update to the ocgx package. Summary description: The package extends the ocg package, which allows you to create OCGs (Optional Content Groups) in PDF documents. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The ocgx package extends the ocg-p package (previous version extended the ocg package), which allows you to create OCGs (Optional Content Groups) in PDF documents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ocgx . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ocgx (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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