Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
nicetext
package.
Summary description: Minimal markup for documentation, text filtering, ...
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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* `makedoc.cfg' (documentation settings and utilities)
enhanced (`filedate', code input), documented in
`makedoc.pdf'
* `mdoccorr.cfg' (typographical replacement rules)
code more readable (in `makedoc.pdf' as well)
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Rainer Schöpf
Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
fileinfo
package.
Summary description: enhanced display of LaTeX file information
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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`fileinfo' r0.8a has
* `readprov.sty' v0.4 sensible of `filedate''s (v0.4)
FileDateAutoChecks and NoFileDateAutoChecks
(just by reimplementation, no change of user commands)
* more `filedate' tricks in `gather.tex' (see example in
`myfilist.pdf'), `myfilist.tex', and `readprov.tex',
supported by new `makedoc.cfg' from `nicetext'.
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Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
filedate
package.
Summary description: Access/compare LaTeX file info and modification dates
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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`filedate' v0.4 as of 2012-11-11 has
* FileDateAutoChecks after which each Provides...
checks info date against its pdffilemoddate
* FileDateAutoChecks* additionally checking dates
of main file (hopefully jobname.tex)
* NoFileDateAutoChecks restoring the original behaviour
of Provides..., e.g., for files whose original time
stamp has not been preserved in copying/sending
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Rainer Schöpf
the daemon cries:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: flowfram
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Package version: 1.14
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/flowfram/
> Summary description: Create text frames for posters, brochures or magazines
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> * Now loads xkeyval rather than keyval
>
> * Now loads xfor and etoolbox
>
> * Added new package options:
>
> - verbose (mainly for debugging messages)
>
> - thumbtabs (key=value option replacing options ttbtitle,
> ttbnotitle, ttbnum and ttbnonum)
>
> - pages
>
> * Changed the following package options to boolean key=value
> (missing value assumed true, providing backward compatibility):
>
> - rotate
>
> - color
>
> * Made usedframebreaktrue global in definition of framebreak
>
> * Added usedframebreaktrue to definition of
ewpage
>
> * New counter: absolutepage (keeps track of physical page rather
> than page number given by c@page).
>
> * Added pre-chapter hook ffprechapterhook
>
> * Added page exclusion list.
>
> * New commands to set page list and page exclusion list:
>
> - flowsetpagelist
> - flowsetexclusion
> - flowaddexclusion
> - dynamicsetpagelist
> - dynamicsetexclusion
> - dynamicaddexclusion
> - staticsetpagelist
> - staticsetexclusion
> - staticaddexclusion
>
> * New commands to make it easier to switch frames on and off
> on-the-fly:
>
> - flowswitchonnext
> - flowswitchoffnext
> - flowswitchonnextonly
> - flowswitchoffnextonly
> - flowswitchonnextodd
> - flowswitchoffnextodd
> - flowswitchonnextoddonly
> - flowswitchoffnextoddonly
>
> - dynamicswitchonnext
> - dynamicswitchoffnext
> - dynamicswitchonnextonly
> - dynamicswitchoffnextonly
> - dynamicswitchonnextodd
> - dynamicswitchoffnextodd
> - dynamicswitchonnextoddonly
> - dynamicswitchoffnextoddonly
>
> - staticswitchonnext
> - staticswitchoffnext
> - staticswitchonnextonly
> - staticswitchoffnextonly
> - staticswitchonnextodd
> - staticswitchoffnextodd
> - staticswitchonnextoddonly
> - staticswitchoffnextoddonly
>
> - ffaddtoadjustframeshook
>
> * Added fftolerance (now only warns about moving to unequal width
> frame if width difference is greater than tolerance).
>
> * Added optional argument to @sf@chckifthispg and
> @df@chckifthispg
>
> * Bug fixes:
>
> - removed unwanted spaces caused by eol character
>
> - added check for non-void boxes.
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/flowfram.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/flowfram/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: cabin
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Package version: 2012-11-09
> Location on CTAN: fonts/cabin/
> Summary description: Support for the Cabin family of sans serif fonts
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> An sfdefault option is now provided to enable Cabin as the default
> text font. The fontaxes package is now required for [pdf]LaTeX.
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/cabin.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/cabin/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon cried:
> Name of contribution: quattrocento
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Package version: 2012-11-09
> Location on CTAN: fonts/quattrocento/
> Summary description: LaTeX support for Quattrocento and Quattrocento Sans fonts.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX support
> for the Quattrocento and Quattrocento Sans families of fonts, designed
> by Pablo Impallari.
>
> Quattrocento is a classic typeface with wide and open letterforms, and
> great x-height, which makes it very legible for body text at small
> sizes. Tiny details that only show up at bigger sizes make it also
> great for display use. Quattrocento Sans is the perfect sans-serif
> companion for Quattrocento.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new package, and made an entry
for it in the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/quattrocento.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/quattrocento/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
catcodes
package.
Summary description: Handling category codes with Plain or LaTeX or ...
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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documentation corrected/extended (intros)
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/catcodes
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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:
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* possibility to create custom {tasks} environments with NewTasks
* generally improved {tasks} environments
* improved behavior when used with KOMA-Script's parskip option
* a series of minor fixes
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Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the
sty2dtx
package.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This updated fixed the broken support for single-character options inside the
config file. In addition some coding improvements where added.
Many thanks go to Robin Schneider for providing patches for this.
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