On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 Stephane GALLAND submitted an update to the
upmethodology
package.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The macros makename and upmmakename set the size of the first name, given as
parameter, relatively to the size of the last name, given as parameter also;
rather than setting the size with an absolute value.
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 Raphaël Pinson submitted an update to the
fancytabs
package.
Summary description: Fancy page border tabs with Tikz
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Use lengths were fit. This allows to calculate lengths properly in packages using fancytabs.
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the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
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> Name of contribution: tikzpagenodes
> Author's name: Martin Scharrer
> Package version: v1.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tikzpagenodes/
> Summary description: Corrected positions of 'marginpar area' nodes.
> License type: lppl
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> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> This bug-fix release corrects the 'marginpar area' nodes which where
> incorrect for even pages.
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/tikzpagenodes.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tikzpagenodes/
Robin Fairbairns
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the daemon wrote:
> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20120915-151900/
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
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> Name of contribution: standalone
> Author's name: Martin Scharrer
> Package version: v1.1b
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/standalone/
> Summary description: Fix for 'subpreambles' option used with Beamer documents.
> License type: lppl
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> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> This bug fix release prevents a potential compile error when the
> 'subpreambles' option is used with beamer documents.
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thanks for the upload; i've installed the package and tweaked the
catalogue entry.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/standalone.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/standalone/
Robin Fairbairns
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the
typeoutfileinfo
package.
Summary description: screen display of single Provides... content
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Added atchmode to avoid messages below the info display, thanks to Heiko
Oberdiek's posting on texhax.
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 Arno L. Trautmann submitted an update to the
chickenize
package.
Summary description: Lua functions to manipulate the input or output of any Lua(La)TeX document
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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New features and documentation update.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/chickenize
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On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 maïeul Rouquette submitted the
eledmac and eledpar
packages.
Summary description: Successor of ledmac/ledpar
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Eledmac and eledpar are successors of ledmac / ledpar.
ledarab has no successor, but people should use XeLaTeX possibility.
The changes in eledmac and eledpar with respect to ledmac / ledpar are :
- new generic command
ewseries to add a new series of notes (critical, familiar, end)
- new commands to easily customize the display of notes.
- default maxchunks (in eledpar) at 5120.
- use of xargs, etoolbox and etex to simplify code.
- code refactoring
For people who migrate from eledmac to eledpar, it's possible they have some
changes to make. These changes are explained in Appendix A of eledmac doc.
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On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 maïeul Rouquette submitted a final update to the
ledmac and ledpar
packages.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This version reverts to 0.17, except for bug corrections. It means
that new features of branch 0.18 / 0.14 are deleted.
These new features are put on new package : eledmac (and eledpar)
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On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 Herbert Voß submitted an update to the
pst-node
package.
Summary description: nodes and node connections
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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----- pst-node.tex
1.23 -add global defined N-<name>.x and N-<name>.y
for user nodes
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 Robin Schneider submitted the
calcage
package.
Summary description: Calculates the age in years
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The calcage package can calculate the age of someone or something in years.
Internally it uses the datenumber package to calculate the age in days. The
conversion from days to years is implemented by this package. It is also taken
care about leap years and such odd things.
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