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New on CTAN: frege
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jul '12

15 Jul '12

On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 Quirin Pamp submitted the frege package. Summary description: Latex package for typesetting Frege's Begriffsschrift License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package frege defines a number of new commands for typesetting fregean Begriffsschrift in LaTeX. It is loosely based on the package begriff with the same purpose. However it offers a number of improvements including better relative lengths of the content stroke with respect to other strokes, content strokes that point at the middle of lines rather than the bottom, a greater width for the assertion stroke as compared to the content stroke, a more intuitive structure for the conditional, greater care taken to allow for the linewidth in the spacing of formulas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/frege . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/frege (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: bibleref-french
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jul '12

15 Jul '12

On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 maïeul Rouquette submitted an update to the bibleref-french package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Accent on the book of Ésaïe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/bibleref-french . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/bibleref-french (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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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: showcharinbox
by CTAN Announcements 14 Jul '12

14 Jul '12

On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 Vafa Khalighi submitted the showcharinbox package. Summary description: Show characters inside a box License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package typesets a character inside a box, showing where reference point is. It also displays width, height, and depth information of the character. This produces the output like the one in page 63 of The TeXBook or page 101 of The METAFONTbook. The package is motivated by Knuth macros in file manmac.tex. Please note that using this package means that you should put a character in large size inside a box and putting small size of a character inside the box does not make any sense. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/showcharinbox . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/showcharinbox (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 package on CTAN: biblatex-phys
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

the daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-phys > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Package version: v0.9 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-phys/ > Summary description: A biblatex implementation of the AIP and APS > bibliography style > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The biblatex-phys package provides an implementation of the > bibliography styles of both the AIP and the APS for biblatex. > This implementation follows standard biblatex conventions, and > can be used simply by loading biblatex with the appropriate option > > usepackage[style=phys]{biblatex} > > A demonstration database is provided to show how to format > input for the style. Style options are provided to cover the > minor formatting variations between the AIP and APS bibliography > styles. 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://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-phys.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/bibl… The catalogue entry will have appeared on the web by tomorrow morning (Cambridge time). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN and the TeX Directory Structure
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

* TDS layout on CTAN: the problem. CTAN was developed as a means of unifying access to TeX-related material; in pre-CTAN days, packages to use with TeX were dotted on ftp sites around the net, according to the whim of the sites' maintainers. To find a file, you prowled the mailing lists and news groups until someone mentioned the file. CTAN, therefore, provides uniform access to a range of files, and those files may be found at the same place on any conforming CTAN site or mirror. The structure of the directory tree on a CTAN site is designed to ease browsing: packages form the leaf nodes of the tree (either as single files or as directories containing several files). The big distributions can be viewed, in this sense, as packages. Above all, the interested user can browse the tree to find out what CTAN offers. Methods of access have changed, too; CTAN sites originally offered no more than FTP access. Today's archives offer web access as well (and rsync access for mirrors), and the CTAN team and its helpers provide many other related services, including a catalogue, an index of packages by topic (i.e., by subject and usage areas). However, CTAN remains careful not to lose sight of a vital part of its original brief: an archive that users may browse. Separately from the development of CTAN, a TUG working group defined the TeX Directory Structure (TDS), which makes possible TeX systems that offer efficient access to huge numbers of TeX-related files, in an efficient way. Most (if not all) modern TeX distributions lay out files in TDS-compiant way; but constructing a TDS-compliant form of a package is not trivial. How, then, is the user to decide where to put files of a new package? An obvious solution is to provide packages on the archive laid out according to TDS format. Unfortunately, this conflicts with the requirement that people may browse CTAN; TDS layout could have been designed to discourage people from browsing -- it is typically dominated by directories whose only contents are links to other directories. * The CTAN team's solution The CTAN team have decided that packages on the archive shall remain in a browsing-friendly layout. In parallel, a new install tree has been created. The install tree's structure parallels those of the main trees: for any package foo/bar/baz/... on the main tree foo, a TDS-structured ZIP file would be found at install/foo/bar/baz.tds.zip which may be used to update a TeX system. The CTAN team will check that baz.tds.zip correctly covers the package material, when each version of baz is uploaded. The check is not guaranteed to spot every problem, but it detects gross errors (such as updating a file zot.tex in the main tree, but not updating the copy in baz.tds.zip) Note that, in most cases, the usefulness of the .tds.zip is transitory: most modern distributions provide most (free) packages, so that after a day or so, a new (version of a) package will be available via the distribution's update mechanism. * Anomalies. Overall, banishing TDS-format layouts remains our aim, but we can't possibly claim that the policy has always been applied as we would like. All over the archive there are packages that are variously wrong (by our reckoning above). We shall not be correcting these packages, unless new versions are uploaded, or some other imperative arises. Another (inevitable) anomaly is the TeX distributions. CTAN archives provide a repository from which users load a distribution, and which supplies updates as parts of the distribution are upgraded. We do not expect to improve the distributions' layout (that is, any change will come from the distribution managers). The CTAN Team (What is left of it)

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CTAN Update: japanese-otf-uptex
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 Norbert Preining submitted an update to the japanese-otf-uptex package. Summary description: upLaTeX support of japanese-otf License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012.07.09 Ver0.11 ## Thank ZR san for great contribution. sty/otf.sty, sty/mlutf.sty :: Apply new code to support surrogate pairs when macros UTF{}, UTFT{}, UTFC{} and/or UTFM{} are used with hyperref package. The new code is written by ZR san. test/uplatex/uotftest-utf8.tex :: Revise. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/language/japanese/japanese-otf-uptex . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/japanese-otf-uptex (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: pst-optexp
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 Christoph Bersch submitted an update to the pst-optexp package. Summary description: Drawing optical experimental setups License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a new major release with substantial changes: * Modified beam connections with drawbeam to support raytracing * Added wide beams with drawwidebeam * Added drawfiber for fiber connections * Added optexp environment for layering of components and connections * Added german documentation See file Changes for a full list. Not all changes are backward compatible, please see the documentation before upgrading! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optexp . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pst-optexp (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: biblatex-apa
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 Philip Kime submitted an update to the biblatex-apa package. Summary description: APA style for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- APA style for biblatex, using some of the major new biblatex 2.0 features. This version of the style requires biblatex 2.0 and biber 1.0. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-apa . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-apa (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: latexpand
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jul '12

08 Jul '12

On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 Matthieu Moy submitted an update to the latexpand package. Summary description: Flatten LaTeX file by expanding include and input, remove comments License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a complete rewrite of latexpand. It now manages several command-line options to fine-tune the behavior, and many corner-cases have been fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latexpand . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexpand (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: substitutefont
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jul '12

08 Jul '12

On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 Günter Milde submitted an update to the substitutefont package. Summary description: Easy font substitution License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfix, version was 0.1.2 broken due to uncommented example. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/substitutefont . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/substitutefont (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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