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CTAN update: newtx
by CTAN Announcements 24 May '12

24 May '12

so this daemon tells me, when i awake... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: newtx > Author's name: Michael Sharpe > Author's email: msharpe(a)ucsd.edu > Package version: 0.94 > Location on CTAN: fonts/ > Summary description: New version of txfonts, with improved metrics and options. > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Karl Berry noticed a number of problems, which are fixed in this version. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/newtx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/newtx The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning (Cambridge time). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: xpunctuate
by CTAN Announcements 24 May '12

24 May '12

On Wed, 23 May 2012 Philip G. Ratcliffe submitted the xpunctuate package. Summary description: An extension of the xspace package to include possibly redundant periods and commas. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package affords the user or package writer post-macro punctuation insertion, emph{i.e.}, beyond (but similar to) that of the xspace package. Three new commands are defined: xperiod, xcomma and xperiodcomma, which, following a similar procedure to the standard xspace macro, are designed to insert the relevant punctuation emph{if and only if} necessary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xpunctuate . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xpunctuate (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: fnpct
by CTAN Announcements 23 May '12

23 May '12

On Wed, 23 May 2012 Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the fnpct package. Summary description: footnote kerning License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is new - new AdaptNoteNoMult, AdaptNoteOpt, AdaptNoteOptNoMult - support `sidenotes' package - better support for citing commands - error checking in the Adapt<sth> commands - package option `strict' - improved documentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fnpct/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fnpct (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: hyph-utf8
by CTAN Announcements 23 May '12

23 May '12

On Wed, 23 May 2012, Mojca Miklavec, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard, and Khaled Hosny submitted an update to the hyph-utf8 package. Summary description: Hyphenation patterns expressed in UTF-8 License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - update Norwegian patterns (by Ole Michael Selberg) - remove Lao patterns (until they are improved) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/language/hyph-utf8 . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8 (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: ccicons
by CTAN Announcements 23 May '12

23 May '12

On Tue, 22 May 2012, Michael Ummels submitted an update to the ccicons package. Summary description: Typesetting Creative Commons icons using LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Adjusted vertical alignment of all icons * Added scale option * Added copyright icon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ccicons . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ccicons (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: Class for the journal Computational Complexity
by CTAN Announcements 23 May '12

23 May '12

On Tue, 22 May 2012, Michael Nüsken submitted an update to the computational-complexity package. Summary description: Class originally designed for the journal Computational Complexity License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The LaTeX2e class cc was written for the journal Computational Complexity <http://www.computational-complexity.org>, and it can also be used for a lot of other articles. You may like it since it contains a lot of features as more intelligent references, a set of theorem definitions, an algorithm environment, and more. The class requires natbib. The author is Michael Nusken. The package is Copyright (c) 2000-2012 Michael Nusken. Present version v2.23. Differences to previous version: Increased compatibility with hyperref. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/computational-complexity . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/computational-complexity (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: fnpct
by CTAN Announcements 22 May '12

22 May '12

On Tue, 22 May 2012 Clemens Niederberger submitted the fnpct package. Summary description: footnote kerning License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The `fnpct' package basically does two things to footnotes: if footnote marks are followed by a comma or a dot the order of footnote and punctuation mark is reversed and the kerning gets adjusted. As a side effect a new method of creating multiple footnotes and some other features are provided. The package is a response to a question on TeX.SE (http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/56094/5049). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fnpct/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fnpct (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: amiri-font
by CTAN Announcements 22 May '12

22 May '12

the daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: amiri-font > Author's name: Khaled Hosny > Package version: 0.102 > Location on CTAN: fonts/amiri > Summary description: Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface, Naskh > style, for typesetting books and other running text. > License type: other-free > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > * New glyphs: > - The largest feature of this release is adding Latin script support based on > Crimson font, covering latin-0 to 9 code pages as well as all characters > used in common Arabic romanisation schemes (no including IPA) and other > common punctuation characters. > - Beh with small v below (U+08A0). > - Basmala symbol (U+FDFD). > > * Fixes: > - New contextual shape for final open heh-yaa combination. > - New contextual shape for final faa-yaa combination. > - New contextual shape for knotted heh-yaa baree. > - New, improved and more open hmaza wasl. > - Larger and more readable shadda, regular and Qur'anic sukun. > - Larger and more readable Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam symbol (U+FDFA). > - Improved dot placement of initial baa-like glyphs. > - Improved dot placement of kaf-baa-alef combination. > - Improved placement of dagger alef on regular glyphs. > - Wider final alef with madda to avoid clash between madda and next glyphs. > - Improved kaf-meem-alef, kaf-alef combinations at smaller sizes on screen. > - Improve kaf-lam-final meem. > - Avoid initial/medial kaf clash with next glyph's dots. > - Improved medial and final sad connecting part. > > * Kerning: > - More efficient kerning feature using contextual positioning > - Reduce dal/raa-kaf kerning to avoid dot clash > - More positive kerning for raa-intial yaa. > - Make kerning across ZWNJ work with Uniscribe. > > * Bug fixes: #1347860, #3471042, #3475146, #3509875 > > * Misc.: > - Duplicate 'locl' in 'ccmp' to work around engines not supporting the former. > - Smaller, MTX compressed EOT files. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/amiri.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/amiri/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning (Cambridge time). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: newtx
by CTAN Announcements 22 May '12

22 May '12

as i slept, the daemon cried: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: newtx > Author's name: Michael Sharpe > Package version: 0.93 > Location on CTAN: fonts/newtx > Summary description: New version of txfonts, with improved metrics and options. > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Splits txfonts.sty into two independent packages, newtxtext.sty and > newtxmath.sty, each with fixes and enhancements. The latter offers a less > tight appearance than the original, and is optimized for Libertine and Times. > This version adds optical weights for math italic and symbol fonts in both > Libertine and Times, and corrects a number of errors in the initial release. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/newtx.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/newtx The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning (Cambridge time). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New on CTAN: zhnumber
by CTAN Announcements 21 May '12

21 May '12

On Mon, 21 May 2012, Qing Lee submitted the zhnumber package. Summary description: Typeset Chinese representations of numbers License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The zhnumber package provides commands to typeset Chinese representations of numbers. The main difference between this package and CJKnumb is that commands provided by this package is expandable in the proper way. The package relies on LaTeX 3 support from the l3kernel and l3packages bundles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/zhnumber . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/zhnumber (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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