On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 Yori Zwols submitted the
shadowtext
package.
Summary description: Shadowtext adds a drop shadow behind text
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The shadowtext package introduces a new command, namely the shadowtext command,
which adds a drop shadow to the text that is given as its argument. E.g.
shadowtext{hello world} would produce the text hello world with a drop
shadow. The color and positioning of the shadow are customizable.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/shadowtext
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 Raphaël Pinson submitted an update to the
moderntimeline
package.
Summary description: Add timelines to moderncv entries
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Allow fractional years in tllabelcventry
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/moderntimeline
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 Ekkart Kleinod submitted an update to the
changes
package.
Summary description: The changes-package allows the user to manually markup changes of text, such as additions, deletions, or replacements.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 1.0.0 is the first stable version.
All commands have a new key-value-interface which provides more stability in evolving the package. Fixed some errors too.
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 Ariel Barton submitted an update to the
sansmathaccent
package.
Summary description: Corrects placement of math accents in beamer and sfmath
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Sans serif math (produced by the beamer class or the sfmath package)
often has accents positioned incorrectly.
This package fixes the positioning of math accents when the default font
(cmssi) is used for sans serif math.
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the daemon cries:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: nameauth
> Author's name: Charles P. Schaum
> Author's email: charles.schaum(a)att.net
> Package version: 1.26
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
> Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and
> flexibility in body text and index.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> This version fixes the sorting of names with suffixes in the
> index. For Western names, the pattern is Surname, Forename, Suffix
> (See Mulvany, etc.) while for mononyms the suffix simply follows the
> name.
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/nameauth.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon reports three closely-related uploads:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: l3kernel
> Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Package version: SVN3570
> Locations on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
> macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/
> Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
> Snapshot of SVN3570
> ===================
>
> - Message filtering system overhauled, with clearer subdivisions
> and faster performance when messages are used
> - xparse option log-declarations = false now works as
> documented
> - Refactor low-level msg_... code to allow insertion of tokens
> using interactive prompt
> - New functions (dim|skip|muskip)_const:(Nn|cn)
> - Better error recovery for int_compare:n(TF) and
> dim_compare:n(TF)
> - Add DeclareExpandableDocumentCommand to the list of 'stable'
> xparse features
> - Documentation improvement for prop_map_tokens
thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the
catalogue repository as needed.
> Users may view the package catalogue entries at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3experimental.html
> or they may browse the package directories at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/
The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 23 Apr 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:
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2012.04.21 Ver0.10
For otfbeta (v1.7b5 2012/04/11), upTeX in TeXLive svn r24922 or later
Enhance: support burasage on uplatex.
umakeotf_brsg, basepl/ubrsg-{h,v}.pl ::
Add. The files generate vf and tfm for burasage on uplatex.
The vf and tfm consume about 16.7 Mbytes in total.
sty/otf.sty ::
Adopt otf.sty [2012/04/11 v1.7b5 psitau] in otfbeta (v1.7b5 2012/4/11).
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, David Chiang submitted an update to the
tikz-qtree
package.
Summary description: Use existing qtree syntax for trees in TikZ.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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New features for adjusting the shape of trees, allowing, for example, different
levels to have different heights, or for all leaves of a tree to be horizontally
aligned at a fixed depth.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-qtree
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2012, Adrien Vion submitted the
biblatex-swiss-legal
package.
Summary description: Bibliography and citation styles for biblatex following swiss legal citation standards.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides bibliography and citation styles for documents written in
accordance with swiss legal citation standards. Currently, the package is only
for french documents. However, translations to german and italian are a project
for next versions.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-swiss-l…
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2012, Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemnum
package.
Summary description: a comprehensive approach for the numbering of chemical compounds
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- new option ref-pos that allows to specify how psfrag places the label created with cmpdref
- the order of the optional arguments of cmpdref has changed!
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