quoth the daemon, as i got back from a bout of christmas shopping:
> Name of contribution: Pinlabel: a TeX labelling package
> Author's name: Colin Rourke
> Package version: v1.2
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/
> Summary description: A TeX labelling package
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is version 1.2 of the pinlabel package and replaces the
> existing version. It is 100% backwardly compatible. The new
> feature is that it will now read bounding box information from
> a PDF figure file if you do not supply an eps or ps version.
> Thus you can draw your figures directly as pdf's and label
> them, just as you would an eps figure.
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/pinlabel.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pinlabel/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
i was out eating at my son's place, when the daemon reported:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: amiri-font
> Author's name: Khaled Hosny
> Package version: 0.1
> Location on CTAN: fonts/amiri/
> Summary description: Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface, Naskh
> style, for typesetting books and other runÂÂning text.
> License type: ofl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a beta release in the sense that I retain the right to do any
> metric incompatible changes in the future, other than that the font is
> largely usable. The font covers Arabic and Arabic Supplement blocks of
> Unicode 6.0, which means it essentially covers any language written in
> Arabic script and supported by Unicode.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new package, and created 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/amiri-font.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/amiri/
The catalogue entry will first appear overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon tells me, as my wife experiments with playing her
compositions into sibelius (i can't persuade her to use musixtex, for
some reason...):
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: siunitx
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Package version: v2.4a
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/
> Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.4a:
> - Better handling of options reset at start of document
> - Better use of UTF-8 symbols where appropriate
thanks for the upload; i've installed the revised version, and updated
the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
and, in rapid succession, the daemon tells me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: interpreter
> Author's name: Paul Isambert
> Package version: 1.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/luatex/generic/
> Summary description: Translates input files on the fly.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Interpreter has been rewritten with the Gates package (Lua version);
> this doesn't change anything for basic usage, but now the code can be
> modified easily to anybody's whim.
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/interpreter.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/interpreter
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the jolly old daemon doesn't suffer from colds, like me...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: gates
> Author's name: Paul Isambert
> Package version: 0.1
> Location on CTAN: macros/generic/
> Summary description: Implementing modular and customizable code.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Gates is designed to write code in a modular fashion: big macros or
> functions are divided into small chunks (called gates) with names,
> which can be externally controlled (e.g. they can be disabled,
> subjected to conditionals, loops...) and/or augmented with new chunks.
>
> Thus complex code can be easily customized without having to rewrite
> it, or even understand its implementation: the behavior of existing
> gates can be modified, and new ones can be added, without endangering
> the whole design. This allows code to be hacked in ways the original
> authors might have never envisioned.
>
> Gates is implemented independantly for both TeX and Lua. The TeX
> implementation requires the texapi package, whereas the Lua version
> can be run with any Lua interpreter, not just LuaTeX.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and created an
entry in the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/gates.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/gates/
The catalogue entry will first appear on the web some time overnight
tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon cries (so that even my deaf ears hear it):
> Name of contribution: latexmk
> Author's name: John Collins
> Package version: 4.28c
> Location on CTAN: support/latexmk/
> Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1. When biber doesn't find the bib file, latexmk treats this as a
> warning rather than a fatal error, so further processing can continue
> normally.
> 2. Latexmk now parses correctly error messages from biber v. 0.9.7.
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/latexmk.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/latexmk/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 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: Yes
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- bugfix: sublabels now work, when label names contain a colon
- new key: cmpd-weight
- key list-sep renamed into list-output-sep
- new key list-input-sep: you can choose, how different label names are
separated; this enables to use IUPAC names like 1,2-dichloroethane as a label
name, although they contain commas
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/chemnum/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/chemnum
(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 .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 Andreas Löffler and Sebastian Schanz submitted an update to
the
business-research
package.
Summary description: LaTeX class for journal 'Business Research'
License type: free
Announcement text: Yes
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This is the updated version of our BuR-class.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/business-research
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/business-research
(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 .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
the daemon wakes me from my mid-day snooze:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: SASnRdisplay
> Author's name: Lars Madsen
> Package version: 0.9
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/SASnRdisplay/
> Summary description: Package to typeset SAS or R code or output.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> From the README:
>
> Where I work statisticians mostly use SAS and R when doing
> calculations or simulations. Thus they need to be able to import
> results or source code into their LaTeX projects.
>
> This package is an extension to an earlier (unreleased) package which
> only handled SAS. The package simply serve as a sort of front end to
> the listings package, creating some new lstlisting like environments
> and import macros similar to lstinputlisting.
>
> All configuration is handled via a hierarchy of listings style.
>
> The is package also capable of overloading the Sweave and SASweave packages.
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/sasnrdisplay.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sasnrdisplay/
The catalogue entry will first appear some time overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
i was innocently watching frozen planet and the daemon cried out:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: chemfig
> Author's name: Christian Tellechea
> Package version: 1.0c
> Location on CTAN: macros/generic/chemfig/
> Summary description: Draw molecule with an easy syntax
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Chemfig 1.0c
> 2011/11/30
>
> What's new:
> * chemfig checks that eTeX is used
> * bugfix with +. It does not cause clash anymore when compiling with etex
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/chemfig.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/chemfig/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team