the daemon follows up with a rapid:
> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20110713-202659/
>
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: catoptions
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Location on CTAN:
> Summary description: Securing catcodes and passing options.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The 'catoptions' package changes package loading internals so that all
> subsequently loaded packages can rely on normal/standard catcodes of
> all ASCII characters. The package defines canonical control sequences
> to represent all the visible ASCII characters. It also provides robust
> options parsing mechanisms, in addition to many TeX programming tools.
thanks for this one, too. 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/catoptions.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/catoptions/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon appears while i'm actually working:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xits
> Author's name: Khaled Hosny
> Location on CTAN: fonts/xits
> Summary description: A Scientific Times-like font with support for mathematical typesetting.
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Initial right-to-left math support
> - Add basic Arabic letters, digits and some math symbols
> - Add support for overly accents
> - Make uni2980, uni20E9, uni2223, uni2225, uni2AF4 and uni2AFC extensible
> - Support math variants using variation selector (VS1)
> - Add alternate negated symbols with vertical stroke
> - Use the bar glyph from STIXVar.otf
> - Fix FontForge warnings
> - Fix swapped U+22D2 and U+22D3 glyphs
thanks for the upload (where _do_ you find the time?) -- 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/xits.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/xits/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon tells me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: pmx 2.6.03
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Location on CTAN: /support/pmx
> Summary description: Preprocessor for MusiXTeX.
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This version of pmx allows up to 24 voices, beams, and slurs. It must
> be used with musixtex >= 1.15 and etex.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository (in particular, noting the requirements above).
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pmx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/pmx/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
The daemon tells me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: moreenum
> Author's name: Seamus Bradley
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/moreenum
> Summary description: More enumeration options
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> moreenum
>
> This provides the following new enumerate styles.
>
> - greek for lowercase Greek letters
> - Greek for uppercase Greek letters
> - Hex for uppercase hexadecimal enumeration
> - lhex for lowercase hexadecimal enumeration
> - inenum for binary enumeration
> - enumnth for 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc
> -
thwords for First, Second, Third etc
>
> Each of these works with enumitem's starred variant feature. So
> egin{enumerate}[label=Hex*] will output a hex enumerated
> list. Enumitem provides a start=0 option for starting your
> enumerations at 0.
>
> Currently requires amsmath, alphalph, enumitem, binhex and nth, all of
> which should be part of any modern TeX distribution.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the 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/moreenum.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moreenum/
The catalogue entry will first appear some time overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: Circuit_macros
> Author's name: Dwight Aplevich
> Location on CTAN: /graphics/Circuit_macros
> Summary description: Updated Circuit_macros package
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is version 7.0, an evolutionary upgrade containing refined macros
> and options.
thanks for the upload; i have 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/circuit-macros.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//graphics/circuit_macros
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 Mahmood Amintoosi submitted an update to the
persian-bib
package.
Summary description: Persian translations of some BibTeX styles
License type: lppl
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New version of persian-bib for XePersian.
The LTRitems' environment has been changed with 'LTRbibitems' in the new release
of XePersian, so the Persian styles have been modified to work with the current
version of XePersian.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/contrib/persian-bib/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/persian-bib
(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
On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 Javier Bezos submitted an update to the
enumitem
package.
Summary description: Control layout of lists
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A few aditional features:
- start and widest* are calc-savvy.
- value can be used with widest*
- Some internal restrictions in arabic and the like has been removed. (It is more flexible at the cost of having a more ``relaxed'' error checking.)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/enumitem
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/enumitem
(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
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-node.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please replace
> all files with the ones in the directory
>
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-node/
>
> pst-node is a PSTricks related package and provides
> macros for drawing varies nodes and node connections.
>
> This update has a new documentation and the following changes:
>
> ----- pst-node.sty
> 1.00 2011-06-05 - make ancient variant 97 available (hv)
> 2008-12-12 first version (hv)
>
> ----- pst-node.tex
> 1.17 2011-07-04 - added optional argument for pnode for relative
> node setting
> - fixed bug with missing star version for
put
thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-node.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-node/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon's still on my tail...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: siunitx
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.3a:
> - Restore missing code added to v2.2l of siunitx, missing in
> v2.3
thanks for the upload; i have 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/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