On Thu, 19 May 2011, Kirill Müller submitted an update to the
excel2latex
package.
Summary description: Convert Excel spreadsheets to LaTeX tables.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update fixes compatibility with Office Mac and earlier versions of Office for Windows. It also includes some very minor bug fixes and updates.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/excel2latex
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/excel2latex
(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 Wed, 18 May 2011, H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the
thumbs
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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CTAN update: thumbs
Thumbs now supports more than six thumb marks at one page.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/thumbs/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/thumbs
(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 Tue, 17 May 2011 Andreas Stergiou submitted the
chet
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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chet is a class that introduces a set of commands that make TeXing faster. It is
inspired by Paul Ginsparg's harvmac.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/chet
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/chet
(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 Tue, 17 May 2011 Jiřà Mrkus submitted the
upca
package.
Summary description: Macros for printing UPC-A barcodes
License type: lppl
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/upca
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/upca
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appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Mon, 16 May 2011 H.-Martin Münch submitted the
regstats
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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CTAN has a new package: regstats
This package allows to count the number of used registers (counter,
dimen, skip, muskip, box, token, input, output, math families, languages,
insertions) and compare these to the maximum available number of such
registers.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/regstats/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/regstats
(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 .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
ctan-upload(a)dante.de wrote:
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
>
> Name of contribution: chemmacros
> Version number: 1.0
> Author's name: Clemens Niederberger
> Location on CTAN: /
> Summary description: a collection of macros to make typesetting
> chemistry documents more convenient
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text:
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> chemmacros is a collection of macros and commands which are intended
> to make typesetting chemistry documents faster and more
> convenient. This includes some nomenclature commands, oxidation
> numbers, thermodynamic data, newman projections...
thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and created an entry
describing the package, in the CTAN catalogue.
> This package is located at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/
> More information is at
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/chemmacros
> (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
> appear).
>
> The CTAN service in Cambridge runs on hardware donated by the UK TeX
> Users Group (http://uk.tug.org/), and with infrastructure support from
> the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
> (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/).
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the dante daemon pokes its head above ground *yet again*:
> Name of contribution: savetrees
> Version number: 2.0
> Author's name: Scott Pakin
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/savetrees
> Summary description: Pack as much text as possible onto each page of a
> LaTeX document
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text:
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> The goal of the savetrees package is to pack as much text as
> possible onto each page of a LaTeX document. Admittedly,
> this makes the document far less attractive. Nevertheless,
> savetrees is a simple way to save paper when printing draft
> copies of a document. It can also be useful when trying to
> meet a tight page-length requirement for a conference or
> journal submission.
>
> This new release, version 2.0, includes major -- and
> non-backwards-compatible -- changes to savetrees. Package
> options, all of which have been renamed from the previous
> version, now let each of savetrees's space-saving techniques
> be enabled or disabled individually or en masse. Two new
> space-saving techniques are incorporated into savetrees:
> reducing inter-character spacing and reducing inter-word
> spacing. savetrees.bib can now work independently of
> savetrees.sty. The seldom-used makethin script has been
> removed. The documentation has been improved and now
> includes text samples of some of savetrees's space-saving
> techniques.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the update, and changed the
catalogue repository appropriately.
> This package is located at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/savetrees
> More information is at
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/savetrees
the catalogue change won't make it to that other information until
some time overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the dante daemon attracts my attention again:
> Name of contribution: uothesis
> Version number: 2.5.2
> Author's name: Michael Anderson
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/uothesis
> Summary description: Class for the creation of dissertation and theses
> that meet the requirements of the University of Oregon Graduate School
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text:
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> Update to the uothesis class to reflect a recent change by the
> graduate school in the page number position. This update is strongly
> recommended to all users of the class.
thanks for the upload (and sorry about the delays -- i'm the only
ctanner working this weekend). i've installed the new version and
updated the catalogue repository.
> This package is located at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/uothesis
> More information is at
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/uothesis
the more information (catalogue entry) will change a bit overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the dante daemon troubles me _again_:
> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
>
> Name of contribution: ctex
> Version number: 1.02c
> Author's name: Jiang Jiang
> Location on CTAN: /language/chinese/ctex
> Summary description: LaTeX classes and packages for Chinese typesetting.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text:
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> Fix bookmarks and hyperref compatibility issues.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
> This package is located at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/language/chinese/ctex/
> More information is at
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ctex
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
another from that dante daemon:
> Name of contribution: xecjk
> Version number: 2.3.19
> Author's name: Jiang Jiang
> Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xecjk/
> Summary description: A LaTeX package for typesetting CJK documents in
> the way users have become used to, in the CJK package.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text:
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> 1. Added fallback font option.
> 2. Improved ellipsis handling.
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>
> This package is located at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/xecjk/
> More information is at
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xecjk
thanks for the upload, i have transferred it to cambridge, installed the
new version and updated the catalogue repository.
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team