the daemon's been lying very low for ages, but now:
> 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 parsing options.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> New features have been introduced, concerning mainly options parsing.
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/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
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 Scott Pakin submitted an update to the
hyperxmp
package.
Summary description: Embed XMP metadata within a LaTeX document.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform) is a mechanism proposed
by Adobe for embedding document metadata within the document
itself. The metadata is designed to be easy to extract,
even by programs that are oblivious to the document's file
format. Most of Adobe's applications store XMP metadata
when saving files. Now, with the hyperxmp package, it is
trivial for LaTeX document authors to store XMP metadata in
their documents as well.
hyperxmp integrates seamlessly with hyperref and requires
virtually no modifications to documents that already exploit
hyperref's mechanisms for specifying PDF metadata. The
current version of hyperxmp can embed the following metadata
as XMP: author, title, subject, keywords, copyright, and
license URL. hyperxmp currently embeds XMP only within PDF
documents but is compatible with pdflatex, latex+dvipdfm,
xelatex, and latex+dvips+ps2pdf.
Version 1.2 adds support for a few elements of the Photoshop
schema, support for xelatex, and compatibility with the
ngerman package.
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Rainer Schöpf
following a discussion on tex stackexchange, i've made a small change to
the moreverb package: it now only allocates a write stream if the
document uses the verbatimwrite environment.
i've now installed the new version on ctan and updated the catalogue
repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/moreverb.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moreverb/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 Paul Pichaureau submitted an update to the
exercise
package.
Summary description: The package helps to typeset exercises or list of exercises within any document.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This package helps to typeset exercises or list of exercises within any
document.
Exercises, questions, sub-questions are automatically numbered. It is
possible to put answers in the same document, and display them
immediately, later in the document or not at all.
The layout of exercise is fully customisable. It is then possible to typeset
long problems, short exercises, questionnaires, etc.
v1.55 2011/03/13 Reference to answer greatly improved. Command
efAnswer added (thx to Ferenc Wettl)
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/exercise
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Rainer Schöpf
that ol' daemon's been having an easy time of it, recently, but...
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.2a:
> - Bug fix for * syntax in tables
> - Bug fix for expanding macros with arguments inside tables
> - Group digits in numbers containing symbols
> - Deal with end-of-row cells where last item is not \
thanks for the upload; i've installed the replacement files, 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
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
ctable
package.
Summary description: key/value driven table and figure floats
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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ctable.sty provides commands to easily typeset centered or left or
right aligned tables and (multiple-)figure floats, with footnotes.
Instead of an environment, a command with 4 arguments is used; the
first is optional and is used for key,value pairs generating
variations on the defaults and offering a route for future
extensions.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ctable
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ctable
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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 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 Jean-Côme Charpentier submitted an update to the
xlop
package.
Summary description: Xtra Large OPerations (process and display operations)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Xlop (eXtra Large OPeration) will typeset arithmetic
operation either in-line or as in school (using French
school conventions). So for example, opadd{2}{3} can give
either $2+3=5$ or something similar to: egin{tabular}{r}
2\ +3\ hline 5end{tabular}.
This release fix two bugs:
* displayed multiplcation
* macro opexport
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
mychemistry
package.
Summary description: Create reaction schemes with LaTeX and ChemFig
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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New in v1.4:
- syntax of commands unified
- new arrow type -+>
- merge improved: can be labeled now
-
eactand renamed into
eactant (consistent with correct english spelling)
- bufixes
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 Yvon Henel submitted the
nonumonpart
package.
Summary description: A wrapper for answer to FAQ: ``How to get rid of page numbers (with part)''
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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NONUMONPART 1 2011-04-15
NONUMONPART = NO (page) NUMber ON PART title page
A mere wrapper for answer to FAQ:
``How to get rid of page numbers (with part)''
No option, no end user macro but redefinition of @endpart to ensure an empty style page on part title pages.
The code is taken from UK-FAQ.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nonumonpart
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Rainer Schöpf
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 Patrick Happel submitted an update to the
lipsum
package.
Summary description: Typesetting 150 paragraphs of lorem ipsum dummy text
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bug fix. If lipsum is used such that a new paragraph was introduced after
typesetting a paragraph of lorem ipsum, errorneously a copy of par as defined
at the preamble was used (let). Therefore, changes to par did not take effect
when using lisum. This was fixed in this version.
Thanks to Ulrike Fischer and Florent Chervet for reporting.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/lipsum/
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf