On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 Vafa Khalighi submitted the
mpgraphics
package.
Summary description: Inline and display metapost figures in LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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mpgraphics allows users to typeset metapost inline and display
figures in their LaTeX documents with only and only one run of
LaTeX, or PDFLaTeX, or XelaTeX (no separate runs of mpost).
mpgraphics achieves this by using shell scape or write 18
feature so the whole process is automatic and the
end user do not need to carry out the long process.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mpgraphics
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mpgraphics
(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 Fri, 4 Mar 2011 Hans-Martin Münch submitted the
uri
package.
Summary description: Hyperlinks URIs of type arXiv, ASIN, DOI, HDL, NBN, PubMed, OID, TINY, TINY with preview, and XMPP and provides com- mands citeurl, mailto, ukoeln, and uref.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package allows to automatically hyperlink URIs of type arXiv, ASIN, DOI,
HDL, NBN, PubMed, OID, TINY, TINY with preview, and XMPP in such a way that they
are resolved to an address understood by web browsers without native support or
add-ons for such types of uri and provides commands citeurl, mailto, ukoeln, and
uref.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/uri/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=uri
(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 Tue, 1 Mar 2011 Clemens Niederberger submitted the
mychemistry
package.
Summary description: Creating reaction schemes with LaTeX and ChemFig
License type: nocommercial
Announcement text:
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myChemistry provides commands for typesetting complex chemical reaction schemes with LaTeX and ChemFig.
myChemistry also bundles the packages ChemFig, mhchem and chemcompounds.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mychemistry
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mychemistry
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the
dvisvgm
package.
Summary description: dvisvgm 1.0.5 has been released
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG.
The latest release 1.0.5 is a maintenance update that fixes a couple of minor
issues. Additionally, command-line option -n has been extended to choose between
two conversion variants.
For further information including a list of recent changes and pre-compiled
binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm
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http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
the daemon respectfully waits while i digest my lunch, and then tells
me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: ltxnew (v1.3)
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew
> Summary description: Provides the
ew
enew and provide
> prefixes for checking definitions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> chardef and mathchardef were missing :
>
ewchardef
enewchardef providechardef
>
ewmathchardef
enewmathchardef providemathchardef
>
> now work properly, as well as
ewglobalmathchardef etc.
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/ltxnew.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ltxnew/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon, again:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: apa6e
> Author's name: Nathaniel J. Smith
> Location on CTAN: latex/contrib/apa6e
> Summary description: Format manuscripts to APA 6th edition guidelines.
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> This release adds support for formatting appendices.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new files and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/apa6e.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/latex/contrib/apa6e/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
and they keep rolling in, sighs the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: catoptions
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Location on CTAN:
> Summary description: Preserving catcodes and parsing options
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> This version 0.2 gains some efficiency in declaring futurelet
> canonical controls of/for 'other' characters. Following suggestions
> from users, it also introduces additional interfaces for declaring new
> package options.
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/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, 28 Feb 2011, Yossi Gil submitted the
bashful
package.
Summary description: Invoke bash commands from within latex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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makes it possible to execute bash scripts from within LaTeX. The
main application is in writing computer-science texts, in which you want
to make sure the programs listed in the document are executed directly
from the input.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/latex/bashful
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bashful
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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 Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Pavel Farar submitted an update to the
ptserif
package.
Summary description: PT Serif font and LaTeX support.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This package contains LaTeX support for the font PT Sans.
- Added several Cyrillic letters that were missing in the encoding
files but present in the fonts (some Cyrillic letters are
not in Unicode or Adobe Glyph List).
- The encoding files have more descriptive names now.
Related package: ptsans
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ptserif
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ptserif
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Thanks for the upload.
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Rainer Schöpf