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CTAN Update: PT Sans
by CTAN Announcements 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Pavel Farar submitted an update to the ptsans package. Summary description: PT Sans font and LaTeX support. License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ptserif ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ptsans . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ptsans (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

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New CTAN package: Piano diagram
by CTAN Announcements 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

my daemon tells me (with a sly smile on his face): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: Piano diagram > Author's name: Émile Daneault > Location on CTAN: > Summary description: Draws basic 2 octaves keyboard diagrams > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > I'm by no mean a TeX expert, but since it works okay I though it > should be out there. > > This package adds the keyboard[1][2]..[7] command to your > project. When used, it draws a small 2 octaves piano keyboard on your > document, with up to 7 keys highlighted. > > Keys go : Co, Cso, Do, Dso, Eo, Fo, Fso, Go, Gso, Ao, Aso, Bo, Ct, > Cst, Dt, Dst, Et, Ft, Fst, Gt, Gst, At, Ast and Bt. > > Suggested use : > egin{figure}[thpb]\n> centering > keyboard[Co][Eo][Gso][Ct][Et] > caption{C aug chord} > label{Chord1} > end{figure} thanks for the upload; i've installed the new 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/piano.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/piano/ The catalogue entry will first appear overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: unisugar
by CTAN Announcements 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 Yossi Gil submitted an update to the unisugar package. Summary description: Selected Unicode characters employed in some very common LaTeX commands License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Using this package, you may find yourself typing a bit less, provided you can configure your text editor or keyboard driver to generate the handful of Unicode characters defined by this package. More importantly, the package is useful in defining macros whose name is composed of right-to-left characters and in minimizing mixed directionality text in right-to-left documents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/unisugar . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=unisugar (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

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CTAN Update: standalone
by CTAN Announcements 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the standalone package. Summary description: Update to v0.4: New option 'border' to set preview border License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The update adds an option to set the preview border when preview is enabled. This avoid manual adjustments of PreviewBorder or PreviewBbAdjust. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/standalone . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=standalone (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

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CTAN Update: collcell
by CTAN Announcements 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the collcell package. Summary description: Update to v0.5: Some bug fixes and removed limitations License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This updated fixes some limitations of the previous version. The following uses are now supported: * Empty cells before \ * Missing \ * Use inside multicolumn * Use of # inside collected cells (except inside multicolumn which doesn't support this by itself) * Use around or inside other >{} <{} material * Cascaded use of collectcell * The argument of collectcell can now consist of multiple tokens * Material inside <{} before endcollectcell is now also collected if it is part of the last column * An almost-verbatim version of verb is provided (uses the version of the 'tabularx' package) * supports 'tabular', 'tabularx', 'array' as well as 'tabularx' in the LaTeX or TeX syntaxes as well as in csname ... endcsname (except 'tabularx' which doesn't support this by itself). And some more smaller features. See the manual for details. The code has been improved and more documentation has been added. Acknowledgements and Thanks goes to: Heiko Oberdiek, GL, Joseph Wright and Hendrik Vogt for their feedback and help on comp.text.tex, using PM and on http://tex.stackexchange.com . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/collcell . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=collcell (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

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CTAN Update: aomart
by CTAN Announcements 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 Boris Veytsman submitted an update to the aomart package. Summary description: LaTeX Class for The Annals of Mathematics License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides the class for typesetting articles for The Annals of Mathematics, http://annals.princeton.edu/. Changes: Version 1.5 Typo corrected: arXiV is now arXiv Bibliography style change: added sortyear field ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/aomart . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=aomart (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

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CTAN Package update: tikz-3dplot
by CTAN Announcements 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

the daemon likes coloured shapes, and was grinning when he said: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: tikz-3dplot > Author's name: Jeff Hein > Author's email: jeffrey.d.hein(a)gmail.com > Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-3dplot > Summary description: 3D coordinate transformations and plotting using TikZ > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The tikz-3dplot package provides straightforward ways to define > three-dimensional coordinate frames through which to plot in TikZ. The > user can specify the orientation of the main coordinate frame, and use > standard TikZ commands and coordinates to render their tikzfigure. A > secondary coordinate frame is provided to allow rotations and > translations with respect to the main coordinate frame. In addition, > The tikz-3dplot package can also handle plotting user-specified > functions in spherical polar coordinates, where both the radius and > fill color can be expressed as parametric functions of polar angles. thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/tikz-3dplot.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-3dplot/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package upload: fwlw
by CTAN Announcements 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

the daemon hasn't had a lot to say, in the last few days, but has today offered: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: fwlw > Author's name: Donald Arseneau > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fwlw > Summary description: Facilitates headers with first word/last word > License type: other-free > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Added a brief license statement -- simple permissive BSD-like. (Also > modified the manual, which someone had created -- THANKS!) thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository to reflect its new status and all. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fwlw.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fwlw The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New on CTAN: bibtex book examples
by CTAN Announcements 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded LATeX-Bib.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please > put all files in the new directory > > /info/examples/LaTeX-Bib/ > > It contains all examples from the 1st edition of the book > Bibliografien mit LaTeX, published by DANTE and lehmanns media. thanks for the upload; i have installed the collection as suggested and made an entry in the catalogue repository for the collection. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/latex-bib-ex.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/examples/LaTeX-Bib/ The catalogue entry will first appear on the web, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: biblatex-ieee
by CTAN Announcements 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

the daemon cries (frustrated that he's no more for me, this morning...) > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-ieee > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-ieee > Summary description: A biblatex implementation of the IEEE bibliography style > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.0: > - First stable release (.bbx file from v0.9a) 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/biblatex-ieee.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-ieee The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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