the daemon, for once, comes and greets me (rather than creeping out
while i'm asleep, or whatever...):
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: catoptions
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/catoptions
> Summary description: Preserving and recalling standard catcodes.
> 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 other TeX programming
> tools.
thanks for the upload. i have installed the package, and created 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/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 appear for the first time, at some stage
overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 Jean-Francois Burnol submitted updates to the
mathastext
package.
Summary description: Use the text font in simple mathematics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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In version 1.11:
* various bugs have been corrected
* the endash and alldelims options are active by default
* the en-dash and dotless i and j are now compatible with
all encodings, including Unicode
* the Mathastext command has been improved to
facilitate the mechanism of math versions also when
using XeTeX or LuaTeX with package fontspec.
Usage: usepackage{mathastext}. This will propagate the text
font to math mode.
Version 1.12 corrects some bugs from the recently released
version 1.11. And it makes mathastext better aware of Unicode
engines and fonts.
* The endash and alldelims options are active by default.
* The Mathastext command has been improved to facilitate the
* mechanism of math versions also when using XeTeX or LuaTeX
* The en-dash and dotless i and j will now work with all 8bit
encodings, and also with Unicode fonts.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mathastext/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mathastext
(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 Sun, 6 Feb 2011 Dominik Wassenhoven aubmitted an update to the
biblatex-dw
package.
Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 1.3c
This version of biblatex-dw needs biblatex 1.1a. Please note
that you have to update biblatex as well if you would like
to use biblatex-dw 1.3c!
Changes:
- BUGFIX: Under some circumstances, an error occurred
(command cbx@tempa could not be found). This should be
fixed now.
- BUGFIX: Some of the German translations were broken due
to a change of internal commands in biblatex. This is now
fixed.
- The entry type @review is now supported. You can
specify a reviewed work via the xref field. See the
documentation for details.
- Some internal changes concerning DeclareFieldFormat
directives.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-dw
(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 Sun, 6 Feb 2011 Dominik Waßenhoven submitted the
bibleref-german
package.
Summary description: German formatting of bible citations
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is the first release of bibleref-german. This package provides translations
and various formats for the use of bibleref in German documents. The German
naming of the bible books complies with the 'Loccumer Richtlinien' (Loccum
guidelines). Apart from that, the Vulgate (Latin bible) is supported.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/bibleref-german
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bibleref-german
(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, 5 Feb 2011 Wilfried Hennings submitted an update to the
rtf2latex2e
package.
Summary description: rtf to LaTeX converter
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The rtf2latex2e converter has been updated to release 2-0-1.
The package rtf2latex2e-2-0-1.zip contains the source code files.
The package rtf2latex2e-2-0-1-Win.zip contains a precompiled executable for
Windows and the necessary data files.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/rtf2latex2e
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=rtf2latex2e
(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 Fri, 4 Feb 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted the
collcell
package.
Summary description: Provides macros to collect the content of a tabular cell and provide it to a macro as argument
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This small package provides macros which collect the cell content of
a tabular and provide it to a macro as argument. It was inspired by the
collect@body macro defined by the amsmath or the environ package,
which can be used to collect the body of an environment. Special care
is taken to remove all aligning macros inserted by tabular from the cell
content. The macros also work in the last column of a table.
They do not support verbatim material inside the cells.
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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 .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
while i slept (the afternoon sleep of the convalescent), the daemon
cried:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: latexmk
> Author's name: John Collins
> Location on CTAN: support/latexmk
> Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ver. 4.22e
>
> Fix incorrect error handling in reading initialization files.
> (Sometimes an error was incorrectly detected, when there was in fact no error.)
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and tweaked the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/latexmk.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/latexmk/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Philipp Lehman wrote:
> I've uploaded a new biblatex release to the incoming directory of the
> UK node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/. Please
> purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as
> usual. Thank you very much.
>
> RELEASE NOTES
>
> This is a maintenance release. Biber users are advised to update Biber
> to version 0.7.3.
>
> CHANGES
>
> See the changelog in biblatex.pdf.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon slept, and then crawls out with the excellent:
> Name of contribution: biber
> Author's name: Philip Kime
> Location on CTAN: biblio/biber/
> Summary description: Biber is a BibTeX replacement for biblatex
> License type: artistic
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 0.7.3 has support for re-encoding of UTF-8 <-> TeX macros to help
> people using PDFLaTeX and the incomplete subset of UTF-8 which inputenc
> supports.
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/biber.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/biber/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 Pavel Farar submitted an update to the
ptsans
package.
Summary description: PT Sans font and LaTeX support.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This package contains LaTeX support for the font PT Sans developed by
ParaType for the project Public Types of Russian Federation, and
released under an open user license.
The fonts are included in original TrueType format and converted Type 1
format (as kindly allowed by ParaType). The fonts provide coverage of
the T2* and X2 encodings, and partial coverage of T1.
Reason of upload: CHANGE: Inclusion of Type 1 version of the
fonts.
Related package: ptserif
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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