On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 Norbert Preining submitted the
japanese-otf-uptex
package.
Summary description: upLaTeX support of japanese-otf
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This is a package for upLaTeX support of
japanese-otf package otfbeta (v1.7b3 2011/10/28) by psitau-san
( http://psitau.kitunebi.com/otf.html )
It requires upTeX-0.20 or later.
It was written by TANAKA Takuji.
The tfm/vf files were created by Preining Norbert.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/japanese/japanese-otf-uptex
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/japanese-otf-uptex
(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
Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss(a)FU-Berlin.DE> wrote:
> I uploaded examples.tgz to the uk CTAN node
> Please save all files in the _new_ directory
>
> /info/examples/Einfuehrung/
>
> This upload contains all examples with the source
> code, document classes, and data files for the new
> book of the DANTE-Edition Einführung in LaTeX.
> http://www.dante.de/index/Literatur/Einfuehrung.html
i have installed the files and created a catalogue entry.
thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> I have uploaded `pdfcrop.zip' in the /incoming directory
> of ftp.cam.ctan.org.
>
> It replaces the files in CTAN:support/pdfcrop/
> and pdfcrop.tds.zip goes in CTAN:install/support/
>
> Changes:
>
> 2012/02/01 v1.33
> Standard input can be used as input PDF file.
> Then the output file name must be given explicitly.
thanks for the upload; i've installed it as requested.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 H.-Martin Münch submitted an update to the
pagecolor
package.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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New commands
ewpagecolor{...} and
estorepagecolor, similar to
ewgeometry and
estoregeometry of the geometry package.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pagecolor
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pagecolor
(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 Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Leo Liu submitted an update to the
xecjk
package.
Summary description: A package written for XeLaTeX which allows users to typeset CJK scripts easily
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This is a bug fix update. CJKglue is not changed by setCJKmonofont+ globally, only verbatim font is affected now.
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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
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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 Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Norbert Preining submitted the
jfontmaps
package.
Summary description: font maps and support scripts for managing kanji embedding for Japanese TeX
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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First upload of separated out packages of jfontmaps together with the new script update-setup-kanji (former update-otf).
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/japanese/jfontmaps
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/jfontmaps
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
the daemon wrote (last night, when i was struggling with a problem)@
> Name of contributions: l3kernel
> Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project
> Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org
> Package version: SVN 3287
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Snapshot of SVN 3285
> --------------------
>
> - Drop loading of calc package by expl3. This was included for
> historical reasons, and users requiring calc should now load
> it explicitly.
> - Better documentation of load-time options for expl3.
> - Extend coverage of characters set to 'correct' catcodes by
> ExplSyntaxOn.
> - l3str and l3regex documentation improved in preparation
> for addition to stable codebase.
> - Various l3str functions renamed or removed.
> - l3regex now recognises u as a shortcut for token list
> variables.
> - Better handling of active characters and spaces in file
> names when using io... or file... operations.
> - xgalley improvements to incorporate behaviour of \ as in
> LaTeX2e.
> - New experimental module l3dt to construct 'data tables'.
> This module is intended for handling tabular data, for
> example as is done by the LaTeX2e package datatool. At
> present, the functions provided are at the most basic
> level only.
thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entries at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3experimental.html
> or they may browse the package directories at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/
The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) by tomorrow morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon tried to wake me with:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xwatermark
> Author's name: Ahmed Musa
> Author's email: amusa22(a)gmail.com
> Package version: 1.5.2a
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xwatermark/
> Summary description: A dynamic watermarking scheme for LaTeX.
> License type: lppl
>
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> An independent outer-brace stripper is introduced for xwatermark to
> offset a previous external dependence.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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/xwatermark.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xwatermark/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 Jim Diamond submitted an update to the
xpdfopen
package.
Summary description: Commands to control PDF readers, under X11.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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xpdfopen provides programs that allow you to remotely control PDF readers
under X11. It works with various versions of Acrobat reader, xpdf and evince.
This is most useful in situations where you are previewing your output while
editing your source.
This update adds an option which attempts to restore input focus to the window
which has focus when pdfopen is called.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/xpdfopen
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xpdfopen
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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 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 Clemens Niederberger submitted an update to the
chemmacros
package.
Summary description: macros and commands for chemists
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The chemmacros package got bundled with two further packages. Thus the
functionality of chemmacros is considerably increased. Please read the new
documentation for details.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/chemmacros/
. More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/chemmacros
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf