On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the
poltawski
font package.
> Package: Antykwa Poltawskiego fonts
> Version: 1.101
> Date: Oct 9 2010
> Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki
> License: GUST Font License
> Location on CTAN: fonts/poltawski
>
> Maintenance status maintained. The Current Maintainer
> of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki.
>
> The package contains the Antykwa Po{l}tawskiego family of fonts in the
> PostScript Type 1 and OpenType formats.
> The original font was designed in the twenties of the XX century by
> the Polish typographer Adam Po{l}tawski (1881-1952).
>
> Following the route set out by the Latin Modern and TeX Gyre projects
> (http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry), the Antykwa Poltawskiego
> digitisation project aims at providing a rich collection of
> diacritical characters in the attempt to cover as many Latin-based
> scripts as possible. To our knowledge, the repertoire of characters
> covers all European languages as well as some other Latin-based
> alphabets such as Vietnamese and Navajo; at the request of users,
> recent extensions (following the enhancement of the Latin Modern
> collection) provide glyphs sufficient for typesetting of romanized
> transliterations of Arabic and Sanskrit scripts.
>
> The Antykwa Poltawskiego family consists of 4 weights (light,
> normal, medium, bold), each having upright and italic forms and one
> of 5 design sizes: 6, 8, 10, 12 and 17pt (in the OTF lingo: extended,
> semiextended, normal, semicondensed, and condensed, respectively).
> Altogether, the collection comprises 40 font files,
> containing the same repertoire of 1126 characters.
>
> Recent changes:
> Ver 1.101: 09.10.2010
> mistakenly missing `smcp' (small caps) feature and stylistic alternatives
> added in OTF files; altered implementation of the `numr', `dnom', `frac',
> and `dlig' features; other font files remained essentially intact (only
> version number changed).
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: mtx
Version number: 0.60d
Author's name: Bob Tennent
Location on CTAN: /support/mtx
Summary description: A preprocessor for pmx.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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An update to 0.60d and re-organization of the files.
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/mtx
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mtx
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group
see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: cals
Version number: 2.0.1
Author's name: Oleg Parashchenko
Summary description: multipage tables with headers, footers, cell spanning and decorations
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The cals package is a set of macros to typeset multipage
tables with repeatable headers and footers, with cells
spanned over rows and columns. Decorations are supported:
padding, background color, width of separation rules. The
code is compatible with multicols and pdfsync.
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This package is at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cals
. Information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cals
(it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported
by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group
see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
and *again*! the daemon's busy tonight.
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: answers
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/answers
> Summary description: Setting questions (or exercises) and answers.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.13:
> - Produce proper cross-references with hyperref
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've 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/answers.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/answers
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
that old daemon's at it again:
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: achemso
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso
> Summary description: Support for submissions to American Chemical Society journals
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v3.5c:
> - Fix an issue with mciteSubRef
> - Remove sections from Org. Lett. drafts
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and updated the
catalogue entry (very lightly).
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/achemso.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/achemso
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded math-E.tgz to the uk ctan node. Please save all
> files in the directory
>
> /info/examples/Math-E/
>
> The zip contains all examples from the english book
> Typesetting Mathematics with LaTeX
>
> The examples are stand alone documents and can be
> run with LaTeX or pdflatex. For more information
> read the README file.
thanks for the upload. i have installed the files and made an entry in
the catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/math-e.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/examples/Math-E/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 Marcel Jira submitted the new package
progessbar
to CTAN.
Summary description: Visualize shares of total amounts in the form of a (progress-)bar
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Description
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This package allows you to easily visualize shares of total
amounts in the form of a bar. So basically you can convert
any number between 0 and 1 to a progressbar using the
command progressbar{<number>}. Also a lot of customizations
are possible, allowing you to create an unique progressbar
on your own.
License
=======
Copyright 2010 Marcel Jira
This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either
version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later
version. The latest version of this license is in
http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3c or
later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version
2005/12/01 or later.
This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'.
The Current Maintainer of this work is Marcel Jira.
This work consists of the files progressbar.sty and
progressbar.tex.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/progressbar/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=progressbar
(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, 10 Oct 2010 Boris Oriet submitted an update to the
chletter
package.
Summary description: A class for typesetting letters to Swiss rules.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The chletter document class enables composition of letters fitting into Swiss C5 & C6/5
windowed envelopes. This class is compatible with the standard letter class. It is not
limited to letters and may be used as a generic document class.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/chletter/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=chletter
(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
the daemon wrote, yesterday:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: The yt4pdf package
> Author's name: D. P. Story
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/
> Summary description: Play YouTube videos in a PDF
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The yt4pdf package uses the rmannot package to embed a special SWF
> file to play the YouTube videos. There is a complete set of buttons
> that come with the package to control the video: play, pause, stop
> loading, rewind, load a video by its YouTube video ID, and a button to
> view a video on the YouTube web site. Adobe Acrobat 9 or later is
> required to author a document; only Adobe Reader 9 is need to view the
> created yt4pdf document.
thanks for the upload. i have installed the files and created a
catalogue entry in the repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/yt4pdf.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/yt4pdf/
the catalogue entry won't appear on the web until some time tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team