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CTAN update: xpackages
by CTAN Announcements 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

i was (righteously) doing housework, and the daemon came up with: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xpackages > Author's name: The LaTeX Project > Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xpackages > Summary description: High-level LaTeX3 concepts > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The xpackages bundle: high-Level LaTeX3 concepts > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > The xpackages are experimental, high-level parts of LaTeX3. They > are designed to provide a link between the programming system > (expl3) and the user. Each xpackage is focussed in a different > area, for example creating document commands (xparse), > producing flexible formatting functions (xtemplate), etc. > > At present, the xpackages are designed to be loaded on top > of LaTeX2e: > > usepackage{xparse} > usepackage{xtemplate} > > In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code. > This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a > stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed. > > To use the xpackages, you will need to have the expl3 package > available. This provides the LaTeX3 coding environment on which > the xpackages are built. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This release (SVN 2047) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > This release keeps xpackages in synchronisation with changes > to expl3. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The LaTeX3 Project > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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/xpackages.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xpackages the catalogue entry, on the web, will change, slightly, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: expl3
by CTAN Announcements 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

the daemon cryeth: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: expl3 > Author's name: The LaTeX Project > Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/expl3/ > Summary description: Low-level LaTeX3 programming conventions > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This release (SVN 2047) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > This release addresses a number of specific issues with the > expl3 system. Some of these are not back-compatible, but are > needed to improve the overall structure and reliability of > expl3. > > When used with LuaTeX, expl3 includes support for category > code tables. This support was used experimentally in setting > ExplSyntaxOn and ExplSyntaxOff, but this leads to unexpected > issues. This decision has therefore been reversed: category > code setting by expl3 itself is the same with all engines. > > The choice of quarks as delimiters has been tidied up. These > changes are internal, but may show up with existing code that > uses internal functions. A particular case is l_head:w and > l_tail:w, which are now delimited by q_stop (and not > q_nil as earlier). > > Prompted by the LuaTeX-specific issue mentioned above, the > team has revised the use of other primitives inside expl3. > Variation in behaviour between different engines is not > desirable for the successful application of expl3. As a result, > the team have decided to require the functionality of the > pdfstrcmp primitive. This means that the minimum engine > requirements for expl3 are now: > - pdfTeX 1.30 or later > - XeTeX 0.9994 or later > - LuaTeX 0.40 or later (0.60 or later strongly recommended) > > The l_if_eq:nn(TF) family of comparisons have been heavily > revised. There are now two distinct families: > - l_if_eq:nn(TF), a set of non-expandable functions which > compare the two input token lists on a token basis. > - str_if_eq:nn(TF), a set of expandable functions which > compare the two inputs on string (category-code independent) > basis. > Variants of these functions have also been revised: programmers > will need to check their code with the new implementation. > > Looking ahead, there may be more revisions of specific points > as the code is more widely used as as particular issues are > addressed. An effort to formalise the documentation will begin > shortly, and so another update is likely to take place before > November. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i have installed the replacement files, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/expl3.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/expl3/ the catalogue entry on the web will change a bit overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: linegoal (version 2)
by CTAN Announcements 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

before dinner was served, the daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: linegoal > Author's name: Florent CHERVET > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/linegoal > Summary description: A new ``dimen'' corresponding to the remainder of the line > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > the linegoal macro now behaves more like a dimen > Compatibility with calc has been optimized > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/linegoal.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/linegoal (though users shouldn't look for much enlightenment in the overnight changes from the update). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: calxxxx-yyyy
by CTAN Announcements 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

This should be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: calxxxx-yyyy Version number: 1.0a Author's name: Hans-Martin Münch Summary description: Printing calendars for some chosen years. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prints calendars for several years and in different languages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/calxxxx-yyyy . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/calxxxx-yyyy (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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CTAN update: struktex
by CTAN Announcements 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

This should be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: StrukTeX Version number: v133 Author's name: Jobst Hoffmann Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/struktex/ Summary description: A package for the creation of Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Draw Nassi-Schneidermann charts Even in the age of OOP one must develop algorithms. Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams are a well known tool to describe an algorithm in a graphical way. This package StrukTeX presents some macros for generating those diagrams in a LaTeX document. The package provides the most important elements of a Nassi-Shneiderman diagram, including processing blocks, loops, mapping conventions for alternatives, etc. Diagrams are drawn using the picture environment (using pict2e for preference). The author is Jobst Hoffmann. See also pict2e. If one is working with (X)emacs and AUCTeX the drawing process is supported by structex.el, a style file which knows the syntax of most of the commands from the StrukTeX package. Version v133 contains a new implementation of the p... macros and Babel support. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/struktex/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/struktex (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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CTAN has a new package: spot
by CTAN Announcements 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

This should be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: spot Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Anders Hendrickson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/beamer-contrib/spot Summary description: Spotlight highlighting for Beamer License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows dramatic highlighting of words and phrases by painting shapes around them. It is chiefly intended for use in Beamer presentations, but it can be used in other document classes as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer-contrib/spot . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/spot (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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CTAN Update: biblatex-dw
by CTAN Announcements 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 Dominik Waßenhoven submitted an update to the biblatex-dw package. Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.3a [2010/09/21] This version of biblatex-dw supports biblatex 0.9d. Please note that you have to update biblatex at least to version 0.9b if you would like to use biblatex-dw 1.3a! You will also need to install the package logreq which is a new requirement since biblatex 0.9b. Users might also need to update their data due to some changes in biblatex 0.9a and biblatex 0.9b. Please follow the hints for users given in biblatex’s RELEASE notes for both of these versions. The following changes were made to biblatex-dw: - Option »omitpages« was renamed to »citepages« and enhanced. As in the verbose standard styles, you can now choose between »permit«, »omit«, »suppress« and »separate«. Other as in the biblatex styles, the standard for this option in biblatex-dw is »separate«. - Option »herename« dropped. The same functionality can now be achieved by using »citepages=separate«. Note that the bibliography string »herename« was also dropped, »thiscite« is used instead. - New option »shorthandinbib«: if set to »true«, the shorthand of each entry will be typeset in the bibliography before each item. The shorthand will be set in brackets, separated by a space. You can customize this behaviour by adjusting the following commands: DeclareFieldFormat{shorthandinbib}{mkbibbrackets{#1}} ewcommand*{shorthandinbibpunct}{addspace} The default for »shorthandinbib« is »false«. - BUGFIX: The shorthandpunct could not be redefined by a simple enewcommand, but only as an argument of AtBeginDocument. This is now fixed, and a simple enewcommand is sufficient. - BUGFIX: The shorthandpunct was also printed, when the option »shorthandwidth« was not in use (this had only effect, when the shorthandpunct was redefined). This is now fixed. - BUGFIX: When using authortitle-dw with »firstfull=true«, a parencite had an erroneous space for the first citation without a postnote. This is now fixed. - BUGFIX: The new editorial roles introduced in biblatex 0.9 were not fully supported. This is now fixed. - BUGFIX: The option »firstfullname« did not work with biblatex’s option »uniquename«. This is now fixed. - BUGFIX: When using hyperref, some links to the bibliography were broken. This should now be fixed. - BUGFIX: In @inbook entries the punctuation after a book author was not the labelnamepunct. This is now fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/ . 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

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CTAN Update: installfont
by CTAN Announcements 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the installfont package. Summary description: A bash script for installing a LaTeX font family. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- With this script you can install a LaTeX font family (Postscript Type1, Truetype, Opentype). It supports font series from light to ultra bold + (faked) small caps + faked slanted, but no expert fonts. The script will rename the fonts automatically (optinal) or will otherwise expect *.afm files and the font files (in Postscript Type1 format!) named in the Karl Berry scheme (e.g. 5nar8a.pfb). After running the script, you should have a working font installation in your local TeX tree. License: LPPL New in v1.6: - added new switch: -L, --log redirect terminal output of programms to LOG file - added support for small caps font in all supported font series. The script now installs: * light, light italic, light small caps * regular/medium, regular/medium italic, regular/medium small caps * semi bold, semi bold italic, semi bold small caps * demi, demi italic, demi small caps * bold, bold italic, bold small caps * extra bold, extra bold italic, extra bold small caps * ultra bold/heavy, ultra bold/heavy italic, ultra bold/heavy small caps feature requests by: Kurt Lidwin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/installfont . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=installfont (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: csquotes 5.0c
by CTAN Announcements 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded 'csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. There's > also a csquotes.tds.zip file. Please delete the old files, install the > new ones, and announce the upload. > Thank you very much. > > ABOUT > > The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and > display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging > from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of > formal quotations. > > CHANGES > > See the changelog in the manual for a list of changes. 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/csquotes.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN : [Freefont-announce] new release 20100919
by CTAN Announcements 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

The new release should be on your local CTAN mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. A year and a half has passed since the last release. The delay was largely my fault--you have my apologies. A lot has happened though. Several new ranges have been added, some of which are hard to find anywhere as free software. Sinhala and Vietnamese should now be much more functional. Lots of symbols have been added. Many glyphs have been cleaned up and some more kerning has been specified, for a better overall look. Get it at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/ Look for files dated 20100919 What follows is a summary of changes made to Gnu FreeFont since the last release. For a more complete listing, see the Changelog. Unicode ranges ============== new --- Cherokee (Daniel Johnson) Osmanya (Daniel Johnson) Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (Daniel Johnson) Tifinagh (Daniel Johnson) Armenian in Serif (Daniel Johnson) Vai (Daniel Johnson) Kayah Li (Daniel Johnson) Coptic (Steve White) Glagolitic (Steve White) deleted ------- Tamil from Sans (due to absence of necessary ligatures) replaced -------- Sinhala is now taken directly from the TeX font 'sinh' by Yannis Haralambous. It has been reviewed and corrected by a native speaker. altered ------- Armenian (spacing; Aiw to reference Phi on Daniel Johnson's advice) Vietnamese (better accent placement, esp. in Sans) Latin (general letter form improvements and clean-ups, numeral 1 and braces in mono re-designed for distinctness) Greek (various letter form improvements: made nu distinct from Latin v) Cyrillic (mark placement, letter forms) Mahjong Tiles (got rid of a bamboo shoot) Superscripts and subscripts (standardize placement) Georgian (added missing letter in Mono, Sans) Western Musical Symbols (much cleaning up, correcting) Miscellaneous Symbols (re-design of musical flat symbol) Hebrew (corrected some vowel marks) expanded -------- Currency Symbols Latin Extended-D (Mayanist letters from Daniel Johnson) Supplemental Arrows-A (completed in Serif) Arrows (completed in Serif, corrected some switched glyphs) Combining Diacritics Spacing Modifier Letters Letterlike Symbols Mathematical Symbols Miscellaneous Technical Symbols Scan Lines Geometric Shapes (completed in Sans) Number Forms (new vulgar fractions; completed in Serif roman) Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols Internatonal Phonetic Alphabet Phonetic Extensions Supplement (completed in roman) IPA Extensions (completed in roman bold and oblique) Cyrillic (Abkhasian letters, yi_yi Ukrainian ligature) Cyrillic Extended-B Georgian (completed in Serif) Gurmukhi (completed Unicode range) Gujarati (completed Unicode range) Devanagari (completed Unicode range) Tamil (completed Unicode range) Technical/Legal =============== Added full GNU copyright notice to each SFD file. Reduced cases of nested character references, to ameliorate a bug in Mac OS 10.6 Various improvements to kerning Removed TTF Names for sample text TTF Names tables to give locale-specific names to the various faces. Checked each with a native speaker. Added special characters for TrueType, .notdef .null nonmarkingreturn Corrected the replacement character Added GASP tables for control of hinting/smoothing (anti-aliasing) of TrueType. PS Blues Values improvements; removed BlueFuzz altogether Deleted TrueType tables 'cvt', 'fpgm', 'prep' because of FontForge complaints. Arabic ligatures: turned on ignore combining marks on advice of Khaled Hosny. tools ===== range_report.py has been improved a lot and expanded for Unicode 5.2 ligature_lookups.py makes an HTML list and display of the ligatures in a font Thanks ====== Foremost to Daniel Johnson, who drew and contributed several ranges, as well as providing technical and moral support. To Harshula Jayasuriya for edits, advice, and other collaboration on the Sinhala range. To Yannis Haralambous for permission to include his TeX sinha font The Wellcome Library Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy for the Wellcome Library Thanks to Dominik Wujastyk, for providing us with feedback and contacts to repsonsible people at the Trust. To Mina Magdy for much advice and criticism concerning the Coptic range (and for her tolerance of my choice of letter forms, which was different from hers). To Pavel Skrylev for many additions to old Cyrillic ranges. To Mohammed Anwari for correct ligatures in Buginese. To Khaled Hosny for his patch for Persian. To Karl Berry for hard work and overall sanity. -- and to the Debian packaging team -- and to the many bug reporters!

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