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CTAN Update: latex_maker
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the mk (latex_maker) package. Summary description: maker for latex, xelatex, plain in edit/compile/view/print cycle License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mk is a Ruby script that, in close collaboration with vpp (short for View and Print PDF/PostScript), is helpful in the cyclic process of editing, viewing, and printing a latex/xelatex/plain document. Essentially, mk uses texi2dvi for compilation, vpp for viewing and printing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latex_maker . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=latex_maker (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: cm-unicode
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 Nikola Lečić submitted the new package cm-unicode to CTAN. Summary description: Computer Modern Unicode font family License type: ofl The font author is Andrey Panov. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Modern Unicode fonts were converted from metafont sources using mftrace with autotrace backend and fontforge. Some characters in several fonts are copied from Blue Sky type 1 fonts released by AMS. Currently the fonts contain glyphs from Latin (Metafont ec, tc, vnr), Cyrillic (lh), Greek (cbgreek when available) code sets and IPA extensions (from tipa). This font set contains 33 fonts. This archive contains AFM, PFB and OTF versions; the OTF version of the Computer Modern Unicode fonts works with TeX engines that directly support OpenType features, such as XeTeX and LuaTeX. License: OFL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/cm-unicode/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=cm-unicode (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 has a new package: oldstandard
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 Nikola Lečić submitted a new package oldstandard to CTAN. Summary description: Old Standard: A Unicode Font for Classical and Medieval Studies License type: ofl Author of the font is Alexey Kryukov. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Old Standard is supposed to reproduce the actual printing style of the early 20th century, reviving a specific type of Modern (classicist) style of serif typefaces, very commonly used in various editions of the late 19th and early 20th century, but almost completely abandoned later. It supports typesetting of Old and Middle English, Old Icelandic, Cyrillic (with historical characters, extensions for Old Slavonic and localised forms), Gothic transliterations, critical editions of Classical Greek and Latin, and many more. Old Standard works with TeX engines that directly support OpenType features, such as XeTeX and LuaTeX. License: OFL, GFDL (manual) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=oldstandard (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 has a new package: Bulgarian translation of the pst-eucl documentation
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, Stefka Karakoleva submitted the pst-eucl package documentation in Bulgarian language (Euclidean Geometry with PSTricks) to CTAN. License type: fdl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/info/translations/pst-eucl/bulgarian/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pst-eucl-translation-bg (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: thumbpdf v3.11
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the thumbpdf package > License remains LPPL. > > Changes: > * pdfcompresslevel=0 and pdfminorversion=4 added for thumbpdf.tex. > * input is used with file name extension for thumbpdf.tex. > * Warning if pdfobjcompresslevel>0. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: bibleref
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

quoth the daemon: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: bibleref > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/bibleref > Summary description: Format bible citations. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1.13: > * Changed @ifnextchar to ew@ifnextchar to prevent spaces being > ignored after bible references. (amsgen.sty now a required > package.) > > * Removed spurious space when setting some of the styles 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/bibleref.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bibleref the catalogue entry will twitch slightly, in the small hours of tomorrow morning. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: gentium
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Gentium Version number: 2010.07.07 Author's name: Thomas A. Schmitz, Mojca Miklavec Location on CTAN: /fonts/gentium Summary description: Gentium font and support files. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package includes TrueType fonts from SIL, files needed to use them in pdfTeX in multiple encodings (agr, t2a, ec/T1, texnansi, l7x, qx, t5) and support files for ConTeXt. Support for LaTeX is pending (we got two different solution using completely different approach and someone needs to decide which one is better). This was a bugfix version: - use proper fonts (some ttf files were half-broken) - use lowercase extention - add complete documentation from SIL - fix dcroat/Idotaccent (Mojca still claims that it's a bug in pdfTeX) - fix some typos in ConTeXt typescripts - add source for generating TFM files ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/gentium . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/gentium (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 upload: venturisadf
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

This should reach your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: venturisadf Version number: version 1.005 of the Venturis ADF Font Collection; updated TeX/LaTeX support Author's name: Clea F. Rees Location on CTAN: /fonts/venturisadf/ Summary description: Venturis ADF fonts collection. License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serif and sans serif complete text font families in Adobe Type 1 format (OTF now available separately) for publication. The family is based on the Utopia family, and has been modified and developed by the Arkandis Digital foundry. Support for using the fonts, in (La)TeX, is also provided (and makes use of the nfssext-cfr package). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/venturisadf/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/venturisadf (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: libertine
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michale's College ................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Font Linux Libertine Version number: 4.8.1 Author's name: Michael Niedermair Location on CTAN: /fonts/libertine Summary description: new version of the linux libertine font package License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- new version of the linux libertine font package - new font version (4.8.1) - bug fixes - first alpha release for lualatex - new font names (PSFontName, TTF-Names, ...) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/libertine . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/libertine (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: dktools
by CTAN Announcements 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 Dirk Krause submitted the new package dktools to CTAN. It supersedes the bmeps and fig2vect packages. Summary description: Tools by DK (including bmeps and fig2vect) License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tools and libraries by Dirk Krause, licensed under BSD-Style license conditions. Among others this package contains bmeps (conversion from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM/TIFF to EPS/PDF) and fig2vect (conversion from FIG to MetaPost/EPS/PDF/TeX/BoundingBox). Project page: http://dktools.sourceforge.net Original download source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dktools ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/dktools . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dktools (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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