the daemon's always happier with something new and different:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: locality
> Author's name: Jason Gross
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/locality
> Summary description: Various macros for keeping things local
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The locality package is primarily for (La)TeX programmers. It
> provides various macros which implement basic scoping, so that
> the programmer has more control over scoping than whether
> something is local to the current group, or global to the
> entire file.
i've installed the new package, and made an entry in the catalogue
repository for it.
thanks for the contribution.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/locality.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/locality/
the catalogue entry won't appear on the web until tonight's processing
run.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Joseph Wright submitted an updtae to the
siunitx
package.
Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v2.0h:
- Improve handling of complex root printing
- Repair broken 'bracket-numbers' option
- Fix issue with complex numbers in quotients (add brackets when in numerator)
- Introduce localisation for text values (range-pharse and list-final-separator options)
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=siunitx
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
the daemon reports:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: prerex v. 6.0
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Author's email: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
> Location on CTAN: /graphics/prerex
> Summary description: Interactive editor for prerequisite charts, macro support.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> prerex source files now organized as a gzipped tarball with an
> autoconf-generated configure script.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new files and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/prerex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/prerex/
a minuscule change will be visible on the catalogue entry, some time
tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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the daemon reports:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: luaotfload
> Author's name: Khaled Hosny
> Location on CTAN: macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload
> Summary description: OpenType layout system for Plain TeX and LaTeX
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> * anum feature did not work as advertised
> * add system shipped TTC fonts on Mac OS X to the blacklist, until the
> culprit ones are isolated
thanks again for the upload. i have 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/luaotfload.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload
a (minuscule) catalogue entry change will happen some time overnight
tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon is delighted to tell us all that
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: lualibs
> Author's name: Khaled Hosny
> Location on CTAN: macros/luatex/generic/lualibs
> Summary description: Lualibs is a collection of Lua modules useful for
> general programming.
> License type: lgpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> * don't use kpse.set_program_name(), people loading lualibs with
> texlua should set it themselves, to avoid possible clashes
> * drop deprecated functions and aliases
> * update the documentation
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/lualibs.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/lualibs/
the catalogue entry will be updated (in a small way) overnight, tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 Joseph Wright submitted an update to the
siunitx
package.
Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v2.0f:
- Fix issue with spacing of multiplication sign in text mode
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=siunitx
(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, 26 Jun 2010 Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
ctable
package.
Summary description: Option-driven typesetting of table/figure floats
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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ctable.sty provides commands to easily typeset centered or left or
right aligned tables and (multiple-)figure floats, with footnotes.
Instead of an environment, a command with 4 arguments is used; the
first is optional and is used for key,value pairs generating
variations on the defaults and offering a route for future
extensions.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ctable
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ctable
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 Thomas Titz submitted an update to the
idxlayout
package.
Summary description: Configurable index layout, responsive to KOMA-Script and memoir
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- Corrected option justific=RaggedRight
- Package ragged2e now loaded automatically
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/idxlayout/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=idxlayout
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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, 26 Jun 2010 John Bowman submitted an update to the
asymptote
package.
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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Version 2.00
The construction of 3D TeX labels was sped up greatly. Plain
TeX page numbers were suppressed. Dotted 3D lines and 3D
sizing problems were fixed. A general search function for
sorted structures was implemented; the lexorder functions in
math.asy now return strict partial orders. Additional GSL
functions were added. The correct PRC units (PostScript pt
units, properly called bp) are now displayed in Adobe Reader.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=asymptote
(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 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 Joseph Wright submitted an update to the
achemso
package.
Summary description: Support for submissions to American Chemical Society journals
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v3.5:
- Completely revised BibTeX style file, clearing up internal issues and improving
compliance with The ACS Style Guide
- Fix issue with bibliography labels
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/achemso
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=achemso
(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