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CTAN update: pstricks - base
by CTAN Announcements 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk CTAN node. Please replace > the files with the ones in the main directory > /graphics/pstricks/base/ > > /generic/ > pstricks.tex -------- > 2.07 2010-05-24 - fix bug with uput and node setting (ms) > 2010-04-27 - fix bug with trailing space in pst@isnum > 2010-04-26 - fix bug with missing psk@rot for Ellipse > 2010-04-24 - take psk@rot into account for psellipse (hv) > - new version of pst@divide (ms) > > /latex/ > pstricks.sty -------- > 0.44 2010-04-24 - change version number of pstricks.pro > 2010-03-20 - rename pst@tempa to pat@sty@tempa to prevent > problems with pst-fill > > /dvips/ > pstricks.pro -------- > 1.07 2010-04-30 - take psk@rot into account for psellipse > - new helper function concatstring > > /doc/ > pst-doc.cls -------- > 2010-05-15 - extensions to pst-doc.cls v 0.15 thanks for the upload. i've installed the files and updated the catalogue repository. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pstricks.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/base/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xy-pic
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

This should be at 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: Xy-pic Version number: 3.8 Author's name: Kristoffer Rose Location on CTAN: /macros/generic/diagrams/xypic/ Summary description: Xy-pic is a package for typesetting diagrams License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New release of Xy-pic after ten years - now includes PDF generation in addition to several improvements! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/diagrams/xypic/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xy-pic (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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New on CTAN: unicode-math
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

the daemon perks up with the appearance of the following (which he had previously imagined to be a myth concocted by people on the net): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: unicode-math > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/unicode-math > Summary description: Unicode math support for XeTeX and LuaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Well, I guess it's now or never. With an archive of emails about the > thing going back to 2006, I think it's finally time to release this > package. (Sorry about the hold-up, really.) > > This is the initial release of the unicode-math package for inclusion > in TeX Live 2010. It is designed to typeset mathematics with unicode > input and using OpenType math fonts. (There is very very little > compatibility with older maths packages.) XeTeX support is fully > tested but LuaTeX not quite so much. (At least the example file > runs...) > > You can typeset with the STIX fonts with the present version of the > package, but there is no support yet for its extra alphabets in the > Unicode `private use area'. I hope to add support for them soon. > > Thanks to all the people who've provided valuable feedback over the > years, and especially to Barbara Beeton for laying the foundations > with her work with the STIX fonts. > > Good luck; I hope it works. Let me know if it doesn't. Finally, this > package is by no means complete (it's called the initial release for > a reason). Your feedback and suggestions now are greatly > appreciated. Anyone coming along to the TUG 2010 conference will have > the opportunity to hear me speak about it in a couple of weeks. (But > will I be able to muster up a full 30 minutes? Actually, yeah, I > probably will.) > > Time for a beer. have a good one! i have installed the package and created an entry in the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/unicode-math.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/unicode-math though, of course, the catalogue entry won't appear on the web until some time tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: savetrees
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

This should be at 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: savetrees Version number: 1.3 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/savetrees Summary description: Pack as much as possible onto each page of a LaTeX document. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of the savetrees package is to pack as much text as possible onto each page of a LaTeX document. Admittedly, this makes the document far less attractive. Nevertheless, savetrees is a simple way to save paper when printing draft copies of a document. It can also be useful when trying to meet a tight page-length requirement for a conference or journal submission. Version 1.3 of savetrees adds support for pdfTeX's font-expansion mechanism via the microtype package. Documents built with pdflatex should therefore shrink even more than with previous versions of savetrees. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/savetrees . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/savetrees (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: hepthesis
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '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: hepthesis Version number: 1.4.3 Author's name: Andy Buckley Summary description: A class for academic reports, especially PhD theses. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hepthesis is a LaTeX class for typesetting large academic reports, in particular PhD theses. It was originally developed for typesetting the author’s high-energy physics PhD thesis and includes some features specifically tailored to such an application. In particular, hepthesis offers: * Attractive semantic environments for various rubric sections; * Extensive options for draft production, screen viewing and binding-ready output; * Helpful extensions of existing environments, including equation and tabular; and * Support for quotations at the start of the thesis and each chapter. The class is based on scrbook, from the KOMA-Script (koma-script) bundle. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hepthesis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hepthesis (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: xltxtra
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

and again, up comes that daemon again: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xltxtra > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra > Summary description: Extras for XeLaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Remove all the features that have been incorporated into fontspec v2. > No user-level changes. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for this one, too. 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/xltxtra.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra the catalogue entry (which has actually changed a bit) won't appear on the web until after i've retired to bed tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: fontspec v2.0b2
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

that daemon pops up at the most inconvenient times. while i was working hard on my day job, it said: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: fontspec v2.0b2 > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fontspec > Summary description: Font loading in XeTeX and LuaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Second beta release of fontspec v2, which supports LuaTeX. > > Minor changes since the previous release: > - No longer need to run mkluatexfontdb manually; > update documentation to reflect this > - Fix a bug with automatic font scaling in LuaTeX > - Two new XeTeX features: AutoFakeBold and AutoFakeSlant > for generating poor man's bold and poor man's oblique > shapes for a family (these are extensions of FakeBold/FakeSlant) > - An internal programmer's interface command for creating > new LaTeX font families. > - Minor internal and documentation changes. > - For XeTeX: many functions of xltxtra are now incorporated > into fontspec. > - The makefile can now automatically install fontspec without > needing the path to your texmfhome. > > (Note we no longer have a .ins file but Manuel assures me that's > okay. You can extract everything from the dtx using the Makefile > or by running `tex fontspec.dtx`.) 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/fontspec.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec though the catalogue entry won't change (in so far as it changes at all) until some time while i sleep tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: csquotes 5.0
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '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. > > RELEASE NOTES > > See the file RELEASE for release notes. Note that this release > includes some changes which are not backwards compatible. However, > there is a new package option which emulates older versions of the > package to ease the transition. The release notes have all the > details. > > CHANGES > > See the changelog in the manual for a verbose 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/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 Update: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the softmaker-freefont package. Summary description: Support files for SoftMaker free fonts available at www.freefont.de License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In June 2009 www.freefont.de offered a beautiful handwriting font for free download: The Softmaker Stone Handwriting. As handwriting fonts are a quite limited resource in the LaTeX world, i decided to create support files for this beautiful font. Therefore, Stone Handwriting will be the starting point for the softmaker-freefont bundle. Other fonts will be included in future. Supported fonts at the moment: Artistic, Baskerville-Nova (regular + bold + italic + bold italic), Canossa (regular + bold + light), Congress (regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Helium (regular + bold), Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold), Jugendstil, Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting, Sunset (regular + bold) License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) New in v1.12: - added support for the font Softmaker Helium (regular + bold + faked slanted + faked small caps) Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (June 2010) and can be downloaded for free (at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de Later you can buy it from Softmaker - renamed font families (5xx -> 6xx) to avoid naming conflict with LaTeX support for Softmaker FontSite 500 CD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/softmaker-freefont/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=softmaker-freefont (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: newcommand
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '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: newcommand Version number: 2.0 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /support/newcommand Summary description: Easily create macros utilizing sophisticated argument processing License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX's ewcommand is fairly limited in the way it processes optional arguments, but the TeX alternative, a batch of defs and futurelets, can be overwhelming to the casual LaTeX user. newcommand.py is a Python program that automatically generates LaTeX macro definitions for macros that require more powerful argument processing than ewcommand can handle. newcommand.py is intended for LaTeX advanced beginners (i.e., those who know how to use ewcommand but not internal LaTeX2e commands such as @ifnextchar) and for more advanced users who want to save some typing when defining complex macros. With newcommand.py, the user specifies a template for a macro's arguments. newcommand.py then custom-generates a macro definition according to the user's specifications and includes a user-friendly Put code here comment to indicate where the macro's main code should appear. newcommand.py supports arbitrary interleavings of required and optional arguments, starred macros, mandatory literal text, macros with more than nine arguments, optional arguments delimited by parentheses instead of square brackets, and optional arguments whose value defaults to the value given for a prior argument. The generated macros can easily be pasted into a LaTeX document and edited as desired. This version (2.0) represents a major rewrite of newcommand.py. New features include improved code generation, support for starred macros, and support for more than nine macro arguments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/newcommand . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/newcommand (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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