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CTAN Update: overpic
by CTAN Announcements 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update to the overpic package. Summary description: Package for overwriting graphics License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reset the graphics parameter after including the main graphic. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/overpic/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=overpic (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: mdputu
by CTAN Announcements 13 Sep '10

13 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: mdputu Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/mdputu Summary description: Unslanted Digits in Adobe Utopia Italics License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Annals of Mathematics uses italics for theorems. However, slanted digits and parentheses look disturbing when surrounded by (upright) math. This package provides virtual fonts with italics and upright digits and punctuation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/mdputu . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mdputu (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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TL 2010 available
by CTAN Announcements 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

karl berry writes: > We've gone ahead with the network release of TeX Live 2010. It is now > or will be soon available from CTAN sites > (http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive). As with last year, we > recommend doing a network install in one way or another instead of > downloading the large (2gb) ISO -- http://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html. > > Package updates will start propagating in another day or two. > > If anyone notices stale or missing information on the TL web pages, or > problems with the release, please report as usual. > > MacTeX 2010 has also been released and is available from CTAN. Its web > pages will be updated soon. > > The TeX Collection DVD will be released as soon as possible; hopefully, > it will go out in October. Issues with it (unrelated to TL) made me > decide it was not desirable to delay the TL release any longer. i believe ctan and its mirrors have more or less settled down with the new release. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: softmakerfreefont
by CTAN Announcements 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 osef Kleber submitted additional packages for the softmakerfreefont package: softmaker-broadway softmaker-egyptiennestd softmaker-grenoble softmaker-heliumtwo softmaker-inverserif softmaker-marseille softmaker-nevada softmaker-newcastle softmaker-quadrat softmaker-velo softmaker-veracruz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/softmakerfreefont/softmakerfreefont . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=softmakerfreefont (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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Re: CTAN package upload: etoolbox 2.0a
by CTAN Announcements 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded etoolbox.tar.gz and etoolbox.tds.zip to the incoming > directory of the UK node. This is an update for > macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox and install/macros/latex/contrib, > respectively. Please purge the old files, install the new ones, and > announce the upload. Thank you very much. > > ABOUT > > The etoolbox package is a toolbox of programming facilities geared > primarily towards LaTeX class and package authors. It provides LaTeX > frontends to some of the new primitives provided by e-TeX as well as > some generic tools which are not related to e-TeX but match the > profile of this package. > > CHANGES > > See the manual for a list of changes. i've installed the update, and made minor changes to the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. Users may view the package's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/etooolbox.html or browse the package's directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: needspace
by CTAN Announcements 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

and finally (for his efforts before i switched my computer on, today), the daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: needspace > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/needspace > Summary description: Insert pagebreak if not enough space > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > On a Sunday during a break from piles of marking, here's a bug fix to > needspace. It allows better behaviour for eedspace when followed by > addvspace, such as inserted by a section-like command. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/needspace.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/needspace thanks for this one, too; i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. the web version of the catalogue will change slightly, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: ifxetex
by CTAN Announcements 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

the daemon carried on with: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: ifxetex > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/generic/ifxetex > Summary description: Am I running under XeTeX? > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bug fix update for ifxetex to ensure that XeTeXrevision isn't accidentally set to > elax in the case that XeTeX is not being used. (High time for me to fix this > behaviour!) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ifxetex.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/ifxetex thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. the catalogue entry on the web will change, a bit, overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xetexref
by CTAN Announcements 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

been quiet for a bit, that daemon, but today it started by saying: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: xetexref > Author's name: Will Robertson > Author's email: wspr81(a)gmail.com > Location on CTAN: info/xetexref > Summary description: Reference documentation for XeTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This update on top of TL2010 brings the addition of some missing primitives and > expansion of one section in particular that was marked This description is > incomplete. > > Many thanks to Heiko Oberdiek, Paul Isambert, and William Adams for their help > for these updates. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xetexref.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/xetexref i've installed the update and made the necessary change to the catalogue repository. (the web catalogue will change slightly, overnight.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: Antykwa Poltawskiego fonts
by CTAN Announcements 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 at 15:50 +0200, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted the new package poltawski to CTAN, replacing the old antp package. Location on CTAN: fonts/poltawski > Package: Antykwa Poltawskiego fonts > Version: 1.10 > Date: Sep 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. > > The preliminary version of Antykwa Poltawskiego (antp package) > released in 2000 becomes obsolete. > > --------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: suftesi
by CTAN Announcements 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

This should be at your local mirror. im Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: suftesi Version number: 0.3 Author's name: Ivan Valbusa Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ Summary description: Document class for typesetting theses, especially in the Humanities License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/suftesi (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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