On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 Pavel Farar submitted an update to the
ptserif
package.
Summary description: PT Serif font and LaTeX support.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This package contains LaTeX support for the font PT Serif.
- Added several Cyrillic letters to the encodings:
1) The letter Cyrillic letter reversed ZE was added to the slot
for Cyrillic letter epsilon. They are actually the same.
Thanks to Vladimir Volovich for confirming this and for
other useful comments about Cyrillic encodings.
2) Somewhat dirty is adding letters Cyrillic letter short I with
tail and Cyrillic letter short EM with tail to the
slots for the same letters but with descender. They are
similar but used by other languages.
Related package: ptsans
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ptserif
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ptserif
(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, 11 Mar 2011 Pavel Farar submitted an update to the
ptsans
package.
Summary description: PT Sans font and LaTeX support.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This package contains LaTeX support for the font PT Sans.
- Added several Cyrillic letters to the encodings:
1) The letter Cyrillic letter reversed ZE was added to the slot
for Cyrillic letter epsilon. They are actually the same.
Thanks to Vladimir Volovich for confirming this and for
other useful comments about Cyrillic encodings.
2) Somewhat dirty is adding letters Cyrillic letter short I with
tail and Cyrillic letter short EM with tail to the
slots for the same letters but with descender. They are
similar but used by other languages.
Related package: ptserif
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ptsans
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ptsans
(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
the daemon pops up, again, and cries aloud... my hearing is so bad that
the cry went unheard, but i spotted the upload fairly soon, nevertheless.
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: gmp
> Author's name: Enrico Gregorio
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/gmp
> Summary description: The gmp package allows integration between
> MetaPost pictures and LaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The gmp package allows integration between MetaPost
> pictures and LaTeX, the main feature is that passing
> parameters to the MetaPost pictures is possible and
> the picture code can be put inside arguments to
> commands, including
ewcommand.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new package and created an
entry for it in the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/gmp.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmp/
The catalogue entry will not appear until some time overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 Wolfgang Skala submitted the
pgfgantt
package.
Summary description: Draw Gantt charts with TikZ
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package provides an environment for drawing Gantt charts that contain
various elements (titles, bars, milestones, groups and links). Several keys
customize the appearance of the chart elements.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfgantt
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pgfgantt
(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 Wed, 9 Mar 2011 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the
filehook
package.
Summary description: v0.5a -- Bug fix (addded long)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This small bug fix release adds a needed `long` for the definition of and internal macro used by `AtEndOfPackageFile` and `AtEndOfClassFile`.
Thanks goes to GL of comp.text.tex for reporting this issue.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/filehook
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=filehook
(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 Wed, 9 Mar 2011 Jean-Francois Dupuis submitted the
bondgraph
package.
Summary description: Class to create bond graph figures in LaTeX documents.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package draws bond graphs using PGF and TikZ.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/bondgraph/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bondgraph
(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 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 Daniel Flipo submitted an update to the
tabvar
package.
Summary description: Typesetting of tables showing variations of functions
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This new version corrects a bug (an error message was issued when tabvar was
used with XeLaTeX) and offers three new shapes for the arrows thanks to Michel
Bovani.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tabvar
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tabvar
(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
the daemon creeps out again, crying:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: pst-sigsys
> Author's name: Farshid Delgosha
> Location on CTAN:
> Summary description: An update to the existing pst-sigsys package
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package is a collection of useful macros for disciplines related
> to signal processing. It defines macros for plotting a sequence of
> numbers, drawing the pole-zero diagram of a system, shading the region
> of convergence, creating an adder or a multiplier node, placing a
> framed node at a given coordinate, creating an up-sampler or a
> down-sampler node, drawing the block diagram of a system, drawing
> adaptive systems, sequentially connecting a list of nodes, and
> connecting a list of nodes to one node using any node-connecting
> macro.
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/pst-sigsys.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-sigsys/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
my faithful daemon popped out last night. while i was cooking.
again...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: verdana
> Author's name: Walter Daems
> Location on CTAN: fonts/verdana
> Summary description: pdfTeX wrapper for verdana font
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package contains a T1-encoded wrapper for the verdana font. The
> truetype files are not part of the package; they come with your
> operating system or may be downloaded separately (see documentation).
> The package contains the required tfm-files, fd-file, map-file and a
> convenient style file verdana.sty.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the files and created an entry
in the catalogue repository for the package.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/verdana.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/verdana/
The catalogue entry will not appear on the web until some time overnight
tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team