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New CTAN Package: xcookybooky
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 Sven Harder submitted the xcookybooky package. Summary description: typesetting (long) recipes with pictures and background images License type: free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is intended for typesetting recipes, which could be greater than one page. Above the recipe text two (optional) pictures can be displayed. You could enter recipe name, energy content, portions, preparation and baking time, baking temperatures, recipe source and of course preparation steps and required ingredients. At the bottom you can insert a optional hint. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xcookybooky . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xcookybooky (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: acrosort
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

the daemon wrote: > An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20111231-135208/ > > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: acrosort > Author's name: D. P. Story > Package version: 1.0 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/aeb_pro/acrosort/ > Summary description: Bubble sorting of images/tiles > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is a package that uses Adobe Distiller as the PDF creator as well > as Acrobat itself. > > The AcroSort is a novelty LaTeX package for importing a series of > sliced images of a picture. The sliced images are randomly arranged, > then resorted before the user's eyes using a bubble sort. > > Images can be sliced using AcroSlice, also available through CTAN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i've 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/acrosort.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/aeb_pro/acrosort/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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new CTAN package: nameauth
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

the daemon proclaims: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: nameauth > Author's name: Charles P. Schaum > Package version: 0.7 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/ > Summary description: Name authority macros improve consistency and > flexibility in body text and index. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Publications that reference many names require editors and > proofreaders to track those names in the text and index. These name > authority macros allow authors and compilers to normalize occurrences > of names, variant name forms, and pen names in the text and > index. This may help minimize writing and production time and cost. thanks for the upload; i've 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/nameauth.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nameauth/ The catalogue entry will first appear on the web some time early in 2012. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: Endheads
by CTAN Announcements 31 Dec '11

31 Dec '11

the daemon said: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: Endheads > Author's name: John Burt > Package version: 1.5 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/endheads/ > Summary description: Running headers of the form Notes to pp. xx--yy > for endnotes > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Endheads provides running headers of the form Notes to pp. xx-yy for > endnotes. It is designed to work with endnotes.sty. Version 1.5 fixes > a bug in the interaction of Endheads and the page styles for memoir > class. thanks for the upload; i've 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/endheads.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/endheads/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: libertine-legacy
by CTAN Announcements 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

the daemon offers a late-night goodie: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: libertine-legacy > Author's name: Bob Tennent > Package version: 5.1.2 (2011-12-30) > Location on CTAN: fonts/libertine-legacy/ > Summary description: Linux Libertine fonts for TeX and PdfTeX users. > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To avoid conflicts with the otf fonts of the > libertine package, the otf fonts and some associated files > have been removed. (La)TeX and Pdf(la)TeX users should have > no need for these. thanks for the upload -- rapid reaction, indeed, to the concerns of the user community. i've 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/libertine-legacy.ht… > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/libertine-legacy/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: pgfplots
by CTAN Announcements 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 Christian Feuersänger submitted an update to the pgfplots package. Summary description: pgfplots - Create normal/logarithmic plots in two and three dimensions for LaTeX. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pgfplots version 1.5.1 comes with several bugfixes and a couple of new features, including - more operations for FPU library (==, !=,<=,>=,?) - fixed bug in usage of decorations in addplot - bugfix for contour prepared format=matlab - added 'const plot mark mid' and 'jump mark mid' plot handlers - nodes on a plot (addplot ... node[pos=<fraction>] {};) - 'trim axis group left' and 'trim axis group right' - bugfixes for polar axes and log+stacked plots - added style 'log ticks with fixed point' - introduced patched tikz paths to simplify circles and ellipses within an axis - patchplots lib: patch type=polygon - some more bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgfplots/ . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgfplots (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: luacode
by CTAN Announcements 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard submitted an update to the luacode package. Summary description: Helper for executing lua code from within TeX. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011/12/29 v1.2 * new helper macros luastring, luastringO, luastringN * new debug (logging) feature ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/luacode . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/luacode (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: reverxii
by CTAN Announcements 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 Bruno Le Floch submitted the reverxii package. Summary description: Playing Reversi in TeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the lead of xii.tex, here is a little (938 chars) game of Reversi for New Year. WIth a primitive AI. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/plain/contrib/reverxii . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/reverxii (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 packages updated: l3kernel, l3packages, l3experimental
by CTAN Announcements 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

the daemon's been up to one of his mammoth sessions... > Name of contribution: l3kernel > Name of contribution: l3packages > Name of contribution: l3experimental > Author's name: The LaTeX3 Project > Author's email: latex-team(a)latex-project.org > Package version: SVN 3109 > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/ > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/ > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/ > Summary description: LaTeX3 programming conventions > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Snapshot of SVN 3109 > -------------------- > > - New tl-analysis module for decomposing and analysing token lists > on a token-by-token basis. > - Extend l3regex to work with tokens where appropriate. In > particular, the syntax c{<csname>} can be used to match > control sequences. > - Improved robustness of regex system. > - Improve behaviour of DeclareExpandableDocumentCommand such > that optional arguments (o, O, d and D) can contain > nested delimiter tokens in the same way as happens for > non-expandable functions. > - No longer accept l type arguments for > DeclareExpandableDocumentCommand, as this was not reliable. > - Added expandable l_if_empty:x(TF) test. > - Add experimental 'list comprehension' functions > seq_(g)set_filter:NNn and seq_(g)set_map:NNn. > - Improve the behaviour of vbox_... and vtop... functions so > that they always end with a par rather than the internal TeX > /end_graf/ procedure. > - Revise cs_to_str:N such that it requires exactly two > expansions and is faster. > - Revise register allocation such that a full set of registers > are accessible using the native allocator when using LuaTeX. > - Revise cs_show:c and cs_meaning:c to test explicitly for > undefined arguments. > - Revise some internals of ior/iow stream allocations. > - Make l_replace_... functions robust inside halign. > - Fix bugs in the l_rescan... functions to handle & > correctly and to preserve braces under all circumstances. > - Fix bugs in LuaTeX-only catcode table allocator (IniTeX mode > only). > - Test that catcode tables are new when allocating in package > mode. > - Tighten up on use of _nopar so that it is only applied to > functions with no arguments. > - Documentation fixes for prg_(new|set)_eq_conditional:NNn. thanks for the uploads; i've installed the new versions, and updated the three entries in the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entries at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3kernel.html > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3packages.html > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/l3experimental.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3kernel/ > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3packages/ > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/l3experimental/ The catalogue entries will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: endfloat
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '11

i wake up to find the daemon saying: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: endfloat > Author's name: Axel Sommerfeldt > Package version: 2.5d > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/ > Summary description: Place all figures on pages by themselves at the > end of the document, optionally leaving markers like [Figure 3 > about here] in the text near to where the figure (or table) would > normally have occurred. > > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Improved compatibility to version 2.4 of the endfloat package thanks for the upload; i've 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/endfloat.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/ The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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