This should reach your local mirror in the next day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Asymptote
Version number: 1.89
Author's name: John Bowman
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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The draw, fill, and clip commands now pass raw SVG code
directly to dvisvgm
(version 0.8.6 required); zero-length paths are output as
circles.
Unsupported SVG elements are converted to PNG images;
unimplemented SVG
features such as Gouraud and tensor-patch shading can be
(partially)
emulated as vector elements using the -svgemulation option.
The control point normalization of rational NURBS surfaces
was fixed;
3D NURBS curves are now implemented. A problem with
inlinemovie3 was fixed.
The linetype pattern is now a real array: for backwards
compatibility, a
string is still accepted, but the return type of
linetype(pen) is now
real[] instead of string (backwards incompatible). The split
routine was
changed so that an empty delimiter splits on spaces,
discarding duplicates.
The palette routines are now guaranteed to generate at least the
specified number of colours. PNG output produces a
transparent background.
Surface and path3 garbage collection was fixed.
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Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: The background package
Version number: 1.0
Author's name: Gonzalo Medina
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/
Summary description: Offers the placement of background material on the pages of a document.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The `background' package v1.0 offers the placement of background material
on the pages of a document. The user can control many aspects (i.e., contents,
position, color, opacity) of the background material that will be displayed.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/background
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just as i was going to bed last night, that daemon tried to distract me:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: achemso
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso
> Summary description: Support for submissions to American Chemical Society journals
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v3.3d:
> - Fix for altaffiliation macro
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for that; i've installed the new version and updated its
catalogue entry.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/achemso.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/achemso
and of course, the catalogue entry will change in an itsy-bitsy way
overnight, tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should within a day be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pst-knot
Version number: 0.1
Author's name: Herbert Voss
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-knot/
Summary description: pst-knot is a PSTricks related package for knots
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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pst-knot is a new PSTricks package for drawing knots.
For more information see the documentation of
the package.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-knot/
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On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
pdfcomment
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment
Summary description: A user-friendly interface to PDF annotations
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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For a long time pdflatex has offered the command pdfannot
for inserting
arbitrary PDF annotations. However, the command is presented in
a form where additional knowledge of the definition of the
PDF format is
indispensable. This package is an answer to the – occasional
– questions
in newsgroups, about how one could use the comment function
of Adobe
Reader. At least for the writer of LaTeX code, the package
offers a
convenient and user-friendly means of using pdfannot to
provide comments
in PDF files. Since version v1.1, pdfcomment.sty also supports:
LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf, LaTeX -> dvipdfmx and XeLaTeX.
Unfortunately, support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers is
sparse to
nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of
this package is
Adobe Reader.
License: LPPL
Changes in v1.5a:
- added options liststyle and heading to command
listofpdfcomments
-> setliststyle, defineliststyle
- added checks for undefined avatars, styles and liststyles
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
miktex_update
package.
Location on CTAN: /support/miktex_update
Summary description: A cygwin bash script for automatic updating and installing new packages of MiKTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The miktex_update script offers automatic updating and/or
installing of new
packages of an existing MiKTeX installation. It supports
direct connection
with online repositories of the MiKTeX server network, as
well as synchronizing
a local repository (CTAN) with following update. In the end
you should have an
up-to-date and complete MiKTeX installation.
License: LPPL
Changes in v1.4:
- new switch -a, --admin to run mpm in administrative mode
(MiKTeX v2.8+)
- Bugfix: corrected variable names for alternative rsync servers
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/miktex_update
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 Paul Ebermann submitted an update to the
dateiliste
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dateiliste
Summary description: LaTeX package dateiliste - version 0.5
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package provides a file list (similar to that offered by listfiles ),
neatly laid out as a table. The main document can be included in the
list, and a command is available for providing RCS/CVS- or SVN-
maintained data for printing in the file list.
Version 0.5 adds support for SVN (Subversion, additionally to CVS/RCS)
and escapes dangerous characters in file names and descriptions.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/dateiliste
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
softmaker-freefont
package.
Location on CTAN: /fonts/softmaker-freefont/
Summary description: Support files for SoftMaker free fonts available at www.freefont.de
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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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:
Congress (regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff,
Henderson,
Iceberg (regular + bold), Stone Handwriting
License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves)
New in v1.5:
- added LaTeX support for the very nice font family Congress
Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the
month (November 2009) and can be downloaded for free (at least
this month) at: http://www.freefont.de
Later you can buy it from Softmaker
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This should within the day be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: disser
Version number: 1.1.3
Author's name: Stanislav Kruchinin
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: LaTeX classes, BibTeX styles, document templates and
Makefiles for typesetting dissertations in Russian.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Summary of changes in version 1.1.3:
Classes and styles:
+ Added new bibliography styles gost705 and gost705s for compliance with
new GOST R 7.0.5-2008.
- Removed disser and disser-s bibliography styles.
+ Added index style for documented source code.
Makefiles:
+ Nomake files now support processing of multiple targets and compare
modification times of input and output files.
+ Added support for DESTDIR environment variable.
+ Added bmtoeps and optimize targets.
+ Added comparison of initial and optimized EPS file sizes.
Templates:
+ Added some bibliography entries for testing purposes.
* Set gost705 as default bibliography style.
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pst-optexp
Version number: 2.1
Author's name: Christoph Bersch
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optexp
Summary description: Drawing optical experimental setups.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Changes in version 2.1
* Bugfix: removed the buggy check for an appropriate version
of pstricks-add.
* Bugfix: 'thicklens' now also works with plain* lenses
* Different minor bugfixes
* Different enhancements
* New psstyle 'OptComp' which sets general parameters for
all optical components. Appropriate parameters
'addtoOptComp' and 'newOptComp' were also introduced.
* New parameters:
- 'label' allows a more condensed change of several
label parameters
- 'innerlabel'
- 'compshift'
- 'bsstyle'
- 'connjoin'
- 'newBeam' and 'addtoBeam' to allow for local changes
of the internal beam style.
* New component: 'optfiberpolarizer'
* Changed 'fibercollimator' so that it uses two, three or
four nodes.
* Changed documentation to use 'pst-doc' class.
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