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CTAN update: asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 05 May '10

05 May '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: Asymptote Version number: 1.94 Author's name: John Bowman Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Work arounds for MSWindows registry problems and obsolete runtime libraries were implemented. The SimpleHead arrowhead was fixed. Additional matrix routines and casts were implemented. The pair dir(path, path) routine now returns a unit vector. Variable conflicts coming from the contour module were addressed. A RadialShadeDraw filltype was implemented. A guide bug was fixed. Redundant mismatched version warnings are avoided. Support for fitting one 3D picture within another was added. The documentation was updated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptots . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote (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: skeyval
by CTAN Announcements 04 May '10

04 May '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: skeyval Version number: 0.7 Author's name: Ahmed Musa Summary description: Many extensions to the xkeyval package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Native and toggle boolean keys now accept 'on' and 'off' as values, in addition to 'true' and 'false'. DeclareKeyCommand has been introduced with a light interfcace. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/skeyval . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/skeyval (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: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 04 May '10

04 May '10

On Tue, 4 May 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, Henderson Iceberg (regular + bold), Jugendstil, Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting, Sunset (regular + bold) License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) New in v1.11: - added support for the font Softmaker Artistic (regular + faked slanted + faked small caps) Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (May 2010) and can be downloaded for free (at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de Later you can buy it from Softmaker ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: xpdfopen
by CTAN Announcements 04 May '10

04 May '10

This update should reach your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: xpdfopen Version number: 0.80 Author's name: Jim Diamond Location on CTAN: /support/xpdfopen Summary description: A program to make various PDF viewers reload the file being displayed License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pdfopen is a program which can be used to both start a new instance of a PDF viewer program as well as to instruct that program to reload the PDF file. This is particularly useful if pdfopen is called automatically whenever tex is (re-)run. This version has an updated pdfopen and pdfclose that work with Adobe Reader 5, 7, 8 and 9 as well as xpdf. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/xpdfopen . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xpdfopen (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: mdframed
by CTAN Announcements 01 May '10

01 May '10

On Sat, 1 May 2010 Marco Daniel submitted an update to the mdframed package. Summary description: auto split frame environment License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Working with the command fbox or fcolorbox, one has to handle page breaks by hand. The present package defines the environment mdframed which automatically deals with page breaks. Author's name: Marco Daniel License type: lppl changes in version 0.3b: - fixes some bugs -- thanks to Dr. Dietrich Grau - added new options: ntheorem ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdframed/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mdframed (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 package update: pgfopts
by CTAN Announcements 01 May '10

01 May '10

that ol' daemon collects something while i'm washing up last night's dishes... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: pgfopts > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pgfopts > Summary description: LaTeX package options with pgfkeys > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v2.0: > - Package internals completely rewritten > - New ProcessPgfPackageOptions macro, which ignores class > options when used with a package i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pgfopts.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/pgfopts the catalogue entry will change ever so slightly overnight (not quite so little as with some packages, but not much either). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pst-solides3d
by CTAN Announcements 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Herbert Voss wrote: > I have uploaded pst-solides3d.tgz to the uk ctan node. > Please delete all the files in the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solides3d/ > > and put the new ones in there > > pst-solides3d is a collection of PSTricks macros to plot > threedimensional objects like solids or 3D mathematical > functions z=f(x,y) with possible hidden lines and > hidden surfaces. > > This new version comes with several bug fixes and > enhencements. Read file Changes for more informations > > pst-solides3d.tex --- > 4.19 2010-04-30 - add keyword numsep > - add psResetSolidKeys for all key defaults i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: skeyval
by CTAN Announcements 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '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: skeyval Version number: 0.6 Author's name: Ahmed Musa Summary description: Extensions to the xkeyval package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Several additional features have been added to the package and many aspects of its performance improved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/skeyval . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/skeyval (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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Re: Package removal request: unroman
by CTAN Announcements 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Joseph Wright wrote: > I would like to request removal of one of my packages from CTAN. > > The functionality of the unroman package is covered by the mntonum > function in the etoolbox package. The later has the advantage of being > expandable, which the functions in unroman are not. i've deleted the package from the archive and its catalogue entry from the repository (though the version of the latter on the web won't disappear until sometime later tonight). (thanks for providing a clear summary of your reason, too.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: bibleref
by CTAN Announcements 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

quoth the daemon, again... > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: bibleref > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/bibleref > Summary description: Format bible citations > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1.11: > * Fixed sorting for 3-digit chapter numbers thanks for the upload (though i don't remember any such chapter numbers... ;-); 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/bibleref.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bibleref and the eager user, who waits overnight for the properly-updated version of the catalogue, will as usual be disappointed in the difference it offers. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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