On Sunday, 9 August 2009, Scott Pakin submitted an update to the
dashrule
package.
It should soon be at your favorite mirror.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/dashrule
Summary description: Draw dashed rules
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The dashrule package makes it easy to draw a huge variety of dashed
rules (i.e., lines) in LaTeX. dashrule provides a command,
hdashrule, which is a cross between LaTeX's
ule and PostScript's
setdash command. hdashrule draws horizontally dashed rules using the
same syntax as
ule, but with an additional, setdash-like parameter
that specifies the pattern of dash segments and the space between
those segments. Because dashrule's rules are constructed internally
using
ule (as opposed to, e.g., PostScript specials) they are fully
compatible with every LaTeX back-end processor.
Version 1.2 of dashrule fixes a bug (reported by Piazza Luca) that
prevented hdashrule from working properly within a tabular cell and
adds support for empty dash patterns for more consistency with
PostScript's setdash command.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/dashrule
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dashrule
(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,
Joachim Schrod
On Saturday, 8 August 2009, Josef Tkadlec submitted an update to the
pict2e
package.
It should soon be at your favorite mirror.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/pict2e
Summary description: enhancement of the LaTeX picture environment
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Support for XeTeX added.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pict2e
(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,
Joachim Schrod
raised again from its slumbers, the upload daemon rises, roaring:
> ======================================================================
>
> 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 American Chemical Society journal submissions
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v3.2f:
> - Better support and bug fixes for Biochemistry submissions
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i've installed the update, and brought the catalogue repository up to
date. thanks for the uploaded.
> 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
the catalogue entry will change, a bit, overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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 have installed the new version, and updated 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/etoolbox.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
Philipp Lehman wrote:
> I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK
> node. This is an update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex. Please
> purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as
> usual.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> RELEASE NOTES
>
> See the file RELEASE for release notes.
>
> CHANGES
>
> This is bug fix release. The following files have been modified:
>
> VERSION
> RELEASE
> bibtex/biblatex.bst
> latex/biblatex.def
> latex/biblatex.sty
I have installed the new version, and updated 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/biblatex.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your
local mirror.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: xwatermark
Version number: 1.2
Author's name: Ahmed Musa
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Puts graphic and text watermarks on select pages of document.
License type: nocommercial
Announcement text:
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Active characters can now be submitted as part of text
watermark in the key-val setup. Reference has been made
to xkvltxp package in the user manual.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xwatermark
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xwatermark
(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 .
ooh! an upload to cambridge! my daemon said:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: expl3
> Author's name: The LaTeX Team
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/expl3
> Summary description: An Experimental LaTeX3 Programming Convention
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> The expl3 bundle: low-level LaTeX3 coding
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The files of the expl3 bundle provide a low-level API for TeX
> programmers with special syntax conventions, completely
> separating it from document level syntax. Hence, the commands
> provided are not intended for use at the document level nor for
> use in describing design layouts in document class files.
>
> This API provides the foundation on which the LaTeX3 kernel
> and other advanced extensions are built. Special care has been
> taken so that they can be used within a LaTeX2e context as
> regular packages.
>
> The TeX and eTeX primitives are all given a new name according
> to these conventions. However, in the main direct use of the
> primitives is not required or encouraged: the expl3 modules
> define an independent low-level LaTeX3 programming language.
>
> At present, the expl3 modules are designed to be loaded on top
> of LaTeX2e:
>
> usepackage{expl3}
>
> In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code.
> This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a
> stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> This release (SVN 1441)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This release includes two notable changes from the previous
> snapshot (SVN 1422). First, the documentation in expl3.pdf has
> been updated to make it clearer that expl3 is ready for general
> use by LaTeX programmers. At the same time, some older parts of
> the documentation were removed.
>
> The second change is the inclusion of a new module, l3keys. This
> is intended as a high-level programmers interface for creating
> key-value input, such as used in the optional arguments of many
> modern packages. l3keys creates keys using key-value input
> itself, inspired by the pgfkeys package.
>
> Two new functions have been added to the clist module:
> - clist_set_from_seq:NN
> - clist_gset_from_seq:NN
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> The LaTeX3 Project
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/expl3.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/expl3
i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
thanks for the upload.
the catalogue link, above, will change minutely overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the dante upload daemon wrote:
> Name of contribution: The lhfonts package
> Version number: 3.5g
> Author's name: Olga Lapko
> Location on CTAN: /fonts/cyrillic/lh
> Summary description: CyrTUG Cyrillic alphabet fonts (LH) with support of LaTeX standard encodings
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> CyrTUG Cyrillic alphabet fonts (LH) with support of
> LaTeX standard encodings.
> The LH fonts address the problem of the wide variety of
> alphabets that are written with Cyrillic-style
> characters. The fonts are the original basis of the set
> of T2* and X2 encodings that are now used when LaTeX
> users need to write in Cyrillic languages.
>
> LH offers the latex/lhfonts bundle of packages for
> standard LaTeX Cyrillic and traditional encodings.
>
> The fonts are available in Adobe Type 1 format, in the CM-
> Super family of fonts.
>
> See also cyrillic t2 ccfonts cmbright concrete ecc.
>
> The authors are Andrey Khodulev, Olga Lapko, Alexander
> Berdnikov and Vladimir Volovich.
>
> -----
>
> Changes:
>
> Bug fixes in ff-ligatures in T2* typewriter fonts -- that
> changes metrics of the monospaced fonts
>
> Bug fix with ligature of letter TSE -- that changes
> metrics of all fonts in OT2 encoding.
>
> I hope that these fixes are the last which change metrics.
>
> I'm very sorry for my mistakes.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This package is located at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/cyrillic/lh
> . More information is at
> http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=The lhfonts package
> (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 .
i have pulled the upload to cambridge and installed the files.
thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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CTAN update: xecjk
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org)
05 Aug '09
05 Aug '09
This package has been updated a tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your
local mirror.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: xeCJK
Version number: 2.3.5
Author's name : Jiang Jiang
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/
Summary description: LaTeX classes and packages for Chinese typesetting
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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xeCJK 2.3.5 has the following updates:
1. Produces error message when running on a XeTeX engine it does not support.
2. Significantly improve processing speed.
3. You can customize underline decorations when used in companion with CJKfntef.sty
(available in the latest version of CJK package)
4. Add support of fontspec addfontfeature, xeCJK will pass options it does not
recognize directly to fontspec
5. Fix a linebreaking problem caused by punctuations at the end of paragraphs.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xecjk
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xecjk
(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 .