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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Chinese Font Metrics
Version number: 1
Author's name: Yue Wang
Location on CTAN: /fonts
Summary description: TFM subfonts files for using Chinese Fonts in 8-bit TeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The new version of this package includes the following update:
- in order not to mess up TeXLive's map files, now font map lines are loaded runtime through pdfTeX primitives and
DVIPDFMx specials.
- Since HTH kindly applied a ttc support patch to pdfTeX, now simsun.ttf is renamed to simsun.ttc in the map lines so there is
no need for the user to break their ttc fonts manually. Everything should work right out of the box.
- a new script, CTeXFonts.lua is included into the scripts directory. This enables the users to convert Chinese TTF files into
Type1 subfonts for dvips and dvipdfm.
Yue Wang and Lingyun Wu
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that upload daemon was at it while i was coming home from work:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: ly1enc.def
> Author's name: Karl Berry
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1
> Summary description: dotless j support
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> The existing LY1 support file for LaTeX (ly1enc.def) has always given
> a LaTeX error when the j (dotless j) command is used. However,
> dotless j has always been defined in the LY1 encoding (position 17,
> decimal), and many fonts, such as Latin Modern, do support it there.
>
> With David Carlisle's ok, this new version of the file treats j like
> all other glyphs. If it's there in the font, it's supported, and if
> not, there's a missing character warning in the log file.
>
> Questions to Karl.
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i've installed the new version, and (minutely) updated the catalogue
repository. thanks for the upload.
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ly1.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1
the sharp-eyed (and very keen) reader will spot the minute changes to
the catalogue entry, some time after i've gone to bed.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 Patrick Daly submitted an update to the
natbib
package.
Natbib provides a style with author-year and numbered references, as well as
much detailed of support for other bibliography use. Provides versions of the
standard BibTeX styles that are compatible with natbib - plainnat, unsrtnat,
abbrnat. The bibliography styles produced by custom-bib are designed from the
start to be compatible with natbib.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contributed/natbib
Summary description: Fix for use with RevTeX, ensures backward compatibility
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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With natbib V8.3, a new merging feature was added,
essentially for use with ReVTeX. However, there is a bug
that makes it incompatible with LaTeX files written for
earlier versions. This bug is now fixed, so that the default
works as before.
The new code and the bug fix are written by Arthur Ogawa.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/natbib
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: mathgifg
Version number: 0.4
Author's name: Boris Veytsman
Location on CTAN: /fonts/mathgifg
Summary description: LaTeX Support for Microsoft Georgia and ITC Franklin Gothic
In Text and Math
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This package provides LaTeX support for Microsoft Georgia
and ITC
Franklin Gothic fonts, supplied, for example, with Microsoft
Windows.
The package provides support for text and math.
The math support is very preliminary: there is a lot of work
to do on
individual kerning and glyph placement!
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/mathgifg
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: FiXme
Version number: 3.4
Author's name: Didier Verna
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/
Summary description: A LaTeX2e package for inserting fixme and meta-notes in your documents
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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I'm pleased to announce the release of FiXme version 3.4.
New in this release:
** fixme, fxerror, fxwarning and fxnote are now robust
** Fix incompatibility with KOMA-Script classes when the lox
file is inexistent
FiXme is a LaTeX2e package for inserting fixme notes in your
documents. Such notes can appear inline, as marginal notes,
footnotes, index
entries, in the log file and as warnings on stdout. It is
also possible to
summarize them in a list. When you switch from draft to
final mode, any
remaining fixme note will be logged, but removed from the
document's body.
Additionally, critical notes will abort compilation with an
informative
message. FiXme also comes with support for AUC-TeX.
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: The memoir class
Version number: v1.6180339g
Author's name: Lars Madsen
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/memoir/
Summary description: Highly configurable book like class
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Maintenance update, fixes minor bugs in memoir, mempatch and
the manual.
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Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: cell
Version number: 1.28, 2.03
Author's name: Tom Schneider
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cell
Summary description: bibliography and style files for the journal Cell
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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bibliography and style files for the journal Cell
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cell
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pstool
Version number: 1.3
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pstool
Summary description: Facilitate psfrag graphics in pdfLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A package like pst-pdf for processing PostScript graphics
with psfrag labels within pdfLaTeX documets. The difference
with this package is that every graphic is compiled individually,
drastically speeding up compilation time when only a single
figure needs re-processing.
Version 1.3 has some new features:
- [bitmap] option to control compression of bitmap graphics,
- Package options may now be set anywhere with pstoolsetup{},
- localised pstool options can be set per-graphic.
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: etextools
Version number: 2e
Author's name: Florent CHERVET
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/etextools/
Summary description: e-TeX more useful tools for LaTeX package writers
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Many bug fixed... an example file added.
his package provides mainly 4 categories of macros :
- the expandnext macro and other expansion control macros
- the \FE@testopt and \FE@ifstar macros for fully expandable (FE)
(starred-)macros with options
- fully expandable command list parsers : csvloop, listloop and a general
constructor
- some macros lacking from the etoolbox package : listdel, listgdel, listxdel,
getlistitem, getlistindex
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