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: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
Version number: 11.0
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /info/symbols/comprehensive
Summary description: Symbols accessible from LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List is an organized list of over 5900
symbols commonly available to LaTeX users. Some of these symbols are
guaranteed to be available in every TeX distribution. Others require
font files that come with some, but not all, TeX distributions. The
rest require font files that must be downloaded explicitly from CTAN
(http://www.ctan.org/) and installed. The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol
List currently showcases symbols from 130 separate typefaces.
This new release of the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (version 11.0)
is a particularly exciting one. At long last the document has been
fully hyperlinked! (This was not a simple manner of including a
usepackage{hyperref}; the document was filled with constructs that
confused hyperref.) The list contain almost a thousand more symbols
than before (a 20% increase), new how to prose in the Additional
Information section, an expanded index with more see... entries,
and other features designed to help the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol
List live up to its name.
Enjoy!
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive
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http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/comprehensive
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This should within a day reach 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: microtype
Version number: 2.3e
Author's name: R Schlicht
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype
Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This update includes settings for the Cyrillic T2A encoding,
as well as minor bug and compatibility fixes (most notably
for TeXlive 2009's luatex).
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/microtype
(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 .
just as i get to the end of cataloguing all the tex live 09 changes, the
daemon thumbs his nose and cries:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: glossaries
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
> Summary description: Create glossaries and lists of acronyms
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.04:
> * Improved support for multiple lists of acronyms.
>
> * Fixed bug that caused glsadd to ignore counter option
>
> * Fixed bug that causes babel to override translator's definition
> of glossaryname.
>
> * Added user1, ... , user6 keys.
>
> * Added polyglossia support
>
> glossaries-accsupp v0.2:
> * Added access keys.
>
> * Added support for acronyms.
>
> mfirstuc v1.04:
> * fixed bug occurring when initial control sequence
> in the argument of makefirstuc has more than one
> argument.
thank you for the upload; i've installed it, and updated all three
packages' catalogue entries.
> Users may view the package catalogue entries at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/glossaries.html
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/glossaries-accsupp.…
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/mfirstuc.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
the catalogue entries will, of course, change overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/asymptote
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This should within a day be at your local mirror.
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
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/background
(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 .
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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-knot
(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 .
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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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcomment
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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
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
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=miktex_update
(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
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
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dateiliste
(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