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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Thanks again
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Apprends LaTeX !
Version number: 3.0
Author's name: Marc Baudoin
Location on CTAN: /info/
Summary description: Apprends LaTeX ! (Learn LaTeX!) is a French documentation for
LaTeX beginners.
License type: other-nonfree
Announcement text:
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Apprends LaTeX ! (Learn LaTeX!) is a French documentation
for LaTeX beginners.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/apprends-latex
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the cambridge upload daemon stirs again, and says:
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> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xesearch
> Author's name: Paul Isambert
> Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/generic
> Summary description: A string finder for XeTeX.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Corrected for ConTeXt (thanks to Wolfgang Schuster):
> - A bug happening only with ConTeXt has been fixed.
> - A third party file t-xesearch.tex is provided so ConTeXt users can
> say usemodule[xesearch].
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thanks for the upload; i have 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/xesearch.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/xetex/generic
the catalogue entry (as above) will twitch a little, overnight tonight,
as it's rebuilt.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should reach your local mirror in a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: spreadtab
Version number: 0.1
Author's name: Christian Tellechea
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/spreadtab
Summary description: Spreadsheet features for LaTeX table environments.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides spreadsheet features for LaTeX table
environments.
It allows to construct tables in a manner similar to a
spreadsheet. The cells of a table have row and column
indices and these can be used in formulas to generate values
in other cells.
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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: tablor
Version number: 4.06
Author's name: Guillaume Connan
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablor
Summary description: Create tables of signs and of variations.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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New option windows for microsoft windows users :
usepackage[windows,xcas]{tablor}
No need to change tablor.cfg.
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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: upmethodology
Version number: 20091102
Author's name: Stephane Galland
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Feature enhancement and bug fixes
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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Add book, report and article options for
upmethodology-document class. Fixing footnote macros to
allow to put any character as id. Add macros: prname,
drname, phdname, scdname, mdname, pename, iename.
Allow to override the default document font in style
extensions. Rename setbacklayout to setbackcover. Add
makebackcover.
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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: combinedgraphics
Version number: v0.0.2-alpha
Author's name: Christian Schneider
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/combinedgraphics
Summary description: macro for inclusion of combined EPS/LaTeX and PDF/LaTeX graphics
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This package provides a macro (|includecombinedgraphics|) for the
inclusion of combined EPS/LaTeX and PDF/LaTeX graphics (an export
format of Gnuplot, Xfig, and maybe other programs). Instead of including
the graphics with a simple |input|, the |includecombinedgraphics| macro
has some comforts:
* changing the font and color of the text of the LaTeX part
* rescaling the graphics without affecting the font of the
LaTeX part
* automatic inclusion of the vector graphics part, as far as LaTeX
part does not do it (e.g., for files exported from Gnuplot before
version 4.2)
* rescaling and rotating of complete graphics (similar to
|includegraphics| from graphicx package)
See `combinedgraphics.pdf' for detailed information on usage.
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a bit later, the upload daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: notes2bib
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib
> Summary description: Integrating notes into the bibliography
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v2.0a:
> - Some documentation improvements
> - Change to reflect some expl3 style change
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i've installed the package and updated the catalogue. thanks for the
upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/notes2bib.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/notes2bib
the catalogue entry may well be up-to-date.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team