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CTAN update: crossword
by CTAN Announcements 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

This update should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: cwpuzzle Version number: 1.8 Author's name: Gerd Neugebauer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gene/crossword Summary description: cwpuzzle.sty - a LaTeX package for typesetting crossword puzzles License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MORE CELL-BASED PUZZLES In addition to crossword puzzles Sudoku and Kakuro are supported. They are also grid-based. Thus it was easy to facilitate the infrastructure already in place for them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gene/crossword . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/crossword (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: ctex
by CTAN Announcements 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

This update 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: ctex Version number: 0.94 Author's name: Jiang Jiang Location on CTAN: /language/chinese Summary description: LaTeX classes and packages for Chinese typesetting. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Improve hyperref support. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/chinese/ctex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ctex (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 has a new package: memdesign
by CTAN Announcements 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

This package should reach your local mirror in less than a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: A Few Notes on Book Design Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Peter Wilson (uploaded by Lars Madsen) Location on CTAN: /info/memdesign/ Summary description: Name says it all License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A Few Notes on Book Design, aka memdesign.pdf is an extended version of what use to be the first part of the memoir users manual. As this part was not about the memoir class and might be interesting for non-memoir users it has now been split in to this stand alone document. Please note that the PDF uses commercial fonts, but the README contains instructions as to how to compile the document without these fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/memdesign/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/memdesign (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: memoir
by CTAN Announcements 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

This update 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: The Memoir class Version number: v1.61803398 Author's name: Peter Wilson and Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ Summary description: Latest updates for the memoir class License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest updates for the memoir class. This update includes various bugfixes and added support for the bidi package. The memoir users manual have also been split into two documents. The first part containing a general discussion about book design is now a separate document, named memdesign which will be uploaded to CTAN shortly, presumably located in the info/ dir. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/memoir (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: l2tabu
by CTAN Announcements 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org (note the new maintainer). It should reach your local mirror within a day. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: l2tabu Version number: 2.0 Author's name: Marc Ensenbach Location on CTAN: /info/l2tabu/german/ Summary description: Collection of LaTeX sins (German) License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- l2tabu is a collection of LaTeXe sins with hints how to correct them (in German). This version contains some updates concerning the list of out-of-date packages. l2tabu ist eine Sammlung von LaTeXe-Suenden mit Hinweisen, wie diese korrigiert werden koennen. Diese Version beinhaltet einige Aktualisierungen in der Liste veralteter Pakete. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/german/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/l2tabu (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 has a new package: DoX
by CTAN Announcements 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

This package should reach your local mirror in a day or so. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: DoX Version number: 1.0 Author's name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dox Summary description: Extensions to the doc package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The doc package provides LaTeX developers with means to describe the usage and the definition of new macros and environments. However, there is no simple way to extend this functionality to other items (options or counters for instance). The DoX package is designed to circumvent this limitation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dox . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dox (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: ifplatform
by CTAN Announcements 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

the moving finger writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: ifplatform > Author's name: Will Robertson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ifplatform > Summary description: Conditionals to detect the platform (Windows/Linux/Mac OS X/etc.) > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Updated version of ifplatform now behaves correctly in TeX Live 2009 on > Windows and MiKTeX 2.8. Also now provides ifcygwin for users of Cygwin. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the new version 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/ifplatform.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ifplatform of course, the catalogue entry will change overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: sam2p
by CTAN Announcements 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

This update should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: sam2p Version number: 0.47 Author's name: Péter Szabó Location on CTAN: /graphics/sam2p Summary description: convert raster (bitmap) images to PostScript, PDF and other formats License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sam2p is a UNIX command line utility written in ANSI C++ that converts many raster (bitmap) image formats into Adobe PostScript or PDF files and several other formats. The images are not vectorized. sam2p gives full control to the user to specify standards-compliance, compression, and bit depths. In some cases sam2p can compress an image 100 times smaller than the PostScript output of many other common image converters. sam2p provides ZIP, RLE and LZW (de)compression filters even on Level1 PostScript devices. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/sam2p . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/sam2p (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: luaotfload
by CTAN Announcements 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

This update should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: luaotfload Version number: 1.04 Author's name: Elie Roux Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/ Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX. License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixing a bug preventing ovf files from being used. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload (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: Asymptote
by CTAN Announcements 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

This update should appear at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Asymptote Version number: 1.86 Author's name: John Bowman Location on CTAN: / Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PRC polygons were optimized. Surface memory usage was reduced. The automatic sizing of NURBS surfaces was fixed. A bug in the radius of curvature computation at nodes was fixed. The configuration test for the GNU readline library was improved. The naming of PRC parts was implemented. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote . 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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