as i lapsed on my bed of pain, that daemon went and wrote:
> Name of contribution: keycommand
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/keycommand
> Summary description: key-value interface for commands and environments in LaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 3.1415 approaches perfection !
> Well :
>
> - key-environments can now be nested (good news isn't it ?)
> - commandkey{keyname} as well as mandatory arguments can be
> used both in the <begin> and <end> parts of the
> environments.
>
> Happy texing.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the version and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/keycommand.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/keycommand
and the catalogue entry won't be updated (however slightly) until the
wee small hours of the morning.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon wakes up, grumbling (the sun is shining):
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: bibleref
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/bibleref
> Summary description: Format bible citations
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.09:
>
> * Added addbiblebook
> * Added iblerefindex
> * Added iblerefmap
thanks for the upload. i have installed the updated files and updated
the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/bibleref.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bibleref
the catalogue entry on the web will change overnight (not much, but more
than usual, since i made a small editorial change).
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 Herbert Voß submitted an update to the
pstricks
package.
Summary description: Graphics for TeX and LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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PSTricks is a collection of packages for creating graphical
objects.
This is an update of the base packages pstricks.tex and
pstricks.pro.
For more informations read the news file pst-news10.pdf in the
doc directory.
pstricks.tex --------
2.04 2010-04-24 - take psk@rot into account for psellipse (hv)
- new version of pst@divide (ms)
- add keyword correctAngle=true to get an
elliptic arc with correct bow length (hv)
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/base/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pstricks
(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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
i'm back from my break, and almost immediately the daemon springs into
action:
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: keycommand
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/keycommand
> Summary description: key-value interface for commands and environments in LaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> I revised the code and optimize it pretty well I think !
>
> In particular keycommand does not load etextools anymore.
> It only requires:
> etex, etoolbox, kvsetkeys and (of course) xkeyval
> packages.
>
> Definition and execution of keycommands should be much
> faster now,
> {
> and the code is more readable for the ones who like reading
> implementation part
> and the log is more readable for the ones who like reading
> logs ;-)
> }
>
> Bug in providekeycommand has been fixed.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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/keycommand.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/keycommand
don't rush to read the trivial change i made to the catalogue; it won't
even appear on the web for a few hours.
robin
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 Sander Gliboff submitted an update to the
biblatex-historian
package.
Summary description: A citation- and bibliography style for use with the biblatex system of programmable bibliographies
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Updated for compatibility with version 0.9 of biblatex
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-histori…
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-historian
(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
This should reach your local mirror within 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: pst-plot
Version number: 1.14
Author's name: Herbert Voss
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-plot
Summary description: Plotting data and functions
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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pst-plot is a PSTricks related package to draw data records and
mathematical functions.
1.14 2010-04-24 - allow labels=x|y|all|none for polar plots
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-plot
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-plot
(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 Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Marco Daniel submitted an update to the
mdframed
package.
Summary description: auto split frame environment
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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changes in version 0.3a:
- Added new options: leftmargin and rightmargin
- fixes some Bugs
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdframed/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mdframed
(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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the
dvisvgm
package.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to
SVG.
The latest version 0.9.1 is a maintenance release that fixes
a couple of issues reported by users.
For further information including a list of recent changes
and pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project
page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm
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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
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 fancypar package
Version number: 1.0
Author's name: Gonzalo Medina
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fancypar
Summary description: Predefined fancy styles that can be applied to text paragraphs.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package offers five predefined decorative styles for individual text
paragraphs of a document; the user can easily control the styles’
attributes using the key-value mechanism. The package also allows the
creation of new fancy designs for text paragrpahs.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fancypar
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fancypar
(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 .