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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: changelayout
Version number: 0.1
Author's name: Ahmed Musa
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/changelayout
Summary description: Changes the layout of individual pages and their text.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package can be used to change the layout of
individual pages and their texts. It is an extension of
changepage package.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/changelayout
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/changelayout
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On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the
animate
package.
The package provides an interface to create portable, JavaScript driven PDF
animations from sets of graphics files or from inline graphics, such as LaTeX
picture environment, PSTricks or pgf/TikZ generated pictures, or just from
typeset text.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/animate
Summary description: Create PDF animations from graphics files and inline graphics.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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-- improved documentation of the timeline option
-- New: transparency stack can be cleared using `c' in the timeline file
-- animated Lorenz Attractor added as an inline animation example
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/animate
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http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=animate
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
yet again, that upload daemon is nagging me...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: zhspacing
> Author's name: Jiang Jiang
> Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/generic
> Summary description: A simpler solution to typeset CJK documents in XeTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Renamed some files according to Karl Berry's suggestion.
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thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/zhspacing.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/xetex/generic/zhspacing
(the catalogue entry hasn't changed at all, so all the information up
there is correct, even now.)
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Dirk Krause submitted an update to the
bmeps
package.
Bmeps is a library and a command line tool for conversion of different bitmap
graphics types to EPS. It can produce EPS levels 1, 2 and 3. Level 2 allows the
use of run-length compression and ASCII-85-encoding instead of
ASCII-Hex-encoding, while level 3 allows the use of flate compression. TIFF- and
PNG-alpha channels can be converted into EPS level 3 image masks. Modified dvips
sources are included to allow image conversion directly from dvips.
Version number: 2.1.3
Location on CTAN: /support/bmeps
Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/Tgb81AIFF/NetPBM to EPS
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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Several bug fixes, new features:
- Perl script mkpdfsls.pl to create a slide show of photos
- Developer documentation created by doxygen.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/bmeps
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bmeps
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, John Bowman submitted an update to the
asymptote
package.
Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical
drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote
provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does
for scientific text.
Version number: 1.82
Location on CTAN: /graphics/asymptote/
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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Threaded exports were fixed. The texpath fontsize was fixed
for PDF tex engines.
A default currentprojection argument was added to
transform3(projection).
The -gray and -bw settings are now respected in PRC output.
A consistent approximation is now used for drawing tube centers.
Missing pt units were added to all fontsize examples.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=asymptote
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
Thus spake the upload daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: ctex
> Author's name: Jiang Jiang
> Location on CTAN: /language/chinese/
> Summary description: A collection of document classes and macro
> packages for Chinese typesetting
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v0.93 with a few bug fixes.
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thanks for the upload; i've 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/ctex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//language/chinese/
as usual, the catalogue entry will change, in a small way, overnight
tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
just when i thought i might get to bed early, the upload daemon popped
up with:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: keycommand
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: CTAN home/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/keycommand
> Summary description: keycommand provides an easy way to define commands with keys
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> keycommand is a eTeX/LaTeX package that provides a very
> natural way to define commands with optional keys.
>
> The package provides :
>
ewkeycommand,
enewkeycommand, providekeycommand
>
ewkeyenvironment,
enewkeyenvironment
>
> and also keycmd for a more advanced interface.
>
> It is based on the kvsetkeys package by Heiko Oberdiek.
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thanks for the upload; i've installed the package and written a
description for 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
of course, the catalogue entry won't even appear until the overnight
processing run has happened.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the
pdfcrop
package.
Pdfcrop is a Perl script that can either trim pages of any whitespace
border, or trim them of a fixed border.
Location on CTAN: support/pdfcrop
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Changes:
2009/07/17 v1.16: Security fixes:
* -dSAFER added for Ghostscript,
* -no-shell-escape added for pdfTeX/XeTeX.
2009/07/17 v1.17: Security fixes:
* Backticks and whitespace are forbidden
for options --(gs|pdftex|xetex)cmd.
* Validation of options --papersize and --resolution.
2009/07/18 v1.18: * Restricted mode added.
* Option `--version' added.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/pdfcrop/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcrop
(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 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 Thomas Titz submitted a new biblatex style to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/
Summary description: author-year style with compact multiple-reference-citations and ibidem mechanism
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides a citation scheme that combines the
features of the styles authoryear-comp (omission of
recurring author/year in multiple-reference-citations) and
authoryear-ibid (replacement of repeated citations by the
abbreviation ibidem). The implementation relies heavily on
unmodified biblatex macros, and no attempt has been made to
add further features not present in core biblatex.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-authory…
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-authoryear-icomp-tt
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 Mehdi Omidali submitted the persian (farsi) translation of
the
(Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e.
Location on CTAN: info/lshort/persian
Summary description: Persian (Farsi) Translation of The not so short introduction to Latex2e
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This directory contains Persian Translation of The Not So
Short Introduction to Latex2e by Tobias Oetiker.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/info/lshort/persian
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=lshort-persian
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_______________________________________________
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf