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CTAN Update: miktex_update
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 v1.1: Bugfix: in local searchonly mode (miktex_update -ls) mpm could not access cygwin's /tmp/... directory -> Error: mpm.exe: Invalide MiKTeX configuration. -> moved temp directory to %TEMP% (Windows environment variable) directory Changed behavior of option -o, --online (without -r, --repository) the script will no longer echo a random online repository, but use it directly to connect with the MiKTeX server network. See: http://latex.josef-kleber.de/en_miktex_update.htm or http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=miktex_update for more information ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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CTAN Update: pict2e
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Josef Tkadlec submitted an update to the pict2e package. This package was described in the 2nd edition of ‘LaTeX: A Document Preparation System’, but the LaTeX project team declined to produce the package. For a long time, LaTeX has included a ‘pict2e package’ that merely produced an apologetic error message. The new package extends the existing LaTeX picture environment, using the familiar technique (cf. thegraphics and color packages) of driver files. The package documentation has a fair number of examples of use, showing where things are improved by comparison with the LaTeX picture environment. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pict2e License: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed: extended slope arguments for line and vector; horizontal and vertical lines use PS/PDF operators, too. Added: macros for drawing arcs, lines given by endpoints, polygons; path constructions (as in PS/PDF); control of shapes of line ends. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pict2e (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

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CTAN Update: Phaistos.otf
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted an update to the phaistos package. It is a A font that contains all the symbols of the famous Disc of Phaistos, together with a LaTeX package. The disc was ‘printed’ by stamping the wet clay with some sort of punches, probably around 1700 BCE. There are those who believe that this Cretan script was used to ‘write’ Greek (it is known, for example, that the rather later Cretan Linear B script was used to write Greek), but arguments for other languages have been presented. Given that the disc is the only known example of the script, it seems unlikely that a decipherment will ever be confirmed. Location on CTAN: /fonts/archaic/phaistos License: lppl Announcement: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now that the symbols of the Disk of Phaistos are included in Unicode, I have created an OpenType font from the Type 1 font that we had created some years ago. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8 encoding
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Hyphenation Patterns in UTF-8 encoding Author's name: Mojca Miklavec Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Hyphenation patterns have been converted into UTF-8 and should serve as a replacement for the old patterns without any change in functionality. The patterns should be considered upstream replacement that will be used in TeX Live and other distrubutions instead of loding the old files. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - hyph-en-gb.tex (ukhyphen) and hyph-en-us.tex (ushyphmax) added - Russian and Ukrainian depend on the old loading schemes (for UTF-8) again - some Russian patterns added (cyryoal (yo) for Russian and some more) that were forgotten before - import documentation for Bulgarian (still waiting for update from author) one upload before that: - Sanskrit added - Serbo-Croatian fixed - in Ancient Greek wrong patterns were loaded - fixes in Turkish and Basque ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyph-utf8 . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hyph-utf8 (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: biblatex-chem
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and will soon be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: biblatex-chem Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem Summary description: Chemistry styles for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The biblatex-chem bundle is a set of experiment styles to allow chemists to use biblatex. The bundle is highly experimental, and in this first marker release only the formatting of journal articles has been addressed. The journals covered are: - all ACS journals; - RSC journals using standard (Chem. Commun.) style; - Wiley journals uses Angew. Chem. style. At this stage, feedback in all areas is sought. Is the journal coverage sufficient? Is the naming scheme logical? Are the styles correct, as far as they go? What are the priorities for other record types to handle, and how should the extra data available from biblatex be handled? Updates are likely to be relatively frequent, as new record types are added. The next area to address is books and entries in book, followed by URLs and in press articles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-chem (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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Re: CTAN update -- letltxmacro v1.3
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 at 11:05 +0200, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the oberdiek bundle. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License: LPPL Changes: * letltxmacro v1.3 * Documentation and test file update for etoolbox 1.6. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: eukdate
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: eukdate Author's name: Andrew Gilbert Moschou Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/eukdate Summary description: UK format date with weekday License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The eukdate package is used to change the format of oday's date, including the weekday, e.g. `Saturday, 26 June 2008', the `UK format', which is preferred in many parts of the world, as distinct from that which is used in maketitle of the article class, `June 26, 2008', the `US format'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eukdate . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/eukdate (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 package update: rotating
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

i have updated my version of the rotating package on ctan. since i last announced an install, i have -- reworked the way in which the package remembers what page it's on, which seems to have solved the problem about page-related rotation. -- mended an infelicity in the way in which captions were produced. as always, bug reports to my address, as in the package, are welcome. users may view the package catalogue entry at: http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/rotating.html or they may browse the package directory at: http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/rotating/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: csquotes 4.2
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded 'csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. There's > also a csquotes.tds.zip file for install/macros/latex/contrib. Please > purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload. > Thank you very much. > > ABOUT > > The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and > display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging > from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of > formal quotations. > > CHANGES > > * Upgrade to etoolbox 1.6 i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue; thanks for the upload. users may view the package catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/csquotes.html or browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: Elsevier bst files
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

Simon Pepping wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > I uploaded elsart-bst.zip, with two updated files for the directory > ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/elsevier. One file > updates the bst file elsart-num-sort.bst with a bug fix for the page > numbers in inproceedings items, the other updates the versions in the > README-bst file. i have installed the new files, and micro-updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. users may view the catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/Catalogue/entries/elsevier-bib.html or browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/contrib/elsevier/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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