On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Dominik Wassenhoven submitted an update to the
biblatex-dw
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/
Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v1.1d
- BUGFIX: The global option 'oldauthor' which was
introduced in version 1.1c caused an erroneous
behaviour when used together with
'idembib=true' (which is the default). This is now
fixed.
- New option 'editorstring' which can take the values
'parens', 'brackets' and 'normal'; the default is
'parens'. This option sets the string 'editor'
(abbreviated 'ed.') in parentheses or in brackets, or
just puts the string (with a preceding comma) after
the editor name.
- New option 'edbeforetitle' which can take the values
'true' and 'false'; the default is 'false'. When set
to 'true', the editor in @INCOLLECTION and
@INPROCEEDINGS entries will be typeset before the
booktitle ('... in: Editor (ed.): Booktitle ...')
rather than afterwards ('... in: Booktitle, ed. by
Editor ...').
- Small correction in the terse version of the List of
Shorthands concerning the punctuation after authors/
editors.
- Added missing bibliography drivers for option
'edbyidem'.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/
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http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-dw
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
The package here has been updated at tug.ctan.org, and its location
in the archive has been changed. The changes will soon be at your
local mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: proba
Author's name: Laurent Nguyen-Ngoc
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/proba
Summary description: A collection of macros useful for typesetting
probability texts
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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I am reposting after Bug report #483282 on debian that some files were
missing.
This package includes some of the most often used commands in probability
texts, e.g. probability, expectation, variance, etc. It also includes
some short commands for set (blackboard) or filtrations (calligraphic).
It requires LaTeX2e and the amsfonts package.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/proba
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/proba
(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 .
I have updated the moreverb package, following advice from Morten
Ho{}gholm to a user.
The moreverb package offers a miscellany of verbatim functions; it
requires the verbatim package from the LaTeX required distribution.
Changes to the package include Morten's patch, and a variety of
editorial tidies.
I have updated the catalogue and installed a .tds.zip file.
Users may view the package catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/moreverb.html
or browse the package directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moreverb/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Dominik Wassenhoven submitted an update to the
biblatex-dw
package.
This package contains a small collection of styles for the biblatex package.
It was designed for citations in the humanities and offers some features that
are not provided by the standard biblatex styles. Biblatex-dw is dependent on
biblatex (at least version 0.7) and cannot be used without it.
Location on CTAN: /maros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/
Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v1.1c
- BUGFIX: With the option 'idem=false', the author of a
first citation who was cited immediately before with
another work lacked the forename.
- BUGFIX: The option 'edbyidem=false' produced a
superfluous 'ed. by'; string.
- BUGFIX: Small punctuation issue with repeated
citations and 'herename'.
- New option 'namefont' which can take the values
'smallcaps', 'italic' and 'bold'. The default is none,
i.e. authors and editors are set in normal font shape.
With 'useprefix=true', this option also affects the
name prefix.
- New option 'firstnamefont' which can take the values
'smallcaps', 'italic' and 'bold'. This also affects
the name prefix (with 'useprefix=false') and the name
affix.
- The option 'oldauthor' is now also available as global
option in order to disable the feature. If you set
'oldauthor=false' globally, every entry option
'oldauthor=true' is ignored. Thus, you can set the
fontname for every author with global options,
independent of entry options.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/maros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biblatex-dw
(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 package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and is working its way
through the system
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: msc
Author's name: Ton van Deursen
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/msc
Summary description: Draw MSC diagrams.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This version fixes an old error involving the scalebox macro of the
PSTricks package. Also, the action and condition macros are extended
with a starred version, which automatically adjust the size of the
rectangle and hexagon based on the size of the contents.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/msc
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/msc
(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 .
Peter Wilson wrote:
> I have uploaded memoir161803.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use the
> appropriate contents to replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/memoir. I have also included a tds.tar.gz which
> hopefully presents everything laid out as a tds tree, but please ckeck
> this. The distribution is under the LPPL.
>
> From the README:
> Memoir is a flexible class for typesetting poetry, fiction,
> non-fiction and mathematical works as books, reports, articles or
> manuscripts. Documents can use 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, 14pt or 17pt as
> the normal fontsize and, if you have scalable fonts, 20pt, 25pt, 30pt,
> 36pt, 48pt or 60pt sizes, or any other size. Many methods are provided
> to let you create your particular design. The class incorporates over
> 30 of the more popular packages.
>
> Changes (2008/05/27)
> ** Memoir class v1.61803 released incorporating all patches since the
> last major release in 2005/09/25 and also all comments about
> v1.61803beta. Major additions are extended, or arbitrary, document
> font sizes and provision of several styles of section headings.
> ** User Manual (memman) edition 7 released matching v1.61803,
> incorporating the contents of the Addendum. The part on typography has
> been extended and a glossary of memoir's commands and environments has
> been added.
> ** There is no Addendum to the Manual.
> ** New (empty) version of mempatch.sty
>
>
> This will be the last release for a considerable period of
> time. After 25 years in the USA we are moving back to the UK where
> there are grandchildren. The process will probably involve about 6
> months in LaTeX limbo. (My definition of `considerable period' may
> imply decades.)
>
> If you have questions please ask them on the comp.text.tex
> newsgroup where you are likely to get more, better, and faster answers
> than contacting me directly.
i have installed the update, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the
upload.
users may view the catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/memoir.html
or browse the package directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/
note that the catalogue entry will be updated on the wqeb overnight --
it's not quite up-to-date at the time of writing.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon work its
way through the mirroring system.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: vntex
Author's name: Reinhard Kotucha
Location on CTAN: /language/vietnamese/vntex
Summary description: Support for Vietnamese
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 3.1.5 of VnTeX provides a few minor updates of documentation files.
The vntex bundle provides fonts, Plain TeX, texinfo and LaTeX
macros for typesetting documents in Vietnamese.
Users of the fonts (in both MetaFont and Adobe Type 1 format) of
this bundle may alternatively use the lm
fonts bundle, for which map files are available to provide a
Vietnamese version.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/vietnamese/vntex
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/vntex
(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 .
Peter Wilson writes:
> I have just uploaded ledmac.tar.gz to UK /incoming. Please use
> this to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ledmac.
>
> There are no technical changes to any part of the distribution but
> in the LPPL licenses I have changed author-maintained to
> unmaintained. I have noted the change in the README and that there
> is an opportunity for someone to take over.
>
> I tried before to find someone willing to take over the
> maintenance of the packages but there were no takers. I can no longer
> maintain them and would be happy for someone else to take over.
I have updated the bundle as suggested, and updated the catalogue to
reflect the new situation.
Users may view the catalogue entries for the packages involved (ledmac,
ledpar and ledarab) at:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ledmac.htmlhttp://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ledpar.htmlhttp://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ledarab.html
or they may browse the distribution directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ledmac/
The catalogue entries will be updated overnight.
Thank you, Peter, for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and will soon be near
you.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: bib2ml 6.2
Author's name: Stephane GALLAND
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Major bug fix in bib2ml
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Bib2ML fixes a major bug on the BibTeX field name parsing. Indeed,
several third-party tools (eg, BibDesk) create field names with unrecognized
characters.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bib2ml
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bib2ml
(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 Tue, 27 May 2008, Basil K. Malyshev submitted an update to the
bakoma
package.
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma
License: shareware
> Improvement in BaKoMa TeX 8.23 are:
> * Genrates PDF file version 1.4
> * Support for HyperRef specification of hyperlink border color.
> 'Options/Document Properties/HyperLinks' provides more control.
> * Measuring tool in TeXWord works like to DVIEW.
> * Fixed openning file from network drives (\ServerResourceDirectory...)
> * Fixed problem with clearing file at creating from template with UTF8
> encoding.
>
> More details about changes and another bug fixing see at:
> <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/changes.php> or
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html>
>
> -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 8.23 ------------------
>
> BaKoMa TeX 8.23 supports two coexisting IDE:
> 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
> 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Classical IDE.
> They are high compatible, so that you can choose what to use
> depend on kind of a document or stage of work under a document.
>
> About BaKoMa TeX Word.
>
> BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
>
> The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts:
>
> 1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor.
> It means that display shows precisely the same what will be printed.
> It looks such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer.
> 2) It is True LaTeX Editor.
> It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure.
> It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document.
>
> BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and
> consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related
> with import graphics, font support, and document export.
>
> It supports processors:
> (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX.
> Other processors such as Omega may be added in future.
>
> It imports:
> EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX,
> MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY.
> It supports fonts:
> OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM),
> PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF.
> It exports:
> DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT).
>
> It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS
> compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as:
> PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy,
> PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.
>
> Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is
> final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing.
>
> Editing slides in WYSIWYG interface
> (with such packages as PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.)
> is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'.
>
> TeXWord dramatically simplifies editing complex formulas and tables.
>
> TeXWord is transparent for cooperation.
> TeXWord don't use additional macro packages.
> It uses only standard LaTeX packages, so that documents made up
> in TeXWord may be compiled in any LaTeX setup without any adaptation.
> In other side, TeXWord can handle arbitrary LaTeX documents.
> So, that your coleagues may even don't know that you use
> powerful WYSIWYG tool to edit your part of common work.
>
> Beginner users of LaTeX may consider TeXWord as
> good start point for learning LaTeX together with writing papers.
>
> More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at:
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html>
>
> Some screenshots are available at:
> <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/screenshots.php>
>
> Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at:
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/>
>
> New features in BaKoMa TeX 8.23 are:
> * Genrates PDF file version 1.4
> * Support for HyperRef specification of hyperlink border color.
> 'Options/Document Properties/HyperLinks' provides more control.
> * Measuring tool in TeXWord works like to DVIEW.
> * Fixed openning file from network drives (\ServerResourceDirectory...)
> * Fixed problem with clearing file at creating from template with UTF8
> encoding.
>
> More details about changes and another bug fixing see at:
> <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/changes.php> or
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html>
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf